[ { "id": 216748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 232, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\nARTICLE II. \n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China agrees, that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochow foo, Ningpo, and Shanghai; and Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., will appoint Superintendents, or Consular Officers, to reside at each of the above-named cities or towns, to be the medium of communication between the Chinese authorities and the said merchants, and to see that the just duties and other dues of the Chinese Government, as hereafter provided for, are duly discharged by Her Britannick Majesty's subjects. \n\nARTICLE III. \n\nIt being obviously necessary and desirable that British subjects should have some port whereat they may careen and refit their ships when required, and keep stores for that purpose, His Majesty the Emperor of China cedes to Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., the Island of Hong-Kong, to be possessed in perpetuity by Her Britannick Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, and to be governed by such laws and regulations as Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, &c., shall see fit to direct. \n\nARTICLE IV. \n\nThe Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of six millions of dollars, as the value of the opium which was delivered up at Canton in the month of March, 1839, as a ransom for the lives of Her Britannick Majesty's Superintendent and subjects, who had been imprisoned and threatened with death by the Chinese High Officers. \n\nARTICLE V. \n\nThe Government of China having compelled the British merchants trading at Canton to deal exclusively with certain Chinese merchants, called Hong Merchants (or Co-Hong), who had been licensed by the Chinese Government for that purpose, the Emperor of China agrees to abolish that practice in future at all ports where British merchants may reside, and to permit them to carry on their mercantile transactions with whatever persons they please; and His Imperial Majesty further agrees to pay to the British Government the sum of three millions of dollars, on account of debts due to British subjects by some of the said Hong Merchants, or Co-Hong, who have become insolvent, and who owe very large sums of money to subjects of Her Britannick Majesty. \n\nARTICLE VI. \n\nThe Government of Her Britannick Majesty having been obliged to send out an expedition to demand and obtain redress for the violent and unjust proceedings of the Chinese High Authorities towards Her Britan- nick Majesty's Officer and subjects, the Emperor of China agrees to pay the sum of twelve millions of dollars, on account of the expences incurred; and Her Britannick Majesty's Plenipotentiary voluntarily agrees, on behalf of Her Majesty, to deduct from the said amount of twelve millions of dollars, any sums which may have been received by Her Majesty's combined forces, as ransom for cities and towns in China, subsequent to the 1st day of August, 1841. \n\nARTICLE VII. \n\nIt is agreed, that the total amount of twenty-one millions of dollars, described in the three preceding Articles, shall be paid as follows:- \n\nSix millions immediately. \n\nSix millions in 1843; that is, three millions on or before the 30th of the month of June, and three millions on or before the 31st of December. \n\nFive millions in 1844; that is, two millions and a half on or before the 30th of June, and two millions and a half on or before the 31st of December. \n\nFour millions in 1845; that is, two millions on or before the 30th of June, and two millions on or before the 31st of December. \n\nAnd it is further stipulated, that interest, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, shall be paid by the Government of China on any portion of the above sums that are not punctually discharged at the periods fixed. \n\nARTICLE VIII. \n\nThe Emperor of China agrees to release, unconditionally, all subjects of Her Britannick Majesty (whether natives of Europe or India), who may be in confinement at this moment in any part of the Chinese Empire. \n\nARTICLE IX. \n\nThe Emperor of China agrees to publish and promulgate, under His Imperial Sign Manual and Seal, a full and entire amnesty and act of indemnity to all subjects of China, on account of their having resided under, or having had dealings and intercourse with, or having entered the service of, Her Britannick Majesty, or of Her Majesty's officers; and His Imperial Majesty further engages to release all Chinese subjects who may be at this moment in confinement for similar reasons. \n\nARTICLE X. \n\nHis Majesty the Emperor of China agrees to establish at all the ports which are, by the Second Article of this Treaty, to be thrown open for the resort of British merchants, a fair and regular Tariff of export and import customs and other dues, which Tariff shall be publickly notified and pro- mulgated for general information; and the Emperor further engages, that when British merchandize shall have once paid at any of the said ports the regulated customs and dues, agreeable to the Tariff to be here- after fixed, such merchandize may be conveyed by Chinese merchants to any province or city in the interior of the Empire of China, on paying a further amount as transit duties, which shall not exceed* the tariff value of such goods. \n\nARTICLE XI. \n\nper cent. on \n\nIt is agreed that Her Britannick Majesty's Chief High Officer in China shall correspond with the Chinese High Officers, both at the Capital and \n\n; the in the Provinces, under the term \"communication\" subordinate British Officers and Chinese High Officers in the Provinces, \n\nunder the terms \"statement\" \n\non the part of the former, \n\n'PIR \n\n* See Declaration on this subject, which follows the Treaty. \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\n\nIn Pint bottles \n\nIn Cask \n\n46 Woods, namely:→ \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\nT. M. \n\nper 100 bottles 0 \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz. :--- \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches wide \n\nLong Elis, Cassimeres, \n\nFlannel, and narrow \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\n[All Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, 5 per cent, að valorem.] \n\n(L.S.) \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nSeal and Signature \n\nof the Chinese Plenipotentiary. \n\nC. \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nCloths of this descrip- \n\ntion \n\nper Chang of 141 inches \n\nBlankets of all kinds. \n\neach \n\nDOO \n\nDutch Camlets, per Chang of 141 inches 0 Camlets. \n\nපපස \n\nditto \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods, Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nCunes, &c. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece has been levied; the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nImitation ditto, Bomba- \n\nzettes, &c. \n\nditto \n\nBunting(narrow), perChang of 141 inches 0 \n\nCɅ Cz \n\nUnenumerated Woollen \n\nGoods, or Silk and \n\nWoollen, and Cotton \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing. Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, Woollen, or Silk; formerly divided into Cotton clothing, Woollen ditto, Silk and Satin ditto, and Velvet ditto \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, \n\n&c., &c. \n\nand Woollen Mix- tures, &c. \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nBoots and Shoes, whether of leather, satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, &c. ARTICLES. \n\n48 Woollen Yarn \n\n⚫ per 100 catties \n\nPreserved Ginger and Fruits of all kinds \n\nClass IX-Exported Fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp or linen Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tariff) \n\nSoy. \n\nSugar, White and Brown \n\n+ \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared, &c., &c., of all \n\nkinds \n\nClass X-Exported Silk, Fabrics of Silk, &c. \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein to include, are to be charged an ad valorem duty of five \n\nper cent. \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabries of all kinds, as crape, lute- \n\nClass XIV-Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and \n\nSilver. Duty free. \n\nstrings, &c., &c., &c., formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClass XV-Bricks, Tiles, and Building Materials. \n\nDuty free. \n\n} \n\nGlass, Glass ware of all kinds, formerly classed as \n\nNative crystal ware \n\nGlass beads, or False pearls \n\nKittysols, or paper Umbrellas \n\nMarble, Marble slabs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nRice-Paper pictures \n\nAniseed Oil, not formerly contained in the Tariff \n\ndo. do. Cassia Oil \n\nPaper Fans \n\nCHINESE RE-ARRANGEMENT OF TARIFF, UNDER CLASSES OF GOODS. \n\nTITLE.-Tariff of Duties to be levied at the Five Ports of Canton, &c., &c., as newly established. THE Duties which it is agreed shall be paid upon goods imported and exported by England, at the Five Ports of Customs of Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, are here stated in classified order. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nClass L-Exported Oilman's Stores (Oil, Wax, Alum, \n\nSulphur, &c.) ARTICLES. \n\nAlum, .., White Alum-formerly White Alum \n\nand Bluestone \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed Fabrics \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e., English List. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. ., English List. \n\nClass I-Imported Oilman's Stores, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nClass IV.-Imported Sundries. \n\nWax, Bees' Wax Rose Maloes \n\nFlints Mother of Pearl shells \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of \n\nthe Government \n\nSoap \n\nPearls (false), not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass II-Imported Spices and Perfumes. \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nClass II-Exported Spices, Tea, &c. \n\nTea, (formerly divided into fine and native black, \n\nand fine and native green, Teas) \n\nAniseed, Star \n\nClass V-Exported Painter's Stores, &c. &c.' \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBrass Leaf \n\nPepper \n\n+2 \n\nGamboge \n\nint ce ty \n\nRed Lead \n\nGlue, as fish glue, cow-skin glue, &c. Paper, Stationery \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tariff, to pay an ad valorem duty of Ten per cent. \n\nPerfumery \n\nper \n\ncent. \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality, cleaned Bird's nests, 2nd quality, good middling \n\n3rd ditto, uncleaned Bicho de Mar, 1st ditto, black \n\n2nd ditto, white Shark's fins, Ist ditto, white \n\n2nd ditto, black Stock fish and dried fish Fish Maws, not formerly in the Tariff. \n\nMusk \n\nClass III-Exported Drugs. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass III-Imported Drugs. \n\nClass VI-Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nCapoor Cutchery \n\nTinfoil \n\nAssafoetida \n\nCochineal \n\nCamphor \n\nVermilion \n\nArsenic, under different Chinese names \n\nCassia \n\nPaintings (large paintings), formerly divided into \n\nlarge and small paintings \n\nCamphor Baroos (or Malay), 1st quality, or \n\nSmalts \n\n$5 \n\ncleaned; formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor \n\nSapan Wood \n\n+ \n\nCassia Buds, not formerly in Tariff \n\nWhite Lead \n\n2nd quality, refuse; formerly classed as un- \n\nChina Root \n\ncleaned Camphor \n\nClass VII-Imported Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nPakers \n\nCubebs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass VI-Exported Wares of various kinds. \n\nCloves, 1st quality (picked) \n\nRattans \n\n2nd quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nEbony \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBone and Horn ware \n\n► \n\nCow Bezoar \n\nGalingal \n\nChina Ware, fine and coarse (formerly classed as \n\nCutch \n\nHartall \n\nfine, coarse, native, and middling) \n\nGambier \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tariff, 10 per cent. ad valorem, \n\nRhubarb \n\nCopper ware, and pewter ware \n\nBetel Nut. \n\nTurmeric \n\nManufactures of wood, furniture \n\nGinseng, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\nIvory ware, all carved ivory work included, for. \n\n2nd \n\nditto, refuse, or Ginseng beard \n\nClass VIII-Imported Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nmerly divided into ivory, and ivory Carvings \n\n+ \n\nGum Olibanum'. \n\nClass IV-Exported Sundries. \n\nClocks \n\nLacquered ware. \n\nMyrrh \n\nWatches \n\nBamboo Screens, and Bamboo Ware \n\nBangles (glass armlets) not formerly in Tariff \n\nMother o' Pearl ware \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nTelescopes \n\nCorals, Native or false coral, not formerly in \n\nTariff \n\nSandal-wood ware \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into Gold \n\nCrackers, and fireworks of all kinds (formerly \n\nclassed as rockets, &c.) \n\nware, and Silver ware \n\nTortoise-shell ware \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\n2nd \n\nPutchuck \n\nditto, uncleaned \n\nRhinoceros Horns \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of ali \n\nkinds \n\n$1 \n\nFans (feather fans, &c.) not formerly in the Tariff 20 \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217034, "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": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "Interpreter Surgeon \n\nHead Cleak \n\nClerk-- \n\nBrought found & 7537 10 \n\n\" \n\nThree Chinese Writers \n\nor \n\nLinguists & $.360 each __ \n\ne \n\nConsular Agent at Macar \n\nBrought forward & 14701 10 \n\nFoochow for Consulate \n\nConsul \n\nVice Consul_ Interpreter- Surgeon- blacks and Linguists \n\nat Amoy - \n\nHingpo Consulate Consul \n\nas \n\n750. \n\n\" \n\nか \n\n\" \n\n1080 243. \n\n200! \n\n200\" \n\n\" \n\n$ \n\nVice Consul Interpreter \n\nburgeon \n\nConsular Agent at Whampoa - black to the Agent at Maces - 900 Clerk to the Agent at whampn: 900 \n\nAmoy Consulate \n\nConsul - \n\n12:00\" \n\nVice Consul_ \n\nInterpreter \n\nburgeon - \n\nHead Clerk \n\nClerk \n\nTwo Chinese Writers or Linguists \n\nat $1360 each \n\nyoo \n\nboo \n\n270. \n\n720 162. \n\n易 \n\nCarried forward 1/1701 10 \n\n$ \n\nClarke & Linguists \n\nFor chow for- \n\nas at \n\nShanghai Consulate \n\nConsul \n\nVice Consul \n\nInterpreter \n\n\" \n\nCarried forward $26725 10. \n\n& \n\n$", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217257, "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": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 465, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "1843. \n\nSir M Portinger. \n\nJuly 24 9. Names \n\nof \n\nPlaces. \n\nto attach manus \n\nsubunits his reasons for refuting \n\nto leading locations in b \n\nSurvey of northern side of the Island \n\nby Major Aldrich. \n\nInc: 1. \n\nor contra of Deeps: No. 7/43. \n\nWill annex \n\nas reomet \n\nan explanatory Memo to Survey. \n\nDefences and Naval Station \n\nIn cont of Dogs: At The. \n\nsubuinto his objections to Major Aldrich's plan of _ Land Defences and proposition of Capt. Hellett and Collinson for a Naval Location. \n\nInty 3111. \n\nSchedules \n\n+£16248. \n\nEno 2 \n\nLand included within the Ordnance fround and Marine dots of Major \n\nClaims \n\nof \n\nOwners \n\nof \n\nAldrich's plan of \n\nCirculars \n\nLand Defencer. to these clannants Botifying their \n\nliability \n\nto be called on to surrender these hots should \n\nMajor its plan be approved. \n\nArly 26 10 Administ \n\nof \n\nJustice \n\nGuer $44. \n\nRecorders Powers fe \n\nproposes that the Recorder of Hong Thong be app? Criminal & Admiratty Judge in China. \n\nex-officis Member of flormel \n\naccording to laws of England \n\nbe \n\n- administer justice. \n\nof England in eases not provided for by local Ordinance, & be empowered to visit Consular Ports to try extreme Cases \n\nand that \n\nthe for in Corned to be empowered to appoint officer to act as Recorder & Fudge diering his absence from Hong Kong. \n\nan \n\nthis Instructions. as Govt & \n\nme: 1. \n\nApproves : \n\nInly 31. 11. Schedules prop. Establishments and \n\nSalaries \n\n1843. \n\nSir Ft Pottinger. \n\nContined. \n\no Proft. Establishments and \n\nSalaries. Cont! \n\nExpences of Living in Chiria vectory thong. A Dollar \n\nthere inferior to shillings in England. \n\nPublic Quarters must \n\nbe provided for \n\nEne: 1. \n\nEne 1. \n\nGovt. Officers as Hong thong & the Consulates. Chinese Secretary- and his offoist Salary of £1000 yor \n\napigned to Mr. Morrison Sew. as Chinese sertary not \n\nthan his services entitle him to: expect. (mct; \n\nmote \n\nBaiary of Mr. Morrison, and must \n\nwhen qualified \n\nConsuls. \n\nto act as Interpreter | Considers both offices necessary) \n\nHis reasons for fixing Salaries \n\nbe mereaved \n\n(Guerl \n\nof Consuls \n\n£ 1600 for Canton _ £1200 for Amoy _ and $1500 each \n\nfor Foochow foo, Ninjpo, & Shanghai. \n\nPlurality & Appoints \n\nTue: 1 \n\noto Rules for. \n\nHis nitentions as \n\nEncl \n\nPart must be \n\nto emoluments of Officers holding Judicial Expences of Hong Thong. \n\ndebited \n\nto Chief hiperintend\". Depart if his proposed appoint of the Recorder in Chief Midge Criminal \n\naved \n\ncarried into effect. \n\nAdmiralty Judge in Chima is \n\nprecisely the proportion \n\nDifficult to define \n\nof charges belonging to the \n\nConsular (or Political) and Colonial Depart \n\nExpenditure. expected \n\nEne: 1. \n\nto be nearly met by Consulate \n\nother sources of \n\nFees Ground Rent and Revenue. \n\nhne: 1. \n\nMilitary Secretary and Aid-de-Camp. \n\nprovision for \n\nt make \n\nof \n\nthe \n\nCole Malcolm . \n\nChief Superint, Chinese Secretary, & Conents in China, – and of the fovernt at Hong Frons \n\nEncloses. \n\nSeate \n\nof Salaries \n\nnot higher than paid to Persons in stenchanto' service or more than equal to meet the heavy expences of living in the Colony ofhine \n\nNida Eve: \") \n\nAav omitted \n\nRefers to him for further suformation Wishes to keep the office of \n\nColl. Secretary open for him should he return to \n\nđang trong \n\nIntends to a feft \n\nhis The for\") leaving \n\no Morrison to that situation \n\nimexpectedly..", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219575, "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": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "Copy \n\nFrom Sir Hary Pettanger \n\nHongkong. Nov0 20/43. \n\n20.152. \n\n4 Inclosures. \n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. \n\nWith reference to the Government Notification, ed the 2d instant, announcing the intended early troduction of the provisions of the new Tariff and gulations for Trade at the remaining four Ports China, which are to be opened by treaty to oreign Commerce, in addition to that of Canton j nd adverting to the great increase of intercourse th, and resort of shipping to, China which may be pected to be the result of recent arrangements, as ell as to the necessity for strict and defined Rules hich springs from the arrangements, and more rticularly from certain stipulations which have een entered into between the High Contracting owers and inserted in a pending Supplementary treaty, which will bereafter be published for gene- information, His Excelleney, Sir Henry Pottin er, Bart., G. c. 8, Her Britannic Majesty's Pieni- tentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade &c. China considers it to be his imperative duty to the special attention of the Masters, Owners, d consignees of all Merchant Vessels, whatever ay be their class or description, sailing under Bri- h Colors, that may be at this time in the Seas, or aters, of China, or of Her Britannic Majesty's lony of Hongkong, or that may hereafter eater ese Seas or Waters. to the Law relating to Mer- 204 Seamen as laid down in the Act of Parliament the 5th and 6th William tire IV. Chapter 19, used in the year 1835, and commonly called “ Sir \n\nnes Graham's Act.\" \n\nIn this calling attention to the above described of Parliament, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Chief Superintendent of Trade deems it advis- to append to this Notification a brief Memoran- im Showing the Penalties attached to certain \n\nbreaches or evasions of the said Act which have heretofore been of frequent, and almost daily, occur. rence in China, and from which much trouble and serious public inconvenience have resulted; and to notify. that all Consular and other officers of the British Government in China. to whose duties it may appertain, will be instructed and authorized to summarily enforce the said Penalties, with regard to all Merchant Vessels, under British Colours, from and after the 1st day of December next in every instance where they inay be proved to have been justly incurred; likewise that His Excellency the Naval Commander in Chief will be requested to is sue the necessary instructions to the Captains and Commanders of all Her Majesty's, and the East India Company's. Ships of War and Steamers now, or hereafter, serving on the China station to aid and assist the said Consular and other officers in enfore ing the said Penalties, on receiving an officist appli cation, in writing, to that effect. \n\nIt is further notified, that the same rules are to be deemed applicable to the Parts of the military Posts of Tinghai (Chusan) and Koolangsoo, so long as those Posts may be garrisoned by Her Majesty's Combined Forces. \n\nHis Excellency the Chief Superintendent of Tra- de, &c. is also pleased to determine and declare. that when Vessels incur any af the Penalties and quit Chios before they can be enforced (in the case for instance of leaving any of the Crew behind, or discharging, or Shipping, Seamen without the sanc tion of the Consular officer) the Consignees, should there be no Owners, of the Vessel shall be held re- sponsible, so far as the Law will permit; and that in every case where the Consignees may not be consi. dered to be legally responsible for the Acts of the Master of any Vessel consigned to them, the most decided steps with be taken to have the penalties, with all attendait expenses, enforced and recoveral by the proper Courts of Law, whether the veseel may belong to, or be found in the United Kingdom. or India, or any of the 1'olonies subject to Her M3- jesty's, or the East India Company's Government. \n\nHer Majesty's Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c. in China takes this occasion to further notify, that he has received a representation from the officers of the Government of Chius regarding a practice which is stated to obtain amongst the foreign ship- ping at Whampoa, of throwing stone and other descriptions of Ballast into the river at that an- chorage, and as such a practice would be likely to be still more dangerous and derrimental to the anchorages of the Ports of Shanghai, Ningpo and Foochow foo, it is accordingly positively prohibited, as well at those Poris as at Whampoa; and Ber Majesty's Consuls are hereby directed, enpowered, and authorized to the the master of any vessel, under British Colours, that may be summarily cou- victed of a breach of this Rule, in a penalty of not less than ten pounds (210) and not exceeding twenty five pounds (£25) according to the circumstances of the case. All masters of vessels who may have Ballast on board which they wish to get rid of, or who may require Ballast from the shore, are direct- ed to report and apply, to the Consular officer on the sput, who will have a convenient place fixed on and pointed out, in the former case for its being de posited, atal in the latter from which it may be re- inoved. \n\nBy order of His Excellency Her Majesty's Pleni- potentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade, &c. &c., in China, \n\nRICHARD WOOSNAM. Dated at Macao, 4th Oct. 1813. \n\nMEMORANDUM, Penalties Liable to be incurred by the Masters or Owners of Vessal. \n\nFor carrying to sea any seaman without first entering into agreement, for every such seman, ten pounds. \n\nNeglecting to cause Agreement to be distinctly read over to each seaman, for every such neglect, five pounds. \n\nNeglecting to deposit with Collector or Cornp- positing any false copy a pounds, troller of Custom a truly of Agreement, or de- \n\nNeglect or refusal to pay wagh when Tue, forfeits two day's pay for every day so nexdecret. \n\nRefusing to make immediate payment of wages when due, without sufficient cause, five pounds. \n\nRefusing to give certificate to seaman, without sufficient cause, five poquls. \n\nNeglecting to make a return of the crew, extract. ed from the Aluster Roll, twenty-five pounds. \n\nNeglecting to inske a return of the crew of vessels lost or sold abroad. made up to the time of loss or sale. twenty-five pounds. \n\nForcing on shore, and leaving behind any one of the crew, at home or abroad, punishable by fine and imprisonment. \n\nDischarging seamen abroad without sanction of Consul or other functionary, punishable as a nuis- demeanor. \n\nNeglecting to deposit Agreement with British Consul or Vice Consul on arrival at foreign port, twenty-five pounds. \n\nprivity of Consul, twenty-five pounds. \n\nShipping seaman at a foreign port without the \n\nNeglecting or refusing to produce Muster Roll and Agreement to any officer of any of her Majesty's ships, or to the Registrar, or any of his Assistants, or any Collector or other officer of Customs, every offence, fifty pounds. \n\nPenalties Liable to be incurred by the Seamen, the amount of which may be stopped out of Wages dur. Refusing to join the ship after signing agreement, or thirty days imprisonment. or absenting unself without leave, forty shillings, \n\nFor temporary absence or neglect of duty, to for feit two days pay for every 24 hours. \n\nQuitting the ship without legal discharge, forfeits ene month's pay. \n\nAbsolute desertion. forfeits all wages, emolu- ments, clothes, and effects, on board. \n\nN. 8.-The Master on his arrival at any Foreign Port, where there shall be a British Consul or Pice- Consul, shall deliver the Agreement with his Ship's Crew, to such Consul or 4 ice-Consul, which shall be returned to him before leaving the Port. \n\n:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222499, "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": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "content_text": "Commissioner that it should be only temporary.\n\nI accordingly felt myself called upon to address the enclosure N. 3 to Keying, drawing his attention to the provisions of the very first article of the Treaty, and calling for the condign punishment of those persons who had so grossly violated it. As the evident desire of the Chinese government is to render the exclusion from the City of Canton permanent, under the convenient plea of the people's wishes, it would be highly satisfactory to me to be furnished with your Lordship's views as to the degree of weight which I should be justified in attaching to the removal of this old and degrading distinction between Chinese and Foreigners.\n\nI regret to say that a circumstance well calculated to encourage the ill-conduct of both the local authorities and the people of Canton, is to see our naval squadron in China, reduced to sailing vessels and one effective steamer - its actual amount - while the minimum force mentioned by Sir William Parker himself consisted of five sailing vessels and a steamer.\n\nEnclosure No. 4 encloses the reply returned by the Governor of Canton to the Consul's representation concerning the late outrage, and I have since received from Keying enclosure N. 5, which promises the punishment of the criminals, but readily repeats the old argument for excluding foreigners from the city, viz. the disposition of the people - I have succeeded in defeating the adoption of this plea at Foochow foo, and with the sanction of Her Majesty's government I would undertake to do the same at Canton, where I hesitate only on account of the acquiescence of Sir Henry Pottinger on the ground, as before observed, of the exclusion being only temporary according to Keying's assurance to that effect.\n\nPage 110", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223224, "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": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "British Consulate, Canton,\n\nMarch 22, 1840.\n\nSir,\n\nI beg to state that in reply to Your Excellency's #5027.\n\nI have engaged Messengers to carry letters between this place, Amoy, and Foochow foo, who are ready to start at the earliest notice, under the Conditions pointed out in my Despatch #30. I shall superintend the line to Foochow foo and manage it as well as this can be done in a country where the routes and exact distances are but imperfectly known, and where little control can be exercised over the natives employed in this service.\n\nIf the communication is to extend from Foochow foo...\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nSir John Davis Bart:\n\nHowever, to follow the exact output format requested, here is the revised version:\n\nBritish Consulate, Canton,\n\nMarch 22, 1840.\n\nSir,\n\nI beg to state that in reply to Your Excellency's #5027.\n\nMOM.\n\nI have engaged as Messengers to carry letters between this place, Amoy, and Foochow foo, who are ready to start at the earliest notice, under the Conditions pointed out in my Despatch #30. I shall superintend the line to Foochow foo and manage it as well as this can be done in a country where the routes and exact distances are but imperfectly known, and where little control can be exercised over the natives employed in this service.\n\nIf the communication is to extend from Foochow foo...\n\nHis Excellency,\n\nSir John Davis Bart:\n\n \nhas been revised to \nBritish Consulate, Canton,\nMarch 22, 1840.\n\nSir,\n\nI beg to state that in reply to Your Excellency's #5027.\n\nI have engaged as Messengers to carry letters between this place, Amoy, and Foochow foo, who are ready to start at the earliest notice, under the Conditions pointed out in my Despatch #30. I shall superintend the line to Foochow foo and manage it as well as this can be done in a country where the routes and exact distances are but imperfectly known, and where little control can be exercised over the natives employed in this service.\n\nIf the communication is to extend from Foochow foo...\n\nHis Excellency,\nSir John Davis Bart:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224389, "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": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 295, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "with Europe—comparatively quiet isolation from foreigners—contiguity to the strongholds of Native science—local proximity to the second largest city in the empire—importance in regard to Chusan—central position in reference to the whole of China—and of future bearings of the most magnificent order on the evangelization of the surrounding Archipelago I cannot hesitate to pronounce the united Missionary Stations of Shanghai and Ningpo as presenting one of the noblest and most promising fields in the East.\n\nI would point to the Map, and, after surveying their mutual compactness, their largeness of scope, and their central position amid surrounding regions, where one unexpected event of Providence may place millions of idolaters within reach of Christian philanthropy, can fearlessly and unhesitatingly challenge any spot on the Chinese coast, now open to us, uniting in itself so many facilities, as these two Stations on either side of the Bay, which forms the embouchure of the Tsien-Tang-Keang. Other circumstances also seem to invite us in that direction. The present openings in China, in reference either to dialect, native character, or provincial situation, resolve themselves into three divisions—\n\n1. Hong Kong and the City of Canton, together with Macao.\n\n2. Amoy and Foo-chow-foo in Fokien.\n\n3. Shanghai and Ningpo, contiguous to Yang-tsze-kiang and Chusan.\n\nIn reference to the First, there is much uncertainty, arising from the insalubrity and general failure of Hong Kong, and the rumoured improbability of its retention on the present scale. It would be next to useless for any Society to enter on a Mission at Canton in the present state of the popular mind, unless at least one of the Missionaries can already speak the local dialect. As an ample field lies before us elsewhere, abounding with superior facilities of every kind, I think it will be well to watch the course of events; and, for the present, at least, to leave Missionary endeavours in connexion with the Church of England at Hong Kong in the hands of the Rev. V. Stanton. I regret to say that he has experienced continued difficulties in obtaining a site for building, and I do not think there remains the prospect of obtaining scarcely a single suitable site in the Colony for any scholastic or similar Institution. It is also a problem which remains yet to be solved, how far present circumstances render the Missionary work here capable of that peculiar kind, extent, and scale, of operations contemplated by him. We may therefore from choice and necessity regard the zealous plans of our friend as a pilot-balloon, to indicate the current of future circumstances. Should the Colony improve, and the Society with its increasing funds, and, above all, that principal desideratum—a larger number of zealous, well-qualified Missionary labourers—wish hereafter to extend their Mission, it will be time enough to profit by the experience of others, and in the mean time to abide the issue of events.\n\nIn reference to the Second, we may hope to leave it also in the hands of the American Episcopal Church for the present. Dr. Boone, formerly of Amoy, is expected daily as Bishop with Six Clergy. Amoy will be one of the Stations as formerly; and an impression exists among us, that they will also occupy Foo-chow-foo. I am anxiously hoping to see Dr. Boone before my departure hence, and wish I could speak definitely of his plans in regard to Foo-chow-foo. Some uncertainty exists respecting that port. The unfriendly, uncourteous spirit shown by the Native authorities to Mr. Lay, the Consul, and the firm and even menacing attitude which was necessarily assumed by the British Governor to compel a proper reception of the Consul into a fit residence in the City, speak unfavourably of the probable reception of a Missionary destitute of such official power, and deprived, by Lord Aberdeen's Circular to the Consuls, of any expectation of assistance in time of difficulty, except from a superhuman power.\n\nThe Third consequently remains for our Society to occupy, and thus the whole line of coast is occupied by Episcopacy. Independently of these circumstances, it is a perfectly legitimate consideration for a new Society, just entering on so peculiar a Mission as that to China, to select a sphere of labour, where, cæteris paribus, there is a less amount of difficulty and delay on the onset. The varieties of the Fokien dialect, spoken respectively at Amoy and Foochow, are, from circumstances\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 233", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227251, "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": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "content_text": "18\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES. -HONGKONG.\n\nNo. 18. SPECIAL EXPENSES.\n\nDistressed British Seamen, &c.,\n\nSALARIES:\n\nSecretary and Registrar,\n\nChinese Secretary,\n\nFirst Assistant,\n\nSecond Assistant, ...\n\nThird Assistant,\n\nAssistant Chinese Secretary,\n\nNo. 19-SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE.\n\nSupernumerary Interpreter,\n\nOne Chinese Clerk,\n\nThree Chinese do. @ £37 10s. each,\n\nOne Waterman,\n\nFour Messengers @ £15 each,\n\nFour Chair-bearers @ £15 each,...\n\nBurial-ground keeper at Macao\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,500\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 33\n 5\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n 1,200\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 57\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 472\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 324\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 22\n 35\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 270\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 400\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 150\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 50\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 112\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 15\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 60\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 60\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 55\n 2\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4,166\n 10\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 460\n 0\n 0\n \n\nALLOWANCES:\n\nTo the Family of the late Comprador Poo-ting-pong, who was engaged to accompany H. M.'s joint Plenipotentiaries to the Northward in 1840, and who was kidnapped from Chusan, and put to death at Chinhae\n\nCONTINGENCIES:\n\nPrinting, Newspapers, and Advertising,\n\nPostage,\n\nStationery,\n\nOffice Furniture,\n\nIncidental Expenses\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n 37\n 10\n 0\n \n \n 37\n 10\n 0\n \n \n 200\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 112\n 10\n 0\n \n \n 22\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 20\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 27\n 0\n 0\n \n \n 170\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 502\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 77\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 5,166\n 13\n 13\n \n\nCanton Consulate,\n\ndo....\n\nAmoy\n\nFoochow foo, do.\n\nNingpo,\n\ndo.\n\nShanghae, do.\n\n19\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES — HONGKONG.\n\nNo. 20.-CONSULAR SERVICES.\n\n \n £\n s.\n d.\n £\n s.\n d.\n \n \n \n \n \n 5,600\n 3\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n 4,000\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 3,000\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 3,000\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 5,500\n 0\n 0\n \n \n \n \n \n 21,100\n 3\n 3\n \n\nREMARKS.\n\nThe above Estimate does not include any amount that may be required for the CONSULAR BUILDINGS at Shanghae; nor does it include £600 COMPENSATION payable in England, viz :-for Mr E. Elmslie, late Secretary and Treasurer in the Superintendency, £200; and for Dr Colledge, late Surgeon at Canton, £400,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227779, "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": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 83, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "81\n\nBoard\n\nof Trade\n\nE.IB\n\nСоро\n\n11:56\n\nMy Lord,\n\nm 1848 Kong Victoria Hong Kong May 31. 1848.\n\nI With reference to that portion of Sir John Davis despatch No. 16 of the 29th January last, relative to the convoys afforded by British Vessels under Colonial Colours to Chinese junks against Pirates, I have now the honour to inclose for your Lordship's information Copy of a Despatch which I have lately received from Mr. Consul Jackson at Foochow foo, detailing the circumstances & investigation & acquittal of the local Authorities of a Junk & her crew, detained & brought into that Port on suspicion of Piracy by the master of the British Merchant Schooner the \"Aurora\".\n\nexcount Palmerston 8-C13\n\nThe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227795, "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": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "97\n\nBoard\n\nof\n\nTrade\n\nleave the River.\n\nI have to express My acknowledgment, for the promptness with which Captain Campbell acted upon my requisition of the Despatch Boat with which Mr. Sloop from a dismantled state, was fully equipped & sent.\n\nI have\n\n(dred) G. S. Sullivan\n\na true copy\n\n(hy) A. B. Johnston.\n\nMy Lord\n\nGovernment House Hong Kong June 9. 1848.\n\nIn submitting the following two Despatchs with inclosures from H.M. Consul Thomason at Foochow foo, I am induced principally too so that Your Lordship may be aware of the\n\npirated extent to which Piracy has arrived & is carried on the trade between this Colony & Shanghae.\n\nFrom three Papers Your Lordship will gather that native Junks trading from one Port to another, are not perfectly able to protect themselves from the Pirates, & receive\n\nlittle protection from their own government so that they\n\nare compelled to go to much extra hire Private European vessels or native vessels called Lorchew, with European or Macao Portuguese Commanding to protect them: The persons commanding the Lorchew\n\nThe Earl of Palmerston\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nL.B.\n\nFC\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228130, "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": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 434, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "427\n\nCORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE RESIGNATION\n\nand I believe that most of the other authorities whom he cites would be found, on trial, to be no better supporters of Mr. Martin, than the Major-general above quoted.\n\nBut, I do not believe that a worse supporter of Mr. Martin's opinions could be found than the treasurer himself. Of Hong Kong he inconsistently, but most truly, observes, \"almost every one here has bought building allotments, or own houses from which they derive a large rental (sic), and they are therefore very adverse to any diminution of Government expenditure, or to any transfer of the seat of government to Chusan.\" If the colonists are the best judges of their own interests, your Lordship will perhaps consider this as a strange account of a hopeless colony.\n\nMy surprise, on reading in Mr. Martin's letter, that we are \"in danger of another war with China,\" could only be equalled by what I felt at his proposal that this should be averted by retaining Chusan, that is, violating the treaty of peace. If we are so near another war, I have been strangely remiss in not preparing your Lordship and the Earl of Aberdeen for the contingency. The fine levied on Keying (to which Mr. Martin alludes), was merely one mode of helping to recruit the desperate state of the Chinese finances. The Chinese Ministers' treaties with America and France have since been ratified by the Emperor, and he has been raised to the rank of a Cabinet Minister, for quietly preventing the French and American squadrons approaching the Peiho. With the observance of ordinary justice and moderation, though with a due assertion of our rights, I know of no country on earth with which war is so little probable as China. During more than a year's diplomatic intercourse with the Government, I have, without once hinting at such an alternative, maintained the rights of our Consuls at Foochow-foo and Amoy, resisted monopolies and impositions on the trade, and asserted the Queen's sovereignty over this island; and, if a knowledge of the proper reserve to be maintained in the exercise of my high duties had not been sufficient, the very terror which the Chinese entertain of a recurrence to past scenes might have influenced a person of common generosity to abstain from any unnecessary allusion to the last alternative.\n\nI now descend to matters more within Mr. Martin's scope and experience, but in regard to which he is scarcely more fortunate. He states 10,000l. to be the utmost amount of revenue to be ever attainable, and his own estimate for the current year enclosed, is nearly 18,000l., but much below what may be expected. In another paper he predicted that more than 5,000l. could never be obtained from the Crown Lands, and the rent-roll already exceeds 13,000l. When he applies the magnifying end of the glass, with reference to expenditure, he talks of spending \"nearly half a million sterling\" on this colony; while my despatch No. 79, of the 14th instant, will show that the whole estimated charge for public works, required subsequent to my arrival (supposing them to be all authorized) will be 96,145l., to be completed in the course of the next two years.\n\n24 June, No. 3.\n\nHaving thus, and in a previous despatch, No. 44, disposed of Mr. Martin's facts, I will leave his inferences to shift for themselves; and if I am accustomed to make less frequent allusions than the Treasurer in his letter to the effects of \"a tropical climate,\" to \"my perfect disinterestedness,\" to \"my perfect sincerity,\" and to my readiness to be \"a cheerful victim for my country's good,\" I hope your Lordship's knowledge of mankind will not give you a worse opinion of me on that account.\n\nI will conclude by observing, that I cannot understand how the recommendation, that the Treasurer's business be transferred to the Commissariat, could be carried out; for if a treasurer is necessary in every other colony, he could hardly be dispensed with in this, when the Consular accounts are superadded to the Colonial. At the same time, if Mr. Martin's great wish, as he declares, is to be \"transferred to some other position,\" I have every personal motive for wishing him success, if it were only to be relieved from much unprofitable discussion, while two distinct departments require my constant attention.\n\nThe enclosed letter has just reached me from Mr. Martin, declaring his intention of proceeding home without leave (in fact resigning) for the reasons he states. There is no proper person to substitute in his place, pending Mr. Stewart's arrival, except my private secretary, Mr. Mercer, whose father, a gentleman of fortune, has tendered security to the amount of 10,000l. for his son, in any official situation. At the same time, Mr. Martin's securities must also be considered responsible.\n\nSir,\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed) J. F. Davis.\n\nEnclosure 1, in No. 6.\n\nColonial Treasury, Hong Kong, 18 June 1845.\n\nIn my recent \"Minute on the British Position and Prospects in China,\" I ventured to indicate, according to the best of my judgment, the mistakes committed during our past negotiations with the Chinese authorities, to demonstrate the apparent defects of our present policy, and to point out in some respects the course which it seems advisable to pursue previous to the evacuation of Chusan in February next.\n\nHaving devoted 20 years to an investigation of our colonial and commercial relations, I believe that my opinions thereon receive some attention at home, and that when Her Majesty's Government, unsolicitedly, selected me for office in China, it was expected I would be enabled to collect useful information.\n\nDesirous of justifying the confidence reposed in me, I prepared and submitted several reports and documents to your Excellency, and these, together with a Commercial Report which I am framing for the Lords' Committee of the Privy Council for Trade, will I hope demonstrate that I have minutely examined affairs in China.\n\nAlthough several of the conclusions at which I have arrived, after anxious investigation, may be at variance with those emanating from high authority, I trust I may without arrogance ask a full and fair hearing for opinions originating in integrity of motive, and a solicitude to ascertain what would be most conducive to the trade and permanent interests of the British empire.\n\nBeing therefore convinced that an immediate investigation of our Anglo-Chinese policy is of the highest importance on general as well as on financial and commercial considerations; aware that the sentiments I entertain find little concurrence in England from several gentlemen who recently filled office in China, and thinking that Her Majesty's Government have been acting under some erroneous impressions, I am very desirous of personally placing before Her Majesty's Ministers the information collected, and the opinions thence deduced, after visiting every part of China accessible to Europeans.\n\nFor this purpose I have the honour to solicit from your Excellency leave of absence for six months, on the following terms; viz.—\n\n1st. That I draw no salary for these six months.\n\n2d. That I defray my own expenses to England.\n\n3d. That if Her Majesty's Government decide there were no justifiable grounds for this application, that I resign my present office.\n\nBy granting my request no detriment whatever can accrue to the public service.\n\nThe treasury accounts are close up, the books are daily balanced, and all the required returns will be made to the 30th June.\n\nI believe the payments on account of public works will be comparatively small for the next six months (or until final orders from home), and I am certain that with ordinary care no delay or embarrassment can arise in the Treasury Accounts.\n\nConfiding in the importance of the information which I believe it to be in my power to convey, and in the probability of its being duly appreciated by Her Majesty's Ministers, I ask permission to forego all my salary, to incur considerable expense, and to destroy, perhaps, my remaining strength by travelling during this hot and adverse season; and further, propose to risk my commission in Her Majesty's service, in order that I may have an opportunity of communicating personally to the authorities at home the result of my inquiries in this country.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(signed) Robert M. Martin.\n\nEnclosure 2, in No. 6.\n\nColonial Office, Victoria, Hong Kong,\n\n19 June 1845.\n\nI AM directed by his Excellency the Governor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, and to send you this reply.\n\nThe object of your present application is, to obtain the Governor's sanction to proceeding home for the reasons stated by you.\n\nThe regulations as to leave of absence by which the Governor is bound, are clear and peremptory, confining such leave to cases of serious indisposition requiring a change of climate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228177, "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": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 481, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Appendix.\n\nReport on the Tea Trade,\n\n[66]\n\nled to the craving desire for opium as a counter stimulant, is deserving of consideration; certain it is that strong coffee (coffeine) among the Turks, Persians, and strong tea (theine), (coffeine and theine are similar in their elementary qualities) among the Chinese are followed or preceded by the use of opium or similar deleterious stimulating narcotics. It is stated that in the manufacturing districts of Great Britain, where tea is very largely consumed at all meals, opium is now being introduced.\n\nThe statesman is bound to watch apparently minute and remote causes in their operating influence on the character of a nation, and to look more to the preservation of the physical strength and moral power of a people, than to any imaginary increase of revenue or trade from one branch of commerce. Since the commencement of the present century tea has increased in consumption per head in Great Britain more than sugar, wine, tobacco, &c., and it now amounts to more than 20 oz. per annum for each man, woman, and child. 28,000,000 people in the United Kingdom consume double the quantity of tea that is used by the whole population of Europe (including Russia), North and South America, Africa, and Asia (exclusive of China and Japan), although the duties in these countries are low, or, as in the United States, nil.\n\nIt is asserted that if the Government reduced the duty on tea, a diminution of price would follow and cause a still larger consumption of tea in England. But low prices (if such be desired) would probably not be obtained by any reduction of the Government revenue. Other causes will operate in the reduction of price. Competition among the European merchants at Canton, and the necessity for selling cotton goods and other manufactures for which tea is received in barter, has tended to maintain for that commodity high prices, but it is expected that the opening of ports contiguous to the tea districts will materially reduce the prime cost. Mr. Consul Alcock informed me at Foochow foo, that he ascertained tea could be shipped from that port at 20 per cent. less than the Canton prices. The commercial prospects of this capital of the Fokien province will be found under its distinctive head. Some tea has been shipped from Ningpo, and several cargoes from Shanghai direct for England (see Shanghai Consulate). The shipments from the latter-named port will probably increase in return for the large quantities of British manufactures sent thither. Competition will thus take place with the Cantonese, and the sale price be lowered materially. Considerable efforts have been made by the Chinese and former Hong merchants at Canton to confine the foreign tea trade to that city; and in this they have been aided not only by the possession of large capital, enabling them to make contracts with and advances to the tea cultivators and manufacturers, but also by an extensive credit which assists them to take off and dispose of a considerable quantity of our manufactures, and by the routine of old established channels which are not easily changed, and also by the promulgation of official documents and edicts arising partly from the Imperial policy of keeping foreigners at the extremity of the empire, and partly from a fear of losing the transit and other duties which tea pays during its conveyance from Fokien and Chekeang to Canton. Tea will ultimately be shipped from the most convenient port near to the place of growth, when our merchants are permitted to carry on a free and unrestricted intercourse with China, which would be far more beneficial for the Chinese than for ourselves. Chusan produces considerable quantities of superior tea, which is sent manufactured to Ningpo and other places for the use of the mandarins. Were Chusan or some contiguous island a British possession, tea would be brought from different ports of the adjacent sea coast, and thus shipped for England at a reduced cost. It is not our policy or interest to maintain the tea trade at Canton; on the contrary, we ought to promote this valuable commerce in the northern ports.\n\nThere has latterly been considerable fluctuations in the price of tea, in consequence of extravagant speculations. About the mouth of June 1839, when the intelligence of Commissioner Lin having issued prohibitory edicts against opium smuggling reached England, speculation began in tea, and was principally sustained by the operations of a wealthy retired opium dealer. Congou rose from 1s. to 1s. 5d. per lb., and this description of tea became the regulating price for all other teas.\n\nOn 1st August, news of trade being stopped at Canton reached London, and Congou advanced to 1s. 8d.; in October to 2s. in consequence of Captain Elliott's order that no British ship should go up the river to Canton. On 2d December Congou rose to 2s. 7d., it being known that hostile measures were to be forthwith adopted towards China. The stock of tea on hand in England, 31st December 1839, was 52,500,000 lbs., and the quantity delivered for 1839 was 32,366,412 lbs. On 16th January 1840, the speech from the throne announced that Her Majesty's Government considered the dispute with China national, and the price of Congou rose to 3s. 2d. per lb. The rumour of a treaty being arranged by Captain Elliott brought down prices to 2s. 9d., but on the refusal of Lin to ratify it, they rose to 3s. 2d. On the arrival of tea taken out of American ships at Hong Kong, and permission to land it, prices fell to 2s. 8d., but rose on 11th March 1840 to 3s. 2d., on rumour that a declaration of war against China had been issued by the Governor-General of India, in the name of the British Government. When it was known that no declaration of war had been issued, prices fell to 2s. Thus the fluctuation proceeded, affected by every true intelligence or false report artfully promulgated.\n\nAt the close of 1840 the stock on hand was 46,500,000 lbs., and the quantity delivered for home consumption during the year, 35,136,232 lbs., the highest prices during the year, 3s. 3d., lowest 1s. 11d. per lb. Throughout the year 1841, the speculations were continued, almost every day producing a new rumour and a rise or fall. On 17th August a dated letter was inserted in second edition of the Herald and Chronicle, which was said to have been received from Man, 27th April, and put on board the Bombay steamer after the mail and other despatches had been embarked. In this letter it was asserted that the Emperor had ordered the destruction of all teas, and that the order was rigidly obeyed, that hostilities had recommenced, and that\n\n[67]\n\nAppendix.\n\nReport on the Tea Trade.\n\nnot 1,000 chests of tea had found their way to the outer coasters by smuggling. This fraud rose prices immediately, but they fell again on the discovery of the forgery. On 31st August the stock in the United Kingdom was reduced to 29,000,000 lbs., the lowest which had taken place, and this aided the rage for speculation. The siege of Canton, its evacuation, the local truce, indemnity of $6,000,000 caused large operations in what were termed \"time bargains.\" A gambling called \"puts and calls\" arose, one person purchasing from another the right of buying or selling to him at a certain price, a defined quantity of tea on a given day. The announcement that although we were pushing the war on the east and north coasts of China, the truce was to exist with Canton, and trade to proceed as usual, almost entirely checked the speculation in November and December 1841. On 31st December 1841 the stock on hand was 36,000,000 lbs., and the quantity delivered for home consumption 32,262,905 lbs.\n\nPrices ranged for Congou from 1s. 4½d. to 2s. 9d. During 1842 speculation was slow and cautious, but the market nearly resumed its usual steady operations, and prices fell to 1s. 5d. on the arrival, 22d November, of the treaty of Nankin. The quantity consumed for the year was about 36,000,000 lbs., and the stock in hand 34,000,000 lbs.; range of prices, 1s. 5d. to 2s. per lb. for Congous.\n\nProbably at no period since the celebrated Mississippi scheme was there ever greater and more prolonged speculation in one article. Expresses were established between Marseilles and London; large sums paid for early official information; newspapers were fed for promulgating false intelligence. At Garraway's the speculators continued this gambling in tea throughout the evening, and for a part of the night. Monied interest was transferred from the Stock Exchange to the Jerusalem Coffee-house and to Garraway's Mart. The mania spread into the country among wholesale and retail dealers in tea, and fortunes were lost and made with marvellous rapidity. The usual results ensued; the steady pursuit of trade was abandoned for the wildest gambling. Men who rose wealthy in the morning were beggars at night, and suicide, bankruptcy, and ruin to many a hearth and home closed the scene.\n\nIt behoves the Government to avoid interfering with the routine into which the trade has now subsided. Some persons still hold inferior teas, almost rubbish, that were purchased at enormously high prices during the speculation. Their only prospect of sale is a reduction of the duty, and an alteration in the mode of levying the duty, by admitting inferior teas at a lower customs rate. These persons and their agents are therefore very clamorous for an alteration in the duty to suit their purposes; but Government can look only to the public interests, and these were considered as best served by an uniform rate of duty on all teas entered after 1st July 1836.\n\nIt was attempted in 1834, when the trade with China was thrown open by the abolition of the monopoly of the East India Company, to levy ad valorem duty of 1s. 6d. per pound on Bohea, 2s. 2d. per pound on Congou, 3s. per pound on Souchong, &c. This was deemed preferable to the mode adopted previous to 1834, viz. 96 per cent. on all teas sold at or under 2s. per pound, and 100 per cent. on all teas sold above 2s. per pound; but the levy of a discriminating duty on Bohea, Congou, &c. was, after two years' trial, found impracticable, and in 1836 the uniform rate of 2s. 1d. per pound on all descriptions of tea was levied, which, with the additional five per cent. imposed in 1840, makes the total duty now levied per pound 2s. 2¼d.\n\nThe present system of an uniform duty on all teas was adopted at the urgent request of the tea brokers and tea dealers in England; and it is impossible to examine impartially the evidence taken before the Select Committee of Parliament, appointed 6th May 1834, to inquire into the expediency of establishing one fixed rate of duty, without seeing the justice of such a proceeding, no less for the interest of the public than for the advantage of the revenue.\n\nSir George Staunton, who was on that Committee, and possessing the largest information, truly observed that he believed the present system of a rated duty had not the support of a single individual who ever was in China. Moreover, any rated duty as to quality or price would exceedingly disturb the simplicity with which the tea trade is now conducted at Canton, where the merchant is unfettered in his purchases by any other consideration than the intrinsic goodness of the leaf he is buying. If two or more rates of duty were levied in England, inferior qualities of tea would be produced, whereas when the duty is alike on all teas, good or bad, the merchant finds it his interest to export only the good.\n\nThe consumption of tea in the United Kingdom being estimated at 45,000,000 lbs. yearly, and sold at an average price to the consumer of 4s. 6d. per pound, the money expended for tea is £10,125,000.\n\nThe expenditure of this sum is distributed as follows:\n\n \n Net cost of 36,000,000 lbs. at 1s. 5d. per pound, or about 25 taels per picul, 717 taels to 1,000 dollars, or about 70d. per tael exchange dollar of 4s. 2d. to 4s. 3d. picul 133 lbs.\n £2,250,000\n \n \n Export duty in China, $3.37 per picul, or 1¼d. per pound, about\n £280,000\n \n \n Shipping charges, &c. in China'\n £25,000\n \n \n Freight, &c. China to England, 2d. per pound\n £375,000\n \n \n Insurance, a halfpenny per pound\n £93,000\n \n\n(continued)\n\nnot", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228743, "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": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "content_text": "Expenditure. Hongkong?\n\n7° 19. Superintendent of Trade.\n\nSalaries.\n\nFixed. Provisional. Total.\n\n1\n\nChinese Secretary.\n\nSecretary and Registrar for 1 year\n\n1,500. 1,200.\n\nAssistant Chinese Secretary. ditto.\n\nFirst Assistant, &c.\n\nditto\n\nSecond do from 24 May 1848 @ £324 per annum\n\nThird Do @ £216 from 1 April to 30 June, & @ £270 per annum from that date.\n\nSupernumerary Interpreter for 1 year.\n\nFourth Assistant from 15 Oct: 1848, & £216.\n\n3 Chinese Clerks @ £3.2.. per month @ £4.3.4\n\n2nd. Supernumerary Interpreter from 1 April to 30 June, 1848, @ £150 per annum\n\n400.\n\n.10.\n\n472. 276.16.6\n\n256.10.\n\n150.\n\n93.18.3\n\n112 10.\n\n50.\n\nQanunt. —\n\n42.8.11\n\nTemporary Asst from 1 April to 18 Septr. 1848, @ $86.40 per month.\n\nExtra allowance to Keon kitch, Chinese Accountant.\n\nWages.\n\nfrom 1 Jan: to 31 Mar: 1849.\n\n70.12.1\n\nExpenditure. Hongkong.\n\nNo 20. Consular Services\n\nin advance and on account.\n\nCanton Consulate.\n\nOn account of current expenses.\n\nAmoy Consulate, Foochow foo Ningpo Shanghae\n\ndo.\n\nChurch contributions\n\n3963.10.2\n\n5399:10.2\n\n3601.6.3\n\n2,400.\n\n1583.13.9\n\n32.53\n\n17\n\n-15%\n\n6\n\non account of current expenses.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\ndo.\n\nPurchase of land for Consular Building.\n\n1781.4.2\n\n5034.11\n\nTotal Consular Services. £. 18019.1.6.2\n\n6.5.\n\n4,554.13.8\n\n76.17.1\n\n4,631.10.9\n\n(Aligned).\n\nW H Mercer\n\nColonial Treasurer\n\n2. Messengers & £15 each to 31 Dec: & £12.10 each from that date.\n\n4 Chair bearers - do. do.\n\n1 Burial ground keeper at Macao.\n\n1 Watchman, to 31 Oct: 1848 @ £15 per annum\n\n28.15.7\n\n57.10.\n\n12.10.\n\n8.15.157.1.8\n\n157\n\n2 Coolies @ £15 each to 31 Dec: & £12.10 each from that date\n\n28.15.\n\nAnnual Allowance to Avan, Compradore.\n\n20.16.8\n\n233.18.9\n\nPrinting, Advertising, Newspapers, Periodicals, including £15 for Pekin Gazette\n\n87.14.4.2\n\nContingencies.\n\nStationery\n\nOffice Furniture\n\nPostage.\n\nFuel and Light.\n\nCharts and Plans.\n\nIncidental Expenses.\n\nCharitable Allowance.\n\n46.17.9\n\n5.9.4\n\n68.18.4.2\n\n16.12.11\n\nTravelling expenses of Officers, &c.\n\nTo the family of Pooting Pong.\n\nMiscellaneous Services.\n\nRents.\n\nServices of a Linguist to proceed in H. M. Ship \"Royalist\" to Cochin China:\n\nTemporary Office for Chinese Sec: for Sept. & Oct: 1848.\n\n1,33.\n\n3.17.5\n\n1.10.2.2\n\n3641\n\n37.10\n\n12\n\n86\n\nTotal Superintendent of Trade. £. 5,211\n\n4.2\n\nTrue Copy,\n\nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229105, "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": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "content_text": "18\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES HONGKONG.\n\nNo. 18. SPECIAL EXPENSES.\n\nDistressed British Seamen,\n\n£25\n\nSALARIES:\n\nSecretary and Registrar,\n\nChinese Secretary,\n\nAssistant do.,\n\nSenior Assistant,\n\nSecond do.\n\nThird do.\n\nFourth do.\n\nNo. 19-SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE.\n\nTwo Supernumerary Interpreters @ £150 each,\n\nOne Chinese Clerk,\n\nOne do.\n\nTwo do. £37, 10s. each,\n\nFour Messengers @ £12, 10s. each,\n\nFour Chair-bearers @ £12, 10s. each,\n\nBurial-ground Keeper at Macao,\n\nAnnual Allowance to Aon, Comprador, .....\n\nALLOWANCES:\n\nTo the Family of Poo-ting-pong,\n\nTo the Morrison Education Society, (Annual Donation,)\n\nCONTINGENCIES:\n\nPrinting, Newspapers, Periodicals, &c.,\n\nPostage,...\n\nStationery,\n\nOffice Furniture,\n\nIncidental Expenses,\n\nTotal SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE,\n\n£s.d.\n1,50000\n2500\n1,20000\n40000\n9500\n472100\n40000\n270150\n27000\n30000\n62100\n3300\n5000\n7500\n5000\n5500\n5000\n1500\n12100\n20160\n500\n5,00000\n13368\n5,13368\nCanton Consulate,5500\nAmoy,37100\ndo.2200\nFoochow foo, do.,25000\nNingpo,3500\ndo15000\nShanghue,5500\ndo.,10000\n5500\n5000\n2200\n1000\n16000\n2700\n287100\n47000\nTotal SUPERINTENDENT OF TRADE,5,890168\n\nCOLONIAL ESTIMATES-HONGKONG.\n\n19\n\nNo. 20.-CONSULAR SERVICES.\n\n£s.d.\n5,60000\n39\n3,85000\n2,55000\n5500\n2,80000\n5900\n5,00000\nTotal CONSULAR SERVICES,19,80000\n310\n\nREMARK.\n\nThe above Estimate does not include any amount that may be required for the CONSULAR BUILDINGS at Shanghae.\n\n54", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230720, "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": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12]", "content_text": "137\n\nReturn of Sums paid for H. Mr. Superintendent and Consular Services during the quarter ended 30th September 1850.\n\nSuperintendent of Trade.\n\nConsular Services-\n\nCanton Consulate\n\n1820-2.-\n\n1500 15 2\n\n1198.15.2\n\n1000.\n\nAmoy Foochow foo Ningpo- Sharighae ...\n\n2999 ⭑13. -\n\n30\n\nJ\n\n- 1 -\n\n400317-110227 2\n\nTotal £ Stg:\n\n12523 2 4\n\nTwelve thousand five hundred twenty three Pounds two Shillings and four pence. Sterling\n\nof H.M. Treasury,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong,\n\nOctober the 20th, 1850.\n\n(Signed) R.\n\nLane (copy)\n\nAu\n\nActing Colonial Treasurer\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nSecretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-034 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232674, "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": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "page_number": 266, "title": "CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12]", "content_text": "258\n\nReturn of Payments\n\nmade\n\nHer\n\nin\n\nChina.\n\nAccount of\n\nHer Majesty's Superintendency of Trade, and Consulates\n\nQuarter ended 30th June, 1882.\n\nduring the\n\nSuperintendent of Trade\n\nCanton Consulate.\n\n \n Foochow\n $\n foo\n de\n __\n Shanghae\n _._\n He\n \n \n \n 1348\n 11\n \n |1282|14|\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \"\n \n 1,000\n \n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n 3,125\n \"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n 5.40714\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total\n \n $\n Cys6\n 5\n 10\n \n \n \n\nSix thousand nine hundred fifty\n\nSie fronds five shillings\n\nfive shillings and ten,\n\nand ten pence Sterling.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong\n\n24th Aug. 1882.\n\n(Signed) W. J. Mercer.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Treasurer.\n\nColonial Secretary", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236269, "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": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6]", "content_text": "Foochow foo\n\nWealehurst. Ty? Maj solig's lomaul at trochow for.\n\n128\n\nKrd Hororttals Your Majesty's Vice Consul Ithamarkham\n\nRichard. N. Duggand\n\nGo Williams\n\nF. G. Hely R. C. Crawford Att Subbay\n\nA. Finchary William Gregory.\n\nPatrick Jruph Hughes Avludson\n\nSteph F. Stand\n\ntins\n\nH. Sibson Attuash M.A.\n\nM. D.\n\nTAG = man\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions more closely and correct the OCR output:\n\nFoochow foo\n\nWealehurst. Ty? Maj solicitor's lomaul at Foochow for.\n\n128\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Vice Consul at Foochow\n\nRichard. N. Duggan\n\nG. Williams\n\nF. G. Hely R. C. Crawford Att Subbay\n\nA. Finchary William Gregory.\n\nPatrick Joseph Hughes Avludson\n\nSteph F. Stand\n\ntins\n\nH. Sibson Attuash M.A.\n\nM. D.\n\nTAG = man\n\nLet's correct and format it properly in HTML as per the instructions:\n\nFoochow\n\nWealehurst. ? Maj solicitor's letter at Foochow for.\n\n128\n\nHer Britannic Majesty's Vice Consul at Amoy\n\nRichard N. Duggan\n\nG. Williams\n\nF. G. Hely R. C. Crawford Acting Subbay\n\nA. Finchary William Gregory\n\nPatrick Joseph Hughes Auderson\n\nSteph F. Stand\n\nH. Sibson Attuash M.A.\n\nM.D.\n\nTAG = man\n\nIt seems the original text was heavily corrupted. I made educated guesses to correct it, assuming it was a list of names and titles, possibly related to historical figures or officials in China during the British colonial era.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-050 - Sir Bowring and Lieut Governor Caine - 1855 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 236613, "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": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "page_number": 94, "title": "CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9]", "content_text": "M. Sticht\n\nBoord\n\nTrace who with I inajen\n\nbestle Treign Office har var dout the Gree Accy official copy of the Treaty with\n\nJapan\n\ndraft Msout\n\nBangkong\n\nNEW SERIES.\n\nTHE\n\n91\n\nGovernment\n\nGAZETTE.\n\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 4TH AUGUST, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nVOL. I. No 5.\n\nThe Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby given, that a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published hereafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that\n\n\"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE\"\n\nwill, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nNo. 15.\n\nTHOMAS FRANCIS WADE, Esquire, having been appointed to act as Chinese Secretary in this Department, pending reference to Her Majesty's Government; His Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary has been pleased to appoint Mr MARTIN CROFTON MORRISON, Interpreter in the British Consulate at Canton, to act as Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at that Port until further notice.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 30th July, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nDiplomatic Department.\n\nTREATY WITH JAPAN. NOTICE.\n\nA Treaty having recently been concluded between Her Majesty and the Emperor of Japan, whereby the latter agrees to open the Japanese ports of Nagasaki and Hakodadi to British ships for the purposes of effecting repairs, and obtaining fresh water, provisions, and other supplies of any sort that they may absolutely require, provided that they are furnished with a given Stamp License...\n\nThe following Notification has been circulated by Her Majesty's Consul at Foochowfoo, on the subject of a piratical fleet cruising on the Chinese Coast in the Fookeen province, and is now published for general information.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. WOODGATE.\n\nSuperintendency of Trade, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d August, 1855.\n\nCopy No. 70.\n\nBRITISH CONSULATE, FOOCHOW FOO, 11th July, 1855.\n\nNOTIFICATION.\n\n \n ...\n Certificates of Registry in the form determined by Her Majesty's Government will be exchanged for existing Certificates, on application to this Office.\n \n \n Commander BARNARD, R. N., commanding H. M. S. Racehorse, having advised H. M.'s Consul that a formidable fleet of West Coast Pirate-Junks, numbering 35 vessels, and powerfully manned and armed, is cruising among the groups of Islands between this and Amoy...\n ...\n \n\nW. H. MEDHURST.\n\n(Signed,)\n\nTo\n\nBRITISH CONSIGNEES AND MASTERS\n\nOF VESSELS,\n\nTrue Copy,\n\nW. WOODGATE.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNo. 14.\n\nWanted a Passage to Singapore for Thirteen Chinese Convicts.\n\nTenders will be received at this Office.\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 26th July, 1855.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nUnder Instructions from The Secretary of State for the Colonies His Excellency The Governor directs the publication of the following letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trade to the Board of Customs...\n\nBy Order,\n\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 31st July, 1855.\n\nNo. 79-1855.\n\nOFFICE OF COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE,\n\nMARINE DEPARTMENT, 25th May, 1855.\n\nSIR,\n\nVarious communications having been made to my Lords concerning the inconvenience sustained with respect to Ships registered in the British Possessions abroad...\n\nPage 91\n\n...\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-051 - Sir Bowring - 1855 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241825, "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": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7]", "content_text": "POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nThe Hongkong Government Gazette. [No. 85.-FEBRUARY 14, 1857.\n\nTHE next GENERAL MAILS for BOMBAY, EUROPE, &c., per Steamer “CADIZ” will close on SATURDAY, the 14th instant, at 6 o'clock, P.M. The usual SUPPLEMENTARY MAIL will be made up the following morning from 8 to 10 o'clock A.M., for a late fee 6d.; and from 10 till noon, for a late fee of 1s. After which no Letters can be received.\n\nWM. CHAPMAN,\n\nActing Post-Master,\n\nPost-Office, Victoria, Hongkong,\n\n4th February, 1857.\n\nSteam for\n\nSINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES,\n\n& SOUTHAMPTON;\n\nAlso,\n\nBOMBAY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA, THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.\n\nNOTICE\n\nIT is hereby notified, that Applications to fill the OFFICE OF DANISH CONSUL at Foo-chow foo, by Resident Merchants of that place, will be received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Copenhagen, until the end of April Next,\n\nBy Order,\n\nFRED. H. BLOCK,\n\nH. B. M. Consul.\n\nDanish Consulate, Hongkong, 7th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE have this day entered into Partnership as GENERAL MERCHANTS and COMMISSION AGENTS under the Firm of DAVIS & LAWRENCE, which will merge the Affairs of Messrs F. W. LAWRENCE & Co.\n\nHENRY DAVIS.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE,\n\nHongkong, 7th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE\n\nCopy of the JURY LIST for 1857 is posted.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Pakchan, and Mr ROBERT N. WESTALL is authorized to sign our Firm at that Port by procuration.\n\nSMITH, KENNEDY & Co.\n\nShanghac, 19th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nPARTIES forwarding to this office, in pursuance of the intimation of HER MAJESTY'S PLENIPOTENTIARY to the BRITISH COMMUNITY OF CANTON, under date the 8th ultimo, particulars of CLAIMS for LOSSES recently sustained by them at that Port, are informed by the undersigned that these Statements should be furnished them in Duplicate.\n\nHARRY S. PARKES,\n\nConsul.\n\nOffice of the British Consulate for Canton, Hongkong, 6th February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nHENRY EUSTACE TALBOT is authorized to sign for the COMPANY'S Steam-ship “CADIZ”.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe P. & O. COMPANY'S Steam-ship “CADIZ”, Captain ... , will leave this for SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, and SOUTHAMPTON, on SUNDAY, the 15th instant, at 2 P.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on-board until 5 P.M. on the 13th; SPECIE until Noon on the 14th; and PARCELS until 2 P.M. on the 14th.\n\nFor Particulars regarding FREIGHT and Passage, apply at the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong.\n\nCONTENTS AND VALUE OF PACKAGES ARE REQUIRED.\n\nA Written Declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shipper to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which may happen from incorrectness on such declaration.\n\nROBT. S. WALKER,\n\nSuperintendent.\n\nPeninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 12 February, 1857.\n\nNOTICE\n\nNotice of any inaccuracies, Omissions, &c., must be given IN WRITING to the Registrar on or before the Twenty-first day of February instant, in accordance with the Provisions of Section 3 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1851.\n\nWILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,\n\nRegistrar.\n\nNOTICE\n\nThe Interest and Responsibility of Mr EDMUND THE KENNEDY SNOW in our Firm, ceased on 31st December last.\n\nOur Firm now consists of WILLIAM WALKINSHAW, JOHN SCAUTH, and ROBERT FORRESTER THORBURN.\n\nTURNER & Co,\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nI hereby give notice, that the Co-partnership heretofore existing between us under the firm of ARMSTRONG & LAWRENCE, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent.\n\nW. LAWRENCE\n\nwill settle all Business connected therewith.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 5th January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE\n\nAn Assignment of the Property, Real and Personal, of the Firm of WITMORE & Co. of CANTON, FOOCHOW, and SHANGHAI, CHINA, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton : I hereby give notice to all concerned to make payment to me of all sums due to, and to present to me any Claims against, the said Firm.\n\nOLIVER H. PERRY.\n\nCanton, 7th August, 1856.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nIn Equity.\n\nAccounts of the late Firm will be liquidated by F. W. LAWRENCE.\n\nJ. M. ARMSTRONG.\n\nF. W. LAWRENCE,\n\nHongkong, 31st December, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing at this Port, between the undersigned, under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co., expires this day by lapse of time and mutual consent.\n\nThe outstanding Accounts will be settled by either Partner; and strictly AGENCY & COMMISSION BUSINESS will be conducted by them as Partners at the PORT OF SINGAPORE under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nH. ANTHON,\n\nJ. G. L. HASKELL.\n\nSURVEYOR GENERAL'S OFFICE\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 5th February, 1857.\n\nTO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given, that Persons willing to CONTRACT for the EXECUTION OF THE SEVERAL WORKS—in constructing a New SEA WALL, from Marine Lot No. 104 Eastward, to join the Coast Road along the Parade, and Westward, from Marine Lot No. 101 to join the Sea Wall of Pedder's Wharf; in forming the NEW STRAND ROAD; and in Filling in the Ground between such New Road and the present Sea-front of the Several Marine Lots; and in continuing the several Culverts and Drains, &c., may inspect the DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, and CONDITIONS OF CONTRACT at this Office, on and after Monday, the 16th instant, between the hours of 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.\n\nTHOS. S. WALKER,\n\nActing Surveyor General.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our Firm.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st December, 1856.\n\nSTEPHENSON v. MERCHOW.\n\nIT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED, that all Monies, now or henceforth to become payable to the late firm of MURROW, STEPHENSON AND COMPANY, be paid to JOSEPH FROST EDGER, Esq., (or his Deputy, he having been lawfully appointed Receiver in the said suit, by virtue of an Order of this Honourable Court; the receipts of the said JOSEPH FROST EDGER being alone good discharges for such monies.\n\nDated the 13th day of November, 1856.\n\nGASKELL & BROWN,\n\nComplainants' Solicitors.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAt the Office of the “China Mail.”\n\nTABLE, showing the COST OF TEA, with all CHARGES on Tea, as bought by the Picul, and sold by the Pound Avoirdupois.\n\nPrinted at the Office of the China Mail, Hongkong.- PRICE, $12 per Annum; Single Copies, Thirty-six Cents.\n\nTERMS OF ADVERTISEMENTS, Five Lines and under, One Dollar; each Additional Line, Twenty Cents-One-half of these charges for each Repetition.\n\nPage 7166\n\n...\n\nPage ...\n\nExecutive Council\n\n...\n\nGovernment Offices, Victoria\n\n...\n\nREGISTERED\n\nAUG. 3 1857\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 242323, "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": 209, "title": "CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10]", "content_text": "## THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE\n### SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1857\n\n**PRICE $1 per annum**\n\n#### TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION \nto the FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE, per Annum, 18 Spanish Dollars, payable in advance quarterly or otherwise at option. Single Numbers 94 cents.\n\n#### TERMS OF ADVERTISING \nTen lines and under, 1 Spanish Dollar; Additional, 10 cents line. Repetitions, one-third of the first regular insertion, regular insertions per contract. Ships, First insertion, 15 dollars; subsequent insertion 15 cents.\n\n| MERCHANT VESSELS | \n| --- | \n| At Hongkong | \n| British | Anna Mary, ship; Albion, ship; Ancona, barque; Andeshin, ship; Baces, ship; Bengal, ship; Corigliano, ship; Day Spring, barque; Paintster, ship; Fakandria, sloop; Lady Canning, ship; Leeds Lyncx, sloop; ... | \n| To June 23 | Wardley and Co. | \n| Saune Turner and Co. | 311 | \n| May single | Kaye | Sept, schooner | \n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n**HOLLOWAYS OINTMENT**\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE\n\nTRADING STEAM VESSELS IN INDIAN WATERS.\nBritish: Lezhong-Ann, Eglel Conges, Iron Prince, Lad M. Wood, Beri, Rose, har rack, Shanghai, Squirrel, and Thinle, nel traile, Cano, Femá and Mirage, Shanghat Route, -Formosa and Hillespont, harghar-Veteer,\n\nFrench: Heong-Charles Martel,-In Ma can-Francis £!\n\n**NEW ADVERTISEMENT**\nHolloway's Ointment and Pills-Glandular swellings in the throat, neuralgia, tic doloreux, Phenantis, gout, fumbac, and other diseases affecting the glands, muscle, and nerves, are primarily eradicated by the persevering application of this healing, \"salutary, pain-destroying proportion. Irritating eruptions, ran pine serce, open wounds, burns, sores, and, in short, all the varieties of pestilential inflammation, soon lose their angry and painful character when treated with Holloway's Ointment. The Pills have never yet been administered, save with success, by hospital physicians and practitioners, in cases of liver complaint, or diseases of the buncle, whatever producing the desired results.\n\n**CIRCULAR TO THE SICK**\nThe first hospital surgeons and medical publicists of Europe, late the unparalleled anti-fat factory and healing properties of this Ointment: never ineditis Auto la se h. their nasal and military service.\n\nthe 49 in this country and throughout the world repose the wide reference in curative properties. It penetrates the sources of irritation and corruption which underlie the external evidences of disease, and neutralizes the very elements which fret and cause the malady.\n\nRHEUMATISM, SCROFOLA, ERYSIPELAS\nThese are among the most terrible and agonizing diseases, yet in their worst forms, and are still incurable, invariably cured under a persevering application of this king, healing, antidote to pain and inflammation.\n\nBut the Ointment and Pills must be used in the following\n\nBad Legs | CASAR- | Bite of Moschetas | Elephantiasis | Keune lisen | Scalds | Sore Nipples | Sore-throats | HAD DICARIS | Cancer | Barce | Contracted and | Burners | Stiff joints | and Sand-Flies | talan | Coco-lay | Cont | Salo-discs | Scurvy | Sore-heads | Ching-loa | Chin | Chapped hands | ent | Glandar Suell | Tumours | Wounds | Yawa | jegs | Labago | File\n\nMold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.\n\n#### VESSELS AT HONGKONG AND MACAO\nUNDER DESPATCH For Landun: Day Spring, H. Kate; ether, M.; North, H.; Par Baby- Shanghai, H.; For Beavk Orests, M.; For Joon: R van Reener; For Sing Sport d: Adela, M.; Star King, E.; For San Franciao: Elizabeth Martin, I.; Lizzie Jarvis, H.; For Manila, Juharna, M.; tur diam. Annic, 37.; For New York: Independence, H.; For Maveric: Fianco, M.; For Australia: Kensington, 11.; Phillip Laing, H.; For Shanglur: Blackburn, H.; Quickeup, 11.; Remi, H.; Wellington, $1.; W. J. Lewis, H.; For fe chose fu: Venili, H.; For Amoy, Aon, 17.\n\n#### TREATY TO CORRESPOND TO PAGE \nby W...\n\n#### VESSELS FROM ENGLAND FOR CHINA\nThe figures after each name denote the number of days out on the list of the current mail.\n\n| MERCHANT VESSELS | Days Out | \n| --- | --- | \n| British | | \n| ... | ... | \n| At Bonghang | | \n| ... | ... | \n| ... | ... |\n\n#### SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE\nARRIVALS.\n\nAT HONGKONG.\n17, Semor (T), from Java.\n18. Helene (Br) from Hongkong\nJuly\nAT BANGSAR\n1, Ferie England, Kelly, om Hongkong.\n12, Charger, Kilich, from London and Anop.\n12, Am Str. Antelope, Lunch, from Heugknag\n13, 1.3 Pertmonth, Capt. Feste, front f'king\n13, Sir Lade Nession, Pirosst, from Cardiff, is\nApol\n43. Sling, Wentwons, from langkong.\n13, #ld haurell, MacFarlane, from Bangkong\n13, Str. Shanghai, Resk- from Hongkong.\n13, Gold Siete Am), Hepburn, St Hongkong.\n13, n. Baskervik, irote Flongkong.\n13, Wild Tare, Cheyan, from Singapore and Ful-chow.ta.\n13, anker, Thoms firm Swattw,\n13, John Jay (Amt, Wade, frogs New York.\n\n#### DEPARTURES.\nFROM HONGKONG.\n22, Reggard (kur, Drew, Shanghaa.\nForester\nTaughty\nFlightyer\n156-lis. Sir M. Saps. ¿W. K. Heli Fubchau 1.8 16 Delville Amor L.M.S4Jenkins Hangkong M. 3ouglas The River H.M.S17 Fellowes\n12 Panilion\nGabandones\nElonghong Guns Hawillen\nHospilet 10,\nHongkong (4.4.Ser! Goodenougla\nShaughne F.M.SForsyth\nHongkong H. M. SW\nMacan 31. 30e.Stewat Hongkong H., Ste 11 lon'ble Certrane\nThe River.M.S-Dew\n- Campbell\nSymask 'kerass, is\nRua Count\nCelesial, shi Estheit, sest\nHardweke.\nMum, schonies\nDutch Anos, brig Janibe, baryEZ Crestes algae\n\n#### PASSENGERS\nPer Sternhai, Mr Bor, and 7 Chinese.\nPer Lence, Hon. T. C. Anstey,\n\n#### SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA AND NORTHERN WATERS\n| Ship | Guns | Commander | \n| --- | --- | --- | \n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### NOTICE\nIS HEREBY GIVEN THAT in future under the Style of GILMAN & Co. as at Canton and Foochow.\n\nTHE A. pership KATE ROOPER (UR. Business in Sheage will be conducted Captain Jackor, kazing a taaside abla par- tion of hot sargo engaged, will have quick des patch. For freight of Passage, apply to JAS. STEPHENSON. Hongkong, 10th January, 1857.\n\n#### POSTAL STEAMERS TO MACAO\nAlteration in Time of Departure.\nTHE hours of departure for the\" ROSE\" and \"ROCK\" will in future b at a. M.\n\n#### TRIESTE ROUTE\nTHE AUSTRIA LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION Company's STEAMERS ply regularly between Alexandria and Trieste, corresponding with the monthly and by monthly Indian Steamera.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nTHE HOUSE and PROPERTY belonging to A. R. Jounaco, Esq., situated on Irland Lot No. 92, near St. John's Cathedral. Apply to DENT & Co.\n\n#### TO BE LET OR SOLD\nWith immediate possession. THAT Large and Commodicus HOUSE in San Courengo, Macao, (the one rere in the former ly occupied as B. B. M. Superintendary). For particulis apply by letter addressed B, care of the Editor of the Friend of China.\n\n#### TO LET\nTHE PREMISES No. 11 Praya de Manden, River side, containing DeFLLING HOUSES and spacious Copowys for Cotton and other Goods.\n\n#### NOTICE\nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Foochow, and M ROBERT R. WES-TALL is authorized to sign our Firm at est l'ort by proellation.\n\n#### TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES\nTHE Directors of the AustaaN LLOYDS STRAY NAVIGATION COMPANY in Tris, have male Arcangements for TELEGRAPHIC MESSA-CES to Losion, or to any Part of the Continent sent to them froin China.\n\n#### NOTICE\nMRA. A. De MELLO is. iz anthand to sign the cams of our Firma per procunition frera the 1st instant.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nA Pong Baskets of Janequzsan's CHAMPAGNE superior quality.\n\n#### NOTICE\nTHE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port between the undersigned under the Style of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & Co, expires this day by lege vitice uml mutual consent.\n\n#### SHIP CHANDLERY AT FOO-CHOW\nApply to STONE & Co. Foo-chow, 1st December, 1868.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nCOPPER SHEATING, for 19 to 80 oz and NAILS. Apply to GIEB. LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\n#### FIRE INSURANCE\nTHE undersigned, Agentia for the LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION and IMPERIAL INSURANCE COMPANY, are prepared to grant Policies on MERCHANDISE and i BUILDINGS at this Pert.\n\n#### COMMITTAG ON MARITIME INSURANCE OF PARIS\nTHE undersigned having been appointed Agents for the Marine Insurance Ofits of Paris, aro anthorized to examine and approve ciuins for Gen etui and Particular Averages un Risks insured by them.\n\n#### SAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY, MANILA\nUNDER the Superintendenes of an Experienced ENGINEER. Orders for all kinds of binebi pery executed with despatch.\n\n#### JUST RECEIVED\nTHE finest usecrtment of Elighland Tweeta Turons, Plaids, Hoce, superfine Broadcloths Athol, Baimeral and Glengary Bonnets, S., &s. &, ever imported into this Colony.\n\n#### FOR SALE\nFINE Feschow BACON, MACEWEN & Co.\n\n#### MRS. LOSEE STRAW BONNET\nMaker and Cleaner No. 502 Lundbars Terrass. Felt Flags anil Davers renovate] Orders received of Miss GARRETT's, Millinery Hums, Queen's Road. and Mrs. Boom Aura's, Cochrane Stre.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 245134, "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": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 213, "title": "CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "# THE FRIEND \n## AND HONGKONG \n### OF CHINA \n#### GAZETTE.\n\nVOL. XVII No. 60.\n\nPUBLISHED WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY \nVICTORIA WEDNESDAY, JULY 28TH 1855.\n\n212\n\n**PRICE $10 per annum**, \nA pro forma edition of the Overland China Mail is also published for England. Price includes a reprint.\n\n**SUBSCRIPTION**, per Annum, Sixteen Dollars payable in advance, quarterly or otherwise, at option. Single Numbers, 97 cents. For every opportunity of decline to Europe by steam conveyance--the terms of Subscription which are Eight Dollars per annum payable in advance, or the most important intelligence of the previous week, week, or month, and a summary condensed to the latest possible news--Post-paid via Marseilles the postage of one page is compulsorily payable in advance. If sent via Marseilles the postage of three pages is payable by the party receiving.\n\n## TRIESTE ROUTE.\n\nTHE AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEAMERS ply regularly between Alexandria and Trieste, corresponding with the monthly and bi-monthly Italian Steamers.\n\nThe Fares have been reduced and the following rates have been fixed, viz.-- \n1st Class £16; 2nd Class £11; 3rd Class £6; including Table money and fees.\n\nArrangements have been entered into between the Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental S. N. Company and the Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Company, that, -- \n1--Passengers leaving China via Trieste, can receive Tickets from the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents for Alexandria. \n2--Passengers' Baggage can be shipped from Alexandria by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steamers for Southampton; the Freight being Ten Shillings Sterling per Cwt. \n3--Receipts for Cargo and Specie intended for Shipment to Trieste, will be granted by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Agents at Alexandria, instead of to Suez as formerly, but each Package is to be provided with a white label, on which is distinctly marked in print.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nKUPFERSCHMID, B. A. WARDELL, and A. N. SHEARER, have this day formed a Co-partnership for the transaction of business at Shanghai and Foo-chow, as General Storekeepers, Auctioneers, Commission Agents, and Chronometer Watch and Clock Makers, under the Firm of \n**KUPFERSCHMID & Co.** \nShanghae, 15th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nALL outstanding accounts of the late Firm of **KUPFERSCHMID & DATO** will be settled by \n**KUPFERSCHMID & Co.** \nShanghae, 16th May, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has this day established himself at Macao as Commission and General Agent. \n**B. E. CARNEIRO.** \nMacau, 1st January, 1867.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nIN Trust for the **AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAMER**, the undersigned, have this day commenced... \nFor further particulars apply to \n**W. POSTAU & Co** Agents at Hongkong and Canton, \nHongkong, 1st July, 1863.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nNOTICE is hereby given that in consequence of the lamented death of Mr. Waitaan MANDEL ERNET, the Sole Partner of the Firm of **W. M. ROBINET & Co.** of Canton and Hongkong, the said Firm ceases... \n**FRANCIS S. ALVAREZ** Attorney of the late W. M. ROBINET, \nHongkong, 21st July, 1869.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **CHARLES W. HUDSON** is authorized to sign our Firm. \nWe have this day commenced business at this Port, as Ship-chandlers, Auctioneers and Commission Agents, under the Title of **TALBOT, DEVINE & Co.** \n**H.E. TALBOT**, \n**W. H. DEVINE.** \nWhampoa, 7th April, 1858.\n\n## VICTORIA EXCHANGE.\n\nTHE undersigned begs to notify the client that he will relinquish his business in favor of MR **ORNEY DUDDELL**, on the 30th Instant. \n**F. WOODS.** \nQueen's Road, Hongkong, 1st June, 1858.\n\nA reference to the above advertisement I shall establish myself at the Victoria Exchange, as Stockbroker, Commission Agent and Auctioneer; on the 1st July, 1859. \n**GILMAN & Co.** of Canton. \nQueen's Road, Hongkong, 1st June, 1859.\n\nHongkong, 22nd July, 1858, \nWE have established a Branch of our Firm at Bangkok, Siam, under the management of \nMR **CH. H. WILSONE**, who is authorized to sign for us by procuration. \n**HAMILTON GRAY & Co.** \nSingapore, 17th day, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **NE JUDAR** has this day been admitted a Partner in our Firm in his place. \n**QUALI & Co.** \nHongkong, 1st June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **ANTONIO A. De MELLO** has been admitted a Partner in our Firm from this date. \n**A. A. DE MELLO & Co.** \nMacao, 1st June, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMESSRS **G. W BOUG & Co.** \nCommission and Wine Merchants, Auctioneers and General Storekeepers. \nMission Road, SHANGHAE. \n**S C WOODRUFF.** \nShip-Chandler, Storekeeper, and General Agent, \nQuay, BLIGHT OR SOLD ON COMMISSION. Ship and Family Stores put up at the Shortest Notice. \nCorner of Queen's Road and Pottinger Street, Hongkong. \n**STONE & Co.** \nShip Chandlers, Auctioneers & General Agents. \nPicom Anagaran ses, Pouseaw.\n\nWE have established MR **DAVID OAKES** as our AGENT at Bangkok, Siam, and all Business to his address comes under our guarantee. \nChina, 11th May, 1857, \n**RUSSELL & Co.**\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **GUSTAVUS A. ROESING** is authorized to sign for our Firm per Procuration. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nHongkong, and Macao, 1st May, 1878.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **ALBERT SERRUYS**, having left this Colony, has ceased to sign for our Firm. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nHongkong, 24th April, 1858.\n\n**LUIS BARRETTO.** \nAgent and Commission Merchant. \nMACAO.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **HENRY C. ENDICOTT** and MR **JOHN M. ARMSTRONG** represent our Hongkong Firm, and are authorized to sign from this date. \n**THOMAS HUNT & Co.,** of Whampoa. \nHongkong, 9th February, 1868.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE Co-partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned, under the Firms of **KUP-FERSCHMID & DATO**, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. \n**F. KUPFERSCHMID**, **WILLIAM T. DATO.** \nShanghae, 15th May, 1858.\n\n313, \nHemp and Cotton Canvas, \nDemi Merino and Ceint Rope, Blocks, Anchors, Chains, \nCopper and Yellow Metal. \nProvisions, &c., &c., &c. \nAs S. & Co import largely from New York, they guarantee to sell as low as any House in China. \nA Post-boat to and from Foochow daily (Sundays excepted). \n**JOHN SHILAIY & C°.** \nShip Chandlers, Auctioneers and General Storekeepers. \nAMOY.\n\nAll description of Stores constantly on hand. Blacksmith's and Carpenter's work undertaken, and Ships supplied with fresh Provisions.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned beg to intimate to Masters of Vessels and others visiting the Port of SWATOW that they have established themselves as Ship Chandlers, Commission Agents, and Auctioneers, and as PILOTS, at the above Port; and by strict attention to business they hope to merit a share of Public Patronage. \n**CLARK & Co.** \nDouble Island, 22nd April, 1858.\n\n**F. BLACKHEAD,** \nHONGKONG. \nShip Chandler, Sailmaker and General Agent. \nCopper, Yellow Metal, and Zinc Sheathing, always on hand. \nHongkong, 6th November, 1856.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE Business carried on here under the Firm of **CRESSY, LUBECK & Co.** is dissolved this day by mutual consent. All outstanding accounts will be settled by Mr LUBECK, who will continue the said business under the Firm of **LUBECK & Co.** \n**W. K. CRESSY.** **L. A. LUBECK.** \nMacau, 10th July, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nMR **W. W. BONNETT** is authorized to sign for me during my absence from this Colony. \n**H. MARSH.** \nHongkong, 29th March 1859.\n\n**LOUIS HEERMANY**, Watch and Chronometer Maker and Jeweller. \nBEGS to announce, that he has commenced business in this Colony in the Queen's Road, in the lower portion of the premises known as Mrs Maune's Linery Establishment. \nCHRONOMETERS Carefully cleaned and rated. \nHongkong, 1st February, 1858.\n\n**WELSH & Co.** \nShip Chandlers, Commission Agents, and General Storekeepers, \nPagoda Anchorage, Foochow. \nNB--Shipping supplied with Ballast.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned has assumed the management of **WADES HOTEL**, Road Camp, Macao, on this day. \n**CRESSY.** \nMacao, 20th July, 1858.\n\n## COMITÉ DES COMPAGNIES D'ASSURANCE MARITIMES DE MARSEILLE.\n\nLES soussignés ont été nommés Agents du Comité des COMPAGNIES D'ASSURANCES MARITIMES DE MARSEILLE. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nAgents des Compagnies d'Assurances Maritimes de Paris et Marseille. \nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## COMMITTEE OF MARINE INSURANCE OF MARSEILLES.\n\nTHE undersigned have been appointed Agents to the MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES OF MARSEILLES. \n**SCHAEFFER & Co.** \nAgents to the Marine Insurance Office of Paris and Marseilles. \nHongkong, 31st March, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned are appointed Agents at Hongkong, Canton, and Macao, to the UNION INSURANCE and MARINE INSURANCE OFFICES of Hamburg. \n**DREYER & Co.** \nHongkong, Canton, and Macao, to the UNDERWRITERS. \nHongkong, 1st January 1856.\n\n## TOONG-FOK-TAE.\n\nTHE undersigned has undertaken the management of the above Firm, and begs to inform the public that he will always have on hand at the firm's Warehouse, by the Wharf known as TOUT PERES DA SOUZA in CARNER's Garden Praya, Macao, --Sugar, Sugar Candy, Matting, Crackers, and other products of the very best quality. \nThe TOONG-POK-TAI having extensive connections both on the East and West Coast, the undersigned is certain that they are able to effect sales at lower prices than any other house in the South of China. \nMacao, 7 June, 1853.\n\n## AMOY.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES. \nTHE Directors of the Austrian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company at Trieste, have made Arrangements for TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES from China to any Part of the Continent. \nThe Messages should be sent under cover, superscribed \"Telegraphic Dispatch\", to the Alexandria Agent, for transmission through the Commanding Officer of the Steamer, and to be delivered immediately on arrival of the Vessel at Trieste. \nThe Charge for Telegraphing 20 Words from Trieste per Submarine to London, is about 16 Florins, or 32 Shillings Sterling; and £1 Sterling for each additional 10 Words. \nThe writing must be in legible words. \nFor further particulars, apply to \n**WM POSTAU & Co.,** Agents at Hongkong & Canton. \nHongkong, 27th October, 1868.\n\n**MONUMENTAL MASON &c.** \n**BROWN, JONES & Co.** \nMonuments and Head Stones erected in the best style and at the lowest possible charges. \nApply to the Sexton at the Court-house.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned begs to inform Ship Masters visiting the Port, and the community generally, that he has this day admitted MR **ATHANASIO De SOUZA**, (formerly of the Hongkong Dispensary) as a Partner in the business of the QUEEN'S ROAD DISPENSARY; and that, consequent on arrangements made for a regular importation of Drugs and Chemicals they will be enabled to furnish the Consular and other ports in China on wholesale terms. \n**GEORGE M RYDER.** \nHongkong, 1st July, 1858.\n\n*\"THE MEDICAL HALL.\"* \n**R J. J. BRAGA** begs to inform his Friends, and the Public, that he has this day opened an Apothecary's Shop in the Queen's Road, at the House formerly occupied by the late Mr **CHARLES MARKWICK**. \nHis long Experience in the business will, he hopes, gain for him the confidence of the Public; while he will endeavour to merit their Patronage by constantly keeping on hand a good supply of fresh Medicines. \n*\"The Medical Hall,\"* Victoria, Hongkong, 24th August, 1857.\n\n## MILLINERY AND HABERDASHERY ROOMS.\n\nMRS **JURGENS** & Mrs **RICKOMARTZ**, \nbeg to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Hongkong, that they have this day opened the above establishment in the Queen's Road, on the first story of the House opposite the Oriental Bank, and beg to solicit a share of the Public Patronage. \nHongkong, 10th May, 1858.\n\n## JUST RECEIVED.\n\nSOME very handsome Marble Mantel Pieces and Tables, and a Splendid Marble Chimneypiece. Also, Saddlery, Riding and Driving Whips, Walking Canes, &c. &c. \n**H. MARSH.** \nHongkong, 3rd July, 1859.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nCAPTAINS and CONSIGNEES of Vessels are requested to take notice, that owing to the enhanced Cost of Provisions, &c., the Trustees of the SEAMEN's HOSPITAL find themselves under the necessity of raising the Rates of Admission, which on and after the 1st of April, 1857, will be to the Public Wards, .. 90 cents per day. Intermediate Wards, $1.20. Private Rooms, $2.50. \n**1. MAGNIAC,—Trustees.**\n\n## STORAGE.\n\n15,600 Piculs of Rice. \nA GODOWN OR TWO can be had able to hold... \nFor particulars, apply to \n**N. DOUS & Co.**\n\n## DIRECT PER PARIS.\n\nby the P. & O. Steamer \"Singapore\". \nPOISSINS and Millinery of the Latest Paris Fashions, Silks, Ribbons, &c., &c. \n**MRS. MARSH.** \nQueen's Road, 23rd July, 1858.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE United States CONSULATE is removed to the New Building on Painter's Wharf, Next to the Post-Office. \n**O. E. ROBERTS,** \nVice-Consul. \nHongkong, 24th July, 1859.\n\n## NOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned beg to inform the Public that they have REMOVED their ESTABLISHMENT from the front of... \nAberdeen Street, Queen's Road, to the New Buildings on PEDDER'S WHARF, \n**THOMAS HUNT & Co.** \nHongkong, 19th July, 1858.\n\n## COPPER PLATE PRINTING.\n\nPERSONS having their own ENGRAVED PLATES may have VISITING CARDS printed from them on application at **D. NORAH's** office, Wellington Street, or to **J. da Cruz**, at this office. \nHongkong, 7th October, 1857.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247810, "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": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "the conditions upon which the late Postmaster General offered to transfer the office upon the 14 November next I have thought it necessary to take up the question myself,\n\nHurther and upon find that so to Lord Carnarvon Sir J. Bouring no 51 of 14 May 1859. Lord Colchester Lords of the Treasury G.P.O. 2320 April 1859 information as to the views of the Postmaster General on one or two important points is required before it will be possible for this Government to arrive at any determination on the subject.\n\nAs regards the proportion of the postage to be allowed to the Colony - Is it intended that the Local Government should receive a penny on each of all letters sent to or received from the continent of Europe and other places, (where a postage of six pence and upwards, is levied) although such letters not pass through the United Kingdom - as for example may be in the case of Malta, &c. ?\n\ne.g. France-Triest-In China. and as regards Canton. the sub offices at the Consular Ports in China: Whampoa. Amoy. Foochow foo. Ningpo and Shanghai. In & Japan - at present Nagasaki. These are seven in number, and ...\n\nPage 480\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\n15/40/68\n\n4781.159.\n\nTry\n\n \nto", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258478, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3]", "content_text": "19\n\nOn a careful re-examination of the \"Provisional Regulations,\" the Committee are inclined to attribute the mutual misapprehension, which has unfortunately existed, to a want of distinctness in the rules relating to Tai-wan-Foo, and its proposed dependency Takao—Those affecting Tamsui and Keelung are explicit and require no comment.\n\nThe difficulty relating to the 1st Rule affecting Tai-wan-Foo and Takao is not removed by the insertion in it of Keelung in place of the former port, as proposed in the amended form of that rule given in your letter. Keelung is fully disposed of by the rules relating to it and Tamsui, by which payment of all duties must be made at Tamsui, without any reference to Foochow and the introduction of it into rules (made for Takao and Tai-wan-Foo only) stipulating for payment of duties at Foochow, is consequently a self-evident mistake.\n\nThe real point at issue is this—that the rule does not limit the collection of duties at Foochow solely to vessels authorized to trade at Takao (in addition to the Treaty privilege of doing so at Tai-wan-Foo) under permits conceded in consideration of a counter-agreement to pay such duties for both ports at Foochow;—but states generally that on vessels resorting to Tai-wan-Foo or Takao (the obvious meaning being either port) the Customs duties leviable shall for the present be collected at Foochow through an Agent.—You are perfectly correct in assuming, as the condition precedent to the issue of permits, that the parties receiving them do bind themselves to the terms of the rules under which they are issued, and must among other things pay duties in Foochow; but the Committee cannot therefore admit the justness of your inference, that a refusal on the part of Merchants (other than those in possession of permits) to pay, through an Agent at Foochow, the Customs duties on goods imported at Tai-wan-Foo, or exported from that port direct to Hongkong, is equivalent to a public declaration, that it is their intention to avail themselves of any opportunity that may offer for evading the duties altogether;\"—for it must not be overlooked that those persons enjoy Treaty rights at all open ports, which cannot be compromised or limited by any act of this Chamber—and that they may be unwilling or unable to give bonds for so heavy a sum as Tls. 20,000, or make a cash deposit of Tls. 10,000. This last consideration leads the Committee to offer a few observations on the heavy securities required, and the very severe penalties provided for any breach of the regulations.\n\nThe present experiment of admitting foreign trade to non-treaty ports, under licence, being avowedly tentative, its success must of course be measured by the more or less general adoption of the proffered facilities by the parties interested in the special trade.\n\nBy the 47th Article of the Treaty of Tientsin, British Merchant Vessels entering unlawfully into, or trading at, non-treaty ports, shall with cargo be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government. By the 48th Article of the same treaty—if any British Merchant Vessel be concerned in smuggling, the goods whatever their value or nature, shall be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Authorities, and the ship may be prohibited from trading further, and sent away as soon as her accounts shall have been adjusted and paid. By the \"Provisional Regulations\" in cases of false declaration at Foochow, or of neglect to pay the duties at the proper time, the Custom-house may at their option seize the vessel or cause her boat to be forfeited. The offences contemplated by the Treaty are quite as serious as those specified in the \"Provisional Regulations,\" but the penalties exacted by the latter are out of all proportion heavier. In the opinion of the Committee the combination of such heavy securities, and severe penalties will deter the mass of traders from availing themselves of the facility of doing business at the port of Keelung and Takao under the proposed concession, not by any disinclination to keep within the limits of a strictly legal trade, but by the onerous obligations imposed and the Committee would strongly urge a material diminution both in the securities to be required and in the penalties to be inflicted. Should you be disposed to concur in the suggestion, the Committee will be happy to co-operate with you in framing a reasonable scale for both.\n\nIn the penultimate paragraph of the Regulations, it is provided that any ship furnished with the pass above referred to, and which may have been cleared from a Northern Chinese port regularly opened to trade, will be obliged to call at the Port of Tamsui to deliver a copy of her manifest and pay her port duties to the Customs there. Although not so expressed, this arrangement no doubt embraces not only Keelung, but also Tai-wan-Foo and Takao, and is not an inconvenient one; but it appears to the Committee that the provisions in the same paragraph, that Export duties, in the case of ship clearing from Tai-wan-Foo or Takao for Hongkong direct, must be paid to the Customs at Foochow, might with advantage be extended to similar duties on cargoes from these ports to other Chinese ports, instead of being made payable, as at present intended, at the Chinese port of destination. The Committee trust that these explanations will remove from your mind the impression, that the Chamber is indisposed to co-operate in any measures that tend to expand and facilitate legitimate Commerce in this Country—and hope that the eventual full success of your present commencement may tend to still more important alleviations of the present system. They regret to learn that native opposition is, so far, thwarted the practical inauguration of the scheme, and look with confidence to your energy for overcoming it. I have the honor &c.\n\n13\n\nMonsieur le Baron de Meritens, Commissioner of Customs, Fuochow, to J. J. Mackenzie Esq., Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,\n\nOFFICE OF MARITIME CUSTOMS, Foochow, 23d July, 1863.\n\nSIR—On my return from Shanghai I found here the letter which you have done me the honor to address to me in the name of the Chamber of Commerce of which you are president, and I must express my appreciation of the perfect courtesy which pervades it.\n\nI am quite disposed on my part to admit the justice of the reflections of the Chamber, and to modify in consequence the Provisional Regulations for Formosa. I only request it to recognize the practical difficulties which I meet in my way.\n\nAs far as the north of Formosa is concerned, that is to say the ports of Tamsui and Keelung, all is easy and straightforward, because I have it in my power to establish an Agent at Tamsui in whose administration the port of Keelung will be included.\n\nOn the other hand, for the south, that is to say the Ports of Tai-wan-foo and Takao, there is much confusion and difficulty, because as I have not, and am not able to have at present, any Agent in these Ports, I have been obliged to seek guarantees for the payment of the Import and Export duties in an unusual way viz: the payment of duties at Foochow, and the deposit of a sufficient sum of money. I do not conceal from myself that it would be more simple in many respects to have a regular Establishment at Tai-wan-foo, the business of which would also be to collect the customs duties leviable at Takao, but I am unable, at least for the present, to establish an Agency there, and if I may be permitted to offer you my opinion, I would say that I consider it a highly progressive step to solve the problem, by many thought even now impossible, that a respectable trade may be established, and the duties recognized as legal by the Treaties collected, without it being absolutely necessary to establish Foreign Custom-houses at all the ports. The creation of these establishments is in general a source of expense for the Imperial Government of China, and if the future necessities of Commerce should require the opening of new ports it will be to lay the foundation of a considerable chance of success, if there is the example of the south of Formosa opened to the great advantage both of Trade and of the Treasury under regulations mutually agreed upon and freely accepted; such are the opinions which I submit with confidence to your judgment and to that of the Chamber of Commerce of Hongkong.\n\nWith regard to that which more especially concerns the part of the regulations of Formosa relating to Tai-wan-foo and Takao, I adopt the sentiments of the Chamber in consequence of the strong argument which you submit to me in support of your opinion, and which is expressed as follows. \"For it must not be overlooked that these persons enjoy treaty rights at all open ports which cannot be compromised or limited by any act of this Chamber\"—and I do not hesitate for the same reason to modify the regulations as proposed by the Chamber, and to limit to the Port of Takao only, the conditions formerly applicable to the ports of Tai-wan-foo and Takao equally.\n\nAs to the bond required from those who desire to be authorized to repair to Takao to trade, I think that you are mistaken in the amount at which it is fixed—It was at first resolved to require twenty thousand (20,000) taels, but on the representations of Merchants in whose judgment I had the greatest confidence, the amount has been lessened by one-half, and if you consult the text of the regulations you will see that the bond is fixed at the sum of ten thousands (10,000) taels, making no distinction between a bond given by an honorable house and the deposit of a sum of money. I trust then that in this respect also you will admit that I have endeavored to meet your wishes.\n\nAs to the penalties to be inflicted, I am quite ready to make them less severe, thus agreeing on that point also with you; thus for neglect in the payment of the duties in due time at Foochow, or for faults in the manifest, the penalty is reduced to a fine of five hundred (500) taels; the bond will not be considered as forfeited except in the case of fraud or smuggling, and the ship will only be confiscated in cases foreseen and provided against by Article 47 of the English Treaty.\n\nI think I have thus taken into very serious consideration the despatch which you have addressed to me, and I have conformed as much as is in my power to the wishes which you expressed, for the simple reason that they were founded on justice and couched in extremely moderate and courteous language. It only remains for me in conclusion to express my thanks to you for the part which you have taken with regard to the difficulties against which I have had to contend here, and which occasioned my journey to Shanghai, these difficulties are fortunately now removed, and I have much pleasure in forwarding to you a copy of the modified regulations which will be put in force on the first of August next. It is unnecessary for me to say that I shall esteem myself most fortunate in having the oral support of the Chamber in this work which it has now commenced with me.—I have the honor to be, Sir, your most Obedient Servant.\n\n12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-097 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1864 [1-2] & Sir Robinson - 1864 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259236, "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": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5]", "content_text": "14\n\n75\n\n323\n\n[(Boppy)\n\nA. M. G. B. Bustard.\"\n\nFoochow November 11th. 1853.\n\nSir,\n\nIn answer to your letter (M.176) of the 10th instant I have the honor to inform you that in consequence of some slight defects, now being made good, the \"Bustard\" will not be ready for service until about the 18th instant when I propose to communicate with Colonel Lew, the mandarin in command of the Min-gan.\n\nChas: A Sinclair, Regre\n\nA. B. Mis Consul,\n\nFoochow foo Station", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-098 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272586, "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": 144, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n### PORT OF AMOY.\n\n**CHINA**\n\nSHIPOWNERS, AGENTS, and COMMANDERS are informed that the Dock Company's Establishments at the above Port afford facility for REPAIRING and REFITTING STEAM and SAILING VESSELS.\n\nTheir large Granite Dock, 288 feet on the blocks, 307 feet over all, is in complete working order, and at average spring tides can take vessels drawing 16 to 17 feet. It is filled with Caisson Gate and with a powerful centrifugal Steam Pump, ensuring despatch in all states of the tide.\n\nTheir two smaller Granite Docks, one 223 feet, the other 160 feet on the blocks, can take vessels at average spring tides drawing 14 feet to 13 feet.\n\nA stock kept on hand of Timber, Spars, Copper and Metal Sheathing, Paints for Iron Vessels, and other material required for Dockyard use.\n\n### CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK of INDIA, LONDON, and CHINA.\n\n**INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER.**\n\nPAID-UP CAPITAL ... £750,000 \nRESERVE FUND... £145,908 14\n\nEllis Jas. Gilman, Esq. \nD.F. Robertson, Esq., Chief Manager (or officiating).\n\n**Court of DIRECTORS.**\n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| George Gardon Nicol, Esq., Chairman |\n| Donald Larnach Esq. |\n| George May, Esq. |\n| Sir F. Halliday, Esq. K.C.B. |\n| Jas. Murray Robertson Esq. |\n\nThe premises comprise Carpenters Shops, Mast Sheds, Calendering and Blacksmiths' Shops, superintended by experienced Euro-Madras and European Foremen; also an Engineer's Workshop, supplied with Lathes and other tools worked by Steam, in charge of a Resident European Engineer. Dry Godowns for the reception of stores of vessels requiring to discharge them.\n\n**BANKERS.**\n\n- The Bank of England.\n- The London Joint Stock Bank.\n\n**BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.**\n\n| Location |\n| --- |\n| Colombo |\n| Kandy |\n| Galle |\n| Penang |\n| Singapore |\n| Shanghai |\n| Hankow |\n| Foochow |\n| Canton |\n| Hong Kong |\n| Yokohama |\n\nThe Bank negotiates and collects Bills and grants Drafts payable at its Branches and Agencies, and issues Letters of Credit and Circular Notes.\n\n### NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS.\n\n**SINGAPORE DOCKS.**\n\nTHE PATENT SLIP AND DOCK COMPANY execute, in the most efficient manner, SHIPS REPAIRS of all descriptions, under the supervision of European Shipwrights and Engineers.\n\nThe DRY DOCK (opened in March, 1869) admits two Vessels at the same time, being over 400 feet in length, with a depth of water ranging to 16 feet.\n\nAnother Dry Dock of larger dimensions, adjoining the above, will shortly be completed, and available for the heaviest Steamers.\n\nThere is on the same premises extensive Wharf, with substantial Warehouse and other accommodation, comprising every convenience for coaling Steamers, discharging and storing Goods, together with ample Machinery and appliances for repairing Iron Steamers, &c.\n\nApply at the Offices of Messrs. PATERSON, SIMONS, and Co., Singapore; or to W. W. KEB, Esq., 101, Cannon-street, London, E.C.\n\nW. CLOUGHTON, Managing Director. \nNew Harbour, Singapore, June, 1867.\n\n### THE AGRA BANK (LIMITED).\n\nESTABLISHED IN 1833.-CAPITAL, £1,000,000. \nHEAD OFFICE-Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street, London.\n\n**BANKERS.**\n\nMessrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., and Bank of England.\n\n**BRANCHES.**\n\n- Edinburgh\n- Calcutta\n- Bombay\n- Madras\n- Kurrachee\n- Agra\n- Lahore\n- Shanghai\n- Hong Kong\n\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS are kept at the Head Office on the terms customary with London bankers, and interest allowed when the credit balance does not fall below £100.\n\nDEPOSITS received for fixed periods on the following terms, viz.:\n\n- At 5 per cent. per annum, subject to 12 months' notice of withdrawal.\n- At 4 per cent. per annum, subject to 6 months' notice of withdrawal.\n- At 3 per cent. per annum, subject to 3 months' notice of withdrawal.\n\nEXCEPTIONAL RATES for longer periods than twelve months, particulars of which may be obtained on application.\n\nBILLS issued at the current exchange of the day on any of the Branches of the Bank free of extra charge; and approved bills purchased or sent for collection.\n\nSALES AND PURCHASES effected in British and foreign securities, in East India stock and loans, and the safe custody of the same undertaken.\n\nInterest drawn, and army, navy, and civil pay and pensions realised.\n\nEvery other description of banking business and money agency, British and Indian, transacted.\n\nM. BALFOUR, Manager.\n\n### COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.\n\nIncorporated by National Decrees of 7th and 8th of March, 1848, and by Imperial Decrees of 20th July, 1854: and 31st of December, 1866.\n\nRecognised by the International Convention of 30th April, 1862.\n\n| | Francs | £ |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Subscribed Capital | 80,000,000 | |\n| Capital paid up | 50,000,000 | £2,000,000 |\n\nThe Bank will undertake the Agency of parties connected with India and China, the Purchase and Sale of Indian Securities, the Safe Custody of same, and the receipt of Interest, Dividends, Pay, Pensions, and other Moneys.\n\nThe Bank receives money on Deposit, on which Interest is allowed according to the length of time deposited.\n\nParticulars as to Rates, &c., can be ascertained on application.\n\n5, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.\n\n### HONG KONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nCapital, 5,000,000 dols. Paid up, 2,500,000 dols. \n**COURT OF DIRECTORS AND HEAD OFFICE IN HONG KONG.**\n\nLONDON AGENCY.-W. H. Vacher, 32, Nicholas-lane. \nBANKERS.-London and County Bank.\n\n**BRANCHES AND AGENCIES.**\n\n| Location |\n| --- |\n| Hong Kong |\n| Shanghai |\n| Foochow |\n| Ningpo |\n| Hankow |\n| Yoka (Yokohama) |\n| Manila |\n| Singapore |\n| Bombay |\n| Calcutta |\n\nThe Bank grants DRAFTS upon and negotiates or collects BILLS at any of its Agencies or Branches; also receives DEPOSITS for fixed periods, at rates varying with the period of deposit.\n\nIn addition to fixed rates of interest, the Bank has adopted the principle of setting aside a certain portion of its early profits to be given as a Bonus on Funds lodged with the Bank. Depositors will participate equally in respect of such Bonus, whether shareholders or not.\n\n### PIGNATEL & CO.\n\n**STOREKEEPERS, GENERAL MERCHANTS, AND COMMISSION AGENTS.**\n\nNAGASAKI JAPAN.\n\n### TUPPER AND COMPANY.\n\n**MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT GALVANISED IRON**, in Sheets, Tiles, Iron Roofs, Sheds, Cisterns, Pails, Gutters, Nails, Wire for Fencing, &c.\n\n**WORKS AT BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON.**\n\nOffices-6a, MOORGATE-STREET, LONDON. \nMerchants' orders executed with despatch.\n\n### R. L. SOUTHERN and Co.\n\n**MERCHANTS AND AGENTS.**\n\n6, MINCING-LANE, LONDON, E.C.\n\n### TO LET.\n\n[Aug. 13, 1867.]\n\nNow ready, price 10s. 6d.\n\n**TABLES for ASCERTAINING the COST PER POUND of CHINA RAW and WASTE SILK** Laid down in London; all charges paid at rates of Exchange from 6s. 6d. to 7s. 6d. per tael for Raw Silk, and from 5s. to 7s. 6d. per tael for Waste Silk.\n\nBy Edward Holdsworth.\n\nTo be had at the office of the \"London and China Telegraph,\" 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### TO PARENTS IN INDIA AND CHINA.\n\nTHE ADVERTISER (who is the wife of a professional man) is willing to receive TWO YOUNG LADIES to be EDUCATED with her own daughter. The best course of education will be combined with all the advantages of a comfortable home. The house and garden are large, and in the neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace. Terms, £100 per annum each.\n\nAddress \"F\" London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill. Unexceptionable references given and required.\n\n### TO CHINA MERCHANTS.\n\nTHE ADVERTISER, having had considerable experience in the China Trade, both in managing a large business and as Silk Buyer for five years (his knowledge of Silk extending over a period of thirteen years), is anxious to meet with an APPOINTMENT, either in England or China.\n\nAddress, E. C. E., care office, \"London and China Telegraph,\" 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### TO JAPAN MERCHANTS.\n\nAN energetic GENTLEMAN, aged 39, and possessed of 22 years' business experience (10 of which have been passed as a Merchant in one of the Australian Colonies, the remainder in London) SEEKS A CONFIDENTIAL APPOINTMENT IN JAPAN AS MANAGER OR OTHERWISE. Is a first-class Accountant and Correspondent, well acquainted with Merchandise, Shipping, Insurances, &c., is competent to take the management of a Branch for a Marine Insurance Company, having great experience at Lloyd's. Is seeking an opening where integrity and ability may lead to future advancement rather than any immediate high remuneration. References of the highest character.\n\nAddress \"S. W.\" care of Messrs. WILLIAM BROWN and Co., 40, Old Broad-street, E.C.\n\n### WA\n\n**CHINA AND JAPAN TRADE.**\n\nWANTED a PARTNER, either active or sleeping, to take a share in a business connected with China and Japan. Capital required, about £5,000.\n\nFor interview address S. T., London and China Telegraph Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill.\n\n### A GENTLEMAN, recently returned from Japan.\n\nhaving had for five years the management of the books of one of the principal houses in Yokohama, is desirous of a fresh ENGAGEMENT, either in Japan or any house in England connected with the East.\n\nAddress, E. J. S., 5, Love-lane, Aldermanbury.\n\n### PERRY and Co.'s PATENT ESSENCE OF INK.\n\nThe CHEAPEST INK. \nThe BEST INK. \nThe PERMANENT INK. \nThe 1d. Packet equal to a 6d. Bottle. \nThe 1s. Bottle makes Two Quarts.\n\nPERRY and Co.'s PATENT ESSENCE OF INK.\n\nThis preparation produces Extemporaneous Ink of the finest quality in one minute with cold water, and instantly with hot water, by simple solution as salt or sugar. Sold in packets 1d. each, and in glass bottles 1s. each. Sample free, per post, for two stamps. Sold by all Stationers, Wholesale, 87, Red Lion-square, and 3, Cheapside, London.\n\n### A FURNISHED (DOUBLE) HOUSE AT FOREST HILL.\n\nContaining DINING ROOM, DRAWING ROOM, and Six BED ROOMS, BATH ROOM, KITCHENS, LAUNDRY, &c. The Situation is good, and the house in all respects desirable.\n\nRent, £4s. per Week, or the Lease and Furniture can be purchased.\n\n### BOSTONITE GOODS.\n\nPERRY and Co. have much pleasure in introducing their new patent BOSTONITE to the Public, and they do so with the full conviction that it will supply a want long felt, viz. perfect Lead or Coloured Pencil Tablets, Slates, &c.\n\n\"This will be made suitable for persons just arriving in England from India, China, &c.\n\nApply to Mr. SALLING, 163, Fenchurch-street, City.\n\n### BASS AND ALLSOPP'S INDIA PALE ALES.\n\nGEORGE JONES, No. 8, Billiter-street.\n\nPresent prices. 7s. 3d. per dozen quarts, and 4s. 0d. per dozen pints. Free on board, protected by his own and the Brewer's Labels and Patent Capsule.\n\nPERRY and Co.'s PATENT BOSTONITE PLAYING CARDS, 2s. 6d. per pack. \nBostonite Slates from 6d. each. \nBostonite Book Slates, 1s., 1s. 6d., and 2s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Memorandum Tablets, 6d., 1s., and 1s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Umrica, 1s., 1s. 6d., and 3s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Music Slates, 6d. each. \nBostonite Purses, from 1s. 6d. each. \nBostonite Multiplication Tablets, 4s. each.\n\n### FURNITURE FOR INDIA, CHINA, &c.\n\nHEAL AND SON **MANUFACTURE, ESPECIALLY FOR EXTREME CLIMATES**, SOLID MAHOGANY FURNITURE, Entirely free from Veneer. A large general assortment always on view.\n\n**IRON AND BRASS BEDSTEADS** In the choicest Designs. 3,500 Bedsteads kept in Stock.\n\n**HEAL & SON'S PATENT HORSEHAIR MATTRESS** Prevents the material from Felting Into a mass, as is the case in all ordinary Mattresses. The Patent Mattresses are made of the very best Forchair, are thicker than usual, and the prices are but a trifle higher than those of other good Mattresses.\n\n**ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES** Of Bedsteads and Bedroom Furniture, designed for INDIA and the EAST, SENT POST FREE TO EVERY PART OF THE WORLD.\n\n142, 143, 144, Tottenham-court-road, London, W.\n\n### REVUE ORIENTALE.\n\nConducted by M. LEON DE ROSNY, Professor of Japanese in the Imperial School of Living Oriental Languages of Paris.\n\nDEVOTED specially to Ethnography, History, Literature, and Commerce of Asia, Africa, and Oceania.\n\nThe last issue (No.58) contains, amongst other matters:\n\n- DE LA LITTERATURE ARAMEENNE; par Munk de l'institut (since deceased).\n- LES GRANDES EPOPEES DE L'INDE DANS LEUR RAPPORTS AVEC LA CIVILISATION; par Léon de Rosny.\n- DEUX MOIS CHEZ LES SAUVAGES AINOS (Japon) - ORAISON FUNERBE, PRAVCITE DU COGITIF CHINOIS par Truong-vinh-ky.\n- BIBLIOGRAPHIE-NOUVELLES ET MELANGES—THĖME ORIENTAL.\n\nAgents in London: TRÜBNER AND CO.\n\n### THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nTHE NINTH Volume of this JOURNAL commenced on the 7th of January, 1867. The Subscription for the three numbers per month is 20s. per annum, including Postage, and to the Export Supplement 12s. Terms for advertising, 2s. 6d. per five lines; and 6d. for each additional line.\n\nSubscriptions and Advertisements received abroad by The following Agents:\n\n- G. W. YAPP, 4, Place Pentagonale, Paris.\n- HEAL & SON, Bedstead, Bedding, and Bedroom Furniture Manufacturers, 196, 197, 198, Tottenham-court-road, London, W.\n\n### GRANT'S TRANS-MONGOLIAN TELEGRAMS.\n\nAug. 4, 1867.\n\nAnnual Subscribers from Europe to China, £180. \nAnnual Subscribers from China to Europe, £100 sterling. \nAnnual Subscribers from Europe to China, and China to Europe, £200 sterling.\n\nThese rates are exclusive of Express Couriers and Telegraph Charges, viz. Twenty words, 3s. 7d. or Tls. 2.50 Shanghai Sycee, and for every ten words extra Rs. 3.50 kopecks, or Tls. 1.25 Shanghai sycee.\n\nAnnual Subscribers have the privilege of sending Telegrams of any number of words to any one person or firm; the name and address of such person or firm must be given on payment of subscription.\n\nIf an Annual Subscriber or his Agent publishes in any newspaper, or allows the contents of any Telegram to be made public without the special consent of the undersigned, the said Annual Subscriber shall forfeit his subscription. Telegrams for publication, 50 per cent. extra. Telegrams may be despatched from Europe-From Tuesday, 19th February, to Tuesday, 19th November inclusive.\n\nFrom Shanghai, on the departure of the first steamer to Tientsin till the freezing of the river Peiho.\n\nC. MITCHELL GRANT. \nAgency in London--\"London and China Telegraph\" Office, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill (over the Jerusalem).\n\n### TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.\n\n**PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.**\n\nSingle Paper ... 8d. \nYearly... £1 4s.\n\n**BY POST.**\n\nSingle Paper ... 9d. \nYearly... £1 10s.\n\nFISHER, Castle-court, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London, E.C. \n**Post-office orders to be made payable to FRANCIS FISHER.**\n\n### HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT and PILLS.\n\nDangerous Diseases. How many life-long maladies spring from neglecting trifling symptoms... Holloway's remedies will remove eruptions of the skin, scorbutic diseases, and scrofula... By the use of Holloway's excellent, speedy, and safe medicament, much pain and immense expense may be saved...\n\n### DR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE.\n\nVice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood stated publicly in Court that Dr. J. Collis Browne was undoubtedly the inventor of Chlorodyne...\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE is a certain cure in CHOLERA, DYSENTERY, DIARRHOEA, COUGHS, &c.\n\nExtract from the GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, London, as to its efficacy in Cholera.\n\nFrom A. MONTGOMERY, Esq., late Inspector of Hospitals, Bombay-Chlorodyne is a most valuable remedy in Neuralgia, Asthma, and Dysentery.\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE. CAUTION-Noue genuine without the words \"Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne\" on the Government Stamp.\n\nDR. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNE The immense demand enables the proprietors to render the price; it is now sold in bottles, 1s. 1½d., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and 11s.\n\nAGENT: Hong Kong, Mr. A. S. WATSON. \nJ. T. DAVENPORT, 33, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, LONDON.\n\n### THE CAPE, INDIA, AND CHINA AGENCY.\n\nORDERS for GOODS of all descriptions executed, and Shipped by the Overland Route or by Clipper sailing vessels. Consignments realised.\n\nThe Goods are selected by parties who have had personal experience of the requirements of the markets at the Cape Colonies, India, China, and Japan.\n\nTERMS:-One-half the estimated cost to be remitted with the order, and the balance on receipt of Bill of Lading and Invoice. Commission, 2½ per cent. on Orders over £50 and 5 per cent. on amounts under £50.\n\nOrders and remittances should be addressed to the MANAGER.\n\nOffice, 2, Cowper's-court, Cornhill (over the Jerusalem), London, E.C.\n\n### COWASJEE DINSHAW.\n\nClose to the Landing Place. \nDepot of EUROPEAN, CHINA, and INDIAN WORK.\n\n- WINE, BEER, CHAMPAGNE, and SPIRITS of the best quality.\n- BOMBAY-MADE SODA WATER and LEMONADE.\n- PERFUMERY, CONFECTIONERY, OIL, &c.\n- MATS'S STORES, and STATIONERY of every description.\n- SOFA TICKETS and CANVAS SHOES, &c.\n\nTHE STEAMER POINT, ADEN.\n\nDrawing and Reading-room free to Passengers.\n\n### LONDON AND CHINA EXPRESS.\n\nON SALE.\n\n### THE MONEY MARKET REVIEW.\n\nA WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE HIGHEST CLASS, EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL TOPICS.\n\nAgents:\n\n| Location | Agent |\n| --- | --- |\n| Labuan, Sarawak, and Singapore | LOMAN AND VEESTER. |\n| Penang... | HOON & KEYT. |\n| Bangkok. | WILMER AND ROGERS. |\n| Batavia | J. CHITTIEN. |\n| Manila | P.CUMBO, St. Catherine's-square. |\n| Aden | COWASJEE DINSHAW. |\n| | CHESSON AND WOODHALL. |\n| | SANDERS, CONES, AND CO. |\n| | G. S. ANTHANISZ. |\n| | J. W. VANDOW. |\n| Singapore | Jony Lee & Co., Singapore. |\n| | SANDILANDS, BUTTERY AND CO. |\n| Anjer-Straits of Sunda | HUNTER, HOUGHTON, AND Co. |\n| | G. SCHUIT, Anjer Hotel. |\n| Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, & Swatow | PHILLIES, MOOZE, AND CO. |\n| | J. B. Mowatt, Hong Kong. |\n| | Audy ... |\n| Foo-Chow-Foo...... | BELLAMY AND CO. |\n| | HEDGE AND Co. |\n| Shanghai | ... |\n| Tien-Tsin... | H. FOGG AND CO. |\n| Nagasaki-Japan... | JAMES HANDERSON. |\n| Yokohama | PIGNATEL AND CO. |\n| | HANSAND AND BLACK. |\n\nOFFICE, 2, COWPER'S COURT, CORNHILL, E.C. (Over the Jerusalem.)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283587, "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": 159, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "## \n\n158\n\ngoing into the matter thoroughly that the suggested mail service between Hong Kong and Foo-chow could not be done for less than £3000 per annum for each of the three steamers required to perform the service effectively.\n\nI have etc.,\n(signed) I. W. Mitchell.\n\nMy dear Mitchell,\n\nSince expressing to you the opinion that £3000 or at the rate of £1000 each of the steamers for the Foochow Mail service would perhaps suffice, I find upon going into the matter thoroughly that it could not be done excepting at a loss, and I could give no hope that we could do the service for less than £3000 per annum for each of the three steamers required to perform the service effectively.\n\nYours truly,\n[signed] A. J. Haton.\n\nCopy\n\nI. W. Mitchell, Esq.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 283636, "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": 208, "title": "CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870", "content_text": "# Agreement dated the 18th day of May, 1870\nbetween **THE CHINA SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH COMPANY, LIMITED**, hereinafter called the China Company, of the one part, and **THE GREAT NORTHERN TELEGRAPH, CHINA AND JAPAN EXTENSION COMPANY**, of Copenhagen, hereinafter called the Northern Company, of the other part.\n\nWHEREAS, the China Company is about to lay a Submarine Telegraph Cable from Singapore to Hong Kong, which cable will be connected by other submarine lines with Australia, India, and England. AND WHEREAS the Northern Company is about to lay a submarine telegraph cable from a point on the Russian Pacific Coast to Shanghai, in connection with land lines passing through Siberia and Russia, and thence to Western Europe, and connected with England. AND WHEREAS each of the said Companies contemplated the construction of a line of submarine telegraph between Hong Kong and Shanghai, touching at Amoy and Foochiow-Foo, two of the treaty ports of China, and also contemplated an extension to Japan. AND WHEREAS, with a view to avoid competition between the said two Companies, the following terms have been agreed upon. NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, and it is hereby mutually agreed :-\n\n1. The Northern Company (unless prevented by accident) shall, before the 1st day of October of the present year, 1870, construct and ship a submarine telegraph cable of a sufficient length to connect Shanghai and Hong Kong, and of the quality as to insulation and capacity for traffic set forth in the Specification hereto annexed, and will take all necessary steps to have the same laid as soon as possible, and such cable, together with the extension thereof to the treaty ports of Foochow-Foo and Amoy, if and when made by the Northern Company are hereinafter referred to as the Shanghai Cable.\n\n2. The whole district between Hong Kong and Shangai shall, for all the purposes of this agreement, be treated as neutral district, both as to Land and Sea Telegraph lines, and neither of the parties hereto shall, (except under Articles 1 and 4,) construct or become directly or indirectly interested in, or make working arrangements with any Land or Sea Telegraph lines, within such neutral district, without the consent of the other of them.\n\n3. The Northern Company shall not extend their lines by sea or by land south of Hong Kong, nor connect nor make working arrangements with or become directly or indirectly interested in any telegraph lines by sea or land south of Hong Kong, except those of the China Company, and the China Company shall not extend their lines by sea or by land, to any place in China north of Shanghai, nor to any place in Japan, nor connect or make working arrangements with or become directly or indirectly interested in any telegraph lines by sea or land in China, north of Shanghai, nor in Japan, except those of the Northern Company.\n\n4. The Northern Company undertake to connect Hong Kong by direct telegraph by sea or by land with the treaty port of Amoy as soon as possible, and at latest within one year after the China Company have laid their line from Singapore to Hong Kong, unless prevented by the Chinese Government or other force majeure, and in that case, as soon as possible thereafter, and in like manner to connect the treaty port of Fochoow Foo with Shanghai or Hong Kong as soon as possible, and at latest within two years after the China Company have laid their line from Singapore to Hong Kong, unless prevented by the Chinese Government or other force majeure, and in that case as soon as possible thereafter and in case of default, the China Company may make on their own...\n\n`Jr. 5322/2`\n`[20585]`\n`2073`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-148 - Public Offices & Others - 1870.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294111, "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": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "page_number": 81, "title": "CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12]", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE OVERLAND CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.\n\n## LATEST FROM CANTON\n\nSeptember 26th. I hear of loss of life already among the natives. The Japanese have made an honourable withdrawal of their troops. They only desire now that the Chinese Government should deplore that they have given cause that led the Japanese to send their soldiers here, and then they would take away their troops. I don't think the Chinese will agree to this declaration, as it is nothing less than an acknowledgment of the illegality of the Japanese proceedings. They know they can fight now and don't care what turn the negotiations may take.\n\nThe French civil engineers had stopped a few days ago to superintend the erection of a fort at Amping. It is to cost a good sum of taels, something touching $100,000, besides...\n\nIt must be remembered that the force of the storm was such as to tear up trees by the roots; and telegraph poles would not be very much more. Our belief is, that at the departure of the last mail from Shanghai, everything was in exactly the same state of uncertainty as before. Two Chinese passengers around The Felony gun-boat, Capt. Wright, were drowned that there was a prospect of a mutually satisfactory arrangement being arrived at.\n\nThe foreign newspapers did not confirm this, and there is no doubt whatever of all lives lost but Mr Heather, the gunner, on board. We got the tag of rigorous preparations on the Yangtze river.\n\nThe United States Janillary rigour is exhibited man, out of the typhoon here. It did some damage to trees and houses.\n\nWe are of opinion that the rumour mentioned above has arisen, either from witnessing the energy on both sides; or by the invariable tendency of rumour to gather in as it goes. As to the government forbidding telegrams to be forwarded, it is absurd. If they wished to stop communications, they surely know how to effect it within a few hours, not by such a foolish order. There is such a gathering of rumours touching peace or war. We must wait until the next steamer arrives from Shanghai or Nagasaki, and advise our friends to be undisturbed by any more rumours.\n\n## JAPAN\n\nThe desolation the town now reached its depth. The crash of falling houses, the screaming of the victims, people running to and fro in the utmost consternation; but can get no particulars yet. The roar of the wind and of the rain, all this was something awful to hear or see. Suddenly an ominous glare appeared in the heavens. Fires had broken out in different parts of the town, and the flames, whipped on by the gales, rushed in horizontal streams over the largest masses, devouring the buildings that stood even at great distances in their direction. The loud reverberation of these fires striking from the flying clouds on the sky was repeated by the waters which invaded the doomed town in every direction. On this occasion the loss of life was fearful. People had only to shun their death by water, tree, or the shock of falling buildings.\n\nLast month, a hail-storm passed over Nikko, Yonezawa, and the neighbouring country, and several people were hurt by the bad stones. An old man, between 20 and 30 years of age, said he had never seen such large ones; some of them measured 7 inches in circumference. Several persons who put up native umbrellas against the storm had them broken to pieces. At last daylight dawned on this terrible scene.\n\nIt seemed a dream, an enormous negation, awful to relate, but there it was; in this dire destructive Macao was not to be recognised; the waves sprang like infuriated lions on the ruined buildings and it seemed uncertain if the very ground had not gone down. By this time the barometer was already rising, but as soon as the first light appeared in the heavens, His Excellency, the Governor, the noble and brave Viscount S. Januario, went out with his staff and a body of troops to bring help where needed. The robbers who began to assail and plunder the ruined houses were energetically put down. It is a most remarkable occurrence that to this moment a very insignificant looting has taken place.\n\nThe Governor, with Mr Cunha of the public works department, after tremendous heroic efforts extinguished the fires. Mr Canha was severely wounded in the head on this occasion. While this was going on, a body of soldiers with Mr R. Sampaio, a naval officer, A.D.C. to the Governor, and Mr Menier were saving life on the sea.\n\nAs tea is one of the principal, and also one of the most valuable, exports of Japan, care should be taken to prevent fraud in its preparation for market.\n\nTOKOHINA\n\nWe received the following interesting telegram on Saturday (the 5th), but too late for publication in last issue— \"Satsuma men have offered to equip, send to the war (against China), and support, eighteen thousand (18,000) troops, at their own expense.\"—Gazette.\n\nXIGATA\n\nDuring the typhoon at Niigata on last night, eleven persons were killed.—Gazette.\n\nJinrikishas have come into general use, made here.—Ibid.\n\nDuring cannon practice, at Tsukuda jims, Tokei, on the 29th ulto, one of the guns burst, the fragments flying in all directions. The farmers near the river banks who have the numerous pear gardens which abound for miles along each side will be great losers, their trees have been stripped of both leaves and fruit. The value of pears exported from here last year was $60,000.—Ibid.\n\nOne man stripped himself and swam off to save some persons who were drowning. It is believed that the originators of this fraud have been discovered. For the credit of the country it is fortunate they did not succeed in passing off this ink-dyed material.\n\nMr Broitdem of the English navy, who was on the Prais, saved also two children in the same way. The greatest energy and bravery shown by the Portuguese soldiers on this occasion when the fury of the waves made it a very difficult matter and a dangerous one to save life from the wreck.\n\nOn account of the unsettled weather this year, the production of the silk-worms at Yamagata ken and Akita-ken has been very poor; but at Miyagi-ken, and farther south, it has been good. The Fukushima Kencho granted a license allowing the people engaged in the trade to use patent papers for the depositing silkworms eggs; but some fellows infringed the patent and manufactured a lot of papers in hue a colour exactly resembling the genuine ones. The Kencho heard of this, the license was recalled, and the trade is therefore in considerable confusion.—(Fukushima.)\n\nWith the view of adding to its forces the Tokugawa clan...\n\n## LIST OF VESSELS IN HARBOUR\n\nSeptember 2, 1874.\n\n| Vessel | Nationality | From | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Queizen Maru | Jap. Str. | Nemoro | Left today for Utaranai |\n| Orako-Kan | Jap. Str. | Itump | |\n| Komi-Maru | Jap. Str. | Awomori | Left a day for dromer |\n| Tauta-Maru | Jap. Brig | Yedo | |\n| Tauso-Maru | Jap. Brigantine | Akita | |\n| Sackar Maru | Jap. Str. | Awomori | |\n| Torf-Moru | Jap. Schooner | Midzuis | |\n| Wiyo-Mary | Jap. Str. | Yedo | |\n| Han, Geim. Barque | | Vladivostock | Bound for Shanghai |\n| Hosho-Kan | Jap. Str. | Iturop | |\n| Iron Duke | H.M.S. | Vladivostock | |\n| Hingtong | H.M.S. | Vladivostock | |\n| Frolic | H.S. | Vladivostock | |\n\nIt is impossible to give in detail every single act of bravery that was done on this occasion. The cold was intense, the wind was terrible, and the rain struck in such a way to hurt. Towards three o'clock the fire was subdued and the sea had returned to its wonted bed, but alas! Macao was no more. What was to be seen a few hours ago, it is a remarkable thing that among the general ruins the grand building lately constructed by Viscount S. Januario remained nearly untouched as the solitary witness of a former prosperity which seems to be now gone for ever. The gunboat Teja escaped marvellously nearly unhurt, owing, to a great extent, to the ability of its commander Fernando da Costa Cabral. The man-of-war Principe Dom Carlos was carried 12 miles inland and is now stranded in a rice field. The one commanded by the brave Captain Marinho escaped by a miracle. The gunboat Camoes was carried inland to a great distance and is believed to be a hopeless wreck. Captain Guiades, its commander, one of our best naval officers, was struck on the chest by a falling rust and was severely hurt, but his life was saved.\n\n## THE WAR IN FORMOSA\n\nWe hear by the last mail from Shanghai that the Chinese officials there put faith in the report that an understanding had been arrived at in Peking regarding the Formosan difficulty. It is also said that they are relaxing the haste of their preparations for war. The Danish ironclad they have purchased is said to be the Hot Krake, one of the monitor class, built in 1861, and known to have seen some active service during the Schleswig-Holstein business.\n\nThe murderer of Mr. Haber has been found guilty, and sentenced to death. His sentence has been referred to Tokio for ratification, as is usual in all capital cases, before being carried into execution.\n\nThe new fort was washed over by the typhoon, and the new guns were washed to a great distance. The guard of this fort was securely bound when on his trial, and bad to kneel down in court, showing some levity in his manner, but he died miserably. The commander of the fort stated, were made of Lea-ling-de, and the worst going on during the typhoon.\n\n## CHINA. SHANGHAI\n\nDuring his absence, Mr M. Langhorne will not act as agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, as Mr Holm filled the post of Agent to the Pacific Mail.\n\nThe P.M.S.S. Co.'s steamer Oregonios, with the American mail, arrived on the evening of the 19th, having experienced strong north-west winds from Nagasaki. She leaves again with the American mail. She takes with her the thirty Chinese students for America who were to have gone forward by the previous steamer.\n\nWe have enquired regarding the reported settlement of the Formosan difficulty, by Okubo, in a quarter likely to have the earliest information on the matter, and are informed that nothing has been heard.\n\nWe hear that private telegrams received on Wednesday from Japan, conveyed warlike indications.\n\nThe clipper ship Brake of Abercorn left full port on the 17th, for London, with a cargo of tea. As she moved away from her berth, B.M.S. Thistle dipped her ensign and cheered, a compliment which was acknowledged by the departing ship.\n\nThe Peking Gazette of 3rd September contains a memorial from the Governor-General of Fukien and Chekiang, submitting certain civil appointments for sanction, on the ground of existing urgency of providing for the defence of Foochow and Amoy, and also of Lubking in Formosa.\n\nWhether that issue shall be Peace or War, remains a sealed mystery.\n\nAt the Mixed Court, on the 18th, before Chen and Mr Stronach, a Chinaman known to foreigners by the name of Taze-foo-sung was charged...\n\nFive hundred soldiers from the Camp at the South Gate passed through the Settlement about 9 or 10 am on the 15th, on their way to Woosung and Paoshan. It is stated that 100 picked men have been formed into a patrol corps, to watch the coast of the Woosung peninsula.\n\nThe French barque Union is still fast on the Block-house Spit, and as the high tides are on the wane, the chances of her getting off are becoming very slender.\n\n## CHEFOO\n\nThe only thing of any interest going on here is the enquiry into the Fawcet murder case. I send you a few notes of the preliminary examination, which has resulted in a committal of the accused for trial on the charge of murder.\n\nThe Band of the Japanese ironclad Rio Jie-kow, numbering 37 performers, all Japanese, delighted the visitors and residents at Chefoo by playing in the garden of the Beach Hotel on Monday afternoon, the 7th inst. They played \"Wacht am Rhein,\" the \"Marseillaise,\" \"God Save the Queen,\" quadrilles, marches, and at the end of each piece, a round of enthusiastic applause was given to them from the occupants of various summer-houses, and gardens, which performance was well merited.\n\n## GOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONG KONG\n\n25th September 1874.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI regret to inform you that we have been visited by the most destructive typhoon ever experienced in this Colony.\n\n2. I enclose a newspaper Account of the...\n\n## SHIPPING REPORTS\n\nThe Crics reports: strong N.E. winds from Yokohama, left today for Yedo.\n\nThe Hopewell reports the last three days strong N.E. wind but did not experience the typhoon. Lost 2 boats and store by washing overboard.\n\nThe Formosa reports bound to Foochow. Experienced a typhoon on 22nd Sept in 18 N. and 121 E., commencing at N. and veering through W. to S.\n\nThe Chos y reports: moderate variable winds with big confused sea from 22nd to 23rd, with light variable winds during the 24 hours, with light Southerly breeze.\n\nThe Bug reports: the last few days experienced a nasty cross confused sea, with light & variable winds but encountered no typhoon.\n\nThe Japanes Embassy left for Peking on the 8th instant, after a rather eventful, but not uninteresting stay, of six days.\n\nThe North American reports on the 22nd inst, at 12 p.m., 65 miles S.S.E. from Hongkong experienced heavy typhoon from N.W. veering to S.W. then South, Barometer 29.20.\n\n## CANTON, 22nd Sept. 10 p.m. 1874.\n\nWe have the gale here now. Fresh from N.E., and Barometer still Falling.\n\nWe counted no fewer than twenty-five house-boats lying about, tottering in the breeze at the various piers on the 19th.\n\nPrinted and published by Nor. DICKINSON, at the China Mail Office, No. 2 Wadham street, Hongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-168 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308058, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "## For Sale. \n\n**MacEWEN, FKJKEL & CO., H**AVE JUST RECEIVED \"KL AMERICAN MAIL\" \n\n**Prime Esatera CCISE.** \n\n**Young Aansrict CUERE.** **Apple OHEISE** **BUTTER.** \n\nand **MALT.** \n\n**Sarend Ply's FELI** **Split PRAS.** \n\n**Fab' TONGTES** **AJANS.** \n\n**COONISE.** \n\n**Astarted VRGETABLES.** \n\n**arted AEN.** \n\n**Muted BOLFS.** \n\n**Pig Head UHKKSE** **Devilled HAN** \n\n**CAVISKE** **CLOSE** \n\n**Caiturei Colien BTADT** \n\n**Whitters BAMS.** \n\n**Breakfat KAŬON.** \n\n**Mails.** \n\n## NOTICE. \n\n**COMPAGNIE ES MOSAQEKINS MARITIMES.** \n\n## PAGURROTS POSTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nSTRAY FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ MAILIA, FORT Sat, NAPLES, AND · HARSAILLES; \n\nA1204 BOMUAY, MARE, ST. DANIN, ASD FORT LOUI \n\n“AN WEDNESDAY, the 27th October, 1880, as Bo the Company's BINDI, Oedant VERNE, with MALES, PARSUMENRA, SPRUIE JAROO will leave this Part for the Yunes.\n\nfor Cago and Spade wil b reglatarel COMB RONLY lo Frame and sudda as well de for Vintseüles, and a ople trait through salles for Pickle this principal places of Furope.\n\n**Shipping Orders** will be granted anal; Bekiel P10 POEK. Banalem TISK Skin AKLLIES. MACKEN 93. Iron TVHLA, ý là, anh 21 tháng Bordon's Conlused MA (sery treab) Canforais MULIS in Chek and Ta Gunger Cakes. Hak Bistutis, dels BISCITA \n\n**Cargo** will be received on board wat 4 pm, Spice and Puzzle until 3pm on he Bith\" October, 180. (Percale are yoimba sout on beard; they must be left at the Agency's Ullior,) Fontents and value of Packages are re aired, For faxtbox particulars, apply at the Tompany's ch. G. 12 OTAMPRAGE, Agent \n\n**Valor RG00LTS.** **Alpbabe B.80ITS.** **Ogaver BISUVIES.** \n\nLA Fangen, Gerober 11, 1880, Buckness FLOOR, CORNMEAL,. NAILSISAN IYE MRAL BUNNY, Small and Large. V WHEAT. QATMEAL SBELLBACK NUTS, VEOAN NUTS. WALNUTS. SOFT SAL ALMONDS. IE1 GIỜ. Canned Table Fruits. Bartlets FKARS. PRACHES GREENGAGES Tark KRUITS Smcked HEEF MITHU BISHI \n\n## HAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. \n\n**STEAM TO TOKOHAMA VIA KOPK AND INLAND EXA.** \n\n**HOES. S. SUNIVA MART**, Captain: Hanexes, dus bem o or abus the Insurances, \n\n## THE LONDON & STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, \n\n**SITARRIO GATING ZAR** **STAFFORDSHIRE FILE INSUR ANUS COMPANY, LIMITED.** \n\nChera-Two MLLong HTUMING Blond are prepared to is Pattan Cutoring FIKK WISKO S Current Kutos ADAMSON, KELL & C., Agatis. #20 longbows Augasi 26, 1680k.\n\n## CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMMPANY, UNITED, \n\n**HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.** \n\nPosition of the Compong at the close of the best financial pour, the 99th Agon), 1860, Cara Bub$1,00,000.00 Carter PaP 500,000.00 Bases For 428 000.00 BALS U 70,278.49 Evirana VanD TO BARY ND PATO TO CONTRIBUTORS MOLDUS........20% per Arzam, OF D. Stats, 23 % va the awak of their Goatribune. Congang grotta Policies on Mause sil para of vite World, par- Contribotury Dividends ara PAYABLE TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS OF BUSI NESS WHETHER TUFY ARE SHARK- BOLDARS OF NOT. 14. GULIJSMITE, Acting Salary. Hongkong, August 13, 1880. abis at map of sis Agencies.\n\n## ANG TSZE INSURANOE¦ ASSOCIATION. \n\n**CAPITAL (Fully Pp...T. 420.000 PAMANENT BESEF 200 Bra Bra T1 209,268** \n\nTocal Cases and 40- CUMULATIOSA, 3 th April, 1890.} ......Tie Ri \n\n**Directors.** \n\nF. B, Yon, Eng, Chairman, 28th Instant, will be espatele se ahore W. M. Eov, WA. METS, SATURDAY, M B Databer, st. F. PRACKYO, F. D. Hara, Esq.\n\n## Daylight APRIJOIS, QUINCES. \n\nEM a regelved on board sod Farely at No Bill of Lading aigued under Brusked OX-TOSQUES, Comprend OX-FOXUCKS. Mire MSAT. Compressed Corned BEFF. Assorted JELLIES in (as Jurs. Mixed PUSLES sted PKLES. Corned REEF. Qua's OLIVES. Clam CHOWDER SARAT Cablores BARDIVES. PEK and BEANS. Earrale Dariela Yeaat POWDER Soka SALMON. POCK in 2001 BEEF la 2. Fratt KCTTER PARCE Balier BANG. Brown BEANS.\n\nWe have the following **FOR SALE**, in Large or Small Quantities la Bulk :-- \n\n**Fine Valantis RAISINS.** \n\n**Mas Parris OURKANTS.** \n\n**Smyrna MIGS.** \n\n**Good Breakfast TEA** at Denis per b F MIXTURE in 5 & 19 Catty Bozer Cases & **BLACK'S HOUSEHOLD STORES.** \n\nPBA Jons Hom & Bone! UCLEBRATED PRISALVES than to 6 9.0. of 29th October. Brett, A Cs man he settled on heard before delivery is tukos, ther wi ɔt be rogized.\n\n## TO AMA \n\nthey RATER F Cabtu. Storage 416 75 STARUBAT HE YOKOBANA... 120 A muŠPANUKAL. Mocars RUSSELL # 09., Secretaries.\n\n## LUDLO BRANCH: \n\n**My BARING BROTHERS & Co.,** E MICHARD BLACKWELL, Esq., Agent, 08 and 09, Corabül \n\nPo pasted on Marine Bisks to sil Subject to a large of 18 tor Intern parts of the 95 30 Anos la wale on Rattus l'any) an Pheriaciders' Lopetal, sill klo PROFITS; \"K A will wd fatsoen for Nogeek will be transkipped to the Shanghai Mail besity at Koda of the Useraitis Resins are no | muafly dretributed among all Coutríðu kora \n\n## CHINA MAIL. \n\n**Insurances.** \n\n## THE ODINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. \n\n**READ OFFICR-SONGKONG.** A GENOTES at all the Treaty Ports Chlan And Japan, and at Hinge Saizes and Penang \n\nJA KENGUILL F Per Pinput for Helkom, CD Chianae ; Paket 11 hom Per Faldin, for Shargħal, 30 Chinose. TO DEPART. Pir Nipt, for Shanghai, 2 Europñana, Bad to biness. Par guns, for Helbow, da, 40 CM- Per Acian, for Hofhow, ke.. 15 Càleum. Pax Mariis, for Mauila, Huropeans, stand 2 Chine Kiska accepted, and Polloker of Insurance granted at the rate of Praia enrent the above mentioned j'oréa CHLAGE PO MLICY VEEN. Ja B COCGGTRIE, Secretary. inna. Naibor 1,111.\n\n## MANOUESTEN PIKE ASSUEANCH COMPANY OF MANCHESTER AND LONDON. \n\n**ESTABLISHED 1824.** \n\n**Capital of the Company £1,000,000%berting** \n\nPhich is paid to Rover For Arava! Incomi CARGO. Per 8. 8. Autrepton, to Loudon sailed 19th Debober-87,990 itu. Cozgoa, 180,542 Ibn Husted Cane, 89.910 the. Saams4 Orange Pekor, m, od 89,991 The Kreen-total 323,443 the Ton; 33 ser $15 Plens Good, 83 balen Waste Pik, and 191 pkg. For New York, 182 pannurlar.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICES. \n\n**MAILS** will close:-- \n\n10,000 120,000 2540M \n\n++ Pur BANGHA!..- +2 THE Tulendyned have loan appointed Bongo Canide, Fossbow, Stanghal, 1 square for the stoys Company as and Haney, anál azo propaved Tosuration at autovak rakām, grant IIULLIDAY, WISE & C Konphone, faxolour 15, 1968.\n\n## Not Responsible for Debts. \n\nWo. Nether the Captain, the Agents, nur Owners will be Uespunisie for amy Debt contracted by the Officers\". Dew of the following Vstacle, during tätär slug in lungkung Berben-- BEW, Austra big, Capt. C, 0. Waft.-Aruhaft, Kveborg & Óồ. TATANIA, Briel ship. Capini Powurud---3000, Livingston & Qa SIUMIN B. Antes, Amerimo argus, CW5, edge.Tong Song Wh CASUMERE, Aerivan ship, Captain I: G. Coliatum—Arai-old, Kurborg di fio, FLORENCE NITRALE, E bur, Capt. A. McIntyre Aruhold, Karberg & Co. $1349, French barque, Capisin Buck Captain Hawass, Geman burke tins, Capsu P. Burgwerk-Carlowits & \n\n## MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. \n\n**Shipping.** -Caneland leave for Samelung, -Ning loaves for Shanghai.\n\n## General Memoranda. \n\n**Sunday, October 24** \n\n**Daylight** Sanghag ivares for Portk. B-By Laver for Manila WANDAY, October 27- 5392.- OCTOVER 21, 1880. ton.\" Now, to our mind, this passage Heade one rappres that the fullest r rocity exted on the pats of Chips sowards British and other foreign inau rame to Chinn, wand that Chinese mar! Bave similer passe to hold meetings and tu consider the question, how, i ther own cities nad tuwas, the imesigrating of foreigners may be boat regulated kan \n\n## No. 5832-Octaera 21, 1880. \n\n**CHICKET.** \n\n## THE CHINA MAIL. \n\n45 3 the Xpans of bis virit 19 the Traunvsal. tòem; hat I have never had my dni stafionel in Brugkorg, ja which theater on Seataci will be trailed a carmi words of ptates Brand by ts kind he would speak with some mucharity, I was ouly 80 miles from. Crasu, on doubt, decide the glaim oulia morla | reagent ni tha busiuran dazu to this l'eart a restricted! It has always seemed to re to be the most cun-sided way of putting\" Ware of Captain Mushall's meticme, the gist of which we gare anveral months \n\nI have looked through all the realis fors, have elamined them carefa ly and tan case, to burp upea tes proposition: \n\n**Daylight-Thaler** leave for furt fari, hat the Treaties with Chine should be revised on titiu matter, when the res Cooktown, So. Soon.Tendon for Espace to Bast of able way of settling the question weuid be Carpenterie Sånt, cecaired by Naval be to insist upon de apasa privilegar Stateknoyer. being extended to foreigners in all pa Mail loaves for Yorts of of China as are sixed by Chinese i Call an Berapa \n\n## No \n\n## THURSDAY, 'thor 38:--- \n\n2.30 p.m.diesting of Shareholder Gao Xarranca Odies, at 'ol \n\n## SATERDAY. \n\n**October 30-** \n\n**Daylight** Mia Bishri Mail leaves for Yokolama, 25. 3 p.m.Aut agar nail desven fix Yoke and San Francisco.\n\nSangn countries. There is room enough Far all, if anly then rights to settle al of trade pengeably were reciprocal on sil Vail this rider. consumadon is reached, it in illogical, from a politics, print of view, to deny to the Austra Hans (we do not say to the Californians! the right of mating their power to Portrici. Wa however, stron conviction that the vast plains of Nook-Truthers for Ropal to 34ghtor both Australia and America will ge Riig, ze ived by Farid roskanjer. The irrigated and opened up droi the manual tour of the Chines TORSTAY, November 11 Noon-Auction of Brock-la-Trade, Mo..savvy; and this, as we listed scre time since, will eventually prove the Ahey to the difficulty of Chinese enigte hon, at lenes of the larger and mon Tingartent branab of the movemen \n\n## Feri, \n\nat11.30 am. Tomorrow, Day, Novembne :- \n\ntion is, Pet Ningro, at 3.30 pun. To-morrow, the and Ini. For **NEWCHWANG**, — Per Chamind, at 2.99 .m., on Friday, the 20 thei For **BAROKOK** – MAK of Hotel de Laivers Per jy. wt30 pm, on | **HONGKONG DISPENSARY**, Sharp seems to have nearly succeda \n\n## Saturday, \n\nthe Zani fuat For **SWATW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.--** Pet Bungling, at, Saborlag. the 3rd it. **** For **HOW, PAKO, ASP HAI-FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS**, PHONG ve on at 6 pm, on Saturday, the 23ed just, For **YORGAMA KOBE...** in establishing a Girly reputable chas Fracter for the Chinamau o feizer, DEN his coace in this connection are je te wait commendable and just the Heathen Chinne\" can warcaly be ex pecued to assume & very high place \n\n## cities \n\nnati! he le raised by costat omewhat nearer to the Wastorn lava!; he is by un neaus the gravelling. \n\n## THE \n\n**Established A.D. 284.** \n\n## A S. WATSON & Co., \n\n**WHOZBALL AND RETAG FB700043.** \n\nbut i worthless monster depicted by the au \n\n## LOCAL AND GENERAL \n\n**IMPORTERS** \n\nDz Peru M, at 5 pm, on Friday. Pavoury SUNDRIES, NESBRY React-Chinese agitators of the Pacto Slope, \n\nthe ' MAILS N Panch PACKER —– Fas French Doziract Packet Bindi nili bepaalert on WEDNESDAY, the Databer, with Male to aud chrough the Vind Htogdom and Sampo, vid Nuples; to Saigon, Stratte Ballikzada, Rajavis, Barnak, Cryina, Indis ( Muitas, the antralscina Aden, Egypt, Malta, sud WALL Curser, Optain Maas. The anal hours will be observed in closing! mann-Mayer & Co., \n\n## To-day's Advertisements. \n\n**FOR SHANGHAI**, \n\nThe Steamstv \"Nig 31, MAIS DE UMTAY SEASES PACERY, The United States Mai! Pachet (ly of Takto will be despatched on SATUR DAY, the 20th instant, with Sta fapa Sao Francisco, Teled States, Canada, Honda, Peru, o, oh it be disse follo 2.13..-Registry quassa. 22.3.-Pt-Office læer, but Ļelier, < Chatin R. tan, will he a drepstebetet Port, TO-MORROW (FR), the natant, 4 pm. For Fright or Pourage, izple ke HIMMENEN KONG Poukoty, October 21, 1986 of Busines in propation to the Premis |-------- Por barcher Partienjars, apply st the paid by c Company's Ostreza, No. 60, QuSKA'S KOAD CASTAL Hongkong-head c. B. MAIL LINK PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIF COTANY. - THROUGE NAW YORK, sue OVERLAND BAILWAYE, AND TOTOBIEK AN YOKOHAMA, AND ÖAH IBANCINOR, TE. & Mail Stembly CITY OF TOKIO depthed for a Frances SATUR FAT, 30th Jual taking Phuge, and Daltsu Sutca uti HUSSELL & Co., Agente \n\n## THE LONDON ASSURANCE, \n\n**INCORPORATED BY Royal Chastes** \n\noi Ha Majerty Kay Dearge The Firsi, * U. 1720 Fadened having been sepented As for the above Corpseilua san prepared by grant lusurances as follows: Marine Deparment, for spas, the hore, in boudi at the principal Ports Policles at rent rates payable other I ut Through Blood for trous. perasion to Takeda apú other Jus Porte, to sa Fros, o Atlantic and Falezd Cities of the United States via Oper and Rathways to Harps Frintial, and Demeraro, sui to porte in Marles, Central and Soren Aurich by the Chupany's and conscaling Sta #Fing to direct sucial altention is our Though Frage Tickets granted w wel alled Skies of Wines, Spirits, &c. Har Moserotu. Pis. Qis Men's (les) Champion, P& CHARLES RISTOR'S WHITE SEAL, Ficts sad Quzzle. CHATEAU LABOVE (GCMs & Anura), Pia and Qazta CHATEAU LAPITE, Plata IRES GRAVES, Pinta and ours. Quarte BREAKFAST CLAMST, Pista & Qacis. OLD INVALID CLARET. S. JULIEN, &, Burgandy, Hock, Sherries, o Chamberlin, hablhite) Libfuurilub, Backbeiner, Niereiser, Sie beige Cabinet, E al Fisteri Berg, Koni Barg, Casu Yquem, Grand Vin, unt eterne Marsala, sc com's Pale Dry White Sed Shary, Yeller Ses Atilade Culer Falmer und Company's Tulane, kormany by eli, trane-Alentio usa of Stormers. Feight will be revived va hours until 2 , the 2006 Celcher. Pame: Packups wice will 5 p lll be not day; Ji Dr. 4. Pagkages abould be arked to denial of REALE in qal Gouslar Inria to socomapany Overland: Carga bould be wont to the Tinmagany's Uca dualed Favelagen, aldred to the Colicator of Chere at Hau Fran For faziler ip tos as to Patago and rght, apply to the Agency of the Sampang, No. 5, Frays Outra LULL & Co, Agente, Wonton, Cushe 20, 138 \n\n## 3 \n\nof India, China caj Avtolla. Five Ligastent sacceat a discent of 20% allowe Política sredicioner sort periclini Le partient QUBAN STEAMSHIP COMPEY. FOR SUANQUA FSA AM TAIN, HANK W Pots on6 YAZOTEZE.J The Co.'s telp Ashes, Capta Axzas will be dispatched for about the shiul Instwo. For Freight or seage, apply to für Unam Countrice may be posted on board is Pakel with Lab fee of 10, cents ezra Pestage unfl the time of departure.\n\n## SITE, \n\n**OLET Requtsu, ENGLIS AMERIDAY, AN FASKI PATAKY** **DieDANA. MANUFACTURERN** \n\nThe most bierna Man wogy be expected an or about Monday next, the 25thick, by ta M. M. steamer due, which brings Londra dator to the 17th September. de Wa, Lamanale, Taula Water, The next Anessa Mare may be spectra (Aingendo, Palass Water, Sarsaparilia Water, and other dersted Waters, 1 Manfvebury is water divast and¦ conteneva Buropean Yuguralsiona Hongkong. June 5, 1870. or abos: the 10th inst, hy, Pleaser Italgia, which Ivings San Fransiz y dates te ike kd just.\n\n## BUTERY \n\nL. d. Let inge Yun verlund Nuit (Supi, S) has the fal Impere, I am not forbidden to atter my made to any attempt to copy Deligro Sie Thou replied with the happy tant had had plenty of eppretauities to ob that only the west kind of women could santi ad 1 only dusies now tanks.4, \"MAGZE\". \n\n## THE ROYAL ARTICLELY. \n\nJowing sailing of the fast to a port has been which always distguishes to, and those serve the cherweter ac peneral hosted getting away with their The Gurarament it act, it is bad, ask the Colony. I bolten I have worked at berance. Ibu bezusi avvale + grabs to Wednesday. tataested in the Noalety's elfans wün postponed A match was playel to-day ban 27 Kia Faida hay Datibed in beard the tom tomarks souls gold of the Chinees, so that un these points husbands. Fren in Hongkong, which Farlansat for its extes cost of it bad way, and I have put things as H.M.S. Magpie, aus gel Artery Pune Nicholas of steer that send- claimed this year by Sirenelle Weere Pur straight on it le pike for any was bri put! ham huiped fovileg 1 wib heh he clotted is while he might be able to disabuse the few Che bad heir wives wilt thom. When Sie Harle are ha giren expias duet in 7 way, and I da ut so this Kattery and at easy lovey in one postponed in compliance wits the request to 4 bis own to get they had formet s \n\nThe harul demauerndon has been expresion of pro at having Esteeds of porcona of prejudices were only av begining to bring Ben and more, the Gateinment wil, no day know what fe are properly labis in to the more then, after waiting for 40 years to s jantags. Appended are the roores he is prepare to take intellectual treat he bad ayyorloveci sines character of the man to which he had whocher the British were entitled to of the Princ rior al, ha asks for active aid of the bis arrival in Singapore.\n\n## referral \n\n**(Applause).** \n\n**Great Powers** beside rave? demonstration. at a mark of confidence. The dif War shathe Foccolaty of State for The Lecturer, who was seeived with ficades of bringing Chinese woken was away hattle the Cloufus hea spproved of the room applaun, began by juicing out that Sensely forced by Great Yance to cussion of sorg. endations enbaid in the Report the 33 Suph B-fle Allied Fleek have cover. Pulido Coma, had we are intended been induoad to deliver his lecture terfere. Thu fecrarer seen thealt at y that that is sucirely due to the Inske, not out,... ... 62 to be expretive Governments the that application has been rande for two from the fact that no arriving in this ength with the charges of want of the Malay Panimanisio sconect the Bay of nopleut of the Chief Juice, by whom only, Lowris, & Datkin, \n\na deaded Hontenegro for muitary eid, nupoobure and twenty Europees posibles colony he found that here was a strong doetie refinent, and atraktion to the Beugel with the China Sea, the Stross seting with the salive, esa a code of felolda, Paik, 4s this wil, is de balioved, fapt the from here, in order to give the polios popular feeling agus fhose inset laws et health by the thiness, and niss he impost That za hea, alaps (Nik, neaugham, bu voral deconatration. Its stated, Finland fores the dranings of trained odours glooted als duly in tali moniter of the Lukių & TRADE, Daikin,.............. \n\ngrution, sad in form of restricting it. cftheir gang proposities. In thea ............sed Rarsia are disposed to comply, but the Turber, efforts are batzg made to preeuse The maturi progress we had wit coultery be testitud assgewicht faror- Captain Mahallado no attempt to use dread the (luvarnor of haker, Dali, other powers are donario. Poha parte pense foresed in this colney bad errused his able comparison between the linens and give au seifwain of the most of this Canal, the feet; nothing put has been done, la Coeksrell, e Caina, b Stereo Abone of the tale til mare of a spaser which suishment, but nabing bad surprised as lower class of Europese. The par and a thin in about as izgorians ●TROLOR the luster of SE twice will not | Cunningham, e Saga-il, I fino, V. Great Powers have prevented colorivo | hva larterly busu bald to work very mus! So i gore than the great inredigeera stal cleanlizes of the Cries, the \n\n15 Bopt you do not is one of the soules applia. Boultor, 1 Daikin \n\naso, an to the ioration of a casat across $50 to the prevent alata 6 trips. Thouse & Philin, & Stevenson! Potion lo force there to 1 Alu hautrups, Duuming, Daikio, in the calderaton of the project as the do nothing. The mountaioona batom of the untry, anna sigu the papers, A orrditursamyare wae \n\nbreathing as to our chosen, but I eat do nothing. T'as Chief of the Justles alarining roles that would happen her if this anjut mered into so What would become of Singapore with ship escalanide of the Perinta With sorrad away a the thongs to as pspark tiat 135 ought to bund him thom Ity 1 sm nos le clerk. Á mi not his arvadt. 1 decline to do that which is no part of ng luty. I declined to bytu anything to do with that sangreicy or \n\ni Leg bed 1, wide belles, \n\n## MAGYIK.\" \n\n- High constables from Indis, with a view to the Per protining against the Hangkang. drom as follow, however, generally manifested by the working taste of their woman in dressing, and shätzle of Kira Pasha, at Dalrigan The that the arrival of those additions to the \n\nit had been real education to the comforts of the bone helonging to 68 | Salt makes for delay pa wnhdrawal of ¦ E res, it produced, will make our police \n\nor visit these colmier, au to see in de well-to-dɔ, wire many jurticularly pentuar, to which to reply but been given, \n\nIt, Am grant esticulty is ez. stara perfect, \n\nall directions the wonderful traits of the referred ta. In regard to their gambling parlente ha keeping up the camber of intustry and inteligente of its perple babit, be said they had dec \n\n## INDIAN TELEKKING, \n\n**feronson, a Thomas, ↳ Erenslag 9** \n\nsive statku the proper standaa Simple, Saps Ja—its following latter: We understand that the whols fores, He was sorry the more working mar mariod of gambling frers that of Euro- Its glory would deere, and it would be din 1 Salover pa to da via the keep slan, a Dunging, bilgate Abdulla Kan Nasiri ( minister of amounthy to only 100 ostabios divided were cat present that evening a heat pean, but is had yet to tears that they so soother Malach. harbour would glah, but official original dahin, a Staker, b Durning496 Kb.) to the adesso Mahund or reti iz no Jou atation, is \n\nwhat he had to say on the questica, were such veterese gasesters. The bodemarked, is whats godose cipta T the Chick Jestion will pot Rewards, & Dancings Sadis, Chind the Van Onila, siad abvady shout VO slosh, which are star watch was wow being a wavy als working man's obit difficulty with doch wonki talk intodecay, so its fortifie alge the papare unless I haud that bim Shay, Fillingham, \n\n6:13h August, 1880, fell recently into kasi súly reddorn the Keskivens of the forna; elops would he tuntia a wildercoss of las personally. thas a good earn all Eastwood, ut ca. \n\nosed. The importance of the Chinese regard to the Chiese was that their Inɔes of car dipeca Afor some of he slatluse leite w short of manu \n\nquestor coaki be seen from the fact that ; close appétation und protracted breath of Chladen Kende beured perio of their rutas datice, and is use of extrai Bilts had been introduced to desistor, with their courrerent sad ex- el is wel unta, and the Go fatour emergey they soid casting be found with it in these culories and that it had creme any amounting to paretino- ith a car dorizer bar wasting Wear Mufte Dualop in was been the subject of many dehmes in the minanese, and their apparent indifference olished. The sinkodova suy of zeious to lure the Malay element as colonial Legislatures and obawlers. It to the graiñarise of the palate, ren- 3 solar tops and in-bating Chazis à ne na as prcible, but for none was also a question which had very derud competition by their mouse lucs- te et si alte tares, Guiling in use there is uitat disincliently influenced the last Victorian tiuus rivals quis fatpossible. In aer he howel of su Feroute will be cut tion on the part of the Malaga to enter the election. He was aut surprised to find those charges the lecturer alluded to at and they thomas the sorte, and the oequense de, so we han \n\n5 gese. Thare wouldnnig remain Govore i wel: and good I quợc tálok is is a good ( Salatı, Fillingus. We are afruably besied that 15 ia impossible for them to pr.per's \n\nmeni Hese sadiis New Gaol, Let us brewton. sful hace for the mount as of the bad she. I believe may experieus Tucu, Dunning, \n\nAs a Salieri say it in vury Teeth The, ingen, Keninsula; at slevout the Caual will not is as great on that of app oca in Bell, TRS out,........... be untrusted fo our time, sila Cuart, both as a judicial cers and Vincent, en ent as a pencilding banier. Li \n\n## Chief Ju KEGORSZ. \n\nI distal Over of sun City of Luzdys for #ges wide billa 1........ Avioquest was held at the Government or Body fat in z opicion Ciril Boroitals g., day, before the the Chief Justice is dudug what he ought \n\n## 2nd \n\n**Innings.** \n\n**Acting Caremar, G. & Northotiy** \n\n**Pay get to do.** \n\n**Pease 2 Thatters thích cɔn-¦ Stevenson, o locke, b Cuvalaghaw, *** Keisti-Chi'nst and a hand of Pumarogm of mountable, which, agli at the fall Chinese as there now spared to be. were better off then other European in and jury cousisting of Miners H. Love the public more than they concura 10, Cai, Boular, bunningham,....... Otte, die Remia and J. Law, began sterly different other Daikin, b Carning, \n\nou the bud ul Finsters tallat akheep the peston de Asif Governwards, Chatangham, \n\nseamani on the Emma. \n\n## Atwood, \n\no aud Jooze, \n\n## Lovett, \n\nhol us \n\nde of the sarth. You a Hving coated, the dwindling sway of the number gene antipathy towards the the fact that the working man fortunately tea that aisée, but still nothing bat has strength, is very inadequate to the require The Chinese were incongr-beusilla, and regard to the shortness of their bure, he feit that he hur lees of them yow The Chinese, he pointed out, wokal 3 doe hy you as yet, Bowater, for the munia of the pisu \n\n'shku nỷ tim tuligion of Ales Průphol, girá | than he thought he knew soroo 05 years bag leans bests they were exalted Dr Clouth states that about 1 16 po tema, i abenld go \n\nup the duna of bravery, collect the people pratarday be tried a nots requesting his Bisk ans 1 Tblog here. 11870 per Swith, Castreba.................. \n\nand Ghess, and having invested Konut- **BARON OVERBBCK'S CESSION IN** \n\n**ago.** \n\n**But** \n\nin venturing to exproes his frurn the mesas of recreation which to a man blonging to the of the at roatavat eluce I have been bete na \n\n## BORNEO. \n\ndisanat from the popular feeing against Europeus enjoyed; and so far se their |(bils-i ou \"all ridan, caž cat táo bowels di shager Emm who had fallen inby theis na offical in my pedition weald erar Tvara, > Carningliaerery Forlaghes hatir in the place, and \n\nthen les baged he would nes be credited tempersues of hring was cancorned, in (Strain Times) Dk. Fann he arrived his foort te Retail, and fics) has ever been: Hell, fece You yonment wit to be 100, granting a charter for a teria \n\nIt was reluarkent stat in this they were by no Movariérom there fem the freo of the atth. azad, death Laylag been savie, sa subjected to before. If i had not bears the Vict, Oncingla \n\nThe question of the cession and too wab suy interested natives. \n\ninezonary for him to stand forward moans alexciliar wrong. It was not in opsion, by a fracture of a base of the \n\n4 For some will be great in the world. e ott af Barnes is etil under the as their champion. The Chinese, bet ordions caliptication secticid skull. \n\n## Write \n\nzowe of your weliare, and repertsonaiaration of the Fasi Olien \n\nbelieved, were well able to take care of wants thas the national wealth of a pres Food, savoc officer of the Germen \n\n## Salty \n\nwhorer Spe \n\nthemselves, au they had done for the last (aneous people consistesi, but in its prom abooer MAN now in the Logicom Dont, \n\n## Side, \n\n**Nap. 27from Fakar rebed home, but it is said that now urba stated that yesterday morning, he nazt the \n\n## Festerday \n\nto Segi and white at Quetis meat is erer and Lord Cmavills in fear thousand years; and any ertemps dacbo over its expenditure, as main deceased, who was able to work \n\n## boon \n\n4 28, Maplertanks \n\n's brigade w \n\nwith one little insure from the exigencias tilltrain in this colony or eles reply to the diffenity suggested by the is locato 100 bead gear from the pett \n\n## 35th \n\n**Howare** will leave Kandahar ou the legislation and parts landarefip, the where would only recoil on the greur. working me was an expression of A match was played between the shore Pets of Georral Phayre's Listen water will receive his earnest sttention To flustrate this be referred to the wonder that the cultivated Brion should \n\n## Kaniskor, \n\nthe east' remaling in cap to \n\noftets I might hara mim furni into doing something whtob I dare not con- \n\n## plats. \n\n## Calling \n\niba Cabar of the Cart Mr Stockinen, the Registrar then asked him to arcertain from Mr Nouop whether the Judge wing. If the Chief Justier, \n\nof the sebooast. Will a cold chisel a ha sided, does not do his duty, I will do \n\n## USNTRAL SCHOOL \n\n**V. WONGKONG PUBLIC BOVOLT** \n\n4 3mity \n\n## Ear \n\n## Adri \n\nsumer, and directed bina to staze himsait! ziua so far or in me es. My duty is to Clubs on the Byakkoon Bijaket Cab enved into the Cantonment as sny Rose definite decision will be rises data of slayers, und be puinted out fear the competition of the Chine \n\nby a cupe to the boat Dead how attend in Cuart, sed 1 illato di Court, evar appeared to have made note of the bat 1 il nos nitend in handers. tope and must have lost his bediend falou Me Stookhansen left to Icterslew Mr being in favour of the Public School. fato the trek. \n\n## Moshop \n\n## Tun \n\nM. M. sixsome des left Salgul 41 \n\n## Lee \n\nWo Shing, the head cocite spleyad by the Dook Company, board was of the sin lling out that was bad fuilce, \n\n## routs \n\nfor Jongkong this afternusu un d \n\n## Telefuck. \n\nuses string in Hongkong, or day a rolight Masquerade at Ki other persons who may desite to conto son lant aight, se zawounosd, an! + alt the files of local, China, fots Tory Inle water of pleasure rackare d Aumrien, English, Indien or vote sembled in the gardena, disgarand in a at nesapapus, *TH invited to call as racists of fatty matuides and mazka. the \"ORIA MIL\" Of, who formaty za nearly three hundred were pres alaty vowspapere, dailios and weaklive, Ton wasther was all the old be ded from those countrion, ste now filed fat and « very plasmant evening was pacrofi rho who ventured perces the wa \n\n## raferet \n\n## Be \n\n## Correspondence \n\nfor Non-Tinion West IndThe putilation of the tee commmeed Rythicx was quiet and menig, milit \n\n(exout Hay de Pangusy, vinos bo sent by a rate. \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Oct. 21, 1980.** \n\n## THE FERNOH MATTY \n\n8.10 p.m. “ \n\n## 063 \n\n## The Chinz Mail. \n\nThe following hours are observed in closing Muin, de, by the Franch Contract Packe ng before departure, -—- 3 F. Money Urd Office closes Fosi fica ales, exvert the NIGHT HO, but is \n\noper, out of Oles hours. \n\n## BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, \n\n**tray of departure** \n\ndents. tongkang, Qutober 31, ZEN. \n\n## Pont \n\n**Cffice DENT.** \n\n**A.M.-Eagletry of Totters avisa Posing of all priated taller and patterns.** \n\n..feils einwel, except for Late \n\n## Luthers. \n\n11.10 A.Matter pay be posted with \n\n10 \n\n## COBAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, \n\n11 \n\n**FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT)** \n\nThe Usa Sisaushi \n\n**Archines.\"** \n\n**Captain C. Jackie** \n\n**Policies** sued for mums not exceeding or ahem the shout \n\n## 110LIDAF, \n\n**W185 & Co.** \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**July 25, 1874.** \n\n## --- \n\n## BOTH BRITISH & MENGANTILN INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n**Incorporated by Royzi Charice a** \n\n**Special Acts of K'arbiament** \n\n**YAMETRIE 1809.** \n\n**CAPITAL £2,000,CA.** \n\n## THIS \n\n**Vadersigned, Asans at Hongkong** \n\nFor the above gazy, sta preparad to graut Poles against F:R, to she extect of £10,000 on way Failding, or en Mercane in the same, at the \n\n## Occidental \n\n& Oriental Stem-i Rates, object to a discount of 20 \n\n## Ship \n\n**Company.** \n\n**TAKING THEGER CARGO AND PASSENGERS OR TBE UNITED STATES AND KUROPE, \n\n## CESTRAL \n\n## WI \n\n**KE** \n\n**lavalid** \n\n**Purt** \n\n**(1845),** \n\n**Hans** \n\n**PEON** \n\n**FACIFIC** \n\n**AND** \n\n**OUKNECTING** \n\n**Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c.** \n\n1, 2 xel Setar Asapessy's Brandy, Is \n\n## Gratis \n\n**Marque Brandy, Cutter Palmer** \n\n& Co.'s Bay, Reuser fine de \n\nC's Bandy, E 0 4 staraj \n\n## Mended \n\naid Bacerbert V. Icipi \n\n## Whisky. \n\n## Jamieson's \n\n**leish** \n\n**Whisky,** \n\n## Glendes \n\n**Welby** \n\n## RAILBOAD \n\n**OUMIPANTES** \n\n## AND \n\n## ATLANTIC \n\n**STEAMERS.** \n\nper cent \n\n## CILMAN & Con \n\n**Agente, Rozkang, July 6, 1872.** \n\n## LANCASHIRE \n\n**INSURANCE** \n\n## COMPANY, \n\n**(FIRE AND LIFE) - CAPITAL,WU MLA BILING.** \n\n## Press \n\nthe \n\n## Przes \n\nagainst the tak of FIRE on Builtings or au Goods stored thersta or Goods en hard Yesels and on Nolis of \n\n6. BSTAIC wa ho despatch-Female in harbour, at the szual Torne \n\ned fx kan servis Yakhana, and Condition. \n\n## Proposals \n\nfor fe Amurous will be re \n\n## For \n\n**Freight or Passage, apply to** \n\n## BUTTHAFIELD & WIRE, \n\n## KATA \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Ostaher 21, 1990, \n\n## NOTICE \n\n**TO OONSIGNEES, FROM LONDON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,** \n\n**Samhip** \n\n**Dewartire, Capt. M Macawz, huving arrived from the abere Porta Consiganen of Cazzo are hereby re quested to and in their bills. Lading sa Ani \n\nthe Clervaged for covered their fir \n\nfrem atopgste. Cargo impeding the l \n\nto take immediate delivery \n\nrange of the Susmeril boat as landed \n\nand bored at their risk and expose, ard: \n\n## Pics \n\n**Leimage** will be affected. Optional Carga will be forwarded on to \n\n## Late \n\n**Pec** \n\n**flu** \n\n**cele** \n\n**unsil** \n\n**11.30** \n\n**4.M.-wise** \n\n**the Post Giflon clares** \n\nentitis. \n\n11.40 male Lettera way he posted on board the pecker with Late \n\n## Fe \n\nof 1 cents until Use of depswww. \n\n## Quotations. \n\n## Hoycasa, \n\n**cuber 21.** \n\n**OPIUM,-Now** \n\n**Paina, essb.... 000** \n\n**coal...** \n\n12 \n\n10 \n\n+ \n\n**Old** \n\n**Non** \n\n**Benarus, sal, 872** \n\n**cash,** \n\n**Old** \n\n**New** \n\n**Malwa, oralit, 700** \n\n**Allowance.** \n\n**Taetr...** \n\n**Od** \n\n**Maiwa, aedi, 70** \n\n**Allowance, Isals 1348** \n\n## Bows, \n\n**Wire** \n\n## Exchange. \n\n140 \n\n## Demand, \n\n9192 \n\n## 30 day \n\n**sight** \n\n'4 moushs' sight, \n\n.. \n\n## Credite, \n\n4 \n\n## Documentary, \n\n4 racities' night, 5/2 \n\n## Shanghai \n\n**suvs** \n\n**norios** \n\nto the curary bendla, Wice, given before in. That, the 21st \n\n## demand,..... \n\n*142231 \n\n225 \n\n$23 \n\n## All \n\n**Claimsadmat** \n\nthe Stamer must be 3bang, doan, \n\n## peceneted \n\nto the Gudert helend Tamf, 994 fue****** \n\n## 731 \n\n**Bigow** \n\n**34th** \n\n**Lust, or king will not be recognized** \n\n## 27.HA \n\n**Soverelgus..... 5.93** \n\n**RUSSHT). & Baj** \n\n## Areatz \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**October 21, 1629** \n\n## SHIPPING. \n\n## ARRIVAL. \n\n## Dat. \n\n23, Jems, Datch startez, 3087, \n\n## J. de \n\n**Ridler, Haiphong** \n\n**Cuk** \n\n£, Ri \n\n## Oz, \n\n**R Sturme** \n\n## Col$1, \n\ne. British etesmor, löl, \n\n## bigly \n\n**moms** \n\nor about the St Norminber; 1889, at \n\n3 p.nr., taking Care and Fazawngate for priced, and taemitted to as Directors 4. MaGauber, London Aag. 2, and Sign Japan, the \n\n## ATH \n\n**Qiu, Swaine Rose & Co.'s Old Tom** \n\n## Gin; La \n\n**traute** \n\n## BL \n\n**Indow, Erase** \n\n## Gunagi** \n\n## The \n\n**Gar** \n\n## Pin & \n\n**Gra; Ange** \n\n## sta, Boker's and Orange** \n\n## Bitters, 200, 2, \n\n## BASS \n\n**ALE, buttled by CameroN & SLEM-** \n\nna, Fin and Quarks. \n\n## GUINTOUT, \n\nbottled by &J. \n\n## Piata \n\n**nel** \n\n**Quakta,** \n\n## PILSENER \n\n**BEER,** \n\n## Geilan** \n\n## Fhes \n\n**ALE, bottled by Macki, H. Gu.** \n\n## States, \n\n**Merino, Centre Weis focizica** \n\n## Sp \n\n**Sonth** \n\n**And** \n\n**Katupe.** \n\n## If \n\n**rotira, protection** \n\n## Connection \n\nin me at Yokohama, with Art chin line in will be granted an \n\n## Steam \n\nfrom Shang \n\n## Freight \n\nwill be centred on Board unti 4pm. of the 8 November. PARCAL. PACKARES wit be recited as the Othe sabai & p. 16. same day: al Parcel Packages should be marked to podzemn in fall; vale of same le required.\n\n4. 4 Reproxies iade on BETVER Vio- ! TAGE TIKA. Goslar Involets to scoompany Over- | lena, Mexican, General and South Ameriosu! Cargo, should he met to Company's! ille por O. 18, Gear & Out 21, Nigus, Britis 1000 naingia Cautor. peals or other information, appy to ABRHOLD, SARRERG & Co., Agents, Hongkong & Cantor. Boogkong, Tarary 1, 1887.\n\n## QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n∙HE Undersigned are prepared to grazi DRAIGHT ALL and FORIER, by the add:ced to the Collector of Cis tore, San Francison. For furabus infromation ne to Freight! $15,000 op Buildings, or on Goads seed thersta or Goods on bard Yesels and on Nolis of ALE and PORTER, in Balk, (Bogbeads and lideriins). JP'S STORES and SAIL-MAKING, Hongkong, October 2, 1850, Policies againes Fire to the gatens to or Passage, apply to the scenes herein, at current wal tates, subject to a Gempang, No 37, gea's Road Contra Dasoent of % of the Francia, CHAS H. HASWELL, JE, Agesil iloegkong, Datober 12, 1830. Bey NORTON & Co.. Liget Mongkong, January 1, 1974. Ont. 91, Nože E60 10.9. u. for New York. 21, finger for Haikon, d. 21, fria Fratme Nugasaki, fc. 21, Potentia, for hergiaf OGBARED. Nings for Shanghai. Dungen, for Karnow, do Hetect For Fukor, du gmar, los Menile. Mariteits, for Manila, \n\n## PASSENGERS ARRIVED. \n\n## Per \n\n**Datonshire, from Singapore, Mr** \n\n**Alhere Fumorili, and 39 Dalame.** \n\n## Per \n\n**Jawa, tem Balpbong, 2 Chicaes** \n\n## Sharas** \n\n## Gozzang \n\n**Hank, 66 % phat., Alca.** \n\n## HONGKONG, \n\n**ZHURMAT, COT. I, 1860.** \n\n## numust \n\n**gord** \n\n**omter** \n\n**pravaried.** \n\n**Thoas** \n\n**la** \n\n**wastes** \n\n**Ho** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**dir-oliou** \n\n**are** \n\n**pronis.** \n\n**via** \n\n**upgeetaufty** \n\n**of** \n\n**gathering** \n\n**thescica** \n\n**ether** \n\n**sysin** \n\n**bafate** \n\n**long** \n\n**us:bit** \n\n**the** \n\n## atomyiana. \n\n## I \n\n**will be oberved** \n\n**Ty an extruct re-** \n\n## A \n\n**Menawar** \n\n**bad** \n\n**tota** \n\n**eruit** \n\n**Court** \n\n**produced** \n\n**elsewhere** \n\n**thist** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Greaville** \n\n**yaterday, afute** \n\n**Beglekar, wat no** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**Las been speaking in Adelaide Korat conki bant.** \n\n## The \n\n**inst** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n**rexed** \n\n**question** \n\n**of** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**how** \n\n**know** \n\n**the** \n\n**Supreme** \n\n**Court** \n\n**of** \n\n**this** \n\n**ranigration;** \n\n**and** \n\n**it** \n\n**susy** \n\n**be** \n\n**noted** \n\n**that** \n\n**Colong.** \n\n**A** \n\n**and-hand** \n\n**say, minsk taove an** \n\n**gestan** \n\n**formen** \n\n**to** \n\n**cakes** \n\n**a** \n\n**divan** \n\n**and** \n\n**monspectably** \n\n**bound** \n\n**t** \n\n**terant** \n\n**opinion** \n\n**to** \n\n**that** \n\n**which** \n\n**is** \n\n**crudited;** \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**longkong** \n\n**Government, o julga of the Dibles of jacuzz and wit at least by the afstractive policy lithaetony be picked up in the base of the fac motted hers as to passengers beone to niture brokers any time for scouts, of the Colovies. Sharp's rendness and experience, some bad tie to wake cash to auda From 20 of Nrth thenpretas Court reeks not. The thing may and orignal was expected, invite nadsbe toft to go bears and and se cubes to a feeling of disap pointment at the report of the inoture gain tow, Leinging his Forma presented. It may be the inalt of the with him.\n\n## report, \n\n**though** \n\n**the** \n\n**polete** \n\n**sesta** \n\n**za** \n\n**bej** \n\n## Birly \n\n**given;** \n\n**but** \n\n**in** \n\n**praizotion** \n\n**does** \n\n**ja** \n\n**ravaz** \n\n**accident** \n\n**occurred** \n\n**yesterday** \n\n**at** \n\n**the** \n\n## But \n\n**strike** \n\n**on** \n\n**93** \n\n**worthy** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp's** \n\n**Bowlona** \n\n**Docks** \n\n**to** \n\n**a** \n\n**desman** \n\n**belonging** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n## German \n\n**sciorer** \n\n**Fuse.** \n\n**Thy** \n\n**decored** \n\n**of** \n\n**our** \n\n**ceremusity.** \n\n**The** \n\n**tons** \n\n**which** \n\n## aspeara \n\n**to** \n\n**nave** \n\n**presied** \n\n**the** \n\n**gasa** \n\n**ant** \n\n**to** \n\n**work, in the morning, ro eui heag way must tooderate at fir away the head gear from the bewap it of and the most imprez sa fiendly the coner. He appears to have neglect. hasing was given to the lecturer. noted the pracamiton of conele himself with withstanding the general paiby test is known to axist towards the Chiness as inamigrania Te judge from the title \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**insurers** \n\n**verourke, \"The** \n\n## LLines: \n\n**at** \n\n**Hoann** \n\n**aud** \n\n**Abroad,\"** \n\n**it** \n\n**may** \n\n## Lo \n\n**said** \n\n**that** \n\n**either** \n\n**the** \n\n**leemte** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**Perimet** \n\n**or** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**bending** \n\n**a** \n\n**tapp** \n\n## bleary \n\n**dealt** \n\n**principally** \n\n**with** \n\n## rupe, \n\n**as** \n\n**he** \n\n**was** \n\n**told** \n\n**to** \n\n**do** \n\n**by** \n\n**the** \n\n**med** \n\n## and \n\n**to** \n\n**rub** \n\n**inizie** \n\n**sur** \n\n**full** \n\n## wins \n\n**the** \n\n**Doo, striking his head an being es sevarly Injured that he died to the alunos. Ju gosta held the body at the Gril Uspital tüm after- the auspal position taken up by the mou, of which a report will be found f Chere in the towns; white the larger heider admon, gwelling in a rich of and is oore importants part played by ↑ “accrlottai dasth,” the Chinese in developing a new country, by means of irigation works, milway 16 Mine, a Calcatta Paper making mining, ant plotation series, coed and consent by Onlives, Ad was felt unnoticed. By this omission \n\n## Po \n\n**remark** \n\n**that** \n\n**one** \n\n**happy** \n\n**effect** \n\n**\\*f** \n\n**the** \n\n**\"platform\"** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**lecturer,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**daire** \n\n**in** \n\n**England** \n\n**in,** \n\n**dvahtke,** \n\n**zared** \n\n**good** \n\n**point** \n\n**was** \n\n**meter** \n\n**lustracionalny** \n\n**to** \n\n**Serally** \n\n**in** \n\n**she** \n\n**spirit** \n\n**në** \n\n**kan** \n\n**alted** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Flemish** \n\n**artisans** \n\n**who** \n\n**sectie** \n\n**reistions** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Quereramous** \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**su** \n\n## in \n\n**England** \n\n**and** \n\n**thereby** \n\n**gare** \n\n**un** \n\n**impetus** \n\n## aina \n\n**fun.** \n\n**Boa, of Ct $1,550 per a entes.to manufactores there sub might noterete of the Colonica and thầu sther De- Cada Traders' in. Go, $40 per share, Nards China Ins Co., Ts. 1,675 per dima. Jangsate fue Aso, Fin. 750 per share. Chien Jun. Co., $800 per share, nainn. B.K. Co., por since. China Pire fur. C $50 per share. K. W. Dopis, pre-, miles. Ceanopoliton Uusk, par, nods). H.K.4.8.5 0.24 prov Bhai Sai Nav., Ta. 3 per a, womina). Chin Star. Co., p. 10. St $89 per share.\n\n## have \n\n**been** \n\n**done** \n\n**for** \n\n**century.** \n\n**Even** \n\n**pandonadas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Eritiah** \n\n**Oturm** \n\n## this \n\n**instance,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**would** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**likely** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**the** \n\n**desire** \n\n**affect** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n## TH \n\n**Boston** \n\n**Herald** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**Ikid** \n\n**August** \n\n**andicare,** \n\n**heceura,** \n\n**so** \n\n**fue** \n\n**as** \n\n**the** \n\n**impene** \n\n**lacated** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**steamer** \n\n**Grenfilloch,** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**rement** \n\n**of** \n\n**manareteres** \n\n**is** \n\n**concereste** \n\n**ne,** \n\n**strived** \n\n**at** \n\n**Sandy** \n\n**Hook** \n\n**(strate** \n\n**little** \n\n**need** \n\n**be** \n\n**expiiented** \n\n**from;** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese;** \n\n## while \n\n**the** \n\n**Fish** \n\n**Huguenots** \n\n**became** \n\n**to** \n\n**Sew** \n\n**York** \n\n**harb.ue)** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**6th** \n\n**idcm,** \n\n**Dust** \n\n**desirate** \n\n**citizen,** \n\n**the** \n\n**Aura** \n\n**having** \n\n**mavia** \n\n**the** \n\n**sun** \n\n**from** \n\n**Attey** \n\n**in** \n\n**si** \n\n**lis** \n\n**eutend** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**do** \n\n**not,** \n\n**¦** \n\n**days** \n\n**to** \n\n**hours,** \n\n**tuoluding** \n\n**two** \n\n**úya'** \n\n**down-** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**vounted** \n\n**Free** \n\n**Trade** \n\n**tu** \n\n**la** \n\n**the** \n\n**Sus** \n\n**Canal** \n\n**waiting** \n\n**for** \n\n**mail** \n\n**cigration** \n\n**in** \n\n**\"verything** \n\n**else,** \n\n**and** \n\n**in** \n\n## Ass \n\n**that** \n\n## Don, \n\n**$175** \n\n**porebare, salah.** \n\n**\\|** \n\n**COPAS** \n\n**OF** \n\n**LUANF** \n\n**of** \n\n**those** \n\n**who** \n\n**yet** \n\n**favour** \n\n**Lest** \n\n**year** \n\n**the** \n\n**Stanfalloch's** \n\n**Seip** \n\n**wirin** \n\n1370 per share, selam \n\n## Do, \n\n**Debentur,.. pr.** \n\n## Chirome \n\n**Imperial** \n\n**Loan** \n\n**of** \n\n**1074, nominal** \n\n## De \n\nof 1877 do, \n\n## Temperature. \n\n## so \n\n**ding** \n\n**he** \n\n**must** \n\n**have** \n\n**todlas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**sewn.** \n\n## This \n\n**satin** \n\n**lastent** \n\n**trip** \n\n**cu** \n\n**record.** \n\n## Frotection \n\n12 that part of the wozid, † 61 daya Hot, hearing in mindî die grave error of' the lecture to be found in the abnue of we take the foliowlog from a New York Buy thence of the part which the Chi- (Zaken at Moure Estoquer & Co.'s Ponnien, seem destined to play lo pasing! PE of the Bib Sapteinber \n\n## Gana \n\n**Bund** \n\n## Honokora, \n\n**Oktoby** \n\n**$1.** \n\n## Banners \n\n**M** \n\n12....... 42..... \n\n[to. \n\n## THENOMETRA) \n\n**de** \n\n**Trans** \n\n90148 \n\n50.002 \n\n## મ \n\n1 M... 4.x.... \n\nto (Tez balb) 2 a.m. \n\n## Da. \n\n## Fo \n\n1.X. \n\n09 \n\n2001 \n\n## D. \n\n**faximum** \n\n## He, \n\n**Hatem** \n\n**orur** \n\n**night** \n\n+9 \n\n## Cwing \n\n**to** \n\n**se** \n\n**krangemeni** \n\n**made** \n\n**betwee** \n\n## the \n\n**way** \n\n**for** \n\n**Western** \n\n**civilisation** \n\n**by** \n\n**Postmailer** \n\n**Janes** \n\n**and** \n\n**the** \n\n**mangers** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**opening** \n\n**up** \n\n**new** \n\n**territory** \n\n**the** \n\n**greatest** \n\n**Panife** \n\n**55** \n\n**and** \n\n**Oroldsatsl** \n\n**and** \n\n**Uriental** \n\n**fault** \n\n**we** \n\n**la76** \n\n**to** \n\n**and** \n\n**with** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sanen** \n\n**is** \n\n**Steamship** \n\n**Computes** \n\n**the** \n\n**maft** \n\n**for** \n\n**China,** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**maarer** \n\n**in** \n\n**which** \n\n**he** \n\n**wented** \n\n**the** \n\n**Japan,** \n\n**Azabralia,** \n\n**Sandwich** \n\n**Islands** \n\n**and** \n\n## He \n\n**is** \n\n**the** \n\n**covaízise** \n\n**to** \n\n**which** \n\n**mails** \n\n**are** \n\n**ment** \n\n**by** \n\n**political** \n\n**spet** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**question.** \n\n**reported** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**said, \"If** \n\n**Chiat** \n\n**was** \n\n**the** \n\n**stesters** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**shore-atione?** \n\n**con** \n\n**wing** \n\n**to** \n\n**modify** \n\n**the** \n\n**revisions** \n\n**of** \n\n**hot** \n\n**as** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**de** \n\n**hacra** \n\n**Ister** \n\n**then** \n\n**hereto** \n\n**Fabios, gan 1G BODI ARION Tia Sue Prac treaty with Great Britain suns to prfare, that is on the serenta day pensions side for the regulation of immigrato the advd day of thing mor tics of bar peuple to the color this is of a day's star psich well und wood; but this was te only applies to the wande uiry east of the honest way of grapping with the ques- Bealy Mountahar \n\n## Te \n\n**way** \n\n**Granville** \n\n**Biary, his relative, that diey wers Epium ackers--WA Brew on Wednesday test, the resales faibly of supply. It is reported before long. What has decision will be it injured thaso he had cistine! The next charge against the legalizos \n\nThe Apub's but troops reaching be it very toutafal. Sir Charles Eike's it. Chau the Governor thurs durissed the ropes to the various interpellations ceded in obtaining from the set by the sistement in their closin asis to birdir homes. The Kabul and upon the subject in the Hense of Cos-highest court in England she wolaration this respect was immensely exaggerated, Kobitale went on to Kabel, \n\n## mans \n\n**were** \n\n**on** \n\n**she** \n\n**one** \n\n**hand** \n\n**rather** \n\n**the:** \n\n**the** \n\n**sinro** \n\n**who** \n\n**stepped** \n\n**on** \n\n**firtish** \n\n**and** \n\n**could** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**compered** \n\n**t** \n\n## s \n\n**Sept.** \n\n**28-Culley** \n\n**St, John ranging w the hopes of a charr soil was at that instant free. The day moment with the terrible rise of drink eports nil gains at Randaber. The brigade brug granted, but on the other hand that verdict was pronounced was a good jog alvoholte liquears to excees prevail.\n\nThe Registrar: As to the master of Son following in the soure --- Sai Soon, I have put his petition among \n\n## CENTRAL \n\n**SCHOOL.** \n\n## 14 \n\n**Jamage** \n\n## and \n\n**ho** \n\n**esported** \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**arya** \n\n**teorived.** \n\n**He** \n\n**may** \n\n**stiend** \n\n**C.** \n\n**Water, Bail, As of the proper. Na one sporated to Chambwa it hesthouse; I wilt not. J. Wallace, a Batif, busle,.. Lave en dessed fail, but when the rany, ned i wish it to be unhestund, that Remedium, a Grimbe, b Hull, sies was given, he was an lying hay duty is nou to a land to bar Andur, Dock with a beat under water.\n\nThe Coroner barleg sammet up eviler, a verlot me returnal of vidente: death' \n\n## SUPREME \n\n**COURT** \n\n**Thunday, te L** \n\n## it \n\n**were** \n\n**my** \n\n**day.** \n\n**I** \n\n**would** \n\n**attend, but I de** \n\n## į \n\n**Vinevaly** \n\n## ↳ \n\n**Gl** \n\n**about** \n\n**attend** \n\n**Lecates** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**insalted** \n\n**on** \n\n**Shuster, b Had prey ecadam** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**attended, and I don't dodat, \n\n## Ko, \n\n**tail, b Qiable, \n\n## Very \n\n**MOTI❘** \n\n**kahamas, nat qui, AA** \n\n## Julinone \n\n**to** \n\n**im** \n\n**inanited** \n\n**unless** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**lite** \n\n## protection \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Prom** \n\n**The** \n\n**Sou** \n\n**Susa, bọt I cannot help it, I bolove the only esteguard the pubita bas le the Fren. The Ir has born wi- red here stue I came here is a way 1 Rover Rate it simidindered eltowhere.\n\n## THE \n\n**SUPREMA** \n\n**QOURT** \n\n**SCANDAL** \n\n## Mattors \n\n**are** \n\n**Lake** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chamur** \n\n**in** \n\n**seurat** \n\n## \"The \n\n**Onien** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**And** \n\n**Jan** \n\n**Brotezistam** \n\n**which** \n\n**ought** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**takes** \n\n**in** \n\n**public, i don's sonse to be a party to angling of the** \n\n## This \n\n**after** \n\n**our** \n\n**number** \n\n**of** \n\n**cance** \n\n**which** \n\n**kind.** \n\n**Whether** \n\n**in** \n\n**a** \n\n**bish** \n\n**pon** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**lying** \n\n**beer** \n\n**fines** \n\n**Monday** \n\n**loss** \n\n**a** \n\n**low** \n\n**one, I air shaply goined by one prin b. wura to cause au belare the Chipë Jugle, and that la in to taản khu \n\n## aber \n\n**regend** \n\n**if** \n\n**to** \n\n**lie** \n\n**on** \n\n**i** \n\n**den** \n\n**and** \n\n**t** \n\n**Reglatter** \n\n**wha** \n\n**in** \n\n**Copel;** \n\n**130** \n\n## 15€ \n\n## GK \n\n## lier \n\n**war** \n\n**iis** \n\n**rocant** \n\n**hy** \n\n**in** \n\n**frakt** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**last** \n\n**Gibbon** \n\n**was** \n\n**out** \n\n**for** \n\n**and** \n\n**refund** \n\n**send** \n\n## on \n\n**his** \n\n**Lordship, holding thee the cases Justice was takes in petals is be heard is open our sal decks the of the sojuhotto in traptey bjici su, be said, to a repeti. Buffon which of all things to vaca insults as he and already \n\n## vad \n\n**from** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**Justice.** \n\n## Ton \n\n**talowing** \n\n**vers** \n\n**the** \n\n**cases** \n\n**which** \n\n## the \n\n**bower** \n\n## IN \n\n**BANKEUPYY.** \n\n## rebetsieg \n\n**to** \n\n**public** \n\n**procadings, agamat «** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matters** \n\n**Young** \n\n**Lee** \n\n**Br, bek rapt-Report of Regielsar.** \n\n## A \n\n## Is \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Nuray** \n\n**Kojos, and** \n\n## ara, \n\n**bankrupt,Repost of tagieter** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Ng** \n\n**Akiu,** \n\n## Report \n\n**of** \n\n**Regisher.** \n\n## IN \n\n**PRODATA.** \n\n## 49 \n\n**under** \n\n**tence** \n\n**of** \n\n**pensi** \n\n**servitudo.** \n\n## 1 \n\n## then \n\n**his** \n\n**anything** \n\n**that** \n\n**on** \n\n**glit** \n\n**te** \n\n**be** \n\n**tako** \n\n## is \n\n**public, that is on.** \n\n**It** \n\n**is** \n\n**paleinrig** \n\n## if \n\n**anything** \n\n**is** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**tak** \n\n**ja** \n\n**juhlie,** \n\n## Total...... \n\n## And \n\n**Innings.** \n\n## Wailsco, \n\n**ba',............** \n\n## Walles, \n\n**firituele,** \n\n## audior, \n\n**Ge** \n\n## ter, \n\n**Sat, bdrmale,......** \n\n## fince \n\n**Gambin** \n\n## Bhustez, \n\n**b** \n\n**Gérica** \n\n## &** \n\n## Tatai,** \n\n## HONGKONG \n\n**PUBLIC** \n\n**SEĦOOK.** \n\n## Jat \n\n**fraingt.** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Arther, clean B, Hourd** \n\n## bicu \n\n**shold** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**heard** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chsatare.** \n\n## 6. \n\n**Bilmble, b Remadize.** \n\n## Mr \n\n**Stonkhain** \n\n**now** \n\n**raterned** \n\n**with** \n\n**s** \n\n## mange \n\n**the** \n\n**Em** \n\n**tha, na the Registra:** \n\n## ret \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**Altsed** \n\n**now, the bathes in** \n\n## . \n\n**Lammond, b Scandion, e Rabatant, May, Walles, .................** \n\n## Gribis, \n\n**a-thur, 5 Wa laury.** \n\n## Aitken, \n\n**Remedios, MNRAS,** \n\n## Lamect, \n\n**b** \n\n**Remedies,** \n\n## akraptate \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**bankruptcy** \n\n**would** \n\n**maud** \n\n**over** \n\n**t.** \n\n## 10-morrow \n\n**after** \n\n**zijn** \n\n**vrientual** \n\n**Seseinon.** \n\n## The \n\n**vistrar:** \n\n**So** \n\n**bo** \n\n**it.** \n\n## The \n\n**busloom** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**grads** \n\n**of** \n\n**Bee, denen will be held in pen Court. Yamoto -ITTY AS and Selena of Ad- telstrativ Putits by Chen wong Sang for $68.\n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**gros** \n\n**of** \n\n**R.** \n\n**T.** \n\n**Mogidge, done, ad-LoveBory Art and Sallen of Adelitaiton.**\n\nthe Chief Juation where he can innuit, us with impunity: I san not to my position degraded. I may brook a private insul, but \n\n## Wader, \n\n## B. \n\n**Girable, not on...** \n\n## Batzos, \n\n## from \n\n**Kandabar to Malwandi** \n\n## 12, \n\n**having** \n\n**buried** \n\n**hocles** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**Auld** \n\n## one \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**guiding** \n\n**principles** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**day** \n\n**for** \n\n**the** \n\n**rare, but it was a better carying gst Baropens. In conclusion of the series. it ir July, where larga Gladstone Goverinent, epesly ander the master. The white man's houtthis seturer suranarived the varrens air has been constructed.\"\n\ncoptedly rowed by several of its ad utred more that the bank au's charger againe de Chinese, and gea ukulan Sept And Slate 90150 ending meribere, is hurt to the ex-in, and the oppressor had coua tross general answer to them. He quoted the to hose than to those who he up-remark of our Bericor, \"Ho that is qdous talep at the Maiwand sensus of the ampin's territory Aud desparches tuve a published in the \n\n## Ancite \n\n**of** \n\n**Extra:mery:** \n\n**together** \n\n**ability.** \n\n## Is \n\n**would** \n\n**but, conseture, pressed.** \n\n## Now \n\n**the** \n\n**sune** \n\n**polley** \n\n**which** \n\n**it** \n\n**without** \n\n**is** \n\n**among** \n\n**you.** \n\n**let** \n\n**him** \n\n**cast** \n\n**the** \n\n## od \n\n**to** \n\n**adopt** \n\n**toward** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chiral** \n\n**stone.** \n\n## And \n\n**he** \n\n**tiled, \n\n- od telors relating to the be surprisine (at the ultimate decision was proposed centuries age been at 1 \n\n## CE \n\n2 \n\n## dini \n\n**CÍ** \n\n## s \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**foras** \n\n**na** \n\n**Geral** \n\n**Barrowshould** \n\n**in** \n\n**area** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**waything** \n\n**to** \n\n**pese** \n\n**he** \n\n## thesis \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**project.** \n\n## In \n\n**that** \n\n**esse,** \n\n**the** \n\n**tempted** \n\n**asize** \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemish** \n\n**refugees** \n\n**in** \n\n**rauce** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**fr** \n\n## Flaimed, \n\n**it** \n\n**patuloy** \n\n**te** \n\n**probaialivy** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**taron** \n\n**Orarback** \n\n**will** \n\n**i** \n\n**Gardend.** \n\n## When \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemjsh** \n\n**szunnos** \n\n## Fram, \n\n**and** \n\n**also** \n\n**apply** \n\n**to** \n\n**Germany.** \n\n**and** \n\n**here** \n\n**are** \n\n**tem** \n\n**dached** \n\n**to** \n\n**Leeden, the manufacturer in at the Goumander-in-Chiaf valgzagded ones that he was already dansen, had clust after objected strongly to their col-\n\nthe tõib Walks woo hard. de- \n\n\"For a bat and a' idel \n\nIt's coming yet for a' tak, Talsman the world o'ar \n\nBbal rather be, ir atkal.\" \n\n## Mr \n\n**C.** \n\n**Goode, (president of tua ag** \n\n## bed, \n\n## Kautioned \n\n**float** \n\n**hie** \n\n**vyerates** \n\n**have** \n\n**beon** \n\n**favorably** \n\n**i** \n\n**Jatition** \n\n**in** \n\n**various** \n\n**binnebes** \n\n**of** \n\n**trade.encistion)** \n\n**waved** \n\n**a** \n\n**vote** \n\n**of** \n\n**thanks** \n\n**to** \n\n## resived \n\n**by** \n\n**Prince** \n\n**Bismeerk, who has the London entices zuid riots Sharp for his able antare: He pointed \n\n## diag \n\n**misant** \n\n## Lin \n\n## Ansation \n\n**was** \n\n**entirely** \n\n**a** \n\n**non-political** \n\n**in** \n\n**perling** \n\n**fully.** \n\n**He** \n\n**renas** \n\n**notast** \n\n**bean** \n\n**appointed** \n\n**Minister** \n\n**of** \n\n**f'pre-** \n\n## ; \n\n**agravel** \n\n**tim** \n\n**aliepaj** \n\n**the** \n\n**storekeepers** \n\n**ssid** \n\n**uut** \n\n**tazt** \n\n**the** \n\n**Yotang:** \n\n## Kau'n \n\n**fitriatin** \n\n## A \n\n## and \n\n**who** \n\n**is** \n\n**me** \n\n**on** \n\n**I** \n\n## As \n\n**he** \n\n**thought** \n\n**that** \n\n**gentlemen** \n\n**had** \n\n**done** \n\n**Oberly** \n\n**to** \n\n**attachment** \n\n**of** \n\n**Gurus** \n\n**canmerve** \n\n**and** \n\n**week** \n\n## colonisation. \n\n**The** \n\n**Chancellor** \n\n**has** \n\n**given** \n\n**it** \n\n**never** \n\n**locaine** \n\n**Novechelone** \n\n**the** \n\n**well** \n\n**in** \n\n**coming** \n\n**forward** \n\n**to** \n\n**sypand** \n\n**the** \n\n**figub** \n\n**it** \n\n**got** \n\n**thuali** \n\n**gore** \n\n**rong** \n\n## great \n\n**encouragement** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**formation** \n\n**of** \n\n**emish** \n\n**artians** \n\n**gave** \n\n**no** \n\n**famense** \n\n**ise-other** \n\n**side** \n\n**of** \n\n**a** \n\n**vezet** \n\n**queerzina.\"** \n\n**do** \n\n## \"The \n\n**despaterne** \n\n**by** \n\n## The \n\n**Hou.** \n\n**A.** \n\n**Camphail, recorded the aligus mar ao ar longhi \n\ntheir skill, Jaloe, w intelligence they motion, which was carried with acclama. ad outfity, bat they are the Gorras Truling Company which has pets to mangfecting industry, and by \n\niswas to dreystela to the rain taken over the twainese of the did far more than repay the English: fortira, and the lecturer heietly replied.\n\nThe Hon. W. Sandover moved a voda tmuse of odetoy & Co. in the Beutli Sess The Kamiah. Naes her \"From which recently failed, and the Sumuon the generosity which offers com 16 house wurde, was my's los alios are row bets of Ims Gerwinter in this hour of need. It of thanks to the chairman, who is as \n\n## asian \n\n**was** \n\n**1230** \n\n**ruculara** \n\n**killed** \n\n**su** \n\n\\*cation on scent of distance of note for the wage jargrárda apa sau unt aletgi to eat of \n\na Trila by (7 noia) ( \n\n2; standud, mil tüsi 2,400 wyra sted's STF bitero There could be no bestar or more was indeed to the Flemings that Bag-upisten bad scied nubly under the cls- Biasa Kiled, woonid, or inwin, eligabits statice Er Prince Eiemurch's (land was indested for her present ouveiances in presiding em auch en 20 \n\n## Me \n\n**A.** \n\n**Grainger** \n\n**for** \n\n**add** \n\n**the** \n\n**motion.** \n\n## 300 \n\n**bls** \n\n**f** \n\n**h** \n\n**Dees** \n\n**were** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**pupases** \n\n**than** \n\n**the** \n\n**Nurth-East** \n\n**of** \n\n**Deruen, amidare in the arts and our casion. He though gece would \n\nfale urzt d-9. bow basty Sara Esmased and if finglu: iets slip the up posterity, the pee. Who knew how sour, trouble done by the lecture a helping tha using the night sad whaar toe amber now offered her, there can be no reason Chile, and ber basteliation of to important subject out in way Evermeny stuld not take advan-ljucts became wandereros aui if thes 1) veusded is imp-wide to I FAYRE of it, bosener much wa was rescant? came to South Australia he would ask He end the Inetarer ved done good \n\n## apposed \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**toCA** \n\n**12,000, or a bokat kom of about 1,09%. This** \n\n\\| autoss with what us TODUE-vi by spins who they the Gladstone Gerwungal chocld whether the Britch of this golony would service to tre advocmes of noti-Came \n\n\\| akina in during the rig \n\n## Coucher, \n\n**sapt.** \n\n**18-benumber** \n\n**of** \n\n**alalı** \n\n## Satri \n\n## Sed \n\n**Iminya** \n\n## 17 \n\n**at** \n\n**Waiou** \n\n**the** \n\n**let** \n\n**Sprember** \n\n**is** \n\n**given** \n\n## psore \n\n**sons** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**complaining** \n\n**abi** \n\n## Dat \n\n**zout** \n\n**4,50** \n\n**men, Host** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Indine** \n\n## the \n\n**insults** \n\n**that** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**adiered** \n\n**to** \n\n**ma** \n\n**ky** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chatel** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**are** \n\n**loculis** \n\n**to** \n\n**my** \n\n**heal** \n\n**parison** \n\n**which** \n\n**I** \n\n**wait** \n\n**not** \n\n**bear.** \n\n**I** \n\n**with** \n\n**that!** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Remedios** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Tex** \n\n**Sean, eased to be datedly understood. He many uit Bart, o and b Wallace, Inventory Account aal schama ei admin me privately, the Mul Jaesise or any body G. Ishlo, Wallse \n\nely, and cauli brook it and forget T. Kammer, barul e Wallao strands of Satau Jaze Bostor, lit, Eat so insals in my poetion I am \n\n#Lammert, e Rshunul, b Waits, cad.toty Aescuet bid Serra of bound forarent. The pelte hobi is May, to hat......... Administration, \n\n## emorect \n\n**treat** \n\n**and** \n\n**I** \n\n**will** \n\n**uphold** \n\n**is** \n\n**dignity.** \n\n## W. \n\n**Grimble, rus gi** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Aloe** \n\n**War, dece.** \n\n**They** \n\n**was** \n\n**I** \n\n**am** \n\n**vandielivest** \n\n**in** \n\n**Alken, Homedie,...........** \n\n## -Inventory \n\n**account** \n\n**atid** \n\n**Scheme** \n\n**of** \n\n**ad-** \n\n**that** \n\n**repeat, I am jalons of the uterity** \n\n## Millet, \n\n**to** \n\n**hat............** \n\n## law \n\n**1** \n\n**Lave** \n\n**followed** \n\n**the** \n\n**bourable** \n\n**B.** \n\n**Grimble, tu bai minitentia** \n\n## Extras...antarangays \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goals** \n\n**of** \n\n**Che** \n\n**Buia, Jeccand-lo** \n\n**pr-festog** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**law** \n\n**fe** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**five** \n\n**year** \n\n**Pentury** \n\n**Acconut** \n\n**a** \n\n**Scam** \n\n**of** \n\n**Admicis, amal** \n\n**I** \n\n**ever** \n\n**had** \n\n**an** \n\n**innata** \n\n**quins** \n\n**ine, alther we judge or barrister,** \n\n## Imat \n\n## tration. \n\n## To \n\n**the** \n\n**gouden** \n\n**Fook** \n\n**St.** \n\n**Fong, decaan:** \n\n**d.** \n\n## and \n\n**i** \n\n**mal** \n\n**day** \n\n**i** \n\n**vot** \n\n**cow** \n\n**diepened** \n\n**at** \n\n**5** \n\n**juventory** \n\n**Apus** \n\n**and** \n\n**Sebums** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adare** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**s** \n\n**portion** \n\n**degraded** \n\n**in** \n\n**my** \n\n**purt** \n\n**on** \n\n**my** \n\n**coming** \n\n**to** \n\n**an** \n\n**qutabile** \n\n**plads** \n\n**minterration.** \n\n## the \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Arthur** \n\n**W.** \n\n**Cuan, doke** \n\n**Dongkg.** \n\n**I** \n\n**wish** \n\n**that** \n\n**that** \n\n**may** \n\n**go** \n\n**Beach** \n\n**Petition** \n\n**for** \n\n**grant** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adaciae** \n\n**far** \n\n**th** \n\n**over** \n\n**the** \n\n**engil** \n\n**and** \n\n**breadth** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n## Colony, \n\n**small** \n\n**as** \n\n**it** \n\n**be, if it go no inether.**\n\nThe Rolate then huntied up the pa- theas of Lale To Kang, droseed, are which had bean given him by Br Telition feer grout of Administration.\n\nThe wenge Mr Mcup brought was to \n\n## Stockhausen, \n\n**and** \n\n**reaching** \n\n**as** \n\n**they** \n\n**were** \n\n## be \n\n**so** \n\n**blind.** \n\n## ABHORD. \n\n## recognise \n\n**Seir** \n\n**est** \n\n**responsibility** \n\n**and** \n\n**immigration, as he bai proved all the respect the tradit me at ang road charges he attempted to deal with... thair g? Sectility toware (lengter) doubtless all pre \n\n## ayuu'e \n\n**ar** \n\n**doring** \n\n**and** \n\n**alter** \n\n**thation** \n\n## THE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327553, "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": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "## Proclamation Rewards for Capturing or Destroying Enemy Ships and Equipment\n\nin capturing a first-class iron-clad will receive a reward of 100,000 taels, and for a second-class iron ship 80,000 taels. For a first-class wooden steamer they will receive a reward of 40,000 taels, and for a small wooden steamer 20,000 taels. For a foreign boat a reward of 100 taels will be given. For sinking and destroying any of the above the reward will be one-half, and grades of official rank will be liberally given. Ships belonging to other countries than France must not, however, be recklessly captured or recklessly destroyed. If there happens to be treasure or goods on board a ship, it will all be given to the man to whose exertions the capture is due. Officials, gentry, soldiery, or others who did not lend any help, will not be permitted to quarrel over its partition. If, however, the foe have not been effectively repulsed, and any persons, instead of giving their attention to pursuit and slaughter, lay violent hands on the treasure and goods, they will assuredly be punished by martial law.\n\n4. Any soldiers or civilians who succeed in capturing from the enemy a large piece of cannon, weighing 10,000 catties or upwards, will receive a reward of 3,000 taels, and the man who has shown the most energy in the matter will receive the peacock plume and the rank of Captain. The brevets will be issued at once. For smaller sizes of cannon, a proportionately lower reward.\n\n5. Officials, civil and military, soldiers, militia, traders and train-bands, and others who, when the French army invade a place, achieve a victory out of the common, and leading their brave fellows to the fight succeed in completely vanquishing the enemy, will receive a reward of 30,000 taels, and extraordinary promotion will be given according to their grade and merit. Brevets will be granted on the day of the award.\n\n6. The local gentry, or the militia of any place attacked by the French troops, shall, if they succeed in guarding the place in the absence of the troops, and in preventing ships, boats, or land forces from forcing their way into the interior, in this way protecting the approaches while a flying message is sent to beg for assistance from the Imperial troops, be munificently rewarded, on a basis to be determined at the time, with sums varying from 10,000 taels to 1,000 taels. Honours, decorations, and buttons will be abundantly awarded to the leaders.\n\n7. Those who recklessly kill innocent people with a view to fraudulently gaining the reward will assuredly be dealt with under martial law.\n\nThe money for the above rewards has already been supplied from the Treasuries of the Provincial Exchequer, the Gabelle, and the Grain Department, and has been handed over to the Board of Reorganization, who will pay the awards. On receiving a report at the Board of Reorganization the latter will make inquiry and pay the money at once to each in turn. There will be no deduction or delay, and brevets for the honours, plumes, and buttons will be given on the spot. There will be no going back [from the above promises].\n\nThe clauses above apply exclusively to French soldiers and ships. The subjects of all other countries are friendly, as heretofore, and there is nothing against them. No harm must, therefore, be done them under pain of being dealt with by martial law.\n\nKwangsu, 10th year, 7th moon, 10th day (August 30, 1884).\n\n(Translation.)\n\n## Inclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\n**Proclamation**\n\nA Proclamation by Chang, Governor of Shansi, and Acting Governor-General of the Two Kwang; and Ni, Governor of Kwangtung.\n\nThe French being covetous and perverse, and without [sense of] right, have committed an act of war, and the people of the seaboard are all deeply and justly indignant. The valour and daring of the men of Kwangtung is proverbial, and they will certainly be able with earnest purpose to unite for revenge. But the breach of right was committed by the troops, and the blame attached to the French only, and in no way touches other nations. We, the Acting Governor-General and the Governor, have already ordered the French Consul to take with him his nationals, and to quit Kwangtung.\n\nThere are, therefore, now at Canton no foreigners but those belonging to other nations, who are all on friendly terms with China. These must not be causelessly molested, and we therefore issue Proclamation to notify the soldiery and others who live within and without the precincts of the city, that there are now no French in Canton, and that people of other nations being friendly, must be protected. But if any one dare to make disturbances and wound or injure them, he will be at once dealt with by martial law (i.e., executed).\n\nLet every one trembling obey; a special Proclamation dated 31st August, 1884.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nHsiao, Prefect of Kwangchow.\n\n## Inclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n**Proclamation**\n\nWei, Acting Magistrate of Nankai district. Hon, Magistrate of P'an-yü district, in the matter of issuing a Proclamation.\n\nFrenchmen have been trading in China for many years, and the Emperor has treated them with great kindness, and has protected them and their families. All western nations have been treated alike, and on no occasion has the slightest distinction been made. But the French are incapable of gratitude and respect, and have invaded [the territory of our dependency]. Now they have gone to Foochow in vessels of war, and, without a declaration of hostilities, have shelled and destroyed the arsenal. They seek a quarrel, and, abandoning what is good, drag in [a pretext for] enmity and commence war. This indeed is sufficient to arouse ire both divine and human.\n\nWe are in receipt of a communication from the high provincial authorities, in which it is stated as to the French Consul, and others [of his nationality], I have already directed them to leave Kwangtung. The church in the Mai-ma street of Canton [the cathedral], and the churches in every prefecture and department, are, they have been erected by Frenchmen, to be inspected and sealed up by the officials. Men are to be sent to take possession of and place seals on the Consulate, and on all mercantile hongs. As to the burning of the arsenal a short time ago, of course this should be discussed, and compensation paid. [With regard to] all [these things, it is necessary to] wait until the Tsung-li Yamên has received an Imperial Decree, giving direction as to what is to be done.\n\nWe accordingly at once issue this Proclamation for [general] information, so that both Chinese and foreign merchants and others may obey. It ought to be known that the above-mentioned churches, &c., must certainly be examined by officials, and closed one by one with seals. People may not secretly damage or destroy [these], and thus involve the persons living near.\n\nHongs, godowns, and churches belonging to other nations, which have always been on friendly terms with China, have to be treated as heretofore, and there are to be no disturbances. But now that hostilities have commenced, we fear that it will be difficult to distinguish between the hongs, godowns, and churches belonging to different nations. People of all nations must at once have [a paper] posted on their doorways, with large Chinese characters on it, stating that the hong, godown, or church belongs to such and such a nation. In this way people have only to look and know [to what nation the property belongs], and there cannot be the slightest mistake. As to houses and property really belonging to Frenchmen, [the owners] are on no account to borrow another nation's name, hoping to cause confusion.\n\nConverts to the French religion are in any case China's children and people, for hundreds of years they have trod on [Chinese] soil, and eaten [Chinese] food, and of course they are not in the slightest degree to be looked upon as aliens. As to those that secretly assist the French, they have a wish to conspire against [their country], and will be arrested and punished. Certainly no indulgence will be shown them.\n\nLet every one trembling obey without fail. A special Proclamation. Kuangsu, 10th year, 7th moon, 9th day (August 29, 1884).\n\nPage 340", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 329273, "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": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "page_number": 52, "title": "CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12]", "content_text": "# To His Excellency Admiral Sir William Dowell, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's Naval Forces on the China Station.\n\nSir,--During a recent critical period in the history of the British Empire in the East we, Her Majesty's subjects in this colony, and, we think we may say without too great presumption, all Her Majesty's subjects in this part of the world, deemed themselves highly fortunate in having at the head of the Naval Forces of Great Britain in these seas an officer of such high standing, of great experience, and of such distinguished ability as yourself. We believed, and not without good warrant, that in the event, happily averted, of a contest with any foreign foe, the honour of the British Flag would, in your hands, be preserved untarnished. Watching your movements with some not unnatural degree of anxiety, we saw that the force under your command was quietly, promptly, energetically, prepared for active service, and so divided and so disposed that, if occasion had arisen, every ship would have been found where, whether for attack or for defence, it was most needed and most effective. We saw, with no small degree of gratification, that, while charged with the weighty responsibility of safeguarding British interests in general over the vast extent of waters within the limits of your command, you were not unmindful of our anxieties, or indifferent to our demands for special protection and assistance, You strengthened the hands of the local authorities to the utmost possible extent, and gave us, perhaps, more than our fair share of your time and attention and of the material resources at your disposal.\n\nHappily, the then impending contest was, as we have said, averted. All danger has passed away. Our anxieties are of the past. But at the time they were very serious and very real, and we would be very ungrateful if we allowed you, whose mere presence in command of the Fleet did so much, at that time, to give us courage and confidence and to diminish our anxieties, to haul down your Flag and take leave of the East without availing ourselves of the opportunity to place on record, for whatever it may be worth, our opinion of the distinguished services rendered by you during the last two years to the Crown and people of Great Britain, and to offer you our hearty thanks and our most grateful acknowledgments.\n\nYour Excellency has a special claim to thanks and acknowledgments from British subjects in the East, for, distinguished as your services have been elsewhere, you have been peculiarly associated, during your long career, with this part of the world. As midshipman you were present when the British flag was first hoisted on this Island, then so barren and unpromising, now so wealthy and important. As Captain of the Barossa, you were present and assisted, taking no unimportant part, in what was really the opening of Japan to the influences of European civilization. As Admiral you have added, we believe, another to the vast number of the possessions of the Crown scattered about throughout the world, and have laid the foundation of a settlement that in years to come may be, and we hope that it may be, as wealthy and as prosperous as this colony is now.\n\nYour prolonged absences from Hongkong during the past two years, absences necessitated by the requirements of the service, have deprived us, to our extreme regret, of opportunities of cultivating your more intimate acquaintance and of offering to you whatever of social enjoyments the colony can afford, and now that the lessened responsibilities of command would have given you more leisure, more freedom to accept of our hospitalities, you are leaving us, and probably for ever. We congratulate you, of course, on the promotion that necessitates your leaving within the ordinary period of naval command, yet for our own sakes we regret it. In bidding you farewell, we thank you most heartily for your services rendered to your Queen and country in these waters, and especially during the last two years. We wish you long and sound health, many opportunities of distinction in the service of the Crown, and all the honours and rewards you can desire.\n\nWe, the undersigned Members of the Community of other nationalities most heartily concur in the sentiments above expressed by our Fellow Residents, Her Britannic Majesty's subjects, and in their congratulations and good wishes.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour very obedient humble Servants.\n\nHongkong, 6th November, 1885.\n\n[Here follow signatures.]\n\nMr. Ryrie then handed over to Admiral Dowell the address, which was printed in gold on vellum, and was encased in a cover handsomely bound in navy blue velvet with tasteful silver corners, and | bearing the inscription in gold letters, \"Presented to H.E. Admiral Sir William Montagu Dowell, K.C.B., 6th November, 1885.”\n\nThe Hon. P. RYRIe continued--Having read the address to our distinguished guest--and I should distinctly say he is that--I will say he is everything we could wish in an Admiral. He has enlisted our sympathies and admiration in every way. That he is now leaving us on promotion to the highest rank perhaps but one that he can attain in the glorious service to which he belongs, is certainly satisfactory in one way, but is to us a cause of regret. We are now assembled here to do him honour, and that that honour is well deserved I think that every one in this assembly will admit. (Cheers.) Ladies and gentlemen, I beg to propose the health of Sir William Montagu Dowell. (Cheers.)\n\nThe Band struck up \"Rule Britannia,\" in the chorus of which the assembly joined heartily, finishing up by according the Admiral musical honours, and one more round of enthusiastic cheers.\n\nAdmiral Sir W. M. DOWELL, who on rising was received with prolonged cheers, said Mr. Ryrie, Ladies and Gentlemen,--You will, I know, believe me when I say that I feel myself utterly incapable of adequately expressing my thanks and my high appreciation of the great and unexpected honour you have done me in thus complimenting me upon my humble services during the two years I have commanded Her Majesty's Naval Forces on this Station. (Cheers.) It has, as you may suppose, been a source of much gratification to me that in China, where I commenced my career as a midshipman, I should, after a lapse of forty-six years, finish it (at least as far as foreign service is concerned) as Commander-in-Chief, and that I should here receive such a mark of the approbation of my fellow-countrymen. (Cheers.) I can assure you I have watched the progress of this now important colony with great interest, and have observed, almost with wonder, how the City of Victoria has, at each of my separate visits to China, grown in beauty and prosperity. (Cheers.) When contrasted with what it was as I first remember it, a barren rock, the change is little short of marvellous. (Renewed applause.) It has been my duty, as it has been my pleasure, to co-operate with His Excellency the Governor and the local authorities in all matters in which the Navy could be of service, and I wish to express my sense of the cordiality and courtesy I have invariably received from His Excellency and also from all those with whom my duties have brought me in connection. (Applause.) I desire to take advantage of this opportunity to say a few words in recognition of the great courtesy I have received from the officers commanding the squadrons of those powers which joined us in the convention for providing for the protection of neutral interests at Treaty Ports during the late Franco-Chinese troubles. It fell to my lot, as a Vice-Admiral, to be the senior officer of the station, and the ready and cordial co-operation rendered by my colleagues, Admiral Davis of the United States Navy, Admiral Matsumura of the Japanese Navy, Commodore Paschen of the German Navy, and Captain Accinni of the Italian Navy, on all occasions, merits my warmest acknowledgments. That the events which took place in the River Min in August last year--when the large population of the city of Foochow was in a state of such ferment and excitement that the mandarins had almost entirely lost all control--were, happily, unattended by injury to either life or property in the Nantai Settlement, must in a great measure be attributed to the cool judgment of Admiral Davis, of the United States Navy, and Captain Powlett, of H.M.S. Champion, (loud cheers)--who were in charge of the men stationed off the settlement from the British and American squadrons. The crisis passed away, and it was a matter of ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-223 - Governor Sir Bowen Acting Governor Marsh & Others - 1885 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369440, "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": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 28, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "## THE DEFENCE OF HONGKONG\n\nAs to the North side, hopes are entertained that Sir Claude Macdonald may be able to settle that matter for us, but we should be prepared to settle it ourselves on short notice if the pinch came. Every one is so afraid to take responsibility now-a-days, and the Chinese parrot cry of \"No belong my pidgin'\" is always forthcoming, that we should be prepared with a scheme of defence with our own resources in the absence of the fleet? The public would feel much easier if they knew such was the case, and that every man knew his post and duty faithfully, beforehand. Every point should be thought out, and prepared for, and an intelligence department formed, and instructions prepared for Gap Rock and outlying points. Heliograph stations fixed, and a patrol service of torpedo craft ranged, so that it could be sent out to watch in the event of complications arising likely to result in war; a pre-arranged signal from sea-ward of the approach of suspicious craft would be of incalculable advantage in giving us time to muster for defence.\n\nFREE LANCE.\n\n### THE DEFENCE OF HONGKONG (China Mail, Oct. 12.)\n\nThe series of articles which has appeared in these columns, under the rather curious heading of \"The Back Door,\" has doubtless caused much talk and controversy. It is possible that the articles may have caused some amusement, notwithstanding their realistic character. A certain amount of amusement may have been caused by the fanciful movements of the attackers and defenders, it is to be hoped that something more important than the mere pleasures of imagination will result from the sketch referred to.\n\nA competent critic puts the matter in this way :-\n\n\"Your attractive literary skit entitled 'The Back Door' may open our eyes as well as arouse our thinking powers (and, of course, afford us a topic of conversation); for, conjectural as most of it is, and impossible as many will say more than one incident related must be, it should be remembered that a declaration of war has not invariably preceded hostilities even amongst the most civilised powers. Witness the attack on the Turkish fleet at Sinope, and the so-called reprisals at Foochow in the Franco-Chinese War. The bombardment of Alexandria has been quoted conversationally as a similar illustration, although it does not seem equally applicable. And the Jameson Raid has also been mentioned; but neither appear to be analogous. One was to check an insurrection, and the other (since disowned by the Imperial Government) was something between a demonstration and a premature blunder. Anyhow, to return to our local application of the imaginary defence and final destruction of Hongkong, one can realise, without being behind the scenes, that the Harbour Defence vessels are antiquated, and that the small expense required to mobilise 'suddenly' more than once a year would be money well vested.\n\n\"Another point which is exercising the minds of property-holders is, can the Colony be shelled from seaward or from Mirs Bay? It is generally believed that no hostile craft can get into the harbour, or if once in that she could survive for any time. Another point, what about our magazine? and what facilities exist for the transport of ammunition to the various points which will be necessary?\n\n\"It seems to me that these are points on which our unofficial members might well be exercised. Is it not worth while protecting the shore ends of the telegraph cables, or are we so certain we can at once repair any damage close in shore, that such protection is unnecessary? The cost of carrying out these suggestions cannot be so great as to exclude them from practical politics, and their completion cannot but add to our security.\"\n\nThus far our Critic; and we do not doubt that most of the thinking residents of the Colony will be prepared to go with him thus far. We have also to commend 'Free Lance' for his sensible commentary upon the whole of the situation. Indeed, most men of common-sense realise that something is wanting in our defence arrangements. We are all ready enough to die for 'home and country', if necessary; but the question is now where lies the necessity? It is over the 'system', or rather want of system, which is our weakness,--never our readiness to defend ourselves. Continuity is needed, here, as in everything else in out-of-the-way Colonies. One General, or Engineer Commanding, requires one thing; and he spends money, and stays say three years. Another succeeds, and the pack is shuffled again, and a new game begins. Such (as the saying is) is life in the Far East. So far as we can comprehend the lessons conveyed in the awfully realistic sketch of the noble defence and final destruction of Hongkong (as described in \"The Back Door\"), they are these:—\n\n| Point | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (1.) | A proper look-out and patrol of the South side of the Island. |\n| (2.) | Efficient protection of telegraphic cables. |\n| (3.) | Proper official Consuls for Saigon and Vladivostock. |\n\nWe ought to know that the ammunition, food, coal, etc., as well as the men to man all the harbour defence vessels, are at any moment ready for the whole of these vessels to be under weigh as soon as ever steam can be got up. 'It is no secret that the Infantry in the Colony is insufficient for the defence of the frontiers,--that, even with the aid of the guns of the forts, at least one Battalion should be available for the frontier on the mainland; and as the Colony already complains of the Military burden, something should be done in the meantime. Blockhouses, or something more than temporary shelter trenches, should be prepared in the positions commanding the likeliest landing places for a hostile force, to enable the infantry at our disposal to meet the foe with the advantage such fortifications afford. Would it be a waste of money to prepare shelter for the field-guns available, or to know exactly the spots the batteries must occupy to resist a landing at any named point, without running the risk of annihilation from the heavy guns of an enemy's ships the moment they open fire, and to have the passage to such spots kept clear of all obstructions?\n\nIs it not remarkable that Great Britain maintains no Consul in French Indo-China, or at Vladivostock? Are our interests in these places less than those of any of the Foreign Powers who maintain Consuls of their own race in Hongkong? Again, is it not worth while protecting the shore ends of the telegraph cables... \n\n- 36 -- \n- 37 --", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397229, "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": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "**Telegram. Governor Sir M. Nathan to Mr. Lyttelton**\nReceived Colonial Office 12.30 p.m. 17th October 1905\n\nReferring to your telegram of 16th October. Unusual to communicate with local authorities China but photographs of deportees with particulars as to offences periodically sent to Consul General for information of Viceroy Canton. No arrangement has been made for Chinese authorities preventing return to Hong Kong of deportees but if they return they are severely punished. If Transvaal wish to repatriate Chinese to Canton Swatow Amoy Foochow Government of Hong Kong will arrange for reception of deportees here and banish them to destination as is done for Straits Settlements and Indo China deportees. Transvaal Government must send in advance name of steamer carrying deportees their description with photographs and statement of reasons for repatriation.\n\n**C.O. 37063**\n**No. 761**\n**COLONIAL OFFICE**\n**PRINTED FOR USE** \n\n| Reference | Date | Time |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| `C.O. 37063` | 17th October 1905 | 12.30 p.m. |\n\n`SEC? (8' 17 001 05`\n`GR.../.../...` is not present, but `Foo 35415` is likely a reference number. However, without clear context, it remains as is: `Foo 35415`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403352, "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": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 261, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n### No. 1.\n#### [August 28.]\n\n## SECTION 3.\n\n**Sir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-Received August 28.)**\n\n### (No. 233.)\n\nPeking, July 3, 1905.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to your Lordship herewith, with reference to my despatch No. 183 of the 29th May, copy of a note which I have addressed to Prince Ching on the subject of the difficulties put by the Chinese in the way of the opening of Changsha.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) \n**ERNEST SATOW.**\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n#### Sir E. Satow to Prince Ching.\n\nPeking, June 29, 1905.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness's note of the 27th April, in which you inform me that the question whether li-kin should or should not be levied on foreign goods conveyed into the City of Changsha depends entirely on whether this city is or is not included in the area of the Treaty port, and that, as this point has not yet been settled between His Majesty's Consul and the Governor of Changsha, you can hardly call upon the authorities to at once abstain from levying li-kin.\n\nI deferred hitherto replying to your Highness's note because the Viceroy of Wachang had approached His Majesty's Consul-General with certain proposals for the settlement of this and other questions in regard to which controversy had arisen at Changsha. But Mr. Fraser now reports to me that the Viceroy has informed him that the Governor will not accept the proposals put forward by him, and this is confirmed by a report from His Majesty's Consul. Under these circumstances, I am compelled to put before your Highness the views which I held on this question, which are those of His Majesty's Government.\n\nBy Article II of the Treaty of Nanking, British subjects are allowed to reside for trade at the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochow-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghae. In Articles X, XI, and XII, these cities and towns are referred to as ports. The words thus used have obvious and plain meanings, and cannot be construed to bear the restricted meaning of \"landing place adjoining an anchorage\" to which the Chinese authorities have endeavoured to limit it. Article VII of the Treaty of Tien-tsin speaks of the residence of Consuls \"in any of the open ports or cities of China,\" and by Article XI, it was agreed that, \"in addition to the cities and towns\" mentioned in the Treaty of Nanking, British subjects may frequent the cities and ports of Newchwang, Chefoo, Taiwan, Swatow, and Kiungchow. The same Article provides for their having the right of buying or leasing houses and leasing land at all these \"ports and towns,\" and by Article XII, they are entitled to make agreements for the land or buildings at the rates prevailing among the people equitably and without exactions on either side. Official intervention in such matters at a Treaty port is thus excluded.\n\nBy Article X of the Japanese Commercial Treaty of the 8th October, 1903, Changsha was opened to foreign trade in exactly the same way as the places opened by the Treaties. From the moment of the ratification of that Treaty by the High Contracting Parties, all the privileges, immunities, and advantages granted by it to the Japanese Government or to Japanese subjects enured immediately to His Majesty's Government and to British subjects, and Changsha became a Treaty port under the same conditions as those already mentioned.\n\nBy Article X of the Treaty of Nanking, the Emperor of China engages that, when British merchandize shall have paid at any of the said ports the regular customs... \n\nPage 256", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 404634, "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": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "page_number": 372, "title": "CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4]", "content_text": "## DRAFT\n\nFor Home Office\n\nMr. \nMr.\n\n**MINUTE**\n\nFo 929 ·06 Hong Kong Pt. 15/3 above\n\nMr. Antrobus, \nMr. Cox. \nMr. Lucas. \nMr. Graham. \nSir M. Ommanney, \nThe Duke of Marlborough. \nMr. Lyttelton.\n\nas howalt, aquash: See Armrent.\n\nto the recovered from Watts Watts Flo Willington Avenue 14146 Avenue\n\nAccounts Branch \nB&-- EZ-DL 4-000-6-05\n\nto note sept 4-50 15/3.\n\nrobert breb pay pite hy theat Repor Owners represent po +you pawnings refuse permissions lea Powhatan lake cooles 369 learner sodden\n\nFoochow to Mexico. What are reasora reply? pink Ry telegraph Elgin.\n\n17 words off her word -£2-18-1* boted. Yes.\n\n2013.\n\n#bout now recovered and Received B. by PMG/26 March 18.\n\nBAB. \n\n... ริต", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-333 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464453, "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": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915.\n\n## Page 7\n\nFa Hsing, Tien-tain. \nFairchild, F. A. \nFar Eastern Geographical Establishment. \nFarley, W. A. \nFarmer, F. D., & Co. \nFearon, Daniel, & Co. \nFederal Life Assurance Company of Canada. \nFengtien District Inspectorate of Salt Revenue. \nFerguson, J. C. G. \nFerretti. \nFielding, H. R. \nFindlay, Richardson, & Co. \nFirth, W., & Sons. \nFobes & ta. \nFohkien Mercantile Co., Foochow. \nFoo Tai Company, Hankow. \nFoochow Dock & Arsenal, Pagoda Anchorage. \nFoachow Native Hospital. \nFoochow Pharmacy. \nForbes & Co., William. \nFoster, McClellan, & Co. \nFrankau, A., & Co. Limited. \nFrazar & Co. \nFrazer, E. W. \nFrench Bakery. \nTu Seng, W. & Co., Foochow. \nFu Shing Tai, Tien-tein. \nFuchs, H., & Co. (Rint'ai Stores). \nFujita & Co., Mukden. \nFukien Drug Company. \nFukul & Co., Shanghai. \nFung Tang, Shanghai. \nFurukawa & Co., Shanghai, \nFutcher, J. W. \n\n## Page 3 (continued on another page, not shown in the snippet)\n\n... (text not shown)\n\n## Page 11\n\nGabhai, M. N., & Co. \nGadai, Yoko. \nGaillard. \nGakuyodo Mori, Shameen. \nGallusser & Co. \nGande, Price, & Co. \nGarner, Quelch, & Co. \nGates, F. \nGeddes & Co. \n**General Accident, Fire, & Life Assurance Company.** \nGeneral Electric Company. \nGeneral Electric Company of China Limited. \nGeneral Electric Company of New York. \nGerassime Touliatos. \nGerin, Drevard, & Co. \nGibb, Livingston, & Co. \nGibbons, J., & Co. \nGillard, G. M., & Co. \nGillespie & Co. \nGilman & Co. \nGing Chong Hung & Co. \nGittins & Co. \nGlaxo. \nGlen Line Steamers, \nGoldenberg, H., & Co. \nGordes. \nGordon & Co. \nGovernment Universities in China. \nGoyet, Shanghai. \nGrand Hôtel des Wagons-Lite, Peking. \nGrant, Archibald. \nGreat China Dispensary. \nGreat Eastern Co., Ltd., Shanghai. \nGreat Eastern Dispensary. \nGreat Northern Telegraph Company, \nGreer, H. & W., Limited. \nGreig, M. W., & Co. \nGrenard, Bettines, & Co. \nGriffith, T. E.. Limited. \nGriffiths' Butchery. \nGrimes, A. O. \nGrimshaw, R. \nGrosjean & Co. \nGrundy, R. \nGuarantee Trust. \nGula Kalumpang Rubber Estates Limited. \nHall & Holtz Limited. \nHan Yeh Ping Iron & Coal Company. \nHanda Menko, Shanghai. \nHankow Club Ltd. \nHankow Dispensary Limited. \nHankow Ice Works (Corsane, Anderson, & Co.) \nHankow Light & Power Company. \nHankow Printing Office. \nHankow Race Club & Recreation Ground Ltd. \nHankow Waterworks. \nHankow Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd. \nHardoon, S. A. \nHardy, Walter. \nHarper, Ralph, & Co. \nHarvey's Billposting Agency. \nHarvie, Cook, & Co. \nHarvie, J. A. \nIIatch, Carter, & Co. \nHattori, Yoko. \nHeath & Co. Limited. \nHeath, P., and Co. \nHeffer, F. C., & Co. \nHeiman, S. S, \nHeisch, P. F. \nHemmerdinger Frères. \nHemmings & Berkley. \nHeng, Chang, Ter, Newchang. \nHeng Cheong & Co., Amoy, \nHérou, Charles, & Co. \nHetherington, J., & Sons, \nHewett, W., & Co. \nHipwell, P. \nHirao & Co., Antung. \nHirsbrunner & Co. \nHo En Seong, Nanking. \nHolgate, L. G. \nHolland-China Trading Company. \nHolliday, C., & Co. \nHolt's Wharf. \nHong Kong Fire Insurance Company. \nHong Kong and Shanghai Bank. \nHopkins, Dunn, & Co. \nHorrobin, S. L. \nHorse Bazaar and Motor Company. \nHôtel de France. \nHôtel de la Paix, \nHôtel de Pékin. \nHouvenier-Mason, Scheidler, & Co. \nHowarth, Richard, & Co. \nHsin Kong & Co., Shanghai, \nHsing Tai, Shanghai. \nHua Eng Tai, Swatow. \nHua Mui Dispensary, Swatow. \nHubbard, E. W. \nHumphrey, W. G. \nHung Chong Ter, Newchang. \nHung, Dab, & Co., Shanghai. \nHunt, Newchang. \nHupei Government Cotton Mill, \nHutchison, Herbert, & Co. \nHutchison, J. D. \nFah Leng Dispensary, Swatow. \nJah Siu Dispensary, Swatow. \nTak Sang Dispensary, Swatow. \nIlbert & Co. \nImperial Hotel Limited, \nIndo-China Steam Navigation Company. \nIndra Line of Steamers. \n\n# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915. 12817\n\nInnis & Riddle. \nInshallah Dairy Farm and Stock Company. \nInternational Bank. \nInternational Bicycle Company. \nInternational Book and Stationery Store. \nInternational Cotton Manufacture Company. \nInternational Dispensary, Shanghai. \nInternational Dock, Shanghai, \nInternational Estate and Finance, Shanghai, \nInternational Export Company, Hankow. \nInternational Saving Society, Shanghai. \nIsenman & Smith, Drs. \nItalian-Chinese Import and Export Company. \nIto, G., Shanghai. \nItoh, C., & Co., Shanghai. \nIvy Dairy. \nIvy, Dr. \nJacks, William, & Co. \nJapanese Red Cross Hospital, Mukden. \nJapanese Post and Telegraphs in Manchuria. \nJaques, A. H., & Co. \nJardine, Matheson, & Co. \nJava Consolidated Rubber and Coffee Estate. \nJava Sea and Fire Insurance Company. \nJensen, G. S. \nJia Ann Dispensary, Swatow. \nJoseph Bros. \nJun Chee, Tien-tein. \nJuvet Leo, Tien-tain. \nKailan Mining Administration. \nKaitendo Company, Newchang. \nKakiage, Yoko, Shanghai. \nKale, E. \nKalee Hotel Limited. \nKalgan Dairy Farm. \nKameya (Kamaya), S., & Co., Antung. \nKansaki & Co., Newchang. \nKapayang Rubber Estate Company Limited. \nKaratzas Bros. \nKashimura Company, Tientsin, \nKato & Co. \nKay, W., & Co. \nKaye, C. B., & Co. \nKelly & Walsh Limited. \nKemp, Thomas, & Co. \nKempton. \nKermani, R. S., Shanghai. \nKeylock, Pratt, and Hobbs. \nKeystone Tobacco Company Limited. \nKiangnan Dock and Engineering Works. \nKlemantaski, Bates, & Co. \nKo Bros., Amoy. \nKochien Transport and Towboat Company Limited. \nKodera & Co. \nKong Yik Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company. \nKoushyn, N. N., Limited, Shanghai. \nKroewoek Java Plantations Limited. \nKua, Seng, Watt, & Co., Amoy. \nKwong Chek Dispensary, Swatow \nKwong Fat Yuen, Shanghai. \nKwong Wo Company, Canton. \nLa Belle Jardinière (E. A. Culpeck). \nLalcacca & Co. \nLam Fong Drug Company, Amoy. \nLand Investment Company Limited. \nLane, Crawford, & Co. Limited. \nLangkat Company, Shanghai. \nLao Sen Kee, Hankow. \nLaon Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company. \nLarge, F., & Co. \nLau, Bittakshing, & Co., Canton. \nLau, E. C., Foochow \nLau Tsz Wai, Shameen. \nLau, Woodland, & Co., Canton. \nLaurent, Marius. \nLavers & Clark. \nLaw, H. D., & Co. \nLe Lion. \nLe Munyon. \nLee Bros. & Co., Canton. \nLeeds, E. S. \nLegation of Allied Powers, Peking. \nLegation Pharmacy (J. Henderson). \nLekhomall Pinyamall. \nLem Pah Wo, Canton. \nLem Tak Se, Swatow. \nLester, Johnson, & Morriss. \nLever Brothers, Limited. \nLey, C. \nLeyte, F. \nLiang Dau An, Hankow. \nLiao Conservancy Authority. \nLias River Conservancy. \nLiddell, Bros. & Co. \nLiddell, K., & Co. \nLih Teh Oil Mill Company Limited. \nLim, E. V. S., & Co., Swatow. \nLion, Lucien. \nLittle, O. S. \nLittle, William, & Co. \nLitvinoff & Co. \nLiverman, G. S., & Co. Limited. \nLiverpool Salvage Association. \nLlewellyn & Co. Limited. \nLloyds. \nLoa Hai Shing, Shanghai. \nLoa-Wai Dispensary, Canton. \nLondon Mission. \nLondon Salvage Association. \nLopato, A., & Sons, Limited. \nLoup and Young. \nLouvain. \nLowe, Bingham, and Matthews. \nLowe, F. H. \nLoxley, W. R., & Co. \nL.P. Medical Hall, Foochow. \nLu Si, W. (Foochow Pharmacy). \nLuen Steamship Company Limited. \nLuk Wo & Co. (Luk Wo Dispensary), Canton. \nMa Fel & Co., Shanghai, \nMacbeth, Pawsey, & Co. \nMacdonald, Ronald, \nMacdonald, Thomas, & Co. \nMacey & Co. \nMackay, A. H., & Co. \nMacKenzie, A. C. \nMacKenzie & Co. Limited. \nMackie, A., & Co. \nMaclay & Co. \nMactavish & Lehmann. \nMacy, G. H., & Co. \nMadier. \nMagasin français d'Alimentation. \nMagasins généraux. \nMagill & Co. \nMain, S. D. \nMaison Parisienne (Au Petit Louvre). \nMaitland & Co. \nMaitland & Fearon. \nMajor Brothers Limited, \nMalthoid Roofing Manufacturers. \nManchurian Company Limited. \nManini, E., Hankow.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503179, "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": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 254, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "32\n\nYARN MARKET.\n\nJuly 21.\n\nMessrs. Polishwalla & Kotwall, cotton and yarn brokers, in their report on the Indian yarn market, state:-\n\nHongkong, July 20,\n\nSince our last report of June 21, much activity has continued in our yarn market, due to good inquiries from consuming centres, which has resulted in substantially large sales both in \"spot\" and \"to arrive\" at an advance of $2 to $5 per bale. Further demand from Yunnan has kept our market firm with an improving tendency.\n\nBombay: The rates in Bombay have also strengthened on account of Bombay mills being reported to have done fairly large forward business to September and latest quotations show higher prices than those ruling in our market.\n\nTotal Sales 4,500 bales.\n\nUnsold Stock 3,000 bales.\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nTYPHOON NEWS.\n\nJuly 21. According to the direction given, the latest typhoon from the Pacific Ocean is making tracks for Hongkong.\n\nLatest reports give its position as to the South-West of the Colony, outside the 300 miles radius (of the Colony) but close to it.\n\nThe direction indicates that unless there is a deflection, it will strike land a little to the West of Hongkong.\n\nNo. 1 local signal was hoisted to-day at 12.05 p.m. This red cone, pointing upwards, means that typhoon exists which may cause a gale in Hongkong in 24 hours.\n\nThe forecast for Hongkong and coast, till noon to-morrow, is:--\n\nLight, variable winds, possibly increasing to a gale from the North-East, or North-West: fine at first, rain later.\n\nBANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.\n\nHEAD OFFICE:\n\n96, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. Subscribed Capital. Frs. 72,000,000.00 Reserve Fund... Frs. 59,667,283.54 Paid-Up Capital.... Frs. 68,400,000.00\n\nBRANCHES. Bangkok Hanoi Pondicherry Bataumhang Hongkong Saigon Canton Mengine Shanghai Fort-Bayard Djibouti\n\nPapeete Haiphong Peking Hankow Foochow\n\nSingapore\n\nTientsin\n\nTourane Phnom-Penh Yunnanfu BANKERS:\n\nd'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais; IN FRANCE: Comptoir National\n\nBanque de Paris et des Pays-Bas; Credit Industriel et Commercial; Societe Generale.\n\nIN LONDON: The National Provincial & Union Bank of England, Ltd.; Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris; Credit Lyonnais,\n\nIN NEW YORK: J. P. Morgan & Co.; French American Banking Corporation; Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.\n\nand Fixed Deposits according to arrangement.\n\nInterest allowed on Current Accounts\n\nA. LECOT,\n\nManager. Hongkong. 11th December, 1925.\n\nFor the Formosa Channel, the prediction is:--Cyclonic gales. The Observatory's mid-day report to-day says:\n\nBargains in Chinese hands, both spot and to arrive 6,500 bales.\n\nNo. 10.\n\nAssur Veerjee $157 161; Beris $150; Bradbury $162, Connaught $151; David $157; Down $156; Major Sassoon $151; Phoenix (Cow Tickets R.) $161 166 Phoenix Vase Ticket; M. $157: Presidency $146; Sun Mill $151.\n\nNo. 12.\n\nChina $163; Connaught $163; Dawn $170: Fazalbhoy $178: Moon $170:\n\nFinlay $169 170; Pubaney, various chops $168 170.\n\nShanghai: Reports show marked improvement in prices all round with better demand and a healthier tone for near future.\n\nJapanese Yarn:-A sudden big rise has scared buyers to make further purchases, while they are getting rid of their previous cheap holdings at the present advanced rates.\n\nThe following are the ruling quotations for Spot Yarn:\n\nNagasaki No. 20 $209 210; Nagasaki No. 10 $167; 3 Horses No. 26 $196; Horses No. 20 $201; Yellow Joss No. 20; $204; Setsu No. 10: $170; Setsu No. 20 $214: Blue Fish No. 12 $175: Blue Fish No. 20 $214.\n\nRaw Cotton: No Stock. Quotations: Bengal $35 to $40 per picul: Chinese $40 to $45 per picul.\n\nPrinted and published for the concerned by GEORGE WILLIAM CADE BURNETT, Managing Editor, at 5, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.\n\nPressure has increased slightly moderately over Japan, East China and Tongking. It has decreased slightly at Pratas and moderately over Formosa.\n\nThe depression over S. W. China is not so deep this morning.\n\nAt 6 this morning the typhoon was in about Lat. 20.30 N. and Long 120 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nHongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ended at 10 am. 0.71 inch. Total since January 61.73 inches, against an average of 47.05 inches.\n\nTHE BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (TAIWAN GINKO.)\n\nIncorporated by Special Imperial Charter, 1899. Capital Subscribed.....Yen 15,000,000 Capital (Paid-up)....Yen 10,000,000 (not 39,375,000)\n\nHEAD OFFICE:-Taipeh, Formosa.\n\nBRANCHES:\n\nJAPAN:--Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka.\n\nFORMOSA:--Giran, Kagi, Karenko, Keelung, Makong, Nanto, Shin-chiku, Taichu, Tainan, Takao, Tamsui, Toen, Heito, Taito.\n\nCHINA:--Amoy, Foochow, Swatow, Canton.\n\nOTHERS: Hongkong, Singapore.\n\nWarnings sent out to-day comprised:\n\n5.35 a.m.-Typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat. 19 N. Long. 122 E., moving W.N.W.\n\n10.10 a.m.- Typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat. 21 N., Long. 120 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nManila, 6 a.m.-Typhoon in Lat. 20 N., Long. 120 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nShanghai, 10.45 a.m.-Typhoon of unknown intensity within 60 miles of Lat. 20 N., Long. 121 E., moving W.N.W.\n\nLONDON BANKERS: London County Westminster and Parr's Bank,\n\nThe Bank has Correspondents in all principal cities of the world.\n\nInterest Allowed on Current Accounts and Fixed Deposits.\n\nT. TAKAGI,\n\nManager.\n\nHONGKONG BRANCH:\n\n3, Des Voeux Road Central. Hongkong, 7th May, 1926.\n\nPhone Gerrard 1746 --- Tel. \"Taiwanbk\"\n\nA. C. DISS\n\n(Late of DISS BROS, & MACKintosh, Ltd.) HONGKONG\n\nC/O CAMPBELL LATHAM & CO.\n\nTAILORS\n\n59, Conduit Street,\n\nLONDON, W1.\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nAuthorised Capital $50,000,000\n\nPaid-up Capital $25,000,000\n\nReserve Fund Sterling $5,000,000 Silver $27,000,000\n\nContingent Liability of Proprietors $50,000,000\n\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.\n\nCOURT OF DIRECTORS:-\n\nHon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Chairman.\n\nHon. Mr. A. O. Lang, Deputy Chairman.\n\nW. H. Bell, Esq.\n\nA. H. Compton, Haji W. L. Paltenden, Esq.\n\nJ. J. Paterson, Esq.\n\nT. G. Weall, Esq.\n\nH. P. White, Esq.\n\nG. M. Young, Esq.\n\nKING, Chief Manager.\n\nAH Harlow, Manager.\n\nBRANCHES\n\nAMOY\n\nBANGKOK\n\nBATAVIA\n\nBOMBAY\n\nCALCUTTA\n\nCANTON\n\nCHEFOO\n\nCOLOMBO\n\nDAIREN\n\nFOOCHOW\n\nHAIPHONG\n\nHAMBURG\n\nHANKOW\n\nHARBIN\n\nKOBE\n\nKUALA LUMPUR\n\nLONDON\n\nLYONS\n\nMALACCA\n\nMANILA\n\nNAGASAKI\n\nNEW YORK\n\nPEKING\n\nPENANG\n\nRANGOON\n\nSAN FRANCISCO\n\nSHANGHAI\n\nSINGAPORE\n\nSOERABAYA\n\nTIENTSIN\n\nTOKYO\n\nTRINGTAO\n\nYOKOHAMA\n\nCurrent Accounts opened in local currency and Fixed Deposits received for one year or shorter period in Local Currency, and Sterling on terms which will be quoted on application.\n\nHongkong, 27th May, 1926\n\nHONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.\n\nThe Business of the above Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION\n\nFOR THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nA. H. Barlow.\n\nHongkong, 9th May, 1926\n\nTHE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD.\n\nHEAD OFFICE: HONGKONG.\n\n10, Des Voeux Road Central, Hongkong.\n\nAuthorised Capital $10,000,000\n\nPaid-up Capital $5,000,000\n\nReserve Fund $1,200,000\n\nBRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-\n\nBatavia\n\nMelbourne\n\nSan Francisco\n\nYokohama\n\nSeattle\n\nBombay\n\nCalcutta\n\nNew York\n\nCanton\n\nHaiphong\n\nParis\n\nPeking\n\nKobe\n\nKowloon\n\nLondon\n\nAvila\n\nPenang\n\nSemarang\n\nShanghai\n\nSingapore\n\nSoombur\n\nTaipeh\n\nKingtsz\n\nTientsin\n\nTokyo\n\nSaigon\n\nCorrespondents in all principal cities of the world.\n\nEvery description of Banking and Exchange business transacted. Loans granted on approved securities.\n\nSAFE DEPOSIT BOXES to let.\n\nKAN TONG PO,\n\nChief Manager.\n\nHongkong, 22nd May, 1926.\n\nLOCAL SHARE MARKET.\n\nNames\n\nT.T. on London\n\nP. & O. S.N. Co.\n\nOFFICIAL QUOTATIONS.\n\nBank of East Asia\n\nUnion Insurance\n\nHONGKONG JULY 21, 1926, 10.30 a.m.\n\nHongkong\n\nStock\n\nExchange.\n\nHongkong Estate Brokers' Sharebrokers' Association.\n\nSociety.\n\nT.T. on Shanghai\n\nBanks\n\n2/24\n\n2/24\n\n75%\n\n75%\n\nnom\n\nHongkong Bank .......\n\ndo.\n\nLondon Chartered Bank .......\n\n$135 b\n\n$3\n\n$130 b\n\n$3\n\n$131 n\n\nMercantile Bank, A. & R.\n\ndo\n\nC.\n\n$204 b.\n\n$201/2 n.\n\n$30% n.\n\n$13/20.\n\n$1311/2 a\n\n$11.\n\n$13 n.\n\n$4 b\n\n$0\n\nMarine Insurances.\n\nCanton Insurance\n\n$81\n\nb.\n\nChina Underwriters....\n\n$630 h\n\n$640 a\n\n$83 b.\n\n$640\n\nNorth China Insurance..\n\n$180 b\n\n$1.80 b\n\n$1.45 n.\n\nTLAN\n\n$201 n\n\n$28\n\nb\n\n$38\n\n$40\n\n$200\n\nh.\n\n$2010\n\n$590 L\n\n$600 sa\n\n$54\n\n$24 b\n\n$264 b\n\n$24\n\n$30\n\nb.\n\n$40/.\n\n$88/.\n\nn.\n\n$6734 b\n\n$68\n\n$734 b.\n\nYangtze Insurance\n\nFire Insurances.\n\nChina Fire Insurance.\n\nA.K. Fire Insurance ...\n\nShipping.\n\nDouglases\n\nHongkong Steamboats..\n\nH.K. Tug & Lighters.\n\nIndo-Chinas (Pref.)\n\ndo. (Def.)\n\nOriental Navigation\n\nShell Transporta\n\nStar Ferries\n\nWater-boats\n\nRefineries.\n\nChina Sugar\n\nMalabon Sugars\n\nMining.\n\nFangta......\n\nKailan Mining Ad.\n\nLangkats (Combined)\n\ndo. (Single)\n\nShanghai Exploration\n\nShanghai LuAD\n\nRaubs\n\nTronoh Mines\n\nIpoh Gaspi,ans\n\nDocks, Wharves\n\nGodowns, &c.\n\nR. & K. Wharves\n\nHK. & W. Dock\n\nHongkew\n\nNew Engineerings\n\nShanghai Docks\n\nH.K. & S. Hotels\n\ndo.\n\nHongkong Lands\n\nHK. Realty\n\nFI K. Territorial\n\nR\n\n434 b\n\n$1221/2\n\n544\n\n$122\n\n54%\n\n54%\n\nT170 h\n\n170\n\n534\n\nT5.85\n\nb.\n\n119\n\n117\n\n115\n\nb\n\nZends.\n\nHotel & Bldgs.\n\n11 15 sa\n\n1.ro b\n\n14 sa\n\n651/2 b\n\n$6\n\nS\n\n5\n\n9\n\nTumphreys Estates\n\n1434 .\n\nES\n\n15 $ 14' a\n\nPrinces Building\n\n90\n\n5.\n\nRural Lands\n\n154\n\nb.\n\nCotton Mills.\n\nFawn Cottong\n\n9\n\nOrientals\n\n250\n\nShangnai Cottons (old)\n\ndo.\n\n51\n\n(new)\n\n#6\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nCanton Ices\n\nCements (comb.)\n\nD.\n\n$6\n\nБ.\n\ndo.\n\n(old)\n\n13%\n\nП\n\n144 m.\n\n12\n\n(new)\n\nп. 13\n\n1.\n\nChina Buses\n\n2/2\n\n0.\n\nChina Lights (comb.)\n\n10%\n\n21\n\nD\n\ndo.\n\n(old)\n\n154\n\ndo.\n\n(new)\n\n12\n\n10\n\nChina Prov. Tel (comb.)\n\ndo.\n\n(old)\n\nGO. (Dew)\n\nDairy Farm\n\n16/2\n\nR.\n\nFor A Wing (full pả )\n\ndo.\n\nHongkong Amusements.\n\nIT K. Constructions\n\nHongkong Electrics\n\nF K, Developmenta\n\nH.K. Ropes (comb.)\n\nG\n\n(part\n\n111/2 n\n\nb\n\n24\n\n68 h (814 a\n\n684 b\n\n25 CIN\n\nfacts.\n\n$10\n\nS\n\nco. (old)\n\n10\n\n5.\n\n30\n\ndo.\n\n(new)\n\n5.\n\nD\n\nHongkong Tramways\n\n2534 h\n\n2534\n\nLane. Crawfords\n\n8\n\nMacao Electricn\n\n35\n\nMackintosh\n\nNanvang Tobaccos\n\nPeak Trams (old)\n\ndo.\n\nSinceres\n\nSingapore Trams\n\nTaxis\n\nUnited Asbestos\n\n(Founders)\n\ndo. (Ordinary)\n\nWatsons fold)\n\ndo. (new)\n\nWm. Powells\n\nH.K. Telephone\n\n10% n\n\n16%\n\n(new)\n\n7 to\n\nk18 brz\n\n3\n\nfoo\n\n11\n\n1234 b\n\nb\n\nb.\n\ns\n\n6\n\n$\n\n13\n\n132\n\n61/2 П\n\n5.on\n\nA.\n\n54\n\nb\n\n253\n\n252", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507309, "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": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927", "content_text": "## THE CENTRAL BANK OF CHINA\nEstablished by Government Mandate of 7th August, 1924\n**Official Government Depositary**\n**GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED**\nTelephone: Central 199, 444, 777.\n\nTHE CANTON GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1927\n\n## KIN HING Co.\nSpecializing in Ship chandlery and all kinds of Hardwares, Rice mill materials\nPaints, Lubricating Oil, Camel hair and leather belting, Boiler tubes, Brass and copper, wrought Iron pipings, Canvas, Canvas hose, Emery and machinery parts.\nTelephone W. 1223\n13, Yuan Cheong Str. West, Canton\nTelegraph Address: \"CENTRAL\"\nL. S. WONG, Chief Manager\n\n## TYPIST WANTED\nPart Time Work. Apply the Chinese News Service.\n\n## The Bank of East Asia, Ltd.\n(CANTON BRANCH)\nSAPSAM HONG STREET, CANTON\nHead Office Hongkong.\nCable Address - \"Eastabank SILA CEN.\"\nTelephone No. -- 875 West.\nAuthorized Capital $10,000,000.00 Paid-up $5,000,000.00\nReserve Fund $1,200,000.00\n**Foreign exchange business transacted**\nSelling draft and buying bills on Foreign countries.\nBRANCHES & AGENCIES throughout the World.\n\n## The Far Eastern Trust and Savings Bank Ltd.\n34, SECOND MALOO WEST BUND, CANTON.\nTELEPHONE No. 1379 Central\nCABLE ADDRESS \"BANKTRUS\"\nHONAM-SUB BRANCH TA KEE TOW\nAll descriptions of Banking Business transacted.\nInterest allowed on Current and Savings Accounts\nFixed Deposits.\nLoans granted on approved securities.\n\n## HOTEL \"ASIA\"\nWEST BUND, CANTON.\n**LEADING HOTEL IN SOUTH CHINA**\nFirst Class Accommodation, Hot and Cold Water Service, Throughout, Electric Lights, Fans and Elevators, Perfect Sanitary Arrangements, Splendid Dining Room, Meals a la Carte, Banquets, Excellent Cuisine, Public Bar, First Class Billiard Room.\nRoof Garden [Splendid Views of Canton City and Pearl River]\nHair-dressing Saloon. Moderate Rates.\nUNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SUN CO., LTD., CANTON.\n\n## The Ng Wah Trust & Industrial Bank, Ltd.\nHEAD OFFICE: 370 YAT DUCK ROAD, CANTON.\nTELEPHONE: No. 310 CENTRAL. TELEGRAPH: CHINESE No. 0063\nMost favourable Interest Rate allowed.\nLoans granted on approved securities.\nOur Trust Department's Catalogue sent on application.\nWONG WOOD MAN, Chief Manager.\n\n## OFFICE ROOMS TO LET\n4 adjoining office rooms, or each separate, 3rd floor, Missions Building, The Bund.\nApply to Mr. W. W. Burrel same floor.\n\n## MODERN HOUSE TO LET\nLarge spacious house for immediate occupation, end of East Bund, known as \"Kwei Yuen,\" Partly furnished, all modern conveniences, garage, tennis court, and large garden. For particulars and appointment to view apply to H. R. BAIRT, No. 16, French Concession, Shameen.\n\n## HOUSE TO LET\nNew House with Modern installation, near the Central Park: Kut Cheung Road. Please apply Mr. Wong Sze-kung.\n\n## ELECTRIC TORCHES\nThe Winchester Co, of U.S.A. leading electric factory, supplies more than a hundred kinds of Torches and Flashlights with a range of 1,500 feet. Prices moderate.\nWAH MEI ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO., General Agents, Sap Pat Po, Canton. Wai Ngoi Road Cil., Canton. Shing Ping Street, Fatshan.\n\n## THE STAR LIGHT SHOE MACHINERY FACTORY\nThe most comfortable shoe in the China. Shoes that are \"Star Light\" made best quality.\n268 West Kao Ti Sai Yue (near Wai Sin Road) CANTON CITY.\n\n## Dr. SHIBAKAWA\nsituated No. 33 The Bund.\n\n## Bureau of Finance, Municipal Government\n\n## THE AUSTRALIAN TAILOR CO.\nExpert Cutting House\nPrices Reasonable\nE. 341 Wai Ngoi Maloo, Canton\n*Phone C. 1198\n\n## SAVE YOUR EYES\nGet your GLASSES from CHINESE OPTICAL CO.\n司公鏡眼畚糕國車\nRefracting and Manufacturing\nThe Modern Opticians in China\nNorth Wing on Road, Canton\nTELEPHONE No. C. 868\n\n## Dr. Iu K. Chan\nPHYSICIAN & SURGEON (American Returned)\nOffice Hours: 8-12 a.m. 2-6 p.m.\n67 Tai Ping Road South, CANTON\n\n## Wah On Drugs\nSup Sam Hong, CANTON, CHINA\n\n## JAPANESE DENTIST\nOffice at Shakee Road, Canton. Opposite West Bridge, Shameen\n\n## MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS\nCanton Wireless Station\n**Announcement**\nThe Government's new wireless station (at North Parade ground) being now in operation, the public is hereby notified that the Wireless Administration is prepared to receive and transmit official and commercial messages according to the regulations of the Ministry of Communications of the Nationalist Government.\nWireless messages are received and transmitted between Canton and Wuchang, Shanghai, Foochow, Nanking, etc. by day and night service. Messages for transmission are without delay despatched immediately. Senders are requested to apply to the administration of the office.\nBUSINESS OFFICE OF CANTON WIRELESS STATION, No. 50 (old number) Second Bund (Yee Maloo), Nam-kwan.\n\n## THE SUN Co., Ltd.\nUNIVERSAL PROVIDERS\nWEST BUND & WAI OF STREET, OLD CITY, CANTON\nIt is to your advantage to visit our Wholesale and Retail Departments. All kinds of China silk piece goods, boots and shoes, hats, outfitting, etc.\nOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTICLES DEPARTMENT\nRenown Cameras, Films & Chemicals, Best Terms for DEVELOPING & PRINTING\n\n## TO LET\nSuitable Offices on our third floor, Apply General Office of the said Co.\n\n## The Sun Roof Garden\nCinematograph, Different Sorts of Chinese & Foreign plays and Amusements are shown Day and Night.\nAdmittance Day 20 Cents Night 30 Cents\nExtra charges for Tea, Refreshments, Telescope Observation\nReserved Special Exhibitions of Transfiguration.\n\n## THE SUN CINEMA PROGRAMME FOR MAY, 15th. to 18th. 1927\nHOW WOO FILM CORPORATION SHANGHAI Presents TSEW CHING HAH in RETURNING MIND A Chinese Drama In Ten Big Reels ALSO VARIOUS COMEDIES\n\n## Sincere Co., Ltd\nis hereby notified that the Wireless Universal Providers Administration is prepared to receive and transmit official and commercial messages according to the regulations of the Ministry of Communications of the Nationalist Government.\n\n## HON CHEONG TOBACCO CO.\nHIGH-CLASS CIGARS\nThe Hon Cheong Tobacco Co. are manufacturers of the highest class cigars in Canton. The cigars made by us are from the best tobacco leaf obtainable in the Orient. We have a branch office in Manila. P. I. and are ready to receive orders for any quantities. Our cigars are stocked in boxes of 50's and 100's.\nOur Head Office is situated on 339 Yat Tak Road, Canton.\n\n## Dr. S. N. HUI\nSpecial treatments to parturient females and also babies as well as midwifery, providing quarters for lying in women.\n2nd Floor, No. 53, Taiping Rd South, Canton.\n\n## The Bund, Canton\nNew Arrivals Of Provisions and Woollens\nOur Own Manufactures: AERATED WATERS, PERFUME, SOAP, &c\n\n## The Sincere Roof Garden Cinema PROGRAMME FOR Monday to Wednesday, MAY 16th to 18th, 1927.\nFBO Presents TOM SENTSCHI in LIFE'S GREATEST GAME In 7 Parts\nAt 12.00 A.M. and 7.00 P.M. Admittance 20 cents\n\n## Bank of Canton, Limited.\nHEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG\n**FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking Business Transacted**\nINTEREST ON FIXED DEPOSITS.\nFor 12 Months 5% per annum.\nFor 6 Months 4% per annum.\nFor 3 Months 3% per annum.\nUnder al 20% per annum.\nCURRENT ACCOUNTS.\n2% per annum on the daily credit balances of over $100.00\nLOK POON SIJAN, Chief Manager.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-1 Canton situation- governor's despatches 18-5-1927 - 9-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512637, "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": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 112, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "123\n\n124\n\n26\n\nAPPENDIX 1.\n\nPARTICULARS OF CASES REPORTED TO THE FOREIGN OFFICE.\n\n1. Case at Amoy, 1851.\n\n2. Practice at Amoy, 1866.\n\n3. Fan King Sing and Kan Hing Tak, Foochow, 1872.\n\n4. Lim Ho Chen and Lim Ho Eng, Shanghai, 1882.\n\n5. Ong Beng Tek, Amoy, 1888.\n\n6. Jan Hun Soon, Amoy, 1890.\n\n7. Wang Ju Yu, Chinkiang, 1893.\n\n8. Li Hsieh Yuan, alias Li Feng Ai, Swatow, 1897.\n\n9. Oh Khun Yiong, Amoy, 1807.\n\n10. Case of attempted fraud at Canton, 1898.\n\n11. Lo Cheung Ip, 1898.\n\n12. Goh Min Chin, Foochow, 1901.\n\n13. Chau Ngau Tsz, Swatow, 1903.\n\n14. Wee Goh Lye, Swatow, 1904.\n\n15. Kho Boo-an, Swatow, 1904.\n\n16. Chin Yu, Swatow, 1908.\n\n17. Yu Tao Sheng, Yuan Chin Hua and Li Kang, Canton, 1909.\n\n18. Ma Chin Shuo, Swatow, 1909.\n\n19. Ho Pak Ki, Hankow, 1910.\n\n20. Liang Tou, Hong Kong, 1910.\n\n21. Ip Lam Sau, Canton, 1911.\n\n22. Hu Shu-pen, Canton, 1915.\n\n23. Mr. Yang, Amoy, 1915.\n\n24. Chen Tso Heng, Canton, 1921.\n\n25. Yeoh Hong Pin, Foochow, 1921-28.\n\n26. Tan Lu Tek, Amoy, 1911-22.\n\n27. Cheah Ngoh Oh, Amoy, 1922.\n\n28. Yeap Seng Koon, Swatow, 1924.\n\n29. The brothers Nah, Swatow, 1924.\n\n30. Chen Han Ming, Shanghai, 1925.\n\n31. Low Peng Kiah, Swatow, 1927.\n\n32. Steamship Tai Ming, Canton, 1927.\n\n33. Soskin and Co. (Limited), Harbin, 1922–27.\n\nAppendix No. 1.\n\nParticulars of Cases reported to the Foreign Office.\n\nTHE cases reported below are those of which particulars have been found in the Foreign Office archives. Such disputes have long formed part of the normal routine work of consulates in South China. Reference is usually made to them in the quarterly intelligence reports, but very few are ever reported to His Majesty's Minister in Peking, and, of course, fewer still to the Foreign Office. These cases illustrate the problems and difficulties that arise out of the protection of Anglo-Chinese.\n\n1. Case at Amoy, 1851.\n\nAt Amoy, in January 1851, there was enacted a tragedy, of which I must recall the principal incidents. A British subject of this class was foully murdered by the authorities, mainly, as I believe, because he claimed to be a British subject.\n\nThe man was himself an inoffensive person of good character, well known to Mr. Crofton Morrison, then stationed at Amoy as interpreter, and at the time referred to he was in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Mathieson and Co. His elder brother was reputed, and probably with reason, a leading member of one of the affiliated societies, of which Amoy and its vicinity are the home; and the authorities were, I daresay, moved to action against the family in the first instance for this reason.\n\nThe younger brother was seized early one morning, in or near his home, and carried to the Taotai's yamen. Our consul, Mr. Sullivan, on learning of his arrest, immediately proceeded to the yamen and insisted on his production, but in vain. After some hours of expostulation he returned to the consulate, and almost as he re-entered it a chair was set down at the door containing the corpse of the man he had endeavoured to save.\n\n27\n\nNo. 5, January 30, 1872. He had been beaten to death in the yamen.\n\nNo redress was ever obtained for this outrage. The case was referred to Lord Palmerston, who replied \"to the effect that, if they would have the protection of the British Government, they must adopt a costume that would leave their nationality in no doubt.'\n\nNo. 19, June 9, Sir Thomas Wade.\n\n2. Practice at Amoy, 1866.\n\n1879.\n\n\"Chinese frequently come to this port from the Straits supplied with a paper under the seal of the Resident Counsellor at Singapore, stating (Name of Chinese). An inhabitant of Singapore, Penang or Malacca, as the case may be, proceeds to the ports of China, and is entitled to protection as a British subject. These men present their passes at this office, and have hitherto been registered on the strength of such as British subjects at Amoy. After registering themselves at the consulate office, these so-called British subjects settle in the neighbouring country at a distance from the port among their relations, marry wives and own property, and when in trouble with the country people or authorities they rush to the consulate for protection. This style of thing has led, as you may imagine, to repeated conflicts between the consuls at Amoy and the mandarins, the latter claiming these people as Chinese and beyond foreign jurisdiction.\n\nConsul Swinhoe to Sir E. Hornby, Amoy, June 15, 1866. Enclosed in Peking No. 3, January 17, 1867.\n\nBut, if they get into trouble and are arrested by the authorities, they flaunt their certificates of registration in the face of the mandarins and send to the nearest consul for assistance. They are registered in the consulate, and the consul feels bound to run up the country, and with a show of naval force demand rendition of the Chinese British subjects. The mandarins come to the conclusion, as there is nothing about Chinese British subjects in the treaty, that the consul has been bribed to be meddlesome in cases beyond his proper jurisdiction, and this tends to weaken his influence and prestige.\n\n3. Case of Fan King Sing and Kan Hing Tak, Fuchow, 1872. These two men had been registered at the British consulate at Fuchow on the strength of certificates granted by the Colonial Government of Singapore, which, however, contained no statement as to the evidence on which their claim to British nationality was based. Frequent disputes occurred with the Chinese authorities, who contested the claim of these persons to be exempted as British merchants from certain li-kin taxes levied upon Chinese.\n\nThey sent a petition through the consul to the British Minister that an attempt was being made to intimidate their families in Amoy into admissions which might be used to invalidate their claim to British nationality. Sir Thomas Wade immediately requested the vice-admiral, \"without loss of time, to direct a vessel of war to each of the ports in question [Amoy and Foochow], with instructions to the commander to call with the consul upon the chief authority at these ports, and to state that he has been sent at my instance to assure himself of the security of the British subjects in question.\" He then sought an interview with Prince Kung:\n\nI told His Highness what passed at Amoy in 1851, and I added, rising as I ended the story, that if a like atrocity were to be again perpetrated upon the person of a British subject it was not to say Fuchow or Amoy, but that I would not answer for the safety of the Empire.\"\n\nSir Thomas Wade to Vice-Admiral Sir H. Kellett, January 10, 1872.\n\nSir Thomas Wade subsequently wrote to the Straits Government for full information respecting the two individuals in question, but no further report of the case reached the Foreign Office.\n\nSir Thomas Wade, Nos. 5 and 6, January 30, 1872.\n\n1882.\n\n4. Lim Ho Chen and Lim Ho Eng, Shanghai, 1882. These two men applied to be registered as British subjects at the Colonial Office, British consulate at Shanghai, and presented certificates of nationality issued by the Government of the Straits Settlements. The consul refused to register them because these certificates did not contain evidence that they were entitled under Sir E. Hornby's instructions of the 1st January,\n\n[16827]\n\nE 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512639, "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": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928", "content_text": "127\n\n128\n\nSir C. MacDonald, No. 65. April 19, 1898. (Confidential Print)\n\nTo Sir C. MacDonald, No. 5, Treaty, June 4,\n\n30\n\nhim any sum he wished if he would go to the Hsin-Ning magistrate's yamen and demand the liberation of the imprisoned man. These Hong Kong Chinese also informed Le Breton that Yung Wing was a British subject, and upon his asking for proof of this, his interviewers conferred amongst themselves. It so happens that Le Breton, an old Customs' employee, speaks Cantonese well, and he heard these men discuss how they could borrow so-and-so's naturalisation papers. Mr. Le Breton, seeing that it was not a straightforward case, refused to have anything to do with it. The Hong Kong Chinese next seem to have secured the service of the less scrupulous Raymond.\n\nThis shows how easy it is for a Chinese subject to make use of a British subject's papers. I can now see that, in Hong Kong especially, the papers of a bona fide British subject, born in the Colony, may be passed round and do duty several times over, and I do not see how we can avoid the risk of taking up cases with which we strictly should have nothing to do.\"\n\n11. Lo Cheung Ip, 1898\n\nThis man was the illegitimate son of an English father and a Chinese mother, born in Hong Kong, and had been furnished with a certificate of nationality by the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nIt was ascertained that the Chinese authorities did not claim such persons as Chinese subjects, and it was therefore decided that they could be registered as national born British subjects and that no question of dual nationality arose, but no instructions to that effect were issued pending negotiation of a modus vivendi.\n\n1898.\n\nNo. 6, Treaty, September 8, 1898.\n\nTo Colonial Office, July 1, 1901.\n\nGovernor Sir H. Blake, April 16, 1903. (Confidential Print 8972. No. 1.)\n\nMr. Paget, May 12, 1904. (Confidential Print 8972, No. 17.)\n\nTo Sir E. Satow, September 2, 1904. (Confidential Print 8972, No. 28.)\n\n[The case of Him-shan at Ichang in the same year was exactly similar.]\n\n12. Goh Min Chin, Foochow, 1901.\n\nThis man was born at Penang of parents who were Chinese subjects. His Majesty's consul at Foochow registered him as a British subject, but explained that this had been done through a misapprehension. He was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities and the consul refused to interfere. Lord Lansdowne informed the Colonial Office that His Majesty's Government could not intervene on his behalf because, by virtue of his parentage, he was a Chinese subject jure sanguinis.\n\n13. Chau Ngau Tsz, Swatow, 1903.\n\nThis man was born in Hong Kong in 1867 and carried on business in the Colony with a branch at Swatow. He was furnished with a \"British subject certificate\" which stated that his parents were Chinese subjects, and that he had no claim or right to British protection while within the Empire of China. He was, nevertheless, registered as a British subject at the British consulate at Swatow. Subsequently, he was twice robbed of considerable property, but the Chinese authorities paid no attention to the matter, while the consul refused to intervene because he was not entitled to protection.\n\n14. Wee Goh Lye, Swatow, 1904.\n\nThis person was registered as a British subject in the British consulate at Bangkok, Siam, where he had been trading for nearly ten years. In 1897 he went to Swatow bearing a passport from the British consul at Bangkok, and was granted a local passport at Swatow by the junior assistant temporarily in charge of the consulate. In 1899 he opened a branch of his business (exchange banker) at Swatow, putting a salaried manager in charge. In 1900 he went to Swatow to consolidate his business, but was refused recognition by the new British consul. In 1903 a sum of 2,000 dollars was stolen from one of his servants in Swatow, but the consul refused to take up the case. His Majesty's Minister urged that Chinese registered as British subjects in Siam should, together with their agents, receive protection in China. The Foreign Office accordingly gave instructions that Chinese registered as British subjects in Siam, and who had resided in Siam for the three years previously, should receive protection in China.\n\n31\n\n15. Kho Boo-an, Swatow, 1904.\n\nNo. 11, Treaty, July 8, 1904.\n\nThis person was registered as a British subject in the consulate at Swatow. He had purchased from his brothers some paddy fields and a family temple, 15 to 20 miles in the interior, and the parties had gone direct to the local yamen and obtained the magistrate's seal on the deeds, the latter being under the impression that the parties were all Chinese. He then brought the deeds to the consul, who registered them in the British consulate land register in 1899. This was quite irregular, because (1) British subjects buying land should obtain the seal of the Chinese authorities only by application through the British consul; (2) British subjects may not own land in the interior. In 1904 he applied to the British consul for assistance in collecting rents due on the property, but was refused. Mr. Willis reported that, during the eighteen months that he had been in charge of the consulate, he had frequently refused similar applications.\n\n16. Chin Yu, Swatow, 1908.\n\nThis man was born in China and lived in Swatow most of his life. His father was born in Mauritius, had been registered as a British subject at the British consulate at Bangkok, Siam, and had since died. Chin Yu applied to be registered as a British subject at Bangkok, and as the consul-general at that port suspected that the only object of the application was to procure British protection in China, he referred the matter to the consul at Swatow. The judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court at Shanghai instructed the consul that Chin Yu was entitled to be registered in Siam, but should not be accepted and registered as a British subject in China.\n\nSir J. Jordan, No. 101. March 2, 1908. [Treaty, No. 10446.]\n\n[Note. It would seem that if Chin Yu had renewed his registration for three years at Bangkok, he would then have been entitled to registration and protection in China.]\n\n17. Yu Tao Sheng, Yuan Chin Hua and Li Kang, Canton, 1909.\n\n(Confidential Print 11426, p. 8.)\n\nYu Tao Sheng was a Hong Kong Anglo-Chinese of the first generation, Yuan Chin Hua ditto of the second generation, and Li Kang a Chinese naturalised as a British subject in Hong Kong. His Majesty's consul-general issued to them passports for travel in the interior of China which he forwarded to the Viceroy for sealing. The Viceroy in reply referred to the Law of Nationality, and refused to seal the passports on the ground that all three were British subjects. The consul-general then withdrew the passport of Li Kang and sent in the other two passports again to be sealed. The Viceroy still refused to seal them.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson, December 17, 1909.\n\n*In giving this decision a memorandum of the previous year by His Majesty's Consul at Amoy appears to have been overlooked. Mr. Hausser there pointed out that (Anglo-Chinese), on being granted a certificate of registration, at once set up in business here, and for this reason it has of late years been necessary to exercise greater stringency in admitting their claims to British nationality.\n\nThe question to what extent should recognition be accorded to a business carried on in the port by an absentee British Chinese subject also presents some difficulty. In one case the head of a certain firm here went back to Singapore in 1897, and has not been registered here since that year. His business is, however, still carried on, nominally under power of attorney held by a foreigner, really by an independent Chinese manager, who is notorious for taking up the most dubious Chinese cases. In another instance, a British Chinese subject, having registered himself and established a firm here, promptly went back to Singapore, leaving his business to be conducted by a Chinese agent. There have also been cases in which, on the death of the principal, his widow has carried on the business under Chinese auspices for several years. The death was never reported, and the facts were only accidentally brought to light long afterwards, when some trouble had occurred. The malpractice such a state of things inevitably gave rise to need not be enlarged upon; how they are to be prevented is not so obvious. So far as possible I have invariably insisted that no business shall be left in charge of anyone who is not a British subject, and in some cases this has proved sufficient to deter the principal himself from leaving the port. The requirement being easily avoided, it has, in other cases, proved only very partially effective.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-507-2 China- protection of Anglo-Chinese 11-11-1927 - 23-11-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529631, "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": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "content_text": "## APPENDIX 1\n### PARTICULARS OF CASES REPORTED TO THE FOREIGN OFFICE\n\n1. Case at Amoy, 1851\n2. Practice at Amoy, 1866\n3. Fan King Sing and Kan Hing Tak, Foochow, 1872\n4. Lim Ho Chen and Lim Ho Eng, Shanghai, 1882\n5. Ong Beng Tek, Amoy, 1888\n6. Jan Hun Soon, Amoy, 1890\n7. Wang Ju Yü, Chinkiang, 1899\n8. Li Hsieh Yuan, alias Li Feng Ai, Swatow, 1897\n9. Oh Khun Yiong, Amoy, 1897\n10. Case of attempted fraud at Canton, 1899\n11. Lo Cheung Ip, 1898\n12. Goh Min Chin, Foochow, 1901\n13. Chau Ngau Tsz, Swatow, 1908\n14. Wee Goh Lye, Swatow, 1904\n15. Kho Boo-an, Swatow, 1904\n16. Chin Yu, Swatow, 1908\n17. Yu Tuo Sheng, Yuan Chin Hua and Li Kang, Canton, 1909\n18. Ma Chin Shuo, Swatow, 1909\n19. Ho Pak Ki, Hankow, 1910\n20. Liang Tou, Hong Kong, 1910\n21. Ip Lam Sau, Canton, 1911\n22. Hu Shu-pen, Canton, 1915\n23. Mr. Yang, Amoy, 1915\n24. Chen Tso Heng, Canton, 1921\n25. Yeoh Hong Pin, Foochow, 1921-23\n26. Tan Lu Tek, Amoy, 1911-22\n27. Cheah Ngoh Oh, Amoy, 1922\n28. Yeap Seng Koon, Swatow, 1924\n29. The brothers Nah, Swatow, 1924\n30. Chen Han Ming, Shanghai, 1925\n31. Low Peng Kiah, Swatow, 1927\n32. Steamship Tai Ming, Canton, 1927\n33. Soskin and Co. (Limited), Harbin, 1922-27\n\n## Appendix No. 1\n### Particulars of Cases reported to the Foreign Office\n\nThe cases reported below are those of which particulars have been found in the Foreign Office archives. Such disputes have long formed part of the normal routine work of consulates in South China. Reference is usually made to them in the quarterly intelligence reports, but very few are ever reported to His Majesty's Minister in Peking, and, of course, fewer still to the Foreign Office. These cases illustrate the problems and difficulties that arise out of the protection of Anglo-Chinese.\n\n### 1. Case at Amoy, 1851\n\nAt Amoy, in January 1851, there was enacted a tragedy, of which I must recall the principal incidents. A British subject of this class was foully murdered by the authorities, mainly, as I believe, because he claimed to be a British subject.\n\nThe man was himself an inoffensive person of good character, well known to Mr. Crofton Morrison, then stationed at Amoy as interpreter, and at the time referred to he was in the employ of Messrs. Jardine, Mathieson and Co. His elder brother was reputed, and probably with reason, a leading member of one of the affiliated societies, of which Amoy and its vicinity are the home; and the authorities were, I daresay, moved to action against the family in the first instance for this reason. The younger brother was seized early one morning, in or near his home, and carried to the Taotai's yamen. Our consul, Mr. Sullivan, on learning of his arrest, immediately proceeded to the yamen and insisted on his production, but in vain. After some hours of expostulation he returned to the consulate, and almost as he re-entered it a chair was set down at the door containing the corpse of the man he had endeavoured to save. He had been beaten to death in the yamen.\n\nNo redress was ever obtained for this outrage. The case was referred to Lord Palmerston, who replied to the effect that, if they would have the protection of the British Government, they must adopt a costume that would leave their nationality in no doubt.\n\n### 2. Practice at Amoy, 1866\n\nChinese frequently come to this port from the Straits supplied with a paper under the seal of the Resident Counsellor at Singapore, stating (Name of Chinese). An inhabitant of Singapore, Penang or Malacca, as the case may be, proceeds to the ports of China, and is entitled to protection as a British subject. These men present their passes at this office, and have hitherto been registered on the strength of such as British subjects at Amoy. After registering themselves at the consulate office, these so-called British subjects settle in the neighbouring country at a distance from the port among their relations, marry wives and own property, and when in trouble with the country people or authorities they rush to the consulate for protection. This style of thing has led, as you may imagine, to repeated conflicts between the consuls at Amoy and the mandarins, the latter claiming these people as Chinese and beyond foreign jurisdiction.\n\nBut, if they get into trouble and are arrested by the authorities, they flaunt their certificates of registration in the face of the mandarins and send to the nearest consul for assistance. They are registered in the consulate, and the consul feels bound to run up the country, and with a show of naval force demand rendition of the Chinese British subjects. The mandarins come to the conclusion, as there is nothing about Chinese British subjects in the treaty, that the consul has been bribed to be meddlesome in cases beyond his proper jurisdiction, and this tends to weaken his influence and prestige.\n\n### 3. Case of Fan King Sing and Kan Hing Tak, Fuchow, 1872\n\nThese two men had been registered at the British consulate at Fuchow on the strength of certificates granted by the Colonial Government of Singapore, which, however, contained no statement as to the evidence on which their claim to British nationality was based. Frequent disputes occurred with the Chinese authorities, who contested the claim of these persons to be exempted as British merchants from certain li-kin taxes levied upon Chinese. They sent a petition through the consul to the British Minister that an attempt was being made to intimidate their families in Amoy into admissions which might be used to invalidate their claim to British nationality. Sir Thomas Wade immediately requested the vice-admiral, \"without loss of time, to direct a vessel of war to each of the ports in question [Amoy and Foochow], with instructions to the commander to call with the consul upon the chief authority at these ports, and to state that he has been sent at my instance to assure himself of the security of the British subjects in question.\" He then sought an interview with Prince Kung: I told His Highness what passed at Amoy in 1851, and I added, rising as I ended the story, that if a like atrocity were to be again perpetrated upon the person of a British subject it was not to say Fuchow or Amoy, but that I would not answer for the safety of the Empire.\n\nSir Thomas Wade subsequently wrote to the Straits Government for full information respecting the two individuals in question, but no further report of the case reached the Foreign Office.\n\n### 4. Lim Ho Chen and Lim Ho Eng, Shanghai, 1882\n\nThese two men applied to be registered as British subjects at the Colonial Office, British consulate at Shanghai, and presented certificates of nationality issued by the Government of the Straits Settlements. The consul refused to register them because these certificates did not contain evidence that they were entitled under Sir E. Hornby's instructions of the 1st January...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 529633, "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": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931", "content_text": "## Cases Relating to British Subjects in China\n\n### Sir C. MacDonald, No. 65, April 19, 1898. (Confidential Print)\n\nTo Sir C. MacDonald, No. 5. Treaty, June 4, 1898.\n\nhim any sum he wished if he would go to the Hsin-Ning magistrate's yamen and demand the liberation of the imprisoned man. These Hong Kong Chinese also informed Le Breton that Yung Wing was a British subject, and upon his asking for proof of this, his interviewers conferred amongst themselves. It so happens that Le Breton, an old Customs' employee, speaks Cantonese well, and he heard these men discuss how they could borrow so-and-so's naturalisation papers. Mr. Le Breton, seeing that it was not a straightforward case, refused to have anything to do with it. The Hong Kong Chinese next seem to have secured the service of the less scrupulous Raymond.\n\nThis shows how easy it is for a Chinese subject to make use of a British subject's papers. I can now see that, in Hong Kong especially, the papers of a bona fide British subject, born in the Colony, may be passed round and do duty several times over, and I do not see how we can avoid the risk of taking up cases with which we strictly should have nothing to do.\n\n### 11. Lo Cheung Ip, 1898\n\nThis man was the illegitimate son of an English father and a Chinese mother, born in Hong Kong, and had been furnished with a certificate of nationality by the Government of Hong Kong.\n\nIt was ascertained that the Chinese authorities did not claim such persons as Chinese subjects, and it was, therefore, decided that they could be registered as national born British subjects and that no question of dual nationality arose, but no instructions to that effect were issued pending negotiation of a modus vivendi.\n\nTo Colonial Office, July 1, 1901. Governor Sir H. Blake, April 16, 1903. (Confidential Print 8972, No. 1.) Mr. Paget, May 12, 1904. (Confidential Print 9972, No. 17.)\n\n[The case of Him-shan at Ichang in the same year was exactly similar.]\n\n### 12. Goh Min Chin, Foochow, 1901\n\nThis man was born at Penang of parents who were Chinese subjects. His Majesty's consul at Foochow registered him as a British subject, but explained that this had been done through a misapprehension. He was imprisoned by the Chinese authorities and the consul refused to interfere. Lord Lansdowne informed the Colonial Office that His Majesty's Government could not intervene on his behalf because, by virtue of his parentage, he was a Chinese subject jure sanguinis.\n\n### 13. Chau Ngau Tsz, Swatow, 1903\n\nThis man was born in Hong Kong in 1867 and carried on business in the Colony with a branch at Swatow. He was furnished with a \"British subject certificate\" which stated that his parents were Chinese subjects, and that he had no claim or right to British protection while within the Empire of China. He was, nevertheless, registered as a British subject at the British consulate at Swatow. Subsequently, he was twice robbed of considerable property, but the Chinese authorities paid no attention to the matter, while the consul refused to intervene because he was not entitled to protection.\n\n### 14. Wee Goh Lye, Swatow, 1904\n\nThis person was registered as a British subject in the British consulate at Bangkok, Siam, where he had been trading for nearly ten years. In 1897 he went to Swatow bearing a passport from the British consul at Bangkok, and was granted a local passport at Swatow by the junior assistant temporarily in charge of the consulate. In 1899 he opened a branch of his business (exchange banker) at Swatow, putting a salaried manager in charge. In 1900 he went to Swatow to consolidate his business, but was refused recognition by the new British consul. In 1903 a sum of 2,000 dollars was stolen from one of his servants in Swatow, but the consul refused to take up the case. His Majesty's Minister urged that Chinese registered as British subjects in Siam should, together with their agents, receive protection in China. The Foreign Office accordingly gave instructions that Chinese registered as British subjects in Siam, and who had resided in Siam for the three years previously, should receive protection in China.\n\nTo Sir E. Satow, September 2, 1904, 8072, No. 23.\n\n### 15. Kho Boo-an, Swatow, 1904\n\nThis person was registered as a British subject in the consulate at Swatow. He had purchased from his brothers some paddy fields and a family temple, 15 to 20 miles in the interior, and the parties had gone direct to the local yamen and obtained the magistrate's seal on the deeds, the latter being under the impression that the parties were all Chinese. He then brought the deeds to the consul, who registered them in the British consulate land register in 1899. This was quite irregular, because (1) British subjects buying land should obtain the seal of the Chinese authorities only by application through the British consul; (2) British subjects may not own land in the interior. In 1904 he applied to the British consul for assistance in collecting rents due on the property, but was refused. Mr. Willis reported that, during the eighteen months that he had been in charge of the consulate, he had frequently refused similar applications.\n\nSir E. Satow, No. 11, Treaty, July 8, 1904. (Confidential Print 972, No. 21.)\n\n### 16. Chin Yu, Swatow, 1908\n\nThis man was born in China and lived in Swatow most of his life. His father was born in Mauritius, had been registered as a British subject at the British consulate at Bangkok, Siam, and had since died. Chin Yu applied to be registered as a British subject at Bangkok, and as the consul-general at that port suspected that the only object of the application was to procure British protection in China, he referred the matter to the consul at Swatow. The judge of His Majesty's Supreme Court at Shanghai instructed the consul that Chin Yu was entitled to be registered in Siam, but should not be accepted and registered as a British subject in China.\n\nSir J. Jordan, No. 101, March 2, 1908. [Treaty, No. 10446.]\n\n### 17. Yu Tao Sheng, Yuan Chin Hua and Li Kang, Canton, 1909\n\nYu Tao Sheng was a Hong Kong Anglo-Chinese of the first generation, Yuan Chin Hua ditto of the second generation, and Li Kang a Chinese naturalised as a British subject in Hong Kong. His Majesty's consul-general issued to them passports for travel in the interior of China which he forwarded to the Viceroy for sealing. The Viceroy in reply referred to the Law of Nationality, and refused to seal the passports on the ground that all three were British subjects. The consul-general then withdrew the passport of Li Kang and sent in the other two passports again to be sealed. The Viceroy still refused to seal them.\n\nConsul-General Jamieson, December 17, 1909. (Confidential Print 11426, p. 8.)\n\n*In giving this decision a memorandum of the previous year by His Majesty's Consul at Amoy appears to have been overlooked. Mr. Hausser there pointed out that most (Anglo-Chinese), on being granted a certificate of registration, at once set up in business here, and for this reason it has of late years been necessary to exercise greater stringency in admitting their claims to British nationality.\n\nThe question to what extent should recognition be accorded to a business carried on in the port by an absentee British Chinese subject also presents some difficulty. In one case the head of a certain firm here went back to Singapore in 1897, and has not been registered here since that year. His business is, however, still carried on, nominally under power of attorney held by a foreigner, really by an independent Chinese manager, who is notorious for taking up the most dubious Chinese cases. In another instance, a British Chinese subject, having registered himself and established a firm here, promptly went back to Singapore, leaving his business to be conducted by a Chinese agent. There have also been cases in which, on the death of the principal, his widow has carried on the business under Chinese auspices for several years. The death was never reported, and the facts were only accidentally brought to light long afterwards, when some trouble had occurred. The malpractice such a state of things inevitably gave rise to need not be enlarged upon; how they are to be prevented is not so obvious.\n\nSo far as possible I have invariably insisted that no business shall be left in charge of anyone who is not a British subject, and in some cases this has proved sufficient to deter the principal himself from leaving the port. The requirement being easily avoided, it has, in other cases, proved only very partially effective.' \n\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-533-11 Protection of Anglo-Chinese in China 21-2-1931 - 22-9-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 566297, "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": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940", "page_number": 70, "title": "CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940", "content_text": "Report No.121 dated 23/2/38.\n\nWritten in English. Leel (李思浩 Li Sze Ho) was despatched to Hong Kong to negotiate with General CHEN CHI TANG who is in Kowloon at present. They are expecting that CHEN will come out as Chief of the New Government.\n\nDOO YUE-SUNG, WANG SIO-LAI and YEN CHUN-TANG, thus the so-called new Government will announce to the public on the 1st of March.\n\nCHEN CHUNG also arrived a couple of days ago from Tokyo. He has been in Tokyo to negotiate for his position in the new Government, He has succeeded and returned to Shanghai as a high official, Now the said new officials used to hold conference every day from 9 a.m. to 12 o'clock at Roo. 630, New Asia Hotel.\n\nReported by 101.\n\nReport No 160 dated 6/4.\n\nThe mysterious Hungarian monk, the international spy CHIU HUNG (lincoln) and his 5 disciples 3 males and 2 females namely TO CHAT, TO NGAI, TO ING, TO LOK and TO YAM Kar are still in Shanghai making arrangements to do espionage work for the Japanese. Their main object is to disintegrate our anti-Japanese United Front. They are to extend their activities to the Generalissimo's headquarters so as to find out our war tactics and political intrigues. On completion of their task they will proceed to Europe.\n\nThe Japanese female spy YOSHIKO KAWASHIMA is carrying out her activities recently in Foochow, Amoy, Hong Kong, Canton and Swatow. She changes her name to either LI CHU MUI or CHAN KAM WAN. She frequents dancing halls and hotels and changes her name daily. She is making arrangements for intelligence work in Fukien and Kwangtung.\n\nNo.179 dated 28.4.38. Written in English.\n\nWagner (an American) is now working for the Japanese as a spy. He is staying in the Navy Y.M.C.A.\n\nReported by 101.\n\nNo.182 dated 2.5.\n\nPolitical.\n\nTrotsky recently wrote a letter to the Chinese Trotsky clique saying that CHAN TUK SAU is your leader although he may hold a different view from that of yours but as a comrade you are not to criticise him but not to attack him at random.\n\nPage 70\n\nPage 71", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-579-11-2 Sino-Japanese War- seizure of unauthorized wireless transmitting apparatus 13-2-1939 - 7-5-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]