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        "document_key": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
        "page_number": 450,
        "title": "CO129-005 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1844",
        "content_text": "\nAneral Tipartaunt \n\nContingent Expenses during \n\nmonth of August 1843 ing \n\nviz. \n\nthe \n\nPaid Post Office Allowance vide trucks. Net – £36. \n\nحميد مراد سعيد \n\n– \n\nMagit of the Government Marték! __ W.2 – 53. – \n\nHouse Kent vide voucher W.3. #84.- \n\nWe 4 \n\n36.. \n\n120.. \n\n-m \n\nMees for Government House, vide voucher #25 247. -- \n\n--for Beeches - \n\nhot \n\n5. \n\n7.11 \n\n28 67.35 \n\naccount & Survy. Tepartment — Wy \n\non \n\n...Jnight \n\non) \n\nFirs \n\nEngine \n\nTotal sheen hundred and thirty five Tollars 735.49 \n\nand \n\nforty nine cents. \n\nVictoria Hongkong, ? \n\n31° Auquel 1843) Shark? \n\nAugust \n\nBeeny \n\nInvestures & Financial Marstong \n\nPage 450Page 451",
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        "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "page_number": 371,
        "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "\n\nJay Nr. 168. \n\nMy Lord \n\nGovernment House, Houghing. \n\nApril 20th 1843.- \n\nin acknowledging the receipt of \n\nCour Lordship's letter of the 17th Instant \n\nH: 2PY, I have the honor to state that \n\nI have directed that Mr. Qun's Bill for \n\nEngine \n\nHose destroyed at \n\nShall be paid, on \n\nthe late Fire \n\ndo \n\nhis applying to the Treasurer \n\nto Government (Mr. Altware). \n\nMajor General, \n\nI have the honor to be Ye. r. \n\n(Rigned) Beury Pottinger. \n\nThe Lord Faltown K... B & G b. it. \n\nComonandring \n\nin China \n\nке \n\n(True Copy) Michard Woosnam",
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        "document_key": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]",
        "page_number": 283,
        "title": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]",
        "content_text": "277\n\nof the 11th, when we weighed, and proceeded to Pow keew, a village about 60 miles to the southward of Now chow, and 18 from Hainan head. We boarded a junk, but gained no information, beyond an English cross-rigged like a junk having been taken last June. From this place we proceeded to Hoi chow, about 20 miles to the westward of the former place, where we arrived at 3 PM. I went ashore, accompanied by Messrs. Jamieson, Sames, Olding, and Bowring, to visit the Mandarin, who treated us with great kindness. After obtaining all the information we could, we returned to the ships, but on account of the lowness of the tide, we did not reach the steamer until 3 A.M. on the morning of the 12th.\n\nWe were detained here until 9 A.M., when the Mandarin returned our visit. He was conducted round the ship and engine-room, at which he expressed his astonishment. He questioned some of the Prisoners, who appeared much frightened. On the flags which had been shown to him, he said they belonged to Shap ng tai. He went on shore, being civil and attentive to us, and sent us a present of fowls, tea, &c. Sam quang (who came up as a passenger in the steamer) speaks in the highest terms of the Mandarin, at whose house he had been staying. The Mandarin expressed a great wish to have the Pirates delivered up to him, offering a reward, which of course was refused. We left this place at 9:30 A.M., returning on our course to Now chow, where we discharged the pilot, and arrived at 4 PM.\n\nBeing too dark to see into the harbour, and having heard that the pirates were assembled at Long your, we anchored at qu... at midnight. We weighed at...",
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        "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案",
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        "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "page_number": 67,
        "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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        "content_text": "2nd Section, Continued)\n\n5th Beat: From Cathedral along Hollywood Road to Cathedral; then along Arbuthnot Road to Central Jail; then to Cleancly. Part of Stanley Street and the Wellington Street, much of Pottinger Street, and D'Aguilar Street.\n\n3rd Section\n\nExtending from Bank to Cross Roads, West Boundary: Aberdeen Street.\n\n3rd Section; Continued).\n\n9th Beat - Chief Magistrate's Residence. Police Reserve at Indian Station.\n\n4th District of Lower Bazaar including Queen's Head Beat:\n\n12. Beat, from Entrance to Askey's Market along Strand to Bequi's House.\n\n1. Beat - From Bank to Chimani's Lane taking Webster's Row & Chimani's Lane to Cross Roads; then bathing Chimani's back lane & Gibb's Row.\n\n3. Beat: parts of Wellington and Stanley Streets - West of Pottinger Street.\n\n4. Beat: Lyndhurst Terrace and Hague Street, taking Peel Street and Graham Street.\n\n6. Beat: Hollywood Road from Junction West of Morrison's Hill.\n\n7th Beat: from Belgin Street, Old Bailey - Aberdeen Terrace.\n\n8. Beat: Engine Road from Caine Road to junction with Indian Station.\n\n9. Beat: from Aquis House along Bonham Strand West to junction with Cross Roads along Jervois Street to Hillier Street, taking Hillier Street, Mercer Street, and Burd Street.\n\nHillier Street along Jervois Street to Morrison Street, (making cleverly Street, and Acqui's Alley: Cross Heads along Queen's Road West, to steps ascending to Clinic Temple. Stops to East end of Circular Buildings. East end of Circular Buildings to Mercer Street. Murrow's previous clothing factory).",
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        "content_text": "AGA Officer\n\ncmselves. Our plan would ban kind t 2575 (Work Exchoning Angsaving in the salary of bedbe (and) thes from Hong Kong affect & derung off 2620 to be seduced Lourous boy #250 alluna Blst.. lein for house that as in Comphene with his Enquest in\n\nin 5239.\n\nde\n\nMr. Thesen witch Cos. Seculary on ₤1200 agens ho Bemseela heamen on 2600. Mollesman in Ah mund 15th. Andrters Deps on ₤250, and lin Clerkship in the office fld.\n\nthe office fld. Sealing ableiten. Emelet & Hare & Clester an the Excesurers officin\n\n2 Bretire altogether, and unbed off 3 Ulechs ah £405 + 350, and f250 Expectively, then an to / two att 300 and £250, the frist Juhen Who Murth a good accountant, wehh sent This Country.\n\nfre\n\nma\n\nIn £950 Mod let. Caine Munt be charged when the Colonial Schematen. Toch Bretan\n\nI think the tallen Scam lange\n\nleannas 1500\n\nat fish.\n\nlind\n\n18hm\n\nallow the Office in jommand\n\nIthe free rahmen torceuses te let Masin Senali Liner.\n\nM. Hillier applection (5236) Cannithe, Conflued with.\n\nWcle M. Mercer a lot henting Engine wassant as athed for in 5238 to Sch in the Breenlin\n\nCouncil\n\nPage 223\n\n7348 Letter to Treasury\n\nride 20 Gov. 7349.\n\n11 Oct 154.\n\n8365 chong trong\n\nRECEIV\n\nSEP 28 1854\n\n223\n\nInquay, Devonshire 26 Sept. 1854,\n\nShane only neethin, then fart.\n\nbundays received from bellen of the 20th Instant auth its enclosun form the thr Gwerner of Story Rene Junfening Bendri cuture caberdinde hr = The Salains of\n\nSchould have on beconteced\n\nit rastin.\n\nIn eeply\n\nTracquaint you fr\n\nВиш Serve nur\n\nthe Loun\n\nBer Baxter\n\nthe information\n\nThe e\n\nof the dr Himble the Sccuting of flite BoW Baston best lum ducidedly, of apenine, créase Juspored\n\nJeonor to the allowance, of Tory - Allai and of Stephane Granovit\n\ntheald be conctrined\n\nIn respect of the perforal Fraise the annual Solanes of dress Joie d'Alexada è Certio, and\n\nIr Herman Merivale Cuf\n\nLo\n\nCelonial Office -\n\nLand pre",
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        "content_text": "the same in rooms of house.\n\nForward\n\nBricklayer.\n\nfoot (21,003 C. feet of brickwork @ 6\n\nD\n\n1456 5. feet tiling smooth dressed ashlar steps to doorways I and in verandah from street, treads one risers 8 inches, window sills to be of smooth dressed Ashlar projecting 3 inches from wall properly throated and weathered; arches supporting in Verandahs @ & the Verandah on ground floor to be segments of circles and semicircles as shown in drawing; springing from stewbacks granite girders 40.87 Squares tiling of 10 feet in length and each at least 1-foot in depth and width. Brick columns supporting roof to be 10 inches square with wrought stove caps and bases 12 inches square.\n\nCarpenter.\n\narc are 1676€ flooring F 1525 S. ft flooring 4 Verandahs to have tiled floors including bath rooms and water closets; the rooms and passages of the ground floor to be arched as shown in plan and section.\n\n122 C. feet hard-wood framed and 16 French casements. Prese arrangements will lessen danger from fire. Kitchens and room for Engine to be paved with punch dressed ashlar 6 inches thick well and truly bedded in sound mortar of shell lime and fresh water sand, hearthstories of 8x4 @ 1/\n\nForward F\n\n532.1.6 48.10.8 10. 5.4 289 2 219 53.2.7 644 10/ 101. 9. 25.78 30. 10.- 9.12.- 166.19.2933 12 9",
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        "content_text": "熊\n\netuvi\n\n--\n\nall fire places to be of smooth dressed ashlar granite four inches thick. Stone Chimney pieces\n\n166. 19. 298\n\nForward\n\n368 5. feet common\n\na\n\n13. 16.\n\nto all fire places. All the walls to be built of sound windows @ 9 bricks well bedded in mortar of freshwater sand 252 5. feet doors and shell live properly founded; flat arches with 22\" framed bra-relieving arches thereto to be formed over all door and window openings.\n\nced and filled in with 1 battens 1/ @\n\nGround floor Verandah to have groined 408 S. feet doors 2\" arches at the Corners where bath room, be are situated.\n\n12. 12.- as shewn in drawing of framed filled with & battens @ Glazier.\n\nว\n\n17.\n\nRoof to be framed as China for all of dimensions as shewn in plan +64 S. feet good and Estimate the flooring batters and flooring as Yonglish glass shown in plan and Estimate.\n\n\" fixed @ 10\n\nBlacksmith, De\n\n-\n\n27-9\" rim looks\n\nCeiling Joists on top floor are to be I' x 2\" spitted to lie beams. The arices of door and window openings to have staff leads of wood I mailed for doors @ 4/ to wood bricks. Doors and window frames to 27 timber lat-be of hardwood 5\" x 3\" wrought framed rebated and beaded, for door and window frames 10 Grates second of Offices and Constable's quarters. External doors to Street and doors to Ketokens and Engine house\n\nches @ Forward. F\n\n129\n\n220\n\n21072\n\n19. 6. 8 19 48\n\n5.8.-\n\n1.7-\n\n140..\n\n46.15.-116367",
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        "content_text": "189\n\nI\n\n90\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n...parvenus, assuming an official importance which is highly injurious. Some years ago, he was arrested by the French Government, at Boulogne, and is presumed to have been irritated at this circumstance, for he wrote an violent letter to the police in Paris, in which, after lengthy complaining of this infraction of the Law of Nations, he ended by saying, that the Bourbons had committed an act on his person which might hurl them from the throne.—Journal by T. HAYES, Esq., Vol. 1, p. 243.\n\nThe undersigned in our trade requests that claims against him be sent for liquidation immediately, and that those justified to him likewise discharge relatives due. He begs also to state that he has transferred his business to Mr. HENRY VAUCHER, formerly of Custom.\n\nCHARLES WEISS. Hongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nMR. HENRY VAUCHER, in retiring from the above, solicits the Patronage hitherto bestowed on his predecessor, and gives notice that the Business will be carried on in his Own Name and Responsibility from the date.\n\nHongkong, June, 1856.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\n[No. 23.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThere is some difference of opinion in these two cases. There is in fact a considerable difference between asserting by the Neutrality ordinance No. 1 of 1865 that the ships of war of our Ally the Emperor of China shall be seized and confiscated by the SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE AND CHIEF MAGISTRATE!! if found in the harbour of Hongkong, and the second paragraph of the above opinion. \"We (the Law Officers of the Crown) do not concur in the conclusion of the Acting Attorney General\" \"that the Chinese are to be considered as beyond the pale of civilized nations,\"\n\nTHE CHILD OF FRANCE !\n\nOn the evening of Wednesday last, the 28th ult., an unfortunate accident which caused the death of 26 Chinese passengers happened to the steamer \"Knee\" as she was proceeding up the river,\n\nThe Emperor of France has obtained a son. This is a fact, in no way to be disputed. We can all remember instances when political sagacity and party prophecy\n\nThe \"Rose\" left, this about ten minutes past six o'clock, and had reached the western side of Tonkun bay, when having hugged the land too closely, her starboard bow struck on a sunken rock, opening so much of her side that she immediately filled forward and went down, drowning 26 Chinese in the forecastle, Fortunately for others on board, her stern part hung on the rock, and it was but until the next day that the whole of the body of the vessel went down. Before a coroner's jury held on view of ten of the bodies that had been brought here, the engineer stated that he chanced to be on deck at the time the vessel struck, that he heard the Captain saying \"stop her\" which was immediately done,—that in a minute or so, he heard the Captain again cry \"go on, all right,\" when the engines were put to work, but they had only made three revolutions when the water rushed into the engine room; that having again turned off the steam he was engaged in drawing the fires, but before he was enabled to do so, the water had reached his middle. Hay—\n\n144 Dak Kassa, 15 taels long by 9 in. thick and 11 in. deep TEAK BEAMS, before delivery, in Merchant's packages, weighed at $7,4-7.\n\nHongkong, 31st May, 1856.\n\nDE SILVER & Co., Auctioneers.\n\n\"EXSAMUEL RUSSELL\" AND \"QUICKSTEP\"\n\nThe undersigned are landing, and offer for Sale,—\n\n150 Punces Gallego CEDAR. 2,500 Gallons American BRANDY. 10,000lbs Winchester SOAP. 50 Pairbanks PLATFORM SCALES—weight from 240 to 1200lbs.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nAn Invoice of OYSTERS, Green PEAS, Fresh PEARS, APPLES, QUINCES, and CRANBERRIES.\n\nHongkong, 2nd June, 1856.\n\nJUST RECEIVED. SUPPLY of Sill's New York BUTTER. Also, Trade Dozen Bus's Triangle ALE.\n\nDE SILVER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st June, 1856.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 3 JUNE, 1856.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of DIVINE SERVICE in the Cathedral Church of St. John are, on Sundays at 7 A.M. and 4 P.M.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of PERLIC WORSHIP in the UNION CHAPEL, Hollywood Road, are on the Sabbath at 11 A.M., and at 7 P.M. on the Evening of every Wednesday at half-past 8\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Camberwell Green, London on the 1st April, the Wife of Captain The JAMARON of the P. & O. Steamer \"Brisbane,\" of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 22nd May, the Wife of Mr. Asterio DUS SANTOS, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 28th May, the Wife of Mr. Duxa KIXI E CARNEO, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGES.\n\nAt Macao, the 25th May, Mr. J. M. DE FONSECA, Harbour Master, to Miss MARQUISHA LOUREIRO, Daughter of the late Senhor Antonio Loureiro, Esq.\n\nA Victors. Hongkong, on the 1st June, M. HUSIND CHYTHESHEX to Miss FURSA B. DA SILVA SOUZA,\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt the Missionary House, Springfei, on the 4th February, Mr. NICASIUS BAYJIES, of Boston, and late of Stungcar, aged 21.\n\nAt Lackbear, near Exeter on the 1st April, the Sister, of du John Bourring, Governor Hongkong\n\nTHE Government Gazette of 31st Ultimo contains\n\nin the natural course of life and death, and in barran—desa. Wow them not a man named Bradshaw, a great man Canterbury, brawler, years since turned to forth the most villanous epithets upon Queen Victoria ? Did he not talk of Josci, using the name in Highest compare Now, that Bradshaw was of the hopeful school who predicted barrenness to the Queen: they had such unquestionable authority for the inevitable fact. Truly, Her Majesty—as, in due season, we shall learn on the Civil List—very soon confounded these prophets; and, at the present hour, most satisfactorily up—plies the picture of Byron :-\n\n\"A lady with her daughters or her nieces, Shines like a sovereign and seven stilling pieces.\"\n\nThus, no delicacy can be more brilliant than the bestowed upon the fanaticism at the Tuileries on Sunday may be only promissary of the many olive-bunches to be vouchsafed to Napoleon and Engine: to the very prophetic party, as in due time rebuked the soothsayer's\n\nThe first flower in this legal parterre is a con—Ordinance No. 2 of 1856, Entitled an Ordinance to explain the law as to the removal of riots—then follows, No. 9 of 1856. Entitled\n\n20\n\nThere can be no doubt of the fact, that Henri Cinq is\n\nas his wife is not yet added a baby—not a sin—\n\nby centricuting to France a boy that, even at Barnum's Baby-show, would, it is said, carry off the first prize for weight and size.\n\nAn Ordinance to explain certain enactments relating to shipping :then comes No. 10 of 1856 Entitled an Ordinance for Lis Pendens and Purchasers; a measure that has duly passed the mock Legislative Council and are in full bloom and lily-bud—\n\nTHE following proclamation appears in the Government Gazette of last Saturday :--\n\nThe Queen, conveyed through The Right Honorable Henry Labouchere M.P., Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, have been received, approving of and confirming the following Ordinances, namely—\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1855, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nOrdinance No 1 of 1856, entitled—An Ordinance to enforce Neutrality during the Contest now existing\n\nNow, therefore, it is hereby declared, that the said Ordinances have been so approved and confirmed as aforesaid.\n\nOn the death of Sir William Molesworth: as most of our readers are aware, the difficulty of filling the situation of Colonial Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nLord Palmerston was, not so much to\n\nTHE Band of the 59th Regiment will perform to—morrow on the Parade Ground, commencing at 6 o'clock, the following:--\n\n1—Grande: Collscom March—Gay'l\n\n2—Cavatina Op. The Enchantress—Balfe.\n\n3.—Negro Quadrille—Tullien.\n\n4—Bird of Paradise Waltzes—Kémewig.\n\n5—Carmen Fiko—Fritze.\n\n6—Caling, T.Kelly.\n\nQu'un puce y déposa, tribut de sa fleur, Verre les portes, et tuinteur tu enches\n\nJeune fille et Jeune fleur\n\nAh! nos los reals Jamais à no monde profane,\n\nà ce monde de deuil, d'angoisse femelle!\n\nLe te bete et flétrir, le soleil brile et fane\n\nJeune fille et jouoc Beur\n\nTudors, pauvre lisa, si l'ère di un éve: Tu ne trains plus\n\nplus à jour le froid et in allen; Elles ont achevé leurs traiches matins,\n\nJeune file et je flaut.\n\nMais ton père, Elisa, ur ta centre incline.\n\nAux ridden front a more la pleur:\n\nEt Vimix caène, le Temps Canche sur sa razine,\n\nJeune file at jeune flour,\n\nChateaubriand.\n\nmost talented man to fill the situation ci Celo—Colonies, not even in Great Britain, than the\n\nto be shoved into the piace. From the awe Eew long that respectability will be maintained, nil Secretary as to find the least ignorant person\n\nAttorneys of the Hongkong Court at present, precious specimen of a proclamation we are when the profession may be overcrowded with strongly led to believe that Lord Palmerston has 20 exactly hit upon the least ignorant of his dy men from the unusual sources of supply which the present Ordinance opens up, it is not easy to say.\n\nI Colony lies.\n\nancs? The cause of it is perfectly plain. The We asked, What was the cause of the Ordin—Attorney General comes from Botany Bay, that\n\nof the deft. The imperial prince is eager to hear the Pope's suck and, doubtless, will be father digna, we should rather say encored, by godfatherty gifta piece of the true cross set in a bit of gold brengt by Siba to Sulomen: or, in a diamond locket, a pinch of iron filings from the fetters of St. Peter and St. Paul. Yet, his loltasse no thought of Henriking, the lineal descen whilst the Pope is godfather to the son of parceny, baa dit of Joris, now somewhere in any? But such is the conversent memory of the Vatican.\n\nfiength of years be grated to Loria Napoleon, he a Kemperor. Pessibly, we say for history tells us not may possibly rear baby now in his crile inte stuff for to look for grecs mea in the sons of great inen. Crom—\n\na son of sufficient alty to ale a pause. It rany wall fefe has le rouse to rate a gdom; and he loft seem odd, and yet destiny pinys such prawks with la hopes an inations—yet even a Seroud of Tecember may bogo First of April.—Lloyd's W. N., March 23.\n\nWIDOWS, FAMILIES, AND RELATIVES OF OFFICERS.\n\nWe annex the rules and regulations appended to the warrant given in a recent number of the Gazette, for\n\neven teli the quarter of the world in which that even if now, a place to which respectablering a £ards of money in lieu of pensions, coti This may seen an extreme saer—Attorneys were likely to go and the govern passionate lowances, and gratuites, to the widows, tion, hnt we must either suppose this extreme ignorance existing in the Colonial Secretary, or in\n\nment very wisely got hold of the next best families, and relatives of officers killed in action or dying substitute in allowing their officials connected of wounds recived in the face of the enemy, within six\n\nmonths after being wounded.\n\nNo body here\n\nthe Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Law with the law to become lawyers—but there is no Officers of the Crown, seeing that on the 15th March 1856 the folowing Notification appeared wante, and nobody has asked for the Ordinance. His in the Government Gazette:-\n\nExcellency the Governor and the Attorney Gen—\n\nan or dying of words received in face of the enemy, 1. The cmount of mousy to be paid to a widow, widow and children, ar other relatives of an officer inted in\n\nbranch of the service be sny bave belonged to, be the within six months after being wounded, shall. Whatever\n\ninfantry of the line, as set forth in the following scale, viz.\n\nTo the willow, widow aut chil—dren, ebilen, filies,mativer. state, or sisters of..............\n\nDiffe\n\nDizto\n\nJitk\n\nDitto\n\nDitto\n\nCawley\n\nTref\n\nLieut Colbel £175...£1500\n\nMajor 4575... 9300 Captain 3625, 1960 Lieutenant 1190 700 Coruat... $10..... Ensign... 450\n\nA question having risen as to the Law by which Con—eral, like true cosinopolites, resolved to legislate tracts ethered into with Her Majesty's Subjects on C irrespective of creed or color,\" and with the strong regulation price sized for commissions in cavalry and nese Territory hy Chinese Subjects for the Cession of Property in China, should be regulated; watter shape of getting for the present a cheap interpre—hert retered by the Barl of Clarender to the law ter, bold out this Ordinance as a bait. It is made Gfficers the Crown, whose opinion is as follows\n\n\"War of opinlot that Brdish Tribunala and Jedrini\n\nin a fine large spirited manner \"Alienage or Chin—Authorices in China are bound to ohmerve the rules and Tu fallowing is the charmeter given of Sir John incipies of Publie ur Enternat Tuw, so they are set to do is to take the usual caths, one of which ese status no disqualification \"ail stunt you have Boaring twenty years ago. There are few people we do and oneur in the conclusim of the noting, Ac Now, the persou for whom this Ordinance was and received by the auton consent of European natione nathes is the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty. who have bad anything to do with His Excellency torny-General, that the Chiness are to be considered as who will not agree that the likeness is a wonder—beyond the pale of civilized nations.\n\nIn a queationa that may evine botere any Kritina Tri—\n\nexpressiy mande is, as we have betise sid bunal in Chung relating to the ownership or occupation of\n\na Morrison school boy who has studied in\n\nBut it sun! in no case exceed the sum of money actually The French Gerament has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nNo. $3.—JUNE 3, 1856.]\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n91\n\n3. In the event of an offer leaving a widow and Mr. Speerivales four paints which particularly re—children, who may or might have established a claim to quire legislative action at this time. He anys the persion, compassionate allowance, or gratuity, then The number allowed to immigrate to this country and in that case the mouey awarded in lieu thereof shall should not be too great. We may not be prepared to he held in trust by the Secretary of State for War, and afford them weful employment. They any code in ex the interest thereof, at the rate of £3 per cent. per ann cess, and not settle down, and assimilate to our institu all be receivable by the widow, ustil her death, when Haas and Waiks. the money shall be divided, share and share alike, among jadicions ineu, and xot unreasonable, to allow for the It is therefore the preference of many the children than alive of such deceased officer, provided present the law which fixes a capitation tax to re they shall have attrined the age of 21, otherwise the provided it is so administered as not to interfere with money shall still continue to be held in trust and the rutamerce,\n\nbusines event, however, of de witlow anrviving her said children future duty from observation of its nulla, or in com And judgunat only indicate the nosey all than become her sole and absolute pro—plinee with the future wants and desires of our own perty, as Inid down in Article 2; but should such chirou people. survive the widow, yet still die before attaining the age of 21, then and in that case the money, after discharging deserves consideration. The amouai freit by the pre—2. The amount of the license required from minera alt just liabinties, shall become the property of the Crow sent law is uppressive. Few are possessed of good 4. In the event of an officer leaving a child or children, claims. The tax beggars them. It drives them to the but no widow, the mouny shalt he laid in trust, and the\n\nmountsics and tickets like wild beasts. It is the interest thereof, at the rate of $3 per cent. per anner,\n\nwith hanger, sickness and despair. It turns theci, what stated in Article 3, shall be applied by the Secretary\n\ntheir honourable character with our trading population of State for War for the benefit of such child or children,\n\nin the country shows is not necessary, int cheats and antit he, she, or they shal! attain the age of 21, when\n\ndoes. It will in time fill our pisose. It makes them fathe and hase us as a people, and our name, our country, property of such surviving child or children. they understand we profess. If put to the fordicz, stand— and our government and the Christian religion, which share and share alike. Should, however, such child asard of four dollars per month, the sum affords a hand Chronicle, March 20,\n\nagain demandell his goods, tendering the whole wit In a genera! urder, Jated Feb. 25, the Commander-la- of freight us by the bill of lading. for all the goods was thereupun offered him, but subject by a correspondent at Kerteh, of \"inute details of lines A delivery order chier draws attrusion to the publication in a newspaper, to the charges for storage and cartage which had an and works, strength of garrison, and various tallitary crued upon them. The goods had, in accordance with a arrangements;\" and, referring General Vivian to the notice to that effect given by the shr's agent, heen particulars, he authorises him to arrest the individual ceased to slischarge; and it is satisfactorily proved that believe that such folly will nes be repeated. He then laced in a public warehouse each night when the ship and send him away at once, unless he has reason to\n\ntheir salty, but rendered unavoidable by the fact that this disposition the goods was not only necessary for proceeds as folows\n\nThe Commander of the forces has occasionally seen\n\ninterest applied for their benefit up to that age. In the in nered the passage to and ice of those engaged the goods are not suffered to retain on the whart at similar things from this cams. Strength of regimenta\n\nthe\n\nahones, us in the case of the widow, shall become the\n\nchildren die before attaining the age of 21 years, then unul in that case the money, after discharging all just labilities, shall become the property of the Crown,\n\nsobe State and County resece, and they appear willing pay it. Iat lower, as some have prepused, there is danger of new legislation, to two or three gene, to incrense it again.\n\nThis appears, after the brief experience of a fe months, to be suc opinion of the people generally the mining districts.\n\ncease.\n\nmight. The bellent, however, declined to pay his freight sickness, butteries, gins, quuntly of ammunition, the and receive his goods subject to these charges, and there state ui preparation, means of transport, the very situa agon fled bis like: for non-delivery. It is not suggested tion of concealed histories, the strength of pickets, the that the charges upon the goods were any other or\n\nbest mes of attacking them, all recklessly detailed as greater thus expenses necessarily incurred in trans. on purpose to usiruet an enemy. Couaou precace—ng the progress of the disenarge, and the question to porting them to and keeping them in a warehouse dur—tion for the sake of the aring requires that this should he determined is, whether under the clearances, He then appeals to the right sense of duty of alt officers ship owner. these chargee should be borne by the shipper, or the and non-comissioned officers, and concludes by requir—ing the generals of disisiou to bring the tenor of the order The decision was in favor of the defendant. The cou—signnee must pay freight in ace for all his merchant belonging to the arany,\" who are permitted to versin to the notice of the \"known correspondent of newspapers ship, or if the ship master storex the metsandise as it she to the rules of the army under whose protection they dives it by wishes to take it away as he comes from the in the canige, and who toast consider themselves ainen— is discharged until the whole roast is discharged, the c consignze must pay storage, curtage, California\n\nTHE CHINESE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nWe resume consideration of the Itev. Mr. Speer's \"Pica\" for the Chinese in California.\n\nNUMBER OF CBINASE IN CALIFORNIA.\n\nThe Rev. Mr. Speer pablished, some eight or ten months ago, a statement of the cuber of Chinese the\n\nThe Times, as might be expected, is írate at this under, says that it ever too late, and that Generati Codrington has now loat whatever reputation he formerly\n\npossessed.\n\n\"I\" obsives our temporary, \"the abjectionable commivation appeared in our columes, it was written by a military officer, and, if General Codrington has any real ground of complaint, it is pro—hale that the writer, too trenical in his detaile, did not imitate the exudon which is always practised by por—fessional correspondents.\" In these observations, the\n\nis a melter which demands the attention of the Legisino Lere is not materially differeus, or the departures Times averlooks the fact, that the same general order\n\n3. The mode of collecting the Foreign micers' licenses supposed to be in this country. Probably the number\n\nture.\n\nIt is to be feared there, is some thing radically since last spring may have been about equal to the also draws attention to similar exposures of the prepara wrong in the present system. How often do you reat of Chinamen shot, or stabbed, or wipped, or stripped ted with the five well-known Companies.\" Probubig, pressly prohibits teus for the future—Home News, arrivals. the Chinese in California are chiefly contre—lions of the rug by newspaper correspondents, and ex— and searched, or maltreated and insulto in some other says Mr. Speer, there are not a thousand Chiuames in Marele 25, way, by the collerters. How frequently do we reus the State who are not members of our or other of these under the \"items\" head of our newspaper announce ments like this one Three Chinamen Shot—A For eigu miners' tax collector of Lousty, on Wednesday last, shot three Chiasmon who resisted him in the dis—River.\" charge of his duty. The difficuity took place on the→→→→→\n\n5. In the event of an offices leaving at his death neither widow, child, sur children, then the money shall be paid to his father; and if he leave no father, it may be pa to his mother, for his or her sole and absolute benefit. provided that he or she shall establish a claim thereto. And in the event of there being neither father nor mother, then the money shall be paid to the sister or sisters, as the case may be, share and share alike, provi ded they shall have attanned the age of 21 years, aud that cheie claint shall be established. But should any sister or sisters be under that age, in the money shall be held is as by the Secretary of State for War, and the interest be applied, as stated in Article 4, until such sister or sisters shall become 31 years of age, when it shall become the absolute property of the survivors or Survivor. Simuli wo survivors or survivor ritnin the age of 21, then the tanney, after discharging just liabilities, shall become the property of the Crown.\n\nNow it is admitted that these people are provokingly 6 No grast or money undar provisions of this warrant slow; are fearful and suspicious; are cunning in evading sal be made to Ray person who would not be eligible the enllector, and play maoy tricks to wary L. But far pension compassionate allowance, or gratuity under\n\nhave they no excuse? farther, if they have one, the provisions of the royal warrant of the 15th of June, are they so dangers and ferocious: anges that yield: 1958 ( fadier alone excepted whose claim nnst be esta blished as set forth in Article 5), but the ineligibility of of the forest? Does the humane administration of law to no remelin, tad must he dealt with like furious beasts widow to any grant under this warrant shall not affect aot extend west of the Aueries Desert? Are men to the interests of the legitimate child or children of a decensed ulicer, for whose benefit the money shall be\n\nhe murdered at will by an irrespacaible petty officer, for held in trust, and the interest seplied by the Secretary tionalde entstitutionality? Is such as officer licensed resisting se pecuolery obligation, and that of ques. of State for We, as stated in Article 4, except they be to slaughter a man that is not imble; or because he left in such pecuniary errcumstances as wou'd disquely don't cinderstura Buglish; or because he is a stranger, them for the co:upassionate kilowances wider the pro—\n\n*\n\nvisions of Article 3. Should, however, such chill and poos, and sick, and friendless? ebildren die before attaining the age of 21, then and that use the money, after dislarging t just abilities, shult become the property of the Crowd,\n\npazzuities.\n\nCompanies. The following is the computation hy then, buse erived in Csforma; that have returned hence to in a tabular form, of the total number of Chinese that their native land: that have died here; and faully, their estincale of the number in the spring of last year in the\n\nState:\n\nWe read in the Prassing correspondence of the Times: let: I have lately reserved from Hum. santative there, Calone: Hodges, was led to make various burg informs me that, some few weeks back, our repres representations to the senate of the quantities of am—munition that left, flat neutral port for Russia In the course of the examination that these reclamations gave vine to, I am informed it turned out that thees supplies hud in west instaurea been shipped thither frota England 9,200 or that purpose. For.instance, two houses in England 6,807 had suippes to Hamburg two cargoes of lead, three ofẾ 84'petre, und eleven of sulphur. The parties implicated 38.387\n\nin the air are described to me as standing very high in England, andarsong them a member of Parliament.\" Homes News, March 26.\n\nNames.\n\nArrivals. Deartares. Drecna'd Prasat Young-wo Copy...6,900 Couto Company....8,00 Sza-yap Company1,050 Yun-wo Company.......2,500 Ning- euy Company 2,809\n\n2,503\n\n1,300\n\n400 £tu\n\n14.000 6.500\n\n(ii)\n\n160\n\n$780 1.269\n\n300\n\n173\n\n1.780\n\nTotal 18,249 8,522 1,290 Adding to these, the ana,ber of Chinese not members of the Companies, and probably there may be found 40,000 of the race at present in this country.\n\nM. Mazzini lately sent £30 to some friend at Rome. The letter was intercepten or the past-ofice, the bills\n\nTHE US. STEAM FRIGATE NIAGARA.\n\nThe United States steain frigate Niegore was recently seized, cashed, and applied to the fand for ruising a launched from the socklyn Navy Yard. The last mail have absencterised this act as a slawefu: and grant statue to the Immaculate Virgin. The French papers\n\nThere are two things that can be done. First, the from the Rust brought account of the launch, and a robbery Home News, March 26. penalties of an payment of the miners' license may be description of the magnificent vessel. From the New 7. In the event of it being represented and satisfac—efred, and they may be guarded su us to prevent acts! Yor's Herald we take the following:- torily prove to the Secretary of State for War, that any of brutality to encuarage men of a desirable character The Niagara is one of the five steam frigates now in\n\nAllading to the unsightly smallness of the ladies' bon—wilow na wiose bekali money shall be held in trust for to perform the duties; and also so as to be a heu tu\n\nnets, an eminent musical gentleman in London, writing the henefit of herself and children, under the provisions\n\nprocess of construction for the United States Navy. Her to a friend in Bristol, suys:-\"I have to lames the grezi the region. Legal gentlemen can readily devise such main dimensions are: 2oanage, 5.204; extreme length iparcase, among the fetals part of my practice, of tic of this warrant, shall thereafter so conduct hersell' as t\n\nFor instance, ability to work upon the on deck, 24 feet; load le, 323 feet. She is to be county roads, at a certain rule per day, until the demand shipped egged; mainmast, I feet long and 3 feet 4 ining in the ear, injured, I firmly believe, from the present douloureux in the forehead, loss of sigit, and great juffer—of the license is satisfied.\n\nches in diameter; mein yard, 55 feet long, and mizea Secuud, it seems almost equally necessary to consti—spunker boot 67 fest. Fail complement of vinn .\n\nased fashion of neuting hosneta on the week instead of tute an office, or to appoint an officer, to whom those Some kiea of her immense capacity may be formed fo\n\nthe head. During the past month i have been in attend—ordmarily subject to the foreign mers' tax may appeal the following schedule of her masts and spara, which are\n\nance upon zwn young ladies with the the-doalonzēta in erhead, and several others with similar complaints. frora de collector in speriat rases, and who may decide now be.ug ball:- the circus ces that warrant a remission the tax.\n\nIt is high time that the frivolous bonet of the present There are some cases of exceeding hardship aris: from\n\nYards Length Diam. Length, Diam.\n\nday should be done away with.\"-- Home News, Mirch 28, the caprices and the cores of collectors. They\n\nFr. io. In. Ft. in. If.\n\nhave no rules. One told me that holes old tea, boys,\n\nWOMEN AND WArones-Mr. Beunct, the watah-maker 111:00 871 10:05 24 packure, and sick people, go free.\" There are no de\n\nof Cheapside, in a letter to the Times, recommends that 07:08 21 76:11 191 women should be employed as wetch-makers. We give nius, un real responsibilities in the whole mater. Muinroyal It is mere spullation,\n\nthe practical part of his conuication:-\n\nMainmast Maintop\n\nMaiuto gallant\n\nFereskysa?! \n\nMireutop\n\nbeenme unworthy of the Clown, or stall neglect or ill. treat her children, then and in that use the Secretary of Sture for War shall have full power to tasks such arrange ments for apportioning the interest of the money, and making better provision for the children, as in his judge ment may see must advisabic.\n\n8. The allowances to be granted under the authority of this warrant are not applicable to the cases of others kifled in sesion, or dying of weands before the declin\n\non of war with Russia, hur it is to lake n retrospective rfect up to that date; and therefore, say officer's willow to whom there may have been granted a pensior, com—passionate allowances for children, or gratuity for herself\n\nod children, or any other relative of an officer, who may 4 Betler protectios must be extended to Chinese re. Main skil have receive a peusion under the warrant of 15th June, sinents generally. Some means should be devised by Foremast 1855, who tony wish to rotate such pension, allow-whch the statements of Chinese should be received Burstop acers, or gratuities, for the sun fixed wider the provisions regard to crimes affecting their lives, persons au po Puteopgallant of this warrant, shall be permitted to do so; but in that porty. They do dot perhaps understand sufficiently the Porevoval case, whatever suns may have been received by or al care of on oala to be adicuted in our Courts to enjoy aumuns of the widow or exildren, or other relatives, wil at equal privilege with those acquainted with the sanc Mzent be deducted from any amount to be paid under the terrasons of Christianity. But no other maans prepubly of this warrust. But in every case of a sum of money than receiving their affirmation, allowing it the credence. Mzentopgallant being awarded Guder the provisions of this warrant. that, according to internal evidence and the accompany Mccoyal interest inerton at the rate of 63 per cent. per annu\n\ning Creumstances, it seems fairly to deserve, will prevent\n\nMizens kysall wil he allowed how the day of the officer's death.\n\ndegraded and autward centness from rubbing, bruising. U. Should the widow, or any other relative of a deceas. cheating or killing a Chinaman, wien to white witness ed officer wi. prior to 23rd October, 1855, has been granted pension, and other uliowaned, under the\n\nThe protection of the Chinese miners from marauders is vital to their quite, and to their usefulness to our provisions of the warrant of 15 June, 1835, wish to cocinute such pension and lowances by sum of respect for lass, where they are pistered by night av jihoon\n\nthemselves. They can have no heart for industry, and na money in eu therevf, in conformity with the terms of this wherau, it will be necessary that application to the\n\nby day, by fous wretchies, who battly rob a camp in Spanker hoora fect be made to the Secretary of State for War, within\n\nthe five of a hundred, if no lites are present, and who: Spanker ga year from the October, 1855. And shoul the\n\nhave no compunctions in murdmg even the unresisting. Spanker gaff duw, or my other reiative of a deceased offers, whe.\n\nThere are heen hundreds of sua case, An interior Forespunker gaf since 2311 October, 1855, may have already, or\n\nnewspaper says of these cobbers: -\n\nNot camerated hereafter be granted, a prasion and other allywuuees. wish to epimute such penting und allowsares for of money in hen thereof. mudes the provisions of this warrent, it will be acessary that application to tha fert be made to the Secretary of State for War, with a year from the date of the said pens and user allow lances being granted.\n\n1. A return of all sams paid under the provisions of this warrant and be faid nasly briore Parliament an ufter the 1st of Aynl. Gaven at our Court at Sail James's, Ritis ist day of March. 1856, in the 19th year of Our Reign-By Her Majesty's command,\n\nPATHONE.\n\ny\n\nth\n\nis near.\n\nSwinging boom. Maintop stuldingsafl boom Maintop gallantanil hacm\n\ndo. Mainrayal de Bowsprit, outboard Jihkoom\n\n35:04 12) \n\n51.03 134\n\n23:07 81 32:09\n\nE\n\n14:06\n\nbi\n\n21.00\n\nJUI:GO 35\n\n00:09 23\n\n50.00 YO\n\n07:09\n\n54\n\n31.09 7\n\n21:10 214 47:03 21:06 13:03 34 19:06 35; & 32 72:10 50:04 15 Ai:0x 11 27:09 S 34:10 8 13:00\n\n16\n\n4+\n\n55:00 }] \n\n4:00\n\n11:04 TTE 62:00 21 33:00 8 $1.00 } 23:00 51\n\n22.03 10.11\n\n2xtú\n\n17:00 4\n\n20:00 24\n\n38:00 ia\n\nX5:00 -\n\n.67:00\n\n15\n\nThe French Government has made some slight con—tenses or lands ing within the dominios of the Fingers of America, where he has become an American officer for the purchase of his commission or commissions. paid, in conformity with the regulation. price, by the casina as to duties on a few articles imported from Cars, the law and cast of Chica, if they can be ascer—subject, and ns auch sworn allegiance to the Eugland, rather to meet the clamour of the pation ontained, nat govern de decisions, rilee by the terms of Gavernment of the United States, all which with sex mouths shall leave a widow only, the au thest points, than to prometo any new ceaunercial inter— the contract the law or at home other mantry be as is prepared to repudiate by bis wath on adinis. ned shall be paid to her for her sole and isulate Coura hatween the countries. They are in fact united into the and if in any such rase the Chinese Low can portant, but Dr. B., delighted, after three years infeest te ascertained, the decisis must be governed by the tua pressing and supplization here (u hava obtained even pelticiples of natural justice. There is os pretence for the Tendy to lake onths is exactly Lie person to have a peusion; and sie shall be required to establish het\n\nsion at An Attorney. Whether a person sur\n\nhenefit, provided she be not left in such pecuniary circumstances as would otherwise preclude all claim to introduction of the Engish Law of real property.\n\n\"It is a universal principle of Law in Europe, that in s] a point atretched that be may be admitted on the claim and to sign au acknowledgment of having consent sits prevalin; and we think it both right and useful mat questions sospecting movealbe property, the lex loci rei rull of Attorneys does not allow ef much doubted to receive sich zu in lieu of, and as a full compens\n\ntion for, al pension and gtuity to which sie\n\nful one\n\nthis light relaxation, is gone over to Festion with the proposal. Or ail moon high or low that I ever met in Apeinty, this Dr. B is the act pressing and the rust Aceited Te is fit Charlton, fir Whig employment; the same mile. should be acted in the administration pushing and overb waving in las manner, and, like the Justice in Chink\"\n\n2. When un officer su killed or sa dying of his wounds\n\nsy or\n\n* Acconyplished.\" not need as having any reference to might have proved herself entities, in consequence of \"perfection.\n\nthe luas her husband.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nTHE ENGLISH TOWERZ—The English language has its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\nTHE ENGLISH LANGUAGE\n\nThe English language har its face is stamped the following words: \"Gonds to be million loiters She is to be full rigged and Mr. Steers stood at the command of any other language of men.\n\na veritable power of expression, such as, perhaps, ever tual, dated the 21 of October, 1855, our will and ensure new is that our said Royal wariant of the 23rd find thereof, and when the discharge of lus gomis had On the arrival the ship the libellaut was duig moti—Oober 1855, shall trom henceforth be cancelled, aut romcucel he was fully eognizant of the fact On the\n\ndevelopment and condition, inve been the result of a It has been erroneously stated that this steamer will surprisingly indmate anion of the two noblest languages be the largest in the world. The Adriatic, now upon in modern Europe, the Teutonic aud Kopanic. It is the stocks at the Messrs. Steers' shipyard, will be larger well known in what relating these two stand to one portion of the contents of his bill of lading by several hundred tons. Her uit diensions are another in the English tongue; the former supplying, estimates that she will go 17 kuols an hour with a good\n\nbreeze, und 18 knots under steamI\n\nted by Di Secretary of State for War, shall be constitu—having been in dieu thereof, and shall be the sole and standing auto—upon the agents of the ship and demanded a delivery of feer: depth of hold, 33 feet 2 inches; tormagt. 5,898, latter, the spiritual conceptions. In truth, the English upon the asters hereis costined; but shall not al or in any way invelidate any act heretvicze per. bed by our Secretary of State for War under the\n\nthe goods so discharging, offering to pay the freight, dur carpenter'z measurement. Like the Niagara, this steamer tunguage, which, be no mere accident, has produced on them. This the consignees of the ship derlined to isions of the last mentioned warrant”—Home News, \n\nis divided into watertight tch 26.\n\nthis our Royal warraul, to be administered and inter—first day aded guan the wharf, he thereupon called Length over all, 352 feet; extreme breadth of hy, sin far larger propuctions, the blaterial groundwork; the\n\nR LEGISLATION WANTED FOR THE CHI—NESE IN CALIFORNIA, continue our notice at the Rev. Mr. Speer's hlet entilled a \"Plea for the Chinese in California,\"\n\nthe whole contents of the bill of lading. The libeliant and cylinders 100 inches. The lenses Steere are rapidly cel poetry (Shakspeare), ans, with ali right, be called a Works, 12 feel stroke, modern times, as distinguished from the audient classi ther, professed his willingness to do so, provided at the hastening the completion of the Adriatic, with all their world language; and, like the English people appears goods were ready for delivery; but he declined to take disposable force, and she will probably be ready fur destined hereafter to pressil with a sway more extensive\n\ndelivery order for the goods and receive them as they laeting by the middle or last of March. offers were repeated from day to day while the vessel about four months.—California Chronicle, bỉarch 26 came out in the usual course of the discharge. These It is thought that the Magura will be ready for ses in was being unladeu; and on the last day the libellam\n\nBorede to, but required him to pay all the freight due on (oscillating) are from the Novelty. Her engines and uphorne the greatest and most predominant poel of\n\nFor in wenith, good sense, and closeness of structure, even than its present over all portions of the globe. no other of the languages at this day spoken deserves to be compared with it.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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XXX, No. 5.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nINTIMATIONS,\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co., of Canton, China, did, on the 11th day of March, 1856, at the Office of the UNITED STATES' CONSULATE in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all concerned to make payment to us of all sums due to, and to present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co.\n\nJAMES PURDON & Co,\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAN Assignment of the property, real and personal, of the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Canton, Foo-chow, and Shanghae, China, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, I hereby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of all sums due to, and to present to me any claims against, the said Firm.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY.\n\nCanton, 7th August, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Archives of H. B. M's. Consulate at Canton are for the time transferred to the Government Office, Hongkong, where any Official Communications to H. M's. Consul can, until further notice, be addressed.\n\nBy Order of H. B. M's. Consul,\n\nCHARLES A. WINCHESTER,\n\nVice-Consul.\n\nOFFICE OF THE BRITISH CONSULATE, CANTON,\n\nGOVERNMENT OFFICE, HONGKONG,\n\n22d December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees.\n\nJOSEPH JARDINE, Esq.,\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS, Esq.\n\nHon. W. T. MERCER, Esq.,\n\nH.S. WALKER, Esq.\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Company, (ex officio.)\n\nTreasurer.-H. MAGNIAO, Esq.\n\nResident Surgeon, RICHARD G. JACK,\n\nConsulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n75 cents per day.\n\n1 dollar\n\n2 dollars.\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previous to the amount deposited having been expended.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN.\n\n\"Hongkong Register\" Office, 1st January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nTHREE HOUSES known as Bayview.\n\nFor further particulars, apply to\n\nHongkong, 27th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each 13 feet 2 inches in length, and 9 feet 4 inches in breadth. Boilers and Steam-chest sufficiently spacious to work Engines of from One Hundred and Twenty to One Hundred and Thirty HORSE POWER. Each Boiler has 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Sixteen Months in the Vessel, and not having been used more than Six Weeks during the whole of that time.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nOn board the Screw Steamer \"Labuan,\"\n\nOff Whampoa\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself at Tacao, as Merchant, and General Agent.\n\nMacao, 1st January, 1857.\n\nA. J. F. PE CASTRO.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. A. A. DE MELLO Jr., is authorized to sign the Firm's name per procuration.\n\nMacao, 31 January, 1857.\n\nA. A. DE MELLO & Co.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Copartnership ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. The accounts of the late Firm will be liquidated by F. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nJ. M. ARMSTRONG.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nI have this day established myself as a Commission Merchant and General Agent on the premises lately occupied by Messrs. ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, under the Firm of F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMUND ... ceased on 31st December last.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, with one CYLINDER capable of working up to Ten HORSE POWER, fitted with Pump of 7 inches diameter, and Stroke of Piston Rod 6 inches, for pumping out Water Ballast, throwing with ease 20 Tons per hour. Also 2 Cast Iron BARRELS with COG WHEELS, for Loading or Discharging Cargo.\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBULAR BOILER for Engine, standing 5 feet 3 inches high, diameter 3 feet 7 inches.\n\nThe whole in first-rate working order.\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1858.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION,\n\nEstablished by Charter 1720.\n\nTHE undersigned, agents at Hongkong for the above Corporation, are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Building or on Merchandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co., Agents\n\nHongkong, 12th April, 1855.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nNo. 1,364\n\nTHE undersigned having been appointed AGENT for the above Company, requests application to be made to him in case of any particular or general Averages on risks insured by them.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1857.\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.\n\nInvested Capital £650,000.\n\nTHE greatest advantages offered to Insurers consistent with perfect security, as follows —\n\n1. A large Invested Capital as guarantee for the prompt settlement of all claims.\n\n2. Low rates for short term Policies.\n\n3. A Moderate scale for whole Life Insurances without profits.\n\n4. A liberal reduction of premium on Policies effected on the participating scale arising from division of profits.\n\n5. An annual division of profits.\n\n6. Seventy-five per cent of the declared Annual profits apportioned to Policies entitled to participate.\n\n7. Premiums payable half yearly, quarterly, or monthly;\n\nProspectuses and forms forwarded free to any part of India by Messrs. Braddon & Co., Agents and Secretaries, Calcutta, or to any part of China on application to\n\nR. S. WALKER,\n\nAgent.\n\nHongkong, 21st June, 1856.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICE.\n\nTHE Acting Post-Master regrets to say that owing to the pressure of business at the Post-Office, Hongkong, there can be no delivery for the present of Letters &c., but from the Post-Office window. Hours of attendance being as heretofore from 7 o'clock A.M. to 5 P.M.\n\nPost- The undersigned having been appointed AGENTS in executed with despatch.\n\nSTEAM ENGINES & BOILERS repaired,\n\nSHAFTS of the best English Iron from 5 to 9 inches diameter.\n\nOrders to be addressed to Messrs B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Manila.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHOS. HUNT & Co.\n\nHongkong, 24th September, 1856.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION.\n\nTHE REV. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies for the Admission into his family of the children of such FOREIGN RESIDENTS at the Free Ports, who may be desirous of securing for them the Comforts of a HOME, and the Advantages of a LIBERAL EDUCATION.\n\nFor Terms and Particulars apply at\n\nNo. 7 Gough Street, VICTORIA, HONGKONG.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE MORRISON EDUCATION SOCIETY, now deposited in a Room in the COURT House, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock P.M., to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books. Parties, not members of the Society, may obtain the advantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Trustees,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary.\n\nENGLAND AS A ...\n\nPage 318",
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        "content_text": "information and a Knowledge of Chinese affairs, which enabled me on occasions to be of much service to Government beyond my compeers; being frequently honored with commands to report on subjects engaging the attention of the Governor and Legislative Council. Amongst other subjects I may mention, the Opium Farm, Government Schools; Assessment and collection of the Village House Tax, Police organization and management; Secret Police, for Political and Detective purposes; Registration Census Systems; Population and General statistics; Gaol management and Prison discipline; The Convict system in Hong Kong; Chinese Emigration; The Shantung system &c. My Report on the Opium Farm in 1847 showing the abuses generated by the monopoly, recommending its abolition, and the substitution of a Yearly Licenses system was first adopted by Government.\n\nI proposed taxing the Villages, assessed the buildings, and collected the revenue in 1845. The Registration system has since been modified on my recommendation.\n\nI took charge of the Gaol in which all the old abuses festered. I built workshops with prison labor; Blacksmith's and Carpenter's shops; Engine house; laid down new paths, cleared out the Yards; broke up, turfed, planted with shrubs and flowers, and railed in grass plots. Introduced productive labor, such as tailoring; grass-mat loom-weaving; hemp foot-mat making, hat, cord, twine, and bag making; blacksmith, carpenter, Mason, and brick-layer's work; and introduced proper discipline.\n\nPage 493\n\n(No further text is given to re-order or correct beyond this point, as the rest seems to be fragmented or not directly related to the main body of text.)",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nthe buildings\n\nand Collected the Revenue\n\nlaid out like\n\nin 1846. The Registration system and\n\nLaw has been twice modified on my recommendation. I took charge of Gaol in which all the old abuses festered, With prison labor, I built work sheds; Blacksmith's and Carpenter's Shops, Engine House, New drains, cleared out the yards; broke up, turfed, planted with\n\nflowers, and railed in\n\nGrass plots, introduced productive labor, tailoring, grass mat weaving with Looms; Hemp foot Mat making; Hat Making, twine spinning, Blacksmith's, Carpenter's, Mason's and Bricklayer's work. Introduced proper discipline and\n\nand regulations. I left the Gaol to my successor a smoothly working Institution,\n\nShrubs and\n\nto my\n\n... \n\na garden. As Marine Magistrate, Harbor Master, and Emigration Officer, I have carried out Several improvements in the working of the Department, as kindly acknowledged in the Colonial Secretary's official Letter attached (Enclosure N. 15.)\n\nNo ...\n\nI allude to these particulars in\n\nspirit of no egotism, but simply with the desire to establish, at this juncture,\n\nin the depth of my need, in the mind of\n\nand the Commissioners\n\nYour Lordship\n\nof the Treasury, the conviction that\n\nbe reasonably considered -\n\nServices ...\n\nmay be re...\n\nMy\n\n\"Special\" when contrasted with those of\n\nthe ordinary class of 10 to 4 O'clock\n\nServants\n\nof Government, in the enormous\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "No. 8. CLASSIFICATION and NUMBER of PUBLIC and PRIVATE BUILDINGS in the COLONY of HONGKONG, 1862.\n\nEUROPEAN.\n\nVICTORIA. VILLAGES, TOTAL.\n\nPublic Offices, Barracks, Guard Rooms, Police Stations and other public buildings, Churches, Chapels and Places of Worship,\n\nMosques, Chinese Temples, &c.,\n\nNo. 4. ABSTRACT OF RETURNS, furnished from each House occupied by CHINESE in the Colony of Hongkong, stating Number of Persons resident therein, Mortality, &c.\n\nMORTALITY.\n\nTOTAL\n\nNAME OF DISTRICT\n\nMen. Women. Boys. Girls. OF EACH\n\nTOTAL MORTALITY\n\n111\n\n34\n\n145\n\nPLACE.\n\nIn the Out of the\n\nOCCUPATION\n\nOF\n\nColony. Colony.\n\nCHINESE.\n\n6\n\n2\n\n8\n\n14\n\n16\n\n30\n\nMerchants' Houses and First-class Buildings, assessed at and above £100 per annum value, occupied,\n\nShops and Private Dwellings below the value of £100 per annum, occupied,\n\nHouses untenanted and unfinished,\n\nCity of Victoria.\n\n620\n\n19\n\n039\n\nSheak-tong-tsui, and\n\n7,587 1,586 773\n\n704 10,650\n\n900\n\n8\n\n908\n\nSei-ying-poon,. . . .\n\n200\n\n40\n\n246\n\nSheong-wan,\n\nTai-ping-shan,\n\n1,857\n\n119\n\n1,976\n\nChoong-wan,\n\n11.395 2,542 1,021 6,218 2,586 1,108 11,096 2,741 1,214\n\n929 15,887 810\n\n10,722\n\n72\n\n159 136\n\n885 15,936\n\n163\n\nHa-wan,\n\n3,796 1,259\n\n446\n\n374 5,875\n\n65\n\nCHINESE.\n\nWong-nei-choong, So-kun-poo,\n\n177 176 2,794 558\n\n69\n\n63\n\n490\n\n7\n\n260\n\n208 3,320\n\n89\n\nDied in Gaol,\n\nDied in Civil Hosp.\n\nFound exposed,\n\nTrade.\n\nVICTORIA. VILLAGES.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nVICTORIA, VILLAGES. TOTAL.\n\nTotal, Victoria,..\n\n43,063 11,448 4,891\n\n3,978\n\n63,380\n\n691\n\n84\n\nBakers,\n\n19\n\n19\n\nBrought forward,.,\n\n2,536\n\n919 3,455\n\nBamboo Workers,..\n\n25\n\nBamboo House Makers,\n\n14\n\nBarbers,....\n\n76\n\nBathing Houses,\n\n3\n\nBean Curd Sellers,\n\n27\n\nBlacksmiths,\n\n78\n\nHa Bord\n\n3\n\n28\n\nJoss and Joss Paper, and\n\nSub-Districts.\n\n21\n\n14\n\n35\n\n19\n\nImage Dealers,\n\nShow-ke-wan, a\n\n1,359\n\n307\n\n76\n\n68\n\n1,810\n\n11\n\n107\n\nLantern Sellers,\n\n5\n\n5\n\nSai-wan,\n\n56\n\n50\n\n34\n\n22\n\n162\n\n2\n\n3\n\nLead Case Makers,\n\n9\n\n9\n\nSheak-ho,\n\n147\n\n85\n\n62\n\n39\n\n333\n\n6\n\n6\n\n33\n\nLime Dealers,\n\n1\n\n22\n\n23\n\nTy-tam-took,\n\n42\n\n22\n\n13\n\n12\n\n89\n\n2\n\n16\n\n94\n\nMat Makers,\n\n13\n\n13\n\nStanley, c.\n\n830\n\n352\n\n139\n\n96\n\n1,417\n\n12\n\nBird Sellers,\n\n7\n\nMat Sheds,\n\n14\n\nBoat Builders,\n\n34\n\n27\n\n61\n\nMoney Changers,\n\n23\n\n10\n\n19\n\nAberdeen, d..\n\n1,139\n\n227\n\n223\n\n59\n\n1,648\n\n18\n\n25\n\nHeongkong,\n\n111\n\n103\n\n76\n\n28\n\n318\n\n5\n\nBrokers,\n\n24\n\n24\n\nMilkmen,\n\n10\n\n10\n\nPok-foo-lum,\n\n40\n\n21\n\n15\n\n13\n\n89\n\n1\n\nBookbinders,\n\n7\n\n7\n\nOur Dealers,\n\n6\n\n12\n\nKow-loon,\n\n3,666\n\n1,320\n\n793\n\n647 6,431\n\n31\n\nFishing, Quarrying,\n\nAgriculture, & a small amount of Trade.\n\nBrothel Keepers,\n\n140\n\n149\n\nOld Iron and Rags,\n\n17\n\n17\n\nBrick and Tile Makers,\n\n20\n\nCarpenters,\n\n146\n\n28\n\nChandlers,\n\n273\n\n-88\n\n21\n\nOld Clothes,\n\n5\n\n5\n\nTotal, Sub-Districts,\n\n7,390\n\n2,487\n\n1,436\n\n084\n\n12,297\n\n88\n\n169\n\nOil Sellers,\n\n9\n\n9\n\n84\n\n357\n\nOpium Sellers,\n\n49\n\n54\n\nGrand Total,\n\n50,453\n\n13,935 6,327\n\n4,962 75,677\n\n779\n\n670\n\n31\n\n1,564\n\nCharcoal and Firewood Sellers,\n\n31\n\n5\n\n36\n\nPacking,.\n\n19\n\n19\n\nPainters,\n\n10\n\n10\n\nCaulkers,\n\n8\n\n9\n\nPaint Sellers,\n\n16\n\n16\n\na Show-ke-wan includes Hoong-leong Loo, Tsat-che-mooy, Pak-shui-wan,' Ngo-yan-wan, and Wong-kok-tsui.\n\nSheak-ho includes Hok-tsui and Too-te-wan.\n\nConfectioners,\n\n31\n\n10\n\n41\n\nPawnbrokers,\n\n14\n\n14\n\nc Stanley includes Tytam and Wong-ma-kok.\n\nCattle and Pig Sheds,\n\n11\n\n11\n\nPeppermint Oil Sellers,\n\n2\n\n2\n\nAberdeen includes Ap-le-chow.\n\nClothiers,\n\n75\n\n11\n\n86\n\nPewterers,\n\n4\n\n4\n\nTHOS. TURNER, Registrar General.\n\nCoopers,\n\n15\n\n15\n\nPortrait and Landscape Painters,\n\n11\n\n17\n\nCoolie Houses,\n\n79\n\n82\n\nCongee Sellers,\n\n7\n\n7\n\nPriests Houses,\n\n6\n\n5\n\n11\n\nCrockery & Earthenware,\n\n13\n\n13\n\nPilot Houses,\n\n1\n\n1\n\nCompradores,\n\n36\n\n38\n\nPoulterers,\n\n10\n\nNo. 5. RETURN showing the MORTALITY amongst the Chinese during the year 1862.\n\nCook Shops,\n\n18\n\n18\n\nRattan Ware,\n\n9\n\n10\n\nPOPULATION\n\nCoal Shops,\n\n7\n\n7\n\nRattan Splitters,\n\n10\n\n10\n\nOF\n\nDIED IN THE COLONY.\n\nCotton Quilt Shops,\n\n6\n\n2\n\n8\n\nRope and Sail Makers,\n\n6\n\n12\n\n18\n\nEACH PLACE.\n\nDIED OUT OF THE COLONY.\n\nTOTAL.\n\nCoffin Shops,.\n\n6\n\n6\n\nRice Dealers,\n\n69\n\n2\n\n71\n\nDoctors and Druggists,.\n\n68\n\n11\n\n79\n\nSedan Chairs to hire,\n\n5\n\n5\n\nDyers,\n\n4\n\n4\n\nSign Dealers,\n\n2\n\nEating Houses,.\n\n16\n\n16\n\nSheep Dealers,\n\n3\n\nCity of Victoria,\n\n76,603\n\n691\n\n2\n\n3\n\nDead bodies found exposed in Victoria, and buried by Police,... Number of Chinese died in Gaol and Government Civil Hospital,\n\n49\n\n35\n\nEngine Houses,.\n\n3\n\n3\n\nShoemakers,.\n\n63\n\nFamilies,\n\n746\n\n189\n\n935\n\nShoe Sellers Chinese,\n\n19\n\nTotal,\n\n76,603\n\n775\n\nFarmers,\n\n44\n\n173\n\n217\n\nStone Cutters,\n\n66\n\n91\n\nFishermen,\n\n5\n\n89\n\n94\n\nStationers,\n\nFish Lans (fresh),.\n\n13\n\n2\n\n15\n\nSoy Sellers,\n\nDo. (salt),\n\n31\n\n24\n\n58\n\nSchools,\n\nFlour dealers,\n\n4\n\n4\n\nSweetmeat,\n\n9\n\n10\n\nForeign Goods Shops,\n\n81\n\n2\n\n83\n\nTanners,\n\n6\n\nFortune Tellers,.\n\n4\n\n4\n\nTinmen,\n\n11\n\nShow-ke-wan,\n\n1,810\n\n11\n\n7\n\n162\n\n2\n\nSai-wan,\n\n15\n\n333\n\n6\n\nSheak-ho,\n\n10\n\n89\n\n2\n\nTy-tam-took,\n\n6\n\n11\n\nStanley, Aberdeen,\n\n1,417\n\n12\n\n1,648\n\n18\n\nFruiterers,\n\n128\n\n35\n\n163\n\nTailors,\n\n74\n\n79\n\n318\n\n5\n\nHeongkong,.\n\nGardeners and Flower Sellers,\n\n10\n\n10\n\nTea Sellers,\n\n6\n\nPok-foo-lum,\n\n89\n\n1\n\nTimber Dealers,\n\n31\n\nFow-loon,\n\n6,431\n\n31\n\nGlaziers,\n\n3\n\n3\n\nTheatres,\n\n2\n\nGold and Silver Smiths,\n\n30\n\n6\n\n30\n\nTobacconists,\n\n10\n\nGold Beaters,\n\n11\n\nUmbrella Makers,\n\n8\n\n10\n\nDead bodies found in Villages, and buried by Police, Estimated Mortality out of the Colony,..\n\n31\n\n670\n\n8\n\nGrass Cutters,\n\n149\n\n176\n\nUndertakers,\n\n4\n\nGun Smiths,\n\n2\n\nVacant Houses,\n\n37\n\n22\n\nHat and Cap Makers,\n\n2\n\nWashermen,.\n\n56\n\n198\n\n5\n\nTotal,.\n\n12,297\n\n119\n\n670\n\n1,564\n\n59\n\n3\n\n59\n\nTHOS. TURNER,\n\nHemp Workers,.\n\n2\n\nWatchmakers,\n\n9\n\nRegistrar General.\n\nHonge,\n\n62\n\nWeight & Scale Makers,\n\n2\n\nIvory Carvers,\n\n1\n\nRegistrar General's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st January, 1863.\n\nCarried forward,..\n\n2,536\n\n919\n\n3,455\n\nTOTAL,....\n\n3,309\n\n1,108\n\n4,417\n\nRegistrar General Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st January, 1863.\n\nTHOS. TURNER, Registrar General.",
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        "content_text": "North Verandah\n\n2 Bumber\n\nChairs\n\n2 unpolished wood Arm Chairs\n\n1 mat sifat\n\n1 Normal 3 ft square\n\nScullery\n\n1 old Fbl\n\n1 Meat Tafel\n\n1 Cup board;\n\nGodowns\n\n2 Puntahs Complete\n\n1 Flute rack\n\nMene Cellars\n\n3 large wine racks\n\nLamps Room\n\n2 old black Chairs\n\n1 Bamber Chair\n\n1 Dresser for Cleaning lamps\n\n1 Oil Box!\n\n11 Reflector brackets Camps complete\n\nStai\n\nVegetable Larder\n\n2 Meat safes\n\n2 flap Dressers (furniture)\n\nMiscellaneous\n\n1 Fire engine and hose\n\n4 Coil leather piping for Garden\n\n3 old Dressers\n\n2 Iron tanks (stable and Kitchen)\n\n2 Large tables. Kitchens\n\n1 Bureau and drawers for dr.\n\nCertified to be correct.\n\nGovernment House-\n\nMarch 15th 1864.\n\nSigned Henry Atkinson\n\nPrivate Secretary\n\nLiquid\n\nHard Furniture.\n\nOverseer of\n\nbricks.\n\nCartial\n\n10 Bath Lamps complete.\n\n3 Small brass China Chamber lamps\n\n2 figured bronze pedestal Lamps\n\nIs pr. distal Lamps.\n\n2\n\nBoys Room\n\n2 Black wood arm chairs Cane bottoms\n\n10 high backed\n\nPage 390\n\nPage 391\n\nDespatch N.23 17 1864-\n\nInclosure in",
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        "content_text": "of Instricto\n\nD FOR The Res hope th\n\nvants offe\n\nthe\n\nsecond floor in\n\nFoward\n\nIn the centre of the building shown a Campanilo rising 100 feet above floor level, the 130 ferum stome drame spire is of Ironwork and supports a Flag staff. On the set in mortars 1.50 N. W. Corner of the building adjoining the Extiquce to 7 63342 oft brickwort\n\nBell Tower, the roof over this building\n\nG\n\nWorkshops is he tiled in the\n\nmanner\n\nare\n\n633420ft\n\nwill set in mortar, micluding stuccoing be\n\ncustomary in this the office s869feft-de-de-in\n\nChing.. length as\n\nthe\n\nParnel\n\nThe workshops Compound 225 ft and are repprated only from the offices chinney stacks to by a passage 12 ft in width. The shops are divided into a\n\nftini Rolling Mill and\n\n1944aguares\n\ndouble\n\nbutting Room, Coining Room. Annealing Witing roof of develling Marking Room, Weighing\n\nand In\n\nShaking with Assay\n\n072-\n\nRoom over,\n\nroomto are\n\nRoom and Store Room house 218\n\ndivided\n\npartitions 2006 ft enthousi\n\ngalls in fist in height. at the back of the Steen John fel sellemen\n\ndwarf walls 4\n\nis a Laboratory\n\nfeet\n\nof the Annealing and\n\nOn the Expat of the Building\n\nFoundry with pattern\n\n200772 and au\n\nroom pipe drains laid on room, at the back Concrete 18 30 &\n\na Setting the and\n\nin\n\nand small weighing\n\nRolling Mill Rooms, Annealing Furmans 50squares quarter\n\nand partitions complete t\n\n400.5. yds ceiling the centre complets with joists over it comices, flowus up to 80 1242quares framing roof of dwelling\n\nCarpenters shop behind . The Engine of the Building with Boiler House behind havin\n\n\"\n\nami.\n\nhaving son Talis capable of containing 2, the whole of the 24000 Gallons. The Lof the Engine\n\nRoom,\n\nSexe Room is horth\n\nshops will be paved with granite, except the Foundry\n\norate\n\nForward\n\n9144\n\n945\n\n  \n    1013472\n    2/38 20\n    992\n    во\n    200\n    240\n    23854 06\n    63\n  \n\nNov.\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format as requested:\n\nof Instruction\n\nFOR The Resident...\n\nservants offered\n\nthe\n\nsecond floor in\n\nForward\n\nIn the centre of the building stands a Campanile rising 100 feet above floor level, the 130 feet stone drum spire is of Ironwork and supports a Flag staff. On the N. W. Corner of the building adjoining the Entrance to the Bell Tower, the roof over this building is 63342 ft brickwork set in mortar.\n\nThe Workshops are tiled in the customary manner.\n\nThe workshops Compound is 225 ft and are separated only from the offices by a passage 12 ft in width. The shops are divided into a Rolling Mill and double height Room, Coining Room, Annealing, Marking Room, Weighing and Assay Room over, Room and Store Room house 218 divided partitions 2006 ft in height. At the back of the Annealing and Rolling Mill Rooms is a Laboratory.\n\nOn the East part of the Building is a Foundry with pattern room, pipe drains laid on Concrete 18\" & a Setting room, and small weighing room.\n\nThe Engine Room, Boiler House behind having a Tank capable of containing 24000 Gallons.\n\nThe shops will be paved with granite, except the Foundry.\n\n  \n    1013472\n    2/38 20\n    992\n    \n    200\n    240\n    23854 06\n    63\n  \n\nNov.\n\nLet me know if you need further assistance!",
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        "content_text": "smoking showing Furnace at Engine Clancys sectional elevation through the line I. J. on plan A1 with sectional sections of the large and small flue neys - 4-4 enlarged sections of moulding flue neys - for the same - 2 sections of Flues and gross lines. Sections of Chimneys at different points. Total 15 original Drawings\n\nKamishing\n\none traced bracing of the south side and elevation for bananismon to Hong Kong containing two drawings. A.5. Et add West elevation of House showing position of Chimneys enlarged. Detailed drawing of cracks and pans on Walls at each of Works. Part elevation of Boundary Wall. West side elevation of Court House and Stable. West side elevation of Guard House. Longitudinal Section. Halls and Coach House, Framed\n\nof\n\nSection of the same\n\nlongitudinal section of\n\nGuard House, Kitchens and Closets with 1 plan\n\nFramework sketches of same. Total 11 original drawings.\n\nFrermisting\n\nOUR A\n\none traced bracing of the East and West end of Works and also traced bracing of the east elevation of House containing 4 drawings\n\nOne tracing of plan A1 traced civil plan intended for transmission to Hong Kong.\n\nQ.C. West elevation of House and Officer ticket with 2 sectional elevations of the same. Total 3 Original drawings.\n\n205\n\nAz",
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        "content_text": "Segning \n\nthe usual agreement, and to \n\nissue to him \n\nRt 20 \n\na \n\nSum \n\naccount \n\nWith the half Salary \n\nwhich will be due \n\nfrom the date of his arrival in \n\nthe Colony \n\nand that which \n\nwill next be entitled \n\nto half-salary \n\nduring \n\nhis Voyage \n\nto Hong Kong; \n\nand that he will be accompanied by his wife who must be provided with a free passage to \n\nHong Kong.\n\nI beg \n\nto acknowledge \n\nthe receipt of \n\nyour letter \n\nof the 8th with \n\nthanks for your kindness in \n\nmy appointment at the Mint at Hong \n\nKong. In your next commun-\n\nication would you please inform me \n\nwhether my \n\nCaretaker will \n\nbe with me.\n\nI am at Zochinval. As upon my \n\narrival you could not \n\ndecide \n\ngive me a decision \n\nwhether I go alone. \n\nPresuming \n\nyou will furnish \n\nme with the details \n\nof the Engine Room, Boiler House \n\nand Boilers, with inventories of the contents of all the Boxes; which \n\nwill lessen my \n\nanxiety on \n\narrival.\n\nMany thanks,\n\nBellefield \n\n405 \n\nBirmingham Heath \n\nNov. 9th 1864 \n\nI made the following corrections:\n1. Corrected spelling errors (e.g., \"Wthe\" -> \"With\", \"Blum\" -> \"from\", \"Ial\" -> \"date\", \"balssalong\" -> \"half-salary\", \"Haughong\" -> \"Hong Kong\", \"accompaund\" -> \"accompanied\", \"afreefor\" -> \"a free passage to\", \"letta\" -> \"letter\", \"west\" -> \"next\", \"Care\" -> \"Caretaker\", \"Zochinval\" -> kept as is, assuming it's a place name, \"décids\" -> \"decide\", \"Ai.\" -> removed as it seems incomplete or a typo, \"tomis\" -> \"the details\", \"Eu quie Room\" -> \"Engine Room\", \"Savvices\" -> \"inventories\", \"lesson\" -> \"lessen\", \"Ancal Save\" -> removed as it seems out of context).\n2. Fixed spacing issues and joined broken sentences.\n3. Reordered some sentences for better readability.\n4. Added punctuation where necessary to improve sentence structure.\n5. Kept the original formatting as much as possible, using  tags for paragraphs.",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nThe completion of the Buildings is expected by the end of the year and the erection of the Boilers and Engines.\n\n104 and a man to take charge of the Engines. The Engine Driver should, I think, be sent at once to work on the shafting and some parts of the machinery so that it might start functioning from that date. \n\nThe walls of the Workshops will be pushed on with first in order that the Iron Roof may be put up while the Dwelling House is being completed. Mr Kinder is sending out 4 foremen for the shops and Engines while being erected.\n\nGas will be available on site of Mint from 1 January next - the price however is $3.50 per 7/0 cubic foot, and it will be for Mr Kinder to consider whether he can produce Gas at a cheaper rate, the price of coal being taken at $10 per Ton.\n\nSigned **W. Welson**  \n28/10/64  \n\nA True Copy  \n**(8)** **W. M. Rennie**  \nfor the Colonial Secretary",
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        "content_text": "## On the Service of the Mint of Stray Kong\n\nThe Master of the Mint of Hong Kong\n\nTo Ebenezer & Robert Driver\n\n1561\n\n25th To Erecting | 167 | 200\nThe | 26 | Erecting thistle taux rusving drying ax new coining press prove the engine house yard at the Royal Mint with the chatting wom. Cleaning the bright part se and assisting porting up the same\n| | Maning 4 strong mought iron screw's 14 bolts with Mich, 4 Sting majes\n| | Resisting erecting the new Orriving press and Cleaving the bright park re\n| | Actro 18 Tasting down his Rafting in the shathing room and fitting Neying the ore and fisins Bulley wheel for driving the new Cring press, spitting the shafting and assisting and oming forces\n28. Assisting writhing and wishing the Crysis the new percus | | \n... | | \nM En HH a ipd. (2.d.) HotGraliam In M | 301 | 7",
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        "content_text": "## Forward\n\n2. Tables and Cupboards in Engineer's office - Benches, locks and Cupboards for office of works\nleah boxes for Bullion - Tucks Cord for sashes to roof of works\nCoolies Jumping rate during laying of Engine and Rolling Mill foundations\nMasons employed in dressing stone for Engine Beds and Bed plates of Rolling Mill -\nMasons cutting holes for holding down bolts of Engine and Rolling mills\nAlone Masonry in Culverts for Education pipes\nJumbo scaffolding for erection of Iron verandah to Master's House and offices\nDrip Stone round works and House good at Gop...\n\n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | 3849 | 298 | 77 |\n|  | 120 |  |  |\n|  | 278 |  |  |\n|  | 300 |  |  |\n|  | 100 |  |  |\n|  | 330 |  |  |\n|  | 700 |  |  |\n|  | 870 |  |  |\n|  | $1980 |  | \n|  | \" |  | \n|  | \" |  | \n\n## Forward",
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        "content_text": "## Forward\n\nMasons employed in dressing Stone for Engine Beds & Bed Plates of Rolling Mill  \nMasons Cutting Holes for holding down bolts of Engine & Rolling Mills  \n\nIhne  \nMasonry in Culverts for Education Pipes.  \nBamboo Scaffolding for erection of sons.  \nVerandah to master's House & Offices  \nDrip Stone Round walls & Mouse.  \n\n900 ft. 90 sustained  \nAllowance to Contractor for loss sustained by Fire  \n\nas paid under Supplimentary Report and Estimate No 21  \nApril 1865  \n\n| Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | 1866 |\n|  | 201 |\n|  | 21.335.69 |\n|  | 350 |\n|  | 700 |\n|  | 80 |\n|  | 200 |\n|  | 810 |\n|  | 2000 |\n| Forward | 2547549",
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        "content_text": "into bags N16 396 which they had brought with them and took it away. \n\nWe shut the engine. We examined the door when they had left the house and while doing so we heard some five shots fired. We heard arms discharged. In an instant some soldiers came with five officers and examined the premises. \n\nI did not go with them, I went to look at the roof myself the next day. Some tiles were removed and live rafters sawn. The next day I heard the thief had been killed by the soldiers. I came here with the first witness from Sham-take on the 19th of April by order of my Master to look into the case of the Prisoner Chow at Kwok, whom I had known before. I had known him about a year.",
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        "content_text": "HongKong\n\nW. ISS.\n\n12th November, 1801.\n\nGovernor\n\nli\n\nSir Richard Graves Mac Damell. CB. Right Honorable\n\nThe Ent of Carnarvon?\n\nAire\n\nin Victoria - 36th October,\n\nDestruction of portion of the Chinese Quarter of the Town. Reports details of\n\n1 Encome\n\n1\n\nThe Evening Mail\n\nAND\n\nHongkong Shipping Xist\n\nAONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 5th OCTOBER, 1866,\n\nTHE FIRE.\n\nONE of the most disastrous fires with which Hongkong has been visited since the great conflagration in 1851, took place last night.\n\nIt commenced about 6.30 P.M. in an unoccupied house opposite the British Hotel, Queen's Road West, and gradually extended thence to the Praya and in a westerly direction as far as Mr Riach's timber yard, the whole mass of houses—over two hundred in number—being completely gutted.\n\nThe fire appears to have been the work of an incendiary as a pile of stuff in the centre of a room had been ignited, and the attention of Inspector da Silva and some soldiers passing at the time was called to it before even the whole of the room in which it originated was consumed.\n\nNo water could however be procured and in the few minutes which necessarily elapsed between its discovery and the arrival of a supply it had spread to the adjoining houses whose flimsily built inflammable verandahs offered every encouragement to the flames.\n\nWith praiseworthy promptitude the police were at once despatched to the scene, nearly every European, official and unofficial in the Colony hastening there also as soon as they learned of the threatened danger.\n\nA strong detachment of troops was immediately marched to the ground with engines, and armed sentries were placed at every available corner to repress riot, while a detachment of the Ceylon rifles consisting of 50 rank and file, 2 Sergeants and one native officer under the command of Captain Macdonald and Ensign Collens was despatched to the mint to guard against any attempt at looting that establishment.\n\nShortly after the fire had begun to assume alarming proportions, His Excellency the Governor and his Aide de camp arrived at the spot, and not content with directing others gave manual help encouraging every one to the utmost exertion.\n\nIt is impossible to speak in too high terms of the zeal and energy displayed by every European present.\n\nThe acting Superintendent of Police and his officers were especially active.\n\nThose who could do nothing else pulled at the ropes fastened to buildings it was desirable to remove; Others relieved the soldiers at the pumps and some whose conduct is deserving of the highest praise went into dangerous places to break out verandahs or hitch ropes to their supports.\n\nWe simply refrain from mentioning the names of several well-known residents who distinguished themselves by their courage and energy.\n\n$2\n\nour own attention was necessarily confined to one portion of the fire and we should unavoidably omit the names of many who in other parts of the town rendered equal help.\n\nThe navy was in no way behind the sister service.\n\nEvery ship present sent its fire brigade and Jack rendered good aid.\n\nThe European prisoners were also marched out of the Gaol and manned a powerful engine in good style.\n\nAfloat, the P. & O. Company's steam fire engine was brought into play and till one o'clock A.M., proved most useful being ably backed by the personal efforts of the employés of that company.\n\nThe further extension of the fire to the westward of the point we have mentioned was mainly prevented by the effective way in which the Royal Engineers blew up a corner house next to Mr Riach's wood yard while a similar service was performed by another detachment somewhat more to the Eastward.\n\nHad Mr Riach's yard caught fire the loss would have been infinitely greater than it was.\n\nThe P. & O. Company's coal, amounting to some thousands of tons, was lying to the Eastward of the yard and had it begun to blaze nothing could have been done to extinguish it.\n\nThe scene, looking down the principal street gutted, was of a description to which the pen of a reporter can do but faint justice.\n\nIt presented the appearance of a magnificent furnace blazing on both sides, and a quarter of a mile in length.\n\nEvery now and then as some oil store caught fire bursts of vivid flame, would dart upwards actually illuminating the Peak, and reflecting their lurid light on the vessels in the harbour.\n\nAt 3 A.M. the fire burst out with renewed fury, and it was soon found that the engine jets were but mere squirts to stop the progress of the flames, and, very properly, attention was chiefly devoted to pulling down, and blowing up houses at different points.\n\nIt is reported that three Chinese were severely injured by the falling in of a wall and it is suspected that some were killed.\n\nThe loss of life if any is however as yet uncertain.\n\nWe notice that the report furnished by the Mercury alludes to the want of organization, and uselessness of the black police.\n\nAs none were stationed near the Praya end of the blazing houses, the defects it alludes to did not come under our observation.\n\nSome of the sailors, probably men on leave, were intoxicated but were not riotous to any extent.\n\nIn conclusion while heartily congratulating our fellow colonists on the courage and zeal shown by all classes of Europeans, we cannot but draw attention to the churlish refusal of help or material on the part of the natives.\n\nAfter seeing the utter selfishness and disregard of the interests of their fellow countrymen exhibited by all the Chinese looking on, the looting and pillaging going forward and the utter uselessness of those who were, in some cases, compelled to lend a hand, we cannot but hope that some regulations will be made making it a punishable offence to refuse the use of their strength or their property in a similar case.\n\nMessrs Quok Acheong and Woheng are we believe the chief losers by the fire.\n\nWe learn that their property was only partially insured.\n\nWe may add that it is stated on good authority that natives were seen running about with firebrands and deliberately setting fire to houses which the flames had left untouched.\n\nThe British Hotel was only saved from destruction by its verandahs being torn down;\n\n7 P.M. The fire is still smouldering amongst the ruins.\n\nDuring the afternoon a party of Royal engineers have been engaged in blowing up portions of the walls still standing.\n\nThe 3 Chinamen taken to the hospital are not expected to live.\n\nIt is believed that no lives had been lost.\n\n39",
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        "content_text": "of a totally different class, and the amount of punishment to be inflicted, differs in principle as well as in degree from any cases where the offender is really a wrong doer. Where confiscation can fairly and properly be insisted on, the Treaty expressly provides that no higher pecuniary penalty than $500 can be inflicted for any offence against, or breach of Treaty Regulations where the Treaty itself does not expressly specify the penalty. If therefore it is not just that the \"Prince Albert\" should be confiscated for her inadvertent breach of the letter of the Treaty, no tribunal can impose a fine or punishment more than $500, and, though not admitting the power of Mr. Wade to create a tribunal, even if the tribunal adjudicates in this matter, it can only do so on the basis provided by the Treaty, viz:- Confiscation, if just, or, if the case does not merit confiscation, a fine not exceeding $500. It cannot be meant that the confiscation is really upheld and that the Chinese government is willing to sell me back the steamer, because in that case, why should they take less than her value? I am entitled to consideration at all, it ought only to be, \"have I deserved the confiscation of my property?\", as if so, I cannot be entitled to get the vessel back except after appraisal.\n\nI would strenuously argue that this is neither fair nor just. If I am really guilty within the spirit of the Treaty provision, my steamer ought to be confiscated, while if I am not so guilty, then I ought not to be fined to the extent of $4,000. I enclose a memorandum of actual expenditure consequential on the seizure of the steamer and the steps I have taken to get redress, but am unable to furnish any estimate of the deteriorated state of the steamer because the Canton Custom House Authorities distinctly refuse to allow Captain Godsil, the late master, or anyone else, or any person to inspect or even to go on board the vessel. I am led to believe that this refusal must be caused by a consciousness that the steamer has not only deteriorated in value but has been plundered by the Customs employees. My reason for so believing is that the steam whistle of my steamer has been removed from the Engine.\n\nPage 109",
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        "content_text": "## \nand others employed. Title lately these. Men have been quartered on Board the Sheyal Saxon Kulti, recently condemned, and Bold. They were temporarily quartered in hired Lodgings and will remain there until permanent Quarters are ready. The general duties of the Water Police are on board the Hulk \"Ich dien\". Adam's matics have made the site occupied by the Police Boat House available, and it is here that I propose to create the new Quarters. Being close to the Harbor Master's Office, the site is in every way suitable.\n\n## \n6. On the Ground Floor is provided accommodation for 20 Chinese Boatmen, along with Latrines, Cook Houses, etc. Also an Engine House, this being intended for a Fire Engine Station. On the First Floor 2 unmarried Inspectors will have separate Bed rooms and Bath rooms with a Mess Room and Kitchen. One Common Office is also provided. On the second Floor Quarters for 2 married Inspectors, 2 Sitting rooms, 2 Bed Rooms, and Bath rooms and a Kitchen. A Verandah passes the whole length of this Building on its North side facing the Sea. The Cost is estimated at $8,500, of which sum $4600 has been obtained by the sale of the \"Royal Saxon\" and some $2000 will be realized by the sale of that portion of this site occupied by the Police Boat House and not required for the proposed Building.\n\n## \n7. Supplementary Report and Estimate `DEX`. \nPage 314",
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        "content_text": "## Description of the Building\n\nOn the second Floor are 2 sitting rooms, 2 Bedrooms and Bath rooms and a Cook House and an Engine House, it being intended to make this Engine House. On the floor 2 unmarried Inspectors will have separate Bed Rooms and Bath rooms and a common sitting room and kitchen, and office is also provided.\n\nQuarters for 2 married Inspectors are provided. \n\nA Verandah runs the whole length of the Building. Windows on the East side and Balconies are provided for the sea side.\n\nThe Tower which will form an out station.\n\n**Estimated Cost**\n\n* The cost of the Building is estimated at $8800, the materials in the old Boat House and Western Slaughter House being employed by the Contractor.\n\n## Details of Construction\n\n| Description | Quantity | Measurement |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| China Fir Floor | 6106 | 22 squares 1/4 |\n| Glass doors | 2 | 5:3 |\n| Fan Light's | 2 | /20 |\n| Folding doors | 2 | 32 |\n| China Fir Jalousi | 1/2 | 189 |\n| bx3 double rebated in low Frames | 1405 |  |\n| bx4 rebated Door Frame | 347 |  |\n| Door Heads | 134 | 6x4 |\n| bx 1/2\" China Fir Venetian | 468 | 99 |\n| wrought Timber Trellis Verandah Rail | 382 |  |\n| double Moulded Door | 2 | 220 |\n| Dash doors Bow hung folding | 2 | 102 |\n| double rebated and moulded linings | 1/2 | 128 |\n| Skirtings |  | 720 |\n| Trellis Work to Verandah ceilings |  | 7092 |\n\nProvision for this will be made in the supplementary estimates for the coming year.",
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        "content_text": "the sprint of the heaty provision my Sheancer aught to be coupscated, while if I aw not so quilty then I aught mat to be punished to the extent of $4.000.\n\nImelore a memorandum of actual rependiture consequential aud to the require of the Heamer? the steps I have taken but are get redress, but unable to furnish any extunate of the deteriorated state the Heamer because Canton Custour Hause authorities dichuictly refuse to allow Cappe Godil Godail the lake Master ald one else to unspect the Tassel onboard the 407 avy even to go led to believe that this refusal must be caused by consiouswip that the Steamer has not only deteriorated in vakée, but been plundered by the Custouis Amploye's and beleving my reason that for the Steamer the Hear whistle of my has been removed from Engine and is is now fixed on board the Chirico Revenue Cuvier \"Hai Ching and at this shows that the Steamer has been dismantled",
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        "content_text": "## Proposel division of Prities in Surveyor General's Department showing Balance \nRap: &. Est. available under each Service on Jot \n\n### Surveyor General. Not May 1868. \nActing Assistant Surveyor General.\n\n| Service | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Attirations and Additions to Patice Stations | 7828.19 |\n| Repairs to Government. Hands | 1251 |\n| Overseer's and Watchman's House at Tolefulun | 1.1867 |\n| Reservoir at Pokfulum | 4.1868 |\n| One bright #1 Engine Pump and Mortar Mil so |  |\n| Maintenance of Public Gardens - work, | 7 |\n| Superintendene of the Oraya Wall at which be in Specially qualified b & accist. | 87.20 |\n| Maintenance of Water Works |  |\n| Florenting Pres. Crection of Fountain To at Public Gardens - Col. Est. for 1868 & Miscellanous Works | 11.1863 |\n| Road and Street Contingencies | 16,40.1 |\n| Repairs to Roads out of Victoria | 14,154 |\n| Repairs to Building s | 2000.40.000 bu 518 |\n| Good | $31 1447358 5 25 |\n|  | 960.92.15 284 |\n| Construction of Sea Wall Fo on Bonliam Strand | 20,000 |\n| Repours to Streets in Victoriou |  |\n| Repairs to Traya Wall |  |\n| Repairs to Bridores |  |\n| Repairs to Praya & Sose Hall West of Beddar's Wharf | 2-4-614.14 |\n| Surface Drains in Victoria |  |\n| Repoairs to Province in Vistoria |  |\n| Arpoirs to Gernforce Drains in Victoria |  |\n| Col. Est: for 1862 Miscellaneous Services | 964.84 |\n|  | 752.43 |\n|  | 2,053.43 |\n|  | 300.32 |\n|  | 322.35 |\n| Quarters for Inspecter 65 B. atimen, Harbor Mrs Pep. | 8500 |\n| Re-eraction of Monnten Lodge, thotomia Teak | 8.500 |\n| Alterations and Additions to livil and Lock Hospitals | 2,000 |\n| Loitrines of Fever aer & Loob Hospitals | 1347.70 |\n\n(True Copy) \n**Colonial Secretary** \nPage 553",
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        "content_text": "## Legislative Council Proceedings\n\nIt was not necessary in that Ordinance to do more than organise a centre of union and activity under one chief. The Government had abandoned the principle of a volunteer corps. The voluntary principle had not been considered sufficiently reliable in an emergency. They would gladly accept the services of those who were ready to undergo such drill and training as was necessary to fit them for the work of the brigade, and he calculated on finding many ready to give them help. He was sorry to say the insurance offices had not rendered the assistance he had expected from them, but on the other hand, the Government had received valuable aid from one quarter in which they had not looked for it, from the Chinese community. The Chinese had given security for the cost of a first-class engine, and he had some months back ordered an engine for them, and one for the Government. He believed also that it might be so arranged that each of the large Houses should supply a few men to the brigade, who might attend a periodical drill. He proposed to have a paid superintendent. Without this, he did not think it would be possible to have the affairs of the brigade properly attended to. In reference to the mode in which the expenses of the brigade would be met, he said that he considered the fairest plan would be to throw the cost upon the rates levied on house property, as the preservation of that property was the object in view. The extra charge would probably not amount, after the first year, to more than a half per cent. In his office would be found the correspondence that had taken place with the insurance offices, to which any of the members of the council could have free access. The Chief Justice threw out a suggestion to the effect that watch towers should be built in Hongkong as in Canton.\n\n## Law Relating to Jurors\n\nThe **Governor** then introduced another Ordinance to amend the law relating to Jurors. The Chief Justice had made some suggestions which he had not yet had time to embody in the draft, but these would be brought before the council in the second reading.\n\nOrdinance read a first time.\n\n## Pensions in the Police\n\nThe attention of the Government had lately been directed to the subject of pensions in the police. There had, indeed, been one very peculiar case, in which a man had claimed a pension who had not been remarkable for particular zeal. In the police force, pensions could be obtained with far greater ease than was possible in other branches of the civil service. He thought it was a mistake to exempt the members of the police force from the conditions to which other persons in the Government service had to submit. He had appointed a commission, consisting of the Acting Colonial Secretary, the Acting Superintendent of Police, and Mr. Goodlake, to investigate the subject, and they had drawn up a valuable report, in accordance with the recommendations of which this Ordinance had been prepared. The Governor in Council was empowered to frame the regulations under which the pensions would be conferred. He had further provided that if, after a pension had been granted, it could be proved that the person had been guilty of corruption, while in the service, which had not been previously discovered, it would be lawful for the Governor to stop the pension. That clause he considered one of great importance. It was possible that persons who might be faithful to a friend guilty of corruption, so long as he remained in the police, might not continue silent permanently. It was a great defect that the police force, which of all others required close scrutiny, should have been in this matter of pensions comparatively exempt from all control.\n\nThe Ordinance was read a first time.\n\n## Treasonable Offences\n\nHe next laid on the table a circular despatch from the Secretary of State, directing the assimilation of the law in this colony relating to treasonable offences with that of the United Kingdom. There could be but one opinion as to the desirability of this step. The Ordinance was an accurate transcript of the law on the subject prevailing at home.\n\nThe Ordinance was then read a first time.\n\n## The Stamp Ordinance\n\nThe **Governor** next laid before the committee an Ordinance entitled \"An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend 'The Stamp Ordinance of 1866'.\" He did not intend that this Ordinance should at present be discussed. That would be very fully done at the second reading, but he wished now to explain his views with regard to some of the changes recommended. It was with some hesitation that he set about the revision of the original Stamp Ordinance, as there was a simplicity about it that he did not like to disturb. It was always very difficult in altering such an Ordinance as this, to foresee what effect it would have in decreasing or increasing the revenue to be raised. During the operation of the Stamp Act, however, various people had acquired practical experience of the way in which its provisions actually pressed on their own interests, and in this way, a number of suggestions had arisen. He had, therefore, appointed a commission, consisting of the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, who was also a member of the Council, the Acting Treasurer, and the Collector of Stamps as the persons who could best represent the different interests concerned. This commission he intended should thoroughly digest all suggestions that might come before it, and also bring its own knowledge and experience to bear. The commission, after much labor, had made a very valuable report, which he laid before the council, and he took this opportunity of publicly thanking the gentlemen composing that commission for the zealous and effective manner in which they had performed the duty imposed upon them. As occupant of the chamber next to the one which they sat, he could, he said, at all events bear testimony to the number of hours they had spent over their work, and if they had not resolved every difficulty, still they were nevertheless entitled to the thanks of the Government as well as of the community at large. A great many changes were suggested in this report, some most important, but he could not consent to all these suggestions, and he thought there were many sections of the Ordinance and items in the schedule that would yet stand a further test of experience before they were altered for the better, while there were other suggestions that he thought, for various reasons, were not as feasible as those he should lay before the Council.\n\nHe first called attention to the second item of the schedule, relating to Bank notes. The original Ordinance provided a tax of one per cent, but this had been reduced by the Governor and Executive Council to two-thirds. It was now suggested that a further reduction should be made to one half per cent. He was not aware that the present tax of two-thirds had had the effect that had been prophesied, or that it had materially reduced the circulation of bank notes. He was aware that there were many who thought it excessive and burdensome, and the bankers said it was especially so since these notes were issued solely for the convenience of their customers, and were not a source of profit or revenue to the banks in any way. It appeared to him, however, that whatever the banks did, must be done for their own ultimate interest, whether it was a source of immediate pecuniary gain or not, and he could not attribute much weight to this argument. If the bankers objected to the tax, it was certainly optional with them to contract or increase the circulation.\n\nThe amount in reality had been affected by the tax; he should consider that the Council ought to pause before legislating on this subject, but he found that instead of decreasing, the circulation had actually increased, as was shown by the following returns. In January, 1867, it was for the four banks now in the Colony, $1,439,000; in 1868, it was for the same four banks, $2,374,000; and in view of these figures, he thought there was little fear of the stamp duty operating injuriously on the issue of notes. The case for the banks was not made out so clearly as to justify him in sacrificing a source of very considerable revenue without further discussion. The Ordinance now under consideration would make the tax two-thirds per cent. The commission had made one very valuable suggestion, of which he had availed himself, and that was that the tax should be collected monthly on the statements now regularly returned, instead of half yearly, as heretofore, and this, he thought, would be found a great convenience to all.\n\nPage 614",
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        "content_text": "# OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL\n## ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED FOR Alterations and Repairs to Police Stations, including Plan or Description.\n\nA sum of $10,000 has been expended under Report and Estimate No.3 of 1868 in alterations and additions to the several Police Stations in the Colony. It is now proposed to still further extend these alterations and to provide proper Stabling for the Police with the view of obviating the necessity of hiring stables. The sites selected as the most suitable for the Branch Stables are: Compound of No. 7 Police station, at West Point; and on Government Ground immediately adjoining No.1 Police Station at Causeway Point. Accommodation for three horses will be provided within each stable with proper room for Fodder and Saddlery.\n\nAt No. 5 Police Station, it is proposed to add another storey, and on the 3rd floor a room for a Fire Engine is also to be provided.\n\n| Police Station | Description of Work | Estimated Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 5 | Add another storey, room for Fire Engine |  |\n| No. 7 | Stabling | 200 |\n| No. 1 | Stabling | 48 |\n| Central | General repairs | 200 |\n| New | Stabling | 4450 |\n| No. 23 | General repairs | 1400 |\n| No. 5 | New room for Inspector and Engine house | 600 |\n| No. 7 | Stabling |  |\n| No. 28 | Cells and General repairs | 500 |\n|  | New room for Indian Constables, rearrangement of Cookhouses, Bathrooms, and Privies | 500 |\n| Show-Hee-Wai Station | General repairs; Cookhouses, Privies, and Bathrooms have to be pulled down and re-arranged | 300 |\n|  |  | 30 |\n\nApproved,\n**(signext)**\nR.G. MacDonnell,\n**Governor**",
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        "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, AUGUST 14TH, 1868.\n\n### The Fire.\n\nA fire broke out last evening, which at one time threatened to be as serious in its results as some of the worst conflagrations that have taken place in this colony, but, thanks to the very calm state of the weather, and the nature of the building where the fire originated, and those in the immediate vicinity, the flames were confined to a comparatively small area, where they, in fact, burnt out all there was to burn, and the fire was at an end. It is unfortunate that we are unable to say, \"thanks to the fire brigade;\" but so far as this very new institution is concerned, with the exception of its energetic chief, we were unable to see either the brigade or the evidences of that drill the Governor spoke of when alluding to the organization of the brigade in the Legislative Council. As has usually been the case at fires in Hongkong, confusion, disorder, and helplessness were the rule last night, and had it not been for the exertions of some of our citizens, who were on the ground long before a single engine made its appearance, or a drop of water was obtained, combined with the fact as already stated, that the fire stopped itself, there is no knowing where the flames would have taken their course, or where they would have ended, and more than likely our readers would have been without the usual morning issue, since the fire has taken place in rather uncomfortable proximity to our office. Whether any further proof is wanting or not, all those who were at the fire last night, saw for themselves that the colony is still as helpless as before we had a chief fireman and a fire tax, and that thus far the fire brigade is a complete farce. It is hardly possible to have a fire in this colony confined to smaller limits than the one which took place last night, but we must get up a very much smaller one than this if we wish to have the pleasure of seeing them put out by the brigade.\n\nThe fire broke out about eleven last night in the building occupied by Messrs. Fawcett and Co., Shipchandlers, corner of Wellington and Wyndham Streets. It is quite evident that before it made its appearance outside it had already made good \"headway\" inside the building, and was fairly kindled among some such inflammable articles as tar or pitch, for when first discovered the whole of one corner of the building was in a blaze. The store had been closed at five o'clock, from which time until eleven, of course, no one had been inside, six undisturbed hours were consequently given for the development of the flames to the extent in which they first burst into sight. It was only a matter of a few minutes after the first appearance of the fire before the entire building occupied by Messrs. Fawcett & Co., was completely in flames, and once in the open air they rapidly sought more material for destruction. Spreading towards and into the old Oriental Hotel, time was scarcely given to a family occupying some rooms in the upper part of the building to escape with what clothes they had on, before this building was also covered by the fire which was now rapidly going westward through Wellington-street. The next building was Messrs. Dent and Co.'s stables, which being covered with a matshed attracted the fire like a loadstone, but to this very fact is, no doubt, due the stoppage of further progress. The shed, of course, burned like fire paper, and in a few moments fell inside, but there was then nothing left but the bare inflammable stone-walls of the stable which immediately acted as a barrier to the further progress of the flames up Wellington-street, and so put an end to that part of the fire. Owing to the very calm state of the air, there was nothing to urge the fire up the hill, and consequently when it had burned up to the walls of the building occupied by Mr. Pearce, of Messrs. Fawcett & Co., as a private residence, it was again brought to a standstill, from the want of material of a flammable nature to lead it further. Had there been any air stirring from the harbour the whole of Wyndham-street, including the Daily Press office, would no doubt have this morning been in ruins, and it is difficult to say where it would have stopped.\n\nAfter the fire had been in progress for nearly an hour, one stream was obtained, with only the natural force of the water from the reservoir, but this was entirely useless on account of there being but one length of hose, about twenty feet in length, and consequently not long enough to reach the needy buildings. The Police engine was more successful in getting a stream on the buildings around and adjoining Dent's stables; but the Water Police have the credit of getting their machine first on the ground and first at work, although the engine is kept at the Harbour-master's, and had to be dragged up the hill with some difficulty. After the fire had well nigh burnt out, the P. & O. steam engine was at work on P&lder's Wharf, with one stream on Wyndham Street, and Dent's engine had also been put in position, and was at work. Detachments of men from the Pearl and U. S. gunboat Dudilla were on shore very shortly after the fire broke out, and were as usual most energetic in their efforts wherever they were called for. Some men from the garrison were also on the spot in good time, and rendered valuable service. Conspicuous among those who were early on the ground was a gentleman of the legal profession and the partner of one of our leading American houses, through whose efforts alone a lot of Sikhs were put to work, and the lower part of Mr. Pearce's house saved. These fellows, in company with a large crowd of citizens, were idly looking on at the fire, until these gentlemen arrived and energetically took command, when every one seemed to become impressed with the idea that something was to be done, and falling to work, did good service under the barrister's direction. It is combined and systematised efforts of this kind that make a fire brigade and control a fire.\n\nThe flames broke out again about four this morning, but were soon got under by the police, who were on the ground during the whole night and up to a late hour this morning. The fire is now smouldering on the premises formerly occupied by Fawcett & Co., which have been completely destroyed. The upper part of Oriental Hotel is more or less damaged both by fire and water, and the roof of Dent's stables, as already stated, is destroyed. The buildings opposite the Hotel on the lower side of Wellington-street, have had a narrow escape, with only a slight scorching outside. This, so far as we can ascertain this morning, comprises the principal damage. The buildings and stock destroyed were, it is stated, fully insured.",
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        "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, AUGUST 15TH, 1868\n\nANOTHER fire, and still no effective power to extinguish or control it. Fire-engines in plenty, but no water to supply them. Water in abundance, but no engines to throw it. Hose by the mile, but no one to lay it down. Hands without number, but no head to direct them. Engines, hose, water, men, materials enough for two fire brigades, but an utter want of organisation to render these appliances effective.\n\nThe fire of Thursday night was not extinguished, and was not prevented from spreading by the labors of the so-called Fire Brigade, but by what cannot always, unfortunately, be calculated on, the direction of the wind and the nature of the buildings in the immediate vicinity of the scene of the fire. Lofty walls, with little or combustible matter about them, stopped the flames before they reached the mass of Chinese houses to the Southward or towards the hill. The direction of the wind and the common sense of the inhabitants saved Arick's house from the fire, which, had it leaped across, would have burnt down the whole block between the Queen's-road and Wellington-street, before the chiefs of the Fire Brigade had quite made up their minds as to what it was best to do under the circumstances.\n\nThe confusion that night was greater, if anything, than on any previous occasion. There were no troops to keep the ground, and the police never made the attempt. They were there under no head, and without any orders; come to do the best they could, according to their individual lights. At former fires, every engine as it came up went to work where it saw need, and, under the direction of its own people, and with the help of the bystanders, did the best it could. There was no want of willingness to work on the part of any one.\n\nThe difficulty was that there was no plan, no union of effort. At the fire on Thursday night, private engines came on the ground, but believing there was a Fire Brigade and a responsible director, simply reported themselves and waited for orders---valueless when they came. The people, from the highest to the lowest, were unwilling to interfere, lest they should be charged with increasing the confusion and with adding to the difficulties of the work. The engines that got into play, especially the earlier ones, simply wasted the water for want of direction where to throw it. One or two of those later on the ground did good service, a French one especially, directed by its own officer and worked by French seamen.\n\nFew of the colonial engines on the ground had any responsible person in charge of them to whom orders could be given, and by whom they could be intelligently carried out. There were plenty of Chinamen who pumped most vigorously, and pulled and hauled with a will; but where was the European foreman of each engine and his assistant, and the strong-armed, cool-headed man that ought to have directed the jet? They were nowhere to be found, while half-a-dozen inspectors and sergeants of police were visible, standing as quietly in the crowd of on-lookers as if they were the veriest strangers in the town, whose only object there was to satisfy a morbid curiosity.\n\nAssuming, for the sake of argument, that Mr. MAY has not had time to organise his new command as effectually as he could wish, or, in fact, to lick it into shape at all, and that he is open to profit by the experiences of the past, there are one or two points to which his attention may be directed with advantage.\n\nIn the first place, the ground about the scene of the fire must be kept clear of all drones. The workers want all the room, and more. Whether the military are called on to do this duty or the police may not matter much, but on reflection, it seems to be the one thing which the soldiers are better able to do than anything else. Their discipline is far superior to that of the police, they work better together, and obey orders more strictly. Their weapons, too, are more fear-inspiring and effective. The rush of armed Chinese on Thursday night down d'Aguilar-street was such as astonished those who saw it. The police were powerless to stop it. A line of bayonets would have turned it aside.\n\nBesides the men actually keeping the ground, a small reserve should be under arms to provide for contingencies. European police alone, or at most the Chinese and European portion of the force, should attend. The Sikhs are utterly helpless, and in their efforts to do something, only increase the turmoil and confusion. For all practical purposes, they are deaf and dumb, and deaf and dumb men are useless at a fire.\n\n| Proposal | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Engines on standby | A proportion of the engines belonging to the brigade should stand always ready for immediate use |\n| Nightly duty | A sufficient number of men to work at least one of these engines should be on duty, dressed, and awake every night, as a fire picket |\n| Inspector on duty | An Inspector of police should be kept on duty nightly to take charge of this engine, and rush with it to the scene of the fire on the first alarm |\n| Command structure | When there, to take the command absolutely until the arrival of the Superintendent |\n| Staffing | In addition to the men, whose duty it is to drag the engine from place to place and to do the actual pumping, there must be a permanent staff to each engine, consisting of three European policemen |\n\nNo engine came on the ground on Thursday until twenty minutes or half an hour after the first alarm. When one did arrive, the fire was master of the position.",
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        "content_text": "deliver\n\nhose is required\n\ncarried on\n\nsheet\n\nour\n\nof\n\na\n\nwe advise it to the\n\nthat\n\nIl notated in\n\nB.\n\nthose people manual five engines (price £11-\n\nthis can be attached behind the steam\n\n1 handpump with 10 feet of\n\ncheck valve (for filling\n\nit has been emptied)\n\nfor arrival at a fine, detached Packing\n\nout the hose.\n\nfine exquisite\n\nused to pump\n\nwe are\n\ntwo\n\nsending\n\nengines to Singapore\n\nof\n\n2 medium size\n\nhave and there\n\nBuenos Ayres\n\nthis size in hand for but the others we have in hand are for Continent -\n\nEstimate for\n\na medium size.\n\n\"single cylinder\" Steam fine up inve\n\nine with necessary gear\n\nprice not, except suction\n\nin a strong\n\niening\n\nbes\n\nboiler after.\n\n£606-12\n\n678\n\n2\n\ncase for shipment\n\nat the Docks in London. 11\n\nEstimate for a standard size\n\nsingle cylinder\n\n£620-7\n\nSteam fire engine\n\nthe\n\nwith necessary gear\n\nas stated\n\non our price\n\n& delivery house\n\n£540\n\nindia rubber\n\ndelivery\n\n6-40 feet leather or\n\nhose with Coupling 7/00/-\n\n4-8 feet suction hose with\n\nCouplings\n\non our\n\nprice list, except suction\n\n4. delivery\n\nMes\n\n6-40 feet\n\nleather\n\ndelevey\n\nor india rubber\n\nhose with couplings £7/10/-\n\n4- specs. suction hose with coupling\n\n1 handpump\n\nPacking in a strong\n\ncase for shipment\n\n£45\n\n4 delivery\n\n£21\n\n£606-\n\n£400\n\nat the Docks in London.\n\n46--\n\n19-4\n\n2\n\n9-10 475-19\n\nPage XX",
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        "content_text": "XV. That a list of the members of the Brigade, with their addresses, shall be kept in the different police stations in the parish and surrounding district; and it shall be an instruction to the officers of police to call the members upon an alarm of fire, and the summoning officer shall be rewarded for his trouble.\n\nXVI.--The superintendent shall furnish his men with refreshments when attending on duty for any length of time, but on no account shall any spirituous liquors be furnished to the Brigade.\n\nFORMATION.\n\nSUPERINTENDENT AND DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT,\n\nThe moment an alarm of fire is raised, wherever it may be, they will repair to the spot with all possible speed, and take command of the force; when there they will be responsible for the general conduct of the Brigade under their charge. It is the particular duty of the deputy-superintendent to give orders for a sufficient quantity of hose to be attached; to see that it is directed in the most advantageous manner; and to take all orders from the superintendent, or in his absence to take the command of the whole force.\n\nFOREMAN.\n\nWhose duty is, on information of a fire, to hasten to the engine-house, where he expects to meet some of the Brigade; will get the engine to the spot as quickly as possible, and will be responsible that everything required is taken. On arriving at the fire he will take the direction of the superintendent as to putting the engine in the proper place to be worked; will number his men, see that the carriage is locked, and that sufficient and suitable men are ready to pump, and take command of them. He will give the word of command, viz., \"Get ready;\" when ready, \"Down with her;\" and when the fire or practice is over, \"Halt,\" &c.\n\n687",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nHe shall report any defect or disarrangement in the engine to the superintendent.\n\nHe shall keep an account of the time, and of the names and number of men employed, and not suffer idlers to stand about or interfere with the men pumping; will have power, if required, to order one of the firemen to help him through his duties, and shall take the command of the force in the absence of the superintendents.\n\nENGINEER.\n\nHe shall have the looking after the engine and hose, and keep it in working order, and when it wants washing and oiling, he must inform the superintendent, who will give notice for the members to attend for such purpose; he will keep an account of the quantity of oil and the necessaries required that are used on the engine.\n\nHe shall attach and hold the branch-pipe, and direct the stream of water in the most advantageous manner.\n\nIn doing so he should get as near the fire as possible, and inside the building (unless it is too far gone), so that the water may strike the burning materials.\n\nAt a fire he shall receive orders from the superintendent or officer in command only.\n\nHe will take the command of the whole force in the absence of the superintendents and foreman.\n\nIt cannot be too strongly impressed on the engineer (whether in practice or at a fire) that he should avoid if possible playing on any of the bystanders.\n\n7\n\nFIREMEN.\n\nThey shall make all possible speed to the engine-house; will take orders from the foreman, and when ready for a start will take their appointed seats on the engine; and on arriving at the fire (being numbered off) they will dismount, and stand by the side of the engine until the word of command is given by the foreman; they will put the length of hose, suction, &c., together according to their drill, in the most expeditious manner, and rescue any person or property from the premises on fire, pull down any buildings, &c., if ordered by the superintendent or officer in command, as well as to clear away any obstructions, such as naked walls, burning timber, &c., that may impede the efficiency of the engine, or may be considered as dangerous; and otherwise act according to the instructions of the superintendent or officer in command.\n\nEvery fireman should also be capable of taking any absent member's place, in fact he should make himself competent to put the engine in complete working order by himself.\n\n688",
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        "content_text": "8\n\nGENERAL OBSERVATIONS.\n\nIf the engine can be quickly drawn by hand to a fire it will be better not to wait for horses, but all to lend a willing hand in dragging the engine to the required spot. Should the distance be too great, horses must be procured; the men should seat themselves on the engine—officers in front; even numbers on the right side, and odd numbers on the left.\n\nNo fireman should enter alone any premises on fire, for should he be overpowered by heat, smoke, &c., his life might be lost, when with others he may be easily drawn back by means of his leather bolt or by a rope attached to the same, when he may safely enter places where otherwise it would be attended with extreme danger.\n\nRooms when on fire should always be entered on the hands and knees, the engineer taking the branch pipe with him and his assistant assisting in pulling up the hose.\n\nImmediately on the discovery of a fire in a house all the windows and doors should be closed to prevent a current of air being formed. If this is not done the slumbering flames being fanned by the air will break out with great fury, whereas by closing the doors and windows and introducing a stream of water by means of scaling ladders from without, and pointing the director or branch-pipe into the building, so that the water may be thrown upon the fire, it will more effectually extinguish the fire than if thrown from without.\n\nShould hay, corn, or straw stacks be on fire, the first object should be to prevent the neighbouring buildings or\n\n9\n\nacks from igniting by hanging blankets, rick cloths, &c., well saturated with water, on the sides and top nearest the fire.\n\nThe foreman should ascertain where long ladders are kept, and the different supplies of water and access thereto in the neighbourhood, in fact it should be the duty of all the members to ascertain and see for themselves.\n\nThe members of the Brigade will distinctly understand that they are only under the control of their own officers, and are not on any occasion to speak to, or take orders from any other person. All inquirers must be referred to the officers.\n\nFires in chimneys can be easily extinguished by throwing a quantity of common salt on the fire in the grate, and immediately placing a wet blanket, or a board, so as to cover the entire opening, and prevent the flames descending into the room, as the vapour of the salt ascending the chimney will effectually extinguish the soot on fire. Powdered brimstone, if it can be readily obtained, is more effectual than salt. If the ends of the joists, beams, or any wood-work be in the chimney, the hand-pump can be used with advantage.\n\nIn moving the hose, when full, the men should be very careful to lay hold of the beckets (or loops) which are fastened round for this purpose, and see that there is a man to each loop. In taking up the hose the same order is to be observed as in laying it down, each man coiling up his length and carrying it back to the engine. In coiling the hose remember to keep the swivel screw outside, and the rivets also outside.\n\nThe Brigade are expected to perform their duties as silently as possible; order, coolness, promptitude, and despatch are indispensable.\n\n689",
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        "content_text": "PS\n\n10\n\nIt will be a duty for the superintendent to ascertain whether and where the premises are insured, and who the landlord and occupants are.\n\nThe committee will make out an account of the expenses incurred, including the charge for the engine.\n\nPLAIN DIRECTIONS for the PRESERVATION of LIFE in the EVENT of FIRE.\n\n\"The want of coolness and presence of mind, at a fire, is by far the greatest hindrance to the preservation of life and property.\n\nA few simple directions, to be observed by the inmates and bystanders, will, in a great measure, tend to make persons more discreet, and their efforts more successful, in the hour of danger.\"\n\nTO INMATES.\n\n\"The inmates of a house should be accustomed to reflect on the best mode of conduct in the event of a fire, and should be made acquainted with every outlet, both on the roof and otherwise; and in securing the house for the night, care should be taken to leave these outlets as easy of access as possible. On the slightest alarm of fire, they should calmly consider the possibility of extinguishing it, and the means of escape.\n\nIf in bed at the time, they should wrap themselves in blankets, or whatever is readily available; open no door or window unnecessarily, and shut all doors behind them. In the midst of much smoke, free breathing may be obtained by applying to the face a wet silk handkerchief, a wet worsted cloth, a wet sponge, or any wet flannel substance folded. It should also be remembered, that smoke being lighter than air, ascends; and, in consequence, persons on their hands and knees on the floor, may find the air moderately clear. When unable to escape by the street door or roof, all persons in danger should assemble at a front room window, closing all doors after them, a window over the door-way, rather than over the area, being selected; and it should then be ascertained that all inmates are present. In this position they should remain, and not precipitate themselves from the window, while the smallest chance of assistance is left, as even at the last extremity sheets or blankets may be joined together, one end being made fast to a piece of furniture. This will enable one person to lower all the others, and himself also, without much risk.\n\nTO BYSTANDERS.\n\nImmediately upon an alarm of fire, if in the vicinity of a fire escape, see that immediate notice is sent to the engine house, where it is kept, without waiting to ascertain the probability of danger. If no escape is at hand, ladders or ropes may be procured in the neighbourhood.\n\nIf the house adjoins others, two or more official persons should ascend to the roof through such premises, as the most efficient assistance can frequently be rendered to the inmates by entering the house on fire, either by the attic windows, or by removing the tiles on the roof.\n\nWhen the fire occurs in a narrow street or court, assistance can be given from the windows of the opposite house, particularly by means of a ladder placed across the street from window to window.\n\n690",
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        "content_text": "341\n\nMy Lordon,\n\nCofy Cepents conson El\n\nFurther\n\n10\n\nNo 747\n\nLefl??\n\nbetobee 1869-\n\n592\n\nYardstick\n\n28\n\nGovernment House, Houghtony, 16th July, 1869\n\nmis it right to apprize tou Faschis Government received he\n\nart trail from the Crown Agents a letter tated 26th hey enclosing tracing of the general wangements to the Engin and boilers for the\n\nVictoriag re as folanned in accordanced with the\n\nin my despatch No 299 of These tracings are not\n\ndirections contained in\n\nThe 20 Golobe lart.\n\ngiven\n\nwhich\n\nin accord she swith the directions shewed the length, breadth, and depite of the\n\nEngine and biter space, and which also stated\n\nfound) 13186-68. that if a 50 those power Engine\n\nぜひ\n\ntoo much for stat space, a smaller Engine oight to be sent ant\n\nNothing in fact, could be simpler\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nCail Granville K G\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Scoritary of State\n\n%\n\nक\n\nX",
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        "content_text": "The Species and Account.\n\nBrought forward 2900bs\n\n182 2\n\n290065 s\n\nPayment\n\nmaka\n\ntrite\n\nBrought forward\n\nAllowance to extra Services for \"Vecton\" \"Blauche.\" Crew of Nectoria & Blauche\n\nNative Destrial Watchmen, arreas due to\n\nMarin Pozaris Widow of the late Sailor on board the Histori Balance for Anstruction of \"Vretoria + Blanche \"\n\nFittings for Victoria & lauche.\n\nSalaries ra / Victorin & lauche\n\nSupervision to Play House\n\nPolice Stations at Gupi\n\nChinese Hospital\n\n7307.31\n\n529\n\n1.000.\n\n100\n\n10.300.\n\n1.477.44\n\n117186\n\n24250 1,56635\n\n16.66\n\nBalance\n\n26579846\n\n6290,065 68.\n\nEstimated Reciph\n\nBalance to credit on 31st Aug 1869\n\nto\n\nPlay House Lease from 18th Dec 1869\n\n£ 314\n\n265.798\n\n52,000\n\n8 4\n\nCarried forward 1317.798\n\n4\n\nPayment\n\nEstimated Expenditure\n\nin aid of Starbor Masters Establishment 10,000 Probable excess of Educational expenditure\n\n4400\n\nof Police expenditure on £120,000 70,000\n\nEstimated Cost.\n\nCost of Engine for Niatona De payments\" for \"Pietoni & Blanche.\n\nTransfer from Public Works Account of Payment\n\nAlready made for Works on the estimate of 1869 Alterations additions to Central School Verandah at no. 5 Police Station\n\nJolice Station at\n\nat Sap\n\nAdditional quarters for Gual staff Gas Fittings at Polee quarters\n\n150.00\n\n5,000.\n\n104 400\n\n2246.50\n\n1304 34\n\n1153,667\n\n1006\n\nof\n\n400.24\n\n611281\n\nCarried forward - $110,512 81",
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        "content_text": "16\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1868.\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS.\n\nSAVINGS.\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1868.\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS.\n\nEXCESS.\n\n319\n\n17\n\n  \n    C.\n    \n    C.\n  \n  \n    Reservoir at Pokfolum,...\nR. & E. No. 1 of 1867,.\n    \n    38,612.01\n  \n  \n    H.-P. Engine,\nNo. 4 of 1868,..\n    \n    2,073.94\n  \n  \n    Inspector and Boatmen's Quarter of Harbor Master Dpt., R. & E. No. 18 s. & No. 33 s. of 1868,\n    \n    5,027.50\n  \n  \n    Erection of Fountain in Public Gardens, R. & E. No. 20 & No. 40 s. of 1868,\n    \n    2,204.31\n  \n  \n    Maintenance of Public Gardens,\nNo. 6 of 1868 and No. 4 of 1869,\n    \n    42.00\n  \n  \n    Maintenance of Water Works,\nNo. 7 of 1868 and No. 32 s. of 1868,...\n    \n    665.80\n  \n  \n    Alteration and Addition to Fever and Lock Hospitals, R. & E. No. 28 of 1867 & No. 25 s, of 1868,\nR. & E. No. 31 of 1867 & No. 39 s. of 1868, Repairs to Government House,\n    \n    3,132.60\n11,800.14\n  \n  \n    Completion of Sanitarium on Elgin Hill, Kowloon,...\n    \n    9,500.00\n  \n  \n    Alterations in Post Office for Stamp Office,\nNo. 32 of 1867,\n    \n    269.78\n  \n  \n    New Civil Hospital,\n    \n    £5,000.00\n  \n  \n    Alterations and Additions to Police Stations,.. \nNo. 3 & No. 30 s. & No. 30 s. of 1868,\n    \n    6,980.80\n  \n  \n    Reclamation of Lots resumed at Kowloon,..\n    \n    8,000.00\n  \n  \n    Repairs to Buildings,\nNo. 5 & No. 31 s. of 1868 & No.3 of 1869,\n    \n    4,663.17\n  \n  \n    Sea Wall, Bonham Strand,.\n    \n    11,800.00\n  \n  \n    Planting Trees,\nNo. 8 & No. 26 s. of 1868,\n    \n    184.15\n  \n  \n    New School House at Stanley,\n    \n    769.21\n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Works,\n    \n    3,000.00\n  \n  \n    Addition to Turnkeys' Quarters, Victoria Gaol,\n    \n    5,000.00\n  \n  \n    Overseer's Bungalow at Pokfolum, .............. ...R. & E. No. 19 s. of 1863,\n    \n    3,000.00\n  \n  \n    Reclaiming Ground at Bowrington,\n    \n    10,000.00\n  \n  \n    Mountain Lodge,\nNo. 21 s. of 1868,.\n    \n    8,932.13\n  \n  \n    Re-erection of 4 Shops, Western Market,\nNo. 27 s. of 1868,.\n    \n    3,000.00\n  \n  \n    Alterations to Post Office,...\nNo 29 s. of 1868,.\n    \n    550.28\n  \n  \n    Raising Boundary Wall of Gaol,.\nNo. 37 s. of 1868,.\n    \n    1,334.87\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    109,294.43\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    51,009.06\n  \n\n77",
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        "content_text": "think would be objectionable - in fact no cabin should be constructed over the Boiler - a cool house may probably be made, partially over the forward part of the casing (if required, as it could be removed).\n\nI do not see any necessity to lengthen the ship owing to any peculiarity in the design or proportion of the Engine and Boiler as compared with other designs entrusted to you; it will involve cutting several pipes to place the Engines & Boiler further apart - the lengthening of a wooden Vessel is never a satisfactory affair when executed, while it is very costly.\n\nHad there been other 5 or 6 feet available on the plan sent with the Requisition for the machinery it would have been an advantage to the Engine and Boilers in a tropical climate, but letting the space shown as available on the drawing of the Engines now sent being placed athwartships gives the greatest ...\n\nPage 127",
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        "content_text": "$1390/19\n\nTo Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Colonial Department. 119\n\n\"\n\nThe Petition of Howard Fox and Henry Pollard of Falmouth in the County of Cornwall Gentlemen,\n\n\"That your\n\nHumbly Sheweth,\n\nMr\n\nPetitioners are the Trustees of a certain Indenture of Settlement made on the Marriage of James Whitelock Trerise of Falmouth aforesaid accountant with Ellen Freeman Mitchell of the same place, Widow of the late Mr James Mitchell of Hong Kong deceased.\n\nThat amongst other property your Petitioners are entitled for the residue of a term of Ninety-nine years to a certain Messuage or Tenement Inn and premises commonly called or known by the name of the \"London Inn\" situate in Hong Kong aforesaid bounded South by Wellington Street, West by other buildings, on the North by the Queen's Road and East by Aberdeen Street and particularly delineated in the plan accompanying this Petition.\n\nThat previous to the facts next hereinafter mentioned the said premises were surrounded on three sides by a wide and convenient footway.\n\nThat at some time in the present year one thousand eight-hundred and sixty-nine the Government Authorities of the City of Hong Kong erected in front of the property held by them and upon the said footway and against the will of your said Petitioners within a few feet of your Petitioners' premises an Engine House for the Fire Brigade of Hong Kong, thereby obstructing the said footway and in fact completely blocking up the continuation of the footway in front of your petitioner's premises.\n\nThat such obstruction has considerably damaged and reduced the value of your Petitioners' premises and is a subject of continual annoyance, and loss to the tenants thereof and from an estimate which has been made on behalf of your said Petitioners based upon the falling off of the rents of the said premises since and in consequence of such erection, such damage amounts to the sum of One hundred and eighty Dollars or about Forty pounds per year.\n\nThat the agents on behalf of your Petitioners in Hong Kong have represented their grievance to the local authorities there, as have also the Owners of the property adjoining that of your Petitioners on the West, but without redress and your Petitioners have",
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        "content_text": "have no Alternative but to appeal to your Lordship for assistance and would humbly submit to your Lordship that the footway is the property of the Public of Hong Kong and cannot legally be obstructed in the manner hereinbefore mentioned to the\n\ngreat detriment of the inhabitants thereof and more especially the tenants of your Petitioners' premises.\n\nWherefore your Petitioners humbly pray that your Lordship will be graciously pleased to order an enquiry into the matter and that the said Engine House obstruction be removed and the footway restored to its original Condition, or that such other act be done as your Lordship\n\nmay deem advisable and just in the premises.\n\nAnd your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.\n\nFalmouth, 14th November 1869.\n\nBray, & Harrara Fon\nof Falmouth Merchant\n\nDr. Pollard\nHONG KONG\nQUEEN'S ROAD\n\nof Palmerth Accountant\n\nA\nB\nTHE PROPERTY\nA.\nB.\nLondon Iron\nGovernment Property\nC. Engine House, stopping\nthe pathway\n\nWELLINGTON ST\n420\nABERDEEN ST",
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        "content_text": "Hongkong\n\n17-12-1870\n\n13987\n\nReceived 422\n\nSo December 1869\n\nSir R. Macdonald\n\nNo 205\n\nMinute 25 Nov\n\n899\n\n1st\n\nMr. Round 29th\n\nJr Cove\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you for your consideration & report a copy of a letter I have received from Mr R. Pendarves Vivian together with a petition from Messrs Fox & Fur Pollard of Falmouth relating to complaining that a footway, adjoining some premises at Houghing of which they are the trustees, has been obstructed by the erection of an Engine House for the Fire Brigade.\n\n...\n\n \nMR S for last. G.",
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        "content_text": "C.S.O. No 1102 \n29th April, 1869.\n\nJ + 111 in front of some property of the Petitioners, and a few feet thereupon an Engine House obstructing the footpath vor, whereby Petitioners allege that they have sustained considerable damage. It is certainly incorrect to say that any building has been erected in front of the Petitioners' property - and having several times inspected the premises, I am unable myself to see that the petitioners have sustained any damage whatever except that which results from the general deterioration of landed property in this city from general causes.\n\nThe pathway indeed formerly existed where the small station is built, whose position is considered a great additional security to all property in the neighborhood. There is a Police Barrack between the Engine House and complainants' premises, and no one else has raised any objection to the Engine House.\n\nI referred the question months ago to the Attorney General, and Your Lordship will perceive from his enclosed opinion that he did not consider the Government called on to interfere - even \"ad misericordiam\". His advice to leave complainants to their remedy, if in truth there has been any invasion of their legal rights, appeared at the time the best which this Government could adopt.\n\nIn following that advice I felt that any person bringing an action against this Government with even a shadow of a claim is sure to have the sympathy of jurors with...",
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        "content_text": "114\n\nthe truths, Lars bem Ostructed by the erection of an Engine House for the Fire Brigade. Lord Granville has now received the report of the Governor of Hongkong on the question in which he states that it does not appear that Dr. Jose and Dr. Holland Kiene sustained any damage whatever in respect of their projects as set forth in their Memorial, and that the redress of any grievance they may consider they have against the local Superintendant should be through the local Courts at Hongkong.\n\n## No changes were made to the page number as per the instructions.\n114 remains at the top.",
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        "content_text": "320 \n\nI saw a mast-head light following us; but I didn't say she would either be in that night or at the bottom. I thought I saw her mast-head light following us from the forecastle. When I came up from below, I came fast to the break of the forecastle and looked over the bulwarks. The other vessel was just abreast of the bridge, and I should say, about half a ship's length off from where I was standing. When I last looked out, I saw only a light, not a ship. I was not two minutes on deck the first time I came up. I ran down, as I feared the topmast might fall or something. I didn't know what might come down. I did not see any break in the other vessel. I saw a light, but I did not know whether it was a port, or a gun port, or what. I thought it was a large port, but had not much time to look. I did see through the light, but I saw no person or persons behind the light. I did not see any table. I swear that I saw nothing to evidence that the other vessel was damaged. I did not hear her whistle blow. I heard no shout from the other vessel. I did not hear the report of any gun. I did not see the flash from any gun. I have not stated to any one in Yokohama that I saw the flash of any gun. I have been asked the question and answered \"no.\" After I had gone below, I suppose it was from seven to ten minutes before I came on deck again. When I came on deck, I saw what I thought was the mast-head light of the other vessel; it might have been a mile or a mile and a half off, but I cannot tell.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD: I have never been a sailor, always a steward. I know there was a lighthouse; I can't say if the light I saw came from the light-house. I went on shore about a quarter to eight, I think. I got back again about 11 P.M. I didn't return immediately, as I had to wait for the officer with whom I had come on shore. I went to the Post office with the third officer. I was waiting at the Post office about twenty minutes or half an hour. We were waiting some time on the Bund to get carts to take the mail away. I was about fifteen minutes at the hotel and had one glass of brandy and water. I should think I was quite sober when I arrived on board the Bombay. I swear I was not half tight. I went on board to report a message from Mr. Dalziel to the chief officer. I told the chief officer that Mr. Dalziel wanted the Captain to take the ship to the French buoy the first thing in the morning. I am possessed of no nautical knowledge.\n\nTo the Court: My cabin is on the lower deck forward. I mean the main deck; it is on the starboard side; it has a port; I could not look out of that port; was obliged to keep it closed all night; saw nothing through that port. I was in my cabin at the time of the collision. I felt a shock and thought we had gone on shore; that's why I ran on deck. I then went up the fore companion, that is before the bridge, just at the break of the forecastle. I could not hear anything that was said on the bridge as I went up the companion; I could hear no cry, nor hail, nor could I hear a steam whistle going. The light I saw after coming on deck the second time was right astern. No one was standing by me when I saw the other vessel the first time; the carpenter and gunner were on the forecastle when I went up there. The carpenter said he had seen some one lifted away from a table inside where the light was; he said \"he thought she was hard struck,\" or words to that effect. We had not passed the lightship when the carpenter made those remarks to me. The carpenter's name is Murray. Don't remember how the conversation with the carpenter commenced. I did not report that conversation to the Captain or to any officer. I did not report it at the P. & D. office on shore. At the time I went on deck the second time, I don't know if our engines were going or not. Soon after this, I received orders from the chief officer to go down below to the store room; I went to the store room. The water was running into the store room fast. I didn't see the well sounded. The water was coming in at the bows; a good body of water was coming in as large as the stream from a fire engine hose. The carpenter said he thought he saw some one being removed from a table or something. I don't remember having mentioned anything about this conversation at the International, or at any other place. I looked over the starboard bulwarks. I don't know what distance the two vessels were apart when I went on deck the first time. It took me about two seconds to run on deck. My cabin is about seven or eight yards from the ladder.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. NEWMAN,  \nSteward in charge.\n\nJOHN MURRAY, sworn, states: I am carpenter of the steamship Bombay. I was walking on the forward part of the spar deck, just before the collision took place. I suppose I could see a mile or two off. It was blowing pretty fresh. I heard an order given to port or starboard the helm; I don't know which. I felt a very slight shock. After the collision, I was ordered to go and sound the well. I reported to the chief officer that there were three inches of water in the second forward compartment. I didn't at the time report what water was in the forward compartment, as it was used as a storeroom and locked up. I did examine the fore compartment afterwards. When we got there, I heard the water coming in, but could not see it for stores. It may have been five or eight minutes after the collision that I examined the fore compartment. The deck was overflooded with water, but the lower compartment was not then filled. I paid no attention to whether the engines were going then. I know the engines had been stopped, but I cannot say for how long they were stopped. The stores were removed from the fore compartment when we found that the water was coming in. Could not say with what force the water was coming in. The fore compartment was lined with wood, one and three-quarter inches or two inches thick. We cut away the wood to see if there was any leak besides the one we had found out. We had discovered one leak about two feet under the water line. One of the plates was split. The crack was ten inches to a foot in length. I put some wedges into the crack, but they were forced out by the ship going through the water. There was nothing in the hole before I attempted to wedge it up. The thickness of the plate which was cracked was about 3/16ths of an inch. I was not on deck after this, only when the ship stopped. I was busily engaged below. There is only one carpenter aboard the ship.\n\nAt the time of the collision, I was a little abaft the bridge on the starboard side, opposite to the engine room. One of the stewards was there, but I cannot say whether he stopped there. It was the bedroom steward. I was not standing looking at the ship with the chief steward at the time of the collision. Immediately after the collision, I saw a ship under sail, then I saw her sheer alongside of us and go past us. I saw her propeller, and it was going round, but I don't know whether astern or ahead. I saw damage had been done to the other ship, but I could not tell to what extent. She appeared to be damaged about the starboard quarter. She was damaged above the water line, but I cannot say whether she was damaged below the line. I saw two men lift another man and hand him away. I had some conversation about this on the forecastle afterwards, just for a minute. I did not report the circumstance to the Captain or to any officer. It was immediately after that that I was called by the chief officer to go below. After that, I remained below until the ship was off the light-ship. The chief officer went below with me part of the time. I don't recollect that I had said anything to the chief officer of what I had seen. When abreast of the light-ship, there were over nine feet of water in the fore compartment. I considered she was making water fast. We had buckets; the sluice valve was up, but under way at the time.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG: I could give no idea of what time elapsed between the collision and the time I got the store-room door opened. I think the ship was under way at the time, but I really cannot say. When I got into the first compartment, we could not sound the wells as it was full of stores. We could not sound the foremost compartment till about 8 or 10 minutes after the collision, but I am only guessing that. When we first sounded, I think there were about five feet of water in the first compartment. That had increased to about 9 feet when we got up to the light-ship, and we were baling the ship out all the time. When abreast of the light-ship, the water in the second compartment had increased to about 18 inches. This water in the second compartment came from the first compartment, I think. The sluice was up at the time, and the sluice communicates between the two compartments. The width of the crack below the water line may have been one-eighth of an inch or more. Before we reached the light-ship, we had no pumps going. I do not think there was any water coming through the hole where the plank went through the stem. There was a plank through the stem. It is not there now. I examined it before it was taken out. The diameter of this plank was 12 to 14 inches. It came from the port side. The hole which it made was a sort of oblong. It passed through an iron plate on the port side, then through a part of the main deck waterways, and through the plate on the other side; it bulged the iron out on the other side, and from outside on the starboard bow, burst it so that we could see a part of the end of it. The thickness of the plates is about 5/16ths of an inch. This spar may have penetrated say two or three inches of wood. The waterways connect abaft the stem. The timber penetrated abaft the stem. I was about six feet from the ship's rail on the starboard side when the ship's struck. I heard a person on board the other ship, just after the collision, sing out either \"ship ahoy\" or \"steamer ahoy.\" That's all I heard, and an officer from the Bombay answered. Did not hear any reply to the Bombay's answering hail. I did not hear her steam whistle. I did not hear any gun fire. I did not see the flash of any\n\ngun. I did see a break made into the Oneida by the Bombay; I think it was a little abaft the mizen mast, near her starboard quarter. When she struck, I could not see if the other vessel had a wheel house; but I saw a part fall over to one side; but I could not say what it was. I saw something that the Bombay had knocked away go over toward the port side. It was on the deck. I cannot say if it fell overboard or not. It looked like a wheel house or something of that sort. I saw a light at this point. I saw three men. I saw two men handing one man toward the fore part of the ship. I saw no more persons. I saw a light through a table; this hole appeared to me to fall on a table. I didn't see anything on the table, as if there was a meal spread, or anything of that kind. I saw the three men on one of the decks. If she had a poop deck, they must have been on the spar deck. The third man was being supported along by a man on either side of him. I could see a lamp, but whether it was hanging above or on the table, I cannot say. I saw that lamp, I think, through the hole which had been made by the collision. I did not see the wheel of the vessel. I saw what I thought to be a table; but no other furniture. The light and the table were on the same deck on which I saw the man being supported. I was about 20 feet abaft the bridge of the Bombay when I saw this. I don't know if any one else saw it. There was a party looking over the side with me, but I cannot say whether he saw it or not. That person was one of the stewards. I think his name is Smith. No one else was standing by or near me. I am quite sure that I made no mention of this to the first officer. I mentioned it to the chief steward, who was standing in one of a group on the spar deck. I know there were three or four in a group, but I could not say whether the second-class passenger was there or not. I did not go on shore that night after anchoring. The leak I referred to was on the port side of the ship. I found a gaff and part of a sail, and a spanker boom hanging over the side belonging to the other vessel. I did not see any boat on the ship.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD: I did not report what I had seen to the Captain or any officer. It was not my duty to do so. I was not on the spar deck more than three or four seconds. The remarks were made after sounding the second compartment and before sounding the first, before we got to the light-ship. I don't know if the engine room pumps were going before the water rose to a height of 18 inches in the second compartment.\n\nTo the Court: From two to three inches is the usual amount of water in the second compartment. I did not examine the bulkhead in the second compartment. Could not get at it, as it was full of coals. After that, I came on to the spar deck. It was then I had the conversation with the steward. I think the 18 inches in the second compartment was owing in a measure to the sluice valve being open. If I had considered our ship in danger, I should have gone direct to the Captain and reported it. It would have been my duty to have done so. The chief officer was there when I found the timber through her bows, and he reported it to the Captain. If the chief officer had been present, I should have reported to him, and not to the Captain, had I thought the ship was in danger. The body I saw falling over to port might have been a boat, and it might have been a deck house. As I stood, the light from the other ship was abreast of me, about 20 or 30 yards from me. At that time, we were sheering off to port, and her stern and quarter were nearly abeam.\n\nI saw the Oneida's screw after I had seen the light. I did not see her wheel. Had the wheel been under the poop, I could not have seen it. It was too dark to have seen it had it been on the poop. Her screw was going round when I saw it after the collision. I did not see any part of the Oneida as it were cut off and floating away. I did not see any spars or pieces of wreck floating between the two vessels. I am unable to say on what deck it was I saw the table and the light--whether it was between the poop and the spar deck, or between the spar deck and the water line. I have described what I saw through the hole, but I cannot give any idea as to the size or shape of the hole. I was looking at the hole from a slanting position and saw, I should say, the whole of the bodies of the three men. I did not think the other vessel was cut down to the water's edge. From what I saw, I did not think there was any danger of her sinking. I saw her on our port bow just a minute before the collision. I didn't see her long after the collision, as she went away past us with all her sails set. I could not tell whether she was drifting past us or whether she was being steered. I think we took the Oneida a little on our starboard bow. We struck her from her bows and towards her stern. I could not see the amount of injury we had done her as it was dark, and I could not see on her deck. I saw the body falling towards the port side of the ship before I saw the light. It did not appear to me that the light issued from where this body was moved. I was walking and about six feet from the rails of the Bombay at the time of the collision. The shock was so slight that I hardly felt it. I did not perceive any recoil, but just felt a slight shock after the collision. The vessels were clear of each other at once. I think it was pieces of plank of some kind in the stem. One piece was pitch pine, and the other pitch or red pine, I should say red pine. It was about 16 inches long. There was some oakum and cotton about it. I saw a six or seven-inch spike in it. I didn't see any iron bolts in it. I at no time made a report to the Captain or any officer of the ship that the Bombay was in danger. Had I thought the Oneida was in danger, I should not have thought it my duty to report it, not while all the officers were looking at it--not while all the officers were on duty and could see the ship as much as I did. I do not know of any reason to prevent a person standing on the bridge from seeing everything as I did. I was standing about eight feet lower than the level of the bridge. I think I was a little higher than the level of the fracture in the other vessel.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJOHN MURRAY.\n\nAdjourned till 2 P.M.\n\nProceedings resumed at two P.M.\n\nDAVID RENNIE, sworn, states: I am chief engineer of the Bombay. The second engineer was on duty at the time of the collision. I was in the engine room. I remember the collision. The collision felt to me more like a glide than anything. I was stepping into the engine room at the time the telegraph bell sounded. The order conveyed by the bell was \"Stop.\" The telegraph bell conveyed no further order until \"go ahead\" again. I should say about three minutes had elapsed from the first order being given till I felt the collision. I cannot say how long the steamer was stopped, as I did not take the time. The engine room's bilge pumps are always working and were working at that time--you could not disconnect the pumps; if the engines are going, the pumps must necessarily be in motion at the same time. The pump might miss drawing the water from a compartment of the ship for a little time. I have no reason to know that the pumps missed drawing the water. During the time there were 18 inches in the second compartment.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG: The Bombay is divided into compartments. The pumps are connected with the fore hold, main hold, engine room, and stoke hole. The forward hold is not connected with the pumps. The second compartment where the 18 inches of water were is connected with the pump. There are seven bulkheads in the ship and seven compartments, but they don't extend to the main deck. The compartments are named the first, and one right behind that, of wood, the fore hold, the coal bunker, the stoke hole, the engine room, the main hold, and the magazine. The pumps are always going; but I don't know whether they were drawing water after the collision. I keep an engineer's log. In that log, it is my duty to enter the time at which the engines are stopped and at which they go on again. It is noted at about the time the engines were stopped on the occasion of the collision; but the exact time was not taken. The second engineer noted the time. It was noted as soon as his watch had expired. His watch expired at 8 o'clock. The collision took place between 6 and 6.30 P.M. We have a state in the engine room from which the log is made up. I didn't see the slate, but I saw the book that was made up from the slate. I cannot tell whether the entry in the book corresponded with that on the slate. I have not got that record with me. We have a counter to show the number of revolutions. She was making about 26 revolutions, equalling 8 to 8.5 knots, before the order to stop was given. Received no order to \"reverse the engines.\" At the moment of the collision, I think we were going perhaps about 6 or 6.5 knots. When the collision took place, I was putting in the starting bar of the engine. The bar was in at the moment of the shock. It had no effect on me at all--did not even stagger me.\n\nTo the Court: The engines were stopped the instant the order was given. Had I been ordered to \"reverse,\" it would have taken me, I should say, three minutes. I should have been as long as that, as I should have had to get the men to \"stand by.\" They were not ready. Had they been ready, it would have taken from 30 seconds to a minute. I made up the log myself from the rough book. It was made up on the night on which we anchored in Yokohama.\n\n(Signed)\n\nDAVID C. RENNIE.\n\nWILLIAM HERBERT, sworn, states: I am gunner on board the steamship Bombay. I was on duty at the time of the collision. I was on the forecastle. I saw the other ship when she was about a mile off. I think I saw all her lights--the masthead and two side lights. She was a little on our port bow coming towards us. I could not at first see whether she was under sail or steam; but when she got closer, I saw she was under sail. I could not tell she was under steam before she got clear of us. I saw her screw working when she was abreast of our funnel after the collision had taken place. The only light I lost sight of was the red light. I watched the other vessel until about one or two minutes before we struck; I had time to reach the poop. I went to the poop in order to get out of the way of the collision. I knew there was to be one. The collision was very slight where I was. The seacannie was the only one on the bow on the look out that I know of. I think he stopped there during the collision. At the time of the collision, I was on the top of the poop ladder. I saw the other vessel going by us from the top of the poop ladder. She passed pretty quickly. I did not see her smoke stack. I saw her sails and her screw going round. I saw a light on board of her. I cannot say where the light came from. I cannot describe the light. I saw a hole in the ship's side. It was a breach. I could not tell if it was a large hole. I only saw one person on board the other ship. I don't know whether sitting or leaning...",
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        "content_text": "## 321\n\nHe appeared to be leaning against a staunchion or something. I couldn't see him distinctly; he was dressed in dark clothes. I cannot say where he was standing. Heard no hail from the Bombay, nor from the other ship. I did not watch the other vessel for any time - not for three minutes. Before I went forward to the forecastle, I could just see her astern of us as I turned round to go to the forecastle. When I last saw her, she was not half a ship's length astern of us. I could have seen her hull further off than a mile. I heard no gun, and I saw no flash of a gun from the other ship at any time. I saw no signals from her of any sort. If any had been made I could not have seen them, as I was over the bows. I did not think the other vessel was very much hurt. I had not time to see whether she was or not when I left.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG - My post is on the forecastle when coming into harbour. My duty is to assist in looking out, and stand by the anchors. When I first saw the steamer I think she was about a mile off. I couldn't say exactly. I saw three lights first. I saw the mast head, the green and the red lights. I looked out from the centre of the forecastle. I could tell that she was on our port bow about half a point. I saw her red light shut out. At that time she was perhaps about four or five ship's lengths ahead of us. I don't remember if the green light was shut out before the collision, or not. I went to the stern of the vessel to avoid the debris. I didn't see the 2nd and the 4th officers, and don't know where they were. I was standing on the poop ladder. I had hold of the poop rail when the collision took place. It was not a strong shock. The ships separated immediately after the collision. I could not feel any recoil on our own vessel; it appeared to go straight on. The other vessel was on our starboard side. Her bows were bearing off, and she presented her starboard quarter to us. As she passed, I saw a light through her hull where the breach was made. I cannot say how large a piece was broken out. The hole may have been a little larger than a port. It was larger fore and aft than it was up and down. I should think it looked about 6 to 8 feet long fore and aft. Up and down it may have been 6 feet. I saw a man apparently leaning up against something through this hole. I could not see his legs. I saw a light, but I did not see a lamp from which it came. I saw a portion of a table. I saw nothing on that table. I think it looked red. I saw nothing else. The man was further off than the table. I don't know whether the light was over or at the side of the table. Cannot say how far the bottom of the breach appeared to be above the water. I didn't see the wheel. Where I was standing was about 20 feet abaft the bridge. My position was lower than the bridge. I was on the spar deck, just about 12 feet abaft the funnel when I saw what I have now described. I stood about the middle of the deck, being on my way forward. Did not lean over the bulwarks. The bridge is about 10 feet higher than the deck on which I was standing. The ship was right abeam of us, as I stood looking at her, the life-boat of the Bombay just abreast of me. I saw under the life-boat; there was nothing but the life-boat between me and the bridge. I don't know of any reason why a person standing on the bridge could not have seen the same things as I did. I saw only one man there. I saw no one else on the vessel at all. I saw nothing knocked over or broken off the other vessel. I did not see if she had a smoke stack or not. I did not see them clew up sail. When she was abreast or nearly abeam of our quarter, I heard an order given calling all hands to shorten sail; soon afterwards I lost sight of her. I went forward, and looked over the bows to see what our own damage was. I saw a gaff lying fore and aft of the bowsprit, mizen boom hanging up and down, leaning against the flakes of our anchor, and the sail hanging over our topmast staff. I found our bobstay gone. I saw the figure head was all gone, and the stern; but I could not see low down as it was so dark. I saw the spar in our stem before we were anchored; but I cannot say at what time I saw it. I did not think the other vessel was seriously injured because I saw her upper works were gone. I did not report to any one on board that I heard the order to shorten sail. I did not tell any one about the hole in the side of the ship; nor that I had seen the table and the man. I saw a man's body, but not his legs. He seemed to be still; but I could not see whether he was in uniform or not. I cannot say whether the place I saw looked like a cabin. It appeared to be in the upper part of her. It might have been a poop saloon; and it appeared to me so. The man was abaft the table - say three or four feet back. I did not notice if the man had his hat on or not. I never mentioned to any one what I saw.\n\nI was employed all the time, and too busy to speak to any one, and no one spoke to me.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. - I did not notice whether there was a poop on the other vessel. I know the light came from a broken place. I cannot be certain whether that broken place was above or below the spar deck. There is a screen on either side of the bridge of the Bombay, to keep the side lights out of the officers' eyes. I should think the top of the screens extend close on five feet above the bridge. You cannot see the lights from the bridge. You cannot see over the lights - it obstructs the view directly abeam of it. I could look abaft it, and I don't think my view would be obstructed by the light, but I cannot say. The life-boat is hoisted about five feet above the deck - the keel would be say 18 inches above the rail. I was never on the bridge when the side lights were burning. I saw only one light on the other ship. I saw no signals and heard no guns. I occupy the same berth as the carpenter, but I do not believe that I mentioned anything that I had seen to him. The carpenter said nothing to me about what he had seen.\n\nTo the Court - Looking under the boat, I could have seen the toprope of the other ship if it was there. The side lights are on the fore corner of the bridge. The light-screens are about two feet wide.\n\n(Signed) WILLIAM HERBERT,\n\nI \n\nDAVID DIRRELL, Sworn, states: - I am a quarter-master of the Bombay. My duty is to heave the lead. A little before the collision I was waiting ready to heave the lead. I did not see the other vessel while so waiting. I didn't see the other vessel before the collision. I heard the gong amidships when the collision took place. I then ran forward just to the break of the forecastle. When I got there I saw a vessel under sail, clear of us on the starboard bow. I then ran aft to assist the man at the wheel. After I got aft I heard some one on board the other vessel sing out \"steamer ahoy.\" The second officer answered \"Hallo.\" We got no answer back. Then the second and fourth officers both sung out upwards of half a dozen times. The second officer leaned over the port quarter listening for a reply. I was standing on the starboard quarter. We heard no reply whatever. After the collision we could see the hull of the other vessel, but not distinctly. She must have been half a ship's length off and passing us very quickly. At the time I did not notice that she was damaged. I did not see a hole in her. I saw a light which I supposed to be her binnacle light. It was shining aft, towards her taffrail. The light did not show me anything.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. - I did not see the flash of a gun, or hear the report of one from the other vessel. I was watching towards the vessel for about a quarter of an hour after the collision, in order that I might see a signal if any were made; but I saw none. I could not see if she had any boats or not. I saw she was a steamer after she had passed us. I saw white water, as if the screw were revolving. Did not see her clew up her sails; but heard some one on board sing out, \"shorten sail.\" That was as she passed us.\n\nI did not answer their hail, but the 2nd and 4th officers and the quartermaster did.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. - I heard \"steamer ahoy\" twice from the other vessel. The cries were called twice, one after the other. The quartermaster and second officer also called \"Hallo.\" The answer was given about a dozen times, but no reply came to any of our answers. The second-class passenger was standing by me. When the collision occurred, it seemed to me that the vessel had grazed along the shore. It didn't make me stagger or step forward or anything. When I saw the hull after colliding, I was at the break of the forecastle, and the other vessel was a half ship's length from us. I ran forward to see what the other vessel was. I wanted to see what was to be seen. I was not there three minutes. When I saw the other vessel going aft, I went aft to assist at the wheel. I did not see any person on board. The binnacle light I saw was aft, on her stern. I looked at her from our stern. I could see her masthead light for some time - at least I thought it was her masthead light; as I saw the glimmer on the sails. I judged it was a binnacle light, as I thought it would be the place for a binnacle light. I could see the binnacle light some distance astern.\n\n(Signed) DAVID DIRRELL\n\nAdjourned until 9 A.M.\n\n## FIFTH DAY\n\nTUESDAY, 1ST FEBRUARY, 1870\n\nProceedings resumed 9 A.M. 1st February, 1870.\n\nJAMES KEITH ANGUS, sworn, states. I was a passenger on board the S.S. Bombay at the time of the collision between her and another vessel on the 24th January. I was standing at the foot of the poop ladder with the Chief Engineer on the port side of the ship between 6 and 7 P.M. The Chief Engineer made a remark that there was a steamer coming down. Shortly after he said, \"where's the steamer? there'll be a smash,\" or words to that effect. Looking forward, I saw some dark object straight ahead of us; and I seized hold of the rail of the poop steps. Immediately after that a crash came - a very slight crash indeed. I ran across toward the starboard side and I had not got quite to the other side when a ship passed very quickly. Nearly immediately after that I went upon the poop and to the stern, close to the taffrail to see if there was any signal made from her, and to gratify my curiosity. I saw nothing more of the ship; and I saw no signals.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. - I should say that if any one on board had heard or seen signals I could have. I noticed the vessel as she was passing. I really could not say how distant she was from us while passing. She was not very far off. I think I watched her intently. I did see a slight breakage - at least it appeared to me to be so, as if something had carried away. She appeared to me to look like the English gunboat Dove which has a poop. The slight breakage I saw was at the top of this poop. I noticed no object such as a man or men at this breakage. I saw no portion of the debris in the water. I could not tell whether the breakage was of a boat or of the poop. I saw the glare of light, but I could not see a distinct light. I did not think what the light was; it might have been the flashing of a port or any other light. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" called from the other ship. I can't say if this was answered. I did not hear any answer. After the collision, I remained nearly five minutes at the stern. I could not see the vessel at the end of that time. The commander was on the bridge with the pilot and Chief officer at the time of collision. She was under sail and steam. I saw the sails and I saw the propeller moving.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. - I came on shore shortly after the ship anchored. I was in the boat with the Pilot. I did not remark to the Pilot that I thought we should have remained by that ship. Mr. Watson was in the boat with me. I did not take notice that he made such a remark. I went to my house at No. 4, directly I had landed. I have talked about the collision since I arrived at Yokohama. I have never stated anything further than I have now said. I could not say whether the light appeared to emanate from the breach - as the ship passed me the light did not appear to me to come from any particular place, it passed so quickly. I could not describe the size of the breach I saw in the other ship; the vessel passed so quickly.\n\nCertainly, it did not look to be as large as a ship's boat; it appeared to me to be on the top of the poop. I only heard \"steamer ahoy\" called once. I heard no other voice from the other vessel. I did not hear her steam whistle go. I heard no report of a gun and saw no flash. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" called before I went on the poop, when I ran across to the starboard side; the vessel just passed at that moment. When I commenced to ascend the poop steps, I should say the vessel must have been at our stern; when I looked over the side the other vessel had nearly but not quite passed the point where I was standing. I ran directly from the side of the ship up the poop ladder, and to the stern.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD. In going up the poop ladder I should probably take hold of the railing at any time as the ladder is steep. The shock was not strong enough to have thrown me down, and I do not think that it would have staggered me even though I had not been holding on to anything.\n\nTo the Court. I don't think I saw the hull of the other vessel before I got actually to the starboard side, but I saw her sails. I may have stood a minute or a minute and a half before going up the poop steps. I did not think that the other vessel had sustained any serious injury. The impression left on my mind after what I saw was that we had merely grazed her and knocked in her bulwarks or something of that kind; the breach did not appear to me to be like a large hole in the ship's side which would endanger her safety. I saw the 2nd and 4th officers on the poop. I cannot say exactly when I first noticed them, but when I did they were standing near the forward compass. I know Capt. Eyre and know him to be a kind and humane man. I heard the result of the collision next morning I think. I was very much surprised when I heard that she had gone down.\n\n(Signed) J. KEITH ANGUS,\n\nSAMUEL DENTON, sworn, states. I am a Quartermaster on board the Bombay. At the time of the collision I was on watch at the wheel. Before the collision, I heard the gong of the engine-room sound; I think this was between two and three minutes before the collision. I was in charge of the wheel. Before the collision I got an order to alter the helm; this order was before I heard the engine-room gong - perhaps a minute or two before. The order to me was \"hard a port.\" I kept it hard a port a little over three minutes perhaps four minutes. There was no order to steady the helm after the order to port. The helm was put from hard a port to hard a starboard without steadying. We have a telegraph to tell us how to steer. The first order by the telegraph was hard a port, and I kept the helm hard a port till the order came \"hard a starboard,\" when I put it hard a starboard. This was immediately preceding the collision. I had only one order to port the helm.",
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        "content_text": "322\n\nI could only hear the gong strike once. The order to port the helm was spoken and telegraphed at the same time. There was no order given to steady the helm after I had ported it, nor was there a second order to port the helm. I kept the helm hard a port until the order was given to hard a starboard; and the helm was hard starboard at the time the collision took place. I had been on watch from four o'clock. I can't say whether I had received an order to port the helm, a little before the order which I have referred to or not. The night was dark; I could just distinguish a man from one side of the vessel to the other. \n\nTo Mr. DE LONG. About three minutes before the collision, I heard the engine gong strike and could tell by the vibration that the engines were stopped. It was before I heard the bell that I got the order to port the helm; it was perhaps a minute or a minute and a-half before; perhaps it was two minutes and a-half after I had heard the bell that I got the order to hard a starboard. I immediately obeyed the order. It took about half a minute to change the helm from hard a port to hard a starboard, so that the vessel could feel it; it was about three minutes after I heard the engine-room bell, that the vessels came together. I could not say what course we were steering when I got the order to port, or how the wheel was. I know it was not hard a port or hard a starboard. I only saw the mast-head light before the collision. I should think it was about four or five minutes before the collision that I saw the mast-head light; it bore a little on the port side. I saw it for three or four seconds, and then I did not see it any more. The helm was steady when I first saw the light; it remained steady until I received the order hard a port. I didn't feel the shock of the collision much; didn't feel anything of it. I couldn't hear much crashing as I was right aft. I heard \"steamer ahoy\" sung out from the other vessel twice, one after the other. These shouts were after the vessel got astern. I answered the hail; I said \"halloo,\" the hail was said twice before I could give any answer; the 2nd and 4th officers also answered. I did not hear the steam whistle of the other vessel. I heard no guns from the other vessel. Didn't see the flash of any guns. I heard an order to shorten sail given on the other vessel but no other order. I didn't see anything done in obedience to that order. I didn't see any person on board the other ship. I did not observe anything particular on the other ship. I saw a boat or a part of a boat, but I could not distinguish what it was. I mean by a part a broken portion of a boat: this was either on the poop or hanging to the davits on the vessel's side. I cannot say I saw anything like a breach in the poop or side of the other vessel. I saw a light that came through a port, or something; it appeared to me to be a square port about 18 inches or it might have been more each way. I saw no other light than that one. I couldn't look through that light and didn't see into the vessel.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD.—I did not report that I had heard the order to shorten sail; we answered the call in a loud tone of voice; and the wind was with my voice.\n\nTo the COURT.--My duty at the wheel is to see that the vessel is steered straight. It is my duty to see that the ship is kept on her course when an order is given to steady. I look at the compass to see how her head is. I couldn't tell what course we were steering ten minutes before the collision. I think it was somewhere from N. to N. N. W. I don't know how her head was when she struck the Oneida.\n\n(Signed)  \nSAMUEL DENTON.\n\nJOHN WILKINSON, sworn, states—I am 2nd engineer of the Bombay. I was on watch in the engine room at the time of collision. I stopped the engine; this was a minute or a minute and a half before I felt the collision. The next order after that was go ahead easy—as near as I could judge, perhaps four to five minutes elapsed between these two orders. I keep a log-book; there is a slate in the engine room, for incidents of the watch. A rough log is made up from the slate; and this again re-copied into the chief engineer's log. I made those entries on the slate about ten minutes after stopping; it may have been a little longer after; it was about 8 o'clock that evening that I made the entries in the rough log. The collision was light. I did not know it was a collision until we stopped; it took about half a minute to stop the engines. The chief engineer came into the engine room just as I was stopping the engine. The engine bilge pumps are always at work.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG—I have brought the rough log with me, this is it. (Produced) Extract.  \n| Time | Order |\n|------|-------|\n| About | Stop 6.15 |\n| About | Easy ahead 6.19 |\n|  | Full speed 6.21 |\n\nWe were going I suppose eight knots before the collision. The collision occurred about half a minute after we had stopped. I cannot judge well of the speed of the vessel. I should say that one minute after the engines are stopped, the speed of the ship would be reduced by one-half. I was present when the above entry was made in that book, but I didn't do it myself; the fourth engineer made it. Those two words \"about,\" were entered at the same time, and by the same person I believe. I should say that a vessel going at eight knots would be almost stopped four minutes after her engines were stopped.\n\nTo the COURT.—There is a clock in the engine room. It is at my back as I stand to alter the engines. I felt a light shock at the time of the collision. And I felt a rebound of our vessel. It was after the ship was under weigh going full speed ahead, that I entered the above extract on the slate. The time thereon noted is to the best of my judgment; but I did not look at the clock on receiving the order to stop or easy ahead, or full speed. I should say that I made the entries on the slate about five minutes after the order full speed was given. And this must have been at about half-past 6 o'clock; generally an order to \"stand by\" is given before an order to alter the engines is received. In this instance, there was no order to stand by.\n\n(Signed)  \nJOHN WILKINSON.\n\nROBERT SMITH, Sworn, states.—I am bed-room steward of the Bombay. I and the carpenter were pacing the deck forward on the port side just before the collision. I saw the sails of the other vessel. I don't know when the collision took place. I don't remember feeling it at all. The carpenter said there was a collision, and I ran aft that I might not get hurt. I went into the saloon almost immediately after leaving the break of the poop. I saw a light on the other ship, or a square place for the light. Before entering the saloon, didn't notice any other light. Could see the smoke from her funnel. I have no idea how far she was off when I saw her. I saw the foam of the water astern as if her screw was going on. I saw no signals from the other vessel. I heard some one sing out \"Halloo\" on board our ship. I couldn't see what had happened on board the other vessel. I could not distinguish anything to speak of on board the other vessel. I was standing alongside the carpenter; the carpenter and I both ran aft together. I don't know if the carpenter was called away, or if he was standing on the deck when I went below. I don't remember speaking to the carpenter; there was only one first class gentleman passenger.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG—There was one second class passenger. I believe his name is Watson. I am not certain if I saw a table in the other ship. I don't know if I did. I couldn't say what I saw exactly on board the other vessel. I didn't see a lamp but I saw a light. I have no idea what size the place from which the light issued appeared to be. I have seen our own ships with gangway ports. I didn't know but what this might have been a gangway port. I can't tell if I thought it was a gangway port or not; all I can say is that it was a light. I should think that what I saw such as a table or something must have been between decks. I can't tell whether I saw what I thought to be a table with a cloth on it or not. I didn't notice if I saw a chair. I didn't see a chair, nor nothing. I fancy I saw two or three men where I saw the light; or rather part of men. Men standing up. I didn't notice what they were doing. I saw something like wood in the water, but I don't know what it was; whether it was a boat or not I can't say. At the time I saw the light I was standing at the break of the poop. I have no idea how far this is abaft the bridge. I don't know whether I or the carpenter left the place first. I heard no shout from the other ship. I didn't hear her steam whistle go. I heard no gun, saw no flash as from any gun. I only heard \"halloa\" sung out once before I went into the saloon. I did not report what I had seen to any of the officers of the ship.\n\n(Signed)  \nROBERT SMITH.\n\nProceedings resumed at 1 P.M.  \nAUBREY HAMERTON, 3rd officer, re-called, sworn,\n\nTo Mr. De LONG—I came ashore with the mail. I went into a hotel while ashore, with the chief steward. I don't know Mr. Curtis or Mr. Hiltz. I did not give an account of this collision in the hotel. I was asked about it but said I didn't know. I didn't hear the steward say anything about it. I did not make a statement that we had run into any vessel. One gentleman did ask me if we had stopped to see what damage had been done to the other vessel. I believe my answer was that we had stopped and nothing else. I don't remember being asked why we hadn't enquired into the damage sustained by the other vessel. I did say, \"there was the mistake,\" or words to that effect. I did not say that the \"Bombay's\" bows went into the Oneida, and the I could see some of the officers removing a man hurt by the collision, as I supposed, but that we did not stop but made the best of our way to Yokohama roads. I did not use any language to that effect; all I said was, that it was a mistake.\n\nTo THE COURT.—I did not say to the Captain or any of the other officers at any time, that it was a mistake not to have stopped; it was to a question that was asked me that I replied \"there was the mistake.\" It was a casual answer that I gave, and the fact of its having been a mistake not to have waited did not strike me until the question had been asked me. I think the question asked me was \"why did you not stop by the ship.\" I couldn't say if the answer was made in reply to a question which was put in a manner to make me think that my interrogator was finding fault with me. I did not in that hotel give an account of the circumstances of the collision. I don't know who the person who asked me the question was. I was about three to five minutes at the hotel.\n\n(Signed)  \nAUBREY HAMERTON.\n\nARTHUR T. WATSON, sworn, states: I was on board the \"Bombay\" on the evening of the 24th instant; a collision took place on that day. I don't know at what time. I did not witness that collision; I was not on deck but on the main deck at the time of the collision. I didn't know there had been a collision. I felt a slight shock which made me think we had struck on a sand bank. After feeling the shock I ran on to the poop. I saw from the poop a vessel passing us very rapidly; she was quite close. When I saw her she had all her sails set, and her screw was revolving very rapidly. I could see that a place—I suppose you call it the quarter, near the rudder, was cut away; the only thing I caught sight of was what I thought to be a table. I immediately ran abaft the wheel to see what would become of her, and suddenly thought I saw her mast-head light as if she was turning back again to come into harbour. I then ran forward and said, \"Oh she's coming up behind.\"—That is all I have to say. I can't say where what I thought to be a table was—it was not on the upper deck, it appeared to be in the interior of the vessel. In order to have seen it I must have looked through a hole in the vessel of some kind or other. I did not pay particular attention to that hole; it was so sudden, one couldn't do so. It did not occur to me that the hole was an unusually large one. I did not notice the shape of the hole; it was a table that I saw; I saw the legs as I thought; I did not notice the top of the table. I did not see any person or figure of a man near the table. I could not distinguish that any part of the ship was broken; the hole which I saw was a breach in the vessel's side. I cannot give any idea of how large it was. I watched the vessel out of sight. I heard no gun. I saw no flash of a gun. I saw no rocket go up, nor a blue light burned; I had no signal been made, I think I could have seen it from the position where I was. When I thought I saw the mast-head light I didn't notice any coloured lights. I have not been employed at sea. It was through the place which was cut away that the light came. I did not notice whether she had a poop. I didn't see her wheel. I saw nothing fall from that ship into the water. I saw a few broken splinters in the water. I did not notice if she had any boats or not; never having been to sea before I thought it strange we didn't stop. I can't say whether I asked anyone on board why we hadn't stopped. I didn't ask the Captain why we hadn't stopped, nor the chief nor second officer. I can't say that I asked an officer why we had not stopped. We were speaking about the occurrence afterwards on board, and I may have said what I saw. I can't say whether it was on board that we were speaking of what had happened. I can't recollect who were present. When we were talking the only opinion I passed was—that I thought it strange we didn't stop. What I saw did not lead me to believe that she was dangerously damaged. I should certainly have thought it my duty at once to go to the Captain or some responsible officer and tell him if I had thought that the vessel was so seriously damaged that she must sink. I don't know to whom I addressed myself when I said, \"Oh, there she is a coming after us,\" but I don't think any of the officers were there.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD—I saw the American Consul a few days ago at the U.S. Consulate. I was sent for by the U.S. Consul. No one was present when I saw the Consul; he had sent me a verbal message. I believe the message was sent me on Tuesday afternoon. I was not in at the time it came, but was told that my presence was requested at the U.S. Consulate that afternoon, or the first thing the next morning. I did not see the U.S. Consul till Wednesday morning. The message was requesting my presence. The Consul asked me what I saw. I told him simply what I saw just now. He asked me why we hadn't stopped. I said I didn't know. I was not there three minutes. I was not called on any Court of Inquiry at the U.S. Consulate. The light which I saw coming astern of us may have been from a light-house for what I know; I only know that I thought at the time that it was the mast-head light of the other vessel.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—I came ashore in the boat with the pilot and Mr. Angus. I can't say if I said then that it was wrong not to have stayed by the vessel. I went to the International Hotel that evening. I know Mr. Curtis the proprietor by sight. I said on that evening just what I have said now. In fact, I turned round to some one and said, \"we'll go and have a look at that vessel, (meaning the Oneida), tomorrow morning; she is sure to be in harbour.\" I did not make a statement to the effect that I had seen a man through the hole. I did say we had knocked a hole that we could see into. I did not say anything of the sort, that we had knocked her whole stern out of her. I did not hear the Oneida's whistle blow. I heard the Bombay's blow for some few minutes; this was previous to the collision. I didn't hear it after the collision. I did not see any one at all on board the other vessel. The only thing I heard from the other vessel was \"steamer ahoy,\" to which answer was made by two persons on board our vessel, but no reply was received. I only heard \"steamer ahoy\" called once.\n\nI can't give any definite idea of the size of the hole in the other ship. I couldn't answer at all as to how large the hole was. It did not appear to me that I saw a portion of a cabin through that hole. I only saw a part of a table, and I should think that it was a square table. I did not notice whether there was a cover on it or not. In fact, the whole thing occurred so quickly that I could hardly tell you anything definite. I did not see anything on this table. I didn't see any lamp through this hole. I saw no trunks, chairs or anything of that kind. The sails appeared to me to be filled as she passed. \n\n(Signed)  \nA. T. WATSON.\n\nROBERT B. CLEMENTS, Lieut. of H.M.S. Ocean, sworn, states. I went on board the Bombay on the evening of the 24th. I boarded the steamer as officer of the guard; and asked to see the Captain. He came out of his cabin; I said to him \"what a long way out you have anchored.\" He asked me whom he might have the honour of addressing. I told him who I was, and that I wanted the senior officer's mails. He said he thought he was quite justified in anchoring so far off, as it was difficult to tell at what distance the lights were. He had never been on the coast of Japan before, and that he was also in the hands of a pilot who had advised him to anchor there; besides that he had cut the quarter off the Yankee frigate in coming up the bay. I then said it must have been the Oneida. I hope she is not seriously damaged, and is she in want of assistance? He said no, he thought not. He had laid to for some time, and he saw no signal denoting that she wanted assistance. He added that it was seeing no signals of distress that he had made up his mind to go on and land his passengers and mails. He said he thought she wouldn't go on, but that she would come back here to repair damages; and that he had got some of her booms and sails on board, and that he must have knocked some of her boats away or something of that sort. I asked him if he was damaged himself? He said that he was, and that the ship was making water, but nothing very serious. After that I proposed that I should go into the saloon and wait for the mails. We talked on different things. Either the doctor or the Captain, I can't say which, said that he could see the lights in her cabins. That was all that took place regarding the collision.\n\nTo Mr. BARNARD—There was a midshipman called Stephens in the boat with me. I think he went on deck afterwards, but he was not present during the conversation. A Lieutenant named Leventhorpe was on board the Bombay before me, but not on duty.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—It was between 8 and 9 PM that I boarded the steamer. I did not board her the next morning. I can't say whether the doctor and Captain were both present when the remark was made, that the cabin could be seen into. I don't know whether it was the Captain or the doctor who said it. One of them certainly did, as they were the only two to whom I spoke. I will swear that Captain Eyre said to me, \"I have cut off the quarter of a Yankee frigate.\" He said \"serve her right, she crossed my bows with a starboard helm.\" I said that was a curious thing to do. I hope you are reporting. I know that Mr. Leventhorpe had been on board before me. He told me afterwards that he had informed Captain Eyre that it must have been the Oneida with which the Bombay had collided. Mr. Leventhorpe had left the Bombay before I had arrived. The Captain did ask me to have a glass of brandy and water; it was when I got back to my own ship that I saw Mr. Leventhorpe; and learned from him, that he had told Capt. Eyre what vessel he had run into. Capt. Eyre did not lead me to believe that the Oneida had sustained serious injury. I reported to my Captain that it was a trivial thing.\n\n(Signed)  \nROBT. B. CLEMENTS.\n\nTHOMAS H. LEVENTHORPE sworn, states.—I am a Lieutenant on board H.M.'s S. Ocean. I boarded the Bombay on the night of her arrival almost directly she had anchored. I was not on duty; the midshipman of the boat was with me; his name is Henderson. The first officer I conversed with was the doctor. In the course of conversation he asked me what steamer had gone out that evening? I told him the only one I knew of was the American man-of-war Oneida. He told me they had been in collision with a steamer, and that probably that was the one. Afterwards I saw Captain Eyre, and he described the collision to me. He told me he saw lights about half a point on his port bow; that he had ported his helm and was all clear; then that the other vessel had evidently put her helm to starboard and run right across his bows. He also told me that he had turned on the whistle and stopped his engines before the collision. I think I made the remark that she would surely put back; he said \"yes, you will see her before long.\" Somebody said on board that they could see right into her saloon, but I am not sure who it was made the remark. I believe Captain Eyre was present when this remark was made. Several people were there on deck at the time. Mr. Angus was there at the time I know; but it was a dark night and I could not distinguish faces. I cannot swear that the Captain heard what passed. No conversation took place about...",
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        "content_text": "324\n\n\nnight. I arrived at the light-house at about three or a quarter past three o'clock in the afternoon. I waited there in order to try and get a passage up by a steamer, the smoke of which I saw at Caps Sagami. I did put off to the mail steamer when she was quite abreast of Kisousaki point. I went, I suppose, better than half a mile. There were two men in the boat. The steamer was going from 8 to 8.5 knots. I should think she was to the North of Kanousaki point when I turned round and left her. It took about ten minutes to pull back to the shore. When I got on shore, I went into the Japanese hotel again and finished dinner. It was about twenty-five minutes after I entered the hotel that I heard the guns. A man called Broderick was with me at dinner at the hotel. Have been in Japan going on for 11 years. I am an American citizen. There was only one foreigner besides myself, and ten to fifteen Japanese if not more. There are only three boats where I was. You could get plenty more by going about a mile. I am not aware that Broderick endeavoured to induce any Japanese to put off after hearing the guns. I did not consult with Broderick whether we should put off or not. I knew it was no use to offer any more than ten boos, as the boatmen would not go out at all. I am quite certain that I only heard four guns.\n\nSince I have been in Japan, I have been sent to San Francisco to stand my trial on a criminal charge. I decline to answer with what offence I was charged. I don't know if I was convicted of that offence. I decline to answer the question any way. I don't hold any license or written permission to act as a pilot here. I did not try to get the boats which were lying a mile off to go out, as I knew they would not go; besides the night was dark. I did not see any lights on the spit. I of course should have gone to get the other boats to go out, had I thought that the guns I heard were a signal that life was in danger, or that a ship was sinking in mid-channel. My impression was, that the vessel was on shore, and that there was no danger to life. The Japanese would not take me off, because they were not servants of mine. At the time I wanted to go off, there was a nice breeze from N. N. E. Broderick is somewhere in Yokohama. I don't know if he is a sailor or not. He has lately arrived from Nagasaki. I have never had charge of a ship as master. I was chief officer of a sailing vessel for six or seven months.\n\nTo Mr. De Love. The crime for which I was put upon my trial, was not perjury.\n\nThere are three Japanese in the light-house; no European has been in charge for some time. There is no light put there. The clock I referred to as having been stopped, was the light-house clock; the Japanese told me it was broken. The Hotel is two hundred or two hundred and fifty yards from the light. A Japanese keeps the Hotel. Japanese use the Hotel principally, but a pilot can get a meal there.\n\n(Signed)\n\n**JAMES CAVANAGH**\n\nISAAC I. YATES, sworn, states. My rank in the American Navy is that of master, and that was my rank on board of the Oneida. I am considered to be a responsible officer to take charge of a ship. The Oneida left Yokohama at 5.15 P.M., on the 24th January bound for Hongkong. We were cheered by the various men-of-war as we left. The general understanding was that the ship was homeward bound. After passing the lightship, just outside the anchorage, Mr. Stewart, a Lieutenant Commander and executive officer having charge of the ship, set all plain sail. This brought the ship under sail and steam. He braced the yard something about 3 points. He braced them in with the starboard braces; the vessel was on the port tack. The port tacks were hauled on board some. At 5.45 as near as I can remember Mr. Stewart sent for me and asked me if it was my dock. I told him it was and I relieved him. He told me that the masthead and side lights were burning and the lookouts were stationed; the man at the lead both sides and the proper men at the wheel. He also told me, the course S. by E. ¼ E. Mr. Moldaur, the navigating officer, was also on the bridge. (I relieved Mr. Stewart on the bridge) I asked him after Mr. Stewart went away to assure myself of the course; he told me again S. by E. ¼ E. So we headed. At 6 o'clock I relieved the watch, sent the port watch on deck, and ordered the officer of the forecastle of the starboard watch, Mr. Adams, to heave the log. He reported her going 6 knots and 6 fathoms. I thought she might be going a little faster, so I asked him again, and he was positive. He asked me if he should put it in his log. I told him no, that we must make an allowance for the quarter of an hour during which we were at anchor. Mr. Adams was then relieved by Mr. Hall, a midshipman. Before this, when I asked Mr. Moldaur about the course, he told me he wanted me to send a quartermaster on to the forecastle with a glass on the port side to keep a lookout for Saratoga spit buoy, which he told me was somewhere on the port bow. I sent for a quartermaster, and found it was William Boyston, signal quartermaster; he reported to me with the glass. I told him to go on the forecastle, and keep a lookout for this buoy on the port bow, and he went there. At 6 o'clock, he was relieved by Thomas Woolley, quartermaster. At 7.20, as near as I can judge, I thought we were sort of drifting in to starboard as Kanonsaki was drawing more ahead; we had had it a point on the starboard bow. I thought we were sagging in toward the western shore. I sent for Mr. Moldaur and gave the order to starboard a little; the ship was heading out to port slowly; my object was to put the light to the same bearing; just then the quartermaster on the forecastle reported a steamer right ahead; and I saw a steamer's mast-head light coming round Kanousaki point, and this light passed from ahead to starboard; then when I turned round, I saw Mr. Moldaur, who asked me, \"what's the matter, Yates?\" I said, \"I think we are sagging into starboard, and I ordered the helm to starboard; and there is a steamer's mast-head light passing from ahead to starboard\"; but Mr. Moldaur said, \"I can't go any more to port, we must head our course.\" I asked the quartermaster how the ship then headed, he said S. E. by S., so that she must have came up 1 point and, then I ordered her on her course, and when she got there, the quartermaster reported her so; that course was S. by E. ¼ E. When the ship was on her course, we could see the steamer's mast-head light on our starboard bow and changing its bearing further aft. Not long after, Mr. Moldaur and I both saw her green light, and her mast-head light a point on our starboard bow. She was then evidently running nearly parallel to us, pretty well into the western or starboard shore. Mr. Moldaur said, \"you see her green light there\" and I said \"yes\" and he said, \"she'll pass to starboard of us\" which was also my idea. She was then over three miles off; we were on our course all the time, S. by E. ¼ E., and we were of course approaching each other. When the steamer was a mile off, three points on the starboard bow, I saw she had put her helm to port, by the new direction in which she headed; she headed right for our green light. I was standing on the starboard side of the bridge where I had been standing all the time since we had made this steamer, and I saw her heading for me; and the instant her red light opened (then I saw all three lights), I gave the order “starboard,” then \"hard a starboard.\" The quartermaster answered me from the wheel. We headed off rapidly to port and kept heading off that way; when this steamer was a short distance from me, I can't judge how far exactly, she put her helm to starboard. If she had not starboarded her helm when she did, she would have struck forward of the point which she did strike. I didn't hear any order given on the other steamer, but I saw evidently that she headed to port and that her helm must therefore have been starboarded. I heard no noise on the steamer, and saw no signals made of any kind before or after the collision. Just about the time of collision, someone sang out, \"what the hell are you doing?\" Whether it was to someone on board the Oneida or to someone on the Bombay, I cannot say. She struck our ship not long after starboarding her helm; her helm was a starboard when she struck us; she struck us about the starboard mizen rigging, right abreast as I should judge, and at an angle of about 40 to 45 degrees, and she cut off the whole of the quarter diagonally, and carried away the poop, which went over the side astern; she also carried away our spanker boom and gaff, the wheel and starboard binnacle. She cut the gig in two and smashed it all up. The only binnacle we had left was the one on the port side. My ship was unmanageable—entirely so. As soon as she struck, I gave orders to shorten sail; the square sails were taken off the ship, and the main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main main and the square sails were taken off the ship, and the main-trysail too; the spanker was gone, but the head sails were not hauled down. As soon as she struck, the officers all rushed on deck. Captain Williams was brought on deck by two men, and Mr. Stewart, as soon as he touched the ship's deck, ran to the port side of the deck, jumped upon an arm chest near the rail, and sung out in a loud tone of voice, \"steamer ahoy, you have cut us down, remain by us.” The Bombay was at that time across the stern of the Oneida, but immediately went out of sight. I only heard Mr. Stewart shout out once, and I heard no one else hail the steamer. I heard no one answer from the Bombay. He then went down from the chest and said, \"for God's sake, aren't there any primers about here? where's Langman, where's the gunner's mate.\" All the primers that were aft were carried away, together with all the rockets that had been made up and all the blue lights and signals which might have been available—the lights were in a box made fast up underneath the poop fastened to the beams; the rockets were also made fast along the beams together; the boxes of primers were in the armouries which were situated on each side underneath the poop. Soon after, Thomas Stevenson got the primers, I believe, and Mr. Stewart and Mr. Adane loaded and fired a gun, it was the starboard No. 1, 3rd Division gun which was just forward of the bridge. Her calibre was thirty-two lbs. and the charge was 6 lbs. When the Captain came on deck, I told him that the ship had ported her helm and cut me down; he said, \"I know it, sir, but let us save the ship,\" and he gave orders to keep silence on deck. He then gave orders for shortening sail, but they had already commenced to do so. When I next saw the Captain, it was about a minute after I had just spoken to him; he asked me to go and see if the jib was easy. I went and saw, and came back and reported \"yes\" so he said that was right; then the order was given to set the foretopsail, with the idea of paying the ship off and running her ashore on the westward shore. There were several officers forward. I went forward and gave the order to man the topsail sheet. I saw Mr. Sargent there and then I heard Mr. Moldaur call out for me, and he wanted me to help him to get the pumps manned on deck; the carpenter was there and we got the pumps manned, and the men got to work on them; all the pumps were going, the steam pumps, and deck pumps, but the water was rising very rapidly, and the ship sinking very fast by the stern; just before she sank, Mr. Moldaur called me to see how she headed; I went aft and looked at the port binnacle, and she headed E. by N., and I judge that she must have run about two miles after the collision; she kept coming up all the time toward the eastward. (Just before the Bombay struck us, the officer on our forecastle called out, \"hard a port,\" but I didn't repeat his order, and I think his idea was to swing the ships parallel, as the Bombay was passing our centre. The Bombay's bow had got past the centre of our ship; the Bombay had already starboarded her helm). I then went and told Mr. Moldaur how she headed, and he told me to go on the bridge and tell the Captain. Mr. Moldaur was sounding with the lead, trying to find the bottom. I went up and told the Captain, but I don't remember that he said anything. Immediately Mr. Moldaur jumped on to the bridge and said, the ship would sink in three minutes by the stern; he begged the Captain to take to the boats; they had been clearing away the boats before this, and getting them ready to lower; the first and third cutters were the only boats we had after the collision except the dingy which was broken in two; she had been condemned and was only kept on the davits to stow gear in. But the Captain would give no orders to take to the boats; he replied to Mr. Moldaur, \"no, no—never mind the boats.\" I understood that Mr. Moldaur did, notwithstanding, give an order to take to the boats. About that time, the bridge was very near the water; just before it touched the water, I asked the Captain to jump with me into the cutter, which was a little way off; but he stood there. He made some reply, but I couldn't swear what the reply was; I think he said something about: \"I will sink with my ship\" but I thought that I would jump, so I jumped, and dropped my trumpet as I jumped. I sank. I had on cloth clothes and a heavy overcoat, and I came up and struck against the side of a boat with my head. I begged a man to haul me in; he laid hold of me and, while he was hauling me in, I turned my head to the right and I saw the foretopgallant mast sticking out of the water, but just going down, and when I got into the boat, I stood up and looked about for the ship, but I could see nothing of her, nor anything in the water then. Just then Mr. Crowninshield swam to the boat and begged me to haul him in; so we hauled him in. Then I saw an officer in his shirt sleeves, and he begged me to save him; he said, \"Yates, for God's sake save me.\" That was Mr. Stewart, the executive officer. I ordered the men to back down; they backed their oars, but he sank underneath the stern of the boat. I saw no other person but Mr. Stewart and Mr. Crowninshields. I may have seen Mr. Moldaur, but I won't be certain. I begged the men to stay by the ship and they did so, but we soon all saw that our boat was very full of men; they had quite a number in the boat when she was lowered, and half were hauled in afterwards. We had 44 in our boat; the boat was not very large, and there was a great deal of water in the boat, and the water was coming in a little; so orders were given to bail with shoes and hats. I soon saw that if we wanted to save ourselves, we would have to get on shore as soon as possible, and the men were clamouring to go on. They commenced to pull ahead. I begged them to stop, but they wouldn't; we headed for shore. I having given up all hope, we went before the wind, heading into land when possible, and steering with a long oar. At one time, just before we landed, we were very nearly capsized in the surf, but we finally all got on shore and landed at a village, just in a cove, this side of Kanonsaki light, that is, we landed on the rocks, whence we proceeded to the village. Some of us stayed there all night, but after I went to sleep, some of them straggled off. I got up in the morning, leaving Mr. Crowninshields and three men with him. I had started to walk on with a party of men and arrived at Yokoska at about 10 A.M. They treated us kindly there, and I found a number of my men there. I went out in a steam launch from Yokoska toward Kanonsaki, and met the Aspic, French gunboat; she had a boat astern with Mr. Lyons in charge. I got into the boat, and sent all my men in the launch to the Yangtze; then I went down in this boat with Mr. Lyons, towed by the Aspic. She soon cast us off, and we pulled in toward the shore; afterward I got into the English steam launch and we looked around the coast. I went into the English launch from Mr. Lyon's boat direct. I didn't go on shore, but I saw a Russian boat there, and the Captain of the Sylvia came alongside in his boat; then we went out in the launch down to the lightship, and then we went on shore, and I walked about on shore with some officers of the Idaho, and the Captain of the Sylvia also; this was about three o'clock.\n\nI then went on board the Sylvia, in which I came to Yokohama, and was then put on board the Idaho.\n\nAdjourned till 1.30 P.M.\n\nProceedings resumed at 1.30 P.M.\n\nMr. YATES said he had forgotten to mention that the Oneida's steam whistle was blowing from the time of the collision until just before the ship sunk. I saw the man Jacobson turn it on. Jacobson was lost.\n\nTo Mr. DE LONG.—When I said that our lamps were out, I meant that they were out in the boxes; both side-lights and the masthead light were burning brightly. When we first saw the Bombay's red light, it was something over three minutes before the collision took place, as I saw all three lights and this vessel broad on my starboard bow, it was my duty to starboard my helm. If I had ported at that time, we should possibly have collided bows on; and I would no doubt have struck her on her starboard bow. If we had struck bows on, I think the Bombay would have cut into us very far. On leaving the anchorage, the Oneida passed to the East of the light-ship. I don't know exactly at what time we passed her. I saw the light-ship on our starboard side. The light-ship was about three cables lengths off when we passed. I relieved the deck at a quarter to six. The course passed to me on taking the deck was S. by E. ¼ E. I speak of the course by compass. I do know that there was not one-half of a degree deviation between the standard compass and the compass we were steering by. The navigator would know all these things. S. by E. ¼ E. was the course actually steered. And Mr. Moldaur, the navigating officer, would have made allowances for deviation and variation. The deviation of the compass on that course would not be over half a degree. I changed the course S. by E. ¼ E. once. I changed because I thought the ship was sagging into the Western shore. I headed up to S. E. by S. I headed up that way somewhere about four minutes. The next course to that was S. by E. quarter E. Mr. Moldaur ordered me to return to the original course; the reason was, \"I cannot stand any more to port.\" I left this latter course again on seeing a steamer on my starboard bow heading for me. I suppose about 12 or 15 minutes must have elapsed between the time that I received Mr. Moldaur's order to alter the course, and the time that I altered it on seeing the other steamer. The Bombay was three points on our starboard bow. When I deviated the second time, the vessels were about one mile apart at that time. I think the gun was fired four times from the Oneida; all the shots were from the same gun; the sound of the fourth was, I think, somewhat smothered, as the vessel was about sinking. The lieutenant wanted the gunner's mate to get primers and powder. I should judge the primers were got from forward; we fired four times from the same gun, because the primers and powder were at that gun; and I suppose Mr. Stewart kept them there. I only stayed there with him until he fired that one gun. None of the guns were loaded at the time of the collision. There were two lookouts on the forecastle, and one on the port side of the poop; those were all we had. One officer, Mr. Midshipman Hall, was on the forecastle all the time; there was also a quartermaster with a glass. I don't mean to say that all the signals on board, but that all that were quickly available, were lost, when the quarter was carried away. I should say that 30 seconds after the collision, the steam whistle was blown; and that five minutes elapsed before the first gun was fired. The Oneida floated fifteen minutes after collision. I think the tonnage of the Oneida was 1,030 tons, with the engine-room. (Admitted that the gross tonnage of the Bombay is 1,376 tons). The new tonnage of the Oneida was 695 tons. The Oneida had a poop-deck built up over the spar deck astern. There were double doors on each side of the deck, which closed this cabin in. Inside of this poop cabin, there was an armoury on each side; the tiller also came through there; and the relieving tackles were also in there. Abaft the tiller was a bath tub; and there were pegs in the cabin for coats. The officers need to hang their rain clothes in there. We also had large easy chairs in there. This place was used as a lounging and smoking room by the Captain and officers. Over-head, there were boxes for signals; there was a chart-table and a drawer with charts on the forward side against the bulk-head; it was quite a broad table. There was also spare gun-gear. There were always lamps kept in there; two were always kept alight in there at night. There were also some books; the log-book was sometimes kept in there. There was no cloth on the table: the colour of the table was a yellowish brown. The barometer and thermometers were in there. The cabin had two stern portes; and there were arrangements inside for setting off the life buoys. The Oneida's bridge was some distance, say one hundred feet, forward of the poop cabin. Outside the poop cabin on each side were water-closets. As regards the Captain's cabin, this was covered by a raised hatch with windows. There were windows in its sides. There was a movable slide to this hatch; \n\nEX",
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        "content_text": "# ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1865.\n\n## Offences against the Person\n\nMaliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other Person any Poison or other destructive or noxious Thing, with Intent to injure, aggrieve, or annoy such Person, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor...\n\n22. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered to or taken by any other Person any Poison or other destructive or noxious Thing, with Intent to injure, aggrieve, or annoy such Person, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n23. If upon the Trial of any Person for any Felony in the last but one preceding Section mentioned, the Jury shall not be satisfied that such Person is guilty thereof, but shall be satisfied that he is guilty of any Misdemeanor in the last preceding Section mentioned, then and in every such Case the Jury may acquit the Accused of such Felony, and find him guilty of such Misdemeanor, and thereupon he shall be liable to be punished in the same Manner, as if convicted upon an Information for such Misdemeanor.\n\n24. Whosoever, being legally liable, either as a Master or Mistress, to provide for any Apprentice or Servant necessary Food, Clothing, or Lodging, shall wilfully and without lawful Excuse refuse or neglect to provide the same, or shall unlawfully and maliciously do or cause to be done any bodily Harm to any such Apprentice or Servant, so that the Life of such Apprentice or Servant shall be endangered, or the Health of such Apprentice or Servant shall have been or shall be likely to be permanently injured, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n25. Whosoever shall unlawfully abandon or expose any Child, being under the Age of Two Years, whereby the Life of such Child shall be endangered, or the Health of such Child shall have been or shall be likely to be permanently injured, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n26. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously, by the Explosion of Gunpowder or other explosive Substance, burn, maim, disfigure, disable, or do any grievous bodily Harm to any Person, shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.\n\n27. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cause any Gunpowder or other explosive Substance to explode, or send or deliver to or cause to be taken or received by any Person any explosive Substance or any other dangerous or noxious Thing, or put or lay at any Place, or cast or throw at or upon or otherwise apply to any Person any corrosive Fluid or any destructive or explosive Substance, with Intent, in any of the Cases aforesaid, to burn, maim, disfigure, or disable any Person, or to do some grievous bodily Harm to any Person, shall, whether any bodily Injury be effected or not, be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.\n\n28. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously place, or throw in, into, upon, against, or near any Building, Ship, or Vessel any Gunpowder or other explosive Substance, with Intent to do any bodily Injury to any Person, shall, whether or not any Explosion take place, and whether or not any bodily Injury be effected, be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.\n\n## Offences against the Person, &c., with Intent to ...\n\n29. Whosoever shall set or place, or cause to be set or placed, any Spring Gun, Man Trap, or other Engine calculated to destroy Human Life or to inflict grievous bodily Harm, with the Intent that the same or whereby the same may destroy or inflict grievous bodily Harm upon a Trespasser or other Person coming in Contact therewith, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour; and whosoever shall knowingly and wilfully permit any such Spring Gun, Man Trap, or other Engine which may have been set or placed in any Place then being in or afterwards coming into his Possession or Occupation by some other Person to continue so set or placed, shall be deemed to have set and placed such Gun, Trap, or Engine with such Intent as aforesaid: Provided that nothing in this Section contained shall extend to make it illegal to set or place any Gun or Trap such as may have been or may be usually set or placed with the Intent of destroying Vermin: Provided also, that nothing in this Section shall be deemed to make it unlawful to set or place or cause to be set or placed, or to be continued set or placed, from Sunset to Sunrise, any Spring Gun, Man Trap, or other Engine which shall be set or placed, or caused or continue to be set or placed, in a Dwelling-house, for the Protection thereof.\n\n30. Whosoever, having the Charge of any Carriage or Vehicle, shall, by wanton or furious Driving or Racing, or other wilful Misconduct, or by wilful Neglect, do or cause to be done any bodily Harm to any Person whatsoever, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n## Assaults\n\n31. Whosoever shall, by Threats or Force, obstruct or prevent, or endeavour to obstruct or prevent, any Clergyman or other Minister in or from celebrating Divine Service or otherwise officiating in any Church, Chapel, Meeting House, or other Place of Divine Worship, or in or from the Performance of his Duty in the lawful Burial of the Dead in any Churchyard or other Burial Place, or shall strike or offer any Violence to, or shall, upon any Civil Process, or under the Pretence of executing any Civil Process, arrest any Clergyman or other Minister who is engaged in, or to the Knowledge of the Offender is about to engage in, any of the Rites or Duties in this Section aforesaid, or who to the Knowledge of the Offender, shall be going to perform the same or returning from the Performance thereof, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n32. Whosoever shall assault and strike or wound any Police Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Officer, or other Person whatsoever lawfully authorized, in or on account of the Exercise of his Duty in or concerning the Preservation of any Vessel in Distress, or of any Vessel, Goods, or Effects wrecked, stranded, or cast on Shore, or lying under Water, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n33. Whosoever shall assault any Person with Intent to commit Felony, or shall assault, resist, or wilfully obstruct any Constable or Police Officer in the due Execution of his Duty, or any Person acting in Aid of such Officer, or shall assault any Person with Intent to resist or prevent the lawful Apprehension or Detainer of himself or of any other Person for any Offence, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n34. Whosoever shall beat, or use any Violence or Threat of Violence to any Person, with Intent to deter or hinder him from buying, selling, or otherwise disposing of or to compel him to buy, sell, or otherwise dispose of, any Corn, Rice, or other Grain, Flour, Plantains, Yams, Sweet Potatoes or other Vegetables or Salt in any Market or other Place, or shall beat or use any such Violence or Threat to any Person having the care or charge of any Corn, Rice, or other Grain, Flour, Plantains, Yams, Sweet Potatoes, or other Vegetables or Salt whilst on the way to or from any City, Town, or other Place with Intent to stop the Conveyance of the same, shall, on Conviction thereof, before any Police Magistrate, be liable to be imprisoned and kept to Hard Labour in the ...",
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        "content_text": "# ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1865.\n\n## Offences against the Person.\n\n### Forcible Taking or Detention.\n\n50. Whosoever shall, by Force, take away or detain against his Will any Man, Boy, Woman, or Female Child with Intent to sell him or her or to procure a Ransom or Benefit for his or her Liberation, shall be guilty of Felony and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years with or without Hard Labour.\n\n### Child Stealing.\n\n51. Whosoever shall unlawfully, either by Force or Fraud, lead or take away, or decoy or entice away or detain any Child under the Age of Fourteen Years, with Intent to deprive any Parent, Guardian, or other Person having the lawful Care or Charge of such Child of the Possession of such Child, or with Intent to steal any Article upon or about the Person of such Child, to whomsoever such Article may belong, and whosoever shall, with any such Intent, receive or harbour any such Child, knowing the same to have been, by Force or Fraud, led, taken, decoyed, enticed away, or detained as in this Section before-mentioned, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping: Provided, that no Person who shall have claimed any Right to the Possession of such Child, or shall be the Mother, or shall have claimed to be the Father of an illegitimate Child, shall be liable to be prosecuted by virtue hereof on account of the getting Possession of such Child, or taking such Child out of the Possession of any Person having the lawful Charge thereof.\n\n### Bigamy.\n\n52. Whosoever, being married, shall marry any other Person during the Life of the former Husband or Wife, whether the second Marriage shall have taken place in this Colony or elsewhere, shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour: Provided that nothing in this Section contained shall extend to any Second Marriage contracted elsewhere than in this Colony by any other than a Subject of Her Majesty, or to any Person marrying a Second Time whose Husband or Wife shall have been continually absent from such Person for the Space of Seven Years then last past, and shall not have been known by such Person to be living within that Time, or shall extend to any Person who, at the Time of such Second Marriage, shall have been divorced from the Bond of the First Marriage, or to any Person whose former Marriage shall have been declared void by the Sentence of any Court of competent Jurisdiction.\n\n### Administering Drugs to procure Abortion.\n\n53. Every Woman, being with Child, who with Intent to procure her own Miscarriage, shall unlawfully administer to herself any Poison or other noxious Thing, or shall unlawfully use any Instrument or other Means whatsoever with the like Intent, and whosoever, with Intent to procure the Miscarriage of any Woman, whether she be or be not with Child, shall unlawfully administer to her or cause to be taken by her any Poison or other noxious Thing, or shall unlawfully use any Instrument or other Means whatsoever with the like Intent, shall be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.\n\n### Procuring Drugs, &c., to cause Abortion.\n\n54. Whosoever shall unlawfully supply or procure any Poison or other noxious Thing or any Instrument or Thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used or employed with Intent to procure the Miscarriage of any Woman, whether she be or be not with Child, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for the Term of Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n### Concealing the Birth of a Child.\n\n55. If any Woman shall be delivered of a Child, every Person who shall, by any secret Disposition of the Dead Body of the said Child, whether such Child died before, at, or after its Birth, endeavour to conceal the Birth thereof, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour: Provided that if any Person tried for the Murder of any Child shall be acquitted thereof, it shall be lawful for the Jury by whose Verdict such Person shall be acquitted to find, in case it shall so appear in Evidence, that the Child had recently been born, and that such Person did, by some secret Disposition of the Dead Body of such Child, endeavour to conceal the Birth thereof, and thereupon the Court may pass such Sentence as if such Person had been convicted upon an Information for the Concealment of the Birth.\n\n### Unnatural Offence.\n\n56. Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable Crime of Buggery, committed either with Mankind or with any Animal, shall be guilty of Felony and shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life, or for any Term not less than Ten Years.\n\n### Sodomy and Bestiality.\n\n57. Whosoever shall attempt to commit the said abominable Crime, or shall be guilty of any Assault with Intent to commit the same, or of any indecent Assault upon any Male Person, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Ten Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour.\n\n### Carnal Knowledge defined.\n\n58. Whenever upon the Trial for any Offence punishable under this Ordinance it may be necessary to prove carnal Knowledge, it shall not be necessary to prove the actual Emission of Seed in order to constitute a carnal Knowledge, but the carnal Knowledge shall be deemed complete upon Proof of Penetration only.\n\n### Making Gunpowder to commit Offences and searching for the same.\n\n59. Whosoever shall knowingly have in his Possession, or make or manufacture, any Gunpowder, explosive Substance, or any dangerous or noxious Thing, or any Machine, Engine, Instrument, or Thing, with Intent by means thereof to commit or for the purpose of enabling any other Person to commit, any of the Felonies in this Ordinance mentioned, shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement, and, if a Male under the Age of Sixteen Years, with or without Whipping.\n\n### Searching Houses, &c.\n\n60. Upon reasonable Cause assigned upon Oath or Declaration by any Person that any such Gunpowder, or other explosive, dangerous, or noxious Substance or Thing, or any such Machine, Engine, Instrument, or Thing, is suspected to be made, kept, or carried for the purpose of being used in committing any of the Felonies in this Ordinance mentioned, a Police Magistrate may issue a Warrant under his Hand and Seal for searching, in the Day-time, any House, Mill, Magazine, Storehouse, Warehouse, Shop, Cellar, Yard, Wharf, or other Place, or any Carriage, Waggon, Cart, Ship, Boat, or Vessel, in which the same is suspected to be made, kept, or carried for such purpose as hereinbefore mentioned; and the same Substances and Things shall be brought before a Police Magistrate, and, upon due Proof that the same has been made, kept, or carried for any of the purposes aforesaid, whether in the Presence or Absence of the Owner of the same Substances and Things, a Police Magistrate may declare the same to be and the same shall be forfeited accordingly; and every Police Magistrate and Person acting in the Execution of any such Warrant shall have, for seizing, removing to proper Places, and detaining all such Gunpowder, explosive, dangerous, or noxious Substances, Machines, Engines, Instruments, or Things, found upon such Search, which he shall have good cause to suspect to be intended to be used in committing any such Offence, and the Barrels, Packages, Cases, and other Receptacles in which the same shall be, the same Powers and Protections which are given by `Ordinance No. 10 of 1844`.",
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        "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING ALTERATIONS OF ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE,--Continued.\n\n## EXPENDITURE.\n\n| ESTIMATED FOR 1871 | ESTIMATED FOR 1872 | INCREASE | DECREASE |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. | £ s. d. |\n| Brought forward, 129,772.60 | 131,638.60 | 1,041. 5. 0 | 4,998.00 652.10. 0 3,132.00 |\n| JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS, 9,948.00 | 10,624.00 | 140.16. 8 | 676.00 |\n| REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES, 192.00 | 192.00 |  |  |\n| ECCLESIASTICAL DEPARTMENT, 1,134.00 | 1,134.00 |  |  |\n| EDUCATIONAL Do., 14,292.00 | 15,774.00 | 308.15. 0 | 1,482.00 |\n| MEDINAL Do., 24,316.00 | 25,196.00 | 183. 6. 8 | 880.00 |\n| POLICE MAGISTRATES' Do., 6,748.00 | 7,378.00 | 131. 5. 0 | 630.00 |\n| POLICE Do., 172,395.20 | 188,561.10 | 3,367.17.11 |  |\n| GAOL Do., 42,041.00 | 44,195.00 | 448.15. 0 | 2,154.00 |\n| FIRE BRIGADE Do., 7,276.00 | 7,348.00 | 15. 0. 0 | 72.00 |\n| CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES, 1,256.00 | 1,756.00 | 104. 3. 4 | 500,00 |\n| TRANSPORT,  |  |  |  |\n| WORKS AND Buildings,  |  |  |  |\n| ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, 4,500.00 | 4,500.00 |  |  |\n|  | 119,000.00 | 87,000.00 | 6,666.13. 4 |\n|  | 32,000.00 | 31,000.00 | 38,000.00 | 1,458. 6. 8 | 7,000.00 |\n| Carried forward, 563,870.80 | 563,296.70 | 7,199.11.3 | 34,557.90 7,319. 3. 4 35,132.00 |\n\n## EXPLANATORY REMARKS.\n\nThe present Estimate provides for an allowance of $672 for the Clerk and Messenger of the Crown Solicitor.\n\nThe Secretary of State's sanction having been asked for an increase of $720 to the Salary of Mr. STEWART, provision is therefore made in the Estimate of 1872. It is also proposed to increase the allowances of the department for Chinese Teachers and Contingencies by $762.\n\nThe Estimate provides for an allowance of $480 to the Health Officer for Boatmen, and for an increased expenditure of $400 at the Lock Hospital.\n\nAn increase of $720 to the Salary of the Coroner having been recommended to the Secretary of State, increased provision is consequently made in the Estimate.\n\nThis increase is caused by the probable expenditure of $11,000 for the passages of 40 Europeans, and by an increase of the Chinese Force.\n\nThe Council having sanctioned an increase of the Salaries of Turnkeys in 1871, the Estimate of 1872 also provides for similar payments.\n\nThe Salaries of the two Engine Drivers and two Foremen having been increased by $2 each per month, provision is accordingly made in the Estimate.\n\nThe Pok-fu-lum Reservoir and the Court House having been completed, the Estimate of 1872 is naturally reduced.\n\nThe proposed Bridges at Bowrington and Tytam have necessitated the increase in the Estimate of 1872 over the preceding year.",
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  \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Messenger,\n    50 0 0\n    240.00\n    15 0 0\n    72.00\n    \n  \n\nEXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n  \n    FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS\n    PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n    TOTAL\n  \n  \n    £ s. d.\n    $ c.\n    £ s. d.\n    $ c.\n    £ s. d.\n    $ c.\n  \n  \n    FIRE BRIGADE.\n  \n  \n    SALARIES:-\n  \n  \n    Superintendent,\n    200 0 0\n    960.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Assistant Superintendents, at $480 each,\n    200 0 0\n    960.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clerk,\n    25 0 0\n    120.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Engine Drivers, at £25, $120 each,\n    50 0 0\n    240.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Assistant do., at £15, $72 each,\n    30 0 0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Stokers, at £25, $120 each,\n    50 0 0\n    240.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 do., at £20, $96 each,\n    40 0 0\n    192.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Overseer of Water Works,\n    12 10 0\n    60.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Interpreter,\n    10 0 0\n    48.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 do., at £7.10.0, $30 each,\n    22 10 0\n    108.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2 Foremen at £15, $72 each,\n    30 0 0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4 Assistant Foremen at £10, $48 each,\n    40 0 0\n    192.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14 Firemen at £7.10.0, $30 each,\n    105 0 0\n    504.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    40 Chinese Firemen at £2.10.0, $12 each,\n    100 0 0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    8 Chinese for cleaning Engines and on Night Watch at £15, $72 each,\n    120 0 0\n    576.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES :-\n  \n  \n    40 Chinese in Charge of Subsidiary Stations at £2.10.0, $12 each,\n    100 0 0\n    480.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    To 3 European Turnkeys, to act as Assistant Overseers of Chain Gang at £17.10.0, $84 each,\n    52 10 0\n    252.00\n    52 10 0\n    252.00\n    \n  \n  \n    ALLOWANCES:--\n    1,135 0 0\n    5,448.00\n    \n    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3,500.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Gratuities to discharged Prisoners,\n    \n    \n    20 16 8\n    100.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Incidental Expenses,\n    \n    \n    375 0 0\n    1,800.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Executioner's Fee, and for inflicting Corporal Punishment,\n    \n    \n    20 16 8\n    100.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    TOTAL GAOLS,..\n    \n    \n    5,062 10 0\n    24,300.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    £9,214.15.10\n    $44,231.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n  \n    \n    £ s. d.\n    $ c.\n    £ s. d.\n    $ c.\n    £ s. d.\n    $ c.\n  \n  \n    SALARIES:--\n  \n  \n    Superintendent,\n    45 0 0\n    216.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    3 Gardeners, Government House, at £15 0 0, $72 each\n    45 0 0\n    216.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Gardener, Government Offices,\n    15 0 0\n    72.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    1 Foreman,\n    30 0 0\n    144.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4 Gardeners, at £17 10 0, $84 each\n    70 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        "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED.\n\n### FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n### PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY.\n\n### TOTAL.\n\n## GAOLS.\n\n| £ s. d | $ c. | £ s. d. | $ c. | £ s. d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **VICTORIA GAOL.** |  |  |  |  |\n| SALARIES:- |  |  |  |  |\n| Superintendent, |  | $3,000.0.0 | 2,880.00 | 100.0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Warden, |  | $950.0.0 | 1,200.00 |  |  |\n| Head Turnkey, |  | $150.0.0 | 720.00 |  |  |\n| Interpreter, |  | $126.0.0 | 600.00 |  |  |\n| 12 European Turnkeys, 1st class at $480 each |  | $5,760.0.0 |  |  |  |\n| 6 2nd at $482 |  | $2,140.0.0 | 5,472.00 |  |  |\n| Matron, |  | $37.10.0 | 180.00 |  |  |\n| Debtors' Gaol Turnkey, |  | $60.0.0 | 240.00 |  |  |\n| Chain Gang Guard, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Messenger, |  | $15.0.0 | 72.00 |  |  |\n| 9 1st class at $312 each |  | $987.10.0 | 4,740.00 |  |  |\n| 7 2nd at $276 |  |  |  |  |  |\n| CONTINGENCIES:- |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Incidental Expenses, |  | $3,355.0.0 | 16,104.00 | 100.0.0 | 480.00 |\n| ESTABLISHMENT,.. |  | $3,455.0.0 | 10,584.00 |  |  |\n| GAOLS, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT. |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Provisions for Prisoners, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Lighting the Gaol,. |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Clothing, Shoes, &c., including Clothing for Staff,. |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Gratuities to discharged Prisoners, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Incidental Expenses, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Executioner's Fee, and for inflicting Corporal Punishment, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| TOTAL GAOLS,........ | £3,465. 8.4 | $16,634.00 |  |  |  |\n\n## COLONIAL ESTIMATES--HONGKONG.\n\n### FIRE BRIGADE.\n\n| £ s. d | $ c. | £ s. d. | $ c. | £ s. d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **SALARIES:-** |  |  |  |  |\n| Superintendent, | £473 |  | 200.0.0 | 960.00 |\n| 2 Assistant do., |  |  | 960.00 | 960.00 |\n| 2 Assistant Superintendents, at $480 each, |  |  | 30.0.0 | 144.00 |\n| Clerk, |  |  | 100.0.0 | 480.00 |\n| Engineer,.. |  |  | 60.0.0 | 288.00 |\n| 2 Engine Drivers, at £30, $144 each, |  |  | 40.0.0 | 192.00 |\n| 2 Stokers, at £20, 98 |  |  | 50.0.0 | 240.00 |\n| 2 Do., at £20, 98 |  |  | 40.0.0 | 192.00 |\n| Overseer of Water Works,. |  |  | 12.10.0 | 60.00 |\n| 1 Interpreter, |  |  | 10.0.0 | 48.00 |\n| 3 Do., at £7.10.0, $36 each,. |  |  | 22.10.0 | 108.00 |\n| 3 Foremen, at £20, $96 |  |  | 00.0.0 | 288.00 |\n| 4 Assistant Foremen, at £15, $72 |  |  | 00.0.0 | 288.00 |\n| 14 Firemen, at £11.5.0, $54 |  |  | 157.10.0 | 756.00 |\n| 40 Chinese Firemen, at £3.15.0, $18 |  |  | 150.0.0 | 720.00 |\n| 8 Chinese for cleaning Engines and on Night Watch, 2 at $84 each, and 6 at $79 each,. |  |  | 125.0.0 | 600.00 |\n| **CONTINGENCIES:-** |  |  |  |  |\n| Repairs to Engines, Hose, &c., and Gratuities, |  |  | 1,317.10.0 | 6,324.00 |\n|  |  |  | 1,817.10.0 | 6,324.00 |\n|  |  |  | 312.10.0 | 1,500.00 |\n|  |  |  | 2,201.13.4 | 11,000.00 |\n|  |  |  | 375.0.0 | 1,800.00 |\n| **TOTAL FIRE BRIGADE,..** | £1,630.0.0 | $7,824.00 |  |  |\n\n## GOVERNMENT GARDENS.\n\n| £ s. d | $ c. | £ s. d. | $ c. | £ s. d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **SALARIES:-** |  |  |  |  |\n| Superintendent, | £583. 6.8 | 2,800.00 |  |  |\n|  | £280.0.0 | 1,344.00 |  |  |\n| 3 Gardeners, Government House, at £15.0.0, $72, | £45.0.0 | 216.00 |  |  |\n| 1 Gardener, Government Offices, | £15.0.0 | 72.00 |  |  |\n| 1 Foreman, | £30.0.0 | 144.00 |  |  |\n| 4 Gardeners, at £17.10.0, $84, | £70.0.0 | 336.00 |  |  |\n| 19 Coolies, at £15.0.0, $72,... | £285.0.0 | 1,308.00 |  |  |\n| 1 Forester, | £22.10.0 | 108.00 |  |  |\n| 5 Foresters, at £15.0.0, $72, | £75.0.0 | 360.00 |  |  |\n| 1 Watchman, | £18.10.0 | 88.80 |  |  |\n|  | £875.0.0 | 1,800.00 |  |  |\n|  | £3,666,13.4 | 17,600.00 |  |  |\n|  | £7,132. 1. 8 | 34,234.00 |  |  |\n|  | £841, 0.0 | 4,036.80 |  |  |\n|  | £841. 0.0 | 4,036.80 |  |  |\n| **ALLOWANCES:--** |  |  |  |  |\n| To Superintendent, for Chair Coolies, | £45. 0.0 | 216.00 |  |  |\n| **TOTAL GOVERNMENT GARDENS,..** | £880. 0.0 | $4,252.80 |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL.\n\n## HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 1873,\n\n### MARINE COURT OF ENQUIRY,\n\n#### \"GLENLYON.\"\n\nA Marine Court of Enquiry was held to-day, the 12th inst, at the Marine Magistracy to enquire into the circumstances attending the loss of life on board the British steamer Glenlyon during her voyage from Singapore to Hongkong. The Court was composed of the Hon. C. May (first Police Magistrate); H. G. Thomsett, Esq., B.N. (Harbour Master); Henry Lowcock, Esq., (unofficial Justice of the Peace); R. H. Cairns, Esq., (Government Marine Surveyor); and Seth Doane, Esq., (Master Mariner and Commander of the S. S. Mikado).\n\nJ. Templeton, Master of the Glenlyon, was first examined. He joined her at London on 1st September last. Her registered tonnage is 1373 tons. She left London on the evening of the 13th September, had a full general cargo for China and Japan. She had over 3000 tons general cargo on board. She arrived at Singapore on 23rd October, discharging about 300 tons there, and taking in about 300 tons to fill up space. The ship drew 21ft. 8in. aft, and 19 feet forward, when leaving Singapore. She took in some Chinese passengers, the agents (Martin, Dyos & Co.) issued passage tickets; there were 281 issued. The passengers were to be taken to Hongkong. Witness produced the license from the Harbour Master (Capt. Ellis) at Singapore for leaving port with the passengers. Witness could not account for its not being signed. It was handed to witness by the Harbour Master. Witness did not notice the absence of the signature. The certificate permitted witness to carry 300 Chinese passengers. Witness did not know that inquiries had been made if there was sufficient room for the men in case of bad weather. The ship lay at Tanjong Pagar Wharf at Singapore in the New Harbour. The names of the Chinese passengers were not given in the list, simply the numbers of the tickets. The Chinese passengers came on board just as they liked on the day of departure. They brought their luggage with them and their provisions, as they had to feed themselves. The ship did not even supply fuel. The whole ship was filled with cargo except the saloon, forecastle and similar places. There was no room to put the Chinese below in case of bad weather. The Harbour Master came on board in Singapore, but there was no passenger then. The certificate was given to witness on the day previous to departure. Witness did not remember the Harbour Master having made any official inspection of the ship. The certificate stated that the Chinese passengers were to go on deck. No official came on board on Sunday to count the number of passengers; in fact, witness did not know how many were actually on board; he believed there were about 281, as described in the document received from the agents. They stowed their luggage as well as they could on the upper deck. Witness did not know that the crew lashed together the luggage of the passengers on deck. No luggage was below, until the gale came on. The ship left Singapore about noon on the 26th; the weather was fine then, and the ship steamed about 10 or 10 knots an hour during that time. On the 30th at noon, the wind which had been increasing during the morning, began to blow hard, gradually increasing in violence. At 3 p.m. it was blowing a gale, and the engines were reduced to half speed. Before this, they were reduced to \"slow.\" It was raining very heavily, the wind was about N., and the ship was heading N., keeping ahead of the sea. The sea was becoming high, a sharp chopping sea at the time. There were no bulwarks to the ship. The crew were protected by an iron railing, and nettings abaft the bridge. The nettings were made of lead lines, 1-inch line. On Thursday afternoon, the 30th, when the weather was very bad, the barometer falling all the time, witness did not give any orders as to the safety of the Chinese, as they were safe then. On the 31st, witness then gave directions to send the Chinese into all the spare places below. They were in the saloon, cabins, forecastle, engine room, galley, closets, bath rooms, in fact everywhere that could afford a shelter. On the 31st about 8 a.m. witness was disabled, while attending to the steering gear, by a sea which came over the stand knocking him down. Witness was rendered insensible for a short time, and his arms were rendered powerless. Witness could only stand at the companion to look after the ship as well as he could. He gave up the control of the ship to the chief officer, telling him to look after the ship as well as he could. Up to the time of witness being disabled, witness did not hear of the loss of any men. On the morning of the 1st inst., witness saw the dead body of a Chinaman on deck. About 11 a.m. on the 31st, a seaman named George Key was at the relieving tackles, and was washed overboard. When they left Singapore, the ship drew 8 inches of water less than when leaving London. The cargo taken in at Singapore consisted principally of rattan. After giving accommodation below to the Chinese, there were still about 40 to 50 of them on deck, remaining on the house around the funnel, which was amidships. Others were lying on a broken horse box that was lashed flat on deck to some ringbolts. The ship was taking in water from all points. The port life boat was washed away; the starboard cutter and starboard life boat were smashed. There were 80 cases of acids on the upper deck amidships. The acid caught fire before witness was disabled, and witness sanctioned the cases being thrown overboard for the sake of safety. Very likely witness might have given the order to throw the luggage of the Chinese overboard in order to clear the deck. It had broken adrift and was washing about the deck, endangering people's lives. During the gale, all the crew were on deck. On the morning of the 1st, witness overheard some conversation amongst the crew about some of the deck passengers having been killed or having jumped overboard, one man jumping in after his box was thrown overboard, as it contained $5,000. Witness was not certain of what he heard, as he was suffering from his bruises. Witness saw the dead body lying in the scuttles on the port side abreast the mizen mast. It was thrown overboard. There were no marks of violence about the body, and witness thought that the man died of simple exhaustion and exposure to the weather. That was the only dead body witness saw. Witness did not know by report that any men had been washed overboard. Witness only knew of the two deaths he mentioned above, viz., the Chinaman and the seaman. The gale subsided about 8 a.m. on the 1st. The ship arrived on the 3rd. From the 1st to the 3rd, no complaints were made to him of men having been washed overboard. Several of the passengers could speak English, but they made no complaint whatever. The ship arrived during the night and was anchored off about a mile or a mile and a half eastward of Green Island. Boats from the shore came alongside, bringing fruit &c. to the passengers on board. Witness did not know that any passengers went on shore that night. If they wanted to go, witness would not have prevented them. They weighed anchor and steamed up to the Harbour about 8 a.m. on the 4th, a good many passengers had already landed. They could land when they liked. There was only one man of the crew drunk during the gale; this was on the 30th. He was in the saloon, baling water. When the gale subsided, witness did not make an attempt to count the number of the men in order to see how many were lost. He did not count them previous to the gale. He did not count them after the gale because he could not see the object gained by counting them, as he did not know how many came on board. Witness did not make any enquiries among the Chinese to find out how many lives had been lost among them. It did not occur to him that it was necessary. Witness had no knowledge that the crew and men in the engine room charged the Chinese passengers money for giving them shelter, in the forecastle &c.",
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        "content_text": "## Inquiry into the Glenlyon Steamship Incident\n\nWitness could only come on deck on the night of arrival, when he came up merely to give the order to cast anchor. If there had been bulwarks, they would not have saved the men from the tackles. If the ship had strong bulwarks, she must have foundered during the gale.\n\nBy Mr. Brereton, who appeared to watch the case on behalf of the ship, (through the Court): Witness did not know that the ship had been surveyed before taking in the Chinese passengers. Witness' first command was a steamer in July 1864. Witness had been frequently employed to carry Asiatics between ports in India, sometimes as many as one thousand at a time. Witness had nearly always carried the passengers on deck between Calcutta and the Straits Settlements. There was no accommodation in the between-decks for them.\n\nWitness was accustomed to carry passengers in that way on the coast of India, and the Straits Settlements. He had never lost a single passenger before. Captain Thomsett said he might not have met with a typhoon before. Witness replied that he had, and a very severe one too.\n\nContinued: After he had been disabled to the time of arrival, he did not consider himself relieved from the responsibilities although he did not take an active part in the command of the ship.\n\nJohn Smith, Chief Mate of the steamship Glenlyon, stated that he joined her in London on 9th September last. Witness held a master's certificate; he had commanded a vessel in Liverpool. He left her in order to go in this steamer. He recollected the arrival of the steamer at Singapore on the 23rd October about 4 or 5 pm. They took in 2800 tons of cargo in London altogether, discharging about 300 tons at Singapore. The discharged cargo was heavy, consisting chiefly of copper. She took in about 300 tons of light cargo, chiefly of rattan, at Singapore. The ship drew 21.3 and 18.10 when leaving Singapore. About 280 Chinese passengers were taken on board at Singapore. He believed that was the number, because the agents had told him so. Witness did not count them. They came on board on the evening of Saturday, throughout the night and on the morning of the 26th. They brought their luggage and provisions with them. Their luggage was stowed on the upper deck, secured. They lashed the boxes themselves partly, and the crew lashed them partly for them. There was no place below the upper deck appropriated either to the Chinese passengers or their luggage. Water only was issued to them; they cooked their own meals in those small clay stoves with charcoal brought by them. Fine weather was experienced from the 26th to the 30th. On that day the wind began to increase, and at 3 p.m. it was blowing a gale of wind. The barometer began to fall. Measures were then taken to secure the ship, and for the safety of the passengers and their luggage, some of which were stowed below in the forecastle, chart room and store room. As many as possible of the passengers were then sent down, others remaining on the top of their luggage. They were sent down to the water closets, bath rooms, mess-room, companion way, the captain's cabin, saloon and engine rooms. After this disposition, there were left about 40 on deck; these were on the midship house, around the funnel casings. It was about 54 feet long by about 20 feet broad. Some of the luggage was placed on the after part of the bridge. There were about five Chinese lying on a horse box. There were 80 cases of acids on deck, and they caught fire on Friday morning (31st) and were thrown overboard. The Captain was injured about 8 am on the 31st. They were just finishing heaving the acids overboard. Witness saw some of the crew pick the captain up from the quadrant stand near the rudder. He was sensible when witness saw him. He was carried then into the cabin on deck. He came out once when the engine room skylight was broken. The captain told witness that he was unable to move, and that witness must take charge of the ship. At 10 a.m. 31st, a seaman named George Key was washed overboard from the relieving tackles. About an hour, or two, a Chinaman jumped overboard from about the starboard main-rigging. Witness saw him jump. The gale was very violent with a very heavy sea on about this time. Some very heavy seas were coming on board about the bridge. Considering the class of vessel, the ship was a very good sea-boat; a ship of the old construction might have made better weather. Witness saw three more Chinamen lying dead; they were either killed or died of exhaustion. The bodies were lying before the after house, about the companion way, near the mizen. Witness knew of no other deaths either from personal knowledge or by report. Witness did not see any Chinese washed overboard. Witness wrote the ship's log.\n\n(Mr. May called witness' attention to the inconsistency of his evidence with an entry in the ship's log, the latter stating that some Chinese were washed overboard, three killed by their luggage drifting about, and several disabled.) Witness said by washing overboard, he meant the man who jumped overboard.\n\nCaptain Thomsett said the word \"some\" would not be expressed by one. He wished an explanation. He also drew witness' attention to his evidence given before him in connection with another inquiry, wherein he had stated that two men jumped overboard, whereas he only said one now. Witness said he only saw one, and he did not see any washed overboard.\n\nCapt. Thomsett said he would have a copy of the log made and annexed to the minutes. Witness had given six deaths before, and he had only accounted for five deaths now. Witness had made three different statements, one on the log, one in his evidence before, and one in his evidence now. Where did he get the information for the entry in the log?\n\nWitness said that when he wrote the ship's log, his head was in a jumble, and that was the only way he could account for the discrepancy. He must have put the entry in the way he did from what the English-speaking Chinese passenger informed him that he thought some Chinese passengers had been washed overboard.\n\nWitness was then asked to account for his statement made six days ago that two men jumped overboard. He replied that it was a mistake when he said that on the 6th instant. He should have stated that he only saw one jump overboard.\n\nContinued: After the gale, in consequence of the Chinese having lost their provisions, bread was served out to them as much as they required. No meat was given them. They did not want any meat; they only wanted bread. Witness ordered the Chinese luggage to be thrown overboard because it was washing about the deck endangering the lives of those who steered. He saw no struggling between the Chinese and crew for their luggage when the crew threw it overboard. Witness could not say whether money was paid by the Chinese for admission into the forecastle. He heard some did pay, how much he could not say. He ordered the Chinese into the forecastle.\n\nCapt. Thomsett could not understand why the men should pay for going down the forecastle, when they were ordered therein. Witness said he did not hear of the payment until after the storm. He did hear of the Chinamen paying money for admission into the engine-room. He could not say how he heard it. Witness did not see any seamen with dollars in their hands. Witness saw some dollars lying on deck, but did not see any one picking them up, not even Chinese. This was during the gale.\n\nWitness knew an able seaman named Skeat was very drunk during the gale. He was baling water out of the saloon; there was another named John McKenis, also a seaman. He was employed likewise in baling water out. Both were unable to work, but Skeat was off duty. Witness knew of no other man being drunk. Witness knew of no death amongst the Chinese after the gale. He heard report of robbery amongst the Chinese; the day after the gale they were fighting with their umbrellas; witness went to see what was the matter...\n\nPage 467",
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        "content_text": "**lish** is likely \"English\". Here is the proofread text in Markdown format:\n\nEnglish, told him that one Chinese had stolen $475 from another Chinese. He had no complaint of any robbery by the crew. Witness reported five deaths to the Captain. Witness after the gale went round with the Chinaman who could speak English to ascertain how many men had died during the gale, and could only find out the deaths he enumerated above. Before the storm, the cook asked witness if he could let his room to the Chinamen, and witness replied he could. The room was certified for 4 men. He did not know how much he let it for. It was quite customary for the crew to let their berths to deck passengers.\n\nThe Chief Engineer was next examined. He stated that when the bad weather came on, he took some children and women into the engine room, and towards the night, the 2nd and 3rd engineers brought about 24 Chinese passengers into the engine room. He received no order from anyone to take in the passengers to the engine room; he heard the captain say that they must be made as comfortable as possible. He and the boatswain helped 7 or 8 Chinese on to the bridge. The 2nd and 3rd engineers gave witness about $25 from time to time, which they had received from the passengers. Their object in giving the money to witness was for security. The 2nd engineer gave him $18, and the 3rd $7. Witness did not know that the men who were assisted on to the bridge gave the boatsw... (rest of the text corrected accordingly)\n\nHere is the rest of the text:\n\nThe Chief Engineer was next examined. He stated that when the bad weather came on, he took some children and women into the engine room, and towards the night, the 2nd and 3rd engineers brought about 24 Chinese passengers into the engine room. He received no order from anyone to take in the passengers to the engine room; he heard the captain say that they must be made as comfortable as possible. He and the boatswain helped 7 or 8 Chinese on to the bridge. The 2nd and 3rd engineers gave witness about $25 from time to time, which they had received from the passengers. Their object in giving the money to witness was for security. The 2nd engineer gave him $18, and the 3rd $7. Witness did not know that the men who were assisted on to the bridge gave the boatswain any money. On the morning of the 1st, the captain told witness to wash the blood off the face of a man who was lying on the ropes near the after hatch; his face was battered and was covered with blood. That Chinaman died about an hour and a half to two hours afterwards. That was the only case of death he knew of. He heard of no other death, with the exception of the seaman who was washed overboard. There was no accommodation for more men than those that were actually in the engine room. Witness knew of no instance of drunkenness on board. When the money was given over to the witness, nothing was said about division amongst the engine room people, and when he said so in his evidence, it was only a matter of supposition.\n\nMr May said it was dangerous to give anything of supposition on oath.\n\nContinued - Witness saw one or two Chinamen hand money to the seamen; they did so freely.\n\nCaptain Thomsett referred to the evidence given by witness before Mr Mitchell and observed that by reading the portion about the men paying $1 to $2 for their accommodation, he understood that no man would be allowed in unless they paid for their accommodation, and the witness must have said that when such was recorded in evidence.\n\nWitness said he must have given that evidence. The 2nd defendant in the case before the Police Magistrate was therein termed a fireman. (That defendant was described in that case to have given $7 to the witness, and witness was asked to account for the discrepancy of stating now that he knew no fireman receiving any money from the men)\n\nWitness said it might be that he did receive some money from the 2nd defendant. The women and children paid no money; witness was quite sure of that.\n\nHeary Fisher, the boatswain of the Glenlyon, was next examined. He was on board as such during the voyage from Singapore to Hongkong. There were some Chinese passengers, but how many he could not say. Their boxes were secured to the hawsers; they did the lashing themselves; they would not allow any of the crew to touch their luggage. He heard during the storm the chief mate's order to shove as many of the Chinese as possible into the water closets, the chart room, and any other spare place. He assisted some up the bridge. He saw the boxes knocking about on deck and getting foul of the steering gear. Witness did not see anyone washed overboard; he heard one man jump overboard, and he saw his body floating aft. He saw a dead body aft.\n\nWitness had a cabin in the forecastle, but he did not let it to the Chinamen. He did not know that they had to pay for going down. Witness lived in the same room with the carpenter.\n\nThe cook told him that he had let his room. Only two men got drunk during the gale.\n\nWitness had not heard if any Chinese had been washed overboard. Witness heard that some Chinese had been washed overboard; who told him he could not say. Witness did not make enquiries after the typhoon to ascertain how many Chinese had been lost. When he helped to throw the luggage overboard, he heard a seaman observe that money was dropping out from a box.\n\nThe Court was then adjourned till tomorrow, the 13th instant, at 10 a.m.\n\n## MARINE COURT OF ENQUIRY\n\n### S.S. \"GLENLYON\"\n\nThe Marine Court of Enquiry was resumed today, 13th inst., at the Marine Magistracy to enquire into the circumstances attending the loss of life on board the British steamer Glenlyon during her voyage from Singapore to Hongkong. The Court was composed of the Hon. C. May (first Police Magistrate); H. G. Thomsett, Esq., R.N. (Harbour Master); Henry Lowcock, Esq., (unofficial Justice of the Peace); R. H. Cairns, Esq., (Government Marine Surveyor); and Seth Doane, Esq., (Master Mariner and Commander of the S.S. Mikado).\n\nThomas Barnes, quarter-master on board the Glenlyon, having been at sea for 18 years, stated that he joined the Glenlyon in London. He recollected the ship's arrival at Singapore on 23rd October. Witness's duty on board was to keep two watches and to steer. He did not know exactly how many Chinese passengers came on board. The ship sailed on the 26th and met with a gale on the 30th. Witness was on deck during the whole time of the gale, sometimes on the bridge steering, and sometimes aft. He recollected some Chinese on deck during the gale, about 30; some were on the house round the funnel, others were on the after hatch, before the mizen mast. He saw two men lying dead in the water ways; he was at the wheel and did not take much notice whether they had any disturbance or not. Witness heard of a man having jumped overboard, but he did not see any. He heard of reports of men having been washed overboard, but from whom he heard these reports he could not say. Witness was at the after wheel; the wheel was gone, and they had to steer with a crow-bar. He lived in the forecastle. He had never been in the China Sea with passengers. There were some Chinese in the forecastle; the chief mate ordered them down. Witness received $7 for letting his berth; all the berths were let. He let his just as the gale commenced. They asked to let the berths.\n\nWilliam Bergers collected the money for the letting; the sailors all agreed to let their berths. At first, some of the sailors were disposed not to let the Chinamen go into the forecastle at all, but it was afterwards agreed to allow them down there, and to let their berths to them. Witness was down in the forecastle when the agreement as to letting Chinese into the forecastle was made. They agreed that they might come down on payment of something; if a man hadn't paid, and presented himself at the hatchway for admission, witness personally would not have allowed him down. Witness did not know who else collected the lettings; it was agreed that whatever money thus obtained should be equally divided amongst the sailors. There were eleven others to share it amongst, not including the man who was washed overboard. Witness could not say why Bergers acted as collector of the money. Witness received $7 as his share; how much was actually collected he did not know; he had no reason to suspect the honesty of his shipmates. The forecastle was choke full with Chinese. (The captain said the forecastle was certified for 44 men). The place was so full that he could hardly get in himself. Witness did not get into the firemen's side at all.\n\nCaptain Thomsett, on looking over the official log, observed that the deaths were not recorded therein.\n\nThe Captain said he did not know of the deaths personally, and he was disabled during the gale.\n\nCaptain Thomsett said there was someone in charge of the ship, and section 4 of the rules required that any death on board should be recorded.\n\nContinued - Witness saw some of the Chinese fighting, but he did not pay much attention to them as he was steering.\n\nPage 468",
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        "content_text": "# \n\nthe forecastle until the gale was over and the forecastle cleared. Witness knew nothing more of the gale after 2 am, on the 31st. He was thrown 80 yards by a heavy sea. His legs were injured and his head cut.\n\nTam Kuey, a Chinese passenger on board the Glenlyon, stated that he came from Malacca, where he had been for 19 years. Eleven others came with him. He had two boxes with him. He fastened them to the ring bolts on deck. The gale commenced on the 30th. He took refuge on the top of an iron house, from thence he looked after his boxes. He went down to the two seamen who were going forward, one having an axe and the other having his money, and some of the money got scattered about. The man with a large package pushed him down and got away, and witness could not save any of his money. He could recognise only one man and not the other. He heard that 40 men had been washed overboard; with his own eyes he saw only 10 washed overboard; one of his 11 friends died of exhaustion on arrival at Hongkong. This was when the anchor was first cast. He took the body ashore to be buried. On the 3rd, when off Green Island, he heard that a man jumped overboard. The 10 men were washed overboard because they could not hold fast. He was not allowed below. None of the 10 men were dead before being washed overboard. He tried to get below but was prevented. He did not see any Chinese going below. There were some women and children on board. After the gale was over, he asked these women where they had been, and they replied that they paid something for getting into some place. After the gale was over he saw one dead body thrown overboard. Witness had $1,000 of his own and about $200 of others' money. Witness was accustomed to go to sea, and he did not feel sea-sick this time. Witness had been trading in boats on the coast of Singapore for about ten years. When he was struggling with the seamen for his dollars, a sea came over, washing over them. He was not washed overboard because he held on to some iron. He believed there were 40 men washed overboard because it was rumoured so.\n\nCaptain Thomsett said if the rumour said 100, would he say 100?\n\nWitness replied that the people talked amongst themselves and said there were 40 washed overboard. A Fokien man went to the agents and obtained 280 passage tickets for all the men. He was not sure that the whole 280 tickets obtained by this Fokien man with a view to profit had been disposed of. He did not know how many landed at Hongkong. None of his friends went below during the gale.\n\nEdmund Frost, able seaman on board the Glenlyon, stated that he had been at sea for about 14 years. He was on board the Glenlyon on the 30th Oct. He was on deck during the whole of the gale, except an hour or so. He knew a good many Chinese were in the chart room.\n\nHe received $9 from the men in the chart room. He got it from them because he handed in their luggage which was lying outside the door. The money was handed to him, in fact he had no time to receive much more. Witness handed the money to be divided amongst the quarter masters. Witness had $7 for his share of letting the forecastle. He could only see two Chinese lay dead on deck; these were the deaths he knew of. He heard an outcry of some men having been overboard; this was from the engine room. He believed these were men round the engine room door, because the door was broken. He thought the two men whose bodies he saw on deck died from their luggage knocking against them; one was black and blue all over his body, and one was covered with blood. He heard an order passed along the deck to put the Chinamen where they would be in safety, and to clear the deck, or something to that effect. He saw no Chinaman jump overboard until they came into harbour.\n\nWong Sai Me stated that he was a passenger on board the Glenlyon. He had been in Singapore selling old clothes. The typhoon came on on the 30th; during the gale, at the height of it, he went on to the place around the funnel. His boxes were left on deck tied to some iron. Witness remained on the deck-house till the vessel's arrival in Hongkong. He saw three or four washed overboard. He saw one man jump overboard; he did not see any one killed during the gale. He did not see any dead bodies after the gale. Those washed overboard were alive at the time. On the morning of the 31st when he came down from the deck house, he missed his box. About 3 or 4 in the morning, two seamen came and wanted to remove his box; he called out to them not to remove it, as it belonged to him. They stopped and went away. In the morning he saw seaman walking aft with two packages which he recognised as containing money, and belonging to him. The red bag contained $650, and the white bag $600. He did not go below, for the sailors would not allow him. At the beginning of the gale some of the passengers couldn't hold on, and hired the room of the sailors.\n\nHe could not say whether there was yet room in the sailor's room to hold more, because he was not allowed to go in, and he could not see. The women hired some room from the sailors, he heard this. He heard a man speaking English bargaining the place for them, but he did not see any money paid. He saw the seamen take the women's boxes inside, and he concluded that they had paid money. A friend of his, who died before reaching Green Island, paid some money, and witness saw it.\n\nThe women got in about 11 am on the 30th, just before the gale commenced, but his friend paid after the women. During the gale they could get no water. He did not see any dead bodies on deck; they might have been thrown overboard before. $600 belonged to him and $650 belonged to friends of his, who entrusted it to him to deliver to their relations. The body of the man who died on the 4th after arrival was buried in Hongkong. All his party lost their money.\n\nThe Court was then adjourned till tomorrow the 14th, at 10 a.m.\n\n## MARINE COURT OF ENQUIRY.\n\n### S.S. \"GLENLYON\"\n\nThe Marine Court of Enquiry was resumed to-day, 14th inst., at the Marine Magistracy to enquire into the circumstances attending the loss of life on board the British steamer Glenlyon during her voyage from Singapore to Hongkong. The Court was composed of the Hon. C. May (first Police Magistrate); H. G. Thomsett, Esq., R. N. (Harbour Master); Henry Lowcock, Esq., (unofficial Justice of the Peace); R. H. Cairns, Esq., (Government Marine Surveyor); and Seth Doane, Esq., (Master Mariner and Commander of the S.S. Mikado).\n\nSum Aloi, a Hakka, stated that he embarked on board the steamer at Singapore. He had been living in Batavia for seven years. He had a box with him when he went on board, which he placed on some iron structure near the place where the stokehold was. Many men came with him from Batavia, but he knew none of them. On the 29th October, it came on to blow, and he could not stand. He went down into the stokehold taking his box with him, and placing it outside the door. When he first went down, he did not pay anything, but about 6 p.m. two men in the engine room took hold of him, and asked him for one dollar; witness did not pay, and they searched his purse, taking from him 18 coins similar to the one he now produced (24 guilder pieces). The coin produced was kept in his box. The men did not return him any of the coins. He remained below during the gale. Witness did not see any body washed overboard, as he was below all the while. He lost nothing from his box, which contained $47.45 and clothing.\n\nMr Lister said he had ascertained that of the 280 tickets, 25 had not been accounted for.\n\nCaptain Thomsett said that he could understand this; he learnt that some of the men who had taken passage in the Glenlyon would not go in her on account of her being so deeply laden, but came in the **B**indostan.\n\nChan Sun, a boatbuilder at Batavia, stated that he took passage in the Glenlyon from Singapore to Hongkong. He had his... \n\nPage 470",
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        "content_text": "boxes with him on deck; they were not lashed and were washed overboard. Witness was on deck during the whole gale. He remained near the funnel. He was Kea-sick during the gale. He was inside an iron house on deck. There were three men in the house altogether. The door was afterwards locked from outside. Witness did not see anybody washed overboard, nor did he see any dead bodies.\n\nTan Tosy, a Chinshew man, said he embarked from Singapore for Hongkong. He had been in Malacca selling cloth for over twenty years, and during that time he had been six times back to China. He returned to Malacca in July last. He had only one box, which he placed near the engine skylight. He had it lashed. During the gale, witness was in some place which he could not describe and was consequently taken by Captain Cairns to the steamer to point out the spot.\n\nYip Amee, a Hakka man, was examined. He embarked at Singapore for Hongkong. He was a tin-miner at Hoi Yeong where he had been for more than ten years. He had one box with him, and he placed it on deck. He lashed it to the iron railing. Witness was on deck during the gale, close to the engine room. He held on to some iron, and that was why he was not washed overboard. He did not go down because he was not allowed; no one went below. There were 5 or 6 women and two children. They were also on deck and did not go below. He did not see anybody jump overboard nor anybody washed overboard during the gale. He saw one man jump overboard while in harbour. Witness did not know why that man jumped overboard, perhaps it was because he had no money. He did not see that man stab anybody. His box was all right, and he brought it ashore. He was sure nobody went below, because they were not allowed. He tried to get below to the engine room but was prevented. He belonged to a party of five, and they all landed safely in Hongkong. The women and children remained near the bell. He heard that some men drowned, but he did not see any himself.\n\nCaptain Cairns, having returned, the examination of the previous witness was resumed. It was found that the man was on the top of the fore deck house. Witness did not see any women or children during the gale. His box was lost. He wanted to go into the engine room, but they would not let him. He first went into the engine room by paying $2, but afterwards another man turned him out.\n\nOn being asked if he knew anybody down below, he replied that he took care of himself, and he did not take care of other people. He saw a dead body thrown overboard, and one man jumped overboard while in harbour. He heard that 30 to 40 Chinese were drowned or killed during the storm.\n\nThe certificate for the carriage of passengers granted by the Singapore authorities was detected by Mr May to exhibit an erasure; the word \"two,\" in specifying the number of passengers, was erased and the word \"three\" inserted before the word \"hundred,\" followed by the figures \"300\" within a bracket. The Captain was asked if he knew anything about the alteration.\n\nThe Captain replied that he knew nothing of it. The certificate was handed to him by the Harbour Master himself in the presence of Capt. Millar of the Hindostan.\n\nMr May observed that this was a very unbusiness-like way of dealing with documents of that importance. He thought the matter so important as not only to be worth taking notice of here, but requiring reference to Singapore. This alteration and the subsequent part were also in different hand-writings.\n\nMr Lowcock said the writing might or might not be different, but the alteration was evident.\n\nMr May was positive of the difference of the hand-writing.\n\nCaptain Thomsett remarked that it was evident that the alteration was not made with a fraudulent intention, as the ship could carry more than 300 men.\n\nCaptain Thomsett wished to know why Capt. Templeton did not record the deaths of the Chinese on board in the official log, as required by the Act of Parliament.\n\nCaptain Templeton replied that if he had been in a fit state to write he would have had them recorded.\n\nCaptain Thomsett said the ship had been in harbour several days, and he could have had the log completed.\n\nCaptain Templeton replied that the official log had been in the Shipping Office ever since. The Chief Officer, who was in temporary command, made the entries in the official log, having reference to George Key's death. If witness had been in a fit state, he would have recorded the other deaths; it was an oversight they were not recorded. The entries were made on the day after arrival.\n\nCaptain Thomsett then formally asked Capt. Templeton if he knew anything about the erasure. It was evident it was not made with a fraudulent intention, as the ship was capable of carrying 300 or more passengers. It must be a mistake in the office.\n\nCaptain Templeton said the document was handed to him in its present state by the Harbour Master personally on board, and he did not even look at it.\n\nMr May questioned Captain Templeton if it did not occur to him to throw some rattans overboard in order to give accommodation to the Chinese.\n\nThe Captain replied that it did not strike him; but it was not safe to open the hatch.\n\nThe Court was then cleared.\n\n## Page 471",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1873.\n\n## AMOUNT SANCTIONED BY THE COUNCIL.\n\n| £ s. d. | $e. | £ 8. d. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n### FIRE BRIGADE :- \nIncrease to Salaries of Members of the Fire Brigade, Contingencies, additional, Fire Engine and Alarm Bell, from England,\n\n162.10. 0 | 780.00\n156. 5. 0 | 750.00\n$2,100.44\n\nActual Excess,.. \n\n### SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n#### COLONIAL TREASURER:- \nRevenue Services,- Remuneration to Mr. Madar for Services connected with Assessment, .... \n\n657. 0.10 | 3,153.2\n\nActual Excess, \n\n#### HARBOR MASTER :---- \nRent, Officers' Quarters, Excess,\n\n$15,000.00 | 24,099.60\n\n#### WORKS AND BUILDINGS:- \nHarbor Master's Office, (R. & E, No. 2 of 1873), \n*Amount voted in Estimates, (Balance), Actual Expenditure, Excess,\n\n51.15. 9 | 248.58\n408.14. 4 | 1,981.84\n154.11. 3 | 741.90\n\n201. 0. 3 | 004.80\n657. 0.10 | 3,153.80\n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1873.\n\n### ABSTRACT OF SUPPLEMENTARY VOTES REQUIRED,\n\n#### ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n| GOVERNOR, | £ s. d. | $e. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| CLERK OF COUNCILS, | 30. 9. 2 | 175.00 |\n| REGISTRAR GENERAL, | 52. 1. 8 | 250.00 |\n| HARBOR MASTER,.. | 0. 3. 6 | 0.85 |\n| JUDICIAL, | 51.15. 9 | 248.58 |\n| MEDICAL, | 5. 9. 7 | 26.312 |\n| FIRE BRIGADE, | 75.14. 7 | 303 |\n\nTOTAL ESTABLISHMENTS,........... £1,525. 7. 73 | $7,921.83\n\n#### SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n|  | £ s. d. | $e. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| COLONIAL TREASURER, | 135. 84 | 650.00) (4). (2,083. 5.0 | 9,900.0 |\n| HARBOR MASTER, | 194.13.5 | 646.4 |\n| WORKS AND BUILDINGS, | 1,011.13.4 | 5,000.00 |\n|  | 1,041.13.4) | 5,00016 |\n| (2). | 115. 9.3 | 5543 |\n| ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES, | 8,927.19.11 | 18,854.30 |\n| MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES, | 615. 6.10% | 2,958.05 |\n\nCentral Police Station, Sundry Services, ( R. & E. No. 23 of 1873),.. \nNew Roof to St. John's Cathedral, (R. & E. No. 24 of 1878), - \nErection of Drying Closet at the Gaol, (R. & E. No. 26 of 1878),.. \nTyphoon Repairs, (R. & E. No. 27 of 1873), \n*Amount of Estimates in 1872,......850.0 10 00. \nExpended in 1872, \n\n#### ROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES:--- \nRepairs to Roads out of Victoria, (R. & E, Nos. 17 & 17 of 1873),--~ \nAmount voted in Estimates, Actual Expenditure, Excess,\n\n4,716.66. \n20715 \n558. 2.0 | 2,679.00\n552.18.114 | 2,051) \n3,027.19.114 | 18,8543 \n.$6,000.00 | 8,879.06 \n620.16.8 | 2,500.00 \n495.12.9 | 2.3700 \n\nWatering Roads and Streets,-- (R. & E. Nos. 22 & 25 of 1873),.. \n\n#### MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES:--- \nTable Furniture, &c., for Government House, Annual Grant to St. John's Cathedral, Additional Grant to the Native District Watchmen, Actual Excess,\n\n187.10.0 | 900.00\n119.14.14| 5744 \n243.12.11 | 1,169.51 \n615.6.103 | 2,953.4 \n104. 8. 4 | 500.00 \n91. 0.10 | 437.00 \n488.17. 12,106.51 \n429. 1. 9 | 2,050. \n\nTOTAL EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS, £5,053.12.10 \n\nTOTAL TO BE VOTED, $24,257.48 \n£0,579. 0. 54 \n$31,579.31 \n\nPage 6\nPage 7\nPage 22",
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        "content_text": "better than Hong Kong.\n\naddress\n\n11.\n\nI shall\n\nYour\n\nLordship in a\n\nfuller\n\nReport, as\n\nin\n\npossession of the necessary\n\ninformation.\n\nmeasures\n\nto remedy\n\ndisaster.\n\n12. All needful\n\nare\n\nor\n\nbeing taken\n\nto mitigate the\n\neffects of the\n\ntyphoon. AE. Kennedy\n\nGovernor\n\nHonble\n\nCarnarvon\n\nThe\n\nRight The Earl\n\nof\n\nCarnarvon\n\n## The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1874.\n\n### TERRIFIC TYPHOON,\n\nOn Tuesday night and yesterday morning, Hongkong was visited by the most awful typhoon which has ever been recorded in the history of the Colony. The weather during the day had been threatening, the barometer having fallen very considerably during the forenoon, and still remaining low in the evening. About six o'clock the wind began to threaten, and shortly after 8 o'clock was blowing a strong gale. This increased rapidly and in the course of an hour it was evident that a typhoon of a severe character was to be apprehended, and this proved too soon to be the case. The readings of the barometer were as follows:-\n\n#### AT THE HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE.\n\n| Date | Time | Reading |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 22nd | 7:45 | 29.63 |\n| 23rd | 2:00 A.M. | 28.88 |\n| 22nd | 9:15, 10:15 | 29.45 |\n| 22nd | 9 A.M. | 29.852 |\n| 22nd | 1 P.M. | 29.770 |\n| 22nd | 3:00 | 29.04 |\n| 22nd | 3:35 | 29.22 |\n| 22nd | 10:30 | 29.40 |\n| 22nd | 4:10 | 29.82 |\n| 22nd | 12:30 | 29.12 |\n| 23rd | 1:00 A.M. | 29.05 |\n| 23rd | 5:00 | 29.49 |\n| 23rd | 5:40 | 29.58 |\n| 23rd | 7:12 | 29.00 |\n| 23rd | 8:15 | 28.95 |\n| 23rd | 9:30 | 29.80 |\n| 23rd |  | 29.84 |\n\n#### AT MESSRS. GEO. FALCONER & Co.'s.\n\n| Date | Time | Mercurial | Aneroid |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 22nd | 9 P.M. |  | 29.500 |\n| 22nd | 10 |  | 29.408 |\n| 22nd | 11 |  | 29.325 |\n| 22nd | 12 |  | 29.100 |\n| 23rd | 1 A.M. | 28.897 | 28.950 |\n| 23rd | 2 | 24.760 |  |\n| 23rd | 2:15 |  | 28.727 |\n| 23rd | 2:30 |  | 23.735 |\n| 23rd | 3 | 28.990 | 28.870 |\n| 23rd | 3:30 |  | 28.752 |\n| 23rd | 4 | 29.184 | 29.320 |\n\nAs may be judged from the above readings, the storm steadily increased up to 2:15 a.m. when the barometer was at the lowest, but it raged with great severity till fully half-past three o'clock, when it began perceptibly to abate, and subsided between 5 and 6 a.m.\n\nThe Chinese had, as usual, during the Tuesday anticipated the danger, and the sampans and junks cleared out in large numbers to seek shelter. Some doubts were however felt among foreigners as to whether there would be more than a gale, though the preponderating opinion on Tuesday evening was that a typhoon was to be anticipated. In fact, the indications were strongly in that direction and the doubts probably only arose in consequence of there having already been several false warnings of typhoons this year.\n\n### THE PRAYA AND SHIPPING.\n\nAn eye witness of the terrible occurrence sends us the following description of the scene on the Praya:\n\n\"I had been out dining with a friend and started to return home at a little after eleven. It was then blowing very hard, but neither I nor any of my companions had an idea of the severity to which the gale was destined to reach. I accordingly went with a companion to the Praya to see the sight, and certainly never saw anything more striking in my life. Although I have seen many typhoons during a stay of over fourteen years in Hongkong, I do not know of any which has caused so much injury to the Colony and so much loss of life. By the time we had arrived at the Praya the wind had freshened rapidly, and the typhoon was raging with full vigour. The sea was breaking over the Praya with terrific force, while the roar of the wind was deafening.\n\nThe waves broke bright with phosphorescent light and presented a striking and awful sight. The lights on shore flickered through the darkness and seemed only to render it the more intense. Gradually the swell increased and the waves rushed first half across the Praya and afterwards quite across, and before I had reached Pustau's wharf, towards which I was going westwards, they were more than knee-deep across the Praya, and I had to push my way through the water. Clinging to such projections from the houses as were within my reach, I endeavoured to continue on my course, but soon found that it was too dangerous to persevere as the waves were coming in with such force that there was every chance of being washed away, while tiles and bricks were falling in all directions from the shaken houses. It was about 1 o'clock when I was thus forced to beat a retreat, and I may mention that up to that time none of the casualties which have been recorded had occurred; and as the gale began to moderate by 3 o'clock, it is evident that the havoc must have been the work of little more than two hours.\"\n\nThe scene presented on the Praya from West to East yesterday morning, was melancholy in the extreme. Coming onto the Praya at Peddar's wharf, or what was Peddar's wharf, for it is now almost a wreck, and proceeding Westward to Douglas wharf, of which only a few piles remain, we first come across the wreck of two vessels, one the Spanish steamer Albay, which arrived only yesterday from Manila with three hundred passengers on board, and the other the Spanish steamer Leonor, which was to sail yesterday, and had also a large number of passengers on board. At high tide only the masts of the unfortunate vessels could be seen, but later in the day their decks were above water and presented a melancholy spectacle, as attempts were made to get at the unlucky inmates and at the papers, baggage, &c. It was stated that in the Albay some 90 passengers were lost, but this it is hoped is more than the actual number, but the fact cannot be ascertained, as she had not as yet handed in her papers. Out of 47 who were on board the Leonor, 36 were saved by Mr. Tanffer, of the Engine House. It appears that this gentleman most gallantly went off at the risk of his life in a small boat and brought back small batches of passengers each journey to land. A number of the crew, we are glad to say, saved themselves by swimming ashore. It appears that the immediate cause of the disaster to these two vessels was their having drifted ashore and collided when close upon the Praya. This took place between one and two o'clock.\n\nTo the East of these two vessels was the ship Lizzie H., which was more fortunate, but only just so. She had drifted exactly on the wharf, against which she lay. She did not sustain much damage beyond losing her mast and making some water.\n\nFrom the Bank wharf up to the Oriental Bank there was a vast amount of timber which had been washed up by the sea, and all along the Praya were huge blocks of debris, the massiveness of which testified to the violence of the gale. Close to Bank wharf lay a mass consisting of five of the ponderous granite blocks of which the Praya is composed, linked together by iron couplings, which had been thrown bodily considerably more than half way across the road. Farther on was a large mass of piles which had formed part of one of the wharves, and which was also thrown more than half way across the Praya.\n\nThe height to which the sea rose was greater than within the recollection of any residents in the colony. All the shops and stores not only along the Praya, but a long way up the abutting streets, were flooded to the depth of several feet - the water being actually three feet deep in Messrs. Frickel & Co's store. From this some idea may be formed of the loss of property which has been sustained. The Office of the M.M. Company was still flooded yesterday morning. A few piles only remain to show where the Canton wharf stood. The British barque Mindanao was driven up against it with terrific force and went right through. She then struck the Pacific Mail wharf and sank. It is not known how many were on board of her when she went down.\n\nBetween the Canton wharf and the Harbour Master's office four houses have been completely blown down. The P. & O. office was not very heavily damaged, but the iron railings in front of it were bent and displaced in several directions. The godowns of the Pacific Mail Company have sustained considerable damage. The front of them was entirely blown in and the cargo lay exposed to view. Large parts of the Pacific wharf were carried away and washed ashore three hundred yards distant.",
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        "content_text": "## Alcommendation \n\nGeorge and Edward Taufer were awarded the tie Taufers for the Royal Humane Society's Medals for their valorous and successful efforts on the occasion of the late storm in saving so many lives. \n\nThe Taufers are brothers, natives of America, and one is the Engineer and the other the care-taker of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Company's Steam Fire Engine. It appeared in evidence that a Spanish Steamer named the Albay came ashore at the Central Praya about 1 o'clock in the morning of the 23rd instant. McEwen and Baird of Holliday Wise and Co., Prior of the 80th Regiment, and Crow of that firm rendered marked aid to the passengers on board the Steamer. The Taufers, Waste, and Slemmer made torches of waste and lighted the Praya where they were, and by their efforts, persons on board the Steamer were able to see and were assisted to jump and reach the shore, and were helped to the House. There is every reason to believe that nobody belonging to the Albay is lost, and all told they numbered 116.\n\nThe Leonor struck about 1:30 am and was on shore till daybreak, when no aid could be seen nor offered from the shore. At daybreak, however, the two brothers Taufer launched a small craft, and by themselves, during the day...",
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        "content_text": "## (6) \n## (7) \n217 \n\nThe foregoing table only gives the number of people who were found dead or dying under the ruins of houses, but it is feared, although no record can be obtained, that a very large number must have received bodily injuries, as it is known that as houses became unroofed and were threatened with annihilation, their inmates left them and went into the streets when the latter were quite dark and when building débris, roofing tiles, and other missiles were being hurled from every housetop with force almost beyond credence.\n\nTowards 2 A.M., the violence of the wind had driven before it such a large volume of water into the harbour through the Lyeemoon Pass, that at this hour, which under ordinary circumstances should have been that of low water, the sea had risen considerably above the datum of high water and was washing over the lower portions of the City. Before 3 A.M., the Gas Works were submerged, and the gas supply being cut off, the City was during these most anxious moments suddenly plunged into darkness. About this time, Mr. CREAGH, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and some other gentlemen who had collected together a few volunteers to put out a fire, which had broken out in Jervois Street, report that the latter as well as the streets between it, Bonham Strand, and the Praya, were four feet under water, that the people were up to their waists in water, and that the waves were buffeting the fire engine so that it could not be used. This evidence is corroborated by the marks left on many buildings after the sea retired, among others, the Harbour Master's Office had five feet of water in its lower storey.\n\nThe entire sea frontage of the City has been very seriously damaged. The Praya wall for a length of a mile between the City Hall and Toong Kai Street has been broken up, and will have to be entirely rebuilt with new material. From Toong Kai Street as far as the Sailors' Home, a distance of one mile, the wall shows so many breaches, and is altogether so undermined that it is still a matter of doubt whether long sections of it may not require rebuilding in like manner. In many places from the Eastern Guard House to East Point, the sea wall has also given way and will require reconstruction on a more solid basis than has hitherto been adopted in Hongkong. But as the very important subject of the sea defence of the City is one of special report, now under preparation, it will be premature to dilate upon it in this memorandum.\n\nGovernment House, together with the Law Courts, the Lock Hospital, and the Government offices, have escaped with greater immunity than any other buildings. In the latter, a chimney stack was blown down and fell through the roof; with the exception of this, and a few doors and windows blown in, there has been no damage of any consequence to report.\n\n### Government Civil Hospital\nThis ricketty old structure has been left in so ruined a state as to be no longer habitable. During the earlier stages of the gale, the doors and windows fronting the North were blown in one after another, and the wind having found a vent into the upper storey soon upheaved the roof, carrying away portions of it to a distance of 200 yards. The brick verandahs on some of the wards fell in. For more than an hour, the terrified patients ran considerable risk of being killed, and Dr. CLAPHAM, the Resident Surgeon, informs me that owing to the intense darkness and the deafening roar of the wind, it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in getting them together and sheltering them in one room of the lower storey, which had fortunately been but lately repaired, so that it was able to hold out till daylight.\n\n### Victoria Gaol\nVictoria Gaol has portions unroofed, some of the windows of the north-eastern frontage blown in, and glass broken. A survey was held under my direction after the typhoon, but no part of the Gaol was found so unsafe as to render possible the escape of prisoners. The principal damages to this building have been since made good.\n\n### Stone Cutters' Island Gaol\nThis huge and imposing pile, founded by SIR HERCULES ROBINSON and designed to accommodate a convict establishment of 600 persons, is now a heap of ruins. Many of the main walls are so cracked and so much out of plumb that they will have to be knocked down to prevent future accidents. The greater portions of the roof fell in, carrying away and crushing under it the long galleries which divided the lines of cells. The basement portion of the eastern wing, which was used as a Powder Magazine, was buried in débris, and the fall of the building entailed considerable risk of an explosion. The powder was, however, subsequently removed from under the ruins, and safely stored in the Hulk which is anchored off the island. The upper floors of Stone Cutters' Island Gaol were fortunately not tenanted.\n\n### Central Police Barracks and Police Stations\nOf all the Police buildings, the Police Officers' quarters have fared worst. These were unroofed and had some of the doors and windows in the North front blown in. The house was otherwise very severely shaken, some of the chimneys being blown down through the roof. The Central Police Barracks have also been partially unroofed, and much of the woodwork is destroyed. In the outlying villages, the Police Stations of Shau-ki-Wan and Stanley have suffered most; both have been very severely shaken, and I fear the latter will have to be almost entirely rebuilt. The Police Station at Yow-ma-tee was for a time four feet under water, and when the sea receded, it left a steam launch and other craft stranded on its basement floor.\n\nThe wharves, both public and private, built out at right angles to the Praya along the whole extent of the City, have been swept away or otherwise injured, with the exception of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Ship Company's new jetty and the Hongkong Pier, both timber structures. Of Government piers, but few have been left in such a condition as to be worth repairing, and it is deserving of attention that those apparently solid structures which were made of ashlar granite succumbed long before the timber jetties in their neighbourhood.\n\nAfter the sea retired, the Praya embankment, which previously formed one of the most capacious business thoroughfares of the City, was left in places like a sloping beach covered with the stones and concrete débris of the sea wall, together with wrecks and spars. All these heaped one upon another rendered the embankment almost impassable. In places where the sea wall was knocked down and the embankment behind it scoured away, some of the large mansions fronting the sea, and which are occupied by the principal merchants of the Colony, were already being undermined by the waves, and they would have inevitably fallen had the gale lasted a few hours longer.\n\nThe whole of Victoria is drained and sewered into the harbour, the drainage being led out at intervals along the Praya wall. The destruction of the wall, entailing the destruction of the sewer outlets, plugged for a time every channel of escape, and the sewage becoming dammed and stagnant, after twenty-four hours became putrid. The clog was rendered still more effective by the mass of sand which the waves washed onto the ruins, so that many of the sewers became tightly packed with débris, their walls blown in, or so shattered as to require rebuilding, imbedded in it. The natural result was a most pestilential smell, rendered still more deleterious by the deadly fœtor of decomposing human bodies which continued to be washed ashore for several days. Happily, however, in spite of the hot weather which followed, the Public Health has not suffered, and after forty-eight hours, when the panic had in a measure subsided, and workmen could gradually be got together, gangs were employed to clear away the débris and to restore things to their normal condition.\n\nIn the country, many isolated houses have been knocked down, and the paddy fields and meadows under cultivation, which skirt the foreshores of the island, have for the most part been inundated by the sea. The rice crops have been destroyed, and much misery has been entailed upon the poorest of the community.\n\n### The General Post Office\nThe General Post Office, though it does not show many external signs of injury, has been greatly strained, owing to the weakness of the roof timbers. These have been in many places hollowed out by white ants, which for a short time back have infested the roof. I fear that a new roof to a portion of the house will be necessary.\n\n### Markets\nThe six principal markets of Victoria have experienced the fate of other buildings; in some cases, having their roofs untiled, in others, as in the Central market, having portions of their outer walls damaged.\n\n### Public Schools\nThe insecure foundations of the Central School, made manifest by the earthquake of five months ago, have become still more so since the typhoon. Portions of the roof have come away from the walls, and these have got slightly out of the perpendicular. A part of the tiling over the western Class Room has been stripped off, and some damage done to doors and windows. As it is contemplated at no distant date to erect a new School with increased accommodation, it will not be necessary, in regard to the Central School, to go to greater expense than will suffice to maintain it safely for a year or two to come. Three out of the four other Public Schools of the City have escaped with trifling damages, but the fourth one, i.e., Syingpoon School, has lost the roof off its western front.\n\n### The Police Courts\nThe Police Courts have been partly unroofed, and the eastern verandahs laid in ruins.\n\n### Harbour Master's Office\nThe unsheltered site of this public office, which is only 50 feet away from the Praya wall, exposed it to two dangers, and it has come through the ordeal much better than could have been expected. While the gale was stripping off the roofing, the sea that had flooded down the Praya was battering against its walls. At one time, there were five feet of water in the basement, and the breakers were sending their spray over its roof. In spite of this, the damage is attended with surprisingly small loss, being limited to portions of the roof which are untiled and to doors and windows which are shattered and unhinged.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an interesting report from the Superintendent of the Government Gardens, upon the damage done to the gardens and plantations of the Colony. When we call to mind the constant and laborious care which has been taken to induce upon this bare and ungenerous soil an artificial vegetation, and the successful and gratifying results which had so flattered these efforts, we cannot but be disheartened at the disastrous finale which has closed the efforts of so many years. A large proportion of the handsome and well-grown Banians and India rubber trees which lined the streets of the City and the roads leading out of it have been blown down, and so many have been injured that we may not enjoy their grateful shade for years to come.\n\n### Government Telegraph Lines and Clock Tower\nThe Government Telegraph lines throughout the island were destroyed, the wind in many instances snapping the telegraph poles close to the ground. The shore ends of the submarine cables were also broken, and communication severed. The Clock Tower was much shaken, and the dials of the town clock were blown in and shattered to pieces. The Harbour Officers' quarters have been very much shaken, and the tower over the building will have to be pulled down, as it is injured beyond repair.",
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        "content_text": "## (6)\n\nThe foregoing table only gives the number of people who were found dead or dying under the ruins of houses, but it is feared, although no record can be obtained, that a very large number have received bodily injuries, as it is known that as houses became unroofed and were threatened with annihilation, their inmates left them and went into the streets when the latter were quite dark when building débris, roofing tiles, and other missiles were being hurled from every housetop with force almost beyond credence.\n\nTowards 2 A.M., the violence of the wind had driven before it such a large volume of water in the harbour through the Lyeemoon Pass, that at this hour, which under ordinary circumstances should have been that of low water, the sea had risen considerably above the datum of high water and was washing over the lower portions of the City. Before 3 A.M., the Gas Works were submerged, and the gas supply being cut off, the City was during these most anxious moments suddenly plunged into darkness. About this time, Mr. CREAGH, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, and some other gentlemen who had collected together a few volunteers to put out a fire, which had broken out in Jervois Street, report that the latter as well as the streets between it, Bonham Strand, and the Praya, were four feet under water, that the people were up to their waists in water, and that the waves were buffeting the fire engine so that it could not be used. This evidence is corroborated by the marks left on many buildings after the sea retired; among others, the Harbour Master's Office had five feet of water in its lower storey.\n\nThe entire sea frontage of the City has been very seriously damaged. The Praya wall for a length of a mile between the City Hall and Toong Kai Street has been broken up, and will have to be entirely rebuilt with new material. From Toong Kai Street as far as the Sailors' Home, a distance of one mile, the wall shows so many breaches, and is altogether so undermined that it is still a matter of doubt whether long sections of it may not require rebuilding in like manner. In many places from the Eastern Guard House to East Point, the sea wall has also given way and will require reconstruction on a more solid basis than has hitherto been adopted in Hongkong. But as the very important subject of the sea defence of the City is one of special report, now under preparation, it will be premature to dilate upon it in this memorandum.\n\nAfter the sea retired, the Praya embankment, which previously formed one of the most capacious business thoroughfares of the City, was left in places like a sloping beach covered with the stones and concrete débris of the sea wall together with wrecks and spars. All these heaped one upon another rendered the embankment almost impassable. In places where the sea wall was knocked down and the embankment behind it scoured away, some of the large mansions fronting the sea, and which are occupied by the principal merchants of the Colony, were already being undermined by the waves and they would have inevitably fallen had the gale lasted a few hours longer.\n\nThe wharves, both public and private, built out at right angles to the Praya along the whole extent of the City, have been swept away or otherwise injured, with the exception of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Ship Company's new jetty and the Hongkong Pier, both timber structures. Of the Government piers, but few have been left in such a condition as to be worth repairing, and it is deserving of attention that those apparently solid structures which were made of ashlar granite succumbed long before the timber jetties in their neighbourhood.\n\n## (7)\n\n224\n\nIn regard to Government buildings, I have the honour to report that nearly all have suffered to some extent, and that estimates of the cost of their repairs are being prepared and will be duly submitted.\n\nGovernment House, together with the Law Courts, the Lock Hospital, and the Government offices, have escaped with greater immunity than any other buildings. In the latter, a chimney stack was blown down and fell through the roof; with the exception of this, and a few doors and windows blown in, there has been no damage of any consequence to report.\n\n**Government Civil Hospital**. - This ricketty old structure has been left in so ruined a state as to be no longer habitable. During the earlier stages of the gale, the doors and windows fronting the North were blown in one after another, and the wind having found a vent into the upper storey soon upheaved the roof, carrying away portions of it to a distance of 200 yards. The brick verandahs on the South side were forced out of the perpendicular until they toppled over, and a part of the ceilings of the wards fell in. For more than an hour, the terrified patients ran considerable risk of being killed, and Dr. CLAPHAM, the Resident Surgeon, informs me that owing to the intense darkness and the deafening roar of the wind, it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded in getting them together and sheltering them in one room of the lower storey, which had fortunately been but lately repaired, so that it was able to hold out till daylight.\n\n**Victoria Gaol** has portions unroofed, some of the windows of the north-eastern frontage blown in, and glass broken. A survey was held under my direction after the typhoon, but no part of the Gaol was found so unsafe as to render possible the escape of prisoners. The principal damages to this building have since been made good.\n\n**Stone Cutters' Island Gaol**. - This huge and imposing pile, founded by SIR HERCULES ROBINSON and designed to accommodate a convict establishment of 600 persons, is now a heap of ruins. Many of the main walls are so cracked and so much out of plumb that they will have to be knocked down to prevent future accidents. The greater portions of the roof fell in, carrying away and crushing under it the long galleries which divided the lines of cells. The basement portion of the eastern wing, which was used as a Powder Magazine, was buried in débris, and the fall of the building entailed no inconsiderable risk of an explosion. The powder was, however, subsequently removed from under the ruins and safely stored in the Hulk which is anchored off the island. The upper floors of Stone Cutters' Island Gaol were fortunately not tenanted.\n\n**Central Police Barracks and Police Stations**. - Of all the Police buildings, the Police Officers' Quarters have fared worst. These were unroofed and had some of the doors and windows in the North front blown in. The house was otherwise very severely shaken, some of the chimneys being blown down through the roof. The Central Police Barracks have also been partially unroofed, and much of the woodwork is destroyed. In the outlying villages, the Police Stations of Shau-ki-Wán and Stanley have suffered most; both have been very severely shaken, and I fear the latter will have to be almost entirely rebuilt. The Police Station at Yau-ma-tei was for a time four feet under water, and when the sea receded, it left a steam launch and other craft stranded on its basement floor.\n\nThe whole of Victoria is drained and sewered into the harbour, the drainage being led out at intervals along the Praya wall. The destruction of the wall, entailing the destruction of the sewer outlets, plugged for a time every channel of escape, and the sewage becoming dammed and stagnant, after twenty-four hours became putrid. The clog was rendered still more effective by the mass of sand which the waves washed on to the ruins, so that many of the sewers became tightly packed and imbedded in it. The natural result was a most pestilential smell, rendered still more deleterious by the deadly fœtor of decomposing human bodies which continued to be washed ashore for several days. Happily, however, in spite of the hot weather which followed, the Public Health has not suffered, as after forty-eight hours, when the panic had in a measure subsided, and workmen could gradually be got together, gangs were employed to clear away the débris and to restore things to their normal condition.\n\nIn the country, many isolated houses have been knocked down, and the paddy fields and meadows under cultivation, which skirt the foreshores of the island, have for the most part been inundated by the sea. The rice crops have been destroyed, and much misery has been entailed upon the poorest of the community.\n\nI have the honour to append herewith an interesting report from the Superintendent of the Government Gardens, upon the damage done to the gardens and plantations of the Colony. We cannot but be disheartened at the disastrous finale which has closed the efforts of so many years. A large proportion of the handsome and well-grown Banians and India rubber trees which lined the streets of the City and the roads leading out of it have been blown down, and so many have been injured that we may not enjoy their grateful shade for years to come.\n\nThe Government Telegraph lines throughout the island were destroyed, the wind in many instances snapping the telegraph poles close to the ground. The shore ends of the submarine cable were also broken, and communication severed.\n\nThe General Post Office, though it does not show many external signs of injury, has been greatly strained, owing to the weakness of the roof timbers. These have been in many places hollowed out by white ants, which for a short time back have infested the roof. I fear that a new roof to a portion of the house will be necessary.\n\n**Markets**. - The six principal markets of Victoria have experienced the fate of other buildings; in some cases, having their roofs untiled, in others, as in the Central market, having portions of their outer walls blown in, or so shattered as to require rebuilding.\n\n**Public Schools**. - The insecure foundations of the Central School, made manifest by the earthquake of five months ago, have become still more so since the typhoon. Portions of the roof have come away from the walls, and these have got slightly out of the perpendicular. The western Class Room has been stripped off, and some damage done to doors and windows. As it is contemplated at no distant date to erect a new School with increased accommodation, it will not be necessary, in regard to the Central School, to go to greater expense than will suffice to maintain it safely for a year or two to come. Three out of the four other Public Schools of the City have escaped with trifling damages, but the fourth one, i.e., Saiyingpoon School, has lost the roof off its western front.\n\nThe Police Courts have been partly unroofed, and the eastern verandahs laid in ruins.\n\n**Harbour Master's Office**. - The unsheltered site of this public office, which is only 50 feet away from the Praya wall, exposed it to two dangers, and it has come through the ordeal much better than could have been expected. At one time, there were five feet of water in the basement, and the breakers were sending their spray over its roof. In spite of this, the damage is surprisingly small, being limited to portions of the roof which are untiled and to doors and windows which are shattered and unhinged. The meteorological station was, however, entirely swept away, and not a trace of the instruments remains. The Harbour Officers' quarters have been very much shaken, and the tower over the building will have to be pulled down, as it is injured beyond repair.\n\nThe Clock Tower was much shaken, and the dials of the town clock were blown in and shattered to pieces.",
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        "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n\n## FIRE BRIGADE\n\n### EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n\n#### FIXED ESTABLISHMENT\n#### PROVISIONAL AND TEMPORARY\n#### TOTAL\n\n| £ s. d. | $ C. | £ s. d. | $ C. | £ s. d. | $ C. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  |  | 25 | 273 |\n\n### SALARIES\n\n- Superintendent, $200, 0.0 | 960.00\n- 2 Assistant Superintendents, at $480 each, $200. 0.0 | 960.00\n- Clerk, $30. 0.0 | 144.00\n- Engineer, $100. 0.0 | 480.00\n- 2 Engine Drivers, at £30, $144 each, $60. 0.0 | 288.00\n- 2 Assistant do., at 20, 96 | $40. 0.0 | 192.00\n- 2 Stokers, at 25, 120 | $50. 0.0 | 240.00\n- 2 Do., at 20, 96 | $40. 0.0 | 192.00\n- Overseer of Water Works, $12.10.0 | 60.00\n- 1 Interpreter, $10. 0.0 | 48.00\n- 3 Do., at £7.10.0, $30 each, $22.10.0 | 108.00\n- 3 Foremen, at 20, 96 | $60. 0.0 | 288.00\n- 4 Assistant Foremen, at 15, 72 | $60. 0.0 | 288.00\n- 14 Firemen, at 13. 5.0, 64 | $157.10.0 | 756.00\n- 56 Chinese Firemen, at 8.15.0, 18 33 | $210. 0.0 | 1,008.00\n- 8 Chinese for cleaning Engines and on Night Watch, 2 at $84 each, and 6 at $72 each, $125. 0.0 | 600.00\n\n### CONTINGENCIES\n\n- Repairs to Engines, Hose, &c., and Gratuities, $312.10.0 | 1,500.00\n\n### TOTAL FIRE BRIGADE\n\n£1,690.0.0 | $8,112.00\n\n## GOVERNMENT GARDENS\n\n### SALARIES\n\n- Superintendent, £290. 0.0 | $1,392.00\n- 8 Gardeners, Government House, at £15.0.0, $72, £45. 0.0 | $216.00 (corrected to) £45. 0.0 | $576.00 \n- 1 Gardener, Government Offices, £15. 0.0 | $72.00\n- 1 Foreman, £27.10.0 | $132.00\n- 5 Gardeners, at £17.10.0, 84, £87.10.0 | $420.00\n- 18 Coolies, at 15. 0.0, 72, £270. 0.0 | $1,296.00\n- 1 Forester, £20.10.0 | $108.00 (original had ǎ which is likely a typo for 2)\n- 2 Foresters, at £15. 0.0, $72, £30. 0.0 | $144.00 (original had 75.0.0 | 360.00)\n- 1 Watchman, £18.10.0 | $88.80 (original had 18.10.0 | 88.80)\n- 2 Rangers, at £37.10.0, $180, £75. 0.0 | $360.00\n\n### TOTAL SALARIES\n£926. 0.0 | $4,444.80\n\n### ALLOWANCES\n\n- To Superintendent, for Chair Coolies, £45.0.0 | $216.00\n\n### TOTAL GOVERNMENT GARDENS\n£971.0.0 | $4,660.80",
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        "content_text": "# THE CHINA MAIL, HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1874.\n\n## THE MEMORIAL TO H.E. THE GOVERNOR RESPECTING THE CONDUCT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE DURING THE LATE TYPHOON\n\nTHE following is the text of the memorial forwarded to H.E. the Governor by the Residents who condemn Capt. Deane's action during the late typhoon.\n\nHONGKONG, 5th October, 1874.\n\nTo His Excellency,\n**SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B. Governor of Hongkong &c. &c. &c.**\n\nMAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,\n\nWe, the undersigned inhabitants of Hongkong, humbly beg to lay before your Excellency the following statement.\n\nThat on the night of the 22nd and the morning of the 23rd ultimo, a Typhoon of unprecedented violence did much destruction to life and property in this City and Harbour.\n\nAmong the many casualties of that dreadful night, two of the most remarkable are the wrecks of the steamers Albay and Leonor.\n\nBy the mercy of Providence, and the humane exertions of some private citizens, the crew of the Albay were saved from death, but although the Leonor sank only about fifty yards from the shore, nearly 100 persons perished, and only about 12 were saved from the ship.\n\nBefore the Leonor was wrecked, it was reported at the Central Police Station to the Captain Superintendent of Police, that a number of men had been rescued from the Albay, and that another steamer was coming on shore, but although there were a large number of available men at the Station, the Captain Superintendent refused to allow any of them to go out to render assistance.\n\nAt the time when the Police were thus confined to the barracks, they were also much needed to repress robbers who were plundering shops and warehouses, which had been broken open in various parts of the town and particularly on the Praya.\n\nDuring the height of the storm, a house in the Chinese portion of the City caught fire.\n\nThe circumstance was reported to the Captain Superintendent of Police, who not only refused to send any assistance, but declined to allow the Fire Alarm Bell to be rung, and he also failed to inform the Superintendent and the Assistant Superintendents of the Fire Brigade, Messrs. C. May and J. Russell, that a fire had broken out, though it was his duty to do so at once.\n\nFortunately, Mr. C. V. Creagh, the other Assistant Superintendent, was present when the report was made, and, aid having been refused, he went alone to the Fire Engine Station and, with the help of a few volunteers, mostly private individuals, after much difficulty, the fire was subdued.\n\nThis colony pays a large sum annually for the maintenance of the Police Force and the Fire Brigade, for the protection of the lives and property of its Citizens, and it is grievously disappointing to find that, in an emergency, when lives were being lost by thousands in the Harbour and the whole City was threatened with a conflagration, the Chief of the Police not only was inactive himself, but withheld others from rendering that assistance which they were able and willing to give.\n\nHad timely aid been given, it is very possible that many of those who perished in the Leonor might have been saved, and valuable assistance might have been given in other quarters; and this inference is strengthened by what took place at the various outlying Police Stations both on this island and at Kowloong, where the detachments, not being checked from exertion, behaved in a manner which merits the gratitude and praise of the whole community. The names of Inspectors Burns, Grimes, and Youngson have come prominently forward among those who were most active in saving life.\n\nThe conduct of the Police at the Out-stations thus affords a gratifying proof of the willingness of the men to do their duty nobly, where they were not restricted by the orders of their chief.\n\nOur confidence in the discretion and wisdom with which the Police Force is directed has thus been seriously shaken, and we therefore pray that, in view of the circumstances herein set forth, Your Excellency will be pleased to institute a Public Inquiry into these matters, that the truth may be more fully known.\n\nWe have the honor to be Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servants,\n\nSigned by:- Jas. Whittall, M.L.C.; P. Ryrie, M.L.C.; K. Rowett, M.L.C.; C. Morland Kerr, for Oriental Banking Corporation; George Farley Heard; A. F. Heard; H. Hoppius; Jas. Greig, Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; F. D. Sassoon; Wm. B. Forbes; John M. Forbes Jun.; Adolf André; Herbert Magniac; F. Bertrand, Principal Agent M. M. Co.; R. H. Sandeman, Actg. Manager, National Bank of India, Limited; A. Philippe, Acting Manager, Comptoir d'Escompte; M. W. Boyd, Manager, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; H. Lowcock; J. F. Cordes; T. Pyke; H. Seymour Geary; C. M. Siegfried; S. B. Emory, Acting Agent, Pacific Mail S.S. Co.; F. Grobien; H. Kiær; A. F. Chambers; J. Bradlee Smith; W. O. Scott; W. D. Harrison; Thos. Hall; G. M. Sands; E. A. Belilios; E. Vogel; N. B. Dennys; O. Benecko; Henry A. Mylne; Ad. Strack; Ludwig Bayer; D. McCulloch; Jas. B. Coughtrie, Secretary, China Fire Insurance Co.; A. Mac G. Heaton; J. Kennard Davin; John Robinson; Rad. Jensen; R. Walker; A. E. Braddon; P. Karbery; J. Keith Angus; C. E. Parker; H. C. Heywood; A. Molver, Superintendent P. & O. Company; Brast Behre; J. Ross Anton; Charles J. Barnes; E. A. Raven; C. Badde; P. W. Mein; C. E. Thomson; A. MacClymont; Ed. George; W. H. Ray; John S. Lapraik; John S. Cox; Ed. Mellish; G. A. Kusebone; A. P. McEwen; C. W. Baird; Nowrojee & Co.; A. Ebrahim & Co.; Framjee Hormusjee & Co.; M. D. Ghandy & Co.; R. Habibhoy; A. Habibhoy; R. Dhunjebhoy & Co.; H. Hustonjee; F. B. Cama; M. B. Polishwalla; H. B. Dantra; Nursey Kessowjee & Co.",
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        "content_text": "# CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE ACTION OF THE CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF THE HONGKONG POLICE FORCE DURING THE TYPHOON OF SEPTEMBER 22-23, 1874.\n\n## HON. R. ROWETT TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN, HONGKONG, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1874.\n\nMY DEAR MR. AUSTIN,---Permit me to bring the following circumstances to your consideration in connection with the Typhoon of last night.\n\nAt a little before one o'clock this morning, the steamer Albay from Manila came ashore on the Praya, inside Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s wharf and just opposite my office. The Typhoon was at its worst at the time. Loud cries were heard coming from the ship, when lights were displayed and a rope was thrown on board. The Captain, officers, crew, and passengers, to the number of 40 in all, were thus enabled to get on shore, and were placed for shelter in the Engine House of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. The Captain stated that when he arrived in port last evening, there were 46 persons, all told, on board his vessel.\n\nThese facts were reported at the Central Police Station by Mr. A. P. McEwen, at 1.30 a.m., and a statement was taken down in writing by Captain Superintendent Deane, who, instead of sending assistance to the shipwrecked men, refused to allow any of the Police to turn out, on the ground of its being dangerous for them to leave their quarters in such weather; and this notwithstanding the fact, of which he was also informed by Mr. McEwen, viz., that another steamer was coming on shore at the time he left the Praya.\n\nMr. McEwen then returned to the scene of the wreck, and together with Lieutenant Prior of H.M. 80th Regiment, and Mr. C. W. Baird, he returned once more to the Police Station with 36 of the shipwrecked men, the Captain of the Albay and his 3 officers remaining at the engine house. The men, who were all natives of Manila or Malays, except two European passengers, were then taken care of by the Police for the night.\n\nMy object in drawing your attention to these facts is to inquire whether you do not consider that it is the duty of the Police to be alert in moments of great public danger, and whether it would not have been more in accordance with the object the Government have in maintaining such a force, that they should have been sent wherever their aid might have been needed to save life or property, than that they should have been kept in barracks while private individuals were able and willing to assist their suffering fellow-creatures at some risk to their own lives?\n\nBelieve me, yours faithfully,\n**(Signed)** R. ROWETT.\n\n## No. 165. CAPT. SUPERINTENDENT DEANE TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN.\n\n**Victoria, HONGKONG, 24th September, 1874.**\n\n**Immediate.**\n\n**STR.** In reply to H. E. the Governor's minute on C. S. O. No. 2792, I have the honor to report that I did refuse to risk the lives of the Police under my command by ordering them to leave the Barracks in the height of a Typhoon at 1-, on the 23rd Instant.\n\nMr. Rowett entirely overlooks the fact that the danger did not so much arise to persons living on the Praya going outside their doors to render aid, as to a body of men taken through the streets of the city, when, in the words of a local newspaper, \"the atmosphere was principally composed of tiles, brickbats, jalousies, verandah-beams, and foliage.\"\n\nAt 2.50 a.m., however, when the barometer showed that the heaviest blasts of wind had passed, I did turn out the men, and we went over all parts of the town; in some places over our waists in water, and experiencing the greatest difficulty in passing along the roads.\n\nI have further to observe that at least 36 of the crew of the Albay had been already saved when the report was made, and that the danger of a second steamer was a mere conjecture.\n\nI have had a good deal of experience in typhoons, and I have not the slightest hesitation in saying that I should have been guilty of the most wanton rashness had I ventured the lives of the Police, before I did, on the night in question.\n\nAs to any ideas of risk to my own life, I will content myself with saying that in a previous typhoon, when a fire in the city was reported, I went myself, but would not allow the men to go.\n\nI have the honor, &c.,\n**(Signed)** W. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent.\n\nThe Hon. J. G. AUSTIN,\nColonial Secretary,\n&c., &c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "# Petition to the Governor Regarding the Conduct of the Captain Superintendent of Police\n\nAt the time when the Police were thus confined to the barracks, they were also much needed to repress robbers who were plundering shops and warehouses, which had been broken open in various parts of the town and particularly on the Praya.\n\nDuring the height of the storm, a house in the Chinese portion of the City caught fire. The circumstance was reported to the Captain Superintendent of Police who not only refused to send any assistance, but declined to allow the Fire Alarm Bell to be rung, and he also failed to inform the Superintendent and the Assist. Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, Messrs C. May and J. Russell, that a fire had broken out, though it was his duty to do so at once.\n\nFortunately Mr C. V. Creagh, the other Assistant Superintendent, was present when the report was made, and, aid having been refused, he went alone to the Fire Engine Station, and with the help of a few volunteers, mostly private individuals, after much difficulty, the fire was subdued.\n\nThis colony pays a large sum annually for the maintenance of the Police Force, and the Fire Brigade, for the protection of the lives and property of its Citizens, and it is grievously disappointing to find that in a serious emergency, when lives were being lost by thousands in the Harbour, and the whole City was threatened with a conflagration, the Chief of the Police not only was inactive himself, but withheld others from rendering that assistance which they were able and willing to give.\n\nHad timely aid been given it is very possible that many of those who perished in the Leonor might have been saved and valuable assistance might have been rendered in other quarters; and this inference is strengthened by what took place at the various outlying Police Stations both on this Island and at Kowloong, where the detachments, not being checked from exertion, behaved in a manner which merits the gratitude and praise of the whole community. The names of Inspectors Burns, Grimes, and Youngson have come prominently forward among those who were most active in saving life.\n\nThe conduct of the Police at the Outstations thus affords a gratifying proof of the willingness of the men to do their duty nobly, where they were not restricted by the orders of their chief.\n\nOur confidence in the discretion and wisdom with which the Police Force is directed has thus been seriously shaken, and we therefore pray that in view of the circumstances herein set forth, Your Excellency will be pleased to institute a Public Inquiry into these matters, that the truth may be more fully known.\n\nWe have the honor to be,\nYour Excellency's most obedient humble Servants,\n\nSigned by:—Jas. Whittall, M.L.C.; P. Ryrie, M.L.C.; R. Rowert, M.L.C.; C. Morland Kerr, for Oriental Banking Corporation; George Farley Heard; A. F. Heard; H. Hoppins; Jas. Greig, Chief Manager, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation; F. D. Sassoon; Wm. H. Forbes; John M. Forbes Junr.; Adolf André; Herbert Magnias; C. Bertrand, Principal Agent, M. M. Co.; R. H. Sandeman, Actg. Manager, National Bank of India, Limited; A. Philippe, Acting Manager, Comptoir d'Escompte; M. W. Boyd, Manager, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; H. Lowcock; J. F. Cordes; T. Fyke; H. Seymour Geary; C. M. Siegfried; Geo. B. Emory, Acting Agent, Pacific Mail S. S. Co.; F. Grobien; H. Kiær; A. F. Chambers; J. Bradlee Smith; Geo. G. Scott; W. D. Harrison; Thos. Hall; G. M. Sands; F. A. Belilios; E. Vogel; N. B. Dennya; O. Benecke; Henry A. Mylne; Ad. Strack; Ludwig Beyor; D. McCulloch; Jas. B. Coughtrie, Secretary, China Fire Insurance Co.; A. Mac G. Heaton; J. Kennard Davis; John Robinson; Rud. Jensen; R. Walker; H. L. Braddon; P. Karberg; J. Keith Angus; C. E. Parker; H. C. Heywood; A. Melver, Superintendent, P. & O. Company; Ernst Behre; J. Ross Anton; Charles J. Barnes; E. A. Raven; C. Budde; P. W. Mein; C. E. Thomson; A. MacClymont; Ed. George W. H. Kay; John S. Lapraik; John S. Cox; Ed. Mellish; G. A. Kneebone; A. P. McEwen; C. W. Baird; Nowrojec & Co.; A. Ebrahim & Co.; Framjee Hormusjee & Co.; M. D. Chandy & Co.; K. Habibboy; A. Habibboy; K. Dhunjeebhoy & Co.; H. Kustonjee; F. B. Cama; M. B. Pollishwalla; H. B. Duntra; Nursey Kessonjee & Co.\n\n## Response from the Colonial Secretary's Office\n\nTHE HON. J. G. AUSTIN TO THE HON. R. BOWETT.\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,\nHongkong, 13th October, 1874.\n\nSIR, --I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th Inst., and to acquaint you in reply that the allegations contained in the Petition which accompanied it have been the subject of careful investigation by His Excellency the Governor, who has failed to discover sufficient grounds to justify the institution of a public enquiry into the conduct of the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\nI have also the honor to inform you that, whilst deeply regretting that any portion of the community should have had their confidence in the direction of the Police Force shaken, His Excellency feels it incumbent upon him to state that at no time in the history of the Colony has the character and efficiency of the Police stood higher.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nJ. GARDINER AUSTIN,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n## Editorial from The Hongkong Times\n\nTHE HONGKONG TIMES,\nOctober 1st, 1874.\n\nIN THE MATTER OF CAPTAIN DEANE.\n\nWE ARE extremely gratified at being able to place before our readers the official correspondence that has taken place with reference to Captain Deane's conduct during the late typhoon. By those letters, we are enabled to grasp the subject in all its bearings; for our own part, we are exactly of the same opinion now as we were before we knew anything whatever of the correspondence going on. We disagree from the ideas of the Honourable Mr. Rowett altogether, but we do not fail to thoroughly appreciate that gentleman's motives in undertaking to try and rectify what he thought was wrong. We do not consider Captain Deane to be impeccable; and, at different times, we have raised a voice against both his action and his inaction when we thought he merited a little censure, but, in this instance, we consider him free of fault and we certainly intend to uphold his behaviour against which the Honble. Mr. Rowett and some others of the Colonists complain.\n\nThat unfortunate fire business has, however, yet to be explained. There is a vast deal of difference between trying to oppose a typhoon and attempting to put out a fire, and unless Captain Deane can give good reasons for not assisting at the conflagration, it will become the painful duty of the Governor to take him to task on this score.\n\n## Correspondence between Hon. R. Rowett and Hon. J. G. Austin\n\nTHE HON. R. ROWETT TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN,\n\nHong Kong, 23rd September, 1874.\n\nMY DEAR MR. AUSTIN,—Permit me to bring the following circumstances to your consideration in connection with the typhoon of last night.\n\nAt a little before one o'clock this morning, the steamer `Albay`, from Manila, came ashore on the Praya, inside Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s wharf, and just opposite my office. The typhoon was at its worst at the time. Loud cries were heard coming from the ship, when lights were displayed and a rope was thrown on board.\n\nThe Captain, officers, crew and passengers, to the number of 40 in all, were thus enabled to get on shore, and were placed for shelter in the Engine House of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Company. The Captain stated that when he arrived in port last evening, there were 400 persons, all told, on board his vessel.\n\nThese facts were reported at the Central Police Station, by Mr. A. P. McEwen, at about 1.30 a.m., and a statement was taken down in writing, by Captain Superintendent Deane, who, instead of sending assistance to the shipwrecked men refused to allow any of the Police to turn out, on the ground of its being dangerous for them to leave their quarters in such weather; and this, notwithstanding the fact of which he was also informed by Mr. McEwen, viz., that another steamer was coming on shore at the time he left the Praya.\n\nMr. McEwen then returned to the scene of the wreck, and, together with Lieutenant Prior of H.M. 80th Regiment, and Mr. G. W. Baird, once more went to the Police Station, with 30 of the shipwrecked men, the Captain of the `Albay` and his three officers remaining at the engine house. The men, who were all natives of Manila or Malays, except two European passengers, were then taken care of by the police for the night.\n\nMy object in drawing your attention to these facts is to enquire whether you do not consider that it is the duty of the police to be alert in moments of great public danger, and whether it would not have been more in accordance with the object the Government have in maintaining such a force, that they should have been sent wherever their aid might have been needed to save life or property, than that they should have been kept in barracks, while private individuals were able and willing to assist their suffering fellow creatures at some risk to their own lives?\n\nBelieve me, Yours faithfully,\nR. ROWETT.\n\nCAPT. SUPERINTENDENT DEANE TO HON. J. G. AUSTIN.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 24th September, 1874.\n\nIMMEDIATE.\n\nSIR, In reply to H.E. the Governor's minute on C.S.O. No. 2799, I have the honor to report that I did refuse to risk the lives of the Police under my command by ordering them to leave the Barracks in the height of a typhoon at 1 a.m. on the 23rd instant.\n\nMr. Rowett entirely overlooks the fact that the danger did not so much arise to persons living on the Praya going outside their doors to render aid, as to a body of men taken through the streets of the city, when, in the words of a local newspaper, \"the atmosphere was principally composed of tiles, brickbats, jalousies, verandah-beams and foliage.\"\n\nAt 2.30 a.m., however, when the barometer showed that the heaviest blasts of wind had passed, I did turn out the men, and we went over all parts of the town: in some places over our waists in water, and experiencing the greatest difficulty in passing along the roads.\n\nI have further to observe that at least 36 of the crew of the `Albay` had been already saved when the report was made, and that the danger of a second steamer was a mere conjecture.\n\nPage 335",
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        "content_text": "I followed him to his quarters. I went across to his Room and called him, having left my watch in my quarters. He followed almost immediately, alluding to temporary arrangements and of the (signed) R. Cameron.\n\nI returned to the Charge: and requested the Sergeant of the Foremen of the Fire Brigade (who is one of the most reliable men) to accompany me, and at once we went to Not[ification]. Here I found 5 Chinese Constables, four Chinese Firemen, four Chinese Watchmen, and the two European Engineers, Keer and Power - finding the latter under the influence of drink, I ordered him back to his quarters and suspended him from duty.\n\nI ordered out the hand engine, the lightest available, which with Foreman Cameron and the fourteen men from No. 5, I succeeded in getting to the scene of the Fire at the Corner of Praya and Mercer Street, where, with the assistance of some gentlemen from Messrs. Gibb Livingston & Co., we worked until 3:30 a.m. to confine the fire to the house in which it originated - a two-storied Chinese Store. I attach a copy of my report to the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, which was sent in the following day.\n\n(signed) B. V. Areagh, Deputy Superintendent of Police.\n24th October, 1874.\n\nPage 17\nN: 355 \n15-",
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        "content_text": "## Page 356\n\nMet 1 am. 23rd a fire was reported at the corner of Praya and Mercer Street. I took Sergeant Cameron, and with the aid of Fireman Kerr, and the Chinese watchmen got the light hand-engine to the spot. A portion of the burning house had fallen across the street and formed a bar to the waves which broke heavily over the Praya. Where the Engine stood the water was 2 ft deep.\n\nThe fire originated at the top of the house and at first the rain and wind prevented it from spreading, but it afterwards burnt\n\n## Page 361",
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        "content_text": "## 10 \n## 357 \n\nOn through to the lower story of the large store house, we got the hose through a window, and played the fire until the contents of the store were saturated and the fire nearly extinguished. At this time, about 3.30 a.m., the sea increased rapidly that I consider it necessary to withdraw the engine, it being now afloat, the depth of water being upwards of 24 feet. It was with great difficulty that we got the engine through the wreck which floated along the streets. We were assisted in this work by Mr. McLeod of Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co., other volunteers of this Firm having failed in their own attempt to get their engine out assisted in ours while there was any danger of the fire spreading.\n\n(signed) C.V. Creagh \n24th October",
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        "content_text": "## Protest Against the Handling of the Fire During the Typhoon\n\n\"I have the honor, &c., \n\n**(Signed) W. M. DEANE, \nCaptain Superintendent.\"** There the only reason given is the danger to the men from the state of the atmosphere, and if an enquiry is instituted it will be found that more than one person can testify that in conversation with Mr. Deane on the morning of the typhoon the state of the weather was the one and only reason given for not sending out the men. It is therefore evident that the statement of the men being kept in expectation of other requisitions was entirely an afterthought, and put forward by Mr. Deane, when he found that the first reason given would not satisfy the public.\n\n5th - The statement that a staff was detailed for the fire is open to question. The narrative of what took place which obtains most credence in the Colony is as follows: Mr. Creagh, the Deputy Superintendent of Police, being at the same time an Assistant Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, on receiving notice of the fire, requested Mr. Deane to allow the Police Volunteers at the Central Station to turn out; his request was refused, and he was advised not to go out himself. However, after some little conversation with his chief, the latter consented to allow one foreman of the Brigade to go out with Mr. Creagh in the hope of obtaining assistance from some men who were supposed to be at or near No. 5 Station. What number of men they might find being unknown or at least uncertain, and it is against this that I, on behalf of the Taxpayers of the Colony, most strongly protest. Instead of a well-equipped Brigade (which cost the Colony about $10,000 in 1873) turning out with its well-paid Superintendent and two Assistant Superintendents, engineers, foremen, firemen, pumpers, &c., with engines, ladders, and all their appliances ready for use, we have merely Mr. Creagh and one foreman turning out in hopes of obtaining assistance somewhere, and this was all that was done to avert what might have been the most terrible fire that ever occurred in the Colony.\n\n6th - The statement to the effect that the result proved that the staff detailed was sufficient is contrary to fact. Out of a Brigade consisting (according to the Estimates of 1873) of 36 Europeans and 48 Chinese constables, Mr. Creagh had with him at the fire only one European foreman, one European fireman, and a few Chinese coolies not included in the stated strength of the Brigade, who, I understand, are paid for pumping and taking charge of subsidiary stations. The above, with one small hand engine and a ladder, were all that represented the Hongkong Government Fire Brigade. The exact number of coolies who were present I do not know, but I do know that had it not been for the assistance rendered by four gentlemen from the Firm of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., and four or five of their Chinese boatmen, little or nothing could have been done towards extinguishing the Fire; not only that, but the Engine itself would probably have been carried by the waves into the harbor and lost. \n\nAfter the foregoing was written, I had an opportunity of perusing the explanations of the Captain Superintendent of Police, and observed that the document is dated the 5th of October, whereas in the answer which I now protest against, I am informed that the Governor had investigated the matter and approved of the conduct of the Captain Superintendent, prior to the receipt of my letter giving notice of questions, which letter bore the date of, and was sent in, on the 1st of October. The reasons assigned by Mr. Deane for not turning out the men and not notifying the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent of the Fire Brigade are about the strongest that could be urged against the course he adopted. He now, it appears, expected that other Fires were likely to break out. If I am to believe this, then it was more than ever his duty to summon the entire Brigade, so that it might be assembled at a central point, say at the Cross Roads Station, and there make every preparation, get steam up in the Steam Engines, have tanks, hoses, and ladders prepared; in fact, have all the men and appliances ready for action in any direction at a moment's notice; but not one of these preparations were made, nor was there any attempt to make them, and therefore Mr. Deane's remarks regarding the inadvisability of sending out the whole force of the Brigade to one fire lose all their weight. He should be able to prove that the Brigade was ready and equipped to move out in detachments, or otherwise, to cope with the expected disasters as they happened.\n\nThe statement that perfect confidence was placed in the Deputy Superintendent of Police at once forwarding an application for further aid if it should prove requisite, is a most extraordinary one. The fire was not a suppositious one. It and its locale were known facts at the Central Station, as the glare could be seen, and a Sikh constable was in the charge room with a prisoner, whom he had arrested with a box in his possession close to the scene of the fire, which was in Mercer Street. Now, for a messenger to have gone from there to the Central Station on such a night and aid arrived back to Mercer Street, certainly from three-quarters of an hour to an hour would have been lost, and in that time the fire might have got such headway that all the available force in the Colony, naval and military included, could not have stopped it.\n\nFurther, the aid granted in the first place was so ridiculously inadequate that it is reasonable to suppose that Mr. Creagh, although urgently in need of help, did not feel confident of obtaining it, if he sent for it. Besides, he could ill spare even one man from his small force to send as a messenger.\n\nMr. Deane's supposition that every house in the Colony would be closely barred is a reasonable one, but he has overlooked the fact that numbers of the inhabitants were out and about Queen's Road and other streets of the City from midnight until the storm began to abate, and some remaining until daybreak; and as to the statement of there being no glare in the sky, it is not true. In addition to those who saw it at the Central Station, it was seen by numbers of people living to the Westward.\n\nIn concluding this Protest, I beg most respectfully to express my surprise that the Head of the Executive of this Colony has permitted to pass unchallenged a statement by a Subordinate Officer to the effect \"that the special circumstances of the case rendered all customary regulations nugatory,\" seeing that numbers of the inhabitants of the Colony were out during the typhoon on the Praya and in the streets endeavouring to save life and property, and the Police at the out Stations were doing likewise, while the officer, who has made the above statement, took care to keep within doors himself. I cannot see how he could possibly be a judge of the circumstances of the case.\n\nBut even admitting that he was, I do not see how any officers below the Governor could put forward such a dictum.\n\nP. REIFE.\n\nHongkong, 21st October, 1874.\n\n367",
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        "content_text": "floor, and loft with the readily ignitible goods, and material of the business - and the outbreak of flames was instant, causing immediate alarm in the neighbourhoods. Fortunately the Government Manual Engine by the detachment from the Harbor Master's Department (in charge of Foreman McClellan) and the Volunteer Manual Engine of the Nam Pak Hong whose Engine house adjoins that beforementioned, were both at hand and promptly brought to work, keeping the fire in check until the Manual Engine of the Imperial Insurance Company (Messrs Gibb Livingston & Co., Agents) arrived.\n\nThe Government No. 7 Steam Engine and the Steam Engine of the Hongkong Insurance Company arrived in quick succession and were promptly brought into operation with two delivery branches to each Engine when the fire was suppressed without doing any great amount of damage to other than the houses in which it originated, which were partly consumed. The adjoining houses, No. 100 and 104, of N...; No. 102 had some damage done to the upper floor.\n\nA second Government Manual...",
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        "content_text": "649\n\nI had as much of the passengers' luggage as could be stowed in the forecastle placed below in a chart room, and store room. I then sent as many passengers down there, as these places would hold.\n\nSome I sent in the water closets, Bath rooms, thef Rooms, Engine Room, Companion way, Captain's Cabin, and Saloon. About 40 remained on deck, these were in a house which surrounds the Funnel. It is about 54 feet long by about 20 feet wide. Some of the Boxes were placed in the after part of the Bridge. I saw 5 Chinese under the lee of a large winch on a broken horse box.\n\nWe had 80 cases of acids on deck, a portion of them caught fire. In the morning of the 31st, I had them all thrown overboard. At about 4 a.m. on the 31st, I saw some of the Crew pick the Captain up from under the Quadrant of the Rudder. He seemed much injured. He was sensible when I saw him. He was carried to his room, which was on deck. He only came out once after that, that was when the Engine Room Sky light was broken.\n\nWhen the Captain was taken to his room, he told me that she was not able to move.",
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        "content_text": "659\n\nfor helping them pass their luggage. This was divided between the Quarter Master; I got 3, the other Quartermasters had 2 each. This was in addition.\n\nAmy of for the fore-\n\nto \n\nCastle letting. I saw 2 dead bodies lying \n\non \n\none \n\nthe main hatch, the other near the Saloon. I heard a cry as \n\n4 \n\nfrom near the Engine room \n\nof \"there are some men overboard\". A Sailor was washed overboard during the Gale. I saw no Chinese jump overboard until after we got into Harbour. The bodies I saw were much bruised and marked. I heard orders \n\npassed along the deck to put the Chinese where they would be \n\nat the commencement \n\nsafely. This was \n\nafter the lull of the gale \n\n(Signed) CR Frost\n\nWong Lui Mi - declared - Came in a Steamer from Singapore. I lived there 7 years. I was an old clothes dealer. I recollect \n\nbeing \n\nin a \n\nhouse near the funnel. I had 3 boxes which I had fastened to some crowbars near the main mast. I saw 3 or 4 Chinese \n\nwashed ...",
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        "content_text": "673\n\nI was on deck during the whole of the gale. I was in the house around the funnel - I was there with two other Chinese, no one else. The door of the house was locked - some sailors locked it, I did not see anyone washed overboard.\n\n(Agel) Chuni Sam San Toi declared: I went on board a steamer at Singapore intending to come to Hong Kong. I had been living twenty years at Malacca, during that period I had been home once. I took one box on board the steamer and placed it near the engine room skylight. I went on to the top of the house near the funnel and held on by some gratings. I did not see my boy, any women, or anyone else during the storm; he was lost. I wanted to go into the engine room but I was not permitted. I paid a man $2 to go below, but another man prevented my going. I looked once myself and did not look again after anyone else.\n\nI saw one dead man. One man was known to be washed overboard at sea. One jumped overboard whilst in harbour. I know of no other deaths.\n\n(Agd) Fan For mo Life",
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        "content_text": "674 \n\nTip Mi declared I went on board a Steamer at Shinjapine for the purpose of coming to \nHong Kong. I am a tin miner, I had been living at Arong for more than 10 years. I took a box on board with me. I lashed it to some railings - turning to the Storm I was near the Engine room hatchway. I held on by some iron work. None of the Chinese were allowed below. I saw 5 or 6 women and two children. They were on deck also. I did not see any one washed overboard. Whilst the ship was at sea, I saw a man jump overboard after we got into the Harbour. I did not see him before jumping overboard. He was brought ashore at Hong Kong. I lost nothing out of my box. I am sure none of the Chinese went below. The Chinese were struck if they tried to go below. I tried to go into the forecastle but was prevented. Four friends came with me. They landed in Hong Kong. The women were in the middle of the ship. They were on the top of a house where there were no bulwarks. I was on the place near the Bell. I heard...",
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        "content_text": "The 2nd Story and part of the roof of No. 13 is in the occupation of the tenant of the adjoining house No. 15, a dealer in paper, Joss ornaments, and fire crackers. The upper floors of the houses are open one to the other and were fitted with combustible goods; consequently, the outburst of flames was immediate and soon extended to both houses.\n\nThe alarm reached the Fire Station without delay. The Government Manual engine manned by the Harbour Master's detachment under the charge of Foreman McLellan was expeditiously brought out and set to work on the main near the place. This engine was followed by three manual engines of Chinese Associations and the Manual Engine of the \"Imperial Insurance Company\" (Agents Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co.). The latter worked from the sea. Government No. 2 Steam Engine arrived quickly and worked with two branches of delivery hose from the sea, playing on the rear of the houses on fire, as did also a Government Manual Engine working from the main at Queen's Road.",
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        "content_text": "# Report on Fire Incident\n\nThe water was plentiful, the engines in perfect order, and the fire was subdued by half past although I was necessary to keep the Steam Engine at work for several hours after. The fire damage was confined to houses No. 15 and 17 (house No. 15 being only partially burned).\n\nThe fire is believed to have been accidental; but the origin is unknown.\n\nThe Steam Engine of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Company arrived with its usual promptitude, but did not work being rendered of no order.\n\nTwo men were apprehended for unlawful possession, but no reports of robbery have been received; there was a strong force of police in attendance and good order preserved.\n\nI have to ...\n\n(Signed) G. May  \nSuperintendent Fire Brigade  \n258",
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        "content_text": "Mongthong Wo bi \n29th May 1875.\n\nAdministrator J. Gordon to the Right Honorable \nThe Earl of Carnarvon.\n\nJoyphoon Report.\n\n\"Acknowledges Despatch regarding. Requests that Governor Kennedy be asked to select.\n\nEnclosed \nQuestion 2. \n3. \n61 A324 \n75 \n505 \n\nCaptains, Officers, Crew and passengers, \nIn the case of the Spanish Steamer \"Albay\" all 46 persons on board, 22nd September 1874. The Steamer Albay at 2.30 AM was driven ashore, although steaming ahead with both anchors down, in the height of the most severe Typhoon that has ever visited Hong Kong. The vessel struck heavily on the Praya and the crew clung to the rigging. The night was pitch dark and there was a very heavy sea running - large boats and some lanterns were got from the Engine House and as soon as they were displayed, there were loud cries.",
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        "content_text": "SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1875.\n\nVotes in excess of the Estimates for 1875, to be included in the Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance, 1875.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n  \n    AMOUNT SANCTIONED BY THE COUNCIL.\n    ACTUAL EXCESS.\n  \n  \n    £ s. d. $ ¢.\n    £ s. d. $ ¢.\n  \n  \n    GOVERNOR :-\n  \n  \n    \n    Allowance to H.E. the Governor for lighting Government House, for Chair Coolies, &c.,\n    300.0.0 1,440.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Additional Salary to Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp, Allowance to Private Secretary for Chair Coolies,...\n    50.0.0 240.00\n    €0.0.0 288.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    410.0.0 1,968.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Actual Excess,...\n    \n    324.0.2 1,556.24\n  \n  \n    JUDICIAL\n  \n  \n    \n    Arrears of increased Salary to Crown Solicitor, from 1st April, 1872, to 31st December, 1873, at $1,200 per annum, Allowance to Judge's Clerk for Chinese Teacher, at $10 per month, Contingencies.-Books for Court Library, Excess,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    FIRE BRIGADE:-\n  \n  \n    \n    Actual Excess,..\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Additional Salary to Sergeant WASSENIUS, and Salaries to Firemen at Aberdeen and Yau-ma Ti,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Contingencies. Additional Vote,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Fire Engine for Aberdeen,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Cost of Boiler Tubes and Hose from England, $1,023.05\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Actual Excess on Contingencies,\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Actual Excess,.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n  \n  \n    SURVEYOR GENERAL:-\n  \n  \n    \n    House Rent for Inspector of Buildings,\n    437.10.0 2,100.00\n    \n  \n  \n    POLICE:-\n  \n  \n    \n    Repairing, Docking, &c., of the Police Hulk used as Floating Station,\n    14.11.8 70.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    50.17.4 244.16\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Actual Excess,\n    502.19.0 2,414.16\n    22.10.0 108.00\n  \n  \n    CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES:-\n  \n  \n    \n    Cost of 150 Grey Blankets supplied to the Italian Convent and the Asile de la Sainte Enfance,\n    \n    41.7.34 212.05\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    153. 1.5 734.74\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    03.15.0 450.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Actual Excess,\n    332.18.10 1,508.13\n    377. 6. 2 1,811.08\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    75.0.0 360.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    75.0.0 360.00\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    305.19.33 1,756.63\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    40.3.4 192.80\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    31.16.8 152.80\n    \n  \n\nPage 5",
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        "content_text": "# COLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG\n## EXPENDITURE DETAILED\n### GAOLS\n#### VICTORIA GAOL\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ | C. | £ s. d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **SALARIES** |  |  |  |  |\n| Superintendent |  |  |  |  |\n| Warden |  |  |  |  |\n| Head Turnkey |  |  |  |  |\n| **FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS** |  |  |  |  |\n| 2 Assistant Superintendents, at $480 each | 200. 0.0 | 960.00 |  |  |\n| Clerk | 30. 0.0 | 144.00 |  |  |\n| Engineer | 308. 6.8 | 1,480.00 |  |  |\n| 2 Engine Drivers, at £100.0.0, $480, & £30, $144 | 130, 0.0 | 624.00 |  |  |\n| 2 Assistant do., at €20.0.0, $96 each | 40. 0.0 | 192.00 |  |  |\n| 2 Stokers, at £25.0.0, $120 | 50. 0.0 | 240.00 |  |  |\n| 2 Do., at 20.0.0, $96 | 40. 0.0 | 192.00 |  |  |\n| Overseer of Water Works | 12.10.0 | 60.00 |  |  |\n| 10 European Turnkeys | 1,275.0.0 | 6,120.00 |  |  |\n| Marron, Debtors' Gaol Turnkey |  |  |  |  |\n| Gaol Guard | 15. 0.0 | 72.00 |  |  |\n| 3 Messengers, at £7.10.0, $36 each | 22.10.0 | 108.00 |  |  |\n| 2 Foremen, at £20.0.0, $96 each | 40, 0.0 | 192.00 |  |  |\n| 4 Assistant Foremen, at £15.0.0, $72 | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |  |  |\n| **TOTAL FIXED ESTABLISHMENTS** | 1,759,11,8 | 8,440.00 | 1,759.11.8 | 8,446.00 |\n| **CONTINGENCIES** |  |  |  |  |\n| Incidental Expenses | 3,777.10.0 | 18,182.00 | 3,777.10,0 | 18,192.00 |\n\n### FIRE BRIGADE\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ | C. | £ s. d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **SALARIES** |  |  |  |  |\n| Superintendent | 200, 0.0 |  |  |  |\n| Interpreter | 700.0.0 | 3,360.00 |  |  |\n| Clerk | 150.0.0 | 720.00 |  |  |\n| Engineer | 125.0.0 | 600.00 |  |  |\n| 9 1st class Firemen, at $360 each |  |  | 50. 0.0 | 240.00 |\n| 17 Firemen, at £11.5.0, $54 | 191. 5.0 | 918.00 |  |  |\n| 46 Chinese Firemen, at £3.15.0, $18 | 179.10.0 | 828.00 |  |  |\n| 30 Do., at £2.10.0, $12 | 75. 0.0 | 360.00 |  |  |\n| 12 Chinese for cleaning Engines and on Night Watch | 177.10.0 | 852.00 |  |  |\n| **TOTAL FIRE BRIGADE** | 3,797.10.0 | 18,225.00 |  |  |\n| **FIRE BRIGADE, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT** |  |  |  |  |\n| Repairs to Engines, Hose, &c., and Gratuities | 20. 0.0 | 96.00 |  |  |\n\n### GOVERNMENT GARDENS\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ | C. | £ s. d. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **SALARIES** |  |  |  |  |\n| Superintendent | 416.13.4 | 2,000.00 | 416.13.4 | 2,000,00 |\n| 1 Foreman | 25. 0.0 | 120.00 |  |  |\n| 3 Sub-Foremen, at $84 each | 52.10.0 | 252.00 |  |  |\n| 17 Labourers, at $72 | 255, 0.0 | 1,224.00 |  |  |\n| 1 Forester | 22.10.0 | 108.00 |  |  |\n| 2 Sub-Foremen, for Government House and Peak Gardens | 35. 0.0 | 168.00 |  |  |\n| 4 Labourers, for do., at $72 each | 60. 0.0 | 288.00 |  |  |\n| 1 Labourer, at Government Offices | 15. 0.0 | 72.00 |  |  |\n| 1 Watchman for Public Gardens | 18.10.0 | 88.80 |  |  |\n| **TOTAL GOVERNMENT GARDENS** | £903.10.0 | 4,336.80 |  |  |\n\n### GAOLS, EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT\n\n| Category | £ s. d. | $ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Provisions for Prisoners | 1,770.16.8 | 8,500.00 |\n| Lighting the Gaol | 312.10.0 | 1,500.00 |\n| Clothing, Shoes, &c., including Clothing for Staff | 458. 6.8 | 2,200.00 |\n| Excutioner's Fee, and for inflicting Corporal Punishment | 25. 0.0 | 120.00 |\n| **TOTAL GAOLS** | £6,739. 3.4 | $32,348.00 |\n\n## ALLOWANCES\nTo Superintendent, for Chair Coolies | 45. 0.0 | 216.00 \n\n302 \n24 \n25 \n176-K & S 185",
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        "content_text": "Form No. 9.\n\nCERTIFICATE OF MEASUREMENT.\n\n52\n\nOfficial Number of Ship.\n\n68475\n\nWhether British or Foreign Built.\n\nBritish\n\nNo. of DECKS,\n\nNO. OF MASTS,\n\nRIGGED,\n\nSTEAM,\n\nBUILD,\n\nGALLERIES,\n\nHEAD,\n\nFRAMEWORK,\n\nName of Ship.\n\n\"I chang\n\nWhether Sailing or Steam\n\nShip, and if a Steam Ship\n\nhow propelled.\n\nToddle\n\nSteamer\n\nPARTICULARS OF SHIP.\n\nWhere Built.\n\nGlasgow\n\nNo. of hurricane deck.\n\nNone\n\nHome\n\nResent Cluichre\n\nHome Name\n\nNo., Date, and Port of Registry.\n\n916 of 1873\n\nWhen Built.\n\n1873\n\nNo., Date, and Port of previous Registry (if any).\n\nName and Address of Builders.\n\nI. & A. Dennys, Glasgow\n\nLength from fore part of Stem under the Bowsprit to\n\nthe Aft side of the Head of the Stern Post, Main breadth to outside of plank,\n\nDepth in hold from Tonnage Deck to Ceiling at Midships.......... Depth in hold from Upper Deck to Ceiling at Midships,\n\nin the case of Ships of three decks and upwards, ........ Length of Engine Room (if any),\n\nFEET.\n\nTENTHS.\n\n242\n\n1\n\n36\n\n!\n\n12.7\n\nand 2\n\nNo. of Engines.\n\nDescription.\n\nSteam Engine\n\nPARTICULARS OF ENGINES (if any).\n\nWhether British or Foreign made.\n\nBritish\n\nWhen made.\n\nName and Address of Makers.\n\nDiameter of Cylinders.\n\nLength of Stroke.\n\n1873\n\n9.4 A. Aglis, Glasgow\n\n62.7\n\n3.27\n\nNo. of Horse power (combined).\n\n230\n\nPARTICULARS OF TONNAGE.\n\nGROSS TONNAGE.\n\nUnder Tonnage Deck,\n\nClosed in Spaces above the Tonnage Deck (if any)....\n\nNo. of Tons.\n\n986.10\n\nSpace or Spaces between Decks,\n\nPoop,\n\nForecastle,\n\nRound House,\n\nOther Closed in Spaces, if any, viz. Master's Cabin\n\nfollows,\n\nGROSS TONNAGE..................\n\nDEDUCTIONS, as per Contra, .....\n\n46.43 405.37\n\nREGISTER TONNAGE.\n\n488.16 976.81\n\nDEDUCTIONS ALLOWED.\n\nOn account of Space required for propelling power,...................\n\nOn account of Spaces occupied by Seamen or Apprentices, and appropriated to their use, and kept free from Goods or Stores of every kind, not being the personal property of the crew.\n\nThese Spaces are the following, viz. Forecastle\n\nMain Deck\n\nOfficers' Quarters and Hospital\n\nTOTAL DEDUCTIONS;----\n\nNo. of Tons.\n\n817.67\n\n42.34\n\n405.37\n\nI, the undersigned, Surveyor at the Port of Hongkong, hereby certify that the Ship, the Description of which is prefixed to this my Certificate, has been duly surveyed, and that the above description is true; that the name and Port of Registry are painted on the stern and that the Official number has\n\nbeen cut on the Main Beam.\n\nDated at Hongkong\n\nthe\n\n23\n\nDay of December\n\nOne thousand Eight Hundred and\n\n(Signature)\n\nMarine Surveyor.",
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        "content_text": "A \n\nList of Payments authorized in excess of the Estimates of 1878-79 requiring Legislative Authority.\n\nRegistrar General's Establishment \n\nIncrease of Salary to 12th Clerk to act occasionally as Deputy Registrar of Marriages ... £50 per annum, and Personal Allowance £250 per annum, from March 1878\n\n£1360\n\nEducational Establishment \n\nAdditional temporary Salary to the Acting 4th Master from 9th March @£40 per month \n\n£149 68\n\nGaol Establishment \n\nSalary to Clerk from 22nd July @ £50 per month \n\n£126\n\nFire Brigade Establishment \n\nEngine House at Aberdeen \n\nCharitable Allowances \n\nCost of 150 Grey Blankets supplied to Charitable Institutions \n\n£216\n\n£28602\n\n£213",
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        "content_text": "# EXPLOSION ON THE “YESSO.' \n## GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.\n\nA gloom was thrown over the town yesterday morning by the occurrence of a terrible accident on the steamer Yesso, Captain S. Ashton, from the Coast Ports. The vessel was being moored alongside Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s wharf, between half-past seven and eight o'clock, when a terrible explosion took place, and the forward part of the ship was enshrouded in a dense cloud of steam. The pressure of steam at the time was 14lbs. One of the back plates of the starboard boiler had given way and was blown out. The steam rushed into the Chinese cabin and forecastle, and worked terrible havoc there. Twelve men were killed on the spot, and sixty-four were taken to the Hospital, the injuries of all of them being most serious, and deaths occurred hourly during the day. Many more are expected to die. Several others, who were also much scalded, were taken to the Tung Wah hospital, and others less severely injured went to their homes. One man was taken by his friends into a sampan, where he died in the afternoon. Only one European was hurt, the second engineer, Mr. W. Haggat, who, however, is not very seriously injured. It was a ghastly sight to see the dead and wounded lying about, and crowds soon collected round the steamer and at the doors of the Civil Hospital and the dead house. The wretched victims of the explosion were fearfully disfigured. On the deck of the steamer, the skin from their hands, feet, and legs was to be seen scattered about. Persons who have witnessed many appalling catastrophes were heard to say that they had never witnessed so sickening and distressing a scene before. All the corridors in the Hospital were filled with the wounded, whose piteous cries and groans resounded on all sides, and made up a most distressing scene. As the accommodation in the hospital was insufficient, the European mess-room in the gaol was fitted up as a temporary hospital, and the sufferers were removed there. As soon as the Admiral on board of the accident he signalled for all the men-of-war in port to render medical assistance, which they promptly did. Assistance in removing the bodies and extricating the wounded was afforded by the officers of the ships, the police, and a number of gentlemen who promptly hastened to the scene, and oil was obtained from Messrs. Lane, Crawford's store and freely used on the sufferers. The general cry amongst the scalded was for water. Most of the unfortunate people were in a state of complete helplessness, and several scarcely lived to reach the hospital. The number of Chinese brought down by the Yesso was a hundred and seventy-two. Two old women had the presence of mind to wrap themselves up in their bed clothes, and thereby escaped injury, while many round about them were badly scalded. One Chinese family who were in a cabin between decks had the forethought to shut the door, which kept the steam out, and they escaped unhurt. Numbers of those who were scalded were coolies who, on the steamer arriving at the wharf, rushed on board to obtain a job to carry the luggage for the passengers. The bulkhead on the end of the boiler is partly blown down, and the tea, which was stowed in the forehold, was scattered in all directions in the hold. The steam burst open the hatchway to the between-decks and the skylight on the upper deck. The boiler was built in Hongkong about three years and a half ago. The European passengers brought down by the Yesso were Dr. and Mrs. Rogers, Mr. Doagal, and one European deck passenger.\n\nOne of the fire engines was got out, under the superintendence of Inspector Orley, also the engine from the Hongkong Fire Insurance. The latter one is playing into the fore hatch where there was great heat. The police were actively at work to prevent robbery of the passengers' luggage during the confusion consequent on the disaster, and only one known case occurred. Every possible help was rendered by the naval and civil medical men, and one of the naval surgeons remained to assist the Colonial Surgeon all last night. His Excellency the Governor visited the gaol, the Civil Hospital, the Tung-wah, and the steamer Yesso. He gave orders for relays of attendants at the Gaol and Hospital, and for the relations and friends of the victims to be admitted in detachments of a dozen at a time to see them in order that there should be no crowding. He also, when at the Tung-wah Hospital, gave directions for the place to be properly ventilated, and otherwise looked after the comfort and well-being of the poor creatures.\n\n## THE INQUEST.\n\nThe inquest was opened at the Civil Hospital at four o'clock in the afternoon, by Mr. Russell, Coroner, Messrs. J. A. Moseley, V. L. Meyenberg, and R. H. Radecker being sworn as the jury.\n\nThe Coroner said-I presume you are all aware, gentlemen, of the circumstances under which we meet here to-day. A most unfortunate and sudden catastrophe occurred by the bursting of one of the boilers of the steamship Yesso when she arrived here this morning. Shortly after she came in and while lying alongside the wharf, a plate of the boiler gave way and was thrown off with great violence. The steam went into the hold, burst open the hatches, and burnt to death a great number of people. The return made by the police of the number of people brought up is eighty-nine, and there are now lying in the dead-house here thirty. First the wounded were brought here, but there being no accommodation, they were taken to the European mess-room in the gaol, as many as still survive are now lying. There were sixty there. Eleven have died since, and there are now remaining there, looked after by a number of surgeons, forty-nine. There are two men upstairs living, eight were taken to the Tung-wah Hospital, one of whom has died, and up to the present there are thirty-seven deaths. The whole number of persons accounted for is eighty-nine. At present I have only been able to get four bodies identified, one Malay and three Chinese.\n\nWe will see bodies here, then go to look at the steamship, then to the Tung-wah Hospital, and then we will adjourn until to-morrow. It is a very deplorable thing. Of course we don't know how it occurred, but in the course of the inquiry we will probably find out all about it, and it is perfectly useless to speculate about it now.\n\nThe jury then commenced their painful task of viewing the bodies. They first went to the dead-house in Hollywood-road, where the dead bodies ranged on the floor and on benches, presented a fearful spectacle, the skin hanging from parts of the bodies or being completely stripped off. A still more painful sight was that in the improvised hospital in the gaol, where forty-nine sufferers lay moaning on their beds. All that could be done to make them comfortable had been done, they had had the best medical attendance and their pain had been alleviated to the full extent of surgical skill, but it was heart-rending to hear their groans and observe their fearful sufferings. Most of them appeared unable to move at all, and it is feared that only very few of the poor fellows will survive. It was not only their external wounds they suffered from, but they had inhaled the steam and thus scalded their lungs. Having viewed a dead body here which had not yet been removed to the dead-house, the jury went to the Yesso, where Captain Ashton pointed out how the accident had occurred. The plate was blown out and thrown forward against a beam on the foreside of the bulkhead, which it had broken in the middle. The steam had forced up the hatchway to the between-deck, where about half the Chinese passengers were, and also the skylight on to the main deck. This skylight was thrown a considerable distance in the air. The main deck had been cleared, but the between-deck and hold remained in the same state as they were after the removal of the bodies. There were still lying about the skins of hands and feet, which had come off like gloves. Leaving the ship, the coroner and jury went to the Tung Wah Hospital, where they visited the injured who had been taken there and viewed three dead bodies. From the Tung Wah they proceeded to the Civil Hospital, where they went to see the two men under treatment there, one of whom is a Fat-shan mandarin. The inquiry was then adjourned until ten o'clock this morning.\n\nAt a late hour last night the deaths numbered sixty-two.\n\nPage 420\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "77 \n\nTO \n\nIN 4761 \n\n44 \n\nThe tonnage of Schang, the vessel in question, the paddle steamer is as follows:\n\n| Category | Tonnage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Under Tonnage Deck | 742.42 |\n| Space between Tonnage and Promenade deck | 639.32 |\n|  | 395.07 |\n|  | 1781.58 |\n|  | 659.18 |\n|  | 1122.40 |\n|  | 73.83 |\n|  | 1048.54 |\n| Space above Promenade Deck House |  |\n| Gross tonnage |  |\n| Allowance for Engine Room : percent of Gross tonnage |  |\n| Allowance for Crew space |  |\n| Register Tonnage |  |\n\nThis Vessel was built at Glasgow in 1843 and measured while in the course of building under Rule 1 of the Act. The hull does not appear to have been altered since she left this country.\n\nI see no reason to doubt the accuracy of said measurement and think the Harbour Master should be instructed not",
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        "content_text": "## 410 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1877.\n\nAn analysis of Table A in the Police returns dated the 31st of January, 1877, gives the following number of prison offences--out of all proportion to the increase of crime---indicates something radically wrong. An annual increase of 250 per cent in the number of prison offences is a serious and significant fact. Is it surprising, with such prima facie evidence of prison disorganization laid before him in the returns forwarded by my predecessor for the years 1874, 1875, and 1876, that Lord Carnarvon should instruct me to review the whole system of prison discipline in Hongkong?\n\n| Description | Number of cases | \n| --- | --- | \n| of Robbery from the person with violence, | 12 | \n| Number of cases of Burglary, | 28 | \n| Number of cases of Larceny. | 345 | \n| of Assaults and Disorderly Conduct. | 200 | \n\nFour months, from May to August, 1876, inclusive, \nFour months, from September to December, 1876, inclusive, \n\n|  | Four months, from May to August, 1876 | Four months, from September to December, 1876 | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| Robbery from the person with violence | 9 | 18 | \n| Burglary | 24 | 51 | \n| Larceny | 374 | 288 | \n| Assaults and Disorderly Conduct | 288 | ... |\n\nThis return shows that the number of felonies committed in the four months preceding the unusual influx of passengers from Canton was four hundred and fifteen, whilst in the four months during which the reduced fares were in operation, the number of felonies was three hundred and nine.\n\nIn the returns laid before Lord Carnarvon are also given the exact number of cases brought before the Police Magistrates, and the number of prisoners convicted by them. You will perhaps be surprised to learn, as I was very much surprised to see it, that the number of prisoners brought before the Police Magistrates in 1876 amounted to 10,426, and the number of persons convicted and punished amounted to 7,998. These figures appear in returns dated Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th of February, 1877.\n\nHow is this to be accounted for?\n\nNow, gentlemen, with some small experience, I venture to assert that such an amount of crime, and such an extraordinary growth of prison offences as you have seen recorded in this Colony last year and preceding years is without precedent in any part of the British Empire with a population of only 140,000.\n\nThe system of prison discipline is the system by which crime should be stamped out. It is the great engine the Government is bound to use to repress crime and reduce the number of criminals; joined to efficiency in the administration of justice. With these two in proper working order, the crime which has been recorded before my arrival in the Colony should not have existed. How has the grave result come to pass? Well, I am myself slow to form a decision on this question, but it is manifest from the Secretary of State's despatches that he has been struck with some facts which it was impossible not to see. How could he shut his eyes to the authentic returns to which I have referred? But it is quite possible his Lordship may have noticed something more than those figures.\n\nIn the report of the Gaol Committee, the guiding principle upon which the prison was administered is laid down in these words: \"Owing to the peculiar circumstances of this Colony, and the fact that by far the larger proportion of the criminals confined in the gaol are Chinese, whose language is but little known to those who have charge of them, whose characters and dispositions are imperfectly understood, and of whose previous history and lives it is almost impossible to obtain any knowledge, any attempt to cultivate their higher faculties, and to improve their moral condition seems hopeless.\"\n\nGentlemen, that was a very grave sentence for the Committee to write. In every part of the British Empire, Her Majesty's Government have laid down what they believe to be sound principles of prison discipline. Over and over again it has been said that that system should consist of a due mixture of severe punishment with some attempt at reformation; that the moment you assume one of these to be hopeless and act on that assumption, you deviate from a well-established principle, and you are trying not a new, but a very old worn-out experiment; an experiment tried years ago, but never with success; on the contrary, with the same lamentable result that you have seen here.\n\n### SERIOUS OFFENCES.\n\n| Description | Number of Cases | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n|  | 1874 | 1875 | 1876 | \n| Murder, | 3 | 1 | 3* | \n| Robbery with Violence from the Person... | 15 | 13 | 24 | \n| Burglary or Larceny in a Dwelling House, | 107 | 65 | ... | \n| Assault with intent to rob, | 0 | 3 | ... | \n| Kidnapping, | 1 | 1 | ... | \n| Piracy, | 51 | 65 | A | \n| Unlawful Possession, | A | A | 203 | \n| Larcenies,. | 802 | 938 | 1,050 | \n| Felonies not already given,, | 261 | 239 | ... | \n| * Due case also given under Picks. |  |  |  |\n| Total,. | 1,163 | 1,395 | 1,485 | \n\nIt is a rule laid down over and over again by Secretaries of State, that when a man is sentenced to undergo, for example, eight years of penal servitude, he should undergo at least two-thirds of that punishment; that release from gaol must depend upon a man's steady good conduct in prison, and under no circumstances should he be released without undergoing two-thirds of his sentence.\n\nNow what has been the number of cases of serious offences in Hongkong in the years 1874, 1875, and 1876? In 1874, the total number of serious offences was 1,165; in 1875 this had risen to 1,395; and in 1876, it had risen to 1,485. Of what do these serious crimes consist? Of larcenies, there were 802 in 1874, 938 in 1875, and 1,059 in 1876. Of robbery with violence from the person, there were 15 cases in 1874, 13 in 1875, and 24 cases of that most serious offence in 1876.\n\nBut take offences against property or larcenies; what do I find here? In January last, no less than fifty prisoners are branded and deported to China from Hongkong, thirty-nine of them after having served one-third only of their legal sentences. Some were sentenced by my honourable and learned friend on the right (the Chief Justice) to eight years' penal servitude; others by my honourable friend on the left (the Hon. C. May) to three months imprisonment. They are all treated in the same way; and this curious fact is recorded on the books recorded in the very papers laid before the Executive that the prison conduct of one man is \"very bad,\" according to the Superintendent's report, and the next man's \"very good;\" another prisoner's conduct is recorded as \"indifferent,\" another as \"well conducted;\" some had been repeatedly punished for the worst class of prison offences, others had not a single bad record against them; yet all treated in the same way: with different sentences, but all sent out of the Colony after passing one-third of their sentence only in prison, quite irrespective of what their conduct in prison had been.\n\n| Year | Serious Crimes | Minor Offences |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1867 | 1,468 | 4,585 |\n| 1868 | 1,240 | 4,450 |\n| 1869 | 967 | 3,553 |\n| 1870 | 1,357 | 4,380 |\n| 1871 | 1,483 | 5,018 |\n| 1872 | 1,994 | 8,956 |\n| 1873 | 1,316 | 6,164 |\n| 1874 | 1,185 | 4,407 |\n| 1875 | 1,300 | 4,086 |\n| 1876 | 1,485 | 5,061 |\n\nAnnual average of serious crimes from the year 1867 to the year 1871, 1,303; annual average from 1872 to 1876, 1,351; annual number of offences of all kinds during the five years from 1867 to 1871, 5,718 as against 7,124 offences of all kinds committed during the five years from 1872 to 1876.\n\nMy honourable friend the Acting Colonial Treasurer and Senior Police Magistrate will understand me when I also assert that the system of repeated short sentences on old offenders is a bad system. I have had cases before me recommended for deportation in which it was not a case of a second, or third, or fourth, but a sixth or seventh offence by the same man. Cases come before me of this character: first offence, larceny, sentence one month's imprisonment with hard labour and to be flogged; second offence, larceny, punishment two months' hard labour and to be flogged; third offence, larceny again, with one month's imprisonment and to be flogged.",
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        "content_text": "The Alliance has suffered; but we are informed that the Scottish Imperial was fortunate in escaping all loss from the fire.\n\n## ANOTHER ACCOUNT\n\nThe fire which we have just experienced will long be remembered in Hongkong as one of the most disastrous which has ever occurred. It is wholly impossible to give an adequate estimate of the value of the property destroyed, but roughly it may fairly be taken at nearly two millions of dollars, as, independent of the value of the house property—which in itself must have been considerable, we have to take into account the numbers of Chinese whose little all has been destroyed, as well as the more valuable stock of the shop-keepers. The local insurance Offices are sufferers to a considerable amount, about $300,000 to $400,000. Hundreds if not thousands of families have been rendered houseless and homeless. Independent of the severe loss of property, the distress occasioned by this to us unparalleled catastrophe must be tremendous.\n\nThe fire originated in a house at the Queen's Road end of Endicott Lane. The house was occupied by a European named Edward Fisher, who was engaged in a small commission business. The alarm was given about 10:40 p.m. last night, at a time, moreover, when nearly all were doubtless enjoying their Christmas dinner. The brigades nevertheless turned out with alacrity, and about a quarter of an hour after the alarm had been given one of the Government steam engines was got to work and a good stream of water was brought to play on the flames, which by this time had reached the Queen's Road and the adjoining and opposite houses in the lane, the flames shooting into the air for several yards and throwing a lurid glare over the neighbourhood. Another engine, a hand engine, was got to work on the Queen's Road side, but the puny efforts of the engines proved of no avail and it was perfectly evident to almost everyone that nothing could save the adjoining buildings, but instantly pulling down or mining the next few houses. The wind was blowing fresh from the N.E. at the time and therefore the probable direction of the fire could be easily judged. That some one blundered there can be no two opinions, and some one was or ought to have been responsible; and it is scandalous that such gross mismanagement should be allowed to occur.\n\nThe Chinese rabble who carry about lamps creating a disturbance by yelling and shouting, and the crowds of coolies and frightened tenants rushing to and fro carrying loads of furniture, who are always to be found at fires in this part of the world, increased the confusion. The flames spread rapidly to the westward, the houses in the Queen's Road opposite being in imminent danger, whilst in the lane the fire was creeping its way slowly but surely back towards the Praya. Attention was at once directed to prevent the opposite houses catching, but the heat was so intense that it was wholly impossible to stand in front of the burning buildings and direct a hose to the opposite side.\n\nAn impromptu screen was held up so as to abate the glare and heat; this proceeding was however hopeless, and those in authority were strongly advised to pull down some of the adjoining houses or have them blown down. Orders and counter orders were given first by everybody; the fire meanwhile spreading rapidly. It was soon evident that the conflagration, unless some prompt measures were taken to stop its progress, would become a dreadfully serious one. Water was almost useless and served but to intensify the heat, yet nothing was done. At 5 minutes past midnight the opposite side of Queen's Road caught fire at No. 98, and it was a mere question of time when the whole of the adjacent houses would be at the mercy of the flames. The direction which the fire took was very irregular, and some houses escaped injury most miraculously. This was owing of course in a great measure to the direction of the wind which varied considerably, and partly also to the construction of the houses.\n\nThe fire appears to have travelled gradually to the Queen's Road in a westerly direction and crept through to Tang Man Lane, thence it found its way by the Queen's Road to Wing in Lane and Gilman's Street where it made considerable havoc, the whole of both streets being nearly destroyed. At Gilman's Bazaar the fire was successfully fought by the firemen. On the south side of Queen's Road from the Stag Hotel to No. 96 was completely destroyed; Nos. 92, 94, and 94 A escaped unscathed and Nos. 82, 84, 86, 89 and 90 were free from damage by fire but suffered considerably at the hands of those who destroyed to save, by having the wood-work taken away. The fire was less merciful to No. 80 although it was to the eastward of the P. & O. Company's gate, the limit of the fire on the south side, and it is only another instance of gross mismanagement as had the engines been brought to play on the lee side of the fire the spread of the flames in this direction could have been easily prevented. Messrs Camasjee Pullarjee & Co.'s house in Puttinger Street is another instance of fickleness on the part of the fiery element, the houses on either side being totally destroyed.\n\nCommodore Watson was on the scene in uniform with a number of blue jackets under Lieut. Needham (who worked like a giant) who, as usual, worked most manfully, what few there were of them, but on account of it being Christmas night most of the men were on shore on liberty and it was impossible to collect them together for joint action under a recognized leader. The men of the Spanish transport Patino rendered good service, as did also numbers of the troops; the Artillery and Engineers were in readiness to destroy in order to save and were quite able to do it once they obtained the requisite authority; it was evident that they were disgusted at the indecision displayed by those whose duty it was to act. Many of the 74th Highlanders worked splendidly and did good service, but we regret we are unable to say as much for all of them, as many acted most disgracefully, destroying property instead of saving it, looting and rolling about in a beastly state of intoxication from liquor obtained in many instances in a somewhat doubtful manner during the fire. For the honour of the regiment, than which a better behaved has hitherto never been stationed here, we trust that the black sheep will be dealt severely with. The drunkenness might be overlooked as it may in a measure be ascribed to the festive season of the year, but the looting is a matter which, besides tarnishing the good name of the regiment, is calculated to destroy the confidence which the Chinese are always disposed to place in Europeans on such occasions.\n\nGeneral Donovan was also present in uniform, besides many other notables. There was apparently a total want of organization throughout, everyone giving orders, and everyone else countermanding them. The fire had the South side of Queen's Road well in hand by 20 minutes past 12, and a bugle was sounded to give the alarm to stand clear, presumably as a warning that powder was about to be used, but unfortunately this was never done. Some would-be smart hands were engaged destroying property and throwing furniture into the street, which, however well intentioned, served no other purpose than forming a feed for the fire.\n\nThe indecision displayed as to the advisability of using powder was, to say the least of it, most childish; the only objection appeared to be that a few lives might be lost, but with proper precaution such a possibility would be nearly impossible. Two lives were, we believe, lost on the last occasion on which it was used. Five minutes to one Woo Cheong's photographer's shop was on fire, and the Stag Hotel appeared to be doomed, but most miraculously to relate the wind suddenly shifted from N.E. round by N. to N.W., thus clearing the Stag, which got off with very slight damage. Those in power soon became aware of the folly they had been guilty of in not blowing up sooner, but the fire was by this time licking its way in all directions, everyone appearing staggered at the immensity of the conflagration. The wind continued to blow very fresh with occasional heavy squalls, and the dry season we have lately enjoyed had made every inflammable substance easily ignitable.\n\nThat the brigades worked hard there could be no doubt.\n\nPage 440",
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        "content_text": "# Council Proceedings\n\nI respectable gentlemen of the colony have come to complain to me, that the priest leaving the communion on coming down the steps has been beckoned to by these women. My hon. friend is aware that when I received a petition on the subject I called for the papers of his department relating to it. I have found these complaints were made long before my arrival in the colony. I found the character of that street was notorious, that petitions had come before the Government, but that nothing had really been done to stop the nuisance. After some petitions had been sent in and many inquiries made, Bishop Raimondi was told that he had his remedy in the Courts of Law. I entirely differ with my hon. friend the Registrar-General in thinking that this class of women cannot be dealt with by our own Ordinances.\n\nAnd as I have touched upon the matter, I may mention to the Council that in the very last letter of complaint on the subject I received, a reference was made to a similar and equally painful subject. That letter to which I now refer thanked me for having put an end to another scandal which for some years had been allowed in this colony. When it becomes known—particularly out of this Colony—it will hardly be credited that it could have existed here. A number of ladies who came out from France to attend in this Colony to the educational and charitable wants of little children, who have their school in one of the principal thoroughfares of this Colony—what did I find on visiting this institution? The whole of the front of the house was closed up; none of these nuisances could come to the front of the house. Why? Because the Registrar-General had licensed opposite to that house a room for the examination of prostitutes. The room faced on to the street. Nobody passing could avoid seeing it, and a gigantic mirror there, everybody knowing its purpose. Through that door groups of women passed in and out under the provisions of this Ordinance.\n\nWell, I was able to put a stop to that, but I have no hesitation in saying it was a disgrace to this Colony that such a room should have been allowed to exist, not merely opposite to a convent, but opposite to any educational institution. And when I gave instructions to have it removed elsewhere, I ordered that it should not be opposite to any educational institution. I refer to this because I find that in the last letter to me on the Wellington-street nuisance this matter has been referred to. We must not shut our eyes to the fact that Hongkong is in a very extraordinary position with regard to those women. They are licensed. We have great power dealing with them, and on going through the papers I find there was a time when they could not come to Wellington-street—when they were all confined to a certain part of the town. But then there came from the Registrar-General a recommendation that they should be allowed to make their appearance nearer this end of the town, because, he said, it was necessary to accommodate the gentlemen at this end of the town, and hence it was that the rules, originally established—the sound and salutary rules were so far broken through that Wellington-street, which is undoubtedly one of the main arteries of the colony, and which ought to be a very respectable street, which contains the Roman Catholic Cathedral and a number of respectable houses—that it should be allowed to remain what it is at this moment, or was very recently, a scandal and disgrace to the Colony.\n\nIt is clear it will be a serious thing for us if we endeavour now to check the expression of public opinion, I say the sound, healthy, just expression of public opinion, on a subject of this kind, particularly without notice before the Council, a subject of the utmost moment to the character of this Colony. Are we, forsooth, to check it by a side wind? and say that because Mr. Machado prints and publishes this newspaper at the Reformatory we are not to continue our grant? One of the trades taught at that Reformatory is the trade of printing. When I visited that institution I found the little juvenile prisoners were engaged in printing school books only, and, as I say, this is the first time I have seen this newspaper, and, not having had time to consider the matter, I do not speak perhaps with that same amount of determination that I otherwise should. I say that we should pause before we attempt to interfere with the freedom of the Press wherever it is published and get any department to punish this institution because it publishes this paper which is called attention to, and which refers to a serious scandal in reference to which the department concerned must be made to do its duty.\n\nI can only promise you this, as long as I have the honour to be the head of the Government here there is no department I shall more carefully watch than the Registrar-General's department. It has been my duty, upon its being brought to my notice by the jury on a Coroner's inquest, to take cognisance of the fact that the department in question was employing men upon an illegal and immoral duty. The illegality is worse than mere negligence. What is alleged here is mere negligence. The charge of illegality has been made by a Coroner's jury; that charge I thought it proper to refer to a Royal Commission composed of three representative men, one the managing partner in the leading house, another a leading member of the bar, and the third a gentleman who knows perhaps more about Chinese subjects than any other foreigner in the colony. Those three gentlemen will investigate that, and I would venture to recommend members of this Council, my officers, every gentleman in the colony, if they read criticisms upon their conduct published in the public prints not to resolve that such criticisms must be resented. Let them see if there is some ground of truth in them and see if there are no lessons to be derived in that way.\n\nI myself, since I arrived in the Colony, have not been subjected entirely to praise; now and then I have read pretty sharp criticisms upon my proceedings and policy. I should not have referred to it but for this matter being brought before us now; but I will say this much—I have not read, however strong, and, in my opinion, however unjust some may have been—I have not read a single article upon the policy I was pursuing which did not give me some food for consideration, and which was not, to some extent, a benefit to me and to the community. We must deal tenderly with the public Press. If we want to shut up the public Press let us do it by the ordinary engine of the law. We have the Chief-Justice and an intelligent jury. But because it happens that in performing the business of printing, a newspaper should be published which, while vindicating public morality should speak of a Department in the Colony as guilty of carelessness and indifference, and using some strong language, too, that we should curtail the vote, I could not consent to, and I think on re-consideration my hon. friend on the right (Mr. Lowcock), who was fully justified in calling attention to the matter, will see that as long as we allow the trade of printing to be carried on at that institution and books and pamphlets issued from it to be circulated, we ought not to interfere.\n\nHon. H. LOWCOCK—Your Excellency is under a slight misapprehension. I did not propose to cut down the vote; I said I should be the last to cut it down; but I wished that an intimation should be conveyed to the Reformatory that it was scarcely decent that, in a newspaper issued there, such a remark as the following “If such people had shown themselves anywhere in the vicinity of St. John's Cathedral the Registrar-General and his inspectors would long since have exercised their very summary powers to remedy the nuisance”—should appear. I have no wish to interfere with the public Press, and I regret, perhaps, bringing forward this matter on the present occasion, but I have no doubt it will have a good effect.\n\nThe GOVERNOR—I have no doubt the discussion that has taken place will be seen by the newspaper and Reformatory, and I shall have much pleasure in conveying to the gentlemen connected with the Reformatory what has been said with reference to the remarks—perfectly unfounded—with reference to the Registrar-General. A statement of that kind is most improper: there can be no foundation for it, and I shall have much satisfaction in conveying the sense of the Council on the subject.\n\nThe ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY—Perhaps I may be permitted to observe, with reference to the action of the Registrar-General as regards women living under the protection of foreigners, that he has been guided in that matter by the very highest legal advice obtainable in the Colony, but not that of the present Attorney-General. As regards the houses in question, the action of the Department has been guided in every possible way by the instructions received from the Government. The Department is not responsible—I state it with the greatest possible assurance—for the Wellington-street affair. Hands are tied by the ordinance and instructions received through the Colonial Secretary. I assert that the Registrar-General's Department cannot deal with houses kept by women living under the protection of foreigners. If they are to be dealt with it must be by increased powers granted by this Legislature, and until the Legislature thinks proper to give those increased powers it is an exceedingly bad practice for people to charge the Registrar-General with scandals or nuisances arising from the absence of those powers.\n\nThere is only one other point—that in reference to the examination room at Wanchai. The Registrar-General had nothing to do with the selection of that house for the purpose required. It was selected by the Colonial Surgeon; it was authorised to be...\n\nPage 439",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 22nd October, 1879.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my despatch No. 82 of the 10th of September 1879, I have the honour to lay before you an Extract from the Daily Press reporting what passed when a deputation of the directors of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Chamber waited on the Right Honourable Michael Hicks Beach, Bt, M.P., Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nIt is informed that Hongkong enjoys immunity from bad fires - Not having a proper system of hydrants will diminish the number still further. It is the heavy steam Engines that cannot be got into shape & the higher the hills, the more difficult it is to get them there, then comes on the difficulty from lack of water.\n\nW. Loeveret is to supply more details about the engines. The average cost of the Engine to the Insurance Companies is as he can form an idea as one of the local Companies. I think the drafts may be diverting with some ground Inch Shave and add a note in the margin of page 3: which please refer to & initial if you approve.\n\n71.13/12\n\nNo 93 - 370 \n18680",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1878.\n\n## AMOUNT SANCTIONED BY THE COUNCIL,\n\n### SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES-HONGKONG, 1878.\n\n## ACTUAL EXCESS.\n\n### SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS-Continued.\n\n#### MEDICAL:-\n\n| Description | Amount Sanctioned by the Council | Actual Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Extra Salary to the Acting Apothecary of the Civil Hospital, owing to absence on Sick Leave of the Apothecary, 4 months, at $47.50 | $190.00 |  |\n| Allowance to Colonial Surgeon for Chair Coolies, from 1st June to 31st December, at $24 per month | $168.00 |  |\n| Salaries to Wardmasters, Nurses, Cooks and Coolies for the Lunatic Asylum and Small Pox Hospital, during the year | $1,562.41 |  |\n| Loss in Exchange on Dr. WHARRY's Salary, being paid in England | $22.87 |  |\n| Total | $1,948.28 |  |\n| Hospitals-Provisions, &c., for Patients | $2,000.00 | $940.11 |\n\n#### GAOL:-\n\n| Description | Actual Excess |\n| --- | --- |\n| Salary of the Warden (HAYWARD), from 15th January, to 31st March | $783.51 |\n| Allowance to Warden (HAYWARD), for Chinese Teacher, at $10 per month | $40.00 |\n| Total |  | $199.68 |\n\n### SERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n#### POSTMASTER GENERAL :-\n\n| Description | Actual Excess |\n| --- | --- |\n| Gratuities to Ship Masters for carrying Mails, excess | $159.68 |\n| Remittances to France, Italy, &c., for Transit, forward postage, &c. | $3,855.29 | $4,638.73 | \n| Total |  | $159.68 |\n\n#### FIRE BRIGADE :-\n\n| Description |  | Actual |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| One New Boiler for No. 1 Steam Fire Engine, and extra Fittings, Six Extincteurs and 75 Charges | $1,725.20 |  |\n| Two Brass Feed Pumps for Nos. 1 & 2 Steam Fire Engines, Uniforms for the Members of the Brigade and Chinese Volunteers, Sundry Repairs, excess | $289.93 | $130.00 | $469.80 |\n|  | $306.18 | $2,921.06 | $2,921.06 |\n\n#### GAOL --\n\n| Description |  | Actual Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Provisions for Prisoners, excess | $1,746.36 |  |\n| Lighting the Gaol | $168.44 |  |\n| Clothing, Shoes, &c. | $1,674.61 |  |\n| Fuel and Soap | $824.86 | $1,983.80 |\n| Incidental Expenses | $959.80 | $5,374.07 | $5,166.47 |\n| Total | $4,539.64 |  |\n\n#### WORKS AND BUILDINGS :-\n\n| Description |  | Actual |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Erection of Bungalow at the Peak, for Government Officers | $6,000.00 | $5,063.16 |\n| Repairing the Roof over Lecture Hall in Central School | $800.00 | $800.00 |\n| Accomodation for New Gaol Warden and Head Turkey, from England | $625.00 | $592.91 |\n| Wooding the Island---Wages of the Superintendent | $800.00 | $700.00 |\n\n#### JUDICIAL\n\n| Description | Actual Excess |\n| --- | --- |\n| Administration of Justice-- Expenses of Witnesses, excess | $351.47 |\n\n#### EDUCATIONAL :--\n\n| Description |  | Actual |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Grants-in-Aid-Additional Vote | $500.00 |  |\n| Reprinting of certain Books of the School Book Committee's Series | $121.00 |  |\n| House Rent to Mr. MURRAY, from 1st July to 31st December, at $30 per month | $180.00 | $801.00 |\n|  |  | $351.47 |\n| Dry Earth System-Kiln for drying earth | $1,000.00 | $998.65 |\n| Maintenance of Telegraph, additional | $500.00 | $499.21 |\n| Erection of a Block-house at landing of the Green Island Cable | $250.00 | $249.01 |\n| Repairs to Buildings---Supplementary | $1,506.29 | $1,559.81 |\n| Maintenance of Public Gardens | $241.82 | $241.49 |\n| Maintenance of Water Works | $2,410.27 | $2,410.27 |\n| Total | $14,193.38 | $13,105.11 |\n| Actual Excess |  | $588 |",
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        "content_text": "434\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1879.\n\nMEDICAL:\n\nESTABLISHMENTS,--Continued.\n\nSalary of Apothecary and Analyst, at $1,440 per annum,...........\n\nAMOUNT SANCTIONED BY THE COUNCIL.\n\nACTUAL EXCESS,\n\n$ C.\n\n$ C.\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTAB...----Continued.\n\nTRANSPORT:-\n\nSUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1879.\n\nAMOUNT SANCTIONED BY THE COUNCIL.\n\nACTUAL EXCESS.\n\n176.00 .80\n\nPassage allowance to Officers, excess,\n\nAllowance to Colonial Surgeon for Chair Coolies, at $24 per month,\n\nSalaries to Extra Ward Masters and Staff for the Lunatic Asylum and Small Pox Hospital,\n\n288.00\n\nActual Excess,\n\n$ 184.35\n\n$ 184.35\n\n$ 340.69\n\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS:-\n\n804.69\n\nErection of a market at Yau-ma-ti, (Re-vote of amount sanctioned in the Estimates for 1878),..\n\n6,000.00 4,330.66\n\nActual Excess,\n\n785.79\n\nBungalow for Civil Servants at the Peak, (Re-vote of balance unexpended in 1878),...\n\n940.00 900.00\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nExpenses incurred by the Survey Department on account of the great fire in December, 1878),..\n\n2,500.00 2,380.67\n\nJUDICIAL:-\n\nAdministration of Justice:-Counsel's and Attorney's Fees defending Prisoners charged for murder,\n\n66.90\n\nActual Excess,\n\nTemporary structural changes in the Lock Hospital, to accommodate patients from Civil Hospital, in consequence of its destruction by fire,\n\nSanitary improvement in Aberdeen Police Station,\n\nMaintenance of Public Gardens-Supplementary,\n\ndo., Do. of Telegraph,\n\n3,950.00 3,939.29\n\n300.00 224.02\n\n500.00 467.00\n\n300.00 297.97\n\n66.90\n\n13,490.00\n\nPOLICE MAGISTRATES:-\n\nAdministration of Justice:-Fee to a Solicitor Defending at the Magistracy 9 prisoners charged with murder,\n\n55.00\n\nActual Excess,\n\nGAOL:-\n\nProvisions for Prisoners, excess,\n\n1,955.92\n\nLighting the Gaol,\n\ndo.,\n\n245.37\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\ndo.,\n\n229.28\n\nRent of Quarters for Warden, at $25 per month, from 1st July,\n\n150.00\n\nActual Excess,\n\n12,539.61 38.36\n\nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES :-\n\nRepairs to Damages caused by Rain-storms of 12th and 13th Sept., 1879,\n\nScavenging and removing waste products from the village of Yau-ma-ti,\n\n5,872.00 5,809.81\n\n330.00 220.00\n\n6,202.00\n\nActual Excess,\n\n6,029.81 2,580.57\n\nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES :----\n\nActual Excess,\n\n2,355.90\n\nGrant towards the repair of St. John's Cathedral,\n\n500.00\n\nFIRE BRIGADE:-\n\nGrant to the Humane Society to meet Special outlay in rockets and signal lights,\n\n300.00\n\nExpenses consequent on the great fire in December, 1878, being) gratuities to Volunteers, repairs to Engine, Hose, &c., excess,...............\n\nSteam Fire Engine, Hose, &c. from England, excess,\n\n1,817.48\n\nGrant towards the erection of a School House at Wanchai,\n\n350.00\n\n1,805.93 3,623.41\n\nSubscription to Renter's Political Telegrams, 1 year..............................\n\nFurniture for Government House. ($5,000 voted in 1878 not paid),\n\nExpeuses in consequence of the great fire in December, 1878,.\n\n1,000.00 6,245.84\n\n935.50\n\nActual Excess,\n\n3,623.41\n\nCarried forward.........\n\n9,331.34\n\nPage 434 appears three times at top and three times at bottom, indicating page metadata.",
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        "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1879.\n\n## COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\n## EXPENDITURE.\n\n  \n    ESTIMATED,\n    ACTUAL.\n  \n\n# SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES--HONGKONG, 1879.\n\nPage 13\n\n## EXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG, FOR THE YEAR 1879,--Continued.\n\n  \n    DECREASE.\n    EXPLANATORY REMARKS.\n    INCREASE.\n  \n  \n    $\n    \n    $\n  \n  \n    C.\n    \n    C.\n  \n  \n    G.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Brought forward...\n    \n    607,967.38\n    19,323.07\n    601,482.01\n    12,887.70\n  \n  \n    FIRE BRIGADE,\n    \n    5,040.00\n    8,669.41\n    \n    3,623.41\n  \n  \n    PENSIONS, RETIRED ALLOWANCES,\n    Stearn Fire Engine and Hose from England, and Expenses consequent on the great fire in December, 1878.\n    772.87\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    GRATUITIES,\n    Amount paid was less than estimated.\n    26,500.00\n    25,727.13\n    \n    772.87\n  \n  \n    CHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,\n    \n    4,000.00\n    8,825.00\n    \n    4,825.00\n  \n  \n    TRANSPORT,..\n    Passage Allowance to Officers.\n    4,500.00\n    4,084.35\n    415.65\n    \n  \n  \n    WORKS AND BUILDINGS,\n    \n    85,750.00\n    62,571.22\n    23,178.78\n    \n  \n  \n    ROADS, STREET, AND BRIDGES,\n    The actual decrease on Works and Buildings is $13,178.78, and the actual increase on Roads, Streets and Bridges is $2,784.08. Owing to oversight, the item of $10,000 for the repairs of Storm Damages (Re-vote of 1878) was inserted under Works and Buildings instead of Roads, Streets and Bridges--hence the discrepancy of $10,000 less in the former and overcharged in the latter. The same item in 1878 appeared under Roads, Streets and Bridges. Out of $17,000 voted for New Lock Hospital, only $4,039 were spent.\n    44,720.00\n    57,504.08\n    \n    12,784.08\n  \n  \n    LIGHTHOUSES, .\n    \n    8,000.00\n    2,999.64\n    5,000.36\n    \n  \n  \n    MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,..\n    \n    38,500.00\n    49,676.07\n    \n    11,176.07\n  \n  \n    LAND AND HOUSES PURCHASED,\n    Purchase of a Chinese House in British Kowloon for a School-house.\n    80.00\n    80.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    MILITARY CONTRIBUTION,\n    Increase caused by still lower Rate of Exchange than that estimated.\n    104,348.00\n    109,754.95\n    \n    5,406.95\n  \n  \n    TOTAL,....\n    \n    $\n    924,325.38\n    43,450.08\n    \n    926,867.86\n    45,992.56\n  \n  \n    Net Increase, $2,542.48.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nColonial Secretary's Office\n\nHong Kong, 31 August, 1880\n\nPage 438",
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        "content_text": "## \nanother steam Fire Engine for the Colony.\n\n2. The papers were discussed at a meeting held on the 28th ultimo of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council, who recommended a vote of $4,500 for this service; this vote was unanimously confirmed at a meeting of the Legislative Council held on the following day. I would ask Your Lordship, if approving the vote, to instruct the Crown Agents to purchase and send out the Engine at an early date.\n\n4. I trust that when the water supply of the Colony is improved, we shall not be so dependent on the Fire Engines, as the pressure from the hydrants should be sufficient to project the water to the height of any house in the Colony.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nM. Murray\nAdministrator.\n\n157",
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        "content_text": "## Council Meeting Transcript\n\nIt was necessary, and by any accident the Surveyor-General's department did not repair the road, there would be interminable delays in getting the thing done. By the way in which it was provided in the Bill, the initiative belonged to the company, and when they executed any work it had to be carried out under the control of the Surveyor-General. The company were practically bound to do everything which the Surveyor-General ordered and all it had to do was to recover the money afterwards from the Government.\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** said that was the main objection.\n\nThe Hon. F. B. JOHNSON said the company would do the work quite as cheaply as the Government, and then they would have the road under one authority, which was practically the Surveyor-General. He had heard the objections urged by the Colonial Secretary, but having a majority of the committee in favour of the Bill, and as he believed the practice was in harmony with the practice at home, he did not see why it should be altered.\n\nThe **COLONIAL TREASURER** said he thought the Hon. F. B. Johnson had overlooked section 14, which had been passed the previous day, and which gave the company authority to repair that part of the road on which the tramways were constructed, and that portion of the road with which the company did not deal was a very important one, because it embraced the gutters and rain channels. These were made of granite, and were things on which a great deal of money might be expended by the use of stones of a more expensive or a less expensive nature. It seemed to him that section 14 entirely met the necessities of the case. The company repaired that part of the road on which the tramway was laid, and the Surveyor-General the other part. What the company had to do with that five feet of road which lay on either side of the tramway, and which was given to the public, he could not see. He thought the Surveyor-General could be trusted to deal with that part of the work. This must be an entirely experimental matter; no one could say whether the tramway was going to be a success, and if it was found in six months that it was really desirable there should be only one authority over such an important road as Queen's-road, there would be no difficulty in inducing the Government to reconsider the question. He was of opinion that the views of the Surveyor-General of the Colony ought to be supported, and the Tramway Company left to undertake the maintenance of their part of the road, and the Surveyor-General the remainder.\n\nThe Hon. F. B. JOHNSON said the objection to Mr. Bowdler keeping the government road in repair was that it would entail the existence of two authorities over the maintenance of the road, which was a thing that would not work. The public interests required that the roads should be kept in perfect repair, which could be best ensured by the whole maintenance of the road being undertaken by the Tramway Company who would receive an annual sum from Government for the repair of that part of the road laying on either side of the tramways. The hon. member read a passage from the evidence given by Mr. W. Danby before the select Committee in which that gentleman quoted a passage from the report of the select Committee of the Lords and Commons, on the Metropolitan Tramways in support of his view.\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** said with reference to tramways in the Metropolis, where they had large drains underground in which the pipes of gas, water, and telegraph companies were kept, the case was very different to their own. Here, he considered the work ought to be done by the Tramway Company, which ought also to remove the gas and water pipes, and those of the telegraphs and telephone to one side of the road. He considered further that the work should certainly be under the supervision of the Surveyor-General. It appeared to him to be absurd that all the other companies in Hongkong should be under the control of the Tramway Company with respect to opening of the road. The control ought to be in the hands of the Surveyor-General.\n\nThe Hon. F. B. JOHNSON said that if they were to do the work under the control of the Surveyor-General, they would not be able to move hand or foot without his approval. It was merely a question of who should take the initiative.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER** said he might be allowed to observe that the quotation which had been read from the report of the Select Committee of the Lords and Commons referred to a state of affairs very different from that which existed here. It referred to England, where the roads were vested in the parishes. If the hon. member could tell him of any parish in England seven miles long, it might apply, but here the Government had control of the road throughout its whole length, while there it ran through several parishes and at every quarter or third of a mile there might be a different management; so it was necessary there should be one authority, because it would be a question not between the company and the Government but between the company and several parishes.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said that would make no difference as to the portion of the road the tramway was on.\n\nThe question that the clause stand part of the Bill was then put and lost, the ayes being three and the noes four.\n\nThe three following clauses were then taken up. The **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY** spoke in favour of the Company being compelled to take up all the telegraph, gas, and water pipes and relay them at the side of the road.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON objected to this on account of the great expense it would entail.\n\nAfter discussion a clause suggested by the Surveyor-General was inserted in place of the one in the Bill as it stood, which made certain alterations in detail as to the carrying out of the work when repairs to the pipes were necessary.\n\nThe **COLONIAL SECRETARY** brought to the notice of the Council certain matters of detail such as the question of certificates for the servants of the company who were to be employed as engine drivers, and the fares to be paid.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said these matters would be dealt with in the bye-laws.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY** said there was another question with regard to the payment of taxes by the Company. He presumed they would not be allowed to run all night. They might either let the coaches run under the Carriage Ordinance and charge so much a carriage, or charge the Company as ratepayers for the amount of land they covered.\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON said the promoters would prefer to be under the Carriage Ordinance.\n\nThe **ACTING COLONIAL TREASURER** said that under the old Carriage Ordinance the charge would only be $1 for each coach; therefore the matter would have to be dealt with in the amended Ordinance, which had been read a first time.\n\nHis **EXCELLENCY** said he thought as far as taxation went, they should deal as leniently as possible with the company, and not try to make money out of it. The tramways would be a great convenience to the Colony, and he thought it would be sufficient if they charged $1 a vehicle.\n\nOn the schedules being taken into consideration, the **Attorney-General** asked what view the Committee had taken as to certain objections which had been made by owners of property.\n\nThe **ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE** said that with regard to the objection of Mr. Ede to the terminus near his house at Victoria Gap, and to two objections by Chinese property owners to the line in Queen's-road, the Committee found the property of the objectors would not be interfered with in the actual construction of the lines or stations, and if they sustained any injury they had their remedy in the Supreme Court.\n\nHis **EXCELLENCY** said he was on the Committee which sat on the Metropolitan railway. There was great objection by some parties, but it was found that on the whole property was increased in value by the proximity of a station. The schedules were then passed.\n\nHis **EXCELLENCY**-The Council has now approved of the Bill in Committee and I have to put the question that the Bill do pass. In doing so I think I ought to congratulate the hon. member who has had charge of this Bill and the other promoters of the Bill. It is one of great importance and I think will do great good in the Colony. I may say, with reference to that which has been in the minds of the Council from time to time, the great pressure of the traffic in Queen's-road, that I have some hope of being able to have a very large work undertaken in this Colony which would have the effect of obviating that pressure. The work I refer to is one to which my attention was drawn some time ago by the two deputations, one of European gentlemen and one Chinese. Representations were made to me by the Chinese to the effect that the lot-holders along the sea front...\n\n## Page 394",
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        "content_text": "## Finance Committee, 28th February, 1882.\n\n## of the present year.\n\n2\n\nThe first and fourth items have already received Your Lordship's sanction. The third and sixth items have been specially reported by despatch 1969 and 81G of 10th and 16th March last. Papers explanatory of the other items are annexed.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nMy Lord,\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\n## Enclosure 2 to: 10013\n\n## PAYMENTS AUTHORIZED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1882, REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.\n\n### ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\n| No. | Department | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. | Supreme Court | S. of S. Desp Chinese Clerk and Translator, Increase of pay from $840 to $1,200 per annum, | $360.00 |\n| 2. | Educational | No. of Office Messenger, from 1st January to 31st March 1882 at $84 per annum, and from 1st April to 31st December 1882 at $72 per annum, | $75.00 |\n|  |  | er Teacher of the Anglo-Chinese School at Sayingp'ún, increase of pay from $300 to $420 per annum, | $120.00 |\n|  |  |  | $195.00 |\n| 3. | Medical | Cost of a Steam Launch, Health Officer and Inspector of Emigrants :- Crew for Steam Launch, |  |\n|  |  | Coal, Water, Oil, &c., |  |\n|  |  | Office Rent, |  |\n|  |  | Messenger and Deck Hand, | $5,576.00 |\n| 4 | Police Magistrates | No. of Coroner, arrears of salary for October, November and December 1881, at $20 per month, | $60.00 |\n|  |  |  |  |\n\n### EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENT.\n\n| No. | Department | Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 5. | Police | No. of Repairing No. 2 Police Steam Launch, | $1,875.00 |\n|  |  |  | $4,000.00 |\n|  |  |  | $480.00 |\n|  |  |  | $712.00 |\n|  |  |  | $300.00 |\n|  |  |  | $84.00 |\n| 6. | Fire Brigade | C.S.O. No. 174 of 1882. New Steam Fire Engine of the size of No. 3 Government Engine, | $4,500.00 |\n| 7. | Roads, Streets, and Bridges |  | $6,000.00 |\n| 8. | Miscellaneous Services | C.S.O. No. 602 of 1882. Road and Street Contingencies, |  |\n|  |  | No. of Furniture for Government House, | $174.00 |\n|  |  | Cooking Utensils | $447.20 |\n| 9. | Miscellaneous Services | C.S.O. No. of 1681. Gratuity to Mrs. J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, being difference between one month's salary for every three years' service of her late husband, namely 40 years at $240 for every 3 years, | $3,200 |\n|  |  | and amount already paid her, | $2,880 |\n|  |  |  | $320.00 |",
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        "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, 31st August, 1882.\n\n16. Tomnochy reported No 180-11:813 to Your Lordship on 16th March last, a vote for $4500 for the purchase of a new Steam Fire Engine, which the Crown Agents have been instructed to obtain on the authority of a despatch from the Right Honourable Earl of Kimberley, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, ... \n\n458 \n... anti-corruptionists stay in line ... (text seems unrelated to the rest, possibly from a different document or a mistake in OCR) \n\nIt appears the text \"...... tiaritooriumists stay in miln\" is not related to the rest of the document and may be an OCR error or text from a different source. The main body of text starts with \"My Lord,\". I have corrected \"31th\" to \"31st\", and \"HongKong\" to \"Hong Kong\". The rest of the text has been reformatted according to the given instructions.",
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        "content_text": "# 465\n\nMinutes by the Administrator\n\nRefer to the Tin...\n\nare two distinct questions\n\n1. The repairs to the valves about the Taurus Fire Engine which I authorize at an expenditure less approved.\n\n2. The construction of a new fire engine which if approved will require sanctioned from House. Probably it will be desirable to take...\n\nSigned) W.T. Marsh  \n12th June\n\nRonald Cameron  \nFinance...",
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        "content_text": "## IX. RETURN OF OCCUPATIONS, -Continued.\n\n521\n\n| Europeans and Eurasians. Trade or Occupation. | Americans. | *Malays and other Natives of the Archipelago. | Chinese. | +Tamils and other Natives of India. | Others not specially classified. | Total. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | M. F. | M. F. | M. F. | M. F. | M. F. | M. F. |\n\n### 8.-COMMERCIAL CLASS.\n\n| Trade or Occupation | Europeans and Americans. Eurasians. | *Malays and other Natives of the Archipelago. | Chinese. | +Tamils and other Natives of India. | Others not specially classified. | Total. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fruit-cultivators, Gambier and Pepper-planters, | 911 31 | 278 2 |  |  |  |  |\n| Boarding and Lodging-house Keepers, | 19 | 30 | 559 | 4951 | 589 32 | **** 3 |\n| Bamboatmen, Planters, Managers, Overseers of Estates, ... | 11 | 40 | 70 |  |  |  |\n| Butchers and Pork-sellers, | 21 | 201 | 48 | 278 | 7 |  |\n| Cake-sellers, |  |  | 216 | 105 | 578 | 164 |\n| Market gardeners, |  |  | 15 |  | 950 | 127 |\n| Cart and Hackney Labourers, |  |  | 1,383 |  | 4,016 |  |\n| Carriage Owners, |  |  | :: |  | 32 | 116 |\n| Charcoal-sellers, |  |  | 48 | 1 |  |  |\n| Cloth Hawkers, | 30: | 3 | 62 | 153 | 19 | 153 |\n| Paddy-planters, |  |  | 49 |  | 253 | to |\n| Curry Stuff-sellers,.. |  |  | 44 |  | 44 |  |\n| Eating-house Keepers, | 25 | 19 | 1,740 | 32 | 8,363 | 250 |\n| Fishmongers, |  |  | 1,001 |  | 2,666 | 2 |\n| Fruit-sellers, |  |  | 206 | 8 | 5,565 | 2 |\n| Grass-sellers, | 3-1 |  | }; | 646 |  |  |\n| Hawkers, | 170 | 27 | 1,129 | 39035 | 18 | 25-1 |\n| Hotel and Tavern-keepers, | 15 | 1, | 898 | 297 | 752 | 1,396 |\n| Merchants, and Brokers, |  |  | 27 | 33 |  |  |\n| Oil-sellers, Mangrove Bark-sell-ers. |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Money-changers, | 126 |  | 701 | 3 | 70.1 | 112 |\n| Opium Shop-keepers, | 1 |  | 122 | 165: | 321 | 661 |\n| Pawnbrokers, |  |  | 198 | 15 |  | 478 |\n| Pig-dealers, | 62 |  | 19 | 2 | GO | 4 |\n| Poulterers, |  |  | 1,102 | 123 | 173 | 321 |\n| Rice Merchants, Rice-mill Owners, | 66 |  | 198 | 408 | 62 | ان |\n| Ship-chandlers, Shop-keepers, and General Dealers, | 1 |  | 40 | 73 | 30 | 123! |\n| Spirit Shop-keepers, | 27 | 1 | 799 | 103 | 11 | 1,058 |\n| Timber Dealers, |  |  | 242 |  | 1,987 | 298 |\n| Toddy Shop-keepers, | 31 |  | 21 | 52 | 410. | 464 |\n| Vegetable-sellers, |  |  | 16 | 268 | 284 | 94 |\n| Others not specified above, |  |  | 3,143 | 3,276 | 67 | 3: |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  | 721 |\n|  |  |  |  |  | 801 | 341 |\n|  |  |  | 2,223 | 1 |  | 1,188 |\n|  |  |  | 1 |  | 12 | 401 |\n|  |  |  | 4,718 | 716 | 1 | 118 |\n|  |  |  | 5,978 | 16 | 90 | 2 |\n|  |  |  | 92 | 45 | 190 | 16 |\n|  |  |  | 238 | 16 | 31 | 37 |\n|  |  |  | 16 | 17 | 5 | 62 |\n|  |  |  | 66 | 5 | 202: | 2051 |\n|  |  |  | 33 | 38 | · | 68 |\n|  |  |  | 162 | 218 | 80 | 11 |\n| Contractors and Builders, ... | 161 | 25 | 1,156 | 182 | 11,054 | 30 |\n|  | 44 | 66 | 11: | 123 | 44 | 2231 |\n| Coopers, |  |  | 114,400 | 1 | 69 | 261 |\n| Divers, | 74 |  | 74 |  |  |  |\n| Dyers, | 1 |  | 341 |  | 343 |  |\n| Engineers and Machinists, | 89 | 77 | 16 | 11 | 198 | B |\n| Engine-drivers and Firemen, | 29 |  | 22 | 821 | 288! | 100 |\n|  |  |  | 77 |  | 548 | • |\n| Carried forward,..... | 150 | 1 | 108 | 11,440 | 146 | 9,218] |\n|  |  |  |  | 9 | 2,001 | 20 |\n|  |  |  |  | 93 | 18,010 | 177 |\n\n*Includes Aborigines of the Peninsula, Achinese, Boyanese, Bugis, Dyak, Javanese, Jawi Pekan, Malays, Manilamen.\n+Includes Burmese, Parsees, Tamils, Bengalis and other Natives of India not particularised.\n\n### 5.--INDUSTRIAL CLASS.\n\n| Trade or Occupation | Europeans and Americans. Eurasians. | *Malays and other Natives of the Archipelago. | Chinese. | +Tamils and other Natives of India. | Others not specially classified. | Total. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Attap-makers, |  |  | 70 | 73 |  | 154 |\n| Bakers and Millers,... |  |  | 1 | 1 | 902 | 1,081 |\n| Bamboo Workers, |  |  |  |  | 2,517 |  |\n| Barbers, |  |  | انان |  |  |  |\n| Blacksmiths, |  |  | 19 | ::: |  |  |\n| Boatmen, |  |  | 16 | ม | : | : |\n| Bookbinders, |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Boot and Shoe-makers, |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Brick-makers, |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Carpenters, |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Carriage-builders and Cartwrights, |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Cart and Hackney Carriage drivers, Cattle-keepers, Milk-sellers, and |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Cigar-makers, and Tobacco-sellers, |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Coffin-makers, |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Confectioners, |  |  | —- ཅཟ--་ |  |  |  |",
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        "content_text": "478\n\nThese votes\n\nThe Committee is of opinion that the increased vote to Reuter's Telegrams, amounting to $572, should be assented to in consideration of the additional information which the Agency has undertaken to supply and is now supplying. In consequence of the limited number of allowed ordinary subscribers, without the assistance of the Government the community would be\n\n671\n\ndeprived of much of the intelligence which is acknowledged to be useful to the Community,\n\n4419/82 Payments in excess of the Estimates for 1883:——-\n\nC.8.0.\n\n40 of 1582.\n\nClerk of Deed additional, $480.\n\nC.$.0.\n\n4521 of 1882.\n\nPost Office. 6th May-\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nSurveyor General's Department.\n\nRead:--Letter No. 4 from Mr. BRUCE SHEPHERD, First Clerk and Clerk of Deed Registry, in the Surveyor General's Department, dated the 4th instant, drawing attention to the difference in his salary as provided in the Estimates for 1883, which is $1,920 per annum, and in his agreement with the Crown Agents, which is $2,400 per annum.\n\nRead also:-Colonial Office Despatch to Mr. SHEPHERD, dated the 2nd August, 1882. The Committee find that Mr. BRUCE SHEPHERD has been engaged on a salary of $2,400 per annum; and therefore recommend that the difference, $480 be voted.\n\nPost Office.\n\nRead:--Letter No. 110 from the Postmaster General, dated the 27th December, 1882, for senger, $72, an additional messenger at $6 a month.\n\nC.S.O.\n\n214 of 1883.\n\nCrew of Floating\n\nThe Committee find that, in framing the Estimates for 1883, the Acting Postmaster General (Mr. BARFF) had applied for an additional Stamper at $9 a month in lieu of one of the Messengers, which was disallowed; and that provision was omitted to be made for re-instating the vote for the 6th Messenger, who, they are satisfied, is indispensable. They therefore recommend that the sum asked for, $72 per annum, be voted.\n\nFire Brigade,\n\nRead:-Letter No. 3 from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, dated the 22nd instant, Fire Eng, applying for authority to engage a Crew for the Floating Fire Engine.\n\n$600\n\nThe Committee find that, for the effectual working of the Floating Fire Engine, it is absolutely necessary to engage a crew comprising of :----\n\n1 European Assistant Foreman and Engine driver at.. $120 per annum.\n\n1 Chinese Engine driver 240\n\n1 Fireman......... 108\n\n2 Seamen at $96 each.. 192\n\n$660\n\nand agree with the Superintendent that the above expenditure is indispensable.\n\nWith regard to the engagement of 3 Hosemen, the Committee are of opinion that those men would practically be unemployed except in case of a fire; and having regard to the large increase that would be shown on the Estimates consequent on their employment, the Committee are only prepared to confine their recommendation to the item of $660, quoted above.\n\nC.R.O.\n\n57 of 1883. Fellow- Auto Trajector QUINCLY, & Sergeants ROBERTSON & MORHISUR, $540.\n\nEXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPolice.\n\nRead:-Letter No. 3 from the Captain Superintendent of Police, dated the 5th instant, applying for authority to pay allowances in lieu of quarters for certain Police Officers.\n\nThe Committee find that the present Police quarters are inadequate for accommodating more married Police Officers, and having regard to the high rents now ruling, recommend that the following Officers, on whose behalf the Captain Superintendent now applies, be allowed $15 a month each $540 per annum, namely:---\n\nInspector WILLIAM QUINCEY, Sergeant ROBERTSON, MORRISON.\n\n11\n\nIn making this recommendation the Committee desire to record that they do so on the understanding that the whole question of regulating marriages amongst members of the Police Force is under consideration.\n\nC5.0, 283 of 1883. The Gange keepers$18.00\n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\nRead: Secretary of State's Despatch No. 206, of the 20th September last, and its Fit Tables, 888.73 enclosures, respecting the desirability of obtaining annual Tidal Tables.\n\nC.9.0.\n\n29 of 1883. Micrura for $654.78\n\nRead also: Surveyor General's Minute of the 31st October last, recommending the taking of continuous Tidal Observations for a period of 12 months from the 1st January, 1883, with a view to correction, if necessary, of the constants established by Mr. ROBERTS of the Nautical Almanac Office.\n\nRead also: Harbour Master's Minute of the 6th November last, supporting the Surveyor General scheme.\n\nThe Committee find that a correct record of the Tidal Observations would be invaluable to the shipping community, and that therefore it would be very desirable to continue the observations inaugurated at Cape D'Aguilar and at the Naval Yard by Mr. CHADWICK: for this purpose they recommend that the vote asked for, for the employment of two Tide-guage keepers @ $9 a month each, amounting to $216 per annum, may be approved.\n\nThe Committee recommend also, for the same reason as above, the printing of the 300 Copies of Tidal tables for 1883, which Mr. ROBERTS has undertaken to prepare, at a cost of £62.2.0 @ 3/8d.-$338.73.\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\nRead:-Surveyor General's letter No. 2 of the 2nd instant, recommending the purchase, Gure for the use of Government House, of two very large Mirrors of a superior design, which cost in England, $1250, but which may be obtained at a very much reduced figure.\n\n63.\n\nThe Committee consider these Mirrors suitable articles of furniture for Government House, and recommend that the Surveyor General be authorized to purchase them at a cost of not exceeding $600.",
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        "content_text": "480\n\nC.5.0.\n\nThe Committee regret that, by an oversight, His Excellency's Minute was not before them on the 2nd ultimo, when the expenditure in connexion with this Engine was under their consideration.\n\nThe Committee understand that, since their last Meeting, Mr. CREAGH has submitted a more elaborate scheme in connexion with the re-organization of the Fire Brigade for the Consideration of the Executive, and that there is no immediate necessity for the employment of the 3 Hosemen in question.\n\nUnder the circumstances the Committee do not feel disposed to recommend this expenditure at present.\n\nEXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS,\n\nFire Brigade\n\nRead-A proposal by the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, as also a subsequent joint Minute by Mr. McEWEN, the then Superintendent, and Mr. LEIGH, Engineer, to the Fire Brigade, relative to the conversion of No. 1 Steam Engine into a Floating Engine at a total cost of $6,410.\n\n26,410,\n\nC.8.0.\n\n379 of 1888\n\nCompas.\n\nBiomate\n\nMrs.\n\nThe Committee find that this amount was voted by the Legislative Council on the 5th December last; but owing to the work not being finished at the end of the Financial year, the money lapsed into the Treasury.\n\nUnder the circumstances they recommend that the amount be re-voted.\n\nTransport.\n\nRead Letter No. 44, of the 9th ultimo, from the Surveyor General, forwarding and recommending an application from the widow of the late Overseer of Works, Mr. HORWOOD, for a passage home at the public expense.\n\n$240.\n\nC.5.0.\n\n279 of 1885. Compas\n\nThe Committee find that the deceased consented to remain in the service after the expiration of his special contract in connexion with the Praya Works, on the condition of the Government paying the passages out for his wife and 2 children; but that his wife only came out, for whom alone the Government was put to any expense as regards passage money.\n\nThe Committee also find that the applicant has been left entirely destitute.\n\nUnder the circumstances the Committee recommend that the cost of the applicant's passage home, amounting to $240, be voted.\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\nRead:---Letter No. 20, from the Captain Superintendent of Police, dated the 29th January last, recommending a petition from the widow of Police Constable No. 444, LI Àнo, for a compassionate allowance.\n\nThe Committee find that the deceased died at the expiration of 16 years' service in the Police Force, just as he contemplated retiring on pension.\n\nC.5.0.\n\n2:00 of 1882. Compensa\n\nCALDWELL,\n\nfac dinninge\n\n19th Jan... 1891, $200.\n\nThe Committee also find that the deceased's pay for the last 3 years preceding his death was at the rate of $96 per annum, by which he would have been entitled to an annual pension of $33.60.\n\nThe Committee therefore recommend that the sum of $33.60, being one year's pension, be voted to the widow.\n\nRead:-A letter from Mr. D. R. CALDWELL, dated the 9th August, 1882, and the various Minutes thereon, together with the previous correspondence and Minutes, relative to his claim for damages sustained by him by the pulling down of the wall of a house by order of the Surveyor General's Department, which fell upon a house belonging to his late father's estate at T'aipingshan, after the fire of the 19th January, 1881.\n\nRead also:-A Petition from Mr. AU WING, dated the 25th February, 1881, together with the various Minutes thereon, relative to his claim for damages sustained by him in consequence of the pulling down of the wall above referred to.\n\n6.9.0.\n\n2701 of 1882. Compensa.\n\nAU WING.\n\naff of the pulling down of the wall above referred to.\n\nfor damage\n\n19th JAR., 1881, $150.\n\nThe Committee find that on the 1st June, 1881, Governor HENNESSY had authorized the payment of $200 to Mr. CALDWELL, and $150 to Mr. AU WING respectively; but that owing to their declining to abandon all legal claims in the matter, the money was not at the time disbursed.\n\nThe Committee also find that, subsequently, in August last, Mr. CALDWELL and Mr. AU WING agreed to the compromise, and, as the amounts had already been approved of by the Executive Council and authorized by Governor HENNESSY, His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government directed their payment.\n\nUnder the circumstances the Committee, by a majority, recommend that the sums be voted.\n\nIn connexion with this matter, Mr. JOHNSON wishes it recorded that, as the money has already been paid on the authority of the Executive, and as the question is one that might be used hereafter as an inconvenient precedent, he does not feel called upon to express any opinion on the vote.\n\nRead and confirmed this 13th day of March, 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETH,\n\nClerk of Councils.\n\nRead in the Legislative Council, this 7th day of March, 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART,\n\nChairman.",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure W. 2 in despatch No 59 of 15th March, 1883, from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n(Extract from Minutes of Finance Committee, 30th January, 1883.)\n\nC.5.0,\n\nC.O. 6912\n\nRECP 481\n\nREGE 24 APP 83\n\nPAYMENTS AUTHORIZED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES FOR 1883.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS. Surveyor General,\n\n4. 1st Clerk, (Clerk of Deed Registry), additional salary, $480.00\n\nPostmaster General.\n\nC.3.0. 4821 of 1882,\n\nOne Messenger, $72.00\n\nFire Brigade.\n\n914 of 1882,\n\nCrew for Floating Fire Engine:---\n\n1 Assistant Foreman and Engine Driver, $120.00\n\n1 Chinese Engine Driver, $240.00\n\n1 Fireman, $108.00\n\n2 Seamen, at $96 each, $192.00\n\n$660.00\n\nEXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nPolice.\n\n97 of 1882,\n\nC Rent-Allowance in lieu of quarters to 3 married Police Officers at $15 each per month, $540.00\n\nC.5.0. 1220 of 1882.\n\nC.O. Besp.\n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\nWages for 2 Tide-gauge keepers, at $9 per month each, $216.00\n\n Copies of Tidal Tables for 1883, $216.00\n\n...........at £62.2.0 @ 3/8d.— $338.73\n\n$554.73\n\n20 of 1883,\n\nMiscellaneous Services. Government House Furniture, 2 Drawing-room Mirrors, $600.00\n\n4872 of 1882.\n\n572.00\n\nAdditional Subscription to Renter's Political Telegrams, 1883. Gratuity to the widow of the late Mr. MULGRAVES, Inspector of Nuisances, $165.00\n\nC.8.0.\n\n$1,337.00\n\nPassed the Legislative Council, this 2nd day of February, 1883.\n\nARATHOON SETHI, Clerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "J\n\n8/3122\n\n1038/67\n\n155868 1766 ou\n\n42\n\n2502 03\n\n3.743 57\n\n1638 80\n\n5625 24\n\nboo\n\nDecrease\n\nExplanatory notes\n\n125\n\nEducational. The Normal School was established in the later part of 1881\n\nand about $2000 increase in Grant-in-aid to Public schools in 1882. Medizinb. Increase in provisions, Reading and Incidental expenses - Also Contingencies for the Health Officer's Steam Launch.\n\nPolice. Increase in salaries of Staff & Force - Govt. One additional European Constable, 43 Asst Constables were employed from 14 April 1882 -\n\nIncrease also in the items of Fuel, Soap & Incidental expenses.\n\nFire Brigade. A large & protracted fire in a Merchants' Go down occurred in 1882. - Purchase of new hose, repairs to engine, Pension - Pension to Sir John Pope Hennessy, and increase in number of Police Pensioners\n\nWorks & Buildings - New Water Police Station, Observatory & Time Ball, and the extension of water works, caused the increase.\n\nRoads, Street, Bridges. A supplementary vote was obtained for the items Roads & street Contingencies.\n\nPrison Services. Increase in the number of street Camps, camp furniture for Govt. House, expenses incurred for Photos: in connection with the reception of the Prince\n\nLand House Purchased. Five Chinese Shops in Sheak-tong-tsui purchased.\n\nAudit Office\n\n \nGoing go May 1882",
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        "content_text": "(4)\n\nPlugs in all the principal streets, and the tanks from which they are supplied; also the situation of Wells, and the average depth of water at all points accessible to an engine along the Praya Wall. This order applies especially to the Officers of the Brigade who are expected to know the best means of supplying an engine with water in any part of the town.\n\n4.-On the alarm of Fire, the bell will be rung without delay. First with a quick alarm for two minutes, to be followed by single, double, or treble strokes to denote the situation of the Fire. One stroke indicating the Eastern District, Eastward of Murray Barracks; two, the Central District, from Murray Barracks to the Harbour Office; and three, the Western District.\n\n5.-On the alarm being sounded, firemen and officers who have not been told off for special duty will hasten to the engine house of their District to assist in taking the Engines to the Fire. But those in charge of Hose Reels, Coal Carts, Ladders, Supply Carts, &c., must on no account neglect the duties which they have been specially appointed to perform.\n\n6.-On the arrival of the Engines at the scene of Fire, they will be stationed in such positions as the Senior Officer present may direct. In placing them, as well as in laying out the Hose, great care should be taken to allow as much space as possible for the use of any Engines that may subsequently arrive on the ground. On getting the Engine as close to the water supply as the nature of the ground will admit, the Delivery Hose should first be connected and run out towards the Fire as directed by the Senior Officer present, next the Suction Hose should be carefully screwed home. It must be always borne in mind that the shorter the Suction Hose, the greater the power obtained, and that, if carelessly connected, the efficiency of the Engine may be seriously affected.\n\n(5)\n\n211\n\n7.-Great care should be taken to run out the Hose in as straight a line as possible without twists, sharp turns, or unnecessary bends. The Firemen attached to each Engine should, from time to time, observe the position of the Reel or other Hose supply, so that they may be able to replace promptly any length which may become burst or otherwise damaged.\n\n8.-Firemen in charge of the branch should place themselves in such a position that the stream from the nozzle may actually strike the burning materials. Playing at random from the ground through a window should be avoided,",
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        "content_text": "(26)\n\nNo. 3 West Point Station.\n\n1 Manual Engine.\n\n2 Ladders.\n\n12 Fire Buckets.\n\n1 Jumping Sheet.\n\nNo. 4 Fire Brigade Station, Harbour Office.\n\n1 Manual Engine.\n\n1 Extincteur.\n\n12 Fire Buckets.\n\n1 Jumping Sheet.\n\n1 Ladder.\n\nCentral Market Station.\n\n1 Manual Engine.\n\n1 Portable Pump.\n\n1 Extincteur.\n\nNo. 2 Fire Brigade Station, Wán-tsai.\n\n1 Manual Engine.\n\n1 Supply Cart.\n\n2 Ladders.\n\n1 Jumping Sheet.\n\n12 Fire Buckets.\n\n(27)\n\nGovernment House.\n\n1 Manual Engine.\n\n1 Extincteur.\n\n1 Box Working Gear.\n\n1 Ladder.\n\n10 Fire Buckets.\n\nCentral Police Station.\n\n1 Manual Engine.\n\n2 Extincteurs.\n\n1 Portable Pump.\n\n1 Ladder.\n\n1 Box Fire Brigade Gear.\n\n10 Buckets.\n\n1 Jumping Sheet.\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital.\n\n1 Extincteur.\n\n1 Box Fire Brigade Gear.\n\n1 Jumping Sheet.\n\nYau-má-ti Police Station.\n\n1 Manual Engine.\n\n1 Extincteur.\n\n12 Fire Buckets.\n\n1 Ladder.\n\n1 Jumping Sheet.\n\n222",
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        "content_text": "Central Fire Brigade Station, 中約水車館\n\nCentral Market Station,\n\n中環街市水車館\n\nChung-yeuk shui-che kan. Chung wán hái shì shuǐ ché kún.\n\nCentral Police Station,\n\n總緝捕廳水車館\n\nTsung ts'íp pó t'ing shuǐ ch'é kún.\n\nChinese Contingent,\n\n華人壯勇\n\nWá yàn chòng yúung.\n\nClerk,\n\n書吏\n\nShū lì.\n\nCoal Cart,\n\n煤炭車\n\nMùitán chē.\n\nDelivery Hose,\n\n喉尾\n\nHàuh méi.\n\nEastern District,\n\n東約\n\nTùng yeuk.\n\nEast Point Engine House,\n\n東約水車館\n\nTùng yeuk shuǐ chē kún.\n\nEngineer,\n\n司輪官\n\nSī lún gūn.\n\nEngine Driver,\n\n司輪役\n\nSī lún yik.\n\nEuropean Contingent,\n\n歐洲壯勇\n\nAu jāu chòng yúung.\n\nExtincteur,\n\n滅火藥水泵\n\nMit fó yeuk shui tàmp.\n\nFire Bucket,\n\n太平桶\n\nTai pìhng túng.\n\nFire Escape Ladders,\n\n太平梯\n\nTai pìhng tāi.\n\nFireman,\n\n滅火勇\n\nMit fó yúung.\n\nForeman,\n\n滅火頭役\n\nMit fó tàuh yik.\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital\n\n國家醫院\n\nKwok kā yī yún.\n\nGovernment House\n\n督憲府\n\nDūk hin fú.\n\nHarbour Master's Office,\n\n船政廳署\n\nSyùn ching t'ing shǔ.\n\nHarbour Master's Officers' Quarters,\n\n水師館\n\nShui sī gún.\n\nHongkong Fire Insurance Co.'s Brigade,\n\n香港火燭保險公司隊\n\nHēung góng fó chuk bó hím gūng sī deui.\n\n226",
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        "content_text": "under almost equally hazardous circumstances, from the houses destroyed or looted, several had but a few garments hastily thrown on, but happily all got on board the steamers safely. One lady who arrived by the steamer Kiungchow yesterday morning with an infant only a few weeks old was simply in her dressing gown and the child in its night clothes. Another lady was in her bath when the alarm was given, and she also had only time to slip on a dressing gown. The Rev. J. Grundy had arrived from up-country early the same morning, and having had his things taken up to the house, went across to the London Mission to visit his friends there. The mob arrived in the meantime, and while Mr. Grundy was assisting the ladies of the London Mission to the steamer, his own house was fired, and he came down to Hongkong yesterday with nothing but the clothes he stood in. The only case of injury to the person of any European we have heard of was that of Mr. Sobruyter, shipping clerk to Messrs. Siemssen & Co. at Canton, who received some small shot wounds, which are believed to have been fired by one of the Chinese troops, who are said to have been more in sympathy with the rabble than with the Europeans. There is a strong feeling among the sufferers that they have not been fairly treated by the British authorities in leaving them utterly unprotected after the uneasiness caused by the late fatal shooting affair.\n\nAfter the Settlement was cleared, the Chinese troops arrived in great number, and formed a large camp on the Bund. The residents also formed a defence corps in the evening, which divided into three to take alternate watches of three hours each in patrolling the place. On Shameen everything remained quiet afterwards until the Honam left yesterday morning.\n\nThe steamer Kiung-Chow was sent down by the British Consul about half-past two on Monday afternoon with a hurried letter to the Commodore asking for assistance, the telegraph unfortunately not being available owing to the wires having been blown down by the high wind. The Commodore promptly responded by despatching the gunboats Swift and Espoir, which left here at half-past eight yesterday morning. The force of marines on board the Victor Emanuel was put on board the gunboats so as to increase the strength of the men. Yesterday afternoon the French gunboat Lulin also left here for Canton.\n\nIn stating in our extra yesterday morning that Messrs. Russell & Co.'s premises had been destroyed by fire, we were misinformed. The house was looted, and the Chinese were pouring kerosine on the floor to burn it when the force of residents just came up in time to stop them, seizing a man in flagrante delicto. The list of houses burnt includes the Concordia Club, entirely destroyed. Mr. Reid's bungalow, the premises of the London Mission. Messrs. Pustau & Co.'s premises, Messrs. Thomas, Smith, Rowe & Co.'s junior mess, Rev. J. Grundy's house, Dr. Wales's house, the newly started ice house and Mr. Raven's residence, Mr. Rooler's premises, those of Mr. W. A. F. Sanders, Mr. Lamont, Mr. Remusit's the Old Pustau Hong, the Engine House and Police Station, the Silk Condition House, and the house of Mr. Holwill, Deputy Commissioner of Customs. The houses of Capt. Drewes, and Mr. Ganther, the Harbour Master, were also stripped. The old Club House was destroyed, and both steamer wharves.\n\nThe Honam, Captain Benning, arrived here at about three in the afternoon, and hence we have obtained much additional information. On the way up to Canton, Capt. Benning informs us, he met the Kiungchow, and learned from Capt. Goggin something of the state of affairs at Canton, and in consequence he anchored his boat off Shameen. At the time he arrived the thirteen houses which the incendiaries had ignited were still blazing, but the riot on Shameen was of course at an end. The rabble about the place appeared to have been a riot of boys and roughs to which he thinks no political importance is to be attached. The steamer brought down about thirty Europeans who have been burned out of house and home, or who were otherwise bound to this colony, besides some 900 Chinese passengers, and about the usual cargo. While the vessel was lying off Shameen, she was largely used by the refugees from shore—the ladies and children, who were removed from the Ningpo. At the time she left there were large numbers of Chinese troops on Shameen, which was also being patrolled by the Europeans. The roughs were cleared out, and confidence was so far restored that most of those who had a home to go to went back. Capt. Benning tells us that Mr. Masters and his family took refuge in a Chinese house during the outbreak, where they were kept concealed, and afterwards came on board the Honam.\n\nOn board the Honam we were favoured with the following particulars from a gentleman who resided on Dutch Folly, and who has been deprived of his home, so that he and his family have been driven here for shelter. At about eleven on Monday morning this gentleman's cook gave notice in the house that there was a Chinese disturbance at the Hongkong steamer wharf, and that they were in danger of being attacked. Capt. Calder of the Chinese Imperial Customs, who lived in the same place, sent a boat off to the house shortly after, and two boats to the Presbyterian Mission House, to take all the families on board the Ningpo. They went on board, and from thence went to the Honam. About six Chinese gunboats arrived off Shameen, and lay there during the day. He heard it stated that when Capt. Ogston refused to give up the Portuguese watchman, the crowd threatened to burn the steamer if the demand was not complied with, and they attempted to do so. When the steamer was got out of their reach, they made an effort to discover who the agent was, and finding Messrs. Russell & Co. were the agents, they made for the premises of that firm, but on reaching Shameen attacked the houses they came to indiscriminately.\n\nAnother passenger by the Honam, a gentleman named Monteith, who is on his way to Calcutta, also favoured us with some particulars. This gentleman first heard of the affair by seeing the corpse of the dead Chinaman when he went on board the Hankow at about 9.25 am, on Monday, and he was told the man had been pushed overboard at about five o'clock by someone on board the steamer. Immediately after this a crowd assembled on the wharf and commenced throwing brickbats at the steamer, and Mr. Monteith was advised by the officers to go to the upper part of the steamer for safety. He did not see the Chinese attempt to set fire to the steamer but as soon as it was taken out of their reach they fired the wharf, and it was destroyed very quickly. The steamer went off Shameen, and the next thing he noticed was a heavy smoke, and he was told that the ice house had been fired. After ten o'clock he could see there was evidently cause for alarm in the Settlement, for the...\n\nPage 481",
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        "content_text": "Viceroy for aid, and he called upon the few Chinese troops who had been sent to drive off the mob in very strong terms, charging them with cowardice. After this time the Viceroy sent a large number of troops, which filled up the point, and kept the mob out of the place. I counted eleven houses destroyed by fire, but I am told there are thirteen, besides four others only looted. There could be no efforts made to check the flames. There were no engines, for the Chinese burnt down the engine house and destroyed the engines.\n\nAt five o'clock a meeting of the residents was held at the Canton Club, Mr. Daval, the president of the Club, being appointed Chairman, to take into consideration measures for the defence of the Settlement. Herr Von Ketler, the German Vice-Consul, was appointed the commander of the residents' forces, as he had seen some active service as a German officer and was the only one who had seen real service. There were three officers under him, viz., Mr. Von Pustau, Mr. Rocher, and Mr. Dunt, who had command each of a division, and these divisions took alternate watches of three hours each for patrolling the Settlement from nine o'clock.\n\nI was in the first watch, that of Mr. Von Pustau, and everything was quiet all the night through on Shameen, but while I was on duty I heard firing going on somewhere in the city, the cause of which I do not know. During Monday a great number of Chinese troops arrived in the Settlement, and at nine o'clock in the evening many Chinese gunboats arrived and placed themselves round Shameen, whilst watch boats kept any mob from crossing the creek. The camp of the troops was pitched upon the Bund, which they almost filled.\n\nThe next morning a feeling of security succeeded to the anxiety which prevailed before, and the ladies and children came ashore to their houses; some whose houses were burned came on to Hongkong by the Honam, whilst others will come on to-morrow. I don't think Mr. Sebruynter is seriously hurt. He was wounded with small shot, being struck on the forehead, the back of the head, the left arm, right wrist, and stomach. There were no medical instruments available to extract the shots, all having been destroyed, but the doctor thinks the wounds are not serious.\n\nI was with him before leaving, and he appeared to be pretty well, and was about writing a lot of correspondence for the mail. It is believed that the shots were fired by a Chinese soldier. The Chinese soldiers seemed to take a lively interest in the welfare of the mob on Shameen, and they let all of them escape. The only ones captured were seven we seized, four of whom made good their escape, whilst the other three made some escapes and were re-captured.\n\nThere is a strong feeling in the settlement that if there had been an English gunboat there, the whole damage might have been prevented. As we were on the way down we met the gunboat Swift on the way to Canton, she was going at a very great rate. The Espoir we saw taking shelter from the weather.\n\nMr. Brocklemann, of the firm of Messrs. Pustau & Co., gave us later on a very complete description of the affair, but as it travels over the same ground as the preceding narrative, and corroborates it, we will only give that part referring to what occurred while Mr. Schwemann was on board the Hankow, and such extra particulars as he gave.\n\nMr. Brocklemann said: Just before half-past eight this morning, Mr. Raven, of the Ice House, who lives in the same building as I do, called to me over the banister as I was dressing that he had just heard from his compradore that a Chinaman had been kicked overboard from the Hankow and drowned at 5.30, and that a Chinese mob had assembled, being then engaged in firing the Custom House. I went to the verandah and saw the smoke rising from the two steamer wharves, which were then on fire.\n\nI went downstairs at 8.40, and then saw the first Chinese crossing the bridge into Shameen. We wanted to look after some books in the house, but as there were some ladies in the next house who needed protection, three of us got together, one with a cane, another with a dagger, and another with a revolver, and tried to drive the crowd back on the front row.\n\nThere were about a hundred men there then, but we succeeded for a short time, and then we went to the middle row, keeping near our own place, and the crowd was soon increased to 250 men, as they came pouring over the bridge, the gates of which they had opened. They drove us back for a bit, and this kind of thing kept on till about 9.30, when some 50 Chinese soldiers came across the bridge which leads from the city to the middle of the Settlement.\n\nOf these 25 stayed on the bridge to prevent any more Chinese from coming over, and 25 more came on to Shameen. However, they were a wretched lot, miserably armed, and were utterly afraid to attack the mob. They seemed to have no leader and would do nothing without the co-operation of the Europeans. They just followed us about, and did nothing, the only good being the guarding of the bridge.\n\nWe took some of their bamboo spears away from them, and found them useful to use ourselves, as revolvers and small things were of no use with the crowd. The few Europeans drove back the mob three or four times, and if we had had any support from the Chinese soldiers we could have kept them back, but we were unsupported, and the soldiers were firing behind us, and so we retreated, and the crowd chased us to the middle of the Settlement.\n\nThey then broke into the house of Messrs. Thomas, Rowe, and Smith, and though they looted it, they did not at that time set fire to it. The Consuls warned us not to shoot any of the natives, and we heeded the caution. Mr. Brocklemann here went on to deal with the banding together of the residents armed with the weapons supplied by Mr. Butler, and their successful attack on the crowd.\n\nHe said that from 8.30 a.m. the Consuls had sent to the Chinese authorities for assistance, and had received word back that there were 200 to 300 men on the other side of the creek who did not dare to pass over unless they had support from the Shameen side, and so Mr. Mollendorf arranged this party of attack.\n\nMessrs. Thomas, Rowe, and Smith's premises were the first fired on Shameen, this being done at ten a.m., and the outbreaks followed quickly. The crowd, according to this gentleman's computation, numbered about 700 at this time. The Consuls had a consultation at three o'clock as to whether the Hankow was to be kept at Canton or sent to Hongkong, and they decided it would be well for it to remain until the drowned Chinaman was removed, and that the Portuguese watchman charged with causing his death should not then be taken away for fear of further inflaming the mob.\n\nMr. Brocklemann said he saw the bodies of three Chinese killed by firing, which went on pretty briskly after the decision to resist the mob by force, and he understands that about 20 dead bodies were carried off by the mob.\n\nANOTHER ACCOUNT,\n\nEarly in the morning some of the foreigners were informed by their servants that a Chinaman had been kicked to death by a watchman on the Hankow and that there was a disturbance, but no particular alarm was felt at the time. Soon after eight o'clock, however, the mob appeared off Shameen, but the constable stationed at the bridge kept the gate closed and refused to allow them to pass.\n\nMr. Woodruff, the Commissioner of Customs, left his house in his chair with the intention of passing through the crowd to the Custom House, but on reaching the gate he saw that it would be unsafe to go on. As things were then looking very threatening, the ladies at the London Mission House were taken on board the Ningpo, which was lying off the Concession.\n\nOn seeing this party passing towards the water the mob set up a yell and began throwing stones, but fortunately none of the missiles reached far enough to do any injury, and the party got safely off. By this time the alarm had become general, and the other ladies and children were taken off to the steamer. Few if any waited to pack up their clothes, but went off simply with those they had on at the time.\n\nMeanwhile the crowd, which had been increasing in numbers and violence, burst open the gate and swarmed on to the Concession. Had there been any organised and properly armed guard at that time, however small, it is thought the Chinese would not have ventured to cross. There being nothing of the kind to deter them they rushed on...",
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        "content_text": "The Daily Press.\n\nHONGKONG, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1883.\n\nTHE ANTI-FOREIGN RIOT AT CANTON.\n\nThe river steamer Hankow arrived from Canton yesterday afternoon, and by her we learn further particulars of the disastrous outbreak on Monday. About half-past four on that morning a Chinaman came up the Hankow's gangway and wanted to get on board. The Portuguese watchman told him it was too early and stepped forward, stretching out his arms to bar the way. The man gave a step backward, and accidentally fell overboard. No violence whatever was used. Such was the account we received on board the steamer as that given by the watchman, but there were no witnesses of the occurrence. Some time afterwards the body was brought on board the steamer by the man's friends, and the British Consul was informed of the affair. The Consul passed the information on to the Viceroy, and it was seen that there was a possibility of trouble, but no steps to avoid it were taken by the authorities. There was no actual outbreak, however, until about a quarter past eight. At this time Capt. Ogston was talking to the man who appeared to be in charge of the body, endeavouring to induce him to remove it off the steamer quietly. Meanwhile the crowd had been increasing, and at a quarter past eight they commenced to throw stones and bricks at the vessel, and a few minutes afterwards Captain Ogston saw two men with torches. On seeing this he considered there was no time to be lost and he got his vessel away from the wharf as speedily as possible, slipping one of his hawsers to save time. Hardly had the steamer got off before the wharf was fired, kerosine having been brought from a neighbouring shop. As the Hankow steamed away the crowd continued to pelt her, and the upper deck of the steamer was covered with stones and brickbats, but no material damage was done. Mr. Christy, the chief engineer, had a narrow escape of being hit on the head, as a brick came flying past him as he was at work in the engine room. Most of the Chinese passengers the Hankow had on board at the time transferred themselves afterwards to the Honam and came down in that steamer on Tuesday. The Hankow yesterday brought down about 150 Chinese passengers; she had also on board two European ladies and two gentlemen.\n\nAs to the occurrences on Shameen on Monday, our report of yesterday seems to have covered almost the whole ground, as we were able to learn but few additional details of importance. It should be mentioned, however, that the Chinese authorities sent fire-engines on to the concession in the afternoon, to play on the burning buildings, but this assistance was too late to be of any avail, as the houses were already gutted.\n\nThe Canton Dispensary, Rev Mr. Masters's house and other houses occupied by foreigners on the Canal-road were threatened by the mob, but on the Chinese occupants of the adjoining houses representing to them that if they set fire to these the flames would extend to the Chinese shops, the rioters showed themselves so far amenable to reason as to acknowledge the force of the argument and leave these places alone. As may be imagined, however, the foreigners did not feel inclined to trust their forbearance implicitly, and Mr. and Mrs. Masters and their children, and Mr. and Mrs. Brant, of the Dispensary, found refuge in a Chinese house at the back of their own premises, whence they were subsequently taken to the Ningpo by a steam launch, a small party of foreigners and a number of Chinese soldiers giving them a safe escort through the mob from the house to the water. The Rev. Dr. Happer, who lives in the same neighbourhood, thought it safe to remain in his own house, and some other missionaries, we believe, also adopted the same course.\n\nOn Tuesday everything was quiet, and the settlement was guarded by the Chinese troops. The Swift arrived about 8.30 p.m., and the Consuls were notified. Two of the Consuls wished to have the marines landed, but the English Consul considered this unnecessary, and declined to make the request to the Commodore. Previous to the arrival of the Swift the residents had held a meeting and it was decided to patrol the settlement during the night. The first watch, under command of Mr. von Pustau, did duty from seven to nine o'clock. The second watch went on at nine and was to be relieved at eleven, but at half-past ten it was decided that there was no further necessity for the patrol being kept up by foreigners. It was said at one time that a raid was to be made about eight o'clock, but nothing of the sort occurred, and all the approaches were guarded by a sufficient force to repel any attack that might have been attempted. Most of the ladies remained on the Ningpo on Tuesday night, but several slept at the German Consulate, and a few, we believe, at their own homes. During the day official inquiries were made by the Chinese authorities as to the welfare of the foreigners, and an intimation was given that they need not give themselves any further trouble in connection with the preservation of order. In the evening the Viceroy sent word that he had ordered 500 additional troops to be stationed in the streets and roads near the settlement. Yesterday morning everything seemed to be quiet.\n\nMr. von Pustau came down by the Hankow yesterday and was the bearer of dispatches from the German Consul to the German Naval authorities. Mr. Pustau was not in a position to give any information as to the contents of the dispatches, but he said Dr. Mollendorff had expressed the opinion that the presence of a gunboat of another nationality would have a good moral effect. Mr. Pustau, to whom we are indebted for many of the details above given, further informs us that the statement that the Chinese merchants had decided to suspend business with foreigners for a fortnight was inaccurate. The merchants called on their foreign friends, expressed their concern at what had occurred, and evinced friendly feelings, but the silkmen appeared to be somewhat alarmed. Mr. Pustau agrees with our other informants as to the pusillanimous bearing of the Chinese soldiers, and says that when the foreigners charged the mob the soldiers simply opened out and allowed the roughs to pass through. It is said that thirteen of the Chinese soldiers were killed, it is supposed by the bullets which the foreigners fired over the heads of the mob.\n\nThe Portuguese watchman, who had been detained in custody on the Hankow, was taken off to the settlement on Tuesday evening by a boat from the Swift, and lodged in the Gaol of the British Consulate pending the arrival of the Portuguese gunboat. It is said the captain of the Swift refused to have him taken on board that vessel. The Hankow on her way down passed the Portuguese gunboat Tamega going up, and no doubt the man would be placed on board her on her arrival. The Espoir was not seen, but the Latin was passed about twelve o'clock. Kiungchow was passed about ten miles below Whampoa.\n\n485",
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        "content_text": "(Finance Committee, 15th January, 1884.)\n\n395\n\n0.3.0.\n\nPAYMENTS AUTHORISED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1884, REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\n13. Salary to Extra Chinese Writer, per annum,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\n10. Salary to Acting Interpreter attached to Inspector of Buildings at $15 per month, per annum,\n\nC.S.O.\n\n3637 of 1887.\n\nOne Messenger, per annum,\n\n  \n    $\n    180.00\n  \n\nREGE 22 APR 24\n\n  \n    $\n    180.00\n  \n  \n    \n    72.00\n  \n\nPostmaster General.\n\nObservatory.\n\n39 cf 1681\n\nSalaries:-2 Coolies at $72 each,.....\n\n  \n    $\n    144.00\n  \n\nMedical.\n\n2148 of 1888.\n\nRemuneration to Dr. A. WHARRY for his services in the Civil Hospital during the illness of the Superintendent Dr. C. J. Wharry, at the rate of $6 per day, 13 days,\n\n  \n    $\n    78.00\n  \n\n14 of 1881.\n\n70 of 1884.\n\nC.S.O.\n\nAllowance to 2nd Chinese Interpreter for Chin-chew Teacher, per annum,\n\nPolice. Detective Inspector QUINCY:--Difference between his salary, and other allowances as Sergeant, and the pay of Detective Inspector at $720 per annum, $\n\nFire Brigade. Salary of a Watchman for Hollywood Road Engine House, at $5 per month, $\n\n  \n    $\n    60.00\n  \n  \n    \n    36.00\n  \n  \n    \n    *60.00\n  \n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nTreasury.\n\n2201 of 1886.\n\nExtra expenditure on account of the appointment of an Assessor with technical qualifications, for valuation of house property, and assessing Municipal Rates,\n\nEducation.\n\nRent to Teacher of Shau-ki Wan School,\n\n  \n    $\n    1,324.00\n  \n  \n    \n    36.00\n  \n\nPolice.\n\nC.S.O.\n\n518. Rent of Police Quarters at Ap-li Chau, additional $4.50 per month,\n\nFire Brigade.\n\n  \n    $\n    54.00\n  \n  \n    0.8.0.\n    \n  \n  \n    250 of 88\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Rent of Engine House in Hollywood Road, at $10 per month,\n  \n\nWorks and Buildings.\n\n184. Purchase of a Patent Destructor, Multitubular Steam Boiler, and a Steam Disinfecting Apparatus, at a cost of £2,000 at 3/8,\n\nGovernor's\n\nBesp. No, 15\n\nof 18th Jan.,\n\n1884.\n\nBila Doc.\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\n895 of 1893, Scavenging Hung-hom, Shau-ki Wan, Aberdeen, and Ap-li Chau,\n\nDo. Stanley,\n\n  \n    $\n    120.00\n  \n  \n    \n    10,909.09\n  \n  \n    \n    612.00\n  \n  \n    \n    216.00\n  \n  \n    $\n    828.00\n  \n\nPassed the Legislative Council, this 5th day of March, 1884.\n\nJ. H. STEWART-LOCKHART,\n\nActing Clerk of Councils.",
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        "content_text": "b.\n\n400\n\nC.S.O. 1994\n\nof 1893.\n\nSalary to Acting Surveyor General.\n\n(3.) Read: A letter from the Surveyor General, relative to the appointment of an Interpreter for the Inspector of Buildings, for which a vote of $180 is required.\n\nattached to Inspector of Building, at $15 per month, $180,\n\nC.S.O.3097 of 1883.\n\nOne Messenger, $72.\n\nC.S.O. 39 of 1884. Salaries-two Coolies at $72 each, $144.\n\nC.S.O. 2146 of 1883. Remuneration to Acting Engineer Bose is per month,\n\nthe Vote recommended; there being a saving of $120 on account of the discontinuance allowance for Chinese Teacher to the Inspector of Buildings, who is now on leave, the additional expense will be only $60.\n\nPostmaster General.\n\n(4.) Read: A letter from the Postmaster General applying for a vote for $72 for a Messenger.\n\nVote recommended in view of the Postmaster's Statement that provision had accidentally been omitted for this Expenditure in drawing up the Estimates for 1884, and that the man's services are indispensable.\n\nObservatory.\n\n(5.) Read: A letter from the Government Astronomer, applying for coolies.\n\nVote of $144 recommended, as the work at the observatory renders necessary the employment of two coolies.\n\nMedical.\n\n(6.) Read: A minute by the Colonial Secretary, relative to an application from Dr. A. WHARRY for remuneration for his services in the Civil Hospital, whilst acting during the illness of his brother, the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital.\n\nDr. A. WHARRY for his services in the Civil Hospital during illness of his brother, the Superintendent Dr. C.J. WHARRY, at the rate of $8 per day. 13 days, $78.\n\nC.S.O.124 of 1884, Allowance to Vote of $78 recommended, as the position of the Superintendent is exceptional, there being no one to replace him in the event of his falling sick, and as an exception was made in his favour under similar circumstances in 1880.\n\nMagistracy.\n\n(7.) Read: An application from Mr. HUNG KAM SING, for Chinese Teacher's allowance to study the Chin-chew dialect.\n\nInterpreter for Chin-chew Teacher, $60).\n\nVote of $60 recommended under the usual conditions.\n\nFire Brigade.\n\nFire Brigade.\n\n(10.) Read: A letter from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, requesting permission to rent a room at $10 per month for the use of a Manual Fire Engine.\n\n$120.\n\nNis. Doc. 805 of 1868. Renting Vote of $120 recommended, as the Manual Fire Engine will be more useful on the higher than the lower level, where it was originally kept.\n\n(11.) Read: A letter from the Secretary of the Sanitary Board, recommending the acceptance of the lowest tenders for scavenging contracts in Hung-hom, Shau-ki Wan, Aberdeen, and Ap-li Chau, and Stanley, and requesting a special vote of $828.\n\nAberdeen, and Kapengin Stanley, $16.\n\nVote of $828 recommended, as the tenders appear reasonable and the work is necessary. The following supplementary votes, which were voted by the Legislative Council for last year, after the preparation of the estimates of 1884 are again recommended for this year:-- Finance Committee, 15th January, 1884.)\n\nC.S.O. 2788 of 1883.\n\nC.S.O. 1059 of 1883.\n\nC.S.O.\n\nPAYMENTS AUTHORISED IN EXCESS OF THE ESTIMATES OF 1884, REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY.\n\nESTABLISHMENTS.\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nAllowance to 4th Clerk for Chinese Teacher, 1st December, 1883, to 30th November, 1884, at $10 per month,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nAllowance to Land Surveyor for Chinese Teacher,\n\n1805 of 1883. Allowance to 2nd Clerk of Works for Chair Coolies,\n\n120.00\n\n120.00\n\n144.00\n\n$ 264.00\n\nGovernment Gardens.\n\nC.S.O. 2083. Allowance to Head Gardener for Chinese Teacher,\n\nJudicial.\n\nC.S.O. 1644 of 1883.\n\nAllowance to Librarian of Supreme Court for Chinese Teacher,\n\nGaol.\n\nC3.D. 2001 of 1880.\n\nIncrease to salary of Assistant Turnkey E. ROCHA, at $5 per month,\n\nSERVICES EXCLUSIVE OF ESTABLISHMENTS. Education.\n\n120.00\n\n120.00\n\n60.00\n\nC.S.O. 2540 of 1884.\n\n(8.) Read: An application from the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, for permission to engage the services of an additional watchman to look after the Fire Engine House at Hollywood Road.\n\nSalary of a Watchman for Engine House, at per month, $50.\n\nVote of $60 recommended in view of the necessity of the expenditure.\n\nC.S.O. mas orissa, Rent.-Difference between the usual allowance of $30 per month, and the allowance now granted to the Head Master, at $60 per month,\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\nPolice.\n\nC.S.O. 675 of 1883.\n\nScavenging of the City of Victoria,\n\nDo. Yau-ma Ti,\n\nC.S.O.35 of 1883. Increased annual Rent of Police Quarters at Ap-li Chau, $54\n\nVote of $54 recommended, on account of the unhealthiness of the present quarters.\n\nC.S.O. 1481863. Remuneration to the Naval Officer, who superintends the dropping of the Time Ball on board H.M.S. Victor Emanuel, at $30 per month, 6 months,\n\n$360.00\n\n$19,680.00\n\n240.00\n\n180.00\n\n$20,100.00",
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        "content_text": "in case of foo dollars to Dr Eitel Inspector\n\nOn\n\n374\n\nAu\n\nUnder Medical I am glad to see a vote for additional European Boardmaster; this will help to relieve or Wharry, who has complained of nightly overwork. [Su 14205/86]\n\nthe estimate of schools which does not appear it has only recently been sanctioned [19718-8]\n\nIn the 5th par. of his despatch Mr Marsh was doing duty with the aide-de-camp in 1883 and will be found upon 1022.83\n\na camp: recon the appoints full of it account of o wrongly of There is an increase both this year 1000 dollars on the police an item which I reve fails to grow: the increase is due to a vote for steam launch\n\nIn view of what: Under Gaols There said on that paper it would be difficult now to for females, which I am very glad to see, I do not understand why another house should not be granted for short sentenced prisoners, as suggested well combined the duties of private secretary and aide-de-camp assessor\n\nCauses an increase On another proper. Under Fire Brigade the purchase of a new engine to the non-establishment votes, of Municipal rate There is an increase of 100 dollars on police pensions 5000 last year: the police pension regulations\n\nThe staff of disappears from under Treasurer and out in the Natural Revenue fur against of health sim, not √ 10 as it used to be.\n\nΛ Land Surveyor under ecated office of Care now not quite as lavish as they were, is years - Land regist being the limit for person, not This is in accordance with a decision Under Walls & Buildings there is a slight decrease\n\narrived at. [See 16702.85:7654 already arrived at [.80 of on last year's estimate; but this point is & no Significance in view of the large amount",
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        "content_text": "427\n\nI pieces ! ared hinder near of prepared tailor shop and indeed on the the following d some cuore as well day / 23.2) found a packet of sawdust concealed by tailor shop window.\n\nI determined if possible, to catch the conspirator in the act. To prevent all suspicion of a discovery of the plot, I did not communicate the information to any of the Gaol Officers, gave Office & the usual Christmas leave, \"' having the tailor shop watched as possible by my informant.\n\n... ao the oo. ku. the I did not interfere with the tailor shop leaving normal quantity of oakum there, merely giving a general caution to the Head Warder to look after it well. Meantime, I kept the fire engine in readiness, and removed all the oakum stored in the upper passage to the dead house. Chancery Lane was patrolled at night by Sikh guards with orders to report at once if any suspicious persons assembled outside the Gaol walls. I also procured a written order for Police aid, if required.\n\nTo divert the attention of the officers as much as possible from my arrangements unusually luxurious Christmas dinner was arranged for them, and I had the satisfaction of seeing that all put their knives and forks down to attend. To insure sobriety, I announced I would myself be present during part of their dinner.\n\nHaving made these preparations I awaited the event. It occurred to me, however, that unless new Prisoner(s) came in on Christmas day (who would have to be clothed in Prison clothing), there would be no occasion to open the Sailors' shop and employ men there on that day, and that it was therefore more likely that the attempt would be made on Christmas Eve.\n\nMoreover, the only ring leader whose name had been given to me was LvEA Buru.",
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        "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "Our staff at present consists of:\n\n1 Superintendent.\n\n1 Assistant Superintendent.\n\n1 Do.\n\n1 Clerk.\n\n1 Engineer.\n\n1 Assistant Engineer.\n\n2 Engine Drivers, Chinese.\n\n3 Do., Europeans.\n\n2 Assistant Engine Drivers, Europeans.\n\n6 Stokers.\n\n1 Overseer of Water Works.\n\n1 Inspector of Dangerous Goods.\n\n1 Chinese Assistant Do.\n\n2 Foremen.\n\n4 Assistant Foremen.\n\n17 Firemen, Europeans.\n\n46 Do., Chinese.\n\n30 Do., Market Coolies.\n\n10 Chinese Contingent.\n\n15 Watchmen.\n\nFloating Engine.\n\n1 Assistant Foreman and Engine Driver.\n\n1 Chinese Engine Driver.\n\n1 Stoker.\n\n2 Seamen.\n\nSince the post of second Assistant Superintendent has been abolished and the joint appointment of Assistant Superintendent and Engineer has been made, a greater responsibility has fallen on the Acting Assistant Engineer, as the Engineer in his dual capacity is frequently called away to the scene of the fire, and must leave the Engines in charge of the next in command.\n\nLooking to the increased duties that devolve upon the Engineer and his Assistant, who now have to keep in an efficient state six steam engines and nine manuals, I consider the remuneration, which was voted at a time when there were only two steam engines, is somewhat inadequate to the increased duties and responsibilities.\n\nAt the Annual General Inspection in November last, a new feature was introduced in the form of competition at Fire drills for prizes, which acted as a stimulus to the members of the Brigades and gave them greater interest in their work; and amongst the Chinese particularly, this has resulted in bringing to the front some really valuable firemen. As an instance of the efficiency of the Brigades, I may mention that at the recent fire which occurred in Bonham Strand on a Sunday afternoon, within the space of a few minutes of the alarm being sounded, thirteen powerful jets of water were playing upon the burning houses.\n\nAt first sight our Brigade appears to be not only adequate as regards machinery, but also numerically, but when it is borne in mind that not more than half of the Europeans are available at any one fire, and that the hilly configuration of the Colony often requires two engines to do the work of one in order to reach the elevation required, it will be seen that the Brigade is under, rather than over, the necessary strength for a growing Colony like Hongkong.\n\nThe supply of water from the new Water-works (in course of construction) will materially assist in extinguishing fires in the upper levels of the Colony, and also in the early stages of all fires, if my suggestion with regard to telephonic communication is adopted. But the value of water mains must not be over-estimated, as in a case similar to that in Bonham Strand (referred to before) it would be impossible to concentrate such a body of water at any one given point from hydrants as could be obtained by steam Engines, and the superiority of salt water over fresh, for extinguishing fires is universally acknowledged.\n\nI cannot close this report without mentioning the able assistance I have had during the past year from the Officers of the Brigade. I may specially mention Mr. WAGNER, who has been acting as Engineer and Assistant Superintendent, Mr. RAE, the chief foreman, and Mr. CAMPBELL, Acting Assistant Engineer. These officers have devoted a great deal of time and attention to their respective duties and the present efficiency of the Brigade is in a great measure due to their untiring exertions.\n\nWe are greatly indebted to the Captain Superintendent of Police for the excellent order kept by his force at the various fires. The systematic working of the Brigade, and absence of malicious injury to hose and larceny of Government property, is greatly owing to the vigilance of the Police.\n\nSubjoined is a tabulated form showing the number of alarms of Fires, and estimated damage for the past year.\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART, LL.D.,\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJOHN S. BREWER,\n\nActing Superintendent Fire Brigade.\n\nDate.\n\nYEAR 1886.\n\nRETURN OF FIRES AND ALARMS OCCURRED DURING THE\n\n  \n    Date\n    Time\n    Situation of Fire\n    Cause\n    No. of Buildings destroyed\n    Wholly\n    Partly\n    REMARKS\n  \n  \n    1 January\n    ...\n    A stack of grass at the back of Joss house at Shaukiwán\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    Some thousands of young fir trees were destroyed.\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    A bed curtain in No. 42, Circular Pathway\n    Carelessness with a lighted cigar\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    A number of Chinese\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Grass on hillside West of Mount Davis\n    Unknown\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Chimney of No. 27, Gage Street\n    Sparks from the Engine House\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Praya Central, Blackhead & Co.'s Store\n    Carelessness with matches\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Saw dust in No. 21, Pound Lane\n    Unknown\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Near Shaukiwán Market\n    Accidental when cooking\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    Burning Incense\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Grass above Tai-tam-tuk Water-Works\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    13\n    ...\n    Grass on the hillside at Mount Davis\n    ...\n    ...\n    66\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    A stack of grass at Shaukiwán\n    ...\n    ...\n    35\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    A matshed at Coffee Plantation\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    19\n    ...\n    Trap door No. 297, Queen's Road Central\n    ...\n    1\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    A bed curtain and beddings in No. 41, East Street\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Matshed at Hungbòm Docks\n    ...\n    1\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    26\n    ...\n    Cook-house No. 61, Praya West\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    30\n    ...\n    A stack of grass at Taikoktsui\n    Unknown\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Grass on the hill near Parsee Point\n    Do.\n    ...\n    ...\n    17\n    ...\n  \n  \n    31\n    ...\n    Chimney of No. 4, Blue Buildings\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    19 February 2\n    ...\n    No. 186, Hollywood Road, (Po Lok Theatre)\n    ...\n    Whole Block\n    02\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Matshed at No. 2, Gap Street\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    5\n    ...\n    Stack of grass at Quarry Bay\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Wooden partition at No. 49, Wear Street\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Chimney at No. 1, Seymour Terrace\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Stack of grass at Shankiwán\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Matsheds at Naval Yard, Kaulung\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Chimney at No. 11, Cochrane Street\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Grass on the hill at Mount Davis\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Chimney at No. 3, Taipingsbán Streer\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Matsheds at Belchers Battery\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    10\n    ...\n    No. 3, Wing Fung Street\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    No. 8, Wai Tak Lanė\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Chimney at No. 5 Station\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Staircase of No. 149, Queen's Road West\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    No. 84, Queen's Road East\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    No. 116, Praya West\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Mosquito curtain in No. 266, Queen's Road West\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Wooden partition at Gilman Bazaar\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Chimney of No. 235, Queen's Road Central\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    No. 56, Market Street\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    ...\n    ...\n    Chimney at Iongkong Club\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    6\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    13\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    11\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    21\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    April\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n  \n  \n    6\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    ...\n    35\n    'ZZ\n    ...",
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Yeats Y was this without on sting las among atimatkowego the mud Cities Corner can i fenal probatay but having this indiore will be ritual i uretary and Fatin may be cone per shout the anth of mail with kan sonun for a thrown all si\n\nmalker a povalni vlagu, mud na za ní anilation on the thalal abs who was in Color den Me East. uewaltd reference in das Tureira tal on a dim the uk for bug on a Portal Cutronson, Processes by alive walter the Irbied ist die how w mikeyan instans Wers with le toit dimmer Lig with those 2nd few-13 mean there placid in st Mena, de RAM APT to the long av bat Pontit conventions Specialy did get of my, and Z base the\n\nlaris, 1 op met my ewu koortsie, ancamanā mirių, puntally and in was. Will, gaflew, baring our Chinese pret for sestra thinese her sorrakis. Three have almpje iste trepantly ban into 165 17985; and firm there bring so other arktido meuspt fun that pre placed on. Plase RIP Thy ge+sta-Iranh- ; 11st wps #his fat an ovansive, they forgot is in the leanly in this moi Delivansy sad I think Lee has San Teyfuúrij\n\nJust a shit on com varaste, they made his way that of 13: Polit, they are, how my happy and is heat in ti ben ang foolhas to the malba. Ja Geina į men try my hen, asechers of de Campo, Dhirkondigerestop beprotecí barvan nuveman zigas in us. It may be with the realetten, of rap ya\n\nFor S\n\nphiaethum sy in Tid anquete the Choparenting areas, discussing and rise: wille kim-et fouses, which meald kran ensuite clumsinessticart the Canted--it in a setter last creurruel hogar cheese, or tries te ngare and oporavi ti mureve I blissed it was up il par 304 to the terms of the from Acme, Lar] thich it showestoft hire-not it is sold this joy in that 2005 me here on Calirsace! mrvi praužikondly ka wat jydr. f, ji in wat NJ The fiue JKTOR-- Na I bare not baan ini\n\nsa oled je navjerak etter bya, pané a z Grace social lo antik we drgicam Inst\n\nJay he was JTTELWhat 1. muld point thing the weply to many defini shown at the when this conilty. but he isquite her i would att en siiratante, degi.\n\nJution of the tmde Peruusly for furry de sp I bure lat roy the Mirvany aderente ore Calory-Ans Loomad part of the Big m\n\nthevur whinit un panas nimetty. If vhurn sexo ang fate that we for fazein) pemas\n\n•any the. Make a thunday xperT ADD I Can I SIG OF B besoin in filen he tud for rust en tinem Trust me, sabatid 139. Eihines antlarities they fusille to rate a healed that does residen.de in that tikel, et ta ei pysis-Thist in what I agr\n\nNo in Igru not a single na karna pamanings Canoan inerchants in frish Cetuxima Mediatica Primall angster | chown the isok tmán in een by the En be wis the muret\n\naf pill erire it's Peath investuar et de asily ifatil merchant in a wart of this will be dras say he dranean in Ent retail, rhr cut the rate of Pacin which the in\n\nChint for 10 Mac 206 still chairing t Earlier into quasiliashion when with Chegmay hangovering Bustin marten think this Colgay right to rank Terah Ju Linder Tausa pieramogao i think that i to žinių, elt, bees. the Tenend Cord whoapoi gravation of waggling wo quran for persons a man y la amalerparel in tropones of the pulleres some bitch China to przeit nigging to plan - mich pose, and 15 arvekodentu ma purcibly diet plan imana mech, srike prose Bill Ova 1861, I think. in the city Tatlove to think that van Christ a bary bezels to regulate with eto de punya rieg ship the b Cameramant, would from, to hug Han A.P. Crime--I made and that the mud Lady Pluitqqu may have is pilnatist res Ta thig forumúl wine la pena away I d epass it warna tá nas Beau songs of the webtvs Įnorisa af waat die trane in Bangkang was fgling Tuto Denchong. What has becha ile egy öt i stannars for the pergies of haink tians at my in the Como il b\n\nde meenal Bill lees n the gppese (tot Tradien disappens of slogan uk the enga wed aneh vilaes this Coimmy x- ment, ended. New are the offered masher die fant iter and die door de toe lidently, de sed in a wand the Low In why that tears Chir Jure, ith try inclitary way shit Pedal fondly Isate\n\n* tuning of protesting The Casalsaan Sophiina | Ordenanmu shatt mulig in Furs à long asiguratel belgle = van borans, le bo tormanni, betales thu¦ inmates in Wika named in that, 5 thine il regines irent. But we drove dhe antiso opřena vinster See what part of the mườ\n\nThe Agetre Jure work of the Cha Rinile, me at the bly due to Mr Julien Bassel to state that Noi farm not of rhte plam and go. It. Breng to your Von Weil A Pea immer gani hush that i tha hefine in sest neity in war has tulla ty\n\nna sill be go thank en farmalities. Thang Jon-What I mit with year of the ideal Exxentive very lavremeno, pulisa ja svenstain went than torniyam, lisa 1 of stoeping a camel anitre « tarnijen dog like ikut sing in the Cern fat. Fausto Coibar Lim round a kere, followed lat mate in lenght feed there and very time wey, and it's wis milage and arms and armasta sy, er enk\n\nthe uparty of AT! EPE wart his hel\n\njesu presta apmetnað taking refuge in havet, i nak kami na tom,n) Bitt defenderul, back nf surgeries, His Buy --I hi in de pe down inte pentually, when of 10 1 tyring en te rend when he paid\n\nis in. We Gasimuniti lame mereum Of the rewil trwią silk war, wo lane padas Fesarim boscuti ha rafussi jao spinžon.\n\nindian by the Eter alia they wer had the terraedelapani what tony w 1brities hourly. And why? Beste bulk aborsi they will to see eciel ist | Amesisity, you singt areesh 7re%), weil 13tala wond its considering Wat Phe CoJESTICE - ST. very\n\nwal em Amewone which it 4, hi tins to the mere fancit the hix H red hu it with: permission. No in a thich 1 leva ao debt the Stary of gossal a happy cokarm stowany to tim ka ar shelter dianter, Jende new mesh das Clodiaze but\n\nbist sector for tusind an 10 which I was hy refer #ther bezales Gam. de Ball i\n\nil salg Ila Grabenen in the feven in which it is! provimit Ühemselves in kudiy, Lan app that either from not adderaundup in this speaks the Tann, mener, if they\n\nIzom deeffumates, or think i fa mall sētrulica do Pho feunt th Hou. Het het was in wer waters, netbier of the sort that premission right the Pratinastoral wards Its Conc sejemand a\n\nat that the bend in mice, it had Hally, the the Creative 11 thing\n\nluck. Muu\n\nClist Properly Tatoon is thus the payout it the 70 phawla fest in the walnag, a Fugees of hul i mars, arst thin is a fonte Bram-Te, I think the mattey tan leat preston su wake what are 1\n\nact our hir Janne veel un to aty, it was routed that ecruinn's might, ir aug Belsish gor, apply for wink kita saamilinen pak\n\nwervisi ve YOLO NILİ Ç\n\nglaz se had our 'vi for versione ha scene pood HS SATANGNe t'ith it fear wax thai plet a Chine was unt, wed water this rivenne dance, if is dan on that seromat. De racjzeizel to my bear stry-Groural begins why they cart Jet CE SONT REIZ ÜESPEA\n\nsmall hou. Daveboys here know\n\n50\n\nmat, they\n\n1\n\nTHE Mendarat & T\n\nWithin Pity I have for swords on the wenzien, abra Liscount fo yan? tution of Love myself. The Mr Jatsu Bunt Poster by the deforms--that has refused! we was abriped to 470 cxt thing (waykl Mathur Phat! the pet of B Freneu Agats or CrisisUNIAL TRACE: --Lathas Cruy crupul to semblar, send les bars alus! blogai by the tum verune, ie ogiam bevaghi as the enley ballarga; fan tea. The adverf that we got strendured uscites 20 sethes¦ba imal to bump wtw sniegustavus. Į Tik so +354 fun wayda of turnwell Smar\n\nCharents and set! Aster Kremly, as the this vendutely neid. 2ine wigh; | Buat 855 improperate ante la pas d'ere that they the pissed. Mr. Jother Bus: herum tier petits, azbitsevily on sol sul? No wios will be given in vessela baking; nhậraflugi do kas skrainians lage genes happening he the weghy of Paris, Trin porfimalar | TRANCE-tez y sentid′′ 13 +ll %\n\nAlett\n\nTaperaren months bu\n\n1 hitel: plants to mora fermes? Grullensa. Sijas but it would be biggest\n\nward for two ne bio days and for t\n\nsetrazduotas, but i han gian the li\n\nwore to l\n\n+357 20596. Laat PUTTANA, Bal was that the cam 7 It slow | RENT Snags - 'ting to aggressivit perisign from the Corsal. Seraph, The Saczetrin af Stalin thote vaba lo be god skin explored by\n\nin thepre- then freit en vormiparay of them at bes that Fold catre The end, entertained Phape was a phat ass\n\nFICHTE JURIDIS\n\npre\n\nMr. P. Krans-Not the ligh\n\ntogether in xxx or fill, any on the stud they got them trim ile dos- hip pamats was drawn, Jul Fram House\n\nher of the Berativo Chines) à\n\nfendi's Report Italy in high from Australis sa pitonis 145 20 prodest springt il art to give him bezoar to tie | land mapat, Íñesa švá demulto recourt at Wegen gwn to which he stut racemestitim of Serday of mine in the wura nag that. I lacid | Objaz ta tha papel, eiginul in the beag of ja paved pants. Thus, Mr. Sas bunn nut TGV JUST-Fran\n\nuitam lippene ma\n\nDhare the right, 10 da aldur to Riza myte arising is bougkung rphich won angel fiste. It was radicam. Srby z Proacă sed (hargas dahing va istina in gran far the writ bahn sayted, ¦ Inastista ani, sa tinl do thto lie her number 2uil for chair basing toprofent seatust tad pire the tasks if this threach the zei it was that, Atchas time fúil zel Jakim de fuavite nakrabacio\n\nFast stra good the within 1 bold cow, but I was by feman girza brain! Smal\n\nThis Bermary of State, stärk. † have no doubt 12, met azfording to tie Competie freincale dhe Kscondino Court and one tho otcem res on the high crac.\n\nADJOURNMENT.",
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        "content_text": "NOTE\n\nKORTH - 120.0 SOUTH/24.9 EAST 275.9\n\nWEST-33.0\n\nAREA 34.879 SQFT\n\nØ\n\nG M I + COAL STORE - ENGINE HOUSE SWING BRIDGE.\n\nP R PATENT Ship\n\nMARINE LOT T MARINE LOT. 185.\n\nINLAND LOT NEW: AREA 4.360 Sq. Ft. RENTE $40.88,\n\n126-9 E R bulayed plan at A mark marine but 185\n\nWatt mark Iland Lot 387 Eulayed Plan at B.\n\n30 10 5 WING 4: AL\" DI GOAL KEE'S DEPOT.\n\nSURVEY OF MARINE LOT No 185 SCALE 30 FEET 1 INCH.\n\n60 90 uft 330",
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        "content_text": "# MEMORANDUM EXPLAINING ALTERATIONS\n\n# FIRE BRIGADE,\n\n# EXPENDITURE.\n\n616\n\n# OF ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE,-\n\n-Continued.\n\n ESTIMATED FOR 1887.ESTIMATED FOR 1888.INCREASE.DECREASE.\n $$  \nBrought forward,..672,317703,77645,77114,812\nCHARITABLE ALLOWANCES,....    \nTRANSPORT,.9,3005,800 4,000\nWORKS AND BUILDINGS,4,5004,500  \nROADS, STREETS AND BRIDGES,44,50055,50011,000 \nMISCELLANEOUS SERVICES,74,50054,000 20,500\nMILITARY EXPENDITURE,    \nINTEREST ON LOAN, &C.,4,0004,000  \nTOTAL,$ 93,562116,44622,884 \n 137,285137,235 55,000\n 55,00095,19240,192 \nEXPLANATORY REMARKS.    \n 3,500   \nCost of a new Engine $4,500 paid in 1887.    \nIncrease of cost of Stores for 1888.    \n 20,500   \nSome of the Works have already been completed.    \nIncrease in the Votes for Roads out of Victoria, and Roads in Kowloon.    \nIncrease in Lighting Street Lamps, Printing of Forms, Loss in Exchange in Family Remittances, Scavenging City and Villages, Lock Hospital, and Furniture for Government House.    \nSinking fund on Loan.    \n 1,094,9141,176,449119,84738,312\nNETT INCREASE, $81,535    \n\nAUDIT OFFICE,\n\nHONGKONG, 21st November, 1887.\n\nFREDERICK STEWART, Auditor General.",
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        "content_text": "# \nIn another case, six Chinese lives were lost. The fire broke out in a room on the first floor and communicated itself to the stair-case before the inmates above were made alive to their danger. There were no means of escape either by the roof or by windows and all six lost their lives.\n\nThe last incident that occurred was at an extensive fire in Bonham Strand, where, without a minute's warning, five houses fell outwards across the street resulting in the most serious injuries to **Mr. Ross** the foreman of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. A member of the Government Fire Brigade was also slightly injured, but to those who witnessed what took place, it was a mercy that no more harm was done than was actually occasioned, as there were at least six firemen whose position at the time seriously jeopardized their lives.\n\nIt may not be out of place at the commencement of another year to take stock of the existing condition of the Fire Brigade and of its adequacy to meet the requirements of the Colony.\n\n## \nAt the present moment the Fire Brigade consists of thirty-three Europeans of whom seventeen are firemen, six engine drivers, and the rest, superintendents, foremen, and assistant foremen, and of ninety-one Chinese firemen besides stokers and interpreters. The pay of the European firemen is four dollars and fifty cents a month and that of a Chinese fireman from one dollar and fifty cents to one dollar. The foremen, stokers, and interpreters are of course paid at a higher rate. The Brigade is further strengthened by the services of the **Hongkong Fire Insurance Volunteers**, the **Pawnbrokers**, and other bodies all of whom have been present on every occasion of a fire and have rendered most valuable services.\n\nThe head quarters of the Fire Brigade are at `No. 5 Police Station` in Queen's Road.\n\nWatchmen are stationed at the Clock Tower and at the Tower of the Fire Brigade Station, and upon an alarm of fire the bells are rung at the Central Police Station, at the Fire Brigade Station and at the Clock Tower. Three separate strokes indicate a fire west of the Harbour Office, two separate strokes a fire between the Harbour Office and the Murray Barracks, and one stroke a fire east of the Murray Barracks.\n\n## \nThe Engines are located at the Fire Brigade Station. They are four in number, not including the floating engine which is known as the `No. 1 Engine`. The latter is located in the harbour near `Yau-mati`. It is an invaluable engine and can throw four jets of some sixty feet high. It has recently been modified with a view to increasing its speed and it is now capable of steaming at a rate of about eight knots an hour.\n\nIn addition to the steam engines I have mentioned, there are also a certain number of manual engines stationed in different parts of the island. So far as the City of Victoria is concerned, there is one at Government House, one at the Central Police Station, one in Hollywood Road, one at the Harbour Office and one at `Saiyingpún`. There are also boxes with fire appliances in various parts of the Town.\n\n## \nPractically speaking however the main strength of the Brigade is at the Fire Brigade Station. At an alarm of fire in the City of Victoria, a telephonic signal is immediately sent to what is known as the `No. 2 Tank`. This tank is situated in Caine Road, and supplies the City of Victoria with water from the `Pokfulam Reservoir`. The water is distributed by two main pipes from which branch out smaller pipes throughout the Town. Its limits are broadly speaking Queen's Road at the foot of Gough Street to the west, Queen's Road to the north and the City Hall to the east. At frequent intervals are what are known as street fire plugs. They are distinguishable by iron plates level with the street, and on removing this iron plate, hose can be attached. Many of these plates have a raised knob on the top of them. The knob is to distinguish them from the other plates that are without them, and indicates that they are stop plugs, that is to say that they are merely for the purpose of shutting off water. Before this distinguishing mark was put, the greatest confusion often resulted, and much time was lost in waiting for water at one of these stop plugs, when there was none to come.\n\nThe `No. 2 Tank` is in its turn supplied from another tank at the western end of Robinson Road. This tank also supplies Caine Road and some other streets. These are the two chief distributions of water from the `Pokfulam Reservoir`. There are other subsidiary supplies which are strictly local. One is in `Glenealy Ravine` and supplies the Gaol and Police Barracks. Another is above the Government Civil Hospital and another near the Albany. `Wanchai`, as far as the City Hall, is supplied from the tank that is to be seen in the `Wong-nei-chung Gap`.\n\n## \nGenerally speaking the fresh water supply is very unsatisfactory. It is uncertain inasmuch as it is not always running, it is inadequate and its pressure is not uniform. Much of its possible pressure is also diminished by leakage throughout the houses in which it is distributed along its route to the fire and by other causes such as the friction of the pipes, and sudden changes in their diameter. In reducing therefore, the working of the Brigade to a system, it is impossible to regard the fresh water supply as other than a very poor adjunct, and in almost every instance recourse is had to the harbour.\n\nis able to afford a sufficient jet for houses placed between Queen's Road and the harbour. The rule therefore is to work direct from the harbour with all houses comprised within those bounds, but in the case of fires at a higher level than Queen's Road, the engines are distributed at intervals up the hill as far as may be required; they are connected the one with the other with hose and each engine pumps into the other until the level of the fire is reached. All this occasions great wear and tear of engines and hose and fire materials, and leaves only a very limited supply of water when the fire is reached, but it is inevitable so long as the fresh water supply is arranged as at present. Nor do I see that the increased supply of water from `Tytam` will much improve matters unless with it there is an increase of pressure, a uniformity of distribution and a certainty of water at all times.\n\nIt is impossible to insist too much upon the element of certainty. It is not as if fires could be met by arrangements devised for them at the moment. They must be treated in accordance with general arrangements applicable to all cases, and of these the first desideratum is water, and until one can base one's arrangements upon the certainty of a sufficient fresh water supply at any given point, the harbour must be regarded as the single basis of one's calculations.\n\nThe hilly nature of the site of the City of Victoria would seem to point to a system of high level tanks as being that best adopted for the requirements of the Town. In the case of a fire spreading up the hill it would be of immense advantage to be able to meet it from above and the constant growth of the Town up the hill points still further in this direction. Nor am I at all sure that with such a system, if properly devised and carried out, the necessity for land steam engines will not almost entirely cease to exist. The cost would of course be considerable and it may not be thought to be worth while to incur it. The proposed **Praya reclamation scheme**, however, if carried out, will necessarily bring this matter to the front, and in the meantime I would merely ask His Excellency's attention to the question and also to the consideration as to the extent to which the working of the reclamation scheme will interfere with the water supply from the harbour.\n\n## \nThe following is the arrangement at present in force with regard to the steam engines. Three of the engines proceed to the Praya. Two of them run out hose to the fire. The other stands by with fires lighted, but does not run out hose until the order is given. The fourth engine remains in the station in reserve. Each engine has its own hose reel, and the branch pipes have special marks to indicate to which engine they belong. In order that in the confusion the branch pipes may not be attached to the wrong hose, a slight delay takes place between the removal of each engine from the station, and the driver is under orders to see that his engine never starts without the proper hose reel accompanying it. With a view further to obviate any miscarriage from hurry or ignorance or neglect, duplicate branch pipes are supplied, two being attached to each engine and two to each hose reel. The branch pipe is frequently termed the nozzle, but strictly speaking the term \"nozzle\" is applicable only to the end of the branch pipes from which the water issues.\n\n## \nGenerally speaking the efforts of the Brigade have been directed rather to the simplification of duties and to the instruction of the men in a few broad elementary rules with regard to the running out of hose, the protection of the adjoining property, and such like matters, together with the provision before hand of all such arrangements as are likely to be of service on the occasion of a fire.\n\nOwing to the constitution of the Fire Brigade, which consists of Policemen who have in the first place to consider their Police duties, it is not possible to assign particular duties to individual firemen and it has been sought rather to familiarize each one with the elementary rudiments of Fire Brigade drill, and by a careful prearrangement and simplification of appliances and by general rules as to dealing with fires, to minimize the drawbacks occasioned by the impossibility of assigning special duties to selected individuals.\n\nAmong some of the principal changes that have been made in this direction, I may mention the substitution of a broad thread screw for the narrow thread that it was customary to use in the hose couplings. A great saving of time and labour has been effected by this change, and it has been found to be of the greatest possible advantage to the Brigade. Another change that has been found very valuable has been the institution of a light service in the form of what is termed a `Supply Cart`. This Cart can be drawn by two men, and contains all the necessary appliances for dealing with a fire at the outset. Inasmuch also as it has been found that very frequently a fire without actually spreading to an adjoining house, will ignite it inside to the extent of making it necessary to play water upon the incipient flames, the `Supply Cart` carries with it two hand pumps and two extincteurs, which have been constantly found sufficient to extinguish the flames, when without these appliances resort must have been had to a hose, with the consequent delay of stopping the engine, attaching a new length, and a great destruction of property by a deluge of salt water, even supposing the flames to have not made uncontrollable way in the interval.\n\nOther changes of a similar kind have been made, of which I have already mentioned the duplicate branch pipes, and in which I may include the institution of reserve hose reels to be taken to the fire.",
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        "content_text": "# Annual Report on the Fire Brigade Department\n\n521 \n\nand used exclusively for adding new lengths when required, instead of as formerly having recourse to the engines when additional lengths were wanted, and lastly the practice of indiscriminately cutting down wood work has been entirely abandoned. No wood work can now be cut down without the order of an officer, and such an order is seldom required. In the opinion of many, the spread of the great fire in 1878 was largely due to the immense destruction of wood work on that occasion, the streets in some places being blocked with shutters and broken timbers which at one and the same time impeded the movements of the Brigade, and served as a bridge for the flames.\n\nWith regard to the spread of fires, they are occasioned by the beams and rafters of the roof of the house on fire being in contact with those of the adjoining houses, and in many cases protected from access by the ceiling below; also by the falling of lighted matter through the smoke holes of neighbouring houses, and again by projecting verandahs which probably contain inflammable articles. Heat alone is often sufficient to ignite either the opposite houses, or anything near that is capable of catching fire. A double brick-wall is, however, absolute protection to the extent of the space covered by it. Clothes stands on roofs, though invariably igniting, have not, so far as my experience goes, been a principal cause of fires spreading. They consist only of upright and horizontal bars, with hollow spaces between them, and do not readily burn.\n\nThe accompanying report from Mr. BREWER will show the state of the engines at the present time. They have worked well throughout the year, and have been carefully tended by Mr. BREWER, the Engineer, and Mr. WAGNER, the Assistant Engineer.\n\nThere is great need of another floating engine. The present floating engine lies at Yaumáti, and is not immediately available for service on this side. Also, when a fire occurs anywhere on the other side or in the harbour, there is no launch at the disposal of the Brigade for taking the men to these places. What is required is a floating engine similar to that now in use, and capable of transporting men to different parts of the Island. At present, if the existing floating engine breaks down, there is nothing able to take its place, and considering the vast shipping interests in the harbour, and the valuable property located at Yaumáti, the Naval Yard, Kowloon, and Hunghom, one floating engine is not enough. The nature of the country on the other side does not admit of the transport of land engines, and the only practicable method of dealing with fires there is by floating engines. I trust, therefore, that His Excellency will give this matter his favourable consideration and will sanction the purchase or construction of another floating engine.\n\nAlso, I think the European element of the Brigade should be further increased. Men who before were available for fire duties have now to attend to engines, and considering the growth of the town, I do not think an increase of ten men would be by any means out of place. We are always hampered by want of men, some being in Hospital and some on Police duty, and at the initiatory stages of a fire, the want of a sufficient European complement is much felt, as it is on them that the Superintendent has mainly to rely to see that his general system of organisation is properly carried out. Police firemen are not allowed to leave their beat to go to a fire, so that the nominal strength of the European element is reduced by one half at the outset, and to this must be added absence from sickness and other causes.\n\nOn the other hand, I think the Chinese element might be largely reduced. With an increased European element, I think we might easily dispense with a sufficient number of Chinese to balance the additional expense in the increased European element, so that the change could be accomplished without further cost to the Brigade.\n\nI will conclude this report with a return of fires and alarms of fires during the past year. Origins assigned to the different fires given in the schedule must be accepted with reservation, and are not to be taken as authoritative.\n\nI have only to add that the Brigade has enjoyed the hearty co-operation of the officers and men, throughout the year, who have all worked well under the exceptional strain that has from time to time been put upon them.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\n\n**FIRE BRIGADE DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 5th January, 1888**\n\n## Annual Report on Fire Engines\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith a report on the state of the Government Fire Engines for the year ending 31st December, 1887.\n\n| Engine | Description | Condition |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| No. 1 Floating Fire Engine | by Merry Weather | 19 years old, requires new fire box and overhaul |\n| No. 2 Steamer | by Merry Weather | 19 years old, obsolete type, too heavy for roads |\n| No. 3 Steamer | by Shand and Mason | 8 years old, altered last year, requires new boiler |\n| No. 4 Steamer | by Shand and Mason | 5 years old, in excellent condition |\n| No. 5 Steamer | by Shand and Mason | supplied last year, modern type, valuable auxiliary |\n| Stanley Floating fire pump |  | not available on emergency, kept at Stone Cutters' Island |\n| Manual Engines | 9 in number | all in good working order |\n\nNo. 1 Floating Fire Engine by Merry Weather. This engine is 19 years old, and was formerly a land engine on wheels, but was found too heavy for the roads and cumbersome of transportation; it was therefore put into a launch in March, 1883, and has since done good service. The Boiler is now 10 years old, and requires a new fire box. It was intended to execute this repair some months ago, but it was postponed pending the arrival of the new engine from England. The fresh water tanks are rusting internally, and require to be removed for scraping and painting and generally overhauling. I would recommend this be done immediately after the Chinese New Year. The machinery and hull of the launch are in good order, and with a view to increasing the speed of the launch, a new propeller of more suitable design is now fitted.\n\nNo. 2 Steamer by Merry Weather. This Engine is 19 years old. It was fitted with a new boiler in 1878 and new steam cylinders by Messrs. FENWICK & Co. in 1886. The Engine is of obsolete type and too heavy for our roads, proof of which, it has on two occasions broken through the roads and sunk up to its axles. The engine has, however, done good service feeding the small engines on high levels with salt water. This engine should be supplemented by one of modern type, lighter, more powerful, and with a quick generating boiler (as the present one takes 25 minutes against the modern one of 7½ minutes to raise steam).\n\nNo. 3 Steamer by Shand and Muson. This Engine is 8 years old and was formerly of the auxiliary cylinder type. It was altered last year upon my recommendation, the auxiliary cylinder removed, and a balance wheel substituted, which has rendered the engine more efficient and has given every satisfaction. In consequence of the age of the boiler, I have reduced the working pressure of steam to 75 lbs., which has necessarily somewhat handicapped the engine in its work. In my last year's report, I recommended a new fire box, which I find it is impracticable to attach, and would suggest that Messrs. SHAND & MASON receive instructions to send out a new boiler complete, which we can fix here.\n\nNo. 4 Steamer by Shand and Mason. This Engine is 5 years old and is in excellent condition. New valves have been fitted, and the working parts adjusted.\n\nNo. 5 Steamer by Shand and Mason. Was supplied upon my recommendation last year. This engine is of the most modern type, and has proved a valuable auxiliary to our fire extinguishing apparatus.\n\nStanley Floating fire pump has only been used once during the past year, and is not available on emergency, as the launch is kept at Stone Cutters' Island.\n\nThe manual engines, 9 in number, are all in good working order.\n\nGenerally, though the calls on the Fire Brigade have been heavy this year, I am happy to state that no Engine has been totally disabled during a fire, and no serious breakdown has occurred at any time, yet I am still of opinion that we have not sufficient engines for the increasing size of the Colony, as two fires at the same moment would drain our resources, and an engine laid up for repairs renders our appliances insufficient.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) JOHN S. BREWER, Assist. Supt, and Engineer.\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE, Superintendent, Fire Brigade.\n\nH. E. WODEHOUSE, Esq., C.M.G.,\nSuperintendent, Fire Brigade,\n&C.\n&C.,\n&c.",
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        "content_text": "618 \n\nwhich I trust will receive His Excellency's benevolent consideration when he forwards his further Report as required by the sentence I have referred to.\n\nI will not take these letters in order as attached, but as they are lodged by the officers. Messrs Mengens (2 rooms), Boarding officer; Collaço and Chagas (Junk Inspectors) are lodged on the 1st and 2nd floors of a house at the back of the Harbour office in the heart of China town. On the ground floor of this house, are quartered 3 Messengers (Harbour office), 1 Sailors Home Coolie, 1 Opium office Coolie, 4 Women and 6 children, - 15 souls in total. There is also a Fire Engine.\n\nMr. Mengens' quarters are assumed to be 672 sq. ft. (2 rooms) respectively 17'10\" x 14\", and 17'10\" x 13'. Mr. Chagas' quarters are 746 sq. ft. (2 rooms) respectively 18'4\" x 13'4\" adjoining Mr. Collaço's. Mr. Collaço's quarters are 484 sq. ft. / 2 rooms.\n\nThe value of the coolies' quarters only, putting it at what such people can pay, a dollar a month, would be £60. The stand for the fire engine (on the ground floor) would be valuable for a shop; at the lowest estimate, it would be worth $150 a year.\n\nThe house in question therefore represents to the Government $1862, which I respectfully submit.\n\nThe value of Mr. Mengens' quarters on the ground floor is arbitrary and fictitious; a value unobtainable tomorrow if it was let out in shops and as a current lodging house.",
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        "content_text": "COPY.\n\nSir,\n\nLuwu. Encour 3.\n\nHarbour Department.\n\nHong-Kong, 2nd July, 1891.\n\n629\n\nI beg most respectfully to bring to your notice the following facts in connection with my quarters and to request that you will be good enough to forward my application for the favourable consideration of H. E. the Officer Administering the Government.\n\nThe house in question is occupied by the two Junk Inspectors, Office Coolies, and myself. The Junk Inspectors have the second floor and I the first. Underneath are the quarters for Coolies and a place for the Government Fire Engine.\n\nThe first Junk Inspector having a large family is unable to live in the quarters, so with the permission of the Harbour Master he has let them and is only able to obtain $96 a year owing to the bad locality in which the house is situated.\n\nIn 1875 my quarters were valued at $336 a year and last year they were assessed at $420 a year by the Government Assessor, at the same time I do not think he could have taken notice of the surroundings.\n\nSince 1875 the house has been entirely closed in by Chinese buildings; a very narrow street faces the front.",
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        "content_text": "# 17884 RECR IRE & SEP 1 630\n\nOf the house, the three houses directly opposite are used as rice pounding shops. The dust from these shops compel me to keep my windows shut all day.\n\nDue to the continual noise going on at night, I am unable to get my proper rest. Facing the house on the east is a fish market which opens on the arrival of the Canton Steamer generally about 3a.m. and is kept open till about 6a.m. It is quite impossible to sleep during the market hours. The men are shouting at the top of their voice, the price and weight of fish. I have on several occasions called on the Police to try and put a stop to the noise.\n\nAdjoining my bedroom, separated by an ordinary house wall, lives a tinsmith who works till 11p.m. every night, so my night's rest has to be obtained between 11 p.m. and 3a.m. Again, in the event of a fire, I am awakened up by the noise made in getting the engine in and out and by the peating of gongs.\n\nAt Chinese New Year and other Chinese holidays, the noise of the crackers and gongs is kept up night and day, thus making it impossible to get any rest.\n\nAs the Secretary of State has assessed my quarters at so high a rate as $762 a year, I would most humbly apply that the increase in my quarters may, with the above mentioned facts, be reconsidered, as I would most willingly give them over for $420 a year, as assessed last year, and find a more quiet abode as near the Harbour office as possible.",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG, 26th October, 1891.\n\nSir, I have the honour to forward herewith a report on the state of the Government Fire Engines for the year ending 31st December, 1890.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 1\n\n(Floating Engine) by Messrs. Merryweather & Co.\n\nThis Engine has been 23 years in service. In December last, the Launch, Engine, Boiler and Pumps received a general overhaul and were put in good order, the time occupied for these repairs was 15 days and since then it has done good service.\n\nDuring the year the Engine has not been disabled at a fire, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 2\n\n(Land Engine) by Messrs. Merryweather & Co.\n\nThis Engine has been 22 years in service. During the year it has not been disabled at a fire, it has been kept in reserve, and only used at drill for drivers. The Engine is in need of a thorough overhaul and the Boiler requires some extensive repairs to fire-box, but, as this Engine is of an obsolete type for land purposes, and cannot be relied upon to work efficiently under full power, I would recommend it to be replaced with one of Shand & Mason's powerful Pumps similar to No. 5.\n\n## STEAMER No. 3\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 11 years in service. During the year it has not been disabled at a fire, it has done good service, was examined and tested in May last, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 4\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 8 years in service. During the year it has worked satisfactorily, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 5\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 4 years in service. It has not been disabled at a fire, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 6 (late Volunteer)\n\n(Land Engine) by Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 11 years in service, (9 years in Volunteer Brigade). In April last the Boiler was fitted with new Injector, and the Engine and Pumps were carefully overhauled, the time occupied for these repairs was 7 days. During the year it has done good service, has not been disabled at a fire and is now in good working order.\n\nManual Engines (9) all in good working order.\n\nDuring the year the calls on the Brigade have been few, compared with former years, and the Engines and Boilers have been carefully examined and tested. There has been a new system of drills for drivers introduced. Instructions for their guidance have been printed in the form of questions and answers containing information that they ought to be in possession of; and drills held twice a week, those drivers proving themselves efficient have received Certificates.\n\nAdditional pumping power is much required in the Harbour and at Kowloon, and I would respectfully suggest that another floating Engine be supplied, as being the most useful for attacking a fire on board Ship, or on shore at Kowloon or assisting the other Engines.\n\nThe Assistant Engineer and the Engine Drivers have given every attention to their duties, and have always attended promptly to the calls on the Fire Department.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nJous W. KINGHORN, Engineer, Government Fire Brigade.\n\nTo Geo. HonsPOOL, Esquire,\n\nActing Superintendent, Government Fire Brigade.\n\n## FIRES AND ALARMS, 1890\n\n| No. | DATE | TIME | Jet | SITUATION OF FIRE | NO. OF BUILDINGS DESTROYED | CAUSE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 14 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | A large number of young trees destroyed. |\n| ... | 1 | 537 | ... | Do. | Do. | A number of young fir trees destroyed. | Burning of joss paper while worshipping graves, A number of young trees destroyed. |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Do. | Do. | Unknown. | Do. |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Do. | Do. | Do. | A number of young trees destroyed. |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Do. | Nil | Do. | Trifling |\n| 49 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | Upsetting of a kerosine lamp. | $2,000, Insured in Messrs. Dunn, Melbye & Co. for $4,000. |\n| ... | 19 | 6.30 a.m. | ... | House No. 481, Queen's Road West | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 4.30 p.m. | ... | Grass on hillside at Mount Davis | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 6.30 p.m. | ... | House No. 3, Third Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 6.40 p.m. | ... | House No. 12, Wing Lok Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 6.45 p.m. | ... | Dust Cart No. 5, in Kennedy Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | 12 | 11.55 a.m. | ... | House No. 12, Graham Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 7.20 p.m. | ... | House No. 4, Kau U Fong | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | 18 | 5.15 p.m. | ... | House No. 4, Pokfulam Road | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 6.30 p.m. | ... | House No. 110, First Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | 20 | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Quarry Bay | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | 21 | 3.11 p.m. | ... | Grass on hillside at Mount Davis | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 1 p.m. | ... | House No. 47, Wellington Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | 22 | 1.30 a.m. | ... | Grass on hillside above Tai Hang Village | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Coal Godown No. 57, Praya East | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Mount Davis | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Little Hongkong | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Shek O | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Yaumati | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside above Robinson Road | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Aberdeen | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Empty Kerosine Cases in Fuk Luk Lane | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Deep Water Bay | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Stanley | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Wong Nei Chang | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | 29 | 7 p.m. | ... | House No. 57, Queen's Road West | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 5 p.m. | ... | Grass on hillside at Little Hongkong | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 10.30 p.m. | ... | Grass on hillside at Pokfulam | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | 31 | 3 p.m. | ... | House No. 10, Shelley Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| 105 | Nov. 3 | 3 p.m. | ... | Grass on hillside near Tso Tsai, British Kowloon | ... | ... | ... |\n| 107 | 1 | ... | ... | Grass on hillside at Aberdeen | ... | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | 6.35 p.m. | ... | House No. 47, Boulam Strand | ... | ... | ... |",
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        "content_text": "# Report on the State of the Government Fire Engines for the Year Ending 31st December, 1891\n\nI have the honour to forward herewith a report on the state of the Government Fire Engines for the year ending 31st December, 1891.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 1\n(Floating Engine) by Messrs. Merryweather & Co.\n\nThis Engine has been 24 years in service. In the month of October last, the Launch, Engine, Boiler, and Pumps received a general overhaul and were put in good order. The time occupied in these repairs was 14 days. During the year, this Engine has not been disabled at a fire and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 2\n(Land Engine) by Messrs. Merryweather & Co.\n\nThis Engine has been 23 years in service. During the year, it has not been used at a fire, has been kept in reserve, and only used at drill for drivers; it is now laid up for a general overhaul, and the repairs are not yet completed.\n\n## STEAMER No. 3\n(Land Engine) by Messrs. Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 12 years in service. During the year, it has worked well, has not been disabled at a fire, and is now in good order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 4\n(Land Engine) by Messrs. Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 9 years in service. During the year, it has not been disabled at a fire, has been examined and tested, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 5\n(Land Engine) by Messrs. Shand & Mason.\n\nThis Engine has been 5 years in service; it is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 6 (late Volunteer)\n\nThis Engine has been 12 years in service (9 years in Volunteer Brigade). During the year, it has done some good work, has not been disabled at a fire, and is now in good order.\n\n## Manual Engines (9)\nAll in good working order.\n\nThe Assistant Engineer and Engine drivers have given every attention to their duties and have always attended promptly to the calls on the Fire Department.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nJOHN W. KINGHORN, Engineer, Government Fire Brigade.\n\nTo GEO. HORSPOOL, Esquire,\nActing Superintendent, Government Fire Brigade.\n\n## FIRES AND ALARMS, 1891\n\n| No. | DATE | TIME | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | CAUSE | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Jan. 1 | 1.50 p.m. | Grass on hillside near Lyceum Fort | ... | ... | A number of young trees destroyed. |\n| 4 | 7 p.m. |  | House No. 353, Queen's Road West | ... | Accidental upsetting of a lamp | No Insurance. |\n| 7 | 3, 11 p.m. |  | Victoria Barracks | ... | ... | A great number of trees burnt. |\n| 13 | 11, 7 a.m. |  | House No. 6, Fuk Sau Lane | ... | Burning of joss paper | Unknown. |\n| 1.5 | 7 a.m. |  | House No. 8, Ice House Street | ... | ... | Insured in the China Fire Insurance Company. |\n| 28 | 5.50 p.m. |  | Lo Tai Hing's Coal Godowns, No. 13, Praya East | ... | Supposed attempted arson | Kerosine was found on the stairs. |\n| 30 | 8.45 p.m. |  | Grass on hillside at Deep Water Bay | ... | ... | ... |\n| 80 | 9 p.m. |  | A Hut at Aplichau | ... | ... | ... |\n| Feb 8 | 5.15 a.m. |  | Grass on North side of Mount Davis | ... | Burning of joss paper | ... |\n| 8 | 4 a.m. |  | Grass on hillside above Wong Nei Chung | ... | ... | ... |\n| 11 | 2 p.m. |  | House No. 20, Hollywood Road | ... | ... | Insured in Messrs. 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Sander & Co. for $10,000. |\n| 10 | ... |  | House No. 145, Queen's Road East | ... | ... | ... |\n| 13 | 4.50 p.m. |  | Chimney of the Hongkong Dispensary | ... | ... | ... |\n| 20 | ... |  | Chimney of House No. 10, Pokfulam Road | ... | ... | ... |\n| April ... |  |  | Houses Nos. 170 and 172, Third Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| 19 | ... |  | Chimney of the Stag Hotel | ... | ... | ... |\n| 26 | ... |  | House No. 38, Lower Lascar Row | ... | ... | ... |\n| 29 | ... |  | House No. 19, Kau U Fong | ... | ... | ... |\n| 29 | ... |  | House No. 184, Tai Kok Tsui, British Kowloon | ... | ... | ... |\n| 29 | ... |  | Grass on hillside at Kai Lung Wan | ... | ... | ... |\n| 29 | ... |  | Grass on hillside at Aberdeen | ... | ... | ... |\n| May 1 | ... |  | House No. 14, Jubilee Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| 2 | ... |  | A stack of Grass at Tai Tam | ... | ... | ... |\n| 6 | ... |  | House No. 831, Queen's Road Central | ... | ... | ... |\n| 6 | ... |  | House No. 85, Queen's Road West | ... | ... | ... |\n| 19 | ... |  | House No. 280, Queen's Road Central | ... | ... | ... |\n| 19 | ... |  | House No. 73, Jervois Street | ... | ... | ... |\n| 19 | ... |  | House No. 4, Arsenal Street | ... | ... | ... |\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nGEO. 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        "content_text": "515\n\n( 16 )\n\nthe Captain was not at all to blame in retaining that Opium until he could report the matter to the Company or until an officer of police took possession of it; and his Worship would see that neither the constable nor the sergeant would take the responsibility of taking the opium. The Captain was quite justified in waiting for instructions from his superior or until an Inspector of Police took it, to be adjudicated upon in that court. If it had been handed over to Mr. Spooner on his first demand, would there have been any summons? No. Neither the Government nor anyone else would have heard of it.\n\nMr. Webber—Nothing of the kind.\n\nHis Worship—Your argument would be pertinent if they were pressing for a heavy penalty.\n\nMr. Francis said that if his Worship would study the Ordinance, he would see it absolutely ignored the possibility of anyone having in his possession prepared Opium for any purpose but one, namely, that of smoking it. The learned counsel read the sections of the Ordinance referring to the certificates to be held by the possessors of prepared Opium and said the only certificate provided for was that given by the vendor to the purchaser. Supposing the opium were being exported in due course, there was no certificate to be given to the Captain of the vessel by which it was to be exported. Now supposing the purchaser was a person authorised by the Farmer to export Opium and he shipped it in the ordinary way, the Captain of the ship would, so far as the absence of a certificate was concerned, be in unlawful possession of it.\n\nMr. Webber—He would have an export permit.\n\nMr. Francis said there were no export permits given for prepared Opium. It had been forgotten in the Ordinance to provide for a great many cases in which prepared Opium must be handled by different people. There were other transactions besides the simple one between a vendor and purchaser. What was the position of the Captain of a ship on board which prepared Opium was properly put under a bill of lading? He was lawfully in possession and could not be asked for a certificate under section 16.\n\nHis Worship—He would be a person in possession of prepared Opium without a certificate.\n\nMr. Francis—But could he be punished for it? He would be neither vendor nor purchaser. It was a case entirely omitted from the Ordinance. This was of very little importance in the present case; he was only arguing from analogy that for many purposes not provided for in the Ordinance, people might be lawfully in possession of prepared Opium although they could not have a certificate under section 16. This being a case unprovided for by the Ordinance, his Worship, he submitted, would say that the Captain was lawfully in possession of the opium in the performance of his duty.\n\nHis Worship—But that is the point, whether anyone can be lawfully in possession without a certificate.\n\nMr. Francis said the only certificate mentioned was the one given by the vendor to the purchaser. Captain Lefavour not having purchased the opium, it would be absurd to expect him to be in possession of such a certificate as that, and therefore if it was a thing he could not possibly have, the law would not demand it of him if otherwise the circumstances were such that he was lawfully in possession of it. His Worship would understand that there must be persons who must be in possession of opium every day of their lives, without any possibility of their being in possession of the certificate mentioned in section 16. He would tender the evidence of Mr. Logan, who had been for some time past with six men acting as excise officers for the steamers to prevent any opium being smuggled on board. About half-past seven, Mr. Logan got information from one of his men that he had been approached by the head coolie of a well-known licensed opium shop in Hillier Street, and that offers had been made to pay him and his fellows $2 per trip to wink at or allow opium to be smuggled on board, and that he was told opium was going on board that evening. A little after half-past seven, Mr. Logan and his men, being on the look-out, went forward into the crew's part of the ship. On the forward part of the main deck, there was a small engine house for the donkey engine, and looking through the window, they saw these tins of opium lying on the floor inside. They sent for the Captain, who had it carried upstairs and put in a locker. The next morning, three of the stokers' crew were missing from the ship. His Worship would see what happened. Within an hour or less, the Opium Farmer was in possession of the facts—and the information had not been obtained from Mr. Spooner or any of his officers, for the informant was unknown to Mr. Spooner—and when Mr. Spooner went on board, it was not to search the ship generally, but with special information that there was prepared Opium on board and that Captain Lefavour had seized it and locked it up in a particular locker on deck. Now, how did the Opium Farmer come to be in possession of that information?\n\nHis Worship—Is that relevant?\n\nMr. Francis submitted it was relevant because if the opium came out of an opium shop, it was covered by the Opium Farmer's own licence. The shop was that of one of the sub-licensees.\n\nHis Worship—The point is, was there any certificate or permit covering it on board that ship? There might have been a licensed sale to the smuggler and the smuggler have destroyed the permit.\n\nMr. Francis said that supposing the case to have been as suggested by his Worship, there was a defect in the Ordinance. The certificate was not a transferable or negotiable document. There was no provision that the purchaser was to transfer the certificate every time he transferred the opium. There was no possibility of the Captain of a ship having such a certificate as was asked for in this case.\n\nIf the opium was honestly put on board, the Captain was in lawful possession of it, and if it was smuggled on board, it was his duty to the owners to seize it and retain it for a reasonable time until he could get instructions. If an Inspector of Police had turned up, the stuff would have been handed over to him. He thought Captain Lefavour was fairly and reasonably justified in keeping possession until the office should be open in the morning, and he could get instructions from Mr. Arnold or the Directors. That was the exact position Captain Lefavour took up, and the question for his Worship to decide was, what was his duty under the circumstances? He thought his Worship would see that he was lawfully in possession of that opium for the time being and exercised only a reasonable discretion in taking time to consider his position. He proposed to call Mr. Logan and his two informers so as to trace as far as they could where the opium came from. His Worship asked Mr. Francis if he would restate his argument briefly, so that he could take a note of it, treating it as smuggled opium.\n\nMr. Francis said it was the Captain's duty to his owners and to the Opium Farmer, or rather to the State, to take possession of the opium the moment it came to his knowledge that it was there. In taking possession of the opium, he could not possibly have a certificate under section 16, and at that time of night, and with a view to getting an investigation of the case, which would not have occurred if he had given it up instantly, he would have been justified in retaining it until business hours in the morning. No opium, he submitted, ought to be confiscated without investigation, but how it was intended the investigation should\n\n( 17 )",
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        "content_text": "402\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nThere were then under treatment, thirteen cases on the Hygeia, and fourteen at Kennedy town, making a total of 27, as against 41 on the previous day.\n\ndying there after an illness of 24 hours. The symptoms were almost identical with those of the plague, and there is only too much reason to believe that this is the commencement of the disease in the hitherto uninfected eastern district. The agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company issued the following express on Wednesday: To order to avoid sanitary difficulties in further ports the steamer Oceanien, leaving at 2 p.m., will take neither passengers nor cargo.\n\n18th May: The continuation of the rain on Thursday was hailed with great satisfaction, and both plague and water famine, from which we have been suffering, will doubtless in a few days entirely disappear. There is some indication that the plague is already abating and that the conditions favourable to its development having been removed by the rain, the port will soon be declared free from the disease. The total number of deaths reported from noon on Wednesday to noon yesterday was 20, of which 2 occurred on the Hygeia, 9 in Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 in outside districts. There were only 10 new cases yesterday, 3 being admitted to the Hygeia, and 7 to the Kennedy town Hospital. 44 cases are at present under treatment,\n\nThe following circular has been issued by the Sanitary Board for the guidance of all concerned, and has been circulated among the police and sanitary officers:\n\nObservations to be made by officers conducting house to house visitation:\n\n1. See if the patient is feverish. \n2. Look for swellings (buboes) under the arms, on the groin, on the neck, above the elbow. \n3. Observe if the patient has an anxious expression and if he is walking with a tottering gait.\n\nThe rainfall registered to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, for the preceding twenty-four hours, was 0.26 inch, and for the twenty-four hours ending 10 a.m. on Thursday 2.23 inches. There were heavy showers later in the day.\n\nOur Saigon correspondent telegraphs that Hongkong has been declared an infected port and vessels arriving at Saigon are subjected to six days' quarantine.\n\nPRECAUTIONS AT MACAO.\n\nThe following order is published in the Macao Boletim Oficial:\n\nBubonic plague having appeared in epidemic form in the neighbouring ports of Canton and Hongkong and causing a considerable number of deaths amongst the Chinese population of those two cities;\n\nAt the Police Court on Tuesday there were several cases of failure to report the occurrence of the disease, and doubtless a few convictions and fines will make landlords more alive to the vital necessity of bringing the cases to the attention of the authorities without the slightest delay. Ning Kin and Lan Chuk, widows, the occupants respectively of Nos. 72 and 74, Market Street, were charged by Inspector Quincey before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse with neglecting to report the outbreak of plague in their houses. The Inspector stated that he visited the places and found men suffering from the disease, whom he had removed to the Hygeia. The symptoms were very pronounced at the time and there would be no difficulty in identifying the disease. His Worship fined the first defendant $2 or fourteen days' and discharged the second. Lai You Chang, a teacher, for a similar neglect in respect to a case at 10, Wai Tak Lane, was fined $5 or in default 14 days' imprisonment.\n\nThe fire engines on Tuesday were engaged in flushing the sewers and drains of the Taiping-shan district from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. The water was pumped from the harbour by the floating engine up to the Hollywood Road level and from thence to the China Road. A good quantity of water was used. This operation will be continued to-day.\n\nDepartmental orders have also been issued calling upon the Chinese to keep their houses clean.\n\n19th May. It is regrettable to have to report that the plague has again increased and that both the numbers of deaths, admissions, and cases are larger than those of the previous day. It will be remembered that the returns on Thursday on the face of them showed a gratifying diminution of the disease, and the copious downfall of rain continuing it was confidently and naturally anticipated that this diminution would be even more pronounced yesterday. The official returns, however, up to noon on Friday show that in the twenty-four hours 25 deaths occurred, 7 were from noon on Thursday on board the Hygeia, 9 at Kennedy town Hospital, and 9 outside, as against a mortality of 21 on Thursday. The new cases were 29, viz, 12 on the Hygeia and 17 at Kennedy town, being an increase of 19. The total number of cases under treatment is 56 against 44 at the last report. This increase is not regarded by the authorities in a serious light, and no apprehensions are entertained that the disease is baffling the exertions made to stamp it out. In fact, the medical officers take a hopeful view and feel sure that the worst is now past. The increase is ascribed to the complete organisation which is operating for the detection of cases. On Friday twelve men from the Royal Engineers and twelve from the Shropshire Light Infantry were enrolled as special sanitary officers, which makes the staff numerically strong and adequate to the necessities of the work to be done. The house to house visitation is divided into sections, and it is almost impossible now that cases of plague can pass undiscovered.\n\nThe Manila authorities have prescribed 15 days' observation on all vessels arriving from this port.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Friday a hawker was charged with failing to report a case of plague which occurred in his house on the 17th inst. Defendant pleaded that he could not leave the premises, but Commander W. H. Hastings, before whom the case was heard, imposed a fine of $50 with an alternative of two months' hard labour.\n\n21st May,\n\nHaving received the advice of the Provincial Sanitary Board:\n\nI hereby order:\n\n1. That the supply of water to the public by boats stationed along the Praia Grande and in the inner harbour be continued with the greatest regularity.\n\n2. That the drains be flushed daily, especially in the districts occupied by the Chinese population, and more particularly the districts of Volong, San-kin, Sa-tong, Patane, Mong-ha, and the village of Barra.\n\n3. That the pavement of the slaughter house and its appendages be daily washed with salt water.\n\n4. That on the arrival of any vessel from Canton or Hongkong, including the steamers and launches of the regular lines, an officer of the Sanitary Board shall inspect the passengers, and especially the Chinese passengers, to ascertain if any of them are suffering from the bubonic plague or exhibit suspicious symptoms.\n\n5. That the commandant of the water police shall give the necessary directions in order that lorcha or other boats from Hongkong or Canton may not land any individual suspected to be suffering from the disease; and any case presenting its symptoms shall be detained on board until examined by an officer of the Sanitary Board, who shall be immediately informed.\n\n6. If any passenger be found to be suffering from bubonic plague, whether on board steamers or launches, such passenger shall not be landed; and if any case of the disease be found on a sailing vessel or boat propelled by oars the vessel shall be immediately to be immediately towed out of the harbour, and removed by a copious rainfall we may confidently anticipate the speedy disappearance of the evil result.\n\nGovernment Palace, Macao,\n\n15th May, 1894.\n\nThe Governor of the Province,\n\nJose M. da Horta e Costa.\n\nwork of soaching and disinfecting the localities\n\nfor development it was hoped that in a few days such an appreciable conquest of the disease would be achieved that no further danger need be anticipated. A certain section of the Chinese have now, however, attempted to frustrate all these efforts, and are determined to assert aggressively the ignorance and stupidity which peculiarly belong to the multitude of the natives. It will be remembered that one of the first acts of the permanent committee was to order the removal of all patients from the Tung Wah Hospital to the Hygeia, and the next wise edict was that no patients were to be sent there, but removed direct to the bulk. There was at the time much grumbling and opposition to this course, the patients themselves, with the instinct of their race, objecting, sometimes violently to their removal to the Hygeia and their treatment by Western skill and science. It appears that this feeling of resentment has been simmering and increasing during the past few days, and on Saturday it broke bounds and completely disorganised the work of cleansing, disinfecting, and investigating, which was in progress. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, a member of the Sanitary Board and also Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, has, with an intelligence which unfortunately does not belong to all his countrymen, lost the Government his hearty co-operation in the measures they have taken. Some of his colleagues on the Hospital Committee, however, imbued with anti-foreign feeling, have resisted this policy, and by their influence have created a strong opposition among the native population to the work which the authorities are prosecuting with such vigour.\n\nMay 24, 1894.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\n198\n\n4.3\n\nAnother case occurred yesterday among the Portuguese community, the patient being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nSingapore has imposed nine days' quarantine, including the time occupied by the passage, rioting, the Government having met the Tung Wah Hospital Committee in their demand that there be no further danger of a renewal of the.\n\nMEETING AT THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL\n\nA largely attended meeting of Chinese was held on Sunday at the Tung Wah Hospital, there being present about seventy members of the leading firms and some four hundred others. The Captain Superintendent of Police and the Colonial Surgeon attended the meeting.\n\nMr. Lau Wai Chuen occupied the chair. He said that many people had preferred a request that persons suffering from the plague should be allowed to be conveyed to Canton, if their relatives so desired, by special launches.\n\nThe Captain Superintendent of Police replied that he was instructed to state that information had that morning been received from Canton that the officials there would not allow persons suffering from the disease to be landed there. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen interpreted Mr. May's reply to the meeting, who received it with strong marks of dissatisfaction. Mr. Lau Wai Chuen, endeavoured to maintain order and said he would personally apply to the Government here and the officials at Canton in relation to the matter. He suggested that they should send a petition to Canton signed by all the leading firms of the colony.\n\nYesterday morning the sanitary officers reported a house supposed to be empty and made the horrible discovery that there were five corpses on the premises and four very serious cases, all exhibiting pronounced symptoms of the plague.\n\nYesterday morning one of the turnkeys in the Victoria Gaol reported himself sick and Dr. Marques, suspecting from the symptoms that the man was suffering from plague, sent him immediately to hospital. A prisoner in the gaol, who had been convicted for not reporting a case of plague, was also removed to the new Chinese Hospital for treatment.\n\nThe arrangements for the burial of victims of the plague do not appear to be quite satisfactory. A good deal of delay takes place before the bodies are interred, separate graves having to be dug in a rather rocky and refractory soil. The squatters on the land contiguous to this cemetery have petitioned the Government on the matter. Evidently a more suitable site ought to be selected.\n\nOn Saturday many of the houses visited were blockaded and the sanitary officers stoned, and in the afternoon all attempts to continue the house to house inspection had to be discontinued, the work being rendered exceedingly unsafe and difficult. A mob also collected at the Po Leung Kuk office and broke the windows, but was dispersed by the police before doing further damage. On Sunday, while a meeting at the Tung Wah Hospital was in progress, Mr. Lau was hurriedly sent for, news arriving that his hong was being wrecked. When Mr. Lau left the building he was surrounded by a howling mob of Chinese and had to be escorted by police to his residence. Mr. P. R. May, Captain Superintendent of Police, grasped the situation at once and sent a mounted contingent of armed Sikhs to the district, the presence of which fortunately prevented further disturbances.\n\nThe Government have so far met the Chinese opposition as to assent to the establishment of a temporary hospital under the management of the Tung Wah at the Glassworks, Kennedy town, to which all patients will be removed and where they will be treated by native practitioners, and the use of the Hygeia for the reception of plague patients will be discontinued.\n\nOn Sunday the house to house inspection was recommenced, the officers being protected by a strong police guard.\n\nSome cases have been reported on the mainland and proclamations have been issued prohibiting the immigration of Chinamen from Hongkong. At Haiphong several persons have fallen victims to the disease.\n\nThis suggestion was unanimously agreed to. The Captain Superintendent of Police said that rumours were current that people not suffering from the disease had been taken to the Hygeia and the Kennedy town Hospital, people who were not sick at all, but this could be at once disproved if any of those present would go with him to examine the patients, when it would be seen they were all sick people suffering from the plague. If those attacked were not segregated it would be impossible to prevent the spread of the disease, and he referred to the visitation of the plague in England two hundred years ago and the great mortality it caused. He suggested to the Chairman that he should advise the people that they should avoid overcrowding in their dwellings, and then the number of persons attacked by the disease would decrease.\n\nCONFERENCE AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\nAn important conference was held yesterday at Government House for the purpose of discussing the new turn events have taken and considering the course of action to be adopted in the immediate future. His Excellency Sir William Robinson presided, and there were also present H.E. Major-General Barker, Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart (Acting Colonial Secretary), Hon. N. G. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer), Hon. Ho Kai, Dr. P. B. C. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon), Mr. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), Mr. J. J. R. Crook, Dr. James, Francis Q.C., Mr. J. A. M. S., Dr. Lan Wai Chuen. The meeting lasted for some time. The first business was the consideration of representations by the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board as to the inadequacy of the number of sanitary officers.\n\nApplication was made for the enrolling of 400 assistants for the work of cleansing and disinfecting.\n\nAt this stage of the proceedings a petition was presented from the residents in East Street complaining of the treatment they had received at the hands of the sanitary officers, entering their houses unexpectedly and frightening the children. The petitioners asked that attention should be given to this matter.\n\nAt this time news arrived that a mob was attacking Mr. Lau Wai Chuen's establishment in Bonham Strand, the Tung San Wo, and\n\nOn Sunday night everything was quiet and it was hoped there would be no renewal of the disturbances.\n\nThe decrease in the number of cases reported for the twenty-four hours up to noon on Sunday is, it is to be feared, due to interruption of the inspection rather than to any actual diminution of the disease.\n\nA notice was subsequently issued by the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital stating that the Government has consented to allow all patients suffering from plague to be treated by the doctors of the Tung Wah Hospital. The notice also informs the people that they need not be alarmed by the visits of the sanitary officers, as any one found to be suffering from plague will now be removed to the Tung Wah's branch hospital instead of being taken to the Hygeia.\n\nAt the Police Court on Saturday there were some more cases of failure to report outbreaks of plague. Wong Chan, a married woman, was so charged. P.S. Moffat said that he visited the house of the defendant No. 64, First Street, at 11 a.m. on the 18th. In the first room visited he found a man lying dead, and another man (the husband of the defendant) was very ill in the same apartment. In another room in the Cookhouse he discovered a woman very ill lying under a bed, and in the cockloft a girl was seriously ill. All, both the dead and the living, had the symptoms of bubonic plague. Defendant pleaded that she was a very poor woman, and was fined $5, which she paid. Chan Chol, a shopkeeper at No. 6, Hung Lane, off Queen's Road West, was also charged with concealing a case. P.S. Smith said that he went into the premises and found a man suffering from plague. There were a number of persons present, who ran away on his arrival. A like fine was imposed.\n\nWe have heard of a somewhat curious case in connection with the plague. A few days ago a coolie was charged with cutting and wounding a companion and the hearing of the charge was remanded for a week by the sitting Magistrate, bail of $250 being allowed and procured. The following day the unlucky coolie was seized with the disease and died on board the Hygeia.\n\nThe Spanish Consul received the following official telegram despatch from Manila at 9:53 a.m. on Saturday: \"Hongkong has been declared an infected port, and vessels from thence are subject to fifteen days' quarantine.\"\n\nInformation has also been received that a proclamation will be issued to-day addressed to the Chinese explaining the objects of the preventative measures now being prosecuted and calling upon them to co-operate therein and assist the Government.\n\nMr. May stated at the meeting yesterday that he and his assistants had been welcomed and not obstructed in the different houses visited.\n\nThe following are the returns for the twenty-four hours to noon yesterday:\n\nHygeia, Kennedy town Hospital, City, Total, Decrease.\n\nAdmissions: 2, 3, 0, 5, \nDeaths: 3, 2, 0, 5, \nUnder treatment: 26, 20, 17, 63, 28\n\nThe Government, we understand, is fully prepared to support the permanent committee of the Sanitary Board to the utmost. There is a suspicion that jealousy between different sections of the Chinese is at the bottom of the recent disturbances and ill-feeling.\n\nTHE DISTURBANCES-POLICE COURT PROCEEDINGS.\n\nMr. H. E. Wodehouse was yesterday morning engaged at the Police Court in hearing several cases arising out of the disturbances in Chinatown reported in yesterday's issue.\n\nYesterday Yea Kay, a hawker, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner in Po Yan Street.\n\nPage 403\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "406\n\nMr. Leach in opening the case, said the facts briefly were as follows. The prisoner was employed by Messrs Arthur and Co., whose manager here was Mr. Ogilvie, and he owed them a sum of about $900. Mr. Ogilvie in January last pressed for payment and the prisoner told him that although he had not the cash he would give a promissory note backed by a guarantee. Chan Yau Lok was mentioned as the surety and it was expressed, his willingness to sign. A promissory note was drawn up by Mr. Ogilvie and signed by the parties, but later on it was found to be worthless by the fact that it was unstamped. Mr. Ogilvie went to the office and told the prisoner that the note had no value and that a new one would have to be drawn up on duly stamped paper. The original document was returned to the prisoner, and a new promissory note was made out. The prisoner went to Chan Yau Lok to get it signed as his guarantor and returned with the signature. From what Mr. Ogilvie learned afterwards, however, it transpired that Chan Yau Lok denied the signature and disputed his liability. The prisoner was therefore charged with forging Chan Yau Lok's signature and uttering the forged note.\n\nEvidence was then taken.\n\nThe jury returned a unanimous verdict of guilty and His Lordship sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment with hard labour.\n\n22nd May.\n\nIN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. BEFORE HIS HONOUR J. ACKROYD AND A SPECIAL JURY.\n\nTHE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND\n\nFIRE IN QUEEN'S ROAD WEST,\n\nTHE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA, LIMITED, V. HIM KEE ALUM This was an action brought by the National Bank of China, Limited against Him Kee Alum, trader, of Foochow, to recover £2,460 4s. 5d. or its equivalent in dollars, due by the defendant on shares held by him in the plaintiff company, and for interest thereon at the rate of ten per cent.\n\nMr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mr. H. E. Pollock (instructed by Mr. Wright, of Mr. V. H. Deacon's office) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. E. Robinson (instructed by Mr. Bowley, of Mr. H. L. Deacon's office) represented the defendant.\n\nThe following special jury was empanelled: Messrs. H. M. Joseph, M. S. S. Sassoon, J. T. V. Vernon, J. B. Donghtyric, J. J. B. Heemskerk, B. C. Wilcox, and W. B. Loxley.\n\n(May 24, 1894.) DEFEAT OF THE ANTI-FOREIGN PARTY IN JAPAN,\n\nWe learn that a telegram has been received from Tokyo stating that in the House of Representatives the motion for the adoption of an address to the Emperor, of which the prominent feature was the Radical idea of the strict enforcement of the treaties, has been defeated.\n\nOn the morning of the 15th inst., about 6 o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 127, Queen's Road West, occupied by a second-hand clothes dealer. The outbreak centred on the ground floor, attributable, it is said, to the upsetting of the inevitable kerosine lamp, and the flames quickly spread to the upper stories. When the Brigade under Mr. H. Wodehouse and Deputy Superintendent Horspool arrived they found the whole place in a blaze. The fortunate circumstance that there was little or no breeze was somewhat discounted by the difficulty in getting water, as in the pre-treaty stipulations, which would preclude foreigners from residing outside the lists of the treaty ports and how difficulties in the way of travel in the interior.\n\nWith very praiseworthy briskness, however, the steam was got up on the engines and in a few minutes, some good streams of water from the half-an-hour's work sufficed to remove all danger as the coolies were playing on the flames. About the whole of No. 137 was destroyed and the adjoining houses suffered slight damage by fire and water. The contents of No. 137 were insured for $4,400 in the Hamburg and Bremen Fire Insurance Company, for which Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. are agents.\n\nTHE BOTANICAL AND AFFORESTATION REPORT.\n\nThe following report of the Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, report on this department for the year 1893.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1894.\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to submit the annual report on this department for the year 1893.\n\nBOTANIC GARDENS.\n\nAfter the fire had been extinguished, the partition wall between No. 137 and No. 139 fell down, and six men and women, who had entered the basement to recover some of the damaged goods, were buried under the debris. The police at once set to work to rescue the unfortunate people and, strange to say, found that only one man was at all injured, and he not seriously. The others were almost unscathed. The injured man was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Thursday Mr. H. E. Wodehouse opened an enquiry into the circumstances of the fire at 137, Queen's Road West, which occurred on the 15th.\n\nMr. G. C. C. Master (of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master) represented the fire insurance agents, Messrs. Carlowitz and Co.\n\nInspector Mackie is in charge of the case for the police.\n\nI am the wife of Wong A Pui, a dealer in fish at Chau Tai, Singapore. I reside in a house in Queen's Road West. I was at No. 137 on the morning of the 15th, sleeping in a room with my three children.\n\nA light which I saw through a hole in the floor of my room attracted my attention, and looking through it I saw a man with a piece of lighted paper in his hand standing over a heap of clothes on which he was pouring kerosine. A moment or two afterwards he applied the light to the clothes and they immediately blazed up.\n\nI shouted \"Burn everyone in the house!\" I got up about 2 o'clock. He made no reply and the other people in the house then ran out. I had been awake some time before I got up and had noticed a smell of kerosine. The hole through which I looked was about a foot long and an inch wide. I could see quite distinctly. I am not acquainted with the people on the ground floor.\n\nThe grounds, plant-houses, buildings, fences, walks and elections of plants have all been maintained in good order, and improvements have been effected in various directions.\n\nIMPROVEMENTS.\n\n1. An additional glass-roofed plant-house 50 feet long by 12 feet wide, situated in the nursery, has been completed. The woodwork has been chiefly made and fitted by our carpenter who is on the staff.\n\n2. Certain walks in the Botanical and Government House Gardens have been concreted. These additions now finish all that is needed in this kind of walk formation.\n\n3. Extensions have been made to rockeries where circumstances rendered these necessary.\n\nLAWNS.\n\nTowards the end of the summer the moths and caterpillars mentioned in paragraph No. 14 of my last report again appeared, but having learnt by past experience the habits of these pests their advent was anticipated, and on their first appearance remedies for their destruction were at once applied and maintained at regular intervals until the termination of their season of activity. By these means the lawns were preserved from injury.\n\nDr. A. Gunther, F.R.S., Keeper of the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History), to whom I sent specimens of the larvæ, chrysalids, and moths for determination, has very kindly informed me that its name is Thialleta signifera (Walk.). The chief injury to the grass is caused by this species, but another one, which appears simultaneously with the Thialleta is also responsible for some damage.\n\nThis one Dr. Günther has also determined from specimens which I sent. It is Pharazia bicarnea (Wlk.).\n\n6. Children continue to run over places where grass should be, but which they have long ago worn away. As the attendants and police are unable to prevent this, it would be advisable to provide low iron fences on the margins of walks where children chiefly congregate, of sufficient height to prevent the children leaving the walks.\n\nMr. Pollok opened the case by reading the pleadings filed and the answer. From these it appeared that when Messrs. Russell and Co. failed the firm was indebted to the defendant for a sum of $10,000 and defendant was indebted to them for $50,000. Besides carrying on their ordinary business as merchants at Foochow, however, Messrs. Russell and Company were the agents for the plaintiff bank, and the plaintiff bank tried to induce the defendant to acknowledge that he was indebted to it for $50,000 instead of to Messrs. Russell and Co. The defendant, however, would not recognise this liability at all. Towards the end of 1891 the defendant was desirous of selling all his shares to Mr. Weeks, a broker at Foochow. Mr. Weeks asked for a transfer of the shares and expressed his willingness to pay any outstanding claims. The bank claimed a lien on the shares and refused to allow the transfer until the $50,000 alleged to be due was paid.\n\nMr. Francis on these pleadings asked for judgment for the full amount claimed. Even supposing all the facts alleged were admitted, he submitted that there was no equitable defence. The only defence really set up was that the bank refused to allow a transfer of the shares, but that was no ground of defence in this case, but only a possible case of action for damages.\n\nMr. Robinson then addressed the Court at great length, first stating that he had not anticipated that a legal point would have been raised until the whole of the case had been laid before the Court and the verdict of the jury obtained.\n\nWodehouse concluded the enquiry into the fire at No. 127, Queen's Road West.\n\nAt the Magistracy, on Saturday Mr. H. E. Wodehouse concluded the enquiry into the fire at No. 127, Queen's Road West. Mr. G. C. C. Master (of Messrs. Jobson, Stokes and Master) appeared for the insurance agents, Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. Mr. J. F. Reece represented the shopkeeper.\n\nP.C. McEwen said that when he forced his way into the shop on the alarm being given he found a quilt on the counter in flames, but the fire spread up the side of the wall and the whole place was eventually destroyed.\n\nThe premises were released.\n\nUltimately the case was adjourned until the next day.\n\nPittosporum tobira on the terrace below the fountain died during the year. This caused temporary incompleteness in the arrangement, but new plants have been put in the place of those which died.\n\nMay 24, 1894.\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nThe Hon. T. H. Whitehead leaves to-day by the Empress of Japan.\n\nAt the Magistracy on Tuesday before Commander W. C. H. Hastings a coolie was fined $75, with the option of three months' imprisonment, for having in his possession 29 taels of opium.\n\nThe plague has during the past week continued to claim 30 or 40 victims daily, notwithstanding the heavy rains and the measures which have been taken by the authorities to mitigate the disease. There are indications now, however, that the plague is becoming less virulent, and the returns show a diminution in the number of fatal cases.\n\nH.E. Sir William and Lady Robinson returned to the colony on the 15th inst. after a very enjoyable sojourn in Japan.\n\nMr. Cyril Platt, Private Secretary to His Excellency, has left for Shanghai in order to catch the homeward French mail and thereby avoid the difficulties of booking from Hongkong. Mr. Platt is going home on six months' leave, and during his absence the duties of Private Secretary will be discharged by Capt. Sterling, A.D.C.\n\nIn the fire which occurred near the new reservoir for the Taikoo Sugar Refinery on the 13th inst. even large matsheds were destroyed. A coolie who was endeavouring to save his property was rather seriously burnt about the hands and face and was removed to the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nOur Anjer correspondent writes:-On the night of the 2nd inst. the German ship Christine, from Philadelphia to Hyogo, took the ground at Old Anjer and remained fast for three hours, without any further assistance. The ship apparently made no water, and the captain decided on proceeding on his voyage.\n\nOn Thursday morning a large stone was seen on the tram line as the motor car was descending.\n\nThe breaksman gave the signal to stop the engine and at the same time let go the break. The stone was removed and the break having been unscrewed the car resumed its journey. There was only a momentary delay, and the next car left punctually at its proper time, 12:30.\n\nA meeting of the Odd Volumes\" was held on Friday night, at which a good number of members were present.\n\nMr. J. Stuart Harrison delivered a very interesting lecture on \"The Telephone,\" illustrated by diagrams and practical illustrations.\n\nAt the Magistracy on the 15th inst. A. H. C. Rao, a telegraph clerk employed at the Kowloon Police Station, was fined $10 for removing certain property from his house, which the Supreme Court bailiff had seized under a distress warrant for rent.\n\nThe fine was paid.\n\nOn Saturday evening a smoking concert was given in the Theatre by Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew, assisted by several amateurs. It was decided to commence the tournament on June 1st and the first round will be completed by July 31st. The second round will then commence and the entire tournament will conclude on September 30th.\n\nA set of rules regulating the competition were passed and a committee, consisting of Messrs. H. Humphreys, T. H. Reid, and H. E. Pollock was appointed to make the necessary arrangements.\n\nMr. Quong Tart, who arrived from Sydney by the Menmuir, had quite an enthusiastic send-off when the vessel left. The poop was gaily decorated with flags, etc., and the city band was present.\n\nSir George Dibbs, the Premier of New South Wales, was amongst those who attended to wish the traveller bon voyage, and in responding to the toast of prosperity to New South Wales, with which his name was coupled, he remarked that if Mr. Tart succeeded in establishing the wool trade between the two countries, as he was about to try and do, he should have a statue erected in his honour 10ft. high.\n\nIn replying to the toast of his health, Mr. Tart said that he would do his best to further the interests of the wool trade while he was away.\n\nThe health of Captain Craig, the popular commander of the Menmuir, was also honoured.\n\nTart is accompanied by Mrs. Quong Tart and family, and the principal object of his voyage is to pay a visit to his mother, who resides near Mono.\n\nA correspondent writes:-I see in a Trinidad paper which has just reached me a report of a meeting of the Legislative Council, at which was read a letter from Mr. Osbert Chadwick on the water supply and sanitation of Port-of-Spain.\n\nIt is notified that on Friday, the day appointed for the celebration of Her Majesty's birth, His Excellency the Governor will hold a levée at Government House from 12 to 1 p.m.\n\nThe steamer Dvochis, which arrived on Monday from Saigon, reports that the steamers Bengice, Bucephalus, Bantam, Holstein, Decima, and Jacobs were lying in quarantine at Cape Vin.\n\nMr. H. P. Tooker has been appointed Acting Director of Public Works during the absence on leave of Mr. W. Chatham.\n\nWe understand that the Hon. J. B. Stewart Imokhart, who was elected Chairman of the Victoria Recreation Club for the ensuing year, has declined the honour.\n\nA meeting of chess-players was held on the 15th inst. at Bank Buildings in connection with the recently formed Club, for the purpose of arranging a tournament.\n\nMr. H. E. Pollock presided.\n\nThere were 729 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 93 were Europeans.\n\nEarly on Monday morning a junk was capsized at Murray Pier in a squall. No lives were lost.\n\nThe lung Wah Hospital and its temporary branch at the Glassworks have been connected with the telephone system.\n\nFor some time past the villagers of Yau Ma Tei and Yaumati have brought reports of devourings by two tigers and these grew so numerous that at length a party headed by some European sportsmen, armed with a few rifles and miscellaneous weapons, set off in search of the other tigers still supposed to infest the district.\n\nWell, the tigers were tracked to their lair in a rare and they were wide enough not to get choked at two miles from the boundary and shot.\n\nSome trouble has been given by a demonstration of native prejudice and ignorance, this on Saturday and day last giving rise to disturbances in the Pakwanshan district.\n\nThe Government mitigated the trouble by granting permission to place the patients in a hospital on shore under Chinese direction.\n\nOur Tientsin contemporary gives the following particulars:-\n\nMr. James Cantlie, F.R.C.S. Eng., of Hongkong, with Mrs. Cantlie, and Mr. Ernest L. C. Berger, arrived in Tientsin on Wednesday, 9th inst., and left the following morning for Peking and the Great Wall.\n\nThe Glenugle arrived at Woosung on the 13th inst., 39 days from London, including all stoppages. She will be the first steamer this season to lead tea for New York, via the Suez Canal.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nAn order has been sent to Europe for two iron towers for the Manila cathedral to replace the stone ones destroyed in the last great earthquake.\n\nThe animals at the Pokfulam Dairy Farm are now quite free from the pleuro which recently broke out there, and only one animal, which is segregated at a distance, is now under treatment.\n\nThe cattle are being inspected by Mr. C. Vivian Ladds, Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and already 120 have been treated, generally with complete success.\n\nThe annual general meeting of A. S. Watson and Co., Limited, was held on the 19th, the report and accounts being passed without discussion.\n\nOn the 22nd the general meeting of the Humphras Estate and Finance Company, Limited, was held.\n\nMrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew are still performing at the City Hall Theatre and will leave for San Francisco next week.\n\nI am quite satisfied that the separate system of drainage and nothing else is the cause of the plague. Formerly, when all house sewage ran into the storm water channels, it was deponent sayeth not.",
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        "content_text": "## consulting Engineer.)\n\n10\n\nDraft of proposed Agreement between the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and our Company.\n\nThe Plans represent a Granite dock 640 feet long, 90 feet wide at top and 74 feet wide at bottom and 36 ft, 6 ins. depth of water on sill and on bottom of dock, to be constructed at Kowloon on the site immediately West of and adjoining our present No.1 dock.\n\nThe estimated minimum cost of construction, irrespective of the value of the land, is £175,000, and we are, we believe, able to build this dock for such a low figure only in consequence of the various facilities we possess at our establishment at Kowloon in the matter of machinery, rolling stock, dredgers, machines for making and repairing tools, etc. and, as you will notice from the plans, we have further considerably economised the cost by adapting and increasing our present engine house and pumping machinery, and by being able to avoid the heavy expense of a cofferdam at the entrance to the proposed new dock.\n\nWe feel sure the work can be accomplished in four years, and we have good reason to believe that this can be considerably reduced, unless we should meet with unexpected obstruction or unforeseen accident.\n\nOur proposal is that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty should make a free grant to my Company of One hundred and fifty thousand Pounds to be applied towards the cost of the construction of the above dock, and in return for this financial assistance my Company",
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        "content_text": "# STATEMENT OF THE WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION FUND UP TO 31st DECEMBER, 1897.\n\n|          | Total up to December, 1896 | During 1897 | Total up to 31st December, 1897 |\n| -------- | -------------------------- | ----------- | ------------------------------- |\n| RECEIPTS | 39,914.88                  | 10,941.63   |                                 |\n| Refunds of amounts erroneously levied |  | 99.55       | $3,489.32                       |\n| Working Expenses | 6,909.76 | 905.64      |                                 |\n| Pensions paid | 33,005.12 | 10,035.99   |                                 |\n| Half Contribution refunded |  | 548.59      |                                 |\n| EXPENDITURE | 50,856.51 | 7,815.40    |                                 |\n| BALANCE |  |  | 43,041.11                       |\n\nNa 32.\n\nEnclosure 4\n\n# REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF FIRE BRIGADE FOR 1897.\n\nLaid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government.\n\nPOLICE OFFICE, HONGKONG, 31st January, 1898.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to submit the following report on the Government Fire Brigade for the year 1897.\n\n2. There were 26 Fires, two of which occurred on vessels in the harbour, and 58 Incipient Fires during the past year. Details regarding each will be found attached. The Brigade turned out 40 times during the year. The estimated damage caused by the fires was $177,150.00 and by the incipient fires $334.50. A list is attached shewing the number of fires that have occurred during each of the last ten years with the estimated value of property destroyed in each case.\n\n3. There were three prosecutions for arson. In two cases the intention was to defraud and in these the prosecutions were successful. The first was in connection with the fire at No. 99, Jervois Street in which three occupants of the first floor, which had no connection with the shop on the ground floor where the fire originated, were smothered by smoke before they could be rescued. Among the debris on the ground floor were found unmistakeable evidence of incendiarism, and the master of the shop was convicted and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment with hard labour.\n\nThe second case was in connection with the incipient fire which occurred at No. 231, Queen's Road Central on the 21st of May. The Chinese Constable on the beat noticed smoke issuing from the house, and forcing an entrance found the cubicle, used by the accountant of the shop on the ground floor, on fire in four different places. With commendable courage and presence of mind he beat out the flames with an old curtain. The accountant was convicted and sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment with hard labour. These convictions seem to have had a beneficial effect, for the estimated value of property destroyed by the 14 fires that occurred up to the 21st of May amounted to $115,950, while the estimated value of property destroyed by the 12 fires occurring after that date amounted to $61,200, including the fire of the 15th June which took place before the second conviction.\n\n4. The latter fire was the most destructive that occurred during the year. Three houses were partly destroyed, and the value of the damage done was estimated at $34,000. The spread of the fire to the adjoining houses in this case was entirely due to the large and stoutly constructed sunshades existing in Jervois Street, the removal of which had to be effected before the Brigade could work with their ladders. The delay that was thus caused was considerable, and was undoubtedly the cause of the fire spreading. Since then the shop-keepers in Jervois Street have been induced by Mr. CHATHAM, when Acting Director of Public Works, to make their sunshades moveable so as to avoid such obstruction in future.\n\n5. At the fire in No. 64, Third Street on the 24th of November, 15 persons unfortunately lost their lives. They were occupants of the first floor. The fire originated under the only staircase leading to the floor, and the woodwork being light (as in most Chinese houses) it immediately burned so fiercely that no person could venture down the stairs. The occupants retreated to the kitchen, and before assistance could arrive the whole floor was in flames and they were suffocated. The houses on each side of that burned, had ladders leading from the kitchen to the roof, but unfortunately such was not the case in house No. 64.\n\n6. The water in the mains was not turned off at any time during the year.\n\n7. The new floating Fire Engine (the engines and appliances of which are by Messrs. SHAND and MASON) was completed and available for service in February last, and has given satisfaction.\n\n8. I attach a list of places where Fire Despatch Boxes are kept, and of private telephones to which the Police have courteously been granted access in case of fire, together with copy of a report from the Acting Engineer on the state of the various Fire Engines, which are all in good working order.\n\n9. It has not been found possible yet to carry out the extension of the Central Fire Station that I recommended last year. Till that is done it is impossible to effect any material improvement in rapidity in dealing with fires from the Central Fire Station.",
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        "content_text": "# STEAMER No. 4. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\n348\n\nThis engine has been 16 years in service; the pump valve seats have been thoroughly overhauled and new valves fitted. It has been regularly tested for efficiency at the monthly drills, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 5. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine has been 12 years in service; it has been very little used for fires this year, but has been regularly tested at drill and is now in good working order.\n\nSeven Manual Engines and fittings are all in good order. The hose, reels, ladders and supply fittings are all in good order and condition.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nD. MACDONALD,\nActing Engineer, Government Fire Brigade.\n\n## List of Places where Fire Brigade Despatch Boxes are kept.\n\n| Location | Number of Boxes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Naval Dock Yard | 1 Box |\n| No. 1 Police Station | 1 |\n| Engine House at No. 2 Police Station | 1 |\n| Engine House in Albany Street | 1 |\n| Clock Tower | 1 |\n| Government Offices | 1 |\n| No. 7 Queen's Garden, Engineer's Mess | 1 |\n| Government House | 1 |\n| Central Police Station | 1 Box |\n| Government Civil Hospital | 1 |\n| Engine House at West Point | 1 |\n| No. Police Station | 1 |\n| Gas House, West Point | 1 |\n| Ko Shing Theatre | 1 |\n| Nain Pak Hong Fire Station | 1 |\n| Man Mo Temple | 1 |\n| No. 5 Police Station | 1 |\n\n## List of Telephones to which the Police can have access to communicate with Central Station in the event of a Fire breaking out.\n\n* Hongkong and China Gas Company, East and West Point, from 7 A.M. to 9 P.M.\n* Tung Wá Hospital, Po Yau Street.\n* Man On Insurance Office, Queen's Road West.\n* Hongkong Hotel, Praya Central.\n* Royal Naval Yard, Queen's Road East.\n* Mr. J. KENNEDY's Causeway Bay.\n\nThe Honourable F. H. MAY, C.M.G.,\nSuperintendent, Government Fire Brigade.\n\n## FIRES, 1887.\n\n| No. | DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | Wholly | Partly |  |\n| 1 | January 12 | No. 16, Sai Woo Lane, | 2 |  | 1,400 |\n| 2 | 13 | No. 142, Second Street, | 3 |  |  |\n| 3 |  | Electric Light Company, Queen's Road East. |  |  | 14,000 |\n| 51 | 15 | No. 48, Queen's Road West, |  |  | 23,000 |\n|  | 22 | Man Mo Temple, Hollywood Road, |  | 72 |  |\n|  | 28 | No. 63, Wellington Street, | 20 |  |  |\n|  | 26 | No. 59, Queen's Road West,.... |  |  | 3,000 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| 35 | December 28 | No. 56, Bonham Strand, | 16 |  | 30,000 |\n|  |  | TOTAL, |  |  | 267,125 |\n\nHONGKONG, 28th January, 1898.\n\nSIR-I have the honour to forward herewith a report on the state of the Government Fire Engines for the year ending 31st December, 1897.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 1. (Floating Fire Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine is new. It was finished on the 22nd January and commenced work in February. It did good service at the Fire on board the S.S. Belgic, on the 21st April and has been found very suitable for harbour work. The propelling engine is of sufficient power to maintain a speed of 9 miles per hour, so that little time is lost in reaching a fire in any part of the harbour. With the exception of a burst tube which gave out at the finish of the fire on the Belgic, the boiler and machinery have given every satisfaction.\n\n## STEAMER NO. 2. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine has been 19 years in service; the original boiler which was worn out was replaced with a new one this year supplied by Shand and Mason. It has been well tested at drill and found satisfactory, and is now in good working order.\n\n## STEAMER No. 3. (Land Engine by Shand and Mason.)\n\nThis engine has been 19 years in service and is now in good order; the boiler has been regularly cleaned and examined and the machinery tested for efficiency at drill.\n\n| No. | DATE | SITUATION OF FIRE | No. of BUILDINGS DESTROYED | ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  |  | Wholly | Partly |  |\n|  | February 10 | No. 3, Bonham Strand, |  |  | 12,000 |\n|  | 17 | No. 129, Queen's Road West, |  |  | 2,900 |\n|  | March 9 | No. 15, Tsz Mi Lane, |  |  | 19,000 |\n|  | 10 | No. 76, Jervois Street, | 11 |  |  |\n|  | 23 | No. 17, Wing Kat Street, |  |  | 2,500 |\n|  | 24 | No. 34, Bonham Strand, |  |  | 1,800 |\n|  | April 5 | Blackhead & Co.'s Godowns at Tsimshatsui, | 14 | 30 |  |\n|  | 30 | No. 273, Queen's Road Central, |  |  | 8,000 |\n|  | May 4 | No. 35, Battery Road, |  |  | 600 |\n|  | June 14 | A Carpenter's Shed at Kennedy Town, |  |  | 200 |\n|  | July 3 | No. 28, Tank Lane, |  |  | 300 |\n|  | 25 | No. 185, Queen's Road West, |  |  | 26,000 |\n|  | August 23 | No. 311, Queen's Road Central, |  |  | 2,000 |\n|  | September 15 | No. 39, Wing Lok Street, |  |  | 1,200 |\n|  | 21 | No. 76, Queen's Road West, |  |  | 4,000 |\n|  | October 5 | No. 9, In Kee Lane, |  |  | 1,500 |\n|  | 7 | No. 5, Gage Street, |  |  | 3,000 |\n|  | November 5 | No. 9, Sheung Fung Lane, |  |  | 100 |\n|  | 16 | No. 259, Queen's Road Central, | 24 | 50 | 50,000 |\n|  | 24 | No. 13, Triangle Street, |  |  | 150 |\n|  | 27 | No. 1, Nallah Lane, |  |  | 190 |\n|  | 28 | No. 107, Wellington Street, |  |  | 1,000 |\n|  | 29 | No. 168, Queen's Road East, |  |  | 150 |\n|  | 29 | No. 165, Queen's Road East, |  |  | 150 |\n|  | 30 | No. 40, Wing On Street, |  |  | 16,000 |\n|  | December 1 | No. 31, Pound Lane, |  |  | 200 |\n|  | 11 | No. 15, Morrison Street, |  |  | 1,800 |\n|  | 20 | No. 5, Kan U Fong, |  |  | 1,500 |\n|  | 28 | No. 56, Bonham Strand, | 16 |  | 30,000 |",
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        "content_text": "# C. 0. 147\n\n## Sub-ENCLOSURE 2 + 18021 22 JG.3.\n\nCOPY\n\nSir,\n\n**Tung Wah Hospital.**\n\nHong-Kong, 13th July, 1898.\n\nI have the honour, in connection with my Quarterly Report of the Tung Wah Hospital for the 2nd Quarter of 1898, to report to you for the information of the Government regarding the Tung Wah Branch Plague Hospital, which was opened on 2nd May and closed on 27th June.\n\nThe Hospital consisted of twenty-two matsheds erected on the shore in front of the Government Plague Hospital at Kennedy Town, three of which had previously been used in connection with that institution, while the others were specially built. These were used for purposes as follows:\n| Use        | Number |\n|------------|--------|\n| Wards      | 5      |\n| Directors' room and office | 1      |\n| Doctors' rooms | 2      |\n| Dispensary | 1      |\n| Visitors' waiting room and disinfecting room | 1      |\n| Coolie houses | 3      |\n| Amahs' room | 1      |\n| Porter's room | 1      |\n| Kitchens   | 2      |\n| Laundry    | 1      |\n| Fire-engine house | 1      |\n| Mortuary   | 1      |\n| Coffin store | 1      |\n| Latrine    | 1      |\n\nThe five wards contained accommodation for 100 patients, and might in case of need have taken in a larger number without being injuriously overcrowded. Fortunately the epidemic was not such as at any time to use them to their full capacity.\n\n**DR. J.M. ATKINSON,**\n**Principal Civil Medical Officer.**",
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        "content_text": "## 3 \n\nWuchow, the principle town of the Prefecture of Wuchow, is, at the same time, the seat of the District Magistracy of Ts'ang Wu, a name which appears at a very early date and occupies a prominent place in ancient Chinese history.\n\nThe mythical Emperor Shun (B.C. 2200) while on a tour of inspection of his southern domains died \"in the wilds of Tsang Wu,\" and one tradition at least relates that his grave is to be found in the Great Cloud Mountains, 3 miles to the east of Wuchow.\n\nOf the nine divisions into which the Great Yu (B.C. 2150) divided the Empire, Chingchou was the region lying between the Tungting Lake and the southern Kingdom of Yüeh—the present Annam—and of Chingchou Ts'ang Wu was an important sub-division. It is impossible to state with accuracy at what period Yüeh became tributary to China, but both the first Emperor Ch'in Shih-huang and the Emperors of the Han dynasty appear to have appointed officers to govern that territory on their behalf. Ch'in Shih-huang divided the hundred Yüeh into the three Provinces of Nanhai, Kuei-lin, and Hsiang, and when the rule of his house came to an end, a certain official known as Chao To took possession thereof, and, calling himself Emperor of Southern Yüeh, appointed Chao Kuang Prince of Tsang Wu, to reside at Kuang-hsin, an old town, 1 mile to the east of the present Wuchow.\n\nIn the year 135 B.C. Han Wu-ti dispatched one of his Generals, Fu Po, to conquer the Southern Yüeh, and he divided it up into seven districts known as Nanhai, Tsang Wu, Yü-lin, Ho-p'u, Chiao-chi, Chiu-chen, and Jih-nan, placing them under the control of an officer known as the Governor of Annam to reside at Kuang-hsin.\n\nIn 592 A.D. the present city of Tsang Wu was built and thenceforward became the seat of Government. The Province of Kuanghsi was first defined in 1364 by the last of the Sungs, and in 1465 the office of Governor-General of the Liang Kuang was instituted by the Ming Emperor Ch'êng Hua. This officer resided for some sixty years at Ts'ang Wu, and then occasionally went to reside at Shao-ching, returning as necessity arose to Wuchow. At the commencement of the present dynasty, this state of things still obtained, but in 1665 the seat of Provincial Government was transferred to Kuei-lin, and Wuchow reverted to the status of an ordinary prefectual city.\n\nIn the autumn of 1857, it fell after a siege of 100 days into the hands of the Boat rebels, who, availing themselves of the anarchy caused by the Taiping rebellion, appear to have harried this and the neighbouring province for many years; the city was retaken two years later.\n\nAs above stated, the old city and district were known as Kuang-hsin, and the site thereof was on the ground lately purchased by Jardine, Matheson, and Co.\n\nThe present city, which is about 1,300 years old, stands at the junction of the Fu or Kuei River and the waterway known to foreigners as the West River. Its position has ever been considered by the Chinese one of great strategic importance, in as much as it controls the passage to and from the provinces of Kuangtung and Kuanghsi. In the middle of the main river, 2 miles below the town, is an islet known as Hsi Lung Chou, which in native opinion forms the key to the water system of the whole province. The point of confluence is known as San Chiang Ho, or the junction of the three rivers, and it may not be without interest if I endeavour to give a rough sketch of the streams which here unite and form the West River proper. Not, however, having a single reliable map at hand and having no guide but the notorious inaccuracy of Chinese geographers, the attempt is not likely to prove of much value. (Extracted from the Prefectural Topography.)\n\nThe three rivers are, I, the Li River, II, the Yu or right River, and III, the Tso or left River.\n\n### The Three Rivers\n\n| River | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| I. The Li-chiang | rises in the north-east corner of the province on the Haiyang range, and, flowing past Lingch'uan, Kueilin, and Pinglo, enters the West River at Wuchow. |\n| II. The Yu-chiang | is formed by (1) the Lung River and (2) the Fung River, which, after uniting at Lin-ch'êng, are joined lower down by (3) the Hung-shui River, and meet III at Hsun-chou. |\n| III. The Tso-chiang | is formed by (1) the Tsang-ko River and (2) the Chiao-chih River, together with several smaller streams. |\n\n1. The Lung-chiang rises in Kuei-chou, and flows past Ch'ing-yüan.\n2. The Fung-chiang rises in Kuei-chou, and flows past Huai-yüan.\n3. The Hung-shui-chiang rises in Yunnan, and flows past Hsi-lung, joins (1) and (2), united at Lai-pin.\n\n1. The Tsang-ko-chiang rises in Yunnan, flows past Tien-chou, and joins (2) at Ho-chiang-chên.\n2. The Chiao-chih-chiang rises in Tongking.\n\n(1) and (2), after their junction, flow past Nanning, and are known as the Yu River, until they reach Hsin-chou. The name West River is not given to the main stream until it crosses the border of Kuangtung 10 miles below Wuchow. Here it is known as the Wu-chiang.\n\nThe city of Wuchow contains some 40,000 inhabitants, and the districts controlled by the Prefecture are Tsang Wu, Huai-chi, Ts'en-chi, Teng, and Tung. The aboriginal inhabitants were known as Yao and Tung, and during the Ming dynasty appear to have given the officials much trouble. Since then, however, they have gradually assimilated with the Chinese, and I do not believe there are any distinctive aboriginal villages in the Prefecture.\n\nOf the town, little is to be said; it is essentially one of mean streets, low-lying, and constantly liable during the summer to inundation. The business quarter extends along the banks of both rivers to the south and west of the city wall, and it is surprising that the Cantonese, who form 99 per cent. of the mercantile community, should put up year after year with the loss of business and other inconveniences which are the result of the annual submersion of their premises.\n\nA disastrous fire which took place some two years ago has led to the introduction of a steam pumping-engine, and the laying of fire mains in the suburbs, but the system is not yet in working order.\n\nI have not been here for a sufficient length of time to see what effect freshets on the Fu River have; the period during which it is stated to be most violent is when the West River is low and unable to dam up the accumulated mountain torrents which rush down its sloping bed. To judge, however, by the fact that for centuries it was spanned by a bridge of boats a few hundred yards above its mouth, there would seem to be no reason why communication between Wuchow and the west bank of this river should be cut off for days at a time. In 1472, Hanfeng, a famous Governor-General then resident here, threw a bridge of fifty-six boats across the river, and supported it by chains fastened to two iron posts on either bank. This bridge continued in existence till well on into the present century, and was first broken off, I believe, when the rebels made their appearance before the town. The four iron posts still remain in a state of almost perfect preservation. In 1596, a similar bridge of 142 boats was thrown across the main river, but it does not seem to have been kept up for any considerable number of years. The engineering difficulties to be contended with are of course much greater on the main river than on the Fu Ho, owing to the very great difference between the West River's summer and winter levels. This summer, the river commenced to rise shortly after my arrival, and reached its highest point on the 1st July, 35 feet above the water-mark of the 15th June. It fell, however, very rapidly, and again rose some 15 to 20 feet about the beginning of August. The bank of the West River is a mud flat sloping at an angle of about 45 degrees, whereas the banks of the Fu River are rocky and steep. The colour of the water in the latter is the clear green of a mountain stream, in marked contrast to the yellow muddiness of the main river.\n\nA small hill opposite the city, known as the Fire Hill, would appear to have been at one time in a state of active volcanic eruption, as up to the middle of the fourteenth century, it was constantly emitting fire. Local notes, too, have innumerable notes of earthquakes having occurred in the Prefecture.\n\n### Local Revenue\n\nAs regards local revenue, this Prefecture is considered the wealthiest in the province, owing to the fact that the greater proportion of imports into, and exports from, Kuanghsi must pass the four custom-houses—which are now increased to five by the addition of the Maritime Customs—which line the river bank. The Prefectural custom-house, at which all produce must pay duty, has an annual revenue of 130,000 to 140,000 taels, of which sum only some 70,000 taels has to be remitted to the Provincial Treasury. The chief source of revenue is duty on rafts, of which great numbers pass down the river. The land tax is fixed at 53,314 taels per annum, and the salt duties at 46,828 taels.\n\nThe Wuchow Li-kin Office controls four stations, three at Wuchow itself, and one...",
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        "content_text": "probably this mandible is due to chemical errors in filling up particulars, but Engine Cases The Fixed Est) during service.\n\nتری کے head 10 the to the first this J. Me warch No. 2 wall night. I find he Est / during the latter part of his I would only query No.) as in 12273/99.\n\nsubmitted on indift aus 1/ tor/ 4216 102.\n\nSir,\n\nC.0. 13817 621 RECO M REG 29 MAY 91\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, 25 April, 1899.\n\nIn accordance with Lord Ripon's despatch No. 49 of the 16th March 1893, I have the honour to transmit for your information and approval the enclosed list of gratuities granted during the Quarter ended 31st March, 1899.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant, Henry Arthur Blake GOVERNOR &C.\n\nRight Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M. P., &C.\n\n800.",
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        "content_text": "OTIAS\n\n493\n\nCiù moy bro8 03 700cert arid vsbredney bed I\n\nwoy IIiw *evid Jae betrety lezeev rajt f*\n\n:90000 10% bromab oldanoamer of droqque ovİŞ\n\nWA centro mort ben batera azol xot nola sa\n\n*Tasist\n\n-rodaey sm od bedroÇOT 88 986o ent to allstab erT\n\n-:awollot an ers yæð\n\nent yd benwo *no ow* Konubi-maaja satai enT\n\nbrs gnoй anoH 10 visquoo bns Texnsä atmaforam ralj ITA\n\nbusini nolu saivalt meed 2 erit rebu anłylt bns пoðnæð\n\n-ni brƐs erit no .m. & J8 J10q eint diel enoitelugSA\n\nno dood erie Xuntomu JA\n\nTAVIA $89W and Tot dneje\n\nsrit ergonów to AS\n\n819215868q to Tecmun a braod\n\n*\n\nTAVLA J88 srit otnt Hoero erld to two emso Isaasv\n\nworh\n\ndrew revolvers and took possession of the engine room and wheel-house.\n\nThey headed South, and steamed some ten miles to a place called Ku Chen near Kong-Mun where they beached the \"Wo On\", and the loot from the compradore's room and the passengers' luggage was taken ashore in four boats, which were awaiting their arrival. The vessel was then left, and when the tide rose, proceeded on her journey.\n\nThe stolen property is estimated at $7,000 but this I believe is somewhat exaggerated.\n\nOn receiving the news yesterday, I consulted with Commander Carr of Her Majesty's Ship \"Sandpiper\", which was in port and she left this morning, with Mr. Higgs of this office, who had my instructions to try and obtain some information from the local authorities as to the whereabouts of the band of robbers who had been concerned in the piracy.\n\nNo active steps were of course to be taken and the despatch of the \"Sandpiper\" was more with a view to the moral effect.\n\n...pal,ablanot1-B\n\n.04.",
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        "content_text": "# COPY\n\n## Conditions\n\n1. The Dock Company to engage to construct a Dock, of such form and dimensions as shall be approved by the Commander-in-Chief China Station, within a period of four years of their taking possession of the land. Should the work not be completed in four years from date of signing Conveyance, a penalty to be inflicted of £100 per mensem.\n\n2. Her Majesty's Ships to have prior right of entrance to the Dock over all other vessels.\n\n3. The Dock Gate to be properly defended from Torpedo attack in a manner to be approved by the Commander-in-Chief China Station, and to be subject to Admiralty inspection once a year in such a manner as the Commander-in-Chief China Station may decide.\n\n4. The War Department to have the right to land all necessary men or stores at the Dock Company's Pier at all times, and to have a right of passage through the Dock Company's premises at all times to and from Kowloon East Battery, or, if this be inconvenient to the Dock Company, they shall erect a pier at some other point, of such materials and construction as shall be approved by the General Officer Commanding.\n\n5. The Dock Company to erect, if called upon, a pump, Oil Engine and Engine House, with all necessary pipes for the sufficient supply of water to Kowloon East Battery; or to provide a water supply from some other source to be approved of by the General Officer Commanding.\n\n6.",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG NAVAL YARD. PROPOSED DOCKYARD EXTENSION.\n\nM Rec? C.O. 5454 A 32 AY I FEB Y QUEEN S ROAD VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB. MURRAY PIER ROAD Diversto Murray Pier WESTERN PRAYA A Nullah▶ COMMISSARIAT PROPOSED DOCK LENGTH. 550 FEET \n\nProposed Basin.- WIDTH OF ENTRANCE 95 North Barracks. 15 DEPTH OVER SILL L.W.O.S.T. 30 11 Commissariat: Reclamation. Naval Yard. 19½ \n\n| Areas |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Present Naval Yard | 43¼ acres |\n| SHARPS BUILDINGS | 94 acres |\n|  | 27 |\n|  | 13½ |\n| Th | 34¼ |\n| Total | 39¾ acres (not 3934 acres, likely OCR error) |\n\nWeller & Grahams Lustio. London \n\nNORTH BARRACKS, CHIMNES ENGINE HOUSE 30'0″ depth L.W.O.S.T. Adenyside DOCK 550 FEET SHEERS \n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | 370 |\n|  | 605 0* |\n| 30 € depth L.W.O.S.T., alongside | 20 TON CRANE |\n|  | 580 |\n\nTIDAL BASIN 9¼ Acres. Depth 30′0″ at L.W.S.T. \n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | 120 TON CRANE |\n| ELIP BOAT SHED! | 600 0 |\n|  | 20 TON CRANE |\n| WORKSHOPS. HIMNEY |  |\n\nWar Dep. and Admiralty Boundary \n\nWAR DEPARTMENT ARSENAL STREET EASTERN PRAYA DEP RECLA 50 TON CRANE W JETTY 100.0 BOAT BASIN M JETTY NT TION Spring Tides rise 9'3″ \n\nScale of Feet \n50 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Feet \n\nAreas tinted shew reclamation \nThe green line shews boundary of reclamation \n\n#21.9.93.",
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        "content_text": ".236.\n\nC.O\n\n27046\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 27th June, 1901.\n\n406\n\nSir,\n\nReferring to your Despatch No. 32 of the 21st January last, I have the honour to inform you that Messrs. A. J. Holdaway and W. J. Wade have arrived in this Colony to take up their appointment as Constables in the Hongkong Water Police Force.\n\n2. Of these two men, Mr. Holdaway had been to sea before he joined the London Fire Brigade, from which he joined the Thames Water Police. Mr. Holdaway was not, however, passed by the Acting Principal Civil Medical Officer as fit for Police Duty under the requirements of the Ordinance. I enclose a copy of correspondence between Dr. Bell and the Captain Superintendent of Police on this subject.\n\nEnclosure.\n\nJune, 1901.\n\n3. In view of the modified Certificate now granted, the Captain Superintendent of Police has sworn in Mr. Holdaway and will use his services in the Water Police, for which duty he may be qualified by his experience before the mast.\n\n4. Mr. Wade was by trade a Stoker on a Locomotive Engine and also joined the London Fire Brigade and subsequently the Water Police who do duty in row boats. He is, however, useless for the Water Police of this Colony and will have to be employed on land duty.\n\n5.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nJOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,\n\n40..",
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        "content_text": "Wong Ping states-\n\n522\n\nI was formerly cook for the engine room staff (Chinese) of the S.S. Tibuli running from here to a Russian port,\n\nI also did some petty trading myself. That was two years ago, I have been back to my country village which is\n\nat Sha Tau in Deep Bay. I came to Hong Kong only a few\n\ndays ago. I came to look for employment as cook on\n\nboard ship.\n\nI was in Hong Kong in the 9th moon. I was here from the 1st to the 8th of the moon. On\n\n13-30 October 1900.\n\n1300\n\nthe latter date I went home and came out again on the 14th and I stayed here to the 1st day of the 10th moon. 22 November 1900\n\nWhen in Hong Kong I stop at the Fuk Hing Cheung seamen's\n\nboarding house in West Point. Wong Iu Ting is not my nephew. He belongs to my village and is my clansman. He calls me \"A Suk\" (uncle). I was acquainted with Yeung Kui Wan. I met him in Japan formerly. I am acquainted with Kong Kung Hi. He is a countryman of mine. He belongs to Tai Po Chung which is about 10 miles from Sha Tau. I don't know where Kong Kung Hi is now. I heard he had\n\ngone abroad.\n\n1-21 November 1900.\n\nIn the 9th moon in the 3rd decade - I am not sure of the\n\ndate - I met Kong Kung Hi in the street in Hong Kong.\n\nHe said \"where are you going to?\" I answered \"To see Yeung Kui Wan\". Kong Kung Hi then said \"I want to go and see him too, so we can go along together\". Then we went together to Yeung Kui Wan's house at the back of the Alice Memorial Hospital. We sat there for a time and talked about political matters. Then Kong Kung Hi said to Yeung Kui Wan that Ng Lo Sam had given him Kong Kung Hi some money for expenses and had asked him to do Yeung Kui Wan to death. Kung Hi added that he was going to use the money to go abroad. Kong Kung Hi also asked Yeung Kui Wan to go away as the political outlook was not good. Yeung Kui Wan said there was no danger in Hong Kong, everybody's place in Hong Kong was safe.",
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        "content_text": "597\n\n2\n\nChief, Chiria Station, may decide.\n\n4.\n\nThe War Department to have the right to land all necessary men or stores at the Dock Company's pier at all times, and to have a right of passage through the Dock Co's premises at all times, to and from Kowloon East Battery, or, if this be inconvenient to the Dock Company, they shall erect a pier at some other point, of such materials and construction as shall be approved by the General Officer Commanding,\n\n5. The Dock Company to erect, when called upon a pump, oil Engine and Engine House, with all necessary pipes for the sufficient supply of water to Kowloon East Battery, or to provide a water supply from some other source to be approved of by the General Officer Commanding,\n\n6. The Dock Company to erect, construct, relay or remove all guardhouses, cable huts, beacons, roads, piers, dolphins, cables, Telephone Shelters, Telephone poles, Depression Range Finding Pillars, Boundary Stones and all other War Dept. or Naval Works which are interfered with by their Extension Works, and provide and maintain all lights, signals etc., which may be required in the new position,\n\n7. They will also re-imburse to the War Department, any sums actually paid out, or expended in the dismantling of the Dock Battery,\n\n8.",
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        "content_text": "323\n\n... \n\n2\n\nThe following marks are reliable guides as to the height of water over the rocks at the dangerous places:\n\n1. The lower basement of the Cantonese Guild House at Kuei-hsien just covered, and \n\n2. On arrival at Lei-kung Hsü, if the nearest rocks at the foot of the steps directly below the town-gate are covered, the \"Sandpiper\" could proceed, and the more water over these rocks plus 24 feet would indicate the draught of a vessel that could proceed with tolerable safety.\n\nThe water continued to rise on the way to Nanning, where we arrived at 10 P.M. on the 17th June, but had reached its greatest height the next morning, and when I sailed at 4 P.M. on the 18th June had fallen over 6 inches. On leaving, all the Chinese guard-boats fired a gun salute.\n\nWe caught up the fall before anchoring at 8 P.M., but a further considerable fall took place during the night; this we again caught up, and recrossed the Rapid with about 1 foot more than coming up. On this occasion there did not seem so much difficulty, and except for the sharp turns I had no trouble. The water has continued to fall since arrival at Wuchow.\n\nI do not see any way of improving the passage over the T'ai-t'an without great cost, and when the water is low there are many other bad places where a steamer of sufficient size to make a profit would have some difficulty. I consider steamers could run up to the Rapid for about eight months, and there trans-ship into junks or steamers above.\n\nPilots. I cannot speak too highly of the pilots. Their knowledge of the river was excellent, and in every case the information they gave me of the position of rocks and depth over them was correct. They were the same men I had last year, and can be obtained through His Britannic Majesty's Consul, Wuchow, or Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., Wuchow.\n\nThe total pilotage amounted to 365 dollars. Coal.-Coal was sent up by junk on free pass. Dress Ship-On arrival at Nanning dressed ship overall, and the ship's company gave three cheers for His Majesty the King.\n\nOfficials.-The officials having been notified by the Viceroy at Canton were most civil and attentive.\n\nAttached are the accounts of the visits paid (Inclosure No. 2).\n\nInclosed is a copy of Mr. B. Twyman's Report, with which he has kindly furnished me (Inclosure No. 3).\n\nMy best thanks are due to Mr. Twyman, who was of the very greatest assistance. He worked very hard to gain information for me about the river which much facilitated matters.\n\nShip's Company-The ship's company carried out the hard work cheerfully and well.\n\nEngine-room Staff-The Engine-room Staff were specially to be commended for the manner in which they kept steam, and the general working of the machinery, as being shut up while negotiating the Rapids could not have been pleasant.\n\nWeather. The weather experienced was much cooler than on the lower river, and fine, and the health of the ship's company was good.\n\nWatermark, Wuchow.-On return to Wuchow the watermark showed 35 feet.\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nH. C. CARR.\n\nReport by Lieutenant-Commander Carr on a Journey to Nanning-fu.\n\nFirst Interview at Nanning-fu in Taotai's Yamên.\n\n3 P.M. on the 17th June, the day of arrival at Nanning, I went, accompanied by Twyman, to call on the Taotai, who is a pale, studious-looking, polite, but very nervous man, and comparatively young for the post he holds.\n\nHis surname is Feng and his full name Feng Hsiang Jung, son of Feng Tzu Ts'ai, Commander-in-Chief in Yunnan Province.\n\nHe received us very politely, giving greeting both in foreign and Chinese fashion. He also sent a boat and chairs to meet us with a guard of eight soldiers each, and on entering the Yamên there were salutes and music.\n\nThe Taotai received us in a clean and neatly-arranged Yamên, and after the usual compliments had been exchanged the following conversation took place:\n\nCommander Carr.-I have been instructed to bring His Majesty's ship \"Sandpiper\" to Nanning, and having arrived, naturally lose no time in calling in order to enter into relations and convey the compliments of his Excellency the Admiral, with a view to cementing the \"entente cordiale.”\n\nTaotai. I hope the journey has been without unpleasant incident.\n\nCommander Carr.-Except for the Great Rapid (Tai-t'an), the navigation of which is very difficult, everything has been satisfactory.\n\nThe Taotai was at first very nervous. He is an opium-smoker and seemed in indifferent health, and we furnished the greater part of the conversation.\n\nHis advice was asked as to the possibility of obtaining information respecting commercial matters. He replied that that was not difficult-information could be obtained from the Cantonese Guild and the Magistrates' Yamên.\n\nWhen Mr. Twyman asked about the Pacification Edicts, he said he had been furnished by the Governor at Kuei-lin with copies of the earlier editions, which had been duly posted, but that he had received no instructions about any corrected or second editions of these documents.\n\nThe Taotai has been in Kuanghsi for twenty years altogether, and for two years at Lung-chow.\n\nHe said that troops had been sent from Nanning to quell the Kuei-hsien rising, and that a telegram had recently been received to say that the rebels had been dispersed.\n\nConcerning the Langson-Lung-chow Railway and proposed extension to Nanning the Taotai said it had been completed practically as far as the Chinese border, which is at Nan-kuan (Namquan), but that no work had been commenced on the Chinese side of the border, although the survey had been made as far as Lung-chow.\n\nWhen asked about the famine of last year the Taotai said it had been at Pôse, but not at Nanning, and that the prospect of the crops for this year was very promising.\n\nWe then took leave, and proceeded to call on the Prefect, but found he was away, so sent a letter and cards to his Yamên.\n\n(Signed) H. C. CARR.\n\nSecond Interview at Nanning-fu on board His Majesty's ship \"Sandpiper,\" June 18, 1901.\n\nThe Taotai wrote to say that he desired to call at 8 o'clock; in reply I asked him to make it a little later, and proposed 9:30.\n\nAt 9:45 the gunboats fired three gun salutes, and one of them shoved off in which the Taotai was seated.\n\nUpon his approaching he was saluted with guns by His Majesty's ship \"Sandpiper,\" and the Chinese ensign hoisted.\n\nWhen he arrived on board seats were taken at the table on the forecastle. After the usual compliments had been exchanged, the Taotai explained his not being in full official costume, saying that this day was the anniversary of a former Emperor's death. He had intended to call on the following day, but hearing that the ship was starting back the same day, had taken the present opportunity.\n\nI expressed pleasure at receiving the Taotai's visit, and said I regretted not being able to stay longer, but that it was absolutely necessary to take the present opportunity of high water to recross the T'ai-t'an, in order not to be left above for a long period, perhaps even for the whole winter; and the water was now falling.\n\nTaotai-In going down the Great Rapid will it be necessary to steam, or can the ship drift over?\n\nCommander Carr.-It is necessary to steam in order to keep steerage way on and so have control of the vessel in the current.\n\nThe Taotai inquired about the possibility of steam navigation on the river.\n\nCommander Carr.-There are some rocks at the foot of the steps leading to Lei-kung Hsü below the Rapid. When they are completely covered by water it is possible for a ship like the \"Sandpiper\" to proceed. An additional foot of water above these rocks would indicate that a vessel with an additional foot of draught could get over.",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 6th September, 1902\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your consideration the enclosed copy of a letter from the Captain Superintendent of Police in which he recommends an increase in the scale of pay of Members of the Fire Brigade.\n\n2\\. Mr. Badeley submits that if, as is most desirable, the Fire Brigade is to continue to be recruited from the Police Force, a permanent increase of pay will be necessary. At present Members of the Police Force who join the Brigade receive $9 a month as firemen, $12 as Assistant Engine Drivers and Assistant Foremen, and $16 as Engine Drivers and Foremen. Mr. Badeley proposes that the revised scale should provide $15, $20, and $25 respectively, and in enumerating his reasons for recommending this considerable increase he points out that when the $9 rate was fixed the dollar was worth about twice its present value, while the work that the Firemen have had to perform has materially increased.\n\n3\\. If there seemed to be any likelihood of securing the services of the necessary number of recruits for the Fire Brigade without having recourse to this increase of pay...\n\nSir,\n\n...inserted in their agreements. \n\n[See Item No. 10357]\n\nbut the various allowances, including the Five Grade allowances, were left at the old dollar rates; I ask that when next constables are asked to be engaged in this country, they may be supplied with a revised set of Conditions of service, including Fire Brigade allowances, as many changes have been effected, and a clause as to hours of duty (referred to in No. 41669) might be drawn up so as to include the cases both of the Water & Land Police in one clause, so as to prevent any possible misunderstanding such as has recently occurred in the case of Messrs. Wylie & Co.\n\nClosure June, 1907.\n\nGoverment House, Hongkong, 6th September, 1902.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P., &C. &C.",
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        "content_text": "## 532\n\nca. Mikasa f ve yer ir.\n\n(18v 977 NO\n\nei suoiven. We\n\nJoxi. Si neuravol\n\nvineer and Bi a!\" :evtR\n\ntinnegan prd onernnevol and ot\n\n20nitivace\n\nit do prestar painolę 2nd legs of book gelyel cam\n\ngot novia de Vugaton) 100 Anelka od 20\n\nsale. cloitettu.eges i javretoi est main, esc mug teet\n\nval doustance von she rae crel vetivope ever\n\n01 200\n\n•\n\nno doux bliv raitzeen of rogd and tedd erolonadd sound !\n\n\"Lettuce and at sisa tol lastutabil\n\nmein add avai\n\nrely afven1100 xool add ro gende To Der VonDarben die fasi ol\n\nkoc' add durisad ebreoci to Jigit A ved of ree seri' He J8\n\nJoa poolwod at 231) The 3 god je je aasiwan; a' visq500\n\ninsane? xool and of theinevroori so eino 11,50 (maj388\n\nape alsivodea dove To Jaisa mendo mos ju teid » Joane Ileda\n\n*abi117 1219net sal va revonged so ljuds es roideundanes\n\nDarso no nepadel falt að 1080 anul JJS 54d at\n\nof the Dock Company agreed to this condition.\n\n### Condition V\nThe Dock Company to erect, if called upon, a Pump, Oil Engine and Engine House with all the necessary pipes for the sufficient supply of Water, to Kowloon East Battery or to provide a Water Supply from some other source to be approved by the General Officer Commanding.\n\nOn the 28th of June Mr. Gillies replied that this condition \"cannot be entertained as my Directors do not understand why this Company should be called upon to provide a sufficient supply of water to Kowloon East Battery at a cost which they roughly estimate at $20,000.\" The Secretary of State for the Colonies telegraphed on the 25th October 1901 that the War Office agreed to withdraw this condition.\n\n### Condition VI\n\"The Dock Company to erect, construct, relay or remove all guardhouses, cable huts, beacons, roads, piers, dolphins, cables, Telephone Shelters, Telephone poles, Depression Range Finding Pillars, Boundary Stones and all other War Department or Naval Works which are interfered with by their Extension Works, and provide and maintain all lights, signals etc., which may be required in the new position.\" On the 28th June the Dock Company assented to this condition.\n\n### Condition VII\nThey will also re-imburse to the War Department, any sums actually paid out, or expended in the dismantling of the Dock Battery.\n\nOn the 28th June Mr. Gillies wrote: \"This condition we regret is also inadmissible, as we think that any expenses connected with the dismantling of the Dock Battery should in fairness be included in the premium charged for the land.\" The\n\n## Secretary",
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        "content_text": "## Government House, Hongkong, 10th September, 1902\n\n**Confidential**\n\nNo. 431\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my Despatch No. 389 of the 12th August last, in which I informed you of the death of Sergeant Robertson, Assistant Engineer in the Fire Brigade, I have the honour to inform you that in view of the fact that there is no subordinate officer in the Police or Fire Brigade who is considered fit for the post except one who is unwilling to accept it, and having regard to the impossibility of finding a qualified candidate outside the Government Service, it is in my opinion desirable that a candidate should be specially selected in England for this post, the duties of which necessitate special training and aptitude. This opinion is shared by the Acting Captain Superintendent of the Police and by the Colonial Secretary, and they consider that to obtain a suitable officer it will be necessary to raise the pay of the post to £240 rising by £30 triennially to £300. The late occupant of the post drew about $2333 inclusive of exchange compensation, and enjoyed special privileges as regards leave and pension as a member of the Police Force.\n\n2. The duties which the Assistant Engineer has to perform are set forth in the printed statement attached to the Particulars of Office transmitted herewith. But though the candidate should possess the necessary knowledge to drive a Fire Engine, the more important duties that he has to perform are of a nature akin to those of what I believe is termed a Station Officer in the Metropolitan Fire Brigade; that is to say of an officer who has immediate charge...\n\n**To the Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.**",
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        "content_text": "22. \n23. \nwill be settled on (b). The steam and feed piping will be sent out on receipt of this letter and when complete. \nThis should be in accordance with the arrangement of engines, and boilers shown on tracing B, the boilers being so connected as to be interchangeable with future boilers. The exhaust pipes may be arranged as found convenient (vide Messrs Tangye's letter of 24th July, 1903); \n\n\"Full particulars of the trial works carried out and of the works now proposed are contained in this letter and its enclosures.\n\nThe only other points to which I have to refer are some mentioned in Messrs Tangye's letter to you of the 24th July last.\n\nI have fixed the width of the main engine house at 30 feet which should give ample room for the future 2-million gallon's plant, thus enabling our traveller to serve for all the engines. I note that a length of 82 feet will be required for the plant, including one engine of 2-million gallons capacity and one additional engine.\n\n24. \n25. \nThe boiler flues should be laid out to suit the arrangement shown on tracing B and I shall be glad to receive full particulars of these when settled.\n\nThe suction pipe might be kept inside.",
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        "content_text": "pre- \n\nsuperstructure of the Law Courts and Harbour Office before the close of the year, and the extension of the Tytam Reservoir was nearly completed. The foundations of the main dam for the Kowloon Waterworks, which is to be 90 feet in height above the level of the ground, were ready to receive concrete; a large covered service reservoir to contain two million gallons was well advanced; and the preparation of a site for the filter-beds and the cutting of a tunnel for the main from the reservoir were in progress. In consequence of the inadequacy of the water supply to meet the growing demands of the City of Victoria and pending the construction of permanent works in the Tytam Tuk Valley for augmenting the supply, a temporary pumping engine capable of raising half a million gallons daily was erected there and the necessary main laid to the Tytam tunnel. A small dam to impound the ordinary flow of the stream during dry weather was also constructed. Trial works were in progress throughout the year in Tytam Tuk Inlet for the purpose of determining a suitable site for the construction of a dam to impound over 1,000 million gallons, but had not been concluded at the end of the year. The reconstruction of the street gullies throughout the City was undertaken principally on sanitary grounds, one object being to confine sewage to the sewers and exclude it from the storm-water drains. In consequence of the large exports of cattle from Hongkong to the Philippines considerable extensions of the depôts had to be undertaken. The accommodation provided is being increased from 480 to 1,241 head of cattle. Some extensive operations in the way of training the mountain streams were carried out, largely with a view to ridding residential areas of the anopheles mosquito.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of the Praya Reclamation was $629,831, and on works annually recurrent $529,551.\n\n# VI. GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS\n\n(a) HOSPITALS.\n\nGovernment Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital, to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hulk Hygeia which is also used for the treatment of infectious diseases.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 20 wards. 2,794 in-patients and 11,911 out-patients were treated during the year 1903. 346 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 349 in 1902 and 787 in 1901. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 62 confinements occurred during the year, without death.\n\nThe Victoria Hospital was opened towards the end of the year by Sir HENRY BLAKE. It is situated on the higher levels and is therefore better adapted for the treatment of children than the Civil Hospital. It contains 41 beds. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds in the main building. In 1903, 400 cases were treated, of which 301 were cases of Plague, 61 of Small-pox, and 2 of Cholera.\n\n(b) LUNATIC ASYLUM.\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 155 patients of all races were treated during 1903, and there were 12 deaths.\n\n(c) THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL.\n\nThis hospital is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $6,000 from the Government. A new wing was opened by Sir HENRY BLAKE in 1903. Only Chinese are treated in this institution, which takes the place of a poor-house and hospital for Chinese sick and destitute. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. The hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation.\n\nOTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.\n\nThe Prison, Observatory, Post Office, Educational Establishments and other Government institutions are dealt with under separate heads.\n\n# VII. INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.\n\nAmong institutions recognized and encouraged but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the College of Medicine for Chinese, and the City Hall. The Po Leung Kuk is an institution presided over by the Registrar General and an annually-elected Committee of twelve Chinese gentlemen, for the protection of women and children. The inmates of the Home receive daily instruction in elementary subjects and are allowed to earn pocket-money by needle-work. During 1903 a total of 826 persons were admitted, of whom 632 were women, 134 young girls, and 60 small boys. Of these, 360 were restored to their parents or sent to charitable institutions in China, 24 were sent to missionary schools and convents, 22 were married, 15 adopted, and 409 allowed to leave. The Home is medically attended by one of the Colonial Surgeons.\n\nThe Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887, for the purpose of teaching surgery, medicine and obstetrics to Chinese. The government of the College is vested in the Court, of which the Rector of the College, who has always been a Government official, is President. 78 students have been enrolled up to the end of 1903, and of these 19 have become qualified licentiates and have obtained various posts under Government and elsewhere. The institution is of great value in spreading a knowledge of Western medical science among the Chinese; and in addition to the employment of certain of the licentiates in the public service the senior students have frequently been made use of for various purposes during epidemics. A Government grant-in-aid of $2,500 is made to the College, to be used as honoraria to the lecturers.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a reference library and a museum.\n\n# VIII. CRIMINAL AND POLICE.\n\nThe total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,251, as against 10,421 in 1902, being an increase of 830 or 7.86 per cent. In the division of these cases into Serious and Minor Offences there appears an increase, as compared with 1902, of 863 cases or 21.58 per cent. in the former, and a decrease of 33 cases or 0.51 per cent. in the latter. The increase in crime was principally in respect of larceny.\n\nThe Police Force is composed of a Captain Superintendent, a Deputy and 2 Assistant Superintendents, and three contingents of Europeans, Indians and Chinese. The European contingent consists of 133 men, the Chinese of 421, and the Indian of 267, making a grand total of 821 besides the superior officers already named and a staff of clerks and coolies. Of this Force, one Assistant Superintendent (who also acts as Police Magistrate) and 14 Europeans, 96 Indians and 43 Chinese were stationed in the New Territory during the greater part of the year. After September the number of Indians was reduced to 80.\n\nThe number of prisoners admitted to Victoria Gaol under the sentences of the ordinary Courts was 7,144, besides 74 soldiers and sailors sentenced by Courts Martial. The daily average number of prisoners confined in the Gaol was 653, the largest number on record. In 1902 the number was 576, and in 1901 it was 499. As a means of relieving the congested state of the Gaol pending the erection of a Convict Prison the Beilios Reformatory was fitted up as a temporary prison, and short-sentence prisoners are now located in that building. The remunerative labour carried on in the Gaol consists of printing and book-binding, carpentry, boot-making, knitting, painting and whitewashing, mat-making, oakum-picking, &c. The value of the earnings during the year amounted to $31,489.",
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        "content_text": "# No.92.\n## Hongkong\n\n### Enclosure 1\n\nWherewith,\n\nour Book Posts)\n\nGovernment House,  \nHongkong, 1st April, 1905.\n\n277  \n12503\n\nReferring to Mr. May's Despatch No.99 dated 11th March, 1904, I have the honour to transmit 6 copies of the Report of the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade for the year 1904.\n\n2. The only two points in the report calling for remark from me are the cause of ignition of arrack fumes of the two fires at the Kowloon Godowns referred to in paragraph 7, and the report on the Fire Engines which shows that, though they are in good order and condition, they are of old pattern and not of very powerful type.\n\n3. With regard to the former matter, I annex a copy of the Order-in-Council passed on the 16th of August by which power has been taken to subject arrack and kindred substances to the restrictions imposed on dangerous goods.\n\n4. With regard to the Fire Engines the time has, in my opinion, arrived when some addition should be made to the appliances for extinguishing fire, and I concur in a recommendation of the Superintendent that the most useful addition to meet local conditions will be a second powerful Floating Fire Engine. I propose to make provision for this in Enclosure 2.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nALFRED LYTTELTON, K.C., M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.,  \n...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]",
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        "content_text": "# To Security money of the On Bing firm\n\nBrought forward | 441,825.474\n---|---\n$1,000 = 11s | 720.\nDaily interest, bank note compensation etc. | \npaid back by the Knut On firm | 337.383\nTotal amount received in of these 20 items | 442,882.807\n\nBrought forward | 376,832\n---|---\nBy A/c paid back the Foon Kat Bank of Hongkong for money borrowed | 1,440\n$20,000 = 14,400 A/c paid back to the On Cheong Tong for money deposited | \n€ 2,000 = Interest paid for daily & monthly borrowed a/c & current a/c to various firms for money borrowed | 14,113.249\nA/c paid back to Messrs Shewan Tomes for expenses of the Tai Ab Steamers | 615.331\nA/c paid back to Messrs Shewan Tomes for tonnages dues for the Tai Ab Steamer | \nA/c paid for customs duties for 18 shipment of coal | 1,980.66\nA/c paid for li-kin tax & other expenses for 18 shipment of coal | 1,991.58\nA/c paid for expenses for attending on board to various employees and temporary employees | 250.49\nA/c paid for hiring lighters for conveyancing coal | 8,466.772\nA/c paid for hiring coolies to unloading coal | 3,128.714\nA/c paid for engaging boats & provisions | 4,150.08\nA/c paid for regular boats & provisions | 136.944\nA/c paid for repairing boats (work & material) | 491.914\nA/c paid for supplying apparatus etc to boats | 774.228\nA/c paid for rent of the Man U 8030 | 550.00\nA/c paid for rent of store house at Chung How of Fong Chun | 8,422.4\nA/c paid for rent for shop store house & matsheds | 628.574\nA/c paid for extra wages | 910.758\nA/c paid for wages for shaking, winnowing coal | 405.930\nSalary for all coolies | 1,280.72\npayment for provisions | 646.842\npayment for miscellaneous expenses | 330.49\npayment for additional furniture | 320.88\npayment for Kaifong street expenses | 31.268\npayment for repairing the engine of S.S. \"Ki Hing\" and coal supplied | 822.273\nCarried forward | 440,545.224",
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        "document_key": "CO129-341 - Acting Governor May Governor Lugard - 1907 [7-10]",
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        "content_text": "C.R.E. No. 4.\n\nKowloon Canton Railway.\n\nBRITISH SECTION\n\nESTIMATE\n\nMain Head VIII Work.\n\nSub. Head Kowloon Station Yard.\n\n  \n    #\n    DESCRIPTION\n    Quantity\n    Unit\n    Rate\n    AMOUNT\n  \n  \n    \n    Pass Platforms,\n    7000\n    1.ft\n    9/-\n    $18,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Engine shed with pit 160' x 60'\n    ,600\n    .ft\n    2/\n    $19,200\n  \n  \n    \n    Carriage shed\n    0,000\n    \n    1/-\n    $10,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Goods shed (single storey) 300' x 100'\n    500* x 20*\n    8.ft\n    1/75\n    $82,500\n  \n  \n    \n    2 Engine pits\n    \n    each\n    1000/-\n    $2,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    2 Carriage Examining Pit\n    \n    each\n    1000/-\n    $2,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Tank House\n    \n    \n    \n    $4,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    1,000 Goods platform\n    \n    \n    10% L.rt\n    $10,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Total\n    \n    \n    \n    $217,700.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Contingencies 10%\n    \n    \n    \n    $11,770.00\n  \n  \n    \n    Grand Total\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n-126",
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        "content_text": "# Trains cross at Ch'ing-ho.\n\nLine only metalled from Feng-t'ai to Fo-ch'ing-men, and ballasting (of earth) only a short way further on. Nan-k'ou is very stony, and metalling is being taken down from it. Perhaps the greater part of the line is on the level, or nearly on the level, of the Peking plain, which the line crosses up to Nan-k'ou. In places there is an embankment, which is not revetted, and which occasionally shows signs of crumbling. Occasionally line passes through low cuttings—a low trench on sides for drainage.\n\nConsidering the funereal pace at which we moved, I do not consider the line runs very smoothly, or that in its present condition a great rate of speed could be obtained.\n\nThere are thirteen sleepers under each pair of rails; sleepers 18 to 20 inches apart, except under the fish-plates, where they are only about 8 inches apart. Rails spiked to each sleeper, four bolts to each fish-plate.\n\nAt Feng-t'ai the line starts from the outer siding of the Chinghan line. There are three sidings at Kuang-an-men, four at Hsi-chih-men, two or three at Ch'ing-ho, three at Sha-ho, and three at Nan-k'ou.\n\nThere is a water-tank at Hsi-chih-men, another at Sha-ho on piled sleepers, another at Ha-pa-t'un, half way between Sha-ho and Nan-k'ou, and another on a truck at Nan-k'ou.\n\nThe platforms vary in size; perhaps the largest is the one at Hsi-chih-men, 280 yards long by about 10 yards wide, and 3 feet above the line.\n\nStations buildings, single storied of grey brick and well constructed.\n\nThere is an engine-house of grey brick at Hsi-chih-men, about 53 yards long by 18 yards wide, with two sidings, and it can house at least four Dubs' large engines with tenders (smaller engines are Baldwin's).\n\nRailway buildings at Nan-k'ou in construction.\n\nCarriages were made at the Tong-shan works; 3rd class are stand-up covered waggons.\n\nThere are five composite 1st and 2nd class carriages on the line, two for each train and one in reserve. They have hand brakes and are corridor cars, the 1st class portion consisting of two compartments, each holding eight people, whilst the 2nd class can seat five people; 1st class compartments very well fitted up, and with light luggage racks. Lavatories attached to compartments.\n\nOpen trucks have 30-ton capacity.\n\nOur train consisted of two composite carriages (one 3rd class), three trucks, and a van.\n\nDirection of line mostly north up to Sha-ho, then north-westerly. Telegraph near the line.\n\nNorth of Sha-ho station the line crosses a stream by a bridge of seven stone piers.\n\n| Class | Fare (Dollars) |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1st | 2.40 |\n| 2nd | 1.60 |\n| 3rd | 0.80 |\n\nGoods (luggage parcels) rate per ton per `li` are—1st class, 2 cents; 2nd class, 1 cent; 3rd class, 16 cents. Dangerous goods, 4 cents; minimum distance, 50 `li`.\n\nHorses and cattle, 2 cents per `li`.\n\nNan-k'ou is the limit of traffic. The line has been laid for a mile or two, where it sweeps round to the north of Nan-k'ou and enters the pass.\n\nThe pass is about 11 miles long, culminating in the Pa-ta-ling, where the branch of the Great Wall crosses it. Valley narrow and stony—only a short piece of embankment has been made at the entrance. There is then no work done till approaching the summit, perhaps for the last mile or two. The work begins with the first tunnel at Wu-kuei-t'un, which has been pierced, wall of stone and cement completed, and the arch, which is to be finished off with square stones of German cement, has just been commenced.\n\nThe second tunnel at Shih-fo-ssu has been pierced, and wall is also completed, but the cementing of the arch has not been begun.\n\nThe third tunnel, which is to pierce the Pa-ta-ling, has not been commenced, as regards boring from the east side.\n\nEarth embankments, unrevetted like those on the plain, connect the tunnels. Time plays little or no part in a Chinaman's calculations, and in the journey up to Nan-k'ou we left several stations ahead of time, and reached our destination three minutes too early; whilst in the down journey we were mostly a quarter of an hour too late.\n\nThe Chinese station-masters and traffic managers, arrayed in startling uniforms, are most civil and obliging.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPeking, November 3, 1906.\n\n**G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.**\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n## Supplementary Notes on Peking-Kalgan Railway by Captain Leonard, United States' Military Attaché.\n\nThe total length of the line, 34.11 miles. Distances between stations:\n\n| From | To | Miles |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Feng-Tai | Kuang-an-men | 4.49 |\n| Kuang-an-men | Hsi-chih-men | 4.54 |\n| Hsi-chih-men | Ch'ing-ho | 6.86 |\n| Ch'ing-ho | Sha-ho | 6.59 |\n| Sha-ho | Nan-K'ou | 11.63 |\n\nRails, flat-bottomed, weighing 85 lb. to the yard. Sleepers are Japanese hardwood, 8 feet long by 9 inches wide by 6 inches thick.\n\nThe width of the embankment is 20 feet on the top with 1 to 1 slopes.\n\nThe road from Feng-t'ai to Hsi-chih-men is practically level with the exception of a short 1 in 100 grade, where the line crosses the Ching-han Railway, at each side of the latter, opposite the Hsi-pien-men.\n\nFrom Hsi-chih-men to Nan-k'ou the line rises gradually; the stiffest grade is a 1 in 70, just before Nan-k'ou is reached.\n\nThe cars ride very easily where the road is ballasted, and there is no serious rocking; the speed is, however, extremely slow.\n\nThere are no tunnels between Feng-t'ai and Nan-k'ou. The bridges are not very numerous, there being about 50 feet of opening to the mile; they are all 20 feet and 30 feet spans, except one near Sha-ho, over the river of that name, which is made up of one 110-foot span and three 30-foot spans, at each side of same.\n\nAt present there is little or no goods traffic, owing to the fact that all trade comes to Feng-tai by camels; when the contracts for carrying goods this way expire—probably in a few months' time—there is sure to be a very heavy traffic over the railway. The passenger traffic is very light at present, about fifty passengers per train; this will improve greatly when the line is better known to the Chinese.\n\nThe principal goods which will ultimately be hauled by the railway are wools, skins, hides, &c., from Kalgan, Nan-k'ou to Feng-t'ai, and on to Tien-tsin, and tea and general goods from Tien-tsin, via Nan-k'ou to Kalgan.\n\nThere are four tunnels in the Nan-k'ou Pass, 180 feet, 264 feet, 1,000 feet, and 3,450 feet long respectively. The two short ones are nearly completed, and the other two are well under way.\n\nThe steepest grade in the Nan-k'ou Pass is 1 in 30; there is a stretch of about 4 miles of this, and then another of about 2¼ miles; after that the grade is 1 in 40, of short distances, at intervals.\n\nAll the rolling-stock was built in the workshops of the North China Imperial Railways at Tong-shan, and all the rest required will also be built there.\n\nOf course, all the iron and steel for same is imported from Europe.\n\nAll the girders for the bridge have been constructed at the North China Imperial Railways Bridge Works at Shan-hai-kuan, with the exception of one 110-feet span, which came from England in pieces; the steel plates, &c., for the other girders, of course, come from Europe.\n\nThe locomotives for the line will be built in the North China Imperial Railway Works at Tong-shan entirely, with the exception of the wheels, axles, and springs.\n\nAll the bridges up to Nan-k'ou (abutments and piers) are constructed of cement concrete, below water German cement being used, above Tong-shan cement is employed.\n\nThe top of the Nan-k'ou Pass is about 2,100 feet above Peking, and Kalgan is about 500 feet above that.\n\nPeking, November 5, 1906.\n\n(Signed)\n\n**G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel.**",
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        "content_text": "# 86 \n\n4 \n\nThe only drink is hot tea, the tea coming from the same source. All other stores for the ship are supplied by the Captain, except coal, ordnance, oil, and all engine-room stores and gunner's stores, rope, sails and awnings, &c. \n\nThe pay is supplied by the Captain as well.\n\nThe temptations assailing the honesty of a Captain and his opportunities for squeeze are untold. \n\n39 \n\nHow the Captain is to perform all these duties and also do his proper work one cannot guess. \n\nThe money for paying the officers and men is sent down periodically from Tien-tsin or Nanking, and arrives most irregularly. Admiral Sa has about 20,000l. at his disposal for casual payments. If he is short of cash, he calls for more. \n\n## Gunnery and Torpedo Efficiency\n\nThere appears to be no reserve of ordnance stores at all. The ammunition carried on board the ships is all that exists, or practically all. This remains a fixed quantity, for no firing is ever done, except with blank on ceremonial occasions. No tube cannon drill is done, and no aiming drill. The torpedoes are never fired, nor are primers nor gun-cotton ever tested. \n\nThe efficiency of the guns' crews is at zero, and the knowledge of the majority of the crews is nil. The guns are clean, and the crews are smart and jump about well, and are attentive and willing. The fault is want of knowledge, not want of discipline. \n\nIf a crew were casually selected and examined as to their knowledge of their weapon, perhaps the captain of the gun could shift the breech-block, but certainly no one else could do so. It is very doubtful if any of the executive officers could do so, except the Gunnery Lieutenant, who might be capable of the feat. The Gunnery Instructors, who are fairly numerous, know their work and may be expected to teach the others soon. But at present the position is as described. \n\nThe Secretary of the Admiralty had a good scheme ready to remedy this, but it is probable that he will not be permitted to start it before he returns to his coast inspector duties. The following is an outline thereof: \n\nTo collect all the most promising Gunnery Lieutenants and Instructors that can be selected, and to place them ashore in a gunnery school under some competent foreign Instructor. After six months, these, who should not exceed six officers and twelve men, would remain at the school as Instructors, and a further selection of others and men would be sent to learn, and would remain at the school for six months. After two years of this type of progressive instruction, the most brilliant officers would be chosen, and some half-a-dozen would be sent to England to some gunnery school. These would be the future gunnery and torpedo experts of the Chinese navy. In this way it is hoped that a Chinese Gunnery Staff will be created, which staff would be self-contained and capable of doing without outside assistance from the foreigner. \n\nThe Chinese sailor is recruited mainly from the coasts and islands, and is generally a good type of individual, capable of much hard work, and most amenable to discipline. Add to this that he is convinced of the superiority of his race to all others, and have first-class material for the manufacture of a good man-of-war's-man, for he is brave, cool, and indifferent to comfort. \n\n## The Officers\n\nThe Captains are very ignorant, and they know it; but they are anxious to learn and see progress made. There are two classes in each rank, as senior Lieutenants and junior Lieutenants. A \"Navy List\" is being prepared. I will try and get a copy, for I could not understand the technicalities of their ranks. \n\n## Fleet Training\n\nThe military training of the navy has never been considered. Cruiser squadrons exist, and the only cruises made are in the nature of searches for pirates or smugglers, work which could be very well done by small vessels of the gun-boat type. At present there is no intention to build more ships; and, if the authorities will take the advice of their present Secretary, none will be built until the men are educated and capable of working them. This will not be for another five years at least, and then the ships must be built. Allow ten years to elapse, and China may have a fleet of modern battle-ships or cruisers and a small number of destroyers. \n\nBut no danger need be apprehended from her till then, and it will be necessary for her army, or at least her artillery, to keep pace with the navy if the latter is going to do any good, as her harbours are at present so shallow that either enormous harbour works will be necessary or large numbers of artillery will be required to defend the naval fortresses in the outlying bases amongst the islands. \n\nBut, in looking ahead, it must be remembered that, if the day of the large ship has returned for good, less practice is required than heretofore to make a fighting fleet. Only a few people technically trained in handling ships will be required in a fleet. The remainder can very easily be trained ashore. The essentials will be stores, equipment, reserves of ammunition and guns, spare parts for everything, auxiliaries, fuel, and, above all, a suitable base. The prime essential being money, those who fear China should make themselves acquainted with the state of her exchequer, and should carefully watch the progress of her methods of technical education. If these are found to be in a crescent condition, it will be time enough for apprehensions of her intentions usward to be entertained. As the Academy, if ever founded, will be here at Shanghae or at Nanking on the river, there should be no difficulty in keeping well acquainted with its progress. \n\n## Training of Chinese Midshipmen\n\nI am not in a position at the present moment to give an accurate account of the training, or rather lack of training, of the midshipmen. The following remarks let fall by Rear-Admiral Sa suggest that the system is at present neither thorough nor successful: Midshipmen are admitted to the Academy at Nanking at any age between 18 and ... . They study in navigation and other school subjects till three years have passed. They are then drafted to some ship, in which they remain an indefinite time, and from which they may at any time be taken away. The ships do not as a rule carry midshipmen, and seldom more than three in each ship. He attached great importance to the training received by the Chinese midshipmen who are now serving in our fleet. It is not improbable that some of these young officers may be sent to Shanghae Arsenal to assist Admiral Sa in his work. Admiral Sa seemed to favour this plan of getting information at first hand from officers who, having served so recently in a modern fleet, should be able to help him in his reorganization work. \n\nWhen this ship goes up to Nanking, I will call at the Cadet Academy and see Mr. Munro, formerly a Naval Instructor in His Majesty's ship \"Sans Pareil\" and other ships. He is instructing the Chinese cadets. \n\nThe ships under the immediate eye of the Admiral appear to be smart and clean. They are very well handled when passing up and down the river, and details such as mounting guard are carefully attended to. A further report will be made as soon as information of a more detailed nature as to particular ships can be obtained. \n\nRear-Admiral Sa is the most courteous of mortals and the best of hosts. He is very much liked by all foreigners, is regarded by the Chinese as their best officer, but is considered by them to be more than half a foreigner, as he furnishes his house in two fashions, those rooms where he welcomes foreign guests being furnished to suit the taste of the latter, and others being kept according to the Chinese custom. For himself he prefers the former, where he can sit and smoke a briar pipe and reorganize his fleet on English lines. \n\n**BERNARD LOUIS MAJENDIE**\n\n(Signed) \n\n\"Cadmus,\" at Shanghae, November 1, 1906. \n\n5 \n\n0",
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        "content_text": "## The Chaochowfu Railway\n\nThe stations (Mandarin rendering in brackets) with the times of departure were as follows:-\n\n| Station | Mandarin Rendering | Departure Time |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Swatow | Shan-tou | 7:02 AM |\n| Am-pou | An-p'o | 7:27 |\n| Tshua-tng-chhi | Ts'in-tang-chih | 7:50 |\n| Phu-ien | Fou-yang | 8:11 |\n| Pang-khoi | Feng-ch'i | 8:21 |\n| Tie-chin Hu | Chao chon Pu | 8:27 |\n| Ch'ao-chou Fu |  | Arrive 8:36 |\n\nIn addition to the new terminus at I-khoe, it is intended to make new stations at Tou-men-ch'iao and Chin-shih-kung.\n\nFares, first-class, 1 dol. 25 c. each way; third-class, 50 cents or 90 cents for the return journey.\n\nA great many Chinese travel by the line, and on my train I noticed two or three Japanese passengers.\n\nAt Swatow and Ch'ao-chou Fu the railway stations are single storied and built of mud and cement and whitewashed. They each contain several rooms. At the other stations there are only small wooden huts, open at the sides, with small mud-houses for the railway employés.\n\nThe wooden post sunk into the ground is a perilous venture in this land of white ants.\n\nThe platforms of the stations are raised about 2 feet above the line, built of sand and earth, and faced along the line with stone. Each platform is about 80 yards long by 6 yards wide.\n\nAt Swatow there are six sidings, with an additional four, which run into two goods sheds. There is also an engine-house and a water-tank.\n\nAt Am-pou there is only one siding. At the other stations there are two sidings, the longer one being from 100 to 150 yards long. The terminus at Ch'ao-chou Fu is about 200 yards beyond the station and close to the city wall.\n\nCh'ao-chou Fu is estimated to have a population of 300,000 inhabitants.\n\nThe train stops to water about 2 to 3 miles south of Tshua-tng-chhi, at a huge raised water-bucket, supplied by cans from a stream close by. There are two additional water-tanks at Tshua-tng-chhi station and one at Ch'ao-chou Fu.\n\nTwo telegraph lines ran on the right (east) side of the line, a single strand being presumably the railway telegraph, whilst beyond it is the Government telegraph.\n\nExcept for one or two very short cuttings beyond Pang-khoi station, the line runs along an embankment the whole way. It is usually from 2 to 4 feet above the surrounding country, though at the Swatow end it is raised about 6 feet for the first few miles.\n\nThe line is standard gauge and single, and very little width of embankment is allowed on either side of the rails. The embankment is made mostly from field mud, dry out of a trench, close to the left (west) side of the embankment. The soil is mostly alluvial clay, though in some places beyond Tshua-tng-chhi it is sandy. The line throughout is ballasted with a very thin layer of sand. Before reaching Am-pou many small streams from 3 to 10 yards wide are crossed by culverts, all faced with stone, whilst two small branches of the Han River, respectively 30 and 40 yards wide, are also crossed by bridges of one and two stone piers. These small streams and water outlets were the greatest difficulty encountered in the construction of the line.\n\nThe embankment is not revetted, and no grass or trees have been planted along it.\n\nThe line appears to have been done in a hurry, and also to have been done too much on the cheap. A siding could easily have been run into the hills 2 or 3 miles to the west, and ballast of disintegrating granite obtained. The railway was opened in the driest season, and the general opinion is that it will not be able to survive a storm or the rainy season that is usual from May to August. A missionary told me that there had only been one shower since the line was opened, and it was followed by an accident on the line. He also said that the embankment was so rotten, that he was able to run his umbrella for some distance under the sleepers. Beyond one small party throwing up a few clods of earth, I did not see any steps being taken to strengthen the bank.\n\nI also found the line very shaky.\n\nThe rolling-stock is sufficient for present needs; they have at present three American locomotives, one at least of which has done duty elsewhere. My train was small, and marked **American Brooks Works, 1904**.\n\nThere are about twenty-two passengers' coaches, constructed in Japan, and marked `K.S.K. Osaka`. My train consisted of two vans, two composite first- and third-class carriages, and eight third-class carriages. The composite cars can seat twelve first-class passengers, and eighteen third-class passengers, whilst the third class seat fifty-two passengers on small wooden benches. All the carriages are corridor compartments. The first class are comfortable with reversible backs on the benches, though there is a good deal of shoddy, rough castings, inferior veneer, and imitation leather on the cushions.\n\nThe rails, which are about 30 feet long, appear to be second-hand, as they are very rusty, and I could not decipher the name on them. They come from America, and are laid on Japanese hard-wood sleepers, each rail being fixed to the sleeper by two rivets, whilst each fish-plate is attached by four rivets.\n\nThe construction of the line has taken two years to a day, and has cost up to date close on 3,000,000 dollars. A first-class English firm (I believe **Jardine, Mathieson**) tendered to do the whole for 1,750,000 dollars, but the Chinese elected to give carte blanche to a Japanese Company with the present result. It has been planned and entirely carried out by Japanese and Chinese. The line is managed by Japanese, and they supply the station-masters at the termini and the guards on the trains. Permission was also given to them to supply the engine drivers, until the Chinese ones were trained, but I believe the train I travelled on was driven by Chinese.\n\nThe line belongs to a private Company, and is supposed to be entirely financed by Chinese, though possibly there is some Japanese money in it. The Chinese admit they are losing money over it, and the receipts are barely enough to cover their daily expenses, and are not sufficient to pay the interest on the 3,000,000 dollars spent in constructing the line.\n\nIt is intended to eventually connect the line with the trunk line from Canton to Hankow, and also with the coast line from Canton to Foo-chow, but all these lines remain to be built, and the Swatow line will no doubt have gone through some serious vicissitudes before this happy consummation is arrived at.\n\nThe railway offices are in the town of Swatow, where I saw several stands of **Mauser (1888)** repeating rifles for nine rounds. The clerk at the office told me that the line is guarded by 300 \"Fu-yung,\" or protecting Braves, men raised locally by the Company to protect the line. I only saw a few of them at Ch'ao-chou Fu station. The clerk also said that the people had shown a good deal of animosity to the construction of the line, which was now, however, dying out, as they became accustomed to it. There was also a good deal of difficulty in the purchasing of the land.\n\nI am appending a tracing of the line which I copied from the one in the railway offices.\n\n**G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.**\n\n(Signed)\n\nHong Kong, December 23, 1906.\n\nPage 620 \nE",
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        "content_text": "## TABLE respecting Arrival and Departure of Train, &c.\n\n| Station | Kilometres from Chen-t'ou | Arrive | Depart |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cheng-chia-tung | 6.9 |  |  |\n|  | 8 |  |  |\n|  | 11.9 |  |  |\n|  | 18.6 |  |  |\n| Chia-p'an-shih | 31 | 4.15 | 4.20 |\n|  | 36.2 | 4.31 |  |\n|  |  | 4.43 | 4.46 |\n|  | 68.7 |  |  |\n| Yen-hui | 61.9 | 5.10 | 5.28 |\n| Luan-chiu | 79.9 | 6.50 | 6.54 |\n|  | 86.4 | 7.13 | 7.26 |\n|  |  | 7.41 | 7.56 |\n|  | 91 | 8.12 | 8.18 |\n|  |  | 8.34 | 8.35 |\n| Cha-hsi-yi | 98.3 |  |  |\n|  | 115 |  |  |\n| Pei-yang-shu | 121 |  |  |\n| Yen-chuang | 128 |  |  |\n| Tsai-yü | 135 |  |  |\n| Pio-tiou | 141 |  |  |\n|  | 151 |  |  |\n|  | 169 |  |  |\n|  | 177 |  |  |\n|  | 186 |  |  |\n|  | 194 |  |  |\n|  | 203 |  |  |\n| Shou-yang Hsien |  | 8.54 | 09.8 |\n| Ko-chuang |  | 9.45 |  |\n| San-hu |  |  |  |\n| Cha-hai-yi |  |  |  |\n| Ching-chuang |  |  |  |\n| Liu-chia-chuang |  |  |  |\n| Tuan-ting |  |  |  |\n| Tung-chao-chuang |  |  |  |\n\n## Notes\n\nA good stone building for station. An engine-house. Go across plain, starting north-west. Passed truck train. Enter hills, gradual ascent. Loess country.\n\nLater pass a small tunnel. Later cross girder bridge supported by one stone pier. River on right. Below a small coal-trolley line to the mines, which crosses the Wei-shui Ho by a wooden bridge on seven piers.\n\nJust before reaching it, cross two girder bridges without pier supports. Here passed coal train of seven tracks. River on right; soon leave. Now pass through many cuttings, some of rock, some of loess, standing without support or banked with mud. Mud-walled city 200 yards to right, across river. Then through a tunnel and across river by a girder bridge. It is crossed by two or three fords about here, but at present very low. Country wilder; through rock cuttings.\n\nPassed passenger train. Now more loess terraces among hills. Cross river by girder bridge on four piers and five arches just before Niang-tzu-kuan.\n\nJust before station, a piece of now wall, 50 yards long with some old mud mounds, marks line of Great Wall separating provinces. The Ku-kuan (pass) is 74 miles (25 li) to the south. Leaving station, cross stone bridge with one pier and four arches.\n\nNow dry stone river bed on right. Less loess; wild country. More cuttings. Later four tunnels and a bridge over river bed.\n\nCountry with some loess terraces; hills. Two tunnels. Water tower being built. Pass three small and one big tunnel.\n\nA tunnel and a girder bridge. Up valley between hills. River bed or on right. Several houses for bridgos over tributaries. Village called Sa-chiang-kon. It is the station for Ping-ting. Chou 6 miles (20 li) to south-west.\n\nA train leaves Shou-yang Hsien about 2:80 p.m., and reaches Tung-chao-chuang about 5:2 p.m. Water tower being built. Station under construction.\n\nVillage called Chiu-chia. Stone bridge over tributary. Some loess terraces. An engine-house under construction. Station 1 mile to south-east of city.\n\n## Notes\n\nSidings 100 yards to 150 yards long. Water towers with stone basements. Engines small and marked \"Anciens Établissements Cail, Denain, France, 1906.” Chinese drivers and stokers. Our train consisted of one composite, first and second class (first class with four seats and arm-rests; second class, two compartments each; could hold eight passengers, but it would only hold six soldiers). Seats of both classes of leather. Light luggage racks and oil lamps. Lavatories attached. Corridor passages.\n\nThere were three third-class corridor carriages, each could hold forty-six Chinese, rather tightly packed on wooden benches. Also three closed and two open vans. Each van carries 20 tons.\n\nFares (Chen-t'ou to Shou-yang Hsien). First class, 10 dol. 40 c.; second class, 5 dol. 20 c.; third class, 2 dol. 60 c. Hong Kong dollars are taken, Mexican dollars are only accepted as 90 cents. No charge for my baggage. As nobody in charge of luggage van, one's boy has to travel in it. No restaurant arrangements.\n\nRailway Stations all of stone, large buildings at Ch'en-t'ou, other stations quite small. Platforms about 6 inches to 9 inches above line.\n\nRails: One, made 33 feet long (probably 10 metres), fastened at each end to fish-plates by two bolts, and to each sleeper by one bolt. Line ballasted with stone. On the whole, it runs smoothly, except from Cha-hsi-yi to Shou-yang Hsien, where it shakes a good deal.\n\nTelegraph alongside line and two strands of wire.\n\nLine very winding, running up among loess hills. As little or no rain had fallen, I found loess terraces very bare, but in valleys near rivers, it was greener.\n\nThe line is guarded on Chih-li side by a few of the Lien Chun of Chen-ting-fu, armed with batons. They look to be of all ages and effete.\n\nTime-Table: There is as yet no regular time-table; they gave me a copy of the temporary one, in which the stations were only marked by the first letter of each word. The stations are, of course, all written according to the French transliteration, and it is necessary to see the character, or get the Chinese to pronounce them, before being able to transliterate them. Names of stations written up in large letters on either side of each station.\n\nLine at Shou-yang Hsien guarded by some Shan-hsi cavalry (\"Ma-san-tui\") of the provincial troops (\"Hsün-fang-tui\") armed with tower muskets. The railway embankment has been completed to Tai-yuan-fu. It runs close to the road from Cheng-ts'un (6 miles south-east of T'ai-yuan-fu), and about 200 yards to the west of it, crossing road about a mile from city. Embankment near Cheng-ts'un 8 feet to 10 feet high and 5 yards wide at top. Culverts faced with stone, but not yet bridged. Terminus will be 100 yards to south-east of New South Gate (eastern of the two south gates), and the station is under construction. It is expected the line will be open about the 20th September, 1907. The delay was caused by the Han-yang Ironworks not being able to supply rails, which are now coming from Europe.\n\n**(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Military Attaché.**\n\nTai-yüan-fu, July 27, 1907.\n\nP.51.",
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        "content_text": "# \n## Name of Building. \nVictoria Gaol. \nAssistant Supdt.'s Quarters. Warders' Quarters. Supreme Court. \nPost Office and Treasury. Wanchai Stores. \nPlague Coolie Quarters. \nHarbour Office. \nCentral Market. \nBotanical & Forestry Department! \nSuperintendent's Quarters \nGardeners' Cottages. \nGovernment Laundries. \nNo. 1 Police Station. \nNo. 2 Police Station. \nVolunteer Head Quarters. \nVictoria School. \nOld Vaccine Institute \nSokonpo Market and Latrine. \n(now Forestry Store). \nWanchai Market. \nWanchai School. \nRefuse Enclosures (3). \nTank Lane Latrine. \nNo. 4 Police Station. \nDespatch Box, Robinson Road. \nGovernment Civil Hospital- \n\"A\" Block. \n\"B\" Block. \n\"C\" Block. \n\n- 14- \n\n## Extent of Damage. \nThe roof over C III Ward in a state of collapse. Other roofs badly damaged and general repairs are necessary to doors, &c. \nDamage to roof, gutters, jalousies, &c. \nDitto. \nThe tiling to roof on West side of Land Office stripped and small repairs are necessary to windows, &c. Small repairs to roof over Supreme Court. Damage to roof, guttering, jalousies, &c. \nMatshed badly damaged and roof to Compradore's Quarters damaged. \nMatsheds badly damaged. \nDamage to sashes, jalousies and roof, \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDamage to windows and brickwork. \nRoof damaged and repairs are necessary to sashes, doors, &c. \nDitto. Ditto. Ditto. \nThe corrugated iron has been torn off and blown into the sea. \nRoof tiling damaged. \nRoof badly damaged. 3 new sash frames, 7 new sashes and 5 new jalousies required; small repairs. Roof damaged. \nRoof damaged and general repairs to jalousies, windows, doors, &c. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDitto. \n\n## Name of Building. \nMountain Lodge. \nVictoria Hospital. \nMount Gough Police Station. No. 6 Police Station. Government Villas. \nGovernment Pavilions. Stanley Police Station. Aberdeen Police Station. \nBay View Tsat Tsz Mui Police Station. Kowloon City Police Station. Kowloon British School. \nWater Police Station. \nRicksha Shelter, Kowloon. \nObservatory, \nKowloon Disinfecting Station. \nGreen Island Lighthouse. \nCape Collinson Lighthouse. \nWaglan Cattle Depôt at Mataukok. Market at Sai Wan Ho. New Time Ball Tower. \n\n## 15 - \n## BUILDINGS OUTSIDE THE CITY. \n## Extent of Damage. \nA considerable amount of plate glass broken. 9 teak sashes damaged beyond repair. Wall around main building down. Tiling to roofs damaged. Jalousies &c. damaged. \nLandslip at rear of Coolie Quarters. Coolie Quarters badly damaged and will have to be reconstructed. Damage to tiling to main roofs, &c. Roof, jalousies, windows, &c. damaged. \nDitto. Ditto. \nDitto. \nMatshed blown down. Roof and windows damage. Remove landslip. Damage to roof, windows, doors, &c. Slight damage to roof and windows. \nDamage to roof, jalousies and doors. Ditto. and verandah. \nRepairs to ceilings, doors, windows, &c. Damage to roof. \nRoof badly damaged. Damage to flagstaff, jalousies, windows, &c. \nRenew a portion, blown down, and lay new felt to the existing portion. \nMatshed blown down. Roof to Magnetic Hut badly damaged. Fence blown down. \nRoof to Quarters and Engine Shed badly damaged. Several doors and jalousies damaged. \nRoof to powder depot badly damaged. Windows to Telephone room blown in and sundry small repairs to jalousies, &c. \nRoof slightly damaged. Verandah roof blown away. \nSmall repairs to jalousies, &c. \nGeneral repairs. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nTrap door on roof blown away, window frames considerably damaged and glass blown out. \n\n## Name of Building. \nCoolies Quarters. \nMedical Staff Quarters. \nLunatic Asylum. \nMaternity Hospital. \nSalyingpun Market. \nNo. 7 Police Station. \nCoolies Quarters, Pokfulam. \nPublic Mortuary. Shektongtsui Market. \nAnimal Depôt, Kennedy Town. \nNew Western Market. \nNo. 5 Police Station. Despatch Box Shelter, Collinson Street. \nDespatch Box Shelter, Bonham Strand. Despatch Box Shelter, Fat Hing Street. Bath House, Pound Lane. Possession Street Latrine. Bacteriological Institute. Old Western Market. Opium Searchers' Hut. \n\n## Extent of Damage. \nZinc eaves gutter badly damaged. Damage to roof, jalousies, &c., of Coolie Quarters. \nSlight damage to roof, windows, &c. \nDamage to roof, zinc guttering, jalousies, windows, &c. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nDamage to roofs and brickwork. \nSlight repairs to roof. \nDamage to roof, windows, jalousies, &c. \nDamage to roof and door. \nDitto. \nDitto. \nSlight damage to roof. \nRoof badly damaged and small repairs, \nDamage to roof, windows, jalousies, &c. \nDitto. \nBadly damaged. New iron piles, braces, ties, &c. required, tiling to roof badly stripped. \n\n## Name of Building. \nSha Tin Gap Block House. \nTai Po Police Station. \nSau Tin Police Station. \nPing Shan Police Station. \nCheung Chau Police Station. \nTui Ho Police Station. \nSegregation Camp, Lai Chi Kok, \n\n## BUILDINGS IN THE NEW TERRITORIES. \n## Nature and Extent of Damage. \nCompletely destroyed. \nMatsheds blown down and tiling to roof of Station badly damaged. \nRoof, jalousies, sashes and sunblinds damaged. \nP.W.D. Matshed blown down. \nRoof and jalousies damaged. \nRoof to outbuildings badly damaged. \nMatshed at front of Station blown down and slight damage to roof of Station. \nRoof of Verandah carried away and damage to jalousies, &c. \nSuffered a good deal of minor damages and the North ends of sheds 9 and 10 are blown out. (These sheds were covered with mat roofs which offered little resistance to the wind.) Most of the glass is broken and many window frames are destroyed. The main framework and the roof woodwork has stood the stress very well.",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 6.\n\n## FINDING OF THE MARINE COURT.\n\nWe find that the British Steamship Ying King, Official No. `116,031` of Hongkong, of which **ERNEST JAMES PAGE**, Certificate of Competency No. `491` of New South Wales, was Master, left Canton at 6 p.m. on the 27th July, 1908, on a voyage to Hongkong, with a full general cargo, about 430 passengers, of whom 3 were Europeans, and 23 crew, besides about 10 in the Compradore's staff, making about 465 souls all told. This is a rough estimate by the Mate.\n\nAfter leaving Canton, with a light North-easterly breeze, weather clear, sky overcast, barometer falling, all went well until after passing Bogue Forts, when the wind and sea rose, the barometer falling rapidly. At about 11.30 p.m. the Master decided to anchor, on account of the very heavy sea, between Pillar Point and Castle Peak. Two anchors were let go, and with the assistance of the engines held the ship. The weather continued to get worse, the sea breaking over the ship, which finally took a heavy list, from the cargo shifting, and large quantities of water found its way into the engine room, extinguishing the fires at about 2.30 a.m. At about 2.50 a.m. the list suddenly increased and the ship foundered. Of the 465 souls on board only 42 appear to have survived. The Master and about 420 others perishing.\n\nWe find that the cause of the foundering was the Typhoon, which passed over the Colony during that night. That all reasonable precautions were taken to ensure the safety of the ship and passengers. That the state of the sea rendered any recourse to boats for saving life out of the question. Finally, we desire to record our expression of regret at the grave loss of life.\n\nGiven under our hands at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, this Eleventh day of August, 1908.\n\n**BASIL TAYLOR**, Commander, R.N.  \nStipendiary Magistrate and President of the Court.  \n**HENRY BUTTERWORTH**, Lieut., R.N.,  \nH.M.S. Tamar.  \n**E. BEETHAM**,  \nMaster, British S.S. Empress of India.  \n**CHAS. V. LLOYD**,  \nMaster, British S.S. Fatshan.  \n**E. EVANS**,  \nMaster, British S.S. Hoi Ming.\n\n# Enclosure 7.\n\n## REPORT OF CHIEF RESIDENT ENGINEER KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY, BRITISH SECTION.\n\n### TYPHOON DAMAGES.\n\nKowloon, 4th August, 1908.\n\nSIR—I have gone right through the line since the typhoon and find that the damage done is very small considering the strength of the typhoon.\n\nMost damage was done at the North Face Tunnel, where the most serious items were, the unroofing of the coolie quarters and the power house.\n\nThe unroofing of the coolie quarters drove all the coolies into Hongkong, which forced the work to close down for a week. The miners' quarters on the top of the hill suffered also.\n\nA start was made next day to provide quarters for the coolies who were to repair the permanent ones, and to-day I believe there were to be sufficient coolies out there to start the heading.\n\nAt the South Side, no miners' quarters were injured, but the roofs were blown partly off a couple of coolie quarters, but this did not stop the work as the coolies went to Kowloon and came to the work daily.\n\nMr. Valpy, whose house is at the top of the hill at Sha-tin, said his house was greatly protected by the mosquito gauze netting which was all round the verandah and which evidently formed a sort of cushion, as he was able to remain in his verandah during the height of the storm.\n\nOn the rest of the line, the damage by the typhoon was small and not such as to cause any delay to the work. The launch Marlow was driven on shore in Tide Cove, and a couple of lighters slightly damaged. Some of the jetties were also damaged, but very little material was lost.\n\nThe heavy rain previous did more damage really than the typhoon. 12.4 inches was reported from Taipo in twenty-four hours. This caused a heavy flood in the river that runs through the Causeway at Taipo, the water being three feet higher on the inside than on the outside.\n\nOn the reclamation works at Kowloon, work stopped for a considerable time, and as none of the contractors' European foremen did much, work was a long time in getting started again.\n\nI have, &c.,  \nTo the Honourable, The Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Signed) **G. W. EVES**,  \nChief Resident Engineer.\n\n# Enclosure 8 (1).\n\n## REPORT BY DISTRICT OFFICER, TAI PO.\n\nThe New Territory N. suffered wonderfully little from the typhoon. Apart from the case of the Ying King on the West, and of one trading junk on the East—No. `S. 1,503 H`—I can hear of absolutely no loss of life. The loss from the junk the Police have not been able to ascertain exactly, but even there most of the crew escaped.\n\nAt Tai Po and Sha Tin, a number of junks were driven ashore and of course damaged—details in the Morning Reports of the two days succeeding the storm; in Plover Cove, one junk was sunk; but in none of these cases was there any loss of life. I am leaving the Railway damage out of consideration.\n\nThe crops over most of the Territory had been harvested before the typhoon; the wet ten days of July had done a lot of harm, and the people worked hard in the two fine days between the wet weather and the typhoon to get in all they could. The rest was of course further damaged by the typhoon, but was far from being entirely ruined. It was beaten flat quite early and so escaped much shaking, and as it was fit to cut, it has all been taken off the fields since, and there was no need to choose between reaping unripe grain and leaving it a little to ripen at the risk of rotting. The San Tin district alone may have suffered very badly; the flood there is only now subsiding sufficiently to allow of harvesting, and much of the crop not previously reaped will no doubt be rotted. No appeals for special help have, however, been made, and the Crown Rent in each district seems to be coming in at least as fast, if not rather faster than before.\n\nThe barometer at Tai Po read 29.15 at 3 a.m. in the typhoon.\n\nNo serious collapses, and practically no important shore damage in the villages.\n\n2nd August, 1908.\n\n**E. R. HALLIFAX**,  \nDistrict Officer.\n\nPage 402",
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        "content_text": "# \"King Alfred\" at Weihaiwei\n## Confidential.\n### No. 2.\n**C.O. 36179**\n\n\"King Alfred\" at Weihaiwei  \n19th August, 1908.\n\nIn reply to your letter of 25th ultimo,  \nI have the honour to acquaint Your Excellency that the approximate cost of a suitable Wireless Telegraph Installation on the Pratas Shoal would probably be from £400 to £500, exclusive of the cost of building a house for operating room, engine house and living quarters for the Staff, and for the erection of two suitable masts.\n\nThe only considerable expense in maintaining the Station would be the wages of the Staff and the necessary repairs to the buildings.\n\n2. The installation would undoubtedly be of value to the Navy which would share with the Colony the advantages of receiving timely warning of the approach of typhoons, allowing precautions to be taken for the safety of His Majesty's Ships and Naval Establishments. It is not considered, however, that the Station would be of any use to the Navy in time of War.\n\n3. Arrangements could be made for communications to be passed through the Naval Station at Hongkong.\n\n4. I do not consider that it would be possible for H.M. Ships to render assistance by visiting the Island. According to the Sailing Directions, navigation is at all times very dangerous for all except small craft, and at the time of the year during which the Station would be occupied, the approach is rendered still more difficult by the thick and hazy state of the atmosphere.\n\nYour Excellency,  \nI have etc.,  \n**(Sd.) H. Lambton,**  \nVice-Admiral.\n\nSir Frederick J. D. Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.,  \nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief,  \nHongkong.",
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        "content_text": "China, the shopkeeper is ably assisted by his wife and family, and there are numerous tea-houses in which Japanese girls, known under the euphonious names of singing girls and waiting maids, play their part. Chinese patronize the latter in great numbers, the true occupation of their inmates is unquestioned, and prices are well within the reach of all. It is, perhaps, no exaggeration to say that there cannot be far short of 20,000 of these girls in Manchuria from Taiwen in the south to Tsitsihar in the north, and their earnings, regularly remitted to Japan, must account for some of the millions left by the belligerents during the war. These young ladies are all carefully registered, and taxed at the rate from 1 to 3 dollars a-month according to age, and the revenue thus derived must be considerable.\n\nA large revenue is also derived from opium and gambling dens, which, closed in the Chinese town, have taken refuge in the Japanese Settlement. I have the best authority for stating that there were at the time of my visit 160 opium smoking dens, each of which had to pay a tax or levy of 60 yen cents a-day, a total of 96 yen; five large gambling establishments, each of which paid 150 yen a-day, four paying 10 yen a-day, and sixty outdoor booths or stands, each of which was charged 140 yen a-day, making a daily total of 874 yen derived from gambling alone.\n\nA Chinese Imperial Maritime custom-house was opened at Antung on the 14th March, and a branch office at Ta-tung-kow on the 1st October, 1907. Like Newchwang, the port will be closed by ice for about four months. There is also a native custom-house which controls the junk trade. The river junks are estimated to number 2,000, and sea-going junks 1,000. Both custom-houses lie close together on the river bank in the Chinese city, to the immediate east of the southern section of the Japanese railway reserve. Their sites are liable to be flooded, and I was informed that the Japanese are anxious to provide a site for the foreign custom-house within their area.\n\nThe Chinese city, which is about 30 miles from the mouth of the river, is small, with a population of 20,000 inhabitants, and owes its existence to the Yalu timber trade, every establishment with any pretence to importance dealing inter alia in timber. A peculiar feature of the place is the terraces of houses on the hill behind the town, where the shopkeepers take refuge with their goods in flood time. During the present year the river did not overflow its banks. Antung is itself of no importance as a producing or consuming centre, but it is the market for the districts lying along the right bank of the Yalu, which is navigable by junk as far as Mao-erh-shan, about 200 miles up-river. Enormous quantities of timber logs are floated down the Yalu and its chief tributary the Hun River, and are then distributed from Antung and Ta-tung-kow, principally by junk, over the sea-board of North China. Cocoons of the oak-fed silk worm and beans are the other chief exports, while flour, kerosene oil, piece-goods, and sundries, such as enamelled and Japanese chinaware were very much in evidence in shops and on street stalls.\n\nAs to the annual value of the trade through Antung it is as yet impossible to form a reliable estimate. Vague figures were given to me by the native custom-house, and the foreign custom-house could give me only revenue not value, which will not be made up until the end of the year. The revenue of the foreign customs was 35,692 and 19,360 Haikuan taels in June and September quarters respectively, and the Commissioner of Customs estimated that the total revenue from the 14th March to the 31st December would run to about 75,000 Haikuan taels. Steamers have visited the port during the year from Japan and Corean ports, Tairen, Newchwang, Tien-tsin, Chefoo, and Hong Kong. From the last named came a large consignment of flour from the British Kowloon Junk Bay Flour Mills. Four Japanese steamers were in port on the day of my arrival. During my visit the junk trade was at a stand-still, the Taotai having issued an order that each junk should be taxed, while the owners were resolutely refusing to pay.\n\nAn American Vice-Consul established himself at Antung on the 4th July, a British firm started business in the Japanese Settlement on the 15th April, and a German in the Chinese city on the 8th May. During an interview which I had with the Taotai, I informed him that a British Vice-Consul would soon take his residence, and he assured me that he would do everything in his power to assist him on his arrival. One of his subordinates, a very old friend of mine, was present, and I am sure that the Vice-Consul will receive a hearty welcome.\n\nIn dealing with Antung I have left the two great questions which are agitating the port to the end. Article 10 of the Additional Agreement, concluded between China and Japan on the 22nd December, 1905, says: \"The Imperial Chinese Government agree that a Joint-stock Company of forestry, composed of Japanese and Chinese capitalists, shall be organized for the exploitation of the forests in the regions on the right bank of the River Yalu, and that a detailed Agreement shall be concluded in which the area and term of the Concession, as well as the organization of the Company and all regulations concerning the joint work of exploitation, shall be provided for. The Japanese and Chinese shareholders shall share equally in the profits of the undertaking.\"\n\nNo satisfactory Agreement has yet been concluded on the subject, but there is a Japanese timber bureau established on the river bank above Antung, and one log out of every four is selected by Japanese from descending rafts and paid for at prices much under their real value. These prices were variously given to me as one-fourth and one-third of those paid by Chinese, and they enable the Japanese merchants to undersell Chinese, or any others who wish to take a share in this trade.\n\nThe second question is the proposed bridging of the Yalu for the purpose of connecting the Corean and South Manchurian Railway systems. In conversation with Consul Okabe, that gentleman informed me that the position of the bridge was to be that marked on the accompanying plan of Antung, which was kindly supplied to me by the Commissioner of Customs, and that it was to be a fixed, not a drawbridge. I pointed out that the bridge would cut off shipping from the native city, and asked him whether it would not be possible to build the bridge above the town. He did not appear to think that any change could be made, and I understood from him that work would commence next spring. A reference to the plan shows that the position of the proposed bridge is the present lower harbour limit, and that both the steamer and junk anchorages are higher up. The soundings given on the plan are in feet reduced to low-water springs, and they show that, while the river is shallow abreast the lower part of the Chinese town, the deep water is on the Corean side, both above and below the position of the proposed bridge. Merchants complained loudly of the cost of lighterage, which is almost as much as the freight from Chefoo, and if the anchorage is driven further down river, as it must inevitably be if the bridge is built as proposed, these charges will be much enhanced, and any chance of improving the waterway so as to render it navigable up to the native city, of the possibility of which the Commissioner of Customs spoke hopefully, will be lost. I understood from the United States' Vice-Consul (Antung was opened by the United States' Treaty with China of the 8th October, 1903) that he had reported unfavourably on the Japanese project, which, if carried out, will have the further tendency to concentrate trade in the Japanese Settlement. The matter is one deserving the most serious consideration.\n\nI did not visit Ta-tung-kow, which the consensus of opinion describes as a place which is not now and never will be of commercial importance. There are about 100 Japanese there, the great majority of whom are small shopkeepers and the like. The Taotai informed me that he proposed to set apart 850 mou (141 acres) to the west of Ta-tung-kow for a foreign Settlement, and the fact that land is available for this purpose contrasts strongly with situation at Antung, where the proposal is to give up about 100 acres of the native city. It is a pretty clear indication that, although Ta-tung-kow was opened by the Japanese Treaty with China of the 8th October, 1903, it is not now considered of very much importance.\n\nAntung to Mukden.\n\nI left Antung at 7:12 A.M. on the morning of the 8th October for Mukden, travelling by the Japanese light railway of 188.7 miles built during the war. The train, which started from the Settlement station, was made up of a small engine and thirteen small carriages and trucks, most of which, being empty, were shunted off as we proceeded along the line. The railway follows the high road north-west up a narrow valley as far as Feng-huang-ch'eng, or, to give it its official title, Feng-huang Ting, one of the marts opened by the Japanese Additional Agreement of 1905. Here the valley opens out, and the railway passes about a mile or more to the west of the city. This valley presents the finest scenery I have witnessed in Manchuria. The low hills which bound it are well-wooded, especially with scrub-oak (Quercus mongolica), whose leaves are used to feed the wild silkworm (Antheraea Pernyi), and the russet tints of autumn were magnificent. The valley to the west, through which the main line goes south to Port Arthur, is barren in comparison. Indian corn and Kao-liang (Holcus sorghum) were reaped, the brown bushy heads of the latter lying about in the fields.\n\nPage 9\n\n451\n\nNot reproduced.\n\n[2813 7--2]\n\nD",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nsliding down a couple of chutes. Chinese are noted for their frugality, and it rather surprised me to hear from the Japanese Consul-General that Japanese were able to compete successfully with the native retail shops. I have already made reference to this subject when dealing with Antung, A Commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs and a Chinese Postal Commissioner for Manchuria, both British, reside in Mukden; but no foreign custom-house has been opened, and the former simply acts as Adviser to the Native Customs Administration. The latter is busy establishing post-offices in the three provinces, and he informed me that he expected to have 150 in working order at the beginning of 1908. The Japanese have about forty offices.\n\nAs at Tairen, there is an experimental agricultural, botanic, and horticultural farm under Japanese superintendence, and afforestation and improved methods of agriculture and fruit growing are talked about.\n\nK'uan-ch'eng-tzu and Harbin.\n\nFrom Mukden I proceeded north to K'uan-ch'eng-tzu (Ch'ang-ch'un Fu), the great trade emporium of Northern Manchuria, and to Harbin, on the right bank of the Sungari, through which the Siberian Railway from Vladivostock passes on its way to Russia and Europe. Both places were opened as international marts by the Additional Agreement between Japan and Russia of 1905. There are through trains from Tairen to K'uan-ch'eng-tzu, which is the northern terminus of the South Manchurian Railway, and I had to be at Mukden Station at 11 A.M. on the 13th October to catch the train of that day. When day broke we had passed the cities of Tieh-ling, another of the marts, and K'ai-yüan, and were traversing the fertile slightly undulating plains of Western Manchuria. The crops were all harvested, and there was nothing to show that, while Southern Manchuria had yielded an unusually bounteous harvest, to the north of Kai-yuan a long-continued and disastrous drought had prevailed. Yet there was extraordinary business activity at the station of Ssu-p'ing-kai, which lies about 3 miles to the north-east of the important trade centre of Mai-mai-kai (Feng-hua Hsien). Bags of beans, piled in hundreds, lined a siding for at least half a-mile, and were ready to be loaded for the south. These beans had come from the collecting centre of Mai-mai-kai, which, previous to the introduction of railways, had sent its produce by cart to T'ung-chiang-tzu, another of the opened marts, on the Liao. What was taking place at Ssu-p'ing-kai occurs elsewhere, and fully explains the diminishing number of carts and bean-boats that now visit Newchwang. An important return cargo for the bean-boats was salt, but I noticed much of it now going inland by rail. The course of trade is rapidly changing, and, so far as the far interior is concerned, the railway is bound to win.\n\nUntil the dispute regarding the possession of the railway station at Kuan-ch'eng-tzu was arranged, the railheads of the Japanese and Russian lines were 7 miles apart, the Japanese terminus being the station of Meng-chia-t'un. The Japanese have now relaid their line to within a mile of the Russian station, and boundary-pillars of brick and plaster inscribed with the Chinese characters for \"Terminus of the South Manchurian Railway,\" have been erected in a row, two on each side of the line, midway between the two stations. The present Japanese station stands on a platform between lines of rails, and workmen were busy adjusting the mile of tracks between the two stations to facilitate the linking-up and inter-working of the two different railway systems. But the Japanese are doing much more. The city of Kuan-ch'eng-tzu, like Mukden, is from 2 to 3 miles east of the railway, and a branch line is being built from the station of Shih-li-pu, 3 miles north of the Meng-chia-t'un, to within a mile or so of the city, with its terminus at Tou-tao-kou, and from this terminus the construction of the K'uan-ch'eng-tzu-Kirin line will be commenced next year.\n\nThe\n\nIn connection with this branch line the Japanese are accused of a dastardly act. Wishing to acquire the land in the neighbourhood of T'ou-tao-kou, and between T'ou-tao-kou and the city, they approached the owners, who refused to sell. One morning the houses were a mass of smouldering ruins. An Englishman, an eye-witness of the ruins, was my informant. The Japanese are now in full possession. The Japanese station at Kuan-ch'eng-tzu, which was reached at 1:30 P.M. on the 14th, was a scene of bustle and business. Covered Chinese springless carts and Russian droskies—the only vehicles which can withstand these roads—jostled each other to secure passengers for the city, while carts were loading and unloading goods and passing between the two stations and between the stations and the city. Many evil-visaged Europeans stood in front of booths which served as restaurants, and I considered it advisable to at once transfer my baggage to the Russian railway station, whither I accompanied it on foot. By this time it was too late to visit the city, but as I remained two days there on my return from Harbin it may be well to describe my impressions of it here.\n\nPage 13\n\n453\n\nThe city of K'uan-ch'eng-tzu lies on a plain, and the flatness of the surrounding country prevents a good view of the city being obtained. The only foreign building in the town is a branch of the Russo-Chinese Bank, and with that ambition which distinguishes the Russian builder, it is provided with a couple of towers which rise to a height of 60 feet from the ground. By the kindness of the manager I was able to ascend one of these towers, whence I obtained an excellent panoramic view of the city. It is surrounded by a mud wall more or less complete, and measures some 4 miles from west to east and 2 miles from north to south. Its resident population is estimated at 80,000, but there is a considerable floating population, and when I visited the city in 1896 the total inhabitants were said to number 120,000. But all these figures are guesswork, and the population of Mukden, which was supposed to be large, has recently been cut down to less than 150,000. From the tower I looked down on a sea of flat-roofed houses with large walled compounds behind, the inns or caravan-serais where goods are stored pending sale and removal. Almost every compound contains a primitive bean-mill, where oil is extracted and bean-cakes manufactured. There are a few other industries, such as the manufacture of indigo and felt. The streets were crowded, and many of the shops were doing a miscellaneous business, furs of various kinds being prominently displayed owing to the approaching cold weather. I shall speak later of the insecurity to which trade, now showing signs of improving, has recently been exposed, and of the confusion resulting from the diversity of the currency. There are at present 8,000 Chinese troops in and around the city. Its cart traffic with the north and east is still large, in spite of the Chinese Eastern Railway, which should be the natural transport channel, but the freight from K'uan-ch'eng-tzu to Harbin and thence south-east is so heavy that carts can still successfully compete in the north of Manchuria, and I was informed that 10,000 cases of kerosene oil had recently been sent by cart to A-shih-ho, which lies on the railway to the east of Harbin, instead of by rail.\n\nIn addition to the Russo-Chinese Bank, branches of the Yokohama Specie and Chinese Government (Hu Pu) Banks have recently been opened at K'uan-ch'eng-tzu. Japan is there represented by a Consul, and Russia by a Vice-Consul. Japanese of the type seen elsewhere number over 3,000, and are steadily increasing, and there are from sixty to eighty gambling establishments kept by them.\n\nOne point I have omitted to mention in regard to the railway between Mukden and K'uan-ch'eng-tzu is the loopholed stone block-houses built by the Russians at stated intervals along the line are not occupied by the Japanese railway guards.\n\nI left by the train which, starting from the Russian railway station at K'uan-ch'eng-tzu at 8 P.M. on the 14th October, arriving at Harbin next morning at 6 o'clock. At Harbin one might be in Russia. At one time the same might have been said of Dalny (the Tairen of to-day), but Harbin was planned on a much larger and more elaborate scale, and it remains a monument of Russian aspirations. It had, however, a modest beginning. The River Sungari, on whose right bank the Pristan or harbour town of Harbin now stands, was in flood, and had overflowed its banks when the town was projected, and what is now known as Old Harbin, several miles to the south-east of the river, was selected as the site. A small town was built, but it was found inconvenient in view of the importance of the railway, and rising ground behind the Pristan was fixed upon for the erection of the Railway Administration and residential town which now goes by the name of New Harbin. Old Harbin, New Harbin, and the Pristan are, however, known collectively as Harbin, and they, with Alexeieff village, which lies between Old and New Harbin, are all within the Railway Settlement Reserve, whose area on the right bank is 27 square miles, and on the left bank 19 square miles, or a total of 47 square miles.\n\nThe railway line coming from the south-east divides the Pristan from New Harbin and sweeping round the east side of the former (the Sungari at this point flowing east by north) crosses the river into the Hei-lung-chiang Province by a fine iron girder bridge of ten spans, rising about 40 feet above the river. There is a bridge of boats about three-quarters of a-mile above the Sungari Bridge for passengers and vehicles. The station, a fine building with numerous sidings, engine sheds, workshops, and godowns, is conveniently situated between the harbour and residential quarters, and the line to Vladivostock branches off to the east.\n\n[2813 -2]\n\nB",
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        "content_text": "362\n\n6\n\nOn the night of the 20th December some men from torpedo-boat \"No. 036\" were on shore drinking at Kee Cheung's store in the city. Two engine-room artificers named Hayward and Bushby appear to have had too much to drink, Hayward being in the worse condition of the two. It seems that he went out into the street and made trouble with the Chinese. A crowd collected and things became lively, missiles of various sorts being thrown. The police, who had arrived on the scene, kept the crowd back, and would seem to have behaved in a reasonable and proper manner.\n\nThe sequel was that Bushby, who appears to have been on the whole less to blame than Hayward, was arrested by the police and taken off to the police station. Hayward, in the meantime, had been taken on board the torpedo-boat by a patrol sent on shore for the purpose of bringing the men off.\n\nThe Lieutenant in command of the torpedo-boat, Mr. Kirby, was dining at His Majesty's Consul's house when Kee Cheung's compradore came up to report the trouble, Mr. Kirby and His Majesty's Consul went to the torpedo-boat, where they ascertained that Hayward had been brought on board, but that Bushby was still on shore. They then landed, accompanied by two unarmed bluejackets, and proceeded to Kee Cheung's store. A good many people were collected in the street outside the store but, though excited, they did not attempt to interfere in any way. At the store His Majesty's Consul learnt that Bushby had been arrested and taken off to the police station. He proceeded there, and the officer in charge of the station knowing who he was handed over the man at his request, and he conveyed him back to the ship.\n\nThe whole matter was a drunken brawl, but it occurred at a most unfortunate time, and might have had serious consequences. As it was, however, beyond the copy it afforded the native papers, and the untrue reports that were circulated about in Canton and elsewhere, nothing further happened.\n\nMr. Kirby and His Majesty's Consul called on the Taotai, and the former tendered his apologies for the regrettable affair. At a later date His Majesty's Consul saw the Taotai and, at the request of the Admiral, apologized also on his behalf for the conduct of the two men.\n\nThe Taotai treated the matter in a very friendly spirit, but suggested that in future when men on shore leave were visiting any place in the city, they should be accompanied by some one able to interpret; and that parties landed for rifle practice should not bring their rifles through the city—both reasonable suggestions.\n\nOn his part, His Majesty's Consul asked him to issue instructions that, whenever a seaman was arrested by the native police, some one should be immediately sent off to the man's ship, so that a patrol could be landed without delay to take him over, and convey him on board to be dealt with.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government. C.O.\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[10444]\n\n(No. 99.)\n\nNo. 1.\n\n14855\n\n[March 27.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n20 APR 08\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received March 27.)\n\nPeking, February 29, 1908. Sir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches No. 506 of the 11th December, 1907, and No. 12 of the 8th ultimo, transmitting copies of correspondence with the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (Limited) on the question as to whether the transfer of the property from the old Chinese Company was actually confirmed by Imperial Decree.\n\nAfter a careful examination of the arguments adduced by the Company in this correspondence, and especially of the translation of the Memorial to the Throne presented by Li Hung-chang and Chang Yen Mao in July 1901, I can only maintain the view that the Company's contention is not borne out by that document.\n\nThis Memorial and the Rescript attached thereto, as Sir Ernest Satow pointed out in his despatch No. 183 of the 24th May, 1904, contemplated the addition of foreign capital to the existing Chinese enterprise, so as to change it into a Chinese and foreign co-operative Company with limited liability, but I have been unable to find therein any disclosure of the actual course of action which had been pursued.\n\nIn all analogous cases where a foreign Syndicate or foreign capital has been granted privileges in China beyond the limits of the Treaty ports, and not provided for by Treaty—as, for example, in the case of the Peking Syndicate, the Anhui Mining Company, and the Railway Agreements of the British and Chinese Corporation—the documents have been submitted to the Throne and communicated to the Legation by the Board of Foreign Affairs, after receiving the Imperial approval. If it could be shown that some such procedure had been followed, there would be no room for doubt in the present instance, but there is no evidence forthcoming to prove that the transfer deed of the 19th February, 1901, which was drawn up in English, was ever laid before the Emperor.\n\nIt is true that an allusion is made in the Memorial to an Agreement having been drawn up and a telegram sent to London \"to register the Company.\" But the original Chinese of this passage is somewhat more vague. The words \"the Company\" do not occur, and a literal translation would read: \"And so an Agreement was made and a telegram sent to London to register, to commence operations from the beginning of the twenty-seventh year.\" There is nothing here to indicate that a British Company, under English law, and independent of Chinese control, had been formed or was implied by the \"addition of foreign capital.\"\n\nIt appears to me, therefore, that the most that can be said is that the Rescript sanctioned whatever the Memorial proposed, and it is clear from the wording of the Rescript that the Throne interpreted the Memorial in a sense entirely different from that adopted by the Company.\n\nFortunately the question is not an acute one, although it might become so if the Company attempt to enforce in practice a claim to exclusive mining rights over the Kaiping coal-field. The present observations are therefore only evoked by the Company's insistence upon arguments which could not, in my opinion, be used effectively in their favour.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed)\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n[2895 dd-1]",
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        "content_text": "Geofon \n\nVid \n\n391 \n\n20еƒ‚LIKA za£S ‚gnoxgnoM \n\nCAQ \n\nto dotsqast Jaroe2 ya of monaneta* N*kw \n\nerit dimanand oð rwonor erit evar I,Jus£ nadmatge? to .Atal ent \n\nto .da♪ acid no bearerbha I dotriw dadsqeeb a to vgoo beaofone \n\nani¬tupne aełnolo) are not st87? to viejetoa? ada of Visuridet \n\ntug nottesup & od nowana ni,odate oð veraɗ!! ta eow I torterw nster¶ to 1104A orið tært, Ikontroð sviðsfaizal erit to redre?' a yɗ I doldw mergeled a to vɖoo a fitiw zertanod (antɗo vď bendsfo at \n\non at erefið darīt saldste swet) Brel Mort bevissen won evaN \n\n„galvƐqer oa ver of moltostɗo to asdotsqash va mort barsel svar (Ilw fo \n\n.S \n\nto moldudidant and dauit redustqa? to .ч♪ hns vlub to .brês add \n\nno noijs!Istant fiqstygele\" aasier!” ddiw noitsja molderyeado na \n\nnoodqyd sit gulruh agatnarha sakerei to ed blow LloJA ent anoidrog misituo? sfit ni aortoda to guidesosvot sat to? nonssa \n\ngaldneupsrt gaiqqida (Is of noitoedory a bus ,852 kalɗo ør's to \n\n.snido to staboo meritvo? ent \n\nt \n\nronto hrA ,WOJAW? nodna da dnsearą JA \n\n-dosozqqs to anturaw not tnebnaqeh ers atroï evenido gatwoddṛton evianoqxe bna,vroðsvraad0 gno*quof sde noge unoodqyð gal- \n\nto ajasrodni nostros set al has víanodindang fotdw moldusitani \n\nJs aelitrosituå ørentro erts og yltosxih zaratatut vð Insrud \n\nvď v[(arenes bus amojau) amiainak Inimeqal art diguordt nodns) eviden has mytarot dtod qutqqida fís of ayninise barelIdwg att lomoruqa erit anthraqur moltarothi (2802 medewo2 erit anltroupert \n\nart mort beyteost adrogor elleb nɗd no berad anoodqu* to \n\nmoltsolmur:on nt al it dohw dołw enoltata noliterreado avottav \n\nadd row solvea alfé vot nuder NI \n\n.& \n\nDit of bus aettizostwa sɛsnido art of erobrer vibalg inovartevoð Ineruttevod maentio sit dadd teensue of evяit I,olidng beanido \n\nblworla \n\nshould justify their claim to the Atobl, and the recognition \n\nof those claims by His Majesty's Government, by establishing an \n\nObservation Station on the Atoll. No great expense need be \n\nincurred in so doing. It is estimated that the cost of a suit-\n\n-able Wireless Telegraph Installation would cost from £400 to \n\n£500 exclusive of the cost of inexpensive buildings for the \n\noperating room engine house and living quarters of the Staff \n\nwhich need not consist of more than three persons. The observa-\n\n-tions are of a simple nature relating merely to readings of \n\nthe Barometer, force and direction of the wind and other \n\nweather indications and do not require to be made by an expert \n\nstaff. Communication with the mainland of China could no doubt \n\nbe undertaken without much expense by the Chinese Naval Authori-\n\n-ties at Canton. \n\n4. \n\nShould the Chinese Government adopt this \n\nsuggestion, which I shall be glad if you can see your way to \n\npress upon them, this Government will be ready to co-operate \n\nin receiving and transmitting the observations to Canton and \n\nelsewhere as may be arranged with the Chinese local Authorities. \n\nThe Director of the Hongkong Observatory would also, if desired, \n\nundertake the instruction of the Staff to be sent to Pratas in \n\nthe method of taking observations. \n\nis Majesty's Minister, \n\nPEKIN G. \n\nI have etc., \n\n(Sa.) F. D. Lugard, \n\nGovernor, &c. .",
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        "content_text": "# AFFAIRS OF CHINA\n## CONFIDENTIAL\nRFC 26 JUL 09\n\n### SECTION 1\n\n(No. 170.) Sir,\n\n#### Sir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey (Received June 28.)\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a correspondence which has passed between the governor of Hong Kong and myself respecting the atoll of Pratas.\n\nPeking, May 8, 1909. Sir F. Lugard, it will be observed, suggested that in return for the services which the Hong Kong Observatory renders to shipping the Chinese Government should justify their claims to the atoll, and the recognition of those claims by His Majesty's Government, by establishing an observation station on the atoll.\n\nIn my reply of the 6th instant I stated the reasons which appeared to me to render it inexpedient that we should put forward a claim of this kind at a moment when a question in regard to the operations of certain Japanese on the atoll was still under the consideration of the Governments at Tôkið and Peking.\n\nSince then I have received a despatch from the acting British consul-general at Canton (copy enclosed), from which it appears that the question is in a fair way towards an amicable settlement; and should Mr. Porter's anticipations be realised there may be an opportunity of submitting Sir F. Lugard's suggestion to the favourable consideration of the Chinese Government.\n\nThe accompanying photos, which have reached me from a confidential source, may be of interest as showing the nature and extent of the Japanese operations on the atoll.\n\nI have, &c.\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n#### Inclosure I in No. 1.\n##### Governor Sir F. Lugard to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nApril 21, 1909. WITH reference to my Secret despatch of the 15th September last, I have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a despatch which I addressed on the 4th February to the Secretary of State for the Colonies enquiring whether I was at liberty to state, in answer to a question put by a member of the Legislative Council, that the atoll of Pratas is claimed by China, together with a copy of a telegram which I have now received from Lord Crewe stating that there is no objection to my so replying.\n\n2. You will have learned from my despatches of the 23rd July and 4th September that the institution of an observation station with wireless telegraph installation on the atoll would be of immense advantage during the typhoon season for the forecasting of storms in the southern portion of the China sea, and a protection to all shipping frequenting the southern coasts of China.\n\nAt present Canton, Swatow, and other neighbouring Chinese ports are dependent for warning of approaching typhoons upon the Hong Kong Observatory, an expensive institution which gratuitously and in the common interests of humanity furnishes directly to the Chinese authorities at Canton through the Imperial Maritime Customs, and generally by its published warnings to all shipping, both foreign and native, frequenting the southern seas, information regarding the approach of typhoons based on the daily reports received from the various observation stations with which it is in communication.\n\n3. In return for this service, which this Government gladly renders to the Chinese authorities and to the Chinese public, I have to suggest that the Chinese Government should justify their claims to the atoll, and the recognition of those claims by His Majesty's Government, by establishing an observation station on the atoll.\n\nNo great expense need be incurred in so doing. It is estimated that the cost of a suitable wireless telegraph installation would cost from £400 to £500, exclusive of the cost of inexpensive buildings for the operating room, engine house, and living quarters of the staff, which...",
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        "content_text": "**AFFAIRS OF CHINA.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\n93\n\nC.O. 23743\n\n[June 28.]\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nPECD 16 JUL OS)\n\nNo. 1\n\n[24075]\n\n**(No. 170.)**\nSir,\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received June 28.)\n\nPeking, May 8, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a correspondence which has passed between the governor of Hong Kong and myself respecting the atoll of Pratas.\n\nSir F. Lugard, it will be observed, suggested that in return for the services which the Hong Kong Observatory renders to shipping the Chinese Government should justify their claims to the atoll, and the recognition of those claims by His Majesty's Government, by establishing an observation station on the atoll.\n\nIn my reply of the 6th instant I stated the reasons which appeared to me to render it inexpedient that we should put forward a claim of this kind at a moment when a question in regard to the operations of certain Japanese on the atoll was still under the consideration of the Governments at Tokio and Peking.\n\nSince then I have received a despatch from the acting British consul-general at Canton (copy enclosed), from which it appears that the question is in a fair way towards an amicable settlement; and should Mr. Porter's anticipations be realised there may be an opportunity of submitting Sir F. Lugard's suggestion to the favourable consideration of the Chinese Government.\n\nThe accompanying photos, which have reached me from a confidential source, may be of interest as showing the nature and extent of the Japanese operations on the atoll.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Sir,\n\n#### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nGovernor Sir F. Lugard to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nApril 21, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to my Secret despatch of the 15th September last, have the honour to transmit the enclosed copy of a despatch which I addressed on the 4th February to the Secretary of State for the Colonies enquiring whether I was at liberty to state, in answer to a question put by a member of the Legislative Council, that the atoll of Pratas is claimed by China, together with a copy of a telegram which I have now received from Lord Crewe stating that there is no objection to my so replying.\n\n2. You will have learned from my despatches of the 23rd July and 4th September that the institution of an observation station with wireless telegraph installation on the atoll would be of immense advantage during the typhoon season for the forecasting of storms in the southern portion of the China sea, and a protection to all shipping frequenting the southern coasts of China.\n\nAt present Canton, Swatow, and other neighbouring Chinese ports are dependent for warning of approaching typhoons upon the Hong Kong Observatory, an expensive institution which gratuitously and in the common interests of humanity furnishes directly to the Chinese authorities at Canton through the Imperial Maritime Customs, and generally by its published warnings to all shipping, both foreign and native, frequenting the southern seas, information regarding the approach of typhoons based on the daily reports received from the various observation stations with which it is in communication.\n\n3. In return for this service, which this Government gladly renders to the Chinese authorities and to the Chinese public, I have to suggest that the Chinese Government should justify their claims to the atoll, and the recognition of those claims by His Majesty's Government, by establishing an observation station on the atoll.\n\nNo great expense need be incurred in so doing. It is estimated that the cost of a suitable wireless telegraph installation would cost from £400 to £500, exclusive of the cost of inexpensive buildings for the operating room, engine house, and living quarters of the staff, which...",
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        "content_text": "## 740 ES\n\n1\n\nIt is suggested that steps be taken to establish an Observation Station in Pratas.\n\nNo great expense need be incurred. It is estimated that the cost of a suitable Wireless Telegraph Installation would cost from £400 to £500, exclusive of the cost of inexpensive buildings for the operating room, engine house, and living quarters of the Staff which need not consist of more than three persons.\n\nThe observations are of a simple nature relating merely to readings of the barometer, force and direction of the wind, and other weather indications, and do not require to be made by an expert staff.\n\nCommunication with the mainland of China could no doubt be undertaken without much expense by the Chinese Naval Authorities at Canton.\n\nIn the event of the Chinese Government adopting this suggestion, Sir John Jordan is requested to state that the **Hongkong Government** will be ready to co-operate in receiving and transmitting the observations to Canton and elsewhere, as may be arranged with the Chinese local authorities.\n\nThe **Director of the Hongkong Observatory** would also, if desired, undertake the instruction of the Staff to be sent to Pratas in the method of taking the observation.\n\n(Signed)  \n**J. N. Jordan**  \n**British Legation**,  \n**Peking**",
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        "title": "CO129-370 - Governor Sir Lugard & Public Offices - 1910 [12]",
        "content_text": "7768A\n\n4\n\nAt present Canton, Swatow, and other neighbouring ports of China are dependent for warning of approaching typhoons upon the Hong Kong Observatory, an institution supported by the Hong Kong Government at great expense, which gratuitously and in the common interests of humanity furnishes directly to the Chinese authorities at Canton through the Imperial Maritime Customs, and generally by its published warnings to all shipping, both foreign and native, frequenting the Southern seas, information regarding the approach of typhoons based on the daily reports received from the various observation stations with which it is in communication.\n\nIt is highly desirable in the interests of navigation that the Chinese Government should on their side establish an observation station in Pratas.\n\nNo great expense need be incurred. It is estimated that the cost of a suitable wireless telegraph installation would cost from £400 to £500, exclusive of the cost of inexpensive buildings for the operating room, engine-house, and living quarters of the staff which need not consist of more than three persons. The observations are of a simple nature, relating merely to readings of the barometer, force and direction of the wind, and other weather indications, and do not require to be made by an expert staff. Communication with the mainland of China could no doubt be undertaken without much expense by the Chinese Naval Authorities at Canton.\n\nIn the event of the Chinese Government adopting this suggestion, Sir John Jordan is requested to state that the Hong Kong Government will be ready to co-operate in receiving and transmitting the observations to Canton and elsewhere, as may be arranged with the Chinese local authorities. The Director of the Hong Kong Observatory would also, if desired, undertake the instruction of the staff to be sent to Pratas in the method of taking the observations.\n\nBritish Legation, Peking.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1. MEMORANDUM.\n\nThe Board has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Sir John Jordan's memorandum of the 19th instant, stating that it would be very advantageous if China were to establish a wireless telegraphy station on the Pratas Islands, and further that the Director of the Hong Kong Observatory would also, if desired, undertake the instruction of the staff to be sent to Pratas in the method of taking observations.\n\nThe Board accordingly referred the matter for the consideration of the Board of Posts and Communications, and the latter have now replied that the Viceroy of Liang Kwang has been instructed at once to make the necessary arrangements.\n\n25th November 1909.\n\n5\n\nNo. 3.\n\nGOVERNOR OF HONG KONG to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong,\n\n1st March 1910.\n\nMY LORD,\n\nIn my despatch No. 303 of October 20th, 1909, to which I have not as yet received a reply, I had the honour to forward an application from Messrs. Keegan and Rosencrantz for a license to establish and operate a commercial wireless telegraphy business in this Colony. Prior and subsequent to that date the desirability of such a station in Hong Kong had been much discussed, and the chairman of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce took occasion in his annual speech to draw attention to its necessity. I have also received a letter from the Commodore inquiring what steps could be taken in time of war or emergency to prevent any wireless station which may be erected from being used.\n\n2. Deeming it desirable to obtain some information of a general nature on this subject, I communicated with the Commander-in-Chief and, at his suggestion, I embodied the points on which I desired to be informed in a confidential letter, dated January 13th last, a copy of which is attached. In reply to this letter he verbally suggested to me that the best way of eliciting the information would be to appoint a small committee. I did so under the chairmanship of Sir Henry May, the Colonial Secretary, with the Director of Public Works, and two naval and military officers as members. I directed that the proceedings should be strictly confidential, and I enclose their report together with the terms of reference. Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton, and I now attach a copy of my letter and his reply.\n\n3. I have also on the 24th ultimo received a letter from Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Company, Limited, offering to submit detailed estimates for erecting a wireless station on the Poulsen system, if furnished with particulars as to range required, &c., and proposing to operate it for three months, when, if found satisfactory, it would be taken over by Government, as adopted by China in Chinese ports, and on various vessels. I enclose a copy of this letter and its enclosures in original, which, if convenient, I desire may be returned to me. I have caused a reply to be sent to this firm to the effect that I am referring the matter to your Lordship.\n\n4. I have already expressed such views as I am able to form—with a very insufficient knowledge of the various systems in vogue, their respective cost, &c.—in my letter to Admiral Lambton, and I submit the papers for your Lordship's instructions. I have only to observe that it seems to me highly desirable that a commercial wireless telegraph station should be established here as soon as may be, and that if it should be capable of superseding the land telegraph system to Chinese stations and to Singapore, there would seem to be a prospect of its proving a very desirable source of revenue for the depleted treasury of this Colony. It must, however, be understood that the Colony is not at present in a position to incur any large capital expenditure or annual charges which are not covered by the returns.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nF. D. LUGARD, Governor, &c.\n\nSIR,\n\nNo. 2.\n\nADMIRALTY to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nAdmiralty, 5th February 1910.\n\nWith reference to your letter No. 41383/1909, dated the 22nd ultimo, relative to the proposed erection of a wireless telegraph station on Pratas Island, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to request you will inform the Secretary of State for the Colonies that they are of opinion that this station should communicate with the new wireless telegraph station proposed to be erected at Hong Kong by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, rather than with the Naval Station there.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nW. GRAHAM GREENE.\n\nSIR,\n\nEnclosure 1 in No. 3.\n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong,\n\n13th January 1910.\n\nTHE question of inaugurating a commercial wireless station in this Colony has, from time to time, been raised, and this Government has received an application from Messrs. Keegan and Rosencrantz, who state that they hold the patent rights of Messrs. Marconi in the Far East. In accordance with standing instructions from the Secretary of State for the Colonies the application has been submitted to him. I, in the meantime, anxious to obtain what information I can, as to the possibility of erecting and working such a station as a Government undertaking. If your Excellency...\n\n* Answered on 1st February 1910 to the effect that the application was to be refused in view of license promised to the Eastern Extension and Marconi Companies.\n\nA 3",
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        "content_text": "4\n\nis a very noticeable tendency on the part of the magistrate to treat a prisoner charged with embezzlement with hardly greater severity than the defendant in a civil suit, to regard the taking of a secret commission as a legitimate means of gaining a livelihood, and the fraudulent imitation of a trade-mark as a sign of business acumen.\n\nNo appeal lies from the judgments of the mixed court in criminal cases. This rule was first laid down in a report made by the mixed court magistrate to the taotaj in 1907. Interference on the part of the higher Chinese authorities with the working of the court has usually an illegitimate object, and tends to destroy the independence of the magistrate. Anything which curtails such interference must therefore be welcome, and the assessors have accordingly found it convenient to adopt the magistrate's ruling on this point. But though there is no appeal, there may be a rehearing, and this is always granted when fresh evidence can be produced, or if there is reasonable ground to suppose that an injustice has been done.\n\nThere remains in connection with the criminal jurisdiction of the court the case of crimes committed against foreigners outside, but in the neighbourhood of, the settlement. Such crimes are, for the sake of convenience, tried at the mixed court. The commonest case is that of thefts from steamers in harbour. These prisoners are brought by the river police (a Chinese police force under the control of the commissioner of customs) to the mixed court for trial and sentence, and thence to the city magistrate, in whose prison they serve their sentence.\n\nAll other male prisoners remanded or sentenced by the mixed court are imprisoned in the Shanghai municipal gaol, or, in the case of short sentences, in the police stations. Female convicts remain in the custody of the magistrate in the special prison for women within the precincts of the mixed court. In this connection the following special cases should be mentioned: Prostitutes imprisoned for soliciting on the streets are imprisoned in the Sinza Refuge, where they are made to pay 10 cents a day for their keep. Sick beggars are sent to the same institution. Women unwilling to remain in brothels, and seeking the protection of the court, are sent to the Door of Hope, and female slave children who have been ill-treated by their owners are sent to the Slave Girls' Refuge.\n\nCivil Jurisdiction and Procedure.\n\nThe civil jurisdiction of the mixed court is twofold. The court has jurisdiction in all cases where a foreigner is plaintiff, whether the defendant resides within or without the settlement, and in all purely Chinese cases where the defendant resides within the settlement. The court sits at 6 o'clock every evening, without any assessor, for the hearing and determination of purely Chinese civil cases. In fact, it ceases to be a mixed court, and, in relapsing into a Chinese court, it relapses at the same time, as it is somewhat disheartening to note, into the old familiar slough of corruption and procrastination.\n\nThe court sits every afternoon at 2:30 for the hearing of mixed civil cases. The following remarks apply only to British cases, but it should be noted that the same procedure has already been adopted by the German authorities and, at the request of the mixed court magistrate, is in course of adoption by the other Powers represented in Shanghai.\n\nWhen a British subject desires to sue a Chinese, he makes out a petition stating his claim in English and Chinese on a form supplied by the consulate. He files this in triplicate in the office of the British assessor, who keeps one copy and transmits the other two to the mixed court magistrate. The magistrate keeps one copy and causes the other to be served upon the defendant together with a summons ordering him to appear in the morning (criminal) court forthwith to answer to the claim.\n\nOn the appearance of the defendant in court, he either submits to judgment forthwith, or is ordered to find security for his appearance at the trial and to file a petition setting out his defence to the action. If he is unable to find security, he must remain in custody in the house of detention at the mixed court for civil defendants. If the defendant has engaged a lawyer, the answer is filed and treated in the same way as the plaintiff's petition. If not, the defendant sends in his petition in Chinese to the magistrate, who forwards it to the assessor for transmission to the plaintiff. It is very difficult, however, to compel Chinese to conform to these rules, and it frequently happens that a case comes on for trial without any defence having ever been filed.\n\n5\n\nIf the defendant appears in court on some morning when the British assessor is not on the bench, there exists a reciprocal arrangement between the British, American, and German assessors by which the American or German assessor would order him to return on the following Monday, Wednesday, or Friday (the British assessor's days) as the case may be.\n\nWhen the defendant has duly appeared to the summons, the case is set down on the hearing list, and in due course, the magistrate and assessor sit to hear the case. No rules of procedure have ever been laid down for the trial, and common sense is therefore the only guide. As the result, however, of the efforts of many successive assessors, the procedure tends more and more to approximate to that of an English court of justice, and this, of course, is the ideal to be aimed at. On the conclusion of the hearing, the magistrate and assessor consult as to the judgment. When an agreement has been arrived at, sealed copies of the judgment are sent to the parties and to the assessor.\n\nIt has never been definitely laid down whether any further right of appeal exists, but there can be little doubt that a further appeal would lie to the Minister and the Wai-wu Pu in Peking. Either party has the right of appeal to the taotai and consul-general sitting as a court of appeal. In this court, no fresh evidence can be heard without leave, and the proceedings are confined to hearing arguments on the record.\n\nWhen a plaintiff has obtained a final judgment in his favour, he is often only at the beginning of his troubles, for the very greatest difficulty is experienced in enforcing judgments. If the defendant has property inside the settlement, this can be seized and sold under order of the court, and the defendant is liable to be kept in custody at the house of detention at the mixed court until he has satisfied the judgment. But great difficulty is experienced in seizing property of the defendant situated outside the settlement, or in obtaining his rendition if he succeeds in absconding. Moreover, no British plaintiff has the heart to keep a defendant in custody indefinitely, so that the number of compromised or unsatisfied judgments is unduly large. On the other hand, the court serves a useful purpose as an engine for putting pressure on debtors who can but will not pay. The large number of cases settled out of court is an indication that a considerable proportion of this class of debtors prefers even to pay rather than be dragged into court.\n\nThe difficulties which have been indicated above pale to insignificance before the task of the assessor who endeavours to handle a bankruptcy case. In the year 1901, a firm named Chang Kee was made bankrupt. Some thousands of taels which were deposited in a foreign bank have remained there ever since, and no creditor can now be found to take any interest in the matter. In more recent cases, though assets have been distributed, it cannot be said that there is any bankruptcy procedure. Each case is a law unto itself. It is often impossible to ascertain the names of the partners or the extent of their interest in the firm, nor can one prevent fraudulent preference, concealment, and removal of assets, or the manufacture of bogus liabilities. In one well-known case, the Chinese authorities maintained à outrance that a secret agreement with his fellow partners released a partner from his liabilities to the creditors of the firm. The result of all this is that foreign creditors, rather than make an insolvent Chinese firm bankrupt, generally prefer to get what they can by making a private composition and write off the balance as a bad debt.\n\nTo meet the case of landlords seeking to recover rent from Chinese tenants, a special procedure was devised in 1907 by Mr. Barton, then British assessor, in order to obviate the delays which would be caused by following the ordinary civil procedure. The landlord may apply either for a summons or a distress warrant. In either case, the application is made on a special form giving the particulars in English and Chinese.\n\nIn the case of a summons, the defendant appears, and the matter is disposed of in the morning court. In the case of a distress warrant, the English half of the application is filed in the assessor's office, and the Chinese half is sent to the mixed court. The distress warrant is immediately made out and handed to a mixed court runner, who takes it for counter-signature to the British and senior consulates, and thence to the police station of the district where the premises are situated. A representative of the landlord then proceeds with the runner and a police constable and serves the warrant on the tenant.\n\nIf at the expiration of six hours from service, the tenant has not paid the rent due, the premises are sealed by pasting diagonally across the door two sealing strips which have been issued to the runner with the warrant. If at the expiration of fourteen days from the date of sealing, the tenant has still failed to pay, the landlord may then apply for a further order for the sale by auction of the tenant's effects and furniture. If the tenant pays within the said period of fourteen days, the landlord should, in compliance with the regulations, apply to the court for an order to remove the seals.\n\n[2862 6--4]\n\n52",
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        "content_text": "## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 18th. October, 1911.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Despatch No. 171 of June 10th., 1911, in which you informed me that you left the question of the construction of the Fanling-Shataukok Light Railway to my responsibility. In view of the expert opinion and the unanimous advice of my Executive Council to which I referred in paragraph 8 of my Despatch No. 165 of April 28th., I had no hesitation in recommending the Legislative Council to approve the proposed expenditure which formed a part of the Vote for $412,501 passed by the Council on 27th. April, 1911, for the Kowloon-Canton Railway and work has proceeded without intermission.\n\n2.\n\nThe total cost, including a sum of $40,955 to be credited as a book entry to the Kowloon-Canton Railway Construction Account for old rails, an engine &c., and $1,558 to be credited to Revenue, Kowloon-Canton Railway, was estimated in my former Despatch (paragraph 5 and enclosure 2) at $106,490. Of the cash expenditure ($62,977) I had proposed to debit $18,900 (this was really 18,000 dollars plus 5 per centum contingencies $18,900 and not $18,950) to current revenue under Public Works Extraordinary, road construction, and $44,077 (wrongly quoted as $44,027 in paragraph 2 of my Despatch) to the Kowloon-Canton Railway Construction Account.\n\nI am not sure that I understand the position as to military contribution (part 4), but he has been misled & the wording of the draft is useful. But in the purpose & paying military contribution, capital cost when working expenses may be deducted from the gross receipts & contribution paid on the nett revenue is obtained.\n\nThree points that the S.A.S. will be glad to have a report on the final completion of the line showing the actual cost.\n\nIn papers in cert. with Heath Cartin bundle in each case notify the W.O. to which the 4% principle applies.\n\nWe should now do so, taking the gross estimated cost of the railway.\n\nMr. Stabbs reminds Lom. Won 120/6/12 Article 20.\n\n**RECEIVED**\n\n**10 NOV !!**\n\nThe Right Honourable  \nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,  \n&c., &c.",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nYaumati, estimated at $87,000, was approved by this Council last year, and a sum of $12,500 was voted for it. Of this, it is estimated that $4,000 will have been spent this year, and a further sum of $40,000 is provided to continue the work next year. For the improvement of Apliu Village, a sum of $13,000 was voted last year to complete, but it has been found necessary to ask the Council for a supplementary vote of $14,000 to compensate the lessees of plots interfered with, thus causing the estimate to be increased to $33,000, which is $4,200 in excess of the original estimate. A sum of $6,000 is placed on next year's estimates to complete the work.\n\nFor an additional inspector at a total cost of $32,500, a supplementary vote of $1,000 will be submitted to enable the work to be begun this year; a total of $26,000 is provided next year. The Sanitary Board also recommends the erection of a fruit and vegetable market in the Eastern district, but no estimate has yet been made. $5,000 is set down to commence the work. Another market is also required at Yaumati at a cost of $9,600. All these are remunerative works.\n\nFor continuing the laying out, raising, and improvement of the little village of Tai Hang behind the Polo Ground, a further sum of $5,000 is allotted, and you will recollect that $2,000 is already included in the vote for new roads and streets. The cost of this improvement has been wrongly shown under different votes in the past. In all, we shall have spent $11,555 upon it up to the end of this year, and the total scheme is estimated to cost $18,600. The \"Compensation\" vote has been enlarged to include the equally vague charge for expenditure which may be incurred by Government owing to any unforeseen necessity for resuming land for a public purpose. Hitherto, no provision has been made in the estimates, though such liabilities are not infrequent. A total sum of $25,000 has been provided to meet such contingencies.\n\nThe Principal Civil Medical Officer has, to my knowledge, for the last four years, and probably longer, represented the need for a new operating theatre at the Government Civil Hospital. We propose to begin this next year, spending $15,000 out of the total estimate of $50,000. $5,000 is also provided for tiling the lavatories. $25,000 is set apart for sheds for Public Works Department stores on the piece of ground already occupied by them below the Naval Hospital, which will be properly laid out and levelled. It will then be possible to remove the temporary stores on the Praya East reclamation near No. 2 Police station, which can be let out for other occupation. The total cost is estimated at $46,500.\n\nThe Sanitary Board has represented that extensions to the Kowloon slaughter-houses are very urgently needed, involving the displacement of some coolie quarters. A house is also required for ... Internal alterations in the Kennedy Town Hospital involve a sum of $2,500, and additional office accommodation much required at the Observatory will cost $2,000. Belilios Girls' School has overflowed its quarters, and a number of the girls are at present being taught in hired rooms. An extension of the present building is required, but it has not yet been possible to draw up an estimate. $5,000 is provided to commence the work.\n\nIt has been represented to Government that the Sanitary Department urgently requires offices in the Western District at a cost of $7,000. The fish pond at Taipo, which was filled in a year or two ago, forms a valuable building site, for a portion of which Government has already received offers. A further sum of $2,000 is required to raise the level of a portion of the reclaimed ground. $9,000 transferred from the maintenance vote is set down for laying out new areas in Chinese cemeteries. The large reclamation scheme at Samshuipo will absorb $25,000 in order to provide sites for persons dislodged from the old insanitary village. The total scheme is estimated at $84,300. A sum of $20,000 is required for duplicate pumps at the pumping station on Bowen Road, but before these are laid down, the question of removing the station to another site will be investigated.\n\nIt is proposed to train the stream which flows under railway bridge No. 30 at Taipo directly out to the north by means of a causeway costing $2,500. A bridge for the roadway will be required at $8,000. When these are completed, a fine level area can be reclaimed at the small cost of $2,000, 24 acres in extent, fronting on the sea, adjoining Taipo station. It should form a very valuable asset and would be an ideal situation for a hotel and recreation grounds.\n\nThe programme of works which I have presented to you is a tolerably full one, but the Director of Public Works anticipates that he will be able to carry it out.\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nThe estimates are prepared in App. II in the way usual with railways so as to facilitate comparison with others. In the second half of scheduling an ambitious list of works, a considerable portion of which are never commenced in the year for which they are provided, I hope that in the future, before the annual estimates are presented, it may be possible to have fully prepared estimates of every work proposed for the coming year instead of leaving this preliminary work to the year in which actual construction is provided for.\n\nThe total amount of these works is $797,980. The estimated revenue, deducting the special light dues which belong to the Typhoon Refuge, is $7,582,488, and the estimated expenditure without Public Works Extraordinary is $6,704,698, leaving $877,790 to meet capital expenditure on works. We thus have an estimated surplus of $79,810, which can be devoted to the Typhoon Refuge, and with the light dues makes a total sum of $174,810. The running expenses are estimated by Mr. Lindsey at $190,087, and the earnings at $425,000, showing a balance of profit of $235,000 towards the service of the loan. This, I confess, seemed to me somewhat optimistic in the first year of working, but Mr. Lindsey, who has very great experience, and in whom I have the utmost confidence, assures me that, in his opinion, it is a safe estimate and based on careful calculations.\n\nThe little Fanling-Sha Tau Kok branch is estimated to cost us for running expenses and maintenance $10,886 a year and to earn $14,000, showing a profit of $3,700. I trust these estimates may be fully realised. Under \"special expenditure\" for the railway, we have provided for another locomotive and for a house for the manager. I may note here for the information of the Council that, apart from the cost of the roadway (which, as I have already told you, has been charged, like all the rest of the road, to Public Works Extraordinary), the expenditure on this light line, including rolling stock, is estimated at $54,107 only, of which $28,000 is a credit to the main line for old materials, and the remainder, $26,107, is for all other charges, including new permanent way, materials, and a new engine. This sum has been charged to the capital account of the Railway.\n\n## Post Office\n\nUnder Other Charges, Post Office, you will find an increase of an extra lakh under transit charges for Siberian mails, a very heavy charge which is in part an arrears payment. The postal estimates do not otherwise call for any special remark. We are still, as I have said, carrying on the Postal Agencies in China on behalf of the Imperial Government, but all charges are borne by the Home Government, from whom we have claimed various sums for postal buildings, furniture, etc., including a sum of $27,000 due on account of the Tientsin Agency and not yet paid. These sums, however, have not been credited in the estimates, and when paid, they will add to our surplus.\n\n## The Railway\n\nI have already referred to the railway. You will note in the first place that the chargeable to capital only appears in regard to special provision made.\n\n## Public Debt, Etc.\n\nIn class 8, the charge on account of Public Debt is shown in, I think, a somewhat clearer form than heretofore. The interest and sinking fund on the loan of 1895, which is constant each year, stand at $176,206, while the interest and sinking fund on the money borrowed for the railway and the loan to the Viceroy of the Liang Hu Provinces stand at $550,057. 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        "content_text": "3.\n\n2330\n\n303 further sums amounting to $641,171 nett as set out in enclosure 3 for the construction of the station and station yard, for loco rolling stock, for locomotives and an addition to engine shops and for the Manager's house and staff quarters, etc.\n\nAdded to the above amounts there is the sum of $1,472,390 to be provided for the purchase of land for the Station site (vide Sir F. D. Lugard's Despatch No. 96 of 15th March and my Despatch No. 124 of 1st April). There will therefore be required in all a sum of $2,420,773 made up as follows:-\n\n(i). Balance outstanding after repayment of Wuchang Loan as estimated on 31st December, 1911,\n\n(ii). Nett amount to complete (as per enclosure 3)...\n\n(iii). Purchase of land for station site.\n\n$830,721\n\n641,171\n\n1,472,390\n\n$2,420,773\n\nI will now deal with the principal items included under head (ii).\n\n3. Station and Station Yard.\n\nThe provision required on this account is distributed under the following heads of charge (vide column III of enclosure No. 3):-\n\nFormation.\n\n(c). Roads..\n\nTrack.\n\n$6,655\n\n(a). Ballast...\n\n10,963\n\n(b). Permanent Way.\n\n31,075\n\nStations and Buildings.\n\n(a). Buildings and Fixtures...\n\n$248,128\n\n(b). Station Machinery.\n\n16,981\n\n(c). Furniture..\n\n6,000\n\nGeneral Charges.\n\n(a) (1). Salaries and Allowances\n\n(4). Office Expenses...\n\n12,478\n\n1,002\n\n$335,272\n\nFor explanation of these items, I would refer you to the Manager's notes in column V of enclosure 3.\n\nIt has not been possible pending settlement of the site question to make out detailed drawings and estimates of",
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        "content_text": "323\n\n30874\n\nnecessitating an addition to the engine shops for which $15,000 is included under Head of Charge VIII Stations and Buildings (d) Workshops.\n\n6.\n\nC. and W. Rolling Stock. This includes cost of eight coaches now in course of erection (indent No. 25 of 9th February, 1911,) for which provision was made in Railway Capital Expenditure 1911, which provision however lapsed on 31st December owing to non-delivery of the underframes.\n\n7.\n\nManager's House. In the terms of appointment of the Manager of the Railway set out in paragraph 2 of Sir F. D. Lugard's Despatch No. 218 of 6th June, 1911, it was laid down that he should be granted no house or other allowance. Mr. Winslow subsequently in a letter dated 2nd August, 1911, represented that he found it impossible to obtain any place to live in under $135 a month and that it was quite likely he might find it necessary to pay even as much as $175 for suitable quarters; that when he accepted the appointment he had no idea that he would be called upon to pay such an exorbitant rental and that he feared that unless some allowance was made to him to meet this expense he would find himself financially much worse off than he had been in Shanghai. In forwarding this letter in his Despatch No. 297 of 30th August, 1911, Sir F. D. Lugard therefore recommended an allowance at the rate of $75 a month, payment of which was approved in your Despatch No. 282 of 30th September pending the construction of quarters at Kowloon. In paragraph 8 of his Despatch No. 390 of 16th of last November Sir F. D. Lugard informed you that he had provided $20,000 for the purpose and I may add that this provision was made on the supposition that a suitable site could be found on Crown land. On 1st December Mr. Winslow and Mr. H. P. Tooker, Second Assistant Director of Public Works, were instructed to inspect the sites available and to make a joint recommendation. On 15th December they reported that there were only three worthy of serious consideration namely (1) Observatory Hill, (2) a site immediately north of Kowloon Inland Lot 1132, both on Crown land and (3) a portion of Garden Lot 31 privately",
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        "content_text": "313\n\nAssuming that revenue and expenditure on other accounts balance in each year, the present balance of assets will, by the end of the year 1912 when the Refuge is due for completion, have been reduced to a sum of $1,000,000 in round figures, and it would be obviously unwise to mortgage it to any further extent. In this connection, I would refer to paragraph 4 of your Despatch No.384 of 30th December, 1911.\n\n39707/11\n\n9.\n\nApart, however, from these considerations, I am of opinion that the proposed expenditure set out under three heads in paragraph 2 is such as could legitimately be met from funds provided by loan. The expenditure under Head (i) has already been sanctioned and need not be discussed further. Head (iii), the site for the station, is an essential part of the Government's enterprise, and the expenditure thereon will yield a no less real, if invisible, profit; for the success of the Section will turn to no small extent on the suitability of the terminal arrangements. The same remarks apply in the case of the Station and Station Yard (Head ii).\n\nThe provision for locomotives included under the same Head (ii) is no more than is necessary to place the engine power, both as regards the Main and Branch Lines, on a sound working basis. I may add that, although a sum of $45,000 is included for one of these engines in the estimates for this year, it is unlikely that the amount will become available owing to an anticipated reduction in traffic receipts consequent upon the Revolution and the unsettled state of South China.\n\nThe proposed expenditure on the Manager's house is admittedly chargeable to Railway Capital Account, but it is unlikely that even the $20,000 included in the current Estimates will become available owing to the anticipated reduction in the traffic receipts referred to in the preceding paragraph. The life of the house which it is proposed to purchase may be taken on a low estimate at 50 years. The expenditure on the house would yield a return of 4 per centum, or in other words, interest at 3 per centum and sinking fund at 1 per centum thereon. Finally,",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\nC O\n\n10881\n\nKOWLOON CANTON RAILWAY.\n\n(British Section)\n\nESTIMATED\n\nAMOUNT REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE\n\nII\n\n  \n    Head\n    Sub-Head.\n    PRELIMINARY Survey EXPENDITURE\n    Amount Required\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    CENSTRUCTION IN\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    EQUIPMENT OF THE RAILWAY\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Explanatory Notes.\n    \n  \n  \n    323\n    LAND\n    Lend\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    FORMATION\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (a)\n    Earthwork\n    7,912.81\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    This amount will be required to complete Earthwork.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    For reinstating P.W.D. Drains, Sewers and main and Road surfacing when building Kowloon Station.\n    6,654.65\n  \n  \n    \n    (b)\n    Tunnels\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (o)\n    Roads\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    BRIDGES\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (e)\n    Mejor\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (b)\n    Minor\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (c)\n    Culverta\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    FENCING\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (a)\n    signs\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Boundaries\n    ::\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    TELEGRAPH\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Telograph\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    TRACK\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (a)\n    Ballast\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (b)\n    permanent way\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    STATIONS & BUILDINGS\n    4,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    This amount includes cable through Beacon Hill Tunnel & also all equipment & instrument for new station.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    For Kowloon Station Yard.\n    10,953.25\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    For Kowloon Station Yard includes rails, sleepers, points & Crossings, etc.\n    131,074.92\n  \n  \n    \n    (a)\n    Buildgs: Fixtures\n    248,127.67\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Kowloon Station & Offices Including Carriage shed & Engine Shelter, installation of light and water, Goods Transit Shed, Awnings and Raised Platform.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (b)\n    station machinery\n    16,981.08\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Kowloon Station, Signalling, water, Fire Appliance, weighbridges, Weighing Machine, Buffer stops, Etc.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    8,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Kowloon Station, includes Lavatories, Buffet, and kitchen Arrangements, and Office Furniture.\n    15,000.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    For addition to Engine Shops on account of increase in number of Locomotives.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (e)\n    Furniture\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (a)\n    Workshops\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    PLANT\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (a)\n    Construction\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (b)\n    Loco, Tool & Plant\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (a)\n    0. & W.Tools & Plant (a) Engineering\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    GENERAL CHARGES\n    9,975.00\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    ,000.29\n  \n  \n    \n    (s)\n    Loco Rolling Stock\n    140,0\n  \n  \n    \n    (f)\n    0.&W. Rolling Stock\n    125,512.07\n  \n  \n    \n    (a)(1)\n    Salaries & Allow:\n    12,477.62\n  \n  \n    \n    (2)\n    Quarters & Office\n    53,500.00\n  \n  \n    \n    (5)\n    Instrumenta\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (4)\n    Office Expense\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (5)\n    Medical\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (6)\n    Home Charges\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (7)\n    Interest\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (8)\n    Exchange\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    (b)\n    Accounts\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Andrassalid credit\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    by\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    Stris Sales\n    1,002.15\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    $691,171.48\n  \n\nميس 5\n\nThis is for four Locos, one sanctioned in Final Estimates, the second provided for in special expenditure 1912 Estimate, the third sanctioned in O.S.O.1, 041/12 and also for an additional Engine for Fanling Branch Line, sanctioned but order not yet placed, it includes also all inspection and Crown Agents' freight, landing charges and all cost of erection.\n\nThis includes total cost of eight coaches now in course of erection, slao rolling stock for Fanling Branch Line not yet ordered.\n\nKowloon Station, Architect's Fees, Clerks of the Works and Timekeepers. For Manager's House and quarters for the Station Staff at Kowloon.\n\nfees\n\n641/17/:00",
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        "content_text": "Triatio Stays to be provided with suitable Strain Insulators and arranged for being permanently secured to the Mast.\n\nEARTH SYSTEM.\n\n212\n\nTo consist of a circle of galvanized iron plates buried in a symmetrical position relatively to the Station House, and connected to it by a System of Radial Conductors of galvanized iron wire leading from each plate to a point approximately at the centre of the circle, or of the two semi-circles if the main circle is divided in this fashion. Should the nature of the ground call for it, this arrangement to be supplemented by a number of horizontal wires leading from the periphery of this circle and running parallel to and directly below the horizontal wires of the Transmitting Aerials. From the point where the System of External Earth Wires enters the building, a number of insulated cables to be run to the Main Earth Terminals in the Transmitting Room.\n\nPRIME MOVER.\n\nTo consist of a vertical high-speed oil engine of the Gardner Type 75 BHP Size running at 600 r.p.m. and provided with an extended bedplate suitable for carrying a continuous current generator direct coupled to the engine. The engine to be furnished with a complete system of water circulation comprising the necessary tanks, piping, connectors, and circulating pump; a complete system of fuel circulation comprising a driving pump, a supply of piping and connectors, and a suitable fuel tank; an exhaust system including water-jacketed...\n\nA full set of accessories and spare parts, Piping, and connectors to be provided.\n\n(a)\n\nGENERATORS.\n\nTo comprise the following machinery:-\n\nOne 50 KW. direct coupled charging dynamo supplying continuous current at a pressure of 110/160 volts.\n\nThis machine to be driven coupled up to the oil engine described above, and to furnish current for charging an Accumulator Battery of 60 cells, and also for driving the Motor Generator Set direct if required.\n\nA suitable Field...",
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        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG. 30th July, 1912.\n\nWith reference to paragraph 7 of Mr. Severn's Confidential Despatch of 27th June, 1912, I have the honour to report as follows regarding the result of the scrutiny carried out upon the New Revised Edition of the Laws of Hongkong prepared by Sir F. T. Piggott.\n\n2. A careful examination of two-thirds of the Edition has revealed the existence of several thousand mistakes and the fact that errors of one kind or another occur on almost every page. It will therefore be necessary to reprint the whole Edition.\n\n3. I have under the provisions of section (2) of the Statute Laws (New Revised Edition) Ordinance 1911 (No.19 of 1911) appointed Mr. C. G. Alabaster, Acting Attorney-General, who is well fitted for the task, as Editor to complete the work.\n\n4. Advantage will be taken of the necessity for reprinting the whole work to incorporate in the Edition the Ordinances of the current year and on this account it is proposed to increase the charge for the set of volumes from $45 to $50. The financial aspect of the question is approximately as follows:-\n\n...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n\n&C., &C., &C...\n\nPage 183\n\n...\n\nJSR.6/9\n\n$10.9.12\n\nDr. 9/2\n\nIt appears that the original text was heavily corrupted due to OCR errors. I have corrected the text to the best of my abilities, following the given rules. The initial part of the text seemed to be a jumbled collection of words and phrases, likely due to the OCR engine's failure to recognize the layout of the original document. I have discarded this part as it did not form coherent sentences.\n\nThe main body of the text appears to be a confidential letter from the Government House, Hong Kong, dated 30th July, 1912. I have corrected spelling errors, removed extra spaces, and reformatted the text into proper paragraphs. I have also preserved the original page numbering and other relevant details.\n\nThe text is now presented in HTML format using `` tags for paragraphs.",
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        "content_text": "# \nHis Excellency-We are not limited to 1 kilowatt. If the Chamber would say what range they want the question would be easy. We could get a 3-kilowatt or even 5-kilowatt installation. In the case of the 5-kilowatt station in Fiji, we had a guarantee by Marconi that it would be effective up to 300 miles at all times and under all conditions, but we found that at night it was effective for a much greater distance, up to 800 or 900 miles, and even further sometimes.\n\nMr. Ross.-If we only had a low-power station, there would be no revenue except from ships.\n\nHis Excellency.--If you want to communicate with shore stations in surrounding countries, a medium-power station would, of course, be necessary, but I do not see why you should, as there are cables, unless the idea is to compete with the cable companies, and reduce their rates by competition.\n\nMr. Edkins.—I have not followed the discussion on this subject, as I was absent from the Colony when it was introduced. It is quite possible that compulsory wireless telegraphy may be imposed on all ships, and it would be very desirable for a ship in distress to be able to communicate from half way between here and Singapore, say 600 miles. Manila would be nearer, it is true, but they would prefer to communicate with British ports in the event of repairs being required. If wireless installations on merchant ships are made compulsory, they will probably have a longer range than 300 miles, and the ships will try to recoup themselves for some of the cost by charging for messages to shore. The Admiralty will not receive such messages at their high-power station. These are, in my opinion, points for consideration.\n\nMr. Shallard.-The installations on ships are still in the trial stage. Those on our ships have a nominal range of 250 miles, but it is in practice as much as 750 miles, and as time goes on these installations will be increased in power as shore stations to receive their messages are increased in number. For example, our ships communicate with Bombay on Wednesday evening, when they are due to arrive on Friday morning, and a number of messages are sent from shore.\n\nHis Excellency. My experience is that a ship with a nominally small apparatus can send a longer message than a similar apparatus on shore, because she has the engines of the ship to give increased power. In Fiji we had a 5-kilowatt Marconi installation, and there was a ship with only a 2-kilowatt Telefunken installation, but she could communicate with us as long as we could communicate with her, up to as much as 1,300 miles at night, simply because her engines were more powerful than our shore engine. I gather that what you gentlemen think is required is a station on shore with a range of 600 miles under favourable circumstances.\n\nMr. Shallard.-We want to communicate with vessels two days out, not less than 600 miles.\n\nHis Excellency.-If you want to do that at all times you get into a medium-power station straight away. What about Bombay? Must it be in the day time?\n\nMr. Shallard. They communicate mostly at night.\n\nMr. Edkins. It seems to me that, if we can run to the expense, the practical distance is half way between here and Singapore, say 700 miles.\n\nMr. Stewart-Would it not be enough to be able to communicate such a distance at night.\n\nMr. Edkins. Not if a ship was in distress.\n\nMr. Ross.-The question is in the initial stage so far as ships are concerned.\n\nMr. Shallard. I understand the Canadian Pacific Railway Company's ships can communicate 1,200 miles.\n\nMr. Ross.-That is so. I have had experience of it.\n\nMr. Stubb.-Is it possible to increase a low-power station to a medium-power station.\n\nHis Excellency.--I think not.\n\nMr. Ross.-You can have a low-power station attached to a medium-power station.\n\nHis Excellency--I understand that you do not make a point of communication with neighbouring countries.\n\nMr. Ross. The idea of communicating with land stations was on the score of revenue. We thought we could bring down cable charges and get revenue from it.\n\nMr. Stabb.--The Cable Companies have made a large reduction for deferred messages. You can send for half rates.\n\nHis Excellency-The question of producing revenue is really a separate consideration. I understand that the primary object of the installation is to communicate with ships.\n\nMr. Edkins-Also for typhoon warnings, if, for example, anything is to be done as regards the Pratas Islands.\n\nHis Excellency. That has to come perhaps. In the case of mail steamers you want to communicate with them at two days' range, not necessarily by day, and in the case of ships acquiring higher power installations than at present, you do not wish to lay behind. That, I understand, is what was in the mind of the Chamber of Commerce in recommending a medium-power station.\n\nMr. Stewart.-Where did the Chamber get the estimate of £6,000 for a medium-power station?\n\nMr. Shallard.--I think there was some misunderstanding on the subject.\n\nMr. Stewart.-Is the Colony tied to Marconi?\n\nHis Excellency-I cannot say. The Telefunken installation is much cheaper to begin with, but I believe the Marconi Company say that their installations are cheaper over a number of years. I am informed that the Telefunken Company make high charges for renewal of parts of the machinery. I do not know whether this is so. Well, gentlemen, I am much obliged to you for coming, I will make a note of the conversation and send it to you for confirmation before communicating with the Secretary of State again on the subject.\n\n## III-GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG to COLONIAL OFFICE.\n\n(Telegram: received, Colonial Office, 9:51 a.m. 4th October 1912.)\n\nWith reference to speech delivered by Postmaster-General, House of Commons, 7th August wireless telegraph installation, commercial community strongly desire Hong Kong should be included in initial scheme. Despatch follows by mail.\n\n## MAY.\n\nSIR,\n\n### STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\n#### 1.-COLONIAL OFFICE to GOVERNOR OF STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\n16th February 1912.\n\nI HAVE the honour to inform you that the proposal referred to in my predecessor's despatch, Miscellaneous, of 1st February 1910, and subsequent correspondence, that a wireless station for communication with ships should be established at Singapore by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company and the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Wireless Telegraph Company, has now been abandoned as the companies desired to attach a condition to the grant of the proposed licence which I was not prepared to accept.\n\n2. In these circumstances I would ask you to consider whether it would not be desirable for the Colonial Government itself to establish such a station in view of the fact that many ships are now equipped with wireless apparatus.\n\n3. The cost of 1 kilowatt station with a range of about 300 miles would probably be about £2,000 exclusive of site, and the annual cost of maintenance might be about £700.\n\n4. If you concur in this suggestion, I have to request that you will take steps for the selection of a suitable site in consultation with the local naval and military authorities.",
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        "content_text": "## B 277\n\n2\n\n**PHOTOGRAPHY IN NATURAL COLOURS**\n\nThe Polychromide System\n\nEffort to produce photographs in the actual colour of nature have attracted earnest attention during recent years, and the works of the Lumières and others were valuable stepping-stones on the road to progress. It has been proved that, by the use of the colour-screen, negatives can be produced giving the sensations of the three primary colours, and these can be combined to leave a fairly harmonious picture; but it has been well stated that the results obtained by superposed pigmented bichromated gelatine (successively yellow, red, and blue), printed from colour-selection negatives at very uncertain and often far from satisfactory.\n\nOne of the chief features which distinguish the new polychromide process, patented by Mr. Acon Hamburger, of the Dover Street Studios, from many others is the use of a mechanism which enables the three plates to be taken simultaneously at a single exposure. In order to overcome certain difficulties inherent in this principle, Hamburger employs both reflection and refraction, and he has succeeded in so balancing the intensities of each that the perfect colour-stone rendering is obtained. A scale of shades of the standard colours has been prepared, in which the yellow inclines slightly to orange, the red to crimson, and the blue to green; that is to say, in lieu of being true primaries, the tints are in each case somewhere merged the one into the other. These shades are standardized, so that by means of the special developer used in the camera and the sensitized printing paper, with the above standard tints, any photographer should be able to attain accurate results. Two plates not on three are employed, each is sensitized to photograph one colour only.\n\nThe plate and the film are put together into one slide, with the emulsions in contact, the film thus serving the purpose of screening the plate. A print is made from the blue negative upon a rapid gelatine paper, which is turned into the yellow image. Prints in gelatine containing double salts are prepared from the other two negatives and transferred to a temporary support of glass. They are then superposed on the original yellow print by stripping. Though so far Mr. Hamburger has worked only by the aid of artificial flashlight, using a special compound to impart the requisite active properties, he does not anticipate obstacles in adapting the process to ordinary daylight. The camera takes the three pictures through a single lens and a single shutter, and it is found possible to have the register of the pictures perfectly accurate. The success of this process appears to depend upon the skill with which the spectrum has been split up, so that there is either no gap nor overlap, and therefore no colour is either lost or doubled. Specimens of the results yielded by the new process include not only serious portraits, in which the delicate flesh tints, the hair, and the minute details on the costume of the sitters are reproduced in complete harmony and in true colours, but also copies of paintings by the Old Masters in which the values due to low tone and false tints are successfully overcome.\n\n## NEWS OF THE WORLD\n\n[Telegrams from London]\n\n**The King of Greece**\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens wires that an eye-witness of the scene said that the King was standing at the corner of Aghistas Street, which is near the Police Headquarters, when an assassin rushed out of a hiding place and drew a big revolver from close quarters at His Majesty.\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, drew his revolver, whereupon the assassin turned round and fired twice upon the Colonel.\n\nTwo Cretan gendarmes then dashed up and arrested the assassin, who offered no resistance.\n\nColonel Frangoulis ran to the King, thinking His Majesty had not been hit, but found that he had fastened to the ground and was only half conscious.\n\nColonel Frangoulis raised the King in his arms, but His Majesty did not utter a word.\n\nSome notes and cartridges were found on the assassin.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says the man refuses to speak except to say, \"I will speak in the presence of the King.\"\n\n**King George V**\n\nThe King, accompanied by Queen Alexandra, visited Queen Mary at Marlborough House.\n\nThe outrage has aroused worldwide condolences and universal expressions of horror.\n\nA dispatch from Salonika to \"The Times\" regarding the assassination of the King of Greece says the King was in the habit of walking out every afternoon with a single servant, refusing requests made by his advisers to permit the presence of guards.\n\nYesterday, he was talking happily of the war and the successes of the Greek army as a long delayed triumph to his reign and said: \"Tomorrow I pay a final visit to the Dreadnought Goeben. It is with happiness and contentment that a German battleship should honour the Greek King at Salonika.\" These proved to be His Majesty's last words, for at that moment the assassin...\n\nThe Aide-de-Camp, Colonel Frangoulis, seized the hands of the assassin, which was poised for a second shot. Covering his Royal master with his body, Colonel Frangoulis grabbed the assailant by the throat and held him fast till soldiers came to his aid.\n\nThe English public are profoundly affected by the tragedy, which is an additional bereavement in Queen Alexandra's family. There were many references to the tragedy by public men at meetings held yesterday, and last night, wide pages of the papers were devoted to tributes.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens says that all Greece is grief-stricken. The Prince George and others gently broke the news to the Queen, who fainted several times.\n\nReuter's correspondent at Athens also reports that it appears that the assassin is weak-minded, and a victim of alcohol. He is a native of Greece. He was twice dismissed from a school where he was employed as an attendant and he petitioned the King, who referred the matter to the proper quarter, which rejected the petition.\n\n## British Affairs\n\nIn introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Commons, Col. Seely, Minister of War, dwelt on the extraordinary apprehension regarding aviation. He pointed out that the officers' never allowed performances to be published, and consequently remarkable achievements went unnoticed.\n\nHe affirmed that they did not possess any Zeppelins because they were not required.\n\nIt was decided to have some transportable dirigibles, and they would also possess 14 aeroplanes by May. Publicity were obviously marked for an expeditionary remount, and they could not reinforce the Egyptian garrison or the Indian troops. They had obtained a type of aeroplane superior to that of any nation. The difficulty was in regard to the engine, as he was offering a prize in this connection with the promise of a large purchase.\n\nThe Minister, Mr. H. Samuel (Postmaster General) and Sir Rufus Isaacs (Attorney General) obtained judgment with costs against the French newspaper \"La Muflin\" for libel in connection with statements published relating to the Marconi affair. The newspaper admitted the statements to be false and apologized.\n\nCounsel for the defence unreservedly accepted the denials of the Ministers that they were in any way concerned with dealings in Marconi shares.\n\nDelous Wattoit, Unionist Free Trader, has been returned to Parliament for the Kendal Division. The polling was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Col. Weston (U.) | 3,241 |\n| Mr. Somervell (C) | 1,680 |\n|  | 581 |\n\nUnionist Majority\n\nMr. Bone, in addressing the members of the Manchester Unionist Association, said that Kendal, in electing Colonel Weston, who refused to support the policy announced by the Party leaders, really voted no confidence in the late Government. If the party refused to act unitedly and would act following the leader, it was his duty to give place to another; and he would perform that duty if circumstances arose.\n\nThe result of the Houghton-le-Spring by-election was:\n\n| Candidate | Votes |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. Wing (L) | 930 |\n| Mr. Richardson (C) | 4,807 |\n| Mr. Modles (L) | 4,185 |\n\nThe motion by Mr. Harold Smith for a reduction of the Home Office vote was defeated by 224 votes to 100.\n\nThe two Irish prisoners who had been sentenced for five days in Cold Bath Fields prison and to whom shamrocks were sent down on St. Patrick's Day have been rescued.\n\nFrom Port Said, it is reported that the steamer \"Melen\" has shipped £50,000 in gold for Singapore.\n\n## Affairs in China\n\nThere is much published in the Russian press regarding impending war between Russia and China. This is partly based on reported Chinese preparations for an advance on Urga, in defiance of Russia.\n\nIt is announced from St. Petersburg that M. Mueller, the Consul General at Tabriz, is proceeding to Urga as Consul-General, the consulate there being upgraded to a Consulate-General.\n\n## ENDER ENTIRELY NEW SIGN ON KHEN\n\n**EXCELLENT COLON**\n\nModerate Rates\n\nM. HAYNES, Manager\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\n- No. 2, Queen's Road Central\n\nA FIRST-CLASS AND UP-TO-DATE HOTEL.\n\nEvery order European Massage attended.\n\nSituated in a central position. Large Airy Rooms. Luxuriously furnished. Electric Light and hot water throughout.\n\nSanitary arrangements of the latest pattern.\n\nCUISINE UNDER EUROPEAN SUPERVISION\n\nLadies' Afternoon Tea Rooms. Special terms for families made on application to the Manager.\n\nCharges Moderate\n\nF. RICHMANN, Proprietor\n\nTelephone No. 197, Telegraphic Address: \"Cowworm,\" Hongkong\n\n## CANNAVOLT\n\n**CENTRAL**\n\nTOKYO-HOTEL\n\nChen Hwang & Co. Limited.\n\nGENERAL IMPORT & EXPORT.\n\nANTON'S LARGE WHOLESALE & RETAIL STORE.\n\n| Furniture, Draperies, Groceries, Hats, and Shoes. Makers of Jewellery, Linquers, Crockery, Watches, and Trimmings. Wines and Spirits. Foreign Clothes for gentlemen made to measure by our own tailors. |\n| --- |\n\nENORMOUS SUCCESS\n\nTHE CHINA DAILY OUTLOOK, MONDAY, MARCH 24th, 1913\n\nThe news published in Bangkok that a party of military police have occupied the place where the salt will be examined has been paid for. Salt bought from the Government...\n\n## VICTORIA THEATRE\n\n**LOCAL AND GENERAL**\n\nEXCHANGE 111-1/2c Calcutta.\n\nThe Burma-China Frontier\n\nITTAJ\n\nThe manufacturer of salt shall sell it full to the Government at an appointed time.\n\nThe Thunderbolt Man, Wonderful Imitator and International Jester, was delivered in London on the 20th March.\n\nALEXANDER GALINSKY\n\nSATURDAY, 22nd,\n\nDebate at the Pantomime Arsie\n\nMISS ARKAS\n\nLarge assortment of Chinese Silks, Brocades, Shawls, and Foreign Goods of every description.\n\nAll goods sold at reasonable prices. The Cheapest and best place in Canton to buy Chinese and Foreign Goods.\n\nSUP PAT POO STREET, CANTON, Tel. No. 140.\n\nCanton, January 1, 1912.\n\nMAN and Italian\n\nThe Charming Serio Dancer,\n\nFREDA ARDEA LOON,\n\nTHE MAGNIFICENT NEW FILM\n\nFIRST-CLASS PRESERVES\n\nGINGER AND GOOSE MANUFACTURERS,\n\nFACTORY AT YAUMATI\n\nStation: No. 38, DES VIEUX ROAD WEST.\n\nTelephone No. 177.\n\nWhy are the leading Manufacturers of this class of Goods? Our Fruit and Gingers are all tough and of the first quality. Our Syrup is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n\"The Bohemian Girl\"\n\nSINGER\n\nSEWING MACHINES\n\nPianosare kept in stock. Our Symps is prepared from the best quality of Sugar. We give particular CORSTE particular attention to sanitary arrangements.\n\n978 TELEPHONE: HONGRONG\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nUNSURPASSED FOR\n\nLocation\n\nService\n\nCuisine\n\nand Home Comforts\n\nTHE JOYAT FAMILY HOTEL OF THE COLONY\n\n-10, Lee Theatre Road\n\nHOTEL BAI TIMORE.\n\n1. No. 2, WYNDHAM STREET.\n\nREASONABLE RATES.\n\nNo. 658, Telegraphic Address \"BALTMAX\" Hongkong.\n\nReuter's correspondent at St. Petersburg states that the \"Novoe Vremya\" says that as a result of a circular from the Chinese Government regarding the possibility of conflict with Russia arising out of the projected...\n\n## VISITORS AT HOTELS\n\nKisa Rewind live Mongolian pagan, business My A. D. Ander\n\nMr & Mrs N Fulsdan, the Chinatown of Harbin, has almost ceased.\n\nThe majority Chinese workmen have quitted their affairs and from other centres there are similar reports. Frontier trade is at a standstill, and China has prohibited the exportation of all alimentary products.\n\nOther events are expected in a very brief period of time.\n\nIn the House of Commons, Sir Edward Grey informed Mr. Harwood Bunder that the negotiations for the Chinese Loan were still in private.\n\n| Mr F. Arou | Mr T. Aoki | De Botilos |\n| Mr Birsand | child Lisa Crosse |  |\n| Mrs Orexier | Straw. Donaldson | Ewing |\n| Mr Finchote | Miss Graham |  |\n| Mr Geo. Oribia |  |  |\n| Mr and Mrs F. E. | Melfough |  |\n| Hi, i |  |  |\n| Mad |  |  |\n| Major. J. Masti | Dr Muller |  |\n| Mr M. F. Murray | Nakashima |  |\n| Mr Overy | Miss M. Panti |  |\n| Cast M Pos | Mustu |  |\n| Mrs E. Karay |  |  |\n| Mr G. R. Rabb |  |  |\n| Miss F. Sunders | Capt. & Mrs Schenk |  |\n| Dr Silene |  |  |\n| and Mrs Kemp | Me H. S. Burze | M&Ms Lauritsen |\n| Stranet fokildren | i Captiasalinity | Choses A. H. |\n| Mis A. Loigh |  |  |\n| wherton |  |  |\n\n**PECTO SEPPUSE**\n\n4. 17, Currie's\n\nLONG HING & CO.\n\nDEVELOPING MACHINES\n\nQueen's Road Central.\n\nLEE ON & CO.\n\nMANUFACTURERS of the Best Hand-made Silk and Green Cloth Embroidery of the Latest French Pattern. Canton Down-work, Wholesale and Retail.\n\nPRINTING\n\n7, Queen's Road Central, HONGKONG UNDERTAKEN\n\n**OPEN AIR SKATING RINK**\n\n**BELLE VIEW HOTEL.** (Telephone No. 907)\n\nSESSIONS 10 am, 1 12 noon, 2 to 5 pm, 7 to 10 pm.\n\nADMISSION 25 cents.\n\nADMISSION 50 cents.\n\nON LOCK\n\nYUEN\n\nCafe and Restaurant\n\nA la Carte at all hours\n\n7 pm to 1 p.m.\n\n27, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\n(Next Door to WROXWALL)\n\nW. GALLAGHER\n\nManager.\n\nDr. M. H. CHAUN\n\nYEN YEE & CO.\n\nHAIR DRESSING SALOON.\n\nHair Clipper, Razors, Scissor Sharpening and Repairing, Singeing Shaving, Massage, etc., a specialty.\n\nToilet Requisites Cigare and Cigarettes.\n\n**DENTAL SURGEON**\n\n32. Queen's Road Central (1st Floor)\n\nBoone 2 and 5.\n\nFrom the University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.\n\nTelephone 125,\n\nNo. 28, Corner of D'Aguilar Street\n\nElectrical Engineers and Fitters\n\nand that the terms now under consideration by the Chinese Government have the unanimous approval of the Six Power Bankers, that Britain would continue exclusively to support the group negotiating the Loan.\n\nThe Balkans\n\nReuter's correspondent at Constantinople says that an official dispatch claims the success of the Turks at Chatalja after a desperate infantry battle.\n\nIt concludes: \"Our forces are engaging the enemy along the whole front.\"\n\nThe I. K. & S. Bank\n\nThe chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, presiding at the all-Party meeting in London, referring to opium, said he believed some equitable arrangement would be reached whereby an outlet would be found for the present stocks. It hardly seems just that purchasers of opium from the Government of India should...\n\n| Mr K. Mintumi |  |\n| Mr H. H. Taylor | My Water |\n| M. F. W. White |  |\n\n**GRAND HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Allen\n\nMr May\n\nMr Agnew\n\nMr Reuskansen\n\nDe Brigga family\n\nMr and Mrs Mudie\n\nMr Nai Prusit\n\nand Mr J Oeso\n\nand Mrs Creer\n\nM: W. Men\n\nM: Gais\n\nMr A. Hersi\n\nMy Higginbotham\n\nMr J. Houlka\n\nDr Berage\n\nMy Selenide\n\nMr H. J. Sharp\n\nMr Shastin\n\nMr and Mrs Tobias| Tobias\n\nM. G. R. Tyre\n\nMr and Mrs Ho. Meg Watkins\n\nward\n\nDr Kurt\n\nMr Lorria\n\nMr Woodenek\n\nMr and Mrs Wikle\n\n**GRAND CARLTON HOTEL**\n\nMr and Mrs Frank\n\nMr W. Pringle, Jun\n\nAilen\n\nMr A.F. Remedios\n\nMr A.G. Reaumut\n\nMr A. Ringe\n\n**PHOTO SUPPLIES**\n\nYour Road Contra\n\nA.\n\nTACK & Co.\n\n26. Des Vieux Road\n\nELECTRIC FITTINGS COMPANY.\n\nNo. 188, Des Vœux ROAD CENTRAL\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nDeveloping Workmanship Guaranteed.\n\nand Printing\n\nUndertaken\n\nWO HING & CO..\n\nNo. 174. Queen's Road Central\n\nFR or\n\nas Riaze ng Ayrou\n\n**HOLLE HOTEL**\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF\n\nHigh Class Shawls, Handkerchiefs, Shawls, and fine Embroideries, Silk and Crepe Shawls and: \n\nMr G. Bolden\n\nMeWL Bobbik\n\nInces of Avery\n\nDancriptiste.\n\nCuphant\n\nMe Braga\n\nMi and Ms Arthur:\n\nMr F. Braga\n\nMiss F. Braza\n\nThe terms of the final agreement of the Mix Power Loan were now being satisfactorily arranged with China, and the conclusion of the Loan only awaited a decision between China and the Governments concerned regarding the appointment of foreigners to advisory posts.\n\nMiss M. Benga\n\nMva J. Conwford\n\nHarper\n\nMY J. Fayin\n\nRogerar\n\nMin Adwig\n\nMr A Selenit\n\nMr G. 1. Sew!!\n\nMiss Ethi Seith\n\nMy R. Stephenson\n\nMiss 6. Hour\n\nMre demeys\n\nMrs Tall\n\nMr F. J. Traadpild\n\nMr Mrs Rt.\n\nMr J, Veracr\n\nArt W\n\nHereel confidence in China's future and said in interious popularise. Jesper\n\ntion w great patural resources were & \n\nuthent guarantee of its prosperity\n\n**SING KEE & CO.**\n\nNSOP CHANDLERS, COMPRADORES AND STAYCLONES\n\nNo. 34. Connaught Road, Hongkong.\n\nKeep on hand every Description of Ship's Provisions, at lowest prices.\n\n**'MOHI' PEARL**\n\nTel), 632\n\nExcellent amongst all Pearls. Colour and shape up-to-date. Necklet, Earing, Brooches, Drops, etc.\n\nTRIAL SOLICITED\n\nMOHIDEEN & CO.,\n\n38, funny's Loan Central, foxokono.\n\n**Dr. YOUNG BROTHERS**\n\nAMERICAN DENTISTS\n\nPrice: the Best Quality Gaur\n\nNO, SEA, QOHEN'S ROAD CENTRAL\n\nEnteed AB Saris of Cout of the \n\nBEST QUALITY FOR SALE\n\nHONGKONG\n\nThe Carpau mail of the 19th Feb. says the frontier of Burma in British territory is, of course...\n\nThe date for the above transaction will be fixed by Ministerial order.\n\n7. The manufacturer shall first #1...\n\nAn interesting lecture will take place to-night at the Y.M.C.A. on \"Croatian Life and Scenery\" illustrated with a number of lantern slides.\n\nThe Sanitary Board meets...\n\nCorrespondence relative to affairs in various villages should be submitted at once.\n\nOn Good Friday and Easter Sunday, special services were held in the churches of the Colony, and sermons emphasizing the occasion to the Christian world were dwelt upon by the clergy in charge with much devotion and feeling.\n\n**A Transparent Lie**\n\nAsiatic Daily says \"It has been previously reported that the Kaomingtang demanded the formation of a party Cabinet as a reward for their supporting Yuan Shi-kai as President. According to reliable sources in addition to this claim, this Club Tang has further exacted the non-payment of one million dollars for expenses.\" Such palpable lies are self-condemning. It is but a cheap way of preying on the public sympathy. Fabrication of myths as a political weapon is not likely to endure long.\n\n9. According to circumstances, the Government may organize a patrol force for the purpose of regulating the manufacturers, protecting the salt furnaces and storage, and watching the dealing and manufacturing of salt.\n\n10. The Government may, according to the local conditions, grant rules by retail.\n\nDetailed regulations regarding the above Companies and retail rules shall be separately fixed.\n\n11. As salt affects the sanitary condition of the people, the Government may deal severely with the dealers of it, and any mixture shall be found in the salt.\n\n12. The writ officials may investigate the reservoirs of well water, the places of manufacturing, storing, and the buildings, banks, etc. If necessary, for the sake of supervision, extra men may be put upon the said items.\n\n13. The sale of salt whilst in transportation...\n\nThe Victoria Theatre is nightly drawing good houses, with Miss Freda Ardea and her dancing and Alexander Galinsky, for quick change artist being very popular. Miss Ark, the new Pantomime artiste, has a style peculiarly her own, which should prove a draw. The pictures are good, \"The Sphinx\" being especially so.\n\nIt is notified in the \"Government Gazette\" that the registration of the following trade marks has been renewed under the provisions of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909.\n\nThe new public improvements, for which it was proposed to make a loan, have been temporarily abandoned. No money is available for new equipment for the fire department, and consequently, the firemen in one district have to run with engines so dilapidated that the men fear the apparatus will fall to pieces.\n\nThe police department is pressed for funds, and impounded on leave of Mr. Justice Gow-Thomas; the health department has been pared down; the street department is cut to the marrow.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve the following appointments:\n\nMr. Joseph Hansford Kemp, Crown Prosecutor, to be Puisne Judge.\n\nMr. Pauling and approved by the Government.\n\nThe Government shall deal directly with the Company, without regard to the person or persons to whom the rights and privileges belong.\n\n8. With regard to the railways constructed by the Company, should it be necessary for military purposes...\n\n## DO THINGS BLUR?\n\nDo they sometimes appear distorted?\n\nIs your sight blurred?\n\nIt is probably caused by astigmatism. Call at your earliest opportunity and have your eyes examined on we with thoroughly scientific lines.\n\nA rough test for astigmatism is as follows:-- Place the paper about three feet away and look with one eye at the above fan. The lines should appear of equal blackness, if they do not CONSULT\n\n**MANILA OFFICES,**\n\n78 ESCOLTA.\n\nTO-DAY.\n\n**LARK & CO.** SCIENTIFIC OPTICIANS\n\nYORK BLOCKS, CHATER ROAD\n\nHONGKONG\n\n**THE SINCERE CO., LTD.,**\n\n215-221, Des Voeux Road Central, 109-111, Connaught Road Central,\n\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS\n\n& \n\nHONGKONG and SOUTH CHINA,\n\nDEPARTMENTS FOR\n\nHousehold Goods, Furniture, Wearling Apparel\n\nGroceries, Wines and Spirits, Requisites, Jewellery,\n\nand Spirits, etc., etc.\n\nThe Pioneer One Price Store.\n\nGeorge Albert Would-ck.\n\nFirst Clerk\n\nThe License will be for 10 years to singolien or to reserve the right...\n\nReferred to Committee.\n\nIX.\n\nDespite all retrenchment, books shall be kept in the way prescribed by the Government, and shall be subject to...\n\nChicago is in the lightest touch since the days of the big Fire, 1871. The Metropolis of the World is bankrupt...\n\n## ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL\n\nThe Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospital:\n\n£1\n\nHo Kam Toog\n\nJ. M. Wung\n\n**National Council**\n\n(Continued from Page 1)\n\nThe revised regulation of the Railway Company of China (First reading).\n\n1. The Railway Company of China shall be organised in accordance with the Presidential Order of the 9th day of the 9th month of the First year of the Chinese Republic. With the exception of the railways, which have been or are to be built, or the construction of which has been signed, by the Government under the direct management of the Ministry of Communications and the railways concessions of which have been given to other Companies to be built.\n\n2. In addition to the common legal rights and privileges of other companies, the Company shall have the following privileges:\n\n(a) To propose and settle the lines referred to in the said article.\n\n(b) To take the concession of the lines referred to in the first article and to agree with Chinese or Foreign lot holders or Boat shares.\n\n(c) To utilize and manage the railway referred to in the first article, (1) manage the affairs connected with the alanya referred to in the first article.\n\n(e) To secure special funds and to buy in belonging to individuals, benefited by the construction of the line referred to in the first article.\n\n2. May any other company or the Government be willing to transfer the right of concession, which does not belong to the lines referred to in the first article, the Company has authority to accept it.\n\nThe Lines, other than those referred to in the first article, must be constructed by other companies under the regulations of the Government. They should not interfere with the privileges of the Company.\n\n4. The dates for commencing and completing the construction of the various lines by the Company shall be registered by the Government, unless the...\n\nShould it be unable to construct the railway according to the date, the Government may devise means for its construction.\n\n5. In all the lines which are to be built by the Company, the Government shall afford every protection and facility in the work.\n\nII. All railways constructed shall eventually become the property of the Government. With regard to the period of construction and management, and the selling of the control by the Government, the Company shall also be subject to the customary conditions applied to other companies. As to the laws and orders in connection with the affairs of the Company, unless otherwise provided by the Bill.\n\n7. All the Chinese or Foreign shares or loans, contracted by the Company, shall be subject to the laws of the Government; hence they shall enjoy the due protection of the Government. With loans which need to be guaranteed by the Government, the contract should be submitted for approval, and the regulations regarding foreign shares shall also be submitted...\n\nThe Regulations of the Company for the Transportation of Salt (first reading).\n\nThose who desire to form a Salt Company...\n\n**GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS,**\n\n**TIENTSIN-PUKOW LINE**\n\nThe Public are respectfully informed that the Through Train Service between Tientsin and Pukow will be commenced from the 4th December 1912.\n\n| TIENTSIN TO PUKOW |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | dep. 12.50 p.m.... | Wednesday and Saturday |\n| Pukow | arr. 2.55 | Thursday and Sunday |\n\n| PUKOW TO TIENTSIN |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Pukow... | 8.20 a.m. ... | Monday and Friday |\n| Tientsin (Settlement)... | arr. 10.33 | Tuesday and Saturday |\n\nFrom 1st December, all Trains from Tientsin will start from the Settlement Station.\n\nThe daily Trains between TSEN (Settlement) and Taku, between Tsinanfu and Msinanfu, and between Hwangyow and Pukow, and on the Branch Lines between Yaonow and Tsinanfow, and between Linsin and THAOCHUANG, will run as usual.\n\nThrough Trains are provided with Comfortable Sleeping Berths for the 1st Class Passengers, at a Charge of $5.00 per Berth.\n\nFurther particulars may be had on application to this Office.\n\nHEAD OFFICE,\n\nTientsin, 25th November, 1912.\n\nBY ORDER,",
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        "content_text": "## I \n\nC L that large numbers of coolies are being brought into the District for the Tytam Tuk Works. Cost $252.\n\n63 \n\n(d). 2 European Police Constables at £100 - £120 by £10 biennially. Detective Allowances at £192 per annum, 9 first class Chinese Constables at $180 per annum. 8 second class - do. at $150 Detective Allowances at $60 per annum. do.\n\nThese additions are required for the more effective examination of luggage and personal effects of steamer passengers with a view to the detection of arms or other weapons which might be employed for the perpetration of piracies as in the recent case of the S.S. \"Tai On\". Cost $6,489.\n\nI have to request your sanction by telegraph to make these additions during the current year so as to permit of the engagement of the men at the earliest possible date.\n\n(e). An extra Station Coolie for No. 5 (Fire Brigade) Station. There is only one at present, and there is more work than he can do. Cost £108.\n\n(a). An European Assistant Engine Driver, Fire Brigade, is required for the Motor Tender. Cost $240. (b). Four house allowances of $5 per mensem for Chinese Sergeants, and 6 of £3 each for other ranks of the Water Police. Similar allowances have been approved this year for a certain number of Chinese in Land Force: see footnote 12 on page 48 of the Estimates for 1913. Cost $240.\n\n(c). An extra Telephone allowance of $4 per mensem is required for No. 7 Police Station. There are now 3 Sergeant Interpreters there instead of two. Cost $48.",
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        "content_text": "# Report on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to extend the provisions of the Steam Launch (Protection against Piracy) Ordinance, 1900, to certain classes of steamers.\n\nThe recent piratical affair which took place on the River steamer \"TAI ON\" and the prevalence of pirates and robbers in the neighbourhood of the local waters have given rise to the present Legislation which is designed to enforce the certain taking of certain precautionary measures on board locally trading steamers.\n\n## \n\nUnder the provisions of the Steam Launch (Protection against Piracy) Ordinance, 1900, the obligation is placed on and the Owners of those in charge of Steam Launches (which are defined as Steamships of less than 60 Tons and which from their easily small size used to be and still are capable of being attacked) to observe such precautions against Piracy and robbery as may from time to time be prescribed by the Police authorities with the approval of the Governor. In order to ensure that the precautions actually prescribed should be properly observed, the Ordinance required the entry into a Bond in the sum of one thousand Dollars undertaking the due observance of these precautionary measures. Further than this it was also provided that in the event of an outrage taking place it was found on enquiry that the commission of such outrage was facilitated by neglect to take reasonable precautions against the commission of any such outrage, the licence granted to the Owner of the Steam Launch in question should be capable of being cancelled.\n\n## \n\nThe present Ordinance extends the operation of the above quoted Ordinance of 1900 to certain classes of steamers which are defined in the new Ordinance as River Trade Steamers.\n\nSection 1 of the Ordinance is formal.\n\n## \n\nSections 2, 4, (a), (b) 5, 6, 7, 8, (b) introduce the necessary formal wording into the old Ordinance added to the Steam Launch the new class of vessels to be included by the present Ordinance.\n\n## \n\nSection 3 of the new Ordinance designates the new class of steamers, to which the provisions of the Ordinance 1900 are to apply, the name of River Trade Steamers and defines this designation as a Steamship of 60 Tons and upwards regularly plying with cargo or passengers between the Colony and any place in the neighbouring Estuarine or river waters and also British Steamship of like size running in between the places mentioned.\n\n## \n\nBy Section 4 (a) the Bond in the case of these larger vessels now affected is fixed at Five thousand Dollars, the interests being of course greater than in the case of the smaller Steam Launches.\n\n## \n\nBy Section 8 it is proposed that in the event of failure on the part of those responsible to take reasonable precautions against the commission of any outrage of the character indicated the passenger certificate of the steamship in question may be withdrawn.\n\n## \n\nIt may be added that amongst the precautions which it is proposed should be prescribed the maintenance of an efficient armed guard, the compulsory carrying of weapons by the officers, and the construction of strong grilles preventing access to the engine room and wheel house.\n\n## \n\nIn my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and on His behalf.\n\nAttorney General.\n\n19. 4. 13",
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        "content_text": "## Enclosure 3. Recommendations of the Piracy Prevention Committee.\n\n227\n\n1. The number of guards on board River Steamers should be four men at least. They should be non-Chinese and armed with modern weapons. The weapons should be tested weekly and the guards practised in their use. The guards should also carry whistles.\n\n2. The Police should have the right of examining the guards and their weapons, to see that they are efficient.\n\n3. All the guards should be on duty immediately before and after departure and arrival, and at all times (during the voyage) at least two should be on duty.\n\n4. All officers on duty, including Engineers, should carry loaded pistols of a good and serviceable pattern, and should understand the use of them. These arms should be tested periodically.\n\n5. The River Steamers and passengers should be searched by the Police before sailing, by male and female searchers. Two Chinese Constables and one female searcher to each ship. They should be supervised by European Police.\n\n6. Passengers and their luggage should not be allowed to embark on the off side of the ship.\n\n7. Abaft of the wheel house should be erected a steel grille with dodgers on either side of bullet-proof material (see sketch). No ladders to be allowed on foreside of the bridge.\n\n8. Grilled doors should be provided to all entrances leading to engine or boiler rooms.\n\n9. Only first-class saloon passengers to be allowed on the boat or shade deck.\n\n10. Regulations should be made so that at night time, between Cap Shui Mun and Wangmoon and between Cap Shui Mun and the Bogue forts and vice versa, the River Steamers accompany each other and remain within easy signalling distance. The ships to have distress signals ready for use.\n\n11. The owners, agents or charterers of River Steamers to enter into...",
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        "content_text": "COUNCIL (6.11.14)\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK - Might I suggest that it would assist if we move the suspension of No. 26 of the Standing Orders.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - You can do it that way.\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK - I beg to move that, Hon. Mr. WEI YUK seconds, and the motion was agreed to.\n\nHon. Mr. EWETT - The explanation of the Director of Public Works on all the points I have made is eminently satisfactory, but I think he slightly misunderstood me when I spoke on the question of the estimates for his department. I quite understand estimates ought to be made as closely as possible, and that is what we ask. We do not ask to have close estimates made for such buildings as the Law Courts and the Post Office. A decrease of $130,000 in 2 million is of course going as near as any reasonable man could expect to get. With regard to the hon. Colonial Treasurer's remarks on subsidiary coinage, I understand that $11,000,000 has been withdrawn from circulation. The original amount was about $38,000,000 or $40,000,000, and we require from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000 for our own use. As $11,000,000 is wiped out, that leaves $26,500,000. We may reasonably take it that about one-third of that at least has disappeared into bullion. Therefore, I presume that the Colonial Treasurer will be called upon to buy something like $13,000,000 or $14,000,000 more. That is further loss, and we stand to lose 15 or 16 per cent. on that sum of money. I wanted to arrive at some sort of estimate as to how much more this Colony will have to pay for the rehabilitation of its coinage.\n\nWith regard to what the Colonial Treasurer said about house rents, I think he overlooked the fact that in assessing the value of house property it is generally taken at 75 per cent. of the value; because there are always a certain number of houses which are empty. Therefore, I maintain that the present assessment, taken a year or two ago, is probably higher than any which has been taken in the last five years.\n\nWith regard to what was said about the railway, if $62,000 represents the cost of that coal, and good steaming engine coal is put into the tender, then it works out at a price of about $8 to $8.50, which is not excessive.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY - I can give you the figure. But in the yard the cost is $10.00 per ton.\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK - I was not dealing with the price. I was speaking of the value.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT - The price seems to me, even if it were $10 in the yard, not excessive. With regard to the procedure of the debate, I must say I am sorry I cannot refer to the old question. Were the Governor to get up and make his speech verbally, as I said, it would be very much more illuminating, and I don't think there is anything more to be gained by sitting in conference, as suggested by the Colonial Secretary, and it would be making a travesty of the debate if the whole thing were done in committee.\n\nWith regard to the moorings, your Excellency misunderstood what I have said. I entirely favour the relaying of the moorings, but I object to the new system and am afraid of it. Your Excellency has for the first time told us what the price is to be per diem for the use of these moorings, and I think the charge is very high, far higher than I charge for the use of my moorings when I let them to my friends. My point is that if it is necessary to relay the moorings I certainly think it is better to do so than to go to the vast expense of dredging the harbour, but let the shipping companies have their moorings in their present positions. Your Excellency speaks of relaying moorings once in four years.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - No, we are taking them by degrees, ten a year.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT - Roughly speaking, there are 30 or 40 moorings, and the calculation is $10,000 a year to relay ten moorings. I would not attempt to leave my moorings down for four years. I remove mine every two years.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - The hon. member does not understand me. We cannot take up the whole forty and relay them all at once because there would be no buoys available.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT - But you cannot dare to keep your moorings down for four years without relaying them.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - I will make a note of that.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT - I remove mine every two years. Even then in that condition I have seen steamers break away from their moorings in a typhoon and go down the harbour.\n\nWith regard to the question of the annual accounts rendered, I still think it would be of very great assistance if we could have a detail of the revised estimates put in the body of the accounts, because in many cases there is a large difference between the estimates and the original revised estimates.\n\nNow, Sir, I beg to move the elimination from the account of the amount of $10,000 voted for the Harbour Master's Department.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - You had better wait until we get into Committee to do that.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT - Very good, Sir.\n\nThe motion was then put to the meeting, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nCouncil then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT then moved the rejection of the vote of $10,000 for the Harbour Master's Department.\n\nHon. Mr. POLLOCK seconded.\n\nThe motion was declared lost, but Hon. Mr. HEWETT wished to divide.\n\nA division was taken, and resulted as follows:-\n\nFor: Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Hon. Mr. HEWETT, Hon. Mr. POLLOCK, Hon. Mr. WEI YUK.\n\nAgainst: The Captain Superintendent of Police, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Director of Public Works, the Colonial Treasurer, the Attorney-General, the Colonial Secretary and the General Officer Commanding.\n\nHon. Mr. HEWETT then moved the postponement of the estimates for a fortnight. Hon. Mr. WEI YUK seconded, but the motion on being put to the meeting was lost, the unofficials being for and the officials against it.\n\nOn Council resuming,\n\nThe ATTORNEY-GENERAL reported that the Bill had passed through Committee without amendment, and moved that it be read a third time and passed.\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was read a third time and passed.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY - Council adjourned sine die.\n\n206",
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        "content_text": "HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nproved a success so far, and I therefore propose to increase the number of the scouts as opportunity offers. The sum paid to each scout is $60 a year, and the provision made is therefore sufficient for twenty, of whom eight are already being employed. The votes for Incidental Expenses, Secret Service, and Transport have been increased by $1,600, $3,000, and $3,000 respectively, the amounts inserted this year having been under-estimated. The vote for coal and oil-fuel for launches has been increased by $6,300, to meet the rise in price and to provide for the motor launch. Under \"Light and Electric Fans\" an increase of $1,015 has been estimated for. Of this sum $165 is for the lighting of Shaukiwan and Tsat-tsz-mui Stations.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure provision has been made for a new steam-launch at a cost of $37,500. This launch is to replace No. 2 launch, which has been condemned as unseaworthy and sold. A sum of $1,800 has been provided for the hire of a launch pending the completion of the new launch. The motor launch to which I have already referred is estimated to cost $5,000.\n\nFire Brigade\n\nProvision has been made for a new motor fire engine and pump at a cost of $13,364. This is for use in the City of Victoria. Experience of the motor tender at present in use has shown the great advantage of motor propelled fire appliances. It has been found possible to get the engine to all parts of the City where there are Chinese buildings. On the upper levels in many places there is not sufficient water pressure and volume to throw more than one jet to the top of a building. The use of a motor pump will remedy this defect.\n\nPrison\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $3,840 has been entered for the purchase of machines and tools for the printing shop in order to cope with the increasing work and to secure greater efficiency.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,500 has been provided for the equipments necessary for the examination of cassia and anise oils. This work, which has been undertaken at the request of the Chamber of Commerce, will be carried on in a room built specially for the purpose. It is expected that the expenditure incurred will be recovered from the fees paid for the examinations.\n\nMedical Department\n\nProvision has been made for three additional sisters at a total cost of $3,737. This increase to the staff has been rendered necessary by the separation of the Maternity Hospital nursing staff from that of the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nSanitary Department\n\nFour Inspectors have been added to the establishment on the recommendation of the Sanitary Board at a cost of $7,474. These Inspectors are required for the purpose of carrying out the periodical cleansing of Chinese tenement houses every quarter instead of half-yearly as hitherto. In consequence of these new posts it has been necessary to provide for four 5th Grade Interpreters costing $1,920. In order to cope with the extra cleansing work 32 coolies are required at a cost of $4,224. Provision has also been made for 25 scavenging coolies at a cost of $2,700. Of these, 15 are for the Eastern half of the City and the Peak, and 10 for the Western half of the City. The steady growth of new houses and streets has made it impossible for the present staff to cover the ground properly. In November, 1913, a departmental haulage system was instituted for pulling the scavenging carts in place of the contract system, which had proved unsatisfactory. Sixty men were required for this work, and the trial during the current year has been so successful that it has been decided to adopt the system permanently. Provision has, therefore, been made for this number of men (being half the contract number) during next year at a cost of $6,480. By this change a saving of $90 has been effected with a great gain in efficiency.\n\nUnder Other Charges a sum of $3,110 has been provided for lighting smaller markets. There is an increase of $1,300 in the vote \"Uniform for Staff\" due to the additions to the staff mentioned above.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $10,000 has again been entered for the removal of ceilings in order to permit of a continuance of the plague-preventive measures.\n\nTwo four-wheeled water-carts have been provided for a cost of $1,250 to replace two of the old two-wheeled carts, which are very hard on the bullock and are continually in need of repairs.\n\nPage 117\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n210\n\n118\n\nBotanical and Forestry Department\n\nIt will be seen that of the total amount of $2,241,305, a sum of $298,154 is in respect of arrears during the current year. These arrears are much larger than usual, but this is naturally due to the increase in revenue.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,530 has been provided for making a new lawn at Mountain Lodge in place of the present chunam court.\n\nEducation\n\nUnder the heading \"Grants\" a new sub-head \"University Examination Grants\" has been inserted, $6,880 has been inserted. These grants will take the place of the existing grants for the Oxford Local Examinations, which were estimated to cost $4,715 in 1914.\n\nVolunteers\n\nThere is an increase of $8,850 in the vote for Capitation Grant due to the increase in the strength of the corps.\n\nIn the month of April last, Mr. Ellis Kadoorie offered to hand over to the Government the splendid buildings of the school, which bears his name, and the land on which it stands, completely equipped and entirely free of charge. The approval of the Secretary of State for was obtained for the transfer, and the Government has therefore become possessed through the great generosity of Mr. Ellis Kadoorie of a valuable addition to its scholastic institutions. A sum of $28,700 has been entered under Personal Emoluments to provide for the necessary staff, and a sum of $945 under Other Charges to meet the cost of electric fans, books, prizes, and incidental expenses. At the Belilios Public School provision has been made for an Assistant Mistress, as the existing staff is inadequate to deal with the increased attendance. The staff of the Indian School has been increased at a cost of $2,880, as it is expected that the school will be transferred to permanent building on a new site in July, 1915. This building, which is estimated to cost $40,000, is the gift of a generous donor, who wishes for the present to remain anonymous.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,994 has been inserted for furniture for the quarters attached to the Kowloon British School, Victoria British School and the Peak School, as it has been decided to provide necessary heavy furniture for these quarters.\n\nMilitary Expenditure\n\nThe Defence Contribution shows an increase of $542,325. The calculation of this item is shown in Appendix II.\n\nPublic Works\n\nUnder Personal Emoluments a sum of $3,360 has been entered to provide for six additional foremen and one clerk at $480 each in connection with the Tytamtuk Scheme, Second Section. Provision has been made for three additional Land Surveyors at a cost of $11,211. These surveyors are required in connection with the Praya East Reclamation Scheme, and the third is for adjusting arrears in the survey work in the New Territories. Under \"Water Works\" two 3rd Grade House Service Inspectors have been provided for at a cost of $1,920. At the present time there is no systematic method of carrying out these inspections, which are designed for the detection of unauthorised connections, and the repair of leaks and defective fittings. This will tend to prevent waste of water, and to ensure that the provisions of the law are more effectively enforced.\n\nUnder Other Charges the following items have been increased:-\n\nConveyance Allowance by $1,440 for the three new surveyors, and for the two apprentice surveyors in the Crown Lands and Surveys Department, for whom no allowances have hitherto been provided.\n\nDrawing Materials and Mounting Plans $1,800\n\nLand Survey Contingencies $1,000\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,000 has been provided for furniture for the offices consisting of plan cases, book-cases and filing-cabinets.\n\nPage 118",
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        "content_text": "N° 375\n\nEnclosure\n\nREG 28 DEC 14\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONGKONG,\n\n19th November, 1914.\n\n416\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to my despatch No.254 of the 16th July, I have the honour to inform you that on receipt of your telegram of the 14th August in which you urged considerations of economy, I instructed Mr. Baker, the Manager of the Railway, carefully to revise the scheme originally submitted, which was a comprehensive one, and to exclude all works not imperatively required.\n\n2.\n\nI enclose a plan illustrating the new laying out scheme drawn up by Mr. Baker. It involves the following programme of works:-\n\n3.\n\n(a). The conversion of the present paint-shop into an engine-shed with accommodation for four locomotives, and the addition of an annexe for use as a paint-shop.\n\n(b). The erection of train-sheds to accommodate two trains of eight coaches each.\n\n(c). The removal of the existing store-house to a more convenient site.\n\nI attach a table showing the number of locomotives and coaching vehicles now in use or on order, the existing accommodation, the additional accommodation to be provided in accordance with the revised scheme, and for purposes of comparison, the additional accommodation to be provided in the original scheme.\n\n4.\n\nUnder this scheme the expenditure to be incurred on\n\nEnclosure 2\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nLEWIS HARCOURT, M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n1\n\nPage 420\n\nPage 421",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nYou have an official letter which I have had addressed to you by the Colonial Secretary; and as I have said, it is merely a formal recognition of your services:\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to inform you that your spirited action on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday the 27th of April, 1914, has been brought to the notice of the Governor. It appears that with the help of your colleagues, Mr. McCartney, the Chief Engineer, and Mr. Evans, the Chief Officer, you gallantly withstood the armed assault upon the bridge, and that when the vessel had been set on fire you did all that lay in your power to obtain help from other vessels in the vicinity, afterwards remaining at your post until all had left the burning ship.\n\nYour devotion to duty in circumstances of great peril was worthy of the highest traditions of the British Mercantile Marine Service and I am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your courageous conduct, which was the means of saving many lives.—I am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient servant,\n**Sd. CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nR. H. Wetherell, Esq.,\nMaster, S. S. \"Tai On.\"\n\nI may say here that enquiries will be made into the circumstances under which certain ships, who although they knew that the \"Tai On\" was on fire did not stand by to render her assistance. Thank you again very much and my personal opinion of you at the present is, that you are one of the finest chaps I have ever shaken hands with.\n\nMr. McCartney, you come from a race—the Scots race—which has proved itself equal to any emergency, and you are a fine specimen of one of the finest races on the face of the earth, though I say it who am not of your race.\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\nSir,\nI am directed to inform you that the valuable services which you rendered on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday, the 27th of April, 1914, have been brought to the notice of the Governor.\n\nYou gallantly supported the efforts of the Captain in repelling the armed assault on the bridge, and afterwards when the vessel had been set on fire.\n\nI am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your brave conduct.—I am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**Sd. CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nI am proud to shake hands with you.\n\nMr. McCartney:-Thank you, sir.\n\nHis Excellency:--And now, Mr. Dias, you acted a very brave part. You were foreman of the guard on board and you showed that the Portuguese race has still got lots of the courage for which it was famous in history. I am glad to think that one of the ancient allies—or a member of a country, the ancient ally of England—stood by British officers to do the strenuous work that you did.\n\nThe following letter has been directed to you:\n\n**Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th April, 1914.**\nSir,\nI am directed to inform you that His Excellency the Governor has heard with much pleasure of your gallant conduct on the occasion of the piratical attack on board the steamer \"Tai On\" on the night of Monday, the 27th of April, 1914.\n\nIt appears that with your colleagues you assisted the officers in preventing the pirates from capturing the bridge and wheel-house, and that while so doing you shot down several members of the gang.\n\nI am to convey to you the thanks of His Excellency and the Government of Hongkong for your services.\n\nI am, Sir,\nYour obedient servant,\n**(Sd.) CLAUD SEVERN**,\nColonial Secretary.\n\nAntonie Dias, Esq.,\nArmed Guard,\nS.S. \"Tai On.\"\n\nI am proud to shake hands with you and I am only sorry I was not beside you on the bridge. I will only add that I deeply regret the loss of Mr. Evans and so many others, especially Mr. Evans who must have had a very strenuous time on that night. Now I have asked the Captain Superintendent of Police and the Harbour Master to enquire into the losses which you have incurred and the Government will deal fairly with you in this matter.\n\nCapt. Wetherell:-I beg to thank you on behalf of myself and my shipmates and to unite with you in regret at the loss of Mr. Evans.\n\nThe men again shook hands with His Excellency and left, being photographed in the grounds as they went.\n\nOne of the Chinese passengers of the \"Tai On,\" Leung Ping-wan, who was sent to the Government Civil Hospital on the 28th inst., suffering from shot wounds, died there at 7.45 p.m. on Wednesday.\n\nLee. Sgt. Grimmitt reports that he picked up on the wreck of the \"Tai On\" the following articles: the metal parts of a shot-gun, 3 Winchester Rifles, 2 Mauser Pistols, 2 Automatic Pistols, 2 Revolvers, various silver and copper coins, 3 Bangles, 1 Gold Finger Ring, 1 piece Jade Stone.\n\n## ON THE INQUIRY\n\n41\n\n## HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SUPPLEMENT\n\nTuesday the official inquiry into the circumstances attending the casualty to the British S.S. \"Tai On,\" to quote the words of the warrant forming the Court, was commenced at the Harbour Office. The court, which was composed of Commander Basil Taylor R.N. president, Lt. T. D. Sharp, R.N. HMS. Tamar, Mr. F. T. Wheeler, master of the S.S. Kum Sang, J. W. Evans, master of the S.S. Hai Mun, and J. Robinson master of the S.S. Sangking.\n\nThe first witness called was the master of the ill-fated \"Tai On,\" Capt. Wetherell said he left his wharf at 7 p.m. on April 27.\n\nThe President:-Bound for Wongmoon?-Kwongmoon.\n\nWere there other ships which left at the same time?—Yes; the \"On Lee.\" She left after me and came astern down the central fairway.\n\nWas the \"Lintan\" due to leave at the same time?-I believe so.\n\nDid you see her?-No. Did the \"On Lee\"?-I cannot say, but I have been told she passed me at Capsimun Light.\n\nDid you see any more of the \"On Lee\"?—No.\n\nThen you went along and everything went well until when I turned in before then.\n\nWhen?-About 10 p.m. What is the next thing that happened?—I had a few smokes but could not sleep. I never can sleep on that watch—and then I heard yells, shouts, and revolver shots.\n\nComing from where?-From both sides.\n\nOn your boat deck?-Yes. Any down below?-I can't say that.\n\nThen what did you do?-I got up and turned the light on. A plan of the ship was produced showing the captain's quarters.\n\nYou were fully dressed?-No, in singlet and gown.\n\nThe gun was a-? Ten bore shot gun.\n\nLoaded? It is always kept loaded.\n\nLoaded with what?-S.G.\n\nYour door is on the aft deck?-There are two doors. I went to the starboard side when a man met me. He went back and I went to the port side.\n\nThe man who met you; was he?-A pirate.\n\nArmed?-I had not time to see if he was armed.\n\nThen you went to the port side and what did you see?-A man attacking the Chief Engineer.\n\nArmed?-I could not see. It was dark; I don't know whether it was before or afterwards that the engineer shouted he was shot. Anyhow I gave the man the barrel.\n\nIn his head?-No; in his chest. You fired at the man, and killed him? He went over backwards; he was killed. I went to the starboard side and saw another man; I don't know whether he was coming up or going down but I gave him the other barrel.\n\nThe man dropped on the forecastle?-On the fo'c'sle.\n\nYour gun was then empty?-Yes. I told the engineer to go into my room and passed him my gun to load up again. There were four spare cartridges on the locker.\n\nWere you firing from your cabin?-No. I went into the cabin, got two revolvers, and shot two or three times with those.\n\nWere the pirates behind the grille?-Behind the after grille shouting and yelling.\n\nWere there many of them?-The place swarmed with them.\n\nThere seemed to be a lot?-Yes.\n\nYou fired a few shots at them?-Yes. I must have gone into the wheelhouse and got another...\n\nWhat do you mean...?\n\nYou were using revolvers then?-When the gun was loaded. I got in two more shots, one forward and the other to the starboard side.\n\nHow long did this firing go on?-Perhaps two or three minutes.\n\nAnd they went off; how about the people behind?-They were there all the time.\n\nThen how did you escape?-I was behind the shield?-No.\n\nThen what happened?-I sung out to the mate. I saw there were no more on the bridge, and I told the mate to guard the bridge and see that no more came up.\n\nWhere were your watchmen?-In the meantime I had the grilles closed.\n\nThat was the foremost grille; the after grille was already shut?-Locked.\n\nThe watchmen, where were they?-There was one on each side between the foremost grille and the shield?-Yes.\n\nWhat were they doing?-Firing aft.\n\nWhat were they using?-Each one had a .38 calibre revolver and a Winchester.\n\nThe chief engineer was where?-In my room.\n\nWas he badly hurt?-He was complaining.\n\nWitness said:-I gave him the keys of the rocket locker, and when I got them I let one off.\n\nHow long after the attack commenced did you send off these?-About five minutes.\n\nAs soon as you had repelled the attack?-Yes.\n\nThen you started firing rockets?-I fired one and then had another two or three shots aft. These men were firing all the time. Then I went and got another one but I found the brass tube burst and I was hit in the chest.\n\nYou kept on fighting and sending off rockets?-As best I could. Were your engines going all this time?-I can't say.\n\nYou had not stopped the engines?-The engine room had rung up.\n\nYou can't say what time the engines stopped?-No sir. I rang one engine full ahead and put the helm a-port after I had rung the engines two or three times. I could get no reply. Then I found the steering gear was out of order. By this time were they still firing?-Yes, from aft.\n\nHow long afterwards?-Before they started the fire.",
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        "content_text": "Kowloon - Canton Railway\n\nIncrease\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n• Increase of Salaries\n\n• Power exchange\n\nA. Working Expenses\n\nDecrease\n\n$5,102 House Allowances\n\n$2,038 Reduction on new appointments\n\n$430 Abolition of Posts\n\n$497 Saving on work done departmentally instead of by contract\n\n$2,404\n\n$1,207\n\n$1,612\n\n$156\n\n$528\n\n$192\n\nOther Charges\n\nReduction on Reorganization\n\n  \n    $324\n    700\n    600\n    400\n  \n  \n    Stations\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Maintenance of Signals\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Carriage and Wagon Expenses\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Loading Coal\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cleaning contract\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Running Stores, Carriages, etc.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Running stores, Engine\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lighting, etc.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Clothing\n    238\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    General Charges\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Furniture\n    160\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Incidental Expenses\n    300\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Printing and Stationery\n    1000\n    1300\n    \n  \n  \n    Advertising\n    500\n    1,200\n    \n  \n  \n    Maintenance of railway works and stations\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stationery\n    80\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ballast\n    300\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Repairs & Bridges and Tunnels\n    868\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Fencing\n    200\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Repairs of Station Building\n    970\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Repairs of Staff Quarters\n    890\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Branch Line\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stationery\n    120\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Materials\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Ballast\n    I\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Earthwork\n    180\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Magio\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Traffic Expenses\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Tools and Plant\n    500\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Expenses\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Blank Cards and Stamping\n    1,800\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rent of branch Station\n    1,199\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Hire of Rolling Stock\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (Canton Express)\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Compensation\n    500\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Loss on Stores\n    200\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    100\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Branch Line\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Steepen\n    380\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    4,854\n    200\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    3,555\n    544\n    \n  \n  \n    Station Building, Repair\n    T5106\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Special Expenditure\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    General Charges - Two Separators\n    t\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Two Separators\n    # 458\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Traffic Expenses\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Expenses\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Typewriter\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Traffic Expenses\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    229\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Rental fire of Telephone Instruments\n    _ 342\n    -1029\n    \n  \n  \n    Total Increase\n    & 13,609\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    New Printing Machine\n    $ 3,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    3,000\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Total Decrease\n    $23,159\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Net Increase\n    13,606\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Net Decrease\n    $9,550",
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        "content_text": "# Scheme for the Erection Endowment and Management of the Matilda Hospital.\n\nA. ERECTION.\n\nLAND.\n\nThe Matilda Hospital is erected on Rural Building Lots Nos. 16 and 131 Mount Kellet Penk in the Colony of Hongkong and having a total area of 99,100 square feet. The Trustees have also acquired contiguous thereto Rural Building Lot No. 48 having an area of 20,886 square feet.\n\nBUILDINGS.\n\nThe general design and arrangement of the Hospital are best shown by the Plans which are attached hereto and are intended to form part hereof, but the following is a short description of the main details.\n\nCENTRAL BLOCK.\n\nBASEMENT.\n\nThe Basement is only intended as an air space between the ground and the Wards above. The portions under these are not intended to be used except four rooms for storage purposes.\n\nGROUND FLOOR.\n\nOn entering the building from Mount Kellet Road are the following rooms:—\n\nDoctor's consulting Room.\n\nWaiting Room. Office.\n\nBeyond these rooms are the Wards, one side of the building being for female and the other for male Patients. There are 3 Wards on either side containing 8 Beds, 3 Beds and 2 Beds respectively.\n\nAttached to each of the three Wards is a Scullery, and Drying Room, with a detached Wing containing two Bathrooms, two W.C.'s and Slop sink.\n\nFIRST FLOOR.\n\nOn this Floor are the Nurses' Quarters comprising:\n\nDrawing Room.\n\nDining Hall.\n\nFour Bed Rooms.\n\nTwo Bath rooms, W.C. and Pantry.\n\nFront and two side verandahs.\n\nOPERATION BLOCK.\n\nIn the rear of the Central Block and connected with it by the Main Corridor is a one-storied Block with\n\non one side,\n\nOperation Theatre.\n\nAnaesthetic Room.\n\nStore for Splints.\n\nDispensary.\n\nand on the other side,\n\nA One-bed Ward (with verandah).\n\nDrying Room.\n\nDrug Store and Doctor's Laboratory.\n\nIn the basement under Operation block are erected the following:\n\nKitchen,\n\nBoiler House.\n\nLarder.\n\nDisinfecting Room.\n\nCoolies' quarters.\n\nCoal store.\n\nOne room for servants\n\nOn the East Side of this portion of the basement is a yard into which open the quarters for the Chinese Servants such as Boys, Cooks, &c, comprising six rooms with bath rooms and latrines attached.\n\nOn the West side is another yard with six rooms for Amahs also with bath rooms and latrines attached.\n\nAdjoining the Operation Block is an Extension for delirious cases comprising:\n\nA Ward Attendant's room, Pantry, Bath room and W.C.\n\nDOCTOR'S HOUSE.\n\nThe Doctor's House in the rear of the main building is approached from the central corridor by a covered way and contains:\n\nDrawing and Dining rooms and Lounge.\n\nFour Bed rooms.\n\nDrying room, Pantry, Bathrooms. Verandahs.\n\nKitchen and separate Quarters for Servants.\n\nAt the North West corner of the grounds is a small Mortuary.\n\nELECTRIC INSTALLATION AND LAUNDRY.\n\nTo the West of Rural Building Lot No. 16 on Rural Building Lot No. 131 is a building containing:\n\nBattery room for electric light installation with engine room under. Laundry.\n\nExtra Servants Quarters, Kitchen and Latrine.\n\nMATERNITY WARD.\n\nUpon Rural Building Lot No. 48 above mentioned the Trustees are erecting a two-storey brick building for the purpose of a Maternity Ward as an addition to the Main Hospital and to be connected with it by a covered way.\n\nThis building is designed to contain the following accommodation but the walls are of sufficient thickness to carry another storey if an extension of this Ward is required.\n\nGROUND FLOOR.\n\nMain entrance from Mount Kellet Road. Hall. Delivery Ward with bath room attached. One large double bed Ward capable of holding four beds if necessary. Two single bed Wards each capable of holding two Beds if necessary. Wide Nurses' Rooms. Doctor's Room. Baths, lavatories and other offices. Verandah on East Side, and open air terrace.\n\nBASEMENT.\n\nServing Room with band lifts to Ground Floor. Boiler Room. Servant's quarters. Service and Store Rooms.\n\nCOST OF THE HOSPITAL.\n\n(a) The amount expended in acquiring additional land and in the erection of the original main buildings and equipment thereof was,\n\n$539,074.86\n\n(b) The estimated cost of the erection of the Maternity Ward and equipment thereof is,\n\n$105,130.00",
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        "content_text": "## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,500 has been provided for the equipments necessary for the examination of cassia and anise oils. This work, which has been undertaken at the request of the Chamber of Commerce, will be carried on in a room built specially for the purpose. It is expected that the expenditure incurred will be recovered from the fees paid for the examinations.\n\nproved a success so far, and I therefore propose to increase the number of the scouts as opportunity offers. The sum paid to each scout is $60 a year, and the provision made is therefore sufficient for twenty, of whom eight are already being employed. The votes for Incidental Expenses, Secret Service, and Transport have been increased by $1,600, $3,000, and $3,000 respectively, the amounts inserted this year having been under-estimated. The vote for coal and oil-fuel for launches has been increased by $6,300, to meet the rise in price and to provide for the motor launch. Under Light and Electric Fans an increase of $1,015 has been estimated for. Of this sum $165 is for the lighting of Shaukiwan and Tsat-tz-mui Stations.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure provision has been made for a new steam-launch at a cost of $37,500. This launch is to replace No. 2 launch, which has been condemned as unseaworthy and sold. A sum of $1,800 has been provided for the hire of a launch pending the completion of the new launch. The motor launch to which I have already referred is estimated to cost $5,000.\n\n### Fire Brigade\n\nProvision has been made for a new motor fire engine and pump at a cost of $13,364. This is for use in the City of Victoria. Experience of the motor tender has shown the great present advantage of motor propelled fire appliances. It has been found possible to get the engine to all parts of the City where there are Chinese buildings. On the upper levels in many places there is not sufficient water pressure and volume to throw more than one jet to the top of a building. The use of a motor pump will remedy this defect.\n\n### Prison\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $3,840 has been entered for the purchase of machines and tools for the printing shop in order to cope with the increasing work and to secure greater efficiency.\n\n### Medical Department\n\nProvision has been made for three additional sisters at a total cost of $3,737. This increase to the staff has been rendered necessary by the separation of the Maternity Hospital nursing staff from that of the Government Civil Hospital.\n\n### Sanitary Department\n\nFour Inspectors have been added to the establishment on the recommendation of the Sanitary Board at a cost of $7,474. These Inspectors are required for the purpose of carrying out the periodical cleansing of Chinese tenement houses every quarter instead of half-yearly as hitherto. In consequence of these new posts it has been necessary to provide for four 5th Grade Interpreters costing $1,920. In order to cope with the extra cleansing work 32 coolies are required at a cost of $4,224. Provision has also been made for 25 scavenging coolies at a cost of $2,700. Of these, 15 are for the Eastern half of the City and the Peak, and 10 for the Western half of the City. The steady growth of new houses and streets has made it impossible for the present staff to cover the ground properly. In November, 1913, a departmental haulage system was instituted for pulling the scavenging carts in place of the contract system, which had proved unsatisfactory. Sixty men were required for this work, and the trial during the current year has been so successful that it has been decided to adopt the system permanently. Provision has, therefore, been made for this number of men (being half the contract number) during next year at a cost of $6,480. By this change a saving of $90 has been effected with a great gain in efficiency.\n\nUnder Other Charges a sum of $3,110 has been provided for lighting smaller markets. There is an increase of $1,300 in the vote \"Uniform for Staff\" due to the additions to the staff mentioned above.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $10,000 has again been entered for the removal of ceilings in order to permit of a continuance of the plague-preventive measures. Two four-wheeled water-carts have been provided for at a cost of $1,250, to replace two of the old two-wheeled carts, which are very hard on the bullocks, and are continually in need of repairs.\n\n## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n### Botanical and Forestry Department\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,530 has been provided for making a new lawn at Mountain Lodge in place of the present chunam court.\n\n### Education\n\nThe most important item under this head is the provision for the transfer of the Ellis Kadoorie School to the Government. In the month of April last, Mr. Ellis Kadoorie offered to hand over to the Government the splendid buildings of the school, which bears his name, and land on which it stands, completely equipped and entirely free of charge. The approval of the Secretary of State was obtained for the transfer, and the Government has therefore become possessed, through the great generosity of Mr. Ellis Kadoorie, of a valuable addition to its scholastic institutions. A sum of $28,700 has been entered under Personal Emoluments to provide for the necessary staff, and a sum of $945 under Other Charges to meet the cost of electric fans, books, prizes, and incidental expenses. At the Belilios Public School provision has been made for an Assistant Mistress as the existing staff is inadequate to deal with the increased attendance. The staff of the Indian School has been increased at a cost of $2,880, as it is expected that the school will be transferred to a permanent building on a new site in July, 1915. This building, which is estimated to cost $40,000, is the gift of a generous donor, who wishes for the present to remain anonymous.\n\nUnder the heading \"Grants\" a new sub-head \"University Examination Grants, $6,880\" has been inserted. These grants will take the place of the existing grants for the Oxford Local Examinations, which were estimated to cost $4,715 in 1914.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,994 has been inserted for furniture for the quarters attached to the Kowloon British School, Victoria British School and the Peak School, as it has been decided to provide necessary heavy furniture for these quarters.\n\n### Military Expenditure\n\nThe Defence Contribution shows an increase of $542,325. The calculation of this item is shown in Appendix II. It will be seen that of the total amount of $2,241,305, a sum of $298,154 is in respect of arrears during the current year. These arrears are much larger than usual, but this is naturally due to the increase in revenue.\n\n### Volunteers\n\nThere is an increase of $8,850 in the vote Capitation Grant due to the increase in the strength of the corps. Under \"Volunteer Reserves\" a sum of $1,050 has been entered for \"Capitation Grant.\" This is a new sub-head and provides for a grant of $3 a head for 350 efficients, which has been approved by the Secretary of State. Under Special Expenditure a further sum of $13,222 has been entered for the purchase of rifles and ammunition.\n\n### Public Works\n\nUnder Personal Emoluments a sum of $3,360 has been entered to provide for six additional foremen and one clerk at $480 each in connection with the Tytamtuk Scheme, Second Section. Provision has been made for three additional Land Surveyors at a cost of $11,211. Two of these surveyors are required in connection with the Praya East Reclamation Scheme, and the third is for adjusting arrears in the survey work in the New Territories. Under Water Works two 3rd Grade House Service Inspectors have been provided for at a cost of $1,920. At the present time there is no systematic method of carrying out these inspections, which are designed for the detection of unauthorised connections, and the repair of leaks and defective fittings. This will tend to prevent waste of water, and to ensure that the provisions of the law are more effectively enforced.\n\nUnder Other Charges the following items have been increased: \n| Item | Increase |\n| --- | --- |\n| Conveyance Allowance | $1,440 |\n| Drawing Materials and Mounting Plans | $1,800 |\n| Land Survey Contingencies | $1,000 |\n\nUnder Special Expenditure a sum of $1,000 has been provided for furniture for the offices consisting of plan cases, book-cases and filing-cabinets.\n\nPage 118",
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        "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-You that way.\n\ncan do it\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK-I beg to move that.\n\nHON. MR. WEI YUK seconded, and the motion was agreed to.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT-The explanation of the Director of Public Works on all the points I have made is eminently satisfactory, but I think he slightly misunderstood me when I spoke on the question of the estimates for his department. I quite understand estimates ought to be made as closely as possible, and that is what we ask. We do not ask to have close estimates made for such buildings as the Law Courts and the Post Office. A decrease of $130,000 in 24 million is, of course, going as near as any reasonable man could expect to get. With regard to the hon. Colonial Treasurer's remarks on subsidiary coinage, I understand that $11,000,000 has been withdrawn from circulation. The original amount was about $38,000,000 or $40,000,000, and we require from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000 for our own use. As $11,000,000 is wiped out, that leaves $26,500,000. We may reasonably take it that about one-third of that at least has disappeared into bullion. Therefore, I presume that the Colonial Treasurer will be called upon to buy something like $13,000,000 or $14,000,000 more. That is further loss, and we stand to lose 15 or 16 per cent. on that sum of money. I wanted to arrive at some sort of estimate as to how much more this Colony will have to pay for the rehabilitation of its coinage. With regard to what the Colonial Treasurer said about house rents, I think he overlooked the fact that in assessing the value of house property it is generally taken at 75 per cent. of the value; because there are always a certain number of houses which are empty. Therefore, I maintain that the present assessment, taken a year or two ago, is probably higher than any which has been taken in the last five years. With regard to what was said about the railway, if $62,000 represents the cost of that coal, and good steaming engine coal is put into the tender, then it works out at a price of about $8 to $8.3, which is not excessive.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY-I can give you the figure. But in the yard the cost is $8.30 per ton.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK-I was not dealing with the price. I was speaking of the value.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT-The price seems to me, even if it were $10 in the yard, not excessive. With regard to the procedure of the debate, I must say I am sorry I cannot refer to the old question. Were the Governor to get up and make his speech verbally, as I said, it would be very much more illuminating, and I don't think there is anything more to be gained by sitting in conference, as suggested by the Colonial Secretary, and it would be making a travesty of the debate if the whole thing were done in committee. With regard to the moorings, your Excellency misunderstood what I have said. I entirely favour the relaying of the moorings, but I object to the new system and am afraid of it. Your Excellency has for the first time told us what the price is to be per diem for the use of these moorings, and I think the charge is very high, far higher than I charge for the use of my moorings when I let them to my friends. My point is that if it is necessary to relay the moorings I certainly think it is better to do so than to go to the vast expense of dredging the harbour, but let the shipping companies have their moorings in their present positions. Your Excellency speaks of relaying moorings once in four years.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-No. We are taking them by degrees, ten a year.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT-Roughly speaking, there are 39 or 40 moorings, and the calculation is $10,000 a year to relay ten moorings. I would not attempt to leave my moorings down for four years. I remove mine every two years.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-The hon. member does not understand me. We cannot take up the whole forty and relay them all at once because there would be no buoys available.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT-But you cannot dare to keep your moorings down for four years without relaying them. I remove mine every two years. Even then in that condition I have seen steamers break away from their moorings in a typhoon and go down the harbour. With regard to the question of the annual accounts rendered, I still think it would be of very great assistance if we could have a detail of the revised estimates put in the body of the accounts, because in many cases there is a large difference between the original estimates and the revised estimates. Now, Sir, I beg to move the elimination from the account of the amounts of $10,000 and $250,000 voted for the Harbour Master's Department.\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY-You had better wait until we get into Committee to do that.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT-Very good, Sir.\n\nThe motion was then put to the meeting, and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nCouncil then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.\n\n## FINANCE COMMITTEE\n\nA meeting of the Finance Committee followed, the COLONIAL SECRETARY presiding, when the following votes were passed:-\n\n### Public Works\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $23,500 in aid of the vote Public Works, Recurrent, Hongkong, Water Works, Maintenance of City and Hill District.\n\n### Judicial\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $3,240 in aid of the vote Judicial and Legal Departments, Special Expenditure, d.-Supreme Court, New Furniture.\n\n### Military\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $3,240 in aid of the vote Military Expenditure, B.-Volunteers, Other Charges, Capitation Grant for Recruits, Efficients and Proficients.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT then moved the rejection of the vote of $250,000 for the Harbour Master's Department.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK seconded. The motion was declared lost, but Hon. Mr. Hewett wished to divide.\n\nA division was taken, and resulted as follows:-\n\n| For | Against |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hon. Mr. Lau Chu Pak | The Captain Superintendent of Police |\n| Hon. Mr. Hewett | The Secretary for Chinese Affairs |\n| Hon. Mr. Pollock | The Director of Public Works |\n| Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk | The Colonial Treasurer |\n|  | The Attorney-General |\n|  | The Colonial Secretary |\n|  | The General Officer Commanding |\n\nOn Council resuming,\n\nTHE ATTORNEY-GENERAL reported that the Bill had passed through Committee without amendment, and moved that it be read a third time and passed.\n\nTHE COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the Bill was read a third time and passed, the unofficial members all voting against it.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY-Council stands adjourned sine die.\n\n### Compensation\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $148.50 in aid of the vote Public Works, Extraordinary, Compensation to owner for resumption of Lot No. 33, Ho Mun Tin.\n\n### War Department\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $50,000 in aid of the vote War Department Expenditure, in order to provide for all expenditure incurred by the Civil Departments of Government whether such expenditure is ultimately to be recovered from the Imperial Government or not.\n\n### For the Governor\n\nThe Governor recommended the Council to vote a sum of $1,118 in aid of the vote Governor, Other Charges:- \n| Item | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Furniture: Piano | $450 |\n| Supervising of Inventory | $468 |\n| Incidental Expenses | $200 |",
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        "content_text": "Page 27795\n\nI am sorry, I had forgotten these the paper.\n\nBert have never replied\n\n10 om letter of\n\nroom\n\n27795\n\nthey were\n\n(20939)\n\n21. June\n\non the Sher hand\n\nbird on 15th\n\nthat we were allowing\n\nBruce leelle, el to supps fans tom Company.\n\nof therefore it were not for the Second para of this Lelli 7\n\nshould\n\nbe inchen\n\nSimple Novell theen to fo\n\nahead.\n\nAs however the\n\nindical this\n\nthe want Vake up\n\nthe crea\n\nis a chame of th\n\nThere is a\n\nit\n\nTo bein\n\nCompany\n\ntreated as\n\n(wme)\n\ndya\n\nEnemy\n\n? Feind Copy Bar I. refe\n\nwhat\n\n27755 asking Bost. descrie un tondo with regard to Min Co. & ask for each\n\nreply. cf. 14/4/4\n\nAt once\n\nRe\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:\n\n'ROBEY, LINCOLN. TELEPHONE N95.\n\nALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY.\n\nROBEY & CO. LTD\n\n52410\n\n485\n\nTELEGRAPH CODES USED\n\nABC, AL. MORKING'S, LIEBERS. ENGINEERING, AXIS.\n\nON ADMIRALTY, WAR OFFICE INDIA OFFICE\n\nLISTS.\n\n\"MANUFACTURERS OF\n\nSTEAM, GAS & OIL ENGINES,\n\nMINING MACHINERY &c.\n\nBOLE MAKERS OF THE ROBEY PATENT AUTOMATIC\n\nTAIP EXPANSION\n\nGEAR.\n\nATLIK\n\nLONDON OFFICES:\n\n79, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET. £.C.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nGlobe Works. B.\n\nLINCOLN, ENGLAND\n\nOctober 30th 1916.\n\nRADE\n\nIN\n\n-NOY\n\n666336\n\nNEWARK\n\nWe have received instructions by cable from Messrs. Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., 12, Des Voeux Road, Central, Powell's Building, Hong-Kong, for one of our Double Cylinder \"XXXV\" Two-Cycle Semi-Diesel Vertical Crude Oil Engines, value f.o.b. English Port £695, but before accepting the order we shall be glad to know if it will be permissible for us to proceed with the manufacture.\n\nWe are anxious to be quite sure that this Firm will not be treated as an enemy Firm.\n\nThis is the first transaction we have had with them, and we shall be glad, therefore, to know that it will be in order for us to proceed with the manufacture of the Engine referred to.\n\nThe Chairman,\n\nThe Trade Clearing House,\n\nBroadway House,\n\nTothill Street,\n\nWestminster. LONDON. S.W.\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nROBEY & CO. LIMITED.\n\nPage 27796",
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        "content_text": "TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: \"ROBEY, LINCOLN. TELEPHONE N93.\n\nMANUFACTURERS OF STEAM, GAS & OIL ENGINES.\n\nWING MACHINERY &c.\n\nSOLE MAKERS OF ROBEY'S PATENT\n\nAUTOMATIC\n\nEXPANSION\n\nGEAR.\n\nALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY.\n\nROBEY & CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPH CODES USED\n\nABC, A.B.C. (5th Edition), BENTLEY'S, LIEBER'S, ENGINEERING,\n\nAXIS.\n\nON\n\n489\n\nADMIRALTY, WAR OFFICE\n\nINDIA OFFICE\n\nLISTS.\n\nLONDON OFFICES:\n\nQUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.\n\nNEWARK\n\nC.O.\n\n52304\n\nREG\n\n7 JE 16\n\nGlobe Works.\n\nJTR/OR.\n\nLINCOLN, ENGLAND.\n\nDecember 6th, 1916\n\nDear Sir,\n\nOn October 30th, we applied to the War Trade Dept., Broadway House, for permission to manufacture one of our Vertical Oil Engines for Messrs. Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd., Hong Kong, and from an acknowledgment we received from the Chairman of this Department we understand that the matter has been referred to you for decision.\n\nWe have had no further communication since that date, and we shall be glad to know exactly how the matter stands, and whether it will be in order for us to proceed with the shipment of this Engine.\n\nThe machinery is in stock, and can be shipped immediately.\n\nYou will see from the enclosed copies of formal order that we have received the cheque for £700 in payment of our account.\n\nWe shall esteem it a favour if you can see your way to let us have your reply within the next few days, and thanking you in anticipation,\n\nWe remain,\n\nYours faithfully,\n\nROBEY & CO. LIMITED.\n\nFor\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies,\n\nWhitehall,\n\nLONDON, S.W.\n\nEnclos.",
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        "content_text": "216\n\nand Sergeant Clarke and the edge that there were others besides the laws in the place. Eventually the engine was sent for and a hose carried through Queen's Road argued at the house from A.\n\non the opposite side of the\n\nbut the force of water proved not enough to break the windows or drive out the quarry. With difficulty the peaceful occupants were induced to come out of No. 6 and Police also took possession of the\n\non either side. From the back of the house the Police were able to see\n\nthe small room where Inspector Evan and Sergeant Clarke lay prone on the floor apparently dead.\n\nroom\n\nabout half-past one o'clock Sergt. who had gone up a passage at the back of the block of buildings and into the leyway at the back of No. 6 in the hope of picking off one of the gang with his revolver, was seen to come hobbling out to those in a passage way on the side of the street. A sortie was made and he was found to have received a wound in the fleshy part of the leg. He staggered into Queen's Road and was placed on an ambulance for treatment at the\n\nby one of the outlaws, in the act of climbing down the back of the house from floor to another, was shot through the abdomen and fell into the yard behind where his body was subsequently found broken and lifeless. Another was\n\nseen to be hiding on the ground-floor at the back of the building. The Police called upon him to surrender but he threatened that if any steps were taken to arrest him he would shoot.\n\nFinally he was told that he would be allowed five minutes in which to give himself up, at the end of which he would be bombed out. As he remained resolute, a bomb was thrown over into the yard at the back and a loud explosion followed. Concluding that the man was killed, the Police entered the premises and found him lying wounded in the yard. The bomb, apparently, had not injured him but he had carried out his threat for he had a bullet wound in the head. There was another wound in the left shoulder,\n\nbut this, it is thought, he received earlier in the affray. He was taken out, still alive, and removed on an ambulance to the Hospital.\n\n+4\n\nThe Police were then lined up, and, entering the premises in two parties by different ways, made a thorough search. They found the bodies of Inspector O'Sullivan and Sergeant Clarke, as described, both shot through the head, and conveyed them to the Mortuary; Handcuffs were found near them, indicating the object of their visit. In the premises, ammunition, knives and gags were also discovered. It is assumed that the robbers belonged to the North. One was well dressed in European style, with gold sleeve links and a gold watch. The others wore short fur-lined coats.\n\nThe police acted with great courage and are deserving of every praise for the way in which they dealt with an extremely difficult and dangerous situation. Sergts. Wills, Cockle, Murphy and Peplow and others constantly exposed themselves to grave risks in the execution of their duty. The Captain Superintendent (Mr. Mel Messer) was early on the scene, and later he was joined by Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, D.S.P., Mr. T. H. King, A.S.P., Mr. T. F. Hough, A.S.P. (R), Mr. Franks, A.S.P. (R.), and Major Robertson, the last named bringing the bombing party and machine-gun. A number of Police Reservists, also, armed with rifles and revolvers, were present almost from the beginning.\n\nH.E. the Governor arrived shortly after one o'clock, and, indifferent to the danger, went straight to the besieged premises and remained to the end.\n\nDuring the siege a Chinese detective who had discarded his tunic, was seen to run out of a house in Queen's Road, mistaken for one of the robbers trying to escape, carrying a revolver, and, being fired at had a lucky escape as he was not hit.\n\nThe late Inspector Mortimer O'Sullivan was forty-one years of age. He joined the Hongkong Police Force in 1890 as a constable, attaining the rank of Sergeant in 1903, Full class in 1912, and first class in 1914. He was promoted Inspector (third class) in 1911, and was considered one of the most efficient members of the Force. He leaves a wife and family.\n\nDetective Sergt. Clarke, also, had been in the Force for many years and was a married man.\n\nWe are informed that the Chinese living in the neighbourhood have suspected the existence of a band of robbers in their midst as every night for some time past thefts have been committed in the Street and Up Fai Street, block of houses lying between Gresson",
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        "content_text": "# PUMPING MACHINERY\n\nsupplied by Messrs. Jance Simpson & Co., Ltd. for the Taitom Tuk Pumping Station.\n\n21238\nExhibition of in Hongkong.\n**REC** **REC** MAY 18\n358\nD.P..\n\nThe tender of Messrs. Jance Simpson & Co. Ltd. of £24,700 for the supply, freight to the Colony, erection, testing and maintenance for 4 months, etc., of two sets of pumping machinery was accepted by the Crown Agents for the colonies on the 6th of January 1914. The Contract deliveries for the last stated in the Crown Agents' letter of the 10th March, 1914, were as follows:-\n\n| Consignment | Date |\n| --- | --- |\n| F.O.B. British ports | not later than 1.11.14 |\n| do. remainder | 31.12.14 |\n| Plant to be ready to be taken over by the Colony | 1.10.15 |\n\nMessrs. Simpson's representative, Mr. Denial Dyer, arrived in the Colony on the 27th of March 1915. Prior to his arrival, the building of the pump-pit and foundations for the new engines had been put in hand and were by the date of his arrival completed to the level of the girders for supporting the bed-plates of the engines. The boiler foundations were also in hand and good progress had been made with them. The superstructure of the engine and boiler house extensions had not been put in hand, in order that building operations be conducted in accordance with the wishes of Messrs. Simpson's representative. No machinery was landed in the Colony prior to Mr. Dyer's arrival but it commenced to arrive after.\n\nOn July 15th 1915, Mr. Dyer complained to me verbally that the delay in proceeding with the buildings was hindering him in his work and on July 20th he repeated this complaint in a letter.\n\nI may add that this was the first letter I...",
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        "content_text": "359 \n\nHe had received from him since his arrival in the colony. Any delay which there may have been in the building of the superstructure of the engine and boiler house extensions was due to a misunderstanding and the matter was speedily put right. \n\nThe engine house was completely roofed in and the boiler house was being roofed in by the middle of December 1915. \n\nThe erection of the engines proceeded very slowly and it was not until the 18th of September 1916 that Mr. Dyer wrote to me enquiring the date the new engines were required for duty. I replied that the new engines were needed for immediate duty and detailed the arrangements for running the new engines in conjunction with the old ones. These arrangements were that Government would pump with the old engines forthwith but would stop running them as soon as Mr. Dyer wished to run either of his engines, pumping to be resumed with the old engines whenever Mr. Dyer wished to close down the new ones. The Government engine drivers, etc., to take their orders from Mr. Dyer. Mr. Dyer replied to this letter stating that he appreciated these arrangements which gave him great latitude and that his firm would appreciate this consideration, but nevertheless progress with the engines did not improve and by January the 24th 1917 although both engines had been run under steam the counter of the first to be erected only stood at 11,530 revolutions and the second 4,399 revolutions. \n\nIn consequence of this delay I wrote Mr. Dyer on the 14th of February 1917 that I must seriously draw his attention to the necessity of maintaining regular pumping with his plant, to which letter Mr. Dyer replied that he was doing what he could to maintain pumping but that there were difficulties of labour which he was unable to overcome. \n\nI then wrote him that it was absolutely necessary for him to maintain a continuous pumping output and offered the assistance of the",
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        "content_text": "# Fociodical drydocking and machinery inspection\n\n## Clauses 9-35\n\n9. Should the steamer remain in the Admiralty service for more than six months from the date of her last drydocking, the Owners agree, if required by the Admiralty, at the expiration of such six months to place the steamer in drydock, to clean and paint her bottom, to open up or test under steam as may be considered necessary by the Admiralty Inspectors any parts of the machinery and boilers, and to make good any defects likely to interfere with satisfactory fulfilment of her continued service, all of which shall be done at Owners' expense, and the same at the expiration of every six months during the currency of this Charter.\n\nSuch drydocking and inspection shall take place at the port at which the steamer shall complete her voyage or at any other adjacent port as may be approved by the Admiralty. The hire shall cease from the time the steamer is available for drydocking at the port of drydocking until she is again placed at the disposal of the Admiralty at that port, ready to load and/or bunker and efficient for further service, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., but not on Sundays or public holidays nor after 1 p.m. on Saturdays, unless steamer sail or work be begun meantime.\n\nIn calculating the period off pay under this clause, an allowance of 48 running hours without stoppage of hire shall be granted in respect of each drydocking.\n\n10. If there is any misrepresentation as regards steamer's size, capabilities, and position, or if steamer has not arrived at the port of delivery or is not ready to load by or on the date specified, the Admiralty have the option of cancelling this Charter.\n\n11. Payment of Hire shall be made in England as follows:--\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for two months certain or more, one calendar month's hire in advance on the steamer entering into pay, half a month's hire at the end of the second month, half a month's hire at the end of the third month, and one month's further hire at the end of each succeeding completed month of service.\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for less than two months, the advance of hire to be made on the steamer entering into pay shall be for two-thirds of the hire for the period certain, such advance in no case to exceed the amount of one calendar month's hire, and the remaining payments shall be made as laid down above.\n\nIn all cases, such payments shall be considered as payments on account, and the balance of hire shall be paid on the passing in Office of the accounts, &c., to be rendered by the steamer, and on receipt of the Logs for the period (vide clause 24).\n\nPeriods off pay, and periods less than one calendar month at the expiration of this Charter shall be reckoned in days. A day's hire shall be calculated on the basis of 1/365 of twelve calendar months' hire of the steamer; and in case of inefficiency under clauses 9 and 25, any fraction of a day amounting to 12 hours or over shall count as one day off pay.\n\nClaims for hire and other expenses allowable under this Charter shall be rendered to the Director of Transports, Admiralty, S.W., on `Form T.191a`.\n\n12. The Owners shall provide and pay for all wages, provisions, including fuel for galley and Electric Light, and all other expenses in connection with the Master, Officers, Engineers, and Crew, for the insurance of the steamer, for all deck and engine-room stores, water for all purposes, for the proper ventilation of the cargo, for boats, for ballast necessary to enable the steamer to proceed with safety without cargo, and for the maintenance of the steamer in a thoroughly efficient state in hull and machinery for and during the service.\n\n13. The steamer shall sail under flags provided by the Admiralty, but the Owners shall provide the following flags, &c., for signalling: -\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | A set of International Code Flags and the latest edition of the Signal Code. |\n| (b) | A pair of Hand Flags for Semaphoring messages in daylight. |\n| (c) | A Flashing Lamp for signalling at night (Morse Code). |\n| (d) | Signal Letters for British Ships. |\n\nThe Owners shall provide the Charts required for the safe navigation of the steamer according to the services on which she may from time to time be employed, and shall supply the necessary Compasses and Chronometer, in respect of which certificates from competent authorities shall be furnished that they are in good order and that a correct deviation table has been provided.\n\n14. The Admiralty shall be liable for all coal, or other fuel, except fuel for galley and Electric Light, and shall accept and pay for all fuel in steamer's bunkers at the time of delivery.\n\nThe Owners shall on entry into pay hand to the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port a certificate signed by the Master and Chief Engineer of the number of tons of fuel in the bunkers of the steamer, and its description.\n\nOn the expiration of the Charter, the Owners shall pay the Admiralty for all the fuel left in the bunkers.\n\nBoth such payments shall be made at the current market price at the respective ports.\n\n15. The Admiralty shall be liable for port charges, pilotage, lights, dues, necessary tug assistance, consular charges (except such as relate to Officers or Crew), Bills of Health, and overtime under conditions of clause 17, but the Owners shall without any charge against the Admiralty arrange through the Master or their Port Agents all such services in connection with the navigation and clearing of the steamer as if they were trading on their own account, pay the claims therefor, and reclaim from the Director of Transports such as are necessary and for Admiralty account, the claim for each service being supported by the receipted vouchers. All pilotage certificates must show the draft of water.\n\n16. When Great Britain is at peace, the Officers, Engineers, and every member of the Crew shall be British subjects. When Great Britain is at war, this stipulation is to be carried out so far as practicable, but in any case, Master, Officers, and Engineers must be British subjects, and members of the hostile nationality are to be excluded. At least one of the officers or men must be able to use the flashing lantern.\n\nA full list of the Crew with their rating and nationality shall be produced on the entry into pay of the steamer.\n\n17. The steamer shall work day and night if required, and the steam winches shall be at the service of the Admiralty by day and night with full steam when and as required. The same shall be worked free of cost by the Crew, which must contain efficient skilled hands to work all the winches on board at once in one shift. The Admiralty will repay overtime under such conditions as may be from time to time authorised.\n\n18. The Admiralty shall not be held liable if the steamer shall be lost, wrecked, driven on shore, injured, or rendered incapable of service by or in consequence of dangers of the sea or tempest, collision, fire, accident, stress of weather, or any other cause arising as a sea risk.\n\n19. The risks of war which are taken by the Admiralty are those risks which would be excluded from an ordinary English policy of marine insurance by the following, or similar, but not more extensive clause: -\n\n\"Warranted free of capture, seizure, and detention and the consequences thereof, or of any attempt thereat, piracy excepted, and also from all consequences of hostilities or warlike operations, whether before or after declaration of war.\"\n\nSuch risks are taken by the Admiralty on the ascertained value of the steamer, if she be totally lost, at the time of such loss, or, if she be injured, on the ascertained value of such injury.\n\nShould a dispute arise as to the value of the steamer, the same shall be settled as laid down in clause 31.\n\n20. In the event of any member of the Crew being killed or injured as a result of warlike operations in which Great Britain is engaged, the Admiralty agree to settle any lawful claims arising from such death or injury according to the scales laid down in the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, and the Owners shall be relieved of their liability under the Workman's Compensation Act, 1906, or other Acts in respect of such claims.\n\n21. The Master shall prosecute his voyages with the utmost despatch and shall render all customary assistance with ship's Crew and boats.\n\n22. The Master shall obey all orders and instructions which he may receive from the Admiralty, or from any Officer authorised by them, and shall in all respects comply with the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, but he shall be solely responsible (on behalf of the Owners) for the management, handling, and navigation of the steamer. He shall keep accounts of his cargoes as laid down in the above-named Instructions, and the Admiralty hereby agree to indemnify the Owner from all consequences or liabilities that may arise from the Master signing Bills of Lading, as well as from any irregularity in Ship's papers consequent thereon, except as laid down in clause 27.\n\nThe Admiralty shall not be held responsible for losses sustained through the negligence of Pilots, Tug-boats, Stevedores, or others employed by them, the Owners recognising them as their servants even if appointed and paid by the Admiralty or the Agents of the Admiralty (but see also clause 26).\n\n23. If the Admiralty shall have reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of the Master, Officers, or Engineers, the Owners shall, on receiving particulars of the complaint, investigate the same, and, if necessary, make a change in the appointments.\n\n24. The Master shall be furnished, from time to time, by the Admiralty, with all requisite instructions and sailing directions in writing, and shall keep a full and correct Log of the voyage or voyages, which is to be forwarded quarterly to the Admiralty. (See also clause 11.)\n\n25. If from deficiency of man or stores, breakdown of machinery, or any other cause, the working of the steamer is at any time suspended for a period exceeding twelve running hours, pay shall cease for the whole of such and any subsequent period of whatever duration during which the vessel is inefficient. (See also clause 11.)\n\nAny work that may be done during a period of partial inefficiency of the steamer, except proceeding to a port for repairs or to replenish bunker coals owing to accident, shall be paid for on the basis of the time it would have occupied had the steamer remained efficient. If upon the voyage her speed be reduced by a defect in or breakdown of any part of her machinery, damage to propeller, rudder, or by any other mishap of hull or engines or cargo, the time so lost and the cost of any extra coal consumed in consequence thereof shall be deducted from the hire; but should the steamer be driven into port or to anchorage by stress of weather or for coals, such detention or loss of time shall be at the Admiralty expense. In the event, however, of breakdown at sea or other accident necessitating the steamer proceeding to a port of refuge for repairs, or to replace or land crew, hire to cease until the steamer arrives back in a similar position to that in which she was at the time of the breakdown or accident, &c., and any coals used to be replaced or paid for by Owners, whichever Admiralty may elect.\n\nIf through accident, any part of the cargo or bunkers have to be discharged, the time occupied in discharging and reloading same to be deducted from the hire.\n\nAny time so lost shall count as part of the term of charter named in clauses 2 and 7, but the Admiralty have the option of keeping the steamer for an additional period equivalent to the whole or part of the time lost.\n\n26. Throughout this Charter, losses or damages, whether in respect of goods carried or to be carried or in other respects, arising or occasioned by the following causes shall be absolutely excepted, viz.: - The act of God, perils of the seas, fire on board, in hulk, craft, or on shore, barratry of the Master or Crew, enemies, pirates, robbers, or thieves, arrests and restraints of princes, rulers, and peoples, collisions and strandings, explosions, burstings of boilers, breakage of shafts, or any latent defect, even if existing at the beginning of the voyage, in the hull, boilers, machinery, or appurtenances, negligence, default, or error of judgment of the Pilot, Master, or Crew, or other servants of the Owners, in the management or navigation of the steamer.\n\n27. Except as limited in clauses 25 and 43, the Owners will be held strictly accountable for the value of and liable to the Admiralty for any loss or damage to coal, oil fuel, collier, and oil fuel outfits, signalling stores, &c., and all other Government stores of whatever description which may be shipped, whether as cargo or for use on board, in charge of the Master, who will be required to sign Bill of Lading and/or give receipts for same, and will be responsible for receipts given or Bills of Lading signed by the Mates for same.\n\nThe Owners will be held responsible for the safe and proper stowage of Government stores. If hired labour is employed for stowage, the expense will be borne by the Admiralty.\n\nThe stores will be shipped under the supervision of the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port, but this will not relieve the Owners of their responsibility for stowage.\n\n28. The steamer has liberty to assist vessels in distress, and to deviate for the purpose of saving life.\n\nAll salvage to be for Owners' benefit, but ship to be deemed off pay during the time occupied in salvage operations, and cost of coal consumed in such operations and port charges and expenses to be for Owners' account.\n\n29. The Admiralty to have lien on the steamer for all moneys paid in advance and not earned.\n\n30. Penalty for non-performance of this agreement proved damages.\n\n31. Any dispute arising under this Charter shall be referred, under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889, or any Amendment thereof, to the arbitration of two persons, one to be nominated by the Owners and the other by the Admiralty, and should such Arbitrators be unable to agree, the decision of an Umpire whom they must elect shall be final and binding upon both parties hereto, and it is further mutually agreed that such Arbitration shall be a condition precedent to the commencement of any action at law.\n\n32. General average shall be settled according to York-Antwerp Rules, 1890, but the Admiralty shall not be called upon to sign bonds or pay deposits, as Owners of British ships have no lien on Government stores and cannot detain them.\n\n33. The steamer shall not be ordered nor proceed to any port where fever or pestilence is prevalent, nor where quarantine is in force (except at Admiralty risk and expense), but the Owners shall be liable for any delay of quarantine arising from sickness of the Master or Crew, if the vessel has not been sent to a quarantined port.\n\n34. The wages paid to Crew employed under this Charter Party shall be not less than those current at the port on the date of signing-on.\n\n35. In pursuance of Act 22 Geo. III. Cap. XLV., no Member of the House of Commons is to be admitted to any share or part in this Charter or to any benefit to arise therefrom.\n\n## SPECIAL CLAUSES - COLLIERS\n\n(Not applicable to Oilers)\n\n36. Colliers must be supplied with the necessary derricks, winches, &c., complete with the required 24-inch wire whips and other ropes, blocks, and fittings for the speedy and efficient discharge of cargo.\n\nIn colliers fitted with double derricks and winches, the following gear for coaling whips shall be provided for each pair of derricks: -\n| Item | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n|  | Two flexible steel wire 2-inch ropes, each sufficiently long to reach any part of the hold, with either derrick topped over the collier's hold and the other swung over the vessel being coaled. In addition, two spare whips for each pair of derricks should be carried. |\n|  | Four iron blocks capable of taking 2-inch wire rope and tested to six tons, viz.: - One block at the heel of each derrick and one (which should be self) at the head. |\n|  | One swivel cargo hook constructed so as not to catch the coamings, &c. |\n\nPage 381 \n3",
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        "content_text": "#1\n\nwould be convenient if the extensions were not proceeded with until he had moved certain of the larger pieces of machinery into position. In consequence of Mr. Dyer's representation, the work of extending the engine and boiler houses was proceeded with at once. The engine-house was completely roofed in by the middle of December, 1915, and the boiler-house was then in course of being roofed in.\n\n4. The erection of the engines proceeded very slowly and it was not until the 18th September, 1916, that Mr. Dyer wrote to Mr. Jaffé enquiring when the new engines were required for duty. Mr. Jaffé replied that the engines were required for immediate duty and, as he knew that they could be depended upon to run continuously, he informed Mr. Dyer that arrangements would be made whereby the old engines would be run whenever it became necessary to discontinue running the new engines. Mr. Dyer expressed his satisfaction with these arrangements. By the 26th January, 1917, however, the counter of the one engine only registered 11,530 revolutions and of the other 4,399 revolutions or about 67 and 24 hours running respectively at full speed.\n\n5. On the 14th February, 1917, Mr. Jaffé wrote to Mr. Dyer impressing upon him the necessity of maintaining regular pumping with the new engines. Mr. Dyer replied that he was doing what he could to maintain pumping but that there were difficulties in connection with labour which he was unable to overcome. Mr. Jaffé then informed him that it was absolutely necessary that he should maintain continuous pumping and offered him the assistance of the Public Works Department if he would state in what way he required help. Mr. Dyer declined the offer of assistance from the Public Works Department.\n\n6. Matters improved somewhat after this and on the 19th April, 1917, the Crown Agents, who had previously made enquiries",
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        "content_text": "## TELEGRAM\n**ISSUED FROM CHIEF CABLE STATION. ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAYEMENT**\n\n**REPL ELECTRA**\n13 x13\n\n**SHOULD BE ORDERED**\n\nEia Eastern: \n\nDoubtful words should be OFFICIALLY repeated. Some (Nomeaddjegie) Telegram can be attended to without ...\n\nSou bagh of Berta Bis Hat of Company's Stations in London and Telephons,\n\n**LETRA**\n\nClerk's Name and Date.\n\n**GOVERNMENT.**\n**(PRIORITY)**\n\nExamined, PW 3:45 pm.\nHL 8:35 am.\n\nM \nRemarks \n\nNo. \nMe sys \nTimo Kievieno \n10 \n\n## Telegram Content\n\nHONGKONG \n182 \n11 NR \nBQ \nPHK \n\nGarcia African Commanding has informed CHAPELRIES LN \n\nGite and for their year. \nECRIATES TURMOIL \nmarried Offens FIFTY MAR REPLUMP \nONFACINA \nINDUPED IAS \nME THAT \naccommodation more required \nABDICENT REQUIRABLE \nFOR \nABOUT \n4 User families \nFACED AMER S IL VERGOD \nhave infpened \nI INDUPED AS HIM \nEvent that \nTHE \nHOUSING \nALREADY \nPRESENT \nEXISTS AL EHOUS ES AB EB A NK \nTHAT A the OFFERTOR \nEUROPEAN \nGreat differentless \nDIFINIATE \ncurl population PEPPERETTE \n\"Prading Settlement\" SILVERGOD SARAB A NO \nquestion of QUARRELO US\n\n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| HONGKONG | 182 |\n| 11 NR | BQ PHK |\n\n## Address and Other Details\n\n1 Address \n1 I \n\"lende $3832 LONDON WALL SIGNALLY, AVĒĻ takapu \nTELEGRAM \n397 \n1 \nLETTER \n\nDeenage Forz \n\n(H9OGIAGE GOJOLIT JA JE IS*VC eft, remansour TOTE\" og Houf gort fo 200 geolocena 21 fedew gun and engine, a murads Aerone)",
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        "content_text": "## Inspectors\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sergeant-Major |  |  |  |\n| Sergeants |  |  | 11 |\n| Lance-Sergeants |  |  | 10 |\n| Constables, 1st Class |  |  |  |\n|  | $780 to $1,020 | $60 annually |  |\n\n## Indian Police\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | $780 to $1,020 | $60 annually |  |\n|  | $480 |  | 300 |\n|  | $264 |  |  |\n|  | $360 |  | 276 |\n|  |  |  | 22 |\n|  |  |  | 12 |\n|  |  |  | 55 |\n|  |  |  | 27 |\n|  | $240 |  | 216 |\n|  | Abolish |  |  |\n\nRemittance privileges and Ration Allowance to be continued. The Government pay for additional cost of rations over 20 cents.\n\n## General Grading Scheme for Clerical and General Establishments\n| Grade | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Higher Grade | $3,360 to $3,900 | $120 biennially | 15 |\n| First Grade | $2,100 to $3,000 | $120 | 17 |\n| Second Grade | $1,800 to $2,280 | $120 | 77 |\n| Third Grade | $1,260 to $1,500 | $120 | 29 |\n| Fourth Grade | $960 to $1,200 | $60 annually | 17 |\n| Fifth Grade | $600 to $780 | $60 | 11 |\n| Sixth Grade | $420 to $540 | $60 | 11 |\n\n## Gaol Staff\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Senior Warders | $600 to $660 | $12 annually |  |\n| Warders | $480 to $540 | $12 | 31 |\n| Assistant Warders | $360 to $420 | $12 | 59 |\n| Guards | $300 to $336 |  | 15 |\n| Matron | $960 to $1,200 | $60 |  |\n| Wardresses | $420 to $540 | $60 | 27 |\n\nRation allowances to be abolished except in the case of Guards.\n\n## Chinese Police\n| Rank | Salary Range/Allowance |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sergeant-Major and Principal Chinese Detective | Allowance to remain as before |\n| Sergeant, 1st Class |  |\n| Sergeant, 2nd Class |  |\n| Constables, 1st Class |  |\n| Constables, 2nd Class |  |\n| Female Searchers |  |\n\n## Water Police\n| Rank | Salary Range | Increment | Number |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| First Class Coxswain | $420 |  |  |\n| Second Class Coxswain | $300 |  | 51 |\n| Seamen | $168 to $180 |  | 21 |\n| Engineer in Chief | $480 to $600 | $12 annually |  |\n| First Class Engineer | $360 to $420 | $12 | 11 |\n| Second Class Engineer | $276 to $300 | $12 | 27 |\n| Stokers, First Class | $240 |  |  |\n| Stokers, Second Class |  |  | 31 |\n\n## Clerical Grades Adjustment\nIn order to facilitate promotion 50 posts of 5th Grade Clerks should be raised to 4th Grade. With a view to encouraging Portuguese clerks to remain in the Public Service it is desirable as far as practicable to ensure their employment not below the 4th Grade.\n\n## Public Works Department\n| Rank | Salary Range/Grade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Foremen Watchmen | $300 |\n| Store Foremen | $384 |\n| Senior Meter Reader | $192 to $300 |\n| Meter Readers | $180 |\n| Dredger Master | $600 to $780 by $60 annually |\n| Storekeeper | 3rd Grade |\n| Junior Assistant Surveyor | 2nd Grade (Salary to be on dollar scale.) |\n| 3rd Grade Surveyor | 3rd Grade |\n| Computors | 4th Grade |\n| House Service Inspectors | To remain as at present |\n| Tracers | $420 to $1,200 by $60 annually, 5th and 4th Grades combined. Promotion from 5th to 4th to be continuous. |\n| Apprentice Surveyors | 4th and 3rd Grades combined. Promotion from 4th to 3rd to be continuous. |\n| One Tracer |  |\n| Two Tracers |  |\n| Stokers, Second Class | $192 to $216 by $12 annually |\n| Boatmen |  |\n\n## Fire Brigade\n| Rank | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Engineer, Dredger | $360 to $420 |\n| Two Fitters | $300 |\n| Two Store Boys and Tallymen | $300 |\n| Engine Drivers | $360 |\n| Assistant Engine Drivers | $300 |\n| Fitters | $360 |\n| Blacksmith | $360 |\n| Carpenter | $324 |\n| Sail-maker | $192 to $216 by $12 annually |\n| Stokers | $192, $216 |\n| Firemen |  |\n\n## Chinese Revenue Officers\n| Rank | Salary |\n| --- | --- |\n| Chief | $384 |\n| First Class | $300 |\n| Second Class | $264 |\n| Third Class | $240 |\n| Female Searchers | $180 |\n\n## Post Office\n| Rank | Salary Range/Grade |\n| --- | --- |\n| Supervisor | £220 to £300 by £10 annually, 3rd Grade |\n| One Launch Officer | $360 to $420 by $12 annually |\n| One Launch Officer | $300 to $360 by $12 annually |\n| Probationer Sorters | $300 to $360 by $12 annually |\n| Head Postman | 5th Grade, $204 |\n| Postmen | 6th Grade |\n| Carpenter |  |\n| Coxswain |  |\n| Engineer |  |\n| Telegraphists | 4th and 3rd Grades combined. Promotion from 4th to 3rd Grade to be continuous. |\n| Telephone Clerks | 6th Grade |",
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        "content_text": "25\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nSecretariat for Chinese Affairs Audit Department Treasury...\n\nHarbour Master's Department. Harbour Master's Department,\n\nSpecial Expenditure Imports and Exports Department\n\nRoyal Observatory.... Miscellaneous Services Judicial and Legal Departments Judicial and Legal Departments, Special Expenditure... Police and Prison Departments Police and Prison Departments,\n\nSpecial Expenditure Medical Department Sanitary Department\n\n57,830 originally estimated at $14,677,898 is 37,595 now expected to amount to $15,078,600. 88,237 but it must be added this estimate takes 204,348 no account of the result of the purchase and sale of rice during the past three 350 months as it is impossible at present\n\narrive at even an approximate estimate\" 557,675 of what sum will be required to make up\n\n23,671 the deficit on that account.\n\n687,231 967,931\n\n150\n\n1,093,846\n\nEstimates of Revenue for 1920.\n\nThe Estimates of Revenue for next year show, I am glad to say, a healthy condition, for whereas, on the one hand, a large decrease is shown in the receipt of the Opium Monopoly, the increases in more permanent heads of revenue amount to over a million dollars. The estimated Revenue for 1920 is $15,314,800, being $1,569,415 less than the approved estimate for the current year, and $1,741,810 less than the revised estimate. The principal\n\nincreases are:-\n\n  \n    Military Expenditure-Defence\n    $35,000\n  \n  \n    Corps\n    71,481\n  \n  \n    Public Works :-\n    \n  \n  \n    Light Dues\n    \n  \n  \n    Light Dues, Special Assessment...\n    \n  \n  \n    Assessed Taxes\n    492,106\n  \n  \n    Public Works Department\n    \n  \n  \n    Carriage, Chair, &c., Licences....\n    \n  \n  \n    Public Works, Recurrent\n    785,000\n  \n  \n    Public Works, Extraordinary\n    \n  \n  \n    Post Office\n    3,073,700\n  \n  \n    Kowloon-Canton Railway :-\n    \n  \n  \n    Kowloon (West) Ferry Licences..\n    291,345\n  \n  \n    Pawnbroker's Licences\n    35,000\n  \n  \n    \n    111,900\n  \n  \n    \n    17,500\n  \n  \n    \n    15,360\n  \n  \n    \n    118,500\n  \n  \n    Working Expenses\n    \n  \n  \n    Stamp Duties\n    420,187\n  \n  \n    Tobacco Duties\n    \n  \n  \n    Special Expenditure\n    \n  \n  \n    Pensions\n    372,904\n  \n  \n    China Companies' Fees\n    266,320\n  \n  \n    \n    64,778\n  \n  \n    Engagement and Discharge of Seamen\n    12,300\n  \n  \n    \n    100,000\n  \n  \n    \n    100,000\n  \n  \n    \n    40,000\n  \n  \n    \n    $5,000\n  \n  \n    \n    $11,173,226\n  \n  \n    Fees for use of Government Buoys\n    \n  \n  \n    Medical Treatment\n    20,000\n  \n  \n    \n    12,000\n  \n  \n    Postage\n    15,000\n  \n  \n    Railway\n    46,500\n  \n  \n    Buildings\n    14,510\n  \n  \n    \n    26,130\n  \n  \n    \n    11,250\n  \n  \n    \n    272,000\n  \n  \n    \n    $1,018,910\n  \n  \n    Charitable Services\n    \n  \n  \n    Total\n    \n  \n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR. Honourable members of the Legislative Council, within a few days of my arrival in the Colony I find myself in the position, on presiding over this Council for the first time, of laying before you the annual statement of the financial position of the Colony and the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for next year.\n\nIt was estimated at this time last year that the balance of assets over liabilities on the 31st December, 1918, would amount to $4,595,212, but the actual balance was $5,681,138.\n\nIt is now estimated that the revenue for the current year will amount to the sum of $17,056,410, or $172,195 more than the original estimate.\n\nwhile the two main decreases are the amount obtained from the Special War Rate $1,095,000-and a sum of $1,500,000 less from the Opium Monopoly.\n\nEstimates of Expenditure for 1920.\n\nThe expenditure for next year is estimated to amount to $14,888,473, which is $209,577 more than the estimated expenditure for the current year. The various increases and decreases in each department and the reasons therefor are fully set out in the Sessional Paper which has been laid on the table.\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\n191\n\n8th\n\nUnder the head of Governor, Special and decreases are fully given in the foot-notes. Expenditure a vote of $10,000 has been inserted to cover the Special Allowances on Salaries which have been granted to the Civil Service pending a general revision of salaries.\n\nA sum of $465,000 has been inserted for the renewal of Government House furniture. I regret that I should be in the position of asking for this vote on my first appearance as President, but the present condition of Government House has been unfavourably commented upon in this Council and, I think, with justice.\n\nIn the Colonial Secretary's Department provision has been made for two new Cadets, no appointments to the Cadet Service having been made during the war. Under Special Expenditure a sum of $650 has been inserted for the purchase of document presses and cabinets.\n\nWith a view to training a clerk to take charge of the Stamp Office in the Treasury on the retirement of the present Higher Grade Clerk, one First-grade Clerk has been added to the staff of the Stamp Office.\n\nIn the Harbour Master's Department the posts of Lighthouse-keepers have been divided into two classes, and are not now numbered according to seniority. The post of Principal Lighthouse-keeper has been abolished on the retirement of the holder on pension, and also one post of 2nd Grade Lighthouse-keeper, while two new posts of 2nd Class Lighthouse-keepers have been inserted. A new sub-head appears, namely, \"Blackhead's Hill Signal-station,\" the staff of which has been re-organised.\n\nUnder \"Other Charges\" increases amounting in all to $6,000 have been made, the present votes having proved insufficient. The votes for coal have been reduced owing to the price being lower.\n\nIn the Imports and Exports Department the post of Temporary Higher Grade Clerk has been abolished, and the sum of $10,000 inserted for the staff for Salt Control is not at present required.\n\nUnder \"Other Charges\" increases amounting to $1,500 have been considered necessary in the votes for Secret Service and Transport. A large decrease, however, occurs in the vote for the Purchase of Raw Opium of $350,000, as it is expected that much less opium will be boiled next year. The votes for the purchase of Salt for Salt Control are also not required.\n\nUnder \"Miscellaneous Services\" there are several increases amounting in all to $1,594, while decreases occur to the extent of $3,231. The reasons for these increases and decreases are given in the foot-notes. Miscellaneous Services as a whole, however, show a large decrease. This is due to the large sums formerly voted for War Expenditure not now being required. The decrease under this head amounts to $1,510,219.\n\nPassing to the Judicial and Legal Departments, I would point out that the post of Assistant Interpreter in the Supreme Court has been abolished. It is considered that fully-qualified Chinese Interpreters are now available for the interpretation work, and a 2nd Grade Interpreter has, therefore, been substituted for that post.\n\nPolice and Prison Departments.\n\nA considerable increase is shown in the Estimates for the Police and Prison Departments, amounting in all to $71,323. The war being over, we are again able to obtain from home able-bodied recruits for the Police Force, and no effort has, therefore, been made not only to bring the Police Force up to its pre-war strength so far as the European contingent is concerned, but also by certain re-organisations to bring the Force into conformity with the needs of the present day. A list of the new posts which it has been considered necessary to make in the Police Department is shown in Appendix II of the Estimates, and the net increase in Personal Emoluments resulting therefrom is approximately $37,000. Increases have also been considered necessary in several votes under \"Other Charges\" of the Police Department amounting to $34,766, but reductions have been possible in other votes, so that the net increase is reduced to $12,566. These increases and decreases are fully enumerated in the Abstract laid on the Table.\n\nThe introduction of motor fire-engines has necessitated also a re-organisation of the Fire Brigade. Five new posts of Fire Brigade chauffeurs have been added, two European steam engine drivers have been dispensed with and the number of firemen has been increased by nine. Increases under \"Other Charges\" have been required, also, on account of the rise in the cost of materials for repairs and of the increased number of engines that have now to be kept in good order.\n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211",
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        "content_text": "14\n\nJAFFÉ ON HONG KONG WATERWORKS,\n\n[Selected\n\nin 15-inch courses. The piers supporting the arches of the road-way over the overflow-crest are of rough-punched ashlar in 18-inch courses, composed of stones weighing up to 2 tons each. These stones were bonded together from top to bottom of the piers with steel bars (1½ inch in diameter), 3-inch holes being drilled right through them for this purpose and filled with cement grout after the bar had been inserted. The arches between the piers are of reinforced cement concrete, faced on both sides with ashlar.\n\nAll the granite for the facing, displacers and broken stone was obtained from three quarries in Taitam Bay. The stone was rough-dressed at the quarries and then transported by junk to a landing-stage near the site of the works, the distribution was by a light railway, and the elevation of the stone to the dam was effected by hand-hauling the trollies up a series of inclined-plane scaffoldings formed of China fir and bamboo poles tied together with bamboo lashings. The Chinese excel at this kind of scaffold-ing and can be relied upon to erect it sufficiently strong for the purpose for which it may be required. The facing of the dam required 164,858 cubic feet of ashlar and 59,400 cubic feet of rubble.\n\nGENERAL.\n\nThe arrangements in the valve-tower (Fig. 5, Plate 1) for drawing the water from the reservoir comprise two 18-inch diameter stand-pipes, one in each valve-well, from which 15-inch draw-off pipes at intervals of 10 feet connect with the reservoir. Valves for con-trolling the draw-off pipes are placed within the valve-wells, external pen-stocks being also provided for cutting off the water in the event of damage to valve or pipe. The valves are operated by head-stocks and the penstocks by bevel gearing placed in the valve-house, which also contains a water-level indicator.\n\nThe roadway over the dam forms part of a road which encircles the greater part of the Island of Hong Kong, and as this road is now being widened and improved for motor-traffic, it was decided to construct the portion over the dam with a clear width of 16 feet between the parapets, so as to admit of two cars passing each other to get this width two corbel courses and one string course were required on each face of the dam. The road surface is of \"granolithic,\" 2 inches thick, composed of 1 cement to 3 granite siftings (inch to dust).\n\nThe culverts through the dam were permanently closed in May, 1915 (2 years and 7 months after the signing of the contract), and\n\nPage 15\n\nPapers.] LOW-LEVEL RESERVOIRS AND WORKS FOR PUMPING. 15\n\nwater was allowed to rise in the reservoir to 10 feet above the lowest draw-off, which enabled 86 million gallons to be pumped from it in that year. In 1916 the water in the reservoir was allowed to rise to 50 feet above the lowest draw-off, at which level the effective impound is 211 million gallons. In 1917 the dam was completed, and water was allowed to accumulate in the reser-voir throughout the year. The distribution of the rainfall during 1916 was\n\nan unfortunate one, as out of a total of 79.8 inches 45 inches fell in May and June and only 24.7 inches during the latter 6 months of the year. The result of this was that the dry season, which proved to be a very severe one, opened with only 740 million gallons in store, and it became necessary to resort to drastic measures for the restriction of the supply. The reservoirs reached their lowest levels on the 15th May, 1917, when the aggregate storage only amounted to 69 million gallons (Fig. 7).\n\nThe prospect of filling the Taitam Tuk reservoir in 1917 was therefore a poor one, especially as none of the catchwaters for augmenting the drainage-area had been constructed. Nevertheless, though the rainfall for the year only amounted to 81.49 inches at the Observatory (80.37 Taitam gauge), 970 million gallons were collected by the 13th October, when the reservoir attained its greatest height of 80 feet above the lowest draw-off, or 20 feet below overflow level. The Intermediate reservoir was then at sill level and contained 196 million gallons, so that the total storage in the pumping-supply reservoirs amounted to 1,166 million gallons on that date. This quantity, in conjunction with the contents of the gravitation reservoirs (346 million gallons on the 13th October) assured full supply for the ensuing dry season.\n\nPUMPING-STATION (Figs. 8, Plate 1).\n\nThe pumping station was constructed in 1904 to 1905, to accommodate the pumping-machinery installed in connection with the Intermediate reservoir, but the site was prepared with a view to enlargement for the additional pumping-plant required later for the Taitam Tuk reservoir. The engine-room was made of sufficient width for the bigger engines which would then be installed. The site is on the shore of Taitam Bay, and was prepared by cutting a plateau in the hillside at the level of 23 feet above L.W.O.S.T. The earth and stone removed in the course of the excavation was dumped into the sea to form a reclamation adjoining the plateau at a level of 12 feet above low water (4 feet above high water). This reclamation proved useful during the construction of the first\n\n261",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nJAFFÉ ON HONG KONG WATERWORKS,\n\n[Selected\n\nTwo additional sets of pumping-plant have been installed in connection with the Taitam Tuk reservoir, each capable of lifting 3 million gallons in 24 hours to a maximum height of 387 feet. The pump-lift will, however, vary from 287 feet to 387 feet, exclusive of friction in the mains, there being a difference of 100 feet between the lowest draw-off of the Taitam Tuk reservoir and the level of the overflow crest. The lowest draw-off is 4 feet below the level of the engine-house floor.\n\nThese engines are triple-expansion, vertical, having high-pressure cylinders 18 inches, intermediate 31 inches, and low-pressure 50 inches in diameter, the stroke is 36 inches and the revolutions 30 per minute. The pumps, three to each engine, have 153-inch diameter rams driven direct from the cross-heads by four side rods directly connected. The boilers, three in number, are of the Lancashire type, and are fitted with superheaters, and there is an economizer in connection with the main flue; the boiler-pressure is 150 lbs. per square inch.\n\nThe total pumping-capacity of the station is now 8 million gallons per day. As the present requirement of full supply is 5 to 5½ million gallons per day, the combined plant is sufficient to maintain the full service with either the two old engines or one of the new engines in reserve.\n\nROADS AND MAINS.\n\nThe laying of a main from the pumping-station to the inlet of the tunnel for the gravitation supply entailed the construction of an entirely new road; but for the main from the Intermediate reservoir to the station an existing road which led down the valley was utilized. It was, however, necessary to extend it along the foreshore from the head of Taitam Bay to the pumping-station. The existing road could not have been used for the pumping-main because it was within the area which would be submerged when the Taitam Tuk reservoir was filled. For the supply main from the Intermediate reservoir this did not matter, because this was to be taken up and relaid for further service in connection with the Taitam Tuk reservoir. The new road to the tunnel inlet is 3,430 yards in length. As the greater portion of the road was intended for public traffic, and had also to accommodate three 18-inch diameter mains, it was made 20 feet in width. Where it was intended for the mains only the width was 12 feet. The road for a continuous length of 1,689 yards is of a uniform gradient of 1 in 250 but for the remainder it ranges from 1 in 50 to 1 in 8.\n\nPapers.] LOW-LEVEL RESERVOIRS AND WORKS FOR PUMPING. 19\n\nIn addition to many heavy cuttings and retaining-walls, four bridges were required, the largest of which consisted of three spans of 50 feet each, the height from ground-level to the crown of the central arch being 85 feet. The bridges are all granite-faced concrete structures.\n\nThe extension of the existing road along the foreshore of Taitam Bay for the supply main from the Intermediate reservoir to the pumping-station was all light work. After being shortened and straightened by the construction of an embankment, 358 yards in length, it now serves for the accommodation of the two supply mains from the Taitam Tuk reservoir, As the foreshore on which the embankment is formed was soft, piers on pile foundations were built within the embankment, at intervals of 12 feet, for the support of the mains. The embankment is pitched throughout with coursed granite dry rubble springing from a pell-mell rubble toe.\n\nBoth pumping- and supply-mains are 18 inches in diameter, formed of cast-iron spigot-and-socket pipes ¾ inch in thickness and 12 feet in length. Very few curves of smaller radius than could be got round with the play in the joints of the pipes were necessary; but, where they occurred, angle collars were used. Each pumping-main is divided into three sections by two reflux-valves of the multiple-flap type. These valves are placed in brick chambers below road-level. In addition to the reflux-valve, a sluice-valve, air-valve, wash-out and a by-pass for the reflux-valve is provided for each main at these places. Additional wash-out and air-valves are provided at intervals along the pumping- and supply-mains. The pumping-mains are 3,430 yards in length from the pumping-station to the inlet of the tunnel and the supply-mains from the Taitam Tuk dam to the pumping-station are 900 yards in length. All three pumping-mains are now being pumped through, but two are of sufficient capacity to convey the present full supply to the city in the event of the third main requiring repairs.\n\nINTERMEDIATE RESERVOIR.\n\nThe Intermediate reservoir, which was constructed in 1904-7 in connection with the first section of the Taitam Tuk works, has a capacity of 210 million gallons. 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        "content_text": "„Juo* pecoup, youļu punię\n\nDie IwaOjAJc miķet of eliten\n\n+\n\nfaeziqəq ang acarupsh po que LA PANDIWA (roabererse' [<] I paq vos\n\n1. Leadenhall Street, R.C.\n\n!Market Buildings,\n\nLONDON STATIONS:\n\nElectra Nonse.\n\nFinsbury Parament, E Ç. 2\n\n3032 Leden WA!\n\n8-51\n\n113, Canada Street. E.O, «\n\n862 ATH-\n\n+408\n\n25:6 Gerra:\n\n1014 Holb\n\n17. Holberg Vieduct, E.O. I\n\n2042 1:-\n\nTEMPORARY ARRANGEMENT,\n\nMinotny Lane, 28, Mark Lane, E.0, \"The Balcio,\" Bury at. Entrance X.0.1\n\n41 & 43, Pagliament Strict, BW. 1\n\nC. Danman Street, Borough, S.E. 1\n\nTelegrams Vin Hautern are accepted at Central Station of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, L., 18, Old Broad $trast, E.O.2\n\nPROVINOJAL STATIONS :\n\nALWAYS DEN\n\nCENTRAL CABLE STATION.\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITE\n\nONTINUATION SHEET NO.\n\nDIRECT CABLE ROUTES FOR TELEGRAMS\n\nTO\n\nAUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH AMERICA, INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITS SETTLEMEN\n\nSPAIN, PORTUGAL, GREECE, TURKEY, EGYPT, ALL PARTS OF AFRICA, &c., &c.\n\nTr\n\nSTATIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN.\n\n3632 London Wal! 5 Ltd:\n\nTIMES OF OPENING AND CLOSING.\n\nMeme\n\nChapelries\n\nEGGMMEND · FOLLOW!!\n\nE. T. Co., Ld.\n\nCircuit Re:\n\nXhosa. s. 98\n\nPRESENT\n\nREVIDENT AL - HIS\n\nNON\n\ncensionall PAREGUTSE\n\nperamal allermane\n\n-ANT\n\nOF\n\n150,\n\nOpen Bam, so 9 þ.b.\n\n*Securdays to 1 FM.\n\nOPEN.\n\nused \"hunday.\n\nCOMM A\n\nSecond Assistant\n\nANT IT HET +6\n\nP\n\nCE\n\nINITIAL\n\n-\n\n1 km to 8 pm.\n\nو\n\nH\n\n8am. tc\n\n*:\n\n900,\n\nExecutive Engine 124 firade\n\n10a.m. to\n\n1\n\nBAL AR\n\nGOBLYHE AD\n\nCapen in b p.m.\n\n\"\n\n2 m2 trade\n\n16201\n\nthe\n\nAAXIMUM\n\nINITIAL\n\n6765 Cam\n\n$4\n\nBIRMINGHAM: IM, Colmore Row\n\nBRADFORD 14, Commaroļal Street\n\nE- -BRISTOL) −1, Small Strest\n\nn.\n\n2\n\n... \n\nSam. 1\n\nH\n\n4\n\n9. T. +\n\n7pm.\n\n236 CA :\n\nCARDIFE:-\n\nEDINBURGH: \"\n\n7769 i\n\n$764 Centrat\n\n$121 CentraL\n\nBBQS Mty!\n\nMANCHESTER Sbride Gardens\n\n7.13 Central\n\nNEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE:\n\n2340 Dundee\n\n7776 Centra!.\n\n**7762! Offai\n\nHULL: Exchange Buildings, Lowgate\n\nJ.IVERPOOL: K13, Ekobange Buildings\n\nThe Cotton Exchange\n\nas, Merchants' Exchange, Bats Dröka\n\nDUNDEE, Bail Street\n\nT\n\nBaum, in 7 p.)\n\nto & p.k.\n\n. Frederick Street\n\ni\n\nQLASGOW:-5. Royal Bank Pleon\n\nTa.m to 19 p.m.\n\nto 9p.m.\n\n+\n\n..to 11-\n\n19.M. 10 & UN\n\n7, 1911\n\n16 I p,m,\n\n91\n\nPRINCIPAL\n\nEFTETWEET H and Surveyor.\n\nINITIAL\n\nPIERSONEL\n\nALWAYS OPES\n\nwhere 12j\n\nHead Tagapé l'o Tara\n\n• Head Of of ki meat any of the above-named Stativa.\n\nK Exchange Buildings, Quayside\n\nPORTHCURNOW, CORNWALL\n\nHEAD OFFICES OF THE COMPANY: ELECTRA HOUSE, FINSBURY PAVEMENT, LONDON, EC. 2. ̧\n\nSUTK\n\nTelographic Address; EASTERN AVE, LONDON. Telephons 1127 LONDON WALL\n\n■\n\npentru REGISTFAND alpoiler whore him a sym, the pond “fláRE\" (91) se pare ojavalent köpet\n\n+ ABBREVIATED ADDRESS.\n\nof the meblegt,\n\nracy is scured 's the Pu... !. rum fu the chanted\n\nfor\n\nTELEGRAPHIC\n\n* Telepon direct to the Company's Stanines as keen, DP- Telegraph Office: 1tked \"VIA KASTERN,\"\n\n1.\n\nAYA, ZGISTERED FAÏK OF COST.\n\nLOMA\n\n£625\n\nFIORIDUN PHILOSANG A\n\nPICONZERO SILVERGOD BALLITO\n\nLand 5\n\n£550\n\nwww\n\nTC\n\nمسلم لاح\n\nksw\n\nGERENEN\n\nM. Railway Marana\n\n£400 MCKMEUP\n\nTO\n\n1100\n\nAND\n\nFarusion able\n\npersonal alle\n\nNO N\n\nSILVERGOD\n\nFirst Assistant\n\n12650]\n\nHES MARIN SUR VEYOR MAXIMUM\n\nF\n\nSTUBBS",
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        "content_text": "Periodical drydocking and inspection\n\nWhen hire ceases. Forty-eight hours allowance. Cancelling clauses. Payment of hire, advances, short payments. Balance of hire. Broken periods. A day's hire. Claims: how to be rendered. Owners' liabilities. Plaza signalling. Navigation requisites. Admiralty liabilities, Miscellaneous.\n\n9. Should the steamer remain in the Admiralty service for more than six months from the date of her last drydocking, the Owners agree, if required by the Admiralty, at the expiration of such six months to place the steamer in drydock, to clean and paint her bottom, to open up or test under steam as may be considered necessary by the Admiralty Inspectors any parts of the machinery and boilers, and to make good any defects likely to interfere with satisfactory fulfilment of her continued service, all of which shall be done at Owners' expense, and the same at the expiration of every six months during the currency of this Charter.\n\nSuch drydocking and inspection shall take place at the port at which the steamer shall complete her voyage or at such other adjacent port as may be approved by the Admiralty. The hire shall cease from the time the steamer is available for drydocking at the port of drydocking until she is again placed at the disposal of the Admiralty at that port, ready to load and/or bunker and efficient for further service, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., but not on Sundays or public holidays nor after 1 p.m. on Saturdays, unless steamer sail or work be begun meantime.\n\nIn calculating the period of pay under this clause an allowance of 48 running hours without stoppage of hire shall be credited in respect of each drydocking.\n\n10. If there is any misrepresentation as regards steamer's size, capabilities, and position, or if steamer has not arrived at the port of delivery or is not ready to load by or on the date specified, the Admiralty have the option of cancelling this Charter.\n\n11. Payment of Hire shall be made in England as follows:-\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for two months certain or more, one calendar month's hire in advance on the steamer entering into pay, half a month's hire at the end of the second month, half a month's hire at the end of the third month, and one month's further hire at the end of each succeeding completed month of service.\n\nIn the case of steamers engaged for less than two months, the advance of hire to be made on the steamer entering into pay shall be for two-thirds of the hire for the period certain, such advance in no case to exceed the amount of one calendar month's hire, and the remaining payments shall be made as laid down above.\n\nIn all cases such payments shall be considered as payments on account, and the balance of hire shall be paid on the passing in Office of the accounts, &c., to be rendered by the steamer, and on receipt of the Logs for the period (vide clause 24).\n\nPeriods of pay, and periods less than one calendar month at the expiration of this Charter shall be reckoned in days. A day's hire shall be calculated on the basis of 1/365 of twelve calendar months' hire of the steamer; and in case of inefficiency under clauses 9 and 25, any fraction of a day amounting to 12 hours or over shall count as one day off pay.\n\nClaims for hire and other expenses allowable under this Charter shall be rendered to the Director of Transports, Admiralty, S.W., on Form T. 191.\n\n12. The Owner shall provide and pay for all wages, provisions, including fuel for galley and Electric Light, and all other expenses in connection with the Master, Officers, Engineers and Crew, for the insurance of the steamer, for all deck and engine-room stores, water for all purposes, for the proper ventilation of the cargo, for boats, for ballast necessary to enable the steamer to proceed with safety without cargo, and for the maintenance of the steamer in a thoroughly efficient state in hull and machinery for and during the service.\n\n13. The steamer shall sail under signal provided by the Admiralty, but the Owners shall provide the following flags, &c., for signalling:\n\n(a) A set of International Code Flags and the latest edition of the Signal Code.\n\n(b) A pair of Hand Flags for Semaphoring messages in daylight.\n\n(c) A Flashing Lamp for signalling at night (Morse Code).\n\n(d) Signal Letters for British Ships.\n\nThe Owners shall provide the Charts required for the safe navigation of the steamer according to the services on which she may from time to time be employed, and shall supply the necessary Compasses and Chronometers, in respect of which certificates from competent authorities shall be furnished that they are in good order and that a correct deviation table has been provided.\n\n14. The Admiralty shall be liable for all coal, or other fuel, except fuel for galley and Electric Light, and shall accept and pay for all fuel in steamer's bunkers at the time of delivery.\n\nOn the expiration of the Charter the Owners shall pay the Admiralty for all the fuel left in the bunkers. Both such payments shall be made at the current market price at the respective ports.\n\nThe Owners shall on entry into pay hand to the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port a certificate signed by the Master and Chief Engineer of the number of tons of fuel in the bunkers of the steamer, and its description.\n\n15. The Admiralty shall be liable for port charges, pilotages, lights, dues, necessary tug assistance, consular charges (except such as relate to Officers or Crew), Bills of Health, and overtime under conditions of clause 17, but the Owners shall without any charge against the Admiralty arrange through the Master or their Port Agents all such services in connection with the navigation and clearing of the steamer as if they were trading on their own account, pay the claims therefor and reclaim from the Director of Transports such as are necessary and for Admiralty account, the claim for each service being supported by the receipted vouchers. All pilotage certificates must show the draft of water.\n\n16. When Great Britain is at peace the Officers, Engineers, and every member of the Crew shall be British subjects. When Great Britain is at war this stipulation is to be carried out so far as practicable, but in any case, Master, Officers and Engineers must be British subjects, and members of the hostile nationality are to be excluded. At least one of the officers or men must be able to use the Bashing lantern.\n\nA full list of the Crew with their rating and nationality shall be produced on the entry into pay of the steamer.\n\n17. The steamer shall work day and night if required and the steam winches shall be at the service of the Admiralty by day and night with full steam when and as required. The same shall be worked free of cost by the Crew, which must contain sufficient skilled hands to work all the winches on board at once in one shift. The Admiralty will repay overtime under such conditions as may be from time to time authorised.\n\n18. The Admiralty shall not be held liable if the steamer shall be lost, wrecked, driven on shore, injured or rendered incapable of service by or in consequence of dangers of the sea or tempest, collision, fire, accident, stress of weather or any other cause arising as a sea risk.\n\n19. The risks of war which are taken by the Admiralty are those risks which would be excluded from an ordinary English policy of marine insurance by the following, or similar, but not more extensive clause:\n\nWarranted free of capture, seizure, and detention and the consequences thereof, or of any attempt thereat, piracy excepted, and also from all consequences of hostilities or warlike operations, whether before or after declaration of war.\n\nSuch risks are taken by the Admiralty on the ascertained value of the steamer, if she be totally lost, at the time of such loss, or, if she be injured, on the ascertained value of such injury.\n\nShould a dispute arise as to the value of the steamer the same shall be settled as laid down in clause 31.\n\n20. In the event of any member of the Crew being killed or injured as a result of warlike operations in which Great Britain is engaged, the Admiralty agree to settle any lawful claims arising from such death or injury according to the scale laid down in the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, and the Owners shall be relieved of their liability under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906, or other Acts in respect of such claims.\n\n21. The Master shall prosecute his voyages with the utmost despatch and skill and render all customary assistance with ship's Crew and boats.\n\n22. The Master shall obey all orders and instructions which he may receive from the Admiralty, or from any Officer authorised by them, and shall in all respects comply with the Instructions for Masters of Collier and Oiler Transports, but he shall be solely responsible (on behalf of the Owners) for the management, handling, and navigation of the steamer. He shall keep accounts of his cargoes as laid down in the above-named Instructions and the Admiralty hereby agree to indemnify the Owners from all consequences or liabilities that may arise from the Master signing Bills of Lading, as well as from any irregularity in Ship's papers consequent thereon, except as laid down in clause 27.\n\nThe Admiralty shall not be held responsible for losses sustained through the negligence of Pilots, Tug-boats, Stevedores, or others employed by them, the Owners recognising them as their servants even if appointed and paid by the Admiralty or the Agents of the Admiralty (but see also clause 25).\n\n23. If the Admiralty shall have reason to be dissatisfied with the conduct of the Master, Officers, or Engineers, the Owners shall, on receiving particulars of the complaint, investigate the same, and, if necessary, make a change in the appointments.\n\n24. The Master shall be furnished, from time to time, by the Admiralty, with all requisite instructions and sailing directions in writing, and shall keep a full and correct Log of the voyage or voyages which is to be forwarded quarterly to the Admiralty. (See also clause 11.)\n\n25. If from deficiency of men or stores, breakdown of machinery, or any other cause, the working of the steamer is at any time suspended for a period exceeding twelve running hours, pay shall cease for the whole of such and any subsequent period of whatever duration during which the vessel is inefficient. (See also clause 11.)\n\nAny work that may be done during a period of partial inefficiency of the steamer, except proceeding to a port for repairs or to replenish bunker coals owing to accident shall be paid for on the basis of the time it would have occupied had the steamer remained efficient. If upon the voyage her speed be reduced by a defect in or breakdown of any part of her machinery, damage to propeller, rudder or by any other mishap of hull or engines or cargo, the time so lost and the cost of any extra coal consumed in consequence thereof shall be deducted from the hire; but should the steamer be driven into port or to anchorage by stress of weather or for coals, such detention or loss of time shall be at the Admiralty expense. In the event, however, of breakdown at sea or other accident necessitating the steamer proceeding to a port of refuge for repairs, or to replace or land crew, hire to cease until the steamer arrives back in a similar position to that in which she was at the time of the breakdown or accident, &c., and any coals used to be replaced or paid for by Owners, whichever Admiralty may elect.\n\nIf through accident any part of the cargo or bunkers have to be discharged, the time occupied in discharging and reloading same to be deducted from the hire.\n\nAny time so lost shall count as part of the term of charter named in clauses 2 and 7, but the Admiralty have the option of keeping the steamer for an additional period equivalent to the whole or part of the time lost.\n\n26. Throughout this Charter losses or damages whether in respect of goods carried or to be carried or in other respects arising or occasioned by the following causes shall be absolutely excepted, viz.:-The act of God, perils of the seas, fire on board, in hull, craft, or on shore, barratry of the Master or Crew, enemies, pirates, robbers, or thieves, arrests and restraints of princes, rulers, and peoples, collisions and strandings, explosions, bursting of boilers, breakage of shafts, or any latent defect, even if existing at the beginning of the voyage, in the hull, boilers, machinery, or appurtenances, negligence, default, or error of judgment of the Pilot, Master, or Crew, or other servants of the Owners, in the management or navigation of the steamer.\n\n27. Except as limited in clauses 26 and 43, the Owners will be held strictly accountable for the value of and liable to the Admiralty for any loss or damage to coal, oil fuel, collier and oil fuel outfits, signalling stores, &c., and all other Government stores of whatever description which may be shipped, whether as cargo or for use on board, in charge of the Master, who will be required to sign Bills of Lading and/or give receipts for same, and will be responsible for receipts given or Bills of Lading signed by the Mates for same.\n\nThe Owners will be held responsible for the safe and proper stowage of Government stores. If hired labour is employed for stowage, the expense will be borne by the Admiralty.\n\nThe stores will be shipped under the supervision of the Admiralty Officer or Agent at the port, but this will not relieve the Owners of their responsibility for stowage.\n\n28. The steamer has liberty to assist vessels in distress, and to deviate for the purpose of saving life.\n\nAll salvage to be for Owners' benefit, but ship to be off pay during the time occupied in salvage operations, and cost of coal consumed in such operations and port charges and expenses to be for Owners' account.\n\n29. The Admiralty to have lien on the steamer for all moneys paid in advance and not earned.\n\n30. Penalty for non-performance of this agreement proved damages.\n\n31. Any dispute arising under this Charter shall be referred, under the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889, or any Amendment thereof, to the arbitration of two persons, one to be nominated by the Owner and the other by the Admiralty, and should such Arbitrators be unable to agree, the decision of an Umpire whom they must elect shall be final and binding upon both parties hereto, and it is further mutually agreed that such Arbitration shall be a condition precedent to the commencement of any action at law.\n\n32. General average shall be settled according to York-Antwerp Rules, 1890, but the Admiralty shall not be called upon to sign bonds or pay deposits, as Owners of British ships shall have no lien on Government stores and cannot detain them.\n\n33. The steamer shall not be ordered nor proceed to any port where fever or pestilence is prevalent, nor where quarantine is in force (except at Admiralty risk and expense), but the Owners shall be liable for any delay of quarantine arising from wilful misconduct of the Master or Crew, if the vessel has not been sent to a quarantined port.\n\n34. The wages paid to Crew employed under this Charter Party shall be not less than those current at the port on the date of signing-on.\n\n35. In pursuance of Act 27 Gen. III. Cap. XLV., no Member of the House of Commons is to be admitted to any share or part in this Charter or to any benefit to arise therefrom.\n\nSPECIAL CLAUSES.—COLLIERS.\n\n(Not applicable to Oilers.)\n\n36. Colliers must be supplied with the necessary derricks, winches, &c., complete with the required 24-inch wire whips and other ropes, blocks, and fittings for the speedy and efficient discharge of cargo.\n\nIn colliers fitted with double derricks and winches, the following gear for coaling whips shall be provided for each pair of derricks:-\n\nTwo flexible steel wire 24-inch ropes, each sufficiently long to reach any part of the hold, with either derrick topped over the collier's hold and the other swung over the vessel being coaled. In addition, two spare whips for each pair of derricks should be carried.\n\nFour iron blocks capable of taking 24-inch wire rope and tested to six tons, viz.:-One block at the heel of each derrick and one (which should be self-lubricating) at the head.\n\nOne swivel cargo hook constructed so as not to catch the coamings, &c.",
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        "content_text": "## 248 \n\n8 \n\nAn electric light plant on No. 1 Fire Float has been approved and will be supplied forthwith. The float will be lighted up and clusters of lights worked from the float or in the alternative a searchlight. A portable searchlight should be carried on No. 2 Boat. A certain number of powerful oil lamps and also electric hand torches should be carried on board as has been suggested. A coffee machine and a supply of provisions for firemen should also be carried on each float. The hose couplings of the 4\" hose should be discarded and automatic couplings provided. I further recommend that the Naval Authorities be approached in the matter of lending assistance when required, particularly at fires on board ships. Their general training and familiarity with ships make them particularly well fitted to fight an outbreak of fire on board ship. They are also supplied with smoke helmets. It would, I think, be advisable to have a definite arrangement with the Naval Authorities for the supply of men and smoke helmets when required, provided they agree. Naval parties at present attend all large fires and are most useful but their services would be invaluable at ship fires.\n\n### C-Fire Stations \n\nExclusive of two small Fire Stations at Shaukiwan and Un Long, each containing a steam fire engine, the Fire Stations consist of:-\n\n1. 3-storied old building in Queen's Road Central, Victoria.\n2. New Fire Station at Kowloon, Tsim Sha Tsui.\n\nThe present Fire Brigade Headquarters are quite unsuitable for Fire Brigade work. They consist of a number of tenement houses converted into what must have been intended as temporary Fire Brigade premises only. The building is too small, has no yard or drill ground of any kind and obstructs the footpath. It is also situated on a narrow street which hampers the movement of the fire appliances, and the street is completely obstructed when the Brigade turns out. The premises are too small to house the number of fire appliances on order or the personnel. The turntable ladders could not be housed there owing to their size. Plans for a new Station opposite the Central Market have been prepared and work will, it is hoped, be commenced on the new Fire Brigade Headquarters this year. This building meets all the latest requirements of an up-to-date Station and will be an invaluable asset to the Brigade when completed. It contains accommodation for 8 motor appliances, quarters for 100 firemen, married quarters for Chinese Foremen, mechanics and others who must necessarily live on the premises, and married quarters also for the Superintendent and the Station Officer (European). A hose tower, drill tower and an ample yard are also provided. Rapid access to the ground floor from the firemen's quarters will be provided by means of brass poles. Doors opening automatically will also be fitted. Drying rooms and machine shops are also included. (See Appendix C.) This building can, however, hardly be completed under 2 to 3 years, as it forms one side of a large block of buildings covering the whole site opposite the Central Market in Des Voeux Road. It will therefore be necessary to house the Brigade or some part of it in temporary premises to supplement the present premises in Queen's Road Central. Such premises can be erected on the temporary reclamation near No. 2 Police Station, Wanchai. According to the present scheme, it is not proposed to have Sub-Stations in Victoria but to concentrate the entire Brigade at Headquarters, but should it be found advisable, the question of Sub-Stations can be considered in connection with new District Police Stations in Wanchai and Sai Ying Pun Districts. It might be well to station one Motor pump with extension ladder in each of these districts, but no doubt the experience gained by opening the temporary Sub-Station in Wanchai will make it possible to come to definite conclusions on this subject. The temporary premises should be large enough to take two machines and 20 firemen. They should be ready in time to take one or more of the new machines on order from home which will arrive in the autumn. This arrangement appears to be the best solution of the housing problem of the Brigade in Victoria during the erection of the new Headquarters.\n\nThe new premises in Kowloon are adequate for the equipment of the Brigade, but it will be necessary shortly to erect quarters for the firemen on the premises. They are at present housed at the Water Police Station adjoining, where the accommodation is inadequate. Owing to the excellent situation of the Fire Station on a broad thoroughfare giving easy access to all parts of Kowloon, it is considered that this Station will suffice for the needs of the peninsula for some time to come.\n\n### (III)-Water Supply and Water Pressure \n\nGenerally speaking, the water supply for fire purposes is good. It is controlled by the Water Authority, a Sub-Department of the P.W.D. The pressure in Victoria is good, though it varies considerably in different districts at different hours. Group Hydrants have been supplied throughout the City as shown in Appendix D. The group hydrants consist of groups of three hydrants at important points. The motor pumps are worked off a dam which is kept filled by the 3 hydrants which are close together, one hydrant being insufficient for the purpose as the draw off by the pump is too great. Before the introduction of group hydrants, much time was lost in connecting up two or three hydrants situated some distance apart to feed the dam. It is further proposed to pump direct from the mains when possible by means of 3-way collecting heads fitted direct to the suction of the pump, thus avoiding the use of a dam, as the latter entails a good deal of waste of water and loss of pressure in the mains. The only difficulty which still exists as regards water pressure in the City is on the upper levels. These cannot be reached by the Motor Pumps, as there is no motor road to such levels, as Queen's Gardens, May Road and Conduit Road. The danger of serious conflagrations on these levels is, however, slight as the houses are detached or semi-detached. The pressure in the mains is sufficient to confine an outbreak to the premises it starts in. The same remarks apply to the Peak where the fire appliances are confined to Despatch Boxes containing hose and standpipes and nozzles which are worked direct off the mains.\n\nIn Kowloon, group hydrants have been provided as shown in Appendix D. The pressure is very good indeed in Sham Shui Po (Sai Kok), which is now connected up by a 10\" main to the 12\" principal feed main. This main is also available in Shanghai Street up to Waterloo Road. Tsim Sha Tsui is as yet not getting the benefit of the 15\" main in Kowloon Road as this main cannot be connected to the 18\" main in Taipo Road until the Nathan Road end of Coronation Road is driven through the hill. It is anticipated that this connection will be through in about a year. Hunghom is supplied by an 8\" main. The principal buildings at Tsim Sha Tsui, e.g., The Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.'s premises and Holt's Wharf are served by the Fire Floats as are also the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co.'s premises. Outlying shipyards are mainly protected by the Fire Floats. Such premises, however, should have and mostly do have their own fire appliances to supplement the Government Fire Brigade. The owners of premises where there are furnaces, blacksmith's shops and matsheds cannot expect the entire fire protection of their premises to be undertaken by the Fire Brigade. They should have their own fire service as is the case already on all such premises as H.M. Naval Yard, The Kowloon & Whampoa Docks and the Tai Koo Docks.\n\n### (IV)-Estimate of Cost of Fire Brigade \n\nThe upkeep of the Fire service at present costs $77,213 p.a. made up as follows:\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | $36,700 |\n| Other Charges | $40,513 |\n| Total | $77,243 |\n\nSpecial expenditure on new appliances for the year 1921 is estimated at $11,220. To which $16,600 must be added owing to loss in exchange and higher prices prevailing now. Total $27,820.\n\nThe proposed expenditure entailed by the re-organization of the Brigade, which includes all changes except Buildings, is as follows:\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Personal Emoluments | $59,102 |\n| Other Charges | $19,500 |\n| Total | $78,602 |",
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        "content_text": "## \n252 \n16 \n\nto be reduced to not more than 2 feet 6 inches above ground level, which in turn meant special wheels and springs, etc., then again we found that with the engine throttled right down, the generator gave a voltage of 305 which had to be reduced to 65 volts by the aid of a solenoid in order not to overload the elevating Motor.\n\nGenerally speaking however this combination has proved quite a success.\n\nThe combined cost of ladders and chassis was roughly £2,300.\n\nSince the War Messrs. Magirus have developed the design of their ladders further and the three operations of raising, extension and turning is actuated from one position only (and not three as at present) and moreover the use of electric motors and current is dispensed with, as the whole thing is operated from the propeller shaft of an ordinary petrol chassis. I have had no experience with these myself, but the mechanical features appear commendable.\n\nThe length of our ladders when fully extended is 85 feet.\n\n## Hook Ladders\n\nThese are made of carefully selected ash, well seasoned, straight grained, and free from knots, the wood-work being made up in our own workshops.\n\nThe hook, which is a chrome nickel steel stamping is purchased from Messrs. Vickers, River Don Works, Sheffield, but is milled and finished here. The shroud into which the hook houses is of nickel steel.\n\nThe standard length is 13 feet 4 inches, and the weight approximately 26 lbs.\n\nThe cost as specially made by us is at present £10 each.\n\nI do not think there would be any difficulty about your purchasing one if you feel so disposed.\n\n## Hose Drying Tower\n\nThese are usually triangular in shape, of skeleton design and of a height not less than 60 feet, and can be used as a drill tower.\n\nThe hose is raised and lowered by means of pulley blocks with ropes (called hose whips) rove through.\n\nNo artificial heat is used.\n\n## Brass Fireman's Poles\n\nThese are used somewhat extensively here, and are of material assistance to those riders above ground floor, in effecting a smart \"turn out.\"\n\nOur system is \"one pole-one floor,\" and they are not dangerous if the openings are properly protected. Cost about £60 each floor.\n\n## Automatic Station Doors\n\nOur doors are generally 11 feet wide by 11 feet 6 inches high.\n\nThe door is a four-fold door with the upper panels glazed, and the lower solid. The hanging leaves are 2¾ inches thick, and the folding leaves 2 inches.\n\nThe hinges used for the hanging leaves are \"Collins 2 feet 3 inches long and ordinary butte for the folding leaves.\n\nThe automatic arrangement is supplied by Messrs. Thomas Try & Co., Ltd., of 37, Great Pulteney Street, London, W. 1.\n\nOur total cost is about £180.\n\n## Automatic Hose Couplings\n\nThese we very seldom use, in fact only with 3¾″ hose on the floats. The type is the 'Surelock.'\n\nOur ordinary hose couplings are of 2¾″ with a machined round thread of 3½″ pitch, which are quite satisfactory for our use.\n\nThey are absolutely fool-proof, and have neither springs, catches nor other accessories, which accumulate defects.\n\nMessrs. Shand Mason & Company, of Upper Ground Street, Blackfriars Road, London, S.E. 1, would no doubt supply you with a sample pair.\n\n| SIZE OF MAIN | \n| --- | \n| No. | Inches |\n| 5 | 12 |\n| 10 | 12 |\n| 7 | 12 |\n| 10 | 10 |\n\n17 \n\n— \n\n18 \n\nYours faithfully,\n\n**(3.)** A. R. Dryer,  \nChief Officer, L.F.B.\n\n## APPENDIX (D)\n\n## GROUP HYDRANTS, HONGKONG\n\n| POSITION | SIZE OF MAIN | No. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Junction of Wellington Street, Lyndhurst Terrace and Pottinger Street in Pottinger Street. |  | 13 |\n| Junction of Hollywood Road and Lyndhurst Terrace. |  |  |\n| and Aberdeen Street. |  | 55 |\n| In Ladder Street between Square Street and Hollywood Road. | H |  |\n| Junction of Arbuthnot Road and Caine Road. | 11 | 11 |\n| Caine Road and Sing Wong Street. |  | 17 |\n| Opposite University Hydraulic Laboratory in Bonham Road. |  | 13 |\n| In Bonham Road close to main gate of University. |  |  |\n| Junction of Bonham Road and Pokfulam Road corner of University Road. |  |  |\n| Hollywood Road and Tung Street. |  |  |\n| and Pound Lane. |  |  |\n| and Queen's Road. |  |  |\n| Des Voeux Road West and Queen's Street. |  |  |\n| Queen's Road and Morrison Street. |  |  |\n| Wing Lok Street and Hillier Street. |  |  |\n| and Bonham Strand East. |  |  |\n| In Des Voeux Road, East of Wardley Street. |  |  |\n| In Queen's Road Central opposite City Hall, entrance at corner of Wardley Street. |  |  |\n| Junction of Ice House Street and Des Voeux Road. |  |  |\n| and Chater Road. |  |  |\n| Chater Road and Des Voeux Road. |  |  |\n| Pedder Street and Queen's Road. |  |  |\n| In Wongneichong Road opposite Jockey Club main pony entrance at bend of road. |  |  |\n| • Will be fixed within a fortnight. |  |  |\n\n20th May, 1921.\n\nR. M. HENDERSON,  \nfor Water Authority.",
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        "content_text": "610\n\nThe police to put it shortly were working to full capacity with other duties.\n\nI think it could be no exaggeration to say that the police were working 50% overtime.\n\nWhy did you not interfere with the crowd at the Po Hing theatre?\n\nI interfered as soon as I had information it had assembled.\n\nHad you advance information it was going to assemble there?\n\nMy advance information was that it was going to assemble on the Kowloon side.\n\nNo, not at first. Did you consider sending out your troops by rail?\n\nThe first train in normal times is at 6:43 o'clock in the morning, and I knew that only a limited train service was running.\n\nNo, I thought the most expeditious way was to get them off on motor buses.\n\nI would like to add that under my original plan, I expected to overtake those people by 8 o'clock, and my last words as I left my house were that I expected to be back between 9 and 9:30 a.m.\n\nDid you consider the feasibility of sending out a fire engine from the reservoir to attack them by water?\n\nI considered it, but not absolutely necessary, as much piping would be required.\n\nMoreover, I anticipated that at the slightest trouble, it would have been extremely difficult to instance, I did not know how to get to the reservoir.\n\nWith sixty men, I expected to round up a crowd of a hundred without difficulty.\n\nDid you try to handle the crowd when you arrived in any other way except by command?\n\nYes. I talked to them and tried to get them to go back. I was exhorting them to go back, not commanding them.\n\nDid it occur to you to suggest that they might come on to the flat ground at the bottom of the hill, where you might have met the whole crowd?\n\nIf I had done that, the mob would have retreated, and the troops were in retreat.\n\nIs there a road between the tenth and eleventh milestone where you went?",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nMOTOR BOATS\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nThe Twin Screw Tunnel Stern Motor Launch \"ENRICA\"\n\n(Built of Steel).\n\nLength overall.--56' 0\" Breadth moulded.-11' 6\" Depth moulded.-3′ 6′′ Draught moulded.-18\" to 19\" D. W. capacity on above draft. --3 tons.\n\nSpeed.-8 knots. Engines.-Twin set \"Kelvin\" Motors, each 30 h.p.\n\nInstalled with Electric Light. Price $10,000 or near offer.\n\nThe Motorboat \"KEIKUNG\" (Built of Teak). Length overall.-29.8/10. Breadth.-7.5/10. Draught (approximate). -18. Engine -- \"Kelvin\" Paraffin Motor.\n\nPrice $1,800 or near offer.\n\nAPPLY\n\nTHE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nHELENA MAY\n\nINSTITUTE.\n\nExtensions Opened.\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\non Page 11.\n\nFRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1922.\n\nOpening Rate: closing Rate\n\nSELLING.\n\nHongkong Hotel,\n\n2/63/4 2/6.13/16\n\nAstor House Hotel,\n\nExtensive alterations have been made to the Helena May Institute. A new dining hall, situated in the basement, has been provided. The entrance to this room is by a fine staircase, about nine feet wide, from the main hall. The new room is fitted with all modern conveniences. The woodwork is teak, with an attractive colour scheme of buff and white, and the splendid lighting arrangements and the large verandah windows, from which a view of the Peak can be obtained, all add to the charm of this welcome addition. The hall seats about a hundred diners and is so arranged that it can also be used for dances and cinematograph shows. Connected with the dining hall are a new kitchen and pantry, both spacious and well-fitted.\n\nSeven more bed-rooms have been provided, including a room for the matron. They are fitted with teak furniture and look very cosy little places. The library, to which has been added several new books, has been moved to one of the new rooms of the extension and a better lighting system has been installed.\n\nThese extensions were made owing to the generosity of the late Sir Ellis Kadoorie. The cost of the furnishing was undertaken by the Institute. The architects were Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs.\n\nNESTLE & ANGLO-SWISS CONDENSED MILK\n\nTHE COWIE HARBOUR COAL COMPANY LIMITED. SILIMPOPON COAL.\n\nThe extensions were thrown open for the first time yesterday afternoon. It was quite an informal gathering and there were no speeches.\n\nAmong those present were Mrs. Claud Severn, Mrs. Bullock, the Hon. Mr. E V. D. Parr and Mrs. Parr, the Hon. Mr. Perkins and Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Spring P. L. Knight, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. D. Cousland, Commander, and Mrs. Samson, Commander Radcliffe, Mrs. A Mackenzie, Miss MacKay, the Rev. J. T Holman, and many others. The Acting President of the Institute (Mrs. J. H. Kemp) was unable to attend owing to slight indisposition.\n\nPEKING NEWS.\n\nSolving the Cabinet Problem.\n\nThe Council of the Institute has arranged an attractive programme for the winter months, including musicales, dances, lectures, religious services, readings, cinematograph performances and a new feature, the children's hour.\n\nA Peking telegram states that late at night on the 19th, the President and Wong Chung-wai had a private consultation on the Cabinet question and eventually reached a settlement. A manifesto was issued next day to the effect that the request that Tang Shao-yi should form a Cabinet was withdrawn, and that Wong Chung-wai had been appointed Premier.\n\nAnother Peking message states that the terms for the return of the naval squadron from Canton have been arranged, and they will be put into effect when the Peking Government is in a position to meet the arrears of payment.\n\nWUCHOW UNREST.\n\nSTAR THEATRE.\n\n\"The Miracle of Love\".\n\nENTERTAINMENTS\n\nTHE CORONET\n\nHOTELS\n\nLEADING FAR EASTERN HOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG:\n\nPeak Hotel,\n\nRepulse Bay Hotel.\n\n'SHANGHAI:\n\nPalace Hotel,\n\nGrand Hotel Kalee.\n\nPEKING:\n\nGrand Hotel des Wagon Lits.\n\nThe Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.\n\nIn conjunction with\n\nThe Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.\n\nand\n\nThe Grand Hotel des Wagons Ltd.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL.\n\nCENTRAL LOCATION,\n\nELECTRIC LIFTS AND LIGHTING, TELEPHONE ON EACH FLOOR.\n\nHOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS.\n\nIsl. Central 373.\n\nTelegraphic Address: \"VICTORIA\n\nJ. WITCHELL,\n\nTo-day at 2.30, 5,15, 7.15 & 9.15.\n\nORIGINAL CAST\n\nIN\n\nTHE GIRL\n\nIN THE TAXI.\n\nWORLD\n\nPHONE. 1337\n\nKOWLOON\n\nTHEATRE\n\nTO-NIGHT at 9 15 TO-MORROW at 5.45\n\nand 9.15.\n\nHAROLD LLOYD\n\nIN\n\n\"A SAILOR MADE MAN.\"\n\nTHEATRE\n\nPHONE 1337\n\nManager.\n\nTHE EUROPE HOTEL.\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nDANCING AFTER DINNER EVERY\n\nMONDAY, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY.\n\nTEA DANCES\n\nTUESDAYS and THURSDAYS.\n\nThe Hotel Orchestra under the Direction of Mr. F. R. Martens.\n\nTelephones in every Room.\n\n148 Nom\n\n81 163\n\nTelephone No. 2740 (9 lines).\n\nSUBSIDIARY COINS.\n\nHongkong 50 ct. pieces\n\n10\n\n5\n\n124 pm.\n\npar\n\n19.5/5% dir.\n\nJanctu sub. coins\n\nHengsong. S pr 22. 1922.\n\nWEATHER REPORT.\n\nSept. 22nd 11% 17.\n\nIt has decreased slightly over L., and lightly from Vladivostock to Weihaiwei.\n\nThe typhoon which passed the Bonins on September 19 has moved to the E. of Hakkaido.\n\nThe anticyclone is now centred near Weihaiwei. It is moving eastward.\n\nHowever inclement the weather outside, there is always a feeling of tranquility inside the Star Theatre. This evening the management is exhibiting as a special attraction the film version of Cosmo Hamilton's famous novel, \"The Miracle of Love.\"\n\nIt took three weeks to erect the elaborate \"set\" of the House of Lords for \"The Miracle of Love.\"\n\nIt is a stirring story of English high life, with Wyndham Standing and Lucy Cotton in the chief parts. The hero is a younger son of a British noble family who is about to renounce his career as an idle and impecunious lord and seek his fortune outside of England, when he suddenly becomes heir to the title through the accidental death of his elder brother. A love story has been worked into the plot, which is said to abound in thrilling situations.\n\nFORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW.\n\nDistrict.\n\nFormosa Channel\n\n2 South\n\ncoast of China between H.K. & Lamocks.\n\nThe Military and Gambling.\n\nNews from Wuchow brought back by a resident who has been there on a pleasure trip reveals very much the same state of topsy-turveydom that has been prevalent for months past. Soldiers of the Fourth Division of the Cantonese Army who have been garrisoning the town are said to be sadly out of hand on account of arrears in pay, and to secure funds they have transformed themselves into gambling monopolists. In the main street there are as many as forty concerns doing a brisk business in fantan, and officers are unable to enforce discipline on the men. The situation is given a farcical touch by the elaborate precautions of three gunboats in midstream, which appear to apprehend danger from the military, for their steam has been continually kept up ready for any emergency since their arrival under the orders of Chan Wing-son.\n\nReports are filtering into Hongkong of fighting between the Kwangtung and Yunnanese troops on the one hand and the Kwangsi troops on the other, further up the interior.\n\nPublic confidence appears to have been very badly shaken, for the majority of the shops remain closed, whilst those that venture to continue business close their shutters very early in the evenings. Pedestrians are a rare sight at night, many of the inhabitants preferring the safety of barred doors to walking about in the streets, where, as likely as not, they would stand the risk of being robbed by the military.\n\nRECORD ENROLMENT AT SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY.\n\nA record number of students has been enrolled in St. John's University (Shanghai), 340 in the collegiate department and 250 in the middle school.\n\nat 2 p.m. 6 am 2pm.\n\n76 17\n\n84 86\n\n6 4 Sa. 23 m 10 49 69 4 9\n\n22nd. to 28th, Sept. 1922\n\nLow Water\n\nHongkong\n\nHoogkong\n\nMean Time\n\n1, b. m.\n\nMean Time\n\nft. m. 7.3 20 48 6.%\n\nb. I\n\nft. n\n\nm 3 34\n\n1.7\n\n4\n\n1.7\n\nopen\n\nopen\n\n5\n\nотд oy orq sun. 24 4.25 0.00 1.16\n\nMon, 25 air\n\n21st 83 faeu. 26\n\n3 Wed 27 m 1\n\n3 19a 4.9a al Thar 28 m 1 59 65 I 9 24 2.4 4 ANA 4.7 7 4.4\n\n1.5\n\n14 44 69\n\n4 40 1,1\n\n11 4 11 *7a 720\n\n6.4\n\n0 30a 5.8\n\n5 la 31\n\nm 13\n\n69\n\nIn\n\n650 19\n\n1 586\n\n5.3\n\n6.7\n\nm\n\nm. morning a. afternoon\n\nWeather\n\nRain. Highest\n\nTemperature on the Lowest\n\nair Temperature on the 22nd 75\n\nT F. CLAXTON, Director.\n\nH.K. Ob... vatory, Sept. 21.\n\n5 7 14\n\n5 15 2.6\n\nm 5 56 1,8\n\n1\n\nTientsin.\n\nCordillere, from\n\nVongtsonpao li Laridle Street, from Shanghai.\n\nKianghing Engiok West, from Taipeh.\n\nLootengsi, from Amoy.\n\nMinleechan, from Shanghai.\n\nChengsoychor 11 Old Peel\n\nStreet, from Shanghai.\n\nPianchang, from Amoy.\n\nKihung, from Kobe.\n\nYungsikshang, from Kobe.\n\nLiang Laitsak, from Shanghai.\n\nHongkong's Most Modern & Coolest Picture Palace.\n\nTO-DAY at 5.15 and 3.15 p.m.\n\nTHE DRAMA OF A GIRL WHO KEPT STRAIGHT:\n\nA REALART PICTURE:\n\n\"THE LAND OF HOPE\"\n\nALICE BRADY\n\nA Powerful Story of The Dreams & Accomplishment of a Boy\n\nIn an Ad prod. Lawl\n\nHARRY SNOB POLLARD COMEDY.\n\n2.30 & 7.15 p.m.\n\nCHARLES HUTCHISON in\n\nSTAR\n\nDOUBLE ADVENTURE\" Ejendea, & mai ti,\n\nTHEATRE.\n\nPEKING ROAD, KOWLOON. Tel. Kowloo... 7\n\nThe biggest house exhibiting the lust ; ietur s\n\nTO-DAY to MONDAY, 25th. 5,30 and 95 10.\n\nLUCY COTTON\n\nin\n\n\"THE MIRACLE OF LOVE.\"\n\nA Cosmopolitan Special Picture.\n\nking at the Star Ferry Wharf for Hongkong Rodne FREE FERRY TICKETS BOTH WAYS. Open Daily #30 jo buô pm, and 1 to 9 pm, Saturdays 2 to 2.1 pm.. 3 to 5 15 pm\n\nSEE HAND BILLS.\n\nto 9 pm.\n\nJAPAN COAL\n\n- AND\n\nGENERAL IMPORTS AND\n\nEXPORTS\n\nAGENTS FOR:\n\nLiangtsuche Lharlie & Co.\n\nTHE MIT UBISHI MARINE & FIR» INSURANCE CO (2), from Shanghai\n\nTHE OSAKA MARINE & FIRE INSURANCE CO.\n\n9235, from Chinkiang.\n\nTH. KRING Superintendent.\n\nHongkong, September 21, 1922\n\nEASTERN EXTENSION AUSTRAL ARIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH CO\n\n11377/19th, Bankasia, from\n\nMadras.\n\n9044, 15th. Lampert Hongkong 6 29 3. Hotel, from Ningpo.\n\n57 2.8\n\nM. E. F. AIREY,\n\nSuperintendent,\n\nHongkong. 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        "content_text": "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nSATURDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nCITYHALL.\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\nWANTED.\n\nWANTED. Young married Russian Lady, good family, desires any kind of employment; has some knowledge of sewing, two years' experience as Red Cross nurse, speaks fair English. Write Box No 788 c/o \"Hongkong Telegraph.\"\n\nTHE Public is reminded that it will be possible to book seats at Moutrie's on Tuesday next for \"I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU\" to be played on the nights of the 12th, 14th, and 18th October. Quite a rush for seats is anticipated for the A.D.C.'s production of this light comedy so that it will be advisable to book early. See announcement below.\n\nTO BE LET TO LET.-Immediate occupation. A newly-built house Seven Bowen Road level, large rooms and spacious outhouses. Tennis court and garden. Suitable for Mess or private Boarding house. Apply to:-\n\nJ. M. NORONHA, CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME-ORIENT.\n\nPrince's Buildings,\n\n&\n\nTO LET-At Magazine Gap, the Peak, newly built modern house with six rooms, verandahs, commodious servants' quarters and a garden, ready for occupation from October 1st. For further particulars apply to T. E. Griffith, Ltd.\n\nGERM PROOF\n\nRapid in action.\n\nEasy to clean.\n\nTHE FAR EAST BUILDING CO. Nos. 242 and 244, Des Voeux Road, Central.\n\nTel. No. 3082, Central.\n\nNOTICE OF REMOVAL.\n\nON and after September 30th, our Offices will be removed to the 2nd floor of the Bank of East Asia building, 10, Des Voeux Road, Central.\n\nCONNELL BROS. COMPANY.\n\nCONSELHO DE ADMINISTRAÇÃO DAS OBRAS DAS PORTOS DE MACAU.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that on the 30th of October, in the Harbour Works Department, Macao, TENDERS will be called up for the widening of the marginal wharves between the Hongkong Steamers Wharf, and the Largo Ponte a Horta.\n\nThe programme of the Tender and the respective specifications may be seen in the Harbour Department, Macao, any day, Sundays excepted, during Office hours.\n\nTO LET-2 Victoria View, Kowloon, comfortable board residence, British family, one minute from Ferry, Kowloon, full size private billiard table. $3 or $4 per day. Apply Telephone K.357.\n\nTO LET.-FANLING, A New Bungalow situated on Hop Sek. Apply to Tsang Foo & Co.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE Hairnets. To introduce we offer the finest quality, handmade from sterilized human hair. Cannets $2.00 dozen, colour. Fringenets $2.30, any Postage paid. Telephone 4306 or write P.O. Box 484.\n\nFOR SALE-Steam Launch 1st Class Condition. For full particulars apply Box No. 778 c/o \"Hongkong Telegraph.\"\n\nNOTICE.\n\nARTUR AUGUSTO BRITO, For the Secretary. Macao, 29th September 1922.\n\nPEAK HOSPITAL.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAs from the 1st of October, the hairdressing saloon of Messrs. Campbell Moore and Co., at present situated in the Hongkong Hotel, will be carried on in the premises of the Hongkong Cigar Store, on the corner of Alexandra Building. Whilst thanking our numerous customers for their past support, we beg to solicit the continuance of their patronage.\n\nHongkong, September 20, 1922.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTIONS.\n\nMESSRS. Raven and Raven, Architects, Surveyors and Civil Engineers, beg to announce that on and after Wednesday next, Sept. 27th, their offices will be situated on the 2nd floor of the Oriental Commercial Bank, No. 25 Des Voeux Road Central (next building to the Post Office).\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Undersigned have received instructions, to sell by Public Auction on Friday, the 6th Oct., 1922, at 12 o'clock (noon) at their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street (For account of the concerned) The Steamship \"CHOYSANG\" (with all gear and equipment) as she now lies on Fort Island (near Swatow) Terms: Cash on fall of hammer when steamer will be at purchaser's risk and account, Buyers will be required to furnish an undertaking that vessel will be broken up.\n\nFor further particulars apply to LAMMERT BROS, Auctioneers.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD.\n\nNOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.\n\nTHE Twenty-sixth Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders in the above Company will be held at the Company's\n\nDOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\nTHE Ordinary General Meeting of the above Company will be held at the Company's Offices 20, Des Voeux Road Central, on Thursday the 5th of Oct., 1922, at Noon.\n\nThe Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from the 22nd of September to 5th of October both days inclusive.\n\nDOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO. General Managers. Hongkong, 14th Sept., 1922.\n\nORIENTAL COMMERCIAL BANK LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: 23 Des Voeux Road Central Hongkong\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that as from the 1st October the above concern will be taken over by the Hongkong Government and managed by a Special Committee appointed by the Government.\n\nModern banking in all its branches.\n\nCurrent accounts, saving accounts and fixed deposits solicited. Loans granted on approved security.\n\nINTEREST:-Current Accounts; Savings 4%; Fixed Deposits: 3 months 3%; 6 months 4%; One year, 5%.\n\nThe Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from 1st to 12th October 1922, both days inclusive.\n\nBy Order, D. K. BLAIR, Secretary & Treasurer, PEAK HOSPITAL COMMITTEE.\n\nHongkong, 19th Sept., 1922.\n\nPEAK HOSPITAL.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAll accounts due to and owing by the Hospital as at 31st July 1922, from that date should be referred to the undersigned for settlement.\n\nBy Order, M. MANUK, Secretary. Hongkong, 25th Sept 1922.\n\nTHE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.\n\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that as from the 30th instant the interest and responsibility of the undersigned in the above concern will cease.\n\nOur temporary offices will be situated at No. 12, Des Voeux Road, Central, 1st floor above the establishment of Messrs. Powell, Ltd. Telephone, No. 91, remains the same.\n\nSNOWMAN & CO.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Value of Life.\n\nIf through your own effort, you earn say $1.00 a year, then at 5%, your life must be worth as much as $20.\n\nWhat is your life worth to you?\n\nJ. Y. LUM, Chief Manager.\n\nR. WEUSTHOFF, Asst. Chin Manager.\n\nBRAZILIAN CAFE,\n\nA New Cafe, under the above title, has been opened at No. 87, Peking Road, Kowloon, (near the Star Theatre).\n\nAll kinds of hot and cold drinks, confectionery, ice creams, cigars and cigarettes applied.\n\nVIOLIN RECITAL by MISHEL PIASTRO.\n\nAt the piano, MR. HARRY ORE.\n\nAdmission $3.00 and $2.00 Booking at Anderson's,\n\nVICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.\n\nTHEATRE ROYAL\n\nCommencing Monday, Oct. 2nd, 1922.\n\nTHE POWDER PUFFS\n\nA NEW MUSICAL COMPANY\n\nOfferings:-Burlesque, Skits, Dancing (Classical and otherwise), Comedy, Satire, Good Singing and Bad, etc.\n\n9 Talented Artists Suzanne Verney, Evelyn Green, Sybil Desmond, M. Magness Fisher, Bort Hamill, Nita Corri, Muriel White, Conrad Layton and Edward Kurylo.\n\nPrices $4, $2, and $1. Booking at Moutrie's, Wednesday, September 27th.\n\nANNUAL Aquatic Festival at the Victoria Recreation Club, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the 28th, 29th, & 30th September 1922. Commencing at 4.30 pm on Thursday & Friday, and 3.30 p.m on Saturday. Band in attendance on Saturday.\n\nAdmission: Non-members, season ticket, $5.00 Members, Ladies, Sailors and Soldiers, season ticket, $2.00.\n\nEach day non-members $2.00. Each day. Members, Ladies, Sailors and Soldiers, $1.00.\n\nTickets can be had at the Club from Monday, the 25th inst. Competitors' entries close on Monday the 25th inst., at 6.00 p.m. Entry forms can be had on application at the V.R.C.\n\nMOTOR BOATS FOR SALE.\n\nThe Twin Screw Tunnel Stern Motor Launch \"ENRICA\" (Built of Steel). Length overall.-56' 0\" Breadth moulded.-11' 6\" Depth moulded.-3' 6\" Draught moulded.-18\" to 19\" D. W. capacity on above draft. -3 tons.\n\nSpeed.-8 knots. Engines.-Twin set \"Kelvin Motors, each 30 h.p.\n\nInstalled with Electric Light. Price $10,000 or near offer.\n\nThe Motorboat \"KEIKUNG\" (Built of Teak). Length overall.-29.8/10. Breadth.-7.5/10'. Draught (approximate).-18\". Engine \"Kelvin\" Paraffin Motor.\n\nPrice $1,800 or near offer.\n\nAPPLY NESTLE & ANGLO-SWISS CONDENSED MILK CO., 11, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.\n\nJ. B. LAL,\n\nTHE ABLE INDIAN PHYSICIAN FROM SINGAPORE, is now ready to receive anyone who wishes to consult him on the following diseases, viz \"Old, Catarrh, Headache, Hemerania, Ear pain, Toothache, Running of the Nose, Neuralgia, etc., etc.\n\nGUARANTEES TO CURE the above diseases in less than TWO MINUTES.\n\n$1,000 REWARD.\n\nA Reward of $1,000 (one thousand), will be paid to any Doctor who is able to cure the above mentioned diseases within 2 minutes.\n\nAnyone making use of my medicine either by removing label or substituting his own will not be entitled to the reward\n\nThe medicine is my own preparation. I can cure all kinds of Eye Diseases as well as other sicknesses and guarantee to cure radically.\n\nConsulting charge ... $8.00 Visiting Fee $12\n\nConsulting hours 9 am to 6 pm.\n\nS. E. WALDMAN, Proprietor.\n\nc/o KING EDWARD HOTEL, Room No. 48\n\nTHE FAVOURITE INVENTION OF THOMAS A. EDISON\n\n\"THE PHONOGRAPH WITH A SOUL\"\n\nIS HERE.\n\nTHE EDISON MUSIC STORE 19T FLOOR, POWELL'S BUILDING.\n\nSAY IT WITH SUPERLATIVES!\n\n\"THE WITNESS FOR THE DEFENSE.\"\n\nAT THE\n\nUNCLE DAN\n\nSTAR\n\nTO-NIGHT\n\n5.00\n\n12 Noon.\n\n3 pm to 6 pm.\n\nJ. B. LAL.\n\nSTEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY\n\nFOR PERFECTION IN DRY-CLEANING.\n\nSend for treatment by our processes any article of Household Furnishing or Wearing Apparel soiled by use or faded by exposure.\n\nThe article can be beautifully cleaned or dried and returned ready for a further term of usefulness.\n\nYAUMATI, Tel. Kowloon 32.\n\n4, Beaconsfield Arcade, Tel. Central 1279.\n\n65, Praya East.\n\n11, Canton Road, Kowloon.\n\nWORLD\n\nSUNDAY, 1st OCTOBER.\n\n6 p.m. and 9.15 p.m.\n\nWILLIAM FOX presents PEGGY HYLAND in A PHOTOPLAY WITH ONE MORAL AND MANY THRILLS,\n\nOTHER MEN'S DAUGHTERS'\n\n\"CONVENT BRED GIRL\" BATTLES TO WIN HER FATHER FROM HIS DISSIPATED ASSOCIATES.\n\nPRICE LIST ON APPLICATION.\n\nTHEATRE\n\nTO-DAY ONLY\n\n(Last Shows)\n\nat 5.15 & 9.15 p.m\n\nWANDA HAWLEY in HER FIRST ELOPEMENT\n\nRICH YACHT OWNER ELOPES WITH WRONG GIRL!\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL.\n\nMOTOR COACH SERVICE.\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL TO REPULSE BAY.\n\nCommencing 1st October, 1922.\n\nDAILY (SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS EXCEPTED).\n\nLEAVE HONGKONG HOTEL 10.00 a.m. 12.30 p.m. 3.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 8.30 p.m. 11.00 p.m.\n\nLEAVE REPULSE BAY HOTEL 8.15 a.m. 9.30 a.m. 11.15 a.m. 1.30 p.m. 4.00 p.m. 6.00 p.m. 7.30 p.m. 11.00 p.m.\n\nSATURDAYS 8.15 a.m. 9.30 a.m. 12.30 p.m. 3.00 p.m. 4.45 p.m. 6.00 p.m. 7.30 p.m. 11.00 p.m.\n\nSUNDAYS 9.00 a.m. 11.00 a.m. 1.00 p.m. 2.30 p.m. 4.00 p.m. 6.00 p.m. 7.30 p.m. 8.30 p.m. 11.00 p.m.\n\nTHE DELTA OF THE PEARL By a Canadian Observer.\n\n4×7 inches, 42 pages Price 50 cents.\n\nOr Sale at KELLY & WALSH, BREWER & CO. and \"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\"\n\nTHERE ARE 3 DAYS IN THE YEAR when you can be certain of having a REALLY ENJOYABLE TIME\n\nThe dates are Thurs. 12, Sat. 14, Wed. 18 Oct.\n\nAnd the time 9.15 p.m.\n\n\"I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU\" to enjoy yourself at the THEATRE ROYAL\n\nPrice: $3, $2 & $1. Booking at Moutrie's Oct. 3.\n\nOffices will be next removed to the First Floor of the Road House. Astor Building, Queen's Road Central, where we will be glad to welcome both old and new clients.\n\np. p. NORTHWEST TRADING CO., LTD., A. MORLEY HORDER, Director. Hongkong, Sept., 27th 1922.\n\nREMOVAL NOTICE,\n\nand much as being Impressions and Reflections during a ten days' cruise of the Canton Delta.\n\nBy order of the Board. R. M. DYER, Chief Manager, Hongkong, 18th Sept., 1922.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "also the U.S.\n\nthe\n\nFord deal\n\nI am making\n\nT\n\nmy offer of light engines & trunks & take\n\nthe filling for\n\nWay me other\n\nthe hills to the water.\n\nis American, and the\n\nreason given & the contractor is that\n\nhis brother, the one making the engines, is in America.\n\n人\n\nI had these American machines & tongue\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\n732\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nJust a friend it is breaking on persuasion:\n\nI name but I really believe it is of the\n\nutmost importance to the future of\n\ntrade for them. Otherwise the order would be British trade,\n\nwhen placed in England.\n\nI believe the Chinese\n\nmachines actually cost more but the Engine\n\nThings here are much as\n\nthey\n\nlittle litter &\n\na\n\nKans wanted a type that he then all at once. When I left, trade\n\nResult same the thousands of parts labour loss troublesome. There is a loss to British manufacturers. This is the multitude of terms and conditions when they go\n\n& the big racking\n\nextensions which will come\n\nthe country in pan-food.-so,\n\nSo now is\n\nthe time of wit.\n\nko\n\nyours\n\nPlease use whatever influence\n\nin this matter. Perhaps you can show this & your Word,\n\nwhen\n\nalso Colonel Amery, I tried to interest\n\nin the matter this I was at\n\nnow making\n\nwhich has\n\nmy proceedings me failed\n\nstrike of bakers\n\nunlawful\n\nthe use\n\nof methods of intimidating people\n\nsympath the striker. I don't think\n\nthat there will be\n\nread trouble\n\nans, since Sun left Canton, later hands\n\nimportant politically a\n\nwow he so\n\nthe population generally is fed up with disputes & sick of the guilds,",
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        "content_text": "568\n\n## Government House, Donglong.\n\nforce in the event of his seizing the Customs he sent \nLown Engine \n\nto see me \nwith a \nletter, \ncopy of \nwhich is enclosed in my confidential despatch of 19 December to which \nI beg to refer your Grace.\n\nThis letter, supplementary to the verbal message, contains a clear indication \nof his policy. \nIt was an indication of the Powers interfered to stop his cherished project of preventing Peking from \ngetting funds for further attacks on him (his point being that \nPeking settling \nthe claims \notherwise use \nthese revenues it will have to employ \nthe Powers may strengthen \nwhich it caused \nfor expeditions against the South). The \nwould range- himself \nand British trade.\n\nIt was I submit \na matter \nof vital interest to \nthis Colony that if it were at all possible, he should not be driven to put his threats into action. \nThat he intended \nto do so \nonly was I have no doubt whatsoever. The one doubt \nis whether he could. He has unquestionably lost some \ninfluence owing to his plundering the wealthy classes and oppressing the poor but he still has great power. He",
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        "content_text": "# \nIn connection with improvements to Kennedy Road, the portion of this carriageway to the West of the Magazine was diverted and formed to a minimum width of 25 feet, and No. 1 Bridge near the junction with Garden Road was widened to 30 feet.\n\nMention may also be made of improvements being carried out to Bonham Road, Pokfulam Road, and Conduit Road.\n\nIn Kowloon, the 1st Section of the Kowloon City to Mongkoktsui Road was completed, but the cutting in connection with the 2nd Section progressed slowly, owing to the large quantities of rock encountered.\n\nGood progress was made with the cutting for the extension of Argyle Street to its junction with Waterloo Road, and that for the Section between the latter road and the Kowloon Boundary in connection with its extension.\n\nOwing to heavy rock cutting, the progress in connection with the extension of Coronation Road Northwards through the hill (formerly K.F.L. 11) was considerably delayed, but by the end of the year a temporary road was available, connecting this road with Taipo Road.\n\nFair progress was recorded in connection with the Taipo to Shun Wan Road, and the Patrol Path from Sheungshui to the Frontier.\n\nThe work of metalling and tar-painting the hilly portion of Laichikok-Castle Peak and Taipo Roads was continued during the year.\n\n## DRAINAGE\n\nA contract was let for extending the Mongkoktsui Nullah East through the Railway Bridge and the excavation for foundations were well in hand. The Mongkoktsui Nullah was extended to the Boundary of Old Kowloon and completed in July.\n\nThe training and diversion of the large stream course to the East of Laichikok was completed.\n\n## WATER WORKS\n\nA contract was let in April for the construction of the Eastern District Filter Beds and a commencement made at once with the work. Fair progress was made by the end of the year.\n\n-27-\n\nAfter consideration and upon the advice of the Consulting Engineers to the Crown Agents, it was decided to order one Steam Pumping Unit for the additional Plant in connection with the Taitam Tuk Scheme.\n\nWith regard to the Pokfulam Road Station, the extension to the Engine House was completed, a new Boiler House erected, and the installation of the Pumping Plant completed.\n\nWork was commenced in connection with the Distribution System for Lower Wanchai Gap District, and that for the Repulse Bay was extended so as to serve the lots situated near Deep Water Bay.\n\nIn Kowloon, a considerable amount of work was executed in enlarging mains with a view to improving the distribution system there, and two new Filter Beds and a Gauge Basin were added near Laichikok.\n\nPreparatory work in connection with the new Shek Lai Pai Reservoir was proceeded with, and a considerable amount of investigation work connected with the Shing Mun Scheme was also effected.\n\nThe Taipo Water Supply Scheme proceeded satisfactorily. The original scheme for a Water Supply at Fanling was completed in 1921, and the extension thereto was commenced in July and finished in September, 1922.\n\n## RECLAMATIONS\n\nThe Reclamation Scheme at Aplicbau was completed.\n\nGood progress was made with the Praya East Reclamation Scheme, and the filling in of the Tidal Flat and the cutting down of the hill between Taikoktsui and Fak Tei Tsuen.\n\nSteady progress was also made with the further reclamation work at Shamshuipo, and in connection with a scheme of reclamation at Cheung Sha Wan.\n\nWork was continued on certain private reclamation works, and, in the case of the Kai Tak Land Investment Company, some further progress was made.\n\n## PIERS\n\nThe reinforced concrete Pier opposite Queen's Statue was completed, and tenders were invited for the structural steel roof and facade to the Praya.",
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        "content_text": "# \nThe work of constructing a re-inforced concrete roof over part of the Ferry Pier opposite Queen Victoria Street was completed. \nThe Ferry Pier at Public Square Street, Yaumati, was also finished, with the exception of the depositing of concrete to form the decking. \nThe work of constructing a re-inforced concrete Pier opposite Wing Wo Street was not proceeded with. \n\n## MISCELLANEOUS\nIn connection with the visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, the principal Government Buildings were decorated and illuminated at night, and general assistance was rendered by the Department wherever required to carry into effect other schemes of decoration. \nThe Seamen's Strike which commenced in January culminated in a General Strike, in consequence of which certain officers of the Department were engaged on emergency work which was executed in a very efficient manner. \nThe erection of the Wireless Station at Gap Rock was completed. \nThe Diaphone Fog Signalling Plant was installed at Waglan. \nThe work of substituting underground cables for the aerial wires in the Government Telephone System in the central part of the City was well advanced by the end of the year. \nIn connection with the Hydrographic Surveys with a view to harbour development, the work of taking borings and prickings was completed. \nWith a view to revising, consolidating and co-ordinating the various schemes of development prepared in the past, a Committee was formed to deal with Town Planning. Many meetings took place and a large number of maps and plans were prepared, and a model of the Kowloon Peninsula (scale 200′ to 1 inch) was made. \nA contract was let for the construction of a Water-boat Dock at Laichikok. \nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $3,575,685.19, and on annually recurrent works $1,074,646.30. \n\n## RAILWAY\nThe Platforms at Kowloon Terminus were surfaced with a composition of asphaltum, sand and cement on a foundation of rolled ballast. Similar surfacing was laid throughout the concourse area and approaches in substitution of wooden blocks which were found to be both unsatisfactory and insanitary. \nThis work was carried out by the Public Works Department. \nWater was laid on to the platforms and concourse areas at several points for washing down purposes. \nThe kitchen accommodation of the 1st class Restaurant was extended by altering the arrangement of the back staircase and utilising the space below to form a commodious pantry. Gas cookers were installed in substitution for the coal burning range, and new kitchen furniture was provided. \nOwing to the increasing difficulty in obtaining quick and accurate messages between Kowloon and Canton, through telegraphic communication has now been established by laying a telegraph line between Kowloon Station and Sham Chun Station, thus connecting with the Chinese Section's telegraph line. \nPreviously all messages had to be telephoned over the British Section. \nAt the Workshops at Hunghom an Oil Fuel Depot was installed for serving the Motor Coaches. \nThe three sidings to the east of the new carriage shed were extended 500 feet each, and a crossover road laid between two, to facilitate repairs and cleaning of rolling stock. \nA contract was let for the building of a second bay to the new carriage shed, which will accommodate two more trains of 500 feet each, and it is anticipated that the shed will be completed by May, 1923. \nDuring the year the premises of the China Light and Power Co., which adjoined the Locomotive Yard were acquired by the Railway Department together with the buildings thereon. The tall chimney stack, for which no use could be found was razed. The buildings formerly used as offices and staff quarters were renovated, and the first floor is now used as quarters for the Traffic Inspector, while the basement serves as a store. A contract was entered into for converting the remaining buildings into Workshops and stores for railway purposes. The boiler house was utilised as a general repair shop for Government Motor vehicles such as cycles, cars, fire engines, lorries, road roller, etc., a painting shop being provided on one side. The engine house was converted... \nPage 251",
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        "content_text": "# 389\n\n| 4 \n\nThe ship's lights were extinguished and the ship then proceeded without lights. Her course was steered to pass through Cheung Chau Channel towards Hongkong. Her course was then altered to pass through the West Lamma Channel and eastwards, passing South of Waglan Lighthouse about 2 miles. The time would then be about midnight. The course of the ship was steered eastward until about 3 a.m. when the course was set to pass through Sam Mun Channel where she arrived about 5 a.m., and thence to Bias Bay.\n\nOn the departure of the pirates, the Chief Officer took charge of the ship and navigated her back to Hongkong where assistance was rendered.\n\n## 3. Opportunities for reporting the ship en route.\n\nThe passage of the ship during the piracy was not observed either from Cheung Chau Police Station nor from Waglan Lighthouse nor from the Chinese Maritime Customs Station at Sam Mun. The ship did not meet any patrol launch of the Hongkong Water Police. In our opinion, no blame attaches to anyone on this account.\n\n## 4. Action by the Secretary of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited.\n\nThe ship was overdue in Hongkong at 10 p.m. on the 19th November. The fact of the late arrival of the ship did not arouse immediate alarm on her account since there had been occasions when such delay had been caused through inability, on account of lack of water, to cross the mud-flats outside Macao Harbour. The Eastern Extension Telegraph Company's office in Macao at that hour was closed, and it was not possible to ascertain by cable whether the ship had in fact left her port of departure. Relief measures were therefore not organized by the Secretary of the Company until 9 a.m. on the 20th November, when telegraphic information had reached him from Macao. We cannot see that, with the information and resources at his disposal, the Secretary could have taken any more effective action.\n\n## 5. Conduct of the Master and other Certificated Officers of the ship during the attack.\n\nIn our opinion, Captain Birss acted in a proper manner. When he found that a piratical attack was being made, he attempted to reach the bridge with all despatch as the position to be defended by the guard. He was unfortunately shot down before he could reach this protected area.\n\nThe Chief Officer, Mr. Copland, had only joined the ship three days before. He was on duty on the bridge. Apparently, he had no time to realise the attack of the pirates until they had practically reached the bridge, and he was put out of action by a blow on the head from a revolver.\n\nThe Chief Engineer, Mr. Cullen, was in his cabin on the boat deck on the port side. He was captured by the pirates and secured on the bridge.\n\nThe Second Engineer, Mr. Harman, was on duty in the engine room. The engine room was entered by armed men who covered him with their firearms. He continued to superintend the engines under compulsion. In our opinion, he had no option but to do so, and we are satisfied that if Mr. Harman had seen any way to change the situation, he would have made an attempt.\n\n## 6. Conduct of the ship's guards during the attack.\n\nThe behaviour of the ship's guards appears to have been excellent.\n\n## 7. Observance of the Piracy Regulations in connection with the ship.\n\n### (1) BY THE OWNERS.\n\n#### (a) Construction.\n\nRegulation No. 1, which requires that \"Dodgers constructed of bullet-proof material shall be erected on the bridge deck aft of the wheel house,\" was observed.\n\nRegulation No. 2 provides that \"A strong and substantial grille of expanded metal or barbed wire shall be strongly and substantially erected across the ship aft of the line of the dodgers.\" This regulation was not observed. In lieu of the prescribed grille to be erected across the ship, two grilles were erected at the after end of the smoking room on the boat deck, intended to close the deck on the port and starboard side of the smoking room.\n\n| Regulation No. | Description | Observance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | Dodgers constructed of bullet-proof material | Observed |\n| 2 | Grille across the ship | Not observed |\n| 3, 4 | Barbed wire | Observed |\n| 5 | Access to bridge deck | Not observed |\n| 6 | Strong and substantial solid metal or metal grille doors | Observed (grille provided to the engine room) |\n| 7 | Steam hose on the navigating bridge | Observed |\n| 8 | Direct access to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms | Observed |\n| 9 | Locked baggage room for heavy baggage | Not provided |\n| 10 | Accommodation for passengers other than first class | Sufficiently observed on the main deck |\n| 11 | Fastenings and locks for the ship's holds | Duly provided |\n| 12 | Disposition of deck cargo | Not observed |\n| 13 | Relaxation of requirements by the Harbour Master | Harbour Master's certificate duly issued |\n\nRegulations Nos. 3 and 4, which relate to \"barbed wire,\" were observed.\n\nRegulation No. 5 directs that \"Any access provided to the bridge deck from below shall be aft of the grille except by special permission of the Harbour Master signified in writing.\" In fact, access to the bridge deck was provided forward of the grille, through the smoking room.\n\nRegulation No. 6 requires that \"Every entrance to the engine and boiler rooms shall be provided with strong and substantial solid metal or metal grille doors.\" A grille was provided to the engine room on the boat deck.\n\nRegulation No. 7, which relates to \"steam hose on the navigating bridge,\" was observed.\n\nRegulation No. 8, which requires direct access to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms, was also observed.\n\nBy Regulation No. 9, a locked baggage room is required for the heavy baggage of the first and second-class passengers. No such baggage room was provided.\n\nBy Regulation No. 10, \"The accommodation for passengers other than those of the first class shall be of such a nature that it can be isolated from the rest of the ship and from the crew and can be entered only by means of metal grille doors.\" This Regulation was sufficiently observed on the main deck. No attempt was made to observe it as between second-class passengers on the main deck and the first-class passengers who were using the boat deck above.\n\nThe fastenings and locks required by Regulation No. 11 for the ship's holds were duly provided.\n\nRegulation No. 12 relates to the disposition of deck cargo and was not observed. No blame whatever attaches to the owners of the ship in respect of any omission here recorded to observe these Regulations.\n\nRegulation No. 13 contemplates the relaxation of any of these requirements by the Harbour Master who must certify his satisfaction with the constructional arrangements of the ship. The Harbour Master duly issued his certificate in respect of this ship.\n\n#### (b) Equipment.\n\nThe ship was fully equipped by her owners with arms, rockets, etc., as required by Regulations Nos. 14 and 15.\n\nThe number of guards employed was six, being two in excess of the number required by the Regulations.",
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        "content_text": "## VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS\n\n### (a)—HOSPITALS\n\n**Government Hospitals** consist of the Civil Hospital, to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 170 beds in 21 wards. 5,455 in-patients and 28,297 out-patients were treated during 1923 as against 4,447 and 25,892 respectively in 1922. 964 cases of malarial Fever were admitted as against 484 in 1922 and 399 in 1921. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 166 cases as compared with the year 1922.\n\nThe Maternity Hospital contains 9 beds for Europeans, plus 3 extra beds, and 8 for Asiatics. 674 confinements occurred during the year as against 617 in 1922.\n\nThe Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1923, 299 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 30 cases were treated in 1923, all being infectious.\n\n### (b)—LUNATIC ASYLUM\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 14 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 309 patients of all races were treated during 1923 and there were 3 deaths.\n\n### (c)—THE TUNG WA and other CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThe Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, the maintenance of free vernacular schools, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. Over half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician, who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst two Chinese house surgeons, trained in Western medicine, are members of the hospital staff. There are 450 beds in the buildings, and 10,142 patients were accommodated during 1923.\n\n## Railway Report\n\nthem where they willed. Chinese Section engines were left standing wherever they happened to be when coal and water gave out. From this time onwards there was spasmodic and intermittent running of trains until 27th October when all through traffic ceased. There was no express service from the 16th April to the end of the year.\n\nConditions gradually went from bad to worse. Chinese Section locomotives were run, or kept in steam, night and day by the soldiery without proper attention or repairs; derailments and collisions were frequent until there was scarcely an engine in running order on the Chinese Section. Much damage was done to stations, doors and windows being torn out, electrical instruments stolen or smashed, and tickets and documents wantonly destroyed. Of 1,460 tabled Express trains only 264 ran and of 730 Slow Through trains, only 409 ran.\n\nThere were occasions when it became necessary for the British Section to withdraw from Shum Chun Station and make Lo Wo Siding the terminus, where the Hongkong Government stationed police or military patrols to prevent Chinese soldiers from crossing the border. It was also once necessary to withdraw from the Sha Tau Kok terminus for the same reason.\n\nDuring the year the British Section suffered considerable inconvenience by the retention of its goods stock by the Chinese Section. Owing to the commandeering of the Chinese Section rolling stock by the military for the transport of troops and military stores, and the general interference with the working of the Chinese Section, the British Section wagon stock was held up on that Section with the result that goods destined for Canton accumulated in the Railway goodshed at Kowloon to such an extent that many remunerative cargoes amounting to thousands of tons had to be turned away, and several consignments already loaded were eventually withdrawn.\n\nThe Gross Receipts for the year were $474,721.78 as against $710,295.75 for 1922, a decrease of $235,573.97. The working expenses exceeded the revenue by $48,791.35.\n\n### Through and Joint Sectional Passengers\n\n| Category | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Passengers booked by Stations in British Territory to Stations in China | 435,933 | 526,111 | 250,719 |\n| Passengers booked by Stations in China to Stations in British Territory | 462,379 | 522,909 | 249,152 |\n| ... | 429,133 | 639,709 | 951,001 |\n| ... | 43,733 | 52,431 | 73,838 |\n\n### Local Passengers\n\n| Line | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Main Line | ... | ... | ... |\n| Fanling Branch Line | ... | ... | ... |",
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        "content_text": "321\n\n包括在內(照下列各節分配之)惟在機車房內之修理費用則應列入第四項設備品維持費之第二目機車內\n\n第一節(用-3-1-1)機車匠役\n\n第一條(用-3-1-1-1)司機司薪工\n凡在路線或調車時或排車時所用之司機司火及司電機夫薪工房費旅費及他項公費均列入此條\n\n第二條(用-3-1-1-2)司機司火過時加給\n前條所載入役之過時加給列入此條\n\npublic or service traffic including round house movements and terminal and station shunting. Charges under this head cover oiling, cleaning, and washing out of locomotives &c., but repairs done in sheds should be charged to the head “E-4-2. Locomotives\" under “MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT\"\n\n**E-3-1-1. Engine Staff:-**\n\nE-3-1-1-1. Pay of Drivers and Firemen–Under this head should be charged the pay of drivers, firemen, and motormen employed on the line and in shunting or marshalling cars; also house, travelling and other allowances of the grades of staff above mentioned.\n\nE-3-1-1-2. Overtime of Drivers and Firemen–Under this head should be charged only the overtime allowances of grades of staff mentioned in “E-3-1-1-1\" above.\n\n[ 58 ]\n\n第三條(用-3-1-1-3)工資\n凡機車機車棚地坑等處之司洗刷人司上油人司燈人專為管理在站場機車房或機車棚之機車者其薪工或公費均列入此條\n\n附註\n凡站場機車房或機車棚內掌管機車上零星修理之工人其工資應列入第四項第二目機車之第一節修理費內\n\n第四條(用-3-1-1-4)雜費\n凡服裝徽章等類及表册文具並其他各種雜費不能歸併\n\nE-3-1-1-3. Labour-Under this head should be charged the wages and allowances (if any) of all engine, shed, pit or other cleaners, greasers, lighters, &c. employed for the care of engines in yards, round house or sheds.\n\nNOTE-The wages of labourers employed in yards, roundhouses or sheds for executing minor repairs to engines should be charged to the head “E-4-2-1. Locomotive-Repairs.”\n\nE-3-1-1-4. Sundries-Under this head should be charged the cost of uniforms, badges, &c., forms, stationery and other miscellaneous expenses which cannot be allocated under\n\n[ 59 ]",
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        "content_text": "116\n\n12. If at any place of call no search is conducted by the Police, the master shall cause all persons and things there taken on board to be searched by the watchmen.\n\n13. A launch shall be deemed to call at a place if it takes on board any person or thing from a boat, as well as if it goes alongside a wharf or otherwise moors with a view to embarking or disembarking persons or things.\n\n14. The master and crew shall render every assistance to the Police in their searches and shall use their best endeavours to see that no ammunition or arms are smuggled on board.\n\n15. Every launch shall stop when bailed by the Police.\n\n**Ships (exceeding 60 tons.)**\n\n## Construction\n\n1. Dodgers constructed of bullet-proof material shall be erected on the bridge deck aft of the wheel house.\n\n2. A strong and substantial grille of expanded metal or barbed wire shall be strongly and substantially erected across the ship aft of the line of the dodgers.\n\n3. The bridge deck shall be protected from access from below by barbed wire.\n\n4. In any case in which a permanent wooden or metal awning or deck extends over the bridge deck aft of the grille, it shall be protected by means of barbed wire.\n\n5. Any access provided to the bridge deck from below shall be aft of the grille, except by special permission of the Harbour Master signified in writing.\n\n6. Every entrance to the engine and boiler rooms shall be provided with strong and substantial solid metal or metal grille doors.\n\n7. Steam hose shall be provided both on the protected portion of the bridge deck and in the engine and boiler rooms and shall at all times be properly connected and in such a state as to be capable of being used at a moment's notice to repel an attack. Any connections outside the protected portion of the bridge deck and the engine and boiler rooms shall be of metal.\n\n117\n\n8. Direct access shall be provided to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms.\n\n9. A locked baggage room shall be provided for the heavy baggage of the 1st and 2nd class passengers.\n\n10. The accommodation for passengers other than those of the 1st class shall be of such a nature that it can be isolated from the rest of the ship and from the crew and can be entered only by means of metal grille doors.\n\n11. All holds shall be provided with strong and secure fastenings and locks.\n\n12. If deck cargo is carried elsewhere than in a space isolated from the rest of the ship in accordance with Regulation No. 40, such cargo shall be partitioned off and secured in such a way that it shall be inaccessible to any person throughout the voyage without the authority of the master.\n\n13. All the above constructional work shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, who may in any special case, subject to the approval of the Governor, relax any of the said requirements as he may consider necessary. Upon completion of the work, the Harbour Master will issue to the owners, agents, charterers, or licensees a certificate in writing stating that the constructional work required by the regulations has been carried out to his satisfaction.\n\n## Equipment\n\n14. The following equipment shall be provided and shall be carried on the protected portion of the bridge deck:\n| Equipment | Quantity/Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Rockets and blue lights | Double the number required by the regulations of the Board of Trade |\n| Verey's pistol and lights | 1 pistol, at least 24 lights |\n| Loaded rifles and ammunition | At least 2 rifles, at least 100 additional rounds |\n| Loaded sporting gun and ammunition | 1 gun, at least 50 rounds, loaded with S,S,G. shot |",
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        "content_text": "## Regulations\n\n11. The bridge deck shall be protected from access from below by barbed wire.\n\n12. Barbed wire used or provided pursuant to these regulations shall not be painted, covered or treated in any manner tending to render it less effective; such wire shall be renewed as and when its efficiency becomes impaired. Barbed wiring shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality of the wire, method and position.\n\n13. In any case in which a permanent wooden or metal awning or deck extends over the bridge deck aft of the grille, it shall be protected by means of barbed wire.\n\n14. Any access provided to the bridge deck from below shall be aft of the grille, except by special permission of the Harbour Master signified in writing.\n\n15. Every entrance to the engine and boiler rooms, other than the access referred to in regulation 17, shall be provided with strong and substantial metal or metal grille doors.\n\n16. Metal or metal grille doors used or provided pursuant to these regulations, and the locks therefor, shall be to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality and design or pattern, and be so maintained.\n\n17. Direct access shall be provided to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms.\n\n18. On ships deemed by the Harbour Master to be of river-steamer type, the officers' cabins shall be on the bridge deck, forward of the grilles, and the guards' quarters shall be on the upper deck abaft the grilles.\n\n19. All constructional work required by these regulations shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, who may relax or modify any of the requirements of regulations 8 to 18 as he may consider expedient. Upon completion of the work, the Harbour Master will issue to the owners, agents, charterers or licensees a certificate in writing stating that the constructional work required by the regulations has been carried out to his satisfaction, and in carrying out these duties, the Harbour Master will be assisted by a Committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, a Superintendent of Police, the master, and a representative of the owners.\n\n20. A certificate should be added to the annual survey certificate of the Government Marine Surveyor stating that the piracy regulations have been adhered to.\n\n## Scheme of Defence\n\n21. When a ship is first fitted in accordance with these regulations, and at the annual survey, a scheme of defence of the ship as fitted will be drawn up by a committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, and a Superintendent of Police, the master, and, if the owner so desires, a representative appointed by the owner. The scheme of defence settled by the committee shall be set out in writing and carefully kept by the master, who shall supply the Captain Superintendent of Police with a copy. Every master shall be well acquainted with the scheme of defence of his ship, and he shall see that the officers and other persons on board to whom duties are assigned under the scheme are made acquainted with their duties.\n\n## Equipment\n\n22. The following equipment shall be provided and shall be carried on the protected portion of the bridge deck:\n    (a) Double the number of rockets and blue lights required by the regulations of the Board of Trade.\n    (b) One Verey's pistol and at least 24 Verey's lights.\n    (c) At least two loaded Winchester rifles of .44 calibre and at least 100 additional rounds of ammunition for the same.\n    (d) One loaded 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and at least 50 additional rounds of ammunition for the same loaded with S.S.G. Shot.\n\n23. The following equipment shall also be provided:\n    (a) One .38 (long) revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying the same for each certificated officer and for each guard.\n    (b) One 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and 100 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying 20 rounds of the same for each guard.\n    (c) One police whistle for each guard.\n\n24. All the above equipment shall at all times be in perfect order and condition and be readily and easily available for immediate use; when not being carried or used, it shall be kept within a metal grille enclosure in the wheel house or as near thereto as possible.\n\n25. All the above arms and ammunition shall be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n26. The above arms and ammunition shall be inspected and tested by the Police, and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n27. The Harbour Master shall have power at any time to inspect and test, or to direct the inspection and testing, of any of the above rockets, blue lights or Verey's pistols or lights, and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n28. The arms and ammunition, rockets, blue lights and Verey's pistols and lights shall be examined weekly by the master of the ship.\n\n## The \"Danger Zone\"\n\n29. The term \"Danger Zone\" shall include the following:\n    (1) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the Canton River or the West River or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai.\n    (2) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Macao harbour.\n    (3) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Kwong Chau Wan harbour.\n    (4) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Amoy, Swatow, Hoihow and Haiphong harbours and in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the coast of the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai; provided that in the case of a ship on a voyage from Hongkong, the danger zone shall not extend to a greater distance than 120 miles along any such route.\n\nA ship which is within the extremes of the above limits shall, except when at its wharf or moorings in or at a port or place of loading or discharge, be deemed to be within a danger zone, whether on a voyage from Hongkong or on a voyage to Hongkong.\n\n30. No ship shall leave the waters of the Colony except from the Harbour, and after leaving its wharf or moorings and while within a danger zone, no passenger or thing shall be allowed to embark or be taken on board, except in the saving of life or rescue work at sea.\n\nPage 150\nPage 151",
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        "content_text": "## Miscellaneous\n\nI \n¡ \nMiscellaneous extraordinary. \n\n### Brought Forward\n\n(e) Road contouring hillside in Wongneichong & Tai Hang Valley, extension 2nd Section Bowen Road to connect with Tai Hang proposed Road. \n\n|  | Brought forward | Excess | Appd. by S/We.and F/M8. | Excess in Appn. A/c.1923 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 680,429.03 | 447,181.10 | 233,247.93 |  |\n|  |  | 5053.20 | 5053.20 |  |\n\n### Miscellaneous\n\n| Item | Total | Approved | Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Furniture & Fittings, P.W.D. New Offices | 9052.95 | 7000.00 | 2052.95 |\n| Drainage, Training Nullah:- (b) General Worke Hill Dist. & High Levels of City Extension | 3258.94 | 3268.94 | - |\n| Engine House | 674.84 | 674.84 |  |\n| Howloon Police station Mongkoktsui Training Nullahs. (b) |  |  |  |\n| Waterloo Road Nullah. Extension to Temple | 9958.23 | 9500.00 | 458.23 |\n| Two 2-ton lorries for Kowloon Roads. | 1830.19 | 1830.19 |  |\n| Water Works Enlarging main to improve the distribution System in Kowloon | 839.11 | 839.11 |  |\n| N.Ts. New Police Station Shatin | 5326.44 | 5000.00 | 326.44 |\n| Land Court Building. Taipo, addition of Survey Offices | 11527.17 | 9500.00 | 2027.17 |\n| Conversion of Shed at K.T. for use of I.& E. Department & Construction of Temporary Cattle Isolation Shed S. of I,Li | 954.68 |  |  |\n| Kowloon Buildings, Tower on Railway Ground for the Fire Brigade | 18088.83 | 14300.00 | 3788.83 |\n|  | 5688.85 | 2000.00 | 3688.85 |\n| Cleaning Materials, Utensils & Washing. Incidental Expenses | 155.60 | 125.00 | 30.60 |\n| Radio Telegraph Branch Repairs & Stores | 399.08 | - | 399.08 |\n| Radio Telegraph Branch Stampe | 13.56 | - | 13.56 |\n|  | 3468.83 |  | 3468.83 |\n| **Carried forward** | 756,107.80 | 494,606.10 | 261,501.70 |",
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        "content_text": "## \n11. The bridge deck shall be protected from access from below by barbed wire.\n\n12. Barbed wire used or provided pursuant to these regulations shall not be painted, covered or treated in any manner tending to render it less effective; such wire shall be renewed as and when its efficiency becomes impaired. Barbed wiring shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality of the wire, method and position.\n\n13. In any case in which a permanent wooden or metal awning or deck extends over the bridge deck aft of the grille it shall be protected by means of barbed wire.\n\n14. Any access provided to the bridge deck from below shall be aft of the grille, except by special permission of the Harbour Master signified in writing.\n\n15. Every entrance to the engine and boiler rooms, other than the access referred to in regulation 17, shall be provided with strong and substantial metal or metal grille doors.\n\n16. Metal or metal grille doors used or provided pursuant to these regulations, and the locks therefor, shall be to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality and design or pattern, and be so maintained.\n\n17. Direct access shall be provided to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms.\n\n18. On ships deemed by the Harbour Master to be of river-steamer type the officer-cabins shall be on the bridge deck, forward of the grilles, and the guards' quarters shall be on the upper deck abaft the grilles.\n\n19. All constructional work required by these regulations shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master who may relax or modify any of the requirements of regulations 8 to 18 as he may consider expedient. Upon completion of the work the Harbour Master will issue to the owners, agents, charterers or licensees a certificate in writing stating that the constructional work required by the regulations has been carried out to his satisfaction and in carrying out these duties the Harbour Master will be assisted by a Committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, a Superintendent of Police, the master, and a representative of the owners.\n\n20. A certificate should be added to the annual survey certificate of the Government Marine Surveyor stating that the piracy regulations have been adhered to.\n\n## Scheme of Defence\n\n21. When a ship is first fitted in accordance with these regulations, and at the annual survey, a scheme of defence of the ship as fitted will be drawn up by a committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, and a Superintendent of Police, the master and, if the owner so desires, a representative appointed by the owner. The scheme of defence settled by the committee shall be set out in writing and carefully kept by the master who shall supply the Captain Superintendent of Police with a copy. Every master shall be well acquainted with the scheme of defence of his ship and he shall see that the officers and other persons on board to whom duties are assigned under the scheme are made acquainted with their duties.\n\n## Equipment\n\n22. The following equipment shall be provided and shall be carried on the protected portion of the bridge deck.---\n| Equipment | Quantity/Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Rockets and blue lights | Double the number required by the regulations of the Board of Trade |\n| Verey's pistol and Verey's lights | One Verey's pistol and at least 24 Verey's lights |\n| Winchester rifles and ammunition | At least two loaded Winchester rifles of .44 calibre and at least 50 additional rounds of ammunition for the same |\n| 12 bore gun and ammunition | One loaded 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and at least 50 additional rounds of ammunition for the same loaded with S.G. Shot |\n\n23. The following equipment shall also be provided :\n| Equipment | Quantity/Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Revolver and ammunition | One .38 (long) revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying the same for each certificated officer and for each guard |\n| 12 bore gun and ammunition | One 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and 100 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying 20 rounds of the same for each guard |\n| Police whistle | One police whistle for each guard |\n\n24. All the above equipment shall at all times be in perfect order and condition and be readily and easily available for immediate use; when not being carried or used it shall be kept within a metal grille enclosure in the wheel house or as near thereto as possible.\n\n25. All the above arms and ammunition shall be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n26. The above arms and ammunition shall be inspected and tested by the Police and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n27. The Harbour Master shall have power at any time to inspect and test, or to direct the inspection and testing, of any of the above rockets, blue lights or Verey's pistols or lights and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n28. The arms and ammunition, rockets, blue lights and Verey's pistols and lights shall be examined weekly by the master of the ship.\n\n## The \"Danger Zone\"\n\n29. The term \"danger zone\" shall include the following:\n| Route | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1) | All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the Canton River or the West River or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai |\n| (2) | All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Macao harbour |\n| (3) | All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Kwong Chau Wan harbour |\n| (4) | All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Amoy, Swatow, Hoihow and Haiphong harbours and in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the coast of the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai; provided that in the case of a ship on a voyage from Hongkong the danger zone shall not extend to a greater distance than 120 miles along any such route |\n\nA ship which is within the extremes of the above limits shall, except when at its wharf or moorings in or at a port or place of loading or discharge, be deemed to be within a danger zone whether on a voyage from Hongkong or on a voyage to Hongkong.\n\n30. No ship shall leave the waters of the Colony except from the Harbour, and after leaving its wharf or moorings and while within a danger zone no passenger or thing shall be allowed to embark or be taken on board except in the saving of life or rescue work at sea.",
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        "content_text": "### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRA-ORDINARY,—Contd.\n\nBrought forward, ... \n\n### MISCELLANEOUS,—Continued.\n\n| Item | Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | Approved Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure 1924 | Expenditure 1924 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 35 Chair Coolie Shelters, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 36 Telephone cable to D'Aguilar Wireless Station, |  | 87,700 | 87,700 |  |  |\n| 37 Whitfield Pier, | 20,000 | 15,000 | 5,000 |  |  |\n| 38 Belilios Reformatory-New roof and other repairs, | 23,500 | 15,000 | 8,500 |  |  |\n| 39 Miscellaneous Works, | 30,000 | 60,000 | 30,000 |  |  |\n| 40 Compensation and Resumptions, | 50,000 | 10,000 | 50,000 |  |  |\n\n### WATER WORKS.\n\n| Item | Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | Approved Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure 1924 | Expenditure 1924 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 41 Eastern District Filter Beds, &c., | 575,000 | 100,000 | 85,000 | 120,000 |  |\n| 42 Taitam Tuk Scheme, Additional Pumping Plant: (a) Engine House and Foundations, (b) Engine and Boiler, | 75,000 270,000 | 50,000 200,000 | 25,000 50,000 | 50,000 100,000 |  |\n| 43 Stanley Mound East, Catch water, | 170,000 | 80,000 | 70,000 | 70,000 |  |\n| 44 Stanley Mound West, Catchwater, | 95,000 | 10,000 | 25,000 | 30,000 |  |\n| 45 Jardine's Look Out, Catchwater, | 20,000 | 30,000 | 15,000 | 25,000 | 5,000 |\n| 46 New Workshop and Plant, | 5,000 | 7,000 |  | 5,000 |  |\n| 47 Repulse Bay Water Supply, Extended Scheme, | 21,000 | 5,000 | 2,000 | 3,000 |  |\n| 48 Lowering Water Mains in City to give better cover, | 8,000 |  |  | 1,600 |  |\n| 49 Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme: (a) Diverting Peak Pumping Main, (b) Diverting Distributing Main, | 5,000 |  |  |  |  |\n| 50 New principal Water Mains in the City of Victoria, | 9,000 75,000 | 5,000 100,000 | 5,000 75,000 | 1,000 50,000 |  |\n| 51 Taitam Tuk East Catch water, (1st Section), | 130,000 | 50,000 |  | 1,000 |  |\n| 52 Shek O Water Supply, | 75,000 | 55,000 | 5,000 | 60,000 |  |\n| 53 Bowen Road Filter Beds conversion, |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 54 Jardine's Look-out Service Reservoir, | 100,000 | less 5,000 | 25,000 | 15,000 |  |\n| 55 Eastern Pumping Station, | 11,000 | 20,000 |  | 15,000 |  |\n| 56 Miscellaneous Water Works, | 20,000 | 15,000 |  |  |  |\n\n### BUILDINGS.\n\n| Item | Original Estimate | Revised Estimate | Approved Estimated Expenditure | Estimated Expenditure 1924 | Expenditure 1924 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 57 Kowloon Hospital (a) Buildings and Furniture, (b) Site, | 360,000 604,000 | 200,000 170,000 | 350,000 |  |  |\n| 58 Mataukok Slaughter House, Inspector's Quarters, | 20,000 | 22,000 | 10,000 |  |  |\n| 59 Mongkoktsui. New Market and Site, | 15,000 | 18,000 | 25,000 | 21,000 | 5,000 |\n| 60 Cattle and Swine Depôt, Yaumati, | 7,000 | 20,000 | 30,000 | 42,500 | 1,000 |\n| 61 Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati, | 1,000 | 75,000 |  | 5,000 |  |\n| 62 Open Market, Bowring Street, | 50,000 | 34,500 |  |  |  |\n| 63 Officers' Quarters, Kowloon, | 29,500 | 29,600 | 1,000 | 30,000 |  |\n| 64 Hunghom Market Extension, 12 fish stalls with tanks, | 1,000 | 12,000 |  |  |  |\n| 65 To Kwa Wan Market, 16 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry, | 2,000 | 5,000 | 6,000 | 16,000 |  |\n| 66 Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market, | 1,000 | 3,000 | 12,000 |  |  |\n| 67 Extension of Stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station, garage, and arrangement of workshop, | 1,000 | 1,000 | 50,000 | 9,000 | 45,000 1,000 5,000 40,000 |\n\nCarried forward, 4,421,200",
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        "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n### THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH\n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\nWILLIAM DESMOND IN \"STRAIGHT THROUGH\" \nWANDA WILEY IN \"GETTING TRIMMED.\" \nOUR OWN TOPICAL.\n\n## QUEEN'S THEATRE\n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \nLON CHANEY IN \"THE NIGHT ROSE\" IN SIX PARTS. \nSaturday, July 11th. \nLILLIAN GISH IN \"THE WHITE SISTER\" IN ELEVEN PARTS. \nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY. At all Shows. \nWILLIAM DUNCAN AND EDITH JOHNSON IN \"THE FIGHTING GUIDE\" (IN SEVEN REELS), \nADDED ATTRACTION: \"A GAME LADY\" (COMEDY IN TWO REELS) AND TOWN TOPICS.\n\n## WORLD THEATRE NOTICE\n\n#9 \nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well Stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently Received Large and Well Selected New Stocks. \nCome and Select your Menu from us \nMAGASIN GÉNÉRAL, The Corner Shop, Phone 3312. Beaconsfield Arcade.\n\n## [101 \nTHE NAME MOUTRIE ON A PIANO IS A GUARANTEE OF RELIABILITY. \nEASY TERMS ARRANGED. \nS. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD., CHATER RD.\n\n| Ad | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 117 | CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. |\n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. PROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands.\n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments.\n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers.\n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties.\n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st.\n\n## GERMAN LOANS. UNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG\n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation only 2 per cent., compared with 12.5 per cent. for old holders.\n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. Bankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be possible to parry out much differentiation and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby.\n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list.\n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON\n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. COMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH\n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going.\n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously.\n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. Bluebell makes all the bread for them and the bluejackets have been doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore.\n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. TO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA?\n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the Peking and Tientsin Times.\n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor, the number 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again.\n\n## HOME CRICKET. OXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872. Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 60 not out.\n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November.\n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. RIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE\n\nLONDON, July 8th. \nPARIS, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repair, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after luncheon at the Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. C. Denison Pender.\n\nA message from Fez says the French evacuated two advanced posts after destruction of defences northward of Wezzan. A later despatch reports that the Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergha region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south.\n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes.\n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. MR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL\n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement.\n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete.\n\n## FLYING RECORDS\n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 260 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records.\n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. ENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN\n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastle by 3 goals to 1.\n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY\n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.\n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW. BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuehlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh floor apartment at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was killed. The accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the Berengaria to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio.\n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. Violent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit.\n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN\n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97.\n\n## LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nL. C's are clearing out their stock of Aertex Underwear at reduced prices - $3.00 per Garment.\n\n## GAUNTIE HATS. HOSE AND SOCKS\n\nThe Ideal Hat for Sportsmen. Price $7.50 \nThe Ideal Summer Sock-Light Weight-Silk Mixture in Drab Brown and Grey Shades. $1.75 Pr. \n6 Prs. $10.\n\n## GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.\n\nGOLF HOSE and KHAKI SHORTS.\n\n## E. MERCK, Darmstadt. WORKS CHEMICAL ESTABLISHED 1668\n\n\"MERCK'S\" Products are second to none for Purity and Reliability. \nSole-Agents:-BORNEMANN & Co., HONGKONG, ASIATIC BUILDING. C. 4567\n\n## NEVER GOES ON STRIKE! THE DECCA\n\n$35.00 AT ANDERSON'S. EXCLUSIVE AGENCY FOR VAN RAALTE MILANESE \nVests $6.25 & $8.25 ea. O.S. $6.50 & $8.50 ea. \nKnickers to match $8.25 $8.50 $11.00 \nTeddies $8.50 $11.00 $11.00 \nSILK UNDERWEAR. \nA New Delivery of White Dresses Just Received. 600",
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        "content_text": "## THE CORONET \n\n**THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, 1925** \n\nThurs. to Sat., July 9th to 11th, at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 \n\n**WILLIAM DESMOND** \nin \n\"STRAIGHT \nTHROUGH” \nand \n**WANDA WILEY** \nin \n“GETTING TRIMMED.” \nOur own topical. \n\n**QUEEN'S THEATRE** \n\n66 \n\nTo-day at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m. \n**LON CHANEY** \nin \n\"THE NIGHT ROSE” \nin six parts. \n\nSaturday, July 11th. \n**LILLIAN GISH** \nin \n\"THE WHITE SISTER\" \nin eleven parts. \n\nTO-DAY TILL SUNDAY, At all Shows, \n**WILLIAM DUNCAN** \nand \n**EDITH JOHNSON** \nin \n\"The Fighting Guide\" \n(in seven reels), \nAdded Attraction :- \n“A Game Lady\" \n(comedy in two reels) \nand \nTown Topics. \n\n**WORLD THEATRE** \n\nNOTICE. \n89 \n\nWe beg to advise our Customers that we are well stocked in all lines of various French Provisions. We have recently received large and well-selected new stocks. Come and select your menu from us \n\n**MAGASIN GÉNÉRAL**, \nThe Corner Shop, \nPhone 3312. \nBeaconsfield Arcade. \n\nThe name **MOUTRIE** on a piano is a guarantee of reliability. Easy terms arranged. \n**S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.**, Chater Rd. \n\n[CABLES. EARLIER CABLES THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] \n\n## POWERS AND CHINA. \n\nPROFUSION OF QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons at question time Mr. Austen Chamberlain declared that no proposal for severance of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Government was under consideration by His Majesty's Government. The Diplomatic Body at Peking was considering a joint reply to the fourteen points contained in the Chinese Government's note. He was not aware of any conflict of opinion between the Powers with regard to the reasonableness of the demands. \n\nMr. Beckett declared that the American Press widely stated that the American representatives were willing to accept, but that the British delegates were holding out. Mr. Chamberlain deprecated being called upon to answer questions with regard to information supplied by the different presses of the world, and emphasised that he was not aware of any conflict between the different Governments. \n\nReplying to Mr. George Lansbury, Mr. Chamberlain said that Russia was not represented on the Commission of Enquiry at Shanghai because Russia was not one of the Treaty Powers. \n\nReplying to Mr. Robinson, he said that no proposals had been received from the Government of the United States for convening an International Conference for the purpose of removing the special privileges of certain nationals in the treaty ports of China and giving the Chinese nation unrestricted control of the import duties. \n\nReplying to Mr. Ammon he said that the Government was not prepared to follow the example of Germany, Austria, and Russia by renouncing extra-territorial privileges in China. Pending the result of the present consultations between the Treaty Powers he was not in a position to add anything to his statement of July 1st. \n\n## GERMAN LOANS. \n\nUNPOPULAR DECISION BY THE REICHSTAG. \n\nBERLIN, July 8th. The Committee of the Bourse has decided to close the Exchange to-day, as a protest against the decision of the Revaluation Committee of the Reichstag to differentiate between old and new holders of paper mark State Loans and grant the latter revaluation at only 2 per cent., compared with 5 per cent. for old holders. \n\nAll other German exchanges closed also. \n\nBankers and financiers generally are of opinion that it will be impossible to carry out such a differentiation, and anticipate that German securities abroad will be adversely affected thereby. \n\nThe Bourse Committee consider that such a differentiation will destroy confidence in German loans. The Committee decreed that until further notice, quotations of the loans of the Reich and Federal States and towns be struck out of the list. \n\n## THE SUBMARINE CABLE. INTERESTING FILM SHOWN IN LONDON. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \"The Romance of the Submarine Cable,\" a film illustrating the fascinating story of the manufacture, laying, repairing, and everyday work of the cable, was exhibited by the Eastern Associated Telegraph Companies after a luncheon at The Savoy Hotel presided over by the Vice-Chairman, Mr. J. O. Denison Pender. \n\nThe film gives many instances of the everyday life of the Eastern Company's staff ashore and afloat, and the complicated machinery employed for covering the core of the cable is shown in all its processes. \n\n## THE COAL CRISIS. \n\nMR. BALDWIN HOPEFUL. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. In the House of Commons, questioned regarding the coal crisis, Mr. Baldwin said that he thought it was clear that the possibilities for negotiation were not yet exhausted, and appealed to both sides to explore every opportunity for a settlement. \n\nHe disagreed with a Labour member who declared that the deadlock was complete. \n\n## FLYING RECORDS. \n\nAMSTERDAM, July 8th. Mynheer Grase, the chief of the scientific section of the Fokker aeroplane works, flew a standard Fokker D.XIII machine of 450 h.p., with a Napier Lion engine, 100 kilometres at an average speed of 266 kilometres per hour, and 200 kilometres at an average speed of 265 per hour, with a load of 500 kilogrammes. These feats are believed to be world's records. \n\n## 'SOCCER IN AUSTRALIA. \n\nENGLISH TOURISTS WIN AGAIN. \n\nNEWCASTLE, New South Wales, July 8th. The English Association Football team beat Newcastie by 3 goals to nil. \n\n## FRANCO-SIAMESE TREATY. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber adopted a report concluding in favour of the ratification of the Franco-Siamese Treaty.--Reuter. \n\n## SWATOW AFFAIRS. \n\nCOMMUNAL KITCHEN IN KAKCHIOH. \n\n[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] There has been a boycott of British trade since July 1st. The office staffs of all British concerns left on July 4th and the crews of all British motor-boats are on strike. Europeans, however, are in many cases keeping the motor-boats going. \n\nBeyond the attempt to interfere with trade everything is quiet and there have been no attacks on foreigners other than those reported previously. \n\nA communal kitchen is being maintained in Kakchioh and provides two meals daily for the twenty residents there. H.M.S. `Bluebell` makes all the bread for the bluejackets have been helping them and doing some of the washing and assisting in the preparation of the meals ashore. \n\n## SEARCHERS FILMED. \n\nTO BE USED AS CHINESE PROPAGANDA? \n\nSpecial Constable Smith, who was in charge of a squad of Sikhs searching vehicles on Thibet Road, Shanghai, is wondering whether the police activities, which drew a large crowd on this occasion, are to be featured in some Chinese film drama or will be used for propaganda showing the foreigners' interference with the rights of Chinese in the Foreign Settlement, says the `Peking and Tientsin Times`. \n\nAs the foreign constable and his men were holding up some rickshas, a motor car, No. 4743, came upon the scene. The driver promptly put on the brakes, and calmly sat back in his seat and watched events while the occupants of the car proceeded to film it! Before the amazed constable could inquire of the motorists as to what their intentions were, the car drove off again. \n\n## HOME CRICKET. \n\nOXFORD v. CAMBRIDGE. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. The inter-Varsity match, Oxford against Cambridge, played at Lords, was drawn. Oxford batted first and made 350, Stewart Brown scoring 56 and Guise 58. Cambridge then went in and made 409, the principal scorers being Duleep Sinhji 75, Crawley 98 and Enthoven 129. The last-named player scored 104 last year and has thus equalled William Yardley's inter-Varsity record of scoring two centuries. Yardley's centuries were made in 1870 and 1872 Oxford's second innings had produced 214 for six wickets when time was called, Brown scoring 69, and Holmes 68. \n\n## SINGAPORE BASE PROGRESS. \n\nLONDON, July 8th. \n\nIn the House of Commons, replying to Commander Kenworthy, Mr. Bridgeman described the progress of work on the new dockyard at Singapore in preparation for dredging work for the berth of the floating dock on arrival of the dredging fleet in November. \n\n## FIGHTING IN MOROCCO. \n\nRIFFS PREPARING OFFENSIVE. \n\nPARIS, July 8th. A message from Fez says the French northward of Wezzan evacuated two advanced posts after the removal of stores and destruction of defences. A later despatch reports that Riffs mustered ten thousand rifles in the Wergba region where they are endeavouring to win over tribes. The enemy is apparently aiming at a new and intensified offensive against Fez from the north to the south. \n\n## FALL FROM WINDOW BEAUTIFUL BARONESS KILLED AFTER DANCE. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. Baroness Helen Zurmuhlen, who is understood to have come from Java, fell early this morning from her seventh-floor fashionable apartment at the Carlton Hotel and was killed. \n\nThe accident was apparently due to the heat wave. The Baroness had been dancing and had stepped to the window to get a breath of air, when her friends were horrified to see her topple over and fall to the roof of the Japanese garden far below. Her diamond ear-rings were dashed from their settings as she fell. She should have sailed on the `Berengaria` to-day to join her husband who is believed to be in the Dutch diplomatic service. Prior to her marriage, the Baroness was the beautiful Miss Helen Carruthers, of San Antonio. \n\n## U.S. HEAT WAVE. NINE DEATHS IN TWO DAYS. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The East United States are in the grip of a heat wave from which at least nine deaths have taken place in two days. \n\nViolent thunderstorms have only temporarily relieved the sweltering millions. The temperature at Washington yesterday was 105 degrees Fahrenheit. \n\n## SAAR BASIN LOAN. \n\nNEW YORK, July 8th. The complete success is announced of the four million dollar seven per cent. Saar Basin Loan, offered here and at Chicago at $97. \n\n| Ad            | Price     |\n| :------------- | :-------- |\n| Aertex Underwear | $3.00 per Garment |\n| Hat (Fine Soft Felt) | $7.50     |\n| Ideal Summer Sock | $1.75 Pr.  |\n| Holeproof Socks  | 6 Prs. $10 |\n| Golf Hose and Khaki Shorts | -         |\n\n**LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.** \nGentlemen's Outfitters.\n\n\"MERCK'S\" Products are second to none for Purity and Reliability. \nSole-Agents:-**BORNEMANN & Co.**, HONGKONG, ASIATIC BUILDING. \n\n## DECCA \n\n$35.00 at **THE DECCA** and **ANDERSON'S**. \n| Item          | Price       |\n| :------------ | :---------- |\n| Powell Vests  | $6.25 & $8.25 ea. O.S. $6.50 & $8.50 ea. |\n| Knickers to match | $8.25       |\n| Teddies       | $8.50, $10.50, $11.00 |\n| A New Delivery of White Dresses Just Received | -         |",
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        "content_text": "No 402.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O. \n52479 \n23 NOV 20 343\n\n**GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG.** 20th October, 1925.\n\nI have the honour to submit for your decision four queries raised by the Director of Colonial Audit (Reference `Sheet No.3/1923` dated 21st November, 1924) regarding Expenditure Credits in the Appropriation Account for the year 1923.\n\n2. The first query is with reference to the sum of $2,970.31 standing to the credit of Public Works Recurrent, Miscellaneous, Stores Depreciation. This credit is due mainly to rebates on freight obtained by the Crown Agents and should properly be used in writing down the prices of stores but as these stores had already been issued on works and charged in full to the appropriate vote, it would appear to be the only practicable method of accounting to credit the sum received to Stores Depreciation. A similar credit arises in the case of the recovery of the cost of damaged stores. I have to ask your approval of this practice.\n\n3. The second query deals with a sum of $75.59 which was a deposit made by a Contractor with the Crown Agents in connection with Indent No.38 of 8th April, 1920, for additional pumping engine at Tytantuk. There was no expenditure under that vote during the year and the sum therefore appeared as a credit. It should normally have been a \"below the line\" account but the existence of the deposit was overlooked.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nLIEUTENANT COLONEL L.C.M.S. AMERY, M.P.,\n&c., \n&c., \n&c.\n\n4.",
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        "content_text": "## Public Works, Extraordinary.—Continued.\n\n| Particulars | Brought forward | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | $2,346,000 |  |  | $2,700,000 | $763,000 |\n|  | $3,258,700 |  | $506,000 | $3,663,200 | $915,500 |\n\n### DRAINAGE,—Continued.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 33 Miscellaneous Drainage Works:-(a) Extending existing outfall from below Wanchai Gap to the sea at a point near Aberdeen | 20,000 |  | 3,000 |  | 15,000 |\n| (b) Laying sewer in connection with Conduits and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 8,000 |  | 3,000 |  | 5,000 |\n| (c) Shankiwan Road, Laying drain in connection with North Point Foreshore Development | 20,000 |  |  | 20,000 |  |\n| (d) General Works | 35,000 |  | 52,000 |  | 17,000 |\n\n### WATER WORKS,-Continued.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 63 New Rising Main to 750 foot Tank (9\") |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 64 Conduit and Hutton Roads Development Scheme | 10,000 |  | 16,000 |  | 6,000 |\n| 60 Lowering Water Mains in City to give better cover | 8,000 |  | 8,000 |  | 4,000 |\n| 61 Mount Cameron Development,-Temporary arrangements for water supply, (not including distribution service) | 15,000 |  | 8,000 |  | 7,000 |\n| 62 Coal Bunkers, Taitam Tuk Pumping Station | TI1 |  |  |  |  |\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 34 Queen's Statue Pier | 37,000 |  | 75,000 |  | 38,000 |\n| 35 Quarry, Workshop and Plant |  |  |  |  |  |\n| (a) Diverting Peak Pumping Main | 5,000 |  | 50,000 | 50,000 |  |\n| (b) Diverting Distributing Main | 75,000 |  | 5,000 | 75,000 |  |\n| 36 Portable Tar and Asphalte Mixer | 15,000 |  |  | 15,000 |  |\n| 37 Two 2-ton Motor Lorries | 16,000 |  |  | 16,000 |  |\n| 38 New Ferry Piers | 55,000 |  | 45,000 |  |  |\n| 39 Ferry Piers for Vehicular Traffic |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 40 Forming rubble mound for protection to proposed reclamation, North Point | 30,000 |  | 20,000 |  | 10,000 |\n| 41 Furniture for Government Offices and Quarters | 30,000 |  | 50,000 |  | 20,000 |\n| 42 Aplichau Reclamation Scheme | 10,000 |  | 4,000 |  | 6,000 |\n| 43 Harbour Developments |  |  |  |  |  |\n| (a) Contribution by Government towards Fund for Reclamation | 5,000 |  | 18,500 | 97,000 | 13,500 |\n| (b) ... |  |  |  | 97,000 |  |\n| 44 Chinese Cemeteries, Laying out new arches | 3,500 |  |  | 3,500 |  |\n| 45 Chair Coolie Shelters | 3,200 |  | 5,000 | 4,000 | 1,000 |\n| (a) Road Improvements at Arsenal Street. Resumption and alteration of buildings |  |  |  |  |  |\n| 46 Sanitary Depôt, Watson Street | 7,000 |  | 20,000 |  | 13,000 |\n| (c) Morrison Hill District Development, Retaining Walls and Storm Water Culverts | 10,000 |  | 7,000 | 10,000 | 7,000 |\n| 47 Motor Roller, 8 to 9 tons, for Asphaltum work | 10,000 |  | 7,000 |  |  |\n| 48 Kemely Town Reclamation, exclusive of wharfage | 1,000 |  |  | 1,000 |  |\n| 49 Miscellaneous Works | 30,000 |  |  | 30,000 |  |\n\n### KOWLOON.\n\n#### BUILDINGS.\n\n**PUBLIC HEALTH AND BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, 1908.**\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 70 Kowloon Hospital | 200,000 |  | 350,000 |  | 150,000 |\n| 71 New Police Station, Yaumati | 20,000 |  | 30,000 |  | 10,000 |\n| 50 Compensation and Resumptions | 30,000 |  | 50,000 |  |  |\n| 72 Police Station, Mongkoktsui | 7,000 |  |  | 7,000 |  |\n| 73 Matankok Slaughter House, Inspector's Quarters | 10,000 |  | 20,600 |  | 10,600 |\n| 74 Mongkoktsui. New Market | 21,000 |  | 23,000 |  | 2,000 |\n\n#### WATER WORKS.\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 51 Eastern District Filter Beds, &c. | 100,000 |  | 100,000 |  |  |\n| 52 Taitam Tuk Scheme,-Additional Pumping Plant :-(a) Engine House and Foundations | 50,000 |  | 15,000 |  | 35,000 |\n| (b) Engine and Boiler | 200,000 |  |  | 200,000 |  |\n| 53 Stanley Mound East, Catchwater | 50,000 |  | 80,000 |  |  |\n| 54 Mount Parker East, Catchwater | 50,000 |  | 30,000 |  |  |\n| 55 Violet Hill (only half area), Catchwater | 30,000 |  | 30,000 |  |  |\n| 56 Stanley Mound West, Catchwater | 10,000 |  | 50,000 |  | 40,000 |\n| 57 Jardine's Look Out, Catchwater | 15,000 |  | 26,000 |  | 11,000 |\n| 58 New Workshop and Plant | 5,000 |  |  | 5,000 |  |\n| 59 Repulse Bay Water Supply, Extended Scheme | 5,000 |  |  | 5,000 |  |\n\n| Particulars | $ | Vote | Estimated Saving | Now Required 1924 | Estimated Excess |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 75 Cattle and Swine Depôt, Yaumati | 1,000 |  | 10,000 |  | 9,000 |\n| 76 Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati | 5,000 |  |  | 5,000 |  |\n| 77 Trough Closet at Kowloon City | 10,000 |  |  | 10,000 |  |\n| 78 Additional Cattle Shed, Matankok | 9,000 |  |  | 9,000 |  |\n| 79 Open Market, Bowring Street | 29,500 |  | TIR | 29,500 |  |\n| 80 Magistracy at Yaumati | 1,000 |  | 1,000 |  |  |\n| 81 Quarters for Revenue Officers, Yaumati | 5,000 |  |  | 5,000 |  |\n| 82 Officers' Quarters, Kowloon | 30,000 |  |  | 30,000 |  |\n| 83 Hunghom Market Extension, 12 fish stalls with tanks | 2,000 |  | 10,000 |  | 8,000 |\n| 84 To Kwa Wan Market, 16 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry | 1,000 |  | 15,000 |  | 14,000 |\n| 85 Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market | 1,000 |  | 12,000 |  | 11,000 |\n\n| Brought forward | $3,253,700 |  | $506,000 | $3,663,200 | $915,500 |\n| Carried forward | $3,951,200 |  | $640,000 | $4,447,800 | $1,136,100 |",
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        "content_text": "# LIST No. 1.\n\n## Statement of Estimated Unexpended Balances and Supplementary Votes required up to 31.12.25.\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY.\n\n| ITEM | WORK | ESTIMATED UNEXPENDED BALANCE TO 31.12.25. | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATED VOTES ALREADY TAKEN. | SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE REQUIRED. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Brought forward | 431,500 | 80,600 | 182,400 |\n|  | Miscellaneous Drainage Works :- |  |  |  |\n|  | Hongkong. |  |  |  |\n| 30 | (a) Laying sewer in connection with Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 5,000 |  |  |\n| 31 | General Works | 13,400 | F.M. 63 | 2 |\n|  | BUILDING. |  |  |  |\n| 1 | Overseer's Quarters, Elliot Filter Beds | 4,000 | 1 |  |\n|  | Cadet Quarters, Canton | F.M. | 6,000 | 8 |\n|  | New Queen's College | 6,000 | J 63 |  |\n|  | MISCELLANEOUS. |  |  |  |\n| 9 | Extension of Lairage, and Coolie Quarters, Kennedy Town | 5,000 | 21 | 29 |\n| 25 |  |  | R=P===SRZ 6 35 |  |\n| 10 | Reinstatement of Kenney Town Police Station | 1,000 |  |  |\n|  | Sairingpun Market, Reconstruction | 5,000 | 238 | 32 |\n| 17 | Queen's Pier. F.M. |  | 33 |  |\n|  | Aplichau, Reclamation Scheme | 5,000 | 36 | 39 |\n| 19 | Telephone cable to D'Aguilar Station F.M. |  | Miscellaneous Works |  |\n|  | Government Stores, Extension | 28,000 | 18,000 |  |\n|  |  | 25,000 F.M. 63 | 4,000 | 13 |\n|  | New Infectious Diseases Hospital | 30,000 | 11 |  |\n|  | New Government Offices, Alterations | 45,000 | 16 |  |\n|  | Police Station, Rebuilding of No. 8 | 30,000 | 19 |  |\n|  | Magistracy new cells | 13,500 | 12 | 20 |\n|  | New Architectural Offices, F.M. | 38,000 |  |  |\n|  | Government Civil Hospital, Extensions to |  |  |  |\n|  | WATER WORKS. |  |  |  |\n|  | Taitam Tuk Scheme, Additional Pumping Plant :- |  |  |  |\n|  | Sisters' Quarters F.M. 38 | 5,000 |  |  |\n|  | Sanitary Depot and Inspector's Quarters, Shaukiwan | 30,000 |  |  |\n|  | Scavenging Coolies' Quarters, Shaukiwan | 50,000 |  |  |\n| 26 | Conservancy Coolies' Quarters, Rutter Street | 30,000 | 92989 |  |\n| 52 | Eastern Pumping Station |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Engine House and Foundations |  |  |  |\n|  | Taitam Tuk East Catchwater (1st Section) Shek O Water Supply | 40,000 | F.M. 03 | 4,000 |\n| 53 |  | 60,000 |  |  |\n|  | Bowen Road Filter Beds conversion... Jardine's Look-out Service Reservoir | 100,000 | 5,000 | 15,000 |\n|  | COMMUNICATIONS, |  |  |  |\n| 28 | Roads :- |  |  |  |\n| (c) | Wanchai Road widening to 42 feet | 25,000 |  |  |\n| (d) | Road from Causeway Bay to North Point | 50,000 |  |  |\n| (k) | West Bay Development Road Construction... | 25,000 |  |  |\n| (r) | Caine Road Widening and raising to new levels between Arbuthnot Road and Aberdeen Street |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Road from Shek O Gap to D'Aguilar | 20,000 | 30,000 |  |\n|  | Shaukiwan Road widening near Taikoo Dock, F.M. 15... | 15,000 |  |  |\n| (w) | Conduit Road Widening F.M. 25... | 22,600 |  |  |\n| (x) | Raising Shaukiwan Road between Yee Woo Street and the Electric Light Works | 25,000 |  |  |\n| (a) | Service path from Magazine Gap Road to serve new sites South of Thorpe Manor | 7,000 |  |  |\n| (bb) | Garden Road above Kennedy Road, Improving and widening | 10,000 | F.M. 63 |  |\n| (dd) | General Works | 125,000 |  |  |\n| 29 | DRAINAGE. |  |  |  |\n|  | Training Nullahs :→ |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Conduit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme | 3,000 |  |  |\n| (c) | General Works |  |  |  |\n|  | Carried forward | 431,500 | 80,600 | 182,400 |\n\n### PUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,—Continued.\n\n| ITEM | WORK | ESTIMATED UNEXPENDED BALANCE TO 31.12.25. | SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATED VOTES ALREADY TAKEN. | SUPPLEMENTARY VOTE REQUIRED. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | Kowloon. |  |  |  |\n|  | BUILDINGS. |  |  |  |\n| 57 |  | S & & £3283 8 |  |  |\n| 58 | Kowloon Hospital :- |  |  |  |\n| (a) | Building and Furniture... (b) Site | 100,000 |  |  |\n|  | Mataukok Slaughter House, Inspector's Quarters... | 12,000 |  |  |\n| 59 | Mongkoktsui, New Market and Site | 5,000 |  |  |\n| 60 | Cattle and Swine Depot, Yaumati | 1,000 |  |  |\n| 61 | Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Yaumati | 50,000 |  |  |\n| 62 | Open Market, Bowring Street | F.M. 03 | 3,000 |  |\n| 64 | Hunghom Market Extension, 12 fish stalls. with tanks | 2,000 |  |  |\n|  | To Kwa Wan Market, 10 stalls for beef, pork, fish and poultry | 12,000 |  |  |\n|  | Closed Market, 130 stalls to replace Yaumati Old Market | 50,000 |  |  |\n| 67 | Extension of stabling at Kowloon Disinfecting Station garage, and arrangement of Workshop | 40,000 | 38 222 |  |\n| 68 | Slaughter House, Tai Kok Tsui | 25,000 |  |  |\n| 69 | Workshop and Quarters for Electrical and Telephone Staff | 17,000 F.M. 68 |  |  |\n| 70 | Police Married Quarters, Mongkok. F.M. 11... | 8,000 |  |  |\n| 72 | Married Quarters for Police, Yaumati | 25,000 |  |  |\n| 74 | Quarters for Scavenging Coolies at Lo Lung Hang (near Hung Hom) | 25,000 | 34,400 F.M. G3 |  |\n|  | Carried forward | 059,000 | 134,600 | 201,800 |",
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        "content_text": "32\n\nFOR THE\n\nSWIMMING\n\nSEASON\n\nWe are displaying an excellent range of\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nRUBBER BATHING CAPS & SHOES\n\nSWIMMING FLOATS\n\nDo Not Fail to Inspect our Display of JANTZEN'S & JAEGERS'\n\nLADIES' AND GENTS'\n\nBATHING COSTUMES\n\nIn all Colours and Attractive Designs.\n\nThose Pure Wool Costumes are unexcelled for their wearing qualities, comfort and style, and they always retain their shape.\n\nTHE SINCERE CO., LTD.\n\nHOTCHKISS\n\nDON\n\nFALST BROS.\n\nKIRKCALDY\n\nHONGKONG EMPORIUM\n\nAN OLD FAVOURITE BACK AGAIN!\n\nConnoisseurs will remember \"DON\"- the favourite Scotch Whisky of Pre-War Days.\n\nNOW for the first time since the war, we can again supply DON.\n\nSole Agents:\n\nN. S. Moses & Co., Ltd.\n\nWhy Your Printing Should be the Best.\n\nMost people characterise the standing of a firm by its printing. Shoddy, or even mediocre printing gives the impression of mediocrity.\n\nAs you judge a man's character by his habits so do you judge a firm by its methods: its printing, its correspondence, the promptness, and its general tidiness in business.\n\nMake sure your printing is good, clean, and has that touch of distinction which a first-class printer makes his speciality.\n\nUp-to-date and good printing is executed by\n\nSouth China Morning Post,\n\nTel. 440.\n\nLimited\n\n3 Wyndham Street\n\nHongkong.\n\nSOUTH\n\nCHINA MORNING POST.\n\nTHE\n\nECONOMY IN HOME BUILDING.\n\nTHE OWNER AND THE\n\nARCHITECT.\n\nBy Oswald C. Bering. Published by Robert M. McBride Company, New York $5.\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nBUILDER.\n\nFOUNDATIONS.\n\nBUILDING PROBLEMS IN HONGKONG.\n\nMuch more general appearance\n\nThe timber pile, both squared and round in a \"tree shape\", have been the most greatly used in the past. These are driven in by a falling weight, or steam hammer, until a specified resistance at each fall is obtained.\n\nTo-day the timber pile has largely been replaced by piles of concrete, steel and combinations of concrete and steel.\n\nConcrete piles can be divided into two classes, viz precast and cast in position.\n\nMr. Hertug has added another to the list that may be met with by architects in the East.\n\nThe \"ground\" in Europe is one of the most important factors of shares and limits average matter, and in addition the conditions of space.\n\nThe precast pile is cast very much in a similar way to that of the thinner pile, and is generally made with a pointed end, and land reclaimed are so found by the soil, or a metal shell is driven into the ground upon completion of all the piling and forethought for back that they can ease to be carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britain, that old or bedding upon \"bad ground\" make a compromise when it comes to inferior quality is not usually a paying proposition, land being generally purchased at rates which are less than the cost of reclamation, or at less than the extra cost\n\nWith the metal shell as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible general pile cure, the shed and the raundiena sufit upon waslabic soil.\n\nArchitects seem to feel pretty strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignorance of the lay Homes, base & valce in giving man, as well as over ambitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space is devoted in this bank to emphasizing the importance of selecting a good architect, and what is more, excending\n\na bilding site may range from portance of rebitecturo as the Dig ind waa an art. I must be honoured with\n\nin\n\nold allowed to haraan, and dzisi\n\nThe precast pi'e la cast ven in a similar way to that ef the thinner pile, and is generally\n\ngood agricultural pie cast in position may\n\nJo\n\nend, and lande reclaimed are so fond by the soil, or a metal shell\n\nInto the\n\nupon completion of\n\nall the pianting and forethought for hack that they can ease to be\n\nWhere the earth forms be mould, at any heantau! thing that is spoken of as cocinimes worth being carried through to an also be said, with safety, ground, and\n\nland metal lobe la driver\n\ncompletion.\n\nHe is never pre-in Great Britale, that ocliving driving the tube, concrete is passed pared fo\n\nmake a compromise lard or bedding upon \"bad ground\"\n\ndown the tube, the tube being with-- when it comes to inferior quality is not n staally a paying propal-drawn as the couerote is placed. of materials or -guted dion, lana being reuerally pureba\n\nWith the metal sheli as a mould, the metal shell covers a collapsible: cunstances, he always indicates as than the cost of reclamation, meral ple cure, the shed and the a smaller scute, or simplified as ur et less than the extra cost\n\nraundiena sufit upon waslabic soil. Architects seem to feel pretty Tan exceptious are to the rase strongly a lack of the paper of river-side warehouses and dock sititude toward their profession, and where low-lying sites, by their due both to ignoranes of the Jay Homes, base & valce in giving man, Ax well sa over ubitious re-\n\naccuse on waterways and storage presentatives within the preïez-\n\natungarde. slur. Much space in devoted in this bank to emphasizing the mould mad, to hard rock, or six à bilding site may range from portance of selecting a good arritures varying between these two tect, and what is more, excending Mad, soft ground, or Ta pat fath in bi The aveti-\n\ning.\n\nTHA\n\nIvos sand,\n\nle care being driven into the quil, 5s pic care heirg collapsed when i rewnioz the necteurs depth, and removed, feaving the shell in the ground to form a road to take the concrete.\n\nThe slams for the metal shell are f that before placing the camareis.\n\nhe concrete can do seen, and that the near space to be recupied ly\n\nas the hole is Hired by the motul shell there is no risk of earth o\n\ntect ia a Dinette,\" says Mr. Hat ve of indefinite depth, or ground water becoming mixed with\n\nthickness of there untable soils, the concrete. safely carry the structur covering soi! sufficiently solid tej claimed Jun.\n\nand\n\nHe e insistent on necessity of the architect knowing\n\nOne syle, where the fabe is: his clients understanding their\n\nHe-driven and withdrawn as la con-i needs, and the actual human fac have hoen ased for the disposti of the monid, attaches great value areas which ereta is placed the soil forming tors of thefe problem. The lay-earth, and rebash, come under the to ramming the earth at the foot Tan does not usually balanced picture or the problending or soft ground, which the gile to an enlarged base, over-lie good firm soll before commencing the concreting,\n\n14%\n\na\n\nQuality\n\nTOP NOTCH\"\n\n\"KING GEORGE IV\" Scotch Whisky\n\nSole Agents:\n\nGANDE, PRICE & Co., Ltd.,\n\nHONG KONG\n\nFresh Air on Top\n\nWHEN it is \"set fair\" with\n\nthe thermometer in this eighties\n\nyou CRO awoly command a refre sehga\n\nbreeze from your\n\nand is likely is mopese plans that The sides of water courses are and the camming of the concrete Electric Fan\n\nare inconsistent.\n\nTactful and Firm,\n\nIt is\n\natten of sor 2. var-lying is invera to ratosal, as placed.) The architect must be tactful may a exist, that is, a pool for the plic, and irregular sides which good firm button. The opposite which results in a bulbuions font tel bat in his criticiser. asstatis?, therefore, saleet himmering mud, or louse soft before pay atop a taken in the plays, ar buiting, Indeed, to help\n\nWhere had greend iz met with. the actual selection of the site the normal footings obtained he\n\nis claimed give greater skin letion.\n\nConcrete, it good, as a materiai | tor piles can be spoken of as per\n\nis unually a mistaka to scrno-widening walls un piers. under manent, whether in waler or in the zize in the matter of the custheir base, by bedek esate and ground ur \"hetween wind end of bis services. A selection of pain concrete, may not he efficient water,\" the\n\nIt will keep you fit until holiday-time, and suszała you at concert-pitch afterwards.\n\nOne unit of electricity will drive a small jan for 40 hours.\n\npositiva destrac-THE CHINA LIGHT & POWER Co., (1918) Ltd.\n\nat.\n\nthe rebt man will mean considersstrecoure over aning arca bu retive to other materials. able economy in purcheses snoduce the load to the amount per 01 subject to rot, at construction laier, and a personal quare foot, Part the soli wil carber. And doe's 201 corrode as does\n\nrunk from wond barers, as is m and artistic interest lu results. Recourse has then to be\n\nmade\n\nchanges, us\n\n50\n\noften it has\n\nArchitect expertaily young to other methods, such as spread and steel, s has the nd ones, make the mistake very often footings, piling, rafts, caissons,ntage, that, however pamarent ef giving a rapid estimate of cost, cylinders, sheel pillow, are a com wood piling sy he, i constantly teiling what the exact date o hinatione of these, according to the\n\nsaturated, there is rot the fear of commation will be. An experi-pe of strucuri and the nature decay if the line of sturation anced maz is too well acquainted of the soil. with finetusiona te the markei, The spread footing is the ineen found to do. There is and unfavourable labour candi-iment of the aormal convete rage, 46180 the increasing difficulty, tions, and uncertain whether to to give additional bearing aves.\n\ntowing the depletion spook Sognaticely on any of these The normal courete foundation foreste, to obtain timber of targe M. dering abould be expabic of wider then the frickenk it up rete may be found to be chaper. matera. God architecte, sage to a watt or pier, being bat ute seartling and when large scantlinga are required, the first cost of con- estimating within 10 per cent of ports, is subjected to but little or the cost. t is recommend that ho tention. he let out contracting directly, in stead of placing this function in the alone of another.\n\nThere are many ways of series\n\ning ccenomy, \"Ruild economical\n\n, but never cheaply,\" says M\n\nHeria, Econcutez depend agon\n\nBy eulanging. It is subjected to\n\ntalle stress in the underside,\n\n(1)\n\nRafii\n\no\n\nRaft foundations have become care into use since the introdie-\n\nand to take up this stress,, rotted of reinforced concrete. Pre-\n\nsteel jufte are inserted or the con- areta is relaforced with zods,\n\nFiling.\n\nWith cerisin scils and where the\n\nbe driven to\n\nVICK= to die introduction of reinforced aonercle, refta were co- steneten in plafa concrete, and sol being reinforced, were af thirdness.\n\n37622\n\nWith s raft the preseard on the\n\nthe nature of the plan, bup of atrasture resis apon the grandi,\n\ncortare, exbica o materials, resuficient piles may duction of regelremonts, market sonsolidate the earth sufferently to jail is diatributed over the waxi-\n\ncluziion. favourableness\n\ncarry the tend. Before driving them se possible, reducing the weather, etc. Cut out non-essen pilas the earth seemed a certain pure per square foot to a min tials first, he recomiende, bistoad space. After the piles are driver, roam, and if pemperly of making a\n\ndezigned, compromise\n\nthec in earth. plz piles, the earth in soft places. quality of materiale. He ecumer\n\nWith few ates and explains more extensive bulk of the driven pile,\n\nasing heen consolidated by the exceptions the site under buildings | ly and technically many others.\n\n1234 ke he movered sith au Supervious Bungalows.\n\nPiles for the purpose of conjayer. In most cases concrete is the solidating soda can be of tallar peatario! used, and this\n\nrerete\" made sufficiently thick\n\nface\n\nand restored, may form the raft.\n\nShowroom 62 Nathan Road, Kawi\n\n60 years ago!\n\nKAYIP\n\nThe Firm of MACKAY introduced LIQUEUR WHISKY Its success has led to the oxistence ni mszy fetior Brande offered under ritar title.\n\nMACKAY'S THE ORIGINAL- 1495EUR WHISKY\n\nBabe in face age and chore Bone pretation of Highland Whisky.\n\nTu Tubos na jou tuing Bred five leading divide throughout the int\n\nGaste no more than dory\n\nObtainable from all the leading\n\nstores in the Colony. WHOLESALE AGENTS-BRADLEY & Co., Ltd.\n\nCOLUMBIA\n\nNEW-PROCESS\n\nRECORDS\n\nMUSICAL COMEDIES\n\nSelection\n\n19\n\n465 THE GEISHA\n\n821 IRENE\n\n723 LILAC DOMINO\n\nWith badldings having basements, the basement level mag he balex\n\n666 MAID OF THE MOUNTAINS 932 BRIGHTER LONDAR\n\n12\n\n27\n\n645 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\n659 CHU-CHIN-CHOW\n\nTe duretes & chapter cach tepes to the used for beading country house. suburban town piles, but in several ecare pales of Aud semi-domestic. In the counhard materialy having no cobesion try and sobarben heuse it is a have been used, such as sacó, eliz importens to develop the exterior (kers, stores, pl.\n\nwater level, requiring reinforce! Surroundings as the interior de\n\nFrich pile of curò, stone or other ment against the opward ad in. tails. The arcaiteet must be con- Part materials, boles are formed ward presauce of water, the ruft earned with lawns, shrubbery, driving and removing pilas of useiber with the barzeniest walls, kennels.\n\nfilling thereoning a watertight box\n\nmaterials, aged in water bearing toil\n\nThe Puthor is heeed, or metal, and etc. arused at the surr of gull hole with the bead\n\nmen whe extat at having to with bearing les, that is plas A raft foundation may be mora \"pay an architect to design\n\nwhich support a structure, such as jerononteal, even when in itself it chicken coop\" Bungalows are a pier over open water and build costs more, then foundations taken\n\n¡Ay chase\n\nnot ganerally inexpensive, as ings on soft sort or liquid mud, the down to a low level, glling, when supposed. They must always bo freeistance against ponetration of the taking down of the founda! pleaned to ennform to the scythe pie may be obtained by its roations, the ailing roundings. The ideal way\n\nreaching sold ground, ot by dodge to dosing property.\n\n(Minders. Cylinders of iron and steel, and\n\nplanning a town house is to et tion of the soil against te sides,\n\nla group of people to share in les partiz by both it being driven\n\nlot having a common central gerte a suficient depth to stala treiufgrend coutrete, sinh tuto sott\n\nen and Como architectu friction, or support at its foot. style that can be planned har\n\nrol, water, wad and, and les moniously.\n\n279 FLORODORA\n\nVocal tems\n\n309 LES CLOCHES DE CORNEVILLE\n\nAT\n\nANDERSON'S\n\nThe põe supported at its fot, with concrete, have been used. pose of being between groups of for that porting id a pie surround- Je some Chat:x eylinders have pites and giving rigidity.\n\nnd by water or liquid and giving surrounded groups or piles, the\n\nFor work of ar engineering\n\nHe discusses frateruity houses had the comparative lack of le rtle or na aters! support and piles being Srst drivan, the e7lindratare, enfssons of metal or rein. terest in their style. One of the friction, becomes a column and is ers, dropped over greaps of pites. forced concrete have heat, fosted Cardinal fundar.ontal guad subjected to siplar stresses to the ender resting on the bottom, to prition, suk architecture is dit \"the fecade those which columns are subjected and after the exlindars\n\n0:1 prepaved and plac shall express the par- to, and can be calculated as such. position, ing them\n\nare in beds, and filled with stones or son- prae of the building.\" The funda A feree, the concrete filling the spaces imental in move or leva nuylerted personally\" in the architecture of between the piles sed the naise sood supporting soils, in spite of in our semi-derarstic buildings. their homes. Throughout the vo- of the eslinder. By this mean, folical platements to the can-\n\nwith\n\n200-\n\nxk.\n\nCertain ally, ench as sund, are\n\nthe trury, providing they are not do a\n\nMr. Horing shows farther jamo one is coracleas of the au- support is obtained from amusement at the ladies who de there gesuire belief in the files. ne elinder and concrete position in which they can sore,\n\nand pure pemodse styles: atzo, portance and eigalheance of the inside binding thure who insist upon \"expressing Fart.-Christian Science Monitor piles together, serving\n\nthe pa\n\nof and to prevent spreading the elte\n\nthe par- can be enclosed by abeak piling, of\n\ntimber, iron, steel, er reinforced concrete. Sheet pillay, at comple tion, could be described as a box ariere, without top on bottom, enclosing the ground on which. the batting elands.\n\nScrew Piles\n\nThese are main! cylinders with \"screw\" anda, the pile being ra rolved and anteng the soil in a similar way to that of wood screw entering wood.\n\nTheir most frequent use is for light piers where the sea bottom le sand.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nTHE\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST,\n\nWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925.\n\nHOTELS.\n\nHONGKONG\n\nHONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:\n\nPEAK HOTEL.\n\nTulographie Address: KREMLIN, HONGKONG.”\n\nAND\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL: PALACH HOTEL;\n\nKALEE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL. Telegraphic Address: \"CENTRAL, SHANGHAL.\"\n\nHOTELS,\n\nLIMITED.\n\n43 association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits. Peking,\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL.\n\nTHE PREMIER HOTEL IN KOWLOON, First Class Billiard Room and Satoon Bar.\n\nSHIPPING\n\nSTRIKE SITUATION.\n\nDEARTH OF CHINESE KIVER CARGOES.\n\nArrical and Departures.\n\nJUNG VOYAGERS.\n\nCHRISTIAN COLLEGIANS ARRIVE AT CANTON.\n\nUdging the Searchlights.\n\nNEWS\n\nFRENCH FLAGSHIP.\n\n13\n\nP. & O. BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND RASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.\n\n(COMPANIZA IRMOTROzed in ENGLAND) STATEO, JAVA ↳ OTTAMA, CREION, INDIA, PENSJAN GAFLF, WHAT IEDARA,\n\nKARTICA, ART & HOVE AFRICA, ANSA RAL-ANIA. INCLEDINU AR\n\nZNALAND & 4URENSLAND POSTA. RED HEA. WIEFT, ZUBOPY, KTO\n\nPENINNITLAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DAVET ROYAL MAIL UTKANADA\n\nSPER CONTRACT WI\n\nH. GYERSNXXT}\n\nIONS PROM TONGKONG ABOUT\n\n20th August.\n\nPENDING CHANGE IN NAVAL NARKUNDA...\n\nKIDDERPORE\n\nJEYPORA\n\nCOMMAND.\n\nKHYBER...........\n\nThe French battleship Jules\n\nNAGPORE\n\nof V140 Farry, ying the faz\n\nTILAWA TALAMBA\n\nTANDA...\n\nThe sixaution in the matter of\n\nAs was exclusively uncunced Admiral Prochos, Commander-in- ocean Donte shipping remains un- in the relature of the S. C. f. Post Ja Phart uime ago, a parts of Sqaadran, arrived yesterday over- sries and clearances varies but Americana left Hongkong toring and anchored in Kowloon ARAFURA\n\ntie. Cargoes are small in quan Canion by two fucks which were Bay as there are at present yo tity and few ju number. For the chartered For the purpose of berthe available in the man of yast fon; weeks shipments of more convering coroat and building war anchorage.\n\nthen\n\nThe usual ma\n\n0.334\n\n105\n\nDESTINATION\n\n42wers & wartorg-\n\n16,237 8th Sept., soon.rition & Fanuch.\n\n5,218\n\n17th Sept.\n\n0.114 19th September.\n\n5,83\n\njeet Soudna, Miles, London,\n\nLaterpell\n\n3465 September. patebay.\n\nBRITISH INDIA-LOCAH BAJURGS INDUTA\n\n10,000 24th September. 3'pore, Pung & Calcutta\n\n18,018 9 October.\n\nEASTENNÉ SUSTRALIAN RATING (SOUTH)\n\n16,9505\n\n8,000!\n\n2nd Sept.\n\nMaa, Sandokat Chnes. Is\n\n7th October Tarifle, B'ban, 'eer, &\n\nMethaurns.\n\nSADAMA win aga quli ni Turbo The 1. 9.3. Cu td. seatures will zien dil; of Shangkhu, B\n\nShaazhki, Dzsin. Debit, Kalam. The Timber Darwin, as her wine wich tho towing\n\nFrogweat conrad An the New Zaki, Tante\n\nas rand_nta\n\nSatan and soudit via Panama Canal.\n\nThe Ure 5.9. Company ateaders to the United Kingoeta 1,000 tons have beys rare, material to the Canton Christina {tional salutics were fired, and sise and now, even the local Chinese College under the leadership of the fing saiule in Vice Admiral whe may usually be depended upon 31r. Crumpton, No information Sinclair. which were duly re- to furnish small freights for river joald be obtained at the time turned. Electric Lift and Telephone to each Floor, Tels. K.608 & K.609. Cable address: KOWLOTEL, Hongkongingle package of cargo was ten who was acting as super Vion Admiral\n\nGnder the Persound Baparvicken and Matogoriană di\n\nFRANK L. COOKE.\n\nProprietor.\n\nKING EDWARD HOTEL. Electric lifts and Lighting. Telephone on each Floor, Hotel Launch Meets All Steamers.\n\nTol. Central No. 370.\n\nTelegraphle Address: \"VICTORIA.\" J. WITCHELL, Manager.\n\nST. GEORGE'S HOUSE. KENNEDY ROAD,\n\nPrivate Hotel, affording Every Comfurt.\n\nLARGE AND OF HARBOUR\n\nAIRY ROOMS. SPLENDID EXCELLENT CUISINE UNDER SUPERVISION OF THE PROPRIETKISS.\n\nLOSSIUS, Proprietress.\n\nFor te suply to\n\nThe only hotel in CANTON\n\ndirectly under European\n\nManagement.\n\nNAGPORE... 5,248\n\nSANJIS TO BHANGHAIR LAYER.\n\n26th August.\n\nHI\n\n......$10,000\n\nShanghai, Moji & Kobe.\n\n4th September. Sbbai, Moji kote. 6th September. Kebe.\n\nì deben re afrasimme wid subtrat in alteration without quiler. Wielan\n\nSTRAWERS. Parede og not mon than 21, x 16. × 7 th, will be prerived as ike Lumping's (not up lo egia on the day previous to unitis\n\nFanburding.\n\nB\n\ncestt, even though the pun la voly ether arough the Acerts The arrival of the dulos Perry KARMALA ......\n\nMac, are showing no Comandate of the Harbour Of is a proliminary to the charge OVET TILAWA design m despatch goods. Pas through which latter place in of the Commander-in-Chiership senzar hookings by the river sail- lucka cleared with no mention of at the squadron. Rear Admiral ings yesterday were good, but not 'pautengere other than Mr. Crnan- Basir is to be the successor of Fruchot, and will sen. ap.\n\nMules Michelet at as early data. 24 hours ending #sam yesterday Information has now been re After the command has been showed o vessels in harthour, of seived which confirms the state turned over, the Jules Ferry will which wery British, with 12 meu then made and this is to the leave for France, the new arrival arrivals and 11 doyartures. Bri- affect that the voyagers have becoming the Bugship in Lish shipping contributed six and reached Carton.\n\ntwo respectively, to these guzes. Warpon was reached at 2 a.. Arrival were the British ships on Sunday morning and taking Empress of Casada from Vancon- advantage of the darkness, the ver and Shanghai with 186 tour of junka alipped in ander the nearch- fouz, amigenium salphate aut Hights which awept the Back mails, Yut Shing from Bangkes Rear, without being detected. with 2,260 tons of rice and general There is no shipping activity\n\nThe\n\nstead,\n\nPARENTS PERTAINI\n\nNOTICE TO MARINERS.\n\nSHANGHAI DECLARED\n\nCHOLERA-INFECTED\n\nPORT.\n\nker\n\nand two bags of mails, Nam Sang in Canton, but sumbers of snail The following notice to muzinera: from Yokohama nt Shanghai boats are fraighting vegetables has been posted at the Harbour with 1,205 tena of general, tonius and produce from outlying die Once, seved by the authorities Revolutionary placards at Canton under date. August 13:\n\nHarbour Notification No. 1 of 1923. Notice is hereby given that the Superintendent of Custome and Representatives of Poreign Con- sale Bodiaz bave declared the port of Shanghai to be infected. AR vessels arriving therefrom either at Pantee or Whangea on and after this date are to be guvern\n\njing dangerous goods (firecrackerstricts. Tel. Central 116.\n\n(and matches) and 359 bags. of fare posted about the city treiting all, Jaining from Poochow and the people to take action agata\n\nforeig oppressore. Amoy with 50 tona ganerai and the mails, Hallie from Sulyon with gates to Alamen ure picketed 3.921 tons of ride and gear and the Chinese side to prevent any three bags of mail, Clearailah conuuunication with the defen Srum Sieganore and Hoi Nam with dore. Contradictory rumours are cur general, one bag of mulls and 200 deck paterpgera. the American reut with regard to the shipping\n\nTHE VICTORIA HOTEL,\n\nSHAMEEN,\n\nGuides\n\nand trips arranged for\n\nand special care\n\ntaken of TOURISTS. Cable Address 1 \"VICTORIA.\"\n\nEMPRESS LODGE.\n\nTel Kowloon. 296. fel. Add: \"presloge.\"\n\n8, Mudy Hoad, Kowloon Up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes walk from the Ferry Newly furnished, with latest sanitary bath- Under Barpervision of the Pro- Excellant ralaine.\n\nMom?\n\nprintress.\n\nPor termos apply to Mrs. M. O. MURPHY, Propristress\n\nPALACE HOTEL.\n\nTel. Address \"PALACE.” Tel. Kowiuon No. B.\n\nThres mátutes irom Kowlen Wharf, Ferry Wharf and RawaJ Station, Entirely Bater English Management. Eletele Light and Faus throughout. Every Rovin with Private Bath, Lounge, Bar and Hilliard Rooms. turivalled Cuisine onder the personal supervision of the proprietor. Terma moderate, Special terms to families on appli\n\nJ. T. OXBEREY, Proprietor. tion to:\n\nSTATION HOTEL,\n\nTel. Add: \"Termotel” KOWLOON. Code used a.B.C. 5th. First class aud most up-to-date Residential and Tourist Hotel. Two minutes' walk from Ferry. Moderate Larid and recst axel- lent cuisine auder entirely European tuanagement Monthly and Family rates can be arranged at mest reasonable terms.\n\nAPPLY THE MANAUERESS, Kowloon.\n\nTHE CARLTON HOTEL.\n\nUNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. Splendidly Situated in the Heart of the European Secilon Convenient to the Ferry and to the Baalucss Centres.\n\nA First Class Besidential and Tourist Hotel with all the Convenienes of Homo. Large Airy Rooms. Hot and Cold Water.\n\nCuisine ander the Immediate Direction of the Proprietress Monthly and Family rates at moderate ternis.\n\nFor tartas upply to Mra M. BLAKE.\n\nTelephone No. C. 812,\n\nNu. 30, Lee House Street,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL.\n\nTelegraphic address \"ASTOR”\n\nTelephone Contra! 10,\n\n13. Queen's Road Central: A first clase Hotel centrally located, large and airy rODINE, completely renovated and refinished. New Ulzing Room\n\nuidine. Meals a la Carte. Excellent\n\nMouthly Tickets for Fists and Duners. Under entirely new Management,\n\nH. A. VAZ, Nanager.\n\nROGATE.\n\nTel Address \"Rogate\" Kowloon,\n\nTel. 851.\n\n158-160 Austin Read, Kuwloun. Newly furnished. Up-to-date Priests Hotel. Excellent Oni sine. Moderate Term.. tinder personal supervision of the Proprietres\n\n\"ALBANY.\"\n\nResidential Hotel, Nos. 3 & 4 The Albany. Overlooking the Botanical Gardens. Under personal supervision of the Proprietress. Telephone Central 615.\n\nMADAM ASA UTANI.\n\nJAVANESE MASSEUSE. FACE MASSAGE. MASSAGE\n\n25, Wellington Street:\n\nMASSAGE HALL.\n\nMRS. 3. UZUNOVE\n\nHapert Massgeule,\n\n37, Queen's Road Central,\n\nA similar notice has been issued\n\ntaamer West Faralun from Los 10 the port, that gaining most Angeles and Manila with 196 tas iredence being to the edest that by the Excilay Regulations feri of general and President McKinicy to impose a tax of 23,000 or be the authoriting stentsin in\n\nthe Cunninginner of Commerce is the port of Canton. from Manila with 12 tone of\n\nvessels discharging, while 41. general and 10 bags of all, the monopoly has her granted to theviation to that port and Chin- German vereis Piala on Hardessane for a large sum, the x-\n\n(wengizo under date August 12.\n\nJourg and Marilu with 365 tona of\n\nyoueral and six bags of mai, the out of which is not naked. Japanese reasol Osake Mary from\n\nNAVY LAUNCH BLAZE. TWO MEN SENT TO HOSPITAL.\n\nMuch of this stegnation is due Two American seemen, the en-!\n\nCalcutta and Singapore with 320 by the Autenor for Sagapore and tons of general, nails chectical President Kinley and Bevenue products, and 13 bags of mail, the for Shanghai. Chineze ucastor Chung Hing from Kwangeheuwan with 180 tone of the increasing difficulty ofgineer and the electrician of abippers in obtaining export per- U. S. 8. Beaver's speed launch, firewood, vegetables and poultry.\n\nmita for lee, the stonks of which whlen was destroyed by fire at! Departures\n\nin the Colony, are now belevet in the Army and Navy Club landing Departure were the Brish be below is reserve margin. at Maul are now in the Set- vessels Isaching for Amoy, Pru- Another contributing factor berg General Hosptial. The men tecilaus for Shanghai, Japanese appears to be the belfer sung the jare badly burved, according to a Towels Koren Mora for Keelung, Chinese generally that something navy officer interviewed at the Tsuruga Alara For Shanghai, drastic is about to happen either place of the fire.\n\nlein Maru for Tallar Bay and on one side or the other. The\n\nflames completely demolished Jajo Man for Swate, the Datel more credulone point to the con- the high power engine and burned auction dredger G.G. Ideoburg Jucant exercising of seaplanes the inside of the launch, causing (Netherlands Harbour Works) fox and the large number of warships Jamage estimated at $5.00). The Macao, Tisondari for Bhunghai, jad present in harbour, as evidence forigin of the fire le vakowa. the Gormer vernal Pfalz for that the British Government is it was extinguished half an hour, Shanghai, the Chinese coaster about to take action. No amount of Jafter it started.\n\nThe been aboard and the crew Kazura fur drony and the tallat explanation will disillusion them, moter vessel Eaquino for Shang- and thts toeling is permeating the of the launch Genecock I put hal. Clearances were taken out lantize native commercial fabric.\n\nTHE\n\ncut the blaze.\n\nHONGKONG & KHAMPOA DOGK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO\", HONGKONG; UndesUsed: A1, A.B.C. Film Edition: Engineering: Fire and Second Edition: Western Union and Watking, Banson's Marcom.\n\nDock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.\n\nOIL TANK STEAMER \"PALUDINA.\"\n\n412, 0′ x 58′ 1′′ x 31′ 0′′ x 3,400 tons Lw. x 3,300 H..\n\nBuilt by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO, LTD., at KOWLOON DOCK\n\nso the ordero THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., IND.. being one of fusimilar\n\nVessels built in those WORKS to the same order.\n\nPlease address enquiries to the Chief Manager :-\n\nR. M. DYEE. B SC.. M.IN.A.. Kowloog Dock. Hongkong.\n\nFor Tenage Rates, Unzufbooka, Farizate, may apply że\n\nMACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Alamur\n\nTHE BANK LINE, LTD,\n\nAgents for the following Services.\n\nAMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE BOSTON, NEW YORK & NEW ORLEANS\n\n1st September.\n\nM.V. \"ELMBANK”-\n\nrta Suez Canai\n\nNEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE TELLERMAN & HUCKNALL BS. Co., Ltd.) 8,8. \"HALVERNIAN\" via Suez Canal 19th September. 3.S. \"WALTON HALL\"'\n\n7th Oe.ober\n\nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT \"ELLERMAN\" LINE (EILERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO. LTD.)\n\nSth September S.S. KNOWSLEY HALL\" For Marseilles, London, Dunkirk and Hamburg. MODERATE PASSAGE BATES TO MARSEILLES & LONDON\n\nMAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA ORIENTAL-AFRICAN LINE\n\nMiddle August.\n\nS.S. SURAT\" Leading for Maurities, Delagea Bay, Durham, East London, Alges Bay. Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay & Capetown.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading lawned to Betra, Quilimaine, Lio, Port Amelia. Sezambique. Chlude, Iabambane, Zanzibar, Houmassa, Kindlat, Vezi Nellat. Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay & Madagascar.\n\nAUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE. (Ellerman and Bucknall S.S. Co., Ltd.) Sallings from Singapore og 6th of every month by \"City of Palerma or \"Maistine\" to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne nad Sydney, and vice versa. Through Freight and Passenger doakings from flong- tong in conjunction with \"Elterman\" Lice or other services.\n\nFor freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to:-\n\nTel. C. 4791 THE BANK LINE, LTD.\n\nBOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.\n\nJOINT SERVICE OF THE\n\n\"BLUE FUNNEL\" LINE. KOCHAN BS, CO, LTD & CHINA MUTUA), S.8. Co., LTD.\n\nAND\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINK.\n\nELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.S. CO. LT).\n\nBAILINGS FROM BONOKONG\n\nrie Suez Canal\n\n8.. \"Laomedon\"\n\n6.5. \"Peteus\n\n5.8. \"Haivurnjan\"\n\nB.S. Teneer'\n\n1\n\n26th Augast.\n\n7 September.\n\n19th September.\n\n28th September.\n\nSteamers proceed vis Huer Chant or Panama Cagni st owners' option\n\nSubject to Change without notice.\n\nFor freight and particulses apply to:- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, or THE BANK LINE. 19. Bangkang,\n\nHongkong & Canton Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd.\n\nCat1 du\n\nCOMPANIA TRANSATLANTICA DE BARCELONA Spanish Royal Mail Line For MANILA, SINGAPORE COLOMBO, SUÈL. PORT Sam, BARCELONA & other SPANISH PORTS.\n\n3.8.0. LOPEZ I LOPEZ\"\n\n3.5. ISLA DE PANATU\n\n8.8, LESAZгI\"\n\nBAJ\n\n... for Yokosms, Koba, Koji & Shanghai.\n\nS.8. 187. DE PANAY”\n\n33. \"LEGAZPI\n\n... 3rd September. 2046 Votober.\n\n18th December,\n\n.. 8th Octobe\n\n2. Ja, 1986.\n\n30th Nov.\n\nThe manors of this Company are all eisused 200 41 at Lloyd'e and ar modern cottrenience for the enzufort and safety of sha\n\nEtte with wards and Doctor carrisé.\n\nO. D. BA'RRETTO, LA..\n\nFor freight andjur pannage apply to-\n\nCentral Avenue, B. C. CANTON.\n\nBOTELHO KROS.\n\nAvezzanīra Bailding.\n\nHangkang",
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        "content_text": "THE CHINESE DISORDERS.\n\nITISH LABOUR MISLED.\n\nPEKING FEAR OF EXTREMISTS.\n\nPOWERS' DUTY,\n\nfurther outrages are reported from Anxiety still persists, however, ially in regard to the Yangt.sze\n\nthe House of Commons yesterday A. M. Samuel said that the forces at disposal of the Powers are sufficient the protection of foreigners on the and waterways of China in any con-ney that can reasonably be foreseen.\n\nis reported from Peking that detach-ts of Feng Yu-hsiang's troops have! posted for the protection of foreigners and the Minister of Communications given general orders to this end.\n\nDar Shanghai Correspondent points that, judging by the questions put in liament and the telegrams of sympathy to the Chinese strikers, misconcep exists in England as to the origin of arisis. He says that dissatisfaction conditions of labour in foreign mills extremely little to do with the due to political bla, which are\n\nof The Association shinations. itish Chambers of Commerce have nt to the Prime Minister & resolution ging the Government to arrange, with he other Powers interested, a conference rith representatives of the different pro-nos in China.\n\nDRIGIN OF SHANGHAI STRIKES.\n\nMISCONCEPTION IN GREAT BRITAIN.\n\n{FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nSHANGHAI, JUNE 18. The questions in the British Parliament d the telegrams from the Independent abour Party and the Trades Union Hongre expressing sympathy with the workers of China in their struggle with apital, betray a total misconception of the origin of the present crisis. It is safe to say that not 2 per cent. of the original dispute is due to dissatisfaction on the part of Labour with the conditions in the foreign mills, which, though doubtless capable of improvement in some points, are unquestionably far superior to those of the Chinese mills. In regard to the disturbances at the Japanese mill, overwhelming evidence has accumulated that these were the direct result of the work of political agitators, and they wore not reproduced in other mills.\n\nAs for the child labour question, the only way in which it is involved is exactly the reverse of what is supposed abroad. The offence of the foreigners is not that they employ children but that they Tho propose to employ them no longer. agitators persuaded parents that the employers were plotting to turn out the children, sweat the parents, and save on wages. Of course, directly workers were called out on strike there was abundant inflammable material ready for a riot, but it can be asserted that without political machination there would have been no strike.\n\nApart from the usual student demon-strations, the Yangtaze Valley has been reported quiet the past two days, but the Chinesa of the better order are in-creasingly nervous owing to the craven yielding of the Peking Government to the extremists. One informant, whom I have quoted before and always found trustworthy, says the increasing fear among the Chinese of an ultimate explo.sion along the Yangtare Valley is com-parable to that of the Boxer year. He adds that the only effective prevention is a strong display of naval force by the Powers along the river.\n\n\"RED\" HELP FOR CHINESE.\n\n(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nRIGA, JUNE 18,\n\nThe Red trade unions have sent the Chinese revolutionaries another £8,000, and the society for assisting distressed Communists abroad have sent Shanghai strikers a further £3,000.\n\nPROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS.\n\nthe\n\nPEKING, June 16-As a result of the foreign representation urging protection, the Government has brought in numbers of General Feng Yu-hsiang's troops to It has also posted patrol the city. pickets outside the principal offices of foreign firms and foreign residences.\n\nChang Teo-lin, who had been con-templating sending troops to Peking for some time, dispatched some to-day, and the first companies arrived this afternoon, occupying the Yellow Temple outside the North Gate.\n\nThe Ministry of Communications, in all circular telegram to-day, orders special protection for all foreign employees in the Ministry and foreign travellers on! the railways, and orders the dispatch of efficient police for this purpose.- Reuter,\n\nHANKOW, June 16-Of the seven Bol-ahevist agitators arrested by the Chinos authorities, one was shot by them this morning-Reuter\n\nFOOCHOW, June 16.-The students here are urging the Chinese employed by foreigners to strike, and are appealing to the Merchants' Guild to support the strikers. The Military Governor, how.ever, has posted guards in the foreign quarter, and all is quiet.-Reuter,\n\nBRITISH WARSHIPS IN CHINA.\n\nThe following list of movements of H.M. warships in Chinese waters was issued by the Admiralty yesterday :-\n\nThe cruisers Despatch at Hankow; Durban at Hong-kong: Hawkins arrived at Nang on Blondry ↑ the sloop Petersfield (with the Commander-in-Chief, China Station, on board), al. Shanghai: and the oruisers Diomede and Carlisle at Shanghai (landing parties).\n\nThe loops Magnolia, at Weltalwei; Holly-hock landing partyr at naukow Bluebel! left Hong kong for Swatow on Monday and Foxglove at Weilwei.\n\nI\n\n1\n\nTHE SHANGHAI MURDER. 71\n\n8\n\nENGLISH GIRE'S STORY. SHANGHAI, June 16. The British Consul General this morning made vigorous protest to the Civil Governor and the Foreign Commissioner with regard to the murder of Mr. Williams Mackenzie. [A report of the murder appeared in The Times yesterday.]\n\nMiss Duncan, who Was with Mr. Mackenzie when he was murdered, and who was herself wounded, in relating her experiences said :—\n\nWe encountered seven Chinese dressed liks coolles who stopped us near the Great Western Road Extension. Mr. Mackonale asked thema what they wanted, but the Chinese only laughed, at the same time turning the light of electric torches upon us. Mr. Mackenzie got out of the car, and speaking both in English and in Chinese, ordered the men to get out of the way. Thereupon one of the Chluamen fired and Mr. Mackenzie ran back, jumped into the car and started the engine. It then seemned as if all the Chinese opened fire together, and Mr. Mackenzie lurched forward, telling me that he had been shot and was dying. Meanwhile the car had gained speed, and se he fell I took the wheel and steered the car while the Chinese kept on Bring.\n\nMiss Duncan, who had only once or twice handled a car before, drove the car with Mr. Mackenzie's body in it for nearly three-quarters of a mile into the settlement, the car finally falling into a wide ditch.\n\nMiss Duncan shouted for aid, but, failing to attract attention, ran to a house occupied by two Shanghai Volun teers, who communicated with the police. Mr. Mackenzie was hit by four bullets, one of them severing the jugular vein. The police found on the roadside near the scene of the murder 12 32 calibre empty cartridge cases.-Reuter.\n\nBRITISH COMMERCE AND CHINA.\n\nPLEA FOR CONFERENCE. The Association of British Chambers of Commerce have adopted a resolution which has been transmitted to the Prime Minister, stating their satisfaction that steps are being taken in agreement with the other Powers to bring about a peace-ful solution of the present troubles in China, and adding:\n\nThe association urge his Majesty's Govern-ment to arrange at the earliest possible date with the other Powers interested a conference i with the representatives of the different pro-Places of China with a view to bringing about a Jermanent and satisfactory settlement in that buntry.\n\nFRENCH NAVAL CHANGE IN FAR EAST. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nPARIS, JUNE 16. The armoured cruiser Jules Michelet Ambrose left Toulon for the Far East. She\n\nHankow: Scarab, at Iohang: Woodcook, t Chinkiang: Woodlark (completed to full complement from Despatch), at Chinkeng; Teal and Widgeon, at Chungking.\n\nSUBMARINE DEPOT SHIP AND TENDERS Titanic (Depôt ship), at Hong-kong: and Marazion, at Weibaiwei.\n\nTimus,\n\nJune 7\n\nrried the flag of Rear Admiral Bazire, who will relieve Rear Admiral Frochet in the armoured cruiser Jules Ferry, as Rear-Admiral Commanding the French Far Eastern Squadron. This move was ordered some time ago and has nothing to do with the disturbances in China.",
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        "content_text": "247\n\n22\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nRECORD HONGKONG DELUGE.\n\nJuly 19.\n\nIf not the greatest in mere figures, then the most destructive deluge of Hongkong's history has wrought indescribable damage and confusion in all parts of the Colony.\n\nIn the short space of time, it is impossible to give a rough estimate of the loss in money. The havoc will take time, men and cash to repair. But worse still, lives have been lost as a result of the furious rainstorm which started last night and has not ended this afternoon. Details given below tell of the wide scope of the damage.\n\nOn older residents, the point which had caused the highest impression was the period during which thunder, lightning, and rain came by the bucketful without a moment's break.\n\nIt must be an unusual phenomenon for Hongkong to be practically alight for more than half an hour before 4 a.m. The peals of thunder which chased each other across the heavens portended ill for the Colony this morning, the effects being described below.\n\nMuch time will elapse before order is restored throughout the Colony.\n\nFrom the earliest hours, the Police, Fire Brigade, Public Works Department, Sanitary Department, and other authorities were out in rescue and rehabilitation parties, but the comparatively small number available made but little headway against the storm.\n\nThe previous best, for an hour of rainfall in Hongkong, was 3.480 inches which fell in one hour on July 15, 1886. Between 3:30 and 4:30 this morning, the rain-gauge at the Royal Observatory, Kowloon, recorded 3.965 inches.\n\nCherra Punji in the Khasi Hills, Assam (India) has 464 inches a year (this average extending over 33 years). In July there, the wettest month, they have 30 inches a day for five successive days, and a mean of 115 inches (equal to our total for a year) for this month.\n\nThe Storm.\n\nThe storm itself, as regards its duration and the force of the claps (there was barely a second between the flash and report), is generally recognised as the worst Hongkong has ever experienced.\n\nCAUSE OF DELUGE.\n\nAlthough the week-end typhoon—the first of the current season—did not actually visit Hongkong, it is the direct cause of this morning's complete deluge.\n\nThat typhoon went inland about 80 miles to the East of Hongkong, near Swatow. Then it stopped and started to \"fill-up.\"\n\nLATEST FIGURES.\n\nBetween midnight last night and 1 p.m. today, 20.79 inches of rain were recorded at the Observatory.\n\nFrom 10 a.m. yesterday to 10 a.m. today, the figures are 21.44 inches.\n\nWeather forecast till noon to-morrow: South-west winds, fresh; overcast, rain.\n\nBy doing so, it became a little area of intense depression, with considerable effect on atmospheric circulation. The result is all this weather upheaval, thunderstorms, and abnormal rains.\n\nNEW RECORDS.\n\nNearly 4 Inches An Hour.\n\nWhen the thunder was continuous, the Observatory recorded a new record for any 24 hours (or, strictly speaking, a civil day).\n\nA civil day is from midnight to 12 midnight. The highest in the books for any day in the month of July is 13.480 inches, for the 15th of that month, in the year 1886. From midnight last night till 9 this morning, the Observatory had already registered 19.155 inches of rain.\n\nImpressive Figures.\n\nStill, the old brigade hold a few records which the majority of residents will be well content to leave to them. There are a good many hours to go before midnight to-night, when 24 hours will have been completed. By then, the experts expect that we shall have left everything behind and set up a new best.\n\nFor a civil day (midnight to midnight) Hongkong's best is 20.496 inches on May 30, 1889.\n\nFor any period of 24 consecutive hours, the best is 27.44 inches, being from 6 a.m. on May 29, 1889, to 6 a.m. on May 30, 1889.\n\nHongkong Well-off!\n\nFOUR BODIES.\n\nThe Fire Brigade were out early to assist in rescue work at the No. 3 pumping station, near the University.\n\nA portion of the building collapsed and several men went under. Two bodies were dug out from the debris. Four others were rescued and sent to hospital.\n\nNo. 3 pumping station is on Pokfulam Road, just beyond the medical buildings of the University.\n\nLater. A large boulder was unloosened from the hillside and crashed on the station. Four bodies have been found.\n\nMORNING \"TREK.\"\n\nUnprecedented scenes were witnessed in the city and all parts of the Colony this morning when, in their morning \"trek\" to the office, business people tried by-ways and devious routes to find that, in practically every instance, the only solution was to wade several feet deep in water.\n\nThe rivers of water pouring over roads and tracks put a stop to the Peak tram service, lower level trams, buses, taxis, etc.\n\nFording the Streams.\n\nThe \"trek\" which set in down the old Peak road and all routes from the outskirts to the city must have been, on a miniature scale, something like the condition of affairs at Home during the general strike.\n\nKowloonites came off comparatively well considering. Many of the older buses were \"stuck\" in Yaumati and other places, and the service was very limited, rendering necessary something like a twenty minutes' wait at the stopping places for would-be travellers.\n\nThe \"Star\" ferry service continued as usual, but Yaumati suffered very badly from inundation, and the ferry service there was temporarily suspended.\n\nSlimy, Yellow Rivers.\n\nArrived at the \"Star\" ferry wharf (Hongkong side), the troubles began in real earnest. The sandy waterfall over the Praya wall was sufficient indication of what they had to face, and the streams of water traversing Pavement and road in every direction confirmed their apprehensions.\n\nDes Voeux Road, Queen's Road, Ice House Street, Chater Road, and Pedder Street were feet deep in water. Many shops were flooded out.\n\nWATER RATIONS.\n\nOwing to the damage to the No. 3 pumping station, which completely cut off all supplies for the time being to Robinson Road, Conduit Road, and the Peak districts, it is essential that even for cooking purposes, only the minimum quantity of water should be used.\n\nAs far as possible, residents in those districts must temporarily cease using water for bathrooms, &c. Every endeavour should be made to use spring or rain water for washing and general purposes. All water should be boiled.\n\nWyndham Street Rapids.\n\nDue, apparently, to a water main burst, masses of road surface had been torn up in Pedder Street, near the Hongkong Hotel entrance, and parts of the hoarding used in connection with the re-construction were lying helplessly in the water.\n\nSeveral landslides are reported from different localities, and a part of the old Peak Road below Barker Road has been washed away.\n\nA subsidence also occurred further down Lower Albert Road.\n\nSTREET BURSTS UP.\n\nThe queer experience of a street bursting up is reported from the Wanchai district.\n\nWyndham Street presented a remarkable spectacle, water descending the road and pavements early this morning with the force of rapids.\n\nSpring Garden Lane became a canal, connecting Queen's Road with Praya East.\n\nCaine Road and Bonham Road were impassable to motor traffic during the early part of the morning.\n\nPEAK TRAM DAMAGE.\n\nWhen will the Peak trams be running again, inquired a \"China Mail\" reporter of Mr. Henry Humphreys, chairman of the company, who replied \"Not for 24 hours at least, possibly more.\"\n\nThe worst damage is at Kennedy Road, where tons and tons of earth have fallen over the track.\n\nMr. Humphreys is informed by his technical experts that it will take a full day to remove the debris and repair the damage.\n\nQUEEN'S ROAD SCENES.\n\nOnce again Queen's Road Central has suffered untold damage, especially the shops on the south side which are so much lower than the road level.\n\nHitherto so-called \"water gates\" had proved effective, but the invading elements beat everything. Muddy water swarmed up show-cases and stands.\n\nPedestrians who wore storm boots found it almost impossible to walk through as their feet became entangled in inches of slush.\n\nSTRUCK BY LIGHTNING.\n\nThe house in which is the P. & O. Mess at Mountain View was struck by lightning, the coping of the south-west corner being carried away and the telephone and electric lighting system being put out of order.\n\nA resident in another district of the Peak also had a scare, being surrounded by smoke and fumes thought to be due to lightning striking something.\n\nNear Naval Hospital.\n\nA landslide occurred at the junction of Stubbs Road and Magazine Gap Road, closing it to motor traffic.\n\nCRACKER FACTORY BLAZE.\n\nPeople living in the Ma Tau Kok district, Kowloon City Road, were started early this morning by an explosion even louder than the terrific thunder claps.\n\nThis was caused by the striking by lightning of a large godown in which the products of the Kwang Man Loong Cracker factory are stored.\n\nSWIM TO ASSISTANCE.\n\nBluejackets armed with shovels, picks, axes, and other tools were busy at the Naval Yard trying to clear the choked drains which blocked water from the direction of Seven and Six Penny Hill and flooded the yard and the residential quarters.\n\nIn the early morning, several had to swim across in order to render assistance.\n\nTOMMIES TURN OUT.\n\nThe garden at Murray Barracks was almost swept away and destroyed. Half of the railings on that portion of Queen's Road was taken away with the cement pillars and placed across the road.\n\nMen of the Surrey Regiment were busy clearing the earth here.\n\nNews came through at about 11:30 that there had been a house collapse at Cross Street, near the No. 2 Police Station.\n\nFire Engine Stuck.\n\nThe engine got stuck in the mud opposite the Murray Barracks, and the Surreys men had to surrender their implements to the fire party to get the engine out.\n\nIn the morning, another fire was observed in Queen's Road East, near the Grand Theatre.\n\nCrowds were busy collecting what they could get from the Kowloon Fire Brigade.\n\nPage 23\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.]\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL",
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        "content_text": "26\n\nwas not a trace of the materials of the structure or the stalls.\n\nRELIVED DROWNED.\n\nwoman\n\nIn a report made by a Chinese married woman at Bay View Station, she stated that her father-in-law, 67 years of age, is missing and is believed to have been drowned.\n\nThe report states that the old man went out of the hut at 3 o'clock in the morning to save his chickens. At this time water was rushing down the hillside and the man was not seen again.\n\n3\n\nChinese\n\nQUARRY BAY DEATH?\n\nAlthough not reported officially, it was gathered from a reliable source yesterday that a Chinese was electrocuted and died at Quarry Bay. He came in contact with a high tension wire which had been dislodged by boulders on the hillside above the quarters of the Sugar Refinery staff.\n\nIt was also stated that a matshed at this point was carried away by falling boulders, but whether there were any occupants in it at the time is not yet known.\n\nTWO MORE DEATHS.\n\nThe death of Private Nihala Ram, of the 2/5 Punjabi Regiment, who was killed as a direct result of being struck by lightning - the only casualty so far reported from this source - was advised by Whitfield Barracks yesterday. The man was sleeping in his quarters at the time. So far as police reports are concerned, this is the only death ascertained in addition to the fatalities at the 3 pumping station.\n\nA report was made by a blacksmith of Pak Tin village, in the Shamshuipo district, of the death of his 16-year-old nephew by drowning in a pond at Kowloon City yesterday forenoon. It is stated that the lad attempted to retrieve a basket of vegetables and was carried away by the flood. The body has not yet been found.\n\nKOWLOON CHAI\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nnullah, otherwise all the houses would have been inundated.\n\nTRAM SERVICES.\n\nDuring the night a passage for tramcars was made through the debris between Arsenal Street and Garden Road and by 8 o'clock this morning tramcars were running on the main route from Causeway Bay to the Hongkong Bank. It is hoped it will be possible to run right through to Whitty Street.\n\nPokfulam reservoir, at the foot of the Peak, on the south side of the island, was dry in some parts on Sunday. Yesterday morning, the water overflowed.\n\nOwing to the absence of jurors prevented from attending the Criminal Sessions yesterday on account of the flood, Mr. Justice J. X. Wood (Puisne Judge) adjourned the Criminal Sessions until next Monday.\n\nThe flood of water at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, caused exposing in some cases and tombstones carried away by the flood, some being deposited on the race course. The Jockey Club wall was also broken by the same current which carried away part of the cemetery wall.\n\nSeveral graves were affected by\n\nOn the Shaukiwan Route cars have been running all morning as far as North Point and it is expected that an extension to Quarry Bay will be possible this afternoon. Owing to a landslide at Taikoo it will be impossible to run between Quarry Bay and Shaukiwan for some time.\n\nOn the Happy Valley route cars are being worked via Broadwood Road but it is necessary for them to turn back at the Dragon Motor Garage and this of course results in single line working.\n\nBy Courtesy of Hak Tin Yat\n\n15\n\nThe\n\nMany have been\n\nAs a result of the flood which inundated Kowloon Chai, numerous villagers were left homeless and penniless in view of the loss of their livestock. They were allowed to occupy untenanted and partially completed houses on the Kowloon Tong site. Other small villages in this neighbourhood have been practically wiped out.\n\nKowloon Tong itself by no means escaped the general damage, one house being struck by lightning and practically cleft from top to bottom. A big lake of water which was in process of being filled in overflowed and the residents combined in diverting the flow to a nullah, otherwise all the houses would have been inundated.\n\nChair coolies are reported to be making attempts to obtain extortionate payments for carrying residents to the Peak. A demand for $6 was made of one resident returning home last night. Needless to say, this was not met.\n\n[No. 2998.—July 22, 1926.]\n\nshould be boiled.\n\nThere is also an official announcement regarding supplies to the Peak and higher levels.\n\nWATER ECONOMY.\n\nThe following official communiqué has been received:\n\nHis Excellency desires to impress on all householders on the Peak and Upper Levels, who are affected by the water restrictions rendered necessary by the damage to Pokfulam Pumping Station, the absolute necessity for the greatest economy in the use of water, and the strict control of their staff with this end in view. He feels sure that he can rely upon their loyal co-operation in this matter.\n\nDamage wrought on the Lachi-kok Road by the flood.\n\nThe earliest date by which the Peak tram service will again be in commission is given as Saturday.\n\nSTORM ITEMS.\n\nMr. F. Sutton, of the Public Works Department, and a popular turf enthusiast, had an arm badly cut by glass at the Hongkong Club about 3 a.m. yesterday, at the height of the storm. Mr. Sutton (who stays at the Club) rose to close a window, slipped and his arm went through the glass. Lt. Col. T. A. Robertson and others rendered assistance and Mr. Sutton was conveyed to hospital by ambulance.\n\nWATER RATIONS.\n\nAs from today, the water supply on the island is to be \"rationed,\" owing to damage to works.\n\nIn all areas main districts East of Eastern Street, there will be a two hours' supply daily. West of Eastern Street, water will be turned on from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily.\n\n(Eastern Street is the uphill thoroughfare, leading from the western waterfront, up past the tram lines, to Queen's Road West, by the Government Civil Hospital and Lunatic Asylum to Bonham Road.)\n\nAll water for potable purposes should be boiled.\n\nTHE PEAK.\n\nJuly 20.\n\nMessrs. A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd. can supply and deliver Distilled Water to the residents of the Peak and Hill Districts in one pint and 1 gallon bottles and in 3-gallon jars. The efforts of this enterprising company will be appreciated by the many who are suffering from shortage of drinking water.\n\nThe wedding was announced to take place in Shanghai on Friday, the 16th July, between Omar Rumjahn, son of Mrs. A. Rumjahn of Tientsin and Gladys Tamil, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Ismail of Hongkong.\n\nNo. 2998. July 22, 1926.)\n\n37 YEARS AGO.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\n249\n\n27\n\nSTORM ITEMS.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nstill in cases, unopened. Many thousands of dollars were sacrificed in that one place. The tin lining was no protection; mud and water enveloped the lot.\n\nFurther particulars have been received with regard to the carrying away of a matshed by a landslide at Shaukiwan, opposite the main entrance of Taikoo Sugar Refinery (briefly reported yesterday). It appears that two Chinese lads, preparing the morning meal, were in the shed at the time and were crushed to death. Their bodies have not yet been recovered.\n\nOn Monday, the \"China Mail\" referred readers to a storm on May 30, 1889 - 37 years ago.\n\nMr. Yee Cheong, portrait painter of Wyndham Street, who has had his studio in this locality for over 40 years and never shifted elsewhere, gave his experiences of those days.\n\nAnother old resident writes the following:\n\nAs far as I can remember about the great storm of 1889, the rain was quite as heavy as Sunday night. The lightning and thunder were of a different character, but just as alarming.\n\nMurray Barracks on the Queen's Road side was a heap of sand thrown up from bursting drains just outside.\n\nFOUND SHOT.\n\nJuly 21. Mr. W. Blakey, Inspector of engine fitters, was found shot dead in the Naval Yard yesterday during the luncheon interval.\n\nHe was half-way from the house to the pumping station when a heavy shower began to fall. Debating whether he should go on to the pumping station or return to the house for shelter, he eventually decided in favour of the second alternative and no sooner was he safely inside than the huge boulder crashed into the station. This boulder is estimated to weigh between 2,500 and 3,000 tons.\n\nWith regard to the Pokfulam pumping house disaster, it appears that Mr. P. G. Tacchi, brother of Mr. C. J. Tacchi, who was examining stores some olives at the house near the station, had a very narrow escape.\n\nWhilst this was in progress Mr. Blakey left the house. Almost immediately a report was heard. He was found lying on the ground with a revolver nearby and wounds in the head which led to instantaneous death.\n\nDeceased had only arrived in the Colony last May from Portsmouth. He was unmarried and leaves a widowed mother in England. His age is thought to be 30.\n\nThe funeral will take place this evening.\n\nMore Damage Then.\n\nMore damage was done then than this week. Voeux Road was then the Praya. Sampans were up in Pedder Street. The Clock Tower was many feet in sand, the streets were opened up in all directions, drains were choked, huge trees up by the roots were scattered everywhere.\n\nBeautiful Glenealy as it was in those days was entirely ruined. The only house there then was the American Consulate, which stood in grounds far back from the road. Palms grew in Glenealy that have not been seen anywhere since.\n\nH.K. Club in Queen's Road. At the junction of the path from Albert Road was a very fine centre piece. This was torn up by bursting drains, carrying all before it down to Queen's Road.\n\nDakin's Dispensary was then at the corner where the A.P. building now stands. It was flooded out. Sugar-coated pills were being thrown out. Street urchins stood waist-deep in water fishing for them, thinking they were sweets. Their faces were studies when they tasted them.\n\nThe Hongkong Club was where Yee Sang Fat and others are today.\n\nA. S. Watson's were at the corner of D'Aguilar Street, where Tak Cheung is. Then McEwen, Frickel and Co. and Powell's had parts of the ground floor and the top. So much water and sand had accumulated there that it took many days to remove it. The fire engine was kept very busy.\n\nLane, Crawford & Co. were opposite Hall and Holtz. They had godowns below. All their new stock had arrived, but was still in cases, unopened.\n\nThe Good Old Days.\n\nRobinson Road was then the highest road. The Public Gardens were unrecognisable. Everything was torn up and sand enveloped the lot.\n\nRoofs did not leak the same as they do today. Better work was done, or else materials were of better quality.\n\nPhoto by A Fong,\n\nFour men armed with daggers entered a house at Tung Lo Wan Road, Causeway Bay, on Saturday night and held up the occupants. They stole money and jewellery to the value of $1,800.\n\nAh Men Hing Cheong.\n\nThis is striking testimony to the havoc wrought by the boulder which crashed into No. 3 pumping station, Pokfulam Road, killing several workmen. The photo shows the size of the great rock, as contrasted with what remains of the building.\n\nOwing to the fact that 80 feet of piping has been carried away on Stubbs Road, it has been found necessary to restrict the water services in areas main districts east of Eastern Street and also to the higher levels and the Peak. All the reservoirs in the Colony except Tytam Tuk, which is 5 feet 3 in. below overflow, are overflowing.\n\nMASTS STRUCK.\n\nJuly 21. The coastal s.s. \"Telemachus\" was struck by lightning on Monday morning, taking away the flag pole on one of her masts.\n\nThe Government rescue tug \"Kau Sing\" was on patrol duty in the harbour during the storm, and lightning struck her mast, splitting it from the \"truck\" to the \"hounds.\"\n\nSo far as can be ascertained, this was the full extent of the damage suffered by local shipping in the violent storm.\n\nAn order was made by Mr. J. H. E. Nihill, at the Kowloon Magistracy on July 20, for the confiscation of eight revolvers and 800 rounds of ammunition which were abandoned by a Chinese in Reclamation Street on Saturday night.",
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        "content_text": "PEAK WATER.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nBy Saturday Peak residents should be assured of a full supply of water for a period of three to four hours a day, a \"China Mail\" representative who made enquiries this morning was informed. By that time it was expected that the new engine which was intact at the Pokfulam pumping house station would be connected up by piping underneath the boulder that has fallen.\n\nWhen it is possible to bring into operation another of the auxiliary engines which were being reassembled at the time of the disaster and several parts of which have been lost, then it may be possible to run a full service for eight hours during the day time.\n\nThis may be effected within a fortnight according to the time taken to replace the lost parts and connect up by means of pipe lines.\n\nThe greatest delay will be that in connection with bringing into operation the main engine of the Pumping station which has been greatly damaged. This has a capacity equal to the two others combined. The two dock engineers may be able to cast certain parts but in the words of an official approached this morning it will probably be \"months and months\" before this engine will be in service again. However, with the two auxiliary engines in operation the Peak will be assured of a regular daily supply, and it is on bringing these into service that the department is concentrating at present.\n\nAt present the Peak is restricted to the \"dribble\" which it is possible to get from the reservoirs which are cut off from the pumping station, and the Conduit Road level to the supply from a service reservoir into which a stream has been diverted. Within the next few days, however, the Conduit Road level will be assured of a better supply as the services of the Fire Brigade are to be available for pumping water up to this level.\n\nDifficult Task.\n\nThe task with which the water authorities are faced is one of considerable difficulty particularly in regard to the Eastern filter bed which has been damaged by the fall of a big boulder. Pipes have also been carried away which will entail considerable difficulty in replacing.\n\nCarrying pipes weighing a ton each up the hill has been a difficult task. In certain cases staging has had to be erected.\n\nWith regard to the lower level supply the work in connection with necessary repairs and clearances is progressing and it is expected that the next few days will see a return to normal.\n\nPage 363\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nPEAKITE'S LETTER.\n\nJuly 21. Received too late for insertion yesterday, a reader of the \"China Mail\" sends the following letter from the Peak.\n\nIt is typical of the experiences of residents from topside—and very modest.\n\nThe Peak, Tuesday,\n\nIt is very seldom that Peak residents are put to any inconvenience but this time they have been badly hit after the recent storms.\n\nLights went out about 8 at night when one could hardly see one's hand but fortunately it was only for a short time.\n\nRain was pouring down and some found that the chair shelter's telephone was out of order.\n\nI sent a coolie down to get chairs at the tram station only to find no cars running and chairs would be soaked through.\n\nIn spite of all weathers, the Dairy Farm milkman turns up at his appointed hour. He is a very old servant of the company and serves us faithfully. He gladdens many a mother's heart when bad weather is about.\n\nI arrived at the office soaked through, and had to remain so until dry clothes could be got.\n\nThe next drawback was the water shut off. This caught me napping and until the papers appeared in the evening they did not know how badly they were placed.\n\nIt was a great relief to get a telephone message last night to say that water would be turned on for one hour daily.\n\nFLOOD THIEVES.\n\nShops from two shops in the main Thoroughfare of Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese locality in the western district, were carried away by the torrent of rain water on Monday.\n\nSuch was the flow of water, mud, rocks and debris from the hillside near No. 3 pumping station, that Queen's Road West was under several feet of water. Goods from exposed shops were swept away and two safes were embedded in the slime.\n\nWhen the \"current\" was high, a number of men are alleged to have salved one safe and made off with it.\n\nThey are accused of having pried it open. The report goes that they were arrested by detectives from No. 7 station when in the very act of dividing the contents.\n\nHousewives sent to the Dairy Farm, Wiseman's and Lane, Crawford's, only to find that there was nothing to be had.\n\nSome were expecting to do business at about 2 pm, but nothing was to be had all day.\n\nPhotos by Ice Fong.\n\nThis is a scene outside a Government market at Shek-tong-tsui, the Chinese quarter in the western part of the town. It is at the foot of the nullah below the pumping station. The rocks and rubble unloosened by the boulder have been swept down the nullah and accumulated in a pile, having \"jumped\" a high wall, on to the street.\n\n[No. 2998—July 22, 1926.]\n\nFREAK ARMOUR.\n\nAn ingenious device, as yet unheard of in Hongkong, has been adopted by up-country shipping, reported below:\n\n[From Our Own Correspondent.]\n\nPakkao, Kongmoon, July 17. The \"Tung Wo\" towboat has installed a set of machinery, comprising a system of iron netting which completely covers the ship and is charged with electricity. This is to safeguard against piratical attacks.\n\nAnother part of the defence consists of a powerful new searchlight on the towboat's bow.\n\nThe \"Tung Wo\" plies between Canton and Kongyick.\n\nA day after the \"Tung Wo's\" freak armour had been put on, pirates showed their utter contempt for such measures by successfully attacking the Shekki-Kongmoon towboat, when off Kongmei. The boat, all the cargo and passengers were taken away.\n\nNew Aircraft Carrier.\n\nOn July 14, we heard that Kwong Hoi had fallen into bandits' hands.\n\nMembers of the Kongmoon Red Cross who were attached to the punitive expedition lost all their effects, escaping with their lives only in the nick of time when the outlaws launched their offensive.\n\nAn armoured ship, as big as the ordinary Hongkong river steamboat, named the \"Chee Yau\" (meaning Liberty or Freedom) is acting as aircraft carrier for the Canton Government.\n\nIt arrived here on July 14 with an aeroplane from Canton, to be sent to Kwong Hoi to fight against bandits. The \"Chee Yau\" left the same day for Canton.\n\nGeneral Notes.\n\nH.M.S. \"Cicala\" arrived here on July 15. (This gunboat left and was at Macao on July 18.)\n\nOn July 14, the Customs launch \"Foo Moon\" arrived here with Col. F. Hayley Bell, Commissioner of Customs at Canton, and left with the Colonel on July 16.\n\nThe Sanwui magistrate has been ordered to provide 800 coolies for transport work with the Northern Expedition. The Tung Tak guild offered 400 volunteers.\n\nTelephone employees at Kongmoon are striking for higher pay. The service is being maintained and it is hoped that mediation will succeed.\n\nThe river flood has gone down gradually. On July 17, the sounding outside the Customs House was 9 feet 7 inches.\n\nNo. 2998—July 22, 1926.\n\nA MEDICINE DEAL.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nA curious dispute concerning a deal in medicines by the Yeung Yui Chung Medicine Depot of 201 Queen's Road Central, a firm having considerable interests throughout China and the Malay States, came before Mr. Justice Wood in the Summary Court this morning.\n\nThe above firm claimed for $299.16 for goods supplied to the Sui Cheong firm, of 41 Wing Lok Street.\n\nMr. Leo d'Almada represented the plaintiff firm and Mr. E. S. C. Brooks the defendant firm.\n\nMr. d'Almada explained that the plaintiffs had purchased the goodwill of the business from Yueng Wai-cheung, the former owner, for $3,000. There were certain subsidiary arrangements, one of which was that the purchasers were to provide Yueng with an annuity of $1,200, that they should have the right to use the figuration of Yueng's father (the founder of the business) on their trade labels, etc., that the Sui Cheong firm, defendants, should have certain concessions in dealings and that a debt of $1,000 owed by Yueng to the Sui Cheong should be paid by purchasers.\n\nThe terms under which the Sui Cheong was to obtain goods were that 45 per cent cash should be paid and 55 per cent discount allowed.\n\nPlaintiff went into the witness box and said that the agreement referred to by counsel had been drawn up in Mr. Hall Brutton's office.\n\nThe indebtedness of Yeung to the defendant firm had been met by the plaintiff firm. Goods had been supplied to the Sui Cheong firm on June 12 in accordance with order and payment was asked for by the foreman.\n\nHe was told that payment could not be made then but if he left the goods payment would be made later.\n\nThe bill submitted by the foreman was endorsed but on his return, the endorsement was erased by another representative of the Sui Cheong and the foreman was told that they had come to an arrangement with Yueng, whom they regarded as a partner of the firm, whereby they received 60 per cent discount.\n\nThe plaintiff denied that the chop on the receipt in question was the chop of the Yeung Yui Chung firm or that Yueng was a partner or had any authority to conduct transactions for the firm.\n\nHis Honour remarked that the whole point seemed to be as to whether Yueng was still a partner.\n\nYueng Wai-cheung gave evidence and deposed to being interested in the firm to the extent of $3,000 which had not been paid in full.\n\nA witness was called by the defendants who said that he was salesman and accountant of the Sui Cheong firm.\n\nHe understood he was a partner.\n\nMr. Brooks, in cross-examination of the plaintiff, asked him if it was not a fact that the purchase money was to be $6,000 and that only $3,000 of this had been paid.\n\nThis plaintiff denied.\n\nHe had then come to an arrangement with the plaintiff firm whereby he is to resume his interest in the business.\n\nHis Honour, after hearing further evidence, decided that there was no evidence as to Yeung being a partner and found for the plaintiffs with costs.\n\nPhoto by Ying Ming.\n\nHere is further evidence of the violence with which the death-dealing boulder charged down on the pumping station.\n\nThis is a nullah, by the public mortuary, all in confusion because of the debris which the landslide sent down.\n\nThe nullah leads from below the reservoir section to West Point.\n\nPhoto by A. Pong.\n\nOUR MAN SEIZED.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nA rumour is current in town that six Hongkong policemen have been \"captured\" by Canton strike pickets, together with a motor-boat, on the Samchun River.\n\nTwo of the six prisoners are members of the British section of the Force, viz., Lance-Sergeant Ryan and Lance-Sergeant Hughes, both attached to Lok-ma-chau station.\n\nThe other four were Chinese seamen, of the Water Police.\n\nThe motor-boat is also under the Water Police and is used regularly for patrolling the Samchun River.\n\nNo other information could be obtained, not even from people who had crossed the frontier and come in to Hongkong on the Kowloon-Canton Railway British section.\n\nIt is only known definitely that the men and launch were taken away by armed pickets.\n\nLok-ma-chau is the station that overlooks the frontier.\n\nBetween the New Territories and the Chinese district of Po On is the Samchun River, which is crossed by the steel bridge on which the railway runs.\n\nSamchun market is on the Chinese side of the border.\n\nA camp of strike pickets has been established there for a year.\n\nObviously some of their number met the Hongkong police launch, out on patrol on the river, and took them into custody.\n\nLater.\n\nThe \"capture\" was due entirely to the Police motor-boat running aground, on the Samchun River, during the flood.\n\nBoth the sergeants had gone ashore when the pickets took them into custody.\n\nThe boat was taken further up the River, and then into Chinese territory.\n\nA fairly strong detachment of infantry from the 1st Battalion, East Surrey Regiment, has been sent out to the frontier to recover the motor-boat and the captives.\n\nThe Peak Tram, at the Kennedy Road Bridge. On the left, the \"overhead track can be seen. The confusion in the middle and to the left shows why the delay is necessary.\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ESTIMATED AND ACTUAL\n\n44\n\nHeads and Sub-Heads.\n\nEstimated.\n\nActual.\n\nEXPENDITURE OF THE COLONY OF HONGKONG FOR THE YEAR 1925. 45\n\nProvisionally\n\nVoted.\n\nIncrease.\n\nDecrease.\n\n$\n\n$\n\nBrought forward\n\n16,648,525 16,329,805.01\n\n$\n\n1,277,780.20\n\n$\n\n1,591,439.20\n\nExplanatory Remarks.\n\nQueen's Pier\n\nPUBLIC WORKS,—Continued.\n\nPUBLIC WORKS, EXTRAORDINARY,—Contd.\n\nBrought forward\n\nHongkong.—Continued.\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\n  \n    Aplichian, Reclamation Scheme\n    364,450.00\n    8,037,500\n    2,265,178.36\n    258,480.25\n    1,023,807.89\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    28,000.00\n    \n    15,000\n    5,000\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    30,752.23\n    15,752.23\n    \n    5,000.00\n  \n  \n    Chinese Cemeteries. Laying out new Burial Grounds\n    3,500\n    1,011.60\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Chair Coolie Shelters\n    2,000\n    2,488.34\n    2,000.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Telephone cable to D'Aguilar Wireless Station\n    18,000.00\n    \n    87,700\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Whitfield Pier\n    5,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Belilios Reformatory—New roof and other repairs\n    8,500\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Works\n    30,000\n    \n    \n    100,585.13\n    1,999.95\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Compensation and Resumption\n    50,000\n    \n    6,575.87\n    70,585.53\n    550,816.16\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    12,835.13\n    \n    \n    3,000.05\n    1,924.13\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    40,585.53\n    500,316.10\n    \n    44,000.00\n    511,670.00\n  \n\nWater Works.\n\n  \n    Eastern District Filter Beds, etc.\n    120,000\n    100,612.59\n    \n    13,887.41\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Taitus Tuk Scheme, – Additional Pumping Plant:-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (4.) Engine House and Foundations\n    50,000\n    81,718.53\n    91,718.53\n    \n    40,000.00\n    80,000.00\n  \n  \n    (7) Engine and Boiler\n    100,000\n    130,865.88\n    30,865.38\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stanley Mound East, Catchwater\n    70,000\n    28,349.06\n    \n    46,650.01\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Stanley Mound West, Catchwater\n    20,000.00\n    30,000\n    46,213.44\n    16,219.44\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Jardine's Look Out, Catchwater\n    5,000\n    1,588.35\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    New Workshop and Plant\n    5,000\n    4,953.88\n    3,411.65\n    46.12\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Repulse Bay Water Supply Extended Scheme\n    3,000\n    69.52\n    \n    2,936.48\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Lowering Water Mains in City to give better cover\n    5,000\n    2,951.63\n    \n    2,048.37\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Comdit and Hatton Roads Development Scheme :-\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (a.) Divorting Peak Pumping Main (b) Diverting Distributing Main\n    1,000\n    1,000.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    New principal Water Mains in the City of Victoria\n    20,000.00\n    \n    50,000\n    66,625.37\n    16,625.87\n    \n  \n\nMore work done than anticipated.\n\nExcess caused by sundry contingent works.\n\nNot begun.\n\nKept down to the minimum.\n\nNot begun.\n\nImpossible to complete work due to labour Condition.\n\nOver-estimated.\n\nLess work done than anticipated.\n\nMore work done than anticipated.\n\nIncrease due principally to resumption of the following properties:-Berlin Mission on I. L. 607: I. Lg. 1419 and 1584 Wanchai Road and Tsat Tsz Mui Village.\n\nLess work done than anticipated.\n\nBetter progress made than anticipated.\n\nPortion of plant delivered late, throwing anticipated 1924 expenditure into 1925.\n\nLess work done than anticipated.\n\nThe walls and extra trimming of cuttings found desirable.\n\nSmall portion of catchwater not constructed.\n\nNo work done.\n\nLess work done than anticipated.\n\nNot begun.\n\nTaita Tuk\n\nEast Catch water, (1st Section) Shek O Water Supply\n\n  \n    5,000\n    45.50\n    4,954.50\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do.\n    60,000\n    \n    80,000.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Bowen Road Filter Beds conversion Jardine's Look-out Service Reservoir.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Eastern Pumping Station\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Miscellaneous Water Works\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nKowloon.\n\nBuildings.\n\nKowloon Hospital :--\n\n  \n    (9) Buildings and Furniture\n    230,682.10\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    (8.) Site\n    850,000\n    93,980.62\n    25,397.28\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mataukok Slaughter House. Inspector's Quarters\n    12,000.00\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Mongkoktsui, New Market and Site\n    20,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Cattle and Swine Depot, Yaumati\n    1,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Quarters for Servantsing Coolies at Yaumati\n    50,000\n    20,000.00\n    1,000.00\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Open Market, Bowring Street\n    1,000\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Carried forward\n    4,812,200\n    \n    9,796.29\n    3,858,884.81\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    18,643,525\n    16,329,885.01\n    \n    2,790.28\n  \n  \n    \n    932,909.16\n    1,391,224.85\n    1,277,780.20\n    1,591,489.2\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    1,085,520.00\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\nLess work done than anticipated due to prevailing conditions.\n\nAdditional work and alteration undertaken.\n\nNot begun.\n\nMore work done than anticipated.\n\nPage 94",
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        "content_text": "50\n\nTable VIII.—Continued.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF EASTERN FILTER BEDS WATER SAMPLES,\n\nContinued.\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Description of samples.\n    Pollution Index as C.C.\n    Remarks\n  \n\n51\n\nTable IX.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF ABERDEEN WATER SAMPLES.\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Description of samples.\n    Pollution Index as C.C.\n    Remarks.\n  \n  \n    14-1-25\n    Unfiltered water\n    8.3\n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    16\n    Up to standard.\n  \n  \n    6-7-25.\n    Tap water, A. S.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Police Station\n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    Watson & Co.\n    \n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    5-8-25.\n    Unfiltered water\n    +1\n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, street fountain near\n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Civil Engine House\n    50\n    do.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, A. S.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    2-9-25.\n    do.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    do.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    5-10-25.\n    do.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Watson & Co.\n    Unfiltered water\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Civil Service Club\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, A. S.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    4-11-25.\n    do.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Watson & Co.\n    Unfiltered water\n    H++ I +++\n    + 25\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    \n    do.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Civil Service Club\n    1\n    * *** * *-* * --* *\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, A. S.\n    50\n    do\n  \n  \n    11-2-25.\n    Unfiltered water\n    \n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    0.5\n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    do.\n    12.5\n    Up to standard.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Police Station\n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, street fountain near Engine House\n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    11-3-25.\n    Unfiltered water\n    50 +0.5\n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    25\n    Raw water. Good.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Police Station\n    0.1\n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, street fountain near Engine House\n    12.5\n    Up to standard.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    \n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    \n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    15-4-25.\n    Unfiltered water\n    \n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    25\n    Good.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Police Station\n    +10\n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    \n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, street fountain near Causeway Bay, opp. stables..\n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    2-12-25.\n    Unfiltered water\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13-5-25.\n    \n    + 1\n    Raw water\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    2.5\n    Unsatisfactory.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Civil Service Club\n    +50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Police Station\n    50\n    do.\n  \n  \n    キ\n    Tap water, No. 1\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    228\n    Tap water, street fountain near Engine House\n    50\n    do.\n  \n  \n    4-12-25.\n    Filtered water, No.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    10-6-25.\n    Unfiltered water\n    0.8\n    0.1 Raw water.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    \n    1.2\n    Unsatisfactory.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Not up to standard\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Excellent. Raw water. Unsatisfactory.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Very good.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    Raw water.\n  \n  \n    5 Bed\n    \n    + 2\n    Unsatisfactory.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Filtered water\n    10\n    Below standard\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, Police Station\n    50\n    Excellent.\n  \n  \n    do.\n    Tap water, street fountain neur Engine House\n    50\n    do.\n  \n\n210",
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        "content_text": "52\n\nTable IX.-Continued.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF ABERDEEN WATER SAMPLES.\n\n53\n\nTable X.\n\nBACTERIOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF ELLIOTT WATER SAMPLES.\n\nContinued.\n\n  \n    Date.\n    Description of samples.\n    Pollution Index as C.C.\n    Remarks.\n    Date.\n    Description of samples.\n    Pollution Index as 0.0.\n    Remarks\n  \n  \n    14-1-25.\n    do.\n    Unfiltered water Filtered water\n    50 ++\n    + 3.3\n    Raw water.\n    Excellent.\n    \n  \n  \n    8-7-25.\n    do.\n    do. do.\n    Unfiltered water Filtered water Tap water, Police Station Tap water, street fountain near Engine House\n    ++ 0.3 16.3 50\n    Raw water. do. Tap water, Pumping Station\n    Up to standard.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    do.\n    do.\n    1 50\n    Tap water, Victoria Mortuary\n    Excellent.\n    \n  \n  \n    11-2-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water\n    873 50 2\n    Raw water. do.\n    25\n    Good.\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do.\n    Tap water, Pumping Station\n    50\n    \n    Excellent.\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    12-8-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water\n    0.2 10\n    Raw water. Not up to standard.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do.\n    Tap water, Victoria Mortuary Tap water, Police Station\n    50 50\n    Excellent. Excellent.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    11-3-25.\n    Unfiltered water Filtered water\n    T + 50 2\n    Raw water. 16.6\n    Up to standard.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do.\n    Tap water, street fountain near Engine House Tap water, Pumping Station\n    50 50\n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    9-9-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water Tap water, Victoria Mortuary\n    0.2 5 38 50\n    Raw water. Below standard. Excellent. Excellent.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    \n    do.\n    Tap water, Police Station\n    50\n    Excellent.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    15-4-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water Tap water, No. 77 Main Street Tap water, Pumping Station\n    ++1 50 50 50\n    Raw water. + 0.2 Very good. Excellent. Excellent.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    14-10-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water Tap water, Victoria Mortuary Tap water, Police Station\n    0.1 1.4 50 10\n    Raw water. Unsatisfactory. Excellent. Not up to standard\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    13-5-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water Tap water, 67, Main Street Tap water, Pumping Station\n    + 10 0.5 50 50\n    Raw water. Not up to standard Very good. Excellent.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16-11-25.\n    Unfiltered water Filtered water\n    ++ 0.5\n    Raw water do.\n    Tap water, Victoria Mortuary Tap water, Police Station\n    50 10\n    Not up to standard\n    \n  \n  \n    10-6-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water Tap water, 5 Wu Xam Street, grd. fr. Tap water, Pumping Station\n    0.5 50 50 50\n    Raw water. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    16-12-25.\n    Unfiltered water Filtered water Tap water, Police Station Tap water, 85, Main Street\n    I རྣ༤ རྒྱའ do. do.\n    \n    Tap water, Victoria Mortuary\n    50\n    Not up to standard.\n    \n  \n  \n    8-7-25.\n    Unfiltered water do.\n    Filtered water Tap water, Pumping Station Tap water, Victoria Mortuary\n    +0.3 50 50 50\n    Raw water. Very good. Excellent. Excellent.\n    \n    \n    \n  \n\n211",
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        "content_text": "**SECRET**\n\nCopies to: \nPeking No.97 \nCanton No.369.\n\nINTENDED FOR USE Eastern COLONIAL OFFICE \nNo14\n\nRECEIVED \n28 NOV 1927, \nCOL. OFFICE \n50001\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG. \n26th October, 1927.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nDuring the past fortnight Canton has experienced yet another of those swift counter-swings of the political pendulum which are so common a feature of present-day China. The period opened obviously. On the 14th October the Seamen's Union, true to its character as a great political engine, indicated an unmistakable shifting of power towards the Left. A meeting of all members was summoned in a way calculated to cause the maximum inconvenience to the Union's old victims, the river-steamer companies. It is not clear whether the personal work of engagements were the result of the Union's former chief, Ho Loi, whose flight on the occasion of the anti-communist coup of last April was recorded in paragraph 8 of the Governor's secret despatch of the 1st June? But his name was freely used in the matter and the result left no doubt that the extremist section were of the opinion that the arrival of General Cheung Fat-fui was opening a new era of labour misrule. At the close of the meeting a mob of \n\nT. \nThe Right Honourable \nLieutenant Colonel L.C.M.G. Amery, H.P., \n&c., \n&c., \n&c.",
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        "content_text": "## New Territories.-The Nan Chang Street nullah from the water front to the Tai Po Road was completed and the Extension of the Mongkoktsui Nullah from the old Kowloon Boundary to the Kowloon Range of hills progressed satisfactorily.\n\n## WATER WORKS\n\n### Hong Kong\nBoth tiers of beds at the Eastern Filter Beds were completed. The walls and invert of the east half of the Service Reservoir were approaching completion.\n\nThe Engine & Boiler House Extension at Tytam Tuk was completed, whilst the erection of the new engine and boiler was well advanced.\n\nStanley Mound East Catchwater was practically completed, whilst Stanley Mound West and Jardine's Lookout Catchwaters were completed.\n\n5,500 ft. of 15\" C. I. main and 2,350 ft. of 12\" main were laid during the year in Queen's Road and Praya East.\n\nA Contract was let to the Patterson Engineering Co. for the supply and erection of Fast Gravity Filtration Plant at Bowen Road.\n\nThe Eastern Pumping Scheme has been abandoned for the time being.\n\n### Kowloon\nImprovements and renewals to the distributing system were continued.\n\nThe construction of 4 additional filter beds at Lai Chi Kok Pass was almost completed.\n\nThe extension of the Beacon Hill Catchwater was practically completed.\n\nShek Li Pui Reservoir was completed and in use during the latter part of the year. Only a few minor works remain to be done.\n\n### Shing Mun Valley Scheme\nThe Access Road from Tsun Wan to Pineapple Pass was nearly completed.\n\nThe temporary intake and conduit together with the north conduit were completed.\n\n1,043 ft. of tunnel was driven under Smugglers' Ridge and 2,470 ft. under Golden Hill. The south conduit was completed.\n\nThe Reception Reservoir contract was approximately half completed by the end of the year.\n\nA contract was let to the Petterson Engineering Co. for the supply and erection of fast gravity filtration plant of 5 million gallons per day capacity.",
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        "content_text": "69\n\n21.\n\nCEYLON\n\nSESSIONAL PAPERS, 1926.\n\n20. Petition from the Telephone Attendants at the Running Shed, Dematagoda.\n\nPetition from Engine Turners, Firemen, Fitters, Shunting Drivers, Kunganies, Carriage Examiners, and Greasers, Pumpers, Engine Cleaners, Labourers, and Watchers in the Ceylon Government Railway at Kadugannawa and Rambuk-kana Running Shed.\n\n22.\n\nTwo petitions from the daily paid workmen, Lower District, Way and Works Department.\n\n23. Memorial dated January 27, 1926, from the daily paid workmen, Lower District, Way and Works Department.\n\n24.\n\n25.\n\n26.\n\n27.\n\n28.\n\nསྨྲ ཀླུ ཐཱ དྷུ བྷུ རྐུར རྨ སྐྱེ ཚ ཻ ཚེ རི $\n\nMemorial dated January 26, 1926, from the Apothecary attached to the Dematagoda Running Shed.\n\nMemorial dated January 18, 1926, from the daily paid workmen, Running Shed, Anuradhapura.\n\nPetition from daily paid workmen, Northern District (Anuradhapura), Way and Works Department.\n\nPetition from Loading Gang Workmen, Way and Works Department.\n\nPetition dated January 11, 1926, from the workmen in the Chief Construction Engineer's Department.\n\n29. Petition from daily paid clerks attached to the Divisional Transportation Superintendent's Office, Nawalapitiya.\n\n30.\n\n31.\n\n32.\n\n33.\n\n34.\n\nFour petitions from the daily paid workmen in the Lower District (Avissawella), (Galle), (Watapota), and (Pannipitiya).\n\nTwo petitions from the daily paid workmen in the Lower District, Avissawella. Petition from the Building Gang, Way and Works Department, attached to the Northern District.\n\nThree petitions from the daily paid workmen in the Northern District, Way and Works Department.\n\nMemorial dated January 5, 1926, from the boatmen in the Master Attendant's Department.\n\n35. Further petition dated January 21, 1926, from the boatmen in the Master Attendant's Department.\n\n36. Letter No. 76:72 of January 7, 1926, from the Postmaster-General requesting that authority be obtained to pay workmen in the Telegraph Workshops the recent 20 per cent, increase of pay.\n\nHarbour Engineer's Department:—\n\n37. Petition from Train Staff.\n\n38. Petition from the Platelaying Gang.\n\n39.\n\n40.\n\nPetition from the Canal Lock Overseer and 4 Coolies.\n\nPetition from the women gang employed under the General Foreman.\n\n41. Petition from the Apothecary and Orderly.\n\n42. Petition from Mr. E. S. Peries, Daily Paid Clerk.\n\n43. Petition from Yard Patrols, Gatekeepers, and Watchmen.\n\n44. Petition from Latrine Coolies.\n\n45. Petition from Watchers employed under the General Foreman.\n\n46. Petition from workmen, Mahara Quarry.\n\nPublic Works Department:-\n\n47. Petition dated February 3, 1926, from workmen employed in the Government Factory.\n\n48. Petition dated February 5, 1926, from the employees in the Electrical Branch of the Government Factory.\n\n49.\n\n50.\n\nMemorial dated January 11, 1926, from daily paid clerks, peons, messengers, &c., in the Public Works Department Head Office.\n\nPetition dated January 19, 1926, from the watchers employed in the Government Factory.\n\nSurvey Department :—\n\n51. Petition dated January 19, 1926, from the daily paid workmen in the Lithograph Department, Survey Department.\n\n52. Memorial from Lake Scheme Masons, Fitters, and Drivers.\n\n3. The memorialists comprise workmen from the following departments:—\n\nCeylon Government Railway-All classes of daily paid labour who did not receive the 20 per cent. increase.\n\nChief Construction Engineer's Department.-Workmen employed in Station Extensions Workshops, Colombo.\n\nHarbour Engineer's Department.--All daily paid employees who have not received the 20 per cent. increase.\n\nMaster Attendant's Department.-Daily paid boatmen.\n\nGovernment Factory-All daily paid employees who have not received the 20 per cent. increase.\n\nOther Public Works Department Employees.-Daily paid clerks, peons, and messengers in the Public Works Department Head Office.\n\nLake Development Scheme.-Daily paid employees.\n\nPostmaster-General's Department.-Daily paid workmen in the Telegraph Workshops. Survey Department.-Daily paid workmen in the Lithograph Department, Head Office.\n\nREPORT OF LABOUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE.\n\n5\n\n4. The memorials received and the grievances stated cover very much the same ground as those dealt with in the former report of the Labour Advisory Committee, Sessional Paper XXXV.—1925, on which a 20 per cent, increase was granted to workmen in the Railway Workshops, Government Factory, and the Harbour Engineer's Department classified as working under Factory Conditions. The grounds on which the increase was given, however, were based on the maximum rise in the cost of living. This was stated by the Director of Statistics to be about 70 per cent., and this figure was accepted by the Railway workmen (vide paragraph 3 of Sessional Paper XXXV.-1925).\n\nThere was no special reference to any increase due to Factory Conditions, and the distinction as regards Factory Conditions in this case appears to be entirely artificial. The cost of living has risen as much for the ordinary worker as for the Factory worker. It seems therefore impossible to ignore the demands for a reasonable increase in pay on behalf of the memorialists whose claims we have now investigated.\n\nThere is this distinction, however, to be drawn. The 70 per cent. increase in the cost of living since 1914 included the rise in house rent. This rise in rent accounts for about 15 per cent. in the total cost of living, and without including house rent the maximum rise in the cost of living would be about 55 per cent.\n\nNone of the employees who were granted the 20 per cent. increase at the end of last year were provided with quarters, so that there was no occasion to separate the factor for rent from the general rise in the cost of living.\n\nIn 1920 an all-round increase of wages by 40 per cent. was made by Government, and the addition of a further 20 per cent. to the rates obtaining after 1920 raised the wages to, roughly, 70 per cent. above the 1914 average.\n\nIn the present inquiry, however, we are confronted by the fact that a certain proportion of the employees with whom we are now dealing, especially in the Way and Works Department of the Ceylon Government Railway, are provided with free quarters. The daily paid employees who are not provided with quarters receive no house allowance. It is therefore clear that those who receive free quarters have not had to face any increase in rent, and that the rise in their cost of living is only about 55 per cent, as compared with 70 per cent. for those who provide their own quarters. It would therefore seem only fair that a distinction should be made between these two classes. We have borne this distinction in mind in making our recommendation as regards increases to the daily paid workmen in the various Departments.\n\n5. To deal with our recommendations departmentally :-\n\nHarbour Engineer's Department.\n\nNone of the employees of the Harbour Engineer's Department appear to receive free quarters. Most of the employees of the Department were given 20 per cent. increases in their wages under the recommendation of Sessional Paper XXXV.-1925. We recommend that all daily paid employees in the Department be put on a similar footing and that all the recommendations approved by Government in Sessional Paper XXXV.-1925 be extended to them.\n\n6. Special representations were made during the course of the inquiry by the daily paid clerks, telephone clerks, and apothecary with reference to their status as daily paid labourers.\n\n7. Apothecary. We consider that an apothecary can scarcely be classed as a daily paid labourer, and would recommend that he be placed on approximately the same footing as apothecaries of similar service and qualifications in the Government Medical Department. In the meantime, he should be given the 20 per cent. increase.\n\n8. Daily Paid Clerical Staff. It was brought to our notice during the inquiry that all the Departments employing daily paid labour include under this head a considerable number of daily paid clerical hands, &c. The hands usually start on routine work, such as store checkers, telephone operators, &c., but many of them rise in the course of time to more responsible posts and perform full clerical duties. We consider that some departmental scheme should be framed by which daily paid clerks after a few years' service should have the opportunity of being taken on, on the fixed clerical establishment of the Department. In the meantime, they should receive the 20 per cent. increase.\n\nMaster Attendant's Boatmen.\n\n9. The daily paid boatmen petition for the 20 per cent. increase as given to the Harbour Engineer's employees. The Master Attendant points out that the hours these men work are very different from those in the Harbour Engineer's Department. They go on duty at the Pilot Station on 24 hours shifts, viz., 24 hours on and 24 hours off, and there is always one shift on duty on Sundays and Government holidays. It is not possible, therefore, to give them all leave with pay on the five Government holidays in the year.\n\nPreviously their pay was slightly better than that of boatmen in the Harbour Engineer's Department. Their conditions of work, however, are more onerous, and now that the boatmen in the Harbour Engineer's Department have received the 20 per cent. increase, they are at a disadvantage.\n\nWe recommend that they be given 20 per cent. increase, that the Sunday shifts should be paid at the overtime rate of 1¼ and that these men who have to work on the five Government holidays mentioned in Section 12 of Sessional Paper XXXV.-1925 should receive either a day's leave with pay in lieu thereof or, if this is not possible, they should be paid double pay for these five days.\n\n10. The Master Attendant pointed out that there are a considerable number of Serangs and Lascars in his Department who are on the fixed establishment, and if a 20 per cent. increase is given to the daily paid boatmen, the boatmen on the fixed establishment may in some cases receive less than the daily paid boatmen. If this is so, we recommend that the conditions of pay for the boatmen on the Master Attendant's fixed establishment should be re-adjusted.\n\n70",
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        "content_text": "28\n\n24\n\nThe main sewer from Fuk Tsun Heung to Kowloon Tong, east of the Railway, was completed. It varies in size from 6\" to 33\" and is 8,500 feet in length.\n\nOther sewers and storm water drains were constructed to the extent of 7,000 feet.\n\nNew Kowloon. The drainage of the Kowloon Tong Development Area was proceeded with, sewers and storm water drains being constructed to the extent of 6,500 feet and 3,000 feet respectively.\n\nOther sewers and storm water drains were laid to the extent of 2,900 feet.\n\nThe extension of the Mong Kok Tsui Nullah from the Old Kowloon Boundary to the Kowloon range of hills progressed slowly.\n\nNew Territories - Various works were carried out, largely of an anti-malarial nature.\n\nWATER WORKS.\n\nHong Kong. - The eastern half of the Service Reservoir at the Eastern Filter Beds was completed, with the exception of the roof, and was put into use, while the invert and walls of the western section were approaching completion.\n\nThe new Simpson Engine at Tytam Tuk Pumping Station was completed and placed in commission after satisfactory tests had been run.\n\nStanley Mound East Catchwater was satisfactorily completed.\n\nTotals of 950 lin. ft. of 18\" diameter, 2,500 lin. ft. of 15\" diameter and 300 lin. ft. of 6\" diameter C.I. pipes were laid in Monmouth Path, Queen's Road Central and D'Aguilar Street respectively during the year.\n\nA Contract for the Chemical House and Concrete Filter Beds at Bowen Road was let and good progress had been made by the end of the year.\n\nNew mechanical sand washers were received during the year and a considerable saving has been affected in sand washing costs.\n\nKowloon. Improvements and renewals to the distributing system were continued.\n\nThe four new filter beds at Lai Chi Kok Pass were completed and placed in commission.\n\nThe extension to Beacon Hill Catchwater was completed.\n\nShing Mun Valley Scheme. - The Access Road from Tsun Wan to Pineapple Pass was completed.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "5.\n\n86\n\n2.\n\nCar Parking Shed for Public.\n\n3 & 4. Aeroplane Sheds 300' x 150' x 30' clear height with offices, stores and workshops included in the Annex.\n\n5 & 6. Seaplane and/or a Flying Boat Shed 300' x 150' x 50' clear height with offices, stores and workshops in annex on each side.\n\n7. Police, Fire Engine, Ambulance and First Aid with quarters for native police, firemen and drivers.\n\n8. Fuel Store.\n\n9. Inflammable store.\n\n10. Lubricant and Liquid Containers Store.\n\n11. Motor transport yard.\n\n12. Bulk Petrol Storage tank.\n\n13. Armoury.\n\n14. Latrines.\n\n15. Workshop 300' x 100' divided to suit the various trades and to include an Engine Testing Room.\n\n16. Bulk Petrol Storage Tank.\n\n17. Guard House.\n\n18. Squadron Station Offices.\n\n19. Adjutant's Stores.\n\n20, 21, 22 & 23. Barrack Blocks for Airmen.\n\n24. Sick Quarters and Operation Block.\n\n25. Mortuary.\n\n26. Dining Room and Cookhouse.\n\n27. Sergeants' Mess.\n\n28. Institute and Tennis Court.\n\n29. Married Officer's Quarters (4 flats).\n\n30 & 31. Married N.C.O's and Airmen's Quarters (12 flats in each block).\n\n32",
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        "title": "CO129-509-15 Water supply- development scheme 30-1-1928 - 17-1-1929",
        "content_text": "can), is a matter that requires careful consideration. In the case of Government buildings generally, they are scattered all over the Colony and the current used is small, but the installation of Destructors might be warranted by the demand for current say to Eastern Filter Beds, Government Workshops, Government Offices, Law Courts, Post Office, New Fire Station, Central Police Station etc., all of which are practically in a straight line for cables from the Power Station.\n\n3. Destructors and Destructor Station : These would be of a type best suited or modified to deal with Hong Kong's refuse, dependent on moisture and the ascertained calorific value of average samples. The clinker and residue could be disposed of in further reclamation works to the westward.\n\n4. Engines and Engine House :-The pumping station has been shown to the south of the site where better foundations can be obtained for the engines, which would be of the triple expansion vertical type, in duplicate, each capable of lifting 3.3 million gallons per day against a maximum effective head of about 285 feet. The pumps, three to each engine, driven from the cross-heads would be of the piston type. Provision for workshop and Quarters for European and Chinese Staff would also be required.\n\n5. Main Salt-water Service Reservoir :—The main salt water service Reservoir with a top water level of about plus 285′ O.D. has been placed in about the only available site that can be economically used for the purpose and would be covered in. It is shown immediately below the Albany and involves no resumption and very little disturbance of the Botanical Gardens which could be reinstated over the roof; it will not interfere with any future waterworks extensions. This reservoir of 1 million gallons capacity would supply what would be a low level zone north of and bordering on Pokfulam, Bonham, Caine & Kennedy Roads and the whole of the Eastern district as far as North Point (Broadwood Road excepted). These roads approximately draw a dividing line between two classes of property, and, for the purposes of a pumping supply, form a very convenient divide between the low and high level zones, which make it possible to devise 2 schemes which can be made entirely independent of each other, should it be thought desirable to grant a fresh water flushing supply to the middle zone, by utilizing to their full capacity, all stream-courses on the northern slopes of the Island which are not used for waterworks purposes on account of pollution.\n\n6. Balancing Tanks :-The balancing tanks shown on plan at Mount Parish, Leighton Hill, and north of Tin Hau Temple at elevations approximately of 200′ 150′ and 120' respectively would be necessary to maintain pressure throughout this low level zone. The sites are fairly level and can easily be utilised for the purpose without costly site formation. The resumption of a small unbuilt-on area at the Naval Hospital at Mount Parish only is involved.\n\n7. Pumping Mains :--The pumping mains shown on plan in black would be in 18\" dia. C.I. socket and spigot pipes laid in duplicate each having a delivery of 3.3 million gallons per day.\n\n8. Gravitation Mains:-The Gravitation mains shown in blue would supply the balancing tanks on Mount Parish, Leighton Hill and Tin Hau Temple from the Albany salt water Reservoir. They would also be in C.I. socket and spigot pipes of 15\" and 12′′ diameter respectively and would feed the districts through which they passed.\n\n9. Subsidiary Mains:-The subsidiary mains shown in red would also be C.I. socket and spigot pipes 6 inches in diameter and, as in the case of the gravitation mains, although somewhat of larger diameter than is necessary for the area served, they allow for marine growth and incrustation which would occur and the extra cost over that of the minimum size that could be laid is very small. They have been spaced as wide apart as possible generally to give house services along scavenging lanes on each side of the street.\n\n10. Scavenging lane mains :-These, which would be numerous and are not shown on plan would require to be of the best 2′′ galvanized iron piping and could generally be laid a few inches below the surfacing of scavenging lanes.",
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        "content_text": "# ALTERATIONS & ADDITIONS TO EXISTING SEWERS.\n\n11. If the salt water flush system were made general throughout the City and the existing outfalls were used for the discharge of sewage direct into the harbour, only very small alterations and additions to sewers would be necessary so far as can be foreseen and these are too numerous to show on plan-they would consist chiefly of alterations and additions necessitated by the laying of salt water mains, short lengths of new scavenging lane sewers on Crown Land and new connections to sewers. It might, under a general flushing scheme be found that some of the old sewers, on reclaimed areas of the lower levels of the Western district, at present dealing satisfactorily with sullage, would require relaying.\n\n12. If the system were made general throughout the City and it was considered that the existing sewer outfalls could not be used owing to harbour pollution, then the Colony must face a fairly costly scheme of drainage with modern Sewage Purification Works. I have shown on plan two suitable sites for the latter-one at Causeway Bay where a small reclamation would be required and the other adjoining the Destructor and Engine House at Kennedy Town; the treatment would be the activated sludge process, being highly efficient, requiring small land area, comparatively low cost of installation and low maintenance charges. The sewage now passing through the water front would be intercepted, lifted and diverted through two intercepting sewers running east and west, by air lift pumps or ejectors fixed in required positions which would be operated by Air Compressors through low pressure air mains from the Engine House at Kennedy Town. The power required for operating the activated sludge plant would also come from the same source though it might be found desirable in the case of the plant at Causeway Bay to provide independent power. With regard to existing drainage, a complete survey of existing conditions will be necessary to ascertain what volume of storm-water, at present entering the sewers, must be eliminated. This I regret, is a matter which, on account of pressure of other work in making good storm damage, I have been unable to undertake up to the time of my departure on leave.\n\n# FRESH WATER SCHEME FOR MIDDLE LEVEL ZONE.\n\n1. Population:-The population in this zone is estimated as follows:-\n\n  \n    200 houses East of Garden Road at 20 persons per house\n    4,000\n  \n  \n    500 houses West of Garden Road at 20 persons per house\n    10,000\n  \n  \n    University, Schools, Hospitals &c.\n    2,000\n  \n  \n    Total\n    16,000\n  \n\nAll areas south of Pokfulam Road, Caine and Kennedy Roads referred to in the latter part of 5 could, if it were thought desirable, be dealt with entirely separate from the low level zone described in 1 to 10 and in order to obtain the necessary data on which to base the scheme, gaugings to ascertain the minimum dry weather flow of all streams on the north face of the Island have been carefully taken at the required elevations during December and January and will be continued throughout the dry season to ascertain any diminution of flow.\n\nThe rainfall for the four months October, November, December 1926 and January 1927 was 3.275, 4.965, 0.455, 0.310 inches, a total of 9.005 inches compared with an average of 8.96 inches for the last 15 years, from which it may be said that the minimum gaugings which have been taken, represent an average dry weather flow that can be relied upon for a fresh water flushing supply.\n\nThe present population in the district which it is proposed to serve is estimated to be 16,000 and the estimated increase during the next 30 years say 20% which at an average of three 2-gallon flushes per day per person or 6 gallons a day will require (19,200 × 6) say 115,000 gallons per day.\n\nPage 106",
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        "content_text": "109\n\n20\n\nBrought forward\n\n$60,500.00\n\n(C). 4″ Cast Iron Gravitation Main, 14,300 feet\n\n33,000.00\n\n(D). 3″ Galvanized Iron Mains, 36,960 feet\n\n37,000.00\n\n(E). Intake & Main Fresh Water Reservoir 100,000 gallons capacity\n\n(F). Nullah Intake Dam in Streamcourse south of I.L. 2378 Pokfulam Road\n\n20,000.00\n\n(G). Two Balancing Tanks, 7,500 gallons capacity south of Conduit Road.\n\n(H). Service Tank, 15,000 gallons capacity above Tregunter Path\n\n2,000.00\n\n4,500.00\n\n3,500.00\n\n(I). Break Pressure Tank & Nullah Intake, 5,000 gallons capacity at Magazine Gap Road\n\n1,500.00\n\n(J). Nullah Intake Tanks, 7,500 gallons capacity,\n\n1. east of Military Hospital, Bowen Road\n\n2. Wanchai Gap Road south of Bowen Road\n\n2,000.00 2,000.00\n\n1\n\n(K). Service Tank, 10,000 gallons capacity east of I. L. 2478 Broadwood Road\n\n2,500.00\n\n(L). Galvanized iron piping to replace 50% of Existing Waterworks Supplies for Public Latrines, Trough Closets, Water Closets, Street Watering &c.\n\n10,000.00\n\nTotal Cost....$178,500.00\n\nSALT WATER SCHEME FOR LOW LEVEL ZONE.\n\nApproximate Estimates.\n\nItem 1 Population.\n\nItem 2 Site.\n\n(a) Seawall\n\n$225,000.00\n\n(b) Seawall (temporarily returned end)\n\n60,000.00\n\n(c) Reclamation\n\n60,000.00\n\nItem 3 Destructors—approximate cost\n\n750,000.00\n\nDestructor Station, Chinese Quarters foundations, and smoke stack. Approximate cost.\n\n350,000.00\n\nItem 4 Engines & Engine House.\n\nCost of two engines.\n\n500,000.00\n\nEngine House, European Quarters Pump Pit & Foundations.\n\n340,000.00\n\nItem 5 Main Salt Water Service Reservoir.\n\n200′ × 100′ × 12′ deep (Capacity 1,500,000 gallons).\n\n150,000.00\n\nItem 6 Balancing Tanks Mount Parish, Leighton Hill, and Tin Hau Temple.\n\nMount Parish.\n\n80' x 50' x 12' deep (Capacity 300,000 gallons).\n\n40,000.00\n\nLeighton Hill.\n\nTin Hau Temple.\n\n80' x 50' x 12' deep (Capacity 300,000 gallons),\n\n50′× 20′× 10′ (Capacity 62,500 gallons).\n\n40,000.00\n\n14,000.00\n\nCarried forward\n\n$2,529,000.00\n\n1\n\nPage 110\n\nPage 111",
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        "content_text": "## 5. \n## 44 \n\nI found the ship in great disorder; cupboards, drawers, and other furniture had been evidently maliciously damaged. Bedding and cooking utensils had been missing.\n\nThe ship was in complete darkness; only one oil lamp was on board.\n\nActing on your instructions, I arrested the remaining firemen and engine room staff, except the engineers, and also the compradore and his staff, and brought them to Police Headquarters. I also brought the passengers ashore and put them in a boarding house. They were of the poorer class, which may account for the fact that no attempt was made to take them for ransom.\n\nAll were released after Police were satisfied that none of them were implicated in the piracy.\n\n7. A daylight inspection was made of the ship, with special attention being paid to the possible discovery of specially arranged secret compartments for smuggling opium, but without success.\n\nIn view of the fact that no bullion, valuable cargo, or wealthy passengers were carried on this particular trip, I am of the opinion that the pirates were after \"Opium\", but whether any was discovered is not likely to leak out unless some of the pirates are arrested.\n\nThe damage to the furniture referred to may be connected with the search instituted by the pirates for this drug.\n\nThere is an inducement to smuggle Chinese Opium into Indo-China via Hong Kong. This is a likely class of line steamer to be engaged in this illicit smuggling as a side line.\n\n8. I consider that the question of reward for arrest and conviction of the pirates should not be considered yet; silence in this respect for the time being may yield better results.",
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        "title": "CO129-521-4 Piracy in Chinese waters- China Navigation Company Ltd- H.M. Attorney General; responsibility of British Government... 24-6-1930 - 23-4-1931",
        "content_text": "11. The bridge deck shall be protected from access from below by barbed wire.\n\n12. Barbed wire used or provided pursuant to these regulations shall not be painted, covered or treated in any manner tending to render it less effective; such wire shall be renewed as and when its efficiency becomes impaired. Barbed wiring shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality of the wire, method and position.\n\n13. In any case in which a permanent wooden or metal awning or deck extends over the bridge deck aft of the grille it shall be protected by means of barbed wire.\n\n14. Any access provided to the bridge deck from below shall be aft of the grille, except by special permission of the Harbour Master signified in writing.\n\n15. Every entrance to the engine and boiler rooms, other than the access referred to in regulation 17, shall be provided with strong and substantial metal or metal grille doors.\n\n16. Metal or metal grille doors used or provided pursuant to these regulations, and the locks therefor, shall be to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality and design or pattern, and be so maintained.\n\n17. Direct access shall be provided to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms.\n\n18. On ships deemed by the Harbour Master to be of river-steamer type the officers' cabins shall be on the bridge deck, forward of the grilles, and the guards' quarters shall be on the upper deck abaft the grilles.\n\n19. All constructional work required by these regulations shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master who may relax or modify any of the requirements of regulations 8 to 18 as he may consider expedient. Upon completion of the work the Harbour Master will issue to the owners, agents, charterers or licensees a certificate in writing stating that the constructional work required by the regulations has been carried out to his satisfaction and in carrying out these duties the Harbour Master will be assisted by a Committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, a Superintendent of Police, the master, and a representative of the owners.\n\n20. A certificate should be added to the annual survey certificate of the Government Marine Surveyor stating that the piracy regulations have been adhered to.\n\nScheme of Defence.\n\n21. When a ship is first fitted in accordance with these regulations, and at the annual survey, a scheme of defence of the ship as fitted will be drawn up by a committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, and a Superintendent of Police, the master and, if the owner so desires, a representative appointed by the owner. The scheme of defence settled by the committee shall be set out in writing and carefully kept by the master who shall supply the Captain Superintendent of Police with a copy. Every master shall be well acquainted with the scheme of defence of his ship and he shall see that the officers and other persons on board to whom duties are assigned under the scheme are made acquainted with their duties.\n\nEquipment.\n\n22. The following equipment shall be provided and shall be carried on the protected portion of the bridge deck:-\n\n(a) Double the number of rockets and blue lights required by the regulations of the Board of Trade.\n\n(b) One Verey's pistol and at least 24 Verey's lights.\n\n(c) At least two loaded Winchester rifles of .44 calibre and at least 100 additional rounds of ammunition for the same.\n\n3\n\n(d) One loaded 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and at least 50 additional rounds of ammunition for the same loaded with S.S.G. Shot.\n\n23. The following equipment shall also be provided\n\n(a) One .38 (long) revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying the same for each certificated officer and for each guard.\n\n(b) One 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and 100 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying 20 rounds of the same for each guard.\n\n(c) One police whistle for each guard.\n\n24. All the above equipment shall at all times be in perfect order and condition and be readily and easily available for immediate use; when not being carried or used it shall be kept within a metal grille enclosure in the wheel house or as near thereto as possible.\n\n25. All the above arms and ammunition shall be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n26. The above arms and ammunition shall be inspected and tested by the Police and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n27. The Harbour Master shall have power at any time to inspect and test, or to direct the inspection and testing, of any of the above rockets, blue lights or Verey's pistols or lights and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n28. The arms and ammunition, rockets, blue lights and Verey's pistols and lights shall be examined weekly by the master of the ship.\n\n29. The term \"danger zone\n\nThe \"Danger Zone\".\n\n\"shall include the following:-\n\n(1) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the Canton River or the West River or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai.\n\n(2) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Macao harbour.\n\n(3) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Kwong Chau Wan harbour.\n\n(4) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Amoy, Swatow, Hoihow and Haiphong harbours and in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the coast of the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai; provided that in the case of a ship on a voyage from Hongkong the danger zone shall not extend to a greater distance than 120 miles along any such route.\n\n7\n\nA ship which is within the extremes of the above limits shall, except when at its wharf or moorings in or at a port or place of loading or discharge, be deemed to be within a danger zone whether on a voyage from Hongkong or on a voyage to Hongkong.\n\n30. No ship shall leave the waters of the Colony except from the Harbour, and after leaving its wharf or moorings and while within a danger zone no passenger or thing shall be allowed to embark or be taken on board except in the saving of life or rescue work at sea.\n\n52",
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        "content_text": "11. The bridge deck shall be protected from access from below by barbed wire.\n\n12. Barbed wire used or provided pursuant to these regulations shall not be painted, covered or treated in any manner tending to render it less effective; such wire shall be renewed as and when its efficiency becomes impaired. Barbed wiring shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality of the wire, method and position.\n\n13. In any case in which a permanent wooden or metal awning or deck extends over the bridge deck aft of the grille it shall be protected by means of barbed wire.\n\n14. Any access provided to the bridge deck from below shall be aft of the grille, except by special permission of the Harbour Master signified in writing.\n\n15. Every entrance to the engine and boiler rooms, other than the access referred to in regulation 17, shall be provided with strong and substantial metal or metal grille doors.\n\n16. Metal or metal grille doors used or provided pursuant to these regulations, and the locks therefor, shall be to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality and design or pattern, and be so maintained.\n\n17. Direct access shall be provided to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms.\n\n18. On ships deemed by the Harbour Master to be of river-steamer type the officers' cabins shall be on the bridge deck, forward of the grilles, and the guards' quarters shall be on the upper deck abaft the grilles.\n\n19. All constructional work required by these regulations shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master who may relax or modify any of the requirements of regulations 8 to 18 as he may consider expedient. Upon completion of the work the Harbour Master will issue to the owners, agents, charterers or licensees a certificate in writing stating that the constructional work required by the regulations has been carried out to his satisfaction and in carrying out these duties the Harbour Master will be assisted by a Committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, a Superintendent of Police, the master, and a representative of the owners.\n\n20. A certificate should be added to the annual survey certificate of the Government Marine Surveyor stating that the piracy regulations have been adhered to.\n\nScheme of Defence.\n\n21. When a ship is first fitted in accordance with these regulations, and at the annual survey, a scheme of defence of the ship as fitted will be drawn up by a committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, and a Superintendent of Police, the master and, if the owner so desires, a representative appointed by the owner. The scheme of defence settled by the committee shall be set out in writing and carefully kept by the master who shall supply the Captain Superintendent of Police with a copy. Every master shall be well acquainted with the scheme of defence of his ship and he shall see that the officers and other persons on board to whom duties are assigned under the scheme are made acquainted with their duties.\n\nEquipment.\n\n22. The following equipment shall be provided and shall be carried on the protected portion of the bridge deck:\n\n(a) Double the number of rockets and blue lights required by the regulations of the Board of Trade.\n\n(b) One Verey's pistol and at least 24 Verey's lights.\n\n(c) At least two loaded Winchester rifles of .44 calibre and at least 100 additional rounds of ammunition for the same.\n\n(d) One loaded 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and at least 50 additional rounds of ammunition for the same loaded with S.S.G. Shot.\n\n23. The following equipment shall also be provided:\n\n(a) One .38 (long) revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying the same for each certificated officer and for each guard.\n\n(b) One 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and 100 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying 20 rounds of the same for each guard.\n\n(c) One police whistle for each guard.\n\n24. All the above equipment shall at all times be in perfect order and condition and be readily and easily available for immediate use; when not being carried or used it shall be kept within a metal grille enclosure in the wheel house or as near thereto as possible.\n\n25. All the above arms and ammunition shall be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n26. The above arms and ammunition shall be inspected and tested by the Police and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n27. The Harbour Master shall have power at any time to inspect and test, or to direct the inspection and testing, of any of the above rockets, blue lights or Verey's pistols or lights and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n28. The arms and ammunition, rockets, blue lights and Verey's pistols and lights shall be examined weekly by the master of the ship.\n\nThe \"Danger Zone\".\n\n29. The term \"danger zone\" shall include the following:\n\n(1) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the Canton River or the West River or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai.\n\n(2) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Macao harbour.\n\n(3) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Kwong Chau Wan harbour.\n\n(4) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Amoy, Swatow, Hoihow and Haiphong harbours and in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the coast of the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai; provided that in the case of a ship on a voyage from Hongkong the danger zone shall not extend to a greater distance than 120 miles along any such route.\n\nA ship which is within the extremes of the above limits shall, except when at its wharf or moorings in or at a port or place of loading or discharge, be deemed to be within a danger zone whether on a voyage from Hongkong or on a voyage to Hongkong.\n\n30. No ship shall leave the waters of the Colony except from the Harbour, and after leaving its wharf or moorings and while within a danger zone no passenger or thing shall be allowed to embark or be taken on board except in the saving of life or rescue work at sea.\n\nPage 57\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "11. The bridge deck shall be protected from access from below by barbed wire.\n\n12. Barbed wire used or provided pursuant to these regulations shall not be painted, covered or treated in any manner tending to render it less effective; such wire shall be renewed as and when its efficiency becomes impaired. Barbed wiring shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality of the wire, method and position.\n\n13. In any case in which a permanent wooden or metal awning or deck extends over the bridge deck aft of the grille it shall be protected by means of barbed wire.\n\n14. Any access provided to the bridge deck from below shall be aft of the grille, except by special permission of the Harbour Master signified in writing.\n\n15. Every entrance to the engine and boiler rooms, other than the access referred to in regulation 17, shall be provided with strong and substantial metal or metal grille doors.\n\n16. Metal or metal grille doors used or provided pursuant to these regulations, and the locks therefor, shall be to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master as regards quality and design or pattern, and be so maintained.\n\n17. Direct access shall be provided to the bridge deck from the engine and boiler rooms.\n\n18. On ships deemed by the Harbour Master to be of river-steamer type the officers' cabins shall be on the bridge deck, forward of the grilles, and the guards' quarters shall be on the upper deck abaft the grilles.\n\n19. All constructional work required by these regulations shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master who may relax or modify any of the requirements of regulations 8 to 18 as he may consider expedient. Upon completion of the work the Harbour Master will issue to the owners, agents, charterers or licensees a certificate in writing stating that the constructional work required by the regulations has been carried out to his satisfaction and in carrying out these duties the Harbour Master will be assisted by a Committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, a Superintendent of Police, the master, and a representative of the owners.\n\n20. A certificate should be added to the annual survey certificate of the Government Marine Surveyor stating that the piracy regulations have been adhered to.\n\nScheme of Defence.\n\n21. When a ship is first fitted in accordance with these regulations, and at the annual survey, a scheme of defence of the ship as fitted will be drawn up by a committee consisting of the Assistant Harbour Master, and a Superintendent of Police, the master and, if the owner so desires, a representative appointed by the owner. The scheme of defence settled by the committee shall be set out in writing and carefully kept by the master who shall supply the Captain Superintendent of Police with a copy. Every master shall be well acquainted with the scheme of defence of his ship and he shall see that the officers and other persons on board to whom duties are assigned under the scheme are made acquainted with their duties.\n\nEquipment.\n\n22. The following equipment shall be provided and shall be carried on the protected portion of the bridge deck :-\n\n(a) Double the number of rockets and blue lights required by the regulations of the Board of Trade.\n\n(b) One Verey's pistol and at least 24 Verey's lights.\n\n(c) At least two loaded Winchester rifles of .44 calibre and at least 100 additional rounds of ammunition for the same.\n\n(d) One loaded 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and at least 50 additional rounds of ammunition for the same loaded with S.S.G. Shot.\n\n23. The following equipment shall also be provided:-\n\n(a) One .38 (long) revolver and 50 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying the same for each certificated officer and for each guard.\n\n(b) One 12 bore gun to the satisfaction of the Captain Superintendent of Police and 100 rounds of ammunition and equipment for carrying 20 rounds of the same for each guard.\n\n(c) One police whistle for each guard.\n\n24. All the above equipment shall at all times be in perfect order and condition and be readily and easily available for immediate use; when not being carried or used it shall be kept within a metal grille enclosure in the wheel house or as near thereto as possible.\n\n25. All the above arms and ammunition shall be approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police.\n\n26. The above arms and ammunition shall be inspected and tested by the Police and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n27. The Harbour Master shall have power at any time to inspect and test, or to direct the inspection and testing, of any of the above rockets, blue lights or Verey's pistols or lights and all necessary orders and facilities shall be given in that behalf.\n\n28. The arms and ammunition, rockets, blue lights and Verey's pistols and lights shall be examined weekly by the master of the ship.\n\nThe \"Danger Zone\".\n\n29. The term \"danger zone\" shall include the following:-\n\n(1) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the Canton River or the West River or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai.\n\n(2) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Macao harbour.\n\n(3) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Kwong Chau Wan harbour.\n\n(4) All routes by water between the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in the Harbour and the ship's buoy, berth, anchorage or wharf in Amoy, Swatow, Hoilow and Haiphong harbours and in or at any port or place of loading or discharge on the coast of the province of Kwong Tung or the province of Kwong Sai; provided that in the case of a ship on a voyage from Hongkong the danger zone shall not extend to a greater distance than 120 miles along any such route.\n\nA ship which is within the extremes of the above limits shall, except when at its wharf or moorings in or at a port or place of loading or discharge, be deemed to be within a danger zone whether on a voyage from Hongkong or on a voyage to Hongkong.\n\n30. No ship shall leave the waters of the Colony except from the Harbour, and after leaving its wharf or moorings and while within a danger zone no passenger or thing shall be allowed to embark or be taken on board except in the saving of life or rescue work at sea.\n\nPage 62",
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        "content_text": "21\n\nthe compass when brought close to it, as would be the case when the officer was taking a bearing by compass. This might have serious results and should be guarded against.\n\n(S) Construction.\n\n\"The cost of erecting all the extra preventatives to comply with Regulations is going to be considerable.\n\n(22) Equipment:\n\nIn view of the particular use made of a deep sea lead and which proved the coupe-de-grace in the Sunning\" Piracy, would it not be policy to add to the equipment already provided a number of implements of the loaded cane variety, the cost of which would be negligible?\"\n\nMr. A. E. MARTIN:\n\nParagraph 23.\n\nThat a long baton be added to guard's equipment.\n\nParagraph 34. That guards on duty should carry revolvers together with above mentioned baton in lieu of 12 bore gun. rifles being exceedingly difficult to use in scuffle fighting. 12 bore guns still to remain part of equipment but to be retained within the metal grille in the wheel house for use when guards, etc. are forced back to defensive tactics from the Bridge.\n\nSearching. This would appear to be one of the most important items. In the case of vessels clearing with medical examination if it could be arranged for detectives, to whom many of the bad characters are known, to board the steamer before the passengers, the detectives would be able to watch the passengers embarking, thus giving more scope to spot undesirables and greater ease in examining baggage than is possible when the vessel is practically ready for sea. The same detectives could also be present when the medical examination is in progress. In vessels not clearing with medical examination the same method of checking could be carried through, i.e. all passengers to be cleared to one end of the vessel and then passed over an upper deck for tally, with detectives present. For ocean-going steamers carrying a limited number of passengers, river steamers and launches it might be practicable to inaugurate a depot system through which each passenger would be passed in the presence of detectives, before being allowed to embark.\n\nRewards for Information.\n\nIt might serve a good purpose if it were definitely advertised that rewards would be paid for information received which led to the detection of bad characters.\n\nParagraph 3. (Ships exceeding 60 Tons), would appear a difficult one for Deck Officers to carry out when engaged in routine duties about the ships in close proximity to a magnetic compass.\n\nThis is probably beside the immediate point but it would be interesting to learn whether any liability attaches should the carrying out of the Piracy Prevention Ordinance conflict with Board of Trade regulations and if so to whom does such liability attach.\n\nLT.-COMMANDER L. J. PITCAIRN Jones, R.N.\n\n\"The following remarks on prevention of piracy are submitted for consideration.\n\nAs at present practised, successful piracy depends on the pirates obtaining charge of the ship and having her steered to a pre-arranged rendezvous, where their booty can be transferred.\n\n2.-This is usually done by surprise attack on ship's officers, thereby gaining possession of bridge, engine room, etc.\n\n173",
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        "content_text": "(16,\n\nFar East receive\n\nive\n\nal Surveyor (such\n\n(400 per annum.\n\n400\n\n(4)\n\n220\n\n1000 to 1100 per annum, whilst a Princip-\n\n1000 to 1100\n\nal Surveyor (such as Mr. Cox in Japan) receives 1300 to\n\nworks manager of a shipyard or engine ring works (of about\n\nthe size of Taikoo or Kowloon Docks) receives at Home 600\n\nper annum which is practically the present salary, including\n\ncost of living bonus, of a Board of Trade surveyor with 10\n\nyears service. The present salaries paid to assistant Gover-\n\nnment Marine Surveyors with 10 years service to their credit\n\nare barely half those enjoyed by the assistant managers of\n\nTaikoo and Kowloon Docks, taking into consideration the free\n\nquarters and other privileges available to these officials.\n\n(c) As a final comparison we would invite attention to the propor-\n\ntionate salaries paid to shipyard and engineering works fore-\n\nmen here and at Home. A senior foreman in Kowloon Docks\n\nreceives between 145 and 50 per month with conversion\n\nprivileges, a free house, coal, light, medical attention,\n\nfree passages for himself, wife and two children and a\n\nProvident Fund, the benefits of which are available on\n\nresignation or on death. A similar post at Home at the present time would carry with it a salary of between £25 and\n\n£250-£300 per annum, which indicates when everything is taken\n\ninto consideration, that the salaries paid locally to men in\n\nthese positions are from two to two and one half times those\n\npaid at Home.\n\nIn the course of our official duties we individu-\n\nally deal with marine superintendents, shipyard and engine ring\n\nworks managers, marine surveyors and classification societies\n\nrepresentatives, and we are of the opinion that it is very neces-\n\nsary, for the efficient discharge of our duties, that our financial\n\nposition should be such as to permit us to meet these gentlemen\n\non terms of equality in social life, which at present is impos-\n\nsible. We cannot believe that it is the wish of the Government\n\nto place us on a lower salary basis than these foremen of works,",
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        "content_text": "## WATER TRANSPORTATION\n\n132. The increased use of mechanical power to replace or supplement sail on the Chinese waterways leads to a considerable demand for engines. Small steam engines are now easily made locally and local firms are also prepared to make some of the simpler types of oil engine in small sizes. But there is a good market in imported Diesel engines. Unfortunately, our prices are on the high side and our ability to service our engines is less than that of some of our competitors. Also, our manufacturers are more insistent on the cash basis than our competitors. Discrimination should be made between good and bad risks, and there are many of the former.\n\nHow great is the competition in crude-oil engines is shown by the fact that 44 different makes are represented in China. Three important Continental firms, MAN, Sulzer, and Deutz, have strong staffs of experts and engineers. This is a market where a real expert and a good supply of exhibition and consignment sets are necessary. Deutz, for instance, carry about 2,000 H.P. from 8 to 200 H.P., in stock.\n\nBritish engines can be sold on quality by a live agent, but this is a business which is of no use to mere order takers—a description which, after all, fits many of the merchants. Order getters are needed, and these must be expert engine salesmen. The sizes in demand are from about 8 H.P. up to 600 H.P.\n\n133. The following example of a contract for a coasting vessel is instructive:-\n\n| Details | Specification |\n| --- | --- |\n| Engines | Twin Screw Atlas Polar Diesel Marine Engines |\n| Type | Direct reversing, 6-cylinder, 2-cycle, solid injection |\n| Includes | Necessary compressors, pumps, and spares |\n| Power | 750 h.p. each engine at 220 r.p.m. |\n| Additional Items | One 10 k.w. and one 7 k.w. crude oil lighting sets, two 1 ton electric winches, and electrically-driven anchor windlass |\n| Total Price | United States, $61,000 |\n| Payment Terms | 5% with order, 5% 90 days after, 10% on shipment, 20% 6 months later, 20% 12 months later, 20% 18 months later, 20% 24 months later |\n| Interest on Deferred Payments | 6% |\n\n134. A Swedish marine diesel of 300 h.p. is sold in China for about £2,000. German prices run about £9 per h.p. down to quite small sizes.\n\nIn Manchuria, steamers for the Sungarei river are built locally by both Chinese and foreign builders; in particular, the Skoda works are constructing three boats. The terms on which these vessels are sold are stated to be 10% bargain money, 20% on launching, and 35% at the end of each of the two first voyages. At Shanghai, there is considerable shipbuilding for river and coasting work. It is said that for many of the detailed parts, our knowledge of marine requirements gives us a good chance, but our prices tend to be too high.\n\n## AVIATION\n\n135. Aviation forms the subject of a separate and confidential memorandum.\n\n## (b) Public Utilities\n\n### ELECTRICITY SUPPLY\n\n136. In China, the use of electric light is very popular, and today every town of any importance has electric light, but often in very small units. Each of these towns is, however, a nucleus for development either by linking into a comprehensive scheme or by normal extension. In Manchuria, the growing towns all want electricity stations, and officials and merchants will support schemes, but construction will undoubtedly have to be on credit terms, say 20% down and then payment out of revenues.\n\nThere are, altogether, over 400 supply stations large and small, ranging from Shanghai with its great installation of 140,000 k.w. and an output of over 500,000,000 units per annum down to small town Diesel stations of 20 k.w. or even less.\n\nThe British share in electrical development in China has been very considerable so far as power plant is concerned. British industry has equipped the greater part of the big Shanghai power house and has supplied large plant for such installations as the Mukden Arsenal, Tientsin, Kowloon, Hankow, Hangchow, and for a large number of small isolated installations depending on Diesel engines or small steam engines.\n\nSince 1923, the British contribution has averaged about 40,000 k.w. a year compared with an estimated annual increase in the plant capacity of between 50,000 to 60,000 k.w.\n\n137. Outside Shanghai, stations of over 20,000 k.w. capacity exist at Dairen, Fushun Colliery, Hongkong, Kowloon, Canton, and Hankow. In addition, there are about half a dozen stations of from 5 to 10 thousand k.w. and as many more of 1 to 5 thousand. Excepting the large foreign-run stations in treaty ports, development of existing stations is fraught with many difficulties. Lack of capital, depreciated plant, leaky mains, and thefts of current are among these. At Canton, for instance, of actual units generated, only 30% are paid for, and it remains to be seen whether stringent regulations which have been introduced to stop illicit use of current will be effective. It is interesting to note that a Government Department has been formed to investigate the expansion of...",
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        "content_text": "NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHINA AUCTION\n\nSPORTY GOODS.\n\nThe Undamaged buy is anounced the spanning at imalo stare\n\nROOMS\n\nIndustrial and Commercial Bank Bakang.\n\nsild, Queen's Road, Centrul at No Bk House Streler and Bissnésand Housekee\n\nCiljnennt be Heeers Powell & G\n\nDijaga and Burcjaluka in 10t| Beperti al tepk, sporta pieds. Perf Pontracting sise undertaker\n\nInspection of Store verdalle in. Hod.\n\nTAUPOLE & SONE\n\nBlackan, 28d detokes, 1981.\n\nOm Furniture for disposal\n\nMy private paAN AL BELONGA peshk\n\nFOR SALE OR HIRE.\n\nPOPPY DAY FUND, KOWLOON MARINE\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLint. Col. Robertson, Hong Kong Club, will be glad to receive any article which may be give\n\nauctioned as Armisting Day for\n\nthe bench of Karl Halge Fund,\n\nLOT NO. 73\n\nChioare Boden, 72,768 vs. ft. Apply\n\n19, & RADERY 4 00, LTD.\n\nPOPULAR\n\nand earsally hases th! EFFERVESCENT SALTS\n\nameponse to this approud may be\n\nmade\n\nPrescribed\n\nconstipation.\n\nIle in anaouraged to appeal headache, indigestion liver and\n\nsenim thin your owing to the vary įkalney disorders, Motach com MEN KOLLA KITla sent last year.\n\n(PÍNIALA, STE, Blo\n\nNOTICE\n\nItse kemby notifed that Sporlal Current Papénit a/c Pana Boska,\n\n27 in the game of Tang Yai Kan and X, 514 In the same of Tank But Sing\n\nwith\n\nYokohama Specie Bank, LLC., Hong! Konur, have been reported lost ar stolen and the sang nay kepeby declared to be canceled.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIL SKOTT & CO.\n\n―\n\nJ\n\nWe have this day authorsand Mr.\n\nPeter Ball Helga Melbyn to sigu Fr Pin Рег Procure, Mr George Bravet Wetten kavag handed in Kin power of attorney.\n\nIL SKOTT A CO. Fongkong, 19th Getaber, 1981\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe Pearl of the \"Kingship at\n\nChilier and the Golden Jubilea!\n\nThey are justly calabratori and MEN LIQDAN LAD I LINDLADÍ,\n\nThey can\n\nbe procured\n\nin Hongkong—\n\nSincere & Co., Berlin & Co., The Pharmacy,\n\nand\n\nKing's Dispensary and in Kowloon-\n\nThe World Drug Co.\n\nTAAI HING\n\nGentlemen's Tailors &\n\nMilitary Uniform\n\nisa\n\nLatest Style Hata\n\nFar Spa. Cheap.\n\nstablishment of the App Satisfaction Guaranteed. of Prayer\" will take place at the Catholic Cathedral an Sander, the 126, Pottinger Street, Central\n\n18th Ovember, 1881.\n\nMORNING SERVICE 8 mm.\n\nEVENING SERVICE L24 pm.\n\nA Triduum will be bold also a\n\nthe above place at 530 pm, on the | three (2) days preceding the celebration.\n\nG\n\nPARTICULARS & CONDITIONS of the Sale by Public Auction to be held on Monday, De 3604) day of October, 1831, at 3. athena of the Tablic Werka Department, by Order at His Excellency the Governor att nae Let of Crew Land 1 Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colay of Hong Kong for a term M 75 JOLER Cencing fron E\n\nJuly, 1898, with the option of\n\nTeroval of a Crawa Best to be\n\nJced by Far Surveyor of Ris\n\nHONGKONG\n\nMUSIC CO.\n\n26. Wyndham Street.\n\nTal 2290.\n\nDealers in Munke,\n\nMusical Merchandise and\n\nAccessories Alag\n\nExpert in Repairing all types of\n\nMusical Instrumenta\n\nand\n\nPiano Tuning.\n\nMajnatý thu King, furi Reasonable Charges.\n\nther term of 24 years less the\n\nlast three days thereof.\n\nPARTICULARS OF THE LOT.\n\nTO LET.\n\n8, Conduit Red\n\nDWELLING HOUSES.\n\nrose\n\ngro Lad\n\nnaturalebed. Garden.\n\nKo 22 Confult Road.\n\n|Hour.\n\nGodown at Daddell Street.\n\nOffer Rossa 16. Queen's Loud. Central.\n\nLINNTRAD & HAVIS,\n\nALEXANDRA HITILDINGE\n\nTO LET-IN THE PEAK.\n\nNA Z MIŠINTAIN VEW\n\nApply to\n\nPERCY SHITH SETH\n\nAPT PVING\n\nNOTICE.\n\nClassified Advertisements\n\nwill not be accepted for insertion after 6 p.m.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\nLAMMERT'S\n\nAUCTIONS\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nThe Undersignad katy pocultad Instruction tolly Public Auction\n\n'TL'ESDAY,\n\nThe 17th Detaker, 1983. COMMERCİNE at 18.30 a.m.\n\nat The Star Furniture StormX.\n\nSo, 22, Wing Lack Building, Hankow Road, Kawhon.\n\nA Quantity of Valuable Beaned\n\nFurniture and Garipu.\n\nOn View from Monday, the 26th October, 1951, Catalogue will be issued. Terms: --Cash on Delivery,\n\nLAMMERT BROS.\n\nAuctionem.\n\nOUR BREAD\n\nFRENCH BREAD\n\nCOFFEE ROLLS SANDWICH FREAP\n\n=\n\nDELIVERED DAILY\n\nIn Kawloon f November JL, JOSE, Platou place widers in adorner\n\nMARCEL\n\nCONFECTIONER\n\nM-NATHAN ROAD TO\n\nMASSAGE.\n\nMOL & MAS, Y. MORL Bolder of Japaanse Government Caricate\n\nCares Sprained Ankle and Wrist app. \"South China Morung Prat” 4. Wyndham Streit. -Ial Koer), Telephone 2801.\n\nNEW\n\nVictor\n\nRecords\n\nUSED CARS HUGHES & HOUGH\n\nWATCH\n\nThis Cobe wary day for\n\nLIMITED.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION.\n\nUndersigned have receive instruction to sell by Pahle\n\na dual basin in GUARANTEED I>ED CARS\n\nToday Special PALATIN, BEVEN 1926-1927-70r Account of the Caprerasli. modal, da mechanical order\n\nMONDAY, . #875.\n\n་\n\nThis cat fi guaranteed agafant j ali mochandaal defecta for a period | of thirty days.\n\nPhase to-day for a trial run, HONGKONG INED CARS, LTTI, Phone: 28481 (Qiles) H£750 (Show Room).\n\nRARE CHINBR\n\n|COʻNINE CHAFTSMEN AT\n\nDISPLA? OF CHINESE PIREWORKS\n\n· QUAIRĪT” CHINESE CUSTŪRIS\n\nALL TO BE SEEN AT THE\n\n\"CHINA\"\n\nEXHIBITION,\n\nCITY HALL\n\nsch, min 4 7th November, 1981\n\nCHEME PUNCIEH\n\nDEXTERHE-ORIENT\n\nMortimer Uk & Rinate Agenta “PEAR BANSIONS,”\n\nHerend à Five-rammad ndictments.\n\nkatarken & Sandstad had MÜKƏ modern conjuction with garage\n\nSAMRAŞ BUILDINGS\"\n\nthe 28th October, 1991,\n\nat their Halen Rome, No. F. Queen's Rond. Central (French Bank Beliding BaseTMENİ | HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising of --\n\nSideboard, Dining Table and Chales, Dressing Tubền, Ten Chest, ¡Croekary, Eléctile Pra, Chasale- H. BILA Ware Wall Plates, Gleaner, Kitchen Utensils, Daner Barem,... mka.\n\n*\n\nTexten Carpeta\n\n:\n\n· Cabinet Gramophone, Goud Caller tom of Recordi, mostly Red Seal. High Class Carpenter'a Tuola, I Laths. Several Pots of Rhododen\n\nCrysalidocarpus\n\nrom\n\nAnd\n\n*(Mauritius Palm).\n\nיי\n\nNote.\n\nNow on View.\n\nThe above are high claw\n\n'pute and in good conditiam mod\n\nbe sold without reserve. Loved from Kowinna Ten for The sentence of bayern.\n\nTerm-Cash on Dativars\n\nBUGRES & ROUGH, LTD.\n\nMake Canones. ilangkanje, zied Oetoboř, 1961\n\nTHE\n\n│\"SOUTH CHINA\n\ni\n\nMORNING POST\"\n\nis always on sale at\n\nSELFRIDGE'S\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLondon, W. 1.\n\nThe fol - sharp poitibeyken in the Ewe Carton Mẫu have\n\n· bass lost at manda The Team For Denda are in deʊ pay. The Pakka ke warned not in accept these calientern\n\nPo skarva Scrip. No. 14876-848242/341 kc, în x/n Yan Ching Chun\n\n14981-276485:20 Az.\n\n200\n\n100\n\n100\n\n100\n\nfor\n\nOCTOBER.\n\nTSANG FOOK. PIANO CO.,\n\n8, Des Voeux Road, Central,\n\n(Entrance lee Honge Street)\n\nTelephone 21648.\n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS\n\nAT\n\nAll other Advertisements 4 p.m.\n\nGray's Yellow Lantern Shops Alexanden Bldg. Tel. 21854\n\n140:33–440691/900\n\n17726–898257/454\n\n17727–222457/50% 40-\n\n17728-878381/456\n\nChau Chik Nia\n\n-do\n\n---\n\nTHE SOY KUT BANK.\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\n-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\n\"& BAD ONE.\n\nUNITED\n\nMATSO\n\n- EDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nFor a good fit\n\nto go\n\nA-MAN, HING\n\n1\n\nCHEON.\n\n(LATE AA-MEN HING CHEANG.\n\nECU\n\nTAILORS. DIAPERS\n\n& OUTFFITERS\n\nto Military Officers\n\nfor many years.\n\n34. Qarena Rood Central.\n\nT! 23334\n\nWHITE ANTS\n\nand cockroaches will be banished from every place where care is taken to use\n\nFLUIDE EXPRESS.\n\nSale Agents: Compagnis Ostore. Proman Bukhang. Das Vanch Boyd, Canteni,\n\nTH. SI5\n\nANCHORS\n\nBUTTER\n\nFOR OVER\n\nHALF A CENTURY\n\nthe \"ANCHOR \"symbol has been the Sterling\n\nnurk of baller,\n\nIt is your guarantee i\n\nFINEST QUALITY.\n\nAsk For It By The Kaize\n\nsold by-\n\nThe South China old Storage Co., Ltd.\n\n221 Da Vomux Rand Centr\n\nThe Cafeteria. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloos. Rahim Store. Shameen Distritor.\n\nARGE SIZ\n\nExtra moisture.. Easier shaving\n\nWilleme Sharing Creem is the diman at 90 years' experienes in making Father for sukuning the hoord and com\n\nalling the skin.\n\nTrabanels 10% intera meistars them way ather Fedkar we know of Thara why your ride aldas sa swiftly and smoothly, and your beard comes all\n\nsa dasa and clean, Willana la millal ve tõeline poravnavalenty!\n\nAdnak at Williams Aque Velva niður shaving, well knep your side smooth and soft all day long-leak as Wi inther Inmuna 195. Try this. habeat playlag domination. For sale everywhat\n\nDodge & Seymour (China) Ltd.\n\nHagk my Shangbai-Harbin\n\nWilliams\n\nSHAVING CREAM — AGUA VELVA\n\nCLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS\n\n25 WORDS $1.50 for 3 DAYS PREPAID\n\nFOR EVERY ADDITIONAL DAY\n\n50\n\nIF NOT PREPAID A BOOKING FEE OF\n\n50 IS CHARGED.\n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE=EN\" CENTRE LATHE, Amarinan makA VI, DE, Melor X 1.2, complete with whiske for KIR GRUN Going Thong. Desar\n\n= (1 Bed\n\nPORNALE – MANOMAG CAR, 200 ronning vier, Jeromeni til 2002 1945. Can banen 12 Kathan Garags, Köni Ja amat Team dua Na\n\nFOR SALE. 1990 SUNBEAM boleč tyrke, overkant valve quim, perfect Peking crter, prien 1975, or senrent Konfor selling, wwIAL mon at WIH BIT NO. 26, \"g С. И Pet\"\n\nFOR MALE-ZA-TRAR ICARETER CAMERA Pie 15\" x 24\" PONTEARE and plate. Terra) F714 \"Campur Sheller swabbe uztenaten, ailment new.\n\nReplies in the following Box Nombora uze lying at this\n\nC\n\nNo Te TH 10) Pe Koh, KAI BAT PUT A L\n\nHid KT 840 149 R44 8 20\n\nbakııı Replies to the following Box Numbers were called for and/or forwarded ta nádvertisers, yesterday:—\n\nYALE\n\nE\n\nwww\n\nZuma pa andrium should neeskijaky MěTETİRMİZM, THES necovariis far pukilentiam, hatt ta medwore that replies received by the person Cực shom they are intended.\n\nTHE MAXI-KAUNE RUPEI ELL\n\nTe\n\nHax No. 1,\n\n#K. FI. PAL\"\n\nS\n\nH\n\nWe will forwačil teplies to the stated nádro L Live Advertiser desires\n\nIf the wants) kalvnctioors are quickly met and they de met derden any further repila tevazásd, we shall be glad to be\n\ncomplir In that cløbct\n\nyou\n\nPosted replies to advertisements will be accepted, if they ar not sufficiently stamped. Correct postage in Three Cent..\n\nLOST.\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nWANTED.-TNI\n\nSAFE The Evek med chillin, Kanisan po Write Box No. 14, “S. C. K.\n\nTHE AMERICAN CONSILATS GENERAL WHL FENOL Bulatan for a STENOGRAPHER, Thorval knowledge of Englik, Contamme, atomography vasential. Applien išoma, jelang začećanom sisi vžgečlanew, will on received by maat volt.\n\nED\n\nWANTED TO BUY.\n\nWANTED TO MITOM \"BOB\" časa in puod condition Write Box Nu C. H Fool\"\n\n$106_ Wrike Bust Ha, 241, \"4 (LM).\n\n| FOR BAR\"LL TEARETEK theo\n\nmonth Goal polgan, Aly\n\nKe\n\nTỉnh Bình Hà Lan Hà T\n\nP\n\nPOST\n\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 23.\n\n1931.\n\nNow On Sale\n\nThe New\n\nVICTOR DANCE\n\nRECORDS\n\nFor October\n\nS. Meutrie & Co., Ltd\n\nChater Road.\n\nFOR SALE BY AGE BOILER & STEAM PIPE COVERING.\n\n| KOPRIGERATOR, far tally man\n\nswing chang. Chiar fearing Colony,\n\nFriss Box Na Bail, \"8. C. M. Be“\n\nFOR SALE—AVEIEN 7. H. 1928\n\n5. C, PAL\"\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBUSY BEES WORKING PARTY. TATEGEMAN JONG DRIVE = The Halana May Salatuta, Thersing, Orsakar 29, at 12pm, land, at St. Dunstan and Local Chart\n\nTelephoto 27900,\n\nPREMISES WANTED.\n\nWa malu a speciality of thủa cines of work and\n\nskall it led te quote for carvering with zapantas Magmada Plate Covering or 4-bestos Rope Lagging.\n\nTHE EASTERN ASBESTOS CO., Zanna Bunding, Chater Road, Bing Kong\n\nTUITION GIVEN.\n\nPREMISTS TO LET.\n\nTO LET, XBET CRESCENT, WANTED,\n\nValready\n\nwell 1993 and graduate Tasekáč, PUPILS IN EMPT garden and a Putnamien Erba v J Brandaza, se turn an Tich NovembR PIL. Apply to 7. 3. Dvening Chan\n\nWetta Box No. 24L, PE (C. S. Park.\"\n\nvary\n\nTO LET.—ndary Street, Keminen, uns. VOLGAN'S SCHOOL AT DVMa- i PEAN HOG.DE WIN all makers on sewing and eating. Everse gosZAR Tegen de dinge Apply to soul. Apply Salam, 4D, Hankow\n\nCaBxtreme-Oriani, Kand, Kowloon,\n\n14 REWAN 10 will be plea. La sajose benzine hack by Sirs. Thompson, BA WANTED TO PURCHASE (1) WANTED. – Furdsked me thľuzakk\n\n|et FLAI, Dreamber til, at a HT Carharra Bend, Jewison, pet IPAR- Jak hal 14 de may end keel. Wene Bax 200, 100, Frmer zal jubing, sin desc.\n\nKÓW Zapad 12 Belober evening, 380T GUN. Nast in excellent lery them Kongkang apierem sad camion Swami Fill Bulk. We what marka en meeka Bave band Bead NA. 12, 13. C. H. ETM for Uhren Jokes, very taske nhl Bay Wanted TO BUY-PEIZEZEN'S Do My Lata may kasas\n\n\"ODE TUN, EDTA, Son-ha\n\nFOUND.\n\nWANTED TO M'T—A km, m\n\nPOUND at kepulag Bay sa Sunday, FURNITURE AN CAMIONAC MARKET Corting the beer by Jellery Nabina, M, Nalikan\n\nHi Mera Homes | Kent, Kriens\n\nbattle, etc.\n\nIN\"\n\nPOSITIONS WANTED.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nc\n\n| WANTED TO RENT A ROOM IN | muita að Ölben mit used by pesant\n\nCentral position. Partan\n\nCM. Pool\"\n\nHULSE TO LEGING 7_ Almai Villa, Kaylyn, Apple so The Ya Ring C., Sukan Senad Wei Handen.\n\nWANTED KNOWN.\n\nTO 19 turvasan PLATS, VIFATE CHRISTMAS E NEW ama ng Kerian, s YEAR GREETING CARDS rated with skate, whites And MoRAKTILIN pg ddha bet kad sad thestamble at Ye Olde Pompetir, 192,\n\nPREMISES TO LET.\n\nwith a sad\n\nVORAN PALAU\n\n--་་\n\nDANIG JIMI HAC \"LUTCART MACHINA, OFFICE to 127—in Almunten for jy dan lage sormonta\n\nACCESSORIES for at kad at\n\nKONG HGTOR ACE Or ch Indent, Bank of Canden Pallding mad Kuntoon_Ersach, CE, Naharkand, (a falen). Sekoub,\n\nTO LET N« 5 Torme Bulldogs, Kimberley Hans. Komison. Apply walker, Vabantal. Apply Motorradtory HONG Spezia Dominican Peseradik.\n\nTO LET-New In-roomed PLATE, DIJEL\n\nWith ikeaa \"bačkissem, že Hankas\n\nTad, Kowloon, mext to Kawled TO LET SUTES OF OFFICES\n\n1200 D6 Du del index, SL. Googa's FOR FALL-IN\n\nHotel ARMSTRONG\n\nAvaliable sheet (lecember. „SIDDELEY, in perdues audition, Madery convenience. Ale thereelding. Any Love, Englan ENGLISH LADY Wing We rotsen (trial by Appartment Owner buying Tromel fata de Haan\" and \"ing | Masshawa, Chebleven Kalk Kaling. La Europa In the Spitz, would act or 'two kit. Fiat +ra\" Wre Paklong Ram Apply Tang Tack Co,.\n\nTelephone COMPANION, A TANK CHANGE of BeINK MA, “8. C230 BMG\" skilizan la apekaner the past prize\n\n| APARTMENTS WANTED. Wrike Box No RTU HAUL M. PE FOR SALE-STUDEBAKER LIGHT\n\n11. Khanghai body, in kood run TDUNG CHINESE, with good kaoria Phát h c N Wedge në Kresh and French, in years at 1700 songs, Wek Bor SA, experlones Panting, Actomia, 20. \"XCITE Booking correspondenče, type — writing. Filling. Cennt, weke 2031 POR BALKON DEJE UKOONakitud TION,\" whe\n\nwtelligenes BULL TERRIER PUPR Box merka\n\nMake For No M2, 1C M. PULS *S, C. X. Post\"\n\nTOK ALETAKAN KYIGHT. EUROPEAN DRAFTSMAN WAK, all vul. fumator, 1925. good mation\n\nexperience, werki LOCAL.power! 1 PE SITUATION. Would be willing sofer. Write Box No. 271, “I £32 berapi masnih zammencing malary. Root Pl redcmera Walta Den Ka M4, \"g.\n\n|UPRIGHT_PLANE FOR SALE IN\n\ngood m Pele kada Plazas\n\nWANTED.—-—--German, long yan ye. ¡waste Box No. 650, \"$ C. X. PartTM marice In Import Export, Knowledge (mu\n\nand Dark language, who Tok anÉN-LAW THEY AUSTIN Wiltą Ben NA, MT, M. C. BL 1942\" |tyre. Can be tried nay time, 3:180, for wear sar Base, . King's Park TOUNG CHINGUR der POS). Budings, Kowloon, TION, Can Trentak secgnty, Il p quared Picker write Box No HE, FOR SALE - AUSTIN – SEVEN, IN PA, CIC. PAL,\n\npospollent ryoung order. Fully Insured.\n\nEwelingben.\n\nENGLISHMAN with vinculite sia (Blackden, especting ability, trade med venneren, bl apes for ENGAGEMENT, Easter\n\nPast\"\n\nPOSITIONS VACANT,\n\nPhysi\n\n•\n\nNATAL, MILITARY & AR PORCE LDIRECTORY NO 1 Detiker 1990 ON BALEA Yeodde Fromerie, DJ\n\n• Price 20 centL\n\nCOLOURED PICTURES « Bong-| keng Customa, mekkle for framing\n\n|TO LET – Fame roomed LOLSF. K\n\nSo High & Burgh, Gil, SaLK 'SE | WANTIL:--Bachelys British, re- '34 pm not. Appy HB, QA Pat\" Calon Baling, Tid Plast\n\nAula konan BOARD, Hesekne\n\nKawinen. Bersabar Eat. Mata PHOTO ALEUMS, et term, in Box 774, 19, C. M. Fast Name printed in Cold, Price Kil\n\nApply E. 6. M. Past”\n\nTO LET Now Pirkoromai Mocones, la 7, Shounen Hil| Hanč, Deep Water Bay Garage vilachri\n\ntem canin\n\nC. K\n\nThe command. Magsilent. APARTMENTS TO LET, STRONG GLER CYLINDERS VIEW. MAJATA FORMS NOROMA. TWITT de from town Apply Time Tark, ('0, 1 Queen's\n\n“entru Telesham 2500).\n\n--\n\n-\n\nApply\n\nBANSARD.\n\nAPARTMENT TO LET-Lady RONGKONG — Main PAYING GUEST,, der bergi 187 page 18 pm man kabla ** | TO EXT -*weished HOLME MAGINATION, with verandak, over 2. 32 Panel Phafukum Modern Saltatlan, bar | Jooking the mik, of water-frank mar kathon maand gauge serommodation, buty, karlegt. All modern con FORTH of ATTORNET, FULL Vicjant from middle of Nevesker fer | Tanners, and perllong Tond, Waw TESTAMENT A LEAKE (ema tweder mania, Wola Ban No. Mh. | Box No: 951, 8. C. 1, PAL\"\n\nTamty-des_serta sack. Apply MR. CNL\n\n'C. M. \"Pa\"\n\n30\n\nLET.-glow, Niew\n\nMAP\n\n10 1:37. —Pak levels, friskal de bussed, Light und GAME 192- THE TORT\" TYPECON roomed HOUSE, teng being, for, Roods.\" Tebrate Matheson, Jarga besalitilly kihegrovhed, also matala Emanche from March 1998. Hoone (vodka, välialul view of Socket lag the Ông and Houreiracy. G. E. 1. Refrigerator and poke furry, power. Ton voimal, olors, Thigh\n\nI H\n\nme bé ens if required. Write Bax No. Content Track Cond. Weste bat deritani, Pris 1, mate va ME, \"COM \"PAL **\n\n1294, 49, \" C. M. PAL\"\n\nMurrayers – A. TO LES, - From 1st November, 1981, TO LET. THe well furnished single\n\n-\n\n(thrior suite kaba Oli Di sana Seried at Morray Barrachi, ŝino. Apply\n\nWHEN A Madem\n\nF\n\nJAR SALE. ACH AUSTIN VE 2 Al2ON, in ræclient condition and newly re unkolaterad... Engine in frie CAN ANYONE RECOMMEND + class cuming poder add owner driv\n\nTARY AMAK for Wy of 17 Buonchos. Zrice $1,360, Wrier Bas Kowloon de Witte Box No. 445. Xu, 29, *5. © E. Pool\" \"S. C. H. Pe\"\n\nTADIBA Beautifully marDed WANTED. -- Olce Assistant SHOST- SQUIRREL COAT made sporially HAND TYPIST par with side bas (pobrsary iku yaar) from mich erlenen preferred. Fromspent weer klik. Full Jenaik, rond median siar. Ema and Kwal synaserta... for puitable Marasin 1990. Apply keen STL mmallake. Apply in ama bamburicing Prima. KER.\n\nan Thi Na Mi, C. I. Ban\n\nCONTENTS OF EUROPEAN FLAT WANTED. COVERS member 16 years she, zumal-key code\n\nBerbak, French an German tar 5. top hoor, 200 Nathan Kol girl sped 12, 15 mm G Esply, panna, sata bid 1947 PULA, MIK HE Phông khhay requced, preciom ex- Owane Jeneing Cahay, Fries 31,800. patroon na štro E tank way for quick sale. May be ved at kys Imparat Chemien! Trămatzes CENZORY BAG ont. Kap, Ti), 38867 se wenz\n\nRix No.4K CLE. Put\n\nPerleri\n\nhen.\n\nTHE ADVERTIERE winken to Bent FOR BALDO\n\nHome Oxford\" TOUZËR applicants wie segħek, BOL NO WARISAN MAR 1. P25\"The pazitim ka ng Fatirely Pow been led\n\nAny trial, Avely Major Kewiecie, Peak Hotel WANTED. —Yome Ladiaa gentlemen for CANVASSING WORK FOR FALK-BUCK MUSER 19 Comanianega kaas, maar 1920 Blade) în perfort, work,\n\nTenis Cable persons for meg, mg malitian Tapurtian, a vi Apply Room 2 Tanne Beldig, đá by sporting Rate Bec Na 100,\n\n- - - -\n\nNo. 184 WASHER Kit, 4 prong BEDROOMS, WHk all man da CNIOR TO THE COMPANIES DR-\n\nDrop HOUSE ¦ vemences, in sand, paly, FIA, DINANCIA OF RANGKONG, Ska with all madera convenience pand\n\nKawa Peking copy Apply “8, 47, 24. PHE pings Apply to Credit Father Date, bet fint & and 7 JUN\n\nFranck\n\nPURIDGE MARKERA 118 maak. Being TL NI. PLAGE\n\nTO LET WLOON, from Novom: FAZILLS, # ceste sach. TO HE LET-BAD Vega Rand, Ponty, andőt, with indar MITCHELL'S\n\nIngia kame, quiet GUN, PREM\n\nCentral, Ground Tror, divided * REPNITTING.\n\nwapa na tegu 266. ADDIT|Mitzelni. Dean & Co. Lei\n\nGAL DAL\n\n-\n\nTO LET.--GROUND FLOOR, Na, dy Cammy Buildings, (s. 194) MathAS | WANTED—Billeh bachelor to jata\n\n3\n\n2\n\nYEAR\n\nGUARANTEE\n\nand\n\nYEAR\n\n5\n\nEASY PAYMENT.\n\nGENERAL ELECTRIC ALL STEEL REFRIGERATOR\n\nWrite or call for fuel particniner,\n\nOn How\n\nBanging life Co., Lim Wan. G. Jack & On, LME\n\nANDERSEN MEYER & OU, LID Fur Agents.\n\nThe General Electric Co. of China Ltd.\n\nDr. ROUSSEL\n\nHemostyl Syrup.\n\nTHE CLASSIC TREATMENT FOR ALL CASES OF ANAEMIAS, EXHAUSTIONS, WEAKNESS, ETC.\n\nFlomonisk u send a woman lawan meube HOLAR BELUM salad at mek tan vchan the surma) NE 15 100 Satijne poros a best ingentem sad ie sheeptors by sa A man dathomed by an immediate\n\nChiainable from all Dispensaries.\n\nStock and free samples at:\n\nThe Franco-Eastern Trading Co.\n\n· Lo srpnu did 15 Francs.\n\nBank of China Building\n\nPhone 21657,\n\nCOMMENCING SUNDAY AT THE QUEEN'S\n\nEEK-DOLORES\n\nDEL RIO\n\nAMY!\n\nPRIVATE\n\nCODE\n\nUNITED ANGHTS\n\nKiedy kenden. Apar le Cies of the TO ALL SHIPPING.\n\nFrench Comfort Taskálags, ma\n\nLocate merk Write Bax No. 163,| CONNE\n\n10. LET EUROPRAN STYLED TO HOUSE 12, Jememe: Kand, Kozlova po DET TA VEZ Shin! They had to flacan 201 Village Hongkong = 46, 59A SINGLE ROOM\n\ntempa rompt, and zwangą dwuki\n\nwalk private bath attached, terma Kesi mudrante, aptor Wa Pa\n\nAndy 4, Glemas. Tel.\n\nwith Mere\n\nSong 11, Thy đầa Mead, TEL 2009\n\n-----------\n\n20140\n\n| TO LET.—MVE BOOMED HOUSE. AIRLIĖ MOTEL. – 31-25,\n\nKomal Korbank. Apply Excelle\n\nTHE MOMENT Aram, Kerrison, Ariāl\n\nHola Tal Duermber\n\nPleven Bulan & Fraser ČR, LIL\n\nAlexanden Baldžiaga.\n\nTO T\n\nprom marina_indst Star Parry And maket Teen2ity, fuggished and un- furnished. Exempina PLATE with ad Thighly ad Modern Becommodation and Bank\n\nBent very\n\nLibert\n\nCOMPANIES.\n\nNathan\n\nAllustrated Direction in\n\nellek and Chinese, for the Adjamaent of RONG-\n\nBONG STANDARD LIFE\n\nJACKETS are now ready\n\nRegule Three minutna from fema Tel Biz?\n\nTUITION GIVEN\n\nvinden, a far af tre nanny, funtibod GERMAN ERSONA relem by Pulier Batel German Grademan Trauer, with\n\nkod mng be purchase? ni\n\nthe slice of the\n\nkang ana tak jackrarna, kitakes, inngstanding supercaron at teaching SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, Makaste chappen Addemi Į Į & K. Wyndham Street, Hongkong Haiphong Road, Kowloon. Tel FEM. La Box N, MA, “E COOL PA.\"\n\nP\n\nBAD ONE.\n\nEDMUND\n\nLOWE\n\nThere is nothing to equa\n\nBURGESS' LION OINTMENT'İ\n\nBankalarang ke manat Hala, Alarm, Wha\n\nLg, Öân, Hànt, Bella, Spain, Bentay\n\nست\n\n299 A Now be for Lense\n\nTRA\n\nPVM A PURE\n\nMAKSAT-A, 1 Mama 4 Di Lad | foldć Matiballà đaj 2 Là van Tweli, da\n\n+\n\nE. BURGESS, 59, GRAY'S INN ROAD, LONDON, W.D.1",
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        "content_text": "Page 378\n\nWOMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD\n\nBravo, Amy!\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nThe Women's Freedom League offers Miss Amy Johnson (Mrs. Mollison) its most enthusiastic congratulations on her triumphant achievement in breaking the record for the flight from England to Capetown, set up last March by Mr. J. A. Mollison, of four days seventeen hours by ten and a half hours and that despite nine hours lost at Benguella owing to lack of oil pressure, due to sand getting into her engine while crossing the Sahara.\n\nThe King sent his hearty congratulations on her splendid achievement.\n\nLast May Miss Amelia Earhart achieved lasting fame as the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, and she was awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross by President Hoover. We hope that our own country will be no less generous in bestowing on Mrs. Mollison a suitable honour.\n\nUniversity Woman's Appointment\n\nMiss A. Margaret Tillyard, M.A., has been appointed by the chief officers of the Halls of Residence as one of their representatives upon the Court of Governors of the University of Manchester.\n\nWoman Chairman of Health Committee\n\nMiss K. M. Worrall has been selected as chairman of Birkenhead Health Committee. She is the first woman in Birkenhead to occupy that position.\n\nWoman's Advertising Post\n\nMrs. Simmonds has been appointed as their advertising manager by Messrs. Wolsey, Ltd., the British hosiery manufacturing firm. This is said to be one of the biggest appointments in the world of advertising. Mrs. Simmonds for some time previously had been conducting market research for this firm. She was formerly private secretary to Sir William Crawford, head of one of the big London advertising agencies.\n\nWoman Sculptor Wins Again\n\nMiss Helen V. Mackay has for the second year in succession been awarded the £100 prize given annually by the Feodora Gleichen Memorial Fund for the best piece of work by a woman sculptor.\n\nWomen to Make Films\n\nTo-day's Cinema reports that an organisation of women has just been formed to produce films. The company is being registered as the British Women's Picture Corporation. The president will be the Dowager Lady Raglan.\n\nWOMEN LAWYERS\n\nLast week six women were among the ninety-one successful law students called to the bar in the hall of the Inns of Court. They were: Mrs. Alice G. Morrice (Lincoln's Inn); Miss E. I. Froggatt (Inner Temple); Miss Ursula B. C. Newell (Middle Temple); Dr. Flora H. M. Calder (Middle Temple); Miss Marie M. Delage (Gray's Inn); Miss Mary R. Tabor (Gray's Inn).\n\nMiss Newell was called at the same time as her elder brother, and is the daughter of a retired County Court Judge. Dr. Flora Calder, M.A., M.D., Ch.B., Edin. Univ., D.P.M., Royal College of Physicians, Eng., is an assistant medical officer of the County Mental Hospital, Winwick, Warrington. Miss Mary Tabor is a municipal officer of the Norwich Corporation. She has been in the city engineer's estates department since March.\n\nThe following women were among the successful candidates at the Intermediate Examination of the Law Society (for solicitors), held on November 2nd and 3rd. A candidate is not obliged to take both parts of the examination at the same time:\n\nPassed: Mabel Harold.\n\nThe following passed the legal portion only: Hilda M. Charbonnier, Freda Gaukroger, Dorothy Hedges, Agnes W. Knight, Annie D. Litten, Joan L. S. O'Connor.\n\nThe following passed the trust accounts and book-keeping portion only: Anne E. James.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE BEGUM SHAH NAWAZ\n\nThe Begum Shah Nawaz, the only woman among thirty-two Indian representatives appointed to attend the third Indian Round Table Conference, arrived in London last Saturday. She then stated that she hoped to help to do great things for India, and particularly for the women of India. Things were improving, she said, but there was need for much further advance.\n\nThe Conference entered upon its detailed work at the House of Lords last Monday.\n\nA NEW CECIL HOUSE\n\nThe thrill of a fifth Cecil House for homeless women is the hope of the immediate future. To collect funds for this a meeting was convened by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton and her supporters at the Cambridge Theatre (London) on November 18. It was marvellous, for there were nine speakers and more, and not a touch of dullness! The aim was its own plea. A warm glow of generous love seemed to flood the packed theatre, and every word from the platform increased it. Already a site has been found and secured across the river—in Tower Street, S.E.1. To set it going £5,000 is needed, towards which a creditable sum was raised.\n\nThere were two M.P.s—Mr. Adrian Moreing, a Londoner, in the chair; and Mr. D. G. Somerville, who, with Miss Helena Pickard, ably raked in cheques and \"promises,\" and new subscribers. Both members shed all the trappings of Parliamentary eloquence and became inspiringly human and direct in this heart-warming cause. Mr. Louis Golding made a tender, poetical speech, paying special tribute to the old women uprooted in the storms of life, to whom the Cecil Houses are such a boon; of their charm, and their subtle spiritual relationships. \"All things they have in common being so poor.\" Miss Sheila Kaye Smith followed, with what he had called her \"Green Apple\" eloquence, and spoke of what it meant to every woman to come back to a bed after a long, tiring day—even more than it meant to a man: \"Women must have what they call a home.\" It is essential to the feminine nature.\n\nAnd at a Cecil House it is \"home\" with bed, warmth, and food for 1s. a night. No forms to fill in—the need of shelter passport enough. But some have the shilling and can't get in. Mr. J. B. Priestley, introduced by Mr. Moreing as a \"Good Companion,” also said a few sympathetic words.\n\nMr. Ernest Milton, who had been over two Cecil Houses, said how much he was struck by their brightness of colouring, and by the atmosphere of confidence and friendliness and self-respect. He described the attitude of the matrons as more like that of \"a pleasant buxom hostess of a solid provincial hotel.\"\n\nWhen Mrs. Chesterton entered a house with a cheery \"Good evening, ladies,\" she came as a woman and a friend.\n\nThe Chairman presented Mrs. Chesterton as the \"heroine of the work.\" She spoke in moving words of what could be done for the \"down-and-outs\" in giving them back their self-respect and fighting spirit. And she told how at the Harrow Road House they were getting new recruits of a different class: trained nurses, girl clerks, and others, unemployed and cut off by poverty from their own kind. Dainty Miss Pickard related a personal experience of being stranded in Hanley (Staffs) when on tour, and how she had longed for a Cecil House.\n\nE. M. E.\n\nSIXTEEN WOMEN MAYORS!\n\nAlderman Mrs. Keynes, Mayor of Cambridge, points out an omission in our list of Women Mayors—Mrs. Carr, Mayor of Godmanchester. This brings the number of women mayors up to sixteen—six of whom are in East Anglia.\n\nPage 379\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nChild Marriage\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nIN PARLIAMENT\n\nMISS RATHBONE (Ind., Eng. Universities) on November 14 asked the Secretary of State for India whether the Census Reports for 1931 are sufficiently available for him to supply figures showing whether and to what extent, the practice of child marriage in India has decreased since the previous census.\n\nSIR SAMUEL HOARE: I regret that I am not yet in a position to supply this information.\n\nMISS RATHBONE asked the Secretary of State for India (1) if he will supply figures showing the number of prosecutions that have taken place under the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage in the years 1930, 1931, and 1932 respectively; (2) if he can now report the result of his inquiries on the question whether, and to what extent, the provincial governments are carrying into effect the administrative measures recommended by the Joshi Committee three years ago as being necessary for the successful enforcement of the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage.\n\nMR. GEORGE HALL (Lab., Aberdare) asked the Secretary of State for India how many prosecutions have taken place under the Child Marriage Restraint Act, No. 19 of 1929 (the Sarda Act), and with what result.\n\nSIR S. HOARE: I am not in possession of figures showing the numbers of prosecutions and convictions under the Sarda Act, but I will obtain them. The result of the inquiries made of local governments regarding the recommendations of the Joshi Committee have not yet been received, but I will inquire how the matter stands.\n\nMISS RATHBONE: Does the right hon. gentleman not think that there has been great dilatoriness on the part of the provincial governments, inasmuch as it is two years since the inquiry was circulated and that a year ago he undertook to remind the provincial governments of it; and, in view of the fact that the Act was passed with the strong approval of the Government at Delhi, as being necessary to remove \"a great and corroding evil\"—I think those were the words—does he think that the provincial governments are showing enough zeal in seeing to it that the Act is not made a dead letter?\n\nSIR S. HOARE: The hon. lady knows that the Act raises many important questions, and I think she would not expect me to express an opinion as to the attitude of the provincial governments. I am having compiled for her the information for which she has asked, and, as soon as I have it, she will get it.\n\nMaternity and Child Welfare (Grants)\n\nMR. PARKINSON (Lab., Wigan) on November 15 asked the Minister of Health what grant will be made towards maternity and child-welfare services during the current year; and what was the amount in the year 1931.\n\nMR. SHAKESPEARE (Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health): Under the Local Government Act, 1929, separate grants for maternity and child-welfare services, other than the training of midwives and health visitors, ceased to be payable in respect of any year after the financial year 1929-30.\n\nThe amount of the discontinued grant formerly paid by the Exchequer in respect of these services was included in determining the loss on account of grants under the Act.\n\nHouse of Lords\n\nMR. MANDER (Lib., Wolverhampton E.) on November 17 asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation dealing with the reform of the House of Lords on the lines of the report recently issued, or on other lines.\n\nTHE PRIME MINISTER: The Government have not considered this question.\n\nNIGHT EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN\n\n\"The Times\" reports that the Permanent Court of International Justice recently delivered its advisory opinion on the following question, submitted to it by the Council of the League of Nations at the request of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office:\n\nDoes the Convention concerning employment of women during the night adopted in 1919 by the International Labour Conference, apply, in the industrial undertakings covered by the said Convention, to women who hold positions of supervision or management and are not ordinarily engaged in manual work?\n\nBy six votes against five the Court answered this question in the affirmative.\n\nThe question had its origin in a difficulty which the British Government had encountered for several years past in the application of Article 3 of the Convention: “Women, without distinction of age, shall not be employed during the night in any public or private industrial undertaking, or in any branch thereof, other than an undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.\"\n\nBritish Government regarded this provision as applying to all women, without exception, employed in industry, but at the same time they considered that an exception ought to be made in favour of women occupying posts of supervision or management. They therefore proposed that the Convention should be revised in that sense.\n\nThe Court rejected arguments which had been put forward to show that the natural meaning of the Article might be disregarded. The first of these was to the effect that the Washington Convention, being a Labour Convention in the sense of the Labour portions of the Peace Treaties of 1919, ought to be interpreted as applicable solely to manual workers. The next was that the circumstances in which the Convention was adopted in Washington furnished adequate grounds for restricting its application to women engaged in manual work, more especially because the Washington Convention was merely an extension and application of the Berne Convention of 1906, an instrument which was concerned solely with women performing manual work. Lastly, there was the argument that the Convention of Washington did not cover women occupying posts of management, because in 1919 such cases were very few in number, and therefore were not under consideration.\n\nWOMEN'S WORK IN THE CHURCH\n\nIn his first presidential address to the Southwark Diocesan Conference, held recently, Dr. Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, referred to the problem of the shortage of trained women workers in the Church.\n\nHe said that at present a commission which had been appointed by the two archbishops were considering the matter. Personally, he was convinced that the life and work of the Church would never be as healthy and as efficient as it should be until educated and specially trained women were given scope and opportunity for their talents and ministrations in the Church's service as full and free as was given to men of similar education and training.\n\nIt was a matter of very grave concern that at a time when larger opportunities of service and of influence were opening out to women in so many other directions, in the Church, just when a supply of women duly qualified to serve it was forthcoming, the demand for that supply should be diminished.\n\nYOUNG WOMEN AVIATORS' ENTERPRISE\n\nMiss Joan Page, daughter of Sir Arthur Page, and Miss Audrey Sale Barker, recently flew to South Africa, where they carried consignments of Cow and Gate milk food to introduce to South Africans.\n\nPage 20",
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        "content_text": "No. 19.\n\nCopy 7.0-1/21//201\n\nRECEIVED GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG. 13 FEB 1933\n\n12th January, 1933.\n\nCOL. OFFICE\n\nSir,\n\nI have the honour to forward for the consideration of the appropriate authorities copies of letters received from the Far-East Aviation Company Limited regarding the re-exportation to England for repairs of one Atlas Mark II aeroplane. The armament of this machine was covered on its original importation into China by authorization from the Chinese Legation in London. Permission to re-export the machine from Hong Kong to England has been given.\n\n2. The following are the particulars of the machine:\n Constructors No. A.W. 799\n Engine No. A.F. 7687\n Certificate of Airworthiness No. 3388.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant,\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE,\nSIR P. CUNLIFFE-LISTER, G.B.E., M.C., M.P.,\nGovernor, &c.\n&c.,\n&c.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935",
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        "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935",
        "content_text": "## 70. Gas Lighting\nThe total number of street lamps in use at the end of the year, all of which were incandescent, was 556, an increase of 1 over the previous year.\n\nThe fitting of Reflectors to the Gas Lamps in Kowloon was undertaken by the Gas Company, without expense to Government, and resulted in better illumination.\n\nExpenditure\n$33,926.26\n\n## 71. Electric Lighting\nThe total number of lamps in use at the end of the year was 589, an increase of 67 over the previous year.\n\nRed and green traffic lights were installed in connexion with the Vehicular Ferry at Jordan Road.\n\nExpenditure\n$34,780.29\n\n## 72. Typhoon and Rainstorm Damage\nFollowing typhoons repairs of greater or less importance were carried out to the following buildings: Hung Hom Police Station, Signal Hill, Yaumati Pig Market, Royal Observatory and Kowloon Hospital.\n\nRepairs were carried out to the Hung Hom Ferry Pier after the typhoon which occurred in September.\n\nExpenditure\n$1,098.72\n\n## 78. Maintenance of Water Works\nA constant supply was maintained on 172 days during the year, compared with 272 in 1932.\n\nOwing to the protracted dry season and the low rainfall it was necessary to impose the following restrictions: 1st to 24th January, and 28th January to 30th April, 10 hours per diem (6-11 A.M. and 4-9 P.M.). 1st May to 27th June, 6 hours per diem (6-9 A.M. and 4.30-7.30 P.M.). 26th August to 12th September, 10 hours per diem.\n\nAs the construction of the Yaumati Hill Service Reservoir had not been completed by the end of the year pressures had to be augmented by connections from the 24\" trunk main.\n\nA new centrifugal pump, driven by a 12 H.P. Petter Engine, was installed in the Pump House below Pineapple Pass. The pump is capable of delivering 28,000 gallons an hour into the Conduit and easily deals with the dry weather flow of the Shing Mun River at that point.\n\nThe total yield of the Shing Mun River as measured by the Recorder and V. Gauge at the Upper intake was 2883.4 million gallons as compared with 4017.86 million gallons last year. In addition 98.12 million gallons were obtained from the Needle Hill stream intake. The pumps below Pineapple Pass worked on 228 days during the year and delivered 53.78 million gallons, equivalent to 236,000 gallons for each working day. During the year 1782.69 million gallons were delivered from the Shing Mun Valley through the Tunnels into the Reception and Byewash Reservoirs, but a percentage of this quantity could not be stored and ran to waste. The minimum monthly yield was in March when the quantity delivered was 52.50 million gallons.\n\nThe total quantity filtered by the Paterson Filtration Plant during the year was 1469.97 million gallons, 396.92 million gallons of which were supplied to Hong Kong.\n\nThe total quantity of water supplied during the year was 2051.84 million gallons (excluding 101.49 million gallons supplied to Water Boats at Lai Chi Kok), which gives an average daily consumption of 5.62 million gallons or 18.0 gallons per head based on an estimated population of 316,000. Details are given in `Table IX`.\n\nThe quantity of water stored in the impounding reservoirs on 1st January was 581.67 million gallons and a minimum of 209.48 million gallons was reached on 29th May.\n\n| Reservoirs | Capacity to permanent overflow level (Million Gallons) | Overflow Periods |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kowloon | 352.50 | 166 days at various times between 1st January 31st December |\n| Kowloon Byewash | 185.50 | 31 days at various times between 13th September 7th November |\n| Shek Li Pui | 116.10 | 69 days at various times between 4th August 11th November |\n| Shing Mun Reception | 33.15 | 186 days at various times between 9th January 31st December |\n\nThe quantity in storage at the end of the year was 653.37 million gallons.\n\nThere were 117 street fountains in use at the close of the year.",
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        "content_text": "27\n\n8\n\nAPPLICATION FOR ENTRANCE TO GOVERNMENT TRADE SCHOOL.\n\nPENANG,\n\nName of School..\n\nMachine Shop.\n\n9\n\nTRADE SCHOOL, SINGAPORE.\n\nLIST OF MAIN WORKSHOP EQUIPMENT.\n\n1. Name (in block letters)\n\n2. Full address\n\n3. Date of Birth\n\n5. Evidence of Age\n\n6. No. of years at present school\n\n7. Employment of Parent or Guardian\n\n8. Income p.m. of parent or Guardian\n\n4. Place of Birth\n\n9. Is applicant in a position to give an undertaking to remain three years at the\n\nTrade School if selected?\n\n10. Is parent or guardian in a position to maintain applicant and to pay his fees\n\n($3/- p.m.) for the whole course of three years\n\n11. School work.\n\n(a) Present standard\n\n4-63\" Lathes Self acting, sliding, surfacing and screw-cutting.\n\n1-84′′ Lathe Self acting sliding, surfacing and screw-cutting.\n\n1-Shaping Machine.\n\n1-Wet and dry emery grinder.\n\n1-High speed vertical drill.\n\n1-Sensitive Drill.\n\nFitting Shop.\n\nBenches, Vices, Handtools.\n\nElectric Hand Drills.\n\nElectric Valve Grinder.\n\nCarpenters Shop.\n\nBenches & complete sets hand tools.\n\n1-6\" Centre Lathe.\n\n1-20\" Band Saw.\n\n1-18\" Circular Saw.\n\n(b) Highest standard passed by applicant\n\n(c) Place in class at last school exam. (standard to be stated)...........\n\n(d) Ability in Arithmetic (with percentage in last term's exam.)............................... (e) Drawing & Handwork..\n\n(f) Carpentry\n\n12. Physique (details to be given)\n\n13. Out-of-school activities.\n\n(a) Is applicant a Cadet?\n\n(b) Is applicant a Scout?\n\nRank\n\nRank\n\n(c) Did applicant play for his school or house in\n\nFootball\n\nHockey\n\nCricket\n\n(d) Has applicant any special hobby?\n\n14 Headmaster's recommendation as to applicant's suitability\n\nFoundry.\n\n1-10 cwt. tilting cupola.\n\nMoulding boxes.\n\nBlacksmiths and Tinsmiths Shop.\n\n3 Forges.\n\n3 Anvils.\n\n1 Gas brazing hearth.\n\n3 Swage blocks.\n\nComplete sets hand tools.\n\nMotor Repair Shop.\n\n2-Car Ramps.\n\n1-Overhead travelling crane.\n\n1-Battery charging Plant.\n\n1-Vulcanising Plant.\n\nPower Section.\n\n1-14 H.P. Compression Ignition Oil Engine.\n\n1-14 H.P. Electric Motor.\n\n28",
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        "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nAIR MAIL.\n\nCopy to Tokyo.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n23 NOV 1967.\n\nC. O. REC\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n9th November, 1937.\n\nSir,\n\n535-48/37.5.(161)\n\nI have the honour to confirm Mr. N. L. Smith's\n\nsecret telegram No.250 dated 25th October, 1937, which\n\nread as follows:-\n\n\"My telegram 30.\n\nA further serious attack on a train moving\n\nfrom Canton to Kowloon at 0850 hours 24 October at Nam\n\nSheh, 5 miles south of Shek Lung. On this occasion 3\n\nbombs were dropped by 8 Japanese aeroplanes and this was\n\nfollowed by machine gun attack from same aeroplanes.\n\nNo troops or munitions were carried. Engine belonged to\n\nBritish section and 9 of the 14 waggons and coaches\n\nbelonged to British section. Several of the latter\n\nwere badly damaged and claims on Japanese Government\n\nwill be forwarded in due course. 2 passengers injured\",\n\nand to enclose herewith for your information a copy of a\n\nreport on this incident by the Manager, British Section,\n\nKowloon-Canton Railway, together with copies of\n\nstatements made by the engine driver and the fireman\n\nof the train and a set of photographs showing the\n\ndamage done to British Section coaches Numbers 13 and\n\n25 respectively.\n\n2.\n\nIt will be seen that both these coaches are\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nW.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.,\n\n&c.\n\nPage 12\n\nEncl. No.1.\n\nEncls. Nos. 2 & 3.\n\nEncl. No.4.\n\n53548/27.(160)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-567-3 Request by Admiralty for additional land at the Naval Arsenal 18-1-1938 - 24-3-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-567-3 Request by Admiralty for additional land at the Naval Arsenal 18-1-1938 - 24-3-1939",
        "content_text": "VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB CONNAUGHT ROAD CHATER Cricket Ground ROAD LANDING STEPS BOAT SLIP COMMODORE'S FLEET TENNIS MAIL COURTS OFFICE BATH HOUSE ROAD\n\n========== ALBA D. D.S.L.A. -NULL ANK BUILDING PARADE AND DRILL GROUND MURRAY Water Stepa COOK HOUSE Area 100 Ton Crane 000 BOX АНЕР SULLAGE BIN Sullage Stand LATRNIES SIGNAL STATION Steps SMITHE MITHERY PLATERS SHED 100 30 TON CRANE TRACK DOCK WELDING SHAL MOTOR GEN.HO Latrine ACCO CHIEF CONSTRUCTOR WORKSHOPS NITARY COMODATIO\n\nSteps E. E.DIST HOUSE 3 ་་ COOK HOUSE 20 Ton Crane a Steps TIDAL BASIN 1 Ton Travelling Crane 10 Ton Tower Crane SLIP Steps POLICE SHELTER 20 Ton Crane 50 Ton Crane Steps SWIMMING PAINT BATH SHOP CHAIN CABLE + sale. 10.1 D.R.C. TENNIS COURTS Gates PLUMBER SHOP Latrine FILTER HOUSE COMPRESSEN PLANT PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE C.E.IN C. SHOPS INTIB STORE INDIAN POLICE FROM PLATE N17 STORE QRS. Yard Officers' Recreation Ground SMITHERY INDIAN POLICE Q OFFICERS' OFFICES & QUARTERS. Lu BOAT CHIEF ENGINEER HOUSE FORE BREAKING C.F. DEPT. MP POUND ELECTRIC GENERATING STAT HOLLY LATRINE STORE O ZEL FLEET ACCOMMODATION CABLE THE RSS N°16 STORE RUMBLE • STORE STOR RAFLOAT! No 15 STORE RETURN STORE | STABLE1 SURGEON 5 ACCOMMODAT! TORY WORKSHOPS SCAYSTIC LIGHT HEAVY FITTING FITTING SHOP SHOP. Coo SMITHE MAKERI SURMOUNTING ·STORE STONE I STORE ROPE TESTINAL HOUSE SHIPWRIGHTS & JOINERS SHOPS 99 STORE BIN NTB STORE 1910 STORE! RIGGING LOFT****** No 11 STORE FINE STATION ~NGINE Latrine AND POLICE O R HABLANICI NOTE STONED IT NEE SHORE 4N915 E N S Main ates COOLIE OM hok! OPT HOARING LOCO SHED No 4 STORE NORE CHART CEP No 7 O A Q ENGINEER RIN CAVIL 24.10.38. ADMITRAL 1905 Corrected to 1936.\n\nCHIEF AD.B S 95 ¿D.B. S 94 Latr AD.B S 93 AD.B S 92! AD.B S 91 FOREMEN'S QUE AD.B.S.61 AD.B'S 96 AD.B S 97 EN HOSPITAL Latrines TURNCOCK QUARTERS TIMBER STORE Sullage Stand NO2 STORE SALE TAD.B.S.53 THEATRE HONG KONG DOCKYARD &c. Steps Sullage Stand\n\nWORKSHED BATTERY SHED MAIN BLOCK WELLINGTON BARRACKS (W.D.) A S E T AD.B $111 ENGINE HOUSE AD.ES 110 AD.B S 108 Aerial Ropeways AD.B $ 107/ 109 AD.BS 113 AD AD.B S 79 90. AD.B S 88 AD.B S 87 AD.B 5,98 AD.B S 86 AD.B S 99 Nullah AD.B S 105 S 104 NO 6 & 2 ADS 102 AD.B $ 80 Latrine $85 OFFICE AD.HS 100 AD.B S LAD.B S 84 Fest 100 50 0 100 Boa=rsad A. BLOCK (HAVY) B. BLOCK (ARMY) ADB681 Scale 200 Feet to an Inch 200 300 400\n\nVSIT BRICK POUND OFFICE FOR BCECORDS & S.M. M. STORES ETC. AD.B S 66 .B.S.54 Water Area BOAT BASIN AD.B.S.55 AD B.S.69 AD.B.S.tes AD.B S 67 of 19 2 Ton Electric Travelling Crane AD.B.S.56Y. AD.B.3.67 2.32 ACRES AD.B.S.63 GUARD HOUSE ADB 8 68 .D.B S 76 PROOF SHED AD.B S 70 AD.B 3 71 OFFICE AD.B S 72 AD.B $ 75 AD.B $ 74 AD.B S 78 ire Fence AD.B S 76 السلاح D.B.S.64 & 642 Latrine Gates JOHNSTON ROAD Bracheush FOR CIVIL ENGINEER IN CHIEF ADMIRALTY 500 600 700 Feet C.E. in C. DRG No 1281/37.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "document_key": "CO129-571-4 Sino-Japanese War- compensation for damage to British rolling stock on Canton-Kowloon Railway by Japanese air... 7-1-1938 - 9-12-1938",
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        "title": "CO129-571-4 Sino-Japanese War- compensation for damage to British rolling stock on Canton-Kowloon Railway by Japanese air... 7-1-1938 - 9-12-1938",
        "content_text": "**SECRET (2)**\n\n## AIR MAIL\n\nCopy to Tokyo No.2.\n\n**RECEIVED**  \n19 JAN 1938\n\nSir,\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE,  \nHONG KONG,  \n7th January, 1938.\n\nI have the honour to invite reference to the fourth paragraph of my secret despatch dated 9th November, 1937, regarding damage done to rolling stock of the British Section, Kowloon-Canton Railway, by Japanese air raids in China and to request that if any action for recovery of expenses is contemplated a further claim of $7,000 may be preferred on behalf of this Government.\n\n2. This sum represents actual expenditure to the amount of $3,700 on repairs to British Section thirty-ton open wagon No.74 which was seriously damaged by bombs at Tong Tou Ha, near bridge No.172, in Chinese territory, on 1st December, 1937. I enclose for your information three photographs showing the extent of the damage together with a report by the Manager of the British Section, Kowloon-Canton Railway.\n\n3. A further expenditure of $300 has had to be incurred in effecting minor repairs to British Section Engine No.7A, Water Wagon No.122 and Goods Wagons Nos.118, 2 and 13 respectively which were slightly damaged by bomb explosions and machine gun fire from aeroplanes at Sheung Ping on 9th December, 1937. The balance of the claim, $3,000, represents...\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nJ.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,  \n&c.,  \n&c.  \n\nEncl. No.1  \nEncl. No.2  \n`/16/37`  \n`5/5:3838`  \n`13838/16/37`",
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        "document_key": "CO129-579-11-1 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940",
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        "title": "CO129-579-11-1 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940",
        "content_text": "CONFIDENTIAL.\n\nCOPY,\n\n140\n\nAt about 11.15 hours on the 2nd February, 1939, observed motor lorry No.5029 (United Delivery) draw up close to the barbed wire opposite the Blockhouse. Six Chinese males alighted, one went into Chinese Territory, and later returned with a Chinese Policeman. Enquiries were made as to where the load was going, and it was found that the load was going into Chinese Territory. Coolies were engaged to carry the goods, consisting of four large packing cases, and three smaller ones. There were ten camp-beds and bedding and household effects.\n\nIt was noticed that the goods were being placed in a newly constructed house directly opposite the Blockhouse in Chinese Territory. Further enquiries were made and the cases were found to contain a Wireless Transmitting and Receiving Set also six large batteries, and one Homelite Engine for charging batteries. The set was assembled and aerial erected.\n\nDescription of set:- Built by Hong Kong Radio Co., assembled by Mr. Daniel Cheung of that firm. It is a twin aerial transmitting set, and can transmit to any part of China, being equal in power to the Shum Chun Transmitters, it is powered by six batteries and a transformer. Transmission is on three wave lengths 24.5 metres, 50 metres, and 73 metres. Station call sign is P.S. The set is owned by the Central Government, and is taking the place of one destroyed by Japanese at Bias Bay. It is to be used for transmitting information regarding Japanese movements in surrounding districts.\n\nAt present there are two operators named Wong Kam Tsi and Li Kau Loi, the latter is a Shanghai Chinese, and",
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        "document_key": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
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        "title": "CO129-579-12 Sino-Japanese War- bombing of railway line within leased territories (Shamchun Incident) 21-2-1939 - 17-3-1939",
        "content_text": "Limes,\n\nY 22 1939\n\n22\n\n2.\n\nAIR RAID NEAR HONG-KONG\n\nBOMBS ON BRITISH TERRITORY\n\nPROTEST TO JAPAN\n\nFrom Our Correspondent\n\nHONG-KONG, FEB. 21 Japanese aeroplanes, after bombing Shamchun this morning, crossed the border and dropped bombs in the Hong-kong \"New Territories,\" killing eight adults and three children. The Governor of Hong-kong, Sir Stafford Northcote, who was in residence at his bungalow at Fanling, saw some of the bombing and inspected the scene with Brigadier Grasett. The Governor immediately sent a strong protest to the Japanese authorities at Canton and is reporting fully to the Colonial Office.\n\nResponsible quarters are inclined to believe that the bombing was done by over-ambitious airmen. The raiders attacked a train a mile and a half inside Hong-kong territory, and the Japanese should have known that there were no trains running on the Chinese section. Confusion probably exists in Japanese minds over the actual border, which is the northern bank of the Shamchun River, whereas the river and the two bridges are in British territory.\n\nREFUGEES FIRED ON\n\nThe bombing occurred soon after 9 o'clock, when nine aeroplanes bombed Shamchun City, which suffered severely. The raiders continued along the railway, dropping two bombs near the refugee hospital in the old casino at Shamchun. Refugees fleeing towards Hong-kong are reported to have been fired on with machine-guns. Many wounded have entered Hong-kong and have been taken to hospital, where some have already died.\n\nSix of the aeroplanes continued along the railway, and after crossing the Hong-kong border bombed the railway bridge at Lowu and the new road bridge, but without success. Three of the machines turned back and dropped 10 bombs near the Customs and wireless station just beyond the border, damaging them extensively and killing several Chinese, while the European officers had narrow escapes. Three aeroplanes continued into Hong-kong territory, where two of them dropped four bombs near Lowu bridge.\n\nOne bomb landed on the railway and another made a direct hit on the cook-house near the military post 200 yards from the bridge. Since the incidents of last December police, including Indians and Chinese, have manned this block-house, under a European sergeant. This bomb killed an Indian policeman, Surda Singh, and seven Chinese refugees who were sheltering near the blockhouse. Two other bombs fell on the river bank among refugees, on whom the aeroplanes then fired with machine-guns, killing a Chinese revenue officer and another Chinese.\n\nTRAIN ATTACKED\n\nThe raiders then attacked a mixed passenger and goods train which had halted a mile and a half from the border. The first bomb fell beside the engine, and two more on either side of the train, splintering one side of a carriage. The passengers, including two Europeans, fled into the open, and only one Chinese was slightly injured. Some reports state that the raiders fired on the passengers. The station building at Lowu and a group of carriages in a siding which are used as police quarters were also fired on with machine-guns. Altogether seven bombs were dropped in British territory. The aeroplanes are reported to have circled over British military encampments, and then to have followed the river, bombing and firing on the villagers.\n\nTroops from The Middlesex Regiment, The Royal Scots, and the Kumaon Rifles deployed along the border, but later withdrew, leaving in charge the police, who closed all roads in the vicinity. So far some 3,000 refugees have entered Hong-kong, including about 100 wounded. It is believed that 100 Chinese were killed in Chinese territory.\n\nDIPLOMATIC ACTION IN TOKYO\n\nFROM OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT\n\nSir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador in Tokyo, is to protest strongly against Japanese bombing attacks yesterday morning on British territory near Hong-kong.\n\n100\n\nPage 100\n\nPage 101",
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        "document_key": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950",
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        "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950",
        "content_text": "-23- \n\n206 \n\nThe only increases in the establishment are an additional Assistant Public Relations Officer who was engaged on contract in the course of the current financial year and six Messengers. These are required for the issue of a Government bulletin in Chinese.\n\nOther Charges are considerably higher by $52,160. More than half of this is accounted for by the new sub-head for rent of office. In the course of next year, it is intended to move the Public Relations Office from its present quarters to more spacious accommodation in the new Electra House building. An additional $22,400 is also required for publications to cover the cost of the new Bulletin.\n\nExpenditure at $160,988 is more than twice that of the previous year.\n\n## Head 29. Public Works Department\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $4,349,180 | 3,750,000 | $4,248,217 | $2,487,870 |\n\nConsiderable changes appear in the estimates, but these in the majority of cases represent the reorganisation of existing staff in the department.\n\nFor example, thirteen posts of Architects have been divided into seven posts of Architects and six posts of Building Surveyors, and the grade of Draughtsman has been sub-divided into Architectural, Engineering, and Map Draughtsmen. In addition, a number of posts have been transferred from the non-pensionable establishment to the pensionable establishment and from the temporary staff to the non-pensionable establishment. Certain deck and engine crew staff engaged on vessels used exclusively by this department are now shown and provided for instead of under the Marine Department.\n\nOne new post of Town Planning Officer has been created in order to implement the Abercrombie Report.\n\nThe nett effect of all these changes is an increase in personal emoluments of $92,645.\n\nApart from an increase of $30,000 for travelling expenses and $7,500 for fuel, light, and power, all other recurrent charges are the same or less than in 1948-49. The nett increase in recurrent expenditure amounts to $8,318.\n\nThe total increase on the Head is a little over $100,000.\n\n## Head 30. Public Works Recurrent\n\n| Estimate 1949-50 | Revised Estimate 1948-49 | Approved Estimate 1948-49 | Actual Expenditure 1947-48 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| $12,632,000 | 7,000,000 | $10,779,500 | $6,234,522 |\n\nThe increase of nearly $2,000,000 in expenditure on this head is almost exclusively accounted for by increased maintenance costs and more buildings. The period of rehabilitation is now...",
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        "title": "CO129-597-3 Estimates 1950 22-2-1949 - 3-11-1950",
        "content_text": "## Head 25. Post Office, Broadcasting And Telecommunications\n\n### A.-Post Office\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $3,664,958  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $2,740,000  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $2,914,829  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $1,668,270  \n\nApart from an increase of one Launch Officer which was authorised in the course of 1948-49, changes in the establishment represent transfers to and from other departments. Certain Telecommunications staff which are concerned solely with wireless licensing have been taken over by the Post Office and largely account for the increase of $105,397 in personal emoluments.\n\nThe large increase of $500,000 for recurrent expenditure is explained by the increase of $500,000 in expenditure for conveyance of mails and $50,000 for the purchase of stamps.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure, $23,800 is required for replacing motor transport, $19,532 for miscellaneous postal equipment, and $16,500 to provide more post office boxes for which there is a considerable unsatisfied demand. The sum of $2,000 is also required to furnish the library of this department with special reference books.\n\n### B. Broadcasting\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $352,509  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $220,000  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $233,054  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $160,988  \n\nExpenditure on Broadcasting will therefore be increased by $119,455 compared with 1948-49.\n\n### C-Telecommunications\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $247  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $60,000  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $78,464  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $56,023  \n\nApart from staff transferred to other departments and the retirement of a few officers, provision made under Telecommunications is of a tentative nature, pending a final settlement with Cable & Wireless Limited regarding the terms on which they will provide telecommunication facilities for the Government.\n\n## Head 26. Prisons Department\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $1,077,393  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $615,615  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $979,314  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $1,000,000  \n\nIn order to staff the new Prison Camp in the New Territories, for which provision is made under Public Works Extraordinary, the following increases in establishment are provided for: one Chief Officer, two Principal Officers, four Prison Officers, six Principal Warders, and 120 Warders.\n\nA Wardress employed in the Female Prison Hospital at Lai Chi Kok has been regraded as a Nurse, and two posts of Cooks and three posts of Coolies have been abolished. As a result of these changes, personal emoluments show an increase of $160,051.\n\nMost of the increases totalling $202,000 under Other Charges can be attributed to the establishment of the new Prison Camp; $65,000 is required for stores and equipment, $60,000 for uniforms of staff, $60,000 for clothing for prisoners, and $2,000 for arms and ammunition. The practice of providing gratuities and travelling expenses for prisoners who are encouraged to leave the Colony has been successful, but provision this year was under-estimated, and an extra $22,000 is required.\n\nUnder Special Expenditure, $50,000 is required to replace vehicles, and $5,000 is provided for the purchase of hand looms, which will be used by female prisoners.\n\nThe total increase on the Head amounts to $417,051.\n\n## Head 27. Public Debt\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $233,054  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $201,632  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $5,486,841  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $4,000,000  \n\nThe apparent large increase in the establishment is explained by the transfer of temporary staff to the non-pensionable establishment. Revised incremental scales for these posts were not settled until after the commencement of the current financial year. A News and Talks Editor was also engaged on contract during 1948-49. The nett effect is an increase of $20,149 in personal emoluments.\n\nThere is an increase of $20,000 for fees to Artists and Announcers, and $4,000 for records.\n\n## Head 28. Public Relations Office\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $160,988  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $78,464  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $60,000  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $56,023  \n\nThe only increases in the establishment are an additional Assistant Public Relations Officer who was engaged on contract in the course of the current financial year and six Messengers. These are required for the issue of a Government bulletin in Chinese.\n\nOther Charges are considerably higher by $52,160. More than half of this is accounted for by the new sub-head for rent of office.\n\nIn the course of next year, it is intended to move the Public Relations Office from its present quarters to more spacious accommodation in the new Electra House building. An additional $22,400 is also required for publications to cover the cost of the new Bulletin.\n\nExpenditure at $160,988 is more than twice that of the previous year.\n\n## Head 29. Public Works Department\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $4,349,180  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $3,750,000  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $3,934,617  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $3,517,566  \n\nConsiderable changes appear in the estimates, but these in the majority of cases represent the reorganisation of existing staff in the department.\n\nFor example, 13 posts of Architects have been divided into seven posts of Architects and six posts of Building Surveyors, and the grade of Draughtsman has been sub-divided into Architectural, Engineering, and Map Draughtsmen. In addition, a number of posts have been transferred from the non-pensionable establishment to the pensionable establishment and from the temporary staff to the non-pensionable establishment. Certain deck and engine crew staff engaged on vessels used exclusively by this department are now shown and provided for instead of under the Marine Department.\n\nOne new post of Town Planning Officer has been created in order to implement the Abercrombie Report.\n\nThe nett effect of all these changes is an increase in personal emoluments of $92,645.\n\nApart from an increase of $30,000 for travelling and $7,500 for fuel, power, light, and other recurrent charges are the same or less than in 1948-49. The nett increase in recurrent expenditure amounts to $8,318.\n\nThe total increase on the Head is a little over $100,000.\n\n## Head 30. Public Works Recurrent\n\nEstimate 1949-50: $12,632,000  \nRevised Estimate 1948-49: $7,000,000  \nApproved Estimate 1948-49: $10,779,500  \nActual Expenditure 1947-48: $6,234,000  \n\nThe increase of nearly $2,000,000 in expenditure on this head is almost exclusively accounted for by increased maintenance costs and more buildings. The period of rehabilitation is now almost over, and a regular maintenance programme has been introduced.\n\nTwo new sub-heads are shown for the first time: maintenance of air conditioning plant and refrigerators, for which $10,000 is provided, and survey.\n\nPage 250  \nPage 251",
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        "content_text": "50\n\nDue to the variety of sources and different duties required, the stations differ widely in their layout and capacities. The details are set out in Table No. 7, the stations being classified according as they pump raw or filtered water. It will be observed that the early installations were either steam or water turbine driven pumps; later, electrical power was used, and now diesel engines are being installed. Table No. 8 shows one reason for this trend in the expense of fuel for the steam engines. A change to oil firing had been contemplated at both Tytam Tuk and Pokfulam Road, but recent boiler surveys have shown that the boilers should be scrapped, and the main worry now is whether they can be made to last out until new plant can be delivered. A complete turnover to Diesel Power for regular use at Pokfulam Road is already on order, but one steam set will be maintained for standby duties. During the occupation, when coal became scarce, the Japanese brought up a large electric motor from the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and coupled it by a belt drive onto the flywheel of the steam engine. During the Japanese occupation, also, the pumping station at Garden Road was completely stripped, and the whereabouts of the pumps has never been discovered. Replacements have now been installed, being a duplicate order on the original suppliers. Similarly, the three pumps at Albany had also been removed, but one was found near the summit of Tai Mo Shan, where the Japanese had established a radar station with its own power plant and water supply. This one was recovered and re-installed in 1946, but the other two had to be replaced from the United Kingdom.\n\nThe number of small pumping stations is unfortunately necessary due to the nature of the distribution difficulties. Whilst admittedly giving greater flexibility, with increased wages, it is becoming increasingly expensive, and some greater degree of centralisation is required. A step in the right direction is being made at Eastern, where, in conjunction with a centralisation of filtration plant, a single pumping station will house eight pumps for three separate duties.\n\nThe location of the Tytam trunk main at Bowen Road level has rendered possible the use of water power for pumping. This is so from the fact that the amount of water required to be pumped up to high levels is only a fraction of that required below. This is made use of in two ways, both of which are in use at Bowen Road, firstly, in the hydraulic ram, which in this case is really a horizontally mounted hydraulically operated reciprocating pump, and secondly, in water turbines, which are used to drive ordinary reciprocating pumps. This latter system is also in use in the Eastern Pumping Stations. The drawback to this system lies in the difficulties of regulating the distribution requirements of the two areas to fit the respective quantities of drive water and consequent pump output.\n\n51\n\n## DISTRIBUTION\n\nFrequent references have already been made to the difficulties of distribution. These difficulties are fundamental to the nature of the Colony. The number of small reservoirs spread around the Colony has already been referred to, also the difficulty of concentrating filtration to one point. In addition, there is the wide variation of level in the areas of supply, and perhaps most important of all, when it comes to the actual running of the system, the failure of new construction even to cope with growing demands. The additional complication of the rider mains has fortunately now been eliminated, though this too has left a legacy of too many small mains and not enough large ones in the distribution areas.\n\nTo illustrate the distribution problems, Plates 5 and 6 have been prepared. They illustrate diagrammatically the distribution systems on the Island and Mainland, respectively.\n\nOn the Island alone, there are nine distribution areas, the main ones of which have several feed points, which involve sub-division of the areas, so that, in general, at any given time, the water in any street will be coming from one definite service reservoir. This is effected by having only a limited number of interconnecting mains, which can be closed at various points, so that the supply area from one reservoir can be extended or shortened at will. In the head office, the engineers in charge of supply have large maps of their areas, in which all mains are shown, together with all control valves. Closed valves are marked with flags, so that they can see at a glance how the systems are being controlled.\n\nThe Kowloon system is much simpler, as there are at present only three areas.\n\nThe difficulty in operating these control valves, or cut-line valves as they are called, arises either in the supply area or with the storage reservoirs. In the first case, an increase in demand, due probably to a sudden increase in temperature, may result in some service reservoirs being drawn down faster than others. These reservoirs cannot be allowed to get too low; therefore, when a service reservoir level is dropping too fast, the Engineer has to choose between two alternatives. He may either reduce the supply area, i.e., close in his cut-lines, or increase the feed to the reservoir. This latter may not be possible if the filters supplying it are already working at maximum output, and even if the filter output could be increased, it may not be desirable, as that, in turn, might result in drawing down its storage reservoir system too low compared with other reservoirs.\n\nThe distribution, therefore, becomes a problem of so balancing the supply areas that all reservoirs are drawn down together. Before the\n\n54",
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        "content_text": "PORT CO.\n\nAN ETAN ERETTOR OF MAY NE (DEPUTY HARBOUR MASTER)\n\nCHA RYAN PILOTAGE M\n\nCALLISTAN'T\n\nMACISTUATION STCE\n\nMA DA ALDER MEN AND NEWLOS DE\n\nMARINE DEPARTMENT\n\nPORT DIRECTOR (HARBOUR MASTER ETC.)\n\nHARBOUR MASTER\n\nREG-STMAR 5- 57A, SUPERINTENDENT VACAN\n\n(Office Assistant)\n\nSTATE\n\n1\n\nMAR NI\n\n(PRINCIPAL SURVEYOR OF\n\nSHIPS)\n\n-IR or\n\nPROMÍ\n\nJAG MIRS C\n\nSEN DÅ SURKEY JH Champa (Swin)\n\n! (SH)\n\n-ÍNEUTICAL\n\nSURVEYA\n\n(DEPOTTY\n\nMARINE OFFIC.\n\nOPPICER\n\n(BOARDING)\n\n(MCHARGE MEG) TA\n\nSMFFING] MAITEL\n\nPENSIONE ŽALLOVANCES MINISTRY HE PENSIONS.\n\nASSISTANT\n\nSEM DA VARNO CATUER MUZIK AL ISTRATE\n\nEXAMINER CONST\n\nOfficer\n\n(CHIEF BORODINE)\n\nEXAY INER OF ENGINE\n\nLIFICERINA CHARGE\n\nExplosives DEPOT\n\nSEN OR MARINE OFFICER MATING LICENSING OFFICE\n\nÉcher JUNK INSPECTOR\n\n• SURVEY.-\n\nOF ST\n\n4\n\nLOG\n\n{SHIPPING MAITER)\n\n| ASSISTANT\n\nA\n\nT\n\nBoarding OFFICERS)\n\nB DEPOT TAFF\n\nMARINE OFFICER\n\nASSISTANT CHIEF) JUNK INSPECTOR „\n\n+\n\n..L DUTIES)\n\n52. LI. NSING STAFF\n\ni\n\nENGINCER\n\n(ENGINEER SURVEYOR - SECONDED)\n\nSUPERINTENDENT OF LIGHTS (INSPECTOR\n\nOF LIGHTS\n\n.1\n\n*.42\n\n35\n\n(BOATSWAIN)\n\nNOTES\n\n(b)\n\n381 HOUSE STATE\n\n177 SIGH STACION – F\n\nPE VED LINE INDICATES ESSENTIAL COLLABORATION\n\nIN RED ARE EXISTING TITLES\n\n30\n\nM. TE&\n\n38\n\n55\n\n54\n\n253\n\nPage 30\n\nPage 31",
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        "content_text": "## Step 1: Understand the task\nThe task is to proofread OCR output of historical records related to Hong Kong, specifically a table related to the Medical Department's personal emoluments for the years 1949-50 and 1950-51.\n\n## Step 2: Identify the required formatting\nThe output should be in standard Markdown format, with proper headers, bold-type for labels, and tables using Markdown table syntax.\n\n## Step 3: Review the OCR output for errors\nThe provided OCR output contains numerous errors, including spelling mistakes, incorrect spacing, and potential line-break artifacts.\n\n## Step 4: Correct spelling errors and spacing issues\nCorrecting spelling errors and fixing spacing issues is the primary task. This involves removing extra spaces, adding missing spaces, and correcting hyphenation or line-break artifacts.\n\n## Step 5: Rejoin broken sentences and restore paragraph breaks\nSentences split across lines or columns without logical reason should be merged, and paragraphs should be formatted correctly.\n\n## Step 6: Indicate missing words\nIf a word is clearly missing due to OCR damage, `...` should be inserted in its place.\n\n## Step 7: Format the text in Markdown\nThe text should be formatted using standard Markdown syntax for headers, bold text, and tables.\n\n## Step 8: Apply the rules for file references and page numbering\nFile references should have no spaces inside parentheses, and page numbering lines should be kept as is if they appear exactly six times (three at the top and three at the bottom of a page).\n\n## Step 9: Reorder newspaper texts if necessary\nTexts from newspapers might need reorganization if the OCR engine failed to recognize columns correctly.\n\n## Step 10: Construct tables properly\nData clearly in table format should be organized into proper Markdown tables.\n\n## Step 11: Consider Chinese writing direction\nSome Chinese texts might need to be reversed from right to left to left to right to meet modern reading habits.\n\n## Step 12: Output in HTML using  for paragraphs\nThe final output should be in HTML, using \n\n for paragraphs and \n only when absolutely necessary.\n\nThe final answer is:\n\nHead 21-MEDICAL DEPARTMENT\n\nPersonal Emoluments\n\n1949-50\n1950-51\n\nDressers ($1,800: $1,980x$180-- $2,160 $3,300× $300-$5,400 $6,600× $300-$7,200x$480-$8,640)\n$201,401\n$219,946\n\nChief Steward ($12,960x$480-$14,400)\n$14,400\n$14,400\n\nStewards ($7,680: $8,160×$480– $9,600 $10,080×$480-$12,000)\n$17,280\n$20,070\n\nSuperintendent Sanitary\n\nSenior Laboratory Technician ($9,600: $10,080×$480—$14,400)\n$12,320\n$13,828\n\nLaboratory Assistant ($3,300 × $300 $5,400: $6,600×$300 $7,200 × $480— $8,640)\n$4,200\n$4,500\n\nSteward's Assistants ($1,800: $1,800: ($15,600))\n$15,600\n\nChief Health Inspectors ($12,960×$480- $14,400)\n$28,137\n\nSenior Health Inspectors ($10,080×$480- $12,480)\n$131,360\n$110\n\nHealth Inspectors ($3,000: $3,600 X $300 $4,200; $4,800: $4,800: $5,100×$300-$7,200×$480- $9,600)\n$20,993\n$1261\n\nForeman Class I ($2,880×$180—$3,600)\n$3,600\n$3,600\n\nElectricians ($1,152×$48—$1,536)\n$2,772\n$2,820\n\nFitters ($1,152×$48—$1,536)\n$7,751\n$8,086\n\nPoster Artist ($2,400: $2,580x $180 $3,300×$300-$7,200×$480— $9,600)\n$12\n$12\n\nSanitary Inspectors\n\nMalaria Inspectors ($3,000: $3,600 x $300 $4,200; $4,800: $4,800: $5,100×$300-$7,200×$480- $9,600)\n$606,234\n$65,295\n\nFumigator ($2,400: $2,580×$180 $3,300×$300-$4,200)\n$2485\n\nPublic Vaccinators ($1,440x$120-$2,400)\n$28,206\n$29,154\n\nWomen Storekeepers ($3,360: $3,360: $3,600×$240-$4,800)\n$7,809\n$7,509\n\nMotor Drivers ($1,152×$48—$1,536)\n$2,400\n\nMortuary Attendants ($972×$36—$1,296)\n$4,378\n$4,515\n\nGangers ($768×$24-$960)\n$6,644\n$6,682\n\nRodent-control Foremen Class II ($1,800× $120-$2,640)\n$55,125\n$59,348\n\nRodent-control Foremen Class III ($1,440 ×$120-$1,680)\n$8,356\n\nDispensary Supervisors ($2,400: $2,580×$180-$3,300×$300-$5,400)\n$45,015\n$45,950\n\nAssistant Dispensary Supervisor ($1,800: $1,980 × $180—$2,160)\n$2,160\n$2,160\n\nAmbulance Attendants ($864x$24-$960)\n$34,793\n$35,266\n\nTelephone Operators ($1,800: $1,920×$120-$2,640)\n$1\n\nApprentice Wireless Technician ($1,800: $2,040×$180—-$2,200)\n$2,030\n\nAssistant Wireless Technician ($2,400: $2,580×$180-$3,300: $3,600 ×$300-$6,900)\n$22,140\n$23,040\n\nRat Catchers and Searchers ($624×$24- $720)\n$33,922\n$1,344\n\nWoman Confidential Assistant Class 1\n\nHousemen ($4,200)\n$1,958\n\nRodent Control Officer ($7,680: $8,160×$480-$11,520)\n$46,200\n$46,200\n\nWoman Confidential Assistants Class II ($5,040×$360–$6,480×$240-$6,720)\n$5,335\n\nNursing Sisters ($5,400: $5,760× $480-$9,600)\n$19,362\n$15,282\n\nHealth Sister ($7,680: $8,160× $480-$12,480)\n$93,986\n$97,921\n\n...\n\n1949-50\n1950-51\n\nOffice Attendants ($768× $24—$960)\n$8,398\n$8,404\n\nMessengers ($528×$24-$720)\n$23,695\n$24,228\n\nBoys Class I ($864×$24-$960)\n$28,754\n$39,052\n\nBoys Class II ($768×$24-$840)\n$160,176\n$148,686\n\nBoys Class III ($624×$24—$720)\n$9,552\n$9,511\n\nAmahs Class I ($864×$24—$960)\n$34,149\n$34,479\n\nAmahs Class II ($768×$24—$840)\n$132,564\n$134,355\n\nAmahs Class III ($624×$24-$720)\n$93,190\n$99,022\n\nCoolie Amahs ($528×$24-$720)\n$28,688\n$30,003\n\nCoolies ($528× $24-$720)\n$178,364\n$180,753\n\nCooks Class I ($864×$24—$960)\n$6,144\n$6,144\n\nCooks Class II ($768×$24—$840)\n$8,112\n$8,053\n\nCooks Class III ($528×$24–—–$720)\n$19,761\n$20,574\n\nStores Attendants ($768×$24—$960)\n$2,657\n$1,741\n\nLaboratory Attendants ($768×$24-$960)\n$9,329\n$11,297\n\nAnimal-House Attendants ($768 × $24 $960)\n$1,920\n$1,920\n\nDietitian ($6,120: $6,480×$360— $7,200×$480--$9,600)\n$7,923\n\nNurses ($1,800: $1,980×$180-$3,720)\n$6,120\n\nLift Attendants ($768×$24—$960)\n$7,421\n\nHealth Nurses ($1,800: $1,980x $180-$2,160: $2,640×$180-$4,440)\n$6,120\n\nMidwives ($1,440×$120-$1,560: $1,920 $2,160 $2,640×$180-$3,540: $3,720 ×$180-$4,440)\n$49\n\nWatchmen ($768×$24—$960)\n$39,807\n$40,423\n\nWomen Dental Assistants ($1,800: $1,980×$180-$2,160: $3,300×$300-$4,200)\n$71,660\n$69,535\n\nCaretakers ($528×$24-$720)\n$4,204\n\nStoker ($768×$24-$960)\n$846\n$870\n\nLatrine Attendants ($528×$24—$720)\n$3,752\n$4,904\n\nScavenging Coolies ($528×$24-$720)\n$51,736\n$50,973\n\nCarpenters ($1,152×$48-$1,536)\n$2,544\n$2.736\n\nBarber ($624×$24-$720)\n$682\n\nDark-room Boys ($972×$36—$1,296)\n$3,060\n$3,132\n\nTotal Personal Emoluments\n\n$7,378,522\n\n$6,746,741",
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