[ { "id": 289624, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 397, "title": "CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "395\n\n72 Pelenig. Jan: 80/72.\n\nདེ་ནམ་\n\nCopy\n\nno5.\n\nmy dora,\n\nwhat\n\nI have received a\n\ndespatch\n\nfrom M. Sinclair which announces I fear will prove the culmination of a long discussion that has been promising some trouble at Foochow: Two British Subjects of Chinese descent, provided with fortification from the Strait's Settlements in which they were born, have been for years in the British Consulate\n\nRegion fired\n\ntio\n\nat Foochow, at which port they are established as merchants. The local authorities have persisted in treating them as if they were Chinese, and I have had to support more than once at the Yamên Sinclair's Remonstrances against their proceedings; in particular those of the district collectorate.\n\n芯\n\n80.\n\na despatch dated Feb 30, Ed. Sinclair informs me that an application was made on behalf of one of the firms in question for permission...\n\nThe ... are four in the it h family...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-160 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 671, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "Wedd\n\ndependent as it is upon the business incidental to a great shipping port of call. The Governor observes with satisfaction that the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce are prepared to accept cheerfully the increased taxation that will probably be necessary to meet the heavy expenses of contemplated measures for the general improvement of sanitation.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour most obedient servant,\n\nT. SERCOMBE SMITH,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nTHE SECRETARY,\n\nChamber of Commerce.\n\n31.The foregoing statements prove that the local Government has failed to give effect, save in a very qualified form, to the measures so frequently urged upon it by its own Medical Officers and other experts; its efforts, so far, have met with so little result, indeed, that the Colony is now suffering severely from the annually recurring visitations of plague and, in a lesser degree, of enteric fever and small-pox. The inadequacy of the measures adopted by the local Government in dealing with so grave a crisis may, we submit, be regarded as equivalent to a tacit admission on its part that it is beyond its Power, of its own initiative, to undertake the gigantic task which a thorough and efficient reform of the Sanitary conditions of the Colony, with the heavy expenditure and sacrifices attending it, would involve\n\nThe conviction has consequently been forced upon us that no really effectual measures will be taken to grapple with the Sanitary problems of the Colony and to arrest the progress of disease until an appeal is made to the responsible Minister of State for his intervention. These annual epidemics are pressing acutely on the Commerce and Industries of the Colony, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain labour, whether European or Chinese. This year the Plague has again produced a cessation of Emigration, and the loss to the Shipping and Trade generally through quarantine restrictions and other delays has been very great. Native workmen are leaving Hongkong in thousands, and there is not an important industry or commercial undertaking in the Colony, employing and dependent on Chinese labour, that has not suffered.\n\nUnder the circumstances hereinbefore referred to your Petitioners most humbly Pray that you will be pleased\n\nthis 25th day of June, 1901.\n\n1.-To appoint a Commission consisting of a person or persons wholly unconnected with the Colony to proceed forthwith to Hongkong to investigate and report\n\n(a) On the Sanitary Condition of the Colony; (b) On the measures to be adopted for the improvement of the City of Victoria and of the Colony as it at present exists.\n\n2.That you will be pleased to attach to the said Commission some independent Sanitary Expert to advise.\n\n3. That after receiving and considering the Report of such Commission, you will give directions for the Recommendations of that Commission to be forthwith carried into effect.\n\nT. H. WHITEHEAD, J.P. (Mem. Legislative Council)\n\nJ. C. VICTORIA (Rt. Rev. Bishop of Victoria)\n\nL. M. PIAZZOLI (Rt. Rev. R.C. Bishop of S. China)\n\nNO. J. FRANCIS, K.C.\n\nEDWARD OSBORNE, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nC. GERLACH, M.D.\n\nWILLIAM HARTIGAN, J.P., M.D., D.P.H.\n\nF. OSMUND STEDMAN, J.P., M.D., B.Sc. (LOND.)\n\nJ. W. NOBLE, D.D.S.\n\nFREDERIC H. BOWERS, D.D.S.\n\nG. MONTAGU HARSTON, J.P., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (LOND.)\n\nR. MACBEAN GIBSON, M.D., C.M. (EDIN.)\n\nL. R. BELL, D.D.S.\n\nROBERT LAMORT, M.D.\n\nG. APACIBLE, M.D., B.A.\n\nF. P. SOARES, P.M.\n\nHERBERT W. BIRD, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nCHRIS. B. THOMAS, A.R.I.B.A.\n\nWM. DANBY, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nA. DENISON, J.P., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nL. GIBBS, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nB. BROTHERTON HARKER, C.E.\n\nW. H. WICKHAM, A.M.I.E.E., A.M.I.C.E.\n\nR. K. LEIGH, J.P., M.I.C.E.\n\nED. ROBINSON, J.P.\n\nH. W. SLADE, J.P.\n\nH. A. RITCHIE, J.P.\n\nW. HUTTON POTTS, J.P.\n\nJ. ORANGE, J.P., M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.AM. Soc. C.E.\n\nCLEMENT PALMER, J.P., F.R.I.B.A.\n\nAGOSTINHO G. ROMANO (Consul-General for Portugal)\n\nJ. J. LEIRIA (Vice-Consul for Brazil)\n\nW. D. BRAIDWOOD, M.A.\n\nJ. A. SWANN, L.R.C.S., L.M., L.R.C.P., L.M.\n\nF. MAITLAND, J.P.\n\nJ. H. COX, J.P.\n\nW. J. McLOUGHLIN, P.H., C.H.\n\nB. BYRAMJEE, J.P.\n\nM. G. SASSOON, J.P.\n\nE. SHELLIM, J.P.\n\nA. J. RAYMOND, J.P.\n\nC. S. GUBBAY, J.P.\n\nD. E. BROWN, J.P.\n\nR. L. RICHARDSON, J.P.\n\nR. SHEWAN, J.P.\n\nJ. A. MCKAY, J.P.\n\nG. W. F. PLAYFAIR, J.P.\n\nCHAN A FOOK, J.P. (Mem. Sanitary Board)\n\nD. MACDONALD, C.E.\n\nA. E. GRIFFIN, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. G. CLARKE, A.M.I.C.E.\n\nW. POATE, J.P.\n\nD. GILLIES, J.P.\n\nC. S. SHARP, J.P.\n\nT. H. REID, J.P.\n\nA. S. GOMES, M.D., M.R.C.S.\n\nW. H. SHIRRIFF, M.B., C.M., L.S.A.\n\nB. FITZALAN HOWARD, B.A.\n\nR. CHATTERTON WILCOX, J.P.\n\nFRAMJEE H. ARJANEE, J.P.\n\nC. W. DICKSON, J.P.\n\nB. LAYTON, J.P.\n\nF. HENDERSON, J.P.\n\nG. C. ANDERSON, J.P.\n\nJ. C. COHEN, J.P.\n\nD. K. ROHRMANN\n\nWM. A. CRUICKSHANK\n\nE. BRUCE SHEPHERD\n\nA. H. RENNIE\n\nALFRED CUNNINGHAM\n\nH. T. WILGREES\n\nPHILIP W. SERGEANT\n\nT. COCHRANE\n\nJ. A. LEE\n\nJ. J. JUDAI\n\nGODFREY C. CO.\n\nMASTER THOS. ARNOLD\n\nA. CAMPBELL MACMILLAN\n\nHENRY HUMPHREYS\n\nE. NIEDHARDT\n\nF. W. R. LEMM\n\nE. D. HASKELL\n\nW. H. RAY\n\nA. TURNER\n\nG. H. MEDHURST\n\nJ. D. AULD\n\nG. R. EDWARDS\n\nA. ELLIS\n\nS. FULCHER\n\nR. T. HEAD\n\nW. PARFITT\n\nH. P. WHITE\n\nL. S. LEWIS\n\nP. A. COX\n\nA. A. SKELTON\n\nT. HALL\n\nC. J. TYNDALE-LEA\n\nA. SINCLAIR\n\nJ. GALT\n\nJ. KIRKWOOD\n\nJ. R. WILSON\n\nC. KLINCK\n\nR. O. RUTHERFORD\n\nH. JEWITT\n\nE. O. MURTHY\n\nF. P. DE V. SOARES\n\nA. MCINTYRE\n\nJ. DOUGLAS\n\nE. JOHANNSEN\n\nC. BELL\n\nJ. I. ANDREW\n\nW. S. BAILEY\n\nJ. ANGUS\n\nW. McCLURE\n\nD. MACDONALD\n\nG. L. TOMLIN\n\nC. PEMBERTON\n\nH. PINCKNEY\n\nJ. HASTINGS\n\nJ. SCOTT HARSTON\n\nC. EWENS\n\nH. F. R. BRAYNE\n\nO. D. THOMSON\n\nW. J. HUMPHREYS\n\nM. J. D. STEPHENS\n\nV. H. DEACON\n\nF. B. DEACON\n\nF. C. BARLOW\n\nP. W. GOLDRING\n\nA. FAIRALL\n\nA. BABINGTON\n\nC. D. WILKINSON\n\nE. J. GRIST\n\nH. K. HOLMES\n\nF. H. YEATS\n\nE. F. GROS\n\nH. E. TOMKINS\n\nC. FITTOCK, JR.\n\nT. G. WORCESTER\n\nF. R. SMITH\n\nR. FLINT\n\nGEO. ECKLEY\n\nE. A. KATSCH\n\nE. G. BARRETT\n\nE. J. LIBEAUD\n\nA. E. WHEELEY\n\nCHAS. E. MALIGNY\n\nR. KOZHEVAR\n\nJOHN PRESTAGE\n\nH. HYNDMAN\n\nF. GOMES\n\nH. KUMMEL\n\nF. LANDOLT\n\nJ. GRANT SMITH", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492124, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 54, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "822\n\nobjection, some piece of evidence had been excluded which would have gone to prov- ing the guilt of the prisoner.\n\nMr. Jenkin again urged the Judge to take the action he had already suggested\n\nThe Chief Justice: I tell you at once, Mr. Jenkin, I won't reserve it.\n\nMr. Jenkin : If your Lordship refuses to reserve it I must withdraw my objection because of the harm it may do to the prisoner's case. I would rather have it out and see what it really comes to. Although I stick to my objection that it is inadmissible I feel now that the only right thing to be done is to let the jury hear what the evidence really is. His Lordship then left the Court to confer with the Puisne Judge.\n\nReturning a few minutes later he said to Mr. Jenkin. \"I understand that, in the circumstances, you are not object- ing.\"\n\nMr. Jenkin: No, my Lord.\n\nTHE NEW EVIDENCE.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nDid you discuss this with him -I have mentioned it to him this morning.\n\nWho was the other gentleman on the verandah -Mr. Brister.\n\nThere was a lady in the office named Mrs. Evans?—Yes, she was on the verandah.\n\n[March 25th, 1922 Lau Kwing Yuen, photographer, said he took photographs of the pillars in Statue Square.\n\nSEEN FROM THE PAVILION.\n\nA youth working on the reception par- lion stated that whist on the Praya side of the pavilion, on the scaffolding, he saw three or four men outside the new pier hoarding and about three side of the road. He saw a ricksha at the corner of the garden on the oppo- site of Messrs. Reiss & Co., for the moment, passing with a Chinese in it. The hood was up. He then saw one of the three out first, the others following. One pull- ed the hood of the ricksha aside with his left arm and flung his right arm up, and then the witness heard a report,\n\nHis Lordship said that in the interests of Mr. Sinclair, he should ask the witness as to nature of his communication.\n\nWitness: I went in to see him with my hat and coat on and told him that I was thinking of going to see the Attorney- General with regard to what I had seen. He replied that he could not discuss the question but if I had seen anything it was only right that I should go. That was all that passed.\n\nHis Lordship observed that he did not think the slightest objection could be taken to that.\n\nA Bang.' The three men ran towards the Queen's Statue and the men outside the pier hoarding also ran. After the ricksha driver had run about eight or ten faces the occupant fell forward and the ricksha was dropped. He saw European there, he could not say if Capt. Morgan was the man, but the man was about his build. The European ran towards the Queen's Statue; that was at about the time the ricksha dropped. He did not see the prisoner there on that occasion. The man who fired the shot was a very tall, big man. On March 18th he identified the prisoner as the man he had seen under arrest. The prisoner was not one of the three men who came forward when the shot was fired.\n\nAfter the conclusion of Mr. Larking' evidence Mr. Jenkins asked whether the Attorney-General proposed to call the other people whose names had been men- tioned. The Attorney-General asked the witness if he had talked to any of his fellow workmen about this matter. The witness said he had not.\n\n\"Of course I furnish any material evidence.\n\nMr. Jenkin asked that in any event he should be provided with a proof of their state- ments in case he decided to call them him.\n\nIN QUEEN'S Square.\n\nThe Attorney-General then called Mr. D. M. Larkins, an assistant in Messrs. Reiss & Co., top floor of Queen's Build- ings. He said that part of his firm's offices faced Statue Square. At about 11.45 am, on February 24th, he was sit- ting at his desk beside the window. He heard a report and a shout. He thought it was a cracker fired probably by a sam- pan coolie and took no notice of it. Somebody shouted that a man had been shot and witness walked on to the verandah and looked over the railing. He saw three scenes. As far as he could remember he first saw a European with a stick running towards the Queen Victoria Statue from the Praya; also one or two Chinese firemen. He then looked towards the New Statue Pier and near the eastern end of the hoarding saw a ricksha with a body lying over the shafts. Witness then looked towards the Bank and saw a man who looked like a coolic running towards the bank on the pavement on the side of Wardley Street nearest Bank Gardens. He watched the man until he disappeared across Des Voeux Road around the corner of the Bank, in Wardley Street. Witness then telephoned the ambulance and on looking up again saw a man being brought back between two firemen, followed by the European, from the direction of the Bank. There were half a dozen or more Chinese in the rear of the European. He did not notice anybody else in front of the European. When he looked at the man like a coolie who was running he saw nobody else run- ning except the pursuers he had men- tioned.\n\nThe Attorney-General: Mr. Larkins, you came to see me about ten o'clock this morning-Yes.\n\nWhen the Attorney-General had agreed to do this the case for the defence was resumed.\n\nA man working on the pillars in Queen's Square said that on the day of the occurrence he saw the prisoner look- ing at the pillars and statues. He heard\n\nCASE FOR THE DEFENCE RESUMED.\n\nThe prisoner again went into the wit- ness-box.\n\nThe Attorney-General was cross-examin- ing the prisoner as to why he did not protest when arrested, when the Chief Justice intervened.\n\nWhen did you first know you were ac- cused of murder -On the Praya.\n\nDid you then protest your innocence - On the Praya, I said I did not do it.\n\nWhom did you say that to?-I mention ed it in general.\n\nYou did not hear cries of \" Seize him? I did not.\n\nThe Chief Justice: The man who knocked you down heard them and Had you previously communicated with thought they applied to you. He says the police or the authorities on this you were the only person he saw there. subject-With the exception of a tele- When the hearing was resumed after phone message for the ambulance,-no. tiffin questions were put to the prisoner Mr. Jenkin Taking in of these three by Mr. H. W. Bird, on behalf of the mental pictures was only a matter of a jury. Mr. Bird asked why the prisoner moment-Yes.\n\nwas registered at the seamen's guild in October if he did not become a seaman The prisoner replied, until December?\n\nI joined the club at that time.\" Mr. Bird: We want to know \"why,\" my Lord.\n\nThe witness then marked, at Mr. Jenkin's request, the relative positions of the persons he saw running.\n\nMr. Jenkin: The only things that re- main clear in your mind are the three \"\" pictures,\" as the Attorney-General has put it?\n\nWitness: Not quite all. I did not mention that, at the time I saw this coolie running, he was absolutely alone on the path in Wardley Street. That I am positive of.\n\nMr. Jenkin: You are in the office of Messrs. Reiss & Co.--don't think I am making any suggestions of impropriety, because I am not but one of the gentle men on the jury is in the same office?\n\nNothing definite was obtained from the prisoner, however, until later, when Mr. Jenkin elicited in re-examination that, because business was bad, the prisoner registered with the guild in order to become a seamen when the opportunity occurred.\n\nThe jury also questioned the prisoner as to his name being the same deceased's.\n\nas the Was he of the same clan? asked Mr. Bird. The prisoner said he did not know the deceased, nor whether he was of the same olan or not.\n\n2\n\n<<\n\nbang and then saw two men com- ing from the Praya; they ran very very fast towards the tram lines. Later, seven or eight men cale running from the same direction. Some went one side_of the Statue and some the other. The pri oner joined them.\n\n\"He foolishly fol'owed\n\nThe witness saw a European there but could not say if it was Capt. Morgan. It was a man of about the same build. The European chased the prisoner. The first of the two Chinese he saw running first was short and thin in dark coloured cloth- ing; the other was taller and was dressed in grey.\n\nCross-examined, the witness said he went to his tiffin after the running men went past.\n\nThe Attorney-General: Like the last witness. Is your sight good?\n\nWitness: Whether my sight is good or not, I have told you what I have seen.\n\nI am going to suggest that this whole a fabrication.-It is story of yours is quite true; I saw what happened.\n\nThe Attorney-General remarked that the witness had to go quite close to the prisoner to identity him.\"\n\ngo close; I\n\nMr. Jenkin: I made him pushed him forward.\n\nWitness: I must have good sight before I can be a mason-(laughter).\n\nThe Attorney-General: Were you work- ing hard at your plastering?\n\nWitness: I looked at the prisoner be- cause he was hanging round.\n\nA little later the witness was tested as to his idea of the passage of time and he read the clock on the other side of the Court, correctly, as eight minutes to four. The Attorney General remarked that it was a good test of his eye-sight.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-8 Prevention of piracy- use of armed patrol launches in Canton Delta 12-1-1927 - 28-3-1927", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-506-8 Prevention of piracy- use of armed patrol launches in Canton Delta 12-1-1927 - 28-3-1927", "content_text": "Enclosure No. 2.\n\nH.M.S. \"Hawkins\",\n\nat sea.\n\n22nd December, 1926.\n\nYour Excellency,\n\nWith reference to the Memorandum of the Meeting held at Government House on 19th November concerning Armed Launches for patrol of the West River, I have the honour to inform you that I have this day recommended to the Admiralty that the proposals contained therein should receive their approval and requested that authority be given for the charters of these three vessels to be renewed as soon as possible for the period of one year, the date the Colonial Government contribution is to commence being arranged locally as soon as Their Lordships' decision on the matter is communicated.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nYour Excellency's obedient servant,\n\nEd. Q. Alexander Sinclair.\n\nAdmiral, Commander-in-Chief.\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nThe Governor,\n\nHong Kong.\n\n(Copy to Commodore, Hong Kong).\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-8 Prevention of piracy- use of armed patrol launches in Canton Delta 12-1-1927 - 28-3-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]