[ { "id": 217960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 241, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "Four \n\n... \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nGovernor DOHERTY's Report, in Appendix to Report of West Africa Committee, page 367. \n\n\"With reference to this subject, I made inquiry before leaving Sierra Leone as to the degree of property possessed by the chiefs in the persons or services of their subjects, and the compensation they would be likely to claim in consequence, in the event of the people emi- grating; but the statements made to me were so contradictory, that I could arrive at no con- clusion. \n\n\"The chiefs near Sierra Leone, having always shown an earnest desire to have their chil- dren and subjects educated, not only in school-learning, but in handicrafts and cultivation of the soil, would willingly, I think, consent to a body of their people proceeding to the West Indies, to be taught the cultivation of coffee and other tropical productions, on the condition of their return within four or five years. The arrangement would be beneficial both to Africa and the West Indies, and promote in the former the views of the Association lately formed for the extinction of the Slave Trade and the cultivation of the continent. \n\n\"The two tribes whose emigration would be most likely to prove advantageous to themselves and their West India employers, are the Ackoos and Cossoos; and I would advise the opening of a communication on the subject, through the liberated Africans of those tribes at Sierra Leone, with the native countries of both, the Cossoo country being but a three day's journey from the colony; while Yarriba, or the country of the Ackoos, is accessible by way of Badagry.' Acting Governor CARR's answers to Dr. Madden's queries, in Appendix to Report of West Africa Committee, p. 329. \n\n\"Thinks that many of the natives of the adjoining country would be desirous of emigrating to our colonies, if they were duly informed, by intelligent persons of their own colour, of what their actual condition would be in our colonies, adequately paid for their labour, and protected there.\" \n\nColonel JONES's answers to similar Queries, at p. 326 of the same Appendix. \"Does not think they would, without positive proof of the certainty of bettering their con- dition.\" \n\nN.B. It will be observed that these gentlemen do not express the slightest doubt of the free condition of these people. All that they seem to think would be necessary to induce many of them to emigrate, which of course implies their ability to do so, is that they shall be previously satisfied that they would thereby better their condition. \n\nCountries adjacent Sir H. B. HUNTLEY, recently Governor of the Gambia Settlements. Report in Appendix to \n\nReport of West Africa Committee, p. 226. \n\nto the Gambia. \n\nwages, \n\n\"The liberated African may be considered the labourer of Bathurst; if engaged, he is almost uniformly employed as such. Yet it is remarkable, that the merchants on all occasions prefer engaging as labourers the Tilliebunkas' and Seerawoolies,' who, for the sake of come 600, 700, and even 1000 miles from the interior, in parties, in search of work at Bathurst. These men, like the Kroomen, work honestly, and for the same wages as the liberated African; the latter cannot be trusted unless constantly overlooked, and therefore those whe can are pre- ferred. Looking at Sierra Leone, the Kroomen are found to be the labourers; like the Tilliebunkas and Seerawoolies, they have taken the work from the hands of the liberated African.\" \n\nEvidence of F. W. FINDEN, fifteen years resident at the Gambia. \n\n7597. Emigration might be obtained from the Tilliebunkas' and Seerawoolies: they are in the interior, but they come down in large numbers to seek for work, and stop a few months and generally return to their own country in the rainy season, because there is no work there: they are generally hired for the timber cutting, which is very arduous work.' \n\n7600. I should not think there would be any fear of their not being willing to go over to the West Indies to seek for work.\" \n\n7604. \"A few only come down who know they can get work. If it was well known that they could be sent to the West Indies, I think you might get down 4000 or 5000.\" \n\n7640. \n\n\" \n\nSome of the Jollif tribe might be induced to emigrate.” \n\n7641. It is a numerous tribe.\" \n\n7670. \"The Tilliebunkas and Serawoolies I have seen, appear to be perfectly free.\" \n\nEvidence of JOHN HUGHES, seventeen years resident in and near the Gambia. \n\n8025. \"I think the Seerawoolies alluded to by Mr. Finden, are the most likely tribe to emigrate.\" \n\n8034. \"I am of opinion, that if sufficient employment was afforded them, we might get, between the Bamburies and the Seerawoolies, 4000 or 5000.\" \n\nt \n\n8061. They appear to be perfectly free to go and come.' \n\n\" \n\nCopy of a letter received from F. W. FINDEN Since his return to Africa, dated Bathurst, December 3, 1842. \n\n\"Since my arrival at this place, I have made many enquiries from the Tilliebunkas' and the Seerawola' tribes, which are working in this colony, relative to emigration to the West \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nIndies, and I find they are most willing to emigrate for a period of three years, or longer. They have stated to me, that if it were known in their country, I could procure as many as wanted, as they describe their population as most extensive: many are leaving this place for want of employment. The sanction of Government would, in my opinion, give great confidence to the people, and I feel convinced it would not be a failure.' \n\n\" \n\nEvidence of F. SWANZY, eight years resident as Magistrate. \n\n526. Perhaps if a few people were got to emigrate, and they returned in a few years, having improved their means and got money in two, three, or four years, others might be induced to follow their example.\" \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nGold Coast. Dixcove. \n\nExtract from Governor MACLEAN'S Despatch relative to the surrender of Fugitives, in Cape Coast Castic. \n\nAppendix to Report of West Africa Committee, p. 145. \n\n\"Were it once promulgated throughout Ashantee and elsewhere, that runaways would, under any circumstances, receive protection from the British authorities, our settlements would speedily be inundated by hundreds and thousands of the offscourings of those countries. then could those men be maintained? \n\nHow \n\nN.B. On reference to the context, it will be found that Governor Maclean had been accused of delivering up fugitives. In justifying this practice he uses strong language, and assigns certainly a good reason why he could not possibly retain them at Cape Coast, no provision being made for their support or emigration; but he thus incidentally proves that if the British settlements were, as they ought to be, places of refuge, and free ingress and egress were permitted, great numbers of people from the adjacent countries would resort to Cape Coast. \n\nEvidence of the Hon. Captain DENMAN, R. N. \n\n6976. \"If proper means were taken, I have not the least doubt the West Indies might get Kroo Coast. thousands of Kroomen to engage as labourers. The thing necessary is, to produce confidence \n\nin their minds, and that would best be done by some man-of-war on the coast taking over some \n\nof the head men, upon a promise that they should be returned by the same ship.\" \n\n6977-7000. \"Thinks the Kroomen may be allowed to embark direct from their own coast, receiving a certificate from a man-of-war, and that there would not be any possibility of abuse.\" \n\nNo. 20. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from G. W. HOPE, Esq. to CHARLES CAVE, Esq. \n\nDowning-street, November 23, 1843. \n\nSir, \n\nI AM directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you addressed to his Lordship on the 15th instant, as chairman of the West India Committee. \n\nCharles Cave, Esq. &c. &c. \n\nNo. 21. \n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n\nG. W. HOPE. \n\nCOPY of a LETTER from CHARLES CAVE, Esq., to Lord STANLEY. \n\nWest India Committee Rooms, \n\nNovember 29, 1843. \n\nMy Lord, \n\nI HAVE had the honour to receive from Mr. Hope an acknowledgment of the letter which I addressed to your Lordship on the 15th instant, and I would take the liberty of stating that, as this Committee have not yet imparted to the West India body generally the correspondence that has taken place with your Lord- ship, they are anxious to ascertain, before performing that duty, whether they are to consider the vitally important representations with which they have recently troubled your Lordship, as terminated by Mr. Hope's very brief communication; or whether they may not rather still indulge the hope that your Lordship will enable them to make a more satisfactory report to their constituents, than at the present moment it would be in their power to do. \n\nThe Right Hon. Lord Stanley, \n\n&c. &c. \n\n&c. \n\nI have, &c., (Signed) CHARLES CAVE, Chairman. \n\nNo. 20. \n\nNo. 21. \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238741, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "(Signed)\n\nJ.\n\n183\n\nPustaw. The\n\nS. J. Edgar\n\nIhr Bond 7 to...\n\nffre. Phillipe Moveste.\n\nB. Chen\n\n2. Sirus to\n\nWilliamus anther Pl.\n\nCott. Comagie\n\nSmith #Burnelow Decilia the\n\nArmstrong & Lawr Lane Crawford I bas :\n\nDouglas\n\nCapraich\n\nLamond\n\nBowra to Mac Ewent lo Trempen the\n\nEdulger Furdagie the\n\nSchaeffer the Ampier\n\nH:\n\ner cent to\n\nGeo. 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Bowra\n\n11.Harding\n\ntarzant\n\nPolilitente\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 275887, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "page_number": 459, "title": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL\n\n## HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCT. 24, 1868.\n\n### DEATHS IN THE \"DAYSPRING.\"\n\n(From the Australasian, Sept. 12,) Dr Maclean, district coroner, commenced an inquiry at Williamstown near Melbourne on Tuesday into the circumstances connected with the deaths of Chong Ah Yow and Sumyuk, Chinamen, who were passengers in the ship Dayspring, bound from Hongkong to Melbourne. The evidence of several of the passengers revealed gross dereliction of duty on the part of Captain Middleton during the passage. The Dayspring sailed from the port of Hongkong on the 20th of May, with ninety-six Chinese, and two European passengers. The crew consisted of four Europeans (without a first mate), and a number of South Sea Islanders. After having been at sea for about sixty days, all hands were placed on a short allowance of rations. On reaching cold latitudes the crew became sick, and scorbutic symptoms became manifest among the passengers. On or about the 10th of August a scurvy patient expired, and after that date \"the Chinamen commenced to die fast.\" The provisions supplied to the passengers were inferior to those served out to the ship's crew—in fact, they were not only inferior in quality, but seriously curtailed in quantity. After a miserable passage of 104 days, the ship dropped her anchor off Queenscliff on the 4th inst. Previously to slipping the anchor a Chinese doctor, who was one of the passengers, died of scurvy, and during the following night another Chinaman succumbed to the loathsome disease. Both bodies were subsequently thrown overboard, without having any kind of weight attached to them. On arriving in Hobson's Bay, and after the vessel had anchored, another unfortunate passenger died, and his body was likewise thrown over the side of the vessel—with the additional precaution in this instance of having a weight attached to it.\n\nThe \"second mate\" of the vessel swore that the salt fish doled out to the unfortunate Chinese \"was not fit for food for Europeans\" while the ample statements made by other witnesses examined testified to the fact of there not being a single anti-scorbutic article of diet on board the vessel.\n\nThe Coroner acquainted the jury that he had not taken the evidence of Mr Langdon, the cabin passenger, who is at present an inmate of the Melbourne Hospital. He would mention that it was not his intention to close the investigation without Mr Langdon's evidence, as he (the coroner) considered it would be important.\n\nArchibald Miller, examined,—I was a passenger by the Dayspring from Hong Kong. All the passengers and the crew, with the exception of one cabin passenger, were in good health when we left Hong-kong. The cabin passenger's name is William Abbott Langdon. He is the superintendent of water police at Hongkong. I cannot say if the ship bore a good reputation at Hongkong. Sickness first appeared among the Chinese, about six weeks after we left port. The first death occurred about three weeks after that time. A second death occurred about a week after the first, and then the deaths became frequent. The sufferers appeared to have swollen limbs. I did not consider the Chinamen were well treated throughout the passage. The sauces and pickled onions served out to them were not good. The rice was good. The turnips, yams, and sweet potatoes were bad. The provisions were good at the commencement of the voyage, but they got bad afterwards. The salt fish was bad, but the pork was good. The beef was good, but the Chinese did not seem to care about it. Towards the end of the voyage the beef, pork, and pickled eggs got bad. I saw some lime-juice served out to the Chinese, shortly after the sickness appeared, and while we were in the Gillolo Passage. Lime-juice was served out twice a week for a period of three weeks. It was given to those only who were sick. I did not see any lime-juice served out to the South Sea Islanders. I heard the captain say that the sickness among the Chinese was scurvy. I have seen water running down between decks. It was caused by a leakage in the decks. About a week after its appearance the captain got the decks caulked and pitched. The water got in between decks after the caulking was finished. The crew consisted of eight South Sea Islanders, a second carpenter, a mate, a steward, and the captain. The captain did not always keep his watch, but was occasionally relieved by one of the South Sea Islanders. The second carpenter (Joseph Rowland) kept the captain's watch for about two weeks before we came to anchor. I never saw the South Sea Islanders put out or take in sail without orders. Sandstrou, the second mate, always kept his own watch. After leaving Hongkong we were becalmed for twenty-seven days, and afterwards we experienced squally weather. The Chinamen did not get the same quality of provisions as the other passengers; I think the beef supplied to them was superior to that served out to the other passengers. About a month after leaving port, provisions began to run short, and all hands were placed on short rations. Sickness appeared shortly afterwards. I heard no complaints from the Chinamen; but if they had complained I could not understand them. They were not ill-used, but I have seen water thrown over them, because they came too far aft to speak to their countrymen in the cabin. The captain went below on one or two occasions after death had occurred, for the purpose of looking after the Chinamen. I consider the captain was careless with respect to the lives of the passengers. There was no code of signals on board. The vessel was knocking about the Heads for about a fortnight before coming to anchor. Three deaths occurred at the Heads. The captain manifested no sympathy either for the passengers or the crew during their illness.\n\nTo the Coroner.—The between decks were cleaned out once only. A passenger requested the captain to use chloride of lime. The captain said it would be necessary, but he failed to use it. There were twenty-five tins of preserved meat on board when we left port. The tins varied in size from 5lb. to 7lb. The entire of those provisions were used in the cabin. The captain behaved harshly towards his crew, and used to strike them with his fist several times a day.\n\nCheo Long, whose evidence was interpreted, said, produce a provision diary of the various stores which were served out during the voyage. The day after leaving port we were reduced in firewood by sixty pounds; we received 140lb. instead of 200lb. When at sea about forty-five days all the stores decreased in quantity. About the fifty-third day out the rice became short. Lime-juice was served out only four or five times during the voyage. I received a pannikinful each time. Each man received a pannikinful.\n\nTo Mr Stephen.—The ship was chartered by Wo Hang and Co., of Hongkong. They supplied the provisions for the voyage, and they appointed me to act as interpreter. There was not sufficient wood served out for cooking purposes. The captain distributed one full pannikin of lime-juice to serve for the whole of the passengers. On one occasion he gave out an extra half pannikin.\n\nThe evidence of the Chinese cook was taken, but it was merely a corroboration of the foregoing facts. He swore the captain never went below among the berths during the voyage. The between decks were swept once a week, and were never washed or scraped.\n\nHong Ah Chee, another of the passengers, said that on one occasion, while endeavouring to shelter himself from a shower of rain on deck, the captain came up to him, and kicked him in the side.\n\nThe proceedings were then adjourned until four o'clock on Wednesday next.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285455, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS\n\n## HONGKONG, AUGUST 31st, 1871.\n\n### THE MEETING OF UNOFFICIAL JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.\n\nA Meeting of Justices of Peace, not being official members of the Government, was held at the Hongkong Club yesterday, the 30th August, at 11 a.m., pursuant to notice, issued by the Hon. P. Ryrie, Senior non-official J.P.\n\nPresent: Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. R. Rowett, W. Wilson, Esq., T. G. Linstead, Esq., S. J. Gower, Esq., G. McLean, Esq., T. Pyke, Esq., E. Arthur, Esq., E. D. Sassoon, Esq., J. Berwick, Esq., J. M. Vickers, Esq., and E. R. Belilios, Esq.\n\nMr. RYRIE stated that it had been thought advisable to call a meeting of the Justices of the Peace, who were not officially connected with the Government, to consider whether, under the circumstances of the alarming increase of crime in the Colony, and the apparent powerlessness of the police to prevent it, or even to discover and arrest the offenders, some steps might not be taken on behalf of the Community at large, to ascertain the cause of the existing state of matters and inaugurate some reform for the future. His attention had long been directed to this subject, and as a member of the Legislative Council, he had some time ago endeavoured ineffectually to procure an investigation, with what result the following correspondence would show:-\n\n#### HONGKONG, 16th November, 1870.\n\nMy dear Mr. Austin,— \n\nAs it is my intention to propose at the next Meeting of the Legislative Council, that a commission be appointed, composed of a certain number of Government Officers and non-official Justices of the Peace, to enquire into the entire system and management of the Police Force, I shall feel obliged if you will inform me if any previous notice of such is required to be given. The complaints of all or nearly all the owners of property in the place, of the inefficiency and very heavy expense of the Police are so loud, that I feel it my duty, as a Member of Council, as well as a private individual, having a large amount of house property belonging to friends under my management and care, to call for a thorough investigation.\n\nYours truly,\nP. RYRIE.\n\nIn reply to this, an intimation was given that any such information should be applied for officially, and an official answer would be given.\n\nMr. Ryrie accordingly addressed a letter dated 30th November, 1870, to the Colonial Secretary, which, with its reply, was read:\n\n#### HONGKONG, 30th November, 1870.\n\nSIR,— There exists in the Colony at present so much dissatisfaction regarding the manner in which police work is conducted, as also with regard to the very great cost of the force, that I consider it my duty to propose that a commission be appointed to enquire into the entire system of police management, said commission to be composed of equal numbers of Government officers and non-official Justices of the Peace, and its proceedings to be open to the public. It is my desire to make the above proposal at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, provided, of course, that the same meets with His Excellency the Lieut.-Governor's approval.\n\nI have, &c., &c.,\n(Signed) P. RYRIE.\n\nTo the Hon. J. GARDINER AUSTIN,\nColonial Secretary, &c., &c.\n\n#### COLONIAL-SECRETARY'S OFFICE.\n\n#### HONGKONG, 2nd December, 1870.\n\nSIR,— I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th ultimo, and to acquaint you in reply, by desire of the Lieut. Governor, that as in accordance with instructions received from the Secretary of State, full police reports have been already transmitted to Downing Street, and no changes whatever can therefore be made until replies have been received, His Excellency cannot consent to any motion being made by you in the Legislative Council, for the appointment of a committee to enquire into the state of the police.— I have, &c., &c.\n\n(Signed) J. GARDINER AUSTIN,\nColonial-Secretary.\n\nThe Hon. PHINEAS RYRIE, &c., &c.\n\nSome conversation then ensued, wherein the unanimous feeling was confirmatory, and in extension of the Chairman's remarks, and the great cause of complaint existing in consequence of the police inefficiency.\n\nIt was then proposed by Mr. Maclean, seconded by Mr. E. D. Sassoon, and carried unanimously:\n\n\"That the whole body of non-official Justices of the Peace, waits on H. E. the Governor by appointment, and ascertain if any, and what, immediate steps are being taken by the Government with regard to the reformation of the Police Force.\"\n\nIt was then proposed by Mr. T. G. Linstead, and seconded by the Hon. P. Ryrie, and carried unanimously— \n\n\"That H.E. the Lieut.-Governor be also requested to appoint a commission consisting principally of residents not official members of Government, with full power and authority to enquire into the existing state of the Police Force, the result of such enquiry to be made public, and that the former official report of the commission of 1869 be as a preliminary placed in the hands of the commission now desired to be appointed.\"\n\nThe CHAIRMAN consented to ascertain when H.E. the Lieut.-Governor would receive the deputation, and the meeting then adjourned.\n\nPage 1\n\nI argue. I would lay some stress on the inconvenience of appointing a commission of inquiry at the time when a change of governorship is imminent, and who Col. O'Brien would be a good officer to serve under. I think his position could be improved as to salary. \n\nCol. O'Brien receives salary £1,000, House allowance £200. Also £200 as Poor Law Commissioner. Dr. Deane receives salary £800 as head of the Police, allowances £125.\n\n27/71 \n68 \n11365 \nK Mr 28/91 \nRSZ 29/1/71.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 285471, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "page_number": 85, "title": "CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10]", "content_text": "# Meeting of Justices of the Peace\n\nThat the whole body of non-official Justices of the Peace wait upon His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor by appointment, and ascertain if any, and what, immediate steps are being taken by the Government with regard to the reformation of the Police Force.\"\n\nHis Excellency the **GOVERNOR** said that he would lay the Resolution before his Council, which he would at once summon for the purpose, and that a reply would be given in due course.\n\nMr. Ryrie then introduced the second Resolution, stating that the inefficiency of the Police was a fact which hardly any one in the Colony would attempt to deny, and that it was a most expensive establishment; every householder in the place knew to his sorrow when he had to pay up the extraordinarily heavy assessment for Police rates. The opinions as to the cause of this inefficiency were various. In one quarter, it was stated that it was owing to the bad materials of which the body of the Force was composed; in another, it was the inefficiency and inexperience of the heads of the department; in a third, that all the troubles were owing to interference with the heads of the Police by the heads of other departments. But whatever the cause might be, the fact remained that the Police was certainly inefficient and very expensive; and the only way to arrive at the truth was by a fair inquiry in which the community (out of whose pockets the money came) should participate. The second Resolution was then read; it is as follows:\n\n\"That His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor be also requested to appoint a Commission consisting principally of residents not official members of Government with full power and authority to enquire into the existing state of the Police Force, the result of such enquiry to be made public, and that the former official report of the Commission of 1869 be as a preliminary placed in the hands of the Commission now desired to be appointed.\"\n\nMr. Ryrie explained that he was in doubt whether the Commission referred to was held in 1869 or 1870; but the one to which he referred was held after the Showkewan murder.\n\n**HIS EXCELLENCY** gave the same reply as before, viz., that he would consult his Council, and after he had done so would state his intentions.\n\nThe deputation then retired.\n\n## Reply from the Colonial Secretary's Office\n\nThe following reply has been sent to the gentlemen composing the above deputation:\n\n**COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 6th September, 1871**\n\nSIR—His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor in Council having considered the application made by the deputation of certain of the Justices of the Peace, which he had the honor to receive on the 2nd instant, I am instructed to address to you the following reply, which I shall feel obliged by your communicating to the gentlemen who accompanied you on that occasion.\n\n| Para | Text |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2. | The task of protecting the residents of Hongkong from the lawless characters who especially at certain periods of the year pour down on the Colony from Canton, Macao and other places on the mainland, is one of extreme difficulty, even for those who possess special qualifications for the purpose. |\n| 3. | His Excellency **SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL** had directed his particular attention to the improvement of the Police Force of this Colony, and the Lieutenant-Governor has been at all times most anxious to promote the efficiency of this branch of the public service by any changes in the existing arrangements which his professional experience could suggest. |\n| 4. | Her Majesty's Government, however, are not disposed to sanction any material alteration in the present constitution of the force during the absence of **SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL**, whose early return to the Colony may now be anticipated. Accordingly, when the Honorable Chief Justice **SMALE** in the month of November last, suggested the appointment of a commission to inquire into the state of the Police Force, and caused a written statement to that effect to be recorded in the minutes of the Legislative Council, Her Majesty's Government, to whom the matter was referred, did not concur in the necessity for the proposed inquiry. |\n| 5. | There can be very little doubt that the Police Force is numerically insufficient at present, having regard to the increase in the number of old offenders and suspicious characters who have necessarily been permitted to remain in the Colony since the disallowance of `Ordinance No. 7 of 1870`. Two measures, however, were proposed at the last Meeting of the Legislative Council, which will enable the Government rapidly to recruit the Police Force, now below its authorized strength, at a small expense to the Colony, and also to deal with offenders who have been reported, and are now at large in Hongkong, in violation of the orders passed by the Governor in Council for their banishment. |\n| 6. | His Excellency has no doubt that **SIR RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL** will, upon his return to the Colony, deal with the subject of crime with his well-known energy and ability, and if any circumstances should occur to delay his return, the Lieutenant-Governor will be prepared to submit to the Secretary of State, the measures which, in his opinion, are likely to prove useful in increasing the security of the Colony. |\n| 7. | Under these circumstances, His Excellency does not consider that he would derive much assistance from the labors of the Commission which you proposed, though he begs to express his thanks to the gentlemen associated with you, who were willing to devote their time and attention to the subject. |\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant,\n\n*J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary*\n\nThe Honorable P. RYRIE,\n\n(Signed.)\n\n\"&c. &c..., &c.\"\n\n## Meeting of Non-Official Justices of the Peace\n\nA meeting of non-official Justices of the Peace was held on the 11th instant, pursuant to notice, at the Club: Present: Honorable P. Ryrie, (in the chair), Honorable R. Rowett, E. R. Belilios, Esq., T. G. Linstead, Esq., T. Pyre, Esq., Dr. O'Brien, J. Berwick, Esq., S. D. Sassoon, Esq., G. F. Maclean, Esq., E. Arthur, Esq., S. J. Gowen, Esq., W. Wilson, Esq., J. M. Vickers, Esq.\n\nMr. Ryrie stated that the reply received through the Honorable the Colonial Secretary to the Resolutions handed by the Deputation to His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor on 2nd instant, had been communicated to the meeting, and was considered to be of a very unsatisfactory nature, more especially seeing that the murderous attacks and robberies had rather increased than otherwise since the day the Deputation waited on his Excellency. A meeting had been held on the 9th instant, at which a Resolution had been arrived at, which in the opinion of some gentlemen who were then unable to attend, and also, after further reflection, of others who were present, failed to convey a correct impression of their views; he had therefore thought it best to summon this meeting in order that the subject might receive further consideration.\n\nAfter some discussion, it was then proposed by Mr. T. G. Linstead, seconded by Mr. E. R. Belilios, and carried with one dissentient:\n\n\"That the resolution passed at the Meeting of the 9th instant be annulled.\"\n\nIt was then proposed by Mr. T. Pyre, seconded by Mr. J. Berwick, and carried unanimously:\n\n\"That this Meeting has received the reply of the Honorable the Colonial Secretary with extreme disappointment, and that as His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor declines to appoint a Commission to enquire into the state of the Police, a public petition, praying for a full inquiry, be addressed to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, and forwarded through His Excellency, a copy being sent to C. Magniac, Esq., M.P., for presentation in the same quarter.\"\n\nProposed by Mr. G. F. Maclean, seconded by Mr. E. Arthur, and carried unanimously:\n\n\"That His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor be requested to forward to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, copies of all the resolutions passed at this and the first Meeting, and copies of the correspondence connected therewith.\"\n\nThe Meeting then adjourned.\n\n84", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-152 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1871 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290346, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "504\n\n127025\n\nWar\n\nLand Board\n\nMisca\n\nDE\n\nof his office for six months\n\nSie D. Machinucht\n\nin reporting the official leave assumed\n\nthat an\n\nExtension would be necessary\n\nIttembre in the face of Dr. Maclean, stating certificate the leave now applied for sight be granted, on the understanding that the matter will be referred to the\n\nI should be report that Mr. Sí contined absence is inconvenient to the Public service he will be called upon to return to the Colony immediately on receipt of his d. Kennedys reply, or on recuper\n\nthe appointment\n\nth\n\nI believe that Mr. Shark\n\nis a useful Officer - Aust\n\nJagre\n\n28.12.\n\natome\n\nRM 38712\n\n30/12\n\nMy Lord\n\n3 Cumberland Terrace Southampton 24th Dec. 1872.\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of Mr Meade's letter of the 19th Inst conveying your Lordship's communication in reply to my application for extension of leave from Hongkong...\n\nWhen I last addressed your\n\nLordship I was at\n\nBrighton in search\n\nof health, and\n\nbeing detained there a few days\n\nthan I anticipated in consequence of a\n\nslight relapse, I did not receive Mr Meade's\n\nletter so soon as I otherwise should have done -\n\nPage 510\n\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290347, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "535\n\nSince my return to Southampton\n\nI have again consulted Dr. Macdonald, C.B. (Deputy Inspector-General, Professor of Military and Tropical Medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley), who has given me the certificate enclosed with a view of saving me, if possible, a journey to London during this inclement weather. I venture respectfully to request that this certificate may be considered sufficient, but if it is still thought desirable that I should consult Sir Ranald Martin, I will at once proceed to Town for that purpose.\n\nYour Lordship will observe that Dr. Maclear advises that I should not arrive in Hongkong until the end of September, and his opinion being strongly seconded by others who are well acquainted with that climate, I would respectfully beg that my leave of absence should extend to that date, it being optional for me to return before that time should the thorough restoration of my health permit.\n\nIf this indulgence be granted, I have every reasonable prospect of a lengthened stay in Hongkong, where until quite recently I have always enjoyed excellent health.\n\nI have the honor to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient & humble servant\n\n[Signature]\n\nRight Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley\n\nCrown Solicitor of Hongkong...\n\nSecretary of State for the Colonies", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306004, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG, MAY 26TH, 1880.\n\n## QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nHis Royal Highness Prince Heinrich of Germany, as Her Majesty's Grandson, and His Excellency Sir John Pope Hennessy, K.C.M.G., as the Queen's Representative in the Colony, received on the 24th instant, as joint hosts, at Government House, on Her Majesty's Birthday, His Royal Highness Prince Thomas of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, at a State dinner, and subsequently their Royal Highnesses, with His Excellency the Governor and Lady Hennessy, received the Naval, Military, and Civil officers, the Foreign Consuls and a number of the British, foreign, and native residents in celebration of the day.\n\nA Royal Guard of Honour of the 27th Inniskillings, under the command of Captain Carr (with the Band and the Queen's Colours), was drawn up at the principal entrance to Government House, the front of which, as well as the garden surrounding, was brilliantly illuminated with Chinese lanterns and gas jets. H.R.H. Prince Heinrich and H.E. the Governor received His Royal Highness the Duke of Genoa, on his arrival and after the invited guests, who had previously assembled in the drawing-room, had been introduced to His Royal Highness, the party filed into the dining-hall. H.R.H. Prince Heinrich was attended by Baron von Seckendorff, and Captain MacLean, of H.M. frigate `Prinz Adalbert`. H.R.H. Prince Thomas of Savoy was attended by Count Candiani, A.D.C., and Captain Millelire of H.M.S. `Piemonte`.\n\nThe following is a list of the other guests who sat down to the banquet with their Royal Highnesses.\n\n| Guest | Designation |\n| --- | --- |\n| H.E. Dr. Elmore | |\n| His Honour Sir John Smale | Chief Justice |\n| Lady Smale | |\n| Captain East | H.M.S. `Conus`, Senior Naval Officer |\n| Hon. B. L. O'Malley | Attorney-General |\n| Hon. J. M. Price | Surveyor-General |\n| Hon. M. S. Tonnochy | Acting Colonial Treasurer |\n| Hon. Ng Choy | Member of Legislative Council |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice Snowden | |\n| Deputy Inspector-General Breen | R.N. |\n| Mrs. Breen | |\n| Dr. Ayres | Colonial Surgeon |\n| Mrs. Ayres | |\n| Rev. W. Jennings | Colonial Chaplain |\n| Mrs. Jennings | |\n| Dr. Eitel | Inspector of Schools |\n| Mrs. Eitel | |\n| Mr. Creagh | Acting Head of the Police Force |\n| Mr. J. P. McEuen | R.N., Acting Harbour-master |\n| Mr. Gerrard | Acting Registrar-General |\n| Mr. Gibbons | Registrar of Supreme Court |\n| Captain Carr | 27th Regiment (the Officers of the Guard of Honour) |\n| Lieutenant Cox | 27th Regiment (the Officers of the Guard of Honour) |\n| Captain Francis | Hongkong Volunteers, extra Aids-de-Camp |\n\nThe Band of Her Majesty's 27th Inniskillings played at intervals during the banquet. The only toast of the evening was given by Prince Thomas of Savoy, who proposed \"The health of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,\" and, addressing Prince Heinrich, added: \"Sir, Your Royal Grandmother.\" The Band played the National Anthem, and soon after the party adjourned to the Reception Room, which was presently filled with ladies and gentlemen attending the general reception.\n\nThe officers of the 27th Inniskillings came in body, with Lieutenant-Colonel Geddes, and were amongst the earliest presented. There was also a number of officers of Her Majesty's Navy and of the foreign ships of war in harbour, amongst whom were distinguished the officers of H.P.M.S. `Tejo`, who specially attended by order of H.E. the Governor of Macao. The Consular Body was also well represented. The whole assembly presented a most striking *tout ensemble* of Anglo-Oriental society, the uniforms of Her Majesty's Army and Navy and of the Consular Officers, glittering in scarlet and gold, being well set off by the soft yellow and embroidered court dresses of Chinese gentlemen, the richly coloured turbans and flowing robes of Mahomedans and Parsees, amid the fashionable costumes of European ladies.\n\nThe presentation lasted for more than an hour. In the course of the reception H.R.H. Prince Heinrich expressed to Mr. Sassoon and Mr. Belilios his regret that he would not be able to travel through India. He spoke also a few kindly words to the leading Chinese merchants Mr. Tan King-sing, Mr. Li Tak-cheung, Mr. Tung Ming-shan, and others.\n\nTheir Royal Highnesses left about half-past ten o'clock, whereupon dancing commenced soon after and was kept up till midnight, when the assembly broke up, after having enjoyed one of the most brilliant receptions ever held in the Government House of Hongkong.\n\nPage 223", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306005, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6]", "content_text": "# CELEBRATION OF THE QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE\n萬后皇祝恭府憲督在\n\nThe following is abridged from the Report in the “Daily Press”.\n左於錄署所報新喇孖將兹\n\nHis Royal Highness Prince HEINRICH of Germany, as Her Majesty's Grandson, and His Excellency Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, K.C.M.G., as the Queen's Representative in the Colony, received on the 24th instant, as joint hosts, at Government House, on Her Majesty's Birthday, His Royal Highness Prince THOMAS of Savoy, Duke of Genoa, at a State dinner, and subsequently their Royal Highnesses, with His Excellency the Governor and Lady HENNESSY, received the Naval, Military, and Civil Officers, the Foreign Consuls and a number of the British, foreign, and native residents in celebration of the day.\n\n本月二十四日在總督府恭祝萬壽同作主人宴請意大利多馬世子賜爵芝挪雅公爵大德國世子爲大英皇后外孫大德國世子與督部堂額爾近訥與其夫人接見水陸文武員弁各國領事闔港英華紳商等恭祝萬壽\n\nA Royal Guard of Honour of the 27th Inniskillings, under the command of Captain CARR, (with the Band and the Queen's Colour), was drawn at the principal entrance to Government House. His Royal Highness Prince HEINRICH and His Excellency the Governor received His Royal Highness the Duke of Genoa on his arrival; and after the invited guests, who had previously assembled in the drawing-room, had been introduced to His Royal Highness, the party filed into the dining-hall. His Royal Highness Prince HEINRICH was attended by Baron von SECKENDORFF, and Captain MacLEAN of H.I.G.M. Frigate `Prinz Adalbert`. His Royal Highness Prince THOMAS of Savoy was attended by Count CANDIANI, A.D.C., and Captain MILLELIRE of H. I. M. S. `Fettor Pesuni`.\n\n督憲府頭門恭代皇后看守時開理世子與燕制軍俟賜爵多馬世子駕到爱迎進所請赴宴賓客先聚官廳陸續晋謁世子然後各進膳客所先進官子皇后看守之帶兵官故也又有本港義勇都司兼第`27`營步兵都司嘉及守備郝以其爲恭代皇后看守之帶兵官大德亞他伯兵舶世子隨員則有男爵士堅訥與艦長麥意大利國多馬世子隨員則有子爵干第亞尼與飛多里艦長密\n\nThe following is a list of the other guests who sat down to the banquet with their Royal Highnesses.\n另將請陪世子同享福宴嘉賓列後\n\n| Guest | Title/Position |\n| --- | --- |\n| His Excellency Dr. ELMORE | |\n| His Honour the Chief Justice Sir JOHN SMALE | and Lady SMALE |\n| Captain East, R.N., H. M. S. `Comus` | Senior Naval Officer |\n| Hon. E. L. O'MALLEY | Attorney General |\n| Honourable J. M. PRICE | Surveyor General |\n| Honourable M. S. TONNOCHY | Acting Colonial Treasurer |\n| Honourable NO CHOY | Member of Legislative Council |\n| His Honour Mr. Justice SNOWDEN | |\n| Deputy Inspector-General BREEN, R.N. | and Mrs. BREEN |\n| Dr. AYRES | Colonial Surgeon, and Mrs. AYRES |\n| Revd. W. JENNINGS | Colonial Chaplain, and Mrs. JENNINGS |\n| Dr. EITEL | Inspector of Schools, and Mrs. EITEL |\n| Mr. CREAGH | Acting Head of the Police Force |\n| Mr. J. P. McEUEN, H.N. | Acting Harbour Master |\n| Mr. GERRARD | Acting Registrar General |\n| Mr. GIBBONS | Registrar of Supreme Court |\n| Captain Carr and Lieutenant Cox | 27th Regiment, (the Officers of the Guard of Honour) |\n| Capt. FRANCIS | Hongkong Volunteers: extra Aide-de-Camp |\n\n與其列者有按察司經歷劫士威與其夫人本港水師總統伊士艦長卑仁署理營醫醫生埃與其夫人國家醫師艾與其夫人國家牧師甄與其夫人監督學院歐與其夫人華民政務司車庫務司湯定例局紳伍副臬司士威督理營醫醫生卑署巡官官卑與其夫人第二十七營步兵都司嘉兒與守備哥士督部堂額外中軍法蘭些士\n\n224 \n\nS \n\nHONGKONG.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308059, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by -- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9]", "content_text": "THE DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, 1881.\n\nTO THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM KESWICK.\n\nSir—The subscribers to the accompanying testimonial have confided to us the duty of its presentation, and in their names and our own of saying to you a few words of farewell. The numerous signatures appearing in the appended subscription lists, representing every class and race of this community, will afford you the best testimony of the wide-spread appreciation entertained of your public career, but it will not be out of place for us to pass in brief retrospect some of the more eminent services you have rendered the Colony.\n\nChief among these stands the able and straightforward performance of your duties in the Legislative Council, where you have for so many years held a seat. In a Crown Colony the position of an Unofficial Member of this Council is full of discouragement; having no power of initiation, and with the certainty before him of being outvoted if in opposition, his task is limited to criticism of the schemes of the Government. Your labours in this direction have been of the highest importance and utility, and more especially as a guardian of the public purse the attitude you have unflinchingly maintained cannot, we think, be very well over-estimated.\n\nThe little leisure which the pressing responsibilities of a large Mercantile House have left you, you have ungrudgingly bestowed on many other public affairs. As Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce your wide experience and knowledge of business have been of the highest value. The City Hall owes much to your care and attention. Schemes of charity and for the assistance of the poor or friendless have ever found in you a real sympathiser; and there are but few institutions organised in this Colony for humane or charitable purposes that have not profited by your liberal aid and advice.\n\nNot less worthy of mention have been your services to many of those Public Companies with which much the prosperity of the Colony has now become identified. To your power of labour, business capacity, and grasp of detail, these important concerns are in no small degree indebted for the prosperity they enjoy; and it is no slight to others to say that probably to you more prominently than any one else, is due the confidence which joint-stock enterprise now enjoys in the Far East.\n\nWe now beg to bid you farewell, and with every wish for your enjoyment of your well-earned holiday, we remain, your sincere friends,\n\nE. F. ALFORD\n\nR. G. ALFORD\n\nADOLF ANDRE\n\nJ. R. ANTON\n\nF. H. AJANEE\n\nTHOS. ARNOLD\n\nP. B. C. AYEES\n\nM. E. AZGER\n\nF. H. D'AZEVEDO\n\nGEO. MURRAY BAIN\n\nW. N. BAIN\n\nJ. A. BARRETTO\n\nE. R. BELILIOS\n\nA. H. BENNING\n\nTHEO. T. BENING\n\nH. M. BEVIS\n\nARTHUR R. BLANDY\n\nF. DE BOVIE\n\nK. E. BRADDON\n\nA. DE BRITTO\n\nJ. F. BROADBENT\n\nE. BURNIE\n\nF. D. BURJ\n\nB. BYRAMJEE\n\nA. H. DE CARVALHO\n\nCHA FOO SAN\n\nG. DE CHAMPEAUX\n\nCHAN CHEONG WING\n\nCHAN LAY KUM\n\nCHAN SING\n\nCHAN YAU FANG\n\nCHAN YET LOW\n\nC. P. CHATER\n\nJ. T. CHATER\n\nCHAUK CHICK PU\n\nCHEEK NGOK LOW\n\nCHEUNG LUK U\n\nCHING SING YEUNG\n\nCHIU NOON\n\nCHOY CHER BEE\n\nCHOY CHOONG CHUN\n\nCHOY SINO NAM\n\nCHUN CHEONG TAI\n\nCHUN SANG\n\nDr. CLOUTH\n\nA. S. COHEN\n\nCHAN. C. COKER\n\nLO LAI PING\n\nLOOKE MOW\n\nJ. LOUREIRO\n\nLOW BEAR FIN\n\nLOW YVET CHWE\n\nLUNG CHEONG CHAN\n\nLUNG LENG\n\nI. LYALL\n\nA. MACCLYMONT\n\nJOHN MACGREGOR\n\nE. MACKEN\n\nE. MACKINTOSH\n\nH. C. MACLEAN\n\nG. F. JOU MAROMED\n\nHAJEE MAHOMED & Co.\n\nMAN YIK\n\nALFRED T. MANWARING\n\nJNO. FR. MARDFELDT\n\nD. M'CULLOCH\n\nA. MCCONACHIE\n\nA. P. MCEWEN\n\nA. MOIVER\n\nROBERT MCMURDO\n\nMEN LUN\n\nD. M. MEHTA\n\nK. M. MEHTA\n\nK. B. MEHTA\n\nE. MELETT\n\nE. M. MEHTA\n\nN. M. MEHTA\n\nA. E. MEYER\n\nH. MIRZA\n\nH. N. MODY\n\nS. D. MOOKSWEE\n\nW. M. MORGAN\n\nA. G. MORRIS\n\nJOHN A. MOSELY\n\nD. MUNCHERJEE\n\nS. A. NATHAN\n\nH. H. BLON\n\nA. NEWTON\n\nNG CHOW FONG\n\nJ. NOBLE\n\nH. A. NOORMAHOMED\n\nWILLIAM NOTT\n\nD. NOWROJEE\n\nNOM FAN\n\nE. PADANGY\n\nEDWARD COFA\n\nJ. P. DA COSTA\n\nP. A. DA COSTA\n\nJAMES H. COX\n\nA. COXON\n\nD. R. CRAWFORD\n\nWM. CRUICKSHANK\n\nH. L. DALRYMPLE\n\nWM. DANBY\n\nC. DANENBERG\n\nWILLIAM H. F. DANDY\n\nH. W. DAVIS\n\nJ. KENNARD DAVIS\n\nE. DEACON\n\nVICTOR B. DEACON\n\nC. J. M. DELGADO\n\nH. L. DENNYS\n\nHENRY DICKIE\n\nF. C. DITTMER\n\nW. E. H. DUSS\n\nA. J. EASTON\n\nA. EBRAHIM & Co.\n\nA. ELLERT\n\nG. B. EMORY\n\nHAJEE ADAM ESMAIL\n\nA. M. ESSAJIOT\n\nJ. FARBOW\n\nFONG SUI FUSE\n\nFOOK TAI\n\nH. DE COUROY FORBES\n\nW. FORREST\n\nH. FOES\n\nFRED. T. P. FOSTER\n\nFOW HENG LOONG\n\nJNO. J. FRANCIS\n\nFUN SHUN HONG\n\nFUNG TANG\n\nERICA GEORGE\n\nD. GILLINS\n\nT. G. GLOVER\n\nJ. GRANT\n\nF. GROBIEN\n\nM. GROTE\n\nF. D. GEZER\n\nA. APPANOR\n\nS. HANCOCK\n\nW. HARTIGAN\n\nC. H. HASWELL, JR.\n\nL. HAUSCHILD\n\nTHOS. C. HAYLLAR\n\nHIM KOT\n\nHING KEE\n\nHO MOK\n\nHO TONG\n\nCECIL HOLLIDAY\n\nGEO. HOLM\n\nH. HOPPIUS\n\nE. JONES HUGHES\n\nW. KERFOOT HUGHES\n\nFUNG CHEONG\n\nJOHN D. HUTCHISON\n\nH. HINDMAN\n\nWILLIAM HYNES\n\nR. INNES\n\nT. JACKSON\n\nF. JAMASJEE\n\nH. G. JAMAI\n\nA. B. JOHNSON\n\nE. B. JORY\n\nA. JORGE\n\nF. J. JORGE\n\nCHAS KAHN\n\nKI HENG CHEONG\n\nKOK YU CHUN\n\nKO LOW U\n\nKO MOON WAH\n\nKONG UN\n\nKOO LOONG\n\nKUM CHEONG TAI\n\nKWAN TAI\n\nKWOK MO CHO\n\nKWOK SUE LOW\n\nKWONG CHEONG LUNG\n\nKWONG FUNG\n\nKWONG LUN TAI\n\nBEI TRONG WAR UN\n\nG. R. LAMMEET\n\nLAM SING EK\n\nLEE PAK NUM\n\nLEE TAK CHEONG\n\nWILLIAM LEGGE\n\nLEONG CHAK LAM\n\nLEONG YEW SANG\n\nA. J. LEWIS\n\nLI HING\n\nLI PUN CHER\n\nLING HOK MOON\n\nC. PALLANTRE & Co.\n\nE. PALLANJEE\n\nB. C. PATELL\n\nJAIRAZBHOY PEERBROY\n\nJOSE MARIA G. PEREIRA\n\nL. PORSNECKER\n\nM. B. POLISH WALLA\n\nPOON WING CHUEN\n\nPUNG KI CHING\n\nQUOS FOOK LOONG\n\nE. U. RAY\n\nW. H. RAY\n\nWM. REINERS\n\nJ. DOS REMEDIOS\n\nJ. A. DOS REMEDIOS\n\nJ. H. DOS REMEDIOS\n\nA. J. V. RIBEIRO\n\nF. X. V. RIBEIRO\n\nC. W. RICHARDS\n\nG. O. ROGERS\n\nA. G. ROMANO\n\nTRES. I. ROSE\n\nKENNETH McK. ROSS\n\nWAT. ROSS\n\nP. S. DA ROZA\n\nHORMUSJI RUSTOMJEE\n\nS. RUSTOMJEE\n\nD. RUTTUNJEE\n\nP. RYEYE\n\nSA FOO TANG\n\nD. N. SAKLATVALA\n\nSAM HING\n\nSAM YET\n\nF. D. SAUNDON\n\nM. E. SAUNDON\n\nD. SAYLE\n\nB. SCHMACKER\n\nH. SCHONBERGER\n\nE. SCHWEBLIN\n\nSEE SHING WO\n\nEDMUND SHARP\n\nF. H. LAGUEK\n\nA. F. SMITH\n\nH. SMITH\n\nJ. CRADLEE SMITH\n\nW. McG. SMITH\n\nF. SNOWDEN\n\nM. SOUZA\n\nM. A. A. DE SOUZA\n\nJENSTON SQUIER\n\nR. STEIL\n\nFREDERICK STEWART\n\nSZE LUN\n\nSUS ON\n\nA. SVENSON\n\nSUN TAI LEE\n\nSUN TAI WO\n\nSUNG CHEONG LOONG\n\nTACK LEE\n\nTAI SAN TONG\n\nTAKO YER MAN\n\nTAI HENG\n\nTAI WING\n\nD. B. TATA\n\nJ. S. TAYLOR\n\nJOHN THURBURY\n\nB. F. TOLATEE\n\nTONG WO BONG\n\nH. J. H. TRIPP\n\nS. F. TUMBOLY\n\nU YOKE SAN\n\nUN QI U\n\nR. O. VANTA\n\nJ. Y. V. VERNON\n\nHARRY WICKING\n\nR. HATTERTON WILCOX\n\nT. G. WILLIAMSON\n\nWING CHEONG CHAN\n\nWING HUNG\n\nWING KEE\n\nWING MOW CHEONG\n\nWING YEE CHAN\n\nWO CHAN\n\nWO HANG\n\nWO LUN\n\nWONG CHAI SANG\n\nWONG HOK CHOW\n\nWONG YEK PUN\n\nE. L. WOODIN\n\nWILLIAM WOTTON\n\nYECK LOONG\n\nYEN LOONG\n\nYIP TAI\n\nYOW LOONG\n\nWILLIAM YOUNG, M.D.\n\nYOK LOONG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-194 - Governor Hennessy Administrator Tonnochy - 1881 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310030, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "Date on which permission was granted.\n\n-1880-\n\nAugust\n\nSeptember\n\nOctober\n\nNovember\n\n4th\n\nNames.\n\nAugust 14 George Frise, S.145 Tough Cutter & BUY ye Reverend Mr. Finnings. 14th Acting Sergeant Campbell. 19th William Watts.\n\nGeorge D. Tennessy, R.S. 6. G. Flemingham, P.15\n\n17. James Robertson, P. Don\n\nJohn Minhinnett.\n\n24 A Falconer.\n\n27 Thomas B. Beattie. P.CA...\n\nFebruary\n\nMarch 21st Inspector Reivers.\n\nApril 4 Maclean, PA.27.\n\nJune\n\nAugust\n\nInspector Cameron.\n\n8. I Ade Tavaths.\n\nLarwalks.\n\n10th John Tithes S.4.9\n\nJames, P., 42.\n\nDurrant, P.128\n\n8th Lauchlan Wokay. 9th Robert Simpson, P.1.748.\n\nC. O.\n\n20 396-L\n\n1J NOV-81\n\nCopy of the Booth-bial Hospital to being between siin\n\nCopy\n\nGovernment bial. Infitat.\n\nApril 551297.\n\nMemorandum to request that the amount in the enclosed cheque, viz. Twenty pounds (£20) may be transmitted for the faculty to Dr. Jessie Wharry of\n\nPurposes\n\nPark Mlace. Old Charlton, London S.E.\n\nShavere.\n\nRegent 57 b. J. Wherry has\n\nSuperintendent\n\nThe Hon: H. E. Wodehouse.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-195 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365384, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "page_number": 231, "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897", "content_text": "ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL.\n\nHongkong, 16th May, 1897.\n\nHONGKONG GARRISON.\n\nStatistics of Venereal Disease in the three years 1884-6 (before the abolition of the Contagious Diseases Acts), as compared with three years 1894-6 (after their abolition).\n\n1. RATIO PER 1,000-ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL.\n\nSIR,\n\nIn forwarding the accompanying statistical table of Venereal Diseases occurring in the men of the Squadron employed on the China Station in the year 1895, in accordance with your memo. of 12th inst., I have the honour to remark that the information therein tabulated is derived from the \"Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy\" for that year, the Report for 1896 not having yet been published.\n\nI would further observe that the mean force, corrected for time, employed on the Station in 1895 was 5,000.\n\n \n Disease\n 1884\n 1894\n 1885\n 1895\n 1886\n 1896\n \n \n Primary Syphilis\n 31.2\n 67.8\n 34.3\n 44.2\n 31.7\n 65.31\n \n \n Secondary Syphilis\n 23.2\n 67.8\n 24.7\n 63.4\n 38.3\n 106.12\n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 90.6\n 190.1\n 79.10\n 192.7\n 86.8\n 188.44\n \n \n Totals\n 145.0\n 325.7\n 138.1\n 300.3\n 156.8\n 359.87\n \n\n2. RATIO PER 1,000 CONSTANTLY INEFFICIENT.\n\n \n Disease\n 1884\n 1894\n 1885\n 1895\n 1886\n 1896\n \n \n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n\nTo Commodore Swinton C. Holland, A.D.G., R.N.\n\nStatistics of Venereal Diseases occurring in the Squadron on the China Station in the year 1895.\n\n(Signed)\n\nG. Maclean,\n\nDep. Insp. General.\n\n \n Disease\n No. of Cases\n Days Sickness\n On Board. In Hospital.\n Total.\n Ratio per 1,000 of Strength.\n \n \n Syphilis\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n \n \n Primary Syphilis\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 2.92, 6.39, 2.63, 3.91, 2.82, 5.51\n \n \n Secondary Syphilis\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 1.68, 5.84, 1.85, 4.32, 2.18, 8.32\n \n \n Gonorrhoea & Sequelae\n 350, 155, 642\n 6.604, 2.462, 9.944\n 2.569, 3.540, 3.852\n 9.173, 6.002, 13.796\n 70.0, 31.0, 128.4\n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 6.19, 12.19, 4.43, 14.85, 6.13, 12.18\n \n \n Totals\n 1,147\n 19.010\n 9.961\n 28.971\n 229.4\n \n \n Totals\n ...\n ...\n ...\n ...\n 10.79, 24.42, 8.91, 23.18, 11.13, 26.01\n \n\nAverage increase in ratio per 1,000 admissions for all forms of Venereal Disease 181.9\n\nAverage increase in ratio per 1,000 constantly sick for all forms of Venereal Disease 14.26\n\nHongkong, 6th July, 1897.\n\nSIR,\n\nThe statistics for the first four months of the present year (1897) show a further increase, the admissions and constantly sick being at the following ratio per 1,000.\n\nADMISSIONS.\n\nPrimary Syphilis 99.03\n\nSecondary Syphilis 101.10\n\nGonorrhoea 299.16\n\nTotals 499.29\n\nCONSTANTLY SICK.\n\n9.92\n\n8.18.\n\n20.94\n\n39.04\n\nThe statistics for 1884-5 and 6 include those of the Straits Settlements, but the figures are probably only slightly affected by this, the rates at Hongkong in those years being rather higher than at Singapore.\n\nMay, 1897.\n\nSIR,\n\nChina Association, Hongkong, to General Committee, London.\n\nHongkong, 29th May, 1897.\n\nIn continuance of statistics having reference to the control of Contagious Diseases, I beg to hand you returns received from the Naval Authorities here. These figures you will notice extend to 1895 only, but I am given to understand that you will have no difficulty in procuring at home similar figures for 1896, which have not yet reached Hongkong. I further enclose transcript of telegram despatched yesterday.\n\n\"Enforcement contagious ordinance imperative. Condition garrison deplorable.”\n\nFurther statistics are being prepared, and the working of the Contagious Diseases Act will be again referred to at an early date.\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. HENDERSON,\n\nHon. Secretary.\n\nR. S. Gundry, Esq., Hon Secretary,\n\nChina Association, London.\n\nHongkong Committee to General Committee.\n\nChina Association,\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in your favour of 29th April I have now the pleasure to hand you, in addition to those formerly sent, the accompanying documents having reference to the control of certain contagious diseases.\n\nIn calling these to your attention I desire to point out that the Local Medical Reports, though not consecutive, deal with a period of thirty-one years, and express the unanimous opinions of successive Colonial Surgeons (two of whom, Dr. Murray and Dr. Ayres had each long and intimate acquaintance with the Colony and a wide experience of the working of the Contagious Diseases Ordinances) as to the beneficial effects of medical supervision.\n\nThese reports speak emphatically, and are not less convincing of the terrible consequences brought about by abandonment of precautionary measures, than they are of the benefits which followed the enforcement of systematic control.\n\nPrevious to 1858, the year in which the Contagious Diseases Ordinances first came into operation, Hongkong had an evil repute as being a hot-bed of venereal disease, and of having developed syphilis of a particularly virulent type which became known as **\"Hongkong disease\"** and, following the ordinary course of contagious diseases when left uncontrolled, was widely disseminated.\n\nWith the introduction of the above Ordinances matters gradually improved, and year after year there followed a steady decrease in the number of cases and in the virulence of the disease until 1888 when it had almost disappeared, and Hongkong had become, in the opinion of both Army and Naval medical men, one of the healthiest stations, in respect to venereal diseases, in Her Majesty's dominions. Decadence followed the withdrawal of the Ordinances in 1888; and the records brought up to the present date afford the clearest evidence that as regards the prevalence of disease Hongkong has, in the absence of controlling influences, deteriorated to such an extent...\n\nPage 207", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374830, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899", "content_text": "Disease.\n\nPrimary Syphilis\n\n81-2\n\n67.8\n\n313\n\n41.2\n\n81-7\n\n65-31\n\nSecondary Syphilis 23.2\n\nGonorrhoea\n\n67.8\n\n24.7\n\n63.4\n\n38.3\n\n106·12\n\nHONGKONG GARRISON.\n\nStatistics of Venereal Disease in the three years 1884-6 (before the abolition of the Contagious Diseases Acts), as compared with three years 1894-6 (after their abolition),\n\n1. RATIO PER 1,000-ADMISSIONS INTO HOSPITAL.\n\n1884.\n\n1894.\n\n1885.\n\n1895.\n\n1886.\n\n1896.\n\nSIR,\n\nROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL.\n\nHongkong, 16th May, 1897.\n\nIn forwarding the accompanying statistical table of Venereal Diseases occurring in the men of the Squadron employed on the China Station in the year 1895, in accordance with your memo. of 12th inst., I have the honour to remark that the information therein tabulated is derived from the \"Statistical Report of the Health of the Navy\" for that year, the Report for 1896 not having yet been published.\n\nI would further observe that the mean force, corrected for time, employed on the Station in 1895 was 5,000.\n\n(Signed)\n\n90-6\n\n190-1\n\n79-10 192.7\n\n86.8 188-44\n\nTotals\n\n145·0 325-7\n\n138-1\n\n300-3 150-8 359.87\n\n2. RATIO PER 1,000 CONSTANTLY INEFFICIENT,\n\nTo Commodore Swinton C. Holland, A.D.G., R.N.\n\nStatistics of Venereal Diseases occurring in the Squadron on the China Station in the year 1895.\n\nG. Maclean,\n\nDep. Insp. General.\n\nDays Sickness.\n\nDisease.\n\n1884.\n\n1894.\n\n1885.\n\n1895.\n\n1886.\n\n1896.\n\nDisease.\n\nNo. of Cases.\n\nTotal.\n\nRatio per 1,000 of Strength.\n\nOn Board. In Hospital.\n\nPrimary Syphilis\n\n2.92\n\n6:39\n\n2.63\n\n3.91\n\n2.82\n\n5.51\n\nSecondary Syphilis 1.68\n\n5.84\n\n1.85\n\n4:32\n\n2.18\n\n8.32\n\nGonorrhoea\n\n6.19\n\n12-19\n\n4:43 14.85\n\nSyphilis\n\n6.13\n\n12.18\n\nTotals\n\n10-79\n\n24-42\n\n8.91\n\n23-18\n\n(Primary\n\nSecondary...\n\nGonorrhoea & Sequelae\n\n350 6.604\n\n155 2.462\n\n642 9-944\n\n2-569 9.173\n\n3-540 6.002\n\n3-852 13.796\n\n70-0\n\n31-0\n\n128.4\n\n11-13\n\n26.01\n\nAverage increase in ratio per 1,000 admissions for all forms\n\nof Venereal Disease\n\nTotals\n\n1,147 19-010\n\n9-961 28-971\n\n229-4\n\n181.9\n\nAverage increase in ratio per 1,000 constantly sick for\n\nall forms of Venereal Disease\n\n14-26\n\nThe statistics for the first four months of the present year (1897) show a further increase, the admissions and constantly sick being at the following ratio per 1,000,\n\nHongkong Committee to General Committee.\n\nChina Association,\n\nHongkong, 6th July, 1897.\n\nADMISSIONS.\n\nPrimary Syphilis Secondary Syphilis Gonorrhoea\n\n99-08\n\n101.10\n\n299·16\n\nTotals 499-29\n\nCONSTANTLY SICK.\n\n9.92\n\n8-18\n\n20.94\n\n39.04\n\nThe statistics for 1884-5 and 6 and include those of the Straits Settlements, but the figures are probably only slightly affected by this, the rates at Hongkong in those years being rather higher than at Singapore.\n\nMay, 1897.\n\nSIR,\n\nChina Association, Hongkong, to General Committee, London.\n\nHongkong, 29th May, 1897.\n\nIn continuance of statistics having reference to the control of Contagious Diseases, I beg to hand you returns received from the Naval Authorities here. These figures you will notice extend to 1895 only, but I am given to understand that you will have no difficulty in procuring at home similar figures for 1896, which have as yet not reached Hongkong. I further enclose transcript of telegram despatched yesterday.\n\n*\n\n\"Enforcement contagious ordinance imperative. Condition garrison deplorable.” Further statistics are being prepared, and the working of the Contagious Diseases Act will be again referred to at an early date.\n\n(Signed)\n\nF. HENDERSON,\n\nHon. Secretary,\n\nChina Association, London.\n\nR. S. Gundry, Esq., Hon Secretary,\n\nSIR,\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in your favour of 29th April I have now\n\nthe pleasure to hand you, in addition to those formerly sent, the accompanying documents having reference to the control of certain contagious diseases.\n\nIn calling these to your attention 1 desire to point out that the Local Medical Reports, though not consecutive, deal with a period of thirty-one years, and express the unanimous opinions of successive Colonial Surgeons (two of whom, Dr. Murray and Dr. Ayres bad each long and intimate acquaintance with the Colony and a wide experience of the working of the Contagious Disease Ordinances) as to the beneficial effects of medical supervision.\n\nThese reports speak emphatically, and are not less convincing of the terrible consequences brought about by abandonment of precautionary measures, than they are of the benefits which followed the enforcement of systematic control.\n\nPrevious to 1858, the year in which the Contagious Disease Ordinances first came into operation, Hongkong had an evil repute as being a hot-bed of venereal disease, and of having developed syphilis of a particularly virulent type which became known as **Hongkong disease** and, following the ordinary course of contagious diseases when left uncontrolled, was widely disseminated,\n\nWith the introduction of the above Ordinances matters gradually improved, and year after year there followed a steady decrease in the number of cases and in the virulence of the disease until 1888 when it had almost disappeared, and Hongkong had become, in the opinion of both Army and Naval medical men, one of the healthiest stations, in respect to venereal diseases, in Her Majesty's dominions. Decadence followed the withdrawal of the Ordinances in 1888; and the records brought up to the present date afford the clearest evidence that as regards the prevalence of disease Hongkong has, in the absence of controlling influences, deteriorated to such an extent\n\n156\n\n+\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-296 - Public Offices & Others - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384931, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 172, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "HON. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART'S IMPENDING DEPARTURE,\n\nA largely-attended meeting in connection with the College of Medicine for Chinese was held in the Legislative Council Chamber at four o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of presenting an address to the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Rector of the College, on the occasion of his departure for Weihaiwei.\n\nH.E., the Officer Administering the Government, Major-General W. J. Gascoigne, presided, and those present, in addition to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, were Dr. Clark (Dean of the College), Dr. Ho Kai, Dr. Thomson, Dr. R. Maclean, Dr. Gibson, Dr. Noble, Dr. Pearson, Mr. E. H. Sharp, Mr. D. Wood, Mr. F. Browne, and many students of the College.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Gentlemen, the object for which you have all met here to-day, as I think everybody here knows, is to take farewell of Mr. Stewart Lockhart, whose departure shortly from the Colony I deplore quite as much as any of you here can do. I do not propose to detain you longer than these few words, because I know you wish to get to the actual business for which you have come here to-day; and therefore I will now call upon Dr. Clark, Dean of the College, to proceed with the meeting.\n\nDr. CLARK, in presenting the address to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, said—Your Excellency and gentlemen, the honour has fallen upon me of presenting, in the name of the Court, the Senate, and the past and present students of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, a small token of our appreciation to our Rector, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, on the eve of his departure from those scenes wherein he has laboured for more than twenty years. The severance of old ties and friendships is at best but a saddening process, and I feel sure that, mingled with that justifiable pride at having been selected by His Gracious Majesty the King to govern the newest of our many British possessions in the Far East, Mr. Lockhart cannot but feel a sense of some great loss, some gap which can never again be bridged, that must ever temper the natural elation of one who has been called to wider spheres of action, and who leaves behind him the friendships of his youth and early manhood. Such a sense of loss, however, is even more keenly felt by those who are thus left behind, for upon these devolves the duty of carrying on the old routine, and, no easy task, of finding new helpers in the work that must be done. I need hardly remind you that Mr. Lockhart has been associated with our College from its first inception, and shares the no small honour of having worked for its advancement, in the early days of its history, with Manson, one of the great leaders of our glorious profession, and with those bygone worthies Stewart, Young, Chalmers, and Francis, who also are now but names in the Temple of Fame.\n\nFor seven years Mr. Lockhart has presided over the deliberations of our Court, and has furthered the aims of our College by every means in his power. His interest in the natives of China is proverbial, and it is not to be wondered at, therefore, that he saw clearly the immense benefits that must accrue to those of our people living among us, from the foundation of a school for the propagation of Western science and Western methods of treatment of the sick. We know that learning originated in the East and thence spread its benign influence to the West, and it is but just, therefore, that where the West has improved upon the East, where the little grain of knowledge has increased a hundredfold, that the Mother of Wisdom should reap a share of the harvest. Our aim, as a College, has been to spread the little knowledge that we have been privileged to acquire in our island home among our native fellow-citizens in this far-off Colony, and I think we may fairly claim that our roll of students and of diplomates bears ample evidence that our labours have not been in vain. Mr. Lockhart has done yeoman service in this cause, and we have assembled to-day to bear testimony to that service and to wish him God speed in the work that lies before him in the future. Our address, therefore, is no empty platitude, but the genuine heartfelt wish of a little band of workers whose loss is another's gain. With your permission, sir, I will now read the address and will ask you to hand it to Mr. Lockhart in the name of those who have assembled here to-day to do him honour.\n\nDr. Clark then handed the address, which was bound in a handsome cover faced with silver, to His Excellency, and he, in turn, presented it to Mr. Stewart Lockhart, who bowed his acknowledgments.\n\nThe address, which was extensively signed, read as follows:--\n\nTo the Honourable JAMES HAMILTON STEWART LOCKHART, Companion of the most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hong Kong, Rector of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese,\n\nHong Kong, 18th April, 1902.\n\nSIR,—Before you finally sever your long and distinguished connection with Hong Kong, and particularly with the College of Medicine for Chinese, we, the Members of the Court, Senate, and General Council, and past and present students, resident in the Colony, desire to convey to you our grateful acknowledgment and warm appreciation of the many and valuable services which you have rendered to the College since its inception. You are associated with Manson, Stewart, Young, Chalmers, Francis, Cantlie, and others, in the founding of the Institution in 1887, when you accepted the office of Treasurer. This office you held until 1895, when you were elected to succeed His Honour Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice, as Rector of the College. You have not rested content with occupying a purely honorary position, but as President of the Court and executive Head of the College, you have actively interested yourself in all the various schemes that have been proposed for the furtherance of the objects of the College and for its development. While rejoicing that you have been called to a position of greater responsibility and honour by His Majesty the King, we cannot refrain from an expression of our regret at the loss sustained by the College in your departure from the Colony; and we desire to assure you that you carry with you our hearty good wishes for your future welfare and for your early promotion to yet more important spheres of public usefulness.\n\nDr. KWAN KING LEUNG, one of the licentiates of the College, then spoke. He said—Your Excellency and gentlemen, on behalf of the past students of the College, I desire to say a few words expressive of our profound respect and veneration for our Rector, Mr. Stewart Lockhart, and offering to him our sincere and hearty thanks for his distinguished labours for the good of the College and of the students, since its foundation until now. Mr. Lockhart has taken a great interest in this College...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431037, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "# THE FIRST SCHEDULE\n\n## PART I, THE COURT\n\nThe following persons shall be the first Members of the Court:-\n\n### CHANCELLOR\nHis Excellency Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hongkong and its Dependencies (or the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong).\n\n### THE VICE-CHANCELLOR.\n\n### THE PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR.\n\n### TREASURER OF THE UNIVERSITY\nHon. Sir Catchick Paul Chater, Kt., C.M.G.\n\n### LIFE MEMBERS\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O. |\n| Sir Hormusjee Nowrojee Mody, Kt. |\n| Hon. Sir Catchick Paul Chater, Kt., C.M.G. |\n| James Henry Scott |\n| Cheung Pat Sz. |\n| Sir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G. |\n| Francis William Clark, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H. |\n| Hon. Mr. Henry Edward Pollock, K.C. |\n| Gregory Paul Jordan, M.B., C.M., M.R.C.S. |\n| Rev. Thomas William Pearce |\n| Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., M.B., M.R.C.S. |\n| Robert MacLean Gibson, M.D., C.M. |\n\nMembers of the Court of the Hongkong College of Medicine.\n\n### Ex-OFFICIO MEMBERS\n| Position |\n| --- |\n| The Chief Justice |\n| The Honourable Members of the Executive Council of Hongkong |\n| The Honourable Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong |\n| The Registrar General |\n| The Principal Civil Medical Officer |\n| The Director of Education |\n| The Dean of each Faculty of the University |\n| The Registrar of the University |\n\n### NOMINATED MEMBERS\n(To be nominated by His Excellency the Governor, not being already included in either of the foregoing classes and being resident in the Colony.)\n- Four British.\n- Six Chinese.\n- Two representatives of Asiatic races other than Chinese.\n- Three representatives of the Grant-in-Aid Schools in Hongkong to be selected by the Governor from among the nominees of the Governing Bodies of such schools.\n\nProvided that the Court shall be deemed to be sufficiently constituted for the purpose of transacting business immediately after the commencement of this Ordinance although any of the above-named members requiring to be appointed, selected or nominated have not been so appointed, selected or nominated.\n\n## PART II. THE COUNCIL\n\n### FIRST CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL\nSir F. J. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., for two years from the commencement of the Ordinance.\n\nThe following persons shall be the first Members of the said Council:-\n- The Vice-Chancellor.\n- The Treasurer of the University.\n- The Pro-Vice-Chancellor.\n- The Director of Public Works.\n- The Registrar General.\n- The Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n- The Director of Education.\n- Two British Members and three Chinese Members of the Court elected by the Court.\n- Four members of the Senate elected by the Senate of whom two shall be Professors or Lecturers whose services are exclusively at the disposal of the University and two other Lecturers.\n\nProvided that the Council shall be deemed to be sufficiently constituted for the purpose of transacting business immediately after the commencement of this Ordinance although any of the above-named members requiring to be appointed or elected have not been so appointed or elected.\n\n# THE SECOND SCHEDULE\n\n## STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY\n\n### Statute 1. PRELIMINARY\nThese Statutes shall be interpreted in such manner as not to conflict with the Ordinance. Words defined in the Ordinance or the Statutes shall have the same meaning in the Regulations unless the context be repugnant thereto.\n\n### Statute 2. THE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY\nThe following persons shall be Members of the University:\n- The Officers of the University, viz.:\n - The Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Treasurer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Deans of the Faculties, Registrar and Bursar.\n- The Members of the Court.\n- The Members of the Council.\n- The Members of the Senate.\n- The Members of the Faculties.\n- The Emeritus and Honorary Professors.\n- The Teaching Staff of the University.\n- The Graduates.\n- The Undergraduates.\n\nMembership of the University shall continue so long as one at least of the qualifications above enumerated shall continue to be possessed by the individual member.\n\n### Statute 3. THE OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY\n1. The Pro-Chancellor shall be elected for three years, and shall be eligible for re-election.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431038, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "page_number": 220, "title": "CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4]", "content_text": "## Statute 3.\n\n1. (Missing text, not provided)\n\n2. The Vice-Chancellor shall hold office for such period and under such conditions as shall be set forth in his Letter of Appointment as Principal.\n\n3. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor shall hold office for three years, and be eligible for re-election.\n\n4. The Treasurer shall be elected for three years and shall be eligible for re-election.\n\n5. The Dean of each Faculty shall be elected by the Board of that Faculty subject to the approval of the Senate and shall be appointed by the Council.\n\n6. The Dean shall, unless the Council with the consent of the Faculty otherwise direct, be Chairman of the Board of the Faculty and prepare business for it. He shall be a Member *ex-officio* of all Committees of the Faculty and shall present candidates for Degrees (except Honorary Degrees) in the subjects of the Faculty. He shall, except when otherwise directed by the Council, hold office for one year, and shall be eligible for re-election.\n\n7. The Council shall appoint a Registrar, Bursar and such other officers of the University as may be found desirable, with such duties, at such remuneration and upon such terms and conditions as it shall deem fit.\n\n8. The Registrar, if so required by the Council, shall act as Bursar of the University and may in that capacity be called upon to find such security as the Council may require.\n\n9. The Court shall from time to time appoint an Auditor or Auditors who shall not be a member or members of any of the University Governing Bodies.\n\n10. The Auditor's term of office shall be one year. The Auditor or Auditors shall be eligible for re-election.\n\n11. The Professors and Lecturers whose services are exclusively at the disposal of the University shall not engage in private professional practice except at the request of and in consultation with a private practitioner in general practice in the Colony, either during the tenure of their appointments or for a period of seven years following the termination of their engagements with the University.\n\n## Statute 4. THE COURT.\n\n1. The Court shall consist of the following persons:--\n### CLASS 1: \n- THE CHANCELLOR, \n- THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, \n- THE PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR \n- AND THE TREASURER OF THE UNIVERSITY,\n\n### CLASS 2 - LIFE MEMBERS.\n| Name | Title/Honors |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard | K.C.M.G., V.D., D.8.0. |\n| Sir Hormusjee Nowrojee Mody | Kt. |\n| Hon. Sir Catchick Paul Chater | Kt., C.M.G. |\n| James Henry Scott | |\n| Cheung Pat Sz | |\n| Sir Francis Henry May | K.C.M.G. |\n| Francis William Clark | M.U., M.G.O.P., D.P.H. |\n| Hon. Mr. Henry Edward Pollock | K.C. |\n| Gregory Paul Jordan | M.B., C.M., M.R.C.S. |\n| Rev. Thomas William Pearce | |\n| Hon. Dr. Ho Kai | C.M.G., M.B., M.R.C.S. |\n| Robert MacLean Gibson | M.D., C.M. |\n\nMembers of the Court of the Hongkong College of Medicine.\n\nAnd such other Life Members as the Court may from time to time appoint.\n\n### CLASS 3: Ex-Officio MEMBERS.\n- The Chief Justice.\n- The Honourable Members of the Executive Council of Hongkong.\n- The Honourable Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n- The Registrar General.\n- The Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n- The Director of Education.\n- The Dean of each Faculty of the University.\n- The Registrar of the University,\n\n### CLASS 4 - NOMINATED MEMBERS.\n(To be nominated by His Excellency the Governor not being already included in either of the foregoing classes, and being resident in the Colony,)\n- Four British.\n- Six Chinese.\n- Two representatives of Asiatic races other than Chinese.\n- Three representatives of the Grant-in-Aid Schools in Hongkong from among the nominees of the Governing Bodies of such schools.\n\n2. The *ex-officio* members shall continue members so long only as they hold the office in virtue of which they became members of the Court.\n\n3. The nominated members shall hold office for three years.\n\n4. Vacancies shall be filled as they occur or as soon thereafter as conveniently may be.\n\n5. Members retiring by effusion of time may be re-appointed or re-elected.\n\n6. Any member of the Court may resign by writing addressed to the Court, and in that case the vacancy shall be filled by the Court.\n\n7. The above provisions so far as applicable shall apply to the first members of the Court.\n\n8. The appointment of each member of the Court shall be notified in the Gazette.\n\n## Statute 5. MEETINGS OF THE COURT AND QUORUM.\n\n1. The Meetings of the Court shall be held at such times, and in such places and its procedure shall be controlled in such manner as shall be prescribed by Rules made by the Court.\n\n2. Seven Members of the Court shall form a quorum.\n\n## Statute 6. POWERS OF THE COURT.\n\nThe Court may upon the recommendation of the Council and Senate appoint Honorary Professors and upon the like recommendation confer the title of Emeritus Professor upon any Professor who has retired from his office: Provided that an Honorary or Emeritus Professor shall not *ex-officio* have the right to a seat on the Senate or on the Board of any Faculty but may be invited by the Council on the recommendation of the Senate to take such part in the teaching of the University as may be determined from time to time.\n\n## Statute 7. THE COUNCIL.\n\n1. The Council shall consist of the following members, viz. 1- \n\n212", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-376 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 400, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 1.\n\nSir,\n\nHongkong, 12th May 1911.\n\nRe Training Institute for Chinese Nurses and Midwives.\n\nI have the honour to forward you herewith a petition to His Excellency the Governor, signed by the Revd. Herbert Richmond Wells, Dr. Robert Maclean Gibson, the Honourable Dr. Ho Kai and myself, praying for the grant of a piece of Crown Land at the back of the Ho Miu Ling Hospital for the erection of the above Institute, also two plans and a Memorandum re pupil midwives signed by the Medical Superintendent of the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital.\n\nI shall be glad if you will kindly submit the same for His Excellency's kind consideration.\n\nThe Honourable Mr. C. Clementi, Colonial Secretary.\n\nI am, etc...\n(Sd.) S. W. Tso.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436874, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "content_text": "# THE FIRST SCHEDULE.\n\n## PART I.\n\n### THE COURT.\n\nThe following persons shall be the first Members of The Court:-\n\n#### CHANCELLOR,\n\nHis Excellency Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Hongkong and its Dependencies (or the Officer Administering the Government of Hongkong).\n\n#### THE VICE-CHANCELLOR.\n\n#### THE PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR.\n\n#### THE TREASURER OF THE UNIVERSITY:\n\nHon. Sir Catchick Paul Chater, Kt., C...\n\n#### LE MEMBERS.\n\nSir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.\n\nSir Hormusjee Nowrojee Mody, Kt.\n\nHon. Sir Catchick Paul Chater, Kt., C...\n\nJames Henry Scott.\n\nCheung Pat Sz.\n\nSir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G.\n\nFrancis William Clark, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H.\n\nHon. Mr. Henry Edward Pollock, K.C.\n\nGregory Paul Jordan, M.B., C.M., M.R.C.S.\n\nRev. Thomas William Pearce.\n\nHon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., M.B., M.R.C.S.\n\nRobert MacLean Gibson, M.D., C.M.\n\nMembers of the Court of the Hongkong College of Medicine.\n\n#### EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS.\n\nThe Chief Justice.\n\nThe Honourable Members of the Executive Council of Hongkong.\n\nThe Honourable Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nThe Registrar General.\n\nThe Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nThe Director of Education.\n\nThe Dean of each Faculty of the University.\n\nThe Registrar of the University.\n\n#### NOMINATED MEMBERS.\n\n(To be nominated by His Excellency the Governor, not being already included in either of the foregoing classes and being resident in the Colony.)\n\nFour British.\n\nSix Chinese.\n\nTwo representatives of Asiatic races other than Chinese.\n\nThree representatives of the Grant-in-Aid Schools in Hongkong to be selected by the Governor from among the nominees of the Governing Bodies of such schools,\n\nProvided that the Court shall be deemed to be sufficiently constituted for the purpose of transacting business immediately after the commencement of this Ordinance although any of the above named members requiring to be appointed, selected or nominated have not been so appointed, selected or nominated.\n\n## PART II.\n\n### THE COUNCIL.\n\n#### FIRST CHAIRMAN OF COUNCIL.\n\nSir F. J. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., for two years from the commencement of the Ordinance,\n\nThe following persons shall be the first Members of the said Council:-\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor.\n\nThe Treasurer of the University.\n\nThe Pro-Vice-Chancellor\n\nThe Director of Public Works.\n\nThe Registrar General.\n\nThe Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nThe Director of Education,\n\nTwo British Members and three Chinese Members of the Court elected by the Court.\n\nFour members of the Senate elected by the Senate of whom two shall be Professors or Lecturers whose services are exclusively at the disposal of the University and two other Lecturers.\n\nProvided that the Council shall be deemed to be sufficiently constituted for the purpose of transacting business immediately after the commencement of this Ordinance although any of the above named members requiring to be appointed or elected have not been so appointed or elected.\n\n# THE SECOND SCHEDULE.\n\n## STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY\n\n### Statute 1. PRELIMINARY.\n\nThese Statutes shall be interpreted in such manner as not to conflict with the Ordinance.\n\nWords defined in the Ordinance or the Statutes shall have the same meaning in the Regulations unless the context be repugnant thereto.\n\n### Statute 2.\n\n#### THE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY.\n\nThe following persons shall be Members of the University\n\nThe Officers of the University, viz.:-\n\nThe Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Treasurer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Deans of the Faculties, Registrar and Bursar.\n\nThe Members of the Court.\n\nThe Members of the Council.\n\nThe Members of the Senate.\n\nThe Members of the Faculties.\n\nThe Emeritus and Honorary Professors.\n\nThe Teaching Staff of the University.\n\nThe Graduates.\n\nThe Undergraduates.\n\nMembership of the University shall continue so long as one at least of the qualifications above enumerated shall continue to be possessed by the individual member.\n\n### Statute 3.\n\n#### THE OFFICERS OF THE UNIVERSITY.\n\n1. The Pro-Chancellor shall be elected for three years, and shall be eligible for re-election.\n\nPage 257", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436875, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "page_number": 265, "title": "CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911", "content_text": "10 \n\n2. The Vice-Chancellor shall hold office for such period and under such conditions as shall be set forth in his Letter of Appointment as Principal. \n\n3. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor shall hold office for three years, and be eligible for re-election. \n\n4. The Treasurer shall be elected for three years and shall be eligible for re-election. \n\n5. The Dean of each Faculty shall be elected by the Board of that Faculty subject to the approval of the Senate and shall be appointed by the Council. \n\n6. The Dean shall, unless the Council with the consent of the Faculty otherwise direct, be Chairman of the Board of the Faculty and prepare business for it. He shall be a Member ex-officio of all Committees of the Faculty and shall present candidates for Degrees (except Honorary Degrees) in the subjects of the Faculty. He shall, except when otherwise directed by the Council, hold office for one year, and shall be eligible for re-election. \n\n7. The Council shall appoint a Registrar, Bursar and such other officers of the University as may be found desirable, with such duties, at such remuneration and upon such terms and conditions as it shall deem fit. \n\n8. The Registrar, if so required by the Council, shall act as Bursar of the University and may in that capacity be called upon to find such security as the Council may require. \n\n9. The Court shall from time to time appoint an Auditor or Auditors who shall not be a member or members of any of the University Governing Bodies. \n\n10. The Auditor's term of office shall be one year. The Auditor or Auditors shall be eligible for re-election. \n\n11. The Professors and Lecturers whose services are exclusively at the disposal of the University shall not engage in private professional practice except at the request of and in consultation with a private practitioner in general practice in the Colony, either during the tenure of their appointments or for a period of seven years following the termination of their engagements with the University. \n\nStatute 4. \n\nThe Court. \n\n1. The Court shall consist of the following persons:- \n\nCLASS 1:--THE CHANCELLOR, THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, THE PRO-VICE-CHANCELLOR AND THE TREASURER OF THE UNIVERSITY. \n\nCLASS 2:-LIFE MEMBERS. \n\nSir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., LL.D. \n\nSir Hormusjee Nowrojee Mody, Kt. \n\nHon. Sir Catchick Paul Chater, Kt., C.M.G. \n\nJames Henry Scott. \n\nCheung Pat Sz. \n\nSir Francis Henry May, K.C.M.G. \n\nFrancis William Clark, M.D., M.R.C.P., D.P.H. \n\nHon. Mr. Henry Edward Pollock, K.C. \n\nGregory Paul Jordan, M.D., C.M., M.R.C.S. \n\nRev. Thomas William Pearce. \n\nHon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., M.B., M.R.C.S. \n\nRobert MacLean Gibson, M.D., C.M. \n\nMembers of the Court of the Hongkong College of Medicine. \n\nAnd such other Life Members as the Court may from time to time appoint. \n\nCLASS 3:—Ex-Officio MEMBERS. \n\nThe Chief Justice. \n\nThe Honourable Members of the Executive Council of Hongkong. \n\nThe Honourable Members of the Legislative Council of Hongkong. \n\nThe Registrar General. \n\nThe Principal Civil Medical Officer. \n\nThe Director of Education. \n\nThe Dean of each Faculty of the University, \n\nThe Registrar of the University. \n\nCLASS 4:---NOMINATED MEMBERS. \n\n(To be nominated by His Excellency the Governor not being already included in either of the foregoing classes, and being resident in the Colony.) \n\nFour British. \n\nSix Chinese. \n\nTwo representatives of Asiatic races other than Chinese. \n\nThree representatives of the Grant-in-Aid Schools in Hongkong from among the nominees of the Governing Bodies of such schools. \n\n2. The ex-officio members shall continue members so long only as they hold the office in virtue of which they became members of the Court. \n\n3. The nominated members shall hold office for three years. \n\n4. Vacancies shall be filled as they occur or as soon thereafter as conveniently may be. \n\n5. Members retiring by effluxion of time may be re-appointed or re-elected. \n\n6. Any member of the Court may resign by writing addressed to the Court, and in that case the vacancy shall be filled by the Court, \n\n7. The above provisions so far as applicable shall apply to the first members of the Court. \n\n8. The appointment of each member of the Court shall be notified in the Gazette. \n\nStatute 5. \n\nMEETINGS OF THE COURT AND QUORUM. \n\n1. The Meetings of the Court shall be held at such times, and in such places and its procedure shall be controlled in such manner as shall be prescribed by Rules made by the Court. \n\n2. Seven Members of the Court shall form a quorum \n\nStatute 6. \n\nPOWERS OF THE COURT. \n\nThe Court may upon the recommendation of the Council and Senate appoint Honorary Professors and upon the like recommendation confer the title of Emeritus Professor upon any Professor who has retired from his office: Provided that an Honorary or Emeritus Professor shall not ex-officio have the right to a seat on the Senate or on the Board of any Faculty but may be invited by the Council on the recommendation of the Senate to take such part in the teaching of the University as may be determined from time to time. \n\nStatute 7. \n\nTHE COUNCIL. \n\n1. The Council shall consist of the following members, viz.:-- \n\n258", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-387 - Individuals - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446821, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "334\n\nh. MARTIN CLARK On MALARIA.\n\n...\n\nthe Canal of St. Martin was excavated. ▲ most fatal fever devastated Hong Kong when the hill behind the city was broken up for building purposes. Labuan was ravaged by malaria when the harbour works were constructed, and, in my own experience, the laying out of some sixty miles of new railway, which entailed a good deal of earth-work, was accompanied by severe malarial fevers. Subsoil water is a potent factor in malaria-production.\n\nDeadly malaria may be present where the surface is composed solely of rock and there is no subsoil water. The most famous case on record is the hill behind the city in Hong Kong. The rock is pure granite, but Dr. Maclean states that it is disintegrated and loaded with fungi, while another observer, Dr. Black, states that it is \"so porous that it is something like a mineral bog.\" In the absence of rain and subsoil water, moisture must, I should think, be supplied by heavy dew. But in all instances of malarial disease occurring in places where they cannot, apparently, be locally produced, we must not forget the possibility of infection from a distance.\n\nMalaria appears to be heavier than air, and, given winds powerful enough to propel it but not strong enough to dispel it, there is no valid reason why it should not be carried considerable distances. The density of malaria is also noteworthy in another way. In comparatively flat countries, bordered by hills, any little valley or hollow is a most dangerous place between sunset and a short time after sunrise. This fact concerning the weight of malaria has its practical application in the...\n\n...\n\n27\n\nnotes\n\nA", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 460388, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "page_number": 521, "title": "CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2]", "content_text": "Harrison, E. J. Harrold, P. Harrold, T. P. Haraton, J. S. Harstou, W. E. *Harwood, H. G. **Harwood, W. Haskell, D. **Haskell, J. S. \n\n*Haslam, W. II. \n\nHastings, Geo. \n\n*Hastings, John \n\n*Hastings, John H. \n\nHatch, J. J. \n\nHatch, John N. \n\n90 \n\nHogg, A. V. Hogg, E. J. Holland, T. A. Holliday, C. *Holliday, Cecil W. \n\nHolyoak, P. H. \n\nHooper, A. S. \n\nHooper, E. S. \n\nHooper, E. R. \n\nHough, T. F. \n\n*Houle, E. J. \n\nHouston, M. H.. \n\nHudson, L. S. \n\nHowell, E. B. \n\nHowell, L. H. \n\nHowell, W. M. \n\n*Hatch, Sir E. F. G., Bt. \n\nHawkins, V. A. C. \n\nHayward, H. E. \n\nHayter, H. W. G. \n\nHayward, W. \n\nHead, C. J. \n\nHesling, L. J. \n\nHearne, A. G. Hearne, V. A. Heath, G. 0. \n\n*Henderson, W. S. \n\nHeffer, F. C. \n\n*Heimann, C. A. \n\nHellyer, T. W. \n\nHenson, H. V. \n\nHerliby, T. \n\nHeseltine, C. \n\nHertz, Martin C. V. \n\n*Hewat, H. \n\nHewett, A. S. \n\n*Hughes, S. \n\nHummel, R. Ure Humphreys, C. G. Humphreys, H. Humphreys, W. Humphreys, W. G. Hunt, E. C. Huut, John *Hunt, H. J. \n\nElunt, W. H. Hunter, H. Hunter, H. E. R. \n\nHunter, J. \n\nHunter, W. \n\nJames, J. F. Janies, J. M. \n\nJameson, F. A. \n\nJameson, V. S. \n\nJamieson, E. G. \n\nJamieson, Geo., C.M.G, \n\nJanion, E. M. \n\nJaques, A. H. \n\n*Jardine, Sir R.W. Buchanan., \n\nBart. \n\nJenkin, Riobard *Johnson, A. B. \n\nJohnson, G. A. \n\nJohnson, Ja8. \n\n*Johnston, James, M.D. \n\nJohnstone, J. \n\nJones, A. E. \n\n*Jones, Douglas Jones, Fredk. ++Jones, H. D. C. \n\nJones, Jas. \n\nJones, J. W. Jones, L. E. P. \n\nJones. P. Douglas Jones, P. L. \n\n*Jones, R. Fenemore **Joseph, H. H. \n\nJoyce, R. B. Judah, J. E. \n\nHutchison, H. D. \n\n*Jukes, M. P. *Jupp, J. A. \n\nHutchison, J. D, Hyod, R. R. Hynes, A. C. \n\nHewett, Hon. E. A., O.M.G. \n\nHibbs, J. F. \n\nI \n\nHickling, N. W. \n\nHide, A. \n\n*Hickling, Horace \n\nHiginbotham, H. B \n\nHill, C. J. G. \n\nHill, F. W. \n\n**Hill, Robert H. \n\nHill, V. F. Oakley \n\n*Hiller, H. King \n\nHillier, H. M. \n\n**Hillier, Sir Walter C. \n\nK.C.M.G., U.B, \n\nHine, E. S. \n\nIbbotson, H. J. \n\n\"Inchbald, Chantry \n\n*Inchcape Baron, of Stratlinaver, \n\nG.C.M.G., K.C.I.E. \n\nInglis, W. F. \n\nInman, R. F. \n\n*Irving, J. Bell \n\n*Irving, J. J. Bell \n\nIrwin, J. 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B. \n\nHiscock, F. H. *Hobson, H. E. *Hoare, C. S. Hodges, G. \n\nLemon, C. A. \n\nLeslie, S. \n\nLester, H. Lester, H. W. Lavack, T. A. Leveson, W. E. Levy, H. Levy, S. A. *Lewis, Caleb Lewis, L. S. \n\nLiao, F. J. Libeaud, E. J. *Liddell, C. 0. \n\nLiddell, John 0. \n\nLiddell, K. C. 0. \n\nLiddell, P. W. o. \n\nLind, J. H. \n\nLines, A. J. Lindsay, G. S. \n\n*Lindsay-Smith, F. A., J.P. \n\nLinton, A. R. \n\n91 \n\nLitchfield, H. C. \n\nLittle, E. S. \n\nLittle, O. S. \n\nLittle, W. D. Livingstone, W Livingstone, W. S. Looker, H. W. Lovely, J. H. *Lowder, E. Gordon \n\nLowe, A. R. Lowson, A. B. \n\nLucas, S. E. \n\n*Lyon, M. J. \n\nMacbeth, J, \n\nM \n\nMacdonald, Rt. Hon. Sir Claude, P.C., G.C.M.G., G.O.V.O., K.C.B. \n\n*MacEwen, A. P. \n\n*MacGregor, A. G. *Macgregor, J. J. Macgregor, John Macgregor, N. C. Macgregor, R. MacHaffie, D. Mackay, E. F. \n\nMackenzie, C. Grant Mackenzie, Capt. Donald Mackenzie, J. W. Mackenzie, R. Mackie, C. Gordon Mackinnon, J. B. A. *Mackintosh, C., LL.D. *Mackintosh, D. H. *Mackintosh, J. B. \n\nMackintosh-Bbaw, A. J. \"Maclean, Peter \n\nMacleod, Neil, M.D. Macleod, R. N. Macnamara, T. H. MacNaughton, H. G. Macoun, J. H. *Macray, H. A. J. MacVicar, W. G. Maguire, C. R. Maher, D. Main, G. D. Maitland, E. W. Maitland, F. *Maitland, Hany \n\nMaitland, N. G. Malcolm, H. W. \n\nMan, H. M. S. \n\n*Manger, A. T. *Manson, Sir Patrick, \n\nG.C.M.C., M.D., F.R.S., F.R.C.P. \n\nMarescaux, Lee \n\nMarah, A. \n\nMarsh, E. L., M.D. Marshall, A. C. \n\n*Marshall, A. M. \n\nMarshall, D. \n\nMarshall, F. L. \n\nMarshall, Fred. Brougham \n\nMorehall, G. V. T. \n\nMarshall, R. J., M.D. \n\nMarshall, R. N. \n\nMartin, C. K. M. \n\nMartin, H. S. \n\nMartin, J. \n\nMartin, R. C. \n\nMartyr, J. W. \n\nMason, J. D. \n\nMason, W. B. Massey, P. W Mathias, Capt. Mandling, A. Maxwell, C. L. \n\nMay, E. A. G. \n\nMay, Sir Henry F., K.O.M.G. \n\n*Mayers, F. J. \n\nMayers, S. F. Mayne, Chas, \n\nMaze, F. W. McArthur, D. C. McBain, R. S. F. *McCallum, W. R. \n\nMcClure, A. J. McClure, J. McColl, D. McDonald, W. McDonnell, H. \n\nMcDougall, Dr. H. McEuen, K. J. McEwen, H. J. McGillivray, Jaa. P. *McGrath, W. \n\nMcIsaac, Jas. R. McLean. A. W. *McLoughlin, E. \n\nMcMurtrie, J. A. F. McMurtrie, J. H. T. McNaughton, W. B. McNeill, D. *Medhurst, G. H. Melluish, G. J. \n\nMerrill, E. J. \n\n518", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-431 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496074, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923", "content_text": "152\n\nthe Southern provinces and is therefore more than ever desirous of assuring for himself a more sympathetic neighbour in the Colony of Hongkong.\n\nKr. Ch'en was very insistent that I should take some action to make Dr. Sun's present attitude known to the proper British Authorities and hinted that an interview between Dr. Sun and the Governor of Hongkong would be desirable, but I repeated that while Dr. Sun's professions remained so widely at variance with his actions, I personally could see little hope of any improvement in relations.\n\nShould you consider it desirable that any official notice be taken of these overtures, I would venture to suggest that His Majesty's Consul-General at Canton might be authorized to transmit to His Excellency the Governor any observations which Dr. Sun's representative at Canton might be instructed to make on the subject, and I could then inform Dr. Ch'en that this was the proper channel for communication with Hongkong.\n\nAs Mr. Denham is leaving here for Hongkong to-day I am sending by him a private letter to Sir Ronald Macleay in which I have enclosed copies of my despatch No.12 and of this despatch, with the explanation that these have not been communicated either to the Governor or to Mr. Jamieson pending instructions from yourself.\n\nI have, etc.\n\n**(Sd)** **J. BARTON,** \nConsul-General", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-482 - Public Offices - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497190, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "Home Office, \n9th July, 1923.\n\n430\n\n: \nto have the figures in the Table on page 177 carefully checked and brought up to date. At the same time I think it would be very desirable, in the case of the Colonies whose rate of consumption is high as compared with other Colonies, to remind them that special attention will have to be paid to this point in their examination of the proposals of the Advisory Committee, as it will be very difficult for the British Government to defend such a high rate of consumption.\n\nYours sincerely, \nMalcolm Delevigne\n\nDear Grindle, \n\nWe have received a letter from the Foreign Office dated 22nd June (and are informed a similar letter has been addressed to you) enclosing a dispatch from Sir Ronald Macleay at Peking, on the subject of the activities of the Peking International Anti-Opium Association. The Foreign Office want to know whether we can provide material for a reply to the criticisms made by the Association upon the opium policy of certain British Colonies, particularly the Straits Settlements and British North Borneo, and I presume they have made the same request to you.\n\nI am afraid it will be very difficult to prepare a defence of those two Colonies which public opinion generally would consider satisfactory. They do compare, of course, very unfavourably with most other places, and everybody knows that this is so. I enclose a Table which was prepared for the Opium Advisory Committee at its recent meeting.\n\nIn your letter to us of the 12th August last (`36956/22`) you suggested several reasons why the consumption in North Borneo would naturally be higher than in Hong Kong, but I doubt if we can, in the light of Part II of the Opium Convention, defend the enormous excess of consumption in the Straits Settlements and North Borneo. (By the way, the figures in the Table do not tally with those in your letter of 12th August, and if the Table is right North Borneo is much worse than appears from your letter.) I am inclined to think therefore that the wiser course is for the Embassy at Peking to leave Dr. Aspland's attacks unanswered, and if we are questioned about the matter here, to reply that the Government's policy is contained in the proposals submitted to the Opium...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498322, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 495, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "473 \n7 \n: \nFor \n519 15/29 \n\n**of paramount importance to this Colony and to British trade in China of the establishment of a stable Government in Canton, I should be induced to turn a blind eye to the shipment of arms**, provided that he could show me that the Consul General was favourably disposed to the scheme. I find it difficult to believe that anybody who knew me as intimately as Mr. Stephen did could have formed this opinion but if that is not the explanation I am at a loss to suggest any.\n\n5. So far as I can recollect, the only time that Mr. Stephen ever spoke to me about the Merchant Volunteers was sometime in the year 1923, whether before or after his letter to the Consul General I cannot remember, but probably before. He told me that such a corps was being formed and that he had been asked to ascertain whether, if Dr Sun Yat Sen agreed, I could allow them to buy a quantity of arms and ammunition from the confiscated stocks of which we had large numbers in store. I replied that I was certain His Majesty's Government would not listen to the suggestion and I could not, of course, do anything without their permission. The subject then dropped and I feel fairly certain that he never mentioned it again.\n\n6. I may observe that it was not until after the \"Hew\" had reached Canton that I realized that the arms on board her were intended for the Merchant Volunteers. My telegrams of 25th and 30th of July and 2nd of August were sent under the impression that the shipment was intended for Dr Sun Yat Sen's Government.\n\nThe interview with Mr. Law, Acting Commissioner of Customs, which is referred to in Mr. Giles' despatch No.140 to Sir R. Macleay, took place on the 10th of June but of course he did not then know by what vessel the arms would...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501635, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 662, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "uprising from his refuge in the settlement, which he had left to resume the command of his troops and initiate a renewal of hostilities round Shanghai. The principal consuls accordingly represented to their Ministers that the Consular Body be authorised to refuse the asylum of the settlements during the present troubles to all Chinese military commanders, the latter being defined as all officers holding, or who had recently held, the rank of general, as well as to their political intermediaries. As a result of a meeting of the Diplomatic Body a reply was despatched to the senior consul in the form of a resolution adopted by the foreign representatives to the following effect :-\n\nResolved that with a view to maintaining the neutrality of Shanghai, and for the protection of foreign life and property therein, the Consular Body are authorised, as an emergency measure and during the continuance of fighting and the presence of bodies of troops near Shanghai (but no longer), and without referring the matter to the Diplomatic Body, in their discretion to expel from the international settlement (or to refuse admission thereto) Chinese military leaders (being any officer with the rank of general now or recently having active command of troops), and political chiefs who serve as the intermediaries of such militarists, who may, in the opinion of the Consular Body, use the settlement for fitting out military expeditions or otherwise as a base of military operations. or for political agitation.\n\nIt was understood that the French Minister would send similar instructions to his consul-general in regard to the French concession. At the same time the consuls were reminded of the directions of the Diplomatic Body when a similar question arose in November on Sun Yat-sen's arrival in Shanghai, to the effect that Chinese military or political leaders arriving at Shanghai or already installed there should be amicably but clearly warned by the foreign authorities concerned that no political or military activity on their part would be allowed, and would be followed by an immediate request to leave (see paragraph 5 of my despatch No. 757 of the 29th November). It subsequently transpired that the French authorities were making difficulties about the precise interpretation of these instructions (in accordance with their customary tendency to keep on good terms with all parties and factions), but the Dean's telegram has been transmitted by the consuls concerned to the municipal council of the international settlement for the necessary action.\n\n13. The question of the removal of the arsenal, which constitutes one of the principal bones of contention attracting rival Chinese militarists to contend for the control of the Shanghai area, has of course long been on the tapis, and I had made representations on the subject last autumn to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (then Dr. Koo), who had received them sympathetically, and had stated that Marshal Wo Pei-fu intended to deal with the matter of the removal as soon as hostilities ceased. On the 17th December the senior Minister had handed in at the Wai-chiao Pu the following memorandum :-\n\nDuring the last few years the vicinity of the international settlement of Shanghai has repeatedly been the scene of fighting between contending Chinese armies.\n\nWith a view to affording protection to foreign life and property as well as to the lives and properties of the peaceful Chinese inhabitants of the settlements, the foreign Powers have on several occasions been compelled to take various military precautions.\n\nThe foreign Powers are thus often placed in an extremely embarrassing position, and it is evident that it would be far better for them, as well as for China, if ways and means were found to avoid in future that the immediate neighbourhood of the settlement at Shanghai become again the scene of military action.\n\n\"This could be attained by the removal of that part of the Kiangnan arsenal which manufactures military supplies, and of the Lunghua powder factory. which latter, moreover, constitutes a perpetual danger to the ever-increasing number of dwelling houses in its neighbourhood.\n\nThese two institutions are the prize for which the contending parties always strive in every conflict, and which make military operations on a large scale in the surrounding country of Shanghai a foregone conclusion whenever hostilities break out between the military chiefs of the Lower Yang-tsze region. \"The removal once and for all of the Kiangnan arsenal and the Lunghua powder factory from the immediate vicinity of Shanghai to some more suitable locality in the Province of Kiangsu, more remote from China's greatest shipping port and commercial centre, would not only remove a source of frequent anxiety for the community of Shanghai, it would also relieve the foreign Powers of an unpleasant and embarrassing duty, and would finally contribute in no small measure to the consolidation of friendly relations between the Chinese Central Government and the Powers.\n\nThese reasons seem to the heads of Legation of sufficient weight to warrant their suggestion to the Chinese Government to take this matter into serious consideration, and to devise means to ensure in this way peace and tranquillity to Shanghai and its neighbourhood.\n\nWhen the matter was brought up again last month the Peking Government themselves took the initiative by issuing on the 15th January a series of mandates abolishing the post of Defence Commissioner at Shanghai, ordering the cessation of all military work at the arsenal and its transfer to civilian control as an industrial undertaking, and directing that in future no troops were to be stationed at Shanghai nor any military organ set up there; and on the 17th January the Wai-chiao Pu replied to the senior Minister's memorandum above referred to in a communication quoting the texts of the above mandates, and adding that from the date of their publication no troops whatsoever would be allowed under any pretext to make Shanghai and its neighbourhood the scene of military operations, and expressing the hope of the Chinese Government that the Powers would sympathise with and approve of this intention. At the time these steps were taken Shanghai and the arsenal were in the hands of Ch'i Hsieh-yuan, who was in rebellion against the Central Government, and the issue of the mandates in question was obviously a gesture designed to enlist foreign support. The Manchurian forces having now recovered control of the locality on behalf of the Peking Government, it remains for the latter to carry their good intentions into effect.\n\n14. There remain to chronicle during the month Chang Tso-lin's departure from Tien-tsin on the 11th January, and his arrival back in Mukden on the following day; and Wu Pei-fu's arrival at the beginning of the year with a handful of troops at Hankow, whence he proceeded down river to a locality in the neighbourhood. He does not seem to have played any part in Ch'i Hsieh-yuan uprising, and appears to have withdrawn for the time being unmolested into retirement.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nR. MACLEAY.\n\nPage 653", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 504968, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[F2783/1/10]\n\nNo. 1\n\n231\n\nJuly 12, 1926.\n\nSECTION 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Brenan to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—(Received July 12.) (No. 37.) Sir,\n\nCanton, May 31, 1926. WITH reference to my despatch No. 33 of the 24th May, I have the honour to forward herewith, for your information, a copy of despatch No. 58 to His Majesty's Minister, Peking, dated the 31st May.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. F. BRENAN.\n\n(No. 58.) Sir,\n\nEnclosure in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Brenan to Sir R. Macleay.\n\nCanton, May 31, 1926. WITH reference to my despatch No. 52 of the 24th May, I have the honour to report that I have, at the request of Mr. Eugene Chen, the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs in the Nationalist Government, twice been to see him on the subject of the settlement of the Hong Kong boycott.\n\n2. I should perhaps explain here that all my interviews with the Canton officials have to be at their offices in the city. They will not come to the consulate, and they have not even returned the formal official calls which I made on taking over charge of this post. They excused themselves on the ground that they could not enter Shameen during the continuance of the boycott. I have had to accept this humiliating state of affairs, which places the British authorities in the position of suppliants, but the only alternative is a rupture of relations rendering impossible the conciliatory policy you desire me to pursue.\n\n3. My first interview with Mr. Chen, on the 26th May, is described in my semi-official letter to Sir Cecil Clementi, of which a copy has been forwarded to the Legation. Two days later the Minister for Foreign Affairs asked me to call again, when he spoke at considerable length on the subject of the boycott, without, however, giving much indication of the present intentions of the Canton Government in respect to a settlement. He spent at least an hour in going over old ground regarding the origin of the trouble, and his intention evidently was to impress me with the great concession that would be made if the demands for compensation to the strikers were withdrawn and a loan, which had to be repaid, were to be substituted as a condition of settlement. He said it would be regarded as a defeat, which might imperil the position of the Government.\n\n4. Eventually he got to the point, and asked what the Hong Kong loan proposals were. I replied that so far they were indefinite, and I was not prepared to put forward any definite projects without previous reference to the Governor. I then referred him to the conversations which Mr. Kemp had with Mr. C. C. Wu in April, and said I understood that the Hong Kong Government would be willing to make a loan of about 10 million dollars for a constructive purpose of mutual benefit, that there must be effective safeguards for proper expenditure, and that the money would be paid in instalments as the work progressed. On the other hand, in view of the reason for the loan, I thought they would get it on easier terms than in the open market.\n\n5. Mr. Chen asked what was meant by effective safeguards, and I said presumably it would mean a certain amount of foreign supervision, as in the case of railway loans, and I referred him to the railway agreement signed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1923 and witnessed by himself (see my despatch No. 57 of the 28th May).\n\n6. Mr. Chen retorted that that contract was one they had sought for their own benefit. This loan would be in a different category, as it would take the place of strike compensation in the boycott settlement, and he was afraid foreign supervision would not be acceptable to the Cantonese in their present frame of mind. He\n\n[1338 m-1]\n\nPage 232\n\n...\n\nPage 233\n\n...\n\nPage 234", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-496 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509146, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "content_text": "# CHINA.\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n`[F 959/959/10]`\n\n## No. 1.\nFebruary 1, 1927.\n\n### SECTION 1.\n\nMr. Lampson to Sir Austen Chamberlain.—(Received February 1.)\n\n**(No. 27.) Sir.**\n\nPeking, January 11, 1927. WITH reference to Sir Ronald Macleay's despatch No. 723 of the 30th September I have the honour to submit the following review of developments in the political situation during the past three months --\n\n2. With regard to the position of the Peking Government, mention was made in the postscript to the above despatch of the replacement of the Acting Premier, Admiral Tu Hsi-kuei, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Admiral Tsai Tʻing-kan, by Dr. Wellington Koo, who vacated the Ministry of Finance to take over the Premiership and the Wai-chiao Pu concurrently. The Peking Government has since consisted in the main of Dr. Koo, supported by the shadowy remnants of the Cabinet, shorn of the representatives of Wu Pei-fu and Sun Ch'uan-fang, who had retired to join their patrons at Chengchow and Nanking respectively. Dr. Koo's most important colleague, Mr. P'an Fu, the Minister for Finance, has flitted to and fro between Peking and Tien-tsin chasing elusive loan schemes which would furnish the necessary funds to enable him to assume office on behalf of his military masters; he did in the end nominally take up his post, but without, it seems, actually functioning in his Ministry. Dr. Koo himself is generally credited with having transferred his allegiance from Wu Pei-fu to Chang Tso-lin, who has, however, so far shown a cautious reluctance to take Dr. Koo and the Peking Government formally under his wing. The long expected reconstruction of the Cabinet as a Fengtien Administration has therefore so far failed to materialise, and it is no exaggeration to say that the last quarter of 1926 has seen the absolute low-water mark in the history of the so-called Central Government at Peking, which has never been more shadowy, powerless, and unrepresentative since the establishment of the republic fifteen years ago. When I arrived in Peking towards the end of the year, the Cabinet had ceased to function altogether, and the façade of Government appeared to consist solely of Dr. Koo and the Wai-chiao Pu.\n\n3. The attitude of the Powers towards this fiction of a Government has been anything but well defined or uniform, varying on the one hand from the attitude of extreme reserve adopted by His Majesty's Legation, who, since the collapse in April of the Tuan Ch'i-jui régime (to which it will be remembered de facto recognition had been formally accorded a year or so before), have carefully refrained from any act implying recognition, to that of the Chilean Minister, who formally presented his credentials to Dr. Koo as Premier performing in the absence of a President the functions of the Head of the State. Yet it was during this period that Dr. Koo abrogated the Sino-Belgian Treaty by formal notification to the Belgian Minister, who, perhaps unwisely, had entered into a prolonged correspondence with him on the subject in a manner which seemed to imply the existence of normal diplomatic relations between the Government of Brussels and that of Peking. The Japanese, on the other hand, were more reserved, and in their carefully worded reply to the Chinese demand for the revision of the Sino-Japanese Treaty, refrained from any expression involving their recognition of anything beyond the Wai-chiao Pu.\n\n4. The same question regarding recognition came up in connection with the presentation of my own credentials. It was originally decided in November that I should communicate a copy of them to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Peking and explain to him that the formal presentation of the letters themselves would be deferred until there was a President, to whom His Majesty's Government could accord recognition. During my conversations at Hankow with Mr. Chen, however, I made much play with the fact that at the moment His Majesty's Government recognised no Government, either Northern or Southern, and I felt, with ever-increasing force, that we should do nothing which might be construed as even quasi-recognition of the North. A suggestion was then put forward from the Legation, with which as a matter of fact I did not agree, that I should communicate copies to both the Peking... \n\nPage 83", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509147, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "page_number": 72, "title": "CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927", "content_text": "## 84\n\n3 \n\nand the Canton Governments, but this was rejected on examination as being tantamount to recognition of both Governments and ultimately it was decided that I should hand copies to no one. Dr. Koo, who had of course seen the questions asked in Parliament on the subject, himself raised the question of my credentials at my first interview with him and I explained to him my instructions. At one time I thought that he intended to make difficulties over the question, but when returning my call he made no further allusion to it and he has probably decided to leave the matter in abeyance, at any rate for the present. It is probable, however, that as soon as he has formed his new Cabinet, which I understand he has been asked by Chang Tso-lin to do, he will raise the question of credentials again.\n\n5. Interest in the north has centred on the plans and intentions of Chang Tso-lin, who arrived in Tien-tsin from Mukden in the first half of November. It was generally expected that Marshal Chang, having waited for the collapse of Wu Pei-fu's Administration, would proceed forthwith to Peking, to reorganise the Government with his nominees, and even place himself at its head as Provisional President or Chief Executive. Indecision and delay, due perhaps to divided counsels amongst his advisers and supporters, have, however, so far characterised Marshal Chang's actions since he left Mukden, and it was not until a month and a half later that he arrived in Peking towards the end of December; and it still remains to be seen whether he really has any constructive plans for the re-establishment of a Government.\n\n6. In the meantime events were moving rapidly on the Yang-tsze, where, as reported in paragraph 4 of Sir Ronald Macleay's despatch above referred to, hostilities had opened at the end of September between Sun Chuan-fang and the Cantonese. Sun poured troops from Kiangsu, Chekiang and Anhui into Kiangsi under the supreme command of his most trusted general, Lu Hsiang-t'ing, and despatched other forces up the river towards Hankow, himself proceeding to Kiukiang to superintend the operations of his armies. At first the better-equipped army of Sun dealt three successive blows to Chiang Kai-shek's army, costing the latter some 20,000 casualties and driving them back from Nanchang towards their communications in Hunan. If these victories had been followed up a general collapse of the Kuo Min-tang armies would probably have resulted from the threat to their base at Changsha; but, as usual in China, a policy of inaction allowed the initiative to pass from the hands of Sun into those of Chiang, who, by propaganda and by infiltration of small parties into the battle zone, was soon in a position to turn the tables on his adversary. Before the middle of November Sun discovered the Nanchang Kiukiang Railway to be cut and the Kuo Min-tang forces at the gates of Kiukiang. In a panic, he himself headed the flight, leaving his forces to find their way back to Kiangsu and Chekiang, thus totally evacuating the Province of Kiangsi, which passed under the control of the Cantonese.\n\n7. Sun Ch'uan-fang, who had been originally a subordinate officer in Wu Pei-fu's armies, had hitherto consistently professed at least a nominal adherence to Marshal Wu, and had sent a representative to join the Cabinet set up by Wu in Peking in the summer. Moreover, a year before, in the late autumn of 1925, Sun had declared war on the Fengtien leaders, then in occupation of Nanking and the Shanghai region, and had expelled them from Kiangsu by force, a state of armed peace having since prevailed between him and his Northern neighbour, Chang Tsung-ch'ang, the Fengtien Governor of Shantung. It was, therefore, a matter of some surprise and speculation when Sun in the latter half of November paid a sudden and unexpected visit to Chang Tso-lin at Tien-tsin, accompanied only by a few bodyguards. What exactly passed during his stay in Tien-tsin is not known, but his visit was generally interpreted by Chinese opinion as involving his abdication from his independent position in Central China, and his acceptance of the overlordship of the Manchurian Generalissimo. As the result of the conferences of Northern leaders, mostly of the Fengtien party, which now took place at Tientsin, it was shortly afterwards announced that a definite agreement had now been reached for a combined offensive against the armies of the Kuo Min-tang, while it was later reported that the details of the arrangements come to provided that Sun Ch'uan-fang should surrender to Chang Tsung-chang the whole of Northern Kiangsu, and confine himself to the control and defence of Chekiang and the Shanghai area. Sun thereupon returned to Nanking, and Chang Tsung-chang's troops immediately began to move south along the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway. Their further advance into Kiangsu was soon after halted for a time, outwardly on account, it was said, of objections raised by Wu Pei-fu; but also, it seems, on account of opposition manifested by local public bodies in Kiangsu, who were rumoured to have given it to be understood that they would sooner see their province overrun by the Nationalist armies than given over to the depredations of Chang Tsung-chang's notorious soldiery from Shantung. Eventually, however, Chang Tsung-chang himself, accompanied by strong bodyguards, arrived in Nanking in the third week in December, while his troops moved down into North Kiangsu to replace the forces of Sun Ch'uan-fang.\n\n8. The next move by the Northern leaders was the announcement early in December of the creation of the An-Kuo-Chün (army for the pacification of the country irreverently known by some of my more flippant colleagues as the Salvation Army) under Chang Tso-lin as generalissimo and Chang Tsung-chang, Sun Chuan-fang, Yen Hsi-shan (the Governor of Shansi) and other Northern leaders as vice-commanders, accompanied by the usual advertisement in the press of their military plans for the annihilation of the Reds. It was significant, however, that there was no mention in these arrangements of the name of Wu Pei-fu, who, while he now professes to regard Chang Tso-lin as an ally, could not be expected to subordinate himself to the latter's leadership.\n\n9. Marshal Wu has indeed proved a considerable thorn in the side of the An-Kuo-Chun, in view of his occupation of Northern Honan and his stubborn refusal so far to yield place to Chang Tso-lin's forces, which have advanced down the Peking-Hankow Railway to the borders of Honan, or accept their co-operation on the terms they desire. A glance at the map will show the strategic importance to the Fengtien high command of Chengchow (Wu's headquarters), situated at the junction of the East to West Lunghai Railway with the Peking-Hankow line, and the vital necessity to them of occupying it before engaging their forces seriously on the middle Yang-tsze. The difficulty of the situation from the Fengtien point of view is increased by the fact that Wu's forces, though still nominally 80,000 to 100,000 strong, are of small military value and are notoriously unreliable, while his subordinate generals, and notably Chin Yün-ao, are known to have small sympathy with their former enemies in the Fengtien armies and to have made overtures to the South. Wu Pei-fu's apparently intransigent and obstructive attitude towards his Fengtien allies, while typical of his character and past record, may in this case have been at least partly due to these considerations. It is now, at the end of the year, reported that the situation has been cleared up by the dismissal of Chin Yün-ao from his command, but it remains to be seen whether this has been really effected. It is expected that eventually the main attack of Chang Tso-lin's forces will be directed on Hupei down the Kin-Han line; but whether Wu Pei-fu will be relegated to West Honan to deal with the Kuo Min-chun, or whether his armies will take part in the main attack, remains to be settled between the leaders.\n\n10. Developments in the South during the three months under review will be reported on more fully by His Majesty's consuls in Central and Southern China, but the most notable event has been the transfer of the seat of the Kuo Min-tang Government from Canton to Wuchang, which took place in December. At the same time, the Kuo Min-tang, after their successful occupation of Kiangsi, have extended their control over the greater part of Fukien, where the Northern forces occupying that province in the interests of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang dissolved before the Southern advance with little or no fighting. Chekiang, now surrounded on two sides by Kuo Min-tang influence, has also been penetrated to some extent and appears likely to fall also in the near future into their hands.\n\n11. The general political and military position at the close of the year may be summed up as follows. Chang Tso-lin is in Peking and is credited with the intention of re-establishing a Central Government in the Northern capital, which remains, however, for the time being to all intents and purposes without any Government at all. Chang himself controls Manchuria and the metropolitan Province of Chihli and the adjacent territories of Inner Mongolia, and indirectly, through his former subordinate, Chang Tsung-ch'ang, the Province of Shantung. His allies, Sun Chuan-fang and Yen Hsi-shan, the former still controlling the Lower Yang-tsze region and the latter the Province of Shansi, have nominally accepted his leadership, but both are understood to be quite prepared to come to terms with the Kuo Min-tang if they can do so. Wu Pei-fu, who retains control of Northern Honan, also professes to be in alliance with Marshal Chang, but insists on retaining complete liberty of action, and impedes rather than assists the latter's plans. In opposition to this loosely welded block of individual Northern leaders, bound together by momentary ties of self-interest, stands the Kuo Min-tang Government, now established at Wuchang, and professing to control the Provinces of Kuangtung, Kuangsi, Hunan, Kiangsi, Fukien, Hupei, parts of Chekiang, and, ... \n\n## 8:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-6 China- general situation 7-1-1927 - 3-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524839, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 14, "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": "16\n\n30\n\nTHE CHILD'S GUARDIAN.\nto\n\nAPRIL, 1930.\n\naccess to any part of the building in which the children are accommodated is by stairs, it shall be the duty of the person who provides the entertainment to station and keep stationed wherever necessary a sufficient number of adult attendants properly instructed as to their duties to control the movement of the children, etc., and to take other reasonable precautions for the safety of the children.\" The Act, unfortunately, gives no hint as to what is a sufficient number or even of the standard of knowledge or experience required to constitute a \"properly instructed\" attendant. The country's immunity from disasters through panic may no doubt be regarded as evidence that sufficient precautions in both these directions are already taken, but as vigilance in all matters is the best guarantee of safety, it will be a distinct advantage to make these requirements more definite, and, if need be, through Parliament itself.\n\nIt is still necessary to teach that every Inspector is a friend and that, in making his visits, he goes out to help and not to hinder, to encourage and restore, not to destroy.\n\nA Word to the Public.\nA County Medical Officer of Health who recently took part in a Branch annual meeting, availed himself of the opportunity to speak in generous terms of the Society's services to children. The value of his words was enhanced by the fact that they were based upon thirty-six years' knowledge of the Society in various parts of the country, including two contrasts, a great industrial centre and a distinctive county area. These public expressions of opinion from specialists who come in contact with the Society in their official capacity bring encouragement alike to friends of the Society and to those upon whom administrative responsibility rests. County Medical Officers of Health, Borough Medical Officers of Health and School Medical Officers are constantly in touch throughout the country with the Society. The co-operation which so happily exists between these responsible officials and the Society means health and happiness to thousands of children. What the public, generally, does not always appreciate is the existence of this combination of forces and its incalculable value in the doing of good. There is no more illuminating chapter in the Society's history than that which records the result of this phase of its work. Therefore, it follows that the stronger the bonds of co-operation the better for children in need. It is this spirit of co-operation which keeps the ambulances of the Society in the London area alone busy from January to December, and which enabled the record to be made last year, when they covered some thirty-six thousand miles in helping sick and ailing children. In a proportionate degree similar work is being done everywhere, and that is why public officials unhesitatingly give expression to their gratitude for the help the Society is always willing and anxious to render.\n\nLooking Back.\nThere was one point in the County Medical Officer's remarks which enabled those present to catch a glimpse of the changed attitude towards the Society as compared with years ago. He spoke of the suspicion with which it was viewed in its early days, of the criticism its work evoked, and of the opposition which sometimes followed. Well is this known to those who pleaded for support when it was not popular to advocate anything that suggested dealing with home-life. Now this attitude of mind has gone, but there still lingers one phase that has to be met, viz., the fear or the impression that the visit of an Inspector to a home is a reflection upon that home. Often a visit concerns a child in need of surgical or medical treatment, or parents may require just that moral fillip and encouragement which comes from contact with those who are trained to deal with domestic problems.\n\nMagisterial Comments.\nToo frequently of late have Magistrates felt called upon to express in public the opinion that the case before them been the worst they have dealt with. Looking over some of the stories of child suffering which have led to these utterances there is no reason to quarrel with what has been said. Brutality, neglect of children in the worst form, make painful reading. Some people refuse to read them at all and some are induced to believe such things really do not exist. In a recent case an Inspector found a seven-months-old child resembling a living skeleton, huddled up in a bundle of filthy rags. The house was indescribable, and other children were running about naked. If such a picture could be transferred to the cinema screen the majority of audiences would declare it to be a gross fabrication. The Society labours under the disadvantage that it cannot put its actual cases before the public. If it could, and if the public only saw the transformations it is able to bring about, there would be little need to press the appeal for subscriptions. A seven-months-old child resembling a living skeleton is a picture of fact. That is why Magistrates have been moved to public protests from the Bench against inhumanity.\n\n\"Worst Cases.\"\nIt would be an excellent tonic to public opinion if, in towns where these statements are made, something could be done to follow them up. Why not a town's meeting for friends of the Society to take advantage of on a really large scale? Here is an opportunity to keep alive the public conscience by enlisting the support of the public at large. Let the people know that other cases of a similar character may take place unless something is done, let them realise they can help to prevent them, and let them be made to understand that these \"worst\" cases are associated with long-continued suffering and utter helplessness on the part of children to protect themselves. In the direction of a wider knowledge is to be found the means of preventing cruelty—and the hope of children.\n\nAPRIL, 1930.\n\nTHE CHILD'S GUARDIAN.\n\nTHE CANAL BOATS BILL.\nAs indicated in the last issue of THE CHILD'S GUARDIAN, the Canal Boats Bill has been passing through its Committee stage. In pursuance of the promises made by the promoters of the Bill at the Second Reading, various amendments have been made to the Bill in deference to opinions expressed in different parts of the House. The Bill, as has been explained, is a non-party measure; in the absence, through continued illness, of Mr. Harry Gosling, who introduced it, it has been ably supported in its subsequent stages by Sir Donald Maclean and the Duchess of Atholl. The Bill will be presented to the House for Third Reading in the following form:\n\nA BILL\n\nTO\n\n[AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE B]\n\nAmend the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884, and the Education Act, 1921, so far as it relates to children on canal boats. BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:\n\n1. Subject as hereinafter provided, on and after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, no child over the age of five years and below the age at which, under the law for the time being in force, his parents cease to be under an obligation to cause him to receive efficient elementary instruction, shall reside in a canal boat except—\n\n(i) during the period between the last school hour in any week of the school which the child is attending and the first school hour of that school in the following week; and\n\n(ii) during the period between the end of any school term of the school which he is attending and the beginning of the next school term of that school: Provided that the residence of a child in a canal boat during any period as regards which a registered medical practitioner certifies that in the interests of his own health or the health of other children he ought not to attend school shall not be deemed to be a contravention of the provisions of this section.\n\n2. On and after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, no woman, or child below the age at which under the law for the time being in force his parents cease to be under an obligation to cause him to receive efficient elementary instruction, shall reside in any canal boat while it is being used for the conveyance of manure, night soil, or refuse, or any other foul or offensive cargo.\n\n3(1) For the purposes of the Education Act, 1921, a child who, immediately before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, or the date on which he attains the age of five years, whichever date may be the later, has no home other than a canal boat, shall, until he commences to attend a school within the area of another local education authority, be deemed to be resident in the area of that local education authority whose area includes the place to which the boat is registered as belonging.\n\n(2) As from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, the foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect in substitution for the provisions of section fifty of the Education Act, 1921 (which relates to the application of that Act to children in canal boats).\n\n4(1) If the parent of a child resides in a canal boat, the principal teacher of any school at which that child attends may and, on being requested so to do, shall issue to the parent at the end of any school term a certificate stating that the child has attended the school during that term and naming the last day of the term and the first day of the next school term; and, in any proceedings under this Act, a document purporting to be a certificate so issued shall be evidence of the facts stated therein.\n\n(2) This section shall come into operation on the first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-one.\n\n5. If the master of a canal boat permits any child to reside in that boat in contravention of any provisions of this Act he shall be liable on summary conviction—\n\n(a) in the case of a first offence, to a fine not exceeding forty shillings; and\n\n(b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding five pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.\n\n31\n\n6. This Act may be cited as the Canal Boats Act, 1930, and shall be construed as one with the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 and 1884, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Canal Boats Acts, 1877 to 1930.\n\nOBITUARY.\nVery great sympathy will be extended to Sir Edward and Lady Henry on the death of their only son, Mr. Edward Henry, who has just passed away, following a severe attack of pneumonia, at the early age of twenty-two. Sir Edward, who is well remembered as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police for many years, has been a member of the Society's Central Executive Committee since 1918. His colleagues on the Committee have intimated to him the profound sympathy of the Society.\n\nMiss England.—The older friends of the Society in the country will regret to learn of the death of Miss England, who was one of the speakers and organisers for the Society in its earlier days. Retiring from that position in 1914, Miss England had lived since at Bromley, Kent, where she continued her interest in the Society's work connected with the local Branch.\n\nEx-Inspector H. Warlow has died at Westcliff-on-Sea. Mr. Warlow served as an Inspector of the Society for twenty years, during which period he was stationed successively at Leeds, East London, Hackney and Hampstead. Throughout his record was a conspicuously good one and he will be well remembered by friends in most parts of the country where he was employed.\n\nMiss Collison, for many years Hon. Secretary to the Margate Ladies' Committee.\n\nMrs. Davison, Hon. Secretary to the Ormeau (Belfast) Ladies' Committee.\n\nMrs. Dowson, a collector in the Coundon district since the formation of the committee.\n\nMr. J. F. L. Hardy, Hon. Correspondent at Marlborough.\n\nMr. J. Dalby Hobson, who was Branch Hon. Secretary for Maidstone from 1916 to 1923.\n\nMrs. Parson, President of the Haslemere Ladies' Committee.\n\nDr. Whitaker, Hon. Correspondent at Evershot.\n\nMrs. J. D. Wolff, President of the Harrow Weald Ladies' Committee.\n\nSo clean were the children the second time he called, that an Inspector failed to recognize them, and had to ask the parents whose they were. Before his first visit the bedrooms had not been cleaned for weeks. The house is now clean from top to bottom, and six children are the happier for it.\n\nAfter a woman's conviction and sentence for child neglect, she let it be known that she had left her three young children alone in one room ill in bed. The Inspector at once proceeded a distance of fifteen miles to the home, and there found a girl of eight ill in bed, and her younger brother and sister, aged three and five, running about the streets in a dirty condition. Steps were at once taken to help the children.", "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": 537904, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-544-6 Junior Technical School- development and preliminary report 29-5-1933 - 16-10-1933", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-544-6 Junior Technical School- development and preliminary report 29-5-1933 - 16-10-1933", "content_text": "## 3\n\nAs regards a supply of technical periodicals, I would suggest that Sir James Currie and Dr. Maclean be asked whether they could send any they don't require, regularly; at all events, at first. I understand that to British Possessions, the postage is not very high, and even if this technical literature was six months old, it wouldn't matter.\n\nSuch an enterprise as this deserves every possible encouragement from our committee, and\n\nBelieve me,\nVery faithfully yours,\nSara A. Bunstall.\n\n## 9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-544-6 Junior Technical School- development and preliminary report 29-5-1933 - 16-10-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]