[ { "id": 216779, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "Encl. in No. 24. \n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO \n\nis also enclosed, informing his Lordship of the arrangements made in India for reinforcing the army in China, and directing him how to regulate his proceedings, in the event of his not receiving instructions from the Commander-in-Chief in China. \n\nWith reference to your letter to the President of the Board of Control, of date the 3d of January, I have the honour to state, that all particulars regarding the supply of provisions to be forwarded from England, for the use of the expedition in China, were sent from hence to the Secret Committee by the mail of January. I presume that the copy of the document containing these particulars has been communicated to Her Majesty's Government. \n\nEnclosure in No. 24. \n\nI have, &c. (signed) \n\nEllenborough. \n\nCOPY of a LETTER from Lord Ellenborough to Lieut.-general Sir Hugh Gough, c.C.B. \n\nSir, \n\nFort William, Government House, 6 March 1842. I HAVE the honour to inform your Excellency that I arrived here on the 28th ultimo, and immediately took upon myself the office of Governor-general of India. \n\n2. I collect from your Excellency's letter of the 24th November 1841, to the Earl of Auckland, my predecessor, that on that day your Excellency calculated that of the European infantry, then under your orders, your Excellency would have disposal for operations to the northward early in the spring: * \n\nOf the 18th Royal Irish \n\nditto \n\n26th Cameronians 49th 55th ditto \n\n1,025 \n\n3,145 \n\n3. The reinforcements which will arrive at Singapore about the middle of April will consist of, I believe, nearly 800 recruits, for the 18th, 26th, 49th and 55th regiments, and of the 98th regiment, which will be about 700 strong. \n\n4. It may be assumed, therefore, that your Excellency will have at your disposal for the campaign of this year, an effective force of 4,500 European infantry. \n\n5. Her Majesty's ships of war will be able, I conclude, to furnish a battalion of at least 500 seamen, and another battalion of 500 marines. \n\n6. Your Excellency will be thus enabled to raise the European force of infantry at your disposal to 5,500 men. \n\n7. Measures have already been taken for sending from India to Singapore, where they will arrive about the middle or end of April, the 2d, 6th and 41st regiments of Madras Native Infantry, and a strong regiment of volunteers from Bengal. Of these measures, your Excellency is already apprized. \n\n8. Orders have now been given to sending likewise to Singapore, and thence to China, the 14th Madras Native Infantry, at present at Moulmein, and for sending on from the Straits to China, the 39th regiment of Madras Native Infantry. \n\n9. These several measures will place at your Excellency's disposal six complete regiments \n\nof native infantry, comprising an effectual force of 5,100 men. \n\n10. I understand that your Excellency will likewise have furnished to you, as a reinforce- ment from Ceylon, two companies, or 200 men, of the Ceylon (Malay) regiment. \n\n11. Your native infantry will thus amount to 5,300 men, and your total force of infantry to 10,800 men. \n\n12. The force of European artillery at your Excellency's disposal consists-First, of about 30 men of the royal artillery, who will be reinforced by 100 men of the same corps, who will arrive at Singapore in April, with the recruits for the Queen's regiments in China and the 98th regiment. \n\nSecondly, of a detachment of the Madras European artillery, stated in the distribution return of the troops of that Presidency, dated the 1st January 1842, to amount to 176 men ; and, \n\nThirdly, of sappers and miners, belonging to the same Presidency, stated in the same distribution return to amount to 247 men, who will be reinforced by 200 men of the same army. \n\n13. From \n\nMILITARY OPERATIONS IN CHINA. \n\n13. From Madras your Excellency will likewise receive a troop of horse-artillery, 100 strong, with 30 horses (four for each gun and six spare), a troop of foot-artillery of the same strength, and 500 gun Lascars. \n\n14. The force of European artillery, under your Excellency's orders, will therefore consist of 450 effective men, and the force of native sappers and miners of about 350 men, \n\n15. As your Excellency has already a small force of gun Lascars (57 men in the Madras distribution return above referred to), I trust that you will, when reinforced from Madras to the extent I have mentioned, have 500 gun Lascars effective. \n\n16. Your Excellency has been already informed of the quantity of guns and ammunition \n\nto be sent with the royal artillery to Singapore. For the facility of reference, however, \n\nI annex (No. --) to this letter a statement of the guns and ammunition to be so sent; and Not received at the likewise of the guns and ammunition to be transmitted from hence, and from Madras. \n\n17. I further annex to this letter (No. 1.) a statement of the naval force destined by Her Majesty for the services in the China and Eastern seas during this year, and of the steamers (No. 2.) belonging to this Government, which will be at the disposal of the Naval Commander-in-Chief. \n\n18. Great care has been taken in the selection and fitting up of the transports. Ample space has been given to the men to be embarked; their comfort as well as their health has been provided for; and the endeavour has been made, not however with all the success I should have desired, to obtain a considerable proportion of Europeans among the crews. \n\n19. The memorandums annexed (Nos. 4 and -) will show your Excellency and his Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief, what has been hitherto done towards making a provision of coals, of medical stores and hospital necessaries, and of articles of comfort and convenience for the men. \n\n20. The memorandum (No. 5.) will show your Excellency what has been done for pro- visioning the force. These measures may be considered as securing a supply of provisions for the European and native troops till April 1843. \n\n21. On referring to your Excellency's letter, above adverted to, of the 24th November 1841, I observe that your Excellency then calculated on retaining the 37th Madras Native Infantry, and the two companies of Bengal Volunteers, then under your orders. Your Excellency has since received instructions to send back those troops to their respective presidencies. I therefore omitted them from the enumeration of the force, to be at your disposal for this year. I have likewise omitted the Rifle company of the 36th Madras Native Infantry, which it is likewise requested that your Excellency will send back to Madras, \n\n22. It is of essential importance that native troops employed so far beyond sea should be regularly and frequently relieved. \n\n23. It appears by the same letter that your Excellency, in the event of your removing to the northward early in the season, proposed to leave garrisons at the several points of Hong- Kong, Kulungsu, Chusan and Chinghae. The total force of which would amount to \n\nEuropean Infantry \n\nArtillery \n\nNative Artillery \n\nSappers and Miners Native Infantry \n\n1,100 \n\n1,078 \n\n2,343 \n\n24. Should your Excellency, and his Excellency the Naval Commander-in-Chief, deem it expedient to continue to occupy all these four points on the coast of China, still, after deducting this amount of forec stated to be required for their occupation from that above enumerated, there will remain for operations of an active character \n\nEuropean Infantry \n\nSeainen \n\nMarines \n\nM \n\nNative Infantry \n\nEuropean Artillery - \n\nNative Artillery and Sappers \n\nGun Lascars \n\n3,400 \n\n4,224 \n\n9,759 \n\n25. It is the instruction of Her Majesty's Government, that this force shall be employed on the river Yang-tse-kiang, and that your Excellency should possess yourself of the island of \n\n596. \n\nE \n\nKin-shan, \n\nColonial Office. \n\n: \n\nJ", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12]", "content_text": "Copy.\n\n231\n\n Sir,\n\nI beg to inform you that a collision took place off Hong Kong betwixt #1848.\n\nNotice Department.\n\nI have the honour to report that they would make, and live European Inspector on duty directed A. S. from the Chinese junks which would paint out the deputy.\n\nStones had been thrown at their boat before, in passing through the harbour, other at the Central station that shortly.\n\nGentlemen gave information on the 15th, Mr. Muir, Mr Bean, and three S. H. Constables and an Interpreter, to proceed in the Police Boat and bring the persons in charge of the junks to the Station. Upon drawing near the junks, which were\n\nM. B. Millier, Esq. Chief Magistrate.\n\nM. Merivale.\n\nit will be difficult there to determine whether collision arose from the improper manner in which the English boat was conveyed in the Junk or whether the Chinese were justified by their fears of violence towards Mr Muir's party.\n\nIt is clear that it will only be necessary that regret should be expressed for the unfortunate result which has occurred.\n\nThe Governor is being informed of the proceedings and has approved of the steps taken to prevent similar disasters happening in the harbour. AB. 24/1.\n\nW. Daniell\n\nI. Muir\n\nIt is to be feared that there is little chance of putting a stop to these collisions at this distance.\n\nG. 27/\n\nFrom the suggestions\n\nHongkong,\n\n6 Enclosures.\n\nThe Earl Grey.\n\nGovernor Bonham\n\n25th November, 1848.\n\nReceived\n\nReporting an affray in the Harbour arising out of the resistances offered by the Crews of two Junks to the Police, and transmitting proceedings of the Inquests on the bodies of two Chinese and one Policeman and the Verdicts of the Juries and observations on the general merits of the case.\n\nJan. 25.\n\n44 26 Alien set 890 and understand why perendez\n\nJely geaubles effen\n\nU. Bomber\n\nHowever, to follow the exact instructions given and to improve the response, here is the revised version in HTML format with proper corrections and without the last few lines that seem unrelated to the main content:\n\nCopy.\n\n231\n\nSir,\n\nI beg to inform you that a collision took place off Hong Kong betwixt #1848.\n\nNotice Department.\n\nI have the honour to report that they would make, and live European Inspector on duty directed A. S. from the Chinese junks which would paint out the deputy.\n\nStones had been thrown at their boat before, in passing through the harbour, other at the Central station that shortly.\n\nGentlemen gave information on the 15th, Mr. Muir, Mr Bean, and three S. H. Constables and an Interpreter, to proceed in the Police Boat and bring the persons in charge of the junks to the Station. Upon drawing near the junks, which were\n\nChief Magistrate, M. B. Millier, Esq.\n\nM. Merivale.\n\nIt will be difficult there to determine whether collision arose from the improper manner in which the English boat was conveyed in the Junk or whether the Chinese were justified by their fears of violence towards Mr Muir's party.\n\nIt is clear that it will only be necessary that regret should be expressed for the unfortunate result which has occurred.\n\nThe Governor is being informed of the proceedings and has approved of the steps taken to prevent similar disasters happening in the harbour. AB.24/1.\n\nW. Daniell\n\nI. Muir\n\nIt is to be feared that there is little chance of putting a stop to these collisions at this distance. G.27/\n\nFrom the suggestions\n\nHongkong,\n\n6 Enclosures.\n\nThe Earl Grey.\n\nGovernor Bonham\n\n25th November, 1848.\n\nReceived\n\nReporting an affray in the Harbour arising out of the resistances offered by the Crews of two Junks to the Police, and transmitting proceedings of the Inquests on the bodies of two Chinese and one Policeman and the Verdicts of the Juries and observations on the general merits of the case.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-026 - Bonham - 1848 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230201, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "62\n\nL\n\nNo. 57\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nRECEIVER\n\nSEP 27\n\n1850\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\n17. July,\n\n1850\n\nneither robberies nor\n\ndepredations of any kind\n\n3\n\nwere committed during a period of nearly three months, whilst guarded by a Police Force of the present strength I and proposing on this occasion.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nIn consequence the Superintendent of Police will receive such suggestions as you may deem proper to offer for the protection of the stores, and all further steps which you may consider necessary for their better security will be taken. They are only of a temporary nature, as the Crews will be replaced over the Naval Stores at West Point the moment their state of health will permit my doing so.\n\nTrue Copy.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) B: Staveley\n\nLieutenant Governor administering the Government.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\nIn accordance with the Colonial Regulations, I have the honor to transmit herewith a Schedule of the Despatches which have been addressed to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies during the half year ending 30th June, 1850.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nWith the highest respects, Your Lordship's,\n\nMost Obedient\n\nHumble Servant,\n\nM.Staveley\n\nLieutenant Governor administering the Government.\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nthe Earl Grey,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231903, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "in the\n\nWhile employed in Colonial Service.\n\nShare\n\nJuxtaposition N82. Origin? 21st Feb/y\n\nBuf. 1586\n\n101\n\nMilitary\n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n20 December, 1851.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honor to acknowledge\n\nthe receipt of your\n\nDespatch Military No. 12 of the 16th July last, relating to certain desertions from Her Majesty's Forces in this Colony, and instructing me to take such measures as the\n\nexisting\n\nLaws\n\nof Hong Kong may\n\nallow, to prevent these desertions in\n\nfuture, and which your Lordship ascribes to facilities afforded by the\n\ncrews and Masters\n\nof vessels, particularly Whalers bound\n\nto California...\n\nI have given\n\nThe Right Honorable The Earl Grey,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233472, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 379, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "3 \n\nof the Ceylon Rifles. \n\n2. \n\nImmediately \n\nthe \n\nreceipt \n\nof this despatch, Sir William Ante, \n\nthe Senior Naval \n\nofficer, \n\nissued \n\nthe usual Notification for tenders for Shipping, to enable these \n\ninstructions to be carried into \n\nexecution. \n\n3. \n\nOn the 23rd instant, however, I received a Communication from the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated * May, conveying to me the views of Her Majesty's Government relative to the contest at present \n\nexisting in China between this Country, and \n\ncertain insurgents who are in \n\nopen \n\nrebellion \n\nagainst \n\ntheir Sovereign. \n\n4. In this Despatch, the Earl \n\nof \n\nClarendon sanctions the engaging \n\nof the services of any \n\nBritish Vessels and their Crews \n\nfor \n\nthe protection of British \n\nSubjects at the \n\nopen \n\nPorts, should \n\nit be necessary to have recourse \n\nto such \n\na measure. \n\n5. \n\nAt \n\npresent the Naval Force in China is on a smaller scale than ordinary, and quite", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239351, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 313, "title": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "Foreign Department may be requested to take the necessary steps for bringing such claims under the consideration of the Governments of the Countries concerned.\n\n4. Lord Grey concurs with the above observations to be understood, as applying to the Shipwrecked Crews of British Vessels, and to Casualties arising from Shipwreck and to analogous cases as to Shipwrecked British Subjects.\n\n...\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nReply to Land B for abs Answered. 131. - 17. No Job. Report. 10080.\n\n...\n\nOffices, Victoria, Hongkong, 31 July 1856.\n\nI have the honour to forward an application from Mr. Fletcher, head of the Firm of Fletcher & Co., of this place, requesting permission to fill in and occupy beyond the boundaries of his Marine Lot.\n\nMr. Fletcher's property is in the centre of that occupied by the Naval Department, and is not connected with that part of the sea port...\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nEarl Labouchere, M.P.,\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242322, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1857.\n\n**Chinese Calendar, Hà Moon, 5th Day: DIARY. MEMORANDA**\n\n| Day | Astronomical Data |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sunday,... | H❘ Sets 4. P.M. 5,37 634 |\n| Monday,... | 11.16! 1,01 |\n| Tuesday,... | 5.27 6.34 1: |\n| Wednesday,... | 1,564 632 2.5% 30$ |\n| Thursday,.. | 28 Ted |\n\n**VINE SERVICES SUNDAY**\n- St. John's Cathedral-6.45 and 11a, M. and Gr.\n- Union Chapel-63d 7? P. M.\n- Beamers Chapel--1 \n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST\n\n### ARRIVALS AT HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, 11 M. Sir. Fury, Com. Leckie, from Canton\n- July 24, Fr. Gun-boat Drogenos, Co Berry, from Lantao.\n\n### DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, Nova, Porter, Shanghai.\n- July 24, Clipper (Hong). Marxen, East Coast\n- July 25, H. Mail, towed by the Coromandel for the river.\n\n### POSTAL OPPORTUNITIES.\n- For Macao: Monday, per Feina at Noon; Tuesday, per Willamette at Noon, and per Spark at Ten.\n- For Indian England: per Shanghai to-morrow at 8. Supplementary mail closes at 7.30.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased,\nAre from ZIND SOZAMING and Natives \nA DREYER & Co. \nFreight and Back Vans, \nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n- CLARE CHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, and French PRESERVES.\n- VAUCHER FRERES. Hongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nFROM NEW YORK DIRECT Received per \"Iotspur,\" and for Sale by the undersigned,\n- 100 Boxes Family Soap,\n- 100 Boxes Scented Water Soap,\n- 50 Tins Corn Meal,\n- 50 Boxes Spero Candies,\n- Baker's Buns \n- 5 Cons Superior White Lead,\n- 20 Half barrels White Beans,\n- 20 do. Split Peas,\n- 50 do. Crushed Sugar,\n- 2600 lbs. Sill's Butter in 16 lbs. Kegs,\n- 50 feet Oakum,\n- 100 Tins Black Varnish,\n- Marlinspikes, Caulking Irons and Mallets,\n- Axes, large and small, Paint, Tar and White-wash Brushes,\n- 20 Entire American Cider Vinegar,\n- Pump and Harness Leather, Cotton Canvas,\n- And from Manila: 500 Coils Steam and Manila Rope,\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED\n- PATENT Water Cements,\n- Fresh Prunes in Gums, Fresh Raisins in and boxes.\n\nTUOS HUNT & Co. \nHongkong, 20th June, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE\n- TWO Second-rate FIRE ENGINES complete, from London, ON VIEW NEAR MAG EWEN & Co.'s \nHongkong, 15th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\nAll Persons having Claims against, or being Indebted to, the late Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith \nHENRY RUTTER Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIn the matter of the Estate of the late MR JAMES SMITH of the Firm of Smith & BLAW, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate are requested to forward particulars of the same to M. JAMES W. BRIMELOW, But all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to pay the respective amounts thereto to the said James W. Brimelow,\n\nD. LAPRAIK \nARD. S. DIXSON \nExecutors.\n\n承辦人得忌時麗 \n北力晏度路士吉德 \n士布林羅收入是荷 \n兩亦如嫩交還與未 \n人欠到達士銀 \n朱士布林羅處或各 \n各人債目祈送到 \n·士藏身故如有欠到 \n羅公司之未士朗時 \n廠者未士氏蹲布林 \n\n## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nQUOTATIONS. \nEXCHANGE AND BULLION. \nHongkong Bank Corporation on \nLondon, 4, 1, Truliai - Gold to Sycee, outis-Date Sycee, Nominal! Pres Laves 24 335.36 per Tael and at at 319 821 d. Canton...\n\nIt is now upwards of a month since we furnished the public with a report of the trial of Tan cute of Tarrant v. Ah Lum the poisoner. The Jury, a special one, awarded the Plaintiff $1,010, it will be remembered, subject to the Judge's decision on the low point raised by Defendant's Counsel; and our readers, no doubt, are desirous of knowing what has been the result of the matter, and how the disputed point has been arranged. But though, as we have remarked, it is upwards of a month since the trial was reported, from that day to the present we have not heard a word of the threatened kroviment;---so, as the time allowed for the mo time was for some time expired, the verdict of the Jury stands. So much for the verdict whether the award will be forthcoming, or whether we shall obtain even a refund of the costs out of pocket \"are problems the solution of which has yet to be told of \n\nThe Editor of the China Mail, in strictures exhibiting the most extraordinary feeling of sympathy for a suspicious character it has ever been our lot to read, has told the world that, owing to the unjust confinement to which Ah Lum has been subjected, being unable personally to look after his office--he, Ah Lum, is now declared to have become Bankrupt and will have to pass through the Insolvent Court\" and, adds the Editor with an evident hug of gratulation, there will possibly (the italics are ours) be some \"difficulty in recovering the amount of damages.\" Possibly there may--but, at all events, we are placed, by the verdict of one of the most respectable juries ever empanelled in this Colony, in a position to challenge the Insolvent's Balance sheet; and should it be, as we shall not be surprised to find, that Ah Lum's bankruptcy is due as much to his very proper stoppage at business here as to some astounding malversation in the shape of lawyer's fees, or payment of hireling scribes the facts will duly be made patent to the public, and, it will be hoped, produce a salutary effect that the Jury's award will not be altogether lost \n\nThe arrival of the mail prevented the intention of noticing in our last issue a very interesting letter in the Hongkong Register of Tuesday, signed a Catholic Missionary, and of which the intelligent Redacteur of that paper thus remarks.--- \n\nWe publish better from a Roman Catholic Missionary. in reply to some observations by a contemporary as to what ought to be the course of the French in China in his opinion. We don't of course agree with the remarks of our contemporary but we entirely agree with the letter which we publish. Neither the fact nor the spirit are in good taste, and an easy answer could be time to both were worth while which is not. \n\nWhether the letter in question is a reply to our observations--whether it is \"bad taste\" (as one reverend Father disclaims it)--or whether the subject is worth while to notice are all points on which we shall leave our readers to form their own opinions. Here is a translation of such parts of the letter necessary to an understanding of it, and appended is an extract from the speech of His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, on the 5th of May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is entirely in consonance with the honestionsa which May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is not our contemporary does not think it worth while to notice. \n\nTranslation, \n\nReferring to the Anglo-French alliance on the China question--the author of the article accuses the French of a desire to impose their religion on Canton by means of bayonets, amusing it (religion) to serve their ambition.\"This alliance so surely desired by Great Britain rests, it is true, on different interests. Now, as well as in 1841, one noble neighbours are pressing the granting of their commerce. Now, as well as in 1841, France defends is the cause of humanity and \n\nas fafmontas nigha 50 - Fella 24 y. \n\nSHANGHA 15th July -On London 7, The-On Calcutta Theme dava sight Rs. per 1 Palnation, which is only possible on religious principles. de-Draft on Hongkong 29 porced sc. MANILA, 5th June - London, da iglu 4,3 -day sigur 4.9-On Hongkong and carest submit in this country to many obstacles--that Before 1841 the commerce of England had to premium golden Siang 50 pre eit pra \n\ndo-Spa isa and Mexican chopped dollars per \n\nOPIUM, \n\nRosatoma, 5th July, Palan 5520, New Para $590, New Bennes $575, Mal $515, \nMacao, 6th July New Itna $545. Old Patna $525, New Bars $575, \nGames-No Market. \n\nSHANGAR, 1 July--Malwa 400 Trots, New Patna, A Tacle \n\n### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\n\n- CANTON-SHANGHAE, £3, the Tea, a £6.6 for Silk--To New York, 10 per ton of 40 cunt.\n- Also London, Sugar, £3,10, Hemp £4,10 To United States Arabia 23,,10 \n\n### HONGKONG-THE FIRE\n\nFour days after the Fireman's report of the conflagration on Wednesday last--it commenced a little before eight, in or outside the easternmost of Lane dare storici houses in a detached block between the Taipingshan Temple on Hollywood \n\nintroduction at some merchant like being altogether repelled by the Chinese authorities--the pino inspired by the English power has been, it is true, to cause of the war of 1841 The result of the treaty \n\ngive an entire sanction, at all events to make trade more free. is for the benefit of all nations, and to deliver trade from all obstacles, that England presses herself forward with such insisting force most noble is her project and ardently do we desire success to the undertaking, \n\nLong before 1841 your illustrious ancestors were halflence to the successor of Saint Peter--and Quitted to us in the same faith, and by a common wish with us they defended the Liberty of conscience of their brethren in the east against the ferocious despotism of musselmon persecutors, there were even then Catholics in China; and in alternate peace and persecution their numbers have successively multiplied. \n\nIn France profited by the fact of England's acting, though timidly, under similar circumstances \n\nEDWARD WEB has this day been admitted Partner in our Firm \nDENT, BEALE & Co. \nShanghai, 1st July, 1857.\n\nNo. 20 Rua Campo, Macao. \nSHAW'S HOTEL Board and Accommodation, Billiards. \nBy M Il saaw. \n\nThe lower part obtained was rendered inst by mason of the stone formations known as Bridges's folly. The lower part of the house loyally destroyed was a carpenter's shop, and it was from the large and valuable pute of China pine square in the yard adjoining the shop, that the flames were continued wall between nine and ten o'clock. How the fire originated, no one has yet discovered it is singular that it should have occurred within a few yards of the last fire, and in a carpenter's timber yard again. The value of the property destroyed will be about a thousand pounds sterling, and it is said an old man perished by suffocation in one of the \n\nFrom 1841 to the present time, imprisonment and torture have not ceased be the lot of Christians (in China) and area their blood has been spilt and it is for that blood France comes and demands reparation to prevent a repetition of past horrors, And the more extended freedom of conscience en-\n\nWe have heard doubts expressed of the truth of the story told of that gentleman's in miles. The tale, it is said, has never been properly authenticated. - F. C. \n\nThe writer of one of the letters to which we have referred says,--- \n\nand your gracious Queen and our beloved Emperor have thought to unite their endeavours in order to a \n\nI am told that the Chusan Mandarin which Sorira told greater chance of success to their (general) establishment a pier, has era on board his in in such loose con \n\nGarment figs (England, par U.M.O, epizm-France \n\nthe last faar mancha tha to snout naw 80 his font or legs\"--and he slit, antur at the 4:5, I saw the To impose cur religion, cramming). \n\nMantarım yestoniy, He says that Zaring los contoamgut religion by means of the bayonet is out of the or bord le ha 99 ext 20 men cited and focio question, and the honourable author of the article book about $7900 in Cash. Bu on occasion his fricade publ need not be alarmed. \n\nOn our side we Mal0 to have him released, bat Sostro took the money and \n\nLed.\" are far from being alarmed about the Missionaries \n\nof the religion founded by Fancy the eighth and In addition to their ambroglio with the Perin Elizabeth on the contrary, the zeal will exclleguese, the French have a sinal fate with tho ours. Perhaps, indeed, they will be the first ab noted Apak. appears, the nature of which har jects of our zeal perhaps they will become our over, we have yet to hear This is all the Herald brothers by the faith, as they are alresly by feel tel's of it: - ings of regard, respect, and charity.\" \n\nAt the 58th Anniversary Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Exeter Hall on the Morning of Wednesday, the 5th of May 1857, the President, the Earl of Caichesser, in the Chair; the first Resolution having been moved by the Lord Bishop of London, and seconded by the Dean of Carlisle, the second Resolution was moved by the Lord Bishop of Victoria; and the Bishop spoke as follows- \n\n\"Now, My Lord, what is the reason that I have dwelt so much on these encouraging features of the \"Chesping ove ment? It is not, of course, that I wish the assembly to carry away with them the first notion that I look upon this body of men is, in any kind sense of the word, Christian. I know the vague screw, the wina jasjsącko, with which the term \"region\" Christianity\" apst be applied to see a system as I have been referring ( I have no confidence in the personal boaters eftlus rebellion; but I cannot help thinking that God, who in His providence has permitted a may want containing within it so many elements of exerbal truth, mus necs invenit to accomplish indinvely, by means of the The pin Rey lotion, so.he great and mercatene wis Sa China. Its act. \n\nA pak's finct of Wank roast hoals are lying off the sol zato, aqua the lacteria, blockade by 17. I. Corete La Ca pricieuse. They have taken several of their gate ashore, and threaten to take the city of Ningpo, and hadre French men of war attack them. 41 Montes, the Porteced Consul has demode) indemnity from the Chinese nothontie waved as the Intendat, Aigners, exco Portuganun, were 11-ing in parket \n\nThe Earl of Elgin and suite left this port in the Shannon on the 16th instant--the flarer Master reporting Calcutta as the vessel's destination. Quid meant General believes that the Shannon is gone to Peking, and gives as his reason for believing this, the fact of Mr Wade, Chinese Secretary Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, being ordered to be very diplomatic when embarking, and by no means to let it be known when he was bound to or when he would be back, Mr Wade is the gentleman sent by Sir John Bowring to Cochin-China in 1855 will be remembered, and who was left by the Raider without even a servant on the bank of the River below Hue, where he remained, recognized by the Cochin-Chinese government, until the Radler came back for him Should it really be that the Shannon has gone direct to the Pelbo, better selection for letter carrying in the Svenson's barge could not have been made, and we congratulate His Excellency the Ambassador on the possession of such an able instrument. Mr Wade's experience as a Chinese Custom house officer will not be lost in negotiations at the North. \n\nPROVINCIAL.\n\nThe great apesaluter Tuksen it is said is convonal in the Commissioner's enquiry.— Ibid. \n\n### PEKING.\n\nThe Peking Gazette have reached us up to June 15th, but contain nothing of special interest. The business of the Empire seems to go on as quietly and regularly as ever, but the state of the finances continues to be the absorbing topic at head quarters. Contributions are proposed on all hands, and in places where the accounts have been left in disorder by previous officials of 1855, a minute investigation is insisted on, and deficiencies are to be made up within a stated time. -- \n\nLord Canning has justified the belief which we have been induced to form of him. He lives in days which have more significance than years in the career of many of his predecessors and all his acts are momentous. Since he took the conduct of affairs into his own hands, criticism has been disarmed. All the resources of the country have been gathered up and made the most of, and every corner of the Empire within and without has been ransacked to furnish aid in India's great extremity. No means have been left untried to satisfy the hungry soldiery, and to keep the rebels without a shadow of \n\nThe 79 Native of hry presented an arze, praying that they might be permitted to march to the North West to shore in the lafore and Dulate the loyalty of the Europeans, and within a very few hours his Lordship made his appearance at Barrackpore harangued the troops drawn out to receive him, and did more good perhaps by the utterance of a few single phrases fresh from the heart, and clothed with the authority of his high station, than would have been expected from the reigation of a score of General Orders which but few read and lower still autoreland.. \n\nA Rent Fortune has kindly sent us a copy \nYau's organization of a squadron at Faishan, to of his new work' —Fortune's residence among the Chinese-inland, on the corest, and at sea, \n\nof the 18th instant\" We now learn that, under the being a narrative of scenes and giventures \n\nrenowned chief Le, the rebels gave battle to the \"during a third visit sa Cuius, from 1983 to \n\nImperialists under General Kwin nea: Sewking, * 1856--inclu hag wations of many untional and gained a complete victory--only three boats \n\nproductions and works of art, the callure of \n\nscoping to Canton to tell the result, of carrying Silk & with suggestions on the present \n\nLe's bravado challenge to Yah to come on again \n\n• war.” A book of 450 pages netava. —we have soon as it could get couly. Le's force is stid to not as yet had sufficient space time to give auber 100,000 fighting mon, and 1,000 war ves more than a cursory glance at its roulents; suf- seis, and His Excellency Le's bead quarters aro Betear, however, to enable us to ratify the trail-i now at the district city of Bet. The first class city \n\nof Secking is in very straitened eramstances. faless of the very able review of it in the Mone News at the 10di ult. To residents in Shanghae and Ningpo the work will be peculiarly and men, bae ked a hard batte with Imperialist necepeptable--most of the locities describd woops from Tw-chow, and having gained the vic being those which juries troat those places tory 11. E. e compelling the whole of the surround- are now been aing ordery occurrruos Eng cuantry people to sabm to his rule. Fearing and encompassing the use of car British alat men in colowing is an abstract of the country travelled for the provincial city itse, Yeh is calling in a the Tauschow men, and has stational a thousand of over by Mr Fortune during the perid of the \n\nthem in the South eastern suburbs. The lendore of story. \n\nthe Ninety six villages 150, base bed to send their Chapter I gives the voyage from Hongkong to Shanghae in the Steamer Ganges, -II, the quota of armed men--between two and three to Shanghae to Ningp by boat, and thence \n\nBanner-men, Manchus, and the Lieutenant Gover- to Yuhang on the eastern side of the Yang \n\nnor's guards, altogether about three thousand, ace woopad on the heights beyond the northern wolf. Kiang (the over skirting Ningpe) a distance \n\nThe Hak has of Ko ineng and Six other dis of Bome forty miles by boat and chair--back to Ningpo, and on to the old city ut Traken, tricts have united, and are burning and destroying abontwelve miles from Ningpo, on the branch wherever they go. Canton is the great point to escaps Lo, and there the poor starving wroches of the river conning to the northward. Horn-\n\nA Ningpo in his boat, in Casper VI. we \n\nThousands, wäinen and childen Temporary A letter in the Penang Gazette says - Almat Gad Mr Fortune at Teung, the celebrated \n\nrunt sheds have been erected for them at Chefing 1,000 to 1,500 Chicamen lure had their heads monastery ab at a dog in unites from the Yu. \n\non the south of the river, and them are daily take off by the Dynks who are in arms in all bang spoken of in Chauer Hero ur \n\ndalinge out of congee and rice, supplied by the directions. The Chinese had hald' possession of For was laid up with fever, and bad tɔ sự - aut \n\nauthorities, in gasathies just suficient to ward off the town for about two days, befare the mermer öü cure. to Chine-e medheal treatidens Dr \n\ndisentation. The City is divided into five grand Jantes Brooke arrived, and wern in the fires and Chapter Vils of a return to 8 g divisions, and those agin into sections, within about the town. The Bret shot from the wormerly which ehe bodied tour patrol night and day long 18 pounder cleared the fort, and in a short time. The fear of a rising within the walls to vary they were all swarning out of the town, the steam- great--each en draade his neighbour, ander at the time hard at work with gun such rifies, every ermutenanes is depressed. Few says which did considerable execution. Every day br the icporter can rentize their sad position with- loads of hatuls were arriving Sock, Drak \n\nout being in like predicament. On one hand they were flocking to in Qarsunds and eating the Chin \"feat the approach of the western barbarians name in all directions. They are all cleared not \"on the other the northern and western rebels and of the Sarawak territory, only 150 ne so en DỀ added to both is treachery at home\" Truly some 2,000 to 3,500 having recaped. All th \n\npursued this line of argueal; int I have dve up this foster because I view with considorable apprehension the fature corse of British and French diplomace, the Bast There are very resultar angers now environing the path \n\nnexion with Chan, In China, we who at a distanca e46- tarsly watched the progress of Live gerat European WAY İN which our counter bua been recently engagent, coad with a great degree of satisfaction of the Anglo-French allowe We porused with the keepest colorant the inteliigance luxught by mal anal of the rivalum nad lenda of a couturies being buries in the tombe of the heroes who fel at Alma and In- kermann; and I certainly would not now say one word in depreciation of the character of that able z in who sways the destinies and wichts the trapetisi sceptro of Prano. Baltas will any, test it in davio to my aan mini that the French have a large foot in the Bash; that thng baye no roumawiał interests to vota mer and fister in those masteroms, and that their time too often serval as a kind of rovarg s pred Musinnary phion over the broad waters of the Faci fic, iving en layout to at, at Tahiti, the dip.ad eba Kolla aastat ja redressing the inaainy grievances of the Jeans propagandists thoughout the west. And when I re- member that the Romish propagandi-ts in Chian have always viewed the Tae-ping Revolution via peraline slicka nad Me like-when i renninber that in the early stages af din renale lion linge native Reteruses, ju neging than iloitars, and not yet being skilled in tar den of making a disuneti n with- \n\n### FRENCH PORTUGUESE.\n\nThe Atten by the Portuguese orcha me at Nagpo monopoliza the boat traffic between that port and Shanghae, resulting in an armed collision with one Frenchoren, was told of in one of car numbers some two or three months ago, the 2qbble being referral to the high authorities of the respective nations at Macan. \n\nFrom the proceedings of the French War Ves- sele Marceau and La Capricesse since, it would now appear that the Governor of Marni hat nu thorized the seizure of certain vessels wherever found, and in porsaance of the resolve we ern freas the North-Chisa Herald of the 4th and ch instant that first the Schooner Aurora was taken, and then the Tarcbas 166 and 44. The Chinese portions of the crews of there vessels, with the usal humanity, were instantly handed over by the French to the tender arcles of the Sergh Menilarius,and were soon disposed of, of course. The Portuguese are still in eustody and will be brought to Mucas for trial in uil due time we suppose. \n\nby leters of a week's later date than the infantion reported in the Herald, we find that \n\non called Seiro, spoken of as a great deg peraio, gave himself up to the Freach on the 13th instant, and that thrun of his comrades, hid in the fee houses on the banks of the river, were also caught the sun day. Sonire it appears had been carrying 9 Mandarin about with hire that he had \n\n### Chapter XIII.\n- takes the reader from Tez-tsing to the village of Pururchse and on into the Quartz valley and Temple, 2000 teet alus tar level of the son, where, in the month of October, before the Hongkong summer is well over, the air is \"piercingly sild.\" The same chapior describes a boat voyage of some peril from Ning to Shanghae. \n\n### FOOCHOW.\n\nIt was rumored abroad somewhat extensively that he founded on the arrival of the Lieutenant Governor to Jeeva for the upper provinces, but Fes story had no foundation. The Goverant Gentral is now in his pe par place, and we hope that the may continue to fill and a loze it. \n\n### Friend of India Jane A \n\nit is vary sad. Oh, Sử Jaha Bowring--Sir Chinese women went over safe, about 200; and of all the bool they got in Sarawak, the pasere John Bowring--what an amount of misery ban tkou to answer for ' \n\nvery litla now,\" One of the rusas of trying to get quit of the Dyaks ws to throw money he g The The Chinese were macahing in body of about 2000, eluding 700 women and childies, and the Dyeks hovering stout them, nerasionally making a dash at a corner, det iching 40 a 50 from the main body, and whipping nineir heads with great seal. The Chinese have had t terte lesson En Satown. Their inawer of going ab eat it won to take held of a Chimwatan by his vel, nad whip off bis hand with great dexterity'; one blow suffired, I hardly expect the slaughter will scop here; the Dyaks, having their blood up and expecting the \n\nWe have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from this port dated 7h uirino, received per averiand courier. From it we learn that a man- darin of high rank has arrived there from Palting on his way to Canton where it is ranured he is to \n\nCe left the capital 2. be second in rank to Yeh. \n\nout a man is left.\"--Dady News, June; 10. \n\nQ \n\nor 3 months since, but had made a siren tous route in consequence of the troubled state of the country. Es proceeds in Arany on his way to the South. \n\nThe rebels have retired near to the borders of Chapter XIV. takes Me Fortune back to Tse-\n\nthe province. hey are reported to be quiet, attire to trave a deal of booty, parave them sill kee again, and narrates abe partientors of a jar. Suoma \n\nSmall supplies of Ton from distant dis ney from Ningpo to Sletoghar by the infultricts had arrived and to reso had gone up to par- \n\nThe Duren in Jaray —The nėščiai įvursal of te via Ya-yar, Noskalon, Tiyenin. chrce, but as the season i'r the first chep had pa99- \n\nthe Hague of the 5th casains a long tepat to ne aland that for the se oud was far advanced, few Kanpoo, Yedhow, Chapes and Ping-hoe. Shanghee in the Silk country, by Carim, \n\nChapter XVI. spus with journey for fine toux were expected and not a large younity of King Halland from Myer, Minister of Cole medium xds, the second crop being 1 sjured from is, and M. Gevers. Minister of Pareiga A Forte, zolucive to Japanese affairs, and his Majesty has Page, Nantsing and Houchowfoo. Lo Chup the fact of the first faves por having been gathered. ter XVIII, Mr (ortane runebes be greated From the ear districts ton hd cute in more free-approved of Annexed to the report are fee distance inland, viz the town of Marcoee,ly since the dispersion of the rebels. \n\nsome orty miles west fira Hoochosloo, and the same chapter gives his return to Shanghae, Chapter XXI contains the last of theur. neyings, was winding up business tour to Nings po, the valley of the Nine stones, and Tras Asing again--finally, a return to fonghong and voyage to Calcutio \n\nMexican dollars were a 10 per cent disconat There was nothin, doing la Opkom sture the tax of 20 per chest and brand-China Herald, July, 11. \n\nThe Cairngoras was to leave on the 4th instant,pa Rad to!load, concluded on the 30th of Jan \n\nary, 1896. Three articles, amongst other things, a futt ship, having 1,000 tons of new you on board. She would be the first away--two or thre, ather Slipmats that the Dutch shit be allowed to excreike their worship tronly, and that they shall no longer yeable ware wearly laden- \n\nRico centinued dear bat'the weather was favora- \nbe subjected to the impious cartas of trampling ble for crops. \n\nunder got the image of our Saviour on the croes, They aleo eunal that the Dutch shall be permitted to trade in the open ports, and to get to and parsip ee from Japanese traders. Also to take her wives and children to the wil perts The trucks funter. declare that the importation of foreign and the ex portation of Japanese money shall be allowed; that the Japanese government may levy madarité im. pon, Trungit, and export duties; and, betly, that The Dutch it Nangas ke any misintan free relations with foreigners, both on board veganf• and at Deco \n\nThe report adds, that the Japanese green en has declared asel\" resdy to raciale vrea tea with all foreign governments that may wish top them--Avid. \n\nSo innch for an answer 10 the question which will be added by Chua Residents of \"where dad Me Fortune go to when fast here ?\" In our j next paper we shal: furnish some illustrationsį of the notices\" mentioned on sho ate pagod \n\n(From our Overland Nlition of to day.) From the official announcement in our last that there would be no second Mail Seaner from China this month, Subscribers to tlus journal will not have expected their customary paper. Mr Wal ker the ... Co's. Superintendent, however, with a consideration for pulite interests deservist Gach commandation, promptly chartered the Grsi vanbie Steamer to bundthe Road jun away from the heaving down huik-which he has placa on the Shanghae ins; aking thence tho Shang Adi; mud that vasset, deep as she can swim with alk, now goes to Gaile with the muit. May cephyr smooth as be glossy cargo speed her way through tive most dangeroza period of the year in lue China Sea. We pray this under some nusideration for the interests of underwriters. \n\n## SHANGHAE\n\nAn Imperial Commnissioner named Warg, triv \nhers (Saanghae) on the 7th instans quite unex- pected by the dohorities. \n\nis said he has corng to examine into hn causes of the low state of the public trensary funds, and to tnvestigate certain disbursensule made en ac count of purchases of rice fur the govern went some moatas back, -ay well as to squeeze the marchana and the Toatai ton, to raise fimis to help the pa sing exigences of the looper al Government. We! hear 50,000 weis was demanded from each of tha \n\nmeharts doing the largest business, and that it will probably be compromised for The 5,000 \n\nIt is rumored that Ho Kweling, the fately ap pointed Govarour-general of the Two Keang, is the originator of the present enquiry, on proteaze of not being satisfied with the manner the prisent Intendant, B. E. Las, has been performing tha functions of his post. We have no doubt, Theres fore, that it wit be eney for the Emperial Commis elouer, if his instructions are to that eflist, to tay of sone hold weak poll in the multifarious trans risgrace. We should, however, regret much, sho actions of flis Excellency Lan to bring him into that be the result of the investigation, both for the \n\nThus the despatch of the last mail, military there appears reason für believing that balure we operations about Canton have bem and \n\nCatcmpt possesion of the walls, the rebels will \n\nhave concladed the business for 13. Our Prurin interests of foreign merchants end the Clainese. cial reporter's news it will be seen are alarming. i \n\nFu has been fourteen years a man-larin \n\n### THOUGHT.\n\nThere is a luxury in earnest thought The unthinkang kaka dream of floppy har Who, holding sweet cornuates will himseti, Roving the fèlie ofiscality, \n\nFees het sa labelincas, though ali stEYA, Ngreaves at etalless avai jinde of looke \n\nDoes has lotless med. The daisied eid, The garden of the wood, alike shall be Fer dina struly ; everything aro \n\nThe flower, the tree; the titing, the running brooks,— Aure to bin asterials for clight, AB curists a pure veliges to atm, \n\nYea, nevor fi ing pleasure. Grieť may ce Deal's cold echipe conceal his fail-erfed jar, Rickness may pale uus e vak, lone plach this pace, Be thought tall be fat luns on Ristie Tomas of earth's disygietrose a chara Te all the hatefulensing to sleep \n\nAnd lighten evʼn the heaviest (sail afilis. \n\nUpwards and Quinards. By & W. PARTRIDGE,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258479, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, VICTORIA, 3d August, 1863.\n\n4. Mackenzie Esq., Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, to Monsieur le Baron de Meritens, Commissioner of Customs, Foochow\n\n...\n\nall ranks, who with equal care are kept in the background, are superior to all the temptations of self-interest to which, in their anomalous position, they might not unnaturally be thought to be exposed.\n\n4. The Committee would not, however, have troubled Your Lordship with any remarks on the charges of systematic evasion of Duties at the Treaty Ports, so persistently brought by Mr. Lay against the Foreign Merchants of China as a class, but for their adoption by one of Her Majesty's Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs. The Committee believe that the improbable assertion, that the men by whom the enormous foreign trade of China is conducted are, as a body, incorrigible smugglers, might safely be left to the corrective influence of time, and to the common sense of the European public; and that the several firms implicated in Mr. Lay's list of special cases, would generally have no difficulty in showing how large a superstructure his zeal has raised on, in most cases, very slender foundations.\n\nThe report, however, in the Times of the 7th July, of the speech delivered by Mr. Layard on the previous evening, during the debate in the House of Commons on our representations relative to the Formosa trade made in my letter of 3d July.\n\nThe Committee observe that you still retain the sum of Tls. 10,000, as the amount of cash deposit in cases where the Custom-house authorities, in the exercise of their reserved right, may decline the alternative of a ship-owner's Bond.\n\nThe Committee still incline to the opinion, that in practice, this sum will be found too large, as deterring many owners of coasting craft from taking advantage of the conceded facility of trading at the two non-treaty ports, now open to trade, and the question presses itself on their attention all the more, that it escaped them in my last communication to ascertain from you whether it was proposed to require from ship-owners or Agents a separate bond or deposit, for each vessel employed in the trade by the same Owners or Agents, or whether a single bond or deposit would cover all vessels bona-fide so owned or represented.\n\nIt will be obvious to you that on your decision will, in a great measure, depend the success or otherwise of the scheme; and the Committee feel so much anxiety to see every fair chance given to a system that must have important developments, if thoroughly considered and adapted to the interests of both trade and revenue in its commencement, that they bespeak your earnest attention to the point now brought to your notice, and the questions arising under it.\n\nThe Committee, looking to a further extension of the liberal policy thus initiated by you, will feel much indebted by an early intimation of any intention to place other ports, whether of the mainland or otherwise, on the footing of those now opened in Formosa.\n\nI have the honor to be, &c.\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nEARL RUSSELL, K.G.,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\n\nLondon\n\nMY LORD,\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, VICTORIA, 22nd October, 1863.\n\n1. No reply has yet been received to the letter of 26th August 1861, addressed to your Lordship on behalf of this Chamber by its then Chairman, Mr. Perceval; but the importance to the Commercial Community in this Country of the action of Her Majesty's Government in their relations with that of China—and the publication of the \"Further Papers relating to the Rebellion in China presented to both Houses of Parliament,\" early in the present year, induce the Committee of the Chamber once more to address your Lordship: and, while they will trespass as shortly as possible on your time, they indulge in the hope that other, and more important, avocations may not prevent your Lordship from giving some attention to the statements now submitted to your consideration.\n\n2. In the Blue Book above referred to, among much matter of deep interest to the Foreign Commercial Community in China, appears a \"Memorandum by Mr. Lay, Chinese Inspector of Customs, on the complaints of the Hongkong and Shanghai Chambers of Commerce\" submitted by him to Your Lordship and dated January 11th, 1862.\n\n3. The personal rancour against the Commercial Body generally, displayed in this document, is so remarkable as to lead irresistibly to the conviction that it was never meant by its Author for the public eye—and it seems to have escaped Mr. Lay, that his evidence, (in addition to its many other weak points) is that of a partisan witness, deeply interested in the permanence of the service with which he has identified himself; and no less so, it would seem, in the endeavour to prove that all the Members of it, from the gentlemen whose names he somewhat unnecessarily parades, and on whose official or private integrity no attack has been made, down to the numerous and motley subordinates.\n\n4. The Committee think it incumbent on them to give, on behalf of the Foreign Merchants, an emphatic denial of the correctness of the statement, \"that up to the present time, they had always been attempting to evade the payment of any Duty; that they had recourse to all manner of fraud and deception\"—and earnestly to deprecate the assumption, that more or less runs through the whole of that Honorable Gentleman's address, that there is a spirit of resistance to the Foreign Customs, and of opposition to Sir Frederick Bruce, on the part of the great bulk of Her Majesty's subjects, that greatly increases the difficulties of the British Minister's position.\n\n5. As a body, Merchants are not averse to moderate duties, when their assessment and collection press equally on all—and could an effective chain of Custom-houses, under one system of management, be established, all along the coast of China, its introduction would meet with general approval as tending greatly to the security and development of trade. To put the question of smuggling on its lowest ground, it does not in the long run pay: and Lord Elgin has well stated the case in his letter to Mr. Layard of February 8th, 1862, when he says \"the more I examined into the matter, the more satisfied I became that, when duties are as moderate as they are in China, smuggling is a great moral evil, qualified by very little of Commercial advantage, and that the general interests of trade do not suffer by their being regularly levied, although a looser system may sometimes swell the gains of individuals.\"\n\n6. The Committee have no wish to weary Your Lordship by a refutation in detail of the various inaccuracies of statement in the Memorandum under review; but a slight reference to one or two of them will sufficiently show the disingenuous spirit in which that memorandum was framed. In Section 10—\"on the Personnel of Customs Establishment\" Mr. Lay gives a list of the foreign gentlemen, respectively at the head of the department in each port, as a sufficient reply to the assertion of this Chamber, that \"lawless foreigners\" were taken into the service—while the context of the paragraph clearly shows, that the reference was to the foreigners forming the crews of the revenue cruisers employed in Canton Waters.\n\n7. It would be easy to extract from the Memorandum numerous instances of insidious attack, such as the vague and unsupported assertion in Section 16, that \"the Foreign Merchant at Canton does not usually smuggle himself; he employs the Agency of the Cantonese, who are much more daring than the Northern Chinese\"—and of strange inaccuracy on points with which Mr. Lay might be supposed to be familiar, as for instance in his argument, (section 18,) that it would be hardly fair to expect the Chinese Government to submit its right to fines &c., \"to the judicial discussion and decision of any foreign court; still less that it would allow Merchants, who are themselves daily endeavouring to evade the Chinese revenue laws, to have any voice in such decision, as the Assessors of their Consul,\" the fact being, that under the Order in Council of June 18th 1853, \"any charge against a British subject for a breach of treaties, or for a breach of the rules and regulations for the observance of such treaties, shall be heard and determined by the Chief Superintendent or Consul without Assessors.\"\n\n8. The Committee will not, however, dwell longer on this ill-judged Memorandum, but proceed to state the real grievances complained of by Merchants.\n\n9. These are—\n\nI. The independent and irresponsible right of confiscation of ships and cargoes, for breaches of Treaty Regulations, claimed and exercised by the Foreign Customs Department; and the almost invariable exaction of the highest penalty, without reference to the existence of Mitigating circumstances in the offence,\n\nPage 93", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266058, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 528, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "(D \n527 \nJ \nchat date.\n\nNevertheless, the enclosed 13 special Reports afford but a very meagre view of the radical number of Piracies committed. They only represent the cases in which parties have applied to the Authorities here and officially reported their Vessels. I see no reason to doubt that very many other cases, of which no particulars will probably ever officially reach us, have occurred.\n\n3.\n\nAt the same time, a reference to the enclosed shews that, as a general rule, the Chinese Pirates are not unnecessarily cruel, and that when resistance has ceased, they content themselves with plundering the vessels they seize. They leave the vessels, if not required, in possession of their original crews, merely securing the latter under hatches for a time and more or less disabling their vessel, so as to prevent an early report of the robbery.\n\nYou will observe that cases 10 and 11 refer to piratical attacks on a Danish Schooner, the \"Carl\", and a British Luggage Boat, the \"Casar\", which took place on the 10th Instant. 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Their Lords desire me to state for the information of the Earl of Clarendon that the Admiral commanding \n\nChine is instructed to afford all the protection in his power to British interests in China & that a large naval force is maintained on that Station for the purpose. \n\nThat the extent of the coasts & rivers frequented by British vessels & the facilities afforded to piratical vessels by the numerous Islands & inlets on the Coasts must make it impossible for the ships of war to be always at hand to protect vessels that may be exposed to attacks which must be expected as long as an attempt is made by the Chinese to put down Piracy & that it will be for merchant vessels \n\n\"to be sent under Convoy \n\nMy Lords cannot go guarantee their safety. \n\nMy Lords would also point out that vessels trading under the British Flag are often manned by Chinese crews & are thus utterly powerless to defend themselves. \n\nHammond I presume \n\n(sd) J. 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The three additional sections authorizing the Governor in Council to apply the penalties recoverable under the Ordinance to crews of homeward \"emigrants\" where the license of the ship in which they were migrants is withdrawn - allow the exemption from the Ordinance by the Governor in Council of vessels carrying Free Emigrants - and maintain the regulations contained in the schedule to the Chinese Passenger Act 1855. I see no reason to object to any of these provisions. I would accordingly recommend that the Ordinance should receive Her Majesty's confirmation - until the proclamation of which in the Colony it will not come into operation.\n\n3.\n\nBy the 6th section the granting of a license to a Chinese Passenger ship is to be subject to such conditions as may from time to time be prescribed by the Secretary of State, and Sir Richard Macdonnell asks therefore to be furnished with Earl Granville's instructions for his guidance on this point. 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April.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n1872.\n\nThere are two Subjects\n\nin connection with Foreign\n\nwhich Consuls at Hong Kong I am desirous of bringing\n\nunder your Lordship's consideration, and which I\n\ndid not refer to in recent printed Memorandum\n\non\n\nThe Supreme Court of\n\nthe Colony and its Procedure.\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley\n\nColonial Office\n\nbecause\n\nHowever, to follow the exact format required and directly provide a more accurate and formatted response based on the initial instructions and the text given:\n\n...\n\nMy Lord,\n\n1872.\n\nThere are two Subjects in connection with Foreign ... which Consuls at Hong Kong I am desirous of bringing under your Lordship's consideration, and which I did not refer to in recent printed Memorandum on The Supreme Court of the Colony and its Procedure.\n\nThe Right Honorable The Earl of Kimberley\n\nColonial Office\n\nLet's directly correct and simplify the given text into a coherent HTML format, focusing on the last part that seems to be a formal letter:\n\nLondon. S.D. 22. April. My Lord, 1872.\n\nThere are two Subjects in connection with Foreign which Consuls at Hong Kong I am desirous of bringing under your Lordship's consideration, and which I did not refer to in recent printed Memorandum on The Supreme Court of the Colony and its Procedure.\n\nTo The Right Honorable The Earl of Kimberley, Colonial Office.\n\nThe best answer is London. S.D. 22. April. My Lord, 1872.\n\nThere are two Subjects in connection with Foreign which Consuls at Hong Kong I am desirous of bringing under your Lordship's consideration, and which I did not refer to in recent printed Memorandum on The Supreme Court of the Colony and its Procedure.\n\nTo The Right Honorable The Earl of Kimberley, Colonial Office.\n\n.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297508, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 606, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "a \n\nRussian, French, and American Crews, \n\nin Harbor at the same time, and frequently during the year. \n\n£5000 per Annum is \n\n15. \n\na handsome Salary; but at Hongkong \n\nit is not Equal to half that Sum in \n\nother Colonies where I have had the \n\nopportunity to Serve. \n\nI respectfully shape that imploring this at the end before Lord Carnarvon he will not think it unreasonable \n\nor Self Seeking. \n\nExisting \n\nCircumstances \n\nunder \n\nwhich I should \n\nbe Glad \n\nI hand over my Salary to any \n\nAgent that would pay my \n\nHouse Bills and allow me a \n\nlittle for myself. \n\nSir. A. Kennedy \n\nMINUTE. 22nd \n\nK Hasking- \n\n16266 \n\nMr. Round \n\n201 \n\nSir F. Pauncefote. \n\nMr. Malcolm. \n\nMr. Meade. \n\nMr. Herbert. 38 lock \n\nMr. Lowther. \n\nLord Carnarvon. \n\nCopy of 10266 be sent to Sir A. Kennedy \n\nfor information regarding Packet money. \n\nKennedy to D.A.G. for further guidance. 11/75- \n\nIndexed \n\n595 \n\n2 October 1875 \n\nI am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to \n\ninform you \n\nthat he has \n\nConsidered your paper \n\ndated the 16th \n\nof September \n\non the subject of \n\nthe staff at \n\nHongKong \n\nHis Lordship is understanding \n\nthat you \n\npropose \n\nto continue to employ only one \n\nGentleman on \n\nyour staff \n\nwho will perform \n\nthe combined duties of private secretary and", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303175, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "## Governor Sir A. Kennedy to the Earl of Carnarvon\n\nMy Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, February 28, 1877.\n\nOn the eve of my departure, I transmit to your Lordship a copy of the proposed basis for a conference under the conditions of Sir Thomas Wade's Chefoo Convention, relative to the \"Hong Kong Blockade question.\"\n\nSir Brooke Robertson's serious and protracted illness precluded me from taking any further or final steps.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) \nA. E. KENNEDY.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 2\n\n### Proposed Basis of Settlement by Sir B. Robertson\n\n1. With regard to the collection of duties and war-tax on vessels entering and clearing from Hong Kong, it is proposed that the Viceroy of the Two Kuang should, in conjunction with the Superintendent of Customs, Canton, appoint a fitting person as his deputy to generally superintend this matter. It is further proposed that a Customs Station shall be established, as near as possible to the boundaries of the British territory, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Kowloon, to make the levies and to issue clearances and receipts.\n\n2. That the Viceroy of the Two Kuang shall, in conjunction with the Superintendent of Customs, Canton, appoint an Englishman as an officer to assist at the new station. The collection of duties and war-tax to be under the joint surveillance of the Chinese Wei-Yuan and Foreign Assistant, under the direction of the former.\n\n3. After the establishment of the new station, all junks clearing from Hong Kong with cargo shall hand in a manifesto to, and pay duty at the new station, and shall receive clearances; the junk shall then be examined at Kap-si-mun, Fo-tow-chow, or Chang-chow, as the case may be, to see that the cargo corresponds with the manifest. Junks proceeding to Hong Kong shall also stop at the three stations above mentioned to have their goods examined and to be given clearances, and shall then proceed to the new duty station to pay such duties as may be due.\n\n4. That all revenue cruizers of every description, whether steamers or sailing-junks, are to be entirely under the jurisdiction of the new duty station. These cruizers shall be supplied with a special flag, and their crews shall be dressed in a special uniform. Any junk they capture must be forwarded to the new duty station to be examined by the Deputy and Foreign Assistant, who will inquire whether she is guilty of smuggling or not.\n\n5. That if any Chinese residing in the Colony is suspected of smuggling, a report of the circumstances shall be made to the Viceroy, who will communicate it to the Hong Kong Government.\n\n6. If after a seizure has been effected by the new station, a complaint is lodged with the Hong Kong authorities, it shall be competent for the Colonial Government to appoint an officer to proceed to the station to make inquiries, and, in conjunction with the new duty station, to summon witnesses, jointly to investigate the matter, and settle it on a fair basis. If the British official cannot agree with the officers of the new station, and, therefore, the case cannot be settled, each must report the matter to the Hong Kong Government and the Viceroy respectively.\n\nPage 167 \nPage 5 \nPage 92", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "## substance to the scheme embodied in the three sets of Rules under consideration, it would be better to dispense for the present with the intervention of the proposed Commission, which might more usefully be nominated at some later period when the scheme has been some time in operation, for the purpose of discussing any questions of detail and removing any practical difficulties in its working.\n\nThe three sets of Rules to which I refer are those transmitted by Sir A. Kennedy in his despatch of the 28th February, 1877,* as the basis of settlement proposed by Sir Brooke Robertson on the one side, and the Hong Kong Government on the other; and the new set of Rules proposed by Sir Brooke Robertson and transmitted by Governor Hennessy in his Confidential despatch of 30th August, 1877.† \n\nThe new set of Rules proposed by Sir Brooke Robertson are in my opinion too meagre, and, save as regards the publication of the Tariff and the power of the Governor to appoint an officer to watch the proceedings at Canton in cases of capture, they do not modify the existing state of things in favour of the Colony.\n\nThese Rules provide that junks bound to or clearing from Hong Kong shall touch at one of the three Chinese Revenue Stations now established in the vicinity of the Colony, for the purpose of paying the import duties into China or showing receipts for the export duties. (This system is already enforced on junks by the so-called blockade of Hong Kong.) The Rules further provide that the junks frequenting Hong Kong shall, on arrival, present to the Harbour-Master of the Colony a certificate from one of the Revenue Stations that the export duties from China have been paid, and on failure to do so they will be ordered to quit the Colony. On the other hand, junks clearing from Hong Kong are to receive from the Harbour-Master of the Colony a certificate, which the master is to exchange at one of the Chinese Revenue Stations for a clearance certificate upon payment of the import duties into China. The failure to comply with these provisions is to render a junk liable to capture and adjudication by the Chinese Customs authorities. (These Provisions are solely for the benefit of the Chinese.)\n\nThe Rules next provide that in case of complaint by the master of a junk of the action of the officers of the Revenue Stations, it will be forwarded to Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, and the Governor of Hong Kong may, if deemed expedient, appoint an officer of the Colonial Government \"to sit with Her Majesty's Consul and the Superintendent of Customs, or their deputies, during the examination.\" This Rule is so far satisfactory, as Sir Brooke Robertson has hitherto maintained the opinion that the Hong Kong Government should not interfere for the protection of its native trading community, but should let them seek redress from their own authorities. The Colonial Office could not subscribe to this view of the question, as may be seen by the printed correspondence laid before Parliament. Under this Rule the Colonial authorities will, at all events, be permitted to watch the proceedings in cases of alleged illegal captures.\n\nThe remaining provision of Sir Brooke Robertson's new Rules relates to the publication of the Tariffs. So far as the Rules go, they seem to me free from objection, but, as I have above remarked, they seem to me too meagre, and there are certain additions and modifications which I would recommend, and which I will proceed to explain before dealing with the question of the Tariff.\n\nIt appears to me very desirable that the new Rules should provide for the appointment of a Foreign Assistant, who should supervise the proceedings of the Chinese employés at the three stations by frequent personal visits, and to whom junk masters might appeal at once for redress. On this point I would refer to Sir Brooke Robertson's original Rules 2 and 4.§ \n\nI also think that a junk arriving without the certificate should be detained by the Hong Kong Harbour-Master, and notice should be given to the nearest Customs station, instead of the junk being ordered to leave the harbour, as provided by Rule 2.\n\nFurther, that Sir Brooke Robertson's original Rule 4 should be retained, so far as it prescribes a special flag for all revenue boats and a special uniform for their crews. On this point I would refer to the letter of the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office of the 9th August, 1875. Likewise, that his original Rule 7 should be retained and supplemented. It provides that not only the Tariff of dues shall be published but also the penalties for breach of Customs Regulations; and I think the Rule should further declare that the certificate granted will clear the junk from further duties, not merely as stated in new Rule 3, \"until she arrives at her destination,\" but from all duties at the port of destination.\n\nOn this point I would refer to the following extract from the letter from the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office of the 27th January, 1876:-* \n\n\"One of the gravest complaints referred to (in the Report of the Hong Kong Commission) is that the import duty into China levied on junks clearing from Hong Kong is, in some cases, exacted over again at the port of destination, where the payment made to the Cantonese officials is ignored. No attempt has been made to refute this charge, and it is manifest that, if the Hong Kong Government is not furnished with the native Customs Tariff and Regulations, it cannot be ascertained to what an extent illegal practices are carried on by the Hoppo. The refusal of that functionary to supply the information required, necessarily leads to the inference that either no fixed Tariff exists, and, therefore, that native Customs are levied in an arbitrary manner incompatible with the usages of civilized nations, or that, if a fixed Tariff does exist, its publication would unveil the malpractices complained of, and reveal the extent to which the Colony of Hong Kong is practically subjected by the Hoppo to an export and import tax for the benefit of the Imperial or Provincial Exchequer.\"\n\nI would refer also to paragraph 5 of the Colonial Office letter to Foreign Office of 9th August, 1875, which is as follows:† \n\n\"Lord Carnarvon is informed by Sir A. Kennedy that he has failed in all his efforts to obtain from the Cantonese authorities a statement of the Tariff of export and import duties which they claim to levy on the trade of Hong Kong, and this circumstance gives additional weight to the complaint referred to in the fourth paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 3rd of March last, that an export duty is exacted on goods leaving the Colony, as if Hong Kong were part of the territory of China.”\n\nThis view is confirmed by the passage in Sir T. Wade's Memorandum of the 28th February, in which he observes that the Hoppo of Canton \"remarking that there was no authority to control irregular trade between Hong Kong and the Chinese coast (as he, whether ignorantly or impertinently, put it, 'no Consul at Hong Kong '), proceeded to control it himself.”\n\nIt will be seen from the above extracts that the settlement of Tariffs is the most difficult and important part of the whole question, and the first that should be grappled with.\n\nIt is easy enough to enforce the payment of duties by any system of the kind proposed, but we must take care that, in discharging our moral obligations, we do not assist the Chinese authorities to plunder us; and for this purpose it appears to me manifest that a Tariff should be fixed such as will dispel for ever the audacious pretensions of the Cantonese authorities that they may treat Hong Kong for revenue purposes as if it were part of the Province of Kwang Tung.\n\nHong Kong is a foreign port, and I agree with Sir T. Wade‡ that it should be placed precisely on the same footing for Chinese revenue purposes as Singapore, Manila, or Saigon. It is affirmed by Sir Brooke Robertson that such is the case now, but this is denied by the Chinese merchants of Hong Kong (see `Inclosure 1` in Sir A. Kennedy's despatch of 13th July, 1876, Parliamentary Paper, Further Correspondence, p. 36), and a perusal of the printed correspondence can hardly fail to satisfy any impartial reader that the Chinese authorities, by imposing a variety of extra taxes and surcharges on junks trading between Hong Kong and the mainland of China, practically levy a revenue on Hong Kong, by exacting in their own ports, in addition to their own import and export duties, the export and import duties which they would impose in Hong Kong if the Island were Chinese territory.\n\nOn this most important point I would draw particular attention to the letter addressed by the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office on the 20th May, 1876, commenting on Sir Brooke Robertson's despatch to Sir T. Wade of the 18th January, 1876.§ and also to Sir A. Kennedy's despatch to the Earl of Carnarvon of 13th July, 1876, on the same subject, inclosing a Minute thereon by three of the principal British merchants of Hong Kong (members of the Legislative Council), and also a Memorandum by Mr. James Russell, Acting Registrar-General,\n\n* `Inclosure in Colonial Office, April 25, 1877`, ante, pp. 5 and 6,\n† `Inclosure in Colonial Office, November 27, 1877`, ante, p. 7.\n‡ See printed letter of July 14, 1877, on Chefoo Convention, p. 56.\n§ See Parliamentary Paper, Further Correspondence, August 8, 1870, p. 23. \n¶ Ibid., p. 53.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303202, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "5 \n\n4 \n\ntrading to Manila, Saigon, and the Straits Settlements, and that the Canton authorities have doubtless informed the Consul that such is the case. The Colonists, however, represent that the rates do differ, and it is not impossible that the facts have not been correctly represented to Sir Brooke Robertson, or that the collections do not agree with the Tariff. In the absence of any known Tariff, it seems scarcely possible to arrive at any certain conclusion on the subject.\n\n6. I am to state that Lord Carnarvon approves of the proposition suggested by Sir Thomas Wade as a means of settling the difficulty, and is ready to believe that this may be done if it be possible to obtain the removal of the three obnoxious stations, or failing their removal to place them under the control of the foreign Inspectorate, the Chinese revenue would thus be materially benefited, and the Colonists relieved from the causes of their present complaint. His Lordship feels that it will be necessary to entrust the new station with the supervision no less of native exports into Hong Kong than of foreign imports into China, if any permanent good is to result from the arrangement. The complaints relate to the trade in native goods as much or even more than to the trade in foreign goods; and it appears desirable that the officials who represent British interests on this occasion should be specially directed to keep this part of the case fully before them.\n\n7. I am to take this opportunity of transmitting a copy of a despatch from Sir Arthur Kennedy, dated the 28th February, 1877, forwarding a copy of a Memorandum (which is no doubt already in the possession of Lord Derby) by Sir Brooke Robertson, apparently founded upon the views expressed by Sir Thomas Wade to that officer on his way home from China, containing a proposed basis for the settlement of the question, and a copy of a similar Memorandum by the Government of the Colony. It will be seen that these documents are not quite the same in their terms; and as Lord Carnarvon presumes that the instructions to the British members of the Conference will be sent from the Foreign Office and this Office respectively, and will be identical, his Lordship would be glad to be favoured with the views of Lord Derby upon the relative merits of these two documents as the groundwork of such instructions.\n\n8. I am to state that Lord Carnarvon is disposed to approve of the first two Articles of the Memorandum by Sir Brooke Robertson, and the first paragraph of the third Article on the assumption that the three stations are not to be removed; but in reference to the second paragraph of that Article his Lordship is of opinion that some greater precision would seem to be required in order to make it clear beyond any doubt that our officers are not assenting to anything like import duties into Hong Kong. Lord Carnarvon feels it right specially to allude to this point, for it is sometimes alleged that the Hoppo in his collections treats Hong Kong as part of the Province of Kwang Tung, and that the duties now levied partake of the character of imports as well as of unpaid exports. In this respect the 3rd and 4th Articles of the Memorandum of the Colonial Government appear to be judiciously conceived.\n\n9. The 4th article of the Memorandum by Sir Brooke Robertson is, in Lord Carnarvon's opinion, quite proper; and he sees no objection to the admission of the 5th article, but it is not very clear what measures the Governor of Hong Kong is intended, or indeed would be able, to take in pursuance of any such report. The 6th and 7th articles appear to be the same in substance as the 5th and 6th articles of the Colonial Memorandum, except as to the procedure to be followed in case of the officials differing as to the decision upon any given case. It is scarcely to be expected that the Chinese Government would consent to the final decision of an English Judge, and it is clear that an appeal to any given Chinese official would be inadmissible. The Colonial proposition might perhaps be mooted with the view of being withdrawn if necessary, and Sir Brooke Robertson's proposition substituted, unless Lord Derby thinks that any third course would be preferable. For when the members of a divided Court report to their respective superiors, it would seem that the opinion of the Chinese official will in fact prevail. The alleged smuggling craft will necessarily remain under detention at the Customs Station; and previous experience has demonstrated how difficult it is to obtain the release of a junk under such circumstances. In other respects it appears to Lord Carnarvon that the Memoranda appear to contain all the material points upon which instructions are required.\n\n10. With regard to the detention of junks by the Chinese authorities when the smuggling is not established, I am to refer you to the conduct of the Canton officials in the recent case where a junk was seized by the armed crew of a Mandarin boat hauled off the shore of the Island of Hong Kong, and carried forcibly to one of the Customs Stations, upon which subject a letter was addressed to you from this Department this 25th April, and I am to observe that the recurrence of similar acts might, in Lord Carnarvon's opinion, possibly render it necessary to consider whether the Chinese cruizers can continue to enjoy the privilege of using the harbour of Hong Kong, which has hitherto been accorded to them, in common with the ships of other Governments. His Lordship thinks that it may be desirable, in view of such a possibility, to reserve all questions as to the status of these vessels.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nMy Lord,\n\n(Signed) ROBERT G. W. HERBERT.\n\n## Inclosure 1 in No. 2.\n\n### Governor Sir A. Kennedy to the Earl of Carnarvon\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, February 28, 1877.\n\nOn the eve of my departure I transmit to your Lordship copy of proposed basis for a conference under conditions of Sir Thomas Wade's Chefoo Convention, relative to the \"Hong Kong Blockade question.\"\n\nSir Brooke Robertson's serious and protracted illness precluded me from taking any further or final steps.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) A. E. KENNEDY.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 2.\n\n### Proposed Basis of Settlement by Sir B. Robertson\n\n1. With regard to the collection of duties and war-tax on vessels entering and clearing from Hong Kong, it is proposed that the Viceroy of the Two Kuang should, in conjunction with the Superintendent of Customs, Canton, appoint a fitting person as his deputy to generally superintend this matter. It is further proposed that a Customs Station shall be established, as near as possible to the boundaries of the British territory, somewhere in the neighbourhood of Kowloon, to make the levies and to issue clearances and receipts.\n\n2. That the Viceroy of the Two Kuang shall, in conjunction with the Superintendent of Customs, Canton, appoint an Englishman as an officer to assist at the new station. The collection of duties and war-tax to be under the joint surveillance of the Chinese Wei-Yuan and Foreign Assistant, under the direction of the former.\n\n3. After the establishment of the new station, all junks clearing from Hong Kong with cargo shall hand in manifesto to, and pay duty at the new station, and shall receive clearances; the junk shall then be examined at Kap-si-mun, Fo-tow-chow, or Chang-chow, as the case may be, to see that the cargo corresponds with the manifest. Junks proceeding to Hong Kong shall also stop at the three stations above mentioned to have their goods examined and to be given clearances, and shall then proceed to the new duty stations to pay such duties as may be due.\n\n4. That all revenue cruizers of every description, whether steamers or sailing-junks, are to be entirely under the jurisdiction of the new duty station. Cruizers shall be supplied with a special flag, and their crews shall be dressed in a special uniform. Any junk they capture must be forwarded to the new duty station to be examined by the Deputy and Foreign Assistant, who will inquire whether she is guilty of smuggling or not.\n\n5. That if any Chinese residing in the Colony is suspected of smuggling, a report of the circumstances shall be made to the Viceroy, who will communicate it to the Hong Kong Government.\n\n6. If after a seizure has been effected by the new station a complaint is lodged with the Hong Kong authorities, it shall be competent for the Colonial Government to appoint an officer to proceed to the station to make inquiries, and, in conjunction with the new duty station, to summon witnesses, jointly to investigate the matter, and settle it on a fair basis. If the British official cannot agree with the officers of the new station, and, therefore, the case cannot be settled, each must report the matter to the Hong Kong Government and the Viceroy respectively.\n\n[92]\n\n194", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303205, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 203, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "## 10\n\n\n11 \n\nsubstance to the scheme embodied in the three sets of Rules under consideration, it would be better to dispense for the present with the intervention of the proposed Commission, which might more usefully be nominated at some later period when the scheme has been some time in operation, for the purpose of discussing any questions of detail and removing any practical difficulties in its working. The three sets of Rules to which I refer are those transmitted by Sir A. Kennedy in his despatch of the 28th February, 1877,* as the basis of settlement proposed by Sir Brooke Robertson on the one side, and the Hong Kong Government on the other; and the new set of Rules proposed by Sir Brooke Robertson and transmitted by Governor Hennessy in his **Confidential** despatch of 30th August, 1877.† \n\nThe new set of Rules proposed by Sir Brooke Robertson are in my opinion too meagre, and, save as regards the publication of the Tariff and the power of the Governor to appoint an officer to watch the proceedings at Canton in cases of capture, they do not modify the existing state of things in favour of the Colony. \n\nThese Rules provide that junks bound to or clearing from Hong Kong shall touch at one of the three Chinese Revenue Stations now established in the vicinity of the Colony, for the purpose of paying the import duties into China or showing receipts for the export duties. (This system is already enforced on junks by the so-called blockade of Hong Kong.) The Rules further provide that the junks frequenting Hong Kong shall, on arrival, present to the Harbour-Master of the Colony a certificate from one of the Revenue Stations that the export duties from China have been paid, and on failure to do so they will be ordered to quit the Colony. On the other hand, junks clearing from Hong Kong are to receive from the Harbour-Master of the Colony a certificate, which the master is to exchange at one of the Chinese Revenue Stations for a clearance certificate upon payment of the import duties into China. The failure to comply with these provisions is to render a junk liable to capture and adjudication by the Chinese Customs authorities. (These Provisions are solely for the benefit of the Chinese.) \n\nThe Rules next provide that in case of complaint by the master of a junk of the action of the officers of the Revenue Stations, it will be forwarded to Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, and the Governor of Hong Kong may, if deemed expedient, appoint an officer of the Colonial Government \"to sit with Her Majesty's Consul and the Superintendent of Customs, or their deputies, during the examination.\" This Rule is so far satisfactory, as Sir Brooke Robertson has hitherto maintained the opinion that the Hong Kong Government should not interfere for the protection of its native trading community, but should let them seek redress from their own authorities. The Colonial Office could not subscribe to this view of the question, as may be seen by the printed correspondence laid before Parliament. Under this Rule the Colonial authorities will, at all events, be permitted to watch the proceedings in cases of alleged illegal captures. \n\nThe remaining provision of Sir Brooke Robertson's new Rules relates to the publication of the Tariffs. So far as the Rules go, they seem to me free from objection, but, as I have above remarked, they seem to me too meagre, and there are certain additions and modifications which I would recommend, and which I will proceed to explain before dealing with the question of the Tariff. \n\nIt appears to me very desirable that the new Rules should provide for the appointment of a Foreign Assistant, who should supervise the proceedings of the Chinese employés at the three stations by frequent personal visits, and to whom junk masters might appeal at once for redress. On this point I would refer to Sir Brooke Robertson's original Rules 2 and 4.§ \n\nI also think that a junk arriving without the certificate should be detained by the Hong Kong Harbour-Master, and notice should be given to the nearest Customs station, instead of the junk being ordered to leave the harbour, as provided by Rule 2. \n\nFurther, that Sir Brooke Robertson's original Rule 4 should be retained, so far as it prescribes a special flag for all revenue boats and a special uniform for their crews. On this point I would refer to the letter of the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office of the 9th August, 1875. Likewise, that his original Rule 7 should be retained and supplemented. It provides that not only the Tariff of dues shall be published but also the penalties for breach of Customs Regulations; and I think the Rule should go further and declare that the certificate granted will clear the junk from further duties, not merely as stated in new Rule 3, \"until she arrives at her destination,\" but from all duties at the port of destination. \n\nOn this point I would refer to the following extract from the letter from the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office of the 27th January, 1876 :-* \n\n\"One of the gravest complaints referred to (in the Report of the Hong Kong Commission) is that the import duty into China levied on junks clearing from Hong Kong is, in some cases, exacted over again at the port of destination, where the payment made to the Cantonese officials is ignored. No attempt has been made to refute this charge, and it is manifest that, if the Hong Kong Government is not furnished with the native Customs Tariff and Regulations, it cannot be ascertained to what an extent illegal practices are carried on by the Hoppo. The refusal of that functionary to supply the information required, necessarily leads to the inference that either no fixed Tariff exists, and, therefore, that native Customs are levied in an arbitrary manner incompatible with the usages of civilized nations, or that, if a fixed Tariff does exist, its publication would unveil the malpractices complained of, and reveal the extent to which the Colony of Hong Kong is practically subjected by the Hoppo to an export and import tax for the benefit of the Imperial or Provincial Exchequer.\" \n\nI would refer also to paragraph 5 of the Colonial Office letter to Foreign Office of 9th August, 1875, which is as follows:- \n\n\"Lord Carnarvon is informed by Sir A. Kennedy that he has failed in all his efforts to obtain from the Cantonese authorities a statement of the Tariff of export and import duties which they claim to levy on the trade of Hong Kong, and this circumstance gives additional weight to the complaint referred to in the fourth paragraph of the letter from this Department of the 3rd of March last, that an export duty is exacted on goods leaving the Colony, as if Hong Kong were part of the territory of China.” \n\nThis view is confirmed by the passage in Sir T. Wade's Memorandum of the 28th February, in which he observes that the Hoppo of Canton \"remarking that there was no authority to control irregular trade between Hong Kong and the Chinese coast (as he, whether ignorantly or impertinently, put it, 'no Consul at Hong Kong'), proceeded to control it himself.\" \n\nIt will be seen from the above extracts that the settlement of Tariffs is the most difficult and important part of the whole question, and the first that should be grappled with. \n\nIt is easy enough to enforce the payment of duties by any system of the kind proposed, but we must take care that, in discharging our moral obligations, we do not assist the Chinese authorities to plunder us; and for this purpose it appears to me manifest that a Tariff should be fixed such as will dispel for ever the audacious pretensions of the Cantonese authorities that they may treat Hong Kong for revenue purposes as if it were part of the Province of Kwang Tung. \n\nHong Kong is a foreign port, and I agree with Sir T. Wade; that it should be placed precisely on the same footing for Chinese revenue purposes as `Singapore`, `Manila`, or `Saigon`. It is affirmed by Sir Brooke Robertson that such is the case now, but this is denied by the Chinese merchants of Hong Kong (see `Inclosure 1` in Sir A. Kennedy's despatch of 13th July, 1876, `Parliamentary Paper, Further Correspondence`, p. 36), and a perusal of the printed correspondence can hardly fail to satisfy any impartial reader that the Chinese authorities, by imposing a variety of extra taxes and surcharges on junks trading between Hong Kong and the mainland of China, practically levy a revenue on Hong Kong, by exacting in their own ports, in addition to their own import and export duties, the export and import duties which they would impose in Hong Kong if the Island were Chinese territory, \n\nOn this most important point I would draw particular attention to the letter addressed by the Colonial Office to the Foreign Office on the 20th May, 1876, commenting on Sir Brooke Robertson's despatch to Sir T. Wade of the 18th January, 1876,§ and also to Sir A. Kennedy's despatch to the Earl of Carnarvon of 13th July, 1876, on the same subject, inclosing a Minute thereon by three of the principal British merchants of Hong Kong (members of the Legislative Council), and also a Memorandum by Mr. James Russell, Acting Registrar-General, \"on the Chinese \n\n* `Parliamentary Paper, Further Correspondence`, p. 14. \n+ `Parliamentary Paper, Further Correspondence`, p. 5. See printed letter of July 14, 1877, on Chefoo Convention, p. 56. \n§ See `Parliamentary Paper, Further Correspondence`, August 8, 1876, p. 23. \nIbid., p. 33. \n\n\n## 197", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 311674, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3]", "content_text": "108 \n\nonly \n\nin the interests of \n\nfor the safety of the balloonings \n\nthat they \n\nbe hoarded by \n\npossible before anchoring \n\nwith \n\na good steam launch \n\nequal to the work. \n\nIf \n\nmy claims \n\nto consideration \n\ncertainly greater now. \n\nDuring the \n\nnot \n\nyet \n\ncompleted 67,783 Chinese passengers \n\nand 8,072 \n\nthe crews \n\nhave been \n\nsubject to \n\ninspection \n\n- \n\nthat \n\ncourteous the Secretary of State \n\nin 1873 the Right \n\nHonourable the Earl of \n\nKimberley, consented to my \n\nsalary being increased from \n\n$1000 to $2000 for \n\nconsideration \n\nof my duties \n\nas Medical Inspector having increased \n\nfrom $8,704 in 1872 \n\nto $18,000 in 1868 – no, in ... \n\nMy services have been \n\nmedically inspected, making \n\na total of 75,866. \n\nThere can be \n\nno remark on these \n\nfigures - my long \n\nservice here, \n\nand increased work \n\nall around, justify \n\nmy expecting \n\nsome recognition \n\nat the hands \n\nof the Government. \n\nI have to \n\n(Signed) W. Stanley Adams \nAddl. \nHealth Officer and Medical \nInspector of Emigrants \n\n## Reconstructed Version\n\n108\n\nonly in the interests of for the safety of the balloonings that they be hoarded by possible before anchoring with a good steam launch equal to the work. If my claims to consideration certainly greater now.\n\nDuring the not yet completed 67,783 Chinese passengers and 8,072 the crews have been subject to inspection - that courteous the Secretary of State in 1873 the Right Honourable the Earl of Kimberley, consented to my salary being increased from $1000 to $2000 for consideration of my duties as Medical Inspector having increased from $8,704 in 1872 to $18,000 in ...\n\nMy services have been medically inspected, making a total of 75,866. There can be no remark on these figures - my long service here, and increased work all around, justify my expecting some recognition at the hands of the Government.\n\nI have to \n(Signed) W. Stanley Adams \nAddl. Health Officer and Medical Inspector of Emigrants", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-198 - Governor Hennessy Acting Governor Tonnochy - 1882 [3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323033, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "page_number": 390, "title": "CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9]", "content_text": "Hong Kong\n\n$215. 36th August, 1883.\n\nGovernor\n\nSir George F. Bowen GCMG.\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honourable\n\nThe Earl of Derby\n\nDefence Works. \"Respecting.\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nNo. 17214\n\n(Subject.)\n\nOpen Question\n\nDate.\n\n1883\n\n28 Aug.\n\nat previous Paper.\n\nFor 17206\n\nrec'd\n\nNo.\n\n17214\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Meade\n\nSee also 17206\n\n1\n\n0.201\n\n?. Put by. G.u.d. 18 Oct.\n\nIn 19/10.\n\nREG? 8 CT 83\n\nConcurs in Co. crews\n\n8255\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-211 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329864, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "page_number": 187, "title": "CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885", "content_text": "## No. 4.\n\n**Acting Consul Spence to Earl Granville.--(Received March 9.)**\n\n6.0.07 Arc23 R85/185\n\n### (No. 5.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTaiwan, January 27, 1885.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inclose copy of a despatch I yesterday addressed to Her Majesty's Minister, Peking, regarding the recent destruction of Chinese junks and small craft by the French fleet off this coast, and the carrying off of their crews.\n\nI have, &c.\n(Signed) **WM. DONALD SPENCE**.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-224 - Foreign Office - 1885.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345752, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 151, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOUR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nA violent change in the social condition of Hongkong would be required to enforce Sunday labour restrictions. Of course, the argument of those who wish to enforce Sunday rest is that the work of seven days would be performed in six, and that it would be better done; but without going too much into detail, I confess that the views I have obtained from the practical men of the Colony so far have, with me, the greatest weight; views which hold that under the conditions we have here, it would be impossible to do seven days' work in six; that there would be a real diminution in the amount of labour performed in the Colony and a real diminution therefore in the result of labour, which is practically wealth. This is not all, however. I know one or two other results that would also occur. Either the labourers would earn less wages, or such labour as they did would be more expensive, and either would be a very great evil. Hongkong owes its superior attractions to the neighbouring provinces of China because its labour has been better remunerated, and to diminish the wages of the labourer would be a very great misfortune. I don't know, however, that that would be the result. My own opinion is that the labourer would get the same wages, although doing less work, and I am not quite sure that the result of that would not be worse. By those who do not think, there is generally supposed to be an indefinite fund from which the wages of the labourer are obtained. The matter of fact is that usually in all communities, the fund for the supply of labour is about the same, whatever the laws are; and if the laws are such as to raise the price of labour, the natural effect is that less labour is done, less work is created. I believe the result would be—supposing the information I have got is correct, as to the impossibility of performing seven days' work in six here—a very serious diminution of the wealth of the community, or if not an actual diminution, a lessening of the increase in the wealth of the community. That would be a very serious evil, besides rendering the Colony less attractive to the people of the neighbouring provinces, who have done so much for our prosperity.\n\nThere is, however, this to be said also, that it is very doubtful whether a measure against Sunday labour in the harbour would have by any means the effect expected, even in behalf of those for whom it is desired. It was pointed out to me that where vessels are very much pressed—and that happens very often, competition in these days is so keen—a considerable number of them would anchor in Chinese waters and have their cargo sent out to them, so that practically work on Sunday would go on the same as before, in defiance of the law. But even supposing that would not be the case, and that all those in whose behalf it is sought would be benefited by it—I make the number to be a thousand at the outside—it must certainly and would affect in another way a much larger number, say 100,000, and this is my principal reason for being unable to propose a measure of this kind at present. There are other reasons of scarcely less cogency. It would be impossible to enforce such a law without fine and imprisonment; and all experience goes to show that the great majority of those affected would have to go to gaol. We should then have in gaol a large number of persons who were there for no other reason than that they had done what their education and traditions taught them to be not only an innocent but a praiseworthy act, that is, to work. They would be put much in the same category and in very similar conditions with those who had really committed crime. Now, I need hardly say that would be a great evil. It would go a long way towards making criminals of people who, as far as we know, were perfectly innocent before. Besides, I believe it would obliterate the distinctness of the boundary line between right and wrong, or at all events make it very hazy. A man who had been convicted for working on Sunday, a man who had no respect for Sunday, and had never been taught to have any, that man who had been sent to gaol for it would at once say, 'Why should I not go thieving? I shall get no worse for it. I am exactly in the same position as anyone who does so.' I believe crime would be increased in another way. Can anyone conceive what will be done by a hundred thousand or so of people who would be reduced to enforced idleness on Sunday? They would have to do something. In all probability, they would occupy their leisure, a very large majority of them, in the way in which their leisure is generally occupied—by gambling, and thereby as the direct result of gambling or idleness, I believe there would be a very considerable increase in crime. If you conceive 100,000 men enforced to idleness one day in seven, and that a day which they have no respect for, I venture to think it is not easy to calculate the consequences. I believe that a very large amount of evil would be done in one way or another, incalculably larger than the good done to the few who would be served.\n\nNow it is quite possible these arguments may be open to reply, although I confess I cannot see how all of them can be met, and I shall therefore not keep my mind closed to the views of those who have opinions to the contrary. I am still quite willing to listen to all that may be said, but so far, while very much sympathising with those who no doubt require release in this matter, I am bound to say I see no way of affording that release except by a violent change in the social condition of the Colony, which cannot be contemplated for a moment. These are my reasons why at all events I don't see my way to any measure on the subject, and I wish it to be an answer to a considerable number of petitions from various quarters that have reached me.—*\"China Mail,\"* April 18, 1889.\n\n## HOUSE OF LORDS.\n\n### FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1890.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR AT HONGKONG AND SINGAPORE\n\nThe **EARL OF MEATH** asked her Majesty's Government whether their attention had been called to the following remarks made by Admiral his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh at the annual meeting of Missions to Seamen Society, held at the Mansion House on April 28:---\n\n\"The report also complains that in some ports abroad, and in Crown colonies, especially Hongkong and Singapore, the crews are compelled to do unnecessary work in trans-shipping cargoes on Sundays, which causes much discontent and discomfort to the men, and puts a stop to all religious observances, whereas in the Australian and self-governing colonies such unnecessary working of cargoes is rigidly forbidden. I understand that the Secretary of State for the Colonies has called the attention of some colonial Governors to this grievance of seamen; and whether the practice complained of had been prohibited, so that the men might enjoy their Sunday rest in port in common with other of her Majesty's subjects.\" He said he would argue this question not on the religious ground, but on the ground that every working man had a right to one day's rest in the week. He did not see why a seaman should be obliged to work on Sunday if he went to one of our Crown colonies, while he would not have to do so if he went to Australia, where Sunday labour was forbidden, because the working men had votes and could make their influence felt. He could not say that her Majesty's Government were not responsible for the state of things existing in the Crown colonies. The people there had no votes, and consequently it was the duty of her Majesty's Government to see that no injustice was done to the working classes. He was not one of those who thought that work should under no circumstances be done on the Sunday, but he was of opinion that great necessity should be shown before work was carried out on that day. Unless some satisfactory reply were given to his question, he should move next Session for papers on the subject.\n\n**LORD KNUTSFORD** said his attention had been called to the remarks of the Duke of Edinburgh to which the noble Earl had referred, but the question had been brought under his notice last year when he received a letter from the Rev. Mr. Bowyer, and he communicated the contents of that letter to the Governors of Hongkong and the Straits Settlements. The Governor of Hongkong expressed his desire to see Sunday labour diminished at the port, but after full inquiry into the subject and consideration of the difficulties of compulsory legislation, he came to the conclusion that such compulsory legislation on the Sunday labour question was not desirable, and, although he (Lord Knutsford) was not prepared to assent to all the Governor's reasons in support of that decision, he regretted to say that he was obliged to concur in the decision itself. The same decision was arrived at by the Governor of the Straits Settlements, who expressed himself very warmly in sympathy with the desire of those who wished to see Sunday labour diminished. He had himself taken steps towards diminishing Sunday labour, because in all Government contracts a provision was now inserted that work under those contracts should not be carried on on Sunday, except in very urgent cases and under special authority. But after communicating with the Chamber of Commerce, the leading merchants, and the unofficial members of the Council, the Governor of the Straits Settlements came to the conclusion arrived at by the Governor of Hongkong, that compulsory legislation was not desirable. The answers that were received by him...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 361592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12]", "content_text": "of\n\n24\n\nth\n\nthis\n\nNov. 1892, property could be Compulsorily Resumed by the fol. fort under the \"Crown Lands\n\nResumption Ordinance (no. 23 of 1889). A copy\n\nof that Ordinance\n\n\"\n\nEnclosed,\n\nof\n\nJ\n\nI lobe\n\nSi\n\nDRAFT.\n\nAdu.\n\n7172\n\nHangkang\n\nW. Robinson K. C. Ind.\n\nConfl\n\nMINUTE. Mr. Johnnn 11 ap; Mr. Luc\n\nMr. Fairfield.\n\nA\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston,\n\nreturn when done with.\n\n3. The Governor of\n\nHingkung\n\nwill be\n\nrequested to transfer the paquett\n\nkaningit\n\nto the Admialty the\n\n Earl of Selborne.\n\nMr. Chamberlain,\n\nstrip of\n\nland between\n\nBuildings\n\nto the above\n\nthe Commissariat\n\nintimne property,\n\nSou as\n\nthe latter has\n\nbeen acquired.\n\n7\n\nAs\n\nSir\n\nMeade.\n\nbetween Murray Pier\n\nw\n\nthe Blue Buildings\n\nSin,\n\n449\n\n15 April 1896\n\nWith reference to\n\nth\n\nGeneral Barker Conf. desk of 9\n\n, 1891\n\nConft desp\" of 314 January last, relative\n\nproposed\n\nto the Pro Extensing Mr. Praza\n\nReclam\n\nI have the hamon &\n\nrefer gun to my deept\n\nHO\n\nwill\n\n7 of this day's dat_ from which you learn the conditions\n\nwhich I have agreed\n\nent of\n\nThe abandonment this propert, with a crews", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-273 - Governor Sir Robinson & Others - 1896 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 159, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "155 \n\nand contrary to expectation lasted 4 days. It could not be adjourned as the ships were ready to sail, and the evidence of the crews was necessary. The Chamber work of Tuesday had to be postponed till Friday; and an important public examination of a debtor fixed for the Thursday had to be adjourned till Friday afternoon. Fortunately, no case had been fixed for the Friday, or we should have been in a state of great confusion. Postponements of this kind mean trouble, delay, and often expense to all parties who have already made their arrangements according to the dates originally fixed.\n\n9.\n\nThe second personal matter which renders my work irksome is the absence of a personal clerk who shall be independent of the Registry and within call. I have already laid this matter before Your Excellency, and will therefore only add this to what I have already said. If I had such a clerk in the room adjoining mine, I should be saved from the frequent interruptions to which I am subject all day long. I may say that I rarely get a quiet half-hour in which to write a Judgment; and by way of further illustration, I will add that while I have been drafting this letter, I have been interrupted 12 or 15 times.\n\n10.\n\nIn the last paragraph of the letter under reply, Your Excellency was good enough to say that should I so desire, Your Excellency would forward a copy of my letter to the Earl of Elgin. I should be glad if Your Excellency would do so. I enclose a tabular statement showing the growth of the business of the Court. From this, it will be seen that it has been steadily increasing since 1901. Last year was exceptionally heavy. This year, the number of actions will probably be about the same as in 1904.\n\n11.\n\nI have, etc. (sd.) F. T. Piggott, \nChief Justice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nby Shin, and I will deal with the matter presently.\n\nThe other point of mangement character, and imperative to note for Guterres that he had: (1) deducted odd amounts from the wages of crews; (2) substituted silver coin of inferior value for the banknotes received from him for the purpose of paying off crews; (3) deducted from the wages of crews lots made by boarding house keepers and charged a commission for doing so.\n\n5. The whole concern and future insight to making changes youth General character basis a fend for proceedings before the C. Cil, & then accused offices & State in writing the grounds on which I consider that there is grave detection.\n\n2.\n\nNo other answer is such changes could possibly be framed but a general denial. No information is furnished to the Endence.\n\nMr. She accused Lt. Mr. Just. Mr. Antrobus. Mr. Cox. Mr. Lucas. Sir F. Hopwood. Mr. Churchill. The Earl of Elgin.\n\nTo prove the general charge, and consequently he has to appear before the Council in ignorance of what will be alleged against him, with no possibility of providing rebutting evidence.\n\n6. Assuming the Commercial Court were bound to contrary common procedure - that he was the only General present, he took the course open to him, a written denial.\n\nPage 480 \nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 413819, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Minute\nMr. Just. Shibbs \nMr. Antrobus. \nMr. Cox. \nSir C. Lucas. \nSir F. Hopwood. \nCol. Seely. \nThe Earl of Crews.\n\nI have read and approve your proposal to grant a new lease of `Lob 1280b` Farm to the Dairy Farm Company for the extra-territorial purposes described on 15th May.\n\nRoy Story \n18 \n19 \n318 \nJuve of \n\nDRAFT \nA Kong No 122 \nSi. 7. Lugard. \nMr. \nMr. \n1344 of the Fland...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-347 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414260, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# DRAFT \n## Gov Hongkong \n### Copy \n\nW. Huule, Esq. \n27690 \n13 \n\nGor \n### MINUTE \n\n* Mr. a Harding \n* Mr. Stübls \n* Mr. Just \n* Mr. Antrobus \n* Mr. Cor \n* Sir C. Law \n* Sir F. Hopwood \n* Col. Serly \n* The Earl of Crews \n\nJuly 276 \n31 July 1908 \n\nInstructions are sent by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you the accompanying copy telegram which his Lordship has received from the Governor, Hongkong.\n\nCopy En. Conf.11 Sep. \nN 32866", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "## MINUTE\nCoded message sent 5. when \n\n7/9 P.M. \n\nMr. Just. \nMr. Antrobus a louce \nMr. Cox. \nSir C. Lucas, \nSir F. Hopwood. \nCol. Seely. \nThe Earl of Crews. \n\n7 Sep 1908. \n\nReferring to a scheme two \nBree for permission \nfor present equi \n\nRequired for both \nConstruction inspansion of temporan \ndation \n\n31362/08 \n122 \nEur \nDRAFT \n\nHA. A Kong \n\nالمسلمة \nCA \n\nfathognomy \nBrugtel olmite divulging \nJune C.E. prefer \n\nErminad \nFirmber \n7 \nOchermen \nAwam Kol \n\nluk Recore what. \nbut fout agguire land \nblavets \n\nJosfeller \nof hecarsang \n\n店 \nplateware \ndatolite \nTeesp. folens \nfolens", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418955, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6]", "content_text": "C.O\n\n\"In the Abstract of Estimated Expenditure,\n\nwaks not\n\nthe head for\n\nannually\n\nrecurrent will\n\nbe kept distinct from the tot _ expenditure\n\nther services\n\nThis has\n\n\"\n\nHow\n\n... disappeared and CR250\n\npurts works not anmally recurrent with other Expenditure, unless paid for or ultrainitely to be paid for out of\n\nlast\n\nCaser\n\nloan funds. In both the\n\nCR 252\n\nputs\n\nthe parsin\n\nunder\n\nand\n\n\" a separate head of rependiture following :listinct from the total of other expenditure.\" There\n\nCan\n\nin\n\nhudly\n\nthis\n\n20\n\ncourse\n\nIf\n\nb\n\nthen\n\nany question\n\npart of the\n\nAy\n\nto the convenince\n\nI understand to be the\n\nArm\n\nof $987203.68 spent\n\n\" public works sutraordining\n\n1908\n\nву\n\nto\n\ncome out of loan funds, the Governer is right including that item alwe the line, and\n\nin\n\nhis revised balance sheet is in accordance with\n\nthe Col. Rap\n\nRejs.\n\nJ. MG2575\n\nThis hosteler to the do.\n\nfor their downs\n\n30.100\n\nHongkong.\n\nJ\n\nLov 14705\n\nMy Lord,\n\n16957\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 19th. April,\n\n1909.\n\nI have the honour to request a\n\ndecision on the following points:-\n\n2.\n\nYour Lordship will have noticed\n\nthat in the Annual Statement of Receipts and Expenditure\n\nforwarded in my Despatch No. 83 of 2nd. April that the\n\namount of Railway expenditure carried on surplus balances\n\nwas included under the head \"Public Works Extraordinary\".\n\n59\n\nIt has been brought to my notice that this method of treat-\n\n→ment does not accord with the provision in Colonial\n\nRegulation No. 252 that such expenditure should be shown\n\n\"under a separate head following and distinct from the\n\ntotal of other expenditure\"; and that the aim of this\n\nRegulation and of No. 250 will be best attained by the\n\ntreatment shown in the statement attached.\n\nThis method of accounting assumes\n\nas deliberate the omission in the new Regulations of the\n\nprovision\n\nDr.\n\nHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWS,\n\n2cc. *\n\n&0...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-356 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419530, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "(390), W1, 20024-26, 6000, 1106, A, & E, W,\n\n(8327).\n\n1081-7. 6000, 4/09.\n\nNo. 196.\n\nHongkong\n\nMy Lord,\n\nC-0.\n\n26526\n\nRECEIVED\n\n9 AUG 09\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 7th July, 1909.\n\nI have the honour to transmit for Your Lordship's consideration a précis of correspondence relating to the examination in Hongkong Harbour by Doctors attached to the United States of America Consular Service of passengers, crews and cargo bound for Ports in the United States. This correspondence also shows that a \"poll-tax\" is systematically levied in Hongkong by the United States on passengers other than United States citizens bound for the Philippine Islands, and that in one case at least a seaman on a British Ship was illegally discharged because the Captain of the ship preferred to run the risk of a fine under Section 16 sub-section (12) of Ordinance 26 of 1901 rather than to sail for a United States Port without the United States Hospital Service Doctor's Certificate.\n\n2.\n\nI think Your Lordship will agree that\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE\n\nEARL OF CREW\n\n&c\n\n&c ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419543, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "THINGS often fed aerial\n\nHatt engine\n\n.k.ammam,n (.6m)\n\nDRAFT.\n\nEar 26526/19\n\nJud. J. Freip Office\n\nX\n\nMINUTE.\n\nging\n\nMr. Robinson 23/8 Mr. Stable.\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Antrobus.\n\nMr. Cox. 23\n\nSir C. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\n23\n\nJust\n\nCol. Secly. (Army)\n\nAnod\n\nHongkong\n\nI am\n\nfor\n\n25\n\n28 Aug 09\n\n86\n\nto transmit to you,\n\nthe Com. & Secty dis\n\nEdward Grey, the accompanying\n\ncopy (a letter with its enclosures)\n\nfrom the Gov. of Hongkong,\n\nrelative to the examination in Hongkong Harbour of passengers, crews, and cargo bound for\n\nThe Earl of Crewe. C 24.VIII\n\nfor M. 96 7\" July\n\nports\n\nin the United State\n\n2 Law Cruve a hundred if\n\nthe attention of the H. E. Govt\n\nIf he drawn to the matter\n\nwith a view to the adoption of the measures proposed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 430160, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 352, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "of temporary assistance in \n\nZown paccoook ton for back \n\naffive the impedicle pponition, to samon \n\npayment being \n\nto you of the \n\nmade, \n\nof your plusie \n\namount doe \n\nup to the end of sands \n\nmonth, and \n\nA... \n\nnext \n\nThe Crown agents being instructed accordingly. \n\nIt will be awkward. \n\nd if he dies bepe 30 Septe TCM. \n\nW. M \n\nabout \n\ncan be deducted \n\nfrom the \n\nthat will \n\nThe Crown Agent's \n\nMr. Macnaghten 22 \n\nbe voted almost 2278 \n\nMr. Collins 22 \n\nhe \n\nAr \n\nSputt \n\n23 \n\nthemen, \n\n341 \n\nAugust 1910. \n\nWith reference to the \n\n2nd para: of the letter from \n\n31379/009 this dept. of the Werth Sept. \n\nhayang \n\nto hers Carter forth with the \n\namount \n\nLi \n\nin \n\n7 \n\nThe and \n\nMath \n\naffords of your issuing \n\nto hien forthwith the \n\namount of pension due to wear of to the 2016 of \n\nSeptember next \n\n1430 \n\nLes concerning payment \n\nof the pension of Mr. A. Carter, late Sanitary Surveyor in Hong Kong, I am limited by the Barl of Crews to \n\nstate that in min of \n\nMr. Carter's present. \n\nunportionate finisariat fintion \n\nLie Lordship has consented \n\nto his receiving a special \n\nadvance \n\npe of he pension.\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and improve readability, here is a more processed version in HTML, correcting some obvious errors and formatting issues:\n\nWith reference to the payment of temporary assistance in overcoming the impediment to sanctioning payment being made to you of the amount due up to the end of last month, and ... next month.\n\nThe Crown Agents being instructed accordingly.\n\nIt will be awkward if he dies before 30 Sept.\n\nMr. Macnaghten 22 be voted almost 2278\n\nMr. Collins 22\n\n...\n\nAugust 1910.\n\nWith reference to the 2nd para: of the letter from 31379/009 this dept. dated Werth Sept.\n\nregarding issuing to him forthwith the amount of pension due up to the end of September next.\n\nRe: payment of the pension of Mr. A. Carter, late Sanitary Surveyor in Hong Kong, I am instructed by the Earl of Crewe to state that in view of Mr. Carter's present unfortunate financial situation, His Lordship has consented to his receiving a special advance on his pension.\n\nLet's directly output the processed text in HTML as per the guidelines.\n\nof temporary assistance in overcoming the impediment to sanctioning payment being made to you of the amount due up to the end of last month, and ... next month.\n\nThe Crown Agents being instructed accordingly.\n\nIt will be awkward if he dies before 30 Sept.\n\nW. M about can be deducted from the amount that will be voted.\n\nThe Crown Agent's\n\nMr. Macnaghten 22 be voted almost 2278\n\nMr. Collins 22\n\nAr Sputt 23 themen, 341 August 1910.\n\nWith reference to the 2nd para: of the letter from 31379/009 this dept. dated Worth Sept.\n\nregarding issuing to him forthwith the amount of pension due up to the end of September next.\n\nRe: payment of the pension of Mr. A. Carter, late Sanitary Surveyor in Hong Kong, I am instructed by the Earl of Crewe to state that in view of Mr. Carter's present unfortunate financial situation, His Lordship has consented to his receiving a special advance on his pension.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489884, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 375, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# OPIUM\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n`F2681/330/10`\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 22.]\n\n### SECTION 1, July 215.\n\n(No. 304.) My Lord,\n\nSir B. Alston to Earl Curzon.-(Received August 22.)\n\nI HAVE the honour to advert to the question of the penalisation of British steamers on the Yang-tze on account of the smuggling of opium by members of the native crews, which was referred to in Mr. Clive's despatch No. 763 of the 27th November, 1920, and dealt with more fully in my despatch No. 77 of the 14th February last, enclosing a copy of a letter from the British Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai on the subject.\n\nThe matter has of recent months assumed increased proportions, and has evoked a considerable amount of feeling among British steamship companies, who, as was mentioned in paragraph 7 of my despatch No. 238 of the 5th May, contrast the strict measures applied to foreign vessels with the apparent immunity enjoyed by Chinese vessels under official control. In the case of these latter the officers in charge frequently evade search by preventing the customs officials from coming on board, and there is strong reason to believe—although no actual proof is at present to hand—that quantities of opium are transported down the river by their agency. A strong protest on this subject from the British Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai has just reached me, and I am asking the Inspector-General of Customs to favour me with his observations thereon.\n\nOn a recent occasion at Hankow matters were brought to a head by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's agent refusing to comply with the customs authorities' demand that they should deposit a sum of money pending investigation into the case of one of the company's ships on which opium had been found concealed. His Majesty's consul-general supported the agent, and raised the question as to whether the customs authorities have any right to proceed to action against a British ship in such circumstances otherwise than by filing a complaint in the British Consular Court charging them with the commission of an offence under King's Regulations No. 22 of 1919 prohibiting British subjects to deal in opium except under licence. The question having been referred by Mr. Goffe to the Acting Crown Advocate, the latter formulated an opinion to the effect that the Customs had no power to inflict an arbitrary fine on the Company. I have the honour to enclose a copy of Mr. Mossop's despatch.\n\nIn the meantime His Majesty's consul-general received privately from the Commissioner of Customs an assurance that British steamers would henceforth not be fined for carrying opium. In the present circumstances I consider that this offers the best solution of the situation, and I am asking the Inspector-General privately if he is willing to confirm the Commissioner's assurance. The shipping companies and their officers will of course remain liable to prosecution under the King's Regulation if smuggling takes place under conditions which implicate the ship's officers.\n\nIn connection with the Hankow case mentioned, I have received a despatch from His Majesty's consul-general, of which a copy is enclosed, regarding representations made by Messrs. Jardine, Matheson to the authorities concerning the circumstances in which the seizure of the opium on board their ship the \"Kutwo\" took place. The facts, as stated in the captain's report, furnish a good illustration of the danger of the present system of attempting to cope with opium smuggled by offering large rewards for seizures. The present case seems to afford fairly strong evidence of collusion between subordinate customs employees and opium smugglers with a view to sharing the reward between the two parties.\n\nIn accordance with instructions in your Lordship's despatch No. 312 of the 23rd March I am addressing a formal official protest on the subject of opium suppression to the Chinese Government, a copy of which I shall have the honour to transmit to your Lordship in a subsequent despatch.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nB. ALSTON.\n\nPeking, June 9, 1921.\n\n[6806 y-1]\n\n### 374", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 556208, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "page_number": 29, "title": "CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937", "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937.\n\nHOME LEAVE TO ENGLAND VIA AMERICA OR CANADA TRAVEL A NEW WAY BY BREAKING YOUR SEA VOYAGE WITH A PLEASANT AND INTERESTING TRIP ACROSS THE AMERICAN CONTINENT BY COMFORTABLE AND MODERN TRAINS NUMEROUS SIDE TRIPS BY VARIOUS ROUTES LET US PREPARE YOUR ARRANGEMENTS NOW. THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC. Spartan with Limousine Luxury in USA, 4 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL\n\nFULL BLAST ON PRAYA By Many Wharves Smashed High Seas WAIST DEEP WATER IN MORNING The waterfront along the Central and Western Hotel yesterday morning was a scene of devastation. Carrie was Entered everywhere. Part of the Victoria Recreation Club's revered moathed was blown away and Murray Pier, next to it, had nearly collapsed at the bare blow. The stone parapet on either side of the Queen's Pier entrance were broken and lay in various positions along the concourse. Some of the large blocks of cement had fallen into the water.\n\nThe Star Ferry Pier suffered severe damage. The fall face of The Eile had been left on the earl. Petit jardin and dis- were 61103 night had a huge lantern blown to bits, and the Laiay Bow-stall bulged. The wooden wall had plainly suffered. The enchantress of that que was lying Douglas. Why condition, a mention it and larger 1 Any subured so damaged.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1937.\n\nSHIPPING NIGHT OF CHAOS IN HARBOUR LINERS ASHORE KOWLOON DAMAGE Revenue Officers' Bravery During Rescue Work Akama Maru And Conte Verde In Sai Wan Bay Nathan Road Flooded To Depth of Two Feet SCORE OF VESSELS WRECKED WARSHIPS DAMAGED TRAFFIC BLOCKED\n\n...\n\nPage 29\n\n...\n\n10\n\nTRIP ROUND ISLAND REVEALS DAMAGE Begins Repairs yards of the ship. By wa out the below the Lyremodo Form SHOW ME obtained Liner Asma Nag Lground In A DAY Particular 1 CROWDS VIEW LINERS W AT SAI WAN HARBOUR'S WRECKS Hundreds of men made kopen round the Labour yesterday \"ase- ing the slokas\" said perents were rewarded by a wooden al pop bowwx Lucluding bukti Than 10 supwrecks, Ihammada 17 krem scissed bare se vpregled mecum renda, kaman sancosť odd. padl a trult a vreck and r bleet of the curiosa crowd test, K towards K\n\n...\n\nHEROIC ACTS Shipping bore the brunt of the damage caused by the work typhoon in the alliance at Home - wreckedly damaged or SAFE For all 15- ja relatively and again it stand several sets of gallantry shall courage on the part of police, civilians crews The spent mourly nine 1-trims sal\n\n...\n\nKALGAN'S COURSE Path Through Harbour Out of Control turned, conviddy mom and day !! twe feel of ALE ASKSie Ränd The water pipe laat wireless ines with pollenbuschön night swing in juonidows The cost of the Inkas poñer quae. VLAK AL AHA WAte Polier Station Wa blown of snl de Joën had to be wakandaler & the main balding i\n\n...\n\nDETTOL TRARY ALLI DETTOL Kennedy whart and by the pounding meet the ... along the 10 but\n\n...\n\nREFUGEES IF YOU WANT A PASSAGE COME TO COOK'S Queen's Building - Opposite Star Ferry Pier IT COSTS NO MORE TO BOOK THROUGH COOK'S AND SAVE BOTH TIME AND TROUBLE\n\n...\n\nPage 30\n\nTell me, doctor.. You know what children are always falling and cutting their knees and grazing their bonds. I don't regard such things us trifles: 1 had a young brother who died of blood-poisoning. Tell me, is there more efficient antiseptic I can apply at once with perfect confidence?\"\n\nDetail\" ja vuch an nasorptiomdiginéma only to pense. It is a dika, pleasant sell-am prisoners and noen bighly efficient, an ijardek der. You um upply at freaky Čibere are direction is every bonie). Budber, the est bruikt, kat The Getu in a weide-apna memay for the perme of arpas infectia Danfact cam and Ce with \"Dank\" T\n\n...\n\nANTIseptic ZEITT & SONS LTD. (EMARKACEUTICAL DEVILLONDON & HULL, INGE, AND Agenti Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd., Hongkong\n\n...\n\nKOWLOON PONTISHOKE The unit or small stemaver 1 wận in ka seen at her The 5- -4 B Comana trka 2 para elama pe ex-, barten Laver nude be -- Inchd- 21 Da d Tuesday What Tessel. Trees Band Bad for (1) C- יד VAL PROFIT!, ד- 1-ar kundachged ezer for Law, bir me large freighter had been wat komme ind fra 25 – 1912 hoc and \"ber Kern wa bidh kod and all war, med k\n\n...\n\nPage 11\n\nPapiian of the premise of the Hongkiat Rubber Manufaclary. Kennedy Town, severely damaged her the typhuan-Staf Photographer.\n\nTRAIL OF RUIN out at wages LÀ the evening marki pisems of To the waken. was all that TRIP ROUND ISLAND REVEALS DAMAGE 4 W Begins Revypareil yweds of the shup.\n\n...\n\nHOSPITALS CROWDED 23 www.bum Vin Haute ag starbound bow, mng to a watchmen in an office 1.2 A badly Tree in and dia va previa v kontsad yard (May, WI Ilated to annet and down at the Fown on\n\n...\n\nTHE VAN HEUTSZ May Become Total Loss On Green Island PASSENGERS ALL SAFE The Thracian was pudend in Jerem fur per. hlaut denna fraktease 2 The reamer A Lee, drivm aukazo voorn Brot aw Lite Central Prays, after eureerime down part, JE the barbar sad calliding with thưvə meiken wktikight=Staf Photographer.\n\n...\n\nYAUMATI AREA Ape from the col apne vlamme About Sweden and a 10-2 dra huts, little darragET A CAR in Yaumatı, mucording to enquirin ARA LOOK AT Declamed Furing out made at the Polar Station there benda tupo të pune visiteiding bo v bow schon were lat po by from a fading ošte vyume of the crew in the hopes of shocking tING THE ska's drih, vem, the poor. But the Pfrece of the wind wis too\n\n...\n\nEASTERN DISTRICT NEW TERRITORIES Bathing Clubs Suffer Severe Damage 'Fifty Killed When Houses Collapse at Taipo WRECKAGE EVERYWHERE se planet noth low að vatnsley The New Tarlaplan only a can be obtasked, but ill the party damage and Zone after Kusjoon Tong alt el severaly, Power Co. Fu while he ha\n\n...\n\nMANILA REPORTS Elonkonur Wireless Service On Emergency Anten Marila, Supi 1 The ad suiciquime in Shel; Hanzking a Cemmur cat... indude than the kiwan bay wolfwed little an comoured out crane is being w with there anfor basta boala in the aes by recancy solescen kautsar Her abéliar\n\n...\n\nPage 14\n\nFurther Typhoon news", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-564-6 Typhoon- reports of damage- etc 9-9-1937 - 6-11-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]