[ { "id": 218073, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "in 1134 Hongkong \n\nTHE CHINESE TARIFF. \n\n(FROM FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, OCTOBER 28, 1843.) \n\n0.0. NOV, \n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISTOL JOURNAL. Sir, The vast importance of the Chinese Tariff requires that it should be reduced to English weights, measures, and monies, for the use of British merchants, and not having yet observed that this has beca done, I beg to trouble yon with such s table, toge- ther with a few observations upon the standard to be observed. \n\nThe definition and determination of the Chinese tael is ex- preased in several different ways. 1st. It has been generally in England taken to be one third of the pound sterling, or Gs. 8d., or 80 pence, making the mace its 10th, S., and the caudareen its 100th part, 8-10ths of a penny. This simple relation to our own money would be a great advantage to English merchants if it were fully established, but some, as Beawes, make the candareen Ed., reducing the tael to 62. 3d. \n\n2ndly. It is now, however, for the most part compared with the Spanish dollar. Thus the latest and perhaps the highest sathority, that of Mr. Pope, in the Yearly Journal of Trade for 1843, states 72 taels to be equivalent to 100 dollars. The Spanish dollar is commonly estimated at 4s. Gd., but her Majesty's proclu- mation (Yearly Journal of Trada, 1840, p. 391), issued for the West Indies, makes it equivalent to 48. 2d. The tael, therefore, will be 6s. 3d, if we take the former, and 58. 94d. if the latter, for our guide. \n\n3rdly. It was originally compared with the Chinese silver coin called mace, and their copper coin called cash, but the mase has been long disused; 1000 cash were once equivalent to one fuel, but the depreciation of these coins by deterioration of the metal and reduction of their weight, so amply illustrated in the highly interesting and most authentic work of Mr. Davis, has now rendered the tael equal to a much greater number of cash. By Sir Henry Pottinger's Hong Kong proclamation of the 29th of March, 1842, 1200 of them are declared equal to one dollar. In weight I have found them vary from about 85 graina troy to twice as much. Du Halde says that the French sou is equivalent to the 100th part of the tael, that is to the caudareen, and also that it is equal to 6 cash, instead of 10. \n\n4thly. The Chinese tael is a weight, and has its value expressed by European weights, either avoirdupois or troy, and this is the truest mode of determining its equivalent in fine silver, seeing that the references to English money do not agree, that dollars differ materially in value, and that the Chinese cash are still more different from each other in their weight and quality. Measra. Gordon and Crawfurd, in their admirable treatise upon Chinese commerce, give a table stating the tacl is equal to 1 1-3 ounce avoirdupois, or 579.84 grains troy. These, unfortunately, do not agree neither, for 1 1-3 oz. avoirdupois contains 437.5 and 145.8 1-3 grs., or 583.3 1-3 grs, troy, and not 579.84. Again, Beawez in his \"Lex Mercatoria,\" states that the tael was 1 oz. 2 dr., of course troy weight, which in 480 and 120, or 600 grains. The editor of \"Mortimer's Commercial Dictionary,\" in his “Universal Commerce,\" p. 64, says 100 taels should weigh 120 oz. 10 dwts. troy, or 57840 grs., or the single tael 5734, which is less than any of the above. He says, also, that 100 Spanish dollars should weigh 68 13 dwts.; that is, 42,552 grs., of which we take the 72nd part, according to Mr. Pope, the tael comes out 591 grs. Now, 16 taels make a catty, and 100 catties a pecul; all autho- rities, I believe, concur in making the pecul 133 1-3 ib. avoirdu- pois, or the catty I 1-3 B., for which reason I prefer taking the tael as 1 1-3 oz., or 183 1-3 grs. The English crown piece, or N. is so nearly an avoirdupois ounce that if we could make this the standard the tael would come out as at first 5a, and 20d., or 6s. 8d., or 80d.; but in China all silver coin is taken as bullion, and the duties of course will be paid in fullion. The real value of the tael must, therefore, be sought in the market price of stan- dard silver. This, at the present time, I find to bo da. 1110. per ounce troy, which is almost exactly 48. 6d, the ouuoo avoirdupois, or 6s. the tacl; and I have accordingly made this my standard in the following table, wherein I have reduced the Tariff to English weights and monies. I prefer this to taking the market price of the dollar, whether Mexican or Spanish, new or pillar, and using the multiplier 1,204, because I consider that the term \"syees” means \"perfectly pure.\" This word I believe to be originally Chinese, although the characters used by the Chinese to express it do not indicate its proper etymology. I have no doubt that it was originally, in the orthoepy of Morrison, \"tsuh sih,\" or \"full quality;\" but the characters commonly used for it mean \"fine silk,\" expressive of what minoralogists would call it's \"lustre sating.\"* \n\nI cannot conclude without suggesting that, at the present low price of copper, 1000 tona, costing 70,000Z. or 80,0007., might advantageously be coined into Chinese cash, weighing each a 1-3 gra. This would greatly relieve the distress of the neighbourhood of Swansea, and supply Hong Kong and the Chinese with a good currency during the present and the next generation; for, if neatly executed, it would be universally coveted and hearded up in abundance, and would be a good payment for tea, instead of opium. On one side of the coin I would have the words \"Victoria Regina,\" and on the other, as usual, “perforated token,\" with \"Iong Kong\" instead of the Emperor's name. \n\nBristol, Oct. 14. \n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant, \n\nSAM. ROOTSEY. \n\n3. Arsenic, ditto \n\n4. Banglos (or glass armlets), ditto \n\n5. Bamboo screens, and bamboo wares of all kinds, do. 0 6. Brass leaf, ditto.. \n\n9. Camphor, ditto...... \n\n10. Canea of all kinds, per 1,000 \n\n11. Capoor cutchery, per cwt. \n\n12. Cassia, ditto \n\nDitto buds, ditto Ditto oil, ditto \n\n13. China root, ditto \n\n14. China ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n15. Clothes, ready made, ditto \n\n16. Copper ware, pewter, ditto, &c., ditto \n\n17. Curals, or false coral, ditto..... \n\n10. Cubebs, ditto..... \n\n20. Fans (as feather fans, &c.), ditto \n\n24. Glass, and glass ware of all kinds, ditto 25. Glass beads, ditto \n\n26. Gine (as fish glue, &c.), ditto \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n1. Alum, per cwt. \n\n2. Aniseed star, ditto \n\nDitto, oil of, ditto.. \n\nd. \n\nCotton Manufactures, continued- \n\nGrey, or unbleached, cottona-viz., long-cloths, domestics, &c., 30 to 40 yards long, 26 to 40 inches wide, ditto \n\n£ 3. d \n\nGrey twilled cottons, 30 to 40 yards long, 28 to \n\n40 inches wide, ditto..... \n\nChintz and prints, of all kinds, 20 to 30 yards \n\n7. Building materiala, ditto. \n\n8. Bone and horn ware, ditto \n\nduty free. \n\nlong, 26 to 31 inches wide, ditto ...... \n\n0 1 24 Handkerchiefs under 1 yard square, 72 ea....... 0 0 03 \n\n0 à 01 \n\ni \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 yard square, 1.03 ditto... ( Ginghams, pullicates, dyed cottons, velveteens, silk and cotton mixtures, woollen and cotton mixtures, and all kinds of fancy goods, not in current consumption, 5 per cent. ad valorem. 14. Cotton yarn and cotton thread, per cwt. Jo. Cow bezoar, per lb...... \n\n16. Cutch, per cwt.. \n\n17. Elephants' teeth, Ist quality, whole, ditto \n\nS \n\n5 O \n\nI 0 2 \n\n2d quality, ditto, broken \n\n18. Fish maws, ditto \n\n19. Flinta, ditto \n\n18. Crackers and fire-works of all kinds, ditte.... \n\nす \n\n20. Glass, glass ware, and crystal ware of all kinds, 5 \n\nper cent. ad valorem. \n\nՌ \n\n21. Gambier, per cwt.... \n\nD 0 9 \n\n21. Furniture of all kinds, ditto \n\n22. Galingal, ditto....... \n\n23. Gamboge, ditto \n\n22. Ginseng, 1st quality, ditto \n\n2d ditto, \"or refuse, ditto \n\n23. Gold and Silver Thread :- \n\n0 2 G \n\n1st quality, or real, per lb.. \n\n2d ditto, or imitation, ditto \n\n24. Gums, Benjamin, per cwt \n\n0 5 0% \n\nOlibanum Myrrh \n\nditto ditto \n\n6. Horus, Unicorus' or Rhinoceros', ditto \n\n32. Lead (white lead), ditto \n\nGums unenumerated 10 per cent. ad valorem. 25. Horns, Buttocks and Buffaloes', per ewt... \n\n27. Linen, tine, us Irish or Scoteb, \n\nyards long, \n\ninches wide, per piece \n\n1 0 10 0:15 1 \n\n↓ \n\nCoarse Linen, as linen and cotton mixtures, silk and linen mixtures, &o., 5 per cent, ad valorem, \n\n28. Mace, or four of nutmeg, per ewt.....**** 29. Mother of Pearl shells \n\nhitte...... \n\n0 5 04 0 I 0 \n\n38. Nankeen and cotton cloth of all kinds, per ewi \n\n30. Metals, viz., \n\nRice paper pictures, per 100 \n\n40. Paper fans, per cwt. \n\nCupper, unmanufactured, as in pige, ditto.......................... 0 Ė 4 Ditto, manufactured, as in sheets, rods, ditto... 0764 Iron, unmanufactured, as in pigs, ditto \n\n41. Paper of all kinds, ditto \n\n{ 2 64 \n\nDitto, manufactured, as in bars, rods, &c., ditto 0 0 9 \n\n42. Pearls (i. e., false pearls), ditto \n\nLead in pigs, or manufactured, ditto \n\n2 6) \n\nQuicksilver, ditto \n\n0 15 JA \n\nSteel, unmanufactured, ditto \n\nTin, ditto..... \n\nTin Plates, ditto....... \n\n31. Nutmegs, ist quality, or cleaned, per cwt. \n\nOrganzine, all kinds, ditto.. \n\nRibands, thread, &c., ditto.. \n\nUnenumerated Metals, 10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n2d ditto, or uncleaved ditto \n\n} \n\n32. Pepper, ditto..... \n\n33. Putehuck, ditto \n\n34. Battans, ditto \n\n35, Rice, paddy, and grain of all kinds.......... \n\nduty free. \n\n36. Rose maloes, per cwt. ...... \n\n37. Saltpetre (to be sold to Government agents only) \n\nper dilto \n\n38. Sharks' fius, first quality, or white, per ditto...... 05.04 \n\nsecond quality, or black per ditto...... 0 2 61 \n\n27. Grass cloths (all kinds), ditto 26. Hartall, ditto \n\n29. Ivory ware (all kinds), ditto \n\n30. Kittysole, or paper umbrellas, ditto \n\n31. Lackered ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n33. Lead (real lead), ditto.. \n\n31. Marble slabs, ditto... \n\n35. Mats (straw, rattan, bambon, &c.), ditto \n\n36. Mother-o'-pearl ware, ditto \n\n37. Musk, per Îb.'.. \n\n39. Pictures-viz., large paintings, each \n\n43. Preserves and sweatmeats of all kinds, ditto \n\n44. Rattan work of all kinds, ditto \n\n45. Rhubarb, ditto \n\n46. Silk, raw, whether from Chekiang, Canton, or \n\nelsewhere, all kinds, per ewt.. \n\nCoarse or refuse silk, ditto.. \n\nSilk piece goods of all kinds, as silks, satins, pon- \n\ngees, velveta, crapes, lustrings, &c., ditto..... 80 53 N.B. The additional duty of so much per piece, \n\nhitherto levied, to be henceforth abolished. \n\n47. Silk and cotton mixtures, silk and woollen mixtures, \n\nand goods of such classes, ditto... \n\n48. Shoes and boots of leather, satin, or otherwise, ditto 0 49. Sandal-wood ware, ditto....... 50. Soy, ditto... \n\n51. Silver and gold ware, ditto.... \n\n52. Sugar, white and brown, ditto..... \n\n53. Sugar caudy, all kinds, ditto... \n\n54. Tin-foll, ditto.. \n\n55. Tea, ditto..... \n\n56. Tobacco of all kinds, ditto, \n\n57. Turmeric, ditto.... \n\n58. Tortoiseshell ware, ditto.... \n\n59. Trunks (of leather), ditto... \n\n60. Treasure, i. e., coins of all kinds... \n\n6J. Vermillion, per ewt. \n\nfree. \n\nArticles unenumerated in this tariff to pay a duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n1. Asafoetida, per cwt. \n\n2. Rees' wax, ditto...... \n\n3. Betel nut, ditto.. \n\n4. Bicho de mar, 1st quality, or black ditto \n\nDitto \n\n0 % 1) \n\nD \n\nTiger, leopard, and marten sking, each \n\nLand otter, racoon, and sharlis' skins, per hund. 0 12 0 \n\nBeaver skins, ditto..... \n\nEbony, ditto... \n\n39. Skins and furs, viz. \n\nCow and ox hides, tanned and untanned.......... \n\nSea otter skin, each \n\nFox skins, large, each.... \n\nDitto, small, each. \n\nHare, rabbit, and ermine ditto. \n\n40. Smalts, per cwt....... \n\n41. Soap, ditto \n\n42. Stock-fish, &c. ........ \n\n13. Sea horse teeth \n\n44. Treasure and money of all kinds, free. \n\n£ 8. d. \n\n45. Wine, beer, spirits, &c.:- \n\nIn quart bottles, per hundred bottles \n\n0 6 l \n\nla pint ditto, ditto...... \n\nIn casks, per cwt. \n\n46. Woods, namely- \n\n◊ \n\n1st ditto, cleaned ditto.... \n\nSandal wood, ditto \n\n24 ditto, good middling ditto \n\nJapan wood, ditto......... \n\nInenumerated woods, 10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\n47. Woollen manufactures-viz., broadcloths, Spanish \n\nstripes, babit cloth, &c., 51 @ 64 inches wide, per square foot... \n\nLong ella, kersermeres, flannel, and narrow cloths \n\nof this description, ditto \n\nBlankets, of all kinds, each. \n\nDutch camlets, per square foot.... \n\nCamlets, ditto........ \n\nImitation ditto bombazettes, &c., ditto \n\nBunting (narrow) ditto. \n\nUnenumerated woollen goods, or silk and woollen, and cotton and woollen mixtures, &c., 5 per cent. ad nalorem. \n\n48. Woollen yarn, per cwt........... \n\nN.B. All articles unenumerated in this tariff 5 \n\nCambrics and muslins, 20 to 24 yards long, 40 to \n\n46 ditta ...... \n\nper cent. ad valorem, \n\n5. Birds' nests \n\nDitto Ditto \n\n2d ditto, white ........................... \n\n3d ditto, uneleaned, ditto \n\n6. Camphor (Malay), 1st ditto, clean, per lb. \n\nDitto \n\n24 ditto, refuse ditto, per in. \n\n7. Cloves, Tat ditto, picked per ewt........ \n\nDitto, 2d dirto, mother ditto.......... \n\n8. Clocks, watches, spy-glasses, all kinds of writing- desks, dressing-boxes, cutlery, perfumery, &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n9. Canvasɛ, 30 to 40 yards long, 24 to 31 inches wide, \n\nper plece \n\n10. Cochineal, per cwt \n\n11. Cornelians, per 100 stones. \n\nDitto beads, per cwt \n\n12. Cotton ditto...... \n\n13. Cotton manufactures-viz. \n\nLong-cloths, white, 30 to 40 yards long. 30 to 36 \n\ninches wide, per piece...... \n\n1 5 2) \n\n* We have something like this at home. There is a place in Wales called Llanseashore, bat which is not upon the sea shore. This name Stor or Shore is the old British name of George, or Saint George, and exists also In the English word Wyndeshore, or Windsor, which I shouli Latinise \"Venta Georgii,\" from the round table, castle, and chapel of St. George. \n\nGUTCH AND MARTIN, PRINTERS, SMALL-STREST, BRISTOL,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 220785, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "\nand the Commissariat Deportment instructed \n\nthe Transports- \n\nguide \n\nImerely point this fact \n\nBut as some \n\nA \n\nprovision \n\nsuch and \n\nsuch \n\npersons \n\nto the Officers of the Luarter. Matter. General's Department, but I am aware + \n\nthat it cannot be binding \n\nine alt \n\nCases and \n\nthat for now Commissioned Officers \n\nAra \n\nPrivases (whether Europeans or Natives) - \n\narangements must \n\nthem on \n\nbe \n\nfor recturalling \n\nboard by the Commissariat \n\nDepartment, enver Your Lordships \n\nDr \n\nwaters, \n\nFor Ishould not consider it Safe \n\nto truess to the Ship's Provisions._ \n\nprudent \n\nway \n\nis made (as for \n\nthat this latter arrangement \n\nad \n\nmy \n\nrecollection \n\n: ) in India & is for the \n\nfull \n\nServes me \n\nlength of the passage. \n\nto \n\nbe calculated \n\nAnd \n\nh \n\nplace, by such \n\nproceeding to such Ship for so many days \n\nWhen European Proops \n\nbrought from England \n\nand \n\nawa \n\nA... \n\nSent to \n\nIndia \n\nCharter Party at so \n\nЛедивши \n\nIndenture \n\njinuch \n\npu \n\nStead is frequently \n\n\"entered into \n\nbut I do \n\nConia \n\nof \n\nbe \n\nary \n\nnot see how that \n\ndone \n\nfrom China, where the \n\nSupplies \n\nGovernment \n\nare only in the hands \n\nImay take this occasion to acquaint \n\nLour Lernship, that I have reason \n\nto \n\nkinow from positive authority that every Itour of Crpence that has been hitherto \n\nincurred", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224386, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 292, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "REV. G. SMITH'S SECOND REPORT,\n\n&c. &c.\n\nREV. G. SMITH TO THE SECRETARIES.\n\nMY DEAR BRETHREN,\n\nHong Kong, China, March 25, 1845.\n\nOur friend Mr. M'Clatchie, embarked for Shanghai on the 20th of February, in company with three American Missionary Brethren, the Rev. Messrs. Loomis, Culbertson, and Dr. Macgowan, and their wives, who proceed with him only as far as Chusan, on their way to Ningpo, their Station.\n\nI hope, (D.V.) to embark in the beginning of April for Chusan, with the favourable change of monsoon, whence I proceed for a few weeks to Ningpo, to make personal observations of its degree of eligibility as a Missionary Station. Thence I expect to depart in time to rejoin Mr. M'Clatchie at Shanghai about Midsummer.\n\nBefore I leave Hong Kong, I wish to place on record my present views in reference to our Mission in China. I do not regret the lengthened residence here; as the extensive intercourse with the Missionaries and others, and the view of actual Missionary operations here, are calculated to enable me to take more correct and enlarged views of the principles which should guide our undertaking than I should have been qualified to form if I had gone at an earlier period direct to any particular Station without such advantage. Even prior to completing the exploratory tour, such has been the uniform tendency of the information and advice I have received, and the independent conclusions I have been led to form, that I think it will not be premature in me at once to give a sketch of the plan, principles, and site, of establishing the Mission in China, which I am led to submit to the wisdom and experience of the Committee for their judgment. Viewing, in all its comprehensive bearings, the probable influence\n\n230", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230483, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "without any satisfactory terminatim. I would, in conclusion, beg to point out that if the principle of remeasuring Marine Lots can be justified, and is adopted, as in my case, it will, (nominally I presume), nearly double the Revenue from the Marine Lots on the Island. My claim is that the original ground-rent of this Lot be adhered to.\n\n \n 342\n Statement No. 2.\n \n \n relating to Mr. Scott's Inland Lot No. 80.\n \n \n The Lot of Land which forms the subject of the following statements, was granted by Sir Henry Pottinger to Dr. Peter Young, about the middle of March 1842.\n \n \n After Sir Henry Pottinger returned, and, as it appears there was any addition made to the first allotment, as it was only in one direction any extra rent should be proportional, taking the Diagram in the Land Office as a guide.\n \n \n (Signed) W. Scott.\n \n \n 31st March 1849.\n \n \n True Copy,\n \n \n Colonial Secretary.\n \n\nfrom the North is that three Grants of land were made by Mr. Johnston previous to his arrival. The first was to the late Mr. Mercer, the second was to Mr. C. E. Stewart; the third, to Dr. Young, is the lot in question. It was granted to him in consideration of the advantage he was conferring (on the Colony) by establishing a dispensary therein. Dr. Young, at the time he...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 350, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "Government, and I was then informed that Committee sitting at the time had found something amiss with regard to Dr. Aponny's claim to Lot 20. Their Report is published in the Parliamentary China Blue Book 1847, for 398, on perusing which I was first made aware of the causes affecting the claim.\n\nof the Lot, namely that it is there falsely stated to have been granted by a \"Land Committee\" as a loan to Mr. Young for a dispensary.\n\nI beg to refer you to the accompanying copies of correspondence with Government, two letters dated 1845 regarding the piece of ground: the reply from this Government intimates that His Excellency Sir John Davis, after examining the claim, did not see fit to set aside the decision of the Land Committee of 1844, on the subject, and taking the records of the Land Office for his guide, I do not see how His Excellency could have come to any other decision, but, under the circumstances, as there were irregularities about the early entries in the land office books, it is to be regretted that I was not made acquainted with the grounds for His Excellency's decision, when I could more easily have defended my rights.\n\nIf you will be so good as to refer to the dates regarding the piece of ground before any Land Committee was appointed, you will find that the land was granted and occupied. This can be proved by the testimony of Mr. Young (and I believe Mr. Johnston), also Mr. AVENO, Licut.: Pedder and Mr. Lena, witnesses to its having been measured by St. Largout before the appointment of Land Committee, on which point they are confirmed from the circumstance of Mr. Young's having left for Macao by a ship sailing 22nd March.\n\nPage 344", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 518, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "515\n\n33\n\n32\n\n# THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM\n\n## AND COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE.\n\ncountry which a single intelligent traveller can give us. The solitary example of Livingstone is sufficient for my purpose. He had far fewer advantages, before he left this country, as I who was his fellow student know well, than could be placed at the disposal of travellers nowadays; but he made himself as skilful as he could in the knowledge likely to be serviceable to him in Africa, and he turned it all to excellent account.\n\nSome of our industrialists have discovered the importance of systematically employing trained agents abroad, and have profited by the discovery. Foremost among them are the horticulturists and florists of the country, who have long been in the habit of sending skilful practical botanists to distant regions to select and send home their rare and useful plants. Those whom I address are familiar, I presume, with one or more of the works on China by Mr. Robert Fortune, formerly attached to the Botanic Garden here; and know how much he has done to introduce Chinese plants into this country, as well as into India.\n\nRecently, this example has been followed, in even a more interesting way, by the great English firm, Price's Candle Company, who have published directions for the use of all visitants of distant lands who care to look out for plants yielding wax, butter, or oil, and desire to form on the spot some notion of their value, as sources of candle and lamp-fuel, and as elements of importance in the soap-manufacture.\n\nThis example has in turn been followed by the energetic scientific officers and civilians in India, in all the Presidencies. One of those gentlemen in particular, Dr. A. Hunter of Madras, has drawn up rules for the selection and treatment of textile fibres from new plants found in the East, which would serve for the guidance of searchers for such in all parts of the world.\n\nNext to the horticulturists, in recognition of the principle under notice, are the metallurgists. The great metal merchants of Birmingham despatch over the world skilful mineralogists to seek for precious ores. One former assistant and friend of mine is at present in Spain on such a search; another, who knows all the mines of Northern Europe, is, whilst I speak, sailing to Chili on a similar errand.\n\nI may also refer here to the volume of Lectures on Gold, published by the Government School of Mines in London a few years ago, as a guide to the multitudes of our countrymen flocking at that time to the gold fields of Australia. It illustrated the perfect possibility of equipping travellers intellectually for", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246881, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 184, "title": "CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5]", "content_text": "the Report self, \n\nas a victim Mr. Endy to Caldwell; timidity and fear of expense) from the offer of Interpreter, which he had always attached to the Colonial contingent.\n\nMr Davies and her my team \n\ntook in expositions of several witnesses, seriatim up to Dr Bridges, then Acting Colonial Store Keeper and afterwards Registrar of the Court. More, if required, could be taken. At the same juncture, viz. the brush \n\nR \n\nMinister of Braden \n\nof some allegations before the Commission, of charge 7. 23-30, 53 \n\n—nominated in the same Report and passage. — Seen Mr Caldwell's is quoted sister, and having been stigmatised as a notorious brothel Keeper. It is true that \n\nThe local government declined the enquiry, mocked and insulted Mr. Davies, and dismissed it soon. These facts, \n\nand the authenticity of the correspondence \n\n12. Dr Bridges \n\nBacon & Co \n\nthen produced deeds to the long lease Conceded Hounstertr.. Referred to on Cross Examination. in 1855. Less precise a intricate case. But you, his will forbear to have found long. \n\nformed a very different opinion, it indeed the correspondence in question has ever been forwarded to Downing Street.\n\nThe third piece of evidence — perhaps not yet noticed by Mr. Wade — is the set of documents by Mr Wade from the papers of Mr Haik relating \n\n\"the substance fully turned, capière Santana) aud 84.65.\n\nAs by the perusal existence of which was at one time disputed, much by much, as well by Sir John Bowring Bridges. From Shanghai, Mr Wade, Phones ses \n\n144 30.52.64-3 \"O Almada's \n\nit is said to inform the Queen \n\nto Sir John Bowring in the Superintendency of late: \n\nthe burgistere \n\nConcerning \n\nQueen & Parliament. \n\n182 \n\nrelating to Mr Hak's Superintendency \n\nbeing returned with the other papers to the officers. The Superintendency, – and were so carried to the \n\nGovernor Gordon. North. It was sworn by Dr Bridges in the case already \n\n1858.\n\nrestored to, that neither officially nor unofficially although he had written privately to Mr Wade. Reverend Bridges upon other matters between them and meanwhile lost. — ever made any Enquiry of or statement to, Mr Wade of concerning \n\nhis alleged the Originals, \n\n\"The murders\", or \n\nWhite \n\nReport repon either; and that nobody to his belief, had had any communication with Her \n\nBrade on those Subjects.\n\nThe newspapers, if they had reached Mr Wade might have informed him : - but this is not likely to happen! The Briton and then Chinese are not within their circulation. Consequently Mr. Wade has only just now been apprised of the serious matter pending before you, and \"I fear that his official report, will not reach \n\nhands in time to guide your judgment.\n\nOn \n\ngrave position of the case.\n\nIt is one of the many questions of \n\nto blind enquiry into the third and ending \n\nReport of Corruption in the city which the guilty have raised \n\nCommon point, their complicity in the guilt of their \n\nleverpaident that those all-important papers ought to be returned\n\npp. 236 Queen.\n\nuti suprà.\n\nin Herend Bridges' letter 50-1.\n\nJesuites de.\n\nBremer refused to here to report upon, in their connection with the Chinese originals so handed trust; afterwards after his departure, — when, by mistake packed into a despatch Box with his other papers, instead of \n\nbeing \n\nprotege (Caldwell's connection\" with Thak Choke Wong, on which the documents burned, lost, and suppressed, each in its kind, are now admitted to have been capable of throwing \n\nmuch light.\n\n\"The Attorney General : unblassedly tabled the Casting Colonial susretary before \n\nin the Commission has made a mistake. To refresh my memory I have spoken to the Governor who says that he..understood that he (Dr Mare) \n\n· had no intention of making communication of the \n\nJobooks,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-073 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1859 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 249022, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6]", "content_text": "22\n\nand letters\n\nour\n\ntheir Frocks as\n\nthose examined by Dr Williams\n\nat the Namhoi Yamun last month. The Broker of this place worked himself into a perfect fury because the Petitioner Lov-Pang. She questioned him, he pulled her away, but I referred the matter to my guide, he left it to me. I told her to ask all the questions she likes, which she did, and I found nothing more could be done. We had been six hours in searching the mine during which time the lewd Brokers and their Assistants were continually annoying either the Interpreter or the Petitioners, while they were looking after one, annoying the other. The search being over, we returned to the Magistrate whom we found busy entering Coolies' dues, and he drew my attention to the manner in which he entered them. He commenced by saying, for instance, if I\n\n208", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257664, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 221, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "Copy for\n\nNote from\n\nthe Leprosy Committee of the Royal College of Physicians\n\nwith the interrogatories,\n\nbesigned to guide Medical Missionaries in China (Enclosed) and\n\nto state that his Excellency will be glad\n\nif it should be in\n\nDr. Ansell's power to\n\ncomply with the\n\nrequest of the Committee,\n\nthat then\n\n[illegible]\n\nI have\n\nWhitehall,\n\nthe 30th April 1883\n\nHong Kong\n\nRegistered\n\nIn any further correspondence on this subject, the above number should be quoted.\n\n30 Apr. '83\n\nRECEIVED\n\n23 APR 1883\n\nGeneral Post Office,\n\n22nd April, 1883.\n\n217\n\nWith reference to your letter of the 7th instant. I am directed by the Postmaster General to return to you the Enclosed\n\nOrdinance passed by the Legislative Council of Hongkong intituled \"An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance No 8 of 1862, intituled 'An Ordinance to provide for the management and Control of a Post Office for the Colony of Hongkong', and to request that\n\nyou will have the goodness to state to the Duke of Newcastle that, so far as the Department is concerned, there is no objection to this Ordinance being submitted to Her Majesty for confirmation.\n\nJ. Rogers Bart-\n\nColonial Office\n\nYour most Obedient Servant,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 267826, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866", "page_number": 333, "title": "CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866", "content_text": "Permission having been granted to a W. Caldwell and the charterers or owners of a foreign steamer, the \"South Western\", trade regularly at a non-treaty Port named Hoihow in Hainan.\n\nJam x \n\n(Signed) J. R. Robertson\n\n2.9.85 Sir,\n\nIn 60581\n\nHong Kong, 23.2.1875\n\nThe enclosed letter from the Customs master of this port has been answered to the effect that clearances for Kuing chow may be granted to the ships of any treaty Power.\n\nThis conclusion is arrived at on a reading of the Treaty which is I believe our only guide in the matter and which opens Kuing chow to trade. There is also, if I may be allowed, a precedent in the case of Junk \"Namony\" in Tien-tsin which was requeted by repels before a British Consul was appointed.\n\nDr. Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B.\n\nB.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271127, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "content_text": "It mit han (zen is,\n\ny\n\nint the Rt. We han don\n\nLarz\n\ncutipr\n\nto han lift th\n\n1. I decide\n\n20 24 Letren Allte.\n\nerstand to Hal 2619\n\nHangkang.\n\nNo 382.\n\n28th October 1867.\n\nGovenor\n\nQue Richard Graves Mra. Donnell,\n\nHis Grace\n\nto\n\n&\n\n43.\n\nThe Duke of Buckingham & Chander\n\nLeave of absence to Mr. Bindi\n\nfor\n\nParts out the reasons. granting twelve months Requests information\n\n0.0\n\nto\n\nthe rule which is to guide\n\nin sinulan\n\nCAN LA.\n\nro. 2.\n\n352\n\n12428\n\ntong trong\n\n82\n\n--- Euterek\n\n6 Jan 1868\n\nSir R. Macdonnell\n\nall the for in midest 5 for is with, to the person Entitled\n\nThe schedule gusted & le Box that we fou\n\nto the a\n\nthe \"Maximum\n\nhax\n\ngr Addeels\n\n-\n\nPacher of Bacterishe\n\nCanc\n\nfor\n\nGrantalle\n\nhan ban dund, tatun\n\nYear Question\n\nc whette\n\ngizing\n\n120\n\nJul 12.\n\nonl\n\nNopen\n\nThe 6 beneficial\n\n77\n\npanted\n\nmonths\n\nlen\n\nopenal cinaintances\n\nI ther\n\nporng\n\n12 Lan\n\nComp\n\nthen\n\nfor the\n\n12 months\n\nthe 6 Exerts\n\nK\n\nhar\n\nFrvener\n\nExtension 6. the Sci & plate.\n\nleft\n\nthe\n\nare\n\nwo\n\n28 Dr.\n\n301\n\n5\n\nI have to acknow.\n\n: Ledge\n\nthe receipt of\n\nyour desp: N. 382\n\n28th Oct\" pointing\n\nof\n\nreasons which\n\nMr Bird 12 months\n\nDe\n\ninduced\n\nyou to grant\n\nleave\n\nabsence after\n\nlittle\n\na\n\nof abx\n\nservice\n\nvice of\n\nmore than 3\n\nthan 3 grass,\n\nand requesting information\n\nas to the rule\n\nwhich\n\nare\n\nyou quide yourself\n\nfuture\n\na\n\nby\n\nin\n\n& similar cases.\n\nIan will see on\n\nsecond referruce to\n\nthe\n\nappendix quoted", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 109, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "## Hong Kong - Indent of Stationery required for the offices of the Governor and the Private Secretary for the year 1868\n\nTo be packed separately, and marked outside the case \"Governor.\"\n\n* 10 Reams White Foolscap as per sample.\n* 10 Dr. Notepaper large size, thin cream-laid, as per sample.\n* 3000 Plain adhesive Note Envelopes white wood, without Royal arms.\n* 4200 Large Envelopes of assorted sizes, as per samples marked NP) to be.\n* 1 Bottle of prepared Gum.\n* 4 Gum Bottles with Brush complete.\n* 1000 Quills best quality.\n* 4 Doz. pencils.\n* 1 Bottle Red Ink.\n* 6 Quarto Morell's Registration Books.\n* 6 Penknives.\n* 4 Erasers.\n* 2 last Indent.\n* 6 Boxes (1 gross each) of Perry's Aromatic Elastic Bands, assorted sizes, but of thin description (No 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6).\n\n## Other Items\n\n* 2 Copies Navy List 1868.\n* 1 D. Wait's Army List 1868.\n* 1 D. Dodd's Peerage and Baronetage for 1868.\n* 1 Do. Imperial & Royal Calendars No 1 with the Companion and Index and the British Almanac for 1868.\n* 1 D. Court Guide for 1868.\n* 2 Pair Scissors. Large size.\n* 1 It Best Red India Sealing Wax (Hyde & Co).\n* 12 Pieces Green Silk Ribbon, narrow.\n* 2 Packet Red Paper.\n* 4 Pieces Best Black India Rubber.\n* 1 Gross Perry's Patent Letter Clips, as per sample in last Indent.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276072, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "page_number": 132, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "**force** should be fixed, not for communication to purchasers, but as a guide to the person entrusted with the sale.\n\nAn advertisement in the Innes might attract the attention of some Government or person in position to purchase, and it may be advisable to have recourse to that mode of making known the proposed sale.\n\nPending the receipt, however, of detailed information from the Colony, and of replies from Colonel Pasley (if written to) and the Government of New Zealand, I think it would be premature to advertise.\n\nI have to add that the disbursements at this Office for Machinery and Plant - the Hong Kong Mint (for most part purchased by Dr. Kinder) amounted to £13,590:8:9 as shown by the enclosed statement, and that the total Expenditure including that sum, as well as the cost of Building, &c., passage, salaries to £32,812 4:10.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\nWC Jervois", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303944, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 536, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# we have little to guide us in the solution of the main question \"Does flogging on the back produce phthisis.\"\n\nThey then discuss the question, and in doing so they touch upon a point of great importance. They say\n\nIn regard to air space, we find that in the cells where many prisoners are locked up together for the night, instead of at least from 1,000 to 1,200 cubic feet per man, the allowance is actually only from 482 to 772, and even bearing in mind the fact of only barred gates separating the cells from the corridors, we do not consider the air space and ventilation what it should be.\n\nThe figures they give are figures taken from Dr. Ayres's evidence, and as he explains in a note, they include the average cubic space of all cells, including European and Chinese, but the Committee had to examine, according to the wishes of the Secretary of State, and give an opinion, as to phthisis among Chinese, and accordingly it is Chinese we have to do with. The Commissioners give the air space in the appendix and the result is that instead of having 400 and odd cubic feet, as it would be on the average of the minimum for all the prisoners, it turns out that in some cases the prisoners had only 237, in others 277, in others 285, in others 265, and I find that before my arrival here, in November, 1876, according to a note of Mr. Tomlin's, there was 184 cubic feet of space only in some of the associated cells and 231 in others. That man Leong Aloi had only 200 cubic feet of air space. Dr. Wells and Dr. O'Brien say it should be 1,000 or 1,200. That is also the opinion of Her Majesty's Government. I must confess that when the breathing space has been limited to that extent\n\nI think it not at all unlikely the phthisis from which this man suffers may be quite as attributable to that fact as to the flogging on the back, perhaps even more so, and in connection with the subject I take the opportunity now of mentioning a dispatch of really very great importance which has not been laid before this Council, but which I shall take the opportunity of printing. It was a dispatch written by Lord Carnarvon to my predecessor, Sir Richard MacDonnell, when he took the prisoners from Stonecutter's Island and put them into the present gaol. Sir Richard, when he did so, spoke of his predecessor as being quixotic in his views as to the treatment of criminals. Sir Richard thought Chinese criminals should be treated in some peculiar way; accordingly he disapproved of Sir Hercules' scheme and transferred the prisoners to the Gaol at Victoria. He also reported changes he had effected with respect to the punishment of Chinese prisoners. One of these dispatches was one enclosing Dr. Murray's report on the health of the colony. Dr. Murray tells us that for the first time--at all events in what may be called the modern history of the colony--flogging with the cat had been introduced. It appears that when the colony was established in 1841 powers were given to the magistrates both of hanging and flogging, but that was speedily altered, and from the time British law really prevailed here up to 1865 there was no flogging with the cat on the back. Dr. Murray tells us how he thought it a very desirable change to introduce, and Sir Richard MacDonnell reported also to Lord Carnarvon the good effect it produced. I think he mentions that at the time Dr. Murray's report was sent home, after having twelve months' experience of the cat upon the back, out of 570 prisoners in the gaol that year 71 had died. I don't know whether it was in any way connected with the introduction of the new mode of punishment, but the Secretary of State, Lord Carnarvon, in acknowledging the receipt of the dispatch about giving up Stonecutter's Island, says \"I am inclined to think that if you transfer these prisoners to the gaol in the city of Victoria the breathing space for each prisoner in the cells will be too small and I therefore ask for further reports upon that subject.\" He goes on to say, \"I am bound also to inform you at once that I am disposed to think that the changes you have effected in the punishment of the Chinese are too severe, and upon that subject I must also ask for further information.\" Well, I cannot ascertain that any information as to the air space in the cells was actually sent until I myself, after my first visit to the gaol, at once reported that in my opinion the cells were too small and the air space too small. But at the Colonial Office they had before them what we call the Blue Book, which is sent home by every Governor every year and which contains amongst other items of information asked for by the Government in a pointed form to be filled up, what is the cubic space in which prisoners are confined. Well, the answer was that it gave the average cubic space of all the cells in the prison including the corridors, and the result was that it amounted to something like seven or eight hundred cubic feet for each prisoner, but until I wrote my despatch of 1877 the Government were never aware that Lord Carnarvon's fears expressed in his dispatch to Sir Richard MacDonnell were literally correct and that the experiment of forcing too many prisoners into the gaol ought never to have been tried, that in point of fact we were forcing into that gaol a number of prisoners that would never have been tolerated if Her Majesty's Government had known the facts. Fortunately these gentlemen's report disposes of that. At the time they made their inquiry four men only had been flogged. What do they find? That two of these men are suffering from phthisis. The Colonial Surgeon certified they were healthy, strong men when they came into the prison. Therefore I say, as to those who are opposing flogging on the back, it is not fair to say that the phthisis from which these men are suffering has been caused by flogging on the back; it is probably fair to say it has been caused by that evil Lord Carnarvon foresaw, namely, the evil of overcrowding. We know what it must be in winter, with every door and window closed in these cells, and I myself found on visiting the gaol when the prisoners were in the cells that the atmosphere they were breathing was something horrible. Therefore this report is of value to the Council apart from the more question of flogging on the back. Upon that question every man is entitled to form his own opinion. A document was laid before the Committee, which is printed in the appendix, which is of no small interest because it shows this question had attracted the attention of the Chinese Government more than 1,000 years ago, when one of the Emperors, who seems to have paid very proper attention to the physiological effects of flogging on the back, after a long inquiry arrived at the conclusion there ought not to be flogging on the back because it would lead to injury to the viscera.\n\nWell, when Her Majesty's Government learned that the Ordinance prescribed flogging with a rattan, when they learned that the cat was illegal except when ordered by the Supreme Court, and when they had further learned that throughout the whole of the Empire of China, no matter how severe their punishments may be, men are never flogged on the back, when they know the laws have been broken, you may be quite certain they will very carefully consider before they will again allow the laws of the Colony to be broken or all wa practice to be indulged in which leads to the worst consequences this report establishes. you will say, the rattan was too lenient an instrument; if you put by the cat make that severe--His Excellency went on to quote the report of the Committee as to the use of the rattan, referring particularly to a case in which sores caused by it did not heal properly for six months; the rattan was 47 inches long and had an average circumference of two inches. They say\n\n## Report of the Committee\n\nWe have examined the \"regulation cat,\" a \"naval cat,\" and the \"rattan\" used in the gaol, and find there is little difference between the \"cats\" except the knots, which, we were informed, should be three in the gaol cat over hand on each tail, but had not been used, smaller ones being worked on. Well, then they say----\n\n| Punishment | Age Group | Instrument |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Flogging on the back | Above 18 | Regulation cat without knots |\n| Flogging on the back | 13 to 18 | Cat with six tails |\n| Corporal punishment | Under 18 (for certain offenses) | Birch |\n\nWe are of opinion, that the punishment of flogging the back with the \"regulation cat,\" without any knots, be continued: care being taken by means of a thick leather collar that the neck is not injured and that the loins be protected in a similar way so that by these means the blows should fall on the insoles covering the shoulder blades and the intermedia spinal space. That flogging on the back be not inflicted on any person under eighteen years of age. That flogging on the back with six tails of the cat be the punishment of offenders from the age of thirteen to eighteen, and that the \"birch\" be used for any offenders under eighteen.\n\n## Page 531", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306321, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 77, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "76\n\nTo Government Printer.\n\nProof, to be sent to me.\n\nc. c. Smith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nGOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL\n\nHONGKONG, 5th April, 1875.\n\nSIR,---I have the honour to forward my Annual Report, for the year 1874, concerning the health of the Colony and the working of the different establishments under my supervision.\n\nThis year, the first of my service in the Colony, I have gained considerable experience to guide me in making this Report, for I made long and careful sanitary inspections of the town, both at the beginning and end of the year.\n\nI made two Reports to Government, the result of my sanitary inspections of the town and brothels at the beginning of the year, and this winter another series of inspections have been made in company with Mr. PRICE, the Surveyor General, who has kindly given me the benefit of his experience in drawing my attention to many things he considered worthy of note. I have also to thank the Officers in charge of the different Departments for much information requisite for making up the accompanying Returns.\n\nPOLICE.\n\nThe health of the Police is much improved. Table I. shows that the admissions this year to Hospital have been less by 130, as compared with 1873, though that year was good when compared with previous years.\n\nThe Indians have suffered most, principally from mild attacks of Intermittent Fever, Diarrhoea and affections of the respiratory organs. Many of them suffer from Intermittent Fever in their own country before coming here, and the cases recorded have been mostly repetitions of previous attacks, and of quite a mild type. Those that have been brought over this year have been a stronger and better built set of men, and more care has been apparent in their selection. I had occasion last year in my Report to bring to notice the deficiency in this respect of many of the recruits, and, I am glad to see, with good results.\n\nThe admissions among the Europeans and Chinese have been principally from slight attacks of Intermittent Fever, and slight injuries received in execution of their duties.\n\nTable II. shows the strength of the Force as compared with the sickness and mortality. The deaths in Hospital have been 8, as compared with 11 in 1873. Four other deaths occurred, of men who were not under treatment in Hospital. Three of them from causes not under control, and one was away on leave. These deaths are specially noticed in Table II.\n\nIn Table E. is seen the number admitted to Hospital for venereal disease, being 21, as compared with 59 in 1873: this will be referred to under the head of Lock Hospital.\n\nTROOPS.\n\nTable III. gives the strength, sickness and mortality of the Troops in Hongkong in 1874. Last year the rate of sickness and mortality had much diminished as compared with previous years. This year the admissions to Hospital, as compared with 1873, have been 379 less in number, showing a still further improvement; and the number of deaths have been 4 less than last year.\n\nThe admissions to Hospital for venereal disease this year have been only 65, against 223 in 1873; of these, 4 cases only were Primary Syphilis, and 50 Uncomplicated Gonorrhoea (see Table I).\n\nGOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\nI am happy to say some progress has been made towards building a new Civil Hospital; the site has been prepared, and the plans have arrived from England. That it is badly wanted, what I have to say under this head, will show.\n\nThe working of this establishment has been exceedingly good, under the able superintendence of Dr. WHARRY, and also, during his absence on three months' leave, of Dr. W. C. S. CLAPHAM.\n\nWith the Wardmasters, considerable trouble has been experienced. Two were dismissed for drunkenness, and one resigned after serving his probationary term, dissatisfied with the appointment.\n\nI drew special attention to these appointments in my last Report, as I considered them underpaid, and therefore not likely to attract the class of men required, or rendering them disgusted with their posts. The work is arduous and disagreeable, and requires a great amount of patience and tact. As a rule, the newcomers are perfectly ignorant of their duties, and it is for the interest of the Establishment and the comfort of the patients that changes in these appointments should be rare, and the holders a superior class of men.\n\nThe other subordinates have worked well. I desire specially to mention the Apothecary, Mr. A. A. BOTELHO, who has served in his present capacity over 20 years, and, I could think, he is much overworked. All the books, accounts, &c., are kept by him, in addition to his duties in the Dispensary, and though he has done his work exceedingly well, much improvement is to be desired in the keeping of the Hospital Records, &c. This cannot be obtained unless a clerk is allowed, and I would recommend that a Chinese clerk should be obtained, for it is quite impossible for any one man to do the work required of Mr. BOTELHO, with the efficiency to be desired, work as hard as he may.\n\nThe number of admissions to the Hospital has somewhat decreased this year, being 829, as compared with 952 in 1873. Of these, 18 cases were moribund when brought to Hospital. The decrease in the number of admissions is specially worthy of notice, as it is owing entirely to the decrease of admissions from the Police Force, which I have before brought to notice. The number of patients admitted, exclusive of Police and venereal cases, was 431, as compared with 404 in 1873; these numbers represent seamen, destitutes, and paying patients.\n\nTable IV. shows the varieties of disease and their relative frequency; the increase in the number of deaths being chiefly due to Phthisis, Fever, Intestinal Affections, and Surgical Injuries. Five of the deaths set down under the head of Chinese, from Remittent Fever, and two under the same head from Typhoid, were women brought from the licensed brothels, and occurred at the beginning of the year; these I shall refer to hereafter.\n\nOne class of patients that contribute largely to the death rate, are the coloured destitutes, some of whom earn a precarious livelihood as watchmen; they are usually miserably clad and half starved, and therefore more than ordinarily liable to disease, and when it does come, less able to resist it.\n\nThe case of Small-pox that died was a European engineer of a steamer, who contracted the disease in Shanghai in the month of June.\n\nThe two fatal cases of Typhoid among Europeans were brought from off a schooner (that came into this Port after the Typhoon) by my orders, while I was doing duty for Dr. ADAMS, who was unwell, and the other European cases were brought from Manila, Whampoa and Shanghai.\n\nThe number of dead bodies brought to Hospital for examination during the year was 150, four of them Europeans, and three coloured persons; many of these were brought in after the Typhoon.\n\nThe amount paid into the Treasury on account of paying patients was $3,036.73, compared with $2,440.08, the amount paid in 1873.\n\nOn the night of the 22nd September, 1874, this Colony was visited by a terrible and most destructive Typhoon. The old Civil Hospital suffered severely; it was more than half unroofed; the back verandah of the upper floor, which was supported by large stone pillars, was blown down, and also the outer walls of one of the rooms.\n\nThe inner walls bulged and cracked fearfully, and the whole building rocked and shook with each gust, in the most frightful manner; to add to the troubles of the inmates, gas went out, and the alarm of the patients can better be imagined than described. Dr. W. C. S. CLAPHAM was then in charge, and it is entirely due to his courage and presence of mind, and his admirable arrangements, that no fatal accident occurred, for the panic among the patients was so great that, at one time, some of them tried to leave the building, which if they had succeeded in doing, it is more than probable that they would have been killed, or severely injured, by the falling masonry. However, under Dr. CLAPHAM's superintendence, the patients were all removed into the lower rooms, most of them into his own quarters, and he went round them the whole night quieting their fears and making them all as comfortable as circumstances permitted, though he himself was, at the time, suffering from a painful affection of the knee joint. I visited the Hospital early next morning and arranged for the removal of the patients into the Lock Hospital, of which four of the largest wards were given up...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306335, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 91, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "90\n\nTo Government Printer.\n\nProof to be sent to me.\n\nC. C. Smith,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nGOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,\n\nHONGKONG, 5th April, 1875.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to forward my Annual Report, for the year 1874, concerning the health of the Colony and the working of the different establishments under my supervision.\n\nThis year, the first of my service in the Colony, I have gained considerable experience to guide me in making this Report, for I made long and careful sanitary inspections of the town, both at the beginning and end of the year.\n\nI made two Reports to Government, the result of my sanitary inspections of the town and brothels at the beginning of the year, and this winter another series of inspections have been made in company with Mr. PRICE, the Surveyor General, who has kindly given me the benefit of his experience in drawing my attention to many things he considered worthy of note.\n\nI have also to thank the Officers in charge of the different Departments for much information requisite for making up the accompanying Returns.\n\nPOLICE.\n\nThe health of the Police is much improved. Table 1. shows that the admissions to Hospital have been less by 130, as compared with 1873, though that year was good when compared with previous years.\n\nThe Indians have suffered most, principally from mild attacks of Intermittent Fever, Diarrhea, and affections of the respiratory organs. Many of them suffer from Intermittent Fever in their own country before coming here, and the cases recorded have been mostly repetitions of previous attacks, and of quite a mild type. Those that have been brought over this year have been a stronger and better built set of men, and more care has been apparent in their selection. I had occasion last year in my Report to bring to notice the deficiency in this respect of many of the recruits, and, I am glad to see, with good results.\n\nThe admissions among the Europeans and Chinese have been principally from slight attacks of Intermittent Fever, and slight injuries received in execution of their duties.\n\nTable II. shows the strength of the Force as compared with the sickness and mortality. The deaths in Hospital have been 8, as compared with 11 in 1873. Four other deaths occurred, of men who were not under treatment in Hospital. Three of them from causes not under control, and one while away on leave. These deaths are specially noticed in Table II.\n\nIn Table E. is seen the number admitted to Hospital for venereal disease, being 21, as compared with 59 in 1873; this will be referred to under the head of Lock Hospital.\n\nTROOPS.\n\nTable III. gives the strength, sickness and mortality of the Troops in Hongkong in 1874. Last year the rate of sickness and mortality had much diminished as compared with previous years. This year the admissions to Hospital, as compared with 1873, have been 579 less in number, showing a still further improvement; and the number of deaths have been 4 less than last year.\n\nThe admissions to Hospital for venereal disease this year have been only 65, against 223 in 1873; of these, 4 cases only were Primary Syphilis, and 50, Uncomplicated Gonorrhea (see Table E).\n\nGOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\nI am happy to say some progress has been made towards building a new Civil Hospital; the site has been prepared, and the plans have arrived from England. That it is badly wanted, what I have to say under this head will show.\n\nThe working of this establishment has been exceedingly good, under the able superintendence of Dr. WHARRY, and also, during his absence on three months' leave, of Dr. W. C. S. CLAPHAM.\n\nWith the Wardmasters, considerable trouble has been experienced. Two were dismissed for drunkenness, and one resigned after serving his probationary term, dissatisfied with the appointment.\n\nAs a rule, the newcomers are perfectly ignorant of their duties, and it is for the interest of the Establishment and the comfort of the patients that changes in these appointments should be rare, and the holders a superior class of men. The work is arduous and disagreeable, and requires a great amount of patience and tact.\n\nI desire specially to mention the Apothecary, Mr. A. A. BOTELHO, who has served in his present capacity over 20 years, and, for consideration when next I think, he is much overworked. All the books, accounts, &c., are kept by him, in addition to his duties in the Dispensary, and though he has done his work exceedingly well, much improvement is to be desired in the keeping of the Hospital Records, &c. This cannot be obtained unless a clerk is allowed, and I would recommend that a Chinese clerk should be obtained, for it is quite impossible for any one man to do the work required of Mr. BOTELHO, with the efficiency to be desired, work as hard as he may.\n\nEstimates are prepared.\n\nThe number of admissions to the Hospital has somewhat decreased this year, being 829, as compared with 952 in 1873. Of these, 18 cases were moribund when brought to Hospital. The decrease in the number of admissions is specially worthy of notice, as it is owing entirely to the decrease of admissions from the Police Force, which I have before brought to notice. The number of patients admitted, exclusive of Police and venereal cases, was 481, as compared with 404 in 1873; these numbers represent seamen, destitutes, and paying patients.\n\nTable IV. shows the varieties of disease and their relative frequency; the increase in the number of deaths being chiefly due to Phthisis, Fever, Intestinal Affections, and Surgical Injuries. Five of the deaths set down under the head of Chinese, from Remittent Fever, and two under the same head from Typhoid, were women brought from the licensed brothels, and occurred at the beginning of the year; these I shall refer to hereafter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 487, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "481\n\n \n protested against a fact which speaks well for the Emigration Officer's clear-headedness, the welfare of the trade interests of the Colony being the first consideration that should guide the action of every public officer.\n \n \n This irregular inspection or examination of the passengers does not appear to have produced very much more than the process usually adopted would have done, although we are informed that Dr. Eitel prosecuted his inquiries more in detail, and apparently as an independent Sub-Board in his person.\n \n \n It seems a pity that this indiscreet and grating course of procedure should extend to all the Departments of Government, and that the Private Secretary should be compelled to extend his unpopularity to every section of the service.\n \n \n If the action now taken in regard to the Glamis Castle passengers has been decisive on any point in relation to the rules for Chinese passengers, it is earnestly to be hoped that official notice will be at once given as to the changes desired.\n \n \n The detention of steamers is a positive loss that ought never to be thrown upon honest and reputable charters.\n \n\nCorrected version in HTML as per the instructions:\n481\n\nprotested against a fact which speaks well for the Emigration Officer's clear-headedness, the welfare of the trade interests of the Colony being the first consideration that should guide the action of every public officer. This irregular inspection or examination of the passengers does not appear to have produced very much more than the process usually adopted would have done, although we are informed that Dr. Eitel prosecuted his inquiries more in detail, and apparently as an independent Sub-Board in his person.\n\nIt seems a pity that this indiscreet and grating course of procedure should extend to all the Departments of Government, and that the Private Secretary should be compelled to extend his unpopularity to every section of the service. If the action now taken in regard to the Glamis Castle passengers has been decisive on any point in relation to the rules for Chinese passengers, it is earnestly to be hoped that official notice will be at once given as to the changes desired.\n\nThe detention of steamers is a positive loss that ought never to be thrown upon honest and reputable charters.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310808, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 388, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "Progress has been made with the various Public Works of the colony: but it is felt that too much should not be taken in hand at once, and that the many important works which are required in the colony should be completed one after another before entering on fresh undertakings.\n\nDate. Hongkong, No. 14,853 DOMESTIC.\n\nC.O. 14 853 RECR REGS AUG SE 379 Jh. Sanitary Matters- 1881\n\n15 and st previous a. Paper. Stabsobpations to The In the Manager to t` Adams of the Samutary Enfingering duties Ohe te elavaitary condition of the Colony Submits Remarks at (Minutes.) 138041\n\nThis letter is written in strong terms: \"No-102 A Andd 27. Aug. 81 20-Aug 8. 10954 1235 M. Meade 46.426-August 1881. PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\nstrong but not too has incurred very grave responsibility by cancelling the instructions to the Inspectors of nuisances and by permitting Chute houses to be built as the Chinese like etc. professional He is in opposition to the two men D: and proposes to guide up by Eitel and the Chinese! Such a Course would be were Ayres es and M. Prices de them by rules drawn simply ludicions of it J babe not so serious a matter.\n\nPage 627)\n\n$81-II&S 627)\n\n becomes \n\nProgress has been made with the various Public Works of the colony: it is felt that too much should not be taken in hand at once and that the many important works required in the colony should be completed one after another before entering on fresh undertakings.\n\nDate. Hong Kong, No. 14,853 DOMESTIC.\n\nC.O.14853 RECR REGS AUG SE 379\n\nJh. Sanitary Matters-1881\n\nObservations on the Sanitary Engineering duties and the sanitary condition of the Colony submitted by the Manager to Adams. (Minutes.)\n\nThis letter is written in strong terms:\n\n\"No.102A, 27 Aug. 81\n\n20 Aug. 8. 10954\n\n1235 M. Meade 46.426 August 1881. PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\n[He] has incurred very grave responsibility by cancelling the instructions to the Inspectors of Nuisances and by permitting Chinese houses to be built as the Chinese like, etc. He is in opposition to the two men, Dr. Ayres and Mr. Price, and proposes to be guided by Eitel and the Chinese. Such a course would be unwise.\n\nPage ...\n\n$81-II&S 627)\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format as requested:\n\nProgress has been made with the various Public Works of the colony: it is felt that too much should not be taken in hand at once and that the many important works required in the colony should be completed one after another before entering on fresh undertakings.\n\nDate. Hong Kong, No. 14,853 DOMESTIC.\n\nC.O.14853 RECR REGS AUG SE 379\n\nJh. Sanitary Matters-1881\n\nObservations on the Sanitary Engineering duties and the sanitary condition of the Colony submitted by the Manager to Adams. (Minutes.)\n\nThis letter is written in strong terms:\n\n\"No.102A, 27 Aug. 81\n20 Aug. 8. 10954\n1235 M. Meade 46.426 August 1881. PRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\n[He] has incurred very grave responsibility by cancelling the instructions to the Inspectors of Nuisances and by permitting Chinese houses to be built as the Chinese like, etc. He is in opposition to the two men, Dr. Ayres and Mr. Price, and proposes to be guided by Eitel and the Chinese. Such a course would be unwise.\n\nPage ...\n\n$81-II&S627)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317920, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 171, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n## A CHINESE PRIMER\n\nlines and turn at once—suiting the action to the word; but here occurred a pause, and with a smile, \"Oh, I see I must have taken the wrong radical. Yes! this must be the one, and so many strokes, here we shall have it,\" but no, the oracle was again wrong. \"You see it is sometimes difficult to tell which is the radical,\" said he grimly. A third attempt failed likewise; the book was closed and hurled into a corner with the remark, \"There, Sir, you see the use of the radicals; I have been at Chinese for twenty years and can't find a simple character when I want it; good morning!\" Let not any young student who has followed me so far be disheartened by such a story. All who have achieved a position as Sinologists have experienced something of the same sort, and that not once or twice only.\n\nThe Bishop is to be complimented on his selection and arrangement of the studies for the sounds and tones of the dialect, only remarking that it is one thing to be able to give the correct tone of every individual word and quite another to connect and use them in sentences as a native does. Power to do the latter may be acquired long before the memory will enable the former to be done. The daily repetition of sentences after a teacher is of far more importance than that of single words. Children speak correctly long before they can analyse the sentences they make use of.\n\nThe remaining 30 pages of the Primer are to my mind most mystifying. If anything is worth learning in Chinese it is worth learning thoroughly. Why then should we have here put before us fragments of weights and measures, a defective list of classifiers, and a mere sprinkling of the numerical categories. Take for instance weights and measures; under the head \"length\" is inserted a very useful fragment of information that the Chinese mile is a little more than a third of an English mile. But why does Dr. Burdon put in the hero, omitting the necessary links to show what constitutes a mile or `li` and without reference also to the number of `li` forming a league or `tong-sun` which so often occurs in conversation under the form `Yat-po-...`? From land measure the `Fan` and `Kok` are both omitted (the former occurring in books, the latter more frequently in Tank-wa), whilst no mention whatever is made of Dry Measure. It must puzzle a beginner also to be told on one page that one `Lereng` is an ounce and on the next that 16 of these make 1 English lb.\n\nThe student must constantly feel when acquiring knowledge in this irregular way the uncomfortable conviction that he will have to go over it all again and seek elsewhere for a text book on which he can rely.\n\nLet us now proceed to examine the classifiers or numeratives of which Dr. Burdon only gives 60, whilst Dr. Dennys for instance enumerates 72, Lobscheid 75, and Dr. Eitel 81. It is very difficult to understand on what principle any should have been left out, or if any are deemed superfluous what has governed the selection. These surely: `札塲重欵行頁嚿羣片部本雙啖笪點團隊,段,席餐圓層` are as important as some which duly appear. Why, again, are some translated, whilst others are not? Such want of system is very irritating to the earnest student, sending him again and again to the very dictionary whence these are said in the Preface to have been extracted to be put into more convenient form.\n\nIn one place `Chung` is wrongly given as the numerative of affairs, it should be `Kien` according to Dr. Williams. Again, Dr. Burdon makes a mistake when he places it as the classifier of bridges, rivers, doors &c. It is undoubtedly right as the classifier for an Imperial decree, but in the other cases the correct character is undoubtedly `條` *Things in handles, heavy showers, a series, sections, things in rows, strips, lumps, Rocks, slices, volumes, acts of plays, couples, month-ful, spots, dots, clods, groups, sentences, feasts, meals, circles, stories of houses*.\n\nThe numerous examples given under many of the best known classifiers will no doubt be very useful, but here again we miss any indication of the various values of the several examples. Many expressions, common and uncommon, are mixed up in the same group, the student being left to pick his way as best he can without a note to guide him. We miss, for instance, `對對yal, tai hái, a pair of scrolls`, a most common expression; whilst `to` in connection with house and pagodas would not generally be understood; - `Zyat, shi man táp`, would be recognised everywhere, which would not be the case were `yat, two2 ráp` used. Under `ting` it is marked that the colloquial pronunciation of `mo'` is '`mò`, the `ha hüy shing` being changed to `sheung sheung shing`, but it should also be remarked that at Canton the `sheung sheung shing` is used for the little round summer-cap, whilst the `ha hüy shing` is always used for the massive rain-hat.\n\nAfter the classifiers Dr. Burdon gives the \"Groups or families of words,\" or as Mr. Mayers calls them in his most valuable Manual, \"Numerical Categories,\" and recommends the learner to be ever on the watch for them. Let the reader try to picture if he can his feeling of disgust if, after some months of laboriously collecting what he could of these according to advice so given, he were to discover that a magnificent collection already existed of over 300 in an easily accessible form, with references also to the authorities to be consulted for information about them. I can hardly think that Dr. Burdon is really unaware of the existence of the Chinese Reader's Manual, or he would surely not have contented himself with so poor a collection, between fifty and sixty only, when hundreds were at hand.\n\nAmongst these which he gives some are introduced which only occur in books, which would by no means be recognised by natives as belonging to the authorized Categories; these ought to be kept by themselves, e.g. the \"four knowledges,\" p. 42, \"four moral diseases,\" or \"four miserable classes.\" These groups are not known by these titles, and it is calculated to mislead the student rather than help him, to place them in the midst of other well-known categories: `西民四業` are given as titles for the four classes of people; the first character, I believe, is quite erroneous, it should be `庶`. Whilst the second title is not used as it stands but is an unauthorized contraction for `四樣事業`: `四民` by which are indicated four popular pictures called the `漁樵耕讀`, that is to say the fisherman, woodcutter, farmer, and student.\n\nThe `六合` should read `東南西北上下`, and be termed the six cardinal points, whilst those the Bishop gives with zenith and nadir instead of `上下`, should be named `luk kik` or six Limits of Space (Mayers, p. 322 and 323). It should also be pointed out that both of these titles have other and different groups under them, as have several other of the titles given in the Primer., e.g. `帝` the Bishop calls `五帝`, and `堯舜`, `堯` and `舜`. But most people would understand the reference to `文昌` and the gods of literature and war, `關帝`.\n\nThe or five grades of mourning present one of the most hopeless muddles I have ever seen in an educational work, the Bishop giving them as `三年期大功` (which he gives as 5 months); `小功` (which he calls 3 months) and `緦麻` light mourning. Dr. Williams, p. 461, under `服` gives the correct period for `大功` and `小功` as 9 months and 5 months respectively, and p. 834 the fifth grade as 3 months mourning for the fourth generation; whilst Legge's Classics, Vol. I, p. 83 note, give us the proper names for the first and second...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317932, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 183, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "## THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nfrom the above, that the phrase \"fih kuh\" cannot possibly mean \"followers,\" nor even \"followers carrying screens over a general in his chariot.\" One screen might, at any rate, suffice even for a general, whether Chinese or Assyrian. But as to the second half of the sentence, and its Assyrian reference, Dr. Williams must have derived his inspiration from a source even more obscure to him than Kaughi's comments. It is perhaps impossible to decide whether the words \"such as is seen\" refer to the chariot or to the general, and it therefore appears to me that the \"remarkable coincidence,\" to which N. P. refers, is more remarkable for its obscurity than for anything else.\n\nE. J. E.\n\n## THE WORD SWALLOW\n\nEvery Chinese student has of course remarked as an extraordinary coincidence that the Chinese words 燕 and 燕, a noun and a verb of the same sound, should exactly correspond to a noun and verb in English which are also homophonous. The word \"swallow\" is of course alluded to. The inference is irresistible that in the case of the English words, as obviously in that of the Chinese, the verb is a derivative of the noun. Can any philologist state whether this is actually so?\n\nP.\n\nThe resemblances alluded to by P. in both cases are but accidental. In the English instances adduced we have only to go back to Anglo-Saxon to discover that the two words, swallow, verb, and swallow, substantive, have no connexion. The first we find had the form swelgan, in German schwelgen; the second swalewe, in German schwalbe. The latter is according to Curtius connected with the same stem as σικινις (sistrum), σείω (to shake), σύριγξ (tuba), σάλη (cithara), &c.\n\nSo in Chinese we may apparently trace up the origin of the two, or rather three forms, for 燕 means not only the bird, but also rest, repose, to those distinct forms in ancient Central-Asian speech. Unfortunately we have no means of discovering, except by analogy, the parent language of which modern Chinese is the degenerate offspring. There is however little difficulty in comparing 燕 in the sense of a swallow, with the Latin hirun-do, which in Greek becomes χελιδών; 燕 in the sense of rest, repose, is apparently to be connected with the Greek ἄψ, in Sanscrit ram, with similar meaning, and this we must refer to the same root as the third form 嚥, which we may likewise trace in the Sanscrit sri man, which becomes in Latin glutio.\n\nThe resemblance which might seem at first sight to betoken some connexion fades away in the case of the Chinese as of the English word as soon as we begin to look below the surface. Comparative philologists have long since given up the habit of looking out for sham resemblances to establish community of origin, and prefer following fixed and uniform laws of change to guide them in their researches.\n\n## CORRIGENDA\n\nT. W. K.\n\n## CHINESE STUDIES AND OFFICIAL INTERPRETATION IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG\n\nIn writing under this heading, and referring to Dr. Bridges (p. 3) I regret to have committed an inaccuracy, from imperfect recollection. On referring to the Government Gazettes of 1858, I find that Dr. Bridges himself requested to be put on his trial, in consequence of the charges brought against him by the public papers, that the trial was conducted by a Committee of the Legislative Council, and that the report of this Committee winds up by saying that they consider Dr. Bridges' honour and integrity quite unimpeached.\n\nE. J. EITEL\n\n## ERRATA\n\nIn the Note on Patria Potestas, Vol. V., p. 405, column 2, last line, for \"no mother\" read \"no matter.\"\n\n* Here the Manuscript is illegible.--Ep. China Review.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 318615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 172, "title": "CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10]", "content_text": "171 \n\n# ORIGINAL ANNUAL REPORT OF COLONIAL SURGEON FOR 1874, NOW PRINTED IN FULL WITH MINUTES AND MARGINAL NOTES.\n\n**C.S.O. No. 1081 of 1875.**\n\nHongkong, dated April 5th, 1875.\n\nReceived, 6th April, 1875.\n\nFrom Dr. PH. B. C. AYRES, Colonial Surgeon.\n\nTo Honourable C. C. Sarr, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n## Annual Report of the Colonial Surgeon.\n\n### MINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nI think that the Government is much indebted to the Colonial Surgeon for this Report, but I do not consider that it would be in any way advisable to print it in its entirety. It contains details which should be the subject of special Reports, and is in some parts misleading.\n\n6th April, 1875.\n\n### MINUTE BY THE ADMINISTRATOR.\n\n**CECIL C. SMITH**, Acting Colonial Secretary,\n\nI quite agree with you that this cannot be printed in its entirety. I leave it entirely to your discretion to apply the pruning knife.\n\n8th April, 1875.\n\n### MINUTE BY THE ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.\n\nForwarded for the perusal of the Honourable the Attorney General.\n\n17th April, 1875.\n\n19th April, 1875.\n\nBy Command,\n\n**J. G. AUSTIN**, Administrator.\n\n**C. C. SMITH**, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n### MINUTE BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.\n\nSeen and returned.\n\n**JOHN BRAMSTON**, Attorney General.\n\nTo Government 17.\n\nProof to be sent to me.\n\n**C. C. Smith**, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\n## GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 5th April, 1875.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to forward my Annual Report, for the year 1874, concerning the health of the Colony and the working of the different establishments under my supervision.\n\nThis year, the first of my service in the Colony, I have gained considerable experience to guide me in making this Report, for I made long and careful sanitary inspections of the town, both at the beginning and end of the year.\n\nI made two Reports to Government, the result of my sanitary inspections of the town and brothels at the beginning of the year, and this winter another series of inspections have been made in company with Mr. PRICE, the Surveyor General, who has kindly given me the benefit of his experience in drawing my attention to many things he considered worthy of note. I have also to thank the Officers in charge of the different Departments for much information requisite for making up the accompanying Returns.\n\n### POLICE.\n\nThe health of the Police is much improved. **Table I.** shows that the admissions this year to Hospital have been less by 130, as compared with 1873, though that year was good when compared with previous years.\n\nThe Indians have suffered most, principally from mild attacks of Intermittent Fever, Diarrhoea, and affections of the respiratory organs. Many of them suffer from Intermittent Fever in their own country before coming here, and the cases recorded have been mostly repetitions of previous attacks, and of quite a mild type. Those that have been brought over this year have been a stronger and better-built set of men, and more care has been apparent in their selection. I had occasion last year in my Report to bring to notice the deficiency in this respect of many of the recruits, and, I am glad to see, with good results.\n\nThe admissions among the Europeans and Chinese have been principally from slight attacks of Intermittent Fever, and slight injuries received in execution of their duties.\n\n| Category | Admissions | Comparison with 1873 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Indians | - | Suffered most from Intermittent Fever, Diarrhoea, etc. |\n| Europeans and Chinese | - | Principally slight attacks of Intermittent Fever and injuries |\n\n**Table II.** shows the strength of the Force as compared with the sickness and mortality. The deaths in Hospital have been 8, as compared with 11 in 1873. Four other deaths occurred, of men who were not under treatment in Hospital. Three of them from causes not under control, and one while away on leave.\n\nThese deaths are specially noticed in **Table II.**\n\nIn **Table E.**, is seen the number admitted to Hospital for venereal disease, being 21, as compared with 59 in 1873; this will be referred to under the head of Lock Hospital.\n\n### TROOPS.\n\n**Table III.** gives the strength, sickness, and mortality of the Troops in Hongkong in 1874. Last year, the rate of sickness and mortality had much diminished as compared with previous years. This year, the admissions to Hospital, as compared with 1873, have been 379 less in number, showing a still further improvement; and the number of deaths have been 4 less than last year.\n\nThe admissions to Hospital for venereal disease this year have been only 65, against 223 in 1873; of these, 4 cases only were Primary Syphilis, and 50 Uncomplicated Gonorrhea (see **Table E.**).\n\n### GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.\n\nI am happy to say some progress has been made towards building a new Civil Hospital; the site has been prepared, and the plans have arrived from England. That it is badly wanted, what I have to say under this head will show.\n\nAs a rule, the working of this establishment has been exceedingly good, under the able superintendence of Dr. WHARRY, and also, during his absence on three months' leave, of Dr. W. C. S. CLAPHAM.\n\nWith the Wardmasters, considerable trouble has been experienced. Two were dismissed for drunkenness, and one resigned after serving his probationary term, dissatisfied with the appointment. I drew special attention to these appointments in my last Report, as I considered them underpaid, and therefore not likely to attract the class of men required, or rendering them disgusted with their posts. The work is arduous and disagreeable, and requires a great amount of patience and tact. As a rule, the newcomers are perfectly ignorant of their duties, and it is for the interest of the Establishment and the comfort of the patients that changes in these appointments should be rare, and the holders a superior class of men.\n\nThe other subordinates have worked well. I desire specially to mention the Apothecary, Mr. A. A. BOTELHO, who has served in his present capacity over 20 years, and, I think, he is much overworked. All the books, accounts, &c., are kept by him, in addition to his duties in the Dispensary, and though he has done his work exceedingly well, much improvement is to be desired in the keeping of the Hospital Records, &c. This cannot be obtained unless a clerk is allowed, and I would recommend that a Chinese clerk should be obtained, for it is quite impossible for any one man to do the work required of Mr. BOTELHO, with the efficiency to be desired, work as hard as he may.\n\nFor considera- \n\nprepared", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-203 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 505, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "502\n\n4\n\nWe extract a few interesting passages from a recent article of the Paris Figaro regarding the Holy Father, Leo XIII, who puts in practice the advice given by an Italian Princess to a King of France: \"Now, my son, you must stitch\" (il faut coudre). The Pope has been stitching for five years with wonderful patience and perseverance. He has desired to bring back the Governments of Europe to himself, and everybody knows how he has succeeded. Envoys, more or less recognised by Mr. Gladstone, ascend the great Vatican staircase side by side with the Ambassador of the German Empire, with the Grand Duke Constantino Nicolavich, the Tsar's uncle, and Russian diplomats, greatly surprised to meet here. The venerable old man may congratulate himself on his work. At the price of what labour he thus guides the bark of Peter to port, we shall see.\n\nThe writer then describes a day of the Pope's life—his early Mass, his audience to the Secretary of State, Cardinal Jacobini, \"of rare political knowledge,\" and to the other Cardinal Secretaries, each of whom has his fixed day; the meagre one o'clock dinner of a plate of soup, one plate of meat, and cheese, lasting only a few minutes; his afternoon walk or ride, utilised in reading the reports of Bishops or Nuncios; his public and private audiences at four p.m.; his reception of Bishops in the evening; and then, at the end of his long day, his hours in his private cabinet: \"then it is that Leo XIII is able to work,\" concludes the writer.\n\nHis personal appearance and manner is thus described:\n\nTall, thin, dry, his face long, pale and wrinkled, Leo XIII is of delicate health, which he takes little care of.\n\nTHE CATHOLIC REGISTER.\n\nHONGKONG RATES OF POSTAGE.\n\nREVISED JANUARY, 1883.\n\nIn the following Statements and Tables the Rates are given in cents, and are, for letters per half ounce, for Books and Patterns, per two ounces.\n\nNewspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, treble, etc., as the case may be, but such papers or packets of papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except loose file Supplements. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate. Price Current may be paid either as Newspapers or Books.\n\nCommercial Papers signify such papers as, though written by hand, do not bear the character of an actual or personal correspondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied music, &c. The charge on them is the same as for books, but, whatever the weight of a packet containing any partially written paper, it will not be charged less than 5 cents.\n\nThe sender of any Registered Article may accompany it with a Return Receipt on paying an extra fee of 5 cents.\n\nCommercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is 4 oz. Patterns for such offices are limited to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these dimensions: 8 inches by 6 inches by 2 inches.\n\nCOUNTRIES OF THE POSTAL UNION.\n\nThe Union may be taken to comprise Europe, all foreign possessions in Asia, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, N. America, Mexico, Salvador, Brazil, Peru, Chili, Venezuela, the Argentine Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, Bermuda, French, Netherlands, Portuguese and Spanish Colonies.\n\nCountries NOT in the Union.---The chief countries not in the Union are the Australasian Group, and S. Africa.\n\nPOSTAGE TO UNION COUNTRIES.\n\nGeneral Rate, by any route:\n\nLetters,......... 10 cents per 1 oz.\n\nPost Cards...... 2 cents each.\n\nNewspapers, ............ 2 cents each.\n\nBooks, Patterns and Commercial Papers,\n\n2 cents per 2 oz.\n\nRegistration, ............ 10 cents.\n\nThere is no charge on redirected correspondence within the Postal Union.\n\nHis austerity is extreme. The spiritual sovereign of over 200 millions of Catholics does not spend £100 a month for his table. His highly-developed nervous system alone enables him to resist the fatigues of his vast occupations and labours. Sometimes he appears dejected or exhausted. Some of good news brought by telegram gives him new life. He is always grave and solemn, always the Pope. The Italians describe his exterior by the word \"ceremonious.\" Gravity is inherent in his nature. His contemporaries recognised this when he was a boy. He never abandons himself, and is not easily provoked to laughter. He would be thought severe, were it not that he tempers the solemnity of his address with the patient attention with which he listens without interrupting those who speak to him.... Leo XIII speaks with the same slowness as the Archbishop of Paris. If the Pope and the Cardinal have not received the gifts of the orator, they are, on the other hand, writers.\n\nIt is stated that not only does his Holiness submit his letters and encyclicals to the Sacred College, but he listens to advice, and frequently after long discussion, entirely re-casts encyclicals he has prepared. As he sleeps badly, he often spends hours in the night in writing these documents. Finally, the Italian ex-Minister Bonghi, said of Leo XIII, that he was \"one of the most evenly-balanced and most vigorous of characters: one who has realised the idea of a Cardinal as traced by St. Bernard.\"\n\nThere was hanged at Steinamanger, in Hungary, a peasant woman from Szordabely, named Lyukas Kathi, the perpetrator of a series of crimes which had excited universal horror. The criminal was fifty-two years of age, short in stature, and of a placid aspect. She compounded arsenic in cakes which she disposed of at a high price to persons who desired to get rid of their relatives. Lyukas killed two husbands of her own, and she was accused of twenty-six other murders, six of which she confessed to.\n\nPOSTAGE TO NON-UNION COUNTRIES.\n\nAustralia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fiji, via Torres Straits, Letters, 10; Registration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 2: Via Suez, Letters, 25; Registration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 2.\n\nNatal, the Cape, St. Helena, Ascension, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Letters, 25; Registration, 10; Books & Patterns, 5.\n\nLOCAL POSTAGE.\n\nLetters, per 1/2 oz., 2 cents.\n\nRegistration, 10 cents.\n\nPost Cards, 2 cents.\n\nBooks, 2 cents per 2 oz.\n\nNewspapers, 1 cent each.\n\nGeneral Local Rates?\n\nChina, Tonquin, & Japan, Siam & Cochin China (d), Overland General Route, and the Philippines (d) Via Singapore, 10 cents.\n\n(e)\n\nBetween Canton, and\n\nSILVER QUOTATIONS.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank--New Issue--160 per cent premium.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank--New Issue--148 per cent premium, sellers.\n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton--\n\n$1,850 per share, buyers.\n\nChina Traders' Insurance Company--\n\n$1,650 per share.\n\nNorth China Insurance Co.--Tls. 1,225 per share.\n\nCanton Insurance Company, Limited,--\n\n$136 per share, sellers.\n\nYangtze Insurance Association--Tls. 870 per share.\n\nChinese Insurance Company-- $215 per share.\n\nOn Tui Insurance Company, Limited,--\n\nTls. 148 per share.\n\nHongkong Fire Insurance Company--\n\n$1,160 per share.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Company--\n\n$9223 per share, sellers.\n\nHongkong and Whampoa Dock Company--30 per cent premium.\n\nHongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-ship Company---$33 per share, premium.\n\nHongkong Gas Company--$82 per share.\n\nHongkong Hotel Company--130 per share.\n\nIndo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited,--10 per cent discount.\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company, Limited--$207 per share.\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company--(Debentures)--3 per cent premium.\n\nLuzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited--$108 per share.\n\nHongkong Ice Company --$170 per share.\n\nHongkong and China Bakery Company, Limited,--$60 per share.\n\nChinese Imperial Loan of 1879--2 per cent premium.\n\nChinese Imperial Loan of 1881--24 per cent premium.\n\nOn London.--\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nBank Bills, on demand,.......8/73\n\nBank Bills, at 30 d/s, 8/7\n\nCredits, at 4 m/s.\n\n3/7\n\nDocumentary Bills, at 4 m/s, 3/U\n\nOn Paris--Bank Bills, demand, 4.54\n\nCredits, at 4 m/s 4.62\n\nOn Bombay--Bank, 3 dis.....\n\n.222\n\nOn Calcutta--Bank, 3 dis.......2223\n\nOn Shanghai--Bank, sight,\n\n72\n\nPrivate, 50 dis\n\n73\n\nFlour\n\nHalf day\n\nDay\n\nQuarterly fallen\n\nDirection of Wind...\n\nWet Thermometer 64o\n\nTHERMOMETER, do\n\nBAROMETER,\n\nPrevious day\n\nat 1 p.m.\n\nOn date\n\nat 10 a.m.\n\nPrevious day\n\nat 1.\n\nOn date\n\n10 p.m.\n\nPrevious day\n\nN\n\nat 10 ..\n\nPrevious day\n\n4.ro.\n\nOn date\n\n10 1,\n\nHongkong, Saturday, February 24, 1883.\n\nCHURCH NOTICES.\n\nHOURS OF DIVINE SERVICE ON SUNDAYS AND FEASTS OF OBLIGATION.\n\nCATHEDRAL, WELLINGTON STREET.\n\nHigh Mass with Sermon in Portuguese at 8 a.m. throughout the year.\n\nFirst Mass..........at 6\n\nSecond Mass.......at 7\n\nHigh Mass..........at 9 a.m.\n\nLast Mass..........at 5½ p.m.\n\nBENEDICTION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.\n\nNovember 1st to February 28th...... 5 p.m.\n\nMarch, April, September, & October 5½ p.m.\n\nMay 1st to August 31st... 6 p.m.\n\nOne hour before the Benediction there is Instruction in Christian Doctrine in Portuguese.\n\n3 p.m.\n\n4 p.m.\n\nST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WANCHAI.\n\nFirst Mass, Sermon in Chinese.........6 a.m.\n\nSecond Mass, Sermon in Portuguese, 7 a.m.\n\nCatechism for Chinese\n\nCatechism for Portuguese.\n\nBenediction of the M. H. Sacrament à jun.\n\nST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, GARDEN ROAD.\n\nMass with Sermon in English ............\n\nBENEDICTION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.\n\nOn Sunday...7 a.m.\n\nDays of Devotion..... after Mass.\n\nCHAPEL OF THE SACRED HEART, WEST POINT.\n\nMass with Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament at 8 a.m.\n\nDAYS OF DEVOTION.\n\nPeak...$0.75 each Coolie.\n\nGap...$0.60 each Coolie.\n\nINRICKSHA.\n\nQuarter of an hour or less\n\nHalf an hour.\n\nOne Hour\n\n5 cents.\n\n10 cents.\n\n15 cents.\n\n25 cents.\n\n35 cents.\n\n50 cents.\n\nLEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, QUADRI-BEARERS, AND BOATS, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\nChairs and Ordinary Pillaway Boats.\n\nHalf hour... One hour\n\nSix hours\n\nThree hours\n\nSix hours.\n\nOne day (12 hours)\n\nTO VICTORIA PEAK.\n\nSingle Trip.\n\nFour Coolies\n\n$1.00\n\nThree Coolies\n\n$0.85\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$0.70\n\nReturn (direct or by Pok-fu-lam).\n\nFour Coolies\n\n$1.50\n\nThree Coolies\n\n$1.20\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$1.00\n\nNov. 1st to April 30th\n\nMay 1st to Oct. 31st\n\nFour Coolies\n\nThree Coolies\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$0.60\n\n$0.50\n\n$0.40\n\nReturn (direct or by Pok-fu-lam).\n\nFour Coolies........... $1.00\n\nThree Coolies........ $0.85\n\nTwo Coolies.......... $0.70\n\nTO VICTORIA GAP (TO LEVEL OF UMBRELLA SEAT).\n\nSingle Trip.\n\nTwo Coolies.... 30 cents.\n\nThe Return Fare embraces a trip of not more than three hours.\n\nFor every hour or part of an hour above three hours, each Coolie will be entitled to an additional payment of 5 cents.\n\nBOAT AND COOLIE HIRE.\n\n1st Class Cargo Boat of 600 or 800 piculs, per Day.... $3.00\n\n1st Class Cargo Boat of 800 or 400 piculs, per Load,........... 2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600 piculs, per Day $2.50\n\n2nd Class Cargo Boat of 800 piculs, per Load ................ 3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, per Day... $1.50\n\n3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, per Load.. $1.00\n\n3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, Half Day... $0.50\n\nSAMPAN or Pullaway Boats, per Day.....$1.00\n\nOne Hour... 20 cents.\n\nHalf-an-Hour 10 cents.\n\nSTANDT COOLIES.\n\nScale of Hire for Street Coolies.\n\nOne Day, ..........50 cents.\n\nHalf Day,....... 20 cents.\n\nThree Hours......... 12 cents.\n\nOne Hour............ 5 cents.\n\nHalf Hour......... 3 cents.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAN EXCELLENT TUTOR of the MANDARIN DIALECT is desirous of giving lessons to a few scholars. Speaks only the Mandarin Dialect.\n\nAddress E. Office of this Paper.\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1883.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLESSONS given in English, also French (fluency required in French), by Mrs. J. M. Kuntion, Victoria School, Hongkong, 15th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTREATISE on PURGATORY. By St. Catherine of Genoa. With Preface by His Eminence Cardinal Manning. Cloth, gilt lettered.\n\nREMEMBRANCE for the Living to Obtain the Release of Souls from Purgatory. By Munford, J. With an Appendix on the Heroic Act, by Father John Morris, S.J. 3rd Edition.\n\nTHE Heroic Act of Charity. By Father Tom Morris, S.J.\n\nMONTH of the Souls in Purgatory 3rd Edition.\n\nROSARY for the Dead. Black on Steel, or mounted in silver.\n\nFLOWERS of November; or, Month of the Most Holy Church.\n\nApply at the Offices of this Paper.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nFRANCE.\n\nCONTINENTAL & COLONIAL AGENCY (Licensed).\n\n14, RUE DU CHABROL, PARIS.\n\nTransacts every description of Commission Mercantile and General Business.\n\nAgents for manufacturers on most favorable terms.\n\nCONDITIONS.-- Two-and-a-half per cent Commission when Banker's Draft on London or Paris comprise Order. Same terms to regular correspondents. All Trade and Cash Discounts conceded to Purchasers. Original invoice sent when requested.\n\nFree storage taken charge of and routine and best advice given on Consignments.\n\nThe Agency Represents, Buys, and Sells for Firms.\n\nPublic Securities, Estates and Properties, bought and sold. Loans, Mortgages, Mines, and Investments, etc., negotiated.\n\nManufacturers and Producers can have saleable articles introduced to the markets on advantageous Conditions.\n\nPRICE LIST--Comprehensive and reliable--on application.\n\nBANKERS--Paris: George Water, Esq., R., Houdevant des Italiens, London: The London and County Bank, 3, Victoria Street, Westminster.\n\nDirectors.--The Manager, Continental and Colonial Agency, 14, Rue du Chabrol, Paris, France.\n\nGUEDES & Co. PRINTERS, STATIONERS, AND PRINT BOOKBINDERS.\n\nD'AQUILAR STREET.\n\nEVERY KIND OF WORK EXECUTED WITH ACCURACY, NEATNESS, & DESPATCH.\n\nVERY MODERATE TERMS.\n\nSELECTED MATERIALS FOR MARKET REPORTS.\n\nBook-binding and Printing in every style executed at low rates.\n\nWorkmanship guaranteed.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nJ. M. GUEDES.\n\nHOUSE AND LAND BROKER.\n\nAUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nNo. 39, WELLINGTON STREET, HONGKONG.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nF. D. GUEDES.\n\nWINE MERCHANT AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nNo. 5, 'AGULAN STREET.\n\nHAS always on hand a large assortment of CHOICE WINES of the best quality, at Moderate Prices.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nNOTICE. -\n\nTHE Establishments of GENERAL PRINTER AND BOOKBINDERS hitherto conducted by the undersigned will henceforth be carried on under the style or firm of GUEDES & Co.\n\nMr. F. D. Guedes being the only partner in the firm.\n\nDE SOUZA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nA KWONG,\n\nDEALERS IN FURNITURE, PLATED, GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE, &c. &c. &c.,\n\nAT MORRRA VALLES.\n\nNo. 41, Wellington Street, HONGKONG.\n\nA-TACK\n\nFURNITURE STORE, No. 49, Queen's Road, HONGKONG.\n\nAgents in Manila: Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co.\n\nE. CASSUMBHOY,\n\nFURNITURE WAREHOUSE, No. 9, 11, 12, 13, and 14, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.\n\nHas always on hand every description of English and Colonial made FURNITURE FOR SALE ON\n\nALSO\n\nCHINESE AND JAPANESE CURIOS.\n\nTO BE LET,\n\nTO LET.\n\nRooms 8, 16,\n\nN 26.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTWO HOUSES in Belvedere Terrace, ANCIENT HISTORY, OKAMEER'S.\n\nHigh Street.\n\nApply to\n\nGUEDES & Co,\n\nON THE PREMISES.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nTO LET.\n\nGRANITE GODOWN, Blue Buildings, Praya East.\n\nApply to\n\nJ. M. GUEDES.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nTO LET.\n\nTT House No. 39. Wigton St (opposite the Roman Catholic Church), containing Four Rooms, Out Houses, &c.\n\nApply to\n\nGUEDES & Co.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nfor the use of Ladies and Gentleman.\n\nPrice, 50 cents.\n\nHongkong, 18 January, 1883.\n\nGUEDES & Co,\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDOUBLE-BARREL FOWLING-PIECE (muzzle-loading).\n\nPatent escap Action, Twist Barrels, side-antium Locks; in leather case with Shot Pouch and Powder Flask.\n\nPrice, $1.\n\nApply at the Office of this Paper.\n\nTongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTABLE showing the mean time of sunrise and sunset calculated for the Latitude of Hongkong or any other Latitude if required.\n\nPrice--20 Cents.\n\nA Rising and Settings of the sun and\n\nQUEDES & Co.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nBOOKKEEPING, ART OF, MARTIN'S.\n\nCHAMBER'S HISTORICAL and MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.\n\nASTRONOMY,\n\nF\n\nR WILSON'S CATECHTENS OF\n\nBiography, Botany,\n\nCotton Things,\n\nEnglish Grammar,\n\nGeography,\n\nHistory'\n\nMusic,\n\nNatural Philosophy\n\nINQUIRE WITHIN SPON EVERYTHING,\n\nUN FOR LEISURE HOURS.\n\nGEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY,\n\nHISTORY OF ENGLAND.\n\nINTRODUCTION TO TUL SCIENCES.\n\nJOHNSON'S DICTIONARY.\n\nKNOWLEDGE, CIRCLE OF.\n\nLAWS OF LAWN TENNIS,\n\nM'\n\nEDIEVAL HISTORY, CHAMBER'S.\n\nNATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHAMBER'S\n\nOUTLINES oF HISTORY,\n\nIOUS BIOGRAPHER.\n\nQUESTIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY\n\nRUDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE.\n\nSPELLING Boo£8.\n\nTHE FINDING OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.\n\nTH\n\n†NIVERSAL HISTORY.\n\nIGYRA'S DICTIONARY,\n\nTONDERS OF THE WORLD,\n\nTHE MERCANTILE DIRECTORY OF the Continental, Foreign and British Ports--Price $25.\n\nGUEDES & Co.\n\nTHE WORLD, in 3 vol. comprising\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR for 1883, neatly printed on Card.\n\nPrice--20 Cents.\n\nGUEDES & Ca,\n\nBourd\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDATE BLOCKS FOR 1883.\n\nPrice-70 Cents.\n\nGURDES & Co.\n\nFOR SALE, TABLE for Ascertaining any day of the\n\nWeek for any given within the present Century,\n\nOURDES & Co.\n\nIN THE PRESS.\n\nGUIDE TO HONGKONG AND THE FAR EAST, principally intended for the use of Visitors, but having also special Features of Interest to Residents.\n\nCONTENTS:\n\nHistorical Sketch of Hongkong.\n\nPlaces of Interest in and around Victoria.\n\nKowloon and Hongkong Harbour.\n\nSettlements and Villages on the Island.\n\nA Visit to the Native shops.\n\nStreet Scenes and Sounds.\n\nSome Chinese Customs and Superstitions.\n\nMono and Cat.\n\nAnglo-Chinese Parois & the Cantonese Dialect.\n\nThe Fauna of Hongkong (compiled for the first time).\n\nThe Flora\n\nThe Geology.\n\nThe Chinese Calendar, Weights and Measures.\n\nChair and Boat Tariff, English-Chinese List of places of interest and the principal firms.\n\nGeneral Index, etc., with two Maps.\n\nW. BREWER, Bookseller, &c.\n\nHongkong 1st February, 1883.\n\nXAVIER, ST. FRANCIS, LIFE OF\n\n\"YOUNG DEAN'S COMPANION.\n\n'GOLOGY, RUDIMENTS OP.\n\nApply to\n\nFRANCIS FRANCO,\n\nGarden Lodge.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSecond-hand Boats.\n\nMOLENSO'S ENLARGED ARITHMETIC,\n\nCHINESE GRAMMAR.\n\nFITY FAMOUS MEN.\n\nFIFTY FAMOUS WOMEN.\n\nTEMPERANCE ANECDOTES,\n\nENFIELD'S SPEAKER,\n\nJan Toverse'S GUIDE.\n\nCHAMBER'S INFORMATION,\n\nCOMMERCIAL LETTER WRITER,\n\nWHO WERE THE FIRST WEAVERS,\n\nWHO WAS THE FIRST PAPERMAKER.\n\nTHE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CRICKET,\n\nWALTERS' WORLD,\n\nMUSEUM OF MIRTH.\n\nCOMMERCIAL GUIDE,\n\nMATTER AND MOTION,\n\nFIRST AID IN ACCIDENTS,\n\nTHE FLINT, BY ALBERT SMITH,\n\nTHE EVENING PARTIES, BY Do.\n\nWHO WERE THE FIRST BUILDERS,\n\nHOW TO PLAY BILLIARDS AND POOLS.\n\nCOLENSO'S ELEMINARY ARITHMETIC.\n\nSKILLING\n\nCHAMBER'S MODERN HISTORY.\n\nAlgebra and Key.\n\nPLANK GEOMETRY and Key.\n\nHALLECK'S POETICAL WORKS.\n\nELECTRICITY, BY DR. FERGUZON,\n\nCASBELL'S TECHNICAL EDUCATOR.\n\nDICTIONARY OF THE ART OF PRINTING,\n\nHISTORICAL ATLAS, by EDWARD QUIN, M.A.\n\nGUIDE of CONVERSATION in 313 languages.\n\nApply to\n\nFRANCIS FRANCO,\n\nGarden Lodge, Hongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nPage 503\n\n4\n\n[Content continues]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333733, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "0708\n\n悲\n\nMAIL SUPPLEMENT TO \"HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,\" APRIL 27, 1897,\n\nWith an error, Dha waste yɔtwinned in 194 Cofung dar; die Boreromah We wenu owner that even wa\n\nHey didiem win in chur levinita Asiyalım gewis Bugner Saw Star Pear wiss B top fenthrill and we right no\n\n. 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MARWEN-Asier to under\n\nSale luz aku bate Portal CaseSingapore, the \"uate spider past.\n\nlifions for Autralit und solling us at Fair was to the genre voltaktaz She wore he has stopped, as Le could put drugs. She sy for friend is er in reative any was a Forge of went bras ad the motion of exprel de stopere Fano sext places not, and 52 Gone tours forals may algal mentors will be appreciate by ryamusing split dan Union\n\nį wriề về habuan nojus bonuse they as: mujer an Tabelon le gay bow bad with a member of tot (Intury of legiu-the Bell of this list thing was loud 7,5%) pical left in wall not gremåde bu sala fo portas suam sed in the nalang. Hink Ligels seres the Hes. Fire - atbrio a valled to be of a Brit Caleny. We might s this 't?\n\ndesliza je upuan ang affenfat lig die res the cobay. Walch pas ufe that ecall be retadel a haters, Acceding to sat el tio bernel: grade of fuy from brindon the tighter this master by wiping to the ale spina Gen. 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The firET FINGATE-Prodigalle Bere as no le 30, zhy Papericelion Fan Chumir n\n\nTry dis way obvion by bromidend se ratellar plan to Aontrolin\n\n| fuis mušíta was sam parle I said no consent laů | zimanja tema soare\"! \n\nimand to khat Siversary of Prate, tugelber with dwight way and see supposing to any of Fr tiring. New no foi in infusion than in any any matever weak got terem jest in ibe etme Why le 1er (i was and the iuro pales de a-kod pot ziens tian, kud v urķi has bands - Min. N. STRIK-Would they permit ui The Cher James--This perky to mak\n\nher, word had no thimating of kits 10 marked that\n\ntries 3 Before Ene that are och para inging things have any diffenity.\n\n• Comments king ini suka bat rus saude se bed. vest 197\n\nclaude my wie panty Wink get to crater befiabe Corail, Delory. Es clete any trust away why it shitë e themiem ferre, because he could beer and tiffres des femerament adues pechaps with visas knogrele è\n\nhera of the Brosesi fuessrelves to forward a pas Live which theythema mening of the ti, are spend the and 7 1 fat antiber picule to town wech cheaper of adquired it afternede, filled a moth the en la The Cuper desunter Contacts, Carnè insos trade se Vis mard siel et al; Kena dusspreciating with e-gned to the TLADE: wanted for weit unted at Balen Cratias! Tha 129% sauer of Be Hormon in this . The tige vert in stie austing per- that is really wore serions and we hear his up her to the right of the PCRILLS Prena\n\nI s to!\n\nRyty next objection en H. P. RYSIN de anus with referen At Albark on a way to why the City Reteenth in 23219 war this ant to opt fans had to Big is that in a silent la fortest for the ping fletowy manage of ask as judi ta yangi has, and to stand ali, pri to Made, is chasis in: Ringers turn is net prolactine savings vidu shair sel--ine is penatiques and 1 centre of this Commime of rae uroben of om- porte, nhich was not influeray beats at the rom\n\nfallesi diametro, 1 cm dulleding prazosbesed in the Pondry Cures. Frane Blagal, schiel murale 19th pane That morghan Cara fhe frenar lisa bis pries The best Gish Costier, in viatantuan di which main courting with a cave the other day, purtore_table. making hit sad the pai\n\nC. P CHAPEL-You I\n\ntalent a chebag of fixit has caur real dunia na wills in the stand with the amatiess plecsara, Had 'bo i tats by the T-CELE The Bus have in the the first blakin to the catard very futterally had and Home Meri Urang 15. To se manity, tht he ran ride it was his Rods this is then that the art of penat deal on 25 Rupees in stood in the lifter being on lee hy aand the main pressure our purchant dans\n\n• paima y baca bikin non ti me ripal 170 clicals wool to 45 l te he empt. That the wil deside is a pack is thur, qua wana tho Aerial, the Schmien niin se garetha se . Flee ha act intensive in ease, ale Hi Becky lad we hetene i noticed the em Stamina in suhe le had a retinate to Pill it as famaids Diversion de custo Carene to schermore, 38% aprk, as la cf. I and then ido de miere of lesku urgpaarsted.\n\njud the payona, a these ide per balkon, he loze the picade. Than màn cảnh k ververs retur train the plaint throughout, that life obliged to latens te ječmeleul bý do produk for the på fall and the oder would hurre bed to take her | Dragon of discipline. Fee, Erimi se biste on the thing is gathers card the lady in a tak u this role than head tet 1 illo de Busin\n\nssing? You saw genting on the zba urdustands tha teada portape, så madu i tam tradate the nurse farm syns to others larg qued at a chroper safe than be en show me in carry are at delete with pa e polish the car dry, and we soon as the\n\nthis who will win Kidou the dea was a fuel to male. They dumplin Take m, cubest that is baie efter, Abu Fritsch Celum la enfes el Amanpply if a lot that is true is shower than it wil be abuted with plenan Fam vril windamavah, Dhe wrout enterat un appurunes joinzertracts, woman is con tim mjetemet, in fine wil, mood the And as\n\nP. Care so, sir 1 ulicemanding in bis 12-Fi lind usled Audio siglons. Therelst utrct the last fast aftages hava teen and to prarther the gil in the Sh's in sumans that au 15 wat by whaleves.\n\n1. A. . 1 guten Clariber frame fut saktong face for grunt m\n\nvaš prasla. 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Byri,\n\nThu i van de tot el it was not fade very much to plenis as the cites who hrapa te tr five solicitors for Bey Legislation Cornell has not at at all. Renty- -Them wo soon the inze\n\ntoo? The CD June-i esl it as in\n\nQuay van mur it for je ikan payued for free wil donde in junctong, wierder zu 1 aid, it masu ti parıp of predic\n\nit is my like 18k at! wit.\n\nthe fumail: ultrices. It was lenblat i dr.\n\nthe manchan credit it. With renard in den bees She then unten poisto de pe by this and much fat du porting the hinge are the nice, but which are - and the are the the time a\n\n| it, agrongest that was tout on thy na 20 $20 stan in 3 care of that auto Being Ang by the\n\nII. P. CHunk way that. In at the roses wheeling fun at pinja left leg with t of cute wary large touch leg burden was of in die marsh The CH To the TATTERS\n\n1. Chvish & Carrie Brading of the pedal lade of the sirey, Fransitiuerte Suchindler buy rates the Chinese Deretament de Secret de diably a bit with F. Rxes-Thet in a bride but Astanas General or conil such thing stu gevuste eest is tied for. It le sply ir give in 1 Chhuge deal, late thirruti vai eiller en de opposite side\n\nSayipljan uuso was $100,\n\nJarwiciles in Prenul ports- namel by think not apa s run and clues. Le pussy goals, as the snaiderolig portfen in at the water, anda tenter de star prepares saint larger in Tropecting to ide interests in tavolan vwer in wire their wet areas in thanh trainers. . Byrie real rats with the Cravalho e de prelor, 185A, for your kissing. Fun, wife 12bed flise Cruet hear by thever they drown on to foron ore fawisman. Siti War, the Chimes Greauet was pace-tfal lunch & die al patrat, luna 2001 at earn a Pinole atm-13. Lisada te dar atawers in French parts the store de fujerians, cuang vormt så tas patet cheats ned she record for 7 duris, wat enigiet, potom se pole of in, which froh, and in funt of Chin and exponesses in an antish ju Mimiralty,\n\nthe part is, with an Aus mirte in if that world he the one with the withdrawal after the past possibly of flamand at a carpintel in the Cryorkant ng Tre ima-af-fat its bra refnd to adus a privileges which they are wor\n\n3* Tax, C. 2. bustie ma qilishi wa progne White Baczo ya lesy, pael fill do the Daly Fer with his mindwal of ever 90 dat er ney were protilet seal wi\n\naballo. F. 18-T Bo's Fork for Bulls or by 12. ill. 1. C. The ME in far crente mart ly then We, with\n\n5 37/5 his feel disease of death of offered in the sighted degrees by the priest, Jack-prater to firem, ser inalte what heater, was icant dit nou been this gh the farmer's also be perted to the first of the range of that desmes on this whites\n\nnk my dean pusath, with which he reprimida, sienas pics, A. Torrellen und Itinant inerneutralus of a fee, Hoburant any semantial monitatea de un privileges. We feas but are\n\na funga 2000 laude. Yums in here by gen taget. Thenfone it is and in the power of this) szgsternt. They druh zou mig they shouts and don't think we make won & devis veil the para trwil be how it very taily, at with gsed to repentine acquintan of the Buy Buria be baget to ward, whisk werd ze sa ne ports, the beeindande inte vete zet hesitellyon ton of a sed vul formed the ta ŝive fortes of dan NO2 Silang eronninong de Ruelni ficavifiton with Gameang Whic at status only the pening mortal sunarasestigated to Mladosti,\n\nigants of China at taitai. Laanline unly gate whaily. So in the Amedeo 11 Body: [ut and the tomato & Ca vd her 2 946 Smps & flu virion ) Aarindr Luck to compl; the Anational subject :v of p.nion that 1 razy large inspangelasi to veniva täis selumes 1 saen at pielile ! mail adre.cowa i believe. Way Cout the ad have an orpuction with themany, h wefel ouder, 954 33 the val• vibe and perhaps\n\nJedin, Wallaren & just frock\n\nde agama now forte, welch ona Buet dube and flu the opien Aussama with he shtened by the infola fl. I ny lay theft the Caporasons the priviles? Tulsa hofen first tt 3 most of a sign it in te hus it if a cap to the bus Apiral Artant Le prince exprely spalted\n\nlave taken thousleg and wande teen h 1 1. 3. 4. the Mures Harline as well\n\nrim. Makes, Trikish and Deson are beaugti pouite a Lourdidegente julet vai (mi shopal And Vichl uɔt bar caù radevi proses in the Bill on it word 27 Fench the Arms of when I intulia tourisme Dufur.\n\nsal a prerising so the Hup than a talir jo the ground man tar antena 1.01 That they have Ledger to aby times alere 2 1 membres. The Caletta paper of shoging setur in icipers would we if Chien eric tile of the fivement of Wind Sided the team muming to the Cormar auil steams, pubs to the Rait en nec irwings with the the Arai Ordin His facombency-Ret the Bibe on quite ge 1 work. An vīze to do what was bu\n\nHELENA V--À mudine lay\n\ndimora ili plin e She older, silmukinkis Paediatan 7 bevalt kelly the stor passion in Set manier bor. Bobbink it better I posted ant than all the ly. Des the har anbeek for andrewmelt the adjylampu \"At: portugal this pics eren di 25 jer zeet in one cave casi 40 pe: 19 in the Plas pinturas pertand 1516405 the lies to hear sy toe the grand ranline bezynneg\n\nanamalungat sapày tố thn Gorman ren fine French? book plaists of 2 30 sta\n\ning Seal wall boding. At 2014 why waich shaman has twat on what intrated 1912 and tonar quintys n. 2. 1-1 proton, P. RY-It asiatonde fue bed, aut agreed Fat of my objaption is murovision In Cams par dachungs liste lhe mano priviligie\n\nPaw the charts who had the wo₤There is a is tappants).\n\npaint ways to\n\npisi i idee to cumbia Paste jd\n\nG\n\nHos) Chara-l put\n\nThe Care Jokes--I did thù say vi\n\ntorn.\n\nL\n\nturn and in meiners as\n\nsped\n\nthe\n\nbasin oë zyreezioak t\n\nموسم\n\ndesakit in\n\nPARAMENT\n\nwill buy\n\nEia Frontemery==]l' it is Groesch, Cint pedalion on the table, un, if you wish it. 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Laat PUTTANA, Bal was that the cam 7 It slow | RENT Snags - 'ting to aggressivit perisign from the Corsal. Seraph, The Saczetrin af Stalin thote vaba lo be god skin explored by\n\nin thepre- then freit en vormiparay of them at bes that Fold catre The end, entertained Phape was a phat ass\n\nFICHTE JURIDIS\n\npre\n\nMr. P. Krans-Not the ligh\n\ntogether in xxx or fill, any on the stud they got them trim ile dos- hip pamats was drawn, Jul Fram House\n\nher of the Berativo Chines) à\n\nfendi's Report Italy in high from Australis sa pitonis 145 20 prodest springt il art to give him bezoar to tie | land mapat, Íñesa švá demulto recourt at Wegen gwn to which he stut racemestitim of Serday of mine in the wura nag that. I lacid | Objaz ta tha papel, eiginul in the beag of ja paved pants. Thus, Mr. Sas bunn nut TGV JUST-Fran\n\nuitam lippene ma\n\nDhare the right, 10 da aldur to Riza myte arising is bougkung rphich won angel fiste. It was radicam. Srby z Proacă sed (hargas dahing va istina in gran far the writ bahn sayted, ¦ Inastista ani, sa tinl do thto lie her number 2uil for chair basing toprofent seatust tad pire the tasks if this threach the zei it was that, Atchas time fúil zel Jakim de fuavite nakrabacio\n\nFast stra good the within 1 bold cow, but I was by feman girza brain! Smal\n\nThis Bermary of State, stärk. † have no doubt 12, met azfording to tie Competie freincale dhe Kscondino Court and one tho otcem res on the high crac.\n\nADJOURNMENT.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334375, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 197, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "whatever to do with this case. If you believe the evidence of Chan Ayut you have a right to call upon the prisoners for their defence, but you have no right to adjourn this case from week to week till the other case is finished. These defendants have nothing to do with that case. These three men before your Worship are on trial for their lives, and their case ought to be conducted in a legal, formal, and proper manner; and I submit, with all respect to your Worship, that the case is not being conducted in such a manner when it is being adjourned from week to week. If your Worship believes the evidence of Chun Ayut, if your Worship believes that Dr. Hartigan, Mr. Chun Kai Ming and Ho Ki have all gone into the box and told deliberate falsehoods, the prisoners will make their defence, but if not I submit there is no case against them. Your Worship has been a long time in this colony, and you know how difficult it is for a man to defend himself against officials who are in pay of the Chinese Government, because it is almost impossible to get witnesses to come forward and give evidence when they know that their relations are in the power of the Chinese Government, and the witnesses themselves may be spirited away before they can go down to the Supreme Court. I can assure your Worship that numbers of people have spoken to me in the street, knowing that this was a trumped-up charge, but who are unwilling to come into this court and give evidence, because they know that their relatives would pay the penalty with their lives. If you believe the evidence of Chun Ayat then the case ought to be proceeded with at once and the prisoners allowed to make their defence. The defence which I intend to make will be the proving of an alibi, and if this case is again adjourned fresh charges may be brought by the Chinese Government which it will be impossible for me to disprove, when the Government know exactly where the defendants were at such and such a date.\n\nHis Worship—I cannot agree in any way, with the statement made by Mr. Dennys with regard to the promises I have made during the hearing of the case. The action I have taken throughout these proceedings I have made public, and if I pass over what Mr. Dennys has said with regard to the promises I have made, it is not that I agree with him, but because I do not consider them worthy of further notice. I have here before me in writing the course that was pursued:—“Mr. Dennys applied to have Li Loi arrested on charge of subornation of perjury and Leung Ayow for perjury. Mr. Caldwell applied for time to bring rebutting evidence. The Magistrate declined to take any action in the matter but granted time to allow the solicitors for the defence to take what action they thought fit. The case to be remanded till the following day. In the interval action taken by a private individual, and Li Loi and Leung Ayow charged with subornation of perjury and perjury. Mr. Dennys asks for release of defendants. The Magistrate declines to take any action until the case against Leung Ayow is concluded and proposes to adjourn the case from week to week. Case came on again. Mr. Quincey states that perjury case is still proceeding. The case again remanded. Mr. Dennys on behalf of second and third defendants, and Mr. Holmes, on behalf of first, ask for their discharge. The application refused. Mr. Dennys, and Mr. Holmes ask for bail. Caldwell objects. Bail refused. The Magistrate, in reference to the application of Mr. Francis to be allowed to bring further evidence, in the event of Leung Ayow being convicted of perjury, gives formal notice that should such event occur, he will consider that a prima facie case has been made out.” I am now informed that the €430 is no prima facie case. I am now committed for trial. I cannot believe that the solicitors for the defence think that the other case is yet concluded.\n\nA criminal case is not concluded until the prisoner is either found guilty or acquitted. I shall therefore wait until the case is concluded and remand this one until Monday, April 4th, at 10 o'clock.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nThe Daily Press.\n\n29th April.\n\nTHE RENDITION CASE.\n\nChing Sam and Tsang Chun, whose rendition is asked for by the Chinese Government on a charge of burglary and murder, were brought up on remand.\n\nMr. Caldwell appeared for the prosecution. Mr. Dennys for the second prisoner, and Mr. Holmes for the first.\n\nMr. Caldwell stated that Mr. Francis, Q.C., who had appeared for the prosecution on the last occasion, had been called away to Shanghai.\n\nIt was decided to proceed in Mr. Francis's absence.\n\nInspector Quincey gave evidence as to the death of Shap, a prisoner in the same case, who committed suicide in the gaol on Wednesday night.\n\nMr. Dennys then addressed the court on the points of law raised by Mr. Francis on the last occasion and afterwards proceeded to analyse the evidence for the prosecution, his address occupying two hours and a half. With reference to the contention of the prosecution that the court had merely to satisfy itself that a prima facie case was made out and could not enter into evidence for the defence he argued that the Magistrate was bound to satisfy himself absolutely that the prisoners were guilty before committing them to gaol pending the Governor's orders, the Governor being in this matter merely an executive officer and bound to deliver the prisoners up if the Magistrate found them guilty; that the Magistrate was bound to hear and take into consideration the defence if there was any case to answer; but that in the present case the prosecution had utterly broken down and that the prisoners were therefore entitled to their discharge. With regard to the first point he said he thought it was utterly impossible to find any precedent outside Hongkong that would exactly guide his Worship, but several cases were heard here last year in which a man named Chung Chee was claimed by the Chinese authorities for various offences. The prosecution in the first case was conducted by Mr. Ewens, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Wotton. Evidence was there gone into on behalf of the prisoner in the case in which Mr. Ewens prosecuted, and the prisoner was discharged, or at any rate he was not given up on the charge investigated by the Magistrate. Mr. Caldwell appeared for the prosecution in the other cases brought against the same prisoner, and those cases he believed were proved to the satisfaction of the Magistrate. In those cases the Magistrate allowed the witnesses for the prosecution to be cross-examined, and witnesses to be called on behalf of the prisoner. In this case it had been contended that the Magistrate could not accept on behalf of the prisoner any evidence whatever, and a very eminent authority on extradition, Clark, was quoted. Nothing could be stronger than the law as laid down by Mr. Clark, and he (Mr. Dennys) would quite agree with all that had been said by the learned counsel (Mr. Francis) with regard to that if this case came under the extradition law as applied in England under the act of 1870 and the extension of that Act in 1873. But section 17 of the Act said the Act might be applied with certain modifications by Order in Council to any British possession. That had not been done with regard to Hongkong, and the law by which the court was governed was contained in Ordinance 2 of 1850 and the explanatory Ordinance 2 of 1871. Before going into those Ordinances he would ask his Worship's attention to the Treaty referred to in the second Ordinance. By the Treaty of Tientsin, section 21, two different things were provided for, one referring to criminal subjects of China who take refuge in Hongkong, and the other to Chinese offenders who take refuge on board British ships at the open ports of China.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 349909, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 217, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "sum, derive comparatively but a small benefit from that service. The expenditure involved in the scheme of the Colonial Surgeon would, I venture to think, be justified on equitable grounds alone. But however justifiable such expenditure might be, I am inclined to think that a less expensive plan than the scheme of the Colonial Surgeon should be adopted in the first instance as a tentative measure,\n\nFor, as the Chinese are, as a rule, opposed to Western medical science, it cannot be foreseen with certainty how Western medical attendance and drugs will be received by them. We have institutions like the Alice Memorial Hospital to guide us to a certain extent, and judging from the attached statistics with which Dr. Thomson, the Surgeon of that Hospital, has kindly furnished me, it would appear that the Chinese are gradually overcoming their disinclination to seek the help of Western doctors in the Alice Memorial Hospital. Still, instead of adopting the complete scheme drawn up by the Colonial Surgeon, I would suggest as a preliminary measure that two dispensaries be established, one in Victoria, and one in Kowloon, where, though the population amounts to over 25,000, including the boating people, there is not a single qualified medical practitioner; that the two Licentiates of the Chinese College of Medicine be placed in charge, that the two dispensaries be either affiliated with the Alice Memorial Hospital and subsidised by Government, the management of that Hospital being responsible for the supervision of the work carried on, or that they may be entirely under Government control - the whole expense being borne by Government: that drugs and medicines be distributed free of charge, and that the medical advice... \n\n## Page 214", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352061, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "(6)\n\nThe REGISTRAR-GENERAL should be abolished altogether. (Laughter).\n\nThe REGISTRAR-GENERAL-I do not quite understand what the hon. member means to suggest, but I know that as long as I have held the post of Registrar-General I have not overruled the wishes of the Chinese on the question of kidnapping or any other matter and I challenge the hon. member to show that I have done so.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD-I say the Registrar-General has exercised a wise control which has been very desirable, and which has also been very effective; and I think it would be a great pity if that control should now be given up and disappear.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY-Hear, hear.\n\nThe REGISTRAR-GENERAL-I say again that the Registrar-General does not want to be placed in the position of the dictator of the Chinese and it is no use for the hon. member who represents the Chamber of Commerce to fence with words. That is undoubtedly the position he wishes to place the Registrar-General in.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD-They have said themselves that their object is to put the Registrar-General under their thumb; in fact, to control the Registrar-General.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD-No; not the occupant of the office, but the Department yes.\n\nThe REGISTRAR-GENERAL-It will scarcely be believed, your Excellency, that these two hon. members who wish the Chinese community to be under the thumb of one Government officer are agitating for a preponderance of the unofficial element in this Council. (Laughter.) I do not express any opinion as to whether that would be a good thing or a bad thing, but what I want to point out is the gross inconsistency of these gentlemen. They say that, as far as the Chinese are concerned, in a matter in which they have special knowledge they are to be overruled by the Registrar-General.\n\nThe members may be able to explain their inconsistency, but I think I have found the key to it. It is due to prejudice and want of confidence in the Chinese. What would be the result, sir, of this prejudice and want of confidence in the Chinese? I will quote the words of Dr. Eitel, whom the hon. member for the Chamber of Commerce has described as \"an invaluable witness,\" who has lived in the colony for thirty years, and who is thoroughly acquainted with the people, their language and customs. Dr. Eitel says:-\"I believe the principle of ruling the Chinese through the Chinese ought to be much more largely applied in Hongkong. In kidnapping at any rate, more than in any other case, this principle ought to be applied. Give the Chinese a considerable amount of confidence and a considerable amount of power, with the distinct and practical supervision of the Registrar-General, who is altogether the link between the Chinese community and the European Government.\"\n\nAnd again, \"The moment the control is of a nature which is disagreeable to the Chinese, injuring their self-respect, showing a want of confidence, lacking in sympathy with the Chinese people and lacking in real advantages to the Chinese, then in that case the Chinese will simply become apathetic or refuse altogether to do anything.\"\n\nAnd especially must it be remembered, in considering this point, that the Chinese know more about kidnapping than anybody else.\n\nWhat does the hon. senior unofficial member say? He says: It is only the Chinese who really understand how to deal with the offence whose prevention is the object of the Society, and how to control properly the subordinates who are employed for this purpose.\n\nThis being the case surely it is most unreasonable that gentlemen who are supposed to be specialists in this subject should be overruled by a Government officer. I consider the position to be derogatory to the Chinese and a most invidious one for any Government officer and one which as long as I hold the post of Registrar-General I shall protest most emphatically against.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD-It has obtained up to date for thirteen years.\n\nHon. HO KAI--Sir, I have much pleasure in seconding the second reading of this Bill. I am very glad, sir, that we are likely to be unanimous on the principle of this Bill.\n\n(7)\n\nThe two main objects of the Bill, namely the incorporation of Po Leung Kuk and the endowment of that Society with a sum of $20,000 will be advocated by nearly everybody and every hon. member of this Council, since the Committee which your Excellency appointed have unanimously reported in favour of the two points.\n\nTrue, when we come to go through this Bill in Committee there may be some sections that will raise a difference of opinion, but at the same time, so far as the principle of the Bill is concerned, I am very glad, as I said before, that there will be no contention whatever.\n\nNow, sir, although my hon. friend the Registrar-General has said very kind words in favour of the Po Leung Kuk, I think it is only right and fair that I as representative of the Chinese in this Council should also make a few remarks upon the character of that Society and also upon its work, knowing at the same time that I am running the risk of being charged by the hon. member for the Chamber of Commerce with bestowing unmerited praise upon the Society and its work.\n\nNow, sir, what was the Society formed for? It was formed as far back as 1880 with the distinct object of assisting the Government in the prevention of the crime of kidnapping and kindred offences, and also to assist the Government in rescuing women and children from being the victims of crime and degradation, and, furthermore, to assist the Government in the disposal of those women and children in the best manner possible, having regard to their lifelong welfare and happiness.\n\nNow in the carrying out of these objects I am sure the Po Leung Kuk have done their best and the success of their endeavours to attain these objects has been testified to by the Registrar-General, who has been intimately associated with them for a large number of years and who is the most likely person to know whether their work is valuable to the Government or not and whether their assistance was of any value at all.\n\nNow I will take the words of the Registrar-General with regard to its character and value against thousands of others whose gross ignorance is utterly deplorable and whose hasty utterances are most despicable (Applause).\n\nAs witness we have first the Registrar-General. I say, and apart from that I myself have ten years of personal experience and observation of the Society's work, and I can add my testimony most unmistakably to the Registrar-General's.\n\nEven those who have spoken most against the Society have now withdrawn more or less their former statements and they have to testify to the value of the work and also to the respectability of the members who from year to year represent the Society.\n\nNow, sir, such a Society as this, I submit, deserves well of the Government. They deserve, in fact, the support and encouragement of every right-minded man in this Colony. (Hear, hear.)\n\nAnd we are now introducing this Ordinance, one of the chief objects is to do away with these irregularities by laying down plainly what position the Society ought to occupy and by making regulations and rules to guide the Society in the way that they should go and to guide the constables or detectives who may be employed by, or lent to, the Society for the detection of the crime of kidnapping.\n\nThat is the very object of the Ordinance and if we pass the Ordinance the Society will be placed in a very much better position. The Committee of the Society will have the benefit of the experience of the permanent Board of Direction. They will have the benefit of the guidance of the rules and regulations made by the Governor, and I venture to think that in the future there will be fewer irregularities and mistakes made by them.\n\nNow then, sir, having said so much as to the general provisions of this Bill, I will come to the one point which no doubt represents the chief difference between the three members of the Special Committee and the rest, and also the difference (though of course the hon. gentleman is very likely to change his mind) which we may meet in this Council to-day.\n\nI refer to the management and constitution of the Society. Section 5 says:-\"The Permanent Board of Direction shall consist of not less...\n\n222", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12]", "content_text": "J \n\n11/2 \n\n61 \n\nA \n\nof the scope of the education \n\nthat should be \n\nCollege, and \n\nof \n\ngiven \n\n(1) \n\nat the \n\nof the principles that should guide the imparting of such education. I shall therefore confine myself to the points that seem to me to be of capital importance.\n\n3.\n\nThe three main conclusions drawn in the report of Dr Eitel on his recent examination of Victoria College are as follows:-\n\n(1.) That the present system of education is radically wrong; that it is the same as that which has been condemned by such high authorities as Bishop Smith, and Dr Legge, and that it has resulted, and is bound to result in failure.\n\n(2) That the Chinese do not obtain the benefit from the school which it was intended they should derive, and which alone justifies the very large expenditure", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-260 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1893 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354130, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "515\n\nMany tried, but all failed, the majority I reporting that owing to Wha anny in offe 2 dulceTO question.\n\nextreme Z shougto contend haring with owry Shortly after I made privati experiments and many difficulties to Chmatic to influences I was eventually so that in 1890 after communicating for successful ste toult experiments to 2 shese La matter Sanitary Bound to the Colonial Surgeon who to meaRe in conjunction the was referred requested purther trials of the lymphe wirl- Dr Alkinson, results old aimed the Board acting upon ard that it was ujim\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon forwarded lector to the Government recommending that Gord A Vaccine Institute should Le established the Lenefit V te Colo aa be em avetid 7 guide.\n\nConsideration Carry Der e A nf direction. Ivernment Conce Upon decided Le Commmmendation tricted On March Robinson Superinden Cent direction April 11th Cultivation supping a al ar Ol 256 1892 the Board suitable building $3498.170.\n\nHis Excellency Sir H. appoih Institute to the As ar La Colonial Surgeon and actual work pleased to 2 h The following Commented for for the Avas Military Authorities the newly arrived This off the ware Bic J at der lymple from The raccination oz Hong Kong Regiment. ALO but instrument had supplied mecaro ating whole arrived 1\n\nHowever, to better follow the instructions and improve readability, here is the revised version in Markdown format as requested:\n\n# \n## 515\nMany tried, but all failed, the majority reporting that owing to ... in offering ... question.\n\nIn extreme ... to contend sharing with ... Shortly after I made private experiments and encountered many difficulties due to ... influences. I was eventually successful, so that in 1890, after communicating ... experiments to ... the matter was referred to the Sanitary Board and then to the Colonial Surgeon, who, in conjunction with Dr. Atkinson, requested further trials of the lymph.\n\n## \nThe Colonial Surgeon forwarded a report to the Government recommending that a Vaccine Institute should be established for the benefit of the Colony.\n\n## Consideration and Decision\nUpon consideration, the Government decided to adopt the recommendation. On March ... Robinson superintended the direction. By April 11th, 1892, the Board had identified a suitable building at a cost of $3498.17.\n\n## Establishment of the Vaccine Institute\nHis Excellency Sir H. Robinson appointed the Colonial Surgeon to oversee the actual work of the Institute. The following comments were made regarding the newly arrived lymph from the Hong Kong Regiment.\n\nThe vaccination instrument had been supplied, and the whole process was carried out successfully upon arrival.\n\nTranslating into HTML as per the final instruction:\n\n515\n\nMany tried, but all failed, the majority reporting that owing to ... in offering ... question.\n\nIn extreme ... to contend sharing with ... Shortly after I made private experiments and encountered many difficulties due to ... influences. I was eventually successful, so that in 1890, after communicating ... experiments to ... the matter was referred to the Sanitary Board and then to the Colonial Surgeon, who, in conjunction with Dr. Atkinson, requested further trials of the lymph.\n\nThe Colonial Surgeon forwarded a report to the Government recommending that a Vaccine Institute should be established for the benefit of the Colony.\n\nUpon consideration, the Government decided to adopt the recommendation. On March ... Robinson superintended the direction. By April 11th, 1892, the Board had identified a suitable building at a cost of $3498.17.\n\nHis Excellency Sir H. Robinson appointed the Colonial Surgeon to oversee the actual work of the Institute. The following comments were made regarding the newly arrived lymph from the Hong Kong Regiment.\n\nThe vaccination instrument had been supplied, and the whole process was carried out successfully upon arrival.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355013, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 747, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "(iii) That a street or lane at least 12 feet wide be left at the back of contiguous buildings: such lane to be constructed by Government at the expense of the owners of adjoining lots, but to be maintained by Government at its own expense. For the purpose of constructing and maintaining such lanes it will probably be necessary to provide-\n\n(a) That houses to be erected upon lots having a back boundary in common shall not be constructed nearer than 6 feet to such common boundary.\n\n(b) That the Governor shall have power to prescribe a building-line in every street or lane, and to compel owners of adjoining property to conform thereto.\n\n(c) That such streets or lanes shall not be enclosed, covered over, nor obstructed in any way.\n\nN. B.-Where houses have already been erected on any lot to within less than 6 feet of the proposed building-line, some arrangement will have to be come to with the owner. The Committee will advise on this point when they have concluded the enquiries referred to in paragraph 3.\n\n9. The Committee is desirous of preventing surface overcrowding (vide evidence of Surgeon-Colonel PRESTON and Dr. HARTIGAN, forwarded on 19th ultimo), and, with that object in view, of regulating the height to which houses may be hereafter built by the width of the streets on which they front.\n\nThe members, however, are not unanimous as to the details.\n\n(a) In the case of houses erected to replace those previously existing,\n\nMessrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that--\n\n(1) Where the street is 15-20 ft. wide, the height of houses should not exceed 35 ft.\n\nStreet Width (ft.)Height (ft.)\n20-2545\n25-3055\n30-3565\n35-4075\n\n(b) In the case of houses to be erected on land already sold but not yet built upon, Messrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that the height of houses in streets of less than 40 feet in width should not exceed the width of such streets, following the regulation in force in other large towns and recommended for adoption in London.\n\n(c) As regards houses to be erected on land not already sold, Messrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that the height of the houses should not exceed 1.5 times the width of the street, where such street is under 40 feet in width: while Mr. TOOKER and the Chairman desire to limit the height to the width of such street.\n\n10. The Committee is still engaged on the work of compiling, from the voluminous statistics prepared in 1888-90 for the Sanitary Board in connection with their Report on Overcrowding, a return showing the number of the poorer class of Chinese who can be accommodated in the existing houses (of the cheaper sort), allowing 24 superficial and 300 cubic feet per adult. They hope in the course of a fortnight or three weeks to be able to lay before His Excellency the results of their investigations, and at the same time to tender their advice on the general question of house accommodation for the class in question.\n\n11. The wooden houses, the erection of which was recently authorised by His Excellency, are now approaching completion. It is confidently anticipated that they will be regarded as a boon by the class for which they are intended, the rent per house ($1.00 per month) being so low as to bring them within the reach of the poorest.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nN. G. MITCHELL-INNES,\n\nChairman,\n\nHousing Committee.\n\nStreet Width (ft.)Height not to exceed (ft.)Other Data\n15-2025\n20-253545\n25-304555\n30-355565\n35-406075\n\nThe Committee is unanimous in considering-\n\n(1) That all streets under 15 feet in width should be brought under the existing regulations re private lanes, contained in section 52 of the Building Ordinance (No. 15 of 1889).\n\n(2) That, where the width of a street exceeds 40 feet, no restriction on the height of houses fronting on it is necessary.\n\n(b) In the case of houses to be erected on land already sold but not hitherto occupied, Messrs. TURNER, JACKSON, and HO KAI are of opinion that, where the public street in that locality has already been laid out and almost entirely built upon, the height of future buildings on such land should bear the same relation to the width of the street as determined upon with regard to houses rebuilt to replace previously existing houses. On the other hand, Mr. TOOKER and the Chairman prefer to guide themselves by the regulation in force in Liverpool, Berlin, and other large towns.\n\nPage 742", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355773, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 50, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "# READ-(2)\n\nThe following petition to the President of the Rangoon Municipality.\n\nTo Major R.G. TEMPLE, C.I.E., President, Rangoon Municipality, the memorial of the undersigned inhabitants of Rangoon.\n\n**RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH**—That whereas prostitution of the most flagrant character and the most shameless solicitation thereto are being openly practised in nearly every quarter of the town by persons both of European and of Asiatic nationality, to the serious detriment of the public health and morals, and whereas they have reason to believe that numbers of the unfortunate women are living in a condition little better than that of slavery, and that young girls may be and actually are being bought and sold for immoral purposes:\n\nYour memorialists would respectfully call your attention to these crying evils in the hope that steps may be speedily taken for their suppression, or at the very least that the said evils may be confined within the narrowest possible limits, and that solicitation in the streets may be summarily suppressed, or that such other steps may be taken in the direction indicated as the nature of the case may demand.\n\nAnd your memorialists shall ever pray.\n\n**THE PRESIDENT** said: I have had the names of the memorialists counted and I find they number 1,104. I have also carefully examined the signatures, and I find they are of persons easily traceable and may be assumed to have been appended to the petition bona fide, and to be those of people who quite understood what it was about. Many of the names are household words in Rangoon; many more are quite familiar to me; several more are those of persons universally held in high esteem in the town; some are those of the present Municipal Commissioners themselves. The addresses given are mostly in the heart of the town itself, the very place where the evils mentioned in the petition are most grievously felt. Every nationality is represented. The Englishman, American, German, the European generally, the Eurasian, the Jew, the Armenian, the Parsi, the Native of Southern and Northern India, Hindu and Mahomedan, the Chinese, have all signed. Many of the signatures are in the various vernaculars current in Rangoon. Every class of the people has signed: merchants and heads of offices, traders, clerks and subordinates of every kind, advocates, engineers, ministers of religion and missionaries, representatives of the sea-faring population. Almost every important office and firm is represented either by its superior or subordinate members. Followers of every shade and kind of religious belief are represented: Christians, Hindus, Mahomedans, and Buddhists, of all sorts alike. Such a memorial we cannot possibly ignore or set aside, and however distasteful the discussion of such an unsavoury subject may be to us individually, we must take up and inquire into and try to remedy the grievance so universally and strongly felt.\n\nNow, the first thing for us to do is to keep clearly before ourselves what it is we are asked to do. We are told, first, that prostitution and solicitation are openly and flagrantly practised in every quarter of Rangoon; secondly, that numbers of the prostitutes are living in a condition little better than that of slavery, which means, I take it, that they are so bound by circumstances to persons who supply them with necessities that no other livelihood is open to them; thirdly, that girls are bought and sold for immoral purposes. We are then asked first to summarily suppress solicitation in the streets, secondly, to suppress or confine to the narrowest possible limits the three evils complained of; thirdly, at any rate to take steps in this direction. Now as to the possibilities: in the nature of things, it is possible to suppress open and public solicitation, slavery of any kind, and buying and selling for prostitution; in the nature of things, it is not possible to suppress prostitution, and it is not possible to prevent the foolish and heedless from so involving themselves as to be obliged to lead lives akin to slavery, but it is possible to confine prostitution to the narrowest possible limits and to make it easy for persons involved in the manner above mentioned to obtain release. What can be done then is to suppress public solicitation and traffic in girls for prostitution; to relieve the prostitute hopelessly involved under existing law or custom; to confine prostitution to the narrowest possible limits.\n\nAs to the first three points, it may be taken for granted that the public and the Legislature, both in England and India, would be with us in any reasonable alteration of or addition to the existing law that we might prove to be necessary, but as to the last point, I would warn you seriously that it will be exceedingly difficult to devise any step that cannot be stigmatised as \"State regulation of vice.\" As to public feeling in England regarding this subject, we had a clear indication about five years ago when the special laws in India relating to the control of prostitution had to be abrogated in deference to English opinion, and we again had a further unmistakable indication during the present year in the agitation raised as to the carrying out in Cantonments of the orders of Government issued upon that abrogation.\n\nNow, gentlemen, when we propose as a Municipality to take action on a point like the one under discussion, we must take such exhibitions of public feeling into consideration;\n\n(3)\n\nit is folly not to do so. In such a case, what we have to consider is—not what you and I and the people of this town want—not what you and I and they think wise and right, but really what we can induce those who control and guide public opinion at large to allow us to do.\n\nI do not say this in order to shelve a disagreeable question, but merely to warn you of the necessity of an exceedingly cautious line of action. Believe me, the people of Rangoon will gain nothing by rushing at such a matter. They can only hope to succeed by walking warily.\n\nThe memorial before us does not give any proof of its assertions, and does not indicate any particular method by which the wishes of those who framed it may be compassed. It is clearly intended by the memorialists for us to take any action necessary, and to ascertain definitely the facts on which our action should be based. I am not prepared today to propose any line of action or of inquiry, or to state how far existing laws cover the desires of the memorialists, or even how far their statement of facts will bear investigation; but I think we all know that in one respect at any rate, namely, as to solicitation and the open practice of prostitution everywhere, they are not overstating their case. The blindest of us cannot help knowing the condition by day or night, of two of our most frequented thoroughfares, Canal Street and Godwin Road, and I hope that should we find it necessary to appeal to the Legislature to mend that condition, even the most thorough-going opponents of the regulation of vice will see that it is wrong to permit prostitutes to publicly carry on their profession unabashed and as they choose, that it is wrong to bring prominently before the rising generation the fact that the law of the land is unable to check the open practice of the most shameless form of vice. I suppose that most members of the Committee are aware that side by side in Canal Street are situated our Municipal Girls' School and an obvious brothel; they are actually within thirty feet of each other. In the same street also is St. Mary's School for girls. I think I am justified in saying that it is scandalously wrong that we should be unable by law—as apparently we are unable—to prevent the existence opposite the necessarily open windows, of our school for girls of all ages and kinds, within thirty feet of it, of as flagrant, unmistakable, ostentatiously offensive a brothel as can well be imagined.\n\n47\n\n**DR. PEDLEY**, interposing: There are two other schools in the same street.\n\n**THE PRESIDENT**, continuing: Take again the case of the Convent in Fraser Street. Girls walking to their daily lessons there have before them the spectacle of women openly living in a way they should not. The Sisters there, if they leave their doors, have thrust upon them sights that cannot but be shocking to them. Surely the veriest fanatic must see that such things cannot possibly be right.\n\nGentlemen, in my remarks, I have endeavoured to impress upon you that the memorial we are considering deals with a real and flagrant evil, that the memorialists are serious in their desire to mitigate it, that it is incumbent upon us to take such action as we may find desirable upon enquiry to that end. But it is necessary to proceed with the greatest caution and only after the fullest inquiry. It will be necessary to ascertain the actual extent of the evil complained of; how far the existing law can meet it; and, finally, what steps we should take to correct any defect which we may discover in the law. I propose, then, as a first measure on the memorial:\n\n\"That the Committee requests the President to enquire fully into the memorial and report for the consideration of the Committee the facts he may ascertain, how far the existing law meets those facts, and what action, if any, he considers desirable for the Committee to take on the memorial.\"\n\n**MR. MADURAY PILLAY** said: The President has not gone far enough in his statement. In the immediate neighbourhood of this hall, where this meeting is now being held, there are openly practised the evils he has set forth in main streets and close to Mahommedan, Madrasi, and Bengali Schools for boys and girls.\n\n**THE VICE-PRESIDENT** said: I second the President's proposition.\n\nThe President's proposition was then put to the meeting and carried unanimously.\n\nFrom **B. O. WALES, Esq.**, Officiating Secretary, Rangoon Municipality, to the Members of the Municipal Committee, Rangoon,—Circular No. `1699-745`, dated the 20th January 1894.\n\nI am directed to circulate a memorandum by the President, conveying his report to the Committee in consequence of its resolution of the 19th December 1893.\n\nIt will be seen that, in the President's opinion, the matter of prostitution in Rangoon can be adequately dealt with by the introduction of two sections amending the Lower Burma Municipal Act.\n\nThese two sections are stated respectively in paragraphs 11 and 15 of the memorandum.\n\n**MEMORANDUM**\n\nOn the 19th December 1893, the Committee passed the following resolution, after reading a very largely signed petition to the President, Rangoon Municipality, regarding prostitution and solicitation in Rangoon:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359150, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 556, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "## \n\nTang-chou, and by the Tung-chow Canal to the Capital.\n\nFortunately the river remained open till Dec.10th, which enabled a large quantity of rice to be brought up but its price is high; the crops North of the Paiho were spoilt by the rain and floods last summer and the country has been harassed to supply the passing troops; many deaths from starvation are reported all over the province of Chih-li and the price of meat, oxen, foals, etc., is very high; beyond the fall to Kinchow there is nothing left, as I am told, for the grain which usually comes there from Ping-chuang has been stopped owing to the pressure of the Chinese troops. If the Japanese block the mouth of the river and also seize the Grand Canal, S.W. of Tientsin, I fear a real famine in Peking will be the result.\n\n- I have got some of the newspaper cuttings about Wei-hai-wei which, with Du Boulay's report, will give a pretty good idea of what took place.\n\nSome gentlemen who were there and so far have gleaned the following: When it was known the Japanese were making for Wei-hai-wei, Capt. Taylor persuaded the Chinese to dismount the guns on the mainland to the S.E., because they enfiladed the rear of the Citadel Port on the small island, Liu-kung-tao; on reporting their action to Tientsin, contrary orders were received to remount the guns, which was done, thus rendering the Citadel Port untenable and the Eastern entrance open to them after destroying the boom; the Ting-yuan was sent to dismount these guns, but when it was seen what damage they were doing, she shelled one and the Japanese cleared out of the forts; seeing this, the Chinese said it was enough, the Japanese having run away! Mines were laid to blow up these forts by electric contact, but some secondary circuit cut all the wires; however, a Cantonese sailor went in and blew up two of them; there were spies (Chinese) all over the place, and they exhibited lights to guide the Japanese torpedo boats to the war ships; all the hospital staff and Dr. Kirke's own boy bolted when the Japanese came, and the only help he had was from his cook and coolie and some sailors whom Admiral Ting sent to Liu-kung-tao - the soldiers in Liu-kung-tao mutinied very early and threatened to murder all the foreigners; the guns on disappearing mountings on the small island were Chinese made and had no mirrors to lay the gun by, but the sailors who manned the guns stuck to their work in spite of the numbers killed and wounded; Dr. Kirke said on Liu-kung-tao there were 40 killed and 350 wounded.\n\nInstigated by a foreigner, Admiral Ting was asked to surrender... \n\nPage 551", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367550, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8]", "content_text": "HongKong No 240.\n\n25th August, 1898.\n\n**Officer Administering the Govt, Major General, Dr. Black, C.B.,** \nto \n**The Rt Hon ble Joseph Chamberlain, M.P**\n\nInstructions or Guide as to Trade Marks Regulations.\n\nRequests copies of-\n\nDRAFT.\n\nYou \n21574 Hay Kany \n98\n\nThe Comptroller-General of Patents\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Fiddian 27/9\nSi W. Hamilton\nMr. Cox.\nMr. Lucas.\nMr. Graham,\nMr. Wingfield.\nEarl of Selborne.\nMr. Chamberlain.\n\n28 \n435 \nseft-98 \nleft qa\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his complements to the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, and begs to inform him that the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong has requested...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-284 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372043, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "which add to the difficulty of working in the present building. The rest of the reports \n\nlevel of the report on the Condition of the lots office which has been dealt with separately. \n\nmore \n\nand \n\nJ. \n\nvery \n\n? Ask him to send the \n\nimportant reports separately \n\nas a \n\nrough draft. Reports on \n\nany \n\nsubjects: [and to give us this opinion on points of interest raised in the reports]; \n\nAnd send copy of the Water Report, etc. (3) to Dr. Manson; of the Botanical report the new draft Magistrate General's report to the Registrar General; of the Harbour Master's Report to the Bd. of Trade, and the Lot office report to the \n\nB/12. \n\nSP. \n\nA. F. \n\n2 \n\n? Proceed as proposed. (It is utterly impossible to keep up \n\na continuous watch \n\non the more \n\nimportant deficits, unless we have \n\nthe reports sent home separately and the correspondence about them \n\nconnected \n\ntherewith \n\n) \n\naus 297 CPL 29 at \n\nInstead \n\nguide in \n\nbracket \n\nwith any \n\nobservation \n\nwhich he may \n\nthink fit \n\nto make \n\nPage 36\n\nNo.150. \n\nEnclosures \n\n1 to 10. \n\nSir, \n\nGovernment House, \n\nHong Kong, 21st June, 1899. \n\nI have the honour to transmit to you the \n\nfollowing Sessional Papers; \n\nsix copies of each, by \n\nBook Post! \n\n(1) Financial Returns for the year 1898. \n\n(2) Harbour Master's Report for the year 1898. \n\n(3) Reports of the Medical Officer of Health, the Sanitary Surveyor, and the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon \n\nfor the year 1898. \n\n(4) Statement of Water Account for the year ending 31st December, 1898. \n\n(5) Report of the Director of the Observatory for 1898. \n\n(6) Report of the Acting Registrar-General for 1898. \n\n(7) Report of the Po-Leung-Kuk Society for the year ending 31st December, 1898. \n\n(8) Report of the Superintendent of the Botanical and \n\nAfforestation Department for 1898. \n\n(9) Report of the Director of Public Works for 1898. \n\n(10) \n\nThe Right Honourable \n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., \n\netc. \n\netc. \n\netc. \n\nI made the following changes:\n1. 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Did not leave any comments in the text.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377745, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12]", "content_text": "## No. 456 \n1900 \nOct \n\n**DESPATCH** \nRec'd 22 NOV 00 \n212 \nDisposed of by `$153613/0` \nMead cons a \n-8302-8927-1900 \n\n## subsequent Paper \n3080 9 \n\nSubmits appeal for de Laveen, Thomson Clark for increased House Allowances. \n\n### (Minutes) \nM. La Sui \nHenry \n\nThe recommendation of other officers specified be \"See also 36148\". \nBlake makes some remarks regarding the three Medical Officers. I cannot find ... \nI think the list be given. \n\nA+ should ask being to deal definitely with the question of House Allowances wherever given. I do not think English officers should be lodging in Chinese houses. Dr. Clark is suffering from ... Presumably not lining but we have nothing to guide us as to what he is charging for his house. \nA.F. 30/11 \n\n(Sir H. Blake's recommendation conflicts with those of the Committee, who propose to ...)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-301 - Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384140, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "C.0\n\nExtract from The \"China Mail' dated 3rd January 1908)\n\nTHE ADDRESS TO THE GOVERNOR.\n\nThe following is the speech delivered by His Excellency the Governor, yesterday, in accepting an address from the Chinese community :-\n\nHis Excellency in reply said :- Dr Ho Kai, Mr Fung Wa Chuen, and gentlemen. I thank you most heartily for the evidence of good feeling towards me and Lady Blake conveyed in this address, and you Dr Ho Kai for the observations with which it has been so kindly prefaced by you. In your observations on the effects of sympathy and forbearance it is difficult for two peoples with divergent social system and customs to live together with comfort as free men. And that we do live without friction in Hongkong where every man enjoys freedom in its fullest form, freedom to think his own thoughts, to speak his own mind, and to guide his own actions without interference, so long as those actions do not prevent the exercise of a similar freedom by others, is a proof that the feeling of sympathy is not confined to the Governor but is widely shared by the community, European and Chinese. You have mentioned many incidents of the three years since I have assumed the administration of this Government, and chiefest among them is the annually recurring visitation of plague. This is a scourge that has been known in Europe for several hundreds of years. In olden times when Europe knew as little of sanitation as China knows to-day one-half the population was swept away in certain places by the plague, but with the increased knowledge of the present day the plague, which has again been introduced from the East, has made no progress, but has died out in consequence of the very stringent sanitary measures of disinfection and cleanliness undertaken by the various Sanitary Boards. It is because we have seen the success of these measures that we are striving so eagerly to save the lives of the Chinese people in Hongkong by the adoption of similar means, and I wish to tell you and, through you, the Chinese people, how deeply I am impressed by their attitude and assistance in our present efforts to avert, by timely precautions, a visitation of plague in the present year. I have walked through the streets that are being disinfected and I see the families bearing all the inevitable discomforts with cheerful fortitude that could not be exceeded by any community in the world. God grant that these precautions may be successful, but successful or not you may rest assured that we are trying honestly to save the lives of the Chinese working people by the measures that seem to us to promise the greatest prospect of success.\n\nThe movement in favour of more liberal education is fraught with issues of great moment for the people of all Southern China in the future, for such an advance in knowledge among your immediate families will inevitably extend to neighbouring provinces and bring the light of modern knowledge to supplement the classical literature with which China has been content for so many centuries. With knowledge will come progress and a new and brighter life. I have no doubt that the report of the Commission on education, now sitting in Hongkong, and of which Dr. Ho Kai is a member, will suggest many improvements in the system of Education now existing in this Colony. I receive with great pleasure the renewed expression of your loyalty to His Majesty the King, and the confirmation of reports from other sources of the contentment of the inhabitants of the New Territory. Of your loyalty you have given substantial proof. And, as to the New Territory the inhabitants have shown by their actions that they already realize the benefits of living under the benign rule of Great Britain. I have every reason to be satisfied with their conduct. I agree with you that the New Territory will ere long form a prosperous portion of the Colony of Hongkong. I am glad to tell you that we have completed the construction of the Upper settlement near Un Long to replace the miserable huts in which these afflicted people were half sheltered before we took over the territory. This settlement of wretched shanties constructed by the poor people themselves in the most primitive manner, in the middle of a swamp, has been replaced by small houses built by the Public Works Department on the side of a hill hard by. Rather than this supply of proper shelter, I have not felt it necessary to go, as the neighbours, with that ready charity that I have found so conspicuous in the Chinese people, support the unfortunate sufferers with a sufficient supply of food. You point to the development of the Colony, and I agree with you that its development is everything that could be desired. As the trade of China increases so must Hongkong take its toll of the ever increasing mass of shipping passing through our port. But that increase of business means an increased influx of people and increased difficulty in their accommodation. I hope that the many houses now being erected in Kowloon, and the encouragement to building outside Victoria that will be given by the construction of a tram line from West to East will relieve the over crowding in the town of Victoria where we cannot continue to tolerate a pressure of population declared to be dangerous to the health of the community and unequalled in any city in China or in any part of the world. And now, gentlemen, once again I thank you for your expression of good feeling which I assure you is warmly reciprocated by Lady Blake and myself. I hope to be back before the summer, and I earnestly pray that Hongkong may be spared from a visitation of plague this year. But whatever Providence may have in store for us I am certain that, should we unhappily have to face another epidemic, you will meet it with fortitude and, in any case, that you will be in the future as in the past patient, practical, peaceable subjects of His Majesty the King. I look forward to our return with pleasure and I wish you one and all a happy and a prosperous New Year.\n\n3 FEB", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384141, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Telegraph\n\nHONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1902. NOTES AND COMMENTS.\n\nA Good Sign. Yesterday's function at Government House, when an address was presented to His Excellency the Governor by the Chinese Community, will, we hope, mark a certain turning point in the history of the Colony, a point at which it would have been better for us if we had arrived years ago. The presentation of the address and the speech of Dr. Ho Kai show very plainly that the Chinese Community have at last come to appreciate the fact that it is not the intention or object of the Government, to oppress the Chinese at all, but that it wishes to work hand in hand with them for the benefit of the Chinese, the Europeans and the general prosperity of the Colony. On too many occasions we have seen friction between the two races. The Europeans, represented by the Government, wanted one thing and the Chinese wanted another. Not perhaps that the Chinese were in any very active opposition, but simply because the proposed measure interfered with them, or they thought that it would be likely to do so. This state of affairs was brought about to a great extent by want of knowledge on the part of the Chinese themselves. Neither party understood the other and the result was friction.\n\nLatterly, however, since Sir Henry Blake has been at the head of affairs, the Chinese and the Government have been more in touch one with the other. Sir Henry has grasped the fact that opposition is more often than not the result of ignorance and, by striving to thoroughly understand the Chinese, to obtain their views on different subjects, and by respecting their prejudices to as great an extent as possible, he has done much to break down the barrier of race. What is so often lost sight of is the fact that the Chinese represent as large, if not larger interests in the Colony than the Europeans, and hence they are entitled to a certain amount of consideration. It will be much better for all concerned if the Chinese can be brought to look at matters as we do, and this can only be brought about by a thorough understanding and a regard for class and race prejudices.\n\nIn this the Chinese will have to make as many concessions as we do. You cannot take a Chinaman and make a European of him by a stroke of the pen any more than you can turn a European into a Chinaman, but you can, if you go about matters in the right way, convince the Chinaman that European methods are, in some cases best, and this is what is wanted here.\n\nThat these old animosities are dying out is evidenced by the manner in which the Chinese are cheerfully submitting to the general cleansing of the City now in progress. As His Excellency pointed out, the families are bearing all the inevitable discomforts with a cheerful fortitude that could not be exceeded by any community in the world. Instead of obstructing matters, as has often been the case formerly, they are actively assisting in the work, and simply because their prejudices have been respected to some extent, a few slight concessions made, and the discomforts of the cleansing made as small as possible. Anybody who has had to deal with the ruling of an alien race will fully appreciate the advantage of this state of affairs. With even a passive resistance upon the part of the Chinese, the whole of this great work would have been rendered impossible, but as matters now stand all goes as merry as a marriage bell.\n\nWe have heard His Excellency severely criticised at times by people who say that he gives way too much to the Chinese, but we think that he is right in hearing both sides of every question. He recognises the fact, as he pointed out yesterday, that we live in a free country and every man is entitled to think his own thoughts and speak his own mind, and to guide his own actions without interference, so long as those actions do not prevent the exercise of a similar freedom by others. This is where the great stumbling block has always been. We have been too prone to think, as Kipling puts it, \"That East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,\" and so long as we approach matters in that spirit we can never hope to succeed in living comfortably and without friction in Hongkong. A better understanding will smooth the way for the removal of racial prejudices, and we trust that yesterday's function points to this becoming, in the near future, an accomplished fact. A mutual understanding will remove all difficulties.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384935, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "175\n\nfar from being ungrateful to her hands.\n\nher gentle kindness to us and\n\nWe are grateful for her courteous\n\nTX. Our regret at parting from her is indeed very great, and her loss will be felt, we venture to think, not only by the Chinese, but by all sections of this community. We can only hope that in Weihaiwai Mrs. Lockhart will be able to find a new home and that she will be established in all health and strength to give you support in the enterprise and undertaking which you have been appointed by His Majesty to carry out in the new colony. (Applause.) With these few remarks, sir, I will crave your leave to read the address.\n\nThe address was then read in English by Dr. Ho Kai and afterwards in Chinese by Dr. Lau Chu-pak, being finally handed by the Chairman to Mr. Lockhart, who bowed acknowledgement. It read as follows:-\n\nTo the Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, C.M.G.\n\nHongkong, 19th April, 1902.\n\nSIR,-On behalf of the Chinese community of Hongkong we beg to wish you a hearty and earnest farewell on your leaving the Colony, and to offer you our sincerest congratulations on your appointment to be First Civil Commissioner of Weihaiwei. It was with mingled feelings of pleasure and regret that we first received the news—pleasure at learning that one so well known to us had received the promotion that his services have merited, and regret at the thought that the ties which during the last 20 years have drawn us so closely together must at last be severed. Your promotion testifies to the appreciation in which His Majesty's Government holds your services. We on our side, can speak of the cordial relations which have existed between you and His Majesty's Chinese subjects ever since you returned from Canton in 1882 on the completion of your Chinese studies. And it has been a source of satisfaction to us and has no doubt, helped you greatly to understand the motives that influence our conduct, the feelings by which we are stirred, and the ideals which we put before us, that not content with the knowledge of Chinese which the Government so well requires from its officers you have continued to give a large share of your leisure time to the study of our literature. It would be improper for us to speak of your services to the Chinese community, and it would be incorrect to do so, but we are pleased to be able to recall that in serving faithfully your Queen, your King and your country, you have been able to bestow many benefits on the Chinese. The Po Leung Kuk, which was in its present assured position in great measure due to your energy and powers of organisation, will long remain, we hope, a memorial of you. The record of the proceedings of the Tung Wah Hospital Commission shews plainly the desire which has always actuated you that fair play should be shewn to us in our efforts to do good, however faulty and insufficient they may appear to Europeans. And though the secrets of Government are well kept, we flatter ourselves that during the last ten years we have been able more than once to trace the effect of your counsels in the action of the Government.\n\nWhen we recall the names of those who have been Registrar General, we Hongkong Chinese feel, and with good reason, deeply grateful to the British Government. Your predecessors, Sir Cecil Smith, Sir James Russell, and Dr. Stewart, have left their mark on local Chinese politics. Their names are household names among us. In clearsightedness, ability and devotion to duty you have nobly carried on the traditions of the office, and it will be long before your name is forgotten in Hongkong or in the neighbouring districts.\n\nIt is now your lot to be transferred to Weihaiwei. In Hongkong you have had the footsteps of your predecessors to guide you. In Weihaiwei you will be the first of a line. It will be for you to lay the foundations of a new Colony which must in time rival Hongkong in prosperity. If the foundations are laid in the same plan as those of this Colony, if our fellow countrymen are encouraged as they have been here by equal law and equal rights, to trust their families and their property to the protection of the British flag, we anticipate a bright future for Weihaiwei.\n\nUnder your experienced guidance we feel confident that the troubles and perplexities of a young colony will be rapidly overcome and that the traditions of British freedom will be maintained inviolate. But it is not only your public merits that have moved us to present this address; we ask to be allowed to claim you as a personal friend. Some of us have grown up from youth to middle age with you: some of us you have known whilst boys at school. Your urbanity, good-nature and tact are known to all of us. Those who pride themselves on being your friends respect you for your sympathy, good counsel and benevolence. We feel that any address to you without a reference to Mrs. Stewart Lockhart would indeed be incomplete. We Chinese have always found in her a kind and sympathetic friend, and we hope that such a fitting and worthy helpmate may be long spared to you. We wish you both a hearty farewell and all prosperity and happiness in your new sphere. We hope that you will accept as a slight token of our respect and esteem the accompanying book, which may serve to remind you and Mrs. Stewart Lockhart of your many Chinese friends and admirers in Hongkong.\n\nMR. YIP HOK SHAN then read and presented to Mr. Lockhart an address on behalf of the Po Leung Kuk.\n\nMR. LOCKHART, who was loudly applauded on rising to reply, said—Mr. Chairman, Dr. Ho Kai, and gentlemen, I find it exceedingly difficult to find words adequate enough to reply to the very kind remarks—too flattering remarks made by Dr. Ho Kai in his speech in presenting me with this address, and for the very kind expressions contained in that address itself. I take it, gentlemen, that your real object in coming here to-day is not so much to pay a compliment to me personally as to show your high appreciation of the rule under which you have the privilege to live. (Hear, hear.) I think, gentlemen, you are quite right in appreciating the privileges of British rule, which gives freedom to every nationality, regardless of race or creed. I am very glad indeed to have had the good fortune to be that officer of the Government who for many years was placed in intimate relation with the Chinese community, and any successes that may have attended my efforts in the post of Registrar-General were almost entirely due to that hearty co-operation and ready assistance which I have received at all times from the members of the Chinese community. Without such co-operation it would be impossible for any Government to discharge in an effective manner the important affairs of a community so large, and which has customs and habits peculiar to itself like the Chinese community. I am very glad, gentlemen, that you have given me this opportunity to-day to thank you for all the kindness and assistance I have received from you in the past—kindness and assistance which have made my task an easy one, and which has enabled the Government to carry on things in a much more harmonious manner than would have been possible without such assistance and co-operation.\n\nDr. Ho Kai has referred to my connection with the ...\n\nPage 176\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "# CHINESE PRESENTATION TO LADY BLAKE\n\nTWO SCHOLARSHIPS FOR HONGKONG. A presentation of a number of valuable **enrios** was made to Lady Blake at Government House yesterday; they comprised three bronzes (one incense-burner and two **vasus**) 800 years old, two blue and white china Kang Ili dynasty vases, one vase of the Yung Ching dynasty, one pair of Kin Leaug dynasty vases, two pieces of old embroidery (one a **soreen** and the other a cover), and two carved ivories, one of which is of 18 stages (one ball inside another). In addition to H.E. and Lady Blake there were present Sir John Keane, Mr. R. F. Jehuston, Acting Clerk of Councils, Mr. Rumjuba, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. Wei Yuk, Messrs Fung Wa Chan, Lau Chu Pak, Ho Fook, Chan Sia Ke, Wei Or, Un Lai Chuen, Tang Lou Kop, Ta ig Lau Chuon, Wong Kum Fuk, Chow Hing Ki, Yeang Pin Shan, Lai Shun Hní, U Hai Chow, Li Pk, Chow Foon Ng, and Chan Chok Ping. The deputation was received in the ball room, when first of all Master Wei Yuk presented Lady Blake with a bouquet.\n\nHon. Dr. Ho Kai then stepped forward and said:- On behalf of your many Chinese friends and admirers in this Colony I have the distinguished honour to-day to present a few articles for your gracious acceptance. The articles in themselves are not of very great value, but they are presented to you by your Chinese friends more as a token of their esteem and of their regard and affection, your Ladyship. On the eve of your departure for Ceylon your Chinese friends have felt that very shortly they are about to lose the society not only of a great and charming lady, but a sympathetic and kind personal friend. (Applause). They have received many acts of kindness from your hands. They have received your profuse hospitality at Government House, and you have always taken a very lively and kindly interest in them and their affairs both individually and as a community and a nation. They feel that in you they have a sympathiser, a friend and a guide, and the Chinese and their families have also received much kindness at your hands. The articles are the products of the art, industry, and manufactures of China. They will serve to remind you when you are far away from us in Ceylon, or at your home in Ireland, that you have many affectionate friends among the Chinese in the far eastern Colony of Hongkong, and they further will remind you of your five years' residence in this Colony amongst us. (Applause). I need not recount the many kindnesses that you have shown your Chinese friends here, but suffice it to say your kindness, courtesy, and your consideration, and the sympathetic interest you have taken in them, in their families, and in their social affairs, have so endeared you to them that they shall ever cherish the memory of you all through their life (applause). They hope that when you are away from them that you may be reminded of them, and they also desire to wish you and your noble husband, H.E. the Governor, a very prosperous and happy future life. Your Chinese friends, therefore, beg that your Ladyship will accept these articles. (Applause).\n\nLady BLAKE in response said- There is an old saying that \"out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh,\" but I am sorry to say that I cannot agree with that saying this morning, for much as I feel I have no words to express my gratitude for your kindness and my admiration for your gifts. To me it is not only a pleasure but a privilege to have made so many friends amongst the Chinese, and as I believe that when one is far away one can still be with those one cares for in spirit, my spirit will always be with you. In years to come I look forward to seeing many of you in our home in Ireland. I thank you with all my heart for these presents, and I can assure you that your regard and sincerity (applause).\n\nDr. Ho KAI then addressed Sir Henry Blake as follows:- May I now take this opportunity, your Excellency, to address to you a few words?\n\nAt the request of the leading men of the Chinese community, I have to ask your kind approval of the foundation of two scholarships to be named after your Excellency; the one is to be allotted to the Queen's College and the other to the College for Medicine for the Chinese. Both will be awarded annually. The Chinese have further requested me to request your approval of the painting of a portrait of your Excellency and the placing it in the hall of the new wing of the Tung Wa Hospital. By these acts the Chinese community desire to perpetuate your Excellency's memory, and to hand it down to posterity and future generations. I can assure your Excellency that with the present Chinese community in this Colony they need no such measures to keep your name green in their memory (applause). They have thoroughly appreciated your Excellency's kindness to them and they can never forget your Excellency's most wise, just, benevolent, and sympathetic administration during the five years that have just gone by. This is rather an idea of theirs to hand down to posterity something associated with your Excellency's name, that future generations may recall to mind that for the period of five years your Excellency had administered the Government of Hongkong so successfully, not only to the benefit of the Chinese, but also of all sections of the community alike (applause). The present generation of Chinese fully realise what your Excellency has been to them, and they cannot forget for a moment, even if they would, your Excellency's high qualities as an administrator and a friend. They have to-day, therefore, met to express their feelings in the matter, not because they have not already done so, but because on the eve of your departure for Ceylon they wish to obtain your approval to what they consider to be a privilege for them to do (applause). Your Excellency's acts of administration I need not here refer to, because they have been fully set forth in two documents, one of which has been brought to the notice of even His Most Gracious Majesty the King and received his approval and expressions of satisfaction. The feeling of the Chinese towards your Excellency found expression in the address which I had the honour to present to you last year, just previous to your departure for England on a holiday, and I can assure your Excellency to-day that those sentiments have never been diminished but if anything have become much more intensified, and to-day I am authorised to say that there is scarcely one among the Chinese community in Hongkong who does not know and does not esteem your Excellency for the many wise and sympathetic actions that have so characterised the five years of your administration of the affairs of this Colony. I have formally to ask for your Excellency's sanction for the two proposals which I have just mentioned, and I hope your Excellency will agree to them, and I can also assure your Excellency that they will receive that approval with the greatest pleasure, and they also wish to assure your Excellency of their continued and lasting esteem and affection. (Applause).\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY said:- There is no request that you could have addressed to me that has so gratified me or that I approve of with greater pleasure, than that which you have made to me to-day, and that is, to have the honour of having my name associated with two scholarships in this Colony. Your reference to my administration is exceedingly gratifying, and I can now say that I have sometimes felt surprise at the depth of feeling on the part of the Chinese community, because so far as my acts are concerned I have done nothing more than any other representative of the King in the same position here, and that is to show every consideration and justice to every section of the community that helps to push the Colony forward into the position in which it stands at present (applause). I have governed portions of almost every race of the world. My experience goes from North America to the West Indian Islands and now to the Far East. Every man speaks of his own experience, and I can say that a more law-abiding or more easily-governed people than the Chinese in Hongkong I have never met with.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395970, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6]", "content_text": "# 51\n\nto the conditions of which Colony the pamphlet contains special references. I submit that the careful manner in which it has been drawn up reflects credit on Dr. Pearse.\n\n4.\n\nYou will observe that the first part of each of the seven chapters into which it is divided is intended for use in elementary classes of schools to be supplemented by such further instruction as the teacher may think necessary and that the second part embodies notes and references to guide the reading of students in more advanced classes. It is proposed that in all Government and Grant-in-Aid schools two lessons a week should be given in the subject, one as a reading and one as an object lesson. The elementary course will probably be taught in the 5th, 4th, and 3rd out of the 8 classes at Queen's College and in the corresponding standards (3rd, 4th, and 5th) of the other Government and the Grant-in-Aid schools, and the Advanced Course in the 2nd and 1st classes at Queen's College and in the 6th and 7th standards of the other schools; this has not yet however been finally settled. To ensure thorough knowledge there will be recapitulation in each class of the part of the course previously studied. Private schools will be invited to include the subject in their curriculum and to adopt similar courses in corresponding classes.\n\n5.\n\nTo encourage the study of the more advanced part of the subject I propose, while I am in Hongkong, to give three prizes of $100, $50, and $25 to the three students who take the highest places at an annual examination of boys and girls belonging to all the schools in the Colony in which hygiene is taught. The Examiners will be the Principal Civil Medical Officer and the Medical Officer of Health. The first examination will be held in the month of December next. It is thought that the 10 months which will by then have elapsed from the time of the reassembling of", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421458, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 247, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## are No. 1 in Mr. Fox's despatch No. 72 December 1900.\n\n3200 RO JN. 09 245 Viceroy liang to Mr. Fox. (JAN 25 1909)\n\nBunton, December 4th, 1908.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 4th instant on the subject of the \"Fatahan\" case.\n\n(Substance of despatch quoted).\n\nAccording to a report of the Namhoi Yuenlianyin on this case, an examination of the dead body was held by that official and his coroner's assistants in accordance with the procedure laid down in the \"Instructions to Coroners\", which has constantly proved a reliable guide in holding such inquests according to law; established Chinese practice. As a result of this examination, it was conclusively proved that the death had been caused by injuries.\n\nDr. Davenport's declaration that the deceased had died as the result of illness, and your release of the accused on bail, neither satisfy the immediate relatives of the deceased nor suffice to inspire public confidence.\n\nMoreover, the translated version of the depositions shows...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421685, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Inclosure 15 in No. 1\nH. H. F.\n\nin reply what date you have fixed so that I may depute the Magistrate and deputy to proceed to your Consulate-General and associate themselves with you in a joint trial in the interests of justice.\n\nWith regard to the action of the newspapers I have already replied to you on that subject, which should form a separate question and be dealt with accordingly.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\n## Inclosure 16 in No. 1\nActing Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang,\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nCanton, December 10, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of yesterday's date, in which you request me to rehear the case of the death of a Chinese passenger on board the steam-ship \"Fatshan\" in suspicious circumstances.\n\nAs I had the honour to inform your Excellency at our interview this morning, it is beyond my power to hear a case in which a Portuguese subject is defendant. I can only repeat what I stated in my despatch of the 4th instant, in which I forwarded copy of the depositions taken at the preliminary hearing, namely, that if your Excellency was not satisfied with my decision further proceedings could be taken before the Portuguese Consul-General.\n\nI took the opportunity this morning to draw your Excellency's serious attention again to the attitude of the Self-government Society and the Canton press, which is of a most hostile nature. I pointed out that a boycott of the steamer \"Fatshan\" had already been publicly advocated, and that unless prompt measures were taken by your Excellency to suppress the agitation the situation would become even more serious.\n\nYour Excellency denied that there was any talk of a boycott, and seemed to consider that I was taking the question too seriously. I had not, when I saw your Excellency this morning, seen the morning papers. Since my return I have seen them. Every paper contains a report of a speech by a certain Ho Hui Hung, who claims to be a relative of the deceased, in which he advocates a general boycott of all British steamers.\n\nI inclosed copy of the \"Kuo Shih Pao,\" with the request that prompt measures may be taken to deal with and prevent any attempt to carry out this suggestion.\n\nYour Excellency was good enough this morning to promise to issue a Proclamation pointing out that the case was still under consideration, and warning the public from any action which would tend to harm the good relations existing between our two countries.\n\nI trust that, in view of the contents of this morning's papers, your Excellency will lose no time in issuing the promised Proclamation.\n\nIn conclusion, I have again the honour to repeat what I said this morning, that I shall be happy to assist your Excellency in any way that lies in my power, short of assuming a jurisdiction which I do not possess over a person of another nationality.\n\nI avail, &c.\n(Signed) HARRY H. FOX.\n\n## Viceroy Chang to Acting Consul-General Fox,\nCanton, December 9, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 4th instant on the subject of the \"Fatshan\" case. (Substance of despatch quoted.)\n\nAccording to a Report of the Namhoi Magistrate on this case an examination of the dead body was held by that official and his coroner's assistants in accordance with the procedure laid down in the \"Instructions to Coroners,\" which has constantly proved a reliable guide in holding such inquests according to long-established Chinese practice. As a result of this examination it was conclusively proved that the death had been caused by injuries. Dr. Davenport's declaration that the deceased had died as the result of illness, and your release of the accused on bail neither satisfy the immediate relatives of the deceased nor suffice to inspire public confidence. Moreover, the translated version of the depositions shows many discrepancies. A proper trial is, therefore, a matter of necessity, when a joint investigation can be made and the public demand met.\n\nThe case arose on board the \"Fatshan,\" which is a British ship, and the duty of dealing with it rests with you. I have therefore the honour to request you to inform me in reply what date you have fixed so that I may depute the Magistrate and deputy to proceed to your Consulate-General and associate themselves with you in a joint trial in the interests of justice.\n\n## Inclosure 17 in No. 1\nExtracts from a Speech delivered by Ho-hui Hung at a Meeting of the Self-government Society on December 7, 1908. (Translation.)\n\nTHE speaker started by saying ironically that he of course fully sympathized with and admired the British Consul's action in protecting his own country's trade, as the murder was likely to have an adverse effect on the shipping of his country. It was, however, disgraceful that he should shield the murderer just because he was nervous of exciting popular feeling which might lead to a boycott disastrous to British trade. He went on to elaborate a few retaliatory steps which could be taken against the \"Fatshan\" in particular, and British shipping in general, of which the following are extracts:\n\n...\n\nHis Excellency assured me that I need have no anxiety on account of the newspaper agitation, which he was now dealing with, and that with regard to the \"Fatshan\" he would devise some method of arriving at a settlement.\n\nI consider the interview was on the whole satisfactory and, I believe that Mr. Porter, who accompanied me, and myself were able to enlighten the Viceroy on various points in the case on which his Excellency had hitherto received little or no information.\n\nAs illustrating the difficulties I have had to contend with in my endeavours to induce the Chinese authorities to take a reasonable view of this case, I mention the following incident that occurred at the interview. Mr. Porter said he could not understand why, if the assault on the deceased had taken place in the presence of some 600 passengers, not one of them, not even the two witnesses who had received silver medals from the Self-government Society for their conduct on this occasion had gone to their countryman's assistance. \"I know the reason,\" exclaimed one of the Viceroy's Secretaries, Taotai Wu Kuang Chien, in a loud and excited voice, \"they dared not because had they done so, the officers and crew of the 'Fatshan' would have kicked them to death too.\" I at once protested against this scandalous accusation and the Viceroy signified his displeasure at the Secretary's remarks.\n\nOne satisfactory result of the interview is that not one of the morning papers contains any reference to the \"Fatshan\" case. There are, moreover, as far as can be ascertained, no signs of the threatened boycott.\n\nOn my return from the interview I found waiting for me a despatch from the Viceroy dated the previous day requesting me to hold a fresh inquiry into the \"Fatshan\" case. At the same time my attention was called to an article in that morning's \"Kuo Shih Pao\" purporting to be a report of a speech delivered at a meeting of the Self-government Society by one Ho Hui Hung, said to be a relative of the deceased, whose name is Ho. This speech, in which my action in the case was severely criticized and a general boycott of British steamers advocated, illustrated so aptly the remarks I had made at the interview regarding the anti-British agitation now being fostered by the newspapers that I at once sent a copy of the paper in to the Viceroy for his information. I have the honour to inclose copies and translations of the Viceroy's despatch above referred to, of my reply, and a précis of the speech which appeared in the \"Kuo Shih Pao.\"\n\nI venture to hope that the action I have taken in this case may meet with your approval.\n\nI am forwarding copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong and the Commander-in-chief on the China station.\n\nI have, &c.\nHARRY H. FOX.\n(Signed)\n\nP.S.-I inclose also copy and translation of a popular song which, I understand, is being sung on all the passenger boats plying in the Delta.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421784, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 573, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# \n\n568 \n\n1 \n\nHis Excellency assured me that I need have no anxiety on account of the newspaper agitation, which he was now dealing with, and that with regard to the \"Fatshan\" he would devise some method of arriving at a settlement.\n\n1 \n\nCase \n\nI consider the interview was on the whole satisfactory and, I believe that Mr. Porter, who accompanied me, and myself were able to enlighten the Viceroy on various points in the case on which his Excellency had hitherto received little or no information.\n\nAs illustrating the difficulties I have had to contend with in my endeavours to induce the Chinese authorities to take a reasonable view of this case, I mention the following incident that occurred at the interview. Mr. Porter said he could not understand why, if the assault on the deceased had taken place in the presence of some 600 passengers, not one of them, not even the two witnesses who had received silver medals from the Self-government Society for their conduct on this occasion, had gone to their countryman's assistance. \"I know the reason,\" exclaimed one of the Viceroy's Secretaries, Taotai Wu Kuang Chien, in a loud and excited voice, \"they dared not because had they done so, the officers and crew of the `Fatshan` would have kicked them to death too.\" I at once protested against this scandalous accusation and the Viceroy signified his displeasure at the Secretary's remarks.\n\n1 \n\nOne satisfactory result of the interview is that not one of the morning papers contains any reference to the \"Fatshan\" case. There are, moreover, as far as can be ascertained, no signs of the threatened boycott.\n\ncase.\n\nOn my return from the interview I found waiting for me a despatch from the Viceroy dated the previous day requesting me to hold a fresh inquiry into the \"Fatshan\". At the same time my attention was called to an article in that morning's \"Kuo Shih Pao\" purporting to be a report of a speech delivered at a meeting of the Self-government Society by one Ho Hui Hung, said to be a relative of the deceased, whose name is Ho. This speech, in which my action in the case was severely criticized and a general boycott of British steamers advocated, illustrated so aptly the remarks I had made at the interview regarding the anti-British agitation now being fostered by the newspapers that I at once sent a copy of the paper in to the Viceroy for his information. I have the honour to inclose copies and translations of the Viceroy's despatch above referred to, of my reply, and a précis of the speech which appeared in the \"Kuo Shih Pao\".\n\nI venture to hope that the action I have taken in this case may meet with your approval.\n\nI am forwarding copy of this despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong and the Commander-in-chief on the China station.\n\nI have, &c. \n(Signed) \nHARRY H. FOX.\n\nP.S.-I inclose also copy and translation of a popular song which, I understand, is being sung on all the passenger boats plying in the Delta.\n\nH. H. F.\n\n(Translation.) \nSir,\n\n## Inclosure 15 in No. 1\n\n...in reply what date you have fixed so that I may depute the Magistrate and deputy to proceed to your Consulate-General and associate themselves with you in a joint trial in the interests of justice.\n\nWith regard to the action of the newspapers I have already replied to you on that subject, which should form a separate question and be dealt with accordingly.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n(Seal of Viceroy.)\n\n## Inclosure 16 in No. 1\n\n**Acting Consul-General Fox to Viceroy Chang**\n\nCanton, December 10, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of yesterday's date, in which you request me to rehear the case of the death of a Chinese passenger on board the steam-ship `Fatshan` in suspicious circumstances.\n\nAs I had the honour to inform your Excellency at our interview this morning, it is beyond my power to hear a case in which a Portuguese subject is defendant. I can only repeat what I stated in my despatch of the 4th instant, in which I forwarded copy of the depositions taken at the preliminary hearing, namely, that if your Excellency was not satisfied with my decision further proceedings could be taken before the Portuguese Consul-General.\n\nI took the opportunity this morning to draw your Excellency's serious attention again to the attitude of the Self-government Society and the Canton press, which is of a most hostile nature. I pointed out that a boycott of the steamer `Fatshan` had already been publicly advocated, and that unless prompt measures were taken by your Excellency to suppress the agitation the situation would become even more serious.\n\nYour Excellency denied that there was any talk of a boycott, and seemed to consider that I was taking the question too seriously. I had not, when I saw your Excellency this morning, seen the morning papers. Since my return I have seen them. Every paper contains a report of a speech by a certain Ho Hui Hung, who claims to be a relative of the deceased, in which he advocates a general boycott of all British steamers.\n\nI inclosed copy of the \"Kuo Shih Pao,\" with the request that prompt measures may be taken to deal with and prevent any attempt to carry out this suggestion.\n\nYour Excellency was good enough this morning to promise to issue a Proclamation pointing out that the case was still under consideration, and warning the public from any action which would tend to harm the good relations existing between our two countries.\n\nI trust that, in view of the contents of this morning's papers, your Excellency will lose no time in issuing the promised Proclamation.\n\nIn conclusion, have again the honour to repeat what I said this morning, that I shall be happy to assist your Excellency in any way that lies in my power, short of assuming a jurisdiction which I do not possess over a person of another nationality.\n\nI avail, &c. \n(Signed) HARRY H. FOX.\n\n## Viceroy Chang to Acting Consul-General Fox\n\nCanton, December 9, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 4th instant on the subject of the `Fatshan` case. (Substance of despatch quoted.)\n\n44 \n\nAccording to a Report of the Namhoi Magistrate on this case an examination of the dead body was held by that official and his coroner's assistants in accordance with the procedure laid down in the \"Instructions to Coroners,\" which has constantly proved a reliable guide in holding such inquests according to long-established Chinese practice. As a result of this examination it was conclusively proved that the death had been caused by injuries. Dr. Davenport's declaration that the deceased had died as the result of illness, and your release of the accused on bail neither satisfy the immediate relatives of the deceased nor suffice to inspire public confidence. Moreover, the translated version of the depositions shows many discrepancies. A proper trial is, therefore, a matter of necessity, when a joint investigation can be made and the public demand met.\n\nThe case arose on board the `Fatshan`, which is a British ship, and the duty of dealing with it rests with you. I have therefore the honour to request you to inform me what date you have fixed...\n\n## Inclosure 17 in No. 1\n\n**Extracts from a Speech delivered by Ho-hui Hung at a Meeting of the Self-government Society on December 7, 1908.** (Translation.)\n\nTHE speaker started by saying ironically that he of course fully sympathized with and admired the British Consul's action in protecting his own country's trade, as the murder was likely to have an adverse effect on the shipping of his country. However, it was disgraceful that he should shield the murderer just because he was nervous of exciting popular feeling which might lead to a boycott disastrous to British trade. He went on to elaborate a few retaliatory steps which could be taken against the `Fatshan` in particular, and British shipping in general, of which the following are extracts:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423618, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "page_number": 222, "title": "CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE.\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n2 DEC 09\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nSir,\n\n**Dr. Maxwell to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received November 6.)**\n\n31, Hammelton Road, Bromley, Kent, November 5, 1909.\n\nAS chairman of the representative board of the various anti-opium societies in this country, I have the honour to place before you a resolution passed unanimously by the board at its meeting on the 28th October, 1909, and to express the hope that you will give it your sympathetic consideration.\n\nIn the presence of so wide-spread and sincere and so successful an anti-opium movement as is now manifest in the Chinese Empire, we feel that it would be an immense encouragement alike to the central and to the local governments of China if the distinction which now, of necessity, has to rule in dealing with Chinese and Indian opium respectively could be done away.\n\nThe preferential treatment now accorded to Indian opium as the result of treaties which did not contemplate such a movement as that of to-day, a preferential treatment, moreover, which becomes increasingly apparent as the months go on and the stocks of Chinese opium become less and less, must of course be rather galling to Chinese reformers, who see in it the one hindrance to complete removal of the evil. It is hardly possible not to sympathise with men who have succeeded in cleansing their portion of the country from the poppy growth, who have secured the closing of the opium dens, and so far as Chinese opium is concerned the shutting of the opium shops, but who are brought to a stand by the fact that Indian opium still holds its own, and that no embargo can be put on its sale anywhere in China.\n\nWe sincerely trust that it may be possible for you to exercise your great influence in the direction of removing this difficulty out of the way of the Chinese.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**JAMES L. MAXWELL, M.D.**\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\n**Minute adopted by the Representative Board of British Anti-Opium Societies at a Meeting held on October 28, 1909.**\n\nTHIS board welcomes Sir Edward Grey's renewed statement of the sympathy of the British Government with the Government of China as set forth in his letter to Mr. C. E. Price, M.P., dated the 9th August, 1909, and makes no question that under his direction it is this sympathy that is now guiding British policy. But the board is very anxious as to two fundamental matters which should guide the exercise of this sympathy. The first is that it should be understood that the term of ten years is not what China now desires. Her official assurances of gratitude are courteous expressions of appreciation of the changed attitude of the British Government, but her real desire, as expressed by her representatives at the recent Shanghae Commission, and stated by Sir Alexander Hosie in his general report on the opium question, is for a much speedier closing of the legalised import of Indian opium. There is much evidence to show that the Government of China, backed up by public opinion, find that it would be both easier and better to shorten the term of ten years assigned for the termination of the trade and habit. The board trusts that the British Government will, on its part, be ready to act up to the standard of the Chinese opinion and action in this matter.\n\nSecondly, the board hears with profound regret that the old treaties between the two Empires, made and enforced in support of a policy the very opposite to that which is now happily animating His Majesty's Government, are frequently used to defeat the anti-opium efforts of enlightened reformers in China, and so make the self-sacrificing efforts...\n\n* It is well understood that the Government are anxious to shorten the ten years' limit.\" (`\"China No. 1, 1909,\" p. 4.`)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-363 - Public Offices & Others - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432230, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 438, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "## ROMAN CATHOLIC SERVICE\n\nSimultaneously with the service at St. John's Cathedral, a special service took place at the Roman Catholic Cathedral. The spacious building was filled with a devout congregation, and the proceedings were of a solemnity and impressiveness that affected all worshippers and helped them to realise the importance of the great event. Low Pontificial Mass was celebrated by his Lordship Bishop Pozzoui, assisted by Monsignor P. de Maria, Rev. L. Robert, and Rev. Father Noval, while the Rev. G. M. Spada and the Rev. A. Placzek were Masters of Ceremonies, the former acting for the clergy and the latter for the congregation. The order of service was as follows:\n\n* Coronation March, Rich Eilenberg, by members of the Sociedade Philharmonica, conducted by Prof. F. Gonzales.\n* Mass of the Day with collect for the Elected King.\n* During the Mass the following music was rendered:\n\t+ Veni Creator, German Core, by the Cathedral choir and friends.\n\t+ Andante Religioso, Francis Thome, by the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n\t+ Sanctus, Perosi, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Largo e Mesto, Beethoven, by the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n* During the benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the following hymns were sung:\n\t+ O Salutaris, Webb, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Te Deum, Gregorian, by the choir and clergy.\n\t+ Tantum Ergo, G. Mercanti, by the Cathedral choir.\n\t+ Laudate Dominum, by the choir and friends.\n* The service closed with the singing of \"God save the King,\" by the choir, clergy, and congregation, accompanied by the band of the Sociedade Philharmonica.\n\n## THE JEWISH SERVICE\n\nAt the special service held in the Ohel Leah Synagogue, the following prayer was offered after the sermon and the opening of the Ark:\n\nAlmighty God and everlasting King! From the place of Thy habitation Thou lookest upon all the indwellers of the earth. By Thee kings reign and princes rule. Thou establishest their throne, and in Thy hand is their glory and their might.\n\nPrayer for the King and the Royal Family,\n\nMay He who giveth salvation unto kings and dominion unto princes, Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, Who delivered His servant David from the hurtful sword, Who maketh a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters - may He bless, protect and exalt our Sovereign Lord, King George, Our Gracious Queen Mary, Alexandra, the Queen Mother, Edward, Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family.\n\nMay the Supreme King of Kings in His mercy preserve the King, guard him, and deliver him from all trouble, sorrow and hurt. May He make his enemies fall before him, and in whatsoever he undertaketh may he prosper. May the Supreme King of Kings in His mercy put a spirit of wisdom and understanding into his heart and into the hearts of all his counsellors, that they may uphold the peace of the realm, advance the welfare of the nation, and deal kindly and truly with all Israel. In his days and in ours may Judah be saved and Israel dwell securely; and may the Redeemer come unto Zion. O that this may be His will, and let us say, Amen.\n\nThe Ark was then closed.\n\n## THE PARSEE SERVICE\n\nAlmost all the members of the Parsee Community were present at their Club premises at the corner of Elgin and Shelley Streets at 4 p.m. in the afternoon for a religious service. A special prayer was recited by the Priest, the whole congregation remaining standing. The following is the translation of the prayer from Gujarati:\n\n1. Blessed be the name of Holy Abura-Mazda! Almighty Abur-Mazda, Holy, Heavenly, Pure; give ear, we beseech Thee, to the prayers of Thy Mazdayaçnian servants, and satisfy us with Thy Mercy.\n2. Receive our heartfelt thanks, O Almighty God, that Thou art pleased this day to set a peerless crown upon the head of our Gracious Sovereign, King Emperor George.\n3. Vouchsafe to him, Merciful Creator, Thy majesty. Thou hast set Thy servant, George, upon the throne of his fathers. Thou knowest his heart, that it has ever been his desire and happiness to seek the welfare of his people and to execute Thy laws in the land.\n\nBehold, the day hath come that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it, the day on which he has been anointed King, when the crown of sovereignty has been placed upon his head, the day when he lifted up his hand to heaven and took the oath, that he would rule over his people according to the Statutes of the realm, and cause Law and Justice in Mercy to be executed.\n\nTherefore we have come into Thy house, and worship toward Thy holy temple. Hearken unto the voice of our cry, our King and our God, for unto Thee do we pray. May it please Thee to bless our Sovereign Lord the King: O God, save the King! May the King live! May the King live for ever! May Thine arm strengthen him to bear the heavy yoke of governance.\n\nEven as Thou hast set a diadem of fine gold upon his head, so crown him with honour and glory, with mercy and loving-kindness. Anoint him with the oil of gladness. Vouchsafe unto him the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of knowledge and fear of Thee, so that all the nations that dwell beneath his sceptre, the sceptre of righteousness, may abide in peace and tranquillity.\n\nPour out the riches of Thy heavenly goodness upon Queen Mary, who standeth at the right hand of the King in gracious majesty. Verily on her tongue is the law of kindness. Her eyes are upon the poor and upon those that are bruised in spirit. Her heart goeth out to those that are stretched upon the bed of languishing. Give her the desire of her heart, and do not withhold the request of her lips. Bless the Queen Mother, Heir Apparent, and all the members of the Royal House.\n\nWithdraw not, we beseech Thee, Thy loving-kindness from this realm. Shield the indwellers thereof. Remove from them pestilence, sword, famine and sorrow. Spread the days when peace will flourish throughout the world, when the earth will be full of the knowledge of Thee, as the waters cover the sea.\n\nGrant unto our Sovereign Lord the King, the spirits of heavenly piety, as also Thy spirit of wisdom for his guide and Thy arm for his strength, so that in his godliness, and in his unfained spirit of wisdom and strength, Justice, Truth, Peace and Love may flourish in his days to promote the well-being, solidarity and unity of his various subjects of all classes and creeds.\n\n4. We pray unto Thee, O Merciful Mazda, to bestow upon our illustrious Sovereign splendour and glory, health, vigour and victoriousness of body, wealth which may bring all prosperity, a long line of descendants gifted with intelligence, a long life and the best, brilliant and glorious life of the Pious.\n\n5. We beseech Thee, O Bountiful Giver of all Good, to be favourable to our ruler, and to bestow of Thy bounty upon his head the full blessings of the annihilation of famine and pestilence wherever prevailing in his wide dominions, and to endow, in his vast Empire, the happiness and cheer of fruitful peace and gladsome plenty.\n\n6. We supplicate Thee, O Merciful Creator, to crown the fulness of his days with the fulness of Thy divine blessings, grace and love, and receive our humble prayers, O Almighty God, that those and all Thy other gifts may be long continued, and crown him with immortality in the life to come.\n\n7. Listen, we pray Thee, to this earnest invocation of Thy servants of the Zoroastrian faith in Hongkong, and grant us our wishes.\n\n8. Merciful and Gracious Abura-Mazda, we again beseech Thee to give ear to our prayers and to extend Thy divine blessings, favour and love, out of Thy bounteous grace, upon our Gracious Queen Mary.\n\n[June 22, 1911]\n\n## THE PUBLIC MEETING\n\nThe public meeting to endorse the telegraphic addresses to be sent to Their Majesties took place in the City Hall shortly after noon. As was to be expected, the building was taxed to its utmost, all sections of the community being represented in the large gathering. Among those present were the American Delegates from Manila, who were accompanied by Captain Agg, K.O.Y.L.I. Sir Francis Piggott, Chairman of the Coronation Committee, on the entrance of His Excellency, proposed that the Governor preside over the meeting.\n\nHis Excellency then said: - Ladies and gentlemen, - To-day in both hemispheres, in every part of the world, and in every sea where the British flag flies, the subjects of our King are uniting to do homage and to wish him prosperity in his Coronation. They testify their loyalty and reverently and earnestly express their hopes that his reign may be long, prosperous and peaceful. To-day the Crown of his ancestors - that Crown which is the symbol of unity of the Empire - will be placed upon his head in the historic hall where a long line of British kings have been crowned, with all the pomp and circumstance of the old-time ritual. We in Hongkong do not come second to any British community in our loyalty to our King and the Throne. (Applause) We are celebrating to-day this historic event with rejoicing and with prayer. We desire to transmit to His Majesty our expressions, our heart-felt good wishes and congratulations, and our desires for his long and prosperous reign. I have, therefore, asked you to meet here in the City Hall to-day that you may hear the telegrams and addresses, and may approve them which it is proposed to send.\n\nThe Executive and Legislative Councils, in joint session with the Judges, send the following telegram:\n\nThe Executive and Legislative Councils of Hongkong, and the Judges of Hongkong, on behalf of Your Majesty's subjects in the Colony, beg most humbly to offer their loyal and respectful congratulations to You on the Occasion of the Coronation of Your Majesty as King and Emperor, and of Her Majesty Queen Mary. We pray that the event which is celebrated to-day may inaugurate a long and glorious reign for Your Majesties and an era of happiness, prosperity and honourable peace for Your Majesty's Kingdom and Empire.\n\nThe Coronation Committee, on behalf of the community, and on behalf of every race and nationality, has submitted the following telegram:\n\nHis Majesty's subjects in Hongkong present their loyal homage to the King, and the people of other nationalities within the borders of the Colony join with them in offering respectful congratulations to Their Majesties and in wishing them a long and happy reign.\n\nThe Chinese community propose to lay before the King at his Coronation at Delhi, which I hope to attend, a beautifully embroidered scroll expressing their loyalty and good wishes. The translation will be read to you presently by Mr. Chan Kai Ming.\n\nI may add that I received this morning by mail intimation from the Secretary of State that it was the intention of the King to present to this Colony portraits of himself and the Queen. (Applause)\n\nHis Excellency then asked the gathering to express their approval by holding up their hands. There was a full show of hands.\n\nMr. Ng Hon Tsz then read the Chinese address in the vernacular, and Mr. Chan Kai Ming read the translation in English as follows:\n\nTO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY GEORGE THE FIFTH\n\nBy the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, Supreme Lord in and over the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies.\n\nAll the Chinese subjects and Chinese residents in Hongkong with uplifted hands and bowed heads dutifully present this address.\n\nBoth speakers were warmly applauded. Hon. Dr. Ho Kai asked His Excellency to present the embroidered copy of the address bound in red morocco to H. M. The King.\n\nOn the call of His Excellency three hearty cheers were given for the King, and the meeting dispersed.\n\n## ADDRESS FROM THE FREEMASONS\n\nThe Masonic bodies in Hongkong are sending the following address:\n\nTo HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY KING GEORGE V - By the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.\n\nThe Order of Freemasonry was cradled in that divine Faith whereof Your Majesty is the Defender, and is founded on the purest principles of piety and virtue. It teaches those heavenly principles of our duty to God, our duty to our neighbour, and our duty to ourselves, and reminds us of the constant need in our daily life of the practice of those truly kingly attributes Benevolence and Charity.\n\nThe Freemasons of this remote District rejoice greatly therefore that Your Majesty has been graciously pleased to become the Grand Patron of our Charities, and that Her Majesty the Queen has consented to be their Grand Patroness.\n\nLoyalty, Fidelity and Obedience have ever been among the watchwords of our Orders, and Your Majesty has no more devoted subjects than those who range under our banners.\n\nMay the Great Architect of the Universe grant, in His infinite wisdom, that Your Majesty's life may exceed the span of man's allotted term and that Your reign may be blessed with every Happiness for Your Majesty, for our beloved Queen Mary and for the members of Your Royal Family, and with Peace, Joy and Prosperity for Your Majesty's loyal subjects in all lands.\n\n## THE ROYAL SALUTE\n\nAt noon the warships in the harbour, both British and foreign, and the shore batteries, joined in a royal salute.\n\n## THE CORONATION PARADE\n\nOwing to the unsettled state of the weather, the review which was fixed to take place at 8 a.m. yesterday was postponed until the afternoon. The postponement proved propitious, for the rain held off and the parade was participated in and watched under pleasant weather conditions. A cloudy sky obscured the sun's rays and minimised the heat. An exceptionally large crowd surrounded the race course, and the quantity of bunting displayed gave the Valley the holiday appearance which it wears during race week. The troops were massed in the enclosure, and as they went through their preliminary evolutions presented an imposing appearance.\n\nAt four o'clock His Excellency the Governor arrived, and a royal salute was fired by the guns of two batteries, one stationed at the north, and one at the south end of the enclosure. His Excellency, accompanied by Major-General Anderson, Colonel St. John, Major Tulloch, Captain Grotton, Commodore Eyres, Captain Taylor, Captain Simson and an Indian A.D.C., inspected the troops and then returned to the saluting base. Preparations were made for the march past, and when all was in readiness the order was given, and to the strains of \"Sons of the Sea\" and regimental airs the naval brigade and the different regiments marched past in column.\n\n| Unit | Strength |\n| --- | --- |\n| Royal Marines | 513 |\n| Royal Navy | 176 |\n| Royal Garrison Artillery | 407 |\n| H.K.S.B., B.G.A. | 209 |\n| Royal Engineers | 175 |\n| K.Y.L.I. | 422 |\n| 8th Rajputs | 708 |\n| 126th Baluchis | 713 |\n| Total | 3,468 |\n\nAfter the march past the European troops were formed into a hollow square around the saluting base, with the K.O.Y.L.I. band near the flagstaff. His Excellency read the messages of congratulation and loyalty which were forwarded to the King, and then the troops raised three hearty cheers to His Majesty which reverberated among the hills.\n\nAn impressive drum head service followed. To the music of the K.O.Y.L.I. band the troops and the spectators joined in the hymn, \"O God, our help in ages past.\" Lessons were read and prayers offered by naval and military chaplains, and the service closed with the singing of the first verse of the National Anthem, in which thousands of voices joined.\n\nThe Indian regiments then gave three lusty cheers for the King, after which the troops, four deep, marched through the city to barracks.\n\n## ENTERTAINING THE CHILDREN\n\nThe school children were entertained in their various schools yesterday morning. The address of H.E. the Governor, in which he appropriately referred to the lessons of the Coronation, was read, and the medals were distributed to the children, after which they were treated to refreshments, etc.\n\n## THE DECORATIONS\n\nThe decorations were on a most extensive scale. In the harbour practically every vessel was beflagged from stem to stern, and foreign merchantmen joined with British in making a display of bunting. The Monmouth, Astræa, Flora and Tamar had a profusion of bunting, and the visiting American and Japanese gunboats contributed to the colour scheme on the water.\n\nAshore the principal decorations were on the water front, in Queen's Road, and at the various barracks. In the city the centre of attraction was Statue Square. Here various coloured standards had been erected, and from these were suspended festoons of greenery, each standard also bearing a green circle of foliage. Bannerettes also fluttered in the breeze. The buildings facing the harbour were embellished with the national colours, Japanese lanterns, etc., while practically every office showed a flag. As usual the Chinese made a brave display, and the quaint arches erected in various parts of the city were very striking indeed.\n\n## ILLUMINATIONS\n\nThe buildings on the water front and in Queen's Road were covered with lanterns which showed up very effectively. York Buildings had a beautiful frontage of red lamps, and the buildings along the Praya had their illuminations which added to the general effect. On Kowloon side the illuminated arch was very conspicuous, but the most picturesque sight was presented by the warships which were outlined with lights, the American ship _Ralston_ introducing a striking contrast with red lamps. The _Fatshan_ was hung with lamps, and smaller craft had their illuminations also. The grand scheme of illumination will not be seen until to-night.\n\nChinese fireworks were set off from the Parade Ground and in front of the Hongkong Club, and Japanese fireworks from the Public Gardens. The pyrotechnic display appealed to all sections of the community and was greatly appreciated.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 434979, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# \n\nIndia antagon...\n\n388 \n\nare not humanly possible and are not sanctioned by science.\n\nThe first point relates to the inspection of 500 or more passengers carried out in three hours on board the ship, which time is reasonably insufficient to make a conscientious diagnosis which, in affections of the eyes, can very easily be refounded and therefore requires a very careful and repeated examination.\n\nThe second point deals with the daring assertion that trachoma had been introduced in Mexico by Chinese immigrants. In this connection, I beg to enclose the study made by Dr. Lorenzo Chaves, recognized as the highest ophthalmological authority in this Country, and recognized as the first oculist by the learned President of the Supreme Board of Health. This learned treatise asserts that trachoma has existed in Mexico since the XVII century, that it came from Spain and was still further developed by individuals who came from Syria to the Gulf Coast.\n\nThe above reflections would be sufficient to guide us in forming an opinion of the absurd action of the Sanitary Delegate, that, even in its best form, could never have been legal; but granting that the State has to watch over its interests through the actions of its employees, whenever these are inefficient and evidently wrong, it is unjust to impute their effects to those who, in the exercise of their rights, have asked for the fulfillment of the laws and have humbly submitted to the orders of the Authorities, which, although inspired by a praiseworthy purpose, are not adapted to the laws or institutions of the public constitution, which are the only ones that govern contracts.\n\nI have laid stress on this point which I consider the more to attack its details, in order to show that, neither from a moral nor from a scientific point of view, were the restrictions imposed on the free traffic of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-383 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 437736, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4]", "content_text": "Page 303\n\n-19, lo is 23 man time. Denimpet und 57noo ceon dolaw alno! ua) Ojay end gni. Linxer eviovni Alwow Koid- (xxvii) see Government Notice bl of 9.2.10. Od puku de vis (tak\n\nJ (20%*Oph Ji di pond con ev... I (lednutqui od ¿Ilulebsię ni bolady a nbnow end ni od bunutan oci.oniq sut .(*) I aud majsij Di Múzw noidscfusnou yo.Cuʻi todia dou ¡edalusc0\n\nJon Livon (@joliving a ni vi au di miodem od boblood even dit somT2000S II TeVD-ON \"Voa al d) ei? of almo (4)ST Tuto Dret du bizona anoillavyob un Jound (eoivoang and .Daruvun qil lo sons9nq sik 11 00091.-\n\nVIROLAITON? Tendons nimigre où uniog ting de droliavimo, ud Illw di .0001 to .0% to do .b oil batoioni,souskite o noivulet mi Meiçoa pilviously ni Ji anuljico si nich do aedufen „oljose of euf, woestnou um bebrow vlási mi i juu,doi dailyn end most\n\nati ni noitoas o... Li: eqane edinilow mounJ ISVEROL COL oclusang .deidung dad ilsie einooon mici wen .wados.700 gboende (lix) bus (Ix) yhaunis mood bari bas \"C0 .a\" 101 Juingaba o el \"íò .s\" (liix)\n\n•*. 3051100 ni di casood (4) poslanquï end of bennelon cnoldova-dua quid (vix) . bedзzugroomi ai di anusosu (0) Rullesno, 10% Dobivore 2000 to % .di ni kontadino si \"Jool-redom* To noičinitel und (vx)\n\n.Vad to DI .of. Duiw bevSTOUTOU! I wor el duint „OiJUST100 91, une *μloj91* noi Juingai. 8 201 \"Ionaellebaj.\" (ivx) .900. 1. d ybavila bu JoJJ0T100 ¿bsozia (IT) we (ti:),(ilivx),(live)\n\nпo ¡rupaʊovi. dan untoʻl orid juu quaiofu110 and noir 991j8 (izx) ins elsij ons ni \"oontumi „tij” swtor and to eau dud to JIB0008 Dipos *ynequeo* Stow and lo noivalisades old duide ni‚elvis-ume .chom od Jon\n\n„B00007100 yboondo (vix:) uns (Ilix) (lixx) as picaonqro USOMMHILTÜ Gound Imoyen ou Toudou ji dnlad I (vxx) ei orsıld be,žuoči odudast en no Jtul \\DR0Jtovlani need bad you\n\nLougen land ud sometolot abʊngyo no won .0,6001 to 62 .oli - bout wondhi (88) modi (ivxx)\n\n(xxviii) the words referred to appear twice and not once. (xxix) the section related only to buildings in course of construction and as repealed after consultation with the Director of Public Works.\n\n(xxx). The section has been entirely recast, after consultation with the Director of Public Works, paras. (c) and (d) being created for convenience of drafting.\n\n(xxxi) \"s. b\" is a misprint for \"s. 6\" and is already corrected. (xxxii). The amendment is made to introduce the word \"further\" which I have introduced whenever necessary in all Ordinances, in Amendment 11 of the Penalties Ordinance order to fit all sections on to 8 so as to remove any possible doubt that the penalties may be imposed cumulatively.\n\n(xxxiii). The section referred to has already been repealed, by a Revision Ordinance.\n\n29th March, 1912.\n\n(Sd.) F. T. Piggott.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-389 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440139, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "Pour le Japon:\n\nS\n\nAIMARO SATO.\n\nTOMOE TAKAGI\n\nKOTARO NISHIZAKI.\n\nPour les Pays-Bas:\n\nJ. T. CREMER.\n\nC. TH. VAN DEVENTER.\n\nA. A. DE JONGH.\n\nJ. G. SCHEURER.\n\nPour la Perse:\n\nMIRZA MAHMOUD KHAN.\n\nSous réserve des articles 15, 16, 17, 18 et 19 (la Perse n'ayant pas de traité avec la Chine) et du paragraphe (a) de l'article 3.\n\nPour le Portugal:\n\nANTONIO MARIA BARTHOLOMEU FERREIRA.\n\nPour la Russie:\n\nA. SAVINSKY.\n\nPour le Siam:\n\nAKHARAJ VARADHARA.\n\nWM. J. ARCHER.\n\nSous réserve des articles 15, 16, 17, 18 et 19, le Siam n'ayant pas de traité avec la Chine.\n\n(2.)\n\nProtocole de Clôture de la Conférence internationale de l'Opium.\n\nLA Conférence internationale de l'Opium, proposée par le Gouvernement des Etats-Unis d'Amérique, et convoquée par le Gouvernement des Pays-Bas, s'est réunie à La Haye, dans le Palais des Comtes, le 1 décembre, 1911.\n\nLes Gouvernements, dont l'énumération suit, ont pris part à la conférence, pour laquelle ils avaient désigné les délégués nommés ci-après:\n\nL'Allemagne son Excellence M. Félix de Müller, Conseiller intime actuel, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, premier Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. Delbrück, Conseiller supérieur intime de Régence, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. le Dr. Grünenwald, Conseiller actuel de légation, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. le Dr. Kerp, Conseiller intime de Régence, Directeur à l'Office Impérial de Santé, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. le Dr. Rössler, consul Impérial à Canton, Délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nLes Etats-Unis d'Amérique: M. l'Evêque Charles H. Brent, Délégué plénipotentiaire; Mr. Hamilton Wright, Délégué plénipotentiaire; Mr. H. J. Finger, Délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nLa Chine: son Excellence Mr. Liang Cheng, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à Berlin, Délégué plénipotentiaire; Mr. Tang Kwo-an, Secrétaire adjoint au Wai-wu Pu, Délégué; Mr. Tehang Tson-Soueng, chargé d'affaires ad interim à La Haye, Délégué; M. le Dr. Wu Lien-Teh, M.D. (Cambridge), Médecin-major, Directeur de l'Ecole de Médecine, Délégué; M. F. A. Carl, ancien Commissaire des Douanes maritimes Impériales à Newchwang, Délégué; M. A. J. Commijs, Secrétaire adjoint au Bureau de l'Inspecteur général des Douanes maritimes Impériales, Délégué.\n\nLa France: M. Henri Brenier, Inspecteur Conseil des Services agricoles et commerciaux de l'Indo-Chine, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. Pierre Guesde, Administrateur des Services civils de l'Indo-Chine, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. le Dr. Gaide, Médecin-major des Troupes coloniales, Conseiller technique.\n\nLa Grande-Bretagne: The Right Honourable Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G.C.M.G., Membre du Conseil privé, Délégué plénipotentiaire; Sir William Stevenson Meyer, K.C.I.E., Secrétaire en chef du Gouvernement de Madras, Délégué plénipotentiaire; Mr. William Grenfell Max Müller, C.B., M.V.O., Conseiller d'Ambassade, Délégué plénipotentiaire; Sir William Job Collins, M.D., Deputy-Lieutenant du Comté de Londres, Délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nL'Italie: son Excellence M. le Comte J. Sallier de la Tour, Duc de Calvello, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. le Professeur Rocco Santoliquido, Député au Parlement, Directeur général de la Santé publique, Délégué.\n\nLe Japon: Son Excellence Mr. Aimaro Sato, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. le Dr. Tomoe Takagi, Ingénieur du Gouvernement général de Formose, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. le Dr. Kotaro Nishizaki, spécialiste technique, attaché au Laboratoire des Services hygiéniques, Délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nLes Pays-Bas: M. J. T. Cremer, ancien Ministre des Colonies, Président de la Compagnie néerlandaise de Commerce, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. C. Th. van Deventer, Membre de la Première Chambre des États généraux, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. A. A. de Jongh, ancien Inspecteur général, Chef du Service de la Régie de l'Opium aux Indes néerlandaises, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. J. G. Scheurer, Membre de la Seconde Chambre des Etats généraux, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. W. G. van Wettum, Inspecteur de la Régie de l'Opium aux Indes néerlandaises, Délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nLa Perse: Mirza Mahmoud Khan, Secrétaire de la Légation de Perse à La Haye, Délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nLe Portugal: son Excellence M. A. M. Bartholomeu Ferreira, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. Oscar George Potier, Consul général de première classe, Délégué du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Délégué; M. A. Sanches de Miranda, Capitaine d'Artillerie, ancien Gouverneur aux Colonies, Délégué du Ministère de Colonies, Délégué.\n\nLa Russie: son Excellence M. Alexandre Savinsky, Maître des Cérémonies de Sa Majesté l'Empereur, Conseiller d'État actuel, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à Stockholm, Délégué plénipotentiaire; M. Chapiroff, Médecin honoraire de la Cour de Sa Majesté l'Empereur, Médecin inspecteur du Corps des Gardes frontières, Délégué.\n\nLe Siam: son Excellence Phya Akharaj Varadhara, Envoyé extraordinaire et Ministre plénipotentiaire à Londres, La Haye et Bruxelles, Délégué plénipotentiaire; Mr. Wm. J. Archer, C.M.G., Conseiller de Légation, Délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nDans une série de réunions tenues du 1er décembre, 1911, au 23 janvier, 1912, la conférence a arrêté le texte de convention ci-annexé.\n\nLa conférence a en outre émis les voeux suivants:\n\n1. La conférence estime qu'il y aurait lieu d'attirer l'attention de l'Union postale universelle:\n\n(1.) Sur l'urgence de réglementer la transmission par la poste de l'opium brut;\n\n(2.) Sur l'urgence de réglementer autant que possible la transmission par la poste de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs, et des autres substances visées à l'article 14 de la convention;\n\n(3.) Sur la nécessité de prohiber la transmission par la poste de l'opium préparé.\n\n2. La conférence estime qu'il y aurait lieu d'étudier la question du chanvre indien au point de vue statistique et scientifique, dans le but de régler, si la nécessité s'en fait sentir, par la législation intérieure ou par un accord international, les abus de son emploi.\n\nEn foi de quoi les plénipotentiaires ont revêtu le présent protocole de leurs signatures.\n\nFait à La Haye, le 23 janvier, 1912, en un seul exemplaire, qui restera déposé dans les archives du Gouvernement des Pays-Bas, et dont des copies, certifiées conformes, seront remises par la voie diplomatique à toutes les Puissances représentées à la conférence.\n\nPour l'Allemagne:\n\nF. DE MÜLLER. DELBRÜCK. GRUNENWALD.\n\n31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440924, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 260, "title": "CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "## THE OPIUM EVIL\n\n39\n\nFor the Netherlands: \nJ. T. CREMER. \nC. TH. VAN DEVENTER. \nA. A. DE JONGH. \nJ. G. SCHEURER.\n\nFor Persia: \nMIRZA MAHMOUD KHAN.\n\nFor Portugal: \nANTONIO MARIA BARTHOLOMEU FERREIRA.\n\nFor Russia: \nA. SAVINSKY.\n\nFor Siam: \nAKHARAJ VARADHARA.\n\nWM. J. ARCHER, \n(Unofficial translation.)\n\n## PROTOCOLE DE CLÔTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL OPIUM CONFERENCE\n\nThe International Opium Conference, proposed by the Government of the United States of America and convoked by the Government of the Netherlands, assembled at The Hague in the Palace of the Knights, December 1, 1911.\n\nThe Governments, the enumeration of which follows, have taken part in the conference, to which they had designated the delegates hereafter named.\n\n### GERMANY\n\n* His Excellency, Mr. Felix de Müller, present privy counselor, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague, first delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. Delbrück, superior privy counselor of the regency, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Grunenwald, present counselor of legation, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Kerp, privy counselor of the regency, director of the imperial health office, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Rössler, imperial consul at Canton, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\n\n* Bishop Charles H. Brent, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Hamilton Wright, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. Henry J. Finger, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### CHINA\n\n* His Excellency Mr. Liang Cheng, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Berlin, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. T'ang Kwo-an, assistant secretary of the Wai-Wu-Pu, delegate.\n* Mr. Tchang Tsou-Soueng, chargé d'affaires ad interim at The Hague, delegate.\n* Mr. Wu Lien-Teh, M.D. (Cambridge), doctor with rank of major, director of the school of medicine, delegate.\n* Mr. F. A. Carl, former commissioner of the imperial maritime customs at Newchwang, delegate.\n* Mr. A. J. Commijs, assistant secretary in the bureau of the inspector general of the imperial maritime customs, delegate.\n\n### FRANCE\n\n* Mr. Henri Brenier, consular inspector of the agricultural and commercial services of Indo-China, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. Pierre Guesde, administrator of the civil services of Indo-China, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Gaide, physician with the rank of major of the colonial troops, technical counselor.\n\n### GREAT BRITAIN\n\n* The Right Hon. Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G.C.M.G., member of the privy council, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Sir William Stevenson Meyer, K.C.I.E., chief secretary of the government of Madras, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. William Grenfell Max-Müller, C.B., M.V.O., counselor of embassy, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Sir William Job Collins, M.D., deputy lieutenant of the county of London, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### ITALY\n\n* His Excellency Count J. Sallier de la Tour, Duke of Cavello, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Prof. Rocco Santoliquido, deputy of Parliament, director general of the public health, delegate.\n\n### JAPAN\n\n* His Excellency Mr. Aimaro Sato, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Tomoe Takagi, engineer of the General Government of Formosa, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Dr. Kotaro Nishizaki, technical specialist, attached to the laboratory of hygienic service, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n### THE NETHERLANDS\n\n* Mr. J. T. Cremer, former minister of colonies, president of the Dutch Commercial Co., delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. C. Th. van Deventer, member of the First Chamber of the States-General, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. A. A. de Jongh, former inspector general, chief of the opium regié service in the Dutch Indies, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. J. G. Scheurer, member of the Second Chamber of the States-General, delegate plenipotentiary.\n* Mr. W. G. van Wettum, inspector of the opium regié of the Dutch Indies, delegate plenipotentiary.\n\n257", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-396 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 445487, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 561, "title": "CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913", "content_text": "## SECTION 2\n### OPIUM\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[21461]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n**Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.** (Received May 9.)\n\n(No. 113.) (Telegraphic.) R. **OPIUM.**\n\nPeking, May 9, 1913.\n\nIn a memorandum dated 7th May, Wai-wu Pu quoted article 9 of agreement of 1911, and says that, owing to change in conditions affecting suppression in China, great part of agreement has ceased to apply, and it becomes necessary to raise question of revision in order to satisfy public opinion. They accordingly request me to move His Majesty's Government to consent to revision, and beg early reply.\n\nNo reference is made to stocks in China, but preamble of memorandum suggests that total prohibition is desired.\n\nI am forwarding copy by post with my comments.\n\n[2926-2]\n\n \n\n559 \n\n2 \n\nthree months' special leave for this purpose. Dr. Wenham's share in the mission, however, will consist chiefly in acting the part of guide, philosopher, and friend to one who has never before been on English soil, and might otherwise find it difficult to prosecute his plans successfully. Several members of Parliament are already actively interested in the opium question, and General Chang is assured of their support and co-operation when he reaches London. Christian leaders of all denominations have also taken a strong stand in the matter, and they may be relied upon to do all in their power to ensure General Chang a sympathetic bearing and to make his mission a success. And General Chang himself, who is perhaps the best delegate who could have been selected for the purpose, will be in the happy position of one who is thrice armed because his \"quarrel\" is just.\n\nThere is an absolute consensus of opinion among all enlightened Chinese as to the necessity of obtaining an absolutely free hand to deal with the opium question. If the anti-opium campaign is to be carried to a successful issue, China must be under no further obligation to import opium from any foreign country. The well-being of a great nation, bravely fighting a vice of the most insidious character, must be placed above the welfare of a handful of speculating opium merchants who have persisted in a trade which is under the moral condemnation of the entire civilised world. China must be free, not only from any obligation to import opium in the future; her hands must not be tied by a monopoly, or any other device for unloading the present stocks of Indian opium in the treaty ports and Hong Kong. General Chang, in accepting the mission of explaining his countrymen's views, is also accepting a very heavy responsibility, and one in which he deserves such support as the Chinese Government can legitimately afford him. In one direction, at least, he should be able to rely upon the co-operation of the Government. So far as we are aware, the Wai-chiao Pu has not as yet presented a formal request to the British Government for final release from the opium treaties. A polite request in this sense should, it seems to us, be presented at the earliest opportunity. Otherwise, there is the danger that much of General Chang's work may be undone by a statement from the British Foreign Office that no official request for the abrogation of the opium treaties has yet been received. According to the Chinese press, the National Opium Prohibition Union has already petitioned the Wai-chiao Pu to take this step. We cannot too strongly endorse this recommendation, the fulfilment of which would offen... no one, while it would effectually dispose of the suggestion that the Chinese Government was not anxious to be relieved of the obligations imposed under the existing opium treaties.\n\n[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n[May 9.]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-405 - Public Offices - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 457121, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "432\n\n14\n\nLA FRANCE:\n\nM. HENRI BRENIER, inspecteur-conseil des services agricoles et commerciaux de l'Indo-Chine, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. PIERRE GUESDE, administrateur des services civils de l'Indo-Chine, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. le Dr. GAIDE, médecin-major des troupes coloniales, conseiller technique.\n\nLA GRANDE-BRETAGNE:\n\nThe Right Honourable Sir CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, G.C.M.G., membre du conseil privé, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nSir WILLIAM STEVENSON MEYER, K.C.I.E., secrétaire en chef du Gouvernement de Madras, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. WILLIAM GRENFELL MAX-MULLER, C.B., M.V.O., conseiller d'ambassade, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nSir WILLIAM JOB COLLINS, M.D., deputy-lieutenant du Comté de Londres, délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nL'ITALIE:\n\nSon Exc. M. le Comte J. SALLIER DE LA TOUR, Duc de Calvello, envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. le professeur ROCCO SANTOLIQUIDO, député au parlement, directeur-général de la santé publique, délégué.\n\nLE JAPON:\n\nSon Exc. M. AIMARO SATO, envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. le Dr. TOMOE TAKAGI, ingénieur du Gouvernement-général de Formose, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. le Dr. KOTARO NISHIZAKI, spécialiste technique, attaché au laboratoire des services hygiéniques, délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nLES PAYS-BAS:\n\nM. J.T. CREMER, ancien ministre des colonies, président de la compagnie néerlandaise de commerce, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. VAN DEVENTER, membre de la première chambre des Etats-Généraux, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. A.A. DE JONGH, ancien inspecteur-général, chef du service de la régie de l'opium aux Indes néerlandaises, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. J.G. SCHEURER, membre de la seconde chambre des Etats-Généraux, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. W.G. VAN WETTUM, inspecteur de la régie de l'opium aux Indes néerlandaises, délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\n15\n\nLA PERSE:\n\nMIRZA MAHMOUD KHAN, secrétaire de la légation de Perse à La Haye, délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nLE PORTUGAL:\n\nSon Exc. M. ANTONIO MARIA BARTHOLOMEU FERREIRA, envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire à La Haye, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. OSCAR GEORGE POTIER, consul-général de première classe, délégué du ministère des affaires étrangères, délégué;\n\nM. A. SANCHES DE MIRANDA, capitaine d'artillerie, ancien gouverneur aux colonies, délégué du ministère des colonies, délégué.\n\nLA RUSSIE:\n\nSon Exc. M. ALEXANDRE SAVINSKY, maître de cérémonies de S.M. l'Empereur, conseiller d'état actuel, envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire à Stockholm, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. CHAPIROFF, médecin honoraire de la Cour de S.M. l'Empereur, médecin-inspecteur du corps des gardes-frontières, délégué.\n\nLE SIAM:\n\nSon Exc. PHYA AKHARAJ VARADHARA, envoyé extraordinaire et ministre plénipotentiaire à Londres, La Haye et Bruxelles, délégué plénipotentiaire;\n\nM. WM. J. ARCHER, C.M.G., conseiller de légation, délégué plénipotentiaire.\n\nDans une série de réunions tenues du 1 décembre 1911 au 23 janvier 1912, la Conférence a arrêté le texte de Convention ci-annexé.\n\nLa Conférence a en outre émis les voeux suivants:\n\nI. La Conférence estime qu'il y aurait lieu d'attirer l'attention de l'Union Postale Universelle:\n\n1o. sur l'urgence de réglementer la transmission par la poste de l'opium brut;\n\n2o. sur l'urgence de réglementer autant que possible la transmission par la poste de la morphine, de la cocaïne et de leurs sels respectifs, et des autres substances visées à l'article 14 de la Convention;\n\n3o. sur la nécessité de prohiber la transmission par la poste de l'opium préparé.\n\nII. La Conférence estime qu'il y aurait lieu d'étudier la question du chanvre indien au point de vue statistique et scientifique, dans le but de régler, si la nécessité s'en fait sentir, par la législation intérieure ou par un accord international, les abus de son emploi.\n\nEn foi de quoi, les Plénipotentiaires ont revêtu le présent Protocole de leurs signatures.\n\nFait à La Haye, le 23 janvier mil neuf cent douze, en un seul exemplaire, qui restera déposé dans les archives du Gouvernement des Pays-Bas et dont des copies, certifiées conformes, seront remises.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 485755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920", "content_text": "HONG KONG\n\nREG 23 NC.20\n\nREC 57572 108\n\nREG 57572\n\nCopy prepared for British Representatives at League of Nations.\n\nManchuria\n\nThe Draft\n\nDr. Guide\n\nThis\n\nE.O\n\nhas been prepared by the F.O. without taking into consultation and reference to what the B.E.F. is doing.\n\nThe B.E.F. is brief and vague.\n\nI submit it to subsequent Paper to supplement the para.\n\nChina\n\npp. 516\n\nThe portion relating to the Done has been\n\nWhy Op.183 26,000 8-20 W & 8 (W B & L)\n\nMaur...\n\nIt appears that the original text is heavily damaged and contains many OCR errors. I have made the following corrections:\n\n1. Corrected spelling errors: \"ixistence\" -> not corrected as it is not clear what it should be, \"suster\" -> not corrected, \"Uncound\" -> not corrected, \"است\" -> not corrected, \"یز\" -> not corrected, \"光\" -> not corrected, \"hov.\" -> \"Nov.\", \"Manboltinn\" -> \"Manchuria\", \"Meure\" -> not corrected, \"lvp\" -> not corrected, \"tt\" -> not corrected, \"co. inti\" -> \"consultation\", \"T he bun\" -> \"The B.E.F.\", \"MWAŁAMAR\" -> not corrected, \"Why Op.183\" -> not corrected.\n2. Removed extra spaces and added missing spaces.\n3. Rejoined broken sentences.\n4. Restored paragraph breaks.\n5. Indicated missing words with \"...\" (e.g., \"Maur...\").\n6. Applied Markdown formatting is not required as per the final instruction, instead, HTML is used.\n\nHowever, the text still contains many errors and unclear parts. Further corrections would require more context or information about the original document.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 486447, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "page_number": 126, "title": "CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920", "content_text": "# The Lost Track.\n\nFrom Carraipia we decided to proceed to the Sierra de la Teta, and about noon on the following day sent off our loads in advance, being assured by our guide that it was impossible to mistake the route. Before proceeding we ourselves visited the river Carraipia, which lies twenty-five minutes from the collection of huts known by that name. About an hour later we proceeded on the trail of the donkeys, but after travelling until 7 p.m. and not having overtaken them we concluded that they had taken another route and were some distance behind. We were therefore obliged to spend the night on the open sabanas without dinner and without water to drink save brackish water. We laid down with our saddles for pillows, but the millions of mosquitos made sleep impossible, and their attentions were only varied by downpours of rain. At daybreak we set out, sodden to the skin, with wet saddles and an inward emptiness, in search of our donkeys. At about 8 o'clock we reached a rancheria where we found they had passed the night, and galloping on their trail we shortly overtook them, when we breakfasted.\n\n## Toroira to Tucaraca.\n\nWe then proceeded to Toroira, a large rancheria which we reached early in the afternoon. Our guide lost no time in informing us that we could not proceed till mid-day in the morrow, as we had to replace a horse and obtain further donkeys. It had become apparent that a great mistake had been made in the purchase of donkeys for transport, and that it was quite impossible to continue the journey to Sierra de la Teta or to return overland to Rio Hacha with the same animals. Consequently I decided to return to Rio Hacha via Tucaraca by sea. We therefore left Toroira about mid-day, and travelled throughout that afternoon through heavy clay land covered with Cactus and Opuntias. As there was no pasture in this type of country we were obliged to continue until reaching a sabana, which we did at dusk. Before, however, we could erect our tent rain poured in torrents, and the ground within the tent became a mud pool where nine of us spent the night huddled together with saddles and boxes as best we could. In the morning we left for Tucaraca reaching there about 2 p.m., and the same night left in a cayuco for Rio Hacha, arriving there at 1 p.m. the next day.\n\n## Impressions of the First Journey in Goajira.\n\nArduous and difficult as our journey across the peninsula proved to be, it was to me a journey of considerable interest; for I feel convinced that here is a country which might, with the liberal assistance of the Government in the way of communications, wells and irrigation, well become an important cattle country. The northwestern part along the Coast consists of sandy lands where grows the divi-divi tree (*Caesalpinia coriaria*, Willd), a tree which affords one of the principal exports of the country. This type of country alternates with heavy clay lands, where grows little but Cactus trees, the undergrowth being principally prickly Opuntias.\n\nHere and there are pantanos or swampy lands covered with various Leguminosae or aquatic plants. In the centre of the peninsula are extensive sabanas, now (October) beautifully covered with fine short grass (*Aristida setifolia*, H.B. & K.) affording abundant and sweet pasture, but alas in the dry season almost desert lands. In the southeastern parts the character of the vegetation alters, and towards the mountains becomes more and more luxuriant, and gives evidence of a richer soil and more abundant rainfall. As we were nearing Carraipia, I was surprised to come across extensive areas covered with guinea grass. In fact, I first asked the guide who possessed potreros in this region, as I observed guazimo (*Guazuma ulmifolia*, D.C.) and hobo trees (*Spondias* sp.) for shade, reminding one of the artificial potreros of Tolima. The grass, evidently at first imported by the Spaniards, has become naturally established over wide areas. In our journey from Carraipia towards the Sierra de la Teta, we passed through ten miles of guinea grass, naturally established potreros; but I am informed that there are extensions of eight leagues or more covered with this grass. There are therefore many thousands of hectares of naturally established pastures which are not at present utilized. When the packing-house propositions now under consideration mature, may not these regions become an important feeding ground for such an establishment? Here are extensive areas of pasture ready for cattle ranching on a large scale, where it is not necessary to go through the costly process of felling forest to plant pastures, and where, on the sabanas, there are no ticks.\n\n## A Second Journey Through the Peninsula of Goajira.\n\nDisappointed with the result of the first journey in Goajira owing to bad transport organization, and impressed with the agricultural possibilities of the peninsula, I determined to make a second journey direct from Rio Hacha, and if possible traverse the entire length of the peninsula before proceeding to the Province of Padilla. Owing to the existence in the interior parts of Goajira of hostile Indians, of whom there are armed gangs of bandits wandering on the main routes, who do not hesitate to attack, rob and even murder small parties; it is essential to travel armed and with suitable escort. I accordingly set to work to find an escort, and through the kind offices of Señores Dr. M. Alvarez I and General Agustin Beruier, I was introduced to Señor Colonel R. Morales, a gentleman well known to the Indians who very kindly offered to accompany me. We therefore set out for the second time on November 1st, the party consisting of Señores Colonel Morales, Caballero (the owner of the transport animals), Campo and Frailes (transport assistants), Rodrigues (servant) and myself. All of us were, of course, mounted and armed; and we took four pack animals to convey our tent and equipment, taking good care to leave all the donkeys behind. On leaving Rio Hacha we were informed by the inhabitants that, owing to the exceptionally flooded state of the country, it was quite impossible to do this journey and that within a few days we should be seen back at Rio Hacha. Discouraging as these opinions were I was determined to make the Journey. We first had to cross the arm of the river Calancala at Rio Hacha in canoes; we then saddled and loaded our animals and started off towards the river Calancala, which we reached within an hour or so from starting. Here we had to cross the loads in a canoe, my companions first wading, then swimming and again wading with the animals across the river to the other side: a distance including the flooded area of not less than three hundred metres. We landed on the opposite side at the Orphanage of the Capuchinos, San Antonio, and after a delay of two hours in crossing we resaddled and reloaded our horses and proceeded on our way. The Rev. Padre Camillo of San Antonio was even less consoling than the inhabitants of Rio Hacha, and informed us that as no Indians had passed through for several days, the country must be impassable. After leaving the Orphanage we soon reached lagoons and flooded lands, and travelled through two and three feet of water, being only varied with short expanses of solid lands or heavy clay. At dusk we reached an Indian rancheria known as Guamachal where we camped the first night. Here lives an Indian lady known as Dionesia Duarte (Nicha) who is very wealthy, possessing about a thousand head of oxen, and a large number of horses, donkeys, sheep and goats. I was struck with the healthy and thriving condition of all the animals, with the exception of the goats which were suffering with foot-rot as the result of the wet condition of the lands.\n\nThe next morning we left Guamachal, the first part of this day's journey was through flooded clay lands of Cactus bush, but the latter part was through sandy lands covered with small spreading trees chiefly of the order Leguminosae. In certain parts I noted the dye-wood tree, known locally as Brasilete (*Haematoxylum brasileto*, Krst.) abundant. In the evening we reached a small rancherio known as Chimirang, and the Indians turned out their goats from a hut which they placed at our disposal. We had no sooner arranged our hammocks when, in the dusk, we were alarmed by the appearance of a large snake which took possession of one of the hammocks. We were, however, fortunate in killing it, but we passed the night rather uncomfortably thinking that our unwelcome visitor might have a companion in the vicinity.\n\n## A Typical Indian of Goajira\n\n10\n124", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492008, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "page_number": 544, "title": "CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4]", "content_text": "Page 1-11\n\nVELER_DAY,\n\nHis Worship the Governor summoned 22.\n\nThe Inquiry continued on \"onda\", March 20th at 2:15 p.m. His Lordship, I ask you to listen to me for a few minutes at this stage of the inquiry. It will be your desire that, before addressing you, I should express our sympathy with all who have suffered bereavement in the unfortunate incident.\n\nWhatever verdict is recorded on the evidence, it cannot but be a matter of regret to the whole community that this page has found a place in the history of this Colony. I have no doubt you are already clearly grasped the details of the evidence; it would be wrong for me to repeat it to you. I propose to suggest to you certain considerations which shall guide you in estimating the evidence and in coming to your verdict. In doing so, I may state certain facts as though they had been established by evidence, but I shall trust you not to allow me to intrude in any way on your province here as the sole judges of fact. The ground has been cleared for you to a great extent.\n\nThe medical cause of death, a bullet wound, is accepted by Dr. The Deputy Superintendant of Police appears from the evidence of Dr. King, and you are to consider the justification or alleged justification for his action, the position of the deceased in the crowd where he fell is a matter leading to the inference that he was a participator in these proceedings. You are free to concentrate your attention upon the control of the crowd exercised by Mr. King at the time of this firing.\n\nThe first consideration I will lay before you is this: It is a principle of English law that where the responsibility for homicide is admitted or proved, the person responsible must establish his justification, if he is to be relieved from criminal liability. The onus of proof thus rests upon him to clear himself. It is not part of your duty to hunt for excuses for Mr. King's action; rather, it is your duty to scrutinize any grounds of justification advanced for him.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-474 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492978, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 331, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.\n\nBANKING DEPARTMENT: Current Savings and Time Deposits in Local Currency, U.S. Dollars and Pounds Sterling; Issuance of Commercial and Travelers Letters of Credit; Collection of Drafts, Bills, Notes or Deposits Sale of Money Orders, Drafts, Cable and Mail Payments; Foreign Money Bought and Sold; Liberty Bonds Cashed; American Express Company Travellers Cheques.\n\nSHIPPING DEPARTMENT: Forwarding of Import and Export Shipments, Parcels, Baggage, Bullion, and Securities; Freight and Express Consignments in large or small lots between all parts of the world; Marine Insurance; American Express Company Through Bills of Lading.\n\nTRAVEL DEPARTMENT:\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nBANKS.\n\nSHIPPING NEWS\n\nThe following local shipping and mail intelligence has been corrected to noon to-day-\n\nVessel Pres. 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Whf.\n\nASIA BANKING CORPORATION.\n\n(An American Bank for trade with the Far East.)\n\nOwned by group of American Banks and under the control of the New York State Banking Department and the Federal Reserve Bank.\n\nComplete banking facilities incident to foreign trade. Travellers Checks of the American Bankers' Association and the Guaranty Trust Company of New York, negotiable throughout the world, for Sale and Encashment with us.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\nMooring Eow. Whf B 55 ▲ 52 Yokohamaa via Moji Saison C 36 Haiphong via Pukhoi Canton C 39 B. 19 C 35 Calcutta via S'pore Canton Kow. Whf. C 16 Bolt's Whf. Shanghai\n\nBRANCHES Canton Tientsin Hankow Peking Bremen via S'pore\n\nClearances.\n\nVessel\n\nWhere Bound\n\nDeparture. Sept.\n\nTerrane Yokohama vis S'hai Canton Hoihow hi Besttla via Keely Shanghai via Amoy Tacoma via Dairen Calcutta Amoy via Swatow Saigon Fort Bayard \" 6'hai via Swatow 1st Oct. Keelung Melbourne via Sandakan J M & UG. Tongtro via Swatow \" Bangkok via Swatow China Aut.\n\nImpending Departures.\n\n(Compiled from our Shipping Advertisements.)\n\nJ M Co. Destination Tientsin Singapore Sailing Date 1st Oct. let New York\n\nBRANCH: San Francisco. HEAD OFFICE FOR THE ORIENT: THE CHINA SPECIE BANK LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: Manila Singapore D. M. BIGGAR, Manager.\n\nTHE BANK OF CHINA.\n\nTHE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG. Paid-up Capital Reserve Funde:- Sterling ... Silver $20,000,00 £4,500,000 $23,500,000\n\nkocezve Limbliday of Proprionezu § 29.800,000.0\n\nDODAT OF DIRECTURE G. M. Dodwall, Eng.-Obama. Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang-Deputy ChairmN. DG. K. Borzard goa, Mr. B. V. D. Parz A. M. Bower Smith, Eng W. L. Pattonden. Be G.T.K. Edkins, B. B. P. Waits. Be P. E. Holyoak . Cute! Manny): A. G. STITHES, Reg Manager: Abazyba! ——9, B. Mun Bes\n\nLONDON BANK: LONDON COUNTY WESTMINATION PARK'S BANK, LIMITED\n\nCurrens aconas opened is Leeal Barret and Fixed Depoaths recorved far on your i borter perioda a Losal Ourrapay and Òsterling na termi which will be quoted on appliest)00\n\nHongkong, 20th February, 1922 (Specially authorized by Pres- idential Mandate of the Republic HONGKONO SAVINGS BANK St. George's Building, Hongkong. of China on the 22nd of Novem- ber, 1917.)\n\nChairman of Board of Directors Mr. Wong Shiu Ham Chief Manager... Mr. L.S. Holum Asst. Manager... Mr. K. T. Wong Hongkong Manager. Mr. I. P. Allen Foreign exchange and general hanking business transacted.\n\nCurrent, Savings, and Fixed deposits bear interests at rates 2% 4% and 5% per annum re- spectively.\n\nL. S. HOLUM.\n\nChief Manager Hongkong, 2nd October. 1920\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE HANDEL MAATSCHAPPIJ.\n\n'KITHERLANDE TRADING SQUINTY,)\n\nBablished 1834 100,000, 8,333,333\n\nPaid-up Capital1:19 446,200 £1,620.433 Reserve Fund....... ....................... Spacial Laser F1.22 650,000 21,889,333\n\nHead Offer:—Amsterdam' Branches at The Hague Botterdam - Brad Agency :--Batąpia BRANCHES Pekalongan Tebing Ting RearijeraİD Knokeres Bandoent Bombay Medan Padang Bingapura Boerabal Borzakarta Caloutta Palemban (Boin) Due Hongkong Cheribon Djember Prong (Dell) lot Oct. Djokjakarta Pontiana Int Kobe Rangooz Telok Betong 2nd Rota-Radja Bamarang Tjilatjup Shanghai 2nd örd 7th\n\nVessel Agents Stanley Benmohr Alps Maru Westfalen Free Claims Goods Storage to be Stored Expires In by A L Kowloon Sept. 29 Oct. 24 GL & Co. Kowloon Oct. 4 Oct. 18 Oct 4 OSK Kowloon Oct. 4 Oct, 8 Wed. & Saturday RD Co. Holt' Oct. 6 Oct. 19 Oct. 5\n\nExamina tion Date Sept 28\n\nSteamers' Movements.\n\nLaomedon for London. Rotterdam and Hamburg. left Shanghai ou 27th inst for this port, dne here on 30th p m and will be despatched at 4 pm. un 2nd October Protesilaus from Pacific Porte. arrived at Yokohama 28th instant. Mentor arrived at London on 27th September.\n\n!Ange Weltevreden Correspondents at Colombo, Madras Pondi oberry, Bangkok. Baigon, Haiphong, Hanoi. Amoy, Yokohama, Belbourne, Sydney, New Tork, San Francisco, ets,, ete.\n\nLondon Bankers: The National Provimajai, and Union Bank of England, Limited.\n\nThe Bank bays and sells and receive for collection Bills of Ezcbenge, issum tottera <1 credit on a Branches and correspondents the East, the Continent, in Great Britain. America and Australia and transsets banking business of every description.\n\nW. B, GRONKAMP.\n\nAgent.\n\nBANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE (FRENCH BANK.)\n\nHead Onos: 96 Boulevard Hausamana, Pazin, Ginyo M. arrived at Yokohama on September 20th., and sails October 2nd for Capital - Honolulu, San Francisco and South Americk.\n\nMilan, Sept. 29. A hundred and forty-four bodies of victims have been recover- ed from the Spezzia explosion. More fatalities are feared. The rupted.\n\nInjured total six hundred.\n\nPOST OFFICE NOTICES.\n\nHongkong Kengtze Noumes Papeets Peking Paom-Pent Pondicherry\n\nBANKERS.\n\nBhaure Tientsin Tour Do Vladivostook Yuankolo\n\nReserves Frabos 45,000,000 50,000,000\n\nBRANCHEA AND AGENGJES.\n\nBangkok Bairon\n\nTelegraphic Communications with Gap Rock and Waglen Lighthouses are inter-\n\nINWARD MAILS.\n\nambang Djibout! Haiphong Jankow Надоб\n\nFrom Per Duo Haiphong Azay Le Rideau ..30th Sept. Shanghai.. Kanchow ...30th\n\nRESTRICTION OF RUBBER OUTPUT.\n\nLondon, Sept. 29. A supplementary report of the Colonial Office Rubber mittee is to be issued shortly. It is anticipated it will restriction of output in British overses possessions.\n\nEurope via Suez (Letters only, London Shanghai... favour Jupan 31st Aug.) Com-Australia & Manila\n\nLaisang ...30th Taiyuan lat Oct. Suiyang + 2nd Arafura Sicilia President Grant F ... 2nd 3rd\n\nOUTWARD MAILS.\n\nPer\n\nMOORISH BRIGAND SURRENDERS.\n\nSan Sebastian, Sept. 27,\n\nThe Minister for Foreign Affairs announces the surrender of the brigand Raisuli, who has caused considerable trouble for\n\nEurope via Buen (Papers only, London 31st Aug) Canada, U.S.A, Japan & Shanghai\n\nPor Swatow. Amoy & Kestung...\n\nmany years.\n\nIRISH POSTAL STRIKE SETTLED.\n\nLondon, Sept. 29.\n\nThe Irish postal strike, which has been in operation for several weeks, was settled yesterday.\n\nTO KEEP WELL IN\n\nGAMBLING WITH THE DOLE.\n\nTwo men out of number before the Durham\n\nTHE HEAT\n\ndaily regularity\n\nthe charged first importance, and to ensure\n\nCounty magistrates with gaming\n\nja\n\nof\n\nthis Pinkettes are perfection. These gentle little\n\nthe\n\nShanghai, N. China & Dairen Switow & Bangkok | Weikaiwei, Chefno & Tientsin\n\nShanghai & N. China... Saigon Samahur & Wnehow Straits & Egypt ... Japan\n\nSwatow ..\n\n---\n\nPhilippine Is Philippine Is. Shanghai, N. China, Japan, Honolulu, Canada, U.B. A., C. & S. America, & *Europe via San Francisco...\n\n+++\n\nadmitted that they had been swatow, Amoy & Foochow receiving laxatives\n\nunemployment Straits & Calcutta \"dole,\" as well as Poor Law relief Shanghai & N. China. The chairman said it was a dis Haiphong, Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, Mauritius Marques, S. Africa, grace that people should in this.\n\nIndia via Dhanuskhodi. Aden, Egypt & Europe via Marseilles...\n\nPINKETTES\n\nway waste money received from- the Government for the upkeep\n\ndispel constipation, regulate the of themselves and family. In\n\nKaijo M.... Arabia M. Kiangau ... Kueichow Szechnen... Haiyang.. Kochow ... Laomedon\n\nLaisang ... 17th\n\nDate :OCTOBER: -\n\n| IN FRANCE: Comptoir National d'Emom! de Paris Credit Lyonnais; Banqu de Paris et dra Pays-Bas; Credit Industrial et Commercial Boiacte Generale.\n\nIN LONDON: The National Provinais sad Union Bank of England Ltd., Comp toir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais.\n\nIN NEW YORʦ J. P. Bogna 3 M\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposita scuording to arrangement.\n\nEvery description of banking and exchange business transacted\n\n7. MARSOT,\n\nAoking Manager.\n\n...Sun., 1 inst., 9 a m. Hongkong, October 21st, 1918. ...Sun.. 1 inst., 9 a.m ...Sun.. inst., 9am. ...San 1 inst., 9 a.m. ...Sun., 1 inat, 9am. ...Mon., 1 inst., 9 a m. ... Sun.. 1 inst. 10 a.m. .Mon., 2 inst. 10 30 a m\n\nTHE MERCANTILE BANK OF\n\n.. Mon., 2 inst.. ? 30 p.m Hydrangos......Man.. 2 inat. 3.30 pm.\n\n......Mon, 2 inst., 5 pm Slavic Prince ...Tues., 3 inst., 9 a m\n\nTyndareos\n\nPresident Wilson... Tnes, Jinat..\n\nRegistration 9.15 a.m. Letters 10 a m (Due San Francisco 25th Oct)\n\n...Tues., 3 inst., noon.\n\n..Tuee, 3 inst\n\n1. PD ...Tuse., 3 inst, 2 p.m\n\nHaifong Kutsang Kanchow\n\n---\n\nAngkor...\n\nliver, cuce bilious attacks, sick future the magistrates thought Bangkok... headaches, bad breath, costed that all similar cases should be\n\nPhilippine Islands Iloilo, Sandakan. tongue, clear the skin of pimples taken under the Vagrancy Act, and blotches. Of chemists, or so that offenders could be sent to post free, 60 cents the vial, trom prison for three months. Fines Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 96 were imposed ranging from £2 to Szechuen Road, Shanghai. 1£5.\n\n---\n\n..1nen. 3 inat\n\nINDIA, LIMITED.\n\nSend Offna 11, Ornenshurst\n\n#treat. Lozdon, 8. 0 1.\n\nAuthorised (apita) Aubearibed Capital Paid Up Capital Reveres Fund\n\n£3,000,000\n\n-\n\n-\n\n1,000,000 2.860,000 1.150,000\n\nDAVIERS\n\nThe Bank of Haglund The London Jolat City & Midlang Bank, Lad BS.ANCHE:- Bombay Calcutta Colombo Dalbi Galle Яoogkons Howend Kandy\n\nRegistration 145 pm. Port Louis (nurtsins)\n\nLettera 230 pm. (Due Marseilles 7th Nov) Doen Samud...Tues., 3itat, 4.30 pm\n\nKarachil Kota Bhere Kuala Lump Madra New Yorl Perang Kangoon Bbanghe\n\nBingapore HONGKONG BRANCH Every deseription of Banking and brabange business transmoked.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts at 8 per vent per annum on Daily Balanses, and on Fized Deposits at rates which may ba asceptained application.\n\nN. C. WILSON, Aoting pagar,\n\nAustralia & New Zealand via Thura- day Islands\n\nArafura...\n\n---\n\n*Correspondance hearing vansel's name only.\n\n... Wed 4 inst.. Registration 8 15 a.m. Letter's ga.m (Due Thursday Islands 19 Oct.)\n\n1, Queen's Road Central. Hongbong, 17th, January, 1822\n\nAuthorized Capital..$60,000,000.00 Paid up Capital...... 18,278,600.00 Reserve Funds...... 9,629,425.24\n\nHEAD OFFICE PEKING Hongkong Branch: 4 Queen's Road, Central.\n\nBranches and Bub-branches all over China other parts of the world\n\nThe business of the above hana ɔs soudbase by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHA! BANKIN CORPORATION.\n\nAndes may be obtained an appurasi-D INTEREST on inwe\n\nCorporation, on th\n\nMinimum monthly balanges at $34 rer aona\n\nFor the Honghong sad wager Barbra\n\nA. H. BARLOW, Acting Chief Manage\n\nand Correspondenta in Kurope, America, and THE CHARTERED BANK OF\n\nINDIA, AUSTRALIA AND\n\nLondos Bankera:-The National Provincial and Calon Bank of England, Ltd The Guaranty Trust Company of New York. New Tork Bankers:-The Irving National Banka. The Puitable Trust Company of New Yor]\n\nCHINA.\n\nIzaorporated by Boval Chan 12\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits. Terms on application Evary description of Banking Business traD RESERVE LIABILITY OF\n\nnoted\n\nLosas granted on approved neuritics Special failities for Home Exobangs.\n\nTSUYEE PEI\n\nManager.\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL_ RESERVE FUND PROPRIETORE\n\n£1,700,00\n\n43.000.\n\nFOREIGN PICHANG) and Beneral hol\n\ning bugle transacted,\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS +paned and PIN DEPOSITO rapeived for 1 year or sborist person atste which will be quoted on naplisation\n\nJ. LICROCKATT.\n\nManage).\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA, Hongkong, 1st January, 1914.\n\nLIMITED.\n\nHEAD OFFICE No. 10 Des Voeux Road Central, Established 1919.\n\nAUTHORISED CAPITAL 1. CAPITAL.\n\n20,908.00% 00\n\nRESERTS FUND) mátti várnak meg§- 300,000.00\n\nDIRECTORS:\n\n2. Pong Way Ting, ChaIEDAS\n\nHOL. Mr. Chow Shan Son. Mr. Kan Ying Pu\n\nM Loon Chua,\n\nMr Fox Play Bhas\n\nMY P. K. Kwok,\n\n*. Thang Linh\n\nMr. Buyab Tal\n\nMr. Mck Ching Kong.\n\nMr. Wong Yun Tong, Mr. Cha Ching dhok, Mr. Kan Obiz Nam.\n\nDale Manager Mr. Kon Tong Pn. Loss. Manager, Mr. Li Tu Pong\n\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES:- NEW YORK LONDON PARIS SHANGHAI XOBE NAGASAKI SINGAPOR TIENTSIN MANILA\n\nSAMARANG CALCUTTA SAN FRANCISCO YOKOHAMA SAIGON PENANG HANKOW BATAVIA SOURABAYA BOMBAY CANTON\n\nLinden Backers: ---The London Joins Ühty and Midland Bank, Ltd.\n\nEvery description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loans granted on approved securities.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Deposit Account at the rate of Two per oost. per annum on Bav Ingi Asanunt Four per deni, por ananu, sad on Fixed Deponiis at the following ratan:-\n\nFor a month at the rate of 3% per annum For montbe at the rate of 4% por ana Foz 10 mostbe the rate of 6% per\n\nIAN TONG PO.\n\nBongbong, Marab Mh. 1991\n\nÜbiof Mangor.\n\nTHE FUTIEN BANK,\n\n2. Connaught Road, Central\n\nGeneral Banking and Exobange Business Transacted, Losas Granted O Approved Becurities\n\nInterest of Fixed Deposits— For 12 months... For\n\nmontbe .....\n\nFor 3 months.\n\n--% per annum,\n\n3% per annum.\n\n2% per aIELD,\n\nUn Demand Current Avvounts :-\n\n2% per annum on the Daily Credit Balakene of over $100, )\n\nLA CHEE YA.\n\nManager\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK, LTD.\n\nNo, 6. Des Voeux Road HONGKONG.\n\nBANK OF CANTON\n\nLIMITED\n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG\n\nFOREIGN EXCHANGE D General Banking BURIDAR Transacted.\n\nINTEREST ON PIXEI DEPOSITS.\n\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum, For 6 Months 4% per annum For 3 Months 3% per annum. On Demand 2% per annum\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS\n\n2% per annum on the daií credit balances of over $100.00\n\nLOOK POON SHAN,\n\nChief Manager.\n\nTHE YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANKELT)\n\nBataulinand 1800 Cupita) (fully paid ny) — Reserve Fund\n\nBatavia Y 200.000 - 2. $.000.00\n\nBRAD OPPION, TOKORAMA Brushes and agensis N Bombay Buenos A7zm Calcutta Changchun Dairen (Dalny)\n\nKai Ines Tube Loydas Los Angeles Mantin Lyons Fengties Makdan Nagasaki\n\nHamburg Hankow Honolul Tokyo Harbin Nagoy Newchwang Draks\n\nZARZDOR Bo de Jaarl Bnerabeys Baigos Ban Fransi Beattie bangbal Bingapor Bbtmomon\n\nSydney New York Tienki TUBANIA\n\nPeking Vladivoston Thington\n\nInterest silowed on Current Asconais, Deposits received for hyed period\n\nba obtained on application.\n\n2. KIDHYAMA\n\nMasajul,\n\nBongo. 11th September 1922.\n\nINTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nU. $18,000, DEN U. B 5,458,15 G. B. I D80, 11\n\nCAPITAL AND SURPLUS: CNDIVIDED PROFITS: RESERVE FOR DIVIDENDS: (Owned by the National City Bank of New York)\n\nHOAD OPPION; 60 Wall Stroms. NEW YORK BRANOMES. LONDON: 36 Bishopsgas, L. C. LYONS: 37 Pisos Tolosas BAN FRANCISCO; 232 Montgomery Struer CHINA: Canton, Bankow, Harbin, Hongkong\n\nPeking Bbanghai, TrenseLD, DOMINICAN REPUBLIO: Kurrió Plana Sez Pedro de Macoria, Banobus Baguays Banto Domingo, Karamona, San Fran eino de Mooris Chatar INDIA: Bombay, Calausts, Rangoon\n\nTHE INDUSTRIAL & COMMERCIAL BANK, LIMITED\n\nHead Offee-York Building, Boad, Hongkong.\n\nBranches :--\n\nit hanghai and Hankow. Correspondents in all qummerajai denizen\n\n■China and abroad JAPAN: Kobe, Yokohama. BAVA: Batavia, BouraonYN PANAMA: Colon, PanaIDE. PHILIPPINE 18LANDS: Onbu, Malin. of SPAIN: Barcelona, Madrid,\n\nSTRAITH SETTLEMENTS : Singapore,\n\nBRANCHEM OF THE NATIONAL STY BANK OF NEW YORK, ARGENTINA: Buenos Altos, koenzie- BELGIUM: Antwerp, brassek,\n\nPrompt Service. Attractive rates för all kinds of DepoHILD, Inquiries are welcoma,\n\nS. Y. HSUEH,\n\nManager.\n\nTHE CHINESE MERCHANTS BANK. LTD.,\n\n醬精飓有行账\n\nLO\n\nAlexandra Bulld'ap1. Chster Boad\n\nDozera and Exebunga busimon\n\ntronasutad.\n\n| HEa2kl. Paranobus, form Amen. Bao Janeiro, Bancos, Ban Panic\n\nCHILE: Bantingu, Valparaino\n\nCUBA Bavana sod 22 səsinə in Cuba. ENGLAND: adaa.\n\nITALY:\n\nPERU: L\n\nPORTO 100: Pobus, dan Juna.\n\nRUSSIA: Mosenw, Forzigrad, (emporarily closed).\n\nURUGUAY: Mosterides VENEZULLA. Luznomi\n\nDADZIDO Pinshine tras\n\nAll descriptione di autod. Loans granted on approved suvarities.\n\nInterest allowed on surrent and satis Current Accounts opraad sad Fixed Deposits accounts and fixed deposita in joom va foreigi rseeived a rator which may be assortaimed ourrondins al raïme to be kerurteaned on applièw on application.\n\nThe Ban als conduct a Bavings Depart\n\nmeni.\n\nC. LAD. Chief Manaдет\n\n1105,\n\nGLURGY BOGG\n\nMaunger.\n\nHorford September, 30th. 1,22", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "It appears that the provided text is heavily corrupted due to OCR errors. I will correct spelling errors, fix spacing issues, rejoin broken sentences, and restore paragraph breaks while following the given rules.\n\nThe dross which results from the smoking of chandu in Malaya is at present being consumed, and if this supply of dross is withdrawn from the market some alternative will be sought by the present dross consumers. It might be necessary for Government to meet this demand by putting on the market a second and cheaper grade of chandu or even a preparation of chandu and dross as was done until recently in Hongkong. Increased sales of chandu or cheaper supplies of inferior opium would of course provide material for the critics of the Government, and would be a fruitful source of misrepresentation.\n\nI understood from Dr. Galloway, a member of the Straits Opium Commission of 1908, that he was writing a paper on the medical aspects of opium addiction, and that the subject would come up for discussion at the Medical Congress to be held in Singapore in the autumn of 1923.\n\nThis discussion, of which it would be advisable to obtain a record, may throw light on the relative dangers of chandu and dross smoking and of the swallowing of dross, and may be of value as a guide to the best policy to adopt.\n\n12. The position in Hongkong differs materially from that either in British Malaya or in the Dutch East Indies in that while these countries are comparatively free at present from smuggling on any large scale, enormous quantities of illicit Chinese opium are reaching Hongkong.\n\nOwing to the proximity of China and the continual intercourse between Hongkong and China this state of affairs is to a large extent inevitable; though it may be that the policy of abolition of public smoking houses in the Colony has helped to contribute to it by leading to the establishment of numerous secret opium divans where smuggled opium is chiefly consumed. In colonies where the demand is supplied by public divans open to inspection a much greater degree of control can be exercised and it is possible to secure that a higher proportion of the opium consumed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 494589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3]", "content_text": "Page 131\n\nThe Diam observed\n\nRed Cross.\n\nOpium and Alcohol.\n\nAn Interesting Discussion.\n\nYesterday's session of the Oriental Red Cross Conference was devoted to the consideration of the various resolutions submitted by the sub-committees. Sir Claude Hill presided.\n\nThursday, December 7th, 1922,\n\nThe most interesting report, and the only one that led to any real discussion, was that dealing with the question of opium. The draft resolution, as submitted, read:—\n\nThe Oriental Red Cross Conference, in accordance with the request of the League of Nations, has considered what assistance Red Cross Societies can give in the matter of diminishing the abuse of opium in their respective countries and urges that simple instruction regarding the dangers attendant upon the abuse of opium and other noxious habit-forming drugs, including alcohol, should be given a prominent place in any programme of Public Health Instruction which may be undertaken by any National Red Cross Society. This Instruction should be given especially to the school children in countries where the abuse of habit-forming drugs is prevalent.\n\nThe Conference considers that this work, if success is to attend it, must have the full support, material and moral, of the governmental authorities in the countries in which it is undertaken and recommends to the Secretariat of the League of Red Cross Societies that it request the League of Nations to aid in securing such support from its member states.\n\nMr. Lo Chang moved the adoption of the resolution, and in supporting, Phya Chinda, of the Siamese delegation, said: \"I beg to support the draft.\n\nI consider the resolution the most suitable and practical one under the present circumstances. It could be put into practice in this country and The Siamese Red Cross is ready to assist in the matter through the Public Health Section, with Dr. Barnes in it, and through the Junior Red Cross Section, which will soon be inaugurated with the aid of Phya Baisal, who, besides being a member of the Council of the Red Cross Society, is also Under Secretary of State in the Ministry of Education, from whom we expect a co-operation which will secure the success of our Junior Red Cross scheme.\n\nMajor Norman White objected to the words 'including alcohol'. The Conference was acting on a reference from the League of Nations and he thought that it should confine itself to that reference. If it was considered advisable to pass a resolution on the question of alcohol, then it should be a separate resolution and not tacked on to the opium resolution. The question of alcohol had not been discussed. It had been introduced by Mr. McElderry, who had quoted from a single report, and on that they were asked to vote.\n\nMr. McElderry stated that it was true that he had quoted only from one report on the question of the abuse of alcohol, but he knew of a great many instances, as anyone did who lived in the Treaty Ports or ports like Singapore and Penang. He considered that it was quite appropriate that alcohol should be linked in the same resolution with opium, as both had a very close association, and he would suggest that the resolution remain as it stood.\n\nSir Claude Hill remarked that they were overlooking the fact that the opium question was referred to them by the League of Nations in very definite terms, and he considered that they should adhere to those terms. He suggested that the resolution should be referred back to the sub-committee for reconsideration, and as affording a guide to the members, it might be advisable to take a vote of one member of each delegation.\n\nThis was done, when four votes were recorded in favour of the retention of the words 'including alcohol' in the resolution and four against. The President declined to give his casting vote.\n\nThe resolution was referred back to the Sub-Committee, moved by Mr. Lo Chang, for the following reasons:—\n\n1. I am glad to find alcohol added to the resolution because excessive indulgence in alcohol, as much as, if not more than the abuse of opium, produces bad and injurious results on the health of the people. In this, I agree with the views expressed by Mr. McElderry. But apart from these considerations of health, the causes of certain crimes may be traced to alcoholic excesses, which not only intoxicate a man but sometimes make him different from his normal self.\n\n2. The resolution has the merit of aiming at an indirect method of diminishing the abuse of noxious drugs. As I have already shown in my speech of the 2nd inst., the obstacles in the way are so great and so numerous that it is not possible for the Siamese Red Cross at the present time to secure the direct and total suppression of the abuse, but we shall do our best to help to further the good cause, which has already gained sympathy and support.\n\nPage 131", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-479 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 451, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "435\n\nCanton Government, nor is he a member of the Canton Council of Government. He cannot be considered to be of equal official standing with Mr. J.H. Kemp and he is not, of course, one of the three officials nominated last month by the Canton Government to negotiate with the Hongkong Government for a settlement of the boycott.\n\nDr. Lam arrived in Hongkong from Canton by river-steamer on the afternoon of the 27th April and at once went to visit Dr. R.H. Kotowall, an old friend of his. At about 3.30 p.m. on the same afternoon he called on Mr. D. Tratman, acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs, accompanied by Dr. Kotowall. Mr. Tratman asked Dr. Lam for his credentials. He thereupon referred to Mr. Brenan's telegram, which he said was arranged between Mr. Fu Feng-sheung and Mr. Fitzmaurice, and he produced a minute of a meeting of the Canton Council of Government, signed by General T'am Yin-hoi, the acting Chairman, according to which it was decided that Dr. Lam should take to Hongkong \"an aide-memoire explaining the attitude of the Canton Government towards the settlement of the strike\". Dr. Lam said that this \"aide-memoire\" was a type-written English note. It was not signed, but it was drawn up by the Canton Government and was not intended for presentation to me but rather as a guide to himself in a conversation, strictly unofficial and informal, which he hoped to have with me. Mr. Tratman pointed out that the usual channel for communications to me was through the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the Colonial Secretary. Dr. Lam then said that the document was intended for me personally and that he did not think it would be proper to deliver it otherwise than personally. Mr. Tratman replied that\n\n2\n\nhe\n\n132", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506344, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "content_text": "polishing of floors and care of plants in the cookery compound. Laundry work is also included in the housewifery course.\n\nAnother innovation during 1926 was Drill. Mrs. Atwell was appointed to the Staff in September for physical culture. This subject was quite new to the girls; we were therefore rather apprehensive as to the reception it would be given, but were quickly reassured as the girls showed their enjoyment from the first, and its beneficial results soon became apparent. It is noticeable that the games with which the lessons close tend to promote a larger measure of free play amongst the pupils during the hours of recess and it may generally be said that the deportment of the girls has distinctly improved.\n\n## LIBRARY\nA small room has been arranged as a library and a study for the senior pupils.\n\n## GENERAL SCHOOL ACTIVITIES\nThe Victoria Nursing Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade still continues to be a very live interest in the school. Dr. Minett lectured during the year on First Aid and Home Nursing: in October fourteen candidates were examined by Dr. Hickling and all passed. Members attended two parades in 1926, one on the occasion of H.E. the Governor's inspection and the other on the investiture of His Excellency by H.R.H. Prince George. Pupils have expressed a wish that the School should become identified with the Girl Guide movement, and three members of the Staff together with two former pupils are training as officers with this end in view. It is hoped that patrols will be formed in March and the School is grateful to Mrs. Remington for the help she is giving.\n\nAn Old Girls' Association has recently been formed. This new manifestation of esprit de corps is most welcome, and the work Miss Lewis has done in connexion with the Association is much appreciated.\n\nYet a further departure is the founding of a School Magazine, which will be produced twice yearly.\n\n## CONCLUSION\nIn conclusion I desire to place on record my appreciation of the harmonious atmosphere which has existed during the period under review. I cannot speak too warmly of the loyalty of all branches of the Staff, and of the support extended to me throughout the year. Such whole-hearted co-operation has considerably lightened the work of administration, and I feel constrained to tender my thanks to all concerned.\n\nH. F. SKINNER.\n\n## LIST OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES\nGovernment Free Scholarships for 1927 were awarded to the following:-\n\n| Class | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Class 1 | Hui Wai Han |\n| Class 2 | Ho Siu Hing |\n| Class 3 | Li Tün Yung |\n| Class 4 | Ho Sau Lan |\n| Class 5 | Wong Yiu Heung |\n| Upper 6 | Lam Tsui Ying |\n| Lower 6 | Chau Mo Li |\n\n### ENGLISH CLASS PRIZES\n| Class | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Class 1 | Hui Luk Yip |\n| Class 2 | Fok Kum Lün |\n| Class 3 | (i) Bertha Remedios; (ii) Wong Lai Wan |\n| Class 4 | (i) Sylvia Remedios; (ii) Cheung Hang Chun |\n| Class 5 | (i) Cheung Wai Chu; (ii) Sung Yuk Tsing |\n| Upper 6 | (i) Wong Yiu Yuk; (ii) Tong Yim Yu |\n| Lower 6 | (i) Lo Sui Kau; (ii) Ng Wing Pun |\n| Class 7A | Li Shuk Yin |\n| Class 7B | Mok Law Lan |\n| Class 7C | Kwok Lai Ping |\n| Class 8A | Tang Sam Niu |\n| Class 8B | Chan Ping Yü |\n| Class 8C | Yeung Wei Kei |\n| Standard IIIA | Cheung Suk Ching |\n| Standard IIIB | Chan Wai King |\n| Standard IIIC | Wong Hea Lan |\n| Standard IIA | June Kwok Lin |\n| Standard IIB | Chan Sau Kei |\n| Standard IA | Han Po Chun |\n\n### CHINESE CLASS PRIZES\n| Class | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| Class 1 | Hui Luk Yip |\n| Class 2 | Sung Ngan Liu |\n| Class 3 | Ng Po Yung |\n| Class 4 | Li Tün Yung |\n| Class 5 | Sung Yuk Tsing |\n| Upper 6 | Cheung Oi King |\n| Lower 6 | Lo Sui Kow |\n| Class 7A | (i) Yeung Lin Lau; (ii) Yeung Choi Lau |\n| Class 7B | (i) Cheung Wai Ha; (ii) Wong Chum Yim |\n| Class 7C | (i) Châu Mo Li; (ii) Fan So Ching |\n| Class 8A | (i) Liu Sun Man; (ii) Chan Sau Ko |\n| Class 8B | (i) Wong Suk Hing; (ii) Sum Wai Ying |\n| Class 8C | (i) Chan Kam Heung; (ii) Leung Kwai Kiu |\n| Standard IIIA | (i) Chü Woon Ying; (ii) Fan So Wa |\n| Standard IIIB | (i) Yeung Kwai Lau; (ii) Cheung Woon Fong |\n| Standard IIIC | (i) Lau Miu Ying; (ii) Yeung Suk Han |\n| Standard IIA | (i) Yeung Sui Yee; (ii) Cheung Woon Yew |\n| Standard IIB | (i) Lau Po Yuk; (ii) Cheung Siu Chow |\n| Standard IA | (i) Hau Po Chun; (ii) Chin Yee Hung |\n| Standard IB | (i) So Man Woon; (ii) Leung Lai Ying |\n| Standard IC | (i) Lai Ying Mui; (ii) Tso Kwai Chun |\n\nCup for Cookery, Lau Tak Oi.\n\nPrizes awarded to those who passed the Senior Local Examination in 1926:-\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Hung Lai Kwan |\n| Fung Miu Kwan |\n| Hui Luk Yip |\n| Ngo Sui Hing |\n\nPrizes awarded to those who passed the Junior Local Examination in 1926:-\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Hui Wai Han, Distinction in Chinese |\n| Sung Ngan Lui |\n| Kwok Kit Ming |\n| Cheung Yuk Chan |\n| Fok Kum Lün |\n| Tang Kam Chi |\n\nPage 19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506345, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "content_text": "Certificates for First Aid and Home Nursing to:-\nHung Lai Kwan\nNgo Sui Hing\nKwok Kit Ming\nFung Miu Kwan\nHui Luk Yip\n\n## A CHINESE PLAY\n\nIn the afternoon of the Prize Distribution a Chinese play was acted by the girls. There were present His Excellency the Governor, Mr. A. E. Wood (Director of Education), Dr. R. H. Kotewall, Captain Steele (Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency), Lady Ho Tung, Mr. Yu and Mr. Lau (Inspectors of Vernacular Schools) and many other friends, together with the parents and relations of the girls. The play was written and produced by the girls; the scenery was hired from the Entertainment Committee of the Church of Christ in China. Before the play Wong Yin Heung performed a Flower Dance, and between the scenes Yu Kwan Hau played the flute. The play itself was thoroughly enjoyed even by those of us who had no knowledge of Chinese. The story centred round a rich and a poor family, and showed the efforts of the rich lady's son to marry the poor countryman's daughter. The scene between the rich lady's servants, and that showing the visit of the uneducated countryman and his son to the house of the rich lady were amusing and most realistic. The discomfiture of the rich lady's son at the hands of his creditors and the betrothal of the countryman's daughter to a rich man whom she had befriended as a starving student, were entirely satisfactory.\n\nThe cast of the play was as follows:-\n| Character | Role | Played by |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ho Tse Si | mother | Líu Oi Chok |\n| Tse Chau Chan | her niece | Tse Tong Tai |\n| Ho Chi Wah | son | Ho Siu Hing |\n| Cheung Fuk Yau | son's friend | Cheung Yuk Chan |\n| Fuk and Luk | servants | Hui Wai Han and Fung Miu Tsing |\n| Wong Yin | countryman's son | Kwok Kit Ming |\n| Wong Ying | countryman's daughter | Kwok Siu Ying |\n| Li Sheung Yi | young man | Li Sau Fong |\n| Wong Chung | countryman | Wong Lai Wan |\n| Sung Tak | creditor | Sung Ngan Liu |\n\n## The Girl Guides\n\nWithin the last nine months there has come into existence the third Hongkong Company of Girl Guides, and anyone who comes across a number of girls dressed in the summer uniform of white with three bands of orange trimming the coat may know the wearers for girls of B.P.S. and the members of that Company.\n\nThe first step towards its formation was taken in October of last year, when Mrs. Southorn, the Commissioner for the Guides in Hongkong, came to speak to the Senior girls on the aims and ideals of the Guide movement. Her words were invigorating and could not fail to stir enthusiasm amongst the girls, all the more so as the Guide movement was well fitted to promote peace among all nations and to offer to the individual members themselves greater opportunities for development, exercise, and recreation they hitherto lacked, together with a widening of interests. Mrs. Southorn followed up her address by inviting the staff to tea at her house in November to meet the other Guide Company leaders of Hongkong and welcome to the Colony Miss Trotter and Miss Wanklyn, who had come from England to assist the Girl Guide movement in Hongkong.\n\nFrom that time events moved with great rapidity. Those of the staff who wished to become officers attended the regular classes held at Government House on Mondays, while Miss Wanklyn came every week to the School to demonstrate the ideals and methods of the Guides in their work and play. Then on January 31st three members of the Staff, Miss Lopes, Miss Tso and Miss Wei, were enrolled at Government House by Mrs. Southorn. On February 24th two former pupils, Fok Kum Ho, and Ng Heang Yau, and ten present pupils were enrolled at the School, also by Mrs. Southorn. There were present on that occasion, besides Mrs. Southorn, Miss Trotter, Miss Wanklyn and a member of the Norwegian Girl Guides. The Belilios Guides wore their winter uniform, navy blue Chinese dress with the three narrow bands of orange, the School colour, on the coat.\n\nTwo days after the enrolment came the Guide Rally at Headquarter House. The Belilios Guides marched past with the other Hongkong Companies, and took part in the display of cards showing the growth of the Girl Guide movement. As they were still newly enrolled the demonstration of camp-making, first aid and dancing was made by the more experienced companies, but we hope that in the next Rally the third Hongkong Company will take its full share in the Guide...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 506346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927", "content_text": "## The Belilios Public School Girl Guides Company\n\nThe Company holds a weekly meeting at the School every Wednesday from 4.45 to 5.45; this is followed by a Leaders' meeting until 6.15. A court of honour takes place on the first Wednesday in the month.\n\nThere are now three Patrols, the Carnation Patrol with Miss Tso as leader, the Narcissus Patrol under Miss Wei, and the Chrysanthemum Patrol led by Miss Fok. In its earlier stages the Company was under the charge of Miss Wanklyn, but she and Miss Trotter left for England at the beginning of March, greatly to the regret of all the Guides. Mrs. A. C. Way was then appointed to the Captaincy of the Company, with Miss Olivia Xavier (transferred from the 1st Hongkong Company) and Miss D. Lopes as Lieutenants.\n\nMrs. Way resigned on May 1st for reasons of ill-health, and Miss Xavier was appointed Acting Captain.\n\nThirteen members of the Company were present at the Cathedral Service on Empire Day, when five companies under Mrs. Southorn and escorted by the President, Lady Clementi, attended. Lady Clementi paid an unofficial visit to the Company on April 18th and she came accompanied by Mrs. Remington.\n\nThe account of the formation of a Girl Guide Company at Belilios cannot be complete without reference to the never-flagging interest and enthusiasm shown by Mrs. Southorn, and it is largely due to her inspiration and encouragement that B.P.S. has its Company of Guides.\n\n## The Belilios Old Girls' Association\n\nAlthough it has had a life of only six months, the Belilios Old Girls' Association has established itself and has grown with a vigour that proves without doubt how welcome it was. In the past the Old Girls have come back occasionally to visit the School and those who have had sisters or cousins at school have come often, but there was never a definite bond between the past students themselves and the School. The year 1927 is therefore memorable in that the B.O.G.A. has come into being.\n\nThe first meeting was held at the School on January 5th; as a result of it the Association received its title and arrangements were made as to its constitution. There are four Officers of the Association, elected annually at a General Meeting. For this year they are:\n\n| Position | Name |\n| --- | --- |\n| President | Miss Skinner |\n| Vice-President | Miss Lewis |\n| Hon. Secretary | Mrs. B. R. Kew |\n| Hon. Treasurer | Miss Heang |\n\nThere is also a Committee elected annually, of which the following are members:\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Miss Sheen |\n| Miss Lopes |\n| Miss Bertha Yuen |\n| Miss Fok Kum Ho |\n\nThere are to be four meetings in the year; a picnic in the summer, a Christmas party, an annual dinner, and a lecture and friendly meeting in the summer.\n\nThus no great part of the year will be allowed to go by without a reunion of the Old Girls. The objects of the Association are stated to be \"to promote social intercourse among its members and to maintain and strengthen the feeling between past and present pupils of the school\"; and judging by the success of the meetings already held these objects are well fulfilled. The first meeting was a Chinese dinner which was combined with a farewell to Miss Skinner, who was due to leave for England a few days later. The dinner took place on February 16th, and was an unqualified success; the cheerfulness of the meeting was in pleasant contrast to the inclement weather without. The arrangements for the dinner were well made and the two classrooms used were gay with decorations; for these Miss Heang, Miss Lopes, and Miss K. H. Fok were responsible. The menu was in the care of Miss Bertha Yuen, and the tables were laid for forty guests. The Medical Officer for Schools, Dr. Minett, was amongst those present. The dinner itself was excellent and thoroughly enjoyed by all. Shortly after the beginning the Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Kew, rose to propose the health of Miss Skinner. Miss Skinner in the course of her reply spoke of the widening of the School activities as shown in the setting up of the B.O.G.A., and of the pleasure it gave her to be present at the Inauguration Dinner. She thought that a number of those present must have been at Belilios in the time of Mrs. Tutcher, the first Head Mistress, and Miss Skinner spoke of the satisfaction that Mrs. Tutcher would have felt at the sight of such a gathering which was representative of the whole history of the School. At her suggestion pens and paper were produced forthwith, and a message of greeting was written to Mrs. Tutcher, bearing the signatures of all present. This was sent, and we print here a copy of Mrs. Tutcher's reply:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-498-21 Government Educational department- salaries- prospects and vacancies 15-7-1926 - 25-1-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510933, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928", "content_text": "30\n\n16\n\nColonies and very few, if any, in others. West Africa and East Africa and some of the larger Colonies have fairly satisfactory arrangements, while other Colonies seem to have practically nothing.\n\nMr. AMERY: There is a very definite recommendation from Lord Lovat's Committee* on the question of study leave. I do not know whether we can come to any sort of conclusion which would be a guide to the more backward Colonies in this respect and key them up to the standard of the more enterprising Colonies. There are two things suggested; one, that facilities should be given to officers to take a definite period of study leave after they have had some years' service, and, the second, that facilities should be given to enable officers to take an approved course without sacrifice of leave or pay, and with the assistance of books and so on.\n\nSir HERBERT STANLEY: The only suggestion I should like to make is that in any regulations drawn up the widest possible latitude should be left to the local Government, both in the selection of officers and in the selection of subjects for which special courses of study leave should be taken. I think the Government ought to have the widest possible latitude and ought not to be too much tied by regulations.\n\nMr. AMERY: How far are Governors at present tied by regulations in this matter?\n\nSir HERBERT STANLEY: Not very much. Of course, you may have to get the approval of the Treasury and that is a handicap, but I think there is an amount of detail suggested in the memorandum, some of which could perhaps be left out. I would not restrict study leave only to agricultural and medical officers, but would include the ordinary administrative officers.\n\nMr. ORMSBY GORE: Education officers?\n\nSir HERBERT STANLEY: Yes.\n\nMr. AMERY: I think this reference to agricultural officers is an extract from Lord Lovat's Agricultural Report. The principles of it would apply to every other officer in the service.\n\nSir HERBERT STANLEY: And they might be sent not only to a University, for instance, or to a special training college. I should like some of our administrative officers to have study leave even in the Colonial Office if it could be arranged. For instance, officers in charge of records could very suitably attend for a few weeks in the Record Department here to learn methods of registration and things of that sort. It would be very advantageous, and they ought to be given an extension of leave or some special allowance while they were doing it.\n\nMr. AMERY: In other cases they might want to study administration in the neighbouring Colonies.\n\nSir HERBERT STANLEY: I think the latitude given should be the widest possible.\n\nMr. BAYNES: Might I suggest that the attention of all Colonial Governments should be drawn to the importance of trying to get their medical officers to take post-graduate courses in all those cases where it is not already done? When they come home on leave, similar to the practice in force in the Navy. When a Naval medical officer comes home from a foreign station he is usually compelled to take a post-graduate course and I understand that the cost of the course is paid by the Government. I am sure it would be very greatly to the advantage of the West Indian Colonies if officers who have served there for many years were encouraged, and even in suitable cases compelled, to take post-graduate courses in order to keep up to date in their profession.\n\nMr. AMERY: Dr. Stanton, as regards the subject of study leave, I do not know if you can contribute any suggestions both from your experience in the Far East and from your experience since you have been here in the Office?\n\nCmd. 2825.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-504-5 Study leave- amendments to General Orders 3-3-1927 - 27-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "content_text": "# CRUELTY TO MUI TSAI\n## Chinese Youth Sentenced to a Caning, YOUNG GIRL THRASHED\n\nA novel form of punishment was meted out to the employer of a 12-year-old mui tsai who was convicted by Mr. A. W. G. H. Grantham on Tuesday of charge of ill-treating the girl.\n\nIt was stated that the girl was sold by her mother to a trafficker who, in turn, sold her to a family surnamed Wong. In course of time, her new mistress died, leaving the girl in the care of three children.\n\nIt was one of these children, a youth 15 years of age, named Wong King-yung, who was charged before the Court with ill-treating the girl.\n\nThe excuse given for a severe beating which was inflicted on her with the handle of a feather duster, was that she had either mislaid or was unable to produce a flute which belonged to the youth.\n\nDr. T. W. Ware, however, testified that the girl's legs were a mass of bruises which might have been caused by a much more serious form of chastisement.\n\nWell-dressed in European attire, the youth, on appearing before Mr. Grantham, was defended by Mr. Rendall. He was found guilty, and his Worship ordered him to receive six strokes of the cane.\n\nMr. Rendall made an unsuccessful appeal against the sentence. He asked that a fine should be imposed instead, but this was refused by the Magistrate.\n\nMr. H. R. Butters prosecuted in the case, for the Secretariat of Chinese Affairs.\n\n## FORTY DEPORTED\n### Kidnappers of Children Driven from Colony\n#### THE LATEST CASE\n\nAbout 40 Chinese, men and women, who have been arrested as a result of the police campaign against kidnappers are being deported by the authorities as a \"gradual measure\" against the activities of such people. It is understood that the case of each individual was carefully gone into and that each was found to be connected with gangs of kidnappers whose activities have given the authorities much trouble of late.\n\nThe latest case of kidnapping is that in which a woman came to the Colony with three children, one a boy. The latter suddenly disappeared with a woman who offered her services as a \"guide.\" All efforts to find the boy have failed so far.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524547, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "55\n\nan examination of these facts is that this Colony must accept the Hong Kong University as an integral and essential part of its education scheme and must give it that adequate support which would justify us in continuing to call it a University on the English model. The minimum annual sum which the Government should contribute to the University is $200,000.\"\n\nColony and University.\n\nI welcomed these remarks, at the time when they were made, both as Chancellor of the University and also as Governor of Hong Kong; and, in my opinion, Sir Henry Gollan has to-day placed before this Congregation convincing reasons why the Gov- ernment subsidy should be increased, as recom- mended in a recent resolution of the Court of the University, to an annual grant of $250,000. I would add to what Sir Henry has said that I firmly believe the fortunes of the Colony now to be in- separably bound up with the success of the Univer- sity. If this University for lack of funds should be crippled or killed, the loss of prestige to the Colony would be immense and a very severe blow would be dealt to British interests, not only in Hong Kong, but in China as well. On the other hand, if this University prospers, it will, I am confident, be an instrument of the utmost value in the development of the Colony and in promoting friendly co-operation between Hong Kong and China. For this reason I am certain that the Government of Hong Kong will always, within the measure of its own financial capacity, assist the University of Hong Kong.\n\nGreat British Lighthouse.\n\nBut this University is not merely a colonial concern. It is a most valuable asset of the British Empire in the Far East. The Honourable Dr. Lim Boon Keng, when he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from this University at its third Congregation, held on the 15th January, 1919, called the University of Hong Kong a great British lighthouse built upon the most prominent rock upon the China coast in the darkest age of Asia.\"\n\nEX\n\nhouse should be properly and efficiently lighted. We are building up a structure not only in material things, for over and above the things that are visible there are elements of great permanence with light to light up the whole of mankind. Therefore, if we regard our University as a British institution intended as the means of providing the gift of British culture to the Chinese people, we may be sure that the British Empire-particularly the British colonies -will respond to any reasonable appeal by the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nBoxer Indemnity Fund.\n\nThese words, coming as they did from the President of the Amoy University, a scholar with great knowledge of public affairs both in Malaya and in China, are very striking and they might have been spoken to-day. It is fortunately now within the power of His Majesty's Government to come to the assistance of the Hong Kong University. Hitherto, the British Government has done very little for this University, in spite of the example set by the Government of China, which, before the Manchu empire fell, made a grant to our endow- ment fund. The Chinese communities of Canton, Wuchow, Wuchang, Amoy, Saigon, Penang and Australia also sent contributions; while the Viceroy of the Liang Kuang provinces, at the time when the University was founded collected the sum of $200,000 and sent it to us. In doing so, he wrote, \"Of late our students residing abroad have caused us the greatest anxiety. On the other hand, Hong Kong is so close to us that our young men, who go there to study, will be almost in sight and hearing of their superiors.\" The value of the Hong Kong University has thus been recognized both by Chinese officials, merchants and scholars and by the Chinese Government as well. Is it then, too much to ask that the British Government having in its hands a fund for the promotion of Anglo-Chinese interests- I mean the Boxer Indemnity fund-should from the sum of more than eleven million pounds sterling thus at its disposal make such a grant to this University as will relieve its financial embarrass- ment and permit of its further expansion?\n\nLL\n\nSpecial Needs of China.\n\nAt present,\" he said, \"chaos in the shape of a political typhoon rages through the troubled waters of Chinese life and darkness reigns supreme. The The University of Hong Kong started with the British Empire has, therefore, with characteristic idea that China's greatest need was scientific and generosity, built a great lighthouse in Hong Kong.\" technical training. The University was to become Surely,\" he continued, \"it is not asking too much a force in the Far East by producing qualified to demand that the British Empire, and the British engineers and skilled doctors. The training of colonies especially, should see that that British light-engineers and doctors is still necessary; but it is\n\n27\n\n[ 6 ]\n\nnow realized that this University must do far more than impart technical and professional competence. There must be in it teachers who are capable of interpreting the West to China and China to the West. The Chinese have a traditional respect for learning, and the presence in this University of British teachers training young men to think out honestly the vital problems, political, social, financial and domestic, with which China is now beset, would be a moral asset of incalculable imperial value.\n\nOur work here should always be directed toward the special and peculiar needs of China. We must in the Arts Faculty turn towards China the study of political science, jurisprudence and philo- sophy; and we must go further and develop a new Chinese department in the Arts Faculty. The aim of this new department of Chinese studies will be the application both of the wisdom of China and of western knowledge to the vital Chinese problems of to-day. The department will also, I hope, help to solve that immense problem, which is nothing less than the invention of a new medium of education for several hundred million human beings, whose time-honoured methods of tuition have been destroy- ed without any adequate substitute being offered instead. Nothing except lack of money prevents us from starting at once on this momentous task.\n\nOld and New China.\n\n56\n\nto effectiveness, if they are not only ignorant, but even scornful, of Chinese history, its culture and traditions. I am convinced that this University could, if it was provided with the means, do something towards training the future administrators of China in the way in which they must be trained, if they are to succeed. If the University of Hong Kong does not attempt this task, I cannot see that it will be attempted at all, at least not until it is too late. I have, therefore, in season and out of season, ever since I became your Chancellor, urged His Majesty's Government to make a substantial allocation from Boxer Indemnity funds to the Hong Kong University. Mr. Hornell, our Vice Chancellor, is even now pleading the same cause at home with all his power, and I earnestly hope that this year may at last crown our efforts with success. If His Majesty's Government will but decide that institution the University of Hong Kong is an with which, in the interests of British influence and British trade in the Far East, the British Empire cannot afford to dispense, and will take this opport- unity of helping the institution as such, the whole outlook of the University will change. By this same act of generosity, His Majesty's Ministers can pro- claim to the world their unwavering confidence in British educational methods and ideals and their determination to leave undone nothing which is calculated to contribute to the reconstruction of China.\n\nHong Kong and China.\n\nMembers of the Congregation of the University of Hong Kong, my last words to you are these. I do not believe that anything could do more to en-\n\nAnd another fact must be borne in mind. Be- hind all the feuds which are still distracting China, there stands ever the ceaseless conflict between the old China and the new, between the young Chinese, who have been educated abroad, and the Chinese of the old school, who despise the young politicians.hance the security, the welfare and the dignity of this The young Chinese may bulk large in foreign eyes and in the Chinese press, which, so far as it exists, they control; but the old school still wields immense influence over the country as a whole. The Hong Kong University is the only educational institution in China where the reality of this conflict is understood and something is even now being done to blend the old China and the new.\n\nIf this University has up-to-date medical and engineering schools and an arts faculty, which in- cludes a department of commerce, it has also even now an incipient Chinese school, in which are work- ing no less than three Hanlin, that is to say, Chinese scholars holding the highest academic degree given by the Manchu emperors. It is inconceivable that those who are to guide the destinies of the China of to-morrow should be able to do so with any approach\n\nColony, and to strengthen British prestige in China, than that the University of Hong Kong should be- come during the course of the twentieth century a famous seat of Chinese learning, to which men throughout the Eighteen Provinces would look-as Englishmen look to Oxford and Cambridge-for au- thoritative guidance in the study of their language, their literature, their history, their archaeology, their folklore, their religious beliefs and the whole fabric of their civilization. If the Chinese thus came to think of Hong Kong with affection as a place in which all that is dear to them is treasured, in which all that is hallowed for them by past tradition is carefully studied, and in which all that may help them in their renaissance is made accessible and intelligible and is adapted to their needs, then we may look into the future with assurance; for this Colony would not in that event\n\nWa\n\n[7]\n\nserene", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524629, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "14\n\nan examination of these facts is that this Colony must accept the Hong Kong University as an integral and essential part of its education scheme and must give it that adequate support which would justify us in continuing to call it a University on the English model. The minimum annual sum which the Government should contribute to the University is $200,000.\"\n\nColony and University.\n\nI welcomed these remarks, at the time when they were made, both as Chancellor of the University and also as Governor of Hong Kong; and, in my opinion, Sir Henry Gollan has to-day placed before this Congregation convincing reasons why the Government subsidy should be increased, as recommended in a recent resolution of the Court of the University, to an annual grant of $250,000. I would add to what Sir Henry has said that I firmly believe the fortunes of the Colony now to be inseparably bound up with the success of the University. If this University for lack of funds should be crippled or killed, the loss of prestige to the Colony would be immense and a very severe blow would be dealt to British interests, not only in Hong Kong, but in China as well. On the other hand, if this University prospers, it will, I am confident, be an instrument of the utmost value in the development of the Colony and in promoting friendly co-operation between Hong Kong and China. For this reason I am certain that the Government of Hong Kong will always, within the measure of its own financial capacity, assist the University of Hong Kong.\n\nconcern.\n\nGreat British Lighthouse.\n\nBut this University is not merely a colonial institution. It is a most valuable asset of the British Empire in the Far East. The Honourable Dr. Lim Boon Keng, when he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from this University at its third Congregation, held on the 15th January, 1919, called the University of Hong Kong \"a great British lighthouse built upon the most prominent rock upon the China coast in the darkest age of Asia.\"\n\n\"K\n\nhouse should be properly and efficiently lighted... We are building up a structure not only in material things, for over and above the things that are visible there are elements of great permanence with light to light up the whole of mankind. Therefore, if we regard our University as a British institution intended as the means of providing the gift of British culture to the Chinese people, we may be sure that the British Empire—particularly the British colonies—will respond to any reasonable appeal by the Government of Hong Kong.\"\n\nBoxer Indemnity Fund.\n\nThese words, coming as they did from the President of the Amoy University, a scholar with great knowledge of public affairs both in Malaya and in China, are very striking and they might have been spoken to-day. It is fortunately now within the power of His Majesty's Government to come to the assistance of the Hong Kong University. Hitherto, the British Government has done very little for this University, in spite of the example set by the Government of China, which, before the Manchu empire fell, made a grant to our endowment fund. The Chinese communities of Canton, Wuchow, Wuchang, Amoy, Saigon, Penang and Australia also sent contributions; while the Viceroy of the Liang Kuang provinces, at the time when the University was founded, collected the sum of $200,000 and sent it to us. In doing so, he wrote, \"Of late our students residing abroad have caused us the greatest anxiety. On the other hand, Hong Kong is so close to us that our young men, who go there to study, will be almost in sight and hearing of their superiors.\" The value of the Hong Kong University has thus been recognized both by Chinese officials, merchants and scholars and by the Chinese Government as well. Is it then too much to ask that the British Government, having in its hands a fund for the promotion of Anglo-Chinese interests—I mean the Boxer Indemnity fund—should from the sum of more than eleven million pounds sterling thus at its disposal make such a grant to this University as will relieve its financial embarrassment and permit of its further expansion?\n\nSpecial Needs of China.\n\n\"At present,\" he said, \"chaos in the shape of a political typhoon rages through the troubled waters of Chinese life and darkness reigns supreme. The University of Hong Kong started with the idea that China's greatest need was scientific and technical training. The University was to become a force in the Far East by producing qualified engineers and skilled doctors. The training of engineers and doctors is still necessary; but it is now realized that this University must do far more than impart technical and professional competence. There must be in it teachers who are capable of interpreting the West to China and China to the West. The Chinese have a traditional respect for learning, and the presence in this University of British teachers training young men to think out honestly the vital problems, political, social, financial and domestic, with which China is now beset, would be a moral asset of incalculable imperial value.\n\nOur work here should always be directed towards the special and peculiar needs of China. We must in the Arts Faculty turn towards China the study of political science, jurisprudence and philosophy; and we must go further and develop a new Chinese department in the Arts Faculty. The aim of this new department of Chinese studies will be the application both of the wisdom of China and of western knowledge to the vital Chinese problems of to-day. The department will also, I hope, help to solve that immense problem, which is nothing less than the invention of a new medium of education for several hundred million human beings, whose time-honoured methods of tuition have been destroyed without any adequate substitute being offered instead. Nothing except lack of money prevents us from starting at once on this momentous task.\n\nOld and New China.\n\n143\n\nto effectiveness, if they are not only ignorant, but even scornful, of Chinese history, its culture and traditions. I am convinced that this University could, if it was provided with the means, do something towards training the future administrators of China in the way in which they must be trained, if they are to succeed. If the University of Hong Kong does not attempt this task, I cannot see that it will be attempted at all, at least not until it is too late. I have, therefore, in season and out of season, ever since I became your Chancellor, urged His Majesty's Government to make a substantial allocation from Boxer Indemnity funds to the Hong Kong University. Mr. Hornell, our Vice-Chancellor, is even now pleading the same cause at 'home with all his power, and I earnestly hope that this year may at last crown our efforts with success. If His Majesty's Government will but decide that the University of Hong Kong is an institution with which, in the interests of British influence and British trade in the Far East, the British Empire cannot afford to dispense, and will take this opportunity of helping the institution as such, the whole outlook of the University will change. By this same act of generosity, His Majesty's Ministers can proclaim to the world their unwavering confidence in British educational methods and ideals and their determination to leave undone nothing which is calculated to contribute to the reconstruction of China.\n\nHong Kong and China.\n\nAnd another fact must be borne in mind. Behind all the feuds which are still distracting China, there stands ever the ceaseless conflict between the old China and the new, between the young Chinese, who have been educated abroad, and the Chinese of the old school, who despise the young politicians. The young Chinese may bulk large in foreign eyes and in the Chinese press, which, so far as it exists, they control; but the old school still wields immense influence over the country as a whole. The Hong Kong University is the only educational institution in China where the reality of this conflict is understood and something is even now being done to blend the old China and the new.\n\nIf this University has up-to-date medical and engineering schools and an arts faculty, which includes a department of commerce, it has also even now an incipient Chinese school, in which are working no less than three Hanlin, that is to say, Chinese scholars holding the highest academic degree given by the Manchu emperors.\n\nIt is inconceivable that those who are to guide the destinies of China of to-morrow should be able to do so with any approach to effectiveness, if they are not only ignorant, but even scornful, of Chinese history, its culture and traditions.\n\nMembers of the Congregation of the University of Hong Kong, my last words to you are these. I do not believe that anything could do more to enhance the security, the welfare and the dignity of this Colony, and to strengthen British prestige in China, than that the University of Hong Kong should become during the course of the twentieth century a famous seat of Chinese learning, to which men throughout the Eighteen Provinces would look—as Englishmen look to Oxford and Cambridge—for authoritative guidance in the study of their language, their literature, their history, their archaeology, their folklore, their religious beliefs and the whole fabric of their civilization. If the Chinese thus came to think of Hong Kong with affection as a place in which all that is dear to them is treasured, in which all that is hallowed for them by past tradition is carefully studied, and in which all that may help them in their renaissance is made accessible and intelligible and is adapted to their needs, then with look into the future may assurance; for this Colony would not in that event...\n\n[6]\n\n[7]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524712, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "245\n\nCongregation Opened.\n\nThe Chancellor declared the Congregation open in the following terms: \"I declare this congregation open for the conferring of degrees.\"\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor then rose, bowed to the Chancellor and the Congregation and then addressed the assembly.\n\nTHE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S ADDRESS.\n\nHONORARY DEGREE FOR MR. R. F. JOHNSTON.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor, Mr. W. W. Hornell, said:-\n\n\"My first act this afternoon is to welcome the Chancellor back to the University. His Excellency is not only the University's Chancellor, but its champion.\n\n\"I will ask Your Excellency to confer honoris causa this University's degree of Doctor of Laws on His Honour Reginald Fleming Johnston, Master of Arts of the University of Oxford and Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.\" The Vice-Chancellor then briefly explained the reasons for the delay in conferring this degree, suggested 13 years ago by Sir Henry May.\n\nHe continued :-\n\n\"His Honour Mr. Johnston is too well-known to need a long introduction at my hands. He was born in Scotland and went in due course to Edinburgh University. From Edinburgh he went to Magdalen College, Oxford, and it was then that his friendship with our Chancellor began.\n\n\"Mr. Johnston, as he then was, worked in Hong Kong till 1904. He then went to Wei-hai-wei as Secretary to that Government. From 1906-1917 he was Senior District Officer and Magistrate in Wei-hai-wei, and during 1917 and 1918 he administered that Government. From 1918 to 1925 Mr. Johnston acted as Tutor to the Ex-Emperor of China. He was appointed Warden of the Summer Palace in 1924 and in November of that year he brought the Ex-Emperor into the Legation Quarter of Peking. He was Secretary to the China Indemnity Delegation in 1926. In 1927 he went back to Wei-hai-wei as Commissioner.\n\n\"When Sir Henry May informed Mr. Johnston, in 1916, that the University wished to confer him its honorary degree, he explained that the University desired to do so in recognition of the literary work which Mr. Johnston had done on the history and existing conditions of China.\n\n\"Our First Chancellor.\n\n\"The New Year's Honours list of 1928, raised our first Chancellor and the University's practical founder, to the Peerage. Lord Lugard has done great service for his King and Country in many parts of the world. In replying to my congratulations he did not hesitate to say that he looked back on no event with greater satisfaction and pleasure than the creation of this University.\n\n\"Last year we lost by death Dr. Joseph Bartlett Addison and Mr. Jackman, both of whom served on the Council and Court of the University. Both were good friends to this Institution and the University deplores their loss.\n\n\"Toward the end of last year a very sad thing happened. Miss Tso Sook Ki died on the 28th November. The eldest daughter of Dr. Tso Seen Wan, she was a medical student who was about to enter with the highest hopes for the final examination of the Medical Course. She got blood poisoning and the end came with tragic quickness. A hard-working student and one much beloved by her fellows. (Hear, hear.)\n\nHong Kong's First Woman Doctor.\n\n\"Two years ago our first woman graduate in medicine, Miss Eva Ho Tung was presented for her degree. Miss Ho Tung had done exceedingly well here and was in fact an outstanding student. She went to London and did very well at the London Tropical School of Medicine and in the University of London. From London she went to Dublin and she has since become a member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. The Head of the Rotunda Hospital has written to our Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to say that Miss Ho Tung's work was of outstanding merit.\n\n\"Sir Robert Ho Tung is one of the University's great benefactors that his daughter's quite remarkable achievements may be regarded as a satisfactory return for the money which he has put into this University. In the course of this afternoon's ceremony I shall have the pleasure of presenting Your Excellency with another of Sir Robert's daughters as winner of one of the University's scholarships. The giver of the scholarship which Miss Jean Ho Tung has won was the late lamented Mr. Ho Fook. There is nothing like keeping scholarships in the family. (Hear, hear!, and laughter.)\n\nValued Donations.\n\nDuring 1928, Mr. Kwok Siu Lau gave the University $50,000 and requested His Excellency to make the best use he could of the money. His Excellency, after consulting the Senate and Council, decided to devote the money to the Department of Biology. I may add that in the course of the last few months Dr. Herklots has joined us as Reader in Biology.\n\n'In the course of the last year, the Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and the Hon. Mr. Kotewall, went out into the highways and hedges to gather money for a Chinese School. A sum of $170,000 has already been collected and a further contribution of $30,000 has been guaranteed. These sums are exclusive of a contribution which the University has already received from the generous hands of Mr. Tang Chi Ngong, now a member of the University's Court, as is also Mr. Kwok Siu Lau.\n\n\"Government also sanctioned a special and supplementary grant of $32,200. On the strength of these sums, a special diploma course in Chinese Classics, and English, is being started from the beginning of this year.\n\nHis Excellency And The Study of Chinese.\n\n\"The Chinese who are interested in the University know quite well that had it not been for our Chancellor, the attempt initiated two years ago, on the strength of $40,000 collected in Malaya, to provide better facilities in this University for the study of Chinese, would have had to be abandoned altogether. It is now for the Chinese to show that they appreciate what has been done for them by supporting this special course.\n\n\"China is stumbling forward into a new phase of national existence. Our Chancellor believes that national character is an abiding product of a nation's past, and he challenges China and the World to show that those who are going to try and guide the China of the future can afford to ignore its momentous past.\n\nChanges In Staff.\n\n\"Professor Earle and Professor Anderson left us during 1928, drawn away to Shanghai by the wealthy Lester Trust.\n\n\"In Dr. Earle's place we have Professor L. T. Ride from the Physiological Department of Guy's Hospital. Here the University has been exceedingly fortunate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524840, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-6 Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children- inauguration of Hong Kong Branch 22-1-1930 - 22-1-1930", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-524-6 Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children- inauguration of Hong Kong Branch 22-1-1930 - 22-1-1930", "content_text": "32\n\nTHE CHILD'S GUARDIAN.\n\nCHILDREN'S SUNDAY.\n\nISLE OF WIGHT. Children's Sunday was again celebrated in the Isle of Wight on March 2nd, and, as in former years, was most successful. The Society's claims were voiced from the pulpits of no less than seventy-eight places of worship throughout the Island during the day, and the publicity thus given to the work will be invaluable. In the morning Mr. J. T. Griffiths occupied the pulpit at Garfield Road Wesleyan Church, Ryde, and a well-attended Mass Meeting was held at night at the Town Hall, Ryde, under the patronage of the Hon. L. Mabel Gough-Calthorpe and Admiral of the Fleet the Hon. Sir Somerset A. Gough-Calthorpe. The Mayor presided over the gathering, and was supported by a number of Clergy and Ministers of the district. Miss N. M. A. Carey, the indefatigable Hon. Secretary to the Ryde Ladies' Committee, was again responsible for the arrangements, and is to be warmly congratulated on them.\n\nWATFORD.\n\nThe first Children's Sunday at Watford was celebrated on March 2nd, when references to the Society's work were made in a number of places of worship in the town and district. It is to be hoped that this initial effort will result in Children's Sunday becoming an annual feature in the activities of the Branch. The Society's thanks are due to Mr. H. Minton, the energetic Hon. Secretary, for his kindness in connection with the arrangements.\n\nGRATIFICATION.\n\nThis month sees the commencement of the Flag or Flower Day Street Collection season. Many friends have their arrangements well in hand, while those of others only await confirmation of the dates from the authorities.\n\nIt is very pleasing and encouraging to find that a number of Committees have responded to the appeal made in the December issue of this paper, and are arranging this form of collection for the first time in their respective areas. Grateful thanks are expressed to them and to all friends who are continuing this most lucrative method of augmenting the Society's funds. The opportunity is still open to those in the smaller towns and villages where applications for efforts of this nature are not so numerous to apply to their local authorities for sanction to hold Flag or Flower Day Collections. An appeal is, therefore, made that consideration be given to this form of effort.\n\nThe expenses of a Flower Day are negligible compared with the financial benefit accruing. All material is supplied from the Central Office, and full information will gladly be sent to anyone willing to arrange such an effort.\n\nCINEMA FILMS.\n\nThe Society's new film is now available for exhibition purposes, and we shall be most grateful if our friends throughout the country can prevail upon the proprietors of the cinemas in their districts to exhibit same, and if possible permit a collection to be made in aid of the Society's funds.\n\nThe film effectively illustrates the work of the Society, and is a considerable advance upon previous productions. Instead of being \"still-life\" photographs, the pictures are actual cinematograph pictures and make a very strong appeal.\n\nThe film is 445 feet long and takes about six minutes to show. Where it is possible to obtain consent to exhibit the film we should be glad if early intimation could be given of the dates and whether a collection is to be taken, for which purpose special collecting boxes will be sent.\n\nIn addition to the film mentioned above, the Society has two copies on sub-standard film (16 mm. size) for use in \"Kodascopes,\" Ensign \"Silent Sixteen,\" and many other home projectors. These are available to anyone interested in the Society's work who has the necessary apparatus for projection. It is an excellent way of seeing in the home what the Society is doing on behalf of children.\n\nAPRIL, 1930.\n\nTHE HOME IN THE FIELD.\n\nIn the heart of rural Essex, two miles from the main road and in the middle of an area nearly three miles from any lane, an Inspector had to surmount various difficulties before he could relieve the children whose case he had gone to investigate. Heavy rains had rendered road, path and field almost impassable. Twenty yards inside the first field the bicycle wheels became clogged with mud. The Inspector then had to carry it through deep mud and clay and over ditches and stiles. Practically cut off in the winter from village and town alike, this almost inaccessible house was found to be occupied by a farm labourer whose weekly earnings were 30s., out of which he paid 6s. in rent. The two children were delicate, their heads were \"crusted with dirt,\" and they presented every appearance of neglect. The Inspector attributed the condition of things generally to the ignorance of the mother, whose own state of health prompted him to secure the interest of the District Nurse, that she might come into town for the birth of her baby. Having rendered practical service to the children, the Inspector cycled nine miles to the railway station, covered in mud, \"as if,\" he reports, \"he had been engaged all day digging trenches in the clay.\" A passenger, noting the Inspector's clay-covered clothes, remarked: \"I thought your Society only dealt with children in towns.\" There cannot be many who entertain this opinion—if so, this case will help to correct it.\n\nAFTER FORTY YEARS.\n\nOne\n\nThe Certificate of Merit awarded by the Central Executive Committee to Mr. Reuben Saunders, of Leeds, in recognition of his long and valued services on behalf of suffering children, has just been presented to him by the Leeds Branch Hon. Secretary, Mr. Crawford, in the presence of the Workpeople's Committee and members of the Branch Executive Committee. Mr. Saunders has retired under the age-limit after serving the Society for forty years, the last nineteen of which have been spent as Clerk-in-charge of the Leeds office. Both Mr. and Mrs. Saunders have done valuable work in the City and district, and warm tributes were paid to both. The Chief Constable of the City (Mr. R. L. Matthews) and the Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Jervis) sent expressions of their appreciation of Mr. Saunders's efforts for the children of the City, and Mr. Crawford voiced the thanks of the many friends of the Society, and regret at the severance.\n\nMr. Crawford told how he had been closely associated with Mr. Saunders nearly the whole of the time he had been in Leeds, and recalled his own appointment as Branch Hon. Secretary in 1912, \"when the N.S.P.C.C. was not very popular in Leeds, and it was hard to raise enthusiasm.\" Referring to the formation of the Leeds Workpeople's Committee, Mr. Crawford said Mr. Saunders had done some of his best work in connection with this body. He had been its guide, its philosopher and friend, ever ready with his experience and advice, and had not spared himself in long and strenuous hours of labour in connection with the task the Workpeople's Committee took into its hands, and in raising very large sums of money by means of Flower Days and other efforts. Thanks largely to this Committee, said Mr. Crawford, there were now three Inspectors as against two seventeen years ago. During these years public interest had increased greatly, the Society enjoyed the confidence of Magistrates and public officials, and the Branch Executive was now well attended, and keen interest was shown in the work. In conclusion, said Mr. Crawford, \"may I add a personal note? I feel to-night I am saying 'good-bye' to a fellow-worker who has been associated with me for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders will leave us with our sincere wishes for their welfare, and I hope they have before them many years of happiness and contentment.\"\n\nMr. Saunders, in his reply, said his work had been one of love, and but for the help of his wife in the early days he could not have carried it to a successful conclusion.\n\nPublished by WILLIAM J. ELLIOTT, at the Central Office of the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Victory House, Leicester Square, London, W.C. Printed by WYMAN & SON, LTD., Fetter Lane, London, E.C.4.\n\n66", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-6 Hong Kong Society for the Protection of Children- inauguration of Hong Kong Branch 22-1-1930 - 22-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "## 62. Ratification Article left Outstanding\n\nDuring my final discussions concerning article 16 with the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 27th May, I had been able to secure his agreement to all the minor outstanding points; so that when, after our last meeting on that day, he left for a few days' visit to Shanghai, where he had business to attend to, the whole draft treaty and attached documents had been disposed of, subject to your approval of the formula for the reserved areas, with the exception of the last article 22, containing the provisions for ratification, on which I was still awaiting your instructions. These instructions reached me on the 30th May. You pointed out that the treaty created no legal obligations until it was ratified, and that the conditions on which and the circumstances in which His Majesty's Government would be prepared to ratify being matters within their own discretion, it would be sufficient, to avoid charges of moral bad faith, if we recorded separately at the time of signature the essential conditions for ratification, namely, that His Majesty's Government would have to be satisfied that the Chinese Government were able to give effect throughout China to the terms of the treaty, and that the Chinese Government should equally have concluded agreements for the modification or abolition of extra-territorial rights with all the other Powers parties to the Washington Treaty of the 6th February, 1922. This reservation could, it was suggested, be placed on record in a unilateral note addressed by me to the Chinese Government at the time of signature, which would not be published, so that we could recede from its terms if we considered when the time came that it was desirable to do so. I placed this proposed solution of the ratification question before the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the 1st June. After some pressing Dr. Wang admitted that His Majesty's Government necessarily retained full discretion as to whether they ratified or not, and that the points in question would naturally be taken into consideration when the time for ratification arrived. He objected, however, very strongly to our putting in a written note in the terms proposed, and especially to the second proviso. If the note meant anything at all it would be bound to come out sooner or later, when his position, in having accepted such a note, in the face of his attitude towards the points raised therein, would be an impossible one. He adduced many other arguments why he could not agree to such a proposal, including the argument that His Majesty's Government were in any case covered by the provisions against discrimination in article 18. I pointed out that he could not prevent me putting in such a note at the time of signature, if I was instructed to do so. I reminded him of the similar reservation made in connection with the ratification of the Weihaiwei Rendition Convention, and illustrated my point by a reference to the present situation as between Nanking and Canton. As regards the second proviso, whatever he might say, the fact remained that China might be unable to enforce jurisdiction over the nationals of certain Powers with whom she had failed to conclude agreements (this produced the usual heated retort that the Chinese Government and people would somehow or other find means for doing so). In any case His Majesty's Government could not possibly forgo a reservation on these points, which would probably be raised in Parliament in the debate on ratification. Eventually Dr. Wang threw out a hint that he would not object to a verbal notification in the sense proposed. As there was nothing to be gained by pursuing the matter further, we left it at that for the moment. Subsequently I received your further instructions that it would be sufficient if, when we came to exchange agreed copies of the draft treaty, I informed Dr. Wang verbally that, under my then existing instructions, I would at the time of the signature of the treaty address him a note in the terms proposed. I informed Dr. Wang accordingly at our interview on the 5th June. He did not seriously demur, and the matter was thus disposed of for the time being.\n\n## 63. Maps attached to Article 16\n\nAt this interview on the 1st June we also had a brief discussion on the subject of the maps of the reserved areas at Shanghai and Tientsin referred to in article 16. It will be recalled that our original proposals provided for 10-mile zones round the custom-houses at the ports in question. This method of handling the matter was very strongly objected to by the Chinese, not only on account of the area taken in, but also because the idea of zones savoured too much of the leased territories and railway zones of the unequal treaties. We therefore hit on the ingenious alternative of taking the Chinese municipal areas, which embraced the cores of foreign-controlled settlement and/or concessions as the case might be, the native cities, the suburbs, and considerable surrounding country. The existing Chinese maps of these municipal areas, if accepted by both sides, precluded further controversy and argument as to the areas to be included, and met Chinese susceptibilities by rendering detailed descriptions of the areas in the article itself unnecessary. The Shanghai map, a Chinese map of the municipal area of so-called Greater Shanghai, was accepted without discussion. It embraces an adequate circumference round the International Settlement, the French concession and the Chinese city, and covers both banks of the river and the harbour down to and including Woosung. I regard the acceptance of this map as eminently satisfactory. The case of Tientsin was not so simple. I had secured a map of the Chinese municipal area, the boundaries of which are, however, still apparently not definitely fixed. Moreover, an important area to the south of the British concession, embracing part of the race-course road, the racecourse itself, and the county club, where numerous foreigners reside, lies outside the limits of the municipal area as depicted on existing maps. Also the Minister for Foreign Affairs had insisted that the Tientsin area should be more restricted than that at Shanghai, a contention which was intrinsically reasonable. For these reasons the relevant sentence in article 16 had been worded as referring not to the municipal area, but to \"the area at Tientsin shown on the attached map.\" We proceeded to an examination of the Tientsin map which had already been discussed by Mr. Teichman and Mr. Hsu-Mo. I refrained from committing myself, beyond offering the line of the Grand Canal in the North in return for a suitable extension in the South. The upshot of our conversation was that the Minister for Foreign Affairs offered the concessions and ex-concessions and an extension to the South embracing the racecourse area. I did not agree to this, and we may get a little more. But in the last resort this, or something like it, will not be an unsatisfactory solution, since at Tientsin, unlike Shanghai, the foreigners are nearly all concentrated in the concessions and ex-concessions and racecourse neighbourhood, and come and go far more between this area and Peking, Peitaiho, and Tongku, than between it and neighbouring areas of the Chinese municipality. Our original proposal, to include the Naiho to Tongku, had already been dropped. Copies of the two maps in question are enclosed. On the Shanghai map the proposed reserved area is that coloured yellow, including in the centre the International Settlement and French concession. On the Tientsin map I have drawn a line in ink round the concessions and ex-concessions and the area in the South tentatively agreed to by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. In the case of both maps the boundaries are largely artificial. But we have got to avoid the idea that anyone overstepping the boundary of a reserved area will render himself liable to instant arrest. People will be going in and out of the areas all the time, and both at Shanghai and Tientsin Chinese police will be functioning in a great part of the areas.\n\n## 60. Foreign Office Doubts in regard to Time Limit for Shanghai\n\nIn the meanwhile I had received on the 30th May your views on the proposed method of dealing with the Shanghai problem. In this telegram you expressed your concern at the prospect of fixing any time limit for extra-territoriality at Shanghai instead of its simple exclusion from the treaty and reservation for subsequent negotiation. You pointed out that with such a time limit our hands would be tied in securing in the proposed negotiations the safeguards that we might consider essential; if the future of Shanghai were left open for subsequent negotiation, this would be an added incentive for the Chinese to make the arrangements laid down in the treaty work well, while the actual experience of the working of these arrangements would be a valuable guide as to the safeguards needed in Shanghai. Moreover, the effect of the ten-year limit would be that British subjects in Shanghai would pass under Chinese jurisdiction at the very moment that the treaty itself terminated. Even if we had to...\n\nPage 219", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-529-5 China- extraterritoriality 23-11-1931 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 166, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "240\n\n241\n\n242\n\nD. J. FINN, S.J.\n\n\"double F pots developing a foot and that as a recent event, while showing another late mark—the glaze type. The fact that feet have in several other cases been found detached should be noted as agreeing with the observation of finds in Tonkin and Annam showing that the feet were made separately and attached before the firing of the upper part of cups and pots (7). Another point of technique which is worthy of note, as affording a link with the neolithic south (whose culture was very much the same as our Kwangtung seaboard) as well as affording a characteristic for classifying other local finds, is the attachment of the neck. It was a mainland site indeed that first presented me with the clue.\n\nIt had been noted already that the inside of the pots just below the neck showed sometimes a peculiar row of scalloped edges pointing down from a projecting ridge. Fragment 1 is a notable instance but is not unique. No solution offered itself until on a site which may be known for the present as S.K.F. High, a small bit of a 'basket' type (1.a) was found which gave the wanted clue. The sherd was from the neck and gave a section from the tip of the lip just down to below the join with the shoulder. On what would be the inner side, were in high relief two big regularly cut chevrons of clay which formed a continuation of the clay of the neck-collar.\n\nIt was now obvious (and has since found abundant confirmation) that this was a way of attaching the neck by a series of tabs or fringe of chevrons which were inserted within the already formed mouth-opening of the pot and then pressed back and upwards into the clay of the shoulder or necking. In the Lamma pots (figure 7, c and d), the technique is advanced enough to succeed in concealing the device by a better amalgamation of the two parts: on the S.K.F. High site, the result was left as a kind of high-relief chevron pattern standing out on a part invisible as long as the pot remained whole.\n\nIn (9) Plate 5, M. Patte has published a piece from Bau Tro which seems to have this technique though it is not so described in the text.\n\nThis point may be well worth noting for the sake of the classification of local finds as well as for their link with Tonkin and Annam.\n\nThe fragment 1 has on the interior of its collar, some zones of dots that suggest the glaze type. Also, it has lower down than its chevron neck-join a very distinct rope zig-zag imprint that may be the mark made by the top of a basket used to support the pot interiorly during the earlier stages of making and stamping. Figure 7, c and d show typical neck-sections with bevelled edge.\n\nThat brings to an end the first description of the I class of the pottery. Before the end of the series, it will be necessary to return to these again and again. For the moment, we are content to record them with one attempt at finding a general indication of the date. Of course, in this, I am influenced by the knowledge of the other finds to be discussed later on, but I think that even now a fair case can be made for the 'double F' class and in general for the strata 1-3 feet as representative culture of the 3rd century B.C., either Chinese or in fairly close contact with them.\n\nBefore concluding, I should perhaps add that the evidence for the general conclusions of my lecture (12) is getting stronger and that even since I began this article, the first problem proposed above has come much nearer solution. I can now confidently say that the stratum which contains the typical pots is the stratum that contains or has contained very fine polished stone weapons (which it may be misleading to call 'neolithic') as well as bronze Ko's, arrow-heads, and other weapons. Tonkin and Annam have revealed similar collocations (4) (7) (9), and we may hope that further research will establish conclusions very interesting for the early history of South China as a whole.\n\n16\n\nREFERENCES,\n\n(1) d'Ardenne de Tizac: Animals in Chinese Art,\n\n(2) British Museum Guide to Oriental Pottery and Porcelain.\n\n(3) Chin shih so (Commercial Press re-print in 12 volumes),\n\n(4) Goloubew, V.: L'Age du Bronze au Tonkin et dans le Nord-Annam. Bulletin de l'Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient, 1929.\n\n(5) Hobson, R. L. Catalogue of the George Eumorfopoulos Collection; Pottery and Porcelain.\n\n(6) Hsi ch'ing ku chien (Kien Lung edition).\n\n(7) Parmentier, H. Depôts de Jarres a Sa-Huynh. B.E.F.E.O. XXIV.\n\n(8) Parmentier, H. Anciens Tambours de Bronze, B.E.F.E.O.. VIII\n\n(9) Patte, E: Le Kjökkmödding néolithique de Bau Tro. B.E.F.E.O. XXIV.\n\n(10) Shuo wen ku chau pu.\n\n(11) Siren: Early Chinese Art: Prehistoric and Pre-Han.\n\n(12) South China Morning Post 8/8/32.\n\n(13) Burlington Magazine Monograph on Chinese Art.\n\n(14) B. Laufer. Han Pottery.\n\n(15) Ts'in Han Chin Wen Luh (Catalogue of Ts'in and Han Bronze Epigraphy) recently published by the Academia Sinica, edited by Yung Keng (December 1931).\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\ni\n\nArchaeological Finds on Lamma Island\n\n243\n\nAPPENDIX I.\n\nWhen the above article had been almost completed, new and very pertinent material turned up in a most interesting fashion. So important is it that Dr. Herklots has added to his generosity and patience by allowing the addition of this appendix along with the considerable extra expense of a tone-block, Plate 34, figures 1, 2, and 3.\n\nMr. Ng Ching Sum, the demonstrator in the Biological Department, seeing the fragments which had come to be reproduced recognized them as the same type as vases carefully treasured by his father, one of them known worshipfully as 'Noah's Vase.' Very kindly he has allowed them to be published here.\n\nDecember 1933.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533225, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 199, "title": "CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933", "content_text": "296\n\nGinling College was established in 1915 in order to meet the need for the higher education of Chinese women, which the political and social changes in China after 1911 made urgent. The college has a campus of more than 40 acres lying between the Drum Tower and the west wall of the city. It is in a delightful situation, commanding as it does a view of Purple Mountain, and the Yangtze in the distance. The grounds are well laid out; the lawns, trees, flower beds, and the architectural appropriateness of the buildings make the whole setting exceedingly attractive.\n\nThe University is supported by five Christian missions and is also related to Smith's College in the United States. The college provides the usual courses in pure arts, in social science, in pure science, in education, and in addition, it offers an advanced course in Physical Education. It has an enrolment of 179 and a staff of 39 teachers. We have here then in Nanking two flourishing institutions which owe their existence to American enterprise and which function very largely on American lines. The recent commission from the League of Nations thinks that such close imitation of American methods, indeed of any foreign country, is detrimental to the best interests of higher education in China.\n\nIt is easy for the commission to say that China is historically minded and must develop along the lines already laid down by her past, and that modern China will find something of value in Europe to guide her in her present difficulty, because Europe too is historically minded and loyal to her ancient traditions. But the important point is that there are two Chinas: there is that of the ancient tradition and culture, and that of the new. Young China is in revolt against the old, even to a greater extent than America is in revolt against the tradition of Europe. Young China turns to the U.S.A. because there is to be found the greatest encouragement and deepest conviction that the future is more important than the past, that science is more important than morals, and that progress is the enemy of tradition. Though the influence of the U.S.A. in China hitherto has been very great because of her disinterested help and sympathy with young China, there is little doubt that such influence is on the wane, though of course the initial bias which has been given will never be entirely lost. The severe criticism of the American University system by Abraham Flexner has undoubtedly damaged the prestige of American education. The recent economic collapse has shown that the American system of education was not, as it was thought to be, the basis of American commercial and industrial prosperity; it therefore suffers a decline together with the economic system to which it was linked. The criticisms of the recent League of Nations mission will also have a considerable effect upon the organisation and principles of higher education in China.\n\nIn Hankow, we visited Hua Chung College, which as a university represents an amalgamation of Yale-in-China, Huping College, and Boone University. Dr. Francis C.M. Wei, who is the President, took his Doctorate in London; his interests being theology and philosophy. He has the true Platonic attitude towards his work as an administrator, for he gives the impression that though he is governing, he would rather be doing something else. He is president merely because he has been summoned to the position, but he would rather return to his philosophy and psychology if he could find someone to whom he could entrust his present duties.\n\nThis institution approaches the ideal of an Oxford College, except that it is co-educational. The intention is to restrict the numbers to two hundred, and by various activities such as common meals, discussion groups, informal gatherings, he intends to create a closely knit community of teachers and students.\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-2 Hong Kong University 23-6-1932 - 15-3-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535607, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 199, "title": "CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934", "content_text": "For particular MEN\n\nTo preserve your suit\n\n• whether it be for business wear in the office or evening wear at a place where your best appearance is necessary, on both occasions you can not do better than; Select a Hand Cut well Tailored Burberry Weatherproof Light in Weight & Smartly lined. Designed To Improve your appearance IN and OUT of the rain.\n\nLane, Crawford, Ltd. Men's Wear Stylists.\n\nThe tired taxpayer scanning 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 seems, however, that the plan was accepted by the Hong-Kong representative.\n\nLord ... by wicket in a friendly cricket match yesterday.\n\nThe Royal Engli Royal Army Service Corps\n\nPage 7. The 1st. H. K. S. Battery, R. A. defeated the H. M. S. Wishart in the Mamak Tournament yesterday. Page 6.\n\nOBITUARY,\n\nA Former Resident of Shanghai.\n\nMRS. E. L. MARSH,\n\nto a 'Protectorate.'\n\nLOCAL WEDDING.\n\nreally much more significant than upon local it seems. Hereafter all the self-governing British possessions will be known officially as 'Dominions.' There was no reference to ... that the old transmitter be employed so as to give both Europeans and Chinese full-time programmes. The suggestion is an excellent one.\n\nThe Government promises to make every effort to bring the unsatisfactory recurring water shortages to an end. In 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.\n\nDominions are Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and Newfoundland; the Colonies are India, various parts of Africa, Soudan, the West Indies, Guiana, and many minor possessions that have no representative institutions or parliamentary government.\n\nIn Elgin's opinion this classification will facilitate the work of administration and of keeping cord; there seems no reason to doubt the correctness of this forecast.\n\nObviously their utterances are considered and responsible; the whole ground of local life and administration is covered, and, though they be criticised for concerning sundry omissions and distortions, the members again earn the community's thanks.\n\nThe official adjective \"colourless,\" applied with a modest diffidence to the Budget, has been seized upon by all commentators.\n\nHon. Mr. J. P. Braga lived up to his reputation as Kowloon's champion, and Peninsula will be grateful to him. His submissions regarding the Kowloon Post Office were to the point.\n\nMr. L. Maggs Married to Miss Ruth Clark\n\nA pretty wedding was solemnised at St. John's Cathedral on Wednesday afternoon, when Miss Leda Borodina became the bride of Mr. L. Maggs. The Very Rev. Dean Swann officiated.\n\nThe bride, who was given away ...\n\nLondon Report of Resignation.\n\nLondon, Oct. 5.\n\nFederated\n\nSir Lancelot Elphinstone, Chief Justice of the Malay States, has resigned according to the Daily Telegraph.—Reuter.\n\nNews was received in Shanghai last week announcing the death at Godalming, Surrey, on Wednesday, September 28, after a long illness, of Mrs. May Osborne Harley, the wife of Dr. E. L. Marsh. Deceased, who was 57 years of age, was until her departure from Shanghai several years ago owing to illness, a well-known figure in local society circles and she took a keen interest in the activities of British women in Shanghai.\n\nFLEET ORDERS.\n\nTwo Recent Admiralty Appointments.\n\nThe following extracts from recent Admiralty Fleet Orders have been notified by the Naval Intelligence Office in Hongkong:\n\nRear-Admiral C. P. Talbot, D.S.O., has been appointed Director of Naval Equipment, to date December 14, 1932, in succession to Rear-Admiral P. L. H. Noble, C.B., C.V.O.\n\nVice-Admiral L. G. Preston, C.B., has been appointed Commandant, Imperial Defence College, to date January 19, 1932, in succession to Air Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., A.F.C.\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nAnswer to Correspondent.\n\nA Convert.—Not a matter of public interest. We have forwarded your letter to the priest.\n\nPage 7\n\nPage 6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-2 Estimates 1931 14-10-1932 - 19-7-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 543298, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934", "content_text": "# APPENDIX A.\n## GOVERNMENT BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.\n### Report for the year 1932.\n\nBy A. V. Greaves, M.B., (Tor.), M.C.P.S. (Ont.) D.T.M. (Liverpool).\n\n#### INTRODUCTORY.\n\n(1) Administrative.-Dr. R. S. Begbie Assistant Medical Officer of Health was appointed to act as Assistant Government Bacteriologist. Dr. Begbie was confirmed in his appointment as from 3rd March, 1932.\n\n(2) Buildings and Equipment.-No change of an important nature is to be recorded. A number of minor structural alterations, however, have been made which greatly increase the efficient working of the laboratory. In both general laboratory rooms upstairs and downstairs the doors leading to the verandahs have been re-hung so as to open outwards, thus affording greatly increased space.\n\nThe centrifuges have been moved into the media preparation room in place of two incubators which have been brought into the general laboratory in the space previously occupied by the centrifuges. The vaccine lymph grinder has also been removed into the media room. Increased shelf space has been provided in both downstairs rooms which results in a corresponding clearing of the working desks and greatly improved working conditions.\n\nA small research laboratory and microscope desk has been built into the alcove of the office of the Bacteriologist for his personal use; hitherto no working place was available for this officer except in the general laboratory which was awkwardly placed from the point of view of telephone, administrative work, etc.\n\nA complete renovation of the buildings was carried out during the latter part of the year and minor repairs made. The resulting improvement in comfort and appearance is great.\n\nThe only addition to our equipment worthy of note is a new refrigerator. The other machine was already badly congested and the situation becoming acute in the early part of the year, a second was purchased. It has more than justified its existence already.\n\nIt is hoped that a new and modern centrifuge will soon be obtained to assist the present old type model and to enable high speed work to be carried out.\n\n(3) Library. The following additions were made to the library during the year: --\n\n| No. | Title | Author | Year |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Approved Laboratory Technic | Kolmer and Boerner | 1931 |\n| 2 | Guide To Human Parasitology | Blacklock and Southwell | 1931 |\n| 3 | Tumours Of The Breast | Cheatle and Cutler | 1931 |\n| 4 | Surgical Pathology Of The Female Generative Organs | A. E. Hertzler | 1932 |\n| 5 | A System of Bacteriology, Vol. 9 | Medical Research Council | 1931 |\n| 6 | Report of the Laboratory Conference on the Serodiagnosis of Syphilis | League of Nations Health Organization Committee | 1932 |\n| 7 | Report of the Permanent Commission on Biological Standardization | League of Nations Health Organization Committee | 1932 |\n| 8 | Individuality of the Blood In Biology and In Clinical and Forensic Medicine | Leone Lattes | 1932 |\n\n(4) Publications:-The Use of Takayama's Solution in the Identification of Blood Stains, by Dr. A. V. Greaves, Br. Med. Journal, 21st May, 1932.\n\n(5) Research. It is a melancholy fact that research is practically impossible under the conditions in which work is carried on at the Institute. The volume of routine work is so large in relation to the staff which has to handle it that there is little possibility of devoting the necessary thought and time to any problems except such as can be actually carried out along with routine work of a closely associated nature. Also the absence of any clinical material, already referred to, severely limits the scope of such work. During the year the writer's attention has been largely devoted to attempts to improve the routine methods in use in the Institute and bring them into line with modern practice. Work of this nature is not of a kind that lends itself to record in an annual report and therefore cannot be detailed. Nevertheless, a good deal has been done in this way. An investigation of the methods in use for estimating the concentration of blood in solutions of blood stains was carried out and a useful method was devised for the purpose which has been incorporated into routine practice. A report of the method is in the press at the moment.\n\nDuring the small epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis which visited the Colony during the winter and spring a quantitative estimation of the total protein present in the spinal fluids of patients suffering from the disease was made with the hope of later correlating the information gained with other clinical facts. The method used was that of McNaught (Jr. lab. & Clin. Med.\n\nPage 70\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-545-8 Annual medical report 1932 2-11-1933 - 16-5-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546390, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "-12- \n\n● \n\n24 \n\n(Discussion regarding the two bruises, Mr. Lim is not blaming Mr. Fraser for mentioning the two bruises but says that if they had not mentioned it would not have occurred to Jury that they had been caused by appellant when he seized her to throw her over). \n\ndeath. \n\n2nd paras \n\nMr. Lim: King v. Sohen Vol. 2 page 207. \n\nReference made to Dr. Valentine's evidence as to cause of death. \n\nNow I come to deal with the question of Law. \n\nThe first ground is this. That the learned trial judge wrongfully refused to withdraw the case from the Jury at the close of the case for the Crown on submission being made to him that there was no evidence to be left to them. \n\nMr. Davis's evidence cited \n\nMr. Fairburn's evidence cited. \n\nDr. Valentine's evidence as to cause of death cited. (Mr. Fraser points out that there were pillars only at No.1 bridge) \n\nMr. Lim: No evidence. Crown's case was three letters which were found in accused's basket. (Page 19 of the summing up) (Discussion as to how the children may have fallen into the nullah, Mr. Hayden said that if the children had fallen into the nullah they would have grasped at the pipes for support).(Mr. Lim stated that if children were in the nullah they went down by the steps whereupon it was pointed out to him the difficulty for such small children to achieve this feat in such a short space of time). \n\nThe judge in his summing up stated distinctly that there were improbabilities on both sides, and if there were improbabilities on both sides that means there were doubts on both sides. \n\nMr. Justice: Then if there is any doubt by the Jury the benefit should be given to the appellant - The Judge has directed the Jury several times to that effect in his summing up. \n\nMr. Lim: I now come to the authorities to show where there is no case to go to the Jury the case should have been withdrawn by the Jury. \n\nKing v. Lench Vol. 2 page 78, at page 73 - Judgment. \n\nMr. Fraser: This is a proposition of law which I do not contest. \n\nIn that case, I will refer to that case without reading the Judgment. \n\nKing v. Wallace Vol. 23, page 32. Judgment on page 34. \n\nI'm afraid the facts of that case are not very helpful. \n\nI shall refer to that case. There is a copy in the library which gives the case very fully. The facts of the report are very shortly cited in the guide us. \n\nMr. Fraser: I suggest that the facts as reported here are totally inadequate. \n\nMr. Lim: I will refer to the facts and if there is anything else which Mr. Fraser thinks ought to be added, he will be entitled to add. \n\nMr. Hayden: That case really goes to show that the Court will not and should not set on mere mere suspicion but that each case will have to stand upon its own facts. \n\nMr. Lim: Yes, and in submitting this case I say that the evidence as was adduced before the jury must have amounted to suspicion as had been admitted in the summing up - both theories put up by the Crown and the defence contained equal improbabilities. It is not clear there was any direct evidence and I submit that there was a gap, as there is in this case, between the appellant and the crime the Crown cannot breach that gap by suggesting a theory.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582830, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "content_text": "## A Bird's-Eye View\nBy Arg\n\nThe humidity is high these days. Also the cupidity.\n\nBut if Government repairs the ruined houses where will all the jeep parties be held?\n\nThe new bosom-less evening gowns are going to make gravy unpopular.\n\nHalf of a Russian ship has been sighted. Going nowhere, of course, as enigmatic as ever.\n\nNow Government is offering tomato seedlings. It seems determined to ketchup on the food shortage.\n\n## ACID THROWING CASES ESCAPE FROM HONG KONG\n### on Ballroom Girls\n#### Attack Remains Mystery\n#### MANAGER INTERVIEWED\n\nSo far six dancing hostesses of the Emporium Ballroom and two girls of the Majestic Ballroom have been attacked by unknown persons who threw acid on them.\n\nThe above information was obtained from Mr C. C. Chau, Manager of the Emporium Ballroom, when he was interviewed by a *Post and Telegraph* reporter.\n\nMr Chau said that by a coincidence in all cases the acid was thrown on the lower part of the girls' dresses and made from behind their backs. The various cases occurred mostly between the hours of 7.30 and 8.30 p.m. when the girls were going to their work, and only one case happened at 11 a.m. in daytime. He said one girl suffered burns to her back and another suffered similar burns on her leg. The first incident, added Mr Chau, occurred about three weeks ago and the last case was reported to the Police last Sunday. All these cases were reported to the Police, who are still making enquiries.\n\nMr Chau said that so far as he knew no arrests had been made and no-one was in a position to state why such attacks were made.\n\nMoscow says the British provoked the Cairo rioting. Just like a man cuts a foot off to spite the shoemaker.\n\nKam Tin airfield is to become a vegetable garden. So next time the Japs come we can at least pelt 'em with turnips.\n\nBritish troops in Japan will be polite, but will not visit Japanese homes. That should solve the blucher v. tattami problem.\n\nThe bus service is not likely to improve yet. There is, I understand, some idea of adopting a new design embodying the scientific shape of a sardine tin.\n\n\"Please, Sir, there's a man at the door who's lost an eye.\" \"Well, tell him we haven't got it.\"\n\nConversation wandered around to \"femmes de guerre.\" One innocent immediately arose, and asked with hesitation, \"What is a 'femme de guerre'?\"\n\nThe instructress, somewhat taken aback, tediously explained that it is a certain type of woman who, in times of war, finds it quite profitable to station herself in a place easily accessible to the common soldier.\n\n\"Oh,\" said the girl, \"I thought they were 'hors de combat'.\"\n\n## LOSS OF A PIG\n### Run Over by Lorry And Souvenired\n\nYeung Hung and Yeung Ngau each sentenced to one month's hard labour by Mr W. H. Latimer at the Kowloon Summary Court yesterday when they appeared on a charge of larceny of a pig, the property of Ng Kam, at Main Road near Yeung Uk village, Un Long, on Sunday.\n\nDetective Sub-Inspector Rothwell, who prosecuted, said that at 8 a.m. on Monday, the complainant's daughter saw the pig running loose on the road. It had been injured by a passing lorry. She went in and informed her mother, who came out, but the pig was gone. Following information she had received, the complainant went to the accused's village, where she found them slaughtering the pig. She recognised the pig as hers and asked them to return it. Upon their refusing, she went and reported the matter to the Police. When the Police arrived, the accused were cutting up the remnants of the pig. The pig weighed 60 catties and was valued at $400.\n\n## Radio\n### Hanghing Studio\n\nZBW Hong Kong broadcasting on a frequency of 640 Kilocycles and from 12.30 to 1.30 p.m., 6.30 to 7.30 p.m., and 9.00 to 11.00 p.m. also on 9.52 Megacycles.\n\nH.K.T.\n| Time | Programme |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12.30 | Daily Programme summary |\n| 12.32 | Eddie Carroll and Music |\n| 12.45 | \"Romance and Rhythm\" ENSA |\n| 1.00 | News and Announcements |\n| 1.10 | Casani Club Orchestra |\n| 1.30 | Music from the films |\n| 2.00 | Close Down |\n| 6.30 | Swing and Sway Sammy Kaye |\n| 7.00 | London Relay-News |\n| 7.15 | \"Ivor Pye\" The Singing |\n| 7.30 | Studio: Radio Play \"The Blagden Legend\" |\n| 8.00 | Classical Request Hour |\n| 9.00 | London Relay-News |\n| 9.05 | The Vagabond Sailor ENSA |\n| 9.35 | Music for Dancing |\n| 10.10 | Billy Thorburn and Music |\n| 10.25 | Ivor Novello and some of his successes |\n| 11.00 | Close down |\n\nProgrammes marked ENSA are recorded specially for Services Entertainment by the Dept. of National Services Entertainment.\n\n## A STOLEN COW\n### Disappears From Outside Dealer's House\n#### FOUND IN OTHER VILLAGE\n\nLau Sam was brought before Mr W. D. Latimer at the Kowloon Summary Court yesterday on a charge of larceny of a cow from outside No. 5 Kuk Tin Street, Un Long, the property of Mam Pak Ng-bong. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nThe complainant was called as the first witness and stated that he was a cattle dealer in Un Long. At 3 a.m. on Sunday he was asleep in his house. He had tied up his three cows outside. On waking, he found that his cows were no longer tied outside. He therefore made a search but failed to find them. He then made a report of his loss to the Police at the Ping Shan Police Station. At 7 a.m. he returned to his house and found two of his cows tied outside once more. Also, he received certain information so he went to the Ping Shan Police Station again and reported to Detective Sub-Inspector Rothwell. Then accompanied by the Police he went to Lo Fau Shan, where the third cow was recovered outside a house belonging to the accused. This was at about 10 a.m.\n\nThe second witness was P.C.C. 560 who stated that at about 9 a.m. on Sunday, on instructions given by Detective Sub-Inspector Rothwell, he went with the complainant to recover a cow which the complainant had reported lost. They recovered it from outside the accused's house.\n\nThe accused was found guilty and sentenced to six months hard labour. The cow was to be returned to the complainant.\n\nDetective Sub-Inspector Rothwell prosecuted.\n\n## ESCAPE FROM HOSPITAL\n\nChan Hung, an alleged house-breaker, was captured 15 minutes later at about 11.15 p.m. on Monday night in Waterloo Road near Peace Avenue. Chan was caught by a constable, No. 745, attached to the Emergency Unit.\n\n## ROTARIANS ENTERTAINED BY TALK\n### Lieut-Col Gordon King Tells Exciting Tale Of Journey Into China\n\nThe story of his escape from Hong Kong and his experiences during his journeying into Free China shortly after the Japanese occupation of the Colony was vividly recounted by Lieut-Col Gordon King, Assistant Director of Medical Services (Civil Affairs), to members of the Hong Kong Rotary Club at the weekly luncheon at the Gloucester Hotel yesterday.\n\nCol King met Messrs Marsman and Lavrov, who had escaped from Stanley Camp, and two Chinese friends, in the hills of Kowloon, and together they made their way to Lolung on the East River. From there Dr King reached Kukong.\n\nDr Woo, introducing the speaker, said that Lieut-Col King was formerly Professor of Gynaecology at Hong Kong University and at present was Assistant Director of Medical Services.\n\nA large attendance of members and their friends were present to hear the talk, and visiting Rotarians welcomed by the President, Dr Arthur Woo, were Messrs W. K. Way (Chungking), Y. K. Chow (Mukden), Peter Y. Kwok (Singapore), and H. Kaddorie (Shanghai).\n\nRotarian Kwok brought a message of greeting from the Singapore Club which, he said, had re-commenced functioning shortly after the establishment of the British Military Administration. There was at present a membership of about 70. Though no luncheon or dinner meetings were held owing to the difficult food situation, the Club held weekly tea meetings.\n\nRotarian Kadoorie also conveyed the greetings of the Shanghai Club which was holding meetings fortnightly, he said.\n\nThe Secretary, Rotarian T. E. Jackson, announced that the meeting next Tuesday would be a closed one, and one of the main topics of discussion would be their community-service.\n\nGuests welcomed were Messrs K. Crawford, J. Wilson, Kwok Chan, D. Djoung, W. Stoker, D. I. Bosanquet, Comdr Kirby, Lieut-Col T. W. Ware, Lieut-Col Y. S. Wan, Col Luke T. C. McDouall, Wai Lee, Messrs J. Man-wai and Major R. E. Farrell.\n\n### Dr Gordon King's Story\n\nLieut-Col Gordon King said:\n\n\"I had early been relieved of my duties as Medical Officer in charge of the Relief Hospital, but I was still able to do a certain amount of work in one of the other hospitals where I had some very loyal friends. Soon after the internment of a third of my colleagues, my position in this hospital was made quite untenable by an appointee of the Japanese, who made it quite clear to me that my visits would not long be tolerated.\n\n\"After considering all the possible means of exit I came to the conclusion that the greatest chance of success lay in finding a guide who would take me out by the East River route. I should have been entirely at a loss without the help of two Chinese friends and former students to whom I shall never be able adequately to express my gratitude. Through their aid, an agreement was made with a reliable man and all preparations were made. At first, I was to be disguised as a coolie, but later (somewhat to my relief) it was decided that it would be better for me to dress in shabby European clothes. A supply of food sufficient to last a week, together with a razor, a towel, and a sleeping bag were to be carried by the guide, and a suitcase full of clothes and other necessaries was to follow later if a way could be found. I was, of course, committed to complete secrecy about the whole affair.\n\n\"Just before dawn on February 10, 1942, I left my house, dressed in a shabby old raincoat, wearing an old felt hat and carrying a Chinese umbrella in my hand, met my escort at an appointed place and took an early tram to the Star Ferry. It was scarcely light, but already numerous people were crossing over. The two of us were both fully occupied and then quietly slipped on to the boat.\n\n\"On the Kowloon side, I mingled with the crowd, and, by dropping my head and shoulders and pulling my hat well down over my eyes, managed to leave the ferry without attracting the attention of the Japanese guards who were busily engaged in searching the passengers.\n\n\"My decision to escape from Hong Kong was made at an early date after the capitulation. Several factors influenced me in reaching this decision, and I think I can best set them before you in their chronological order.\n\n\"First of all, I had tried to carry on medical work for nearly a year under the Japanese regime in North China. In Hong Kong, after the surrender, I found that, as far as medical work was concerned, my position was very much worse than it had been in the North.\n\n\"The final spark which fired my determination was provided by an unfortunate encounter with the Japanese Gendarmerie over the cutting down of some trees. In the University Relief Hospital, for which I was responsible during the war, we had run completely out of fuel and we had no means of cooking for some 500 patients and staff unless some trees in the compound were felled for this purpose.\n\n\"Towards the end of January, however, the Japanese decided to transfer the University community to Stanley whither the majority of the internees had already been sent. I was then with Cheeloo University and was the Medical Superintendent of the University Hospital in Tsinan when most of my colleagues were transferred to Stanley. Before his departure, the Vice-Chancellor made it clear to me that the conditions under which we had been interned in the University had ceased to exist, and that as a servant of the University, I was entirely a free agent in making my future plans.\n\n\"During the months that ensued, I quickly realised how impossible it was, even as a servant of the University, to carry on medical work under the Japanese, and I decided that I should be doing much more useful work either in Hong Kong or in Free China. Towards the end of 1938, I was appointed to a post in the University of Hong Kong, and it was with very great relief that I left Shantung.\n\n\"After several requests, permission was finally obtained from the senior officer of the Japanese military unit which was billeted in the University, and three large trees were felled at dawn the next day. The trees were being cut up in the courtyard of one of the emergency hospital buildings when I was hurriedly summoned to the scene, and there I found the chief of the newly formed Gendarmerie with a small party of his men and an interpreter. The officer was livid with rage; he gave me no opportunity to explain and asked me who had given authority for the trees to be felled, and when I told him that a military officer in the compound had done so, he asked me to produce a written permit. When I told him that the permission was only verbal, he flew into a paroxysm of rage and Rotarian... (Continued on Page 4)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 591131, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947", "content_text": "# COPY\n## 86\n### 2\n\n**COPY**\n\nCivil Affairs Staff, Hong Kong, \n28 Grosvenor Street, \nLONDON, W.1., \n13th February, 1946.\n\nDear Hickling,\n\nWe spoke about Hong Kong's fisheries and agreed that an informal meeting should be held in your room on Saturday, 16th February, at 11 a.m. to discuss with those concerned what action should be taken.\n\nDr. Herklots has prepared a memorandum summarising the problem and raising questions which should be discussed. I attach a copy of Dr. Herklots' paper which I suggest may be used as a guide for Saturday's meeting.\n\nI am copying this together with the enclosure to Burt, Herklots, Miss Ruston, and Sedgwick of C.A.S., Hong Kong.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nKenrick\n\nC. F. Hickling, Esq. \nFisheries Adviser, \nColonial Office, \nBridge Street, S.W.1.\n\n### 1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-611-4 Development Committee- reports on various aspects 11-12-1945 - 14-7-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594526, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "page_number": 27, "title": "CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947", "content_text": "## CONCLUSION\n\nWe are very conscious of the many lacunae in this report, and we take the opportunity of expressing regret in advance that the heavy burden of departmental duties of Government officers and the pressure of work on our non-official colleagues adds to the difficulty of submitting a fully documented report. Suffice to say, that it is our fervent hope that the report may serve as a guide to what we sincerely believe to be the medical and health requirements which will have to be met if Hong Kong is to earn the right to its claim to be the \"Jewel of the Pacific\".\n\nSigned by Members :- \n\n| Name | Title/Honours |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hon. Dr. S. N. Chau | |\n| Mr. R.S.W. Paterson | O.B.E., M.C. |\n| Wing Commander S. E. Faber | A.F.C. |\n| Dr. A. M. Rodrigues | |\n| Mr. D. Ruttonjee | |\n| Mr. I. N. Chau | |\n| Dr. G. Graham-Cumming | |\n| Dr. K. C. Yeo | Ag. D.D.H.S., Secretary |\n| Hon. Dr. P.S. Selwyn-Clarke | C.M.G., M.C., Chairman |\n\n27", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-1 Institute of Medical Research- proposed construction 21-4-1947 - 5-12-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 597869, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "content_text": "31\n\nCopy of Long 2\n\nJockey Club. Although it is hoped to guide local gifts into endowment, there will certainly be some donors who will give only for capital purposes.\n\n2.\n\nOn the points in (30) and (31) that (a) £500,000 is insufficient and (b) the fund should be invested in local utilities:\n\n(a) the Inter-University Council never expected that the deficit could be met by endowment income alone (see para.9 of 12A). It is clear that even if U.K. and Hong Kong governments together gave £1 million (=£17,500 p.a.), private gifts raised $6 million (=£13,000 p.a.), increased fees raised £20,000 p.a. and Hong Kong government increased its annual grants by £1.5 million (£31,250 p.a.), this would still be insufficient to meet the estimated additional recurrent expenditure. Some of the deficit is notional (e.g. all the developments cannot be started simultaneously; some depend on prior capital works like buildings; staff cannot be recruited for all the vacancies). Expansion will have to take place as funds become available and the \"coat cut\" accordingly in the meantime. It was not intended that a £1 million contribution from the U.K. government on a £ for £ basis should do more than initiate an endowment fund, and certainly not that this should set £2 million as the final target. It was intended as a sustained effort over a period of years to get further endowments of chairs, etc., from local gifts, Dominion governments, American foundations, etc.\n\n(b) Sir Arthur Morse made this same suggestion to Dr. Mouat Jones and myself frequently during our visit. The investment even of this small amount would at the time apparently have helped the local stocks which were sagging badly. With the dismal experience the University had previously had of losing its endowment funds by buying Shanghai mortgages in order to get a high rate of interest, we felt bound to advise against speculating with all the funds. In para.9(c)(i) of 12A, we were careful to limit the suggestion (of investment in securities outside Hong Kong) merely to H.M.G.'s contribution, as we did not feel that we could suggest the same limitation on funds contributed by private donors, etc. If the Hong Kong government gave £1 million to the endowment fund, it need not attach the same restrictive condition about the way in which the University invested it.\n\nApart from financial prudence, our main reason for suggesting that the investment of H.M.G.'s gift should be outside Hong Kong was that given in para. 9(c). A situation might arise in which the University could not continue its teaching in Hong Kong and would have to migrate temporarily to, for example, the University of Malaya. Its present overseas investments are sufficient only to meet its superannuation obligations. If it had no outside assets or income, it could not preserve its identity during a temporary exile. Similarly, if an unsympathetic government took over in Hong Kong and confiscated local assets, the University would be impotent; if it had resources and income from outside...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598683, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-626-3 Labour Department- report to Labour Commissioner 1-3-1951 - 30-6-1952", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-626-3 Labour Department- report to Labour Commissioner 1-3-1951 - 30-6-1952", "content_text": "APPENDIX I.\n\nExtract from the report of H. R. Butters Esquire dealing with the history of the trade union movement in China up to 1939.\n\nThe full report entitled \"Labour and Labour Conditions in Hong Kong\" was issued as Sessional Paper No.3 of 1939).\n\n1\n\nChina has an estimated population of 450,000,000 and is the largest reservoir of labour in the world. For centuries it enjoyed the benefits of a stable civilization without hereditary aristocracy of castes, where the scholars became the rulers as the result of a competitive examination, as administrative officers were once chosen for the Eastern Colonies, and the subordinate classes were the farmers, artisans, and merchants, in that order. Laissez-faire was exalted to the principle that the government governs best that governs least, and Confucius inculcated that social order depends on every man knowing his place and acting accordingly.\n\nIt is estimated that at least three quarters of this population live a hand-to-mouth existence and the average individual wealth is about one five-hundredth that of a citizen of the United States of America. The population is mainly agricultural, but flood, famine, and war have driven increasing numbers into the industrial labour market. Ancestor worship, the maintenance of the male line and the belief that of all unfilial things the greatest is to have no posterity, led to over-population which made Dr. Sun Yat Sen exclaim \"At present China is suffering from over-population which will bring impending danger in its wake. How are we to appease the hunger of swarming millions?\" Families are large and the standard of living low. Uncurbed procreation with the inability at times to support the offspring has led occasionally to infanticide in the case of female infants and more frequently to their sale as \"mui-tsai\". This problem will be referred to later.\n\nChina has been described as not a state but a society, and the Chinese as a familial and not a political animal \"Society being merely the family writ large.\" The family as the basis of society has not been inappropriately referred to as a communistic unit with \"Do what you can and take what you will\" as its guide. This accounts for the ability of the individual both in China and Hong Kong to survive periods of distress in the absence of poor relief, unemployment benefit or old age pension. Devotion to the family at the sacrifice of truth, justice, and loyalty to the state bred the vices of nepotism and corruption. China had many moral philosophers but no metaphysicians.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-626-3 Labour Department- report to Labour Commissioner 1-3-1951 - 30-6-1952.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 599135, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-627-1 Economic and social survey- new territories 1-2-1950 - 31-7-1951", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-627-1 Economic and social survey- new territories 1-2-1950 - 31-7-1951", "content_text": "29\n\nto the Acting D.C.N.T. for år. Tsui to start this work until he says that he can start it without serious prejudice to his normal duties. As the only District officer free of magisterial (but not land court) work, there is, I foresee, at least a chance that he might be able to spare the time to guide a well chosen team in this work.\n\n6.\n\nA minor point: Dr. Banham's suggestion that we publish our pilot desk surveys. This proposal needs to be carefully looked into, because of the dangers of the figures published being made to serve propaganda of one kind or another, which would not be difficult.\n\n7.\n\nDr. Benham having fairly early in our conversation plumped for Mr. Zaul, I regret I failed to mention to him the other possibilities already on the carpet, namely one or two prominent and experienced Chinese now kicking their heels in Hongkong, and a suggestion from (7) Miss Eleanor Hinder in Bangkok.\n\n8.\n\nIt must not be taken that the foregoing represents anything like the full weight of Dr. Benham's consideration of this subject. The discussion was slight, and I don't think Dr. Benham had seen very much of this question on paper yet.\n\n21st February, 1950\n\n(J. BARROW)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-627-1 Economic and social survey- new territories 1-2-1950 - 31-7-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]