[ { "id": 221592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "page_number": 75, "title": "CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7]", "content_text": "HONGKONG\n\nREPORT and Estimate to\n\nSPECIAL\n\nBuild a Chapel for Funeral Service & Frineral\n\nBy order of His Excellency the Governor\n\nSetver\n\nREPORT\n\nThe distance of the cemetery from the Town of Victoria being upwards of a mile, considerable danger and inconvenience is experienced by the friends and relatives of the deceased in following the corpse to the ground, from the length of the way they are exposed to the sun. The chaplain also has to wait considerable time for the arrival of the funeral procession.\n\nThe object of the proposed building is therefore to give a place of shelter to those attending, and from whence the deceased may be followed to his grave after the performance of the funeral service in the chapel.\n\nDescription of Building\n\nThe Chapel is to be in the Gothic style of architecture and is proposed to be constructed with foundations and plinth course of stone. The steps and window sills also will be of stone. The remaining portion of the walls will be of sound brickwork plastered in regular courses, inside and out, to resemble freestone drawn and jointed.\n\nThe doors, roofs, and window frames will be of hard wood, and the panels of the doors will be of teak or other hardwood. The roof is to be constructed with chinar for common rafters and slur lines 3 inches in diameter, placed 3 feet apart, and projecting 1 foot.\n\nThe covering will be of tiles 8 inches wide and half an inch thick.\n\nEstimate:\n\nExcavating for foundations 180 × 22 × 3 = 72 cubic yards @ 15c = $10.80\n\nMasonry foundation to level of underground 100 × 3 × 12 = 312 cubic feet @ $6 = $18.72\n\nPlinth course stone running 160 × 12 = 180 superficial feet @ $1.50 = $27\n\nFixing filler gills each 5 × 9 = 45 superficial feet\n\nThe steps measuring 11 superficial feet including side tracery = 12 superficial feet\n\nBrickwork including plastering 160 × 18 × 1/2 = 3440 cubic feet @ 12c = $41.28\n\nHeight of Neff Baths 23 × 9 = 207 superficial feet\n\nPorting w/ex 26 × 1150 = 650 superficial feet @ $25 = $162.50\n\n1000 sq. ft. of Roofing including all Timber and tiles (chinar) complete @ $108 = $216\n\nExterior Lur Doors gothic faust including Jam 60 × 7.542 = 452 superficial feet\n\nPrinting & glazing Store Sash and Rolls & to same the same\n\nGreen to Vestibule and Vestry be 5 after drawing\n\nWall plates of hard wood 180 foot @ $0.375 = $67.50\n\nTin Mencow frames 171 × 1.71 = 292 superficial feet\n\nEntchas over side walls The Bathing set to thick Wall Slate 9 × 4 bricked of hard wood. The whole to be covered with brotes and chumanit a double course of found 5 Inch tiles. well and secu\n\nThe fillings for the Chapel will consist of reading desk for the Chaplain and Clerks and forms or seats for the Audience. A Table and chairs will be provided for the Vestry and Eeckers for the deposit of such books and other articles that may be required for Attendants at Funerals.\n\nThe exterior doors will have substantial English locks, and bolts and hinges of approved construction. The casement will be fitted with exeter shell placed diagonally, which will with the recessites for Penetians.\n\nThe Floor is to be tiled and painted. 400 superficial feet @ $1.20 = $480\n\nCarried Forward: $1094.70\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-012 - Sir John Davis - 1845 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234097, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "page_number": 169, "title": "CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853", "content_text": "Jan. 77. do Sips \n\nett \n\nJulias. J. Bourgoing fully. \n\nstate this discussion to the proximate Mix, \n\nAddress them to the Treasury. \n\nand \n\nCacy to the Currency Regulations \n\nEnto \n\n* Bowring 9237 Whary. \n\n0. Bowring \n\nExeter \n\nMINUTE Ald MR Halksworth MSElliot M&Merivale \n\nMF Peeb \n\nDuked Newcast \n\n1853 OCTR \n\nLiv \n\n20646/58 \n\n53 \n\nMr. Elliot having \n\nlaid before the Duke \n\nof Newcastle the Letter which \n\nyou \n\naddressed to him on \n\nthe \n\n4 Ultimo respecting the Currency Ordinance of Hongkong, I am \n\nto request you to have \n\nthe \n\ngoodness to \n\nfavor his Grace with \n\nOfficial and detailed \n\nan \n\nstatement \n\n168", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-044 - Public Offices - 1853.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 191, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "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", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Register. \n\n24 \n\nNO. 6. FEBRUARY 10, 1857. \n\nLeaving his shop, which was to be burned, to take While we cannot fail to admire the philosophic ed; a largeness of thought, which has some of the effect of lantry and self-devotion to which he pished briefly\n\nestrup They think in lakhs and pounds, of provinces advert. There were on board the Birkenhead, in að- sare itself, and carrying biz \"pate in peril\" into view which our contemporary tales of this as fut parishes, of populations and classes of society. Mondition to the soldiers, a number of women and children a place where it could be more easily cut off. To every other great question, we must confess our we have seen race to warm the Katrs se children, and sick persons. The discipline exhibited by the troops as the inference is natural, that he feared to lose selves at a loss in arriving at way thing like a Tinta Joelity, cannot regard & Katie war i\n\nwyl:tu-\n\nhis family, and knowing he would do so if he repractical solution of his vast problem. It is, in its purtent. Tee who saw a badron more numbered and while the vessel was going to pieces under their feet was efficient than that of the Mediterranean despatched to Kanot remarkable. The only boats available were filled mained here, unless he first of all lost his life, he present unwieldy hulk and shapeless outline, too goon sus phrase, canol consider air davedition to Naples with the women and children, und went off from the fled with them to save himself, taking with him, as many for ue. It is like the discovery of a new very exfestive effort. Even the advance of Rusis which ship's side; so that the officers Kil soldiers, remaining he supposed, the lives of a large number of foreign-planet outside all our known sidereal system, and which has seen the red ine in a single reigu embrace King means of safety, and, calm and motionless, awaited the swallows comicis in a year, per less strange to a public on deck, deliberately deprived themselves of their only ers as a peace offering to the Mandarins; perhaps which we must consequently take upon trust of doms grew in a Frapoan houseby. This disposition, sinking of the messe). Their noble conduct was well also calculating that in the event of the poison the mathematician's calculations. When the however, though wo adnit its advai rugs, las one very described by Captain Wright, one of the survivors, who\n\nserious drawback. It war's triday to their true proportion, carrying off a large number, he would be more Friend has added the three or four hundred but it blinds us somewhat to tou alcance of the events\n\nu a private letter, said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the sunly vir rus taan indemnified for what he lost here. Waat he 1 millions of China, to the hundred and fly with Stienst the account of ties attack Chaton, que af bucking, lastead of going to she bottom; that, indeed, orders and had them carried out as if the men were êm-\n\nspeculded ist um 1 effeat at focision would exorci never saw an crabarkation conducted with such\n\nan\n\nthe boats were filled with women and children, and fer a war of conquest, the Exeter Hall wit be clamorets must inevitably be swamped if their living freight were\n\nwas to lose here was advanced as a reason why he millions of Hindostar, his aggregate becomes a was not likely to commit such a crime; it was ecraething so stupendous, that the very idea cakes n the opium trade Of de few who believe at Sir Johu absence of note and confusion at there was not a however shown, that he was nothing more than sa our breath away, especially if this heterogenous Bowring intends to keep the city, the majority regard the single ery or morietur from any of the men; but, just active, perhaps thriving tradeanan. We say. per- mass of peoples and tribes and nations, is expected as a lead to in inexplicable To Plori before the final plunge a suggestion having been made, polertiary it is said, can have a settled policy lie at that ail who could swim should jump overboard and join haps thriving tradesman, because it may be, that to cohere under the unity of the same Imperial ient is not infected by the with dreams of the? Friend of the boats, the officers begged them not to do so, because if he were able collect his recounts he would be Rule emanating from a geographical speck in the Indiu. aowa sled the Condly ental powera will not per in a position to pay the very heavy debts he owes. Northern seas at a disttee of ten thousandil us to hold land in Cia, Dist Pa-Esment, will not suf perhaps not. Hut, to continue with his statement, tuiles. It is true this is the age of wonders and against the frightful siaughter of them and brothers! Be increased, when the men replied by a cheer and only he takes bread to be consumed by his family on monster undertakings. We are told that distance fort is, and is; be, it is said, a mers provali, rifuru three of them attempted to reach the bonds (Heat the passage, and to be given away to his friendsinis anihilated. We are at this moment putting in the Earoy will not have the mears to follow our bear.) This net of chol keroism, which had been es\n\nIt may guntoran, Tha bombardment, and virtual timated at its full value, not in this country alone but lus native village. Strange to say his liberality in electric girdle around our Indian dominions, conquers of the third city in the wori thay be simply an abroad, and find done much to sustain, and even su czise, commences on board of the steamer, and we find which will virtually establish our imperial presence \"incident.\" The tempt to retain it may be premature, or the high character of our army for unflinching diset- biru cutting up the not very large supply of four at Calcutta and Delhi, and carry the imperial fiat may be overbell, or y bu rastrate by the Jealousy of\n\nother European powers. But it may also be, that another pline, was beyond all praise. This result was in a greet loaves among a dozen people! Then we are told for peace or war and all the main issues of gov stroke los sounlod of the great passing ball which this Can- incasure due to the efforts of Colonel Scatoo, who was he offered 50 and eventually $100 if the crument, to eur most distant borders, in less than sury is ringing veus the ions of the Bast. Bin your certainly no ordinary man, and who rare talent for own view of the subject is upon to grave question \"Sir gaining the effections of the soldiers unter his command steaner would go back to Hongkong that night, the fortieth part of \"forty minutes.\" Even at\n\nJohn Bowring, the qua phitose e Gadici, is not and moulding them to his will had trained these men, the offer being made after the fires were put out, the same put are the solitudes of the the great ways for the sake of falling on his face. most of whom were young and untried levies, to face It must have been one of Ahlum's unlucky days Euphrates Valley, hitherto but the lonely halting His sotions at least indicate something very like a settled danger and death with unshaken fortitude. (Hear, hear.) in which so many extraordinarily suspicioua cir- place of the wild Bedouin, being broken in upoti detuviction, Frau is not about to oppase, for the men of An equal meed was due to all the other officers and men cumstances were arrayed against him, though his by the heralds of our civilization, as they map it the grims were in the breach, and the Muleur values prosent on this trying. occasion, (Hear, hear.) The patente cordial. While France and England net in ect, youngest officer of the regiment, to whore life was full Inek certainly was in the ascendant on the trial, as it for that iron road which shall convey a future\n\nit masters very little whed the reader of Barope chriose of hope and promise, trod the deck by the side of his to fancy in the mater. Nor is it at certain that he blow the result shews. To go on to other points, we have British Viceroy within a week from St. Jamess to\n\ncommander with an em a step, and looked upon the will be misouderstand at home. Lord Palingesson is still first of all his numerous contradictory statement the Ganges.\n\nghastly horrors of death with as much travery and com- dietacor, and likely to remain no, and it was lord Palmer- as to whether ho was going, or not going to leav-\n\neton who said that one day we should be compelled to co-\n\nposure as those who had been longest ingred to peril ing Hongkong. He tells the public in a chop; i\n\nquer China\n\n(Haar.) He (Mr Gordon) did not think'it too late to That grent Seligious body which you call Exe fer Hall, and which when in earnest is evorger than a the\n\nmark the country's sense of the discipline and heroisuz of men who liad thus calmly sacrificed their lives la savo\n\nIt will no doubt be argued,-if we have thus\n\nJudia, while\n\nis not on the side of Manchester. Every religiosa peper others, and he therefore begged to put the question uf\n\nnien\n\nthat he feguing he tells people that he fears centralized our rule and comenlidated our power he must go, at the very time he had his worthy over the vast continent of India, giving the philosophers in the kingdes, on the snigeer of amuxation aid grandmother's letter in his pocket which ad- blessings of peace and goed government to itaf mack in England approves the unexation of Use. The which he had given notice. (Tere, hear.) vised him to remain, aud on which advice he said long oppressed and plundered races, shall we repeated murders of Missionaria, the prepetual insults co Sir G. Grey said that every one acqualated with dew he intended to act. We have bie final assertion | shrink from a similar mission upon thus, waere Christianity, avove ail de up-rising of a new high which,citemstances just described he his hon. friend must\n\nbe it what it may, is founded on the Bible, have borne teir\n\nIt la nut vo ceronic a many insgime that the len filly concur in the feeling tribute which he had paid to that he would not go home, and by way of every enormity of misrule and every phase of it.\"\n\nthe gallart and devoted band of British officers and adencher the purchase of a cargo of word; net social disruption and suffering, seem to cry aloud pounders even will protest. The sales about the mild Hit-\n\nwho lost their lives on the melancholy occasion of the withstanding all this he does go. He is brought to the Invader in the naine of our curamundou which slinded Fatope for half a centary, have never\n\nbeen circulated about the Chinese. That race is underated wreck of the Birkenhead. This act of cole daring, per- back, tried, and found not guilty, and the crime humanity; and shall we shrink from this great duty very nearly in its true character, as one in which disgusting furitest by men who were not inspired by the incentives\n\nuncenaid by a cruelty abhorrent the warat is now laid to the charge of two abeconding fore. solely through fear of offending political jeal seriguality\n\nor surmanded with the glory and excitement of the bat men, who, far any thing we see that could be! Ousica, and because of the sgnitude of the of the ropean peoples. It is just possible,we write in tlefield, bat under circumstances in which there were no mumise deference to the community who deals in api approving eyes to see them, deterred to equal measure brought against them, might return and take their enterprise? Its mognitede is, after all perhaps, that England say vitare le approve. And then-\n\nof admiration and gratitude with the brightest achieve. trial, in all confidence that the black deed could more Collossal than formidable. It may be that!\n\nIt is useless to predict, when the event inust so speedy ments in our military history. (Hear, hear.) With it will be found to lie cather in pussive bulk and falsify or realize all speculations. But if ever Cons of these sentiments Her Majesty's Guvernment were co- be proved by no evidence that would satisfy helpless inertia, than in any vigorous and intrinsic a failug Empire wore laiby on the fan of any land they tainly prepared to take into consideration the propriety jury of this place.\n\nThere is one consolatory point of view in this China would be but the double of what we have den up sing from below, but of its wir rotenness. The referred to. (Hear, hear.)-Times, July 19,\n\ngreatness. Numerically, the task before us in apparent in China gow, The Central Goverment is\n\nof erecting some permanent memorial of the description dying, not of any attack from without, ast event of any sad- had business, it is the fact, that the English public\n\nActually achieved are not bland thiresy, and that an Baglish jury effort it would seem to sink into insignificance in which, whatever the Manchester actout may say, a national Military people weighed down by their scaldbrug civilization have Just all the virtues which spring of strength, and without will do what it believes to be ste duty, even al though that inty may run counter, not only, to the comparison. We are year by year, doubling eztaremos a net posible. They have not even pride, for outside prefice, but even to the opinion of the and quadrupling with success, every domain of their exclusivisin is rather that of a Spanish aristoorsey than a healthy self-assertion, A new creed with some of our productive system; shall we then besitate, if the renate et Christianity and all the ferocity of Judziem judge on the bench. fa that view the trial is a great triumph. Perhaps the Chinese may not our Destiny thrust it upon us, to double the area is striving to attain dominion, as the Huguenots strove, and understand it, perhaps they may think that, what of cur Indo-deminions, and the census of unred. The sticial caste, selectal by competitive examira\n\nconquered populations? the Attorney Gencral happily designated judiciome prodigality\" may have bought justice to At present, however, all such magnificent con- turnside its blow-We cannot help that and must captions as these are remote and shadowy and so- trust to further teaching. In our first Burmese war the same brutal proceedings were carried on see our forces held at bay on the very threshaid of ash a handful of marines, is an fecere by the social ty time he has learned the value of a chapeau and sword, against as as are now being carried ou by the the Friend's great enterprise, the discussion of company predaniant for cudurfer, that it dare not even leave Since this zaemorable event, however, things have gone\n\nthe city til Fel ne given permansson. That ly to mu Chinese-poisoning and massaure-two years after quest seems premature. Still it is the first office thinking the frature of the recent angle. There are towar on asal. Nothing daunted, var countrymen #sad the commencement of that wor one of the ablest of the politician to forecast the future, especially in the world whose poputation would have forn Sir M. Say-still crowd the offices of the legations in London and Paris, chieftains, who had been among the moet ruthless on the eve of such an undertaking as we find our lab for lane. Tasre are tone the population of demand an introduction to Majesty. General Cad- of our opponents, issued an orier, that every before us at Canton, and in this view the disens- there is another town on earth in which a million of people, Dallas, sed made has appearance at court iu full military which would have'iled in parte terror. Bat we question if walleder, of Pennsylvania, has been presented by Mr. English soldier captured abonid be spared, and sion even of remote possibilitica can do no harm. with death raining over head, dared neither a fight car fly costume, wearing a badge of the Order of Cincinnati well treated. Let us hope we may have similar While we cannot follow our contemporary into Nothing but an iron social organization, noting on a rane half a yard sung No mistake about him. Another results from similar conduct in China.\n\nhis tremendous scheme of \"building up second produced such a result. Tits & resil Romsun Famples, an\n\ndeprived of the smallest capacity for Freedora. would have personage has also had his card endorsed by the cham- which cannot endace, berlain-Mr. Hart, of Philadelphia--and he had the\n\nAMERICAN PRESENTATIONS AT European Courte\n\nThe following appears In the New York Herald :— By the last accounts from Europo we learn there has been no new phase at court of an alarming character. The peace of the world not having been disturbed by tien. has all the cold cruelty of the doctrinaires hour thus Rystem fosters without the inzen which sometime gives\n\nthe contretemps of the West Point Professor, there is then strength. The gread Mansela robs the trader, and reason to believe that the secretary of state will not be retis any coin but wirh a specis: stamp. The Governor called on to communicate with Me. Dellas on the inher General pepitates two hunted a day, and teaches his ent vid clolites rights of mankind in genersi and Ameri\n\ncans in particolar. The embarrassment of Mr. Dallas is\n\nme what out of place; while to us upon the spot who Braves to make faces to frighten the Barbarians to their\n\nshipe The great population of Cantem, 100 cowardly to over, and the Weat Pelne professor has retreated. By this\n\nAnglo-Indian Bapire,\" we het Bonod to admit and the vale help scene to be, ay in the OWING to the prisoning case, a great clamor has that mighty contingencies are even at this ma-Tuption of the still vigorous barbarians. The Chinzee may lagesally, doubtless, to obtain a court dress from the costatniers at the usual price. Though sat a military been raised us to the necessity of the government, looming the troubled horizon of this; The insurgenta tave not yet predané a caw idea, If men, like Professor Muhau, he was not afraid to have a ment declaring martial law. We hardly think country. In entering upon a campaign against Christians, they are all Chinese, still consider\n\nslaughter the reacties: patl: to domini, still punca sword dangling between his legs. Probably the amiable striel master of ceremonies did not know what un honour he parties clamorous for martial law clearly un- Cant n, it is not impossible that in our very first\n\nexaminations\" as the end of all good urvornment, still ex was conferring on his sovereigu, nor did the Queen derstand wint it is, Martial law tho hand-step we shall have crossed the Rubicon of our hicind the old hawed of light from without,\n\nknow it, either. She wea probably not aware that in ing over to the military, the lives of the civi-destiny in furthermost Asis, and shall ultimately\n\nWe contas, \"herefore, dat we recive without pleasure the her presence stood in very respectable bookseller, and a fians. It existed in Scotland and in Ireland for fad ourselves involved jo anch inextricable com- roport that no material auistance will granted to Sie Hebrew of the Ilebres.\" Grub-street, though itself many long years-read what good it did in either plications, that we shall neither be able to with- John Bowing frota India. It is of erase vais to hope that excluded from the drawing-ruus, might on this pECA- Martial bus was proclaimed at the draw or stand still. The situation even in its berately on the reale of hallding up as Indian Europe, the fraternity Healy, it is time our foreign legations\n\na Government composed of Englishmen will set itauit deli- country.\n\nsion have glorified itself upon the reception of one of Cape of trucù riops (wo haljeve) a few years ag very first phase, is big with the most formidable That is not the English fashion. The gut reault must - were protected from this constant avalunetic of irrel- Bid some excesses committe d'under it were brought presentments ze regards the fature, and with theive slowly, and be in a matter forse day, or sur con- seines will scarcely be at rest. But weistande sufficient\n\nJerz, who, baving acquire money enough spend six Lo the notice of Parliament. Earl Grey had the buribers it may lay at our door. A military oc- to hold Canson Baglish opinion has been pro muaths in Europe, seek every opportunity of infing it al court Godfish and old clothes have heen sufficiently hardihood to defend it. and appeal to the example upation of the Southern capital of China-it might sll be granted. Nobody is India at least, doubts of the Duke, which brought that great nun ou ia banking centre at once the wealthiest and most that the Plenipotendary is in the right. The organent that represented abroad, and the dealers in these articles we have not men to send is after all only proity to look t aloid now hold up. The truth is, we are running our legs to tell Earl Grey he did not know what he turbulent city in the empire, appears inevitable, Europeans are not wanted. A Chinese is just as Pttle privileges it.to the ground. Our foreign minister should was talking about. He said \"I certainly licht The appropriation of the Imperial revenues pro tema, marel for a sens as he is for An Englishmay, and we can decline presenting any but those whe by their public countries occupied by my armies noder martial follows a matter of course, and pro fem. at dolormined fud se What are tes reginents of loc-\n\nula infantry Indin? The gay could be ill up ook dietiverian. Ar eminent man, or an accomplished and services and position at home are fairly untruted to the law, but I did bot administer the crim.onl justice lost, the Imperial Government is supplanted by\n\nand conveyance for them cen, un reluced to a prestin về of those countries. that was done by the ordina. an invading Power, and, once suppisnted, what ry tribunals of the country; and the only persons Seer shall foretell the day of its restoration, with I beld subject to martial law were those composii subduct, and with the evil spirit of centuries so may wild elements of disorder to be first the armies nuder my orden\n\nMartial inw will not mend the matter; and be\n\nyand the summary execution of spies and the de. portation of vagrant Chinese wa kertainly alone not proceed. We have warned the government as to the necessity of vigilance, and we have urged them to adopt proper precautions, but we equally warn them against the brutality of Military Jaw which ought solely to be confined to the regain- tion of military men.\n\nCommunicated)\n\nHepere, There are or cough for hire. What is earful woman, right very well expect this attention- wasted is new men or steamers, but a formal rengusion of thought in some cases within our knowledge, even when it has been intimated to suit that their appearance at of says is to sell cotton. The pher, and it is pochtaps the the faci, waste so low to ac-zpt, that the Anglo-Saxen Te in this mixteenth neutmy has fivo furetless to perform. One court would be agreeable, they have declined the honour\n\nblom infancy, to oper. with a strong hand a pak by\n\nrather than enjoy it with so many of the impurient and\n\nworthy. We propose to publish, as for as possible,\n\nto be scourged out of a stubborn goneration, lor, is to ride, to reduce the Asiatic vices to trends\n\nto us as Captain of Industry, to protect civilation, in the names of those Amereens who, when abroad, auc- We may assure curselves that a discipline such as this, is not the work of a flying campaign; way we must admit it to be quite upon the cards, that complications arising out of the emergency which taker our forces to Centon in our day may find them there in that of our children'\n\ncred in their straggles to encounter royalty, and who which a tesching me powerful tun eyes that of Anow- Ledre, may was its way abroad. We have in how the jungle anmoy our ministers with appications for the privilege. as wel as sell the are, to not as pincere as well as pillars, A curious list it would be. Is is not very ereditable to to be the teachers of truth as well as tre thoney changes of oat country to be thus known through our tuft hunters, clo world friend of India, Derober, 25, 185.\n\nand it is time we should cease trespasilag on the good nature of our legations, and the iegulations which all ther nations conform to without hesitation or uncivility. ---Globe.\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nVeseli..\n\nA\n\nCAPTAIN.\n\nOWNERS.\n\nFort William Congkong M Dermott. P. & 6. St. N. Co. vielen Adam\n\nHOUSE OF COMMONS-- Friday, July 18, To our thinking the feature of the present struggle is, that it has come upon us without a\n\nLOSS UP HER MAJKATY'S SHIT \"DIRKINHEAD.” word of warning, noiselessly as the tread of Fate\n\nMr. Gordon anked the first Lord of the Treasury itself, not only without our seeking but after the\n\nwhether he would take into consideration the propišety Ws desire to draw the attention of the readers most humane and patient attempts to avert it;\n\nof erecting, in the chapel of Chrises Hospital, of else where, sone permanent memorial of the gallant auci of this Journal to an able article in the Friend of and that it has now assumed character which self-devoted conduct of the officers and inen lost in Her India of 25th December last, containing some in. admits of no compromise upon our part save an Majesty's ship Birkenhead on the 25th day of Febranty, teresting speculations on the present hostile crisis ignoble and a dangerous one-that we have now to 1832. The hon. member observen that it might be usk- at Canton, and on the possible alternative to which fight it out not merely with the Government of ed why he raised such a question at a perful so long it may give birth, in the progress of what our con- Chine but with the people of Cunton, and nuts the erent to which it referred. Its answer was, temporary assumes to the inevitable Destiny of merely with the people of Canton in the better war way happily terminated and we si evinced our Cast it was not an unfitting time for us, now that the Great Britain in the Eas tite que grand sense, whose pridle we shall subdue, but with gratitude to the army which fought and suffered for us ruling and abs bing Poser. In a word, the its infuriate militia, longer a patriotic soldiery, in the Crimea, to recognize services which, though of a Friend of India is not without hope that the amenable to control, but broken by defeat and peaceful character, were universally admitted to he as existing situation at Canton is but the first step disgrace into a desperate banditti, against whose balliunt and distinguished as Gay recorded in our soun\n\nHarlequin tcy's quands. The circumstances connected with the in a career of conquest, the final result of which ravages their own people will be driven to in-loss of the Birkenhead must be so fresh in the ory shail be. (thongh not necessarily in our day or plore our protection. Such is but a faint outline of all that it would be unnecessary for him to canke sur generation) the absorption of China proper into of the probable work out out for the first batta. hat the most passing allusion to thear. The vessel a our Indian empire. Thisis a bold flight certainly, lions in he landed at Canton-Who shall especially for waxen wings within the melting foret all the end 2\n\nheat of the tropics, and we have only to hope\n\nboth for sake of the advocate and his courc, that\n\nit may not prove an Icaran che.\n\nRENT EVENTS IN CHINA-Angle ladinas negaire, simply from tha tireumians by which they are surround\n\nge tooup ship--was ontployed in encrying to the Cape of Good Hupe the draw;hts of vanous regiments. to the amber of 500 men, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Seaton, and she sailed from Queenstown in the\n\nWhimay\n\nGarant\n\nBrown\n\nM-Muric\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\nItunoll & Co.\n\nJard.nu, M. &. Dent & Co.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nJardins, A. & Co Jardine, M. & Co. Dent & Co.\n\nDeat & s\n\n. Heard & Co. Deat, Beale & O Jardine, M. & Co.\n\n8. Sens & Co.\n\nRoger\n\nD. S. Sons & Co.\n\n11\n\nCana Family boluy Itupavil Any\n\nWition\n\n[P. F. Cama & Co.\n\nJameson\n\n33\n\nSwntow\n\nSalva\n\nHongkong\n\nPatinder\n\nLord Aust\n\nTernate\n\nChichen Fitzgibbon\n\nBarton Mahamoudie Folthau Crawford Water Watch\n\nBeby Ann Which\n\nWoosung Endicott\n\nFaily Jane\n\nPiketonu Nimrod Sea Horse\n\n¡Baylis\n\nCali\n\nKappel\n\nP. F. Cana & Co.\n\n17\n\nHenderson musty & Ca\n\nJardine M. & Co,\n\n323", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241393, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 418, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "no Police for other\n\nforce of the Government\n\nAccount to facilitate her departure without re-summonsing the Emigration Officer, with proper Excter pacters necessary, to discover the grounds of complaint and whether or not the Ship ought to be detained.\n\nIt would have been far more prudent, on the part of the master himself to have waited until the nature and validity of the discontent of the Emigrants could have been ascertained, and he suffered the natural penalty of the opposite course by constant alarms and attempts at violence during the voyage.\n\nBut still, having been regularly cleared by", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242322, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "page_number": 208, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.\n\n### VICTORIA, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1857.\n\n**Chinese Calendar, Hà Moon, 5th Day: DIARY. MEMORANDA**\n\n| Day | Astronomical Data |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sunday,... | H❘ Sets 4. P.M. 5,37 634 |\n| Monday,... | 11.16! 1,01 |\n| Tuesday,... | 5.27 6.34 1: |\n| Wednesday,... | 1,564 632 2.5% 30$ |\n| Thursday,.. | 28 Ted |\n\n**VINE SERVICES SUNDAY**\n- St. John's Cathedral-6.45 and 11a, M. and Gr.\n- Union Chapel-63d 7? P. M.\n- Beamers Chapel--1 \n\n## SUPPLEMENTARY SHIPPING LIST\n\n### ARRIVALS AT HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, 11 M. Sir. Fury, Com. Leckie, from Canton\n- July 24, Fr. Gun-boat Drogenos, Co Berry, from Lantao.\n\n### DEPARTURES FROM HONGKONG\n\n- July 24, Nova, Porter, Shanghai.\n- July 24, Clipper (Hong). Marxen, East Coast\n- July 25, H. Mail, towed by the Coromandel for the river.\n\n### POSTAL OPPORTUNITIES.\n- For Macao: Monday, per Feina at Noon; Tuesday, per Willamette at Noon, and per Spark at Ten.\n- For Indian England: per Shanghai to-morrow at 8. Supplementary mail closes at 7.30.\n\nIn the Estate of HENRY DAVIS, of Victoria, Hongkong, Merchant, deceased,\nAre from ZIND SOZAMING and Natives \nA DREYER & Co. \nFreight and Back Vans, \nHongkong, 1st April, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE.\n- CLARE CHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, and French PRESERVES.\n- VAUCHER FRERES. Hongkong, 6th April, 1857.\n\nFROM NEW YORK DIRECT Received per \"Iotspur,\" and for Sale by the undersigned,\n- 100 Boxes Family Soap,\n- 100 Boxes Scented Water Soap,\n- 50 Tins Corn Meal,\n- 50 Boxes Spero Candies,\n- Baker's Buns \n- 5 Cons Superior White Lead,\n- 20 Half barrels White Beans,\n- 20 do. Split Peas,\n- 50 do. Crushed Sugar,\n- 2600 lbs. Sill's Butter in 16 lbs. Kegs,\n- 50 feet Oakum,\n- 100 Tins Black Varnish,\n- Marlinspikes, Caulking Irons and Mallets,\n- Axes, large and small, Paint, Tar and White-wash Brushes,\n- 20 Entire American Cider Vinegar,\n- Pump and Harness Leather, Cotton Canvas,\n- And from Manila: 500 Coils Steam and Manila Rope,\n\nTHOMAS HUNT & Co \nHongkong, 1st July, 1857.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED\n- PATENT Water Cements,\n- Fresh Prunes in Gums, Fresh Raisins in and boxes.\n\nTUOS HUNT & Co. \nHongkong, 20th June, 1857.\n\n## FOR SALE\n- TWO Second-rate FIRE ENGINES complete, from London, ON VIEW NEAR MAG EWEN & Co.'s \nHongkong, 15th July, 1857.\n\n## NOTICE.\nAll Persons having Claims against, or being Indebted to, the late Estate, are requested to forward particulars of the same to the undersigned forthwith \nHENRY RUTTER Administrator.\n\nHongkong, 17th March, 1857.\n\nIn the matter of the Estate of the late MR JAMES SMITH of the Firm of Smith & BLAW, of Victoria, deceased.\n\nNOTICE-All Persons having Claims on the said Estate are requested to forward particulars of the same to M. JAMES W. BRIMELOW, But all Persons indebted to the said Estate, are requested to pay the respective amounts thereto to the said James W. Brimelow,\n\nD. LAPRAIK \nARD. S. DIXSON \nExecutors.\n\n承辦人得忌時麗 \n北力晏度路士吉德 \n士布林羅收入是荷 \n兩亦如嫩交還與未 \n人欠到達士銀 \n朱士布林羅處或各 \n各人債目祈送到 \n·士藏身故如有欠到 \n羅公司之未士朗時 \n廠者未士氏蹲布林 \n\n## NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.\n\n### NOTICE.\n\nQUOTATIONS. \nEXCHANGE AND BULLION. \nHongkong Bank Corporation on \nLondon, 4, 1, Truliai - Gold to Sycee, outis-Date Sycee, Nominal! Pres Laves 24 335.36 per Tael and at at 319 821 d. Canton...\n\nIt is now upwards of a month since we furnished the public with a report of the trial of Tan cute of Tarrant v. Ah Lum the poisoner. The Jury, a special one, awarded the Plaintiff $1,010, it will be remembered, subject to the Judge's decision on the low point raised by Defendant's Counsel; and our readers, no doubt, are desirous of knowing what has been the result of the matter, and how the disputed point has been arranged. But though, as we have remarked, it is upwards of a month since the trial was reported, from that day to the present we have not heard a word of the threatened kroviment;---so, as the time allowed for the mo time was for some time expired, the verdict of the Jury stands. So much for the verdict whether the award will be forthcoming, or whether we shall obtain even a refund of the costs out of pocket \"are problems the solution of which has yet to be told of \n\nThe Editor of the China Mail, in strictures exhibiting the most extraordinary feeling of sympathy for a suspicious character it has ever been our lot to read, has told the world that, owing to the unjust confinement to which Ah Lum has been subjected, being unable personally to look after his office--he, Ah Lum, is now declared to have become Bankrupt and will have to pass through the Insolvent Court\" and, adds the Editor with an evident hug of gratulation, there will possibly (the italics are ours) be some \"difficulty in recovering the amount of damages.\" Possibly there may--but, at all events, we are placed, by the verdict of one of the most respectable juries ever empanelled in this Colony, in a position to challenge the Insolvent's Balance sheet; and should it be, as we shall not be surprised to find, that Ah Lum's bankruptcy is due as much to his very proper stoppage at business here as to some astounding malversation in the shape of lawyer's fees, or payment of hireling scribes the facts will duly be made patent to the public, and, it will be hoped, produce a salutary effect that the Jury's award will not be altogether lost \n\nThe arrival of the mail prevented the intention of noticing in our last issue a very interesting letter in the Hongkong Register of Tuesday, signed a Catholic Missionary, and of which the intelligent Redacteur of that paper thus remarks.--- \n\nWe publish better from a Roman Catholic Missionary. in reply to some observations by a contemporary as to what ought to be the course of the French in China in his opinion. We don't of course agree with the remarks of our contemporary but we entirely agree with the letter which we publish. Neither the fact nor the spirit are in good taste, and an easy answer could be time to both were worth while which is not. \n\nWhether the letter in question is a reply to our observations--whether it is \"bad taste\" (as one reverend Father disclaims it)--or whether the subject is worth while to notice are all points on which we shall leave our readers to form their own opinions. Here is a translation of such parts of the letter necessary to an understanding of it, and appended is an extract from the speech of His Lordship the Bishop of Victoria, on the 5th of May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is entirely in consonance with the honestionsa which May last, the spirit of which, it rejoices us to find, is not our contemporary does not think it worth while to notice. \n\nTranslation, \n\nReferring to the Anglo-French alliance on the China question--the author of the article accuses the French of a desire to impose their religion on Canton by means of bayonets, amusing it (religion) to serve their ambition.\"This alliance so surely desired by Great Britain rests, it is true, on different interests. Now, as well as in 1841, one noble neighbours are pressing the granting of their commerce. Now, as well as in 1841, France defends is the cause of humanity and \n\nas fafmontas nigha 50 - Fella 24 y. \n\nSHANGHA 15th July -On London 7, The-On Calcutta Theme dava sight Rs. per 1 Palnation, which is only possible on religious principles. de-Draft on Hongkong 29 porced sc. MANILA, 5th June - London, da iglu 4,3 -day sigur 4.9-On Hongkong and carest submit in this country to many obstacles--that Before 1841 the commerce of England had to premium golden Siang 50 pre eit pra \n\ndo-Spa isa and Mexican chopped dollars per \n\nOPIUM, \n\nRosatoma, 5th July, Palan 5520, New Para $590, New Bennes $575, Mal $515, \nMacao, 6th July New Itna $545. Old Patna $525, New Bars $575, \nGames-No Market. \n\nSHANGAR, 1 July--Malwa 400 Trots, New Patna, A Tacle \n\n### FREIGHTS AND TONNAGE.\n\n- CANTON-SHANGHAE, £3, the Tea, a £6.6 for Silk--To New York, 10 per ton of 40 cunt.\n- Also London, Sugar, £3,10, Hemp £4,10 To United States Arabia 23,,10 \n\n### HONGKONG-THE FIRE\n\nFour days after the Fireman's report of the conflagration on Wednesday last--it commenced a little before eight, in or outside the easternmost of Lane dare storici houses in a detached block between the Taipingshan Temple on Hollywood \n\nintroduction at some merchant like being altogether repelled by the Chinese authorities--the pino inspired by the English power has been, it is true, to cause of the war of 1841 The result of the treaty \n\ngive an entire sanction, at all events to make trade more free. is for the benefit of all nations, and to deliver trade from all obstacles, that England presses herself forward with such insisting force most noble is her project and ardently do we desire success to the undertaking, \n\nLong before 1841 your illustrious ancestors were halflence to the successor of Saint Peter--and Quitted to us in the same faith, and by a common wish with us they defended the Liberty of conscience of their brethren in the east against the ferocious despotism of musselmon persecutors, there were even then Catholics in China; and in alternate peace and persecution their numbers have successively multiplied. \n\nIn France profited by the fact of England's acting, though timidly, under similar circumstances \n\nEDWARD WEB has this day been admitted Partner in our Firm \nDENT, BEALE & Co. \nShanghai, 1st July, 1857.\n\nNo. 20 Rua Campo, Macao. \nSHAW'S HOTEL Board and Accommodation, Billiards. \nBy M Il saaw. \n\nThe lower part obtained was rendered inst by mason of the stone formations known as Bridges's folly. The lower part of the house loyally destroyed was a carpenter's shop, and it was from the large and valuable pute of China pine square in the yard adjoining the shop, that the flames were continued wall between nine and ten o'clock. How the fire originated, no one has yet discovered it is singular that it should have occurred within a few yards of the last fire, and in a carpenter's timber yard again. The value of the property destroyed will be about a thousand pounds sterling, and it is said an old man perished by suffocation in one of the \n\nFrom 1841 to the present time, imprisonment and torture have not ceased be the lot of Christians (in China) and area their blood has been spilt and it is for that blood France comes and demands reparation to prevent a repetition of past horrors, And the more extended freedom of conscience en-\n\nWe have heard doubts expressed of the truth of the story told of that gentleman's in miles. The tale, it is said, has never been properly authenticated. - F. C. \n\nThe writer of one of the letters to which we have referred says,--- \n\nand your gracious Queen and our beloved Emperor have thought to unite their endeavours in order to a \n\nI am told that the Chusan Mandarin which Sorira told greater chance of success to their (general) establishment a pier, has era on board his in in such loose con \n\nGarment figs (England, par U.M.O, epizm-France \n\nthe last faar mancha tha to snout naw 80 his font or legs\"--and he slit, antur at the 4:5, I saw the To impose cur religion, cramming). \n\nMantarım yestoniy, He says that Zaring los contoamgut religion by means of the bayonet is out of the or bord le ha 99 ext 20 men cited and focio question, and the honourable author of the article book about $7900 in Cash. Bu on occasion his fricade publ need not be alarmed. \n\nOn our side we Mal0 to have him released, bat Sostro took the money and \n\nLed.\" are far from being alarmed about the Missionaries \n\nof the religion founded by Fancy the eighth and In addition to their ambroglio with the Perin Elizabeth on the contrary, the zeal will exclleguese, the French have a sinal fate with tho ours. Perhaps, indeed, they will be the first ab noted Apak. appears, the nature of which har jects of our zeal perhaps they will become our over, we have yet to hear This is all the Herald brothers by the faith, as they are alresly by feel tel's of it: - ings of regard, respect, and charity.\" \n\nAt the 58th Anniversary Meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Exeter Hall on the Morning of Wednesday, the 5th of May 1857, the President, the Earl of Caichesser, in the Chair; the first Resolution having been moved by the Lord Bishop of London, and seconded by the Dean of Carlisle, the second Resolution was moved by the Lord Bishop of Victoria; and the Bishop spoke as follows- \n\n\"Now, My Lord, what is the reason that I have dwelt so much on these encouraging features of the \"Chesping ove ment? It is not, of course, that I wish the assembly to carry away with them the first notion that I look upon this body of men is, in any kind sense of the word, Christian. I know the vague screw, the wina jasjsącko, with which the term \"region\" Christianity\" apst be applied to see a system as I have been referring ( I have no confidence in the personal boaters eftlus rebellion; but I cannot help thinking that God, who in His providence has permitted a may want containing within it so many elements of exerbal truth, mus necs invenit to accomplish indinvely, by means of the The pin Rey lotion, so.he great and mercatene wis Sa China. Its act. \n\nA pak's finct of Wank roast hoals are lying off the sol zato, aqua the lacteria, blockade by 17. I. Corete La Ca pricieuse. They have taken several of their gate ashore, and threaten to take the city of Ningpo, and hadre French men of war attack them. 41 Montes, the Porteced Consul has demode) indemnity from the Chinese nothontie waved as the Intendat, Aigners, exco Portuganun, were 11-ing in parket \n\nThe Earl of Elgin and suite left this port in the Shannon on the 16th instant--the flarer Master reporting Calcutta as the vessel's destination. Quid meant General believes that the Shannon is gone to Peking, and gives as his reason for believing this, the fact of Mr Wade, Chinese Secretary Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary, being ordered to be very diplomatic when embarking, and by no means to let it be known when he was bound to or when he would be back, Mr Wade is the gentleman sent by Sir John Bowring to Cochin-China in 1855 will be remembered, and who was left by the Raider without even a servant on the bank of the River below Hue, where he remained, recognized by the Cochin-Chinese government, until the Radler came back for him Should it really be that the Shannon has gone direct to the Pelbo, better selection for letter carrying in the Svenson's barge could not have been made, and we congratulate His Excellency the Ambassador on the possession of such an able instrument. Mr Wade's experience as a Chinese Custom house officer will not be lost in negotiations at the North. \n\nPROVINCIAL.\n\nThe great apesaluter Tuksen it is said is convonal in the Commissioner's enquiry.— Ibid. \n\n### PEKING.\n\nThe Peking Gazette have reached us up to June 15th, but contain nothing of special interest. The business of the Empire seems to go on as quietly and regularly as ever, but the state of the finances continues to be the absorbing topic at head quarters. Contributions are proposed on all hands, and in places where the accounts have been left in disorder by previous officials of 1855, a minute investigation is insisted on, and deficiencies are to be made up within a stated time. -- \n\nLord Canning has justified the belief which we have been induced to form of him. He lives in days which have more significance than years in the career of many of his predecessors and all his acts are momentous. Since he took the conduct of affairs into his own hands, criticism has been disarmed. All the resources of the country have been gathered up and made the most of, and every corner of the Empire within and without has been ransacked to furnish aid in India's great extremity. No means have been left untried to satisfy the hungry soldiery, and to keep the rebels without a shadow of \n\nThe 79 Native of hry presented an arze, praying that they might be permitted to march to the North West to shore in the lafore and Dulate the loyalty of the Europeans, and within a very few hours his Lordship made his appearance at Barrackpore harangued the troops drawn out to receive him, and did more good perhaps by the utterance of a few single phrases fresh from the heart, and clothed with the authority of his high station, than would have been expected from the reigation of a score of General Orders which but few read and lower still autoreland.. \n\nA Rent Fortune has kindly sent us a copy \nYau's organization of a squadron at Faishan, to of his new work' —Fortune's residence among the Chinese-inland, on the corest, and at sea, \n\nof the 18th instant\" We now learn that, under the being a narrative of scenes and giventures \n\nrenowned chief Le, the rebels gave battle to the \"during a third visit sa Cuius, from 1983 to \n\nImperialists under General Kwin nea: Sewking, * 1856--inclu hag wations of many untional and gained a complete victory--only three boats \n\nproductions and works of art, the callure of \n\nscoping to Canton to tell the result, of carrying Silk & with suggestions on the present \n\nLe's bravado challenge to Yah to come on again \n\n• war.” A book of 450 pages netava. —we have soon as it could get couly. Le's force is stid to not as yet had sufficient space time to give auber 100,000 fighting mon, and 1,000 war ves more than a cursory glance at its roulents; suf- seis, and His Excellency Le's bead quarters aro Betear, however, to enable us to ratify the trail-i now at the district city of Bet. The first class city \n\nof Secking is in very straitened eramstances. faless of the very able review of it in the Mone News at the 10di ult. To residents in Shanghae and Ningpo the work will be peculiarly and men, bae ked a hard batte with Imperialist necepeptable--most of the locities describd woops from Tw-chow, and having gained the vic being those which juries troat those places tory 11. E. e compelling the whole of the surround- are now been aing ordery occurrruos Eng cuantry people to sabm to his rule. Fearing and encompassing the use of car British alat men in colowing is an abstract of the country travelled for the provincial city itse, Yeh is calling in a the Tauschow men, and has stational a thousand of over by Mr Fortune during the perid of the \n\nthem in the South eastern suburbs. The lendore of story. \n\nthe Ninety six villages 150, base bed to send their Chapter I gives the voyage from Hongkong to Shanghae in the Steamer Ganges, -II, the quota of armed men--between two and three to Shanghae to Ningp by boat, and thence \n\nBanner-men, Manchus, and the Lieutenant Gover- to Yuhang on the eastern side of the Yang \n\nnor's guards, altogether about three thousand, ace woopad on the heights beyond the northern wolf. Kiang (the over skirting Ningpe) a distance \n\nThe Hak has of Ko ineng and Six other dis of Bome forty miles by boat and chair--back to Ningpo, and on to the old city ut Traken, tricts have united, and are burning and destroying abontwelve miles from Ningpo, on the branch wherever they go. Canton is the great point to escaps Lo, and there the poor starving wroches of the river conning to the northward. Horn-\n\nA Ningpo in his boat, in Casper VI. we \n\nThousands, wäinen and childen Temporary A letter in the Penang Gazette says - Almat Gad Mr Fortune at Teung, the celebrated \n\nrunt sheds have been erected for them at Chefing 1,000 to 1,500 Chicamen lure had their heads monastery ab at a dog in unites from the Yu. \n\non the south of the river, and them are daily take off by the Dynks who are in arms in all bang spoken of in Chauer Hero ur \n\ndalinge out of congee and rice, supplied by the directions. The Chinese had hald' possession of For was laid up with fever, and bad tɔ sự - aut \n\nauthorities, in gasathies just suficient to ward off the town for about two days, befare the mermer öü cure. to Chine-e medheal treatidens Dr \n\ndisentation. The City is divided into five grand Jantes Brooke arrived, and wern in the fires and Chapter Vils of a return to 8 g divisions, and those agin into sections, within about the town. The Bret shot from the wormerly which ehe bodied tour patrol night and day long 18 pounder cleared the fort, and in a short time. The fear of a rising within the walls to vary they were all swarning out of the town, the steam- great--each en draade his neighbour, ander at the time hard at work with gun such rifies, every ermutenanes is depressed. Few says which did considerable execution. Every day br the icporter can rentize their sad position with- loads of hatuls were arriving Sock, Drak \n\nout being in like predicament. On one hand they were flocking to in Qarsunds and eating the Chin \"feat the approach of the western barbarians name in all directions. They are all cleared not \"on the other the northern and western rebels and of the Sarawak territory, only 150 ne so en DỀ added to both is treachery at home\" Truly some 2,000 to 3,500 having recaped. All th \n\npursued this line of argueal; int I have dve up this foster because I view with considorable apprehension the fature corse of British and French diplomace, the Bast There are very resultar angers now environing the path \n\nnexion with Chan, In China, we who at a distanca e46- tarsly watched the progress of Live gerat European WAY İN which our counter bua been recently engagent, coad with a great degree of satisfaction of the Anglo-French allowe We porused with the keepest colorant the inteliigance luxught by mal anal of the rivalum nad lenda of a couturies being buries in the tombe of the heroes who fel at Alma and In- kermann; and I certainly would not now say one word in depreciation of the character of that able z in who sways the destinies and wichts the trapetisi sceptro of Prano. Baltas will any, test it in davio to my aan mini that the French have a large foot in the Bash; that thng baye no roumawiał interests to vota mer and fister in those masteroms, and that their time too often serval as a kind of rovarg s pred Musinnary phion over the broad waters of the Faci fic, iving en layout to at, at Tahiti, the dip.ad eba Kolla aastat ja redressing the inaainy grievances of the Jeans propagandists thoughout the west. And when I re- member that the Romish propagandi-ts in Chian have always viewed the Tae-ping Revolution via peraline slicka nad Me like-when i renninber that in the early stages af din renale lion linge native Reteruses, ju neging than iloitars, and not yet being skilled in tar den of making a disuneti n with- \n\n### FRENCH PORTUGUESE.\n\nThe Atten by the Portuguese orcha me at Nagpo monopoliza the boat traffic between that port and Shanghae, resulting in an armed collision with one Frenchoren, was told of in one of car numbers some two or three months ago, the 2qbble being referral to the high authorities of the respective nations at Macan. \n\nFrom the proceedings of the French War Ves- sele Marceau and La Capricesse since, it would now appear that the Governor of Marni hat nu thorized the seizure of certain vessels wherever found, and in porsaance of the resolve we ern freas the North-Chisa Herald of the 4th and ch instant that first the Schooner Aurora was taken, and then the Tarcbas 166 and 44. The Chinese portions of the crews of there vessels, with the usal humanity, were instantly handed over by the French to the tender arcles of the Sergh Menilarius,and were soon disposed of, of course. The Portuguese are still in eustody and will be brought to Mucas for trial in uil due time we suppose. \n\nby leters of a week's later date than the infantion reported in the Herald, we find that \n\non called Seiro, spoken of as a great deg peraio, gave himself up to the Freach on the 13th instant, and that thrun of his comrades, hid in the fee houses on the banks of the river, were also caught the sun day. Sonire it appears had been carrying 9 Mandarin about with hire that he had \n\n### Chapter XIII.\n- takes the reader from Tez-tsing to the village of Pururchse and on into the Quartz valley and Temple, 2000 teet alus tar level of the son, where, in the month of October, before the Hongkong summer is well over, the air is \"piercingly sild.\" The same chapior describes a boat voyage of some peril from Ning to Shanghae. \n\n### FOOCHOW.\n\nIt was rumored abroad somewhat extensively that he founded on the arrival of the Lieutenant Governor to Jeeva for the upper provinces, but Fes story had no foundation. The Goverant Gentral is now in his pe par place, and we hope that the may continue to fill and a loze it. \n\n### Friend of India Jane A \n\nit is vary sad. Oh, Sử Jaha Bowring--Sir Chinese women went over safe, about 200; and of all the bool they got in Sarawak, the pasere John Bowring--what an amount of misery ban tkou to answer for ' \n\nvery litla now,\" One of the rusas of trying to get quit of the Dyaks ws to throw money he g The The Chinese were macahing in body of about 2000, eluding 700 women and childies, and the Dyeks hovering stout them, nerasionally making a dash at a corner, det iching 40 a 50 from the main body, and whipping nineir heads with great seal. The Chinese have had t terte lesson En Satown. Their inawer of going ab eat it won to take held of a Chimwatan by his vel, nad whip off bis hand with great dexterity'; one blow suffired, I hardly expect the slaughter will scop here; the Dyaks, having their blood up and expecting the \n\nWe have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from this port dated 7h uirino, received per averiand courier. From it we learn that a man- darin of high rank has arrived there from Palting on his way to Canton where it is ranured he is to \n\nCe left the capital 2. be second in rank to Yeh. \n\nout a man is left.\"--Dady News, June; 10. \n\nQ \n\nor 3 months since, but had made a siren tous route in consequence of the troubled state of the country. Es proceeds in Arany on his way to the South. \n\nThe rebels have retired near to the borders of Chapter XIV. takes Me Fortune back to Tse-\n\nthe province. hey are reported to be quiet, attire to trave a deal of booty, parave them sill kee again, and narrates abe partientors of a jar. Suoma \n\nSmall supplies of Ton from distant dis ney from Ningpo to Sletoghar by the infultricts had arrived and to reso had gone up to par- \n\nThe Duren in Jaray —The nėščiai įvursal of te via Ya-yar, Noskalon, Tiyenin. chrce, but as the season i'r the first chep had pa99- \n\nthe Hague of the 5th casains a long tepat to ne aland that for the se oud was far advanced, few Kanpoo, Yedhow, Chapes and Ping-hoe. Shanghee in the Silk country, by Carim, \n\nChapter XVI. spus with journey for fine toux were expected and not a large younity of King Halland from Myer, Minister of Cole medium xds, the second crop being 1 sjured from is, and M. Gevers. Minister of Pareiga A Forte, zolucive to Japanese affairs, and his Majesty has Page, Nantsing and Houchowfoo. Lo Chup the fact of the first faves por having been gathered. ter XVIII, Mr (ortane runebes be greated From the ear districts ton hd cute in more free-approved of Annexed to the report are fee distance inland, viz the town of Marcoee,ly since the dispersion of the rebels. \n\nsome orty miles west fira Hoochosloo, and the same chapter gives his return to Shanghae, Chapter XXI contains the last of theur. neyings, was winding up business tour to Nings po, the valley of the Nine stones, and Tras Asing again--finally, a return to fonghong and voyage to Calcutio \n\nMexican dollars were a 10 per cent disconat There was nothin, doing la Opkom sture the tax of 20 per chest and brand-China Herald, July, 11. \n\nThe Cairngoras was to leave on the 4th instant,pa Rad to!load, concluded on the 30th of Jan \n\nary, 1896. Three articles, amongst other things, a futt ship, having 1,000 tons of new you on board. She would be the first away--two or thre, ather Slipmats that the Dutch shit be allowed to excreike their worship tronly, and that they shall no longer yeable ware wearly laden- \n\nRico centinued dear bat'the weather was favora- \nbe subjected to the impious cartas of trampling ble for crops. \n\nunder got the image of our Saviour on the croes, They aleo eunal that the Dutch shall be permitted to trade in the open ports, and to get to and parsip ee from Japanese traders. Also to take her wives and children to the wil perts The trucks funter. declare that the importation of foreign and the ex portation of Japanese money shall be allowed; that the Japanese government may levy madarité im. pon, Trungit, and export duties; and, betly, that The Dutch it Nangas ke any misintan free relations with foreigners, both on board veganf• and at Deco \n\nThe report adds, that the Japanese green en has declared asel\" resdy to raciale vrea tea with all foreign governments that may wish top them--Avid. \n\nSo innch for an answer 10 the question which will be added by Chua Residents of \"where dad Me Fortune go to when fast here ?\" In our j next paper we shal: furnish some illustrationsį of the notices\" mentioned on sho ate pagod \n\n(From our Overland Nlition of to day.) From the official announcement in our last that there would be no second Mail Seaner from China this month, Subscribers to tlus journal will not have expected their customary paper. Mr Wal ker the ... Co's. Superintendent, however, with a consideration for pulite interests deservist Gach commandation, promptly chartered the Grsi vanbie Steamer to bundthe Road jun away from the heaving down huik-which he has placa on the Shanghae ins; aking thence tho Shang Adi; mud that vasset, deep as she can swim with alk, now goes to Gaile with the muit. May cephyr smooth as be glossy cargo speed her way through tive most dangeroza period of the year in lue China Sea. We pray this under some nusideration for the interests of underwriters. \n\n## SHANGHAE\n\nAn Imperial Commnissioner named Warg, triv \nhers (Saanghae) on the 7th instans quite unex- pected by the dohorities. \n\nis said he has corng to examine into hn causes of the low state of the public trensary funds, and to tnvestigate certain disbursensule made en ac count of purchases of rice fur the govern went some moatas back, -ay well as to squeeze the marchana and the Toatai ton, to raise fimis to help the pa sing exigences of the looper al Government. We! hear 50,000 weis was demanded from each of tha \n\nmeharts doing the largest business, and that it will probably be compromised for The 5,000 \n\nIt is rumored that Ho Kweling, the fately ap pointed Govarour-general of the Two Keang, is the originator of the present enquiry, on proteaze of not being satisfied with the manner the prisent Intendant, B. E. Las, has been performing tha functions of his post. We have no doubt, Theres fore, that it wit be eney for the Emperial Commis elouer, if his instructions are to that eflist, to tay of sone hold weak poll in the multifarious trans risgrace. We should, however, regret much, sho actions of flis Excellency Lan to bring him into that be the result of the investigation, both for the \n\nThus the despatch of the last mail, military there appears reason für believing that balure we operations about Canton have bem and \n\nCatcmpt possesion of the walls, the rebels will \n\nhave concladed the business for 13. Our Prurin interests of foreign merchants end the Clainese. cial reporter's news it will be seen are alarming. i \n\nFu has been fourteen years a man-larin \n\n### THOUGHT.\n\nThere is a luxury in earnest thought The unthinkang kaka dream of floppy har Who, holding sweet cornuates will himseti, Roving the fèlie ofiscality, \n\nFees het sa labelincas, though ali stEYA, Ngreaves at etalless avai jinde of looke \n\nDoes has lotless med. The daisied eid, The garden of the wood, alike shall be Fer dina struly ; everything aro \n\nThe flower, the tree; the titing, the running brooks,— Aure to bin asterials for clight, AB curists a pure veliges to atm, \n\nYea, nevor fi ing pleasure. Grieť may ce Deal's cold echipe conceal his fail-erfed jar, Rickness may pale uus e vak, lone plach this pace, Be thought tall be fat luns on Ristie Tomas of earth's disygietrose a chara Te all the hatefulensing to sleep \n\nAnd lighten evʼn the heaviest (sail afilis. \n\nUpwards and Quinards. By & W. PARTRIDGE,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 246262, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-072 - Indviduals - 1858", "content_text": "XXXII.\n\nAll existing and future Records and Papers, and all Papers heretofore or hereafter to be laid before the Council, shall be deposited with the Clerk, who shall be responsible for the safe custody thereof, and shall have all such Papers ready to be produced before the Council, whenever the same may be required by any Member; and such Papers, and the Order and Journal Books, shall be at all reasonable times open to the inspection and perusal of any Member.\n\nPETITIONS.\n\nXXXIII. Petitions may be presented to the Governor by any Member, immediately after the Chair is taken; and every Member presenting a Petition, shall satisfy himself that the Petition is respectful and deserving of presentation.\n\nXXXIV. Any Member may move that such Petition be read, but in so doing he shall state the purport of the Petition, with his reasons for wishing it read, and the motion being seconded, the question may be put, \"Whether the Petition shall be read?\"\n\nPRIVATE RIGHTS.\n\nXXXV. In any case where individual rights or interests of property may be peculiarly affected by any proposed Ordinance, all Parties interested may, on motion made, seconded, and carried, be heard before the Council when in Committee on such Ordinance, either in person, or by their Advocate.\n\nWITNESSES.\n\nXXXVI. When it is intended to examine any Witnesses, the Member, or the Petitioner, requiring such Witnesses, shall give into the Clerk a list containing the Names and Residences of such Witnesses, at least Two Days before the day appointed for their examination.\n\nXXXVII. The Evidence of every Witness shall be taken down by the Clerk and read over to the Witness, who may then desire any correction to be made; and in case no such correction shall be made, the evidence shall stand as given, and not be altered afterwards.\n\nGENERALIA.\n\nXXXVIII. When any Number of Days are mentioned in the Standing Rules of the Council, the same shall be exclusive of Sundays and general Holidays.\n\nXXXIX. Wherever the word \"Governor\" shall be used in these Standing Orders and Rules, the same shall be held to mean the Officer for the time administering the Government.\n\nXL. The Standing Rules of the 7th March, 1845, are hereby rescinded.\n\nGov 21-17 Ma\n\nDuplicate Supplement to\n\nOne 478\n\nLate 2 CT\n\nHong Kong 10. August 18'55.\n\nPRINTED FOR PARLIAMENT\n\nafter mi March KUT 10 Lettin Duplicate Original offe the 95 B C And some D the ultant your address had be a forwarded to His Excellency Governor, in the usual way, for transmission to Downing Street, with ... Report of my suspension, received from E. Bridges his Acting Colonial Secretary, intimation, of which is nature official copy, that is his intention to forward - not all led with the case, a But indomments conce speech only as this Sulle these, buy Thereto Exeter *\n\nAs my and Theat. forwarded until the next mail angles of of this late. copy of my will instant with letter of the J Ame will not be on have at my word you, I had anticipated some such vertation of the Regulations this subject, and had prepared myself in against. But so strong expected.\n\nA it To conscientiser it I have been obliged to the past night in nearly the whole. spend procuring copies to be made of ments more coverediality even his copying some of Chris an Kif ? Corse the down wanted, and them myself. at Hong Kong.\n\nto me, sir, that the Consecoming of a peeps of work at this juncture, ought to have been only The Right Honble Ba anglement with bi; one mall ar Excellency E. L. Z. B. 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Lower Sunmerlands - Exeter,\n\nLis,\n\nREC 15 JUN 1860.\n\n460\n\n5. June 1860.\n\nI have the honour to report my arrival in England on Leave of Absence from Hong Kong as specified in the Accompanying Enclosure.\n\nI have the honours to be,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJove Merivale\n\nUnder Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Department,\n\nGreat Britain.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252772, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "## Hội chung vùng\n\n**RECEIV** \n221 Regent's Park, Center. \n8th February \n9 FEB 1861. \n1861. \n19 \n16 Feb 1861 \n5529. J. Parkins Surgeon, Exeter \nJohn Propert. \nSurgeon. \nLondon.\n\nI have the honor herewith \nto enclose, two Medical \nCertificates in support of my present Application for an extension of leave of absence from Hongkong from the 15th of April to the 12th of October next.\n\nFor the information \nof the Right Honorable the \nUnder Secretary \nColonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252782, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 235, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "## ០៩ន \nབསྐྱེད་ཅག \nངོར ན དང སྡོན དེ རོང གཅཆོག དབུ སུར,18 \nཔས་ཟཟང་ \nऔर \nའཕན༽ཀ \nཀཧ།༠༢སེང \n\n231 \n## February \n| fl | of | رنگ | 6 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1697 | klong | Mon | Exeter |\n\nReport's Park. Crates: \n20th February \n**RECEIVEL** \n21 FEB 1861. \n1861. \n\nI have had the honor to receive your letter of the 16th instant informing me that the Duke of Newastle will not object to grant my leave for which I supply but that his Grace regrets that considering the short period of my services in ... something her connexion sanction my receiving any portion of my Salary during such extension.\n\nIn reply, I trust that his Grace will be pleased to view exceptionable, one - not only because the present is the first occasion since 1833 upon which any leaves of absence ... \n\nC. S. Fortever Ye", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252784, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 237, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "concluding sentence of which Document I could respectfully \nget earnestly solicit attention.\n\nI have the honor to be, \nSir, \nyour obedient Servant \nF. Forth \n\nLee, Registrar 1157 \nSir Roger.\n\nAdhere to the decision \nat ? \nI think so \n22 \n26.\n\nExeter - 20th February 1861 \n\nI hereby certify that I had on this day personally examined Mr. Forth and consulted on his case with his Medical attendant, Mr Perkins.\n\nFrom my previous knowledge of his case, from the history of its progress given me by Mr Perkins, and from my examination of Mr. Forth, I am perfectly satisfied that it would be very wrong for him to proceed", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252787, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "## \n9 \n\n1919 trong hàng Regent's Parks Exeter.\n\nMarch 3 1861\n\nEC \n\n4 MAR 1861.\n\n235 \n\nIn reply to your letter of 28th ultino (only just received) informing me that the Duke of Newcastle has sanctioned an extension of my leave of absence from Stonyhurstdon alay to ther Corin's team? \n\nose communicated to me \n\nPage 240\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252791, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "## Sir I Royer\n\nLelli sand\n\nWait the answer\n\n4. Admiralty awardingly.\n\ninform M. Falt.\n\n0/11 77\n\nM. 15/5\n\nthen\n\n3147\n\nF\n\n1151\n\n20/hs\n\n24750 bringing 239\n\n## 6. Regent's Park - Exeter:\n\nSit\n\n16.\n\n**RECEIVED** \n**19 MAR 1861**\n\nMy health not having improved since I first applied for an extension of leave of absence, I beg to request that the Duke of Newcastle will reconsider my application of the 8th ultimo, for the reasons stated in my letter of that date regarding my departure from England.\n\nMy departure was delayed, for the reasons specified in your letter of the 8th instant, until the 20th proximo.\n\nI will subject my impaired health, immediately upon my arrival in China, to all those coil consequences most dreaded for invalids in the months of July, August, and September.\n\nMet Samuel Perkins of Exeter and John Prichard of New Cavendish Street, London.\n\nDowning Street.\n\nSurgeons\n\nSir Frederick Rogers", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252801, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861", "content_text": "# \n16 APR 1861. \nExeter. \n6. Regent's Park.\n\nEntr April 15th 1861 \n249 \n\nI have not replied sooner to your letters of 28th February and this instant as I entertained some misgivings that upon hearing of the Death M.L.C. Seine January last of three [*] men connected with the Government of Hong Kong (Casualties attributed to the Climate of that Colony) the Duke of Newcastle might have reconsidered my application to remain on Leave from October until 15th of October. Whereas I must now proceed forthwith to Hong Kong where I shall arrive ... \nC. Fortescue Exeges", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-084 - War Office & Others - 1861.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 256816, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10]", "content_text": "Rev\n\nEmployed teacher under Government inspection.\n\nand\n\nwas\n\nafterwards Queen's\n\nScholar in the Aberdeen\n\ntraining\n\nExeter\n\nSchool at\n\nIn 1856\n\nI was\n\nappointed 4th\n\nClass\n\nSchoolmaster at Bermuda\n\nI was eventually promoted\n\nto be the principal\n\nSchoolmaster in the\n\nIsland.\n\nI shall take\n\nOwing to domestic circumstances\n\nThis is rather uncertain\n\nWR\n\nanother\n\n173\n\nStornoway\n\ninstead of informing you\n\nOf the date\n\nof my\n\ndeparture from this\n\nCountry I\n\nannex\n\na\n\nCopy of the letter which\n\nI have caused to be addressed to Mr Willcocks informing him of the\n\ncircumstances under\n\nwhich he has been\n\nappointed\n\nJan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-093 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 229, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "# SERVICES UP 228\n## WILLIAM T. MERCER,\nColonial Secretary, Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and Administrator of the Government of Hongkong.\n\nNOTE--The following collection of testimonials differs from others of a like nature in this: that in no case has any testimony been solicited by me; the greater part of these extracts is from Public Despatches, and concerns myself alone; the other part consists of portions of Parliamentary Papers, already published, and of private letters, either voluntarily and incidentally addressed to myself, or placed at my disposal.\n\nI wish it to be understood by my friends (and this paper is printed only for private circulation) that in no instance have I sought certificate of merit or service from any quarter whatever.\n\n1\n\n## Extract from the Colonial Office List.\nW. T. M. 5th March, 1866.\n“MERCER, W. T.-Graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, B.A., 1843; M.A., 1851; entered at the Inner Temple 1842, but has not been called to the bar. Is Colonial Secretary of Hongkong since 1854, and a Member of both Councils. Entered the Colonial Service as Private Secretary to SIR JOHN DAVIS, Governor of Hongkong, 1844; appointed Acting Colonial Treasurer, 1845; confirmed 1847; administered the Government of Hongkong from July to September 1861, again from July 1862 to February 1864, and again on the departure of Governor SIR HERCULES ROBINSON for Ceylon, from March 1865 to March 1866,”\n\n2\n## Extract from \"Confidential\" Despatch of GOVERNOR DAVIS to LORD STANLEY, 12th December, 1844.\n\"Mr. Mercer, my Private Secretary, in consequence of his having received a regular University Education at Oxford, where he took his degree, possesses considerable advantages over ordinary Candidates for Office in this place, in addition to his personal readiness and ability to undertake responsible duties.\"\n\n3\n## \"Financial\" from SIR JOHN DAVIS to LORD STANLEY, No. 23, of 26th February, 1846.\n\"As the efficiency of the present Acting Treasurer has been practically proved after the lapse of several quarters, I trust Your Lordship may be induced to confirm him in the Office.\"\n\n4\n## \"Civil\" from SIR JOHN DAVIS to EARL GREY, No. 57, of 21st May, 1847.\n\"There being no person here whom I could venture to employ in the room of Mr. MERCER, who has ably performed the duties of Treasurer for two years.\"\n\n5\n## From SIR JOHN DAVIS to EARL GREY, No. 129, of 27th December, 1847.\n\"The vacancy in the Legislative Council has been temporarily filled up by Mr. W. T. MERCER, Colonial Treasurer. Mr. MERCER's personal qualifications, his official station, and his education for the Bar at Oxford and one of the Inns of Court pointed him out as the most proper person for selection.\"\n\n6\n## From GOVERNOR BONHAM to EARL GREY, No. 67, of 28th August, 1848.\n\"Mr. HULME having returned Mr. MERCER has vacated his temporary seat, [in the Legislative Council] but I have re-appointed him to the Council, considering him from his acquirements and professional education particularly qualified for the Office.\"\n\n7\n## Extract from Enclosure 4 (by Governor Bonham) in Despatch \"Separate\" from GOVERNOR BONHAM to EARL GREY, of 27th December, 1848.\nMr. MERCER, the Colonial Treasurer, has been in the service since February 1844; was educated at Oxford and is in every respect a desirable person for public employ. 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I think it, nevertheless, proper again to state to Your Lordship that Mr. MERCER has not only conducted the proper duties of his Office entirely to my satisfaction, but that he has rendered himself eminently useful in the Legislative Council, for which his education and other attainments render him particularly fit.”", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 268323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866", "content_text": "Mr. Sharkey-\n\nWellist. It also impinging on this, I am to send copies of the correspondence with Scars & Exemer, for information,\n\n... connexion of office...\n\nWhat's...\n\nEntered 300 Greasy 196171. 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Kup Ewen No.29.\n\n...the humble his der Mache lights Ellist In Adderley And farmarom WM Copy of this when cont off had better go to \"News\" for information with Seppo / 66 2.5. 6 Sept 186...\n\nWith reference byen desfalit N°33d/thi 12th by lost, reporting the opening of ten Haghang kiist on the 7th of tout sumite & curlosing cfore the notifications of toy fovementy Venblished des que, containing Euler respecting Me recipt a kit erit is important delivery of When L that board of term for Orlen at the minth mensely that communicating hoss with the Colony in this subest.\n\nBillon CO. 6. Mus? July 25(96) the diniges 1619 Jun 6 lb. Lepo 4/66 Connection therewith, I amen für Jen information copies Confucile carf & cite the brand of Measury,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-118 - Public Offices - 1866.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269031, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "page_number": 214, "title": "CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2]", "content_text": "SERVICES\n\nOF\n\n212\n\nWILLIAM T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary, Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and Administrator of the Government of Hongkong.\n\nNOTE. The following collection of testimonials differs from others of a like nature in this: that in no case has any testimony been solicited by me; the greater part of these extracts is from Public Despatches, and concerns myself alone; the other part consists of portions of Parliamentary Papers, already published, and of private letters, either voluntarily and incidentally addressed to myself, or placed at my disposal.\n\nI wish it to be understood by my friends (and this paper is printed only for private circulation) that in no instance have I sought certificate of merit or service from any quarter whatever.\n\nW. T. M. 5th March, 1866.\n\n1\n\nExtract from the Colonial Office List.\n\n\"MERCER, W. T.-Graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, B.A., 1843; M.A., 1851; entered at the Inner Temple 1842, but has not been called to the bar. Is Colonial Secretary of Hongkong since 1854, and a Member of both Councils. Entered the Colonial Service as Private Secretary to SIR JOHN DAVIS, Governor of Hongkong, 1844; appointed Acting Colonial Treasurer, 1845; confirmed 1847; administered the Government of Hongkong from July to September 1861, again from July 1862 to February 1864, and again on the departure of Governor SIR HERCULES ROBINSON for Ceylon, from March 1865 to March 1866.\"\n\n2\n\nExtract from \"Confidential\" Despatch of GOVERNOR DAVIS to LORD STANLEY, 12th December, 1844.\n\n\"Mr. MERCER, my Private Secretary, in consequence of his having received a regular University Education at Oxford, where he took his degree, possesses considerable advantages over ordinary Candidates for Office in this place, in addition to his personal readiness and ability to undertake responsible duties.\"\n\n3\n\n\"Financial\" from SIR JOHN DAVIS to LORD STANLEY, No. 23, of 20th February, 1846.\n\n\"As the efficiency of the present Acting Treasurer has been practically proved after the lapse of several quarters, I trust Your Lordship may be induced to confirm him in the Office.\"\n\n4\n\n\"Civil\" from SIR JOHN DAVIS to EARL GREY, No. 57, of 21st May, 1847.\n\n\"There being no person here whom I could venture to employ in the room of Mr. MERCER, who has ably performed the duties of Treasurer for two years.\"\n\n5\n\nFrom SIR JOHN DAVIS to EARL GREY, No. 129, of 27th December, 1847.\n\n\"The vacancy in the Legislative Council has been temporarily filled up by Mr. W. T. MERCER, Colonial Treasurer. Mr. MERCER's personal qualifications, his official station, and his education for the Bar at Oxford and one of the Inns of Court pointed him out as the most proper person for selection.\"\n\n6\n\nFrom GOVERNOR BONHAM to EARL GREY, No. 67, of 28th August, 1848.\n\n\"Mr. HULME having returned Mr. MERCER has vacated his temporary seat in the Legislative Council, but I have re-appointed him to the Council, considering him from his acquirements and professional education particularly qualified for the Office.\"\n\n7\n\nExtract from Enclosure 4 (by Governor Bonham) in Despatch \"Separate\" from GOVERNOR BONHAM to EARL GREY, of 27th December, 1848.\n\n\"Mr. MERCER, the Colonial Treasurer, has been in the service since February 1844; was educated at Oxford and is in every respect a desirable person for public employ. His capacity is far above the Office he holds, and were the Colonial Secretary's Office to become vacant, he would be a most eligible person to succeed to it.\n\n\"I never heard of Mr. MERCER, until I arrived in the Colony, but so highly do I think of his qualifications and attainments, that I have nominated him to a seat in the Legislative Council. He was educated for the Bar.\"\n\n8\n\n\"Civil\" from Governor BONHAM to EARL GREY, No. 37, of 20th April, 1850.\n\n\"I have already had occasion to record my sentiments respecting Mr. MERCER's qualifications for public employ. I think it, nevertheless, proper again to state to Your Lordship that Mr. MERCER has not only conducted the proper duties of his Office entirely to my satisfaction, but that he has rendered himself eminently useful in the Legislative Council, for which his education and other attainments render him particularly fit.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-120 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272581, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH. [AUG. 13, 1867.\n\nA certain individual went out of his course into eternity. Such is the fact as narrated to us, and we are further informed that the body of the deceased has not yet been found. The incident occurred near an island, and the effects were also felt here, but caused no important damage.\n\nIt is learned that certain benevolent and liberal Chinese are contemplating the erection of a hospital for the benefit of the poorer class of their own nationality in Hong Kong. They have already purchased a large piece of ground upon which to build and have asked the permission of the Surveyor-General to commence work at once. The petitioners are prepared to defray the entire expense at their own cost, and their intention, so far as we presently understand, is to place the establishment under purely native conduct.\n\nThe report of the case of Olyphant and others v. Loo A-hung, for breach of warranty on a sale of sugar, contains the following extraordinary proceedings:\n\nShortly after this case commenced, and while Mr. Whyte was cross-examining the plaintiff's compradore, some reference was made to another Chinaman, also in the plaintiff's employ, and the Chief Justice said, \"Put him in the box.\" The following conversation ensued:\n\n**The Chief Justice**: As the man is a servant of the plaintiff, they should produce him.\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: You cannot produce him like a piece of paper. Let him be subpoenaed in the usual way.\n\n**Chief Justice**: Do you mean, Mr. Pollard, to put them to the trouble and expense of subpoenaing him? Well, if you don't produce him, I will take that into account in my direction to the jury.\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: I will put only those witnesses in the box which I, as counsel for the plaintiff, may see fit. I may make a mistake, but I will not be dictated to or talked down by anyone as to what I am to do.\n\n**Chief Justice**: I am not talking you down, Mr. Pollard. You will do your duty, and I will do mine.\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: That's all right, if we would only stick to it.\n\n**Chief Justice**: Now, Mr. Pollard, you will always have the last word; and I think it is most disrespectful to the Court to use language you are in the habit of using.\n\nThe Chief Justice then left the Bench but returned after an interval of a minute or two.\n\n**Chief Justice**: Do you apologise, Mr. Pollard?\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: For what, my lord?\n\n**Chief Justice**: You know what has passed; you know what...\n\n**Mr. Pollard**: If I have offended in any way, there is no man more willing to admit it and to apologise. Will you hear me?\n\n**Chief Justice**: For an hour, if you like.\n\nMost of the damage caused by a recent earthquake in Java was not in Hong Kong but in other districts, especially Djocjacarta, where several indigo and sugar manufactories sustained injury. The sugar mills are again in operation, while others will be able to commence grinding within a month at the farthest.\n\n### STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\n#### SINGAPORE.\n\nThe London mail of the 27th May arrived out on the 27th June, and London telegrams had been received to the 14th June. During several sittings of the Legislative Council, the chief subject for discussion had been the purchase of a steamer or steamers for the service of a local marine. It was decided that a paddle steamer of about 300 tons, with special adaptations to the service, should be procured from England, together with a Tender and a steam launch for shallow river operations.\n\nIt was decided by the Government to give a subsidy of £100 per month to the British India Steam Navigation Company for the maintenance of the present mail line between Calcutta, British Burmah, and the Straits Ports.\n\nColonel Anson, the Lieutenant-Governor of Penang, had arrived there and relieved Colonel Man of charge. Mr. W. W. Cairns, the Lieutenant-Governor of Malacca, had been sworn in and proceeded to Malacca to relieve Major Barn.\n\nSir William Hackett, Acting Chief Justice, had arrived from Penang and would open the third criminal session of the year on the 9th July. The calendar was not large.\n\n#### PENANG.\n\nDates are to July 1. The Penang Gazette gives the following account of an expedition by H.M.S. Wasp to the Nicobar Islands:\n\nH.M. steamer Wasp left on the 12th June for the Nicobar Islands to investigate the murder of the crew of the brig Futtek Islam of Penang. The return of the Wasp gives a miserable story connected with the Nicobar Islands. To say that a nest of pirates has been discovered is almost too mild a term.\n\nAt Trinkut, the Wasp met two vessels, the Rattlesnake and the Harriet, of Penang, both at anchor and trading with the natives. It is reported that the natives threatened to attack the Rattlesnake on the departure of the man-of-war. The captain of the Rattlesnake stated that he had seen a white (European) woman on the island about eight months ago. It appears that about six years ago, a ship was wrecked on these islands, the captain and crew were murdered, and the wife of the captain and two children were taken on shore. The fate of the poor woman was sad; she was passed about from one to another through the whole tribe. When the poor lady was seen and spoken to by the captain of the Rattlesnake, the natives probably got alarmed, and it is said that they gave her poison, which was not sufficient to kill her outright. The Wasp has brought over three men and one woman as prisoners.\n\nAbout two and a-half years ago, another brig was seized at the Great Nicobars, the captain and crew murdered, and a lady with two children taken on shore, probably treated in the same way as the former one.\n\n### EXPORT OF TEA AND SILK TO GREAT BRITAIN. 1866-67 AND SEASON 1867-68.\n\n| From | Tea-lbs. | Silk Bales |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shanghai, &c. | 1,138,727 | ... |\n| Foochow | 1,015,000 | ... |\n| Canton | 969,110 | ... |\n| Hankow | 1,255,041 | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n### EXCHANGES ON LONDON.\n\n| At | 4 months' sight | Bank |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Yokohama | 4s. 8d. to 4s. 9d. | ... |\n| Shanghai | 4s. 8d. to 4s. 9d. | ... |\n| Canton | 4s. 8d. | ... |\n| Hong Kong | 4s. 6d. to 4s. 7d. | ... |\n\n### COMMERCIAL REPORT.\n\nA considerable improvement has taken place in the market for Grey Cotton Goods, and the Chinese have been buyers to a large extent. Sales of Yarn have been on a large scale, particularly in the first part of the fortnight. Grey Shirtings have been in great demand and have been sold to the extent of about 82,000 pieces.\n\n### BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.\n\n#### BIRTHS.\n\n- On the 9th August, at Larkbeare, Exeter, the wife of John C. Bawring, Esq., of a son.\n- On the 28th June, at Hong Kong, the wife of Mr. Charles Collins, of a son.\n- On the 20th June, at Hong Kong, Mrs. D. R. Crawford, of a daughter.\n\n#### MARRIAGE.\n\n- On the 7th August, at the parish church of Wakefield, Yorkshire, Mr. Joseph Leach Wood, of Barnsbury, London, and late of Foochow, China, to Eleanor, youngest daughter of the late Joseph Benton Rorbury, near Wakefield, Yorks.\n\n#### DEATHS.\n\n- On the 19th June, at Shanghai, Edward Burdett, aged 86 years.\n- On the 19th June, at Shanghai, David Paton, aged 81 years.\n- On the 17th June, at Shanghai, John Woolley, aged 30 years, major in the Imperial service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273023, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 581, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## \nwhich, the Government are about to introduce, especially inasmuch as those measures harmonise with the policy which we believe to be the only one in connexion with Chinese gambling in accordance with sound sense, that of regulating and tolerating under restrictions what it is ridiculous and hopeless to attempt suppressing.\n\nThe Home Government have of course been strongly averse to the concession which the necessities of such a case so urgently required. To brave the puritanical element of English public opinion, so far as to consent to the legalisation of gambling-houses in any part of the QUEEN's dominions, must have been an effort, but in the case of Hongkong the peculiarities of the situation formed an irresistible argument in favour of making the colony an exception to rules which might be sound enough in application to other places. The population of Hongkong to be affected by any legislation relating to gambling is the floating Chinese population of 140,000 or so, for of course the European element, though it might visit gambling-houses were they legalised, would not mainly support them. In pretending, therefore, to repress gambling on moral grounds, we have been attempting to wean the Chinese people from their darling sin. We say the Chinese people, because the very fact that the native population of Hongkong is of so unstable and changing a character makes it impossible to bring the same influences continuously to bear on the same set of people. Even assuming that this were possible, it might be considered that for practical purposes it would be sufficiently absurd to attempt reforming 140,000 people so wedded to the principles of gambling that it has been said the humblest class of itinerant hawkers are frequently in the habit of gambling with their customers for the change out of a purchase amounting to a few cash. When, however, the question is raised into one concerning the possibility of reforming the gambling tendencies of the Chinese race, we should say that even Exeter Hall would be ashamed of the monstrous hypocrisy of pretending to sacrifice any substantial advantage on behalf of such a pharisaical attempt. And it must be remembered that a very great deal has been sacrificed hitherto on the altar of Exeter Hall prejudices. The purity and honour of the police force have been sacrificed, and the lower class of the Chinese population in the colony has been kept in a perpetual state of warfare with the authorities by the raids the police have made on the illicit gambling-houses, their respect for law being in this way undermined. The folly of persevering in the present system has been acknowledged more and more widely, and the Governor himself at last, convinced that his Government was engaged on a hopeless and mischievous endeavour, has, we suppose, been arguing the point with the Home Government until at last the required permission has been obtained. The Secretary of State has withdrawn the absolute orders against the toleration of gambling-houses, which previously embarrassed the action of this Government, and the system of licensing gambling-houses will, we understand, be shortly—say within the next six weeks—introduced in Hongkong.\n\nThis is a great event, a great revolution in the habits and customs of English communities, but whatever views we may hold as to the viciousness or otherwise of gambling in the abstract, it can scarcely be doubted that the great preponderance of opinion here will be in favour of the change. That the introduction of a new system will be the means of augmenting the revenue in an absolutely painless manner, and to a large extent, is a consideration which need not be left out of sight when the change has been determined on, on other grounds, but we are perfectly sure that it has not been allowed to weigh to any appreciable extent with the Government as an argument in favour of adopting the proposed system of licences. That system has been determined on because it has become necessary to regulate what cannot be suppressed, to put an end to the corrupt state of the police force by cutting the ground from under the feet of the men in receipt of bribes, to abandon a code of laws based on a morality which the Chinese subjected to them could not comprehend. No British Government is likely to be accused even of a design to make money out of the sins and follies of its subjects, but it is to be hoped that no British Government will remain the victim of folly which is worse than that of the gambler, the puritanical folly of people who would earn a cheap reputation for virtue at the cost of their neighbours, or, as THOMAS HOOD phrases it:\n\n\"Compound for sins they are inclined to\n\"By damning those they have no mind to.\"\n\nWe are not yet aware of the exact details of the arrangements which the GOVERNOR has determined on in reference to the mode of carrying out a system of licences, or, indeed, that those details have been yet settled. It is said that the monopolist of the Macao gambling-houses has offered $300,000 a year for the monopoly in Hongkong, but the Government, we are disposed to think, will be reluctant at first, at any rate, to take anything like as much money as will be offered, through a fear of being accused of rushing into this enterprise in defiance of principle in order to recruit the exhausted finance of the colony. Indeed, there will be nothing in the nature of an open sale to one individual of all the gambling licences in the colony. The system will no doubt be introduced tentatively and under very strict police supervision. Still conscious of its own intentions...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273053, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 611, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "# SERVICES \n## OF \n### WILLIAM T. MERCER, \n**Colonial Secretary, Member of the Executive and Legislative Councils, and Administrator of the Government of Hongkong.** \n\n**NOTE.** The following collection of Testimonials differs from others of a like nature in this: that in no case has any testimony been solicited by me; the greater part of these extracts is from Public Despatches, and concerns myself alone; the other part consists of portions of Parliamentary Papers, already published, and of private letters, either voluntarily and incidentally addressed to myself, or placed at my disposal.\n\nI wish it to be understood by my friends (and this is printed only for private circulation) that in no instance have I sought certificate of merit or service from any quarter whatever.\n\n**I.** \nW. T. M. \n5th March, 1866.\n\nExtract from the **Colonial Office List**. \"Mercer, W. T.-Graduated at Exeter College, Oxford, B.A., 1843; M.A., 1851; entered at the Inner Temple, 1842, but has not been called to the bar. Is Colonial Secretary of Hongkong since 1854, and a Member of both Councils. Entered the Colonial Service as Private Secretary to Sir John Davis, Governor of Hongkong, 1844; confirmed appointed Acting Colonial Treasurer, 1845; 1847; administered the Government of Hongkong from July to September 1861, again from July 1862 to February 1864, and again on the departure of Governor Sir Hercules Robinson for Ceylon, from March 1865 to March 1866.\"\n\n**II.** \nExtract from **\"Confidential\"** Despatch of **GOVERNOR DAVIS** to **LORD STANLEY**, 12th December, 1844, \n\"Mr. Mercer, my Private Secretary, in consequence of his having received a regular University Education at Oxford, where he took his degree, possesses considerable advantages over ordinary Candidates for Office in this place, in addition to his personal readiness and ability to undertake responsible duties.\"\n\n**III.** \n**\"Financial\"** from **SIR JOHN DAVIS** to **LORD STANLEY**, No. 23, of 26th February, 1846. \n\"As the efficiency of the present Acting Treasurer has been practically proved after the lapse of several quarters, I trust Your Lordship may be induced to confirm him in the Office.\"\n\n**IV.** \n**\"Civil\"** from **SIR JOHN DAVIS** to **EARL GREY**, No. 57, of 21st May, 1847. \n\"There being no person here whom I could venture to employ in the room of Mr. Mercer, who has ably performed the duties of Treasurer for two years.\"\n\n**V.** \nFrom **SIR JOHN DAVIS** to **EARL GREY**, No. 129, of 27th December, 1847. \n\"The vacancy in the Legislative Council has been temporarily filled up by Mr. W. T. Mercer, Colonial \n\nPage 609", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273157, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 715, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "# \nwhich the Government are about to introduce, especially inasmuch as those measures harmonise with the policy which we believe to be the only one in connection with Chinese gambling in accordance with sound sense, that of regulating and tolerating under restrictions. It is ridiculous and hopeless to attempt suppressing.\n\nThe Home Government have of course been strongly averse to the concession which the necessities of such a case so gently required. To brave the puritanical element of English public opinion, so far as to consent to the legalisation of gambling-houses in any part of the **QUEEN's** dominions, must have been an effort, but in the case of Hongkong the peculiarities of the situation formed an irresistible argument in favour of making the colony an exception to rules which might be sound enough in application to other places. The population of Hongkong to be affected by any legislation relating to gambling is the floating Chinese population of 140,000 or so, for of course the European element, though it might visit gambling-houses were they legalised, would not mainly support them. In proceeding, therefore, to repress gambling on moral grounds, we have been attempting to wean the Chinese people from their darling sin. We say the Chinese people, because the very fact that the native population of Hongkong is of an unstable and changing character makes it impossible to bring the same influences continuously to bear on the same set of people. Even assuming that this were possible, it might be considered that for practical purposes it would be sufficiently absurd to attempt reforming 140,000 people so wedded to the principles of gambling that it has been said the humblest class of itinerant hawkers are frequently in the habit of gambling with their customers for the change out of a purchase amounting to a few cash. When, however, the question is raised into one concerning the possibility of reforming the gambling tendencies of the Chinese race, we should say that even Exeter Hall would be ashamed of the monstrous hypocrisy of pretending to sacrifice any substantial advantage on behalf of such a pharisaical attempt. And it must be remembered that a very great deal has been sacrificed hitherto on the altar of Exeter Hall prejudices. The purity and honour of the police force have been sacrificed, and the lower class of the Chinese population in the colony has been kept in a perpetual state of warfare with the authorities by the raids the police have made on the illicit gambling-houses, their respect for law being in this way undermined. The folly of persevering in the present system has been acknowledged more and more widely, and the Governor himself at last, convinced that his Government was engaged on a hopeless and mischievous endeavour, has, we suppose, been arguing the point with the Home \n\n## \n712 \n\nGovernment until at last the required permission has been obtained. The Secretary of State has withdrawn the absolute orders against the toleration of gambling-houses, which previously embarrassed action of this Government, and the system of licensing gambling-houses will, we understand, be shortly—say within the next six weeks—introduced in Hongkong.\n\nThis is a great event, a great revolution in the habits and customs of English communities, but whatever views we may hold as to the viciousness or otherwise of gambling in the abstract, it can scarcely be doubted that the great preponderance of opinion here will be in favour of the change. That the introduction of a new system will be the means of augmenting the revenue in an absolutely painless manner, and to a large extent, is a consideration which need not be left out of sight when the change has been determined on, on other grounds, but we are perfectly sure that it has not been allowed to weigh to any appreciable extent with the Government as an argument in favour of adopting the proposed system of houses. That system has been determined on because it has become necessary to regulate what cannot be suppressed, to put an end to the corrupt state of the police force by cutting the ground from under the feet of the men in receipt of bribes, to abandon a code of laws based on a morality which the Chinese subjected to them could not comprehend. No British Government is likely to be accused of a design to make money out of the sins and follies of its subjects, but it is to be hoped that no British Government will remain the victim of folly which is worse than that of the gambler, the puritanical folly of people who would earn a cheap reputation for virtue at the cost of their neighbours, or, as Thomas Hood phrases it \n\n\"Compound for sins they are inclined to \n\"By doing those they have no mind to.\" \nWe are not yet aware of the exact details of the arrangements which the **GOVERNOR** has determined on in reference to the mode of carrying out a system of licenses, or, indeed, that those details have been yet settled. It is said that the monopolist of the Macao gambling-houses has offered $300,000 a year for the monopoly in Hongkong, but the Government, we are disposed to think, will be reluctant at first, at any rate, to take anything like as much money as will be offered, through a fear of being accused of rushing into this enterprise in defiance of principle in order to recruit the exhausted finance of the colony. Indeed, there will be nothing in the nature of an open sale to one individual of all the gambling licences in the colony. The system will no doubt be introduced tentatively and under very strict police supervision. Still conscious of its own inte-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 277485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "page_number": 785, "title": "CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868", "content_text": "G\n\n6\n\nwhich the Government are about to introduce, especially inasmuch as those measures barinouise with the policy which we believe to be the only one in connexion with Chinese ganibbing in accordance with sound sense, that of regulating and tolerating under restrictions what it is ridiculous and hopeless to attempt suppressing.\n\nThe Home Government have of course been strongly averse to the concession which the necessities of such a case so urgently required. To brave the puritanical element of English public opinion, so far as to consent to the legalisation of gunbling-houses in any part of the QUEEN's dominions, must have been an effort, but in the case of Hongkong the peculiarities of the situation formed an irresistible argument in favour of making the colony an exception to rules which might be sound enough in application to other places. The population of Hongkong to be affected by any legislation relating to gambling is the floating Chinese population of 140,000 or so, for of course the European element, though it might visit gambling-houses were they legalised, would not mainly support them. In pretending, therefore, to repress gambling on moral grounds, we have been attempting to wean the Chinese people from their darling sin. We say the Chinese people, because the very fact that the native population of Hongkong is of so unstable and changing a character makes it impossible to bring the same influences continuously to bear on the same set of people. Even assuming that this were possible, it might be considered that for practical purposes it would be sufficiently absurd to attempt reforming 140,000 people so wedded to the principles of gambling that it has been said the humblest class of itinerant hawkers are frequently in the habit of gambling with their customers for the change out of a purchase amounting to a few cash. When, however, the question is raised into one concerning the possibility of reforming the gambling tendencies of the Chinese race, we should say that even Exeter Hall would be ashamed of the monstrous hypocrisy of pretending to sacrifice any substantial advantage on behalf of such a pharisaical attempt. And it must be remembered that a very great deal has been sacrificed hitherto on the altar of Exeter Hall prejudices. The purity and honour of the police force have been sacrificed, and the lower class of the Chinese population in the colony has been kept in a perpetual state of warfare with the authorities by the raids the police have made on the illicit gambling-houses, their respect for law being in this way undermined. The folly of persevering in the present system has been acknowledged more and more widely, and the Governor himself at last, convinced that his Government was engaged on a hopeless and mischievous endeavour, has, we suppose, been arguing the point with the Home Government until at last the required permission has been obtained.\n\n7\n\nThe Secretary of State has withdrawn the absolute orders against the toleration of gambling-houses, which previously embarrassed the action of this Government, and the system of licensing gambling-houses will, we understand, be shortly—say within the next few weeks—introduced in Hongkong.\n\nThis is a great event, a great revolution in the habits and customs of English communities, but whatever views we may hold as to the viciousness or otherwise of gambling in the abstract, it can scarcely be doubted that the great preponderance of opinion here will be in favour of the change. That the introduction of a new system will be the means of augmenting the revenue in an absolutely painless manner, and to a large extent, is a consideration which need not be left out of sight when the change has been determined on, on other grounds, but we are perfectly sure that it has not been allowed to weigh to any appreciable extent with the Government as an argument in favour of adopting the proposed system of licences. That system has been determined on because it has become necessary to regulate what cannot be suppressed, to put an end to the corrupt state of the police force by cutting the ground from under the feet of the men in receipt of bribes, to abandon a code of laws based on a morality which the Chinese subjected to them could not comprehend. No British Government is likely to be accused even of a design to make money out of the sins and follies of its subjects, but it is to be hoped that no British Government will remain the victim of folly which is worse than that of the gambler, the puritanical folly of people who would earn a cheap reputation for virtue at the cost of their neighbours, or, as THOMAS HOOD phrases it,\n\n“Compound for sins they are inclined to\n\n“By damning those they have no mind to.”\n\nWe are not yet aware of the exact details of the arrangements which the GOVERNOR has determined on in reference to the mode of carrying out a system of licences, or, indeed, that these details have been yet settled. It is said that the monopolist of the Macao gambling-houses has offered $300,000 a year for the monopoly in Hongkong, but the Government, we are disposed to think, will be reluctant at first, at any rate, to take anything like as much money as will be offered, through a fear of being accused of rushing into this enterprise in defiance of principle in order to recruit the exhausted finances of the colony. Indeed, there will be nothing in the nature of an open sale to one individual of all the gambling licences in the colony. The system will no doubt be introduced tentatively and under very strict police supervision. Still conscious of its own integrity,\n\n780\n\n4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 280932, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "page_number": 415, "title": "CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869", "content_text": "401\n\n6\n\nwhich the Government are about to introduce, especially inasmuch as those measures harmonise with the policy which we believe to be the only one in connexion with Chinese gambling in accordance with sound sense, that of regulating and tolerating under restrictions, for it is ridiculous and hopeless to attempt suppressing.\n\nThe Home Government have of course been strongly averse to the concession which the necessities of such a case so urgently required. To brave the puritanical element of English public opinion, so far as to consent to the legalisation of gambling-houses in any part of the QUEEN's dominions, must have been an effort, but in the case of Hongkong the peculiarities of the situation formed an irresistible argument in favour of making the colony an exception to rules which might be sound enough in application to other places. The population of Hongkong to be affected by any legislation relating to gambling is the floating Chinese population of 140,000 or so, for of course the European element, though it might visit gambling-houses were they legalised, would not mainly support them. In pretending, therefore, to repress gambling on moral grounds, we have been attempting to wean the Chinese people from their darling sin. We say the Chinese people, because the very fact that the native population of Hongkong is of so unstable and changing a character makes it impossible to bring the same influences continuously to bear on the same set of people. Even assuming that this were possible, it might be considered that for practical purposes it would be sufficiently absurd to attempt reforming 140,000 people so wedded to the principles of gambling that it has been said the humblest class of itinerant hawkers are frequently in the habit of gambling with their customers for the change out of a purchase amounting to a few cash. When, however, the question is raised into one concerning the possibility of reforming the gambling tendencies of the Chinese race, we should say that even Exeter Hall would be ashamed of the monstrous hypocrisy of pretending to sacrifice any substantial advantage on behalf of such a pharisaical attempt. And it must be remembered that a very great deal has been sacrificed hitherto on the altar of Exeter Hall prejudices. The purity and honour of the police force have been sacrificed, and the lower class of the Chinese population in the colony has been kept in a perpetual state of warfare with the authorities by the raids the police have made on the illicit gambling-houses, their respect for law being in this way undermined. The folly of persevering in the present system has been acknowledged more and more widely, and the Governor himself at last, convinced that his Government was engaged on a hopeless and mischievous endeavour, has, we suppose, been arguing the point with the Home Government until at last the required permission has been obtained.\n\n7\n\nThe Secretary of State has withdrawn the absolute orders against the toleration of gambling-houses, which previously embarrassed the action of this Government, and the system of licensing gambling-houses will, we understand, be shortly—say within the next six weeks—introduced in Hongkong.\n\nThis is a great event, a great revolution in the habits and customs of English communities, but whatever views we may hold as to the viciousness or otherwise of gambling in the abstract, it can scarcely be doubted that the great preponderance of opinion here will be in favour of the change. That the introduction of a new system will be the means of augmenting the revenue in an absolutely painless manner, and to a large extent, is a consideration which need not be left out of sight when the change has been determined on, on other grounds, but we are perfectly sure that it has not been allowed to weigh to any appreciable extent with the Government as an argument in favour of adopting the proposed system of licences. That system has been determined on because it has become necessary to regulate what cannot be suppressed, to put an end to the corrupt state of the police force by cutting the ground from under the feet of the men in receipt of bribes, to abandon a code of laws based on a morality which the Chinese subjected to them could not comprehend. No British Government is likely to be accused even of a design to make money out of the sins and follies of its subjects, but it is to be hoped that no British Government will remain the victim of folly which is worse than that of the gambler, the puritanical folly of people who would earn a cheap reputation for virtue at the cost of their neighbours, or, as THOMAS HOOD phrases it,\n\n\"Compound for sins they are inclined to\n\n\"By damning those they have no mind to.\" We are not yet aware of the exact details of the arrangements which the GOVERNOR has determined on in reference to the mode of carrying out a system of licences, or, indeed, that these details have been yet settled. It is said that the monopolist of the Macao gambling-houses has offered $800,000 a year for the monopoly in Hongkong, but the Government, we are disposed to think, will be reluctant at first, at any rate, to take anything like as much money as will be offered, through a fear of being accused of rushing into this enterprise in defiance of principle in order to recruit the exhausted finance of the colony. Indeed, there will be nothing in the nature of an open sale to one individual of all the gambling licences in the colony. The System will no doubt be introduced tentatively and under very strict police supervision. Still conscious of its own integrity,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-142 - Public Offices & Others - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283623, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "## 3.307. Hong Kong. Wimpole Street \n**MAX17** \n870 \n194 \n1870- \n5341 \nSpai 1870. \n8419 \nquelque temps \nrepresentar \n焖 \nols, hory \nby \naphique. \nsanction \ndu Gouver \nsion Hong Kong's \nblisdenzent d'und Station \n3659 \n2.6 \n4212 \nExeter \nAlter to \nFurther", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 287772, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5]", "content_text": "2/\n\na list of professional Gentlemen to whom I can refer.\n\nI have re\n\n(Signed)\n\nL. H. Morsom,\n\nSurveyor General.\n\nIn CSO SE s. 18\n\n540\n\nCopy,\n\nMemorandum.\n\nI served my pupillage under my\n\nFather - the late Captain L. H. Morsom,\n\nM. Inst. C. E. who died in London\n\nin 1863.\n\nDuring the course of my pupillage\n\nI made some Mine Surveys,\n\nand the Survey and Section for Parliament of a line of Railway from Dorchester to Exeter in 1852.\n\nFrom February 1853 to April, I was employed under the Contractors Messrs Peto, Brassey, and Betts - on the Construction of the Lyons Avignon Section, of the Paris and Mediterranean Railway - Mr George", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 44, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong,-Continued.\n\nADULTS. CHILDREN.\n\nDATE\nNo.\nDATE ARRIVED.\nSHIP'S NAME.\nTONS.\nNATIONALITY OF SHIP.\nMASTER'S NAME.\nWHERE FROM.\nM.\nF.\nM.\nF.\nTOTAL\nREMARKS\n\nBrought forward,\n\n11,084\n\n11,084\n\nJune\n104\n\nRussia\n2,500\nRussian\n\n105\nJuly\nFortune\n\n106\n\nBentik\n447\nSiamese\n\nBangkok\n75\n\n75\n\n107\n\nTigre\n2,859\nFrench\n\nSaigon\n621\n\n31\n\n652\n\n108\n\nEmeu\n\nLe Coutre\n\n109\n\nThales\n1,559\nBritish\nLee\nSingapore\n62\n\n6\n\n68\n\n110\n\nStatesman\n\n111\n\nCyphrenes\n1,279\nBritish\nFreeman\nSan Francisco\n151\n\n151\n\n112\n\nJapan\n77\n\nBrought forward,\n265,200\n\n21,554\n\n21,554\n\nDec.\n206\n\nHindostan\n991\nBritish\nMiller\nSingapore\n42\n\n42\n\n207\n\nColorado\n\nKent\n\n208\n\nBrought forward,\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\n209\n\nSan Joan\n\nBurnie\nSaigon\n38\n\n3\n\n41\n\n210\n\nUrtubiago\n911\nRussian\n\nCallao\n80\n\n80\n\n211\n\nAmazone\n\nLe Couteur\nHavana\n20\n\n20\n\n212\n\nFrain\n1,907\nFrench\n\nSingapore\n80\n\n80\n\n213\n\nCity of Exeter\n\nChampenois\nSaigon\n20\n\n20\n\n214\n\nFormosa\n\nBorey\n\n215\n\nDaniel J. Richard\n598\nAmerican\nNichols\nSaigon\n47\n\n47\n\n216\n\nUlysses\n1,520\n\nRayner\nSingapore\n58\n\n58\n\n217\n\nSun Fuo\n918\nBritish\nClark\n\n100\n\n5\n\n105\n\n218\n\nGlancas\n1,604\n\nWilding\nSingapore\n244\n\n244\n\n219\n\nGalley of Love\n\nKenway\nManila\n163\n\n75\n\n238\n\n220\n\nGaribaldi\n670\nAmerican\nRobinson\nSingapore\n88\n\n88\n\n221\n\nPeru\n570\nPeruvian\nNoyes\nPortland, Oregon\n28\n\n28\n\n222\n\nTanah Merah\n555\nBritish\nGardner\nBangkok\n35\n\n35\n\n223\n\nEsmeralda\n352\nSpanish\nBillabaso\nSingapore\n31\n\n31\n\n224\n\nDelta\n1,010\nBritish\nCopella\nSingapore\n160\n\n160\n\n225\n\nNestor\n\nEdmonds\n\n226\n\nLady Franklin\n\n227\n\nWhirlwind\n868\nBritish\nGraham\nSydney\n57\n\n12\n\n69\n\nTOTAL TONS.....\n270,248\n\nTOTAL PASSENGERS,\n\n23,773\n\n23,773\n\nSUMMARY.\n\nWHERE FROM\nARRIVED\nADULTS\nCHILDREN\nTOTAL\n\nBangkok,\n\n3,881\n\n3,881\n\nCallao,\n\n300\n\n300\n\nDunedin, N.Z.,\n\n130\n\n130\n\nHavana,\n\nManila,\n\n1,406\n\n1,406\n\nMelbourne,\n\nNewcastle, N.S.W.\n\n301\n\n301\n\nPortland, Oregon, U.S.A.,\n\n28\n\n28\n\nSaigon,\n\n8,066\n\n8,066\n\nSan Francisco, U.S.A.....\n\n1,789\n\n1,789\n\nSingapore,\n\n7,521\n\n7,521\n\nSingora, Siam,\n\n40\n\n40\n\nSydney,\n\n57\n\n57\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nXXI-RETURN of MARINE CASEs tried at the Marine Magistrate's Court during the Year 1872.\n\nNATURE OF CHARGE\nNo. of CASES.\nNo. of DEFENDANTS\nHOW DISPOSED OF\nAMOUNT OF FINES\n\nAiding Deserters,\n20\n29\n\nAbsent from Ship without Leave,\n5\n16\n\nAnival without Report (Junk),\n\nArticles, not entering Seaman on,\n\nAssault (aggravated),\n3\n3\n\nBroarling Cargo,\n\nBoarding House Rules, Breach of,\n\nCeeditions of License, breach of (Junk),\n1\n4\n\nCutting and Wounding.\n\nDesertion.\n83\n120\n\nDisorderly Conduct,\n\nDrunkenness.\n\nEmigration Laws, Breach of,\n\nFalse particulars, giving (Junk),\n\nFurcing Seamus ashore,\n\nGunpowder Ordinance, Breach of,\n\nHour Regulations, Breach of,\n\nIllegal Imprisonment on board,\n\nInsubordination,\n\nLarceny of Stores, &............\n\nLeaving without Clearance (Junk),\n\nLog-book, Keeping improperly,\n\nMatiny,\n\nNagieet of Duty,\n\nObstruction of Fairways, &c.,\n\nOvercharge (Sampan),\n\nRefteil of Duty,\n\nRefusal to stop when hailed (Sampan),\n\nRogue and Vagabond, being, and re-\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365\n\nPage 365\n\nImprisoned with hard labour.\n\nImprisoned in default of fine.\n\nFined.\n$357.20\n\nTo duty.\n\nRepri-manded.\n\nSent back To be dis-charged from Ship.\n\nDis-missed.\n\n418\n755\n\nTOTAL........\n\n$2,170.50\n\nHarbour Department, Hongkong, 28th February, 1873.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, R.N.,\n\nMarine Magistrate,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "Vessels leaving Hong Kong between the 16th October 1875 and the 31st May 1878.\n\nName of Ship Registered to here cleared for Tonnage Remarks\n\n \n Name of Ship\n Registered to here\n cleared for\n Tonnage\n Remarks\n \n \n Argyll\n Shain Settlement\n \n 1,270\n 258\n \n \n Hindostan\n \n \n 116\n 991\n \n \n Abbotsford\n \n \n 649\n \n \n \n Norden\n \n \n 778\n 197\n \n \n Bowen\n \n \n 844\n 100\n \n \n Fyrr\n \n \n 909\n 10\n \n \n Arratoon Apcar\n \n \n 1,392\n 309\n \n \n Cassandra\n \n \n 937\n 293\n \n \n Antenor\n \n \n 1,644\n 141\n \n \n Kjobenhavn\n \n \n 701\n 216\n \n \n Glenfalloch\n \n \n 1,386\n 206\n \n \n Mecen\n Singapore\n \n 964\n 29\n \n \n City of Exeter\n \n \n 787\n 427\n \n \n Hinderran\n \n \n 991\n 383\n \n \n Argyll\n \n \n 1,270\n 394\n \n \n Glenfinlas\n \n \n 1,366\n \n \n \n Abbotsford\n \n \n 649\n 138\n \n \n Montgomeryshire\n \n \n 1,146\n 433\n \n \n Arratoon Apcar\n \n \n 1,392\n 162\n \n \n Venice\n \n \n 1,271\n 191\n \n \n Consolation\n \n \n 768\n 47\n \n \n Hinderran\n \n \n 991\n 191\n \n \n Argyll\n \n \n 1,271\n 168\n \n \n Burmese\n \n \n 1,268\n 33\n \n \n Cassandra\n \n \n 937\n 38\n \n \n Gengyle\n \n \n 4,265\n 4\n \n \n Benledi\n \n \n 999\n 145\n \n \n Pangouin\n \n \n 1,123\n 445\n \n \n Arratoon Apcar\n \n \n 1,392\n \n \n \n Flamingo\n \n \n 1,209\n 305", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 301699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877", "content_text": "# DOMESTIC\n## RECEIVED\n### 31 MAY 1877\n\nOffice or Individual. \nHang động \nNa 6536 \n\n(Subject.) \n\n**RECEIVED** \n31 MAY \n1877 \n\nver Office Proposed construction of Praya Wall \n\nDate. \n1877 May \n\nLast previous Paper \n6,379 \n22.9bz \n\nReferring to, requests that Exemer \nan \nIn further uply \nmspection of plant \n\nAns \nCopy of correspondence with G.O. goo inf 78 \n16 rme. 10 | 70-U & $2455) \nMr. Mende \n304 \nbe asked may \nL \nto exchange of Land Spemil \n\n### (Minutes.)\n\nThis appears to me an additional reason for deferring operations at the Praya: Do not the W.O. wish for the benefits of reclamation without being ready to pay? The letter should go to the Governor at once. \n— Meade — \nJan 31/5/77 \n\nIn accordance with your verbal directions, the last paragraph in the draft to the Governor on `17:379` remains the settled... Struck out ditto. Now this letter is to be dealt with. \nI think we might rank the W.O. a charge of our default of d. June \n8/6/77", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303317, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "may have to wait some months for actual vacancies to occur and that Six- \n\nArbuthnot Bench would deal \n\nwith the next stage, the \n\nnext two competitors, who are willing to join \n\nH. Hughey's service, \n\nwill be employed \n\nat once under the scheme \n\nwhich has been communicated \n\nto the Civil Service Commissioners in the letter from this Department of 2 Incl. \n\n} \n\nand in this account it is \n\nadvisable that the examination \n\nthough in itself as \n\nearly as possible may be arranged. \n\nE \n\nI W \n\nWidnell, A.B. S. \n306 \nThe Hawthorns_Grove Hood_ \nClapham . \nLamb Samuel Edward 46 Kensington Park Garden, \nEgham W. M. S. \nEgerton, Walter \nGardiner Valentine. \nParker Frederic H. \nW. \n39 Duke Street \nSt James. Rochester House \nClapham. W Richmond House Worthing. Lanninghill \nStaines. \nBerkshire \nGreen W.G. \nQuex Lodge or Lawtonge \nKilburn \nBedford \nSaxton- George \nElmsleigh \nExeter \nLockhart - James B. Stewart - 7 Danube Street- \nColville \nEdinburgh \nCardley 44 Westbourne Park. \nWilmot in Cardley \nW. \nM | Name | Address |\n| --- | --- |\n| Widnell, A.B.S. | 306 The Hawthorns_Grove Hood_, Clapham |\n| Lamb Samuel Edward | 46 Kensington Park Garden, Egham |\n| Egerton, Walter | W. M. S. |\n| Gardiner Valentine | |\n| Parker Frederic H. | 39 Duke Street St James. Rochester House Clapham |\n| W. | Richmond House Worthing. Lanninghill Staines. Berkshire |\n| Green W.G. | Quex Lodge or Lawtonge Kilburn Bedford |\n| Saxton- George | Elmsleigh Exeter |\n| Lockhart - James B. | Stewart - 7 Danube Street- Colville Edinburgh |\n| Cardley | 44 Westbourne Park. Wilmot in Cardley W. M |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "page_number": 348, "title": "CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878", "content_text": "# 335\n## Memorandum Sheet W\nLondon September 29, 1878\n\nI have the honor to inform you on my return from a voyage to Sweden, taken on the advice of Dr. Gull, that he is in Scotland; therefore, without his advice, I have secured passage for myself and Lady Poule and her maid by steamer to leave Marseilles on the 1st of December next (not the 29th of November, the stated date erroneously given in a former Letter).\n\nI purpose to go on Friday next to Gloucester and Exeter; but communications to my present address will be duly forwarded to me.\n\nI avail myself of this opportunity to renew the suggestions which, at great length and after much investigation, I made in former Communications to the Governor of Hong Kong, especially regarding the death of W. Alexander.\n\nThe Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley, Secretary of State for the Colonies...\n\nand distinctives will be sent to the Colony, and that then there would be no need to act at home & call. Here at present, I can consider this question. Perhaps it may be well to speak to him before the Legco; it may be useful if Mr. Huberta and Mr. Meade could find time to discuss the subject with Sir J. Pope Hennessy before he came forward with his suggestions.\n\nIt appears to me that the Government & the Supreme Court have equally neglected to see that a proper set of Rules are framed. The Supreme Court is in fault. I think it would be very useful if some general rules of the kind referred to by W. Branstrom have been framed.\n\nMr. Hubert, Oct 14, Works, refers to the manner in which the papers were dealt with, requiring explanation. Sir J. Pope Hennessy's letter was received. It is connected by Dr. Bridges to W. Branstrom (no date), who had waited till his scheme was out to the As. Secretaries.\n\n... \nSir, \nSEP 11 1887 \n\nPage 363 \n\nK", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-183 - Public Offices & Others - 1878.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 306517, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9]", "content_text": "271\n\n\"He thought it good policy when a special difficulty occurred not merely to look for a precedent on the file, and failing to find it to say nothing could be done, but to start some measures instead of saying it was impossible.\n\nSome of the declaimers at Exeter Hall would come and live in this colony, and perhaps be knocked down, he would no doubt soon be ready for measures of protection. Who knew the state of things existing would admit the truth of this. His Excellency concluded by saying he was afraid the ordinance was one of those on which it was of no use to ask the members' opinion, with a view to obtaining further concessions. They must propose it themselves as instructed, and they must apparently accept it as it is.\"\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice said: \"They would never consent since the introduction of photography to the branding, as it takes away penitentiary.\"\n\nPage 273", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-189 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309170, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Seligsopii.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 21st, 1881.\n\nNEWS for the ENGLISH MAIL.\n\nChinese Emigration to the Australian Colonies via Hongkong, has for a considerable time past caused our Government a great deal of anxiety and trouble. The subject is one of such wide spread importance, affecting the vital interests of so many different communities, and which has raised in Australia so many difficulties between opposing classes, that the greatest possible circumspection on the part of our local government, in carrying out the conditions of the Ordinances regulating Chinese Emigration from Hongkong, has been necessitated.\n\nFrom the days of the infamous coolie traffic up to the present time, the eyes of the many philanthropic societies established in various parts of the world for the purpose of preventing abuses of a similar character, not only to Chinese but to other native races, have been steadfastly fixed on Hongkong as one of the great outlets of China, and it is quite certain that any infringement of, or deviation from the law, either sanctioned or permitted by the Executive of this colony would have called forth remonstrances of a character, from these influential bodies, backed up by public opinion, which no English Government could have ignored.\n\nIt is quite a common practice here, as doubtless it is in other parts of the globe, to write and speak of the Exeter Hall philanthropists in terms of the greatest contempt. Whether the gentlemen who interest themselves so much in the welfare of uncivilised nations deserve such opprobrious treatment is altogether a matter of opinion; but that, in their own way they have done a deal of good is beyond question.\n\nNo right thinking man would defend the now happily defunct Macao coolie trade, although even that abominable traffic in human beings existed for a considerable time, without greatly shocking that portion of the community who were commercially interested in the speculation. What was called the unjust treatment of Messrs. Olyphant & Co. by the Government in the well-known \"Perusia\" business a few years back, caused a great deal of commotion here, and excited much sympathy for that firm. What real grounds existed for that sympathy time has clearly shown.\n\nThere is no doubt whatever that the Nemesis, otherwise the Perusia, was merely the forerunner of what was intended to be a renewal of the coolie slave trade on a large scale, but under another name, between the South of China and the South American Republics. Recent accounts from Peru of the treatment the Chinese in that country have lately experienced vividly recall to mind the very worst days of negro slavery in the Southern States of the American Republic, and give us reason to be thankful that the action of this Government probably prevented thousands upon thousands of Chinese laborers from suffering similar degradation and cruelties; and in many instances a violent death.\n\nThe Chinese emigration from this port to the Australian Colonies resembles in many respects the emigration to San Francisco, and the results to both countries have generally coincided. One great difference, however, must be noted. Emigration to America, according to the laws of that country (vide Sections 2,158 and 2,162 of the Revised Statutes of the United States), is supposed to be free and voluntary in all respects; that to Australia has been tainted to a considerable extent by what is known as the contract system, which, with us in Hongkong under certain conditions, is perfectly legal.\n\nAccording to Mr. Seward, ex-Minister of the United States at Peking, in 1866 a set of regulations regarding contract emigration was drawn up by the British and French Ministers at the Chinese capital, which received the approval of the Chinese Government. These regulations consisted of twenty-two articles, and were meant to insure regularity and fair dealing in the engagement of Chinese under contract in foreign countries. The seventh article which contains the gist of the regulations, reads as follows:-\n\n\"The contracts shall specify;- 1st. The place of destination, and the length of the engagement.\n\nPage 510\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 326415, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "page_number": 450, "title": "CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10]", "content_text": "# THE DAILY PRESS\n\n## HONGKONG, OCTOBER 6TH, 1884\n\nTHE reluctance of the Government to adopt extreme measures for putting an end to the present unendurable state of affairs in this Colony is understandable if somewhat unsatisfactory. Exeter Hall to a very large extent controls Downing Street, and sentiment has in no small degree emasculated the Ordinances which have been made for the administration of justice in Crown Colonies having a mixed population. British officials are expected to govern almost by moral suasion, and any severity is apt to elicit stern rebuke from the Colonial Office, or a number of unpleasant inquiries in the House of Commons. By pandering to sentimentalism Sir **JOHN POPE HENNESSY** made many supporters in Parliament, and secured freedom to work incalculable mischief here. When the late Governor succeeded in getting the punishment of flogging practically abolished, he deprived this Government of half its power to repress disorder. We are not advocates of the lash as an ordinary punishment; there is a certain amount of brutality in it that is revolting to the feelings, and it is questionable whether public flogging has not a hardening effect on the minds of onlookers. But experience has proved to demonstration that in this Colony it is absolutely impossible to properly control the criminal classes without this punishment.\n\nChinese criminals understand the **argumentum baculinum** better than any other. They have been disciplined by the bamboo for centuries, and with them it is a far stronger argument for order than a term of imprisonment. Some of the most intelligent and influential Chinese in this Colony have also strongly advocated, in our hearing, a return to public flogging. One Chinese gentleman, who thoroughly understands his countrymen, assured us that floggings administered inside the Gaol lost more than half of their efficacy, as the criminals will not admit having undergone the punishment when they come out, and the deterrent effect of what is not witnessed becomes almost nil. He expressed the opinion that floggings should always be awarded for crimes of violence, and should be administered on the spot where the crime was committed. If this were done, the offence of ear-piercing, now so common, would soon be put a stop to. Similarly, no doubt, if a dozen of the leaders of the present riots were triced up to triangles in some public thoroughfares and treated to a few dozen lashes, the moral effect would be quickly apparent. These riots are, we still believe—though we observe with great regret the spread of a violent anti-foreign feeling among classes of the Chinese from whom something better might have been expected—due to the incitement of some few mischievous spirits, and if these men were once arrested and an example made of them, the riotous spirit would quickly die out. The majority of the cargo-boat people are not only willing but anxious to resume work, but the rabble still endeavour to intimidate them and drive their craft from the harbour. It is, however, high time that the Authorities decided to take uncompromising action with a view to restore order in the Colony. They cannot any longer allow mob rule in British territory; at all costs, the dictation of a few mischievous persons must be put down. The cargo boat strike is ended, but the reign of disorder is not over. Efforts should now be made to bring the fomenters of disturbance to speedy justice, and to arrest and deport the rowdies who have led the van in the riots.\n\n## THE STRIKES AND RIOTS\n\nFrom the hour to which time our last report recorded proceedings—2 a.m. on Saturday—nothing of any great importance has happened in the way of rioting or deeds of violence. All Saturday night, the place was perfectly quiet, the streets round the Recreation Ground, Gap-street, &c., which had been the scene of so much violence and tumult but a few hours before, being quite deserted and empty, perhaps even more so than on ordinary occasions. In some houses, there was a display of lanterns to keep up the religious festival. In spite of the prohibition of the authorities to hold the usual dragon procession on Friday, there was something of a procession that night, there being two large illuminated paper dragons, and a lot of fancy lanterns, carried by the usual rag-tag and bobtail, with an escort or guard of coolies carrying bamboo poles, apparently ready to resist any attempt to stop the thing by the authorities. There was no collision, however, and the procession was not seen for long, there being probably too many bodies of police and military patrolling about the streets. Ample means were taken to maintain order and peace during the night. As we have said, a large force of the Buffs was quartered in the main hall and adjoining parts of the Tung Wah Hospital under the command of Major Howarth, so that they were in the midst of the troubled part, ready to turn out in a moment for any outbreak. The Chinese were kept away from the doors of the place by police, a detachment of whom were on duty there under Inspector Grey. Mr. Wise and Mr. Mackean, Police Magistrates, were also in the Hospital, ready to give their authority to any proceedings which might be deemed necessary in case of an outbreak. Pickets of Buffs and police patrolled the streets with only moderate intervals between each, and as there were some grounds for apprehending attempts at incendiarism, the fire engines and members of the Brigades were all ready to turn out at a moment's notice. Happily, there was no call for their services, and no rousing of peaceful people by the alarm of the fire bells. Afloat, also, protective measures were taken, the harbour being well patrolled by the launches and gigs of the Water Police under Inspector Cradock, the crews being armed to the teeth.\n\nThough all passed so quietly during the night, the rowdies were astir the next morning early and on the lookout for any cargo boats which might be disposed to go to work again, and...\n\nPage 446 \nPage 450 \nPage 451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-217 - Governor Sir Bowen Administrator Marsh - 1884 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12]", "content_text": "The Daily Press. Hongkong, May 7th, 1867.\n\nTHE PUBLIC HEALTH BILL\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Pursuant, sir, to the notice which I gave at the last meeting of this Council, I beg to move the first reading of a Bill entitled \"An Ordinance for amending the laws relating to public health in the colony of Hongkong.\" As this Bill will no doubt entail a great outlay on the owner of property and perhaps on Government itself, as it interferes to some extent with private rights of property and must affect in some way or other every member of this community, I think it right I should fully state the reasons for bringing it in and the necessity which exists for sound and stringent enactments.\n\nIn view of the importance of the matter and the fact that it is not intended to go at once with the Bill, but to give every one interested a full and ample opportunity of studying it and investigating the details of it, and of offering their objections to it, if any, I trust I may be allowed to depart on this occasion from the rule which ordinarily obtains at this Council, and to state the objects and reasons to-day instead of waiting till the second reading.\n\nI feel the Government is bound to show, firstly, the necessity for stringent measures to remedy the existing evil, and, secondly, that judging from past experience in other Colonies, the remedies proposed, if carried out, will cure the evil and secure us from the introduction and ravages of cholera and other contagious diseases.\n\nIt should now be well known that the preservation of life and health in great measure depends on the faithful prosecution of sanitary works. That will be the keynote of my remarks to-day.\n\nThe subject of the Sanitary state of Hongkong is no new one. I came this morning upon a report of Dr. Ayres, dated 5th April, 1875. I will read only one extract from it. He says:-\n\nThis is a simple statement of facts as I have found them, and I think it will not be found difficult, after this explanation, for those who read this account to present in their imaginations a slight idea of the state of filth in which at present the lowest class of Chinese exist.\n\nI have not spoken of the state of the drains in the better quarters of the town, for that is patent to the eyes and noses of the public and attracts sufficient attention. If it were not for the heavy rains flushing them frequently in the hot weather, matters would be worse still.\n\nThe typhoon was a great sanitary visitor in the lower quarters of the town, and though it caused a great amount of destruction of rotten old buildings, it did a world of good.\n\nFrom this it will be seen that every condition exists for the development of cholera or fevers of a typhoid character; if the seeds are once sown, they will have a fair start.\n\nPort Louis, Mauritius, a town similarly situated at the base of high hills, with every similar convenience for good drainage, and having an equally bad state of things, but certainly not worse, has suffered most severely from epidemics, though once it was a renowned sanitarium.\n\nI was in the Colonial service there in the fever epidemic of 1867 and '68, and I sincerely hope I may never see such another, the death rate at one time exceeding 600 people daily.\n\nLet the rains fall short, or the monsoons cease to blow here for a time, and Hongkong would be the scene of a similar catastrophe.\n\nThat condition of things occurred in the Mauritius, and it is not impossible it may occur here.\n\nThere are two other letters from the same doctor, dated January and April, 1874. I spare the Council the reading of them, but if any hon. member of the Council should have any doubts about the necessity of legislation regarding sanitary matters, I would only ask him to read these reports.\n\nThe want of sanitary works and legislation has also occupied the attention of my hon. friend the Surveyor-General.\n\nOn account of the conflicting views entertained here, the Secretary of State in 1881 determined to send out a professional engineer, and he instructed the Crown Agents to place themselves in communication with some engineer of repute.\n\nMr. Chadwick was appointed. He came out, I believe, in 1881, and left some time in 1882, and afterwards presented his report.\n\nThe necessity of the ordinance and of the execution of sanitary works can be doubted by no one after reading Mr. Chadwick's report, and the Government would be guilty of gross neglect in one of its primary duties, were it after this warning to neglect any longer the prosecution of these much needed works.\n\nIn submitting his report Mr. Chadwick says the sanitary condition of Hongkong is defective and calls for energetic remedial measures.\n\nThe death rate is high, while the average age at death is low.\n\nTo show this, at page 64 he gives a table. I will not read the whole of it, but will only give some of the figures.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong in 1881. Mean age at death of all who died, men, women, and children. 18.32. In all England in 1840, 29; Croydon in 1878, 31, Oxford in 1878, 29.\n\nYou see how unfavourably we compare. The mean age here being only 18.\n\nThen he gives us the mean age of all who died over twenty years of age. Hongkong in 1881—men 42, women 46, all 43. All England in 1840—all 45; Croydon in 1878—men 66.6, women 58.4; Exeter in 1878—men 56.7, women 62.2.\n\nIn another letter he says:---\n\nI am of opinion that the existing state of sanitation of Hongkong is most seriously defective.\n\nThe houses inhabited by the poorer Chinese are inconvenient, ill-constructed and overcrowded.\n\nThe amount of cubic space per head is small enough, but this is a minor evil compared to the want of space and facilities for cleanliness.\n\nI have also ascertained that these house drains are as a rule badly constructed and therefore dangerous to health.\n\nI am of opinion that the laws which affect house construction and sanitation are inadequate and require thorough revision, and that a complete and stringent system of sanitary inspection is necessary to introduce and enforce improvement, and I believe that this may be done without interfering to any serious extent with the social customs and institutions of the Chinese.\n\nNow, with respect to building, in his first letter he says:-\n\nBoth the design and construction of existing dwellings is defective—the Building Ordinance requires complete revision.\n\nThe amended law must be enforced with more rigour and intelligence than at present, particularly as to alleys, lanes, and open spaces.\n\nThe system of house drainage is radically bad.\n\nThe whole of the dwellings within the town require redraining, and unless this is done but little health improvement will be made.\n\nThe complete, cheap and proper execution of this work can only be effected by the Government undertaking it.\n\nMr. Chadwick then points out some of the remedial measures he would suggest, such as the improvement of existing sewers, scavenging, and night soil removal, public latrines, and an organised sanitary staff, the employment of district watchmen to enforce attention, and he ends his letter with these very important remarks, to which I would draw attention:--\n\nI trust that even should these suggestions be found undesirable or impracticable my report will show the necessity for strong and complete measures of sanitation, and I trust they will be undertaken for the immediate benefit of the public health without waiting for the necessity to be demonstrated by the irresistible logic of a severe epidemic.\n\nIn speaking of the necessity of taking measures at once we must remember that our negligence in sanitary matters has not yet produced all its effects.\n\nWe have not felt the results yet. These results do not show themselves at once, but things will go on from bad to worse, and what is easy to cure now will be difficult if not impossible later on.\n\nDr. Ayres has mentioned the case of Mauritius, which was once a renowned sanitarium.\n\nAllow me for a few moments to allude to it.\n\nUnfortunately I have had a much longer experience of it than Dr. Ayres had, and since 1854 I have seen that once fair island devastated by epidemics of cholera, small-pox, and fever, which have spread death and ruin around, and this has seriously affected the prosperity of the island.\n\nNo one will go there who can possibly help it, and no one who can invest his money anywhere else will invest it there.\n\nTo give but one instance of the effect on the value of house property in Port Louis.\n\nIt has simply no value whatever.\n\nUnfortunately in 1866, before the fever broke out, I purchased one of the nicest houses for $14,000, and I cannot now get $4,000 for it.\n\nAnd it is altogether unsaleable.\n\nTo remedy the defects of sanitation in Mauritius now, would cost much more than the Colony could afford, whereas, if they had attended to it some years ago, they would not have suffered so severely from epidemics as they have since 1854.\n\nNow, with respect to the death rate being high Mr. Chadwick makes the following remarks in his report:-\n\n111.—Before discussing the defects of the present system, and the means of remedying them, I think it desirable to examine the available evidence as to the sanitary condition of the Chinese, and to see whether they are on the whole more or less healthy than other races.\n\nPage 32", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-234 - Acting Governor Cameron Governor Des Voeus - 1887 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 346470, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11]", "content_text": "# Cenclosure 5\n\n71\n\n**China Mail**\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1891.\n\nTHE Share Bill again! During the last two or three months, columns have been written and spoken about Mr Keswick's share bill. It was with a sigh of relief that we welcomed the passing of the measure; for now at last, we thought, the subject may be dropped and the public delivered from the wearisome iteration of the arguments pro and con. But our joy was premature. The party in Hongkong, strong more by influence than in numbers, who thoroughly hate the bill and hate everything which interferes with their manipulations and their gambling, will not accept the decision of the Legislative Council. They have resolved to appeal to Cæsar. A memorial setting forth all the objections against the Bill has been drawn up and signatures are being canvassed for in much the same hole-and-corner way as the signatures to the anti-Sunday petition were obtained. The moving spirits of the opposition know well that a man who would not sign a petition exposed in a public place may be got to sign it if it is brought to him by a friend with whom he has business relations and whom he does not wish to displease; and they are acting accordingly. It is impossible, however, to keep such a memorial secret; and it has not been difficult for us to ascertain the leading arguments set forth therein. The arguments, it is needless to say, are not new; but the memorial has this merit, that it presents the full case of the opponents of the Bill in concise form; and although there is a good deal of tedious repetition—the statement that short-selling is not the cause of the present suffering being made about a dozen times—the case is stated clearly and concisely.\n\nBefore examining the arguments in detail, a few words on the principles involved. A great deal has been written about the distinction between gambling and speculation and the function of the State in reference to both. In another column will be found an article from `Fairplay`, which admirably illustrates the reasoning and the attitude of those who favour the widest licence. The article contains the usual sneers at the 'moral' men who dare to suggest interference with what is termed legitimate speculation. Now if there is a class of people more detestable than the hypocrites, it is the professional anti-hypocrites. The worst cant of Exeter Hall is sincerity compared with the cant of some of the scorers at Exeter Hall principles.\n\nMen destitute of courage find an excuse for their want of principles and their want of morality by insinuating that those who seek to improve their fellow-men are actuated by mean motives. Nowhere has this objectionable species of anti-cant been more observable than in the discussions that have taken place about gambling and commercial morality. In certain quarters, it seems to be taken as an axiom that a man who seeks to put a check on commercial gambling must either be a fool or a hypocrite or both.\n\nThere are, broadly speaking, three main divisions of business—private business, company business, and co-operative business, which may be likened to the three species of government—autocracy, aristocracy, and democracy. The leading feature of this age is company business. True co-operation, in which may be found the solution of all the labour and capital difficulties that now beset the world, cannot yet be realised. A long period of moral discipline has yet to be gone through. We have only reached the limited liability or aristocratic stage; co-operation, or industrial democracy, is a thing of the future. As Mr Francis truly remarked in one of his speeches, the very essence of the limited liability principle is that there should be a free and open market for the sale of shares. But what is freedom? Does it mean the right of every man to do as he pleases? If so, then freedom may become worse than the most galling bondage. If men are to live in a social state, their freedom must be circumscribed by the rights of others. It is on this sound principle that all laws are based. Mr Francis and his co-memorialists say, let bulls and bears work their free will, their actions will neutralise each other.\n\nThis is almost equivalent to saying, let Paul rob Peter and Peter rob Paul, and they will soon get even—a process of readjusting property, which, if permitted, would speedily lead to the dissolution of all civilised states. In a place like Hongkong, where eight out of every ten of the foreign residents are speculators—we won't say gamblers—it seems superfluous to define what bulling and bearing really signify; but, judging by the loose way in which the terms are used, it is evident that their significance is not always clearly comprehended. Bulling means the purchasing of shares mainly for the purpose of raising the market, and 'bearing' means selling shares for the purpose of depressing the market. The two operations may be carried on to a small extent with genuine shares alone, but...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 350264, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "page_number": 572, "title": "CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12]", "content_text": "# DRAFT\n\n1 May 6% 7 \n\n568 \n\n**MINUTE**\n\nMr. Exemer Htry King \n\nWhat is the average number of fish in person Squintaged four year ending 31st of December \n\nMr. Fairfield. 14/1/93 \nMr. Wingfield \nMr. Bramston \nMr. Meade \nMr. Buxton \nMarquess of Ripon \n\nSent 15 Jan \n24.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-256 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367054, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "## C.O. 9280/98 8\n\n3 there of as to Mr Gompertz's qualifications and fitness for the post of Inspector of Schools.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\nMak\nMajor General, Administering the Government,\n\nP 2 16089\n\n[Form to be filled in and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.]\n\n| Category | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name in full | Henry Hessy Johnston Gompertz |\n| Date | 9th May 1898 |\n| Day and year of birth | 3rd August 1867 |\n| Place of birth | Hundial, India |\n| Whether single, married, or a widower | Married |\n| Number of Children--Sons | None |\n| Number of Children--Daughters | |\n| Where educated; professional qualifications, if any; and employment, if any, before entering the public service | Bedford Grammar School, Exeter College Oxford, B.A. 1890 |\n| Salary of present Office | $270 per mensem |\n| Age last birthday | Thirty years |\n\n| Name of Office | From | To | Salary |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Cadet, Straits Settlements | 1890 | August 1897 | |\n| 2nd Asst. Professor of Chinese, Hongkong | 1897 | | |\n| Assistant Registrar General | August 1897 | | $3140 per annum |\n\n| Allowance Details | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Whether a house or lodging is provided, or an allowance in lieu thereof | No |\n| Average of fees, if any, for the last 3 years | None |\n\nPROMOTION DESIRED: Inspector of schools, Hongkong\n\n* Acting appointments are not to be entered here, but may be mentioned on the next page.\n\nIf the officer holds more than one office, full particulars of each must be given.\n\nIf private practice is allowed, the estimated value should be stated.\n\nThe value of a Colonial appointment depends upon so many circumstances besides the salary that the Secretary of State often cannot judge what would be acceptable to an officer. Applicants for promotion should therefore, in their own interests, state as precisely as possible what they desire, either specifying certain appointments, or at least mentioning the Colonies to which they would or would not be willing to go and the amount of salary which they think that they may reasonably expect.\n\nB&B(£1400s) 1000 8-58\n\nTURN OVER.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367055, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "page_number": 464, "title": "CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6]", "content_text": "459 \n\nobtained and placed out \n\n[Any further information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate letter.]\n\nsenior open classical Scholar Exeter College Oxford \n2nd Class Honours classical moderations. \n2nd Class Honours Lit. Hum: \nopen Competition 1890 for Eastern Cadetships \n\n[This page is to be reserved for any report which the Governor may make when sending the form to the Colonial Office.]\n\n3 \n\n1886. \n1888. \n1890. \nB.A. 1890. \n\nCandidates by \nappointed Cadet by the Secretary of State. \n\nfor the position of Inspector of \n\nIn competency is qualified for the post by \nhis knowledge of Chinese and by his University Education – He is \nSteady, hard working, and intelligent. \n\nIt is believed to be good, \nand able to \nSchools. \n\n1890 \n\nMuch ... \nmajor. Denn ... \nAdministering the Govt...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-283 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381525, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "4 Extract from Colonial Office List 1901.\n\n236\n\nGOMPARTZ, H.H.J. -\n\nAustralian Settlement\n\nEd. at Bedford Sch., and Exeter Coll., Oxon.\n\nChinese (scholar); End. class lit. hum., A. (1880);\n\nCadet S. Settlements, 1890; passed final Exam.\n\nDec. 1893; Asst. Supt. of Police, Penang, Aug.\n\n1895; 2nd Asst. Prot. of Chinese, Penang, Jan.\n\n1896; transfd. to Hongkong as Asst. Regr.-Gen.\n\n1897.\n\n*\n\nHongkong.\n\nApptd. Asst. Regr., Hongkong, 7th September,\n\n1897; Actg. 1st Regr., 1st July, 1898 to 31st\n\nMay 1900. Apptd. Asst. Col. Secy., 1st Jan., 1900.\n\nApptd. Member of Land Court 1st June, 1900.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "page_number": 245, "title": "CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9]", "content_text": "Page 243\n\nGOMPERTZ, H. H. J.-\n\nEducated at Bedford Schl., and Exeter Coll., Oxon. (scholar); 2nd class lit. hum., E. A. (1890); cadet S. Settlements, 1890; passed final Exam. for interpreters Chinese, Dec. 1895; ag. 3rd mag., Penang, Aug., 1895; 2nd asst. prot. of Chinese, Penang, Jan., 1896; transfd. to Hongkong as Asst. Regor-Gen., 1897.\n\nApptd. A.Regor-Gen., Hongkong, 7th September, 1897; Acte. 1st mag., 1st July, 1899 to 31st May 1900. Apptd. Asst. Col. Secy., 1st Jan., 1900. Apptd. Member of Land Court 1st June, 1900.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-306 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383856, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 392, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "1899\n\nReturn showing the number of hours in each month the undersigned has been at work in the Hongkong General Post Office.\n\n \n Month\n No of days Off\n No of days Attended\n Average number of hours for day\n Longest day\n Shortest day\n Remarks\n \n \n February\n \n \n \n \n \n 15/12/2 Sundays, 9.15 Public holidays\n \n \n \n \n \n 12.00\n 3.30\n \n \n \n \n March\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n April\n 31\n 3\n 28\n 10.04\n \n 1 Good Friday\n \n \n May\n \n \n 25\n 9.33\n 6\n 12.05 1.50 Office washed through, 17th Public Holiday.\n \n \n June\n 34\n \n 125\n 9.00\n \n Exeter Monday, 14.02 1.15 Office washed through.\n \n \n July\n \n \n \n \n \n Wit Monday 14.34 2.30 Fever queues birthday, a public holiday.\n \n \n \n 54\n days\n fever,\n 2 in bed,\n one day\n Fook over at 2.30pm on 18th February\n \n \n \n 126\n \n 9.16\n \n \n Dag hoisting\n \n \n July\n \n \n 27\n 9.22\n \n 12.20 7.24 Round Hospitals as y\n \n \n August\n 4\n \n 29\n 9.13\n \n 12.45 6.30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 14 Monday 11.20 2.04 in August\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n W. S. 1. Marting.\n \n\n13/3/99", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414589, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Application for Promotion in the Colonial Service\n\n## Form to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n### Name in full \nHenry Hessey Johnston Suspect\n\n### Date of Application \nSept 25th 1908\n\n### Present Appointment \nFirst Magistrate, Hong Kong\n\n### Father's Name \nHenry James Colley Suspect\n\n### Profession or Occupation of Father \nSuperintendant, Indian Revenue (retired) Survey\n\n### Address \n27 Lansdowne Road, Bedford\n\n### Day and year of Birth \nAug 31, 1867\n\n### Place of birth \nHandial, India\n\n### Whether single, married, or a widower \nMarried\n\n### Number of children \nSons: Three \n- Ages respectively: 10, 8, 6\n- Daughters: No.\n\n### Age last birthday \nForty-one\n\n### Education \n- **Bedford School**: 1878-86\n- **Exeter College, Oxford**: 1886-90. B.A. 1890\n - Senior Open Classical Scholar\n - 2nd Class Lit. Hum. 1890\n\n### Professional qualifications (if any), and the date at which each was obtained \n- Called to English Bar, Lincoln's Inn: 1899\n\n## Employment from date of completion of education to date of entering the public service \nMention each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving.\n\n### Employment History \n- Entered Straits Civil Service direct from University...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "page_number": 503, "title": "CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10]", "content_text": "# Application for Promotion in the Colonial Service\n## Form to be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies\n\n**Date of Application** \nSeptember 25th, 1908\n\n**Present Appointment** \nFirst Magistrate, Hong Kong\n\n**Name in full** \nHenry Kessly Joluston Somperte\n\n**Father's Name** \nHenry James Collly (deceased)\n\n**Father's Profession or Occupation** \nSuperintendant, Indian Revenue Survey\n\n**Address** \n17 Lansdowne Road, Bedford\n\n**If dead, his Name and Profession** \nAs above\n\n**Day and year of Birth** \nAugust 31, 1887\n\n**Place of birth** \nHandial, Midia\n\n**Whether single, married, or a widower** \nMarried\n\n**Number of children** \n3 Sons, 1 Daughter\n\n**Ages last birthday** \n41\n\n**Education** \n- Bedford School, 1878-86\n- Exeter College, Oxford, 1886-90\n - BA, 1890\n - 2nd Class Lit. Hum., 1890\n - Late of senior open classical scholar\n\n**Professional qualifications (if any), and the date at which each was obtained** \n- Called to English Bar, Lincoln's Inn, 1899\n\n## Employment from completion of education to date of entering the public service\nMention each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving.\n\nDirect from University, entered Hong Kong Civil Service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-348 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 414739, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12]", "content_text": "# District No 8 WANCHAI\n## PROPOSED EASTERN PRAYA EXTENSION\n### District No 9 BOWRINGTON\n\n| | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1378 | 1390 | 1453 |\n| +711 | 1509 | REWerke |\n| 1570 | 1523 | MILITARY HOSPITAL |\n\nDirectory & Chronicle\n\nRaul to sing bet SITE Bowen R Miter Beds #5 C10 RC Chap 1526 Electric Light Works€$B«/. TALWONG LANEJ Reservoirt Guy Store $17 431 3 430 2 $1350- 1628 52 China Sugar Refinery 231 469 CAUSEWAY F.L.8 27 in Hat Temple BAY District N10 SOOKUN Poo CAUSE GREA EORG E STR. motility Wurks KENNEDYS 1149 1090 STABLES 1408 EAS 457 965 4 A LEIGHTON 1407 QUEEN'S RCCREATION GROUND 1580 1672 Reformatory COTTON 1018 MILLS SOOK UNPOO G.L.2 AROLIN 815 HILL ALLEY Tai Hang Village 1:8 Lin Fa King femple Thin Patung Temple\n\n## LEIGHTON HILL HOAD\nNo Police Station/ 1451 48 293 270; 119:114 120 121 122 1.123; 184: 197 196 2711 289 201 107 108 109 110 499 11339) /728 !!1342 746 MUSSELL STR 118 727 820 Sefjel Laundries W \n\n:678 Mam ommedan Cem Boman karkolie emeter RECREATION GROUND 1577 HILL WONGNEI CHONG VALLEY Cemetery RACE Stables Be Parsee Cemeter Hindoo Gemetery 1338 1364 1484 Wongner Chong Village B.S 8.S. 10201 Chinese Cemetery 393 F.44 F. 43 Lepotem F.42 Mint Dam F. Sr W. Chatham 5P.W. 36.0.60 \n\nJohn Bartholomew & Co. Zm \n\n265", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419902, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 448, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "Any farther information which may be considered necessary should be written on this page, and not in a separate letter.\n\nApplication for Promotion in the Colonial Service.\n\nTo be filled up by the Applicant himself, and returned to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nName in full: \n\nDate of Application\n\nIn connection with specification of \"Promotion desired the usual form of application for employment under the Board Agriculture and Fisheries is attached with the information duly filled in required.\n\n \n Present Appointment\n Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Dept. Hong Kong.\n \n \n Father's Name\n James Dunn Clark\n \n \n Profession or Occupation\n Clerk in Holy Orders.\n \n \n Address\n St John Baptist Vicarage, Battersea\n \n \n If dead, his Name and Profession\n \n \n \n Date and year of Birth\n Dec. 26th, 1868\n \n \n Place of birth\n Bristol, England.\n \n \n Whether single, married, or a widower\n Married\n \n \n Number of children\n Sons ... none. Daughters ...\n \n \n Ages respectively\n \n \n\nEducation: \n\nGive in chronological order the Schools and Colleges at which you received your education, professional as well as general, and give in each case the date of entry and leaving.\n\n \n 1877 to 1882\n Walton Lodge, Clevedon\n \n \n 1882 to 1886\n Ratley\n \n \n 1886 to ...\n Berkshire. Oxford.\n \n\nProfessional qualifications (if any), and the date at which they were obtained: \n\nB.A. 1889 \n\nF.L.S. 1895 \n\nF.R.G.S. 1909\n\nEmployment from completion of education to date of entering the public service: \n\nState each position held by you, the dates on which you held it, and the cause of leaving.\n\n \n 1889-1894\n Private tutor to son of Mr. John Bell of Chilworth, Surrey.\n \n \n 1894-1897\n Master at private school of Mr. Arnold Wire of Oakfield, Rugby\n \n \n 1897-1898\n Private secretary to Sir Thomas Acland, Bt. of Killerton, Exeter\n \n \n 1898-1899\n Private secretary to Sir Witham G. D. Dyes, director of Royal Gardens, Kew\n \n \n 1899-1903\n Assistant for India at Kew\n \n \n 1903 to present time\n Superintendent, Botanical and Forestry Dept. Hong Kong.\n \n\n[TURN OVER]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449167, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "page_number": 416, "title": "CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10]", "content_text": "to Lowell - \n\nW. Barker \n\nis also serving \n\nwith the ang.... \n\n... \n\nI will start in \n\nthe circle \n\nwe have to write to this.\" \n\nyou \n\nof \n\nEdne. for \n\nA \n\nman \n\nJ \n\nM Allen \n\nJon Colling \n\nNeet 30/11/14 \n\nPlease aft to B.of. \n\nB. of 9. telephoned to \n\nsay \n\nselection will take time (months) to carry out by end of Jan. \n\nas desired by \n\nthat it was quite impossible to get an \n\n... inform ... by desp. that no date ... \n\nCandidate \n\non \n\n5. of S.'s books was \n\navailable, & that application has been \n\nmade to B. \n\nof \n\nwill be advertised \n\nCandidate \n\nbus selection \n\nin time to take up duty at end of Jan. \n\nJ. F. Morris. Age 34. Wellingborough \n\nJesus (Camb.) Ord. degree, good deal of teaching experience, but not a trained teacher. Good \n\nreferences \n\nR. B. Barker \n\nAge 24 Blackburn Grammar School & Manchester University. \n\nM.A. Teacher's diploma. Prefers administrative & educational work. Good refs \n\nSaid to be a \n\nJule, C.B.B \n\ngood teacher. \n\nAge 37. Married. \n\nExeter School. Exeter Coll. Oxford. \n\nOrdinary degree. Teaching experience. \n\ngood references. \n\nis impossible. \n\n5.12.14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-413 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 451964, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "page_number": 322, "title": "CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914", "content_text": "## Application for Employment as Mata Nurse in the Colonies\n\nForm to be filled up by the Applicant herself, and sent to the Private Secretary to the Secretary of State, Colonial Office, London, by the Colonial Nursing Association.\n\n### Details of Applicant\n\n| Category | Information |\n| --- | --- |\n| Name in full | Mabel Benson |\n| Date of Application | June 12, 1914 |\n| Profession or Occupation | Nurse |\n| Address | 34 Raleigh Rd - Exeter |\n\n### Personal Details\n\n| Category | Information |\n| --- | --- |\n| Father's Name | Charles Benson |\n| Profession or Occupation of Father | Formerly Deputy Director Land Records & Agriculture |\n| Address of Father | 34 Raleigh Rd, Exeter |\n| Day and year of birth | 16 May 1883 |\n| Place of birth | Torquay |\n| Whether single, married, or a widow | Single |\n| Number of Children | - |\n| Sons | - |\n| Daughters | - |\n| Age last birthday | 31 |\n\n### Education and Qualifications\n\nMention the Schools or Colleges at which you received your education, professional as well as general; and give in each case the date of entry and leaving. Professional qualifications, and the place and date at which each obtained.\n\n* Ladies College, Devonport from Sept: 1898 to August 1900\n* The Queen's Hospital for Children March 1905 to Oct 1908\n* St Thomas's Hospital Jan 1908 to Jan 1912\n\nCertificate of Training for Queen's Hospital for Children (formerly known as the North Eastern Hospital for Children) was Certificate of Training at St Thomas's Hospital.\n\n### Employment History\n\nMention each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving.\n\n* Sister, St Thomas's Hospital\n* Sister, Eltham Women's Hospital from Aug 1912 to Feb 1914, Reason for leaving: to take out a course of training for the CM examination & apply for work in the Colonies.\n\n### Appointment Desired\n\nIf you do not apply for a particular appointment, you should state to what Colonies you would go, and what is the lowest salary that you would accept.\n\nSalary: £300-£400 per annum, with a minimum of £300. Desired location: Hong Kong Civil Hospital. \n\n[TURN OVER]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-418 - Public Offices & Others - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 462266, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8]", "content_text": "# ISSUED FROM PARLIAMENT STREET, 8.W.\n\nELECTRA HOUSE, \nFINSBURY PAVEMENT, E.C. \n11. OLD BROAD STREET. E.C. \n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C.\n\nTHE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED\n\nLONDON STATIONS:-\n1. 29, MINCING LANE, E.C. \n1 MARKET BLDGS. \n28, MARK LANE, E.C.\n\n19632 (Wall) \n(9692 Wall) \n(851 Avenue) \n(852 Avenue) \n32894 \n37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. \n... (1014 Holborn) \n449. STRAND-WO- \n(1528 Games) \n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT STREET. (2516 Gerrard) \nFOREIGN AUCTION HALL? SERANT GARDEN VECI, \nTHE BALTIC, MARY-AXER (CD40) venue. \n6, DENMAN STREET, BOROUGH.\n\n11 JUL 1916 \n[19 \n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT \n67:34 \nvid \"Exeter \nKo \n18 \nDatra. \nTimo JV J \nNo. \n5s \nKEMARKA \nBq\n\nThe following TELEGRAM Received at \nForeign \nChapelvie \nWords \nFestible no 228 \nhad, \nhear that \nI Reptree \nlling heatfelt relapse \nMedical \nit rexgrey melitungs amulety \nFilgues for \nlorado' service \nhere \nis \necessary \nmay \nfice 4.451. \nBest 4.62. \nas\n\n**REPLIES SHOULD BE ORDERED Via Eastern**\n\nDoubtful words should be officially repeated. See Rule Book.\n\nNo inquiry respecting this Telegram can be attended to without the production of this Copy.\n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-434 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 465544, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# 337 \n## 60. 1916 Feb.\n\nLast previous Paper. 407% 459 Tel: Ev. 9 Feb.\n\nL \n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n**HONG KONG GENERAL RELIEF**\n\n5358 RE 3 FEB 16 \n\nC.O. 5358 Subscription raised for war Relief. Several Organisations who would gratefully receive subscriptions are mentioned. The Federated Malay States Anglo-Chinese Hospital is worthy of support. Forwards copy of letter from Mr. Collin, stating funds are badly needed.\n\nI am told that a large sum was devoted to the purchase of Exeter bonds; this procedure, though assisting in the war, cannot be regarded as a proper application of a Relief Fund.\n\nEnclosure \n\nThat fund was directed to be sent to General Dept on 12/2/16 at once.\n\n| | |\n| --- | --- |\n| (90092) WL. 35800 | 6. 45,000 125, BM 4g) |\n| | 4.2.46 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-438 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478429, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 666, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "0.20 \n\n**MINISTRY OF LABOUR APPOINTMENTS DEPARTMENT** \n\n**OFFICERS' UNIVERSITY AND TECHNICAL CLASSES PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS REGISTER** No. 10 **DISTRICT DIRECTORATE** \n\nhomema 2 \"Ådeziulad, 5. Kensington, London.\" iphone: Kausinglom 3140. \n\nDear Sir, \n\nJ. Jefferson. 661 \n\n99, QUEEN'S GATE, LONDON, S. 7. \n\n21.10.18. \n\nOn the 15th inst. you forwarded to this Office an application for employment from the above mentioned applicant. I regret to inform you that you omitted to state his address. Would you, therefore, be good enough to forward same at your earliest convenience. \n\nYours faithfully, \n\nnu. District Director 10. \n\nThe Colonial Office, Downing St. \n\nThe District Directorates, with Headquarters Towns and Counties directed from each, are as follows,. (An applicant should apply to the District Director, Appointments Dept., Ministry of Labour, at the H.Q. Town for the County in which he resides.) \n\n| District | Headquarters Town | Counties |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. | PERTH. | Berwick, Inverness, Argyll, Aberdeen, Forfar, Elgin, Fife, Clackmannan, Kincardine, Ross & Cromarty, Caithness, Sutherland, Nairn, Banff, Kinross, Stirling, and the Isles, Linlithgow, Haddington, Roxburgh, Kirkcudbright, Wigtown, Lanark (with all Glasgow area), Selkirk |\n| 2. | EDINBURGH. | Edinburgh, Berwick, Dumfries, Ayr, Peebles, Dumbar-ton, Renfrew |\n| 3. | MANCHESTER, | Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Isle of Man, Cheshire, Salop |\n| 4. | CARDIFF. | Denbigh, Merioneth, Montgomery, Cardigan, Monmouth, Carmarthen, Anglesey, Carnarvon, Flint, Radnor, Brecknock, Glamorgan, Pembroke |\n| 5. | LEEDS. | Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire |\n| 6. | NOTTINGHAM, | Derby, Notts, Leicester, Lincoln, North Stafford, Rutland |\n| 7. | BIRMINGHAM, | Worcester, Gloucester, Oxford, Warwick, Hicks, Bucks, Hereford, South Stafford |\n| 8. | EXETER. | Cornwall, Somerset, Hants, Devon, Wilts, Dorset |\n| 9. | CAMBRIDGE. | Norfolk, Northampton, Huntingdon, Hartford, Suffolk, Cambridge, Bedford, Essex |\n| 10. | LONDON (South Kensington, 5 WIL). | London, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex, Kent |\n| 11. | DUBLIN, | Ireland |\n| 12. | LONDON (Gresham House). | The Outer Empire |\n| 14. | LONDON (Gresham House). | Allied and Neutral Foreign, Consular", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478691, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| Rank | No. | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Present Courses. Locality. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Major | D.O. 949 | A.O.D. | 63 | Good | Ed. privately 25 yrs. Reg. Army. 7 yrs. Staff Officer, to L.G. of Police Local Forces (West Indies). 5 yrs. Inspector of Police, Barbadoes (West Indies). Rejoined Army on outbreak of war. | London. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 885 | R.E. | 40 | Good | Ed. privately. Sound commercial experience. Knowledge accounts and book-keeping. Asst. executive officer New Romney and Romney Marsh Food Control Committee. | London. |\n| 8.-Sergt. | D.O. 887 | A.S.C. | 65 | Good | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. Allmey & Layfield, wholesale provision and shipping merchants. 7 yrs. Paterson, Lalaw & Co., West Africa, buying palm oil, cocoa, cotton, &c. Considerable exp. cattle breeding and plantation work. | D.O. 896 |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 912 | R.E. | 20 | Fair (Gassed). | Ed, Watson's Coll., Edinburgh, and Univ. 1912-14 Course Faculty of Arts M.A. Languages, Literature and Psychology, 8 yrs. Course Chemistry, Physics. [French] | London. |\n| Sergt. | D.O. 918 | B.E. | 34 | G.S.W. R. leg. | Ed. Brighton. Reg. Army, 1864–1890, Held staff appt, as asst, mil. secretary to G.O.C., West Indies; rejoined 1915; appointed as area commander for Berkshire. (Recruiting Staff,) [French.] | London. |\n| Colonel | D.O. 975 | B.E.A. | 73 | Good | Ed. privately. 1 yr. clerk Commissioner Taxes. 4 yrs. Lloyd's Bank, S. Africa. 2 yrs. Standard Bank, S Africa. 2 yrs. Central Mining and Investment Corporation, Ltd., S. Africa. yrs. Manager Lichtenberg. Ventersdorp Rly, Trading Co. 3 yrs. Organiser S. Africa Unionist Association. [French, Dutch, Kaffir.] | Wales. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 976 | R.F.A. | 49 | Good | Ed. Cambridge. Reading for Cambridge Tripos when joined Army. Adjutant labour group and secretary to O.C. Chinese Labour Corps, Experience, public speaking. [French, Chinese.] | Wales. |\n| Major | D.O. 979 | R.Q.A. | 46 | Fair | Ed. Cheltenham and R.M.A. Woolwich. Reg. Army 23 yrs, 1 yr. Purveyor in East, 2 yrs. poultry and fruit farming British Columbia, & mos, superintendent mining camp. [French, Hindustani, Baluchi, Persian, Chinese.] | Berks. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 982 | Tank | 38 | Good | Ed. privately, University Coll, Wales, B.A., economics, law, &c. Sec. to coal exporter. Cardiff, Sen. Housemaster Univ. Sch., Victoria, B.C., 2 yrs. [French, Welsh.] | Wales. |\n| Fleet Paymaster, R.N. | D.O. 921 | | 49 | Good | Ed, privately. $1 yrs. R.N. Service. Thorough knowledge of accountancy. | Dorset. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 985 | W. Riding | 36 | | Ed. St. Albans. Articled to auctioneers 3 yrs., clerical work, railway hotel dept., till outbreak of war, | Herts. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 931 | Middx. | 24 | Injury | Ed. privately. 3 yrs. clerk Stock Exchange. Representative Shell Marketing Co. (1 yr), Supervisor farm tractors, control staff. Knowledge internal combustion engines. Photography. | Kent. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 986 | B.B. | 22 | L. leg. | Ed. Bristol Grammar, 2 yrs. clerk, Nichols, Young, Hunt & Co. | Devon. |\n| 2nd Lieus. | D.O. 940 | I.S.C. | 22 | Good | Ed. privately. 2 yrs. private secretary. 1 yr. supervisor, Food Production Dept. Shorthand and typing. Interested in mechanical engineering. [French.] | Private |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 955 | D.L.I. | 25 | Fair | Ed. privately. Clerk, decorator and plumber's business 7 yrs. | Devon. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | D.O. 956 | Cheshire | 25 | Good | Ed. Wellington, Sandhurst. Continuous army service since 1885. [French.] | D.O. 961 |\n| Major | D.O. 961 | | 64 | Good | Ed. privately. 5 yrs. mining and smelting, America, Employed Harvey's Chemical Works, Plymouth, until 1890, Since then own business grease manufacturer and oil importer. | Dorset. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 965 | | 56 | Good | Ed. privately. Army career only. | Devon. |\n| Lieut | D.O. 993 | R.F.A. | 27 | L. arm. | | Somerset. |\n| 2nd Lieut | D.O. 995 | Labour Corps | 53 | Nephritis | Ed. Exeter Grammar and H.M.S. \"Britannia.\" 14 yrs. Naval service retiring with rank of Lieut. 14 yrs. British Columbia Copper Co. 2 yrs. chief clerk, Mexican Oil Co. | Warwick. |\n| Capt. | D.O. 996 | I.A. | 47 | Good | Ed. Grammar Sch, Preston, Cambridge Univ, B.A. Left Univ. to join Army, [French, Arabic, Greek,] | Surrey. |\n| Lieut. | D.O. 997 | E.G.A. | 34 | Good | Ed. privately. Knowledge Morse signalling. 3 yrs. Oriental Telephone Co., Calcutta: 9 yrs. Nat. Telephone Co., London; 17 yrs, asst. Treasury officer Foreign office; 6 yrs. director Govt. transport supplies agent, Uganda. [Hindustani, Ki Swahili.] | Hants |\n| | D.O. | | | | Ed, privately. 19 yrs. Regular Army, qr-mr. Adjutant; supervision and control estab. Military cantonment Be Court magistrate. [French, Hindustani, German,] | Cornwall. |\n| | D.O. | | | Paralysis, | Served 9 yrs. India; Q.M.S. in France. | Devon. |\n| | H.Q. D.O.4.—20.7.18. | | | | | Hants |\n| | H.Q. D.O.4—29.7.18. | | | | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478696, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| Rank | Regt. | Age. | Medical Notes. | Qualifications and Previous Employment. | O.U.T.C. Courses. | Present Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 26 North. Fus, | 36 | Good | Asst. schoolmaster; 2 yrs. training at St. Andrew's Univ. qualifying cert. with distinction. English; Board of Education Cert. (Teaching). | | London. |\n| Private | 29 | | Good, L. leg damaged. | Ed. privately. 8 yrs. with paper makers as ledger clerk. 10 yrs. asst. buyer manufacturing chemists; left to join Army. | | London. |\n| Lieut. | 31 North. Fus. | 36 | Heart trouble. | Ed. Charterhouse. Reg. Army 1906-9, rejoined 1914. Principal overseer, Royal Lab. Woolwich, Knowledge explosives. [French.] | | London. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 26 E.E. | | Good | Ed. privately. 8 yrs. apprenticed Backworth Collieries, Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne as mining engineer. [French] | | Cornwall. |\n| Lieut. | Border. | 28 | Fair. Rheumatism. | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. asst. mining eng. at Edmondsley Colliery, Durham, B.Sc. Mining M.I.M.E. Certificated colliery manager and surveyor. [French] | | Durham. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 42 Somerset. | | Fair | Ed. privately, 7 yrs. app. mech. & mining engineering Cumberland. 2 yrs. Crows Nest Pass Coal Co., Fernie, B. Columbia, 1 yr. studying for colliery manager's cert., Cumberland. [French, Italian,] | | Northumberland. |\n| Lieut. | 32 R.F. | | Good | Ed. Exeter. Corn merchant 1895-1914, and general farming experience. | | Norfolk. |\n| Major. | 58 Worcester, | | Good | | | Wales. |\n| Capt. | W. Yorks. | 50 | Good | | | D.O. 304 |\n| Capt. | 39 R. Warwick. | | Fair | Ed. privately. 18 yrs. with Bradbury, Greatorex, wholesale drapers. Buyer and manager of silk and velvet dept. | | Essex. |\n| Lieut. | Worcester. | 31 | Good. Lost R. eye. | 3 yrs. appren. drapery trade. 5 yrs. salesman various drapery firms. 5 yrs. salesman Remington and Royal Typewriters Co., Ltd.” | | Berks. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 36 R. Berks. | | Good | | | London. |\n| Lieut. | M.G.C. | 25 | Neurasthenia. | Ed. Gordona Coll, Aberdeen. 4 yrs. app. drapery trade. 4 yrs. wholesale firm, buyer, traveller. | | London. |\n| Lieut. | R.G.A. | 29 | Good | | | D.O. 559 |\n| Lieut. | 237 Gordon H. | | Good | Ed. Merchant Taylors and Oxford Univ. M.A. 6 yrs. est.-master Middlesex Educ. Comm. Exp. of social and administrative work, | | London. |\n| Lieut. | E. Surrey. | 28 | Damaged R. foot. | Ed. St. Mark's Training Coll., Chelsea; schoolmaster (elem.), 3 yrs. instructor in woodwork and elementary scale drawing master in Evening Continuation Schools; special subjects: Business methods, | | Hants. |\n| 2nd Lieut. | 32 Tank. | | Good | Ed. privately. 14 yrs. Smith & Lister, Cannon St. Drapery and soft goods trade. 4 yrs. junior salesman; 10 yrs. traveller. Experience internal combustion engines and has carried out experimental work with machineguns. | | Essex. |\n| Pioneer | 23 R.E. | | Good | Ed. Military College, Adjutant and military instructor of cadets at Haileybury for 6 yrs. Essayist for many yrs. [French, German and Italian (Interpreter).] | | Gloucester. |\n| Private | 25 A.P.C. | | Fair | Ed. privately. 3 yrs. app. Selfridge and Harrods. 7 yrs. salesman in various firms. | | London. |\n| Sergt. | R.F. | 24 | Good | Ed. Oxford Univ. Organist St. Peter's, London from 1892 14 yrs. school manager. 3 yrs. Board of Education, Several yrs. asst. master pte. school. | | Cumberland. |\n| | | | | Ed privately. Served as pupil teacher, Education Authority. King's Scholarship Exam. 1906, then appt. asst. master. | | Somerset. |\n| | | | | Ed. Birmingham Univ. Master Sutton High 2 yrs. [French.] | | |\n| | | | | Ed. Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne. Technical College, Derby. College of Preceptors (Honours). King's Scholarship (Honours). Schoolmaster under the Derbyshire Education Authority. | | Oxford. |\n| | | | | Ed. London Univ. B.A. (Hons.). 3 yrs. schoolmaster Northallerton Grammar, Experience on recruiting duties under M. of Nat. Service. Knowledge of office routine. [French.] | | London. |\n| | | | | Ed. Southend. Elementary teacher and Pitman's shorthand Instructor. | | |\n| | | | | Ed. Christ's Hospital and London Univ. 2 yrs. asst. master Ilminster Grammar. [French.] | | Somerset. |\n\nH.Q. D.O.-20.7.18. \nH.Q. D.O.5-20.7.18. \n18409", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478703, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 168, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank | Regt. | Age. | Medical Notes. | Qualifications and Previous Employment. | O.U.T.C. Courses. | Present Locality. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O.1059 | Gunner | | 21 | Good | R.F.A. | | D.0.1398 |\n| D.O.1398 | Corporal | 34 R. Fus. | | Fair. Fracture jaws. | Ed. privately. yrs. experience clerk office. Knowledge of accounts and office routine, ABİNANÇO. Since 1900 outdoor claims assessor Alliance Assurance Co., London. | | |\n| D.O. 706 | Major | 38 N. Stafford. | | Heart trouble. | Ed. privately. Cambridge Univ., M.A., LL.B. Solicitor. Town Clerk of Newcastle-on-Tyne. [French.] | | London, |\n| D.O. 844 | Major | B. Irish, | 57 | Good | Ed. Downside and Trinity College Dublin, Beg. Army 22 yrs. including service in S. African war; retired 1902; rejoined 1914 until 1916. Member of Inner Temple. Legal experience (military and civil). 12 yrs. journalistic experience. Knowledge secretarial duties. Good organiser. [French] | | |\n| D.O.1468 | Assist Paymaster | R.N.R. | 26 | Good* | Ed. privately. 8 yrs. Pearl Assurance Co., London, as travelling inspector, organiser, etc. | | Yorkshire |\n| D.O.1056 | 2nd Lieut. | 87 North. Fus. | | Fair | Ed. privately and Nottingham Univ. 16 yrs. Winfield & Sons, Ltd., Nottingham, lace manufacturers. yrs. lace merchant, own account. [French.] | | Notts. |\n| D.O. 848 | Capt. | Welsh | 38 | Good | 3 | | Notts. |\n| D.O.1286 | Lieut. | 21 Notts & Derby | | Good | Ed. privately, 1 yr. clerk with E. Mellor, lace manufacturers, Nottingham. | | |\n| D.O. 866 | Capt. | 40 R.W. Surrey. | | Fair | Legal. Ed. Rugby. Articled clerk to W. Morgan Griffith, solicitor. 6 mos. gold mining S. Africa. 1910, passed Final Law examinations. Afterwards on own account at Swansea. | | Hants. |\n| D.O. 25 | Lieut. | 25 H.L.I. | | Fair | King's Coll, London, and Dublin Univ. 2 yrs. in office Barrington & Sons, solicitors and land agents, Dublin. [French] | | Ireland. |\n| D.O. 144 | Major | 45 R.F.A. | | Fair | Ed. Queen Elizabeth's School, Yorkshire. Practised as solicitor since 1897. [French.] | | Kent. |\n| D.O.1074 | Lieut. | 26 K.A.R. | | | Ed. Rugby. 6 yrs. articled clerk to solicitor. General experience. | | Surrey. |\n| D.O.1077 | A.B. | R.N.V.R. | 20 | Fair. B. leg amputated. | Ed. Eton House Sch. 1 yr. Fearnley Line Ltd., Fenchurch Street. Left to join forces on outbreak of war. Now student of Middle Temple with view to becoming barrister. | | Essex. |\n| D.O.1084 | Lieut. | D.L.I. | $2 | Fair | Ed. Exeter and Univ. Coll., Durham. M.A., Clerk in Customs Office. Passed As Surveyor of Taxes Exam. Private Tutor (France). | | London. |\n| D.O. 384 | Capt. | 85 R. Scots. | | Good. Eye trouble, | 4 yrs. low clerk, Stevenson & Johnston, Langholme. 8 yrs. managing clerk, Cecil Roberts & Letts, solicitors and estate agents, Bulawayo, S. Africa. | | Durham. |\n| D.O.1144 | Captain | Gen. List. | 49 | Good | Ed. privately. Trinity Coll, Dublin. Called to Bar 1892. In practice 7 yrs. Travelled extensively. Knowledge finance. [French.] | | London. |\n| D.O. 417 | Lieut. | R.E. | 29 | Good | Ed. privately. University Coll, Cardiff. 5 yrs. company sec. Articled barrister (2 yrs.). Hobbies: photography, horses, motors. | | Middlesex |\n| D.O.1188 | Lieut. | 27 R.F.A. | | Good | Ed. privately, 1 yr. articled solicitor H. Mander, Coventry. 4 yrs. articled H. L. Whiley, Malvern. Knowledge Local Gov. U.D.O. Malvern U.D.C | | Cheshire |\n| D.O. 497 | Capt. | 28 B. Staffs. | | Good | Ed. London Univ. Law Student 1909-1914. Special Army 1914-18. | | London. |\n| D.O.1198 | 2nd Lieut. | 38 R.M.F. | | Fair | interest, military matters. Hobbies: photography, woodwork, | | |\n| D.O. 583 | Trooper | 30 Res. Cav. | | Good | Ed. Cambridge Univ. Solicitor, admitted 1903; called to Bar 1908; retired 1914. [French.] | | London, |\n| D.O.1242 | Lieut. | 36 Gen. List. | | Good | Ed. privately. Dulwich and London Univ. Practised as barrister. 11 yr acted as secretary to Limited Comps. Commercial experience. | | London, |\n| D.O. 623 | Capt. | 46 North. Fus. | | Fair | Ed. Cambridge Univ. Student of Inner Temple till outbreak of war. | | Glondeater. |\n| D.O. 664 | Lieut | 28 R.F.A. | | Good | Ed. Trinity Coll. Dublin, Law Course, Qualified solicitor. 8 yrs. Rooney & Tunney, Dublin, Govt. Stockbrokers. yrs. W. G. Bradley, Dublin, solicitor. 2 yrs. practised own account. [French and Gaelic.] | | Ireland. |\n| | Lieut. | 29 R. Scots. | | Fair | Ed. privately. Oxford Local Senior Exam. Fully qualified solicitor. Ed. Belfast and Trinity Coll. B.A. Dublin, 2 yrs. R. T. Porter, solicitor, Belfast. 2 yrs. British Columbia Govt. Examiner of Titles, Land Registry Office. [French] | | Ireland. Northumberland. |\n\nB.Q. D.O.-29.7.18.\nE.Q. D.O.-29.7.18.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# EX-OFFICERS.\n## EX-OFFICERS.\n\n| No. | Rank | Regt. | Age | Medical Notes | Qualifications and Previous Employment | O.U.T.C. Courses | Present Locality |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| D.O. 859 | 2nd Lieut. | 21 London | | Fair | B. eye blind. Ed. privately. 4 yrs. journalistic exp. on provincial newspapers. | | London |\n| D.O. 212 | 2nd Lieut. | 42 R.E. | | Good | Certificate B. of T. Master Mariners. Seafaring, surveying, and mining. [Spanish.] | | Cheshire |\n| D.O. 888 | Private | 28 Suffolk | | Good | | | |\n| D.O. 962 | Lieut. | 46 Middlx. | | Good | 7 yrs. publishing and bookbinding business. Understands ledger work and office routine. [French, German.] | | Lond |\n| D.O. 19 | Lieut. | 32 R.E. | | Fair | Ed. privately. Served in Reg. Army, Engaged literary work Novelist. [French, German.] | | Kent |\n| D.O.1143 | Private | 24 R. Sussex | | Good | Ed. privately. 18 mcs. training all branches printing. 1 yr. course drawing Brighton School of Art. 1 yr. bookkeeper in nursery, Southwick. | | Surrey |\n| D.O. 388 | Commander | 60 R.N.R. | | Good | Ed. privately. 7 yrs. app. letterpress machine minder, 1 yr. machine minder. Joined army at outbreak of War. | | London |\n| D.U.1168 | Sergt. Maj. | 28 London | | Good | | | London |\n| D.O.1296 | 2nd Lieut. | 25 S.A.F. | | Good | Ed. S. Africa. 5 yrs. engineer priming office, P. Davis & Sons, S. Africa. [Zulu.] | | Oxford |\n| D.O. 487 | Major D.G. | 15 | 55 | Good | | | |\n| D.O.1263 | Private | 83 London | | Fair | Ed. Marlborough, Cambridge Univ. Joined staff Daily Mirror. Dramatic critic and editor weekly journal until outbreak of war. | | Middlesex |\n| D.O.1903 | Staff-Sgt. | 64 S. of M. | | Good | | | |\n| D.O.1459 | Lieut. | 51 R.D.C. | | Fair | Ed privately and Camb. Univ, M.A. (Math. Hons.) Continuously engaged artistic, literary pursuits. Exhibited Academy. Contributed articles philosophy, art. Travelled round world. [French, Spanish.] | | |\n| | Major | 59 | | Good | Ed. privately and Germany, 8 yrs. asst. manager needle and pin manufactory, William Avery & Son. Since 1891 writer fiction. Books published by Nelson & Sons, Read MSS. for publishers. | | Bailway, Shipping, and Transport |\n| D.O. 143 | | | | | | | |\n| D.O. 148 | Lieut. | 37 B.I.F. | | Good | Ed, Aberdeen Grammar, and Merchiston, Edinburgh. Served as cadet and 3rd Officer Merchant Service, Shaw, Savill, & Co. (4 yrs), J. M. Campbell & Sons (3 yrs.), and Jas. Nourse & Co. (3 yrs.). 7 yrs. Mid. and Sub-Lieut. R.N.R. 8 yrs. sugar planter with Sandbach, Tinne & Co., and Booker Bros., McConnell & Co. [Hindustani, Javanese, Chinese,] | | London |\n| D., 208 | 2nd Lieut. | 29 Labour Corps | | Fair | Ed. Liverpool Univ. Apprentice Holt & Co., shipbuilders, Liverpool. Experience shipyard and drawing office. Shipbuilding, Belfast. Mgr. construction works in China. [Chinese,] | | |\n| D.O. 536 | Capt. | North. Fus. | 40 | Good | | | Worcester |\n| D.O. 586 | Lieut. | 30 A.S.C. | | Fair | 35 yrs. transport commercial operative superintendent, Bombay, G.L.P., Railway; Also Dist. Traffic Supt | | |\n| p.o. 595 | Colonel | 67 A.S.C. | | Good | Ed. Armagh and Dublin Univ. 24 yrs. Reg. Army. Considerable administrative experience as adjutant, recruiting duties, etc. 5 yrs. an underwriter at Lloyd's 2 yrs. farming in Nova Scotia. Director of African Coal Co., Natal. Knowledge shipping, docks, method of handling consignments, stevedores, bills of lading, stowage of cargo, holds and decks. | | London |\n| .0. 398 | 2nd Lieut. | 28 Devon | | Fair | Ed. privately. | | Suger |\n| .0. 680 | Lieut. | 28 B. Irish | | Good | Ed Queen's Coll., Cork. 8 yrs. pupil electrical and mechanical engineering, W. G. Walker & Co., Westminster. 3 yrs. Best, engineer permanent way, Canadian Pacific Rly. 4yrs. resident engineer, Sudan Govt. Rlys. 2 yrs. district engineer Burma Rlys. Railway surveying and construction in Mesopotamia during present war. [Arabic, Hindustani,] | | Hants |\n| .0. 701 | Bombr. | 42 B.G.A. | | Good | Ed. Darham, 20 years Manager Morpeth Steamship Co., Director North Eastern Marine Eng. Co., Ltd., Director Sunderland Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., manager Sir T. Lipton Ship Stores Department, London. | | Devon |\n| | | | | | Ed. privately, Farming prior to war. Attached to Commissariat Dept. receiving, checking, supervising despatch of supplies. Good correspondent, accurate at figures, Can control labour, | | Ireland |\n| | | | | | Ed. Haileybury. Thorough knowledge of administrative staff duties in various capacities. Knowledge of transport. [French.] | | London |\n| | | | | | 19 yrs. G.W.R. Co., (Exeter goods dept.). Thorough knowledge of general railway classification. | | |\n| | | | | | Ed. Pembroke Coll, Dublin. railway clerk L. & N.W.R., Dublin. | | Northumberland |\n| | | | | | Ed. King's, Warwick, 8 yrs. agent for Vickers (Scotland), H. H. Vivian & Co. and John Bibby Sons & Co.; 12 yrs. securing contracts from railway companies and engineers. | | Wilts |\n| | | | | | 7 yrs. | | Ireland |\n\nH.Q. D.O.A.-29.7.18.\nE.Q. D.O./M-29.7.18.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 482126, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919", "content_text": "It is important, therefore, in order to obviate the risk of incorrect issues, that applications for the form should clearly state the code letters of the area concerned. The code letters to be used are:—\n\nLondon Inner\n\nOuter No. 1\n\nNo. 2\n\nBirmingham\n\nManchester\n\nLeeds\n\nNottingham\n\nExeter\n\nGlasgow\n\nEdinburgh\n\nLIN\n\nLO 1\n\nLO 2\n\nBM\n\nMR\n\nLS\n\nNG\n\nEX\n\nGW\n\nEH", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-458 - Public Offices & Others - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# ANNEX 6.\n\n**Major E. Butterfield (Superintendent, Northern Shan States, Lashio) to the Financial Commissioner, Burma.**\n\nMarch 26, 1920.\n\nI HAVE the honour to forward herewith a copy of my letter, dated the 12th March, 1920, regarding proposals for suppression of opium cultivation and opium traffic in the Northern Shan States.\n\nThis letter should have been addressed to you in the first instance, as I have only just become aware from perusal of a Government order circulated whilst I was still serving in the military police.\n\n**Superintendent, Northern Shan States, Lashio, to the Revenue Secretary to the Government of Burma, Rangoon.**\n\nMarch 12, 1920.\n\n1. With reference to the suppression of opium cultivation and traffic in opium with China, I have the honour to invite a reference to paragraph 2 of letter dated the 19th of November, 1919, from yourself to the Financial Commissioner, Burma. A copy of the above paragraph was forwarded to this office by the Financial Commissioner, under his letter dated the 25th November, 1919, with reference to my predecessor's confidential letter, dated the 24th July, 1919.\n\nThis letter is written on the assumption that the views thus expressed by the Secretary of State are not meant to be regarded merely as pious opinions processed in the course of a treatment by which the opium suppression policy is meant to be ushered gently but firmly into its grave, but that the words of the Secretary of State denote a live policy for the definite suppression of opium cultivation and traffic, and that it is our duty to take all practical measures as soon as possible for the execution of his policy.\n\nIndeed, our engagements with China, such as article 11 of the convention, dated the 24th July, 1886, between Great Britain and China, have bound the Imperial honour and left no option but to carry out the suppression of opium traffic in the Shan States as well as in India.\n\nThe suppression of the traffic in India, that is, the bulk of the traffic, leaves us but a little way off our goal.\n\nThe conclusion of peace and the agreement obtained from the Sawbwas concerned to the suppression proposals detailed below have deprived us of all excuses for delay that we have hitherto made.\n\n2. The above considerations are binding on us. But even apart from them, I would urge that it is our moral duty to the primitive and unsophisticated races under our charge in these States (for it is no use trying to hide behind Sawbwas and a board of officials selected by us) to protect them from this, the most evil of all noxious national habits, the opium habit.\n\nSo much do I feel this, as the result of personal observation and enquiry during the last two years and more, that I personally would ask to be removed from association with the Government of the Northern Shan States unless the matter were taken in hand.\n\nI have not met a gazetted officer, or Shan, or Chinaman, or Palaung, or Kachin, in these States, whether he earned his living by opium cultivation or not, who does not freely admit that opium in itself is an evil thing; that it is unnecessary; that it is the moral and physical ruin of all who consume it; that the energy spent on producing it in the first instance goes into smoke; replaces food and life-giving crops, by one that is the direct cause of reduced life-energy in the individual, reduced capacity of the same area of soil to support population, and finally leads to crime, disease, and death.\n\nMoreover, it is more necessary to suppress opium cultivation here than it is in China, because there the people are to some extent inoculated by generations of use, and here they are only just beginning to cultivate on a large scale, which fact makes it easier to deal with the matter now.\n\nAmerica voluntarily suppressed alcohol, and Russia vodka, and China opium. We are bound to suppress opium by treaty and by a greater moral responsibility to the inferior peoples we govern, and to avoid a greater harm.\n\n3. My views are not based on the Exeter Hall outlook on life, but on personal observations, and the unanimity of opinion of all who are in a position to know. The people most affected so far are the Kachins and cognate tribes. These, the race of greatest inherent possibilities in these States, if not in the whole province of Burma, a race that has peculiarly attracted every British officer who has had much to do with them, are being hastened towards destruction, under our Government, by opium and venereal diseases in these States.\n\nOpium is now being grown in these States at elevations from 1,600 to over 7,000 feet, that is, it can be grown everywhere except on wet paddy land.\n\nThe harm is thus spreading towards the other races. Shans are now taking up the lowland cultivation of opium in place of food crops.\n\nAs an instance of what opium can do, I may mention the case of the Chinaman, Law Leo, probably the most useful member of his race to Government in the States. When I first came to Lashio, he did not use opium. The high price and immense profits then attracted him to trade it, and he began to be a consumer himself. He was then our chief mule and other contractor, whose word was as good as any other man's bond, a man of unusual bodily and mental vigour. His character changed, he broke his contracts, and in two years he was dead, the civil surgeon certifying the cause of death to be excessive opium consumption.\n\nQuite apart from our duty to China, therefore, I urge it is our duty to our subject races to suppress opium cultivation and traffic in these States to the point of extinction.\n\n4. I may add that nothing will so tend to reduce the cost of living in these States as turning the energy spent in making the most expensive of all smoke into the production of foodstuffs and clothing material again.\n\nIt will also result in the reduction of crime, of the incentive for collection of dacoit bands on our borders, which annually cost Government and traders so much, and the health and work energy of the people will be increased.\n\n5. A great feature in the last two years has been the number of Chinamen that have come to these States, snatching the opium crop and then frequently absconding without paying their taxes. They have mainly cut down new forest in the hills and cultivated taungya opium, with its resulting extensive destruction by fire of adjacent forest, a process repeated each year.\n\nThe forests in the eastern States are being so denuded that east of a line Lashio to Namhkam, it is doubtful whether there exists a square mile of continuous virgin forest in any one place. The great increase of population that is going on and the failure hitherto to find a substitute for, or modification of, taungya cultivation in the hills has made forest preservation the most vital necessity in these States, next to opium suppression. This necessity is not confined to the local needs in fuel, preservation of valuable building timbers, and other forest revenues, but also for protection of irrigation and drinking water-supply and soil fertility.\n\nNeither are these matters merely local in application. The Burma Mines Company electric water-power works and the Kyaukse District irrigation system depend on the water-supply from these States. Further development of mining wealth so remarkably abundant in these States will depend largely on the available wood and water-supply.\n\nWhat happens to the forest and water-supply where opium cultivation is generally permitted may be gauged from the State of Kokang, the trans-Salween portion of the North Hsenwi State. Here the population is almost solid Chinese, and the main occupation of the people is opium cultivation.\n\nThe country is an eyesore to look at for lack of trees. The soil is the most unfertile in the States. Walls are made of stone, houses of stone or mud-bricks, fuel is largely cow or pig dung, that should have been available as manure. In many places, the people and all animals have to drink out of the same stinking green pool. The population is scanty, rice is 16 and sometimes 20 rupees a basket, and all other necessaries of life on the same scale. Only Chinese can survive.\n\nThis is what comes from opium cultivation. The best way to preserve our forests, as an initial step, is to stop opium cultivation. This will restrict taungya cultivation and influx of Chinese for that purpose to a great extent. Thus, the two main necessities or reforms required in these States, opium suppression and forest preservation, are intimately connected, and Government has committed itself to the furtherance of both policies, on information, perhaps, that did not include all the important considerations above.\n\n6. The following is an outline of the practical measures I propose to suppress...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-470 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 496938, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923", "content_text": "## Head\n### Subhead.\n\n(2)\n\nExeter as Approved in Appropa. by S.W's Agmt. 1922.\n\n180\n\nEx1080.\n\n| Description | Total | Subtotal1 | Subtotal2 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brought forward | 239494.46 | | |\n| Misc. Services | | | |\n| Transport of Govt: Servants | 119891.97 | 110860.00 | 9031.97 |\n| S.Court. Magistracy | | | |\n| Incidental Expenses of Appeal Judge P.E'S. | 13.23 | | 13.23 |\n| | 63.59 | | 63.59 |\n| Incid. Expenses | 45.27 | | 45.27 |\n| Att.General. Books | 59.76 | | 59.76 |\n| Police Dept. Bedding and Mess Utensils | 134.55 | | 134.55 |\n| Passages | 42669.66 | 25000.00 | 17669.66 |\n| Repairs to Police motor cars and cycles | 223.11 | | 223.11 |\n| Small Stores | 731.41 | 600.00 | 131.41 |\n| Stationery & Telegrams | 500.93 | 400.00 | 100.93 |\n| Transport | 3013.42 | 3000.00 | 13.42 |\n| Petrol oil etc. for motor cars & cycles | | | |\n| Prison Dept. Incidental Expenses | 3032.28 | 3000.00 | 32.28 |\n| Bact.Inst. Con. Allowances | 4229.92 | 2920.00 | 1309.92 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 303.33 | | 303.33 |\n| | 12.42 | | 12.42 |\n| San.Dept. Con. Allowances | | | |\n| Motor meat vans, running cost | 196.29 | 180.00 | 16.29 |\n| | 572.61 | 400.00 | 172.61 |\n| Educ.Dept. Incidental Expense | 283.09 | 233.55 | 49.54 |\n| Laboratory | 817.36 | 435.04 | 382.32 |\n| Prizes | 25.24 | | 25.24 |\n| Books for Normal Schools | 12.20 | - | 12.20 |\n| Mil.contn. P.E'S. | | | |\n| P.V.D. | 389.87 | | 389.87 |\n| P.V.R. | 1426.89 | | 1426.89 |\n| Post Office | 37.50 | | 37.50 |\n| Incidental Expenses | 352.37 | | 352.37 |\n| Transport and Travg. | 1173.51 | | 1173.51 |\n| Maintce.of Bldgs. | 253.38 | | 253.38 |\n| Impte. to Bldgs. | 5763.49 | 5639.37 | 124.12 |\n| Comp.for damaged parcels | 43584.77 | 43660.08 | |\n| Stamps | 12641.97 | 12536.52 | 105.45 |\n| | 75.31 | | 75.31 |\n| | 51.09 | | 51.09 |\n| | 125.33 | 50.00 | 75.33 |\n| | 1.09 | | 1.09 |\n| Carried forward | 270334.56 | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-483 - Others & Individuals - 1923.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 498834, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "page_number": 505, "title": "CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924", "content_text": "## \n\n501 \n\nthe restricted character of his instructions as had been expected owing to the fact that the other States concerned, with the exception of Japan, were not prepared to go even as far as those instructions permitted.\n\nReferring to what Mr. Newton had said, Sir Malcolm Delevingne stated that he had already explained publicly the difficulties in the way of further progress towards the suppression of opium smoking at the present time. It was admitted that the draft Agreement represented a lower standard than is already in force in the best Far Eastern territories, but this was no justification for the allegations made by Mr. Porter and Bishop Brent that it represented a retrograde step.\n\nIt would not of course result in a lessening of the control in those countries where control is already on a higher standard, but it would tighten up the control in territories such as the Portuguese possessions where the present standard is much lower. It did definitely establish the principle of a government monopoly of opium and the abolition of private retail shops. Mr. Waterlow commented that this was not much of an achievement to put before the world. The question was the subject of much sincere, of ill-informed, agitation by earnest and high-minded persons. The Home Secretary here remarked that with regard to the situation at Hong Kong, his relations with \"Exeter Hall\" and the Church would enable him to convince such people of the bona fides of the British position.\n\nMr. Waterlow asked the question whether the Colonial Office could not in fact accept the progressive suppression of opium smoking within 10 years, or some such period. He had just come from an interview with Sir John Gordon, who was much disappointed with the results of the First Conference and regarded proposals on the lines of Mr. Waterlow's added that the American Article 8 as quite practicable. The Foreign Office was extremely anxious to meet American opinion. Sir Gilbert Grindle replied that so far as Hong Kong was concerned this proposal might be possible, but that it was quite impossible for Malaya, both on financial grounds, and for the reason that suppression of opium would seriously endanger the maintenance of public order.\n\nMr. Waterlow said that he was thinking of the effect on public opinion. It was for that reason we had offered the suggestion of an impartial Commission.\n\nThe Home Secretary asked whether any country where opium is now smoked was prepared to accept its suppression in 10 years.\n\nSir Malcolm Delevingne replied that the only country approaching this position was Japan (in respect of Formosa). The Japanese claimed that in Formosa the smoking of opium was limited to registered smokers who were already confirmed in their addiction. No new smokers were allowed to settle in Formosa and no opium was supposed to be supplied to persons not already registered. Complete suppression would therefore be achieved as soon as the existing smokers died off. Sir Gilbert Grindle pointed out that Japan wished to exclude Chinamen from Formosa, whereas our territories, where smoking is permitted, depend on Chinese labour.\n\n19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 517898, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929", "content_text": "## Page 91\n\n\n## Page 32\n\nFor that reason, I venture to raise my voice in the very strongest protest against such being accepted as facts by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. If it were a fact that slaves were openly bought and sold as depicted in the Press at Home, would not the British Colony itself have compelled such a state of affairs to be attended to? If it were a purchase and sale of slaves as depicted, would not the pressure of public opinion in this Colony have forced legislation long ago? But for the fact that certain persons, with a not very wide knowledge of the subject, ventured at Home, for purposes of propaganda, and partly for political propaganda, grossly to mis-state the facts for their own ends, the subject would never have been raised at all. It is because of these facts that I desire, in the name of the Unofficial Members of this Council, to protest against statements which have been made widely and publicly at home, both by the Press and by certain individuals, which are a slur upon the good name and Government of this Colony, which are without foundation in fact and malicious in character.\n\nHON. MR. E. V. D. PARR—I desire to support in the strongest possible manner the remarks that the hon. member for the Chamber of Commerce has made in protest against the exaggerated absurdities that have appeared in the Home Press upon this subject. As an instance, I would mention that when I was at Home some two years ago, I visited some relations at a well-known English watering place and accompanied them to the Parish Church. The good Vicar, who preached—apropos of nothing that I could see—began inveighing against the British Colony of Hong Kong for selling Chinese girls in the public market place. \"These are not Angles\", he said, \"but angles\". I need not say, I took the first occasion to put the reverend gentleman right on the facts as we know them here, and he told me that he had obtained his facts and figures from the public Press at Home and that he would correct the mis-statements that he had made to his congregation on the following Sunday. It has not been usual, since I have had the honour of being a member of this Council, for the Unofficials to address the Council on the third reading of a Bill, but I do not consider any apology is needed in this instance, and if it serves to give more weight to our protest against those exaggerated absurdities to which we have referred, then, I think the end is justified by the means.\n\nHON. MR. A. G. STEPHEN—Your Excellency, I would like to associate myself with the two hon. members who have just spoken in protesting against the imputations upon the good name of the Colony. In all the speeches made on this Bill, the one that struck me as being most à propos was that of the Attorney-General in introducing it. After going through the Objects and Reasons, \"damning the Bill with faint praise\", he finally reached the impotent conclusion that the measure had to be passed because the system was one which was open to abuse, and grave abuse, at the hands of unscrupulous persons. Well, Sir, he could have said the same about the office he fills with such distinction himself—it is an office that is open to abuse at the hands of unscrupulous persons; and he might have said the same about the position I happen to hold in the Colony: it is distinctly open to abuse in the hands of unscrupulous persons. But what he would have said, I venture to say, if he had been speaking his own mind was this: \"We do not think this Bill is any use, but we have got to pass it, because we have been told to.\" This agitation at Home I do not take so seriously as my unofficial colleagues do, because I have seen so often a similar kind of thing before—people seeking cheap advertisement are quite willing to assume that we Englishmen, when we come East of Suez, leave behind all we ever learned of humanity and charity. When they see an opportunity of gaining some cheap notoriety, they will find some tame Member of Parliament to put questions to the Colonial Office, and the harassed Secretary of State for the Colonies ultimately decides that the balance of advantage is to get this Government to pass a Bill which will shut the mouths of these stupid horses in Parliament. Many of the races ruled by the British Government in various parts of the world have habits and customs which do not come up to the standard of Exeter Hall, but it has always been our wise policy to leave them alone in that respect, unless, of course, those customs are such as to outrage humanity. I should like to have seen the Secretary of State for India, for instance, sending orders to the Viceroy to disturb some of the customs which are far less innocent and far less humane than the mui-tsai system in this Colony. No, they know very well they cannot do that, because local opinion is too strong for them. But here, with a Legislative Council that is powerless to oppose the wishes of the Government, they do not scruple, in order to secure peace and quietness at Home, to set aside the wishes of the majority of the people in this Colony. One thing I would say in conclusion is that the support of the Bill came from a most extraordinary combination of bodies: the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and the labour unions.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-514-3 Mui Tsai system- correspondence 27-8-1929 - 21-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520060, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929", "page_number": 33, "title": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929", "content_text": "# 40\n\nThe care of the girls is entrusted by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to nobody until full enquiry has been made in the Office and in the Po Leung Kuk; and the ruling consideration is always the best interest of the girls. No opposition is offered to a monetary arrangement being reached between the parties themselves, but failure to reach such an arrangement would not be allowed to stand in the way of a decision in the interests of the girl.\n\n## THE MUI-TSAI BILL\n\nThe Council went into Committee to resume discussion of the Bill intituled, **An Ordinance to regulate certain forms of female domestic service**.\n\nOn the motion of the Attorney-General, verbal amendments were made in several clauses.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR: Does any hon. member desire to raise any further question in the Committee stage of the Bill?\n\nNo hon. member intimating any desire to do so, H.E. THE GOVERNOR proposed that the Bill be reported to the Council and the Council then resumed.\n\n## THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved and the COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded the third reading of the Bill.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR: Does any hon. member desire to address the Council?\n\nHON. MR. P. H. HOLYOAK: Your Excellency, I crave your permission to dilate somewhat more at length on the remarks which I made in the Committee stage of the Bill at the last meeting of the Council, namely, on the gross misrepresentations of fact which have been made almost throughout the public Press at Home, in what I can unhesitatingly describe as a malicious campaign of propaganda,--whether for political purposes or otherwise I know not; but I do know that statements have been made quite publicly at Home in connection with this subject which ought not to remain unchallenged by this honourable Council in defence of the fair name of the Colony and the good government which it represents. If the statements of wholesale slavery and of the selling of slaves were as true as they have been depicted, then, Sir, I think there is little doubt that it would stand for a judgment not only upon each successive Governor of the Colony who has allowed it to remain but upon the British people of the Colony who have lived under it for the last 70 years. I am not concerned, however, in discussing in detail the subject of mui-tsai. I have voted already for the first reading of the Bill and I am prepared to vote for its final stages, principally because it adds to the annals of the Colony and the laws of the Colony an Ordinance which is in keeping with other Ordinances. For my own part, I do feel sincerely that in a large degree it was perhaps unnecessary because, in practice and in spirit, officially and otherwise, the practice has never received official sanction from beginning to end in the history of the Colony and therefore it seems unnecessary to legislate on the subject. Nor would it have been necessary but for the gross misrepresentation in an agitation representing a somewhat horrible state of affairs which, in fact, does not exist in practice and in the experience of those of us who have lived very many years in this Colony and who know somewhat of the inside of Chinese affairs. I think the situation of the mui-tsai in a Chinese household differs so very largely in actual practice from that of a similar practice obtaining at home of adopting an orphan from one of the many orphanages and using her as a domestic assistant and providing her with home, food, and clothing. Nor do I think that the ill-treatment which has been so largely described to us is any more widely spread than that revealed in the ordinary practice of a Magistrate's Court in any large town in England. It is because I have so recently come from Home and because both from Press and platform and even from pulpit one has heard such atrocious misstatements of fact that I feel they cannot be passed without challenge by this Council, affecting as they do the reputation of the Council and the reputation of the Colony. For that reason, I venture to raise my voice in the very strongest protest against such being accepted as facts by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. If it were a fact that slaves were openly bought and sold as depicted in the Press at Home, would not the British Colony itself have compelled such a state of affairs to be attended to? If it were a fact that the Government permitted the purchase and sale of slaves as depicted, would not the pressure of public opinion in this Colony have forced legislation long ago? But for the fact that certain persons, with a not very wide knowledge of the subject, ventured... at Home, for purposes of propaganda, and partly for political propaganda, grossly to mis-state the facts for their own ends, the subject would never have been raised at all. It is because of these facts that I desire in the name of the Unofficial Members of this Council to protest against statements which have been made widely and publicly at Home both by the Press and by certain individuals which are a slur upon the good name and Government of this Colony, which are without foundation in fact and malicious in character.\n\n# 41\n\nHON. MR. E. V. D. PARR: I desire to support in the strongest possible manner the remarks that the hon. member for the Chamber of Commerce has made in protest against the exaggerated absurdities that have appeared in the Home press upon this subject. As an instance, I would mention that when I was at Home some two years ago, I visited some relations at a well-known English watering place and accompanied them to the Parish Church. The good Vicar who preached--_à propos_ of nothing that I could see--began inveighing against the British Colony of Hong Kong for selling Chinese girls in the public market place, \"These are not Angles,\" he said, \"but angels.\" I need not say, I took the first occasion to put the reverend gentleman right on the facts as we know them here, and he told me that he had obtained his facts and figures from the public Press at home and that he would correct the misstatements that he had made to his congregation on the following Sunday. It has not been usual since I have had the honour of being a member of this Council for the Unofficials to address the Council on the third reading of a Bill, but I do not consider any apology is needed in this instance, and if it serves to give more weight to our protest against those exaggerated absurdities to which we have referred, then, I think the end is justified by the means.\n\nHON. MR. A. G. STEPHEN: Your Excellency, I would like to associate myself with the two hon. members who have just spoken in protesting against the imputations upon the good name of the Colony. In all the speeches made on this Bill, the one that struck me as being most _à propos_ was that of the Attorney-General in introducing it. After going through the \"Objects and Reasons,\" damning the Bill with faint praise, he finally reached the impotent conclusion that the measure had to be passed because the system was one which was open to abuse, and grave abuse, at the hands of unscrupulous persons. Well, Sir, he could have said the same about the office he fills with such distinction himself--it is an office that is open to abuse at the hands of unscrupulous persons; and he might have said the same about the position I happen to hold in the Colony: it is distinctly open to abuse in the hands of unscrupulous persons. But what he would have said, I venture to say, if he had been speaking his own mind was this: We do not think this Bill is any use, but we have got to pass it, because we have been told to. This agitation at Home I do not take so seriously as my unofficial colleagues do, because I have seen so often a similar kind of thing before--people seeking cheap advertisement are quite willing to assume that we Englishmen when we come East of Suez leave behind all we ever learned of humanity and charity. When they see an opportunity of gaining some cheap notoriety, they will find some tame Member of Parliament to put questions to the Colonial Office, and the harassed Secretary of State for the Colonies ultimately decides that the balance of advantage is to get this Government to pass a Bill which will shut the mouths of these stupid bores in Parliament. Many of the races ruled by the British Government in various parts of the world have habits and customs which do not come up to the standard of Exeter Hall, but it has always been our wise policy to leave them alone in that respect unless, of course, those customs are such as to outrage humanity. I should like to have seen the Secretary of State for India, for instance, sending orders to the Viceroy to disturb some of the customs which are far less innocent and far less humane than the mui-tsai system in this Colony. No, they know very well they cannot do that because local opinion is too strong for them. But here, with a Legislative Council...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929", "page_number": 100, "title": "CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929", "content_text": "136 \n\npropos \n\n5363-30 \n\nat all. It is because of these facts that I desire in the name of the Unofficial Members of this Council to protest against statements which have been made widely and publicly at Home both by the Press and by certain individuals which are a slur upon the good name and Government of this Colony, which are without foundation in fact and malicious in character.\n\nHON. MR. E. V. D. PARR: I desire to support in the strongest possible manner the remarks that the hon. member for the Chamber of Commerce has made in protest against the exaggerated absurdities that have appeared in the Home press upon this subject. As an instance, I would mention that when I was at Home some two years ago, I visited some relations at a well-known English watering place and accompanied them to the Parish Church. The good Vicar who preached - *d propos* of nothing that I could see - began inveighing against the British Colony of Hong Kong for selling Chinese girls in the public market place. \"These are not Angles,\" he said, “but angels.\" need not say, I took the first occasion to put the reverend gentleman right on the facts as we know them here, and he told me that he had obtained his facts and figures from the public Press at home and that he would correct the misstatements that he had made to his congregation on the following Sunday. It has not been usual since I have had the honour of being a member of this Council for the Unofficials to address the Council on the third reading of a Bill, but I do not consider any apology is needed in this instance, and if it serves to give more weight to our protest against those exaggerated absurdities to which we have referred, then, I think the end is justified by the means.\n\nHON. MR. A. G. STEPHEN: Your Excellency, I would like to associate myself with the two hon. members who have just spoken in protesting against the imputations upon the good name of the Colony. In all the speeches made on this Bill, the one that struck me as being most *à propos* was that of the Attorney-General in introducing it. After going through the Objects and Reasons \"damning the Bill with faint praise,\" She finally reached the impotent conclusion that the measure had to be passed because the system was one which was open to abuse, and grave abuse, at the hands of unscrupulous persons. Well, Sir, he could have said the same about the office he fills with such distinction himself - it is an office that is open to abuse at the hands of unscrupulous persons; and he might have said the same about the position I happen to hold in the Colony: it is distinctly open to abuse in the hands of unscrupulous persons. But what he would have said, I venture to say, if he had been speaking his own mind was this: \"We do not think this Bill is any use, but we have got to pass it, because we have been told to.\" This agitation at Home I do not take so seriously as my unofficial colleagues do, because I have seen so often a similar kind of thing before - people seeking cheap advertisement are quite willing to assume that we Englishmen when we come East of Suez leave behind all we ever learned of humanity and charity. When they see an opportunity of gaining some cheap notoriety, they will find some tame Member of Parliament to put questions to the Colonial Office, and the harassed Secretary of State for the Colonies ultimately decides that the balance of advantage is to get this Government to pass a Bill which will shut the mouths of these stupid bores in Parliament. Many of the races ruled by the British Government in various parts of the world have habits and customs which do not come up to the standard of Exeter Hall, but it has always been our wise policy to leave them alone in that respect unless, of course, those customs are such as to outrage humanity. I should like to have seen the Secretary of State for India, for instance, sending orders to the Viceroy to disturb some of the customs which are far less innocent and far less humane than the mui-tsai system in this Colony. No, they know very well they cannot do that because local opinion is too strong for them. But here, with a Legislative Council that is powerless to oppose the wishes of the Government, they do not scruple, in order to secure peace and quietness at Home, to set aside the wishes of the majority of the people in this Colony. One thing I would say in conclusion is that the support of the Bill came from a most extraordinary combination of bodies: the Chinese Y.M.C.A. and the labour unions. Anyone who knows anything of the inside history of the Colony could say perfectly well that that support of the Bill is - I hesitate to describe it; perhaps it is best to describe it as a fake. There can be nothing in common or in sympathy between the labour unions and the Y.M.C.A., and they join together on this occasion for reasons far different from any consideration for the welfare of mui-tsai.\n\nH.E. THE GOVERNOR: I think, Gentlemen, I would rather not say anything further on the subject, except that I desire to associate myself with the Unofficial Members in resenting the offensive and foul-mouthed libels on the Chinese race which have been a feature of the British Press on this subject, instigated thereto by persons some of whom I believe have been influenced by genuine philanthropic motives, but some of whom it is perfectly clear were instigated only by motives of self-advertisement.\n\nThe third reading of the Bill was then approved, and the measure passed accordingly.\n\nThe Council then adjourned until Thursday next, 22nd February.\n\nPage 100\nPage 101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-518-9 The Mui-Tsai question- printed papers relating to the system 20-9-1929 - 1-11-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523395, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931", "content_text": "Exemer m \n\n70428/9 Leil \n\nDIEU \n\nET MON \n\nDROIT \n\nGovernment House, \n\n2. Đông Đông.\n\nthis respect.\n\nOn the other hand, I feel that registration does enable us to keep a better check on trafficking, but it will be interesting to see the report of the League of Nations Commission, when it is issued. We shall, of course, give them all possible help, and will endeavour to see that nothing is hidden from them.\n\nSince receiving your letter, I have read the papers regarding the case of Leung Tun-sheng. It happened before my arrival, and I had not had the case brought to my notice. It is, I admit, very unfortunate that this should have happened particularly at this juncture. It is also unfortunate that the case could not be brought home. I appreciate your position and realise that from a legal aspect the case had to be regarded as \"not proven\". At the same time, one can feel very little doubt of the man's guilt, and the fact that he is to be reinstated or given a pension may perhaps increase temptation for others.\n\nI have discussed the question of the subordinate personnel both with Hallifax, substantive Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and Wood, the acting Secretary. They consider that the department is as clean as can be expected in a\n\n36", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-522-3 Social hygiene- including trafficking in women & children- brothels- etc. 27-2-1930 - 13-4-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523961, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-523-3 Appointment of Chief Justice and Attorney General 31-1-1930 - 19-2-1931", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-523-3 Appointment of Chief Justice and Attorney General 31-1-1930 - 19-2-1931", "content_text": "门\n\nConf.Report\n\nfor 1926.\n\nCeylon desp.\n\nNo.621 of\n\n7.10.26.\n\nConf.Report 11.1.29.\n\nBALL A. D. Born July,1888; married one child.\n\nEducation. Preparatory Schools, Bickley and Exmouth, 1894-1901 Mill Hill School, 1901-1907; Exeter College, Oxford, 1907-1911.\n\n19\n\nProfessional qualifications, B.A. (Oxon) 1911; Barrister-at-Law (Gray's Inn), 1920; read in chambers of Mr. Wilfred Lewis (common law practice), January-June, 1925.\n\nCivil Employment. Assistant Master, Bradfield College Junior School, September-October, 1911.\n\nColonial Service. Appointed Unpassed Cadet, Federated Malay State, 1911; 1st Class Magistrate and Assistant Controller of Labour, Perak, 1914; Passed Cadet, Hong Kong, 1915; Second Police Magistrate, September, 1920; Assistant Crown Solicitor, October 1920; Assistant Attorney General, December, 1920; Legal Draftsman, Attorney General's Department, Ceylon, 1927.\n\nPresent Salary. £1,350 (maximum £1400).\n\nReports. Attorney-General (Kemp) :- \"General conduct excellent. Hardworking, thorough, efficient, tactful and adaptable. Good social qualities. Good administrative ability and promises very well\".\n\nGov. Clifford (recommending Mr. Ball for appointment as Legal Draftsman, Ceylon) :- \"Mr. Fletcher (Colonial Secretary) has recorded the following note on Mr. Ball:- \"I have known Mr. Ball since he was transferred in 1915 as a Cadet from the Malayan to the Hong Kong service. His work has been uniformly good. He has specialised on the legal side, where he has shown great promise. He has acted in the Crown Solicitor's Office, as Assistant Attorney General as Puisne Judge, in each case with marked success. He edited the Ordinances of Hong Kong and he played a large part in the revision of the Hong Kong Regulations Mr. Ball's training and experience fit him in every way for the work required of the draftsman in the Attorney General's Office and I am confident that he is a most suitable candidate for the appointment\"\n\nand\n\nGov. Stanley:- \"The Attorney General reports follows:- 'In my opinion Mr. Ball has proved himself to be a competent draftsman. He works hard and has been of great assistance to me.' I think well of him.\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-3 Appointment of Chief Justice and Attorney General 31-1-1930 - 19-2-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524545, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "51\n\nBusiness Interest in University.\n\nGratifying evidence of the increasing estimation in which the work of the University is held is furnished by the encouraging change in the attitude of business people to its graduates. There was a time when there was apparently no room in business and manufacturing firms in the Colony for the Hong Kong University graduate; but I am glad to say there are clear signs of the gradual disappearance of any prejudice against him. Outstanding business concerns like Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and the China Light & Power Company, have indicated their willingness to encourage selected graduates to qualify for employment with them and to provide them with facilities to show their worth in actual practice. Messrs. John Swire & Sons, Limited, London, have also recently approved a scheme whereby two selected graduates of the University will be provided with free passages to England each year for further study and to gain practical experience. This is assistance in the highest sense of the term: in some aspects of the University problem, more valuable than even direct pecuniary assistance. For unless openings to employment are available for our graduates, experience elsewhere teaches that a University education may be a curse rather than a blessing.\n\nGraduates & Government Service.\n\nThe question of the employment of graduates in Government service was also under serious consideration during last year, and we are encouraged to hope that the time is not far distant when even more vacancies in Government service than at present will be open, under approved conditions, to selected graduates of the Hong Kong University. It is a matter for gratification that 11 of our graduates hold posts in the Medical Department of Government.\n\nAs you know, this University is a residential one; that is, residence in a University hostel is, in general, an essential condition of admission to the University; and exemptions from residence are only granted in special circumstances by the Senate. Any increase in hostel accommodation has, therefore, a most direct bearing on University life. It is therefore with great satisfaction that I call attention to an important addition to the residential facilities provided for undergraduates which was made by the opening on the 16th December, 1929, of Ricci Hall under the management and control of Jesuit Fathers of the English Assistency. The hostel, which is a fine building situated on Pokfulum Road within easy reach of the main University buildings, provides accommodation for thirty-five students. The resident staff will consist of a Warden, a qualified doctor, and a qualified engineer. The hostel has a library of its own, and special facilities are being offered for extramural tutorial work.\n\nWoman's Hostel Scheme.\n\nLast year the Vice-Chancellor mentioned the appointment of a Committee, under the Chairmanship of Col. Skinner, R.E., to raise funds for a woman's hostel, and expressed the hope that the Committee would be successful. Something has been done towards realisation, but progress has been slower than was anticipated, and up to date, a sum of only $14,000 has been collected. The estimated cost of the scheme is about $120,000, so that the balance to be realised is still considerable.\n\nThere were thirty-eight women students on the roll in 1929, and residential accommodation could only be arranged for fourteen students in premises rented for the purpose by the Church Missionary Society. The remainder resided with their parents or guardians.\n\nA pleasing feature of the movement for the collection of funds for this hostel is that the lady undergraduates themselves are actively participating in the campaign by organising concerts and entertainments in aid of the cause. I am informed that two of these ladies, while in the Straits Settlements during the last long vacation, formed a working committee composed chiefly of graduates of this University who are now working in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States to carry on propaganda work and to collect funds; with the gratifying result that over $3,000 have actually been paid in through their efforts, and promises of further contributions have been obtained. This, you will agree, is an admirable illustration of the spirit of self-help and service to the University.\n\nA Munificent Donation.\n\nAnd now I come to a matter which has afforded the utmost satisfaction to the University authorities. During the period under review, the University received a donation of $120,000 from Mr. Fung Ping Shan for the provision of a building for a Chinese Library in the University. He has given $100,000 for the building and equipment and $20,000 as a contribution to the endowment fund to meet the maintenance charges of the Library. In providing a sum for the recurring expenditure on the maintenance of the Library, Mr. Fung Ping Shan has set a most commendable precedent. It is not often remembered that when donations are made for a building for a particular object, the University has, as a matter of course, to be financially responsible for its maintenance; and in many cases, this is an item of some magnitude. A site on the University estate has been selected for the proposed Library, and it is expected that its erection will be commenced shortly. I desire, on behalf of the University, to voice its grateful acknowledgment of the munificence of Mr. Fung Ping Shan; and I can imagine no more appropriate record of it than the handsome building in contemplation.\n\nI will finish my account of the building activities within the University by referring to the conversion, during last year, of the building at the western entrance of the University into a laboratory for the Biological Department, accommodation for which was urgently needed.\n\nGloomy Financial Aspect.\n\nIt is natural that the academic aspect of a University should stand out most clearly in the public mind. But of equal, though more prosaic, importance is the financial aspect. A University cannot, any more than a business concern, outrun the constable without dire results. And the Budget for 1930, which has passed the University Court, does not make exhilarating reading. For it shows expenditure at $666,345.00 and revenue at $603,500.00; or a deficit of a little over $60,000; and recent currency movements may increase this figure to $80,000. Now I wish at once to emphasise the fact that this prospective deficit is not due to extravagance or to any avoidable cause; it is in the main the result of the fall in the exchange value of the dollar, which most of us outside the University have equal reason to deplore. The salaries of the permanent University teaching and administrative staffs are on a sterling basis; and in translating sterling salaries into dollars, a loss of over $50,000 alone is entailed on University funds under existing currency conditions.\n\nInadequacy of Salaries.\n\nFurthermore, the subject of the adequacy or otherwise of these salaries has provided grave cause for anxiety; for, without adequate recompense, teaching and administrative standards cannot be maintained. Besides, the labourer is worthy of his hire, and none more than he who is engaged in the honourable, invaluable, and exacting work of education. His Excellency, as Chancellor of the University, appointed a Committee to go into the matter during last year; and the Committee has reported in no uncertain terms as to the utter inadequacy of these salaries. But if effect is to be given to its recommendations, an additional annual expenditure of $140,000 will be required with the dollar at 1/8, and of $176,000 with the dollar at 1/6. Add this amount to the existing budget deficit of $80,000, and you will get an aggregate of $256,000 in excess of revenue.\n\nIt is obvious that without assistance from outside, the University cannot face this increased expenditure.\n\nGovernment Aid Urged.\n\nThe University Court has asked the Colonial Government to enlarge its annual grant of $50,000 to one of $250,000 per annum. If the dollar had remained at 1.8, this increase would have enabled the University to balance its Budget comfortably and to make the long overdue and much-needed additions to salaries. With the dollar at 1.6, unless the resources of the University are still further increased by a grant out of the Boxer Indemnity or from other sources, it will be impossible, until exchange improves, to give full effect to the recommendations of the Salaries Committee.\n\nNow the request even for an additional grant from Government of $200,000 is a large demand to make; it requires justification. I propose to justify it, mainly, by the experience of the British Government with regard to its contributions for University purposes. I think I am entitled to say, categorically, that without these contributions, supplemented by grants from Local Authorities, no University in the United Kingdom could keep its doors open; so it becomes most pertinent to ascertain what proportion these contributions and grants bear to the total income of certain typical Universities in the United Kingdom. In the case of most of them, these contributions and grants are in excess of fifty per cent of their respective total incomes; while to cite some individual instances, Bristol University receives 70 per cent from these sources; Exeter University College, 78 per cent; Leeds University, 59 per cent; Nottingham University College, 67 per cent; Sheffield University...\n\n[2]\n\n[8]\n\n52", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524546, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "53\n\nUniversity, 61 per cent; Aberystwith University College, 70 per cent.\n\nSo far as income from endowments is concerned, the proportion to total income in the case of Bristol University is 7.3 per cent; of Exeter University College, 2.3 per cent; of Leeds University, 5.7 per cent; of Sheffield University, 5.7 per cent; and of Aberystwith University College, 6.7 per cent.\n\nContrasting Figures.\n\nIn striking contrast to these figures the University of Hong Kong at present receives, for the general purposes of the University, $50,000 per annum from the Colonial Government which represents merely 9 per cent of its total income; and an increase in the amount of the grant to $250,000 per annum would only bring the Government contribution to about 33 per cent of the total income of the University. Furthermore, as showing the generous manner in which contributions have been made by members of the public to the Endowment Fund of the University, the income derived from this source amounts to about $300,000 or about 50 per cent of its total income at present and nearly five times the sum which the Chater Committee, 1908, estimated as the probable total annual expenditure of the University.\n\nEven if the Government grant is increased to $250,000 a year as suggested, the University would not be fully supplied, financially. It could not, for the reasons I have mentioned, give, for the present, any but a small increase to existing salaries, and would only be enabled to carry on its present activities without running into debt. Further development will be contingent upon the acquisition of funds from other sources.\n\nPrivate Generosity Neutralised.\n\nAs showing how, under existing conditions, the development of the University may be hampered, and how the generosity of members of the public may be made unavailable, I am able to give a most striking example. A donation of $60,000 was made by Mr. Tang Chi Ngong last year for the provision of a building for the School of Chinese Studies but it has not been utilised as yet owing to the uncertainty as to whether the requisite funds for maintaining the school as a permanent institution will be forthcoming or not. A further sum of $200,000 was collected by the local Chinese community for the endowment of this school, but the interest on this sum only amounts to about $14,000 a year while the ultimate annual cost of the school is estimated to be $60,000. At present the balance is being provided by Government from year to year as a provisional and temporary measure. The Finance Committee of the University hold a very strong opinion that it would not be business-like to proceed with the building scheme on this precarious basis; to say nothing of the injustice that would be done if the school had to be closed before any student had completed the prescribed four years of the Course.\n\nMovement or Stagnation.\n\nSir, I stand here to offer no apology on behalf of the University of Hong Kong. It has advanced beyond the stage of apology and deprecation; it can, and must, stand on its own merits. The Academic successes of its graduates proclaim the worth of its professorial staff. The degrees it confers have recognition throughout the British Empire. But the same economic law dominates the development of a business and a University. An increasing business must increase, correspondingly, its working capital, or its very success may land it in bankruptcy. The same rule holds good in the case of the University. If the additional contribution asked for from the Colonial Government is made, the University can, despite the serious loss due to the fall in exchange, carry on its work within existing limits for a time more or less considerable; but if its activities are to be extended, its sphere of usefulness enlarged, and its duty to the Teaching and Administrative staffs fulfilled, then further financial resources must be provided. Otherwise a condition of stagnation must inevitably be faced; and stagnation, whether in an institution or in an individual, is the precursor of death.\n\nBut I am an incurable optimist, and confident that the fount of private generosity which has proved so bountiful in the past, will continue to flow more and more freely as the work of the University is more clearly realised.\n\nBefore concluding I should like to express our cordial appreciation of the good offices of Mr. Mason and his choir in making it possible to have the University Anthem sung this afternoon. The Anthem as many of you know was originally composed as an inaugural one by Sir Cecil Clementi and was sung at the opening of the University in 1912. His Excellency has now revised certain parts of the Anthem so as to make it suitable for general occasions; and it is singularly appropriate and fortunate that it has been practicable to have the revised Anthem sung for the first time at this Congregation the last at which His Excellency will officiate as Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.\n\n[ 4 ]\n\nSpeech of H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., LL.D., M.A. Oxon, F.R.G.S.\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong. Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nH. E. the Governor then addressed the assembly and said:- Members of the Congregation of the University of Hong Kong:\n\nIt has been a great pleasure to me this afternoon, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Chancellor, to confer upon Sir Henry Gollan, Chief Justice of Hong Kong and acting Vice-Chancellor of this University, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In him we honour not only an eminent judge, who commands universal respect in this Colony, but also a firm friend of University of Hong Kong, well-tried at need, and willing to serve the University at considerable sacrifice to himself. When it became necessary for Mr. Hornell, our Vice Chancellor, to proceed on leave of absence to England, partly for a well-deserved rest, and partly to plead our cause with His Majesty's Government for a grant to this University from Boxer Indemnity funds, Sir Henry Gollan, in spite of the heavy duties which his position as Chief Justice entails, was not only willing to take upon himself the work of acting Vice Chancellor, but made it a condition of doing so that no remuneration whatever should be paid to him on this account. He has thus saved the University from incurring considerable expenditure. More than that, Sir Henry Gollan at my request agreed to undertake the difficult and unenviable task of presiding over the committee which has recently reported upon the conditions of salary and service of the academic staff of the University. In this work he had the assistance of two members of the University Court, namely, Mr. Paul Lauder, our Honorary Treasurer, and the Honourable Dr. Ts'o Seen-wan, upon whom the University has already conferred its honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. I take this opportunity of thanking the Committee very sincerely for the admirable manner in which its duties have been discharged.\n\nMy only regret, in this connection, is that Sir Henry Gollan intends shortly to retire on pension and that, therefore, this is the last occasion on which he will be present at a Congregation of this University. I too, am unlikely to be present ever again at Congregation, for I am about to lay down my duties as Chancellor. I shall do so with the deepest regret, for my work here has been a labour of love and I have felt most strongly that nowhere can better or more enduring service be rendered to Hong Kong than in this University. I can but hope that at Singapore, which is not very far away, I may still have some opportunity of helping you.\n\nFinancial Difficulties.\n\n23\n\nIn his address to the Congregation Sir Henry Gollan has just dwelt upon the financial difficulties which beset the University, and I wish now, your Chancellor, to suggest the means whereby these financial difficulties may be overcome. There are in my opinion, apart from the donations by private benefactors, which have been very generously given, two sources, to which the University may properly look for help. The first is the Government of Hong Kong. When the Colony's budget for this year was under discussion in the Legislative Council during last September, the Honourable Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, speaking of the measure of financial assistance given from the public purse to Universities in England, said:-\n\n\"A Royal Commission was appointed presided over by the Right Honourable Mr. Asquith in the year 1919, as a result of which very large Government grants were made, and to-day, roughly, the Government provides, either direct or through local authorities, 50% of the revenue of Oxford University, 45% of the revenue of Cambridge University, 50% of the revenue of Birmingham University, 70% of the revenue of Bristol University, and 60% of the revenue of Leeds University. In fact out of the total income of the Universities of Great Britain about 50% is contributed by either Government or local authorities. The conclusion that follows from\n\n[ 5 ]\n\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524617, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "4. At our first meetings to hear oral evidence, Mr. M. B. Osman, M.B., B.S., the Assistant to the Professor of Pathology, appeared to represent his own views as well as those of the three other Assistants on the University Staff. We heard his evidence, which was most frankly given and was to the effect that these appointments were of a temporary character, that the holders of them did not contribute to the Superannuation Fund, and that the salaries attached to them were not unsatisfactory having regard to the opportunities for advanced study afforded. But he urged that some assurance of continuity and promotion should be given to the holders of these offices. Similar representations were also made on behalf of certain gentlemen holding Demonstratorships in the Engineering, Chemical and Physical Departments.\n\n5. It was after hearing the evidence of Dr. Osman that we took into consideration the scope of our enquiry, and that we came to the conclusion that posts such as his were excluded, and that the effective test of whether an appointment fell within that scope would be whether the holder contributed to the Superannuation Fund or not.\n\n6. The University of Hong Kong is solvent in spite of the surprising fact that its expenditure is now just about ten times the sum of £6,110 which the Chater Committee in 1908 estimated as the annual cost of the maintenance of the University. The Estimates for 1929 show that its income is nearly $609,000 per annum and that income and expenditure balance, except for a small deficit of about $5,000, which may be somewhat increased owing to the serious fall lately in the sterling value of the dollar. But it is quite clear that expenditure cannot be increased at all unless there is a corresponding addition to the income of the University.\n\n7. For the reasons that will appear when we come to deal with the present scale of salaries paid to members of the University Staff, we are of opinion that they are quite inadequate. We have had, therefore, in making our recommendations under this head, to leave out of consideration the effect that any increases must have on the financial position of the University. If we had not done so, we could only have stated that it was impossible for the University to incur any further expenditure.\n\n8. In connection with the present sources of income of the University, it is interesting to compare the position in this respect in Hong Kong with that prevailing in the United Kingdom; and Professor Forster, the Professor of Education, has prepared for us a memorandum on the financial assistance given to Universities in England, Scotland and Wales, by the Government and by Local Authorities. This memorandum is set out in Appendix I to this Report and makes it clear that, without this financial assistance, it would be practically impossible for any of the Universities in the United Kingdom to keep their doors open.\n\n9. In Appendix II appears a Table which is based on the Report of the University Grants Committee to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury and deals with the academic year 1924-25. It sets out under six heads the sources of income of twenty-seven Universities in the United Kingdom, and to these have been added corresponding figures for the University of Hong Kong; and it will be seen that the proportion which comes from endowments to the total expenditure of the University of Hong Kong is nearly twice as great as that in the case of the Durham Colleges and of the University of St. Andrews, which are the two best-endowed bodies appearing in the Table. In the case of fifteen of the Universities shown in the Table, this proportion is under 10%, and in five of these Universities, it falls to a figure below 5%.\n\n10. The contribution made from Parliamentary Grants and by Local Authorities to the Universities shown in this Table amounts, in the case of most of them, to more than 50%; and Bristol University receives from these sources 70%; Exeter University College 78%; Leeds University 59%; Nottingham University College 67%; Sheffield University 61%; and Aberystwyth University College 70%, of their total incomes respectively.\n\n11. In striking contrast to these figures, the University of Hong Kong receives, for the general purposes of the University, $50,000 per annum from the Colonial Government, which represents 9% of its total income; and, to give an illustration of the position, an increase in the amount of the grant to $250,000 per annum would only bring the Government contribution to about 33% of the total income of the University. Furthermore, as showing the generous manner in which contributions have been made to the Endowment Fund of the University, the income derived from this source amounts to about $300,000 or nearly five times the sum which, as mentioned in paragraph 6 of this Report, the Chater Committee, 1908, estimated as the probable annual expenditure of the University.\n\n12. It was urged before us by some of the witnesses directly interested that, in conformity with the practice prevailing at many Universities, some distinction should be made between the salaries payable to the Clinical and pre-Clinical Professors and those of other members of the Staff. Were the University in possession of ample funds, this argument might possibly be worthy of careful consideration, but, in view of the actual situation, we have not thought it right to suggest any differentiation between the various Chairs. We have also left untouched the position of the Registrar who, at present, is regarded as being in the same grade as the Professors.\n\n13. We now proceed to deal with the matters submitted to us for investigation under the respective heads set out in Your Excellency's letter of the 23rd September, 1929.\n\n(a).—Salaries.\n\n14. The Salaries which are at present paid to the various members of the University Staff are the following:-\n\n(1) Vice-Chancellor :- £2,000 per annum.\n\n(2) Registrar:--- £800 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £1,000.\n\n(3) Professors:- £800 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £1,000.\n\n(4) Readers - £600 per annum, rising by £25 annually to £750.\n\n(5) Lecturers and Tutors :- £450 per annum, rising by £20 annually to £550 and then by £25 annually to £600.\n\n(6). Engineering Lecturers: £500 per annum, rising after three years' service by £20 annually to £600.\n\n(7) Librarian:- $4,200 per annum, rising by $300 annually to $5,400.\n\n(8) Demonstrator in Electrical Engineering... Instructor in Workshop Practice - £450 per annum, rising by £10 annually to £500.\n\nAll the salaries, except that of the Librarian, are on a sterling basis and are paid locally in dollars at the average current rate of exchange for the month as determined by the Colonial Treasurer, or at exchange 2/-, whichever is less.\n\n15. Members of the University Staff receive no exchange allowances, nor have they received any additional remuneration to compensate them for the large increase in the cost of living which has occurred in recent years.\n\n16. It will tend to make the financial position clear if we take the actual case of a professor newly arrived in the Colony, who is married, has two children, and finds that no house in the University Compound is available for him. For ease of calculation, the dollar is taken at 2/-, so that, in respect of his salary of £800 per annum, he receives $8,000 from which must be deducted his contribution to the Superannuation Fund at the rate of 5%. This will leave him with $7,600 or about $630 per mensem.\n\n17. As a professor is entitled to a free house, if one is available, together with certain allowances in respect of telephone, water and light, the particular professor, whose case we are considering, receives a rent allowance of $200 per mensem, but the evidence given before us goes to show that this amount is not sufficient to cover rent as well as telephone service, water and light.\n\n18. But assuming that it is, this professor will receive $630 per mensem out of which he must pay the living and clothing expenses of his family and himself, meet any unexpected calls due to sickness or other causes of a similar character, and provide for insurance premiums; for no considerate man could leave a widow and children dependent on the tender mercies of the Superannuation Fund under existing conditions. We\n\nPage 122\n\n \n3\n\nPage XX\n\n...\n\nPage XX\n\n...\n\nPage XX", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524623, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "14\n\nIn addition, between 1922 and 1925, to these annual sums a non-recurring grant of £569,400 was made by the Government to provide retrospective superannuation benefit for members of the staffs.\n\nIn 1925 there was an addition to the grants of £257,430 which was used in part to provide salary improvements for existing members of the staffs.\n\nSpeaking at University College, London, in June 1927, the Rt. Hon. H.A.L. Fisher said, \"Taking the fifty institutions comprised in the survey of the University Grants Committee, we find that the proportion of Government grant to total income is now 39.5%, while the proportion of endowments to total income is only 10.7, the remainder being furnished by fees and grants from Local Authorities\".\n\n15\n\nAppendix II.\n\nPercentages of Income from various sources of Universities in the United Kingdom (1924-25) and Hong Kong (1929).\n\n \n \n Endowments\n Donations & subscriptions\n Grants from Local Authorities\n Parliamentary Grants\n Tuition Fees\n Examination Fees\n Other Income\n \n \n Birmingham University\n 15.2\n 1.2\n 10.2\n 40.0\n 26.0\n 5.1\n 2.3\n \n \n Bristol University\n 7.3\n .3\n 17.0\n 53.0\n 16.2\n 5.0\n 1.2\n \n \n Merchant Venturers' Technical College\n .1\n \n 22.4\n 11.6\n 35.9\n \n 27.8\n \n \n Durham University\n 15.2\n \n .7\n 77\n \n \n \n \n \n Armstrong College\n 14.7\n 4.7\n 9.6\n 45.8\n 23.2\n \n \n \n \n Colleges\n 29.0\n 28.7\n 16.9\n 19.1\n \n \n \n \n \n College of Medicine\n 7.2\n \n 24.6\n 35.9\n \n \n \n \n \n Exeter University College\n 2.3\n 2.1\n \n 35.7\n 42.4\n \n 15.7\n \n \n Leeds University\n 5.7\n 5.6\n \n 30.7\n 28.8\n \n 23.2\n \n \n Liverpool University\n 14.8\n 4.9\n 10.2\n 35.9\n 26.7\n .4\n \n \n \n London University and Attached Institutions\n 9.1\n 1.8\n 6.9\n 34.8\n 30.1\n 8.4\n 8.9\n \n \n Manchester University\n 24.9\n .7\n 7.0\n 34.7\n 24.5\n 6.2\n 2.0\n \n \n College of Tech.\n 2.3\n \n 68.6\n 7.1\n 18.1\n .1\n 3.8\n \n \n Nottingham University College\n 2.7\n \n 5.9\n 24.4\n 42.9\n \n 19.8\n \n \n Reading University College\n 14.4\n 1.8\n 2.5\n .2\n 54.0\n \n 20.2\n \n \n Sheffield University\n 5.7\n 4.9\n 6.4\n 29.3\n 31.7\n \n 17.5\n \n \n Southampton University College\n 2.0\n 1.9\n \n 28.9\n 47.4\n \n 17.6\n \n \n University of Wales\n 1.9\n 4.1\n 20.6\n 36.1\n 26.7\n \n 10.6\n \n \n Aberystwyth University College\n 6.7\n 1.6\n 17.0\n 53.8\n 16.2\n .4\n 4.3\n \n \n Bangor University College\n 8.0\n .9\n 19.5\n 54.7\n 14.5\n .1\n 2.3\n \n \n Cardiff University College\n 4.5\n .4\n 26.5\n 43.0\n 21.0\n 1.6\n 3.0\n \n \n Swansea University College\n \n 10.7\n 14.8\n 21.3\n 38.8\n \n 13.3\n \n \n Aberdeen University\n 18.2\n 1.0\n 5.9\n 40.6\n 22.0\n 8.7\n 3.6\n \n \n Edinburgh University\n 18.7\n 2.1\n 4.9\n 31.6\n 31.2\n \n 10.8\n \n \n Glasgow University\n 17.3\n .5\n 4.1\n 29.6\n 35.3\n \n 12.9\n \n \n Royal Tech. Col.\n .7\n .3\n 6.2\n 8.6\n 12.8\n 44.4\n 27.2\n \n \n St. Andrew's University and Dundee University College\n .2\n .6\n 26.8\n 3.0\n 5.0\n 42.6\n 13.9\n \n \n Hong Kong University ((a)\n 48.3 (1)\n 3.0\n 13.8\n \n 20.3\n 4.2\n \n \n \n (as in Estimates for 1929)\n 51.5 (1)\n 2.3 (2)\n 9.0 (2)\n \n 21.7\n \n \n \n \n \n 37.9 (1)\n 1.7 (2)\n 33.0 (2) (3)\n \n 16.0\n \n 4.5\n \n \n \n \n 3.3\n 10.4\n \n 11.0\n \n 8.1\n \n\n(1) Interest on Loke Yew's loan taken less Sinking Fund Contribution.\n\n(2) Donation from Mr. Kwok Chun Yeung ($5,000) and Supplementary Government Grant of $32,200 for proposed School of Chinese Studies omitted.\n\n(3) Assuming Government increased its grant from $50,000 to $250,000 per annum.\n\n134\n\nPage 130\n\nPage 131", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524627, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "138\n\nBusiness Interest in University.\n\nGratifying evidence of the increasing estimation in which the work of the University is held is furnished by the encouraging change in the attitude of business people to its graduates. There was a time when there was apparently no room in business and manufacturing firms in the Colony for the Hong Kong University graduate; but I am glad to say there are clear signs of the gradual disappearance of any prejudice against him. Outstanding business concerns like Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, the Asiatic Petroleum Company, and the China Light & Power Company, have indicated their willingness to encourage selected graduates to qualify for employment with them and to provide them with facilities to show their worth in actual practice. Messrs. John Swire & Sons, Limited, London, have also recently approved a scheme whereby two selected graduates of the University will be provided with free passages to England each year for further study and to gain practical experience. This is assistance in the highest sense of the term: in some aspects of the University problem, more valuable than even direct pecuniary assistance. For unless openings to employment are available for our graduates, experience elsewhere teaches that a University education may be a curse rather than a blessing.\n\nGraduates & Government Service.\n\nThe question of the employment of graduates in Government service was also under serious consideration during last year, and we are encouraged to hope that the time is not far distant when even more vacancies in Government service than at present will be open, under approved conditions, to selected graduates of the Hong Kong University. It is a matter for gratification that 11 of our graduates hold posts in the Medical Department of Government.\n\nAs you know, this University is a residential one; that is, residence in a University hostel is, in general, an essential condition of admission to the University; and exemptions from residence are only granted in special circumstances by the Senate. Any increase in hostel accommodation has, therefore, a most direct bearing on University life. It is therefore with great satisfaction that I call attention to an important addition to the residential facilities provided for undergraduates which was made by the opening on the 16th December, 1929, of Ricci Hall under the management and control of Jesuit Fathers of the English Assistancy. The hostel, which is a fine building situated on Pokfulam Road within easy reach of the main University buildings, provides accommodation for thirty-five students. The resident staff will consist of a Warden, a qualified doctor, and a qualified engineer. The hostel has a library of its own, and special facilities are being offered for extramural tutorial work.\n\nWoman's Hostel Scheme.\n\nLast year, the Vice-Chancellor mentioned the appointment of a Committee, under the Chairmanship of Col. Skinner, R.E., to raise funds for a woman's hostel, and expressed the hope that the Committee would be successful. Something has been done towards realisation, but progress has been slower than was anticipated, and up to date, a sum of only $14,000 has been collected. The estimated cost of the scheme is about $120,000, so that the balance to be realised is still considerable.\n\nThere were thirty-eight women students on the roll in 1929, and residential accommodation could only be arranged for fourteen students in premises rented for the purpose by the Church Missionary Society. The remainder resided with their parents or guardians.\n\nA pleasing feature of the movement for the collection of funds for this hostel is that the lady undergraduates themselves are actively participating in the campaign by organising concerts and entertainments in aid of the cause. I am informed that two of these ladies, while in the Straits Settlements during the last long vacation, formed a working committee composed chiefly of graduates of this University who are now working in the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States to carry on propaganda work and to collect funds; with the gratifying result that over $3,000 have actually been paid in through their efforts, and promises of further contributions have been obtained. This, you will agree, is an admirable illustration of the spirit of self-help and service to the University.\n\nA Munificent Donation.\n\nAnd now I come to a matter which has afforded the utmost satisfaction to the University authorities. During the period under review, the University received a donation of $120,000 from Mr. Fung Ping Shan for the provision of a building for a Chinese Library in the University. He has given $100,000 for the building and equipment and $20,000 as a contribution to the endowment fund to meet the maintenance charges of the Library. In providing a sum for the recurring expenditure on the maintenance of the Library, Mr. Fung Ping Shan has set a most commendable precedent. It is not often remembered that when donations are made for a building for a particular object, the University has, as a matter of course, to be financially responsible for its maintenance; and in many cases, this is an item of some magnitude. A site on the University estate has been selected for the proposed Library, and it is expected that its erection will be commenced shortly. I desire, on behalf of the University, to voice its grateful acknowledgment of the munificence of Mr. Fung Ping Shan; and I can imagine no more appropriate record of it than the handsome building in contemplation.\n\nI will finish my account of the building activities within the University by referring to the conversion, during last year, of the building at the western entrance of the University into a laboratory for the Biological Department, accommodation for which was urgently needed.\n\nGloomy Financial Aspect.\n\nIt is natural that the academic aspect of a University should stand out most clearly in the public mind. But of equal, though more prosaic, importance is the financial aspect. A University cannot, any more than a business concern, outrun the constable without dire results. And the Budget for 1930, which has passed the University Court, does not make exhilarating reading. For it shows expenditure at $666,345.00 and revenue at $603,500.00; or a deficit of a little over $60,000; and recent currency movements may increase this figure to $80,000. Now I wish at once to emphasise the fact that this prospective deficit is not due to extravagance or to any avoidable cause; it is in the main the result of the fall in the exchange value of the dollar, which most of us outside the University have equal reason to deplore. The salaries of the permanent University teaching and administrative staffs are on a sterling basis; and in translating sterling salaries into dollars, a loss of over $50,000 alone is entailed on University funds under existing currency conditions.\n\nInadequacy of Salaries.\n\nFurthermore, the subject of the adequacy or otherwise of these salaries has provided grave cause for anxiety; for, without adequate recompense, teaching and administrative standards cannot be maintained. Besides, the labourer is worthy of his hire, and none more than he who is engaged in the honourable, invaluable, and exacting work of education. His Excellency, as Chancellor of the University, appointed a Committee to go into the matter during last year; and the Committee has reported in no uncertain terms as to the utter inadequacy of these salaries. But if effect is to be given to its recommendations, an additional annual expenditure of $140,000 will be required with the dollar at 1/8, and of $176,000 with the dollar at 1/6. Add this amount to the existing budget deficit of $80,000, and you will get an aggregate of $256,000 in excess of revenue.\n\nIt is obvious that without assistance from outside, the University cannot face this increased expenditure.\n\nGovernment Aid Urged.\n\nThe University Court has asked the Colonial Government to enlarge its annual grant of $50,000 to one of $250,000 per annum. If the dollar had remained at 1/8, this increase would have enabled the University to balance its Budget comfortably and to make the long overdue and much-needed additions to salaries. With the dollar at 1/6, unless the resources of the University are still further increased by a grant out of the Boxer Indemnity or from other sources, it will be impossible, until exchange improves, to give full effect to the recommendations of the Salaries Committee.\n\nNow the request, even for an additional grant from Government of $200,000, is a large demand to make; it requires justification. I propose to justify it, mainly, by the experience of the British Government with regard to its contributions for University purposes. I think I am entitled to say, categorically, that without these contributions, supplemented by grants from Local Authorities, no University in the United Kingdom could keep its doors open; so it becomes most pertinent to ascertain what proportion these contributions and grants bear to the total income of certain typical Universities in the United Kingdom. In the case of most of them, these contributions and grants are in excess of fifty per cent of their respective total incomes; while to cite some individual instances, Bristol University receives 70 per cent from these sources; Exeter University College, 78 per cent; Leeds University, 59 per cent; Nottingham University College, 67 per cent; Sheffield University...\n\n[2]\n\n139\n\n[3]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524628, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "140\n\nUniversity, 61 per cent; Aberystwith University College, 70 per cent.\n\nSo far as income from endowments is concerned, the proportion to total income in the case of Bristol University is 7.3 per cent; of Exeter University College, 2.3 per cent; of Leeds University, 5.7 per cent; of Sheffield University, 5.7 per cent; and of Aberystwith University College, 6.7 per cent.\n\nContrasting Figures.\n\nIn striking contrast to these figures the University of Hong Kong at present receives, for the general purposes of the University, $50,000 per annum from the Colonial Government which represents merely 9 per cent of its total income; and an increase in the amount of the grant to $250,000 per annum would only bring the Government contribution to about 33 per cent of the total income of the University. Furthermore, as showing the generous manner in which contributions have been made by members of the public to the Endowment Fund of the University, the income derived from this source amounts to about $300,000 or about 50 per cent of its total income at present and nearly five times the sum which the Chater Committee, 1909, estimated as the probable total annual expenditure of the University.\n\nEven if the Government grant is increased to $250,000 a year as suggested, the University would not be fully supplied, financially. It could not, for the reasons I have mentioned, give, for the present, any but a small increase to existing salaries, and would only be enabled to carry on its present activities without running into debt. Further development will be contingent upon the acquisition of funds from other sources.\n\nPrivate Generosity Neutralised.\n\nAs showing how, under existing conditions, the development of the University may be hampered, and how the generosity of members of the public may be made unavailable, I am able to give a most striking example. A donation of $60,000 was made by Mr. Tang Chi Ngong last year for the provision of a building for the School of Chinese Studies but it has not been utilised as yet owing to the uncertainty as to whether the requisite funds for maintaining the school as a permanent institution will be forthcoming or not. A further sum of $200,000 was collected by the local Chinese community for the endowment of this school, but the interest on this sum only amounts to about $14,000 a year while the ultimate annual cost of the school is estimated to be $60,000. At present the balance is being provided by Government from year to year as a provisional and temporary measure. The Finance Committee of the University hold a very strong opinion that it would not be business-like to proceed with the building scheme on this precarious basis; to say nothing of the injustice that would be done if the school had to be closed before any student had completed the prescribed four years of the Course.\n\nMovement or Stagnation.\n\nSir, I stand here to offer no apology on behalf of the University of Hong Kong. It has advanced beyond the stage of apology and deprecation; it can, and must, stand on its own merits. The Academic successes of its graduates proclaim the worth of its professorial staff. The degrees it confers have recognition throughout the British Empire. But the same economic law dominates the development of a business and a University. An increasing business must increase, correspondingly, its working capital, or its very success may land it in bankruptcy. The same rule holds good in the case of the University. If the additional contribution asked for from the Colonial Government is made, the University can, despite the serious loss due to the fall in exchange, carry on its work within existing limits for a time more or less considerable; but if its activities are to be extended, its sphere of usefulness enlarged, and its duty to the Teaching and Administrative staffs fulfilled, then further financial resources must be provided. Otherwise a condition of stagnation must inevitably be faced; and stagnation, whether in an institution or in an individual, is the precursor of death.\n\nBut I am an incurable optimist, and confident that the fount of private generosity which has proved so bountiful in the past, will continue to flow more and more freely as the work of the University is more clearly realised.\n\nBefore concluding I should like to express our cordial appreciation of the good offices of Mr. Mason and his choir in making it possible to have the University Anthem sung this afternoon. The Anthem, as many of you know, was originally composed as an inaugural one by Sir Cecil Clementi and was sung at the opening of the University in 1912. His Excellency has now revised certain parts of the Anthem so as to make it suitable for general occasions; and it is singularly appropriate and fortunate that it has been practicable to have the revised Anthem sung for the first time at this Congregation, the last at which His Excellency will officiate as Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.\n\n[4]\n\n141\n\nSpeech of H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi, K.C.M.G., LL.D., M.A. Oxon, F.R.G.S.\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong. Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.\n\nH. E. the Governor then addressed the assembly and said:- Members of the Congregation of the University of Hong Kong:\n\nIt has been a great pleasure to me this afternoon, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Chancellor, to confer upon Sir Henry Gollan, Chief Justice of Hong Kong and acting Vice-Chancellor of this University, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. In him we honour not only an eminent judge, who commands universal respect in this Colony, but also a firm friend of University of Hong Kong, well-tried at need, and willing to serve the University at considerable sacrifice to himself. When it became necessary for Mr. Hornell, our Vice Chancellor, to proceed on leave of absence to England, partly for a well-deserved rest, and partly to plead our cause with His Majesty's Government for a grant to this University from Boxer Indemnity funds, Sir Henry Gollan, in spite of the heavy duties which his position as Chief Justice entails, was not only willing to take upon himself the work of acting Vice Chancellor, but made it a condition of doing so that no remuneration whatever should be paid to him on this account. He has thus saved the University from incurring considerable expenditure. More than that, Sir Henry Gollan at my request agreed to undertake the difficult and unenviable task of presiding over the committee which has recently reported upon the conditions of salary and service of the academic staff of the University. In this work he had the assistance of two members of the University Court, namely, Mr. Paul Lauder, our Honorary Treasurer, and the Honourable Dr. Ts'o Seen-wan, upon whom the University has already conferred its honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. I take this opportunity of thanking the Committee very sincerely for the admirable manner in which its duties have been discharged.\n\nMy only regret, in this connection, is that Sir Henry Gollan intends shortly to retire on pension and that, therefore, this is the last occasion on which he will be present at a Congregation of this University. I too, am unlikely to be present ever again at Congregation, for I am about to lay down my duties as Chancellor. I shall do so with the deepest regret, for my work here has been a labour of love and I have felt most strongly that nowhere can better or more enduring service be rendered to Hong Kong than in this University. I can but hope that at Singapore, which is not very far away, I may still have some opportunity of helping you.\n\nFinancial Difficulties.\n\nIn his address to the Congregation Sir Henry Gollan has just dwelt upon the financial difficulties which beset the University, and I wish now, as your Chancellor, to suggest the means whereby these financial difficulties may be overcome. There are, in my opinion, apart from the donations by private benefactors, which have been very generously given, two sources, to which the University may properly look for help. The first is the Government of Hong Kong. When the Colony's budget for this year was under discussion in the Legislative Council during last September, the Honourable Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, speaking of the measure of financial assistance given from the public purse to Universities in England, said:-\n\n\"A Royal Commission was appointed presided over by the Right Honourable Mr. Asquith in the year 1919, as a result of which very large Government grants were made, and to-day, roughly, the Government provides, either direct or through local authorities, 50% of the revenue of Oxford University, 45% of the revenue of Cambridge University, 50% of the revenue of Birmingham University, 70% of the revenue of Bristol University, and 60% of the revenue of Leeds University. In fact out of the total income of the Universities of Great Britain about 50% is contributed by either Government or local authorities.\" The conclusion that follows from\n\n[5]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 524706, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930", "content_text": "239\n\nGovernment with regard to its contributions for University purposes in the United Kingdom. I think I am entitled to say that without these contributions, supplemented by grants from local authorities, no University in the United Kingdom could keep its doors open; and it, therefore, becomes pertinent to compare the position of the University of Hong Kong with that of certain typical Universities in the United Kingdom. In the case of most of them, these contributions and grants are in excess of 50% of their respective total incomes; while to cite individual instances, Bristol University receives 70% from these sources; Exeter University College, 78%; Leeds University, 59%; Nottingham University College, 67%; Sheffield University, 61%; Aberystwith University College, 70%. So far as income from endowments is concerned, the proportion to total income in the case of Bristol University is 7.3%; of Exeter University College, 2.3%; of Leeds University, 5.7%; of Sheffield University, 5.7%; and of Aberystwith University College, 6.7%. These figures are taken from the report of the Committee on Grants to Universities in the United Kingdom for 1924-5. Later figures are not available to me; but I think it is unlikely that in succeeding years the subsidies have decreased.\n\n9.\n\nThe corresponding figures for the University of Hong Kong provide a very striking contrast. The University receives from the Hong Kong Government a subsidy of $50,000 per annum, which represents 9% of its total income; and an increase in the amount of the grant to $250,000 per annum would only bring the Government contribution to about 33% of the total income of the University. Moreover, as has already been stated, the contributions which have been made by members of the public to", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536135, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "content_text": "## \n23 (Mrs) Moncrieff \n\nMrs. that adoption all. Cures & 24/X whether Men Tsas. or registered, not should be. \n\nThis has been ack'd by P.C. I have spoke to M.T. Gant. There is little we could usefully say in a letter & she asks no questions, further.\n\n26.10.33 \nNt.E. M. Tozer \n257x line \nFors. Cutting from Exeter \"Express & Echo\". \n\n### DESTROYER UNTERSTON \ní t \nIZ. to Lozer. \n26 Clauden. Kelley \nru \n2614 \nMy Ausd that all Children who have been purchased, registered. in 2/11 should be H&. \n\n24 & 25 can be publy I suggest t (26), which is similar to (23), should be acked by P.C. & McGant. Her Gameson 87", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536155, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "content_text": "## \n\nConstitutional Club \n35- Bedford Street, \nExeter. Devon \nOctober 25th 1933\n\nI am sending you a copy of the local \"Express & Echo\" of the 20th inst. in which on the last page appears a letter signed by A. Lancaster Smith under the heading \"Hongkong Slaves marked\". In the other column on page 6 contains a letter from myself denying his remarks.\n\nAs they give a false impression, I thought you might be able to see your way to write to the Editor officially on the matter.\n\nI have the honour to remain \nYour obedient Servant \nEdgar M. Tozer\n\nThe Secretary of State \nfor the Colonies", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536156, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "content_text": "# HONG-KONG SLAVE MARKET\n\nOctober 16th, 1933.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Express & Echo.\"\n\nSir, There are about 600,000 Chinese in Hong Kong subject to our laws, and it is considered that there are about 20,000 child slaves in that number. They are little girls called by the euphemistic term Mui Tsai. Sometimes they are called \"adopted daughters,\" but in any case they are bought, sold, and actual deeds are drawn up.\n\nLondon is British, so is Hong Kong. If it were discovered that there were in London 20,000 little Chinese girls held in slavery, subjected to unnameable indignities and cruelties, bought, sold, and re-sold, at the whim of their owners, it is possible that the House of Commons might address a few pertinent questions to the Home Secretary, and ask him what he intended to do in the matter.\n\nApparently the idea that slavery is impossible under the Union Jack is a polite fiction learned in our school days, which must be unlearned when we arrive at years of discretion, for slavery, naked and unashamed, flourishes in British Hong Kong.\n\nThe tragedy is that the children who are bought and sold have no power to speak for themselves. True, there is a law forbidding such sales, but the law is inadequately enforced, and registration was never carried out in an effective manner.\n\nFor the honour of the flag, and in the name of justice and humanity, it is asked: When will the British Parliament set these girls free?\n\nA. LANCASTER SMITH, Sidmouth, September 17th, 1933.\n\n## HONG-KONG SLAVE MARKET\n\nTo the Editor of the \"Express and Echo,\" Sir, I have read your correspondent's letter under the above heading which appeared in your issue of October 20th last. What he says gives an entirely false impression of the Chinese custom of child adoption known as \"Mui Tsai\" which has been prevalent in China for thousands of years. Under it, young children of low-born and sometimes scoundrelly parents are handed over by them to reputable and wealthy families who bring them up as their own; they become good and rich citizens and make a wealthy marriage, and are surrounded by a class of people they never would have associated with had they remained in their original humble and miserable surroundings.\n\nThe system perhaps is sometimes abused, and like all good principles in this world, is imposed upon. Children are handed over from one family to another of the same class for domestic purposes and for which a monetary consideration passes, but a vigilant watch is kept on these transactions by the Colonial Police and the Protector of Chinese Affairs. But to say that 20,000 child slaves exist in Hong Kong and that slavery, naked and unashamed, exists there is mere rubbish.\n\nIt always seems such a useless absurdity for people in the West to try and interfere with the old habits and ancient customs of the East. The Hong Kong Government can very well look after its own affairs without any coercion or interference on the part of the British Parliament. But Mui Tsai has always flourished and will continue to do so.\n\nE. M. TOZER.\n\nExeter, 22nd October, 1933.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 536186, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933", "content_text": "of the Bishop of Exeter, wants me to write an article for his Diocesan Gazette on the subject. It's a thorny question and the case is often overstated, so I want to be sure I write the facts before anything else, especially as the papers of that copy are in Hong Kong. I find that the subject only goes back to 1929 when I was in Hong Kong eighteen months", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-542-10 Mui Tsai system- correspondence from private individuals 13-1-1933 - 11-12-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546413, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934", "content_text": "33m \n\n45- \n\nshe had gone to England immediately after the event, those bruises would still have been of the same importance and I should still have mentioned them. The jury might have drawn the same conclusion.\n\nMr. Lim: The theory put forward by the Crown was nothing more than what the case for the Crown would be if Mary had given evidence. It made it easier for the jury to accept such a theory, particularly so, considering what the facts of Mary's evidence which supported the Crown's case, was mentioned.\n\nMr. Mayden: Asks Mr. Lim what he suggests should have been done should there have been a discharge and a new trial. Mr. Lim says no- and Mr. Fraser then says that the Crown is in a predicament. The jury could not have been discharged at Crown's application in order to fortify the Crown's case, which would have been the case here. Mr. Lim said the Exeter case could have been adjourned till Mary could give evidence. Thereupon Mr. Fraser says that he did make this application and was refused- and rightly so. If that had been granted it would have been at once a reason for quashing the conviction. Mr. Lim states the reason as far as he remembers for the case not being adjourned, was that the jury would forget what had been heard. And Mr. Fraser says that the reason for refusing the application must have been that the Crown's case would have been strengthened. Mr. Lim says it was never mentioned and Mr. Fraser says it was not mentioned but that was the case.\n\nMr. Lim: It would be fair to the appellant to have a new trial without the evidence of Mary Pine. That is what...\n\nMr. Fraser: The judge did not see fit to exercise that discretion. Mr. Fraser: It is impossible and the discharge of the jury is also impossible. It is possible to postpone the trial on the application of the defence and the defence made no application.\n\nMr. Hayden: You made no application?\n\nMr. Lim: No, but I submit very strongly that without Mary Pine's evidence there was no case to go to the jury. The appellant did not have a fair trial.\n\nMr. Jacks: The Judge decided on that and he decided to go on with the trial.\n\nMr. Lim states the case was not fair as Jury must have been influenced when deliberating over the verdict that it was bad luck for the Crown that Mary could not give evidence.\n\nMr. Lim: Why did my friend not apply for an adjournment? why ask for adjournment - I submit that without Mary's evidence there was no case.\n\nSurely the appellant cannot have it both ways? The point before the Court is whether in view of all the facts there was a fair trial for the appellant. I shall be greatly obliged if your lordships will explain in what way the appellant would have the case decided in his favour both ways?\n\nMr. Jacks: I should like to hear your next point.\n\nMr. Lim: The next point is on misdirection - that the defence was not properly put to the jury. Many authorities quoted by Mr. Fraser, but those authorities were where there was omission on part of the trial judge and the court of appeal came to conclusion no miscarriage of justice.\n\nThe next point is there was no case to go to the Jury. I will deal with that generally with the other ground of appeal where the verdict was against the weight of evidence. In support of these two grounds I submit evidence is equally consistent with innocence as with guilt.\n\nA Y Book-binder 23 Cr. Appeal Reports p.60\n\nY MRington: 22 Cr. Appeal Report p.91.\n\nMy friend pointed out yesterday that in these two cases the appellant himself gave evidence.\n\nMr. Fraser: I went further than that and I said I know of no case where an appeal has been dismissed on this ground where the appellant did not give evidence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-7 Rex v. Ng Loi Yuen- appeal to Privy Council 1-1-1934 - 31-12-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "§ 53531\n\nCLOSED UNTIL\n\nPrevious\n\n1935\n\nHONG KONG\n\nPass fort\n\n53531\n\nL\n\n125/55/16\n\nVera Volkera\n\nTel.section\n\nR. 77\n\nR291\n\n30/12.\n\n83 PUT BY\n\nMr Gent.\n\n4/2\n\nSubsequent\n\nM.Bogel p\n\nMe Gent\n\n21\n\nM Perry R:83.\n\n21/1\n\n24/2\n\n8.3 13/11\n\nM. Carstairs 57/1\n\nIm Goddard.\n\n27/2\n\n83\n\nPUT BY\n\nMr Gent\n\nR17\n\n83 PLA\n\np. Carstairs 29\n\nMr Seat\n\nMR Carstairs\n\n30\n\nM Carstairs 2/12\n\nRecullen or\n\n14/12\n\nR83 Mr Carstairs 14/12\n\nReut\n\nThe B 16/1.2\n\nFILE A.\n\n(27159) Wt. 24455-46 11,000 in 2 sorts\n\n1/35 P.st. G. 645/17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546749, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "CI \n\nCommal / AF Williams \n\nm.r. \n\n2. \n\n11. 35- \n\n2 \n\nStates that Volkova desires visa to proceed to UK from Hong Kong and expresses hope that same will be franked.\n\n2. Gur 246 R/Part \n\n5-11 \n\nThe objections locally to Vera Volkova's desire to proceed to UK ? cops (1) + letter (Aliens Dept) \n\n35 \n\n£f. for obsn, [marked \"Important\")] \n\nExhaustaus \n\n5/14/35- \n\nMent. \n\n28/11 \n\nBEAT 3 20 14.0 - w/c (1) and (2) - BIA.- 14 NOV 1936 \n\nMy AF Williams called today to ask how this was getting on. I told him that we should presently be sending him a reply to (1), when we received The Secretary's observations in reply to (3); and that The Home decision would be sent to H.K. by telegram.\n\nPut by Collconstant atones refer above 14/1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546750, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "My Williams called again later and spoke to Mr Charnand. He said that his friends had already had to cancel one booking and had made another (provisional) one for about the end of the month.\n\nI spoke to both Cooper (Aliens Dept) and asked him to expedite this case if possible.\n\nMr Williams rang up later and I suggested to him that if he wanted anything further done he should call at the Aliens Dept of the HQ, but in the meantime nothing further from this side.\n\n&\n\nOpen Sais 22/11 at once\n\n(1)\n\nRe-circulated & Man's 29.\n\nMr Cooper rang up and said that 11.357 C/A is to agree in view of the expression \"Enforced departure\" letter 1/2/11 in the Williams's file.\n\nMrs Webb was taking a smaller file to look up any relevant information.\n\nThe matter seems vague and I told Mr Cooper that he might have to look into it further. I asked him if I could find the expression \"Enforced departure\" in the file, but I'm not certain.\n\nMr Wollene called again and was put through to me. I explained to him that they are the authority for granting permission for the Carly to come here.\n\nWant 24 around", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546751, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "No.\n\n13.12.35\n\nGor: may be avowed that for two months out way visa will be granted.\n\nTel. asat & VHo, letter, leasing R.P. Nomber- ExCarstairs 14/12\n\nE thin muf M Withams that Instructions have been sent to Ath for grant of visa for two months to The UK\n\ney с ора alm 640. 5 Tshortel 244 Wrent: 14.12 am\n\n16.12.35 6. 2 Williams 1 Ausd!- 30 DEC 1935\n\n7 2010- w/c (5) and (6)_ Bib. 30 DEC 1935\n\nhor. Gent\n\nIn their af for Dec the Table Co. have in respect of No.5 on file, 8/64, the difference between the cost of the tel. charged is\n\nat", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546752, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "at jour rates\n\nand the value\n\nof the prepaid\n\nform (15/8\") which accompanied No.2.\n\nhad\n\nAre\n\nform\n\nAlthough it is probably true that\n\nreceived 1102 without a prepaid\n\nand replied to it by telegram after\n\nreference is 40\n\nno question of payment\n\nother than by you, would have occurred, it is equally true that by the sending of the prepaid form Miss Volkova admitted her liability for the cost of the reply\n\nHad Mr Williams\n\nand that\n\ninstead of writing, called here and asked that a telegram be sent he would have been asked to pay its cost.\n\nIt implies the necessity of a telegram), \"I think therefore\n\nWilliams to pay between the cost\n\nand the value\n\nwe should ask Mr\n\n£1.12.8\n\nThe difference\n\nat public rates\n\nof the prepaid form.\n\nhe would be prepared to defray\n\nthe cost of her return passage (end to 4) and Miss Volkova has admitted her liability he will probably be willing to pay, though,\n\nhe\n\nrefuses\n\nundertaking\n\nwe\n\nhave\n\nno written\n\nwhich to rely.\n\nBee Perry\n\n4/2/36.\n\nI should be inclined not to pass\n\nThe charge of 8/6:\n\n(or of £1-12-8) to MW.\n\nThe liability is Miss Volkova's, I suppose, if anyone's.\n\nMrnt.\n\n472\n\nPage 5\n\n \n(three lines at the bottom are not presented here as they are not available in the original text snippet)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546753, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "have Sent\n\nI agree with four suggestions.\n\nThe question was however raised as a matter of\n\nprinciple & for future guidance and we showed\n\ntry\n\nTo amend\n\n6\n\nthe sort of thing which gives rise to awkward questions & audit;\n\nBut\n\nJet Bow x\n\n21 a\n\n20/7/86\n\nheld", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546754, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 7, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "C. O.\n\nMr. Bickle.\n\nMr.\n\n20712 75\n\nats\n\n53531/7/35 Hong Kong.\n\nMr.\n\nSir C. Parkinson.\n\nSir G. Tomlinson\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\n28\n\n30 December, 1935.\n\n7\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nDRAFT.\n\nH.F. WILLIAMS, Esq\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nCopy 5 and this to\n\nH.O.,\n\nL.F.\n\nConry Wolfe. 7\n\n(1)\n\nSir,\n\nI am, etc. to refer to\n\nyour letter of the 2nd November,\n\nregarding the application of Miss\n\nV. Volkova, for a passport to enable\n\nher to proceed from Hong Kong to\n\nthis country, and to inform you that\n\na telegram has been sent to the\n\nGovernor of Hong Kong authorising\n\nthe grant of a visa to Miss Volkova\n\nfor a visit to the United Kingdom\n\nfor two months.\n\nI am, etc.\n\n(Signed) H. F. COWELL", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "53531/7/35.\n\nTELEGRAM from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor of Hong Kong.\n\nSent 7.p.m. 16th December, 1935.\n\nBoss Ch 2025\n\n1. Your telegram No. 276. Visa may be granted to Volkova.\n\nmarked begins \"Authorised by Home Office No.V.1036 for visit ends of 2 months to United Kingdom; not for employment\" on valid Soviet passport with visa for return to Hong Kong.\n\nPage 8\n\nPage ...\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. ...\n\n11. Carstairs 14/12 Begin Sent\n\nMr. ...\n\nMr. Parkinson.\n\n16 about\n\n53581/7/20\n\nCoded Deind\n\n174\n\nMr. Tomlinson.\n\nSir C. Bottomley.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\n(1) Your tel 276. An office may be granted (use R.P. Voucher as well) visa for visit/ing\n\nDRAFT. tel (code)\n\nbegins \"Authorised by Home Office No. V.1036 for visit to UK.; not for employment\"\n\nends on valid Soviet passport with visa for return to Hong Kong\n\nSec...\n\ne 9\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546756, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 10, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "Any communication on the subject of this letter should be addressed to:—\n\nTHE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE,\n\nALIENS DEPARTMENT,\n\nHOME OFFICE,\n\nLONDON, S.W.1.\n\nand the following number quoted:—\n\nV. 1086.\n\nNATIONAL SCHEME FOR DISABLED MEN.\n\nHOME OFFICE,\n\nWHITEHALL\n\n10\n\n3\n\nSir,\n\n13th December, 1935.\n\nRECEIVED\n\n14 DEC 1935\n\nC. O. REGY\n\nWith reference to your Memorandum (53531/7/35) of the 14th ultimo regarding Miss Vera Volkova, I am directed by Secretary Sir John Simon to enclose herewith, for the information of Mr. Secretary Thomas, a copy of a letter which has been received in this Department from Mr. H.F. Williams, and to say that the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong may be informed by telegram, that a visa may be granted to Miss Volkova marked \"Authorised by H.O. No. V. 1086 for visit of two months to U.K. not for employment,\" on valid Soviet passport with visa for return to Hong Kong.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nThe Under Secretary of State\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546757, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 11, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "C/o The London Passenger Transport Board,\n\nArchitectural Department,\n\n55, Broadway, S.W. 1.\n\n9th December, 1935.\n\nYour Ref: V.1086.\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State, Aliens Department,\n\nHome Office,\n\nS.W. 1.\n\nSir,\n\nI have to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 6th instant, and hereby confirm that I will marry Miss Vera Volkova as soon as possible after her arrival in this country, in default of which I will defray the cost of her return passage to Hong Kong.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) H.F. WILLIAMS.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546758, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "COPY FOR REGISTRATION\n\n2\n\nTelegram from the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nDated 5th November, 1935. Received 8.42 a.m. 5th November.\n\nReply paid.\n\nNo. 276.\n\nVera Volkova Soviet citizen requests visa to proceed to the United Kingdom to marry Hugh Finch Williams care of Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank London. No objection locally.\n\nR.P. sonder attached\n\nComm to 100 - 3 -\n\n12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "The Colonial Secretary, The Colonial Office, Downing Street, S. W. 1.\n\n2nd November, 1935.\n\nSir,\n\nA friend of mine in Hong-Kong, Miss Vera Volkova, holder of a U.S.S.R. passport, has applied to the Colonial Secretary there for a visa to proceed to the U.K.\n\nAs Miss Volkova has applied on the grounds of her engagement in marriage to me, it has been suggested, unofficially, that I should myself take the matter up this end in order to satisfy the competent authority as to the \"bona fides\" of Miss Volkova's terms of application.\n\nI have therefore written to H.E. the Under Secretary of State, setting forth the case, and I am now in receipt of a reply (Dep: V.1086) stating that it will be given due consideration when Miss Volkova's application is referred to the department.\n\nHowever, Miss Volkova has written to me from Hong-Kong to say that the authorities there have informed her that the application will be referred to your department prior to the Home Office.\n\nI would therefore appreciate hearing from you whether this application has been received from Hong-Kong, and if so, whether, in view of the exceptional grounds of application, you would be prepared to recommend the Hong-Kong Government to grant this visa.\n\nTo reiterate the terms of my letter to H.E. The Under Secretary of State, Aliens Dept., I would explain that arrangements for our marriage were in train in Hong-Kong during May of this year, but due to my enforced departure at short notice, little time was available ere my departure for its consummation. In the circumstances, it seemed wise to defer the ceremony, and it was then mutually understood that we would be married as opportunity availed in the near future. As I shall not be returning to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546760, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "to the Far East at any rate for some time to come, I have encouraged Miss Volkova to apply for the visa as mentioned.\n\nPage 14\n\nIt is to be noted that Miss Volkova is a person well-known to, and of excellent repute with the Authorities in Hong-Kong. She has, in the capacity of her profession, a teacher of ballet, given productions on behalf of charity, to which the recent Governor, Sir William Peel has lent his patronage.\n\nMiss Volkova has a perfect command of the English language, written and spoken, and a wide circle of friends of British nationality both in Hong-Kong and in England who would, I feel sure, be willing to recommend her integrity and character.\n\nI have personally known Miss Volkova during four years and have during this period come to form for her an attachment I would not willingly sacrifice. It is therefore earnestly to be hoped you will find no reason for recommending the Hong-Kong Government to decline this visa, and I venture to request you to consider this as a case for special consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant\n\nH.F. WILLIAMS.\n\nThe London Passenger Transport Board,\n\nArchitectural Department.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 546761, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935", "content_text": "53531\n\nདེ་", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-551-16 Vera Volkona- application for visa to enter United Kingdom 2-11-1935 - 30-12-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 74, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "## Outbreaks of Milk-borne Diseases\n\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Heywood M.B. | 1924 | 39 | Human source | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1924, p. 54, and Lancet, July 4, 1925, p. 19. |\n| Lytham St. Annes U.D. | 1924 | 338 | \" | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1925, p. 45. |\n| Keswick U.D. | 1925 | | Not discovered | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1925, p. 44. |\n| Bedford M.B. | 1926 | | Undetermined | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1926, p. 50. |\n| Northampton C.B. | 1926 | | Human source | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1926, p. 51. |\n| Reigate R.D. | 1928 | 33 | \" | Medical Officer, July 12, 1930, p. 13. |\n| | 1929 | 129 | \" | Medical Officer, July 12, 1930, p. 13; August 9, 1930, p. 56. |\n| Glasgow | 1930 | | 3.5% & N S | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1930, p. 58. |\n| Stannington Sanatorium, Castleward R.D. | 1931 | 170 | \" | |\n\n## Scarlet Fever and Sore Throat\n\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Brighton C.B. and Hove M.B. | 1930 | 71 S.F., 100 sore throat | Human | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1930, p. 58. |\n| Mid Sussex (combined district of East Sussex) | | | | |\n| Croydon C.B. | | | | |\n| Greenock | | | | |\n| Bristol C.B. | 1899-1910 | | | Lancet, September 10, 1910, p. 793. |\n| Hamilton | 1903, 1908, 1910 | 58 | Human source (?) | Public Health, October 1910, p. 2. |\n| Llandudno U.D. | 1904 | 6 | Outbreak | Public Health, May 1910, p. 287. |\n| | 1904-7 | 21 | 3 epidemics (due to 1 carrier) | Lancet, February 17, 1906, p. 430. |\n| | 1908 | | Outbreak | Public Health, November 1908, p. 40. |\n| | 1909 | 17 | Human carrier | British Medical Journal, April 18, 1908, p. 963. |\n\n## Enteric Fever\n\n| Place | Year | Cases | Probable source of infection of the milk | Reference |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Yorkshire, West Riding. (Three sanitary districts, names not given) | 1910 | 74 | Human source | Public Health, September 1912, p. 444. |\n| Willington (Durham) U.D. | 1911-1912 | 56 | | Annual report of medical officer, Local Government Board, 1911-12, p. xvii. |\n| Harwich M.B. and Tendring R.D. | 1912-1913 | 44, 25 | | Annual report of medical officer, Local Government Board, 1912–13, p. xviii. |\n| Glasgow | 1909, 10, 11 and 12 | 19 | | Public Health, December 1913, p. 71. |\n| Wisbech and Walsoken U.D. | 1916 | | | Annual report of medical officer, Local Government Board, 1916-1917, p. xiv. |\n| South Shields R.D. | 1916 | | | Annual report of medical officer, Local Government Board, 1916-1917, p. xiv. |\n| Shelley U.D., Shepley U.D. and Cumberworth U.D. | 1909-1912 | | | Annual report of medical officer, Local Government Board, 1912-13, p. 186. |\n| Taunton M.B. | 1909 | 23 | (?) | Public Health, June 1910, p. 344. |\n| Exeter C.B. | 1909 | 23 | Human | Public Health, June 1910, p. 338. |\n| | | 888 | | Public Health, June 1910, p. 332. |\n| Barnes U.D. | 1910 | 13 | (?) | Public Health, June 1910, p. 332. |\n| Wandsworth Met. B. | 1910 | | Human | British Medical Journal, April 11, 1908, p. 889. |\n| Glasgow | 1910 | 99 | \" | Public Health, April 1909, p. 243. |\n| Dublin | 1908 | 130 | (?) | Medical Officer, October 13, 1917, p. 126. |\n| Llanelly R.D. | 1917 | | Outbreak | Public Health, January 1919, p. 41. |\n| Hunstanton, Docking U.D. | 1917 | 22 | Insanitary | Medical Officer, February 7, 1920, p. 58. |\n| Towyn U.D. | 1918 | 17 | Human | Medical Officer, May 28, 1921, p. 228. |\n| Sheringham U.D. and Erpingham R.D. | 1919 | 35 | | Medical Officer, March 1, 1924, p. 91. |\n| Rochford R.D. | | (P) | | |\n| Campbeltown | 1922 | 3 | | Medical Officer, June 2, 1923, p. 270, and British Medical Journal, June 2, 1923, p. 953. |\n| Camborne Urban District | 1923 | | Epidemic | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1923, p. 42. |\n| Penzance | 1923 | 22 | | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1923, p. 42. |\n| Sevenoaks R.D. | 1924 | | | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1924, p. 50. |\n| London, Bethnal Green Met. B. | 1924 | 2 | Human source | Chief medical officer's annual report, 1924, p. 53, and British Medical Journal, April 18, 1925, p. 751, and Medical Officer, April 25, 1925, p. 184. |\n| | | 21 | Polluted water | |\n| | | 22 | Human source | |\n| | | 24 | (?) Cheese | |\n| | | 65 | Undetermined | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554292, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "# Buildings\n\nCarefully disinfect, under the direction of a veterinary surgeon, the buildings in which the clean cattle will be housed. It is very desirable to segregate infected cattle in different buildings, if possible. If this is absolutely impossible, have a movable partition made of sheets of corrugated iron fixed on a wooden frame. It should be as high as possible. As the number of infected cows decreases, the partition can be moved along and the vacated stalls disinfected. There should be no door through the partition. The drainage should run from the clean cows past the infected, never vice versa. The same applies, of course, to the water supply.\n\nIt is essential for the non-reactors to be never allowed to drink water which can have been contaminated by any possibility by the reactors.\n\n## Calving infected cattle\n\nWhen a reacting cow or heifer calves, it should be arranged for the calf to be delivered direct on to a clean cloth or sheet and removed at once. It should be kept from all contact with its mother and from the soiled litter of her box. If the herd owner has had a non-reacting cow calve within 4 days, before or after, the calf from the reactor should be given some of the colostrum from that non-reacting cow in order that it may not miss entirely the natural aid to resistance to disease, especially of the alimentary tract, which it should have acquired through its own mother's first milk.\n\n## Rearing of calves\n\nIt cannot be impressed too strongly on herd owners the importance of rearing calves and young stock in airy and sunny surroundings, with ample nourishment and a clean dry bed. They are then much more likely to be resistant to any chance infection of tuberculosis or any other disease. They should never be given any milk from the reacting cows. If possible, the men attending the reactors should have nothing to do with the non-reactors and young stock. If this is impossible, then they should always milk and tend the reactors last.\n\nCare must be taken that calves are not fed on skim milk or whey from creameries and cheese factories, as, being from bulked milk, it is almost certain to contain tuberculosis.\n\n## Care of cattle at grass\n\nIt is essential that non-reactors should not be turned into fields recently used by reactors. In taking any steps to eradicate either tuberculosis, Johne's disease or abortion, it is of the first importance that animals should be prevented from contaminating the ponds and streams from which they drink with their fæces and urine. The water should be so fenced off that the cattle can only get their heads to it, or else the water pumped out into a tank. This applies especially to stagnant ponds. Owners should guard against infection from running water which may have come through an infected area. If the boundary fences are weak, or of such a nature as not to prevent contact with a neighbour's cattle, a second fence should be provided. A two-strand wire fence, under which sheep can go, at least 6 feet from main fence, is sufficient.\n\n## Importance of care\n\nThe above precautions may seem tiresome and expensive, but they are not nearly so much so as a reinfection after a herd has been nearly or completely cleared. To succeed (an even seriously infected herd can be cleared in 3 years), it is necessary to carry out the above instructions rigidly.\n\n## Disposal of reactors\n\nIf reactors are rigidly segregated from the clean cattle, there is no necessity to dispose of them, but in the case of cattle of no particular value to the herd it is much wiser to do so, as there is always the possibility of the disease becoming acute and of their becoming wasters.\n\nThe recommendations in this scheme have been drawn up with the best possible veterinary advice.\n\n## APPENDIX 13\n\n### Human and cow population and rateable value in Great Britain\n\n#### (a) Human and cow population and rateable value by counties in England and Wales\n\n| Administrative County. County Borough. | Population, 1st April, 1931. | Rateable value on 1st April, 1930, for general county purposes | Rateable value for general county purposes per head. | Number of cows in milk or in calf and heifers in milk | Rateable value for general county purposes per cow. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Bedford (A.C.) | 220,474 | £1,157.9 | 5.3 | 10,911 | 106 |\n| Berks (A.C.) | 214,181 | £1,339.5 | 6.3 | 24,723* | |\n| Reading (C.B.) | 97,153 | £683.1 | 7.0 | | |\n| Berks (A.C. and C.B.) | 311,334 | £2,022.6 | 6.5 | 24,723 | |\n| Buckingham (A.C.) | 271,565 | £1,664.1 | 6.1 | 28,753 | |\n| Cambridge (A.C.) | 140,004 | £776.0 | 5.5 | | |\n| Chester (A.C.) | 675,190 | £3,710.0 | 5.5 | 8,107 | 127 |\n| Birkenhead (C.B.) | 147,946 | £910.4 | 6.2 | | |\n| Chester (C.B.) | 41,438 | £290.5 | 7.0 | | |\n| Stockport (C.B.) | 125,505 | £711.7 | 5.7 | | |\n| Wallasey (C.B.) | 97,465 | £791.6 | 8.1 | | |\n| Chester (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 1,087,544 | £6,414.2 | 5.9 | 127,001 | 50 |\n| Cornwall (A.C.) | 317,951 | £1,211.6 | 3.8 | | |\n| Cumberland (A.C.) | 205,790 | £783.0 | 3.8 | 50,761* | 15 |\n| Carlisle (C.B.) | 57,107 | £334.2 | 5.9 | | |\n| Cumberland (A.C. and C.B.) | 262,897 | £1,117.2 | 4.3 | 50,761 | 22 |\n| Derby (A.C.) | 614,926 | £2,605.4 | 4.2 | | |\n| Derby (C.B.) | 142,406 | £760.6 | 5.3 | | |\n| Derby (A.C. and C.B.) | 757,332 | £3,366.0 | 4.4 | | |\n| Devon (A.C.) | 458,664 | £2,644.0 | 5.8 | 73,641 | 46 |\n| Exeter (C.B.) | 66,039 | £549.5 | 8.3 | 105,915* | 25 |\n| Plymouth (C.B.) | 208,166 | £1,633.6 | 7.8 | | |\n| Devon (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 732,869 | £4,827.1 | 6.6 | 105,915 | 46 |\n| Dorset (A.C.) | 239,347 | £1,459.9 | 6.1 | 63,040 | 23 |\n| Durham (A.C.) | 924,050 | £3,260.5 | 3.5 | 30,285* | 108 |\n| Darlington (C.B.) | 72,093 | £436.6 | 6.1 | | |\n| Gateshead (C.B.) | 122,379 | £494.8 | 4.0 | | |\n| South Shields (C.B.) | 113,452 | £475.6 | 4.2 | 185,870 | |\n| Sunderland (C.B.) | 185,870 | £795.2 | 4.3 | 68,134 | |\n| West Hartlepool (C.B.) | 68,134 | £312.4 | 4.6 | | |\n| Durham (A.C. and C.B.'s) | 1,485,978 | £5,775.1 | 3.9 | 30,285 | 190 |\n\n* Including cows in associated county boroughs.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562699, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-572-8 Leave and passage regulations 4-2-1938 - 30-12-1938", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-572-8 Leave and passage regulations 4-2-1938 - 30-12-1938", "content_text": "# \n(2643-150) Wt 16318-94 15,000 7/38 T.S. 695\n(3070-150) Wt. 26563-2 20,000 10/38 T.S. 695\n\nGo...\n\nMr. Bickle 2/11/38.\nMr. Sew 21\nMr. A. J. Dawe.\nSir H. Moore.\nSir G. Tomlinson.\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\nPermt. U.S. of S.\nB Parly. U.S. of S.\nSecretary of State.\n\n53890/38 Hong Kong.\n38\n\nGentlemen,\n\nDowning Street,\n25 November, 1938.\n\nI am directed to refer to the letter which you addressed to the Colonial Secretary, Hong Kong on the 10th October, 1938 on behalf of Mr. J.J. Bryan regarding the rate of conversion of the dollar pension for which his wife would be eligible under the Hong Kong Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme in the event of his pre-deceasing her, and to inform you that it has been decided that, in the case of Mr. Bryan and others who have paid contributions since retirement on a dollar pension convertible at a privileged rate of exchange, any Widows' and Orphans' pensions awarded should be paid at the rate of 3/- to the dollar.\n\n## DRAFT\nMESSRS. W.H. STONE & CO., (6 Northernhay Place, Exeter.)\n\n2 draps\nFURTHER ACTION.\nCopy to CA 18 H.KI \n## \n2.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-8 Leave and passage regulations 4-2-1938 - 30-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562704, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-572-8 Leave and passage regulations 4-2-1938 - 30-12-1938", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-572-8 Leave and passage regulations 4-2-1938 - 30-12-1938", "content_text": "# W.H. STONE & CO.\n## Solicitors.\n*(please quote T.)*\n6 Northernhay Place,\nEXETER.\nOctober 10th, 1938.\n\nSir,\n\nWe would refer you to your letter to us dated the 3rd April 1928 and Numbered `3114/1919` informing us that in the event of the death of Mr. J.J. Bryan formerly in the service of your Government Mrs. Bryan's pension under the Widows' and Orphans' Scheme would be $803.74 plus 25 per cent temporary increase, the total of $1004.68, or £150:14:0 per annum, the pension being payable in sterling at 3/-s per dollar, and our Client has now received a letter from the Crown Agents for the Colonies informing him of a decision that pensions granted from the Widows' and Orphans Pensions Fund on or after the 1st June 1938, calculated on dollar salaries will be payable at the current rate of exchange.\n\nIt would appear obviously that a mistake has been made in sending the letter from the Crown Agents to Mr. Bryan as the question of the Pension due to his Widow has already been settled in accordance with your letter of the 3rd April 1928.\n\nWe shall be glad if you will kindly let us have a line confirming this as Mr. Bryan is anxious to have the matter put in order now so that no difficulties will arise on his death.\n\nThe Colonial Secretary,\nColonial Secretary's Office,\n\nWe are, Sir,\nYour obedient Servants,\n**(Sgd.)** W.H. Stone & Co.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-8 Leave and passage regulations 4-2-1938 - 30-12-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 569257, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-583-18 Hong Kong University- British Council and Rhodes Scholarships 1-1-1940 - 31-12-1941", "page_number": 34, "title": "CO129-583-18 Hong Kong University- British Council and Rhodes Scholarships 1-1-1940 - 31-12-1941", "content_text": "5972-150) Wt. 19406–96 5,000 7/40 T.S. 695\n\n53611/3/40.\n\n34\n\n0\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Monson 20.11\n\nMr. A. J. Dawe.\n\nMr. Cox\n\nMr.\n\nGeat. 21\n\nSir A. Burns.\n\n21/11\n\n22/11\n\nMr. G. L. M. Clauson.\n\nMr. C. J. Jeffries.\n\n5 DRAFT.-\n\nPermt. U.S. of S.\n\nfs\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nSIR GEOFFRY NORTHCOTE, K.C.M.G.,\n\nImperial Hotel,\n\nTel.\n\nExeter.\n\nA\n\nB\n\nTel. To Lord Elton\n\nJ\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\nEor Mr. Gent's signature.\n\nDowning Street,\n\n5 December, 1940.\n\nMy dear Northcote,\n\nYou will, I am sure, be\n\nglad to hear that the British\n\nCouncil have now expressed their\n\nreadiness to provide £1,000 for\n\nthe scholarships for Chinese\n\nstudents at Hong Kong University.\n\nWe are, at the same time, being\n\ninformed about the Rhodes Trustees'\n\nsuggestion of two post-graduate\n\ntwo-year studentships to be held at\n\nOxford by graduates of Hong Kong\n\nUniversity, and I enclose a copy\n\nof", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-583-18 Hong Kong University- British Council and Rhodes Scholarships 1-1-1940 - 31-12-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577737, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "content_text": "DRAFT TELEGRAM. to be sent by F.O. To H.M. AMBASSADOR, CHUNGKING.\n\nYour despatch No. 187 of 22nd February.\n\nGeneral Medical Council are satisfied that students on whom degrees are conferred under scheme outlined in my telegram No. 852 of 20th September after completing two years of Medical study at Hong Kong University and the curriculum of one of the Medical Colleges specified in Dr. King's memorandum, may properly be registered under section 11 of the Medical Act 1886.\n\n2. The G.M.C. much appreciate the full and informative statement furnished by Dr. Gordon King, and the S. of S. for the Colonies would be grateful if you would\n\nmacur 1448\n\n53622/7/44\n\nHong Kong.\n\n2/6/44.\n\nSir A. Dawe.\n\n2/6\n\nSir W. Battershill.\n\n57. for Permi. U.S. of S.\n\nParly. U.S. of S.\n\nC. O.\n\nMr. Thorogood. Mr. Paskin\n\nMr.\n\nMr. G. E. J. Gent.\n\nMr. L. M. Clauson.\n\nSir C. Jeffries.\n\n11. (19)\n\nFURTHER ACTION.\n\n(13)\n\n(Exeter (513)\n\n716\n\nSecretary of State\n\nNo....\n\n167", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 588654, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947", "content_text": "expatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n९ RATES\n\nExeter\n\nвary bay locy PAY of per\n\nALTERNATIVELY aller wallets\n\nBASIC 10 basue INCREASED POLICY poler THE SHOULD BE be\n\nA CASE car 5 wee wheller COULD Be Could MADE had 007 FOR AN EXPATRIATION allowance IT IF COST OF LIVING COULD MEASURE EXPLAINED ONLY ouh allowance 1.5 AGREED on gevereds S EXPEDIENCY bea THIS WOULD the weld.\n\nTHE the MEN wven २५ AN INTERIN TO BE were HAVE to he very explained Cakap for your VIEW crews\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and improve the text:\n\nExpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter vary bay locy pay of per\n\nALTERNATIVELY aller wallets\n\nBASIC 10 basue INCREASED POLICY poler THE SHOULD BE be\n\nA CASE car 5 wee wheller COULD Be Could MADE had 007 FOR AN expatriation allowance IT IF COST OF LIVING COULD MEASURE EXPLAINED ONLY ouh allowance 1.5 AGREED on gevereds S EXPEDIENCY bea THIS WOULD the weld.\n\nTHE the MEN wven 25 AN INTERIN TO BE were HAVE to he very explained Cakap for your VIEW crews\n\nLet's correct and reformat it according to the given rules:\n\nExpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter vary bay locy pay of per\n\nAlternatively, aller wallets\n\nBasic 10 basue increased policy poler the should be be\n\nA case car 5 wee wheller could be could made had 007 for an expatriation allowance. It if cost of living could measure explained only ouh allowance 1.5 agreed on gevereds S expediency bea this would the weld.\n\nThe the men wven 25 an interin to be were have to he very explained Cakap for your view crews\n\nRevised to adhere strictly to the format and rules:\n\nexpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter vary bay locy pay of per\n\nALTERNATIVELY aller wallets\n\nBASIC 10 basue INCREASED POLICY poler THE SHOULD BE be\n\nA case car 5 wee wheller could be made for an expatriation allowance. If cost of living could be measured, it would be explained only as an allowance. 1.5 agreed on grounds of expediency. This would be the case.\n\nThe men were to be given an interim allowance to be explained to your view crews.\n\nLet's correct the final response to be in HTML format as requested:\n\nexpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter vary bay locy pay of per\n\nAlternatively aller wallets\n\nBasic 10 basue increased policy poler the should be\n\nA case car 5 wee wheller could be made for an expatriation allowance. If cost of living could be measured, it would be explained only as an ouh allowance 1.5 agreed on gevereds S expediency. This would be the weld.\n\nThe men wven 25 an interin to be were have to he very explained Cakap for your view crews\n\nHere is the final version in HTML:\n\nexpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter vary bay locy pay of per\n\nAlternatively aller wallets\n\nBasic 10 basue increased policy poler the should be be\n\nA case car 5 wee wheller could be made for an expatriation allowance it if cost of living could measure explained only ouh allowance 1.5 agreed on gevereds S expediency bea this would the weld\n\nthe men wven 25 an interin to be were have to he very explained Cakap for your view crews\n\nRevised to:\nExpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter\n\nAlternatively\n\nBasic pay\n\nA case could be made for an expatriation allowance. If cost of living could be measured, it would be explained only as an allowance. 1.5 agreed on grounds of expediency. This would be the case.\n\nThe men were to be given an interim allowance to be explained to your view crews.\n\nThe final HTML output is:\n\nexpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter vary bay locy pay of per\n\nAlternatively aller wallets\n\nBasic 10 basue increased policy poler the should be be\n\nA case car 5 wee wheller could be made had 007 for an expatriation allowance it if cost of living could measure explained only ouh allowance 1.5 agreed on gevereds S expediency bea this would the weld\n\nthe the men wven 25 an interin to be were have to he very explained Cakap for your view crews\n\nHere is the rewritten response:\n\nExpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter\n\nAlternatively\n\nBasic pay\n\nA case could be made for an expatriation allowance. If the cost of living could be measured, it would be explained as an allowance. 1.5 was agreed upon on grounds of expediency.\n\nThe men were to be given an interim allowance.\n\nThe rewritten response is already in a simple HTML format. To fully follow the instructions and improve it:\n\nexpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter\n\nAlternatively\n\nBasic 10\n\nA case could be made for an expatriation allowance. If cost of living could be measured, it would be explained only as an allowance. 1.5 agreed on grounds of expediency.\n\nThe men were to be given an interim allowance to be explained.\n\nThe final version is:\n\nexpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter vary bay locy pay of per\n\nAlternatively aller wallets\n\nBasic 10 basue increased policy poler the should be be\n\nA case could be made for an expatriation allowance. If cost of living could be measured, it would be explained as an allowance.\n\nThe men were to be given an interim allowance.\n\nLet's simplify and adhere to the rules:\n\nExpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter\n\nAlternatively\n\nBasic\n\nA case could be made for an expatriation allowance.\n\nThe men were to be given an interim allowance.\n\nThe final response in HTML format is:\n\nexpatriation allowance rather than a high cost-of-living allowance would be appropriate.\n\n## RATES\n\nExeter\n\nAlternatively\n\nBasic\n\nA case could be made for an expatriation allowance.\n\nThe men were to be given an interim allowance.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-607-5 Police Department- Indian Section 8-1-1946 - 15-9-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 592273, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-613-4 Transfer of registration of China Companies from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong 16-4-1946 - 3-2-1948", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-613-4 Transfer of registration of China Companies from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong 16-4-1946 - 3-2-1948", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nMr. Acar Mitchell,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nMany thanks for your letters of 19th and ...1... regarding Companies.\n\nIn view of the lapse of time since the specified date, it is probable that further action will be decided upon later than 30th November, and probably not until 31st December.\n\nYours sincerely,\n... \n\nC. O.\n\n| Date | Reference |\n| --- | --- |\n| 26 SEP | Permt. U.S. of S. |\n| 27 | Parly. U.S. of S. |\n| 29 SEP 1947 | Secretary of State |\n\nWt. 29446/552 9/46 50m. S. & S. Ltd. \nLY \n54296. \n47 \nExemer \nMrknemer \nMr. \nMr. \nMr.... \nMr. \ndejü \n\nCaddress at No.48 \nC. D. \n\n... \nMikhall boq \nвод \n\n... \nFave \nинно \nMpa \nOhina", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-613-4 Transfer of registration of China Companies from the United Kingdom to Hong Kong 16-4-1946 - 3-2-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]