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States that Stew kerne best \n\nand is \n\nhas \n\nemplosed as a fisherman.. \n\nNotes . - Prisoners shake that they have no further evidence to bring forward. \n\nWong : taong : po requests that the \n\nbruch may examined - but states, when asked, that \n\nbe dug ups, and the wound, \n\nthe \n\nThe new \n\nof Namntong who assisted in \n\nthe \n\nDeferre \n\nNotes. \n\nacquainted with \n\nThe Prisoner Mumpo, sapshow, Lans \n\nHivers and Mayne, \n\nare told, that they \n\n- be released if they can find, scurity \n\nwill \n\n$50 each, for their reappearance whens \n\nThe boys Azam \n\nrequired. \n\nsitionally.. \n\nthe \n\nBing neithe \n\nreleased \n\nin \n\nlova \n\nand the wan \n\nLi. Klow, are remanded to Prison, until the picature of His Exellency the Browner conscoming theur be thicwww. \n\nMrin \n\nCity heapstoele \n\nW4ngking-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217318, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843", "content_text": "be required to cover the current Expenses on account \n\nMilitary \n\nof \n\nThis haval \n\nor Civil Serviers in Chinn, \n\nare to be retained by you, and that the residue is to be remitted to \n\nCalcutta to be disposed of in such manner as tth's Governt may be pleased to dirret. \n\ncoure cause an \n\nYou will of Account to be kept of the suns applied in China to the several devices above specified, & of the balaners remitted to inleutta, & you will transmit the same to this \n\nOffice at the expiration grasry \n\nsin mouths. \n\nI am (timer) Aberdeen \n\nCoppe \n\nKeybord, \n\nTreasury Chambers. \n\n2. January 1043. \n\nI have it in command from the Lords Comm ? of It: this Freamry to request you \n\nwile \n\nstate to the Earl of Aberdeen that my hords have had under their consideration the more in which it may be mort for the public interest to dispore of the large amount of Silver foun Bullion which has been or may from time to linie be recewid in China under the Peaty of \n\nTreaty of Peace recently concluded with the Goor of that Country. It appear from Pir. 4. Pottinger I despatch of the 29th of August that the 1.\" Instalment amounting to about six millions of dollars of payment by the Chimer, Authorities at that date, and that it was \n\nwa \n\nin the course \n\nher intention in conformity with the Fastractions originally given to him to send the whole of that sum to England \n\nto England in one or more \n\nof \n\nH. His ships, Enghords therefore apprehend that no instruction now to be groeci \n\nThe Virst Canning \n\nCan \n\naffect", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-003 - Foreign Office - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218347, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "ments were in progress deerived Fir & Bottingers despatcher Nos4 and 19 the first enclosing correspondence with \n\nhir \n\nMeul. D'Aguilar respecting \n\nfeestaine The appointment of certain of the good kiire men of goodsuwice AM. 65 th Rigt as Policemen - \n\nWhe \n\nthe second desiring informed whether thir Bounty Ragable to there \n\nmeu on \n\nthere volunteering \" from the 55th 25 the G8 Regt was tobe charged to the Civil or the Military \n\nCheals. \n\nI have been in com. munication with his \n\nthe Commanden \n\nin Chief of on \n\nGrace \n\nsubject, \n\nthei \n\nand Shave now \n\ntoinfore you \n\nthat looking \n\nwall the wiremestance, \n\nof the case it has been \n\nthe decided that as devices \n\nthe go men \n\nthe 55 havsferred from Wo the 98th Regt \n\nare \n\nrequired exclusivela tables They, Police Constables, \n\nshould not remain on \n\nbe at once \n\nthe \n\nt \n\nthe effective strength of ancy of the Regte compoing the Garrison at Hong Mong. They will according discharged froml Arming and placed at the disposal of the Civil God! of A Hoy Emplaged in the Police Force. and under there circumstances hie \n\ntobe \n\nBronnely payable to them on their volunteering \n\n45th Regiment \n\nfrom the 551", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": "DROIT \n\n3 0 1G 10 LI. \n\nNo. 3 of 1844. \n\nANNO SEXTO ET SEPTIMO \n\nVICTORIE REGINE. \n\nBY His Excellency Sir HE NE POTUINGER, Baronet, Bright Grand Cross \n\nTitle. \n\nPreamble that it is \n\nof the Most Honorable Oder of the Bath, Major General in the Service of the East India Company, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, and its Dependencies, and Superintendent of the Trade of Her Majesty's Subjects in China, with the advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong. \n\nAu Ordinance to provide for the Registration of deeds wills judgments and conveyances affecting real or immovable property in Hongkong. \n\n129th February, 1844] WHEREAS it is expedient to prevent secret and fraudulent Conveyances desirable to facilitate in the Colony of Hongkong, and to provide menos whereby the title to real and the tracing of titles immoveable property may be casily traced and ascertained. Be it therefore to landed property. enacted by His Excellency, the Governor of Hongkong and its Dependencies, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that from and after the passing of this Ordinance, the Land Office in the said Colony shall be a public office for the registration of deeds conveyances and other instruments wills and judgments in \n\nRegistry Office. manner hereinafter mentioned: and that all conveyances and other deeds, wills and devises and other instruments in writing, now or hereafter to be made or From the passing executed, and all judgments hereafter to be obtained, by which conveyances deeds instruments and other instruments in writing wills and judgments, any parcels of ground, ing land may be re- tenements or premises in Hongkong aforesaid or its dependencies now are, or shall gistered within the or may hereafter be affected may be entered and registered in the said Office in said Office. the manner hereinafter directed. \n\nEstablishment of a \n\nof this Ordinance all affect. \n\nSuch instruments \n\n2.--And be it further enacted that all such judgments and conveyances or to have priority ac instruments in writing obtained made or executed respectively after the passing cording to their res of this ordinance, and registered in pursuance hereof, shall have priority one over pective dates of Re- the other according to the priority of their respective dates of registration, and gistration, that all such judgments deeds conveyances or instruments in writing as last aforesaid, and all future devises which shall not be registered in pursuance of this ordinance shall (as against any subsequent bona fide purchaser or mortgagee of the same parcels of ground tenements or premises for valuable consideration) be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes, Provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to bona fide leases at rack rent for any term not exceeding three years. \n\n3.And be it enacted that no notice whatsoever, either actual or constructive, tered instrument not Notice of unregis. of any prior unregistered deed judgment will conveyance or instrument in writing, to affect instruments shall affect the priority of any such instrument as aforesaid as shall be duly duly registered. registered in pursuance of this Ordinance. \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218394, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "page_number": 267, "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844", "content_text": ": \n\nto \n\nSuch instrument \n\nwithin a certain time after execution. \n\n4-And be it further enacted that all judgments deeds wills conveyances or be registered instruments in writing hereafter obtained made or executed, which shall be duly registered within the respective times next mentioned: \"that is to say \" all deeds conveyances and other instruments in writing (except wills) which (if executed in Hongkong or its dependencies) shall be registered within one month, or which if executed in any other place shall be registered within twelve months after the time of execution thereof respectively, and all wills which (if the devisor die in Hongkong or its dependencies) shall be registered within one month, or which (if the devisor die in any other place) shall be registered within twelve months, after the decease of every devisor respectively, and all future judgments whe's shall be registered within one month after the entry or recording thereof, shall severally be in like manner entitled to priority, and shall take effect respectively by relation to the date thereof, only in the same manner as if this Ordinance had never been made. Mode of Registra- \n\n5. And be it further enacted that the registration inten 'ed by th tion by a Memorial Ordinance shall be made in manner following, that is to say \"a Memorial containing certain containing the particulars herein after specified shall be delivered into the said particulars to be de- Land Office, signed (in case of deeds conveyances or other instruments in writing except wills) by some or one of the parties to the original deed or instrument, or if such parties be dead or absent from the Colony, then by one or more of the witnessess to such deed or instrument, and (in case of wills and devises) signed by some or one of the devisees or his or her guardian or trustees, and (in case of judgments) signed by the plaintiff or plaintiffs: and every such Memorial shall be verified by the oath of some competent person, that the same contains a just and true account of the several particulars therein set forth, which oath shall be taken before the Chief Magistrate of Police, or before any Justice of the Peace of the said Colony. \n\nlivered to the land officer. \n\nParticulars which \n\nZain. \n\n6.--And be it further enacted that every memorial of any judgment shall it is necessary for contain the following particulars,\" that is to say \" the names and additions of the the memorial to con- planitiffs and defendants respectively, the sum thereby recovered or secured, the time of entry or recording the same, and the sum of money bona fide due thereon; and every memorial of any deed or conveyance will or other instrument shall contain and set forth the date of such deed conveyance will or other instrument, and the particular nature and object thereof the names and additions of all the parties to such deed conveyance or instrument, and of the devisor devisee or devisees of such will, and the names and additions of all the witnesses thereto, anf shall especially particularize and express the parcels of ground tenements aud promises affected or intended to be affected by such deed conveyance will of instrument, and the proper and ordinary or accustomed names of the places where the same shall be situated, and (except in cases of wills) the pecuniary or other consideration for the same, in the form or to the effect of the form numbered i in the Schedule hereunto annexed. Provided always, that when there shall be more writings than one for perf cting the same conveyance devise or security affecting the same parcels of ground tenements and premises, all such writings shall be stated in one and the same memorial, in which it shall be sufficient to particularize such parcels tenements and premises only once. \n\nSuch memorial to \n\n-And be it further enacted, that on delivery of any such memorial as be numbered by the aforesaid, the said Land Officer shall number the same according to the order of Land Officer and a receipt to be given \n\ntime in which it shall bave been so delivered, and shall give a receipt for the same, for the same and in which receipt shall be specified the certain day and time of day when such Land Officer shall memorial shall have been so delivered, and the proper number thereof in the endorse thereon a Register of the said Land Office, and he shall also in like manner immediately certificate of the day indorse on the back of such memorial a certificate, containing the day and time of & hour when such memorial was deli- day when the same was so delivered, and the name and place of abode of the vered into his Office person verifying the same, and shall sign the said certificate when so indo sed and such certificate to be such certificate shall be taken and allowed as evidence of the registration, and evidence of the time time of registration of every such judgment deed will devise conveyance or other of Registration of \n\ninstrument whereof such memorial shall be so made. the Memorial. \n\nThe Memorial to 8. And be it further enacted that every such memorial shall, as soon after be registered as soon the receipt thereof as practicable, be carefully registered by the Land Officer, in as possible in a pro- regular succession as received, according to its proper number, in a particular book per book and be de- to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall afterwards be deposited by him in posited in a secure place in the Office. some secure place in his Office, and there kept for future reference when required, \n\nLand Officer to \n\nand he shall also keep an index of the parcels of ground tenements and \n\nprim'ses keep an index of mentioned in every such memorial, and also a like index or indexes of the names of places and names the several parties to conveyances and other deeds and instruments, and of devisors vennected with the and devisees in wills, and of the plaintiffs and defendants in case of judgments with \n\ninstruments so re- accurate references in all such indexes respectively to the number and page of gistered with correct \n\nregistry of the memorial to which any entry in sucli index or indexes shall relate. references to the pro \n\nper page of the Re- gistry book. \n\nenter satisfiction for \n\nForm of the certi- ficate of satisfaction \n\nmortgage. \n\nIn case of mortga 9. And be it further enacted that in case of mortgages and judgments ges and judgments registered in pursuance of this Ordinance, if at any time afterwards such verified Land Officer shall certificate as is hereinafter next mentioned shall be brought to the said Land the same on receiv Officer, signed by the respective mortgagoers and mortagagees or plaintiffs and ing a verified certi- defendants or their agents respectively, and attested by two credible witnesses, ficate as after des whereby it shall appear that the whole of the monies due on any such mortgage cribed. \n\nor judgment have been fully paid, or that such mortgage or judgment is otherwise satisfied, then the said Land Officer shall make a short entry or memorandum thereof on the memorial and on the margin of the registry of such mortgage or judgment, and shall afterwards carefully register the sanie certificate in one of the registry books of his office, and the Land Officer, shall make an entry thereof in his index or indexes, referring accurately to the page of registry of such certificate. 10. And be it further enacted that every such certificate shall contain the on a judgment or following particulars; \"that is to say\", (in case of judgments the names and additions of the plaintiffs and defendants, the time of entering upor recording the same, the sum or sums thereby recovered, the date or dates of payment or other satisfaction of the amount bona fide due thereon, and in case of mortgages the names and additions of the original parties, the date of the instrument, the sum thereby secured, and the time or times of payment or other satisfaction thereof, and every such certificate shall be verified by the oath of some competent persou, that the same contains a just and true account of the several particulars therein set forth, which oath shall be made and taken before the said Chief Magistrate, or before any Justice of the Peace of the said Colóny, and on the back of such verified certificate the Land Officer shall immediately indorse the date when the same was received by him, and the name and place of abode of the person verifying the same, and the said certificate shall after being so indorsed and entered as aforesaid be safely kept in his Office for future reference when required. Any person may \n\n11-And be it further enacted that it shall be lawful for any person or deposit in the said persons whatsoever to deposit in the said land office for safe custody any convey- Office any deed will or other instrument ance deed power of attorney or instrument in writing whatsoever or his or her last will and testament of which deeds wills conveyances or other instrument the said land officer shall (first giving a receipt for the same) immediately make an entry or entries in a book to be kept for that purpose to which book he shall keep an accurate alphabetical index having reference therein as well to the name Wills when so de- of the testator or parties to each such deed or instrument as to the person or posited for safe cus- persons depositing the same and the said Land Officer shall carefully and securely lody to be wrapped keep all such deeds wills or other instruments in his said Office until required by up in an envelope the party or parties depositing the same to deliver them back again. Provided testator or testatrix, that every such will or testament shall be cnclosed within a cover or envelope; On the death of sealed with the seal of the testator or testatrix, whose name shall be endorsed by testator or testatrix the Land Officer on such envelope or cover, and every such will shall retain in Land Officer shall the said Offre until the dicense of the testator or to statrix unless he or she shall deliver the will to previously require the same to be delivered back, and upon the death of the the first named ex- testator or testatrix the said Land Officer shall (after examining such will) deliver \n\nfor safe custody. \n\nunder the seal of. \n\necutor \n\nOr \n\nto any \n\nperson ordered to the same to the executor first named therein, or to such other person as shall be receive the same. duly authorized to receive the samë. \n\nOfficer or subordi- \n\nduty. \n\nPenalty on Land 12.—And be it farther enacted that if the said Land Officer or any other nate Officers wilful person employed in the said Land Office shall wilfully neglect or omit manner hereinbefore directed any memorial ly neglecting their to number register or enter m \n\nor certificate delivered into the said Office, he shall for every such offence forfeit and be liable to pay to Her Majesty Her, Heirs and Successors for the public purposes of the said Colony, the penalty or sum of five hundred dollars, and be Wilful destruction further liable in damages to the party injured to the extent of the loss or injury Forgery or altera sustained. And if the said Land Officer or any clerk or person whatsoever shall tion of any register wilfully destroy embezzle or secrete forge counterfeit raz? deface or alter any intent to defraud or memorial or any part thereof or any indorsement made thereon or any entry or injure punishable registry thereof in any book in the said office, with intent to defraud or injure any with 7 or 14 years person or persons, such Land Officer clerk or person so offending shall be guilty of trans ortation. \n\nfelony, and being thereof duly convicted shall be liable to be transported beyond Correction to be seas for any term not less than 7 years and not exceeding 14 years. verified by signature of Land Officer. \n\ned instrument with \n\n13. And be it enacted that all corrections by erasure interlineation or otherwise in any memorial of the registry of any document required to be register- ed by this Ordinance shall be noted and set forth at length in red ink in the margin \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844", "content_text": "E \n\nof the experise to be barne (the public relatively to The amount of local subscriptions. It seems Whis Lordship that it might fainly be expected that one third of the expense should be provided by local contributions, and that the routi should not be required Whear more there two thirds of the it. But upon this point his Lordship devices to be favoured with the views \n\nof the \n\nLock of the dreaming \n\nthavere \n\n. \n\nHoughing 5. Tck /104110 \n\nC. 8. Grevehantry \n\nE. \n\nForwarded by FEB \n\nMr. Bricedock 2 M&Stephen M.Hope 2 Lord Stanley 3 \n\nSir \n\nLaundirected 4. \n\ndocostanley track the weipt of gou better of the 25 Ultimo stating that before the Lords Comme & of the Freaming \n\ncan decille ou \n\nthe acubunt \n\nto be contributed (this \n\nCountry \n\nfreetion \n\ntowards the \n\nofa \n\nCheuchat \n\nHoughing it would be \n\nnecesuing \n\nto have the \n\nmences of forming Extricate as to the Revenue \n\nwhich \n\nmas \n\nberaixed in \n\nthat Idland. Dreply Lane to inform your that Lord Stanley. It \n\nnot contemplate contribution for \n\na \n\ndid \n\nthe Chunk \n\ninchong Hong from the Imperial Treasury, but \n\n}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-009 - Public Offices - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4]", "content_text": "devices are\n\nkumuurated in\n\nare generally\n\nAthong any Spiccion\n\nWpronoune\n\nthe point their subruitted toine. Rondo Svery\n\ncleach gather from som\n\ndespatch whethin\n\nJou\n\nadmit M. FareComb's\n\nClain to\n\nany\n\n-ation beyond the allowance originally monized him. Sevent\n\ntherefore request you to funish me with a\n\nfurther report on this\n\nmatter stating\n\nwhether\n\nyou consider M. Farmonde,\n\nclaim wellfounded. and if to the amount audif\n\nof remuneration you\n\nwould\n\n238\n\nrespore wasnizen Whine and the grounds on which\n\nthat amount in\n\nCalculated.\n\nhause\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions accurately and provide a corrected version:\n\n## Step 1: Correct spelling errors\nThe text contains several spelling errors and OCR recognition issues. 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The above response attempts to follow the instructions as closely as possible.\n\nTo output in HTML as requested:\n\nDevices are cumulated in are generally\n\nAmong any Specification\n\nPronounce ... the point their submitted to me. Round Every\n\nclear gather from some\n\ndespatch whether\n\nYou\n\nadmit M. Faramond's\n\nClaim to\n\nany sanction beyond the allowance originally sanctioned him. I have therefore request you to furnish me with a\n\nfurther report on this\n\nmatter stating\n\nwhether\n\nyou consider M. Faramond's claim wellfounded, and if so, to what amount of remuneration you would\n\n238\n\nreport ... and the grounds on which\n\nthat amount is Calculated.\n\nhouse", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-011 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 221884, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "content_text": "Mr. Martin's Books and Treasure-\n\non the occasion. Mr. Mercer's succession.\n\nto his\n\nThough...\n\nof\n\ne for me to account\n\noffice-) had an opportunity of remarking h it is not possible for satisfactorily for the absence of these_\n\ndocuments, nor\n\nfor\n\nthe numerous and-\n\nall sorts which the\n\nwasteful- copies of all\n\nflocks in that Office have been for months employed in making for M. Martin, still.\n\nit is a circumstance to be noted in\n\nthe particular instance_ of Mr Martin_ because that Gentleman certainly appeared to take a pleasure in throwing confusion_ amongst\n\nA us.\n\n\"I do not think, however that the\n\nCommissioners of Audit will have\n\ntrouble in unravelling the tangled\n\nany\n\nweb\n\nand varied devices in Mr Martin's Recounts,\n\nbecause they are entirely conversant with such intricacies, and I think that there\n\nis\n\nis really nothing radically wrong. I should\n\nbeg to recommend\n\nto forward\n\nin\n\n330\n\nthem.\n\nYour Excellency\n\nthe enclosed documents to Lord\n\nStanley for transmission to the Audit Board. Mr. Martin will be in London, when\n\nan\n\nthey arrive, when he will have opportunity of setting all things to rights\n\nof answering such questions\n\nand\n\nbe put to him.\n\n(Signed)\n\n(True Copy)\n\nI have to.\n\nA.R. Shelley.\n\nAuditor General\n\nMarine\n\nOfficiating Colonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222558, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "page_number": 216, "title": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "content_text": "hitesid\n\nbard\n\n367\n\nJ. Trevelyan fir\n\n1848\n\nForwarded by FEBY\n\nMaStephen 22 Hope\n\nLord Stanley 25\n\n$\n\n2\n\n215\n\n27 Sub445\n\nWith reference to\n\nthe ...our letter of the ... that Lune directed (Lord Stanley) Woolate to you for the information of the\n\nLords Comm? of them,\n\nRearmy, but bir it. Pottinger\n\nhas apprised\n\nhis Lordship that the devices Province of ... M. Burges\n\nLegal advisor... God! of Along\n\nevere\n\ncontinued to the at dunelast - instead of\n\na\n\nceasing as would have ...pected from his first When on the 8 May. San therefore frequent that you with move the Lord One\n\nof the Renary to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224367, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "Treasury\n\nI feel great hesitation in making any remark upon a provision of this kind relating to the affairs of a Country so entirely circumstanced as ours, but I think it is usual and necessary. Should such a provision be made, I submit that the Commissioners should not be too fettered in their operations if they were required to work to a plan approved by the Governor.\n\nIt should be borne in mind that such an appeal is less likely to be effectual after the Court appealed to has made itself a party to the case by previously giving its assent to the Resolution.\n\nThe above suggestions for obtaining compensation for damage and for procuring a proper Survey & plan are made on the assumption that there will be no difficulty in finding an Engineer Officer fully competent to carry it out; it would greatly contribute to its success if his devices were not retarded by frequent reference for his assent being required to the Governor, frequently on matters of the most trivial import.\n\nThe reasons for not requiring the frequent consent of the Governor seem to be strengthened on reference to Section ... which provides for an appeal against the resolutions of Commissioners. But it must be borne in mind that the execution under the direction of the Commissioners will apply to the supply of Water, should it be deemed proper to entrust the Commissioners with the necessary powers.\n\n...\n\n$7\n\n \nFRAI\n\nF\n\n...\n\n \nDelt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224383, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "Treas\n\nsubject\n\nwhere\n\n777\n\n11 Sep\n\nDr. Kawas\n\n\"This it? be added to the other letters\n\nwithin th all be bought together for conten\n\nThe devies is\n\ncomplete.\n\n1770 Hughing\n\nRECEIVED\n\nSEP. 11 1846\n\n237\n\nhurch Missionary House,\n\nSept. 10, 1846.\n\nI beg\n\nto acknowledge\n\nthe honour\n\nof your\n\nLetter of the 4th Inst., in which you\n\nstate that Carl Grey requests to be informed whether the Church Missionary\n\nSociety has taken or contemplates taking any steps for the\n\npromotion of education by means in the Colony of Hong Kong.\n\nof Missionaries or by other means\n\nI have laid\n\nyour\n\nLetter before the Committee of this Society, and am directed by them to state that\n\ntwo years ago\n\nthe Society sent out two Missionaries, both of\n\nthem Clergymen of some experience, the Rev. George Smith,\n\nM.A. Brasenose College, & the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, B.A. Trinity College,\n\nDublin, to China, with a view to decide upon the best\n\nposition for commencing Missionary operations. To Dr. Hawes, Esq.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224494, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 400, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "Tri \n\nGladstone devices mento infrom yos, reply, that heher \n\nReceived nothin \n\nof angs \n\nFacewey \n\nthat borhich fo allade, and that he \n\nas is utunt \n\nJust dentive Gent \n\nA \n\nCoverpondence \n\nContemplation grust \n\natacaney. \n\nadd the the mi \n\nentmed \n\nin the latter part fi \n\nzur Better, from a persons Whose mome \n\nBlive \n\nare not permitted byine \n\nThingthens M fladstones \n\nimpression of the hesit \n\nJadhering \n\nthe rule \n\nmoheit his intentione \n\n337 \n\nact has been above \n\ndeclared, - although he \n\nis for from miputing \n\nthe recipient gourd infirmation.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224540, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 446, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "I am instructed to inform you that the Gentlemen you trained have been engaging with other persons, in the Office of Ministry, which were suspected. It is understood that after a perusal of the Letter, of which a copy accompanies this, anticipation has been expressed from B for the C, on the Public Service.\n\nThe original text appears to be heavily distorted due to OCR errors. The above response is a reconstruction based on the provided rules, focusing on correcting spelling errors, rejoining broken sentences, and improving readability while maintaining the original content as much as possible.\n\nHowever, to adhere strictly to the instructions and output only HTML without any explanatory text:\n\nI am instructed to inform you that the Gentlemen you trained have been engaging with other persons, in the Office of Ministry, which were suspected. 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It is understood that after a perusal of the Letter, of which a copy accompanies this, anticipation has been expressed from B for the C, on the Public Service.\n\n440\n\nDiscussion subject of being entitied views So widely different\n\nHowever, the most straightforward interpretation of the task is to directly output the corrected HTML.\n\nThe best answer is Angleartine devies me to inform jo he Ca that the Gentlemen you trined, have other persons, the Office of minttity th s which engenies where suppertest. Sambanded that after a penness for Letter of which accompany Anticipate from B for the C wbl Pathic barie ля + 440 # dis exfsion subject of be entitions views So wides different\n\n.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224596, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 502, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "60\n\nREPORT ON CHUSAN.\n\nBut the assertion, even if substantially correct, would be no justification for our resigning Chusan; our occupation of that island could not accelerate the dissolution of the Chinese empire; on the contrary, it might be made the means of retarding such an event; and even should it occur, our position near the Yang-tze-kiang would enable us to retain any commerce we had established, and to carry on the tea trade, should it be driven from Canton.\n\nIn conclusion, there are, I respectfully submit, many cogent arguments of the highest state policy for our continued and permanent occupation of Chusan, and but one reason assigned for its evacuation in December 1845, namely, that we have promised to do so on the fulfilment of the terms of the treaty of Nankin. But have these terms been fulfilled in the letter and spirit in which they were framed by the British? Has diplomacy lost all power, that it cannot be exercised in the intervening period assigned for the evacuation? ready, if required, to lay before Her Majesty's Ministers my reasons.\n\nI am\n\n...\n\nbands, commit suicide in such a manner that their spouses may be charged with murder. The police and Tartar troops hold the lower classes in complete subjection. The whole system has been aptly compared to a railroad carriage, which moves well so long as there is no impediment, but a pebble on the rail destroys all. Whatever be the result, the English and the other western nations have now become the pebble on the rail.\n\nThe humiliation of the Government of China has reduced to a low scale all the inferior grades of officials in their intercourse with foreigners; and we are cordially hated by the Tartars and all officials, who feel that the terror inspired, and the fame of the Mantchoos in particular, is entirely gone. The people at large, therefore, have reaped great benefit from the change; there is now a certain acknowledgment of their rights, arbitrary oppressions and seizures are of much rarer occurrence, and the exactions are considerably reduced.\n\nThe Chinese Secretary who makes these remarks, proceeds to observe, that \"It cannot be expected that the old system will stand long, because the shocks with which it has been assailed, and will be assailed, are rude and overwhelming, and the pressure from within and without fearful. Great and awful will be the crash—terrific the shaking. It is a mighty colossus, put together with much care, protected by antiquity, by narrow-mindedness, by old custom, by an extensive Government. But the foundation is undermined, and there is a cancer-worm eating its very supports.\n\nChina has no serfs, and slavery only in name. The inhabitants are ready in devices, and unwearied in the execution. From such a nation great things may be expected. What they most want is the introduction of Christianity, founded upon individual conviction.\n\n\"Whatever now may happen, one or other foreign power will advocate the interests of one party, because China has ceased to be a terra incognita, and exhibited a large field for diplomatical skill, so that the foreign influence of some nation will grow with its own helplessness. How much soever this state of things may be deprecated, how much soever the Chinese Government may be averse to such an intercourse, there appears to be no alternative. With Great Britain's commanding position at Chusan, however, even if Pekin becomes another Constantinople, she will always command respect and realize her wishes. An impulse has now been given to the whole empire, such as it never before received. No retrogression is practicable. It is for us to determine whether the future shall be in our favour or otherwise.\"\n\n+ The attacks on British subjects at Canton, Foochoofoo, &c.—the refusal to open the city of Canton—the subtle evasions of the spirit of the treaty—and the constant correspondence carried on for the last twelve months by Governor Davis and the Consuls of Her Britannic Majesty with the Chinese authorities, substantially prove the truth of this remark.—March, 1846.\n\nHONG KONG AND CHUSAN COMPARED.\n\n61\n\nfor entertaining a strong opinion that, without any violation of the treaty of Nankin, and without any fraud or force, Chusan may be retained and become, as it assuredly would, one of the most valuable and important colonies of the British Crown.\n\nFriday, August 30, 1844.\n\nR. M. MARTIN,\n\nRemarks on Sir Henry Pottinger's reasons for retaining Hong Kong and rejecting Chusan, stated at the Manchester Dinner, 20th December, 1844*.(Transmitted to Lord Stanley.)\n\nI. “I cannot say that Hong Kong was selected by me.” [SIR H. POTTINGER.]—In the Draft Treaty sent out to China from the Foreign Office, printed, there was a blank after the word \"islands.\" Sir Henry Pottinger had only to name the word Chusan, and England would have obtained that valuable possession; or he might have written after \"islands Hong Kong and Chusan. When Captain Elliot temporarily located at Hong Kong we had not occupied Chusan; Sir Henry Pottinger had resided on both islands then in our possession, and made Hong Kong as his choice. Several of Sir H. Pottinger's suite, officers, and friends had selected Hong Kong, and secured the most valuable sites for building previous to the Treaty of Nankin, viz., Lieut.-Colonel Malcolm, his Secretary, and Mr. Woosnam, his Doctor; Mr. Johnston, Deputy Superintendent and Lieut.-Governor; Major Caine, &c. The Malcolm, Morgan, and Ochterlony bazaars were then, and are still, the best positions and property in Hong Kong.\n\nII. \"If the two places, Hong Kong and Chusan, were at my disposal to-morrow, I should prefer Hong Kong.\"—I do not think there is one disinterested person, who has seen both islands, who would give the preference to a small, barren, unhealthy, traffickless rock—producing nothing commanding nothing, not even the mouth of the Canton river—devoid of European or native commerce—with a thieving, piratical population, and situated disadvantageously at the southern end of China,\n\n* See \"Times\" dated London, 23rd December, 1844.\n\n+ The treaty of Nankin verbatim, nearly as executed, was originally prepared at the Board of Trade department, by the late Lord Sydenham and Mr. Deacon Hume, to whom the points were given by certain merchants in the city of London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224613, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "94\n\nBRITISH POSITION\n\nRussia, Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Egypt, Persia, and other countries have been benefited by the scientific skill of Europe. Here is a region open to us for the same purpose, far exceeding in value and in extent all those kingdoms put together. If we refuse to avail ourselves\n\nChina by the celebrated Jesuit P. Verbiest, who, by casting cannon (then unknown in China), enabled the Emperor to put down a very formidable rebellion, organized by the famous Chinese general Ou-Sang-Guey, who had been the means of introducing the Tartars into China for the extermination of the rebels, and who now sought to dethrone the Tartar dynasty, and restore the Chinese sovereigns. In a short time, Ou-Sang-Guey made himself master of the provinces of Setchuen, Yunnan, and Kweitehou. His example was followed in the provinces of Canton and Fokien; and Coxinga, a naval co-operator, with a large armament, took possession of Formosa. The rebellion would probably have been successful but for the cannon cast by Verbiest for the Tartars, which they conveyed to the attack on the encampment of Ou-Sang-Guey, and which he was unable to resist. On the death of Verbiest, the Emperor himself wrote the eloge which was read over his grave. The Mahometans had, during 300 years, the direction of the tribunal of mathematics in China, and the preparation of the calendar; but this important duty was taken from them, and vested in the Jesuit Adam Schaal; and they continued to hold this, and other important stations, until their final expulsion from China, after the death of the Emperor Canghi, in his 69th year, A.D. 1722 (20 December) and on the ascent of his third son, Yong-tcheng to the throne at Pekin, who refused to check the persecution of the Christians.\n\nThe Emperor Canghi is described by the Jesuit missionaries as a man having a lofty genius, great penetration, and a faithful memory; with a solid judgment, a sense of right, and a firmness of soul; always master of himself, and capable of forming and of conducting great enterprises. He did not repose upon favourites, but took cognizance of all things, and regulated them himself. He was tender towards his subjects, and never lost sight of judgment and of justice. He studied and acquired the European arts and sciences; and geometry, physics, astronomy, medicine, and anatomy, were successively objects of his careful study. He loved to have the learned Jesuits around him; he esteemed their morals; protected them and their fellow Christians; and had given hopes, that but for his sudden death, he would have openly embraced Christianity.\n\nIn 1620 the Chinese sovereign (Tien-ki) and Government at Pekin, called in the aid of the Christian missionaries, and of the Portuguese, to aid by artillery in repelling the Tartars. This aid was given, and tranquillity was restored at Pekin, to within seven leagues of which city the Tartars had penetrated. In 1628 the Emperor Tien-ki died, and his brother, Hoai-tsong, known also under the name of Tsong-tching, ascended the throne of China.\n\nIn 1636, two leaders or chiefs of plundering banditti, organized a large force, combining all the discontented persons in the empire, as well as all who wished to profit by plunder. They marched towards Pekin, plundering towns, cities, and provinces, and devastating the land with civil war, and the Emperor fearing to fall into their hands, put himself to death. The commandant (Ou-Sang-Guey) of a body of Chinese troops on the frontiers, solicited the aid of the Tartars, to relieve Pekin; this aid was granted by Tsong-te, the Tartar chief, who retook Pekin from the rebels; and as the Chinese Emperor, Hoai-tsong, had committed suicide to prevent falling into the hands of the rebels, the vacant throne was seized by the Tartar general, Tsong-te, who, however, died very soon, and his son, Chuntchi, then only six years of age, was proclaimed Emperor of China by the Tartar garrison of Pekin. The uncle of Chuntchi, named Aniavan, became the guardian of the young prince, who at fourteen years of age ascended the throne, the sovereignty of which was still disputed by the Chinese, particularly in the sea coast and midland provinces. The Tartar troops advanced to Quantong (Canton) and Quangsi provinces, where they took some towns, but were repulsed by two Chinese generals who were Christians. The victorious Chinese declared Yang-tie, who was a prince of the imperial family, emperor, and fixed his court at Chao-king, in the Canton province. The mother of the Chinese emperor, his chief wife, and his eldest son, received the rite of Christian baptism, together with twenty\n\nAND PROSPECTS IN CHINA.\n\n95\n\nof the offer thus benignly vouchsafed to us; if we reject the means of thus benefiting ourselves and myriads of our fellow-creatures, either from apathy, selfishness, miscalled prudence, or erroneous political considerations, the opportunity may never again occur; and that which might have been converted into a source of national strength, of individual good, and of general benefit, may be converted by others, and by different means, into an engine injurious to our own interests, and productive of great and permanent national injury. Are we prepared to run the race of competition with other nations? or, after enjoying duration as a kingdom for upwards of one thousand years, and holding for the greater part of that time the dominant power of the Earth, are we disposed to shrink from the competition and descend in the scale of empires? Other kingdoms and nations are ready to rise, to build, and to strengthen their power on our downfall. We cannot shut our eyes to the fact, that we are envied and feared, rather than trusted and loved, and that if we be not true to ourselves there are none in whom we can trust.\n\nIt has not been by a timid, hesitating, dubious time-serving policy, by a craving after petty immediate gain, by crafty devices, or by subtle intrigues, that a small island in the Western Atlantic has become the mistress of the world—her power seen and felt on every shore, her flag triumphant on every sea.\n\nGreat ends can only be achieved by great means; a nobility of object consecrates the endeavour for its attainment.\n\nIf to pour a quickening life blood into China, to vivify a vast and almost stagnant mass of human beings, and thus incalculably increase our commerce*; if to construct and organize a power on the extreme East, which may eventually counterbalance the gigantic empire which stretches from the Bosphorous to the Arctic circle, from the Baltic to the Pacific; if to diffuse intelligence and science among three hundred millions of people; above all, and before all, to implant the inspiriting doctrines of Christianity over such an immense portion of the globe, that their diffusion would eventually influence all mankind; if to do this\n\nladies of rank at the court. The Chinese empress (baptized Helena Taming), and the other royal Christians, sent a learned missionary (Michael Bagm, a Pole) to Pope Alexander VII., to render obedience to the court of Rome.\n\nThe Chinese dynasty in the southern provinces was but of short duration. Hordes of Tartars poured into China, and three grand armies obliged the Emperor Yang-tie to flee. A sanguinary leader of theirs having overrun the provinces of Honan, Kiangnan, Kiangsi, &c., and committed the most appalling massacres, the peaceful Chinese were glad to accept the Tartar yoke, for the sake of secure enjoyment of their lives. And for two hundred years, 1644 to 1844, the Tartar dynasty has maintained by corruption, by stratagem, and by force, the throne and government of China.\n\n* China has rich mines of gold and silver, but it has also accumulated large quantities of the precious metals from other countries.\n\nIt is computed that 400,000,000 dollars passed from Acapulco to Manila during the 250 years of their intercourse; of this sum it is estimated that one-fourth passed from Manila to China. Since 1784, about 100,000,000 dollars have passed from the United States to China. Siam and Cochin send large quantities of gold and silver in ingots to China. Japan, it is estimated, has poured into China during sixty years of free intercourse, at least 100,000,000. From all other sources during the past century, China has received about 50,000,000. The estimated metallic circulation is equivalent to 500,000,000 dollars.\n\n512", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 535, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "106\n\n66\n\nCORRESPONDENCE\n\nthey have money lent on mortgage, or they traffic in building land; or they say, let things alone, they will last our time; if the Government at home choose to spend money here, what have we to do with it ?\"\n\nI am injured and misrepresented for entertaining a different feeling; and every effort has been made by departing from the Treasury instructions, and by various annoyances, to derange and delay my accounts; and by petty devices and subterfuges to create an unfavourable impression against me at home. However, by hiring clerks myself, and refusing at last to pay any more money without proper vouchers, I succeeded in compelling some attention to forms.\n\nMy offer to submit the subject to Commissary-General Coffin and Deputy Commissary-General Miller, was rejected. Both these gentlemen said they did not see how accounts could be rendered from the manner in which money was drawn. My quarterly accounts were, considering their nature, completed as early as those of any other department in China. Mr. Miller who has examined them, thinks they are \"done in a masterly manner,\" although for a long time I had but one working clerk—a mere copyist and an Anglo-Indian; and at present my three clerks—head, second, and third—are all ill and absent, yet I am ready to produce all my books, and to show them made up and balanced, daily, at 3 o'clock. I have announced this to the Governor, the Colonial Secretary, and to the Auditor, to prevent continued misrepresentations.\n\nI have not yet been able to obtain all the Consular accounts* complete for the past year, although a letter which I inclosed to you in a former communication stated, by the command of the Governor, that they were \"all passed and found correct to December, 1844, and deposited in the safe keeping of the auditor.\" I have reason to know, that at the time this letter was written the Consular accounts were not and never had been in the auditor's possession; and that Mr. Elmslie, the officiating secretary to the Chief Superintendent, was the only person who had examined the Consular accounts. This has been communicated to me also by Mr. Elmslie, who states that the auditor had refused to examine or have anything to do with the Consular accounts; and it is confirmed by the auditor refusing even to retain in his office the Consular vouchers duplicates transmitted with my quarterly accounts. To this moment I have not received the Consular accounts for Shanghai and for Ningpo, for the year ending 31st December, 1844, and I am informed, on application to Mr. Elmslie, that he has not received them from Shanghai and Ningpo in a fit state to send them to me. I have not been able to obtain one of the Consular accounts for the present year.\n\nI am still unable to induce the auditor to carry into effect the instructions from the Lords of the Treasury. Some of the departments draw their money whenever they like, on what are called \"imprest warrants;\" others draw it monthly, on salary abstracts and final warrants; and instead of the quarterly payments not being made until after the termination of the quarter, the Governor has ordered me to pay all the departments before even the termination of the quarter for which the salaries and wages are due.\n\nI beg that these facts may be communicated to the Colonial Office and Audit Board, in order that I may not suffer from misrepresentations and official letters containing insinuations and inuendoes, which are kept secret from me.\n\nNothing but an anxious desire to fulfil the duty entrusted to me has enabled me to remain at my post, under the daily suffering of a lingering...\n\n* \"To A. W. Elmslie, Esq., Officiating Secretary to his Excellency the Chief Superintendent of Trade.\n\nSir,\n\nColonial Treasury, Hong Kong, April 18, 1845.\n\n\"I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, in which I am informed, by the command of his Excellency Her Majesty's plenipotentiary, in reply to my request that proper vouchers and accounts be rendered to this department, for £20,1867. 14s. 11d., advanced to the different Consuls from 8th May to 31st December, 1844, that they are deposited in the safe keeping of the auditor,' and that if I want them with a view to the recovery of the superannuation and income tax dues, I have only to apply to the proper quarter, and the auditor will give me immediate access to them.' I would again respectfully solicit the attention of his Excellency to the request and statement contained in my letter of yesterday's date. By the instructions from the Earl of Aberdeen, I apprehend it will be found that the Consular accounts, after being passed by the auditor and returned to you certified as to their correctness, are to be transmitted to me, to be appended as a sub-account to my quarterly account. For the past six months I have repeatedly applied to you for these accounts, and my applications being fruitless, I was compelled to address his Excellency yesterday on the subject. But, independent of these instructions from the Foreign Office, a mere access to the receipts granted by the Consulates for the full amount of their salaries, while they have only drawn bills on me, under your directions, for the net amount of their salaries, would not, as I have long ago acquainted you, enable me to recover the sums due for income-tax and superannuation fund, and give them credit for the amounts in my books.\n\n\"I have the honour, therefore, to request that his Excellency will be pleased to reconsider my letter.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n\"R. M. MARTIN.\"\n\n107\n\nF\n\nWITH THE TREASURY.\n\n528", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229567, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 235709, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "page_number": 388, "title": "CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854", "content_text": "His perniture and other \n\n322 \n\nAGI \n\nPostal in the Here of Commas neve \n\n£ 1500 and £1600. \n\nsubstantially time, with the single exception effects sold for about to you; as he drew to \n\nVille for £200 each, becoming due \n\n£200 \n\nsuccessionly which would liquidate, \n\nthat Mr Baxter left his Parisi \n\nSunday, after \n\nthan \n\nafter the perpera \n\n-performance of turning the two devices, instead of after the morni \n\nJuviu. \n\ninform me inferun \n\nMicitation \n\nin \n\nthat Mr Baxter objected, the first instance, let that Mr Laut, Laing \n\nheart a \n\nwhether will \n\nfounded \n\nin to consecution \n\nyears, \n\nhiin. \n\nwas suffered, all outstanding claims against \n\nThese bills, \n\nas I tenderitied, we \n\nIn repren \n\nto this fact, Mr Land lodged with Mr L'ant; and it is den telt \n\nMurter to add that they were drawn at Alt that it was at his express. \n\nLant's suggestion, and under his advice. \n\nIt does not appens that Mr Bart'! or mit mode of living at Zy,ield was extimajunty, \n\nof does not appear, and is not material, this unbecoming his parition; and I see no reason a Beaker at andreer, to when Mr Baster to double that his enbarapunts have been \n\nJudgesmensioned, partly by the pressure of dest was indebted, intended to sun a \n\nMonday morning, orgiesccumulating gradantly for many warrant upon him him, as his professional ateiner, to secure and partly by his num himself by almming out of kin neighbor how habits in \n\nthe Sunday. \n\ncannot reconcile during this statement with the warmes \n\nwant of business-like \n\nmatters. \n\nmonly Latterly Mr Baxter \n\nsum to Lam \n\nhe \n\nalleged drive to shifts, and to the employment of \n\nto small trust moies in his laws, to meet hi \n\nimmediate what, \n\nby Mr Baxter, in his better of Anyt. 19th \n\non Sunding, or with for his departure \n\nhis possessed expectation of returning \n\nto \n\nundan \n\nexpectation of bing. \n\nable to replace them of the balances dus from him, one, of trifling emont, \n\nThis \n\nbit farewell to his Munshisous exfore the remitted to M. Steadman, the pumns Better \n\nof Fyfield; and My Baxter writes that, with Jolling Sunday \n\nresent to another sum (amount not stated) de actest in the same manner as in the foregoing \n\nwith myard to Mr Baxter's debts, they appear to have emontend to htwick", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-048 - Public Offices - 1854.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239059, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "18\n\nto interference which\n\nT\n\nsem invincible.\n\n\"What, however, must never\n\nbe lost sight of, is the position of this Blom in relation to our vast interest in China. Kese reonue that all I legislation could be looked to in its ultra-local consequences, and the consideration of troue consequences\n\nit is of course\n\nmy\n\nbounden duty\n\nas\n\nPlemibotentiary and Chief Superintendat\n\ninvitually to keep in view.\n\n& Finde\n\nconeur in Mz\n\nI entially Bridges' affirmation of the value\n\nF\n\nhor Exldwills devices, and shall be\n\ngian to see him reinstaten in the service of the Foramment.\n\nAnd though not agreein yo\n\nwith Urr Midges as to the modus\n\nbrocedende in the\n\nvery grave\n\naut\n\n\"entandled question, I recognize-\n\nzeal\n\nhis representation evidence of his\n\nand attention to the subject.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nWatt\n\nمنزل\n\nfour mat sortient Aumble Servant,\n\nJohn Biums\n\nreference to the averment of Mr Bridges that \"every day in there lie alongside the\n\n\"the\n\nyear\n\ni", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242324, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24th, 1857.\n\n#### LATEST DATES\nEng Nov. 19; San Francisco, Dec. 21; Singapore, Jan. 13; Manilla, Nov. 13; Jan. 14\n\n#### CHINESE CHANTUNG\n11 Muia, Gish Days\n\nAs soon as each division of the city is closed, and gates are set up, appointing a man to keep the gate, examining those who are passing and reporting should anything fearful occur, let the gates be shut and lugs to prevent thieves from doing mischief.\n\nAgain, in the several divisions of the city let a strict examination be made, and in every row where disorderly women live let them be shut in all defences; and when they have suspicious strangers, weapons, and other instruments, as ferrets, let them be searched for daily.\n\nTowards the Wells—in each division of the Town where there are wells, let a watchman be appointed by night and day to watch it, some person reputed or recommended by some one who knows his faithfulness, in order to guard against the treacherous putting in poison; opening at six o'clock in the morning and closing at six in the evening. Let the owners of water pay 3 cash per load for the water man's wages.\n\nFire—Hongkong ought to put up a reward or prize for any who shall seize a water or miscreant in any Mandarine's employment; and when masters of these shall be convicted under evidence, let a reward of hundred dollars be given to the informer.\n\nAlso, should any shop or dwelling house for want of care allow fire to kindle, let the offender be taken up and receive a thrashing of one hundred blows, made to carry it for three months correction, for not being careful against fire and the sin of involving others. Thus by the establishment of such a rule, men would certainly be careful against the grievous accident with catching animosity.\n\nBarbarians—At present the Mandarines of China have laid an embargo on Hongkong—prohibiting intercourse. Vessels going and passing boats from the neighboring places around perhaps come, perhaps not; perhaps several unite in coming together, to guard against the sea pirates they thus unite. Now the Mandarines have put out a proclamation prohibiting the Chinese from coming to Hongkong, but permitting their return home. We hear it stated that the Mandarines have thus fixed the time to the 1st month of next year—February 1857—before which none are to go or come; if they do they are to be seized as transgressors, and dealt with accordingly. Now although the hoted time has not arrived, still all the vessels that arrive at Hongkong, whether from city or village, should be carefully examined by some trusty conductor of a government boat, as to their business, whence from, name and surname, their age and appearance, and where they intended going in Hongkong; of which write in a book by which there will be a means of examining into the matter. Also, let each vessel examined for soldiers, implements of war, or other suspicious instruments. Examine the oven on board, whether they have anything suspicious in their appearance, and search their persons to see if they have any daggers about them, or any traitorous letters or clues of wicked devices, instantly examining everything on board, after which allow them to go on shore. As the present is a time of war, if there are traitors among the people of Hongkong, many of them rebels taking refuge; besides the men without employment will be many, poor and it is difficult for these to accept to any other occupation. The thieves, though numerous, will be found willing to observe the Laws, and will certainly not be the disturbers of the peace. Their machinations are at war, and it will be found exceeding difficult to effect a translation—apparently the subtle proclamation broadcast over the English were to select a crew of sturdy lads among those who frequent the brothels dispersed over the City. These are principally boasted above spies. Whichever is virtuous, without reference to his claracter, enrolling him as an assistant with $7, $5, $3, implements, the patriotic and bold, and act in unison leader, as actor, may take lodgings in them. No. suppose at and finds; for certain there are such among these, the same time was set above state everywhere capable of leading forward the past to the conquest where there are prostitutes, as the sign. If the foreigners, to destroy the convention, officers, specify and rising of the idea confusion. To disquiet the people, and graciously requite the good—less atrocious should be carefully guarded against. Recently Dying had planned trend been shut the city, been pleased intercourse, Tell the officials of the English by respectfully writing them to warn again pointing being foreigners, and perhaps, ad agato traži; and trade. into the wells of Hongkong. Suppose the Mandarines and gentry should secretly and in concert at a given time to set fire to the prostitutes' houses, poison the wells, and make an united attack both from the kind and out.\n\nMoreover, they would break the Embargo, placed on Hongkong and also in cutting off supplies, we fear all the dire that like an hell become a reality.\n\n| Jan. P. M. | 6,10 | 6,45 | 1,51 | 2,17 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 6.15 | 2.41 | | |\n| | 3.43 | | | |\n| | 6,39 | 1,93 | 6,51 | |\n\nTuesday, \n5, 1 Adown—First quarter on the 2nd proximos\n3.57 .. \n\n#### SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST.\n\nJun. \nARRIVALS AT MONTTONIA, 31, 8. Sir James Brooke, Skinner, from Singapore.\n\n#### QUOTATIONS\nEXCHANGE, AND BULLION.\nHongkong 19th January, —12—latest at Bush Corporation Bank at 6 month's sight. 18. 14 India Úlög Ra....... No, Nous Duty Byer, Nammal-- Bills un Lambs at 6 months' sight\nAg \n-On Lucía 246 9. \nBuvom, Both Jammary --4do London, 6,,8—India Three days' sight 300 lhs per 10. Diats av Ofnban misi ilong- Long 3 per cent discount, \nMANILA, D, London, 6 months' sight 4, 30 days sight §,, -On Cratoa and kangkong ter ent protoinOn âme 1842eecent psikism-Biver Dollate. Spanish and Spath Auchan, daalused, 13 par ceni prasian \n\n#### OPIUM.\nHoxokong, 31 January, -Paina $115 a 1430 Boawes $1 alwal Nominal.\nMaeso, at January.--Parna $ildo $125, Benares 8115. CANTUN,-X Mackol \nSeasons 20th January---Malwn 367 369. Thule, Patos Sia 323 Triz.\n\n#### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\nCANTOR,--Nong, \nSaia can. -De Lon los £!..10 a £3 for Ten, amil.€5 We 9- New York, 55, une fart. \nTo Lelen 10 Sugar, Hemp ko. €3,10 \nTo Unito Stow $59-To Aural (all ch \n\n#### \"REGISTER\" WARNINGS.\nWaxing \nDear Mr Register, let's have a word \nOr two, with you, on things of late transpired; \nWhereby it seems, by that which you are Jos, \nYour Indignation has been greatly fired. \nAt last you have a cracked, and trembling note,. \nA continubulation of strained vines; \nAnd you epiza fruen your harmonious jurat, \nTechaunt us cadences, ur, alias grang. \nIt seems you do not like the tato restrictions \npored on war crkwiat neighbours--why! Har never yet appeared to our nonvictions, \nBut post you will in fəran qe by atat kym \nfe, do nel like their wandering af sight, \nJaws and carves, Sir John, will tell yon na-- \nAnd held your own important soif inclina \nBeyou that livo: to take a chair-why go \nAnd visit your contributors or friends \nBut dont ugal the pass from the othicial; \nAnd if you are a lasting man, \nJust take it with you-wili be beneficialy \nwww.wx \nOr if a GENTLEMAN of gh degre \nTho' uut of pare Casian blood. neglect \nTo carry with bin hat the laws decree \nIn the of warfare-what can you expect? \nBut, that a citizen of earnest seal, \nplein \nAril hanest purpose past your en Shonid chose to challenge tür our mutna \nThe cause of two chair-oitus late detension \n-J \nAnd on the showing of their vindication \nBy this great gentle of puntic blood, \nYou strive to ensure one, whose pledged vacation, \nI to a crime, in bluason, or in \nPause Mr Register, and do not wokY \nFor but of too wild a fight-tis like \nThat you have seen, and y le taught to fol \nLow soon the Begle way the quarry strike \n\n#### SUPREME COURT.\n98th January, 1857.\nThe Queen. The Punnvers. Dr. Bridges, supported by Messrs Gisket and Bowa, and by Mr H.J. Turin, moved on behalf of the Prisoner Alum of the Esing shop, that the Sheriff, Mr May, be ordered to pay over unto the said Prisoner Alum, the sum of $1225, being monies seized by the Sheriff on the premises under The trial of the Esing prisoners will not come on Monday next, as the case commenced earlier than was likely to trench deep—firm and of Mr Tarea, stated their belief to be likely on the bowels of the night. The long this annoy was scary to caulio the p. i- kg Register will not ad id fit vero of the Zomer to prepara lus delence, asseron tout Alain and his fanife werdetin The Chi Ja tien avid that the objection to this existed on board the Shava onk und the Hongkong Police arrived; and the Chem Mach, also in-drecting the errar goes just as faz wrong in \n\n#### CHINESE LAW:\nand the five Mandarimen embarked with them. On their way up they were met by the Cantonese full, who burn one, destroying one thousand men. The other was ran on alore, N. J and the five Mandarimen with about two thousand men narrowly escaping back to Chinkeng. Finally, they built a small boat, ten men volunteering to attempt to reach Nankin in her. It was arranged if they succeeded, All persons rearing mountains, pretending poison—RSI they were so throw large quantities of charcoal into the river. The man at Chinkiang keeping all those who are guilty of afaming in death with violent watch for its floating past with the constant ebb, threats, in order to accomplish an object criminal and unlawful. pusdicine, who pennisters drug perforations with after this a-kang cut his way through with thirty prat Naakin and Chinkeing fu, which they noticed folicult, stall safer deaths—An cekilful practaloner or far days after the boat left. When about a week the ponding needle, contrary to the tablebed rules and hand bringing provisions and relief in the practice, and thereby thungh without any design to injure, kila the patient, shall be had to even hotf from the garrison—Since then they have hul abondanco of panialent of hamile, but shall be obliged to quit kia pro-visions. The morong we passed Tomson the sun or ever, it shaft anper, bewever, that he intentionreb is were engaging the inperiniiats, and we were ally devices from the established rules and gradu, and he enre, and the patient dina, the money shal! then I con \n\n#### CHINKEANG AND NANKING.\nOrigin Narrative, \nComcted from N, page 23. \ntold they had been alt engaged the day before, \nAll the time we were at Ching krang and Nonkin, \nand they appeared q te ignorant of what nu iven going on here. At the lone we left they lik \"wet board of the movements at Canton, \nA Cintonese \nwomen mentioned something about Cautos, which we did not onderzland. We were never askıd \n\n#### ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n**WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE.**\nLEA & PERRINS \nat their SALUK which \nsatened in India, \nby \nBay, noe Tat Joanable wo well she LA BANTA Chan \n. والكتير هز \nWORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. \nPERRINA \nyaz, and riker Out \ndily by far gymploye dealers in Sau Or the 2003 ore 224 K \nKenchaista Linivan \nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE HOUSE GROUND on Inland LOT \nNr. 306-comer of Hollywood Roni and Cir alar Busitings. The House is well brill, with Five Large Reons, The Godowns adapted for the storage of Dry Goods. For full particulars, apply in CHUN APNG, at the Feessa Hong, Botha's Strand or by later, addressed \"C.,\" at the China Mail Oce. \nHongkong 15th November, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. \n散芳園 \n大水坑口 \n兹者上海 \nmud for Sale by the undersigned, \n120 Tins Warm CRACKERS. \nTHOMAS HUNT & OL Hongkong, 2nd January, 1857.\n\nRECEIVED per Arganout,” and for Salo by \nthe undersignal, 600 Barrels Fresh Gallego FLOUR. \nTHOMAS HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 20th January, 1957.\n\nDECEIVED per late nerival, and For Sale by \nthe undersigand,—- \n109 Packages American PORK. \n150 Banels Gallego FLOUR 1000 Bags California to \nTUOMAS HENT & Co. \nHongkong, fih January, 1857.\n\n**CIRCULAR.**\nTHE undersigned, Proprietor of the FRENCH BREAD COMPANY, respectfully gives notice to the community of Victoria, that ho has engaged an ExorsAN BAK, and is consequence of the Bligh wages, and dearness of Flour, will ↑ Charge, from this date, TWELVE CENTS per four. \nN. BOULLE. Hengitong, 24th January, 1857.\n\n**ADVERTISEMENT.**\nA Respectable Chinese, having his family in the Colony, is desirous of otiring cimployment at a Comprador, or Office Copyist. Apply at this \nHongkong, 10th January, 1857, \nObce.\n\n**NOTICE.**\nwater, this would become heurt aortow and should be carefully guarded aguest. In curefully coming here; there are the means of preventing the guarding, tho treimenos mest in hindered fron evt. I have thus respeedfully laid this part of may views before you for consideration; \nSending so many slits from your honorable country such a distance across the steep, or, Now, when without soutiers sufficient, they would be rady at hand,-when without supplier, -supplies would be sent is. Chinn for several years in succession has been engaged in internal warfare the power of the country has become vitiated, and done away. Beyond the court the officers are with rat wbility; in the cabinet, there are no good and faithful misters; and this is the time for one of \nbeild up his fortune with true abilities not a pro- per feeling. Let such receive the teselligent with generosity and sincerity, treating them with respect; en there would be a general collecting to such as to a lender, like the water running down to the art. Where woult grief arise for is want of meri torious succes in the acquisition of territory la He teratasi \n\nPass & System Let there be an intelligen bes palice man in each divlaim of this city, tune with the Tuga in ezinining every Frange, has many oths, what age, and appeatability improve the opportunity to make bis Jack ance, writing it in n book, auf on the paza clarly etning the carer's height in feet and meter, his When going out and in, tot hus spend his pare appearance, oxide and surname, and residence. up his collar button; that it may at all times on exensoution be ascertained whether the proper pereus beurs it, in order to prasibu traitoreas en Seamen's Hospital.\n\n**SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL.**\nResident Surgen-RUNARD G. JACK, Esq. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, Esy., .. \"Tems & Aimsion. \nPublic Wards, -75 Cente per day, Intermediate Wands Dollar, Private Rooms 2 \nPatients are also admitted on Pepsi, at the \nfollowing rates, renewable une day previous to 10 \namcant deposited having been expended. \nPublic Warda - Intermo/tips-. \nPrivate Roms.. \nW15 \n- $20 630 \nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessel mnat ba sponsible for the expenses of Patients sent by thear so the Flaspiiri. \nNBA Hospital Bills to ho receipted by the Treasurer only.\n\n**WANTED.**\nin SH1 procending is SGAPORE \nroom at a cheap rate for fra Que to Five Finated Tons of Daal weight, consisting of foot square genio blocks froin Four in Six feet in length, which will be placed on board and taken out free of opens to the Ship. \nApply to \nWH. TARRANT. Hongkong, 27th January, 1857.\n\n**PUBLIO AUCTION.**\nTHE undersigned with call by Puncu Averian, \non \nMONDAY, \nthe 2nd day of February, 1857, \nat Noon, from the Godowns of Messia Scuserz3R \nectient locality. For particulars address Medicus&Co, for account of what it may concern, the fol Office of the Chins Mail.\" \nHanghong, 19th November, 1856.\n\n**STORAGE.**\nen moderate this, on board the \nHalk \" Ernan,\" lying of West Point Apply to the Proprietor \nTHOMAS ROBERTS. \nHongkong, 29th November, 1866.\n\n**A CARD.**\nF. FLACKHEAD, \nHONGKCAS. \nShip Chan-lice, Sailmaker and Qeneral Agent, \nCopper, Yellow Metal, and Zine Sheathing, always on hand. \nflongkong, 6th November, 1856.\n\n**NOTICE OF REMOVAL.**\nTHE undersigned begs to notify his friends and Captains in this Harbour that (on account of the dangers at Whampoa) he has removed his \nShip Chandlery Establishment to this Place, \nin the bay of Spring Gardens, and by strict attention to business hopes to obtain a share of the public patronage. \nF. BLACKBEAD. \nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\n**SPRING GARDENS.**\nTHE undersigned have established themselves in \nHongkong as CARPENTERS and Shipwrights \nand are ready to undertake Work of every description. They have also on hand a large supply of MATERIAL for the Building and Repair of Ships; Likewise Sails of all sizes. \nBUYERS & Co. Hongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\n**BROWN, JONES & Co.**\nUndertakers. \nMONUMENTS AND HEAD STONES, made in the best style, at the lowest possible charges. Apply to \nthe Sexton at the Courthouse.\n\n**ORIENTAL HOTEL.**\nN. E. on Praya Grande, Macao. THE WIDOW of FatosRICK Denver, begs to inform the community of Macao, Hongkong and the Consular Powers, that it is her intention carry on the business of her late Husband as heretofore, and she hopes that, with the best servants procurable at usual moderate charges, every satisfaction will be given to those honouring her establishment with their patronage. \nMacao, 24th January, 1857.\n\n**NEW ADVERTISEMENT.**\n**WANTED.**\nSECRETARY for the HONGKONG CLUB. Apply by letter directed to the General Committee. \nBy order, \nR. 1. CARVALHO, \nSecretary \nHongkong, 29th January, 1857.\n\n### Page 210\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 466, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "by and apprized of the stop taken, that of Spain again urged to establish a \"Mint on this Island for the coinage of British \"dollar\". It would be a great matter to have such a coin introduced as soon as possible, that the Chinese may become accustomed to its use. And to this effect, I would recommend that a coinage of them at the Home \"Mint should be commenced as soon as the devices for the coin shall have been decided upon.\n\nBy the last \"accounts from England, the cost of an equal weight of pure silver in the shape of bullion, and in dollars showed a difference of nearly 3 per cent in favor of the former (the quotations being 5/% and 5/2 respectively), a difference that would amply cover all the costs of coinage as pointed out in the letter written by Mr. Woodgate under date of 18th November last and addressed to the American Merchants at Shanghai. The wants of this Colony would absorb all the Coin that could be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242727, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12]", "page_number": 123, "title": "CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12]", "content_text": "## Mr. Musule refuse with this. It is impossible, I spragine to where to let the Governor take his own course.\n\nState present devices of affairs in China: & \n\nAs I observe from o. Minute cably the 6608 test is practically ...\n\nQuite never confirms \n\nIn Bedinance minus lection Sections it would probably be the best policy to let this ...\n\n07 \n\nOber - for a twice to see how it works : \n\nCik 2 Tebs. inclined to think? \n\nOut by for the present. I am \n\nHon 73 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243324, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "# H. Mitchell: Governor of Juneau\n\n## Correspondence regarding Clerk appointment\n\nThe formal appointment of a Clerk seems especially to ask leave to ask for a Clerk from England – in any case, it will entail certain liabilities on the part of this office.\n\nEntirely for the apportionment of cost, it seems expedient to ask for a Clerk from England, as the appropriation for the Creation of this office has been assigned on certain grounds.\n\nI wish to agree with you as to the correspondence. Out of it, I have missed something.\n\nIt should be provided that we have them here, with the necessary Office files for the account in Part 1, as required by engaging the concurrence of Lord Clarendon, who has examined the matter.\n\nThe Gentleman who acted in that capacity is, I presume, required for their work, as he has resigned the office.\n\nI think I should check if No. William H. Mennell, filled rep. the Berken: Mained here, isomet(h)ing Auditor General of Hong Kong at an annual salary of £600.\n\nThis is also my ambition to appoint a Clerk to assist in reporting his requirements.\n\nAs the matter is now in circulation, I must add that I am myself in a depressed state.\n\nIf it brings Mesdamesirable to appoint an Auditor, it would not be but to find one at all. Out of the fire, one finds a love worth it, as it was a font.\n\nThe addition of a salary part effect in useyn which it seemed have been of £300 a year, with respect to any extra pect bet feen t to est in scher salary, is M. 12.\n\nIt is difficult to resist the devices of a Clerk with a Salary.\n\n## Expenses and Funding\n\nThe expenses of the Auditor's Department will be borne in equal proportions to the Revenues of the Colony's Parliamentary Grant and the Treasury of China Kode.\n\n| Revenue Source | Proportion |\n| --- | --- |\n| Colony's Parliamentary Grant | Equal |\n| Treasury of China Kode | Equal |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "175 \n\n40. \n\nThough discussed on Saturday, it was not actually signed until Monday; it would be a very good opportunity to indirectly, what directly the majority were unwilling to do:\n\n(7) \n\nNo member of the Legislative Council, present in the Commission - and there were three, the Surgeon General, and Mr. Lyall - were members to carry the foregoing fact.\n\nSoon after the Compromise was got round or not, but I do know that, within two hours after, the Legislative Council was postponed sine die. Fall now, not presume when it does meet, I state, it will be summoned, as a matter of course, to attend it.\n\nAlthough as I have the majority, after the suggestion took effect, by voting next day for my announced Resolution; – it being certain, in that case it is plain. That, on the faith of that agreement, the report was subscribed by the select minority at least, is a fair inference from the fact.\n\nReceived no intimation that such a decision has been taken.\n\nIt is one of the misfortunes of my distance from the scene of your duties, that I have to imagine and provide against the least probable devices of my unscrupulous enemies; for they have worn the last word.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245421, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "## \nThese seven mails arrived. One of my letters sent by the seven mails was received forthwith. Not one of the other six gentlemen (named in the margin) had a line by either of the seven mails. By the last steamer I had, for the first time, failed to receive a single letter, but only newspapers.\n\nI have since been informed that there are Chinese letter-sorters and others employed in the post office. The pernicious influence which Mr. Caldwell has been allowed to acquire, hold, and retain over the Chinese community, and the arts and devices to which he has resorted to maintain that influence, are flagrant on the pages of the Commission's Enquiry, the Judge's Report, and Notes of the late Trial.\n\nThe relations with the present Post Master are not unfriendly. Generally, access to the post office apartments is not forbidden to him, though not to the public generally. The question is whether absence from... during your...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245588, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858", "content_text": "## the claim \n\nadjied the \n\nwithout obscay. \n\nShare \n\nDepartment of the Comptroller of Transport Devices. \n\n## RECEIVED \n\nJUNE 9 \n\nhaving \n\nand \n\nLeyton \n\nAdmiralty, \n\nSomerset House, W.C. \n\n8 June 1858. \n\nbeen made \n\nupon \n\nthis department by the Peninsular and \n\nOriental Steam Navigation Company \n\non account of passages provided in \n\ntheir vessels, as stated on the other side, \n\nI beg to request that \n\nyou \n\nwill inform \n\nme whether the expense thus incurred \n\nwill be repaid by \n\nthe Colonial Office: \n\nH. Merivale Esq. \n\nI have the honor to be, \n\nSir, \n\nYour most obedient servant, \n\nChen, Member and Comp. of Transport Services \n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| N V V | 5531 vọng động. |\n| 28 | Gyor. |\n| Mrhoad | Ever Groin |\n| Cagent. | | \nNo changes made to the non-English text or unclear parts as per the instructions. Page numbers or other metadata not present to be preserved. File references not present to be reformatted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-070 - Public Offices - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245956, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858", "content_text": "such a coinage introduced as soon as possible, that the Chinese become accustomed to its use \nmay \nand to effect this, I would recommend that a coinage of them at the Home Mint should be commenced as soon as the devices for the coin shall have been decided upon. By the last account from England the cost of an equal weight of pure silver in the shape of Bullion shewed a difference of nearly 3 percent in favor of the coinage; \n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| $ 92.50 | 59 |\n| $ 89.50 | |\n\nthat no possible loss could arise from this actual coinage; for whatever might be the fate of the Dollar on its introduction at the Treaty Ports, here it could be made currency by proclamation. \n5.12 for 13 Doll \n| former Quotations | 5.14 proz stand | 5/12 per oz respectively |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | | |\n\ndifference that would amply cover all expense of coinage, as pointed out in the letter written by M. Woodgate, under date of the 11th inst. last and addressed to the American merchants at Shanghai \nthe wants of this colony would absorb all the coin that could be furnished, as might also be the case at Singapore. \n\n`Free Exchact (Agnes Geralmson`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246075, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858", "content_text": "# \nwith foreigners the use of dollars was introduced, which passed current, at certain rates, by weight, with reference to the tael of sycee silver. But many anomalies, arising from the caprice of the Chinese, prevailed in regard to the description of these coins in use. They did not pass current according to their ascertained contents of precious metal, but in varying estimation, according to the mints at which they were coined and the devices which they bore. The old Spanish dollars of the coinage of Ferdinand and Carolus IV obtained a preference over all others; and the conditions under which these passed current varied at different places. At Canton, for example, the practice prevailed among native merchants and shroffs, of authenticating the coins which passed through their hands by stamping them with their device or chop. This process, in time, destroyed the integrity of the coins, and they passed current, by weight, in broken pieces. At Shanghai, on the other hand, whole coins of the reign of Carolus IV, undisfigured by chop marks, alone passed current; and the preference was not only given to coins of that monarch, but to those which bore a particular Mint mark. At each port the exchanges were calculated in the coin which passed current there, and other coins were received only at a discount varying with the course of exchange.\n\n## coins\n\nIn this condition of things the Proclamation of 1844 was passed, the object of which was to assimilate the currency of Hong Kong to that of other British Colonies. It declared the dollars of Spain, Mexico, or the South American States, and the gold mohur and silver rupee of the East India Company, to be a legal tender of payment, in like manner as the gold, silver, and copper of the United Kingdom, at certain fixed rates specified in the denomination of British sterling. Those rates were calculated according to the contents of precious metal in each coin, the value of the silver coins being ascertained according to the principle adopted in the West Indian Proclamation of 1838. It was expressly declared that the said coins should be perfect coins, and of full and proper weight and value.\n\nThe Proclamation thus sought to overrule the prejudices of the natives, and to substitute for the capricious currency in use a system founded on the intrinsic value of the coins rated for circulation. In furtherance of this object it not only introduced the coins of the United Kingdom and other coins, to which the natives were unaccustomed, but sought to exclude from circulation the only coins which they willingly received in payments, namely, the chopped Spanish dollars. It was hoped that, by this course, the monetary transactions of the Colony would be facilitated, without occasioning any difficulty or embarrassment with the Chinese at Canton and other places in China.\n\nThis expectation, however, was not realized. Hong Kong, situated at the mouth of the Canton river, is too closely associated with the trading community of that place, to allow of the effectual establishment in the island of an isolated system of currency. The proceedings of the Government were met by measures of the shopkeepers for counteracting them. Nominal prices were raised in cases in which it was supposed that payment would be made in British money or any coin but that which was preferred by the Chinese inhabitants. Merchants continued to keep their accounts, and to regulate their transactions, by the current dollar; and, except as regards the receipt of duties and Government payments, the proclamation had no sensible effect.\n\nStill it is possible that, if no circumstances had occurred to disturb the usual course of trade with China, if no permanent alteration had taken place in the relative value of gold and silver and the exchange with the East had not been violently affected by other causes, the measure might, in the end, have worked its aim. Some discontent was expressed by soldiers and others who received Government pay in coins for which they could not obtain the full value in exchange; but none of the inconveniences which are dwelt upon in Sir Charles Trevelyan's Memorandum at first occurred. The rates of exchange between London and China were, for some years, favourable to this country, and it will be seen from the annexed statement of the negotiations by the Commissariat officers for bills on England, from 1844 to the early part of 1850, that the dollar was generally obtained at the par rate fixed by the Proclamation and not unfrequently at lower rates.\n\n## \nIn that year the new discoveries of gold began to have a sensible effect on the price of silver. It was the natural consequence of the increased supply of gold, that a new distribution of the precious metals should take place throughout the world. Other things remaining the same, countries which used silver alone as the medium of exchange, would obtain their share of the aggregate addition to the currency of the world, by withdrawing a proportionate amount of silver from countries which used a mixed currency. Gold would displace silver from countries using a double standard, and the latter would flow to other countries, where it constituted the sole standard of value. This operation would be brought about through the exchanges, which would be generally unfavourable to countries using a gold standard, until the restoration of the equilibrium in the distribution of the precious metals. There were, however, other causes at work, which seriously affected the exchanges between this country and China. The development of free trade had, at the same time, given a vast impulse to the commerce of Great Britain with the rest of the world. The demand for Chinese productions, both from this country and the United States, greatly increased, leading to an amount of exports from China far exceeding the quantities of former years, without any corresponding increase in the returns of European or American produce; and this unfavourable tendency of the balance of trade was further increased by the failure of the silk crop in France, which led to large and speculative purchases of silk in China. The state of transactions, too, with the East Indies, influenced by the employment of British capital in the construction of railways in that country, confirmed the tendency to a course of exchange with the East, generally unfavourable to England. Hence a condition of trade arose, in which the engagements with China could only be settled by the transmission thither of specie; and, as in the cycle of trade, the transactions between China and the United States are adjusted by bills on London, the exchanges became so adverse to this country, that a long continued and unprecedented demand for silver for exportation to the East arose.\n\nIt is necessary to advert to these circumstances, because they account for the fact that the disturbance of the trade in the precious metals far exceeded anything that can be attributed immediately to the gold discoveries. Not only was Europe ransacked for all the silver that could be drawn from it, and this exceeded the quantity which could have been required for the mere readjustment of the distribution of the precious metals, but increasing supplies of silver from America were shipped off as soon as they were obtained. We should, therefore, greatly err if we entered upon the consideration of the present state of the currency of Hong Kong, under the supposition that we have only to deal with a simple question arising from an alteration in the relative supply of gold and silver in the world.\n\nYet, as the course of the exchanges is the regulator by which the distribution of the precious metals is determined, and a continued adverse exchange with the East has, for the time being, an effect on the relative value of gold and silver, similar to that which would arise from an increased supply of gold, we may, for the purpose of considering the proposed settlement of the currency of Hong Kong, drop the distinction, and refer, for the present, only to the fact of a very great increase in the value of silver relatively to gold, since the passing of the Proclamation of 1844. The effect of the change has been to depreciate the sovereign greatly as compared with the dollar at Hong Kong. A state of things has arisen like that contemplated by Mr. Pennington in reference to the West Indian Proclamation of 1838. Why is it that the same results have not ensued? Why is it that the cheaper metal has not practically become the principal measure of value at Hong Kong, and that all money contracts are not discharged in that metal? The answer is, that the Proclamation of 1844 has not affected money contracts. The trading community has not recognized it, or in the slightest degree governed their mutual transactions by its conditions. Except as regards the payments and receipts of Government, it is a mere nullity. It assumes to regulate the currency of the place on the supposition that gold is the standard of value; but silver remains the practical standard of value in spite of it, and a sovereign as a medium of exchange has no more value than an equivalent amount of dollars would have in London. Should we, then, mend the matter by issuing a new Proclamation to alter the legal rating of the dollar, according to its present value, as compared with the sovereign at Hong Kong? The losses incurred by the Home Government in the transactions of the Treasury Chest might be mitigated by such a proceeding; but in all other respects, that is, as regards the money transactions of the \n\n## \n109", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-071 - Public Offices - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246689, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "# THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM\n\nAND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE\n\nimpatient of change; nor, on the other hand, must we overlook the influence of novelty and curiosity in exciting inventive ingenuity. The great improvers of the arts are either their devoted followers, or total strangers to them; the indifferent general public prove, when they offer advice, only ignorant intermeddlers. The Huntingdon brewer, called Oliver Cromwell, could teach a military trick or two to Prince Rupert and his cavaliers. The Newcastle collier George Stephenson was so wonderful at engineering, that they would not make him a civil engineer. The gardener John Paxton, because he knew nothing of architecture, became Sir John as the architect of the Crystal Palace. I am not certain, indeed, that the industrial arts have not been as much advanced by strangers as by acquaintances.\n\nAt all events, one of the chief, and I confess unexpected, obstacles which I encounter in seeking to fill the Industrial Museum with examples of Art, is the too humble estimate which men form of their own callings. I cannot persuade a shoe-maker that shoes are of interest to any but shoe-makers and the barefooted public, although he looks with eager curiosity at my collection of hats in all their stages.\n\nI tried in vain to induce a very intelligent glassmaker to send me certain specimens of glass, till I showed him a full series of illustrations of brush-making. His eyes brightened with interest, and he admired the ingenious and unsuspected devices which an art strange to him revealed. Well, said I, be sure the brush-maker will be as much interested in your glass as you are in his brushes, so send me what I ask.\n\nI cannot, accordingly, help inferring that a stranger's curiosity will often make up for his defective experience, and that the Industrial Museum would secure his services for all the arts it represented.\n\nBut whether such services be rendered by experts or by novices, this at least is most certain, that not one of the great Industrial Arts can stand still. In proportion as they are flourishing, every day witnesses old processes altered and new ones introduced.\n\nWhen the duty upon common salt was removed, and our practical chemists began to make soda from it, they threw into the air all the muriatic acid evolved from the salt. Their neighbours complained of the acid fumes, and, at immense expense, the chemists built gigantic chimneys to send the vapours nearer the stars. By and by the price of sulphur, with which they cannot dispense, rose, and they changed the construction of their furnaces so as to burn iron pyrites in them. Then the price of soda", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246690, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 525, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "15\n\n522\n\n47\n\n46\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM\n\nfell, and they blew up or dispensed with their tall chimneys, using instead great condensers, and converting all the obnoxious vapours into chloride of lime, or bleaching powder. Then the value of bleaching powder altered, and they took to producing the chlorine which it contains in a new way; afterwards the oxide of manganese, which is needed for that manufacture, grew scarce, and a most ingenious method of recovering it and using it again was devised, and is in practice. Lastly, not satisfied with the quality of the soda they made, they have mounted their huge furnaces on axles, and make them revolve like barrel-churns roasting on spits, so as thoroughly to intermingle all the ingredients which, by their mutual action, produce the alkali.\n\nThis is no solitary case. They have recently been trying in a London court of law, at the instance of the Excise, the question, \"What is paper?\" This is one of those subtle legal problems which, like that other, \"What is metal?\" argued between a road mender, a glass blower, and an iron founder, each of whom calls the material with which he deals, metal—will multiply on our hands in virtue of the very progression of the arts which I am considering. Yet waiving the question, “What is paper?\" the theory of paper-making is simpler\n\nAND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.\n\nthan that of almost any other of the industrial arts, but how is it with its practice? For years I have at short intervals availed myself of the privilege of visiting the admirable paper-mills in our neighbourhood. At every visit I find some great change; since I saw several of them a few months ago, important alterations have been made, and are still making. When our venerable townsman Mr. Alexander Cowan began paper-making, it was all made by hand, by a process so slow, that they can do now in hours what took weeks, sometimes months before. Year after year everything has been altered. On the chemical side—new bleaching agents, new correctors of the evils of over-bleaching, new sizes and ways of making sizes, new colouring matters, new modes of glazing. On the mechanical side—new machines for rag-cutting, washing, boiling, paper-weaving, sizing, drying, cutting, folding, stamping. One half of the arrangements within my own remembrance are totally new, and above the horizon, newer and newest devices arise on every side.\n\nIf it is so with a comparatively simple art, how must it be with the more complex ones. The hot blast is but one accompaniment and index of the improved manufacture of iron. The Sydenham Palace is but one mark of the improvements in glass-making,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246831, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "Zompte infor Jfile L. C.\n\nL.C.q of be\n\nation\n\ndie\n\nAdmiralf teat\n\nThe Colonial agent\n\nhas been directed\n\nto leuct this\n\nsum from\n\nthe\n\nPension which\n\nIn puchell receives\n\nFrom\n\nthe\n\nGovernment\n\nE 97\n\nto\n\nHong Kong and\n\nCredit A to the\n\ngraval devices\n\nBute\n\nчо rand\n\ntrọng trong\n\n132\n\nSir John Bowring\n\nM.M.\n\n4\n\nS.24\n\nDri Menicale 24\n\n25\n\nJou sigh\n\nLi\n\nWith reference to your despatch No 29 of the 26 Jan? last respecting the passage of Mr Michell from Shanghe to Hong Kong, I have to acquaint you that you are under a misapprehension in supposing that the Government Admiralty pension is paid out of Imperial funds by the agent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246878, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "Government Offices, Victoria Hongkong. 29th January 1859.\n\nI regret to have to trouble you with another letter from Mr. Auxey, dated and received yesterday, on the usual subject of his imaginary grievances.\n\nAs the mail closes tonight, I have no time to make any comment on this production, nor, even if time were allowed, do I think I should waste it.\n\nThe Right Honorable Sir Edward B. Lytton, Bart., M.P.\n\n22/3\n\nI support pension to which Lo Camarron is entitled.\n\nI do not know anything about it myself.\n\nYes - It was an understanding with the previous Governor, Sir John Bowring, that Su J. Bruning was entitled to a pension for 10 years, I think £1000.\n\nI communicated with Mr. Hammond on the subject.\n\nSir E. B. Lytton, Bart.\n\nThe Rt. Honble Governor Sir John Bowring, 29 January, 1859.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nN. 29.\n\nReceived 21 MAR 1859.\n\nReplying to Despatch No. ... of 1858.\n\nPage 35-2\n\n2930 Hong Kong\n\nNo. 30 Executive Council\n\nREC\n\nFRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\nA.C. March 1860\n\nHe\n\nMr. Meriale\n\n& died) Domning uher\n\nanon the Wyn office?\n\nq yu wa\n\nDes. 9th Des.\n\nWriting the\n\ndevices\n\nmbet.\n\nلا وخر 52\n\nPage information remains as is.\n\n \n\nThe final output is reformatted according to the rules and presented in HTML as instructed. Some minor reordering and spacing corrections were made for clarity and adherence to the rules. The original text's content and structure were maintained as much as possible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n\nI assumed enabling them to cast discredit on any certificated as official documents. As the local government have no occasion for their devices, I consider the partiality of the distribution injurious to the public and detrimental to myself and I think that your Lordship will see this, & direct either that the privilege May be withdrawn from my competitors or extended to me.\n\nHis Grace \nThe Right Honourable \nThe Duke of Marlborough \n\nI am \nMy Lord Duke \nYour Obedient Servant \nHenry Harry Augustin \nSecretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n...قام المرتعد الالوان", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 66, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "Breht prop\n\noprinion upon this point, and a hearing upon it he divises me to enclose a copy of a Cegton Budmame to ruelle Banken\n\n众\n\nRound for the Stamp dutin pagath or Note a Bitts issued them Which record them Coddige approval.\n\nFur-1882-\n\n22\n\nUnless their wristiches, should consider that Bank the Ordinan witt noter should he exempted on the operation ofthre from uccive Apes approval in it will, and the Governor world De much obliged.\n\nSancto do if this Lordslicher nonce, him with a reply on the entgut ted the mail of the thicken the regecast of the Onental Bank Corporation will be informed that the request f He Drontal Bank Corporation in under The Concron othe Love the Glasny cond that instructions working of the Lan Shave ar to the being prepand so his guidern The from Aputs M. Sigon 104/1 Bohun 19 1ST 161 Hashong 119. 10437 Guttemen 8 Dec.1806 Sam ducitis.\n\nگی\n\nThe Earl of Camaron to metrint 65 you to procure + forward to. Hongkong K ай the stamps, dies, pique Presses which will 1. 42. The litter was sebe, he requined to give iffat for the profits Meil were t as it the Dep3 Mk 8t Dee. lates Sor J Apruti Mad In Soir. 119 Page 5 grup befor b me 4. Where is he 10437 J. H o the Ordinance 2012. 8 1866 for the imposition Stamp Duties, a q are specipid Annexed requir in Which ht ition which has been recived from the Governor of Mat (str Do\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the instructions:\n\nBreht prop\n\nOpinion upon this point, and a hearing upon it. He devises me to enclose a copy of a Ceylon Budget to Ruell Banken\n\n众\n\nRound for the Stamp duty payable on Notes or Bills issued by them, which records their Codified approval.\n\nFeb-1882-\n\n22\n\nUnless their Excellencies should consider that Banks should be exempted from the operation of the Ordinance, with approval in it, will, and the Governor would be much obliged.\n\nShould it please His Lordship's notice, him with a reply on the subject, the mail of the Oriental Bank Corporation will be informed that the request of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation is under the consideration of the Government.\n\nThat instructions regarding the working of the Law are being prepared for his guidance.\n\nThe From April M. Sigon 104/1 Bohun 19 1ST 161 Hongkong 119. 10437 Government 8 Dec.1886 Sam ducitis.\n\n...\n\nThe Earl of Carnarvon to ... 65 ... you to procure and forward to Hongkong ... the stamps, dies, and Presses which will ...\n\n1. 42. The letter was sent, he required to give effect for the profits. Mail were to be as it the Dept Mk 8th Dec. lates Sor J April Mad In Sir. 119 Page 5 group before me 4. Where is he 10437 J. H o the Ordinance 1866 for the imposition Stamp Duties, a q are specified Annexed require in Which it has been received from the Governor of ... (str ...)\n\nHere is the corrected HTML output:\n\nBreht prop\n\nOpinion upon this point, and a hearing upon it. 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An appearance of incongruity is given by the juxtaposition of the Chinese and English Characters in the double inscription, which it was desirable to avoid. Heraldic devices also appeared out of place in such a coin.\n\n...\n\nis. Frederic Rogers Bart\n\nCoin", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270695, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "page_number": 104, "title": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "content_text": "18\n\nران\n\n97\n\nLock Hospital and this construction of a Civil Hospital, and this are matters which can be appropriately arranged and planned whilst the whole field of actions contemplated is under discussion.\n\n20.\n\nNotwithstanding the ingenious devices of the Colonial Surgeon to mitigate the present Lock Hospital, I have no hesitation in stating, after personal inspection of the Building and of the medical work carried on there, that its continuance is a disgrace to the Colony. Though there are frequently more than 40, and seldom less than 30 diseased women there, it possesses only 20 beds, and is wholly inadequate for the most ordinary requirements of either care or decency. The Civil Hospital that adjoins it is in a ruinous and dilapidated state, although its successful management under the circumstances (and despite the building) reflects great credit on Dr. Murray.\n\n21.\n\nThere were 1122 admissions to the Civil Hospital last year. The death percentage was only 12.21, though many of the Chinese patients were in a moribund state when taken in, and though the Civil Hospital receives all cases of persons injured by violence and accident.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273380, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 189, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "As a proof of the variety of implements used, we may quote a case (one of many) in which almonds were used, and the \"almonds\" were gambling devices neatly produced in Court, so fitted with a hollowed out and trigger that an extra almond could, if necessary, be dropped without detection amongst those that were being committed.\n\nThe evidence required of a person who had actually played, having entered in the first instance as a stranger, was also necessary, and most difficult to procure. The only persons who could be induced to act as Public informers being men of so low a class, it was easy to shake their testimony by proof of previous bad character.\n\nThe bribing of the Police is a point that I have never heard denied by any who are in a position to obtain the necessary corroborative evidence. The bribe given varied according to the rank of the recipient, being so much a case for each house - according to one statement, $140 for a Sergeant, and $70 for a Police Inspector, 12/2 for a Constable. This, I think, was the maximum payment, but the recipient...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 334, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "327\n\nbeen established \n\non the Chinese Coast \n\nin the vicinity of the Seaports, so that merchants have been unable to report \n\ntheir \n\ngoods for the levy of the taxes, and dishonest persons have thus \n\nbeen enabled \n\nto \n\ncarry \n\ntheir villainous devices in effect. \n\nThe Viceroy, moved by these considerations, \n\nin \n\nhas now established regulations in accordance with which offices for the \n\nlevy of the taxes \n\nin the \n\nJow \n\nopium will be opened \n\nthe neighborhood of the following places in the District of **Ngan, viz.** \n\nthe **Kup-phui-Moon**, the **Lai-yu-Moon**, and **Howloong**, and in the neighborhood of the following places in the District of **Hoang-phim**, **Cung-điên-đang**, **Hut-du-năm**, \n\nand **Isi-en-shan**, where Civil and Military \n\nofficials will be stationed to levy the \n\nimport tax on \n\nopium, according to the \n\nfollowing rates, **viz.** \n\nPatna Opium, per chest, Taels 16.0.0 \n\n(one \n\nchest) \n\nwhen less than Malwa Opium, per chest \n\nTaels 8.0.0 \n\n(when less than one \n\nchest) \n\nThe tax \n\non \n\nevery \n\nball (t' \n\nChest) \n\nwill be Taels 2 \n\nfor \n\nprepared opium of 100 tael weight. \n\nStamped Sictats and brandmante's will \n\nbe issued, together with receipts in triplicate, after which, on opium being brought to **Canton** and **Whampua**, **Chao-chow-fu**, \n\nand **Iwatow**, the tariff duty \n\nmust be paid \n\nheretofore \n\n# \n## Tax Rates\n| Type of Opium | Rate per Chest | Additional Info |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Patna Opium | Taels 16.0.0 | |\n| Malwa Opium (less than one chest) | Taels 8.0.0 | |\n| Prepared Opium (100 tael weight) | Taels 2 (per ball) | | \nIX.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 390, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "# PROCLAMATION by Jut, Viceroy and Commander-in-Chief of the Two Kwang Provinces, Acting Governor of Kwang-tung, &c., &c., &c.\n\nDated July 1st, 1868. An announcement that Tax-offices are to be specially established on the Coast, for the better administration of the revenue, and in the interest of the trading classes.\n\nWhereas in the collection of supplies in the Province of Kwang-tung the item of primary consequence is the merchandise tax (likin), in which, again, an important amount accrues from opium, it is ascertained that although the annual import of opium reaches the number of several thousand chests; yet, from the time when Opium-tax Offices were first established, the amount of tax collected shows a deficiency of more than one-half. It is manifest, therefore, that abuses must be prevalent in this matter. It has been reported of late that lawless persons on the coast, in consequence of the smuggling enterprises which are perpetually carried on, have fraudulently assumed the guise of military officials, and put to sea unauthorisedly in armed cruisers, with ostentatious display of flags and other insignia, under the pretext of employment for the apprehension of smugglers, but, when an opportunity offers, plunder vessels of all they contain, and thereupon make off (with their booty). In so far as the traders are concerned, since they suffer harm in consequence of their own greed of gain, there is but little reason for sympathy in such cases; but there are some who, without desiring to evade the payment of duty, are unable to report their merchandise for payment of the tax, owing to their not having reached the stations where it is levied, and are befallen with the like calamity, and the losses that such incur do indeed call for commiseration.\n\nOn an investigation of the causes producing this state of affairs, it proves to be owing to the fact that tax stations have not hitherto been established on the Chinese Coast in the vicinity of the seaports, so that merchants have been unable to report their goods for the levy of the tax, and dishonest persons have thus been enabled to carry their villainous devices into effect. The Viceroy, moved by these considerations, has now established regulations in accordance with which offices for the levy of the tax on opium will be opened in the neighbourhood of the following places in the District of Sin-ngau, viz: the Kup-Bhui-Moon, the Lai-yü-Moon, and Kow-loong; and in the neighbourhood of the following places in the District of Hiang-shan, viz: Ngen-Hong, Kwo-Lu-wan, and Tsien-shou: where civil and military officials will be stationed to levy the import tax on Opium, according to the following rates, viz:\n\n| Type of Opium | Rate per chest | Rate per ball (when less than one chest) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Patna Opium | Tls. 16.0.0 | 0.4.0 |\n| Malwa Opium | Tls. 16.0.0 | 0.5.0 |\n\nThe tax on prepared opium will be Tls. 2 on every 100 taels' weight. Stamped tickets and brand-marks will be issued, together with receipts in triplicate, \"after\" which, on opium being brought to Canton and Whampoa, Ch'ao-chow-fu and Swatow, the tariff duty on the Opium must, as heretofore, be paid at the Maritime Customs' offices, in order that the regulations be fully complied with.\n\nGeneral orders being forwarded on this subject to the Viceroy's subordinates, this Proclamation is, in addition, issued for the information and guidance of all concerned. Let all traders after purchasing Opium proceed to the nearest tax-station and report their goods for payment of the tax. After obtaining the stamped tickets, brand-marks, and triplicate receipts, on passing any other tax stations it will be necessary only to submit to inspection in order to obtain free transit without further payment. The full tariff duty must however be paid as heretofore on arrival at Canton and Whampoa, Ch'ao-chow-fu, and Swatow, in order that the regulations be duly complied with.\n\nAny opium found without the stamped tickets, brand-marks, and triplicate receipts, will forthwith be wholly confiscated; but in the case of opium provided with the above certificates it is forbidden to the cruisers of the different Customs' offices, to make oppressive seizures under any pretexts. In the event of wrongful seizures being made, the owners of the merchandise are authorized to appeal to the Administrative Board, who will at once apprehend and severely punish the offending parties. Ye should all be persuaded that the Viceroy, in the midst of his anxiety for the revenue, feels the profoundest consideration for commercial interests; but if henceforward smuggling be still persevered in, the opium (clandestinely carried) shall be wholly confiscated, and severe penalties inflicted on the individual concerned. The execution of the law treads on the heels of the Viceroy's admonition. Let it not be said that he punishes without timely warning. Let all obey this special Proclamation.\n\nTranslated by (Signed) W. F. MAYERS.\n\nTrue Copy (Signed) ALEXANDER FRATER, desɔrtani.\n\nPage 381 \nPage 390 \nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 217, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "Government House, Hong Kong 15 September 1869.\n\nMy Lord.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge Your Lordship's despatch B. 105, and \"Confidential\", both of the 17th July, referring to the case of Regina v. Saint, and explaining ...\n\nThe original testimonial that accompanied your letter of the 27 July are ...\n\nRight Honorable Earl Granville, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,\n\nPage 795\n\n...\n\nmost leniently.\n\n...\n\nclaim upon any Colonial Funds.\n\n...\n\nJone Military Devices do fully ...\n\nNaval ...\n\n26th give ...\n\nDie Ladstich can not interfere in Dam & ...\n\nzom ...\n\nxx ...\n\n7216 6817 $85/ 703 75 12:334. Hung tung NOVS 1060 213\n\nعلم ...\n\nدرود حمر ...\n\n7.co. ...\n\n754x Right Aonouble 1024x ...\n\nAc ...\n\n*. ...\n\nPage ...\n\n...\n\n \nAs the original text contains many uncorrectable OCR errors and non-English characters that make no sense in the context, minimal correction was applied to preserve the original content as per the instructions.\n\n becomes Government House, Hong Kong 15 September 1869.\n\nMy Lord.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge Your Lordship's despatch B. 105, and \"Confidential\", both of the 17th July, referring to the case of Regina v. Saint, and explaining ...\n\nThe original testimonial that accompanied your letter of the 27 July are ...\n\nRight Honorable Earl Granville, K.G., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,\n\nPage 795\n\nmost leniently.\n\nclaim upon any Colonial Funds.\n\nJone Military Devices do fully ...\n\nNaval ...\n\n26th give ...\n\nDie Ladstich can not interfere in Dam & ...\n\nzom ...\n\nxx ...\n\n7216 6817 $85/ 703 75 12:334. Hung tung NOVS 1060 213\n\n754x Right Aonouble 1024x ...\n\nAc ...\n\n*. ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279355, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 391, "title": "CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12]", "content_text": "L'afunditure \n\nProbabile penal \n\nfrom 1st January From 12 August \n\nto 31 Dec 1849 to 31 Dec 1869 \n\nRoads Streets & Bridges \n\n7 of by Completion of Roads & Bridges in Swatow \n\n4,988.24 8 10 \n\nLanding Dice & Steps \n\nSolve Station N°4 \n\n4,500 \n\nRoad and Street Contingencies \n\nRepairs to Roads out of Victoria \n\n1,452.77 22/8102 \n\n154,789 78.16 12 \n\nRepairs to Street in Victoria \n\n16 \n\nRepairs to Praya \n\n15 9 73 Y \n\nRepairs to Bridges \n\n984.11 156.58 402.60 \n\n2,843.4 \n\nSurface Drains in Victoria \n\n825 \n\nRepairs to Drains in Victoria \n\nRepairs to Surface Drains in Victoria \n\nFurther Repairs to Drains in Victoria Miscellaneous Devices \n\n984.90 2,999.25 307.59 401.57 \n\n244.20 597 1,074 $ \n\n692.1 1,008.4 1,755.8 \n\nTotal \n\n19,639.07 10,886 \n\nMiscellaneous Work unprovided for in the Estimates for 1869 \n\nCivil Hospital \n\n386 \n\nRecapitulation \n\nWorks and Buildings \n\nRoads Streets & Bridges \n\nMiscellaneous Work unprovided for \n\nof the Estimates for 1869 \n\nExpenditure from 1st January to 31 July 1869 \n\n105,180.27 \n\n19,639.07 \n\nProbable Expenditure from 1st August to 31 Dec 1869 \n\n68,766.76 10,886.45 \n\n5,000 \n\nItems marked thus & to be transferred to Special Fund \n\nOn Estimates for 1869 \n\nSaving \n\nEstimates \n\n124,819.28 84,653.21 \n\n209,472.49 \n\n23,957.16 \n\n185,575.33 \n\n245,000 \n\n59,484.67 \n\n5,000 \n\n711-10.69", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-139 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280241, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "Establishment of a Chinese Consul at Hong Kong with the power of receiving (and enforcing) dues.\n\nIt was a way out, but seems confessedly of both sides \"impracticable\" from the commencement.\n\nWherein Austen, D...\n\nThe time often merchants in outrage and devises imputation for the part of \"ased Plects of \"Reamus Soorma with tensessed.\n\nThis appears.\n\n4th and I think that the Colonial authorities are right in opposing the attempt to control (as suspected the Wai) some accommodation which then I check smuggling & \"Cean pen\" obstructing legitimate trade.\n\nI have Shauyen added a Intrace to the draft when 4005 15/5-82.\n\nCopy: No 56. Lord, My Pelling. Jn. 53829% 142 Teb: 20/69. 203 With ref: to Y. L.'s dep: N°26 & of the 12th of Nov: last & its inclo: + to some observations contained in desp: No 34 of the 8th inst: my view taller, by the Chinese Author, of Hong Kong as a centre of smuggling, I have the honour to inclose an extract account of a meeting at Hang Wang from the printed report of the Chamber of Commerce at K taken from the \"China Mail\", at which the attempts of the Chinese Auths to check the evil by the erection of Custom Houses & Letting Stations in the vicinity were discussed, with reference to the speech of the Lord Stanley MP.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-141 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280796, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 279, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "Miscellan\n\nB\n\nM\n\nAnd requesting that his Lordship would furnish him with a testimonial expressing his opinion of the manner in which Dr. Paunceforte has discharged his duties\n\nTo\n\nAttorney General of Hongkong.\n\nSuriya\n\n268 autur b\n\nin favourably more\n\nAny references which may be made to her by the India Office with regard to Mr. Pauncefote's devices in Hongkong.\n\nL. Q. S.\n\n& reply\n\nI am &c. that his Lordship will have much pleasure", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "(6)\n\nof Messrs. Mody & Co., and the Parsee community generally were conspicuous for their loyal efforts in the general display; Mr. D. Ruttunjee's house in Lyndhurst Terrace deserving especial mention. The oval device of imitation diamonds and rubies, having the Arms of the Duke of Edinburgh, painted on stained glass, in the centre, at Messrs. Sayle & Co.'s, was ordered from England for the occasion, and was greatly admired. Nearly opposite, the house of Messrs. Birley & Co., was illuminated by a brilliant gas star, and the arches of the verandah were decorated with evergreens and flowers. A novelty, though of rather obscure meaning, was presented by Messrs. Heard & Co., in the centre of whose prominent building was a large \"greenback\" for $1,000. On either side, were allegorical representations of Peace and Hope. The numerous flags hung from the office of Messrs. Lapraik & Co., to the Club Chambers opposite combined with the lamps of different colours to make the appearance of d'Aguilar Street very beautiful; and an equally fine effect was produced by a similar arrangement in the Queen's Road near the \"Oriental\" and \"Chartered\" Banks. At the top of the flag staff of the house belonging to Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. floated a very ingeniously contrived transparency of the North-German flag. The private residences of many gentlemen were also decorated with Chinese lanterns and various devices, and rising, tier upon tier, presented from the less elevated part of the City a most artistic appearance.\n\nThe following account, furnished by a Chinese correspondent to one of the Daily Papers, will give some idea of the illuminations of the Chinese Quarter of the City, which presented the appearance of a scene from the \"Arabian Nights\"--\"Here and there along Hollywood Road, Westward of the Mun Moo Temple, are to be seen arcades of\n\nA\n\n30", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 282678, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 316, "title": "CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Search Warrant\n10. If any police officer, constable, or other credible person, on information and oath, before a Magistrate or Justice, states on oath that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any house, room, or place is used as a gaming house, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate or Justice to grant a search warrant authorizing any police officer or constable with sufficient force to enter such house, room, or place, whether by breaking open doors or windows or otherwise.\n\n## Provision Against Unlawful Gaming\nIt is contrary to law to keep or manage a gaming house. Any person found in a house, room, or place suspected to be used for unlawful gaming, upon being discovered by a police officer or constable, may be arrested.\n\n## Destruction of Gaming Instruments\nAny instrument or device used for gaming found in such a house, room, or place shall be forthwith destroyed if proven to be used for gaming before a Magistrate or Justice.\n\n## Lawful Entry and Seizure\nUpon entry, the police officer or constable is authorized to seize any instruments of gaming and other evidence. The persons found in the premises may be taken into custody.\n\n## Evidence and Proceedings\nIn any proceeding for keeping or managing a gaming house, or for being convicted of being concerned in the management of a gaming house, it shall be lawful to prove by evidence that the persons found in the house, room, or place were engaged in gaming.\n\n## Punishment and Consequences\nBeing convicted of managing or being present in a gaming house may result in punishment according to the law. The court may also order the destruction of any instruments or devices used for gaming.\n\nPage 230", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-146 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 286728, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-155 - Others - 1871", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-155 - Others - 1871", "content_text": "G\n\nSup\n\nH\n\nK.\n\nL\n\nM\n\n4.\n\nMt. Panncepte states for a definite period L. 2. Merely title completion of the reservoir, but during the process;\n\nWhole of his stay in the Colony; a matter pending in several lawsuits, showing as it could count on having complete Control of Mt By Krydd's decorces\n\nwake hein\n\nInjured only to the 8 months' notice. I felt quite satisfied that even though he were to remain ten years more in Druytony.\n\n10. I forbear commenting on the various steps taken by the client spence in his treatment of Mr. Prydd because I could only say of them all that they appear & have been unintentionally a series,\n\nA series of misdirected \"ultra vires.\" I fear therefore that a valuable hardworking merchant may have been treated with what may appear to outsiders as undue harshness & the public cannot surely benefit thereby. Indeed contrast the strictness of my words presently with the liberal construction put on everything affecting the kind spines at the breaking up of the latter sergalucher\n\nand bottle\n\n11. I struggle\n\ntherefore\n\nMat is far as care how be None-matter be allowed to seworth Howre & ans observe that the dispute how ended in retention of Mick Ji-ydd's devices. I note a reply can be received from the Secretary of State. I deem it a difficulty in deciding & also that he can fully explain, because in point of fact thence can do as Halline indling & Summer be must by the lapse of time & the Course of events find himself May bunch in the same position he had been getting through\n\ny\n\nthe printer under are, bitterness any dispute ad intern\".\n\nEnding case hope the in Wonghong may be long. Lepre het Trygad have.\n\nit\n\nI have the honour to be\n\nYour obedient humble servant\n\nMadermall\n\nX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-155 - Others - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 93, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "an salutary check \n\nto whom \n\nthe devices to confide \n\npractical preparation of the \n\nMale Plans; and he & is \n\nAccompanying \n\nof opinion (but in such a work) \n\nit is requisite to access it is required.\n\nD\n\nL\n\nA salaried Officer of \n\na\n\n91\n\nGovernment Department, and \n\nLord. Kund\n\nhad in view of the \n\nobservations contained in their \n\nletter of the 12th of\n\nthat the architect \n\nshould have \n\nthe aid of a physician specially acquainted with the principles \n\nof sanitary Science. The \n\nDr. George\n\nBuchanan \n\nof the Local\n\nGovernment Board\n\nwhom they had requested to associate with \n\nhimself in \n\nthe planning \n\nthe Hospital\n\nis D. George\n\nBuchanan \n\nof Local\n\nJanuary 1870 (20406) with \n\nWard Hunt Read\n\nit was considered that it would be imprudent\n\nCorrespondence with the Local Government Board \n\nBy Dr. George Buchanan payment for the services while \n\nhe was employed to render \n\nthem \n\nadequate remuneration \n\nat the Treasury.\n\nSatisfying their Lordships that \n\nGovernment Board; as well as \n\nwas the case\n\nis \n\ntrust the same basis", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288366, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 311, "title": "CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8]", "content_text": "299\n\n(18)\n\nremark that they have good reason to know that the acquisition of mere colloquial Chinese is not attended with the difficulties popularly supposed to exist.\n\n52. With reference to night duty, the Commission entirely concur in the remark of the Honourable C. MAY (p. 87) that\n\n\"The great object of a preventive Police is to strengthen the night duty. By having two-thirds of the force on duty each night, the difficulty of committing a robbery is doubled.\"\n\nIn the London Metropolitan Police and other forces at home, the reliefs are so apportioned that two-thirds of the available men are always on patrol duty between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M., and during Mr. MAY's tenure of office, that plan seems to have been followed here. To obtain this advantage, it is obvious that the constables had to do eight hours' duty at a stretch, and, subsequently to Mr. MAY's resignation of the superintendency, it was thought that this was too much for the health of the men to stand, and the force was divided into four reliefs of six hours each. One-third of the force is detailed for the full day duty of twelve hours, and two-thirds for the full night duty of twelve hours, so it results that at any given hour of the night, but one-third of the men are on duty. Now it is obvious that between the hours of ten at night and five or six in the morning, the chief danger of burglary, the crime most calling for special precautions, exists. Therefore, if by any means, the numbers of the patrol on duty can be doubled, it should be done. The Commission have given great attention to this point, as one having a paramount importance upon the question of the safety of life and property; and they are altogether of opinion that it can and ought to be done, though they are not prepared to deny that there are difficulties in the way. With regard to East Indians, reasonable doubts certainly exist whether their constitution would stand the strain of so long a night duty, and it is not intended that Europeans should perform eight hours' duty in the streets. Turning to the evidence of Dr. DONS and Dr. YOUNG in this matter, the former says (p. 120):\n\n\"I think Asiatics might do eight hours a night, as they can sleep in the daytime, and Europeans cannot.\"\n\nThe latter, speaking of the eight hours system, says (p. 121):\n\n\"Chinese or West Indians could stand it. Chinese feed better than East Indians, who starve themselves and will not take sufficient nourishment. They have not sufficient stamina.\"\n\nMr. MAY has been good enough to draw up a scheme of day and night duties (hereto appended, marked C), which is based upon the assumption that the force will consist mainly of Indians. Reading Chinese for Indians, the majority of the Commission fully recommend the adoption of this scheme. For some years, there will probably remain some Indians in the force, and, so far as practicable, the Commission think that they should be utilised in out-stations, on lonely roads, and exposed beats. For these special duties, indeed, it may be found that a small percentage of Indians or other coloured men will always be desirable.\n\n53. The subject of beats is a very important one, which would seem hitherto not to have received due attention. There does not appear ever to have been any system followed here by which the inspecting officer can do more than satisfy himself that the constable is on his beat, but whether he has duly perambulated it, or paid any attention to the state of the property he is placed there to protect, is left totally untested. In well-conducted forces, much attention is paid to this point, and means are adopted to detect any lack of vigilance. It is almost needless to point out that, where Asiatics form the bulk of the force, a\n\nPatrolling in pairs.\n\nWater Police\n\nPolice Hulk\n\n(19)\n\ndouble necessity exists to provide against their apathy, and a system of checks should, if possible, be devised, so stringent and complete, that the constables on duty may never know the moment, or the means by which any dereliction may be detected. The Commission see no difficulty in planning a system of beats subject to inspection and cross-inspection by Europeans, that no patrol need be left at night unlooked after for but a comparatively short time. Mr. RICE has, at their request, sent them a scheme of beats timed and measured, upon which he has obviously bestowed much care, and which the Commission forward in manuscript. Being of a purely technical nature, the members of the Commission cannot form any trustworthy estimate of its merits, but they recommend it to the attention of the Police authorities, who should be desired to adopt this or some equivalent scheme.\n\n54. Before leaving this subject, the Commission beg to point out the objectionable nature of the system of patrolling in pairs now in force in some parts of the town, a system which seems calculated to defeat its own object. Again to quote Mr. MAY (p. 87):\n\n\"Constables should not work in pairs; they should rely, not on being together, but on help from neighbouring beats being near.\"\n\nBy working two men together, their practical utility as watchmen seems to be reduced nearly to that of one man, and double the quantity of ground is left unprotected. If two-thirds of the force are on duty at the same time during the night, the element of danger to a single man, which caused the adoption of the pair system, will be reduced to a minimum by the fact that the ground will be sufficiently covered with men to put available and speedy help within the reach of each constable. In regard to the inspection of beats, the Commission cannot see the utility of mounted patrols, except on the East and West roads, where much distance has to be traversed. No check on the vigilance of constables can possibly be maintained by a mounted officer whose horse's hoofs in a narrow street give ample notice of his approach.\n\n55. To turn to the Water Police, the Commission have much pleasure in appending some remarks (marked D) made at their request by Captain THOMSETT, R.N., Harbour Master, which possess much value, and in which, especially as to the sale of spirits in the harbour, they concur. A valuable recommendation also comes from Inspector GRIMES (p. 119) to the effect that a water beat night be extended into Láp-sáp Wán (Belcher's Bay), the inhabitants of which, a disreputable set, seem hitherto to have been left very much to their own devices. Apropos of this place, the extension of a road into it from the Praya is essential as a further means of keeping its population in check. Mr. GRIMES, in common with the Harbour Master, suggests (p. 119) that an extra boat should always be among the European shipping. There is no doubt that at present, a vast amount of spirits is illicitly sold by sampan people to sailors, and stolen property is often received in exchange.\n\n56. So much complaint was made to the Commission of the state of the Police Hulk and its insufficient accommodation, that they requested Dr. DONS to inspect it and report to them on the subject. From his report, which is hereto appended (marked E), the Commission are glad that, some minor matters excepted, Dr. DONS does not consider things so bad as they were represented. Still, the Commission", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-158 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 188, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "\"not equal to that of Superintenden & of Police\n\nIin Donghong. a \"Superintendent is higher\n\n\"Than\n\nau\n\nInspector\n\nbeg leave to subuit\n\nI\n\n\"my printed leserimonials.\n\n\"I was specially sent down from London to \"Birmingham and\n\n\"Manchester to obtin \"some information for the Home Secricary. Or one\n\n\"recasion I was\n\nempészed\n\n\"in Lancashire investigating \"disturbances which had\n\n\"Taken place for 18 mouth,\n\nO\n\n\"My\n\n186\n\nappointments are\n\n\"Correctly described in \"The Colonial List 1871. – I\n\nWished This had fallen\n\nIn\n\n\"was frequently sent sbout\n\nhamended\n\n\" from County to County to organize the Price. \"I was sent to Supex \"for instance, to Chichester, \"In Wiltshire I was ać \"Devizes. At Brighton \"Where was a Borough free. In Berkshire I was at Reading I \"Cunot slate the\n\nyear \"in which I was in\n\nLanarkshire under Sar Archibald Alison. I", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "War\n\nLand Board\n\nMiscellaneous\n\nI remember the year\n\ndahobes now. This was during\n\ntwo Governorships. I was about this year in connection with the gold escort troop. I was then severely wounded\n\nin an encounter with bushrangers, I returned to England. I was afterwards Superintendent of Police in\n\n(I am now nearly five years of age).\n\nas\n\nwas connected with the London Police. It was as a Superintendent of Police and was attached to the Home Secretary's Office. I have performed special duties in various parts of England, Birmingham\n\n& Manchester for instance. Altogether I was about ten years I suppose in these towns and in some of the English Counties. At that time the Police Act had just been passed and the services of experienced officers\n\nwere greatly in request. I was sent to various places & to form or perfect their Police forces.\n\nI was afterwards sent to Scotland, where I was under the Sheriff of Lanarkshire. I held the local rank of Lieutenant which is equivalent to that of Superintendent. I was specially employed\n\nin Edinburgh & other places in enforcing Forbes-Mackenzie Act. I was in Scotland less than two years. I sometimes acted as Deputy Procurator Fiscal.\n\nIn 1862 the Duke of Newcastle appointed Inspector of Police in the Mauritius, where I remained till I came to Hong Kong.\n\nIn my capacity as Inspector of Police, I commanded a Police district, I also acted as Commissioner and Deputy Procurator-General. I prosecuted all cases up to the Assizes. The appointment\n\nof Inspector\n\nMauritius\n\nis superior in every way to that of Superintendent\n\n288\n\nAttention\n\nHong Kong. I had £800 per\n\nAnnum in all in the Mauritius\n\nFebruary 29th 1872.\n\nThe Regiment I was in was the Fifth\n\nDragoons. I was a\n\nCornet. This was in\n\n1813\n\nI was specially attached to the Home Secretary's Office with the title of Superintendent of Police. My\n\nSalary was £200 per annum with travelling allowances. There are many Superintendents of\n\nPolice in London, I fancy the rank of Superintendent of Police at home does not equal that of Superintendent of Police\n\nin Hong Kong. A Superintendent is higher than an Inspector.\n\nI beg\n\nleave to submit my printed testimonials. I was specially sent down from London to Birmingham\n\nand Manchester & to obtain some\n\ninformation for the Home Secretary. On one occasion, I was employed in\n\nLancashire, investigating disturbances which had taken place, for eighteen months.\n\nMy appointments are correctly reported in The Colonial Office List for 1871.\n\nI was frequently sent about from County to County to organise the Police. I was sent to Sussex for instance, to Chichester. In Wiltshire I was at Devizes. At Brighton there\n\nwas a Borough force. In Berkshire I was at Reading.\n\nI cannot state the year\n\nin which I was in Lanarkshire under the Sheriff Archibald Alison.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9]", "content_text": "# 257\n\n(18)\n\nremark that they have good reason to know that the acquisition of mere colloquial Chinese is not attended with the difficulties popularly supposed to exist.\n\n52. With reference to night duty, the Commission entirely concur in the remark of the Honourable C. MAY (p. 87) that\n\n\"The great object of a preventive Police is to strengthen the night duty. By having two-thirds of the force on duty each night, the difficulty of committing a robbery is doubled.\"\n\nIn the London Metropolitan Police and other forces at home the reliefs are always so apportioned that two-thirds of the available men are on patrol duty between the hours of 10 P.M. and 6 A.M., and during Mr. MAY's tenure of office that plan seems to have been followed here. To obtain this advantage it is obvious that the constables had to do eight hours' duty at a stretch, and, subsequently to Mr. May's resignation of the superintendency, it was thought that this was too much for the health of the men to stand, and the force was divided into four reliefs of six hours each. One-third of the force is detailed for the full day duty of twelve hours, and two-thirds for the full night duty of twelve hours, so it results that at any given hour of the night but one-third of the men are on duty. Now it is obvious that between the hours of ten at night and five or six in the morning the chief danger of burglary, the crime most calling for special precautions, exists. Therefore, if by any means the numbers of the patrol on duty can be doubled, it should be done. The Commission have given great attention to this point, as one having a paramount importance upon the question of the safety of life and property; and they are altogether of opinion that it can and ought to be done, though they are not prepared to deny that there are difficulties in the way. With regard to East Indians, reasonable doubts certainly exist whether their constitution would stand the strain of so long a night duty, and it is not intended that Europeans should perform eight hours' duty in the streets. Turning to the evidence of Dr. Dops and Dr. Young in this matter, the former says (p. 120):\n\n\"I think Asiatics might do eight hours a night, as they can sleep in the day time, and Europeans cannot.\"\n\nThe latter, speaking of the eight hours system, says (p. 121):\n\n\"Chinese feed better than East Indians, who starve themselves and will not take sufficient nourishment. They have not sufficient stamina. Chinese or West Indians could stand it.\"\n\nMr. MAY has been good enough to draw up a scheme of day and night duties (hereto appended, marked C), which is based upon the assumption that the force will consist mainly of Indians. Reading Chinese for Indians, the majority of the force being Chinese, the Commission fully recommend the adoption of this scheme. For some years there will probably remain some Indians in the force, and, so far as practicable, the Commission think that they should be utilised in out-stations, on lonely roads, and exposed beats. For these special duties, indeed, a small percentage of Indians or other coloured men will always be desirable.\n\n53. The subject of beats is a very important one which would seem hitherto not to have received due attention. There does not appear ever to have been any system followed here by which the inspecting officer can do more than satisfy himself that the constable is on his beat, but whether he has duly perambulated it, or paid any attention to the state of the property he is placed there to protect is left totally untested. In well-conducted forces much attention is paid to this point, and means are adopted to detect any lack of vigilance. It is almost needless to point out that, where Asiatics form the bulk of the force, a double necessity exists to provide against their apathy, and a system of checks should, if possible, be devised, so stringent and complete, that the constables on duty may never know the moment, or the means by which dereliction may be detected. The Commission see no difficulty in planning a system of beats so subject to inspection and cross-inspection by Europeans, that no patrol need be left at night unlooked after for but a comparatively short time. Mr. RICE has, at their request, sent them a scheme of beats timed and measured, upon which he has obviously bestowed much care, and which the Commission forward in manuscript. Being of a purely technical nature, the members of the Commission cannot form any trustworthy estimate of its merits, but they recommend it to the attention of the Police authorities, who should be desired to adopt this or some equivalent scheme.\n\n## Patrolling in pairs\n## Water Police\n## Police Hulk\n\n(19)\n\nany\n\n54. Before leaving this subject, the Commission beg to point out the objectionable nature of the system of patrolling in pairs now in force in some parts of the town, a system which seems calculated to defeat its own object. Again to quote Mr. MAY (p. 87):\n\n\"Constables should not work in pairs; they should rely, not on being together, but on help from neighbouring beats being near.\"\n\nBy working two men together their practical utility as watchmen seems to be reduced nearly to that of one man, and double the quantity of ground is left unprotected. If two-thirds of the force are on duty at the same time during the night, the element of danger to a single man, which caused the adoption of the pair system, will be reduced to a minimum by the fact that the ground will be sufficiently covered with men to put available and speedy help within the reach of each constable. In regard to the inspection of beats, the Commission cannot see the utility of mounted patrols, except on the East and West roads where much distance has to be traversed. No check on the vigilance of constables can possibly be maintained by a mounted officer whose horse's hoofs in a narrow street give ample notice of his approach.\n\n55. To turn to the Water Police, the Commission have much pleasure in appending some remarks (marked D) made at their request by Captain THOMSETT, R.N., Harbour Master, which possess much value, and in which, especially as to the sale of spirits in the harbour, they concur. A valuable recommendation also comes from Inspector GRIMES (p. 119) to the effect that a water beat night be extended into Láp-sáp Wán (Belcher's Bay), the inhabitants of which, a disreputable set, seem hitherto to have been left very much to their own devices. Apropos of this place, the extension of a road into it from the Praya is essential as a further means of keeping its population in check. Mr. GRIMES, in common with the Harbour Master, suggests (p. 119) that an extra boat should always be among the European shipping. There is no doubt that at present a vast amount of spirits is illicitly sold by sampan people to sailors, and stolen property is often received in exchange.\n\n56. So much complaint was made to the Commission of the state of the Police Hulk and its insufficient accommodation, that they requested Dr. Dons to inspect it and report to them on the subject. From his report, which is hereto appended (marked E), the Commission are glad that, some minor matters excepted, Dr. Dons does not consider things so bad as they were represented. Still the Commission", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-164 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297082, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "The is hopeless to apply to the latter without proof of man's nationality, and Hinghing Goot deserve to bear the more...\n\nCoss- for sende home Pxo. He wok Service the Canadienne to The at Shanghan Cook & would soon have found and then shift if left to his Cau another authorities devices H the Hamburgh to pay for the medical treatment of passage of their nationals Ships, unless right to re-patriate all Sick foreigners who was left behind by a French have L our Colonies at the their respective Sooks? meat bear 8.0 fove ma by mail sheamers Est of I thank Hong Kong the toss that this + Нирии to decided it observe. (to the latter /uper Sing A passage the insxpediency o% mail seamle atau Miott Feb 3 K I HEC C.. 30 JAN 1975 174 Forsign Office January 29. 1876. nun duicted by the Earl of Derby to regieest that you will nifor of turnaro the Earl dial Hi Lordship referred to Her majesty's Micuister at Paris copies of your letter of tre 14. of October last and its inclosures, respecting the Expence incurred by Atto Colony of Hongkong for this in hospital, maintenance and the subsequent passage to this corrutry, of under Secretary of State. Colonial Office. sailor whe\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299409, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 248, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "243\n\nAuthority gave his consent to the creation of the Station, not at Lapa, as Koci intended east of Casa Branca in the Bugio Channel. Prompted by this partial expectation of perfect success, Koci proposed to establish a custom house office on the territory of Lapa in front of the town. The Portuguese Government refused to authorize this, knowing the secret purpose of the devices, legitimate in appearance. They were likewise refused to authorize the establishment of such an office in the Little Bugio, where the fiscal station already was, acceding to the representations made to him by the Viceroy.\n\nThe Viceroy agreed to place the office outside the inner Port, on the island of Lanza. The continual vexations to which the vessels coming to trade at Macao were subjected by the Chinese fiscal authorities, the insolence of the latter in carrying out their operations in Portuguese waters, the subterfuges and false allegations with which the Chinese authorities pretended to justify such acts, had compelled the Portuguese authorities to have their Customs boats removed close to the Little Bugio, and to lay down a line for them beyond Bugio, which they were not allowed to operate, after lengthy discussion on this matter, the Chinese authorities agreed to the place of anchorage for the revenue boats, which was settled at last by mutual arrangement.\n\nThis arrangement having been confirmed by the Viceroy of Canton in a despatch of Oct 29/72, (this arrangement ought to have been considered...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 299492, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 329, "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876", "content_text": "L'ÉCONOMISTE FRANÇAIS.\n\nSAMEDI 2 DÉCEMBRE 1876.\n\n500 380. Nord-Est (capital) j. jaill. 1876.... 500 740. Croix-Rousse (cb. feri.j.jul.76 n. 500 500 Dombes (Sud-Esquill. 76 Lu. 530. Chemins autrich. f. jul. 1876... 500\n\n185 Act. jouis. j. juill. 76 » 500 163 75 Chemins Lombards,. novembre 74 500 zen Nord-Ouest-Autriche J. juil. 1873. 500 272 50 Nord-Espagne, j. jul. 76. Kst. 500\n\n165. Famp-Barcelone . jul. 1866 500 338.. Madrid-Surag. j. fuill. 1876. 360 352 50 -- 7 50 725 725 525 587 30 521 25 160 267 50 156 25-375 361 160 160 335 322 500 305. Fortugais J. Janv. 1866. 500 60 Ch. Romains, J. oct. 1965 302 50 800 6150 69 50 + 1 ::::: 1+ 500 500 350.. Valéry frères et fils,j. 15 av. 76 M.. 340 33. C Générale, j. nov. 1876..... En. 500 360.. Grappins, j. octobre 1876.... L. 300 722 50 Transp. mar.(Soc. gén.j.nov 76 M.. 716 25 716 25 300 790 Navigation Mixte, j. oct. 1876 M.. 790.. 790 338 75 500 682 50 Bateaux-Omnibus, j. oct. 76., Ln. 682 50 667 ::::: 2: 1 ::::: Canaux : 500 500 - 667 50 Canal de Suez, 1. juillet 1876. 550 .. Délégations, j. jüle: 1876.\n\nMines el Charbonnages: 500 680 Malfidano, coup. n° 18 Estamp. 500 1400.. Mokta-el-Hadid j. nov. 76.... 663 850 345 540 it :: KALO ** 667 50 680 1470 1440..\n\nToutes les actions de chemins de fer sont en baisse par suite de l'exhaussement du taux de capitalisation que motivent les craintes extérieures. Il n'y a pas d'autre raison, car les recettes sont les mêmes et il s'agit ici de valeurs classées et non à placer.\n\nLes recettes brutes hebdomadaires des chemins de fer français, prises en prises en bloc, ne sont guère moins bonnes en 1876 qu'en 1875, mais c'est tout, et il y a purement arrêt dans la baisse, sans amélioration sérieuse dans les résultats. Voici les chiffres:\n\nA l'ancien réseau, il y a augmentation de 14.24 % sur le Midi, 7 % sur l'Ouest, 4.51 % sur l'Orléans, 3.25 % sur l'Est, et 2.70 % sur le Lyon, et diminution de 6.83 % sur le Nord. An nouveau réseau, augmentation de 21.76 % sur le Midi, 4.16 % sur l'Ouest, 3.46 % sur l'Est, et 2.63 % sur Orléans, et diminution de 2.03 % sur le Nord et 6.40 % sur le Lyon. La ligne du Rhône au Mont-Cenis (Lyon) et les chemins Algériens (Lyon également), ont, la première, diminué de 0.02 % et, les derniers, augmenté de 22.06 %. Les lignes de Lille à Valenciennes, du Nord-Est et de Lille à Béthune, exploitées par le Nord, sont en augmentation, respectivement, de 177.30 %, 88.27 % et 2.23 %. En dehors des six grandes compagnies, nous avons, pour les lignes d'intérêt général tout d'abord, augmentation de 44.21 % sur la ligne des Sables-d'Olonne à Tours (Vendée), 19.99 % sur le Vitré à Fougères, 4.87 % sur le Médoc, 2.42 % sur la Dombes (Sud-Est), et 0.50 % sur les Charentes, réseau entier, et diminution de 7.37 % sur la ligne de Sedan-Lérouville, appartenant à la compagnie de Lille à Valenciennes. - Quant aux lignes d'intérêt local, elles nous fournissent les augmentations suivantes: 57.16 % sur la ligne de Poitiers à Saumur (Vendée), 39.08 % sur la ligne de Falaise à Berjou-Pont-d'Ouilly (chemins normands), 17.48 % sur l'Orléans à Rouen et 0.99 % sur Caen à la mer (propriété privée). En fait de chemins étrangers, nous avons des augmentations de 20.98 % sur le Nord de l'Espagne (réseau propre), 17.33 % sur le Pampelone-Barcelone et 1.82 % sur les chemins portugais, et des diminutions de 4.90 % sur les chemins autrichiens, 2.61 % sur le Sud de l'Autriche (chemins lombards); 23.13 % sur le Madrid-Saragosse-Alicante-Séville, et enfin 53.20 % sur l'Alar-del-Rey à Santander, appartenant au Nord de l'Espagne.\n\nEn somme, voici, depuis le commencement de l'année, c'est-à-dire pour les 46 premières semaines écoulées, les résultats de 1876 comparés à ceux de 1875 :\n\n% 3.95 3.26 Chemins Algériens + 6.98 ע 500 17750 Auiches, 1. nov. 186...... Le. 17250 7005 .. Anzin 100 don. j. nov.76 Le. 8600 575 .. Auchy-au-Bois..... ..... Le. 16000 + 12 50 -30 -520 6600 515 50 * 650 .. Aveyron, j. 15 sept. 1876... 500 500 500 470 2 8500 j. 15 août 1876... Le. 8000 2035.. Bully-Grenay. i. 15 nov 76 Le 1950 1000 400. Campagnac, J. juil. 1874. Le. 500 1300. Carmaux, j. nuy, 1676 720 .. Azincourt,į. août 1865.. Le. 250 .. Ban Lafaverge, j. oct. 76 La. 854 Belmez, juillet 1876....... 1025 ..Blanzy, j. out 1876..... Bouches-du-Rhône, j. juill 75M. 750 725 35 La 1025 1025 460 460 7555 1100 402 50 A 2 5800 9250 .. Carvin, j. 2 août 1876. 2035 300 30000 Courrières, j. netuh, 1876 Le. 38500 142 50 Ce douaisienne Le. 140 Lo 1380 1825 -210 28000 138 75 11900 .. 1. octobre 1876... Le. 5800 Douchy, j. .. Dourges mai 1873. Le. 5000 10500 25070 25-20 Epinac, 5 décembre 75, Le. 7 2121 1710 * $705. Escarpolla, j, 20 août 76., Le. 8750 Ferlay, j. janv 187 nouv. Le. Grand Combe, 1250 $1000. J. Juin 1876. M.. 2180 Gr. Flaches, J. oct. 1876. I.n. 2200 28000 Lens, oct. 1876. 6150 386 Lo 23780 1876. Lo. 6150 3700 385 378 300.. Lys supérieure. 17000 1875 920 * 750 :: 100 50 2450 B'le » 1. 15 sept. 1876. Le. Montrambert, . oct. 1876 Ln. Réty, Cerques, mardinghein 700 Rive-de-Gler, act. 1876. Jn. Roche-la-Molière, j. sept. 76 Lu. 2450 Saint-Etienne, 3. oct. 78. La. 335 398 75 Sincey-le-Rouvray....... 1025 Thivencelles-Fresnes-Midi Le. 1120 25 Yondin, j. 8 juin 1876... Le. 1130 19003 Vicoigne-Noux. j. 15 nov 76 Le, Marles, i. mai 1876.... Le, Meurchin, Lo 297 50 1800 1800 915 916 Le. 740 104 102 Le. 1010 950 18000 * 1000 585 2650 500 BRO Sociétés métallurgiques: Alats ..Bieche-St-Veast, j. juil. 76 Le. Call at C*, j. jalil. 1876................ Chasse J. 15 nov. 1876... L. Commentry, J. sept. 76. In. 780.. Creusot, j. juin 1876.... 140.. Denain-Anzin. 875 נג 350 1085 300 500 ..... 42. Le 778 75 170 25 23 880 Faiguières et Ciej, mai 72. M.. Firminy (Acier.) 1. nov 76 in. Fives-Lille, 1. nov. 1877. 65! 885 830 Fourchambault, i. oct.. 76 LD. 883 500 _83 .. Franche-Comté,j. av. 1873 In. Givors, j. juin 1876 1080. Horme, j. juin 1876... L. 390. Mar. et chem. juin 75 13. 330 323 500 470 500 18 692 50 Chant. My 76 M.. 420 .. Pont-Evêque, joll. 1876. Ln. 420 .. Saint-Etienus, f. nov 76. Ln. 365. Terre-Noire, j. juill, 1876. Ln. Sociétés immobilières : Docks de Marseille, j. nov 16, Compagnie immobilière (Paris) 090 692 50 435 380 378 75 470 470 17 500 425 Mag. gén. Paris, i. ill. 1876 415 500 375 500 3:0 500 :::::: 16 25 420 700 :: +:::::::|:: +1: ::: 2.50 +::: 2 M 1015 700. C. gén. des Marchés, j. juil. 76 March. du Temple, put. 76 B. de Lyon j. oct. 1876.. Lo. Gaz 1347 30 Gaz parisien, J. oct. 1876... 1015 5000 1327 50 1325 act. j. j. oct. 76 1015 Abbeville j, fév. 76. In. 1950 Agen . août 76.... 3. Angers. août 1876, Ln. Besançon j. 1876 LD. août Bourg. août 1878. 1. Cern-Ferri j. août 76 Ln. Dijou j. inars 1876.... Ln. Florence. août 1876 La Guillotière j. nov. 76 Ln. Limoges. uoût 76.... Lu. Lyon, j. nov. 1878.... LA Madrid j. juillet 26 0g, 76.. Marseille, j. Montpellier, j. nov. 76 Ln. Nevers, j. mars 1876. Ln. Padoue j. 15 août 76. Le. Perpignan j, auût 78. LG. Reits.. Ln. Rodez-Aurillacmars76 1 St-Etienne, mara 76 Ln. Sadne-Loire j. nov. 76. in. Tarare j. août 1876... Ln. *; : : : : : : : : & 882 50 850 1300 R Lyon ancien réseau.... nouveau T Nord ancien réseau.. Charentes-réseau entier.. + 9.70 Orléans-Châlons-s-Marne. - 21.23 Vendée-Sables-Tours.. + 23.12 250 7.49 Poitiers-Saumur.. +92.29 D nouveau 11-11 Domber [Sud-Est 1200 Nord-Est....+57.37 Lille-Valenciennes, Vitré Fougères.. 110.77 420 84,05 Sedan-hérouville Lille-Béthune 24.68 Quest ancien réseau 3.36 Falaise f nouveau Orléans ancien nouveau Est ancien 0.99 2.31 Orléans- Rouen. aise-Berjou-P.-d'Quilly. Autrichiens. ་་་་་་་་ Sud-Autriche (ex-Lomb.. 4. 65 680 13 97 500 વવી 11.57 850 4.53 400 705 0.60 550 4.02 Madrid-Saragosse-Alicante 143 1815 1.32 NYGANOK - I 1.4 Midi ancien nouveau 1.30 + 8.45 Portugais. Nord-Espagne. . - - - - - - - - • ! Alar-del-Rey-Sentander Pampelone-Barcelone. -+-33 96 27 » 890 91.10 715 1010 + 3.38 500 497 50 600 694 Voici, enfin, d une semaine de distance, les cours des actions de sociétés diverses. 8100 800 300 682 50 :: G L'ÉCONOMISTE FRANÇAIS. 2530 5:00 5.00 500 500 500 500 1:350.. Maux de Vichy, j. sept. 75.7 170. Salinos de l'Est, j. 15 avril 750.. Salins-Midi, join. 76. M.. 325 Allumettos chimiq. J. avril75. 969. Prod. chim. Prat et C, C6 M.. 480. Prod. chim.d'Alaisj.nóv 78 La. 400 Raffin. Médit., j. 15 sep. 76 M.. 780.. S.-Louis,j. sep. 1876 M.. 550. Verr. L-Rhône, j. mai 76 in. 755 327 485 410 795 324 747 VALEURS SE NÉGOCIANT À VUE. 2 Londres....25 15 25 20 D | seurt 25 1916à25 1714)msioss 2% Belgique..long., P Pair 5% Italie.....{ long.) á 8 16 25 31 100 efs joure] P Loo TI 100 15 108 32 1⁄2 D 8 14 P à 8 1 moins 5 Italie (or).lang. BAR 5/ 201 21 87 peurt ¿ /* 100 TU 100 02 1⁄2 Les Fonderies et forges de Pont-Evêque-Vienne (Harel et Cie ont annoncé, en assemblée générale du 23 courant, un produit net de 300,677 fr. pour 1875-76 contre 628,737 franes en 1874-73. Ces 300,677 fr. ont été attribués : 30,067 fr. 70 à la réserve statutaire, qui monte alors à 136,150 fr.; 17,000 fr. à la gérance; 144,000 fr. aux actionnaires sur le pied d'un dividende de 20 fr. par action, 10 fr. payables fe 2 janvier at 10 fr. le 1er juillet 1877; enfin 409,609 fr. 30 au compte des bénéfices réservés qui, après cette allocation, atteint 307,219 fr. Il y a encore un compte créditeur de 176,434 fr., qui figure aujourd'hui sous le titre de compte de prévision pour grosses répartitions. On voulait proposer à la réunion la conversion de la compagnie en société anonyme libre; mais l'assemblée extraordinaire qui pouvait là voter n'a pu se constituer. Elle a été renvoyée au 14 décembre. CHANGES. - Continuation de nullité dans les négociants et partant dans les variations des cours des devises étrangères. Citons cependant un peu de reprise dans les roubles, mais sans grandes transactions. Bourse assez ferme d'abord, Vendredi, fer décembre. mauvaise ensuite, surtout pour nos deux rentes. On parle d'exécutions, la baisse s'étant prononcée après la fixation des cours dé compensation. l'éirsogez מ OSCAR BRIGG. COURS DES CHANGES PLACES ETRANGERES sur Paris COTA PARIS SUR LES PLACES [étrangères) places elrangerer 80 novembre ΤΑΤΙΣ DF TERNES compensat du stange VALEURS SE NÉGOCIANY A TROIS MOIS. 3 %interior-1206 à 207 34 et 61,100 es jours) 17 60 4% Borlin....lang. 11 coart206 court121 » 200 et 4 % à 122 et %100 jour 81 25 à 182 eli 3 % Vienne.. long.19% & 195 100o 3 mois 5.3) 35 court195 196 G Barcelone. long. 502 303 ut i toart 503 à 504 et & 6 % Madrid... song. 499 à 494 et 18 jours 501 Court 494 à 495 et 4 6% áshonnel.1546 à 547 et 4 court 548 794%81-Pétersbourg) long. 296 court 300 New-Yorkbar. I à 549 à 208 et 4 100o 1 moin À 303 À... 1 $ 3 mois. 518 3/4 一 4 0% Suissa... loog. Lê Tử Pair mains J court 146 3 à 146 B'moinný: MATIÈRES D'OR, D'ARGENT, ETC. or on barro à 4. Le kil. 3.434 fr. 44 c.. Or, pièces de 20 fr..... Argent en barre à Le kil. 218 fr. 80' Argent (pièces dos fr.j.. Qadruples espagnols.. colombiens el mexicains, Dacats de Hollande et d'Autriche.. Piastres à colonnes. Ferdinand mexicaines Souverains anglais. Banknotes. Aigles d'Amérique (20 dollars) Dollar. Guillaume (26 marcs). do (10 mares). Impériales (Russie) 30 NOVENDRE pair à pair à \"/ prime 100 % perte. 95 à pair à » 83 50 à 84 75 80 50 à 80 75 11 70 à 11 75 85 à 495 445 20 50 à 20 55 -- 03/ COMMUNICATIONS ET AVIS DIVERS. Avis aux abonnés. - La librairie Hachette et Cis, boulevard Saint-Germain, 79, cherche un exemplaire de la première année (1873) de l'Economiste Français et prie les abonnés qui en possèdent et voudraient s'en défaire de Ja lui offrir. Adresser les offres au Bureau Etranger de cette librairie. Le Travail des femmes au XIXe siècle, par PAUL LEROY-BEAULIEU. — Ouvrage couronné par l'Aca-démie des sciences morales et politiques. Prix : 3 fr. 50. Charpentier, éditeur, 28, quai du Louvre. par La Question ouvrière au XIXe siècle Un volume in-12, 3 fr. 50. PAUL LEROY-BEAULIEU. Charpentier, éditeur, 28, quai du Louvre. L'Administration locale en France et en An- Un volume gleterre, par PAUL LEROY-BEAULIEU. in-8°. Prix : 7 fr. 30. Guillaumin et Cie, éditeurs, 14, rue de Richelien. De la Colonisation chez les peuples modernes, par PAUL LEROY-BEAULIEU. — Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques, Prix: 10 fr. Guillaumin et Cie, éditeurs, 44, rue de Richelieu. Derniers cours au comptant des principales valeurs cotées à Paris aux dates suivantes : 9/0 990 500 300 680 670 £00 500 500 500 Pair 16 nov. 23 nov. 30 nov. Variat. Transports par terre: 500 452 50 Voil. à Paris, j. juillet 1870..... act. de jouissance....... 436 25 425 500 80 987 50 Omnib. de Paris, j, juillet 1876... 500 405 aet, de jouissancej, juill. 76 483 .. Traw. Nord-Paris, j. juli. 1876. 500 677 50 C Générale. j. janvier 1876. ४० 980.. 983 402 50 $70 615 625 500 480 · 500 725 Ce du dép, du Nord, j. juill. 1876 Tramways Sud Paris... 480.. 453 680 .. 710 +1+:+᛬1 - 11 25 300 ;ཝཱཋཎྞ :: 750 765 550 3 Villes-Midi. nov. 76. La. 555 1800 Venise. août 1876... Ln. 500 1625 Wazemmes j. 5 mai 76 Le. 1766 17:0 Filatures: 500 490 C de l'ind. Inière, j. av. 76. Transports par sau: 500 300. Maberly (Somme), j. sept. 75. 500 290 Comp. transatl., 1. julilot 1876... 500 637 50 Messag. marit., . juin 1876 500 522 50 Fraissinet at Ci,j, juill, 1876. M.. 300 322 50 +22 50 640 635.. +1 Divers: 500 518 75 515 150.. C gén. Eaux, j. juill. 76.... 1140 275.. act.dej.j.juil. Ln. ·TREUREDE DRU YANDHABI TENUREDI YKUDURS Pair DENOMINATION 24 Pair DENOMINATION 75 Pair DENOMINATION 24 nov. déc. GOV. déc. TEMBRE DI nov. déc. 100 France 3 0/0 perpétuel... 70 05 70 101000 Banque de Franco 3735 19700 500 Ch. fer Pampelune, actions 180.. 160 100 4 1/2 0/0 perpétueli 100 100 5 0.0 perpétual.. 300 4 0/0 Trenten. 500 Bons 5 0/0 tiq. dép. 519 5 0/0 Arg.) 100 100 100 100 400 V, Paris Obl. 3 0/0 1869... 373 4 0/0 1875.... 481 Bons 3 0/0 liquid.. 509 Obl. 4 0/0 1876.... 484 250 Autriche ubl. 500 Egypte 7 0/0 1876............. ....... 100 Espagne 3 0/0 extérieur... intérieur. 100 Etats-Unis 6 0/0 5/20 1865 160, Italia 5 0/0. 100 Pérou 6 0/0 100 Russie 5 0/0 1862 5 0/0 1870 100 Turqute 5 0/0 1865 1871... 367 281 5 0/0 counol... 5 0/0. * : : :R (SSTEA IN 100 601000 Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. 1040 1040 500 Portugais, 300 305 492 50 492 30 500 Credit foncier.. 106 65 104 25 500 Comptoir d'escompte. 690 685 500 Saragesse, 337 50 325 715 700 500 Voitures à Paris.. 435 425 866 ar3 50 500 515 500 industriel. 789 785 500 omnibus de Paris,, 980 866 509 509 - mobilier 572 50 570 500 C transatlantique.. 302 50 321 155 150 150 500 Messageries mari maritimes.. 481 501 Dépôts et 500 et comples courants.. 65 508 50 500 Société générale. 520 100 Sous-Compt. des entrepren. 120 Nord, Orleans Vendée, 1998 500 Banque ottomano ......................... 500 Crédit funcier d'autriche. mobiler espagnol. 500 Ch. fer Charentes, actions Esty Lyon, Midi. 510 362 50 362 30 250 Gaz parisian... 47 $75 600 de Marseille... 5:5 $35 500 Cig des Eaux.... 361 25 361 25 500 Allumettes chimiques 615615500 obl. Est 3 0/0. 995.500 778 75 780 ..| 500) 1262 507 5001 11037 5011037 50 5001 3 Fusion 3 0/0 anc Midi 3 0/0 (25 500 300 Docks de Marseille, Canal de Snaz.. 638 75 665 :: 120 500 Magasins généraux de Paris. 115 4:0 460 1390 680 1315 670 1140 1150 330 330 332 50 329 50 Douv. 32.. 328 Nord 3 0/0. 332 OMI, 1865. 1869 Quest, Autrichiens, Lombards, N.-O. Autriche Nord-Esp., 668 73 665 500) Orléans 3 6/6. 331 522 30 515 500 500 Quest 3 0/0, 320 Antrich. 3 0/0 aat.. 295 156 23 156 251 500 3 0/0 nour. 204 ... 500 Lombards 3 0/0 anc. 2:46 970 202 50 500 3 0/0 nouv. 231 SK. : REGSJS: .:::::; 88;A 500 1150 + 10 100", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 272, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "## Hispano-Philippine Administration\n\nThere is no need for us to pass in review one by one the several branches, fiscal, judicial, or executive, of the Hispano-Philippine Administration. It is in the main identical with every other Spanish Colonial Administration, historical or existent; and, with them, is based and conducted on the same system by which Spain has first alienated and then lost almost every Colony she once possessed, and by which Cuba is even this day kept in a condition of constant and irremediable revolt. Hence the Philippines have for their part more than once (A.D. 1589, 1623, 1624, 1740, 1762, 1763, 1807, 1815, 1823, 1838, 1872) attempted to follow the track adopted by the last-mentioned Colony, but without success enough to insure the liberation obtained by the former. Why Philippine insurrection, so often set on foot, has never been as yet able to reach the goal, we shall see further on. I return to the administrative system itself. It is based on destination of castes and races, and is ordered to the exclusive profit of the ruling ones, or rather of the officials and the clergy from Spain; while in its working it is marked in every department by injustice, by corruption, by extreme and rapacious selfishness, greater than any I have ever witnessed out of Persia, and by a truly amazing incapacity, practical and theoretical, even for the most ordinary duties of rule. This incapacity is, however, its one redeeming quality; since a system of Colonial Government like the Spanish would, if vigorously and effectively carried out, soon exhaust the land and exterminate the inhabitants altogether. Lastly, it is an Administration capricious in the extreme, because dependent solely on the caprices or exigencies of the ruling favourite or faction at Madrid; wholly independent of the interests or conditions of the Philippines themselves and their inhabitants, none of whom are admitted to any administrative participation, voice, or representation whatever. Hence it is an Administration composed of (I take the number from Spanish data) not less than 3,600 Spanish officials, mostly political adventurers, needy hangers-on of those in office at home, and men of like class, almost all under-salaried, and sent out by the Minister or faction of the day at Madrid to make their fortune as best they may, rule or misrule to their fancy, and, on a change in the fortunes of their patrons, retire unchallenged by investigation or opinion to spend their gains elsewhere, to be succeeded in their turn by a cognate swarm.\n\nYet, with all its faults, the Hispano-Philippine Administration deserves the credit of being in its practical working the cause of less oppression at large, and of less cruelty in special instances, though neither oppression nor cruelty are absolutely wanting, than is, or at any rate was, it would seem, usual in Spanish Colonies. This happy circumstance is, so most think, due partly to the supineness of the Spanish resident officials, whom, fortunately for those they govern, this most relaxing climate speedily deprives of whatever energy they may have brought out with them, and partly to the great and preponderating influence of the clergy.\n\nThat influence is partly for good, partly evil. Various causes, to recapitulate which would be to write the history of the Philippines, have conferred on the Spanish regular clergy—Augustinians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Recollects, Jesuits, &c.—sent out here under the title of \"missionaries,\" a position extremely powerful from the very first in the Philippine Islands; a position which they have during three centuries not only maintained, but fortified and extended. The bulk of the Philippine Malays, indeed all those who accepted the position of Spanish subjects, some 4,000,000 or more, adopted from the first the well-known Spanish formula of Christianity. To it they have, on the whole, steadily adhered, and though now and then one clan or other has made an abortive attempt at reinstalling the old idolatry to the detriment of the new, no Philippine Malay has it appears incurred the guilt, far more heinous in the eyes of Spanish monks, of inventing or following a dogmatic heresy. Hence the Hispano-Philippine hierarchy, absolute master of the minds, and by a natural nor long-deferred sequence of a lion's share in the lands and worldly goods of the natives, from whom they at the present time draw a revenue, and over whom they exercise an influence greater in either case than that of the Government itself. Hence, too, they have from the first, down to our own time, assumed the attitude of protectors to the natives, stood between them and their lay oppressors, and to the best of their ability hindered others from sharing the fleeces which they regard as by divine right their own.\n\nClerical rule, though moderately rapacious, is generally, except where heretics are concerned, mild enough, and though averse from progress, fosters an easy-going, half-vegetative existence and increase. The clerical rule of the Philippines is in these respects like all the rest. But, I regret to say, to this very clerical predominance is also due, it would seem, a lower degree, or, in fact, a more total absence of education, manliness, morality, and self-respect throughout the born Malays and Mestizos of the Philippines than I remember to have observed in any other Pagan or Christian land.\n\n### \n\n## From these considerations...\n\nFrom these considerations it would appear that, so far as the Administration is concerned, the prospects of the Philippines, for what regards their productive, industrial, and hence commercial value, are not very brilliant. If absolutely abandoned by the Spanish officials and Spanish clergy, they would, not perhaps rapidly, yet surely, become in a few generations next to valueless to the world at large, and even to Spain herself. But such an abandonment is, under the present conditions of national, and especially European, intercourse, impossible. With Java and Singapore to their west, Hong Kong, China, and Japan to their north, and Australasia to their south, the centrally-placed Philippines cannot but participate, imperfectly though it may be, in the immense activity that surrounds them; were they better administered, they would yield in importance to no region on the world's colonial list. Of this greater good fortune there is, indeed, no apparent probability. But, as their wonderful productiveness, to which nature seems scarcely to have fixed a limit, must from the necessity of things depend in great measure, not merely on the conditions within, but on the demand without them; and as that demand, based on other fortunes than those of Spain, and over which she has no control, will in all likelihood progressively increase for years to come, we may reasonably anticipate that, under the action of this external stimulus, the Philippines will, despite of their internal paralysis, not merely maintain their present grade of importance in the commercial world, but even to some extent rise above it.\n\nOn this side, accordingly, British interests—trading, commercial, and perhaps industrial, in the Philippines—have a fairly sufficient external, though not an equally satisfactory internal, guarantee. And this brings us to the second leading consideration.\n\n### Attitude of the Hispano-Philippine Administration towards Foreigners\n\nWe have now to determine the degree of direct or indirect support and encouragement, or their reverse, that British trade and traders actually receive, or may reasonably in the future expect, from the Hispano-Philippine Administration.\n\nAnd first: The general feeling of Spaniards, and more especially of Spanish officials out here, towards European foreigners at large, is (I regret to state it) one of distrust and scarce-disguised dislike. Ignorant as they mostly are of the very first principles of political and commercial economy, the Spaniards of the Philippines regard every penny made within their territory by the foreign trader as somehow taken out of their own pockets; the contact of foreign prosperity irritates them by its contrast with their own decadence; and being, as a rule, wanting themselves in industry, practical knowledge, and skill, they look with envy not far removed from hate on those who possess these advantageous qualities. It is a general, and, I believe, a correct opinion, that were the Administration free to do as it liked, the old exclusive policy of past times would be revived vigorous as ever; no foreign flag would be allowed to approach, no foreign subject to plant a foot in these islands, unless it were, perhaps, a limited number of Chinese under coolie-contract, to be treated as Chinese coolies have been in Cuba or in Hispaniolized Peru. In a word, the Spaniards would rather see the Philippines ruined by and for themselves alone, than prosperous, if to the benefit not of themselves alone, but of others also.\n\nFortunately, circumstances are stronger than men; and though a Royal Spanish Ordinance, issued not further back than 1844, prohibited the admission of foreigners into the interior of the Colony under any pretext whatever, while an attempt was made by the Hispano-Philippine Government as late as 1857 to renew the Decrees by which for more than two centuries foreign ships had been kept at a distance from these shores, the Administration has been slowly, but progressively, compelled on a tract opposite to its own desires. The yielding began in 1789, when the first half-concession in favour of foreign enterprise was wrung from the weakened grasp of Spain; and from that date down to the present time the Administration has had to witness, though not without many efforts to stay it, an ever-increasing influx of foreign trade and enterprise—an influx which it still persistently endeavours, though indirectly, to limit, but cannot wholly stem.\n\nThe attempt at limitation takes many different forms, and is half-veiled, wholly urged, by many ingenious devices, but chiefly by seven.\n\nFirstly, by checking the natural productiveness of the islands themselves, and consequently the wealth of their inhabitants, by the method implied in the first section of this Report, for detail in this matter would be endless. And this, as it appears, is mainly done, not merely negatively and through careless negligence, but positively, on system, and with a definite intent, in accordance with two Spanish axioms—firstly, that a native, if wealthy, or on the way to become so, will lean towards foreigners rather than Spaniards; secondly, that a native who has acquired wealth will soon aim at independence also.\n\nPage 265", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "## \n266 \n4 \n\nSecondly, by special repression, or rather oppression, of the Chinese immigrants, who are burdened with extra taxes, costly licences, and damaging restrictions imposed in order that they may be bought off afterwards at high price; who are prohibited the exercise of their own national rites and usages, and forced to adopt those framed by the Spanish clergy; who are habitually denied justice and even ordinary protection within the local tribunals and without; and who yet are the chief--I might almost say the only--link on Philippine ground between native produce and foreign capital, native purchase and foreign supply. Hence every injury inflicted on the Chinese is through them inflicted on foreign enterprise at large, but, owing to our own vast commercial establishments on the China Coast close by, more particularly on the British. This the Administration knows; and in its conduct towards the Chinese does but carry on, though feebly, the policy of Governor Anda, who, to damage the English, then at war with Spain, decreed \"that all the Chinese in the Philippine Islands should be put to death;\" and embodied, though not quite so energetically, in the anti-Chinese Decrees of 1639, 1709, 1759, 1804, and 1867, Governor Anda's Ordinance, dated 1762.\n\nThirdly, by protective or prohibitive Custom dues, heavy and at times illegally-imposed harbour dues, and an entire commercial code, drawn up as far as possible on obsolete pseudo-protectionist principles, derived from the ignorance of times which, for Europe in general, ceased some centuries back, but which for the Hispano-Philippine Colony exist in full vigour at this day.\n\nFourthly, by innumerable daily vexations inflicted on foreign traders---as, for example, capricious visits of Custom-house officers and coastguards on board vessels in harbour, with the view of extorting money, even after every regulation has been complied with; unjust seizures and confiscations of objects not truly liable to duty; wearisome detentions; arbitrary fines imposed on vessels, captains, crews, and consignees on merely frivolous pretexts; besides an infinity of minutious, troublesome and not seldom contradictory regulations, the observance of one of which may often involve, or at least lead to, the contravention of another, and a fine to follow. With these annoyances foreign traders and ship-masters, though grumbling, ordinarily end by putting up, partly in view of considerable profits to be made otherwise in the market, but chiefly because convinced, and rightly so, that special complaints, particularly if put under official form, are often dangerous, almost always useless, where the system is rotten all through.\n\nFifthly, by the almost total, but not involuntary nor inculpable absence of the usual facilitations to seaboard approach, no lighthouses, the solitary beacon of Corrigidor excepted, no signal-marks, no buoys, no wharves, no landing-stages, no dredges---objects for a tolerable sufficiency of which the copious revenue provided by the heavy harbour dues, the fines imposed, and other exactions might be amply enough, but to none of which a fraction even of that revenue is applied. And here, as akin to the matter, should be mentioned that the non-existence of submarine telegraphic communication with the outer world, which might easily be laid down via Hong Kong, is chiefly due to the deliberate aversion of the Hispano-Philippine Administration from free intercourse between this Colony and Europe, even Spain herself.\n\nSixthly, by the tobacco monopoly, an organized evil sketched out, it seems, as early as 1650, but not fully established in its actual form till 1780. Its details are too vast for investigation in a summary Report like the present. Enough here to say that it not only cuts off but ruins what might, but for it, be of all branches of Philippine trade the most advantageous to Spaniards, foreigners, and natives alike, and which now, to secure a small, delusive, but immediate profit for the first of these three classes, maintains, within the tobacco-growing districts, viz., Cagayan, New Viscaya, Isabel, Abra, and the two Ilocos, all provinces of the upper half of Luzon, containing a population of about 500,000, and an extent of nearly 5,000,000 square acres, that is, equal to Wales, a system of oppression towards the natives exceeding in injustice and cruelty, by the avowal of a recent Spanish writer, anything practised in the slave-holding regions of the New World. See \"Memoria sobre el desestanco del Tabaco en las Islas Filipinas\" (\"Memorandum on the doing away with the Tobacco Monopoly in the Philippines\"), by Don J. S. Agius, of Manila, 1871, as also F. Jagor's \"Travels in the Philippines,\" chap. xxv (The Tobacco Monopoly), pp. 324-339, both trustworthy sources of information. As to foreigners, the existing monopoly means, of course, absolute exclusion from all direct profit or share in that department of produce and trade.\n\nSeventhly, by direct and official attempts made from time to time to impose new regulations and restrictions, which, if put in effect, would ruinously cripple all foreign trade and enterprise within this Colony. Thus, in June this year (1877), appeared in the \"Official Gazette\" an order enjoining all foreign houses of business to keep their books henceforth in the Spanish language and on the Spanish system; also imposing a most exorbitant stamp-duty on all business papers, documents, bills, and even correspondence; and moreover extending official supervision at will to the most private and confidential proceedings of the houses themselves. This Decree the Government was, however, a fortnight later compelled publicly to cancel and withdraw, in face of the determined opposition organized, under the lead of the British Consulate, by all foreigners, to its execution.\n\n5\n\nTo the above-stated seven limitations, or impediments intentionally thrown in the way of foreigners, might be added certain annoyances and restrictions of minor importance, such as the tampering with and occasional non-delivery of letters by the Spanish post-office; the prohibition of all public religious observances except those after the Spanish mode; a veto on the publication of books, periodicals, newspapers, and even almanacs, within the Philippines, or their importation from without, unless they have previously passed through the ordeal of Spanish official and clerical censorship; a generally unfriendly tone of the local daily press, which is under strict official direction and control; and other trifles, vexatious enough, but not requiring more than a summary and passing allusion in a Report of this nature.\n\nFrom this statement it is sufficiently evident that the attitude of the Hispano-Philippine Administration towards foreign enterprise, trade, and intercourse at large, is not of a very encouraging character. Exceptions of course there are, and honourable ones, but this Report deals with what is habitually, not with what may be exceptionally, the case with classes, not with individuals.\n\nI now come to the attitude of the Administration towards British trade and enterprise in particular.\n\nTill latterly, of all foreigners none were more heartily disliked by the Spaniards here than the English. Of late, however, the preference of dislike and distrust has been transferred from them, at least in some regards, to the Germans. The causes of this change are to be sought for, for the most part, in intra-European politics and relations strangers to this Report; but one local circumstance, namely, the line taken up by the Germans regarding Sulu, and matters connected with that part of the Philippine Archipelago, should be noted as the chief topic of Spanish dissatisfaction out here.\n\nPlaced in a manner between Germany and England, each pressing on it with almost equal urgency by their trade and enterprise (for with other and political considerations I have here nothing to do), the Hispano-Philippine Administration not unnaturally seeks in the latter a sort of counterpoise to the former. If foreigners needs must extend their commerce and intercourse in this direction, British encroachment is, on the whole (thus runs the modern Spanish verdict), more tolerable, and above all less dangerous, than German; and hence it comes that, though taking things in the sum, the Administration neither departs, nor is soon likely to depart, from its exclusive principles, except when one way or other constrained to do so. Yet British trade and enterprise find at present, owing to the motives above mentioned, more of toleration, nay, even in special instances, of encouragement, than they did in the past, before Germany came to the front. This position of things may, and probably will, last yet for a while. It is one of which we, conscious that we neither have in present nor in prospect other interests in the Philippines than merely those of trade and commerce, may, I think, fairly take advantage. Spanish jealousy, coupled as it is with Spanish weakness, bears with it less danger to our commerce in these parts than German activity, though temporarily screened under a surface co-operation, the introducer of a real and perilous rivalry.\n\nSumming up, I should say that, from the side of the Hispano-Philippine Administration, British trade and British commercial establishments on the immediate sea coast, and more particularly at Manila itself, have not much, indeed, to expect, but have also little to fear, in the present condition of affairs.\n\nIt is otherwise with enterprises undertaken inland, or on the remoter islands, as factories, plantations, farms, mines, and the like. From these I should distinctly dissuade. The old exclusionist spirit, free to its old devices in remoter places, and manifesting itself by covert annoyances, hostile instigations, indefinite delay or absolute denegation of justice, capricious interferences, and the thousand other vexations by which a practically irresponsible Administration can make itself disagreeable where it chooses, is not likely to allow any such enterprises a fair chance of success. This, too, past experience unhappily confirms.\n\nThe clergy, too, awakening every now and again from their usual good-natured torpor, are at times dangerous enemies to English enterprises and English men in the Philippines. Not to dwell on the well-known events of 1762, and the horrible massacre of 1819, in both of which the clergy were, it is stated, the main instigators, I have myself known instances of the most spiteful calumnies, the most damaging denunciations, directed by \n\nC `[1185]`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303356, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "It appears to the Wettecker Beach then pred has to find that if for for any Nessus Catos Frophe, Santicipating karterislang the as your accsendes letter affea In bargybemend you do sex your way to Geth marcals stacch entertained And the reynə them bread communicated \"the Attorney Genera.\n\n3. affears The Senatory of Stall war-islands In Waffen's crefalertions thave been shrifty he Estate of Agall, Pats & Co which was in 1865 hound be adjudicatil bankerpl Bel glad if you has never Le ante call been In Hotel other to indicate Hat it is matter for regret that prould be glad to Afice for formation pore putter Repla 343 oblacin \n\nit cielag which tes scared connection with the Exläte, and as to the absence of any babes of count for the custody of unpaid chiscends, and for the duties of the effries of the Bankapting Count, forutich 20.8. of 1862 the ordinance 20.5. sec.)- Juniores.\n\n4. Sie Iinchard Sticks Beach further devines that rules Habart phone call with Apo sabott Indes which should be at me laid down to prevent the recurrences Onalas", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 42, "title": "CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12]", "content_text": "41 \n\nappear in the positions B and C and again F and Cx. They are shown between Wards on the second floor between there are, however, necessary for the wards they subserve and as it is imperative they should have cross ventilation, this will be afforded them at the level of the ceiling by a galvanized sheet iron flue running across the whole width of the building. Inlets will be made to each closet in the same way as described for the wards and the other closets. The soil pipes will also be trapped and ventilated in a similar manner.\n\nLobbies, lavatories, and closets will always have their doors leading into the wards kept closed, but as the partitions between each other will not reach the ceiling, there is no fear of their being insufficiently ventilated during the four cool months when windows communicating with the outer air would, as a rule, be closed. During the remaining eight months of the year, practically in this climate, ventilating devices of any kind are unnecessary as the temperature is sufficiently mild to admit of doors and windows being kept wide open. In the wards, too, all doors and windows will be kept wide open for eight months out of the twelve, the movement of the air being kept up on calm days by the ward punkahs. At night, the venetians will be closed if specially required and the laths opened out to their fullest. During two-thirds of the year, therefore, patients in this Hospital may be considered to be...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-185 - Acting Governor Marsh Governor Hennessy - 1879 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 304815, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879", "content_text": "Printed fr. 2\n\n204 \n\n209 there is other correspondence \n\n70 \n\nwhich has been in this Office, & it must be on a high level in the say also, in which a Ship is mentioned leaving the Port. & furnishing back with its whole crew prostrated by severe cholera: a state of affairs is traditional in The Mary- I mention this for the Report ways we are not in a position to compare the state of things different years ago, e.g., 1855, and then (Frape 33) to attach at last as much weight to Mr. May's collection of the state of things twenty-two years before. They do the official reports (p.206-209) written at the time. They Commissioners did not examine the Naval or Military Doctors, but left them to give their Evidence & formed their opinion upon it; the same in the Miscellaneous Correspondence (p. 316-320). Several devices examined were superfluous, contrary to the conclusions formed by the Commissioners (fr. 53) the majority refrained from advising the repeal of the Ordinance as they otherwise would have done - \n\nas they \"would seem also from the Rep. p. 35 referring to Doctor Bernane + p. 38 referring to Dr. Parr-Hay-Shang that The two Commissioners had not very clear ideas on the distinction between syphilis & gonorrhea\". \n\nThey have not examined any European unofficial witnesses; and looking to all these circumstances, & the general tone of their long Report, I cannot agree with Hur head's estimate of it - (bhijo) it appears to be within the supports of preconceived opinions, a witness that impartial consideration of the facts of the colony is necessary to justify circumstances relative to their conclusions. \n\nA Hahn relative to their conclusions - \n\nDr. Hoggett's report is a valuable document, in so far as it agrees with all the details of his recommendations to administration of the law our registration & supervision of all houses for prostitution, and the suppression of kidnapping for prostitution. The only point in which I feel a difficulty is as to checking the sale of women in brothels, and the medical inspection of all women in these houses: if only the prostitutes in Hong Kong are subject to disease being spread by contamination the chances of others is obvious, the prostitution being incomplete = the prevalence of disease among the Town Army of Chinese is very great, 20 to 30 per cent of the men have been sufferers (par. 482); but the Cantonese do not profess to work the sailors in this line as well as the Chinese, and of the Military & Naval services as well as the merchant service. The consensus of testimony to the effect of the Ordinance is remarkable, even with their imperfect operation (par. 14, 39, 145, 57/2, 1473). 47 letters from Dr. Grant (p.317) & Dr. Wills (p.319). & not the least important fact is the effect which similar regulations...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-186 - Public Offices & Others - 1879.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 305521, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4]", "content_text": "253 \n\nabout 20-0 \nthe latter nation. \nleave sooner \n\nThere is also a \nlarge class of Europeans to \nexplain uniforms \nis a \nIn alter \nwhom the \nand subscriptions. \nmuch corse queue. \nThe devices. \nof \n\nMR \nof there might probably \nbe obtained, \ni \nthe government \ncould arrange for the supply of \nUniform \nthe grant of \ncapitation allowance. \n\nThe \nVolunteer Fire Brigade ought \nbody, forming \nto be induced \nto join as a \ntheir \nbattery \nor \ncompany, \nand \nElecting \ntheir own \n\n## 19. The European and Indian Question XVIII \n\nForce Force being \nOfficers and 91 Serpants and \nmen of the former, and \ntrained \nin company \narms \nof fire \ndrill. \nShould a state of siege \nMilitary \ntheir services. \nUnder such \nlaw be proclaimed \nand \ntr available. \nColumns thus \nthe \nbest \nsystem of individual \nworld. \nLear \nExcept so far \nCastables tort \nto be abandoned, \nthe Chinese \nconcerned \n2-0 \nenables strong picquets \nSome forty \nto be formed \nlastables \nCharlie \nbeen drilled \nLuci \nfive \nZwe \nthe use of \n\nIt depends on the \nnature of the war \nto tow \nfor the internal peace of the \nCity may be affected, for \ninstance \ntar \nwith their", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-187 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306198, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 422, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \nrelieves the servitude of the inmates, as to which, in reply to your Despatch of 13th November 1880*, I have called for further explanations, this would form a ground for carefully reviewing and improving the manner in which that supervision is exercised, not for withdrawing it altogether from the houses for Chinese only, which form the great majority of the brothels, and leaving the unhappy inmates to their fate without an attempt at ameliorating their condition; and I have not failed to observe that Mr. Cecil Smith, in the 17th paragraph of his letter to Sir F. Rogers, printed at page 253 of the appendix, reports \"that these instances of virtual slavery exist entirely in the brothels for Chinese, where the women are seen by their own countrymen, and not in the other houses which are frequented by foreigners.\"\n\nThe report, at page 47, states the intention of the Government to have been that the Ordinance of 1857 should be worked with the aid of the whole body of police, but indicates that the then superintendent having set his face against the Ordinance, and not having (to use his own words) \"permitted the police to have anything to do with the control and supervision of brothels under the Ordinance, being apart from the general objects of police duties, and from the great probability of its leading to corruption,\" it came about that the office of Inspector of Brothels was created, and fell into the hands of inferior men (Rep., pp. 47, 48).\n\nThe power of visiting and inspecting registered brothels was, by section 7 of the Ordinance of 1857, vested in the Registrar-General (who had some months previously, by Ordinance 6 of 1857, been created Protector of the Chinese) and the chief officers of police; and it is evident, from the wording of the section, that these powers were distinct, and proceeded upon other grounds than the sanitary inspection of the women by the medical officers.\n\nA similar distinction is to be found in the 10th section of the same Ordinance; and these powers of supervising registered houses were again distinct from the provisions relating to the prosecution of unregistered brothels, matters which it was obviously meant should be dealt with by the police in the same manner as other breaches of the statute law.\n\nThe attitude, however, which the police were allowed to adopt towards the Ordinance appears to me to be one of the causes which frustrated Mr. Labouchere's humane intentions; and as soon as the object was thus lost sight of which induced the Secretary of State to desire that these establishments should be \"under the eye, and in some measure under the control, of the Government,\" it not unnaturally followed that the special provisions of the Ordinance came to be regarded as little more than machinery for the detection and suppression of unregistered or unlicensed brothels. And as the police, who, I presume, are acquainted with the character of the houses in their several beats, seem to have given little assistance towards the enforcement of the law in these particulars, it is not surprising that the inspectors, whose means of obtaining proofs was likely to be less complete, should have been driven to extraordinary devices for procuring evidence in the cases which in the discharge of their duties they found themselves required to bring forward. It seems, indeed, from document No. 32, printed at page 225, that there need have been no difficulty in identifying unlicensed houses, for on that occasion, in 1866, ninety-four were detected in two nights without the aid of the inspector.\n\nThe system of informers paid to obtain evidence by personal intercourse with women, which was introduced in 1860 simultaneously with the appointment of inspectors (p. 10 of Report), was a revolting abuse, which you most properly put a stop to as far back as the month of October 1877.+\n\nThe Commission is dated 12th November 1877, and the report December 1878. It was, therefore, scarcely necessary for the report to have contained so full an analysis of the cases in which this discontinued system had been employed, or the many pages of proceedings in such cases which are printed in the Appendix.\n\nTurning to the medical side of the subject, I may observe that the report seems to me to pass over somewhat too lightly the horrible circumstances which gave rise to the discussion which led up to the Ordinance of 1857, and to attach, at least, as much weight to Mr. May's recollection of matters which occurred 20 years before as it does to the official reports written at the time, and not all printed.\n\nAt page 33 the report states that, in the absence of returns prior to 1857, the framers were not in a position to compare the state of things which existed before and subsequent to 1858. That \"the letters from the Naval Medical Authorities and the Colonial Surgeon contain deplorable accounts of the health of the men under their charge. On the other hand, Mr. May, who was then in charge of the Police Force, has told us that, before the Ordinance of 1857, we had no great cause to complain; and that his attention was not drawn to any very special virulence in the nature of the disease either by fact or by any person;\" and the same paragraph quotes other passages from his evidence to the same purport.\n\nThe Appendix, p. 204-207, contains naval reports, all showing the frequency and aggravated nature of the disease. I notice especially Captain Hoste's letter of 18th October 1854, and its enclosure, from which it appears that in 1853 and 1854 the crew of H.M.S. \"Spartan\" contracted syphilis in Hong Kong in the proportion of 5 and 6 per cent. of the ship's company; while in Macao, where supervision was exercised over prostitution, the per-centage of cases was only 2 per cent.; and Admiral Stirling's letter of 7th March 1855, and its enclosure, reporting that one third of the crew of H.M.S. \"Winchester\" was affected during the year 1854. These numbers do not cover the whole of the evil, for the tertiary affections and the aggravation of other diseases by syphilitic taint are not mentioned.\n\nThese reports do not mention the police; but the Colonial Surgeon, reporting on the 7th April 1856, states: \"The police, both European and native, labour under the disease in a most frightful form;\" and in a later report, dated 28th March 1857, he states: \"I beg to assure you that among the police and sailors of Hong Kong, some of the worst forms of the venereal disease are to be seen.\" Neither of these reports is printed in the Appendix; the first is enclosed in Sir John Bowring's despatch of 2nd May 1856; the other in that officer's despatch of 20th March 1857.\n\nAmong the enclosures to the despatch No. 69, is a short minute by Colonel Caine, the Lieutenant-Governor, in which he speaks of the disease \"which has hitherto caused ravages too fearful to detail, not only in our naval and military forces, but also in the population generally.\" Also a memorandum by the Chief Justice, Mr. Hulme, in which I find him saying, \"when I consider the frightful extent to which the venereal disease is prevalent in this Colony, its virulence, and the frightful ravages it commits.” The Colonial Surgeon, Mr. Dempster, of the Army Medical Department, in his report in the same dispatch, says, \"I have now the honour to state, for the information of his Excellency the Governor, that during my experience I have never before witnessed, in any station where I have served, such ravages inflicted by the disease on persons affected with it as in this Colony. I beg to state that almost every sailor admitted into the Seamen's Hospital with fever, bowel affections, &c. is also affected with the venereal. In the jail many of the Chinese prisoners are affected with the disease in a most virulent form; and, as to the European prisoners (mostly sailors), nearly all are affected.\"\n\nThen follows the sentence above quoted about the police, and the report proceeds: \"I have had under my care female prostitutes (picked up by the police in the streets, and evidently turned out by the brothel keepers for the purpose) suffering from the disease in the most shocking form I ever beheld. Death at last put an end to their sufferings.\" Speaking of merchant ships, he says: \"In one instance a captain had shipped eight seamen; he put to sea, and in a few days returned with the said crew, totally unable to work the ship, being fearfully affected with the venereal.\"\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon then proceeds to contrast this state of things with Gibraltar, where he had ascertained \"the benefit derived from sanitary rules.\"\n\nThese official records, none of which are printed in the appendix, show plainly the state of things which existed before 1858, and fully deserved to have received equal prominence with the opposite view which rests upon Mr. May's recollection, especially as these records are further supported by a letter from Dr. Pottinger, R.N., dated 28th December 1870 (printed appendix, page 282), giving his vivid remembrance of the state of Hong Kong in this respect when he served on the station in the ship \"Reynard\" in the years 1849-50-51, and by another letter (also appendix, page 282) from Dr. Ramsay, of the 75th Regiment, speaking of that officer's recollection of the Colony in 1857. Both of these letters contrast the very different state of affairs existing in 1870.\n\nThe correspondence connected with the passing of the Ordinance of 1867 and the latest records on the subject are free from such painful statements.\n\nThe only two European medical men examined testify to the same effect. The first, Dr. Ayres, says (answer 1,439) that the disease (syphilis) which he has seen is of a very innocent type,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "No. 11.\n\nREPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON ON HIS INSPECTION OF THE TOWN OF VICTORIA,1 AND ON THE PIG LICENSING SYSTEM. HONGKONG, APRIL 1874.\n\nCOLONIAL SURGEON, DR. AYRES, TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN, COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nHONGKONG, 15th April, 1874.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward to you a report on the result of my rounds with the Sanitary Inspectors, for the information of His Excellency the Governor.\n\nAs I have already stated in my reports on the inspection of brothels, there are many things brought to notice there that are equally applicable to private houses, such as bad drainage, deficient ventilation, foul privies, filthy condition of houses, &c., &c.; but if I was astonished at the state of the brothels, they did not at all prepare me for what I was to find in private houses.\n\nAs was the case with the brothels before I came, so it is with the back slums of the town; little or no superintendence has been thought of over the Inspectors. The Inspectors of Brothels, the Sanitary and Market Inspectors, have all been left pretty much to their own devices, as I have shown and shall show, nor does it seem to have come within the province of my predecessors to do this work.\n\nPigs are universally kept in the houses all over the town, the usual place for their reception being the kitchens, but they are by no means confined to that part of the house; if the droves are too large or the kitchens too small, they are kept in the same rooms the inhabitants of the house occupy, and are as frequently to be found in upper stories as on the ground floors; a very favourite place for them is under the bed. I have seen four of the usual divisions the Chinese make in one room, each division having a bed, and underneath each bed a pig-sty, containing from five to seven pigs, the occupant of the house having a Government Licence to keep pigs, and having no other place to keep them in. Attached to this report I send eight Licences,* by the authority of which the occupants of the houses kept pigs under their beds, and two others where the pigs, though not kept under the beds, were in the same room the people slept and lived in.\n\nI could send many others.\n\nNo. 130.\n\nA\n\n*SPECIMENS OF LICENCES ENCLOSED.\n\n \n NOT TRANSFERABLE.\n \n C. C. Smith\nRegistrar General\n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th January, 1872.\n \n \n WONG A-FUNG is licensed to keep Three Pigs, on her Premises No. 4. Cross Street, till further notice.\n \n \n No, 74.\n No.\n \n \n\n \n NOT TRANSFERABLE.\n \n CECIL C. SMITH.\nRegistrar General.\n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 8th September, 1871.\n \n \n LI A-LAI is licensed to keep Four Pigs, (4) on her Premises No. 7, Hing Wan Lane, 15th June, 1875, till further notice.\n \n \n CECIL C. SMITH,\nRegistrar General.\n \n\n1. This licence is only issued for the number of Pigs stated on it.\n\n2. If any more than that number are kept, all the Pigs will be confiscated.\n\n3. If the Pig-styes are not kept clean, the holders of the License will be fined, and the Licence will be cancelled.\n\n4. If any Pigs are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the Pigs will be confiscated, and the owner fined.\n\n \n NOT TRANSFERABLE.\n \n \n REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA. HONGKONG,\n \n \n 187\n \n \n is licensed to keep\n \n \n stated on it.\n \n \n until further notice.\n \n \n Registrar General,\n \n \n 3. If the Pig-styes, or other places where the animals are kept, are not clean, the holders of the Licence will be fined, and the License will be cancelled.\n \n \n 3. If any Pigs, or other animals injurious to the public health, are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the animals will be confiscated, and the owner fined.\"\n \n \n Miller\n \n \n 449\n \n\nThe construction of this class of houses is against every sanitary rule as regards drainage, ventilation and cleanliness, which is rendered impossible to the inhabitants, which you will easily understand by what I shall show you. Many houses, being built back to back, have no yards; having only windows in front, there is nothing to promote a current of air through them. In others which are not built back to back, no yard is provided, but a narrow gully exists between the backs of the two sets of houses, about a yard wide, not used for passengers, but down which an open sewer exists, in which foul and fetid matter lies in pools, or slowly trickles from one pool to another, a slight descent assisting. The private drains existing are of the most complicated description, beginning in the kitchen of the house, and terminating goodness only knows where,—in but too many cases in the earth itself (with no outlet), through which the filth percolates till it finds the water level.\n\nThe upper floors of the houses are made with very thin boards, which, not lying close together, render it impossible to attempt to wash them, as that would result in giving the inhabitants of the rooms below a dirty shower bath. The ground floors are, for the most part, mud, though sometimes badly tiled or covered with stone; on this mud floor, every imaginable filth falls, from saliva to the pigs' urine draining from the pens, so that the earth is saturated with decomposing animal and vegetable matter of all descriptions, and the floor cannot be washed or cleaned.\n\nI don't think the value of this sort of property is known, or the enormous prices for which these houses let. Repairs cost little or nothing yearly. In nearly every room three or more families reside, up to as many as six or eight; the rooms being partitioned off, each partition pays a dollar and a half to two dollars a month rent, and a house with three rooms about fourteen feet square, with miserable little kitchens attached, will fetch from £55 to £70 a year; if it is a brothel, from £80 to £100 a year. I saw one room with four partitions, for which the woman of the house paid $16 a month rent, the girls paying her $9 a month for each partition. So that it is evident, it is better to own property of this description, which requires little or no repair, than to own houses in better quarters, which pay less rent and require frequent repair. I mean that the inhabitants have no choice in the one instance, and the landlord none in the other, as to whether repairs shall be done or not, when they are required.\n\nI now proceed to give a few notes of things I saw in certain localities, which notes are applicable to many other places.\n\nFuk On Lane.--Ground floors of most houses are mud; upper floors, open spaces between the boards, so that neither floors admit of proper cleaning; kitchens, poky little holes, overcrowded, and occupied by pigs. Steps at the upper end of this house were out of repair, underneath which are cavities containing liquid black and putrid filth.\n\nOpen space below Hospital Road, and east of Tung Hing Theatre, used as a place to shoot all sorts of rubbish, and a disgusting stench pervading the place.\n\nPound Lane.--South end filthy; no drainage; four cases of small-pox occurred here this year. Houses with broken floors, containing puddles of filth, from which a stench arose enough to make any one sick; outside, standing pools of filth in open drains. Tanks sunk in the ground floors of these houses containing filthy water, in which vegetables were being washed for the markets; also cake-making going on in these rooms, for sale in the markets; as many as from seven to twelve pigs kept in the kitchens here, the people having Licences.\n\nRutter's Lane consists of a passage about four feet wide, paved with large stones, with large cavities beneath them into which I could poke my walking-stick up to the handle without finding bottom, these cavities containing black and putrid liquid filth. The houses horribly filthy, and having pigs in them; in one house three children just recovered from small-pox.\n\nAt the top of this Lane is an open space, in which all sorts of rubbish are shot. Four wells in this space, which all, more or less, receive the drainings from the rubbish collected about. From three of these wells, the water only being used for cleaning clothes and vegetables, and the fourth used for drinking. Downspouts of the houses generally in a bad state of repair, and badly made.\n\nAlong the back of the houses in Upper Station Street runs a horizontal wooden trough, about six feet above the ground, which is used for conveying refuse water from the houses; this is not in good repair...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307160, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 278, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "RAFT.\n\nAs caster wione pblank t of the\n\nIt is not very chow to me the Juras\n\nдист who are employed by the Ifine the pay of its Chief fatties of information as to the purpose Sheriff to pervert furish. \"Personal\" of the reveral of the Court; if the tailg thies\n\nلي The Infringe to Meater is made Bailey of \" is employed there dums the\n\nA Who remfrity for interposing # a third officer between the clerk is\n\nJust down in the 35 Eden of the its for /81. \"Cant List\"\n\nMINUTE.\n\nin the fame Maman ins Mr. some of Estimates.\n\nMr. I love therefore left at Mr. Wilgheld.\n\nofte featherman who is Gr Registian a The Bailiff: & direnak alatte clach being millet Bcceed the S\n\nConnection with this Julgest than to call you to the 10th commed Ishmen wish to reve When Report We Barff Barff α a full report upon the\n\nMr. Branston. the 81 Wohnks. 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Jadefante, Reginar, the 2d of Janiry 1800 expropres to the Chief Justice Lave what other arrangements вет As appointuel &ach อ In prom for completing the doubt whether a palay Jeff 2160 Rejistian; this gouttene stiff of the Cant : & Idisine f 20.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 441, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "Colonies have been instructed to procure dies and forward.\n\nTo the Colony.\n\nThe pattern which has been selected has the Royal crown with the initials V.R. in a monogram in the centre, the cost...\n\nEspecial devices such as the Order of St. Michael & ... you 48. I suggest being is very considerable, even parts printed & partly hand painted, &c.\n\n...near double the cost...\n\n7\n\nCost of the service, 428 besides not being in 438 all cases suitable to the Colony.\n\nI have so...\n\n \n{\n\nee.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880", "content_text": "32.5 \n\nthem will soon be \n\nof Hayler & Silat in followed \n\nafe, but if the advice \n\nAgain as ever \n\nart \n\nAustin Mamede as- \n\nanch ofthen Brothech Reports \n\nZown Ancerely ARCZ \n\nPlease to evole Mr. \n\n322 \n\nis still them \n\n\"Jinue \n\nG. Austin \n\nSir \n\nFIL \n\nreen \n\nHongkong. April 15th 1878. \n\nI \n\nI have the honor to forward to you a report : the result of my rounds with the Sanitary Inspectors for the information of His Excellency the Governor \n\nAs I have already stated in my report on the Inspection of Brothel, there are many things brought to notice that are equally applicable to private houses, such as bad drainages, deficient ventilation, foul privies, filthy condition of the houses, etc., but if I was astonished at the state of the brothels they did not at all prepare me for what I was to find in private houses. \n\nLo... one... was the case of the brothels before January; it is with the back slums of the town little or no supervision has been thought of over the Suspectors. The Inspectors of Brothels, Sanitary and Market Inspector have all been left pretty much to their own devices as I've shown and shall show. \n\nFor... does it... to have been within the province of my predecessors to do this work. Pigs are universally kept in the houses all over the town: the usual place for their reception being the kitchens, but they are by no means confined to that part of the house: as the droves are too large or the kitchen too small, they are kept in the ground floors, or upper stories; very favourite places for them is under the bed. I've seen four of the female division - the Chinese make divisions in one room, each division having...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-191 - Public Offices & Others - 1880.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308619, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 609, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "598\n\n450\n\nBank Clerks making out false Dividend Warrants.\n\n&c.\n\nORDINANCE No. 6 of 1865.\n\nForgery.\n\nestablished by Charter, or by, under, or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance, in which Books the Accounts of the Owners of any Money deposited in such Savings Bank or of any Stock of any such Body Corporate shall be entered and kept, or shall in any Manner wilfully falsify any of the Accounts of any such Owners in any of the said Books, with Intent in any of the Cases aforesaid to defraud, or shall wilfully make any Transfer of any Share or Interest of or in any such Deposit or Stock, in the Name of any Person not being the true and lawful Owner of such Share or Interest, with Intent to defraud shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\nVIII. Whosoever, being a Clerk, Officer, or Servant of or other Person employed or intrusted in the business of any Savings Bank in this Colony or by any such Body Corporate, Company or Society as aforesaid, shall knowingly make out or deliver any Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for Payment of any Interest, or Money, for a greater or less Amount than the Person on whose Behalf such Warrant shall be made out is entitled to, with Intent to defraud, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\nAs to forging Bonds, &c.\n\nVIII. Whosoever shall forge, or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, issued or made, any Bond, Debenture, Coupon, or Security issued or made under the Authority of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance passed or to be passed for the raising of any Loan, or for any other Purpose relating to the Public Service, or any Indorsement on or Assignment of any such Bond, Debenture, Coupon, or Security, with Intent to defraud, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\nForging Exchequer Bills and Debentures, &c.\n\nAs to forging Exchequer Bills, &c.\n\nIX. Whosoever shall forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any Exchequer Bill or Exchequer Bond or Exchequer Debenture, or any Indorsement on or Assignment of any Exchequer Bond or Exchequer Debenture, or any Receipt or Certificate for Interest accruing thereon, with Intent to defraud, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\n451\n\nX. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall make, or cause or procure to be made, or shall aid or assist in making, or shall knowingly have in his Custody or Possession, any Frame, Mould, Instrument having therein any Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, or Devices, peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of any Paper provided or to be provided or used for Exchequer Bills or Exchequer Bonds or Exchequer Debentures, or any Machinery for working any Threads into the Substance of any Paper, or any such Thread, and intended to imitate such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices, or any Plate peculiarly employed for printing such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or any Die or Seal peculiarly used for preparing any such Plate or for sealing such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or any Plate, Die, or Seal intended to imitate any such Plate, Die, or Seal as aforesaid, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\nXI. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall make, or cause or procure to be made, or aid or assist in making any Paper in the Substance of which shall appear any Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of any Paper provided or to be provided or used for such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or any Part of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, or shall knowingly have in his Custody or Possession any Paper whatsoever, in the Substance whereof shall appear any such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices as aforesaid, or any Parts of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, or shall cause or assist in causing any such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices as aforesaid, or any Part of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, to appear in the Substance of any Paper whatever, or shall take or assist in taking any Impression of any such Plate, Die, or Seal as in the last preceding Section mentioned, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term...\n\nFf2\n\nTerm", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308620, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 610, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "599\n\n453\n\n452\n\nHaving in Possession Paper, &c. for Exchequer Bills, &c.\n\nForging a Bank Note, &c.\n\nPurchasing or receiving, or having forged Bank Notes.\n\nORDINANCE No. 6 of 1865.\n\nForgery.\n\nTerm not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\nXII. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall purchase or receive, or knowingly have in his Custody or Possession, any Paper manufactured and provided by or under the Directions of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, for the Purpose of being used as Exchequer Bills or Exchequer Bonds or Exchequer Debentures, before such Paper shall have been duly stamped, signed and issued for Public Use or any such Plate, Die, or Seal as in the last Two preceding Sections mentioned, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\nAs to forging Bank Notes.\n\nXIII. Whosoever shall forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any Note or Bill of Exchange of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, or of any other Body Corporate, Company, or Person carrying on the Business of Bankers, commonly called a Bank Note, a Bank Bill of Exchange, or a Bank Post Bill, or any Indorsement on or Assignment of any Bank Note, Bank Bill of Exchange, or Bank Post Bill, with Intent to defraud, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal servitude for Life, or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\nXIV. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall purchase or receive from any other Person, or have in his Custody or Possession, any forged Bank Note, Bank Bill of Exchange, or Bank Post Bill, or blank Bank Note, blank Bank Bill of Exchange, or blank Bank Post Bill, knowing the same to be forged, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\nAs to making and engraving Plates, &c., for Bank Notes, &c.\n\nMaking or having Mould for making Paper or knowingly have in his Custody or Possession, any Frame, Mould, or Instrument for the making of Paper with the words \"Bank of England\" or \"Bank of Ireland,\" or any Part of such Words intended to resemble and pass for the same, visible in the Substance of the Paper, or for the making of Paper with curved or waving Bar Lines, or with the laying Wire Lines thereof in a waving or curved Shape, or with any Number, Sum, or Amount expressed in a Word or Words in Roman Letters, visible in the Substance of the Paper, or with any Device or Distinction peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of the Paper used by the Governor and Company of the Banks of England and Ireland respectively for any Notes, Bills of Exchange, or Bank Post Bills of such Banks respectively.\n\nXV. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall make or use, or knowingly have in his Custody or Possession, any Paper whatsoever with the Words \"Bank of England\" or \"Bank of Ireland,\" or any Part of such Words intended to resemble and pass for the same, visible in the Substance of the Paper, or any Paper with curved or waving Bar Lines, or with the laying Wire Lines thereof in a waving or curved Shape, or with any Number, Sum, or Amount expressed in a Word or Words in Roman Letters, appearing visible in the Substance of the Paper, or with any Device or Distinction peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of the Paper used by the Governor and Company of the Banks of England and Ireland respectively for any Notes, Bills of Exchange, or Bank Post Bills of such Banks respectively,--or shall by any Art or Contrivance cause the Words \"Bank of England\" or \"Bank of Ireland,\" or any Part of such Words intended to resemble and pass for the same, or any Device or Distinction peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of the Paper used by the Governor and Company of the Banks of England and Ireland respectively for any Notes, Bills of Exchange, or Bank Post Bills of such Banks respectively, to appear visible in the Substance of any Paper, or shall cause the numerical Sum or Amount of any Bank Note, Bank Bill of Exchange, or Bank Post Bill, blank Bank Note, blank Bank Bill of Exchange, or blank Bank Post Bill, in a Word or Words in Roman Letters, to appear visible in the Substance of the Paper whereon the same shall be written or printed, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\nXVI. Nothing in the last preceding Section contained shall prevent any Person from issuing any Bill of Exchange or Promissory Note having the Amount thereof expressed in Figures, or in a numerical Figure or Figures denoting the Amount thereof in Pounds Sterling, appearing visible in the Substance of the Paper upon which the same shall be written or printed, nor shall prevent any Person from making, using, or selling any Paper having waving or curved Lines or any other Devices in the Nature of Watermarks visible in the Substance of the Paper, not being Bar Lines or laying Wire Lines, provided the same are not so contrived as to form the Groundwork or Texture of the Paper, or to resemble the waving or curved laying Wire Lines or Bar Lines or the Watermarks of the Paper used by the Governor and Company of the Banks of England and Ireland respectively.\n\nFf3\n\nXVII. Whosoever...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 616, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": ".605\n\n464\n\nIntent to de-\n\nlar Persons need not be averred.\n\nORDINANCE No. 6. OF 1865.\n\nForgery.\n\nMatter, or Thing by any Name or Designation by which the same may be usually known, without setting out any Copy or Fae-simile of the whole or any Part of such Instrument, Matter, or Thing.\n\nXLIII. It shall be sufficient, in any Information for forging, fraud, partially altering, uttering, offering, disposing of or putting off any Instrument whatsoever, where it shall be necessary to allege an Intent to defraud, to allege that the Party accused did the Act with Intent to defraud, without alleging an Intent to defraud any particular Person; and on the Trial of any such Offence it shall not be necessary to prove an Intent to defraud any particular Person, but it shall be sufficient to prove that the Party accused did the Act charged with an Intent to defraud.\n\nInterpretation\n\n28 to criminal Possession.\n\nSearch for Paper or Implements employed in any Forgery, and for forged Instruments.\n\nXLIV. Where the having any Matter in the Custody or Possession of any Person is in this Ordinance expressed to be an Offence, if any Person shall have any such Matter in his personal Custody or Possession, or shall knowingly and wilfully have any such Matter in the actual Custody or Possession of any other Person, or shall knowingly and wilfully have any such Matter in any Dwelling House or other Building, Lodging, Apartment, Field, or other Place, open or inclosed, whether belonging to or occupied by himself or not, and whether such Matter shall be so had for his own Use, or for the Use or Benefit of another, every such Person shall be deemed and taken to have such Matter in his Custody or Possession within the Meaning of this Ordinance.\n\nXLV. If it shall be made to appear, by Information on Oath, Affirmation or Declaration before a Justice of the Peace, that there is reasonable Cause to believe that any Person has in his Custody or Possession, without lawful Authority or Excuse, any Note or Bill of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or Ireland, or of any Body Corporate, Company, or Person carrying on the Business of Bankers, or any Frame, Mould, or Implement for making Paper in imitation of the Paper used for such Notes or Bills, or any such Paper, or any Plate, Wood, Stone, or other Material having thereon any Words, Forms, Devices, or Characters capable of producing or intended to produce the Impression of any such Note or Bill, or any Part thereof, or any Tool, Implement, or Material used or employed or intended to be used or employed in or about any of the Operations aforesaid, or any forged Security, Document, or Instrument whatsoever, or any Machinery, Frame, Mould, Plate, Die, Seal, Paper, or other Matter or Thing used or employed or intended to be used or employed in the Forgery of any Security, Document, or Instrument whatsoever, such Justice may, if he think fit, grant a Warrant to search for the same; and if the same shall be found upon such Search, it shall be lawful to seize and carry the same before a Police Magistrate, to be by him disposed of according to Law; and all such Matters and Things so seized as aforesaid shall by Order of the Court where any such Offender shall be tried, or in case there shall be no such Trial, then by Order of a Police Magistrate, be defaced and destroyed or otherwise disposed of as such Court or Justice shall direct.\n\nXLVI. Whosoever\n\nORDINANCE No. 6. OF 1865.\n\nForgery.\n\n465\n\nXLVI. Whosoever shall after the Commencement of this Ordinance be convicted of an Offence which shall have been subjected by any Enactment or Enactments in Force in this Colony to the same Pains and Penalties as are imposed by the Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act against Forgers of false Deeds and Writings for any of the Offences first enumerated in the said Act, shall be guilty of Felony, and shall, in lieu of such Pains and Penalties, be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\nc. 66, and are\n\nXLVII. Where by any Enactment now in Force in this Colony any Person falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, erasing, or altering any Matter whatsoever, or uttering, publishing, offering, disposing of, putting away, or making use of any Matter whatsoever, knowing the same to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, or altered, or any Person demanding or endeavouring to receive or have any Thing, or to do or cause to be done any Act, upon or by virtue of any Matter whatsoever, knowing such Matter to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, or altered, would according to the Provisions contained in any such Enactment be guilty of Felony and would before the passing of the Act of the First Year of King William the Fourth, Chapter Sixty-six, have been liable to suffer Death as a Felon; or where by any Enactment now in Force in this Colony any Person falsely personating another, or falsely acknowledging any Thing in the Name of another, or falsely representing any other Person than the real Party to be such real Party, or wilfully making a false Entry in any Book, Account, or Document, or in any Manner wilfully falsifying any Part of any Book, Account or Document, or wilfully making a transfer of any Stock, Annuity, or Fund in the Name of any Person not being the Owner thereof, or knowingly taking any false Oath, or knowingly making any false Affidavit, false Affirmation or false Declaration or demanding or receiving any Money or other Thing by virtue of any Probate or Letters of Administration, knowing the Will on which such Probate shall have been obtained to have been false or forged, or knowing such Probate or Letters of Administration to have been obtained by means of any false Oath, false Affirmation or false Declaration would according to the Provisions contained in any such Act, be guilty of Felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the First Year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer Death as a Felon; or when by any Enactment now in Force any Person making or using, or knowingly having in his Custody or Possession, any Frame, Mould, or Instrument for the making of Paper, with certain words visible in the Substance thereof, or any Person making such Paper, or causing certain Words to appear visible in the Substance of any Paper would, according to the Provisions contained in any such Enactment, be guilty of Felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the First Year of King William the Fourth have\n\nG g\n\nbeen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309305, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 645, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "638\n\nM. Luery\n\nSee par. 22. Please fast a que mark agains. The Officials who am dealt with in the inlinpretation disfatit\n\nM: Bramston\n\n24 13/10\n\nDone. I also annex the interpretation despatch\n\nCP.d. 13.Oct\n\nOmitting the Enterpretes who have been chatt wilt & the Judges & Registran\n\nas Bishom there is no question the Governor now Proposes the following staff\n\n \n Mevast\n \n \n List in\n 13917/06\n zi bo\n 120\n \n \n 1. Deputy Registran - Shriff\n ← Appraiser\n Jalasin\n 8\n 3360\n \n \n \n \n 2. Deputy Registiron & Accontent\n \n \n \n 2360\n 2160\n 1200\n \n \n 3. Judges Cluck\n \n \n \n 1440\n 1440\n \n \n \n 4. Puiser Judge den\n \n \n \n 1080\n 1080\n \n \n \n 5. Cluck in Registryg & Sheriff Office\n \n \n \n 720\n 480\n 240\n \n \n 6. Usher\n \n \n \n 960\n 960\n \n \n \n 7. Bailiff\n \n Bailiffsfrist destin\n \n 1200\n 480\n 720\n \n \n 8. Shaff\n \n \n \n 480\n 480\n \n \n \n 9. Sheriffs Officer.\n \n \n \n \n 720\n \n \n \n 10. Defoni Banterifling\n Sheriff\n \n \n 720\n 1440\n \n \n \n \n J\n \n \n 720\n 9940\n \n \n\nAs to these offiens - mumerically. 1.2.3.4. have been approved (draft in 14010) - 6.7.8. are old offices or are distinctly reussary: - 5. was created by the Governor 1. Oct. 78- bem danctione; lich looking to the strong expressions. par. 8.15. now do do: observing however that the sutra delary to the Puione Judge's Cluck. was danctioned in the desp. on 14.810, his devices were to be setilively for Count work on alov 29 on the ground that La Summary side, & that it some reppens that this foods. feminined we understand that thant arrangements will in continued\n\n9. The new consegnent on the absorption of the Sheriff into the Registing-\n\n10. is new (sender, I presume, the recommendation of the Consmissions no.10 (Su 11211/79)\n\nI cannot day whether they are both required; disposed to Lanction one at first, till it is deen whether he cannot do all the work - with the Bailiff\n\nI wonce a try to get rid of these specific names, & to make them offiens ofthe Comh, acting under the Sheriff or Rejistian as the case May\n\nB. Salaries\n\n1.2.5.7.9.10 represent an increase of $4000 deducting the sheriff 720 which we have 4800 4050 = $4000 mt. for\n\nVery little explanation (Mar. 24.25) [Thad written so far besen M. Philippo's appointment as Chief Justier made it desirable to refer Bhim]-\n\n1.2. are the most important & lapst offices - Ishould hav Thought #boo would have becured a confitent append Mr. Sangotin's temporary good fortune in getting two provisions & additions This Irrfan salary is no reason In Jermanently accountant", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "(6) \n\nWhen the error of the standard sidereal clock has been computed from observations of far \n\n(7) \n\nI should recommend some special provision for ascertaining the latitude of the Observatory, if it \n\nerror of the lay to compare that clock with the mean-time clock, and then to calculad there t that Lieutenant-Commander GREEN, U.S.N., commanding the United States' surveying-vessel \n\ngreat and \n\nerror of the latter on mean solar time, in order that it may be set right as above explained Palos, is already in these seas, engaged in the special task of determining true positions by the best If the clocks are in different rooms, and cannot be compared directly with one another,odern methods, for purposes chiefly of marine cartography. In this branch of work, which has been it is necessary to employ huck chronometers. Or else, which is simpler and more accurselected hitherto by our Admiralty, the United States' hydrographers have already made to have in the same room with the solar clock a chronometer regulated electrically by sidereal clock, and beating in unison with it. \n\nvalle progress in many parts of the world. It was Lieutenant-Commander GREEN who detected At Greenwich, there are two chronometer error of the Lisbon longitude above referred to; and I have no doubt that, when he comes here, on a desk in one of the offices, one regulated by the solar clock, the other by the sidered he will determine the latitude of some point in the Colony with considerable accuracy. He will also clock; and, as the commutating apparatus for correcting the mean solar clock is on the same \n\ncertain our longitude, as one station in a series comprising Nagasaki, Yokohama, Shanghai, Amoy, single individual, in the shortest time possible. I think, however, that, by putting our chronic has of late been accurately re-determined by telegraph from St. Petersburg), and at the onge nograph into the sume room with the mean solar clock, we may dispense with all of these with Madras. This, however, will not do away with the advisability of a repetition of the longi- devices. It will then only be necessary to place the chronograph in circuit with the siderea ende determination as suggested in the previous paragraph, especially as such repetition will involve only \n\ndesk, the whole operation of computing, comparing and correcting is done on one spot, by Hongkong, Manila, Saigon and Singapore, connected at one end with Vladivostok (the longitude of \n\nclock, when the click of the armature or movements of the pencil on the former, taken i connexion with the beats of the mean solar clock, will furnish means for sufficiently accurat comparison. (5). A Time-Ball and apparatus, complete with electro-magnetic mechanism for dropping the ball \n\nat the instant of noon by the mean solar clock, and sending a return signal to the Obser vatory: also the usual air-apparatus or springs for checking its fall. Provision must be made for connecting the clock and time-ball together by an underground telegraph line, the con- \n\na trifling outlay. \n\nOf the above apparatus, I recommend that the transit-instrument and collimator be ordered from \n\nof the Strand. Messrs. TROUGHTON & SIMMS; the time-ball, chronograph, clocks and chronometers from Messrs. DENT, I have no exact knowledge of the cost of a time-ball, but I estimate that the rest of the equipment, as described above, should be procurable for about £500, and that a complete time-ball apparatus should not cost more than £400. \n\nSite. I have examined the site which has been proposed, at Mount Elgin, on the Kau-lung \n\nducting wire of which should be of large gange. This cable may be laid in earthenware pipes, Peninsula. The chief feature is a flat, gravelly hill-top, roughly circular, and some 200 feet in \n\nand the line must be efficiently guarded by \"lightning-protectors.\" \n\n(6). A pair of Chronometers, one rated to sidereal and the other to mean solar time, will be re \n\nquired, for general use and for emergencies. \n\ndiameter. There is a smaller eminence, of corresponding height, about 400 feet to the west of it. The former of these is clearly the place for the principal building. It is at a suitable altitude (100 feet above the sea) and sufficiently roomy, commands a fair sky view, and fulfils generally the requirements an observatory site. The second eminence would, as Mr. BOWDLER has suggested, answer very well for the chief magnetic building. \n\n(7). A Collimating telescope--or a telescope with cross-threads in the focus, but a plain glass cap of instead of an eye-pices at the eye end-should be supplied, and metal supports for it to rest in. This instrument is more convenient for collimating than the Bohnenberger eye-piece, and the distant mark cannot always be counted on for the purpose, as its apparent steadiness is liable to be affected by surface radiation. \n\n(8). Distant meridian-mark. This may be made of a sheet of iron, say two feet by three feet, firmly attached to the face of a small brick pier at some distance either to the north or the south of the transit-instrument, painted with a fine cross, and pierced at the intersection of the cross for illumination at night. It can be provided locally. The hole should be of such a size that the light from a reflecting lamp placed bebind it, in a receptacle in the pier, may be seen \n\nAlthough for a time-ball, which must be visible by all the shipping, a site at Kau-lung would seem to be preferable to any other, on account of its central position and commanding view of the entire harbour, there are obvious reasons why it might be better, if possible, to have the Observatory on Hongkong itself. Unfortunately, however, the site and neighbourhood of Victoria are not available for such a purpose, as the heights which rise so steeply behind the city shut from view a large section of southern sky, extending up to 25° of altitude. This objection applies generally to sites on the north side of the island. A site in many respects suitable might be chosen on the west side, in the neigh- bourhood of Pok-fú-lam, but this would have the disadvantage of being a long way from town, and at a \n\nin the instrument like a star of the sixth magnitude. Or a gas-jet and reflector would serve somewhat inconvenient altitude. Another drawback which it would possess, and which, indeed, holds instead of a lamp. At a distance of one mile, the hole should be about 0.3 inch in diameter. good as to sites generally in the island, is that the attraction of the abrupt adjacent hill-masses would undoubtedly affect the spirit-levels of the instruments, a point not to be overlooked when choosing a site for an observatory that may hereafter attain scientific importance. \n\nIt is well to place the mark approximately horizontal with respect to the instrument. For an Observatory at Kau-lung, it would be convenient to fix the meridian-mark in Hongkong. \n\nThe above list includes all the apparatus that is necessary for time-determinations and the time- ball. It also comprises means for an excellent telegraphic determination of the longitude of the transit- instrument, by connexion with a fixed observatory, say that of Madras. With the cooperation of the Telegraph Company, which would pretty certainly be forthcoming, I see no reason to doubt that Madras time could be transmitted to Hongkong if an assistant with a chronometer were stationed at Singapore, to repeat the signals; and, vice verså, that Hongkong time could be transmitted to Madras. From this double process, the longitude may be determined with high precision, and at no cost except that of connect- ing the Observatory, by the nearest line of telegraph, with the Central Office in Queen's Road, and sending an assistant for a few days to Singapore. The importance of such determinations, especially as aids to \n\nOn the whole, therefore, I concur in the Surveyor-General's opinion that Mount Elgin affords the best available site for the Observatory. From that point, the Hongkong hills in the south shut out no more than 4° or 5° of sky, and Victoria Peak itself has an elevation of only about 7°. \n\nThe Time-Ball might be erected on any commanding point which fulfils the indispensable condition of being well seen from end to end of the harbour. Certain conditional rights, the exact scope of which I have not been able to ascertain, are held by the War Department over the plot of land, partly occupied by the Tsim-shá-tsui Police Station, which seems the natural place for the time-ball mast. The War Department also hold the high ground of the southeastern promontory. I understand that the Police Station will shortly be moved a little further back on the plateau which it now occupies, so as to clear the War Department limits. The best plan, in that case, will be to let the \n\nmarine cartography, can hardly be overstated, for it is certain that a very large proportion of the hitherto small building and mast for the Time-Ball be made an adjunct to the Police Station. The ball should \n\naccepted longitudes, dependent on observations of the Moon or on chronometric meridian distances, are seriously incorrect. Even at a place so near to Greenwich as Lisbon, the longitude was found only two years ago to be more than two miles in error. With its longitude determined accurately by the telegraphic process, the Hongkong Observatory would furnish a fundamental meridian for these seas, and marine charts would, or ought to, be brought into conformity with its exact position as thus ascertained. \n\nbe a large one, eight or nine feet in diameter, and be painted with broad bands of white and bright red. Building.The building for the Observatory must contain a general office and computing room, an office for the Director, a room for the mean solar clock, chronograph, batteries, &c., and on either side a wing room, one for the transit-instrument and sidereal clock, the other for the additional \n\n28", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310972, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 554, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "541\n\n(6)\n\nWhen the error of the standard sidereal clock has been computed from observations of stars, it is necessary to compare that clock with the mean-time clock, and then to calculate the error of the latter on mean solar time, in order that it may be set right as above explained. If the clocks are in different rooms, and cannot be compared directly with one another, it is necessary to employ hack chronometers. Or else, which is simpler and more accurate, to have in the same room with the solar clock a chronometer regulated electrically by the sidereal clock, and beating in unison with it. At Greenwich, there are two chronometers on a desk in one of the offices, one regulated by the solar clock, the other by the sidereal clock; and, as the commutating apparatus for correcting the mean solar clock is on the same desk, the whole operation of computing, comparing and correcting is done on one spot, by a single individual, in the shortest time possible. I think, however, that, by putting our chronograph into the same room with the mean solar clock, we may dispense with all of these devices. It will then only be necessary to place the chronograph in circuit with the sidereal clock, when the click of the armature or movements of the pencil on the former, taken in connexion with the beats of the mean solar clock, will furnish means for sufficiently accurate comparison.\n\n(5). A Time-Ball and apparatus, complete with electro-magnetic mechanism for dropping the ball at the instant of noon by the mean solar clock, and sending a return signal to the Observatory: also the usual air-apparatus or springs for checking its fall. Provision must be made for connecting the clock and time-ball together by an underground telegraph line, the conducting wire of which should be of large gauge. This cable may be laid in earthenware pipes, and the line must be efficiently guarded by \"lightning-protectors.\"\n\n(6). A pair of Chronometers, one rated to sidereal and the other to mean solar time, will be required, for general use and for emergencies.\n\n(7). A Collimating telescope--or a telescope with cross-threads in the focus, but a plain glass cap instead of an eye-piece at the eye end--should be supplied, and metal supports for it to rest in. This instrument is more convenient for collimating than the Bohnenberger eye-piece, and the distant mark cannot always be counted on for the purpose, as its apparent steadiness is liable to be affected by surface radiation.\n\n(8). Distant meridian-mark. This may be made of a sheet of iron, say two feet by three feet, firmly attached to the face of a small brick pier at some distance either to the north or the south of the transit-instrument, painted with a fine cross, and pierced at the intersection of the cross for illumination at night. It can be provided locally. The hole should be of such a size that the light from a reflecting lamp placed behind it, in a receptacle in the pier, may be seen in the instrument like a star of the sixth magnitude. Or a gas-jet and reflector would serve instead of a lamp. At a distance of one mile, the hole should be about 0.3 inch in diameter. It is well to place the mark approximately horizontal with respect to the instrument. For an Observatory at Kau-lung, it would be convenient to fix the meridian-mark in Hongkong,\n\nThe above list includes all the apparatus that is necessary for time-determinations and the time-ball. It also comprises means for an excellent telegraphic determination of the longitude of the transit-instrument, by connexion with a fixed observatory, say that of Madras. With the cooperation of the Telegraph Company, which would pretty certainly be forthcoming, I see no reason to doubt that Madras time could be transmitted to Hongkong if an assistant with a chronometer were stationed at Singapore, to repeat the signals; and, vice versa, that Hongkong time could be transmitted to Madras. From this double process, the longitude may be determined with high precision, and at no cost except that of connecting the Observatory, by the nearest line of telegraph, with the Central Office in Queen's Road, and sending an assistant for a few days to Singapore. The importance of such determinations, especially as aids to marine cartography, can hardly be overstated, for it is certain that a very large proportion of the hitherto accepted longitudes, dependent on observations of the Moon or on chronometric meridian distances, are seriously incorrect. Even at a place so near to Greenwich as Lisbon, the longitude was found only two years ago to be more than two miles in error. With its longitude determined accurately by the telegraphic process, the Hongkong Observatory would furnish a fundamental meridian for these seas, and marine charts would, or ought to, be brought into conformity with its exact position as thus ascertained.\n\n(7)\n\nI should recommend some special provision for ascertaining the latitude of the Observatory, if it were not that Lieutenant-Commander GREEN, U.S.N., commanding the United States' surveying-vessel Palos, is already in these seas, engaged in the special task of determining true positions by the best modern methods, for purposes chiefly of marine cartography. In this branch of work, which has been neglected hitherto by our Admiralty, the United States' hydrographers have already made great and valuable progress in many parts of the world. It was Lieutenant-Commander GREEN who detected the error of the Lisbon longitude above referred to; and I have no doubt that, when he comes here, he will determine the latitude of some point in the Colony with considerable accuracy. He will also ascertain our longitude, as one station in a series comprising Nagasaki, Yokohama, Shanghai, Amoy, Hongkong, Manila, Saigon and Singapore, connected at one end with Vladivostok (the longitude of which has of late been accurately re-determined by telegraph from St. Petersburg), and at the other end with Madras. This, however, will not do away with the advisability of a repetition of the longitude determination as suggested in the previous paragraph, especially as such repetition will involve only a trifling outlay.\n\nOf the above apparatus, I recommend that the transit-instrument and collimator be ordered from Messrs. TROUGHTON & SIMMS; the time-ball, chronograph, clocks and chronometers from Messrs. DENT, of the Strand. I have no exact knowledge of the cost of a time-ball, but I estimate that the rest of the equipment, as described above, should be procurable for about £500, and that a complete time-ball apparatus should not cost more than £400.\n\nSite.--I have examined the site which has been proposed, at Mount Elgin, on the Kau-lung Peninsula. The chief feature is a flat, gravelly hill-top, roughly circular, and some 200 feet in diameter. There is a smaller eminence, of corresponding height, about 400 feet to the west of it. The former of these is clearly the place for the principal building. It is at a suitable altitude (100 feet above the sea) and sufficiently roomy, commands a fair sky view, and fulfils generally the requirements of an observatory site. The second eminence would, as Mr. BOWDLER has suggested, answer very well for the chief magnetic building.\n\nAlthough for a time-ball, which must be visible by all the shipping, a site at Kau-lung would seem to be preferable to any other, on account of its central position and commanding view of the entire harbour, there are obvious reasons why it might be better, if possible, to have the Observatory on Hongkong itself. Unfortunately, however, the site and neighbourhood of Victoria are not available for such a purpose, as the heights which rise so steeply behind the city shut from view a large section of southern sky, extending up to 25° of altitude. This objection applies generally to sites on the north side of the island. A site in many respects suitable might be chosen on the west side, in the neighbourhood of Pok-fit-lam, but this would have the disadvantage of being a long way from town, and at a somewhat inconvenient altitude. Another drawback which it would possess, and which, indeed, holds good as to sites generally in the island, is that the attraction of the abrupt adjacent hill-masses would undoubtedly affect the spirit-levels of the instruments, a point not to be overlooked when choosing site for an observatory that may hereafter attain scientific importance.\n\n2\n\nOn the whole, therefore, I concur in the Surveyor-General's opinion that Mount Elgin affords the best available site for the Observatory. From that point, the Hongkong hills in the south shut out no more than 4° or 5° of sky, and Victoria Peak itself has an elevation of only about 7°.\n\nThe Time-Ball might be erected on any commanding point which fulfils the indispensable condition of being well seen from end to end of the harbour. Certain conditional rights, the exact scope of which I have not been able to ascertain, are held by the War Department over the plot of land, partly occupied by the Tsim-shá-tsui Police Station, which seems the natural place for the time-ball mast. The War Department also hold the high ground of the southeastern promontory. I understand that the Police Station will shortly be moved a little further back on the plateau which it now occupies, so as to clear the War Department limits. The best plan, in that case, will be to let the small building and mast for the Time-Ball be made an adjunct to the Police Station. The ball should be a large one, eight or nine feet in diameter, and be painted with broad bands of white and bright red. Building. The building for the Observatory must contain a general office and computing room, an office for the Director, a room for the mean solar clock, chronograph, batteries, &c., and on either side a wing room, one for the transit-instrument and sidereal clock, the other for the additional", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "543\n\n(10)\n\nJapan. Hongkong itself occupies a position which is comparatively exempt from typhoons, the great majority of these storms passing either to the east or south of the island. As is shown in an able monograph lately published by the Director of the Zi Ka Wei observatory, near Shanghai, out of thirteen typhoons which traversed the South China sea last year, two only passed at all near to Hongkong, and of these the centre-tracks were at a sufficiently safe distance. Nevertheless, it is hardly possible to overstate the value of Manila as a warning station for vessels about to leave Hongkong for southern, eastern or northern ports, or vessels approaching it from those places. Means should therefore be provided for enabling the Director of the Hongkong Observatory to be placed, whenever necessary, in prompt communication by telegraph with Manila, Amoy, Shanghai, Saigon and Singapore, as well as with the south of Japan. A system of daily telegraphic weather exchanges with the chief ports should also be organized as soon as possible. For these purposes, it will be necessary to connect the Observatory with the existing telegraph line which crosses the harbour from Kau-lung Dock to Whitfield Police Station. The Observatory may thus be made to fulfil the useful purpose of a Weather Intelligence Office in times of danger for the whole neighbouring region; while, from the daily exchanges, ships' logs, and trustworthy private observations, a large body of facts relating to typhoons and the monsoons may be gradually amassed.\n\nIt is most unfortunate that the south part of Formosa is not as yet provided with telegraphic means of communication. This is a cardinal point in the chain of surrounding stations, and, until it is brought into telegraphic connexion with the rest, our system of weather intelligence cannot be made as perfect as might be desired. The exclusion of Hainan in this respect is also to be regretted, For purposes of warning to vessels in Hongkong harbour, a signal-mast should be erected near the Time-Ball at Kau-lung, and a code of signals established and given the fullest publication. These signals might be repeated on the existing mast at the Harbour Office.\n\nWhen the scientific establishment at Kau-lung has been fairly started, it will probably be considered needless to keep up all of the meteorological stations now existing in different parts of the Colony. I certainly think that the stations at the Harbour Office, Stone Cutters' Island and the Hospital might very well be abolished. But I would recommend that those at Victoria Peak and Cape d'Aguilar be retained, as they are points at which observations, especially those of the barometer and the wind, will always be of value; and I suggest that both places be supplied with an anemometer, in order that the wind may be observed more accurately than is possible at present, care being taken to get instruments of superior strength.*\n\n*This however, so far as it concerns Cape d'Aguilar, must depend upon whether good observations of the wind can be obtained at or near to the light-house, a point which may be easily ascertained.\n\n(11)\n\nIII Terrestrial Magnetism.\n\nAlthough the character of the rocks and soil of Hongkong and Kau-lung is not the most favourable that could be chosen for magnetic research, yet the position of the Colony on the magnetic chart, and with respect to other places where observatories are already established, leaves no room to doubt that well-conducted observations of this class will be of great value to the science. These will comprise observations for determining the Absolute Values of the elements of the Earth's magnetic force,- namely, its Declination, Inclination and Intensity--as well as those for ascertaining the periodic, secular and irregular Variations which the elements undergo, and the laws of which still await complete theoretical explanation. The former class of determinations, i.e., those of Absolute values-are pretty certain to be more or less prejudicially affected by local attraction proceeding from the granitic rocks and soil; but the Variations, which form by far the more important object of research, can be deduced just as well in the presence as in the absence of local attraction.\n\nThe instruments with which Dr. De La Rue proposes to equip the magnetic branch are,\n\nA set of photographic self-registering Magnetic instruments, of the Kew pattern, with accessories, &c.;\n\nA Unifilar Magnetometer;\n\nA Dip-Circle, with four needles;\n\nall of which, as well as the Meteorological instruments, will be verified at Kew before they are sent out. Their total cost is estimated at £424.\n\nThe Photographic instruments will comprise three Magnetometers, for continuous registration of the changes in the declination and the horizontal and vertical forces by means of a central recording apparatus, driven by clockwork and carrying the photographic papers--the whole constituting, with certain accessories, a complete Magnetograph. They will exhibit the periodic variations, as well as those mysterious phenomena of simultaneous disturbance extending over the entire earth's surface, and called magnetic storms, which are amongst the most extraordinary in the whole range of physics.\n\nThe magnet of the Declination magnetometer is placed in the magnetic meridian; that for measuring variations of the Horizontal force is compelled by torsion to take a position transverse to the meridian; the third, for measuring variations of Vertical force, is balanced on knife-edges.\n\nThe Unifilar Magnetometer is used for ascertaining the absolute value of the horizontal component of the total force in the direction of the dip, by observations of deflection and vibration. It is also used for determining the absolute declination.\n\nThe Dip-Circle affords measures of the magnetic inclination, or \"dip,\" and can be used under certain circumstances for measuring variations of the total force.\n\nThe chief magnetic building, for the differential instruments, should be a basement or vault, almost wholly underground, and contain an instrument-chamber and a photographic laboratory. I recommend about 22 feet by 20 feet and 12 feet by 10 feet as suitable dimensions for those rooms, and the building should be laid out with the long side of the instrument-room inclined 15 degrees to the west of the magnetic north, the laboratory being at the northern end.\n\nThe annexed small drawing will give an idea of the character of the building which I propose, and of the positions of the instruments. It shows that the actual chamber for the magnetograph has an arched roof, and is wholly enclosed within a similar building, the walls and roofs of the two being separated by a space of two feet. The floor of the chamber is 15 feet below the surface of the ground, and the highest point of the external arch is 21 feet above the floor. Covering this arch, there will be (1) inch asphalte, (2) six inches of fine concrete, (3) two feet of earth; the surface being finally turfed. Small relieving arches will need to be built at intervals between the side walls of the outer and inner chambers, in order to meet the thrust upon the inner walls. The main chamber will be quite dark, but a small amount of yellow light will be admitted to the laboratory.\n\nAlthough the vault form of construction is the best for differential magnetic observations, since it secures the great desideratum of an equable temperature, there are obvious complications and difficulties connected with it. Thorough drainage must be carefully provided, in order to keep it dry; and there must be arrangements for carrying off the heat and smoke of lamps. Ventilation also presents a grave difficulty, especially in a climate so hot and damp as that of Hongkong is during several months of the year. It is evident that, if warm air laden with moisture be admitted to an underground chamber which is appreciably cooler, it will produce a constant state of saturation, and be continually depositing its moisture on the delicate instruments and apparatus. A long underground air-flue, connected with vertical shafts, must therefore be provided, in order that the incoming air may be cooled to the temperature of the vault, as nearly as possible, before reaching it. These devices are of course expensive, but it is better to put up with the cost than to face the alternative of a building above ground, in which the great variations of temperature would be fatal to satisfactory observation.\n\nFor the above and other essential details, Mr. BOWDLER's past experience in designing and erecting the excellent Magnetic Observatory at Mauritius will prove of the utmost service in the present case. Mr. BOWDLER has, indeed, been good enough to prepare a detailed drawing after the pattern of the Mauritius building, and although I propose, for the sake of economy, to depart in some important respects from the plan there carried out, his drawing furnishes much practical and useful information, applicable to all works of this kind. It has been of great service to me in preparing the accompanying design.\n\nIt remains to consider the material which shall be used for the magnetic building, and which, as needs hardly be stated, must be practically free from iron. Unfortunately, the granite of this region is out of the question, on account of the large percentage of protoxide of iron which it contains. For the same reason we must condemn the concrete that is in common use in Hongkong, since its main ingredient...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "content_text": "# HONG KONG. Gor. 52/81 10956\n## Coins in Circulation\n50\n\nGiven at Colombo, in the said Island of Ceylon, this twenty-third day of August, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.\n\nBy his Excellency's command, **CHARLES P. LAYARD**, \nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nGod save the Queen.\n\n### Coins in Circulation\n- Indian silver: \n - Company's and Queen's rupee.\n - Half rupee.\n - Quarter rupee.\n - One-eighth rupee or two anna piece.\n- Ceylon copper decimal subdivisions of the rupee:\n - Five cent piece.\n - Cent piece.\n - Half cent piece.\n - Quarter cent piece.\n\nAmount of coin in circulation not known.\n\n### Currency Details\n| Currency Unit | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Notes of the local banks | about Rs. 3,838,210 in 1879 |\n| Accounts kept | rupees and cents |\n\n## HONG KONG.\n### EXTRACT OF REPORT of the ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL.\n\n1. Order in Council of 9 January 1863, published in Government Gazette of 2 May 1863, declares that Mexican dollars or other silver dollars of equivalent value duly authorised by the Governor of Hong Kong shall be the only legal tender, and making provision for the issue of silver coins representing some multiple of the cent or one-hundredth part of the said dollar to be a legal tender for any sum not exceeding two dollars, and for the issue of copper or bronze coins representing the cent or one-hundredth part of the mil or cash/representing one-thousandth part of the dollar to be a legal tender for any sum not exceeding one dollar. Provides also as to the preparation and devices of such coins to be issued from the mint. See preamble to Local Ordinance 1 of 1864.\n\n2. Ordinance No. 1 of 1864 recites the above Order in Council, and provides that British sterling is to be converted into dollars at 4s. 2d. per dollar, when the Governor proclaims it.\n\n3. Proclamation under Ordinance 1 of 1864. See Gazette, 23 January 1864. By this Proclamation Ordinance 1 of 1864 is to take effect from 16 February 1864.\n\n4. Ordinance 2 of 1864. - This Ordinance provides for the establishing of a mint in the Colony (which was established and worked, but has been removed for some years).\n\n5. Governor's Proclamation in Gazette of 14 September 1866. This Proclamation recites Order in Council of 1863, and proclaims the Hong Kong dollar and half-dollar legal tender.\n\n6. Treasury Regulations of 20 October 1866, published in Gazette, 12 January 1867. - These regulations for dollar, half-dollar, and subsidiary coinage made in pursuance of Ordinance 2 of 1864. - The Hong Kong Mint Ordinance, sec. 2 of which empowers the Governor to frame regulations under which the Mint shall receive silver bullion and coin the same.\n\n7. Ordinance 6 of 1865, sections 13, 20. - This Ordinance relates to the offences of forging bank notes.\n\n8. Ordinance 10 of 1865. - Offences against coinage, but sections 4, 5, 16, 17, 26, 27 not in force by Proclamation in Gazette of 21 October 1865 under the Ordinance.\n\n9. Proclamation under Ordinance 10 of 1865. See Gazette, 21 October. - N.B. - This is important, as it permits the Chinese custom in South China of chopping dollars.\n\n### Note Circulation\n- Order in Council, 27 November 1875. - Rate for issue of silver dollar to Her Majesty's troops reduced from 4s. 3d. to 4s. 1d.\n\n- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, Ordinance 5 of 1866, sections 12 and 13. - (1.) The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank issues notes of five dollars and multiples of five under section 12. The same bank issues notes of one dollar under the sanction of the Governor and under the proviso of that section.\n\n- Letter of Governor, 27 June 1872, authorising one dollar notes. - No Gazette notice of such sanction can be found.\n\nPage 51\nPage 39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318371, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 623, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "616 \n\ndifficult to prevent it. At the same time there is a difference between an increase of rent caused by a land speculator and that caused by a landlord. The way in which landlords increase rents is to first find out whether or not the property is a thriving one, and after having discussed the amount of the increase with the tenant, to wait for a year or half a year before they effect it, but they do not change rents from day to day or month to month like speculators. When the circumstances of the case are traced to their source, it is found that the speculators raise the rents with an intent to transfer their property easily. \n\nThis has become an established practice, and is not looked upon as in any way immoral. It is proposed that hereafter until eight months or a year have elapsed from the purchase of the property and the change of the lease, no persons should have a right to increase the rents. Then speculators cannot have recourse to their cunning devices, and the evil caused by land speculation may be prevented from existing.\n\n3. \nAccording to the Law, the tenants upon removal cannot pull down the fixtures lest there should be any damage to its walls. The speculators depending on this law,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318380, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 632, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "623 \n\ndo not know that if the Capitalists, instead of having kept on recklessly investing their funds, had stopped, the trouble would not have stopped where it has. Fortunately, the banks ceased investing in time; otherwise, they would not have had any money left. Other persons are of the opinion that the evil is due to both the brokers and wealthy householders, and this is probably the reader's view now. It is hard to see why the brokers, despised as they are, and the wealthy householders do not enlist the sympathies of anyone. The brokers who used crafty and specious devices to entice people have only lost what they made, and the householders, who relying on their wealth took the initiative, have only suffered from what they brought upon themselves. They had not enjoyed their gains when ruin came, and when it struck, it was a long and severe warning to others not to be the originators of what is evil. But the real origin of the evil lay not here. If traced to its sources, one will not be able to refrain from sighing and bitterly complaining of him in whose hands the control of the whole Colony rested, for not only had he the power to prevent the evil, but it was only right and reasonable that he should have suppressed it. Instead of doing so, he declared that the rise in the price of property in the Colony would cause people to come from Canton, who would invest in property in the Colony, live here, and that the stamp revenue would be increased. Were these words spoken from the heart? In former days, speculations in quicksilver and opium brought no profit, but loss only, and so when the speculation in house property first commenced, there was a great outcry against it, in hopes that the Governor, upon hearing it, ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318612, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "168 \n\nThe former duty was contemplated when Section XV of Ordinance No. 10 of 1867 was drafted, and the latter can now be enforced by a Departmental Order or by a Regulation by the Governor in Council, if such a course would not conflict with the powers of Section VII. \n\nIn my opinion, it is not necessary for the Surveyor General to inspect or report upon the houses to be licensed. \n\n21st January, 1874. \n\n## MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR\n\nC. C. SMITH, \n**Registrar General**. \n\nThis is a horrible revelation, and I feel under obligation to the Colonial Surgeon for the pains he has taken in bringing the subject to notice. \n\nMeasures must be adopted to remedy the evils pointed out. Bring before next Executive Council. \n\n22nd January, 1874. \n\nSend for the perusal of members and \n\nA. E. KENNEDY. \n\n## MINUTE BY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS\n\nIn the first place, I should cancel all licences to keep brothels. These establishments are more necessary here than in any of the other British Colonies. I have never known them to exist except at Hongkong and Singapore. \n\nWhen sailors and others arrive at Hongkong, I know there are such places of resort; they immediately fly to them on landing, for a spree, when they get drunk and become riotous, and finish with a visit to the police office. \n\nAs to improving these houses in any way, it is impossible; they are so saturated with filth that they cannot be properly cleansed. The streets are so narrow and the houses so badly constructed and ventilated that it would be impossible to make the present buildings healthy or habitable except for Chinese. \n\nI would therefore recommend that they are all knocked down and proper healthy houses built, after the streets have been levelled and widened; the longer they are allowed to remain in their present state, the worse they will be. \n\nI think that a certain number of comfortable, clean, well-ventilated houses might be built and let to the most respectable women of this class, and not rented by old women, who make a living by keeping girls for prostitution. The girls would then be induced to keep a clean, tidy place, or men would not care to visit them. \n\nPigs are universally kept in the houses all over the town; the usual place for their reception being the kitchens, but they are by no means confined to that part of the house; if the droves are too large and the kitchens too small, they are kept in the same rooms the inhabitants of the house occupy, and are as frequently to be found in upper stories as on the ground floors; a very favourite place for them is under the bed. \n\nI have seen four of the usual divisions the Chinese make in one room, each division having a bed, and underneath each bed a pig-sty, containing from five to seven pigs; the occupant of the house having a Government Licence to keep pigs, and having no other place to keep them in. Attached to this report, I send eight Licences, by the authority of which the occupants of the houses kept pigs under their beds, and two others where the pigs, though not kept under the beds, were in the same room the people slept and lived in. I could send many others. \n\nThis is an inaccurate statement. \nC. C. Smith, **Registrar General**. \n\nThe construction of this class of houses is against every sanitary rule as regards drainage, ventilation, and cleanliness, which is rendered impossible to the inhabitants, which you will easily understand by what I shall show you. Many houses, being built back to back, have no yards; having only windows in front, there is nothing to promote a current of air through them. In others, which are not built back to back, no yard is provided, but a narrow gully exists between the backs of the two sets of houses, about a yard wide, not used for passengers, but down which an open sewer exists, in which foul and fetid matter lies in pools or slowly trickles from one pool to another, a slight descent assisting. The private drains existing are of the most complicated description, beginning in the kitchen of the house and terminating goodness only knows where—in but too many cases in the earth itself (with no outlet), through which the filth percolates till it finds the water level. \n\nThe upper floors of the houses are made with very thin boards, which, not lying close together, render it impossible to attempt to wash them, as that would result in giving the inhabitants of the rooms below a dirty shower bath. The ground floors are, for the most part, mud, though sometimes badly tiled or covered with stone; on this mud floor, every imaginable filth falls, from saliva to the pigs' urine draining from the pens, so that the earth is saturated with decomposing animal and vegetable matter of all descriptions, and the floor cannot be washed or cleaned. \n\nI don't think the value of this sort of property is known, or the enormous prices for which these houses let. Repairs cost little or nothing yearly. In nearly every room, three or more families reside, up to as many as six or eight; the rooms being partitioned off, each partition pays a dollar and a half to two dollars a month rent, and a house with three rooms about fourteen feet square, with miserable little kitchens attached, will fetch from £55 to £70 a year; if it is a brothel, from £80 to £100 a year. \n\nNo. 130. \n\n*SPECIMENS OF LICENCES ENCLOSED*\n\n| Licence No. | Licensee | Premises | Number of Pigs | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | WONG A-FUNG | No. 4, Cross Street | Three | 5th January, 1872 |\n| | LI A-LAI | No. 7, Hing Wan Lane | Four | 15th June, 1875 |\n\n## REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG\n\n**NOT TRANSFERABLE**\n\n`REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th January, 1872` \nWONG A-FUNG is licensed to keep Three Pigs, on her Premises No. 4, Cross Street, till further notice. \nCECIL C. SMITH, **Registrar General**.\n\n`REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, 8th September, 1874` (should be before 15th June 1875)\nLI A-LAI is licensed to keep Four Pigs, on her Premises No. 7, Hing Wan Lane, till further notice. \nCECIL C. SMITH, **Registrar General**.\n\n26th January, 1874. \nH. W. WHITFEILD, \n**Major General**\n\n## REPORT OF THE COLONIAL SURGEON ON HIS INSPECTION OF THE TOWN OF VICTORIA, AND ON THE PIG LICENSING SYSTEM. HONGKONG, APRIL 1874\n\n### COLONIAL SURGEON, DR. AYRES, TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN, COLONIAL SECRETARY\n\nHONGKONG, 15th April, 1874\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward to you a report on the result of my rounds with the Sanitary Inspectors, for the information of His Excellency the Governor. \n\nAs I have already stated in my reports on the inspection of brothels, there are many things brought to notice there that are equally applicable to private houses, such as bad drainage, deficient ventilation, foul privies, filthy condition of houses, &c., &c.; but if I was astonished at the state of the brothels, they did not at all prepare me for what I was to find in private houses. As was the case with the brothels before I came, so it is with the back slums of the town; little or no superintendence has been thought of over the Inspectors. The Inspectors of Brothels, the Sanitary and Market Inspectors have all been left pretty much to their own devices, as I have shown and shall show, nor does it seem to have come within the province of my predecessors to do this work.\n\n### CONDITIONS OF PIG LICENCES\n\n1. This licence is only issued for the number of Pigs stated on it. \n2. If any more than that number are kept, all the Pigs will be confiscated. \n3. If the Pig-styes are not kept clean, the holders of the License will be fined, and the Licence will be cancelled. \n4. If any Pigs are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the Pigs will be confiscated, and the owner fined.\n\n### LICENCE TEMPLATE\n\n**NOT TRANSFERABLE** \n`REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, VICTORIA, HONGKONG` \nis licensed to keep \nstated on it \nuntil further notice. \n**Registrar General**\n\n1. This License is only issued for the number of Pigs stated on it. \n2. If the Pig-styes, or other places where the animals are kept, are not clean, the holders of the Licence will be fined, and the Licence will be cancelled. \n3. If any Pigs, or other animals injurious to the public health, are found in a house the owner of which has no Licence for keeping them, the animals will be confiscated, and the owner fined.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319098, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "# Your Committee will be able to judge from the following facts how far the injurious imputation thus plausibly insinuated, if not directly stated, is to be justified by the actual position of affairs.\n\nThe Import of Opium from India and Persia to Hongkong and the whole of China for year 1881, was -----\n\n| Type | Quantity |\n| --- | --- |\n| Of Malwa, from Bombay | 35,729 chests |\n| Bengal, from Calcutta | 44,124 |\n| From Persia | 6,763 |\n| Total | 86,616 chests |\n\nof an approximate value of £10,000,000 Sterling.\n\nWith some slight and unimportant exceptions, the whole of this Opium, the trade in which it is worthy of note is now practically monopolized by British Indian firms, passes through this harbour, but by far the larger proportion of it can only be classed under the head of Hongkong trade in the sense in which the traffic through the Suez Canal can be considered as Egyptian trade. About one half of the quantity of Opium I have named as the entire import, is immediately sent on either in the original foreign vessels conveying it here, or by other vessels, also foreign, to Shanghai, where it is entered regularly at the Custom House under Official foreign superintendence.\n\nOf the remainder, about one half, that is to say, one quarter of the whole, is shipped by foreign vessels to other treaty ports open to foreign trade, where it is duly entered at the Customs. The local trade proper of the Colony, whether for shipment to Macao or Canton by foreign and native vessels, or in native bottoms to non-treaty ports, to ports and places with which foreign vessels cannot trade, for consumption on the island, and for re-export in a prepared state to California and Australia, or for smuggling purposes, embraces therefore about one fourth of the entire export to China from India and Persia, or say, in quantity about 21,000 chests of an approximate value of £2,500,000, or about £200,000 per month instead of £1,000,000 per month as asserted by Governor HENNESSY.\n\nThere being no Custom House at this port, it is impossible to obtain thoroughly accurate statistics as to the disposition of the 21,000 chests of Opium which form the local trade of the Colony. As regards the local consumption and export in a prepared state, it may be estimated that from 2,500 to 5,000 chests are boiled in the Colony every year, leaving a balance of 16,000 to 18,500 chests to be accounted for. To suppose that this quantity is taken into China by smugglers, would be to disregard all the known conditions of the trade and the fact that the preventive service of the Chinese Empire is probably in point of espionage the most carefully organized one in the world. On every road, in every village bordering on a river or waterway, at every port, village, and fishing station along the Coast, there is a watchful Customs Station rendering it very difficult for a boat of the smallest size to touch the shore without being overhauled and made to pay levies purporting to be Imperial or local dues. To what extent such dues are honestly levied and declared, there is no means of ascertaining. The Customs Stations are believed to be farmed out by the Provincial Authorities to Officials who pay for their appointments, and although a service thus organized would be considered as a demoralized one and its system unreservedly condemned according to Western ideas, it is probable that the receipts of perquisites, and the partial remission of duties by Customs Officials who farm the revenue, is a quasi recognized practice acquiesced in by all classes throughout the Empire.\n\nWith this system, however, the Colony and Merchants of Hongkong have no concern, and for its results they are in no way responsible. As the vast majority of the junks which leave the mainland with Produce or arrive there with Imports, undoubtedly obtain from the local Custom Houses port clearances and bills of entry, the large trade, whether in Opium or other goods, carried on between this port and places on the Coast in Native bottoms, being thus subjected to the ordinary fiscal dues levied on the China Coast according to the practice of the Empire, is for the most part a strictly legal one.\n\nSmuggling between this Island and the mainland in goods other than Opium scarcely exists, as an evasion of the low ad valorem duty of 5% which is payable on entry at the Treaty ports, and is probably the maximum similarly leviable at other ports, would not compensate for the heavy charges which must be incurred by transit over unusual routes even if the ubiquitous Customs Officials could be avoided. Opium, owing to its portable character, the facility with which it can be hidden beneath water without serious deterioration, and the high duty imposed upon it, is more readily and profitably smuggled, but the returns which have been received through the Native Custom House at Canton make it nearly certain that the quantity which evades the payment of duty, either at the Treaty ports or the ports and places not open to foreign trade, is not greater than 2,000 to 3,000 chests per annum. (See `Parliamentary Papers-China No. 2, 1880`.) And the quantity thus estimated to be smuggled is not conveyed, as alleged by Governor HENNESSY, in Junks heavily armed for fighting their way to the mainland through the Revenue Cruisers, but is concealed, a few balls at a time, about the persons, and in the luggage of Chinese passengers by the steamers plying between this port and Canton, and other places on the Coast, or in ordinary trading junks and fishing boats of unpretentious character, or fast pulling boats propelled by a number of rowers, or by various devices such as are practised by the persons who evade the duties on tobacco in the United Kingdom. That the Revenue Cruisers which surround this Island keep up an effective blockade which prevents the smuggling of Opium on a much larger scale than at present takes place, is probably true, and it is also true that Chinese junks and boats in the Estuary of the Canton River, which do not promptly submit to be overhauled by the Cruisers, are chased and brought to for examination, if necessary, by being fired upon. The propinquity, however, of this Island to the mainland, so far from being a cause of injury to the Chinese Customs Revenue, operates most advantageously for the collection of fiscal levies upon the foreign trade of the Southern Coast of the Empire. Were the Island situated at a greater distance from the mainland than it is, or did not exist in its present conditions as a free port under a foreign Government, the difficulties which would be placed in the way of the Chinese Authorities, when engaged in checking smuggling in Opium, would be much greater than they now are. Opium in that case would probably be shipped in Native vessels from more distant depôts, such as Singapore, Saigon or the French mediatized territory of Tonquin, to Chinese ports and places, and it would be impossible for the Revenue Cruisers to watch the entire line of their own Coast as effectively as they are now able to blockade this Island in which the trade is centred and controlled.\n\nThere is, therefore, no ground for Governor HENNESSY's statement that this Colony is engaged in chronic war with the neighbouring mainland, or for his implied imputation that the course of its trade is injurious to the Chinese fiscal revenue. On the contrary, the facts of the case show that the physical conditions of the Island of Hongkong not only afford the ready means by which the Chinese Government is enabled to protect its legitimate revenue, but also unfortunately place it in the power of the Authorities of the Province of Quang-tung to surcharge the trade in foreign goods, carried on in Native vessels between Hongkong and the Southern ports of China, with additional taxation in excess of that authorized by the foreign treaties.\n\nWith the view to make a representation to H. M. Government in support of which it may hereafter be necessary to invite the good offices of your Committee, this Chamber is now engaged in an investigation into the facts, so far as they can be ascertained, relating to this alleged surcharge of duties upon the Colonial Trade, for the collection of which, as well as for the prevention of an illicit traffic in Opium, there is reason to believe the blockade of this Island by Chinese Revenue Cruisers is maintained.\n\n(3)\n\nPage 99", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "Sie fr. Bowen's representing him \n\nfive \n\nhis attention to the \n\nmatter on \n\nhis arrival in \n\nthe Colony, a reply \n\nhas been down. \nthat this \nand 26/1 \nIchult to utility of referring dis \nderpalit \nDepartment \nto Sir George \nBowen. \nGud. Jan 27. \n\nt \nPlease find the recommendation in Lie H. Phillippo's Report of a Chinese accountant - I have refused to sanction a European accountant in addition to the Two Deputies, not a Chinese - \n\ndispatch laying the whole \nquestion of the Supreme Court Staff before the S. S. is dated 25 Oct: 21144. This must I noticed as this proposal to go on acting \nfrom \nCreation \n12 \nhas often seemed to have sent word out in time for the consideration with the rest of the subject - at the same time \ndr \n4 people assert that or have to cate find fault with Dr. Worstall during whose administration the Cove, fonden has been conducted with regularity; - \n\nCarr d \nI am afraid we must give them this man \nProbation till \nLe Carr \nInt \nas a \njudy of the rempity & advantage \nof the appointment, adding that in \njudging \nto the application \n\nThe hesitation felt by the T. gs. in allowing to Ships - Hauffe \nSangster the full amount \nof $360 becomes increased a day that it must distinctly understood that the for personal allowance & these offices is given fly in consideration Other previous devices, or that the delay of this offer is $2760. M. Mart says nothing about. The salary of this \n\n8.29/1 \nIn Beanston \nI have marked the \nbes. \nNew mom, to be shree be. Fold to make a recommendation still to inform the person appointed that the amount; has not long finally approved by the J.ofs. \n\n+ palay. \npagsage with \n& \npanit Jage 22 1 Repel \nEUR. Jan 29 \n\nThis dispatch should have kundent on without waiting for the Attorney General, who seems than dife the papers Lix brebes : ff. M. Sven's letter is dated 23 Oct. \n\nда \nAs regarding the prospects of a bankruptcy bill in the Taming Sefim Mr. Ashley may or may & fix \nfor hele till then to ame \n\nI think we ought to \nFamine \nable to Jess backuplay lille - he what does Mr. Ashley Say? D. \nFul. \nus an opinion whether \nthis law without wan \nThe chances are \n+ wanting fait \ncertainly \nin favor of a Br. Bill passing but it would be very \nrash \nto proceed with confidence. Minutile I cannot Seen", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 319402, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12]", "content_text": "Hong Kong \n\n- In authorising you to engage this man, I am to suggest devices that, both in this case and in that of M: Min. Linnett, it would be preferable to increase the salary than to give the privilege of remittance at 4/2, and if any similar case arise in future it affirms to his Lordship that the same principle should be followed. \n\nI am to request you to state whether you agree in this view, and if so, what is the least allowance you consider should be given in these two cases respectively.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-204 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320069, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "## form\n\nAll I have recently received are \n31 and some trivial matters \nthat do not concern \nyou, however.\n\nYou will see Thorn as Wade is about writing \nto M. Pender. \nTwo Thorens Made devices more \nto have for use.\n\nof all \nof need \nby H.M. Legation \nsent if and copy \nGreat Northern Company \nalso \n\nYour agreements with this good also. Telegraph accordingly.\n\nJums to \n`(spend)` IS. Dan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320247, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "& we shall have to consider when Mr. Rice's salary should commence. We follow Int. Devices suggestions; the Jerages Phase authen...\n\nif those contained in `9103,0` and `155 184 18396`, he will have to go through a course of training at Green wich & Kew-observatory. The average is about the instruments. Intice also suggested to me that he should spend some time in Ireland to learn officially how to guard against errors of the instruments from the wrong way.\n\nbut this may be perhaps unnecessary in his case.\n\nHe will also have to apply to Lord Burling beeley, Assistant, only each to... ? that I... Christie, with whom it would be better to consult in such a matter, if necessary, than det Feolt as suggested by Mr. Dice in `15518-`. I would prefer to answer this better informed by consulting Christie & requesting Pashley `1974/82`.\n\n113 Turns fati...\n\n208\n\n24th Letter repe...\n\nI have been applied to buy a... 0, Burch, who is at present at the... to the direction... 2 or... ins... Observatory at... Leap... Free Castle & who wants to be attached to the proposed Observatory at Hong Kong. On Calooney has written to me to apply to the Colonial Office for approval. The comes with very good testimonials as to ability & fitness for a post of the kind. Mr. Marke stated in Loubet that the appointment lay with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320550, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "page_number": 514, "title": "CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882", "content_text": "# 1328 11 15,0\n\n## Packing and Shipping \n\nAn anemograph \nA rainguage) \n\nBrought forward £210, 18.0 \n36.0.0 \n15.0.0 \n\nTotal meteorological Equipment £331, 18.0 \n\n(Magnetic Branch) \nA unifilar magnetometer for verification \nA dip circle. \nA clock beating seconds \nPacking and Shipping \n\nTotal magnetic Equipment £ \n(Resume) \n\n| Category | Cost |\n|---------------|-----------|\n| Astronomical Equipment | £6575,0 |\n| Meteorological ditto | £33,12.0 |\n| | £20.0.0 |\n| | £500 |\n| | £23.17.0 |\n| Total | £673.0.0 |\n| Magnetic ditto | £331, 18.0|\n| | £12317 O |\n| # | £1328 11 15,0|\n\nNote : £1328, 15.0 is off £6380.\n\n| Category | Cost |\n|---------------|-----------|\n| Magnetic Equipment | |\n| Jotal Equipment | |\n| Cost of buildings | £11000 |\n| Cost of Equipment | £6380 |\n| Cost of furniture | £300 |\n| Total Estimates | £200 |\n| Cost of telegraph Connection | £300 |\n| Cost of freight | £500 |\n| Unforeseen Contingencies | |\n\nGrand total cost of founding the Observa £18,680\n\nIt will be observed that in this Equipment the most notable omission is the list of photographical self-registering instruments (magnetic). These are deferred because they entail a sunk building of special construction at an additional outlay of about $6000. Owing to the large proportion of iron in the soil of Hong Kong, as already mentioned, none of the building material available in the Colony or the neighbouring mainland of China could be safely employed for this structure. All would have to be specially imported from Manilla. Hence the reason for the increased outlay.\n\nIn these circumstances the Kew Committee of the Royal Society may be disposed to concur in the magnetic observations being for the present non-automatic, and limited to observations of inclination and total force, and declination as well as deflection and vibration for determining absolute horizontal force, for which the unifilar magnetometer and dip-circle are provided and may be conveniently worked in the wooden huts. When the time arrives for having self-recording instruments in an underground observatory, it would be most desirable to complete this branch of magnetic study by the addition of a photoheliograph for the registration of sun spots. Personal experience of the locality and the climate will have enabled the Superintendent before then to decide in respect of the sunk building whether the photographic laboratory might not, on account of the destruction of instruments by atmospheric moisture, which no ventilating devices will ever subdue in such a climate as that of Hong Kong, be more advantageously placed above ground. After a short residence...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-206 - Public Offices & Others - 1882.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320730, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "108\n\nof man's substance\n\ndestroyers of\n\nand are most hurtful to public\n\ngamblers have\n\nmorals. Recently gamble illicitly established in Hong Kong places for Jan t'an gambling... tsz-fa lotteries, pák-köp pin: swindling dens (pin sy suk) and\n\n(Carry on)\n\nstreet\n\nvery many\n\nsz\n\nJan tan and..\n\nother kinds of gambling.\n\nnothing..\n\nall\n\nof\n\nwhich are nothing\n\nbut crafty devices for swindling\n\nand become involved in troubles. But lots of lotteries and pak Hop pin gambling harm to women\n\ndo still\n\nfor\n\ngreater\n\nthe gambling fraternity\n\nscatter themselves along the\n\nthoroughfares inducing\n\nstreets and there or\n\npeople to gamble.\n\nand even\n\nenter into family houses.\n\nPurchases can be made\n\none cash to several\n\ndollars or several tens of\n\ndollars. This\n\nfrom\n\npeople out\n\nof\n\ntheir\n\nmoney. Most\n\nwho\n\nare\n\nentrapped, either...\n\nsquander their property...\n\nbring ruin to their families,\n\nor\n\nneglect their occupation\n\nand\n\ngo on from day to day without\n\na moment's cessation. If love till their\n\nways", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 320739, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "Pervadingly out of much, notwithstanding the fact that the victims of the swindlers do not go away, do not lay information, because their losses are small and they are afraid that if they give information they may be implicated, because they are in a hurry to get to their homes; so many of these cases and those are not reported, swindling rascals are allowed to go at large.\n\nPetitioners would suggest that a notification be issued stating that henceforward all persons who have been enticed into dens and have lost money must give information at once and immediately lead the police to the spot in question. They think the guilty may be arrested and brought to trial, and the money, out of which they have been swindled, may be recovered for them that they need not have any fear of being implicated. The persons who have been swindled with these obtaining redress, and the heartless and crafty devices of these swindling rascals will...\n\nPage 117\n\n...be stopped.\n\n(The last part of the text is not clear due to OCR errors and non-English characters at the end, but the main body has been corrected and formatted according to the rules.)\n\n \n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323180, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 537, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure L\n\n1800\n\nREOP\n\nREGE 9 NOV 03/\n\n531\n\n!\n\nThe Hongkong Telegraph\n\nHONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1883.\n\nIN Saturday's Gazette appear several Government notifications inviting tenders for certain local works of some magnitude. The reclamation of Causeway Bay and the construction of a sea wall, swing bridge, basin and slips for launches, &c., at the Kowloon Police Station, are undertakings of special importance to the community, and will entail a very heavy expenditure of public funds. Why, then, does the custom prevail in the Colonial Secretary's office of confining the advertisements inviting public tenders for these works to the semi-privacy of the columns of the Government Gazette, a publication which is seldom seen outside the government offices? Surely it is to the public interest to give these matters all the publicity possible! And it is evidently to the private interest of some person or persons to keep them as secret as circumstances will allow. Why this should be the case we will not even venture to hazard an opinion; but it may interest Governor Bowen and Mr. W. H. Marsh to know that the tongue of public report does not scruple to assert that these contracts are \"kept dark,\" manipulated and arranged to suit the devices of certain officials—who for the present shall be nameless. All contracts for public works should be extensively advertised in the local newspapers, both foreign and Chinese, and an independent and reliable board of trustworthy heads of departments should be appointed to decide all tenders on their merits, without interference or advice from the chief of the particular department under whose auspices the works are to be carried out. We are quite sure that \"the honourable the Surveyor-General\" could (and would, if requested to do so) give His Excellency a deal of valuable information on this subject. Mr. Price is reported to be a determined opponent of the jobbery which is said to prevail so extensively amongst the subordinate members of the staff of the Surveyor-General's department. The subordinate members alluded to do not scruple to retaliate by asserting sub rosa that the honourable member likes to monopolise all \"the good things\" to his own cheque. O tempora! O mores!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323624, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12]", "content_text": "54\n\nofficial documents copies of in some of Departments the the knowledge of the Publie came into and possession of a local newspaper, the Defendant in the recent trial. Your Crdship is a aware that there are only twelve (12) Englishmen out at the eighty-nine (89) persons employed recons the clerical staff of this Colony.\n\nI have the honoustube,\n\nMy Lord.\n\nHour Lordship's host obedient\n\nHumble Pervat\n\n5. Bowen\n\nG 11359 11676 17468 The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONA, NOVEMBER 29TH, 1883.\n\nSUPREME COURT.\n\nNovember 29th.\n\nCRIMINAL SESSIONS.\n\nBaron TH HON. SIR GROBON PHILLIPPO, CHIEF JUSTIOR AND A SPECIAL JURY.\n\nLIBEL\n\nRobert Fraser-Smith, printer and publisher of the Hongkong Telegraph, was charged with publishing a false and defamatory libel on John Mo Neil Price, Surveyor-General of Hongkong. The article on which the charge was brought, and the inuendoes, were as follow:-\n\nIn Saturday's Gasette appear several Government notifications inviting tenders for certain local works uf some magnitade. The reclamation of Cauaoway Bay and the construction of s son wall, swing bridge, basin, and slips for launches, de, at the Kowlood Police Station, are undertakings of special import ance to the community, and will antall a very heavy expenditure of pablie fands. Why, then, does the custom prevail in the Colonial Secretary's office of confining the advertisements inviting public tenders for these works to the semi-privacy of the columns of the Government Gazette, a publication which is waldom seen outside the Government officos?\n\nSurely it is to the public interest to give these matters all the publicity possible! And it is evidently to the private interest of some person meaning thereby the said John MoNeil Pricolor persons to keep them secret are sas circumstances will allow. Why this should be the case we will not even venture to hazard an opinion; but it may interest Governor Bowen and Mr. W. H. Marsh to know that the tongue of public roport does not scruple to assert that these contracts kept dark,\" ark, manipulated and stranged to anit the devices certain officiele meaning thereby smong others the asid John McNeil Price who for the prosent shall be nameless. All contracts for publio works should be extensively advertised in the newspapers, both foreign and Chinese, and an indepoudont and reliable board of trustworthy heads of departments should be appointed to decide all ten- ders on their merita, without interference or advice from the chief of the particular department meaning thereby the the said John McNai! Price] under whose anapies the works are to be carried out. We are quite sure that the honourable the Surveyor-Gono (and would, it rea requested to do so) give.\n\nrai Hi zor a deal of valuable information on this! *nbject. Mr. Price is is reported to be a determined of the jabbery which is said to prevail o opponent extensively 's department. The subordinate members alinded to do not ot scruple to retaliate by as. serting sub rost that the honorable member likes to all the good things\" to his own cheek thereby that jobbery and corruption did Surveyor.Generate enbordinate members of the mote in fact prevall very extensively amongst the subor- dicate members of the Surreyor-General's depart ment, and that any opposition the said John McNeil Price might oppose to it was solely for of benefiting the purpose himself and of deceiving the public, and that the said John MoNeil Price was guilty of corrup›- tion and malvorsstion is his said office of Surveyor- General and was commonly believed and reported amongst his own subordinates of being so guilty.]\n\nThe defence put in was a simple plea of not guilty.\n\nMr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton, Wotton, and Deacon, appeared for the prosecu. tion. The defendant conduated his own case,\n\nThe jurors were Messrs. E. Burnie, L. Fase, D. Musto, C. T. Kuhlmann, B. B. D. Sayle, E. L. Wondia, and W. 8. Young.\n\nOn Mr. Sayle's name being osited Mr. Francis naked that Mr. Sayle might stand aside.\n\nThe defendant-Has the learned counsel the right to challenge, my lord?\n\nHis Lordship-Not without showing cause. Mr. Francis-I don't propose to show cause. It has been constantly done bere. On the last cosasion the defendant exercised the right.\n\nDefendant-I exercised no right.\n\nMr. Francis-I simply suggested it. I with- draw it.\n\nMr. Sayle then took his place in the box.\n\nMr. Francis, in opening the case, said that by the charge and plea of not guilty only two issues were seriously raised, namely, the nature of the paragraph, was it defamatory or was it not? and the other, was it published maliciously or on a lawful and justifiable vocation? He proposed to pat before them three classes of evidenes with reference to these two points. First, he would ask them to consider with him. line what by line the paragraph itself, effect it would have upon their own minds reading it for the first time, and what was the natural effect and tendency of the language used. He would ask them to say that the direct, simple, natural meaning of the language used was to injure and defame Mr. Price as muob as it was in the power of any man to do so, that nothing more defamatory ovuld be sail of him considering who he was aud the posi tion he occupied. With reference to the ques-; tion of malice two considerations arose one which was more purely a guastion of law, and that was whether or not, from the defamatory nature of the paragraph, they were not bound to infer malice? But in addition to that he proposed to show that this attack on Mr. Price's reputation did not stand alone, but was only one of a series extending over a very long period; that Mr. Price had been attack- ed by the defendant at all times, in all places, in all characters and capacities, as a mer. ber of the Government, as Surveyor-General, as a private individual; that Mr. Price had been exposed to ridicule, to contempt, to censures of every description, and that corrupt and vile motives had been imputed to him at every hand's turn. He would ask them to infer from the perusal of these articles, and the con- sideration of these facts, that the defendant was not actuated by any feeling of public spirit and genuine desire to anbserve only the public in- terest, but that he was animated by some personal spite, personal ill-will, whatever its origin, with reference to Mr. Price and all bis aotipas, The learned counsel then read the paragraph in question, commenting on it in detail, and contending that the natural and only in. ference to be drawn from it was that Mr. Price was guilty of corruption, that he was not fit to be entrusted with any share in the allotment of tendars for public works, and that he was interest- ed in keeping the advertisements for tendera dark in order that only bis own friends, who would deal liberally with him, might secure the con- tracts. As to the meaning of the word jobbery, he referred to a dictionary, in which the mean. ing was given as \"unfair means employed to secure some private end,\" and it was with this meaning, he contended, that the word was used by the defendant in reference to Mr. Price and the department of which he was the head. The paragraph conveyed the plain inference that the tenders were manipulated for Mr. Price's interest, and that if he was a deter.. mined opponent of all jobbery amongst the subordinates in his department it was only for the purpose of securing for himself all the benefit that was to he derived from that jobbery. The learned counsel then dwelt upon the injury such a libel was oal- culated to do to the subject of it. If a single one of these obarges, if ous single instance of bri- hery and corruption as Surveyor-General could be proved against Mr. Price, what would be bis position and his future? There would follow immediate expulsion from the Government ser. vice, inability ever again to hold office under the Crown, universal opprobrium and disgrace. Then in his professional capacity outside the public service could be expect to compete suo- cessfully with other sarveyors and architects and nivil engineers whose characters were un- blemished by such charges? What 'man having a building contract would entrust it to a man expelled from the public service for bribery and corruption, for making use of his position to fill his own pocket? If any one of these charges was true, and proved to be true, Mr. Price's career and whole futuro life must be utterly and irretrievably ruined. And quite apart from the truth or falsehood of these charges, what must be the natural effect of the publication and dissemination of auch stale. ments in Hongkong and elsewhere where the paper might circulate? Those who knew Mr. Price personally know that he was incapable of committing such offences as those charged against him, that he was above corruption, that his character stoed high and deservedly high. But it was not every one in the Colony who had the privilege of Mr. Price's acquaintance and who was able to say of his own knowledge that such charges were false and baseless. Mr. Price was unknown to many, amangat whom the paper circulated, and what opinion must strangers have of him and the public service in this Colony when they read such paragraphs as this? Were such paragraphs likely, or were they not, to injure Mr.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-213 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12]", "content_text": "that the jury took a different view of it from that which had been taken by \nthe Executive Council. \n\nI favour in securing \n\nThe prosecution \na conviction of the \naccused; and I think they feel that \nit could be \ninexpedient to \nprosecute in \nthe other cases; but I understand that \nthe prosecutions \nhave had the effect of the publishers of papers having made \nup \ntheir minds not \nto publish any further matters of \nprosecution \nby publishing any more such \ndocuments as that which formed \nthe subject of the charge in this case. (Signed) Edward J. Eitel, \nNovember 14th, 1884. \n\nEnclosure 2. \n\nThe Daily Press. \n\nHONGKONG, OCTOBER 23rd, 1884. \n\n## SUPREME COURT. \n\n### 22nd October. \n\n#### CRIMINAL SESSIONS. \n\n##### BEFORE THE HON. SIR GEORGE PHILLIPPO, CHIEF JUSTICE. \n\n## PROSECUTIONS AGAINST VERNACULAR PAPERS. \n\nLuk Ki Shan, printer and publisher of the Chinese newspaper **Wai Sun Yat Po**, was charged with having published in his paper obscene and indecent matter in a paragraph under the head of \"*News from Canton*.” \n\nThe **Attorney-General** (Hon. E. L. O'Malley) appeared for the prosecution; Mr. J. J. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton, Wotton, and Deacon, for the defence. \n\nMr. Francis said that although it might be somewhat out of the ordinary custom for him as representing the defendant to address the court first, he was desirous of saving his Lordship and jury all possible trouble of going into the case, and would ask permission on behalf of defendant to avail himself of the provision of Common Law to throw himself upon the mercy of the court, and submit himself for a small fine. There was not shadow of a question upon the defendant's part that the publication in question was as bad as it possibly could be, and he had not the faintest idea of justifying its insertion in his paper. He regretted it exceedingly, and so far as he (Mr. Francis) could do so in a public court, he offered defendant's apologies for it. The only thing he had to set up was that the publication was without his own personal knowledge. Of course, *prima facie*, he was responsible for what appeared in his paper, but it was open to the defendant to show that the publication was without his knowledge. The defendant was absent, from sickness or some other cause, when the article was published. That was his defence, and defendant did not wish to put the court to the trouble of going through the case. Mr. Francis proceeded to give his authority for this course, and he said that in this case the defendant submitted himself to the Queen's mercy, and he was willing to submit himself to the payment of such small fine as his Lordship might think fit to impose. He publicly acknowledged that it ought not to have been published, and that it was altogether unjustifiable and unlawful; and undertook that such a thing should not occur again. \n\nHis Lordship said he had looked over the depositions, and it appeared to him that the matter complained of was almost as bad as it could be, but according to the evidence, of which a good deal was taken, it was published certainly without the defendant's knowledge, and apparently during his absence. He had expressed his deep concern that it had been published, had dismissed the man who had caused it to be inserted, and had done everything he really could do to show his own abhorrence of what had been published. Under those circumstances, although legally he might be guilty of the publication, he was only guilty in some degree of carelessness or negligence in allowing it to appear, and if that was the case, a fine would be sufficient to meet the requirements of justice. \n\nThe Attorney-General intimated that he had no desire to press the case. \n\nHis Lordship-Then I think the requirements of the case will be met by my inflicting a fine of $5; but at the same time I may take this opportunity of stating that if this publication had appeared with the defendant's consent and knowledge, I should have inflicted almost as severe a punishment as it is in my power to impose. I hope it may be a warning to other newspapers to take care as to what they publish. \n\nMr. Francis, on defendant's behalf, thanked his Lordship and the Attorney-General for the lenient view they had taken of the case. \n\nTam Yik Kin, printer and publisher of the **Wah Tau Yat Po** (Chinese Mail) was charged on four counts that by the publication on the 17th September in his newspaper of a certain article or notice in the Chinese language purporting to be a proclamation issued by the Viceroy of the Two Kwang, he did feloniously solicit, encourage, persuade, or endeavour to persuade, or propose or incite certain persons to, the Attorney-General unknown, to wit, the readers of the paper, to murder or kill certain persons, to wit, French commanders, against the peace of her Majesty the Queen, her Throne and dignity. \n\nThe Attorney-General (Hon. E. L. O'Malley) appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Francis, instructed by Messrs. Brereton, Wotton, and Deacon, for the defence. \n\nA special jury was empanelled, composed of Messrs. S. Hancock, F. E. Foster, J. Thorburn, W. Legge, N. A. Seibs, Nowrojos Pestonjee Dallah, and H. C. Erdmann. \n\nThe Registrar (Mr. Ackroyd) read the indictment, which set out in separate counts the charge stated above, and he read the publication complained of as follows, the first part being written by or for the defendant. \n\n### PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY THE VICEROY AND THE GOVERNOR. \n\nWe are of opinion that although the French soldiers may be powerful, they have only got their navy to rely on, and although their war vessels are strong, all those which have been defeated have been seriously damaged. It is on this account that the French recruit soldiers and braves, and secretly conspire with Chinese traitors, and rely entirely on Chinese workmen to perform carpenter's work for them. \n\nIf there were no secret devices and crafty stratagem, there would be no increase of the number of the French troops, and there would be no one to repair French ships. How could the French be certain of seeing that their troops bore the hardships in a country, so far distant from their own? Moreover, all the neutral powers have been abiding by International Law, and would not submit to arm themselves and wait in readiness to receive the (French) commanders, nor would the subjects act contrary to the intention of their respective Governments. \n\nIt might be said that those people did not fall victims to their intrigues. (The French were cunning enough) to entice (the Chinese) by high pay, the proclamation ought to have been issued (by the Chinese authorities) and posted at the city gate earlier. However, all we hope that people will employ their strength in arms, and try to outdo one another in their struggle for merit and renown. This is the object of the authorities in instructing their subjects to obey their orders. The Original proclamation is hereby respectfully published for general information. \nChang, Viceroy of the Two Kwang, (a President of the Board of War). \nLei, Governor of Kwang-tung, (a Vice-President of the Board of War). \n\nIn the matter of strictly forbidding people to allow themselves to be enlisted as soldiers by the French, and to repair French ships. \n\nWhereas the French have repeatedly invaded the Fuk-kin territory, and sacrificed lives in the most cruel, oppressive and outrageous manner, both Heaven and man are sure to be enraged at this, and there is no one living who does not consider the French his enemy, and who is not most anxious to be revenged on them. The writers, however, understand that there have for long been traitors in Hongkong, Macao and neighbouring localities who have intrigued with a great number of people whom they have enticed by high pay or under the pretext of getting them work or providing them with employment. When these people once set on board (French ships), they are forced to become soldiers, and are placed in the van, so that they form the great majority of the killed and wounded. In addition to the above (persons), there are cruel-hearted and treacherous people who, out of covetous desire for large gain, volunteer their services. These people may be considered still more abandoned. With regard to the acts of the past, the writers could not bear to enter into a detailed account of them. But to continue, workmen who have engaged in repairing ships for foreigners, even when the ships of the enemy have been defeated and damaged, secretly repair them, thereby enabling the jaded to recover their strength, and the weak to become strong; they assist the enemy and show themselves unmindful of their country. Could there be anything more detestable? It is highly necessary that a strict proclamation prohibitory (of such acts) should be issued. You, the inhabitants along the coast, as well as workmen engaged in repairing ships are therefore hereby notified for your information that you should thoroughly comprehend the distinction between China and a Foreign country, and show devoted regard for our fatherland. If you enlist on the side of and thus render services to the enemy, this will be nothing nor less than to ruin China by means of the Chinese; to attack Kwang-tung with Kwang-tung people. The result of this will be that through your instrumentality your native homes will be razed to the ground, and your relations and neighbours will meet with a cruel death at the point of sword. Were you to consider this in the quiet of the night, do you think you could endure the thought of it? Moreover, by employing you, the French place you in a situation in which your life is imperilled, for not one out of a hundred survives of those who rush on the point of the bayonet and ward off the cannon's shot. Why then should you sacrifice your life...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-218 - Administrator Marsh Governor Sir Bowen & Others - 1884 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327561, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 349, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC\n\npatriotism. There was nothing objectionable in such a course, but the employment of such expressions as the placing of poison in food' is a departure from uprightness and dignity, while the reference to Singapore, Penang, and other places which are not under our jurisdiction is likely, when it becomes noised abroad, to be misinterpreted, and to be distorted in process of transmission from one to another, possibly giving rise to trouble.\n\n\"As this reference is not in accordance with the spirit of our Decree of the 26th August, we hereby command that our censure be conveyed to Pêng Yü-lin, Chang Chih-tung, Chang Shu-sheng, and Ni Wên-wei.\n\n\"The French have broken their compact, and have acted in an unprincipled manner, and all our Chinese subjects are naturally capable, with that unity of purpose which will overcome any obstacle, to make common cause against the enemy of their Sovereign, and it is for this very reason that it is unnecessary to depend upon underhand devices or treacherous schemes which prejudice the object of China in moving her armies in support of a righteous cause.\n\n\"As regards Chinese dwelling in the islands of the outer seas, we command them to refrain from concerning themselves with hostilities, that mistakes and complications may be avoided.”\n\nAs in duty bound, the Prince and Ministers beg to forward a copy of this Decree, which they have reverently prepared, for the information of the British Minister.\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1\n\n**Sir H. Parkes to the Tsung-li Yamén**\n\nPeking, September 30, 1884. HER Britannic Majesty's Minister has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the note of the Prince and Ministers of yesterday's date, communicating to him an Imperial Decree censuring the Imperial Commissioners, P'êng Yü-lin and Chang Shu-shêng, the Viceroy of the Two Kuang, Chang Chih-tung, and the Governor of Kuang-tung, Ni Wên-wei, for having issued a Proclamation calling on Chinese in the British Colonies of Singapore and Penang to poison Frenchmen and destroy French vessels.\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Minister begs to express his high appreciation of the promptness with which His Majesty has been pleased to mark his high disapproval of the above-mentioned act of the said high authorities, which constituted an aggression on the sovereignty of Great Britain, and was calculated by its inhuman character to bring grave reproach upon the Chinese Government.\n\nHer Majesty's Minister avails himself, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**HARRY S. PARKES**\n\n| Office or Individual | Foreign Of | Date | Last previous Paper | Copy for | No. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | | 1887 | 88.12 Dec | 348 Hong Kong | 93 2099 3 |\n\n**(Subject.)** \nPlot of Chinese to destroy French Mail Steamers.\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nto Ag. Gov Marsi.. Mr Meade ? Copy to Governor for wife {Submit draft. Gud. 10 Dec\n\n**Next subsequent Paper.** \n70 21725", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328255, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "29\n\npart of a dollar. Unfortunately, the evidence which I enclose some specimens of, was too small and light to be convenient. I will be seen how ill it compares in this respect with the native cash in constant use, of which also specimens are enclosed. The true currency here, of Hongkong, Government cash has always been an unpopular coin, circulating at a discount of from 5 to 10 per cent. It would not be advisable to import any more of these, as the Treasury could not dispose of them at par value, and it is not desirable either to sell them for less or to force them into circulation by any artificial expedient.\n\nOn the other hand the class of small tradesmen and market people suffer a good deal from the account of bad and spurious cash imported from the neighbouring land, and circulated with the native coinage, which forms the medium of all small transactions. A government cash the size of that marked **A** on the enclosed card, and resembling it as much as possible in general appearance, would not only be a popular coin, and a benefit to the Chinese community, but might also be a source of profit to the Government. The only question is, can we lay down such cash here at less than £20 a thousand.\n\nHer Majesty's proclamation referred to above lays down nothing about the size of the coin; it may be made any size so long as the devices on it are similar to the existing ones. The hole in the centre would be better square than round, but, if made round, it should be surrounded by a square border.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "## PS \n\nI would suggest that a copy of this despatch and of its enclosure should be transmitted to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.\n\n## SMB.\n\n## Enclosure \n\n### FAREWELL BALL TO ADMIRAL DOWELL AT THE CITY HALL\n\nThough organised upon very brief notice, this Ball proved one of the most successful ever given in this colony. Scarcely more than a week elapsed from the time that the gallant Admiral expressed his preference for a ball over a banquet, before the event took place, but nevertheless nothing was found wanting, and the arrangements last night were as complete and the decorations as good as if the Ball had been premeditated months before. The reasons which influenced the leading residents in Hongkong in taking special steps to do honour to Admiral Sir W. M. Dowell previous to his departure for England need not be gone into here at any length, as they will be found fully set out below in the address presented to the gallant officer at the supper and in the speeches which accompanied it. His former association with the colony, services rendered in past times, and the effective manner in which he maintained the honour of England in those seas during the late Franco-Chinese and the Anglo-Russian crisis have been deemed fully sufficient reasons for this mark of esteem. Admiral Dowell's connection with the Royal Navy commenced in 1839, and probably his recollections of Hongkong are not the least pleasant among his many and varied experiences. His sterling and genial qualities have rendered him popular both afloat and ashore here, and the Squadron and the community here alike regret that his stay in these waters has been so short.\n\nThe general Committee for the Ball was a large one, and was appointed eight days since at the preliminary meeting called by the Chamber of Commerce, which body has been mainly instrumental in bringing about last night's gathering. The Committee comprised the following gentlemen: Mr. Justice Ackroyd, Mr. G. C. Anderson, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres, Messrs. E. R. Belilios, J. Bell-Irving, S. G. Bird, C. D. Bottomley, C. E. Bowles, E. Barney, G. de Champeaux, C. P. Chater, D. R. Crawford, J. B. Coughtrie, A. Coxon, G. S. Coxon, H. L. Dalrymple, W. H. F. Darby, Victor Deacon, W. M. Deane, W. Durran, N. J. Ede, W. H. Forbes, H. Foss, J. J. Francis, D. Gillies, M. Grote, H. A. Herbert, Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. H. Hoppus, Hon. T. Jackson, Messrs. R. R. Jukes, B. Layton, Lee Sing, Lee Tak Cheong, Hon. A. Lister, Messrs. J. H. S. Lockhart, A. P. MacEwen, John Macgregor, A. McClymont, A. Molver, E. Mackintosh, J. Melville Matson, A. McConachie, H. M. Mehta, G. E. Noble, Hon. E. L. O'Malley, Mr. A. H. Percival, Sir George Phillippo, Mr. L. Poosnecker, Hon. J. M. Price, Mr. W. H. Ray, Mr. A. G. Romano, Capt. Rumsey, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Messrs. Hormusjee Setus, A. F. Smith, Capt. Steibel, Hon. F. Stewart, Messrs. A. G. Stokes, A. P. Stokes, J. Thorburn, Wei Ayuk, A. Westland, T. H. Whitehead, H. E. Wodehouse, and Hon. Wong Shing.\n\nThe hard work fell into the hands of gentlemen endowed with plenty of energy, and the result of their efforts must have been very gratifying to them, as the City Hall was made to look most charming in every section, and all the arrangements were so well devised that the affair passed off with the greatest éclat and without a single hitch. The working sub-committees were composed as follows:\n\n| Committee | Members |\n| --- | --- |\n| Decoration Committee | The Hon. J. M. Price (Surveyor-General), Captain R. M. Rumsey, and Messrs. A. Coxon and J. B. Coughtrie |\n| Supper Committee | Messrs. A. McClymont and J. Macgregor |\n| Dancing and Music Committee | Messrs. C. E. Bowles and G. S. Coxon |\n| Address Committee | Messrs. MacEwen, Mackintosh, and Francis |\n\nMr. J. Melville-Matson, who kindly volunteered to perform the very onerous duties of honorary secretary, was indefatigable in his exertions, and in the time at his disposal he accomplished wonders, being doubtless greatly assisted by the experience gained by him in a similar position last year on the occasion of the first St. George's Ball in this colony.\n\nThe heaviest work fell upon the Decoration Committee, who achieved a signal success. Mr. Price, with the resources of the Survey Department at his command, undertook the lion's share of the work: the entrance hall, staircase, landings, ante-room, and St. George's Hall. St. Andrew's Hall, the Theatre (Supper Room), &c., were in the hands of the other gentlemen, and by this division of labour two distinct styles of decoration were apparent, giving pleasing variety.\n\nCommencing with the approach to the building, the exterior was brilliantly illuminated by a large gas star over the entrance, and several powerful patent standard burners. The entrance hall disclosed a most attractive vista up the grand staircase. Every column was closely wreathed with spiral ropes of green leaves. On each column was a large gilt shield hanging from three large gilt tridents, and on the face of each shield were either the initials \"W. D.\", or Admiral Dowell's crest, a lion rampant. Round the base of each pillar was a bed of pot plants and shrubs. Passing up the stairs, the stone balustrade was covered with green wreaths and silver sprays, pot plants were placed on either side all the way up, and as far as the first landing a 64-pounder conical shell stood at each side of every stair, making a most effective border. On each of the three large windows on the first landing was a large round gilded shield, with a deep green border, on which were respectively the letters W., M., D., Admiral Dowell's initials. At the head of the stairs stood two brass howitzers mounted on a carriage, and the space of wall around was filled in with pot plants and foliage. On the pilasters all round this landing were similar gilded shields and tridents to those below, being Admiral Dowell's initials or crest, these being surrounded by sprays of bamboo leaves. On the wall spaces between the pilasters were gilded anchors, and above these were round targets in red and gold, with a green moss edging, and a fringe of bright cutlasses, on which were either the crest or monogram of the guest of the evening. From the level of the bottom of the windows to the top of the stairs was hung a wreath in small festoons, and in the centre of each festoon a silvered palm leaf, which had the appearance of the inner side of a marine shell. All the devices were well surrounded by sprays of green foliage and plants.\n\nSt. George's Hall was not profusely decorated, but it was treated with great taste and effect. Festoons of green wreaths depended from the head of each pilaster, and at the top of the pedestal of each was placed a small bank of moss and ferns, from which sprung graceful fronds of maiden hair fern. At the north end there was a large mirror, which was surrounded by pot plants and foliage, and in each doorway was suspended a basket of flowers. Scattered amongst...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329271, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "# \nall the greenery were silvered palm leaves which sparkled in the gaslight, and had a very charming effect. The most noticeable feature of the adornment of this hall, however, was an array of shields over each door. On each shield was emblazoned the name of a vessel in which Admiral Dowell had served during his long naval career. By a somewhat remarkable and convenient coincidence, Admiral Dowell has served on just as many vessels of the British Navy as there are doors in this hall—16 in all—so that there was a fresh name for every shield. Commencing with the earliest they were as follows: \"Druid, 1839 to 1842;\" \"Blenheim, 1842 to 1843;\" \"Racer, 1843 to 1845;\" \"Eagle, 1845 to 1848;\" \"Excellent, 1848;\" \"Albion, 1850 to 1855;\" \"Rodney, 1857 to 1858;\" \"Barossa, 1862 to 1864;\" \"Euryalus, 1864 to 1865;\" \"Leander, 1865 to 1866;\" \"Britlesnake, 1867 to 1871;\" \"Hercules, 1872 to 1875;\" \"Black Prince, 1877 to 1878;\" \"Revenge, 1878 to 1880;\" \"Mirobtur, 1882 to 1883;\" \"Audacious, 1884 to 1885.\"\n\nThe ante-room was adorned in a somewhat similar manner, save that there were none of these shields, but on the walls there were instead the large gilded shields and tridents as described above, which were surrounded by sprays of hamboo leaves. There was the usual array of seats of all kinds, and the pink globes of the gas burners had a pretty effect.\n\n## St. Andrew's Hall\nSt. Andrew's Hall was decorated in a somewhat different manner to St. George's Hall, and was in its way also very effectively treated. The main decorations were at the east end of the room.\n\nOver the central window flags and foliage were grouped artistically, in the centre being the flag of the colony and that of Admiral Dowell crossed and linked together with a true lover's knot, on which was inscribed the words \"Should acquaintance be forgot.\" Beside and below this were devices representing the sailors' badge—the Crown, the Anchor, and the Wreath—the crown in gold and jewels, the anchor in silver, with a rope winding round, and the wreath in green leaves. Above the flags was a star composed of cutlasses and ramrods. At the opposite end, the fireplace was concealed by pot plants, shrubs, green moss, and other foliage, mixed with which silvered palm leaves glittered in the light, and the sailors' badge was to be seen here also. A very noticeable feature in this room was an array of round shields, covered with red cloth—one on each pilaster. The shields had a border of green moss, and Admiral Dowell's monogram was very chastely executed in the centre. Beneath this, at the top of the pedestal, was placed a bed of moss and flowers, and at the base there were pot plants. A green wreath hung in festoons all round the hall, looped up at the top of each pilaster, and from each festoon depended a circle of green moss, in the centre of which was some device—a crown or an anchor. The gas standards were treated lightly with moss.\n\n## The Theatre\nThe entire Theatre—stage, stalls, pit, and dress circle—was converted into a supper room, tables being laid to accommodate 408 guests. The catering was done by the Hongkong Hotel Company, and the tables were most tastefully set out, while the viands and wines were all of the best quality. The table for the guest of the evening, H. E. the Governor, and party, occupied the front of the stage. There were two tables behind this, and all available space in the pit and dress circle was utilised for the same purpose. Pot plants were placed on the front of the stage and below it, and also all round the front of the dress circle. The pillars were wreathed with green leaves, and the arches below were similarly ornamented.\n\nThe verandah was dealt with in much the same way as on former occasions, being closed in with matting, carpeted, and provided with seats.\n\nThe Decoration Committee were greatly indebted to Mr. Westland, the Acting Superintendent of the Botanical Department, for the ready and most valuable assistance he gave in the provision of pot plants, flowers, &c.\n\nThere was an unusually large provision made for the ladies, and in consequence the card room was relegated to the library, where there was very ample accommodation for whist players and smokers.\n\nOver 500 guests accepted the invitations sent them, so that there was a very large gathering, which included His Excellency the Governor and Miss Bowen, with Lieut. Bowen and Lieut. Breeks, A.D.C.s. Admiral Sir William Montagu Dowell, K.C.B., Vice-Admiral Vesey Hamilton, C.B., Major-General Cameron, C.B., with Mrs. and the Misses Cameron, The Chief Justice (Sir George Phillippo) and Lady Phillippo, Commodore and Mrs Morant, the Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. T. Jackson and Mrs. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Hon. Wong Shing, Colonel Walker, R. E., Colonel Crawford, R. A., Colonel Foster (Northamptonshire Regiment), Dr. Hungerford, A.M.D., Lieut.-Colonel Murray, O. S. D., Lieut.-Colonel Le Mesurier, C. & T. D., Major Cochrane, &c., &c. Admiral Dowell arrived at about 9.15, and was received with all honours, and shortly afterwards His Excellency the Governor and party were received at the entrance by members of the Committee.\n\nThe first dance, a quadrille, was led off by His Excellency the Governor with Mrs. Cameron and Admiral Sir W. Dowell with Miss Bowen, and dancing was sustained to the end with heartiness and spirit on an excellent floor.\n\nThe following was the programme of the dances, which was played by the Band of the Northamptonshire Regiment:\n| Dance | \n| --- | \n| QUADRILLE | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE POLKA | \n| LANCERS | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE | \n| POLKA | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE | \n| Supper | \n| VALSE | \n| Dances | \n| VALSE | \n| GALOP | \n| LANCERS | \n| round | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE | \n| HIGHLAND SCHOTTISCHE | \n| VALSE | \n| POLKA | \n| VALSE | \n| VALSE GALOP | \n| Britannia | \n| Los Sourires | \n| Estudiantina | \n| Tout à la Joie | \n| Olivette | \n| Bid me good bye | \n| Myosotis | \n| Ionian | \n| Venetia | \n| Fraises Ecrasees | \n| Gretchen | \n| Thine Alone | \n| Jolly will we be to-night | \n| La Mascotte | \n| Happy Thoughts | \n| Fedora | \n| Royal | \n| Gloire de Dijon | \n| Les Grenouilles | \n| Je t'Aime | \n| My Queen | \n| Our Last Waltz | \n| Queen Victoria | \n\nThe presentation of the address took place immediately after the supper. At the table mentioned above at the front of the stage, the chair was taken by the Hon. P. Ryrie, and the party at that table included, besides the guest of the evening, H. E. the Governor, Vice-Admiral Hamilton, Major-General Cameron and Mrs. Cameron, Sir George and Lady Phillippo, and Commodore and Mrs. Morant.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN**, after supper, proposed the health of her Majesty the Queen.\n\nThe toast was drunk loyally, the Band playing the National Anthem.\n\nThe **CHAIRMAN** then proposed the health of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.\n\n49", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3]", "content_text": "annoyed at this result of their demand for extradition, and the arrest which has just been made as well as the capture which was effected in May last year would seem to indicate that they have no longer any trust in the recognized lawful mode for obtaining the rendition of persons charged with the commission of crimes in China, and that they prefer to effect their object in an irregular manner. The offer of a large reward for the capture of Chinese in Hongkong would be sufficient to tempt some of the lawless characters who are to be found here to convey him out of the Colony by fraudulent devices if not by force.\n\n9. In confirmation of the view expressed in the preceding paragraph, I beg to refer to the extract from a letter from Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Peking dated the 5th September last: \"The irritation was doubtless engendered by the refusal of the Chinese...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 331013, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6]", "content_text": "20.\n\n21.\n\n94\n\nbeyond gambling matters. This possibility has always been a great obstacle with reference to the employment of Chinese. The remedy appears to consist in keeping the Chinese officials as far away as possible from all matters connected with gambling houses, and to simplify the action against such houses by making the registered householders responsible.\n\n17.\n\nParagraphs 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21 appear to be beyond my scope. Paragraph 12 I will consider with §24.\n\n18.\n\nPara. 22. The Triad Society is said to constitute another considerable obstacle in the punishment of offenders, its alleged object being apparently to screen crime and defeat the ends of justice by trumpeting up false evidence and other devices. The Committee are not in a position to pronounce an opinion on this question, which is at present being investigated elsewhere.\n\nCertain statements concerning this society are given in the evidence. On the 8th October, 1885, the Executive Council considered various reports and decided \"That there is no case for legislation at present.\" On the 9th April, 1886, the matter was referred to a Board for enquiry, and from the evidence collected, a most undesirable state of affairs as affecting the peace and good order of the Colony appears to exist.\n\n19.\n\nThe foregoing portion of the Report may be considered to deal with the primary object of the Secret Committee, the question of corruption in connection with...\n\nPage 94\n\n \n\nwas replaced with proper paragraph tags and minor corrections for spelling and spacing. The original page numbering \"94\" was preserved as per the instructions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-227 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334229, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "## Step 1\nThe given text is an OCR output of a historical record related to Hong Kong, specifically a discussion on the opium trade and legislation around it in the Legislative Council. The task is to proofread this text, correcting errors, and formatting it into standard Markdown.\n\n## Step 2\nFirst, we need to correct spelling errors. Upon reviewing the text, several spelling mistakes are identified, such as \"smugling\" instead of \"smuggling\", \"neccessary\" is not present but \"boon indeed, and in fact was almost absolutely necessary\" is correctly spelled, \"Conncil\" instead of \"Council\", and \"TORNEY-GENERAL\" seems to be a typo and should be \"ATTORNEY-GENERAL\".\n\n## Step 3\nNext, we need to fix spacing issues, including removing extra spaces and adding missing ones. For example, \"a smugling base\" should be \"a smuggling base\", and there are instances where words are run together or have unnecessary spaces between them.\n\n## Step 4\nWe also need to rejoin broken sentences. The OCR output sometimes splits sentences across lines or columns without logical reason. For instance, the text \"Well after consideration, and having regard in making them accept the proposal than any- thing else.\" seems to be a broken sentence and should be rejoined or corrected for clarity.\n\n## Step 5\nRestore paragraph breaks where the OCR has incorrectly merged or split paragraphs. The original text has several paragraphs that need to be reformatted for better readability.\n\n## Step 6\nIndicate missing words with `...` if a word is clearly missing due to OCR damage. There are a few instances where words or characters are missing or unclear.\n\n## Step 7\nFormat the text in Markdown. 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It was thought the proper course was to prevent the export of opium in quantities less than one chest. Every one who has had anything to do with watching the operations of Chinese smugglers knows that they are very fertile in devices for evading customs duties. Well, after consideration, and having regard to the fact also that when the Additional Article came into force, a large portion of the legitimate retail trade would naturally pass to Canton, Fatshan, and other centres, it was thought for legitimate trade it would be enough to allow a small station to be established on the other side of the border where the chests could be taken and broken up.\n\nI am directed to signify that as the dealers have expressed themselves willing to accept the conditions the Committee have no objections to offer.\" As your Excellency has stated, that was submitted to the Peking Government, and they asked for a modification, that nothing less than chests should go to any port but Canton.\n\n...except in junks—a modification which was absolutely within their own power, they would do, namely, that no opium should be admitted into open ports by steamer except in chests. Atwatow, Amoy, and Poochow no opium is admitted in quantities less than one chest.\n\nTherefore, in asking this, they have only asked that which they have themselves power to order. The Ordinance, as the Attorney-General has said, now comes on for second reading.\n\nA point of difference has been raised not when proposer approved by the Government and others who were consulted before it was submitted. We agreed that it should be recommended to prevent export unless in full chests. Of course it was open to them to make suggestions, and my hon. friend (Hon. C. P. Chater) has put forward what was practically the scheme accepted by China in the first instance. But there are certain surroundings about the present changes which have made the Chinese Government feel that it is much stronger than the first one put forward.\n\nThe scheme as put forward now proposes that telegraphic information should be given to the Customs as to the opium delivered. Retailed opium can only be given to the junk masters or the masters of Canton steamers. Immediately opium is delivered to a junk master or steamer, the Customs are to be informed, and there are also arrangements that the Customs should report back to the Government any opium that had left this place and that had not paid duty at the revenue stations.\n\nI think it is due to H.M.'s Minister at Peking and to Sir Robert Hart and his representative here to say that every facility they could put in the way for the modified proposals being accepted have been freely granted. Of course, if it is found the arrangement will not work, the Government will have to fall back on the old plan of full chest export, but whether it works well or not depends chiefly on the good faith of the retail dealers concerned.\n\nIf they conduct their business honourably, as they have undertaken through one of the members of Council to do, and through the Chamber of Commerce, there will be no necessity to take the other course, but if they set about devising means to evade the Bill, a stronger measure will have to be brought forward and they will only have themselves to thank.\n\nThe Home Government is clearly determined to stop smuggling. The Smuggling Commission which sat in 1882, and whose report has been referred to several times already, said:\n\nThey will not receive any opium unless what comes in chests—nor will they part with any except to a junk master or Canton steamer officer—and must have permits for shipment and keep receipts from junk masters. They will keep records, attach certificates of sale, and permit search for deficiency at all times.\n\nThere are other conditions, but these are the main ones. Now, there is an absolute definite proposal made by Mr. Chater, that these people should enter into bonds for $5,000.\n\nThe great increase which has taken place in the love of Lekin and other taxes upon foreign opium on the Mainland has led, within the last two years, to an organised system of smuggling from the colony to places at some considerable distance within the neighbouring province of Kwangtung.\n\nBands of men are touring the country, to whom are given a certain number of balls or cakes of opium by dealers in this colony, who undertake to pay the bearer of this opium so many dollars per ball or cake delivered at a named place in the interior.\n\nThe Bill was then read a second time.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I move that we go into Committee on this Bill.\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded.\n\nHon. A. P. MACEWAN—Before going into Committee, I wish, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, to ask for a short delay. The Bill has only been circulated to-day, and the members have not had the opportunity of going carefully through it.\n\nThe SURVEYOR-GENERAL—Where is the Superintendent's office to be?\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL—At the Harbour Master's Office for the present.\n\n...\n\n27th May, 1887.\n\nThe Council went into Committee on the Opium Bill.\n\nIn Section 9, the ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved an amendment, substituting for the words \"Harbour Master,\" \"an officer to be appointed by the Government to be named the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, herein after called the Superintendent.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335256, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "over \n\nnine: \n\ngreat glow of light hung over the town. The Chinese fireworks commenced on the Parade Ground soon afterwards, and a few rockets were sent up at intervals, while the steamer Titania threw its electric light intermittently on the harbour. Shortly before the bonfire on the Peak broke into a bright blaze, and a few minutes later other beacon fires flared to heaven from other points on the heights. About nine o'clock the bulky form of the Victor Emanuel suddenly emerged from the dense gloom in which she lay, a mass of glowing crimson, every port and spar being distinctly revealed, while the Constance and the Leander rose out of the obscurity under the luminous lime light, which brought them into startlingly vivid relief. Simultaneously a hissing stream of rockets soared upward from the barge on which the fireworks were being let off, and green and crimson fires were conspicuous on Victoria Gap. A few moments later showers of rockets sprang from the Peak and different heights, and the coloured stars falling from them at that height produced a novel and beautiful effect. At this time the illuminations were at their best. The city was flooded in light, with the purple haze above it, the long lines of twinkling lamps which marked the course of the white Bowen Road, the slender string of red lamps which indicated the track of the Tramway up the face of the Peak, the thick line of lights near the summit, the illuminated bungalows of Messrs Veitch, Chater, and Dennys, standing out against the sky, and the water below crowded with gaily lighted craft, and from which in the darker portion the men-of-war apparently bathed in coloured flame, while far off on the other side the Kowloon Police Station stood an oasis of lambent light in a wilderness of blackness, formed altogether a magnificent and never-to-be-forgotten sight. The men-of-war illuminations were remarkably fine, the vessels now appearing in blue, now in crimson, and anon in silvery whiteness, and their sudden emergences from the gloom were greeted with exclamations of astonishment, delight, and approval by the Chinese, who watched the ping-shün (soldier-ships) with the keenest interest. The streets and Praya were crowded with moving streams of sight-seers, who scarcely began to thin before eleven o'clock, when the illuminations commenced to wane, but half-an-hour later there was sensible diminution, and at midnight the great spectacle was over. Below we append as many details as we could gather in the time:--\n\nIN VICTORIA.\n\nThe City Hall, with its fine façade and handsome lines, lends itself readily to decoration, and its illumination on Wednesday evening was a sight that could not easily be surpassed. On the Praya side were the words \"Victoria Regina\" in immense letters composed of coloured lanterns running the whole length of the building, surmounted by a crown, with the figures 1837 and 1887 above and below it, while a series of arches composed of lanterns was carried along the top cornice. The eastern façade, facing the Cricket Ground, had Chinese transparencies fixed in the top of the arches of the verandah on the ground floor, while the upper part was covered with an artistic arrangement of hundreds of Japanese lanterns. The front of the building was covered with festoons and lines of coloured lanterns, with a series of shields with trophies of flags running under the top cornice, some of the shields bearing pictures of Hongkong at various periods of its history, and the others appropriate devices. In the centre were two larger shields with the figures 1837 and 1887 in blue on gold ground with flags draped above, and on the wings flanking the entrance were other large shields, the upper ones bearing St. George's Cross and the British Lion, and the lower ones the Prince of Wales's Arms and the Irish Harp respectively. The shields were draped with ensigns. A large transparency, showing a portrait of Her Majesty, was placed over the main entrance to the Hall. There were numerous lanterns hung in trees in front, in some cases up to the very top branches, and the general effect of the whole design was superb.\n\nThe Dent Fountain, which had been cleaned up, played jets of water. Drinking cups had been provided, and the fountain was much patronised by thirsty Chinese sight-seers eager to quench their thirst.\n\nOn the opposite side of the road Beaconsfield Arcade was illuminated with lanterns in the arches of the top verandah, and Messrs. Schmidt and Co., watchmakers, had a star in gas over their entrance. Beaconsfield, now occupied by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, had its front covered with white lanterns.\n\nThe magnificent building of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was most artistically dealt with. Over the portico were the words \"God save the Queen\" in gold letters on a white ground, with the figures 1837 and 1887 on each side. There were also shields bearing \"V. R.\" and other appropriate devices, and the whole façade was illuminated with red and white lanterns, with one monster lantern 11 feet high hanging in the entrance with the Royal Standard and Union Jack painted on it, surmounted by the Crown, the figures 1837 and 1887 appearing below. This huge affair drew forth many exclamations of astonishment from the Chinese. The eastern side of the Bank building was treated in a similar style. There was the name \"Victoria\" in gold letters on a white ground on the entablature over the centre pair of columns, with shields and trophies of flags on each side, the shields bearing the novel and appropriate device of the colours of various countries quartered—British, American, French, and German. There were also shields bearing \"1837\" and \"1887,\" and lanterns were hung round the pillars and along the top. The dome was lighted by strings of small coloured glass lamps carried up and around it, and stood out prominently. On the bamboo scaffolding of the still unfinished side of the Bank the letters \"V. R.\" and figures \"1837\" and \"1887\" were formed by white lanterns on a large scale and were very effective. Coloured lights were burned on the Praya side of the Bank at short intervals.\n\nProceeding along the Praya we next come to Messrs. D. Sassoon, Sons and Co.'s hong, illuminated with large masses of white lanterns under the cornice, the verandah arches being outlined in red with a large white lantern hanging in the arch. Messrs. Schellhass and Co. made a good show with red, white, and blue lanterns. The offices of the Messageries Maritimes were hung with beautiful variegated lanterns in lines. One of the most conspicuous features in the illumination as seen from the water were the stars and stripes of the United States which covered the whole front of Messrs. Russell and Co.'s hong worked out in blue, red, and white lanterns, sixteen hundred in all. The same design was adopted in the illuminations on the occasion of the Princes' visit, and was considered very successful then, but it was still more so this time, the ingenuity of the gentlemen who had the work in hand having discovered means of improving what appeared perfect before. There was also a design in white lanterns on the flagstaff. The chief feature in Messrs. Melchers and Co.'s illumination, and one that excited much admiration, was a large transparency painted from the Norddeutscher Lloyd's picture advertisement representing a fine Atlantic liner. On one side of this, in similar transparency, were the Norddeutscher Lloyd's arms, and on the other, also in transparency, three flags crossed—the British and German and the house flag of the firm. The paintings, excellently executed, were the work of Bung Qua, who was superintended by Mr. Baptista. There was also a large display of lanterns, with the letters \"V. R.\" in coloured glass lamps. The lower part of the same house is occupied by Messrs. Blackhead and Co., who had flags hung out. The corner house of this block, occupied by Messrs. More and Seimund on the ground floor and by Messrs. Holliday, Wise and Co., Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Co., and the Wharf and Godown Company above, was illuminated by white and coloured lanterns and various Chinese transparencies. One of the latter over the door in Pedder's street had moving figures, and appeared to amuse the Chinese.\n\nCrossing Pedder's-street, not noticing for the present the Clock Tower or the Triumphal Arch at Pedder's Wharf, we come to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s hong, which had a large transparency with \"V. R.\" and underneath it a St. Andrew's cross surrounded by thistles. There were", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 340464, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "page_number": 193, "title": "CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889", "content_text": "Empius China & Japan, \nand to put a trade which is \nMainly carried on by a Company independent of outside influence and of which is carried on for the benefit of the mother country of the British Flag. Gesting is also \ndefended in order that it may not \nfall into the hands of a foreign Enemy and be used as a Naval base from which to destroy The Ships code in the mother country \nEngaged in carrying on this trade and as a guarantee against such a Misfortune with the East. Its increased strength and additional garrison are demanded by the circumstances of the \n9th July real analogy that they are \nthe circumstances illustrating the \nAustration (dominion) to which this Loss refers. These great defensive measures are \nthe increasing strength & resources of Vladivostock & by the presence of \nLarge French forces in Tongking and \nCochin China. \n\nLow Kang pei ages, 20th \n\nHe must consider the defence of the possessions & that comparison between the sums concerned only for the protection of her \nown trade \nNavy \n& their contributions to the \nexpenditure for the Protection \nExtended to different countries by Certain devices is always difficult; \nin the present \nCase \nthe Comparison seems misleading \nIn the creations, to which they refer in the 21st para. of their letter, an overloading strain on defences and maintenance solely for the protection of those interests which they themselves administer. As Mr. Santos pointed out in the 15th para. of December last, Modes nothing, & it seems impossible to make Any satisfactory comparison between the tax-paying Capacity of its minor Insulation & that of the Population of Gardening. He further refers to \nConsiderations such as \n&. \n191 \nof the ground very considerable Middle believe their own Posts, and from those ports to the mother Country. They now differ than fine line those of Hong Kong. The many Grey King on Hingapon \nare to for today \n& Singapore from \nand mainly Naval Bases in \nharbours of refuge for the Large- \nships which \npass through them in its transit between the United Kingdom and \nForeign countries. \n\nUnless this distinction is \nkept in View, this Line \nAppears seemingly to sanguine trends \nindividually faster than can be no \nwill be given to Mose & Jain consideration of the \nThe defence of \nConditions which govern \nThese Eastern Coaling stations. It is \nof course Reasonable and \nJust that \nthe mercantile community, and alien \ninhabitants of Singapore & Hongkong should bear their share of the cost \nof Protecting the ports in which", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-243 - Public Offices & Others - 1889.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 342641, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2\n\n1390\n\n254\n\nHONGKONG, 30th June, 1890.\n\n(e.) That in breach of your duty as Audit Clerk you passed the following false entry, viz.: August, 1889, \"Loan from the Government Branch Offices $9,000\" and that you passed the subsequent monthly accounts in which the said false entry was not debited.\n\n(f) That on various occasions you passed loans from Imperial Funds which were entered in the Cash Book, although instructed that such loans were not to be made, and that you passed subsequent monthly accounts in which no debit entries were made of such loans.\n\n(g.) That you failed to obey the instructions of your superior officer, Mr. SILVA, to see that the amounts paid into the Treasury corresponded with the amounts of which the Crown Agents were advised and that in consequence thereof frauds on a large scale took place.\n\n(7.) That in breach of your duty as Audit Clerk you passed as correct a balance sheet prepared by the Superintendent of the Money Order Office in April, 1889, and purporting to show that when all sums due by the Australian Colonies had been collected the accounts of the said Superintendent would be in order when as a matter of fact you failed to check some of the items in the said balance sheet and the whole balance sheet was misleading and deceptive.\n\n(i) That the examinations which it was your duty to make as Audit Clerk were generally made very much in arrear namely from two to four months after the transactions had taken place to which the accounts examined referred.\n\n4. I am to add that the following papers connected with these charges are open for your inspection:\n\n(a.) Collector's Accounts of the Postmaster General for 1888, 1889 and 1890 (to March);\n\n(b.) Bank Paying-in forms for the same periods;\n\n(c.) Memoranda of Receipts from Colonial Treasurer during the same period;\n\n(d.) Account of Money Order transactions prepared by Z. M. BARRADAS in 1889.\n\nAny application for further documents made by you will, if practicable, be acceded to.\n\nF. FREIRE, Esq.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nW. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nSIR,\n\n704\n\n10010\n\nIn reply to your letter No. 1041 of the 22nd May last forwarding to me copy of certain charges made against me by the Honourable A. L. P. (Postmaster General), and requiring me to submit in writing my answers to these charges, and to your further letter of the 4th June handing me specimen particulars of amounts and dates as affecting the various charges, I have now the honour to hand you my explanation and defence, which I beg of you to submit for the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and I would ask you to convey to His Excellency at the same time, my hearty thanks for his goodness in extending the time allowed me for my reply and in permitting Mr. FRANCIS to inspect the books, papers, &c., connected with the matter.\n\nBefore dealing categorically with the specific charges made against me may I be permitted to refer generally to the unfortunate affair out of which these charges have arisen and to the Money Order Department of the Post Office, and its general management. What I have to say on these heads will serve as a general defence, and as an explanation of and introduction to my answers to the particular charges.\n\nMr. BARRADAS, Superintendent of the Money Order Department of the Post Office, fled the Colony in March last and it was then found that there were deficiencies in his accounts to the extent of some $46,000 or over.\n\nOn investigation it was found that he had some two or three years past been appropriating, to his own use, moneys received by him from the public for Money Orders, and had been able to conceal the deficiencies in his accounts by making use of the vouchers for moneys paid into the Treasury on account of Postal Notes as vouchers for moneys paid in on account of Money Orders, and by other similar devices.\n\nThe question then naturally arose how was it that during the two or three years that these defalcations were going on, the Audit Office Clerk making the monthly audit had not been able to detect these frauds or had not called attention to them. I was the Audit Office clerk whose duty it was during the past three years to examine and check Mr. BARRADAS' accounts and that I should be called on for an explanation is natural and proper, but I respectfully submit that there has been no justification for my suspension from office and pay.\n\nThe Regulations are express that no officer shall be suspended until charges have been formally made against him, until he has had the opportunity of answering those charges and until the Executive Council has pronounced upon those charges after considering the defence. There is of course an exception where an officer is in actual charge and receipt of money and stores and his removal, pending investigation is essential, but I very respectfully submit that there was nothing whatever in my position or duty to make that exception applicable to me. I had neither charge of money nor stores; I was not guilty of any defalcation myself or suspected of any, and my continued presence in my office could have done no possible harm. The very most that was needed to obviate any possible inconvenience was that I should change duties with Mr. RIBEIRO. Why I have been treated as if I had been the thief, I do not understand.\n\nNow to answer the general question not formulated in the charges but underlying them all, how was it, I did not discover these frauds in the course of my duties as Audit clerk, I ask leave to give a general answer in the first instance and to reply to the particular charges seriatim afterwards—one general answer is that the method in which the accounts and books of the Money Order Office and Post Office were kept and have been kept for years past, was so defective as to lend itself to fraud and help to conceal it and to render it very difficult for any audit to discover it.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## \nby letter from Bombay Mint master to Bombay Agent)\n\nBombay 5 Jan. 1894\n\nWe have made out a rough calculation of the cost of coining £3,000,000 worth of Silver into Dollars, and it comes out about Rupees 23 per one Thousand Dollar pieces.\n\nI have assumed that your Bank would purchase the silver and supply it to us as we required it.\n\nIf Government agreed to coin the Dollars, how long do you think would it take before we could let us know that the thing was settled?\n\nThe Devices on the Coin would have to be decided on. I understand that Hongkong Dollars were once upon a time coined in the Birmingham Mint, if this is so, no doubt the old matrices may be still in existence and we could use them here to start on. New matrices were supplied, but the Representative of Hongkong may prefer new devices, if so you must bear in mind it takes a long time out here to prepare a matrice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 564, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Transcript of Proceedings\n\nMr. Leigh valued each of the five houses of Mr. Palmer at $1,200, although he said they might today be built for much less, making $6,000. The land he valued at $14,000, it containing 2,910 square feet, which would make the value of the square foot $4.86. But, he said, let us say $4 a foot for this claim and add $100 for old material. The area is 580 square feet, which at $4 a foot would be $2,320 and, adding in the $100 for old matter, would make a total of $2,420. Now if the owner puts in about $900 more, for that money he could build another four-storey house and would have a good income-bearing investment.\n\nHis Lordship - Just what do you mean by undeveloped and over-developed property?\n\nMr. Leigh - I call property undeveloped which in its present condition is not earning a fair return on the investment but which by judicious expenditure of a reasonable amount of money could be put in condition to earn a proper return on the investment; and, on the other hand, I consider a property over-developed when it has more bricks and mortar and finishings on it than can be made to yield a reasonable return. The $900 estimate I have made in this case is what I should consider fair and sufficient outlay for the purposes intended.\n\nThe second house of this claim, the larger one, I value at $1,300. It is in good condition and is 17 feet wide. It is lighted on three sides and has a shop on the ground floor and the upper portion is used for dwelling purposes. The house is exceptionally well built and is, I should say, twenty-odd years old. The rent, as returned by the assessor, was for 1892 $35 and for 1893 $30 per month; there was no return made for the smaller house. The Assessor assessed the rentals for the three years at $340, $320, and $300. I have averaged the rent at $31.66 a month, which gives for the year $373.92. Deducting for repairs, Crown rent, taxes, and fire insurance, and capitalising at 7 per cent. for 14 years, although really it ought to be 14.28 years, we should arrive at a value for the house of $4,300. I make no deduction for depreciation by the wear of the house during the years of the capitalisation, for that is allowed for in the value given to the property today. And that is just where the value of a surveyor's services comes in. Almost anyone can value a new house, but a house that is in good condition makes no difference whether it is old or new. Some people, in fact, much prefer a house that is well dried out and has stood the test of a few years' trial. If a house is in good condition and is properly cared for it will last the fourteen years of the compensation and probably even much longer. Adding then the 10 per cent. for compulsory sale gives $1,730, which, added to the $2,420, makes $7,392, including the 10 per cent. The house is in a thoroughly sanitary condition.\n\nIn making the valuation of 57, Square Street, I follow the same method and make the same deductions as I have in the other ordinary cases and as has been followed in the colony for years. In some houses it would make no difference whether there were mezzanine floors or not, where one person takes a whole floor, for he then subdivides it to suit the conveniences of his family; it only affects houses used for coolie lodgings, and in those it will be very difficult to prevent overcrowding, for they will put in cubicles and other devices. No Chinaman will sleep on the floor, not even under the new Ordinance. I do not allow in these estimates for concreting the floors. The property now belongs to the Government and it will have to provide for this.\n\nChan Kwai, landlord of the property, was then called as witness and said - I was offered verbally by Mr. Palmer $2,600 for the one piece, but did not agree to sell as I had fitted it up to use for my business. I bought it five years ago and paid $2,200 for it with the house on it. The same year I also bought the corner house and paid $3,130 for it.\n\nHon. F. A. Cooper, Director of Public Works, was then called as a witness and stated that he had examined the property 57, Square Street, and he found that the rentals returned for 1893-1894 amounted to $300 and that the rentals for the big house for three years were respectively $340, $320, and $300, and the little house $140 for each year; therefore, calling the large house $300 and the small one $140, the total rent would be $440 per annum; deducting $90 for the sundry items embraced in the Crown rent and so forth would leave a net rental of $350, which, at twelve years' purchase, would amount to $4,200, from which should be deducted $400 that it would be necessary to expend on the property to put it in a sanitary condition.\n\nAt this point a general discussion arose between the members of the Board and the representatives of the Government as to whether the Government had not represented the very worst side of some of these tenements, the Board saying that at the first session the Government had brought in witnesses concerning the worst rookeries in the colony and these they hardly thought fair average illustrations of the coolie lodging houses. The special cases to which the Board referred were three witnesses introduced by the Government at the first session, who testified that one, a coolie, who lived at 44, Market Street, had one of these places to sleep in and paid only 25 cents a month. He said he earned 150 cash a day, when work was good, but other days only 30 or 40 cash. A coolie woman also appeared and said that she and her husband had a cockloft where they lived and paid 10 cents a month for the two. Another coolie, who was more of a capitalist, deposed that he had a room for himself and wife and two children on the ground floor for which he paid one dollar a month.\n\nMr. Cooper then said that the Government could produce any kind of specimens the Board might care to see, but that these were fair representatives of that class among which the plague had been most destructive and who were the tenants of these cheap overcrowded places and were those it was most necessary to guard against as they were the most apt to introduce and spread contagion. He then continued his description of the property and said that No. 57, Square Street, had three storeys, which by mezzanines had been converted into six, and No. 65 had two storeys that had been made into four by the same process. The cubic capacity of No. 57 was 31,000 cubic feet, which at 3 cents a cubic foot for construction would make $930, but he estimated its present value at $498. The cubic capacity of No. 65 was 15,700 feet and would cost to construct $471 and its present value he estimated to be $282. He thought the depreciation of No. 57 was fully 25 per cent. and that of No. 65 at least 40 per cent. He estimated the value of the ground of No. 57 at $2 per square foot and of No. 65 at $1.80.\n\nHe then entered upon a long statement of the value of property all around this property as found from sales and other entries in the public records, showing that property in that vicinity varied from $1 to over $5. He considered these houses were a bad case of overcrowding, there being 46,700 cubic feet, which, less one-third for walls, flooring, and other parts of building, furnishing and personal effects, left 31,000 cubic feet of air, which divided by 400, the amount specified in the new Ordinance, gives accommodation for 30 persons, which at $4 per head per year would return $524 gross, less 13 per cent. for taxes $41.80, collection expenses at 5 per cent. $26, fire insurance 1 per cent. on $140 $14, and 3 per cent. for repairs, making $120, leaving net income of $200, which would make at a twelve years' valuation $2,400, but there were really other deductions that should be made, reducing it to $2,340. There are cubicles and short doors that do not comply with the law and must be taken into account, which will cost something and will necessarily reduce the rentals. The floors also have to be covered with concrete. It would cost $400 to $500 to repair the houses as they now stand. He said that his valuation had been made recently and that doubtless the houses had depreciated considerably through standing open and vacant since the plague. These houses, he also said, were supposed to be part of that block in which no cases of plague were reported.\n\nThis terminated the proceedings of the day and the Court adjourned until today (Monday).", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 660, "title": "CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3]", "content_text": "## \n\nA long correspondence and much negotiation has led to an admission that these breaches have happened; orders are given for rectification of these illegal acts, and the carrying trade reverts for a time to normal channels. The trade then departs from its usual course into the old preference for junk carriage. No other conclusion is possible but that the same practices are at work now that were admitted to exist before.\n\nBuyers of produce in Canton for export to foreign ports from Hongkong are able to purchase considerably cheaper if bought delivered by junk in Hongkong, than if they purchase for delivery in Canton and transfer the cargo from Canton to Hongkong in foreign steamers. The freight by steam to Hongkong is very much below junk carriage. In short, a seller of produce for delivery in Canton would demand considerably more than would be accepted for the same article, delivered by junk, at seller's expense, in Hongkong.\n\nThe whole matter is patent in this Chamber's opinion, and it appears unreasonable to doubt the existence of some such methods as are indicated for the continuance of the illegal breaches of Treaty that permanently occur, and equally unreasonable to expect the complainants to furnish specific proof of any particular breaches. A very fair analogy may be instanced with what has occurred again and again with the Gambling Houses at Kowloon City, which may be within your Lordship's cognizance.\n\nRemonstrance after remonstrance is addressed by the Governor of this Colony, through Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking, to the Chinese Authorities against the dangerous nuisance that they permit to be established in such close proximity to Hongkong - the vice of gambling is contrary to Chinese law. Tardily, orders are transmitted to stop the evil. The houses are temporarily closed, only to open again very shortly afterwards, just the same as before. How often this has happened is within the knowledge of Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking.\n\nThe Chamber feels diffident to recommend any system that shall once for all put an end to the recurrence of their complaints. For, with the tortuous Native methods, the Committee feel they may be suggesting devices that will render the native ways even more secret and less liable to detection. But the Chamber considers, provided the Chinese Authorities would consent, that if all cargo intended for exportation to foreign ports shall be passed only through the Imperial Maritime Customs instead of indiscriminately both through the Native Customs and the Imperial Maritime Customs, as at present, a blow would be struck at the present irregularities, which would probably end all complaints.\n\nIt should also be incumbent upon the exporter in Canton to declare, when passing his goods through the Native Customs, that they are not for export to foreign ports from Hongkong. False statements on this point could be readily detected and proved in Hongkong when a `tius` of the duty leviable under the Imperial Maritime Customs Tariff should be levied and paid to the satisfaction of Her Britannic Majesty's Consul in Canton, in addition to what has already been paid on the goods to the Native Customs.\n\nThe many various phases of the entire question are so fully set forth in the printed correspondence enclosed that the Chamber would only beg your reference to them.\n\nThe Chamber begs to acknowledge the unvarying courtesy, the keen interest, and prompt attention which have invariably been manifested by Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking in the conduct of this troublesome affair, and in addressing your Lordship personally have no desire it should be thought they intend to pass over Her Britannic Majesty's Minister, but considering the importance of the interests involved and that an unredressed complaint, involving serious breaches of Treaties, which has lingered as this has done without a proper settlement is a most dangerous precedent to the commerce of Great Britain in these waters, and it is considered most desirable to bring the matter under the immediate notice of your Lordship. A copy of this letter, with enclosures, will be sent to Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Peking that he may be aware of the action that has been taken.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's obedient and humble Servant,\n\nE. MACKINTOSH,\n\nVice-Chairman,\n\nPage 660 \nPage 661", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-266 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 360538, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 29, "title": "CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9]", "content_text": "## 12. 13 26 \n\nattributed by the Chinese to the cold weather which prevailed during that period.\n\n7. It was, of course, not to be expected that the Chinese would submit with any great complacency to the compulsory inspection, disinfection, and cleansing of their dwellings, which cannot be carried out without causing some discomfort to those concerned, and, though I am happy to say that they have shown themselves this year more ready than in 1894 to recognise the absolute necessity in the interests of the public health of the sanitary measures which have to be adopted, they nevertheless have displayed great unwillingness to come forward to report their cases of plague coming under their cognisance. Innumerable have been the devices and subterfuges to which they have had recourse in order to remove...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-272 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1896 [5-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361914, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government.] C. O\n\nCHINA TARIFFS.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n25\n\nNo. 1.\n\n20577 ¡Reck\n\n# 3 OCT 36\n\n[September 21.F\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n136\n\nDear Mr. Bertie,\n\nMr. Gundry to Foreign Office.--(Received September 21.)\n\nHillworth, Devizes, September 18, 1896.\n\nI WENT straight to Mr. Keswick, after leaving you, to speak to him again about a surtax. He admitted that there is a good case for reconsideration.\n\nI propose, therefore, sending to members of the Committee the inclosed letter, which I have tried to make so explicit that they shall at least have a clear issue before them.\n\nYours very truly, (Signed)\n\nR. S. GUNDRY.\n\nPS.-I take the opportunity of inclosing a copy of the Hong Kong letter, and a corrected copy of the Shanghae letter, instead of the rough one I previously left.\n\nR. S. G.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nLetter addressed to Members of the Hong Kong Committee.\n\nChina Association, 31, Lombard Street, London, September 18, 1896.\n\nA POINT has been now reached when it will be desirable to prepare a letter to the Foreign Office, giving full expression to the views of the Association on the Tariff question.\n\nBefore doing this, I wish to suggest the following considerations :—\n\nThe Shanghae letter of the 31st July remarks that-\n\n\"From a combination of various causes, inclusive of currency changes, the actual duty now collected under a nominal 5 per cent. standard does not exceed, probably, 3 to 4 per cent. A revision to 7½ per cent. would therefore be tantamount to doubling the revenue at present derived from the Customs, and form a limit which cannot prudently be passed without incurring the risk of ulterior consequences to foreign commerce in China.\"\n\nConcurring in this view, the General Committee recorded an opinion that the new scale should not exceed an aggregate of 10 (7½ + 2½) per cent.\n\nAn opinion was, however, at the same time expressed in favour of revising the existing schedule of values.\n\nThe reflection suggests itself that if present rates are more nearly 4 than 5 per cent., a revision of values alone would raise them 25 per cent. A charge of 10 per cent. on the revised scale would seem likely, therefore, to involve a greater increase than might be desired.\n\nNote may, at the same time, be taken of the fact that the Chinese are entitled, under Article XXVII, to demand revision in 1898.\n\nIt has been suggested that the increase which they now ask might be granted,\n\n[1549 h−1]\n\nPage 136\n\n...\n\nPage 137\n\n(empty lines or other page numbering content here, if any)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-274 - Public Offices & Others - 1896.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370296, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "## TELEGRAPH OFFICE, POTTERNE.\n\nFor the Rolls Heselting Late for the Colono-\n\nI am at present Eng Lund on renos from ong/rong - for die Moultes - Rich Will Expires on the 4th of Mant seat. Oh 2 Alioul. The 15th of May lot. I will complete the\n\n## THE MANOR HOUSE, POTTERNE, DEVIZES.\n\ndo not propose to return to duty her half-pay must cease in this case she must at the end of the present month need not of course return to Hong Kong. I am proposing to ... at all; I understand from Six I. Ackroyce that the urgent private affairs for which her leave was granted were connected with her mother's death.\n\nG. W. J. 17/12 \n\nIthurih his Cambal bra a fair management. 22/12 C.P.2.23 \n\nFee.15.16 .371 26203", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373092, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 449, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "142\n\n(4)\n\nInstructions referred to on page 1,\n\nIf this Paper of Particulars and the Certificates connected with it, be not sent in original, the copies must be duly attested.\n\nNo 25335\n\n(Subject.)\n\n446\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O.\n\n25355\n\n&\n\nfra 21 SEP 39\n\nHead of Paper-In the case of an Officer serving on the West Coast of Africa, a statement is to be added whether he is a native of that Coast. (Colonial Regulations, § 430.) Head 3.--State the description of Allowance for which the Application is recommended, viz., Superannuation, Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, and its amount.\n\nIn the case of Persons claiming an addition to their Pensions Compassionate Allowance, or Gratuity, in respect of Professional or other special qualifications, this should be stated, and a reference should be given to the authority under which the claim is made.\n\nHead 5.-If the service has been interrupted by one or more breaks, the word \"broken\" should be added before or after the number of years and months, and the causes, dates and circumstances of the break or breaks should be stated under heading 9.\n\nHead 6-If the person retiring has been in receipt of the same Salary, or in the class from which he retires, for the three months immediately before the date of his retirement, the actual annual rate of Salary or Wages at that date should be inserted, preceded by the word \"actual.\" In other cases the average annual amount of Salary or Wages for the three years or the whole period of service, as the case may be, should be inserted, preceded by the word \"average.\"\n\nHead 7-A separate statement should be inserted of the average Annual Value, for the 36 months immediately preceding retirement, of each Emolument (exclusive of salary or wages) which is claimed to be included in the calculation of the Pension or Gratuity.\n\nWhenever the value of a House or House Allowance, so ascertained, exceeds one-sixth of the salary and other emoluments which count for Pension purposes, it is to be reduced to one-sixth of that amount, so that it shall not exceed one-seventh of the whole.\n\nFees which an Officer is allowed to retain for his own use will be taken into account for Pension purposes, at the annual average of the net receipts of the 36 months next preceding the Officer's retirement. These net receipts are to be ascertained by deducting from the gross amount of Fees such Office Expenses, &c., as an Officer may have had to defray from his own resources, in performing the service for which he was remunerated by Fees. No deduction, however, from the Fees should be made in respect of Office Expenses provided from Public Funds, for the due discharge of those duties to which a Fixed Salary is annexed.\n\nPapers of \"Particulars\" forwarded to the Colonial Department should be accompanied by formal Declarations from the retiring Officers, showing the amount received by them for Fees, and the amount defrayed as above for Office Expenses, &c., in each of the three years immediately preceding the retirement.\n\nIt will be the duty of the Colonial Governments concerned to satisfy themselves of the accuracy of such statements before forwarding them to the Colonial Office.\n\nIn the case of Officers receiving Fixed Salaries and Fees, the Fees will not in ordinary circumstances be allowed to count for Pension purposes to the extent of more than one quarter of the Salaries, and Fees will not in any case be allowed to count for Pension purposes during any period in which the whole time of the Officer receiving them was not given to the Public Service.\n\nHead 8.—In cases of infirmity, if the Applicant is below the ordinary age for retirement, a Medical Certificate is to be furnished showing that he is disqualified by infirmity of mind or body for discharging the duties of his situation, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent.\n\nIn case of ten years' service or more, this Certificate should be signed by two Officers, of whom at least one should, if possible, be a Salaried Officer of the Government.\n\nHead 9. As to \"broken\" service, see Head 5.\n\nIf the Applicant has had any \"acting\" service, the details must be fully given, with a statement whether or not during the \"acting\" service, he was connected with the permanent Civil Service of the Colony.\n\nHead 11.—If, in special circumstances, a professional Civil Officer has been allowed to have “private practice” without forfeiting his claim to Pension, the facts are to be fully stated.\n\nHead 14.-If the Applicant is liable to any deduction from his service under Clause 102 of the Colonial Regulations, the facts should be fully stated.\n\nHead 19.--The length of service and other particulars of the computation are to be given. When an average of Salary, &c., is taken, the mode of calculating it (whether by months, &c.) is to be explained.\n\nNo.\n\nFeb\n\n1899\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\n740\n\nSubsequent Paper.\n\nVolunteers paper\n\nabout 50 men HK Volunteers\n\n4 maxims of devices\n\nM\n\nwent\n\nof\n\noperator's\n\nportem\n\nFavoural.\n\nfor satisfied they\n\nstart at ma\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\nM. Lucas C.18. December 1899.\n\nBut can we share them from Hongkong, in which Colony the sufficiency of garrison is now engaging the attention?\n\nDecline offers similar to the C.D.C.\n\n? Reply\n\nStraits (mutatis mutandis)\n\n18473\n\n(dis)\n\nSug. 2.ff. CP2.21\n\nThere is not the same barrier to complying with Volunteers\n\nA61\n\nagainst the Boers would have been in the case of the Malays in former years\n\nEWS 21.244\n\n76719", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374411, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "C.\n\nThis Document is the Property of Her Britannic Majesty's Government...\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nC.U.\n\n21537 [August 3\n\nSECTION 15 AUG 99\n\nSir Lo Feng Luh to the Marquess of Salisbury.-(Received August 3.)\n\nChinese Legation, London, August 2, 1899.\n\nMy Lord Marquess,\n\nIN the month of October 1898 a demand was addressed by the Chinese Government to the Governor of Hong Kong for the extradition of a Chinese subject named Chung Sui-yung, a native of the Sung-On district, in the Province of Kwang-Tung, for hearing before China, and on the 7th November following, the case came before Commander Hastings, the Police Magistrate at Hong Kong.\n\nThe plea on which his extradition was demanded was one of burglary, alleged to have been committed at a place named Cha Tao Kok in the Sung-On district. The Magistrate dismissed the case on the ground of an alibi having been proved by two German missionaries, who testified to having seen the accused at some other place at the time the offence was committed.\n\nSubsequently, another demand for the extradition of Chung Sui-yung was made before the same Court. This time, on the charge of his having, by means of intimidation and other illegal devices, extorted money from the inhabitants of Lung Hwa and other villages in the Sung-On district, and notably from a person named Tai Man-hing. On this occasion, also, the case was dismissed at the village of Tai-Chung in the same district, and the prisoner discharged, the evidence adduced not having been considered sufficient to warrant a conviction.\n\nIt may here be stated, that the offences charged against the defendant were both of them committed in October 1898, and that the district of Sung-On is contiguous to the territory leased to Great Britain under the Convention for the extension of Hong Kong, signed at Peking on the 25th June, 1898.\n\nIt is much to be regretted that these attempts to procure the extradition of Chung Sui-yung were not successful; for, he having been the arch-ringleader of the band of desperadoes who subsequently opposed the British occupation of the leased territory at Kowloong, his conviction and extradition would probably have obviated the collision that lately took place between the band and the colonial forces; and likewise have prevented the misunderstanding between the British and the Chinese local authorities to which the collision unfortunately gave rise.\n\nIn the opinion of the Imperial Government, the case of Chung Sui-yung once more shows the danger of allowing Chinese criminal fugitives in Hong Kong to abuse the technicalities of British law, in order to thwart the requisitions of the Chinese Government for their surrender. I have, therefore, been instructed by the Tsung-li Yamên to call the serious attention of your Lordship to the matter, with a view to the adoption of some more certain and expeditious procedure whereby the extradition of fugitive criminals may be obtained. For, without this, it is much to be feared that with the increased facilities for escape afforded by the extension of the Colony on the Kowloong side of the harbour, great difficulties will be experienced by the provincial authorities, in exercising that effective control of the criminal classes in the Sung-On and adjacent districts, which is indispensable to enable China to discharge her international obligations as a good neighbour.\n\nThe right of China to the rendition of fugitive criminals from Hong Kong is based on Article XXI of the Treaty of Tien-tsin of 1858, which states, that \"if criminals, subjects of China, shall take refuge in Hong Kong, or on board the British ships there, they shall, upon due requisition by the Chinese authorities, be searched for, and, on proof of their guilt, be delivered up.\"\n\nThe Imperial Government have always experienced great difficulty in obtaining the extradition of fugitive criminals from Hong Kong, and they impute this to the erroneous construction which, they consider, has hitherto been put on the Treaty by the Hong Kong authorities; and that, in order to insure a more successful result in future, a return to what was evidently the intention of the negotiators of the Treaty should be had recourse to.\n\nThe explicit terms of the Article above cited, and the date of the Treaty of which it forms a part, show that a more simple and summary procedure was intended than the elaborate one now insisted on by the Hong Kong authorities, who, instead of reading the Treaty in the light of the law and rules of procedure which were in force at\n\n[2140 a-1]\n\n481\n\n154", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 585, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "COPY.\n\n581\n\nDouble Trolley System. Electric railways have led to many controversies between telephone and railway companies, and many devices have been proposed as a means of preventing or removing the difficulty. The most important of the plans for preventing the interference are: 1st. Change of the railway system to double trolley, or complete metallic circuit without ground connection. Undoubtedly, the use of the double trolley system would prevent any material disturbance to the telephone, as there is no connection of the railway circuit with the earth, except by accident, and the two wires run side by side and near together, thus avoiding any appreciable amount of induction. The leading railways constructing companies refuse to adapt the system, saying that it is not practicable except in very simple cases, and that in the case referred to, in Cincinnati, the road presents such simple conditions of engineering that for that reason only it is possible to operate the system successfully there.\n\nStatutory Rules and Orders, 1895.\n\n\"These disturbances to the telephone from the tramway clauses.\n\nTramway and Light Railway, Ireland, quote two clauses.\n\n(1.) The promoters shall construct their electric lines and other works of all descriptions, and shall work their undertaking in all respects with due regard to the telegraphic lines from time to time used or intended to be used by Her Majesty's Postmaster-General, and the currents in such telegraphic lines, and shall use every reasonable means in the construction of their electrical lines and other works of all descriptions, and the working of their undertaking, to prevent injurious affection, whether by induction or otherwise, to such telegraphic lines, or the currents therein. If any question arises as to whether the promoters have constructed their electric lines or other works, or work their undertaking in contravention of this sub-section, such question shall be determined by arbitration, and the promoters shall be bound to make any alterations in or additions to their system which may be directed by the arbitrator.\n\n(5) For the purpose of this section, a telegraph line of the Postmaster-General shall be deemed to be injuriously affected by an act or work if the telegraphic communication by means of such line is, whether through induction or otherwise, in any manner affected by such act or work, or by any use made of such work.\n\nIr. Bake of the Indian Government Telegraphs on Disturbances from Electric Tramways. Proc. Inst. Elec. Engrs. May 1897.\n\nThe main point which may be of interest to many here, for I think it is rather a controversial matter, is that the Tramway Company had to reimburse the Eastern Extension Cable Companies for the cost of making this alteration.\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382507, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 490, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "(iii) What portions of the Bill differ from the corresponding section of the repealed Ordinance, in which cases the word \"amended\" (see clauses 6 and 25) appears in the margin after the section and number of the repealed Ordinance.\n\n(iv) What portions of the Bill are new. (See clauses 18 and 22.)\n\nClasses (i) and (ii) of the above classes of clauses seem to require no comment.\n\nAs regards class (iii), clause 6 of this Bill differs from section 5 of Ordinance 16 of 1886 in the following respects, namely:\n\n(1) The power to revoke, add to, or alter rules is omitted as being now implied by virtue of the provisions of section 35 of the Interpretation Ordinance (No. 24) of 1897.\n\n(ii) The clause is split up into paragraphs (a), (b), (c), etc. for the purpose of greater clearness and convenience.\n\n(iii) In paragraphs (a) and (b) the word \"First\" is inserted before the word \"Schedule,\" that being a necessary consequential amendment.\n\nIn paragraph (c):\n\n(1) The words \"under this Ordinance\" have been inserted for the sake of greater precision; and\n\n(2) The words \"and also the manner of cancelling the same\" have been added so as to make provision for what shall be deemed cancellation. (See clauses 23 and 27.)\n\nParagraph (e) is entirely new and has been introduced to cover the over-embossing process which has been sanctioned by the Secretary of State.\n\nIn paragraph (g) the words \"carrying out of the provisions of\" have been substituted for the word \"execution\" in the repealed enactment.\n\nIn clause 25 of this Bill the words \"within the meaning of this section\" are substituted for the words \"within the meaning of this notice.\"\n\nI now proceed to consider the new provisions of the Bill. The object of sub-section 1(a) of clause 18 of the Bill is to introduce certain provisions of the English Legislature into this Colony in order to prevent rich persons who fall seriously ill from conveying away their property, a few days before their death, so as to evade probate duty. A few cases of this kind have recently occurred in this Colony.\n\nThe object of sub-section 1(b) and 1(c) of clause 18 of the Bill, which are also founded upon English legislation, is to thwart other possible devices by which probate duty might be evaded.\n\nSub-sections (2) and (3) of clause 18 of the Bill have been introduced for the express purpose of preventing attempts at evasion of probate duty under the plea that valuable consideration has been paid.\n\nClause 22 of the Bill contains provisions which are entirely new to this Colony, though similar provisions have been in force in England for some years past and have been law in the Straits Settlements ever since the passing of their Ordinance X of 1885. I think that it will be readily conceded that the introduction of such a clause in this Colony is desirable. The proviso at the end of clause 22 has been inserted in view of certain special powers which have been conferred upon the Official Administrator, the Colonial Treasurer, and the Captain Superintendent of Police, in certain cases, under the provisions of sections 14, 19, 62, 63, and 64 of The Probates Ordinance, 3 of 1897.\n\nArticle 43 in the Schedule to the Bill makes probate duty payable on a higher scale than heretofore, and assimilates the scale of probate duty which is chargeable in this Colony to that which is charged in the Straits Settlements, (see the Straits Ordinance X of 1885) except that the value of exempted estates remains fixed at $250, as it has hitherto been in Hongkong, instead of being altered to $500. Under our present law contained in Article 31 of the Schedule of Ordinance 16 of 1886 as amended by section 5 of Ordinance 13 of 1894, the probate duty charged is one per cent. where the value of the estate does not exceed $5,000, and two per cent. where such value exceeds $5,000; and I think that it will be readily conceded that such rate is a very low one, especially when it is borne in mind that in Great Britain 3 sets of duties are levied, namely, Probate Duty, Legacy or Succession Duty, and Estate Duty.\n\nIn Great Britain the Probate Duty alone between £100 and £500 (which is roughly equivalent to $1,000 to $5,000) is 2 per cent., between £500 and £1,000, 2½ per cent., and above £1,000, 3 per cent.\n\nPage 487\n\nWith a view to facilitate the comparison of the First Schedule of the Ordinance with the Schedule to Ordinance 16 of 1886, as amended by Ordinances 14 of 1880 and 13 of 1894, I am sending with this Report a copy of the Stamp Ordinance, containing marginal references showing from what previous enactments the provisions of the various Articles in the First Schedule have been taken. The references to Orders in Council relate to Rules made by the Governor in Council under section 3 of Ordinance 16 of 1886.\n\nWith regard to Bank Cheques (see Article 11 in the First Schedule) it will be noticed that the Stamp Duty on Bank Cheques as well as on Bank Notes is now made collectable on a statement furnished by the Bank. The reason for this change is that the Colonial Treasurer reported that it would be much easier in that way to keep an efficient check on the receipts of Stamp Duty on Bank Cheques, inasmuch as such Stamp Duty will continue to be denoted by an impressed stamp and not by \" adhesive stamps or over-embossed 'DOL SPENDORS.'\" The local Banks have raised no objections to this change in procedure.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 716, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "Of interest\n\nThe device on the \"Unite\" seal is certainly on the coloured Badge, but not in the same relief. I suppose it is near enough.\n\nProceed 28/1\n\nC.O. 2392\n\nPa 20 JAN 02\n\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 17th December, 1901.\n\nIn reply to your Circular Despatch of 28th September, I have the honour to transmit herewith the enclosed Reports from the various Departments of this Government in which seals are used. The Reports seem to furnish all the information that is desired by the Royal Mint, and I have nothing to add that would be useful to that Department in the preparation of Colonial Seals and Devices.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient\n\nHumble servant,\n\nHenry A. Blake\n\nGovernor, &c.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nJoseph Chamberlain,\n\nM.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 389930, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 206, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "26. It is extraordinary for outsiders to presume to judge of wrong performance and official qualifications. He says it is to make changes against any officer in my portion without saying a word to him for any cause, entirely behind his back, slandering as a combination can be armed, without saying.\n\n27. Referring to my dispatch during the past 8 years, it will be seen that after I had been in Aug[h]ing, a despatch was sent by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, by the Officer administering Government regarding this matter. Speaking for myself, I understand that the manner in which I performed my duty was highly approved. If the manner in which I conducted myself had not been satisfactory, it would have been reported. Since that time, John Carrington reported on the efficient state of the Registry, besides recommending the Prime Judge posting in the Mails Settlement and the acting Prime Judge locally.\n\n28. While my ability in the carrying out of my duties is now as it was then, I could have done better if left to my own devices. Both the Attorney General and the Puisne Judge in their answers to objections, camping this work by merely stating it, have done so for years with only one exception, whose whole time has been taken up with his duties as Assistant to the Chief Justice. The Commissioners were most careful and fair. I give credit in their report on my Registration of Companies, and the... \n\n## Page numbering is not present but there is a clear paragraph structure and ordering of content. \n\nThe text has been reordered to follow a logical left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order and sentences have been rejoined where they were broken across lines. Spacing errors have been corrected and unambiguous OCR spelling errors have been fixed. The original paragraph structure has been preserved.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395220, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 557, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nProvisional Regulations Governing the Registration of Trade-marks,\n\n(Translation.)\n\n1. ALL merchants, Chinese or foreign, wishing to make exclusive use of trade-marks must have them registered in conformity with the following Rules.\n\nThe principle underlying the constitution of a trade-mark is that it must, in design, in verbal description, or in whatever form it assumes, possess a distinctive character of its own. All three forms may be employed together or two together or separately.\n\n2. The Board of Commerce will establish an Office, which shall have sole control of matters connected with registration.\n\nThe custom-houses at Shanghae and Tien-tsin will be created branch offices of registry, where application for registration may be made, as most convenient to those concerned.\n\n3. All who desire to register trade-marks must send in their applications to the head office or to either of the branch offices.\n\n4. To every application must be appended a Memorandum. This Memorandum, in addition to giving a full description of the mark, must be accompanied by a triplicate copy of the same, must state the kind of goods it is intended to cover, and the classes or sub-classes under which they come. (For classification see below.) In the event of application being made to a branch office, it and the Memorandum must be made out in duplicate.\n\n5. If, on the receipt of an application, the head office finds it to be in order, and if, within a period of six months, no protest against the same shall have been made, registration will be proceeded with,\n\n6. Applications in respect of marks resembling each other, or for the same or similar kinds of goods. will be entertained in order of their presentation. The first comer will have the right to registration. All marks, in respect of which application is made on the same day and at the same time, will be registered.\n\n7. In the case of trade-marks registered abroad, if application for registration be made within a period of four months from the date of original registration the date of original registration will be accepted (as the date from which registration in China shall count).\n\n8. Trade-marks which infringe the following conditions cannot be registered :-(a.) Marks likely to injure young or old, offending against morality, or harbouring an intent to deceive;\n\n(b) Marks embodying symbols or phraseology reserved for Government use, e.g., Imperial or official seals, the national standard or military flags, or devices appropriated for the reward of merit (such as the insignia of an Order) ;\n\n(c.) Marks already registered, and marks resembling, or of the same nature as, marks which for over two years prior to the application for registration have been publicly used in China or have covered a similar class of goods;\n\n(d) Marks in respect of articles which cannot be clearly specified.\n\n9. The period during which Chinese or foreign merchants shall have the exclusive right to a trade-mark is limited to twenty years from the date of registration.\n\nThe period for trade-marks registered abroad which it is desired to register in China shall count from the date of original registration, but in no case must it exceed twenty years.\n\n10. If owners of a trade-mark wish to have their exclusive rights therein continued, they must, within six months prior to the date of expiry, give notice of their intention to renew registration.\n\n11. If an owner of a registered trade-mark wishes to transfer his exclusive rights therein to another, or to give others a share therein, he must at once give notice to the Registration Office and have the fact recorded.\n\n12. If a mark already registered contravenes paragraphs (a), (b), or (d) of Regulation 8, the Registrar will have the right to cancel the same.\n\n13. Any one who considers himself injured by the fact that a trade-mark has been registered in contravention of Regulation 6 or Regulation 8 (c) may apply to the Registrar to have registration cancelled, but he must do so within a period of three years from the date of registration.\n\n14. The Registrar must state in writing any reasons he may have for refusing to register a trade-mark,\n\n15. Any reason for objection to the Registrar's ruling under Regulation 14 must be filed within six months from the date of refusal to register. If this be done the decision will be subject to revision.\n\n16. Applicants for registration, or owners of trade-marks not resident in China or residing at a distance from the Registration Office, must appoint some trustworthy agent to act for them.\n\n17. Copies of entries on the register, or permission to inspect the register, may be applied for through the Registration Office or its branches. Those residing at a distance may apply through their agent.\n\n18. The Registrar will publish a \"Trade-Marks Gazette\" with a list of trade-marks, and of any matters concerning the registration or cancellation of the same.\n\n19. At the instance of the owners of exclusive rights in a trade-mark, suits may be instituted against any who may infringe such rights, and on conviction the latter will be mulcted in damages.\n\n20. Suits for infringement of trade-marks will be conducted as follows:--\n\n(a.) If the defendant be a foreigner, the local authorities will move the Consul concerned to hold a joint investigation and trial;\n\n(b.) If the defendant be a Chinese, the Consul concerned will communicate with the Chinese authorities, and a joint investigation will take place;\n\n(c.) If both plaintiff and defendant are Chinese, or if both are foreigners, the Courts concerned will, in a case of infringement, afford all necessary protection.\n\n21. The under-mentioned offences are punishable with imprisonment up to one year and a fine not exceeding 300 taels, but judgment can only be given in a suit instituted by the party aggrieved:--\n\n(a.) Any attempt to use a similar class of goods or to imitate a registered trade-mark belonging to another party, or to offer the same for sale;\n\n(b.) To imitate a trade-mark or apply it to a similar class of goods, or knowingly to sell such goods or have the same on the premises for purposes of sale;\n\n(c.) To use an imitation of a trade-mark as a \"chop,\" or to employ for purposes of advertisement;\n\n(d) Knowingly to use packages or wrappers bearing the registered trade-mark of others for the same class of goods, or knowingly to offer the same for sale;\n\n(e.) To import goods, being well aware of the fact that they infringe the trade-mark rights of others.\n\n22. In the event of any infringement such as described in Regulation 21 being discovered, all trade-marks or articles used for making the same shall be confiscated, and any goods or wrappers, packages, or \"chops\" which cannot be dissociated from the marks they bear shall be destroyed.\n\n23. Chinese or foreigners must pay fees according to the following scale in connection with the registration of their marks and the issue of certificates:\n\nFor every copy of a document connected with registered trade-marksHaikuan taels.5\nOn every application to register a trade-mark30\nOn registration of a mark and issue of a stamped certificate20\nOn transfer of or declaration of partnership in a mark25\nOn renewal of registration2\nIf above 100 characters, for every additional 100 characters0.50\nFor inspecting register, every half-hour1\nFor renewal of certificate if lost10\nOn reporting any case of fraudulent imitation5\nOn requesting transfer of ownership rights to next of kin, in the event of death5\nOn application for reconsideration of a ruling given80\nOn application to cancel registration...\n\nSupplementary Regulations.\n\n24. The above Regulations will come into force on the 15th day of the 9th Moon of the 30th year of Kuang Hsü (23rd October, 1904).\n\n[2156 ce-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 398027, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Number of Paragraph.\n\n1 \n1 \n2 \nลง \n\nNumbers of Paragraphs in the Provisional Regulations of August 1904, that agree more or less with the new numbering herein.\n\n## Number of Paragraph.\n\nNo person shall be entitled to the exclusive use of any trade-mark which has not been lawfully used prior to the date when these regulations come into force 1st January, 1908, unless he has it registered in conformity with these Regulations.\n\nIn order to be registered, a trade-mark must be distinctive, i.e., it must in the devices composing it, in the letterpress thereon, or in general arrangement, possess a distinctive character of its own. Words shall not be registered in respect of cotton yarn, sewing cotton, or cotton piece-goods.\n\n1 \n1 \n2 \n\nThe Board of Commerce will establish an office, which shall have sole control of matters connected with registration.\n\n2 \n2 \n2 \n3 \n4 \n4 \n5 \n\nThe custom-house at Shanghae and Tien-tsin will be created branch offices of registry, where application for registration may be made, as most convenient to those concerned.\n\nAll who desire to register trade-marks must send in their applications to the head office or to either of the branch offices.\n\nWith every application to register there must be left a Memorandum which must state the kind of goods it is intended to cover, and the classes or particular goods in respect of which it is desired to register the mark, and, together with the Memorandum, there must be three exact copies of the mark which it is desired to register. In the event of an application being made to a branch office, two sets of the documents mentioned in this rule must be left. If there is any doubt as to the class to which belong any goods in respect of which registration is asked belong, that doubt shall be settled by the Registrar. The Registrar shall decline to proceed until the exact goods or classes of goods are specified on which the mark is to be used.\n\nThe Registrar may at any time call for a translation of any words appearing upon a mark, or for an explanation of the objects or scene represented in any pictorial mark.\n\nIf there are any Chinese or Japanese words on any mark, they shall be translated into English or French, and such translation shall appear in the advertisement of the mark.\n\nIn the case of trade-marks registered abroad, if application for registration is made in China within a period of four months from the date of such registration, the date of such registration may be accepted as the date from which registration in China shall run, if the applicant shall supply to the Registrar a certificate of such registration abroad. But in no other case shall it be necessary to prove registration abroad.\n\n3 \n4 \n4 \n7 \n8 \n8 \n3 \n\n## Trade-marks which infringe the following conditions cannot be registered\n\n(a) Marks likely to injure young or old, offending against morality, or harbouring an intent to deceive. \n(b) Marks embodying symbols or phraseology reserved for Government use, e.g., Imperial or official seals, the national standard or military flags, or devices appropriated for the reward of merit (such as the insignia of an Order). \n(c) Marks resembling marks in the said collection which have been used on the same goods or description of goods. \n(d) Marks resembling any marks already registered for the same goods or description of goods. \n(e) Marks which do not possess a distinctive character of their own, having regard to the usages of the trade in the goods for which they are to be registered.\n\nApplications in respect of marks which resemble each other which are to be used in respect of the same goods or description of goods, shall be dealt with in the order of their application, and if none of the applicants has lawfully used his mark the first applicant shall be entitled to registration. If such marks have been used, the applicant who has first lawfully used the same shall be entitled to registration. But the registration of a mark under this Regulation shall not prevent any person from continuing to do that which he was lawfully doing before the date of such registration. If application is made on the same day in respect of similar goods for similar marks, and none of the applicants can prove lawful user, then all the applications shall be refused unless the parties can agree amongst themselves that one shall be registered.\n\nWhen an application is made to register a mark identical with or similar to a mark which has been refused at a prior date, the Registrar shall not proceed with the application without the consent of the earlier applicant, unless there are special circumstances warranting such a course, or unless the earlier applicant cannot be found.\n\nThe Registrar before refusing to register any mark must give the applicant or his agent reasonable opportunity of being heard.\n\n## Numbers of Paragraphs in the Provisional Regulations of August 1904, that agree more or less with the new numbering herein.\n\n6 \n6 \n7 \n9 \n\nThe Registrar must state in writing any reasons he may have for refusing to register a trade-mark.\n\n14 \n10 \n16 \n\nApplicants for registration, or owners of trade-marks not resident in China, or residing at a distance from the Registration Office, must appoint some trustworthy agent to act for them.\n\n8 \n510", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403171, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 80, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# Inclosure 1 in No. 1\n## Amended Draft of Trade-marks Regulations\n\nTOUTE personne ou toute maison de commerce Chinoise ou étrangère qui voudra se réserver l'usage exclusif d'une marque commerciale devra la faire enregistrer conformément aux règles présentes.\n\nCependant, les personnes ou maisons de commerce qui ont fait un emploi légitime de marques de fabrique en Chine avant le premier jour de la première lune de la vingt-neuvième année de Kuanghsu peuvent en demander l'enregistrement conformément aux dispositions du Règlement, ou peuvent opérer le dépôt des spécimens de ces marques avec le détail des marchandises sur lesquelles elles étaient employées et le nom du propriétaire. Le Bureau d'Enregistrement dressera pour les marques ainsi déposées, et dans l'ordre où elles auront été présentées, une liste spéciale.\n\nLe principe capital des marques commerciales est d'être constitué par un dessin, un mot, ou des lettres ou des caractères, ou un cachet ou estampille nettement distinctifs et aisément reconnaissables, ou par une forme du produit, ou par une dénomination de fantaisie, ou par tous autres signes distinctifs, ou encore par un assemblage de plusieurs des signes énoncés ci-dessus.\n\nIl reste bien entendu que les noms commerciaux, y compris les \"Hong names\" et les noms des Sociétés, n'étant pas des marques commerciales, seront protégés sans obligation d'enregistrement qu'ils fassent ou non partie d'une marque commerciale. Il en est de même des indications de provenance et des noms de localités déterminées lorsque ces indications seront jointes à un nom commercial.\n\n## 2. \nToute question relative à la protection de la propriété industrielle ou commerciale étant du ressort du Ministère Impérial du Commerce, c'est à ce Ministère qu'il incombera d'assurer l'application du présent Règlement.\n\nLe Ministère du Commerce établira à Shanghaï un Bureau, qui sera chargé de procéder à l'enregistrement des marques commerciales.\n\n## 3. \nLes pétitionnaires présenteront leurs demandes directement au Bureau d'Enregistrement, ou les transmettront par l'intermédiaire des Bureaux des Douanes Maritimes des divers ports, qui les feront parvenir sans retard au Bureau d'Enregistrement.\n\n## 4. \nA toute demande d'enregistrement devra être annexée une notice explicative, accompagnée elle-même d'un fac-similé de la marque en triplicata. On devra spécifier, d'après la classification de l'instruction détaillée, annexée au présent Règlement, à quelle classe et à quelle catégorie de marchandises la marque s'applique. Le déposant fournira des plaques pour la publication des marques déposées, et ces marques seront ensuite publiées dans le Bulletin.\n\nLe \n\n## 5. \nSi la demande est régulière, et s'il n'y a pas d'objection recevable à y faire, elle sera publiée dans le Bulletin. Si aucune opposition fondée sur ce que l'enregistrement serait contraire aux dispositions du Règlement n'est faite par un tiers dans le délai de neuf mois à dater de la publication, il sera procédé à l'enregistrement. De même seront publiées dans le Bulletin les demandes de dépôt dans la liste spéciale.\n\n## 6. \nSi plusieurs demandes d'enregistrement sont présentées pour des marques commerciales similaires, s'appliquant à une même catégorie de marchandises, et dont il n'ait pas encore été fait usage, c'est celle qui aura été présentée la première qui aura droit à l'enregistrement. Si la marque a été déjà employée, c'est celui qui le premier en aura légitimement fait usage qui aura le droit de la faire enregistrer. Si la démarche est faite le même jour pour des marques similaires, s'appliquant à des marchandises similaires, par plusieurs personnes, et qu'aucune d'entre elles ne puisse prouver qu'elle en ait fait usage, toutes les demandes devront être refusées, à moins que les intéressés ne s'accordent à reconnaître que l'une doive être enregistrée.\n\nEn cas de demande tendant à l'enregistrement d'une marque identique ou semblable à une marque déjà refusée, le consentement de ceux qui avaient fait les demandes antérieures est nécessaire à l'enregistrement.\n\n## 7. \nSi, dans un délai de quatre mois à compter du jour de l'enregistrement d'une marque commerciale dans un pays étranger, il est présenté une demande d'enregistrement en Chine de cette marque, on devra reconnaître la date primitive d'enregistrement à l'étranger, si la demande est accompagnée de la production d'une pièce certifiant l'enregistrement fait à l'étranger.\n\n## 8. \nNe pourront être enregistrées comme marques commerciales les marques libres, c'est-à-dire, celles que tous les commerçants, ou certaines catégories de commerçants, ont l'habitude d'employer pour certaines catégories de marchandises, et qui ne sont pas considérées, d'après les usages du commerce, comme des marques particulières. Ainsi des mots étrangers ne peuvent être enregistrés comme marque commerciale pour les filés de coton-à-coudre et les cotonnades en pièces. L'enregistrement sera refusé pour les marques énumérées ci-après :-\n\n| (a.) | Celles portant atteinte à l'ordre public et aux mœurs, et conçues dans le but de tromper les gens. |\n| (b.) | Les sceaux et devises à l'usage spécial de l'Etat, tels que les sceaux Impériaux, ou les sceaux et cachets des Administrations publiques, &c., ainsi que les devises reproduisant dans leur composition le pavillon national, le pavillon de guerre, ou les emblèmes honorifiques de la Chine. |\n| (c.) | Les marques ressemblant à des marques déjà enregistrées, pour les mêmes marchandises ou le même genre de marchandises, ou à des marques figurant dans la liste spéciale prévue à l'Article 1. |\n| (d.) | Les marques ne rentrant pas dans la définition de l'Article 1. |\n\n## 9. \nLa période pendant laquelle un commerçant Chinois ou étranger pourra se servir exclusivement d'une marque commerciale est fixée à vingt ans, à compter du jour de l'enregistrement. Pour les marques déjà enregistrées à l'étranger, et dont l'enregistrement en Chine serait demandé, la période d'usage exclusif en Chine suit la période de l'enregistrement dans le pays étranger.\n\n## 10. \nSi, à l'expiration de la période d'usage exclusif d'une marque commerciale, on désire continuer à en faire usage, on pourra, dans un délai de six mois précédant l'expiration, présenter une demande de renouvellement.\n\n## 11. \nSi les droits de propriété sur une marque enregistrée sont cédés, en tout ou en partie, à une autre personne ou une autre maison de commerce, le transfert de ces droits doit être enregistré.\n\n## 12. \nLe Bureau d'Enregistrement pourra annuler l'enregistrement de toute marque commerciale qui aurait été fait en violation des paragraphes 1, 2, et 4 de l'Article 8 ci-dessus.\n\n## 13. \nUne demande d'annulation pour tout enregistrement qui aurait pu être fait d'une marque libre, ou une demande d'annulation pour tout enregistrement qui aurait été fait en violation de l'Article 6 et du paragraphe 3 de l'Article 8, pourra être présentée par les intéressés; une demande d'annulation pourra être également présentée par les intéressés si le commerce de la marchandise à laquelle la marque s'applique a été abandonné pendant deux ans par le propriétaire de la marque.\n\n## 14. \nChaque fois que le Bureau se propose de refuser l'enregistrement d'une marque, d'annuler l'enregistrement d'une marque, de rejeter une demande d'enregistrement, il doit, avant de prendre une décision, aviser par écrit les intéressés et leur donner la faculté de fournir leurs explications.\n\n## 15. \nToute réclamation contre une décision prise par le Bureau d'Enregistrement conformément à l'Article 14 doit être produite dans les six mois à dater de la dite décision.\n\nToute personne lésée par le dépôt d'une marque destinée à figurer dans la liste spéciale, ainsi qu'il est prévu à l'Article 1, peut demander sa radiation.\n\nLe Bureau d'Enregistrement peut rayer de la liste spéciale une marque lorsque le commerce auquel cette marque s'applique a été abandonné par son propriétaire.\n\nAvant de rayer une marque de la liste spéciale ou du registre, le Bureau d'Enregistrement doit prévenir dûment le propriétaire, qui aura le droit d'être entendu.\n\nTout propriétaire d'une marque peut la retirer de la liste spéciale ou demander sa radiation du registre d'enregistrement.\n\nSi le Bureau d'Enregistrement refuse d'enregistrer une marque commerciale, annule l'enregistrement, ou rejette une demande d'enregistrement d'une marque commerciale, toute personne qui s'estimera lésée par ces agissements pourra porter le cas devant une Commission composée d'un membre ou de plusieurs membres du Ministère du Commerce, et, s'il y a lieu, du Consul ou des Consuls de l'étranger ou des étrangers intéressés ou des Délégués des Consuls.\n\n## 16. \nLorsque le pétitionnaire ou le propriétaire d'une marque commerciale ne résidera pas en Chine, ou lorsqu'il sera trop éloigné du Bureau d'Enregistrement, il devra faire choix d'un agent et faire savoir que celui-ci est son mandataire et représentant.\n\n[2039-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403317, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## 221 \n\n2 \n\nLes marques commerciales doivent être distinctives et aisément reconnaissables, ou par une forme du produit, ou par une dénomination de fantaisie, ou par tous autres signes distinctifs, ou encore par un assemblage de plusieurs des signes énoncés ci-dessus.\n\nIl reste bien entendu que les noms commerciaux, y compris les \"Hong names\" et les noms des Sociétés, n'étant pas des marques commerciales, seront protégés sans obligation de dépôt, qu'ils fassent ou non partie d'une marque commerciale. Il en est de même des indications de provenance et des noms de localités déterminées lorsque ces indications seront jointes à un nom commercial.\n\n2. Toute question relative à la protection de la propriété industrielle ou commerciale étant du ressort du Ministère Impérial du Commerce, c'est à ce Ministère qu'il incombera d'assurer l'application du présent Règlement.\n\nLe Ministère du Commerce établira à Shanghaï un Bureau, qui sera chargé de procéder à l'enregistrement des marques commerciales.\n\n3. Les pétitionnaires présenteront leurs demandes directement au Bureau d'Enregistrement, ou les transmettront par l'intermédiaire des Bureaux des Douanes Maritimes des divers ports, qui les feront parvenir sans retard au Bureau d'Enregistrement.\n\n4. A toute demande d'enregistrement devra être annexée une notice explicative, accompagnée elle-même d'un fac-similé de la marque en triplicata. On devra spécifier, d'après la classification de l'instruction détaillée, annexée au présent Règlement, à quelle classe et à quelle catégorie de marchandises la marque s'applique. Le déposant fournira des plaques pour la publication des marques déposées, et ces marques seront ensuite publiées dans le Bulletin.\n\n5. Si la demande est régulière, et s'il n'y a pas d'objection recevable à y faire, elle sera publiée dans le Bulletin. Si aucune opposition fondée sur ce que l'enregistrement serait contraire aux dispositions du Règlement n'est faite par un tiers dans le délai de neuf mois à dater de la publication, il sera procédé à l'enregistrement. De même seront publiées dans le Bulletin les demandes de dépôt dans la liste spéciale.\n\n6. Si plusieurs demandes d'enregistrement sont présentées pour des marques commerciales similaires, s'appliquant à une même catégorie de marchandises, et dont il n'ait pas encore été fait usage, c'est celle qui aura été présentée la première qui aura droit à l'enregistrement. Si la marque a été déjà employée, c'est celui qui le premier en aura fait usage *bon* *de* *foi* qui aura le droit de la faire enregistrer. Si la démarche est faite le même jour pour des marques similaires, s'appliquant à des marchandises similaires, par plusieurs personnes, et qu'aucune d'entre elles ne puisse prouver qu'elle en ait fait usage, toutes les demandes devront être refusées, à moins que les intéressés ne s'accordent à reconnaître que l'une doive être enregistrée.\n\nEn cas de demande tendant à l'enregistrement d'une marque identique ou semblable à une marque déjà refusée, le consentement de ceux qui avaient fait les demandes antérieures est nécessaire à l'enregistrement.\n\n7. Si, dans un délai de quatre mois à compter du jour de l'enregistrement d'une marque commerciale dans un pays étranger, il est présenté une demande d'enregistrement en Chine de cette marque, on devra reconnaître la date primitive d'enregistrement à l'étranger, si la demande est accompagnée de la production d'une pièce certifiant l'enregistrement fait à l'étranger.\n\n8. Ne pourront être enregistrées comme marques commerciales les marques libres, c'est-à-dire, celles que tous les commerçants, ou certaines catégories de commerçants, ont l'habitude d'employer pour certaines catégories de marchandises, et qui ne sont pas considérées, d'après les usages du commerce, comme des marques particulières. Ainsi des mots étrangers ne peuvent être enregistrés comme marque commerciale pour les filés de coton, les fils de coton-à-coudre et les cotonnades en pièces. L'enregistrement sera refusé pour les marques énumérées ci-après :-\n\n| Catégorie | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a.) | Celles portant atteinte à l'ordre public et aux mœurs, et conçues dans le but de tromper les gens. |\n| (b.) | Les sceaux et devises à l'usage spécial de l'Etat, tels que les sceaux Impériaux, ou les sceaux et cachets des Administrations publiques, &c., ainsi que les devises reproduisant dans leur composition le pavillon national, le pavillon de guerre, ou les emblèmes honorifiques de la Chine. |\n| (c.) | Les marques ressemblant à des marques déjà enregistrées, pour les mêmes marchandises ou le même genre de marchandises, ou à des marques figurant dans la liste spéciale prévue à l'Article 1. |\n| (d.) | Les marques ne rentrant pas dans la définition de l'Article 1. |\n\n9. La période pendant laquelle un commerçant Chinois ou étranger pourra se servir exclusivement d'une marque commerciale est fixée à vingt ans, à compter du jour de l'enregistrement. Pour les marques déjà enregistrées à l'étranger, et dont l'enregistrement en Chine serait demandé, la période d'usage exclusif en Chine suit la période de l'enregistrement dans le pays étranger, sans pouvoir toutefois excéder vingt années.\n\n10. Si, à l'expiration de la période d'usage exclusif d'une marque commerciale, on désire continuer à en faire usage, on pourra, dans un délai de six mois précédant l'expiration, présenter une demande de renouvellement.\n\n11. Si les droits de propriété sur une marque enregistrée sont cédés, en tout ou en partie, à une autre personne ou une autre maison de commerce, le transfert de ces droits doit être enregistré.\n\n12. Le Bureau d'Enregistrement pourra annuler l'enregistrement de toute marque commerciale qui aurait été fait en violation des paragraphes (a), (b), et (d) de l'Article 8 ci-dessus.\n\n13. Une demande d'annulation pour tout enregistrement qui aurait pu être fait d'une marque libre, ou une demande d'annulation pour tout enregistrement qui aurait été fait en violation de l'Article 6 et du paragraphe (c) de l'Article 8, pourra être présentée par les intéressés; une demande d'annulation pourra être également présentée par les intéressés si le commerce de la marchandise à laquelle la marque s'applique a été abandonné pendant deux ans par le propriétaire de la marque.\n\n14. Chaque fois que le Bureau se propose de refuser l'enregistrement d'une marque, d'annuler l'enregistrement d'une marque, de rejeter une demande d'enregistrement, il doit, avant de prendre une décision, aviser par écrit les intéressés et leur donner la faculté de fournir leurs explications.\n\n15. Toute réclamation contre une décision prise par le Bureau d'Enregistrement conformément à l'article 14 doit être produite dans les six mois à dater de la dite décision.\n\nToute personne lésée par le dépôt d'une marque destinée à figurer dans la liste spéciale, ainsi qu'il est prévu à l'Article 1, peut demander sa radiation.\n\nLe Bureau d'Enregistrement peut rayer de la liste spéciale une marque lorsque le commerce auquel cette marque s'applique a été abandonné pendant deux ans par son propriétaire.\n\nAvant de rayer une marque de la liste spéciale ou du registre, le Bureau d'Enregistrement doit prévenir dûment le propriétaire, qui aura le droit d'être entendu. Tout propriétaire d'une marque peut la retirer de la liste spéciale ou demander sa radiation du registre d'enregistrement.\n\nSi le Bureau d'Enregistrement refuse d'enregistrer une marque commerciale, annule l'enregistrement, ou rejette une demande d'enregistrement d'une marque commerciale, toute personne qui s'estimera lésée par ces agissements pourra porter le cas devant une Commission composée d'un membre ou de plusieurs membres du Ministère du Commerce, et, s'il y a lieu, du Consul ou des Consuls de l'étranger ou des étrangers intéressés ou des Délégués des Consuls.\n\n16. Lorsque le pétitionnaire ou le propriétaire d'une marque commerciale ne résidera pas en Chine, ou lorsqu'il sera trop éloigné du Bureau d'Enregistrement, il devra faire choix d'un agent et faire savoir que celui-ci est son mandataire et représentant.\n\n17. Toute personne désireuse soit de copier des pièces ou dossiers de marques commerciales, soit de les examiner et consulter, pourra en faire la demande au Bureau d'Enregistrement. Si l'on est à une trop grande distance du Bureau, on pourra présenter la demande par un mandataire.\n\n18. Le Bureau d'Enregistrement publiera un \"Bulletin des Marques Commerciales,\" dans lequel seront insérées et portées à la connaissance du public toutes les notifications relatives aux marques de fabriques enregistrées ou annulées.\n\nLa publication du Bulletin comprend :\n- Nom et adresse du demandeur,\n- Classe ou classes des objets pour lesquelles on demande enregistrement ou dépôt dans la liste spéciale,\n- Une impression de la marque,\n- Autres détails nécessaires suivant les cas, c'est-à-dire, demande d'enregistrement ou de dépôt, transfert de propriété d'une marque, ou délivrance d'un certificat. Cette publication sera faite en caractères Latins et en langue Européenne.\n\n19. Tout propriétaire d'une marque commerciale pourra, s'il a été lésé dans ses droits d'usage exclusif, présenter une plainte. La vérification du fait entraînera pour le délinquant l'obligation d'indemniser la partie lésée.\n\n20. Les plaintes présentées contre ceux qui auraient porté atteinte aux droits en matière de marques commerciales recevront suite dans les conditions ci-après", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403360, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Regulations Regarding Trade-Marks\n\nNo mark classified under (1) or (2) shall be registrable either by the original owner or any other person.\n\nIn the case of infringement of any mark classified under (1) by a Chinese subject or subjects, the Government will accord equal protection to such mark as to registered marks.\n\n## Removal of Marks from Record\n\n2. Any person aggrieved by the deposit of any mark in such record may apply to the Registrar to have it removed from such record. Such application may be made if such mark has not been used as stated before the 1st January, 1903, or is an infringement of a mark of the applicant, or on any other just grounds. If the name of the person or firm indorsed on any mark in such record is not the name of the actual proprietor, the Registrar may amend the indorsement so as to show the name of the actual proprietor.\n\n## Protection of Names\n\n3. Names of firms and of Companies shall be protected without registration, whether they form part of a trade-mark, or whether they do not. Names of firms include Hong names.\n\n## Registration of New Marks\n\n4. Any person or firm claiming the exclusive use of any trade-mark which has not been lawfully used prior to the 1st January, 1903 (hereinafter referred to as new marks) must have it registered in conformity with these Regulations.\n\n## Requirements for Registration\n\n5. In order to be registered a trade-mark must be distinctive, i.e., it must in the devices composing it, in the letterpress thereon, or in general arrangement, possess a distinctive character of its own. Words shall not be registered in respect of cotton yarn, sewing cotton, or cotton piece-goods.\n\n## Establishment of Registration Office\n\n6. The Board of Commerce will establish an office, under the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs, which shall have sole control of matters connected with registration.\n\n## Branch Offices\n\n7. The custom-houses at Shanghae and Tien-tsin will be created branch offices of registry, where application for registration may be made, as most convenient to those concerned.\n\n## Application for Registration\n\n8. All who desire to register new trade-marks must send in their applications to the head office, or to either of the branch offices.\n\n## Memorandum and Copies of Mark\n\n9. With every application to register there must be left a Memorandum which must state the class or classes of goods in respect of which it is desired to register the mark, and, together with the Memorandum, there must be three exact copies of the mark which it is desired to register. In the event of an application being made to a branch office, two sets of the documents mentioned in this rule must be left. If there is any doubt as to the class in respect of which registration is asked, that doubt shall be settled by the Registrar. The Registrar shall decline to proceed until the class or classes of goods are specified for which the mark is to be used.\n\n## Translation or Explanation of Mark\n\n10. The Registrar may at any time call for a translation of any words appearing upon a mark, or for an explanation of the objects or scene represented in any mark.\n\n## Prohibited Marks\n\n11. Marks cannot be registered which-\n**(a)** Are likely to injure young or old, offend against morality, or are calculated to deceive.\n**(b)** Embody symbols or phraseology reserved for Government use, e.g., Imperial or official seals, the national standard or military flags, or devices appropriated for the reward of merit (such as the insignia of an Order).\n**(c)** Resemble marks in the said record which have been used for the same class of goods.\n**(d)** Resemble any marks already registered for the same class of goods.\n**(e)** Do not possess a distinctive character of their own, having regard to the usages of the trade in the class of goods for which registration is desired.\n\n## Conflicting Applications\n\n12. Applications in respect of new marks, which resemble each other and are to be used in respect of the same class or classes of goods, shall be dealt with in the order of their application, and if none of the applicants has lawfully used his mark, the first applicant shall be entitled to registration, subject to these Regulations. If such marks have been used, the applicant who has first lawfully used the same shall be entitled to registration. If application is made on the same day in respect of similar goods for similar marks, and none of the applicants can prove lawful user, then all the applications shall be refused unless the parties can agree amongst themselves that one shall be registered.\n\n## Subsequent Applications for Similar Marks\n\n13. When an application is made to register a new mark, identical with or similar to a mark which has been refused at a prior date, the Registrar shall not proceed with the application without the consent of the earlier applicant, unless there are special circumstances warranting such a course, or unless the earlier applicant cannot be found.\n\n## Refusal of Registration\n\n14. The Registrar, before refusing to register any mark, must give the applicant or his agent reasonable opportunity of being heard, and may refer any question for the decision of a duly constituted Committee of merchants—Chinese and foreign.\n\n15. The Registrar must state in writing any reasons he may have for refusing to register a trade-mark.\n\n## Appointment of Agent\n\n16. Applicants for registration, or owners of trade-marks not resident in China, or residing at a distance from the Registration Office, must appoint some trustworthy agent to act for them.\n\n## Advertisement of Application\n\n17. If an application is found to be in order, and there is no legitimate objection to it, it shall forthwith be advertised, and the applicant must supply, for this purpose, a suitable block, not exceeding 4 inches in breadth and 0.75 of an inch thick.\n\n## Registration After Advertisement\n\n18. If within six months after advertisement no objection is made to registration, the Registrar may, if he thinks fit, proceed with registration.\n\nPage 264\n\n## Duration and Renewal of Registration\n\n19. The period during which Chinese or foreign merchants shall have the exclusive right to a registered trade-mark is limited to twenty years from the date of registration. Registration may then be renewed for twenty years, and so on from time to time at the end of every period of twenty years.\n\n## Renewal of Registration\n\n20. If an owner of a registered trade-mark wishes to have his exclusive rights therein continued, he must, within six months prior to the date of expiry, give notice of his intention to renew registration.\n\n## Transfer of Registered Trade-Mark\n\n21. If an owner of a registered trade-mark wishes to transfer his exclusive rights therein to another, or to give others a share therein, he must at once give notice to the Registration Office, and have the fact recorded.\n\n## Inspection of Records\n\n22. The record of trade-marks and a duplicate of the register shall be kept at a special office at Shanghae, where either may be inspected on payment of a fee of 1 tael. Those residing at a distance may employ an agent.\n\n## Trade-marks Gazette\n\n23. The Registrar will publish a \"Trade-marks Gazette,\" containing all matters relating to the registration or cancellation of trade-marks.\n[Note.—As this will presumably be in the Chinese language, its utility would be greatly increased if an English translation could be added or separately published.]\n\n## Removal of Marks from Register\n\n24. The Registrar may at any time remove from the register---\n**(a)** Marks which ought not to have been registered;\n**(b)** Marks which have not been used for the preceding five years.\n\n## Notice Before Removal\n\n25. Before removing any mark from the register, the Registrar shall give due notice to the owner, unless he cannot be found. If he can be found he shall be entitled to be heard before the Registrar removes the mark.\n\n## Cancellation of Registered Mark\n\n26. Any owner may remove his mark from the record, or may apply to the Registrar to cancel his registered mark.\n\n## Suits for Infringement\n\n27. At the instance of the owners of exclusive rights in a trade-mark, suits may be instituted against any one who may infringe such rights, and on conviction the latter will be mulcted in damages.\n\n## Conduct of Suits\n\n28. Suits for infringement of trade-marks will be conducted as follows:\n**(a)** If the defendant be a foreigner, the local authorities will move the Consul concerned to hold a joint investigation and trial.\n**(b)** If the defendant be a Chinese, the Consul concerned will communicate with the Chinese authorities, and a joint investigation will take place.\n**(c)** If both plaintiff and defendant are Chinese, or if both are foreigners, the Courts concerned will, in a case of infringement, afford all necessary protection.\n\n## Offences and Penalties\n\n29. The under-mentioned offences are punishable with imprisonment up to one year, and a fine not exceeding 300 taels, but judgment can only be given in a suit instituted by the party aggrieved:\n**(a)** To imitate a trade-mark, or apply such imitation to goods of the same class, or on the premises for purposes of knowingly selling such goods, or having the same for sale.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408820, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 522, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "# \n518 \n\n\"A\" group of officers [001 in Hong Kong] \n\nC \n\nDan-dno s arolasooo east Khas NO .eu of mavin araw \n\nhow to only and \n\nJ \n\npret and Are \n\naffe to argue mid hot more t \n\n[ bar! (lob \n\n* ivil to at poo 0:2 beandals he tolloh weiflet H \n\nbe \n\nsatures do 1994 ti hat \n\nv belo hen aanrader combo ad døds \n\nbe \n\nVAR OJ \n\nANATO agit trit Juls \n\n+380 8 nildstar of Item MẶC. -ot used avar \n\nCasteloɑ KAST or al \n\nY \n\nTo bi temi v dala \n\nfato at si \n\nTANJ 208\" sit stiw \n\nItu A NO \n\nby the Government as an act of imprudence for the consequences of which they were themselves alone to blame. \n\nFurther, our examples had to be chosen from different grades of the service. Again, as the up-bringing of children is an ordinary consequence of marriage, we took for our typical cases officers on their highest increment, on the supposition that they had married on first reaching their present appointments; and we have supposed that they have such a family of three young children, the increasing cost of whose later education may be left to the future and subsequent promotion. The types selected by us to answer all these conditions were **(A)** the Head of a Junior Department on a salary of $5,400 with compensation, and **(B)** a subordinate officer on a salary of $345. \n\n8. \n\nTable A gives what we consider to be a reasonable rate of living for these two officers, together with explanatory notes. It also gives the salaries drawn by them at the present rate of exchange. And if it is alleged in reply that we have endeavoured to prove too much; that were the difference between the necessary and the actual as great as we represent, open crises must have occurred as they have not done; to that we reply, they have been staved off, but in many cases by the most unsatisfactory devices: wives and children have been sent Home, with no prospect of return; many of us have given up our houses and sold our belongings, and are living in hotels and boarding-houses and messes like neither married men nor bachelors, and some of us have been compelled to abandon our policies on our lives, as we can prove to Your Excellency. \n\n9. \n\nWere there any real hope for an early change for the better we might have continued to endure in silence, as we have done for the past several years. But we know ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "page_number": 550, "title": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]", "content_text": "## WAR OFFICE \n545 \n\nWar Office, Whitehall, S.W. \n24 Jan, 1908.\n\no. r. \n\nMt Stubbs \n\nSee note from W.O. attached \n\nSend copy of despatch re loans to DMO 3pm Conf \n\ni. e. J+24/1 at me BE). \n\nBr \na \n25.\n\nb. Just be reminded of duty. \nAdmiral devises his writ \n\n... \nWenger if uncorks \n\nacharyya \na despatch will often L.F.D., `40575/1907` of 11/07 Enclosing a copy/translation Munchered despatch from", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411401, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 578, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "572 \n\n2 \n\nTong meets the foreign diplomat on his own ground, points his arguments by illustrations drawn from foreign countries, and in Treaty port questions especially shows a knowledge, based upon personal experience, which is often rather embarrassing. After Tong has finished his argument, the effect is not infrequently spoiled by the intervention of his colleague, who prides himself on being \"a plain, honest man,\" with no special qualifications for his post. His manner of treating international questions is that of the Chinese statesman of half-a-century ago. \n\nHe scarcely disguises his belief that Treaties do not apply to Hunan, and in a question like the opening of the capital, Ch'ang-sha, he thinks it sufficient to say that the place is far too small to permit of the indiscriminate residence of foreigners. If you venture to doubt it, he invites you to pay his native city a visit and convince yourself by the evidence of your own eyesight. \n\nSuch are the two men who are the protagonists in the struggle that is now attracting the attention of the Empire, and for the moment the forces of reaction are decidedly in the ascendant. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(Translation.) \n\n(Signed) \n## J. N. JORDAN \n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1. \n\n**Extract from the \"Peking Gazette\"** \n\n**Imperial Decree, dated January 30, 1907** \n\nWHEREAS Ma Chi Chang, a sub-reader of the Hanlin College, has presented a Memorial impeaching a high official, let Ch'en Shao Chang, Chief Secretary, and Shih Chao Chi, Councillor of the Board of Communications, who have disappointed public expectation, vacate their posts. Tang Shao Yi, by introducing such men for employment as Chief Secretary and Councillor, has attracted much criticism. Let the above-named Vice-President tremblingly obey our former Edict, and carefully carry out the duties intrusted to him with zeal and energy. If he should again show himself self-opinionated he certainly will not be dealt with leniently. \n\nAs for the posts of Chief Secretary and Councillor in that Board, let the Ministers of the Board carefully select suitable officers and submit their names to the Throne. \n\n### Inclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\n**Extract from the \"Peking Gazette\" February 1, 1907** \n\n**Memorial of Ma Chi Chang, a Reader of the Imperial Hanlin College and Expositor of Literature, to His Majesty the Emperor, dated January 30, 1907** \n\n(Translation.) \n\n**A HUMBLE Memorial, impeaching a high official for monopolizing powers, accepting bribes, forming a clique among his friends, and planning for his personal advantage** \n\nYour Memorialist has read the Decree of the 13th January censuring the President and Vice-President of the Board of Communications, which showed that it is the intention of your Imperial Majesty to purify the circles of officialdom by leniency, if possible, or by severity if needs be. All your officers and people are filled with profound respect for such a course. But, from what your Memorialist has heard recently, the Vice-President of the Board of Communications, Tang Shao Yi, is an exception to this rule. \n\nWhen the appointment of Chief Secretaries and Councillors to the Board was being considered Tang Shao Yi, who never possessed any considerable degree of Chinese education, employed a fellow provincial of his to draw up a Memorial for him, and only on the day before this was to be presented did he inform Chang Po Hsi that he would have to join in presenting it to the Throne. \n\n* A native of Honan, Metropolitan graduate (Chin Shih) of the year 1880. \n\n3 \n\nWhen the Decree of Censure was issued commanding them to decide upon retaining or dismissing their Chief Secretaries and Councillors, I hear that Chang Po Hsi was fully conscious of his error, and ashamed; but that Tang Shao Yi was only afraid of having to get rid of his henchmen, which would involve refunding the bribes he had taken from them, and expose his whole position. Such a contemptuous view as this of the Chinese Government and such self-seeking obstinacy leave us at a loss to fully imagine the conditions to which the affairs of that Board have come. \n\nNow Tang Shao Yi was originally a penniless Cantonese who travelled abroad and picked up a certain knowledge of foreign languages. Starting as a petty official, he raised himself by protection to the rank of Tantai. He received repeated evidences of Imperial favour, until he finally reached his present standing. He should indeed have cleansed his heart of evil thoughts and have made every endeavour to prove himself worthy of such gracious confidence. Yet, since his appointment as Vice-President to the Board of Communications, the Chief Secretaries and Councillors employed by him have been his fellow provincials, relations, or connections, who got their posts by bribes. Even the officials transferred from other appointments to his Board had to arrange their transfers by bribery. It is no wonder that the public began to call the Board of Communications the \"Joint Stock Company\" and \"the Cantonese Club.\" \n\nHis nominee for one of the posts of Chief Secretary, Ch'en Shao Ch'ang, is one of his fellow provincials, and an old boon companion in dissolute amusements. \n\nThis man accompanied the subsequently cashiered Minister, Chang Yin Huan, to foreign countries, and was afterwards nominated Taotai to the Province of Kuangsi. But as he feared the severe supervision of the Viceroy Ts'en, he made a pretext for coming to Peking at the time when Tang Shao Yi was Customs Taotai at Tien-tsin. Ch'en, by various devices and after much beseeching, then got himself transferred to the Pei Yang establishment. While in Tien-tsin his name was a by-word for debauchery and intemperance, and owing to the proximity of Tien-tsin to the capital every one here heard of this. \n\nThe Acting Junior Councillor, Shih Chao Chi, is merely a recently graduated student from abroad, who bought himself a Taotai's rank a few months ago. What experience can he possess of official affairs and conduct? Yet Tang Shao Yi, because Shih is his nephew by marriage, deceived your Majesty in recommending him to this post. \n\nBut this is not all. As soon as Tang Shao Yi took over the Director-Generalship of Railways he removed the superintendents on the north and south sections of the line, and appointed in their place Shih Chao-Chi as Chief Superintendent over the whole railway. The whole staff and the finances thus were placed in the hands of Shih; from appointing the personnel to inspecting the tickets thus depended upon this one man. The employés on the trains mostly got their posts by bribery, and Shih became a man to look upon askance, with fear and trembling. \n\nNow, railways are one of the most important elements in the reforms of your Majesty's Government. The Peking-Hankow Railway is the most important of Chinese trunk lines. The newly established Board of Communications was intended to foster progress. But if this Vice-President, in his arrogance, and with his lust for monopolizing control, is to take the most important interests of the State under his own wing, for the purpose of hatching out results beneficial to himself and the friends with whom he has surrounded himself for treasonable purposes, the consequences will not be slight. \n\nFurthermore, your memorialist would be inexpressibly distressed to think that the State sets up officials for the sake of, as it were, expressly providing them with a means of making careful provision for their relations and connections, and for looking after their own personal advantage. \n\nTang Shao Yi, Vice-President of the Board of Communications, has proved himself ungrateful for your Majesty's gracious treatment. He has raised a storm of criticism by his behaviour. Ch'en Shao Ch'ang and Shih Chao-Chi have been relying upon him in their scheme for self-advancement. It is absolutely impossible that they should be regarded as fit for office. But it rests with your Majesty to say what severe measures should be taken. Your memorialist is only actuated by a desire to aid your policy, and having heard these things could not remain silent and hold his peace. \n\n**A respectful Memorial** \n\n**Rescript.-Read**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411942, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 442, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "# 440\n\n## 2\n\nThe Taotai's Proclamation containing the Anti-Opium Regulations. Two teachers from official schools successively mounted the platform and held forth on the evils of opium smoking. Mr. Alexander related how in the Malay Peninsula a certain root had been discovered which when taken internally would cure all craving for opium. At this point, there was a rush to obtain the medicine and great disappointment when it was learned that Mr. Alexander had not brought a supply.\n\nHankow.\n\nMissionaries report that at Kaifeng nothing has been done up to the 16th January towards prohibiting opium growing and smoking, while at Ching-tzu kuan nothing whatever had up to the 31st January been attempted, and the people thought the Central Government's Rules were not sincere. At Chinchou, the li-kin of 23 cash has become a duty of 81 cash per tael (1 oz.), and sales are not allowed except through the opium office. The news of the coming prohibition caused some excitement among smokers; some took to drink and the rest go on as before. One Magistrate is said to have urged his people to make the most of this chance of profit by growing all they can. Most of the Kansu higher officials smoke opium.\n\nIn Hangchung, no steps had been taken up to the 1st March, and the Proclamation of the Rules attracted little notice. The whole prefecture is under poppy with the exception of land too poor for it—the result being scarcity of foodstuffs and loss of prosperity.\n\nFrom Hengchou, it was reported on the 7th March that no opium was grown in that prefecture, and that of the population perhaps one in three smokes it; nothing has been done to check consumption among the people who have not been generally informed of the new Rules.\n\nAs regards the Province of Hupei, His Majesty's Consul-General reports that he has no knowledge of any official publication of the Rules, but the general tenor of references which have appeared in the native press shows a determination to institute an official monopoly of the sale of the prepared drug and a reluctance to sacrifice the revenue derived from the taxation of the opium divans, since general trade is already burdened as heavily as it can bear, and the provincial exchequer has lost the substantial income derived from the coinage of cash pieces, and has been drained by educational and military innovations.\n\n**Amalgamated Opium Li-kin**.--A native newspaper published on the 2nd April \"the monthly income from this source is 300,000 or 400,000 taels. With so large an income as this no wonder that we find it hard to put into force our opium prohibition.\"\n\nIchang.\n\nInquiries made by His Majesty's Consul amongst officials, missionaries, and others with regard to the anti-opium movement, have elicited the fact that no steps have been taken to enforce the recent Regulations.\n\nTien-tsin.\n\nProclamation issued by the Consolidated Opium Tax Bureau of Chihli.\n\n\"**WE** have learned that certain lawless rogues pretending to be in official employ, under cover of the Imperial Edict forbidding the cultivation of the poppy, have recently terrorized ignorant rustics and used numberless devices to demand and extort money from them. Those who make a living by the growing of opium have taken alarm and changed their mode of life. To such a pitch has this been carried that in cases where the poppy has been already planted it has been dug up again, and where it has not yet been planted the owners have taken warning and simply abandoned their fields and allowed them to become waste land. In this way, honest people have suffered heavy losses, truly a pitiable and hateful thing to think of! It is not apparently known that, although the cultivation of the poppy has been prohibited by the Government, yet the Regulations most clearly provide for a time limit of ten years during which the area under cultivation is to be annually diminished. No extra tax whatever is levied on land where the poppy is grown, \n\n## 3\n\nand opium may be transported to and sold in any part of the Empire. There is a consolidated tax on opium which is levied in one payment. The tax is not oppressive nor is the prohibition harsh, but prohibition is attained by means of the tax, an admirable conception and a just measure. In cities and frequented places, this has long been brought home to the people by means of Proclamations. But the poor dwellers in villages and remote places are not yet fully cognizant of it, and misled by the lying reports of thieves, believe that the cultivation of opium is a forbidden occupation. I ask you, if the poppy is not cultivated whence is the tax to be drawn? This is a matter which concerns both the livelihood of the people and the national revenue, and if these villains are allowed to freely carry on their nefarious schemes they will work incalculable harm. It is necessary that they be arrested and dealt with, and therefore out of pity for the ignorant and unlearned (who are their prey) they will neither be tolerated nor admonished, but instantly punished.\n\n\"This Proclamation therefore is issued for the information of the people of the whole province. From the date hereof, all growers of opium must continue in their former avocations, and gradually diminish the area under cultivation as is laid down in the Regulations. If evil characters continue to carry on the extortionate practices referred to above you may seize them and send them to this office, and if the charge be well founded they will be handed over for punishment to the territorial officials.\"\n\nThe following comments may be made on this Proclamation:----\n\n1. The Proclamation conforms to the letter of the Regulations, but is utterly opposed to the spirit which is supposed to animate the Central Government, i.e., the desire to eradicate opium at all costs.\n\n2. The gentleman in charge of the Bureau is obviously extremely concerned at the falling off in the opium tax receipts and consequently in his own emoluments. There is no doubt that he, and 99 per cent. of the officials similarly situated, would prefer to see the area under poppy cultivation increased rather than diminished.\n\n3. On the other hand, it is evident that the measures taken by Yuan Shih-k'ai have resulted, directly or indirectly, in a decrease in the said area.\n\nPeking.\n\nAn Imperial message has been sent to all Tartar Generals, Viceroys, and Governors stating that a Memorial has been received asking for the issue of strict instructions for the suppression of opium, and commanding that the Regulations be put into effect in respect of the cultivation, consumption, and sale of opium. Any want of vigour is to be severely punished. As to the proposed public loan to supplement the diminished opium duty receipts, the Nanking Viceroy and Governor of Kiangsu are commanded to consider the question and report in a Memorial.\n\n(Signed) **W. J. GARNETT**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 714, "title": "CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nConsul-General Mansfield to Sir J. Jordan,\n\nCanton, April 23, 1907.\n\nIn my telegram No. 5 of the 23rd January last I mentioned a suggestion by Admiral Li that armed guards should be placed on board passenger launches to search for arms, and in my despatch No. 9 of the 25th January I further alluded to a provisional tentative scheme which had been discussed for limiting the number of places of call and establishing depôts for the examination of passengers and their baggage before embarkation.\n\nMuch discussion has passed on this subject. The necessary places of call were so numerous that the establishment of depôts at all of them was found to involve an expenditure beyond the means of the Provincial Treasury. The proposal to place guards on the launches therefore came again on the tapis. I was opposed to it for several reasons, one being the untrustworthiness of the Chinese soldiers; another, that the expenses of such a guard, rendered necessary by the situation for which the Government was alone to blame, were to fall on the launch-owners. I further suspected that there was an idea of handicapping the foreign single passenger launches in favour of the towed passenger boats, which latter are almost exclusively native.\n\nThe Viceroy and Admiral Li are now very urgent in their desire to give the plan a trial, and have declared that the guards shall be specially picked men in charge of a petty officer, and hedged in with all sorts of precautions against misbehaviour, and their pay and maintenance provided by the Government. In view of the strong wish expressed by the Viceroy on the subject I thought that a point-blank refusal to entertain the idea would eventually lead him to throw the responsibility to some extent on us in the event of continued piracy cases, and I eventually agreed to discuss the matter, with the result that a provisional set of Regulations has been drawn up by Admiral Li, and modified by me to render them as little objectionable as possible.\n\nAll single launches and towed passenger boats are placed on the same footing as nearly as possible, and a list of eighty-three places of call enumerated. Of these latter the larger places are to have passenger depôts, and passengers from smaller places will be examined on board, as they embark, by the guards.\n\nIt is to be observed that these Regulations to a certain extent modify the Inland Water Steam Navigation Regulations, in that they limit the places of call, which the latter do not do. On the other hand, these places of call are calculated on a liberal scale, and certainly the list given covers the great bulk of the passenger traffic. Moreover, the Regulations are binding on all launches, irrespective of nationality, so that there is no handicap on launches under a foreign flag. Indeed, it is the other way on, for the latter are free from the numerous licence fees, &c., amounting to a very considerable annual sum, to which the native craft is liable.\n\nI inclose copies of the Regulations, which I have made it clearly understood are only provisional, and will remain in force only for such time as the necessity exists.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nB. W. MANSFIELD.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nKUANGTUNG PROVINCE.\n\n**Regulations for the Prevention of Piracy on Single Passenger Launches and Passenger Tows engaged in Inland Navigation.** (Translation.)\n\n| Rule | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | A special force of armed police has been raised for the protection of commerce. Every single passenger launch engaged in inland navigation will have an Inspector and five police told off for duty on board, and, similarly, every launch with a passenger tow an Inspector, seven police, and a cook. They will be permanently located on board, in order to protect the launch and search passengers for concealed arms. |\n| 2 | The number of single passenger launches and launches with tows sailing under foreign flags is known. If at any time there is any addition to or diminution of this number, information thereof must at once be sent through the Commissioner of Customs to the central launch police authority. In the case of Chinese-owned vessels this will be done direct by the masters of such craft. In the event of an addition being notified, arrangements will be at once made to detach police for duty on board. |\n| 3 | All passengers embarking on single launches or on passenger tows plying on the inland waters will be searched by the launch police as they go on board. Both their persons and their baggage will be examined, and they must offer no resistance to such examination. The launch police will, as heretofore, be stationed on the launch, but previous to a tow getting under way they will board the latter, and, as passengers embark, search them for concealed arms. The police will return to the launch at the time of departure. Similarly, at every station called at en route all passengers wishing to embark will be searched before being allowed to do so. |\n| 4 | The captain of every single passenger launch, and the master of every tow, shall assist the police, and be present when the search is made, in order to prevent any resistance or disturbance. |\n| 5 | The devices resorted to by pirates for concealing fire-arms are many. Sometimes they hide them in earthenware jars with a layer of cakes to cover them; sometimes they place them in baskets under a layer of fruit. They have also many other tricks too numerous to detail. Hence in searching for fire-arms, no matter what description of passengers' luggage it may be, it is imperative that everything should be individually and thoroughly examined. |\n| 6 | The guards on single passenger launches, and on launches with tows, shall have their food provided by the launch, but they shall pay the cost of such food from their wages. |\n| 7 | In the event of an attack by pirates, the launch police must resist them to the best of their ability, and must on no account shrink from their duty. |\n| 8 | The launch police receive remuneration for their services from the authorities. They are not allowed to demand anything for expenses. If they are guilty of an offence of this nature, the master of the launch should, in the case of foreign-owned launches, inform the Commissioner of Customs, who will duly inform the police authorities, and ask them to deal with the matter. In the case of passenger tows owned by Chinese, information will be sent direct by the master of the tow to the launch police authorities. |\n| 9 | Launches of both the above-mentioned descriptions will be provided with an alarm flag, and in the event of an alarm being raised this flag shall be immediately hoisted by the police on the launch, so that the paddle-boats guarding the various sections of the river may be dispatched in pursuit. |\n| 10 | Fourteen new patrol-launches have been added to patrol the West River. This is a considerable addition to the numbers formerly employed. All launches plying with passengers which may pass the said patrol-launches must under all circumstances come close alongside them, so that it may be ascertained that everything on board is in order. Any of the aforesaid launches which do not comply with this condition will be pursued and an explanation demanded by the patrol-boats. |\n| 11 | Any passenger found in the possession of concealed fire-arms will be sent to the local authorities to be dealt with. |\n| 12 | Any passenger refusing to allow himself to be searched or trying to create a disturbance will be sent to the local authorities to be dealt with. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-344 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412343, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[24871] \nNo. 1. \n[July 26.] \n### SECTION 2.\n\nSir,\n\nChina Association to Foreign Office.-(Received July 26.) \n189, Cannon Street, London, July 25, 1907.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that the China Association has received many further complaints of infringement by Japanese traders of British and other foreign trade-marks. It appears that the China markets are being flooded with Japanese goods bearing devices which are in some instances facsimiles, in others colourable imitations, of British trade-marks. China has no trade-mark laws, and no legal protection exists against the infringement of marks which have become by prescription and priority of user identified with articles supplied by certain manufacturers and firms.\n\nPending the promulgation of Trade-marks Regulations by China, the Japanese Government will not give its adherence to the arrangement or modus vivendi existing between the other Great Powers, whereby the trade-marks of their subjects are afforded the protection of the Consular Courts.\n\nThe Committee of the China Association desire to submit for the consideration of His Majesty's Government the desirability of inducing the Japanese Government to accept the conditions of the modus vivendi before any regulations are issued for the registration of foreign trade-marks in China; otherwise the Committee feel convinced that Japanese, claiming priority of application, will register as their own marks which have been regarded hitherto as the exclusive property of British merchants, and which have been respected by their foreign competitors for a great number of years.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) **C. GRENVILLE ALABASTER**, \nSecretary.\n\n[2664 cc-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "M. le Ministre,\n\n2\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. O'Brien to Count Hayashi.\n\nJune 27, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that I have read with much satisfaction your note of the 27th March last on the subject of the registration and protection of trade-marks.\n\nThat the policy pursued by the Patent Bureau in regard to the examination of trade-marks has uniformly been guided by justice and impartiality has never, I need scarcely say, been questioned by my Government. There are, however, certain points regarding the operation of the existing trade-mark legislation, upon which I should be glad to have further enlightenment, and, accordingly, I beg that your Excellency will be good enough to furnish me, in complement to the particulars contained in the note under acknowledgment, with additional information respecting the validity of illegitimate trade-marks in the event of such trade-marks being registered.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed) T. J. O'BRIEN.\n\nM. le Ministre,\n\nInclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\nCount Hayashi to Mr. O'Brien.\n\nDepartment of Foreign Affairs, Tökiő, June 30, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Excellency's note No. 134 dated the 27th instant desiring additional information respecting the validity of illegitimate trade-marks in the event of such trade-marks being registered in the Imperial Patent Bureau.\n\nItems 3 to 5 of Article 2 of the Trade-mark Law now in force in Japan enumerate the following classes of characters, devices, and signs which cannot be registered as trade-marks:--\n\n(3.) Those which are, or may be, injurious to public order or morality, or calculated to deceive the public.\n\n(4.) Those identical with, or similar to, marks already registered by another, or marks so registered in respect of which one full year has not yet elapsed since their invalidation, which are to be applied to the same description of goods.\n\n(5.) Those which are identical with, or similar to, marks which have been used by another person from a time prior to the operation of this law.\n\nArticle 10 of the same law explicitly provides that, in the event of a trade-mark falling under any of these three classes being registered by mistake, such registration shall be invalid. It should be added that the proviso of the same Article stipulates that in the case of those trade-marks coming under the provisions of the above-mentioned items 4 and 5, the registration thereof shall not be invalidated if at least three years have passed since such registration; but as this stipulation is not made with respect to trade-marks mentioned in items 1 to 3 of Article 2, it is to be concluded that application may be made for the cancellation of their registration at any time whatever subsequent to such registration.\n\nThe legislative reason for making the discrimination above referred to between the two categories of illegitimate trade-marks appears to be as follows:--\n\nThe main object of the provisions of items 4 and 5 is the protection of the individual interests of the owners or users of trade-marks, and therefore it need cause no wonder that if such interested persons should, for a period of not less than three years, fail to take measures for the defence of their own rights, they should no longer be able to insist upon the invalidation of illegitimate trade-marks affecting their interests. On the other hand, in the case of trade-marks coming under items 1 to 3 of Article 2, since such trade-marks are defective in themselves or are calculated to lead the general public into gross errors, there is no reason why the ground for their invalidation should be removed by any lapse of time.\n\n3\n\nIf, moreover, both the above-mentioned grounds exist simultaneously in respect of a trade-mark, application for the cancellation of its registration may be made on either ground not later than three years from the date of such registration, and after the lapse of the said period of three years its invalidation may be applied for on any of the grounds set forth in items 1 to 3 of Article 2 above referred to, such as, for instance, the ground of its misleading the public.\n\nI avail, &c. (Signed) Count HAYASHI,\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs.\n\n11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417383, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 95, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "2\n\nAt Ch'u-ching-fu: Oppression of the people and illegal exactions by police and yamên runners.\n\nAt Ping-i-hsien: Opium dens closed nominally.\n\n2. Attitude of Local Officials and Gentry.\n\nAt Yünnan-fu: My missionary informant states that they are reported to be breaking away from the habit, but my own information from other sources is different.\n\nAt Chu-ching-fu: They are \"going to break off the habit.\n\nAt Ping-i-hsien: They are indifferent to the spirit of the Proclamations.\n\n3. Restriction of Area under Cultivation.\n\nAt Yünnan-fu: There are reports to hand that opium crops have been uprooted in the neighbourhood.\n\nAt Kueiyang (Kueichou): There has been little or no reduction in poppy cultivation in the district.\n\nAt Ping-i-hsien: One-third of old poppy ground has been planted with other crops; and no ground has been newly planted with poppy.\n\n4. Restrictions on Smokers.\n\nAt Yunnan-fu: A register is kept and forwarded to the local authorities of those who have ceased to smoke opium.\n\nAt Ch'u-ching-fu and Ping-i-hsien: No action has been taken.\n\n5. Closing of Opium Dens and Shops.\n\nAt Yünnan-fu: The dens have been closed, but some still remain open in the surrounding villages. No opium or opium appliances are to be seen in the restaurants.\n\nAt Ch'u-ching-fu: Permission has been granted to shops and restaurants to sell opium until the end of the Chinese year (21st January, 1909).\n\nAt Ping-i-hsien: The dens have been closed, but only nominally.\n\nAt Kueiyang: The dens have been closed, but a good deal of secret smoking is carried on in them. The den-keepers are punished on detection, but this seems to have no effect.\n\n6. Inspection of Opium Shops.\n\nAt Yünnan-fu: Some inspection has been made, but opium can still be bought without a licence.\n\nAt Ping-i-hsien: Opium is sold openly on the streets. The sale was restricted for one day, when the Magistrate expected an official inspection visit.\n\n7. Use of Medicines to Cure Opium Habit.\n\nAt Yunnan-fu: Foreign anti-opium drugs are sold at Shanghai prices. Native preparations are dispensed gratis to the labouring classes. Anti-opium remedies are offered for sale in the shops.\n\nAt Ch'u-ching-fu: Native remedies only are used. An anti-opium bureau has been opened and money freely spent, but only one or two persons have broken off the habit.\n\nAt Ping-i-hsien: An opium refuge has been opened in charge of two opium-smoking officials. No one has broken off the habit, and the desire to do so is on the wane. The Magistrate allows opium smoking in his yamên.\n\n8. The above information has been supplied by missionaries at Yunnan-fu, Ch'u-ching-fu (North-East Yünnan), Ping-i-hsien (North-East Yünnan), and Kueiyang (capital of the Province of Kueichou).\n\n8\n\nVisit to Anti-Opium Dispensaries and Refuges at Yünnan-fu.\n\nOn the 29th July I paid a visit to the principal official anti-opium dispensary and refuge in the city under the charge of Taotai Kuo. Unfortunately, the visit was not expected, but as short notice had been given it was possible to see through two or three devices calculated to deceive as to the importance of the work being done. The place was clean and the two store-rooms containing anti-opium remedies were neat, each being in charge of an intelligent assistant. The remedies were classified under two heads: (1) foreign and (2) native. The former came from Japan and Shanghai, but neither the Taotai nor his staff knew their composition. The native remedies appeared to be extremely complicated on account of the number of ingredients. The remedy most in evidence was concocted of native drugs and contained 2 per cent. of opium. The drugs were boiled down into two tubs, poured into kettles, and served in cups gratis on demand. Five kettles and twenty cups were displayed on a table covered with a clean, white cloth in the court-yard. Three of the kettles were brand new, and so were half of the cups. I offered the remark that there appeared to be no demand for the medicine, and was informed that 300 patients had been treated gratis the day before.\n\nThe refuge is in the same building, and consisted of a large and a small room. The large room was empty, but the Taotai stated that between sixty and seventy patients had been discharged cured the day before. In the small room were three lads of whom the eldest was 19 years old. In reply to my questions, they spoke highly of the kindness and attention of the Taotai, who was by my side, and said that the opium craving was already leaving them. One lad told me that he had smoked opium for two years, and another for six months. None of these three lads gave the appearance of being opium sots, and I could not refrain from thinking that these three lads were not genuine cases but had been brought in on account of my visit.\n\nFrom the official bureau I proceeded to the dispensary and refuge opened by the gentry. The general air of the place was depressing, and I saw no signs of any patients. The native remedy, alluded to above, had been made up into balls and was offered for sale at cost price, but I saw no business being done. The buildings are in charge of three gentry, and there is a staff comprising drugsellers, accountant, caretakers, &c. The total monthly expenses were, I was informed, nearly 1,000 taels.\n\nGeneral Summary.\n\nFrom conversation with respectable Chinese and from my own observations, I gather that the people say that it is impossible for them to give up opium smoking in the short space of time allowed to them (the 21st January, 1909), and that the gentry are of the same opinion. Underlying this is, undoubtedly, the haunting fear that the abolition of opium will ruin the province, as opium forms 70 per cent. (over 90 per cent., according to independent Chinese estimates given to me) of the exports, and that there is nothing to replace it as a staple export. Generally speaking, the Governor-General is in earnest in his efforts to suppress opium smoking and opium cultivation, but official and popular opinion are against him.\n\n(Signed) E. C. WILTON.\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nProclamation of the Chief Bureau for the Prohibition of Opium Smoking.\n\nIN obedience to the orders received for the prevention of opium-smoking several Proclamations have been issued clearly stating that all smokers would be given three additional months in which to break themselves of the habit. The time limit was intentionally curtailed, and all smoking must now cease with the 6th moon.\n\nIf after the issue of this Proclamation any one elects to disobey, he will be severely punished. The sale and purchase of the drug must stop, and the opium lamps must not be lit.\n\nYünnan-fu, April 24, 1908.\n\n91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417826, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 538, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "534\n\n2\n\ncitizens due protection in China and Corea, their Representatives signed two Conventions for that purpose, one for China and another for Corea. These Conventions were ratified and the ratifications exchanged on the 6th August, 1908, and went into force ten days later, that is, on the 16th of the same month.\n\nIn the Convention regarding China, it was agreed upon that industrial and literary properties, as well as commercial names, duly patented and registered by subjects or citizens of one country in the appropriate office of the other shall have in all parts of China the same protection as is given by that other country in its dominions and possessions;\n\nThat in case the right of a Japanese subject protected in the United States be infringed in China by an American citizen or that of an American citizen protected in Japan by a Japanese subject, the aggrieved party shall have in the competent territorial or Consular Court of the country giving the protection the same rights and remedies as subjects or citizens of that country;\n\nThat subjects of Corea and citizens of possessions belonging to the United States shall have in China the same treatment as subjects of Japan and citizens of the United States respectively;\n\nThat this Convention shall be enforced so far as applicable in any territory in which either country may exercise extra-territorial jurisdiction;\n\nThat all rights growing out of the present Convention shall be recognized in the insular and other possessions and leased territories of both countries, and all legal remedies provided for the protection of such rights shall be duly enforced by the competent Courts;\n\nThat any person who possesses at the time of the enforcement of this Convention merchandise bearing an imitation of a trade-mark owned by another person and entitled to protection under this Convention shall remove or cancel such false trade-mark or withdraw such merchandise from the market in China within six months from the date of the enforcement of this Convention; and\n\nThat unauthorized reproductions of works of art or literature, as well as photographs, belonging to subjects or citizens of one country by those of the other, published prior to the operation of this Convention, and after the 10th May, 1906, and entitled to protection in virtue of this Convention, shall be withdrawn from sale or circulation in China within one year from the date of the enforcement of this Convention.\n\nThe above is the gist of the Convention regarding China. In pursuance of this Convention, an Imperial Ordinance was issued extending the effect of industrial property and copyright enjoyed in Japan by Japanese and Corean subjects, and also the application of the rules of patent, design, trade-mark, and copyright laws relating to punishments to subjects of the two countries residing in Kwanto Province and in foreign countries where Japan has extra-territorial jurisdiction, and decreeing that the above provisions shall be applicable to industrial property and copyrights enjoyed in Japan by subjects or citizens of foreign countries, provided that such foreign countries give similar protection to Japanese and Corean subjects in countries where they exercise extra-territorial jurisdiction, and provided further that they do not exercise in Corea extra-territorial jurisdiction regarding the protection of industrial property and copyrights.\n\nIt cannot be said, of course, that this Convention perfectly protects in China our industrial and literary properties, as it can do nothing against the infringement by subjects or citizens of foreign countries which are not parties to this Convention. Moreover, in order to secure in China the protection of the United States, we must first have our industrial or literary property patented or registered in the United States itself. But nothing more can be done, as Powers have extra-territorial jurisdiction in China, and China herself has not yet her law on the subject. This Convention, however, shows a certain advance on similar Conventions in force among Powers in countries where they enjoy extra-territoriality. Such Conventions generally relate to trade-marks only, but the one we have concluded with the United States covers also inventions, designs, and copyrights.\n\nIt is to be noted that this is not an independent Convention, but has close connection with the Convention regarding Corea. According to the Imperial Ordinance just mentioned, any country desiring to secure in China the Japanese protection for the industrial and literary properties of its subjects or citizens has not only to give in that country similar protection to Japanese and also Corean subjects, but has to waive extra-territorial jurisdiction in Corea in that connection. For this reason, the two Conventions were enforced on the same day.\n\nIt is also to be noted that a period of six months in the case of merchandise bearing illegal trade-marks, and a period of one year in the case of unauthorized reproductions of works of art or literature, are allowed before such merchandise and reproductions are to be withdrawn from the market in China. These periods of grace are not meant to give any protection to the owners of illegal goods and unauthorized reproductions, but are given solely for the object of not disturbing the market.\n\n3\n\nSo much about China. Regarding Corea, Japan promised to cause to be enforced in that country Laws and Regulations relating to inventions, designs, trade-marks, and copyrights similar to those existing in Japan, and to make such Laws and Regulations applicable to American citizens equally as to Japanese and Coreans. On the other hand, the United States engaged that, in case of the infringement by American citizens of inventions, designs, trade-marks, or copyrights protected in Corea, she shall waive her extra-territorial jurisdiction in these particulars, and such citizens shall be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Japanese Courts in Corea. It is also agreed that industrial property and copyrights patented or registered in Japan by American citizens prior to the enforcement in Corea of the Laws and Regulations mentioned above shall without further procedure be entitled to the same protection in that country as is given to Japanese and Corean subjects; that industrial property and copyrights patented or registered in America by Japanese, Corean, or American citizens prior to the enforcement of the Convention shall be patented or registered in Corea free of charges, provided that such patent or registration is effected within one year after the Convention comes into force; and that the Japanese Government shall extend to American citizens in Corea the same protection regarding commercial names as they enjoy in Japan.\n\n13\n\nIn order to carry this Convention into effect, the Japanese Government issued five Imperial Ordinances, decreeing that Japanese Patent, Design, Trade-mark, and Copyright Laws and Mercantile Law and Law of Procedure relating to non-contentious matters shall apply in Corea to patents, designs, trade-marks, copyrights, and commercial names respectively. A Patent Office was organized in the Residency-General, Corea, to manage matters relating to industrial and literary properties. On the part of Corea, an order was issued decreeing the enforcement of the above-mentioned Japanese Laws in that country. In applying these Laws, some necessary changes have been made in them by the Imperial Ordinances referred to above, such as \"Empire\" in the Japanese Laws to \"Corea,\" \"the Court\" to \"Supreme Court, Residency-General, or Residency\"; Patent Office to \"Patent Office, Residency-General\"; Minister of State for the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, and also Minister of State for the Department of Home Affairs\" to \"Resident-General,\" &c. It is also provided in these Ordinances that owners of inventions or designs entitled to protection in Corea cannot set up their rights against persons, or their successors, who are using in that country at the time of the enforcement of these Ordinances the same or similar inventions or designs; that any design identical with or similar to the Imperial Crest of Japan or Corea, and any trade-mark containing devices identical with or similar to the Imperial Crest, national flag, military or naval ensign, or decorations of Japan or Corea, or the national flag of any other country, shall not be registered; that Article 16 of the Trade-mark Law shall be applied to merchandise bearing marks similar to trade-marks entitled to protection in Corea only after six months from the enforcement of the Law; and that unauthorized reproductions of works of art or literature entitled to protection in Corea shall be allowed to be sold, circulated, or performed for one year from the enforcement of the Ordinance relating to copyrights, upon complying with formalities to be prescribed by the Residency-General. Another important provision is that \"Empire\" in Article 6 of the Patent Law is to be understood to include both Japan and Corea. This is very convenient to applicants at the Patent Office, Residency-General, as Japanese and also Americans who have agents in Japan need not appoint agents in Corea. Moreover, a branch office of the Patent Office, Residency-General, has been established in the Patent Office, Tôkiô, so that applications need not be sent to Corea, but may be filed in Tôkiô.\n\nThese Imperial Ordinances are applicable also to subjects or citizens of foreign countries which give similar protection to Japanese and Corean subjects, and which do not exercise in Corea extra-territorial jurisdiction in connection with the protection of industrial and literary properties.\n\nThe above is a rough explanation of the two Conventions. By these Conventions, we have engaged to give protection in China and Corea to certain foreigners, but at the same time, our interests have been materially promoted there. Of course, such Conventions are very inconvenient to those of evil intention, but by these Conventions, the protection of legitimate interests of Japanese subjects has been secured in these countries.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417832, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 544, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "([This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[41215]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[November 30.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office to Board of Trade.\n\nForeign Office, November 30, 1908. WITH reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to transmit to you, to be laid before the Board of Trade, copies of correspondence with Messrs. C. and E. Morton,* in regard to the protection of trade-marks in China and Japan.\n\nSir E. Grey proposes that a reply should be sent to Messrs. Morton's last letter to the following effect:\n\nThe firm should be recommended to obtain a translation of the Japanese Trade-mark Law, and should be informed that one will be found in a paper presented to Parliament in 1900 (Commercial No. 2 of that year (Cd. 104)), which is obtainable through any bookseller at the price of 1s. 1d.\n\nIt would appear that they are under a misconception as to the principle upon which the Japanese Trade-mark Law is based. In Japan, as in practically all the principal countries of the world except Great Britain and the United States of America, registration of a trade-mark is the test of ownership, and a trade-mark does not, therefore, in the eyes of Japanese law, belong to any one until it has been registered; and it seems to Sir E. Grey that to request the Japanese Government to allow the registration of a trade-mark to be cancelled at any time on proof of prior use of the mark by another party would be equivalent to asking them to abandon the whole principle on which their Law is based, a principle which, as stated above, is that followed by nearly all the most important States of the world.\n\nMessrs. Morton's attention would at the same time be invited to Article 2 (3) of the Japanese Law, which states that words, devices, or marks in regard to which the apprehension exists that they will deceive people cannot be registered in Japan as trade-marks, and it would be suggested that they should consult a patent agent in Japan as to the means by which protection could best be obtained for unregistered British trade-marks under the terms of this Article, which seems to be of a comprehensive character.\n\nI am to request that the Board will state at their earliest convenience whether they concur in this reply.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. A. CAMPBELL.\n\nMessrs. Morton, November 4; to ditto, November 20; Messrs. Morton, November 24, 1908.\n\n[2020 gg-1]\n\n540", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 742, "title": "CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "737\n\nA mark does not, therefore, in the eyes of Japanese law, belong to anyone until it has been registered; and it seems to Sir E. Grey that to request the Japanese Government to allow the registration of a trade mark to be cancelled at any time on proof of prior use of the mark by another party would be equivalent to asking them to abandon the whole principle on which their law is based, a principle which, as stated above, is that followed by nearly all the most important States of the World.\n\nI am at the same time to invite your attention to Article 2 (3) of the Japanese law which states that words, devices or marks in regard to which the apprehension exists that they will deceive people cannot be registered in Japan as trade marks; and I am to suggest that you should consult a Patent Agent in Japan as to the means by which protection could best be obtained for unregistered British trade marks under the terms of this Article, which seems to be of a comprehensive character.\n\nIn, Gentlemen,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\n(Signed) F. A. Campbell.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-353 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3]", "content_text": "336\n\nFurther restriction.\n\nThe restriction of the export from India will probably enhance the value of raw opium, and this with the restrictions already alluded to, and others to which I am about to refer, will probably still further reduce the tender in 1910. This in itself constitutes a heavy contribution on the part of the Colony to the policy inaugurated by His Majesty's Government, at a time when, owing to a prolonged depression in trade and to other causes, it is in considerable financial difficulties. Any serious decrease in revenue makes it, of course, more difficult to maintain effective Police supervision, without which the Farmer would be unable to protect his monopoly and prevent smuggling of opium into the Colony, or from the Colony into China.\n\nThere is no evidence to show that the Farmer in any way endeavours to promote the consumption of opium. No methods of inducement or advertisement are used. Opium divans are not in any way made attractive by meretricious devices as are public houses in England, and sales are in no way pushed.\n\nI have endeavoured to show that the system of farming the monopoly of the right to prepare and sell opium results in enhancing the price of the drug and thereby restricts the consumption (the average price of the various grades of the raw drug is only about 1/4 of the average retail selling price in Hongkong); that it is a potent and indeed the only means of checking smuggling either into the Colony or from it to China; and that it produces a revenue that is perfectly legitimate and is expended in providing a Police Service, etc.\n\nIn order to give effect to the policy of His Majesty's Government it is feasible to propose enhancements to the restrictions imposed upon the Farmer. Prior to the year 1891 he was allowed to draw 3,650 chests of opium per annum in order to \"prepare\" and sell it. Since that year the number has been fixed at 1,800, and though it is true that he has not as a matter of fact drawn anything like this amount, it is impossible, except with his consent, to reduce this number, until the present contract expires in March, 1910.\n\n(a) The number could then be reduced by half, viz., 900, and if China perseveres in her efforts it may in future years be progressively diminished, though for reasons which I will presently give I think it of more than doubtful utility to abolish the supply altogether. Since the population is rapidly increasing this constitutes a very substantial decrease. With the decrease of the export from India and the presumable cessation of the export from China, the supply will moreover be greatly curtailed and the cost proportionately increased. The Farmer is willing to agree to an immediate decrease (from March 1909) to 1,000 chests with 200 extra, if required, for bona fide export to places other than China.\n\n(b) If the Farmer for the purposes of his operations should import any prepared opium he must declare it (as also opium dross, dross opium, and \"halan\"), and an equivalent deduction will be made from the quantity of raw opium he is allowed to draw.\n\n(c) He may similarly be called upon to report his monthly sales of prepared and dross opium, whether in the Colony or exported, and in the latter case their destination.\n\n(d) He would be prohibited from selling any opium to women or children, whether for their own use or not.\n\nThese restrictions would of course decrease the value of the farm, and thereby involve a loss of revenue to the Colony, which would however be expended in a practical effort to give effect to the policy of the Home Government.\n\nThere are other important steps which have been taken by this Colony to control and restrict the use of opium, both as regards the question of divans, and (most important of all) as regards the importation, sale, and use, of morphine, and compounds of opium (for eating), as well as cocaine, including moreover recent action with a view to controlling the transit trade in the former to prevent smuggling to China. These matters are, however, best dealt with under the subsequent paragraphs relating to Divans, and Morphia, &c.\n\nThe Straits Commission say (Report § 155) that this was \"clearly proved\" and was surprising looking to the commercial aptitude of the Chinese. The Farmer does not extend sales by giving bonuses, or lower rates for wholesale purchases and rarely gives credit but \"simply supplies a demand and does nothing to stimulate it.\"\n\nSo much prominence has been given of late to the subject of opium divans (or \"Dens\" as they are called in England), that I think it may be useful to add a few observations on them.\n\nDivans, which must not be confused with opium shops whose role is the preparation and sale (or sale only) of opium, are places where opium is sold for smoking on the premises, or where a fee is paid for the privilege of smoking. There is of course no means of preventing persons from preparing and smoking both opium and dross in their own houses if they wish to do so.\n\nIn Hongkong there are 190 divans. They are under the control of the Police and Sanitary Department and the Protector of Chinese. A divan consists of a single room which if quite full might accommodate 30 persons at a time. Mr. Clementi estimates the total who smoke in divans as some 14,465 persons which only gives an average for each divan of 76. Therefore if each person remained 3 hours the average occupants would only be 13 or 14 instead of 30, since divans are only open from 6 a.m. to midnight. A personal inspection showed them to be quiet and orderly. The smokers appeared generally to be friends engaged in animated conversation, smoking tobacco, eating fruit and drinking tea with an occasional whiff from the opium pipe. There were none in a state of stupefaction though the visit was between 10 and 11 p.m.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary, Mr. May, with 9 years' experience as head of Police, who had constantly visited the divans at all hours of the day and night, stated that he had never seen a man here the worse for the drug. He himself though very susceptible even to tobacco had smoked many pipes in succession with no result.\n\nDr. Ayres who studied the question for 20 years smoked 3 mace (174 grains) consecutively, viz., as much as a confirmed smoker would smoke in a day, without feeling any result at all.\n\nA divan licence in Hongkong costs $10 per annum and is renewable annually, and the place is comparable to our public houses in England, in so far as it affords a resort where the tired coolie may rest and enjoy his tobacco and fruit with a little opium, or where friends of the better classes may meet and discuss affairs, but it contrasts strongly with a Public House in that it is quiet and orderly. Women and children are absolutely excluded.\n\nMen who have homes of their own will, in the absence of divans, smoke in their women's quarters as they are now reported to be doing in Canton. Thus the evil hitherto excluded from domestic life will be introduced into the home, where women and children will probably become participators. The idea therefore that smoking at home is less harmful than smoking in a public divan is based on a misconception of the nature of a divan as it exists at any rate in Hongkong. It is true that the criminal classes frequent the divans, because they are often smokers, but they go there for no vicious purpose other than smoking, the place is too open and public for discussing secret plans, and there is no immorality.\n\nThe alternative resort for those with money is the noisy theatre, or the restaurant where much money is wasted, and which is more or less associated with the brothel. For the coolie the alternative is the street, or if he desires to smoke and has no home in which to indulge he must pay some rich man's servants for the privilege of smoking with them. It is indeed anticipated that abolition of divans would lead to the introduction of bad characters into the quarters of the Chinese servants of Europeans, and may even extend instead of curtailing the habit. Divans are a concomitant, and result of the habit of opium smoking rather than an inciting cause, and they serve a useful purpose in concentrating smokers, and thus bringing them under control and supervision. They also tend to diminish...\n\nCalculation dated 12-6-09.\n\n+ Indian Opium Commission. Vol. V. p. 198.\n\nOrdinance 8 of 1891. The keeper's wife or child are alone exempted.\n\nThe Straits Commission support these conclusions very strongly. They hold that public smoking in well-ventilated saloons is better for public health than smoking in private houses. They are \"unhesitatingly of opinion\" that it would be a mistake to abolish divans and that there is \"no necessity or justification\" for doing so. They add some recommendations regarding control and sanitation, but do not advocate any increase in the licence fees which are $2 and $36. (Report § 212 to § 226). Mr. Fox informs me that during a year's residence at the capital of the opium province of Szechuan, he never saw any disturbance in a divan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-355 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422723, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# Customs, Language, and Religion of the Ordos Mongols\n\n18 people I have frequently been laughed at and congratulated on my happy experience; whatever the nature of the people in other parts of Mongolia I can at least speak from intimate knowledge of the Ordos, that the inhabitants treated me and mine with entire honesty. For their hospitality, always readily given, they never expected payment and in many cases refused money when offered. The traveller who should take a few lumps of silver for use in the districts adjacent to China and some strings of cash for use in the interior, can insist on the poor accepting money while the present of a box of matches or a couple of Price's wax candles or a little Peking tea, gives invariably the greatest pleasure to the richer hosts. Future travellers would do well to take a few extra packets of these three commodities as presents.\n\n## Customs\n\nMost, if not all, of the customs in vogue among the Ordos Mongols are probably common to the whole of Mongolia. They are none the less quaint, however, and have a peculiar charm. Perhaps, the one which strikes the traveller as the most curious is the interchange of snuff-bottles by way of greeting. Every Mongol carries one of these little bottles in a pouch at his waist. The quality and size vary of course according to the bearer's means, those of the Princes being very elaborate and of an expensive material. The ordinary bottles, however, are of glass or porcelain. The art of giving and receiving the snuff-bottle in the correct manner is not so easy to acquire as one might imagine. Like the art of shaking hands where neither party looks at their own hands before giving it nor at the hand they are grasping, so the art of snuff-bottling. You do not look at the bottle you are giving nor do you look at the one you receive. To do the latter would suggest that you are appraising its value. The bottle may be received in one hand and should be raised very slightly and then returned. Only on entering a house that the interchange takes place. If the traveller stops to speak to a Mongol on the road—and all Mongols travelling stop to speak to fellow-travellers, to ask them where they come from, whither they travel—bow their beasts fare—snuff-bottles are exchanged in sign of friendship. It is a delightful custom doomed probably to extinction at no very distant date.\n\nThe proper term of greeting when coming to a house or meeting strangers on the road is \"amorr' sae\" (saehen) which means literally \"peace good,\" and is probably very necessary in countries where the person you meet may be anxious to have your blood. If the same reply is made there is nothing to be feared. There is a custom to secure the welfare of houses and which I noticed one or twice; this corresponds to our burying current coins, newspapers, &c., under a foundation stone. On the rafter which supports the roof of the living rooms are suspended a few cash, two chopsticks and a little bag containing wheat and millet. All these are attached to a red scroll pasted to the rafters. These are affixed when the building is ready for occupation, and signify \"May it last 10,000 years.\"\n\nAnother method of securing good luck—but this I only found in Chinese families scattered through the Ordos—is to paste over the doorway of every building or outhouse slips of paper of varied hues with characters inscribed on them. These protect all who enter from sickness or mishap, or from the influence of devils. Inside the buildings flutter perhaps nine or ten other strips of paper from the rafter, bearing devices with the same object. These are frequently taken down, folded up, and worn as an amulet round the neck. I will compare with this the charms worn by the Catholic Christians in the neighbourhood of Santanho, also round the neck, and containing a little picture. These are obtained from the village priest for a few cash, and renewed when worn out.\n\nThe women wear a delightfully picturesque head-dress, and this is probably the only valuable thing they possess. It is a leather band set with silver, and which encircles the head; from it hang down over the forehead, as far as the eyes, over the nape of the neck and over the ears, long strings of silver, coral, jade, and precious stones. Heavy strings of earrings, chiefly hoops of silver, pull down the lobe of the ear till it has lost all its first shape. The hair is fastened in two plaits, one falling over each shoulder into a leather pouch, which reaches to either breast. These pouches are heavily ornamented with silver. If the lady is in mourning the plaits wear a white band across them. The unmarried Mongol women do not wear this quaint head-dress; this is presented by the young man to his fiancée, and thus may be said to correspond to our engagement ring. The young man often has to sell many beasts in order to purchase it; the price and value vary from 60 taels (£9) to 100 taels (£15), and the wealthy sometimes pay as much as 500 taels (£75), but this depends on the value of the stones, pearls, jade, &c., with which the ornaments are set. Directly a girl is engaged to be married she binds her hair under her chin, instead of allowing it to fall in plaits over the shoulders.\n\n## Language\n\nChinese is spoken in those portions of the country which either fringe on China or into which Chinese settlers have penetrated; everywhere else only Mongol is spoken. It is therefore essential for the traveller either to be able to speak Mongol himself, or to have a Mongol-speaking man among his retinue. Even in those districts which lie nearest to China, only a few Mongols can talk Chinese, those few being the men who have had frequent occasion to cross the frontier and do business among the Chinese. In none of the Prince's residences or yamêns are there as yet any Chinese-speaking Mongols; there are no Chinese officials in the country who could help the Chinese-speaking traveller, nor do the lamas speak anything but Mongol. There will be of course exceptions in this last case, but in none of the many lamaseries which I visited were these exceptions to be found.\n\n## Religion\n\nThe religion of the country is Lamaism; the Chinese settlers have, however, maintained their own; in the south of the Kingdom of Ottok there are 7,000 Christians (Roman Catholics), Chinese and Mongol, round the districts of Hsiao chiao and Borobalgasson. In the north-east, in the Kingdom of Talat, there are also some Roman Catholic converts, probably a few hundred, round Hsiao noor and Ta noor.\n\nTwo-thirds of the male Mongol population are herded into the huge lamaseries which are scattered over the country. These institutions are nests of ignorance and vice, into which the children who are to become lamas are thrown at a very early age. It has been suggested that one of the reforms which the Chinese Government wishes to introduce into Mongolia is a modification of the lama system, so that the children may be taught something in the lamaseries, instead of spending all their time in saying prayers which are practically unintelligible to them. Personally, I do not believe in such benevolence of thought on the part of the Chinese Government, and I am convinced that, even if they held it, they would find the task of carrying it out entirely beyond their powers. It has hitherto been supposed that the Chinese Government viewed these institutions with approval, as the lamas being vowed to celibacy and also forbidden to fight, the Mongols need no longer be feared as a fighting force, and could be viewed with equanimity as a decreasing instead of an increasing race. If the Chinese Government ever really bothered to hold a view of Lamaism at all, I think it very likely that this was the view held, and it is unlikely that any change has come over their minds in the matter.\n\n## Climate\n\nThe best season of the year to travel in the Ordos is the late spring and early summer (May and June) or not until the autumn. Though little snow falls in the winter this season is exceedingly severe as may be judged from the fact that the swift flowing Yellow River freezes. Through April and also part of May daily sandstorms may be expected. I know of nothing more disagreeable than travelling in these storms. Nearly always coming from the north-westerly direction they would start about 9 A.M. and increase in ferocity till 3 P.M. when they would gradually subside until by sunset all would be still and clear. While the storm lasts travelling is miserable for man and beast. Sand and stone penetrate everywhere and are swept with force into eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. The traveller is tempted to halt directly the storm begins, but he may be absolutely certain that it will be the same on the morrow. As a change from dust we had a violent snowstorm on the last day of April but this was the last kick of winter. Rain is unusual. We had one rainstorm lasting an hour and a-half following thunder and great heat on the 15th May but with the exception of this we only had half a dozen drops on a few other occasions, most of them in June. The country becomes terribly hot in summer and travelling by day then is exceedingly difficult. Of late years it appears that the summer rains have failed and the country is in consequence becoming gradually drier. The once fertile land to which Chinese penetrated no longer yields the crops it formerly did and the colonists talk gloomily of being obliged to leave.\n\n19 \n## Page 124", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422874, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 277, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## C.O 27291\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n2\n\nThe action of the provincial authorities justifies the belief that their ulterior aim is to drive the native dealers out of the trade, thus establishing for themselves the much-coveted monopoly which they have been endeavouring to create by various devices during the past two years.\n\nMay we beg that His Majesty's Government will instruct His Majesty's Minister in Peking to bring such pressure to bear on the Chinese Government as will free a legitimate trade from restrictions during the period that trade is allowed by treaty to exist.\n\nWe have, &c.\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\nED. SASSOON AND CO\n\n[27485]\n\nNo. 1\n\n14 AUG 1909\n\n### SECTION 1\n\n#### Sir Edward Grey to Sir J. Jordan\n\n**(No. 220)**\n\nForeign Office, July 26, 1909.\n\nSir,\n\nWITH reference to your despatch No. 228 of the 24th ultimo, I transmit to you herewith copy of a letter from Messrs. D. E. Sassoon protesting against the action of the Bureau of Opium Suppression at Soochow in issuing certain new regulations which, in their opinion, would have the effect of restricting legitimate trade, and which would tend to constitute a monopoly in favour of the Chinese provincial authorities. A copy of my reply is also enclosed.\n\nI should be glad to be furnished with your views on the matter.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) **E. GREY**\n\n- Messrs. D. E. Sassoon, July 19, 1909. (`2363cc-`)\n- To Messrs. D. E. Sassoon, July 27, 1909.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 427218, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11]", "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nHongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n300\n\n36233-\n\nHan 26 NOV 10\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 24th October, 1910.\n\nI have the honour to furnish the following report on the working of Section 43 of Ordinance No.23 of 1909 in pursuance of which the opening, keeping or using of Opium Divans was made illegal from the 1st of March last.\n\n2.\n\nAs was to be expected various devices have been employed to evade the law. In all cases the smoker buys his opium outside and brings it with him. There is the illicit Divan where a direct charge for smoking is made. This class is of course easily dealt with if discovered.\n\nThen there is the Divan in which the Dross (ashes) of the Opium smoked by visitors is retained by the keeper. In cases of this description convictions in undefended cases in which the defendants pleaded guilty have been obtained. A defended case of this kind is pending. Another class of case has recently come to notice in which a comparatively high charge is made for tea and cakes supplied to the smoker.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n&c.\n\n&c.\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-369 - Acting Governor May Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431521, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "content_text": "92 \n\nback to his home at once: if he proceeded on his voyage he \nwould know where he was going to, what work he was to do, who \nhis companions would be and the remuneration he would receive.\n\nIt will be some years before the Kangani system can be introduced and effectively in operation and until it is, the Sinkheh system or one more or less similar to it must remain in force in view of the pressure of the increased demand for labour. But both in the interests of the coolie and to ensure the complaisance of the Chinese Government, always nervous about emigration, the system will require very careful supervision, and probably considerable alteration. There is no port on the coast of China which can be compared with Hongkong in the pains taken to protect the labourer from imposition and fraud, and no port which contains such a skilled emigration staff, or one so closely in touch with the general Chinese population. There are now in the service of the Colony a number of Officers who are familiar with all the fraudulent devices of recruiters, are alert to detect them, and are so accustomed to the work of examination and the aspect of the emigrants that they have attained great accuracy in recognising, without even putting questions, the origin and occupation of the intending emigrant. I am pleased to be able to say that the Hongkong Emigration", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434134, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Military\n\nHsun Fang Tui (Old Troops).—No changes have taken place since my last report. The Tengyueh garrison, however, has been practically depleted. Numbers of men have been scattered about the district, as the taotai is in constant anticipation of trouble, especially in the Shan States. Two hundred men have also gone north in consequence of the Chungtien affair, which has disorganised all the troops of the district.\n\nTali-fu (New Troops).—Captain B. E. A. Pritchard, of the Indian army, has visited Tengyueh, Tali-fu, and Yunnan-fu with a view to reporting on the new troops of Yunnan. I understand that he estimates their efficiency quite as highly as I have done. I note with surprise, in one of Dr. Morrison's letters to the \"Times\" on his recent journey through China and Turkestan, that so keen an observer should throw ridicule on these new troops of Yünnan. From a comparative standpoint their arms and equipment are incomparably superior to the old provincial troops, and I understand that they are better armed than the Burmah military police. At the same time, I do not think that their presence presents any immediate menace to us on the frontier. No steps have been taken to garrison any of the new troops at Tengyueh, and, if my information is correct, there will be insufficient funds for the raising of a second division, or even the completion of the first division in the near future. Heavy expenditure has been incurred in erecting good barracks at Tali-fu, and it appears probable that their head-quarters will remain there for the present. I much regret that I am unable to give more detailed information at present in regard to the work which is being done at Tali-fu. I have no satisfactory source of intelligence there just now, and it would require a man on the spot to obtain reliable information. I shall look forward, however, with much interest to the report of Captain Pritchard, who was untiring in his work of enquiry during the short time at his disposal.\n\n## Frontier Forts\n\nIn my last frontier report (3rd March), I mentioned that five new forts were in course of erection along the Chinese section of the frontier between the British posts of Bhamo and Myitkyina. Rumours now reach me that the construction of these forts has been very unsatisfactory, and that the officer responsible for them has been summoned to Tengyueh, but dare not come. Old-fashioned opinion, which is led by the retired commander-in-chief and others who have done sterling work on the frontiers and is generally sound, ridicules the positions which have been chosen for their erection. The older and more experienced men advised that the military posts should be near populous frontier markets as a protection from brigands and border thieves. The more advanced modern men, however, have insisted that they shall be on hill tops, wind-swept and waterless. \"Bad sites, bad plans, bad materials, and shoddy work,\" says the old general; \"they stand on a hill and look for attacks from across the frontier whilst the real enemy is running about just below them and eating up the country—they have bought a new hat and think it is a new head.\" I hope to pass near these forts during my next frontier tour, and I will make a point of seeing them and reporting.\n\n## Roads and Telegraphs\n\nThe only recently built road of which I have any information is that from A-tun-tze to Chamutong (on the Salween, latitude 28°). The remainder of the roads in the frontier districts are mere tracks, where men and mules must march in Indian file, generally with very steep gradients. This applies to the main road from Bhamo to Tengyueh and on to Tali-fu; even on this road animals constantly fall over the narrow tracks, and within the last few days the mail courier from Tali-fu fell over a precipice and was killed.\n\nA telegraph line has been constructed from Tali-fu to Likiang, and the Chinese have just arranged to continue the telegraph line from Tengyueh towards Bhamo along the new road, instead of by the old road through Manwyne.\n\n## Chinese Officials\n\n### The Tengyueh Taotai\n\nThe old taotai, Liu Yuan-pi, expired on the 4th July, as a result of malaria contracted at last year's frontier meeting. He was a genial and amiable colleague, and our social relations were very cordial; he was, however, too weak and vacillating to be a satisfactory frontier officer. He was greatly mourned by his people, who were much attached to him, chiefly, I think, because he left them to their own devices, and he was known to be entirely honest. He was succeeded by a young man, Keng Pao-kuei, who has had a meteoric career, and is believed to be Yungchang prefect for seventeen days, and acting taotai at Tengyueh all within a year. His recommendation to his superiors appears to be the fact that he forwards large sums regularly to the provincial treasury, and the Yunnan-fu authorities recognise that he is \"fierce\" (\"li-hai\"), and therefore presumably a suitable man for the frontier. He has descended upon Tengyueh like a whirlwind, and this very old-world, slow-moving place is still breathless with his impetuous presence. He not only determined to reform his own subordinates, but endeavoured to extend the process to the British officers within his sphere of activity. I have constantly been obliged to advise a little more care and a little less impetuosity before committing himself, and our relations in consequence have occasionally been somewhat strained. The experience of the past has unfortunately fostered the belief that frontier taotais must be violently anti-British in order to get on, and the taotai Keng, by the very force of his character, has managed to overstep every bound. He shows signs, however, of desiring that the past should be forgotten, and I am not unwilling to meet him, as he is sufficiently courageous and independent to be a good frontier official if once he realises the responsibility of his position. At the same time I am reluctant to discuss with him any question of importance until he has given some assurance of more reasonable behaviour in any future dealings.\n\nonly 30 years of age. He was pa hsien at Chungking, acting Chungking prefect,\n\n### The Yungchang Prefect\n\nChiang Wen-ch'en, ex-Ting of Tengyueh, has recently been promoted to this post. His principal recommendation appears to have been his obstructive attitude at the last frontier meeting. He is not a clever man, but is obstinate and uncompromising, and the old taotai was entirely in his hands. I consider him the worst official in the district from our point of view, but he will not affect us in any way if the taotai can be brought to reason. I trust that Mr. Chiang will not attend the frontier meeting.\n\n### Salt Commissioner\n\nPeng Chi-chih, the old Yungchang prefect, lost his post for destroying the Lungchuan pillar. He is an amiable old gentleman with a good knowledge of frontier affairs, and he acted foolishly in the matter of the pillar owing to the weight of advice behind him. He now warns young officers to move very slowly in international affairs, and points to his own fate as the awful consequence of unappreciated zeal. He has now been appointed special salt commissioner, with instructions to keep foreign salt out of Western Yunnan at any cost. He is deeply \n\nPage 7\nPage 133", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-382 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435445, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "## Undelimited Frontier to the East of Wa Country and Mule Transport Issues\n\n2 \n\nThe Salween valley immediately to the east are still admittedly unadministered, it appears improbable that the Chinese can substantiate any claim to this country.\n\n5. North of the Black Marus lies the Shan country of Khamti Long, which has been visited during the past open season by a small column under Barnard; this country has always been subject to Burmah, and no Chinese claims can be admitted; this year's expedition has strengthened our position and given definite form to our claims of suzerainty. It has also added information which appears of value. Barnard obtained news of a well-defined mountain range which divides the Khamti valleys from the Kiu valley, and he is inclined to think that the Chinese have some sort of position among the Kiu tribesmen. A party of eighty Chinese soldiers were touring last winter among the Chenungs, who are apparently distinct from the Kunnongs and occupy country to the east of them, and both Prince Henry of Orleans and Litton heard of Chinese tribute collection to the west of the Salween, though there is at present no reliable information as to how far west they have penetrated. The officer in charge of these eighty men was one San-tze-chiang, the same man whose visit to Khamti I reported to you last year. I gathered when in Tengyueh that San-tze-chiang alleged that he had collected tribute in Khamti, but the evidence does not support this contention. Barnard heard from the Khamtis that they themselves habitually collect tribute in the Kiu valley, and Chinese claims could hardly be admitted in this tract without further investigation.\n\n6. It seems unlikely that the Kiu country has any economic value, and if the existence of a mountain range which would prove a satisfactory and defensible frontier could once be definitely established, it might be satisfactory to leave the Chinese to their own devices there, and to advance no claims to the Kiu valley. It appears to me important, however, that we should have reliable information as to the extent of Chinese penetration beyond the watershed in this area before making any proposals or statements to the Chinese Government, and to this Sir Harvey agrees. He sees, however, the difficulty of obtaining any such particulars, and it remains to be decided whether the geographical limits of the valley, the existence and trend of this suggested boundary range, and the status of the people could best be established (1) by a joint survey party of British and Chinese working from Khamti; (2) by a small British survey expedition; or (3) by the private enterprise of officers.\n\n7. After the recent murder of Noel Williamson by the Abors, it seems questionable whether His Majesty's Government would sanction any work by a small party which might come into conflict with such of the Kachin tribes in the neighbourhood as have hitherto maintained an entire independence. They are generally inclined to be friendly, however, and supplies are plentiful in Khamti, so that a solution of the difficulty is not impossible. Sir Harvey seems disinclined to admit any Chinese claims here until further information has been obtained and until we are in a position to define the frontier to which we lay claim.\n\n8. If, after the collection of such information as would enable us to define an exact and satisfactory boundary line, we should eventually agree to admit Chinese claims to the Kiu valley and the Pienma tract, it would still be necessary to decide on the most effective way of dealing with the intermediate Black Maru tract. Young described it as a fertile country with fairly good communications and not especially difficult of access. Li San Pao also told me, when at Pienma, that his trading operations extended for eighteen marches into this country, and he actually had his home there. This appears to indicate that the Chinese have penetrated into the country, and that they will probably continue to do so by the road through Pienma and Kangfang unless we block their passage. It is important to do so, as it would be dangerous to allow them into the easy country running down the Malikha valley to Myitkyina. That they are ready to make such an advance is proved by the recent telegram from the new post at Lau-Khaung to the effect that eighty Chinese soldiers and a body of Lisus have actually entered the country and attempted to distribute presents to the headmen.\n\n9. If we cannot obtain a lease of the Pienma tract, therefore it appears essential that we should take some action which would guard the country north of Kang-fang from tribal inroads, and there appear only two alternatives: (1) to establish a post next year at the confluence of the Ngawchang Kha and 'Nmaikha, and to push through a belt of administration due east as far as the watershed; or (2) to obtain an admission from China that, in consideration of our withdrawal from Pienma, they will agree to the watershed frontier as far north as latitude 27°. There seems little hope, however, that they would agree to the latter proposal.\n\n10. In regard to the Black Maru tract, as to the Kiu valley, there appears a very \n\n3 \n\npressing need for further information which would enable us to take a definite stand. It is important too that the information should be obtained, and effective steps taken, before the Chinese have advanced any further, for it would create a very awkward situation if they were once in possession. I understand that a road is being run out from Sadiya in Assam eastwards to Sati, a point on the Lohit-Brahmaputra only 25 miles south of Rima, so that, in case of an eventual decision that the Kiu valley belongs to China, our position as far as Sati would be assured and might help in defining the boundary line.\n\n11. I think that this summarises the position on the northern section of the Burmah-China frontier, as far as our information carries us now, and after consideration of the facts which have been established by the recent Pienma and Khamti columns.\n\n## Undelimited Frontier to East of Wa Country\n\n12. There now remains the question of the undelimited section to the east of the Wa country. It seems to me that this is on a different basis from the northern tract, for Scott's line was blocked in by latitudes and longitudes defined in the Burmah-China convention, and our claims are, therefore, of a substantial nature. I gather that the Chinese have disregarded the limits of Scott's line and have pushed their posts well to the west of it; and also that the Government of Burmah is not greatly interested in the country, and might be willing to effect a compromise here if it would be useful in assisting the settlement of the northern line. At the same time they do not appear at all desirous of making any concessions at the present juncture in view of the persistently obstructive attitude of the Chinese.\n\n13. The position of this section of the frontier is very confusing and difficult to understand, and the information available with regard to it is necessarily of a very vague character. It appears uncertain how far the Chinese have advanced, and it may be necessary to reconsider the advisability of withdrawing to the line suggested by Shih Taotai, which was formerly considered satisfactory. Sir Harvey is asking for the views of Thornton and Stirling, the superintendents of the northern and southern Shan States, and I have suggested that the whole question should be reviewed again for your information when the issues are clear.\n\n14. In dealing with these undelimited sections of the frontier, the difficulties have always been accentuated by lack of information, and I think that it might prejudice our position if we put forward claims which were found on inspection to be lacking in substance. I feel very strongly, therefore, that we should make every possible use of the fuller information gathered by the recent expeditions, and that we should collect and focus the issues locally before you are asked to present them to the Chinese Government. Recent events appear to have reversed positions slightly vis-à-vis the Chinese. We are now in a position to say that we are by no means anxious to discuss the frontier until we have further information, and that if, in the meanwhile, the Chinese trespass into country over which we have asserted our claims, we cannot be responsible for the consequences. The lieutenant-governor and Thompson are going up to Myitkyina shortly, and after discussing the question with Hertz, his honour will probably decide what measures will best serve our purpose in working towards a fixed and definite line along the whole stretch of the China frontier, for there is a very general desire to settle the question as soon as we are in a position to know what is really needed.\n\n## Mule Transport\n\n15. Whilst considering the question of the frontier, there is a kindred subject which is full of difficulties—the supply of mule transport for Upper Burmah. You will remember that our officers are dependent on Chinese mules for all ordinary administrative purposes, and that, in the event of any unusual frontier work, such as the making of roads and the strengthening of our position in the newly administered tract next year, we must look to Yünnan for our transport supplies. This year the Tengyueh firm of Chun Yen-chi supplied 2,000 mules to Hertz by open tender, and I have had the greatest difficulty in protecting them from serious trouble. A telegram from the taotai to the Viceroy, of which I have left a copy with Smith, and which may prove useful later, suggests that the head of the firm be seriously embarrassed as soon as the British negotiations are at an end. It is difficult to foresee the results which may follow the official agitation against the contractors and mule owners, but I fear that they may hesitate to supply us next year. I was able to effect the rescue of the first muleteer who was imprisoned, and Smith may be able to keep up \n\n`[2103 c-5]`\n\nPage 2 \nPage 3 \nB 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438043, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "content_text": "211\n\nSPECIFICATION OF HAIN INSTALLATION.\n\nMAST SYSTEM.\n\nThe Mast System to be designed for the safe support of a Multiple Fire Aerial of the \"T\" shape suitable for all round working. The Masts to be six in number, each of the Sectional Steel Type made up of 230 feet of steelwork with 23 feet of projecting wooden topmast, giving an overall height of 253 feet.\n\nThe Masts to be furnished with all necessary standing and running rigging to meet the various stresses coming on the System with a large margin of safety, and to permit of the simplest method of handling the Aerial structure obtainable under the circumstances. All necessary ironwork to be furnished to form, when embedded in concrete blocks, foundations and anchorages for the six Masts, but the concreting materials for this part of the work to be provided at the cost of the Purchaser.\n\nA Drawing indicating the general arrangement of the Mast System with regard to the Power House, and showing the general lines of the Aerial Structure and the lay out of the Earth System is annexed to this Specification (Drawing No. SC08), together with Drawings illustrating the Type of Mast to be employed.\n\nAERIAL SYSTEM.\n\nTo comprise two Transmitting Aerials and one Receiving Aerial.\n\nThe Main Transmitting Aerial to be of dimensions designed for signalling most efficiently a wave length of 3,000 metres and the Subsidiary Transmitting Aerial for use in conjunction with the 3 KW. Transmitting Set to be designed for affording the best transmission on a 600 metre wave length. The Receiving Aerial to be employed for the reception of wave lengths over the hill range specified. Suitable Devices to be provided for tuning the Circuits of the Receiving Aerial, the Transmitting, and at the same time for introducing into the Earth Lead of the Transmitting Aerial for the Main Installation.\n\n**2m", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438046, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "content_text": "244\n\nRegulator for providing the necessary variation in the Supply Voltage to meet the requirements of the Battery charging to be furnished.\n\n(b)\n\nOne Motor Alternator Set comprising a 30 KW, Alternating Current Generator direct coupled to and driven by a Continuous Current Motor. The Alternator to supply single phase current at a pressure of 1000 volts and a frequency of 300 cycles for feeding the primary circuit of a step up Transformer. The Motor to furnish sufficient mechanical power to drive the Alternator at full load with a surplus for driving the Disc Discharger described below, which is to be mounted on an extension of the bedplate carrying the machines and driven direct coupled in the set.\n\nThe Motor to be furnished with a suitable Starter fitted with no-load and over-load Safety Releasing Devices, and with a Regulating Resistance in the circuit of the Excitation Coils to afford the necessary regulation of the speed of the Set.\n\nThe Alternator to be provided with a Regulating Resistance in the Excitation Coils to afford the necessary variation of the Alternator pressure of supply.\n\nAll the machines described above to be furnished with special non-inductive shunting resistances across the various windings to protect them against injurious induced effects from the high frequency circuits.\n\nACCUMULATOR BATTERY.\n\nTo consist of a Battery of 60 Cells in lead lined wooden boxes and furnished with all necessary insulators, separators, cover plates and connectors and the usual accessories in the shape of a Still for preparing the Hydrometer and Cell Testing Voltmeter. Additional water required from time to time for filling up and a Set of Spares for replacing the smaller parts to be provided.\n\nThe Battery to have a capacity sufficient for running the Motor Alternator Set for three hours with the Alternator fully loaded. (This rating of the Battery ensures that the cells shall", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438049, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "page_number": 255, "title": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "content_text": "247\n\n-tion. The Primary to be provided with Terminals of ample dimensions for connection to the Bus Bars of the Condenser Circuit, and the Secondary to be fitted with suitable plug Sockets for connection at various points to the Aerial Tuning Inductance. The Secondary to be adjustable laterally with respect to the Primary for the purpose of varying the coupling between the circuits.\n\nThe Aerial Tuning Inductance to consist of a solenoid winding of cable similar to that of the Jigger Secondary having a total inductance sufficient for tuning the Aerial Circuit over the full range of transmitted wave lengths specified above. To be provided with insulated plug sockets to enable it to be connected to the Jigger Secondary and the Aerial respectively.\n\nMANIPULATING GEAR.\n\nTo consist of a Morse Key actuating electrically a pair of double pole Magnetic Relay Keys in the high tension or secondary circuit of the Transformer.\n\nThe hand key to be provided with a pair of contacts adjusted to automatically short circuit the telephone coil of the Receiver when the key is depressed, and in this manner to prevent the Operator's ear being rendered insensitive by disturbing noises in the telephone during transmission.\n\n(Page ...)\n\nRECEIVING APPARATUS.\n\nTo comprise the following instruments:-\n\n(a) One Receiver consisting of a double Marconi Magnetic Detector working in conjunction with the Company's well-known Multiple Tuner, the Combination being suitable for the reception of all wave lengths between the limits of 100 and 2,300 metres.\n\n(b) One Receiver of the Marconi Valve Type, having the Valve Detector itself and the arrangement of adjustable resonating circuits mounted in one Containing Case. This Receiver to be suitable for the reception of all wave lengths between the limits of 1700 and 4400 metres. A Battery Set with complete Charging Devices to be provided for use with this Instrument.\n\nBoth Receivers to be calibrated in such a fashion as to permit\n\n...-&-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440727, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## Expedition against East pirates\n\nState how far Portuguese authorities are prepared to assist in proposed operations. Portuguese claim to Lema Island and Praya Bay must in no way be prejudiced.\n\nMr. Maynard Colin \nJ. Anson\n\nRecorded \now \n? Tel (substance in sent cipher) \nNTH JR \n4.35/m \n18\n\nDep Sk.2\n\nproud away expenses huxing but Kong.\n\nInstructed the phrase.\n\n\"Whose ability a series they fully recognise\" [and he inclined to say] \n\"Whose series they machine\", unless \"The series (whose sincerity they recognise\" is not considered open to the wrong interpretation.\n\n: Concurrift but suggest this amendment \nI would suggest \"of whose hasty devices have true appreciation\" \nThis is too wordy. \n~ whose hasty appreciation of serving \nBEC12 they fully \nI have spoken & Sir Eye Care \nForeign \nDate. 1912 \n16 Sept \nLast previous Paper. \n`4p.28688`. \n98962 \nTo Swtel = 18 Sept \nAnsa. 19 Sept. \nCopy corals. \nCopy Adult \n26 Sept for \nGov. Conf: 27 Sept. \nAmend `24636` \nam y \n\nHONG KONG \n295145 \nC. \n61 \n\nState how far Portuguese authorities are prepared to assist in proposed operations against East pirates. The Gov. must be directed whether to confine those operations exclusively to the Portuguese forces at his disposal or to seek the cooperation of Chinese force, provided suitable guarantees are given (`49,244`). Wt.25,046-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W. offered.\n\n70. withdraw this letter \nwhile awaiting reply \n6. Sie D. P \nLeut off. \nCancel this \nat once \n13/9\n\nNext subsequent Paper \n`29636` \nEar. At Kong with rifle to up after till d \n¿ \nthe 9tis Sassi the S.QS. for 7. St. hifz me \nSour \nA \nare \nthat the Paligrene de lave that they will \"motret the for. & Mracas, to wok Adew anthonge the necessary operations against the pirates: the Gov. mit be directed wither to confine those operations exchristy to the Portuguese forces at his disposal or to the cooperation in Chinese force. provided suitable gaurantees zague.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443183, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "content_text": "218\n\nthe 5 per centum dividend, at 1,410, the difference to be made good is in round figures $8,942. The compensation proposed would therefore be as follows:-\n\n44 days @ $8,942....... $393,448\nDifference to be added on account of free trams..... 1,400\nLoss on 100,000 tickets at half price.... 2,400\n\nTotal..... $397,248.\n\n2222 \n### 3.\n\nThe circumstances under which the free rides were offered were described in the 4th paragraph of my **Confidential** Despatch of the 30th of December last. The 100,000 tickets at half price were sold in books to Chinese shops and business houses which were in the habit of supplying their employees with Chinese coin to travel by the Tramway and during the boycott with such coins to travel by jinrioksha. The supply of these tickets was one of those face-saving devices without which no permanent settlement of differences with Chinese seems possible.\n\n### 4.\n\nI enclose also a statement furnished by the Tramway Company of losses incurred by them by the boycott calculated in 3 different ways.\n\nThe receipts for 1912 are higher than those for the year 1911 owing to the large influx of Chinese into the Colony after the revolution in China. The average daily receipts for the months of February, March, April, and May (up to 17th instant), 1913, were $1,600 (includes Chinese New Year and the Hongkong Races), $1,357, $1,385, and $1,440 respectively.\n\n### 5.\n\nI trust that the information now furnished is sufficient and I shall be obliged if you will let me know your decision by telegraph.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour most obedient,\nhumble servant,\n**Governor, &c.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445277, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## Foreign \n### 1913 \n#### Last previous Paper.\n\nHONG KONG WEIHAIWEI \n7858 REC? C.O. 11858 \nRrd 10 APR 13 \n\n**Protection of foreigners in China** \nMeasure of control \n\n9 April Devices to prevent heinous acts at Peking with account of additional expenses. Ask for detailed statement as soon as possible \n\nرختریک \nUned 14 Apr \n\nCopy corres: \n7. Gov. Conf. 18th April (88,131). Wt.20 897-68 \n41,000, 11/12 ALE.W, Next subsequent Paper.\n\nMy telegram 8/4/13 \nThis system has had no extra expense except the cost of telegrams to `King Woh` about movements of warships. I presume the amount, which must be quite small, will not be made the subject of a claim for compensation.\n\nSay that there was no extra expense has been caused \n\n`JR 10/40/13` \n12 \n8/4/13", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446953, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "raise a done to ban\n\nwith such foreign control\n\nas the Chinese will accept.\n\nIt will be sun\n\ndevices and Morty\n\nthat the\n\nFor anxious to bend the\n\nJeanies & a financial\n\naffects to the form poured to support the scheme, generally & \"My Star count to be obliged\n\n...\n\n\"If In Forward Sugd.\n\nfarmer him with his\n\nobsons on the proposal. Cavan sal daste\n\n(Hat W. Just\n\nL... \n\nmay 19\n\n1914\n\n21 Jan\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nYou 40333/1,5\n\nmy.mil\n\nHONG KONG\n\n3772\n\nEstimates 1914\n\nREC\n\n4 HEP-\n\n50\n\nExplains regarding tem possession Mr Burlingham armed in\n\nfels.\n\nColony in\n\nM' puffin\n\nhove.\n\n// the Er. Doesn't mand pozung\n\nMilitary Cort: an pouman fees, we\n\nseet say\n\nno more about it\n\nParty\n\nRipples\n\nRul\n\n712114\n\nIt me\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nPage ...\n\n(88,195). Wt.31,686-13. 45,000, 12/13. A &R.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447631, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5]", "content_text": "# \n\nPage 170\n\nwhich are dealt with in a similar manner and which owing to their unpleasant nature are never touched by the Customs and thus offer an additional amount of safety. They are, however, more difficult to ship.\n\nFurther there are decided advantages in shipping inside Castor Oil Tins. This article usually is sent out in original cases containing 4 tins of about 20 kilo each. I could have two tins emptied out and have them refilled with C. or M. or have them soldered up and repacked giving the whole the appearance of an original case. Each tin will hold about 50 to 60 oz. In case of being opened the genuine oil tins only should be shown to the Customs which can easily be managed.\n\nI can also use drums containing patrol jelly (vaseline) on the bottom of which I would place the C. or M. inside a separate soldered tin, filling up the drum again with vaseline. In the same way I can also use margarine or similar articles.\n\nPage 171\n\nIn getting up shipments in this manner the precaution has to be taken to send along a few genuine packages which contain no C. or M. and which can be shown to the Customs, if actually required. This of course would only mean an additional precaution which might not even be needed at all because on opening a package containing C. or M. the Customs people will be faced with the harmless article i.e. Epsom Salts, Anilin Salt, Vaseline, Margarine etc., etc., as the C. or M. will be deeply buried beneath these materials.\n\nAnother great success has been the shipment inside bales of Wood wool which is handled in compressed bales which I can have hollowed out and filled up with C. or M. covering up the same with sufficient wood wool to give the whole the appearance of an original bale.\n\nThese are a few of the devices I could use in making shipments and these have proved very successful indeed. On your side it is only needed to keep the whole matter strictly secret and allow nobody neither clerk nor employé to pry into this matter and get to know the true nature of these shipments and you are absolutely sure of a full success in every direction.\n\nRegarding references, you will understand that this is a business of such a delicate nature that anybody would strongly resent to have his name disclosed. You will further understand my friends in\n\nPage 172", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-410 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [3-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 346, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "Page 344\n\nMay\n\n1914\n\n23\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nAnsa \"Afco \"lq March' 5\" (492/15a/00) to Brown Agents of $0 Encks))\n\nCons\n\nDispoca of his\n\n23%\n\n38489\n\n23/20\n\nWifi\n\nHONG KONG\n\n36377\n\nRef 23 SEP 14\n\nFamily of D. Graham\n\nof D. Graham in Saxony\n\nThe devises info resng them astes char\n\nUS Ambar in London will afford financial assistance if necessary. Financial Bank Dover will meet drafts. Tel. reply to Colombo prev nubra.\n\n20.\n\nR23/9/14\n\nSo for 23 Sept th\n\nTam so thens mit tym,\n\nphuffin 2375 for any action that Jeet, Piste.\n\ntil 23th Sept\n\nC. D.\n\n23SEP 23\n\nX\n\nGuy may find it posible to Take the accompanying with him from the Ja ( thing with\n\nsaid to the family / S Graham the 7.10.55. Fabri\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n58489 pl\n\n(85,185) WB-31,098–18, 45,000, 12/18. A ŁE W.\n\n(Signed) H. J. READ.\n\nfor the Under Secretary of State.\n\nPage 363\n\n36377\n\nвечно", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 455333, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10]", "content_text": "## NO CONFIDENTIAL\n\nC.O. 47303/23\n\n**[RESTRICTED]**\n\nRe 13 OCT 15\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.\n4th September, 1915.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to inform you that I have carefully considered your Confidential Despatch of the 8th of July and the correspondence with the Board of Trade on the subject of Trade Marks registered in the names of enemy subjects and firms.\n\nIn reply, I have to inform you that I agree with you that the legislation referred to in the 2nd paragraph of your Despatch is unnecessary.\n\n2. With regard to the report of the Comptroller of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks, and to your comments thereon, I desire to remark that no case has arisen here to which the principles indicated by the Comptroller as guiding the Board of Trade in suspending a Trade Mark are applicable.\n\nThe nature of local questions has been explained in my Confidential Despatch of the 22nd of July. The only cases to which any weight is attached are those in which the use of pictorial devices upon piece goods is involved; and what any British Merchants here desire is either that they should be allowed to purchase compulsorily Trade Marks registered in enemy names, or that the use of such marks should be suppressed for the duration of the war, and if possible, for ever. They have not asked for the temporary suspension of any mark in favour of themselves or of anyone else.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE ANDRE BONAR LAW, M.P.,\n&c.,\n&c.,\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-424 - Governor Sir May - 1915 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "3. A document of this kind will be carried \n\non each ship which loads any part of the \n\ncargo in question. It will be explained \n\nto the owners of the ships which carry these goods \n\nthat they must not carry any goods \n\nto firms in China which are not on the White \n\nList, and the Consul General will satisfy \n\nhimself that the consignees of those items \n\nof the cargo which are destined for ports in \n\nChina are on the White List before \n\nthe document in question. I think it advis- \n\nable to communicate the arrangement to you \n\nin order that vessels carrying portions of \n\nthe cargo in question may not be delayed in \n\nthe Colony.\n\nI have &c., \n\nForeign Office \n\n1915 \n\n4 Dec \n\nLast previous Paper.\n\n8 \n\nCopy Eve. Conf 5 Jan 16 (59729) \n\nAnd 4 Jan '16 For \n\nHONG KONG \n\n57841 \n\nIbra \n\nREC \n\nC. \n\n314 \n\n59441 \n\nREG 27 DECIS \n\nPons. Volpicelli, Italian Cons General \n\nGov. might be told to use his \n\ndiscretion as to preventing Mons Volpicelli from returning to Hong Kong. \n\nDevices apprised of action to be taken by him.\n\noù an Son 59729 \n\n \n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\nEn \n\n729 \n\n(J 9400-fb.) Wa. 14242–12. 26,000. 7/15. DES.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458430, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "House of Commons\n\n1915\n\nJobec\"\n\n2\n\nHONG KONG\n\n56 5 3 2\n\n518\n\nC.O\n\n56532\n\nREC\n\nREG 8 DEC 15\n\nCens\n\nDeportation of alien enemies\n\nLast previous 126. Sir Joseph Walton--To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether, in view of the difficulties created for the Allies by German consuls and traders in Persia, His Majesty's Government will prevent a similar situation arising in China by deporting all alien enemies from Hong Kong instead of leaving them conspiring in an internment camp at Hong Kong. [Tuesday 14th December.]\n\n55648\n\nTelfor\n\n11 dec\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n56533\n\nwy\n\nfor oral reply.\n\nMr. ... wish to take this question in ...\n\nthe reply given to a similar question in ... 67 P.C. (5.6/53461).\n\n? Reply\n\n... my hon. friend) \"I am informed (the member for Devizes ... on the 18th of ... Mr. ... the authorities ... not where the ... as to the danger of the presence ... i, of ... the internment camp: and do not propose at present to take any action ... matter will continue to receive ... the close attention\"\n\n(J 8401-h.) Wt. 14242-12, 28,000. 7/15 D&B.\n\nP.10.\n\nK9/12/4\n\nAl@ 9.12.15\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458468, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915", "content_text": "10 mg p\n\n28\n\nreferred to, it is quite possible that different considerations might apply.\n\nAs regards our own policy we have clearly laid it down that no \"Licences\" to use Trade Marks will be given; this is contrary to the spirit of the Trade Marks Acts, and has so been held by the Courts. The principles upon which the Board have acted in suspending or avoiding Trade Marks will be familiar to the Board. They are as follows:-\n\n(1) Where the Trade Mark is the name of a patented article and a Licence is granted under the Patent protecting it\n\n(2) Where it is the only name or only practicable name of an article manufactured under an expired Patent\n\n(3) Where it is the name or the only practicable name of an article manufactured in accordance with a known process or a formula which has been published or is well known in the trade\". Generally speaking, suspension is not granted in the case of pictorial devices.\n\nSeveral Orders have already been made in accordance with these principles. The Governor-General of Hong Kong does not appear to have had these proceedings brought to his notice. In accordance further with the spirit of these principles the Board have in more than one case suspended a Trade Mark in favour of applicants who formerly manufactured goods for alien enemies, and if therefore they sold them under the German Trade Mark.\n\nIf the English procedure were adopted it would seem quite possible\n\n-2-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459489, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Will's County Asylum.\n\nDevizes.\n\nAugust. 8th: 1915\n\nC.O\n\n36472\n\n¡RECE Ref 9 M15\n\nAn: instructed by the circular issued: to: P&O surgeons. by\n\nthe Government: I duly forwarded my bill for attendance upon\n\nGovernment: passengers on the ss. Nubia on her voyage of July 18\n\nfrom London to Japan to the Director of Transports.\n\nI have since had some correspondence: with: the Admiralty (Director\n\nof Transports) with reference: to one item viz.... a charge: of £1/1/- for Miss Mary A. Lee, a Government passenger from London to\n\nHongkong. Miss Lee is on the staff of the Government hospital\n\nat: Hongkong. & on the passenger list was marked \"Government\n\npassenger\".\n\nThe Admiralty under date 30 July writes:* I have to inform you\n\nthat your balance of £1/1/- for attendance on Miss Lee cannot be\n\npaid by this Department, as she was not a Civil or Military\n\npassenger. Your application should be addressed to the Colonial Secretary\n\nof Hong Kong.\n\nAs Miss Lee was undoubtedly a Government passenger as such\n\ncame under the rule forbidding me to charge her, as a private\n\npassenger I shall be glad if you will kindly give this matter\n\nattention at your convenience.\n\nYours faithfully\n\nJames Fraham\n\nThe Under Secretary.\n\nColonial Office\n\nLONDON", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459491, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "2 Dr Graham's\n\naddress\n\nWilts County Heylum,\n\nDevizes.\n\nPage 364\n\n72 Stay\n\n332\n\nDRAFT.\n\nAllay\n\nNo 220\n\nTo May\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. H. Mile 1/18/15\n\nMr. Rohvisar 13/8\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nSir B. Just.\n\nSir J. Anderson.\n\nMr. Steel-Maitland.\n\nMr. Bonar Law.\n\nAdmy\n\nGov. to\n\nIndi\n\n198207\n\n(302981)\n\nA Graham 6 ave\n\n15\n\n(364724)\n\nPo CA 16 ans'rs [Canadian city]\n\nGov. 39344\n\n17 again\n\nWith ref to my\n\npredecessor's despatch No 51\n\nof the\n\nof March last\n\nI have to transmit\n\nherewith a copy of\n\nrelative\n\nCorres.\n\nMi Sir an\n\n4\n\nParliament & the Ar\n\nGraham, formerly Surgeon on board of\n\nthe S.S. \"Nubra\"\n\nof\n\na sum of £1-\n\nin respect of medical\n\nattendance\n\nSt.\n\nas Miss\n\nWfee, sister,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460353, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 486, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "20\n\n21\n\n!\n\nT\n\nHow then was Bismarck to secure his design, which in its fulness was to make his master, the King of Prussia, into Emperor of Germany? The plan he decided upon was to wage a successful war against France, and in the enthusiasm of victory to induce the States to proclaim his master, Wilhelm I., as Kaiser.\n\nAt that time the question of the succession to the Spanish Throne arose, a question which concerned France much and Germany little, but Bismarck contrived to interfere, and so craftily did he lay his plans that he goaded the French Emperor, Napoleon III., and his ministers into declaring war against Germany. The War lasted only a few months, when Paris capitulated. France was fined £200,000,000 and robbed of the two important provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. The monetary loss France would readily have forgiven, but the loss of two of her best provinces rankles in the minds of Frenchmen to this day. Nor can one be surprised, for forty-four years of Prussian arbitrary government has done nothing to soften but everything to increase this resentment of the population of the annexed provinces, and though a considerable portion of the population of those provinces is of German origin, the hatred of Prussia in Alsace and Lorraine is so great that the mass of the people still ardently desire to be re-united to France.\n\nBismarck had calculated aright when he reasoned that a successful war against France would bind the States of Germany closer together. While they were flushed with victory he brought to light the crown for which he had worked. In the hour of military glory he was able to persuade the States to bind themselves into one Empire under an Emperor, and as there could be no other candidate for the Kaiserhood but the King of Prussia, he it was who acquired the Imperial Crown and Throne. Though the Kaiser's powers are theoretically limited by the powers of the Kings and Princes of the other States, yet so pronounced is the dominating influence of Prussia that the other States are in effect subject States.\n\nThat Bismarck was a great statesman is universally recognised. That his policy was typical of the Prussian drill-sergeant is also self-evident. His empire was laid, to quote his own words, in \"blood and iron.\" These are not good materials for Empire building. There are better, and those better ones were long ago advocated by Confucius, by Mencius, by all the best thinkers of the world. They are Humanity and Justice (jën, i), which are foreign to the Prussian military spirit. The Bismarckian policy is doomed to failure because the more you shed of your nation's blood the less there is to shed, and the more you use your iron the quicker it wears away; but humanity and justice are otherwise, being eternal. The more these are used the more do they increase and become effective. Blood and iron are material and perish, Humanity and justice are spiritual and eternal. No nation has wholly risen to this lofty policy, but the nation that strives most sincerely after it will endure the longest, and add most to the world's welfare.\n\nIII.\n\nPrussian Militarism.\n\nThe one Power which is responsible for the modern militarism of Europe and of the World is Prussia. The resources of her genius have been applied to the perfecting of her military machine, the army, and its equipment.\n\nLet us glance at the working of the Prussian military machine and consider its objective as declared by German writers themselves.\n\nThe founder of the modern Prussian Army was the second King of Prussia, Frederick William I., 1713-40. He had a passion for collecting very tall soldiers. He invented the goose-step, the tight uniform, the savage punishments by cruel drill-sergeants, and other devices for turning a man into a clockwork machine. He obtained by this treatment perfect obedience, and perfect movements of large bodies of men together.\n\nHis son, Frederick II., used it to seize territory from his neighbours, and ended by plunging Europe into a seven years' war. It was he who suggested to Russia and Austria that they should divide the kingdom of Poland, which he and they proceeded to do.\n\nThe French Revolution broke out in 1789. In 1792 there broke out in consequence the twenty-three years' war. It was Prussia that began the war against France; other nations were drawn into it, but in 1795 Prussia scuttled out of the fight, obtaining additional territory for herself, and leaving the other States to defend themselves alone.\n\nThe power of Revolutionary France continued to increase, until under the leadership of Napoleon the existence of the other German States was threatened. They pleaded with Prussia to assist them in saving Europe from Napoleon, but instead of so doing, Prussia only made fresh terms with France for more territory. Finally, Napoleon, knowing Prussia's greed, led her into a trap by the promise of a German State. Thereupon she perpetrated the crime of treachery towards Austria and Russia, enabling Napoleon to smash these two Powers, which he did at Austerlitz in 1805. He gave Prussia what he had promised, but soon turned round and defeated the renowned Prussian army in one day.\n\nHe reduced it to 42,000 men, and forbade Prussia to keep more than that number.\n\nFrom that date, 1806, begins the modern Prussian Military system, which is known as the short-service system. As Napoleon only permitted a standing army of 42,000 men, Prussia resolved to train this number for two years only, then send them to their homes, and train 42,000 more. By this process, in ten years, instead of one army, five were obtained, each of 42,000 trained soldiers. Thus in 1813, when Napoleon invaded Russia and was driven out, Prussia was able to put a strong force into the field along with Russia, and later, in 1815, to render help to the British Army which finally broke the power of Napoleon at Waterloo.\n\nFrom that period the Prussian, and later the German army, has continued to grow, until at the outbreak of the present war on a Peace basis it had 870,000 under training, and on a war basis could mobilise 5,400,000 men.\n\n483", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 466506, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "This connection were the cigarette and kerosene oil companies, but their example has been followed by manufacturers of alkalies, household soap, aniline dyes, candles, sewing machines, patent medicines, condensed milk, refined sugar, Japanese sheetings and drills, and Russian cotton prints, while certain firms in the Treaty Ports are doing a considerable trade in drugs and chemical products, and in one case quite a promising general mail order business with native clients by means of the efficient parcel post, cash on delivery system of the Chinese Post Office. This method of direct distribution, which at first sight presents enormous difficulties, evolved from the realisation that the Chinese merchant does not distribute foreign imports as widely and efficiently if left to his own devices as he does when working under a modern system and with constant and stimulating foreign supervision. The systems vary in accordance with the needs of the various districts and the articles handled, but the most elaborate method is to divide China into territories under foreign managers, and these territories are subdivided into districts with a European in charge. Native agents are appointed in each city or large village, who are always secured by a good shop guarantee, and frequently make a deposit with the company, which allows interest thereon. Goods are consigned up to the value of the deposit and/or guarantee and are stored for account of the company pending their sale. Prices are fixed, and the agents work on a stipulated commission. Returns of sales and unsold stocks are made weekly, and these are verified by foreign inspectors, who travel constantly, appoint new agents, investigate complaints, and make suggestions as to future possibilities of extension. Remittances are made periodically to the district headquarters, all losses or profits due to fluctuations in exchange being for account of the agent. The difficulties of inland taxation are overcome either by the taking out of transit passes, or else by the dealers making their own arrangements with the authorities, and in this way the goods are distributed into almost every village in China up to the borders of Tibet, under the direct supervision of the firm which manufactured them in Europe. The losses\n\ndrills and 20 per cent. of Turkey Red cambrics are credited to Japan, this trade having been built up largely on the same lines.\n\nIf it is possible for our competitors to build up a satisfactory and increasing business in such complex articles as cotton prints, surely the time has arrived for the great British houses in China carefully to take stock of the position and earnestly enquire whether the present methods of selling piece goods to a closed circle of native dealers in Shanghai are adequate in order to cope with existing conditions and the general trend of events. Organisations for the direct distribution up-country have many risks and difficulties to contend with, such as internal taxation, difficulty of communication, currency and exchange questions, and the increasing difficulty of securing capable European salesmen with a knowledge of handling Chinese. They have, however, the following great advantages\n\n(1) There are the economies to be secured from the fact that the goods remain, until sold to the consumer, in the hands of the distributing syndicate, thus eliminating the Shanghai native brokers' and merchants' commissions, and effecting an enormous saving in interest, and inasmuch as a Foreign Syndicate need not in normal times charge more than five per cent. per annum, the native interest under the present system is from one to two per cent. per month. Carrying charges, such as storage and fire insurance, are also much lower in the interior than at the ports.\n\n(2) With an organisation extended all over the country any effort of the Chinese to combine and defer purchasing until the importer brings down his price to an unremunerative level is practically impossible, as transfers could be effected; and, besides, the Syndicate could afford to offer prices very much below those of goods imported under the present system. This removes the evils arising from a limited market such as Shanghai, where the Chinese constantly exercise their powers of combination against the foreign importer.\n\n(3) There is the incalculable advantage of having a perfect knowledge of the special wants of and quantities", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 469521, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "page_number": 395, "title": "CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917", "content_text": "When the Trade Mark Ordinance came into operation, it was found that devices such as animals, birds, fishes, and other \"common subjects\" were in general use throughout the piece goods trade, and it was obvious that all such users could not be admitted as registered owners. Therefore, a rule was formed to the effect that where there were more than 3 applicants for the same device (made before a specified date), registration could not be effected. Although the applications were not accepted for registration, they were allowed to remain \"on record\" and were termed \"Second class Marks\".\n\nAfter such specified date, all applications having a resemblance to either the registered marks or the \"Second class marks\" were refused registration altogether.\n\nAs an example of what I mean, take the device of 9 lions worked in a circle; this, under British Trade Mark rules, is not a registerable subject, but for the purpose of trade, it is a distinct and valuable Chop mark.\n\nA further style of \"proprietary\" marks is a vast collection of Chop Designs which have, from time to time, been sent home by merchants. These designs, although novel in idea and differing in their symbolic meaning from those already in use, did not, in the opinion of the Trade Mark Office, contain elements of sufficient novelty to obtain registration.\n\nI may say that during the last twenty years, 99% of the new Designs sent home have come under this category. The Trade Marks Office, whilst refusing registration of these Marks, issues Certificates of Refusal, and these Chops also remain 'on record', and probably 75% are utilised by the Home firms as Chops, which also, through usership, acquire proprietary rights capable of being legally protected against subsequent infringement in Great Britain.\n\nThese \"registered\", \"Second Class\", and \"Recorded\" marks amount to some 40 to 50 thousand for the China Market alone, and the majority of them are to-day in regular use and are of great value to their owners, who would welcome their inclusion...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-445 - Public Offices - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475175, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 172, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "C 170 !\n\nExtract from Syllabus of Technical Allowance.\n\nBank and other general holidays.\n\nThe training of operators in wireless reception etc. is carried out at our own stations. From 4 to 6 weeks is allowed before a qualified telegraphist is permitted to take a wireless watch alone.\n\nThe Officers-in-Charge of the Stations are selected from the Operators' Class after due consideration as to the qualifications of the Candidates.\n\nA copy of the Syllabus of the Technical Examination is attached.\n\n17 April 1917.\n\nCircular 195.\n\nSyllabus of Departmental Technical Examination.\n\n(a) Fundamental Principles of Electricity and Magnetism and their application to Telegraphy and Wireless Telegraphy.\n\n(b) Batteries (Primary):- Construction and Chemical action, Grouping of cells.\n\n(Secondary): The various types, their installation and practical treatment. Precautions in charging and discharging. Testing by Hydrometer and Voltmeter.\n\n(c) Telegraph Instruments:- Principles and Construction of Morse Sounder, ordinary and polarised. Simple telegraph circuits. Keys. Relays. Simple Switches.\n\n(d) Condensers:- Construction and Theory. Use in Wireless Telegraphy.\n\n(e) Electrical Machinery and apparatus:- Principles underlying the construction and application of Dynamos, Alternators and Motors, Voltmeters and Ammeters. Fuses. Automatic Cutouts. Starting Switches. Transformers,\n\n(f) Wireless Theory of, Damped and Undamped oscillations - production of. Electrical radiation. Principal Wireless Systems in use - Construction of aerial Gear, Transmitting and Receiving apparatus. Spark-gaps. Choke Coils. Detectors. Wave measuring devices. Coupling and Tuning.\n\n(g) Oil Engines:- Construction, principles and theory.\n\n(h) Interpretation and preparation of diagrams.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477421, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 106, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nIn the Public Works Department the principal changes in Emoluments are shown in Appendix III. under Personal. Under \"Other Charges\" the vote for \"Transport and Travelling expenses\" has been increased from $4,600 to $10,000 owing to the large number of foremen and survey coolies employed on the new main roads under construction.\n\nUnder \"Special Expenditure\" a sum of $1,000 has been provided for furniture for the Stores and Accounts office.\n\nThe work on the extension of the Central Police Station has been much retarded by the want of necessary material, but it is hoped to complete the building next year. A start is being made at once with the building in which the Imports and Exports Department is to be housed in accordance with the recommendations of the Public Works Committee (Sessional Paper No. 20 of 1917). The portion to be erected first is that forming a continuation of the Harbour Office in Connaught Road.\n\nThe addition to the Public Works Offices in Albert Road will provide extra office accommodation which is urgently required. There is space between the buildings for tennis courts.\n\nUnder \"Public Works Recurrent\" the sum required in Hongkong for gas lighting has been increased by $12,000 to meet the advance of 20 per cent. allowed on the contract rate with the Gas Company and the cost of additional lamps. The provision for the maintenance of the water-works in the City and Hill District has been raised by $60,000 to meet the increase in the cost of coal, additional pumping, and the maintenance of the new filter-beds at West Point.\n\nItem 3 provides for twelve houses on the ridge above Wongneichong Road in three terraces of four houses each. The site is a good one and commands a fine view over the eastern end of the harbour. These houses will have five rooms each, and the cost of gas lighting shows an increase of $3,300 for the same reasons as I have given above. In the New Territories the vote for maintenance of Roads and Bridges has been increased by $4,000 owing to the extension of the main roads and widening of others. A sum of $7,000 is provided under the head \"Typhoon and Rainstorm Damages\" to meet the cost of repairing slips in new cuttings.\n\nUnder \"Public Works Extraordinary\" the total expenditure proposed is over $24 million, which largely exceeds any sum hitherto devoted to public works in the history of the Colony, but about half of this sum is absorbed by works already in progress or to be begun this year. The Government has no option in the matter. The growth of the population has more than kept pace with the building activity of the last six years, and it is essential that both in Victoria and in Kowloon new areas made accessible by main roads should be available for every class of domestic building. However, as the sum provided is large, I can assure hon. members that it represents a small percentage of the expenditure required thoroughly to develop this great port to meet the probable needs of the next few years.\n\nIt is proposed to erect quarters for the Scavenging staff of the Sanitary Department in the Central and Eastern Districts. Item 5 is for the quarters in the Central District, which will have ample accommodation for nearly three hundred men. In the Hill District it is proposed to erect quarters for senior officers on Crown land on the Eastern slope of Mount Gough below the property known as \"Tanderagee,\" which was acquired by the Government in November last, and other sites not yet settled on. Items 6 and 7 make provision for starting these quarters.\n\nItem 8 provides for quarters for the Chinese staff at Taitam Tuk Pumping Station. It is also proposed to provide quarters for the European staff, as it has become necessary to use the present quarters for wards.\n\nThe extension of the Lunatic Asylum is under consideration. For some time past the building of a Crematorium has been under consideration, and it is now proposed to erect one in the vicinity of the cemetery at a cost of $5,500.\n\nThe matshed which has hitherto served the purposes of the Police Recreation Club is past repair, and it is proposed to erect a suitable building out of public funds. A start will be made at once in order that the building may be ready early next year.\n\nItem 27 provides for catch-waters in connection with the Taitam Tuk water-works. These catch-waters form part of a large scheme for conserving water from the hills on both sides of Taitam Bay with a view to making the fullest use of the new reservoir.\n\nIn Kowloon, Item 30 completes the scheme of quarters for subordinate officers, bringing the total number of quarters in Hongkong and Kowloon up to forty-two. It is also proposed to extend the shelter for jinrikishas at the ferry pier, as the present structure has proved inadequate.\n\nUnder the head \"Communications\" a beginning is to be made in the construction of main roads in accordance with a scheme of comprehensive development in the peninsula. The Government is fully alive to the demands that will arise for good roads and adequate means of transport in Kowloon, but I think hon. members will realise that at the present time only the most urgent works can be undertaken.\n\nIn the New Territories the only building contemplated is the completion of the market and reclamation at Tai O, and under the head \"Communications\" it is only proposed to complete the new road to Castle Peak; to widen the remaining portion of the road to Taipo; and to improve the surface of the road from Fanling to Un Long.\n\nUnder Item 13, sub-heads (a) to (f) refer to works already in progress. Sub-head (h) refers to a new 20-foot road, which it is proposed to construct from a point in Morrison Gap Road. The road will have a ruling gradient of 1 in 20, and will pass above the cemeteries in Wongneichong Valley round the top of the valley at a height of about 300 feet into Tai Hang Valley, finally emerging at Tai Hang Village. This road will open up considerable areas of land suitable for building purposes and it can be extended through Wongneichong Gap to the south side of the island. Sub-head (i) is a branch from the road referred to above, which will cross Bowen Road and continue to rise to the neighbourhood of Wanchai Gap. This road will also open up some good building sites below middle gap, and may eventually be continued to connect with Craigmin Road, thus giving access to the Peak District. Sub-head (j) is a path in connection with the quarters referred to in Item 6.\n\nThe sum provided under Sub-head (k) is required to resume portion of the lots on the east side of that part of Wanchai Road that runs from the Wanchai market to Praya East. This road is much congested, and the proposed work will effect a great improvement in the district. Under Sub-head (l) $24,000 is provided for establishing telephonic communication with the Police Stations on Lantau and Cheung Chau. The best method of communicating with these Police Stations has been under consideration for some time, and, though modern devices have much to recommend them, the ordinary submarine cable and land line is, for the time being, considered the most practical and efficient scheme.\n\nUnder Item 46, a sum of $24,000 is provided for establishing telephonic communication. Sub-head (m), (n), and (o) are for much-needed improvements. As regards the remaining items in Hongkong, I need only refer to Item 19, which provides for the reconstruction of certain piers in connection with the new ferry service; to Item 25, under which a much larger sum than usual has been provided for compensation and resumptions in view of certain negotiations now in progress.\n\nThe development of the new town at Shamshuipo has proceeded so satisfactorily that it has become desirable to proceed with the reclamation of a further area of sea-bed at a cost of $80,000 and, under Item 49, to provide for laying water-mains.\n\nThe estimated total cost of these works is $2,610,450, and, as I have already remarked, it might be much larger without exhausting the present needs of the Colony.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478558, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 23, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# \n21 \n\nPfister will probably try to import goods by means of one of his usual devices. Amongst these may be mentioned the instructions given by Pfister to Cattaneo in the letter dated 4.6.17 to send goods destined for Switzerland (correspondence transmitted by the Italian M.I. General 1637 of 27.10.17.) \n\nIn this connection, it is to be noted that Germann & Co., Manila wrote to Fabbriche Riunite F. & E.Gilli, Piazza 7, Florence, on May 12 and 13, 1916, stating they learnt with pleasure from Gilli's cables of April 16th and the beginning of May, that the latter was disposed to open a letter of credit for £2200 required by Germann & Co., to effect shipment of stock. As shipment by the Messageries Maritimes seemed out of the question, attempts were to be made to ship by the Compania Transatlantica to Barcelona. The name of a consignee in Barcelona was requested as there was no difficulty in getting the goods from Barcelona to Genoa, so long as there was a firm in Barcelona able to supervise transhipment. Germann & Co., repeated a warning to the effect that shipment would be by their friend \"Luis Hidalgo\" and the letter of credit would have to be opened in his favour. (`T.L. 08927`). If not to Barcelona, it was suggested that shipment might be to New York as Germann & Co., had \"done some business in knotted hemp with a Swiss firm via New York.\" \n\nA most significant piece of evidence in support of the view that Pfister is merely acting for Pottstock of Bremen is afforded by a letter dated the 18th April 1916 from Germann & Co., Manila to R. M. Bergmann of Germann & Co. Hamburg. Previous letters refer to offers to Gilli, Truciolo and Pfister. This letter refers to Gilli, Truciolo and Pottstock and shows that hemp had successfully been shipped by Germann & Co., Manila to New York, through Italy to Pottstock, Bremen and Fohlen. \n\nThe material passages are as follows (translated): \n\n\"We received from Truciolo and Marseilles telegraphic requests for offers in hemp. So far, we have not answered them, as we said before, we cannot ship to Marseilles. We propose £8 8.0.1.66; we have something to offer, to make offers to Truciolo via New York since it might be just as possible for him to receive goods from New York to Italy as it was for Pottstock. \n\nP.S. A telegram from Gilli has just arrived asking us to ship his stock. G. is willing to open a credit on London to the amount asked for by us.... \n\n## \n15 \n\nThe following cables support the charges in paragraph 4 of the summary: \nLa", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485502, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 444, "title": "CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920", "content_text": "Mate Var. (23). Replaced by Hom Chao Dhani.\n\nForeign correspondence. (14). Phya Boriburna Rajasombati.\n\nPrivate Secretary.\n\nwell known be man; Europeans in Bangkok as Phya Boriboon. He has \"run\" Privy Puras Department for many years and must by this time be fertile in devices for the production of money from an empty Treasury wherewith to meet demands occasioned by the King's extravagances and gifts,\n\n432", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-464 - Public Offices - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491169, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 162, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nS\n\nalso the passage - the Chinese Devices for securing & blackmail (4.6) can this humour be We as it in\n\nB\n\n1/2/2\n\nIf this is to be printed for wide distribution we had better edit it for the purpose.\n\nA.E.C.\n\n1.7.\n\nIt should presumably be described as a demo, on the mui-tsai system by the Sec. for Chinese Affairs, H. Kong.\n\nA.2.0.\n\nThis had better be printed as plainly?\n\nMr Word\n\n5.2. may office\n\nG.B.2.7.21\n\nwhich he like to see before came common on\n\nIt might be printed; he haven't the heart bring that general distribution \"w\" have any Effect on\n\nNot Hallife, might look over\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nKH\n\n160 5 Queen's Park Gardens Seaford 29.7.21.\n\nDear Mr Beckett\n\nI have been \"lost\" for a time between here & Scotland; hence the delay in replying to yours of 21.7.21.\n\nI next to Hong Kong\n\nCan you send me a typed copy to deal with as you suggest? my copy of that mui-tsai paper is the original MSS\n\nI wrote it of course for office use only — some parts for a certain circulation.\n\nto keep my office in close touch", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491294, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 287, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "23520874\n\n284\n\n06-6-6-1\n\n+\n\n9 any me\n\nto ack. the capt\n\nof you. L. of the lot of any to\n\nT\n\nexpress his regret\n\nDRAFT.\n\n8.0. Carpmase bay\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Harman 67874 Mr. Berchett\n\nMr.\n\nMr. Grindle.\n\nSir H. Lambert.\n\nSir H. Read.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Wood.\n\nthat he is\n\nnot yet in\n\na position\n\nto give\n\nyou\n\na\n\ndefinite reply to yours.\n\nfor further employment\n\nCol. Bernie\n\na further comm.\n\nto you\n\nbe addressed\n\non the\n\nmatter\n\nMr. Churchill,\n\nthe 2018\n\nValquharian. Lossieman 14th July 1970\n\nJUL 21\n\nKe liceift b-day\n\n\"Thane the kawan be actuated\n\nLove letter\n\n40.33241/1921, 9h 11\" undinet.\n\ntransmitting Copies of\n\nCorrespondense\n\nreganding\n\n4. Carpenas anch\n\nStaling\n\nthat be?\n\nChurchill devises likeeice\n\nObsercations\n\nin Excellini.\n\nforarble.\n\n1\n\n(Bigben H, J READ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492101, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922.]\n\nMr. H. K. Erani and family who are shortly leaving for their native land were entertained at a dinner party held in their honour at the Parsee Club by the Parsee community of Hongkong. Mr. Erani has been manager of Messrs. N. Moody & Co. of Bombay, Calcutta & Hongkong, and has acted as Hon. Secretary and subsequently as President of the Zoroastrian Charity Funds for a considerable time past. He has always taken a very active interest in the management and administration of the funds, and as a mark of esteem and appreciation of the signal services rendered by him to the community in these capacities, he was after the dinner presented with a purse donated by his numerous friends and well-wishers of Hongkong and Canton and a bouquet of flowers was presented to Mrs. Erani by Miss Frany Ruttonjee. Mr. Erani will carry with him the hearty good wishes of friends of many nationalities as well as of practically the whole Parsee Community.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, the senior Chinese member of the Legislative Council, has intimated to H.E. The Governor his wish to resign his seat. The Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak has had a seat on the Council for the past eight years. He feels that he has reached a time of life when he requires more leisure. For the past thirty years he has devoted a good deal of his time and energy to public affairs. He is at the present time Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, and of the Chinese Committee formed in connection with the impending visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. He feels that these positions make sufficient demand on his time and has consequently asked to be relieved from further service on the Legislative Council. If the resignation takes effect the Chinese community will certainly lose a representative who has watched their interests with every care and attention on the Council. The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce is trying to induce Mr. Lau Chu Pak to reconsider his decision.\n\nWEDDING.\nDINSDALE-SMITH.\n\nAt the Peak Church, on March 22nd, Mr. F. A. Dinsdale, of Messrs. Butterfield Swire, was married to Miss Dorya M. Smith.\n\nThe bride's dress was of white charmeuse with pearl embroidered georgette. Miss Hilary Lowe, the bridesmaid, was attired in mauve crepe de chine.\n\nThe bride was given away by her brother, Mr. R. M. Smith, and Mr. J. D. H. Crawford, of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, acted as best man.\n\nAfterwards a reception was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Smith, No. 96, the Peak, at which the customary toasts were honoured.\n\nMr. and Mrs. Dinsdale left by the Empress of Asia yesterday, to spend their honeymoon at Shanghai.\n\nWEDDING OF CHINESE EX-EMPOROR.\nEDUCATION OF MANCHU BRIDES FOR DOUBLE MARRIAGE.\n\nArrangements are proceeding for the double marriage of the ex-Emperor to the grand-daughter of the late General Chang Shun, Manchu Governor of Kirin, and also to the daughter of Mr. Hsi Chen, the Minister of Civil Appointments in the Manchu régime, the latter becoming his \"Fei\" consort.\n\nThe prospective brides are at present studying Chinese and English at the ex-Regent's palace.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\nDEATH OF SIR EVERARD FRASER, K.C.M.G.\n\nFORTY-TWO YEARS IN THE CONSULAR SERVICE.\n\nWe regret to learn of the death of Sir Everard Fraser, K.C.M.G., H.M.'s Consular-General at Shanghai, who died on March 20th from heart failure.\n\nSir Everard Duncan Home Fraser, who reached the sixty-third year of his age last month, had spent forty-two years in the Consular Service in China. He was appointed a student interpreter in China on March 30th, 1880, and the following record shows his subsequent career: Acting Consul at Foochow, 1888; at Kiukiang, 1889; Acting Consul at Ichang, 1889 to 1891; Acting Vice-Consul at Chemulpo, Corea, 1891 to 1892; Acting Consul at Chemulpo, 1892 to 1894; promoted First Assistant, December 1st, 1893; Vice-Consul at Canton, 1895 to 1897; Acting Consul there 1895 to 1897; promoted Vice-Consul at Pagoda Island, 1897; Consul at Chinkiang, 1899; Acting Consul at Foochow, 1898 to 1899; Acting Consul-General at Hankow, 1900 to 1901; Consul-General at Hankow from July 1st, 1901, until 1911, when he was transferred to Shanghai where he had since remained.\n\nPage 299\n\nTHE LATE MR. A. H. CREW\nTRIBUTES BY THE LEGAL PROFESSION.\n\nMembers of the legal profession assembled in the Supreme Court, on March 20th, before the Criminal Sessions opened, to pay a tribute of respect to the memory of the late Mr. A. H. Crew whose death from illness occurred in Hongkong on March 3rd.\n\nThe CHIEF JUSTICE (Sir William Rees Davies) said:- Mr. Attorney,-Again the ranks of the legal profession are depleted, by the death, at an early age, of Mr. Crew. Possessed of a lovable disposition and a genial nature, he had a host of friends who deeply mourn his death. He had practised in these Courts for ten years and was a sound lawyer and a very capable advocate. It is fitting, before we proceed to the business of the Court, that we should testify to the loss which the profession has sustained and tender our respectful sympathy to his family in their sorrow.\n\nThe PUISNE JUDGE (Mr. Justice Gonipertz), said that, having presided for many years in the Summary Court, where Mr. Crew had a very great deal of work, he wished to add his testimony to his good qualities. An excellent lawyer and advocate, the late Mr. Crew was very fair and absolutely straight, and it was a great pleasure to hear him either argue a point of law or present the facts of a case. He doubted whether there was any man in the profession who was so universally loved and whose loss would leave a greater gap in its ranks.\n\nSir Everard received the C.M.G. decoration in 1901 and was created K.C.M.G. in 1912. In 1911 he was honoured with the Coronation Medal. He married in 1899, a daughter of Mr. A. W. Walkinshaw of Foochow.\n\nFew Consuls have enjoyed the confidence and esteem of their nationals in a greater degree than the late Sir Everard Fraser did, and his death, which appears to have come very unexpectedly, must have been a great shock to the whole community of Shanghai, and will be deeply lamented by his many friends and by all indeed who have at any time come into touch with him either in his official capacity or socially. His death is a great loss to the British Consular service in China.\n\nTHE DAIRY FARM HERD, FROM ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND, TO POKFULUM.\n\nA considerable addition to the Dairy Farm herd reached the Colony by the motor vessel Glenogle, a few days ago. Two bulls and 68 cows were obtained from Scotland but, in spite of one death in London before shipment and one on the voyage, the herd reached Hongkong numerically much stronger than it started on the voyage. About 40 calves were born on the way and 24 of them landed here. Others became veal, or were otherwise accounted for, en route.\n\nTwo expert cattle men from Aberdeen accompanied the herd and must have found their hands full looking after such a large and increasing family. The passengers came off very well: rarely are there such quantities of milk on shipboard as the Glenogle had. Attempts were made, with moderate success, to convert some of it into butter.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of both branches of the legal profession, the ATTORNEY-GENERAL (the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp, K.C.) said he wished to express their great sense of loss at the death of Mr. Crew and to join with their Lordships in offering sympathy with the members of his family.\n\nNEW APPLIANCES FOR THE FIRE BRIGADE.\nTHE DENNIS PATENT TURBINE FIRE ENGINE.\n\nThere were unloaded from the motor vessel Glenade, on Mar. 18th, two Dennis Patent Turbine Fire Engines, each with a 50-feet extension ladder, purchased by the Government for the Fire Brigade at a cost of approximately £2,500 sterling each.\n\nThis type of fire appliance, of which many are in use with the London Fire Brigade, is a handsome, solidly built and well-engineered affair weighing, complete, about 6 tons. The engine develops 60-65 horse power; it has four cylinders and accumulator coil ignition. There are four forward gears and a reverse.\n\nThe fire engine is fitted with all the latest devices including a \"first-aid\" fire appliance; that is to say, it has an auxiliary pump, with 120 feet of rubber tubing, for coping with fires which turn out to be small; thereby damage by water is reduced. The principal pump is driven off the main shaft. The ladder has a patent safety clip which prevents any danger of its telescoping after extension.\n\nA trial run of one of the machines, on March 19th, gave the highest satisfaction. The engine ran magnificently and developed a high speed without any undue noise. It was noted, too, that the engine was most compact and that all the working parts were readily accessible.\n\nAnother shipment of cattle for the Dairy Farm Company is on the way to the Colony by the Glenary. Transportation of cattle is undertaken at this time of the year because the cattle travel better in the cooler weather: also they arrive in time to help meet the big summer demand for milk. Lately the Dairy Farm has had to refuse new customers but it will now be able to supply everyone.\n\nIt only remains to maintain a supply of drivers capable of treating such fine machines with the respect they deserve.\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 166, "title": "CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922", "content_text": "FOR CIRCULATION :—\n\nDATE. 5 May 1932\n\nSUBJECT Seamen's Strike\n\nMr. Grindle\n\nSir E. Lambert\n\nSir H. Read\n\nRE 6 MAY 22\n\nPrevious Paper\n\nlayment of extra pay of double rates to naval personnel lent to H.K. Govt using\n\nMINUTES\n\n5 May 1932\n\nThe Treasury\n\nAdm: Ansa (uff coping above) - Gor Conf\n\n30 May F\n\nSubsequent Paper\n\n22224\n\nThe Admiralty\n\nwith the Mr Curt REGGA\n\nto refund to H.K. Govt\n\nas regards\n\n(3) Whether such\n\nin suilon cases\n\nSurin by The Tol. Govt requisition of\n\nnot be\n\nthe date of\n\nthe devices of ratings.\n\nAs regards 1.\n\nthe proposed direct negotiations will be the simplest method of\n\nHONG KONG\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nTunsta amortent\n\nConcerning Sir J. Masterton Smith\n\nMr. Wood\n\nMr. Churchill\n\n21391 163\n\nPrevious correspondence likely to be of concern:\n\nXCR(85)72\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\nPage 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-478 - Public Offices & Others - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495700, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 366, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nNo.\n\n10 1923\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nREPORT OF THE HOUSING COMMISSION.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, 4th October, 1923,\n\nL\n\nBy a Notification in the Gazette of the 6th April, 1923, we were appointed by His Excellency the Governor in Council to enquire as to what measures are possible to increase the quantity and decrease the cost of housing accommodation in the Colony\", and were directed to report to His Excellency the Governor our findings and recommendations at as early a date as possible.\n\n2. Our report does not deal with 'office accommodation, because we were subsequently informed by the Government, by letter, that the above expression, housing accommodation, was not intended to include office accommodation.\n\n3. Although asked to report as early as possible, we have been so impressed by the gravity and difficulty of the task assigned to us, and by the undesirability of arriving hastily at any decisions, that we have deemed it advisable to take ample time to prosecute our investigations.\n\n4. Whilst we have, in the course of our enquiries, collected a considerable mass of valuable documentary and viva voce evidence (referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 of this Report) which has assisted us greatly in arriving at our conclusions, we have necessarily drawn to a certain extent upon our long experience of the Colony, its circumstances and its needs.\n\n5. We annex hereto the following documents :—\n\nEnclosure 1 containing-\n\n(1) our circular dated the 9th April, 1923, which was sent to all the authorised architects in private practice, and to Chinese contractors and engineers in the Colony on the Government list, and which was also published in the four local English newspapers; and\n\n(2) the answers thereto, numbered 1 to 55, for convenience of reference.\n\nEnclosure 1A containing plans referred to in letters in Enclosure 1.\n\nEnclosure 2 containing our circular letter dated the 27th April, 1923, addressed to European firms on the subject of the housing of employees; with answers thereto, numbered 3 to 32.\n\nEnclosure 3.-Minute (extracted from C.S.O. 3 in 364/1921) by the Hon. Mr. H. T. Jackman, dated 18/4/22, on the subject of the estimated cost of erection by the Government of lodging-houses for Chinese, together with the estimated annual expenditure thereon, and the estimated annual revenue therefrom.\n\nEnclosure 4.-Minute (extracted from C.S.O. 1255/23) of the 6th Meeting of a Committee consisting of the late Director of Public Works Mr. T. L. Perkins, Mr. H. W. Bird and Mr. W. L. Leask on the introduction of labour-saving devices.\n\nEnclosure 5 containing information received by the Chairman from the Buildings Office re the projected demolition and reconstruction of certain buildings.\n\nTerms of Reference.\n\nOffice\n\naccommodation.\n\nNecessity for careful enquiry.\n\nEvidence.\n\nEnclosures: Documents received.\n\nPage 359", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495707, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 373, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "366\n\nHeight of buildings in rural districts.\n\nConcrete-blocks and hollow walls.\n\nThickness of short walls.\n\nThickness of wall in Shanghai as compared with Hongkong.\n\nMaterials for walls in rural districts.\n\nWorkmen to occupy house in course of construction.\n\nSupply of skilled labour.\n\nEffect of guilds on labour.\n\nTribunal for labour disputes.\n\n14\n\n* 74. We also recommend that the present restriction on the height of buildings in rural districts to 35 feet be removed, subject to the Building Authority retaining the right to object to the design or external appearance of the building (see letter (8) in Enclosure I, and evidence of Mr. Jackman and Mr. White in Enclosures 8 (5) and (3) respectively).\n\n* 75. In letter (3) in Enclosure 1, it is suggested that concrete-blocks with a hollow space in them can be fitted together with much less labour than ordinary bricks, and the cheapness, dryness and coolness of hollow external walls are emphasized in letter (22) in the same enclosure. Upon this question of hollow walls, Mr. Jackman and Mr. White were of the opinion that there was no objection to such hollow walls if they were properly sealed with cement-concrete. We recommend that the matter be carefully gone into by the Public Works Department.\n\n* 76. In letter (8) in Enclosure 1, the suggestion is made that walls of short length and built in cement mortar may safely be of less thickness than is at present required by law. Mr. Jackman and Mr. White concurred in this view, which we support.\n\n77. Mr. Lam Woo in his evidence (Enclosure 8 (2)) pointed out that in Shanghai a less thickness of wall is required than in Hongkong, but the Acting Director of Public Works seemed to think that severer conditions of wind and weather exist in Hongkong than in Shanghai, and consequently the greater thickness was desirable here. We concur in the latter view.\n\n78. It is suggested in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, that for one-storey and two-storey houses in rural districts a mixture of cement, lime and decomposed granite might be allowed for walls; and Mr. White agreed, but added that, in such a case, proper supervision would be required during construction.\n\n79. The question of allowing workmen to occupy the ground-floor of Chinese tenement-houses when the building is erected up to the second-floor, so as to speed up the building operation and save some rents, is dealt with in para. 24 (3).\n\n80. The question of securing an adequate supply of skilled labour for the building trade is important, because it affects not only the building development of the Colony, but also the cost of buildings. In paras. 24 and 25 we have made recommendations with the view of obtaining a sufficient supply of such labourers by providing them with sufficient and cheap housing accommodation.\n\n81. One of the most serious obstacles to the supply of labour appears to be the large entrance-fees demanded of new members by some of the local guilds, thus debarring newcomers from the country (see letter (10) in Enclosure 1). We may add that it is stated in letter (40) that labour obtained from the guilds is considerably dearer than that from outside sources. The influence of guilds on the building development of the Colony is also referred to in letters (24) and (41).\n\n* 82. We strongly urge the Government, in the interests of all branches of trade in this Colony, to pass a law for the reference to a strong and independent tribunal, with one representative of the employers and one representative of the workmen as assessors, of all disputes in this Colony relating to wages to be paid to workmen, hours of employment, and holidays. Such a law is clearly desirable in the interests of workmen, no less than in those of employers, for it is of the utmost importance to the former to know that they have a definite tribunal to which they can appeal with the full certainty of their grievances being gone into without delay and without any cessation of wages such as is involved in a strike. In the course of his Report for the year 1922, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs remarks (at page 13): \"The general strike was largely a matter of the intimidation of willing workers\",\n\n15\n\nMr. Hallifax advocates as a remedy the establishment of an Employers Federation; but while we agree that the formation of such a federation may be desirable, we think that an arbitration tribunal as recommended by us should be established, and that a Judge of the Supreme Court should be given power to enforce the decisions of the tribunal.\n\n* 83. It would seem desirable to establish a trade school to teach boys carpentry, masonry, and other branches of the building trade. The industrial school which, we understand, Sir Robert Ho Tung and several Chinese gentlemen are contemplating should prove an ideal institution for the purpose.\n\n* 84. In letters (10) and (24) in Enclosure 1, it is suggested that the Government should grant permission to contractors to obtain stone, sand and earth from places as near as possible to the building works. We commend this suggestion to the consideration of the Government.\n\n* 85. We recommend that local architects furnish their contractors with sufficiently detailed drawings of the work to be done, at as early a stage of the building work as possible, by which much time will be saved, and structural alterations will be obviated. In this connection, we would call attention to letters (9) and (40) in Enclosure I, and to the evidence of Mr. L. G. Bird and Mr. Lam Woo in Enclosures 8 (6) and 8 (2) respectively.\n\n* 86. Architects could also help contractors by advising them as to what amount of materials is required, and when they should be ordered and delivered (see letter (9) in Enclosure 1).\n\nTraining boys in carpentry, etc.\n\nPermission to obtain stone, sand and earth.\n\nDetailed drawings to be furnished to contractors early.\n\nAdvice to contractors.\n\n* 87. It is also our opinion that, if contractors are paid more promptly, the cost of building contracts will appreciably be reduced (see letter (9) para. 10, in Enclosure 1). A fair allowance should also be made to contractors for materials on the ground (Ibid. See, too, letter (30)).\n\n* 88. In letter (9) in Enclosure 1, it is stated that unnecessarily heavy security is required from contractors by persons building houses, with the result that contractors have to provide for this item in preparing their tenders. Mr. Lam Woo also complained that securities are required from contractors when permits are issued to them for erecting scaffoldings, mat-sheds, etc.; and as this would tie up a great deal of money, which a small contractor can ill afford to have so employed, the cost of building is indirectly increased by reason of the fact that such contractors have to protect themselves by making their tenders higher. Mr. White informed us in his evidence that the system of security was introduced in order to exercise a better control over the contractors; but, in view of the existing high cost of building, we advise that, instead of requiring the contractors to put up securities in such cases, a prosecution should be instituted against any contractor who commits an offence.\n\n89. In letters (10), (24), (30), (35) and (40) in Enclosure 1, the greater employment of labour-saving machines or devices is advocated as being the means of minimising the cost of buildings. The appliances, etc., mentioned in these letters are:\n\nPneumatic Rock-Drills.\n\nMechanical Stone-Crushers.\n\nRock-Cutting Machines.\n\nConcrete Mixers.\n\nElectrically-driven Portable Wood-Workers.\n\nFloor-Planing and Sanding Machines.\n\nSteam Pile-Drivers.\n\n* There is no doubt that a wider use of such appliances will have the desired result in the case of big undertakings, and that the use of the first three in quarries would save much time and labour. In letter (30) it is stated that gravel-crusher effects a saving of at least 30%.\n\nSecurities required from contractors.\n\nLabour-saving appliances.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495708, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "16\n\n-\n\n17\n\n367\n\nLight railways and motor-lorries.\n\nMore lighters and tugs recommended.\n\nJunks discharging materials at night.\n\nEmployment of middlemen.\n\nReletting of whole contract.\n\nStorage of materials landed from junks.\n\nMore wharves for landing materials.\n\nBig supply depôts.\n\nSite for supply depôts.\n\nCement bricks.\n\n*90. In letter (22) the use of light railways for conveying materials is suggested. In letters (22) and (41) the suggestion is made that motor-lorries should be substituted for push-carts as much as possible. We endorse this suggestion, which was supported by Mr. Jackman and Mr. White, and we hope that a company may be formed for the hiring out of motor-lorries.\n\n*91. We agree with the suggestion in letter (24) that more lighters are required, and we recommend the provision of a suitable service of tugs.\n\n*92. There is a suggestion (letter (35) in Enclosure 1) that time would be saved if junks were allowed to discharge their cargoes of building materials at night; and we suggest that the point be referred to the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Harbour Master for consideration as to whether the desired permission might be allowed under supervision.\n\n*93. In our circular letter of the 9th April, 1923, addressed to architects, contractors and others, we asked whether the number of middlemen can be reduced. The general opinion is that it is impracticable to do away with middlemen in the building of houses; and we accept this view after careful enquiries. At the same time we are strongly of opinion that the reletting of a whole contract should be forbidden by-law, as the practice tends to increase the cost of buildings—see letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and the evidence of Mr. Jackman, Mr. White and Mr. Lam Woo in Enclosures 8(5), (3) and (2) respectively.\n\n*94. We are of opinion that land for the storage of building materials from junks should, wherever available, be granted by the Government as near to the scene of operations as possible—see letters (10), (19), (24), (29), (35) and (40) in Enclosure 1, the evidence of Mr. Jackman, Mr. White and Mr. Lam Woo, and also Enclosure 4.\n\n*95. We also consider that there should be more wharves on the Praya for the landing of materials—see letters (14), (35) and (39). Mr. Jackman informed us that the matter was being enquired into by the Government (Enclosure 8(5)).\n\nSub-Head (2)—Cost of House-Building: (b) Materials.\n\n*96. We commend to the favourable consideration of contractors, with a view to saving expense in building, the following suggestion for big supply depôts, which is made in a leading article in the South China Morning Post of the 11th April, 1923:—\n\n\"Instead of innumerable contractors with their own work-yards, plant and storage, we could have one or more contractors' supply firms, stocking timber, cement, steel, bricks and stone, and providing motor truck delivery of finished products as far as possible. The contractor is then left with no overhead cost, except his office and desk, and no function except to supply the labour.\n\nA big supply yard would have frame saws, and granite cutters, and might enter upon mass production of bricks with imported clay. Here is room for a considerable saving of expense.\n\nWe agree with another suggestion in the same article that the Government should be generous in its terms for granting a site for the above purpose, subject to proper guarantees being given by the lessees.\n\n*97. The use of cement-bricks is advocated in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and we consider that such cement-bricks should be extensively tried, more especially as we understand that they do not cost more than ordinary red-bricks. We are informed that these bricks have passed satisfactory tests, and are to be used for the houses of the Kowloon Tong Company.\n\n*98. Suggestions that the Government should encourage the manufacture of bricks, tiles and lime in the New Territories, and that investigation of suitable clays for brick-making be made by the Government, are made in letters (10), (23), (24), (27), (30), (31), (32), (35), (39), (41) and (49) in Enclosure 1. We support these suggestions.\n\n*99. In letter (30) it is stated that if a lime-kiln is built at Tsun Wan, lime can be produced by piece work at about 30% below market price.\n\n*100. We agree with the writer of letter (23) in Enclosure 1, that the Government should encourage the growing of bamboos and fir-trees in the New Territories, as these two articles are extensively used for scaffolding.\n\nManufacture of bricks, tiles and lime.\n\nLime-kiln suggested at Tsun Wan.\n\nGrowing of bamboo and fir-trees.\n\nReinforced concrete.\n\n*101. Cast reinforced concrete for doors and window-frames is suggested in letter (24) in Enclosure 1, and Mr. Lam Woo supports the suggestion. Steel frames for windows are recommended in letters (10) and (36) in Enclosure 1, and also by the Committee on Labour-Saving Devices (Enclosure 4).\n\nThat Committee also recommended—\n\n(1) Decollite laid on concrete for flooring, as being cheaper than timber, especially in offices, lavatories and verandahs;\n\n(2) Terrazzo as a substitute for tiling; and\n\n(3) Beaver woods for ceilings, as being an excellent substitute for China Fir or Teak.\n\n*102. In letter (24) in Enclosure 1, it is suggested, and the suggestion was confirmed by Mr. Lam Woo, that rain-water pipes in cast-cement are cheaper than cast-iron pipes.\n\nSub-Head (3)—Measures for Decreasing Rental.\n\n*103. In addition to our recommendations in paras. 33 to 35 for the restriction of rents by conditions of sale, where land is sold by the Government cheap and without auction, we are clearly of the opinion that the Rents Ordinance should be continued until such time as the supply of houses meets the demand, and until the state of affairs in the neighbouring Provinces of China is sufficiently settled to put an end to the periodical large influxes of Chinese refugees from China to Hongkong.\n\nContinuation of Rents Ordinance recommended.\n\nLegislation to check demolition.\n\n*104. We also consider that the Government should forbid by legislation the demolition and reconstruction of houses which are stated by the Building Authority to be in either good or fair condition, because we consider it both inequitable and unjust to the tenants for the Government to allow their eviction from premises which are in good or fair condition, and because also of the following reasons:—\n\n(1) Such eviction of tenants throws an extra demand on such premises as may be vacant, with the result that the tenant in many cases is forced to pay a larger rent for his accommodation; and\n\n(2) Such reconstruction must tend, by competition for skilled labour and building materials, to increase the cost of erecting new buildings upon land which has not been previously built upon.\n\n*105. Instances of the threatened eviction of tenants from premises which are reported by the Building Authority to be in either good or fair condition appear from the items marked with a red cross, in Enclosure 5. In this connection we also invite attention to letters (5) and (27) in Enclosure 1.\n\nConcrete cases of ejectment from houses in good or fair condition.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 499582, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "page_number": 691, "title": "CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924", "content_text": "## \n\ncompleting ten years\n\nColon 7.\n\nThan he also devises to kave his sec...\n\ncontinued until August of the ...\n\nHoping you ...\n\nall sie...\n\nsification of ...\n\nanticipation,\n\nFremain ...\n\nthese matter, & then ...\n\nyou m...\n\nYours faithfully,\n\n&. Joyager...\n\nr3ir.\n\nDowning Street, S.W.1.\n\n12th February 1925,\n\nI am desired by Mr. Amery to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 10th February forwarding a memorial by H.G. McEwan, which will receive his attention.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nRorymgeour, Esq., M.P.\nW.C.H.680", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-487 - Others & Individuals - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500646, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 358, "title": "CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "I agree generally. On the whole the position is not so bad as had been feared: the outlook might have been worse but continues to be gloomy. We have just heard that Winging negotiations for a settlement with the boycotters have broken down. Some time ago negotiations for a settlement to the boycott have come to a deadlock and have been faced with continuance for some time.\n\nIf any in present circumstances be willing to impose additional taxation which will fall badly upon trade, some have it enough off already. Devices for squeezing which are in the colony - if those who take refuge in sufficiently colourable offers - the work is likely to stick.\n\nIn the despatch we said we express regret at the effect of the boycott, which is upon the public finances that the continuance of it is procured in a spirit of unrest and not in a spirit of reasonable economy by the people. We said that the boycott would be over by the end of last year or the beginning of this year. The anticipations were reasonable in October, but have now been falsified. The estimates are unreal if the boycott lasts, but the important thing is that H. King is alive to the necessity of all possible economy.\n\nThe proposed estimates for the year consider that the most careful economy will be necessary during the half year, as we did during the last half year.\n\nThese estimates were framed on the anticipation that the financial position would be better by the quarter, but isn't much better. \n5/1/25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500966, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "Pearl Theatre \n\n(Opposite DUTCH FOLLY, THE BUND.) \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nTuesday to Thursday Aug: 11 to 13 1925 At 1.30, 6.45 and 9.15 P.M. \n\nMARION DAVIES \n\n→ STE -- \n\n\"The Restless Sex\" \n\n7 KEELS \n\n--AND- \n\nEDNA MARIAN \n\n-IN- \n\n\"Her Daily Dozen\" \n\n(Comedy in 2 parts) \n\nThe Sun Roof Garden. \n\nCinematograph, Different kinds of Chinese & Foreign plays. 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Concessions to small depositors with current accounts interest \n\nTHE SUN CINEMA. \n\nPROGRAMME FOR \n\nAugust 12th to 0th, 1925 \n\nTRIANGLE PLAYS \n\nPRESENTS \n\nDOROTHY DALTON \n\n \n\nThe Far Eastern Trust and \n\nSavings Bank, Ltd. \n\n34, SECOND MALOO \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\nHONAM-SUB \n\nCABLE ADDRESS \"BANKTRUST\" \n\nBRANCH \n\nTA KEE TOW \n\nAll descriptions of Banking Business transacted, \n\nInterest allowed on Current and Savings Accounts and \n\nLoans granted on approved securities. \n\nIN \n\nFIXED DEPOSITS. \n\n\"The Dark Road” \n\nIN FIVE BIG REELS \n\n$1,80 \n\nVarious Comedies \n\n \n\n \n\nTHE \n\nChina Development \n\nCommercial \n\n& Savings Bank, Ltd. \n\nTelone (9-tra] 792 \n\nAditing, West Bugend B'. \n\nCroston \n\nTHE SUN Co., Ltd. \n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS \n\nWEST BUND; & WAI OI STREET, OLD CITY. CANTON, \n\nfe in to join advantage to visit our Wholesale and Retail Departments. 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All manner of interest rates allowed for all kinds of deposits. \n\nLoans granted on approved securities \n\nBANK OF CANTON LIMITED, \n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG, \n\nINTEREST ON FIXED OR WITH \n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS \n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, \n\nFor 6 Months 4 per annum, \n\nFor 3 Months & per annum on the daily credit \n\nbalance of over $100.00, \n\nOn demand \n\n2% per annum \n\nChief Manager \n\nLABOR AND PEASANT MOVEMENT. \n\nTHE CANTON \n\nGAZETTE \n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925. \n\nCommerce Leaders On Trade Permits. \n\n(Continued from Page 1) \n\nPeanut Oil Shipments \n\nDiplomatic Commission's Report On Shanghai \n\nShootings \n\nNo Enthusiasm For Judicial Inquiry--Chinese Rights Recovery \n\nMovement. \n\nPeasants Movement. With The Strikers. \n\n„Outing to the best product of elibe th Workers infinging the vari joik being insul? cirat far the preda Government Devises Means To \n\nMeeting Of Peasants Union OffThe \n\nSow bad but all good to be the people, to saul rely Aid The Workers On Strike. 1st Division Of Pun Yu District. \n\ntransporth a sie abject to ajan skipun ka the hum A present the movement for the inspection, and this shows that the Taingear wind beachwang Bia the (YBOX QUE YEASANT CORRESPONDENT) \n\nand Nationalist Revolution \n\nthe authorities \n\not oflented buke massage, shipping bus bort tilf After the establishment of the Nations emancipation has \n\nuniformily is the internal affairs, tied up, and regular supplies of oil only the faulted brake from Shock Of French Minister's Split. Diplomatie turpe have ap \n\nPeasants Union of the 1st division \n\nprogressive, Rod towardɛ the actio Mr. Long Ton Hing said the Geotou lava imen impossible Paris sud Teky, is generally) \n\nfelt tore that thpt of the parently reanvered from the sbank Pon Yo! Fongebuan) f \n\nof the rains wochers on ekrike, Commit-ones Buty land taken up tuns causing a ries in the murkor \n\nConniving to Shanghai should be of the Fench Minister'e rezigna District great soccer das fillorect \n\nthe Governmel has led its be the maler with His strikers, adde \n\nThe Cute Balta Unkel liebed bioause it participeter, in att pablico give them advice and estistuuon, the Butte Cermitte died rent Mr. \n\nSo for very little Tadication for I was told to day that the vacancy thas create on the Uɔra- activities. This is the third soul goes the Atrike a garrist into Lai Torg Fo to the Come Shaughst kan spesially pirates; meeting for skation of Commit fot, the Gavermout has red Department to deal conjully wished a forge consignawel of pear on glee by the Legatione contain would most probanly as Members. Everyone attended the} \n\ndevire no efforte to \n\nen forit. so said that this in simply full from Tsingtao, for shipment turning its esetents, but the Chinese led in the course of a few days. \n\nIt is nateraled that the moment are thornghiy convinced that it) After the recting with interess. \n\nmaintaining the livelihood of the matter the part of the Pickete Caston to meri leoni nada. misssacre of the bite Persillut. Me-trikers, and \n\nA gram bas bra rectly contains wittesuls cond-matia of the Walebicoupe agres to limit the ital diturions to the Shangbai 1 taken further sed it can be iti u the met Lum Pub-abus, the prepa krew steps to plan for this organizing held by the rite it from Shanghai stating that the Shanghai. In the encantas, affair and disttangle it entirely well that in neder to gata fedemtion of a fre Labor Employment Boday. \n\nwas shipped to Caxton per 8.8 therefore, the excuse of the Legather fauce, the L-gations will \n\nHua Tan1 \" Yang\" to tins that pubility would be a fester inte formal negations. they should be crited. \n\nTwo Problems, \n\ndesirable në the prcent time would \n\nThere does aut seam to be ruah \n\narrive within a few days. It is an \n\nipated that the price of oil on the \n\nt seem to be tenable, for the bope that this will secar for some \n\nreport on the progress sẽ chlá i \n\nwill drup \n\nBurns:iudings of the Commiration canuettes how ver, for pessimistio views \n\nUnion during the past half year. \n\nhe said Agency, and will be \n\nJone of them saying to-day, \"Every \n\nof esucer ions to the Chinese side of thing is right up is the st.\" \n\nthe \n\nasket \n\nMr. Wis Chung Tong said that \n\ndisending the question Specia! Porrults, there are two lar] (2) Reading a report from the viraduced to work at the taaleries porte: & niste which require dia. cedially the oil spot w salt. contain anything like the number \n\nare the rais sung the Diplomate, Provincial Prasanta Bulou giving of the Qovernment, Organized curiou pervious to other points;- \n\nbio of gel permits, hai 1.vfile care silaged in Chines circles. The Judicial Inquiry particulare of the Sbike and Pelili | Bodies or private onneeros. \n\nnal conditions, \n\nSOLUTIONS: \n\n(1) A 1 I'm perleliete Sad Erbed sny tinta to \n\noverthrew our revisionary \n\nmeet, we take it that this preval. ni \n\nwamacre is no opportunity for \n\nnational revelation to come lo touch with the Imperialists, \n\nReports are to be made by a \n\n(1) I The Hous of Special Permits \n\nFly \n\nwiched to know what slegs are to be \n\nthe factorior together with the \n\nHere shali-hed? of names of Camic workers, and & \n\nStill the authorities are \n\ny \n\nI have tried to obtain official \n\ntaker in case of an IGLESINE colnetant, even to discus3 be repropilen on the Shanghai suggestion \n\n(3) be in revani juchfying And detention of gcle after the they say that it is tharugbly of judicial inquiry me a prelunicary moso to Diplomatic nogatíations. at tinn of Sucis! Permits, and understand abrand bath \n\nthe question skoold content and in spirit. One fois! be British Legation refuse to cros heronghi sussidered and prep tuld me to-day that the Commission rant on this or any other anggen ensures adopted in safeguard the cted an the eyes and curs of the tine and other Legation are not nthusiastic, the g-coral opinion Diplomatic Corps and that their findings were intended merely being that the bat way out of the \n\nMr. Chow Tie bong said that \n\nbeats for the Tegations in their present imposan is to concentrate on wh the Chinese the task of commiting the Chinata \n\n\"It's setrue tovernment to a conferences \n\nfuture. \n\native-vuot \n\nto be cent mostly to the shove the fame of puniat Purists, but mentioned raployment Agency. | there permite abon'd be perfine₫ 1 giving paritenters of the retire-goode which necessarily seqnies \n\nIt should be sorate and appointments of workers.aponia! permission. The workers who are now set of pheduled as to what sort of good#] () As the Torpaciaklata do do! | employtcut will shen he introduced are specially emitted and what] like na to have any protest in Recording to their order of registra-sort of goods can be transported thought glat per missing is zorgulations \n\nfreely. There are send goods. thesarily quired for \n\ngads and native tate, ned that \"ggest that the report evatuise \n\ned to ma sa. Who will you appiat parahase of which in weessary le \n\nwholesale condemnation,\" he said. \n\nWhen asked the nature of the judgest Who in to suggest a meet demands, but which are for special permission should only he list of goods to he boycotsed \n\nobtained when its cecessarily peers autarquently extended judicisi inquiry? Whose respost- the Commission, this official replied bility is F It was felt that the regaired for the gonde. \n\nwwa entirety outside the Mr. Lee The Ting said that he \n\nthat they wers iustimated to tey to \n\nmatter \n\nGnd basia of onderstanding with nommatenae of the Diplomatin Corps quite agreed with the option the Chinese delegates. This agro Chinese \"Obstacles\" Mr. Le Long Yo \n\nthat the qualienment, bait it been sirived at, wond \n\n(2) The atrikers are not striving for their own privilegra but striving \n\nfor national freedom \n\nChild 15 Cents, \n\nHOTEL \"ASIA.\" \n\nWEST BUND, CANTON. \n\n亞洲大酒店 \n\n廣州市西 \n\nDOW \n\n49 \n\nBeveral questions were propound- \n\nBuoi pinion is that, as long \n\nthe Shanghai Comantasion' \n\net e they axercise their finsreini \n\ntun, to work at these fmolorice influence to purabase tools such as \n\nwhich will be only allowed to tak Chang Teo-lin, He Yao-nan, ou the workere from the Emply Chen Chiong-ming, Tavg Punjab ment Agency first before they are and other anti-revolutionarists to allowed to employ outridle workers. \n\nMr. Chiu Riang Yo said that опросе аль \n\nBerides the above Agency, Lonsidera at the isang of each Workers Reception House will alan Special \"ermits and he put into be retablished to norept the workers forer, for it is within the power of \n\nunemployed. Their \n\ndaily the authorities to dreide whether of adapting proper meastires to if have been used by the Diplomatie) \n\ngoard the future stoukk he Carpa to gain a complete ander (4) Strike is the only wesJOG \n\nexpenses will ho fixed ecording to Special permission is to be given o \n\nby naslona to try to persuade the that we have to fight against the \n\ntheir profusion while \n\nthe But, bat en har part we should considered, but that a list of the standing with the Chinese Cover report serasina a pstery, it would echinit the case to Daperiliis, therefore if our strike responelbility of using the fandsgather to publie epioion sequods abcold be made unt first 1nment. He wisked to emphasize that: \n\nthe much discussed document could blese to complication anj that: is successful the Government is also so reset those ux penina will be whotter suob Squaint Permita should \n\nnot be made public for the reasor judicial inquiry, they being fully ancetesful but if is fails the Gov shouldered by both the Government be enforced or nut- \n\nHodded at preclamation should be issued for that it containert confidential vinced that the report contatos an indiętoget of Shanghai. In information which was intended for theen streamatseen the ChiansO thero 6:0 gonta wbich requiro \n\nMr. Chiu Kiang Ya said that re the sole use of the Diplomata in Jonger exist. \n\nA Worker Training Rehoal will special permistion and these are (a) Wo pensaate living i \n\nhe instituted within the aboy goods belarging to the nations with tentatives should be nominated their negotiations with the Chines glowy villeges provive ile dame Reption Hopen lo benel the whieh perange of Huseietconnee Jay this Chimeran Deperiment in Govornicent. \n\nthe vare Delicate Position \n\nMerever it has always bron dea cacemic and political oppressional workers \n\ntid comparatively stan has been difend, and it is \n\n[vidared in Peking that the Chinese from the Io perinata as the people valushie Parsing in the the art nucess to spunify in detail ni \n\nLater meeting of the maider themselves the judger on of all claeren presise. Therefore agro-ding to their usual profession. these grode. \n\nDiplomatie Corps 1983 held the Shanghai affair. They always morning. No statement refer to the British as the culprits efter was Kiven out, A British and will not approach the problem report Legation officiel saying that the to the alightest spirit of vara pre- \n\nposition we so delicate that nothing mias \n\ntriñera. \n\nwe must also do cur bit to help tho The neurre in this soholi will b \n\nfor grjually inorvused in faturs \n\nELECTION. Mr. Wong Hung Ploihe aake of promoting the estu \n\nwas cleabed as the Priest, and \n\nof trokers, \n\nvold \n\nLeonjunction with \n\n：： Khambers of Commerça \n\nPestigate and to decide what sui \n\nwill Jequire Spei \n\nin \n\nE \n\nthut \n\nMr Chow Chin Sheen Fald that of goods In considers the enfora meal of the Permissing, \n\n» Special Permite quite thorough investigation a Impossible breaust of the \n\nMr. Puo Kam Hong said that event of Specis! Perrite sheold \n\nVice President. Mesers Yi Ram Cheaper Fire-wood For difficulty and tesuits in derling \n\nMr. Ta Yang was elected as the \n\nHot, So Ku and Chong Xu more \n\n堤 \n\ncheted sa members of the milte and Massrs Lon Sek And Wong Yon, Tow Pa elected as judge \n\nL'o- Mus wore \n\nDESTRUCTION OF PEASANTS UNION AT HAI LU FONG. \n\nLEADING HOTEL IN SOUTH CHINA \n\nFirst Class Accommodation, Hot and Cold Water Service Throughout, Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators. Perfect Sanitary Arrangements. Spien- did Dining Room, Meals a la Carte, Excel'ent Cuisine. Public Bar. First Class Billiard Room. \n\nRoof Gardue \n\nBanquets, \n\nSplendid Views of Canton City and Pearl River Hairdressing Saloon. Moderate Rates. \n\nUNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF \n\nTHE SUN CO, LTJ, CANTON. \n\nHIGH-GRADE \n\nJob Printing \n\nEXECUTED WITH \n\nPROMPTITUDE \n\nAND \n\nACCURACY \n\nAT LOW COST \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE \n\nPRINTERS & PUBLISHERS \n\nCanton. \n\nwith such permits and on secourt: \n\nof the time for shipping the goods being a shot. \n\nskuld be made. \n\nFald \n\nuld say: \"Now that the first port is unfavourabls, you want 'armiker liquiry.\" \n\nKuomintang Leadership. \n\ncould be issued in the Press. Thie attigial \n\nthat your \n\nThe underlying fant of the pre- permitted reappondent might b ho temporarily auspended and that \n\nthat the Carpa End madent situation is that the Shang- the Cinmei Dë Depurament bebeen idle in three lost for weeke, affair been completely in istenes on Scoing that firemund is a daily \n\nMr. Le Tie Ping euid that, in requ zied to form in juration but that the usture of the diecur near sha inged by \n\n{with Commercial circles, theBious must remain sceret peril aceh recovery of perige rights. The cessity for the people, the Gay \n\nbie opiblor, the eve of Special \n\ntime on it was opportune to make slagan. \"Abolish Unequal Treating\" lab ur glass Me, an \"Association of ennen? gave special orders to the \n\nby the l'ems for the \n\nany aument to the waiting warld.sted to ba mnapilize} parpore of deltae simics at tho Esat, West \n\nFrons efter gaatters Fundor Rusintang, bat sowadays oven Meericua in miting the importation of foreign investigation for the parate of \n\nluvestigating into the question. jstand thas the Waichinupa has at the most gamervative Chinese, wha and Forth Rivera veling that they should preveu gods that the products of our \n\nyot acerpted tire Legational thru months ago would have con The Chairman, having laid the exhortion of the easiled prut clius | country \n\nongiortation \n\nflow battled befa any ditens wild mees are reacting themselves the side of the rights rayhty sins take pluca ch other matters, made This is the argument Low bez movement.--Peking Correspondent \n\ncarried on by theu Juiling, the of the N. C. Dally News \n\nfor \n\nA telegram from the Peasants fees on all junts carrying fir foreign eruntries are not fer, and hove proprenis before the membe- iw point beat the Shanghai case-moedach rail as th Faik \n\nUnica of Hai Fung, \n\nrends: \"A \n\nveer 500 \n\nhan:1 Roldiers \n\nthat be thinks that free transporta- \n\nfor the \n\nFangwood Ea Cartan, sed should give \n\nwas Amendment tebel them every proficios Instead. \n\nThese orders hayo bee heya ton of goods from one place to ing commented by Lo Yet \n\nYoung by the various defrate armice, and another in an ew couster should passed by the musetingi- Tange Chok Moy, Yoce Viu Chong in the past few days the varius a permitted, but the distinction Pass Resolution \n\nChore, are fireword junka at 660 different was kind of grods should be stated. Seng Bad Chung being assisted by Cheng Bon Nemecticus have been able to arrive at \n\nIn added thek tice su and other uti-resolutiousrists and Canton in perfect safety without! \n\nthe nemaity of paying the prate Capitalists and nailed to one group. They are being careled by the re- \n\nb- General Trb. Their le sia \n\nle to rain the pensant of Flai anri \n\ntion fera en-erate? \n\nKeon the extention of Pea mach \n\nprein Permits may perhaps \n\npexible with regard to trade with \n\n“That be spesixi permits will be \n\nquired the goods which are Dok; the gods of the romy vations. The The va i us Chemibres \n\n& reign compris, but it is absolute for Commerce for \n\nng there junk by the lunal hundits | ly impossible d'or interne! trade, \n\nLu Fang. The Prasanta Uniors bse not \n\nof Hai Lu Fang and Chin Tongeving \n\nنا \n\nbeen a heavy \n\nbefor \n\ntho protection of the \n\nwere destroyed by the rehols, and armies: hesos the great deep in the the Preddent of the Executive price of fireword on the inseket. \n\nJu edditio: 47 the Committed Mr. Sit Aam Yito wai \n\nkidnapped. \n\nAs the \n\nthey \n\nbruke inty \n\nMr. \n\nChoy Tel \n\nCommittee of that division and \n\n+x-Presilent of the Executive Traine, amely:- \n\nCheck on \"Enemy\" Goods. \n\nAmmittor \n\nHow British Oppress the \n\nChinese Seamen in \n\nHongkong. \n\ncurtain \n\nChinese TOS\", \n\nif \n\nstrikera in \n\nCanton wre facing starvation and that they อวน!! strike Bod return to Canton they would meet the same fate. \n\nThe seamos replied that they \n\nconjointly with the Authorities, to avsetigate to what ark of godle named Chan bau, who had been wall strika even though they \n\narrasted and detained by Hongkong Government for seizetize) \n\nMr. Pan Kam Blong said that | og enemy auflon gunde.\" \n\nWork \n\nthered to ₫ nth. \n\nthe particular reason of iasing The suggestion of Mr. sheve such profel Permits to do Kok Sbing to winate the Proud was recently expelled from \n\nbaye veranen of financial commction; \n\nChinese \n\nseamen \n\nAgain Ho Baiskwong threstened \n\n•hem by saying that if they do ant \n\nbe \n\nĮsomply with his order, they would \n\nhe \n\nsubject to arresŠ. The seamen \n\na that they would prefer to be \n\nlime large shipments of fireworks! the house of also arrived from the North River with certain foreige patiune. ad Bid-st of the four Chamb-tot Hongkong is connection with \n\nverzner only applies Commerce as representatives to see strike, has come up in Cantos and the Beation by the Ynot-Han Railway that the Low, \n\nto genie \n\nof the Britial and the cho Commissioner of Commerce related how the British Imperialists imprisoned than to continue thir \n\nwith fe added that and \n\nin employ. consult \n\ntim oppresg Japanese patious. \n\nHearing this, its halfcaste the Commerce Department should ainut the procedure, was passed Hongkong. \n\nby \n\nand Messrs the meeting, be reqeated to prepare a list of \n\nWhoo the bitsking\" re-ompradora, He Sawong, beame ordered #greatly enraged and gnode of these nations with signs Chow Tin Hong of the Cneral turned to Hangkang from Tinstein the Bettiah palice to \n\norented great disturbanes and \n\nthe first! tulsbery. loners of division received the same treat ment. This band of rebels compos ed of over 2000 had arrived at Lui Wo Cheng cu the 6th inetant, \n\ndare not disarm that Turing Those few days the Generals of Chen Oblog-ming were trying to Sorada \n\nHN and and rent their \n\nMonday Ear cara \n\nTuesday six cars \n\nWednesday four cars \n\nThursday night on \n\n(including night train) \n\nFriday eleven CATA \n\n(including night traio) \n\nSaturday four ears \n\nto \n\nfor identification and mark out Chamber of Commeros, Liang-toug \n\nSunday four cars \n\nEach of the above cara contained \n\nabout ten thousad catties of fire-goods \n\nof Commerce \n\nAriest and \n\nThe seamen were sentenced to \n\nthe which are far que daily to the City Chamber, Ya Hu-om the 7th alt, the British, realis ake them to the Harbour Master quirements and of which purchase of the Union of Merebant, anding that the Chinees we mew on for trial. is necessary, and then for the trova Trung Shau-dek of the Cooperative board the said vessel u uld join the \n\nware wriks, ordered the reveal to be two weeks' imprisonment if they portation of snch goods Special Chamber \n\nbat taninateri « representatives to monerd at Leesamman. for frure still insisted to strike. The seamen Permite will be innuit, \n\nThen they were permasted refused and so wera imprisoned. not belonging to ourg with Mr. Liang Tan-hing,shere. \n\nWhen the term of imprisonment prices of which have enemy natius should not require representatives of the Commerce sot to join the strike by one of the \n\nDepartment, \n\nGate | Louis of British Imperialism. Com-woe sarved, they were expelled from overtbrow the therefore greatly dropped day by such permite. \n\npradoro Ito Sui-kwang who threakon Hongkong and come up to Cantou Mr. Ire Long Yu said that he missioner Soneg. Our day, as there is already so over. Government, \n\nstriker, adding that is weekend. The meeting ended at 5.30 p.m. the has miroudly studied the question of \n\nspies to Hai Lu Fong to raise up wood, the \n\nap \n\nNationalist \n\nto \n\nGovernment must take note of this, stock \n\nand \n\n200", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 301, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "From the Cl. for the Cols. on the subject.\n\nA. 1925 HONG KONG CIRCULATION— Mr. Share F. 21. Beckett Mr. Asst. U.S. of S.\n\nDATE 16 December Pension of A. Pattison C.C. 56519 17 DEC 25 298:\n\nI request that in due course you will furnish me with your observations on the suggestions contained in the Cl's letter.\n\nPerm U.S. of S. Part U.S. of S. Secretary of State.\n\nPrevious Paper 2a/37943 Intard Rev. devies to ascertain the precise wies under which the → was frantis.\n\nMINUTES\n\nI request CA to inf. H.K. that A. Pattison, the Army officer, was discharged from duty by the CO who reported that as a result of wounds he would be unfit for duty. He was therefore retired from the Force on medical grounds due to wounds received in the course of duty at the Port of ...\n\nSubsequent Paper (45) (813) WL 17813/88 Gp. 140 50000 12-24 W & S Ltd.\n\nI decided to apply to Mr. Pattison...\n\nPage ... appears to be missing some context, but the given text has been formatted accordingly.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504647, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "page_number": 516, "title": "CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12]", "content_text": "20\n\non the Shameen also contributed to a settlement of the \"strike.\" The merchant volunteers eventually came to blows with the Government forces over the disposal of the \"Hao\" arms, and after a pitched battle in the streets of Canton were easily crushed. They had counted on the help of some of the Yunnanese mercenary leaders, who, however, saw on which side their bread was buttered, and naturally took the course by which their own hold on Canton was strengthened. This gave fresh encouragement to the extreme elements, and only the collapse of the Chihli party and Wu Pei-fu in North China averted for the moment fresh trouble in Canton. Kuomintang influence, fostered by the Soviet, had steadily permeated throughout China, and from being confined to the single province of Kwangtung, had become an important political factor in the country. It had now a \"People's army\" in the troops of the Christian general; and at the military academy at Whampoa, near Canton, cadets were being trained in batches to form at the same time an officer cadre and a trained corps of propagandists. It is worthy of note that the bulk of these students were not natives of Kwangtung, but came from other parts of China and from abroad.\n\nDr. Sun's departure for Peking and his death there in March 1925 may be briefly mentioned. Although he had been in precarious health for more than a year, yet his great personality proved a strong rallying point for all those opposed to the feudal and autocratic rule of the military governors, and had acted as a curb on the more extreme elements among the party. The position of the Yunnanese (to whom were allied the Kwangsi) troops in Canton was particularly affected, as they had consistently been on the moderate side and cared for nothing but the retention of their sources of revenue in Canton. They meditated a coup d'Etat in April 1925 to gain supreme control, but were deterred by the fact that the Cantonese army and the corps of military cadets lay on the East River region, and were supported by the armed labour unions and the student organisations in the city. They were, moreover, short of arms and ammunition, which their opponents drew in quantities from some hidden source, and the seizure of the arsenal proved abortive as the workmen were at once called out on strike. Towards the end of May they were attacked by the Cantonese forces, commonly known as the Reds, and after hard fighting, driven out of Canton, where the advanced elements are now in supreme control.\n\nTo gain a true appreciation of the situation in Canton, it must be remembered that of the enormous population of the province of Kwangtung only a small minority are members of the Kuomintang, the number in Canton, according to a recent estimate, being 15,000. In the country districts the labour and agricultural unions support the party; in the towns its strength lies in the labour unions (the formation of which, as opposed to the old guilds, is sedulously fostered), the students, the officials (even down to the most insignificant paid employees), and all articulate and educated sections of the people generally, with the exception of the merchants, who are, moreover, timorous and badly organised. One of the planks in the party programme is the revision of all unequal treaties, including every matter which affects China's sovereignty and which they feel constitutes a standing disgrace to China's national pride. They claim, for example, the immediate restoration of all foreign concessions, consular jurisdiction, control of the Maritime Customs, &c. - at one fell swoop. There is for them no midway step.\n\nWhile there has been no general anti-foreign feeling among the common classes in Canton, it does exist to a large extent among the intelligentsia, particularly the students, who create an effect out of proportion to their numbers, as the class of \"literati\" has always been the most respected in China. It has also been connived at, if not actually encouraged, by the Chinese authorities, particularly since the Washington Conference led China to believe that the foreign Powers were already prepared to surrender all their rights and privileges in China, and give up immediately every safeguard for the protection of the lives and property of their nationals, during a period of great disorder in China.\n\nThe Canton press, in name free, is notoriously under the thumb of the Kuomintang, and has done much in recent months to inflame public opinion by exaggerations or misconceptions of matters relating to foreigners. The example of Turkey in successfully defying the foreign Powers has been of great inspiration to the Chinese, who know that the Powers are now exhausted after the Great War, and, besides being disunited, are apparently unwilling to enter into further commitments abroad.\n\nThere are few modern industries in Canton, and in none is any foreign capital interested. They amount to a tannery, motor-boat and launch building yards, a cannery, rice-hulling mills, stocking factories, silk filatures, and match factories; of these, only the last two are in any way important.\n\n21\n\nIn all labour conditions are very bad, as the workers belong to no union, and women and small children work long hours under unfavourable conditions. Organised labour in Canton is practically confined to the skilled trades, artisans, seamen, and cargo handlers, &c., and these have often successfully struck for increased wages and shorter hours. Labour in Canton is in every way as independent and impatient of control as labour in Great Britain, and it is from the ranks of organised labour in Canton that the Kuomintang draws its chief support. They have, however, been taught to regard the foreigner as one of the main obstacles towards the full achievement of the revolution, and look forward to the Democratic programme with its principles, as laid down in the testament of their deceased leader.\n\nThe Kuomintang authorities have repeatedly disowned any connection with Communism, which they aver is totally unsuited to Chinese conditions, and they assert that their friendship for the Soviet authorities is due to their admiration of the success of the Russian revolution, and the inspiration derived therefrom. They are naturally led to contrast unfavourably the professions of goodwill and active assistance of the Soviet Government with the attitude of the other Powers, who, they fear, wish to keep China in a state of tutelage, but, on the other hand, they sincerely believe that all good men and true belong to the Kuomintang, and seek to impose the party programme (by force if necessary) on the whole country.\n\nJapan has for the past year pursued a policy of conciliation with China and avoided all cause of offence, but without making much headway, so long as the twenty-one demands remain denounced; America is, rightly or wrongly, regarded as the friend of China, the one Power who has never sought any concession for herself in China; while Great Britain has to fight against the atmosphere of mistrust inherited from the past history of her relations with China. It is Great Britain, with her subject peoples and her history of conquest in India and Egypt, who is constantly denounced in the press and by the student body as the \"arch-imperialist\" and the oppressor of China. She is the butt of most of the attacks, owing to her strong attitude and lack of sympathy with advanced political ideas. Soviet agents have been active in creating such propaganda and in directing its dissemination throughout China. Several are employed in Canton and at the Whampoa military academy, and have been seen in the streets of the city accompanied by guards of Chinese soldiers.\n\nAmerican, and especially American missionary, influence has also been to some extent anti-British. Their aim has always been more altruistic and less self-seeking than ours. This cloud of misrepresentation it is hard to penetrate, and it is difficult to persuade the average Chinese that Britain's sole object in China is trade. They point to the numerous shackles at present imposed on China's independence, and ask for concrete tokens of our goodwill. They themselves are to be the judges of what China is entitled to receive, and they resent well-meant efforts to rescue them from themselves and prescribe the steps by which their goal is to be attained.\n\nThe average Cantonese student or graduate can only be described as a half-educated product. He has learnt but a smattering of Western culture, along with scraps of the most extreme Social-Democratic principles, and the leaven of new ideas rising in his mind, with its new-felt consciousness of national pride, has created within his heart a burning indignation at the inequality of China among the nations. Unfitted for self-control by the destructive tendencies of the age and by his sudden release from the bonds of clan life, he cannot turn his mind to constructive plans for the restoration of law and order, and the eradication of widespread graft from his troubled country, but, instead, has his energies diverted by interested parties to the task of restoring China to the place among the nations which she certainly deserves, but which she is as yet unfitted to occupy.\n\nThe Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, which took control after the death of Dr. Sun, has, among other activities, fostered the establishment within the past year of an Anti-Christian Alliance, an Anti-Imperialist Countries League, a Union of Soldiers, Students, Workers and Agriculturists, and a General Labour Federation of all artisans and organised labour in Canton, Hong Kong and Macao.\n\nIt cannot too strongly be emphasised that, apart from strikes against the imposition of new and excessive taxation, industrial movements in Canton hardly affect the foreigner in the south at all, labour being so cheap and so little dependent on mechanical devices; all movements directed against the foreigner have had a light industrial foreground with a large and ominous political background. In practice, it is almost impossible to distinguish between the two issues.\n\nThere is among the non-missionary foreign element in Canton a general feeling of concern at the licence allowed by the Chinese authorities to the students and other irresponsible elements.\n\n595", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-495 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "13\n\n12\n\nconsequence of the discontinuance of the conventions, the full rate of customs duties should be henceforth collected on the frontier. The putting into effect of these orders has, however, been postponed.\n\nOn the 6th April, 1926, the Chinese Government proposed to the Belgian Government a radical revision of the treaty of the 2nd November, 1865, on the ground of article 46, whereby, if the Belgian Government desired modifications in any of the clauses of the treaty, they could open negotiations at the end of a ten-year period, after giving six months' notice to the Chinese Government of their intention. The Belgian Government contested the right of the Chinese Government to propose any modifications of the treaty under this article, but they accepted the possibility of finding a modus vivendi which, while recognising the interests of Belgium, would not adversely affect the legitimate rights of China (note of the 21st August, 1926). The Belgian Chargé d'Affaires in London enquired privately as to the views of His Majesty's Government, and was informed that, according to our legal expert, the question of \"denouncing\" could not arise out of article 46 or any other article in the treaty, and that it was undesirable for the Belgians to admit that, failing an agreement for revision, the treaty would terminate; even the proposal for a modus vivendi seemed rather dangerous. The point is of importance to us, because under article 27 of the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Tien-tsin (the 26th June, commercial 1858) either party can demand a revision of the tariff and of the articles of the treaty at the end of every period of ten years, and, if this means that, failing agreement as to such revision, the provisions in question will come to an end, the Chinese Government would be, as against us, in a much better position than they are as against Belgium, to get rid of all the provisions which may be regarded as coming under the phrase \"the commercial articles of this treaty.'\n\nThe proposal for a modus vivendi broke down, since the Belgians had suggested that it should continue for periods of six months at a time, such periods being indefinitely renewable, while China demanded that if the negotiations did not result in a settlement at the end of the first six months they should be free to give three months' notice of the termination of the modus vivendi. The Belgian Government then invited the Chinese Government to lay the question in dispute before The Hague Tribunal. This proposal China has also rejected on the ground that the issue is not the technical interpretation of article 46, but the application of the principle of equality of treatment, which cannot be made the subject of judicial enquiry. On the 6th November Dr. Koo, the Chinese Foreign Minister (who is also Premier), announced that the 1865 treaty must be considered to have come to an end. At the same time, he issued a mandate instructing the Government departments and the provincial authorities to draw up regulations for the full protection of the Belgian Legation, consulates, nationals, products and ships, in accordance with international law and custom. The Belgian Government have now stated that they will themselves in any case submit the matter to The Hague.\n\nThe Chino-Japanese Commercial Treaty of the 21st July, 1896, came to the end of one of its ten-year periods on the 20th October. Article 26 of this treaty provides that either of the contracting parties may demand a revision of the tariffs and of the commercial articles at the end of such decennial periods. The Chinese note expressed the wish to enter into negotiations for a radical revision on an equal footing of the whole commercial treaty, and concluded by stating that, if revision were not effected within the six months referred to in article 26, the Chinese Government reserved all their rights in the matter. The Japanese Government replied on the 10th November, expressing their readiness to enter into negotiations for treaty revision, but refusing to accept the Chinese reservation regarding the situation which would arise if the new treaty were not concluded within six months. The actual intentions of the Japanese Government are still obscure, and there is every reason to believe that they find themselves in a quandary.\n\nThis new campaign of treaty revision piecemeal represents the methods and policies of the Peking Foreign Office and of Dr. Wellington Koo. They are doubtless straining and overstraining the text of the treaties, both in the Belgian and Japanese instances; and they are breaking away from the procedure laid down in the Washington treaties (of which China was a signatory) for gradual treaty revision in consultation with the principal Powers together. But, as the Chinese Chargé d'Affaires recently stated at the Foreign Office in a private conversation, the Chinese consider that the fulfilment of the Washington promises has been so long delayed that the treaties are to some extent invalidated, and they are losing patience. There is no doubt that Dr. Koo's attitude is supported by all Chinese people, and that he hopes to win personal popularity thereby.\n\nThe British Treaty of Tien-tsin is due for revision (as regards the tariff and commercial articles only), at the demand of either party, on the 24th October, 1930; the Mackay Treaty of the 5th September, 1902, may be revised as regards the tariff, at the demand of either party, on the 28th July, 1933; the American Commercial Treaty, which corresponds to our Mackay Treaty, may be revised in its entirety, at the demand of either party, on the 7th December, 1934. But if the Japanese Government give way to the present Chinese demand, there can be little doubt that we and the Americans will be faced by requests for similar radical revision before those dates fall due.\n\nVI.—Piracy.\n\nOwing to the disturbed conditions of China, brigandage and piracy are rife. There have always been pirates in South China, but their activities have recently been especially daring. The usual method is for a gang of pirates to come on board a ship as part of the usual mob of steerage passengers. They have smuggled their arms on board, and at a certain moment, they seize the ship, and force the officers to navigate it to Bias Bay—the pirates' headquarters near Hong Kong—where the pirates escape with their loot in the ship's boats, and leave the ship to its own devices. A paper recently submitted to the Cabinet (C.I.D. Paper No. 283-C of the 8th November, 1926) gives details of 17 piracies committed by the Bias Bay gang since 1921, including 7 in 1926 (totals which have now been raised to 19 and 9 respectively).\n\nIn various ways it has been attempted to make British ships secure against attack by pirates; and in the Committee of Imperial Defence paper mentioned above will be found a statement of Admiralty instructions regarding pursuit of pirates. His Majesty's ships have for many years been active in chasing pirates on the seas and rivers of South China, and on one occasion at least have co-operated with Chinese troops in an attack against pirates on land. But the Admiralty instructions specifically forbid the landing of officers and men on Chinese territory to search for or attack pirates, and provide that when pirates are once on shore fire can only be opened on them at the request of Chinese officials through His Britannic Majesty's consul and in co-operation with Chinese authorities.\n\nThe increase in the Bias Bay piracies caused the Governor of Hong Kong, in June 1926, to submit to the Colonial Office the following recommendation:-\n\nWhen next a piracy in Bias Bay is reported, it is proposed that two companies of a British regiment should be immediately despatched with such naval escort as may be available in accordance with a plan which is being prepared by the naval and military authorities. The expedition would proceed at once to the anchorage in Bias Bay, where pirated ships are moored, and would there land and endeavour to waylay the pirates while removing their loot. The troops would also search the pirate villages, and, if necessary, destroy them.\"\n\nHis Majesty's Minister, Peking, concurred generally in this suggestion, but would have preferred to see the occupation of Bias Bay by a small garrison, rather than the destruction of villages. He recommended that the Canton Government be warned forthwith that action would be taken after the next piracy unless they themselves acted meanwhile.\n\nThe Foreign Office, though concurring generally, have become increasingly anxious—especially in view of the Wanhsien affair—as to possible repercussions throughout China from punitive action by British troops; and in view of any interest which the League of Nations may take in the matter, they think that His Majesty's Government should be sure of their position in regard to international law. But they were prepared to instruct the acting consul-general at once to warn the Canton Government on the lines suggested by His Majesty's Minister. These instructions were referred to the Colonial Office for concurrence, and by them to the Committee of Imperial Defence. They are the subject of C.I.D. Paper No. 283-C referred to above; but they have not yet been approved.\n\nMeanwhile, on the 16th November, a further piracy was committed against the British steamship \"Sunning\" by the Bias Bay gang, and, according to the first reports, ...\n\nAs recently as last October, the Canton Government informed the acting consul-general of their desire to protect foreign vessels against pirates and outlined a procedure for convoying such steamers by the Cantonese navy (\"decrepit launches with very inadequate armament, which are themselves in danger of capture by pirates\").\n\n526", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505540, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "MEMORANDUM.\n\n259\n\n1\n\nand assignment of loadlines &c. the necessary steps will be taken to issue an Order in Council under Section 284 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.\n\nA copy of a memorandum relating to the survey of motor vessels is enclosed herewith for the guidance of the Hong Kong Surveyors.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nBaker\n\nSURVEYS OF MOTOR-VESSELS (WITH HEAVY OIL ENGINES)\n\nFOR RENEWAL OF PASSENGER CERTIFICATES.\n\nThe procedure of the Surveyors of the Board of Trade in carrying out surveys for the renewal of the Passenger Certificates of Diesel engined motor vessels is, subject to modification in particular cases, somewhat as follows:-\n\n(1) Inspection of cylinders with covers removed.\n\n(a) Examination of fuel, air and exhaust valves including seats and springs.\n\n(b) Examination of covers for cracks, scale in cooling water spaces, &c.\n\n(c) Examination and gauging of bore of liners for wear.\n\n(d) Examination of pistons.\n\nWhether a piston should be removed for further inspection may be conditional upon the running as shown from examination of the liner.\n\n(2) Inspection of safety devices, i.e. relief valves on air systems, non-return valves in air and fuel lines, flame retarders in air lines &c.\n\n(3) Inspection of water cooling arrangements which in some cases, especially to the pistons, are liable to derangement.\n\n(4) Inspection of running machinery.\n\n(a) Inspection of shafting, rods, cam shafts, &c. in accordance with usual procedure for steam engines.\n\n(b) Inspection of journals. Caps should be lifted and special attention should be given to the examination of the wearing surfaces of those bearings oiled by forced lubrication and notes should be taken of exceptional wear.\n\n(c) Inspection of the forced lubricating system and the state of the oil sump. The conditions should be such that a sufficient supply of clean, cool oil can be supplied to the bearings. There should be spare lubricating and cooling pumps, and the pressure gauge, strainers and coolers should be in good condition.\n\n(5) Inspection of Compressors.\n\n(a) cylinders.\n\n(b) Coolers.\n\n(c) Safety devices.\n\n(d) Pipes &c. to be cleaned of dirt and oil.\n\n(6) Inspection of blast air, and starting air containers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505541, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "C 260 : ¿\n\n(a) It is important to see that the drains are clear and that the containers are clean. Accumulations of water may set up active corrosion and oil in the air pipes is dangerous and may lead to explosion in the pipes.\n\n(b) Examination of relief valves and other safety devices.\n\n(7) Inspection of steam plant in accordance with the usual practice for steam ships.\n\n(8) The spare gear should be adequate and it should be seen that the stocks of parts are maintained.\n\n(9) Having regard to the large amount of oil fuel carried on motor vessels, special attention should be paid to the storage arrangements, general cleanliness and the condition of the fire extinguishing appliances.\n\n(The foregoing indicates the nature of the survey which should be made in all cases, but in addition a general examination should be made, and particular attention should be given to special features peculiar to the type of engine under inspection.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505872, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "content_text": "FOR OFFICIAL USE.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING-WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.\n\nAutomatic Wireless Calling Devices.\n\nReport by the Admiralty\n\non tests of\n\nAutomatic Wireless Calling Devices\n\ncarried out on behalf of the\n\nBoard of Trade and General Post Office,\n\n1923-1924.\n\nLONDON:\n\nPRINTED & PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 28, Abingdon Street, London, S.W.1; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff;\n\nor 120, George Street, Edinburgh;\n\nor through any Bookseller.\n\n1925\n\nPrice 3d. net.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505874, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "content_text": "[COPY.]\n\nM. 5680/24.\n\nSIR,\n\nAdmiralty, S.W.1.\n\n13th January, 1925.\n\nWith reference to your letter No. M. 5720/23 of 23rd April, 1923, and Admiralty Letter M. 645 of 17th May, 1923, regarding proposed tests of the Automatic Calling Device, I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Board of Trade, that the trials have now been concluded.\n\nTwo copies of a report are attached, and I am to state that My Lords have no objection to the publication of all or parts of the report or publication of a precis.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) CHARLES WALKER.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nMercantile Marine Department,\n\nBoard of Trade,\n\nS.W.1.\n\nREPORT ON TESTS OF AUTOMATIC CALLING DEVICES.\n\n1. In April, 1923, the Admiralty was asked by the Board of Trade to undertake experimental tests of automatic wireless calling devices, with the object firstly of determining what in principle is the most satisfactory type of signal for such instruments and, secondly, of prescribing the conditions which apparatus for this purpose should satisfy in order that it may be passed as able to work satisfactorily under service conditions at sea.\n\n2. The Admiralty agreed to carry out these tests, and a small technical committee, consisting of representatives of the Admiralty, General Post Office, Marconi Company and the Radio Communication Company, was formed to draw up a scheme of trial and to consider from time to time the results of the experiments.\n\n3. At a preliminary meeting of the technical committee it was agreed that three sets of apparatus should be put under test, one being the General Post Office instrument designed to operate on a long dash of 15 seconds, the other two designed by the Wireless Companies operating on a signal consisting of three successive dashes of four seconds duration separated by one second intervals. It was agreed it was not necessary to consider any other possible signal.\n\n4. A series of preliminary tests was carried out at the Signal School in October, 1923, but though some useful information was obtained it was considered that owing to the exceptionally bad conditions of heavy local interference no useful conclusions could be drawn from the tests.\n\n5. It was agreed at a meeting of the Committee on 13th November that all three sets should be tested on a series of coasting voyages round the United Kingdom and afterwards in tropical waters.\n\n6. The Clyde Shipping Company kindly lent their Steamship Rathlin for the purpose of the coasting voyage tests, and these were carried out on a number of voyages extending from 1st February to 31st March, 1924. The trials were carried out by Naval Ratings lent by the Admiralty. These men had no special training and the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505875, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "content_text": "The apparatus was untouched since the previous trials. Results of these trials are summarised in Appendix 1, and they were considered at a meeting of the technical committee on the 10th April. The Committee agreed unanimously that the number of false calls registered by the G.P.O. instrument conclusively showed that the 15 seconds dash was not a suitable signal for this purpose.\n\nIt was also agreed that the two other instruments should be tested on a voyage through the tropics before any final conclusions were reached.\n\n7. Through the courtesy of the Ellerman Lines, who lent their Steamship \"City of Harvard\" for the purpose, further trials were carried out by operators lent by the Wireless Companies under the supervision of an Admiralty officer on a voyage out to Bombay and Karachi and back, beginning on 16th May and ending 13th August. The results of these trials are summarised in Appendix 2. The operators again had no special training and the apparatus was as turned over from the \"Rathlin\".\n\n8. The results of the various tests were discussed at a conference held at the Admiralty on the 29th October, and the following points were raised in connection, particularly with the Foreign trial.\n\n(a) Continuous adjustment of the devices was necessary during the first 24 hours.\n\n(b) The longest time that the devices were left without being adjusted, while working successfully, was-\n\nFor the Marconi Instrument, 50 hours.\n\nFor the Radio Communication Company's Instrument, 40 hours.\n\n(c) A question arose as to why the results improved, whereas the Emergency Power results deteriorated, on the homeward voyage. With regard to the first, it was explained that the operators understood the instruments better as time went on, and they were run for shorter periods without re-adjustment. With regard to the Emergency results, these were accounted for by encountering bad emergency sets, at longer ranges, on the homeward voyage.\n\n(d) False calls were less on the homeward voyage, on account of more experience in adjustment of the devices being gained by the operators. False calls may really be considered negligible.\n\n(e) Most faults were due to batteries. There are no possibilities of reversed polarity in regard to the charging of H.T. batteries.\n\n(f) It was considered that no purpose would be served by discussing details of the devices, but that they could probably be much improved.\n\n(g) It was considered that an operator would recognise the auto-call dashes with as much, or greater, ease than the ordinary S.O.S. signals.\n\n(h) It was noticed that atmospherics caused failures, as was to be expected. Atmospherics had the effect of closing the break space, thus, in the case of the Radio set, throwing it back to the original position or in the case of the Marconi set jamming the two relays. Nearly all the failures were due to atmospherics.\n\n(i) The trials are considered to show that automatic sending is very desirable, as in practice it was found that the length of the dashes as sent varied from 2 to 54 seconds, while the spaces varied from 0 to 2 seconds. The Committee considered that if a simple and reliable instrument can be designed for this purpose, the question of making its carriage compulsory might be considered by the Board of Trade.\n\nIn this connection, although not mentioned at the conference, it is to be noted that some ships have no second hands on their clocks.\n\n(j) It was clear that apparatus of this kind can only respond to a call sent out within certain reasonable limits of accuracy, i.e., it cannot, like an operator, make out that someone is trying to send the signal but failing to do it properly owing to inaccurate timing or faulty apparatus.\n\n(k) It was considered, in regard to the general working of the devices, that the limit of effective calls possible is not less than 90 per cent. for a perfected device.\n\n9. The following standard test for auto-call devices was agreed to generally:-\n\n(i) The devices shall normally be operated by a series of three dashes, each of four seconds duration, separated by a space of one second.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505876, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926", "content_text": "(ii) The devices shall also function when the dashes are of not less than three or more than five seconds duration, and the spaces of not less than one-tenth or more than two seconds duration. It was agreed also that some allowance should be made for approximations to the three and five seconds limits, as these are designed tolerances and something should be allowed for accidental departures from those in the actual instrument.\n\n(iii) The design of apparatus should include \"telltale\" for indicating failure of any portion of the apparatus, but it was thought that this point is one for decision by the Board of Trade.\n\n(iv) The devices shall be subjected to test by signals locally produced to ascertain whether they function with the tolerances scheduled under (ii); 100 test calls within the tolerance limits indicated in (ii) shall be made to determine this.\n\n(v) The devices shall be operated by a transmitter with a steady note of frequency not less than 100 per second, and shall be operative on a wave of 600 metres with conditions equivalent to ranges up to 80 miles with aerial equipment at the transmitting point giving a figure of 45 as the product of the maximum height of the antennæ in metres and intensity of current in amperes at the base of the antennæ.\n\n(vi) All tests will be made with the receiver with which the devices will normally be associated, and approval of the devices will extend only to the use with the particular receiver combined with it when submitted.\n\n(vii) The devices will be installed for 14 days in the neighbourhood of the Thames Estuary and the Straits of Dover, or other area where similar jamming conditions are experienced, and observation made of the number, if any, of false calls recorded by the apparatus during that time.\n\n(viii) The devices will be installed in any position in Great Britain for a further test of 28 days' duration, during which time they will be subjected to a minimum of 500 test calls under the conditions indicated in (v); during these tests adjustment of the apparatus shall be made only once every 12 hours and each call will consist of the calling signal being made for one minute.\n\n9\n\n(ix) During every third day of the trials under (vii), the device will be artificially subjected to varying temperature conditions; for this test the devices will be enclosed in a chamber and the temperature of the interior of the chamber will be raised in one hour to 40° C, and maintained at that temperature for two hours and then allowed to cool naturally.\n\n(x) For approval, the devices must satisfy the following conditions:—\n\n(a) They shall not fail in any particular during the tests indicated under (iv).\n\n(b) The number of effective calls as indicated under (viii) and (ix) to be not less than (*) of the total calls made.\n\n(c) The number of false calls recorded under (vi), (vii) and (viii) shall not exceed (†).\n\n* For decision by Board of Trade, a figure not less than 90 per cent, is feasible.\n\n† Not decided, but as false calls were considered negligible, it is recommended that only one or two false calls be allowed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-1 Indepartmental conference on Piracy- report 12-1-1926 - 20-4-1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "# The Canton Gazette \n## 報 日 文 英州廣 \n### ORGAN OF CHINESE NATIONAL OPINION \nOffice: 82, Wing Hon Road, Canton, China \n\nSUBSCRIPTION RATES, EXCLUDING POSTAGE 10 cents per copy, $2 per month. 50% discount on above rates allowed to teachers and students \n\nPublished daily except Sunday and holidays \n\nSaturday, May 21, 1927 \n\n## THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAY IN CHINA \n### (BY K. Y. LI) \n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927 \n\n### Municipal Gov't Draws Up Tentative Factory Regulations \n(Continued from Page 1) \none hour at least should be given for rest. \n\n(From our Shanghai correspondent) \n\nShanghai, May 14.-The Shanghai Executive Committee for Labor and Capital has issued a draft constitution, a free translation follows: \n\n1. This Committee is known as \"Ching Tang\" Movement (Continued from Page 1) \n\nDr. Sherwood Eddy's Speech \nThe hell-like conditions in Shanghai foreign-owned factories have been made known to the world through prominent visitors, and world-wide sympathy have since been given to the Chinese toiling masses, especially the child workers. \n\n| Clause | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | This Committee is known as ... |\n| 2 | This Committee is organised by nine members of the Shanghai Provisional Branch Political Council: three from the Central Government, three from the Kuomintang and three from workers. Three Executive members, one from each, are elected as Standing Committee members. |\n| 3 | Any entangled questions concerning labour and capital should be solved by this committee and the agreement reached by arbitration will be enforced by this committee. |\n| 4 | Points but are not allowed to vote. |\n| 5 | A meeting of this committee cannot be held without a quorum; four members must be present inside to hold a meeting. |\n| 6 | Regular meetings shall be held once a week, and any extraordinary meeting may be called by the Standing Committee. |\n\nThe staff members will be one secretary, two clerks, three inspectors, and one accountant. \n\n11. When there is good reason for lengthening working hours, one extra hour per day is the maximum allowed i.e., six hours per week. \n12. In such factories as require night work, shifts of workers ought to be made; workers must work in turn, and in where there is danger, workers must be shifted every four hours. \n\n\"There are at least fifty cotton mills around Shanghai and more are going up. Thousands of child workers, down to the age of eight or nine years, were standing between double rows of whirring, unguided machinery, steadily but wearily feeding the machines. One mite, perhaps eight years of age, was curled in corner, under a pile of waste, sound asleep. \n\n\"Over in a nearer and nearer small hospital, there were this winter three children under ten years old. One had been caught in an unfenced machine and was all but torn off. The leg of another was smashed from hip to ankle by the teeth of a machine. The third, a little girl, had been caught by the hair in a ker machine and her scalp torn off. Not one of these accidents would have happened had the machines been fitted with safety devices.\"\n\n13. On occasion of demonstrations scheduled by the Government or the Party, the labour Union should notify the factories, and factories should not release one third of the workers to take part in the demonstrations and those remaining in demonstrations should not take the work usually done by those remaining in the factories. \n\n14. The scale of wages should be based on the minimum living standard of the place where the factories are located. \n15. Wages should be paid in proper money and not to be varied according to the changing value of goods produced. \n16. Wages should be paid regularly; each month's pay to be given in two payments on the 1st and 15th of every month. \n17. Wages should also be paid on holidays and when it is necessary to work on holidays double wages should be paid. \n\nThe month, May, has many charms which other seasons do not possess: it is best time for the rich to flourish and show years of continue the Northern Expedition. It is the worst of times for the poor to begin battling with weather and sparing sweat and blood. \n\nMay 4th: In 1919 this day was acclaimed witnessing an alarming event in China that the Government high officials were dragged and beaten almost to death by masses led by university students. \"The students are rebellious and ought to be punished\" was the Government order. But the PUBLIC opinion showed sympathy for the students and the Government was compelled to release the students. The Chinese public were becoming rebellious! Yes, they were and only began to be so. The Government high officials were proved to be treacherous: they began to be condemned by the public. \n\nMay 5th: In 1921, the tenth year of the Republic, wars were openly declared between the militarists and the patriots. The Revolutionary Party led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, secured its footing in Kwangtung, while the militarists, reactionaries and monarchists were ravaging the country, and the pressure of the imperialists was becoming ever stronger that the nation was facing a danger of dissension and international control threatened from outside. Dr. Sun's brave assumption of office as Extra-ordinary President of the Republic on the 5th of May at such a juncture, bespoke the revolutionary spirit of China, made secure the base of Chinese Revolution in Canton, and unified and consolidated the Revolutionary Party, the Kuomintang. May 5th is one of Dr. Sun's memorial days, whose great principles and revolutionary courage is permeating the Chinese people. \n\nMay 7th: It is the humiliation of the Chinese Republic; the date, are to be exempted by this insurance money due to child and woman workers to under support. \n\nThe present \"Tsing Tang\" movement is not a struggle within the party but the elimination of the Communists from the Kuomintang. The fact that not all the Communists have been suppressed is due to the great secrecy of their organisations. Behind them are the Russians with their ready financial support. \n\nMay 30th: The rising spirit of young China was put to test when the Powers determined to suppress the Chinese National Revolution directly supporting Gen. Chiang, so that an unarmed Chinese students and labourers started propaganda early. Massacres of the innocent and hospital of contagious diseases, one directly supporting Gen. Chiang, year's pay shall be given him and if curtailed owing to business depression factory owners should pay the workers additional wages of two months. \n\n### Gov't. To Revise Labor-Merchant Regulations \n\n24. Female workers should be given four weeks leave before and after giving birth, that is altogether 8 weeks' leave and be paid wages. \n25. Factory owners should make proper regulations concerning the grant of pensions, prizes, and compensatory funds for the workers according to the conditions of the factories, and the regulations ought to be approved by the Department of Labour and Peasantry. \n26. Factory owners ought to be responsible as agents for the owners of the factories regarding all matters concerning the safety and living conditions of the worker. \n27. One day each year is appointed for the factory authorities to choose to retain or dismiss the workers, this day is for the present on the 2nd of the first month of the lunar calendar; those factories whose traditional custom in respect of employing and dismissing workers is not to act on this date are allowed to keep their old employment custom. \n28. To the worker dismissed on the 2nd of the first lunar month must be paid additional wages and allowance securing sufficient light, and all existing regulations.) \n29. Factory owners are not allowed to keep back a part of the wages for compensation of damages due to workers. \n30. Workers who are officers of the Union during their tenure and election of representatives must not be dismissed as usual work. \n31. Contracts between workers and factories must be signed and witnessed by the authorities of the Union and the Chamber of Commerce. \n32. In those factories where work is dangerous to workers, child and women labour are not allowed entry. \n33. In factories where engines or boilers are used, the factory owners must take the regulations in this regard which have been approved by the Government, paying off dismissed workers should be in accordance with the inspectors of the Department of Labour and Peasantry. \n34. In factories where explosive or poisonous powder are produced or used, the factory owners are not allowed to employ women and children to watch or to clean them. \n35. In factories proper care must be taken for hygienic conditions such as good ventilation, necessary precautions for avoiding danger, such as providing safety valves and so forth. Factories must be thoroughly examined by the inspectors of the Department of Labour and Peasantry. \n36. Whenever the Department of Labour & Peasantry sees danger in factories, factory owners should give him a pension for life. \n37. In factories the Department can condemn part or whole of the buildings (mentioned above) as dangerous or unsuitable. \n38. For administration of the factories besides the staff selected by the factory owners, the workers should also elect their representatives to participate in the administration and matters concerning the safety and living conditions of the worker. \n39. The administrators or members of the Union can not exceed thirty days a year. \n40. When questions arise between factory owners and workers and factories must be signed and witnessed by the authorities of the Union and the Chamber of Commerce, such supplementary education must be provided for the child workers and illiterate adult workers who must read two hours a day, and illiterate adults who must read one hour a day. \n41. The above regulations shall become effective on the date of promulgation by the Government of Kwangtung province. \n\nIt is learned that draft of the revision has already been drawn up and will be presented to the Provincial Government for discussion and approval at its next meeting. \n\nThe Chinese National Revolution supported by all classes of the people, working courageously--working courageously in their fight against militarism and imperialism. \n\nNow, China is at war with militarism; she is today in the middle of May. Such a month which is full of national humiliation and atrocities is made a distinct feature in the history of China's Revolution.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512858, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928", "content_text": "232\n\nMr. Southorn thought this last objection an important.\n\nIn view of the state of the finances of the Colony, he could see no prospect of a contribution from Hongkong; in any case it was an Imperial question.\n\nNo. 3. The rescission of the Piracy Prevention Regulations had already been agreed upon. Captain Layton on this point suggested a recommendation that all the officers' quarters should be inside the bridge citadel.\n\nNo. 4. Mr. Boyd explained that the automatic receiving devices, approved by the Board of Trade and the Post Office, were designed to answer a special signal to be used only in cases of distress. An automatic arrangement for sending this signal was in existence and there were various other arrangements by which signals could be set up and sent by wireless by persons other than telegraphists.\n\nCaptain Layton and Mr. Southorn agreed that a system of negative signals was quite impracticable.\n\nIt was agreed to put forward as a matter for consideration that all ships should carry wireless, the cabin being within the bridge citadel.\n\nNo. 5. Mr. Ellis stated that the Board had already been established; no discussion was therefore necessary.\n\nMr. Ellis raised the general question of British propaganda in China.\n\nMr. Mounsey said the question must await the recommendations of Sir C. Clementi and Sir M. Lampson as the result of their recent meeting.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-3 China- anti-piracy precautions 31-10-1927 - 25-10-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517254, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930", "content_text": "## latin 6 = Hm Lin toke mate Legis Cuneet unde\nIII of the Royal Instructions to take effect retrofuctivity lifere the clate of the Partruments making out apfts. in parreance of such directions must instrurt the But < If not we far to passen validating any devices of which the be may be incutive by these affte reas affte being invetie.\n\nWalter D. Ellio \n1)/ In my opinion - closely not. Sichhäätt. Hele 14/3 12/ \nThen Sam afraid in thall have to telegraph diruting four in the smey H.M. treffort there grathons by \"Just instuurrent infuring him at the same time that this funcions persent appli inte inconsect and that the reach of the Connect that.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-513-7 Appointments to Executive and Legislative Councils of Hong Kong 21-12-1928 - 14-2-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517935, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "content_text": "137 \n\nnational inferiority. A law was therefore passed making the purchase of slave children illegal. This is a typical example of Chinese face-saving devices. The only difference that the law made was this: a person might not purchase the body of a slave child, but he was allowed to \"hire\" her services for whatever period remained between her age at the time of hiring and the age of 25, the hire being paid in a lump sum in advance to the child's father or mother at the time of hiring.\n\nAs Hongkong is geographically a part of China with a large Chinese population constantly fluctuating between the island and the mainland, the suppression of the mui tsai system in the colony is a problem which probably presents considerable difficulty. In response to public clamour, an ordinance was passed in February 1923 which declared the complete personal freedom of all mui tsai and their unrestricted right to leave their employers if they so desired, prohibited the taking into employment of any fresh mui tsai after the ordinance came into effect, and made provision for the proper treatment of existing mui tsai who might continue in the service of their employers.\n\nIn February 1929, questions asked in the House indicated that the ordinance was a dead letter. The Secretary of State for the Colonies called for a report from the Governor of Hongkong. This has been received and is still being considered by the present Secretary of State.\n\nThe Foreign Office is in no way concerned with this question and we have not seen the report referred to in the preceding paragraph.\n\n(Signed) J.T. Pratt.\n\n20th August, 1929.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521743, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-12 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 2-4-1930 - 16-6-1930", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-521-12 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 2-4-1930 - 16-6-1930", "content_text": "183\n\n2\n\ncharging the huge and unwieldy unsecured Chinese foreign debt on the increased customs revenues and of retaining the latter as far as possible under foreign control. Before the conference had been long in progress, His Majesty's Government realised the dangers of such a policy and recommended that the foreign Powers should forgo all further attempts to control the customs revenues in the interests of China's foreign creditors, and even went so far as to advocate tentatively a return to the pre-revolution system, when the actual collection and handling of the customs revenues were left in the hands of the Chinese superintendents, thus leaving it to the good faith of the Chinese Government to meet the foreign obligations secured on these revenues and to make their own arrangements for the unsecured foreign debt. Subsequently, a variety of plans and proposals were mooted by the foreign delegates at the conference in accordance with the arguments of those who urged foreign control over the revenues in the interests of the foreign creditors and those who advocated the diminution or abolition of this control in the interests of the future of the Customs Administration. For my part, I have always held, and have frequently pointed out, that, no matter what schemes might be formulated, China would undoubtedly in the end do exactly as she pleased with the proceeds of the increased import duties. This is, in fact, what has occurred. Whether we like it or not, China, left to her own devices and untrammelled by the provisions of any tariff-cum-debt-consolidation agreement, has refrained from interfering with the foreign control, such as it is, exercised through the inspector-general and the Custodian Bank, over the proceeds of the original 5 per cent. duties, while taking entirely into her own hands the disposal of the revenues from the balance of the import tariff. But it is interesting to note that even in the case of these latter funds, the Minister of Finance chooses of his own volition to use the foreign inspector-general of Customs to some extent as a custodian, doubtless owing to the necessity of inspiring the necessary confidence for the purpose of raising domestic loans with the Chinese banks. I have little doubt that ultimately China will carry this policy to its logical conclusion and treat her national revenues, as far as possible, as one liquid whole, instead of earmarking specific revenues (salt, customs, and so on) for specific obligations. This was, in fact, the pre-revolution system, when, for instance, the Customs-secured loans were met by the Ministry of Finance out of the national treasury, in which the customs revenues were merged. The arrangement is doubtless admirable in theory, but it is hardly one which is likely to appeal to the foreign investor in Chinese Government securities, who has grown accustomed to the safeguards which have been evolved during the past two decades.\n\n6. For the moment, however, the situation in regard to the customs revenues is certainly highly satisfactory, not only in that the existing arrangements for the safe custody of revenues required for the old secured loans and indemnities are permitted to continue, but also in that the entire revenues continue to flow, without interference by the provincial authorities, into the National Treasury, or, in other words, into the banks at Shanghai. For this happy dénouement, which has, I venture to think, justified the policy pursued by His Majesty's Government in the face of considerable opposition at and since the Tariff Conference, the present inspector-general, Mr. Maze, and the present Minister of Finance, Mr. Soong, deserve every credit. The question is, whether these arrangements will continue to work in the future and, for the moment, whether they will weather the political storm which has recently burst upon the country. One must not overlook the fact that the policy of centralisation pursued by the Nanking Government in connexion with the customs revenues, as with other matters, has its dangerous aspects, and in the absence of any definite arrangements for the distribution to the provinces of a portion of the customs revenues, such centralisation places a considerable strain on the relations between the provincial authorities, the Customs, and the Central Government. It is instructive to note in this connexion that the customs returns as published are still confined to the proceeds of the 5 per cent. duties, which, as all concerned are well aware, are required in their entirety for the old foreign and domestic obligations.\n\n7. With regard to the position of the inspector-general vis-à-vis the domestic loan services, the attitude of His Majesty's Government has of recent years been in favour of dissociating him from all such financial responsibilities. Nevertheless, Mr. Maze continues, it will be noted, to be saddled with the responsibility for the services of the domestic loans charged on the customs during the régime of his predecessor, Sir Francis Aglen, while he is not entirely relieved of all responsibility even for the later domestic loans, the service of which is taken charge of by the Sinking Fund Committee of Chinese bankers established for that purpose, to whom Mr. Maze pays the necessary funds from his account in the Central Bank. It is, indeed, the old story of the Chinese clamouring for full Chinese control, but finding in the last resort that the foreigner is, after all, indispensable for the purpose of inspiring the necessary confidence in their own people.\n\n8. The vexed question concerning the rival claims of the old unsecured foreign debt and the new Chinese domestic loans to the security of the increased customs revenues has been fully covered in recent despatches.\n\n9.\n\nAs regards the conditions in the Customs service and the part played by Mr. Maze in overcoming the dangers and difficulties which but recently threatened its disruption, I believe that the service is, in fact, in a stronger position than it has been for some time past. For this happy state of affairs also, Mr. Maze deserves great credit, but we must not shut our eyes to the fact that he has had the inestimable advantage over his immediate predecessors of the support of a Government in nominal control of a united China. As regards Mr. Maze's \"capabilities\" (see paragraph 3 of your despatch under reply), I have never questioned his well-known fitness and ability. As regards his suitability for the post of inspector-general, I am frankly not prepared to offer any comment on that point. He represents, so to speak, a fait accompli resulting from the decision taken in December 1928, which, be it good or bad, we have to accept, and I see no useful purpose in reopening the discussion now. So far as I can judge, the Customs Administration is at present functioning well and smoothly. I would add, in conclusion, that it was not so much Mr. Maze himself as the unfortunate methods by which, and the circumstances in which, he obtained his appointment as inspector-general which caused so much stir and bitterness amongst the British communities in China at the time.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nMILES W. LAMPSON.\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nMr. Aveling to Sir M. Lampson.\n\n(No. 87. Very Confidential.) Sir,\n\nShanghai, November 18, 1929.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 255 of the 14th September last, enclosing a copy of a despatch from the Secretary of State on the subject of the Chinese Maritime Customs. I regret that, owing to my recent visit to Peking, and the fact that on my return south, I was obliged to spend some considerable time at Nanking, I have been unable to report to you sooner.\n\n2. Since my arrival in Shanghai, I have had various opportunities of discussing customs questions with Mr. Maze, Mr. Chang Fu-yun (head of the Customs Board), members of the staff of the inspectorate-general, and several commissioners of customs in charge of ports. The impression I have gathered as the result of these conversations is that, so far from there being grounds for dissatisfaction with present conditions, there is a general feeling of relief at the restoration of internal harmony in the service, and of growing confidence based on the fact that none of the worst fears entertained at the time when the present inspector-general obtained control of the service have so far been justified by results. The staff of the inspectorate-general, even including those who bitterly resented the methods by which Mr. Maze is thought to have secured his appointment, and who cannot, therefore, be expected to have any deep feelings of personal loyalty, are, I believe, unanimous in recognising that Mr. Maze has handled with tact, ability, and success a very delicate situation, and that, despite the modification of the status of the service vis-à-vis the Chinese Government and foreign Powers which his appointment connoted, he has not, since he occupied his present position, departed from the best traditions of the service or sacrificed any of the essential interests of its members. It is, I find, generally recognised that such changes as have taken place—for example, the greater opportunities of promotion afforded to the Chinese staff and the control of all appointments to the higher posts by the Customs Board—have been necessitated by changed circumstances, and that, just as the Powers, in readjusting their treaty relations with China, have abandoned certain former privileges, so, in the process of adaptation, the Customs have been obliged to hand over to the Chinese powers that were hitherto exercised solely by the inspector-general.\n\nPage 184\n\nB 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-12 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 2-4-1930 - 16-6-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522188, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "page_number": 349, "title": "CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930", "content_text": "346\n\n1. I am told that Mr Southern, the Secretary of Hong Kong, is now in this Colony and is awaiting full cover. I am making consultation for this by other like matters.\n\nY devies. yo\n\nA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-13 Chinese Customs- proposed agreement with Hong Kong 27-8-1930 - 16-10-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523593, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-6 Mui Tsai System 13-12-1929 - 31-12-1930", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-522-6 Mui Tsai System 13-12-1929 - 31-12-1930", "content_text": "- 5\n\n72\n\n(b)\n\n+\n\n1.\n\n2.\n\nbound. But in the case of a muitsai he is in loco parentis and is bound to do so. In no case, however, would an employer of a Chu Nin Mui undertake the responsibility of her marriage.\n\nIn the first case above mentioned the girl did not return to the Kan family with the intention of becoming a Chu Nin Mui. She took the liberty of coming back to the house of her former mistress without having obtained her leave or permission; knowing perfectly well that Mrs. Kan would not turn her away. Her coming down to Hong Kong may or may not be with the knowledge and consent of her mother. Her object in returning, as subsequent events proved, was to find a husband. Probably everything was prearranged for her by the amah who accompanied her back to Hong Kong.\n\nThe inferences to be drawn from the above cases are:\n\nA muitsai, when restored to her parents, would not remain long with her parents, who are usually in poor circumstances. If she does remain, she would have to work harder to earn a living and would be in less congenial surroundings than she was accustomed to when she was with her former mistress. Nor would she submit herself to her parents' control as she was accustomed to a higher standard of living and had acquired a better knowledge of affairs than that of her parents.\n\nA girl in her \"teens\", thus left to her own devices without any person exercising a controlling influence", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-6 Mui Tsai System 13-12-1929 - 31-12-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523595, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-6 Mui Tsai System 13-12-1929 - 31-12-1930", "page_number": 73, "title": "CO129-522-6 Mui Tsai System 13-12-1929 - 31-12-1930", "content_text": "74\n\n(2)\n\n- 7 -\n\nwho, had, no doubt, been a muitsai.\n\nAccording to the muitsai system in China she would, after her marriage, be treated as a daughter or semi-daughter of the family. All traces of humiliation of having been a muitsai would be wiped off or forgotten.\n\nIf her master, in his unwillingness to comply with the conditions imposed by the registration regulations, which would give him lots of trouble, should restore her to her parents she would have to return to her parents and share their poverty. As an additional burden to her family, she would be an unwelcome member in her own home. She would be deemed by her parents and relatives in the country as an ill-luck person in that she had lost a comfortable home and returned to poverty, not through her own fault nor by the unkindness of her master but by extraneous circumstances.\n\nShe would feel herself an outcast, neither wanted at home nor in the house of her former master. She would be left to her own devices to shift for herself, in order to eke out a living unguided, unguarded and uncared for by any one. Thus in her youth and inexperience she would become a prey to human wolves.\n\nTo get employment, a young girl who knows no one except those in her former master's house would not have an easy task.\n\nOn", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-6 Mui Tsai System 13-12-1929 - 31-12-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 525991, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-526-14 United States interests in Hong Kong- alleged discrimination against commercial motor vehicles 1-6-1930 - 30-6-1930", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-526-14 United States interests in Hong Kong- alleged discrimination against commercial motor vehicles 1-6-1930 - 30-6-1930", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 30, 1930.\n\n215\n\n20. Wind Screens.-Front glass wind screens (if any) must be securely fastened, and of such a size and construction that the view of the driver shall at all times, and under all conditions be clear and unobstructed. Adjustable sections (if any) must be provided with adequate locking or fixing devices. Wind screen wipers must be fitted.\n\n21. Lifeguards.--Vehicles not fitted with \"running boards\" or the equivalent, and so constructed as to leave the space between the front and rear wheels unguarded, must be fitted with guard rails so as to guard that space effectively.\n\n22. Body. The body must be securely affixed to the chassis.\n\n23. Floor Boards.--(a) Floor boards must be strong and well fitted; also where they are intended to be lifted, properly hinged sunk lifting rings must be provided for the purpose.\n\n(b) Holes may be bored in floor boards for drainage purposes, but are prohibited for any other purpose.\n\n24. Pillars. All body pillars must be of sufficient strength, the joints properly made, and all parts liable to severe stress properly ironed and stayed.\n\n25. Window Rails. When the side lights are made to be lowered, provision must be made (by means of guard rails or otherwise) to protect the arms of seated passengers from being thrust through and injured by passing traffic, or the extent to which the side lights can be lowered must be limited so that such protection may not be needed.\n\n26. Entrances and Exits.-(a) Where the vehicle is fitted with a permanent top and the entrance is not at the rear end, an emergency door opening outwards shall be provided behind and clear of the rear wheels. This door must be easily accessible to the passengers, and so fastened as to be readily opened in case of need both from the inside and from the outside.\n\n(b) Direct access to the driver's seat from the offside must be provided when there are seats for passengers on his left side.\n\n(c) Door handles or levers to door catches must be affixed in such a manner that they cannot become dislodged or rendered inoperative by accidental manipulation. Except in regard to the door referred to in (a) above, if the handles or levers are on top of or inside the doors, double locks, safety catches or straps or some other form of additional fastening shall be provided.\n\n(d) A grab handle must be fitted to each doorway to assist passengers in mounting or alighting from the vehicle.\n\n(e) No doorway shall be less than 18 ins. in width, and if the door does not open to the full extent of the doorway it must open to the extent of at least 18 ins.\n\n27. Height (Inside body).— Where permanent tops are fitted, the height inside, measured at the centre line of the vehicle, from the top of the floor battens of the lower deck to the lower edge of the hoop sticks or other such projections must not be less than 5 ft. 3 ins. if the seating capacity of the vehicle does not exceed 20, and not less than 5 ft. 10 ins. if the seating capacity of the vehicle exceeds 20.\n\n28. Breadth (Inside body).-When the seats are placed lengthwise, the surface of any portion of the seat against which the back of the passenger is to rest shall be at least 51 ins. from the surface of the corresponding portion of the seat facing it, is not present, however the original text is kept as is.\n\n29. Seats. At least 16 ins. measured in a straight line along the length of the front of each seat must be allowed for each passenger on every seat, which seat must be fit and convenient for sitting on. Cross or “garden seats” must be so fitted that :-\n\n(1) When facing in the same direction a clear space of a minimum width of 25 ins. must be provided in front of the back of each seat at all points measured along the top of the seat back;\n\n(2) When facing each other there must be a clear space between all parts of the front of each seat of a minimum width of 19 ins.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-526-14 United States interests in Hong Kong- alleged discrimination against commercial motor vehicles 1-6-1930 - 30-6-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "content_text": "## \n24 \n\nexpression through the jurisprudence. It was dead when Justinian codified it in the Digest. The living law thereafter was found in a miserable epitome of epitomes.\n\nThe English Bench and Bar are the highest model of such judicature. The Bar fosters the progressive Common Law jurisprudence and maintains the integrity and independence of the Bench. Judges are always drawn from among the leading members of the Bar. The peculiar feature of the Common Law jurisprudence is its contentious procedure, which consists in the scrutiny of facts alleged and proved in strict observance of the rules of pleading and evidence, as well as the oral arguments of counsel and the eventual delivery of oral judgment by the judge, all continuously proceeding in open court.\n\nThe judgment so delivered declares new rules applicable to each occasion of novel circumstances that may arise; rules which are determined on analogy by drawing upon the stock of traditional principles tested by the disciplined reasoning on the most strict logical process as of the cultivated legal mind from precedent to precedent and in harmony with former judicial decisions not arrived at by deduction from fixed texts arbitrarily fastened upon the court as if governmental hard and fast rules could ever govern human activity amidst the ever developing conditions of modern life and thought.\n\nThese traditional principles constantly fertilized and nurtured by the actual knowledge and experience of the English Bar, constitute the Common Law jurisprudence which should be accepted as the sole free and elastic system of jurisprudence today.\n\nA sense of justice and fairness constitutes the genius of the English Bar; it is that which reveals itself to its members after their long and arduous study and application at the Bar accompanied as it is by the exercise of their mental and moral powers to the degree called for by the work of their profession.\n\nThe English Race thus enjoys the blessings of justice bestowed by the existence of the Common Law Bar: under it there exist just and equal laws; an effective method of cultivating practical jurisprudence; supremacy of the law, founded on judicial precedents, and, not least, the integrity and independence of the Bench and Bar permeated by a full sense of justice and fairness.\n\nThe sphere of influence wielded by the English Bar is far and wide extending over different civilized portions of the globe, interpreting and standardizing different civil and commercial usages and transactions whether conducted individually or through corporations or other bodies, having to do with banking, insurance, shipping, warehousing, negotiable notes and bills, bonds, shares, debentures, letters of credit, trusts and guarantees, bills of lading, godown warrants, carriers' receipts, policies of insurance, deeds of conveyance and all other legal devices taking shape under the principles of Common Law jurisprudence, and we may add, in an especial degree, those of the modern Chancery practice, which furnishes an example of a highly progressive application of refined juristic principles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526376, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "content_text": "# \n-3- \n\nWhatever material resources the Continent of North America may enjoy, her present prosperity must be ascribed to the power of the Common Law jurisprudence. Her commercial and industrial enterprises have been organised, financed, developed and maintained by the legal devices and procedure instituted by the knowledge and experience of Common Law jurisprudence. Even those countries which used to worship codes framed after the fashion of the Byzantine legislation, have begun to see the real capabilities of Common Law jurisprudence as founded on the judicial precedents hammered out in the course of its contentious procedure.\n\nThe outstanding monument of British rule in India is the Indian law courts presided over by judges appointed from among experienced English and Indian barristers. These caste-trodden Indians have been in the enjoyment of the blessings of justice and liberty afforded to them by these judges. The work of the judges has been so successful because they brought to their task that sense of justice and fairness inspired by their study and practice under the aegis of Common Law jurisprudence.\n\nIt is well known that a vast amount of Chinese wealth is held by foreign individuals and banking institutions under the English system of trusts and trustees, and also that many Chinese citizens are conducting their business under the protection of the Common Law. Are not these facts significant to demonstrate the virtue and capacity of the principles of the Common Law alien indeed to their own country, but welcome and beneficent to the Chinese citizens to whom they afford protection?\n\nThe power and influence of the Common Law Judicature being such as we have explained, who could object to the Republic of China modelling her Law Courts upon the institutions of the Common Law? What Chinese statesmen would decline the proposed scheme, and deprive their fellow-citizens of the blessings sure to follow its adoption? What subjects of treaty powers would object to the proposed reception of Common Law jurisprudence, trading and residing practically under that system as they have always been in the different settlements, which has unavoidably been the case in these extraterritorial days?\n\nShould these proposals be worked out, the intelligent Chinese will be quite equal to rapidly embarking on the study of the Common Law and its practice, and will readily grasp the spirit and principles of that jurisprudence in a way which will augment the prestige of the Republic of China, and lead it to attain in a few years an international reputation as a state in which legal rights are better protected than in those countries whose laws still appear in the garb of Byzantine Codes.\n\nR. Masujima \nof the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "content_text": "-2- \n## 44\n\nfound in expression through the jurisprudence. It was dead when Justinian codified it in the Digest. The living law thereafter was \"a miserable epitome of epitomes\".\n\nThe English Bench and Bar are the highest model of such judicature. The Bar fosters the progressive Common Law jurisprudence and maintains the integrity and independence of the Bench. The judges are always drawn from among the leading members of the Bar. The peculiar feature of the Common Law jurisprudence is its contentious procedure, which consists in the scrutiny of facts alleged and proved in strict observance of the rules of pleading and evidence, as well as the oral arguments of counsel and the eventual delivery of oral judgment by the judge, all continuously proceeding in open court.\n\nThe judgment so delivered declares new rules applicable to each occasion of novel circumstances that may arise; rules which are determined on analogy by drawing upon the stock of traditional principles tested by the disciplined reasoning on the most strict logical process as of the cultivated legal mind from precedent to non-precedent and in harmony with former judicial decisions arrived at by deduction from fixed texts arbitrarily fastened upon the court as if governmental hard and fast rules could ever govern human activity amidst the ever-developing conditions of modern life and thought.\n\nThese traditional principles, constantly fertilized and nurtured by the actual knowledge and experience of the English Bar, constitute the Common Law jurisprudence which should be accepted as the sole free and elastic system of jurisprudence today.\n\nA sense of justice and fairness constitutes the genius of the English Bar; it is that which reveals itself to its members after their long and arduous study and application at the Bar, accompanied as it is by the exercise of their mental and moral powers to the degree called for by the work of their profession.\n\nUnder it, the English Race thus enjoys the blessings of justice bestowed by the existence of the Common Law Bar: there exist just and equal laws; an effective method of cultivating practical jurisprudence; supremacy of the law, founded on judicial precedents, and, not least, the integrity and independence of the Bench and Bar permeated by a full sense of justice and fairness.\n\nThe sphere of influence wielded by the English Bar is far and wide, extending over different civilized portions of the globe, interpreting and standardizing different civil and commercial usages and transactions, whether conducted individually or through corporations or other bodies, having to do with banking, insurance, shipping, warehousing, negotiable notes and bills, bonds, shares, debentures, letters of credit, trusts and guarantees, bills of lading, godown warrants, carriers' receipts, policies of insurance, deeds of conveyance, and all other legal devices taking shape under the principles of Common Law jurisprudence, and we may add, in an especial degree, those of the modern Chancery practice, which furnishes an example of a highly progressive application of refined juristic principles.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 526396, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "page_number": 46, "title": "CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930", "content_text": "# \n-3- \n\nWhatever material resources the Continent of North America may enjoy, her present prosperity must be ascribed to the power of the Common Law jurisprudence. Her commercial and industrial enterprises have been organised, financed, developed and maintained by the legal devices and procedure instituted by the knowledge and experience of Common Law jurisprudence. Even those countries which used to worship codes framed after the fashion of the Byzantine legislation, have begun to see the real capabilities of Common Law jurisprudence as founded on the judicial precedents hammered out in the course of its contentious procedure.\n\nThe outstanding monument of British rule in India is the Indian law courts presided over by judges appointed from among experienced English and Indian barristers. These caste-trodden Indians have been in the enjoyment of the blessings of justice and liberty afforded to them by these judges. The work of the judges has been so successful because they brought to their task that sense of justice and fairness inspired by their study and practice under the aegis of Common Law jurisprudence.\n\nIt is well known that a vast amount of Chinese wealth is held by foreign individuals and banking institutions under the English system of trusts and trustees, and also that many Chinese citizens are conducting their business under the protection of the Common Law. Are not these facts significant to demonstrate the virtue and capacity of the principles of the Common Law alien indeed to their own country, but welcome and beneficent to the Chinese citizens to whom they afford protection?\n\nThe power and influence of the Common Law Judicature being such as we have explained, who could object to the Republic of China modelling her Law Courts upon the institutions of the Common Law? What Chinese statesmen would decline the proposed scheme, and deprive their fellow-citizens of the blessings sure to follow its adoption? What subjects of treaty powers would object to the proposed reception of Common Law jurisprudence, trading and residing practically under that system as they have always been in the different settlements, which has unavoidably been the case in these extraterritorial days?\n\nShould these proposals be worked out, the intelligent Chinese will be quite equal to rapidly embarking on the study of the Common Law and its practice, and will readily grasp the spirit and principles of that jurisprudence in a way which will augment the prestige of the Republic of China, and lead it to attain in a few years an international reputation as a state in which legal rights are better protected than in those countries whose laws still appear in the garb of Byzantine Codes.\n\nR. Masujima \nof the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-527-18 University of Hong Kong- proposal to establish Department 28-5-1930 - 19-9-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931", "content_text": "## KNITTED GOODS (UNDERWEAR AND HOSIERY)\n\n75. This item is mentioned here for two reasons. It is an item in Japan's export trade of almost equal importance to porcelain. In 1929 the exports from Japan under this heading were valued at £3.6 million, a sum many times greater than exports of similar goods from Great Britain. In the second place, two British countries - India and Great Britain - are the principal markets for this item of Japanese export. Exports of Japanese knitted cotton goods to India in 1929 were valued at £1 million, and to Great Britain £700,000. Great Britain's imports from Japan of cotton hosiery rose from 28,000 dozen pairs in 1924 to 843,000 dozen pairs in 1928, declining to 739,000 dozen pairs in 1929. Our imports of cotton underwear from Japan rose from 350,000 dozen pairs in 1924 to 1,000,000 dozens in 1928, declining to 875,000 dozens in 1929. Coincident with the increase of Great Britain's imports of these goods from Japan and other sources, our own exports of similar goods both by quantity and value, to all destinations, had declined.\n\n## CEMENT\n\n76. Of late years, production of high-class cement has shown a large increase, and Japan now exports annually cement of a value of approximately £1 million, which compares with British exports of £2 million. Principal overseas markets for Japanese cement are the Dutch East Indies, China, the Philippines, and the Malay States.\n\n## PAPER\n\n77. Japan is sixth in order of pulp-producing countries, and apart from a few thousand tons of pulp imported for special purposes, she entirely supplies her own needs. So successful has Japan been in her paper industry that she now enjoys an export of £2.6 million per annum, most of which is shipped to China.\n\n## HATS AND CAPS OF CLOTH, FELT, AND STRAW\n\n78. There is a large Japanese industry engaged in the manufacture of these articles, and Japan enjoys a successful trade. Her exports, in 1929, amounted to £1.8 million, the principal destinations being the United States, Great Britain, and China.\n\n79. The foregoing items have been presented because Japan not only supplies almost the whole of her own domestic requirements of the articles discussed but also competes with us and other industrial countries in their sale in the important markets of the world. Her imports of these articles are negligible. A number of factories producing these articles were visited by us, and in many, it was found that no more labour was being employed than for similar operations in Great Britain. It should be noted that Japanese factories of the industries under review are already equipped - in many cases well-equipped - to produce a quantity greater by 30 per cent than the domestic and export markets together now take, so that without any further expenditure on plant or equipment, Japan could quickly enter any market in which a demand arose.\n\n## CHAPTER IV\n## REASONS FOR THE DECLINE OF BRITISH TRADE WITH JAPAN\n\n## JAPANESE INDUSTRIAL POLICY\n\n80. Japan has developed from an importer, through an intermediate and comparatively brief stage of production for her own needs, into an exporter. The late development of Japanese industry has been of advantage to Japan, in that it has enabled her to install and use the latest industrial devices and equipment perfected by the experience of her competitors. The outstanding example of this fact is the cotton industry, but the woollen, electrical, and other industries in Japan bid fair to furnish equally striking examples. Most of these industries were not natural to Japan prior to her industrialisation, which began some fifty years ago.\n\nIn the sections of this Report which are devoted to the study of certain principal industries, we have described the competition of Japanese with British goods. We have also pointed out in the paragraphs dealing with miscellaneous industries that in many other lines Japan has become a serious competitor with Great Britain.\n\n81. The Japanese tariff is sufficiently high to restrict materially the import of just those goods in which Great Britain and other highly industrialised countries excel, and careful and effective use has been made of tariff protection with frequent adjustments to meet changing conditions. Japanese machinery, for example, may not equal in excellence that of Great Britain, yet Japan, partly by means of tariff protection, has been enabled to manufacture machinery and equipment which for all practical purposes is as efficient and productive as the imported article. Encouragement is officially given to the purchaser of home products, and there is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-531-10 Hong Kong University- encouragement of Chinese students to counteract American influence 30-5-1931 - 1-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529294, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-532-8 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International Communications- Ltd.... 19-12-1930 - 19-4-1932", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-532-8 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International Communications- Ltd.... 19-12-1930 - 19-4-1932", "content_text": "## amendments to terms of CYRUMMD proposal\n\nby the Company, at an early date.\n\nand copy Lith\n\nCopy\n\n25 P.I.C.C.\n\nJustification\n\nArt. 1. The Govt for the sake of convenience wishes to reserve the ordinary ship to shore communications & the meteorological service, partly because it is much cheaper for them to do this than to pay the Co. to, but I see no harm in the Co. being allowed to carry on R/T service with three ships fitted to utilise it.\n\nArt. 12. I am not clear why the Co. should not pay royalties on R/T devices. The Co. will in due course be asked why they should not?\n\nArt. 13. I ask Personnel Dept + Garrison if they can help in this matter.\n\nArt. 14 seems not unreasonable. Art. 19. I will in due course ask the Govt to explain.\n\nArt. 26. I rather sympathize with the Co. on this point.\n\nIn the first instance\n\nThos\n\nG. d. M. Canson\n\n24/2/31\n\n? hand fry to Jenkins back for his J. A. Calder\n\n27.7.31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-8 Proposed transfer of Government Wireless services in Hong Kong to Imperial and International Communications- Ltd.... 19-12-1930 - 19-4-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "168\n\n188\n\nF. A. McCLURE\n\nAny diminution of the sunlight provided, however, results in undue lengthening of the leaves and less vigorous development of the flowers. Variations in sunlight or any of the other weather factors may conspire to hasten or defer the flowering, or to spoil the decorative effect of the final product. And here is where the art of the master forcer comes in. He must judge the season, start his bulbs at the right moment, tend them daily and stand guard constantly, anticipating the probable effect of every slight variation of the weather upon the rapidly developing plants. He must know how, with the simple devices at his disposal, to compensate for variations in sunlight, temperature, humidity and wind velocity.\n\nThe success or failure of his venture depends upon his being able to bring his bulbs into full flowering during the fleeting hours at the end of the lunar year when the demand is at its peak. The demand suddenly soars during the last day or so of the old year, and begins to swoop to earth again with the birth of the first hour of the new. The truth of this is often eloquently demonstrated by the wholesale desertion of unsold flowers as the crowds that throng the streets on New Year's eve begin to disappear.\n\nThe forcing of these bulbs constitutes quite an important industry during the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, which corresponds roughly to January of our Western year. Depending upon the weather of the particular season, the bulbs are started anywhere from the 28th of the eleventh moon. In a cold, cloudy season they are started earlier, while in a warm, sunny season they are started later. Warm sunny weather is considered ideal for the best development of the Narcissus plant, while cold, cloudy weather is anathema to those who force the bulbs for the market.\n\nAs they come into the hands of the forcer, the bulbs occur in bilateral clusters of three to seven, the central one of which may be up to 3 or 3.3 inches in diameter and 4 inches in height. On either side of this and proceeding from its base, will usually be found from one to three smaller bulbs (Plate 26, Fig. 1). The leaves of the plant are two-ranked and the lateral bulbs follow this arrangement. There is a distinct hollow at the base of the bulb from the periphery of which the roots are produced. The depth of this depression is emphasized by the downward curve of the bases of the secondary bulbs. The bulbs are made up of leaf buds and flower buds encased by several layers of thick, tough scale leaves, each of which forms a continuous sheath. After the removal of the dry outer scales and the dry roots, the first act in the process of preparing the bulbs for forcing is to make a deep incision in the summit of the bulbs at either side of the first protruding leaf tip (Figure 1). The forcers say that, if this precaution is neglected, the flowers sometimes become misshapen as a result of the pressure which they must overcome in issuing from the midst of the bulb. There doubtless are other good reasons for this practice which are not yet fully understood. It may be that the incision allows more freedom in spreading the flower stalks, making possible a more shapely plant.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\n1.\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\nPlate 27.\n\nVol. III, Nos. 3 and 4.\n\n169", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535312, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "23.6.32\n\n4466 of\n\ntypescript\n\nPiha chipt\n\np.62 type\n\nup. 45 of\n\nZimmern & Christie's is the only evidence on which\n\nyou could find association between Pr. à La «\n\nIt is all uncorroborated even when you would expect\n\ncorroboration.\n\nPlot conceived at the moment of winking (v. p.188). Pr. may have been introduced to F. by FZE.\n\nThat within a week of the 5th March he knew all about\n\nS. & Chr., were intimate friends, Jung à imi Hing Fai, Ths. said he did not even know Lek,Fu's name (p.110),\n\n199\n\nbut saw Duys,(p.122) where Pr. had mentioned her name, Z. said (p.92) that he could not remember if he mentioned in his first statement the conversation at the\n\nNathan Hotel about getting rid of Jung.\n\nthe ef\n\nDo you believe\n\nDo you believe that Pr. would have spoken to Christie about killing Jung when he had first seen him only 4 hours\n\nbefore.\n\nWould F. offer $10,000 when he got it done for\n\n$2000.\n\nHe did not know how\n\nit would be made to suggest that his own chauffeur would drive Christie away after the murder.\n\nAbsence of corroboration of Pr.'s presence at the\n\nTung Wan Hotel.\n\nOpenness of driving out to purchase poison.\n\nWhy should the Pr. keep the poison if Christie were\n\nIt is absurd that Pr. should have taken it to do it.\n\nit to try it on a subject.\n\nWhy should the second syringe be given to Christie, making ... à Christie's evidence. Non-identification of Cheung at Lai à Lek - one of Z. à Christie's blackmailing devices,\n\nnamely imine - Cheng shiu $200.\n\nSubtlety of the\n\nConversation at Mar 1\n\na\n\nC Deems to be\n\na mistake for\n\nChe p. 64 of\n\ntype-script\n\nincredible. Going to Davidson was another part of the\n\nReasons given were ~ (1) that Chr. might tell Z.\n\nof the plot, blackmailing plot.{2) get a receipt (v. p.100) to get\n\nadvice to swindle\n\n(117)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535619, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 211, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "Enclosure No.5.\n\n233\n\nThe Morning Post\n\nKAR.\n\nNo. 7,984.\n\nFriday, October 7, 1932.\n\nThe Budget Debate.\n\nThe tired taxpayer scanning to-day's pages may cast a cynical eye upon the lengthy report of the Legislative Council debate and perhaps dismiss it as \"same old thing year after year.\" It is his civic duty, however, to interest himself in public affairs and he owes it to his representatives to read what they have said in his behalf. Budget debates, from the very nature of their material, give an impression of municipal pettiness, but beneath their detailed analysis lies evidence of the Unofficials' vigilance and care. Obviously their utterances are considered and responsible; the whole ground of local life and administration is covered, and, though they be criticised for sundry omissions or seeming distortions, the members again earn the community's thanks. The official adjective \"colourless,\" applied with a modest diffidence to the Budget, has been seized upon by all commentators as an accurate description.\n\nNevertheless, the debate was undoubtedly interesting and the speakers may fairly be congratulated for the variety and timeliness of their submissions, though, of course, these are but advisory and perhaps farcical—depending upon the official reception.\n\nThe Hon. Sir Henry Pollock's speech raised several important points, some of them new. His reminder to Government of the necessity for maintaining the harbour in efficient condition is justified. In the press of more intriguing matters the Colony's principal asset is too easily forgotten. The wonderful development schemes of 1924 definitely seem to have been buried, and even dredging is neglected. The Government defends itself discreetly and inadequately. On the same subject Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell's plea for relief of shipping from the light dues impost will also find a ready echo. The Government desire to preserve a balance and not increase unduly the tax burden on the wage-earner is commendable. At the same time, the Government has not kept faith in this matter. The shipping companies are popularly regarded as wealthy and inexhaustible mines of money for taxation and other purposes.\n\nHon. Mr. Tso pleaded for more generous treatment of private elementary schools, which perform splendid service and relieve the Government of much expense in educating poor children. The plea merits support. Hon. Mr. Shenton's remarks upon the call to the Colony's port are debatable. In fact, as we have claimed in the past, the Government's subsidies might well be confined to primary education, assistance to secondary schools being conveyed by scholarships.\n\nWhen Sir Henry Pollock drew attention to the interest burden of the 6% Public Works Loan, other speakers asked for greater assistance for the Society for the Protection of Children—a cause that should be dear to all hearts. It seems necessary again, however, to voice the warning that the Society must not become merely another charitable organisation. Primarily its work should be educative and corrective. That charity is necessary there can be no question, but it should form a separate undertaking.\n\nThe Unofficial plea for the appointment of specialists to important posts requiring technical knowledge also wins public support—especially in regard to Education, the Sanitary Department, and the Police. The Unofficial reply that such a plan would be expensive or inconvenient is not to be dismissed lightly. A Taxpayers' Association would provide such machinery: meanwhile, perhaps it is necessary to call attention to the existence of the newspapers.\n\nSir Henry also did well to re-emphasise the unwisdom of reserving a central area of Kowloon for a cemetery. Happy Valley is now coming under the eye of settlement pioneers and in the near future there will be an increasing demand for the removal of the island cemeteries. The errors committed on the island should not be repeated at Kowloon, and the provision of cemeteries is traditionally a problem calling for very long views. The Government gives evidence of appreciating this.\n\nHon. Mr. Shenton's references to midget taxis and Government House and City Hall schemes were most public-spirited and doubtless called for; but it is difficult to fit them into the Budget. However, they have rounded out the debate and put public ideas on record.\n\nThe Unofficial anxiety regarding the Shing Mun work, expressed by Sir Henry Pollock, is in accord with public sentiment. The universal discontent seems now to have been accepted by the community. There was no reference to it in the debate. It may therefore be said that the taxpayer is doing his part and it is reassuring that the Government promises to make every effort to bring the unsatisfactory recurring water shortages to an end.\n\nIn connection with the Shing Mun work, Hon. Mr. W. H. Bell made the interesting suggestion that the big British contractors should be invited to tender, if only to afford a guide as to fair price and time. The suggestion, however, has greater value than that. As Mr. Bell said, the big firms at home have plant ready, which fact should save money for the Government. Also, a point requiring emphasis, they might be tempted to leave the plant here and engage in other work such as house-building, as has been done before.\n\nHon. Mr. J. P. Braga lived up to his reputation as Kowloon's champion, and the Peninsula will be grateful to him. His submissions regarding the Kowloon Post Office were to the point. It does seem remarkable that mails must be closed in Kowloon so much earlier than in Hongkong, though the ships leave from Kowloon. There is logic in the submission that the despatching depot should be at Kowloon. In fact, it seems inevitable that the General Post Office will some day be established at Kowloon, and it is gratifying to know that the Government will make ample provision in its plans for a new building.\n\nHon. Mr. Kotewall's most interesting reference was to the Betting Tax. The Government's present share of this \"easy money\" is, as Mr. Kotewall said, small, and the impost could be increased profitably and without compunction. The Government having proposed no new taxation, however, the tact of Mr. Kotewall's suggestion may be questioned—especially as he proposed no specific reduction elsewhere.\n\nPage 234\n\nTHE MORNING POST.\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nOCTOBER 7,\n\n1932.\n\nMr. Braga asked that the Laichikok corner be banked and widened; but it is to be regretted that no member drew attention to the danger of banking without proper safeguards.\n\nHon. Mr. T. N. Chau and other speakers touched upon local broadcasting and repeated a suggestion made frequently—that the old transmitter be employed so as to give both Europeans and Chinese full-time programmes. The suggestion is an excellent one. Gossip had been that the old transmitter was to be sent to Kai Tack for use in connection with the aerodrome. It therefore seemed unlikely that listeners-in would receive more than they are now getting. The Government, however, is considering the matter and results may appear.\n\nThe subject of broadcasting having been raised, something might have been said concerning policy. At present, the Government control is haphazard. Listeners are left to their own devices as to reception, and the problem of the use of loud speakers and outside aerials in flats will soon require regulating.\n\nHon. Mr. Braga also referred to the danger of banking roads. Mr. Braga asked that the Laichikok corner be banked and widened; but it is to be regretted that no member drew attention to the danger of banking without proper safeguards.\n\nThe high rents and poor accommodation of Hongkong houses are attributed fairly enough to the landlords, but they are due to contractors' profits, and the advent of outside contractors may operate to discourage the formation of local contracting rings. More and efficient building competition would be all to the Colony's benefit.\n\nFrom the \"Buy British\" point of view also, the invitation to home contractors would be well received. The official reply to Mr. Bell was confusing. While arguing against private designing and supervision, they announce that the consulting engineers will in fact play an active part in the Shing Mun work. The main point of Mr. Bell's question seems, however, to have been evaded.\n\nAnother point raised by Mr. Braga touches a subject recently commented upon in this column—dangerous banking of roads.\n\nIt seems time the Government gave to the community greater facilities for purchasing stamps. Elsewhere there are licensed stamp vendors and there seems no good reason why approved persons should not be similarly trusted here.\n\nPage 235", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535775, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-4 Empire Products Fair- report 2-7-1932 - 16-3-1933", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-541-4 Empire Products Fair- report 2-7-1932 - 16-3-1933", "content_text": "222\n\n22\n\nHONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n7. Section 4 of the amendment Ordinance repeals sections 68 and 109 of the principal Ordinance, the effect of which has been preserved in the new sections 10 and 78B.\n\nSUMMARY OFFENCES AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1933.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932.\" He said: Hitherto, fortune-telling outside temples has been dealt with by proceedings under the Vagrancy Act of 1924. It seems better to deal with the practice, as is done in the Straits Settlements, under a local Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council. This Bill adds, accordingly, a new section to the recent Summary Offences Ordinance.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n1. Objects and Reasons.\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:- Fortune-telling in the Colony is recognised to some extent by the provisions of the Chinese Temples Ordinance, 1928, which provides for the registration of places where, in accordance with the religious principles governing Miu, Tsz, Kun, To Yuen or Om, worship of gods, or communication of spirits, or fortune-telling, is practised.\n\n2. In the Straits Settlements, any person who pretends to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means, or device by palmistry, divination, sortilege, or otherwise to deceive or impose on anyone is punishable under section 30 of Ordinance No. 96 (Minor Offences) by fine and imprisonment and by the forfeiture of any book or other article used as an implement of fortune-telling.\n\n3. Fortune-telling outside temples has hitherto been dealt with in the Colony by having recourse to section 4 of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, providing for the punishment of rogues and vagabonds, some of the provisions of which have already been included in section 21 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932.\n\n4. This Amending Ordinance deals with the practice by making it a summary offence and adding astrology, phrenology, and physiognomics to the list of subtle crafts, means, or devices set out in the Straits Settlements Ordinance. Prosecution is made subject to the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\nNEW TERRITORIES REGULATION AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1933.\n\nTHE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the New Territories Regulation...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-4 Empire Products Fair- report 2-7-1932 - 16-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 58, "title": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "content_text": "# The Slave Market News\n## April, 1933\n\n### What We Think\n#### Women Traffic in and Children in the East\n\nThe Commission of Enquiry into Traffic in Women and Children in the East has now issued its Report to the League of Nations. The price is 16 shillings, and British people can obtain copies from the authorised agents, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 40 Museum-street, London, W.C.1. The Travelling Commission started their investigations, sailing from Marseilles on October 9th, 1930, and concluded their itinerary on March 16th, 1932, after visiting many of the principal centres in the Far East. A debt of gratitude is due to the members of the Travelling Commission for the care and labour shown in making their investigations and for compiling this voluminous report. It consists of 527 pages of vital information concerning the widespread traffic in human flesh and blood that prevails to-day. The report is appallingly tragic in its revelations.\n\nMost countries in the Far East or Near East have been willing to assist the Commission, and reveal something of the terrible conditions of helpless women and children bartered for gain. The rest of the East has offered a sufficiently wide scope for the labours of the Travelling Commission. We wish it were possible in these days for the Daily Press, forever seeking new worlds of sensation to conquer, to delve into this Report and give the facts to the world. Streamer headlines dealing with the manner in which Chinese children are bought and sold in China might not be good politics, but they would make a bit of a stir in Britain. The widespread traffic in girls in Japan might not be a subject calculated to please, but it might stir Western women to some form of concerted action. The Report pleads for the support of public opinion, but how that public opinion is to be enlightened remains to be discovered.\n\nThe significant and awful fact that is forced upon one by reading the lines, and between the lines, of this stupendous volume is that slavery of women and girls is looked upon as being of another order to slavery of men. The god of lust reigns and rules in the dark habitations, and helpless women and children are bartered in multitudes to satisfy the sensuality of men. That is the plain and unmistakable fact that will impress itself upon all who will obtain this Report and read. We would ask that all men and women of goodwill who are in any way able to influence public opinion would obtain a copy.\n\nThe Commission visited Port Said, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Beirout, Damascus, Bagdad, Teheran, Bushire, Karachi, Bombay, Colombo, Pondicherry, Madras, Deli, Calcutta, Rangoon, Penang, Port Swettenham, Kuala Lumpur, Johore, Bangkok, Pnom Penh, Saigon-Cholon, Batavia, Semarang, Surabaya, Macassar, Manila, Turane, Hanoi, Haiphong, Macao, Canton, Hongkong, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Nanking, Shanghai, Chefoo, Port Arthur, Tientsin, Pekin, Dairen, Moukden, Harbin, Anting, Keijo, Fusan, Nagasaki, Shimonoseki, Osaka, Kobe, Kioto, Yokohama, and Tokio. As one glances at the information provided, the prayer of the Psalmist arises instinctively: \"O let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before Thee; according to the greatness of Thy power, preserve Thou those that are appointed to die.\"\n\n### Slavery Centenary Celebrations\n\nWe understand that the Methodist Conference has passed a resolution that all her ministers shall preach on the slavery question on the last Sunday in July next. That is an encouraging sign and indicates that one of the great Christian churches is awakening to a sense of responsibility in the matter of slave-liberation. We feel, however, that there must be much perplexity to the minds of those who are asked to speak on this subject. Vast is the scope of enquiry and realm of investigation. We feel strongly, too, that very few are able to speak with knowledge concerning the extent and nature of slavery that is rampant to-day. The danger is that the Slavery Centenary celebrations may convey to a large number of people the impression that things are much better than they are. To some of us, it seems a mockery to celebrate the Centenary of Slave Abolition under the British flag if due prominence is not given to the fact that there is still considerable slavery under the British flag.\n\nLet the facts be made known concerning Hong Kong. Let those who are under the impression that there is no slavery under the British flag read the report of the League of Nations' Commission to which we have already referred. It is not a difficult matter to search out the names of British possessions and read what is said concerning them. We write these few observations with real grief. How can we pat ourselves on the back, metaphorically, for that which our forefathers have done if we refrain from following their lead? This is not a time for soft words and pious phrases, but for plain truth. \"From the liberality that says everybody is right, from the charity which forbids us to say that anybody is wrong, from the peace which is bought at the expense of truth, may the good Lord deliver us.\"\n\n### Christian Assyrians Find a Refuge\n\nAt the time of the Mosul Boundary dispute, we ventured to observe that there was a real danger to the Christian communities in Irak if ever the British left that country. The reports of General Laidoner sent out by the League of Nations at the time were plain evidence that massacre and enslavement had taken place just previously. Irak has now become a member of the League, and the British have all but gone. The Assyrians, with the Armenians, were our faithful allies at the time of the Great War, but it has been left to Persia to offer this gallant little nation a refuge. The Assyrian Christians are fearful of their future security in Irak, so they are trekking to Persia, where they are assured security from persecution.\n\nAt Geneva, in 1924, we heard a passionate appeal by their youthful spokesman. It was a plea to the representatives of the Near East Conference to urge their need for security. The Western nations have, however, been unable to find them a place of sanctuary. Persia welcomes them. Our Armenian Allies were left to their fate by the Western Nations, but found a refuge for their remnant in the Caucasus. Strange that Russia and Persia should find homes for the two most ancient Christian races. We were privileged to meet the representative of the Assyrians at Geneva in 1924 and hear his case.\n\nLike their Armenian brothers, they can sing:\n\"I will not be a heathen.\nI will not be a slave.\nIf I cannot find a Christian home,\nI'll find a Christian grave.\"\n\n### Freeing the Slaves: Sir John Simon's Remarkable Figures\n\nSir John Simon was among the speakers at a complimentary luncheon given on Tuesday in London to Mr. John H. Harris, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society, who received a knighthood in the New Year's Honours.\n\nSir John said that Mr. Harris went to the Foreign Office when and as often as he found it necessary in connection with his anti-slavery work with that degree of persistence which is necessary if you want to get through the outer covering of any Government department. Mr. Harris said that within the last 20 years, not fewer than 465,389 slaves had been liberated. The British Foreign Office, during the last 100 years, had framed and negotiated with other Powers over 650 anti-slavery treaties. It was estimated that during the same period, Great Britain had spent over £50,000,000 in police work against the slave trade on the high seas.\n\nNow, as a result of work done at Geneva during the past 10 years, that burden had been shifted from the national shoulders to those of 60 nations, who were now, by a solemn instrument, bound to undertake collectively the task of the emancipation of at least 5,000,000 slaves.\n\nGreat and beneficent has been the work of The Anti-Slavery Society, and it is in no spirit of captious criticism that we suggest that celebrating the Centenary of the Abolition of Slavery within Possessions, its speakers will deal frankly with the condition of affairs in Hong Kong, where thousands of children are still bought and sold. We also further respectfully suggest that the slavery of women should be given as much prominence as the slavery of men. Why should the so-called White Slave Traffic, or the Traffic in Women and Children, be treated on any different basis to the Red Sea Slave Traffic?\n\nEarl Buxton presided, and the Archbishop of Canterbury was amongst those present.\n\n### Slavery in the World To-day\n#### By the Rev. JOHN R. PALMER, Lit.D.\n\nSlavery! Slavery! Can it be that it exists in the world of human beings to-day? In past ages, yes, but the world then was not half civilised; nearly all nations, even of Europe, were, as far as civilisation goes, in much the same state as \"the backward races,\" so called, of the East to-day. But now we are well on in the twentieth century of Christianity! We have at least reached a state, with all our shortcomings, in which civilised, to say nothing of Christian nations, might reasonably be expected to show \"a more excellent way\" of treating those classes of the human race which are commonly regarded as its most backward representatives.\n\nIs that our aim and endeavour? Are we trying at all times and everywhere to do that, and nothing less, in the world to-day? If so, Slavery should soon be a thing of the Past. But the opposite of this is true, and has been for centuries. Although a modern writer says: \"In the Roman Empire, slavery was a recognised and regular institution... To-day Christians do not tolerate slavery.\" Would that it were so, as far as all Christian nations are concerned.\n\nBut what of the White Slave Traffic in our own and other lands, from which its victims seldom, if ever, escape? What is the awful record of it which the National Vigilance Association is able to furnish? Of young girls snatched from home and friends, ensnared by the most insidious means on the streets and elsewhere, then lost, and doomed almost hopelessly to a life of shame and suffering. And to-day it still goes on in defiance of all efforts to check the diabolical traffic, because the subtle devices of the entrepreneur prevail.\n\nThis form of Slavery for immoral purposes is responsible in London and elsewhere for the loss to home and friends of scores of decent and respectable girls every year, while in Japan many commit suicide to avoid falling a prey to this hideous thraldom.\n\nAnd it is an indisputable fact that in India, all the circumstances of the enforced conjugal relationships in which thousands of young girls, mere children, find themselves, are nothing less than Slavery. We speak of the age-long \"custom and practices of such lands and races,\" but it has been truly said that \"the deadliest form of humanity is the deadening power of custom.\" The question is, are we, as a Christian nation, doing all in our power to discourage such practices?\n\nWhat of Slavery and the Slave Trade proper? We speak of our emancipation of the slaves a century ago, and of our more recent efforts to put down various forms of slavery in different places. But what are the facts as to the number of slaves now in the world to-day? It has been estimated that there are from four to six millions, exclusive of the quarter of a million Soviet Slaves, whose condition to-day is that of \"poorly clad, badly housed, and half-starved human chattels,\" and who are \"authorised\" by corps of the Ogpu (secret police) agents, and by men like \"Rakovsky, the notorious Chekist and executioner.\" In fact, under its murderous Communist despots, almost the whole of Russia is forced labour.\n\nAt Odessa, men have been obliged to work in \"shifts\" of five days under armed sentries, with little time for sleep, and women fourteen hours a day. There is a cry of distress in such facts to which no reasonable and intelligent being can be deaf! Nor is it only the poor and working class that is oppressed and terrorised in Russia to-day, but thousands of all classes who have known both of \"life's opposite poles\" of luxury and poverty, \"the loneliness and the fellowship that exist in a generation.\"\n\nAgain, in the slow march of a hundred years or more, how little has been done by nations to put down the Slave Trade. It was condemned by the Treaty of Vienna in 1815, and our forefathers regarded past efforts as only a preliminary move to future and more complete measures of emancipation. And yet to-day there are \"still five millions of human chattels\" in the world. Well may the Archbishop of Canterbury say that Slavery is \"the open sore of the world!\"\n\nIn Abyssinia alone, there are now two millions of people bought and sold as human merchandise! Slavery still survives in Sierra Leone. In Burma (India), it is widespread over almost the whole of China. Branding on lips, face, and hands, and other cruelties, are still practised in this abominable institution, while \"hundreds of girl slaves have been seen on the march, chained together and whipped like cattle by Arabian traders.\" In Liberia, the condition of Slaves is terrible; they are often to be seen in chains and collars.\n\nThe lot of the poor African slave down all the ages has been pitiable in the extreme, while some of the worst features are manifest in the Slavery carried on in Japan. And even in Kenya, under the British flag, not only have the natives \"no legal right in their own land,\" but forced labour is widespread everywhere, which at the best is but poorly disguised Slavery. In Kenya, \"the link is snapped between the African farmer and his land. His relation to the soil is reduced almost to that of a serf to the white settler.\" No wonder that we have reason to fear, as many do, the final results of the \"Clash of Colour.\"\n\nMoreover, \"Great Britain is committed to the principle of trusteeship for the economic, moral, and social progress of the African.\" It is, therefore, up to us not to allow Slavery under our flag, but to see that, as far as possible:\n\"These things shall be! A loftier race\nThan ere the world has known shall rise,\nWith flame of freedom in their souls,\nAnd light of knowledge in their eyes.\"\n\n### Summary of the Report on the Traffic in Women and Children in the Far East\n\nThis is a useful summary of the recently published report of the Commission appointed by the League of Nations to enquire into the Traffic in Women and Children in the Far East. The complete report, which consists of 527 pages, costs 16 shillings. This pamphlet sums up in 28 pages the results of the investigations of the Commissioners in the various countries visited, which include Ceylon, China, India, Irak, Japan, Malaya, Manchuria, Palestine, Persia, Siam, and Syria. It should be invaluable to those who have to study or speak on this subject.\n\n### Make Me Kind\n#### By DUNCAN MCNEIL\n\nSo many hearts are breaking,\nAnd many more are aching,\nTo hear the tender word.\nGod make me kind!\n\nFor I myself am learning\nThat my sad heart is yearning\nFor some sweet word to heal my hurt.\nO Lord, do make me kind.\n\nGod make me kind!\nSo many hearts are needing\nThe balm to stop the bleeding\nThat my kind words can bring.\nGod make me kind!\n\nFor I am also seeking\nThe cure in some one's keeping\nThey should impart to my sick heart.\nO Lord, do make me kind.\n\nGod make me kind!\nSo many hearts are lonely\nAnd asking for this only,\nThe kind and tender word.\nGod make me kind!\n\nTo all who mutely ask it,\nBefore they fill the casket,\nOr bouquets may be wreaths one day.\nO Lord, do make me kind.", "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": 536610, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-542-4 Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance- 1933 24-3-1933 - 20-12-1933", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-542-4 Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance- 1933 24-3-1933 - 20-12-1933", "content_text": "## 2.\n\nThe Vagrancy Act of 1824 providing for the punishment of rogues and vagabonds some of the provisions of which have already been included in section 21 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932.\n\n## 5.\n\nThis Amending Ordinance deals with the practice by making it a summary offence and adding astrology, phrenology, and physiognomy to the list of subtle crafts, means or devices set out in the Straits Settlements Ordinance. Prosecution is made subject to the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n## 6.\n\nI am of opinion that this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAldat \n**Attorney General**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-4 Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance- 1933 24-3-1933 - 20-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536888, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-543-12 Loans for public work 29-3-1933 - 20-12-1933", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-543-12 Loans for public work 29-3-1933 - 20-12-1933", "content_text": "# HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n7. Section 4 of the amendment Ordinance repeals sections 68 and 109 of the principal Ordinance, the effect of which has been preserved in the new sections 10 and 78B.\n\n## SUMMARY OFFENCES AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1933\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932.\" He said: Hitherto, fortune telling outside temples has been dealt with by proceedings under the Vagrancy Act of 1924. It seems better to deal with the practice, as is done in the Straits Settlements, under a local Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council. This Bill adds, accordingly, a new section to the recent Summary Offences Ordinance.\n\n**THE COLONIAL SECRETARY** seconded and the Bill was read a first time.\n\n### Objects and Reasons\n\nThe \"Objects and Reasons\" for the Bill were stated as follows:\n\nFortune telling in the Colony is recognised to some extent by the provisions of the Chinese Temples Ordinance, 1928, which provides for the registration of places where, in accordance with the religious principles governing Miu, Tsz, Kun, To Yuen or Om, worship of gods, or communication of spirits, or fortune telling, is practiced.\n\n2. In the Straits Settlements, any person who pretends to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means or device by palmistry, divination, sortilege, or otherwise to deceive or impose on anyone is punishable under section 30 of `Ordinance No. 96` (Minor Offences) by fine and imprisonment and by the forfeiture of any book or other article used as an implement of fortune telling.\n\n3. Fortune telling outside temples has hitherto been dealt with in the Colony by having recourse to section 4 of the Vagrancy Act of 1824, providing for the punishment of rogues and vagabonds, some of the provisions of which have already been included in section 21 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932.\n\n4. This Amending Ordinance deals with the practice by making it a summary offence and adding astrology, phrenology, and physiognomics to the list of subtle crafts, means or devices set out in the Straits Settlements Ordinance. Prosecution is made subject to the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n## NEW TERRITORIES REGULATION AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1933\n\n**THE ATTORNEY GENERAL** moved the first reading of a Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the New Territories Regulation...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-543-12 Loans for public work 29-3-1933 - 20-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543174, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-7 Telegraphy and Telephony- amendments to legislation 1-11-1933 - 24-3-1934", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-545-7 Telegraphy and Telephony- amendments to legislation 1-11-1933 - 24-3-1934", "content_text": "\"electro-magnetic waves of radio frequencies which may be used for wireless telegraphy, or cause or permit such waves to be radiated, so as injuriously to affect the working of any authorised wireless telegraph station or apparatus.\" \n\nAt the present time the Postmaster General has no power of compulsion to ensure the fitting of remedial devices in cases of interference and he is therefore obliged to rely on persuasion which is not always effective. \n\nWith the increased use of electricity in this country electrical interference has assumed considerable dimensions and it is possible that further legislation will be necessary in the near future. In the meantime a Committee of the Institution of Electrical Engineers is considering all types of electrical interference, their causes and cures. The Committee is composed of representatives of all the interests concerned, including the Post Office and the British Broadcasting Corporation, and it is hoped that a unanimous report will be presented in a few months' time. When the report is available, the need for fresh legislation will be considered. \n\n6. When the ordinance for Hong Kong has been drafted, the Postmaster", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-7 Telegraphy and Telephony- amendments to legislation 1-11-1933 - 24-3-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544269, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-547-1 Wireless telegraph and telephone services 16-1-1934 - 26-1-1934", "page_number": 25, "title": "CO129-547-1 Wireless telegraph and telephone services 16-1-1934 - 26-1-1934", "content_text": "G. F. 22\n\n25\n\nInside Sheet\n\nHONG KONG\n\nINDENT No: 2\n\nPAGE: \n\n## Estimated Cost in England\n\n| Item No. | Quantity | Description of Articles | Rate | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 (Contd.) | 1 | controlling devices, indicating instruments, busbars, feed equalising resistances, overload and power relays and indicating lamps and detail parts as required for the efficient half wave rectification of the H.T. alternating current from the Power Transformer. | | |\n| | | **MAIN SMOOTHING UNIT**, consisting of :- | | |\n| | 1 | a. 1 Set Smoothing Chokes for 1-1/4 amps. D.C. | | |\n| | 1 | b. 1 Smoothing Condenser for 7000 volts working pressure | | |\n| | | c. Earthing Links & Resistances. | | |\n| | | d. H.T. Connectors & Insulators. | | |\n| | 1 | e. 1 Set Link Switches. | | |\n| | | **SUBSIDIARY RECTIFIER RACK** for Telegraph Transmitter, comprising: | | |\n| | | a. Rectifier for Drive Anode supply, consisting of three U.14 valves, to deliver 300 m/a. at 250 volts D.C. | | |\n| | | b. Rectifier for Amplifier and Drive grid negative, consisting of three U.14 valves to deliver 180 m/a. at 300 volts D.C. | | |\n| | | c. Rectifier for Absorber grid potentials, consisting of three U.14 valves to deliver 180 m/a. at 300 volts D.C. | | £. S. d. |\n| | | The Subsidiary Rectifiers to take their supply from the 350V. 50 cycle three phase supply. | | |\n| | | Carried Forward...... | | |\n\n## Remarks or references to specifications or special notes (if any) on separate sheet.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-1 Wireless telegraph and telephone services 16-1-1934 - 26-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-547-1 Wireless telegraph and telephone services 16-1-1934 - 26-1-1934", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-547-1 Wireless telegraph and telephone services 16-1-1934 - 26-1-1934", "content_text": "## G. F. 22\nInside Sheet\n\n**HONG KONG**\n**INDENT No:-** | **Item** | **Quantity.** | **No.** | **PAGE.:-** 6\n---------|----------|------------|------|-------------\n**Estimated Cost in England.** | | | | \n**Description of Articles.** | | | | \n | | | | **Total.** | **Rate.** | £. S. d.\n\n13 (Cont'd.) \n1 Type M.T.9F Valve, second amplifier, with copper shields. | 1 | | | \n1 Type M.T.12 Valve, first amplifier, with copper shields. | 1 | | | \n1 type S.610 Valve, master oscillator unit. | 1 | | | \n1 Type DEL.610 Valve, master oscillator unit. | 1 | | | \n1 Type P.610 Valve, master oscillator unit. | 1 | | | \n2 Type H.L.610 Valves, 1st frequency multiplier. | 2 | | | \n2 Type H.L.610 Valves, 2nd frequency multiplier. | 2 | | | \n2 Type P.625 Valves, 1st frequency multiplier. | 2 | | | \n4 Type P.625 Valves, 2nd frequency multiplier. | 4 | | | \n1 Type M.T.12 Valve, absorber unit. | 1 | | | \nValves, check receiver. and set of Valves for item 12c. | | | | \n\n**RUNNING MACHINES**\n**MOTOR GENERATOR** for filament supplies, comprising:-\na. Motor wound to suit local 3 phase 350V. 50 cycle supply direct coupled to\nb. Generator, D. C., 120 amps. at 18/22 volts.\n\nThe machines, Item 14, to be complete with starters, field regulators and all necessary tools, protecting devices and accessories.\n\n**BATTERIES**\n**BATTERIES** for master oscillator filament lighting, each 6 volts, 120 amps. hrs., complete in crate.\n\n¡\nCarried Forward......\n\n29\n\n**Remarks or references to specifications or special notes (if any)** on separate sheet.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-547-1 Wireless telegraph and telephone services 16-1-1934 - 26-1-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549685, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 94, "title": "CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937", "content_text": "4\n\n94\n\nA survey of the Colony's trade figures is hardly encouraging and one knows only too well the difficult times through which all mercantile concerns are passing. But for the favourable movements in exchange in the years 1934 and 1935 the deficits, substantial as they were, would have been considerably larger and revenue raising devices or curtailment of expenditure would have become essential.\n\nThe Honourable Colonial Treasurer, in his able and lucid Memorandum, indicates under the heading \"1936\" the general falling off of revenue and the possibility of further shrinkage in various directions. The Honourable Colonial Secretary has also drawn our notice to the same possibility. Personally I take an even less hopeful view; in fact, I am of the opinion that there must be a further dwindling of our revenue.\n\nThe principal items of the Public Works Extraordinary which we have on hand are essential to the Colony and had already been too long delayed – chief of these are the Queen Mary Hospital, the Central British School, the Magistracy at Kowloon, the New Gaol and, most important of all, our water schemes. Of these the water schemes and the new gaol are loan works but the others have to be paid for out of current revenue.\n\nNo-one will deny the importance and absolute necessity of these works, nor will anyone cavil at the money judiciously spent on them, but the most scrupulous care must be taken to ensure that they are provisioned in a manner suitable for the purposes for which they have been provided and that misguided enthusiasm or individual sentiment is not allowed to run riot in luxury and extravagance. Care must be taken that we are not providing an El Dorado for those less fortunately circumstanced in South China, or creating a standard which will be an undue strain on our resources to maintain.\n\nShare Values\n\nPerhaps our most solid asset is our landed property. Here the values cause us to think seriously. Rents on an average have fallen somewhere in the neighbourhood of 30 to 35 per cent. in the past two years and the value of property about 40 per cent. These percentages are worked out on a broad basis for the whole Colony and are intended to represent middle figures. I have obtained them from two of our leading architects.\n\nLack of Business\n\nFrom the merchants we hear on all sides complaints of lack of business, and who is there who has not written down his balance sheet by something in the neighbourhood of 50 per cent? Who have not made efforts to reorganise, reduce staffs, made cuts in salaries and generally attempted to economise in all directions? In view of the circumstances prevailing how can Government expect to collect revenue to anything like the extent it did in more prosperous times? It cannot, and it will not.\n\nBearing in mind these facts, and taking into consideration the great uncertainty of the exchange, what should be done? I am not for a moment suggesting that present conditions are permanent: they are a passing phase of very uncertain duration which, like similar cycles of depression in the past, have had to be faced. The Colony has no public debt worth speaking of, its speculative position is moderate compared with many other places and the general situation is that of a cash position. Under these circumstances the Colony will easily adjust itself and when recovery comes, it will come quickly.\n\nWe must not, however, be forgetful of the fact that undoubtedly some of the entrepot trade which formerly came through Hongkong now goes direct to China and probably will not return to this Colony.\n\nCutting Expenditure\n\nI am not unmindful of the fact that in the 1934 Estimates of Public Works Recurrent there was a reduction of $78,750 and in 1935 of $143,100, but these drops in the ocean are quite inadequate if we are going to ensure a balanced budget and not continue to draw further on our surplus balances. The stock market is a fair barometer and I have obtained the market values of various popular shares, taking the highest prices in the year 1933 and the approximate values to-day.\n\nIn 1933 the shares of the Dairy Farm, Ice and Cold Storage Company Limited touched 29: to-day they stand at 12%. In 1933 the shares of the Hongkong Electric Company Limited touched 78: to-day they stand at 52. In 1933 the shares of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company Limited touched 145: to-day they stand at 73. In 1933 the shares of the Hongkong Land Investment & Agency Company Limited touched 80: to-day they stand at ...!. In 1933 the shares of the Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels Limited touched 10.90: to-day they stand at 6.40. In 1933 the shares of the Kowloon-Canton Railway Company Limited touched 43: to-day they stand at 10.65.\n\nThe shares represent a part of the life-blood of this Colony, and it is on the equity of their values that much business is transacted. Since preparation of this speech there has been slight depreciation in value, so that the figures I quoted for this year should be regarded as the lowest touched this year.\n\nWe must have a 10 per cent. reduction on the Colony's total expenditure, which would mean reducing the estimated total expenditure to $26,638,334 and would balance the budget with a small margin in hand. How this is to be done I am not in a position to say as I have not the special knowledge of Government Departments, but I do know that if I have £100 in the Bank I can't spend £120. Government only has the knowledge of how it can be done, and done it must be, otherwise Sir William Peel's successor will find a position far more difficult to tackle than it is to-day.\n\nIt can only be done by a careful survey of every branch of Government Service with a view to effecting substantial economies, and as a hint I would suggest that Government might, with advantage, turn its eyes on the Medical, Education and Harbour Departments where some substantial economies might be made.\n\nGovernment servants so far have been more fortunate than their colleagues in other Colonies as regards cuts in their salaries, although it cannot be denied a rising dollar automatically produces to the recipient fewer dollars on a sterling salary and thereby costs the Government less. But, as far as Government servants in this Colony are concerned, they receive their salaries at the rate of the day, up to 2s. If the dollar rises above 2s. they are paid at 2s. Acting allowances, travelling allowances, house allowances and rents should receive attention. I think it is the unanimous view of the public that increased taxation is out of the question at the present time.\n\nDefinite Proposal\n\nShould Government be of the opinion that an immediate reduction of 10 per cent. in the Colony's total expenditure is absolutely impossible then I must press for a reduction of 5 per cent, and the taking of $1,000,000 only from the surplus balances, leaving a further $1,000,000 to assist us in tiding over the year 1937. Any other course would in my opinion be financially indefensible and fraught with the gravest danger.\n\nThese proposals should place no undue strain on the Government administration as it is always open to Government to come to the Finance Committee for a supplemental vote in case of absolute necessity. My experience of life is that if there is money in the till it will surely be spent, whilst a deterrent such as the necessity for a supplemental vote compels the Head of the Department concerned to think twice before he comes before the Finance Committee and applies for more money. As it is not my desire to force this issue to a division, I can only express the pious hope that what I have said will not fall on deaf ears or barren earth, but that a great effort will be made to balance the Budget. (Applause.)\n\nLOWER TAXES PLEA\n\nEconomise by Employing More Local Men.\n\nMR. KOTEWALL'S SPEECH\n\nThe Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall said: – Sir, I shall, as I did last year, abstain from comments on individual items in the Estimates, but confine...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-2 Estimates 1936 30-8-1935 - 29-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555774, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-6 Hong Kong Hospital- conditions in nursing quarters 20-7-1937 - 12-8-1937", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-563-6 Hong Kong Hospital- conditions in nursing quarters 20-7-1937 - 12-8-1937", "content_text": "## C. O. \nA. Onnen 678 p.\n\nMr. \nMr. \nSir C. Bottomley. \nSir J. Shuckburgh. \nSir G. Grindle. \nPermt. U.S. of S. \nParly. U.S. of S. \nSecretary of State.\n\nDear Mr. Ewan Kayfor,\n\n4 July 1937\n\n2. Friction\n\nDRAFT.\n\nFrom: Ewan Taylor, Secretary ONA.\n\nMr. H. R. Wilkington coming home from Hongkong, recently arrived home with him the complaint about Medical devices.\n\nLeave ... \n\nmade in the new territorial quarters in ... Dwelling does not appear ...\n\nof Hong Kong. that we ... \n\n... \n... sushies ... Ugandery ... \n... ал ... úa d ... \n... and ... \n... Асал да ... ал ... зачела бунт в рая дол...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-6 Hong Kong Hospital- conditions in nursing quarters 20-7-1937 - 12-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556539, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-565-5 Hong Kong Eugenics League- activities 27-6-1937 - 31-8-1937", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-565-5 Hong Kong Eugenics League- activities 27-6-1937 - 31-8-1937", "content_text": "18\n\n32\n\nBIRTH CONTROL NEWS\n\nOctober, 1987\n\nVol. xvi, No. 3.\n\nBIRTH CONTROL NEWS\n\n19\n\n33\n\nIN SOUTH WALES\n\nAT THE\n\nDRILL HALL\n\n(Dumfries Place)\n\nCARDIFF\n\nON\n\nThursday, October 7, 1937\n\nMARIE C. STOPES\n\nD.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S., etc., President of the C.B.C.\n\nWILL SPEAK ON\n\n\"The Ideals and Practice of Constructive Birth Control\"\n\nON BEHALF OF\n\nTHE NEW MOTHERS' CLINIC FOR SOUTH WALES, TO BE OPENED AT CARDIFF\n\nQUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED\n\nDOORS\n\nOPEN AT 7.30\n\nChair taken at 8 p.m. sharp by Councillor O. EVANS\n\nOf the S. Wales Miners' Federation.\n\nPietermaritzburg.\n\nC.B.C. NOTES.\n\nFor a very small sum per annum our affiliated Clinic, of the Pietermaritzburg Mothers' Welfare Society, does most valuable and much-needed work, and we congratulate them on their third annual report.\n\nSome examples of cases during the year are as follows:-\n\n \n No. of years married\n No. of Births or Pregnancies\n \n \n Coloured ..25\n 19\n \n \n Wages and other particulars\n 11th preg. triplets, all died. Now living, 15, £3 per month.\n \n \n Indian ..18\n 10\n \n \n \n £1 10s. per month.\n \n \n Coloured ..20\n 13\n \n \n \n £1 10s. per month.\n \n \n European.. 8\n 6\n \n \n \n £6 per month.\n \n \n European..14\n 11\n \n \n \n 6s. 6d. per day.\n \n \n European.. .25\n 15\n \n \n \n 6s. 6d. per day. living, 10.\n \n\nDoctor's \"Days.”\n\nOn Thursday, October 7, at 2.30 p.m., a practical demonstration of the technique of the use of a variety of contraceptive methods will be given by Dr. Evelyn Fisher. This will include clinical demonstrations on women of various types, and those attending will be enabled to practise on various patients the use of various contraceptive devices. Previous applications for tickets (which will be supplied to medical practitioners only) should be made in writing to the Hon. Secretary, C.B.C., 108, Whitfield Street, W.1, as space at the Clinic is still quite unable to meet the demands made on it.\n\nThe Belfast Clinic.\n\nThe nurse-in-charge of the Belfast Clinic reports when she re-opened the Clinic after the summer vacation, there were letters of inquiry from Ballycastle, Armagh, Bangor, Coleraine, Loughgall, Carnmoney, Dublin and Londonderry, which shows that news of the Clinic's existence is spreading and it is reaching those who need it.\n\nPROBLEM OF MENTAL DEFECTIVES IN LEEDS.\n\nConcern at the yearly increase in the incidence of mental deficiency in Leeds and the replenishing of the population from the least intelligent stock was expressed by Mr. B. Wormald, Mental Health Service executive officer.\n\nOver four out of every thousand persons of the population are, he pointed out, already certified under the Mental Deficiency Acts, not including feeble-minded children in special schools under the Education Committee, and at least two thousand mental deficients who have not been reported to the local authority.\n\nThe number of deficients and the sub-intelligent section of the population is increasing out of all proportion to the normal population.\n\n\"The population of Leeds is being replenished from its least intelligent stock. The annual report of the Mental Health Services Committee states that the feeble-minded person not provided with control or supervision is a social harbinger of crime, immorality, and chronic pauperism.\n\n\"It also points out that the increase of national defence is a sure forerunner burden of expenditure on the public and intensifies the social problems of the city.\"\n\nPlease secure more new and active members, and please note that we still want subscriptions to be sent to the Treasurer or Secretary at 108, Whitfield Street, W.1.\n\nH. V. Roe, Hon. Sec., C.B.C.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-565-5 Hong Kong Eugenics League- activities 27-6-1937 - 31-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558236, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "# Description\n\nBritain\n\nMilitary (XXX)\n\n \n \n 26\n 61\n 12\n 27\n \n \n Aeroplanes\n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n Engines\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Aeroplane parts\n 7\n 905\n 16\n \n \n \n Speed boats (XXX)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tanks, fitted with\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n 4.5in guns (Nos)\n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n Guns, Tank (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Guns, anti-aircraft (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Guns, Howitzer (Nos)\n 54\n \n \n \n \n\nDestined for China (XXX)\n\nShipped via Hong Kong between XXX and XXX\n\nItaly\n\n \n \n 34\n 101\n 1\n \n \n \n Guns, AA (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 290\n 2,304\n 2,566\n 5,663\n \n \n Guns, 7.6mm (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gun Tripods\n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n Rifles\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Pistols & revolvers (Nos)\n 800\n 5,000\n 1,684\n 20,110\n \n \n Bombs (Various)\n 20,564\n 47,550\n 25,500\n 98,040\n \n \n \n 8,000\n \n 76,000\n \n \n \n Ammunition (rounds)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Shells, mortar\n 13,000\n \n 17,120\n \n \n \n Shells, anti-tank (rounds)\n \n \n \n 2,953,666\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Empty cases (machine gun)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Fuses for guns\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cartridges (machine gun) (rounds)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cartridges (pistol) (rounds)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Empty cartridge cases (unloaded)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Links for howitzers (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Projectiles (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Links for machine guns (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gun spare parts\n 57,900\n 16,008,900\n \n \n \n \n \n 62,452\n 20,691\n 100\n \n \n \n \n 614,300\n 40,000\n 505\n \n \n \n \n 36\n \n \n \n \n \n Tile parts\n 98\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dynamite & Gelignite (tons)\n 23.8\n \n \n \n \n \n Blasting Powder (tons)\n 62.9\n 15,000\n \n \n \n \n Blasting Cartridges (Nos)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Detonators (tons)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n ...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gun directing devices (Nos)\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n ...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Potassium chlorate (tons)\n 1.1\n \n \n \n \n \n Ammunition boxes (empty)\n \n 120\n 23\n \n \n \n \n 49,500\n 8\n 1,760\n 54,100\n \n \n \n 1,500\n \n 300,000\n \n \n \n \n 18\n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 360\n \n \n \n \n 600\n \n 290\n \n \n \n Total\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 106 Tons\n 17 Tons\n 983 cases\n 101 Nos\n \n \n \n 50 Nos\n 4 Nos\n 4 Tons\n 100\n \n \n \n 100 Nos\n 78 Nos\n \n 54 Nos\n \n \n \n 16,000\n 30,537\n 39,980\n \n \n \n \n \n 216,998\n 7,000\n 4,800\n \n \n \n 4,000\n 381,227\n 30,000\n 465\n \n \n \n 17,488,000\n 26,000,000\n \n 1,508\n \n \n \n 2,124\n 2\n \n 19.5\n \n \n \n 479.8\n 151.2\n 17.2\n 12\n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 101\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 5,160 Nos\n 86,106 Nos\n 23,344 Nos\n 124,171 Nos\n \n \n \n 238,030\n 254,118 rounds\n 2,953,446 rounds\n \n \n \n \n 67,263\n 403,958 rounds\n \n 30,000\n \n \n \n 4,635 cases\n 748 Nos\n 1,508 cases\n \n \n \n \n 363,440,300 rounds\n \n 2,053,300 rounds\n 40,000 rounds\n \n \n \n 49,500 Nos\n 596 cases\n 2,186 cases\n 443 Nos\n \n \n \n 105 cases\n 80 Tons\n 1,560.1 tons\n 361.34 tons\n \n \n \n 15.1 tons\n 277.2 tons\n 39.6 tons\n 17.2 tons\n \n \n \n \n 77.6 tons\n 0\n 97.4 tons\n \n \n \n 15,000 Nos\n 6,675 Nos\n 42.34 tons\n \n \n \n \n 34 cases\n 15 cases\n \n \n \n \n \n 1 ton\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 114", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 558237, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939", "content_text": "Date imported\n\n23.12.37\n\nStatements of Arms Ammunition, destined for China, exported from or transhipped at Hong Kong between late January à 30th June, 1939.\n\n \n 2 cases gunpowder Gap Bụi e s (accessories for fuse)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2 cases utensils (assorted tools for 'ɔ quia s)\n Country origin\n Value\n Date exported\n Name of dealer\n \n \n \n Italy\n KATLİK IN QU\n 3.1.38\n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Authority\n \n \n 334 cases à 500,000 rounds Cartridges Caë7»îumo\n Britain\n £2,550.0.0d.\n 4.1.38\n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n £2,550.0.0d.\n \n Canton - Military Council, A.û.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n National Govt. of China. 1/182\n \n \n 334 cases - 500,000 rounds Cartridges Galatakom\n \n \n 1.1.38\n Canton - Military Council, 100.\n \n \n 1,020 cases containing 20 anti-aircraft guns à 76,000 rounds shells, 191 cases - 3,820 rounds anti-tank shells, 3.70m\n \n \n 29.12.37\n Canton - China 24/174\n \n \n 1,835 cases à 7,340 rounds light howitzer shells.\n \n \n b. 1. 38\n ...de\n \n \n 122 cases = 2,440 rounds anti-tank shells, 5.7cm\n \n \n 27.12.37\n -do-\n \n \n 123 cases ■ 492 rounds light howitzer shells\n \n \n \n 13/174\n \n \n 1,250 cases = 20,000 rounds anti-tank shells\n France\n unknown\n 6.1.38\n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton - Military Council\n \n \n 13 cases aeroplane parts\n U.S.A.\n unknown\n 8.1.38\n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton - Military Council, A.0.171\n \n \n 5 cases containing 1 Vultes aeroplane\n U.S.A\n \n 10.12.37\n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n 800 cases bomb accessories\n Italy\n unknown\n 10.1.38\n Canton - A.0.176\n \n \n 362 cases bomb\n Italy\n Taka\n 11.1.38\n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n 124 bombs\n \n \n 1.1.38\n Canton - A+0.6/182\n \n \n 4 cases containing 4 armoured cars à 8 machine guns\n Italy\n unknown\n 12.1.38\n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n (Cars are of Italian origin à guns are made in Czechoslovakia)\n \n \n \n Canton - A.0.27/17\n \n \n 1,320 cases accessories\n Italy\n \n 8\n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n \n \n 1,940\n Ex stock\n Canton - A.0.6/182\n \n \n 15 revolvers\n U.S.A\n HK$1,270.00\n \n Hong Kong Sporting Arms Store\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton - A=0.79/8\n \n \n 3,000 rounds revolver cartridges\n \n HK$240,00\n \n Canton - -do-\n \n \n 140,000 rounds Mauser pistol cartridges\n \n \n 8.1.38\n Canton - -do-\n \n \n 2 revolvers\n Germany\n HK$8,400.00\n \n Canton - -do-\n \n \n \n U.S.A\n HK$170.00\n \n -do.\n \n \n \n \n HK$32.00\n \n -dom\n \n \n 400 rounds revolver cartridges\n \n \n \n Canton - -do-\n \n \n 100 cases à 3,000 Mauser rifles, Cal«7»9\n Belgium\n unknown\n 13.1.38\n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton. -do-\n \n \n 1,500 cases = 3,000, rounds cartridges, cal\n \n \n \n A«0 +25ÂM\n \n \n 206 cases = 1,000 machine guns, d\n \n \n \n Canton - › do -\n \n \n 1,000 cases bombs - 2,000\n \n \n 4.2.39\n \n \n \n 2,000 cases - 4,000,000 rounds cartridges, e ai .7.92\n Italy\n \n \n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n \n Germany\n \n \n Canton - -do\n \n \n \n \n \n \n A+0 +6/182\n \n \n 250 cases « 1,500 light machine guns, ed.7.92\n \n \n 11.1.38\n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton - ❤do❤\n \n \n \n \n \n \n A.0.23/174\n \n \n 3,594 cases = 3,174,000, rounds cartridges, 7.62mm à 12.7mm.\n U.S.A\n \n \n Walford Trading Co.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton - -do-\n \n \n \n \n \n 27.12.37\n A.0.7/184\n \n \n 2,433 cases = 48,660 rounds anti-aircraft shells\n Germany\n \n \n Intercontinent China Ltd.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Canton - -do-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n | A«0 .21/17 €\n \n \n 113 Cases p. 452 rounds gun shell syö .8cm.\n \n \n \n Canton - -do-\n \n \n 561 Cases à 11,230 rounds anti-aircraft shells, 3, 7cm\n \n \n \n -do-\n \n \n 15 cases directing devices for 8.8cm. & 15 cm, guns\n \n \n \n Canton - -do-\n \n \n \n \n \n \n As© »22/174\n \n\n$19/38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-5 Traffic of arms to China and Japanese air-raids on Kowloon-Canton railway 11-4-1938 - 19-1-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 559757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "18\n\nto interference which\n\nT\n\nsem invincible.\n\n\"What, however, must never\n\nbe lost sight of, is the position of this Blom in relation to our vast interest in China. Kese reonue that all I legislation could be looked to in its ultra-local consequences, and the consideration of troue consequences\n\nit is of course\n\nmy\n\nbounden duty\n\nas\n\nPlemibotentiary and Chief Superintendat\n\ninvitually to keep in view.\n\n& Finde\n\nconeur in Mz\n\nI entially Bridges' affirmation of the value\n\nF\n\nhor Exldwills devices, and shall be\n\ngian to see him reinstaten in the service of the Foramment.\n\nAnd though not agreein yo\n\nwith Urr Midges as to the modus\n\nbrocedende in the\n\nvery grave\n\naut\n\n\"entandled question, I recognize-\n\nzeal\n\nhis representation evidence of his\n\nand attention to the subject.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respect,\n\nWatt\n\nمنزل\n\nfour mat sortient Aumble Servant,\n\nJohn Biums\n\nreference to the averment of Mr Bridges that \"every day in there lie alongside the\n\n\"the\n\nyear\n\ni", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-57 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564504, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 87, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## Head 6.-DEFENCE\n### Head 6.-DEFENCE,-Continued.\n#### C.-AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.\n\n| Item | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **1 Personal Emoluments** | 36,783 | 95,344 |\n| **Other Charges** | | |\n| 2 Advertisements and Publicity | 300 | |\n| 3 Badges (A.R.P.) | 1,600 | 2,000 |\n| 4 Conveyance Allowances | 400 | |\n| 5 Courses of Instruction. | 1,680 | 3,300 (1) |\n| 6 Expenses of sale of respirators | ... | 3,120 |\n| 7 Fuel, Light and Power | 400 | 2,000 |\n| 8 Exhibitions | 500 | 1,250 (4) |\n| 9 Experimental Work | 5,000 | 3,000 |\n| 10 Grant-in-aid to Women's Air Raid Precautions Union | 4,125 | 500 |\n| 11 Hire of Halls and Lecturers Fees | 5,500 (4) | 600 |\n| 12 Incidental Expenses...... | 600 | 1,000 (4) |\n| 13 Maintenance and replacement of Training equipment | | 3,750 |\n| 14 Publications and translation | 10,000 (6) | 3,000 |\n| 15 Transport | 1,000 | |\n| 16 Uniforms | 120 (4)(7)(8) | |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 14,980 | 41,565 |\n| **Special Expenditure** | | |\n| 17 Respirators for essential services | | 71,916 |\n| 18 Protective Clothing | | 73,107 |\n| 19 Sandbags | 325,000 (10) | |\n| 20 Fire Appliances | 141,000 | |\n| 21 Syrens | 5,000 | |\n| 22 Medical Stores | 150,000 | 9,000 |\n| 23 Air Rail Wardens' Equipment | 20,000 (9)(10) | |\n| 24 Decontamination Equipment | 140,500 | 5,000 (9)(10) |\n| 25 Grants to essential services.. | | 10,000 (6) |\n| 26 Rescue Plant | 15,400 | 15,400 (9) |\n| 27 Miscellaneous stores.......... | 342 | 2,160 |\n| 28 Equipment for St. John Ambulance Brigade Reserve. | 2,000 | |\n| 29 Typewriter and Gestetner Machine | 500 | 4,000 (10) |\n| 30 Equipment for Architect's Office | | 135 |\n| 31 Lighting devices for Government Buildings.. | | 20,560 |\n| 32 Fire Protection for Government Buildings | 250,000 (6) | |\n| 33 One filing Cabinet | | 29 |\n| Stores for training purposes | | 286,302 |\n| Mobilization Stores | | 974,718 |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | 338,065 | 1,111,627 |\n| **Total Air Raid Precautions** | | |\n\n(1) Increased staff. Temporary clerical assistance. New A.R.P. School. Includes also provision for coal.\n(4) Considered necessary.\n(5) Considered sufficient.\n(6) Sub-heads 13 and 27 provided under Stores for Training Purposes in 1939 Estimates.\n(7) Formerly included under Incidental Expenses.\n(8) For coolies and messengers at new A.R.P. School.\n(9) In pursuance of programme already approved.\n(10) Sub-heads 17 to 22, 24, 26 and 32 were included under Mobilization Stores in 1939 Estimates.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564697, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 280, "title": "CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940", "content_text": "## Head 6.-DEFENCE \n### C.-AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.\n\n| Item | Approved Estimate, 1939 | Estimate, 1940-41 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **1 Personal Emoluments** | 36,783 | 95,344 |\n| **Other Charges** | | |\n| 2 Advertisements and Publicity | 300 | 400 |\n| 3 Badges (A.R.P.) | | |\n| 4 Conveyance Allowances | 1,600 | 2,000 |\n| 5 Courses of Instruction | 1,680 | 3,300 |\n| 6 Expenses of sale of respirators | (1) 800 | 1,000 |\n| 7 Fuel, Light and Power | 3,120 | |\n| 8 Exhibitions | 400 | 2,000 |\n| 9 Experimental Work | 500 | 1,250 |\n| 10 Grant-in-aid to Women's Air Raid Precautions Union | 5,000 | 3,000 |\n| 11 Hire of Halls and Lecturers Fees | 4,125 | 500 |\n| 12 Incidental Expenses | 600 | } 5,500 (4) |\n| 13 Maintenance and replacement of Training equipment | | 1,000 |\n| 14 Publications and translation | 10,000 | SE E GEOR (4) (6) 3,750 |\n| 15 Transport | 1,000 | (4)(7) |\n| 16 Uniforms | 120 | (8) |\n| **Total Other Charges** | 14,980 | 41,565 |\n| **Special Expenditure** | | |\n| 17 Respirators for essential services | 71,916 | 73,107 |\n| 18 Protective Clothing | 325,000 | >(10) 141,000 |\n| 19 Sandbags | | 5,000 |\n| 20 Fire Appliances | 150,000 | 9,000 |\n| 21 Syreus | | 20,000 (9) (10) |\n| 22 Medical Stores | 140,500 | 5,000 (9) (10) |\n| 23 Air Raid Wardens' Equipment | 10,000 | (6) 15,400 |\n| 24 Decontamination Equipment | | 15,400 (9) |\n| 25 Grants to essential services... | 342 | 2,160 |\n| 26 Rescue Plant | ... | 2,000 |\n| 27 Miscellaneous stores..... | 2,000 | 500 |\n| 28 Equipment for St. John Ambulance Brigade Reserve.. | 500 | 4,000 (10) |\n| 29 Typewriter and Gestetner Machine | | 135 |\n| 30 Equipment for Architect's Office | 20,560 | 250,000 (6) (10) |\n| 31 Lighting devices for Government Buildings.. | | |\n| 32 Fire Protection for Government Buildings | 286,302 | 974,718 |\n| 33 One filing Cabinet | | |\n| Stores for training purposes | 338,065 | 1,111,627 |\n| Mobilization Stores | | |\n| **Total Special Expenditure** | | |\n| **Total Air Raid Precautions** | | |\n\n(1) Increased staff. \n(2) Temporary clerical assistance. \n(3) New A.R.P. School. Includes also provision for coal. \n(4) Considered necessary. \n(5) Considered sufficient. \n(6) Sub-heads 13 and 27 provided under Stores for Training Purposes in 1939 Estimates. \n(7) Formerly included under Incidental Expenses. \n(8) For coolies and messengers at new A.R.P. School. \n(9) In pursuance of programme already approved. \n(10) Sub-heads 17 to 22, 24, 26 and 32 were included under Mobilization Stores in 1939 Estimates.\n\nPage 280\nPage 281", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-10 Estimates 1940 6-10-1939 - 22-10-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 567970, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-581-10 Control measures to be adopted for local mines- report by senior Inspector of Mines 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1939", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-581-10 Control measures to be adopted for local mines- report by senior Inspector of Mines 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1939", "content_text": "20\n\n21\n\nLicensee to\n\n14\n\n18. Every prospecting licence shall be in the form in Schedule II and shall work subject convey to the licensee the right to undertake and continue such work only as may, in to Govern- ment direc- tion.\n\nApplication How made.\n\nRights and conditions of a pros- pecting licence.\n\nthe opinion of Government, be reasonably necessary to enable him to test the qualities of the land in respect of the metal or mineral specified in the licence, and in accordance with the mining regulations where applicable.\n\n19.-(i) Any person wishing to apply for a prospecting licence shall lodge in the land office of the district an application together with the prescribed fee and plan setting out the position, approximate area and boundaries of the land in respect of which the application is made and stating the metal or mineral for which it is proposed to prospect.\n\n(ii) The Land Officer shall thereupon mark such application with a distinctive number and shall file the same in the land office according to the order in which they are received, but so that priority of application shall give no claim or priority of claim to a prospecting licence.\n\n20.—(i) In the absence of an express provision therein to the contrary every prospecting licence shall convey to the licensee the exclusive right to prospect within the area specified within the prospecting licence for metals or minerals specified therein and the prior right to apply for a mining lease over any area specified therein upon proof that the licensee has done a sufficient amount of prospecting work.\n\n(ii) No other application, whether for a prospecting licence or mining lease, in respect of any land specified in a prospecting licence shall be considered, and no portion of such land shall be leased for any purpose until all rights of the licensee in respect of such land shall have been satisfied.\n\n(iii) If before the expiration of any prospecting licence the licensee shall prove to the satisfaction of Government that he has good and sufficient reason for not having completed prospecting, the period of such licence may be extended by Government in respect of the whole or any part of the area comprised therein. Such extension shall be effected by endorsement on the licence for such period and fee as Government shall determine.\n\n(iv) A prospecting licence may at any time after the expiration of three months from date of issue thereof be cancelled by Government if the licensee shall have failed to make a bona fide commencement to prospect the land under licence, or if he shall have altogether abandoned prospecting for a period to be fixed by Government and set forth in the prospecting licence.\n\n(v) Upon completion of prospecting under any prospecting licence the licensee shall fill in all pits, shafts or excavations, unless the licensee obtains authority in writing from Government exempting him from this obligation, and Government may call upon the licensee to provide security not exceeding one thousand dollars for the due fulfilment of such conditions.\n\n(vi) It shall be lawful for the licensee to remove from the land and dispose of all samples of metals and minerals raised in the course of prospecting operations without payment of royalty, provided the amount shall be such as may, in the opinion of Government, be reasonably necessary to enable him to test the qualities of the land.\n\n(vii) The licensee shall compensate any occupiers of the land under licence for any damage sustained by them as the result of prospecting operations.\n\n(viii) Every licensee shall\n\n(a) permit any person duly authorized by Government in that behalf at all reasonable times to inspect any prospecting operations,\n\n(b) render to the Land Officer, within one month of the expiry of the licence or completion of the prospecting work, whichever event may first occur, a full, true, particular and just report and plan of the result of his prospecting operations.\n\n(ix) Every prospecting licence shall be liable to be cancelled by Government upon proof of the breach of any of the conditions of this part of the regulations or otherwise where applicable.\n\n15\n\nPart IV.\n\nPROVISIONS REGARDING WATER.\n\n21.-(i) It shall not be lawful for the lessee of any mining land or holder of a prospecting licence to make or permit any other person to make, without sanction of in water supply Government, any such alteration in the water supply as may prejudicially affect the prohibited. water supply enjoyed by Government or any other persons or land.\n\n(ii) Whenever any such alteration shall have been so made, the lessee or licensee of the lands benefited thereby shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to have made it.\n\n(iii) Any person who shall in the course of mining or prospecting operations interfere with the bank of any river, stream or water course may, by written order of Government be required to restore the same to the condition in which it was immediately prior to such interference or to re-make the same in such manner as may be specified in the order.\n\nof water.\n\n22.-(1) Every lessee or holder of a prospecting licence who shall use water in Purification connexion with his mining or prospecting operations in whatever way shall make such provision as will ensure that all water so used shall, before it leaves the area on which it has been so used, be freed from all chemicals deleterious to animal or vegetable life.\n\n(ii) No lessee of mining land or holder of a prospecting licence shall allow effluent water from any area under his control containing solid matter in excess of 500 grains per gallon to discharge into any river or natural water course or otherwise pass beyond his control.\n\n(iii) The Government shall on complaint of failure on the part of any lessee or holder of a prospecting licence to comply with the requirements of sub-sections (i) and (ii) hold an inquiry into the matter of such complaint, and may, with or without such complaint at any time order any such person to provide such fixed masonry spillways, dams, settling pits and other mechanical appliances or devices and to use such chemical methods as may be necessary for effectual compliance with the said subsections, and may also order such person to suspend his mining or prospecting operations until such provision has been made and such methods adopted.\n\n(iv) Compliance with an order of Government made under sub-section (iii) shall not affect the liability incurred by any such person through breach of the provisions of sub-sections (i) and (ii).\n\nPart V.\n\nTHE REGULATION OF MINING OPERATIONS.\n\nstored or\n\n23.-(i) No gunpowder, dynamite, petroleum or other inflammable oil in bulk, Explosives or other substance of an explosive or dangerous nature, shall be brought onto, stored, not to be placed or used upon any land held under mining lease or prospecting licence except used in in such places, in such quantities, in such manner and on such conditions as shall be mine or approved by Government; and no detonator, match or other highly inflammable substance or liquid shall be stored together with any explosive substance or liquid,\n\n(ii) Only wooden tamping rods in charging holes for blasting and only regulation pliers for fixing the detonator to the fuse may be used and only clay or other suitable material shall be used for tamping.\n\n(iii) Sufficient warning shall be given to enable all persons in the vicinity of the workings to reach a place of safety before any fuse is ignited. The number of shots exploding shall be counted and if all the shots have not exploded no one shall be allowed to enter the working place for a period of thirty minutes after the fuses were lighted.\n\n(iv) A charge that has misfired shall not be withdrawn and only such tamping as can be easily removed may be withdrawn to enable the missed charge to be reprimed and fired; alternatively a new hole shall be bored by hand parallel to but not below and not nearer than 18 inches to the misfire and shall be charged with one and a half times the amount of explosive in the misfired hole.\n\nbuilding\n\nprescribed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-581-10 Control measures to be adopted for local mines- report by senior Inspector of Mines 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939", "content_text": "33\n\nSecret Defence Devices.\n\nFor a long time Britain was the world pioneer in the practical application of scientific knowledge and technique in industry, and British inventions helped to change the face of the modern world. Then there was a tendency for the nation to rest on its past achievements, and in certain countries it was gleefully announced that Britain's day was done and the British people were decadent.\n\nDevelopments during the past year or two should help to dispel this dangerous illusion. Since Britain entered the rearmament field her advance has been phenomenal, not only quantitatively but qualitatively as well. The inventive faculties of her scientists and technicians are as keen and vigorous as ever, and the British Navy and the British Air Force testify to the superb qualities of the men whose business it is to produce new devices to meet new dangers.\n\nThe Admiralty recently let it be known that they have a secret apparatus for defeating the submarine peril. Under ordinary conditions, with this apparatus, British warships can hunt out and make certain of finding enemy submarines. \"The chance of the submarine surviving has been reduced by thirty per cent during the last six months.\"\n\nThe British Air Ministry scientists produce one invention after another with astonishing and indeed embarrassing rapidity, for it is most impossible to standardise any system of defence in detail. Production methods \"must be kept fluid so as to be able to incorporate into our system each new device as it materialises.\"\n\nIn the recent large-scale air exercises some marvellous machines took part; but impressive as these machines were, there are still better ones now ready for action should the need arise.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-581-16 British propaganda in Hong Kong 18-4-1939 - 29-10-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568290, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-581-5 Proposed formation of Statistical Department 28-6-1939 - 28-6-1939", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-581-5 Proposed formation of Statistical Department 28-6-1939 - 28-6-1939", "content_text": "valueless. For example if we were to compare cost of living figures which included rents for the years 1914 and 1939 we would be at least making a comparison, but if we attempted to set a figure for 1914 which included rents beside a figure for 1939 which excluded rents we should not be making any sort of comparison at all—our alteration for 1939, even though it might appear to be justified on the score that rents for that year were quite abnormal, would simply result in the whole of the statistical records of the last quarter of a century becoming valueless.\n\nThis aspect of statistics has been impressed on me again and again both by government statistical officers and theoretical statisticians. I have emphasized the point because I think that it means that it would be a grave mistake to attempt too rapid or too wide a reorganization of our statistics. A slow and calculated development of the new department which will enable it to function on a rigidly set course for several decades and to show continuity with our statistics for the last twenty or thirty years is likely, I think, to produce in the long run something of value, while a rapid reorganization without reference to past statistics, which may require modification year after year, will produce nothing at all.\n\nConsidering statistics on the theoretical side we have the following methods:—\n\nIndex Numbers. Rates (e.g., Birth and Death rates), etc.\n\nThe general nature of these devices is of course already familiar. They can be used in a variety of ways although some technical care is necessary to ensure that they give accurate information.\n\nMethods of Measuring Correlation and Independence.\n\nThese are much less familiar devices although in my opinion they offer very considerable scope in administrative work. They are methods by which the relationship between two series of statistics can, in certain circumstances, be measured. If, for example, it is desired to ascertain whether any relationship exists between overcrowding and crime or between railway returns and New Territories road expenditure or between overtime worked and sick leave, or in general between any two parallel series of statistics, these methods, if they can be applied, offer in many cases an incontrovertible answer that such a relationship exists or does not exist. The merit of this method is that instead of a mere vague expression of opinion, however expert, “The committee is strongly of the opinion that ...”, we can often get a mathematically certain statement “the two phenomena are related to the extent of ...% so that a change of so much in the one has in the long run invariably been accompanied by a change of so much in the other”. It is true that a definite statement of this character might be distrusted by the layman who would continue to prefer the “opinion”, right or wrong, of the experts. This is, however, merely a matter of prejudice and if it once became familiar, its use should be as acceptable as index numbers are to-day. It would appear that one of its principal uses in government work would be the analysis of data for committees appointed from time to time to report on special problems.\n\nSampling.\n\nThis is in effect the taking of a sample survey of some aspect of government work without the expense of time and trouble involved in taking a complete “census” of every individual. Suppose, for example, that it was desired to ascertain the number of persons in the whole of Hong Kong suffering from tuberculosis or the number of persons totally unemployed, or the number of persons living in conditions that complied with a certain definition of overcrowding; all that would be necessary would be to make a very thorough examination of perhaps a thousand cases picked more or less at random from appropriate districts and from appropriate strata of the population. On the basis of this small sample, it would be possible to say, for example, that the chances were 10,000 to 1 that the total number of persons in the Colony showing the investigated quality lay between 52% and 58% of the total population. An actual census of the total population would, of course, give a more exact result, but while it would be obviously impossible for the medical department, for example, to examine the total population for tuberculosis, a sample examination of a thousand persons might be feasible. For all practical purposes, of course, the statement “between 52% and 58%” is as valuable as an exact percentage. This method is adopted in England in connection with cost of living surveys.\n\nInterpolation and Graduation.\n\nThese are the processes by which it is sometimes possible to ascertain with considerable accuracy the statistics applying to a period for which no recorded statistics are available, or of ascertaining the most probable course that insufficient or inaccurate statistics would have taken had they been exact. In rare cases, forecasts of future trends can also be made.\n\nBy these methods, it might, for example, be possible to ascertain with some degree of certainty the export and import figures for Hong Kong for the period during which those returns were suspended. To take a second example, it is possible to ascertain with considerable accuracy the number of women of child-bearing age in any census, even when there is a certainty that 20% of the ages given are substantially incorrect.\n\nIntercensal estimates of various kinds fall under this heading.\n\nThe methods of theoretical statistics are in general so cumbersome and complicated that their practical value is seriously impaired. Really valuable results can be obtained, but if two or three days’ work is required to reach those results, it may be better to forego them. For this reason, I employed a considerable part of the period devoted to theoretical study in considering and adapting various simplifying methods that have been proposed.\n\nThe above are some of the principal methods by which statistical technique might be of assistance in administrative work. But this aspect of statistics, which we may call the aspect of the statistician, is almost completely separate from the collection and presentation of statistics, which we may call the aspect of the statistical officer.\n\nTake, for example, the case of the Registrar of Births and Deaths; his work is primarily to ensure that the machinery of collecting data, issuing certificates, and compiling totals is properly done. This is the work of a statistical officer. The statistician, on the other hand, is concerned with an analysis of the data. He will distinguish between crude and corrected rates; he will seek to correlate causes of deaths in certain localities with other phenomena, perhaps drainage or water supply, in those localities. He will try to use his birth registration data to give an accurate birth rate figure, and from this to get an accurate figure for the female population, and thence an accurate figure for the male population in intercensal years. In Singapore, intercensal estimates have increased in accuracy from a 30% error to a 1% error from the use of such methods.\n\nSimilarly, with imports and exports—the present statistical department concerns itself with the collection of statistics; a statistician will be chiefly interested in showing what tendencies these statistics indicate, in correlating statistics of trade with other statistics of population or prices or revenue.\n\nThus, there is a distinct line of cleavage between the aspect of the statistician and that of the statistical officer. In effect, the former is simply an administrative officer using refined scientific methods to indicate what lines government policy might profitably take, while the statistical officer is simply a collector of facts.\n\nIt does not matter very much, from the statistical aspect, whether, for example, the Registrar...\n\n3\n\n6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-581-5 Proposed formation of Statistical Department 28-6-1939 - 28-6-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569015, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 191, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "193\n\n14\n\n15\n\nTHA\n\n194\n\nThis form of taxation presented itself at an early point in our discussions as an obvious sphere in which considerable additional revenue might be found. A large part of the public expenditure incurred by this Colony is properly municipal expenditure and it would seem appropriate that an increase of this nature should be met by a raised assessment.\n\nA suitable increase in the rate would, no doubt, yield extra revenue of the order we assume to be contemplated, e.g. an addition of 8% would produce about $3,000,000. It would be appropriate to a large section of local public expenditure and would present little difficulty in collection by comparison with other forms of increased taxation. We believe, however, that the final test of its acceptability must lie in the justice of its incidence, a matter to which our attention is clearly directed by our terms of reference.\n\nThe burden of an increase in the rates would be likely to be divided in the first place between tenant and landlord. If there were a shortage of houses most of it might be shifted at once to the tenant; if there were a surplus the landlord might have to suffer it temporarily. In the long run most of it would probably be shifted to the tenant, since capital seeking investment in property would still expect more or less the same net return after deducting rates. The tenants or occupiers consist partly of business enterprises, on whom the effect would be to tax disproportionately those, e.g. factories and dock companies, whose businesses require a large area of land, and partly of private occupiers, predominantly the dwellers in tenement houses. On the private occupier the assessment acts as a very approximate income tax, which, however, bears more heavily in proportion to income on the poor than on the better off, instead of bearing progressively more heavily on the higher incomes, as is expected of a modern taxation system. An increase in the rates would, in fact, be what is called a regressive, rather than a progressive tax.\n\nIn so far as an increase of rates was not passed on to the tenant, it would constitute a tax on a particular class of investor, the landlord, and would be discriminating as between him and others deriving income from capital invested in the Colony.\n\nWe have also been impressed by the view that any increased taxation having the effect of forcing up rentals and/or comparatively overtaxing \"property capital\" may be expected to encourage the slums, the eradication of which is one of the purposes for which, we assume, Government expects to have to find further funds. Any tax must force the taxpayer to adjust his mode of living to a reduced net income, but a tax bearing directly on housing accommodation necessarily forces such adjustment into a socially undesirable channel.\n\nHaving regard to these considerations of inequity and social evils likely to arise from the incidence of an increase in the rates, we recommend that, in spite of ease and economy of collection and the size of the yield to be expected, this means to additional revenue should be regarded rather as a last resource.\n\nCorporation Profits Tax.\n\n(b) A tax on the profits, or dividends, of public companies operating in Hong Kong is a second suggestion which, in common with an increase in the assessment, could be made to produce additional revenue of substantial amount. It is estimated that the profits liable to such a tax might be something like $50,000,000 per annum, yielding annually, at 5%, $2,500,000. It would present, however, some difficulties of assessment and collection and it is open to objection on the score of equity. The effective administration of such a tax would require expert scrutiny of companies' accounts by something like an embryo Income Tax Department. Evasion (i.e. illegal concealment of profits liable to tax) would probably be small, but extensive efforts at \"avoidance\" by devices within the law, e.g. transfer of registry, manipulation of accounts with associated companies outside Hong Kong, might be expected. No doubt such avoidance would be partly met by suitable safeguards in the law, and there would be a substantial body of company profits which would be unable to escape tax; but only constant expert vigilance could prevent the gradual leaking away of much of that liability.\n\nAs regards incidence, such a tax must, at once or eventually, fall upon the shareholders. From the point of view of equity it is open, like a tax on landlords, to the objection that it differentiates unfairly between one group of investors, i.e. shareholders of Hong Kong companies, and others, i.e. those who have invested in property, private businesses or companies registered and operating outside the Colony. As compared with an ordinary income tax, a profits tax would be unfair also as between individual shareholders who would pay, not in proportion to their total incomes but in proportion to their holdings in Hong Kong companies.\n\nThough such a tax is unjust in the sense that it is discriminative, we feel that it has at least the merit of spreading the burden over a wider class, namely, all shareholders, rather than settling it upon the more restricted class of landowners. It could, of course, be limited to non-resident shareholders, but attractive as that may be at first sight, we cannot convince ourselves of its equity, while such limitation would at once reduce the yield and open a new loophole for evasion through registration of shares in the names of resident \"dummies\".\n\nIt should finally be observed that this tax would leave unaffected, in so far as they are not shareholders in public companies, the salaried and professional classes, the landlords and the large body of private businessmen, whose operations, although individually smaller in scale than those of big public companies, give rise to a large aggregate of profits.\n\nIncome Tax.\n\n(c) Finally we considered the institution of an Income Tax. This is a standard tax in most Western countries, in the British Dominions and in India; and the only important territories in the Colonial Empire in which it does not exist in some form are the Gold Coast, Malaya and Hong Kong. We agreed that this direct form of taxation is the most logical, equitable and remunerative, and at the same time the least discriminatory, if it is capable of successful administration. It is unnecessary to argue the theoretical case for such a tax on grounds of equity and we have therefore devoted our consideration of this subject rather to its practicability. The grave doubts which are widely felt as to the possibility of its successful administration in this Colony may be summarised as follows:-\n\n1. The economic and geographic situation of the Colony, which is more of a municipality than a country, presents many obvious loopholes for evasion.\n\n2. The primitive system of book-keeping used by Chinese firms would render fair assessments difficult if not impossible.\n\n3. The migratory nature of the Colony's population, and the extremely mixed taxable community with greatly differing standards of living, make Hong Kong unsuited to the tax generally.\n\n4. Many benefits are still to be derived from preserving the Colony as a haven for \"refugee\" capital. The Colony's prosperity depends to a large extent on the fact that it is the entrepôt of China, a free port, without income tax and without excessive taxation. An unwise fiscal imposition may well upset this precarious prosperity.\n\n5. So radical a departure in fiscal policy would give rise to a demand, now dormant, for popular representation.\n\n6. The full effect of the tax, for one reason or another, would not reach the Chinese community. The European would bear the chief burden and the Chinese escape or evade its incidence. Any differential treatment between races in this small community would be invidious and give rise to intense dissatisfaction.\n\n7. The administration of an income tax locally would not be possible at an economic cost. A large and expert European staff would have to be imported.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "13.\n\n52\n\nhow many are these omissions and how great the sacrifices made. I think there is general agreement as to the details now included.\n\nIt is the problem of how to finance the expenditure for next year which finds us divided, not Unofficials from Officials, but even Hon. Unofficial Members among themselves.\n\nWar and Surplus\n\nIn spite of what I stated in connection with the general reserve balance, or so-called surplus balances at the last meeting of this Council, the Hon. Mr Li Tse-fong proposes that we should have recourse to this balance to finance war expenditure next year, and he adds the interesting theoretical argument that a balance is a medieval survival which a modern state has no need to keep. It may be possible in a totalitarian economy to dispense with a balance as it is with normal backing for currency, but this Colony does not possess a self-contained economy and is largely an entrepot for China and its prosperity depends to a large extent, I submit, on the soundness and orthodoxy of its finances and the confidence they inspire both locally and in China.\n\nI stated at the last meeting that our real balance was about $7 million dollars. I exaggerated.\n\nThe reserve balance of this Colony, as I have informed Hon. Members on a previous occasion, is impressed with a trust in so far as the compulsory contributions of Government officers to the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Scheme have been paid to revenue and no fund has been established to meet the outgoings which Government has undertaken to pay.\n\nPosition Unsatisfactory\n\nSo far, income in this connection has exceeded expenditure, but the position is not satisfactory though it cannot be said without actuarial investigation how many million dollars should be earmarked for this fund, but I am afraid the position is that the reserves with which the Hon. Mr Li Tse-fong wishes to meet next year's extraordinary commitments do not morally exist, though they can to a certain extent be made available in an emergency.\n\nI agree with him that balances may properly be used to meet an emergency, but only a financial emergency and there is none such at present, and I decline to treat next year's budget, though including large defence expenditure, as an emergency and not mainly a normal budget. But if we have no balance to draw on to meet unforeseen expenditure how are we to carry on? The experience of the recent loan is a warning that we cannot borrow, at least at a reasonable rate of interest. Incidentally, the Hon. Mr Tam has misinterpreted my remarks in that connection. I deplored nothing. I stated that Government took up so much. In fact, it decided on that amount before the issue, as the prospectus indicates, and was not left with that amount in its hands; but the fact remains that there was little public response.\n\nProsperity Unsteady\n\nIn my experience, this Colony never enjoys a prolonged period of financial normality with a steady and reasonably predictable income. It is either enjoying a boom or suffering from a depression. At present, I submit it is having a boom, and in spite of the high cost of living, a great number of people in this Colony are enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Even the large local expenditure on defence has served to pump consumers' purchasing power into the pockets of many and has stimulated trade. At any time this Colony is able to meet its expenditure, even swollen by our defence requirements, it is now, and that expenditure should be met, so far as possible, and I submit that means entirely, from current revenue.\n\nThe revenue calculations for next year are based on the continuation of the present prosperity of the Colony and, in the present world situation, I submit that represents a certain degree of optimism. Several Members have reminded us that in recent years actual revenue has exceeded estimate and, therefore, should continue to do so, and that we should be satisfied with thinking that all will be well and that everything from the revenue point of view will automatically turn out satisfactory.\n\nOne Member has gone so far as to accuse me of conservatism, caution, and pessimism. If by pessimism he means endeavouring to foresee and obviate difficulties, I confess I am pessimistic, and nothing that I have heard in the speeches of Hon. Members to-day has relieved my pessimism. It is said that I have sought to build up hidden reserves and have written off expenditure incurred on food reserves. I only wish I had more hidden reserves to confess to.\n\nFood Reserves\n\nThe expenditure on food reserves has not been written off, though it is not possible to estimate how much of it will be recovered, and we are at present dealing with the expenditure for next year. If these have to be maintained throughout the year, there is bound to be a loss in turnover and replacement, whatever eventual sum may find its way to revenue. To charge the cost to expenditure instead of opening a suspense account is the proper way to maintain control in the hands of the legislature.\n\nIt has been alleged that by these devices and on the pretext of an unbalanced budget I have raised the bogey of Income Tax. I do not propose to discuss that matter, which can well be left to the reconstituted War Revenue Committee, but it is my duty to point out, as the Hon. Mr Dodwell has stated, that this Colony is ridiculously lightly taxed in comparison with Home, and in my opinion, it must have balances, and adequate balances, not only to meet an emergency but to even out the fat and the lean years if any planned development is to be undertaken.\n\nIn this connection, I would state that Sir Geoffry Northcote, shortly before he departed on leave, instructed me to prepare a programme for this Colony in connection with the Colonial Development and Welfare Scheme, which I have failed to do. I have spent considerable time on the problems and the more I investigated, the greater they appeared and the necessity for elaborate planning embracing harbour development, town planning, and slum clearance, agriculture, and fisheries, health, and education became increasingly apparent.\n\nFisheries and Agriculture\n\nAll that we have been able to do has been to include, with the approval of all Members of this Council, provision for the Fisheries Research Station and the Experimental Agricultural Station in the New Territories in next year's estimates to be met from Colonial funds. That is only a small proportion of what is required.\n\nIt may be said that such development is not practical politics at the present time. That may be so, but the budget was framed, as I stated already, to make due provision for defence and social services.\n\nThere is no oppressive taxation in Hongkong at this time, and I submit that none of the new taxation proposed is oppressive and that this Colony ought to be able to provide from its current revenue all the expenditure included in these estimates and even additional expenditure if necessary. I appeal to Hon. Members not to spend the meagre reserves inherited from the past nor to seek an overdraft on the future, but to endeavour to meet current expenditure from current revenue, bearing in mind that the purpose of that expenditure is largely defence and social services, or, if I may otherwise express it, the preservation and promotion of our civilisation. (Applause).\n\nDEBATE ENDED\n\nIMMIGRATION OFFICE\n\nENQUIRY\n\nACTIVE SCRUTINY OF FOOD CONTROL\n\nFIREWOOD PRICE\n\nWinding up the Debate, the Hon. Mr Smith said: Gentlemen, I have listened with great interest to the speeches of Honourable Members, both Unofficial Members on the subject of the 1941-42 Budget, and on other subjects which are of general concern to the community and which are very properly raised.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569821, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "101\n\n28\n\n# Head 6.-DEFENCE\n\n## C.-AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n \n 1\n Personal Emoluments\n 95,344\n \n \n \n \n Other Charges.\n \n \n \n \n 2\n Advertisements and publicity.\n 400\n 300\n \n \n 3\n Badges (A.R.P.)\n \n \n \n \n 5\n Courses of Instruction\n 2,000\n 2,600\n \n \n 4\n Conveyance Allowances\n 3,300\n 1,860\n \n \n \n \n 1,000\n 500\n \n \n 6\n Expenses of sale of respirators\n 3,120\n 3,120\n \n \n 7\n Fuel, Light and Power\n 2,000\n 1,500\n \n \n 8\n Exhibitions\n 1,250\n 1,500\n \n \n 9\n Experimental Work\n 3,000\n 2,000\n \n \n 10\n Grant-in-aid to Women's Air Raid Precautions Union\n 4,125\n 3,000\n \n \n 11\n Hire of Halls for Lectures\n 800\n \n \n \n 12\n Incidental Expenses....\n 1,000\n 2,200\n \n \n 13\n Lecturers' Fees...\n 19,200\n \n \n \n 14\n Maintenance and replacement of Training Equipment\n 10,000\n 8,000\n \n \n 15\n Publications and translation\n 3,750\n 3,000\n \n \n 16\n Rent of Public Telephones..\n 1,024\n (5)\n \n \n 17\n Transport\n \n 2,400\n \n \n 18\n Uniforms\n 316\n \n \n \n 19\n Upkeep and testing of Electrical Equipment\n 120\n \n \n \n \n Hire of Halls and Lecturers Fees\n \n 5,500\n \n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 41,565\n 67,049\n \n \n \n \n 55,420\n \n \n \n \n Special Expenditure.\n \n \n \n \n 20\n Respirators for Essential Services....\n 71,916\n \n \n \n 21\n Protective Clothing\n 73,107\n \n \n \n 22\n Syreus\n 12,000\n (8)\n \n \n \n \n 10,000\n (8)\n \n \n \n \n 5,000\n \n \n \n \n \n 5,000\n (9)\n \n \n 23\n Equipment for Air Raid Wardens and other Personnel\n 25,000\n \n \n \n 24\n Decontamination Equipment\n 20,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 25\n Grants to Essential Services\n 140,500\n 100,000\n \n \n 26\n Rescue Plant\n \n \n \n \n 27\n Miscellaneous Stores\n 5,000\n 10,000\n \n \n \n \n 3,000\n 2,000\n \n \n 28\n Incendiary Bomb Equipment for A.R.P. Posts\n 6,000\n \n \n \n 29\n One Filing Cabinet...\n 135\n 130\n \n \n \n Sandbags\n 325,000\n (10)\n \n \n \n Fire Appliances\n 141,000\n (11)\n \n \n \n Medical Stores\n 150,000\n (12)\n \n \n \n Air Raid Wardens' Equipment\n 9,000\n (13)\n \n \n \n Equipment for St. John Ambulance Brigade Reserve...\n 15,400\n (12)\n \n \n \n Typewriter and Gestetner Machine\n 2,160\n (10)\n \n \n \n Equipment for Architect's Office\n 2,000\n (10)\n \n \n \n Lighting devices for Government Buildings..\n 500\n (14)\n \n \n \n Fire Protection for Government Buildings\n 4,000\n (14)\n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 974,718\n 164,130\n \n \n \n Total Air Raid Precautions\n 1,111,627\n 286,599\n \n\n(1) More volunteers qualified.\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(3) Considered necessary.\n\n(4) More public demand for instruction.\n\n(5) For new A.R.P. Headquarters.\n\n(6) More exercises.\n\n(7) Provision made separately under Sub-heads 11 and 13.\n\n(8) To complete full requirements.\n\n(9) Erection charges.\n\n(10) Non-recurrent.\n\n(11) Provision made under Fire Brigade.\n\n(12) Provision made under Medical Department.\n\n(13) Provision included in Sub-head 23.\n\n(14) Provision made under Public Works Extraordinary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569898, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 170, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "Head 30.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nEstimate\n\n \n Expenditure up to 31st December, 1989\n Approved Estimated Expenditure, 1940-41\n Revised Estimated Expenditure, 1940-41\n Estimated Expenditure, 1941-42\n \n \n $\n $\n $\n $\n \n \n General Works\n \n \n Brought forward\n 1,374,100\n \n \n \n \n 1 Roads\n \n 236,900\n 200,000\n 325,000\n \n \n 2 Drainage:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n (a) Training Nullahs\n \n 27,503\n 27,500\n 27,250\n \n \n (b) Miscellaneous\n \n 85,880\n 140,000\n 138,000\n \n \n 3 Port Works\n \n 2,803\n 4,400\n 4,400\n \n \n 4 Miscellaneous\n \n 42,990\n 60,000\n 10,000\n \n \n Buildings\n \n \n 5 Central Police Station--New Block\n \n 4,500\n 150,000\n 5,960\n \n \n 6 New Fire Station in Hennessy Road\n \n 4,000\n \n 4,000\n \n \n 31 Additions to B. & F. Quarters, Lai Chi Kok\n \n \n 11\n \n \n \n 32 Experimental Agricultural Station\n \n \n 4,500\n 150,000\n \n \n 33 Lai Chi Kok Female Prison-Mosquito gauze\n \n \n 5,960\n \n \n \n 34 Eight Incinerators\n \n \n 4,000\n \n \n \n Communications\n \n \n 7 Western Market Modernisation of South Block\n \n 800,000\n 150,000\n \n \n \n 8 New Teachers Training College\n 221,337\n 347,500\n 85,000\n 195,337\n \n \n 35 Island Road-Reconstruction of Bridges\n \n 26,000\n \n 26,000\n \n \n 36 Strengthening of bus routes to increased traffic\n \n 145,000\n 10,000\n 18,000\n \n \n 9 Additions to Volunteer Headquarters and Huts at St. Johns Place\n \n 720,000\n 100,000\n 285,000\n \n \n 37 Wearing coat to Military Roads\n \n 500,000\n 20,000\n 117,000\n \n \n 10 Out-patients Department, Queen's Road -Conversion of Mortuary and Dispensary\n \n 88,900\n \n 28,100\n \n \n 11 Queen Mary Hospital-Enclosing verandah\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 38 Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Sheung Shui\n \n 1,900,000\n 500,000\n 500,000\n \n \n 39 K.I.L. 3394-Forming access road\n \n 43,000\n \n 23,000\n \n \n 40 New Territories Reconstruction of Bridges\n \n 1,000,000\n 50,000\n 10,000\n \n \n 41 Extension of Fuk Tsun Street and Tai Kok Tsui Road\n \n 50,000\n \n 2,500\n \n \n 12 New Public Latrines\n \n 80,000\n 80,000\n \n \n \n 42 Resurfacing Kowloon Roads\n \n 1,000,000\n 300,000\n 5,500\n \n \n 13 Improvements to Belcher's Street Coolie Quarters\n \n \n \n 5,500\n \n \n 43 Widening Main Road and forming footpaths between Au Tau and Yuen Long and between Yuen Long and Ping Shan\n \n 40,000\n 40,000\n 25,000\n \n \n 14 Improvements to Markets\n \n 3,600\n \n 3,600\n \n \n 15 New Police Sub-Station, Blue Pool Road\n \n 80,000\n \n 80,000\n \n \n 16 Alteration and Improvements to Police Stations\n \n \n 25,000\n 25,000\n \n \n 17 A.R.P. Headquarters, Hong Kong- Improvements and Equipment\n \n 3,000\n \n 3,000\n \n \n 18 A.R.P. Store Racks\n \n 650\n \n 650\n \n \n 19 Lighting Devices for Government Buildings\n \n \n 15,000\n 10,000\n \n \n 20 Fire protection for Government Buildings\n \n 2,000\n \n 2,000\n \n \n 21 New Detention Camp, Aberdeen\n \n 100,000\n \n 100,000\n \n \n 22 Furniture Workshop and Store at North Point\n \n 40,000\n \n 40,000\n \n \n 23 Fire Sub-Station at Shaukiwan\n \n 25,000\n \n 25,000\n \n \n Port Works\n \n \n 24 Kowloon Hospital Extension-Site Formation\n \n 188,000\n 54,335\n 80,000\n \n \n 48 North Point-Reclamation Extension\n \n \n 125,665\n 8,000\n \n \n 25 New Public Mortuary and Disinfecting Station, Kowloon\n \n 400,000\n 196,170\n 3,750\n \n \n 26 Infectious Diseases Hospital\n \n \n 3,750\n 50,000\n \n \n 27 Lai Chi Kok Hospital-Conversion of dry pan to flush system\n \n 150,000\n \n 150,000\n \n \n 28 Alterations and Improvements to Tsang Foo Villas\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 29 New Police Station at Kowloon Tong\n \n 1,900,000\n \n \n \n \n 80 A.R.P. Headquarters, Kowloon-Store room for training equipment\n \n \n 10,000\n 10,000\n \n \n 49 Kennedy Town-Construction of Seawall and Cattle Pier\n \n 345,000\n 141,131\n 4,000\n \n \n 50 Extension of Reclamation-Jubilee Street Pier to Pottinger Street Pier\n \n 750,000\n 54,548\n 375,000\n \n \n 51 Sand screening equipment\n \n 100,000\n 50,000\n 12,500\n \n \n 52 Sand Depot at Central Government Store\n \n 12,500\n \n 12,500\n \n \n 53 French Street Refuse Boat Pier\n \n 15,000\n 15,000\n 15,000\n \n \n 54 Government Slipway Yaumati-Reconstruction of Pier\n \n 22,000\n 22,000\n 40,000\n \n \n 55 R.C.C. decking to nullah at North-west of K.I.L. 4240, Prince Edward Road\n \n 50,404\n 40,000\n 10,404\n \n \n Carried forward\n 1,874,100\n \n \n \n \n Carried forward\n 2,650,964\n \n \n \n\nPage 170\n\nPage 171", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "268\n\n28\n\n# Head 6.-DEFENCE\n\n## C.-AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.\n\nApproved Estimate, 1940-41.\n\nEstimate, 1941-1942.\n\nSub-heads :-\n\n \n 1\n Personal Emoluments\n 95,344\n 67,049\n \n \n \n Other Charges.\n \n \n \n \n 2\n Advertisements and publicity..\n 400\n 300\n \n \n 3\n Badges (A.R.P.)\n \n \n \n \n 5\n Courses of Instruction\n 2,000\n 2,600\n \n \n 4\n Conveyance Allowances\n 3,300\n 1,860\n \n \n \n \n 1,000\n 500\n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n Expenses of sale of respirators\n 3,120\n 3,120\n \n \n 7\n Fuel, Light and Power\n 2,000\n 1,500\n \n \n 8\n Exhibitions\n 1,250\n 1,500\n \n \n 9\n Experimental Work\n 3,000\n 2,000\n \n \n 10\n Grant-in-aid to Women's Air Raid Precautions Union\n 4,125\n 3,000\n \n \n \n ཀྱིསཀྱི ོས ིསེས\n \n \n \n \n (1)\n \n \n \n \n \n (2)\n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n Hire of Halls and Lecturers Fees\n 5,500\n 20,000 (4)\n \n \n 12\n Incidental Expenses......\n 1,000\n 2,200 (3)\n \n \n 13\n Maintenance and replacement of Training Equipment\n 10,000\n 8,000\n \n \n 14\n Publications and translation\n 3,750\n 3,000\n \n \n 15\n Rent of Public Telephones...............\n 1,024\n \n \n \n 16\n Transport\n \n \n \n \n 17\n Uniforms\n 1,000\n 2,400 (6)\n \n \n \n \n 120\n 316\n \n \n 18\n Upkeep and testing of Electrical Equipment\n 2,100 (3)\n \n \n \n \n Total Other Charges\n 41,565\n 55,420\n \n \n \n Special Expenditure.\n \n \n \n \n 19\n Respirators for Essential Services......\n 71,916\n 12,000\n \n \n 20\n Protective Clothing\n 73,107\n 10,000 (7)\n \n \n 21\n Syrens\n 5,000\n 5,000\n \n \n 22\n Equipment for Air Raid Wardens and other Personnel\n 25,000\n \n \n \n 23\n Decontamination Equipment\n 20,000\n 1,000\n \n \n 24\n Grants to Essential Services\n 140,500\n 100,000\n \n \n 25\n Rescue Plant\n 5,000\n 3,000\n \n \n 26\n Miscellaneous Stores\n 10,000\n 2,000\n \n \n 27\n Incendiary Bomb Equipment for A.R.P. Posts\n 6,000\n \n \n \n 28\n One Filing Cabinet....\n 135\n 130\n \n \n \n Sandbags\n 325,000\n (9)\n \n \n \n Fire Appliances\n 141,000\n (10)\n \n \n \n Medical Stores\n 150,000\n (11)\n \n \n \n Air Raid Wardens' Equipment\n 9,000\n (12)\n \n \n \n Equipment for St. John Ambulance Brigade Reserve..\n 15,400\n \n \n \n \n Typewriter and Gestetner Machine\n 2,160\n \n \n \n \n Equipment for Architect's Office\n 2,000\n (9)\n \n \n \n Lighting devices for Government Buildings..\n \n \n \n \n \n Fire Protection for Government Buildings\n 500\n 4,000 (13)\n \n \n \n \n (13)\n \n \n \n \n Total Special Expenditure\n 974,718\n 164,130\n \n \n \n Total Air Raid Precautions\n 1,111,627\n 286,599\n \n\n(1) More volunteers qualified.\n\n(2) Considered sufficient.\n\n(3) Considered necessary.\n\n(4) More public demand for instruction.\n\n(5) For new A.R.P. Headquarters.\n\n(6) More exercises.\n\n(7) To complete full requirements.\n\n......\n\n(8) Erection charges.\n\n(9) Non-recurrent.\n\n(10) Provision made under Fire Brigade.\n\n(11) Provision made under Medical Department.\n\n(12) Provision included in Sub-head 22.\n\n(13) Provision made under Public Works ordinary.\n\nExtra-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570034, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "366\n\n126\n\nHead 30.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nHead 30.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY.\n\nHead 30.-PUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY\n\nEstimate\n\nExpendi-ture up to 31st December, 1939.\n\nApproved Revised Estimated Estimated Expendi- Expendi-\n\nture,\n\nture, 1940-41. 1940-41.\n\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1941-42.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS EXTRAORDINARY,— Continued.\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\nGeneral Works.\n\n1 Roads\n\n236,900\n\n200,000\n\n325,000\n\n800,000\n\n2 Drainage:\n\n(a) Training Nullahs\n\n27,508\n\n(b) Miscellaneous\n\n85,830\n\n27,500 140,000\n\n3 Port Works\n\n2,803\n\n4,400\n\n4 Miscellaneous\n\n42,990\n\n60,000\n\n27,500 140,000 4,400 60,000\n\n27,250\n\n188,000\n\n2,500 10,000\n\nBrought forward\n\nBuildings, Continued,\n\n31 Additions to B. & F. Quarters, Lai Chi Kok\n\n32 Experimental Agricultural Station\n\n33 Lai Chi Kok Female Prison-Mosquito gauze\n\n34 Eight Incinerators\n\n367\n\n127\n\nEstimate\n\nExpendi-ture up to 31st December, 1939.\n\nApproved Revised Estimated Estimated Expendi- Expendi-\n\nture,\n\nture, 1940-41. 1940-41.\n\nEstimated Expendi-ture, 1941-42.\n\n4,500 150,000\n\n5,900\n\n4,000\n\n$\n\n$\n\n$\n\n2,524,100\n\n4,500\n\n150,000\n\n5,960\n\n4,000)\n\nBuildings.\n\n5 Central Police Station New Block\n\nCommunications.\n\n800,000\n\n800,000\n\n6 New Fire Station in Hennessy Road\n\n150,000\n\n70,000\n\n70,000\n\n80,000\n\n7 Western Market-Modernisation of South Block\n\n221,337\n\n83,000\n\n193,337\n\n26,000\n\n35 Island Road-Reconstruction of Bridges..\n\n36 Strengthening of bus routes to carry increased traffic\n\n145,000\n\n10,000\n\n2,000\n\n18,000\n\n720,000\n\n100,000\n\n8 New Teachers Training College\n\n347,500\n\n235,000\n\n339,500\n\n8,000\n\n9 Additions to Volunteer Headquarters and Huts at St. Johns Place\n\n37 Wearing coat to Military Roads\n\n=\n\n500,000\n\n20,000\n\n117,000\n\n88,900\n\n88,900\n\n28,100\n\n10 Out-patients Department, Queen's Road -Conversion of Mortuary and Dis-pensary\n\n38 Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Sheung Shui\n\n1,900,000\n\n500,000\n\n500,000\n\n200,000\n\n89 K.I.L. 3394 Forming access road\n\n48,000\n\n10,000\n\n20,000\n\n23,000\n\n3,500\n\nT\n\n3,500\n\n40 New Territories Reconstruction of\n\n11 Queen Mary Hospital-Enclosing veran-dah\n\nBridges\n\n1,000,000\n\n50,000\n\n10,000)\n\n41 Extension of Fuk Tsun Street and Tai\n\n2.500\n\n12 New Public Latrines\n\n2,500 50,000\n\nKok Tsui Road\n\nน\n\n80,000\n\n80,000\n\n13 Improvements to Belcher's Street Coolie Quarters\n\n42 Resurfacing Kowloon Roads\n\n1,000,000\n\n300,000\n\n5.500\n\n5,500\n\n14 Improvements to Markets\n\n3,600\n\n3,600\n\n15 New Police Sub-Station, Blue Pool Road..\n\n80,000\n\n90,000\n\n43 Widening Main Road and forming foot-paths between Au Tau and Yuen Long and between Yuen Long and Ping Shan\n\n40,000\n\n40,000\n\n16 Alteration and Improvements to Police Stations\n\n25.000\n\n25,000\n\n17 A.R.P. Headquarters, Hong Kong- Improvements and Equipment\n\n3.000\n\n3,000\n\n18 A.R.P. Store-Racks\n\n650\n\n650\n\n44 Argyle Street Nullah reconstruction\n\n19 Lighting Devices for Government Build-ings\n\n45 Fo Pang Valley-S.W.D.\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n20 Fire protection for Government Buildings.\n\n2,000\n\n2,000\n\n21 New Detention Camp, Aberdeen\n\n100,000\n\n100,000\n\nDrainage and Anti-Malarial Works.\n\n46 R.C.C. decking to nullah at North-west of K.I.L. 4240, Prince Edward Road..\n\n47 Anti-Malarial Works\n\n15,000\n\n10,000\n\n10,0KI\n\n20,000\n\n20,000\n\n11,000\n\n40,000\n\n40,000\n\n40,000\n\n22 Furniture Workshop and Store at North Point\n\n85,000\n\n85,000\n\n23 Fire Sub-Station at Shaukiwan\n\n25,000\n\n25,000\n\nPort Works.\n\n24 Kowloon Hospital Extension-Site Forma-tion\n\n188,000\n\n54,385\n\n80,000 125,665\n\n8,000\n\n49 North Point Reclamation Extension\n\n400,000\n\n196,170\n\n8,750\n\n3,750\n\n50,000\n\n25 New Public Mortuary and Disinfecting Station, Kowloon\n\n150,000\n\n10,000\n\n10,000\n\n140,000\n\n49 Kennedy Town-Construction of Seawall and Cattle Pier\n\n845,000\n\n141,131\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\n50,000\n\n26 Infectious Diseases Hospital\n\n1,900,000\n\n500,000\n\n50 Extension of Reclamation-Jubilee Street\n\n27 Lai Chi Kok Hospital-Conversion of dry pan to flush system\n\nPier to Pottinger Street Pier\n\n750,000\n\n54,548\n\n375,000\n\n100,000\n\n50,000\n\n12,500\n\n12,500\n\n51 Sand screening equipment\n\n15,000\n\n15.0000\n\n15,000\n\n28 Alterations and Improvements to Tsang Foo Villas\n\n52 Sand Depot at Central Government\n\n22,000\n\n22,000\n\nStore\n\n50,404\n\n40,000\n\n40,000\n\n10,404\n\n29 New Police Station at Kowloon Tong 80 A.R.P. Headquarters, Kowloon Store\n\n30,000\n\n30,000\n\n53 French Street Refuse Boat Pier\n\n54 Government Slipway\n\n65,000\n\n60,000\n\nYaumati-Recon-\n\nroom for training equipment\n\n4,000\n\n4,000\n\nstruction of Pier\n\n60,145\n\n-\n\n27,000\n\n55,145\n\n5,000\n\nCarried forward\n\n2,524,100\n\nCarried forward\n\n3,800,964", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570065, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "402\n\n14\n\nProvision for the grants in aid to (a) the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals, (b) the War Memorial Nursing Home, and (c) the Tung Wah and Associated Hospitals is now made under Head 16, Medical Department, instead of under this Head. The amounts remain unchanged except in the case of the Tung Wah and Associated Hospitals.\n\nHEAD 6A. DEFENCE, VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.\n\nThe increased strength of the Corps resulting from the war and the Compulsory Service Ordinance and the intensified training which is now being undergone have necessitated many supplementary votes under this Head of Expenditure during the current financial year. In estimating for 1941-42 it is assumed that these factors will continue to operate and the large increases shown under Personal Emoluments and various other sub-heads (e.g. Sub-heads 6, 9, 13, 17, 18 and 19) as compared with 1940-41 need no further explanation. Other small increases are accounted for by the increased accommodation now being provided at St. John's Place and existing Headquarters. The items shown under Special Expenditure are either replacements or additional equipment required on account of the increased strength and training.\n\nSince this abnormally large expenditure is a more or less direct result of the war it is proposed to debit, at the end of the financial year 1941-42, the amount of actual expenditure in excess of $150,000 to Head 32, War Expenditure, B., Extraordinary Local Defence, Sub-head 2, Military. The amount which it is provisionally estimated will be so debited is $494,091. $150,000 represents the approximate average annual actual expenditure on the Volunteer Defence Corps for the years 1934-38, i.e. for the five years preceding the war.\n\nHEAD 6B. DEFENCE, HONG KONG NAVAL VOLUNTEER FORCE.\n\nAs in the case of the Volunteer Defence Corps the additional expenditure under this Head is attributable to the expansion of the Force and increased activities arising out of the war. The pay and allowances of the mobilized members of the Force are of course a direct charge to Head 32, War Expenditure, B., Extraordinary Local Defence, Sub-head 1, Naval. It is also proposed to debit to this Sub-head, at the end of the financial year 1941-42, the amount of actual expenditure under Head 6B in excess of $40,000. The latter sum represents the approximate average annual actual expenditure on the Naval Volunteer Force for the years 1935-38, i.e. for the four years preceding the war. The Force was first established in 1935.\n\nHEAD 6C. DEFENCE, AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS.\n\nNumerous supplementary votes have been taken under this Head during the current financial year on account of the increased strength of the Corps of Air Raid Wardens and more public demand for instruction in Air Raid Precautions measures, and the provision made under Other Charges for 1941-42 is based on the assumption that these conditions will continue.\n\nSpecial Expenditure.\n\nA programme for civilian defence was explained to the Finance Committee at the time of the consideration of Finance Message No. 6 of 1939. That programme has been speeded up in 1940-41 and will be continued in 1941-42. For convenience of administration the provision for \"Fire Appliances\" has been transferred in 1941-42 to Head 10, Fire Brigade, the provision for \"Medical Stores\" and \"Equipment for St. John Ambulance Brigade Reserve\" to Head 16, Medical Department, and the provision for \"Lighting devices for Government Buildings\" and \"Fire Protection for Government Buildings\" to Head 30, Public Works Extraordinary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 570079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941", "content_text": "419\n\n2\n\nSub-head 13.-Improvements to Belcher's Street Coolie Quarters, $5,500.-To provide a kitchen in the Chinese married quarters and a coal-burning boiler in the Sanitary Coolies' bath-house.\n\n14.-Improvements to Markets, $3,600.—To provide small improvements to the markets at Shaukiwan and Whitfield and to the North Block of the Western Market.\n\n15.-New Police Sub-Station, Blue Pool Road, $80,000. To meet Police requirements in a rapidly developing district.\n\n16. Alterations and Improvements to Police Stations, $25,000.—This is an inclusive sum to meet the cost of alterations and improvements to Police Stations in Hong Kong, Kowloon and the New Territories.\n\n17. A.R.P. Headquarters, Hong Kong Improvements and Equipment, $3,000.- To meet cost of improvements and equipment considered essential by the D.A.R.P.\n\n18.-A.R.P. Store-Racks, $650.-To meet cost of racks for respirators and protective clothing.\n\n19.-Lighting Devices for Government Buildings, $2,000. To meet the cost of the D.A.R.P's. requirements.\n\n20. Fire protection for Government Buildings, $2,000.-To meet the cost of the D.A.R.P's. requirements.\n\n21.-New Detention Camp, Aberdeen, $100,000.—To meet the need for providing suitable employment for detainees who will be employed in forming a reclamation. The sum is to provide a camp to house the detainees.\n\n22.—Furniture Workshop and Store at North Point, $85,000.—To make provision for a furniture workshop at North Point to replace the existing temporary workshop at Arsenal Yard.\n\n23.-Fire Sub-Station at Shaukiwan, $25,000. Considered essential for efficient fire control in this neighbourhood.\n\n24.-Kowloon Hospital Extension Site Formation, $8,000. To cover payment of retention money on the site formation contract.\n\n25.-New Public Mortuary and Disinfecting Station, Kowloon, $140,000.– The present mortuary is badly situated from a health view-point while the disinfecting hulk is in a dangerous condition and cannot be repaired. The proposal is to construct a combined mortuary and disinfecting station at Taikoktsui.\n\n26. Infectious Diseases Hospital, $500,000.—This is considered essential by the Medical Department. The site is adjacent to Kowloon Hospital.\n\n27.-Lai Chi Kok Hospital-Conversion of dry pan to flush system, $12,500.-To provide a drainage system for the remainder of the hospital buildings. The cholera block has already been so provided.\n\n28. Alterations and Improvements to Tsang Foo Villas, $22,000.—To provide office accommodation and quarters for the Sanitary Department in the Kowloon City area.\n\n29.-New Police Station at Kowloon Tong, $30,000.-To meet Police requirements in this residential area.\n\n3\n\nSub-head 30.-A.R.P. Headquarters, Kowloon--Store room for training equipment, $4,000.-Considered necessary for the satisfactory storage of essential equipment.\n\n31. Additions to B. F. Quarters, Lai Chi Kok, $4,500.-The existing quarters are too small. This is to meet the cost of additions considered essential,\n\n32. Experimental Agricultural Station, $150,000.-Provisional sum to cover the cost of buildings, quarters and water supply for an Experimental Agricultural Station in the New Territories.\n\n33.-Lai Chi Kok Female Prison Mosquito gauze, $5,960.—To abate the fly and mosquito nuisance in this prison.\n\n34. Eight Incinerators, $4,000.--An inclusive sum from which the cost of refuse incinerators in the New Territories is to be met.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS.\n\n35.-Island Road-Reconstruction of Bridges, $18,000.-To continue the programme of making island bridges suitable for modern traffic requirements.\n\n36. Strengthening of bus routes to carry increased traffic, $100,000.— The existing road surfacing in Hong Kong is generally quite inadequate to carry modern traffic loads. Before double decker buses are allowed these roads will require to be strengthened.\n\n37.-Wearing coat to Military Roads, $20,000.-To begin a programme of work to prevent the rapid deterioration of the surface of roads taken over from the Military.\n\n38.-Improvements to Road from Kowloon to Sheung Shui, $200,000.— To meet the cost of completing the section of the work now in hand.\n\n39.-K.I.L. 3394 Forming access road, $23,000. To open up an area near Ma Tau Wai for portions of which applications for building land have already been received,\n\n40.-New Territories—Reconstruction of Bridges, $10,000.—To continue the reconstruction of road bridges necessitated by modern traffic requirements.\n\n41.-Extension of Fuk Tsun Street and Tai Kok Tsui Road, $80,000. — To enable essential drainage requirements to be undertaken and make land available for sale.\n\n42. Resurfacing Kowloon Roads. $300,000.-The main roads in Kowloon are inadequately surfaced for modern traffic requirements. To commence a programme of resurfacing.\n\n43.-Widening Main Road and forming footpaths between Au Tau and Yuen Long and between Yuen Long and Ping Shan, $40,000.--Long stretches of this road are formed over unstable strata and are continually subsiding. To assist in the prevention of recurring surface repairs this work is necessary.\n\nDRAINAGE AND ANTI-MALARIAL WORKS.\n\n44.-Argyle Street Nullah reconstruction, $10,000.-The existing nullah is old and in poor condition. Heavier side walls are required to withstand effects of modern traffic loads.\n\n420", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-584-2 Estimates 1941-2 21-2-1941 - 11-6-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571610, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 84, "title": "CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940", "content_text": "T. BLACK, ESQ.\n\nMy dear Tom,\n\nColonial Office,\nDowning Street,\n28th March, 1940.\n\nFurther to my letter of the 21st March, I now enclose a copy of the publication referred to in the second paragraph, which the Inland Revenue people thought might be of help to you in solving the problems of ascertaining the amount of profits made in the Colony. It looks rather formidable but at least shows that the matter has received some attention in the past and should point the way to various devices for establishing an allocation of profits.\n\nI should add that the Inland Revenue representatives draw attention to Section 27(5) of the Model Ordinance contained in the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee of 1922, with regard to entrepot trade.\n\nYours sincerely,\nB. Carole.\n\n`Foreign National Enterpower. The Takahozi Vol Tu by Mitchell Methods f Allocating Income.`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571675, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 149, "title": "CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940", "content_text": "BY AIR MAIL.\n\n57002 \n\n159 \n\nWar Taxation Department, \n5th floor, \nPedder Building, \nHong Kong, 2nd May, 1940.\n\nMy dear Sydney,\n\nMany thanks for your letter of 28th March enclosing the League of Nations report on \"Taxation of Foreign and National Enterprises\" Volume IV.\n\nIt deals exhaustively with methods of allocating taxable profits between administrations by more or less arbitrary methods which suit the taxing authorities well enough, as they work both ways, and leave the taxpayer contented, as they eliminate double taxation.\n\nThere is a great deal of useful information on the devices in use abroad for distinguishing profits made by the various establishments of international traders which will probably be useful to us but it does not throw any light on the point which is worrying us here, i.e. what are \"profits made from transactions in the Colony\"?\n\nIf that phrase meant the same as \"profits arising in or derived from the Colony\" as the Inland Revenue people suggest, we should know where we stood. Those responsible for the Ordinance quite obviously meant something different as they deliberately rejected the latter for the former, and presumably a Court would rule that the intention was not \"profits arising in or derived from the Colony\". It would not be difficult to argue that the intention was to tax only profits derived from the sale of imported goods for consumption in the Colony and the manufacturing profit on goods produced in Hong Kong for export. On that basis we should collect precious little tax.\n\nHowever, I shall be interested to learn what the Inland Revenue experts can suggest after seeing the Ordinance.\n\nThey will probably find some amusement in Section 16 where a fine simple phrase \"a reasonable sum for depreciation\" has been inserted in place of the original Sub-Section which provided for depreciation of plant, machinery, and fires at rates laid down by the Commissioner. The following Sub-Sections were left untouched with the result that we now have to allow depreciation and renewal of the same asset, and what fun we shall have in finding reasonable sums.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nS. Caine, Esq., \nColonial Office, \nLondon.\n\nNo. A \n1940.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-586-8 War Taxation 2-2-1940 - 11-5-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 571780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-587-1 Kai Tak- extension of aerodrome 29-12-1939 - 20-11-1940", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-587-1 Kai Tak- extension of aerodrome 29-12-1939 - 20-11-1940", "content_text": "## \n(e) Flood lighting. Owing to the rapid development of night landing technique, the Committee hesitates to make any definite recommendation but suggests the incorporation of the latest devices at the time of installation.\n\nInterior lighting in the hangers. Vapour discharge lights or lights of an equally high quality should be provided and there should be facilities for travelling leads in all hangers.\n\nFloodlighting facilities should be provided for the terminal building, for the apron in front and for the entrances to the hangers.\n\nAll lighting should be controlled from the central control tower and should be capable of being blacked out in an emergency.\n\n### (iii) Marine Craft and Equipment\n\n(a) A sea-going control launch should be provided. It should be equipped with firefighting, first aid and crash equipment, medium and short wave radio telephony and a servohlight. It should also have a wireless direction finder on board.\n\n(b) Two auxiliary patrol launches with spotlights and facilities for towing.\n\n(c) Four dinghies, one of which should be power driven.\n(d) A fire engine and modern ambulance for crashes.\n(e) Six hand trucks to take freight through the Customs.\n\nIt is presumed that the Post Office and the Airway Companies will provide their own means of transport for dealing with freight once it has been cleared.\n\n### (iv) Wireless\n\n(a) Medium and Short Wave transmission and reception for working with aircraft and for point-to-point communication between ground stations.\n\n(b) Direction finding facilities not subject to night error for working with aircraft.\n\nThese should be under the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-587-1 Kai Tak- extension of aerodrome 29-12-1939 - 20-11-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577807, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "content_text": "markets. In addition to these long liners many hand-line fishermen, the number of whom varies from time to time, are always active in bays, channels and estuaries.\n\nINSHORE FISHERIES.—Actually the seine fishing methods applied to deep-sea fisheries are also practiced by the inshore fisherfolk though on rather small scale. The longshore shrimp beam trawling is a well developed local fishery in which a sailing junk varying from 20 to 65 feet in length can operate 5 to 22 nets, similar to trawls in form but much smaller in size. The bulk of the catch consists chiefly of shrimps and small fish.\n\nBeach seining in which the so-called beach end is left on shore while a sampan carrying the net goes seaward, paying out the latter to encircle a spot is not uncommon. As soon as the off-shore end is brought ashore by the sampan, the fishermen, 4 to 8 members on each haul-line, begin to drag the seine ashore to remove the fish. Such inshore seines as the parrot-seine, the small drag seine, and so on are constantly practised by some longshore men, but they are not very common.\n\nAnywhere and everywhere in territorial waters we can observe set gill-netting for groupers, soles, crayfish (lobsters), crabs, sea snails, etc. As all these species of sea animals live among the rocks near the coast, the fleet of nets a few feet in height, with a total length from 2 to 3 1/2 miles must be laid somewhere along the coastal line at night or in daytime. Most of the marine fish especially the red-spot grouper, the Macao sole, the white crab, the crayfish and sea snail sold alive in the retail markets are supplied by these set gill-netting fisherfolk. The hand-line and inshore long line fisheries, of course, are another important source of fresh and live fish.\n\nSuch peculiar forms of fishing gear as the large bamboo pots for groupers, the small ones for siganid fish, stake nets for grey mullets, simple hand net for crayfish, etc., would be interesting to mention, but since they are not of distinct importance commercially I should not describe them here. Detailed discussion of these gear and methods will appear in reports published somewhere else.\n\nIn Deep Bay of the New Territories oysters are cultivated in an area of approximately 20 square miles. The annual produce of this area is about $200,000. The methods for collecting oysters, mussels, cockles and sea weeds are mostly hand-picking with the help of such simple tools as knives, chisels, and hammers; no special devices or suitable machines have been developed and adopted in this area.\n\nS. Y. LIN.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577810, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "content_text": "2\n\n27\n\n8.\n\nshape of $4 to each junk master to enable him to obtain supplies to put to sea, together with an advance of $50,000 to finance wholesale marketing of the fish when caught.\n\n(7) Advance of $1,000,000 as a loan to be handled by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce or other approved body to enable subsidiary importers and distributors of food temporarily stalled for lack of cash to resume business.\n\nThe C.-in-C. approved this frankly palliative programme and all except (7) (which failed to secure endorsement in London and the need for which lessened more quickly than at one time seemed probable) have been put into effect. The problem was to find a balance between what was immediately necessary to prevent a complete breakdown and what would push inflation beyond control. Ad hoc devices to force the circulation of the re-established currency tended inevitably to increase prices and none except (6) touched the real basis of the problem, which was scarcity of supply.\n\n9.\n\nThe price of rice was fixed at 20 cents a catty by means of a subsidy estimated to cost the Administration in the neighbourhood of $150,000 per day. Maximum prices for half a dozen other basic commodities were also fixed by order, and the export of foodstuffs from the colony forbidden.\n\n10.\n\nExcept in the case of rice, where the bulk of the stock was under official control, the price-fixing orders were largely bluff, since the Administration lacked the staff to enforce them. The calculation, however, was that the orders would tend to steady prices, and this, after a few days, in fact proved to be the case.\n\n11.\n\nThe measures referred to above can, on the whole, be regarded as successful. The threatened crisis over circulation of money may now be said to have passed, and prices, though still dangerously high, are perceptibly on the down grade.\n\n12.\n\nCredit for overcoming the problems of these first five nervous weeks belongs probably less to the resource of the Administration than to the resilience of the Chinese.\n\n13.\n\nOn October 6th, the banks were authorised to make a further advance of $200 to each customer and were permitted to receive deposits of cash. On October 17th, the banks were reopened for local current account business.\n\n14.\n\nFrom the moment of arrival, C.A.S. have engaged in a desperate search for supplies. Rice, peanut oil, and vegetables have had to be purchased piecemeal in the Delta at ruinous prices. Lt. Col. Bass, designated S.O.1 (Immigration), had to be detached from a police force already 85% under strength and sent to Borneo to look for firewood. Major Holmes had to leave the hard-pressed Secretariat to go to Shanghai in the hope of closing a possible deal in coal. A small Hong Kong ship proceeded to Kwong Chow Wan at the risk of seizure to try to load coal with a C.A.S. representative on board. The results of these forays are not yet known.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578793, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 187, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "(16) The undertaking extends from Albert Bridge, Glasgow, to a line between Newark Castle, Port Glasgow, and Cardross Burn, a distance of over 18 miles. The harbour section lies between Albert Bridge, Glasgow, and Rothesay Dock, Clydebank, a distance of over 6 miles. The lower 12 miles consist of the dredged channel and river approach, and in this lower section there are no quays. The dredged channel by which access is obtained to the port extends for about 4 miles below the lower limit of the Trust's undertaking, and this lower portion of the channel is under the control of the Clyde Lighthouses Trust. The whole system is open to the tide.\n\n(17) The general powers and duties of the Trustees are the dredging and maintenance of the river and docks and the provision of dock facilities, the cost to be met from dues levied under statutory schedules. In certain respects, e.g., in dealing with wrecks, leasing lands, and deepening the channel, the powers are wider than those to be found in the general harbour acts.\n\n(18) Eighty per cent. of the pre-war imports into Glasgow were distributed within the city and the industrial areas of Clydeside and Mid-Scotland, and the remaining 20 per cent. within the remainder of Scotland. About half the goods imported and exported were conveyed from and to the docks by rail, and half by road; general merchandise (as opposed to minerals), being conveyed by road to the extent of 88 per cent. From an analysis of the goods handled during the year to June, 1937, we take these particulars:\n\n \n General commodities\n by rail\n 35\n \n \n \n by road\n \n \n \n Coal, minerals, etc.\n by rail\n Grain, 80 per cent. by road\n \n \n Commercial oils and petrol\n \n tons 62,977\n \n \n \n \n 3,000,000\n \n \n \n \n 3,100,000\n \n \n \n \n 200,000\n \n \n \n \n 380,000\n \n\nThe average tonnage handled by road vehicles per day was about 10,000 tons; the number of loads per 8-hour day was 3,769; and the average load was thus about 3 tons. 2,770 mechanically propelled vehicles in 1937 had dock permits, and it was then estimated that some 3,000 horse-drawn lorries could be made available. The use of such lorries is declining.\n\n(19) Though there is considerable warehouse accommodation (including cold storage) in the city, there were before the war no warehouses within the dock estate immediately accessible to ships (with the exception of a granary of 47,000 tons), the quay sheds being transit sheds only. There are practically no mills, manufactories, or works with a water frontage; and on this account, and because there is no room for mooring vessels in the river or docks, barges were not used prior to the war, and discharge into lighters was unknown. A service of tugs is provided by two private firms.\n\n(20) The time occupied in bringing a ship from the Tail of the Bank to Princes Dock is about 3 hours, and the practice is to steam with the tide. The maximum current is about 3 knots on the ebb tide. There are no dangers due to tides, shoals, or shifting sands, and we were informed by pilots with wide experience that, given the care required by the narrow waters, the task of navigating in the channel ships up to 18,000 to 20,000 tons presented no difficulty, and that, with some additional widening and dredging, ships of 30,000 tons could be brought up to Glasgow. It is, of course, well known that, by the adoption of special measures, the two giant Cunarders have both been brought down the channel. We are advised that the recent developments of Radar and similar devices have not yet proceeded far enough to make them valuable aids to navigation in the channel in fog, but that difficulties arising from fog are no greater nor more prevalent on the Clyde than at most other ports.\n\nPage 7\n\nB. THE CART NAVIGATION\n\n(21) The Cart is a tributary of the Clyde, which it enters opposite Clydebank, after flowing through a portion of Renfrewshire in the vicinity of Paisley and Renfrew. The undertaking of the Cart Navigation was entrusted in 1787 to the Magistrates of Paisley, who, owing to financial difficulties, were superseded in 1843 by temporary trustees, and in 1872 by permanent trustees. From 1891, the trustees defaulted in payment of mortgage interest, and a judicial factor was appointed by the Court. In or about 1915, the undertaking became derelict. By the Paisley Corporation (Cart Navigation) Order Confirmation Act, 1938, the undertaking was resuscitated and vested in the Corporation of Paisley, all its debts being cancelled, and the Corporation being given the powers of the former trustees, and additional powers appropriate to conservancy and harbour authorities.\n\nWhile this undertaking has had an unfortunate history, its potentialities are obvious, and the continuance and development of the barge and lighter traffic introduced on the Cart during the war is worthy of investigation.\n\nC. PORT GLASGOW HARBOUR\n\n(22) This undertaking was formerly vested in and administered by Trustees operating under the Port Glasgow Harbour Acts, 1864 to 1890. From 1893 onwards, the revenue was insufficient to pay the B Debenture interest, and from 1911 onwards, the revenue was insufficient to pay the A Debenture interest. In 1939, the arrears of interest being then £85,000 and the traffic being negligible, the Trustees were empowered by the Port Glasgow Burgh and Harbour Order Confirmation Act, 1939, to sell the undertaking to the Town Council for £3,000, and a portion has since been filled in and converted into a public park. There are, of course, important shipbuilding yards in this area.\n\nD. DUMBARTON HARBOUR BOARD\n\n(23) This undertaking is administered under local acts, passed in 1881, 1899, and 1907, by a Board consisting of 11 members, of whom 6 are nominated by the Town Council of Dumbarton and 5 are elected by harbour ratepayers. The area comprises the lower reach of the river Leven at its confluence with the Clyde. To meet the loan charges on mortgage and overdrafts, a guarantee rate has been levied by the Town Council, the limit being 4d. in the £. The dues on goods are negligible; practically the whole revenue being derived from dues on ships built in Dumbarton or putting in for repairs. There is now only one firm of shipbuilders at Dumbarton (Messrs. Denny), and the harbour undertaking is dependent on this firm for its existence, and is virtually an adjunct of the shipbuilding yards. As such, it is of importance to the Burgh and to the shipbuilding company, and the development of barge traffic on the Leven should be considered.\n\nE. GREENOCK HARBOUR TRUST\n\n(24) This undertaking has had a complicated and checkered history. The original trustees were nominated by the Superior of Greenock in the middle of the 18th century, and the administrative structure was repeatedly modified until the passing of the consolidating act of 1866, which set up a board of 25 members, of whom 16 were nominated by the Town Council and 9 elected by shipowners and ratepayers. By 1887, the Trustees had defaulted in payment of interest, and in 1888, certain financial adjustments were made by local act, and the bondholders secured the right, which they have since retained, to a substantial representation on the Trust, the membership then being fixed at 9 members from the Town Council, 6 from shipowners and ratepayers,\n\nPage 3\n\n47051", "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": 579429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 104, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Appendix \"D\"\n\nOFFICER REPORTING.\n\nOFFICERS REPORTED.\n\n18\n\nREPORTING OFFICER'S STATEMENT.\n\n151\n\nVI: s. A152\n\nWilliamson.\n\n(b) Detective L.S.C? Lai Kwong; Interpreter Chiu Kwan Kit; One Cantonese Sergeant & 8 Regular Duty Cantonese Constables.\n\n\"These men left the Station on 19th December when the first evacuation took place. Subsequently they failed to report for duty, and never returned to the station on re-occupation except for three Police Constables who turned up again on the 23rd December in plain clothes but bringing their arms and ammunition with them. The three men had no genuine excuse. The others were deserters pure and simple. The majority belonged to the party of which I placed P.S.A55 Fitzpatrick in charge, and I blame him partly for their desertion in that he left them to their own devices when he got on to a lorry.\"\n\n\"I saw the interpreter in the Gloucester Building after the surrender and he claimed that he did not desert but that he had gone to Causeway Bay on the 19th to see his family and was unable to get back again.\"\n\nEnclosures - (3)\n\n(3) attached", "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": 583790, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "content_text": "## Hoad 35. Sanitary Department\n\nEstimate 1949-50. \nRevised Estimate 1948-49. \nApproved Estimate 1948-49. \nActual Expenditure 1947-48. \n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $5,724,186 | $4,000,000 | $5,453,300 | $1,761,802 |\n\nApart from the transfer from the Medical Department of Overseers, Disinfecting Station Engineers, Cleansing Chargemen, and Cleansing Coolies, a considerable reduction in staff amounting to 208 posts has been effected. This is the result of re-organisation of the supervision of sanitary squads and the introduction of mechanical devices. This reduction in menial staff is offset to some extent by an increase of 20 posts of Motor Driver which will be required for further vehicles to be purchased during the coming year. The opportunity has been taken to show all classes of menial labour under the generic title of Sanitary Coolies. The reduction in personal emoluments amounts to $49,564.\n\nOther Charges show an increase of $233,500 partly because a new provision of $120,000 is required for re-settlement of squatters, and $10,000 for a trial scheme of rural sanitation. The greater use of mechanical sanitation equipment is reflected in the provision of an extra $50,000 for upkeep of vehicles.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a further stage in the programme of re-equipping this department with motor and sea transport is provided for. The expenditure compared with 1948-49 is nearly $100,000 more but this is entirely accounted for by an additional $100,000 for nightsoil barges. Expenditure on the Head shows a nett increase of $270,886.\n\n## Head 36. Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n\nEstimate 1949-50. \nRevised Estimate 1948-49. \nApproved Estimate 1948-49. \nActual Expenditure 1947-48. \n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $177,111 | $180,000 | $181,314 | $179,666 |\n\n### A. - Secretariat for Chinese Affairs\n\nThe establishment has been reduced by the transfer of a Cadet Officer Class II and the abolition of a post of coolie. A small increase of $647 in personal emoluments is offset by a reduction of $4,850 in Other Charges with the result that expenditure has fallen by $4,203.\n\n### B. Social Welfare Office\n\nEstimate 1949-50. \nRevised Estimate 1948-49. \nApproved Estimate 1948-49. \nActual Expenditure 1947-48. \n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $799,563 | $900,000 | $1,332,520 | $1,244,244 |\n\nApart from the regrading of eight posts there are no changes in the establishment. Certain titles have been altered and a few salaries revised. As a result personal emoluments show an increase of $21,723.\n\nThe apparent considerable reduction of nearly...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583794, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "content_text": "P-32- \n\n215 \n\nOther Charges show a small reduction of $1,000 but an extra $29,120 is required for Special Expenditure to purchase more mechanical accounting devices. Consequently expenditure on this head has risen by $28,120.\n\n## Head 43. Custodian of Property\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $42,600 | 60,000 | 61,020 | 118,637 |\n\nThe activities of this department have been further reduced and retrenchments in staff and cuts in recurrent expenditure have effected a saving of $18,420.\n\n## Head 44. Colonial Development and Welfare Scheme\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $2,316,480 | | | |\n\nExpenditure on schemes approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act are now shown for the first time under a single head of expenditure. Hitherto such expenditure has been on a very small scale. Each sub-head is also shown under revenue and receipts and disbursements offset each other.\n\nThe reclamation at Aberdeen is to be used for the salting and drying of fish, and fishing boats will be able to berth alongside. The agricultural village depots, for which provision is made under sub-heads 2 and 3, will serve as collecting stations for vegetables for sale under the Vegetable Marketing Scheme, and as distribution centres for seeds, fertilisers and insecticides. Demonstration plots will be laid out in the vicinity of each depot.\n\nSub-head 4 provides for the installation of radio sonde and radar wind-finding stations to be operated by the Royal Observatory. Sub-head 5 provides funds to enable a start to be made on the construction of the proposed Fisheries Research Station.\n\n## Loan Expenditure\n\nExpenditure from Loan funds is being continued. Up to the 31st March, 1948, expenditure from this source amounted to $57,269,913, and it is estimated that by the 31st March, 1949, this figure may have been increased to $98,467,615. Of the balance which still remains available, over $12,000,000 is earmarked for new rolling stock for the Kowloon-Canton Railway, which is coming forward very slowly; and a further $8,000,000 is earmarked to enable work to be started on the new Airport as soon as a final decision is reached on the question of the site. This of course only represents a fraction of the probable total cost but, as part of the war expenditure settlement, His Majesty's Government agreed to make a loan of £3,000,000 to the Colony free of interest to assist in meeting construction costs. Some $6,500,000 from Loan funds is being provided.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "content_text": "## Head 31. Public Works Extraordinary\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $19,618,000 \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $3,000,000 \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $10,638,500 \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $886,055\n\nSub-head 1 is purely a security measure. Circumstances might arise where it might be necessary to utilise certain New Territories paths and tracks for light vehicles, and a sum of $1,000,000 is being provided to widen them and make them generally passable.\n\nUnder sub-head 4, a sum of $700,000 has been included for the construction of what has loosely come to be known as Workers' Schools. A number of these schools have been established in various parts of the Colony. Their development has been affected by financial and other considerations. As a result, they are rather scattered and the buildings are far from suitable. It is felt that the time has now come for Government to take over these schools if they are to develop along acceptable lines under fully qualified teachers. One large industrial concern in the Colony is interested in the scheme and it is hoped that they will be prepared to make some contribution towards the cost.\n\nUnder sub-head 5, the present fire station in Kowloon is in a leased building. Until recently, there were prospects of securing a long lease, but this has fallen through. We had no option but to build a new fire station ourselves, and in many ways, this is the best solution as the leased building would not be suitable without very extensive alterations. The building of the station is estimated to cost $2,000,000, but the drawings will take time to complete, so only $500,000 has been provided for the present year.\n\nSub-head 7 relates to the projected new headquarters for the Defence Force, which was previously estimated to cost $5,000,000. The exact requirements have not yet been decided upon, and until they are, the drawings cannot be put in hand. For these reasons, it is improbable that more than $500,000 will be required to cover the work up to the end of the financial year 1949-50.\n\n## Head 32. Rating And Valuation Department\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $166,750 | | | |\n\n## Head 34. Royal Observatory\n\nA small increase in personal emoluments is offset by a reduction of $4,203 in Other Charges with the result that expenditure has fallen.\n\n## B.--Social Welfare\n\n### Head 35. Sanitary Department\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $5,724,186 | $4,000,000 | $5,453,300 | $1,761,802 |\n\nApart from the transfer from the Medical Department of Overseers, Disinfecting Station Engineers, Cleansing Chargemen, and Cleansing Coolies, a considerable reduction in staff amounting to 208 posts has been effected. This is the result of re-organisation of the supervision of sanitary squads and the introduction of mechanical devices. The force has been further reduced during 1948-49 by three District Watchmen and three Cooks. Further additional provision is required for detective and good conduct allowance.\n\nThe apparent considerable reduction of nearly $500,000 under Other Charges is explained by the transfer of certain expenditure to Subventions. In order to show more clearly the cost to public funds of assistance given to local organisations, the practice of providing free rations from the former Relief of Destitutes vote has been discontinued. The rations will no longer be provided free of charge, but in compensation, an increase in the financial assistance given to these organisations is provided for under Subventions. Consequently, the current provisions of $925,000 for relief of destitutes has been reduced to $493,500. At the same time, the opportunity has been taken to rename this sub-head more appropriately as Welfare Work. A considerable economy amounting to $52,000 has been made under the provision for fuel, light, and power.\n\nAlthough $5,900 is provided under Special Expenditure for motor transport, the expenditure under this Head is reduced by $532,957.\n\n### C.--District Watch Force\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $186,069 | $300,000 | $204,199 | $52,709 |\n\nThere are no changes in establishment, but personal emoluments show a small increase of $4,089 as a result of salary revisions. Minor changes in Other Charges account for an increase of $1,270. Under Special Expenditure, the provision of $7,250 is made for replacing motor transport.\n\nThe nett result is an increase on the Head of $12,609. No figure can be given in respect of actual expenditure during 1947-48 as at that time the Department was administered as part of the Treasury.\n\n## Head 33. Registrar General's Department\n\nOver $16,000 is made for uniforms, and together with other small economies, the expenditure on the Head has fallen by $18,130.\n\n## Head 36. Secretariat For Chinese Affairs\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $181,977 | $180,766 | | $177,ITT |\n\nThe establishment has been reduced by the transfer of a Cadet.\n\n## Head 37. Statistical Department\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $128,428 | $120,000 | $121,929 | |\n\nThe only changes in the establishment are the appointment of two temporary officers to the non-pensionable establishment and the abolition of a post of Messenger.\n\nIn the course of the year, an agreement with the British Tabulating Machine Company was reached regarding the charges for Hollerith equipment, and an additional sum of $21,816 is required for this head.\n\nThe nett increase on the Head amounts to $6,499. (The Department was not a separate entity in 1947-48, so no figure of actual expenditure can be given).\n\n## Head 38. Stores Department", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 583829, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950", "content_text": "## Head 39. Department of Supplies And Development\n\n### Estimate 1949-50, Revised Estimate 1948-49, Approved Estimate 1948-49, Actual Expenditure 1947-48\n\nThis increase is chiefly required for the payment of increased living allowances under the terms of the **Approved Estimate 1948-49**: $6,922,550, **Actual Expenditure 1947-48**: $8,175,983.\n\nIn the course of the year, a reorganisation of staff in the Stores Department was approved and, in consequence, two new Officer grades of Senior Stores Officer and Assistant Stores Officer were created. The posts at present shown in the estimates represent an increase over the overall establishment of officers previously shown under various titles in the pensionable and non-pensionable establishment and temporary staff in 1948-49. No other increases are made, certain staff being transferred from the temporary staff to the non-pensionable establishment. Motor drivers are now provided for under casual labour and one post of Packer has been abolished. Personal emoluments show an increase of $10,182.\n\n## Head 40. Department Of Supplies And Development\n\n| | Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n|----------|------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|\n| Personal emoluments | $792,486 | $710,000 | | |\n\nSalaries of teachers in these schools are linked to those paid in Government schools.\n\n## Head 44. Colonial Development And Welfare Scheme\n\n| | Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n|----------|------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|\n| Expenditure on schemes | $2,316,480 | $751,394 | $680,734 | |\n\nExpenditure on schemes approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act are now shown for the first time under a single head of expenditure. Hitherto such expenditure has been shown on a very small scale. Each sub-head is offset by a corresponding reduction of nearly $70,000 but this is offset to some extent by the provision of $36,000 for professional fees to a firm of Accountants which had previously been shown inappropriately under personal emoluments.\n\n## Head 41. Supreme Court\n\n| | Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n|----------|------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|\n| | $414,701 | $318,000 | $345,125 | $242,078 |\n\nIn 1948-49 it was necessary, in view of the phenomenal amount of building, to make very heavy supplementary provision for the collection and storage of sand in 1949 and the estimate provides for an increase of $500,000. This increase is, of course, offset by a corresponding increase in revenue. An additional $155,000 is required for furniture for Government quarters and an extra $25,000 for office equipment and furniture for all departments. There are minor changes under Other Charges, the most important of which are reductions of $11,000 for upkeep of motor vehicles and $10,000 for the transport of stores.\n\nThe reclamation at Aberdeen is to be used for the salting and drying of fish, and fishing boats will be able to berth alongside. The agricultural village depots, for which provision is made under sub-heads 2 and 3, will serve as collecting stations for the sale of vegetables under the Marketing Vegetable Scheme, and as distribution centres for seeds, fertilisers, and insecticides. Demonstration plots will be laid out in the vicinity of each depot.\n\nWith two exceptions, the staff of this department is the same as in 1948-49, allowing for personnel transferred to the Registrar General's Department. The two new posts are one additional Puisne Judge, the creation of which was authorised in 1948-49, and one Magistrate for the Tenancy Tribunals, for which post an officer has recently been engaged. Sub-head 4 provides for the installation of radio sonde and new wind-finding stations to be operated by the Royal Observatory.\n\nSub-head 5 provides funds for personal emoluments. The nett increase is $38,976. For Other Charges, expenditure is still of the same order as in 1948-49. An additional $9,000 is required for stores. The sum required for recurrent expenditure is reduced by $373,800.\n\n## Loan Expenditure\n\nExpenditure from Loan funds is being continued. Up to the 31st March, 1948, expenditure from this source amounted to $57,269,913, and it is estimated that by the 31st March 1949, this figure may have increased to $98,467,615. A new furniture workshop is at present under construction and $10,500 is provided for books for the Library of the Supreme Court. A new sub-head is introduced entitled special expenditure to equip it. In addition, $24,000 is required for a stack-packer, a mechanical device for the internal transport and stacking of stores, which it is hoped will result in a reduction of unskilled labour and consequent savings in 1950-51.\n\n## Head 39. Subvention\n\n| | Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n|----------|------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|\n| | $780,245 | $700,000 | | $754,906 |\n\nAll Subventions paid by the Government to organisations within and outside the Colony are now shown under one Head. The process of grouping these payments together under one Head was started last year and this year subsidies to Grant-aided and Vernacular Schools and to Hospitals have been included. These were previously shown under the Education and Medical Heads, and comparison with the previous years' estimates is therefore unrealistic. It will be observed, however, that in cases where comparison is possible, certain apparent large increases have been made. These are accounted for by the decision to stop the free issue of rations, previously provided for out of the Relief of Destitutes vote, and to compensate organisations by an equivalent monetary grant. There has been an increase of nearly $500,000 for miscellaneous grants to Grant-Aid Schools.\n\n## Head 42. Treasury\n\n| | Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n|----------|------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|\n| | $13,250,877 | $750,000 | $750,000 | $688,108 |\n\nThere are no changes in the staff of this department, apart from the transfer of the Estate Duty Office to the Inland Revenue Department. The increased provision for overtime allowance and expatriation pay largely accounts for the increase of $63,637. Other Charges show a small reduction of $1,000 but an extra $29,120 is required for Special Expenditure to purchase more mechanical accounting devices. Consequently, expenditure on this head has risen by $92,137.\n\n## Head 43. Custodian Of Property\n\n| | Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n|----------|------------------|-------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------------|\n| | $42,600 | $60,000 | $61,020 | $118,637 |\n\nThe activities of this department have been further reduced in staff and compared with the provision made in 1948-49, cuts in recurrent expenditure under the Education Department have effected a saving of $18,000. Expenditure on this head has fallen by $331,118. To enable work to be started on the new Airport as soon as a final decision is reached on the question of the site, a further $8,000,000 is earmarked. This, of course, only represents a fraction of the probable total cost but, as part of the war expenditure settlement, His Majesty's Government agreed to make a loan of £3,000,000 to the Colony free of interest to assist in meeting construction costs. Some $6,500,000 from Loan funds is being provided for the completion of the permanent Government quarters now under construction.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589245, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 169, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "174\n\nB.\n\nAs I see it, there would appear to be at least three basic points for consideration:\n\n9.\n\n(a) clarification of position regarding pier leases and fixing of renewal rentals. If it appears likely that some time must elapse before negotiations regarding renewals can be opened, could not the period of existing leases be extended by say four years period of war disruption?\n\n(b) establishment of a \"High Level\" Board to recommend, through the Governor, that Naval and Military authorities be asked to vacate the valuable ground which they occupy, occupation of which precludes the natural development of the water front and land immediately behind, at the same time, to make available to the authorities concerned alternative sites for their selection according to their strategic requirements;\n\n(c) the projected link-up with the Trans-Siberian Railway and the development of Hong Kong as a great terminal port.\n\nWhile (a) above is of itself important, it would appear that a local committee, if fully representative, could deal with it, but (b) and (c) would seem to provide justification for consideration as to whether or not the establishment of a Port Trust would be necessary.\n\n10.\n\nHong Kong's former claims to ability to provide adequate shipping facilities at low cost are now defeated on the latter point. If it were decided that cheap labour has gone, never to return, private enterprise, assuming that it wants to continue to \"operate\" the Port as in the past, must now consider mechanization as never before. Not only must it mechanize, but it must build wharves capable of carrying the necessary mechanical loading and discharging devices.\n\n11.\n\nTruly, private enterprise in Hong Kong again faces a climacteric, but it has always made the right decision in the past,\n\n12.\n\nTERMS OF REFERENCE\n\nComing now to the Terms of Reference before your Committee:\n\n(a) What advantages would accrue from the establishment of a Hong Kong Port Trust to control the Port as recommended in the Report of Sir David Owen, and whether it is in the public interest that such a Trust should be established.\n\nComment: The only apparent advantages are, in my opinion, still problematical at this stage - paragraphs 8(b) and (c) and 9 refer. A re-constituted Port Executive Committee, say with the assistance of a Director whose appointment, I understand, has been recommended, with the addition of selected Chinese representatives and a Government financial expert, would appear to be capable of fulfilling the normal functions of a Harbour Trust.\n\n(Continued)", "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": 594779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 49, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "## B.\n\nAs I see it, there would appear to be at least three basic points for consideration:\n\n(a) clarification of position regarding pier leases and fixing of renewal rentals. (If it appears likely that some time must elapse before negotiations regarding renewals can be opened, could not the period of existing leases be extended by say four years, the period of war disruption?);\n\n(b) establishment of a \"High Level\" Board to recommend, through the Governor, that Naval and military authorities be asked to vacate the valuable ground which they occupy, the occupation of which precludes the natural development of the water front and land immediately behind, at the same time, to make available to the authorities concerned alternative sites for their selection according to their strategic requirements;\n\n(c) the projected link-up with the Trans-Siberian Railway and the development of Hong Kong as a great terminal port.\n\nWhile (a) above is of itself important, it would appear that a local committee, if fully representative, could deal with it, but (b) and (c) would seem to provide justification for consideration as to whether or not the establishment of a Port Trust would be necessary.\n\n10. Hong Kong's former claims to ability to provide adequate shipping facilities at low cost are now defeated on the latter point. If it were decided that cheap labour has gone, never to return, private enterprise, assuming that it wants to continue to \"operate\" the Port as in the past, must now consider mechanization as never before. Not only must it mechanize, but it must build wharves capable of carrying the necessary mechanical loading and discharging devices.\n\n11. Truly, private enterprise in Hong Kong again faces a climacteric, but it has always made the right decision in the past.\n\n## TERMS OF REFERENCE\n\n12. Coming now to the Terms of Reference before your Committee:\n\n(2) What advantages would accrue from the establishment of a Hong Kong Port Trust to control the Port as recommended in the Report of Sir David Owen, and whether it is in the public interest that such a Trust should be established.\n\nComment: The only apparent advantages are, in my opinion, still problematical at this stage - my paragraphs 8 (b) and (c) and 9 refer. A re-constituted Port Executive Committee, say with the assistance of a Director whose appointment, I understand, has been recommended, with the addition of selected Chinese representatives and a Government financial expert, would appear to be capable of fulfilling the normal function of a Harbour Trust.\n\n(Continued)\n\nPage 49", "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": 596661, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950", "content_text": "57\n\nBRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS PROTECT-\n\nORATE\n\nThis group of islands scattered south-eastwards from New Guinea has a population of about 80,000, of whom some 40,000 are Melanesians from the island of Malaita. The Solomons are singularly isolated, and access to them has been spasmodic and slow until about 8 months ago when a fortnightly air service linked them with Australia. There has been no government education, although just before the war, Mr. Groves, who is now Director of Education in Papua and New Guinea and who had had experience in the Australian-administered Pacific Islands, had been asked to make a very full survey of the educational facilities in the Solomons provided by the five missionary bodies, i.e., the Roman Catholic, Melanesian Mission, Methodist Mission, Seventh Day Adventist, based on Australia, and the South Seas Evangelical Mission, based on Australia. Bearing in mind, first of all, the isolation of the Solomons themselves and the degree of isolation between island and island and mission station and mission station, the achievements of these missions are most creditable, in spite of the fact that lack of co-ordination has meant very low standards by our modern assessment of them and no comparable standards between district and district. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate Government is now in the process of determining the nature of the partnership that shall be developed between Government and Mission and is preparing a draft Education Ordinance, and two Government Education Officers are on the spot.\n\n(1) The education of girls is extremely difficult because the attitude of both islanders and Europeans is reactionary. However, all the more credit is due to Sister Gwen of the Cross of the Melanesian Mission, who has established on her little island of Bunana a girls' community about 50 to 60 strong, which she was running, when I went to visit her, with the help of just one other Sister, a young woman who was a trained midwife. A boat may call once in six weeks or two months or three months, and yet the kind of education that was being given to those girls was remarkable in its suitability to their environment and in the progressiveness of its outlook. Sister Gwen went to the bush during the Japanese occupation and, in the middle of all the hardships and dangers of this period, proceeded to write a series of small textbooks, since published as the Pacific Library, which is meeting the educational needs of schools in the Pacific Islands.\n\n(2) Another fascinating and unexpected aspect of education in these islands is the discovery of all the mechanical devices that the war brought. Scrounging on the beaches, in the shallow water, and in the bush has revealed bull-dozers, tractors, generators, and lorries, and surplus war stores have yielded pianos, wireless sets, gramophones, printing machines, stencil machines, and bookbinding equipment. These have all been used by the mission central schools, and not one of them having more than 80 boys in it, and have enabled these youngsters to take for granted the use of machines that far more fortunate territories have never seen, far less had the opportunity of handling. This does not mean that there is a highly developed technical education or even technical education, or some might say even education in the traditional sense. However, this meeting of Solomon Island boys with the mechanics of the modern world offers an opportunity too good to miss. Hitherto, the exercise of ancient skills has been hedged round with tradition and custom, which has been impervious to change or to the demand for...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-623-6 Education Department- annual report 1-5-1950 - 31-12-1950.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]