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        "document_key": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
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        "title": "CO129-010 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843",
        "content_text": "hil \n\nVictoria 19 - August 1843 \n\nIn reply to your letter he 865 of the 7t of June, addreind to the Post Master at this Place I am directed by His Excellency Six = \n\nبه \n\n\"the\": Henry Pottinger to forward to you accompanying copy of a letter from the British Consular Agent at Macao: from it will perceive, that the French Consul has declined paying the Postage charged \n\nthe Packet in question, which has upon therefore been deposited in this Office, wheres \n\nyou \n\nit will await \n\nyour \n\nwishes. \n\nI have vo \n\nSigned, Richard Homams. \n\nLieut Ouchterlony, \n\nMadras Engineers. \n\nSir \n\nVictoria, August 21 18468. \n\nInv \n\nNo: 64 \n\nJav reply to your \n\nletter of the 8505 Instant, I am directed by This Excellency the Governor to inform you, that the claim, \n\nthe \n\nyou prefer to further remuneration, on subject of a drame, cannot be taken into \n\nconsideration. \n\nYou \n\nAatar e \n\ninformed by my \n\nletter \n\nof the too of Ichuary last, that in granting : and to erect a Bazar, Government \n\nyou the \n\nhad \n\nزی \n\nno intention of incurring \n\narry \n\nsich \n\nthe \n\nexpouse, and looking to the Report of t \n\nund Officer, you \n\nmost liberally compensated. \n\nOn furnishing a certified -:tatement of the expense you activally incurred on the Market Place, resumed by Government, a Committee will be ordered to examine and report upon it, and its & alve will be hereafter paid either to you \n\n• your agents, should the decision of Her \n\nMajesty's \n\nPage 510Page 511",
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        "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846",
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        "content_text": "436\n\n45\n\n44\n\nREPORT ON\n\nment, cattle might be cured and fattened in great numbers. The milk and butter of the cow and of the buffalo is very rich, and sells at moderate price. The flavour of the Chusan mutton is excellent; goats are numerous; hams are well cured, and nearly equal in flavour to those of England. Deer and hares are in season during the winter months. Beef and pork might be cured to any extent in winter, for the supply of the navy, and kept in ice-houses till required. Bullocks are about forty shillings each. Salt is made in great abundance on the coast of Chusan, and on the neighbouring islands. Poultry are plentiful, moderate in price, and of fine flavour. The Chusan fowls are larger than any that are to be seen in England; geese are excellent. Ducks are hatched by steam, and reared by thousands; one boy has charge of many hundreds; they feed in the rice-fields and canals. Eggs are very abundant, usual price 150 for a dollar. Of game, there are pheasants, snipe, quail, woodcock, teal, duck, wild geese (large and good), wild swans (very beautiful), &c.\n\nBread and confectionery, prepared in the English style, are well made by the Chinese. Sixteen-pound loaves of excellent white bread may be bought for a dollar. Wheat is grown on the hills, and rice and millet in the valleys; cauliflowers, peas and beans, cabbages, spinach, cucumbers, onions, turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes, bringalls, gourds of different descriptions, French beans, radishes, celery, &c., are brought to market in season. European potatoes are now being introduced, and every English vegetable and fruit, when cultivated, thrive in perfection. The tea-plant grows on the hills, and is sent to Ningpo and Chapoo to be manufactured for the beverage of the higher classes. The wild raspberry and strawberry are in abundance; melons and oranges are excellent; the peach, grape, apple, pear, apricot, cherry, and plum, only require careful cultivation for their improvement (at Shanghai the peaches are large and excellent). Walnuts and Spanish chestnuts come to perfection at Chusan. The tallow-tree and varnish-tree are among the most valuable productions of the island; from the tallow-tree a great abundance of candles of a waxy consistence are prepared; the varnish-tree yields a wood-oil of great use in furniture. The bamboo and dwarf oak abound. Cotton of excellent quality is largely cultivated; silk, as yet, is of limited production. The tobacco of Chusan is much prized. The hop (humulus) grows on every hill.\n\nThe shores around Chusan abound with fish, some of excellent quality, such as the pomphlat, sole, seer, salt-water trout, herring, rock-cod, sturgeon, mackerel, and eel; oysters and cray-fish are in perfection. It is stated that 40,000 fishing-vessels arrive annually from different parts of the coast of China, and remain three months fishing off Chusan. The \"Yellow Mandarin\" fishery is analogous to the herring fishery of Great Britain or of Holland. About 300,000 dollars capital is invested in this lucrative trade. Ice-boats attend the fishing-boats off Chusan, and as soon as the fish are caught they are packed in ice, and sent to the most distant parts of the empire*.\n\n* The following extracts from Dr. Gutzlaff's \"Retrospect of two years' Peace,\" written at Hong Kong, November, 1844, entirely confirm my previous report:\n\n\"Chusan will hold a very prominent place in the history of our commerce\n\nCHUSAN.\n\nCommercial Advantages of Chusan.--The external commerce of Chusan, on our occupation of the island, consisted chiefly of salted and\n\nand intercourse with this country, whatever the political events may be in future. As a mere territorial possession, its advantages will be considerable. The tea that grows on the island is fit for exportation, though not carefully prepared for a foreign market; it is merely sold at Loo-choo, and other places in Keangsoo. There is space enough, unoccupied by any other cultivation, which could be carefully planted with tea shrubs; and the proper tea men invited for this branch of trade from the Sungho hills, about seven days' distance from Ningpo.\n\nWith a small expense of capital, Chusan and the neighbouring islands might produce, instead of ten or twenty boat-loads as at present, the same number of ship-loads of green tea.\n\n\"The silk worm thrives in the island; but is now merely kept by a few females, who take an interest in weaving home-spun dresses. People brought up from their childhood in this branch of industry, could be brought from Loo-choo (one day's sailing distance from Chusan).\n\n\"The island is fertile, and contains a dense, industrious, agricultural population, who, though more than ten times the number of the Chinese inhabitants of Hong Kong, require not one-fifth part of the police establishment for keeping them in order.\n\n\"As a fishing station, Chusan possesses great advantages.\n\n\"The catching of the Mandarin fish during the spring months, is a very extensive and lucrative business to the inhabitants, and employs a large capital and many boats.\n\n\"For the whale fishery Chusan presents great facilities; for, during summer, the fish go to the Japanese seas, and along the coast of Korea, whither they have never yet been pursued. Vessels, therefore, fitting out in the island, would be just in the track.\n\n\"As a commercial emporium, few places in Asia can vie, in point of situation, with Chusan, On the opposite main are the most flourishing cities, as respects manufactures as well as commerce. In its neighbourhood the largest rivers in China disembogue, and these will always be the highroads of commerce. It is only two days' sail from Japan--the same from Korea; and though the former country still remains hermetically sealed, and the other has always kept aloof from contact with the whole world, they cannot always maintain this exclusion of national intercourse. Chusan is a half-way station between the northern and southern provinces; and was, as such, visited by large numbers of junks before the conquest.\n\n\"Inasmuch as it ought now to be an object of our constant endeavour to open new outlets for British manufactures, no spot on earth presents such facilities as Chusan at the present moment.\n\n\"As a station for European troops the climate is most favourable; it is congenial to the European constitution, and the soil would produce all the fruits and vegetables to which we are accustomed at home, if properly planted and cultivated. The imperfect attempts made for that purpose have well succeeded; and the mountains might be clad with the vine, instead of with the dwarf fir which now cover their sides.\n\n\"On account of the great rise and fall of tide, docks might be constructed on Tea Island, or on the north coast of Chusan, for the repair of vessels; and it is worthy of remark, that the neighbouring Korean islands produce firs and oaks of the best quality, excellently adapted for the use of carpenters and shipwrights.\n\n\"In a political point of view, Chusan appears in the most favourable light. The great political maxim, always as much as possible to keep the peace with the Celestial Empire, can never be so well attained as by retaining possession of this island.\n\n\"The neighbourhood of a British force so near the great canal, and only about five days' sail from Pekin, will always make the great emperor very careful to adopt any measures that may wound the feelings of the neighbouring foreigners; and in case of such an event, the appearance of a few steamers at Kwachoo or Chinkeangfoo, would soon change the views of the great monarch.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
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        "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849",
        "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was",
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        "content_text": "To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\nNo. 2.\n\nMY LORDS,\n\nTHE difficulty of exercising in a satisfactory manner the necessary control over Post Offices in the Colonies induces me to suggest, for the consideration of your Lordships, the advisability of surrendering that control, in most of the cases where it now rests with Her Majesty's Postmaster General, to the respective Colonial Governments.\n\nAt present the Postmasters in the following Colonies are under the jurisdiction of this Office, viz.: Hong Kong, Jamaica, Bermuda, Bahamas, Windward and Leeward Islands (Barbadoes excepted), and British Guiana.\n\nIn the North American Provinces, Newfoundland, Trinidad, and Barbadoes, the control of the Posts, formerly exercised by Her Majesty's Postmaster, has already been given up.\n\nAs regards Hong Kong, it is understood that the present Governor, Sir John Bowring, will himself shortly propose that the Post Office in that Colony shall be placed under local management, and it only remains, therefore, to deal with the West India Colonies.\n\nShould your Lordships concur in the course here suggested, perhaps you will be good enough to ascertain whether Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies sees any objection to the arrangement.\n\nIf the proposed arrangement be adopted, the Post Office in each Colony will be entitled to one penny, out of the uniform rate of sixpence, per single letter, which is now charged upon Colonial correspondence to and from the United Kingdom; and, on the other hand, each Colony will be required to bear all the expenses of its Post Office, which are now defrayed by this Department.\n\nThe prepayment of postage may still continue optional, both in the United Kingdom and in the Colonies, accounts being made out monthly, as at present, and the balance on either side being remitted, in such manner as may be determined upon.\n\nI do not propose to disturb the existing arrangements in Malta and Gibraltar, at each of which places a Packet Agent, performing similar duties to those of a Postmaster, is stationed, because they must be considered Military Garrisons rather than Colonies, and there are obvious reasons why the Agents should remain subordinate to this Department. At Malta, more especially, the duties connected with the overland Indian Mails, and those arising from Malta being the centre of the operations of the French Mail Packets in the Mediterranean, render it absolutely necessary that the Post Office should be under the control of Her Majesty's Postmaster General.\n\nSIR,\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n27th August, 1855.\n\nIn reply to your letter of 31 ultimo, I am directed by Secretary Sir W. Molesworth to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, that he has no objection to the proposal of the Postmaster General that the control of the Post Offices in the West Indies should be surrendered to the Colonial Governments.\n\nSir W. Molesworth desires me, however, to point out to their Lordships, that under the provisions of the 12th and 13th Vic. cap. 66, it will be within the legal discretion of the respective Legislatures to alter the rates of postage for the delivery of letters, not only at inland stations in each Colony, but also at the port of arrival.\n\nThe charges to be levied for the delivery of letters at inland stations in a Colony may most properly be decided by the Local Legislature; but it would appear to Sir W. Molesworth very desirable, and especially for the interests of the commercial classes, whose establishments are usually situated at the ports of arrival of the Mail Steamers, that no change should be made in the present charge of sixpence for each single rate of postage on letters arriving from England. But as it is uncertain whether the Colonial Governments will be satisfied with the charge of one penny, which, according to the proposed arrangements, would be surrendered to them upon each single rate of postage, it will be for the consideration of their Lordships whether the possible inconvenience which would arise from such a variation in the rates of postage to different Colonies affords a sufficient reason for postponing the consideration of the proposed measure, or for previous communication with the officers administering the government, in order that the views of the respective Legislatures should be ascertained before a final decision is taken.\n\nGeneral Post Office,\n\n14th July, 1855.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nCANNING.\n\nSir C. E. Trevelyan,\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nT. F. ELLIOT.\n\n251",
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        "content_text": "SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nFLAS & AR\n\nLATE NAVS\n\n4 st Sp.\n\nHongkong (Mar. 25)\n\nMacau\n\nWhang\n\n25 Concis\n\nFROM TO CAPTAIN\n\nARRIVED,\n\nSAYLKU CAHLO\n\nMar, 22\n\nMartice\n\n10p¡ Welsit Formnes\n\n¡Mantl bgi Sarria 35 Tubal Cais B. Le 147 Sloggett\n\ng. 4Dencher\n\n25 Sarah Armitage Brit. sc. 185 Wooden\n\nTim and 208Kie\n\n23. LackroaND [ g. 400 Stereking\n\nH. 202 Broken\n\nSp. al. Caldin\n\nE of landwicke Brit\n\n26 Mathilde\n\n26 Scrutina\n\n27 Nankin\n\nri, se 8.\n\nSemut\n\n28 Leopard\n\nBrit. ek.\n\n206 Richards\n\n28 Ragla\n\nra\n\n25 Vanuetrop\n\nZai Lootse\n\n27\n\n291ADIN Suenam\n\n30 Fiery Cross\n\n30 June\n\n30 Rochapter\n\n30 Lanek\n\n30 Encounter\n\nBrit. Mr. 1832jCaldwell\n\ncmus\n\nShangbai\n\nArany\n\nMar. 15 Rico\n\nMar. 120eneral\n\nM 20 Rice Niakpo Man 143mdeles Caletta Jan. 30 Rice, 8cc. Nugpo Bar Sandria Bluniis\n\nSingapore\n\nRico\n\nBio 11\n\nMar. 16 Rico\n\nCONSIGN BEN\n\nRobert S. Walker J. sierre Williama, A. Ch Jardine. M. and Co Jobu Bu and Co John Bard and Co W. Pozlan and Co Turner and Co Orler\n\nLiverpool Der. 288ondries, Wise and Co. Christ\n\nDan. Uk, 291 Simes. Siugpo\n\nBan.sch. 149Kess\n\nVingpa\n\nHam, k, 216 Christiansen Nigo Brit. bk.! 472 Amirew\n\nBeit. stri 444 Watte\n\nHaro. 288 Joyan Jam,bk. 199 Bradshaw Brit. g. 265 Crocket ET M.S\n\n30 Queen Margarnt Belo, bk, 524 Spmano\n\n36 Madra\n\n30 Berwickshire\n\nso Tiger\n\n30 Courser\n\n27 Yocana\n\n27 Safelito\n\n¡Brat. str. 1250 Down\n\n118!!\n\nBelt. g. 142 Wohnenn\n\nBril. bk. 225 Day\n\nSiam\n\nMar. 15 Suuddeles Mar. 16 General De: 31Sundries Caleutia N160pium S.Francisco Zel Baftast Calestra an. 29Cotton Shanghuse Mer, sisilk Caletta\n\nM\n\nNingpo Ma 19 Rico Barabay,&\n\nShangae Nr. 24undries\n\nBombay\n\nIsitmssen and Co\n\nJohn Burd and Co jim. Eustan and Co John Burd and Co A. Head and Co Jardine, E. sai Co Wm. Pusau and Co\n\nxder\n\nJardine, M. and C5\n\nJardins, M. and Co\n\nSECT\n\nErition\n\nMariner's Hope, brig Hencius, sligi Mix, brig\n\nPrinces, ship\n\nRoyal Jaly, barque Sex Witeb, barque Star of the Hast, ship Terror, becqno Unicorn, steamer Water Witch. barqua\n\nPortuguese Clara, beig Laba barga Emigreto, ship Ensaio Make, barg, Sophis, arque Syenu, barne Tremeiga. barque\n\nFranch Joaquim, atı\n\nAmps Buckan, ship Benjamin Blorgan, ship Black Warrior, ship Golden West, silip\n\nP. & 0.8. N. Co.ussar, shrp Order\n\nWilliams, A. and Oo\n\nGibb, J. and Co\n\nBonnay\n\n24 Cotton\n\nDe Cation\n\n3. 20 Rice\n\nM16 Bice\n\nCotton Rive\n\nTail and Co\n\nSp. g. Pempreco Sual\n\nSp. ch. 89Govorda ¡Manila\n\n360 Mackozaic Caleutia\n\n41\n\n25 ('earl\n\nApar\n\nDarie\n\n15\n\nb\n\n4. 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Weed Co\n\nway sund\n\nRepairing Bonjay\n\nApril 15\n\nTarer, beg\n\nTubal Cain, ig\n\nWilliams, Anthon and Co\n\nPant, schooner\n\nAfghan, slip\n\nWhampoa Mar. 20 670debank\n\nLondon\n\nArturo, que\n\nFab,\n\noClarke\n\nCarlines, ship\n\nMar.\n\n370 Ferensor\n\nCELIST:L, ELERIEur\n\nMar.\n\n750 Curling\n\nD'Almeida Family, hg.\n\nNov.\n\n250\n\nEaglet, seamer\n\nMai.\n\n145 Caldwell\n\nMainas, stramer\n\nCage. Mangarel, batą.\n\nBritish\n\nAlireal, ship\n\nAfro the Great,\n\nAlligator, lig\n\nAnglia, barque\n\nA. P. Sharp, barke\n\nle\n\nMock River Jacket, bq.!\n\nCarible ship\n\nCrishan, banque\n\nDuke of Portland, ship\n\nEamon, rezoaner\n\nEmma, achooner\n\nFanny, ban\n\nForm, camer\n\nFriedrick, belg Jamiitan, slip Hazard, schocier Julinder, Jacque\n\nLuorink, big\n\no Iurie\n\nLy, thou\n\nBart of Maulwicke, by\n\nHornet, sooner\n\nLouisa Baillie, sup\n\nMalebr\n\nNina schooner\n\nPearl, stip\n\nSarai. Armitage, ship\n\nTravancare, ship\n\nVigilant, arque\n\nMazeppa, schooner\n\nFlongkong sb. 26 790 Browning\n\nReh. 13, 846 Mefntyr\n\nFeb. 26 sindi\n\nMar 989.Sharp\n\nMar. 12' 265 Sich\n\nMar. 20, $74 Winchester\n\nFeb. 1272 Tuscolt\n\n21 533 Sumor\n\nMar. 30 149ring\n\nMar. 19 120 upper\n\nMor. 5 Prasmith\n\nMar. 11 750regear\n\nJan. 16 990 Neville\n\nMar. 15 433[Fare\n\nMar. 20 184eary Jan. 24530 Bolto Mar 30 289 Crocket Mar 29 3-har's [Mar. 131 180Makelier Mar. 30/1250 lowe\n\nSaj 533 Spence ar 30 148\n\nMar. 25190leggett\n\nMar, 26247)ncher\n\nFalk, 27 168 Nordqvist\n\nMar.\n\n464 Legoe\n\nMar. 22 115 Rayer\n\nMar. 23 605 Macker.zie\n\nMar. 160-te\n\nMar. 9 582 Towa Tea\n\nS Station Mar.\n\n5953\n\n163 Button\n\n142 Marios\n\nTan Berd at Co Vacs Stephenson\n\nGrind, Fivlagston and Co\n\nY. J. Murr\n\nArmstrong and Lawrence Uriur\n\nDent and Co\n\nY. J. Murrow\n\nTurner and Co Jardins, Mathe\n\nP.&O. 5. N. Co\n\nJarl, Mathos and Co\n\nwitanie, Anthen and\n\nFlescher and Co\n\nRaseuli and Co\n\nardine, Mathagon and Co\n\nP. & S. N. Co\n\nosvenor and de Siemsson and Co\n\nOrder\n\norlowitz and Cə\n\nder\n\nNathaly and Co\n\nJohn Burd at\n\nBrandao antil Ca\n\ndarling, tiles and Co\n\nTurner and Co\n\nJ. C. Confor\n\nMarine, Mathew, and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nJamine, Matheson and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nOrder\n\nZephyr, schooner\n\nAmin, staler\n\n\"\n\nDas.\n\nFeb.\n\n\"\n\n346\n\nEited up\n\nisitangha\n\npore and Cal, and.\n\nLes Imm\n\nFreighbor Char\n\nCelibri, big\n\nLima, bargre Mathilde, brig\n\nNicoline, whip Quaries Ross, banyoo Qusmine Lac\n\nEnterprise, schooner\n\nPodveta, quo Crnar, barne Hularich Gustav, brig Handilai, sek\n\nFARME\n\nLevaut, xhip General laro, ship En ship\n\nL'erviun\n\nJose C. Ugarte, ship Petion, barque Carinen, barye\n\nLinin, skip\n\nMicano, banque\n\nUgaris y Santiago,\n\nCriani, dig\n\nCatalin, ship\n\nRasita, scrooner\n\nAutenia Terry, hip\n\nJ. Terry, ship\n\nAANIGRA\n\nGelender, baryas\n\nSpesiali\n\nCosta, tig\n\nDenia, echuuler\n\nScratina, sup\n\nby.\n\nV. Kinavia, bug\n\nNarciss. brig\n\nReculito, souber\n\nYlesno, trig\n\nNeptus, rig\n\nSalve, brig\n\nDurdo, brig\n\nMar\n\nKar.\n\n1 609 Wagner\n\n1780mvei\n\n507 Mubar\n\n472fheon\n\n292day\n\npar: 221 70uillardsk\n\nEnst Coast Mar.\n\n600; Weber\n\nSupt. 8 401 Thamns\n\n14\n\nMar.\n\nAmoy ¡Mar\n\nMac.\n\nד'\n\nWm. Pastu aid to\n\nJLunes Stephenson\n\nSchoofter and 6\n\nSchaefer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nHungkung\n\nNpo & 'kong Perly New York\n\nAustralia\n\nSai: Francisco\n\n1.d.\n\nSydney & Melbmd. Shanghe\n\nLord\n\nAdol&P.Phillipmd.\n\nEast Coast\n\nardino, Malleson and Co Batavia\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n8 Starkenburg Order\n\n234 Lewis\n\nFeb. 21 324 kút\n\nSwating Mac\n\nOrder\n\nOrder\n\n50Jurriaanse Order\n\nSnimith Oxier\n\nFvb-chan Pah. 425 Bonderkiak'Order\n\nShangban Feb. 30 411 Verachoor Deal, Beals and Co\n\n15\n\nFeb. 28 582 Boar\n\nHongkong Mar. 22 410 Sir Ben\n\nMar. 29 180 Krase\n\n31\n\n36ar. 13 33olgensen\n\nBaal Coast Mar.\n\nShanghae Web. 10 339 Thiessen\n\nMar. Mar\n\nW sau and Co\n\nTuhchac ¡Bvalow\n\nInd Early\n\nJohn Burd sei c\n\nJardine, acheson and Co κέλτικες\n\nCowes\n\nEarly\n\nWm. I'usiau and Co\n\nWm, Ruslan and Co\n\nikeres not Co\n\nCarlowitz and Co\n\n300 Allebar\n\n264 Salmidt\n\nCharler\n\nHongkong Mar. 25 200 Kier\n\nMar\n\nJohn Burd and Co\n\n18 Christiansen John Burd and Co\n\nMar 28 202 Broken\n\nFeb. 9; 162 Wallenen Whampoa Fah. 22 230|lie Fol\n\n400 thieveking Mar. M137 Uulivenda East Coast Peh 440 Jessen\n\nMac Pcb\n\nSwator Mar\n\nMac Sanghan Mar\n\nHer and Co\n\nWin. Pusa and fa Siemasza and Co Win. l'estes and Co Wm. Pastau and Co Augustino leard and Co 148 Suhit erg Win. Pustan and Co 450ngsiboch der 238 verge Drier\n\nal Ca Lindsay at Co\n\n160 Kreutzfeldtems 110 Reiner\n\nHongkong Mar. 1 283 Couper\n\nMacao M\n\nMax.\n\nHongkong Nos. 14 589anama\n\nArmstrong and Lawrance\n\nSan Francisco\n\nHamburg\n\nส\n\nUnder seinare\n\n450 Gill\n\nAsatrug and Lawrence\n\nAustralia\n\njlund.\n\n8 244: Defervari 35oj Baker\n\nVardine, Matheson and De jamay W. M. Rubinst and Cɔ\n\nNov. 13 250 Barry\n\n21\n\nW. M. Robinet and Co Under\n\nEast Coast\n\nFeb. 16' 199!Arnie\n\nItepairing\n\nMar.\n\nWhampoa Mar.\n\nMar. 10 29Mazeres\n\nPast Const Mar\n\nSwarow\n\nDec\n\nFul-chan Mar.\n\nAugustine Heal and Co\n\nRobinct and Co 21Savason. M. Cobinet a Co\n\n600 Wilso\n\nOrder 201,Juder word, Augustin? Heard and Co\n\nShanghae Pen $2200 Giganter Russell and Co\n\nJau 1004 Cortina\n\nHongkong Feb. 17340) Hongkong dar. 25 140 Sarria\n\nStr. 225kil Mar. 28 415adiz Mar. 126arcia\n\nMaceo\n\nMar 19 150luma Mar. 13srors\n\n11 27 46empere\n\nWampon Ma Sel-Suveven\n\nW. M. Roisina 20:4 Co\n\nUnder\n\nJ. V. Torge\n\nOrder\n\nHongkong\n\nBangkok\n\nEarly\n\n!L. J. Gulierenz\n\nvall, St and Co\n\nRail\n\nR. Garreta\n\nKantla\n\nGarreta\n\nYiocos\n\norder\n\nManila\n\nTait and Co\n\nVider\n\nJ. V. Jorge\n\nMar 15 131 Summers Kinder Amoy Mar 7\n\nMar.\n\nBest Coast Mar.\n\n240 Welsh\n\n¡P. D. Syme and Co\n\nMar\n\n465 Vineent\n\nMar\n\n274jitall\n\nSwarow\n\nJan,\n\n29 Fice\n\nMar\n\n149 Mooney\n\nOrder\n\nマジョル\n\n952 Raver\n\nOrder\n\nWaton and Co\n\nShanglue\n\nder\n\naddine, Math and Co\n\nUnder\n\nOnder\n\nShangbas\n\nRussell and Co\n\nAugustine Flourd and Ca\n\nadine, Matlicon and Co Wetnore and\n\nAustralia\n\nExcu\n\nJarlie, Matheson and Co Dant and Ca\n\nSwith. Keanely and Co\n\nFreight or Char\n\n10100, Livingsted and Ch\n\nEarly\n\nEast Cuasi Fol\n\n148 Prowes\n\nReis and Co\n\n226, alerte\n\nOrder\n\nShanghe ar\n\nit. & 0. 8. X. Ch\n\nShaw, Bland and Co\n\nAustralia\n\nEarly\n\nLizzie Jarvis, ship\n\nWhan pos Mar. 11\n\nIng Crosby\n\n550 Set, www\n\nde Burcowa\n\nSyviuey\n\nChinese\n\nPretighter Char\n\nlenkin, Faraon and Co\n\nLondon\n\nsealed\n\nBaty\n\nCoz facing, steamer\n\nWan, Pustuu and Co\n\nS. E. Inerows\n\ntient, Beale and Co\n\nTotdea\n\nal\n\nBause arque\n\nLouisa, harqe\n\nCity of London, bq.\n\nForerunner, selcounter Dealong, barque Sarah Lucy, ebiy\n\nFortas, brig\n\nAt Key, Behconer\n\nEllou Oliver, barque\n\nGazelle, seboouer\n\nWhampica, barguo\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nAfrica, are\n\nAntipodes, arquc\n\nJane. Mishall, slip\n\nKolt-on, up\n\nSex, ship\n\nWild Darrell, cl\n\nAgra, ship\n\nBlenheim, ship\n\nDuck, sclismer\n\nEllen, barque\n\nErin, steamer\n\nFormass, ship\n\nHistle, Ach.\n\nJane Maria, orig\n\nLady kingson, ab.\n\nLord of the lea. ship:\n\nMori, plep\n\nJan.\n\n450 Day\n\nChinniew Jan. 28orst\n\nAmey Mar 5 121 Wilson\n\nTait and Go\n\n083 Henderson Fisicher and Co\n\n11 Fax\n\nFeb. 17 876 Gale Ningpo Feb. 335 Curtis Ful-chau Mar. 615 Woot\n\nFeb. 24, 420 Turboil Yor.\n\n98% Young\n\nFeb. 11 846 Pant\n\nFeb. 16 D Seal\n\nWonging Mar. 190 Farlane\n\nShanghac Feb. 23 714 Bulgo\n\nFeb. 24 300 Walker\n\nEeb. 22 809iSanks\n\nMar\n\n$59 Jamieson\n\nJan. 25 40 Rollason\n\nFor 11 50Cces\n\nFair. 25 226 Bovey\n\nFch. 81200 Wilson\n\nMar. 13 sataxi Peb.\n\npremier\n\nLindras and Co.\n\nDent, Beale and C\n\nAnn, ship\n\nfar\n\nFe.\n\nMarine. Matheson and Co Lendon\n\nella Co\n\nSwedish Chieftain, burque\n\nKramn Augusto, brig\n\nChilias Frolic, hin\n\nOudenbury Schlosser, barque\n\nNew Grenadian\n\nWhatupo Mar 1 298 gera\n\nWhempos Mar. 20 250 Hasselhoff Dreyer and Co\n\nOrder\n\nShaughse Mar. 430 Gough\n\nEdited, Printed, sud Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the longlowy Register Office: Dage Ste\n\nVictoria, Hongkuag. Tuesday, April 1. 1889.\n\n188\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVol. XXIX. Na. 23.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nATHEREAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & ..\n\nWo Cuntat, Chica, did, on the 11th day of March,\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have established at Hongkong, under the same\n\nstyle, a branch of our business. MR. LUDWIG WIESE is admitted a Partuer in our\n\n1866, at the Office of the United States Cosmulate in tlanton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real¦ Firm. and personal, in trust for the benefit of their Creditors, to the undersigned: We hereby give notice to all cuncorn ed to make payment to us of all uns de te, and to present to us any claims against the arid Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & 670.\n\nCanton, 18th March, 1556.\n\nJAMES PURDON & O»,\n\nNOTICE\n\nSeamen's Hospital.\n\nTrustees JARDINE, Esq., C. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Ca,\n\nCanton, 31st March, 1855.\n\nNOTICE MRJ MACKRILL SMITH is authorised to Sign the\n\nKING & Co.\n\nMane of our Firms in China per peenrastin,\n\nCanton, 13th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nKey. Hon. W. T. Maxes, Fag., R.S. WALKER, E. Ma\n\nSuperintendent of the P. & U. Steam Navigation Com pany, (ex officio)\n\nPreueurer, MANIAC, Esq.\n\nBaristent Surgeon-RARD, JAOX.\n\nConsulting Surgeon W. A. HARLAND, M.D.\n\n75 cents per day.\n\ndoilar\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION.\n\nPublic Warda,...\n\nIntermediate Wards,\n\nPrivate Rooms,..\n\n2 dullars\n\nPatients are also admitted on deposits, at the following rates, renewable one day previour to the amount depozited baving been expended,\n\nPublic Wards,\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$20\n\n$30\n\nThe Captains or Consignees of Vessels must be respon sible for the expense of Patients sont by them to the Hospital.\n\nMB-A Hospital Bills to be reneipted by the Erasurer only.\n\nTHE\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nERPULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION\n\nLytworn\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTON.\n\nTHE WILLAMETTE, Captain W. Conss.\n\nFrum Honyhang to Canton,\n\nwary MONDAY & THURSDAY, at è s'elock s.M. From Canton a laughong,\n\nevery TUESDAY & FRIDAY, at 10 o'clock a.m. For further particulars, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hongkony, MAXIMILIAN FISCHER, Canton. Hongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nREGULAR\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION batwest\n\nHONGKONG AND CANTÓN.\n\nLE SIN CHARLES FORBES,\n\nTHE\n\nFrom Mongkong in Ornton,\n\nOVORY FUSSDAY and FRIDAY, at Pelock ..\n\nfrom Canton w Hongkong,\n\nevery WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 8 o'clock ..\n\nFo further particulers, apply to the Agents,\n\nROBERT S. WALKER, Hangbong, K.ROTTUNJKE & Co., Canë\n\nHongkong, 20th May, 1856.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHE interest and responsibility of Mr. J. F. B. TRAUTMANN Firm ceased by his retire- iment therefrom on His March fast, and our Business will be sonducted nonauforward under the maponsibility of the remaining Partuen Mx. G. C. SCHWADE and M. FREDNIK BOWER\n\nShanghu, 10th May, 1850.\n\nM\n\nG. C. SCHWABE & Co.\n\nTHOMAS 1 WALKER.\n\nArchitect and Surveyor,\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong.\n\nNOTICE\n\nE undersigned have established themselves as Mer\n\nchures üşü Ayenis in this place, je Copartnership, Wider the style and Firm of FRAMJEE BOMANJEÉ CAMA & Gill,\n\nBOMANJEE FRAMJEE CAMA. FRAMJKE EDULINE.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1836.\n\nNOTICE\n\nJAMES CROSSLEY saved to be a partner in\n\nMore on its dugast lost, on which date his\n\nJuverest and responsibility termuntert,\n\nG. C. SCHWARE & Co. Shanglue, 27th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE Business of the late MR. JOZE VICENTE\n\nJORGE will from this riste de encried on by the undemned under the name of JUZE JUROE & Co. All outstanding accounts of the Estate will be received aud settled by the new firm.\n\nR. N. WEISMANN, in this day admitted a Pattuor\n\nin our Pure in Chius.\n\nREISS and Cu.\n\nCanton, 1st May, 1885.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTR. LUGH BOLD GIBB sa admitted a Partner\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.\n\nMin our Firma ou let Jetz. 1855.\n\nHongkong, 27th July, 1855.\n\nHOUSES.\n\nTO BE SOLD OR LET.\n\nITE imodisto passession, as SHANGHAE, The DWELLING Ilouse and BUSINESS PRE- MISES of the undersigned, together with the adjoining LAN in the roar of the Godowna, situated in a most con bral position, and fronting the River.\n\nApply to\n\nDIRON, GRAY & Co. Shaughse, 16th February, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. HOSE Two HOUSES, with excellent Crowns, LAND- Wawel, as present in the op- tion of Messrs. LVAL, SL & Co. and símated on part of Marine Lot No. 10.\n\nFor particulars apply to\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co.\n\nHongkong, 7th March 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nUST received by the undersigned, ---- 100 Barrels Hall FLOUR.\n\n1,000 51th-bags Chili\n\n6,000\n\nRAISINS.\n\nAles, on hand,-\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nUNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ESTARIISAB 18 LONDON AND Calcutta, 1834. CONFIRMED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARIJAMENT\n\n-\n\n6 William VI. Chap. 54. Invested Capital, B HUNDRED & FIFTY THOUSAND Pounds Sterling, of which Fry Lacs of Rupers are held by the Tian Branch,\n\nLondon Offics, No. 1, King William Street.\n\nChairman,\n\nSIR RENAY WILLO, KLS.\n\nINDIAN BRANCH, Directors,\n\nCHARLES R. PRINGLE, FL ALEXANDER WALLAGA, DE,\n\nWILLIAM B. SHOUL, E\n\nGEORGE BARZON Esq.,\n\nE. MACDONALD STEPHENACY, Esq.\n\nPhysician,\n\nAWAN WEEB, Bag, M.D.\n\nAgents and Sereiaris, M. BRADDON & Co\n\nMadras Agents,\n\nMessi BAINURADOK & Co.\n\nBombay Agents, Mears. LECSIR & Co.\n\n1. The marked success which has attended the opera tions of this society, justits the Directors in calling the ottention of the Public to the peruliar advantages held oul by this Luutitution to sil clag-en desirous of effecting\n\nBUTANCE Apor lives.\n\n2. The Tabies of Premium have been framed with the greadust cars. Toone applicable to India Eves have been Especially prepared from the experience of Indian mortal ity, and from the records of the Bast Indian Govern sent, and are an poderate as is deemed oonsistent with perfosi security.\n\n3. Proposals are received for Insuranets for the whale term of Life, either on a participating scale or ou & TUR parte puting scale at a lower rate of premium. Also for short perivda varying from one to seven years on very modcrate terms,\n\n4. An Annual division is made of One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding years, the other Pensfifth being set upart to enter into the average of of acreeding years.\n\n5. Of the gura annually divisible, heventy-five per cent\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNo. 1,329\n\nRELIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY. THE undersigned having been appointel Agonie Š\n\nPOLICIES, payable in loNDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, KANGOON, PENAS, and SINGAPORK.\n\nCIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, 26th April, 1856\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE 1 Established in 1849.,\n\nTHE findersigned are prepared to accept RISKS (covered by protecting POLICIES at bors and the varigan LoNON INUAR COMPANIES, by the PEN. INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Can con und Bangkung, u Amoy, Shungiae, the Straits, Ceylon, the Prendencies of Iulia, Sues, and England.\n\nThe interest in the protecting Pocies is aseigned to be P. and 0. 5. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Paytast in the event of 1,000, For RATA OF PERICH and other information, apply fo\n\nROBERT & WADAs, Bmyksng.\n\nMATHILIAN FIS, C\n\nK. WABLES, Shangkur.\n\nH. T. Mansa, Singapore.\n\nA. P. LOVELL, Calcura.\n\nHORT FRANK, Madras, or\n\nJONN RI, Banbay.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nLondon, Bih January, 1851.\n\nALLIANER FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF LONDON.\n\nTHE Undersigned having hotel uzat\n\nCure for the above COMPANY, are prepared to aucept ASSURANORS at Hongkong, as under\n\n1st-On Buildinga ot Brick or Stune, covered with Tiler, States, Metal, or other combustible Material, together with their Contents, when such Buildings are isolated from all others,-Kute of Pranium, per vend per Annua\n\nad-on ench Buildings and their Contents, when not so isolated, at the Rate of 1 per cent per Atore.\n\nAuces for 5 Months, and for 3 Mouths, of the Awal date will be churyou.\n\nOf the 1st Class-Assurances, for the present, will be accepted to the extent of £13,000 only vn og Risk. And of the 26 Class-To the extent of £8,500. A Building and its Contents taken together form oue Risk. Thus the above Smas may be udurwritten either on a Building alone, or the Contents alone; or, part on the Building, and part on the Contenta.\n\nNo Arazce is to be considered a force until the Premium be paid.\n\nAmongst other advantages of the Company, the As- eured will be natitled to participate in the Fronts alter Five successive payments.\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please send\n\nis apportiosed to polley holders on the participating in full particulers of the Rish to be taken; any Deviation scale, we have paid six annual premiuus, and thans from which is one of the Company, wi profie can be applied either in reduction of subsequent visate the Policy. 40,000 Frach-baked NAVY BISCUIT, made of Chiti premiums, or usa Bouse to the original amount of the Flock, and guaranteed to keep weli.\n\nHongkong, 7th May, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nESING\n\npolicy.\n\n3. The Annual redustion has averaged considerably | above 40 per cent, and in no one year as Ellen below\n\nthat sonnt\n\n7. The following table will shew the result of the last\n\nDORT WINE in Botle, SHEKEY in Bottle and Wood, divisita of profits as declared on the 9th May, 1855, at\n\naud BEER in Bottle.\n\ntan rate of 40 per cent, on the original manual premium:—\n\nReduced Original!\n\nAnnual Reduction. Annual Prynism\n\nApply\n\nALEX. WILSON. El Polar Godowns, 15th april, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nApply to\n\nBRST AN COAL\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nAge.\n\nDate of Sam As\n\nPolicy.\n\nsurof.\n\nPresi\n\n30\n\nOu cr\n\n10,000\n\n120\n\nCold Ro It-\n\n30\n\nbefore\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\n40\n\nthe 9th\n\n10.020\n\n590\n\nC\n\nMay,\n\n10.000\n\n150)\n\n10,000\n\n740 1,000\n\nREST Labuan STEAM COAL. PRICE, &350 per Ton.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 7th April, 185tì.\n\nTRENCH CORKS.\n\nFOR SALE\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nCHAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PALE ¦and Gezper SHERRIES.\n\nCLARETS of Superior quailty. Chaters. Maxg 2, Moviny, St. Cslepke, St. Julien, and Lesviite.\n\nApply in HongKong and CANTON to\n\nLYALL, STILL & Co. flongkong, 7ih September, 1855.\n\nFOR SALE. CUPERIOR MADEIRA in Pipes, Half and Quarter?\n\nPipes, apply to\n\nALEX. WILSON, Menar. Jannis, Mayurson & Co.\n\nGallorans. East Point, 31st October, 1853.\n\nINSURANCES,\n\nNOTICK\n\nLONDON & ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE, undersigned has received authority by the last bail to make all LOSSES ON POLICIES issued JOZE JORGE.\n\nhere by tbo above filice, payable in THREE MONTHS ZIDURO ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA. after oties, in place of six Months Macao, 3d April, 1956,\n\nROB. 3. WALKER, Agrante\n\nM\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR JAMES McCORMICK is authorised to sigu vut\n\nFm per procuration.\n\nALVORD & Co.\n\nCanton, 12th Jannary, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFR. THOMAS D. BOYU is authorized to sign our Mr Ficto\n\nP. D. SYME & C\n\nAmoy, 12th May. 1855.\n\nMR\n\nNOTICE.\n\nR. GRAHAM ANDERSON foinet me as a Partner on the 1st of January lušt. The buginese will be cried an in the base of D. W. MACKENZIE & Co.\n\nD. W. MACKENZIE.\n\nCanton, 5th Muralt, 1860.\n\nM. JAMES BROWN, Notary Public, MESURS, GASKELL & BROWN, Solicitora, Notaries Public, de\n\nQueen's Road, Victoria.\n\nHongkong. 6th Jan, 1855\n\nheretofore.\n\nNOTICE. LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1720. E undersigned, Agouts at Hongkong for the above Corporation, Are prepared to grant POLICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, on any Huilding or Murthandize in the same.\n\nDENT & Co.. dynie\n\nIlangkung, 12th Aprit, 1855.\n\n------\n\nLONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT\n\nINSURANCE OFFICE. and after this way, ir. MAXIMIZA FISCHER of and after this waves det sks\n\nof this Office.\n\nBOBERT S. WALKER,\n\nHongkong, 3 March 1854.\n\nAgent.\n\nof\n\n25%-0\n\n459 9?-> 298-0 296-0 851-0 444-C\n\n26-18\n\n112 0 618-0\n\na. Following in an Extract of the rates of Precium\n\nAnnual Premium for an Assurance on Rs 1,000.\n\n8858 1 Feer.\n\n98% 3 Fears.\n\nCIVIL\n\n128823\n\n*R\n\npete Profs.\n\n22\n\nના\n\nMr.\n\nEnglish\n\nJitter\n\n£ 18 %\n\nAge. 1 Year 3 Years5 Fears 7 Faith with life with-\n\n32588+\n\n38899\n\n45\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agema in Chron.\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 1845.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nBREAD AND BISCUIT BAKERY, SINO, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and General Store Leper, bega to intimate, that he has consented arogiments to establish a Branch of his House at CANTON, in New French Hong, sud will be happy to supply Ladies and Gentlemen of the latter plac with that great Gesideralno-z superior article of Bread He Daltora Linsel that, from his long experience in sale, siness, and trom the facilities he posts of procuring, Et all times at finest brand of American Flour, viz., Gallego, he will be able to give a better article to int | furuishod by any rival establish uc\n\nBar wo keep constantly on hand, an assort ment of the best WINES, LIQUORS, BEER, sud PORTER in Quars and Pinda, OHMAN'S STORES, PERFUMERY, and STATIONERY, K., &c.\n\nHongkong, 1st May, 1956.\n\nSAN MIGUEL BRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY.\n\n\"NDER the Superlateniques of an Experiched Ba\n\nGILEER Orlere for all kinds of MACHINERY exented with despatch. Erxam ENGINES & BOILERS repaired. SHAFTS of the best Englen Tron from 5 to Orders to be aduresed Mussre. 9 inches diameter. 3. A. BARRETTO & Co., Maurier.\n\nA Cuniors LOT ATPAL-Dr. Wallis, while re siding near the Mississippi, married his landlady, an intercating young woman, aged twenty-sighs; after which he sled in Washington, a short distance from Columbia, where he enjoyed all the happiness that a worried man could desire.\n\n38\n\nBut his happiness was to be of short duration. Une morning a middle-aged ma waited upon him, and after some questions upon ja.\n\nPrijes.\n\n27\n\n28\n\n17\n\n33\n\n34\n\n40\n\n**\n\n55\n\n48\n\n13\n\n64\n\nJ5\n\n-------\n\n45\n\nIf that\n\ndifferent matters, he axited him he was married? The doctor replied \"yes\" \"And to a lady of colour 9. On return of Aesuere to Eatope for a permanent residing foredly in a town on the Mississippi\"\n\n\"Yea. Well that is my slave, and, although she is residence, their Premiums are immediately reduced to\n\nworth 2.000 dollars, I will only ask 300 for her, the English rate, hath on the participating and ou\n\nsum he not paid within an hour, I will advertise her as participating scales. If the Policy be according to the\n\nTUNAWAY. During the tour, the husband asked his participating scale, the reduction arising from profine ja allowed on the English race, thus admitting of a con-\n\nwife if she were a slave, and the property of the man tinuance of the Asserance in Europe on most moderate who had just left the buse?\" Yes,\" replied the wife, while teurs rulled down her cheeks; \"I am a slave, thus\n\nLerms.\n\n10. Military Officers holding Civil appointments are property of that man, who is my father.\" The busland allowed to subscribe at the Civil rates of Premium.\n\nkissed har, wiped away her tears, forgare the deception the bad practiced, to which love had instigated her, and then paid the required sun which made her his für life.\n\n11. Premiuma are payable citberannually. hall yearly, or quarterly, or monthly, and a guare of 28 days in allow- ed for such payment.\n\n12. Melical referees se renerated by the Society.\n\n---\n\nA SHORT PARLIAMENT.-The shortest parliament an\n\n13. At she period of last annual valuation, the Aseta record was that of 1390, which had but one session of\n\nof this Society were ascertained to be upwards of £550,000. a single day, and during that short space contrived to The amount of Potieres in force about £2,003,000 and upset one king and set up another.\n\nthe annual income arising frora przesiums thereon 200,099, exclusive of Interest ou the invested Capital.\n\nTables of ales, forma and instructions for cffecting Assuraneva, can be obtained un application to the Secre torics, or to\n\nROBERT S. WALKER,\n\nAceni.\n\nHangkong, 20th March, 1866.\n\nNOTICE\n\nHe undersigned, having heen appointed Agents for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, aro zady to save Policies in behalf of that Orbice, payahie in SINDACH, Penang, RANGOON, CALCUTTA, BONDAY, LORDON, and in CHINA.\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.\n\nCanton, 231 Jannury, 1856.\n\nMYSTICAL POLYGAMY.-The King of the Ashantees is allowed by law 3333 wives-at being the precise mystical number on which, it is said, the prosperity of the native depends.\n\nTRE\" AULING Passion.\"-On his death-bed a dia. tinguished humorist requested that no one might be Javited to his funeral, \"because,\" gasperl out the dying man, it is a civility I can never repay.\"\"\n\ndefire that officers of the Lavy should not wear bearda An admiralty circular may :-\"It is their furdships'\n\nof moustaches on board Her Majesty's ships.\n\nIn consequence of the probability of peace, an order\n\nhar beco already sed prohibiting nsval otcets from wearing moustaches while on full pay.",
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        "content_text": "Majority and what is the fate of ins evidence?\n\n1st represented as having \"confirmed a purp-es- fure \"under\" a Verbal assurance Baz die would But be FROSECUTED\" for his encroachments.\" We are assure by thow, who have seen the appen dix, that no such evidence the found therein, or any one word enpulite of being fairly construei Into a declaration that the mere indemnity agrins JUNISHMENT\" was interpreted into a reaction of Crown rights! The campission would hav done well to listen to the copeluing portion of the evidence of that Witness whose opinioas deserve all attention,\" when he says for all ess encouragement being given, I think if on inle to speak of the legal responsibility neur Art\"\n\nThe President the Commission, however, can- act divest himself of his gama fat ano modent; and not only, but ne his seasily pronounced his opinion aifany Marine Lo folder should fechos to take the ground flted in in front of his Lot, Gaverament rony oust him from the Lore IT ELF!\n\nLet this be borne ja rind, for should ang eir cumalance deprive as of the presence of our ante and respected Cliet Justice, surely his suegrant 1ust be fauad some where else than amongst those whose Verdists are delivered before the Jury is exponnelled. And mark the grounds.--1 opanks the Lease.\n\nUnder 5000 fest-\n\nscawan\n\nSUPPLEMENT.\n\nBut we hure yet to explain, and it should have been stated in the first place, that the lines on the sea you are driven to a imaginary depth We believe, however, theeo tiuas pretty nearly represcat the extent to which Sir John Bowring wishes leare holders to carry their fets and make a Roadway of thirty feet in width. To nary out there lots to the extent required the whole of the hosters are willing enough: bet to the for mation of a Rund way for public per shey have no in sination, put, the Honorable! the Aitorney Gen- eral's opinion notwithstanding-it is not in the ardinery mainer of the Crown to insist on such n Real being spevat.\n\nThat such a Road is not wanted for mere pas- senger traffic wilt be auparest to wit on an in- spection of the wood eat-there being ample space on the Queen's Rood for the passage of all fa po- polarna we hang at present. That sven a Rond in not wants for wasrfage purposes, inspectors of the wood eut will also be satis lad: -and we razy well ask, if ont for hare, den for what perpes la the Priya winted? In M. Sa mayor General Gordon's suggestion for 2 primate Praya, prepared an a scheme propounded by Sir Henry Pottinger befors Las for int were drafted, it is there sail that in case of an invasion by foreign forces the runway would be convenient for transporting cantan speedily and this, really, is the only use conver ible as a necessity.\n\nExcept and always reserved unto fer a Majesty. Ber Heirs, Suecreare and Amigos, fall As for any aid la Police arrangements, it is our \" parver to resume and lake pession of all or any opinion thai, whatever any be in store for us in part of the said pisce or pircel of ground hereby the future, as regards a more efficient force the demised, if required for the improvement of the formation of a Praya will never be other tasa au anit Colony of Hongkong or for any other Publicaid to intending burglars; and the consequence *parpuse whatsnovor, three Calendar Manito will be that when the Bank and Merchants Bird nation heig giera to the occupant thereof of us they coneet lood Pressure and valuable merchan. being so required, a full and fuir compensation *for sizeh end land and buildings thereon being pald to the said und an, his heirs, executors cal vigation to be fairly and imputing\n\n  \n    \n  \n\nTo the flattor of the \"Hosszene Revuras.\"\n\n-\n\nHasan, 254 47, 153 Sen-Referring to the letter in the fast iseac of the China Mail on the subject of the unfair deductions drawn from the bulence taken by the Boxing Trays Chearsalon in huis published report, beg leave to second my testimony in care buration of the laws of the waiter of that letter, so to sixte in my videre given to that Commission netther warra fins justifies n\n\nvery rouse, what an a\n\npoint thing whatever is said. but it sorte respects on here pats upon it,\n\n3(\n\nmare Mtorney General at Hunghong, for the sume reason, by the same person, Cash, by the way. has gone to the Catentivels in a nimbolte frame of mind. He rears he is sacrifont - a regular mantyy vie | tim of all kinds of machinations, to get rid of Adan; aud though he admits that the berth is a govi out, great pay and little to do, he weys ke ought to have something far better, must higher pay, nothing es all to do in deply to do is He vores he is honestly\n\nTollectie my nating givethe fableving extret for worth for were respectable figure; that Palmers the report, which from the anginui neto apunate to be based ¦ton knows it, or if he doesn't that he is the only wae ratire on ny evidence. Another witness, also a zizristiarn of the jacts whe is ignorant on that deadz jat kokler, was perbally satisfies? ↑ « maid (int lie host rennired and trai heltt lake care the world shall be wiser befors very recently an excouragement from the Governor imagifit is much older. li surmind that the ut us time\n\ncrari apon the sea shore in front of his lot and reclaim it Cu being estar to crudescend to prurlavhars, red particularly sugary temper of Chisholm is rather that the Governor in queson was Sar G. Bonham chat Bir soared by the analytic proces a certain little biti 1. Botham ad id in answer to a questions, thus he of his, relation in something forensic in the com had no pawer to sulfanze his intended purprentare, or to wate him any tile to the ined when he should have reclamissionership line, has been subjected to : and that, as and it-that all be (the Gosure) wonkl say wha, that unless he has got all he is likely to get, he don't see the his the tenant's) neighbours compainel, Dovernment would we of exhibiting manh thankfulness for passoura to mot prosende son for the entrenchment, and that in his than, as his countryman, thi pheographer of the | Gavertur's) primate spizion the tumant would be “at right,\"\n\nwould be done at his own risk, and than as the tenant wrest held himself responsible for the consequences,\" \"The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. The tales or my own, and mark the portion of the paragrafential y vakmo. First, as to being requied to closed to particulara. it may be remembered that at the pelic meling bell to ecrandér tin Government notilleation of 10th November last, I strongly advod the pelicy of meeting the icon of His Excellency the Governor, bring my arents en the same intervw with Sir G. Bestum. Is giving my evidence before the Commission, this interview was brough toy bentlection, sud I prouistet re give the whole parti calars of it without any attempt at centralmer, rolering Grły grosa-questioning unnecesway -- Berninly the report wash it appar that but plendouragement to reclaim, and that on the tall bring esete, (corlewing partient) I had overly been praiser innvaruty fron panishment, (if it be even that it me sellers siching to me about punishment anerosement,\" ble for the congeecaces. Now I will declare that Eiz George\n\nor responsibility for the aequcxers, and feonsider the wond\n\nciasto.\n\nbut that the tenant trust anderstand that what he oughts, defines gratule. Ainsley hay dore this the Bust lably, am in Chian, but Aur Monor; and is reported to have left for publication in this country a record of experiences optriciy confirmatory of his ginnt Tower kill wud kropping block theory an The Fizon, Afghanistan, and the Oriente ahontas ation of the same category --Correspondent of Li- verpacť Albion.\n\ndize noticed by such a mulus ay be seen condescension que inapplicatie to my detector before the\n\nthe Bonham Strand ocw, and would he soon on the Bowring Puya, too, if once completed, they wit think high sine to make arrangements to:\n\nmade by the Surveyor of fer vnd Myasty establishing alsowhers. Nor let this ideo be whis\n\nIf, in these words, the Allorney General can find right in disposase the lanse holder whose cand is not required, but who derlines to PUKERASE More, or it on the latter clause he can watabiish the fact that the fairness and impartiality of the Surveyor General emaot be challenged by thu Lease holder, we shall willingly accord to hire the Conjora's Medal, and hail biar es the 4 Wizard of the East,\"\n\nAnd now, Sir, nilow us to apologise for the pro Jongation of this Letter, for when we beg a place in your columns, -Your obedient Servants.\n\n— F. of U. Apríl ið,\n\nCAVENT & Co.\n\nStates with the pertinence of that passage in Ca. reat Ca's letter running--\n\nThere is ample space now, and ware than ample space lo teen fallic Warien, for double the wants of the Com regnity who have ut se foutages Wat aro thuir repirnama! Minch\n\nmain by the China Mail and others about tiam inumavenience to the publin dwel ing to the sauth of the Queen's Road! Leteny one who knows the pture an Es eye along the fist of residents, and \"their accopations, and then re how many to the \"of the tusen's Road, and up the Hill, nynire large Whar fage accordation. What did the China Mare require « What goods did he land -and what inconvenience was he \"subjected? None! As the same reply will serve loy whe tenths of those who inhabit the tata es on the \"Bill; aut such mast niet he the case, at Cooke tice aline would very soon abs any hone hit serving from redacod rentals on Inland Lots were they used as stung ground, \" --and impressed with the idea that readers at a disuence can never understand the Bowring Praya question from letter press alone, we have prepared, and publish below, a small woed cut of the distracted district.\"Spaces marked Nu. I t on this wond cut exhibit the tots affected by the proposed measure and the dotted lines delineate the general contour of the shore, up to which approximately, leases are already practed hy the Crowa The parts in black are Government holdings, available for Junding placas if goven- ment wilt make them.The fretted lots enclosed in No. 1 represent streets ia Chilmon's, Chinam's and Endicott's Baznars, the whole sen front at which is as open to the public for wharfage as it can well! he. The surch, as slightly altered from the plan accompanying the Hongkong Almansek for 1848, ¦ is drawn to a scale of 400 funt to the inch, and gives a sea ling of 2,700 fest, of which 600 are Loveramant avaliables -400 private bazaare with public wharves, and the remaindet,-private pro- perty the comparative figures being us 17 to 10, or say of private property, and 3 of public landį ings. Surely these faci-that wie ding\" should be sufficient for the most seeptical if stiti dis posed to cavil ni Carat of Cs assertion that i there is ample space for pubite Wharver for #donble the wants of the Comininity who have not sea frontages withou: disturbing rosted rights. For the farther information of readors et dis\n\ntance wo way state that area No. I of the wood eur\n\nis\n\nis part of land sold last year an eoedition that ai Feaya should run in front of it-Port of No, the same; the space between 2 and 3 is Padder's Wharf--between 4 and 5 is the Oriental Bank Who:f-between 5 and 6 the Central Market, and betweco 8 and 9 the privata Bazar and Wharf of Messrs Gibb, Lavingston & Co.-—the deep line of the angle n 9 representing the entrance from the Queen's Road to Benbam Strand. The Leasehol ders opposing the Bowring Praya schome are, in No 2, Mears Lindsay & Co and Dent & Co-in No. 4. Messrs Jardine Mathearn & Co., Turaer &Co, Bowra & Co., Legraik and Storgie, To No. 6, the Onental Bank Corporation and Mesars Jardine, Mathesan & On. In No. 6, the Agents\n\nfor Thomas Ripiey. In No. 8, Mosers William Scott, James White and Julin Bird & Co.-and in\n\nNo. 9, Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co. On the In-\n\nland side of the Road, the storekeepers, to a jana,\n\nas we are informed, express themselves in opposi tips to the Praya; and it only remains to be said of the mercantile offices in streets in rear of the Queen's Road-eit. in those of Messrs Williams, Anthon & Cu, Dreyer & Co., J. Dos Remedios, James Staphenson, Angier & Co, 8. E. Barrows and C. Boyd, that only two are in the habit of storing Croods on the basements of their premises; the su perficialGlown area so used boing, we are sure,\n\n• The round member given are quite approximato we repost; but the spacas used na landing plairs by the pub- ho are ukeratuted if any thing,\n\n......\n\nled down. A quarter of a century henes and, in these days of annexation and progress to whom mey belang ibe the island of Lenia? With a French or an American, or, it may be, s Russian settlement herend less chance of being borns down by the \"trong talkce\" of a Bowring Praya Comms sion, how long is likely offered advantages would remain accepted\n\ni\n\nIt was clearly manifeat ra me that the presiding member af\n\nment had been in the habit of resumứng lợin without giving inty other compensation than the Surveyör Generļa spínatè ment. On the print i was closely quistioned by the \"Cone- ssina, and although I acklaced two cases where she ca ant, retting the compensatum cffered, obtained third he asked, the report is not only silent on the portion of spy es dence, but itcally asserts thos it reale with the Sarvey General\" alone to code the question of ommpensation.\" \"la one of the casey I addured, I alleged that in February 1954,\n\nandaard, Lendale, Matize for No 79 e 10 del bars; us Isoil a year after fae 15 as the sale on anualed by the receipt of notice of resumption, the esi price 180 dollara, bring named as compensación. Ón veference to de lerse secret it stipulated that I was to have a alirampantion at a rate to be Sirly and impartially made by the Surveyor, de 19 anitced the hardship of the ee to the Acting Alertsy General who replied that the compensation must be far and equitable, which the offer whe not, and that I count ant be crapeited to access, it, Tur report the public, I was thos, with many others of the simple and cezading publis, deluded into a vers extraordinary error. If such be the case I don't think that any one wil\n\nbuilding in din Clony whendir cars be taken fora him by a Government whose legal adviser not only propounds bad. vocates soch a munstrous doctrine,\n\nslo L'aring wishet in have it related that Govern\n\nWe have said the Lenses were drafted after the Gordon Prays was suggested: and this face is worthy of particular note, for had Sir Henry Putinger ve amourent éontemplated coercion ino a Prays shows, how casy would it have ben to have inserted words giving authority to the action! Yet, hard as are the terms of the fenses, not parage-not a word—can be con-in be deleted into the day of exerting aus substantia strued towards an abrogation of the term on which Marine Lots were first bought. viz holding from the Ses to the road. If, owing to washings from the hitis, and other causes, the as recedes, the terms of the original sale bare still to be acted on by the Crown-he taste of the interests of the to whose use the kod is demised—and, the surne suivit that the Crown promises fall and fair compensation for ell it takes away-such fairt compensation must be given for the lard it adds. Such Mr Chisholm Anstey with and to be the de- should it be found necessary still further to resist cision of higher legal authorities than himself. the formation of a BowRING PRASA F. of C.Aprii\n\n30.\n\nSEA\n\nW\n\n起\n\n*Not two pence per foot--nar the fourth of it,\n\nin conclusion, I have to state may regret that this effoient manner of obtaining the views of the\n\nsaking gri- Buna tratores commission should be so for abused as to render it calikely that such thony with infulare procurable. The non attendance of a rouch respected anal leading member of the enciminals, eu inne comptinet of by the Fraya Coromin, may doubtices be travel infe sight rather than discotusy-1 am, Sir, Your client Servant.\n\nof 17, May 3.\n\nY. J. MURROW.\n\nAUDI ALTERAM PARTEM is a motto for which wo bava much regard, and we readily give insertion to the letter front Lex, with the extract, in italics, to which it refers. The emoluments of the office of Attorney Greeral here are certainly not mere\n\nFRIENDS of the Caprain Coonew some time in the service of ike P. & 0 Company here, and displaced from his common and under sirzamances reflecting little erafit un ruo Agent of that day in China, will learn with pleasure that he is now in the service of the Honourable East India Company; and mor has it will shortly have the appoints ment of Master Attonduit at Matlah. The\n\nfollowing extract from the Caletta Finglish-\n\nnot a 7th ult., is interesting --\n\nOx the ah ulana Sept Comew commanding the E. Company's servaying vessel Gruppler which has been employed in buoying off the Mur all, took charge of the bark. Murmyan Crown China, which vesel\" tad entered that rive by mistake. The Marion was brought up eately to Calcntia, Cap. Priest the Commander of the Maraina was dangerously l, when the Grappler fe in with her which probably caused the mistake. Capt. Commend the crew of the Grappler are criting > ly entaled to me renumeration for thuir ser vices, as the Marmion wes in a dangerous patitisa and would probably have been lost without exis. cane of 13. April 19.\n\n(Continued from supplement poge 31, column 4.) ment, wiz, that on all papers hence passing aror the Isthmus of Panainn, a separate chargo of two pence was a be collected in advance\n\nOn the 2nd of Fairmary came nirections to pay a penny in advance mill sepers hence i England: these sent via Marseilles, with a three peny collection at hone, remaining unlistar- Newspaper Proprietors and forwarding Agents ed. The hard bearing of this amurcement oa\n\nis most manifest. Had the order appeared a month before instead of a month after the beginning of the year we could then have charged such additional pernigs to the Bills for subscription -as it is we must put up with the lows-au inconsiderable one in the ag gregate.\n\nUpon what enamon sense principle this ar-\n\ntha a Barrister of Mr Chisholm Anstoy's stand-rangement has been made we are at a bus 19\n\ning might have expected for doing a \"boom\" in\n\nhis Augran stable.\n\ndiscover. It, simply, with vie w lo econ. omise the labnar el taxing clerks at home, then, in two ways, will the pathe be made to pay a Jor the false idea-firel, in the more costly pay. ment in Colonin: Post Offices for the extra fa- lour given to the collectors, and second-in the reduction in the number of papers regular-\n\nknow that many people take no other means for notifying friends at home of their being able male Newspapers:-the charm of the thing in e a pen tion by addressing covers on lying the little tronbie al na exponse. Alas! we shoult speak in the past tea+d, — the spel is broken the demand for the penny in advance has checked the kindly patention the longing friend loves his expected treat- the postal revente ja so much the less-and the not wanted newspaper is eat to the Ash: box. With so many arguments for the alteration of thia demon for peuries in advance, we tre assured that the tenuro ofile existence will he very brief,\n\nTo the Editor of the Friend of China\"\n\nHONGKONG, 16th April, 1856. Fiz,--Possibly some ingenious philosopher will one day discover a rural storecacope, which wits trasmitted.ts for instance-We all enable us to comprehend at one view the real cha- racter of every illustrious stranghouers cer litte colony with it presenco. At present we can only see one side at a time; and as an object is described by various parties from different points of view, the want of resemblance, and, what is worse, the want of harmony in the several portraits. ie perplexing in the extreme. Witness our last new breone comes upon pa like a comet, in un atmosphere of glory-Gur quit nunos rajoice in the advent of another piller of the state-a real, thorough, radicel, independent. reforming patriotic member of the House of Commons, and we hear of nothing save hire and his career for more than the statue number of nine days. The Mail gives hint an oration from the tow Magazine, you re-produce a sketch by the Parliamentary por trait painter, both highly credible to the artists and honorable to the subject of their labours;-but, intermediately, the Register obtains a nearer view, and resolves the appearance of our corces in the shape of a broom- now broom-which sweeps about is a very eccentric orbit, and hita hard with the shank besides. It was wrong in the Register not to begin by describing the glorious appe manes of the thing at a dislunce.—not to hunt up its splendid antecedents, like his neighbours, before producing his daguerreotype iikennes of ithus be found its stiff sharp bristles rush so romorso leasty across the grain atong our good old China am, with a view, as he shabbily avers, to profits: with a cover open at the sides, at a enarge of\n\nTwo other notifications still comain to be noricet-one of the 22nd vitine, to the effect that the French Post Office will account for ali poarages on papers from Hongkong to the United Kingdoin, a knowledge of which face to this community is not very importan lastly a \"trausuiseios of books\" afisation, in the Gazette of the 55 tastant, by which it is usdained that pa kata may be forwarded hence to Malta and Gibraltar, via Bgypt,and to Ber muda and the British West tudies (Barbadoses, Trauidad and Tork's Baland excepted) not ex- ceeding Two feet in lenghth breadth or widin,\n\nout of the repairs, that bis injured toelings at once tight pence per bulí a pound to Malis and\n\n: \n\ngove vent to their anguish. It will comiert tho, Gibraltar, and one sholing and two pence par Register to know that others have entertained half pound in the Wen ludies such rates p- suspicions respecting the peculiar \"Quixotism\" of plying to the first pound only, after which: the tis new broom, and no doubt he will read with charge has to be incrensed for every fraction action the other side of the questions etted of a pound as a pound-letters found in suc by the well known London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion, in the subjoined extract, which I packets being charged postage with an addi- \n\nition of back packet postage as a penalty. suppose your fairness to both sides will allow you to insert.-I enclose the name of my Solicitor, sud am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nLE X\n\nHow the-ow-Post happens to be Pam's own print is unintelligible to all, and their name is legion, who reject the Urquhartive story about a former edi- tor having called for P.'s mad as a traitor, and then being muzalisha St. Petersburg esksut skip, just as in the present ease of Ansley, who is\n\nSuch are some of the changes that have caught our eye: there may be others, and if there are out, we may, after the late rate of two notifications a mouth, soon expect them. But this, really, is too serions a matter og tyne unfled with, and something must be done t check the nuisance of indeercet legislation.\" by auteur Post Masters General,--F. of C. April, 19.\n\n312\n\nINDEX",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nNo. 5 FEBRUARY 3, 1857.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.—Continued.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVED,\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS—Continued.\n\nDate of Tave\n\nCORSION BA\n\nSame\n\nArrival\n\n27 Frick\n\nHongkong Jan. 28\n\nSneon Draper\n\nAm. ship\n\n200\n\nAshly\n\n26 Luni\n\n81. Zephyr\n\n31 May\n\nSiilelena\n\nJan. 29\n\nTuss\n\nBrit. ship\n\n24 Middleton\n\nShanglice\n\nJan. 25\n\nBellast Da.\n\nBrit. ship\n\nSimons\n\n81 Sir Jus. Brooke\n\nBrit. ship\n\n8795k: amer\n\nFeb. 1 Carondon\n\n1 Bansive\n\nBrit. xh.\n\n#50 MoGregor\n\nSingapore Dec. 37\n\nGeneral\n\nSingapore\n\nSun. 21\n\nTroops\n\nSanghus\n\nJan. 27\n\nBala River\n\nMina.\n\n207 Bambay,&Jur.\n\nOman\n\n1 Jacob Cornelia\n\nDut, ship\n\n492 Rosenboom\n\nBombay\n\nH31S. Porkowess\n\nCanton\n\nSAILED.\n\n1 Chempion\n\n3+\n\n2 Harraventa\n\nBril. b.\n\n445 Thurs\n\nBrit. at.\n\n1000 Aba\n\nAm. h.\n\n500 Gray\n\nFHA\n\nDAIS\n\nNAXE\n\n| FLLO &\n\nKiu\n\nBonghong Jan. 26\n\nThobe Danbar\n\nBrit. al.\n\n70 Tucker\n\nA Separa\n\n#\n\nFitohormal Ca\n\nP. & D. S. N. Co\n\nOrder\n\nSoler and Co\n\n225yal, Suli and Co\n\n688 Fieber und On\n\nApril 21\n\n120 Tarner sad Co\n\nOrlen\n\nMarinera Hope, Lrg\n\nAu Nile, brig\n\nShanghae\n\nAmericaa\n\nSegnoant, ship\n\nB. R. Milaro, ship\n\nDurrington, ship\n\nChanning, ship'\n\nCompetitor, ship\n\nNorwester, sisip\n\nArrival\n\nDate Tur\n\nCOXSTOMER\n\n535 King and Ca\n\n090Isaac M. Bolf & Co\n\nNov. 125Moner!, O. & Co\n\niBee. 1174jRussell and Co\n\nDuc.\n\n1500. Huar nd Co\n\n740Campton. II. & Co\n\nBall, Nye and Co\n\nDec 10 128 Heard and Co\n\nCormances of Seas ship\n\nDeo. 24782 wall and Co\n\n118 Order 289Dent, Deals and Co\n\nDurch\n\nAlbrecht Beiling, q.\n\nNov. G. C. D. You\n\nTwist, b\n\n700 Schafer and Co\n\n464 Selacier and do\n\n4788chiler and Co\n\n244. D. Sys and Ga|\n\nSmidlow, ship\n\nWhite Swallow, skip\n\nDanish\n\nDanmark, barque\n\nGloriosa, brig\n\nOuto, barga\n\nVirgine. brig\n\nSept. 182 Cracapton, IL & Co\n\nSept. 1012001. Kinard and o\n\n270 W. Pasta and Co\n\n10. uste abi Qə\n\n230iems and Co\n\n21Johe Burd and s\n\nSALO\n\nFLAU&\n\nAr\n\nDATE\n\nNAME\n\nTURB CAPTAIN FRCM\n\nSURO CARGO\n\nCONSTUNTES\n\nAmoy Brininte\n\nFuhelusu\n\nJan. 24 Teze\n\nrit. g. 20 Jonca\n\nJun. Gener\n\nBrit. 283 Thanpean\n\nSinggu\n\nBrit, ul. 148 Dring !Swaluw\n\nJan. 26kenyal\n\nA. Hoard and Ca\n\nComajou mad Clu\n\nBankno.M. sad Ca\n\nDent and Co\n\nJolie, M. and Co\n\nHardin, 51. and Craner brig\n\nBila, barque\n\nEllen Oliver, barjue\n\nEtama, schooner\n\nEraignent, bowma\n\nNov. Jardine, M.and Candily\n\nAanina, eh.\n\nForerunner, lawonor\n\nOne.\n\nHine Gem, brig\n\nJly\n\nNov.\n\n¡Feb.\n\nJan.\n\nDay.\n\n49Rusell and Co\n\nNor.\n\nJuly 2685 King and Co\n\n165. Fardon & Co\n\nNov, 18180 King acul Co-\n\n140 aprak\n\nEagle, shin\n\n251 Dont, and Co\n\nBuggle Wing, ship\n\n595 Under\n\nGoblen Wert, sip\n\n38u0nder\n\nHenry Harlock, ship\n\nNov. 1\n\n204Aater and Ch\n\nMails, &c.\n\nJau. 17 General\n\nNov. 3 General\n\nHoratio, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\nNymph, Larque\n\nlec.\n\nPet, arque\n\nAng.\n\n400 filmy and Co\n\n375'Urder\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nAri.\n\n680 Russell and Co\n\nclita, schooner\n\nJan.\n\n140 Russell and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n434, Russell and Co\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh.jdet.\n\n134. Heard and Co\n\nSisters, brig\n\nHone\n\n158 is an! Ca\n\nUnele Tom, schooner\n\nept.\n\n1801ail, Still and\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nPA 15\n\nOriaz\n\nCAPESIN\n\nFGa\n\nCANDO\n\nCorrenbes\n\nI'vrluyLave\n\nArora, buoner\n\nMay\n\nPapushon, steuer\n\nJune\n\nLive. 326 and Co\n\n26 Aroat\n\n.bk. 27oct Lam a ale\n\nSingapore iShangrae\n\nHathwa Sundries\n\n27 Remi\n\nBr, str. 229)and\n\nShanghac\n\nSundries\n\nBria ok. 3748{lva\n\n29 Recapont\n\nBrit. str. 336 Crockett\n\nSingapore Sundrice\n\nShanghas\n\nSundries Jardine, M. and Co\n\nSandrian Wm. Pustau and Co\n\nKing end\n\nos n Cz der Sandries Jarine, M, sud Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJan. 14 266 Siemen and Co\n\nCarlow, schooner\n\nSupt\n\nFlorida, big\n\nΚαν.\n\nHado, abip\n\nแบบ\n\n$49 Queboil and Co\n\nUse Lyal. Still and Co\n\n597W.M.Bobinet & fo\n\nSev Jan.\n\n250 Uverweg ad Co\n\n133 W. Pustau and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nFapocanz buraz\n\nau\n\nAdmiral Laman, ship\n\nDes\n\nJaunius), pokaduer\n\nies.\n\n+\n\n20 Lahura\n\nBeit, str. 400jBrowes\n\nIserl, rig\n\nAky.\n\n24 Alapco\n\nBrit, bit. 677 Mason\n\nLindsay and Co\n\nLima, barque\n\nNov.\n\nBonabag, 20. Muila, fc\n\nSleeglina Sundrier\n\nShanghon Sundries\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.--Continued.\n\njatin Long, barco\n\nJune\n\nMary Ralp\n\nThe\n\n404 Biousson and Co\n\nW. Pastan and s\n\nWm. Pusta al Co\n\nFustina, burqve\n\nAng.\n\n337 in Salt\n\nMercarius, arque\n\n1808chur and O\n\nthiader, atque\n\nSenator, b\n\n250W. Put and Tə\n\nPlclades,\n\nJuly\n\nPrussian\n\nAinarika, brig\n\nOcc.\n\n21 Tutmeet and Co\n\nVernel, hig\n\nDea.\n\n21€ Dreyer and Ca\n\nSiamese\n\nDec.\n\n225|Steraan and Co\n\nSCIPS\n\nFhanbury\n\nBouits, brig\n\nNov.\n\n311 John B\n\nBangkok Mark, ship\n\nGodisler, Jarque\n\nAng\n\nEBS Order\n\naly\n\nKing and Co\n\nand Co\n\nSue ship\n\nfang, 9 Stoking sna Co\n\nLaco.\n\n200, Dreyer al Ba\n\nApril\n\n176 Urder\n\nAng. 10385 Kasseli and Co\n\n118 Jardins, and to\n\nNor.\n\nClarita, brig\n\nCora, ship\n\nAvg.\n\nDea.\n\n400 Order\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Hone, que\n\nSian, barque\n\nAug.\n\n430 Order\n\nJuly\n\n32: Order\n\nSpanis\n\n29.\n\nJan. 2 198 W31. Robinet & Co\n\nBan Lorenze, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nJuly 11\n\n220 F. D. Syme and Co\n\n16F. D. Syme and C\n\nTESSEL\n\nAT\n\nFLAG\n\nFubchan British\n\nAcarn\n\nBictor\n\nHhong Scop\n\nAgnes Garland, atque\n\nNor Mady, sing\n\n255,0. L, and Co\n\nCalcutta\n\nAng.\n\n1500. Nathaluoy & Cu\n\nkong Flag Ship\n\n84\n\nMelanie, barqu\n\njau.\n\n18. Heard and\n\nCams\n\n14: Jenkins\n\nNov.\n\n510)Dem and Ca\n\nPantaloon, brig\n\nNev.\n\nSoCamajos and Co\n\nfixcogier\n\nPowai, si\n\nfact.\n\n687ade, M. and Ca\n\n| Mercales\n\nDet. 24] 628A. Heard and Co\n\nH&ret\n\nAng. 20 Gas Gito, L. and Co\n\nMiss\n\nSe Dec.\n\n550 Rassell and Co\n\n31 Bollu\n\n2 Virginie\n\n20 Boulay\n\nB: pr. 600 Curling Bets. bg\n\n107 Makissiek ian.\n\n168 Appon\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VESSELS.\n\nLondoR Smudries Lindsay and Co\n\nTORT Sundries\n\nP. &Ì & N. Co\n\nSmies\n\nAt Hongkong\n\n• British\n\nDate ut! anini\n\nTONS! CONSIUNEES\n\nAlfred the Great, ship\n\nCot. 24 312 Fames Steplanon\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nAulandsle, ship\n\nAeasy, ship\n\nAustralia, ship\n\nAvaca, bargur\n\nJaner, schooner\n\nBanekae, haque\n\nBreshera, Utg\n\nCaldera, ship\n\nCadiz, wamer\n\nCity of Carlisle, ship\n\nClarendon, ship\n\nDeva, ship\n\nPaglub, steamer\n\nBarl Grey, hangne\n\nEena, brig\n\nErin, steamer\n\nEurquie, stip\n\nExcellent, brig\n\nFalco, ship\n\nFous, ship\n\nGlencoe, sp\n\nGood Success, thiş\n\nHoro, abip\n\nJubu Matible, ship\n\nKensington, ship\n\nLady Hayes, barque\n\nLanrick, brig\n\nLord Bagian, ship\n\nLouis, Barque\n\nMaryhull, schooner\n\nMaria Hay, hip\n\nNeure brig\n\nNimrod, ship\n\nPanhua, brig\n\nPerseverance, barque\n\nPrincos Royal, ship\n\nPady Daveon. thip\n\nBamarang, barque\n\nJan. 17 187Gibb, L, and Cu\n\nDec. 7yall, Sail and Co\n\nJan. 1673 Fletcher aud Co\n\nSept. 560 John Bard and Ca\n\nSept. 30 SuRusch and Co\n\nJa, 155ohn Burd and Co\n\nFeb. 14Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 16 2400-der\n\nJan. 820;Under\n\nFeb. 1006P. & O. S. N. C\n\nJau. 15 936 Jardins, M. and Co\n\nFeb. 850 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nJan, 181039 Ruseli and Co\n\nDos. 8 165lemsson and Co\n\nDec. 17 67 Jardine, M.\n\nJan. 26 207 Vaunaice and Co\n\nJua. 850. & G. S. N. C\n\nDec 28 728 Order\n\nNov. 3835 Lyull, Still and Cu\n\nSept. 26 430 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJun. 14 400Order\n\nJau 1784 N. Murray and Co\n\nNay. 5 500Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1| 401| Lindsay and Cə\n\nJou 2 500 Turner and Co\n\nJan. 1a 800Order\n\nGet. 18 318iten. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 282 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17581anline, M. & Co\n\nJan. 11 374Dent and Co\n\nlocs, si 19els. E. Burrows\n\nJan. 31 924 Jardin, M. and Co\n\nDec. 1l 200Order\n\nJan 23 33 Dent and Co\n\nddell\n\n0 14 148o.\n\nHongkong Hamburg\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbis, schoonet\n\nMewor, saip\n\nPerucian\n\nAmireas, brig\n\nAnbitvet, ship\n\nCarmon, barque\n\nCallao, barqué\n\nSantiago, barque\n\nUgarte y Sauiing,\n\nSiamese\n\nNoortol, barque\n\nSan Juan, barque\n\nSiamese Crowa, chip\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpanish\n\nPetua, schooner\n\nBremen\n\nC. Melchers, barque\n\nSoloo, barque\n\nChitian\n\nAlianza, Lurquo\n\nGreyhound. Phip\n\nSaray, enhuoner\n\nNew Granndian\n\n| Anuic. barque\n\nMacao\n\nBritian\n\nRoehampton, ship\n\n1 Date of Town\n\nArrival\n\nDec. 31 W. Postan and Co\n\nNev, 16 aga John Burd and Co\n\nJan. 15 540, Sierunson and Co\n\nHalt and Co\n\nNov. 15 Nov. 12 540 W. M. Robinet& Co\n\nDec. 23 356 J. J. das Henesis\n\nJan. 23248 Wm l'ostau and Co\n\nDec. 193 J. J. des Becicios\n\nSept. 13, 200 Order\n\nNov. 39; 4500ndar\n\nDec. 15 800 Order\n\nAug. 28 250 Order\n\nChico, belg\n\nBuno Ayres, brig\n\nChristiau, brig\n\nFaust, schooner\n\nPavian\n\nRosalia, arque\n\nNov. 37 230 Lyall, Still and Co\n\nNow Era, ship\n\nJan. 24 47NR S. Waller\n\nQel 2 186: John Bard and Co\n\nQueensbury, kip\n\nJan. 23 210Order\n\nNov. 250W. Fustan and Co\n\nD. 22 325 W. Lubinet & Co\n\nJuly 13 907Edward and Balley\n\nPortuguese\n\nEnando Macaense, hire.\n\nMay 251 207 Jose d'Almeida\n\n394. J. das Beridos\n\nMaria Carlota, banque.Tan.\n\nSanyma, barque\n\nTona 21|| 170|§. J. dun Renadioe\n\nSept Tremely, barens\n\n375bindsay and Ca\n\n670 Dont and Co\n\nFraich\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship\n\nOct.\n\nAmerican\n\nHoher Sall, All\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Busiwam, by.\n\nFlyaway, skip\n\nKingsher, ship\n\nMandarin, shin\n\nHamburg\n\nAbardus, barque\n\n250W.M. Robinel & Co\n\n1375|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n126da. Heard and Ce\n\nMay 10 200 Russell and Co\n\nAug. 318&farstine, M. and Co\n\n778A. Jies and Co\n\nRussell and Co\n\nوندی کی\n\n400 Siemsson and Co\n\nSprintma\n\nSanta Leda. Larque\n\nOldeanzung Schlosser, bargue\n\nSept. 3 77W. Pustan and C\n\n550 W. Pustau und Ca\n\nBRITISH SRIPS DE WAR IN CHINA.\n\nCanton Sloop Barratte\n\nHeng P. W. ST.\n\nCloromeda\n\nNankin\n\nNiger\n\nRacehorse\n\nSampeon!\n\nSybille\n\nCanton Sloop\n\nGanton P. W., Str.\n\nCanton Ser. Str.\n\nkong Hospital\n\nCanchor. Str.\n\nH.kong Store Ship\n\nLingue Pigate\n\nCanton Ser Str.\n\nglas Brigato\n\nBubcha Song\n\nAmey P. W. Str.\n\nHogue Priate\n\nט\n\nCOMMANDRA\n\n12 A. W. A. Hood\n\nT. A Furtescue\n\n12 Ticut, Beamish\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n& Douglas 1.W.DO'Callaghan\n\n12\n\nForny fl\n\nJH. T. ER, Master\n\n60 Hon. Keith Stowel\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 Sir S. W. E. Nicolson\n\n14 3. R. Barnard\n\n& G. & Fund\n\n40 Wire. Hon, C. Ellied\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCOMMANDERS\n\nW. T. Bate\n\nG. T. Colville\n\nCa BIGLAND\n\nGolden Racer, ship\n\ni\n\nSamuel Russol, ahip\n\nMay\n\nSarah II. Snow, by.\n\nにし、\n\n420 King and Co\n\nAng. ace! A.A. de Mello & Co\n\nVancouver, ship\n\nJuus\n\n$18 Kussell and Co\n\n$20John Bard and Co\n\n¡SAILED FROM\n\nWedentara, banque\n\nLouisiana, arque\n\nDutch\n\nApril22\n\nNingpo Britian\n\nCornacle, ship\n\n348,W.M. Rebisen&Car, shooner\n\nSolon, banque\n\nArtoon\n\n28 Prigate.\n\nNov.\n\nAerity\n\nH. Kajone\n\n4 Ser. Str.\n\nMar.\n\n632 Dent, Baale and On | Buscaṛd\n\nCWERAD\n\nGun Boat\n\nOct. 25\n\nOct. Oct.\n\n180 kindsay and Co\n\nCamilla\n\n13 Scop\n\nGOJE Bord and Co\n\nCesiser\n\nC. Fellowes\n\nElt\n\nBarcas, brig\n\nLort\n\nDroggrabank, ship\n\nDet.\n\n695 ebaeffer med Do\n\n257. Puslan and Co\n\nWilmingtou, ohuones\n\nFeb.\n\n$6 R and Co\n\nForester\n\nA. J. Lunes\n\nFury\n\nEverdina Elizabeth,bq.\n\nJan.\n\n600 Schaeffer and Co\n\nHaughty\n\nSt. Helena, bug\n\nDee.\n\n1896chauder and Co\n\nLightver\n\nJuflexible\n\nJan. 24 103 James Stephenson\n\nTouis, ship\n\n52:Order\n\nArg\n\n497 J. Bowmen and Co\n\nOposzan\n\nFrow Jolierna, bij.\n\nDet.\n\n530 Beneffer and Co\n\nNo. 28 1247 Darley, W, and 0%\n\nOsprey\n\nHenburg\n\nDec.\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nPlayer\n\nLaum & Louie, by\n\nRase, rig\n\nJau,\n\n248 Dryer and Co\n\nKaleigh\n\nJair 1\n\n1768. Burrowa\n\nNov. 28, 372 Lindsay and Co\n\nBandei\n\nJuly\n\nNar.\n\n7.8 Deb and Co\n\nStarling\n\nJA, J. Villers\n\nSept.\n\n175 Burner and Co\n\nJaas\n\n280 Joan Band and Go\n\nen\n\n100 Holiday, Wis: GÜC\n\n120 121\n\nSept. 15 286 Turner and Co\n\nDec 28 900 Dent and Co\n\nDec. 93 78) Onder\n\nDec. 26 560 Dent and Ca\n\nBir Jamar Broshe, str.\n\nJan 91 73 lecher and Co\n\nSpeedy, ship\n\nSpirit of the North, eh.\n\nNov, 11 67, L. and Co\n\nSollane, barque\n\nTruro, ship\n\nUnicoro, simmer\n\nVizzinie skip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWegsoia, stip\n\nOct. 1 588ebatfer and C\n\nJan. 2469rder\n\nAug. 16 786 Taos. Hunt and Co\n\nJaur 18 830yal, Su, and Co\n\nNov. 143ardine, M. & Co\n\n¡Dee. 24 549 Illiday, Wise&Co\n\nWater Witch, harque\n\nJan. 15) 958). Laprak WP.. Nii\n\nWiki Wave, selvoner\n\nJan. 24. 200/Jardine, M. & Co\n\njosemary -\n\nZepliyi, chonne\n\nFrench\n\nEtaile, Ba\n\nInitia, barque\n\nMansur, Lip\n\nMount Riant, ship\n\nSaceos. ship\n\nJan. 3, 118 Dent and Co\n\nJa 21 389korder\n\nJan. 10j 545;Deas and Co\n\nDec. 26 617ent and Ca\n\n¡Nov. 2) 414jOrder\n\nWillemins, brig\n\n1'/\n\nGimeneze, ship\n\nمشهدال\n\n224 Schacter anti Co\n\net. 15 600 Order\n\nA MEDICAR\n\nShanghae\n\nBritish\n\nAlbert Bowd, ship\n\nAliquis, sp\n\nAlchymies, ship\n\nArrow ship\n\nAngrata, alip\n\nBailarat, li\n\nChallenger, Earque\n\nMara Nativaladept 28 010 M. Rolanes & Co\n\nChieftain, arc\n\nEast Coast\n\nArn, stomer\n\nVille de Dieppe, barqueFan. 2014)yali, St and Co\n\nproste, abip\n\nAmercom\n\nAutonita. schooner\n\nAntelope, steder\n\nBarham, arque\n\nCarben, schooner\n\nChampion, ship\n\nDee. 1134rder\n\nJan. 24 200 iussell and Co\n\nOct 28 248 W. Pustau and Co\n\nDen 26 200. Girly\n\nFeb.\n\n360 Order\n\nC. W. Bradley, Jr., bc, Oct. 9 218A. Heard and Co\n\nDom Quixoto, ekip\n\nDement, ship\n\nFaruka, ship\n\nFrancis P. age, ship\n\nGarland, schooter\n\nHolen Mar, barque\n\nJames Maishail, brig\n\nJ. Godfrey, barque\n\nHate Hooper, shig\n\n2438 King and Co\n\nBan. 18 4003. fleard and Co\n\nNov. 5100, Heard and Co\n\nNov. 12115Jardine, 1. & Co\n\nJan. 15 118s. E. Burrows\n\nDec. 26 saalonder\n\nAnek tan, argue\n\nPorly, ship\n\n16% Robers S. Walker\n\n115andine, M. and\n\nConfums Ship\n\nCrystal Palace, eng\n\nElisse, barqu\n\nBizabeth, brig\n\nFazil Curria, barque\n\nForrtev.sip\n\nCots, ship\n\n537 Curlewine and Co\n\n140Jardins, M. & C\n\nDe 12 25 Birley, W. and Ca\n\nJane 15, 566 per and Co\n\nJan.\n\n207 Viliam P. and Cu\n\n8spt, in 20 Jarding, B. and Co\n\nMay 30 802 Tait and Co\n\nJ.F.C.Hamilton 12 Sicop\n\nC. T. Tudītie\n\nEL V Tamilcar\n\nSer. Str. Sept. 25\n\nFout Sept. 25\n\nKiun Boat Sept. 25\n\nGF.A.Shadwel 21 Scr. St.\n\nST. Corbett\n\nP. W. Str. Oct. 23.\n\n2. A. Campbell Bat\n\n54. 3. m.ield. S.\n\nKeith Stewart. Go Bast\n\nHou. R.Keppel 50 Trigate\n\nNov. 'Willmau\n\nBoat Sep, 25 ina Boot Oct. 25\n\nFOREJON SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA\n\ndid\n\nAT\n\nFisc.\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\n805. 839W.1. Warley &Co\n\nCatinat\n\nSur Are\n\nVirginin\n\nLevent\n\nPortsmouth\n\nJau 16 BJ, Kouper\n\nAug.\n\nGuzole, schooner\n\nQuetonio, bargco\n\nGeralWindham, slap\n\nDo Guinare, ship\n\nHeltespant, 6tomer\n\nIndia, barque\n\nBeta Hip\n\nW.M. Rubinel&Ross\n\nKate Carnie, Ali\n\nKelso, ship\n\nLaviermuir, ekip\n\n11 382 Giinue, B. and Co\n\nGsa Lyall, Stink and Co\n\nJuny 2002 graves and Co\n\n336 Jardine, M, and Co\n\nJau Sept. 15 53 Den, Brule & Co\n\nI. 21 020, Birley, W. and Co\n\nDee. 27560 Galien Co\n\nJou. 75%y Lindsay and Co\n\nSept. 26 952 as, Bowman Co\n\nLuly A. Dort barque\n\nNov. 8 870s. Koney and Cul\n\nLady Mary Wood, str.\n\nLammermuir, ship\n\nLouisa Baltic, ship\n\nMary Wieuheit, sp\n\nDee. 563 P. & 4. S. N. OS\n\nJan Bourns and Co\n\nAng. 24, 494 Gilman, B and\n\n1205 Jarine, M. Co\n\n780 and Ca\n\nSan Jacinto\n\nlungkung. Su. Houghong Fr. Frig.\n\nDangkong U. S. SL\n\nShangbae 17. S. Sh.\n\nR.-A. Gner in 50 Capt. Plas 18 St\n\nJC Fote\n\n(bars, Amtree. A\n\n{ Capt. Beli\n\ntea\n\nHongkong U. S. Str.\n\nFort Brig\n\n20 Cam. Tayfres\n\n21 (0) Daterin\n\nMuiden\n\nSulpicc\n\ndc.\n\nAlaxants\n\nPorthorea Prameel\n\n8. Rer Sp. Bg.\n\nHangkong Peru. Str.\n\n4 Briar.g\n\n14 Doran\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nBritish\n\nJeliz\n\nChin Chin, arque\n\n310,Camajeu and\n\nBanons, schooner\n\nJa\n\n121 Dens zod Co\n\nJan. 21 56sell and Cu\n\nGaver achooner\n\nApril\n\nHart, schooner\n\nFly\n\n4 Y. J. Marrow\n\nHelen, brig\n\nJan\n\n130 Turtar and Co\n\nJuns\n\nMalac, urque\n\nAng\n\n869 lewitz and Co\n\nBlaze pjs, schooner\n\nu.\n\nBear, arhooner\n\nJuly\n\nTriopho, schooner\n\n200 D. Laprik\n\nFrench\n\nAnais, ship\n\nNov.\n\n632 Lyait, Stilt and Co\n\nAmerican\n\nJac.\n\n304W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nJaly\n\n1068 A. Huurd neu Co\n\nProgressive Age, rig\n\nNov.\n\n296 A. card and Co\n\nKugleader, shi\n\nMay\n\n1:56 A, Koard and Co\n\nSadie Peaza, ship\n\nSep\n\n875 Bonac Cad Os\n\nWitch, barone\n\nCe\n\n| 4100rder\n\nJan.\n\n100 Scbacter and Co\n\nferiests Marie, gee..\n\n581 Sebaffer and Co\n\nJuly\n\nJane\n\n700, F-W. Lawresno\n\ntopur\n\niwan\n\nNov.\n\nJameson\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\n►\n\nWicusy\n\nSailtea\n\n126 Siemsson anal Co\n\nGerard\n\nDent & Co.\n\nFune\n\n218 John Bund and Co\n\nJord Ambers Anany\n\nBrown\n\nDent & C\n\nJav.\n\n202 Turner and Co\n\nPatlirler\n\n14M\n\nJa\n\n025 W. Pieter and Co\n\nHarleggin\n\nClutches Fitgibbon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Út\n\nTera\n\nParti\n\nDent & Co.\n\nDec.\n\nBremen\n\nBertha, arque\n\nSept\n\n40W, Pastau anil Os\n\nsir E. Aberamby, sb.Man.\n\nya Tamer od Os\n\nMahanolic Tubeca worl\n\nWuter Witch\n\nFalix, barne\n\nClitian\n\nJaz,\n\nJame\n\nKod Lyal, ul auá Ca\n\nVenilia, ship\n\nThen\n\nGaming, M. and Co\n\nHinly\n\nDent & Co.\n\nAnn Woleh\n\nWeorang\n\naircott\n\nA\n\n1. Icare & Co.\n\nVudex, schooner\n\nMa\n\nFully Jane\n\nKing\n\nFulkste\n\nBaylis\n\n478say and Co\n\nNimrod\n\nCobb\n\ni. S. Sons & Co.\n\nSea Horaé\n\nKeppel\n\nP. F. Curas & Ca\n\nHenderson Lindsay Co\n\nMan. 10 13. E Barrows\n\nNev. 18 456Y. J. Murrow\n\nDec. 1488Js. Stephenson\n\nMary Whitidge, chip\n\nNov. 27 07 Russell and Co\n\nMeteor, ship\n\nMins, schooner\n\nMiu, steamer\n\nMosaur ship\n\nNorth Wind, ahip\n\nN. B. Palmer, ship\n\nJan. 20088ja. Heard and Co\n\nMar 300rder\n\nJan. 14; 130 Russell and Co\n\nJuno 28 50Thorens Hunt &Co\n\nOct, 21041as Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1100 Rossc aud Co\n\nQueen of Be Res, ship! Dec. 170350 all and Co\n\nBachand\n\nRescate, ship\n\nSimon Dumper, kali.\n\nSpotaran, ship\n\nStar King,\n\np\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYeang America, slip\n\nDutch\n\nAlmonde, Tarque\n\nAnna Justina, ahty\n\nAhna Elizabeth, iq.\n\nChristina, bargne\n\nAug. 25 5303. E. Burrows\n\nSupt. 251 SUGRasseti and Ca\n\nJan. 26 20. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 2u1 826Order\n\nDoa, 11176 Order\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\n8pt 202000). Iesed and Co\n\nDat. 19 600w. Postau and Co\n\nJas. 13 550 Schaeffer a d Co\n\nJan. 161iemisen und Co\n\nNov. 26 648 Schander and Co\n\nGeneral de Stucs, by.\n\nJan. 2 79Order\n\nHollar Astrow, haupe\n\nSept. 79, Schacter and Co\n\nJaenh Cats, banque\n\nOct. 22 800Saborifer and Co\n\nJacoba Coracia, hq.\n\nKlazina, barque\n\nOosterling, legra\n\nFeb. 140Britaefer and Co\n\nJan. 17 Schactor and Co\n\nDec. 15 53 Var der Haven\n\nP. von Baren, barque\n\nFan, 14; 250W. Pastau and Co\n\nProvenz, barque\n\nBegins, barqa\n\nDazisk\n\nHercules, brig\n\nHelena, barque\n\nJan 18 19 Schaster and Co\n\nJan. 173 W. Fustan and Co\n\nMay 1 2siemsson and Co\n\nUan. 91 e Win.Plan and Co\n\nDutch\n\nDiana, submer\n\nPogosophyr, bq.\n\nVienesha, ship\n\nDanish\n\nBaldar, schooner\n\nLoots\n\ne, schooner\n\nHumbury\n\nElizabeth Ross, brig.\n\nDet\n\nLisa, barque\n\nMcibido, ig\n\nSiusness\n\nParagon, ship\n\nFrolic, actuoner\n\nSwatow British\n\nChina, ship\n\nFazel Carram, barque\n\nJune\n\nNama, schooner\n\nAug.\n\nAmoy\n\nBradish\n\nAbbotsford, barque\n\nAun Kay, rehvoner\n\nAs F. W. Lawrenceklo\n\n4. Puatau and Co\n\nW. Pustau anu Ca\n\n708|W.M.Robinet & Co\n\n!April\n\n80gOrder\n\n250 Order\n\n1, Lapraik\n\n! \n\nNov.\n\nApra\n\nAutoinette, barque\n\nSept.\n\n430E. D. Syme and Co 121 Tait and s\n\nBlack River Facket, be\n\nApril 19 25:Order\n\nConfucius, ship\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nCaluchow, ellip\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nSept\n\n21Sebaftor and Co\n\n51allay, Wine &Ca!\n\nNapoleon II, sip\n\nNia, schooner\n\nNie, ship\n\nNightingale, ship\n\nPaculise, varque\n\nFabr.gra, barque\n\nPeba, banque\n\nPiuto, alcamer\n\nIve.\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Bard and Lo\n\nDee.\n\n70s fling. 1. und Lu\n\nDec. 16 Juzeline. M, and Ce\n\nVESSEL.\n\nAr\n\nCAPTALS.\n\nJuly 320, Wet more and to\n\nNov. 28 705 Captam\n\nJan 11 1890. C. Schmuva\n\nJune 41st, 3a and Co\n\nPrinces Koyal, chipet.\n\nPruth. sip\n\nRemi, stoster\n\nRutin, brig\n\nLal Still\n\nJan. 12 A8Limisty and Co\n\nJAS\n\nJail.\n\nSual Lucy, sequely 10\n\nSauel Stosur, bg.\n\nSept. 11 Salvetin ship\n\nSir James, bargue\n\nWhampoa, lurque\n\nWild Flower, slip\n\nFrench\n\nCanton, saip\n\n322 N. Dogs and Ca\n\nOWALKE\n\nHart Willia. Longkong MDerant ||F. & C. 8. N. Co.\n\nJofon Adria\n\nGama Family\n\nCooray\n\nJa Wa. Posh and Co\n\n45 Water and Co\n\n42rpent, Banky and Ce\n\n647 Lindsay awi Osi\n\n179 Dent and Co\n\nSept. 10 375mler\n\nDea.\n\nDec. 638 Dent and Co\n\nKopanál\n\nAnteyeca\n\nHongkong\n\nSwailow\n\nD. S. Sens & Cu\n\nP. H. Cha & Co.\n\nEusseit & Co.\n\nJuri, M. & Co.\n\nJardine, M. & Ca „Jardine, M. & Linke\n\nDem, Beale & Co.\n\nJarding, M. & Coi\n\nTERMS OF SUKSCRIPTION to the HONOKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT:-For One Year, 829, Six Mouths, $19. Three Manthe, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER-For One Year, $15; Six Montuz, $9; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRIOD CURRENT slone-Por One Year, $8; all payable in advance, TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT in the HONGKONG REGISTER —Advertisements, not exceeding i lines,\n\neach insociic. $1, each additional line 20 cearts; van halt of these charges for Repetitica AGENTS for the DONGKONG REGISTER S OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT, -J. G. ANTIO, Paq, Lomion; Mesars. JARDIN, SKIN & Co., Calcutta; Marrs. Emisoras à. Co. Bourbag; W. S. Danska, Esq., Singapors; Mesary, TAXON, Researy & Co., Batavia; J. P. PE, Esq. San Francisco.\n\n76 Jawline, M. and Colltel, Printed, and Published by ROBERT STRACILAN, at the Hongkong Register Offer: Gage Street,\n\nVictoria, Hongkang. Tuesday, February 3, 1857.\n\n76,P. D. Syme and Ca\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nVOL. XXX. No. 6.\n\nENTIMATIONS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nVICTORIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1867.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHERRAS the Firm of NYE BROTHERS & Co. MR. ALFRED JAMES HOW is a Partner in our\n\nWHERE the Futva the 11th day of March.\n\n1866, at the fine of the UvITAL STATES' CONSULATK in Canton, execute an Assignment of all their Property, real and personal, in frust for the benefit of their Ureditore, to the undersigned: We bestby giva potica to all voneer el to make payment to ma of all sums due to, and lo present to us any claims against the said Firm.\n\nRUSSELL & Co. JAMES FURDON & Co. Canton, 18th March, 1856.\n\nNOTICE.\n\n-\n\nPum.\n\nW. H. WARDLEY & Co. Hongkong, 1st December, 1856,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTH\n\nHE undoraigned has this day established himself at\n\nMac, as 3 Berchant, and General Agent\n\nà. 1. §. na CASTRO,\n\nMac, 1st January, 1857,\n\nNOTICE\n\nInstant\n\nAssignment of the property, real and personal, of. A. A. Du MELIO JE, in authorized to sign the Firm of WETMORE & Co., of Chatou, Too- name of our Piru per procuration frost the chow, and Shanghuse, Chiux, having been duly made on the 12th July, 1856, to the undersigned, in trust for the\n\nA A, D MELLO & Co. beatit of their Creditors, and recorded in the United States Consulate at Canton, 1 horeby give Notice to all concerned to make payment to me of sii sume due to, kand\n\nclaims against, the said Firm. to prescut to m\n\nCantan, 7th August, 1856.\n\nOLIVER IL PERRY.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nBeamen's Hospital. Trustees. Jostra farming, faq., C. D. WILLIS, Esq. Hon. W. T. Mesca, Esq., R.S. WALLER, E Superintendent of the P. & O. Steam Navigation Coa pany. (ex oficio.j\n\nTrauren-d. Maantaa, Esq.\n\nBriuent burgeon-Renard G. JACK. Consulting Surgeon-W. A. HARLAND, M.]).\n\n*\n\nTERMS OF ADMISSION, Paltic Warda,****\n\n75 cents per day, fazermediate Wards...\n\ndollar .. 1 Private Recal\n\ndollars Pasicuts are also admitted on deposita, atthe following rates, renewable one day previous to the amountdeposited having been expended.\"\n\nPublic Wards, ..\n\nintermediate,..\n\nPrivate Rooms,\n\n$15\n\n$ 20 $30\n\nThe Captains or Consignces of Veale uetbe respon. sible for the express of Palents sent by them luke\n\nHas itzi.\n\nAll Hospital Billa to be receipted by the Treasurer vuly.\n\nNOTICE OF FIRMS\n\nNOTICE.\n\n[HE Partnership heretofore existing at this Port To the undersigned Busier the style of WILLIAMS, ANTION & CO. expiter the day by lapse of time sud mutual consent, the outstanding ass cants will te verde by either Partner, sad a stricy Agency and Commission business will be conducted by Et us Partners at the Port of Singapore antier the stylo of WILLIAMS, ANTHON & CA\n\nJagkong, 1st September, 1836.\n\nC. D. WILLIAMS,\n\nB. ANTHON, J G. HASKELL\n\nM. THOMAS WALKER, Architect and Surveyor, Queen's Road, Victoria, Hongkong. NOTICE\n\nOTICE 16 hereby given that our busiest in Shang- lae, will be cuudneted in future under us Sty víúlublAN & Evil Cautun sad uv-chow.\n\nGILNAN, BOWMAN & Co. Shungbae, 26th August, köbó,\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE undercly and have perished & their buss Store Keepers, Ship\n\nMacas, 3d January, 1857.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nINSURANCE S.\n\nNOTICH.\n\nLONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Established by Charter 1790, THE ́undersigned, Agents at Hongkong for the above Carporation, are prepared to great PULICIES AGAINST FIRE, to the extent of £10,000, ou any Buthling or on Merchandize to the star,\n\nDENT & Co., Agents Hongkong, 12th April, 1955.\n\nALLIANCE FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY\n\nOF LONDON,\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nNOTIC\n\nNo. 1,365\n\nTHE undersigned have taken out az AUCTIONEER'S 1 LICENSE, and heg to uder their sarvkes to thu Public.in that Capacity,\n\nTROL HUNT & Co. Hongkong, 24th September, 181J.\n\nBOARD AND EDUCATION. THE Rev. ARTHUR TAYLOR, has a few vacancies 1 for the Admission into in jimsig of the chüdren of such FORRION Xstrants at the Mec Porta, who may\n\nPHE Undersigned having been appointed Aczstain be desirous of securing for them the Conforte of s\n\nFor Terms and Particulats apply at\n\nNo. Gough Street, Vicronka, Hongreso.\n\nNOTICE,\n\nTHE LIBRARY THE MORRISON EDUCATION\n\nSOCIETY,\n\ntheatre CAIXA for the above COMPANY, are prepared to HOME, sad the Advantage of a LIBERAL EDUCA\n\nrept ASSURANCES Hengcag, as ander\n\n1st. On Buildings of Brick ne Stone, covered with Tiles, Blaces, Metal, or other Incombustible Material, together with their Contenta, when such Buildings ors isolated from all othera,-Rate of Premium, i per cont per Aman.\n\nd. On sanh Buildings and their Contents, when not lealated, cut the Mats of 1 per cent per Axaum, the Su ieslated, as the Mots of per cent per Annum Annut liate will be charged.\n\nOf the 1st Asrances, for the prescut, will be accepted to the extent of £10,000 only on one Risk. And of the 24 Glass.→To the extent of £9,000. A Building and its Contents taken together form one Risk. Thus the above Sums may be underwritten either on a Building zione, or the Coutents alone; or, fart ou the Building, and part on the Contents.\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. EDMOND\n\nNEWMAN Sow in our Firm ceased on 31st Decem ber last. Our Piria now consists of WITAM WALKIN SHAW, WILLIAM Hursos, Joan SCARTO, and ROBERT Ранкетка Іновий ко\n\nTURNER & Co.\n\nHongkong, 12th January, 1867.\n\nHOUSER\n\nNOTICE.\n\nTHE undersigned having erected a spacious GO\n\nspring prepared to recclys ou Storage, Quods of all deereiptions which may act interfere with Insurans against fire. The charge for Storage of Loeros will be 10 cents per Bale per oath, and for Rice, Sus and hor Dead weight 3 cents per picut for the brai, and 2 cents per piest for the second and subazqnent months. The Rater for older Goods will be those current in Hongkong.\n\nLYALI, STILL & Co.\n\nHongkong, 8th December, 1550.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nNo Assurance is to be considered in force until the Premium be paid,\n\nAmongst other advantager of the Company, the Ax Aared will be entitled to participate in the Ï'rolite after Fivo sucucasive payments.\n\nHoney, is open every day, from 1 to 4 o'clock .x.. to Members of the Society, for the giving out and exchange of Books, Paris, not bombers of the Society, may jotain the savantages of the Library, on payment of an Annual Subscription of $5.\n\nBy order of the Truziles,\n\nHongkong, 25th October, 1855.\n\nJAMES LEGGE, Secretary,\n\nÀ DESORIPTION OF EXGLINE PAL-On the Englich\n\nface are combined decision and nerve, with the fair\n\nThe fair Saxon\n\nParties applying for ASSURANCES will please sund in full particulare of the Blak to be taken; nay Deviation | complexion, blue eyes, and open and florid expret, from which without the consent of the Company, will; Hence the love of truth, hence the sensibility, the fine vitiate che l'olicy.\n\nperception, and portie construction. Dian, with open front and honest meaning, domestic, affectionate, is not the wood out of which cannibal, ve inquisitor, or assassin is mede, but he is moulded for law, lawful trade, civility, marriage, the pucture of child- zen, for calleges, churchsea, chariiles, and rolouies. They nre rather manly then warlike. When the war over,\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents in China. Hongkong, 1st January, 1875- ERLIANCE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY,\n\nundersigned Eaving\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nBIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. FOR SALE.\n\nIlongkong, 26th April, 1950. BEST English STAR CUAL\n\nApply to\n\nTHE LONDON AND ORIENTAL STEAM TRANSIT INSURANCE OFFICE. Hongkong, 7th April, 1350.\n\n(Established in 1845.) FOR SALE.\n\nTHE Underzigned are prepared to accept RISES HAMPAGNE, BRANDY, PORT WINE, PA (covered by protecting POLICIES at Lotos and the various lour Insurance CoPANIES,) by the PEN- INSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMERS from Cus tos and dongkong, wo Amoy, Shanghue, tie Straits, Ceylon, the Presidencies of India, Suez, and Estund. The interest in the protecting Policies is assigned the P. and G. S. N. Company for the purpose of their becoming the Medium of Playmont in this event of Loss. For LATE PREW.CM and cherinformation, apply to\n\nRKS. WALKER, Hongkong. MAXIMILIAN P1son, Canton.\n\nand bluL SHERRIES\n\nLYALL, STILL & Ù». \n\nA fow Cones FRENCH CORKS.\n\nApply to\n\nHongkong, 12th July, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nN Invoice of COPPER, and YELLOW METAL\n\nSHEATHING, and COPPER BOLTS.\n\nAlso, CANVAS, and Europe Calcutta CORDAGE,\n\nApply to\n\n1YALL, STILL & Co. Hongkong, 12th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALP INVIOSE TWO HOUSES, with excellent GODOWNS, LANDING WHARF, &c. Ettached, at present in\n\n& Co, id iuxt\n\nflore, ed un part of Marine Lot No. 10,\n\nFor particulare apply to\n\n, at fiongkong, which will be carried on the pre- uises Intely occupied by Mr. W. Scort, ruder the to- agement af ár. . . Exuicers, who is authorised 20\n\nigor the saingkong Branch,\n\nTua HUNTE Co. Whampoa, 25th August, 1854\n\nNOTICE\n\nInterest and Resperabity of Mn, ABRAHAM BOWMAN in our Firm, oth hire si at konchow, Lo Sith June susi.\n\n11.MAN & Co.\n\nCanton, Shib August, 1850,\n\nNOTICE\n\nAFR. REGINALD PADDAY was admitted a Part\n\nHAMILTON, GRAY & Co. Singapore, 24 Sep, 1556.\n\nMR. was admitted\n\nW\n\nNOTICE.\n\nE have this day established at Hongkong under\n\nthe scan style a branch of our Canon\n\nVAUCHER FRERES, Hongkong, 20th November, 1856.\n\nNOTICE\n\nBains herewere carried on under the Fire of Kwa & Japan, will, fron mud alive this date, ve Conducted by Mr. Mos Moses and Ale LEL J. ANKARA, under the designation of JobsH & Ly waerein Mr. Zum JUDA alcutta is the Senior Purtatt.\n\nEZRA & JUDAH.\n\nHongkong, It\n\n1867.\n\nNOTICE\n\nTHE Interest and Responsibility of Mr. WuJA, DE Firma of GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Ca, of China, and T. A. 118 Co., of Loudon, terminated on the auth Jure 1865.\n\nngay, 26th December, 1850.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nWILLIAM PROBST in this day admitted a\n\nM Partner in our Ficus in libing, which Mr. Jenave\n\nER is authorised to sign per procuration, while Alt. WH. HOLLMAN size the firm of February that has dis\n\nW. PUSTAU & Co.\n\neuntinued to net for u\n\nHongkong, 1st January, 2857. NOTICE\n\nM\n\n2. W. F. BEVAN, having an Interest in the business of this Office, wil siga my name from this lare per procuration.\n\nROBERT STRACHAN, \"longkeng Register\" Office, 1st January, 1867.\n\nTHOMAS L. WALKER Estate and ifcus Agent, Queen's Rouch\n\nHongkong, 18th July, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE\n\n\"MALTA,\"\n\nYork & Canberland HAMS. P CHEESE.\n\nBreakfast BACON, Bach CHOPS, &c., &c.\n\nSMITH & BRIMELOW.\n\nHongkong, 20th September, 1856.\n\nE. WAXDOS, Rhengåre,\n\nH. T, Marshall, Singapore.\n\nA. P. Love Cricutta.\n\nThe dog ind lays been appointed Aunts for the ransk falls from the affectionate ant to westic tantes, POLICIES, payable in LONDON, CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, which makes them women in kindness. This union of HANGGON, PERANG, SINGAPORE, and in CHINA.\n\nqualities is fabled in their national legend of “Beauty and the Beast,\" yr, long before, in the Greek legend of Hermaphrodite. \"The two sexes are co-prezent in the English wind. I apply to Britannia, queen of seas and colonies, the words in which her latest novelist portrays his heroine: \"ake la as mild as she is game, and as game as she is mild.\" The English delight in the un- taganden which comhlars in one person the extremes of courage and tenderness. Nelson, dying at Trafalgar, sends his love to Lord Collingwood, and, like an inco- eent schoolboy that goes to bed, says, \"Kiss me Hardy,\" und turns to sleep. Lord Collingwood, his comrade, was of a nature the most affectionate and domestic. Admiral Rudney's figure approached to delicacy med effeminary, and he declared himself very sensible to fen, which he surmounted only by considerations of honour and public duty. Clarradan says, the Duke of Buckingham was so modest and gentle, that some com tiers altempted to put effrouts on him, until they found that this modesty and effeminacy was only a wark for the most terrible determination. And Sir James Perry said, the other day, of Sir Joha Franklin, that, \"If he found Wellington Sound open, he explored it; for he was a man who never turned his back on a danger, yet of that tenderness, that he would not brush away a Mon- quito,\" Even for tusir highway men the same virtues is elclmued, and Robin Hued tomes described to us an altissimus prædimum, the gentlest thief. But they know where their war.dogs le Crowell, Blake, Maribo- rough, Chatham, Nelson, and Wellington are not to be trified with, and the brutal strength which lies of the hottem of society, the animal ferocity of the quays and Cockpits, the builies of the costernongers of Shoreditch, Seven Dials, and Spitalfields, they know how to wake up. They have a vigorous health, and inst well into middle and old age. The old men are as red as roses, and still handsome, & clear skin, a peschi bloom com- plexion, and good teeth, are found all over the island, They are a plentiful and maritious diet. The operative cannot rabist on waberevesICA. Beef mutton, #best- bread, and malt liquors, are universal among the first- claus laboureTA. Good feeding is a chief point of na- tional price among the raiger, sad, in their carlemmer, they represent the Preschman as a poor starved body, It in curiose that 'Tacitus found the English beer already i use ang the Germans: they make from barley or whest s drink corrupted into some resemblance to wine.\" Lord Chief Justice Purlesque, in Henry VI.'s time, sayu * The Inhabitants of England drink no water, valens at certain fizuen, on a religions score, and by way of pen. acer.\" The extremes of poverty and ascetic penance, it\n\nROBERT FRANCu, Mudras, ot Joas ROBIE. Bumbay.\n\nLondon, Sih January, 1854. NOTICE. THE umlonsigued, having been appointed Agenta for the CALCUTTA MERCANTILE MARINE INSURANCE SOCIETY, we ready to issue alicice En behalf of that Oleo, payable in BINGAPORE, CRAN, PANGDON, CALCUTTA, BOY, UN, din Cara\n\nDAVID SASSOON, SONS & Ca. Canton, 930 January, 1856. \"COMMITTEE OF MAKÍTIME INSURANCE, OF PARIS.\n\nJAMES HARTLEY & Co.\n\nL\n\nHE Undersigned, having been appointed Acerra for the Marine Insurance Offices of Paris, are aathor ized to examine and approva Clarins for General azú Particu Averages on ikka musured by them.\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co. Hongkong, 27th December, 1816.\n\nCOMITE DES ASSUREURS MARITIMES DE PARIS. ES Somsignés ayant été nommé Agents des Reunions FOR SALE.\n\nArreurs particuliers et des Compagnies d'Asure- YUPERIOR PORT AND SHERRY WINE, in Cunts runces Maritimes, de Paris sent authorisa, pour eumi\n\nof 1, 2, & 3, Dozen each; niso CHAMPAGNE in 3 ner et constater des réclames d'avarica partientiéres et\n\ncommunes sur des risques assurés par eux, dozen Cuses. BEER in Casca of 3 & 4 dosen each, at East Point Godenas.\n\nHongkong, le 27 Dec. 1956.\n\nNOTICE. THE undersignal having been appointed Aoser to\n\nOrricks in Rotterňom, a 1st of which may be seen in his one, requesra application to made to kim da ense of any particular or general Averages un rlake in eured by them.\n\nALEX, WILSON,\n\nHongkong, 16th December, 1856.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTHE Tax HOUSES known as Bagwiese.\n\nFor further particulara, apply to\n\n10\n\nRongkong, 27th December, 1850.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nm board the Screw Steamer \"Lubus,\"\n\nat Whamp\n\nTWO TUBULAR BOILERS, each foot 2 inches\n\nSCHAEFFER & Co.\n\nThe majority of UDARWINTERS SIG INTUSANDS\n\nHongkong, lal January, 1857.\n\nA. W. P. KUP.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS,\n\nPOSTOFFICE NOTICE.\n\nwould seen, never reach cold water in England. Wood, the antiquary, in describing the poverty and maceration of Father Lacey, an English Jeruit, dues not deny him heer. He says, \"his bed was under s thateng, and the way to it up a ladder; his faze was coarse? his They have more drink, of a penny a pawn, or gallon,\"\n\nThey constitutional nurgy than any other people.\n\nthink, with bat manly excercises are the\n\nfomation of that elevation of sind which gives one\n\nnature ascendant over another; ar with the Arabs, that the disys spent in the chase are not counted is the length of life. They hot, run, shoot, ride, row, and sait from pinle to pole. Toey eat, and drick, and live jolly in the open ale, putting a bar of solid sleep between day and day-English Traits.\n\nPORGIA PREACHtaq.--The Furkaru, niter noticing the Freemasons' friend, and making some creellent re- marks, in which I quite cuntur, regarding “popular\n\nin length, and feet 4 inthase of a work Engin, a HE Acting Post-Master regrets sa way that owing to prenehno leping of Church, an epigram pointed\n\nthe departure of the carriers from Hong- tong, there can be no delivery for the present of Leiteir &c., hat how the Peat-Office window. Hours of stren- dance being as heretofore frora 7 oʻtlock, a.a. to li PAN,\n\nPosten, Hongkong,\n\n12th January, 18s.\n\nsufficiently apacions to Engtuan of from One Hundred and fronty to One Hundred and Thirty Hons Pow. Bach Boiler ha 3 Furnaces; length of Tubes, 4 ft. 9 by 24 in. diameter. The whole is in first-rate order, having been only Six-en Monthe in the Vessel, and not having been used morg than Six Weeks during the whole of that time\n\nONE HIGH-PRESSURE DONKEY ENGINE, wish\n\nSAN MIGUEL KRASS AND IRON FOUNDRY. CYLINDER capable of worklog up to Ten Forsy Power, fitted with Pamp of 7 fucher diameter, and YNDER the Superintendance of an Experienusi Ex- Buroke of Piston Rod fi inches, for pumping out Water GINEER. Orders for all kinds of MACHINERY Ballart, throwing with cas 20 Tons per hour. Also executest with despatch. Speak ENGINES & BOILERS Cast Iron Baskets with Cod Waaris, for Londing or repaired. SHAFTS of the bees English Iron from 5 to Dinolwaging Cargo.\n\n9 inches diameter. Orders to be addressed to Moser B. A. BARRETTO & Co., Media,\n\nONE PERPENDICULAR CYLINDRICAL TUBU. LAR BOILER for Huginu. standing & fost 9 inches high, diameter & fest 7 inches.\n\nThe whale in first-rate working order.\n\nLINDSAY & Co.\n\nHongkong, 25th Cetuler, 1855.\n\nWING to the existing condition of affairs at Chator, D. KENNY han ravnoved to Hongkong; and may be consulted his Rive, cormir of Graham and Gage Streets.\n\nlingkong, 10th December, 1856.\n\naway's article on\n\nwith a good joke of the witty South, the Editor aught to have a return in kind, I offer the following an illustration of the disgusting length to which preachers who strive after effect, can go. The anecdote is taken from severe criticism, writing in England, of the Rev. J, C. M. Bellew's volunie of Sermon preached at St. Philip's, Regent Street. Allading to Mr. Spurgeon, the \"gated dissenting prenslier,\" the critic of the Saturday Review says:—\n\nThat shining light of the Non-conformist world lately discoursed of the last days and death of Williaur Palmer, and be described the devil na trembling between hope aul fear--now reading that Pairer would confers and balk him, and presently confident that he would remain ohdurate. The preaches wout an ine on himself to per souity Satan; and, rubbing his hands in a flow of ex- citement and delight, he shoutot, a the game in the prison cell was closing, \"here he comes! here he comes! here he comes --Bengal Hurlar.",
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Leon\n\nדן\n\nDut. 764 ric\n\nEarl of Windeer Brit. sh. 1000\n\nkrawa 3JArcher\n\nAm. sh.160\n\nagond\n\nTime & Truth Brit. bk 670 Dod\n\nAuckland\n\n$Queen Phangnze Jau. 23 Maria Hay\n\nAm. hk 204 Nelson\n\nBrisach. 140\n\nBolton Brit str. 103 Harris\n\nDrát, s 200 steary Dri sh. 924 Middleton Aan. a. 1280 Osgood\n\nBordcan Sept. 10\n\neucral Sonrabara Jan. 2 Rico Calcutta Nov. 23 Kiar Bombay Dec. 30 General Shanghae Jan. 30 Ballnat Melbourne Doe, 1 Ballast\n\nGeneral Formosa Feb. Nineus FP Sundries\n\nAmoy\n\nBrat Cess Peb\n\n2 Treasure\n\nGenerat Amoy Peb. Ballast Bingapore Jan. 28\n\nAmunition Singapurs Dec. 24\n\nilico Meller Sov. 26 Baline 3. Francisc\n\nDiana. sebouer\n\nJan.\n\n100 Schaefer and Co\n\nFr. Lk. 406 Oreg Hara, bg. 260 Bigcon\n\nOrdar\n\nWat.l'ostaw andCo Schaefer and Co Lindsay and Co Order\n\nHenrietta Maris, bq. Due. Pagan Zephyr, ba July Vrieadshop, chip jJune\n\nDanish\n\n581 Schaeffer anil Co Jady A. Duff, barque 952. W. LawrenogaĈo Lady Mary Wood, c. Dec. 700 F. W. Lawrence Co Laalmenntir, ship\n\nLoulan Baillte, ship\n\nKelso, ship\n\nJan. *: 589 Ladway and Ca\n\nNov.\n\n$ 3709, Kennedy and Co\n\n509.&O. 8. S. N. G\n\nJan.\n\n7 8529, Bawinan and Co\n\nAng. 24 49man, B. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nBre. bk. Suo Klamp\n\nFeb.\n\nBrits 674 Tage\n\nA. Catr. 945 Drought\n\n.M. Robinet & Cy Wu. Pastau and Co Jardine. M. and Co 1. Walker Jardine, and Co\n\nHaldur, sehooner Lootse, schooner\n\nHamburg\n\nNov.\n\n14: W. Pustau and Cu\n\nMary Wionholt, ship\n\nJa\n\n1205ardino, M. & Co\n\nJav.\n\n160 W. Tustau and Co\n\nNapoleon HI, abip\n\nDec\n\n760 Busaeil and Cu\n\nElizabeth Rose, brig Lima, barque Mathilde, brig\n\nOct\n\n123 Siemsson and Ca\n\nJune\n\n919John Bard and Co\n\nKau.\n\n202 Turner and Ca\n\nNina, schooner File, ship Nightingale, ship Parade, qua Palmyra, harjua\n\nNov.\n\n115 John Burd and Co\n\nDoe\n\n708 Jardino, M. and Co\n\nHee. 1404Jardine, M. and Co\n\nbraly\n\n62 Welters and Co\n\nNov. 28 708 Captain\n\nBadast\n\nAugier and Cu Jardino, J. & Co tugwell and Cu\n\nParagon, skip\n\nBremon\n\nAug.\n\n800 Order\n\nPelican, barque\n\n2. 144. C. Schwabe\n\nPluto, stenmer\n\nFelis, arqu\n\nJan,\n\nbeefyall, Stiil and Co\n\nPruth, ship\n\nSAILED.\n\nChilian Frolle, schooner\n\nRemi, atenmer\n\nJape\n\n166W.M.Robinet & Ve\n\nRolls, lig\n\nGreyhound, ship\n\nFeb.\n\n500W. Pustau and\n\nCedarsh Lacy, barque\n\nNAMS\n\nRo\n\nTexs\n\nCAPTAIN\n\nFor\n\nCono\n\nCONNORRST\n\nSwntow Britisk\n\nSamuel Studdart, bg, Salmatle, ship\n\nSept. 1 451 Dent, Beale at Co\n\nالواد\n\nSir James, bang\n\nDec.\n\n7 Lindsay and Co\n\nHongkong Feh. No\n\n3 Alligator\n\n3 Magallanes\n\n3 Nimrod\n\n4 Waroola\n\n3.Scipion\n\n8 Baria\n\n19 Crisis\n\n4P. Van Burco\n\nWild Wave\n\nBrit bg 200 Boyh Brit. bg 1078tudes Sp. str.\n\nBrit. sh. 820arg\n\nBrit. ah 54 Alien Brit, sch. 200 Cheyn\n\nLaughing Water Brit, hk. 404 Omut\n\n6 Montriant\n\nChampion\n\n7 Si James Brooke Brit. str. 973 Skioner\n\n7 Dygden\n\nSw. ab. 240 Patterson\n\n7 Anos Justina Dut. sb. 500 Budeaburg 7J. Godfrey\n\nAm. t 486jGrant\n\nAlfred the Great Brit ] 640 Melutyro Grayhoaud\n\nSwatow Jan. 20 Anais\n\nAmoy Dec. 29 Tariew Fuhchau Nov. 21 Queensbury\n\nDec 8Folmala\n\n15 Agnes Garland\n\nShanghae Jan. 198chiamer\n\n12 Prince Royal 19,Sallow\n\n15 White Swallow\n\n20 Kate Carnie\n\nFr. sh. 82|Carignac\n\nAna sch. 240 Gregory Brit sh. 680 Casaldy Belk all asrisulte Brit. bk. 265 Thompso old. bk. 550 Schwarz\n\nBrit. sh. 502 Hamilton\n\nBrit. sh. 1293 Tucker\n\nAm. sh. 1200 Brown\n\nBrit, h, 401 Black.\n\nSHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\nMERCHANT VISELS.\n\nLondon\n\nNew York\n\nSiam\n\nSundries\n\nOnder\n\nChina, whip\n\nApril\n\n300 Order\n\nSu R. Abercromby, si. Jan.\n\n743 Tammer and Co\n\nSheagha\n\nSundries\n\nGibb, L. and Co\n\nFazal Cerian, burqno Juue\n\n250 Order\n\nVindex, actioner\n\nJon.\n\n179 Dent and Ce\n\nBoern\n\nManila\n\nNantos, schoober\n\nAug.\n\n150 D, Laprak\n\nWhampoa, barque\n\nSept. 30\n\n378 Under\n\nWild Mower, ship\n\nfec.\n\nSingapore\n\nSandries\n\n175 Lindany and Co\n\nDent and Co\n\nTht. bk. 250 Yeaser\n\nButaris ¡Sundries\n\nWm. Pustan and Co\n\nAmey\n\nFrench\n\nSingapor\n\nSundries\n\nHolliday, Wise and Ce\n\nBritish\n\nCanton, ship\n\nDea\n\n435 Deal and Co\n\nMeltwuns\n\nSundries Jardine, M, and Ge\n\nAbbotsford, barquo\n\nNov.\n\n425 F. D. SyDia and Co\n\n| Montrlant, ship\n\nFab,\n\n917ent and Co\n\nAkyalı\n\nSp.bg\n\nMaulls Duran\n\nSundnes\n\nSundries\n\nhilpa, Moore and Co\n\nAnn Key, schoenen\n\nApril\n\n121 Tait and fa\n\nAmerican\n\nAntoinette, barque\n\nSøpt\n\nBrit. str. 850 Payley\n\nStangha\n\nSandrite ], & 28, N. Ca\n\nBlack River Packet, bq. April 19,\n\n219 Scharffor and Co 205 Order\n\nArgonaut, ship\n\nJa.\n\n586 King and Co\n\nFr. sh. 91 Brun\n\nStangha\n\nSundries\n\nDent and Co\n\nConfucina, ship\n\nNov.\n\nAm. sh. 360 Gray\n\nForth Seas\n\nSundries\n\nUrder\n\nColdstream, ship\n\nDee.\n\nSingaport\n\nSundries\n\nFletcher and Co\n\nChinchew, ship\n\nSept\n\nShaug\n\nBuutirios\n\nWzz. Pastau and Co\n\nRangoon\n\nSundries\n\nTurner and Ca\n\nEllen, barque\n\nOliver, bargce\n\nNos.\n\nPeb\n\nSan Fransisco Sundries\n\nOrder\n\nEmma, scheuer\n\n511 Holliday, Wise &Co 764adine, M. and Co\n\n785. D. Sype and Co\n\n226 Lya, Stil! and Co 688 Platcher and Co April 21; 120 Curner and Co\n\nMilam, ship Carrington, ship Channing, ship Competitor, siy Eagle, ekip\n\nEagle Wing, ship\n\nGolden Weat, ably\n\nB.\n\nDec.\n\n49% Raspell and Co\n\nNOF.\n\n100 aac M. Buli & Co\n\nJuly $556 King and Co\n\nNov, 101000 King and Co\n\n1174 Russell and Co\n\n1500 A. Heard and Co\n\nMelbourne\n\n¡Buodtles\n\nJamca StephoneNA\n\nEmigrant, baryas\n\nChi ah. 506/Smith\n\nBest Coun\n\nBundries Won. Pratâd and Ca\n\nEmily Annina, neh,\n\nAug. 19 Nov.\n\nOrder\n\nHenry Harback, ship\n\nNov. 16 740 Crampton, H. & Co\n\n165 Purlagjes & Co | Horsilo, ship\n\nNov. 18\n\ntall, Nya and Co\n\nHavant\n\nSuadrien\n\nOrder\n\nForerunner, schooner\n\nDea\n\n140 D. faprak\n\nMatilda, ship\n\nSingapor\n\nSandrica\n\nLondon\n\nTait and Co\n\nTena, &c. Heard and Co\n\nGom, brly\n\nJane\n\n254 Dent ausl Co\n\nMelita, schooner\n\nJuu. J\n\n689 Rosell and Co\n\n140 Kassell and Co\n\nHomer brig\n\nJals\n\n595 Order\n\nTeas, &c.\n\nLiverpool Teas, c. Cows, der Sundries\n\nJardino, M. and Co\n\nOrder\n\nMariner's Hope, brig\n\nApril\n\n250 Order\n\nNile, hrig\n\nJuas\n\nEid Angier and Ca\n\nRomances of Sons ship! Dos.\n\nEundou Teas, &c, Upadi\n\nWth. Paste and Lo Blenkin, R. and Co\n\nNymph, barqne\n\nDec.\n\n400 Liadeay and Ca\n\nNeptune's Favorite, sh. Det. 81846|A, Heard and Co Norwester, ship\n\nDanish\n\nDec. 101287 A. Heard and Co\n\n241782 Ruwell and Co\n\nPet, barque\n\nAag\n\n375 Under\n\nDanmark, arque\n\nTeas, c Tens, &c.\n\nGrampton, H. and Co\n\nRoyal Lily, barque\n\nApril 28\n\n404 Lunevil and Co\n\nGlucions, brig\n\nLiverpool\n\nBrit, sh. 580|Rodger\n\nToas, e Sundrios\n\nKingsport\n\nMERCHANT VKSELS—Continued.\n\nA. Heard and Dent, Beale and Ca Gilian and Co\n\nBisters, brig\n\nJune\n\n182 Tail sud Co\n\nDee 330 Sterosen and Co Fan. 14 268Siemssen and Co Nov\n\n360 Overweg aud to\n\nUncle Tom, schooner\n\nSept\n\nWood Lark,brig\n\nDet. 12\n\nto ruil, Still and Co\n\nUnder\n\nJan.\n\n188 W. Pustan and Co\n\nNoringaese\n\nJATH\n\n270 W. Pustau and Co\n\nAurora, schooner\n\nMay\n\n128 Order\n\n140 W. Puatau and Co\n\nPostum, steac\n\nJune\n\n236 Simen and Ca\n\nAmericum\n\nNov.\n\n210 Joan Burl and Co\n\nSAIZS\n\n!Data of Tou\n\nMorida, ship\n\nCONFIGNERS\n\nHelcus, ship\n\nNov. Junt\n\nDec.\n\n404 Squeer and Co\n\nโมน\n\n25 W. Postan and Co\n\nDate of Inors\n\nCommons\n\n{Arrival |\n\nSept.\n\n277W. Pustan and Co\n\nHongkong\n\nOct.\n\n340 Trautmann and Co\n\nAlmonde, banq\n\nAug.\n\n589Order\n\nJustina, barque\n\njAug\n\nMercurius, barque Fielades,\n\nJuly\n\nDec,\n\n230|Dreyer und Vo\n\nDen.\n\n225 Biomes and Co\n\nLygdon, shig\n\nHambary\n\nBonito, brig\n\n¡Nov,\n\n31 John Burd and Cal\n\nBuenos Ayua, brig\n\nDed.\n\n200 Dreger and Co\n\nChristinu, brig Puel, choomer\n\nApril\n\n170rder\n\nDew\n\n148 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nPeruvian\n\n250W.M. Robinet & Co\n\nAug.\n\n175W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nDeo.\n\n400 Order\n\nLug\n\n9 430 Order\n\nAourn Barrabout Butts.n\n\nJuly\n\n3240;der\n\nCalcutta\n\nNov.\n\n220. 1. Syaru and Co\n\ny 11 4168.0. Syme and Ce\n\nConn\n\nJuly\n\n325 King and Co\n\nAng, 25 500 King and Co\n\nAag, 10 985 Russell and Co\n\nFab\n\n216|W. Puetae and Co\n\nSabu\n\nAt Hongkong} British Anandale, ship And, steamer Anaye, ship Australia, chip Avon, Lacque Banner, schooner\n\nGaneber, barque Brothers, brig Caldera, ship\n\nCadiz, steamer\n\nArrival:\n\n8759 Lyall, Sul and Co J Feb. 5 163 Robert 9. Walker Jan. 13 878 Fletcher and Co Sept. 5 580 John Bardd and Co Sep. 39 280 Bus and Co Jan. 188ohn Burd and Co\n\nPet 485 Jardiue, St. and Co\n\nDec. 15 2400rder\n\nJan. 8 225 Order\n\nFeb, 13000 P. & 0.9. N. Cu\n\nCity of Carlisle, ships. 15 996Jardine, 3 and Cu\n\nClarendon, satp\n\nDeva, ship\n\nSinglet, sleemer\n\nEarl Grey, barque\n\nEarl of Windsor ship\n\nBena, brig\n\nBuranic ship Excellent, brig Falcon, ship Formosa, ship\n\nGleus, ahip\n\nGod Succe, sip\n\nHero, ship\n\nKensington ship\n\nLady Hayce, barque\n\nLaurick, brig\n\nLord Raglan. ship Tani, barque\n\nNarshall, Buhooner Maria Hay, ship Mazepps, schooner Pacifico, brig\n\nFeb. 1 850Jarding, M. and Co Jan. 18:1030 Russell and Co\n\nDoc 8 1888tomssen und Co Dec. 17 8737ardine, M.\n\nDiter\n\nAdmiral Zoutman, shipDec.\n\nAlbrecht Belling, bq.Nov.\n\nG. G. D. Von Twist, hq,fian. Oct. 10 300W. Postau and Coatic Liong, bargus ne Jaa. 18 3685iomsten and Co Nov. 28, 8438,Senseffer and Co\n\nAnon Elizabet,bą. Chriatias, leque General de Stiles, hop. Jan. 2 798|Under Hollandetrow, hargas Jacot. Lima, barke Jacoba Cornella, pq. Klazina, darus\n\nOosterling, harg Proteos, barque Regina, arqu Sumatra, aliip Danish\n\nSept. 10 799 chaster and Co OL 32 800 Schaeffer and Cu Feb. 192chaser and Co Jan. 17 charler and Co Dee. 13 363 Van der Haven Jan 18 443ucer and Co Jan. 473 W. Punta and Co Feb. 278445obacter and Co\n\nMay 10 Siemmen and\n\nIfercuian, brig Helena\n\nJau. 31\n\nCo\n\nHanbury\n\nAar, ship\n\nAlbin, schooner Christian, belg\n\nDec. y Nov. 16 Feb.\n\n260\n\nFab 21 Lindas and Co\n\nJan. 26) 207 Camajce and Co\n\nDec. 26 728 Order\n\nNov. 385 Lyail, Still and Co\n\nSept. 26 430Jardine, M. & Lin\n\nJan. 14 406 Order\n\nLau. 16 784. Murray and Co\n\nNov. 600 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 1 404 Lindsey and Co\n\nJan. 13 scoileder\n\n0 15 848 Geo. Duddell\n\nJan. 27 28Ajardine, M. and Co\n\nDec. 17 766 Jardine, M. & Cn\n\nJan. 12 274 Dent and Co\n\nDet.\n\n8 1988. K. Burrow\n\nJan. 31 994 Janline, M. and Co\n\nFeh. 4140anline, M. & Co Oct. 14] 146Deo. Dúddell T'aranverance, Largna Sept. 18 2Turner and Ca Princess Reval, supDec, 28; 900 Dent aud Co\n\n(Doc. 25 781onser\n\nQueen, brig Samarang, banque\n\nApoctly, ship\n\nFeb. 8 ĐuôiAngier and Ca\n\nDes. 25 5801Dent and Co\n\nJau 241031 Jamaa Stephenson\n\nSpirit of the North, ah. Kov, 11) 671jtibb, L. and Co Sultans, barque Oct 10 588schaeffer and e\n\nTime & Truth, bargde Teh. 3 578 Orlar\n\nUnion, leamer\n\nTruro, ship\n\nFenilia, ship\n\nVirginia alip\n\nVivid, brig\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nWild Daynell, ach. Zephyr, schooner\n\nFrench\n\nEtoile, ship\n\nIndia, barqu\n\nLeon, harqua\n\nMaarl, ship\n\nSucces, ship\n\nVille de Dieppe, barque\n\nAnter\n\nAntonita, schwoner Antelope, T Archer, whip Auckland, barque\n\nBurnham, barque\n\nCarbon, shooner\n\nJan. 24 695 Order\n\nAng. 16 786 Thon. Husband Co Feb. 8 674 Jardine, Al, sad Co June 18 830 Lyall, Still and Cộ Nov. 8 143ardine. M. & Co Jau. 15 253 D. Lapaik\n\nJan. 156 Deat and Co\n\nJun. 31 148Dcut and Co\n\nJan. 24 539 Order\n\nfan. 18 615 Dent and Co\n\nFalk 2405,Order\n\nJan 24 156 Russell and Co\n\nNov. 14mier\n\nno. 221014 gail, Sul and Co\n\nDec. 3 112Order\n\nJan. 24200 Kussell and Co\n\nTeb. 31460 Roswell and Co\n\nFeb. 209.M.Robinet & Co\n\nOct. 28 245 W. Pulau and Co\n\nDue 26 300 K. Crashy\n\nCW. Bradley, j, bq. Oct. 9 218 A. Heard and Co\n\nDon Quixote, ship\n\nKtement, ship\n\nEureka, ship\n\nFrancis P. Sage, ship\n\n• Garland, schooner\n\nHelgu Mar, bergun\n\nJanes Marshall, big Kate Hooper, shig Mary Whitridge, ship\n\nMatcor, ekip\n\nMiana, schooner\n\nMin, geamur\n\nMonsoon, ship\n\nNorth Wind, ship\n\nN. B. Palmer, Jip\n\nDen 91438 King and Co\n\nJAN 33 400A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 51100A. Heard and Co\n\nNov, 191146 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nJan. 151138. R. Barrows\n\nDec. 26 560 Order\n\nJan. 16 1865. K. Darrows\n\nDec, 281488 Jne. Stephenson\n\nNov. 27 978 Kuseli aud Co\n\nao. 201088, Heard and Co May 306Order\n\nJ. 14 101 Bu-sell and Co\n\nJane 28 506 Thomas Hunt &Co Oct.\n\n81041 Jaa. Purdon and Co\n\nDec. 1400 Russell and Co\n\nQueen of the Seas, spec. 17185Rll and Co\n\nRacebound\n\nRealute, ship\n\nShane Draper, sch.\n\nSportsman, shiy\n\nStar King, sly\n\nTuskina, ship\n\nYoung America, wip\n\nAug. 28 580. E. Barrows\n\nSept. 25 801 Russell and Ca\n\nHai, 26 206 A. Heard and Co\n\nNov. 20 626 Unter\n\nDec. 14177nder\n\nSept. 342 Y. J. Murrow\n\nSept 202000. Heard and Co\n\nMeteos, ship\n\nPeruvian\n\nAndreas, orig Architect, ship Carica, arqua L'allau, barque\n\nSantiago, banne Ugarte y Santiage,\n\nSMAR\n\nNoortol, banque\n\nSan Juan, barquə\n\nhq.\n\nSiamese Crow, stalp\n\nSintoy, schooner\n\nSpar\n\nDenia, schooner Bremen\n\nBertha, barque\n\nC. Metabets, you Solon, hanger\n\nChition\n\nAllanza, barque Spray, schooner\n\nNess Crans dinn Annie, barque\n\nMacao British\n\nW. Pustan and Co\n\n510 W. Puszu and Co\n\nJohn Bard sad Co Wm.Fustat and Co Jan. 15 540 die aussen end to\n\nTait and C\n\nNov. 16\n\nNov. 12 540. M. Rabinet& Co\n\nDar. 28 3505. J. das Remedios\n\nTall, 231 218 and\n\nJ.\n\nAcmel, brig Chico, brig\n\nClarita, brig Cara, skip\n\nkesits toge\n\nSiamese\n\nSea Horse, hocqus\n\nSiam, que\n\nSpanish\n\nSan Lorenzo, brig\n\nSeraphina, ship\n\nFubebau\n\nDritish\n\nCo\n\nMaste, bri\n\nDee & 9p. dos Remedios\n\nJan. 195. Robinet & Co\n\nSept. 15j 200 Order\n\nNav. 19 160 Order\n\nDee, 15 300inder\n\nAug. 26 250 under\n\nNov. Zayall, Still and Co\n\n1400W. Duxted and Co\n\nJan. 24 4702. S. Walker\n\nDet. 22 48fuhn Bond and Co Jan. 29 270/Onder\n\nDec. 220W.M. Robines & Co\n\nJuly 1307 Edward and Bailey\n\nJehn Macthic, ekip Feb. Rochampton, shijs Ang\n\nPortugues\n\nMetasje, barque\n\nNew Era, khij\n\nGaiden Raer, ship\n\nKingfisher, ship\n\nMandarin, ship\n\nSamuel Ronsell, ship\n\nSarah H. Snow, Ivy, Vancouver, ship\n\nHambog\n\nAtlas, barne\n\nSa Dent, Beate and Co\n\n289 fyn, Stilt end Co\n\n597 1..Robinct & Co\n\nTou Scimeter and Co 1543chaetler and Co 478sohaefer and Co 2448. D. Syme and Go 237 Adam Scott 190Schelfer and Co 424\n\n10. Nathabloy & Co\n\nOtto, barque\n\nVirginie, brig\n\nHamburg\n\nEsperanza, harqne Hannibal, schooner\n\n| fverbrook, brig\n\nLima, barque\n\nMary Boar, ship Pathfinder, barque Senatur, barque Pramin Amerika, belg\n\nSiamete\n\nBangkok Mark, ship Golffinder, baqme Sueroan, ship\n\nSparsh\n\nSanta Lucts, banque\n\nSwedish\n\nNov. 181296 Moncreiff, G. & Co Dea ¡Dec.\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nمات قلات کا\n\nCLASS\n\nAv\n\nCanton Stoop\n\ni,kong !. W. Str. JiLong Sloop\n\nILong Flag Ship\n\nCanton loop\n\nCuroaandel Canton P. W. Br. Vatcounter anto\n\nHoteles\n\nHornet\n\nMam\n\n! Nakist\n\nNiger\n\n632 Dent, Dotle stud Co Elk\n\n600 John Herd and Go | Fary\n\nser. St. (kang Hospital Canto Ber. Sw. H.kongoro Ship\n\nFrigate\n\nPanton Bar Sta\n\nCOHKANDERS.\n\n12A, W. A. Haud\n\n8T. D. A. Fortescu 12 Licut. Beamish\n\n(lour Ad.\n\nCapt. W. K. Hall\n\n14. Jenkins 35 Doorglas HG.W.D.O'Callaghan\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\nH. T. Fla, Muater\n\n60 H Keith Stewart 19H, A. A. Cochrane 408FW.F. Nicolson\n\n14. Barnard\n\n49. 9. Hand\n\n40 Cdre. m, Ú. Elliot\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\nCONDEAND\n\n.ALEN\n\nÜs..\n\nENGLAND\n\nza Frigate\n\nRav.\n\nW. 7. Bate\n\n11. Macendie. Str,\n\nKit Boater, 26\n\n11\n\n136A. Hearl wait Co\n\nNov.\n\n9191ent and Co\n\nPastalcon, brig\n\nNov.\n\n200 Cantujee and Co\n\nPique\n\nSgus Frigars\n\nKol: Small, ship\n\nAug. 29\n\n663 Gibu, L. and Co\n\nKenos\n\nPibehta Bloop\n\nRempaon\n\nAmor P. W. Str.\n\nAmerican\n\nAnnie Buoknax, 1.\n\nSept.\n\n530 Russell and C\n\nSybille\n\nHogue Frigate\n\nMay 16\n\n800 Russell and Co\n\nAug.\n\n1288ardine, M. and Co\n\nJune\n\n78. lead and Oə\n\n¿Mag\n\n94 Russell and Co\n\nDo.\n\n420|Klug and Go\n\nJune\n\n518 Bus and Co\n\nOut\n\n420John Burd and Co\n\nWienu, Larque\n\nJuct.\n\n490Biomes ami Us\n\nActoun\n\nAlseri\n\nNingpo British\n\nCullou\n\nCamila\n\nkt. T. Calville\n\nSlop\n\nCruizer\n\n17 ber. Str. Sept. 25\n\nCarnulle. ship Lyra, Belovner\n\n15. Hot\n\n120 Lindy and Co Forestr\n\nA. J. Innes\n\nidun Beat Sept. 20\n\nSolon, barane\n\n6\n\n560 Turner and Uo 469 A.A.de Mello & Co\n\naughty\n\nGan Beat Sept 25\n\nWilminginn, schooner Feb.\n\n196 Bell and Co\n\nHüchilyor\n\nInflexibla\n\nr. Vorhert\n\nAL\n\nOsprey\n\nAlbert Edward, ship\n\nBritisk\n\nang.\n\n497. Bowman and Coh\n\nNov,\n\nAliyals, ship\n\nNov. 20 1247 Biriey, W, and Co\n\nStaunch\n\n1. Wildonan\n\nAlchemist, ship\n\nDe\n\n914 Turner and Co.\n\nStarling\n\nA. 1 Villiers\n\njun Boat Sept. 25 Gun Boat Ool. 23\n\nAlligator, brig\n\nb.\n\n19710166, Land Co\n\nAugusts, ship\n\nNov. 23 372 Lindmy and Go\n\nBallarat, ship\n\nNov.\n\n719 Dent ad Co\n\nChallenger, barque\n\nSeph\n\n175 Turner and Co\n\nChieftain, barque\n\nJan.\n\n20John Burd and Co\n\nCo..lucius, ship\n\nThee.\n\n400 Holliday, Wine & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nFLAQ\n\nCOMMANDERL\n\nDec. 19\n\nJune 15 566 Turner and Lo\n\nJan.\n\n127 William I. and Co\n\nCetinnt\n\nHongkong Fr. Str.\n\nSur Are\n\nL'et\n\n8501 & 0.2. F. Co\n\nSupt. 10 240 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nVirginie\n\nHongkong Fr. Frig\n\nCape, Plan\n\nForest Queen, ship\n\nNov.\n\n839 W.H. Wardley Co\n\nLevant\n\n18 Smith\n\nPortsmouth\n\nEassio Manens, barq. May 25 297 Jou d'Abreide Waris Carlota, Iryusi Jan. $30 J. J. don Rmuelion Slavina, banque\n\nTremelga, barqua\n\nFreach\n\n13ane 211 1705. 3. dos Ramedice\n\nSept.\n\nPort de Bordeaux, ship Oct.\n\nAmerican\n\nLorisiana, barq\n\nDeich\n\nBerena, rig\n\nDoggershank, skip\n\n3751 inday and Co\n\n816Dent and Co\n\nShanghae\n\n249W.M. Robinet &Co Arrow, ship\n\n237W. Pustuu and Co\n\nApril 22\n\nOct.\n\nDet\n\nBebehneller and Co\n\nEverdina izabeth, og Jan\n\n600 Schneer and Co\n\nDee,\n\n189 Schaefer and Co\n\nFra\n\n753 Order\n\nJuct.\n\n530 Schaeffer and Co\n\nJAR.\n\nSt. Heleon, brig\n\nTonia, ship\n\nVrow Jobunag\n\nHamburg\n\nLaura & Fonis, big,\n\nKose, brig\n\nWillewina, brig\n\nPeruvian\n\nGrimeness, chip\n\n243jDrayer and Co\n\nJuly 14, 1769. M. Burrows\n\nJuly\n\n224 Schaeffer and Co\n\nOct. 15: 50 Order\n\nCrystal Palace, ship\n\nKila Jane, barque\n\nElizabeth, brig\n\nHein, steamer\n\nFazli Corrim, barque\n\nFrances, ship\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGeelong, barque\n\nDec. 125 Birley. W. and Co\n\nWaton and Co\n\nMay 30 302 Tail and Co\n\nJan 15 212 Hooper\n\nAug. 11 3420ma, B. and Ca 651 gal. Stiti and Co\n\nMaria Natividad ship Sept. 18 610w.. Robins & Co General Windham, ship.\n\nEast Coast British\n\nChin Chin, harque Eamont, schonbur Gazelle, schoenor\n\nHazard, schooner\n\nHelen, brig\n\nion.\n\n316 Camajarse Co\n\nJan.\n\n121 Dent and Co\n\nGulnare, ship Hellespont, steamer Tuchinnan, arque Just\n\nBat, ship\n\nApril\n\n15Jardine, M. And Co\n\nJuly\n\n144 Y. J. Mucrow\n\nJan.\n\n180Turner and Co\n\nHydronce, ship\n\nJane\n\n137 Carlowitz and Co\n\nMalacca, barque\n\nAug\n\n089 Carlowitz and Co\n\nPearl, schooner\n\niJuly\n\nW.M. Reniunt & Lo\n\nTrumpu. schooner\n\nMay\n\n300jD. Laprak\n\nAntican\n\nDerby, ship\n\nJuly\n\n1098A. Heard sad Co\n\nProgressive Age, brig\n\nNov\n\n296A. 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Tuesday, February 10, 1857.\n\nThe China Mail Extra.\n\nHONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 1857.\n\n“Chino Muit\" Office, Feb. 7, 1857- thon to the unsatisfactory state of his toast, my wife remarked she felt giddy and sick, him; he pretended to be overlooking the business the investigation as Superintendent of Police, the A man can overlook his business while walking affair being then eurelaped in mystery; and I imagine\n\nThe Criminal Sessions of the Supreme fairs, which had be shewn to be the We let the room after 3, she immediately felt sick\n\nshop\n\nthat the first instanco Mr Mercer acted as Culo- Court the most exciting that have occur reverse of is a fouriebing condition, his and smiled, I thought nothing of it at the time, but about the e\n\nwalked was to the verandah to light a chemot, when Aaxx, cock to The Herland,On the 15th January, eial decrewry-in fact it was an investigation into rel since the settlement of the colony-debts to one firm alone amounting to nearly in the wor af gtating the elgar I suddenly felt sick\n\nthe morning, got bread from the Esing shoes don't the case genotally. I usually, in cases requiring commenced on Thursday, and closed last $15,000. He spoke of the temptation and vomited. Thinking no more about it, I went know the peron-thes was generally brings it, he particular forestigation, maka peliminary acquiry sight. The case of most interest-the bold out to Alum, of averting the pantah in my hair to the Folke Hospital, but when Tranches is not one of the prisoners; this was about half-past 7- before sending them up to the Magistrate. It was trial of Cheong Alum and nine others, on ment with which he had been threatened the entraner leading up to the fif, I was again sick; \n\nAtoy, coolie to be Hachand, Saw Esing's people not my original intention to make a magisterial and when I got clues to St Paul's College, was age\n\nmyrassine's house on the marning of investigation in the present instance; I merely aga.a bring bread a charge of dilempt to poison-lasted fee by the mandarins, by the commission was aide off and on, up to a quarter to 10. the 15th January; they are not among the priscoera. wished to yet an insight into the case as Superit daye, and ended in a verdict of Not guilty, would be considered a highly meritoriona was sick 19 or vlock that night. Next habit of getting bread from the Esing shop the was a very singalar case, I propound we should sit of an atrocious crime, but yet ar net which The romiting was very violent. Mrs Dengr W. A. HARLAND, M.,Was I believe, in the tundent of Police. but her two hours or so, as it\n\nto 1.\n\ntime.\n\nars from that shog-down to the morning of the 16th as Magistrate, and we then commented to take do We are sorry we are unable to give the one by the Chinese authorities, deserving day I tapponed to enter the Police Office, where en eloquent addresace of the Counsel on buth of commendation and reward, instead of vision was going forward, and promised then fancy inclusive I are a mail piece of the bread paltional,\n\nto send some of the bread to Dr Harland for analy. that morning, Dr Chaldecott and Dr Hat.ca alo Next, bo\n\nSANDWITH DAINKED-Am in business in the sides, but must content ourselves with the punishment, at their harde. \n\nzation; did that night. [Cross-conmiasi by partook of it. About an hour afterwards fe faint sity, and live in the wee house with Captain Endi- De Brive,I did not take the bread myself to Dr and aíck, and incised to veuit, and within a few mere heads of the points dwolt upon; and referred to the departure of Alam and \n\nnott Faing enpplicà me with bread on the 15th minutes ufteur wande vomited slightly, and fole a pain January-I partook of the bread and was very ill- even these, we fear, will prove very io his father from the colony on the very Herland. I know caly the Sih prisoner (Alum) na \n\nworning the criminal set was wusumnat belong ag to the Eving shop. I kept the balled the Beach. I then took an emotis, which made at the inmates of the house whe ate of the bread perfect. \n\nup in my own room until I sent it to Dr Harland.me veil a bitła man, and for a little time alter felt ed; and commented strongly on the suspi \n\nwere Hi-I have not perfectly recovered up to this Of the opening speech by the Hųn. T. \n\nIn consequence cf my laers, I delivered the cious manner in which this was managed. By the ATTORNEY Uraat.]-Don't know the 10thy, but shortly afterwards was able to attend to \n\nprisoner, never mw him before at all. sent the same people who can to she house sick. About to remainder of the breast Mr May at the Ptice lice C. Anstey, the Attorney General, wo \n\nWith regard to the sickness of his family \n\nbread a ten minutes past to Dr Harland, by a hours afterwards the pain in the stomach returned, this was on the evening of the 16th-Dr Badland have no notes whatever. He dwelt, how on board the steamer-this was easily and coalie named Attal. \n\nbut I could not vomit. I bai diethms during the I think was presos 1 lave had many dealings with ever, on the atrociousness of the attempt naturally to be imputed to sea-sickness; ATIAL METAL to Dr Dempeter--On the 16th night, and next day a violent headache, wakacss of the Esing abug in the bakery business -I know the made upon the community, and the utter for there were no proofs of them aftor January, escried a paper parcel from Dr Dampster to the jibs, and xansea, Dr Iamos got sick sooner 9th and 10th prisoners to belong to the duche than I did; but I did ont see him, as he had gone 10th I are always understood to be the father of Faing impossibility in such cases of producing sufferings which the medical evidence had Dr Harland, Do not know what was in it, but ir \n\nwas given me by my master. \n\nca Dr Chaldecots, hearing of people being sick, Alum), he was always in the shop, and when the direct testimony against the parties accus- abawo were the invariable effects of argo- ACHING, servant to Dr Dempster-om the 15th took an emetic, as he had ate more bread than any was cut of the sloop, I have left by neders with him od. The evidence in this, as in avery nic, and under which the foreigner who January, received rome bread at may master's day of on Before I had filed breakfast, a Parsee ger Orn about the 24 ur 3d of January, our he made similar case, tour therefore be entirely cir- had partaken of the bread in the present from two men from Esing; they are not at the bar. teman aliud. 20 mil the inam of his house were a contract with Alura fura supply of breuis for the cumstantial; but he would adduce sich a \n\nThis was about 7 wack gars the bend to my sick, and blamed the bread as being the cause of it; I Russian curvest On the Mih I went over to the instance had laboured. He also spoke of \n\nmaaler to estipul it up the breakfast table. \n\nlef my breakfast to go and see them, and it was on \n\nEwing how to apeak to Alure about the contract, Oa TARRANT, Editor of the Friend of my return I first felt sick myself. Both Dr Chalecoss the morning of the 13th, the shop bep called our art jury, as he felt assured must to a certainty and Agent of the steamer to retura to the N indelibly the stain of crime apon the Hongkong that night, as a ruse on his my bread from the Haing shop, dawn to the 13 several days séta, attending to people who were black lettres out in frens of his door sunt him user prisonem at the bar, and draw forth au \n\npart, when be found his hopes of escape January, inclusiva-row the 1st, 3d, and the staffering from eating the bread; the Parses had to ascertain its pats, and in consequent of what unanimona verdict of guilty. \n\nthe boy told us, I had the conversation with hiari on frustrated, and that the poison had not had and 10th prisoners to belong to the shop-the 1st taken only band and a cup of tea-they had all been \n\nI believe to be general assistant and Collector of sick, I adviced them to take emetica. Some of thus the 14th. I teid hum the boy haul informed us that Dr Bridges comarcal his defence by the fatal effets intended had his efforts balls; the 3d I have known in two capaction in con- we axtended effured much more everely than schare the chop said he intended to leave the iny, and remarking that, the case was remark succeeded, the result would have been nection with Exing shop, the inst was as breme-de-bes all had similar syroptatns. From the symptotes wished to sell out. He admitted the chup did say ablo from the atrocity of the attempted another frightful tragedy like that of the liverer; the 9th believe to be the head of the in my own case, and of others who came to be. I felt but said that it was not his intention to leave, but he crime; admitting most fully that there had unfortunate Thistle. He noted the contra- Eing the 19th is I believe the father he ais? i ere what arannic had been administered in the bread, Lad put out the notice for the purpose of deceiving be an attempt to destroy the community dictious in Alam's statements about the have knows in two capacities—one as general assist- I haght down a piece of bread from the Parets, and the Mandarine, who had been traping him a great ant of the Taing shop I have ren bien, 2 ay may kept the remnant of our own. I had alan overal deal told him that would not antinfy one had by poison, but denying that the guilt of poison to the various witnesses and frequently. I saw the 1st prisver five or air day specimens, from Dr Dempster, Captain Paints, and deceived me in a former contract, and I would not yest such an attempt was in any way hrought finally wound up with a confident aanr-before the 15th, ou my ectering my printing offit, othere, and two savea from Mr GrandPre, which he unsil I saw that the bieenit was in the drying lots - bone to the prisoners at the bar. Extra- ance on his part of a verdict against all the he was sitting there, and presentat me a hill from hia took from the Eving shop and gare ints my uwa he most go with me and show in that the bread wa ordinary, be said, bad been the display of prisoners. \n\nsaster. I told him I was then rather busy, and sa bas.d. Ir Deropster's and Captain Endicott's I re- there. Its went with me in my boat to the bakery the mercy and goodness of God, in not a His Lordship the Chief Justice then the bill was not recripted, if he would leave it with ceived on the tin. So let the first alarm, I in the Ila-wen, and on the page down we had a me, I would Inok at it and have it settled. He then endeavoured to ascertain in a busty way what was in conversation on various matters. I had him if he single instance of death having cocurred addressed the jury,-directing them to said in master intended to have the colony-replied the bread, and Ur Bradford curing in, be and I from the attempt. He sormented strongly card from their wouls everything they in rather an impartiment way, and marle a motion to \n\nad bi kamily in Hongkong? La replied he had. I satisfied ourselves it was anovic... Néxt day, at the sard, having his fatally bore, he had better remén on the singularity of the course adopted might have rend or heard about the case it down again and not to go away until he got paid. request of the Colonial Secretary, we made s moral the end of the war no one could supply to by goveraronut in departing from the ordi- nut-of-doors, and to couline theneelves Seeing he was disposed to be saucy, I took him by the crest analysis of each piece of bread separately, cuit so walk-te would make a good thing of it, and nary course of conducting criminal inves outinely to the evidence. As regarded nine coline, said he and his master might go to the devil if and found they all indicated the presence of arsenin. Le protected. He said it was not his wish to go, but they phased, and told him to go ont. The Ed prisoner 1 The analysis for Ascoctaining the yountity tank he had heen threatent, and there were at that time tigations, and still more strongly on the of the prisoners, the jury would probably have a good way times, but the seas. 1 up place entaequently, and we found that one pasad 88 Mandarins in Hongkong in disguise. I told mode in which the Attorney General had agree with him in thinking the evidence pore you (the Alterary General) referto, was eu an in- loaf of bread contained nearly a drms of armenia, B0 \n\nbim if he world report them to the police office, bo conducted the cause, by displaying personal against them was very slight, amounting quest on the 38 January, upon a body that was found grains to the diant commit while arsenic. The \n\nwould be protected. His answer was, that on bis animosity against the prisoners, and making indeed solely to their connection with the board the Thiste, on which occasion be described br I ate was brown, the uther specimens were arrival at the bakery, he would convince me that he \n\nwhite-both kinda contained ausanie; much been the quotatione from trial which had taken Esing Bakery. With respect to Alura, bebimself as Parare Mate on card the steamer, To \n\nhad a large amount of property at stake-that it was the best of my knowledge und belief, the 9th prisoner ivai contined aufficient cause deart. I also, on not bis desire to leave, and a thought he would take place in the worst periode of English ori-was alewn to have been at the bakery on the (Am) was the charterer of the steamer at the time the alterion of the 15th, had two jars brought me my advice and reusia. When we tired at the minal law; and lastly, wornarked on the afternoon of the 14th January, when tho she was destroyed. In consegaenen of the way the d by a pokocurau-one containing yet used on the bakery, the people appeared to be mixing water and pancity of the evidence brought forward dongh was making; and if the jury thought prisoner gave his evidence at the inquest, I objected to night of the lash, the other the materials for making dough in dimus ms in the plass. After visiting for the proscention-which, he said, ovea that he mixed the arsenie with the bread, is bringing bad es my bowo objected on the yat, together with me foar and some pastry from \n\nthe drying room, and when leaving the bakehouse, 15th January between Gand? in the morning, when if there had been to defenes to offer, would or ordered it to be so toixed, tuy weak aw him delving it. A man war with bin ear \n\nthe bakery-pasta scraped from the table, and some \n\nexported Alum would go back with me, and offered pastry in tin moulds, I found no trace of arsenic or him a passage in the heat, but he said he bad some net buvo warranted a conviction on the \n\nfind him guilty; or if they were of opinion rying cau basketa-prisoner took the bread out of other meallic poi in any of the materials. The business to attend to, and would walk bot part of the jury. Ha divided the evi- that he consulted with the forumon Alun the Easkew and put them into my base. I said to analysia was fade in the presenes of Dra Bradford, was between 3 and 4 in the aftermon. They dence for the prosecution into three classes and Atmoi on the subject, Le would be him \"Da my ine fellow, you deliver cay bread, ús Kenky, Watson, and Elspeter. \n\nwere mixing our and water in two ho 1st, those especially connected with the accessory before the fact; but if they were \n\nyou \"He made no response, but yard a kind of A. HAND-PRE, Assistaus Superintendant of Police, showed me a room he said was the brand bakery, gistrod outside the door, saw the bread handed Hava baard D: Harland's evidence-i tak lie fact of the poisoning; 2dly, them wit- \n\nnot perfectly assured in their own minds of in, and immediately after went in and ordered my board to him from the Eaing shop on the morning of supplied 400 families with bread this was told re and they were mixing duugh theve te told me ha nesses who detailet facts connected with Aluni's connection with, and cognizance Comprador to anale Raing's bill, and not to take any the 16th--was promet at the Cowai Station, whey, by him in evidence of the husless he was doing, and Alom before his departure; adly, the of, the attempt to poison, they would return more bread from him, as I was afraid he would the yeast and others things found in the bakery bis eonarquent disinclination to leave. day statement class who described his conduct on board a verdict of acquittal. His Lordship after-puss \n\nI and a servant girl partusck of the were sent to De Harland Tent thera. (Oroei- made by him that be bad sold his business to me la false. the steamer and on the way to Macao. wards, in reading over the evidence, called bread that morning she ate a little left on my plate. questioned by Dr Batmaks.]—I was acquainted with I was asked by MeMncow, anice my first examination, All that evidence he examined in detail; the attention of the jury to the facts of pent to my room, and there folt a sensation of flatu shop on the Queen's Road, and the bakery at the About five minutes alcer leaving the breakfast table, the Esing abop perious to this affair-1 know the then stated what evidence be intended to Alo's own furally being sick from par-toucy-sit1 had been eating wow at first wok Seng Gardens be the plows from which the bring forward in defence; and wound up taking of the bread, and to his offera of to notice of is, but eat down on my chair, looking at trend is carried to the shop there was formerly a with 3 general comparison of the whole 450 and $100 to Captain Xavier to return me papers, as the boy handed them to the the papers bakery about two years ago-attanited in the shop in the 19th, when the evidence I gave was rond over to evidence, and a confident averment of his to Hongkong that night, as rims facin were for the Yoss-offe, and the hot was landing the Queen's Road. The distance betwixt the shop him, he wished me to think if he had aut said he bound three up to as team tho ilone, when I suddenly bohat the jury would acquit all the proofs of his inuocance; but the jury vomited over him. Shortly afterwards two friends \n\nand Jokery in shout one mails. I was nogcainted bean aid there were 59 mandarina I call the place with Alnu, the 9th prisoner, before the 15th-have Queen's Roud the shop; I never wow the th Poy the charge, as affecting the nino consider them merely as clever ruses on called, and I told them I was sick-they said a great soon his very clices; he was always said to be the prisoner in the bakery. The contest was for 27,000 apuially, depending altogether upon their the part of a guilty man is dread of us many people were sick-I said I might be poised, master of the Eng shop. I don't know if he had anyar 28,000b of biscuit the bargain wet in writing. employment by Alam. \n\npision, and if so, would treat them ac- and had better take an omeric, and got up to get on, parts he was reputed sole owner. There were a hot made with Alur personally. I never made a but again vomited violently for about ten minutes good aber arrested on account of the affair contract with the 10th prisoner should never hate On the conclusion of the evidence for cordingly. \n\nwas frequently sick during the day, and bave con- the defence, the Attorney General rose, The jury retired for about half-an-hour, dinner to suffer from it to this time. [Cross-ques were all taken in eustody to the Pelice Stachnasa, nnd of Alum as the principal. My visit to about 20 in the shop-about 50 altogether they thought of doing so always looked opon him as an and after a long and very unnecessary and on their return, brought in, ng above- tioned by Mr DAY,--Don't know that Bing has they were taken before a Justien of the Peace-Mr the shop were always on matters of business on a orga (the Chief Justice thought) defence of the mentioned, a verdict of Nor GUILTY 5 to 1; more than one shop in Hongkongate swam be Chades May: no examination was held till år \n\nale, and were not very frequent. Sometimes, when conduct of the government, and more ez- \n\ncarried on the businem of a Liker have beard be -a conclusion in which, on regards the evi- has a bakery elsewhere--laays been for the shop also everal other J.P.- Mr Gibb, Mr Gray; and unetines sold him large lots si suur would William Thomas Merter, another J.P., was presented at, I dropped in three or four times a week, pecially of Mr Mercer, in this affair-Mr dence, we extirely coincide; though we are Queen's Road West, but an not aware of baking duct know it the latter and gentleman were sit Mercer's conduct never having been im- by no means satisfied of the primouere being carried on there I durt speak preitiselying Justices. When the two bust pristners were would not comes with him: I do not think the Teava ray rouage with the 10th prismer for Almu, but pagned, though the irregularity of the especially of Alum'a-mucence; sud to having en baking golog on nt bis shop, but beigh the Attorney finest was present. The 10th prisoner panas Erglist-the conversation was proooadings of the committing Justines bad would much rather, as we feel assured this I re-i think i have seen an oven there. Cus.al Pelice Station 1 not the usual place for carried on, I think, through one of the pureers in the beon commented upov by Dr Bridges would the inry themselves. that the Eu- Bring has carried on the bakery business tere for £utigation to take place, last 1 have sent them shop. I understood, when Alam talked of troubles I have bean resident to the feland sinne 1897. proceeded to au analytics of the evilmen,glish law had permitted them to return of te don't know, in my eagarity of Editer of lose wegs the learned Attorney General, Mr Mereer, it was er dorost of his haking bread for Phratyn \n\nthere. In the Nuisances investigation, for the dorim, that he meant thata-he said. which he performed in a very able manor, a verdict of not proven. But we shall the Friend of Chan, or otherwise, whether Baing has and Mr May. Mr May is also Superintendent of Pa- laying before the jury in the clourist recur to this subject in our weekly issue. a bakery near the Americe Naval Stores. Ilave ice-end that is the proper place for Lan to be Mr the time the disturbance wok place in November. light the strong points of cash witaees's Du leaving the Court after being dis-frequently been to the Ering shop-especially sons for May was not present when the two last prisoners: As we were going down to the bakery, we mea fire months ago, when I performed some arbitration were bought apen the day of then activel for a boat, and he asked me to pull up to it, as he wished testimony as bearing against the prisonera charged, the prisoners were reapprehended business for Abas. When I have called, I have such amiation. I do not recollect any Justices of the He commenced with the proofs of poison- und conveyed to jail under warrant issued him in the shop, but do not know what he was about \n\nto ask the price of it, and buy it if possible-1 A ing, as testified to by the medical witnesses by order of H. E. the Governor with As for the 21 prisoner, my knowledge of him on tigation of a criminal charge. The Chief Magis for $1; he mid it was for his bakery-and on my Penetting it the Police Salons before, on the in- EQ --he afterwards said he had purchased at at 14 picul then to the identification of the prisoners what intention we are not advised. a brand-deliverer is evnfined to the one occasion trate, I believe, was sitting at his usual post at the remaking it was very den, be sie it was dry wood, with the bakery whence the poisoned bread \n\non the 16th January. The father he served me in Pusa Cour, while this examination was going for and particularly witable for hia bakery; I afterward the slip, but I do not know him otherwise than se was issued, two as the proprietors, others \n\nward at the Poilue Sation-Justices of the Peace the wood discharging on the whart [Hty tha an sasiu do not know his to barn an interest were atting as this time at the Police Court trying ATTORNEY UNERAL-The episods of the boat sa bakers, and the rest as distributors of \n\nIn the businem. \n\ncase, Mr May having been relieved from bin dutes curred alter the conversation about il coming here, the brood; and maintained that if the \n\nJOHN GREIG, Mewart of the dulluna, 1 am so Asistant Magistrale, bis presence being ra and bad expressed doubts of his doing so 3 the coa- guilt of mixing the arsenic with the Hong, \n\nquainted with two last prisoners (9th and 10th) ị quire for the Police forca. It is the invariable versation between the hout-man and Alumi was in er of directing ita admixture, wore brought \n\nsaw them in Esing shep- \n\nthe rim tongue; I saw no money pass hetwoen at that shop. A little Magistrate's Court the Inspector on duty enters Eome to the principal prisoner Alum, there \n\nbefore 7 on the 15th January, I was in the shop, sand \n\nthe parties in payment of Lise wood, could be no doubt that those who assisted \n\nbught me loaf, Saw he let prisoner, the 9th and Court. Uf 50 (or thereabouts) prisoners first talien, uti With gard to the poisoning of the bread, them on the charge shoot, and sends them up to the CHEUNG-ALCMC staten ent]cing duly caution- fu moulding the poisoned bread, or in die- \n\ntheth, they protended to be running abousin a in custody than not here are mill detained in the he is entirely ignorant-that the bread is made in one great hurry, out I would not see they were doing any Cross-road Sumiva at the foot of Wellington Street, part of the town, and he lives in souther-he never had tributing it among the community, monet! have a guilty knowledge of the affair: he \n\nthing particular, Could not see what they were oppraits Gith, Livingston & Co.'s godown-they sy id of doing such a thing. He first came to the doing, but they appeared to be attending to the dwelt strongly on the fact that no less a \n\nbusireas of the shop. Did not romak anything par \n\nhave been there sine their first examination on the Colony at unly 18 years of age-ie was first ext quantity than Tea Pounds of arsenic must \n\ntieula: about the prisoners; e 9th was weighing \n\n15th January. The Attorney and was present played by Mr Higham, who afterwarde went to when the best tre primers Prese asumined, but dolla, and the 10th was waiking about all three don't know if he took part is the investigation. \n\nCalifornia; after that by Mr Franklyn; then by have been put into the dough-toɔ large a \n\nMarrow, Stephenson & Co.; then by Mr Do Seer, parcel to be easily concealed from the \n\nwem attending to the buriness of the shop. (Explsina \n\nཚ་ CHARLES MAY, Superintendent of Police, Haut for when he made hisenite, a well as did other that the shopmen, not the prisoners were running heard the evidence of Dr Elarland as to the analysis of business. persons employed in the bakery. He \n\nabout.) 1 seat the load off to the Satana, Afterwards the yeaat, e, found at the bakery. There were machine for making biscuit, and then another from Mr He some time afterwards purchase a next referred to Alam's presence at the very time the dough was being made J. C. DEMPSTER, Colonial Surgeon-Have been [Cross-examined by Dr Bass]-Often went to the iraking the bread The audement is perfectly cur- be purchased another from America, wich has ales yeusi, samples of dough, flour, and the water use for Duddeil, for $1,800; and as these were insufficient, then to him and is father being in the in the habit before the 15th of getting bread from the Exing shop to buy a loaf. Wes in the shop two or cock, Cross-questioned by D BRIDGE)-Have arrived. He is supplied the Nars with it. \n\nKaing shop belenging to the 9th and 10th primer tre minutes on the 14th. Don't know anything alun beard Mr Grand-Pre's statement. Is ehop at the very time the bread was being chlained based from the shep that morning, not with about the 16th man, except that I saw bar in the \n\nat with \n\nan only lately be has repaired the premises, and set sold to the customers-nuxt of his express- \n\nMe Merter on the evening of the 15th to conduct the three machines at work. Liam is here reminded uy only partook of it, sheus baif-paat 7 or 8 lock, shop have frequently seen him thera-he was walk- ed intention of learing the colony-and | at breakfasi. After eating a small portion of the ing about the shop. I tou ao particular native of came in about 2, and we sat till 8. Iematened ing, he proceeds), On the 28th of the 17th, the inquiries- luvited Mr Mereor to join meha that all tea above has nothing to do with the poison- \n\narray of facte for the consideration of be into's oer of $50 and $100 to the Captain 16-Have been in the habit of taking and I were kept engaged the whole dry, and for tention to Alum panting a new cbop (plan with \n\nSUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\nCRIMINAL NENOMINAL\n\nMonday, 24 Febrnavy.) THE POISONING CASE\n\nJarp-Menara M. A. MACLEOD, W. H. Strms, Jour LMON, W. A. BOWKA, E T. DONGANDO, \n\nand GEORGE WALL\n\nCHEONG ARAW, Chrono Aurap, Chaco Aco, OM ARON, TAM ALEEN, FONG ANDER CHENG Amus, Pura AcuUT, CHNCHO ALU and Cuong Wyr Kox-4dministering Poles will intent, \n\nFor the Prosecution,-The Hon. To Anstav, diternay General; Ma HCR, Crom Sulicor, assisted by Mr 3, C. TURNER, \n\nPor the Defens-Dr Daines and Mr DAY, Gunel Mersta GAFELL & BROWN, and Mr H. J. 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Syme and Qu\n\nFreak, brig\n\nApril\n\n244 Base and Co\n\nGazelle, schooner\n\nGet 2\n\n115 Jardine, M. & Co\n\nVESSEL\n\nAr\n\nCLASS\n\nCOMMANDERS.\n\nCOFSIGNERS\n\nHera, schooner\n\nAprit\n\n184.W.McKenzie Co\n\nNina, scicooner\n\nApril\n\n113 Joha Burd and Co Ascen\n\nNymph, barqua\n\nA paris\n\n400 Lindsay and Co\n\nAlligator*\n\nCanton loop H.kong Ships\n\n12 A, W. A, lood\n\nPet, brig\n\nApril\n\n23 Jardine, M. and Co\n\nBitterat\n\nIL.kong Stoop\n\nLient. Beamish\n\nRolla, brig\n\nMar.\n\n166. Fusion & Co\n\nAt Hongkong\n\nBritish\n\nA. Aşar, brig\n\nAlliance, baryse\n\nAustraila, ship Avoca, Larqué Banner, sobooner\n\nCade, steamer\n\nCaribbean, ship\n\nApell 25. 275joinh, L. and Co April 8 677 Lindsay and Co Scp. 580foha Bord and Co\n\nSept. 20 280 D. Lagzik\n\nApr 1s: 133(Jane Burd and Co [àğrüJT 987!P. & O. 5. R. Co\n\nFeb. 23: 874 Jarline, M. and Lo\n\nCashurice Apcar, shir Apis! The Gibb, Ú and Co\n\nhr. 80 750 Agier and Co April 1147) N. Duan sari Co\n\nChapman, ship\n\nChrysolite, ship\n\nEaglet, steamer\n\nEdwin Pos, adip\n\nClay of Carlisle, ship. 15 936 Angier and Co\n\nMar. 1865 Siemesen und Co April 11 89Jardine,M.and Co April 25 450P. & O. S. N. Co Apr121 326 Jardine, M and Co Feb. 28 895 Order\n\nFormces, attemT\n\nHellespont, steamUY Hoar, p James Paton, ship Lancashire, skip Lancashire Witch,ship\n\nLouisa, bargne\n\nMary Wlonbolt, ahip\n\nMazeppa, chogmor\n\nNova, acbonner\n\nNew Margaret, ship\n\nAp:41 15 880John Burd and Co Mar 25 835 Augier and Co\n\nMar. 311387ardine, M. and Co Apeli 23 274 Dent and Co\n\nMar, 291205 Dreyer and Co\n\nApril.26 171Jardine, M. & Co\n\n¡April 19h, L. and Co\n\nApril 12 11 Pletcher and Go\n\nRajsh of Sawak, whip April 1 526 Order\n\nRemi, kt:amer\n\nMar. 25 322 N. Duna and Ca\n\nNobert Passmger, bg. Mar. 13 478 Angier und Co\n\nSuisette, shp\n\nBarab Ley, bargne\n\nShanghai, alcamse\n\nTruro, ship\n\nTabi Cain, brig Vindex, schooner Vision, slip Zephyr, schocaer\n\nPortuguese\n\nLily, steamer\n\nFrench\n\nBenjamin, ship\n\nAmerican\n\nCarbon, achooDIT\n\nCelestial, ship\n\nExcors, barque\n\nGear Peace, sch.\n\nIno, ship\n\nJames Marshall, brig\n\nMar. wschafter and Co\n\nApril 25, 180vall, sull and Co\n\nApril 23,750 P. x 0. 5. N. Co\n\nApril 95 694 heder\n\nApril 17 179 Fohn Burd and Co\n\njaprit 179 Dent and Cu\n\nAp:28 644, L. and Co Apr22 162Dent and C\n\nApr226; 236] Tho. Haut &. Co\n\nApril 7, 500 Vischer Freres\n\nApril) 500 W.M. Eslónot &\n\nApril 25! 886, Davis & Lawrence\n\n115W. Pustan and Co\n\nApril 201 478). Heard and Co\n\nA\n\nApril\n\nau, 1, 16t S. 8. Bartowa\n\nMary Whitridge, ebp Matilda, ship\n\nMeteor abip\n\nStisna, schooner\n\nN. 8. Paliner, chip\n\nJoseph Peabody, ship Feb. 28:1200 A. Heard and Co\n\nApril 8 378 Jas. Stephenson (April 15|| 609 Rosselt and Co\n\nApril 71008A. Heard and Co April 20 9004. Heard and Co || Apr}) 22|1400| Russell and Co Oct. 104 Augler and Co April 191065 House!) and Co April 11937. Heard and Co April 21 2061A. Heard and Co Mar. 251052Jas. Stephenson Mac, 301600 Ruselt and Go\n\nNorth Wind, taip\n\nBeyard, ship\n\nSea Serpent, ship Simeon Drapur, eh. Winged Arrow, ship Wixard, ship\n\nDutch\n\nEva Johanna, ship flur, atque\n\nDurish\n\nMar. 11 700Schaeffer and Co April26 377Order\n\nEstern Snare, barque Apr 10 Drayer and Co\n\nHamburg\n\nCarl von Gruife, brig April 7 900 W. Pusiau and Co Clipper, schonnar April26 820Order\n\nlada, barque\n\nMaca a\n\nBritish\n\nBritish Queen, arque\n\nMonro, ship\n\nSpanish\n\nSoledad, barque\n\nDutch\n\nApril 22 450 Wm.Puatau and Co\n\nBosphoros, barque. April si Schaeffer and Co Comells Smit, barque Mar. 11! 790 Schaeffor and Co Erarding Elizabeth, shApril 800 James Stephenson Mastan, ahip\n\nApril 72schalter and Do\n\nDanish\n\nDannebrog, banque\n\nApril10 322 W., Wardley & C April 2 ascDreyer and o Frederick Wilhelm, bq-star. 231 450 Jabn Burd and Us\n\n835 Blenkin, H. and Co Diana, chip\n\nAuckland, harque\n\nHenry Hurbeck, ship Jan. Progressive Age, brig ápril Sea Nytuph, barqueur. Sauta Lucia, barque\n\nDutch\n\nAdiniral Zoutman, alafpiTao. 2 Borea., bargne April 13 G... Yon Twist, bqda.\n\nJamieson Ellia\n\n896 Order\n\n47chaeler and to\n\nEdw. Koppisch, barque Mar. 27 250 Tais and Co\n\nFuhchau\n\nBritish\n\nCrest of the Wave, bar. 85dditib, L, and Co\n\n60 Hon. Keppel\n\nL Carme\n\nA. J. Villiers\n\n46 'dre. Hon. C. Elliot\n\nHongkong . S. Str. 19\n\nR.-A. Guerin\n\nCilm ALS Capt. Itell\n\nPort Brig 20 Com, Tavares ilc Port.rcba 6 Escarnicha ¡Mano Jorge Juan\n\nSp. Str. 4 Briones Magallanes Hongkong Sp. Sur.\n\nTERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION to the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT-For One Year, 123; Six Monthe, 4:3; Three Momune, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER -For One Year, $13; Six Months, $; Three Montna, $5. To the OVERLAND RE- GISTER AND PRICE CURRENT done -For One Year, $8; all payable in advance. TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT la the HONGKONG REGISTER—Advertisemouls, not exceeding & lines\n\ncach inacrtion, $1; each additional line 29 cents, one halt of these charges for Repetitioun. HENTS for the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT. J. G. ANTHONY, Esq., London, leesrs. JARDINE, SKINNER & Ca., Caiota; Moears, Reminaron & Co. Bombay W. S. Desca, R., dingapore; Messrs. ToPSON, KOBERTO & Co., Latvia; J. P. Pauer, Eq. San Franciao.\n\nEdited, Prated, and Publisher by ROBERT STRACHIAN, the Honghong Register Office: Gage Street,\n\n\"Victoria, Hongkong, Tuceday, Apeli 26, 1857,\n\nWater Witch, barque\n\nMar.\n\n400 Urder\n\nCalcutta\n\n11.konging Ship\n\n34 W. L. Hall\n\nWhampoa, large\n\nNov. 20\n\n378 Order\n\nCamila Comus\n\nAmoy Brig\n\nCauton Stoop\n\nFrench\n\nCoromandel H.kong P. W. Str. Elk\n\nCuntou Brig\n\n160. T. Colvillo\n\n14. Jenkins\n\n8 5. Douglas\n\n12 Hamilton\n\n800king sed Co\n\nOct. 24 210F.D. Syme and Co\n\nBritish\n\n250 W. M.Robinet & Co Lauriek, brig\n\n240jBobert S. Walker\n\nMax 21222|P,F, Cama and Co\n\nApril18 410 Order\n\nMar. 5767 Captado Lady Mary Wood, str. Aprit | 660 P. & 6. 8, N. Co\n\nApr 28 Jardine, M. and Co Lord of the inleg, ship japril 691 Lindsay and Co Meteor. str Feb. 28 180 Dent, Beale & Co North Star\n\nMar. 28 380 Order Queen of May, barque Feb. 4 814 Jardins, M. & Co Sea Star, ship\n\nMar. 13 591 Bleukin, R. & Co\n\nWil Dayrell, schooner April 158 Dent and Co\n\nRoska, barque\n\nHamburg\n\nBuenos Ayres, brig Haribal, achooner Maithilde, brig Pathfinder, barque Baa, hargne\n\nSiamese\n\nApril 13 383 Wm. Pustan and Co\n\nApril 8 200 Trautmann and Co japril! 142W. Pustan and Co\n\nApr 12 202 Turner and Co Ail13 270W. Pastau and Co Mar. 378Trautman and Co\n\nShooting Star, abip ¡April of Biala. Heard and Co\n\nBRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\nFor\n\nClonial howton's office Victoria, Honghong\n\n98th April, 1857.\n\nAt private letter from the excellery The Governor\n\nto your the special object of\n\nwhich as the letter, states.\n\nwas to avoid the scandal of\n\nریح کر ہو سکے\n\nofficial communication has\n\nThe Honorable\n\nThe Offing formmanding The Groops. Go:\n\nGizcours, ahip\n\nAmerican\n\nApril\n\n538all, Still and Co Encounter\n\nHercules Hongkongt B.kong Steamer Hornet\n\nCanion Ser. Str,\n\n14 G.W.D. Callaghan\n\nH.kong Hoepital\n\nFeb.\n\nW.M.Robinet & Co 740 Order\n\nMioden\n\n296 W.M.Robinet & Co\n\nNurkin\n\net,\n\n400 Lindsay and Co ayal, S\n\nNiger\n\nPigna\n\nand Co\n\nRehorsa\n\nRaleigh\n\nIlamborg\n\nAlbia, schooner\n\nNo7.\n\n280 Order\n\nRiver\n\nBonito, brig\n\nNov.\n\n51) Joha Bard and Co\n\nMary Ross, abip\n\nMar.\n\n404 Miotusen and Co\n\nSiamese\n\nSucess, ship\n\nDec.\n\n500 King and Co\n\nAT\n\nM.AG.\n\nFormosa\n\nBritish\n\nCaprici\n\nHongkong. Felg\n\n40 Kolller\n\nCatinat\n\nMacao\n\nFr. Str\n\nSur Art\n\nMATSAKO\n\nMacao\n\nMr. Str.\n\n1 Tamotte\n\nOrder\n\nFrother, lig\n\nMary H. Midford, ship April\n\nAmerican\n\n5303. F. Edger\n\nApril 210 Order Iron Prine, camet [April\n\n180 W..Robinet &Co\n\nVirginie\n\n¡Macao\n\nFr. Frig.\n\n60 Ph\n\nLevant\n\nis Crulzo\n\n13 mitb\n\nAmerican\n\nForcamonte ja Cruize\n\nJU. 3. Sh,\n\n16 Foote\n\nJan. 14 son Thames Hunt & Co\n\nSau Jucino\n\nMontego\n\nMacao\n\nAmazo\n\nApril31 22. Pusau and Co\n\nInflexible\n\nSampson\n\nH.koug Ser. Str. H.kong P, W. Str.\n\nkong Store Blip. Maca Frigate Canton Sor. Str.\n\nSo Frigate\n\nFubchuu Stop\n\nMaca Frigate\n\nJau Cruice ¡P. W, shu\n\nSC Forbes Canton Ster\n\nStaring Sybile\n\nla Cruize 'Gun Boat\n\nCanton Frygte\n\n4 Lieut. Dent\n\n17 C. C. Forsyth\n\n6 J. Coxbert\n\n4. T. Ellis, Master\n\n5 Hon. Keith Stewart\n\n13 Hon. A. A. Cochrane\n\n40 ir F. W. E. Nicol\n\n14 L. K. Barnard\n\n6. 9. Band\n\nFitting up as an Hospital Ship, to be stationed in the Manned by Celeste.\" Manned by Sybille.\"\" Maned by Nankin.\"\n\nFOREIGN SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA,\n\nCOMMANDERS.",
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        "content_text": "# SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\n## ARRIVED.\n\n### MERCHANT VESSELS.---Continued.\n\n| Date Arrival | Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Apr 26 | Sul | British | 170 | - | Ballast | - |\n| Apr 28 | Avventura | Dutch | 430 | - | Bombay | Sundries |\n| Apr 25 | Acorn | British | 280 | W. K. Hall | Shanghai | Sundries |\n| Apr 29 | Alcor | British | - | - | Ballast | - |\n| Apr 28 | Hebe | British | 471 | F. Brauns | Singapore | Rice |\n| Apr 28 | Hellespont | British | 930 | - | Shanghai | Sundries |\n| Apr 22 | Gravina | British | 125 | Herman | Amoy | Sundries |\n| Apr 19 | Sophia Fraser | British | - | - | Shanghae | Order |\n| Apr 21 | Koningen der Nederlanden | Dutch | - | Cusack | Shanghae | - |\n| Apr 20 | Aliquis | British | - | - | Shanghae | Sundries |\n| Apr 27 | Bunga | British | 290 | Meinertzhagen | Swatow | General |\n| Apr 27 | General | British | 591 | Halkieth | Melware | Ballast |\n| Apr 29 | Am. str. 1968 | British | 170 | Morice | Swatow-pr | 27 Ballast |\n| Apr 29 | Am. 500 | British | 367 | Treadwell | Bangkok | Apr ice\" |\n| Apr 28 | Brit. str. 30 | British | - | Crockett | Shaugh | Apr 28 Sundries |\n| Apr 28 | Gussell | British | - | - | Batavia | - |\n| Apr 28 | Loeven & Kup | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Sebaoffen & Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | P. & U. S. N. Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Jardine, M. & Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Heard & Co | British | - | - | - | - |\n\n## BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\n| Class | Name | Flag & Guns | Captain | At |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Sloop | Acorn | - | W. A. Hood | Formosa |\n| - | Antagonist, | Dutch | - | Luque | - |\n| - | Alligator | - | Bowen & Co | - |\n| - | Avay | - | Despin | - |\n| - | Antelope | - | - | - |\n| - | Actaeon | - | - | - |\n| - | Algerine | - | - | - |\n| - | Albatross | - | - | - |\n| - | Alceste | - | - | - |\n| Sloop | - | - | Stabb | - |\n| - | - | - | Jenkin | - |\n\n## Sailed.\n\n| Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | Destination | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Chusan | British | 280 | F.D. Synge | Calcutta | - |\n| Cruiser | British | 142 | W. Custou | - | - |\n| Belleiate | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Fermo | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Hiawatha | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Prudent | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Eureka | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Eliza Ross, brig | British | - | - | Chinchew | - |\n| Hanibal, schooner | British | - | - | Swatow | - |\n| Bauslie, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Bevereg, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Scotia, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Sorata, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Starlight, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Thracian, sloop | British | - | - | - | - |\n\n## GUN BOATS, DESPATCH VESSELS AND TRANSPORTS.\n\n| Name | Class | Flag & Guns | Captain | At |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Castus | - | - | W. F. Lee | - |\n| Hero | - | - | - | - |\n| Caratyne | - | - | P. Saumarez | - |\n| Benefactor | - | - | J. Kerr | - |\n| Rachel | - | - | W. Arthur | - |\n| H. Ferdinand | - | - | B. W. Nicholas | - |\n| Sophia Fraser | - | - | A. J. Ince | - |\n| Cormorant | Gunboat | - | W. H. Jones | - |\n| Nimrod | - | - | W. J. Hunt | - |\n| Opossum | - | - | - | - |\n| Gunboat | - | - | - | - |\n| Troup-ship | - | - | - | - |\n| Guru | Des.-Str. | - | - | - |\n| Surprise | Des.-T. | 400 | John Band & Co | - |\n| Watchful | Gunboat | - | - | - |\n| Nera, schooner | - | - | - | - |\n| Wild Flower, ship | - | - | - | - |\n\n## MERCHANT VESSELS.---Continued.\n\n| Date of Arrival | Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Apr 20 | Chin Chin | British | 316 | G. E. Hand | San Francisco | Sundries |\n| Apr 29 | Cleopatra | British | 750 | - | Singapore | Sundries |\n| Apr 30 | C. Coventry | British | - | - | Amoy | Sundries |\n| May 1 | Caratyne | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Apr 22 | Black R. Packet | British | - | - | Bygd | Sundries |\n| Apr 23 | Dick | British | - | - | Shanghae | - |\n| Apr 18 | Kestrel | British | - | L. Wich | Bhanglue | - |\n| Apr 22 | Antelope | British | - | C.8. SET | - | - |\n| Mar 25 | Wilhelmine, barque | British | 88 | Angler & Co | Thoyon | - |\n| Apr 22 | Venetian | British | 510 | Penrice | Fuhchau | Teas, &c. |\n| Apr 28 | Star | British | - | G. of Pechali | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Slaney | British | - | Peysaud | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Peysaud | British | - | G. of Peculi | - | - |\n| Apr 28 | Levoque | British | - | IG. of Pocheli | - | - |\n\n## FOREIGN SHIPS OF WAR IN CHINA.\n\n| Class | Name | Flag | Guns | Captain | At |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Fr. Str. | Audacieux | French | 50 | Vrignand | G. Pehali Fr. Str. |\n| Fr. Str. | Avenger | French | - | - | River |\n| Fr. Str. | Capricieuse | French | 40 | D'Aboville | Fr. Str. |\n| Fr. Str. | Durance | French | 12 | Trebuchet | River |\n| Fr. Str. | Fusee | French | - | - | G. Peel Fr. Str. |\n| Fr. Str. | Meurthe | French | - | Borelli | - |\n| Fr. Str. | Mitraille | French | - | - | River |\n| Fr. G. Boat | Nemesis | French | - | Sous | G. Peel Fr. Ship |\n| Fr. Str. | Nissard | French | - | Cu Niss | - |\n| Fr. Str. | Phlegeton | French | - | Monerelt, G. | - |\n\n## BRITISH SHIPS OF WAR EXPECTED.\n\n## SHIPPING IN CHINA.\n\n### MERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n| Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | Destination | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Aden, steamer | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Haschaut, ship | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Banner, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Earl Grey, barque | British | 770 | - | - | - |\n| Faerie, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Fiery Cross, ship | British | 2000 | - | - | - |\n| Frowning Beauty, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Hamilton, brig | British | 133 | - | - | - |\n| Hellespont, steamer | British | 2394 | - | - | - |\n| Job Shepherd, ship | British | 629 | - | - | - |\n| Jary | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Luly McDonald, ship | British | 679 | - | - | - |\n| Mauritius, steamer | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Perseverance, barque | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Pottinger, steamer | British | 200 | - | - | - |\n| Rajah of Sarawak, ship | British | 525 | - | - | - |\n| Rabe | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Sarah Lacy, barque | British | 450 | - | - | - |\n| Scotland, steamer | British | 759 | - | - | - |\n| Taymouth Castle, ship | British | 682 | - | - | - |\n| Trafalgar, barque | British | 717 | - | - | - |\n| Vindex, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Whirlwind, ship | British | - | - | - | - |\n| Williamattilies, barque | British | 476 | - | - | - |\n| Zepage, schooner | British | - | - | - | - |\n\n### FOREIGN MERCHANT VESSELS.\n\n| Name | Flag | Tons | Captain | From | Cargo |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Lion, barque | French | - | - | - | - |\n| Mariquita, ship | French | - | - | - | - |\n| St Paul | French | - | - | - | - |\n| Ville de Bale, ship | French | - | - | - | - |\n| Atmosphere, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Bald Eagle, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Cohota, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Derby | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Flying Sail, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Frigate Bird, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| George Lee, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Norways, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Orpheus, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Uriel, ship | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Youths of CONCEF | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Alvor, barque | Dutch | 297 | - | - | - |\n| Amsterdam, ship | Dutch | 400 | - | - | - |\n| Betera Michiels | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Boven & Kap | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Hebe, ship | Dutch | 471 | - | - | - |\n| Jannetta Coralin | Dutch | 454 | - | - | - |\n| Lactor Energo | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Maria Diederiks, barque | Dutch | 270 | - | - | - |\n| Nora Zembla, ship | Dutch | 775 | - | - | - |\n| Phoebus, barque | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Stad Doken | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Damsh | Dutch | - | - | - | - |\n| Alions, barque | Hamburg | - | - | - | - |\n| Susenas, barque | Hamburg | - | - | - | - |\n| Abu Lange, barque | Bremen | 288 | - | - | - |\n| J. Brightman, ship | Sardinian | - | - | - | - |\n| Jahu Stephen, barque | Sardinian | - | - | - | - |\n| Progress, barque | Sardinian | - | - | - | - |\n| Fresh Eagle, barque | American | - | - | - | - |\n| Antelope, brig | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Argonaut, ship | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Game Cook, ship | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Gravina, brig | Spanish | - | - | - | - |\n| Dutch | - | - | - | - | - |\n| Almonde, barque | Dutch | 609 | - | - | - |\n| Henrietta, barque | Dutch | 400 | - | - | - |\n| Johanna, barque | Dutch | 550 | - | - | - |\n| Mercator, ship | Dutch | 749 | - | - | - |\n| San Jacinto | American | - | - | - | - |\n\n## RECEIVING SHIPS.\n\n| Name | At | Captain |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Australia | Hongkong | Bill Co |\n| Cams Family | - | - |\n| Toms | - | - |\n| Ch | - | - |\n| Faluti | - | - |\n| T | - | - |\n| Formlean | - | - |\n| Anuya | - | - |\n| To kee | - | - |\n| Imag | - | - |\n| Patainder | - | - |\n| Fitzgion | - | - |\n| Adventure | - | - |\n| Malamoodie | - | - |\n| Pidiehau | - | - |\n| Water Witei | - | - |\n| Chichew Temple | - | - |\n| Haud | - | - |\n| Tivi | - | - |\n| And Welch | - | - |\n| Woosing licort | - | - |\n| Vincent | - | - |\n\n## TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.\n\nTo the HONGKONG REGISTER and OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT: One Year, $32; Six Months, $16; Three Months, $8. To the HONGKONG REGISTER: One Year, $15; Six Months, $8; Three Months, $5. To the OVERLAND REGISTER AND PRICE CURRENT alone: For One Year, $3; all payable in advance.\n\n## TERMS OF ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nAdvertisements, not exceeding 5 lines, $1; each additional line, 20 cents; one half of these charges for Repetitions.\n\n## AGENTS.\n\nJ. G. ANTHONY, Esq., London; Messrs. Jardine, Skinner & Co., Calcutta; Messrs. LALAROS & Co., Bombay; Messrs. THOMPSON, ROBERT & Co., Shanghai; J. P. Fisc, San Francisco.\n\n## GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.\n\nVICTORIA, SATURDAY, 5TH JUNE 1858.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.**\n\nVol. III, No. 158.\n\nThe Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 5th September, 1853, was terminated on the 20th 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 **THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE** will, as before, be the only Official Organ for PROCLAMATIONS, NOTIFICATIONS, and PUBLIC NOTICES, of this Government.\n\nBy Order,\nW. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 20 July, 1855.\n\n## VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF HONGKONG.\n\nNo. 15 of 1858.\n\nMONDAY, 31st MAY, 1858.\n\nPRESENT:\n\nHis Excellency the Governor and all the Members, except the Lieutenant-Governor and the Colonial Treasurer, on account of indisposition.\n\nThe Council met to-day, pursuant to adjournment.\n\nThe Minutes of the last Council being read.\n\nThe Attorney General proposed the following amendments:\n1stly. That the words \"Pursuant to\" be inserted before the words \"The following Notice of motion\"; and that the words \"from the Attorney General was brought up and read\" next after, be struck out.\n2ly. That the words \"and moved\" be inserted after the word \"Memorialists.\"\n\nQuestion put, and passed---whereupon,\n\nThe amendments being made,\n\nThe Minutes were approved.\n\nThe Council resolved itself into a Committee of the whole for the further consideration of the Market Ordinance.\n\nSections 1 to 4 inclusive, were ordered to stand part of the Ordinance.\n\nSection 18 was recommitted and amended.\n\nResolved, that the Market Ordinance from Section 5 to the end be recommitted.\n\nTwo new Sections were introduced, and ordered to stand as Sections 3 and 6.\n\nA Draft of proposed Market Bye-Laws was read for the information of the Council, by order of His Excellency.\n\nConsideration of the Market Ordinance was resumed.\n\nSections 5 to 8 inclusive, were re-numbered, and made Sections 7 to 10.\n\nSection 9 was amended, and made Section 11.\n\nEight new Sections were discussed seriatim, agreed to, and ordered to be introduced next after Section 11, and to stand as Sections 12 to 19 inclusive.\n\nSection 10 was made Section 20, and amended.\n\nSections 1 to 14 inclusive, were re-numbered, and made Sections 21 to 24.\n\nA new Section was introduced, and ordered to stand as Section 25.\n\nSections 15 to 17 inclusive, were re-numbered as Sections 26 to 28, and adopted.\n\nSection 18 being re-numbered as Section 29, was recommitted.\n\nThe Governor put the question, that this Section as amended stand part of the Ordinance.\n\nUpon which the Attorney General moved an amendment, that the words \"Registrar General\" be left out.\n\nDebate ensued.\n\nThe Governor put the question, That the words \"Registrar General\" stand part of the Clause.\n\nCouncil divided.\n\nAyes (4.)\n\nMR DENT.\nMR LYALL.\nACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY.\nSURVEYOR GENERAL.\n\nNoys (4.)\n\nMR JARDINE.\nCHIEF MAGISTRATE.\nATTORNEY GENERAL.\nCHIEF JUSTICE.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "## Post office, Hong Kong, 25th April, 1858\n\nI have received your letter No. 22799, dated 20th February, enclosing copy of a communication from the **Director General of the French Post Office**, stating that a packet containing 422 letters for the French Squadron in China had been returned to Marseilles from Hong Kong.\n\nI have now the honour to report that the French Admiral has an authorized agent (an Officer in the French service) at this Port for the receipt of all letters addressed to the French Squadron in China, and the evidence of this man was given in presence of His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Colonial Secretary.\n\nFile `RooF.`",
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        "content_text": "Dispatch N. 132 871861.\n\nIncome Line\n\nCorresponding with French Packet Agency at Shanghae respecting the Majesty's Consul at that Port.\n\n35\n\nShanghae Ju 8462 51 493 2nd May 1861.\n\nThe Municipal Council of Shanghan desire me to draw your great particular attention to the inconvenience experienced by the public of Shanghas from the delivery of letters addressed by you N. M's Packet Agent per P. & O. Steamer \"Madras\", which left Hongkong 26th ulto.\n\nThe Council are aware that the intimation on the part of the Consular establishment here to perform Port Office duties only left this by Her Majesty's Ship \"Cooper\" on the 20th ulto, and that the said Vessel had not reached Hongkong.\n\nTo The Postmaster General Hongkong",
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        "content_text": "## Original (Continued)\n| No. OF DESPATCH. | DATE OF DESPATCH. | SUBJECT OF DESPATCH, INCLOSURES. |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 49 | 5 October 1862 | Reporting Changes in the Gaol Staff — Grove |\n| 50 | \" | Reporting gratuities awarded to certain Police Constables |\n| 31 | \" | Reporting temporary employment of Suppers from the Garrison Surveyor General's Department |\n| 52 | November | Reporting appointment of Mr. When Hamilton Backliff of the Supreme Court |\n| 53 | \" | Reporting appointment of Mr. Wem McClellan as Usher |\n| ... | ... | Reporting subordinate appointments in the Police Force |\n| 54 | 259 | ... |\n| 56 | November | Reporting appointment of Dr. Rice as Superintendent of the Civil Hospital |\n| 58 | \" | Reporting appointment of Mr. F. Hydman to the office of the Police and Lighting Rate Collector |\n| 10 | \" | Forwarding copy of the opinion of the Attorney General as to the amount of the postage on Letters posted |\n| 60-13° | \" | Replying to Despatch No. 2 of 10th July last, respecting the conveyance of mails by the French Packets about to be established between Marseilles and Shanghai. |\n| ... | ... | Forwarding Copy of the Portuguese Treaty with China, with remarks on the subject of the Post Office Agency at Shanghai, and reporting appointment of Mr. D. Onglis as Assistant Packet Agent at that Port |",
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        "content_text": "RATES OF POSTAGE\n\n281\n\nTo be collected in Hong Kong, henceforward, upon Letters forwarded by the Vessels of the Messageries Imperiales.\n\nPOST OFFICE NOTIFICATION.\n\nIt is hereby notified for general information that arrangements have been made for an exchange of Mails between Hongkong and France, by means of the French Mail Packets on the Indo-China line and the necessary additional articles to the detailed regulations arranged between the Post Office of Great Britain and the Post Office of France for the execution of the Postal convention of 24th September, 1856, having been concluded it has been decided to give effect to the same from this date.\n\nThe service will consist-\n\nFirst-Of an exchange of Mails between the United Kingdom and the Ports served by the French Packets.\n\nSecond-Of an exchange of Mails between Hongkong and France.\n\nThird-Of an exchange of Mails between this Office and the Agents of the French Post Office on board the Packets of the Messageries Imperiales.\n\nAs regards the Mails which will be forwarded from the United Kingdom to Hongkong and vice versa, the correspondence transmitted in them will be liable to the same rates of postage as the correspondence sent in the Mails by the British Packets.\n\nThe correspondence contained in the Mails between Hongkong and France will be liable to the same rates of postage as that now charged by the British Contract Packets.\n\nThe exchange of Mails between this Office and the Post Office Agents on board the French Packets, is an entirely novel service, and in availing of this means of conveyance, due regard will be had to the advantage of the privilege given under the agreement, of forwarding closed Mails to all the British Ports served by the French Packets.\n\nMails will also be exchanged between this Office, and the French Offices at Pondicherry, Saigon and Shanghae by means of the French Packets, and the rates of postage on the correspondence conveyed to these places by this means will be 8d. for a letter under half an ounce in weight, 1/4 under 1 ounce, above 1 ounce and not exceeding 2 ounces 2/8, and so on adding 1/4 for each ounce or fraction of an ounce after the first ounce, or double the rate charged upon letters sent by British Packets or Private Ships.\n\nThe correspondence sent in the Mails by the French Packets to places in Asia (being British possessions) other than those mentioned in the foregoing paragraphs will be liable to double the rates charged upon letters sent by the British Packets or Private Ships when conveyed a distance of over 2,000 nautical miles; but when conveyed from one British Port to another British Port by French Packet, or to places of which the Port of arrival and Port of departure are not separated the one from the other by a distance of more than 2,000 nautical miles, the same rates of postage chargeable on the correspondence forwarded by British Packets will be levied.\n\nA Table of the rates of postage to which correspondence sent from Hongkong by the French line of Packets will be liable for the present, is appended.\n\nThe correspondence intended to be forwarded by these vessels must be superscribed \"per Messageries Imperiales Steamer\" or it will not be forwarded by them.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1863.\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n\n  \n    DESTINATION\n    Not exceeding 1/2 oz.\n    Above 1/2 oz. and not exceeding 1 oz.\n    Above 1 oz. and not exceeding 2 oz.\n    Above 2 oz. and not exceeding 3 oz.\n    Above 3 oz. and not exceeding 4 oz.\n  \n  \n    United State of America (through England)\n    s. d. 1 4\n    s. d. 2 8\n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    France or Algeria\n    0 8\n    1 4\n    2 0\n    2 8\n    3 4\n  \n  \n    Spain... 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Letters for the other Countries specified may either be paid in advance or forwarded unpaid at the option of the Sender.\n\nREGISTERED LETTERS.\n\nLetters addressed to all those Countries and Places to which, according to the foregoing Table, the entire postage to destination can be paid in advance, may be registered at the desire of the Senders, and in such case the postage must be so prepaid, and at double the rates of postage chargeable for ordinary Letters.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 22nd August, 1863.\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.",
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        "content_text": "Page 1\n\nCouncil plant of Camper & Nicholls. Purchase, in London for Foreign buy. Itt Bellard. Biting Demichaud.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 4\n\n10- Currency Proclamation -\n\nSept. 21 Greswolde to render Criminals- Empowering Foreign Sant. 1 Cheniere Corbis clipped a \"Ville d' Agen!\"\n\nPage ...\n\n \n\"\n\n\"\n\nLooks & caution. Alles katik yo\n\nFeb 7/ Chhadelin to break fort & Eat yg helle alger\n\nMar. 12. Extension of Political Offenders. Clemency fiverance\n\nApr. 7\n\n18 Pardon, Cummins - Gremy Sove yo\n\nMay 9 M. L. Wise. Acting false destin Huiseie-\n\n18 Japan Consular Courts. Appeal & Houston, Supreme in\n\n22. Proclamation against Export of War. Proclamation against-\n\nAng-\n\n4 29 W. Wiese. Swedish Mazab.\n\nPage ...\n\n#\n\n7 546 Exemption of Woollatimal. Proclamation against-\n\n11- 8. Federal Van Steamer. Wyoming Ponivel\n\n24 Pardon prisoners from forsalan Com. 5- Pown & fremor to\n\nSept. 2 Depure fotomy in event of Eruption will kits hit-\n\nwith Hallentur, & War. Proclamation against Expert of\n\n22. Punishment of Offences, returning & One, Japan & Li-an-\n\n21/04 feal Jee, for leurst Warsus in China and Japan\n\nOct. 13. M. Toomey. Death of.\n\nOct. 8. The French in China - Proceedings of\n\nHome Sept. 218. W. Thompson. Trial for murder. Executed Rantty us anity acquitted\n\nApr. 6\n\n22. Superintendent of fount Auch. D.Bain kummenset.\n\nJune 11 Supreme font to give mandrams & sorular pants - India Mar. 31 Convict; 5th Andaman Blanes. Sucherzal is un\n\n19. Odename.\" Backups & Impolvents.\n\n14 26 Japan. Introductures & Imus into-\n\nMycellanery.\n\nSept. 29. Emen Mail Packet. Delentin\n\nPage ...\n\nt\n\nif\n\nh\n\n...\n\nAb. 6\n\nDo\n\n&\n\n4\n\nremune\n\nPage 10\n\n \n(rearranged content)\n\n...",
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        "content_text": "Port Office Jockey 3 μMail by French Barges. Bookkeeping Company char. 20 September. Interrogatory - Port office. \"Apr. 22 Act. Portal regulation - Lew boundary. 29. Box & Lees for Japan.\n\nPort Office\n\nMay 6\n\n144 Portal Rates.\n\nKew Gardens. 15. Lees from Japan-\n\nCharltered Bank. 20' Street, and Liabilities-\n\nBit Trim and June 12. Candidate in Chinese Language- Examination of\n\nStavernay Officer Lucky, 16 Blue Book. Currency of the Colony -\n\nInfra Bank Arg. 7. Refusal of their Notes-\n\nPort off in Lept. 26. Rate & Putre. Vin Marseilly. Alteration in Charl, Heated Bad Nov. 44. Sabotaging are burity.\n\nBerden ruante 20 bential behol. Dest. Meslehet for\n\nkumenty\n\nRoyal Mint Des. 7. Establishment of Newilling. Estimate fr -\n\n\"Rade. Boms of \"May 20th Wrecker Bayne Ardville? how of\n\n547\n\nTrade R. 1 Hume 2 / Wreckas Baype Ardville. Law Besseyp of\n\nDec: 18 Marty, and thates holden Colonial Cerly.cn5-\n\nf\n\nSand 2/4. 2. Stanfed. Property forfeiter & Co-\n\nTreasury\n\n15 Hongkong. Mycellavery Semig at a Stimati\n\nMilna -\n\n20-Currency Proclamation\n\nAppa Bank Nots. Refused at Regan of\n\nFely. 2 Kowloose. W. Bez durvey of\n\nIt Mercers Wall Salary er polonial Century.\n\n5 Dollar Poten\n\n11 Volunteer. Allowanceton\n\n- Government Home. Paper Bangings fur-\n\nMar. If defalcation in folonial Teas my-\n\nSpil 6.W. Auglis. Packet Gout at Changhai-\n\n1. Public Work. Repeat and Estimates -\n\n17,\n\n21 Bankruptcy Odmanie. W. Routes Fe",
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        "document_key": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]",
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        "content_text": "263\n\nas\n\nuseful\n\nI consider the application of Mr. Walsh reasonable, and I am of opinion that it is desirable that it should be complied with.\n\nThe Revenue of the Agency is divided between the Imperial Post Office and the French Government, and up to this time the cost to the Colony of its maintenance has been very trivial, amounting to $24.64.\n\nMiscellaneous expenses from the opening of the Agency in December 1859 to the present time; the Salary of the Packet-Agent being paid from Imperial funds.\n\nThe amount of Revenue which accrued to the Colony from this Agency during the period from 1st July 1882 to 30th June 1883, amounted to $789.27 and from 1st July 1883 to 30th June 1884, a sum of $2,111.65 was derived from it.\n\nI have to,\n\n(Signed) F.W. Mitchell,\n\nPost Master General\n\nas useful to the community there as the Branch of the French Post Office recently established appears to be.\n\n \n will be reordered to \n\n263\n\nas useful to the community there as the Branch of the French Post Office recently established appears to be.\n\nI consider the application of Mr. Walsh reasonable, and I am of opinion that it is desirable that it should be complied with.\n\nThe Revenue of the Agency is divided between the Imperial Post Office and the French Government, and up to this time the cost to the Colony of its maintenance has been very trivial, amounting to $24.64.\n\nMiscellaneous expenses from the opening of the Agency in December 1859 to the present time; the Salary of the Packet-Agent being paid from Imperial funds.\n\nThe amount of Revenue which accrued to the Colony from this Agency during the period from 1st July 1882 to 30th June 1883, amounted to $789.27 and from 1st July 1883 to 30th June 1884, a sum of $2,111.65 was derived from it.\n\nI have to,\n\n(Signed) F.W. Mitchell,\n\nPost Master General\n\nThe final output in HTML is \n263\n\nas useful to the community there as the Branch of the French Post Office recently established appears to be.\n\nI consider the application of Mr. Walsh reasonable, and I am of opinion that it is desirable that it should be complied with.\n\nThe Revenue of the Agency is divided between the Imperial Post Office and the French Government, and up to this time the cost to the Colony of its maintenance has been very trivial, amounting to $24.64.\n\nMiscellaneous expenses from the opening of the Agency in December 1859 to the present time; the Salary of the Packet-Agent being paid from Imperial funds.\n\nThe amount of Revenue which accrued to the Colony from this Agency during the period from 1st July 1882 to 30th June 1883, amounted to $789.27 and from 1st July 1883 to 30th June 1884, a sum of $2,111.65 was derived from it.\n\nI have to,\n\n(Signed) F.W. Mitchell,\n\nPost Master General",
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        "content_text": "No 4\n\n264\n\nSui\n\nPacket Agency.\n\nManagawa,\n\n13th July, 1864.\n\nThe establishment of a French Postal Agency here with very liberal and satisfactory arrangements in all respects, but more especially in regard to the instant delivery of letters throughout this Community by means of Coolies employed for that purpose has given rise to some unpleasant and not unfounded criticism upon the want of similar accommodation and regard for the interests of the community.\n\nF.M. Mitchell, Lt. H.M. Postmaster General Hongkong.",
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        "content_text": "No. 97.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency The GOVERNOR directs the publication of the subjoined Annual Report of the Hongkong General Post Office for the Year 1866.\n\nBy Order,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 29th June, 1867.\n\nNo. 32.\n\nHENRY JOHN BALL, Acting Colonial Secretary.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, 27th June, 1867.\n\nSir,-Some delay has occurred in handing in my usual Annual Report, caused by my absence, accompanied by EDWARD HUGH REA, Esquire, the Special Surveyor of the Post Office in the East, on an Official tour of inspection of the Postal Agencies at the various Ports and places in China and Japan. Having returned to Hongkong on the 15th Instant I proceeded at once to collect the information necessary for this purpose and I now transmit for the information of His Excellency Sir RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL my report being that for the year 1866.\n\nIn the first place I regret to remark that the Office has not apparently been so productive of Revenue during the year ending the 31st December last as it was in 1865 by the sum of $28,950.26 cents, and the following statement shews, that whilst the Imperial share of the Revenue was £3,928.18.7=$18,858.86 cents less in 1866 than it was in 1865, the Colony's share was $9,391.40 cents minus for the same period:-this diminution is accounted for by the depressed state of Commercial and Banking interests in the East; during the year many Mercantile Firms of standing, and Six Banks have either failed or discontinued business; by a monthly line of Steamers running for a portion of the year between Manila and Singapore carrying Mails which were formerly conveyed to this place for transmission to the United Kingdom and other places; by the continuance of an illicit conveyance of letters by vessels running on the Coast of China and Japan, and chiefly to Shanghae, where they have been deposited at the Local Post Office to the detriment of the Colonial Revenue, a fact which is substantiated by the report for the year ending 31st March last which has just been published by the Municipal Council of that place, from which it appears that nearly Six thousand Loose Letters were received at that Office from Hongkong in the year. An agreement which I made during a recent visit to Shanghae ensures that such letters will, even if taken to the Local Post Office in the first instance, be handed over to the British Post Master, who will collect the ordinary Sea Postage upon them. The mails carried by the French line of Mail Packets have also increased somewhat to the disadvantage of the British Revenue.\n\nComparative Statement of Revenue.\n\n  \n    Total amount of Revenue collected during the year 1865,\n    £40,029.16.1 =$192,143.06\n  \n  \n    Do. do. do. 1866,\n    34,144.6.8 =$163,892.80\n  \n  \n    Total deficiency in 1866 as compared with 1865,\n    £5,885.9.5 =$28,250.26\n  \n  \n    Total amount of Imperial Revenue collected in 1865,\n    £27,267.18.5 =$130,886.03\n  \n  \n    Do. do. 1866,\n    £23,338.19.10 =$112,027.17\n  \n  \n    Total deficiency in 1866 as compared with 1865,\n    £3,928.18.7 =$18,858.86\n  \n  \n    Total amount of Colonial Revenue collected in 1865,\n    $61,257.03\n  \n  \n    Do. do. 1866,\n    $51,865.63\n  \n  \n    Total deficiency in 1866 as compared with 1865,\n    $9,391.40\n  \n\nThe amount (exclusive of Postage Stamps) outstanding and due to this Office from the Packet Agencies at the Ports at the end of the year 1865 was $8,558.47 cents, whilst that due at the end of 1866 was $13,704.10 cents thus shewing that there was $5,145.63 cents more outstanding and due to the Department in 1866 than in the previous year, and therefore reducing the total deficiency in last year's Revenue to $23,104.63, and making the Colony's share of the Postal Revenue for 1866 in reality only $4,240.77 cents less than that of 1865.\n\nThe Revenue of the Department is not however a perfect criterion of the amount of work performed in the Post Office, as for instance, if, as before shewn, £23,338.19.10 was collected here on account of the Imperial Office, it is only reasonable to assume that a sum even larger than that has been collected in the United Kingdom and elsewhere and retained there, upon correspondence sent in the mails to Hongkong, and therefore estimate that the existence of this Office and the Agencies which are subject to it induces a sum equal to about £60,000 Sterling per annum towards the payment of the Postal Subsidy, and this I am satisfied by the result of experience recently gained might be very much augmented if Officers of the Post Office were placed on board the Packets to sort the mails on the voyage, a subject which will form a part of the General Report of my tour of inspection.\n\nThe expenditure for the year 1866, so far as the same has been defrayed by the Colony amounts to $25,356.46 cents or $87.13 cents less than that of 1865, this does not embrace any portion of the charge for the carriage of the English Mails, although it includes a sum of $2,439.81 cents paid for the conveyance of mails by private Ships.",
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        "content_text": "The Staff of Officers of the Department remained unchanged during 1866, and no additional Agencies were established. My recent inspection has satisfied me that none can be opened with advantage to the Public Revenue.\n\nI am satisfied that the Peninsular and Oriental Company have now put every possible check upon the illegal conveyance of letters by the Contract Packets running between this place and Shanghai; but it is also clear to me that great numbers of letters are still illicitly carried in a way that it is next to impossible to discover; many are carried by passengers, and others are sent by Special Chinese Messengers, who in the absence of an Officer of Customs cannot of course be searched, the loss to the Revenue on this line and the other Coast lines must be considerable.\n\nThe amount realized by the sale of Postage Stamps during the year 1866 was $134,107.94 cents or $29,775.04 cents less than it was in 1865.\n\nThe share of the postage which the Colonial Government received on mails from the United Kingdom during the last year amounted to £1,927.18.3 or £140.0.0 less than the sum received from the same source in 1865.\n\nDuring the year 1866, 171,835 letters and 152,855 Newspapers and Prices Current were sent in the mails by the British Packets to the United Kingdom; these figures show a decrease of 58,238 Letters and 5,156 Papers in the year 1866 as compared with the previous year, it follows therefore that the falling off in the Revenue has been principally caused by a decrease in the correspondence sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom, whilst 10,074 letters and 1,871 papers were also transmitted in the mails carried by the French Packets, showing an increase of 204 letters and a decrease of 3,265 papers under this head; no account is taken of the number of letters and papers received in the mails by either the British or French Packets.\n\nThe Registered letters received from London during 1866 numbered 939, and those despatched to London amounted to 1,005, showing an increase of 35 of the former and 26 of the latter over those of 1865.\n\nThe number of Ship Mails (i.e., mails conveyed by Vessels not under Contract) received at Hongkong during the year 1866 was 1,121 or 112 less than those received in 1865, and the number of such Mails which were dispatched from Hongkong during 1866 was 1,616, or 110 in excess of the number dispatched in 1865.\n\nDuring the year 1866, 1,395 Official letters on the business of the Office were received, and 1,066 letters were written and sent from the Office: these are exclusive, of course, of minutes, the usual routine letters and printed forms, and of a vast deal of correspondence which takes place in Notes, and show an increase of 120 letters received and 272 written over those of the Year 1865.\n\nThe system of fines for Overtime and premiums for time saved on the voyage which was inaugurated in November 1865, has, it may be assumed from a return appended, resulted so far in accelerating the Contract Mails; from this return it will be observed that in the year 1866 the Peninsular and Oriental Company delivered 15 Mails here before their due date and Mails after they were due here; in the year 1865, 3 Mails arrived on their due date, 13 before their time and 8 after their time, and, that in 1866 31 days were gained on the voyage, and 25 lost, against 24 days gained and 36 lost in 1865, and that in 1866 the quickest time in which a Mail was conveyed to Hongkong via Marseilles was 37 days, whilst in 1865, 41 days was the shortest time occupied in this service. The French Packets delivered their quickest mail in 1865 in 39 days, and in 1866 in 38 days.\n\nI also inclose returns of the specified and actual days of arrival and departure of the British Mail Packets during the year 1866.\n\nI have the honor to be, Sir, Your most Obedient Servant,\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 27th June, 1867.\n\nSTEAM COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND\n\nSpecified and actual days of arrival and departure of the Mail Contract Packets during 1866, shewing the number of days occupied in the passage to and from Southampton, and to and from Marseilles.\n\nName of PacketDate on which Packet should have arrived according to Time TableActual date of ArrivalNo. of days occupied in the voyage via MarseillesNo. of Days occupied in the voyage via Southampton\n\n...............\n\nPage 16\n\nPage 17\n\nPage 18\n\nAverage No. of days allowed for each voyage, ...\n\n...\n\nRETURN showing the NUMBER of DAYS allowed for the conveyance of Mails from London to Hongkong, via Southampton and via Marseilles, the time each voyage occupied, and the number of days lost or gained, during the Year 1866.\n\nName of PacketDate of DepartureVIA SOUTHAMPTONVIA MARSEILLES\n\n............\n\nTOTAL... 1,180 days\n\nTOTAL... 1,034 days\n\nF. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 27th June, 1867.",
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        "content_text": "## THE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH\n\n### ARTICLES OF IMPORT\n\n#### TEA\nThe public sale of last week was larger than any that have been held for many months past, and consisted principally of a good selection of Congous and Scented Teas. The prices obtained for Congous were very irregular, owing to the hesitation of buyers; but, on the whole, they showed a decline on those given at the last sale. There is no alteration of importance in the value of Scented Teas, with the exception of the lower grades of Scented Orange Pekoes, which are rather lower, and all descriptions of Green Tea realised full prices. Some dust sold at the sale at 4d. to 6d., but it was offered \"with all faults.\" Some interest was taken in a few parcels of Japan Greens, of Rifleman, which has just arrived, and a few transactions in them have taken place, and the remainder of this cargo will no doubt be readily disposed of, as there is a good demand for all descriptions of Green Teas. The market price of Common Congou is 11d. per lb. Sound Broken Leaf can be bought at 6½d. per lb., and Tea Dust at about 5½d. per lb.\n\n#### SILK\nSince our last report the Silk market has experienced little or no change, no one buying beyond present requirements. The absence of demand, both at home and abroad, has been almost unprecedented, and prices are mostly nominal. The arrival this week of some of the early shipments of the new China crop has created a slight diversion, about 400 bales finding buyers; the opening price of Tsatlee being 26s. to 30s. In Canton Silk there has been some little business doing at rather easier rates, but the assortment is by no means generally desirable. Japan Silk is quite neglected. The total deliveries show a slight improvement, being 407 bales China, and 234 bales Japan. We can as yet discern no general improvement in the Silk market; the first unloading of new Chinas has naturally attracted some attention, and led to some little business, but there is no disposition on the part of the trade to buy more Silk than is absolutely necessary, and speculation seems out of the question. The opening price for classic No. 3 Tsatlee, 29s., is higher than some people expected, but appears moderate as compared with the quotations we have for some time past been accustomed to. There is a wide margin between chop Silk and medium and inferior descriptions, red Peacock having been sold at 26s. 6d., and good No. 4 at 26s. The estimate of export for the season has been reduced by recent telegrams from China to 40,000 bales, and if the reported failure of the second crop prove true, it is possible that even this figure may not be reached. In Japan Silk there is nothing doing, the best descriptions of Mibash are firmly held, but ordinary and inferior qualities are pressed for sale.\n\n| Description | Price |\n| --- | --- |\n| Taatlee, No. 1 & 2 | 26 0 to 30 0 |\n| No. 3 | 24 0 to 27 0 |\n| Tsenfa and Hainio, No. 1 & 2 | 20 0 to 23 0 |\n| No. 3 | 18 0 to 20 0 |\n| Tarsaam, No. 1 & 2 | 18 0 to 23 0 |\n| No. 3 | 14 0 to 20 0 |\n| Long Reel Skeins | ... |\n| Canton | ... |\n| Japan: Tsinchew & Sinchew, No. 1 & 2 | 17 0 to 23 0 |\n| Ida, Bricks, No. 1 & ... | 21 0 to 26 0 |\n| No. 3 | 27 0 to 30 0 |\n| Soudni, No. 1 & 2 | 21 0 to 26 0 |\n| No. 3 | 21 0 to 26 0 |\n\n#### COTTON\nThe market since our last report has remained extremely quiet, the business having been to some extent restricted by the firmness of holders. The only sale of China reported is of 30 bales fair quality at 6¼d. per lb.\n\n#### SUGAR\nThere has been a fair demand from the trade, but speculators having done but little in the article scarcely any alteration in prices has taken place, and quotations of most descriptions are about the same as on the 8th ult. Foreign refined continues to be offered at prices lower than to allow the English refiners to compete with profitable results, but as the prospects of supply from the cane-growing countries indicate an out-turn by no means equal to our requirements, it is not probable that any material fall in values will take place, unless, indeed, the production of beetroot sugar should be on a larger scale than hitherto. The deliveries in all the sugar-consuming countries are progressing most satisfactorily, showing a decided and steady increase. The last sale of the Dutch Trading Company took place on the 24th ult., and comprised 39,000 baskets, Java; grey and yellow realised the rates current at the May sale, but white sold at 1s. decline. The principal transactions on the spot have comprised 14,000 casks West India; 16,000 bags Mauritius; 8,000 bags Bengal; 14,000 bags Madras; 1,500 bags Penang; 33,000 bags Manila; 1,200 casks Cuba and Porto Rico, and 850 bags Guatemala. The imports of sugar into the United Kingdom during the seven months ending 31st July amounted to 341,758 tons, against 322,277; the deliveries for home consumption were 316,846 tons, against 272,761, and for export and coastwise 5,966 tons, against 18,006. The stock on the 1st August was 189,736 tons, against 221,253 at the same date in 1866.\n\n#### SPICES\nAt the quarterly sales on the 29th ultimo, comprising 1,260 tons, bales Ceylon, good and fine qualities were difficult to sell, and only partly realised at moderate prices; medium quality brought full rates, and the inferior sorts an advance of 1d. to 2d. on the April sales, viz., fourths 1s. 3d. to 1s. 9d., thirds 1s. 10d. to 2s. 1d., seconds 2s. to 2s. 6d., firsts 2s. 6d. to 2s. 9d., and superior 2s. 6d. to 3s. 1d. per lb. Mace continues scarce and firm; 2 cases Penang at auction sold at 1s. 10d. to 1s. 11d. per lb. for medium reddish. Nutmegs are 1¼d. to 2d. per lb. dearer, with increased inquiry; good business done privately; 14 cases Penang and 37 cases Batavia sold at auction at 1s. 2d. to 1s. 9d. per lb. for ordinary small to middling medium. Sapanwood: Steady, and tons Siam at auction realised £12 to £12 15s., also one-third of 35 tons Ceylon offered, realised £10 15s. per ton.\n\n#### COFFEE\nThere has been a good demand, and although supplies have been ample, the values of good current descriptions have been maintained. Fine sorts have shown an advancing tendency, but common and low qualities have sold irregularly and at lower rates. The shipments from Ceylon at the last returns were 714,000 cwts., against 723,000 last season, made up of 545,000 cwts. Plantation and 169,000 cwts. Native, against 510,000 and 213,000, and the quantity now afloat for this country is 18,000 tons, against 18,000 last year. The principal transactions on the spot, with the latest prices paid, have comprised 6,000 casks 2,000 bags Plantation Ceylon, low middling to good bold greens 74s. 6d. to 84s. 6d., low middling to good middling blue 74s. 6d. to 82s., bold 85s. 6d., peaberry 91s. to 95s.; 200 casks 2,500 bags Native Ceylon, fine ordinary bold 64s., good ordinary 59s., small 50s., peaberry 65s. 6d. to 65s.; and 8,000 packages East India - Singapore, ordinary 45s. to 48s., Java 68s. The total deliveries of coffee in Holland from the 1st of January to the 31st of July were 484,694 bags, against 358,307 bags in 1866, and the stock at the end of last month was 525,500 bags, against 580,100 bags.\n\n#### CURRANTS\nIn fair demand, and 2,000 packages good Pegu have realised 37s. to 38s. per cwt.\n\n#### CAMPHOR\nChina and Japan descriptions are firm, with fair private business at £6 15s. to £7 per cwt.\n\n#### GUM BENJAMIN\nThe market is steady, and of 56 cases Siam at auction half sold at £24 to £24 15s. per cwt. For fine third quality, and £11 to £11 15s. for dark. Of 42 cases Sumatra three-fourths sold at £8 2s. 6d. to £8 12s. 6d. per cwt. for false packed second quality.\n\n#### GALLS\nThe transactions have comprised 100 cases China at 6¼s., and a small portion Japan at 5¾s. per cwt.\n\n#### MANILA HEMP\nThe market is now firm, with a moderate business at fully the previous rates, 587 bales having been sold at auction at £49 10s. to £50 5s. per ton for fair current quality.\n\n#### PEPPER\nThere has been a fair inquiry for black privately, and nearly 8,000 bags have been sold, Penang at 2¼d. to 2 15/16d., Singapore 3d. to 5/16d., and Tellicherry at 3¼d. At public sale, 840 bags Penang were all taken at 2¼d.; also 164 bags Singapore White at 5d. to 5¼d., and 100 bags privately at 5d. cash.\n\n#### RICE\nA rise in the Corn market, consequent upon the uncertain weather, has been followed by a movement in this article. Owing, however, to the small stock there has been but little in which to operate on the spot, and in consequence the greater part of the transactions have taken place in floating cargoes or parcels. About 18,000 bags have changed hands on the spot at full to rather higher prices, viz., 10s. 9d. to 12s. 3d. for Soft-grain, and 16s. to 16s. 6d. for white Bengal. Of floating cargoes about forty have changed hands, the latest sales being at 11s. to 11s. 3d. for ...\n\n#### TAPIOCA\nAt auction 136 bags Singapore were chiefly sold, good middling and good white 4¼d. to 5d. per lb.; and 165 bags pearl Tapioca fetched 30s. to 31s. per cwt.\n\n### ARTICLES OF EXPORT\n\n#### IRON\nThe quotations in London are for Welsh bars, £5 15s. to £6; nail rods, £7 10s. to £7 15s.; hoops, £8 10s. to £9; sheets, single, £9 15s. to £10; Staffordshire bars, £7 10s. to £7 15s.; rails, £4 5s.\n\n#### COPPER\nSheet and Sheathing, £79 to £83 per ton; yellow metal, 7d. to 7¼d. per lb.\n\n#### TIN\n£91 for block; £92 for common bars. Tin plates, best charcoal I.C., 30s. to 31s.\n\n#### LEAD, &c.\nEnglish pig, W.B., £21; shot, patent, £23; sheet, £20 15s.; spelter, £20 17s. 6d.; zinc, English sheet, £26 to £26 10s.; quicksilver, £6 17s. 6d.\n\nThe following is from the Circular of Messrs. French and Smith :- \nThere has been no activity in the Metal Market the past month, the increasing abundance and cheapness of money having apparently no influence. Almost all transactions reported have been for immediate consumption or shipment. Iron: Scotch and Welsh are quoted a shade easier; Staffordshire is steady, with a good demand for the East; and as some few of the railways are on the market again for Rails, a firmer tone in this branch of the trade may reasonably be expected. Copper is rather lower than at the beginning of July. The mail on 18th ult., brought advices of charters for about 1,400 tons Copper, 850 tons of which were Bars. That on the 29th ult. brought advices of about 1,800 tons Copper, of which 1,200 were Bars. Sales of Bars have been made at £67 10s. Prices now quoted are: Bars, £84 to £85; Wallaroo, £82 to £83; English Tough Cake, £75 to £76; Chili Bars, £68 to £69. Tin: A large business was done in Tin during July, principally for immediate delivery; and the quantity of Straits taken out of warehouse here is very large. The consumption in England continues great, especially for Tin-Plate manufacturers, whose works were never more fully employed. The price for fine Straits in July was between £86 10s. and £87; it is rather weak Banca is at the latter quotation to-day through some pressing sellers. steady in Holland at 53 guilders; English firm, at quotations. Tin Plates are in very good demand, and, notwithstanding the large production, prices are rather stronger. The shipments in July were 140,000 boxes, against 165,000 boxes same month in 1866. By the Board of Trade returns, the exports, January to June, were 36,690 tons, against 34,750 tons in 1866, and 30,410 in 1855. Lead is more inquired for, although there is no improvement in price. Spelter advanced in the middle of July to £21 5s., at which some small business was done, but has gone back to £20 17s. 6d. The stock on 31st July was 3,627 tons, against 6,808 tons in 1866. Quicksilver unchanged.\n\n### EXPORT OF BULLION TO CHINA, &c.\n\nThe following return shows the shipments of bullion from Southampton from the 1st January by the P. and O. Company's mail steamers.\n\n| Destination | Gold | Silver |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Shanghai | £62,376 | ... |\n| Fo-chow-Foo | £5,090 | ... |\n| Amoy | £36,665 | ... |\n| Hong Kong | £8,140 | £45,018 |\n| Singapore | £600 | £5,281 |\n| Penang | ... | ... |\n| Yokohama | £400 | ... |\n\n### FROM MARSEILLES. (BY THE P. AND O. COMPANY'S STEAMERS.)\n\n#### DEPARTURES-continued\n\n| Date | Ship | Gold | Silver |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| July 31 | Mary Ann | £18,628 (Hong Kong) | £6,575 (Hong Kong) |\n| Aug. 1 | Bonnie Dundee | £4,500 (Manila) | £450 (Manila) |\n| Aug. 2 | Adolfo | £100,000 (Manila) | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n### GOLD AND SILVER\n\n| Item | Price (per ounce) |\n| --- | --- |\n| Bar Gold | £3 17 0 |\n| Spanish Doubloon | £3 10 9 |\n| United States Gold Coin | £3 16 4 |\n| Silver in Bars | 5 0 |\n| Mexican Dollars | 0 4 11/16 |\n\n### SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE\n\n#### ARRIVALS\n\n| Ship | Captain | From | At |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Belpore | Foote | Rangoon | Singapore |\n| Helvoetsluis | Rema | Java | Batavia |\n| Prinses Amelia | Moerkerken | Batavia | ... |\n| Agra | Alexander | ... | ... |\n| Ide Gertruida | ... | ... | ... |\n| Martin | ... | ... | ... |\n| Rifleman | Niemann | ... | ... |\n| Margaretha | ... | ... | ... |\n| Cleopatra | ... | Batavia | ... |\n| Gustav | ... | ... | ... |\n| Warrior | McCauley | Bassein | ... |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### DEPARTURES\n\n| Ship | Captain | For | From | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Charlotte | ... | New York | Foong Kong & Canton | July 25 |\n| Nouveau Nomade | Marchandeau | Singapore | Cardiff | July 24 |\n| Schalde | ... | Shanghai | London | July 27 |\n| Eastern Queen | Halfman | ... | ... | July 27 |\n| Beemah | Wilburn | Japan | Newport | July 27 |\n| Alvington | Wakeham | Shanghai | London | July 28 |\n| Peterborough | Adams | Singapore | Cardiff | July 28 |\n| Bagota | Orchard | Shanghai | London | July 27 |\n| Heather Bell | Jones | Singapore | Liverpool | July 27 |\n| Sea King | Opdahl | Hong Kong | Newcastle | July 31 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n\n#### LOADING\n\nAt LONDON-For Yokohama, St. Dunstan, For Yokohama and Nagasaki Pampero, Broadwater. For Shanghai: Durham, Shakspere, Sir Jamserjee Family. For Hong Kong: Channel Queen, Sophie. For Hong Kong and Canton: The Tweed. Chaa-Sze, Avon, Albert Victor. For Manila: Auroliana. For Singapore and Penang: Queen of Ceylon. For Singapore: Arab Steed. Coldstream. For Batavia and Sourabaya: William Stewart, Couranto. For Penang: Chaturanga. For Colombo: Seafield, Thames, Hesperia, Palestine, Granville. For Colombo and Calcutta Clyde, Peeress, Harkaway. For Galle and Cochin Ann Lucey.\n\nAt LIVERPOOL-For Yokohama: Recife. For Yokohama or Hong Kong: Golden Dream. For Shanghai: Leon Crespo, Alarm. For Singapore: Indian Empire. For Manila: Olano, Feliz. For Batavia and Singapore: Lancastria.\n\nAt GLASGOW-For Yokohama: Runnymede. For Hong Kong: Suomi. For Manila Rosa del Turia, Manuel. For Batavia and Sourabaya: County of Bute. For Colombo: Christian Rankine. Penang Margaret Falconer.\n\n### FREIGHTS AND CHARTERS\n\nFreights to the Eastern ports remain unaltered; coal freights from the Northern outports continue firm.\n\n| Route | Price (weight/meast) |\n| --- | --- |\n| To Yokohama | 20s. to 30s. (weight), 50s. (meast) |\n| To Nagasaki | 50s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Shanghai | 40s. (weight), 45s. (meast) |\n| To Amoy | 40s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Foo-chow-Foo | 45s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Hong Kong | 35s. (weight), 40s. (meast) |\n| To Singapore | 30s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Penang | 40s. (weight or meast) |\n| To Manila | 40s. (weight), 85s. (meast) |\n| To Ceylon | 25s. to 30s. (weight), 35s. (meast) |\n\n### CASUALTIES\n\nThe Aria and Betsy, from Cardiff to Singapore, was spoken 25th June, 8 N., 24 W., with loss of topgallant mast, topmasthead, topsailyard and jibboom.\n\nThe Thos. Blyth, MacGiven, of and from Liverpool to Shanghai, foundered at sea 6th July, in lat. 35 S., lon. 30 W., crew arrived at Pernambuco.\n\nThe Spirit of the Deep, which sailed from Penang for London 25 May, has been totally lost near Acheen Head, crew saved.\n\nThe Minister Pahud, Lipjes, sailed from Batavia for Holland on the 1st Jan., and has not since been heard of.\n\n### MISCELLANEOUS\n\nAt ST. VINCENT, C.V.-June 27, Adeline (S.S.), Findlay, from London, and left, 29, for Japan.\n\nThe Empress, Strarach, from Colombo did not arrive at Deal July 23, as reported.",
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        "content_text": "1 Dozen Perry's Bostonite States 6x4 inches.\n\n3 Reams Foolscap. Blue laid thin. 18th ruled with blue lines Binch.\n\n## Drawing Materials\n\n1 quires Amble Elephant drawing paper.\n\nDozen French tracing paper.\n\n2 Rolls of tracing cloth\n\n久 \n/ \nquires Lany Sixpence.\n\nBox of Gillots five Dozen of Pens No. 170\n\n3 Dozen fine Drawing pencils.\n\nD. Surveyor's quantity Books (as per samples, addressed to the Postmaster General).\n\n2 Reams Cartridge paper-\n\n2 Reams Thick cream laid post\n\n4 Double Imperial copy\n\n180th \n10 \nBrown paper Leny.\n\n4th \n1 \nPink wove Blotting...\n\nFor the \n4 \n6 \nDozen \n5601 \n\nFoolscap white laid cream 144 the \nDr Blue laid \n18 the \nNo1. Printed. On His Majesty's Service & Cancelled) \n\n3000 Envelopes. 1/2 \ndo. \ndo. \ndo \ndo \n\n6 Gross Red pencils good small size.\n\n100 \nANDREWS \nlarge sheets.\n\n20 \ndo \nSuper: Red Sealing \n\n100 Stamping pad.\n\ndo. \n20 sticks to the th \n\nde. \ndo \n\n350 lbs. Pack thread fallen inclosed (loose packed in tin lined cases).\n\nGross Gilloths barrel pen (Pine).\n\n4 \n2 \ndo. \nI do... \n\nDo \nDo \n12 pieces of green ribbon. \n(Medium) \n(Broad).\n\n12 Dozen Red Paper. 1 lb Pins (mixed). 4 Pentinives (two Shades) 6 Erasers.\n\n3 Pair Scissors No. 1.\n\n5 \nNo 2. \nRodgers.\n\n3 Dozen Quarts black Ink. Morrell's.\n\n6 \n1. Black lead pencils. H.B.\n\n6 pieces India Rubber.\n\n500 Quill pens No \n\n6 Cans black stamping ink.\n\nb \ndo. blue \ndo. red \n\n6 Obliterating Composition (for defacing Postage Stamps) \n\n4 Books for Registered letter receipts and dockets, numbered consecutively from 1 to 500 & perforated between the receipt and docket to be marked at back \"Registered Letters for England\" (white paper printed in red).\n\n4 Books for Registered letter receipts and dockets - numbered consecutively from 1 to 100 & perforated between the receipt and docket to be marked at back \"Registered letters to India\" (white paper printed in black).\n\n4 Books for Registered letter receipts and dockets numbered consecutively from 1 to 3000 perforated between the receipt and docket to be marked at back \"Registered letters from England\" (Green paper.).\n\n4 Books for Registered letter receipts and dockets- numbered consecutively from 1 to 500 & perforated between receipt and docket to be marked at back \"Registered letter from India\" (Pink paper).\n\n4 pieces of Vulcanized India Rubber. 4 feet 6 inches long by 1 foot 1 inches wide & four thicknesses of an inch thick. Ditto 2 feet 3 inches long by 1 foot 1 inches wide & ...",
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        "content_text": "# 307\n\n## A. THE FIRE\n\nShortly after eleven o'clock, last evening, a policeman saw fire issuing from a lower window of Messrs Fawcett & Company's stores. And he immediately proceeded to the station to give the alarm. Mr Bleecker, the assistant residing on the premises, heard a crackling noise and perceived the smell of fire about the same time, but as no communication took place between the P.C. and himself, it is difficult to say who first discovered it. So far had it then advanced in the interior of the building that Mr Bleecker had only time to save his wife and two children by lowering them over the verandah when he was compelled to seek safety himself by similar means.\n\nThe Policeman was closely followed by a gentleman who had perceived the fire while coming down past the Roman Catholic Cathedral. The police were then called, and in the take-it-easy manner which distinguishes that valuable branch of the public service, commenced to turn out.\n\nAbout a minute afterwards, a gentleman rushed up in his pajamas and jacket and represented the imminent danger to which the building was exposed. This seemed to rouse the dormant energies of the \"valuable branch;\" and the firebell (which should have been rung immediately on the alarm) was then set going, and some fifteen minutes after the known outbreak of the fire, the \"valuable branch\" - or the V.B. (if we may be allowed to adopt the initials for shortness) - were on the spot, under the direction, as three of them some twenty minutes afterwards informed us, of - nobody whatever!\n\nBut the V.B. were not alone. Sikhs, whose chief characteristics were an utter incapacity for comprehending a single word addressed to them and a violent desire to beat the Chinese crews of two of the engines present over the head, were visible in force. The Military, Naval, Messageries Imperiales, Dockyard, and many private engines were soon present, and it is almost superfluous to say that they worked with great energy, cramped only by the want of any effective co-operation on the part of the V.B. and F.B. (or fire brigade), so mythical an institution that initials do it more than justice.\n\nAs for the V.D., or to speak plainly, the European police, they were useless, inattentive, insubordinate, and in two cases which came into our knowledge, thieving and drunk. (If they desire identification, we shall be happy to oblige them.) And in this connection, we would draw attention to the very staid behaviour of the Naval (British, American, and French) and Military detachments present.\n\nIt was soon found that all efforts to stop the fire in the store itself would be useless, and here a little leadership would have been invaluable. Regarding the other official and civilian forces present, we cannot but thank the gentlemen whose strenuous efforts to do something in that way were conspicuous. Captain Barry, Messrs Heard, Hayller, Coxon, Pollard, Glennie, and Captain Farrington, did good service. But especially were the services of Mr Tounochy valuable, and it was by his efforts that Mr Pearce, the proprietor, was enabled to preserve his personal effects from total loss.\n\nThe extinction, or rather cessation, of the fire was chiefly owing to the fact that it caught the mat covering of Messrs Dent & Co.'s stables, which, combustible as they were, actually saved the remainder of the block by their rapid combustion, thus placing a gap between the main body of the fire and the houses in D'Aquilar Street. Most fortunately for the inhabitants of the block in which the China Mail Office is situated, the verandah of the shop occupied by Atiek was not ignited, owing partly to its being kept well wetted, but chiefly to the part of the wind blowing from the harbour driving the flames into the burning store. The verandah in question is peculiarly dangerous, being wholly of wood, very projecting, and occupying the corner of a block.\n\nThe scene during the fire was one of utter confusion, which was \"doubly confounded by the rush of frantic coolies, who, with swords and choppers aloft, rushed about with such property as they could lay hands on, in a blind belief that the Colony was in a fair way of being burnt up and that their individual \"traps\" were the special object of the Promethean joss. This stampede is the feature in all fires wherein Chinese are concerned, and ought to be one of the first evils against which the energy of an efficient F.B. Chief should be turned.\n\nShouting, stumbling, quarrelling, and tumbling right in the way of those who were anxious and willing to assist in limiting the fire to a given area, these fear-stricken fools rushed about, rendering freedom of or scope for action almost impossible, and only giving opportunity for the knaveries of thieves who were on the look out at every turn. In one case which fell under our notice, a large posse of about forty of these creatures were seen to completely stop the crew of an engine proceeding up D'Aguilar Street to connect with the hydrant.\n\nThe following, so far as we can learn, are the engines which were on the ground:\n| Engine | Superintendence |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hongkong Fire Insurance Company (steam) | under the very able superintendence of the engineers in charge |\n| Messrs Dent & Co.'s engine | under the superintendence of Mr Glennie |\n| Police, Water Police, and Dockyard Police Engines |  |\n| Engines belonging to the military and naval authorities |  |\n| Messageries Imperiales engine |  |\n\nOne or two hoses were attached to hydrants near by and did some service, but we fancy rather needlessly reduced the water supply for the engines. We failed to discover which of the engines, hydrants, hose, or working-parties were under the more immediate command of the Superintendent of the F.B., - a failure shared by a large majority of those present.\n\nThe furniture of Mr Pearce, the proprietor, was most needlessly broken up and spoilt by an energetic band who laboured under the idea that pitching crockery downstairs was likely to deprive the flame of matter whereon to feed. Fortunately, he preserved some of the more valuable portion.\n\nThe fire was confined within the area over which it extended, \"more by good luck than good management.\" The embers remained smouldering all the forenoon, but by this time they cannot have much vitality. The iron chest has been found intact. No cause has as yet been assigned for the outbreak of the fire; everything was noticed to be correct at 5 p.m. The loss is, we believe, covered by insurance.\n\nAs a parting enquiry, we should like to know why the Sikhs, who cannot understand an English order, were latterly entrusted with the task of directing the hoses, while the European police stood by smoking their cigars?",
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        "content_text": "208\n\npackets shall submit to the sanitary, police, and customs' regulations of those ports concerning the arrival and departure of travellers.\n\nNevertheless, the passengers admitted on board those packets who do not think fit to land during the stay at one of the said ports, shall not, under any pretext, be removed from on board, be liable to any search, or be subjected to the formality of a visa of their passports.\n\nARTICLE VII.\n\nThe packets of the two Offices may enter or leave the ports of the two States at any hour of the day or night. They may also, if they think proper, without anchoring, embark or disembark the mails and passengers in the roads or at the entrance of the harbours, so long as they observe the regulations referred to in Article VI preceding.\n\nARTICLE VIII.\n\nWhenever a packet carrying mails shall be compelled to put into any port of either of the two States, other than that at which such packet should touch, the Post Office of the place where the said mails shall be landed, shall use the most certain and expeditious means of forwarding them to their destination.\n\nARTICLE IX.\n\nThe British Government reserves to itself the full and entire power to modify, when necessary, the route as well as the days and hours of departure and arrival of the packets which it may think proper to maintain, to freight, or to subsidize, for the conveyance of correspondence.\n\nThe French Government reserves to itself the same power as regards the packets which it may think right to maintain, to freight, or to subsidize for the conveyance of correspondence.\n\nThe two Offices shall be bound to give each other timely notice of the above-mentioned alterations.\n\nIt is, nevertheless, understood that the provisions of the present Article are not applicable to the two services established between Dover and Calais in virtue of Article I of the present Convention.\n\nARTICLE X.\n\nIn case of accidents or damage sustained in the course of their navigation by the packets respectively employed by the two Offices in the conveyance of the mails, the Contracting Parties engage to afford mutually to those vessels, all the aid and assistance which their situation may require, and to cause all necessary repairs to be made, and all damaged or destroyed rigging and machinery to be replaced by their arsenals, as far as may be practicable, according to the fixed charges of those establishments.\n\nARTICLE XI.\n\nIn case of war between the two nations, the packets of the two Offices shall continue their navigation, without impediment or molestation, until a notification is made on the part of either of the two Governments, of the discontinuance of the postal communications; in which case they shall be permitted to return freely, and under special protection, to their respective ports.\n\nARTICLE XII.\n\nThe captains of the packets engaged in the conveyance of the respective mails of the two Offices, are forbidden to take charge of any letter not included in their mail-bags, except, however, despatches of their Governments. They must take care that no letters are conveyed illegally by their crews or passengers, and must give information in the proper quarter of any breach of the laws which may be committed in that respect.\n\nARTICLE XIII.\n\nThe postage to be collected in France and Algeria upon paid letters addressed either to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland or to the Island of Malta, as well as upon unpaid letters originating either in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or in the Island of Malta, shall be as follows, viz.:-\n\n309",
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        "content_text": "Sir,\n\nI am to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 23rd instant, and to state that the arrangement proposed by the Postmaster General of Hongkong is one which, in the opinion of the Marquis of Hartington, it would not be at all desirable to adopt. I am to point out that letters sent from Hongkong to the places in question, via the United States mail Packets, could not be forwarded through the medium of the British Packet Agent at San Francisco, but would have to be sent in the mails for the United States Post Office; and postage accounts of a very complicated nature would have to be established with that Office.\n\nThe United States Packets leave Hong Kong for San Francisco once a month only, while the communication via Suez is three times a month - twice by British Packet and once by French Packet; so that it is fair to assume that the amount of correspondence which would be benefited by such arrangement as Mr. Mitchell proposes is but small, and would not warrant this Department in incurring the trouble and expense which would be involved in keeping the requisite postage accounts.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\nF. X.\n\nPage 64",
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        "document_key": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]",
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        "title": "CO129-144 - Sir MacDonnell & Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [3-5]",
        "content_text": "# \n\n## Yokohama\n\nhowever mention, that I found much confusion attended the landing of the Mails from the want of a truck or cart to convey them from the Jetty to the Post Office. I remedied this by purchase of a cart which the Municipal Council promised to horse without any charge.\n\n58. Conformably with His Excellency's minute of the 1st June, in which I was directed to make the most liberal arrangements, at all consistent with the possible requirements of the Government service for the continuance of the amalgamation of the British and Local Post Offices at Shanghai, I completed a new agreement, which has already received the sanction of the Governor in C. S. O. No. 2,176. I have, however, considered it proper to mention the matter in this report without introducing its conditions.\n\n59. The Postmaster at Shanghai has been instructed to keep a record of the number of Loose letters from Hongkong which are delivered to him under this agreement, and of the postage derived therefrom, and also of any loss in revenue by the new concession given to the Local Post Office, and to report the result each six months, so that in the event of any change being expedient or desirable it may be effected without unnecessary delay.\n\n60. I ascertained that the Municipal Council intend to erect a Telegraph between the Custom House Jetty and the premises of the Local Post Office; and I have arranged in writing with the Secretary of the Council that the British Post Office shall have the use of it for Mail Steamer Signals during the Local Post Office hours. The Telegraph to be in the Local Post Office, and worked by the Council.\n\n61. The salary of the Postmaster at Shanghai is £500 per annum, one moiety of which is paid by the Colony and the other by the Imperial Post Office. A Clerk at $720 per annum, a staff of Coolies costing $762 per annum, and the House Rent of $2,000 per annum, are paid at the cost of the Colony. The Marine Sorters are also employed on the line from Hongkong to Shanghai at Colonial expense.\n\n62. The annual profit from this Agency to the Colonial Government is estimated at $1,753.52, whilst the actual gross revenue collected amounts to $45,281.24.\n\n63. The number of foreign residents is about 1,126.\n\n64. In addition to the British Post Office and the Post Offices maintained by the Municipal Council, both France and America maintain Postal Establishments at Shanghai; these Offices are inconveniently situated in different parts of the settlement.\n\n65. I had it in my mind to endeavour to ascertain whether any general amalgamation of the whole of the Post Offices could be effected, but from all the information I could gather on the spot, it appears to me that any such arrangement will have to be negotiated with the different Governments at home.\n\n66. With the three opposing Post Offices, particularly the United States Office, through which much of the correspondence for America which was formerly sent through the Agency of this Department to be forwarded by British Packet, is now transmitted, I fear the prospects either of increased usefulness or increased revenue are not promising; so far, however, no very marked reduction of business has been observed.\n\n67. At Yokohama, Postmaster John Simpson, Esq., the business is carried on in a portion of the old Consulate which His Excellency Sir Harry Parkes, Her Majesty's Minister in Japan, has gratuitously placed at the service of the Government until the end of the year; this is, however, ill adapted to the wants of the service and inconveniently situated. Sir Harry Parkes has also, for the same period, placed a bungalow at the service of the Postmaster, as a residence, at a rent of $54 a month.\n\n68. A new Post Office is, however, being erected, and it is expected that it will be ready for occupation by the end of next month.\n\n69. The postal duties here were transferred from the hands of a Consular Officer in July, 1867 to an Officer sent from the Hongkong Post Office. The increased expense incurred by this measure was very considerable and amounted to an annual total of over £800 ($3,840), £500 of which is paid by the Imperial Post Office. This expenditure has since been increased by the appointment of a Clerk at $720 per annum, and an outlay of about $10,000 which is being made on the building now nearly completed.\n\n70. It was expected that this outlay would have been justified by the extended accommodation, which, under improved organization, the public should have gained, and by a corresponding increase of revenue; but I regret to state that this has not been the case. In the report (19 July, 1867, Paragraph 12) of the previous inspection of the Postal Agencies in China and Japan, it was estimated that, especially on account of improvements then about to be made at Yokohama, the cost to the Colony of the maintenance of these Agencies would be increased by about $1,000 per annum. Yokohama was not at that time, however, a place of call for the Contract Packets, as it is now, and therefore all the revenue collected on Local letters sent and received accrued to the Colony. As these letters are now carried by the Contract Packets, almost exclusively, the revenue goes to the Imperial Post Office; in fact since the British Packets commenced running under Contract the business of the Yokohama Post Office has been, with but little or no exception, for the benefit of the Imperial Post Office. At the same time, like the other Agencies, it collects and delivers letters the postage on which swells the general Colonial revenue of the Department.\n\n71. The completion of the Pacific Railway from San Francisco to New York has necessarily diverted most of the letters for the United States from their former course of transmission by the English Packets, viâ Marseilles and viâ Southampton, to the more direct and quicker route now afforded by the United States Packets running from Yokohama viâ San Francisco. These letters are therefore posted at the American Post Office at Yokohama. At the same time, it is satisfactory, from a Colonial point of view, to observe that, whilst the correspondence for the United States now forwarded by the English Mails from Yokohama, and from Hongkong also, has much diminished, it is, so far as the Colonial Revenue is concerned, an advantage, because the Colony reaps the benefit of all the postage collected here on letters, &c., forwarded by the United States Packets, whereas it only gets a small portion of that sent by the English Packets. The best illustration that can be given on this point is that during the month of September last year, the Colony's share of the postage on letters sent to the United States by the English Contract Packets amounted to $28.50 and in this month its revenue on letters sent by the American Packets amounts to $120.36.\n\n72. The discontinuance of the British Mail Contract line between Shanghai and Yokohama has also had an injurious effect upon the revenue of the Yokohama Post Office, whilst the French Post Office also deprives it of some of its business.\n\n73. The Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company is now running two Steamers a month between Shanghai and Yokohama, calling at Nagasaki and the various places in the inland sea of Japan, and I hear of an intention of increasing this number to... \n\n## Page 9\n\n## Page 126 \nEX",
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        "content_text": "## \nAt present one of the officers leaves Mongthong for Thangkat about 24 hours after the arrival of the English mail Packet, and arrives at Shanghai about ... days, and on the return trip the duty is comparatively trifling, it being only necessary to sort the small local mail for Hongtong. \n\nNo sort the mails in this office, I propose to accomplish in a very short time with the help Ready for immediate delivery; he remains at Shanghai on average about 2 days, returning to Wongthing with the first English Mail, with the Hongtong correspondence prepared for immediate delivery here. On the trip to Shanghae the sorting duty is constant and laborious whilst in Shanghai the Marine Officer's time is almost lost to the Department.\n\n4. By the arrangement proposed, I shall obtain the benefit of the two Marine Officers in question for constant duty here, and be able to sort in HongHong not only the mails for Shanghai arriving by the British Contract Packets, but those mails for Shanghai which reach Nongthing by the French Packets also. A result which is obviously of great advantage to the Shanghai Community.\n\n## \nline between Hongtting and Thangkat to make arrangements for vesting those mails in this office.\n\nof these officers \n\nand \n\n3 \n\n29 \n\n... \n| Column 1 | Column 2 |\n|----------|----------|\n| ...      | ...      |\n\nNo changes made to the non-English text as per the instruction to preserve all languages as-is.",
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        "content_text": "that the whole of the English mails for Shanghai brought by the outward French \nTackets should be delivered at this office, and that authority be given to return \nthose mails to the French Jacket \nproceeding to Shanghai; a concession \nwhich I have \nno doubt the General Post \nOffice in London will readily \nobtain \nfrom the Director General of the Posts in France, or the same result could be \nbrought about by \nan instruction from \nthe London Office to place all correspondence \nfor Shanghai forwarded by French \nStackets in the mails for Hongkong.\n\n18 \nWhen the two Marine \nSorters which I propose to withdraw \nfrom the Hongkong \nand Shanghai \nline were appointed \nan addition of £100 \nwas made to each of their \nsalaries on account of the increased \nexpenses they \nwere necessarily put to in \ntravelling, and chiefly \non account \nof the great responsibility which was thrown upon them, vide Paragraph 7 of my \nletter \nNo. 9 of the 18th April 1868. \nIt could perhaps be improper \nto reduce the salaries of these two officers \nto their former rate; but I consider that a reduction of £50 = $240 a \nyear \nin each of them on account of their returning \nto shore duty will \nbe reasonable, and I would suggest \nthat this should be done; this will \nmake the salary of M.: J. M. & Markwick, E. Machado",
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        "content_text": "## 50. The Money Orders drawn in the United Kingdom are as follows, viz.:\n\n| No. of Money Orders drawn | Place | Amount | Commission which accrued to the Colony |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 33 | On Hongkong | $124 | $3.10 |\n| 6 | On Shanghae | 14 | 0.18 |\n| 5 | On Yokohama | 18 | 0.40 |\n| 346 | Total | $157.42 | $7.08 |\n\nC. S, O. No. 903.\n\nHONGKONG, 11TH APRIL, 1870.\n\nACTING CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,\n(C. V. CREAGH),\n\nTO\n\nCOLONIAL SECRETARY,\n(Honorable J. GARDINER AUSTIN.)\n\nPolice Report for the Year 1869.\n\n## 51. The following figures will show the result of the Local Money Order system:—\n| Number | Amount | Commission |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 18 | $318.38 | $3.30 |\n| 9 | $131.63 | $1.50 |\n| 33 | $678.20 | $5.85 |\n| 6 | $626.76 | $6.15 |\n| 01 | $1,755.50 | $16.80 |\n\n## 52. The following statement shows a total increase in the Revenue of 1869, over that of 1868, amounting to $8,364.29; but as the amount of uncollected revenue at the end of 1869, was $1,375.16 less than that which was outstanding at the end of 1868, the actual excess of total revenue in 1869, as compared with the revenue of 1868, is only $6,989.13, of which $6,191.20 belongs to the Imperial Post Office and the remainder, viz., $797.93 to the Colony.\n\n## 53. This increase in the Imperial Revenue is accounted for by the Mails for the United Kingdom per French Packet having been made up at the British Post Offices at Shanghae and Yokohaina, instead of as in the previous year at the French Post Offices at these places. The direct service between Hongkong and Yokohama by British Contract Packets has also contributed to the Imperial Revenue, whilst it has lessened the Revenue of the Colony.\n\n## 54. Comparative Statement of Revenue.\n| Description | 1869 | 1868 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Total Revenue collected | £37,847.13 = $181,668.74 | £80,117.18 = $187,704.74 |\n| Add Amount received from Imperial Post Office towards the maintenance of the Postal Agencies in China and Japan | £1,270.0.0 = $6,090.00 | ... |\n| Total | £87,375.1.10 = $179,100.45 | ... |\n| Total increase in 1869, as compared with 1868 | £1,749.11 = $8,361.29 | ... |\n| Amount of Imperial Revenue collected in 1869 | {Remittances to London, £24,612.8.6 = $121,235.66; Contribution to Agencies, £1,270.0.0} | £25,882.8.0 = $118,044.46 |\n| Do. in 1868 | £24,592.11.11 = $86,191.20 | ... |\n| Increase in 1869, as compared with 1868 | £1,280.10.73 = $6,191.20 | ... |\n| Amount of Colonial Revenue in 1869 | $88,529.08 | ... |\n| Do. in 1868 | $61,355.99 | ... |\n| Increase in 1869, as compared with 1868 | $7,927.40 | ... |\n\n## 55. The Colonial Expenditure in 1869, (exclusive of the cost of the New Building at Yokohama, but including $9,885.54 Gratuities paid for the conveyance of Ship Mails,) amounts to $39,908.70. Less contributed by Imperial Post Office in aid of maintenance of Agencies at the Ports, $6,096.00. Expenditure borne by the Colony in 1869, $33,872.70. Do. in 1868, $26,645.21. Increase in 1869, as compared with 1868, $7,927.40.\n\n## 56. This increase in the expenditure of last year, as compared with 1868, is accounted for by the payment of the full year's salaries of the Marine Sorters in 1869, whereas in the previous year, they were only paid from the month of July, the time the system of sorting the Mails on board the British Contract Packets at sea began, and also by the additional charges for assistance it has been found necessary to give the Postmaster at Yokohama by the appointment of a Clerk, as well by an increase of $600 paid for the conveyance of Ship Mails. The excess of the Colony's Postal Revenue over its ordinary expenditure for Post Office purposes during the past year amounts to $26,656.38.",
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        "content_text": "## 67.\n\nThe number of Registered Letters sent, to India, during 1869, to Galle, to the Straits, to the Continent of Europe, and to the Ports of China and Japan, was 347. The number of Registered Letters received, was 396 from India, during 1869, 556 from Galle, 26 from Australia, 4,535 from the Straits, 18 from the Continent of Europe, 540 from the Ports of China and Japan, and 8 from other places, making a total of 617 sent and 2,815 received.\n\n| Place        | Sent | Received |\n|--------------|------|----------|\n| India        |      | 396      |\n| Galle        |      | 556      |\n| Australia    |      | 26       |\n| Straits      |      | 4,535    |\n| Continent of Europe |      | 18       |\n| Ports of China and Japan |      | 540      |\n| Other places | 8    |          |\n| Total        | 617  | 2,815    |\n\n## 57.\nThe Colony's share of the Postage on Mails received from the United Kingdom in 1860, was £1,375.19.7. In 1863, it was £1,265.12.2. The increase in 1869 was £110.7.5.\n\n## 58.\nThe number of Ship Mails sent in 1860, was 1,839. In 1868, it was 1,272. The increase in 1869 was 567. The number of Ship Mails received in 1869, was 1,178. In 1868, it was 1,103. The increase in 1869 was 75.\n\n## 59.\nThe Number of Letters and Papers received by United States' Packets in 1869, was 16,374 and 10,079 respectively. In 1868, it was 4,988 and 6,283. The Number of Letters and Papers sent by United States' Packets in 1869, was 14,090 and 9,224 respectively. In 1868, it was 11,206 and 7,051.\n\n| Year | Received Letters | Received Papers | Sent Letters | Sent Papers |\n|------|------------------|------------------|--------------|--------------|\n| 1869 | 16,374           | 10,079           | 14,090       | 9,224        |\n| 1868 | 4,988            | 6,283            | 11,206       | 7,051        |\n\n## 60.\nThe number of letters sent and received in the closed Mails between Hongkong and the United Kingdom via San Francisco is very inconsiderable, only 93 letters and 258 papers having been sent in the 9 Mails despatched and only 5 letters in the two Mails received. The longest time occupied homeward being 60 days and the shortest 51 days.\n\n## 61.\nThe number of Letters and Papers sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom was as follows: \n- By British Packet: In 1869, 188,101 letters and 103,761 papers; In 1868, 203,580 letters and 161,173 papers.\n- By French Packet: In 1869, 10,210 letters and 3,672 papers; In 1868, 9,093 letters and 2,148 papers.\n\n| Packet Type | Year | Letters | Papers |\n|-------------|------|---------|--------|\n| British     | 1869 | 188,101 | 103,761 |\n| British     | 1868 | 203,580 | 161,173 |\n| French      | 1869 | 10,210  | 3,672   |\n| French      | 1868 | 9,093   | 2,148   |\n\n## 62.\nThe weight of Letters sent to the United Kingdom in 1869, was as follows:\n- By British Packet: 2 tons, 19 cwt, 5 qrs, 18 lbs.\n- By French Packet: 0 tons, 5 cwt, 1 qrs, 26 lbs.\n\n## 63.\nThe weight of Letters received from the United Kingdom in 1869, was as follows:\n- By British Packet: ... \n- By French Packet: ...\n\n## 64.\nThe Total weight of Letters sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom in 1869, was 3 tons, 2 cwt, 3 qrs, 3 lbs. In 1868, it was 2 tons, 10 cwt, 8 qrs, 3 lbs. The Total weight of Letters received from the United Kingdom in 1869, was 13 tons, 1 cwt, 19 qrs, 148 lbs. In 1868, it was 2 tons, 11 cwt, 0 qrs, 97 lbs.\n\n## 65.\nThe Registered Letters received from London in 1869, numbered 35,636. In 1868, it was 29,473.\n\n## 66.\nThe Registered Letters sent to London from Hongkong in 1869, numbered 1,081. The total number of Registered Letters sent in 1868 was 1,346 (from various ports).\n\n| Place        | Sent in 1869 |\n|--------------|---------------|\n| London       | 1,081         |\n| Shanghae     | 780           |\n| Yokohama     | 310           |\n| Other Ports  | 130           |\n| Total        | 2,840 (sent), 1,346 (in 1868) |\n\n## 68.\nThe numbers of registered letters sent to and received from some of these places in 1868 were comparatively small, and to others the system of registration had not been applied, there can therefore be no complete comparison.\n\n## 69.\nThe number of Letters on Official business sent from the Department to private individuals and firms, the Agents at the Ports, and to the various Public Offices during 1869 has increased by 469, the number in 1868 being 1220, against 1689 last year, and the number of letters received has increased in the same ratio.\n\n## 70.\nI append returns, marked `A` and `B`, from which it will be observed that the British Contract Packets have arrived with the Mails from home with punctuality; that the average time occupied in making the voyage by these vessels has been a few hours longer in 1869 than it was in 1868; and that 40 days is the quickest time in which a Mail has been conveyed from London to Hongkong by them; whilst the Mails despatched from London via Brindisi \"one day later than the Mails via Marseilles, have invariably reached Hongkong with the Marseilles portion of the Mail. From another return annexed, marked `C`, it is shown that the quickest time a Mail from London has been brought to Hongkong by the French Packets is 41 days.\n\n## 71.\nI also append a return, marked `D`, of the arrivals and departures of United States' Mail Packets at Hongkong by which it is shown that the lowest number of days occupied in the voyage from San Francisco to Hongkong during 1869 was 33, whilst the average time occupied in the voyage from San Francisco was 35.4 days against 35 days in 1868.\n\n## 72.\nThe French Packets are to run fortnightly carrying Mails between the United Kingdom and China and Japan commencing with the Mail to be despatched from Hongkong on the 14th July; this service will afford weekly communication (via Suez) between the United Kingdom, France, &c., on the one side, and China and Japan on the other, by the British and French Packets alternately, and it is, I hear, in contemplation to inaugurate a fortnightly service, between Hongkong and San Francisco.\n\n## 73.\nThe amount realized by the sale of Postage Stamps in 1869 was $155,785.52, of which Stamps of the value of $76,830.88 were sold in Hongkong, and the remainder, viz., $78,954.64, at the Post Office Agencies at the Ports, showing a Decrease of $939.38, in those sold in Hongkong, and an Increase of $22,922.78 in those sold at the Ports, as compared with 1868.\n\n## 74.\nI annex a list of the number and value of each kind of Postage Stamps sold in 1869 and 1868, showing the Increase or Decrease, as the case may be, under each head.\n\nI have the honor to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n**F. W. MITCHELL**,\nPostmaster General.\n\nThe Honorable **J. GARDINER AUSTIN**,\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "## RETURN shewing the DATES of ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE of the French Mail Packets during 1869, and the Number of Days occupied in the transmission of Mails, between Hongkong and London.\n\n| Name of Packet | Date of Arrival at Hongkong | Date on which Mail left London | Number of Days occupied in the Voyage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cambodge | January 28, 1869 | December 18, 1868 | 42 |\n| Donnai | March 5 | January 29 | 48 |\n| Hoogly | April 1 | February 10 | 42 |\n| Imperatrice | March 28 | February 10 | 41 |\n| Tigre | May 27 | April 16 | 42 |\n| Cambodge | June 23 | May 14 | 41 |\n| Donnai | July 20 | June 11 | 42 |\n| Hoogly | August 18 | July 9 | 41 |\n| Tigre | September 15 | August 5 | 41 |\n| Imperatrice | October 14 | September 3 | 42 |\n| Cambodge | November 14 | October 4 | 45 |\n| Donnai | December 12 | November 29 | 40 |\n| Imperatrice | January 5, 1870 | November 20 | 42 |\n| Tigre | February 9 | December 24 | 44 |\n\nTotal: 593  \nAverage Number of Days occupied in each Voyage: 42 days 8 hours.\n\n## RETURN showing the DATES of ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE of the United States' Mail Packets during 1869, and the Number of Days occupied in the transmission of the Mails between Hongkong and San Francisco.\n\n### ARRIVAL\n\n| Name of Packet | Date of Arrival at Hongkong | Date of Departure from San Francisco | Number of Days occupied in the Voyage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| China | January 11, 1869 | December 9, 1868 | 33 |\n| Great Republic | February 4 | January 4 | 30 |\n| Japan | March 4 | February 4 | 28 |\n| China | April 5 | March 5 | 31 |\n| Great Republic | May 6 | April 6 | 30 |\n| Japan | June 5 | May 8 | 28 |\n| China | July 8 | June 6 | 32 |\n| Great Republic | August 6 | July 8 | 29 |\n| Japan | September 10 | August 9 | 32 |\n| China | October 19 | September 10 | 39 |\n| America | November 10 | October 18 | 23 |\n| Japan | December 18 | November 23 | 25 |\n| America | January 23, 1870 | December 23 | 31 |\n\nTotal: 423  \nAverage Number of Days occupied in each Voyage: 35.8\n\n*The Mails by this vessel were conveyed to Yokohama by the America.\n\n### DEPARTURE\n\n| Name of Packet | Date of Departure from Hongkong | Date of Arrival at San Francisco | Number of Days occupied in the Voyage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| China | January 3, 1869 | February 8 | 37 |\n| Great Republic | January 30 | March 7 | 37 |\n| Japan | February 28 | April 8 | 40 |\n| China | March 19 | April 27 | 40 |\n| Imperatrice | March 30 | May 7 | 39 |\n| Tigre | April 28 | June 1 | 35 |\n| Cambodge | May 16 | June 30 | 46 |\n| Donnai | June 17 | August 3 | 47 |\n| Hoogly | July 16 | August 27 | 43 |\n| Imperatrice | August 12 | September 21 | 41 |\n| Tigre | September 9 | October 24 | 46 |\n| Cambodge | October 12 | November 21 | 41 |\n| Donnai | November 7 | December 18 | 42 |\n| Hoogly | December 18 | January 15, 1870 | 29 |\n\nTotal: 553  \nAverage Number of Days occupied in each Voyage: 41.8\n\n### DEPARTURE (United States' Mail Packets)\n\n| Name of Packet | Date of Departure from Hongkong | Date of Arrival at San Francisco | Number of Days occupied in the Voyage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| China | January 19, 1869 | February 19 | 31 |\n| Great Republic | February 19 | March 27 | 32 |\n| Japan | March 19 | April 19 | 31 |\n| China | April 19 | May 19 | 30 |\n| Great Republic | May 19 | June 10 | 22 |\n| Japan | June 10 | July 10 | 30 |\n| China | July 10 | August 10 | 31 |\n| Great Republic | August 10 | September 18 | 39 |\n| Japan | September 18 | October 19 | 31 |\n| China | October 19 | November 10 | 22 |\n| America | November 18 | December 18 | 30 |\n| Japan | December 23 | January 23, 1870 | 31 |\n\nTotal: 364  \nAverage Number of Days occupied in each Voyage: 30.3\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 19th March, 1870.\n\n**F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.**",
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        "content_text": "Henceforward, mails for those places will, therefore, be made up at this Office every Friday evening for transmission vià Marseilles; and all official correspondence, specially addressed \"via Marseilles,\" will be sent by the first packet, whether British or French.\n\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n## MINUTE PAPER\nWhine Colonies referred to: \n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mtabel |  |\n| Nolid in tin Castion | & the fourmen |\n\nPage 223\nPostsin - 7411-70- Norghol \nDiff. \nMan full 1/70",
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        "content_text": "248\n\ncarry out the proposed change, that the whole of the English mails for Shanghae conveyed by the outward French Packet must be delivered \nto the Hongkong Office, and, after having been sorted there, returned to the French Packet: and with reference to this arrangement, I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary \nof State for the Colonies, that the sanction to it \nof the French Post Office has already \nbeen obtained, \nmade in consequence of \nthe suggestion of Mr. Mitchell \nin a letter \naddressed \nto this Department \non the 6th March last, and to which a reply \nwas sent on the 13th May, crossing \nthe correspondence now under consideration.\n\nWith reference to paragraphs 10 and 11 of Mr. Mitchell's report, I am to request that you will state to the Earl of Kimberley \nthat \nthe Postmaster General has addressed \nthe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company on the subject of the proposal to \nsend the Sorting Clerks with the mails to Shanghae occasionally, for the purpose \nof enabling them to keep up their local information as to forms and other residents in Shanghae, and that the Company have signified their acquiescence in the arrangement. \nIn communicating with the Company, it was stated to them that his Lordship reserves to himself the right of again sending \nSorting Officers \non \nthis line \nof Packets, should \ncircumstances render such a course \nnecessary.\n\nI have the honour to be \nSir, Your obedient, \nhumble Servant \nJohn Alleyne",
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        "content_text": "was under the control of the Postmaster General, and during that time there was no complaint whatever of mismanagement, either Official or otherwise.\n\n\"On the 17th April last, at Yokohama, I received Mr. Mitchell's letter of the 5th of the same month, no 745, informing me of the necessity of removing me from my post, in obedience to which I handed over duly the charge of that Office to my successor.\n\nDuring my three years management of the Yokohama Post-Office, only one complaint was made on the part of the Public, and in this instance, the letter of explanation tendered by me to the Postmaster General of Hong Kong was Officially stated to be perfectly satisfactory.\n\nMay I now very respectfully call your Lordship's attention to the circumstances, two in number, which have led to my removal from my appointment?\n\n(1.) Loss of a batch of letters stated to have been posted at the Yokohama Office.\n\n(2.) The native... (of...)\n\nThe explanation given to account for the above loss.\n\nRespecting the loss of letters, I venture to submit that no proof whatever exists which could connect that loss with the Office at Yokohama, and I may mention that when these complaints were made, I was not permitted to obliterate the stamps on letters posted at my Office intended to be despatched by a British Contract Packet. I will further venture to mention, my Lord, that I had permission to obliterate Stamps on letters despatched by The French Mail Steamers; that in no single instance was any complaint made as to the non-arrival of these letters at their destination. In the latter case, the bags were sealed up by me, and not opened till they reached London : in the former, they were opened and resealed twice besides Yokohama and London. It likewise happens that when similar complaints were made at Shanghae of the loss of letters previous to the obliteration of Stamps at that Office, the complaints ceased on permission to obliterate being granted. I cannot but hope that when Your Lordship takes these circumstances into your consideration, you will be inclined to think there is a strong presumption in my favour that the loss of letters complained of did not occur at my Office.\n\n(2.) Respecting the nature of the explanation given for the loss before Mentioned, I ask leave to say, my Lord, that the construction put upon it by the General Post-Office...",
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        "content_text": "# No. 50. \n## GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION\n\nThe following Annual Report of the Hongkong General Post Office for the Year 1870, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 18th March, 1871.\n\n## No. 16.\n\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary.**\n\n### GENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, 17th March, 1871.\n\n1. I have the honor to lay before you for presentation to His Excellency Major General WHITFEILD, Lieutenant-Governor, \"the eleventh Annual Report on the Post Office, being that for the year 1870.\n\n2. The principal changes of interest which have taken place in the Postal Service during the year are as follows, viz:\n\n3. The two Marine Sorters previously employed on the line between Hongkong and Shanghae have been withdrawn for general duty in this Office, and arrangements have been made for completely sorting the Mails for Shanghae before they leave Hongkong. By this change of system the residents of Shanghae obtain the advantage of having their letters, by both the English and French Packets, delivered immediately on arrival, and this without extra charge, the alteration having been made with a view to discourage the transmission of letters outside the Mails.\n\nSimilar arrangements have been made at the British Post Office at Shanghae to enable the letters for Hongkong to be despatched ready for immediate delivery on their reaching this Office. The Imperial Postmaster General has withdrawn the Officers employed in sorting the homeward Indian, China and Australian Mails, on board the Mediterranean Packets; the Mails from Hongkong are now, therefore, subdivided in this Office, so as to facilitate the arrangements made for sorting them on their arrival in England.\n\n4. The Director General of the Posts in France has consented to a proposal to send Closed Mails by the French Packets between this Office and the British Post Offices at Shanghae and Yokohama, instead of forwarding the correspondence for the community at those Settlements in the Mails for the French Post Offices, thereby accelerating the delivery of the local correspondence.\n\n5. Sanction having been obtained to the Mails from London for Shanghae and Yokohama which are brought to Hongkong by French Packet being delivered over to this Office, advantage has been taken of one or two opportunities of sending the Mails forward to Shanghae earlier than they would have reached their destination by the branch French Packet for Shanghae.\n\n6. Arrangements have been completed under which correspondence brought from Batavia by French Packet to Singapore is sent to this Office by the first Packet leaving for Hongkong, instead of, as formerly, awaiting the departure of the next French Packet to China, which involved, in some cases, a delay of twenty days.\n\n7. Arrangements have been completed under which British Closed Mails between Hongkong and Nagasaki, and between Hongkong and Hiogo, are conveyed from Shanghae and Yokohama respectively by means of the United States' Mail Packets; the demand made by the United States' Post Office for their conveyance has, however, necessitated a small extra rate of postage on correspondence thus conveyed, but the advantages gained for the Public by these arrangements are manifest.\n\n8. The hour of despatch of the homeward British Mail Packets from Hongkong has been advantageously changed from 9 A.M. to Noon, making it conform to the hour of despatch of the French Packets.\n\n9. With a view to averting the inconvenience which has sometimes been experienced here on account of the late arrival of the British Mail Packets from Yokohama, their departure from Yokohama has been made one day earlier than formerly.\n\n10. The scale of progression of weight having half an ounce for its unit has been extended to letters sent between the British Post Offices in China and Japan, and Manila, Batavia, Saigon, Pondicherry, Bangkok, Labuan, Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Aden, Suez, Malta and the Ionian Islands; Gibraltar, and Spain and Portugal viâ Gibraltar.",
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        "content_text": "## 293\n\n11. The reduction of the fee upon Registered Letters from six pence to four pence in 1870 was confined to Letters to and from the United Kingdom, but during the past year, this reduction has been applied to Registered Letters addressed to any British Colony, or Foreign Country in transit through the United Kingdom; for instance, a letter addressed to the United States of America can now be registered through to its destination for a fee of 16 cents instead of 24 cents as formerly.\n\n12. In July, the outward French Mail Packets commenced to leave Marseilles every alternate Sunday, instead of every fourth Sunday, and a fortnightly French service was also begun on this side, thus affording, in conjunction with the Packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, a weekly Mail service to and from the United Kingdom, but soon after the commencement of hostilities between France and Prussia, the French line was reduced to one Packet each way every twenty-eight days.\n\n13. Soon after the breaking out of the war between France and Prussia, the difficulties attending the transmission of the Mails through France were such as to necessitate the outward Mails being sent, by way of Belgium and the Brenner to Brindisi, for transmission thence by Italian Packet; the Homeward Mails followed the same route.\n\n14. The number of letters sent between the United Kingdom and Hongkong by means of the unsubsidized Steamers proceeding through the Suez Canal has been very inconsiderable.\n\n15. Negotiations are being carried on having for their object a regular exchange of direct Mail between Hongkong and Brindisi, including, of course, on the one side, correspondence for Italy and the Continent from China and Japan, and on the other, letters from Italy and the States beyond for Hongkong, China, and Japan.\n\n16. The rates of Commission on Money Orders issued in the United Kingdom on Hongkong, Shanghae, and Yokohama have been increased, and although the Commission on Money Orders issued at these places on the United Kingdom has also been increased, the charges are still much less than those made at home. So far, the Revenue derived by the Colony from the introduction of the Money Order system has been unremunerative.\n\n17. During the year, the Money Orders drawn upon the United Kingdom have been as follows:\n\n**Comparative Statement of Revenue**\n\n| Description | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Total Revenue collected in 1870 | $192,982.00 |\n| Add Amount received from Imperial Post Office towards the maintenance of the Postal Agencies in China and Japan | $1,270.00 |\n| Total Revenue collected in 1869 | $187,764.74 |\n| Total Increase in 1870, as compared with 1869 | $5,217.26 |\n| Amount of Imperial Revenue collected in 1870 | $123,148.72 |\n| Amount of Imperial Revenue collected in 1869 | $124,235.66 |\n| Decrease in 1870, as compared with 1869 | $1,086.94 |\n| Remittances to London | £24,385.19.8 |\n| Contribution to Agencies | £1,270.0.0 |\n| Amount of Colonial Revenue collected in 1870 | $69,833.28 |\n| Amount of Colonial Revenue collected in 1869 | $63,629.08 |\n| Increase in 1870, as compared with 1869 | $6,204.20 |\n\n18. The Money Orders drawn in the United Kingdom have been as follows, viz: —\nThe Colony's share of the Postage on Mails received from the United Kingdom in 1870 was £1,394.11.61, in 1869, £1,375.19.74, Increase in 1870, £18.11.11.\n\n19. The following figures show the result of the Local Money Order system: —\n| Place | No. of Money Orders drawn | Amount | Commission which accrued to the Colony |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Hongkong, Shanghae, Yokohama | 1,839 | £10,052.10.5 | $416.36 |\n| Total | 8,015 | £16,021.0.5 | $416.36 |\n\nThe amount remitted by means of Money Orders drawn on the United Kingdom in 1870 is £6,024.12.7 in excess of that remitted in 1869.\n\n20. The following Statement shows a nominal increase amounting to $5,217.26 in the gross Postal Revenue of 1870 over that of 1869, but as the amount of uncollected Revenue at the end of 1870 was $113.68 less than that which was outstanding at the end of 1869, the actual excess of gross Revenue in 1870, as compared with the Revenue of 1869, is $5,103.58, a result which I submit is very satisfactory in the present state of affairs on the Continent, which, in partially paralyzing commerce, has doubtless diminished correspondence.\n\n21. (Missing)\n\n22. It will thus be observed that the excess of the Colony's Postal Revenue over its ordinary Expenditure for Post Office purposes during the past year amounted to $35,565.82.\n\n23. \n| Place | No. of Money Orders drawn | Amount | Commission which accrued to the Colony |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| On Hongkong | 92 | £141.12.6 | $6.78 |\n| On Shanghae | 14 | £10.8.0 | $0.60 |\n| On Yokohama | 32 | £18.8.1 | $1.50 |\n| Total | 46 | £102.3.0 | $9.50 |\n\nThe amount remitted from the United Kingdom by means of Money Orders drawn upon Hongkong, Shanghae, and Yokohama in 1870 is £36.1.2 in excess of that remitted in 1869.\n\n24. The number of Ship Mails sent in 1870 was 1,816, in 1869, 1,839, Decrease in 1870, 23.\nThe number of Ship Mails received in 1870 was 1,191, in 1869, 1,178, Increase in 1870, 13.\n\n25. \n| Description | Letters | Papers |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| The number of Letters and Papers received by United States' Packets in 1870 | 14,572 | 16,820 |\n| The number of Letters and Papers sent by United States' Packets in 1870 | 21,145 | 21,055 |\n| In 1869 | 12,039 | 10,874 |\n| In 1869 | 17,549 | 14,090 |\n| Increase in 1870 | 2,533 | 5,946 |\n| Increase in 1870 | 3,596 | 6,965 |\n\n26. The San Francisco route has not been much availed of for the transmission of Letters between the United Kingdom and Hongkong.\n\n27. The number of Letters and Papers sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom has been as follows, viz: —\n| Description | Letters | Papers |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| BY BRITISH PACKET |  |  |\n| In 1870 | 191,589 | 152,862 |\n| In 1869 | 188,201 | 168,761 |\n| Increase | 3,338 | ... |\n| BY FRENCH PACKET |  |  |\n| In 1870 | 28,007 | 9,194 |\n| In 1869 | 16,210 | 3,672 |\n| Increase | 11,797 | 5,522 |\n\n28. The weight of Letters sent to the United Kingdom in 1870 has been as follows: —\n| Description | Tons | cwt | qrs | lbs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| BY BRITISH PACKET | 2 | 13 | 0 | 16 |\n| BY FRENCH PACKET | 0 | 10 | 2 | 10 |\n| In 1869 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 17 |\n| In 1869 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 26 |\n| Decrease | 0 | 6 | ... | ... |\n| Increase | 0 | 5 | 1 | ... |\n\n29. The weight of Letters received from the United Kingdom in 1870 has been as follows: —\n| Description | Tons | cwt | qrs | lbs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| PER BRITISH PACKET | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 |\n| PER FRENCH PACKET | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 |\n| In 1869 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 12 |\n| In 1869 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 15 |\n| Decrease | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 |\n| Decrease | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |",
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        "content_text": "## 30.\n\nThe Total weight of Letters sent from Hongkong to the United Kingdom in 1870, was...\n\nDo. in 1869...\n\nDecrease,\n\n## 31.\n\n| Tons | cwt | qrs | lbs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 |\n\nThe Total weight of Letters received from the United Kingdom in 1870, was...\n\n| Tons | cwt | qrs | lbs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 | 13 | 1 | 19 |\n\nDo. in 1869,\n\n| Tons | cwt | qrs | lbs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 | 13 | 1 | 19 |\n| 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |\n\nDecrease,\n\n| Tons | cwt | qrs | lbs |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |\n\nThe Registered Letters received from London in 1870, numbered, 1,687  \nDo. in 1869, do., 1,451  \nExcess in 1870, 236\n\n## 32.\n\nThe Registered Letters sent to London from Hongkong in 1870, numbered, 1,517  \nDo. do. from Shanghas, 718  \ndo. from Yokohama, 459  \ndo. from other Ports, 117  \nTotal number of Registered Letters sent, 2,811  \nTotal number of Registered Letters sent in 1869, 2,340  \nExcess in 1870, 471\n\nA return, marked `D.`, is appended of the Arrivals and Departures of the United States' Mail Packets at Hongkong, from which it will be observed that the voyage from San Francisco to Hongkong has been performed five times in 33 days; and that the voyage to San Francisco has been accomplished on three occasions in 32 days. The average time occupied in the voyage from San Francisco has been 34.4 days against 35.4 days in 1869.\n\nI have the honor to be,  \nSir,  \nYour most obedient Servant,  \n**F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General**.\n\nThe Honorable **J. GARDINER AUSTIN**,  \nColonial Secretary,\n\n## 33.\n\nThe number of Registered Letters sent to India, during 1870, was 449  \nfrom India, during 1870, 653  \nto Galle, 28  \nfrom Galle, 21  \nto Australia, 130  \nfrom Australia, 225  \nto the Straits, 87  \nfrom the Straits, 194  \nto the Continent of Europe, 123  \nfrom the Continent of Europe, ...  \nto the Ports in China and Japan, 114  \nfrom the Ports in China and Japan, 240  \nTotal, 937  \nTotal, 1,011  \nIn 1869, 617  \nIn 1869, 875  \nExcess in 1870, 320  \nExcess in 1870, ...\n\nA Return shewing the Number of Days allowed for the conveyance of MAILS from London to Hongkong *viâ* Southampton and *viâ* Marseilles, the Time each voyage occupied, and the Number of Days lost or gained, during the Year 1870.\n\n### Via Southampton\n\n| Date of Departure | Time allowed in Time Table | Number of days occupied | Number of days gained | Number of days lost |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| January 8 | 51 days | 22 |  |  |\n| February 6 | 48 | 19 |  |  |\n| March 5 | 48 | 19 |  |  |\n| April 2 | 48 | 16 |  |  |\n| May 14 | 48 | 28 |  |  |\n| June 11 | 48 | 25 |  |  |\n| July 0 | 48 | 7 |  |  |\n| August 6 | 48 | 20 |  |  |\n| September 3 | 48 | 12 |  |  |\n| October 1 | 51 | 23 |  |  |\n| November 12 | 51 | 26 |  |  |\n| December 10 | 51 | 24 |  |  |\n\n### Via Marseilles\n\n| Date of Departure | Time allowed in Time Table | Number of days occupied | Number of days gained | Number of days lost |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| January 14 | 45 days | 28 |  |  |\n| February 11 | 42 | 25 |  |  |\n| March 11 | 45 | 25 |  |  |\n| April 8 | 42 | 35 |  |  |\n| May 6 | 40 | 20 |  |  |\n| June 3 | 42 | 17 |  |  |\n| July 1 | 41 | 15 |  |  |\n| August 12 | 42 | 26 |  |  |\n| September 9 | 45 | 28 |  |  |\n| October 7 | 45 | 21 |  |  |\n| November 4 | 45 | 18 |  |  |\n| December 2 | 45 | ... |  |  |\n\n## 34.\n\nThe amount realized by the sale of Postage Stamps in 1870, was $144,131.48, of which Stamps of the value of $85,258.12 were sold in Hongkong, and the remainder, viz.: $58,873.36, at the Post Office Agencies at the Ports, shewing an Increase of $8,427.24 in those sold in Hongkong, and a Decrease of $20,081.28 in those sold at the Ports, as compared with 1869.\n\n## 35.\n\nI annex a List of the number and value of each kind of Postage Stamps sold in 1870, and 1869, showing the increase or decrease as the case may be, under each head, viz.:\n\n### POSTAGE STAMPS SOLD IN 1870\n\n| Denomination | Number | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 cents | 201,179 | $5,223.58 |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n### POSTAGE STAMPS SOLD IN 1869\n\n| Denomination | Number | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 cents | 155,927 | $3,118.54 |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n### INCREASE\n\n| Denomination | Number | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 2 cents | 45,252 | $2,105.04 |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n\n### DECREASE\n\n| Denomination | Number | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... |\n\nTotals, $144,131.48  \nTotals, $155,785.52  \nDecrease, $13,000.92  \nIncrease, $1,340.88  \nDecrease, $4,569.60  \n\n## 36.\n\nThe Correspondence on Official business sent from this Department to private individuals and firms, to the Postal Agents at the Ports and to the various Public Offices, has materially increased, as has also the Official correspondence received.\n\n## 37.\n\nReturns are appended, marked `A.` and `B.`, from which it is satisfactory to notice that the British Mail Packets have arrived with the Mails from home with punctuality, that the average time occupied in making the voyage has been less than it was in the previous year, and that 39 days is the shortest time in which a Mail has been conveyed from London to Hongkong *viâ* Marseilles, and 38 days *viâ* Brindisi. The return marked `C.` shows that 38 days was also the shortest time occupied by the French Packets in delivering a Mail from London. On one occasion, however, the French Packet arrived without a Mail from London. Owing to the communication across France having been interrupted, this Mail had failed to reach Marseilles in time; it was brought forward by the following British Packet.\n\nAverage number of days allowed for each voyage, 49.4  \nDo. occupied in, 47.24  \n\nAverage number of days allowed for each voyage, 43½  \nDo. occupied in, 41.38  \n\n**General Post Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1871.**\n\n**F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.**",
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        "content_text": "## RETURN showing the DATES of ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES of the British Contract Packets during 1879, and the Number of days occupied in transmitting the Mails via Brindisi, viâ Marseilles, and viâ Southampton, respectively,\n\n## RETURN shewing the DATES of ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES of the French Mail Packets during 1870, and the Number of Days occupied in the Transmission of Mails, between Hongkong and London.\n\n### ARRIVALS.\n\n| Name of Packets | Date on which Packet should have arrived according to Time Table | Actual Date of Arrival | Number of days occupied via Brindisi | Number of days occupied via Marseilles | Number of days occupied via Southampton |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Ellora | February 27 | March 13 |  |  |  |\n| Salsette | 28 | 28 |  |  |  |\n| Emen | March 24 | 26 |  |  |  |\n| Orissa | April 7 | 7 |  |  |  |\n| Travancore | 21 | 20 |  |  |  |\n| Ellora | May 5 | May 4 |  |  |  |\n| China | 10 | 17 |  |  |  |\n| Emmen | June 2 | \" |  |  |  |\n| Orissa | 16 | June 13 |  |  |  |\n| Travancore | 30 | 28 |  |  |  |\n| Hindustan | July 14 | July 12 |  |  |  |\n| Columbian | 28 | 27 |  |  |  |\n| Deccan | August 11 | August 11 |  |  |  |\n| Orissa | 25 | 23 |  |  |  |\n| Travancore | September 8 | September 5 |  |  |  |\n| Ellora | 22 | 10 |  |  |  |\n| Emeu | October 6 | October 6 |  |  |  |\n| Delhi | 20 | 18 |  |  |  |\n| Australia | November 3 | November 2 |  |  |  |\n| Travancore | 20 | 20 |  |  |  |\n| Orissa | December 1 | December 1 |  |  |  |\n| Emen | 18 | 18 |  |  |  |\n\n| Name of Packet | Date of Arrival at Hongkong | Date on which Mail left London | Number of Days occupied in the voyage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 1870 | 1869 |  |\n|  | January 6 | November 26 | 40 |\n|  | February 5 | December 24 | 43 |\n|  | March 5 | January 21 | 43 |\n|  | 31 | February 18 | 41 |\n|  | April 20 | March 18 | 33 |\n|  | May 24 | April 20 | 34 |\n|  | June 20 | May 18 | 33 |\n|  | July 3 | June 27 | 6 |\n|  | August 16 | July 31 | 16 |\n|  | September 12 | August 30 | 13 |\n|  | October ]] | September 25 | ... |\n|  | November 13 | October ... | ... |\n|  | December 19 | November 10 | 40 |\n| Bobalai | December 2 | October 2 | 61 |\n\nTOTAL | 659 \nAverage Number of Days occupied in each Voyage | 41 days 4 hours\n\n### DEPARTURES.\n\n| Date of Departure | Name of Packets |\n| --- | --- |\n| 12 February |  |\n\n### DEPARTURES.\n\n| Date of Arrival in London | Name of Packet | Date of Departure from Hongkong | Date of Arrival of Mail in London | Number of Days occupied in the voyage |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  | 1880 | 1870 |  |  |\n| January 4 | Dounai, Hoogly | February 1 | March 2 | 29 |\n|  | Imperatrice | March 2 | April 1 | 30 |\n|  | Tigre | 29 | May 4 | 35 |\n|  | Cambodge | April 21 | June 1 | 41 |\n|  | Donnai | May 10 | July 8 | 59 |\n\n| Name of Packet | Date of Departure from Hongkong | Date of Arrival in London | Number of days via Brindisi | Number of days via Marseilles | Number of days via Southampton |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Madras | January 11 | February 25 | 45 |  |  |\n| Ellora | 25 | March 12 | 46 |  |  |\n| Hoogly | February 20 | April 1 | 41 | 49 |  |\n| Imperatrice, Cambodge | March 6 | April 12 | 39 | 41 | 47 |\n| Donnai | 20 | May 1 | 40 | 46 |  |\n| Orissa | February 8 | March 21 | 41 |  |  |\n| Travancore | 22 | April 2 | 39 | 40 | 46 |\n| Guienne | April 6 | May 14 | 39 | 40 | 45 |\n| Ellora | March 10 | April 17 | 40 | 41 |  |\n| Salsette | 20 | May 1 | 39 | 41 | 40 |\n| Peibo | April 6 | May 10 | 39 | 40 | 45 |\n| Tigre | 27 | June 4 | 41 |  |  |\n| Orissa | May 19 | June 30 | 42 | 47 |  |\n| Labourdonnais | September 8 | November 24 |  |  |  |\n|  | October 11 | December >> |  |  |  |\n| Travancore | June 28 | August 11 | 45 | 40 | 51 |\n| Ellora | May 12 | June 25 | 45 |  |  |\n| China | July 20 | August 27 | 46 | 47 | 59 |\n| Emeu | June 9 | July 24 | 46 | 48 | 53 |\n| Orissa | July 23 | September 8 | 45 | 47 | 50 |\n| Travancore | August 15 | September 30 | 46 |  |  |\n| Hindostan | September 2 | October 14 | 44 | 45 | 51 |\n| Columbian | August 4 | September 19 | 49 | 51 |  |\n| Deccan | October 1 | November 15 | 45 |  | 53 |\n| Orissa | September 1 | October 17 | 47 | 48 | 52 |\n| Travancore | 15 | November 6 |  |  | 59 |\n| Ellora | October 18 | December 2 |  |  |  |\n| Emeu | November 13 | December 26 |  |  |  |\n| Malacca | October 20 | December 1 | 41 |  |  |\n| Delhi | November 13 | January 8, 1871 |  |  | 51 |\n| Australia | December 29 | January 1, 1871 |  |  |  |\n| Orissa | December 13 | January 22 | 41 |  |  |\n| Emen | 28 | Recept not yet acknowledged |  |  |  |\n\nTOTAL | 800 \nAverage Number of Days occupied in each voyage | 44 days 18 hours\n\n**F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.**\n\nGeneral Post Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1871.\n\n**F. W. MITCHELL, Postmaster General.**",
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        "content_text": "The \"force\" having thus far gained ground without serious opposition, the total strength was put on board the steamer, and with fixed bayonets marched to the bridge, the forecastle-head, and the engine-room. Sentries being placed at those points, the crew were prevented from making any attempt to get under weigh. The anchor was let go, the steam blown off, and the police, with the exception of half a dozen left to mount guard, retired.\n\nWhile the main body of police were withdrawing, those members of the force who were left on board evidently felt the isolated position in which they found themselves, as was indicated by the parting request of one poor fellow to his comrade who was in one of the boats: \"Geordie, send me off my big coat, and four or five plugs of tobacco.\"\n\nThe unhappy constable was, however, not destined to remain very much longer in this unenviable position, as the ship was subsequently released from arrest. It appears that in consequence of the collision with the Rona, a warrant of the Vice Admiralty Court for the arrest and detention of the Ava had been sued out, notwithstanding a treaty at present existing between Great Britain and France, according to which the mail packets of each country have the privileges and immunities of vessels of war in ports of either country. Under these circumstances, the matter was taken before Acting Chief-Justice Ball, at his residence, at 9 p.m., when, as reported elsewhere, the warrant under which the Ava was detained was set aside. The order to this effect was handed to Mr. Tonnochy at 11 p.m., at which hour the zealous Marshal had to go on board and take off his myrmidons, whom we left on board bent on selling their lives dearly in the valorous effort to detain the vessel should the attempt be made to take her off.\n\nThe Ava consequently left the harbour at 6 a.m. on Sunday morning, having been detained more than twelve hours by these interesting proceedings.\n\nSubjoined is a translation of the protest made by M. Conil, Principal Agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company, against the seizure of the above vessel:-\n\nTo H.E. Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.B., Governor of Hongkong, &c., &c.\n\nMONS. LE GOUVERNEUR,-The steamer Ava, mail packet of the Messageries Maritimes, was under steam, and only waiting for her despatches to start for Saigon, when to-day at 4:40 p.m., a few moments before the arrival of the Post Office Agent, Mr. Tonnochy, Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court, accompanied by a constable, came on board the Ava, and presented to the Captain of that vessel a warrant to arrest, signed by Mr. Alexander, Registrar of the Court, and bearing the seal of the Admiralty Court at Hongkong, by which he signified to the Captain of the Ava that he placed an embargo on his ship, and seized it in the name of Her Majesty the Queen of England, at the request of the Captain and Owners of the Rona.\n\nThe French Consul, who was on board at the time, observed in the presence of the Captain, to the Marshal that this arrest was illegal, irregular, and altogether contrary to the 5th article of the convention of 1856, concluded between the French Government and the Government of Her Britannic Majesty-a convention in virtue of which the mail packets of the Messageries Imperiales, subsidised by the state, ought to be considered as men-of-war, and enjoy the same rights and privileges as these latter; that in no case and on no account, in virtue of the said convention, could the said packets be seized, diverted from their route, or subjected to embargo or arrêt de Prince; that in consequence, the Captain of the Ava was not called upon to pay attention to the seizure which was notified to him, and that he would leave at the time fixed for his departure, that is to say, at 5 o'clock in the evening. The Marshal then replied to the French Consul that he had only to execute the order he had received to seize the Ava; and, notwithstanding the protestation of the Consul and the Captain, he caused several armed soldiers with rifles and bayonets to come on board, and gave them orders to take possession of the vessel, which they did, occupying the gangway and various parts of the vessel.\n\nInformed by me of these facts, the French Admiral immediately sent on board his Chef d'Etat Major, who made the same protestations and observations to the Marshal.\n\nThe latter, to further enforce the seizure, which he had already made, caused more soldiers to come on board the Ava, and replied to the Chef d'Etat Major and to the Consul, that he would employ force and, if necessary, order the soldiers under his command to use force, and if necessary to seize the Captain, in order to fulfil his commission and maintain the seizure of the Ava.\n\nIn view of these arbitrary acts, in flagrant disagreement with the convention of 1856, we were compelled to yield to force, at the same time protesting energetically against this armed violation, by the local authority, within the anchorage of Hongkong, of a French mail packet, which ought to be sufficiently protected by the international convention cited above, recognising in her and according to her the rights, privileges, and immunities of a vessel of war. These rights were ignored knowingly and publicly, and the mail packet Ava, having on board the mails and despatches, was illegally seized, and could not leave Hongkong.\n\nI come, therefore, Mons. le Gouverneur, in the name of the Messageries Maritimes Company, and of the postal and commercial interests wounded in the most flagrant manner by this circumstance, to protest, by the present letter, in the most solemn manner against this unwarrantable act, contrary to the aforesaid convention of 1856. I make all possible reservations as to the ulterior claims by the Messageries Maritimes Company against this inexplicable and unforeseen embargo, intimated to the captain of the Ava less than twenty minutes before the hour fixed for the departure of the mail, and I hold those concerned responsible for the consequences, whatever they may be, of the illegal seizure of the Ava—a seizure, I repeat, contrary to the clauses of the convention of 1856, which was read by the French Consul to the Marshal of the Court, who did not pay any attention to it.\n\nVeuillez agréer, &c.,\n\n(Signed) A. CONIL, Principal Agent of the Messageries Maritimes Company. Hongkong, 4th May, 1872.\n\nVICE-ADMIRALTY COURT, HONGKONG. May 4th.\n\nIn Chambers; at the residence of His Honor Judge Ball.-9 P.M.\n\nThe Acting Attorney-General, as the law officer of the Government, attended to bring before the learned judge the circumstance of the arrest of the Messageries Maritimes steamer Ava, under a warrant issued by this Court at the suit of the owners of the steamer Rona, cross-actions having been entered by the owners of these vessels for damages sustained in the late collision. The Attorney-General's application was that the warrant should be set aside, and he produced in support of this application a Treaty between France and Great Britain, relating to the status of the mail packets of either country in the ports of the other, together with other documents from the Foreign Office.\n\nThe matter having been fully investigated, the learned Judge made an order setting aside the Warrant and releasing the Ava from arrest.\n\nThe following is Article V. of the Treaty in question:-\n\nWhen the Packets employed by the British Post-office or by the French Post-office in execution of Articles 1 and 2 of the present Convention are national vessels, the property of Government, or vessels chartered or subsidized by Government, they shall be considered and treated as vessels of war in the ports of the two countries at which they regularly or accidentally touch, and be there entitled to the same honors and privileges. They shall not on any account be diverted from their special duty, or liable to seizure, detention, embargo, or arrêt de Prince.\n\nNo 15.\n\nGovernment Cave, Cloughing\n\n9th May, 1893\n\nMy Lord,\n\n1872\n\nI regret the necessity of bringing\n\ncorrespondence\n\nsubject before you, which will I fear entail trouble and correspondence\n\nOn the 7th May I transmitted the following Telegram to\n\n1\n\nto Your\n\n2.\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley,\n\nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State,",
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        "content_text": "18\n\nVessel can be stopped.\" Packed him through Mr. Landeten who was duly interpreting \"If you use more force will you repel it, he answered \"Certainly not.\" \"Well, do you intend, if you don't consider the vessel in possession, to use more force?\"\n\nAttention. I must ask then to come.\n\nMy men come up. He said more of the repel will go unless force is brought to prevent her. I therefore called some more Policemen to come up and took them to the forecastle of the vessel; I think there were eight altogether.\n\nSome of the men were on the bridge thinking it was the nearest way to the forecastle, but I called them down. The French Consul, the Captain, the Officer from the \"Alma\" and several more gentlemen went on to the bridge and held a consultation for two or three minutes. The Captain then said to me \"It is all right, we are going to stop the vessel under protest. I will give orders to put the chain in the busy and to blow off steam.\" He then issued the orders and said to me \"There is no necessity to keep all the Police here.\" I said \"I will take them all away if you give me your word.\" And he said \"Certainly, upon my word.\"",
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        "content_text": "# RECEIVED \n\n9 JAN 1874 \n\n527 \n\n-280.- \n\nSir, \n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, \n3rd December, 1873. – \n\nMy Lord, \n\nMr. Pauncefote will have gone by the \nUNAP... for Europe by \"French Mail Packet\". \nI do not propose to make at present any temporary \n\nThe Right Honourable \nThe Earl of Kimberley, \nHer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State, \n...",
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        "content_text": "His report upon the subject which has received \nthe careful consideration of T. 2. and of the \nExecutive Council \nof Hongkong. \n\nFrom the Correspondence \nsent to me by the foot it appears that the \nAgent of the Messageries Maritimes has also \nbeen in communication with the Colonial \nAuthorities on this subject, and that \nthe nature of his representations is \nidentical with the contents of the letters \nwhich you have done me the honor to \naddress to me. \n\nIn the first instance I \nmay observe that the Gov... \n311 \nof Hongkong appears \nto be of opinion the complaint of the Messageries \nMaritimes has been based on a \nmisunderstanding. \nIf the foot is right there would \nseem to be no serious objection to the \nexisting Laws, and the French Packet Agent at \nHongkong having been made aware \nof his interpretation of those Laws, the Governor \nappeared to consider that the French Government would not press for any \namendment \nof them. \n\nThe Secretary of State for \nthe Colonies in communicating some of the above reports adverts to the difficulty \nwhich would exist in \namending \nthe \nAct",
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        "document_key": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]",
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        "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]",
        "content_text": "24.\n\n25-\n\n69\n\nO A\n\nAgents auraient même, d'après les rapports qui m'ont été adressés, montré beaucoup de réserve. Ce n'est donc point la manière dont ces Agents se sont comportés à bord de l'\"Oréades\", mais le fait de leur présence à bord de ce Paquebot qui a motivé la lettre que j'ai cru devoir adresser à Votre Excellence le 4 de ce mois.\n\nJe ne saurais, en effet, qu'un arrangement diplomatique ait modifié, ou en quoi que ce soit la valeur, portée de l'article 3 du Traité Portal France-Anglais du 3 Sept 1839.\n\nJ'ai l'honneur,\n\n° (Signé) Adam Sienkiewicz\n\n•Copy:\n\nOpinion of The Honorable The Attorney General.\n\nI am of opinion that the complaint of the French Naval is well grounded, and that the Police exceeded their duty in boarding the \"Anadyomene\" without having first communicated with the French authorities. The \"Anadyomene\" it appears is a packet subsidized by the French Government for the conveyance of correspondence; and therefore under the Postal Convention Article ... of 1856 entitled to the privileges ... No foreign vessel of war is carried ...",
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        "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875",
        "page_number": 606,
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        "content_text": "a \n\nRussian, French, and American Crews, \n\nin Harbor at the same time, and frequently during the year. \n\n£5000 per Annum is \n\n15. \n\na handsome Salary; but at Hongkong \n\nit is not Equal to half that Sum in \n\nother Colonies where I have had the \n\nopportunity to Serve. \n\nI respectfully shape that imploring this at the end before Lord Carnarvon he will not think it unreasonable \n\nor Self Seeking. \n\nExisting \n\nCircumstances \n\nunder \n\nwhich I should \n\nbe Glad \n\nI hand over my Salary to any \n\nAgent that would pay my \n\nHouse Bills and allow me a \n\nlittle for myself. \n\nSir. A. Kennedy \n\nMINUTE. 22nd \n\nK Hasking- \n\n16266 \n\nMr. Round \n\n201 \n\nSir F. Pauncefote. \n\nMr. Malcolm. \n\nMr. Meade. \n\nMr. Herbert. 38 lock \n\nMr. Lowther. \n\nLord Carnarvon. \n\nCopy of 10266 be sent to Sir A. Kennedy \n\nfor information regarding Packet money. \n\nKennedy to D.A.G. for further guidance. 11/75- \n\nIndexed \n\n595 \n\n2 October 1875 \n\nI am directed by the Earl of Carnarvon to \n\ninform you \n\nthat he has \n\nConsidered your paper \n\ndated the 16th \n\nof September \n\non the subject of \n\nthe staff at \n\nHongKong \n\nHis Lordship is understanding \n\nthat you \n\npropose \n\nto continue to employ only one \n\nGentleman on \n\nyour staff \n\nwho will perform \n\nthe combined duties of private secretary and",
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        "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]",
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        "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]",
        "content_text": "Along thing. W 46\n\n10th March, 1876.\n\nGarann\n\nSir Arthur Kennedy, Reemb. 00.\n\nto\n\nThe Right Amiable\n\nThe Earl of Carnarvon.\n\nPortal Union Treaty-\n\nForwards Portmaster General's Report on proposals of French Office-\n\nPadang\n\nCopy\n\n272\n\nReport from the Portmaster General!\n\nI have the honor to report\n\nfollows :-\n\nThere is\n\nno objection whatever\n\nto the acceptance of any of the\n\nproposals of the French Port office (which all relate merely to matters of detail) with one exception, as to which I have some doubt.\n\nThis exception is the latter part of No. 5, as to the abolition of the 14d. Tariff. Such a change would necessitate revising\n\nall the rates by\n\nFrench Packet, and the rates by British Packet to France, Spain and Portugal:\n\nThese rates\n\nmany\n\nme. 1075-H & S 8164)",
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        "page_number": 276,
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        "content_text": "273\n\nclassed as sixpenny and ninepenny\n\nrates; they to at least 100 and 1/3, if it\n\nwould have to be raised\n\nnot even\n\nd\n\nit were\n\nnecessary to double them. A hardship would this be\n\ninflicted on a portion of the community, who can, without\n\ninconvenience, keep their letters under\n\n1/4 oz. This office,\n\nlike the French, this uniformity\n\nwould be\n\ndisturbed, and confusion of rates\n\nintroduced:\n\nagain\n\nIt\n\ncan\n\nhardly make any\n\ndifference to the French Office what scale we\n\nadopt,\n\nso\n\nlong\n\nas\n\nwe credit that office with the\n\nproper amount per\n\nounce; we, moreover, would be\n\nplaced in a still more disadvantageous\n\nposition,\n\nwith\n\nregard to the\n\ncompetition of the French and\n\nAmerican Offices, than it is now.\n\nAnd whereas there is now\n\nsomething like a\n\nuniform European\n\nrate, to wit, ninepence, per 1/2 oz. by British Packet, and per 1/4 oz.\n\nby\n\nothers and per ounce on the bulk weights of letters\n\nand papers respectively.\n\nNevertheless, I consider these objections should be put forward subject to the decision of the London Office. If it is desired, on the part of the Imperial Government, to sweep away differences of the unit of weight throughout the world:\n\nS. 10 75— H & S 8164)",
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        "content_text": "I refer to local considerations\n\nUnder old instructions all\n\nGovernor.\n\nNo.\n\nDate.\n\nHongkong No 5769\n\n(Subject.)\n\n47 Prantiffan additional £1000-\n\nmust yield.\n\nBooks and Papers\n\nare sent to Braze\n\nbar 10\n\nand by French Packet wholly unpaid,\n\nNo\n\nforming\n\nany\n\nMo\n\naccmnt, and without\n\ndistinctive marks whatever. The\n\nquestion should be acted, are such\n\nBooks and Papers in future\n\nto be\n\nor are\n\nmarked I (without specification of any precise amount to pay/\n\nforwarded as at\n\nas at present? (Signed) Alfred Lister\n\nPostmaster General.\n\nthey to be forwarded.\n\n(True Copy)\n\n18th August, 1876\n\nEdwin St John\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\non Sep, 13\n\nof\n\nDESPATCH.\n\n274\n\nyour to Mercy\n\nDept list of licences for extra duties consequent\n\non the New Marriage Order\n\nRecommend = for submitted\n\nLin J People\n\n(Minute.)\n\nG.Wd the P. & 2.\n\nDo you\n\nthat the duties\n\non the Leiformend\n\nunder the new Ordenance\n\n£100\n\nbe warrant the\n\n12.5.76.\n\nI have spoken\n\nSmith\n\nin thanthinch\n\nof £50\n\napar\n\nto the leat\n\nAbst\n\nLe\n\nwhit\n\nmay\n\nthat\n\nC\n\nshaved bes\n\n4.\n\nwould be suffererat.\n\nPhip\n\nallowed\n\nadd whenal\n\nlecopruction of the Serrard's long\n\nServices, &\n\nperson\n\nallewante\n\nB& Straps stam Kott beasts.\n\n2\n\n#\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nPage 10 | 75-H & S 8164",
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        "content_text": "for their Postal facilities. To these \n\nPort must be added \n\nthat \n\nnewly \n\nopened at Kowloon in Kowloon \n\n\"Mat of the Steamers which ply \n\nthis place \n\n..\" \n\nare \n\nBritish trade \n\nto \n\nEven \n\nShanghai, the centre of our interests is \n\ngreatly dependent upon \n\nChina is \n\ntrue, for although there is a \n\ncarrier by \n\nmail steamer \n\nweekly \n\nof the British and \n\nalso \n\nthe \n\nFrench Contract Packet, \n\ncommunication with \n\nHongkong by \n\nprivate steamers is almost daily, \n\nand so of \n\ncourse largely availed of. \n\nWhen it is considered that a private Steamer from Hongkong to Shanghai will often take on correspondence from Australia, New Zealand, the \n\n514 \n\nwhole of India, and the Straits Settlements (which the merchants would not hear of being detained \n\nby the Contract Mail) it is easily \n\nseen \n\nwhat \n\ngreat inconvenience might arise \n\nfrom the non-delivery of such correspondence. Residents in Hongkong \n\ncan and do send \n\nduplicates by the \n\nnext Steamer, but from India the \n\ncommunication is not \n\nvery frequent, \n\nfrom Australia still less; \n\nso that one mis \n\ncarriage of letters might involve a delay of \n\nI would also \n\ndraw \n\n9. \n\nweeks. \n\nLordship's attention to the advantages to Imperial interests \n\narising from \n\na service by private Steamers to",
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        "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]",
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        "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]",
        "content_text": "Order\n\nThat in any case where the money may be sent without a Remittance, a letter of advice to them will, if possible, be enclosed in the cancelled mail, but that payment is not to be refused on account of such letters not having come to hand, as in that case it would follow by the next mail, which is due in London in a week.\n\nBut that should the next packet from China, whether French or English, arrive without such letter of advice, then they are to telegraph immediately, and to furnish no further funds pending reply.\n\nThese precautions would effectually prevent any advantage being taken of the arrangement by a dishonest postmaster.\n\n(Signed) A. Sister\n\nHong Kong Postmaster General\n\n4 July 1876.\n\n(Free Copies)\n\nColonial Secretary.",
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        "content_text": "463 DOMESTIC.\n\nfice or Individual.\n\nHung trong\n\nNo. 266\n\n(Subject.)\n\nPost office mails conveyed by French Packet between H. Kong, Java and Singapore\n\nDate.\n\n1876 Jany. 6\n\n[st previous Paper.]\n\n13650\n\nIndy\n\nCopy Gov-x-6-13/07/6/76-921\n\nObjects to altering arrangement\n\nW. Meade\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nThis appears conclusive.\n\nIn reply to 13650 LD.\n\nCopy Elyor in\n\nlin\n\n8/1\n\nFOR 7/1/76\n\nme. 1075-11 & 3 8125)",
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        "content_text": "465\n\nby British Packet via Singapore,\n\nshould be extended to the Mails conveyed between those places by French Packet =\n\nHis Lordship requests that you will be good enough to state to the Earl of Clarendon that there is a\n\ndifficulty in meeting the wishes of the Government of Hong Kong in this matter, as the payment to be made to the French\n\nPost Office, for\n\nthe service of conveying mails by French Packet, is regulated by the Postal Convention between this Country and France, and this\n\nDepartment\n\nis not,\n\nas it was in the case\n\nof the Mails carried by British Packet, free to modify the rates of payment so as to suit the peculiar Conditions of the arrangement entered into between Hong Kong and the Netherlands India.\n\nThe Postmaster General\n\ndoes not consider it would be desirable to make any proposal on the subject to the French Post office, as\n\nthe\n\nrates fixed by the Anglo-French Convention have a general bearing on all correspondence conveyed by the British and\n\nFrench",
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        "page_number": 473,
        "title": "CO129-176 - Public Offices & Others - 1876",
        "content_text": "DOMESTIC.\n\nFrench Mail Packets, and\n\ncould not well be disturbed\n\nfor the purpose of affecting facilities to one\n\nclass\n\nparticular\n\nof Correspondence. His Lordship regrets, therefore, that arrangement referred to\n\ncannot be extended to Mails carried by French Packet.\n\nI am Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nJohn Robert\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nHong Kong No. 732\n\nNo.\n\n(Subject.)\n\n466\n\n. Post Office Discontinuance by P. & O. Cor of Allowances\n\nDate.\n\n1876\n\n180\n\nst previous Paper.\n\n18 May 26\n\nCols for It Jan 22\n\ngranted to Marine Porter's\n\nAt instance of S. P. O. the Company have agreed to\n\nrestore the per diem allowance of 15%, but not the\n\nMarine Allowance\n\nMr Toole\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nAs for LT despatch. 20/1/63 1\n\nanswer to his\n\nNo 3.0.\n\nEwa Jan 19\n\nThe Pal. Lune consented Executive.\n\nthe payment of Allowances (`Marine\n\n12/1.\n\nsorless.\n\natom\n\nRm 21/\n\njms. 10 | 75-0 & 8 8385)",
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        "document_key": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]",
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        "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "enclosed Convention be signed and adopted as suggested by His Excellency the Governor of the Netherlands of India, and that the new arrangements January set.\n\nI commend from ... Only I think it should be stipulated in the reply that either party be at liberty to revise its rates of Postage, on giving notice to the other. This, I observe, is not provided in the Convention, and, especially under present circumstances, it is a serious omission. I do not suppose, however, that there will be any objection to such an understanding. I should be glad if the Government of the Netherlands of India might be informed that Mails will be despatched from this Office for Batavia by every good opportunity on the following understanding; -\n\n(1.) By British Packet. This Office will be responsible for the expenses of transit to Singapore and of the return correspondence from Singapore.\n\n(2.) By Indian Mail Packet, and all Private Ships. The same.\n\n(3.) By French Packet. Under the second paragraph of Article 8 of the Convention, this Office will be responsible for the whole expense of transit of closed mails to Batavia.",
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        "content_text": "360\n\ncertainly asking that, if profile between be asked as Wolmics the sea postage Shanghai and Yokohama be similarly reduced. This cannot be a right; but the Imperial Government, in view of the fact that this Colony has at considerable loss of revenue, reduced its private ship postage to these places to go may not perhaps object to allow the Contract Packet rates to be reduced to the same amount.\n\nThe postage charged by private ship to or from Shanghai and Yokohama is 20 per 12 letters, 1? each, and 1? per newspaper, or for book &.\n\nIt would be very desirable that the rate for French Packet to places should if possible be similarly reduced, which could not be done if the Union rates for postage were 22 to be paid. Perhaps this latter question should be settled by direct reference to the French Post Office, but such application would be useless unless the rate were to be lowered, there can be no harm in submitting the live point to the Imperial Government simultaneously.\n\nI have to\n\n(Jun Copy)\n\naching Colonial Secretary\n\n(2) Alfred Lister, Postmaster General.",
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        "content_text": "DESPATCH,\n\nShanghai and Yokohama similar to that made in postage between Singapore and Penang by arrangement by P.&O. Packet; namely\n\n1/2 d. a reduction to 2d. per letter\n\nYour Lordship will perhaps be good enough to cause a communication to be made to the Postmaster General in London on the subject, and the question of a similar reduction of rates for French Packet might possibly be raised at the same time.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient humble servant,\n\nAdministrator.\n\nHong Kong\n\nNo. SC25\n\nDate 26th Jan. 1874\n\n(Subject.)\n\nRECEIVED 14 MAY 1877\n\n362 Offences committed by Brit: Soldier in China beyond British Jurisdiction\n\nat previous Paper &c.\n\nConson 5 June-77\n\nReporting and many: Report by the Atty. Gen. on the subject & requesting instructions on the points raised\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nMr Bramstore\n\nSome Men of the Regiment committal offences at Kowloon across the boundary, & having been sent for trial at the Supreme Court. The R.G. doubted the Jurisdiction of the Court Extended to the case, and abandoned Proceedings having first arranged with the Military Authorities to Try them under the Mutiny Act. The A.G. asks whether Law is right in his decision.\n\n2 - whether provision is desirable for such cases for the future.\n\nThe offences beyond the colonial limits, & beyond the Jurisdiction of The Supreme Court; & I think the A.G. is correct in the view he takes of the law.\n\nThe men being British subjects might have been brought before the Consul for trial, but there would have been no means of compelling the attendance of witnesses.\n\nIt would be desirable to meet similar cases in future.\n\nI suggest sending this to F.O. in London that Lord Carnarvon is disposed to favour the suggestion.\n\nPage 362\n\n176-H&S 2454",
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        "content_text": "156\n\nThe only difference between the two Schemes is that the Chamber of Commerce thinks the Packet should leave here at 8 on Sunday. I consider it would be better if it should leave at 6, which in winter is about daylight or a little before.\n\nIf the Packet leaves at daylight, the mail would be closed at this office at Midnight and the week's work then finished. One clerk would be told off to sleep on board the steamer and close supplementary mails (for all parts of the world) in the morning.\n\nBut if the Packet leaves at 8, certain classes of the Community will wish on having the Post office opened for an hour or so before 7 a.m. or the supplementary mails on board will be so large as to be unmanageable. Thus the Post Office staff would have to attend at 6 a.m. every Sunday morning for half the year (for French Packets will adopt similar hours) and this I think would be rather a hardship.\n\nAt the same time if the Chamber of Commerce really considers the hours of consequence, this Department is ready to meet its views in every possible way. I do not learn, however, from the Chamber's letter, whether acceptance is attached to the hour or whether it is a mere question of a morning or evening departure.\n\nIn one way the modification suggested would give the Shanghai Community all Monday for mail work, and it would be... \n\n30. Aug.",
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        "content_text": "274 \n\nto be sent by either route, which would diminish the mass now forwarded fortnightly by British Packet.\n\n6. \n\nWith regard to the general public, so long as any mail route is open, however disadvantageous it may be, some people will always post by it. A few mercantile persons still send letters and papers via Southampton, apparently under the idea that it is a cheap route, and in ignorance of the fact that, by the succeeding French Mail, they could, for the same money, have their correspondence delivered sooner or generally.\n\nBy the mercantile classes, the Southampton route is almost entirely disused, as the following figures, relative to yesterday's British Packet mail, will show:\n\n|  | via Brindisi | via Southampton |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Ordinary letters | 1234 | 4 |\n| Books | 1502 | 1009 |\n| Registered letters | 10 | 4 |\n| Number of Registered letters | 13 | \" |\n| Number of Papers | 83 | 2466 |\n|  | 7 | 7 |\n\n7. It may be concluded, therefore, that, soldiers' and sailors' letters being duly provided for, the Southampton route can be abolished advantageously. All correspondence from Hongkong for the United Kingdom by British Packet would then be forwarded via Brindisi.",
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        "content_text": "## Offrec Individual\n\n| Date | Subject | Office |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 5 May | The Blockade Question | Foreign Office |\n| 2 | Appt as Colonial Chaplain | Pennings Rev. & dec. |\n| 8 July | the corpse of the late P. de Filippi |  |\n| 18 Aug. | Salutes to Foreign Envoys |  |\n| 28 | The Blockade Question |  |\n| 2 Sept | Surveys of Ships. Proposed Ordinance |  |\n| 23 |  |  |\n| 29 | ? |  |\n| 4 Nov. | Affairs of Saran & Annom |  |\n|  | The Blockade Question |  |\n|  | Salutes to Foreign Envoys |  |\n| 28 Oct. | Govt Offences Ordinance |  |\n|  | Howcock H 20 Our blockade Questions. Proposed scheme of you. Hennessy for settlement |  |\n| 23 Sept | Fire Brigades | LAT the Colony |\n| 30 July | App. as You! Avalye! | McCallum |\n| 2 | duties of officers of Supreme Court | Filippo J. |\n| 17 Jan. | Education | Hewart |\n| 14 July | His statements respecting M. teffom | bowden I. |\n| 24 |  | Do |\n| 20 Aug. | Report of Supreme Court Commissionsto |  |\n\n## Other Offices\n\n| Date | Subject | Office |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 9 Feb | Boundary betoon Military Reserve & Colonial Lands | War Office |\n|  | Taylor Pa & Floqquis in Hong song Jasl |  |\n| 11 | for. Jusitive Offender 2.0. Stall | London & S. Ignace |\n| 26 Feb | Obervatory as Hong Kong Post Office | New Obervatory Bank |\n| 16 May | French mail lacket Service. Thermaceutical | Reuter |\n| 6 June | Appl of love Analyst apothecary | Post Office |\n| 11 Aug. | holonial Subsidy to the company |  |\n| 6 Nov. |  | bec. |\n|  | Contract | Colonial Office |\n|  | Hand India rohina mail Mail Sepice via Southampt... withdrawal of British Post Office Agencies from Japan Arrest of brennes |  |\n| 2 Oct. | Resignation |  |\n| 9 Jan. | Acting Suspectorship of Police |  |\n|  | Apps as Chief Inspector of Police |  |\n| 17 Aug. | Mastership of Love. Central Schools | Stutchinson W2) | \nW.7. Foldberg \nHosspool C",
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        "content_text": "Page 4\n\ncanced out and that the provisions of the Opium Ordinance of 1857 as regards opium in transitu should be repealed\n\nNr 2/2\n\nThe Supreme Court of Hong Kong has decided contrary to the opinion of the law officers that Yoon was not reactionly liable. In 1872 it was held (in the case of the SS \"9300\") and contrary to the decision of the Vice Admiralty Court in the same case - that the vessels of the Peninsular Maritime Company employed in the Packet Postal service are entitled in the ports of Hong Kong to the privileges of ships of war.\n\nor Colonial\n\n(1) because the Convention of 24 Sept 1856, which purports to fix that privilege to certain vessels so employed, but having formally received any legislation sanction Imperial or Colonial cannot deprive British subjects of the right which they would have under ordinary law or act of the Legislature (in this case the right under Section 2 of 1858) to have a search warrant for a vessel suspected of carrying opium under Act 2 of 1858.\n\n(2) His decision precedes the decision of the Admiralty Court in the case of the Parlement Belge, but there are other grounds for distinctions between the two cases. It was noticed and held immaterial by the Court that the power of the Crown to bind itself by treaties without legislative sanction may be felt more strongly in a Crown Colony than in the U.K. that the treaties under which the right of search and seizure was given were later in date than the Convention.\n\nbecause the Convention only applies to ships... \n\nJames mail steamer was the vessel in question in Betting (see his Report in `7531`) which was dissented from (though I think not very explicitly) by the L.O. in the opinion (35) (by the Chief Justice) because the ship was not subsidized to the French Govt inasmuch as the Company might change the mail into another of their vessels.\n\nI think if things are to remain in status quo it will, as Mr. J. Smale puts it, give rise to frequent difficulties and dilemmas on the best part of Chinese waters under the opium Ordinance but in other respects in which rights may be asserted against vessels in the port of Hong Kong.\n\nThe remedy appears to me to confine the terms of the Convention within its proper limits, make a fresh Convention in clear terms and to confirm it by legislation.\n\nThe Foreign Office was in a serious difficulty between the warrant issued under the mandamus and the Supreme Court's gentle hint that their ships were privileged.\n\nand I think he did right in suspending the Execution's writ after the warrant and generally in his action.\n\nThe Justice Party put out a hand that the law should be declared after the ship first delicately distrained...\n\n#7",
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        "content_text": "the same port I am directed by the State to request you to lay before the Marquis of Salisbury, for careful consideration, the enclosed copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hongkong, with original enclosures.\n\n2. A similar case has recently arisen in the Colony, in which the right of French mail steamers to convey the mails has again been seen. \n\nA packet \"Anadyr\" arrived recently in the waters of Polony with a quantity of prepared opium on board. The opium farmer, Brauch, applied for a warrant, which he was refused by the Police Magistrate on the ground that the \"Anadyr\" was protected by the Postal Convention. The Supreme Court then issued a mandamus directing",
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        "content_text": "The Gy\n\nederation of on question relating\n\nJ\n\nthat di\n\nBeachis is\n\n& then Hands\n\nis\n\nchal\n\nguar Jaw\n\nGrant\n\nwennew\n\nJay\n\nunable\n\nnot part of the\n\nduties of this Dept\n\nOffice or Individual.\n\nHong Kong Govt. No. 4169\n\n(Subject.)\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n166\n\nFrungen Fff Search Warrant. Case of Reamer #nadzo!\n\ntowign\n\nDate.\n\n1880.\n\nObsewations in referenss to this case, and\n\nMarch 1970. Coufl: Pruited Paper (3863) baring\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nenclosing Memo :\n\non the Prinleger of British Smail Packet in Foreign Porto Freign maut Pachets in Briticle Portin\n\n2423\n\nand\n\noff\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nTo conson\n\n9 ap\n\nGor. instructed 41-23 ap\n\n70. 3631\n\nhur\n\nW\n\nWinfriece\n\nGur macheo.\n\nIt is proposed to legeclate without delay forthe confirmation of the postal convention, and in the meantime the Mangues of Salishary will press the French Government for a decision upon a proposal make in 1876 for mutual granting of facilities porthin cxccation of legal process onboard mail vesels. I do not, however, think it is clear that the subject of the legal process in the present case of the \"Anadyr\" would fall within the scope of that proposal. But this would not be of consequence\n\na proponed by how.. the opium ordinance is to be amended The 70. do not allude to the argument. of the\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 363",
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        "content_text": "LIST OF CASES.\n\nPage\n\n  \n    Spain\n    Portugal\n    February 1844\n    Contemplated removal of a Spanish subject out of the Mail-packet \"Pasha\" at Vigo\n    8\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    March 1844\n    Demand of Portuguese police at Lisbon for surrender of a Portuguese from the Peninsular contract steamer \"Lady M. Wood\"\n    8\n  \n  \n    Austria, France, and Sardinia\n    \n    1859\n    Proposal to run Austrian Lloyd's steamers under British flag during Sardinian war\n    20\n  \n  \n    Austria\n    \n    1864\n    Austrian Lloyd's steamers in Ionian Islands\n    ..\n  \n  \n    Peru\n    \n    March 1865\n    Refusal of revolutionary authorities at Islay to allow an officer who rejoined the revolutionary party to land at Islay from the mail-steamer \"Bogota\"\n    19\n  \n  \n    Peru\n    \n    July 1865\n    Demand of Peruvian authorities at Lima for surrender of political refugees on board Her Majesty's ship \"Shearwater\"\n    10\n  \n  \n    Peru\n    \n    December 1865\n    Removal of Peruvian naval and military officers by the revolutionary party from the Pacific Company's steamer \"Bolivia\" at Islay\n    12\n  \n  \n    Spain\n    \n    January 1866\n    Contemplated surrender of a Spanish Diplomatic Agent to the Peruvian authorities from the British Mail-packet \"Pacific\"\n    13\n  \n  \n    France\n    \n    September 1868\n    Riot on board French Messageries steamer \"Tigre\" at Hong Kong\n    13\n  \n  \n    Turkey\n    \n    1870\n    Dues on foreign postal steamers at Constantinople, &c.\n    14\n  \n  \n    France\n    \n    1872\n    Collision with French Messageries steamer \"Ava\" at Hong Kong\n    14\n  \n  \n    France\n    \n    1874\n    French Messageries steamer \"Onadyr,\" boarded at Hong Kong\n    16\n  \n  \n    France\n    \n    December 1874\n    Defaulter from Her Majesty's ship \"Vigilant\" on board French mail-steamer \"Sindh\" at Hong Kong\n    15\n  \n  \n    France\n    \n    1876\n    Proposed arrangement for execution of legal process on board privileged vessels..\n    17\n  \n  \n    France\n    \n    June 1876\n    Claim of French steamer \"Tanais,\" of the Messageries Maritimes, to exemption from local jurisdiction in harbour of Hong Kong\n    16\n  \n  \n    France\n    \n    September 1877\n    Quarantine on French mail-steamer \"Irrawaddy\" at Aden..\n    18\n  \n  \n    Austria\n    \n    March 1878\n    Jew Goldstein on board Rubattino steamer \"Australia\" at Aden\n    19\n  \n  \n    Italy and Austria\n    \n    \n    Question of privileges of Rubattino and Austrian Lloyd's steamers in British ports\n    19\n  \n\n[List of Treaties.\n\n172",
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        "content_text": "6\n\nlentes\") on board, without being obliged to deposit them in the Custom-house.\n\n\"5. They may leave Brazilian ports at any hour of the day or night, observing the police regulations of the ports.\"\n\nThe Treaty with Morocco of the 9th December, 1856, contained the following Article:-\n\n\"XXVII. Vessels or boats freighted by order of the British Government for the conveyance of mails, or employed by the British Government under contract for the same service, shall be respected and shall have the same privileges as ships of war, if they do not bring or take articles of merchandize to or from a port of the Sultan of Morocco; but if they carry any merchandize from a port of these dominions, they shall pay the same charges as any other merchant-vessel.\"\n\nThe Treaty of Commerce, &c., with the Sandwich Islands, of 10th July, 1851, contained the following Article:-\n\nTreaty with Morocco.\n\nHertalet's Treaties, vol. 1, p. 903.\n\n7\n\nby any of the cruizers of Algiers, shall be treated with the same respect as His Majesty's ships of war, and all due respect shall be paid to His Majesty's Commission; and both at meeting and parting they shall be treated as friends, and if any of the Algerine cruizers commit the least fault or violence against them, the captains or raizes so offending shall, on their arrival at Algiers, and proper complaint being made of them, be most severely punished, without admitting of their excuses.\"\n\nTreaty with Tripoli, Tunis, and United States.\n\nThis same stipulation was inserted in the Treaties with Tripoli of 19th September, 1751 (Art. XXIX), Hertslet's Treaties, vol. 1, p. 150. and with Tunis of 19th October, 1751 (Art. XXVI). Ibid., vol. i, p. 170.\n\nThe Postal Convention with the United States of the 15th December, 1848, contained the following Article:-\n\nIbid., vol. viii, p. 937.\n\nTreaty with Sandwich Islands.\n\n\"XV. In case there should at any time be Ibid., vol. ix, p. 695. established British mail-packets touching at a port of the Sandwich Islands, a British Packet Agent shall be permitted to reside at such port, and to collect, on account of the British Post Office, the British sea-rate of postage which may be hereafter fixed for the conveyance of letters by British packets from the Sandwich Islands to any other place to which those packets may proceed.\n\n\"Such British mail-packets shall have free access to the ports of the Sandwich Islands, and shall be allowed to remain to refit, to refresh, to land passengers and their luggage, and to transact any business connected with the public mail-service of Great Britain. They shall not be subject in such ports to any duties of tonnage, harbour, lighthouses, quarantine, or other similar duties, of whatever nature, or under whatever denomination.\"\n\nThe additional Article to the Treaty with Algiers of the 3rd June, 1751, ran thus\n\nTreaty with Algiers.\n\n\"All packets or express boats bearing His Britannic Majesty's Commission, which shall be met Ibid., vol. i, p. 79.\n\nAdmiralty;\n\nMarch 8, 1844.\n\nQueen's Advocate;\n\nMarch 18, 1844. March 18, 1844.\n\n\"XX. In case of war between the two nations, the mail-packets of the two offices shall continue their navigation without impediment or molestation until six weeks after a notification shall have been made on the part of either of the two Governments, and delivered to the other, that the service is to be discontinued, in which case they shall be permitted to return freely, and under special protection, to their respective ports.\"\n\nIt may now be useful to cite instances in which immunity has been claimed for British mail-packets in foreign ports, and for foreign mail-packets in British ports, and to state the views which have been expressed by the Law Officers upon the various points which have arisen out of such claims.\n\nThe following question arose in Spain in February 1844:-\n\nIt was suspected that on the arrival at Vigo of the Peninsular contract steam-packet \"Pasha,\" an attempt might be made to take out of that vessel a Spanish subject, Señor Olozega, who had embarked at Lisbon, provided with a passport from the Portuguese authorities, countersigned by the British, Belgian, and French Legations.\n\nThe question as to the legal right of the Spanish authorities to effect such removal was referred to the Queen's Advocate, and he reported that he\n\n[79]\n\nD\n\n176",
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        "content_text": "12\n\nnot exempt from the jurisdiction of the local authority. The Queen's Advocate further said that great care must be taken that the mail-packet did not in any way interfere by the carriage of passengers, or by any other act, with the operations of the belligerents.\n\nIt should, however, be observed, that at this time the revolutionary party in Peru had not been recognized as belligerents.\n\nThe Admiralty were of opinion that Mr. Jerningham's suggestion as to officers being sent in charge of the mails on the same footing as those on the West Indian and other lines should be approved, but they stated that they could not concur in the course proposed with regard to a white ensign and pendant being hoisted on board those packets, as such flags were solely used by Her Majesty's vessels, and there would be no force on board the packets to protect such flags from insult, and they further considered that the hoisting of them would lead to embarrassment.\n\nBut on subsequently receiving a copy of the Queen's Advocate's Report for their information, the Admiralty stated that instructions would be sent to Commodore Harvey to desist from placing any guard on board the Pacific mail-packets.\n\nThe Post Office also considered it inadvisable to adopt Mr. Jerningham's suggestion, that a British Naval Officer should in future accompany each of the mail-packets, since no inconvenience had been experienced by the Post Office in placing the mails in charge of the commanders of the packets, and the expense of appointing and maintaining a corps of naval agents would be very considerable.\n\nLord Russell entirely concurred in these views, and copies of the letters from the Admiralty and Post Office were accordingly sent to Her Majesty's Consul at Callao, for his guidance.\n\nIn November 1865 the Peruvian Minister for Foreign Affairs applied to Mr. Barton, who was in charge of the Legation at Callao, for the surrender to the Peruvian authorities of ex-President Pezet and other officers, who were accused of high treason, robbery, and assassination, and who had taken refuge on board Her Majesty's ship \"Shearwater.\" These refugees, who had fled on board this ship for the protection of their lives during an insurrection, were subsequently transferred to Her Majesty's ship \"Mutine,\" and, in reply to the application which he had received, Mr. Barton informed the Peruvian Minister that the parties in question had all been so transferred, and had sailed for Panama the day before he received that application. Mr. Barton was approved for the answer he returned.\n\nCase of Her Majesty's ship \"Shearwater \" in Peru.\n\nApril 9, 1866.\n\nCase of the British mail-packet \"Pacific\" in Peru.\n\nTo Law Officers; April 12, 1866. Law Officers; April 16, 1866,\n\nTo M. de Moliers;\n\nApril 12, 1866.\n\nColonial Office;\n\nDecember 7, 1868.\n\n13\n\nIn January 1866 war was declared between Peru and Spain, and in April following the Spanish Minister in London complained to Lord Clarendon that the Captain of the English mail-packet \"Pacific\" had warned a Spanish Diplomatic Agent (M. Sanguirico), who was the bearer of despatches, and had taken a passage on board that vessel, that he would deliver him over to the authorities at any Peruvian port where the vessel might touch, should he be required to do so,\n\nThe question was referred to the Law Officers, and they reported that the \"Pacific,\" being a merchant-vessel, was not exempt by International Law or usage from the territorial jurisdiction of Peru while within Peruvian waters, and that she could not therefore confer, while within those waters, upon any enemy of the Peruvian Republic, whom she might be carrying as a passenger or otherwise, a privilege to or exemption which she did not herself possess.\n\nIt was added that even if the Captain of the \"Pacific\" had proposed voluntarily to do some act contrary to his duty towards M. Sanguirico when beyond British jurisdiction, Her Majesty's Government had no power or control over that vessel or her Commander, and could not have prevented and would not have been responsible for it; and that any such passenger, whether in the political service of a foreign Government or not, when warned beforehand of any such intention on the part of the Captain, as in the case of M. Sanguirico, must determine for himself what was the proper course to take with a view to his own safety.\n\nA reply to this effect was accordingly sent to the Spanish Minister.\n\nIn September 1868 a serious riot occurred at Hong Kong on board the French Messageries\n\n179",
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        "content_text": "24\n\nHIGH COURT OF JUSTICE ADMIRALTY DIVISION *\n\nARREST OF FOREIGN SHIP. JURISDICTION.\n\nThe \"Daring\" v. \"The Parlement Belge.”\n\n(Before Sir R. J. Phillimore, February 4, 25, 26, and March 15.)\n\nTHIS was a motion on behalf of Messrs. Sandford, of Dover, the owners of the steam-tug \"Daring\" against the Belgian Government, the owners of the mail packet \"Parlement Belge,\" for damages for a collision in Dover Harbour on the 14th February last year.\n\nThe case was fully argued before the Court by Mr. Webster and Dr. W. Phillimore for the plaintiffs; and the Solicitor-General, Dr. Deane, and Mr. Bowen for the Crown, when the Court reserved judgment.†\n\nHis Lordship now delivered the considered judgment of the Court, and said : \"In this case questions of international and public law of the gravest importance have been raised. The Court has to acknowledge the great assistance which it has derived from the learned and able arguments of Counsel, especially the liability in a case which is, I believe, primæ impressionis, and which must be decided upon general principles of analogous law rather than any direct precedent.\n\n\"On the 16th February, 1878, the owners of the steam-tug \"Daring\" served a writ on board the steam-ship \"Parlement Belge\" against the owners of that vessel and her freight, in which they claimed the sum of 3,500l. for damage arising out of a collision which occurred between that vessel and the steam-tug \"Daring\" on the 14th February, 1878, off Dover. The defendants put in an appearance, and took no steps whatever. The plaintiffs have proceeded by default, and taken the usual and proper course, and, the case being ripe for judgment, the plaintiffs on the 25th January in this year gave notice on the 4th February that the Court would be moved to direct judgment, with costs, to be entered for them in respect of the damages so claimed, and that the usual order might be made of reference to the Registrar and merchants, and that a warrant should issue, the action being in rem, against the steam-ship \"Parlement Belge.\" Having looked at the papers and pleadings, I perceived that the arrest of the ship and the judgment which were prayed might affect the prerogative of the Crown and its relations with a foreign State; I, therefore, directed that they might have an opportunity, if they thought fit, of showing cause against the prayer of the plaintiffs. The Attorney-General has appeared, and filed what is called an information and protest, which I will now read :\n\n\"Before and at the time of the alleged collision, and thenceforward till the present time, the \"Parlement Belge\" was one of the mail packets running between Ostend and Dover, and one of the packets mentioned in Article VI of the Convention of February 1876, hereinafter referred to. During the period hereinbefore mentioned, and at all material times, the said packets were, and are, the property of His Majesty the King of the Belgians, and in his possession, control, and employ, as reigning Sovereign of the State of Belgium, and have been, and still are, public vessels of the Government and sovereign State of Belgium, carrying his said Majesty's Royal pennon, and were, and are, being navigated and employed by and in the possession of such Government, and not otherwise. The said packets were, and are, officered by officers of the Royal Belgian Navy, holding commissions from His Majesty the King of the Belgians, and in the pay and service of his Government. The said officers are appointed by, and under the control and orders of, the Belgian Minister of Public Works. During the period hereinbefore mentioned, and at all material times, a Convention, dated the 17th February, 1876, has been, and is, in force between Her Majesty the Queen and His Majesty the King of the Belgians—to a copy of which, in the French and English languages, the defendants crave leave to refer, as if the said Convention were duly set forth at length. During the period hereinbefore mentioned, and at all material times, the \"Parlement Belge\" was carrying the public mails under the said Convention, between and for the Royal Post Offices of Great Britain and Belgium. The Attorney-General, under protest, says that this honourable Court has no jurisdiction to entertain this suit, and that the plaintiffs cannot prosecute the same herein.'\n\n\"I have had the advantage of an argument from the Solicitor-General on the whole case. The protest of the Attorney-General raises a question of constitutional law and a question of international law, both of great moment, and which I will endeavour to consider separately. By this protest it is in substance contended that this steam-ship, the 'Parlement Belge,' is not amenable to the process of this Court; first, on the ground that she is the property of the King of the Belgians at the time of the collision, and was controlled and employed by him; secondly, that Her Majesty the Queen, by a Convention with the King of the Belgians, has placed this packet-boat in the category of a public ship of war. I will endeavour to deal with these questions in the order in which I have stated them, though, perhaps, they cannot be kept quite distinct. It is expedient to make this preliminary observation, which is important in its bearing upon one, if not both, of the questions. The collision in this case took place in Dover Harbour, that is, within the body of a county; and, therefore, previously to the year 1840, this Court would have had no jurisdiction in the matter; but by the joint operation of the Statutes 3 and 4 Vict., cap. 65, and 24 Vict., cap. 10, this Court was given a jurisdiction both in rem and in personam in cases where the collision happened in a harbour, as well as upon the high seas. It follows, therefore, that the plaintiffs have a statutable right of action against the \"Parlement Belge,\" unless that vessel be of that privileged class which are not amenable to a Court of law. The burden of proving that she does belong to this class lies upon the defendants, more especially as it appears from the papers before me that she was engaged in carrying on commerce, however limited in its nature, at the time of the collision.\n\nI turn now to the consideration of the first question raised in the protest. I had occasion to consider most, if not all, of the authorities upon this point in the case of the 'Charkieh.' I desire to state at once that, in my opinion, a public ship of war belonging to a State at amity with Her Majesty is exempt from the jurisdiction of this Court. This proposition is maintained in the recent case of the 'Constitution,' and it has been laid down in a variety of cases adjudicated on both in our Courts and in those of the United States of North America, and it may be considered, notwithstanding certain dicta in the case of the 'Prinz Frederic,' to be firmly rooted in the jurisprudence of both these countries.\n\nIt has been contended on the part of the Crown, not that the 'Parlement Belge' is a ship of war in the general sense of that word, but that she is used, as hereinbefore stated, as a mail packet, the property of the Crown of Belgium, carrying the Royal pennon and officered by commissioned officers of the Royal Belgian Navy. On the other hand, it must be taken that she is not a public armed ship constituting a part of the military force of the nation; nor is she a vessel, so to speak, of pleasure belonging to the Crown, and on that ground, perhaps, by the comity of nations, in the class of privileged ships.\n\nIn the case of the 'Charkieh' I said :— \"I am not prepared to deny that a private vessel (for instance, the yacht of the Sultan, though equipped for pleasure and not for war, would be entitled by international comity—at least, so long as it is not withdrawn by the State conceding it—as international law, to the same immunity as a ship of war, and though dicta to the contrary may be found in the writings of some jurists.\"\n\n\"Since that time I have not found reason to alter the opinion I then expressed. The especial duty of the 'Parlement Belge' (to follow the terms of the Treaty, to which I will presently advert) is the conveyance of the mails. But though such be the especial duty of the packet, it is by no means its sole occupation. Mr. Gregory has made an affidavit in the following words :\n\n\"That I, on the 8th February, 1879, attended at the office of the Continental Daily Parcels Express to make inquiries as to the conveyance of goods and merchandize from London to Belgium, viâ Dover, to Ostend, by the mail boats, and in reply to my inquiries I was handed the exhibit marked with the letter A, hereunto annexed. That the exhibit referred to is a sort of time and charge Table relative to the conveyance by the Government mail packets, viâ Dover, Ostend, and Calais, of samples of every description, papers, plans, books, articles for private use, luggage, and packets of all kinds up to 200 lbs. weight, between England and the Continent, via France, Belgium, &c. By a reference to paragraph 5 thereof, it appears that the said Continental Daily Parcels Express has been in existence for the last thirty years, and, further that they ship their goods to Belgium by the mail boat, viâ Ostend. I asked a gentleman in the office of the said Continental Daily Parcels Express whether there was any other means by which they could be sent to Belgium, and the reply was, \"No; we can only ship by the mail boats, via Dover and Ostend.\" With reference to paragraph 9 of the Exhibit A, it appears there is no limit as to the size or weight of the parcels that are so shipped, the printed Tariff in the last page going up to 200 lbs., but stating, as to the rates generally, as well as to the special rates to Ostend alone, what additional charge is made for every 10 lbs. according to the Tariff'\n\n\"The 'Parlement Belge,' it would appear, is neither a public ship of war nor a private pleasure vessel belonging to the Crown of Belgium, nor is she a public ship sent by the Government on an exploring expedition, like those employed in the Arctic Expedition, all of which ships, it should be observed, belonging to England, were regularly commissioned as ships of war: she is simply a packet conveying certain mails, and carrying on a considerable commerce, officered, as I have said, by Belgian officers, and flying the Belgian pennon. Can such a vessel so employed be entitled to the privileges of a public ship of war? The analogy between the immunity of the Ambassador and a ship of war is obvious. It has been holden by high authority, both in this and other countries, that an Ambassador may lose his privilege by engaging in commerce. Indeed, Lord Campbell was of opinion, that in such a case all his goods unconnected with his diplomatic functions may be arrested to force him to appear, and may afterwards, while he continues, be taken in\n\n25",
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        "content_text": "Sir de Biche Beach proposes to address & the Government energetically on\n\nBabish\n\nthe\n\nAmalfi Packet in Foreign\n\nIn aviliones -189\n\npear the operation of\n\nLaut post authority he\n\nthe 5th clause Portion\n\nboards of\n\nthe\n\nConventions being\n\n4\n\nPat and\n\nFormin\n\nGraal Packets in British\n\nSi believe Hicks Beach\n\ndemur\n\nto request that\n\nAlways that to\n\nJames\n\nhatte de Poncques of high\n\nSalching & Labor free\n\n2\n\nattention may be called to the\n\nAt Allepced\n\nWilly tester by construction\n\nA\n\nof the Postal Convention. In 1875 adopted by\n\nthe\n\nof being Day\n\ndecarb\n\nwhat\n\nJudy meant\n\nIn prime Cont\n\nin it\n\nthat's\n\nLes wheel include\n\nThe Shape of the P&O Steamers\n\nLapland Jeans, each\n\nCovering he would suggest-\n\nthe Lord Salisbury's conduct\n\nwith whether\n\nsteps\n\nnot be taken in\n\nwith the French\n\npostal\n\nConsent\n\nis for defining sure clear\n\na supplemental Convention in\n\nthe\n\nvessels which intend to have the benefit\n\nThe Privileges Conferred by",
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        "content_text": "General.\n\n6553 215\n\nThe Law Officers of the Crown and Dr. Deane to the Marquis of Salisbury\n\nApril 23.)\n\n(Received\n\nTemple, April 23, 1880.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWE were honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Sir Julian Pauncefote's letter of the 19th instant, stating that he had to transmit to us, by your Lordship's desire, the correspondence and documents noted in the margin with reference to the difficulty which was apprehended in consequence of the recent Judgment of the High Court of Admiralty in the case of the \"Parlement Belge,\" in carrying into effect in Her Majesty's dominions of Article V of the Postal Convention with France, and Article VI of the Postal Convention with Belgium, in cases where the foreign mail packets were not the property of the State by which they were employed, but private vessels chartered or subsidized for their mail service.\n\nThat Sir Julian Pauncefote was to refer us to the letter from the Foreign Office to the Treasury of the 19th March last for a statement of the grounds on which it had been suggested that the Law Officers of the Crown should be consulted as to the expediency of introducing a Bill in Parliament to meet the difficulty which was apprehended; and Sir Julian Pauncefote was to request that we would favour your Lordship with our opinion as to whether such legislation was necessary, and, if so, that we would be good enough to state generally the nature or frame of the provision which we might consider best calculated to carry out the object in view.\n\nThat Sir Julian Pauncefote was also to draw our attention to the recent case of the French mail packet \"Anadyr,\" at Hong Kong, reported in the Colonial Office letter of the 10th March last, and to previous cases which had occurred in that Colony, of which an account was given at pp. 13-18 of Sir E. Hertslet's printed memorandum on mail packets.\n\nThat if we should be of opinion that legislation was necessary in the case of the steamers of the Messageries Maritimes, as held by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on the authority of the Judgment of the High Court of Admiralty in the case of the \"Parlement Belge,\" your Lordship would be glad to be informed whether, in view of the great traffic carried on by those steamers in Hong Kong, and of the frequent discussions arising there as to their privileges and immunities, we considered that there would be any objection to the immediate passing of a short local Ordinance to secure to them, while within the waters of the Colony, all the privileges and immunities which the Vth Article of the Postal Convention with France purports to confer on them.\n\nIn obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to report--\n\nThat in our opinion it may be expedient to introduce a Bill in Parliament to meet the difficulty which it is apprehended may be the result of that part of the Judgment of the Admiralty Court in the \"Parlement Belge\" which was not reversed, and upon which it was not necessary to raise any question in the Court of Appeal.\n\nA short Act giving the power by Order in Council to grant the privileges and immunities of national ships, the property of the Government, to vessels chartered or subsidized by that Government for the conveyance of mails under any postage convention with such Government, will probably be the most convenient way of attaining the object in view.\n\nBut, and especially with reference to the vessels belonging to the Messageries Maritimes, whose business is not so much the carrying of mails as that of general merchant ships, we desire to call your Lordship's attention to a great practical difficulty, namely, the easy and cheap means of obtaining the advantage of the Postages Convention and Orders in Council for merchant-ships by a slight and nominal payment as a subsidy.\n\nTreasury, March 11; Foreign Office to Treasury, March 19; Treasury, March 31; Colonial Office, March 10; to Colonial Office, March 19, 1880; Memorandum by Sir E. Hertslet; Postal Convention with France, 1856; Postal Convention with Belgium, February 17, 1876.\n\n[370]",
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        "content_text": "The Law Officers of the Crown and Dr. Deane to the Marquis of Salisbury-(Received April 23.)\n\nMy Lord,\n\nTemple, April 23, 1880. WE were honoured with your Lordship's commands signified in Sir Julian Pauncefote's letter of the 19th instant, stating that he had to transmit to us, by your Lordship's desire, the correspondence and documents noted in the margin with reference to the difficulty which was apprehended in consequence of the recent Judgment of the High Court of Admiralty in the case of the \"Parlement Belge,\" in carrying into effect in Her Majesty's dominions of Article V of the Postal Convention with France, and Article VI of the Postal Convention with Belgium, in cases where the foreign mail packets were not the property of the State by which they were employed, but private vessels chartered or subsidized for their mail service.\n\nThat Sir Julian Pauncefote was to refer us to the letter from the Foreign Office to the Treasury of the 19th March last for a statement of the grounds on which it had been suggested that the Law Officers of the Crown should be consulted as to the expediency of introducing a Bill in Parliament to meet the difficulty which was apprehended; and Sir Julian Pauncefote was to request that we would favour your Lordship with our opinion as to whether such legislation was necessary, and, if so, that we would be good enough to state generally the nature or frame of the provision which we might consider best calculated to carry out the object in view.\n\nThat Sir Julian Pauncefote was also to draw our attention to the recent case of the French mail packet \"Anadyr,\" at Hong Kong, reported in the Colonial Office letter of the 10th March last, and to previous cases which had occurred in that Colony, of which an account was given at pp. 13-18 of Sir E. Hertslet's printed memorandum on mail packets.\n\nThat if we should be of opinion that legislation was necessary in the case of the steamers of the Messageries Maritimes, as held by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong on the authority of the Judgment of the High Court of Admiralty in the case of the \"Parlement Belge,\" your Lordship would be glad to be informed whether, in view of the great traffic carried on by those steamers in Hong Kong, and of the frequent discussions arising there as to their privileges and immunities, we considered that there would be any objection to the immediate passing of a short local Ordinance to secure to them, while within the waters of the Colony, all the privileges and immunities which the Vth Article of the Postal Convention with France purports to confer on them.\n\nIn obedience to your Lordship's commands we have the honour to report-\n\nThat in our opinion it may be expedient to introduce a Bill in Parliament to meet the difficulty which it is apprehended may be the result of that part of the Judgment of the Admiralty Court in the \"Parlement Belge\" which was not reversed, and upon which it was not necessary to raise any question in the Court of Appeal.\n\nA short Act giving the power by Order in Council to grant the privileges and immunities of national ships, the property of the Government, to vessels chartered or subsidized by that Government for the conveyance of mails under any postage convention with such Government, will probably be the most convenient way of attaining the object in view.\n\nBut, and especially with reference to the vessels belonging to the Messageries Maritimes, whose business is not so much the carrying of mails as that of general merchant ships, we desire to call your Lordship's attention to a great practical difficulty, namely, the easy and cheap means of obtaining the advantage of the Postages Convention and Orders in Council for merchant-ships by a slight and nominal payment as a subsidy.\n\n* Treasury, March 11; Foreign Office to Treasury, March 19; Treasury, March 31: Colonial Office, March 10; to Colonial Office, March 19, 1880; Memorandum by Sir E. Hertslet; Postal Convention with France, 1856; Postal Convention with Belgium, February 17, 1876.\n\n[370]\n\n12916-300.",
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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",
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        "content_text": "## 46 \n2. \n## 44 \n### Intimations. \n**THE CHINA VIEW.** \nChowder was claved tho putti! \n### Visitors' Column. \n**THE CHINA MAIL.** \n### Hongkong Rates of Postage. \n(via June 26, 1889) \nLal Parki Yest \n1. Small Parodia to seat by Port because any of the Fest Calle Chips We have instituted sa na experiment or Japan, as well 10 Mac VAITATS COLs, which we trust In the fallowing Statements and Tables boi, papi, Peus Ma widely-express gret at this dis will prove succesfe, and be found use the Ratas are given in sends, sal ww, for anal not excel the falieving doo \n\n1 wat rond 1 fotoop, izuno of Notes nervul. To it will be legsted fruta time Lettere, per half cher, for Book ads, & foot meg, nor web us than is plage is fumuaporation to tre such itsuse of information, fists, Pavere, por tres cuces. \n\nNewspapers o \na over four modes in weight wil be 20 cele per, which wel indude Bilar in objout and style, bob slightly tables and other intelligence is ec \n### Registration \nThe parcele s bully modified in wartado detail. \nsuured likely to prove vaatle to per charged as doubla, teable, ✯e, az i some taxing through the City, and cave map bo, but eveli papers or pacicate or ne say be rout at Book Rats. Two in euoneetion wiza we bave opered | Snappere arust not be folded together as Horn. AND BUSES, norunything whatever beismerted SELECT Damron, applicatos for enrolment sacept koná sice Epplements. \ner of this \n**THE CHINA REVIEW OF Roles and cries on the Far East, ia auded at fu tervals of two mumus, each numbar ou taining about 60 ev \net 60 nav pages, all cated with lible, photos, wonderia, be, bead the papare pubished demand, and the insulation justify, Jaiza Ditter. \nsuberitiva la vixed at $16.50 p \nd \nPrintad \nto which we are now ready to secure, der say, bowser, bo endload, if the wind be paid at Pack Kate. Price Cur rent may be paid either as Navapapam or List of Public Buildings. \npaid per san payable by on-residents Governant House, North of Public in Hinges, half-pearly in naprawne. \nThe patristica indledes papers riginal and selected inpun dia Arts and Seisces, Snogy, Folklore, Deugrupiy, History, Ilustre les Man Anu Cus- ton, Natural \nKeligion, do, C., \n### Gardens \nCits find. Library (8,000 volumes) and \nMuse-Free. \nPublic Gedens, a bontifully picturesque \nretreat and of great interest. \nBuake. \nComp by do not bear Pique annity, aos prone bough \nclosed it day bear this spook! accores. \n27, PADE, OTANING TO Luman, but \nany parzel was ered by danion of the Possier tiesā. \n2. The following went be mated Patcula insasiuni, packed as paciented, or liable to be \nGlass, Teguida, \nazglasite butee Matchca, Ladigo, u 10, Kent, \ndegrees to des Fish, Game, Fruit, Vestby to - Helyi bo \nthe up rectar of an actual or pramazal sorteo fire or injet i trans spousal, ach tha deeds, copied music, e. The obarge on Si \n### No. 5892,- (CTOBER 21, 1880. \n**Merchant Vessels in HongCong Harbour** \nExcburies of cats Arrivals and Departures reported lo-lay, \nTorillaz fading the position of 207 renal in the Harbour, the Anchorage is divided inte sigal Boetius, vammancing at (trend Indai. Vasole neuer the Hongkong shere are marked A, use the Kowing shore k., azri those in the body of the Shipping or midway between each shore to masked c., in conjunction wild the Sguroa denoting the mentions. \n2. From Gas Works to the Novelty Iron Worke \n### Section \nB. From P. and D. Co.'s Office to Peddar's Wharf. \n7. Feur Nare! Yard to the Fiez. \nbox \n### RC 20957. \n1. From Great island to the Gas Worka \n6. From Fadder's Wharf to the Naval Yard \nFrom Novelty Iron Works to the Harbour dater's Dœfice. From Earbuds Master's to the P. and 0. Ou.'s Ģice. \n8. From Pitta East Prist. \n---- \n### Captain. \nStig and Date of \nVoices or ease. \nDestination \nHig. \nArrival \n8. E'stonls will as a general rela be for aided by Ferate Ship not by Coutras Mall Packet. The Port Ofs coserves se umelon, and it clearing devory in caves! tight of electing shopperty for tran tiles tumber of parcela is spel as to retard Esceipsatser correspondens. My responsi \nthan \nfor backs, but, whatever the weight of packet contafting ay parally witte of Chen Jesus, Mungulia, Tibet, the Tue Clock Tower, Queens Road Cen-pap, it will wet be charged fo Easter Anipeg and the \"Her set. \" tral, in be with Pedder's Whis \nThe sender of Rey Recieved generally, we defaike list of abjects General Fost Office, Hoaghong Chung it alt a Row \npon which coexitations we oogmcılalış \n### German Club, Spreme Court, de, invite is ismægurated, \nwww.bor. \nwillia a stone's throw Chinese Ladin. Grigal contributions in French, Get parish, Italian Tor Lagitan Club and hazy, Sbellay St. tugasza, are sourschi Bednars freveramets Offices, the Sacrorerint, &o., \nnear the holic Gorders. \nare as to premat a rohtut \nthat of the most rout \nwere bearing on Chine ccatism, fines \non paying an extra fea of o cente. \nbacopted with regard to any fartel, bet the Region wil see the The limit of weight to Books and Com reial Pages to Foreigu Foes basical any bat a very reale per- 61ba Pallares for web offices are limited tablity of lon to sed must uns exced these \nubevenue: 3 inch by itches by \n### St. Jou's Cathedral (Anglia), \nzun J'orade Gromm sidention is plac paid to ibu Review Roman Catholic Caredral, Welling \nSweet. \ndepartures \nther as \"Nous\" head reinross being \n### Notes and Bepiter \nclamited tegen Church, Higin Street. given, when furnished, so previous Nožni B1. Peter's Neuenburch, West Print or Carles, as are also close queries which St. Joseph's (KC) Char), Ganian though any for Informativas, furolabı, aven Road, Bear Kenney for \nor orphed details reneeming the at-Tapetance Hull, erisly adapted for \nb. It le sirable to make his Questo proper as brist and as mnoh to the possiblə \n| \n### The China Beine \nkm July and August, 1876, is band. Is anys the forty-two anya wary acut into uosipato for the best pap on the advantages of Curiality ter \ndavelopment of Sale All car lesen ed preistes khoi là entenciou to this svorkuly enterprising Revie. It is a sig pagod, bi-menthly, repertory of watch low are sestaining shoot China *IN incture of hiero Ponizy in vaja volumen is sure workh the pries of the žievis, kūr dress China Now, Hongnny-Northern | Ürisian únicate (U.B.) \nber \nanen, Qusar's Load Eust \n301- West B \nພະນ \n### R. E. A. and Chiny Colegraph Co., and \nthe Great Northe Pergraph to,, Marion Hose, Gong's Hand.\" tascais hall, Zedand Street. \n### Victoria Recreation Cank---Bath house! \nsea last-wuse, ke,-Praya, beyond the Gecket Ground, beside the \"City fie!! \nhe Baracke and Narat med Military \n### Store \nparkerenk Je to the wird, and cover a koga area. \n### Stores, Books, &c. \nincles. \n.. means No Registration, \n### Countries of the Pata! \nUnion, The Union may be taken to conspelar Keops, net foreign passione in Ama, Japan, W. Africa, Harpt, Mauritius, all \nN. Amenca, Mexic, aleator, Caři, \nVal' Nas \n4. The public re cantined at tu persaud \nfound the facts with a Period Hurope, d, which dres not exist \nthe Bochung \nbabe Java \nHout countries to which Hongkong wards Carespondenou Laylax juin Gerd Fodic or ng \nbeat to du so, it resory that the Kang-bhi ..... following lost nicely \n...Wooney \n... Rondeli \n### 3 Wantry Amal, 5079 |CM. \n«Oschen ... Brit. \n### Betmarks \nK'leon Dout Fontan lo \n6. Poincisosh Leat \n502 Sept \n### BiB \nskr. 1700 k. \nJaGibb, Livlegatoa de Ca 20e, M. 3. A. Da \n### Apertalian Porta \nJardine, Matteson & Co. \n21 Russel & Co. \n2. \n19 \n18th Hang SIA Dat 1512 Oct \nstr. 137.5.& po Dock Un \n231 Octo \n843 e 140. 31. Co. \n1057 Ooi. 23 Gae. P. Starons à . \ndewchang Holhor, & \n### E-MITTIT \nat daylight \n¡Holbow, An, \nShanghai \nCo-murtos \n¡Tag Prive \nSAM1979 \nAversich \nDiGlavo \nUhy of Tokia. \n8 citurroy Brit. \n6 h Hall. \nBrit. \n### Deronsite.....n an \nF \nHot... \n5 baner \nPolesen.....Chi \n2 bittidor ...Onwlo \nlamer. \nDutch est. \nChola uch \netr. \n### JOEL \n74 Opt. Wildongian Lapralk & Cu \nKumes Porta \nloon Desk \n*Path, dayligas \nne Deck \nMarvelja \n. Maasz \n7 Romedios & Co, \n¡Manila \nPo-day \nJBut \n741 Dot, \n21 Samen & Co. \nthaoghal \nSenhue. \n„ider. \n69 Oct \n14:3bsamaau & Ca \n298 Oct. \n2020, M. 8. N. 06 \nShanghai \nBrit. \n65% O \n2030, R. Bierros & Co. \n933 Out \n18 Koan Fat Hong \nBangkok \n23rd inel \nair. \n48 Mar. \n24 China Traders unorance Co. \nate. 1039 Chut. \n17P. 20. 8. N. Cn. \nki Yokohama \n80 ct \nrides, R. Sisroun de Cu. \nJaustralian Porte \n24th fant \nstr. 388 Oct \nKinging. \n1. No Letter Facket, whether to Young... Brit. \ncan be said! \nFrail, forn, Vesiesals, 21 Argentine registered or \nRepabli, da bilan, with all jewels, precies tee, or a thing ticking Hondure, Bermuda, Disa, Fren, Netherlands, Portuguese peroral ya, is hakka to C4 l'acker \nTrakia, Guiana, ¦ for Postmeni: ABERYS Palicum \nsuŭ Spanish Colonies. \n### Countries or 13 the Union-The chair? \ncountries kod in the Caion are the AP tralasian Greop \n### Postage to Vaior Countries. \nGeneral, by any mouku some \nLuton, \n30 cents per or conis cal \n10 cents. \nZacuta cact \n2 suis par Scu \nation, Post Carda, east-wpens \nBooka, Paikuras and i \nCom Papare, There is no ekarzome restrauted erro. apadne wishin the Petal Taka. \n### J'idge to No Union Countries. \nHawaiian Kingdom \n### Omeral Gutter \nHesier, Tailor, \nSebata orientai tiacural contains the fol- lowing notice of the Chius Fuziotela \nthe title of a puestion, \nly reached as from Boug.-T. N. Discoll, dû and 47, 1ks lately 2 kang, whers has been set on fuck an in Quears Road, by special appeiztruant sen.8 zenperea cartingallon of Sous and to E. Ma Limeriu on China and Japan, the extinction \naf which chefui saxial a year de kwu sgu kak \nand segraded in Europe as well \nEn China Thmpresest publisation, judging, \nby the river now tntire us, la intended to! \n### Cleozomerers, Watches, Jowellery, \nLestor \nBordo Patt \n### Nore. \n+ \ndisps and Chr. FALCONELLO, West Judice (Non Unit, Burias, Queen's itoad Control. \n### Costa Rica, Grenc, Now Graula, Nicaragua, 'ze, Paragliay¶. \nItegistration, Newspape \n### American and Buglich Stores, Books, \nscopy & positian, as tegendu Chitand send speeindly selected Cigars-Mac Deighbouring countricovnat elmila \nto that which has keen fed in Tadis by the \nCatania Niet ut proat dayrus of ut \nEF, FRICKEL & Co. \n### Aerial Newers and cheng Ra-Book \ndi fattura, \nOF \nFue. \n10 \njuline, \nFeride!! \n2. This Regulaties panjabies the condit¦ Sea Gu of Excieraz of dutiable setincs, unless this Sunda quantity one best small na to make the Tiales \nample of no valge. \n### Wolle........ \nê. The firoits of reight alumed are si \n### Budowa -- \nBook and Papem to Britan úton | \n5 s; to the Cortinant, Au, Patton to Britist, Offer, Slox if wit \n### Bailing Vosk \nSbEepkias B \nHajdoná \nVincar.......... jammander \nAgnes Mair's Love ...........Br. \nsh \n458 Bapt. 190. M. 5. N. Co \n851 8epk, \n200. M. & N. Oo \n131ayar U. \n27 Carlowite & Co. \nout intrinsic value; to the Chularity flee Book Servier. ! 14284z. 27! Vezel & Co. \nda, 8 OF. \n3 kidones ..........Port. sh, 602 July Ale H. Safthe Packer Amur, sh \n### Sidemcy \nfor the loss of a legineral Letto Apala \nThomsen alt 3:0.50. fazer umaśžer, bgę, „skátamora......Amer. Contabriacal! \nAmer faulsen Dan. \n### The Post Offint \nta noy legally naposafts | Che Bitte for the wife delity of Regatora cress Camere \nunderco, has benyoforth it elit to prCurs pared to make gooch the acabaria of Dagmar \nwo lost while eng lash Do ina-wners of 319, în vari Kami. --------------- \n### Florum Alghingale \nà adolulɲin .............. Falt bye. Ford \n2 Borgwards.. \nC, Rovided \n1. That lies daly observed at the condivista në Registration requir \n2. has the fat is securely welos \nia Numably by <zveiopa \n3. That application we made to Pomnator Ger \ngang i \nof \n### France \ntes Great Adaira \ndental W. Ingley Johann lentich \nW \nbye. \nEradno & Co. \n1487 Repi. 199. &0. S. X. \n210 Dok. 30eur & Co. \n896 at 11aler (5. \n✡o. \n990 Sept 20, Arnhold, Karbery & Ou. \nJul Aug. 20 Arabolt, Karry \n### Euvre \nand Humihang \n(New York \nSa Franciao \nCa. \nNew York \nbe 222 1000 17 Arnhold, Kurberg & Co. 20 apt. 18, anhold, Karberg Un \nEduard Schelbase & Co. 464 Opt. Amhald, Karberg & Co. Cine,bletiza 252 let. 3Barlowits de Ou Kanto Fch, bat.. $0 Sept 20 Lardstelu à Ca Tompson. 1676 Sept 18 & Co Dadless, brie. 1098 c. 811Adamron, Bell & Ca \ntiaram. Jej 411 18jahod, Karberg & Co. .............................................♣ kobieciaker, Sm. so. 245 Saph 14daari Sabalias & Co. Mgails ............$ Ünumer. Ger b 521 pm & Co. \n..............2 Pelierma... Stat. Leja. નામ ચિન \n### Bust \n...........for. bre. t. 20 Captada Sath Jumeries.ok Kawwht. Amer. . 2262 et 17 Roll & Co. Sparta 18 Vincent...... \n81 Aug 27W. B. Bay \nged that the loss of while the Serastesi \nThas the Prator Coasalan B. All4kitidredgewer. bga 636 Sept powderor was in the lefody of the Betti Portal administration in Chine, that it not assed by any faul on the past of t sender, by destruction by few, or shipwra: ae by the digno or cegligence of a person in ply of \nį medļatuly tho Jeza m \nrausing that er een bestowed of its your prints, do, cholos Teixete and Digans. Azzahralia, New Zealand, Tanaris, zać upon the regation of it literature,' VABLETY STORY, 40, mist. vix Torres Brash, Lotters, 19; 20 eppolops being invariably and Macar antiquities, and ordial develop to any Queen's Road. nothing of ionisatie, have id to tas \ngistration, it; Norte, Books Rail Pattatre, 4: Piu a Lettera, ; e- \n### Belation \nof inspottant force of inform Watches Jewelles, Charte, Bingen-gration. 10; Neespapers, 2; Bookt aan ation, romāneizg zare sur chansi of pub las, Optically, Murdan's Pattern, Ecity as is now previdad extremely dimir Pencil-exes, &- Nosch, agent. able and contribution of web Inistro & Zaobu. \nmay fairly be looked for from the azalers i \nof the foreign consular services, the Ukinena \nSabal, the Lage, St. Helery and sea mno, in Aden, Lettore, 25: fagetration, \nGuus, Kides. Parde, Ammunition,10; Nowspapers, \"; docks sal Pattern, 5. \n### Chalu \ncorps, and the misionary body, and Sportsons's test all descrip \nneng wham bigh degree of Chinese tione.-W SCRDY & Co., \ndubai a nes nauidwoly cultivated here, at Hoof Begoonsfield \nwad who freeverally represented rubbe sigui q \nLuraber of the dining by yes. bighly rurulé \nantijs at C. Legguise manager wet pot fire. \nHa7. E. J. Zital, in which the piano al \nhabourdonvášky girnil, da ozsoklons | \npresental of the chronykɔgat i \nproblems and a agamenta involved in cordato Taker or FaZNE FOB CIKAIRE, \nhexion with this important work. Some trusinisce feus Okiama Levels and playe \nmarked by both secrecy and freshness \nđ style; and an account is the vacuna of \nthe Chinese poet-statesman of xbo elernɔiù entury, Sn Fung-plo, by Mr. E. C. Bowza, le mot only historiusally valuable, but is also distinguished by its literary grize Bonds nokioen rẩ new books relating to Ühine and the East, which will be a useful fensum of \nthe Neview, if carried out with, punctuality \nani \nwe are glad to note that \n### Arsi \n\"Queries” sir dantlusă în \n### ÚHA \nKAREES, AND BEATS, \nAN 288 COLANT OF HOSAKOND. \n### Quadra \nmå fordinary Pulierny Bosto \nHalf hour,....10 st.. | Hour,... 20 ot. \nThree hours...50 ot.. | Six hoary,...70ah, \nDay (from C), One Dollar, \nTo Vicenza Pe% \nbrad a place in in pages also. It is to be Four Curling \nPop at this cig le contributions Three Cli \nen China about may evolua aiTİLAY \ndegree of cesary mai to shat which won i \n### Tiro \nCuties, \nPingle Trige, \n$1.00 \n0.88 \n£0.70) \n...$1.50 \n1.20 \n... 1.00 \n### Band \nor by Prà fuo lum). \ndisplayed during the lifetime ut ita prefe-Four Candies, \nres the Belo,and ibal tius na Fierce \nmay re the support zoomacy to izme \n### Thres \nCaulics, \nJe continance. The publication is later. The Candies,... \ned to wopcer avery two months, sud vili \nform a mistenklai osteso mag \n**THE CUINÈGE MAIL.** \nTo Vannia Cat fte kaval oF EMPRESA \nThis paper is usual evary Four Coolina \nGay. The ausription he fed at For The Colin, Bullare your anama deifvened to Hog Two Coles, by Ken Doliers Fifty Conde in- \nauding p pohugs to Coat porta, \nis the frest Chines Nunapaper wer woved under pursy nice nation The albef eupport of the paper is a derived trop the nails couly, og whom and to be found a yusutom se ouetes novary phace tiene bustave andlega footing. \n• The projectors, hating their catastes \nupon the ces reliable information fera \n### FRA) \n### Siuple \nTrip \nRaam (Zirut or op. Hod-for-lume.) \n$1.60 \nG.00 \n2).40 \n### Foar \nConli AA11.00 The Cooli \nTwo tholes,... \n...... 0.70 \nThe Return Face crebraces a trip of ot more thou thres hone \nFor every bow part of an hour Abere three hours, tack Coshio will be entitled to \n### si \nvarton Fork in Chi and Jays-Day \nfrom Austria, California, Singapore, \nPoong, Budget, deler places roque \nby the China, tunelu \njankind to garatuz are altimate \ncitati u berwena pol \ncon The savantagea cinted to advar \nfitonal pay of b cent \n### Trip \nPeatu.75 each \nlie. \n2 hours) tiap20) sack coito. \n### Limes \nOras (sessih). \nHour, \n...10 \nquie \nDall day, \nZY eenin \ntire are therefore unasunily j \n### Bayr \nle foreign ennenails gegarails w \nLind \nto their interest to pull themselves of \nthis \n### DUST \n262 900LIK BIAR. \nThe fold men toe oper of shis descrip \nstun gundasted hy native offerta, but 1 Classes Dont 17 % at 900 \nprogresive and sati-obstructiys in tone- \nxmont 1t we then cars board; Lot Class Cargo Bost of \nsamwanda \nbudet and laterat ; \nwhile on the other deserves svet ald that our bu \nto it by intuigueza, \n### Lake \nFagin jouet entries Edittain \nwith Trand, Shipping and Commercial \nNous am RYELINATED \n3thanription \nabove zay be sent to \nfor etter of this \n### CEO. MURRAY BAUN, \nChina al disa \nFREDERIC ALCAR, COLONIAL, NEWSPAPER & COMMIS- \nSION AGENT, \n11, L'anest's Lons, Lombari Brest, \nJORDUR. \n182 Coloma Press sapplied se New- paper, Hooke, Typia Juk, Press, Papers, Correspovirus, Letters, sad any Super Gake on dan ter \n### AOTION \nTO SUIFPERS. \nColonial Fampspær exsoirul at the of Adverse and the Hakka \nare regalarly al for the inzetlen \nand is good 600 \n$1.00 \nad Clue Carys Host - Boat of 500 \njo, \nUgo Bolo 17-ax Best of 2011 \npicula, Hald Ding, \nAmoxil axton charge to mite un dels 'ir Hegiralicu to ritish \nHeydd Facton The Ban \nmax, 1 wate \n• CREAM DE SAFe vin San Froito \n### LOOAL \nPOSTAGE \nF \nid) No Parent Post \n### Local \nDenver. \nGard Now! \n1. All corespondenæ jvataí beluso 13.01 on any wook day for adiramar în Vistoria will be delivered the day, \nand genomally whhin two hours, unless the \ney should be sobered by this Contract \n### Invitations, \nde, can veterally be delivered within Victoria at the privati anuses of the addresses rather \nt \npiazem of blinder, it wish to that effect \nsuch application unless I aino la inel. \nbond book, wh which reach their destiamion, althoighà | a broken or deteriorated edition. \n### Forber \n### Money \nOrder Regulations. L--Most Ordian ang exchanged wiù e United Kingdom, New \nwalu Qusariand, South Australis and Darvin, the Strata Settlements, Warto Australia, and forcept at Shanghai) uzd the Jam ropite. Hongkong z bens cris ca Shanghai, uzd vice verad \n### Email \nsame may be tedid between the other Fort by ame of Puss Stamps, subject to change of ons per cunt. It owling them, \n### 740 Cak \nrisun \n..................Taliem. Gu. \nbqo \n550 10st \n### ULAZION \nDrew \nat Yak \n--Mary Mom Ondert are supplied residente af the avaler Ports in this way. Fly \nAn application for an orisalted up, Tang Yong \n### South \nSea Islanda \nPiontula \nSand Feanalizo \nLuntia \nHer York \nHavre and Hamburg \n16 Bong Song Woo \nGülows & Cu \nMeyer & Co \nLoutco \n19 \n743 Dat \n40,00. B. Bivens \n### Man-of-war \nin Hongkong Harbour. \n480 \n### REFF \nK'loan be \nYasa Wun Tex \nSisphope Grov \nJans 21 \n### Reph \n22 \n### Commander. \nCom. Klas \nJ. Farrow \nB. U. Naplor \nComedore Smith John G. JoDHE \nOct \n### Date \nof \n### Forsels \nNawa, \nHlay, \nClass. \nTora Gune. \nH. P. \nJingl \n41. \nC. I \n### COZMAN \nAnde \nMAD-OF-WAT \nOct. \nSuntint \nBut vol \nKD. Chinno \nPeronne prakser \n354 \nBritish \ngao rekl \n- \n184 \nLa 31 \nKritish \nmilhar doepitai \n3091 \nBritish \nganhout \n1:00 \nKetah \nJotama-tore's flagship 2087 \nBritish \ntorrat-ship \n304 \nJave 2 \nAs Canton \nChinese \nzenbort \nexcit frigate \nand is ezciated with a stage, directe, Magus... \nand unsealed scvelops in the Postuwster | sne \nthe wastest issuer offen The application Midge \nst be sampanied with the tail regatta Road, (incrading commuwen) in ebegns, paelage Wi \nstein, or other guivalent of cash, and ni \nfittin margin about bu left for variatious | \nof mathsage. The Praiaster in the Hal King \nender, suede o in the envelope, and Kargualun \nreturns the change, if any, by teal eppar \nhunity, with a Meslpt for the letter, if i \nget to las registered, as it always single \nb. Oare should be taken to me te \npplication Nma, the Muney Order Ollies close me zure before the depar \nIberoo of the windm \n4-No order must exserd 418, at £50, will 27 include any fraction of a pony, vor more than two such orders honed to the se person, in favour of the same page. by the authe mail. Ordere will be drawn \nat the creat rata of the day and paid t the rate of the day when the advios uzivud, \n### The \nmission is as followe>-- \n### Orders \non the United Kingdom, \nUp to 18 ent \nיז \nار \nM54 \n£).......... \n72 \n### Land \nIntercamslal Ordan. \nUp to $5 or A...... \ni \ntor 10....50 \n- of Money Draer Offces in th \nUnited Kingdom may be unsalted ar \nbe exprezed by the der, here all longkong Shangh \nceraspondanes is invclubly deliver m 6.Names must be given in full (except \nLa metre plans of babes. \nwhen there is more than we \n### Boxholders \nwho desire e tu mad Cizen- | \nbe given if the order be rosed (a 26, Dividend Warts, Inexations, Cards, but the anal the Pago el t \n### Lobaques \ndew, all of time acme weight, to address are rose). It can then be paid, Hong, Bangkok, or the Furia of Chirs through Bank, and may afterwards in! and Japan, may sliver them in the Postpally crossed in ang Bank. Office stamped, the postage bring then \n### batch \nmust constat of at least ten \n### Fach \nhas signed it in the proper plans. \n### Buzholders \nmay also woad Vatterordor en be traced in anus \n### HONGKONG, MAULU \nAND CANTON RIVER \n### STEAMERS. \n### Nama \nTONE Captois \nJohaug \n760 Ogatun \nKiu Bhan \n40% \nKia Ki \n61 \nHentai, \nHayiand \nKlong-ping \nB Indu \nPovah \n1500 Carg \n110 \nLatovener \nSir J. Jaejoption! 154 \nSpark \nTong Ting \nWhile Gland \n314 Depre \nLiners \nB \nEw Bok Tong \n1200 \n250 \nM. Marble \n### CHINESE \nQUN-VESSELS \nIN CANTON WATERS, &C \n### Naste \nTrace Aus \nH. r. \n### An-lau \nChuu- \nDalterfold and Swira Cbro-ko \nK., D. & M. B-boat Co. Obing-ou T., C. & M. & string p \nC. M. & & Co. \n### Chau-tong \n5., UM, 6-bout Co.-le \nK. Acheng & Sonz \nE., C. & M. & boat (to \nC. M. 8. 7, Qu \n### Peng-chou-ba! \nQUAD2.06 Shum-i \n20 Benog, A. H. Q. & M. 8.bast Ce. 50-ang \n180 BE \nYOUSO NEIPPING IN PORT, \n### She \nanes places in the mane way. Eu-ok pasment of s additional comedia. Pater \n### In \ncase of low of an order, pesadly for Symphe \nvelopes vcntaining Patterns may be wholis i stopping Pade to the Br \ncloned if the nature of the contents be fast \nw tho like, Sheldraks \nfor Timasto Geriam brig \n### VSN-UPAWASH \nK. Achwong & Su \nKing-kw \nKinogahow \nLin-yen \nTalag \nChioge \nBritish \nFroueb \n| 2829898398889 \n### Commander \nJ. Godsli \nSlewati \nA. Walker \nChirrem Admini \nA. Gercenta \nChae A' Ho \nO. 1 Falaser \nPing Tre \nJ. H. Wade \nJ. B. Marry \nChing \nErd \n### MUNONANT \nHALLĀKU PANİKES \n### Blue \nJacket \nProcura \nForward Flo Fodvig \nKir \nMary \nMattie Macleay \nPaul Jooen \nSin of the North \nD. Maria de Molna \nGarooding Motate Nanacacy \nAroedown l \nfor Mauila \nBritish hargne \nSauce brig Brilled bacque Hele bu Brabr Slam \nbrig \nfor New York \na kerge Jock \njarital brig Bettiah barte \nSuanish cncratite Runboat 1. M. correcta \nV. A surefte \nHustlar marty \nM. axrette \nPranol frigate \n### patals, \nger Day, \npats, yer Lead, \n900 \n### MERⱭJANI \nSTRANKSA, \n-- \n### ival, \npor Day, \nfed \nplums, par Law, \nand Base Cage of 100 \n1. \n### Oct. \n9, 1880, HERCHANI STAMBULA. \n### Bankow \nBellish \n*Addits \nBrisb \nBrown Brothers \nAlso Can \ntor Shanghal \nClfaca \nCart Ludvig \ncle, per Day, \n### Class \nCarge Rosa - \n7.71 \n### Sost \nof ou \n1.60 \n| charged to the sender's servant. \n7.--No order can be paad till the Payon Nation \nfor Bongbong \nKiang-plan \nChiness \nP \nKrilish \n### MENBOLANT \nVALMINU VRANDON. \nLy \nGarsau sobeiner \nKung Wo \nburttioh \n1,34 \nMavico \nArvaria \nEritish \n50 \nProlong \nguaboat \nBloch \nfor Laden, da \n### SHIPPING \nIN SHANGHAI HARBOUR, \nBritish \nPell \nTaks \nReikish \nBЯKish \nCutrone \nOkin-tong \nBettioh \nfor Jcndum, ?ro, \nTeb-ata \nDatoare \n! Teritora Mari \nup.maste \nVidoratio \n### WALLING \nYARALA. \nFute mhiru Glamis Castle Gleneagles \nAdranus \nSkozesu bary EG \nNayanth \nBilish \nAzbasador \nFeghous \nfor London, a. \nBenjamin Aymar \nThemales \nVigilant \nH. M. de vossel \nChinese \n- \n### Bog \nOns \nor Pulizway BORIA, HON \n+7 \n6. 10 \nled or stated to the Postmaster \nshould \nbe may cowokery, and Order Ofice for instruction. \n$1.00 approved by him. Prated Cleoutar may be inserted in anob Fattom Packer. \n&- the order be nat presented within \nsix months an additoral commission will \nhe charged if not within twelve months, \n### Past \nThe public in retailed that, the money will be forfeited. When the \nNothing in Shin Sonlosteronta private sycəm\" \" share la se auch thing a Pamel Post order in oues paid no ipreter sinim cars buiomed \n\" \n### STREET \nDONE. \n### Sale \nof Hire for stint Ocalier. \n19 \n### DUG \nDay.......0$ 0, \n### One \nout,NATES \nKit \nthe boys bale in Fact pricala \nto Auro de Math rombie and dis entertaina \nprinterent sta danand by pazeistent attoripis i Hoarder dan be paid until she advice Fei Yuen \nto soud amali valuabin for through the relation to it has been eautyed. \n### Fancy \nWork, and similar preunia are con \n### Pat \nFast Carion Artiolar of Drew, \nfinaly wing refuse, the sandam having \noften spent more in Portage us \navo veil the traight by seamer. \n• Made out ou s printed fora which is zroglind¦ Bue-Jun \ncowbio. \n### Harding \nNot Local Oudere un Shanghat are draws at 2 put \nrefond can be unde an auch parcels of the vale of Stamps abliterated before tho nors of the coutente was discovered. \ni dor \n- nice to pile, d \nla cate for Arening z the tested Ning- \n### Ani \nin er et hanghai. \n### On \n14, 1880. \n**MEJUKANT ETRAMNER** \n### American \nVazion \n#Slut Left park oz andved at HauzkoHR \n### Printed \nand prebilahed by Gao, Muanat Baig, at the China Mail Olian, Na 2, Wyndham First, Hangkeng. \n### Excentive \nCouncil \n### Present \nFriday, \n122nd October, 18 \n1880. \n### this \nExcellency. Governor Sir John Pope theverry : 2CM tj. The Honorable Is Acting bestowish hentary Dr Sudrick Stewart: The Honourable The Attorney General Edward Houghton Ornellay \n### The \nHonourable Johor Macrails. Bios. \ntheent. \n### His \nExcellency Major General. Emraison-Courseranding Troops. \n### The \nCouncil meets this \n### Summons. \n### The \nMinutes \nSeptember \nday \nat 5 Rite. by special \n### Council \nheld + \nthe 18th \nELL \nare read and confirmed). \n### The \nfollowing letter from major General Bousoon!",
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        "content_text": "MAILS EXPECTED,\n\nTHE ENGLISH MAIL.\n\nThe P. and O. steamer Miripore, with the west English mail, left Singapore at 4.2, on the 27th August, and may be expected on the 1st September.\n\nPACIFIC AMERICAN MAIL.\n\nThe Pacific Mail steamer City of Tokio, with the American mail of the 6th August, arrived at Yokohama on the 27th August, and is due here on or about the 3rd September.\n\nINDIAN MAIL.\n\nThe direct steamer, with the next Indian mail, left Calcutta on the morning of the 18th August, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 3rd September.\n\nSTEAMERS EXPECTED.\n\nThe Cosens Steamship Company's steamer Diored left Singapore on the evening of the 5th August, and may be expected on the 1st September.\n\nThe steamer Nianlangu left Blangupora on the 27th August, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 3rd September.\n\nThe steamer Loudoun Castle left Singapore on the 29th August, and may be expected to arrive here on or about the 4th September.\n\nPOST-OFFICE NOTICES.\n\nThe authorised List of Mails issued in connection with this paper is the one published twice each day in our Extra, which is always sent to a much later hour than that given below.\n\nA MAIL WILL\n\nFor Shanghai.—Per Glenogle, to-day, the 30th instant, at 3.30 P.M.\n\nFor Bangkok.—Per Tientsin, to-day, the 30th instant, at P.M.\n\nFor Yokohama.—Per Sinter, to-day, the 30th instant, at 4.30 P.M.\n\nFor Fuzhou, Amoy, and Foochow.—Per Kwanghing, to-morrow, the 31st instant, at 11.30 A.M.\n\nFor Manila.—Per Pampay, to-morrow, the 31st instant, at 3 P.M.\n\nFor Batavia.—Per Fortyen, on Thursday, the 1st proximo, at 4.30 P.M.\n\nPublished at Yokohama.—Per Mutarera, on Friday, the 2nd proximo, at 5 P.M.\n\nFor Aden and Suez.—Per Takusaga Maru, on Friday, the 2nd proximo, at 5 P.M.\n\nThe Postal Guide published in 1870 being now somewhat out of date, a revised issue is printed in the Chronicle every fortnight, which supersedes all previous editions.\n\nNo responsibility can be accepted in this Department for incorrect replies to verbal enquiries, or to notes addressed to subordinate officers. The staff told off to sell stamps should not usually be relied upon to give correct information. The Postal Guide is the standard on which reliance may be placed.\n\nMAILS BY U.S. PACKET.\n\nThe United States Mail Packet \"Oceanic\" will depart on WEDNESDAY, the 31st instant, with Mails for Japan, Formosa, the United States, Canada, Honolulu, Peru, &c., which will be closed as follows:\n\n2.15 P.M. Registry of Letters closes.\n\n2.30 P.M. Post Office closes, except for Late Letters.\n\nLetters for foreign countries may be posted on board the Packet with Late Fee of 10 cents extra Postage until the time of departure.\n\nCorrespondence for the Non-Union West Indies must be sent by this route.\n\nMAILS BY P. AND O. BRITISH PACKET.\n\nThe British steamer Packet \"Andona\" will sail on THURSDAY, the 1st September, with Mails to and through Brindisi, to Naples, Malta, and Gibraltar.\n\nThis is the best opportunity for forwarding correspondence to Mauritius.\n\nN.B. This Packet carries no mails for the Australian Colonies.\n\nMAILS BY THE FRENCH PACKET.\n\nThe French Contract Packet \"Oxus\" will be despatched on THURSDAY, the 1st September, with Mails to and through the United Kingdom and Europe, via Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Labuan, the Australasian Colonies, Pondicherry, Madras, Calcutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar.\n\nCOURTS FOR CLOSING THE CONTRACT MAILS.\n\nTHE ENGLISH MAIL.—DAY BEFORE DEPARTURE.\n\n3 P.M. Money Order Office closes.\n\n3 P.M. Posts close, except the night box, which will always be open out of office hours.\n\nDAY OF DEPARTURE.\n\n7 A.M. Post Office opens.\n\n10.30 A.M. Registry of Letters closes. Posting of all printed matter and packets closes, except for Late Letters.\n\n11 A.M. Letters may be posted with Late Fee of 10 cents until 11.00 A.M., when the Post Office closes entirely.\n\n11.40 A.M. Late Letters may be posted on board the packet with Late Fee of 10 cents until the time of departure.\n\nCONCESSIONS AS TO SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' LETTERS.\n\n1.—Persons in H.M. Army or Navy, Non-commissioned Officers (Sergeants and Superintending or First Class) or School-mistresses may send correspondence letters to the United Kingdom via Brindisi or via Naples at the rate of one halfpenny (regardless of weight), which may be prepaid either in Imperial or in Hongkong stamps.\n\n2.—The same privileges apply to officers as above described.\n\n3.—All such letters prepaid at the rate of two cents (four pence) will be forwarded to or from the United Kingdom by private steamers and not by the mail packets.\n\n4.—Private steamers leave Hongkong for London about every ten days.\n\n5.—The letters must not exceed half an ounce.\n\nNo handkerchiefs, jewellery, &c., can be sent, even with the covers open.\n\n6.—If from a Soldier or Sailor, his class and description must be stated in full on the letter, the cover of which must be signed by the Commanding Officer, with name of regiment, ship, &c., in full.\n\n—If to a Soldier or Sailor, his class and description with name of regiment, ship, &c., must be stated in full.\n\n—Soldiers and Sailors have no privileges with regard to books or papers, nor can these be prepaid with foreign postal stamps.\n\nLETTERS FOR THE UNITED STATES BY SAILING SHIP.\n\nWhen it is desired to forward letters to the United States by a sailing ship which is not notified as carrying a mail, it is only necessary to pass the letters in the ordinary way, marked with the name of the ship, and prepaid 10 cents per half ounce as usual. The Post Office then undertakes the duty of obtaining notice of departure and despatching the correspondence.\n\nIt is requested that the letters be posted if possible at least one day before the date fixed for sailing.\n\nTEA MUSTERS.\n\nPersons who send Mustard of Tea through the Post in this country are requested to have them made flat or square instead of round, as it is quite impossible to pack round tins securely in the mail bags.\n\nPrinted and Published by N. Chalmers, Wyndham Street, Hongkong.\n\nTHE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS.\n\nNo. 7490.\n\nSHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nAugust 28, Somata, British bark, 710, L. from London 21st May, General.\n\nAugust 28, Tientsin, Chinese steamer, 315, F., from Pakhoi 23rd August, and Macao 28th, General.—C.M.S.N. Co.\n\nCOMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS.\n\nIncorporated 7th June, 1848.\n\nNOTICES OF FIRMS.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nFENWICK, MORRISON & Co., Hongkong, 15th May, 1881.\n\nCAPITAL PAID-UP $200,000.\n\nRESERVE FUND $60,000.\n\nThe business will be carried on as heretofore by the remaining partners, M. Crowe.\n\nHEAD OFFICE—14, Rue Bergère, PARIS.\n\nAGENCIES AND BRANCHES AT:\n\nLYON, BOURBON, MARSEILLES, SINGAPORE 22nd August, General.\n\nCLEARANCES.\n\nAT THE HARBOUR MASTER'S OFFICE.\n\nOaklands, British steamer, for Saigon.\n\nLaurel, British bark, for Singapore.\n\nAtalanta, British steamer, for Shanghai.\n\nTientsin, British steamer, for Shanghai.\n\nRajanathawuhur, British steamer, for Bangkok.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\nAugust 29, Moxart, German bark, for Tientsin.\n\nBANKERS:\n\nBank of England.\n\nThe Union Bank of London.\n\nMessrs. C. J. Hambro & Son.\n\nThe Hongkong Agency now fixes Deposits on Terms to be arranged on application, grants Drafts and Credits on all parts of the world, and transacts every description of Banking Exchange Business.\n\nF. SCHWEBLIN, Agent, Hongkong, 12th April, 1881.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nMR. J. J. dos Remedios is admitted to our Firm for Settlement.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank.\n\nWith effect from July, 1881.\n\nREISS & Co.,\n\n1317.\n\nThis Day Opened a BRANCH Office of our Firm in Hongkong (Takaw and Trivandrum).\n\nDINCKS & Co.,\n\nSwatow, 3rd July, 1881.\n\nTO BE LET.\n\nTO LET.\n\n1356.\n\nAugust 29, Decres, British steamer, for Manila.\n\nTO LET.\n\nApply to ED. CHASTEN & Co., Hongkong, 5th July, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nFIRST FLOOR OF HOUSE No. 50, QUEEN'S ROAD, suitable for Offices.\n\nFor Particulars, apply to T. G. GLOVER, No. 1, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, 7th July, 1881.\n\nPUBLIC AUCTION & ENGLISH-HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.\n\nUndersigned has received instructions to Sell by Public Auction, on FRIDAY, the 2nd September, 1881, at 3.30 P.M., Residence of A. G. Lewis, Esq., No. 39, Queen's Road Central, the whole of his ENGLISH and CANTON-WARE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.\n\nComprising English-made Mahogany Wardrobe, English-made Walnut Drawing-room Suite, &c.\n\nCatalogues will be sent gratis to Families on application.\n\nTaxes to be paid by Purchaser.\n\nC. R. LAMMELST, Auctioneer, Hongkong, 20th August, 1881.\n\nINSURANCES.\n\nNORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe Undersigned, having been appointed Agents to the above Company, are prepared to INSURE against FIRE as Current Rates.\n\nCOARE, LIND & Canton, 18th August, 1881.\n\nTRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.\n\nThe Undersigned, having been appointed Agents for the above Company, are prepared to INSURE against FIRE.\n\nTH. KOFFLER, Hongkong, 4th August, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nNo. 2, OLD BANK STREET.\n\nNo. 6, PEDDER'S HILL.\n\nNo. 1, Skywos.\n\nApply to DAVID SASSON, SONS & Co., Hongkong, 19th July, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nFIRMSEN & Co.,\n\nAgents.\n\nApukang, 16th November, 1879.\n\nLIVERPOOL AND LONDON AND GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY.\n\nThe Undersigned, as Agents for the above Company, are prepared from this date to GRANT POLICIES against FIRE.\n\nApply to WING KEE, Commission Buildings or Hongkong Bank, Hongkong, 2nd January, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nCOMMERCIAL HOUSE, West Point, with GODOWNS and STORAGE, Central, Waterside, with new landing stage.\n\nVery suitable for the occupation of a Merchant or Trader.\n\nAlso, a Small GRANITE GODOWN.\n\nApply to J. B. CRAWFORD, Esq., Hongkong, 16th August, 1881.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nAugust 28, the Eclipse between 4 and 5 P.M., No. 2, Queen's Terrace, showed strong N. to S.W. winds with heavy sudden shifts, fine bright sunshine, and bad strong N.E. trades.\n\nSINGAPORE SHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\n15, Rames, British steamer, from Bangkok.\n\n15, Normandy, British steamer, from Saigon.\n\n15, Ganyao, British steamer, from Deli.\n\n15, Vadera, British bark, from Sandakan.\n\n16, Vider, British steamer, from Pakhu.\n\n16, Cosseris, British brig, from Bangkok.\n\n15, V. Prior, Dutch steamer, from Cheribon.\n\n16, May Flower, British steamer, from Malacca.\n\n16, Cleator, British schooner, from Labuan.\n\n16, Bay, Belgian steamer, from Samarang.\n\nHONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.\n\nNOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.\n\nThe DIVIDEND declared for the Half-Year ending 30th June last, at the Rate of 23/4 per cent (One Pound and 3/4 Sterling) per Share of $125, is PAYABLE on WEDNESDAY, the 17th instant, at the Bank of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants.\n\nBy Order of the Court of Directors.\n\nT. JACKSON, Chief Manager, Hongkong, 16th August, 1881.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\n16, August, Norwegian steamer, for Bangkok.\n\n15, Teirmastus, British steamer, for Saigon.\n\n16, Gangmade, British steamer, for Deli.\n\n17, May Flower, British steamer, for Malacca.\n\n17, Glencoe, British steamer, for Hongkong.\n\n17, Choang H. Kiam, British steamer, for Hongkong.\n\n17, Sie, British steamer, for Malacca.\n\n18, Larios, British steamer, for London.\n\n18, Makts, British steamer, for Moulmein.\n\n18, Rajpootan, British steamer, for Calcutta.\n\n18, G. G. v. Lashberg, Dutch steamer, for Batavia.\n\n18, Rames, Sarawak steamer, for Hongkong.\n\n18, Bylgia, German bark, for Chefoo.\n\n18, Banca, British steamer, for Cheribon.\n\nSHARP, TOLER, AND JOHNSON, Hongkong, 1st August, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nGODOWNS (to be LET).\n\nApply to MEYER & Co., Hongkong, 3rd March, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nGODOWN situated on MARINE Lot No. 12.\n\nApply to TURNER & Co., Hongkong, 9th June, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nPREMISES MEN'S ROOMS CENTRAL, now in occupation of Messrs. Deis & Co. and R. Caruso, adjoining Messrs. McGregor, Fraser & Co's.\n\nPossession on 1st September.\n\nApply to LINSTEAD & DAVIS, Hongkong, 29th August, 1881.\n\nTO LET.\n\nROOM IN EXCHANGE BUILDING, 20, GIN ST., containing 3 Rooms, and enjoying a good view of the harbour.\n\nWater laid on.\n\nApply to The General Agents, with the approval of the Conventing Committee.\n\nJARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents, Hongkong, 24th July, 1881.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nThe undersigned have been appointed Sole Agents for the Sale of their Goods in Hongkong and China by Messrs. J. & B. Task, London.\n\nDIRHAM.\n\nApply to MEYER & Co., Hongkong, 15th August, 1881.\n\nALGAR AND COMPANY, HOUSE AND ESTATE AGENTS.\n\nBROWN, JONES & Co., UNDERTAKERS, MOURNING STATIONERY, MONUMENTS MANUFACTURERS.\n\n9, HOLLY WOOD ROAD.\n\nJAPAN GAZETTE.\n\nYOSHIYA.\n\nAgents appointed in Hongkong and South China for the Japan Gazette, Japan Gazette Summary, and Hong List.\n\nOrders for Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received at this Office.\n\n16, Tengkung Daily Press Office.\n\nRECORD of AMERICAN and FOREIGN SHIPPING.\n\nAgents, ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co., Hongkong, 4th September, 1879.\n\nPOSITIVE GOVERNMENT SECURITY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.\n\n30 per cent. of Gross Receipts deposited with Government Trustees specifically to meet Claims under Policies.\n\nASSURANCES GRANTED on advantageous terms.\n\nApply to RONAED SCHELLHASS & Co., Agents, Hongkong, 1st January, 1881.\n\nFOOD.\n\nARNOLD KARBERG & Co., CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.\n\nA. TONG, PHOTOGRAPHER.\n\nA. CHUNG NGOL SAN, appointed to E. & A. N. Co.—Chinese Daily Press.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nIt is the best medium for Advertising among the Ports.\n\nIt has been established upwards of TWELVE YEARS, and enjoys the largest circulation of any Chinese paper in the Southern Ports of China.\n\nIt is carefully edited by an experienced European Editor, and contains FULL and EARLY Commercial Intelligence.\n\nAUCTION SALES.\n\nTerms for Advertising can be obtained at the Office, Wyndham Street, Hongkong; or from the different Agents.\n\nHongkong, 5th January, 1877.\n\nD. K. GRUPPEn boide.\n\nTHE COMMERCIAL JOURNAL for CHINA, JAPAN, &c., Published in the Office of the Anglo-Chinese Daily Press on the Morning of the Departure of an English Mail.\n\nContains the LATEST AND FULLERT TRADE INTELLIGENCE, REPORTS of MEETINGS of COMPANIES, THE LATEST TELEGRAMS, together with the POLITICAL and GENERAL NEWS of the Far East.\n\nThe Trade Report has large circulation in Hongkong, the Ports of China and Japan, the Philippines, Straits Settlements, &c.\n\nHongkong, 5th October, 1877.\n\nNo. 170.\n\nMINUTE.\n\n30th August, 1881.\n\nSir. J. P. Hennessy.\n\nMr. Wingfield.\n\nMr. Bramston.\n\nMr. Heade.\n\nMr. Herbert.\n\nCountney.\n\nMr. Cathy.\n\nLord Kimberley.\n\nDec. 9th, 1881.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 136, of the 30th August, forwarding the Estimates for 1882.\n\nAnd also of your despatch No. 4, of the 2nd September, forwarding the usual returns connected with the Estimates.\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nPage 363\n\n...\n\nPage 364",
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        "content_text": "502\n\n4\n\nWe extract a few interesting passages from a recent article of the Paris Figaro regarding the Holy Father, Leo XIII, who puts in practice the advice given by an Italian Princess to a King of France: \"Now, my son, you must stitch\" (il faut coudre). The Pope has been stitching for five years with wonderful patience and perseverance. He has desired to bring back the Governments of Europe to himself, and everybody knows how he has succeeded. Envoys, more or less recognised by Mr. Gladstone, ascend the great Vatican staircase side by side with the Ambassador of the German Empire, with the Grand Duke Constantino Nicolavich, the Tsar's uncle, and Russian diplomats, greatly surprised to meet here. The venerable old man may congratulate himself on his work. At the price of what labour he thus guides the bark of Peter to port, we shall see.\n\nThe writer then describes a day of the Pope's life—his early Mass, his audience to the Secretary of State, Cardinal Jacobini, \"of rare political knowledge,\" and to the other Cardinal Secretaries, each of whom has his fixed day; the meagre one o'clock dinner of a plate of soup, one plate of meat, and cheese, lasting only a few minutes; his afternoon walk or ride, utilised in reading the reports of Bishops or Nuncios; his public and private audiences at four p.m.; his reception of Bishops in the evening; and then, at the end of his long day, his hours in his private cabinet: \"then it is that Leo XIII is able to work,\" concludes the writer.\n\nHis personal appearance and manner is thus described:\n\nTall, thin, dry, his face long, pale and wrinkled, Leo XIII is of delicate health, which he takes little care of.\n\nTHE CATHOLIC REGISTER.\n\nHONGKONG RATES OF POSTAGE.\n\nREVISED JANUARY, 1883.\n\nIn the following Statements and Tables the Rates are given in cents, and are, for letters per half ounce, for Books and Patterns, per two ounces.\n\nNewspapers over four ounces in weight are charged as double, treble, etc., as the case may be, but such papers or packets of papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapers must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except loose file Supplements. Printed matter may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate. Price Current may be paid either as Newspapers or Books.\n\nCommercial Papers signify such papers as, though written by hand, do not bear the character of an actual or personal correspondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied music, &c. The charge on them is the same as for books, but, whatever the weight of a packet containing any partially written paper, it will not be charged less than 5 cents.\n\nThe sender of any Registered Article may accompany it with a Return Receipt on paying an extra fee of 5 cents.\n\nCommercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is 4 oz. Patterns for such offices are limited to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these dimensions: 8 inches by 6 inches by 2 inches.\n\nCOUNTRIES OF THE POSTAL UNION.\n\nThe Union may be taken to comprise Europe, all foreign possessions in Asia, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, N. America, Mexico, Salvador, Brazil, Peru, Chili, Venezuela, the Argentine Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, Honduras, Bermuda, French, Netherlands, Portuguese and Spanish Colonies.\n\nCountries NOT in the Union.---The chief countries not in the Union are the Australasian Group, and S. Africa.\n\nPOSTAGE TO UNION COUNTRIES.\n\nGeneral Rate, by any route:\n\nLetters,......... 10 cents per 1 oz.\n\nPost Cards...... 2 cents each.\n\nNewspapers, ............ 2 cents each.\n\nBooks, Patterns and Commercial Papers,\n\n2 cents per 2 oz.\n\nRegistration, ............ 10 cents.\n\nThere is no charge on redirected correspondence within the Postal Union.\n\nHis austerity is extreme. The spiritual sovereign of over 200 millions of Catholics does not spend £100 a month for his table. His highly-developed nervous system alone enables him to resist the fatigues of his vast occupations and labours. Sometimes he appears dejected or exhausted. Some of good news brought by telegram gives him new life. He is always grave and solemn, always the Pope. The Italians describe his exterior by the word \"ceremonious.\" Gravity is inherent in his nature. His contemporaries recognised this when he was a boy. He never abandons himself, and is not easily provoked to laughter. He would be thought severe, were it not that he tempers the solemnity of his address with the patient attention with which he listens without interrupting those who speak to him.... Leo XIII speaks with the same slowness as the Archbishop of Paris. If the Pope and the Cardinal have not received the gifts of the orator, they are, on the other hand, writers.\n\nIt is stated that not only does his Holiness submit his letters and encyclicals to the Sacred College, but he listens to advice, and frequently after long discussion, entirely re-casts encyclicals he has prepared. As he sleeps badly, he often spends hours in the night in writing these documents. Finally, the Italian ex-Minister Bonghi, said of Leo XIII, that he was \"one of the most evenly-balanced and most vigorous of characters: one who has realised the idea of a Cardinal as traced by St. Bernard.\"\n\nThere was hanged at Steinamanger, in Hungary, a peasant woman from Szordabely, named Lyukas Kathi, the perpetrator of a series of crimes which had excited universal horror. The criminal was fifty-two years of age, short in stature, and of a placid aspect. She compounded arsenic in cakes which she disposed of at a high price to persons who desired to get rid of their relatives. Lyukas killed two husbands of her own, and she was accused of twenty-six other murders, six of which she confessed to.\n\nPOSTAGE TO NON-UNION COUNTRIES.\n\nAustralia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Fiji, via Torres Straits, Letters, 10; Registration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 2: Via Suez, Letters, 25; Registration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and Patterns, 2.\n\nNatal, the Cape, St. Helena, Ascension, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Letters, 25; Registration, 10; Books & Patterns, 5.\n\nLOCAL POSTAGE.\n\nLetters, per 1/2 oz., 2 cents.\n\nRegistration, 10 cents.\n\nPost Cards, 2 cents.\n\nBooks, 2 cents per 2 oz.\n\nNewspapers, 1 cent each.\n\nGeneral Local Rates?\n\nChina, Tonquin, & Japan, Siam & Cochin China (d), Overland General Route, and the Philippines (d) Via Singapore, 10 cents.\n\n(e)\n\nBetween Canton, and\n\nSILVER QUOTATIONS.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank--New Issue--160 per cent premium.\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Bank--New Issue--148 per cent premium, sellers.\n\nUnion Insurance Society of Canton--\n\n$1,850 per share, buyers.\n\nChina Traders' Insurance Company--\n\n$1,650 per share.\n\nNorth China Insurance Co.--Tls. 1,225 per share.\n\nCanton Insurance Company, Limited,--\n\n$136 per share, sellers.\n\nYangtze Insurance Association--Tls. 870 per share.\n\nChinese Insurance Company-- $215 per share.\n\nOn Tui Insurance Company, Limited,--\n\nTls. 148 per share.\n\nHongkong Fire Insurance Company--\n\n$1,160 per share.\n\nChina Fire Insurance Company--\n\n$9223 per share, sellers.\n\nHongkong and Whampoa Dock Company--30 per cent premium.\n\nHongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-ship Company---$33 per share, premium.\n\nHongkong Gas Company--$82 per share.\n\nHongkong Hotel Company--130 per share.\n\nIndo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited,--10 per cent discount.\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company, Limited--$207 per share.\n\nChina Sugar Refining Company--(Debentures)--3 per cent premium.\n\nLuzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited--$108 per share.\n\nHongkong Ice Company --$170 per share.\n\nHongkong and China Bakery Company, Limited,--$60 per share.\n\nChinese Imperial Loan of 1879--2 per cent premium.\n\nChinese Imperial Loan of 1881--24 per cent premium.\n\nOn London.--\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nBank Bills, on demand,.......8/73\n\nBank Bills, at 30 d/s, 8/7\n\nCredits, at 4 m/s.\n\n3/7\n\nDocumentary Bills, at 4 m/s, 3/U\n\nOn Paris--Bank Bills, demand, 4.54\n\nCredits, at 4 m/s 4.62\n\nOn Bombay--Bank, 3 dis.....\n\n.222\n\nOn Calcutta--Bank, 3 dis.......2223\n\nOn Shanghai--Bank, sight,\n\n72\n\nPrivate, 50 dis\n\n73\n\nFlour\n\nHalf day\n\nDay\n\nQuarterly fallen\n\nDirection of Wind...\n\nWet Thermometer 64o\n\nTHERMOMETER, do\n\nBAROMETER,\n\nPrevious day\n\nat 1 p.m.\n\nOn date\n\nat 10 a.m.\n\nPrevious day\n\nat 1.\n\nOn date\n\n10 p.m.\n\nPrevious day\n\nN\n\nat 10 ..\n\nPrevious day\n\n4.ro.\n\nOn date\n\n10 1,\n\nHongkong, Saturday, February 24, 1883.\n\nCHURCH NOTICES.\n\nHOURS OF DIVINE SERVICE ON SUNDAYS AND FEASTS OF OBLIGATION.\n\nCATHEDRAL, WELLINGTON STREET.\n\nHigh Mass with Sermon in Portuguese at 8 a.m. throughout the year.\n\nFirst Mass..........at 6\n\nSecond Mass.......at 7\n\nHigh Mass..........at 9 a.m.\n\nLast Mass..........at 5½ p.m.\n\nBENEDICTION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.\n\nNovember 1st to February 28th...... 5 p.m.\n\nMarch, April, September, & October 5½ p.m.\n\nMay 1st to August 31st... 6 p.m.\n\nOne hour before the Benediction there is Instruction in Christian Doctrine in Portuguese.\n\n3 p.m.\n\n4 p.m.\n\nST. FRANCIS' CHURCH, WANCHAI.\n\nFirst Mass, Sermon in Chinese.........6 a.m.\n\nSecond Mass, Sermon in Portuguese, 7 a.m.\n\nCatechism for Chinese\n\nCatechism for Portuguese.\n\nBenediction of the M. H. Sacrament à jun.\n\nST. JOSEPH'S CHURCH, GARDEN ROAD.\n\nMass with Sermon in English ............\n\nBENEDICTION OF THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT.\n\nOn Sunday...7 a.m.\n\nDays of Devotion..... after Mass.\n\nCHAPEL OF THE SACRED HEART, WEST POINT.\n\nMass with Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament at 8 a.m.\n\nDAYS OF DEVOTION.\n\nPeak...$0.75 each Coolie.\n\nGap...$0.60 each Coolie.\n\nINRICKSHA.\n\nQuarter of an hour or less\n\nHalf an hour.\n\nOne Hour\n\n5 cents.\n\n10 cents.\n\n15 cents.\n\n25 cents.\n\n35 cents.\n\n50 cents.\n\nLEGALISED TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHAIRS, QUADRI-BEARERS, AND BOATS, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG.\n\nChairs and Ordinary Pillaway Boats.\n\nHalf hour... One hour\n\nSix hours\n\nThree hours\n\nSix hours.\n\nOne day (12 hours)\n\nTO VICTORIA PEAK.\n\nSingle Trip.\n\nFour Coolies\n\n$1.00\n\nThree Coolies\n\n$0.85\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$0.70\n\nReturn (direct or by Pok-fu-lam).\n\nFour Coolies\n\n$1.50\n\nThree Coolies\n\n$1.20\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$1.00\n\nNov. 1st to April 30th\n\nMay 1st to Oct. 31st\n\nFour Coolies\n\nThree Coolies\n\nTwo Coolies\n\n$0.60\n\n$0.50\n\n$0.40\n\nReturn (direct or by Pok-fu-lam).\n\nFour Coolies........... $1.00\n\nThree Coolies........ $0.85\n\nTwo Coolies.......... $0.70\n\nTO VICTORIA GAP (TO LEVEL OF UMBRELLA SEAT).\n\nSingle Trip.\n\nTwo Coolies.... 30 cents.\n\nThe Return Fare embraces a trip of not more than three hours.\n\nFor every hour or part of an hour above three hours, each Coolie will be entitled to an additional payment of 5 cents.\n\nBOAT AND COOLIE HIRE.\n\n1st Class Cargo Boat of 600 or 800 piculs, per Day.... $3.00\n\n1st Class Cargo Boat of 800 or 400 piculs, per Load,........... 2nd Class Cargo Boat of 600 piculs, per Day $2.50\n\n2nd Class Cargo Boat of 800 piculs, per Load ................ 3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, per Day... $1.50\n\n3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, per Load.. $1.00\n\n3rd Class Cargo Boat or Ha-kow Boat of 300 piculs, Half Day... $0.50\n\nSAMPAN or Pullaway Boats, per Day.....$1.00\n\nOne Hour... 20 cents.\n\nHalf-an-Hour 10 cents.\n\nSTANDT COOLIES.\n\nScale of Hire for Street Coolies.\n\nOne Day, ..........50 cents.\n\nHalf Day,....... 20 cents.\n\nThree Hours......... 12 cents.\n\nOne Hour............ 5 cents.\n\nHalf Hour......... 3 cents.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nAN EXCELLENT TUTOR of the MANDARIN DIALECT is desirous of giving lessons to a few scholars. Speaks only the Mandarin Dialect.\n\nAddress E. Office of this Paper.\n\nHongkong, 18th February, 1883.\n\nNOTICE.\n\nLESSONS given in English, also French (fluency required in French), by Mrs. J. M. Kuntion, Victoria School, Hongkong, 15th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTREATISE on PURGATORY. By St. Catherine of Genoa. With Preface by His Eminence Cardinal Manning. Cloth, gilt lettered.\n\nREMEMBRANCE for the Living to Obtain the Release of Souls from Purgatory. By Munford, J. With an Appendix on the Heroic Act, by Father John Morris, S.J. 3rd Edition.\n\nTHE Heroic Act of Charity. By Father Tom Morris, S.J.\n\nMONTH of the Souls in Purgatory 3rd Edition.\n\nROSARY for the Dead. Black on Steel, or mounted in silver.\n\nFLOWERS of November; or, Month of the Most Holy Church.\n\nApply at the Offices of this Paper.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nINTIMATIONS.\n\nFRANCE.\n\nCONTINENTAL & COLONIAL AGENCY (Licensed).\n\n14, RUE DU CHABROL, PARIS.\n\nTransacts every description of Commission Mercantile and General Business.\n\nAgents for manufacturers on most favorable terms.\n\nCONDITIONS.-- Two-and-a-half per cent Commission when Banker's Draft on London or Paris comprise Order. Same terms to regular correspondents. All Trade and Cash Discounts conceded to Purchasers. Original invoice sent when requested.\n\nFree storage taken charge of and routine and best advice given on Consignments.\n\nThe Agency Represents, Buys, and Sells for Firms.\n\nPublic Securities, Estates and Properties, bought and sold. Loans, Mortgages, Mines, and Investments, etc., negotiated.\n\nManufacturers and Producers can have saleable articles introduced to the markets on advantageous Conditions.\n\nPRICE LIST--Comprehensive and reliable--on application.\n\nBANKERS--Paris: George Water, Esq., R., Houdevant des Italiens, London: The London and County Bank, 3, Victoria Street, Westminster.\n\nDirectors.--The Manager, Continental and Colonial Agency, 14, Rue du Chabrol, Paris, France.\n\nGUEDES & Co. PRINTERS, STATIONERS, AND PRINT BOOKBINDERS.\n\nD'AQUILAR STREET.\n\nEVERY KIND OF WORK EXECUTED WITH ACCURACY, NEATNESS, & DESPATCH.\n\nVERY MODERATE TERMS.\n\nSELECTED MATERIALS FOR MARKET REPORTS.\n\nBook-binding and Printing in every style executed at low rates.\n\nWorkmanship guaranteed.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nJ. M. GUEDES.\n\nHOUSE AND LAND BROKER.\n\nAUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nNo. 39, WELLINGTON STREET, HONGKONG.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nF. D. GUEDES.\n\nWINE MERCHANT AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.\n\nNo. 5, 'AGULAN STREET.\n\nHAS always on hand a large assortment of CHOICE WINES of the best quality, at Moderate Prices.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nNOTICE. -\n\nTHE Establishments of GENERAL PRINTER AND BOOKBINDERS hitherto conducted by the undersigned will henceforth be carried on under the style or firm of GUEDES & Co.\n\nMr. F. D. Guedes being the only partner in the firm.\n\nDE SOUZA & Co.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nA KWONG,\n\nDEALERS IN FURNITURE, PLATED, GLASS AND CROCKERY WARE, &c. &c. &c.,\n\nAT MORRRA VALLES.\n\nNo. 41, Wellington Street, HONGKONG.\n\nA-TACK\n\nFURNITURE STORE, No. 49, Queen's Road, HONGKONG.\n\nAgents in Manila: Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co.\n\nE. CASSUMBHOY,\n\nFURNITURE WAREHOUSE, No. 9, 11, 12, 13, and 14, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE.\n\nHas always on hand every description of English and Colonial made FURNITURE FOR SALE ON\n\nALSO\n\nCHINESE AND JAPANESE CURIOS.\n\nTO BE LET,\n\nTO LET.\n\nRooms 8, 16,\n\nN 26.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTWO HOUSES in Belvedere Terrace, ANCIENT HISTORY, OKAMEER'S.\n\nHigh Street.\n\nApply to\n\nGUEDES & Co,\n\nON THE PREMISES.\n\nHongkong, 1st February, 1883.\n\nTO LET.\n\nGRANITE GODOWN, Blue Buildings, Praya East.\n\nApply to\n\nJ. M. GUEDES.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nTO LET.\n\nTT House No. 39. Wigton St (opposite the Roman Catholic Church), containing Four Rooms, Out Houses, &c.\n\nApply to\n\nGUEDES & Co.\n\nHongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nfor the use of Ladies and Gentleman.\n\nPrice, 50 cents.\n\nHongkong, 18 January, 1883.\n\nGUEDES & Co,\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDOUBLE-BARREL FOWLING-PIECE (muzzle-loading).\n\nPatent escap Action, Twist Barrels, side-antium Locks; in leather case with Shot Pouch and Powder Flask.\n\nPrice, $1.\n\nApply at the Office of this Paper.\n\nTongkong, 20th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nTABLE showing the mean time of sunrise and sunset calculated for the Latitude of Hongkong or any other Latitude if required.\n\nPrice--20 Cents.\n\nA Rising and Settings of the sun and\n\nQUEDES & Co.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nBOOKKEEPING, ART OF, MARTIN'S.\n\nCHAMBER'S HISTORICAL and MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.\n\nASTRONOMY,\n\nF\n\nR WILSON'S CATECHTENS OF\n\nBiography, Botany,\n\nCotton Things,\n\nEnglish Grammar,\n\nGeography,\n\nHistory'\n\nMusic,\n\nNatural Philosophy\n\nINQUIRE WITHIN SPON EVERYTHING,\n\nUN FOR LEISURE HOURS.\n\nGEOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY,\n\nHISTORY OF ENGLAND.\n\nINTRODUCTION TO TUL SCIENCES.\n\nJOHNSON'S DICTIONARY.\n\nKNOWLEDGE, CIRCLE OF.\n\nLAWS OF LAWN TENNIS,\n\nM'\n\nEDIEVAL HISTORY, CHAMBER'S.\n\nNATURAL PHILOSOPHY, CHAMBER'S\n\nOUTLINES oF HISTORY,\n\nIOUS BIOGRAPHER.\n\nQUESTIONS ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY\n\nRUDIMENTS OF KNOWLEDGE.\n\nSPELLING Boo£8.\n\nTHE FINDING OF DR. LIVINGSTONE.\n\nTH\n\n†NIVERSAL HISTORY.\n\nIGYRA'S DICTIONARY,\n\nTONDERS OF THE WORLD,\n\nTHE MERCANTILE DIRECTORY OF the Continental, Foreign and British Ports--Price $25.\n\nGUEDES & Co.\n\nTHE WORLD, in 3 vol. comprising\n\nFOR SALE,\n\nANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR for 1883, neatly printed on Card.\n\nPrice--20 Cents.\n\nGUEDES & Ca,\n\nBourd\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nDATE BLOCKS FOR 1883.\n\nPrice-70 Cents.\n\nGURDES & Co.\n\nFOR SALE, TABLE for Ascertaining any day of the\n\nWeek for any given within the present Century,\n\nOURDES & Co.\n\nIN THE PRESS.\n\nGUIDE TO HONGKONG AND THE FAR EAST, principally intended for the use of Visitors, but having also special Features of Interest to Residents.\n\nCONTENTS:\n\nHistorical Sketch of Hongkong.\n\nPlaces of Interest in and around Victoria.\n\nKowloon and Hongkong Harbour.\n\nSettlements and Villages on the Island.\n\nA Visit to the Native shops.\n\nStreet Scenes and Sounds.\n\nSome Chinese Customs and Superstitions.\n\nMono and Cat.\n\nAnglo-Chinese Parois & the Cantonese Dialect.\n\nThe Fauna of Hongkong (compiled for the first time).\n\nThe Flora\n\nThe Geology.\n\nThe Chinese Calendar, Weights and Measures.\n\nChair and Boat Tariff, English-Chinese List of places of interest and the principal firms.\n\nGeneral Index, etc., with two Maps.\n\nW. BREWER, Bookseller, &c.\n\nHongkong 1st February, 1883.\n\nXAVIER, ST. FRANCIS, LIFE OF\n\n\"YOUNG DEAN'S COMPANION.\n\n'GOLOGY, RUDIMENTS OP.\n\nApply to\n\nFRANCIS FRANCO,\n\nGarden Lodge.\n\nHongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nFOR SALE.\n\nSecond-hand Boats.\n\nMOLENSO'S ENLARGED ARITHMETIC,\n\nCHINESE GRAMMAR.\n\nFITY FAMOUS MEN.\n\nFIFTY FAMOUS WOMEN.\n\nTEMPERANCE ANECDOTES,\n\nENFIELD'S SPEAKER,\n\nJan Toverse'S GUIDE.\n\nCHAMBER'S INFORMATION,\n\nCOMMERCIAL LETTER WRITER,\n\nWHO WERE THE FIRST WEAVERS,\n\nWHO WAS THE FIRST PAPERMAKER.\n\nTHE PRACTICE AND THEORY OF CRICKET,\n\nWALTERS' WORLD,\n\nMUSEUM OF MIRTH.\n\nCOMMERCIAL GUIDE,\n\nMATTER AND MOTION,\n\nFIRST AID IN ACCIDENTS,\n\nTHE FLINT, BY ALBERT SMITH,\n\nTHE EVENING PARTIES, BY Do.\n\nWHO WERE THE FIRST BUILDERS,\n\nHOW TO PLAY BILLIARDS AND POOLS.\n\nCOLENSO'S ELEMINARY ARITHMETIC.\n\nSKILLING\n\nCHAMBER'S MODERN HISTORY.\n\nAlgebra and Key.\n\nPLANK GEOMETRY and Key.\n\nHALLECK'S POETICAL WORKS.\n\nELECTRICITY, BY DR. FERGUZON,\n\nCASBELL'S TECHNICAL EDUCATOR.\n\nDICTIONARY OF THE ART OF PRINTING,\n\nHISTORICAL ATLAS, by EDWARD QUIN, M.A.\n\nGUIDE of CONVERSATION in 313 languages.\n\nApply to\n\nFRANCIS FRANCO,\n\nGarden Lodge, Hongkong, 19th January, 1883.\n\nPage 503\n\n4\n\n[Content continues]",
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        "content_text": "158\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo. 76618.\n\nMY LORDS.\n\n(10)\n\nThe General Post Office to the Treasury.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE,\n\n26th July, 1880.\n\nWith reference to your Lordships' further letter of the 2nd instant No. 11569, I have the honour to supply the further information desired by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reference to the proposed call upon the Colonies of Ceylon, Straits Settlements and Hongkong for contributions towards the cost of the Packet Service to the East, under the new contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.\n\nIn the first place I have to remark that the amounts which it is now proposed that these Colonies shall contribute cannot properly be compared with the sums given in the Post Office memorandum of the 14th of February, 1876, to which reference is made, because of the alterations that have taken place in the Mail Service under the present contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company. The chief alterations are:-(1) a reduction in the amount of the subsidy from £430,000 to £360,000 a year; (2) the abolition of the Southampton and other lines of Packets, causing a decrease in the mileage to the extent of 438,516 miles annually, and (3) the despatch of the Australian Mails via Brindisi and Galle every fortnight, instead of once in four weeks only. The cost of the service is divided according to the mileage of each section and the amount of correspondence carried over it. The bulk of the Australian correspondence is not carried under the Imperial Contract beyond Ceylon.\n\nAlso it must be borne in mind that the rates of postage on which the estimate of February, 1876, was based, were considerably reduced under the regulations of the Postal Convention of Paris which came into force on 1st April, 1879, and that a further reduction in the rates was made on 1st of February last.\n\nWith regard to paragraphs 4 and 5 of the letter from the Colonial Office, I have to state that the figures given in my letter of the 2nd ultimo show one half of the total loss on the Mail Service in respect of each Colony; and that the sum of £13,771 with which it is proposed to charge Hongkong refers to that Colony only, as distinct from China and Japan generally.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed)\n\nHENRY FAWCETT.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\nThe Colonial Office to the General Post Office.\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo. 121 213.\n\nSIR,\n\n(11)\n\nThe General Post Office to the Colonial Office.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE.\n\nLONDON, 14th August, 1880.\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant and in reply to acquaint you for the information of the Earl of KIMBERLEY, that there are opportunities for sending ship mails to Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong once a week.\n\nThe Mails for Ceylon are carried by Vessels belonging to the British India Steam-ship Company and the Ducal line alternately.\n\nThe Mails for the Straits Settlements and Hongkong are carried by Vessels of the Glen line, Castle line and the Ocean Steam-ship Company.\n\nIn neither case do the Steamers start on a fixed day of the week. The postage for letters so sent to the places mentioned is fourpence per half ounce.\n\nR. G. W. HERBERT, ESQ.,\n\n(Copy)\n\nSIR,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am, &c.,\n\n(Signed)\n\nA. BENTHALL.\n\nThe Colonial Office to the Treasury.\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n28th August, 1880.\n\n(Copy)\n\nSIR.\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n10th August, 1880.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of KIMBERLEY to request you to inform His Lordship what opportunities at present exist for sending ship letters to Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong independently of the regular Mail Service, and what is the charge for a ship letter in each case.\n\nThe Secretary to\n\nTHE GENERAL POST OFFICE,\n\nI am, &c., (Signed)\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of KIMBERLEY to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th July relating to the proposal to obtain contributions from the Colonies of Ceylon, Hongkong and the Straits Settlements towards the loss entailed upon the Imperial Treasury by the Postal Service.\n\n2.-Lord KIMBERLEY is of opinion, as has been already stated, that the Governments of the Eastern Colonies may properly be required to make some contribution towards the expenses of the service, but His Lordship does not feel able to call upon them to provide the large sums assigned to them respectively in the calculations made by the Postmaster General, and which are specified in the Treasury letter of the 9th of June last.\n\n3.-It must be remembered that these Colonies had no voice in the settlement of the Contract, and though the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamers is valuable to them in many ways, it can hardly be considered as necessary for the maintenance of postal communication.\n\n4.-The enclosed copy of a letter from the General Post Office shows that, in addition to the weekly French Mail by the Messageries Maritimes, there are weekly opportunities of sending ship letters by the Steamers selected for the purpose, and it is believed that there are other private steamers frequently sailing to and from the Eastern Colonies.",
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        "content_text": "(3.)\n\nIt may be here mentioned that when General Grant, the ex-President of the United States, visited China in 1879 he said that, in his tour round the world, he had seen only four really great men, viz., Disraeli, Gambetta, Bismarck and Li-Hung Chang and that he was inclined to consider the latter, the Chinese Statesman and General, the greatest of the four, especially taking into account his inferior opportunities of education in his early days.\n\nThe stay at Tientsin lasted three or four days, and then His Excellency, in company with Sir Harry Parkes, the two Misses Parkes, and Mr Grosvenor, the Secretary of Legation, left for Tung-chow in house-boats towed by the Viceroy's steamers. The country was compared by His Excellency with the delta of Egypt, the mud-built dwellings, and the general aspect of the country, subject to periodical inundations, giving an Egyptian appearance to the scenery. From Tung-chow the party rode to Peking, a distance of fifteen miles.\n\nAt Peking Sir G. Bowen was received in state at the Tsung-li Yamen, or Foreign Office, by the Ministers, and high officials who govern China in the name of the Emperor, a boy of 14 who has never yet been seen by Europeans. Prince King, the President and uncle of the Emperor sent a message to Sir George stating that in consequence of the death of one of his wives, the night before, he regretted he was unable to return His Excellency's visit immediately. The Prince sent Sir George, however, a magnificent dinner, which is the highest mark of Chinese respect. Twelve huge coolies staggered into the hall of the Legation, each bearing a covered tray. When the lid was taken off each of the trays there was a separate course inside of soups, fish, game, pastry, fruits &c. With this dinner were also sent two large jars of wine from the Prince's cellars.\n\nHis Excellency visited the many places of interest in Peking, and got admission to the Temple of Heaven, the \"Holy of Holies\" of China. His Excellency was particularly impressed by his visit to this celebrated temple. It is situated in an enclosure which occupies one corner of the Chinese city, and is about the size of Hyde Park. This park is planted with fine trees. In this temple, His Excellency remarked that there are no idols; only the Supreme Being is worshipped there; for once a year the Emperor offers up burnt offerings in it to the same God of Heaven who was similarly worshipped by Abraham in the wilderness. The following description of this noteworthy temple and the ceremonies performed in it, is taken from the Guide for tourists to Peking and its environs, Issued from the China Mail office in 1876. This grand establishment originated in ancient times; although the present buildings owe their construction to the emperors of the Ming dynasty, yet it cannot be doubted that an altar of heaven existed on this place in much earlier times. A high brick wall surrounds a well-kept park, with old trees; within this enclosure, covering more than one square mile, is a second one, which again is divided by walls into several compartments. Close to the entrance of the inner enclosure is the Chai-kung, or palace of abstinence--where the Emperor has to pass the night preceding the sacrifices in watching and meditation, a fine modern building. South-east to it is the altar, a beautiful white marble structure, ascended by twenty-seven steps and ornamented by circular balustrades on each of its three terraces; it has a diameter of about 100 feet. On the south-east of it stands, at a short distance, the large furnace for the whole burnt-offering; it is faced with green glazed tiles and is nine feet high. It contains an iron grating on which a bullock is placed at the time of the sacrifice; the remaining charred bones are generally to be seen within it. Outside there is a pit for the blood and hair. On the south-west of the altar there are three high poles for hanging lanterns, which give illumination to the sacrifice, as it is performed before dawn. North\n\n(4.)\n\nof the altar is another of somewhat smaller dimensions, called the Ch'i-ku-t'an, or altar for prayers on behalf of the harvest, On it is raised a magnificent triple-roofed circular temple, ninety-feet in height, which constitutes the most conspicuous object in the whole enclosure. It is seen from many points of the city and its environs, and that which is generally called by foreigners the Temple of Heaven. Before the last century the three roofs were covered with blue, yellow and green tiles, but by Kienlung these colours were all changed to blue. In the interior large shrines of carved wood. The windows are shaded by Venetians made of thin blue glass beads strung together; they are produced at the glass factories in Shan-tung, also, as at the great south altar, are seen on the south-east the green furnace for the bullock, and besides eight iron urns, in which the other offerings, consisting of silk, cloth, grain, &c., are burnt. On the east is a winding passage or cloister of 72 compartments of 10 feet each = 720 feet in length, leading to the slaughter-house. At the latter there is a very deep well, famous for its good water, an object worth mentioning in Peking. Besides those buildings there are two halls at the back of each altar, also covered with blue glazed tiles.\n\nThe worship of the Tien, Heaven, or Shang-ti, Supreme Ruler, is the most important of all the state observances in China, and constitutes a most interesting remnant of the ancient monotheistic cultus which prevailed in China before the rationalism of the Confucianists and the polytheistic superstition of Buddhism predominated. There are no images of any kind in the temple, and the offering of whole burnt bullocks strikingly reminds us of the ancient custom of Western religious, as that of the Hebrews and the Greeks. The ceremonies of the sacrifices are kept with the utmost severity and are of a very complicated nature. The chief sacrifice is at the winter solstice. On the 20th day of December the offerings and an elephant carriage are sent with great array to the temple, and on the 21st the Emperor follows in a sedan chair, covered with yellow silk and carried by thirty-two men; he is preceded by a band of musicians and followed by an immense number of followers, including the princes, high officials, &c., all on horseback. Having arrived at the Temple, the Emperor offers incense to Heaven and to his ancestors and inspects the offerings; then he is conveyed on the elephant carriage to the Palace of Abstinence, where he is not allowed to take any animal food or wine, nor to sleep. Next morning, seven quarters before sunrise, he puts on his sacrificial robes and goes to the southern gate of the outer enclosure, dismounts from the carriage and walks to the great altar, where an Imperial yellow tent has been erected on the second terrace.\n\nAt the moment he arrives at the spot where he kneels, the fire of the sacrifice is kindled and music is heard. The Emperor then proceeds to the upper terrace of the altar, kneels and burns incense before Heaven and also presents incense to his ancestors. Then he makes three genuflections and one prostration and offers bundles of silk, jade cups and other gifts, music being heard all the time. Afterwards he kneels at another point of the altar, where an officer reads a prayer aloud. At last he receives, kneeling, the \"cup of happiness\" and the \"flesh of happiness.\" With the first dawn the whole party returns to the palace. Foreigners, who watched the party when passing the Chien-men from the city wall, speak highly of the splendid appearance of the whole procession; hundreds of officials in brilliant robes of state and numberless followers on horseback, among them a company of the Imperial Life Guards.\n\nA similar sacrifice takes place at spring solstice, with the same ceremonies, at the northern altar, but the motive is the special prayer for a prosperous harvest, Whilst the winter sacrifice is offered for a blessing upon the whole empire.\n\nOn his first arrival in Peking, Sir G. Bowen was entertained most hospitably by Sir\n\n(5.)\n\nRobert Hart, for four days, after which Sir George made his journey to the Great Wall. On returning from this trip His Excellency stayed with Sir Harry Parkes at the British Legation. His Excellency did the trip to the Great Wall in four days, but he would strongly recommend those not pressed for time to spend six over it. One can either ride on horse-back, or go in a mule litter, on this journey. His Excellency rode most of the way,\n\nOr\n\nLeaving Peking, His Excellency proceeded to Nan-kou, a distance of 30 miles where he slept. During the night a thief stole his shooting jacket, with one or two articles in the pockets. Fortunately the Governor was provided with a change of raiment, so that the theft caused little inconvenience. His note-book was, however, unfortunately in one of the pockets, and its loss was deplored because it contained the notes of his journey. Sir George may console himself with the reflection that this theft was one that might occur in many inns in England. Nan-kou is a fortified, busy little town situated at the entrance of a long, picturesque valley, stretching to the N.N.W., and is the farthest outpost of a series of fortifications which defend the very important Nan-kou pass leading to the Great Wall. From Nan-kou, Sir George proceeded on the following day to the Pa-ta-ling gate in the Great Wall, a distance from Nan-kou of about fifteen miles,\n\nThe Governor returned to Nan-kou the same day. Nothing could be worse than the present state of the roads, but they and their surroundings afforded ample proof that in ages past this part of China could boast of magnificent highways, bridges and other structures. Nothing can be more impressive than the sight of the Great Wall stretching along the crest of a high mountain-ridge for 2000 miles. The same general decay is visible in modern China as in modern Turkey.\n\nThe next day His Excellency visited the Tombs of the Emperors of the Ming dynasty, proceeding to the village of Sha-ho to sleep. This was a heavy day's riding for a man of the Governor's age, but he said he stood it almost as well as when he rode across European Turkey from Constantinople to Corfu, in 1849, when he was only 28 years old. Sir George was deeply interested in the spectacle of the Ming Tombs, with their solid white marble gateways, the famous gigantic stone tortoises, the long avenue of colossal elephants, camels, horses, sages, and warriors, cut in sandstone, the marble terraces and staircases, the noble hall, and the grand amphitheatre of mountains around.\n\nAfter sleeping at Sha-ho, His Excellency, on the following day, visited the ruins of the Summer Palace and other places of interest in the neighbourhood, especially the Bell Temple, containing the third largest bell in the world. He returned to Peking the same evening,\n\nOn his return to Peking His Excellency stayed at the British Legation, where he fully discussed with Sir Harry Parkes the questions affecting the Government of Hongkong in its relations with China. The so-called blockade of Hongkong was found to be rather a difficult subject to deal with, and any definite action in regard to it was postponed until Sir Harry Parkes' visit to Hongkong, which will take place in March next. Then it will be further discussed, and the matter in due course of time will be laid before the Legislative Council His Excellency remained with Sir Harry Parkes at the British Legation about a week,\n\nThe voyage down the Peiho was much more rapid than that up, thanks to the strong current. Only a brief stay was made at Tientsin and Shanghai on the return journey, and Hongkong was reached, after an absence from the Colony of about seven weeks, on the 24th inst. During the whole time, the weather was very fine, and the temperature delicious, like that of the autumn in Italy.\n\nEnclosure\n\n163\n\nTen Chinese Met hus 1o-day a well-written Wa Tsz-yue\n\narticle extolling Li Hung-chang for the reception he gave to Sir George Bowen with the French and British Ministers. It begins by quoting the words of Mencius: \"It requires a benevolent prince to be able with a great country to serve a small one. And it requires a wise prince to be able with a small country to serve a large one.\" Of Sir George it says: \"We have in His Excellency a Colonial Governor, lenient and loyal. Already within the first year of his administration in Hongkong, in the social circle, easy and self-possessed, he has spoken monumental words of wisdom; in the line of enterprise, undaunted by hardship, he has explored the Great Wall, and in his official capacity, zealous and painstaking, he has worthily borne his part in international counsels. Truly our Governor possesses qualities which command the imitation of all his people and the respect of all his neighbours.\"\n\n4",
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        "content_text": "362\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo. 76613.\n\nMY LORDS.\n\n(10)\n\nThe General Post Office to the Treasury.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, 26th July, 1880.\n\nWith reference to your Lordships' further letter of the 2nd instant No. 11569, I have the honour to supply the further information desired by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reference to the proposed call upon the Colonies of Ceylon, Straits Settlements and Hongkong for contributions towards the cost of the Packet Service to the East, under the new contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.\n\nIn the first place I have to remark that the amounts which it is now proposed that these Colonies shall contribute cannot properly be compared with the sums given in the Post Office memorandum of the 14th of February, 1876, to which reference is made, because of the alterations that have taken place in the Mail Service under the present contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company. The chief alterations are:-(1) a reduction in the amount of the subsidy from £430,000 to £360,000 a year; (2) the abolition of the Southampton and other lines of Packets, causing a decrease in the mileage to the extent of 438,516 miles annually, and (3) the despatch of the Australian Mails via Brindisi and Galle every fortnight, instead of once in four weeks only. The cost of the service is divided according to the mileage of each section and the amount of correspondence carried over it. The bulk of the Australian correspondence is not carried under the Imperial Contract beyond Ceylon.\n\nAlso it must be borne in mind that the rates of postage on which the estimate of February, 1876, was based, were considerably reduced under the regulations of the Postal Convention of Paris which came into force on 1st April, 1879, and that a further reduction in the rates was made on 1st of February last.\n\nWith regard to paragraphs 4 and 5 of the letter from the Colonial Office, I have to state that the figures given in my letter of the 2nd ultimo show one half of the total loss on the Mail Service in respect of each Colony; and that the sum of £13,771 with which it is proposed to charge Hongkong refers to that Colony only, as distinct from China and Japan generally.\n\nI have, &c., (Signed)\n\nHENRY FAWCETT.\n\nThe Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury.\n\n(Copy)\n\nSIR,\n\nThe Colonial Office to the General Post Office.\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n10th August, 1880.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of KIMBERLEY to request you to inform His Lordship what opportunities at present exist for sending ship letters to Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong independently of the regular Mail Service, and what is the charge for a ship letter in each case.\n\nThe Secretary to\n\nTHE GENERAL POST OFFICE,\n\nI am, &c., (Signed)\n\nJOHN BRAMSTON\n\n(Copy)\n\nNo. 121 218.\n\nSIR,\n\n(11)\n\nThe General Post Office to the Colonial Office.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE,\n\nLONDON. 14th August, 1880.\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant and in reply to acquaint you for the information of the Earl of KIMBERLEY, that there are opportunities for sending ship mails to Ceylon, the Straits Settlements and Hongkong once a week.\n\nThe Mails for Ceylon are carried by Vessels belonging to the British India Steam-ship Company and the Ducal line alternately.\n\nThe Mails for the Straits Settlements and Hongkong are carried by Vessels of the Glen line, Castle line and the Ocean Steam-ship Company.\n\nIn neither case do the Steamers start on a fixed day of the week.\n\nThe postage for letters so sent to the places mentioned is fourpence per half ounce.\n\nR. G. W. HERBERT, ESQ.,\n\nI am, &c., (Signed)\n\nA. BENTHALL.\n\nThe Colonial Office to the Treasury,\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n\n28th August, 1880.\n\nI am directed by the Earl of KIMBERLEY to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th July relating to the proposal to obtain contributions from the Colonies of Ceylon, Hongkong and the Straits Settlements towards the loss entailed upon the Imperial Treasury by the Postal Service.\n\n2.-Lord KIMBERLEY is of opinion, as has been already stated, that the Governments of the Eastern Colonies may properly be required to make some contribution towards the expenses of the service, but His Lordship does not feel able to call upon them to provide the large sums assigned to them respectively in the calculations made by the Postmaster General, and which are specified in the Treasury letter of the 9th of June last.\n\n3.-It must be remembered that these Colonies had no voice in the settlement of the Contract, and though the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamers is valuable to them in many ways, it can hardly be considered as necessary for the maintenance of postal communication.\n\n4. The enclosed copy of a letter from the General Post Office shews that, in addition to the weekly French Mail by the Messageries Maritimes, there are weekly opportunities of sending ship letters by the Steamers selected for the purpose, and it is believed that there are other private steamers frequently sailing to and from the Eastern Colonies.",
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        "content_text": "This payment will be of £20 quote apart from the annual contribution of £6,000 made by the Government of Hong Kong towards the cost of the mail-service maintained by the Home Government.\n\nIn respect of the homeward mails sent by French Packet, the Hong Kong Post Office will pay the French Post Office for the sea conveyance and will pay the French and Italian Post Office for the land transit according to the result of triennial statistics.\n\nAs regards official correspondence sent from Hong Kong to their country, the Treasury has decided to require the local Naval and Military Authorities at Hong Kong to pay their own postage, either in money or by means of Colonial postage stamps, as may be arranged between themselves and the local Post Office.\n\nThe details of the arrangement will be settled between this Department and the Postmaster General.\n\nI have only to add that it will be convenient both to the Colony and to this Department to commence the new system on the 1st of April next, and the Postmaster...\n\nPage 444",
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        "content_text": "Enclosure\n\n227\n\nCO. No.\n\n87.\n\n6 585\n\nregularity and punctuality and the report therefore does not call for any remarks from\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour Most Obedient Humble Servant,\n\nMeurth\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nTHE POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT FOR 1886\n\nPresented to the Legislative Council, by Command of Its Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, on the 14th January, 1887.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, January 1st, 1887.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to report upon the working of the Post Office in Hongkong and China during the year 1886.\n\n2. The exchange of Parcels with the United Kingdom established towards the end of 1885 has worked with great regularity and smoothness, whilst the steadily increasing numbers of parcels forwarded show that it is appreciated by the public. During the year under review 3,136 parcels have been forwarded from Hongkong to London, whilst 3,516 have been received, making a total of 6,652 parcels exchanged, almost without a complaint of any kind. There have been, of course, as it was foreseen there would be, a few false alarms of missing parcels, and early in the year some parcels were damaged by an accident on the mail steamer. The damage, however, was trifling, and compensation was paid in the only case where real harm was done. By the last mail in the year several parcels were received in a damaged state from having been put into a box with a package containing pomatum, which had of course melted, and which should not have been forwarded, unless in soldered tin. As far as is known at present, even in this case no serious damage resulted to the contents of the parcels. With these exceptions the parcels have all turned out in good order. It is observed that books are now often sent by Parcel Post, presumably because they do not get knocked about as do articles which are forwarded in mail bags. The London Post Office complains of the insecure way in which many parcels are packed by the senders, leading to the breakage of their contents on the way, and also of the inaccuracy with which contents are described. Thus a parcel stated by the sender to contain silk handkerchiefs and a gold ring is found on examination to contain six silk handkerchiefs, a tea cosy, a gold ring, a bead necklace, a puzzle and a pair of ivory solitaires. Perhaps this notice may tend to induce more care as to both of these matters.\n\n3. The limit of weight for parcels to the United Kingdom and a good many other countries has been raised from 7 to 11 lbs., whilst facilities have been provided for forwarding parcels to most of the countries of Europe, to Egypt, and to a good many British Colonies. Direct parcel exchanges with Malta and Gibraltar have also been established. Negotiations have been commenced with several of the Australian Colonies for the establishment of an exchange of parcels, and these are progressing favourably.\n\n4. The number of Transit Parcels, as they are called (that is of parcels sent to or from Colonies and foreign countries through London) has not been great. Possibly the circuitous route, and the necessarily somewhat high charges may have acted as deterrents. The following return shows the exchanges of Transit Parcels for the year.\n\n  \n    Sent.\n    Recd.\n  \n  \n    Ascension...\n    \n    Denmark.\n    6\n  \n  \n    Austria\n    1\n    Egypt.\n    4\n  \n  \n    Malta...\n    \n    Norway\n    2\n    8\n  \n  \n    Belgium\n    3\n    Germany\n    153\n  \n  \n    Sweden\n    8\n    British Guiana...\n    1\n  \n  \n    Gibraltar..\n    2\n    Switzerland..\n    7\n  \n  \n    Canada\n    5\n    Holland\n    3\n  \n  \n    Trinidad\n    1\n    Cape Colony...\n    6\n  \n  \n    Jamaica\n    1\n    Victoria (Austr.)\n    1\n  \n  \n    Totals...\n    212\n  \n\n5. By far the greater number of parcels sent home contain presents of some kind, whilst the greater number of those sent out contain supplies, such as hosiery, clothing, &c. The largest parcel mail despatched was that of November 8th (the Christmas mail) by which 314 parcels, weighing 588 lb. (net) were forwarded. The largest parcel mail received was that which arrived here on December 17th, with 246 parcels weighing 642 lb.\n\n6. A new mail service between Bremerhaven, Brindisi, Shanghai and Japan has been commenced by the packets of the North German Lloyds line. The fact that these packets start only once every four weeks, and that their departures from China coincide very nearly with those of the French mails...\n\nEvery week a sheaf of letters is received from various Post Offices representing that this or that Registered Article has not reached its destination. The same stereotyped answer is always sent, that it was delivered on such a day, and that the addressee signed a receipt for it. Nothing further is ever heard of these complaints, which generally arise from the senders' not having allowed time for the arrival of the correspondence. A case was recently noticed in which a person resident in France had registered a letter for Peking, and then within one week from the date of posting had complained of its non-delivery there.\n\nWith the boxes, these parcels weighed nearly half a ton.",
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        "content_text": "228 \n\n1 \n\nprevents this line being a very important factor in the mail routine, but it has been possible to establish, by its means, a direct Parcel Post to most countries of the Continent of Europe. There was no parcel post to several important European countries (France for instance) whilst the others were served by a circuitous route via Gibraltar and London. Only six parcels were despatched by the German Packet which left on December 27th. It might be well for German residents in China, who are desirous of getting out any small articles from Germany, to let their friends in that country know that they can now forward parcels not exceeding three kilogrammes in weight to Hongkong or Chinese ports at a fixed postage of Fr. 4.25 per parcel.\n\n7. The following figures as to the arrivals of the first two German mails in London may be of interest.\n\nFrench Mail\nGerman Mail\n\nLeft Hongkong\nSeptember 2\nSeptember 3\n\nSeptember 30\nOctober 1\n\nArrived in London\nOctober 4\nOctober 4\n\nDays\n32\n31/2\n\nNovember 1\nNovember 4\n\n32\n34\n\n8. A correspondence has taken place between the Imperial Post Office, the Colonial Office, and this Government, as to the renewal of the Contract for transporting the English mails between Brindisi and Shanghai. There were only three offers, those, namely, of the P. & O. Co., of Mr. ALFRED HOLT, and of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. One of the tenders of the first-named Company has been accepted, the mails to be carried for £265,000 a year for ten years. The report of this Department on the subject will be found in the Appendix (B).\n\n9. Although the proposed trans-pacific line of steamers between Hongkong and British Columbia will not do much for this Colony so far as postal matters are concerned, its establishment is to be desired on many other grounds. Since the Pacific mail packets commenced running between this port and San Francisco, correspondence with Canada has increased in the most marked manner, chiefly owing no doubt to the numbers of Chinese who have settled in Victoria (B. C.) and elsewhere.\n\n10. The dispute between the Pacific mail Company and the United States Government, which led to the discontinuance of carrying inward mails from San Francisco by the Company's vessels, has been adjusted, and the mails now arrive by every steamer from San Francisco as before. The inconvenience of having the return mails frequently despatched from here on the day fixed for the leaving of the English or French packet still continues.\n\n11. There has been no extension of Money Order business during the year, which is not a matter of regret, as the Money Order system was really growing too fast for the limited resources of the Department to keep pace with it. It has been found absolutely necessary to have more clerical assistance in the Money Order Office, and this has been provided without very much difficulty. The want of room, however, is increasingly and severely felt, and a simple remedy is not so easy to devise. The business of the Money Order Office, like too much of the work of this Department, is carried on in a dark and crowded corner, where literally there is often not room to turn, and where every square inch is economised as if it were a ship's cabin.\n\n12. This want of room is yearly becoming a more serious question. The Sanitary Board has pointed out that the quarters inhabited by the Chinese staff are overcrowded. They certainly are according to European ideas, even according to Chinese ideas there is not much room to spare. When foreign countries begin to claim their International right to have direct Parcel exchanges with Hongkong, it will be very difficult to see where the necessary room is to come from. A little additional space may be gained by building, and by a re-arrangement of verandahs &c., and then (unless it were possible to put on an additional storey) the limit will have been reached, and at much sacrifice of light and air. The Colony will be face to face with a demand for a new Post Office.\n\nThe present building was finished in 1865, and was evidently intended to be final. When the office is rebuilt it should be constructed, not for existing needs, but for those of twenty years later.\n\n13. The Secretary of State has consented, in view of the representations of this Department, to allow the employment of unsalaried probationers, in the Post Office only. Postal work is distinctly work which has to be learnt, a beginner, however intelligent, is somewhat worse than useless; he gets in the way, has to be shown everything, and he makes mistakes. Hence the desirability of having an extra hand always in training, so that when a vacancy does occur it has not to be filled by a raw recruit.\n\n14. It may perhaps be permissible to point out how, in this Office, unlike most other Post Offices, everything has to be filtered through two languages, one of which at least is but very imperfectly understood by many of the clerks who use it. At home a postman reads the address on a letter and delivers it accordingly. Here he depends on one or two hastily written Chinese characters, and if there happens to be a similarity in sound between the name as dictated, or as written, and some other name (Cooper and ... for instance) the chances of a mistake are very great.*\n\n*A letter was handed to a Chinese postman who was told to take it to Mr. X. one that did not lend itself to Chinese pronunciation, the sobriquet of long-bearded X. had been invented to prevent errors. The same difficulty \"Do you mean long-bearded X?\" he asked. The name being applies to names of streets, &c. Richmond Terrace is called the New six houses, West Terrace the Old six houses, the Albany is Figure 1 Bow Che (because of its shape). Pedder's Hill is the Two Flagstaffs (though there are no flagstaffs there now), the Wellington Barracks are called after a Chinese character (冖) which their ground plan is supposed to resemble.\n\n15. A Committee consisting of the Acting Harbour Master, the Director of the Observatory, and the Postmaster General was appointed to examine into the question of signalling the English mails from Kowloon Point. It was found impossible to devise any efficient and inexpensive signal which would not clash with the weather signals made at that station. It was therefore recommended that the use of the Kowloon Point gun for mail signals should be discontinued. Fortunately no inconvenience has arisen from the arrival of an unsignalled mail, a circumstance which may be due to an unusual freedom from fog during the year. It is to be hoped that some day all difficulties of this kind will be obviated telegraphic communication with the projected Gap Rock lighthouse, which would give the community here four hours notice of the approach of the mail.\n\n16. In the meantime a direct telephone line between this Office and the Peak signal station is much to be desired. What with clouds, night-fall, flags blowing straight on end, and other circumstances, the Post Office too often obtains the minimum rather than the maximum of information from the Peak.\n\n17. There have been two casualties during the year. The steamer Douglas was lost on February 10th with coast mails on board, which were not recovered. Communication between the Coast Ports and Hongkong having been interrupted for several days by the Chinese New Year holidays, the mails were unfortunately exceptionally heavy. The Madras was lost with a mail for this Office from Nagasaki. Most of the correspondence was subsequently recovered by H. M. S. Midge, and forwarded to destination.\n\n18. The service to Japan has gone on fairly well, the mails having been forwarded without many excessive delays. The English mail of January 22nd was sent on to Kobe in the City of Rio (via Yokohama). It would have been better to keep it here a couple of days longer for the Zambesi, but at the time of its despatch it was not known when that vessel would start. The English mail of September 3 was sent to Yokohama in the Claymore, whereas it should have been kept for the Stettin. The German service was a little new at the time, the Stettin was not notified, and it escaped notice that there would be a German Packet leaving within a day or two. As far as is known these were the only occasions on which this Office failed to secure the earliest opportunity for a mail for Japan except one instance (the French mail for Yokohama of October 22nd) in which it was so doubtful which steamer would arrive first that this office would not take the responsibility of diverting the mail from its ordinary route via Kobe. Against these may be set the fact that, on July 13th, the Agent of the Pacific Mail Co. courteously detained the San Pablo for the arrival of the English mail, thus saving the Yokohama community a delay of probably at least two days.\n\n19. The abolition of accounts with the London Office, referred to in the last Annual Report as under consideration, has been carried out, and our relations with the United Kingdom are now simply those of the Postal Union, with a special payment of £6,000 a year in addition. The saving of labour, copying, &c. is very considerable.\n\n20. The state of several of our Postal Agencies, specially those of Amoy and Foochow, was taken into serious consideration by the Government on the earnest representations of this Department. It was felt that the existing condition of affairs could not be allowed to go on, and that, unsatisfactory as it might be for Hongkong to be saddled with the whole expense of improving these Agencies, improved they must be—or abolished.* The Estimates for this year would accordingly have embodied provision for a considerable increase of staff at Amoy, had not a proposal been made which promised an entirely new departure.\n\n21. This was a proposal from Mr. Commissioner KOPSCH, on behalf of the Chinese Government, to take over, as a step towards the establishment of a national Post Office, the Postal work carried on by this Government at eight of the Treaty Ports of China. The report of this Department on that proposal will be found in the Appendix (C).\n\n22. Mr. Kopsch's scheme has of course raised much discussion, especially in Shanghai, where a public meeting was convened to consider the matter. The tone both of this meeting, and of the some articles and correspondence in the newspapers, was most fair, reasonable, and moderate. Some of the objections raised possess much force, though only one has as yet been put forward which can be regarded as a real obstacle to the proposal.\n\n23. How China may elect to develop her Postal system is not in any special way the affair of Hongkong, but a single remark on the subject may perhaps be allowable. To demand that so huge an Empire shall be covered with a network of courier services organised by the Imperial Government before that Government may attempt the much more modest task of carrying on the small coast service at present conducted by this Colony, is, as one of the speakers at Shanghai graphically put it, like insisting that a boy shall not go near the water till he has learned to swim. Any successful postal system in China must begin from the coast, and with steamer communication. It may then possibly be pushed up the rivers as steamers are admitted to them, and extended to a few of the shorter land routes, especially as railways are introduced. To make haste slowly should be the motto, and the avoidance of huge schemes like a pestilence the policy of the Chinese Post Office of the immediate future.\n\nThese remarks must not be taken as implying any reflection on the officers in charge of the Agencies in question, whose only fault was their inability to do impossibilities, or to be in two places at once.",
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        "content_text": "229\n\n24. Should the proposal of the Chinese Government not be accepted, it will be absolutely necessary to improve our Postal Agencies. They cannot be left as they are. On the other hand, no suggestion to open additional agencies at the expense of this Government should be entertained.\n\n25. The time has perhaps arrived when something should be done to bring the Chinese correspondence transmitted to and from this Colony more under control. There can be no doubt that the revenue suffers serious loss from the smuggling of thousands of Chinese letters, not to Chinese ports where there is no national Post Office to receive them, but to San Francisco, Australia, the Straits Settlements, and other places where efficient Post Offices exist. The subject is surrounded with difficulties, and the sweeping measures so often advocated, besides being ruinously expensive, would make the Postal Department here a nuisance and a hindrance to trade which would not be tolerated for a week. The function of a Post Office is to facilitate, not to hinder business. Proposals of a practical nature have, as you are aware, been submitted to the Government in this matter, and they are at present under consideration.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n5. As to the contribution of Hongkong, the Colonial Office has already raised the question whether, if the Imperial Government effects a saving, the Colonies should not share it. The Imperial Treasury replies, Ceylon, yes; Singapore and Hongkong, no. Hongkong's equitable share of the loss was assessed at £12,000 odd, and the Colony has been allowed to pay only £6,000. Unless the saving to the Imperial Government amounted to lowering the expenditure by more than half, this sum could not be reduced. This appears to be a fair way of regarding the matter, and I think this Colony should be content to stipulate that it is not to be asked for more than £6,000.\n\n8. As to the Canadian route, the Imperial Post Office confirms what I have held since first I looked into the proposal. The service would be slower by three days than that via Suez, and unless fortnightly, and timed to alternate regularly with the French packets, could not possibly replace those of the P. & O. As an alternative route it might be of some service, but unless the homeward packet left here within three days of the departure of the English and French Mails, even this small advantage would be lost.\n\n7. The question of the hour of departure may seem a small one, but it is not so in reality, for it must be remembered that any inconvenience caused by an unsuitable hour will recur fortnightly till it is removed. It is better therefore to attend to the point now than to have discontent and memorialising by and by. It is very desirable that the P. & O. packets, like those of the Messageries line, should leave at noon. The hour of departure of the French packets cannot be altered, on account of saving daylight at the mouth of the Saigon river. Having consulted with Mr. McEwen, the only member of the Chamber of Commerce I can get hold of this morning, I consider that a uniform noon departure of both mails would meet the wishes of the business and general community, and would do away with the long and fatiguing day now caused fortnightly by the later hour fixed for the departure of the English Mail,\n\nI have &c.,\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\n&c.\n\n&...\n\n&c.\n\nAPPENDIX,\n\nA. LISTER, Postmaster General.\n\nThe Honourable F. STEWART,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\n(C)\n\nA. LISTER, Postmaster General,\n\n(4.)—APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1886. Supplied to the International Bureau of the Postal Union, Berne.\n\nDESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE\nTOTAL\nDespatched\nReceived\nTotal in 1885\nIncrease\nDecrease\n\nOrdinary paid letters\n638,500\n403,700\n\nUnpaid and short paid Articles\n61,100\n72,000\n1,055,000\n1,095,000\n\n39,100\n\nLetters on Postal Business\n600\n\nPost Cards\n2,500\n\nDo. with prepaid reply\n\n22,300\n2,400\n\n15,800\n\nNewspapers and Periodicals\n118,700\n243,200\n35,100\n412,000\n\n10,000\n\nBooks, Circulars, Prices Current, &c.\n197,800\n82,000\n14,000\n304,100\n\n105,900\n\nPatterns\n4,800\n2,900\n300\n8,000\n\n8,160\n\nCommercial Papers\n\n16,160\n\nRegistered Articles\n21,700\n30,800\n8,400\n58,900\n1,026\n\nLetters with value declared\n\n3,500\n57,874\n\nRegistered Articles with Return Receipt\n\nParcels\n20\n3,136\n4,200\n8,506\n1,570\n6,936\n\n* The figures in the above table are obtained by multiplying the amount of correspondence forwarded during 28 days by 13. The results are very fortuitous and these decreases are probably more apparent than real. The sale of postage stamps, a much more satisfactory test, shows a steady increase.\n\nNo. 38.\n\n(B.)\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, June 16th, 1886,\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 939 of yesterday's date, referring to me for an early report the Secretary of State's Despatch No. 57 of May 14, with its enclosures respecting the proposed new contract for the Eastern Mail Service.\n\n2. This subject has been so long under discussion, and is presented by the London Post Office in so clear a light, that there appears to be no doubt as to the course the Colony should pursue. In recommending that the Telegram enclosed in draft should be forwarded without delay, I have the pleasure of knowing that I am in accord with the views of the Legislative Council and of the Chamber of Commerce.\n\n3. That draft Telegram deals with four points.\n\n(1.) The best tender to accept.\n\n(2.) The contribution of Hongkong.\n\n(3.) The Canadian route.\n\n(4.) The hour of departure from Hongkong.\n\n4. As to the best tender to accept, Ford WOLVERTON's lucid report leaves no question open. I am very glad to see that no experiments are to be tried in the way of leaving the mails to be conveyed, on any portion of the route, by chance steamers.\n\nNo. 29.\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, HONGKONG, May 26th, 1886.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to enclose a copy of a letter addressed to me by Mr. H. Kopsch, one of the Commissioners of Customs under the Chinese Government, and a special Commissioner for Postal purposes in China. Mr. Kopsch enquires whether, in view of an extension to all the Treaty Ports of the Customs Postal Service which has been for some years in existence in China, and the intended establishment of a Chinese national Post Office, this Department will withdraw its Postal Agencies from the Ports of Hoihow, Canton, Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, and Hankow, and its Post Office from Shanghai.\n\n2. I enclose a copy of the reply I forwarded to Mr. Kopsch, pointing out that these Agencies are in reality Agencies of the Imperial Post Office.\n\n3. As His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government will probably think it necessary to refer this matter to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the consideration of the Imperial Post Office, I permit myself to offer a few words on this proposal.\n\n4. It seems to me that one main consideration should be kept in view, namely the convenience and welfare of the communities at the various Treaty Ports, which perhaps include more of our fellow-countrymen than of any other nation, the convenience and welfare of their correspondents in other parts of the world, and the interests of trade. The experience of more than eleven years in dealing with the only organised Post Offices in the Far East (until the Japanese Offices were established) convinces me that it is desirable in these interests to accept the proposal of the Chinese Government if possible.\n\n5. Extra-territorial Post Offices may be described as necessary evils, and evils which should be got rid of as soon as the necessity for their continuance is removed. The objections to them must be so well known to H. M. Government that I need not here recapitulate them. In China they have certainly been free from one disadvantage attaching to them elsewhere they have not, hitherto, wounded national susceptibility. But it is quite possible they may eventually do so, and that before very long.\n\n6. The Hongkong Government maintains, under very great disadvantages, eight Post Offices in China. They are worked (except at Shanghai) by Consular Officers, whose Consular duties naturally have to take precedence. Able and diligent as most of these gentlemen are, their frequent removals, and the pressure of other duties inevitably stand in the way of the attainment of any very high degree of efficiency. By the time a Postal Agent has learnt his duties he is due for transfer to another port.\n\n7. The Post Offices at most of the Ports, being in the Consulates, are too far removed from the business parts of the Settlements to be really efficient. Only this morning, in looking into a question relative to Swatow, I am reminded that a letter cannot be registered there without sending a messenger across a (frequently tempestuous) stretch of sea which under the most favourable circumstances it takes an hour to cross and re-cross.\n\n8. Another great disadvantage is that the Hongkong Government of course cannot enforce any Postal Regulations in Chinese Ports. The residents send their letters by the mail if they think fit to do so; if not, and more generally, they send them on board the steamers. Too often the chief function of the Post Office seems to be to take the blame if anything goes wrong.\n\n9. The Customs Authorities propose to replace this very inadequate service with Post Offices at 23 ports (including all those at which this Office maintains Agencies). At most if not all of these Ports all the facilities this office can offer would be given to the public, and I cannot doubt that those facilities would eventually be much extended.\n\n10. The Customs would bring to the task very much larger staffs, officers on duty night and day, buildings in the heart of the business quarters, steam-launches, facilities for boarding steamers both on arrival and departure, the power of search, and, most important of all, the sanction of the national authority, which would allow of the making and enforcing of regulations, such as exist in most ports elsewhere.",
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        "content_text": "Unofficial Member ther the x and the Chamber of Commerce has promised to communicate with the Chambers in the other Easter Colonies with a view to making representation to the Lec. of State mited the object (see in 11250 & 11251) mer 7.0. of this, and on 2.0. feared it replied that we (13223) We informer. objecting\". Might we laus not be possible to ensure the renewal in the Easter Colonies of giving effect to the French Postal Convention no similar legislation has taken place in other parts of H.M. Dominions: this ground We have in fact & again t again pressed the 7.0. to denounce the Convention, but hitherto\n\nI am glad that the H. of Commans is coming to aid. The answer to the above question might be : 1. Ordinances Hangkung have been passed in certain of the Crown Colonies at the instance the How Conferring in french & German Mail for gay Maligay Steamers man Mire Colonies 2 in the ports of een of 2. This has been done in the case. the French Steamers in order to give certain clench Effect to the wrench Postal Convention 4.3. By gusting the Convention and in case Cha accordance with in the German that then steamers should 1856, German Stad Stramen lin Sw the Dat be placed.\n\nEAR Jooting the above the French, so long. named convention remained in force 5 that 3 Sie H. Holland might add th he understands that he is likely about to receive ther representation from the Haughing Chamber of Commerce on the Subject, which the will take the whole matter unite Consideration anew.\n\nP.W.9.24/8/17 Luck 24/8 I append the Times of 10. Any. 57 from which Recent Consular Reports\" H. Mi arthur has drawn his inspiration – the 5th Article de beton England & France, Reply. That Mesenter and usental Key by a Convention dated Sept. 24th 1856 int of goon & Parlt in 1957 Grandes imant that when The Packet's Employer by the British Post office or by the Peach Post Office in Souention of article 1.42 other 30 may handdom MS. Convention an national repels the Jorspurity of Gott to look into the matter a I den that the Coronation or repels Chartered or intridigare by Got they shall to ratified diy by Cach \"Part Considine & heated as the two counties at which thing regularly repels of wars in the groits of accidentally Brush & be them Entitled to the Damb Lonors to Mivileges. They shall grin on any account",
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        "content_text": "by the Company are well known at the I.O. as also the lines in which they are franchised by the Chinese; & it will be very detrimental to the Company's interests if these are revoked next year.\n\nThe continuance of privileges for the Company is crucial. The French and German mail packet services to China; & it seems possible that joint action with other ports might have the desired effect.\n\nI am to request, therefore, that the concessions be supported according to present intentions. The directors are naturally anxious to secure the concessions permanently.\n\nThe Postmaster General, having renewed the China mail contract with the Company for 10 years from 27 Feb. 1888, would be glad if this matter could be supported by diplomatic means as in 1883.\n\nThere appears to be reason for bringing the matter anew - in the hope that Lord Salisbury will instruct H.M.'s Minister at Peking to take such steps as may be possible with the view of securing the continuance of the privileges in question.\n\nI am etc.,\nAlgernon Surnos\n\nSupposing that the French & German Governments will endeavour to secure continuance",
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        "content_text": "283 \n\nOnly got through, and that with extreme pressure and difficulty, by long and severe hours of duty, by excessively hard work, and by the superior officers joining in manual labour which, in most other places, would be performed by men at twenty-five shillings a week.\n\n12. We have ceased to expect a profit on the working of the Post Office. That there is still a balance to the good is mainly due to the Parcel Post. During the year the following parcels have been dealt with (not including local parcels, of which no separate account is kept).\n\n|          | Inward | Outward | Total |\n|----------|--------|---------|-------|\n| By P. & O. Packet | 5,195  | 3,831   | 9,026 |\n| By German Packet | 215    | 166     | 381   |\n| Total             | 5,410  | 3,997   | 9,407 |\n\n6. But it is when the Chinese Staff of the Office is considered that it is seen how completely inadequate is the provision of hands, in comparison with the work to be done.\n\nIn the Local or Municipal Post Office of Shanghai, which undertakes nothing but the reception and distribution of local correspondence, and of that exchanged by steamer with certain Ports immediately corresponding with Shanghai, the work is carried on by the following Chinese staff under the superintendence of Europeans:--\n \n3 Senior Chinese.\n17 Postmen and Coolies.\n2 Rickshaw Coolies.\n4 Boatmen.\n26 \n\nThe Municipal Post Office at Shanghai is one of seven Post Offices by which the correspondence of that Settlement is dealt with, and it is furnished with twenty-six Chinese. The Hongkong Post Office does the whole of the Postal work of Hongkong, inward, outward, and local; prepares and passes on the mails for all China and Japan; acts as a centre between those countries and the Straits, India, America and Australia; sorts both the English and French mails for Shanghai; and is furnished with twenty Chinese. The amount of correspondence passing through Shanghai may be taken, with fair accuracy, to be about half of that passing through Hongkong. The whole Postal work of Shanghai is performed by 13 Europeans and 48 Chinese, that of Hongkong by 17 Europeans and 20 Chinese. Moreover, the only two really heavy mails for Shanghai are sorted in Hongkong.\n\n7. The Municipal Post Office at Shanghai can, naturally, establish hourly deliveries, and effect them with great regularity and satisfaction to the public. The Hongkong Post Office effects with difficulty three deliveries a day, with an extra delivery after dark when necessary; and, when there is a rush of either inward or outward mail work, delivery has to be suspended altogether, the services of the postmen who should go out with correspondence being indispensable indoors.\n\n8. The directions in which the organisation of the Hongkong Office should now be developed are these:\n\n(a) The improvement of local delivery.\n(b) The collection of correspondence from steamers, and a quicker landing of contract mails, by means of a steam-launch belonging to the Department.\n(c) An enforcement of the monopoly of the Post Office with regard to outward correspondence, more particularly Chinese.\n\nThe third of these has been waiting for time and opportunity, but the other two are absolutely dependent on the provision of a larger building. Local delivery cannot be improved without a Chinese staff at least double of what we have at present. There is not room in this building for a single additional Chinese. Instead of adding to the existing overcrowding, it should be abated. And it is worse than useless to collect correspondence from steamers unless there are the means of delivering it at least as quickly as the steamer agents can deliver it themselves. Similarly, this Department could not work a steam-launch to advantage without two Europeans to relieve each other in the duty of boarding vessels on arrival. They would have to live on the premises, for which no ingenuity could arrange in the present building. In fact, almost every attempt to improve the service in any way is blocked by the same condition, more room.\n\n9. To fully develop the internal Postal service of this Colony, there will be needed ere long four small sub-offices, viz., one at the east and one at the west end of the town, one at Kowloon and one at the Peak. Pillar boxes will also have to be established at convenient spots on the routes leading to these suburbs. All this would pay its own expenses and more, but it is useless to attempt it without a sufficient central staff to receive and distribute the correspondence.\n\n10. International Statistics, to regulate the payments for sea and territorial conveyance of mails during three years were taken during the first twenty-eight days of November, and, so far as is known up to this date, with regularity and success.\n\n11. The date at which this Report has to be sent in makes it impossible to detail the Revenue of the Department for 1887, which will not be definitely ascertained for some months to come. Probably, however, there will be some improvement on the Revenue for 1886, which was as follows:\n\nGross Revenue, 1886, $134,734.72\nShare of United Kingdom, $78,379.82\nShare of other countries, $7,865.91\nConveyance of Mails, $6,973.12\nWorking expenses, $33,136.49\nBalance, $8,379.38\n\n$134,734.72\n\n13. The largest Parcel Mail was that despatched on November 8th, the Christmas Mail, by which 329 parcels, weighing 631 lb. net were forwarded. The next largest was that despatched on November 22nd, the New Year Mail, by which 265 parcels, weighing 487 lb. net were forwarded. The largest inward Parcel Mail consisted of 408 parcels, weighing 892 lb.\n\n14. Two parcels were confiscated in London, one for containing reprints of books copyright in the United Kingdom, the other for containing cigars which it was attempted to smuggle under a false declaration. The cigars were addressed to a lady, probably to divert suspicion of the real nature of the contents of the parcel.\n\n15. The exchange of Parcels with the Continent by German Packet is steadily though slowly increasing. At first, only four or five parcels were sent or received by each mail, now the average is about twenty. A box containing eight parcels was lost in the `Oder`.\n\n16. The reduction of postage on coast and local parcels effected some time since has been the means of attracting a considerable business in the transmission of such parcels, which are now carried at five cents a pound including Registration.\n\n17. It is hoped ere long to have Parcel Post arrangements in force with the principal Australian Colonies. The Victorian Government, which, as controlling the P. & O. line from Melbourne to Colombo, is the first to be consulted, has accepted the proposals of this Office, and it is hoped that the system may be at work within two or three months. An exchange of parcels by the direct Torres Straits steamers was proposed to Queensland, but the internal legislation of that Colony does not permit of its adoption.\n\n18. A direct exchange of Parcels with Canada via Vancouver has also been proposed. The Canadian Post Office replied that when the mail service between Vancouver and Hongkong has been put on a permanent footing, the question will be considered.\n\n19. It has been shown in paragraph 12 that, exclusive of local exchanges, 9,407 parcels passed through this Office in the course of the year. Although the contents of many of these were of considerable intrinsic value, no parcel has been lost, nor has any local parcel been lost.* The reason is not far to seek. Although parcels are not technically considered as Registered Articles, yet practically and to all intents and purposes, they are Registered. Persons who talk \"the stuff that makes one sad and almost sick,\" as to how they never register their letters, \"it only serves to call attention to them,\" would do well to consider the fact that upwards of nine thousand parcels, often containing such objects as watches, rings, bracelets, &c., with the contents and value marked on them, have been transmitted safely under Registration during the year, whilst it is believed that nearly every letter containing such objects and posted without Registration has been stolen, not necessarily here, nor even necessarily in the Postal service, but still stolen, somewhere.\n\n20. If it were as possible to prevent the sending of unregistered money letters through the Post as it is to prevent the sending of unregistered parcels, letter-stealing would disappear. It is kept up and perpetuated by the persons referred to in the last paragraph, who not only do wrong themselves, but also persuade others to do so. If only money letters were stolen, the senders might well be left to reap the consequences of their own carelessness, but unfortunately, the letters of innocent people are stolen on the chance or on the supposition that they contain money.\n\n21. It may be questioned whether the detective measures taken by many Postal Administrations in the way of sending test letters and laying other traps for Post Office thieves do not do more harm than good. Every time a letter-carrier is convicted, the public begin to think that now, at last, they may send money letters with safety. They are soon undeceived. So far at least as Post Offices where the subordinates are Chinese are concerned, it will NEVER be safe to send money or valuables through the Post unregistered, and it is believed to be at once the kindest and the justest course to avoid any useless show of an attempt to make it so. Such attempts only foster a disastrous illusion, and intensify the evil they are intended to cure. To countenance the promiscuous sending of money letters, and yet attempt to put down thefts by detective measures, is like planting a noxious weed, and then snipping at it with scissors. The public have it in their power to cut the weed at the root by ceasing to send unregistered money letters. It is believed that the refusal of this Department to make any enquiry into alleged cases of theft of unregistered money letters has reduced that class of correspondence very considerably. If these remarks should deter one additional person from sending money in unregistered covers, they will not have failed of their object. And, if they do not deter him, the loss of his money very speedily will.\n\n* Eleven Registered Letters are believed to have been destroyed by an explosion on board the `Fermosa` on December 24th.",
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        "content_text": "## APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1887\n\n### COMPARISON WITH 1886\n\n| DESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE | TOTAL | Despatched | Received | Despatched | Received | Total in 1886 | Increase | Decrease |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Ordinary paid letters | 1,120,000 | 871,000 | 428,000 | 65,000 | 56,000 | 1,095,000 | 25,000 |  |\n| Unpaid and short paid Articles |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Letters on Postal Business | 23,000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Post Cards | 8,500 | 4,500 | 1,000 | 1,200 | 1,800 |  |  |  |\n| Commercial Papers |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Registered Articles | 58,900 | 32,000 | 23,000 | 3,700 | 3,300 | 55,400 | 3,500 |  |\n| Letters with value declared | 300 | 100 | 100 |  |  | 200 | 100 |  |\n| Registered Articles with Return Receipt | 8,500 | 4,500 | 1,000 | 1,200 | 1,800 | 6,700 | 1,800 |  |\n| Parcels | 1,000 |  |  |  |  | 900 | 100 |  |\n| Do. with prepaid reply |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |\n| Newspapers and Periodicals, Books, Circulars, Prices Current, &c., Patterns | 323,500 | 304,100 | 9,500 | 8,000 | 19,100 | 1,500 |  |  |\n\n22. As it appeared doubtful whether the direct route via Aden for correspondence for the South African Colonies was working as satisfactorily as formerly, experiments were made by the despatch of test covers, as to the real time occupied in transit. The result was as follows:- \n\nTo Cape Colony, To Natal, \nViâ London. 50 days. 57 days. \nViâ Aden. 76 days. 69 days. \n\nCorrespondence for these Colonies is therefore now forwarded exclusively by way of London.\n\n23. In view of the inconvenience caused by the departures of the steamers of the Pacific Mail Company and Occidental and Oriental Steam-ship Company on the same days as the Mails for Europe, the two Companies promised that they would, in arranging their Schedule for the present year, do all in their power consistently with the rules they have found it necessary to observe, to avoid a repetition of this conflict of dates. The good offices of the Companies have been so far successful that, in their Time Table for the first half of this year, there are only two coincidences.\n\n24. It would be very desirable if the occasional despatch of the German Packet on the same day as the French Packet could also be avoided. It deprives the public of much of the advantage of a supplemental opportunity to be obliged to make use of it within a few hours or not at all.\n\n25. The outward French packets now remain here only twenty-four hours, an arrangement causing a severe strain on the strength of this office, which has only a few hours of daylight to get the whole mail for Shanghai sorted and packed, amidst the numerous distractions always arising from the recent arrival of a contract mail. On one occasion the newspaper portion of the Shanghai mail was unavoidably sent up unsorted. That was on August 4th, a day on which three Contract Mail Packets left this Colony, and two were expected to arrive. Fortunately one arrival did not take place till the following morning.\n\n26. It is feared that, under the new P. and O. contract, the stay of the outward Packet here will also be only twenty-four hours.\n\n27. If the sorting of mails for Shanghai is to be continued under these circumstances, some reinforcement of the staff will be inevitable, but this is a subject which can be well considered when the question of the surrender or otherwise of our Post Offices in China to the Chinese Government is settled. No decision on this point has yet been arrived at by the Imperial Government.\n\n28. It will be necessary to make provision for a re-organisation of the Amoy Post Office in case we retain the control of it. It is impossible to continue working it much longer in its present manned condition. The duties of the Postal Agent at Amoy depend upon the incessant and constantly increasing steamer traffic of that Port, and have been much added to by the establishment of direct steam communication between Amoy and Manila, and between Amoy and Batavia. For Manila alone steamers leave Amoy on the average every three days. The Postal Agent has, during the past year, collected and accounted for Revenue to the amount of $9,403.60. He has sold $7,837 worth of stamps. He has despatched 5,353 Registered Letters and received 4,831, making a total of 10,184 Registered articles, every one of which needed individual attention and necessitated several entries in books, &c. This gives an average of 28 Registries each day, including Sundays, but sometimes as many as 125 Registered Articles will be despatched to Manila by one steamer. The Agent has dealt with 325 parcels, and has sold Postal Notes to the amount of $1,312. He has dealt, without any assistance except that of two Chinese who cannot read English, with over 200,000 articles of ordinary correspondence, say 550 per day, Sundays included. His Office is the point of distribution for Tamsui, Kelung, Taiwanfoo, and Takao, the service of which places involves much correspondence and attention to detail. It can scarcely be thought that $40 a month is a sufficient salary to pay a gentleman, who has other duties to attend to, for the amount of work, responsibility, watchfulness, and care, involved in keeping up such an Office as is described above All through the year, we have been continually on the verge of a deadlock at Amoy caused by the not unnatural reluctance of officers of the Consular service to undertake a post the work of which is out of proportion to the pay. Only by the good offices of H. M. Consul in prevailing on members of his staff to take the duties as a personal favour to himself has such a deadlock been prevented. If the Amoy Office continues to be worked from Hongkong it is hoped that its complete reorganisation will be allowed.\n\n29. Arrangements were made, during the year under report, to induce a more general prepayment of the correspondence which it is the custom to send here by steamers outside the mails. The measures taken were necessarily of a stringent kind, but it was intended to relax them as soon as the end in view was attained. This was accomplished before the setting in of the inevitable outcry, which had been all along foreseen by this Department; and the sending of unpaid letters on board steamers was practically put a stop to, and less stringent rules introduced, before any complaint was made. This Office, at any rate, is no longer periodically flooded with unpaid correspondence, nor will the wholesale transmission of such unpaid correspondence through the Post be allowed to be resumed.\n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nThe Hon. FREDERICK STEWART, \nColonial Secretary, \n&c., \n&c.\n\nSir, \n\nYour obedient Servant, \nA. LISTER, Postmaster General.\n\n* On Christmas day the clerks in charge of the Shanghai mail were at work from 2 P.M. till midnight, and were required at 7 the next morning for the ordinary work of the Office.",
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        "content_text": "# 13. The date on which this Report has to be sent in makes it impossible to detail the Revenue of the Department for 1888, which will not be definitively ascertained for some months to come. The Revenue for 1887 is as follows:- \nGross Revenue 1887, $141,324.08\n\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Gross Revenue 1887 | $141,324.08 |\n| Share of United Kingdom | $51,085.18 |\n| Share of other countries | $6,824.82 |\n| Conveyance of Mails | $6,572.45 |\n| Working expenses | $35,071.74 |\n| Balances | $40,869.89 |\n| Total | $141,324.08 |\n\n221 \n\nI feel convinced that His Excellency the Governor will at once admit the justice of their request which is that their salaries should be raised to such a sum in dollars as will fairly represent the amount of £100 per annum, more especially now that the question of handing over our Agencies to the Customs seems further off than ever, and it is probable that the postal work will for many years continue, as it has always been, in the hands of the Assistant at Her Majesty's Consulate. Our Amoy Agent in particular has a deal of work to get through, as the following statistics show.\n\nDuring the year 1888, the gross revenue collected by him amounted to $10,849.68, made up as follows:-\n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sale of Stamps | $9,185.06 |\n| Sale of Postal Notes | $1,431.75 |\n| Collected on Unpaid Letters | $205.22 |\n| do. on short paid parcel | $0.25 |\n| Profit on remittance | $17.40 |\n| Boxholders subscription | $10.00 |\n| Total | $10,849.68 |\n\n14. The loose ship letters received show a considerable decrease. Although this mode of transmission may be convenient for those who postpone correspondence until the last moment, yet it is not considered secure.\n\n15. There were several instances of fraudulent enclosures of letters and embroidery &c. in newspapers. These were taken out and forwarded, letter rate being charged.\n\n16. Money Orders may now be exchanged with Bangkok.\n\n17. A renewed effort was made to have the mails by the French Packets sorted on board between Singapore and Hongkong. I understand that the question has been forwarded to the Authorities at home, strongly supported by His Excellency the Governor and the Consul for France. Should it meet with the success it deserves, it will be a great boon not only to the Hongkong community but also to the communities at the Coast Ports, for it frequently happens that during the North East Monsoon, the Coast steamers cannot wait until the mail is sorted, and the consequence is Coast mails have to be kept back till the following steamers. Again, during the present year, the French mails have on several occasions arrived on the same day on which the homeward mail leaves, and to get it delivered so that letters may be answered by the outgoing packet, puts us to the greatest possible inconvenience and deranges the business of the Office completely.\n\n18. On the 29th November, a Peak delivery was introduced, which is, as far as I can judge at present, a great convenience to the public. Of course, during the winter months, very few residents live at the Peak, and the amount of correspondence must naturally be small. During the summer months, however, I feel convinced that this service will be a source of revenue. From the 29th November, the number of local letters despatched is 296, and those received, 70. I take this opportunity of recording my thanks to Mr. FINDLAY SMITH, Manager of the High Level Tramway Company, for his courteous assistance in this matter, especially in allowing our postmen to travel free.\n\n19. The Postmaster General in his report for 1887 pointed out very strongly the urgent necessity for increased and improved accommodation, and made a proposal for remedying the growing evils of the present building, and it is hoped that early steps may be taken to effect such an alteration as will be considered suitable to cope with the ever-increasing work of this Department. The present building was constructed in the year 1865 to meet the requirements of the Colony at that time. Since then, work has year by year considerably increased until every available space is occupied. A Pillar box system and a house-to-house delivery are very much needed, and to carry out these improvements satisfactorily, it is necessary to almost double our Chinese staff, but then we have no place to house them. The present staff are herded together in a most inconvenient manner. It is true a small allowance might be granted them to live outside, but for obvious reasons, it is preferable that they should reside on the premises. We also require separate stamp windows for Europeans and Chinese. A visit to the Post Office on a mail day would convince anybody of this.\n\n20. A steam launch has been sanctioned for this Department, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, and by its means, the landing and delivery of mails will be very much accelerated. We shall also be in a position to establish a Kowloon delivery. The sooner the building of this Launch is put in hand, the better, so that the above improvements in the Postal service may be commenced with as little delay as possible.\n\n21. The smuggling of Chinese letters still goes on to a very large extent, and a considerable number of secret Post Offices exist. The revenue is in consequence defrauded of a large amount. On this matter, however, I have already reported, and I understand it is engaging the attention of the Government.\n\n22. Our Postal Agents have applied for an increase of salary. They rest their claim not so much on the loss brought about by the fall in exchange. Its strength rests on the fact that their predecessors of 1868 received for the work they were then required to do, the same sum as they receive now. Since then, they have been called on to undertake, in addition, the work of the very heavy duties necessarily laid on them by the introduction and extension of the Postal Note and Parcel Post system. Their work has been multiplied indefinitely, while their pay, expressed in dollars, remains the same.\n\nThe sale of Postage stamps for the 12 months amounted to $9,185.06 against $7,837.81 in 1887, being an increase of $1,347.25.\n\nThe following tables show the number of registered articles and parcels received and sent during years 1887 and 1888:\n| Year | Registered Articles Received | Foreign Parcels Received | Registered Articles Sent | Foreign Parcels Sent |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1887 | 4,831 | 178 | 5,362 | 159 |\n| 1888 | 5,715 | 207 | 5,353 | 147 |\n\nThe sale of Postal Notes during 1888 amounted to $1,481.75 against $1,312.58 in 1887, being an increase of $119.17. The business of that Agency, as well as all the others, is increasing every year.\n\nDirect mails for Manila have already given considerable additional work, and now the large steamers for Japan, Vancouver, and San Francisco have commenced to call at Amoy. If this is continued, a proper office will be required on the Amoy side, and the number of the staff increased.\n\nIt frequently happens that they are called upon to pull out when a high sea is running to take the mails from some steamer anchored outside the harbour. I would suggest that as soon as the Steam Launch for this Office is ready for use, our gig be renovated and sent to Amoy, and two extra men allowed.\n\nHonourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Copy.)\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour obedient Servant,\nARTHUR K. TRAVERS,\nActing Postmaster General.\n\n## APPENDIX (4)\n\nGENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, January 27, 1888.\n\nSIR-Referring to my letter of the 5th instant, I am directed by the Postmaster General to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of State for the Colonies, some copies of a revised Time Table of the India and China Mail Services for the present year, shewing a proposed acceleration of the Mail steamers on the China line.\n\nIt will be seen that on the outward voyages, the transit between Brindisi and Shanghai is less by 12 hours than the Contract time, and on the homeward voyages, it is less than the Contract time by from 36 to 132 hours, according to the season of the year.",
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        "content_text": "## The Postmaster General regrets that it has not been found possible to arrange for a departure from Hongkong at noon as desired by the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, because in order to effect the considerable acceleration now contemplated it is essential that the packets should arrive at Singapore at daylight and leave that port at 8 o'clock the following morning, so as to arrive at Penang on the afternoon of the following day, thus giving convenient mail hours to both Singapore and Penang and a rapid transit through the Straits of Malacca.\n\nIn order to attain this result the mail packet, as a general rule, will leave Hongkong at daylight and this it is believed will be a convenient arrangement to the community. The days of departure will be Thursday in the fair season and Sunday in the monsoon and this will admit of the mails being closed and put on board the night before so that the Packets can leave at early dawn and get a clear departure from the Port.\n\nIn connection with this subject of leaving Hongkong and the allusion made to the French Mail hours it is right I should point out that a reference to the letter written by the Postmaster General of Hongkong to the Colonial Secretary dated the 16th of June, 1886, shows the reason of the Messageries Company in fixing noon for leaving Hongkong to be in no way out of consideration for any wishes expressed by that community but in order to permit of their saving daylight at the mouth of the Saigon River.\n\nSir ROBERT G. W. HERBERT, K.C.B.,  \nColonial Office.\n\nI am, &c.,  \n(Signed),  \nED. H. REA,\n\n## B.-APPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1888\n\n|          |        |        |        |         |         |\n|----------|--------|--------|--------|---------|---------|\n| 545,050  | 472,200 | 70,750 | 68,400 | 1,147,000 | 1,120,000 |\n\nR&B(10,0418) 8000 3-89  \nGovernor  \nNo.  \nwart 290  \nDate  \n1889 от бера  \n1845  \n\n## INTERNATIONAL\n\n### COMPARISON WITH 1887, DESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE, TOTAL\n\n|                     | Despatched | Received | Despatched | Received | Total in 1887 | Increase, Decrease |\n|---------------------|------------|----------|------------|----------|----------------|--------------------|\n| Ordinary paid Letters | 27,000     |          |            | 26,450   |                |                    |\n| Unpaid and short paid Articles |           | 11,500   | 2,800      |          |                |                    |\n| Letters on Postal Business |           |          |            |          |                |                    |\n| Post Cards          | 1,580      | 5,750    | 1,150      | 8,450    | 1,495          | 3,450              |\n| Do., with prepaid reply | 5,750      |          |            | 46,000   | 44,000         | 1,380              |\n|                         |            | 5,405    | 1,725      | 14,375   | 12,500         | 2,000              |\n|                         |            |          |            | 4,400    |                | 1,005              |\n|                         |            |          |            |          |                | 1.876              |\n| Newspapers and Periodicals | 140,900    | 260,700  |            |          |                |                    |\n| Books, Circulars, Prices Current, &c. | 222,500 | 85,050   | 17,250     |          |                |                    |\n| Patterns            | 5,750      | 2,300    | 1,150      | 41,550   | 17,400         | 460,550            |\n|                         |            |          |            | 13,225   | 576            | 487,000            |\n| Commercial Papers   |           |          |            |          |                | 23,550             |\n| Registered Articles | 24,750     | 35,000   | 4,625      | 4,750    | 69,125         | 62,500             |\n|                         |            |          |            |          | 6,625          |                    |\n| Letters with value declared | ***        | **       |            |          |                |                    |\n| Registered Articles with Return Receipts | 345 | 5,750    | 115        | 115      | 6,325          | 5,500              |\n| Parcels             | 4,408      | 6,190    | 1,150      | 1,880    | 13,123         | 11,607             |\n|                         |            |          |            |          | 825            | 1,816              |\n\njn. no.67.18 april 1600  \nreminded as to Prison.  \nNext subsequent Paper.  \nSov 10429  \ntrang hong  \nNo. 20282  \n**(Subject)**  \n222 DESPATCH.  \n20282  \nAnnual Report on Victoria Gaol  \n1855  \nForwards  \n**(Minutes.)**  \nMr. Meade  \nSatefactory Gonnal Garden says  \nGeneral  \nnumber it had been  \nto's how  \n1888.  \nthe average  \nprisoners in 1888 was less than  \n10  \nyears,  \nthe average  \nbut the returns seem  \nwas one less than in  \n\n-? 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        "content_text": "## \n21. 786 \n\nwhich Mr. Brown will have the superintendence.\n\n9. The changes in the Staff of the Postmaster General's Department are due to the provision which has been made for the sorting of Mails on board the French Mail Steamers.\n\nThe fortnightly Mail for this Colony conveyed by the P. & O. Packets is, as Your Lordship probably knows, sorted at sea by the Packet Staff, and thus to avoid the delay of sorting them on shore after their arrival. It was regarded, however, as unlikely that the French Post Office would consent. The subject having been brought to my notice between Singapore and here, and is one of great importance, I succeeded in inducing the French Consul at this Port to interest himself in the matter, and, through his representations, the consent of the French Post Office was obtained. It was intended to report the matter to Your Lordship as soon as the scheme should be complete, but, though the French Postal Administration...",
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        "content_text": "## \n\nAdministration has formally consented, and though the fillings of the Packet are in readiness, the actual commencement of Marine Sorting has not yet been authorised, I do not know why. The Consul has again been good enough to communicate with the French Government, and I hope that permission to commence may be received within a few weeks.\n\nMeanwhile I trust Your Lordship will be able to sanction the necessary increase to the Post Office Staff, necessitated by the development of the service.\n\nIn my despatch N.° 299 of 10 September last, I addressed Your Lordship on the question of the necessity of increasing the salaries of the Postal Agents at the Treaty Port of China. I do not permit myself to doubt that the representations which have, I am sure, been made by Your Lordship to the Post Office Authorities at home, will have the effect of increasing their salaries.\n\nBut the necessity for improving the salaries of the Agents is so urgent, that I have placed the sum required for the purpose on the Estimates in case the Imperial...",
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        "content_text": "581\n\n4. A Steam-Launch has been provided, and by its means the landing and delivery of mails has been accelerated. It has also enabled me to establish a Kowloon delivery which, judging by the growing requirements of that place, appeared to me necessary. At the same time a Harbour delivery was introduced.\n\n5. I am glad to see that at last the necessity for a new Post Office has been recognised✪ but I would venture to suggest that a more suitable site than North Barracks be selected. It appears to me that the Post Office should be somewhere in the vicinity of Pedder's Wharf, which is not only central, but the most convenient spot so far as the general public are concerned. In my last report I remarked very strongly on the question of accommodation, and now that a new building has been, I hope, decided upon, I would urge that the work be put in hand with as little delay as possible. Rough plans of the rooms more essentially necessary, showing their best arrangement and grouping, have been prepared in this Department.\n\n6. In May last the French Government consented to our request to allow Marine Officers to travel on the Messageries Maritimes Packets with a view of sorting the French Mails, and all arrangements to carry out this Service were completed in June, but a difficulty then arose from the fact that the Agents des Postes were without authority to hand the mail over to our Officers before arrival in Hong-kong. The matter was again referred to the French Post Office, but up to the present time no reply has been received, though a settlement of the question in the direction desired may be expected very shortly. The Colony is much indebted to the Vicomte de BEZAURE, French Consul, for the warm interest he has taken in this Scheme and for his constant efforts to bring it to a successful issue.\n\n7. In March last the Postmaster General (Hon. ALFRED LISTER) during his absence on leave worked out the details of a scheme for Local Delivery, and recommended that a certain sum be placed on the Estimates of this year to defray the expenses in connection with it. This was done, and if it is approved by the home Authorities* a long felt want will be supplied. By Local Delivery must be understood the distribution, not only of correspondence originating in the Colony, but also of that which is constantly arriving by Local Steamers from China, Japan, Manila, the Straits, &c. The Colony will receive the following advantages:\n\n(a) In the town, regular deliveries of Local Correspondence quite independent of either the arrival or departure of Contract Mails. These deliveries will take place every hour from 8.30 A.M. to 8 P.M.\n\n(b) In the Suburbs there will be three deliveries each day.\n\n(c) All local correspondence will be delivered exactly as addressed.\n\n8. It was suggested to me during the year by several members of this Community that it would be a great convenience to the public if something could be done to notify as early as possible the arrival of steamers, so that mails could be sent for at once. I accordingly placed a notice board in a conspicuous place outside the Office for this purpose, and endeavoured to obtain the earliest notice of the arrival of steamers. This system, however, does not work at all satisfactorily. The launch men of this Department, engaged in other duties, frequently fail to report arrivals, and the consequence is that the mails are kept on board until it is convenient for the Agent or Captain to land them, which is very often hours after arrival. The only way really to meet the difficulty would be by efficient electric communication with Officers stationed at the Eastern and Western entrances to the Harbour.\n\n9. In my Report for 1888 I recommended that the Salaries of our Postal Agents should be raised to such sums in dollars as will fairly represent the amount of £100 per annum, the original pay of the larger Agencies, or £50 in the case of the smaller Offices. I am glad to see that His Excellency the Governor has, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, decided upon this increase.\n\n10. Nothing further has been done, so far as I know, with regard to handing over our Agencies in China to the Customs, and it seems only too probable that they will continue in the hands of the Assistants at the Consulates for some time to come. This is much to be regretted, as it perpetuates a crippled and make-shift service which can never, by any diligence or care on the part of the Officers employed, develop into a properly organised Postal System. I am bound to say, however, that, bad as the existing organisation is (and I hope this year will see it a little better) the Agents at the ports have done the best work possible under existing circumstances.\n\n11. Arrangements were made in May last for the exchange of parcels between this Colony and Cochin-China, Camboge, Tongking and Annam.\n\n13. By the Christmas Mail from Europe we received 527 parcels, and by the New Year's Mail 576. These are the heaviest mails that have yet come under my notice.\n\n14. Money Orders may now be exchanged with France and Algeria through the medium of the Imperial Post Office.\n\n13. The Peak Delivery has proved, as I expected, a great convenience to the public. The number of letters despatched and received is 3,711 and 288 respectively. I must again record my thanks to the Manager of the High Level Tramway Company for allowing our postmen to travel free.\n\n16. Among the many instances of fraudulent enclosures in newspapers &c., the following may be mentioned:\n\nMrs. ... handkerchiefs.\n\nMr. ... China posted a newspaper prepaid as a single paper, but containing a dozen silk handkerchiefs.\n\nChina addressed a newspaper to a lady, containing six pairs of gloves and three letters.\n\nThose were duly forwarded, letter rate being charged, and I have no doubt the addressees would much rather they had not been sent. Unfortunately the senders could not be discovered.\n\n17. Several Parcels falsely declared were confiscated by the Customs Authorities.\n\n18. The late Compradore CHING Tsüs, after 23 years service, retired on pension. I cannot speak too highly of his services.\n\n19. In conclusion I have to express my thanks to all the Officers employed in this Department for the very efficient manner in which they have performed their duties.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nThe Honourable A. LISTER,\n\nPostmaster General,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nARTHUR K. TRAVERS, Assistant Postmaster General.\n\nAPPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1889.\n\n  \n    DESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE\n    TOTAL\n    Despatched\n    Received\n    Total in 1888\n    Increase\n    Decrease\n  \n  \n    Ordinary paid Letters\n    640,000\n    506,900\n    133,100\n    581,200\n    58,800\n    \n  \n  \n    Unpaid and short paid Articles\n    17,200\n    16,400\n    800\n    13,700\n    3,500\n    \n  \n  \n    Letters on Postal Business\n    2,030\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Do. with prepaid reply\n    1,200\n    835\n    365\n    1,050\n    150\n    \n  \n  \n    Newspapers and Periodicals\n    183,950\n    30,100\n    153,850\n    173,000\n    10,950\n    \n  \n  \n    Books, Circulars, Prices Current, &c.\n    190,250\n    89,500\n    100,750\n    178,025\n    12,225\n    \n  \n  \n    Patterns\n    7,675\n    1,800\n    5,875\n    9,775\n    \n    2,100\n  \n  \n    Registered Articles\n    35,300\n    15,500\n    19,800\n    30,400\n    4,900\n    \n  \n  \n    Letters with value declared\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Registered Articles with Return Receipts\n    100\n    50\n    50\n    50\n    50\n    \n  \n  \n    Parcels\n    6,200\n    2,100\n    4,100\n    5,123\n    1,077\n    \n  \n  \n    Post Cards\n    19,400\n    6,650\n    12,750\n    14,375\n    5,025\n    \n  \n\n12. The number of Parcels received and despatched during the year is as follows:-\n\n  \n    \n    Inward\n    Outward\n  \n  \n    By P. & O. Packet\n    8,203\n    4,529\n  \n  \n    By German Packet\n    174\n    267\n  \n  \n    Total\n    8,377\n    4,796\n  \n\nTotal, 13,173\n\nThe total number despatched and received in 1888 was 10,593. There is therefore an increase of 2,580.\n\n* Approval has now been received, 11.3.90.",
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        "content_text": "8. There is another subject to which report after report from this Department has called attention. To no other Department of the Public Service, I presume, is room of more importance than to the Postal Department, yet there is no Department in which there is less space in proportion to requirements. It is only necessary to point to the extensive postal premises at Sydney, with a population of 225,000, at Singapore, with a population of 180,000, and at Durban, with a population of 25,000, to demonstrate that Hongkong with a population of 200,000 is not marching with the times in the matter of a commodious Post Office. The Assistant Postmaster General has to be content with a high stool and a desk in a recess which overlooks a stand frequented by cacophonous chair bearers.\n\nWhen the European and American Mails are despatched on the same morning, the throng of people attempting to buy stamps and post letters has necessitated the stationing of an officer to divert the stream of Chinese to the back of the Post Office where a counter for the sale of stamps has been extemporised. The internal dimensions of the Post Office, which may have sufficed for the necessities of a quarter of a century ago, are now wholly inadequate, as may be seen by any one, who likes to spend an hour contemplating the sorting and disposal of a French Mail.\n\n9. The number of Dead Letters which have to be opened in the Department to discover the sender is considerable. In many cases there is neither an address nor a signature: it then becomes necessary to peruse the body of the communication in search of some indication of the source of the letter. In this way no little time is consumed and much that was intended for a private view comes under the official gaze. Where the letters emanate from mercantile houses, their origin can almost always be traced by the presence of initials stamped on the envelope, and if private individuals would only put their names on the cover of every letter they wrote, they would have the satisfaction of receiving back their undelivered correspondence in an unmutilated condition. Soldiers' and sailors' letters always bear the name of the sender on the envelope with the result that the members of Her Majesty's land and sea forces have their dead letters restored to them intact.\n\n10. I have to chronicle the reduction in rates of Postage to the Cape Colony which began on the 23rd of August and by which letters are now carried for 20 cents instead of 30 cents the half ounce.\n\n11. Negotiations are now in progress with the object of establishing a system of Parcels Post Insurance between Hongkong and the United Kingdom, and of instituting a direct exchange of Money Orders and closed Parcels between this Colony and the Dominion of Canada. The Insurance scheme is sure to command public favour whilst the advantages of a direct exchange with Canada by means of the new \"Empress\" Steamers over the devious route via London are palpable.\n\n12. For the benefit of the Peak residents, a new mail signal station has been inaugurated at the Mount Gough Police Barracks, which are in a central position and visible to all houses on the southern slopes, even to those situated at Magazine Gap.\n\n13. Another familiar topic is that of the French Mail and the Marine Sorters. In my report for 1889 I said \"a settlement of the question in the direction desired may be expected very shortly.\" I was guided by a letter from the French Consul dated the 22nd May 1889 to His Excellency the Governor (copy attached). Since then, however, a further letter (copy attached) has been received withdrawing this concession.\n\n14. As I pointed out in my report for 1889, it would accelerate the delivery of mails very much if this Department were placed in direct communication with Cape Collinson and Green Island. The arrivals of steamers could then be telephoned or telegraphed and the launch would at once be despatched to convey the mails on shore.\n\n15. International Statistics to regulate the payments for sea and territorial conveyance of mails during three years were taken during the month of May.\n\n16. The early period of the year at which this report is submitted precludes the possibility of giving a detailed statement of the finances of the Department for 1890.\n\nThe Revenue for 1889 was as follows:- Gross Revenue 1889, Deficit,..\n\n18. The amount of Peak and Kaulung correspondence carried during 1890 is shown by the subjoined figures :—\n\n  \n    \n    Peak\n    Kaulung\n  \n  \n    Sent to\n    4,802\n    1,813\n  \n  \n    Received from\n    8\n    128\n  \n\nI have pleasure in thanking the Manager of the High Level Tramway Company for the facilities granted to the Peak Postmen.\n\n19. Approximate Statistics for 1890 are annexed and are conspicuous for the gratifying decrease in the number of unpaid and short paid articles. They also point to a large increase of ordinary correspondence, postcards, newspapers, registered articles and parcels.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant,\n\nARTHUR K. TRAVERS,\n\nPostmaster General,\n\nThe Honourable W. M. DEANE, C.M.G.,\n\nActing Colonial Secretary.\n\nAPPROXIMATE STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1890.\n\n  \n    DESCRIPTION OF CORRESPONDENCE\n    INTERNATIONAL\n    LOCAL\n    TOTAL\n    COMPARISON WITH 1889\n  \n  \n    \n    Despatched\n    Received\n    Despatched\n    Received\n    \n    Increase\n    Decrease\n  \n  \n    Ordinary paid Letters\n    643,000\n    525,700\n    \n    \n    1,325,760\n    22,800\n    \n  \n  \n    Unpaid and short paid Articles\n    \n    15,750\n    900\n    150\n    16,330\n    \n    1,283,700\n  \n  \n    Letters on Postal Business\n    1,550\n    \n    3,250\n    1,800\n    8,100\n    250\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    1,500\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Newspapers, Periodicals, Books, Circulars, &c.\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    11,100\n    6,300\n    4,500\n  \n  \n    Patterns, Registered Articles\n    1,900\n    \n    \n    \n    24,300\n    13,700\n    \n  \n  \n    with Return Receipts\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Parcels\n    150\n    6,200\n    1,900\n    10,000\n    3,700\n    750\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    60\n    50\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n  \n  \n    Post Cards\n    1,450\n    2,200\n    \n    \n    5,150\n    3,700\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    25,050\n    17,030\n    8,020\n  \n\n(Translation.)\n\nFRENCH CONSULATE,\n\nVICTORIA, HONGKONG, 22nd May, 1889.\n\nSIR,\n\nThe French Government have been pleased, in response to the expressed wishes of the Colony of Hongkong, to entertain with favour the delicate proposal made to them of placing a British Mail Agent on board the packet boats of the Messageries Maritimes for the purpose of sorting, between Saigon and Hongkong, correspondence intended for the latter Colony or for transmission to North China.\n\nSuch officer would be taken on board on the following conditions :\n\nThe upper mail room in the \"batterie\" would be placed at his disposal, and would be fitted up for use as an office, but only between Saigon and Hongkong. The agent would besides have the free enjoyment of a first class cabin from Singapore to Hongkong and vice versa, and would be admitted to the same table as first class passengers upon payment of one half of the usual tariff.\n\nInstructions have been sent by the Messageries Maritimes Co. to its agency at Marseilles to effect the necessary alteration on board the packets of the Indo-China line.\n\n$142,309.11\n\nShare of United Kingdom, Conveyance of Mails, Working Expenses, $12,136.83 Contribution towards P. & O. subsidy 45,870.31 Share of other Countries, $54,041.89 7,913.37 43,164.86\n\nI shall be obliged if His Excellency will inform me whether the Colonial Government consents to these terms, and, if it does, from what date they may come into operation.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nSir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nBEZAURE.\n\n$163,127.26\n\n$36,656.29 paid France for 23 years from April 1886 to December 1888.\n\n$163,127.26\n\nHis Excellency Sir GEO. W. DES Vœux, K.C.M.G.,\n\nGovernor of Hongkong, &c., &c., &c.\n\n17. The number of Parcels received and despatched during the year is as follows:-\n\n  \n    \n    Inward\n    Outward\n  \n  \n    By P. & O. Packet\n    9,219\n    349\n  \n  \n    By German Packet\n    5,125\n    151\n  \n  \n    Total\n    14,344\n    500\n  \n  \n    \n    9,568\n    5,276\n  \n  \n    \n    \n    14,844\n  \n\nThe total number despatched and received in 1889 was 13,173. The heaviest outward mail was despatched at Christmas and consisted of 510 parcels, whilst the heaviest inward mail was the New Year Mail by which 772 parcels were received.\n\n(Translation.)\n\nFRENCH REPUBLIC, PARIS, 5th February, 1890.\n\nSir,\n\nThis Administration has just learned that the Colonial Authorities of Hongkong, in the name of your office, have recently taken fresh steps to secure the admission on board the packet boats of the Messageries Maritimes of a British Agent who would start from Singapore and sort correspondence intended for Hongkong.\n\nIn its great desire to contribute as much as lay in its power to the improvement of the Postal Service of Hongkong, this Administration had actually taken the scheme into consideration, notwithstanding the very serious inconveniences which might result to the French Service from its adoption.",
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        "content_text": "# MATERIALS FOR A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.\n\n## 48\n\nGrant-in-Aid Schemes expressed the dissatisfaction generally felt, by Protestants as well as Catholics, with the sacrifice of principle which the ultra-secular character of the Scheme demanded of Missionary School-managers. Dr. Stewart now proposed, in order to retain at least the Protestant Mission Schools under the Scheme, to raise the values of passes and to give a capitation grant on the basis of the average attendance.\n\n1877. St. Paul's College School, under the tuition of Mr. A. J. May, was continued, during the year 1877, with an attendance of 183 boys, under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme. This was probably the highest attendance the School ever had. The Diocesan Home and Orphanage School, under Mr. and Mrs. Arthur, was this year also placed by Bishop Burdon under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, attended by 33 boys and 15 girls, costing $4500. The institution received from Government its usual grant of $100 and the School moreover earned a grant of $226. St. John's Cathedral Sunday School was attended by 35 boys and 16 girls. The two Chinese Schools of the Church Mission, at St. Stephen's and at Suiyingpun, were attended by an aggregate of 175 boys, costing $622. The four Baxter Schools, whose expenses were up to the preceding year defrayed by the Baxter family, were now entirely provided for by the Female Education Society. They had, under the superintendence of Miss Oxlad, now assisted by Miss Johnstone, an aggregate attendance of 243 Chinese girls and cost $962. At the Berlin Foundling House, 40 girls were under Miss Schroeder's instruction, and a branch school was opened in High Street by Mr. Wong Chim, but the attendance is not recorded. The Basel Mission had three Schools at work, during this year, under the Rev. G. Reuach, who thenceforth was most energetic in promoting the educational interests of this Mission. The Girls School had an attendance of 51 girls (all boarders), costing $770, the new Boys School had 35 scholars costing $158, and the Shaukiwan School costing $117 was attended by 13 boys and 4 girls. The two London Mission Schools had an aggregate attendance of 110 Chinese boys in Wantsui and Taipingshan, and cost $370.\n\nSt. Joseph's College, under Brother Hidalph assisted by 6 Brothers of the Order, had an attendance of 198 scholars and cost $3,200. The Italian Convent Schools, having been re-organized, were now divided into a Young Ladies Boarding School with 22 scholars, a Boys Day School with 20 scholars, a Girls Day School with 115 scholars, an Orphan School with 136 girls, an Infant School with 39 girls and a School for the Blind with 7 girls under instruction. The cost of the whole institution is given as amounting to $6,000, but how much of this sum is purely educational expenditure is not recorded. The Propaganda Society continued its four Schools, viz. the Seminary with 10 students under the instruction of Bishop Raimondi, an Anglo-Chinese School with 32 boys under Mr. L. Leung, a Chinese School (in Wellington Street) with 34 boys under Mr. T. Leang, and the Spring Gardens Chinese School with 23 scholars under Mr. A. Leang. These four Schools cost the Society $1,810. The Industrial Schools of the Reformatory, under Brother Isfried and two Assistants, were attended by 61 boys and cost $4,600. The former Government grant appears now to have been withdrawn. At Spring Gardens, the Italian Sisters continued their two Day Schools (connected with the Hospitium of St. Joseph), attended by 10 boys and 33 girls under the instruction of Sister Galli and 2 Assistants. These Schools cost $800. The French Sisters of the Asile de la sainte Enfance had 4 boys and 130 girls under instruction and received from Government a donation of $720. Mr. Ryrie having resigned (27th April, 1877) the managership of Mr. Hanlon's Secular School, this School (Victoria Boys School) now came under Roman Catholic management, through Mr. J. J. dos Remedios, together with Mrs. Hanlon's Girls School (Victoria English Girls School) and a new Portuguese School started by the Misses Remedios. These three Schools had an aggregate attendance of 66 boys and 68 girls.\n\n## 49\n\nNot counting the attendances of the Cathedral Sunday School, we find that in the year 1877 the Roman Catholic Schools once more outstripped their Protestant competitors in educational energy, there being 1001 scholars (481 boys and 540 girls) under instruction in Roman Catholic Schools and 864 scholars (501 boys and 353 girls) in Protestant Schools.\n\n| Category | Number of Scholars | Boys | Girls | Cost |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Government Schools | 2148 | 1891 | 257 | $19,137 |\n| Grant-in-Aid Schools | 998 | ... | ... | $3,753 |\n\nIn the Government Schools 2148 scholars (1891 boys and 257 girls) were enrolled at a cost of $19,137, the cost per scholar on the roll being $15.87 at the Central School, $7.55 in the outside Schools and $4.25 in the Aided Village Schools. On 998 Protestant and Catholic scholars in 14 Grant-in-Aid Schools the Government further spent $3,753 or $3.78 per scholar. In his report for the year 1877, the last of Dr. Stewart's regime as Head of the Education Department, Dr. Stewart referred to the amendments made in the Grant-in-Aid Scheme (by raising the monetary value of passes) and remarked that the knowledge that the Amended Scheme was to contain more advantageous terms than the Original Scheme acted as a powerful stimulus to both Managers and Masters and the results were very satisfactory. No wonder: the value of a pass in the lowest Standard in purely Chinese Schools ($2 at the present day) had been raised from $2 to $5.\n\nBut this very increase of the value of passes in the lowest kind of Schools called forth renewed complaints on the part of Protestant and Catholic Managers who had Schools of a higher grade to bring under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme but were deterred from doing so by the determination of the Government to force all Schools accepting State Aid into the strait-jacket of an exclusively secular Grant-in-Aid Scheme. Among the protests put forth against the secular system adopted by the Government was a pamphlet published by an anonymous Roman Catholic author, entitled 'Dates and Events connected with the history (1857 to 1877) of education in Hongkong. Hongkong, 1877.' Another anonymous pamphlet, 'The Central School-Can it justify its raison d'être,' probably by the same writer, argued that the Government should confine itself to provide elementary Schools for the education of the poor and leave the well-to-do middle classes to pay for the education of their children in higher grade Voluntary Schools. The writer urged the adoption of a policy which would give more scope to a liberal Grant-in-Aid Scheme instead of turning the Government into a schoolmaster.\n\nAll the flaws of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme referred to in the above pages were eagerly taken notice of by the newly-arrived Governor Sir John Pope Hennessy, and when Dr. Stewart left the Colony on furlough, early in 1878, the offices of Headmaster and Inspector were separated and an advocate of 'secular education for Government Schools and religious education for Missionary Schools' was appointed Inspector of Schools and Head of the Education Department. The Grant-in-Aid Scheme was now, with the approval of the Secretary of State, stripped of both its elementary and secular character, simply by striking out the words elementary and secular wherever they occurred in the Code. The limit of 20 scholars in attendance was also abolished, and Building Grant regulations were added. Otherwise the Scheme was left as it stood. The effect was very great. When Dr. Stewart retired from the Inspectorate of Schools, in March 1878, there were 12 Mission Schools and 2 Catholic Private Schools under the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, with a total of 996 scholars. The revised Scheme came into force in 1879, and in 1880 there were 27 Mission Schools (4 of which were Catholic) with 1,808 scholars under the Scheme.",
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        "content_text": "301 \n\n## INDIGNATION MEETING AT SHANGHAI \n\nSHANGHAI, August 6th, Noon. \n\nA public indignation meeting was held here last night in the “Astor Hall” under the auspices of the China Association. Mr. R. M. Campbell presided and the building was packed with leading residents of various nationalities, chiefly British, American, German and French. \n\nThe meeting was the largest gathering of Europeans ever held in Shanghai. \n\nThe following resolution was carried unanimously: \n\n\"Resolved to appeal to our respective Governments for protection from outrage by Chinese and against the apparently inadequate manner in which the persons guilty of former outrages have been and are being dealt with.\" \n\nCopies of this resolution have been telegraphed to London and Washington. \n\nA largely attended indignation meeting was held at Foochow last night. \n\nAbsolutely no provocation whatever was given for the attack on the missionaries. \n\n## AN AMERICAN MISSION DESTROYED \n\nThe work of pillage and murder is reported to be still going on in the province of Fuhkien, and news has now reached here from Foochow to the effect that the American Mission house at Ingkok, near Kucheng, has been burnt. \n\nIt is not yet known whether any lives were lost at Ingkok. \n\n## SERIOUS CRISIS AT FOOCHOW \n\nSHANGHAI, August 6th, 5 p.m. All the Europeans resident at Foochow now find themselves in a very critical position owing to the hostile feeling openly evinced by the natives, who have suddenly become grossly offensive and overbearing in their attitude towards foreigners. \n\nThe native officials have reported to the various foreign Consuls stationed at Foochow that should any outbreak occur they feel certain that they will be quite unable to cope with the mob, for the reason that not only the district of Kucheng (where the recent massacre of British Missionaries took place) but the whole province of Fuhkien is in a state of rebellion against the government. They state their willingness to preserve order, but aver that they can do absolutely nothing to put down a general anti-foreign outburst of the masses. \n\nThe American mission at Fungfuk has been burnt and the occupants escaped massacre only through evacuating their homes shortly before the \"Crusaders\" delivered the attack. \n\nThe whole of the European and American residents of Foochow have appealed to their respective High Authorities in the Far East for protection and have asserted in their telegrams that gunboats should be at once sent right up to Foochow, anchor off the Settlement, and clear for action. \n\nThe extremely critical position of many missionaries now resident at various inland cities causes great anxiety to the foreign residents of Foochow, and it is generally conceded that drastic measures must at once be adopted by the various foreign Governments concerned to put a stop to further dastardly outrages upon foreigners. \n\nSir Nicholas O'Conor has telegraphed to the Chairman of the Shanghai branch of the China Association, in reply to his communication respecting the resolution carried at the indignation meeting last night, that he has directed Mr. Mansfield, British Consul at Foochow, to proceed immediately, under military escort, to Kucheng, there hold an enquiry into the massacres, and then promptly report to Peking. \n\nThe Emperor of China is very angry about the Kucheng massacres and has issued a decree ordaining immediate capital punishment for all persons found guilty. \n\n## THRILLING DETAILS OF THE OUTRAGES \n\nMEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN HACKED TO PIECES AND BURNT \n\nTHEIR ORDERS WERE TO \"KILL OUTRIGHT\" \n\nShanghai, August 6th, 1 p.m. \n\nDr. Gregory, one of the survivors, reports that at thirty-five minutes past noon of the 1st August a native rushed into his study saying \"some foreign ladies at Huasan, Kucheng district, have been killed and their houses have been burned.\" Fifteen minutes later a note from the Rev. Phillips confirmed the report issued from the Magistrate's Yamen, where hundreds of excited people were attempting to effect an entrance. Magistrate Wong immediately proceeded to Huasan, taking sixty soldiers with him for the purpose of suppressing the riot. At 3 p.m. he left Kucheng city and at 8 p.m. he arrived at Huasan. \n\n### LIST OF THE WOUNDED \n\nIt is now definitely known that nine British subjects have been murdered. Those reported alive at Huasan, all more or less injured, except the Rev. Phillips, are: \n\n| Name | Injury |\n| --- | --- |\n| MISS CODRINGTON | Cut from the left angle of the mouth diagonally outward and downward. The wound is seven inches in extent and completely divides the lower lip, exposing the jaw-bone. She has a nasty cut on the crown of her head, three inches in length, which exposes the skull. This lady also has a bad cut across the nose; a cut under her left eye, three inches long; a deep gash on the right side of the neck; two wounds in the right arm and a deep spear wound in the right thigh. |\n| MISS HARTFORD | Suffering from some slight injury to the chest. She was beaten while on the ground and trampled upon by the mob. |\n| MILDRED STEWART, aged 12 | Badly wounded in the right knee, the joint of which is exposed. She also has a wound 6 inches long by 2 inches wide in the left leg. |\n| KATHLEEN STEWART, aged 11 | Slightly bruised. |\n| HERBERT STEWART, aged 6 | Had a deep wound in the right side of the neck, four inches long. He is also suffering from a compound fracture of the skull at the back of the head, one cut on the head cut clean through the skull, exposing the brain. He has also a nasty wound on the left side of the head, a wound in the chest and a stab in the back. He died 30 hours after the first onslaught. |\n| EWAN STEWART, aged 3 years | Stabbed in the left thigh and badly bruised. |\n| Mrs. Stewart's baby, 13 months old | Wounded in the forehead. His skull is fractured and he has several bad bruises about his body. |\n\n### THE DEATH ROLL \n\nThe list of those who were killed outright is as follows: \n\n- The Rev. and Mrs. Stewart\n- MISS NELLIE SAUNDERS\n- LENA, an Irish nurse in the employ of Mr. Stewart. She was burnt to death in the Stewart's house\n- HESSIE NEWCOMBE - frightfully speared and ultimately thrown over a high precipice\n- MISS MARSHALL - throat cut, her head being almost completely severed from her body\n- MISS STEWART's body has no wounds about it, and it is possible and probable that her death is due to severe shock to the nerves\n- MISS GORDON (Australian) - deep wounds in face, neck, side and head\n- MISS TOPSY SAUNDERS - death caused by spear wound, the weapon entering the brain through the right orbit\n\n## LATER DETAILS \n\nThe massacres were the work of members of a secret society known as the \"Vegetarian\" party or sect, and the attacking party consisted of men armed with spears and swords. They appeared well organized and were under one leader. \n\nThe missionaries had no suspicion of an attack. The whole affair was sudden and most terrible and the butchery was over in half an hour. \n\nThe missionaries begged and beseeched the blood-thirsty ruffians to spare their lives, and went so far as to offer to surrender their property and their valuables if allowed to leave the district in peace. Some of the brutal gang were moved to compassion by the mother, who, with pale face and tears in her eyes, sought to protect her children from the ferocity of the savage assassins. She appealed in vain however, for the leader of the mob replied to all appeals for clemency by saying to his crew \"you know your orders: kill outright.\" \n\nThe scenes were, according to the survivors, awful, heartrending, and indescribably diabolical.\n\n## CHINESE TROOPS LOOT THE VICTIMS' HOUSES \n\nSHANGHAI, August 8th. The troops sent by the Viceroy of Fuhkien province to quell the disturbances at Kucheng and protect the property of the missionaries have looted the victims' houses, ransacked their boxes and wardrobes and appropriated everything belonging to the murdered missionaries. \n\nGreat indignation is expressed at Foochow and Shanghai in respect to these latest outrages by the troops of the Viceroy, and it is urged that the British Government must take action, the Chinese troops and officials being wholly untrustworthy. \n\nTwo of the little children who were severely wounded at Kucheng are now dying.\n\n## REUTER'S TELEGRAM \n\nOn the 6th instant Reuter wired from London stating: \n\nLord Salisbury has demanded that the Government of China issues a decree ordering the execution of the culprits concerned in the recent Massacre and that the fullest protection shall be afforded to Missionaries in the future. He also demands an escort for the Foochow Consul who is proceeding to the scene of the outrage to make enquiries. China has assented to these demands.\n\n## THE KUCHENG ATROCITIES \n\n### GREAT INDIGNATION MEETING IN THE THEATRE ROYAL \n\nA public indignation meeting convened by Dr. Jas. Cantlie and his partners, Drs. Hartigan and Stedman, was held in the Theatre Royal, City Hall, at noon on the 8th instant. It was the largest, most representative, and thoroughly enthusiastic public meeting ever held in the colony, and as such was keeping with the terribly melancholy occasion which it was intended to commemorate and the grave issues involved in the settlement of the questions connected with the heartless massacre of missionaries - men, women, and children.",
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        "content_text": "## Exports. \n## Imports.\n\n20 \n\npacked for transit has to pay, but tea and cotton account for most of the receipts. In one respect the likin collection in Yunnan and Kueichou is better than in some other provinces, since one likin payment frees goods throughout each province. But there are other oppressive exactions. Fu-shui duties levied by each prefecture through which goods pass, are a great incubus; while lo-ti-shui, or destination dues, levied in the places where goods are to be consumed, constitute a further hindrance to trade.\n\nIn spite of the numerous obstacles to commerce, there is sufficient trade to justify a brief consideration of the articles of import and export. The value of the total trade of Yunnan, export and import, has been estimated by a French writer, M. Rouvier, at 6,000,000. The value of the import trade depends closely upon that of the export trade, and, if the former is to be encouraged, there must be more surplus produce raised, and a multiplication of industries. As already indicated, Yunnan has at present a surplus of only two important articles, opium and tin, though copper and musk (two-thirds of which comes from Tibet) are also worth mentioning. A great number of miscellaneous articles doubtless amount to a large sum altogether, e.g., zinc, lead, horns, hides, paper, fur coats, straw hats, tea, fibrous products, gold, silk, wool, dyewoods, indigo, orpiment, oil of earthnuts, star aniseed, aniseed oil, medicines, mules, ponies, goats, sheep, pigs, &c., but none of these things is exported in sufficient quantity to be regarded as a staple export. The export of opium is said to amount to 12,500 piculs, or 750 tons, but it is not known whether this estimate includes the large quantity of opium smuggled. Opium, having great value in small bulk, is especially suited to be an article of commerce in a mountainous country, with precipitous tracks as the only channels of trade. Not only can it be carried to market from remote valleys, whence bulkier goods could not pay their way, but it can also be easily cultivated and manufactured, is good in quality and improves with keeping, is always in demand and therefore readily exchanged, and can be easily smuggled. Consequently, agriculture and commerce have concentrated round the drug. Besides likin duties, a tax must be paid to the hongs of districts licensed to deal in opium, and commissions to hongs on sale. Transport charges not being prohibitive, opium is exported to many Chinese provinces, proceeding especially from Yunnan-Fu, Chinningchow, Lotzuksien, Kunyangehow, Tali, and Linan. Shipments of Yunnan opium via Chungking have risen steadily since 1891. The exports to Shanghai and Hankow are increasing, and a large amount of opium is sent clandestinely overland to Shashi and Amoy. The opium exported from Southern Yunnan comes largely from the west, with Tali and Yungchang as the centres. Tunghai is the entrepôt for the export trade via Pose, but Yunnan-Fu is the emporium for the whole province. In 1895, the demand for opium was so great that it was difficult to find transport. The opium trade is entirely in the hands of a few big houses, who buy from the producer, and in return supply European and other goods. There appear to be still millions of acres available for poppy cultivation, and from the sale of the surplus opium must probably come any increased demand for foreign imports in the immediate future.\n\nThe chief imports into Yunnan are raw cotton, cotton yarn, cotton piece goods, and a crowd of miscellaneous articles, English and German, from Rangoon and Canton. These include woollen goods (blankets and long ells), clocks and watches, eau de Cologne, small knives, needles, matches, small mirrors, petroleum, umbrellas, toys, ironmongery, &c. Many of the lighter articles can be laid down cheaply, and have an assured market. Such are needles, knives, watches, and small mirrors especially, together with cheap hardware, glassware, perfumery, images, &c. But costly transport renders the price of many European articles prohibitive. Tea is imported from the Shan States, and silk from Ssuchuan. Raw cotton is said to cover all the roads converging on the province in the season. Practically no cotton is grown in Yunnan, though it requires a large quantity. Northern Yunnan gets it from the Lower Yangtzo via Sui-Fu, western and central Yunnan from Burma, and south-western Yunnan from the Shan States. Foreign cotton yarn comes mostly from Hongkong via Tonkin and Mengtsz under Inferior transit pass, and from Burma via Tali. Bombay yarn is supreme. Lancashire cotton goods are imported, mostly grey shirtings, and sold at prices not exorbitant.\n\nShashi cotton cloth is imported in large quantities into N. Yunnan, but the imports are declining owing to the growth of weaving in S. Yunnan. Piece goods of light texture and inferior quality, as compared with those in vogue on the Yangtze, must be supplied to Yunnan, as otherwise the long transit will render the retail price prohibitive. In cotton piece goods, T-cloth of 36 inches is said to be more in demand than narrower widths. It is probable that the import of foreign cotton goods could be increased if they were better adapted to requirements, but at present the people prefer to weave their own cloth, knowing the shapes and sizes they require. It is alleged that foreign cottons are too fine and too dear, as well as much more troublesome to wash, because they hold the dirt more. Hence the good quality of English goods is an obstacle to their diffusion, and for a long time to come, inferior goods, adapted to the buying power of the natives, must be sent. The latest Customs Report (1897) shows that Japanese cotton goods are now being imported into Yunnan. There is no European merchant established in Yunnan, and the trade in foreign goods is said to be chiefly in the hands of the people of Liuan, whose agents buy goods in Hongkong and despatch them by the Red River route. Salt is an article of which large quantities are imported, although it is contraband owing to the Government salt monopoly.\n\nMr. Turner, of the Arracan Company, believes that Yunnan will become a valuable market for our goods. He says that hitherto Ssuchuan has supplied calico, while Burma has mostly supplied raw cotton for the natives to manufacture; but that imports of Bombay yarn, better in quality than the native, have been increasing lately. In 1897, the demand for raw cotton declined. The yarns, for which there is increased demand, are 14s, 16s, and 18s, which are the kinds mostly used. He states, however, that people want greater variety and better quality without increase in price. White calico is much in demand, and also blue drills and silks. Raw cotton will decline, but it will always be wanted to some extent as wadding for blankets, saddles, &c. A fair yarn to make a cheap cloth and good calico for those who can afford a higher price will find a large market, as the Yunnanese delight to spend money on clothes. Red flannels and white woollens are in demand for blankets, saddle-cloths, &c., the flannel in most shops now being German. Opium merchants bring back silk from Ssuchuan and Kueichou, and a number of merchants deal in silk exclusively. Only the inferior qualities are sent to Burma. English satin and velvet are readily sold. There is a large market for tea in Yunnan, where it is freely consumed, but the price of Indian tea is too high. Mr. Turner suggests that bamboo paper could be cheaply produced in Burma for Yunnan in enormous quantities, and sent from Myitkyina via Momien, a route used by the Chinese in trade with the Kachins. Many articles produced in that district, whither Chinese merchants talk of moving from Bhamo now the railway is finished, could be readily sold in Yunnan. But before Yunnan becomes commercially important for Europe, it must have a larger population, develop its natural resources, reform its taxation system, improve its communications, and undergo a period of industrial training.\n\n### Kueichou\n\nThe trade of Kueichou, a great part of which passes through Ssuchuan, needs little remark. The chief export is opium. Wild silk, from which strong fibre and silk cloth are made, might be increasingly exported. The same is true of tung oil, vegetable varnish, white wax, paper mulberry bark, rubber, and other vegetable products.\n\n### Trade centres\n\nThe chief trade centres of Yunnan are Yunnan-Fu, the capital of the province, and Tali-Fu, which may be called the capital of the west. Secondary trade centres are Momien, Ssumao, and Mengisz.\n\n#### Yunnan-Fu\n\nYunnan-Fu (6,420 feet) has a population of about 100,000, including the extensive suburbs. Parts of the city, now in ruins or used for cultivation, bear witness that it was much larger and more populous before the rebellion and the plague. It still retains importance as a market, being the crossing centre of several important caravan routes. It could hardly be better placed to serve as a commercial entrepôt, and the Lyons mission considered that it offered exceptional advantages to French industry and commerce. 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        "content_text": "### 5th Clerk\n\n301\n\nAttends from 7 a.m. to noon or from noon to 5 p.m. on outward mail days; if on afternoon duty, from 9 a.m.\n\n**Duties.-**\n\nWhen on morning duty,\nOpen mails; sort; close mails; read out delivery at 8 o'clock and see that the postmen go out; see to the despatch of mails.\n\nWhen on afternoon duty,-\nOpen mails; sort; close mails; see to the despatch of mails; take turn of extra evening duty.\n\nClose mail for Holland by British packet; prepare mail receipt &c. and hand over mail; Australian mail by French packet; prepare mail receipt & hand mail over to Agent; New York & Honolulu mail by American packet; New York and Vancouver by Canadian packet; mail receipt & time bill; Modane by German mail; prepare receipt.\n\nHas one month Sunday duty.",
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        "content_text": "7th Clerk.\n\n321\n\nAttend counter; check counterfoils of receipts granted by him.\n\nPrepare and close Insured Parcel Bill for London every alternate month.\n\nAssist 3rd clerk with the registered mails from continent by British French Packets and deal with Australian registered by German Packet; assist with San Francisco registered by American Packets and sort receipts if necessary.",
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        "content_text": "348\n\nthen on many occasions the work had to be done far too hurriedly and I consider that an additional clerk is urgently needed.\n\nMy average working hours on ordinary days are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. less one hour for Tiffin. On Mail days, i.e. when Contract Packets (either British or French) arrive or depart, my working hours average ten per diem and as there is at least one Contract Packet arriving & one departing per week, my working hours per week are considerably in excess of the average Hongkong Civil Servant's hours.\n\nI would also point out that I am held responsible for the safe & accurate delivery or despatch of all covers & parcels either posted at this office, arriving here or passing through a decouvert. I have also to furnish security and my salary is only $120 per month with no allowance of any kind save the usual compensation on half of my salary, nor is there any prospect of an increase as $120 per month is the maximum pay for the appointment I now hold. I would also point out that an accountant for the G.P.O. was appointed a short time ago at a salary of $140 per month to commence with, and that the Chief Clerk in the G.P.O. at present has a salary of $140 per month with an allowance of $30 per month for house-rent; neither of these two officers are held responsible for any loss nor are they required to furnish security.\n\nI have, like the Chief Clerk, to attend the office on the arrival of all Contract Mails and remain there until my work is finished, which is generally after most of the G.P.O. clerks have finished & left the office.\n\nAs a proof of the accurate way in which the work is carried on, I beg to draw your attention to the fact that during the two & a half years I have been in charge of this department",
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        "content_text": "286\n\nOn the arrival of the last French Mail from Europe\n\nI received my registered mail a few minutes after 7 P. M. on the 19th instant and although the whole staff were in attendance and at work on that Mail alone, the registered correspondence was not ready for delivery until 12.30 A. M. on the 20th, fully five hours after. I had received them or nearly six hours after the arrival of the Steamer in the Harbour. The Mail in question was not a heavy one, in fact it was slightly below the average.\n\nI have no hesitation in stating that were a fairly heavy registered Mail to arrive ex French Packet at 6 A. M. it would be 2 P. M. before the Registered Correspondence could be ready for delivery and in exceptional cases it might not be ready until 4 P. M.\n\nI base my calculation on the fact that there would be Counter work to attend to, Mails for Coast Ports to close, Mails from Coast Ports to deal with and the exceptional cases. I have referred to would occur if any Contract Packet was leaving on that day (a very likely event).\n\nIn the event of delays in delivery, occurring as above described, Complaint is bound to be made and enquiries instituted; enquiries that would lead to one result viz the discovery of the inadequacy of the present staff, as a glance at the attendance book would show to the veriest novice that a staff, which had to work from two to three hours extra, daily, to get through the ordinary routine work, could hardly be expected to cope successfully with any extra rush of work and have it done in a reasonable time.\n\nI have therefore taken this opportunity of pointing out the inefficiency of the present staff, as I consider that any further reticence on my part might be, later on, characterised as gross neglect of duty.\n\nI",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 4\n\nC.O. 602 11874  \n7660  \nEat TC APR 00  \n\n## Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong; 30th November, 1899\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Governor in accordance with Colonial Regulation No.84 to inform you that the following charges have been made against you in your capacity of Superintendent of the Registration Branch of the General Post Office and to request you to furnish me with the grounds on which you rely to exculpate yourself on or before the 7th proximo.\n\nThe charges are:\n\n1. That you, whilst the French Mail was being dealt with on Sunday the 5th instant, left the Office along with the Deputy Superintendent at 1.05 P.M. thereby neglecting your work of Superintending the Registration Branch, leaving eight clerks at work six of whom remained from two to two and a half hours later.\n\n2. That, on the 6th instant, you disobeyed orders in not having had parcels packed up that had been received that day and there were sufficient to fill six boxes; and\n\n3. That you did not have two boxes of Insured Parcels locked into the parcel room as directed in orders signed by **A. BARRON, ESQ.**  \n\nYou",
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        "content_text": "# Enclosure 5.\n\n604  \nC.O.  \n11874  \nRECO  \nيام  \nAPR 07\n\n## Registration and Parcels Branch, General Post Office, Hongkong, 7th December, 1899.\n\nSir,\n\nI beg to submit the following answers to the charges made against me by you: would you kindly forward the same to the Hon. the Colonial Secretary.\n\n## I\n\nI left the office, on the day in question, when my work was finished i.e. after all the registered covers which arrived by that Mail had been dealt with. The covers for Coast Ports had all been entered in the proper journals. The only work to be done was the closing of mails for the North, to be despatched by the French Packet. I had no mail to close by that packet and I therefore left the office considering (and justly so) that my work was finished: - having been employed exactly six hours and five minutes in dealing with that mail alone.\n\n## II\n\nThere was no wilful disobedience of orders on my part. I simply considered that the parcels in question could be dealt with quite as well the next morning; - to have dealt with them on the Evening in question would have kept the Parcel Clerk and I working up to 9 p.m. and left very little for him or I to do on the following day. I may add that the parcels in question were all dealt with the following morning.\n\n## III\n\nThe boxes in question were properly closed and sealed i.e. the tops were not only nailed on; but screwed down",
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        "content_text": "## GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON, 6 September 1900.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed by the Postmaster General to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th of last month, on the subject of a representation made to The Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Postmaster General of Hong-Kong that it would be a material improvement if the French and German Packet Companies conveying mails to that Colony could be induced to afford on board their Packets similar facilities to those recently granted by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for sorting correspondence on the voyage between Singapore and Hong-Kong.\n\nIn reply, I am to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State, that the Postmaster General feels very diffident as to the success of any application made in this direction to the French and German Post Offices; but, before taking further steps in the matter, he would like to know whether the Hong-Kong Government is prepared to pay for the conveyance and maintenance on board the Foreign Packets of ...\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.",
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        "content_text": "# \nli-kin collection at about 90,000 taels, that of the native Customs at 60,000. He mentioned that coal paid no li-kin, but was lightly taxed at the pit mouth. A considerable quantity of native opium, he said, passed through Shiu-kuan, coming from Szechuan, Hunan, and Ch'u-chou in Chekiang. It paid at present only 2 taels per picul duty, but this was shortly to be raised.\n\nShiu-kuan is surrounded by a crenellated wall in an unusually good state of preservation. The principal business quarter is the Cantonese suburb, outside the wall facing the North River. The Yamêns are in the so-called native or Hakka quarter, within four minutes' walk of the West Gate. There are besides a Hunanese and a Kiangsi quarter. Opposite the West Gate is the suburb destroyed by the Taipings, now a heap of grass-covered ruins. Here the Wesleyan Mission are erecting their new house in foreign style, and propose, when funds permit, to build a hospital. A fair number of junks were anchored on both branches of the river, but the shipping and movement of the place did not, I must confess, come up to my expectation.\n\nThe population is estimated by the missionaries at over 100,000.\n\nOn the afternoon of our arrival, I called with Captain Vaughan on the Taotai, Ch'ang, Tuan-pen, who is Intendant of the Nam Shao Lien (Namheung, Shao-chou Lienchou) circuit.\n\nHaving previously sent a deputy on board to make inquiries regarding the rank of a British Consul—I was apparently the first official of the kind whom the Taotai had come in contact with during his seven years' tenure of office—chairs were sent to convey us to the Yamên, and we were received with the customary salutes and ceremonies. The Taotai was most cordial, and discoursed intelligently on current political topics.\n\nHe expressed surprise that the \"Robin\" had been able to reach Shiu-kuan, and his opinion that steamers could not with safety ply on this part of the river was doubtless confirmed by the subsequent unfortunate stranding of that vessel 3 miles below the city.\n\nI told him that, in my opinion, light draft stern-wheelers should be able to reach Shiu-kuan without difficulty during the five summer months, and he entirely agreed with me as to the benefits to be derived from steam communication with Canton. Asked as to the state of the country under his jurisdiction, the Taotai said that brigandage of the kind prevalent in the neighbouring province of Kuangsi was, happily, of rare occurrence, but that the members of the Triad Society (Sau Tien-hui), reinforced by refugees from Kuangsi, had for some time past caused considerable trouble in the districts around Shiu-kuan. He ascribed their activity—somewhat unjustly, I thought—to the machinations of Kang Yu Wei and his followers.\n\nFrom Mr. Dewstoe, the resident Wesleyan missionary, I subsequently learned that the Taotai had the reputation of being well-meaning, but weak; that he was anxious to retire, being quite unable to cope with the growing lawlessness in his jurisdiction; that the Triads had adherents among all classes of the people—even in the Yamêns—and that with the small military force at their disposal—about 200 men in all—the officials were powerless to check the constantly recurring outrages committed in the name of the Society.\n\nAs an instance of this, I was told that a few weeks before our arrival, a young scholar, whose father, in his capacity of village elder, had incurred the enmity of the Triads, was cut in pieces in broad daylight on the highway within 6 miles of the city. Two Buddhist priests, who were subsequently arrested, confessed to their share in the murder, and in the books seized in the monastery to which they belonged were the names of several prominent residents of Shiu-kuan and two or three of the head runners in the Magistrate's Yamên.\n\nThe following morning, the Taotai returned our call, and was saluted by the \"Robin\" with six guns, three on arrival and three on departure. This salute, which I am aware is in excess of that allowed by the King's Regulations, was given by Captain Vaughan at my written request: firstly, because we had been similarly saluted at the Taotai's Yamên; secondly, because the Magistrate at Yingtak having received three guns, I considered that the Taotai, his superior, and the principal territorial official in this part of the province, was entitled to some additional mark of respect, the visit of a British gun-boat and Consul being in itself a more or less memorable occurrence.\n\nThe Taotai mentioned that two Japanese merchants had recently visited him and announced their intention of starting business in the city. He had informed them that this was impossible, as Shiu-kuan was not yet a Treaty port. They were, I understand, interested in coal. There are coal mines in the neighbourhood of Shiu-kuan, situated within 5 miles of the city up both rivers, which have been worked for some years past by native methods; the present output is inconsiderable, and the coal, taken from the surface, of poor quality. It sells in Shiu-kuan for about 6 dollars per ton.\n\nThe Taotai, when I remarked on the anomaly that practically all the coal consumed by steamers in Canton and on the rivers was imported from Japan, while large deposits of this valuable fuel were known to exist in various parts of the Canton Province, said he fully appreciated the advantages to be derived from the exploitation of mines, but that in his particular jurisdiction the people were extremely adverse to the hills being disturbed, and that scientific mining had hitherto been barely possible. I subsequently heard that two parties of French prospectors had visited the mines during the past year.\n\n## \nFrom the Rev. Edgar Dewstoe of the Wesleyan Mission, who has been stationed at Shiu-kuan for the last seven years, I learnt that there are three missionary societies working in this part of the country: the Roman Catholics, with headquarters at Nam-heung, who devote themselves chiefly to work among the country people; the Berlin Mission with stations at Nam-heung, Chihsien, Yen-fa, and Shiu-kuan; the Wesleyans with branches at Lok-ch'eng, Lung-kuai, Mong-fu-kong, and Yingtak. Mr. Dewstoe said that, after some years of uphill work, he considered his Mission was now established on a solid basis; he was on the best of terms with the local authorities, due, he thought, to his adhering to the rule of never interfering in his converts' lawsuits; counted several influential men among his friends, and was able to preach every Sunday in the city chapel—a fine new building in semi-Chinese style—to an interested and respectful congregation. Some of the largest shops in Shiu-kuan are kept by Wesleyan converts, who have apparently no desire to conceal their faith. Most of the shops are plentifully adorned with text and religious pictures; in a large druggist's I saw posted on the door a notice in Chinese giving chapter and verse of the Bible reading to be held that evening in the chapel. The people are, on the whole, well-disposed towards foreigners; only in the Cantonese quarter is one liable to meet with any rudeness. In one of the halls of the Canton Guild House, I was shown a Chinese teacher seated at a pulpit expounding the Sacred Edict to whomsoever cared to listen; at the moment of our visit, a handful of coolies, who, from their attitudes, apparently considered this a convenient place to take their noon-day siesta. I was told that the cost of these daily lectures is defrayed by the Canton Guild, with the object of counteracting the growing influence of the Christian chapels. During our two days' stay at Shiu-kuan, the \"Robin\" was a source of unfailing interest to crowds of people, both men and women, who, dressed in their best clothes, came off in boatloads to gaze at the \"fire-ship.\" They conducted themselves in a very orderly manner, and made no attempt to force their way on board. I was sorry that the small size of the ship prevented our throwing her open to visitors. However, in the evening, we gave a display of rockets and coloured lights which, to judge from the loud murmurs of admiration that rose from an invisible throng outside and on the city wall, was much appreciated.\n\nThe shops in the main street leading from the south to the north gate through the Kiangsi and Hunanese quarters seemed well supplied with foreign goods. I purchased, among other things, soap, soda water, beer, biscuits, bovril, and cigarettes of British make. There are some fine pottery shops, where I was shown cases full of Kiangsi ware packed ready for export to Canton. In the Canton quarter, the streets are narrow and dirtier, the shops are exactly the same as those met with in the delta; the import business is, as usual, in the hands of the Cantonese.\n\nAn interesting local industry is the preparation of ground-nut oil, carried on in three large factories in the suburb adjoining the Wesleyan Mission. The nuts are first sun-dried on concrete floors, then pressed in troughs between round stones by means of wedges. The oil is now chiefly used for cooking purposes, kerosene having completely superseded it as an illuminant.\n\nThe climate of Shiu-kuan is hot in summer, and, owing to the sudden change of temperature caused by alternating north and south winds, is unhealthy for Europeans. The winter is cold, frost and snow being of frequent occurrence. Plague is unknown, but cholera and small-pox common. The surrounding country, besides being extremely picturesque, abounds in wild animals of all kinds, among which I may mention deer, wild boar, porcupines, monkeys, leopards, and tigers. The last-named are reported to be quite numerous: they frequently descend on the outlying villages and carry off dogs, buffalo, and sometimes children. An amusing incident occurred on the day of our arrival: as the \"Robin\" steamed past the Wesleyan Mission on the river bank, the blast of the siren was mistaken by an infants' school close by for the roar of a tiger; the terrified teacher and children bolted and barred their doors and windows, and waited panic-stricken for the approach of their enemy. It is unfortunate that this country, rich in game, is practically inaccessible to Hong Kong sportsmen: the shooting season is, of course, in winter, when the river is only open... \n\nPage 9\n954",
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        "content_text": "# Inclosure 11 in No. 1.\n\n## Government of India to Government of Burmah.\n\nMay 5, 1904.\n\nI AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 25th March, 1904, in which you communicate the views of the Government of Burmah regarding Mr. Litton's proposal to permit the transit of Yunnan opium through Burmah in bond. Sir Hugh Barnes is of opinion that, if proper precautions be taken, the stimulus to trade by the Bhamo-Tengyueh route which will result from the adoption of the suggestion will considerably outweigh any objections which can be urged against the proposal.\n\n2. The Government of India are not satisfied that the importance of the various objections to this scheme has been fully appreciated. Before forwarding copies of the correspondence to the Secretary of State, and before arriving at any definite decision on the question at issue, they desire to explain, in some detail, the reasons which appear to them to militate against the adoption of Mr. Litton's suggestion.\n\n3. In the first place, it may be observed that no direct and calculable advantages will accrue to India as a result of this concession. India will only benefit in the event of trade by the Bhamo-Tengyueh route expanding in consequence of the permission to export opium through Burmah; and this expansion, and its extent, are entirely problematical. If, as appears probable, the natural trade outlet of Yunnan is the Red River Valley, it is doubtful whether the adoption of Mr. Litton's suggestion would give a permanent stimulus to the Bhamo-Tengyueh trade; and it is questionable whether the maximum ultimate expansion of that trade would be sufficient to compensate for the disadvantages attendant on the acceptance of the scheme.\n\n4. The Government of India are not disposed to accept the arguments which have been adduced in favour of the contention that the export of opium from Yunnan via Burmah will not affect the Chinese demand for the Indian drug. It is urged that all opium produced in Yunnan, and destined for the markets of Eastern China, already finds its way there; and it is stated that the total production cannot be increased, as all land which is suitable for opium cultivation is at present under the poppy. If, however, Yunnan opium can, in the future, be laid down at Canton or Shanghae at a considerably lower price than at present, and by a safer, cheaper, and more expeditious route, a result which is the object of Mr. Litton's scheme to effect, it is clear that the Chinese demand would receive a substantial stimulus, and this, it is thought, must in the end bring about an increase in the supply.\n\n5. Besides this primary objection, there are other difficulties in the way of adopting the proposal. It is necessary for the success of the scheme that the Chinese Government should agree to admit opium imported from Yunnan via Burmah at a more favourable rate than Indian opium; and it appears certain that the Chinese authorities will raise objection to the course. The existing prohibition against the import of opium into Burmah rests upon a Treaty basis; and it would be necessary for His Majesty's Government to approach the Chinese authorities with the object of removing this prohibition, and of obtaining more favourable terms for Yunnan opium than are accorded to opium produced in India. Not only would this place the Government of India in a false position, but such action would also lend itself to misconstruction by those who are opposed to the trade in opium altogether.\n\n6. The Government of India are also disposed to think that the danger of smuggling across the frontier, and while the drug is in transit through Burmah, has not been fully realized. In this connection, I am to point out that an examination of the contents of the packages in which the opium is imported from Tengyueh would in any case be necessary both at Bhamo and at Rangoon. If the Government of Burmah are still of opinion that Mr. Litton's suggestion should be accepted, the draft rules framed by the Collector of Customs should be revised so as to provide for this.\n\n7. I am to request that, with the permission of his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor, the proposal may be again considered by the Government of Burmah in the light of these remarks, and that a reply to this letter may be forwarded at an early date. The Government of India will then be in a position to pronounce definitely as to the advisability of accepting Mr. Litton's suggestion.\n\n# Inclosure 12 in No. 1.\n\n## Government of Burmah to Government of India.\n\nJuly 6, 1904.\n\nI AM directed to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, dated the 5th May, regarding the proposal to permit the transit of opium through Burmah in bond.\n\n2. I am, in the first place, to forward a copy of a note written by Mr. Litton, His Majesty's Consul at Tengyueh, upon the draft Rules prepared by the Chief Collector of Customs, which were forwarded with my letter dated the 25th March last. Mr. Litton, it will be seen, agrees with the Lieutenant-Governor that it is unnecessary and impracticable to provide the opium with a military police escort between Tengyueh and Bhamo. Otherwise, he approves generally of the Rules, but makes the following suggestions:\n\n| Suggestion | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | That the weight of the opium should be shown on the box and on the forms in catties and taels instead of in pounds and ounces. It appears to the Lieutenant-Governor that it will be useful if both the Chinese weights and the English equivalents are painted on each box. |\n| (ii) | That in Rule 9, the bond shall be for treble instead of double the value of the opium, and that the security shall be some firm known in Burmah. There is no objection to this proposal. |\n\nIt is also necessary, as suggested in the sixth paragraph of your letter under reply, that a rule should be added giving the Customs officers at Bhamo and Rangoon power to open and examine any box if this is considered necessary. If the weights are correct and the seals intact, it does not appear to the Lieutenant-Governor to be necessary that every package should be examined on its way through Burmah. Only Yunnan opium can be packed in the box at Tengyueh, for there is no other opium available. Therefore, there can be no substitution of Indian opium on the other side of the frontier. On this side of the border, from Bhamo until the opium leaves Rangoon, the boxes will be in the custody of the Customs Department, and it is difficult to see how they can be tampered with inside British limits. Moreover, if a case has once been opened by the Customs Department, obviously it will be easier to open it again for illegitimate purposes. A revised copy of the Rules is inclosed embodying the changes suggested.\n\n3. I am now to reply to the various objections to the scheme which are stated in your letter under reply. As to the first of these, I am to say that it is not admitted by the British Consular officers in Yunnan that the natural trade outlet of West Yunnan is the Red River Valley. In a recent letter addressed to the Government of India in the Public Works Department on the subject of the construction of a railway from Bhamo to Tengyueh, it has been pointed out that the commercial capital of Yunnan is not Yunnan-fu, but Hsia Kuan on the Tali Lake. This point is the meeting place of the great trade routes to Thibet, Szechuan, the Yang-tsze, Yunnan-fu, and Burmah. It is situated approximately half-way between Bhamo and Yunnan-fu, and at present, the bulk of its foreign trade is via Burmah. The distance to the Irrawaddy is less than the distance to the navigable part of the Red River, and the Irrawaddy is the easier and the better-equipped waterway of the two. Mr. Litton holds that the larger figures of the French trade through Mengtse afford no proof to the contrary. He considers that the wealth and population of the districts that ought to be supplied from Tengyueh are superior to those which would naturally draw their supplies from Mengtse, and that the greater volume at present of the French trade is owing to the facts:\n\n| Reason | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (i) | That the French have had a long start of us, the Imperial Customs Office having been opened at Mengtse many years before the corresponding office at Tengyueh. Consequently, trade with French territory was subject to a regular Tariff, while trade with Burmah was still harassed by li-kin and the exactions of the Mandarins. The serious effect of these exactions can be measured by the rapidity with which the Bhamo trade with Tengyueh has increased since the Customs Office at the latter place was opened. |\n| (ii) | That by the French route, there are no restrictions on the export of opium, the one important export product that Yunnan has to offer. Some 3,000 to 6,000 mule-loads of opium are said to go to Tonquin every year. |",
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        "content_text": "20 \n\nThe Flotilla Company will take it down the Irrawaddy to Rangoon, where again it would be put in a bonded warehouse and shipped, also by the Customs, on boats of a specially selected line (British India); bound for Hong Kong; from Bhamo to Hong Kong the responsibility would rest with the Customs and the Steamer Companies.\n\nAt Tengyueh, the opium would be packed in specially prescribed boxes and sealed, leaded, and numbered in a specially prescribed way, and notice would be given by the Customs here to Bhamo and to the Customs at Canton or Shanghae (port of destination) of each consignment.\n\nMr. Tilly knows so much more about the matter, so far as Burmah is concerned, than I do, that I feel it would be impertinent on my part to make many remarks on his proposals, but I have shown them to the Commissioner of Customs here, Mr. Napier, who writes that: \"**So far as we (the Chinese Customs) are concerned, the rules are simple and natural.**\" I also talked the matter over with some of the Chinese merchants, and I think, so far as they are concerned, that there would be no difficulty in carrying out these rules. The Burmah Customs and the Flotilla Company are well known to, and trusted by, the Tengyueh firms. I would, however, express a hope that, to begin with, at any rate, the Flotilla and the British India will quote a strictly moderate rate of freight; so far as the Rangoon-Hong Kong run is concerned, I would venture to suggest that if later on the other shipping Companies make arrangements, satisfactory to the Collector, for safe carriage of the Yunnan opium, that they may be allowed to participate in it. A monopoly is always to be deprecated.\n\nAs regards possible substitution en route of Indian opium, as the opium from Bhamo to Hong Kong will be locked up out of reach of the Chinese, I do not see how such substitution is to be effected. Besides, the boxes could be leaded at Tengyueh with four pieces of wire, two lengthways and two crossways, and special marks could be written across the joints of the case, so that I really do not see how the box could be opened and Indian opium substituted without instant detection on arrival at the Canton or Shanghae Customs.\n\n6. The merchants here could make up their opium in balls of any weight which the Burmah Customs prescribe. The weight and wrapping should be different from that of Indian opium. It is suggested that on the printed forms employed, for the convenience of the Chinese Customs, catties and taels should be used under the head \"**Weight**,\" and not lbs. and ozs., which latter, not being a decimal and not being a Chinese system, will give much needless trouble.\n\n7. Given the consent of the Indian Government, we should have to negotiate an arrangement with China which would include: (1) Arrangements with the Imperial Customs, i.e., Sir R. Hart; (2) with the Peking Government; (3) with the Yunnan Provincial Government and li-kin authorities; (4) with the Canton and Liang Kiang (Nanking) Viceroys and their li-kin and Provincial Government.\n\nNow all this will take some time, and will require vigorous backing from His Majesty's Government. But as the result to our trade in Yünnan would be so very beneficial, and as this is the only means we have of extending our commercial influence in Yunnan, without unprofitably spending large sums of money, it is well worth the trouble. It cannot be too frequently repeated that our frontier trade, though showing signs of development, so far as foreign imports to China are concerned, is still only one-fourth of the Mengtse trade; yet in population and wealth the districts which ought to be supplied from Tengyueh are superior to those which would naturally draw their supplies from Mengtse; foreign goods, especially yarn, sent in by the French route and Nankeens, &c., imported via Szechuan, are sold far into West Yünnan. The reason of this tendency is that where freight is such an important item, that imports (i.e., cotton) are bound to follow the line of exports (i.e., opium), and Tengyueh, with no exports, cannot hope to compete with Mengtse, which sends out opium and tin. Meanwhile, we are subjecting our trade to this crushing restriction; and what corresponding gain do we get? None; absolutely none. Indeed, it is obvious that the restriction must encourage what really is noxious, i.e., an illicit trade in the drug for consumption in Burmah. The restriction is utterly and notoriously useless to prevent the cultivation and export of Yünnan opium and its competition, if it does compete, with the Indian drug. Nor have I ever been able to see what force there is in the so-called \"**sentimental**\" argument.\n\n| Unit | Equivalent |\n| --- | --- |\n| 10 fen or ceudareens | 1 mace |\n| 10 mace | 1 tael, Liang or Chinese oz. |\n| 16 taels | 1 catty or chin |\n| 100 catties | 1 picul or tan, which is 133.4 lbs. avoirdupois |\n\n21 \n\nTo the opium now, which leaves Yünnan destined for Canton or Shanghae? It goes to Chunking, in Szechuan, or Wuchan, in Kwangsi, and is there put on a boat which, in three cases out of four, flies the British flag, and finally arrives at its destination in a British steamer. Why does \"**sentiment**\" permit this, but take offence at the drug being shipped from Rangoon to Canton or Shanghae? Surely the morals of Rangoon are robust enough not to be corrupted by the presence of Yunnan opium in transit to China, any more than the morals of Calcutta are corrupted by the presence of Indian opium in transit to China.\n\nThus it seems to me that a very strong case can be made out for asking His Majesty's Government to press this matter through in spite of the troublesome negotiations which it may involve.\n\nAs to the system which we ought to endeavour to induce the Chinese to adopt, more especially as regards taxation, the Legation authorities at Peking and the Consulate authorities at Shanghae and Canton are more competent to speak than I am. But I would submit that, in order to disarm Chinese obstruction, it will be advisable, as far as possible, not to interfere with the present system and rates of native taxation, and to arrange that the Imperial Customs, always regarded with jealousy by the provincial Mandarins, should appear in the matter as little as possible, and on their own account should only collect at Tengyueh and at the port of re-entry to China a small duty enough to cover the expenses and trouble to which they may be put.\n\nProvided always that adequate means are adopted to prevent substitution and fraud, I fail to see why, on principle, and in the nature of things, opium grown in one part of China for consumption in another part of China should be subject to special penalties and difficulties, merely because in transit to its market it crosses foreign waters.\n\n(1.) I would suggest that no opium should be allowed to pass the Customs at Tengyueh for export to Burmah until it had paid full provincial li-kin, and regular official receipts for the same had been produced for the inspection of the Customs. The rates of li-kin for opium thus exported should be the ordinary provincial rate (which in Yunnan is paid in one lump sum) and no more or less.\n\n(2.) No opium should be released by the Customs at Canton or Shanghae until it had paid the same provincial li-kin which it would have paid to the Canton or Liang Chiang Government had it arrived through native sources. Here again regular official receipts would have to be produced at the Customs, and it would be advisable that one lump sum should free the drug in its province of consumption.\n\nThus the two Departments who might be chiefly expected to obstruct, i.e., the Yünnan li-kin and the li-kin in the province of consumption, would only suffer no loss, but, on the contrary, would gain heavily; for, as things are now, a large proportion of the opium gets through without paying anything at all to the Chinese Government, but by paying instead bribes, squeezes, and blackmail to official underlings and bandits. The Yunnan provincial opium revenue is only about a quarter what it would be under an honest administration. I should think that the present Viceroy of Canton would be glad to see such an addition to his revenue as the adoption of some such proposal as the present would produce. No doubt Viceroy Ting of Yunnan will oppose the scheme merely on the ground that it will encourage foreign relations and increase foreign trade. A number of the underlings and gentry, especially at Yunnan-fu, whose speculations and perquisites will be curtailed, would also oppose; but I think these difficulties may be overborne, if the matter is really taken up in earnest.\n\nThe total taxes paid for Yünnan opium sent across Burmah should, in short, be the same, or possibly a trifle more than what is now paid. Taxation being equal or nearly so, Burmah would then secure the trade on account of the speed, security, and cheapness of the Rangoon transit route.\n\nIn Yunnan, provincial li-kin has been raised from 1.50 taels (3 rupees) per 100 taels or ounce of opium to 2.10 taels (rupees 4.2.0) since last year. This comes to 33.60 taels, or say 67 rupees the picul of 100 catties or 133 lbs. As regards present rates in Canton or Shanghae, the Consulate there could give details.\n\nG. J. L. LITTON, \nHis Majesty's Acting Consul, Tengyueh.\n\nApril 26, 1904.\n\n(Signed)\n\nPage 21 \n\n[1844 - -1]",
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        "content_text": "## Memorandum on Opium Transit Trade via Burmah\n\nThe rate of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company is one agreed upon between them and Government; it would no doubt affect the Railway, and might be reduced by mutual consent. The Agents for the British India Steam Navigation also implied that the rates might be reduced, if necessary; that is, rather than allow the trade to go to a rival line.\n\nOne hundred catties of opium, when packed in two boxes, will weigh nearly two hundred pounds, which is a mule load. It weighs about 36 viss net in Burmese weight, and costs 554 rupees. The freight to Rangoon would be about 5 rupees, and to Hong Kong a little more than rupees 2:12 if paid by value. The two boxes would measure about 8 cubic feet. The handling in Rangoon would cost nearly 5 rupees if freight is paid by measurement. Rangoon would cost less than 1 rupee, and I propose to charge a transit duty of 2 per cent, ad valorem.\n\nThe value of opium which would be brought through in a year is estimated at seven and a-half lakhs of rupees, and 18,750 rupees would more than cover the expenses which might fairly be debited against the work of the Customs. This charge on one mule load would amount to, say, rupees 13:13:8. The total cost on a mule load from Bhamo to Hong Kong would therefore be:\n\n| Cost Component | Rs. | a. | P. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| To Rangoon | 5 | 0 | 0 |\n| Handling, say | 0 | 14 | 4 |\n| Transit | 13 | 13 | 8 |\n| To Hong Kong | 2 | 12 | 0 |\n| Total | 22 | 4 | 0 |\n\nIt must be mentioned that a mule load of opium is now 125 catties of opium and not 100 catties as assumed by me. The method of packing in boxes is much heavier than that now employed, but as the mule can only carry 200 lbs., the weight of the opium has been reduced.\n\n(Signed) HARRY L. TILLY,  \nChief Collector of Customs, Burmah.  \nNovember 4, 1904.\n\n## Memorandum by Mr. Litton on the Government of India's letter, dated October 11, 1904, on Opium Transit\n\n1. It is asked whether an opium transit trade via Burmah may be expected to develop at once if Burmah merely withdraws the restriction on importation via Tengyueh, or whether arrangements with China, including reduction of the rate of duty on Yünnan opium which would now be charged on re-entry as foreign (i.e., Indian) opium at the Eastern Coast ports would be a necessary preliminary.\n\nThis question is asked with special reference to the possible operations of a Syndicate of Chinese merchants in Rangoon, formed with a view to export Yunnan opium via Burmah. Mr. Campbell puts the question in a sentence (paragraph 4); \"Will mere waiver (i.e., by India) of the prohibition be sufficient to divert the Yunnan opium traffic to the Bhamo-Tengyueh trade route?\"\n\nAfter full consideration, I think the reply must be \"No.\" If the scheme is to be a success, a full understanding must also be come to with the (1) Central, (2) Customs, and (3) Provincial Chinese Administrations.\n\n(a) The Syndicate referred to is, I think, composed of the same gentlemen who presented me with a long \"petition\" when I was at Bhamo in June last. They appear to be mostly Cantonese resident in Rangoon, who have little knowledge of the actual working in China of either the Customs, the li-kin, or the Yunnan opium trade. Their \"petition\" contained several errors. Their idea was, so far as I could gather, to undertake a species of farm by which they would guarantee to pay so much to Yünnan for the sole legal right to export Yunnan opium via Burmah, and so much to Burmah for permission to let their cargo through. I much doubt if this scheme would be approved either by Burmah or by the Yunnan Government. But this Syndicate is important as showing how awake the Chinese are to the trade advantages to be gained by the removal of existing restrictions.\n\n(b) The view of the Chinese Imperial Customs authorities is that Article XI of the Burmah-China Convention of 1894 cuts both ways - i.e., it gives Burmah a right to stop importation of opium into Burmah from Yunnan, and it gives China a right to stop its exportation in like manner, in both cases under pain of confiscation.\n\nNo doubt in point of fact, Article XI was put in by India to protect her opium administration, but the text of the Article, \"the importation and exportation of opium across the frontier,\" is clearly in favour of the Customs interpretation.\n\nTherefore, if Burmah were simply to publicly renounce her right to prohibit the transit of opium across Burmah under Article XI, and Chinese traders were in consequence to endeavour to export, their opium might be seized by the Customs or the Taotai here as contraband under Article XI. And the Chinese authorities would endeavour so to seize it unless a full preliminary arrangement had been come to as to conditions of export and payment of duty. Therefore, I submit that \"mere waiver\" would not only not have the desired effect, but would involve the inconveniences suggested by Mr. Campbell at the end of paragraph 4 of his letter to Burmah.\n\nAt present, in the case of seizure of Yunnan opium by the Chinese officials at Tengyueh, the Consul can hardly interfere; for either the opium is destined for consumption in China, in which case it is no concern of the Consul, or it is for export to Burmah, in which case China has a Treaty right to confiscate under Article XI.\n\nNevertheless, I am inclined to think that the best form to commence negotiations with China would be for India to offer to waive her right to prohibit Yünnan opium crossing Burmah, if China will waive her right to prohibit it leaving Yunnan, in both cases under certain conditions which will be mutually advantageous.\n\n2. It is asked: \"Is the prohibitive nature of the duty levied by China on the 'foreign' drug the reason for which opium is not at present being sent by sea from Yunnan to Canton via Tonquin?\"\n\nThe present rule is that native opium, by entering on a foreign territory at once, assumes a \"foreign\" character for the purpose of payment of duty at the port of re-entry on the East Coast.\n\nMy general reply to the question put above must be \"Yes.\" Native, chiefly Szechuan opium, which passes Ichang and proceeds to the East Coast by river and ocean steamers, only pays, under special regulations, at a very reduced rate; but Yunnan opium, proceeding to the same ports by Burmah or Tonquin and the sea, would be differentiated against and, under existing regulations, treated as \"foreign.\" Thus the duty comes to be prohibitive; but\n\n(a) I believe that a good deal of Yunnan opium does go to Canton province via Tonquin; it is sent to the French \"leased\" territory of Kwang Chon Wan, where there is no Chinese Customs station, and there are very unusual facilities for smuggling in the surrounding country.\n\n(b) Opium arriving by sea from Tonquin at an East Coast port would, to begin with, be charged as \"foreign\" opium at the rate of 110 taels, or, say, 220 rupees a picul of 133.33 lbs. But, further, this opium would have paid previously the Yunnan provincial li-kin, and after passing the Canton Customs, might have to pay Canton provincial dues; for, being in fact native opium, it is doubtful if Consular protection could be given. Further, the transport across South Yunnan to get to French territory is often unsafe. The cumulative effects of the above would be prohibitive, except possibly at rare intervals, when all routes overland were closed by rebels at the same time.\n\n3. It is asked that detailed information be furnished as to the privilege which it would be necessary to secure from China, and the reasons which render them indispensable to the success of the scheme.\n\nWe should ask (1) that the somewhat arbitrary rule under which native opium which crosses Burmah becomes foreign opium for purposes of duty on re-entering on the East Coast of China be rescinded; this rule is harmful alike to Burmah and to Chinese trade; (2) we should also ask that Yünnan opium going across Burmah to the East Coast should not receive less favourable treatment than Szechuan or other native opium which goes to the East Coast by Yang-tsze steamer and the sea.\n\nNeither of these demands are really of the nature of a concession or privilege to be granted by China.\n\n(3) Further, we should ask for a clear and precise agreement as to what is to be paid and on what account, and to whom and where and when in respect of Yunnan opium transported across Burmah to the East Coast ports. 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        "content_text": "# \n1 4 has been practically in charge of affairs. A new Bishop will now have to be elected from among the twenty-five or twenty-six missionaries in this part of the province; but it will probably be many months before confirmation can be received from Rome.\n\nTwelve days after the death of Mgr. Fenouil, died also the venerable P. Leguilcher, for fifty years missionary at or near Tali. P. Maire is now the senior member of the Catholic Mission.\n\nThe only missionary question that has arisen in Yünnan during the past year (with the exception of the case of P. Vignal, separately reported) was whether it is incumbent on the Chinese vendor of landed property required for missionary purposes to report the transaction to the local authorities before concluding the bargain. A Proclamation enjoining this procedure was put out by the Government of Kueichow, but on complaint being made by M. Leduc a note was addressed to him and to myself by the Department for Foreign Affairs here admitting that the requirement was not in harmony with the practice agreed upon by the Wai-wu Pu. An amended Proclamation was accordingly issued.\n\n## Army\n\nA quantity of Mauser rifles and ammunition have been brought to Yunnan-fu, by way of Kueichow. For some weeks past tents, each accommodating ten men, have been set up, at a distance of a quarter to half a mile apart, around the city. The local troops are now dressed in jacket, trousers, and képi, all of dark-blue cotton cloth tricked out with scarlet stripes—or rather, they are supposed to be; as a matter of fact, provided one item of the uniform is donned, say the cap, or the trousers, regulations would seem to be sufficiently observed. With a few exceptions, the men seem to be even more slovenly than under the old régime. As the road to the main camp north of the city, leads past our Consulate site, which I visit almost daily, I constantly meet the men, stop and salute; none are insolent. Most of them, however, slouch along the road, some in boots and socks, some barefooted, usually singing, and occasionally drunk. Among them are mere boys, of 14 or so. More than one Sergeant Whatshisname will be needed before these fellahin can be turned into first-class fighting men.\n\nA few cadets who are to form their future officers were dismissed for the New Year holidays by the Governor-General, who held a review a fortnight ago. Some eighty youths went through a few evolutions on the drill-ground in front of the Arsenal. The only foreigners present were Dr. Barbézieux and his family, and a somewhat supercilious Japanese.\n\n## Japanese\n\nThere are still seven Japanese instructors in the city; three at the \"University,\" who are supposed to teach law and Japanese literature, two at a sort of primary school, and two (the first comers) at a school instituted about two years ago by the gentry. Recently the Japanese have set up a telephone line to connect the three schools. There was some opposition to this innovation, and I am not sure that it is as yet in working order.\n\nAs I earlier reported, the Japanese keep aloof from the other foreign residents, and have never called either on my French colleague or on myself. Only two of them, I understand, speak Chinese; so that the 1,500 dollars a-month or so which they cost the Provincial Government and the gentry would seem hardly likely to bring in an adequate return.\n\n## C 5\n\nA young Frenchman of means, M. Bacot, is now at Yunnan-fu, crossing the province from Tongking to Burmah.\n\nLast October the Government of Burmah telegraphed to me to say that a Mr. Crawford, traveller round the world, wished to proceed from Burmah to Canton, viâ Ssumao. I replied, having made the necessary inquiries, that the road was free from disturbance; but whether Mr. Crawford took it or not, I have not been informed.\n\nRegulations (1) of the Imperial Chinese Customs for the import of arms and ammunition; (2) of the French authorities for the immigration of Annamese into Yunnan, are appended. It may be mentioned that there have been in the past year several instances of attacks on Europeans by Chinese in the Nambti Valley. On one occasion, a Frenchman succumbed to his injuries; on another, a foreigner lost the use of his right hand. The so-called \"guards\" along this section consist almost entirely of old Kuangsi rebels.\n\nW. H. WILKINSON\n\nYünnan-fu, February 12, 1907.\n\n(Signed)\n\n## Annex 1\n\n1. **Imperial Chinese Customs Regulation for the Importation of Arms and Ammunition**\n\nD'après les instructions reçues par l'intermédiaire de l'Inspecteur-Général des Douanes, le public est informé que l'importation d'armes et de munitions ne peut se faire qu'avec l'autorisation du Surintendant des Douanes, à qui les demandes détaillées seront transmises par l'autorité Consulaire intéressée.\n\nA Hokeou les demandes seront adressées par le même intermédiaire au Représentant du Surintendant des Douanes.\n\nL'importation d'armes et de munitions est sujette aux règles ci-dessous :----\n\n| Rule | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | Tout résident étranger peut importer en une fois un fusil de chasse, une arme de défense, une arme de tir de précision, et 500 cartouches. Le nom de l'importateur et le détail des articles importés seront notés par l'Administration des Douanes. |\n| 2 | Une maison de commerce étrangère ne peut importer en une fois plus de six fusils de chasse et 12,500 cartouches. Les maisons important ces articles devront se porter garant de n'en faire la vente qu'à des personnes connues; elles devront tenir un Registre donnant le détail des armes et munitions vendues, le nom et le domicile de l'acheteur. Ce registre sera contrôlé et vérifié par l'Administration Douanière; l'usage que l'acheteur compte faire des armes y sera noté. |\n| 3 | Une maison de commerce étrangère peut, mais cela seulement dans l'intention d'en faire livraison au Gouvernement Chinois, importer des échantillons d'armes et de munitions de guerre, sans qu'en une fois le nombre en puisse dépasser deux de chaque espèce et 1,000 projectiles. D'autre part, il sera donné garantie que ces articles sont exclusivement destinés à être soumis au Gouvernement Chinois. |\n| 4 | Le tarif appliqué aux armes et munitions est de 5 pour cent ad valorem. |\n\nC. H. BREWITT-TAYLOR, Commissaire des Douanes Impériales Chinoises.\n\n(Signé)\n\nMongtseu, le 31 Janvier, 1907.\n\n## Travellers\n\nIn March 1906, le Comte de Marsay and le Comte Louis de las Cases, passed through Yunnan-fu on their way to the Valley of the Yalung, in Szechuan, which (I see by a recent French journal) they claim to have explored.\n\nMr. Hayne, an Englishman who has travelled extensively in search of big game, went on hence from Burmah to Tachienlu in the summer.\n\nMr. Clementi, of the Hong Kong Civil Service, spent a week at Yunnan-fu in December, having crossed Kuangsi to Hsingyi Hsien in south-west Kueichow. He returned to Europe by way of T'engyueh.\n\nIn January, Lord Ronaldshay, elder son of the Marquis of Zetland, arrived here from Ch'engtu, and after nine days' stay continued his journey home viâ Tali and Bhamo. He called on the Governor-General, who returned his call.\n\n## Annex 2\n\n2. **Regulation respecting Immigration of Annamese into Yünnan**\n\n[Appended to copy for Burmah]\n\n`[2450 f-11]`\n\n44",
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        "content_text": "## TABLE respecting Arrival and Departure of Train, &c.\n\n| Station | Kilometres from Chen-t'ou | Arrive | Depart |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cheng-chia-tung | 6.9 |  |  |\n|  | 8 |  |  |\n|  | 11.9 |  |  |\n|  | 18.6 |  |  |\n| Chia-p'an-shih | 31 | 4.15 | 4.20 |\n|  | 36.2 | 4.31 |  |\n|  |  | 4.43 | 4.46 |\n|  | 68.7 |  |  |\n| Yen-hui | 61.9 | 5.10 | 5.28 |\n| Luan-chiu | 79.9 | 6.50 | 6.54 |\n|  | 86.4 | 7.13 | 7.26 |\n|  |  | 7.41 | 7.56 |\n|  | 91 | 8.12 | 8.18 |\n|  |  | 8.34 | 8.35 |\n| Cha-hsi-yi | 98.3 |  |  |\n|  | 115 |  |  |\n| Pei-yang-shu | 121 |  |  |\n| Yen-chuang | 128 |  |  |\n| Tsai-yü | 135 |  |  |\n| Pio-tiou | 141 |  |  |\n|  | 151 |  |  |\n|  | 169 |  |  |\n|  | 177 |  |  |\n|  | 186 |  |  |\n|  | 194 |  |  |\n|  | 203 |  |  |\n| Shou-yang Hsien |  | 8.54 | 09.8 |\n| Ko-chuang |  | 9.45 |  |\n| San-hu |  |  |  |\n| Cha-hai-yi |  |  |  |\n| Ching-chuang |  |  |  |\n| Liu-chia-chuang |  |  |  |\n| Tuan-ting |  |  |  |\n| Tung-chao-chuang |  |  |  |\n\n## Notes\n\nA good stone building for station. An engine-house. Go across plain, starting north-west. Passed truck train. Enter hills, gradual ascent. Loess country.\n\nLater pass a small tunnel. Later cross girder bridge supported by one stone pier. River on right. Below a small coal-trolley line to the mines, which crosses the Wei-shui Ho by a wooden bridge on seven piers.\n\nJust before reaching it, cross two girder bridges without pier supports. Here passed coal train of seven tracks. River on right; soon leave. Now pass through many cuttings, some of rock, some of loess, standing without support or banked with mud. Mud-walled city 200 yards to right, across river. Then through a tunnel and across river by a girder bridge. It is crossed by two or three fords about here, but at present very low. Country wilder; through rock cuttings.\n\nPassed passenger train. Now more loess terraces among hills. Cross river by girder bridge on four piers and five arches just before Niang-tzu-kuan.\n\nJust before station, a piece of now wall, 50 yards long with some old mud mounds, marks line of Great Wall separating provinces. The Ku-kuan (pass) is 74 miles (25 li) to the south. Leaving station, cross stone bridge with one pier and four arches.\n\nNow dry stone river bed on right. Less loess; wild country. More cuttings. Later four tunnels and a bridge over river bed.\n\nCountry with some loess terraces; hills. Two tunnels. Water tower being built. Pass three small and one big tunnel.\n\nA tunnel and a girder bridge. Up valley between hills. River bed or on right. Several houses for bridgos over tributaries. Village called Sa-chiang-kon. It is the station for Ping-ting. Chou 6 miles (20 li) to south-west.\n\nA train leaves Shou-yang Hsien about 2:80 p.m., and reaches Tung-chao-chuang about 5:2 p.m. Water tower being built. Station under construction.\n\nVillage called Chiu-chia. Stone bridge over tributary. Some loess terraces. An engine-house under construction. Station 1 mile to south-east of city.\n\n## Notes\n\nSidings 100 yards to 150 yards long. Water towers with stone basements. Engines small and marked \"Anciens Établissements Cail, Denain, France, 1906.” Chinese drivers and stokers. Our train consisted of one composite, first and second class (first class with four seats and arm-rests; second class, two compartments each; could hold eight passengers, but it would only hold six soldiers). Seats of both classes of leather. Light luggage racks and oil lamps. Lavatories attached. Corridor passages.\n\nThere were three third-class corridor carriages, each could hold forty-six Chinese, rather tightly packed on wooden benches. Also three closed and two open vans. Each van carries 20 tons.\n\nFares (Chen-t'ou to Shou-yang Hsien). First class, 10 dol. 40 c.; second class, 5 dol. 20 c.; third class, 2 dol. 60 c. Hong Kong dollars are taken, Mexican dollars are only accepted as 90 cents. No charge for my baggage. As nobody in charge of luggage van, one's boy has to travel in it. No restaurant arrangements.\n\nRailway Stations all of stone, large buildings at Ch'en-t'ou, other stations quite small. Platforms about 6 inches to 9 inches above line.\n\nRails: One, made 33 feet long (probably 10 metres), fastened at each end to fish-plates by two bolts, and to each sleeper by one bolt. Line ballasted with stone. On the whole, it runs smoothly, except from Cha-hsi-yi to Shou-yang Hsien, where it shakes a good deal.\n\nTelegraph alongside line and two strands of wire.\n\nLine very winding, running up among loess hills. As little or no rain had fallen, I found loess terraces very bare, but in valleys near rivers, it was greener.\n\nThe line is guarded on Chih-li side by a few of the Lien Chun of Chen-ting-fu, armed with batons. They look to be of all ages and effete.\n\nTime-Table: There is as yet no regular time-table; they gave me a copy of the temporary one, in which the stations were only marked by the first letter of each word. The stations are, of course, all written according to the French transliteration, and it is necessary to see the character, or get the Chinese to pronounce them, before being able to transliterate them. Names of stations written up in large letters on either side of each station.\n\nLine at Shou-yang Hsien guarded by some Shan-hsi cavalry (\"Ma-san-tui\") of the provincial troops (\"Hsün-fang-tui\") armed with tower muskets. The railway embankment has been completed to Tai-yuan-fu. It runs close to the road from Cheng-ts'un (6 miles south-east of T'ai-yuan-fu), and about 200 yards to the west of it, crossing road about a mile from city. Embankment near Cheng-ts'un 8 feet to 10 feet high and 5 yards wide at top. Culverts faced with stone, but not yet bridged. Terminus will be 100 yards to south-east of New South Gate (eastern of the two south gates), and the station is under construction. It is expected the line will be open about the 20th September, 1907. The delay was caused by the Han-yang Ironworks not being able to supply rails, which are now coming from Europe.\n\n**(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Military Attaché.**\n\nTai-yüan-fu, July 27, 1907.\n\nP.51.",
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        "content_text": "nature. The latest accounts indicate that the town is once more quiet, although no information has been received to say that foreigners have returned from the vessels to their houses.\n\nFrom the information supplied by the Chinese officials themselves, to which reference is made below, it is evident that an anti-foreign movement was in preparation throughout Hunan. It has partly miscarried, owing to the premature outbreak of riots in Changsha over a grievance between the people and the officials. But directly trouble had arisen the hostility of the populace is turned, as by command, against foreigners.\n\nIt will be found that the following letter from our Changsha correspondent embodies the most authoritative account that has yet been received of the riots in Changsha :-\n\nA Graphic Account.\n\nChangsha, April 19, 1910. Wednesday, the 13th April, to Friday, the 15th April, were days that will long be remembered in Changsha. The riots will be marked from the fact that a governor's yamên has been sacked and burnt, and a very extensive series of looting and burning of foreign property has been carried out as almost a by-play of the main aim of the riot.\n\nThat aim was to cheapen rice. It is the old, old story that our history books show us as occurring in the lands of the Mediterranean, and that Carlyle has so picturesquely taught us to connect with the French Revolution—a hungry mob is dangerous. Rice has been, of course, dearer and dearer on account of the Yang-tsze floods. For the same reason the caters of rice have been more numerous, for the refugees from Hupeh have been numbered by the thousand. The forbidding of export from Changsha had not the desired effect of dropping prices—if that effect was really desired by those who forbade the export. Promises of opening Government granaries were not fulfilled, and as the prices crept up disappointment and anger grew. On Wednesday night a rise from 82 cash a-pint to 84 cash provoked the gathering of an angry mob. Some four or five officials were sent to speak good words. But one of the speakers resorted to that last refuge of a weak man—bluster and bluff: \"Rice is not so dear here as at Hankow or Canton, or in foreign countries.\" A howl of derision greeted the untimely speech. \"Seize!\" shouted the official, and the order was left-handedly obeyed by the seizing of him on the part of the mob, instead of the seizing of the shouters by his runners.\n\nThe official, who was of no less rank than a taotai, was dragged by the mob right through the city to the governor's yamên with a crowd that grew rapidly. Soon after 8 P.M. all the immense space in front of the yamên was packed with people, and the first two series of doors and wooden divisions had been burst in. Messages were handed to and fro, until at last the military were called into action. There was certainly some stabbing with bayonets—that deaths resulted is both asserted and denied. At any rate, messengers and fragments of the crowd broke off and scattered in all directions. Then followed beating of gongs and shouting of orders. Every house door was set open and every lamp lighted. The city gates were all shut.\n\nThe Work of Destruction.\n\nThe crowds that went south divided into two main streams. The western one reached the Wesleyan Methodist Mission, perhaps a little earlier than the eastern one would reach the Norwegian. The Methodist Mission door had not been opened at the first gong beating, so it was hammered at by the crowd. As soon as it was opened attention was concentrated on the buildings rented by the Imperial Post Office and the Imperial Bank a little further on in the same street. The post office door was too substantial for such weapons as the crowd possessed. Not so the bank doors and windows. Showers of shattered glass were followed by showers of broken tiles, as the mob leaders got on to the roof. One huge stroke, followed by a loud yell, announced that the doors were burst in. Then there was comparative stillness on the night air. It was only comparative, and it only lasted while the maddened crowd could retrace the 50 or 100 yards back to the mission. The mission windows and lamps followed after the manner of the bank, and the largest chapel in the city within two minutes was a wreck. The missionaries, who had all got dressed, were able to leave quietly by the back door, while the crowd streamed across the lawn and looted, and made a bonfire of the loot on the lawn. The missionaries—five ladies and four men—walked quite unmolested through the 200 yards of back streets between the compound and the city gate. Then there was a delay of twenty minutes or so while the keys were being fetched. The refugees were taken into the shop that is used by the guard. While they were there a police-box was smashed up; but no attempt was made to molest them. The gates were opened, and the missionaries went at once on to the C. N. steam-ship \"Siangtan.\" News was taken to the British consul (whose temporary consulate has been outside the gates, with telephonic communication to the city).\n\nWith the missionary in the house, telling the tale of the looting and burning, the Customs taotai telephoned out that the premises were adequately guarded!\n\nThe eastern crowd had first reached the Norwegian Mission. There the same story of looting of houses and escape of missionaries was repeated. The Norwegians were in a much less convenient position for reaching safety. They spent some hours on the city wall, and were well cared for by the official in charge at the North Gate. He himself helped in the cooking of some refreshments.\n\nThe nearest foreign neighbours were the doctor of the Yale Mission and his family and one of the professors at the Government College with his family. Their house was rented, and was overlooked by the crowd. The two families were received first into the house of a Chinese gentleman, and after dawn made their way through the Eastern Gate to a camp under the command of a friendly colonel.\n\nNot much farther on was the China Inland Mission compound. There the crowd made rapid destruction, but once more the missionaries escaped.\n\nAs the day wore on refugees came from one place and another, until every European and American had left the city.\n\nAbout 11 A.M. the mob fired the governor's yamên, and for the rest of the day volumes of smoke rose up as building after building caught fire. Rumour was busy; the governor had been murdered, had committed suicide, was in hiding. Assuredly there was but little space for him to hide in his own extensive compound by nightfall. At 2 o'clock a column of smoke rose over the Norwegian Mission, and a little later another marked the site of the China Inland Mission. There was no mistaking that mob rule was the only rule in Changsha.\n\nThat night the river side was attacked; the custom-house not held by the mob to be Chinese property; the wharves and godowns of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire and Jardine and Matheson were all burned down. So was the Catholic Mission outside the North Gate, the Japanese consulate inside the city, and the Normal College outside the South Gate.\n\nOn the Steamers.\n\nDuring the night the C.N. steam-ships \"Kian\" and \"Siangkiang\" arrived, and early on Friday morning a number of the ladies and others left for Hankow by the I.-C. steam-ship \"Changwo.\" The three British steamers had been chartered by the consul on behalf of the Government. Still, that does not alter the indebtedness of all on board to the great courtesy of the captains, officers, and not least the heavily overworked staff of Chinese servants.\n\nThe boats were first anchored about a mile or two below the city and were able to see and were seen by the looting crowds. Some of the best of the military officials—men who had some claim to be listened to, if only on account of their great help in guiding parties of refugees to safety—hazarded the opinion that the military would more quickly regain control if the boats would drop 10 miles or so further down out of sight. That there was a turn in the tide was shown by the fact that two looters caught in setting fire to a Chinese-owned hotel (which was patronised by foreigners) had been promptly bayonetted and hanged. So the consul gave orders for our boats to get out of sight.\n\nThe Japanese community (with the exception of one or two who could not be reached) had gathered in the compound of the \"Nisshin Kisen Kaisha,\" and with the help of 200 soldiers—who had been drilled by Japanese instructors—held the compound safe and sound. They were now all on board the \"Siangkiang.\"\n\nOn Saturday morning, the \"Siangtan\" and \"Siangkiang,\" both crowded with foreign passengers, left for Hankow, and the \"Kian\" stayed on alone. During the day reassuring reports came from some of the interior cities connected by telegraph with Changsha. But at 10 P.M. the whole missionary community at Siangtan, with the exception of two gentlemen, arrived on board the governor's tender which had\n\n[2751 2-4]\n\nD\n\n218",
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        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\n19141\n\n[B]\n\n# CHINA RAILWAYS.\n\n(CONFIDENTIAL)\n\n[18996]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nMay 28 IN 1910\n\n## SECTION 1.\n\nMr. C. S. Addis to Sir F. Campbell.—(Received May 28.)\n\nDear Sir Francis,\n\nHong Kong and Shanghae Banking Corporation,\n\n31, Lombard Street, London, May 27, 1910.\n\nI AM very glad to be able to report that representatives of the four groups—British, German, French, American—signed at Paris on the 24th instant an agreement for the equal division of finance and material in the Hukuang loan.\n\nThe vexed question of engineers has been settled by an equal division of sections on the Szechuan line and its extensions, but, as regards the Hankow-Canton line, the whole is reserved for an engineer of British nationality.\n\nThis removes the last of the differences separating the four groups, and, so far as they are concerned, brings to a harmonious conclusion the long-drawn-out negotiations for the settlement of the Hukuang loan.\n\nIn the opinion of the British group the result, which secures the whole of the Hankow-Canton line for a British engineer, is more favourable than at one time might have been expected, and they hope it may be so regarded by the Secretary of State.\n\nYours truly,\n\nC. S. ADDIS.\n\nP.S.—A dozen copies of the agreement and accompanying documents are being sent you herewith.\n\nC. S. A.\n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nBritish and Chinese Corporation to Mr. C. S. Addis.\n\n3, Lombard Street, London, May 27, 1910.\n\nDear Sir,\n\nAS desired, I beg to enclose in a separate packet for the Foreign Office twelve printed copies of the minutes of the meetings of the French, British, German, and American groups held in Paris on the 23rd and 24th instant, including minutes of the meeting of the Committee of Representatives held on the 23rd instant.\n\nAlso twelve printed copies of the following documents referred to in the minutes,\n\nviz.:—\n\nLoan agreement, initialled 6th June, 1909. Accompanying despatch.\n\nDraft agreement supplemental to loan agreement.\n\nMemorandum of agreement between Mr. Addis and M. Simon, 11th May, 1910.\n\nAgreement of the 23rd May, 1910, between the groups, made by their representatives in Paris.\n\nI also beg to enclose four copies of the letter which the British and Chinese Corporation is addressing to the French group, the German group, and the American group, confirming the arrangements come to in Paris. An identical letter is being sent to the three groups by Chinese Central Railways.\n\nI am, &c.\n\nA. N. FREWER, Secretary.\n\n[2761 ee-1]\n\nB\n\n241",
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        "content_text": "## 10 \nand that the morphine habit shows signs of spreading.\" With both these statements, we are in entire agreement; and in view of the appeal with which the Resolution concludes, we shall review the measures taken in this behalf by the Government of India.\n\n22. The history of the regulation of morphia in India is given in the \"Memorandum on Morphia in India\" presented to the Shanghai Commission by the British Delegation. The most important regulations recently issued on the subject are designed to meet the abuse of the postal service by the importation and transmission of morphia and other drugs. A Notification issued by us on the 4th February 1911 prohibits, with effect from the 1st June 1911, the importation of such drugs by sea or land into British India by means of the post. Importation through channels other than the post is allowed only to persons holding permits issued under the authority of a provincial Government. The Collector of Customs is empowered to deal with exceptional cases. By another Notification of the same date, certain officers of the Post Office in India are empowered to search or cause a search to be made for prohibited drugs when in the course of transmission by post to any place in British India. If found, such articles are to be delivered to the nearest excise officer, to be dealt with like articles confiscated under the excise law. The transmission of such drugs in foreign postal articles forwarded by other Postal Administrations in open transit (à découvert) through the Indian Post Office is also prohibited. Postal articles which are declared to contain such drugs, whether received for delivery in India or for transmission to foreign territory, are returned to the country of origin, as also transit articles of the foreign packet mail which are found on examination to contain the prohibited drugs.\n\n23. The present law on the subject of morphia in India varies from province to province. In an Appendix will be found extracts from the different provincial regulations. It is difficult to present a generalized summary for India, but the following salient features may be noted. Morphia and other derivatives of opium are usually included in the definition of \"intoxicating drugs\" in the Opium Rules. The manufacture of morphia and allied alkaloids or preparations is confined to Government, subject to the following exception. A licensed druggist or pharmacist or medical practitioner (in some provinces, the term \"medical practitioner\" is defined to include a pharmacist) may manufacture such drugs for medicinal purposes up to certain limits (the limit is 1 seer in Bengal) from licit opium. In the majority of provinces, but not in all, a private person may not manufacture such drugs. The limit of possession by private individuals is 10 grains in all provinces except Burma, where it is 5 grains. Amendments, however, are under consideration in Bengal, under which the ordinary limit could be exceeded by a licensed druggist or by a private person on a medical prescription. Transport from place to place is carefully regulated, and so is export by private agency. The latest rules about import, applicable throughout the Indian Empire, have already been referred to. The sale, both retail and wholesale, is carefully regulated by license; and the conditions are naturally much stricter in the case of wholesale than of retail sale. Certain relaxations are made in the case of well-known proprietary medicines containing opium, morphia, or similar alkaloids.\n\nThe French authorities have recently consented to take measures for the prevention of the smuggling of morphine and other alkaloids of opium from their territories into British India.\n\n24. The vicious use of morphia is almost entirely confined to hypodermic injections of morphia solution. Morphia and cocaine are generally found together. Dens for their administration and sale existed, at least a year or two ago, in Rangoon, where the lower classes are addicted to the habit. The recent strengthening of the law has, however, gone some way towards checking the evil, and the proposed new Excise Bill for Burma, as already stated, makes it a penal offence to keep a place for administering any intoxicating drug. The prices of morphia ascertained in 1909 for Rangoon were: for wholesale importers, about Rs. 62 per oz.; for purchase by retail dealers, Rs. 10 to Rs. 20 per oz.; and for retail sale to the public, in half-grain and one-grain paper packets, at one anna and two annas a packet, respectively, i.e., Rs. 60 per oz. When the supply is short, these prices are more than doubled, and the profits of the trade are enormous.\n\n## 11 \n25. The quantity of morphia and allied opium alkaloids manufactured in India by private persons or licensed chemists or druggists is probably very small, and no figures regarding it are available. The only place where opium alkaloids are manufactured for Government is the Ghazipur opium factory in the United Provinces. The amounts manufactured for the last four years are shown in the following table:\n\n| Year | Morphine pure | Morphine hydro-chlorate | Morphine acetate | Morphine tartrate | Codeia |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1906-7 | 0 lbs. 0 oz. | 346 lbs. 0 oz. | 12 lbs. 0 oz. | 0 lbs. 0 oz. | 61 lbs. 1 oz. |\n| 1907-8 | 0 lbs. 2 oz. | 243 lbs. 2 oz. | 2 lbs. 1 oz. | ... | 63 lbs. 4 oz. |\n| 1908-9 | 89 lbs. 0 oz. | 384 lbs. 8 oz. | 3 lbs. 1 oz. | 0 lbs. 0 oz. | 92 lbs. 2 oz. |\n| 1909-10 | 0 lbs. 0 oz. | 173 lbs. 3 oz. | 0 lbs. 0 oz. | 26 lbs. 10 oz. | 67 lbs. 12 oz. |\n\nIt will be seen that scarcely any pure morphine is manufactured. The greater part of the morphine required for medicinal and other uses in India is imported from European countries, as Turkish opium, from which the imported drugs are prepared, yields better morphia than Indian opium. Most of the morphine hydro-chlorate manufactured in India is exported to a well-known firm of chemists in London, and the remainder is distributed to the Government Medical Store Depôts and dispensaries, and to licensed druggists. Almost the whole of the codeia is manufactured for the London firm of chemists above referred to. The small quantities of other drugs in the table are mostly for the use of Government Medical Store Depôts and dispensaries.\n\n26. The licit imports of morphia from abroad, showing the countries of origin and the Indian ports of entry, are shown below, so far as the figures are available:\n\n| Year | Port | From United Kingdom | From Germany | From Belgium | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1906-7 | Calcutta | 9,076 oz. | 100 oz. | ... | 9,176 oz. |\n| Total |  | 9,076 oz. | 100 oz. | ... | 9,176 oz. |\n| 1907-8 | Calcutta | 10,080 oz. | 5 oz. | 32 oz. | 10,117 oz. |\n|  | Bombay | 819 oz. | ... | ... | 819 oz. |\n|  | Karachi | 185 oz. | ... | ... | 185 oz. |\n| Total |  | 11,084 oz. | 5 oz. | 32 oz. | 11,121 oz. |\n| 1908-9 | Calcutta | 9,350 oz. | 8 oz. | ... | 9,358 oz. |\n|  | Bombay | 540 oz. | ... | 24 oz. | 564 oz. |\n|  | Madras | 2,517 oz. | ... | ... | 2,517 oz. |\n|  | Karachi | 355 oz. | ... | 3 oz. | 858 oz. |\n| Total |  | 12,702 oz. | 35 oz. | ... | 12,797 oz. |\n| 1909-10 | Calcutta | 2,502 oz. | 26 oz. | 100 oz. | 2,688 oz. |\n|  | Bombay | 36 oz. | 18 oz. | 49 oz. | ... |\n|  | Madras | 5,514 oz. | ... | ... | 5,514 oz. |\n|  | Karachi | 278 oz. | ... | 3 oz. | 283 oz. |\n| Total |  | 8,890 oz. | 44 oz. | 100 oz. | 3,534 oz. (sic) |\n| 1910-11 | Calcutta | 2,666 oz. | 99 oz. | 285 oz. | 3,050 oz. |\n|  | Bombay | 780 oz. | ... | ... | 780 oz. |\n|  | Madras | 3,820 oz. | ... | ... | 3,820 oz. |\n|  | Karachi | 216 oz. | 5 oz. | ... | 222 oz. |\n| Total |  | 7,482 oz. | 100 oz. | 290 oz. | 7,872 oz. |\n\nThese figures must not be taken as complete. At Rangoon, morphia is not separately recorded in the customs returns.",
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        "content_text": "## \nThe Honourable \nThe Colonial Secretary.\n\n1 coil of fuse. \n1 cake of compressed gun cotton. \n1 tin of gunpowder. \n1 packet of chlorate of potash.\n\n1 bottle of acetone. \n12 small dry electric cells. \n1 glass pestle and mortar.\n\nIncomplete specimens of bank-notes for use in the proposed Republic of Annam. \nTwo copper plates for printing the above notes. \nMilitary maps of Annam and a large quantity of literature dealing with the proposed Republic of Annam. \nA number of letters in Chinese and Annamite.\n\nA cursory investigation indicated that the six men were actively interested in the proposed Republic and had rented the floor in order to make bombs. The men were arrested and will be remanded before the Police Magistrate pending investigation of the documents.\n\nThe parties belong to the same revolutionary society as the two Annamites found at 12 Suidter Street in January last. I have communicated with the French Consul, M. Libert, who has promised his assistance in the investigation of the case.\n\nI have etc., \n(sd.) C. McI. Messer, \nCaptain Superintendant of Police.",
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        "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## Colonial Office to Foreign Office (Received June 16.)\n\n**Sir,**\n\nDowning Street, June 15, 1914. I am directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, with reference to the letter to the Colonial Office of the 8th April, copy of a despatch from the Governor of Hong Kong (with enclosures) on the subject of the sale of opium by the Government Monopoly established at Kwang-chau-wan.\n\n### Enclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\n**Sir,**\n\nGovernor Sir F. May to Mr. Harcourt.\n\nHong Kong, May 12, 1914. With reference to your Confidential despatch of the 18th February and to previous correspondence, I have the honour to transmit, for your information, an extract, with translation, from the \"Official Journal\" of Indo-China of the 26th March last, copy of which was lent to me by the courtesy of the French consul-general here, containing regulations governing the sale of raw and prepared opium by the Government Monopoly, which has now been established at Kwang-chau-wan.\n\n2. Under these regulations the Monopoly may sell an unlimited quantity of raw and prepared opium. M. Liébert informs me, however, that at present the quantity of raw opium offered for sale is limited to forty chests per mensem. On the other hand, the Superintendent of Imports and Exports reports that early in April the Monopoly sold 120 chests at 5,500 dollars per chest. He corroborates the French consul-general that future sales will, until further notice, be limited to forty chests a month.\n\n3. No questions seem to be asked by the Monopoly as to the disposal of the raw opium sold by it. Mr. Hutchinson reports that, according to his information, a Chinese merchant at Sheklung, near Canton, recently purchased two chests of raw opium coming from Kwang-chau-wan at 7,000 dollars a chest. Raw opium purchased at 5,500 dollars per chest could be sold at a good profit in this colony. The methods adopted by the Monopoly are, therefore, prejudicial to the success of the Opium Monopoly here. But it is evident that most of the opium sold at Kwang-chau-wan will find its way into China.\n\n4. Some very large seizures of prepared opium have recently been made here by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports. This opium it is said came from Kwang-chau-wan, but it is impossible to prove that the suspicion is well-founded because the former opium farmer at Kwang-chau-wan refused to supply a sample of the opium he boiled, on the ground that he did not want to give away his secret of manufacture. The samples this Government possessed were therefore not authoritative. I have now asked for a sample of the Government Monopoly's production. The opium seized here was destined for Manila.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nF. H. MAY.\n\nP.S. Since writing the foregoing a further seizure of nine balls of Patna opium has been made on board the steam-ship \"America.\" The cases in which they were packed were shipped from Kwang-chau-wan and were partly filled with dried shrimps.\n\nF. H. M.\n\nPage 120\nPage 121",
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        "content_text": "# COPY\n\n## Enclosure 2\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nA cheat makes about 1,040 taels prepared opium, but to every chest Bengal is added 200 taels Persian; we have used confiscated Persian throughout 1915, till it is boiled the exact amount of opium in each lot is not known. We also sell a good deal of prepared Persian, all prepared from various confiscated lots. A certain amount of prepared opium sold is simply seizures of prepared French, Macao, London Opium reboiled, a certain amount is also prepared from odd lots of confiscated raw Bengal which is used up as soon as possible. It should be remembered that we always keep a stock of prepared opium equal to 2 to 2½ months supply, and we always have a supply of packed prepared opium equal to about 7 days supply. At the end of 1914 owing to the decrease in population, sales were down and our stock of prepared opium carried over to 1915 was therefore greater than normal.\n\n(sd.) J. D. Lloyd,  \nActing Superintendant,  \nImports and Exports.  \n18.5.16.",
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        "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1916.\n\n## INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.\n\n### PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)\n\nFor HAIPHONG... *MANILA *PORN, PENANG & U'CUTTA KUTSANG †SHANGHAI *MANILA †SHANGHAI ‡SANDAKAN\n\nHONGKONG-NEW YORK REGULAR SAILINGS via PORTS & SUEZ & PANAMA CANALS. (with liberty to call at the Malabar Coast.)\n\n(It is intended that the above vessel will proceed via Panama Canal).\n\n### NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS\n\nTAKING Cargo on through Bills of Lading to SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS with transhipment at CALCUTTA, in conjunction with the INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. AND APCAR LINE,\n\n| Steamer | To Sail | Date | Time |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| TAKSANG | ... | Sat., 18th Dec. | 7 a.m. |\n| LOONGSANG | Satur. | 16th Dec. | 3 p.m. |\n| WINGSANG | Mon., 18th Dec. | Noon |  |\n| YUENSANG | Thurs., 21st Dec. | D'light |  |\n| KWONGSANG | Satur., 23rd Dec. | 3 p.m. |  |\n| HINSANG | Sun., 24th Dec. | D'light |  |\n|  | Fri., 5th Jan. | Noon |  |\n\n## RETURN TOURS TO JAPAN\n\nThe steamers Kutsang, Namsang, Laisang and Fooksang leave about every 3 weeks and generally call at Shanghai en route for Japan, returning via Kobe Inland Sea and Moji to Hongkong. Time occupied 23 days. This service is supplemented by the Yatshing, Kumsang, loar THE \"NANYO YUSEN KAISHA ing Hongkong at regular intervals for Yokohama (with sufficient inducement is offering) Kobe and Moji and returning thence direct to Hong-kong. Time occupied 19 days. These vessels have all modern improvements and gas finding shuangbest with Electric Light At ddly qua tien surgeon is is carried.\n\n*Steamers have superior accommodation for First Class Passengers, and fitted throughout with Electric Light.\n\nTaking cargo on Through Bills of Lading to Yangtze Ports, Chefoo, Tientsin, Daluy, Weihaiwei.\n\n*Taking cargo on Through Bills of Lading to Kudat, Lahad Datu, Simporna, Tawao, Usukan, Jesselton and Labuan.\n\nUnder Straits Government Passport Regulations. All European Passengers leaving the Colony for Straits Settlement and required to produce on arrival at destination passports with their Photographs and description. affixed thereto.\n\nFor Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:-\n\n**DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.**\n**BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.**\nFor Freight or Passage apply to:- \n**JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.**\nTelephone No. 915.\nGENERAL MANAGERS.\n\n## BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.\n\n### NEW SERVICE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN Yokohama, Kobe, Hongkong and Rangoon.\n\n**APCAR LINE.**\nREGULAR SERVICE BETWEEN Straits, Calcutta, Shanghai and Japan Ports.\n\n| Direction |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| EASTWARD | WESTWARD |\n\nThe above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon. Steamers are despatched Eastward and Westward at regular intervals taking Passengers and cargo at current rates.\n\nFor Freight or Passage, apply to:-\n**JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.**\nTelephone No. 215.\nFor GINOA.. \n**DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD., Agents.**\n**O. S. K. OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.**\n\n## R.M.S.P. STEAM PACKET CO.\n\n### REGULAR SERVICES, PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.\n\n### PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.\n\nSUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.\n\n| Steamer | Date of departure |\n| --- | --- |\n| MERIONETHSHIRE |  |\n\n### TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE.\n\nSAILINGS TO VICTORIA, VANCOUVER, SEATTLE TACOMA AND PORTLAND.\n\nFor Freight and further particulars apply to:-\n**JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.**\nTelephone No. 251, Sub-Ex. No. 10.\n**C. N. AGENTS.**\n**CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.**\n\n### STEAMERS SAILINGS.\n\nSAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.\n\n| Destination | Steamer |\n| --- | --- |\n| MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO | YINCH3HOW |\n| SHANGHAI | TAMING |\n| SHANGHAI | KIUKIANG SINKIANG ANRUL TEAN |\n\n### North American Line.\n\n(TRANS PACIFIC). \n\"MEXICO MARU\"\n\n### South American Line.\n\nFOR VICTORIA, SETTLE & TACOMA, via SHANGHAI, MANILA, NAGASAKI, MOJI, KOBE, AND YOKOHAMA \nThurs., 28th December, 3 p.m.\n\nFOR RIODE JANEIRO BUENOS AIRES, (EAST COAST via CAPE TOWN). via SINGAPORE, DURBAN & CAPE TOWN.\n\"KASADO MARU\" \nMon., 1st January, 1917. Noon.\n\nFOR BOMBAY, via SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG and COLOMBO. \nSatur., 30th December. 7 a.m.\n\nFOR MANILA, SANDAKAN, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, SAMARANG, SOURABAYA & MACASSAR \nWednes., 27th December, Noon.\n\n## TOYO KISEN KAISHA\n\n### NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,\n\nSAN FRANCISCO LINE.\n\nVia SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, The INLAND SEA, KOBE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU,\n\n| Steamer | LEAVE HONGKONG | Tons and Speed |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| TENYO MARU | 19th December | 22,000 21 kts. |\n| NIPPON MARU | 4th January, 1917 | 11,000 15 kts. |\n| SHINYO MARU | 17th January | 22,000 21 kts. |\n| PERSIA MARU | 27th January | 9,000 14 kts. |\n| KOREA MARU | 10th February | 18,000 18 kts. |\n\n* Cargo only.\n† Leaves Nagasaki for San Francisco.\n\n### FIRST CLASS TO LONDON \nG. $348. (£71.10) Return (6 mons.); G. $609.(£122).\n\nTO S. FRANCISCO G. $250. G. $487.50. \nSPECIAL RATES given to NAVAL and MILITARY, CIVIL SERVANTS, MISSIONARIES, ETC. \nROUND THE WORLD tickets issued in connection with all the principal MAIL LINES and the Trans-Siberian Railway,\nPassengers may travel by RAILWAY between ports of call in Japan free of charge.\n\n## SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.\n\nVia JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, SAM FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, BALINA CRUZ PANAMA, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO thence by TRANS ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES ETC.\n\n| Steamer | Tons and Speed | LEAVE HONGKONG |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| KIYO MARU | 1,720 14 kts. | 9th January, 1917 |\n\nFor full particulars as to Passage and Freight apply to \nTelephone No. 291. \n**T. DAIGO. AGENT.** \nKing's Building.\n\n## \"ELLERMAN\" LINE.\n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall Steamship Co., Ltd.)\n\nTO JAPAN, CHINA AND STRAITS \nUNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT.\n\nSteamers proceed via Suez Canal or Cape Good Hope at Owners' option.\n\nSubject to change without notice. \nFor rates of freight and further information, apply to:-* \n**THE BANK LINE, LTD.** \nGeneral Agents.\nOR TO \n**REISS & Co.,** \nCANTON.\n\n## NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA] (THE JAPAN MAIL S.S. CO., LD.)\n\n### PROJECTED SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG\n\n| Destination | Steamer | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| LONDON VIA SINGAPORE, MALACCA, PANG, C'BO, DELAGOA BAY. TOWN, AND TEREKIPE DE | MALAY MARU | Sun., 17th December, 10 a.m. |\n| SYDNEY & MELBOURNE V. | \"SHIBETORO MARU” | Thurs., 21st December, 8 a.m. |\n| MANILA, ZAMBOANGA, THURSDAY ISLAND, T'SVILLE & BRISBANE, |  |  |\n| VICTORIA, B.C., & S'TLE, VIA SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE. NAGOYA, AND УОКОНАМА |  |  |\n| BOMBAY VIA SINGAPORE, MALACCA & COLOMBO. |  | 19 December, 4 p.m. |\n| CALCUTTA VIA S'PORE, PENANG AND RANGOON |  | 21 December, 4 p.m. |\n| NAGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA | KAIJO MARU | 24 December, D'light |\n| SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA | \"SOSHI MARU\" | 26 December, 1 p.m. |\n\nThese Formosan Liners will arrive at and depart from the SOON YIP WHARF near the Harbour Office. While the steamer is alongside the Wharf, Telephone No. 76, will be fixed.\n\nFor further information, apply to:-\nTelephone Nos. 744 & 745.\n**H. YAMAUCHI, MANAGER.**\nNo. 1 Queen Building.\n\n## DIRECT SAILINGS TO WEST RIVER, twice weekly,\n\n8.8. \"LINTAN\" and 8.8. \"SANUI.\"\n\n### MANILA LINE.\n\nThe Twin Screw Steamers Chinhua, Taming and Tean. Excellent Saloon accommodation amidships. Electric fans fitted. Extra state-room on deck, aft on Taming and Tean.\n\n### SHANGHAI LINE.-Passengers, MAILS & CARGO.\n\n8.8. Arhui. L'henan, Luchow, Yingchow, Shantung and Sinkiang, with excellent accommodation, electric light and fans in Saloon and State-rooms, maintain a regular schedule service between Canton, Hong-Long and Shanghai, leaving Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Tues-day. Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to Yangtaze and Northern China Ports. Passengers are landed in Thanghai, avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosung.\n\nFor Freight or Passage, apply to:-\nTelephone No. 30 \n**BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS.**\n\n## DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP. CO., LTD.\n\n### HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORT SERVICE.\n\nREGULAR SERVICE of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having good accommodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in Staterooms and Saloons and Excellent Cuisine.\n\n| Steamer | Captain | Leaving | For |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| \"HAIHONG\" | Capt. J. W. Evans | Fri., 22nd Dec., 1 a.m. | SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW |\n| \"HAITAN\" | Capt. A. E. Hodgins | Fri., 29th December, 1 a.m. |  |\n| \"HAIHONG\" | Capt. J. W. Evans | Tues., 10th Dec., 10 a.m. | SWATOW |\n| \"HAITAN\" | Capt. A. E. Hodgins | Sun., 24th December, 10 a.m. |  |\n\nArrivals and Departures from the Company's Wharf (near Blake Pier).\n\nFor Freight and Passage, apply to:-\n**DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,** \nGeneral Managers.\n\n## \nSHANGHAI AND KOBE\n\nSUBJECT TO ALTERATION\n\n| Steamer | Tons | Date | Time |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| SKAMO MARU | 16,000 | Thurs., 29th Dec. | at Noon |\n| SKASHIMA MARU | 21,000 | Thurs., 4th Jan. | at Noon |\n| NIKKO MARU | 9,600 | Tues., 16th Jan. | at 11 a.m. |\n| SAKI MARI | 13,500 | Tues., 13th Feb. | at 11 a.m. |\n| STAMBA MARU | 12,500 | Tues., 19th Dec. | at Noon |\n| SHIDZUOKA MARU | 12,500 | Wed, 3rd Jan. | at Noon |\n| YETOROFU MARU | 8,000 | Thurs., 21st Dec. |  |\n| TOSA MARU | 10,000 | Satur., 23rd Dec. |  |\n| NIKKO MARU | 9,600 | Thurs., 4th Jan. | at 10 am |\n| SUWA MARU | 21,000 | Satur., 16th Dec. |  |\n| TOTOMI MARU | 8,000 | To-day | at 9 a.m. |\n| YAMAGATA MARU | 8,000 | To-day | at Noon |\n\n## EASTBOUND NEW YORK LINE VIA PANAMA CANAL (CARGO ONLY).\n\n| Destination | Steamer | Tons | Date |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| NEW YORK V. SHANGGAI, KOBE, NAGOYA. Y'HAMA, S. FRANCISCO, PENANG AND COLON. | STOYOOKA MARU | 15,000 | Early February |\n\nFor further information apply to:-\n- 292 & 203.\n**NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, B. MORI, Manager**\n\n## MESSAGERIES MARITIME S\n\n### FRENCH MAIL LINE.\n\nFORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO & FROM JAPAN VIA SHANGHAI, \nFORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO & FROM EUROPE VIA SUEZ CANAL.\n\n| Steamer | To Sail | For |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| \"ARMAND BEHIC\" | On or about 19th December | SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA |\n| \"AMAZONE\" | On or about 18th December | MARSEILLES via HAI-PHONG, TOURANE & SAIGON |\n\nSubject to immediate alteration without notice:---\nReturn Tickets to Europe available two years. \nReturn Tickets to Intermediate Ports available six months. \nFor Further Particulars apply to:-\nTelephone No. 740.\n**P. THOMAS, Agent.** \nQueer's Building, HONGKONG\n\n## \"BEN\" LINE OF STEAMERS.\n\nThe Steamship **\"BENAVON,\"** \nFrom MIDDLESBRO', LONDON and STRAITS. \nConsignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazard- and or extra hazardous Go- downs of the Hongkong and Kow-loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and or from the wharves de-livery may be obtained.\n\nNo Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undeliver-ed after the 18th Dec.. will be sub-ject to rent.\n\nAll Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Under-signed on or before the 25th inst., or they will not be recognized.\n\nAll broken, scale, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Go-downs, where they will be examined on the 18th Dec., at 11 a.m.\n\nNo Fire Insurance has been effected.\n\nBills of Lading will be counter-signed by \n**GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.** \nAgents, \nHongkong. 11th Dec., 1916.\n\n## SHIPPING.\n\n### ARRIVALS.\n\n| Date | Steamer | Tons | Captain | Cargo | From | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 13th December | Riojun Maru | 2,979 | Y. Yamaguchi | General | Maji, Dec. | H.-D. and Co. |\n|  | Yamagata Maru | 2,216 | K. Kudo | Miscellaneous goods | Colombo, Nov. 23 | X. Y. K. |\n|  | Haklix | 1,063 | A. Sveen | Rice | Swatow, Dec. 12 | C. S. S. N. and Co. |\n|  | Yingchow | 1,222 | D. Martin | General | Shanghai. Dec, 10 | B. and S. |\n|  | Kwanglee | 1,463 | Sangster | General | Shanghai, Dec. 10 | C. M. 8. N. and Co. |\n|  | Sakuki Maru | 1,299 | T. Fumoto | Coal | Dairen. Dec. | M. and Co. |\n| 14th December | Ni-sin Maru | 619 | N. Hyodo | Coal | Keelung, Dec. 12 |  |\n|  | Hawirto | 1,272 | J. Smith | Rice | Saigon, Dec. 7 | Chinese. |\n|  | Huichow | 1,260 | G. Hooker | Coal | Haiphong, Dec. 11 | B. and S. |\n|  | Totomi Maru | 2,021 | N. Kamada | General | Singapore, Dec. 2 | N. Y. K. |\n|  | Tamba Maru | 3,599 | K Akamatsu | General | Shanghai | N. Y. K. |\n|  | Protesilaus | 6,118 | A. Braithwaite | General | Kutchinotzu, Dec. 10 | B. & S. |\n\n### PASSENGERS.\n\n#### ARRIVED.\n\nVingehow (arrived on Dec. 13th) from Shanghai, etc. :- \nMessrs. Richards, Lawson. Wong, O. F. Woon and servant.\n\n### MOVEMENTS OF STEAMER3.\n\nThe P. & O. S. N. Company's s.s. Nankin left Shanghai for Hongkong on the 12th inst. at 3 p.m. with the homeward English mails, and is due here on the 15th inst. at about 9 a.m. \nThe s.s. Japan left Calcutta on the 3rd Dec., and may be expected here on or about the 21st Dec.\n\nThe Pacific Mail s.s. Ecuador left Yokohama, December 12th, a.m. for Hongkong via Kobe, Shanghai and Manila, and may be expected to arrive here on Dec. 23rd. She will leave for San Francisco Dec. 25th at noon.\n\ns.s. Colombia The Pacific Mail will leave San Francisco for Hong-kong. via Honolulu, and Japan Ports on March 14th, 1917.\n\nA second wireless has been received from the s.s. Suwa Maru to say that she expects to arrive at the examination anchorage at 3 p.m. to-day, instead of 7 p.m. as previously wirelessed.\n\nThe P. and O. outward \"mail steamer Karmala with the London mails of the 30th ultimo, arrived at Port Said on Tuesday, the 12th inst.",
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        "content_text": "#FL \n## FROM Foreign Office \n## DATE \n## SUBJECT \n\n1 Aug. Disturbances in Kwanglung. \n3 \n4 \n5 \n12 \n4 \n17 \n* \n18 \n4 \n21 \n\n14 \n26 \n\n29 \n\" \n3 Sept. \n7 \nH \nA \n\" \nH \n4 \n10\" \n28 u \n\n4 \n9 \nA \n13 \n4 \n18 \nmails from United States Asiatic Fleet. \n\n20 Oct. \nf \n23. \nZur A.B. Scott. \n24 \n26 \n27 \nCanton Hankow Railway. \nH \n18 \nr \n30 \n\" \n31 \n\n15 \nA \n13 \nA \n28 \n4 \n30 \nH \n\n1 Dec. \n// \n13 \nA \n424 \nA \n23 + \n26 * \n\n Foreign Office | DATE | SUBJECT \n---------|------|--------- \n1        | Aug. | Disturbances in Kwanglung. \n3        |      | \n4        |      | \n5        |      | \n12       | 4    | \n17       | *    | \n18       | 4    | \n21       |      | Shanghai Registry of Companies. \n14       |      | Deutsche Orientalische Bank. \n26       |      | Canton Kowloon Railway. \n        |      | Danish Goods for H.K. & Whampoa Dock Co. \n29       |      | Payments to Enemy Employees & Partners and Situation at Kwanghung. \n\"        |      | Silk Prohibition. \n3 Sept.  |      | Caine. \n7        |      | British American Tobacco Co & China (Companies) Steamers under Construction at Hongkong \nH        |      | Detention of Small Arms & Ammunition. \nA        |      | Steamers under Construction at Hongkong. \n\"        |      | Labour Corps of Chinese Coolies. \nH        |      | \"American International Corporation\". \n4        |      | Labour Corps of Chinese Coolies. Contingent. \n10       | \"    | Smuggling of Opium from Inação to Mexico. Jurisdiction over certain lands in neighbourhood to Inação \n28       | u    | Establishment in H.K. of Branch of Bank of China Labour Corps of Chinese Coolies. \n4        | Del. | Detention of Small Arms Ammunition. \n9        |      | Labour Corps of Chinese Coolies. \nA        |      | Shipments of Hemp to Scandinavia. Antimony to New York. \n13       |      | Indian Sedition. \n4        |      | \n18       |      | mails from United States Asiatic Fleet. \n20       | Oct. | Branch Bank of China at Hongkong. \n        |      | Detention of Small Arms Ammunition \nf        |      | Indian Sedition. \n23.      |      | Zur A.B. Scott. \n24       |      | \n26       |      | Canton Hankow Railway. \n27       |      | Branch Bank of China at Hongkong· \nH        |      | Detention of Arms & Ammunition for Scam. \n18       | r    | Japanese in British Eastern Possessions Draft Anglo- Chinese Customs Agreement. \n30       |      | Wolframite \n\"        |      | \"Haldi's\" \n31       |      | Chinese Opium Agreement, 1915. \n        |      | 3400. Spurious Opium from Inação for Mexico. \n15       | A    | the Basel Mission. \n13       | A    | Activities of Indian Sedition.. \n28       | 4    | mails on \n30       |      | French Packet Boats. \nH        |      | Proposal to Raise Troops in Hongkong. \n1 Dec.   |      | Export of Gunny Bags to Dairen \n//       |      | \n13       | A    | Activities of Basel Mission - \nA        |      | Ships Building for Norwegian Firm. \n424      | A    | Inação. \n        |      | Yellow Labour in Russia. \n23       | +    | Situation in China. \n        |      | Branch Bank \n26       | *    | of Norwegian Ships under Construction at H.K. \n        |      | of China. \n\n(47612A) Wt 12218/2108 2000 10/28 H & J, Ld Cp 113",
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        "content_text": "## HONG KONG\n57259\n\nwf ¡Rec C.O. 715 57259 REG: 79 NOV 16\n\nA:Y & Foreign 1916 28hor Last previous Paper. Copy sent SPP. 7 Dec 7 Copy End. Ew 312.) Deck/1 Copy Gove Strack 384 11 Dec 2/1 Been\n\nmails on French packet boats Leuss copy desk from Paris con-nequey compliance / French for in request. that certain mails should be submitted to British censorship.\n\nAs Gen. D. FRz \"Copy Smetones & Sur LAF Een sipt & see. & noted JM Mamaghten tsu Jas 30/11/16 น corr. T.CH. 5/12/16 althca to S.S. L Are 30.11.16 C. D. R. SDEC. 4 to 9.P.O.\n\n| Next subsequent Paper. |\n| --- |\n\n(441) W. 14758-1. 27,000. 7/18. BM & S.",
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        "content_text": "In any further communication on this subject, please quote \n`No 138681/1916`.\n\nAddress to \n**The Under-Secretary of State** \nFor **Foreign Office** \nLondon \nC.O. \n\n57259 RE. TREGE 9 NOV 16 \n716 \n\nThe Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents \nhis compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies \nand, by direction of the Secretary \nof State, transmits herewith copy of the under-mentioned \npaper. \n\nForeign Office, \nNov. 28th 1916. \n\n| Reference to previous correspondence: | Foreign Office: Name and Date. | Description of Inclosure. | Subject. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| J to Letter | His Br. Ambassador at Paris No 2639. Conf. Nov. 22. C.O. 40389. Sept. 60 |  | Censorship at Haiphong. A mail on French packet-boats? |\n\n12 \n(Similar letter sent to D.S.I.)",
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        "content_text": "# N° 2132\n\n**Comercial.**\n\nC.O. Paris, 57259\n\n717\n\nNovember 22nd 1916. REG'd NOV 16\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of a communication from the ministry for Foreign Affairs expressing the compliance of the French Government with the desire of His Majesty's Government, referred to in Your Lordship's despatch No 2421 Commercial of September 11th (`177278/X`), that certain uncensored mails on French packet-boats should be submitted to the British censorship at Hongkong.\n\nI have the honour to be, with great truth and respect,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\n(Signed)\n\nBertie of Thame.\n\nViscount Grey of Fallodon, P.C., K.G., etc., etc., etc.",
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        "content_text": "## Export of Samples\n\n### Goods Allowed to be Exported by Sample Post Without Licence\n\nSamples of no commercial value of steel articles for which a Steel exemption certificate is ordinarily required by the Customs Authorities may be exported by sample post without licence, provided the exemption certificate is enclosed in the sample packet. Such certificates are obtainable from the Cutlers' Company, Sheffield, or from one of the following Chambers of Commerce: Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle-on-Tyne.\n\nIn any case of doubt, however, exporters are advised to apply for a Privy Council licence, which should be enclosed in the sample packet as indicated above in the case of certificates. If neither a Privy Council licence nor certificate is enclosed, the sample packet is liable to detention.\n\n### Goods Excluded from Export by Sample Post or Shipment Without Privy Council Licence\n\nThe following goods are excluded from these arrangements and samples of such goods, whether possessing a commercial value or not, may not be exported by parcel post or by shipment unless and until a Privy Council licence has been obtained. Samples of no commercial value may, however, be exported by sample post without licence or certificate.\n\n| Category | Goods |\n| --- | --- |\n| (A) | Aeroplane Dope |\n| (A) | Aircraft of all kinds and their component parts, together with accessories and articles suitable for use in connection with aircraft |\n| (A) | Aluminium, alloys of aluminium, and manufactures of aluminium, or of its alloys |\n| (A) | Aluminium powder |\n| (A) | Bandruche skin |\n| (A) | Bayonets and their component parts |\n| (A) | Cannon and other ordnance and their component parts |\n| (A) | Cartridges, charges of all kinds and their component parts, and tools, appurtenances and accessories for the filling and repair of rifle and shot gun cartridges |\n| (A) | Casein and preparations thereof |\n| (A) | Cerium and its alloys |\n| (A) | Cinchona bark, its alkaloids, and their salts and preparations of any of these substances |\n| (A) | Cinematograph films |\n| (A) | Cocaine and its salts and preparations |\n| (A) | Compasses (other than ships' compasses) and their component parts |\n| (A) | Diamonds suitable for industrial purposes |\n| (A) | Emetin and its salts |\n| (A) | Eucaine hydrochloride, eucaine (benzamine), lactate and their preparations |\n| (B) | Ferro-cerium, alloys of tantalum and ores containing tungsten alloys |\n| (B) | Tungsten filaments for electric lamps |\n| (B) | Tungsten ores (including ferberite, hubnerite, scheelite, and wolframite) |\n| (B) | Tungsten compounds |\n| (B) | Vanadium |\n| (A) | Santonin and its preparations |\n| (A) | Salvarsan |\n| (A) | Silk, raw, and all threads, yarns and twists thereof |\n| (A) | Silk, Tussah and artificial, threads, yarns and twists of |\n| (A) | Silk waste of all kinds (including artificial silk waste) and all threads, yarns and twists thereof, including noils and noil yarns |\n| (A) | Swords and their component parts |\n| (B) | Thorium, oxide and salts of |\n| (A) | Tin and alloys of tin |\n\n### Destinations to Which Goods are Prohibited\n\nThe destinations to which the goods in the foregoing lists are prohibited are indicated by the letters (A), (B), and (C), and are as follows:\n\n1. Goods marked (A) to all destinations.\n2. Goods marked (B) to all ports and destinations abroad other than ports and destinations in British Possessions and Protectorates.\n3. Goods marked (C) to all destinations in European and Asiatic Russia, and in other Foreign Countries in Europe and on the Mediterranean, except France and French Possessions, Italy and Italian Possessions, and Portugal, and to all ports in any such Foreign countries.\n\nN.B. Samples of the goods mentioned in List 4(a) also require a licence for export to prohibited destinations by whatever means they are despatched.\n\n## Undertaking and Certificates\n\n5. The undertaking and certificate referred to in paragraphs 2(b)(i) and 4(b)(iii), and in the note to paragraph 3(a)(ii) is in the following form:\n\n**To The Secretary, Chamber of Commerce**\n\nI hereby give my undertaking that the goods contained in the packages specified in the Schedule below are commercial samples of the description indicated, and that if they are allowed to be exported without licence they shall not be sold, or otherwise disposed of to any person, firm or company, without the previous consent in writing of the War Trade Department. I am prepared to furnish any proof which you may require as to the actual contents of the packages or as to the ultimate disposal of such contents.\n\n| Number of Packages | Marks | Detailed Description of contents, showing each item separate |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n4/1919.\n\nI hereby certify that after consideration of all the evidence which I require for the purpose, I am satisfied that the goods contained in the packages specified in the above Schedule are commercial samples of a description which may be exported without licence in accordance with the terms of the letters addressed by the War Trade Department to the Associated Chambers of Commerce on 9th August, 1916, 3rd December, 1916, 17th January, 1918, and 5th November, 1918 (`W.T.D.7117/16 8.`), and such supplementary instructions of the Department (if any) as are applicable to the case.\n\nDate.\n\nSecretary, Chamber of Commerce.\n\n## Additional Information\n\n6. Copies of the amended Post Office declarations (D) and (9) referred to at 2(a)(iii) and 2(b)(ii) may be obtained on application to Chambers of Commerce.\n\n7. These arrangements do not apply to the export of samples destined for Switzerland; and Privy Council licences must be obtained for all samples which are to be despatched to that country otherwise than by the sample post.\n\n8. Particular attention is drawn to the Order dated 2nd May, 1918, made by the Army Council under Defence of the Realm Regulation 24B requiring that on and after 27th May, 1918, no goods or commodities other than printed, written or illustrated matter may be sent by sample post or parcel post to any neutral country in Europe or to any allied country in Europe for retransmission to a neutral country in Europe unless a permit for this purpose has been previously obtained from the Chief Postal Censor (M.I.9d.), Strand House, Carey Street, W.C.2.\n\nTelegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the officer administering the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n(Sent 11 a.m., 11th January, 1919.)\n\nYour telegram 8th January import prohibitions have not been withdrawn but since armistice general licences have been issued allowing importation of any quantity of numerous articles including: aerated mineral and table waters, almonds, apparel not waterproofed, works of art, baskets, metal baths, live birds, bladders, casings sausage skins, brooms, brushes, cement, fresh flowers, leather gloves, hats, combs, horns, hoofs, vegetable ivory, linen yarns, maps, nuts, oilcloth, perfumery, pictures, prints, furs, engravings, photographs, manufactures of skins, and canned, bottled, preserved fruit, soap, gum copal, gum kauri.\n\nPage 368.\n\nAdditional lists of prohibited goods include:\n| Category | Goods |\n| --- | --- |\n| (B) | Ferro-chrome |\n| (A) | Ferro-manganese |\n| (A) | Ferro-molybdenum |\n| (B) | Ferro-titanium |\n| (B) | Ferro-vanadium |\n| (A) | Field Glasses and their component parts |\n| (A) | Firearms and their component parts and tools, appurtenances and accessories for use in connection therewith |\n| (A) | Glass for optical instruments |\n| (A) | Glycerine and preparations containing glycerine not otherwise specifically prohibited |\n| (A) | Heliographs and their component parts |\n| (A) | Implements and apparatus designed exclusively for the manufacture of Munitions of War, for the manufacture or repairs of arms or of war material for use on land or sea |\n| (A) | Implements for cutting or fixing barbed wire |\n| (A) | Linen thread |\n| (A) | Linen yarn |\n| (A) | Magnetos and component parts thereof |\n| (A) | Mica block, mica sheets and mica splittings |\n| (A) | Neo-Salvarsan |\n| (B) | Nickel, its ores, alloys and manufactures (except nickel-plated goods not otherwise prohibited) |\n| (A) | Novocain and its preparations |\n| (B) | Nux vomica alkaloids and their preparations |\n| (A) | Opium and its preparations |\n| (A) | Opium alkaloids and their salts and preparations |\n| (A) | Platinum, salts of |\n| (A) | Radium and its compounds |\n| (A) | Range finders and their component parts |\n| (C) | Rock crystal |\n| (B) | Rubber (raw, waste and reclaimed). Solutions containing rubber, jellies containing rubber, and any other preparations containing rubber, and also balata, gutta percha, and the following varieties of rubber, viz., Borneo, Guayule, Jelutong, Palembang, Pontianac, and all other substances containing caoutchouc |",
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        "content_text": "THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS.\n\nWHERE TO STAY WHEN VISITING HOME.\n\n[March 25th., 1922.\n\nBASIL STREET HOTEL.\n\nKNIGHTSBRIDGE, LONDON, S.W. 3.\n\nRun by the owner, has the best situation, and is First Class one minute's walk from HARRODS, THE PARK, and SLOANE STREET, 100 Bed rooms with Hot and Cold water, ample Bathrooms, pleasing Restaurant and Lounges, Luggage stored for any period, also room for sorting and packing. \"En Pension\" terms from 22/6, Double rooms without food from £3-, Single from 11/6, Baths included. Excellent Cuisine.\n\nKNIGHTSBRIDGE STATION is in the building from which any part of London is reached in a few minutes.\n\nTelegrams: \"SPOTLESS,\" LONDON.\n\nNOW IN PREPARATION\n\nTHE CHRONICLE AND DIRECTORY OF\n\nTHE FAR EAST\n\n1922\n\nThe book is printed from New Type specially reserved for the purpose and uniformity in every arrangement greatly facilitates reference.\n\nBesides the usual Alphabetical List of firms of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centres.\n\nThe Sixtieth Annual Issue.\n\nThe CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIPPINES, BORNEO, &c.\n\nThe Directories and Descriptions are of :-\n\nCHINA - Weihaiwei, Peking, Tientsin, Lungchingchun, Changsha, Tsinanfu, Taku, Tsingtau, Peitaiho, Shanghai, Chinwangtao, Soochow, Newchwang, Chinkiang, Manchurian Trade Centres, Nanking, Wuhu, Kiukiang, Harbin, Hankow, Changchun, Yochow, Kirin, Shasi, Hunchun, Ichang, Antung, Chungking, Port Arthur, Dairen, Ningpo, Chefoo, Wênchow, Lungkow, Santuao\n\nJAPAN AND FORMOSA - Tokyo, Yokohama, Hyogo, Kobe, Shimonoseki, Osaka, Moji, Nagasaki, Keelung, Tainanfu, Takow, Hakodate, Anping\n\nEASTERN SIBERIA - Vladivostock\n\nCOREA - Seoul, Won-san, Chemulpo, Fusan, Kun-san, Pingyang, Nicolajevsk, Motpo, Chinnampo, Songchin\n\nFRENCH INDO-CHINA - Hanoi, Haiphong, Annam, Hue, Tonkin Provinces, Quinhon, Tourane, Saigon, Cambodge\n\nPHILIPPINES - Manila, Iloilo, Cebu, Zamboanga\n\nBORNEO - Sarawak, Labuan, Brunei, British N. Borneo\n\nMALAY STATES - Bangkok\n\nThe ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in the Far East contains the names of over 20,000 FOREIGNERS, arranged, with the Initials as well as the Surnames, in strictly Alphabetical Order so that any name can be found instantly.\n\nThe CHRONICLE covers the notable events together with the Texts of all the most important Treaties concluded with the Countries of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commerce, Scales of Commissions, Signal Codes, Tables of Money, Weights and Measures, and other Commercial Information.\n\nThe CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, though condensed in every possible manner, contains every year more pages and now numbers nearly 2,000.\n\nIt is published at the Office of the HONG-KONG DAILY PRESS, LTD., and can be had from and Advertisements sent through the principal Booksellers in Asia and through LONDON - Mr. J. H. G. Murrow, 131, Fleet Street, E.C. 4; Mr. F. Algar, 58, Gracechurch St., E.C. 3; Messrs. G. Street & Co., Ld., 30, Cornhill, E.C.\n\nLONDON ............................ PARIS ...... Messrs. G. E. Puel de Lobel & Cie., 53, Rue Lafayette\n\nCAPE TOWN .....Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, Ld.\n\nSYDNEY ............Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, Ld.\n\nMELBOURNE ................... Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, Ld.\n\nBRISBANE ........................... Messrs. Gordon & Gotch, Ld.\n\nCALCUTTA Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co.\n\n\"Times of India\" Office\n\nBOMBAY............................ Messrs. Thacker, Spink & Co.\n\nSINGAPORE ......Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ld.\n\nFEDERATED MALAY STATES... Kelly & Walsh, Ld., Singapore\n\nBORNEO............ Mr. F. W. Pinnock, Sandakan\n\nBANGKOK .“Bangkok Times\" Office\n\nDAIREN...Mr. F. J. Bardens\n\nTSINGTAU.........Messrs. Cornabe, Eckford & Co.\n\nFORMOSA Mr. A. W. Gillingham, Taipeh.\n\n\"Seoul Press,” Seoul\n\nNAGASAKI ........................... “Nagasaki Press \" Office\n\nKOBE-OSAKA......\"Japan Chronicle\" Office, Kobe\n\nTOKYO.......... Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., Yokohama\n\nYOKOHAMA.........Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd.\n\nVLADIVOSTOCK...Messrs. Sinkevitch Bros.\n\nThe DIRECTORY covers the whole of the ports and cities of the Far East, from Netherlands India to Siberia, in which Europeans reside.\n\nNot only is the Directory as full and complete in each case as it can be made, but each Colony, Port or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIPTION, carefully revised each year, most of which will serve as accurate GUIDES FOR THE TOURIST, giving every detail in connection with the places, their History, Topography, etc.\n\nThe Information in these Descriptions, consisting of a hundred interesting articles packed with facts concisely set out, and containing statistics of the TRADE of each Country and Port, would alone suffice to fill a large volume.\n\nLarge Edition, pp. nearly 2,000, $12.00\n\nAbridged Edition, pp. 1,400, $8.00.\n\nDARLINGTON'S HANDBOOKS\n\n\"Sir Henry Ponsonby is commanded by the Queen to thank Mr. Darlington for a copy of his Handbook.\n\n“Nothing better could be wished for.”—British Weekly.\n\n“Far superior to ordinary guides.”—Daily Chronicle.\n\nVisitors to London should use DARLINGTON'S LONDON.\n\n“A brilliant book.”-The Times.\n\n“Particularly good.”—Academy.\n\nBY E. C. Cook & Enlarged Edition) AND E. T. Cook, M.A.\n\nLONDON AND ENVIRONS.\n\nNORTH WALES.\n\nDEVON AND CORNWALL.\n\n24 Maps and Plans. 60 Illustrations.\n\n60 Illustrations.\n\n10 Maps, 80 Illustrations.\n\nSAIGON ............................ Cie, de Com. et de Nav. d'Extreme Orient.\n\nTONKIN............Cie, de Com. et de Nav. d'Extreme-Orient, Haiphong.\n\nMANILA Philippine Education Co.\n\nMACAO ............Mr. A. A. de Mello\n\nCANTON ......A. S. Watson & Co., Shameen\n\nSWATOW............Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nAMOY...............Messrs. Douglas, Lapraik & Co\n\nFOOCHOW.......... Messrs. T. Brockett & Co.\n\nSTRAIT SETTLEMENTS - Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Prov. Wellesley\n\nFEDERATED MALAY STATES - Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Negri Sembilan, Johore, Kedah, Kelantan, Trengganu, Perlis\n\nNETHERLANDS INDIA - Batavia, Demarang, Padang, Buitenzorg, Sourabaja, Makasser, East Coast of Sumatra\n\nBRITISH AND AMERICAN NAVAL Squadrons\n\nOFFICERS OF COAST AND RIVER STEAMERS\n\nSHANGHAI................... .Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Ld.\n\nHANKOW AND OTHER YANGTZE PORTS\n\nPEKING AND TIENTSIN...Tientsin Press, Ltd.\n\nCHIFOO Messrs. Curtis, Bros.\n\nMENGGAME\n\n12 Maps; 58,\n\nVisitors to Brighton, Eastbourne, Hastings, Bournemouth, Wye Valley, Severn Valley, Bath, Weston-super-mare, Malvern, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Llandrindod Wells, Llangollen, Aberystwyth, Towyn, Barmouth, Dolgelly, Harlech, Criccieth, Pwllheli, Llandudno, Rhyl, Bettws-y-coed, Isle of Wight, and Channel Islands should send for DARLINGTON'S HANDBOOKS, 1s. each.\n\nLLANGOLLEN: DARLINGTON & Co.\n\nLONDON: SIMPKIN & Co.",
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        "content_text": "PACIFIC SHIPPING.\n\nCANADIANA PACIFIC\n\nSTEAMSHIPS\n\nLIMITED\n\nHOME VIA CANADA\n\nHongkong to England\n\nShanghai Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, Vancouver & Montreal\n\nFRIDAY,\n\nSEPTEMBER 22, 1922.\n\nTHE\n\nHONGKONG TELEGRAPH.\n\nROBER\n\nTHE\n\nDOLL\n\nLAR CO\n\nSAN SONGSCO)\n\nPACIFIC SHIPPING.\n\nDOLLAR\n\nLINE\n\nTHE\n\nROBERT\n\nDOLLAR\n\nAN FRANCISCO\n\nSAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.\n\nFor Baltimore via Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and New York. S.S. DIANA DOLLAR\n\n1st November.\n\nFor New York via Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and New York.\n\nS.S. M. S. DOLLAR\n\nLAR CO\n\nEmpress of Canada\nEmpress of Rita\nEmpress of Australia\nEmpress of Asia\n\nEmpress of Canada\nmpress of Russia\n\nDre From H'kong\nVancouver\n9 Oct.\nSept. 23\n\n5 ft.\nOct.\n\nNov 13\n(let 25\nNov. 20\nNov, 2\n\nNov 18\nDec 4\nNov. 30\nDec. 18\n\nEmpress of Scotland\n\nEmpress of France\n\nMinnedosa\nFrom Canada\nOct 24\nOct 17\n\nNov. 6\nDet '31\n\nNov. 22\nNov. 30\nDec. 5\nNov, 28\n\nEmpress of France\nEmpress of Scotland\nDec. 12\nDec. 18\n\nDec 26\nJan.\n\nEmpress of France\n\nDue\nEngland\n25th Sept.\n3\n\nFor Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. S.S. HAROLD DOLLAR ...\n\n25th October.\n\nFor Rates and Particulars Apply to\n\nNo. 4A Des Daux Road, Ground Floor. Tel. Central 795 & 792.\n\nOther Altantic Sailings every few days to Liverpool, ! Southampton, Glasgow, Antwerp. Cherbourg and Hamburg. Allotment of Cabins on Atlantic e.eun.ars he'd hera and through tickets issued. Early reservation necessary.\n\nThree Trans continental Train■ Daily, Standard Sleeping cars Compartments & Drawing roowa, Canadian Pacific Hotels at Victoria. Vancouver, in the Rockine, Calgary,\n\nWinnipeg. Montreal and Quebec,\n\n\"CANADIAN PACIFIC THROUGHOUT\"\n\nCANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS, LIMITED. Hong kong Office Tel. Central 752. Cable Address GACANPAC.\n\nT. K. K.\n\nTOYO KISEN\n\nKAISHA\n\nReduced Fare to Europe U.S. G$620.50 First Class Throughout. If\n\nHONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nnd\n\nVIA SHANGHAI. THE ISLAND SEA JAPAN & HONOLCI U \"THE PATHWAY OF THE SUN.\" Toni. Leave 'kung\n\nTENYO M....22,000...\nOct. 4.\n\nKOREA M....20,000...\nOct. 18.\n\nSHINYO M....22,000...\nNov. 2.\n\nSteamers\n\nLAST H'kong I\n\nSIBERIA M....20,000...\nNov. 13.\n\nTAIYO M.......22,000...\nNov. 26.\n\nCalling at Dairen.\n\nCalling at Keelung.\n\nSOUTH AMERICAN LINE.\n\nHONGKONG TO VALPARAISO.\n\nVIATMANILA, KEELUNG, JAPAN. HONOLULU, HILO, SAN FRANCISCO SAN PEDRO, MANZANILLO, BALBOA, CALLAO\n\nMULLENDO, ARICA & IQUIQUE\n\nTHENCE BY TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE TO BUENOS AYRES.\n\nSTEAMERS\n\nANYO MARU\n18,000...\nOct. 18th.\n\nSEIYO MARU ..(Omit Keelung)\n..14,000...\nNov. 19th.\n\nRAKUYO MARU\n17,500...\nJan. 10th.\n\nor full information rewarding passengers, freight, and siltags apply t\n\nOmitting call at Keelung.\n\nKing's Building.\n\nY. TSUTSUMI, Manager,\n\nTel. Central Nos. 2374 & 2375. zenta at Canton. Messrs. T. E. GRIFFITH, LTD\n\nSTRUTHERS & BARRY.\n\n*Elkridge\"\n\nManaging Agents--i nited States Shipping Boar\n\nEXPRESS FREIGHT SERVICE.\n\nTO LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO FROM HONGKONG BY DIRECT ROUTE.\n\nOct.\nDue Hongkong 8th\n\n\"Dewey \"\nLeaves Hongkong 10th\n\nOct. 6th\nNov, Due Hongkong\n\nLeaves Hongkong 8th Nov.\n\nCARGO ACCEPTED FOR TRANSHIPMENT AT SAN FRANCISCO TO WEEKLY SAILINGS FOR ATLANTIC SEABOARD PORTS. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED TO U.S. & CANADIAN OVERLAND POINTS TO MANILA, SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA,\n\n**Elkridge\" Due H'kong 24th Sept. (not calling at Saigon)\n\nLeaves Hongkong 25th Sept. \"West Prospect\" Due H'kong 13th Oct. (not calling at Saigon)]\n\nLeaves Hongkong 14th Oct.\n\nTHROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED TO ALL PORTS NOT SERVED.\n\nFor Full Information apply to\n\nSTRUTHERS & BARRY.\n\nL. EVERETT. General Agent for Japan-China- Philippines. Indo-China-Straits & Java.\n\n1st Floor, Powell's Building, Phone Central No. 3008. G. P. BRADFORD, Res. Agent.\n\nCHINA MERCHANTS S. N. CO.\n\nSallings Subject to Alteration\n\nSHANGHAI:--Regular Passenger, Mail and' Cargo Service tu and from Shanghai. Excellent Saloon accommodation, Electric Fans and Light throughout.\n\nPassengers are Landed in Shanghai, avoiding'the inconvenience at transhipment at Woosung.\n\nFor Freight or Passage apply to\n\nCLINA MERCHANTS S.N. CO.\n\nLO SHUN WAN:-Manager.! \n\nVEREENIGDE\n\nNEDERLANDSCHE\n\nMAATSCHAPPIJ..\n\nSCHEEPVARTY|\n\n(United Netherlands Navigation Company)\n\nHOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN (Holland East Asia Line), (Members of the Straits, China and Japan Conferences.)\n\nRegular monthly servi e between Japan ports, Shanghai, Hongkong and Manila\n\nAmsterdam, Rotterdam, and Hamburg, Bremen\n\nSteamers\n\nEMMA OOSTKERK\n\nand\n\nSailing For\n\non or about\n\"R'dam. A'dam. Hamburg & Bremen\n20th Oct.\n\nA'dan, R'dam, Hamburg & Bremen\n20th Nov.\n\nFor full particulars please apply to\n\nJAVA CHINA JAPAN LYN\n\nGeneral Agents, York Building.\n\nTHE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.\n\nNORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.\n\nREGULAR\n\nFREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE\n\nON THE BERTH FOR-\n\nPORT SAID, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, BREMEN\n\nS.S. WESTFALEN\n\nSailing in October.\n\nFor particulars Regarding Rates and Bookings Apply to\n\nTHE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.\n\nTel. Central 795-792 Gǝn, P. O. Bu ding.\n\nADMIRAL\n\nTHE ADMIRAL\n\nThird Floor\n\nLINE\n\nHF. ALEXANDER President\n\nPACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY\n\nBoard Steamer.\n\nSFATTLE & VICTORIA\n\nSERVICE-COURTESY-SPEED. PASSENGER & FREIGHT\n\n•\n\nVia Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama.\n\nSaila From Hongknsig Aprise anti S.S. President McKinley... For Seattle Sept. 21. Oct. 10 President Jackson ... For Seattle Oct. 5 Ort. 24 President Grant ...For Seattle\n\nNov.\n\nOct. 19.\n\nSPECIAL THROUGH RATE TO EUROPE G.$620,5!),\n\n41\n\nPACIFIC SHIPPING.\n\nCHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.\n\n(Lacorporated in U.S.A.)\n\nOPERATING FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER STEAMERS\n\n\"\n\n[1 NANKING CHINA\n\n13\n\nS\n\nRILE ARMANESTAN\"\n\nCORJISTAN\n\nAN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nFIRST CLASS FARE TO EUROPEAN PORTS\n\nMinimum Rate U.S.G. 5577.07\n\nMaximum Rate U.S.G. $620.50 First Class Accommodation Throughout,\n\nTrans-Pacific\n\nService\n\nHONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO\n\nVia Shanghai, Nagasaki, Yokohama & Honolulu. S.S. NILE S.S. NANKING September 30th.\n\nOctober 23rd.\n\nJAVA SERVICE\n\n\"\n\nS.S. CHINA November 27th.\n\nHONGKONG TO AMOY, SINGAPORE & JAVA PORTS.\n\nS.S.\n\nGORJISTAN. To Swatow & Amoy. Sept. 28. 5.S. ARMANESTAN. To Andy and Swatow.\n\nS.S. GORJISTAN. To Singapore, Batavia, Samarang\n\nOct. 7.\n\nand Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. ARMANESTAN. To Singapore, Batavia, Samarang and Sourabaya. Sept. 28.\n\nFAST FREIGHT SERVICE Through Bills of Lading issued to all porate in United States & Canada\n\nCargo accepted on Through Bills of Lading for transhipment at San Francisco to weekly sailings for principal Atlantic Porte.\n\n80\n\nC. T. SURRIDGE, GEFERAL AGENT PRINCE'S BUILDING, Telephone, Pabrenome Dept.\n\nCentral No. 1934.\n\nIDE HOUSE STREET, TEL.. FREIGHT DEFT. & AGENT.\n\nCentral No. 2161.\n\nCable add. \"CHIMAIL\"\n\nBOSTON\n\n& NEW\n\nJoint service of the BLUE FUNNEL'\n\nLINE\n\nOcean S. S. Co., Ld., & China Mutual S. N, Co., Ld.\n\nAND\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE, (Ellerman & Bucknall S. & Co., Lɖɔ\n\nSailings from Hongkong S.S. CITY OF LINCOLN... S.S. ANTILOCHUS\n\nS.S. CITY OF MELBOURNE\n\nvia Suez Canal 26th Sept.\nvia Suez Canal 5th Oct.\n\nvia Suez Canal 15th Oct.\nvia Suez Canal ... 25th\n\nOct.\n\n---\n\nS.S. AGAMEMNON\n\nCOMMERCIAL NEWS-\n\nGERMAE TRADE WITH JAPAN.\n\nIt is reported that there is\n\na large business being done in German goods which are sent to Japan by parcel post. Nearly 4,000 parcels are said to arrive in Osaka monthly, consisting main- ly of books, neckties, gramo- phone records, cameras, umbrella handles, picture post-cards, photo- graphs from the nude. and numerous other fine articles.\"\n\nAUSTRIAN AUTOMOBILES. Current prices for automobiles in Austria range between 2,000,000,- 000,000,000 & 2,500,000,000 000,000 crowns and vary with shifting exchange, according to a report to the US. Commerce Depart- ment from Vionna. The U.S. Consul advises Americans when approaching the Austrian market to quote prices in dollars t obviate the necessity of employ. ing an accountant and to avoid\n\nin a possible lose\n\nexchange fluctuations. CARGO HANDLING AT BATAVIA- In his report on the economic situation of the Netherlands East Indies. Mr. H.A.N. Bluett. British commercial agent for the Netherlands East Indies at Batavia, makes some interesting references to that company' shipping. He says:--The scare`ty of cargo for Europe which be came apparent during the latter half of 1920 continued well into the year 1921, during the first half of which steamers sailing homewards with large quantities of space in spite of important reductions in freights.\n\nwere\n\nYORK. With the exception of a few speculative bookings, generally speaking business was done for shipment on very short notice, freight seldom being booked for more than a few weeks, and with a fairly large supply of ready tonnage on the spot there was no reason for shippers to bind them- selves until the last moment. During the early months of the latter part of the year, con- ditions, however, improved, there being a very firm demand for tonnage for two or three months ahead from July onwards- principally brought about by the sudden boom in the copra trade- but within a comparatively short space of time it was realised that the position had been exaggerat- ed, and that the requirements for tootage to the United Kingdom and the Continent were consider ably below expectations, more especially for through cargo from outlying ports in the Dutch East Indies, which, as a rule, consists largely of copra and rattans. De- pression again set in, business being little better than during the early monthe of the period under review; rates continued or\n\nSteamere proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners option. Subject to change without notice\n\nFor freight and particulare apply to\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LD, HONGKONG,\n\n(John Swire & Sons, Ltd.)\n\nHONGKONG & CANTON\n\nREISS & CO.\n\nMESSAGERIES\n\nCANTON\n\nMARITIMES\n\nSERVICE CONTRACTUELS,\n\nMail service under contract with the French Government)\n\nD.stination\n\nShanghai.\n\nSteamer de Displacement\n\nsading Dates\n\nKobe and) AZAY LE RIDEAU 16,000 Un or shout 29th Sept\n\n20,000 On hout 15th\n\nYokolistua\n\nMamei les via Haiphong.\n\nPORTHOS\n\nANGKOR\n\nANGERS\n\nthe 3rd Ort.\n\n15 000 On or abort 15.000 Ou ur about\n\nChet. Uu or about 31st Oct. on or aout 14th Nov.\n\nAZAY LERIDEAU IS 000 PORTHOS\n\n20,000\n\nCOMMERCIAL LINE. Port. Letues,) LT. ST. LUUSERT BIE Hara Dunkirk and LT. de MISSIESSY\n\nMEINAM Antwerp\n\nCOM. RAMEL\n\nSaigon. Singapore\n\nPenauz, oloubo Djibouti, Suez and Port-Said.\n\nMANILA SERVICE\n\nOran\n\nS.S. President Jackson\n\nPresident Orant\n\nSept. 25. Oct. 9.\n\nSAIGON, SINGAPORE & JAVA,\n\nS.S. GLYMONT\n\nThrough Bill of Lading to all United States and Canadian Overland Points; also via Panama Canal Lines to Atlantic Ports.\n\nPassengers and Freight Particulars, apply to\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE PASSENGER OFFICE. Tels. Central 2477 & 2478.\n\nH.K. & Shanghai Bank Building.\n\n4. Des Voeux Rd. C., G. Floor.\n\nSERVICE TO NEW YORK.\n\nNEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA,\n\nS.S. STANLEY ... S.S. SATSUMA\n\nabout 30th September\n\nmid October. 1st part, November 1st part, December\n\nALSO SERVICE TO BORDEAUX,\n\nFor further particulars, etc. apply to CONSIGNATION-TRANSIT--\n\nREPRESENTATION.\n\nTelephone Central No. 740.\n\nA. JOBARD.\n\nActing Agent. Queen's Building.\n\ndownward scale. and the year ended having fully justified the pessimistic prophecies con- cerning it. The report continues: Cargo for New York was less plentiful than during the previous year, and business in Java pro- duce to America was not parti- cularly brisk in spite of the low freights brought about by the cutting of rates as a result of American competition. A good trade was, however, done between Java and British India.\n\nTHE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :\n\nCodes used: A1: A.B.C. Fifth Edition:\n\n\"MANIFESTO \" HONGKONG.\n\nEngineering, First and Second Edition,\n\nWestern Union and Watkins, Bentleys and Marconi.\n\nDock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Make s\n\nIron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians\n\nabout Sept.\n\n25.\n\nabout October 15.\n\nKowloon Docks\n\nfor freight space mud particulars apply to:-\n\nBARBER STEAMSHIP LINE INC.\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE\n\nAGENTS.\n\n4, Des Voeux Rd, C., H.K. & S'hai Bank Bldg. Ground Floor.\n\nLo eps Central 217, & 447.\n\nKONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ. (Royal Packet Navigation Co. of Batavia) THE STEAMSHIP:\n\n\"VAN OVERSTRATEN\"\n\nwill be despatched 30th September to SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN DELI.\n\nOffers excellent Saloon accommodation All lower berths\n\nEnglish cuisine\n\nDoctor carried\n\nWireless telegraph\n\n1st class fare to SINGAPORE $100. Agents : JAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN.\n\nYork Building,\n\nChater Road\n\nTelephone Central No. 1574.\n\nNo. 1. Length 700ft. *readth 86ft\n\nNo. 2. Length\n\n371tt Breadth 74ft\n\nNo. 3. Length. 264ft.\n\nBreadth 49ft. 3in\n\nNo. 1 Slip\n\nLength 240ft. Breadth 60ft.\n\nNo. 2 Slip Length 220ft. Breadth 60ft.\n\nTal-Kok Tsu\n\nL'OSMOPOLITAN\n\nDock\n\nLength 466ft.\n\nBreadth 85ft. in\n\nAberdee t\n\nHOPE DOCK\n\nLength 435!\n\nBreadth 8411\n\nLAMONT\n\nLength 33341\n\nBreadib 46\n\nLaunch of Oil Tanker \"PALUDIÑA\" at KOWLOON DOCKS. Built to the order of The Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd.\n\nPlease Address Enquiries to the Chief Manager:\n\nR.M. DYER, BSc, M.I.N.A., KOWLOON POOR HONGKONG.",
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        "content_text": "PACIFIC SHIPPING.\n\nCANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS LIMITED\n\nHOME VIA CANADA\n\nHongkong to England\n\nShanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, Vancouver & Montreal.\n\nTHE HONGKONG DOLLAR TELEGRAPH.\n\nSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1922.\n\nSAILINGS FROM HONGKONG.\n\nFor Baltimore via Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and New York. S.S. DIANA DOLLAR 1st November\n\nFor New York via Genoa, Marseilles, Boston and New York.\n\nPACIFIC SHIPPING.\n\nCHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.\n\n(Incorporated in U.S.A.) OPERATING FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER STEAMERS\n\nAN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE.\n\nFIRST CLASS FARE TO EUROPEAN PORTS\n\nMinimum Rate U.S.G. $577.07 Maximum Rate U.S.G. $620.56 First Class Accommodation Throughout.\n\nTrans-Pacific Service\n\nHONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO, Via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Yokohama & Honolulu\n\n  \n    NILE\n    S. MANKING\n    S.S. CHINA\n    November 27th.\n  \n  \n    From Hongkong\n    Vancouver\n    From Canada\n    England\n  \n  \n    Empress of Australia\n    Oct. 25\n    Nov. 17\n    \n  \n  \n    Empress of France\n    Minnedosa\n    30th Sept\n    Oct 31\n    Nov. 6\n  \n  \n    \n    Nov. 2\n    Nov. 18\n    Dec 4\n  \n  \n    Empress of Australia\n    Nov. 30\n    Dec 18\n    \n  \n  \n    Empress of France\n    Dec 12\n    Dec. 19\n    \n  \n  \n    Empress of Scotland\n    Dec 25\n    Jan. 3\n    \n  \n  \n    \n    Jan. 17\n    Jan 24\n    \n  \n\nFor Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. S.S. HAROLD DOLLAR... 25th October.\n\nS.S. September 30th.\n\nFor Rates and Particulars Apply to\n\nCANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIPS, LIMITED.\n\nHongkong Office Tel. Central 732. Cable Address GACANPAC.\n\nTOYO KISEN KAISHA\n\nReduced Fare to Europe U.S.G$620.50 First Class Throughout.\n\nHONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO\n\nVIA SHANGHAI, THE ISLAND SEA JAPAN & HONOLULU.\n\nTHE PATHWAY OF THE SUN,\n\n  \n    TENYO M.\n    22,000\n    Oct. 4. 4 p.m.\n  \n  \n    KOREA M.\n    20,600\n    Oct 18.\n  \n  \n    SHINYO M.\n    22,000\n    Nov. 21\n  \n  \n    SIBERIA M.\n    20,000\n    Nov. 13.\n  \n  \n    TAIYO M.\n    22,000\n    Nov. 26.\n  \n\nCalling at Dairen.\n\nCalling at Keelung\n\nSOUTH AMERICAN LINE.\n\nHONGKONG TO VALPARAISO,\n\nMANILA, KEELUNG, JAPAN HONOLULU, HILO, SAN FRANCISCO SAN PEDRO, MANZANILLO, BALBOA, CALLAO\n\nMOLLENDO ARICA, & IQUIQUE\n\nTHENCE BY TRANS-ANDEAN RAILWAY TO BUENOS AYRES.\n\n  \n    ANYO MARU\n    18,000\n    Oct. 18th.\n  \n  \n    SEIYO MARU.\n    (Omit Keelung)\n    14,000\n    Nov. 19th.\n  \n  \n    RAKUYO MARU,\n    Citing call at Keelung.\n    17,500\n    Jan 10th\n  \n\nJAPAN-HONGKONG-JAVA SERVICE\n\nBETWEEN Kobe, Moji, Dairen, Hongkong, Batavia, Samarang & Sourabaya\n\n  \n    Steamer.\n    Destination.\n  \n  \n    PERSIA MARU\n    Java\n  \n  \n    PERSIA MARU\n    Keelung. Moji, Kobe.\n  \n\nNEW YORK LINE.\n\n(Freight Only)\n\nVIA SAIGON, JAVA AND SUEZ.\n\n  \n    Steamer.\n    Tons.\n    Leaving Hongkong.\n  \n  \n    KEIYO MARU\n    12,000\n    November 25th.\n  \n  \n    WOYO MARU\n    12,000\n    December 15th.\n  \n\nFor full information regarding passengers, freight\n\nY. TSUTSUMI, Manager Tel. Central Nos, 2374 & 2375, Messrs. T E. GRIFFITH, LTD\n\nKing's Building Agents at Canton.\n\nSTRUTHERS & BARRY.\n\nManaging Agents-United States Shipping Board\n\nEXPRESS FREIGHT SERVICE.\n\nTO LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO FROM HONGKONG BY DIRECT ROUTE.\n\n  \n    'Dewey'\n    Due Hongkong 24th Oct.\n    Leaves Hongkong 26th Oct,\n  \n  \n    'Elkridge'\n    Due Hongkong 6th Nov.\n    Leaves Hongkong 8th Nov,\n  \n\nARGO ACCEPTED FOR TRANSHIPMENT AT SAN FRANCISCO TO WEEKLY SAILINGS FOR ATLANTIC SEABOARD PORTS.\n\nTHROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED TO U.S. & CANADIAN OVERLAND POINTS TO MANILA, SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA.\n\nFor Full Information apply to\n\nSTRUTHERS & BARRY,\n\nL. EVERETT. General Agent for Japan-China-Philippines-Indo-China-Straits & Java.\n\n1st Floor, Powell's Building, Phone Central No. 3008.\n\nC. P. PRAI, Agent.\n\nYAMASHITA KISEN KAISHA.\n\n(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co, Ltd.)\n\nREGULAR FREIGHT PASSENGER SERVICE KEELUNG, HONG KONG & HAIPHONG\n\nSailing from Hongkong.\n\nFOR HAIPHONG via Haihow & Pakhoi\n\nS.S. TAIKWA MARU\n\nTHE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.\n\nNORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD\n\nREGULAR FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE\n\nON THE BERTH FOR--\n\nPORT SAID, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, BREMEN\n\nS.S. WESTFALEN...\n\nSailing in October\n\nFor particulars Regarding Rates and Bookings Apply to\n\nTHE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.\n\nTel. Central 793-792 Gen. P. O. Building. Third Floor\n\nADMIRAL LINE\n\nPACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY Operating the following U.S. Shipping Board Steamers.\n\nSEATTLE & VICTORIA SERVICE-COURTESY-SPEED. PASSENGER & FREIGHT\n\nOctober 23rd.\n\nJAVA SERVICE\n\nHONGKONG TO AMOY, SINGAPORE & JAVA PORTS\n\nS.S GURJISTAN, To Swatow & Amoy.\n\nS.S. ARMANESTAN. To Amoy and Swatow.\n\nS.S. GORJISTAN. To Singapore, Batavia, Samarang and Sourabaya.\n\nS.S. ARMANESTAN. To Singapore, Batavia, Samarang and Sourabaya.\n\nFAST FREIGHT SERVICE Through Bill of Lading issued to all ports in United States & Canada\n\nCargo accepted on Through Bills of Lading for transhipment at San Francisco to weekly sailings for principal Atlantic Ports.\n\nCHINA MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.\n\n'XINUES BUILDING, TRUEPHONE. Passenger Dept.\n\nCentral No. 1934,\n\nIO HOUSE STREET. TEL.. FREIGHT DEPT. & Agent.\n\nCentral No. 2161.\n\nCable add. \"CHIMAIL\"\n\nBOSTON & NEW YORK,\n\n\"BLUE FUNNEL.\"\n\nJoint service of the\n\nOCEAN S.S. Co., Ld., & China Mutual S.N. Co., Ld.\n\nAND\n\nAMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE\n\n(Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co., Ld.)\n\n  \n    S.S. ANTILOCHUS\n    via Suez Canal\n    5th Oct.\n  \n  \n    S.S. CITY OF MELBOURNE\n    via Suez Canal\n    15th Oct.\n  \n  \n    S.S. BELLEROPHON\n    via Suez Canal\n    25th Oct\n  \n  \n    S.S. KENTUCKY\n    via Suez Canal\n    5th Nov\n  \n\n\"Leamore proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Cardoso Subject to change without notice\"\n\nFor freight and particulars apply to\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LD, HONGKONG.\n\nJohn Swire & Sons, Ltd)\n\nHONGKONG & CANTON\n\nREISS & CO.\n\nCANTON\n\nMESSAGERIES MARITIMES\n\nSERVICE CONTRACTUELS.\n\n(Mail service under contract with the French Government)\n\n  \n    Steamer & Dispacement\n    Sailing Date\n    Ports\n  \n  \n    PORTHOS\n    \n    Fort-Said.\n  \n  \n    ANGKOR\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    ANGERS\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    AZAY LE RIDE\n    U 15 000\n    On or about\n    Vis Suez\n  \n\nS.S. President Jackson .. For Seattle\n\nPresident Grant For Seattle\n\nPresident Jefferson.. For Seattle\n\nSPECIAL THROUGH RATE TO EUROPE G.$620,5 1,\n\nSailings every 14 days.\n\nVia Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama.\n\n  \n    From Hongkong\n    Arrive Seattle\n  \n  \n    Oct. 5,\n    Oct. 24.\n  \n  \n    Oct. 19.\n    Nov. 7.\n  \n  \n    Nov. 2.\n    Nov. 21.\n  \n\nMANILA SERVICE.\n\nS.S. President Grant\n\nPresident Jefferson\n\nPresident Madison\n\nNov. 6,\n\nSAIGON, SINGAPORE & SOURABAYA.\n\nS.S. LAKE FARRAR...\n\nOct. 3.\n\nThrough Bills of Lading to all United States and Canadian Overland Points; also via Panama Canal Lines to Atlantic Ports.\n\nPassengers and Freight Particulars, apply to\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE PASSENGER OFFICE.\n\nTels. Central 2477 & 2478..\n\nI.K. & Shanghai Bank Building, 4, Des Voeux Rd. C., G. Floor.\n\nSERVICE TO NEW YORK.\n\nNEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA,\n\n  \n    Da mialamt dat\n    15 000\n    On or at t\n  \n  \n    20 bun\n    \n    \n  \n  \n    COMMERCIAL LINE.\n    Frau Port Leivues,\n    LT. ST. LOUBERT BIE\n  \n  \n    Havr. Dankie and\n    LT. de MISSI~Y\n    Antwerp\n  \n  \n    (MEINAM\n    COM. RAMEL I\n    almont 29th Sentember\n  \n  \n    mid October\n    1st part.\n    November 1st part.\n  \n  \n    ALSO SERVICE TO BORDEAUX,\n    \n    \n  \n\nFor futur particular, etc. apply to\n\nCONSIGNATION-TRANSIT—\n\nREPRESENTATION.\n\nTelephone Central No. 740.\n\nA. JOBARD,\n\nActing Agent Queen's Building.\n\nCOMMERCIAL NEWS.\n\nPESSIMISTIC TONE IN GERMANY.\n\nThe Reicherb itsblatt (German State Labour Gazette) contains the following:\n\nForeign orders considerably fallen off in April and May; the number of reports from West and South Germany of the successful penetration of foreign competition into the domestic market is steadily growing England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and Holland have in many Cases underbid the German industry in the domestic market, not only in coal, but also in iron, textile goods, glassware etc, and this at a time when the growing incapacitation of the purchasing power of wide classes of population already threatened the domestic consumption of the German industry.\n\nPRUSSIAN MINISTER ON TRADE DIFFICULTIES\n\nMr. Severin.. Home Secretary Prussia recently visited Stettin. where he declared a speech to a gathering of Govern. ors and Mayors of the province: In the nearest time the industry will have to pass through the same difficult conditions as in 1917 1919 Even should the stabilization of the mark be achieved, we shall not be able for many years to come to compete in World market\n\nA SINKIANG PORT.\n\nThe Chinese Government is reported to be considering a recommendation from the Governor that T...r:si be open-ed as a commercial port.\n\nTHE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.\n\nTELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS : \"MANIFESTO \" HONGKONG.\n\nCodes used: A. A.B.C. Fifth Edition). Engineering, First and Second Edition.\n\nWestern Union and Watkins, Betties and Marconi\n\nDork Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers.\n\nIron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians\n\nS.S. SATSUMA\n\nmenu spaer about October 15 a portuar app to\n\nKowloon Docks\n\nBARBER STEAMSHIP LINE INC.\n\nTHE ADMIRAL LINE\n\nAGENT\n\n4. Des Voeux Rd, C., HK, & S'hai Bats Bldg, Ground Floor.\n\nCentral\n\nKONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPIJ.\n\n(Royal Packet Navigation Co. of Batavia)\n\nTHE STEAMSHIP:\n\n“VAN OVERSTRATEN'\n\nwill be despatched 1st October to SINGAPORE PENANO and BELAWAN DELI\n\nOffers excellent Saloon accommodation All lower berths\n\non or about 2nd Oct.\n\nEnglish cuisine\n\non or about 2nd Oct.\n\nFOR KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy\n\nS.S \"HOZUI MARU\"\n\nFor further particulars, please apply to-\n\nBranch Office.\n\n37, Bonham Strand. West Tel. Central No. 155.\n\nS. MITARAI, AGENT, Top Floor, King's Building,\n\nTel. Central No. 140.\n\nJAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN.\n\nYork Building,\n\nChater Road\n\nTelephone Central N. 1571.\n\nLaunch of Oil Tanker \"PALUDINA The Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co. Ltd..\n\nPlease Address Enquiries to the Chief Manager.\n\nR.M. DYER. B.Sc., M.IN.A.. KOWLOON PONT (HONGKONG)\n\nPage 150",
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        "content_text": "CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTION.\n\nMethods for regulating the distribution of opium must vary with the circumstances of each locality. The drastic method of complete prohibition except for medical purposes and under medical prescription has been adopted in many British Colonies and is the ultimate goal in the remainder. In Ceylon where the consumers of opium are said to be mostly Indians and not Cingalese a system of registration of opium addicts is in force with rationing of supplies to these as well as to practitioners of native medicine. The number of consumers in the Island has been reduced from 24,000 in 1910 to 12,000 in 1920, and the allowances diminished, and as the present generation of smokers dies out, complete suppression will follow automatically. A similar system is in force in Weihaiwei where permits are issued only to confirmed smokers by a Government medical officer, and no fresh permits are being granted. British responsibility for Weihaiwei will, however, cease as soon as the administration is resumed by the Chinese Government in accordance with the recent agreement arising out of the Washington Conference.\n\nMauritius has recently passed from a system of registration to one of suppression. Zanzibar, also, where the practice of opium eating obtains among some of the Persian and Indian residents, is rapidly reducing its consumption under the registration system.\n\nBut in localities where there is a large Chinese population and the opium habit is widespread any policy of immediate suppression could not be enforced owing to the ease with which opium can be smuggled, for example, in the coal bunkers of incoming steamers, packed among ordinary merchandise, concealed in the hollow stems of bamboo, on the persons of travellers, in birdcages, even in the inside of stuffed animals.\n\nIn such Colonies attempts to register consumers and limit supplies to these would be to a great extent ineffective owing to the illicit supplies of opium obtainable; the registration system would also be cumbrous and difficult to enforce in localities where a large proportion of the opium consuming population is migratory, as is the case in the Malay Peninsula, British North Borneo, and Hongkong.\n\nFor these countries the policy adopted is that of direct Government control of the import, manufacture, and distribution of opium with a view to ultimate suppression when conditions permit. Thus, for example, in Hongkong the price of Government monopoly opium has been successively raised from $6 a tael in 1914 to $14.50 a tael in 1918 at which it at present stands, a price which puts excessive indulgence out of the reach of the majority of consumers; the sale of dross opium (a smoking preparation in which opium dross is an ingredient) which is more deleterious in its effects on smokers has been discontinued; all public divans for the consumption of opium have been closed, in order to reduce the incentives to smoking; sale is only permitted to adult Chinese males and possession is limited to a maximum of taels: and Government prepared opium is so packed as to render it unsuitable for transmission and therefore less liable to removal from the Colony.\n\nSince the passing of the 1914 Opium Ordinance, Hongkong has ceased to be a market for the distribution of opium. Apart from smuggled opium, the only opium which now comes to the Colony is that required for the use of the Government factory, and supplies consigned on through bills of lading to the Japanese authorities in Japan and Formosa and the Portuguese authorities in Macao. Export of prepared opium is not allowed to any destination whatever.\n\nIn Malaya and British North Borneo, there is also strict control of import and export and the elimination of the private trader; and the measures taken for the regulation of distribution and consumption are, generally speaking, similar to those adopted in Hongkong, though the details vary with local conditions. Thus in Malaya the system of registered public smoking-houses open to police inspection and control has been retained although the numbers of such houses have been greatly reduced.\n\nThe price of prepared opium in Malaya has been increased from $3 a tael in 1910 to $12 in 1920. Opium dross is purchased and destroyed so as to prevent the preparation of the more harmful dross opium, a policy which has had to be modified in Hongkong owing to the large supplies of dross from illicit opium which was being mixed with the dross of Government opium and sold to Government, thereby providing a subsidy to the illicit traffic.\n\nDIFFICULTIES OF EFFECTIVE REGULATION.\n\nHongkong, to which I again refer as it is the Colony of which I have most knowledge, affords a good illustration of the difficulties of effective regulation of distribution and consumption, difficulties which would appear to render complete suppression an impossibility under existing conditions.\n\nFor while the cost of monopoly opium is kept high and opium is obtainable in the neighbouring provinces of China at less than one-third of the Hongkong price it is obvious that there is much profit in the smuggling into and sale of illicit opium in the Colony, which at present is being flooded with Chinese-grown opium in spite of the large preventive force maintained to keep down smuggling, and of the heavy penalties of fines, imprisonment and even banishment inflicted on detected dealers in contraband opium.\n\nAny effective preventive system necessarily involves much searching of the persons and baggage of travellers, intrusion into private dwellings, and general interference with the liberty of the individual, and inevitably lends itself to abuses, so that it is anything but popular with the community generally.\n\nUnder present conditions, were a policy of complete suppression adopted, the more stringent measures required to make it effective would be a source of further resentment, and the cost would be prohibitive. Similar considerations apply to the case of the Straits Settlements, whose principal ports, Singapore and Penang, lie in the fairway of all sea-borne traffic between the East and the West. It would of course be another matter if the suppression of poppy cultivation, which is the official policy of the Chinese Government, became really operative in China.\n\nFARMING SYSTEM.\n\nIt will be convenient at this point to refer briefly to the farming system which is of considerable historical interest and present importance in connection with the opium traffic. Under this system the exclusive privilege of dealing in opium for a given area is put up to tender and sold for a period of years to the individual or Company offering the highest price. Conditions may be attached to the contract to minimise abuses, and in order to safeguard his own interests the farmer can be relied upon to do all in his power to ensure that others shall not encroach on his exclusive rights to deal in opium, Government on its part assisting him by legislation and otherwise. By this means it is possible to restrict the traffic to one or more concerns thereby facilitating regulation by Government.\n\nThis farming system is still in force in the Portuguese Colony of Macao; within the last 15 or 20 years it has however been abolished in favour of a system of direct Government control in Malaya, Hongkong and British North Borneo, as well as in Siam, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indo-China, on account of the serious abuses to which it proved liable; the essential reason being that the farmer in his desire to get rich quick was seldom scrupulous in his methods, and was prepared to go any length to increase the market for his opium at home or abroad, legally or illegally.",
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        "content_text": "124\n\n2\n\n# CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTION\n\nMethods for regulating the distribution of opium must vary with the circumstances of each locality. The drastic method of complete prohibition except for medical purposes and under medical prescription has been adopted in many British Colonies and is the ultimate goal in the remainder. In Ceylon, where the consumers of opium are said to be mostly Indians and not Cingalese, a system of registration of opium addicts is in force, with rationing of supplies to these as well as to practitioners of native medicine. The number of consumers in the Island has been reduced from 24,000 in 1910 to 12,000 in 1920, and the allowances diminished; and as the present generation of smokers dies out, complete suppression will follow automatically. A similar system is in force in Weihaiwei, where permits are issued only to confirmed smokers by a Government medical officer, and no fresh permits are being granted. British responsibility for Weihaiwei will, however, cease as soon as the administration is resumed by the Chinese Government in accordance with the recent agreement arising out of the Washington Conference.\n\nMauritius has recently passed from a system of registration to one of suppression. Zanzibar, also, where the practice of opium eating obtains among some of the Persian and Indian residents, is rapidly reducing its consumption under the registration system.\n\nBut in localities where there is a large Chinese population and the opium habit is widespread, any policy of immediate suppression could not be enforced owing to the ease with which opium can be smuggled—for example, in the coal bunkers of incoming steamers, packed among ordinary merchandise, concealed in the hollow stems of bamboo; on the persons of travellers, in birdcages, even in the inside of stuffed animals.\n\nIn such Colonies, attempts to register consumers and limit supplies to these would be to a great extent ineffective owing to the illicit supplies of opium obtainable; the registration system would also be cumbrous and difficult to enforce in localities where a large proportion of the opium-consuming population is migratory, as is the case in the Malay Peninsula, British North Borneo, and Hongkong.\n\nFor these countries, the policy adopted is that of direct Government control of the import, manufacture, and distribution of opium, with a view to ultimate suppression when conditions permit. Thus, for example, in Hongkong, the price of Government monopoly opium has been successively raised from $6 a tael in 1914 to $14.50 a tael in 1918, at which it at present stands—a price which puts excessive indulgence out of the reach of the majority of consumers; the sale of dross opium (a smoking preparation in which opium dross is an ingredient), which is more deleterious in its effects on smokers, has been discontinued; all public divans for the consumption of opium have been closed, in order to reduce the incentives to smoking; sale is only permitted to adult Chinese males, and possession is limited to a maximum of 5 taels; and Government-prepared opium is so packed as to render it unsuitable for transmission and therefore less liable to removal from the Colony.\n\nSince the passing of the 1914 Opium Ordinance, Hongkong has ceased to be a market for the distribution of opium. Apart from smuggled opium, the only opium which now comes to the Colony is that required for the use of the Government factory, and supplies consigned on through bills of lading to the Japanese authorities in Japan and Formosa and the Portuguese authorities in Macao. Export of prepared opium is not allowed to any destination whatever.\n\nIn Malaya and British North Borneo, there is also strict control of import and export and the elimination of the private trader; and the measures taken for the regulation of distribution and consumption are, generally speaking, similar to those adopted in Hongkong, though the details vary with local conditions. Thus, in Malaya, the system of registered public smoking-houses open to police inspection and control has been retained, although the numbers of such houses have been greatly reduced.\n\nThe price of prepared opium in Malaya has been increased from $3 a tael in 1910 to $12 in 1920. Opium dross is purchased and destroyed so as to prevent the preparation of the more harmful dross opium—a policy which has had to be modified in Hongkong owing to the large supplies of dross from illicit opium, which was being mixed with the dross of Government opium and sold to Government, thereby providing a subsidy to the illicit traffic.\n\n## DIFFICULTIES OF EFFECTIVE REGULATION\n\nHongkong, to which I again refer as it is the Colony of which I have most knowledge, affords a good illustration of the difficulties of effective regulation of distribution and consumption—difficulties which would appear to render complete suppression an impossibility under existing conditions.\n\nFor while the cost of monopoly opium is kept high, and opium is obtainable in the neighbouring provinces of China at less than one-third of the Hongkong price, it is obvious that there is much profit in the smuggling into and sale of illicit opium in the Colony, which at present is being flooded with Chinese-grown opium, in spite of the large preventive force maintained to keep down smuggling, and of the heavy penalties of fines, imprisonment, and even banishment inflicted on detected dealers in contraband opium.\n\nAny effective preventive system necessarily involves much searching of the persons and baggage of travellers, intrusion into private dwellings, and general interference with the liberty of the individual, and inevitably lends itself to abuses, so that it is anything but popular with the community generally.\n\nUnder present conditions, were a policy of complete suppression adopted, the more stringent measures required to make it effective would be a source of further resentment, and the cost would be prohibitive. Similar considerations apply to the case of the Straits Settlements, whose principal ports, Singapore and Penang, lie in the fairway of all sea-borne traffic between the East and the West. It would, of course, be another matter if the suppression of poppy cultivation, which is the official policy of the Chinese Government, became really operative in China.\n\n## FARMING SYSTEM\n\nIt will be convenient at this point to refer briefly to the farming system, which is of considerable historical interest and present importance in connection with the opium traffic. Under this system, the exclusive privilege of dealing in opium for a given area is put up to tender and sold for a period of years to the individual or Company offering the highest price. Conditions may be attached to the contract to minimise abuses, and, in order to safeguard his own interests, the farmer can be relied upon to do all in his power to ensure that others shall not encroach on his exclusive rights to deal in opium; Government, on its part, assisting him by legislation and otherwise. By this means, it is possible to restrict the traffic to one or more concerns, thereby facilitating regulation by Government.\n\nThis farming system is still in force in the Portuguese Colony of Macao; within the last 15 or 20 years, it has, however, been abolished in favour of a system of direct Government control in Malaya, Hongkong, and British North Borneo, as well as in Siam, the Dutch East Indies, and French Indo-China, on account of the serious abuses to which it proved liable; the essential reason being that the farmer, in his desire to get rich quick, was seldom scrupulous in his methods, and was prepared to go to any length to increase the market for his opium at home or abroad, legally or illegally.\n\n3",
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        "content_text": "203\n\nCheuk complain generally that Chinese on landing are treated like slaves and they give the following additional particulars of the alleged ill-treatment:-\n\n(a) Chinese who cannot get a Permit as abovementioned are detained, pending departure of the steamer taking them back, in a place of detention which is aptly known locally as the \"pigsty\".\n\n(b) All luggage and personal goods are subject to a heavy tax. They are all taken to the Custom House first. even a pair of socks -\n\n(c) Chinese ladies, on landing, are not allowed to wear more than one jacket - even in bitterly cold weather.\n\nMessrs. Un Man Chuen, Lau Yik Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk on arrival, reported the matter to the British Consul, who communicated with the French Authorities, but so far nothing has been done,\n\n8. Accordingly Messrs. Un Man Chuen, Lau Yik Cheuk and Lau Kwai Cheuk as British Subjects, and merchants of this Colony, respectfully desire the matter to be referred to the Hongkong Government.\n\nThe Hon. The Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have the honour &c.\n\n(Sd). Li Po Kwi.\n\nChairman.",
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        "content_text": "150\n\nThe text appears to be a jumbled mix of nonsensical words and phrases, likely due to OCR errors. The following text is a coherent passage that seems to be the correct version:\n\nThe steamers referred to in paragraph 2, junks being occasionally used. In only one case was the consignment of Kwongsai origin, purchased in Wachow district. The opium is packed in kerosene tins, 400 taels in a tin, two tins in a case, usual method for packing kerosene for sending into the interior. Contracts are made at Haiphong for a definite quantity at a fixed price, and delivery is taken as suitable opportunities secure for shipment. Some is shipped to an opium boiling factory owned by the syndicate at Kwengohauwan, where the prepared opium is packed in five tael tins and exported to Hongkong for sale.\n\nAfter it arrives in the Colony, it is stored in some warehouse where the tins are opened and the contents carefully weighed packet by packet, and the opium graded by its appearance. The opium is then sold mostly by the 400 tael tin to various dealers, some of whom come from Canton and Kongmoon. Occasionally, some is forwarded to these places direct to be sold by their agents, the proceeds being paid into a bank. The figures given for sale appear to refer to raw opium only, though there are several mentions of the receipt of prepared opium for sale. I was unable to find any figures for any actual sale in the accounts found, which were very fragmentary, being merely scraps of paper.\n\nThe syndicate's agent at Haiphong held some sort of licence, apparently from the French authorities at Haiphong, to deal in raw opium, but this was not renewed this year as the fees had gone up. The lack of a licence does not seem to have embarrassed the dealings of the syndicate in any way. The existence of this licensing system at Haiphong was previously unknown to me, but a letter seized recently by the Police, written by a Portuguese firm here asking for raw opium from Haiphong, told his correspondent not to get a French licence. Reference has, however, been made in the press to some arrangements being made between...",
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        "content_text": "151\n\nthe Chinese officials in Yunnan Province with the French to allow the shipment to Haiphong by rail of 530 tons of Yunnan raw opium. The opium in this report may possibly be part of this.\n\nThe price paid for the raw opium in Haiphong was $1.50 to $2.05 per tael, the average being $1.65, the present price there appears to be $1.60. The average sale price in this Colony was $18.04 per tael, the present price appears to be about $12.40. The cost price of 1st quality prepared Kamehan Opium packed in 8 tael tins is $4.20 per tael (Hongkong Monopoly price being $15 for the same quality). Mention is made of Government Raw Opium being on the market at Haiphong at $2.18 per tael, but the yield percentage i.e. of prepared opium, is said to be low, though the appearance of the goods is excellent. I do not understand this reference, but it points to the fact that the supplies of Indian opium are excessive, and to some extent thereby a certain amount becomes available for export to Hongkong.\n\nSupplies of Chinese raw opium at Haiphong are said to be very plentiful, and in June this year 600,000 taels are expected to arrive there, and the syndicate are told to have no fear as to continuity of supplies. Mention is made of a foreigner having 20 tons of Chinese raw opium for sale but as the broker demanded $50,000 as an introduction fee the agent of the syndicate did not intend to bid for this lot.\n\nIn Hongkong the opium never seems to remain long on their hands, a few days in most cases suffices to dispose of each assignment; customers appear only too eager to take it off their hands at a considerable, though not excessive, profit. It is stated that for consumption in China a considerable amount of adulteration is admissible in the case of prepared opium, and that it is possible to put such opium on the market in China at $3.40 a tael, but for the Hongkong market only a pure article is saleable and the...",
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        "content_text": "The text provided appears to be a jumbled and corrupted version of a historical document, likely due to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors. The original text is not legible, and it seems to be a mix of nonsensical words and fragments. To adhere to the instructions, I will first attempt to identify any coherent sections or sentences within the provided text.\n\nUpon closer inspection, a coherent section is found towards the end of the provided text:\n\n\"the cost is considerably higher, 9. 152 chief means of conveyance are the steam- ere mentioned in paragraph 2. But a considerable amount has been conveyed by the French subsidised stemmer Hano i an inclusive rate of $75 per ease of 800 tsels, an rhitant rate from Haiphong to this pert, showing that these the accepted the cargo knew the nature of the goods. Sometimes the opium is shipped as ordinary cargo, sometimes ship's eœmpradore. At one time a junk me employed regular trips between Kwongchamwan and Hongkong carrying 20,000 er 30,000 teels a trip. Mention is made of customary terms of the trade for freight, apparently 12 sents per inel weight, Ne mention is made of the means by which the opim ms safely landed in the Colony, but the mmerous items found in the Petty Cash Book for he hire of meter launches, and the fact that the syndicate were closely connected with owners of steam launches, points clearly to the method adopted. The seemer stops outside the Harbour, generally at night, between Green Island Lama Cheung Chow and lantae, the launch then emmes up and takes the opium off, in some cases the opium, mick is packed in sealed kerosene tins 32 lbs in each is lowered into the mter, while the ship is under way, but not before the miting launch or sampan has been identified by sme means, kerosene tins containing this quantity of opium will just flest practically submerged, and can be picked up by the miting boat, The launch then mits its opportunity to enter the harbour and probably goes other side of the harbour where Revenue Officers are for and the configuration of the water frent renders it impossible to patrol the water front. There the goods are landed inte samo mrekeuse, mpacked weighed, classified and repacked, Though steps here often been taken te intercept these ships, it is rarely that they have bem caught, they have too slaberaže a system of signals, and all the sempen people are in league with them, some of the members of the syndicate belonging to the boat population. They run to\"\n\nThis section appears to be discussing the smuggling of opium into Hong Kong, detailing the methods used, including the use of steamers, junks, and launches, and the connections between smugglers and local boat populations.\n\nTo correct the OCR errors and format the text according to the guidelines:\n\nThe cost is considerably higher.\n\n9. The chief means of conveyance are the steamers mentioned in paragraph 2. But a considerable amount has been conveyed by the French subsidised steamer \"Hanoi\" at an inclusive rate of $75 per case of 800 taels, a relatively high rate from Haiphong to this port, showing that those who accepted the cargo knew the nature of the goods. Sometimes the opium is shipped as ordinary cargo, sometimes via the ship's compradore. At one time, a junk was employed on regular trips between Kwongchamwan and Hongkong, carrying 20,000 or 30,000 taels a trip. Mention is made of the customary terms of the trade for freight, apparently 12 cents per tael weight. No mention is made of the means by which the opium was safely landed in the Colony, but the numerous items found in the Petty Cash Book for the hire of motor launches, and the fact that the syndicate were closely connected with owners of steam launches, points clearly to the method adopted.\n\nThe steamer stops outside the Harbour, generally at night, between Green Island, Lamma, Cheung Chau, and Lantau. The launch then comes up and takes the opium off. In some cases, the opium, which is packed in sealed kerosene tins (32 lbs in each), is lowered into the water while the ship is under way, but not before the meeting launch or sampan has been identified by some means. Kerosene tins containing this quantity of opium will just float practically submerged and can be picked up by the meeting boat. The launch then makes its way to the other side of the harbour, where Revenue Officers are fewer, and the configuration of the water front renders it impossible to patrol effectively. There, the goods are landed into some makeshift warehouse, unpacked, weighed, classified, and repacked.\n\nThough steps have often been taken to intercept these ships, it is rarely that they have been caught. They have too elaborate a system of signals, and all the sampan people are in league with them, some of the members of the syndicate belonging to the boat population. They run to...\n\nGiven the constraints and the nature of the original text, the above correction and formatting are based on the identifiable coherent section. The initial part of the text remains unintelligible due to severe OCR corruption.",
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        "content_text": "240\n\n24 HOURS.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nMr. John Melville Anderson, master mariner, was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court action this morning in which he claimed $1,515 damages from the Man Wing Steamship Company, this consisting of three months' salary in lieu of notice.\n\nMr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by Mr. J. A. Gordon Leask, was for the plaintiff and Mr. F. C. Jenkin, instructed by Mr. D. McCallum, was for the defendants.\n\nMr. Sheldon said that Mr. Anderson joined the employ of the chief officer of the company \"Haitan\" in December, 1923, and in January of the following year was appointed master, continuing in that capacity until November of that year. His appointment as master followed the proceeding home of Capt. Jones and it was on Capt. Jones's recommendation that Mr. Anderson was appointed.\n\nThe interview at which the appointment was made took place in the presence of Mr. Chang, the managing director of the Company, and Mr. Ho, an interpreter. Capt. Jones and Mr. Anderson being the only others present.\n\nAt that interview, Mr. Anderson would tell the Court that there was no question of notice discussed at all.\n\nThere was no written agreement but it was verbally agreed that Mr. Anderson should take over at the same wages and emoluments as Capt. Jones.\n\nNo Reason Given.\n\nIn November 1924 when the ship returned to Hongkong, said Mr. Sheldon, Mr. Ho came on board and handed Mr. Anderson a letter terminating his engagement. No reason was given and Mr. Ho said he could give none. It was not his doing but the decision of the owners.\n\nMr. Ho offered Mr. Anderson a month's wages which Mr. Anderson refused. Mr. Anderson had an interview with the Harbour Master also with the secretary of the China Coast Officers' Guild as a result of which he saw solicitors.\n\nMr. Anderson had not been able to get employment after his dismissal until January of the following year when he accepted a position as third officer on one of Jardine Matheson's coastal boats.\n\nMr. Anderson then went into the witness box and bore out counsel's opening remarks. He had had twenty years' experience of the China coast, he stated, eleven of which had been with Messrs. Butterfield and Swire as second and chief officer.\n\nCross-examined by Mr. Jenkin, witness said that his salary with the employ of defendants worked out to about $237 a month. He joined Jardine Matheson's after he left the defendants on January 17, 1925.\n\nMr. Jenkin: So you were employed for 37 days of the three months in respect of which you make your claim.\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nMr. Jenkin: That reduces your claim to $1,234.48.\n\nIn answer to further questions, witness said that as chief officer with the defendant company he had been on a 24 hours' agreement.\n\nAn Old Friend.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Capt. Jones was a very old friend of yours?\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nMr. Jenkin: And do you mean to tell us that he neither mentioned to you nor did you know of your own knowledge that he was on a 24 hours' notice agreement?\n\nWitness: Yes. It was not until his return that I found that out. He said he forgot to tell me.\n\nMr. Jenkin: The question of the period of your service and of possible length of notice is one of the most important points to consider when entering into an engagement, is it not?\n\nWitness would not commit himself in reply to this question.\n\nThe evidence of Mr. Anderson having concluded the case for the plaintiffs, Mr. Jenkin briefly addressed the court before calling Mr. E. Chang to give evidence. He spoke of the practice followed by the defendant company in engaging masters on 24 hours' notice and said that it was incomprehensible that this very important factor would have been entirely omitted from the interview, as a result of which Mr. Anderson was appointed.\n\nMr. Jenkin put it to Mr. Anderson that what had taken place at the interview was that he had been engaged \"on the same agreement\" or \"on the same terms\" as Capt. Jones.\n\nThis witness denied and said that only the question of wages and emoluments was discussed. The interview only lasted a few minutes, Mr. Chang could not speak English and Mr. Ho interpreted and told witness that Mr. Chang was agreeable to his being engaged on the same wages and emoluments as Capt. Jones.\n\n\"Allee Same Agreement.\"\n\nMr. Jenkin: I put it to you that Mr. Chang said to you and Capt. Jones in broken English \"allee same agreement. Capt. Jones: 24 hours notice,\" and that you, or at any rate Capt. Jones, said \"Yes.\"\n\nWitness: No, that is not so.\n\nMr. Chang did not speak even in pidgin English.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Would you have taken the position if it had been offered you on those terms?\n\nWitness: No.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Why not?\n\nWitness: I would not consider it a proper agreement for a master.\n\nAsked what ships other than the \"Haitan\" he had been master of on the China coast, Mr. Anderson replied that he had been master of the \"Chuen Chow,\" a river boat, and of vessels in Australia.\n\nThe whole question hinged on the interview at which Mr. Anderson was appointed, said Mr. Sheldon. Mr. Anderson had no knowledge as to what notice Capt. Jones was on. It was not until after his dismissal that Mr. Anderson found out that Capt. Jones had been on a written agreement under which he was liable to 24 hours' notice.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Were you not under a 24 hours' notice agreement as master of the \"Chuen Chow\"?\n\nWitness: No.\n\nMr. Jenkin: Were you on a 24 hours' notice agreement as junior officer?\n\nWitness: Yes.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nIn his final address on behalf of the owners at yesterday afternoon's hearing of the case in which Mr. J. M. Anderson, master mariner, claimed $1,515 from the Man Wing Steamship Company as wages in lieu of notice of termination of a verbal agreement for his captaincy of the s.s. \"Haitan,\" Mr. F. C. Jenkin dealt with the element of hardship which might appear on the face of things. He would like to point out, though, he said, that Mr. Anderson by the fortuitous fact that Capt. Jones went home on private affairs in 1924 stepped into a job whereby his salary was doubled for a period of ten months.\n\nMr. Jenkin said it was inconceivable that, although Mr. Anderson was working on the same ship as Capt. Jones and was a very great personal friend of his, he was not aware of the conditions of Capt. Jones's employment whereby he could be dismissed at 24 hours' notice.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926]\n\nIt was thought that there would have been discussion of terms of employment. It was also remarkable that in handing Captain Anderson a letter dismissing him at 24 hours' notice, Ho should have offered him a month's salary in lieu of notice. In the first correspondence between the solicitors, there was no mention of this.\n\nThe first letter from the plaintiffs was to the effect that the claim was for wrongful dismissal and that Captain Anderson was entitled to three months' notice. It was remarkable if the solicitors had known of this that they should not have mentioned it in their letters. Had they done so, it would have strengthened plaintiff's case.\n\nCaptain Jones, whose place plaintiff took, was in fact on an agreement determinable at 24 hours' notice and he found it difficult to understand how, when the four men met, Captain Anderson was not in possession of this information.\n\nIt was to him a matter of regret that neither side had called Captain Jones.\n\nThe question of 24 hours' notice was evidently present in the mind of Chan and it appeared reasonable to suppose that this important matter was mentioned at the interview.\n\nHe came to that conclusion without finding that Captain Anderson had deliberately attempted to deceive the court, because the meeting seemed to have been short and informal and it was possible that the plaintiff did not fully apprehend all that took place.\n\nHe entered judgment for defendants, with costs.\n\nCAPT. MACINTOSH.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nCapt. W. MacIntosh of the pirated s.s. \"Tungchow,\" (seized in January last by Cantonese pirates near Weihaiwei, taken to Bias Bay and then abandoned) is leaving for Home.\n\nCapt. MacIntosh is one of the China Navigation Co.'s best-known skippers, and he left Shanghai last week for England on the P. & O. He had to have a foot amputated, as a result of the wound he received when the ship was seized.\n\nThe pirates tried to compel Capt. MacIntosh to surrender. As a consequence, he refused to do so. The pirates shot at him, and Capt. MacIntosh was wounded.\n\nThere was evidence before the court that he was on a practically ever 24 hours' agreement with the same company.\n\nThree men arrested on a sampan were identified as members of the pirate gang and were put to death recently before a firing squad in the native city at Shung-shan.\n\n\"Remarkable Version.\"\n\nHis Lordship in delivering judgment said Captain Anderson's version of the interview was remarkable, notice being three months.\n\n[No. 2998-July 22, 1926]\n\nTHOUGHT FEELING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nProfessor Maximilian Langsner, a Pole who has devoted his life to the study of telepathy (\"thought feeling,\" as he prefers to call it) and hypnotism is at present in Hongkong in the course of a world tour.\n\nThe practice adopted by Prof. Langsner is to make a prolonged stay in each country for the purpose of carrying out observations which will enable him to perfect his art. He realises that this cannot be accomplished in the space of a few weeks such as might enable a novelist to write a passably good novel with certain local colour.\n\nHis study of the psychology of the peoples of the various countries included in his itinerary is extended over a considerable period. He has been on his travels for some years and intends to devote another two or three to life in China and Japan.\n\nThe countries he has visited in the course of the present tour are Greece, Egypt, Persia, India, and Indo-China.\n\nProf. Langsner has given demonstrations in Telepathy in some of the places he has visited. Such demonstrations are not, however, the main purpose of his visit.\n\nHe emphasises that his feats are not illusions, in fact he prefers to have a sceptical audience. If it should be practicable for a local demonstration to be given, Hongkong people will have the opportunity of witnessing the remarkable powers which Prof. Langsner undoubtedly possesses.\n\nIn Indo-China, according to the Press, \"his claim to read the mind of another was genuinely proved. It was the most convincing demonstration of telepathy yet given to a theatre audience.\"\n\nConfirmed By Reuters.\n\nSimilar appreciation is reported from the other places he has visited, glowing accounts being given of his almost incredible demonstrations, sceptics who challenged him being reported as entirely convinced of the genuineness of his claims and subsequently becoming his friends and advocates.\n\nIn Calcutta, where he was challenged to make a long-distance telepathic communication, he detailed what was happening in certain streets in Paris and London, events which were confirmed by the manager of Reuters in Calcutta.\n\nIn Cairo, before a packed audience, five lions placed in an arena were mesmerised and, in the words of one of the newspapers, \"became as quiet as the docile cats of Angora.\"\n\nWhilst in Persia, the Professor was awarded the order of the \"Sun and Lion\" by the Shah and presented with a pair of Persian carpets.\n\nAnother test to which he was subjected in Indo-China was to drive a car blindfolded for a long distance, the occupants of the car being French officials.\n\nKIDNAPPING CASE.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nFurther evidence of a railway porter from Taipo and a woman occupier of a house at Second Street was called at the Central Magistracy this morning in the case in which a Chinese woman was charged with alleged kidnapping of an eleven-year-old boy.\n\nMr. E. S. C. Brooks appeared for the defence.\n\nEvidence was given by the constable of firing four shots with the intention of stopping the man who escaped after discarding his coat.\n\nPrevious to that, the detective had carried out a KIDNAPPING CASE.\n\nAfter hearing evidence, Mr. Lindsell considered that the charge could hardly be maintained, as the defendant had made no secret that the boy accompanied her on the train and in fact had told the principal tenant about it.\n\nOne very strong corroborating point was the evidence regarding the character of the deceased. No one had come forward to identify him.\n\nDealing with the use of firearms, Mr. Lindsell said that shooting was permissible in certain circumstances such as in chasing a man who is suspected of having committed a felony.\n\nIf it be believed the constable's story that the dagger was found on the man, then it was not an unreasonable assumption that the man was a felon, although the police had not been able to prove that a felony had been committed.\n\nIf the constable was justified in firing to stop him, and further, if he killed the man, then the killing was in law justifiable.\n\nThe Verdict.\n\nThe following were the questions to the jury and their answers:-\n\nHad the constable during the pursuit reasonable cause to suspect that the man had committed a felony? Yes.\n\nIf so, could he have effected an arrest by any other means short of firing? No.\n\nMr. Lindsell: On those answers, I return a verdict of justifiable homicide.\n\nPUPILS WORK.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nThe end of the term at Victoria British School (East Point) was made the occasion of an open day, parents and friends visiting the premises this morning and taking advantage of the opportunity of seeing the work done by the young pupils during the term and of observing the excellent system on which the school is run.\n\nThe basis on which the methods of instruction are founded is that the pupils should actively co-operate with the teachers as much as possible.\n\nIn this particular, the representation of material particulars which are under study by means of tableaux constructed by the pupils themselves is worthy of mention.\n\nThe pupils are encouraged to cut out from picture books the several ingredients to the scenes, the idea being that, pictorially represented, they convey a deeper meaning than mere words can do.\n\nSpecimens of the work of the scholars in needlework, designing, stencilling, etc., were on display, also some of the examination papers. These were the object of much interest by the parents and other friends who were welcomed by Mrs. E. M. Clark, Headmistress, and conducted over the premises by the staff and pupils.\n\nMrs. Clark, in welcoming those present, thanked the parents for their co-operation in the conduct of the school and the training of the children and expressed the hope that they would continue working together to the ends. Mrs. Clark also mentioned that she was always willing to co-operate in with a caution training for pupils particularly gifted along certain lines.\n\nA very pleasing programme of dances was then gone through, \"The Pipes of Pan\" to the accompaniment of the gramophone and \"Sleep Fairies\" and \"Bubbles\" to the pianoforte accompaniment of Miss A. E. Hendry, in charge of classes 6 and 7.\n\nThe younger scholars gave \"The Pierrots\" and the older pupils gave \"The Big Chief\" to the pianoforte accompaniment of Miss Hendry.\n\nThe pupils taking part were:-\n\nClass 6: Marie Clarke and Sidney Fowler.\n\nClass 7: Douglas Mackay, Douglas Taylor, James Clark, Alex MacFarlane and Albert Moss, William MacFarlane.\n\nClass 8: Mary Taylor, Ernie Fowler and Alison Mackay.\n\nInfants (\"B\"): Florry Fowler, Stella Stevenson, Eric Stone,\n\nInfants (\"A\"): Jean Clark, Robert Glen and Billy Gegg.\n\nFATAL WOUNDING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nThe inquiry into the death of a Chinese who was shot by a detective was resumed before Mr. R. E. Lindsell and a jury at the Central Magistracy to-day.\n\nIn his summing up to the jury, Mr. Lindsell said he saw no reason to doubt the evidence of the constable which was corroborated in material particulars.\n\nHe held that the boy accompanied the woman of his own accord and he did not believe the story that he was dragged into the train.\n\nThe defendant was discharged with a warning and the boy's brother, who was present in court, was ordered to look after him in future.\n\nDEEP-SEA FISHING.\n\nJuly 16.\n\nA local deep-sea fishing competition will be held towards the end of this month for members of the Hongkong Angling Club if the weather permits. Particulars as to conditions will be announced later.\n\nMembers wishing to take part are requested to send their names in, as soon as possible, to the hon. secretary, Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, c/o Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.\n\nA Chinese push cyclist was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy on July 15 with using a motor horn on his machine. Defendant pleaded ignorance and was discharged with a caution.\n\nA Chinese, charged with the murder of his wife gave evidence at the Central Magistracy on July 15, stating that the woman accidentally plunged a chisel into her throat. He was committed for trial at the Sessions.\n\nThe practice adopted by Prof. Langsner is to make a prolonged stay in each country for the purpose of carrying out observations which will enable him to perfect his art. He realises that this cannot be accomplished in the space of a few weeks such as might enable a novelist to write a passably good novel with certain local colour.\n\nProf. Langsner is a gifted linguist, speaking no less than six languages. He was a personal friend of the late Enrico Caruso who was also a student of the occult.\n\nWriting to him on one occasion the great singer said \"You hypnotise the world with your eyes. I hypnotise the world with my voice. We are both hypnotisers.\"",
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        "title": "CO129-498-14 Illicit traffic in opium and drugs 4-12-1925 - 30-11-1926",
        "content_text": "## Report on the seizure of heroin hydrochloride on the s. s. \"Anvers\" by the Superintendent of Imports & Exports.\n\nHon. Colonial Secretary,\n\nA detailed examination of the trunks and papers found on Tanaka has revealed the following additional information.\n\n2. Two of the smaller of the seven trunks were sent from Zurich separately on 27th July to Marseilles, these trunks contained heroin packed in 25 ounce paper bags which were enclosed in white cotton bags, whereas the rest of the heroin was contained in dark coloured cardboard boxes, containing 25 ounces. It is, therefore, probable that the heroin was actually obtained from two sources.\n\n4. His addresses in France were:-\n| Address |\n|---------|\n| 95, Boulevarde Excelmans, Paris. |\n| Victoria Palace Hotel, Rue Blaise des Goffe, Montparnasse. |\n| Hotel de Paix, 32, Rue de Sainte, Marseilles. |\n\nHe seems to have been accompanied in France by a Japanese, by name J. Hagasawa, who probably accompanied him on his aeroplane trip to Zurich on the 16th July. Various snapshots were found showing him in front of the aeroplane \"City of Melbourne\".\n\n5. My information mentioned the name Harada as being suspected of carrying drugs. An old man Harada, very shortsighted, was found on board, he spoke English and French well, he was evidently a man with large business interests in Japan, the only thing of interest found on him was an Import Certificate for 3,500 Kilos of Morphine Hydrochloride issued by the Japanese Government in December 1925. It is just possible that these drugs really",
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        "document_key": "CO129-522-1 Illicit traffic in Chinese opium 7-12-1929 - 29-10-1930",
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        "title": "CO129-522-1 Illicit traffic in Chinese opium 7-12-1929 - 29-10-1930",
        "content_text": "not enclosed\n\n2.\n\n24\n\nthere is a certain amount of evidence to show\n\nthat some of the Lam Kee Hop (Macao) brands\n\nof opium are being dealt with in the French\n\nConcession. One tin of \"A\" grade Lam Kee Hop\n\n\"Cook\" brand opium was secretly obtained by\n\nthe Municipal Police from the Kwong Sang Vuen\n\nCompany, 229 Rue Weikwe,\n\nFrench Concession, through an employee, as well\n\nas impressions of a number of business \"chops\"\n\nused by this Company. This appears sufficient\n\nproof that the Lam Kee Hop (Macao) have agencies\n\nin the French Concession.\n\nThe opium \"brokers\" in the French\n\nConcession state that Lam Kee Hop brand opium\n\nis not stocked for local consumption, but is\n\nprepared to order, the smallest order being for\n\n500 tins and that any brand can be obtained, but\n\nonly through the recognised smugglers.\n\nTwo grades of the \"Cock\" brand opium,\n\nknown as \"A\" and \"B\" are supplied by the Lam Kee\n\nHop Company. These are packed in 5 oz. or 5\n\ntael tins and are reported to be sold in the\n\nU.S.A. at G.$65.00 and G.$35.00 per tin respectively.\n\nAttached is a photographic copy of the\n\nimpressions of the various \"chops\" etc. aforementioned.\n\nFurther inquiries are being continued\n\nwith a view to ascertain further information on\n\nthis subject.",
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        "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1931.\n\n...\n\nCAMERAS\n\nNow on.\n\nW. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.\n\nENGINEERS, SHIPBUILDERS & REPACKERS.\n\nDesigners & Builders of over 300 MOTOR & STEAM VESSELS & LIGHTERS\n\nCastings: Forgings: Steel Construction & General Work\n\nEASY CALL PLACE \"E\"\n\nPROTECT YOUR PROPERTY WITH\n\nMalthoid Roofing.\n\nSole Agents:\n\nBRADLEY & CO., LTD.\n\nMachinery Dept.\n\nDEVELOPING\n\nand\n\nPRINTING\n\nA SPECIALITY\n\nTHE PHARMACY.\n\nYuen Fat Building.\n\nTel. 20945.\n\nQueen's Road C.\n\nELECTRIC\n\nColumbia\n\nRECORDS\n\n(Scratch)\n\n6 Famous Liverpudlians\n\n5007-Part and Personal\n\n$455-Ply Dama\n\n$755-Gun\n\nDX42 Light Cavalry\n\nDX\n\nBronze\n\nLorenzetti Guarda Band\n\nB.C. Wareham\n\nGym Orch.\n\nRa Dan Golferg's Orch.\n\nMilan Vym. Orch.\n\nCourt Sym Orch.\n\nSie Ban underseal\n\nTHE ANDERSON MUSIC CO., LTD.\n\nFELIX HAT SHOP\n\nNow showing the very latest\n\nin Bowler, Tricorne, Empire\n\nand Robin-Hood Hats.\n\nYour Husband\n\nNEEDS WATCHING!\n\nUnder the weight of\n\nsorless corpenak:lftlen,\n\nhe ferre.\n\nTH\n\nIn basalanan a good personal sppeninnen de qu\n\nasset. Your Job in Tu\n\nmake it a meget by having bla cloches re\n\ncleaned pelarly\n\nTHE STEAM\n\nLAUNDRY CO.\n\nBankers Laundrymen, Pressers and Dry Cleaners\n\nHEAD OFFICE & WORKS, Mongkok, Tel. #7061.\n\nKOWLOON HOTEL DEPOT\n\n...\n\nCARGO VESSEL \"ARDAMASA\" 250 TONS CAPACITY.\n\n...\n\nSTAMP TOPICS.\n\n(Fascinated from Page 1)\n\nLOCAL & GENERAL\n\n\"THE PAINTED VEIL\"\n\nStage Version of\n\nMaugham Novel\n\nCHINA IN LONDON.\n\nAynsley King Cherkke, TAO GL KN Kina. Delay. Tvelyn Walker, & \"As anergial dos alert yn 12 Queen Ang sakkolmikoma, Whi sejdokumen at samarja. 12: tearing to Zangkong on the T. 1. sever exchange mlid with you? NARRA.\n\nNo such charge could be laid against the\n\nCharacters DA 30\n\nTether G. Bad kant night wälzeme Komerset Maugham's \"The Palat ettpind legs and big fast. Traband og minn 15 kg. Hai sa to z Vell.\" proanted on Sept. 29 20 of the derby “Charter la mourian phir tizen kala) in ANG PERA DA TE Krem in Loei. abroadvid Chelonne Jac.\n\n...\n\nFRUSTRATED THEFT.\n\nAttempt to Steal Jade Setting from Ring.\n\nCITY SHOP INCIDENT\n\nA daring attempt Wha takde un Wadaday by twà Chlimga lo mkuni tisa salinbla jade sett sum from a ring, the property of The Caravan Duilina' novelly stored De Center Road.\n\nI köy Uhat the time »ntered the shop at about f o'clock in the ovaning and naked ko sen come rings. Both appest\" |\n\nhẻ to be of the better eluaa. \"The were walted on by the Chlas nesistant who showed them The\n\nfeared. JACK\n\nAk\n\nT Haungernon, who had uppituurives Į Tand them, the pries of\n\nRADIO BROADCAST\n\nVOLUNTEER PROMENADE CONCERT RELAY.\n\nLITERARY TALKS.\n\nEnglish Association's Programme.\n\nOPENS IN NOVEMBER\n\nThe Hongkong Branch of The\n\nEnglish Astorienstion will hold it\n\nmanual penarai mesting, for the\n\nThe radio gradne je to krona- riaction of ofiarata_and_com- rast lg 2 20 30 cm mashrath of the, in the Haleh May T\n\ntute un Today Kavumbar 5. KI ao và Hi Exellen Br TEAM-11:29 AM Sk quotations | Wil Pal XCMG, XIE WHI 11.30 1\n\nΠ\n\nCh.\n\n| přejde, and Mr. G.P. de Martin Iza ya Ruanda pengaman FORMA will talk a \"Propie 1.90 păm. Zanal plan and weather, una zend and write History\". All\n\n129 pm Juris porn sets, mail\n\nhot memfaḍ\n\nlavated to Alleni. The Et Association M mecials for people of all patiesa who are Camillur with the English F... Classrooms. Jangangy and ang Intersassa in Use bas vady of that language and fla Harare. Among de menbein át\n\n-Code, cla\n\nIki\n\nDep\n\n1.00-9 15 pm\n\n7.00 pm muiden, gig\n\nTom Cat prominent sintoman and\n\nwory, teachers and entice and gamural” raders throughout the world.\n\n...\n\nFLOOD RELIEF FUND.\n\nResult of Recent Chinese Campaign.\n\n$20,000 REMITTED.\n\nFollowing are the results of the drive for the Flood Relief Fundi undertaken by the Chamber Commerce (or Importa and\n\nof\n\nEx-,\n\nL\n\nThe first of the 15 groups was\n\n|\n\nThe Hongkong branch of th world-wide Ansočlation\n\nbeen an extitelce for two years and has bald monthly vertāna be Turday afternoona for six months (at the year. These lectursa are\n\npubl\n\nLanually. They con\n\nMint Interesting discölimbed un J wide range of literary and Melgilar 11ib. De themes, delivered by members of the busineda, community and the\n\nKastane mann-Zeina | Proťvonions, The Nighting” Harv (0) Fe). 1854 And the mistration.\n\nFor that reason, and brenuta jt in one of the few rectations Sutri (Hangkok devated to mental and Instrumental Tria-in. Stál Stemtet, sesal rather than physical\n\nsocial culture, the Boakket **Esapatris Tra 20096 | Branch AT THE GASTAR AMOçimi kom Jong-Uncle Sad (4996 Foster) option Die interent of the public.\n\nThose who wish to join the cl Enivann Times () 1265 teach abould come with Van Sale. Wallack Cool (logo) Villa Bois-Panas Side Dukes\n\nZumba).\n\nve How Secretary, Professor Simpson, the University of Bur \"Etram pedalac 1184, kong, or attend the annual meet 1:40 pm – Lindt hijun næst wenikering. The cply feel report).\n\n2012 pm Orctral rednerships is those dolars, kad |tor Ineal macbarakip plan plate- Belection\n\nhership of the central popula Country Gardoad Libary).\n\nsight dollars\n\nMobile Band. 20017. From Uk Birsin 16 She Danube-Mediay\n\nGorhard Hollngela_Drak. V-40408. The Love for Pipis densem\n\n(Prokofe\n\nBoston Syn pada Orakastca. 7197. Kisao je portuguesa Moolc St-De Yeodül azpias), die FremantČEKALKANE\"\n\nAdeline Fall)19 pesu)\n\nMr. Ma Man-Cal of the Sikten Ca Thivima.\n\n32044.\n\nLtd. The warded was Mr. N.CH. Gogga in se na sasar Tian Yur, of the Wah Yuu Shing'\n\nCo, and the third was Dr. P. Gork\n\n| Ckit, of like Wing On Co.\n\nThe winner of the individual results was Mr. A. Tak B collected over $1,900,\n\nAu L Consoquence of the cam| paign the sum of $30.000 ha been) Demitted through the Bank of CHILE to the Xith China Flood, Relet Association ul Hamkow for immediate dietribution.\n\nThe following donations fro tha foreign community at Hong-,\n\nknar ekpollged ·\n\nWo Meyering & Co\n\nJames Exekhouse 120,\n\nR. Eat. ...\n\nB. Kalo & Co...\n\nI. S. Sherly & Ce\n\nHarry Wiring 2 ('n\n\nCh Fuss_Ca\n\nThe Lawton Ca.\n\nRobertson Wilson & Co. Ltd.\n\nA. Gaoke & C\n\n10\n\nJebilen & Co.\n\nEstaja & Co.\n\n10\n\nSander Wieler & Co. Mr. B\n\nSentenced for appropriating $3,905 belongine ja les «Maplegars, i molive bank, a Chinese map best. la plans for fur months in the Bancial More Court at Shanghai AÇTITÉ ine to the starting man vill banded the money la toka to a GerĖKIN along but instead of doing this, ha leol The paneling\n\nwww to the Cones wald that ha\n\nwith the $1.994 which bad hann va Freekent ke bio sara\n\nTHE\n\nThe Lecture Course. During this mamelon, monthly meeting on the first Tuesday of each moal will be held in the Halona May Institute. The Syla bak for the year in a Follows:\n\nTinaday Nov. 3 Mr. G. P. de Martin, \"People who read sad |write Batory\".\n\nTuesday Dec. 1. Pref. AlamaHI,\n\n\"Why be Sentimental?\" Trendy Jan & Mrs Grit o\n\nTroy Fok, 1 Mr. France, na 2.\n\nJeta Paraika, bet yet to be announced.\n\nHeng A Empurian_(Du Magalhast).\n\nandra yakezo, (De Maghi bany.\"\n\nCarda Da Magillar (Baritone).\n\nToday March 3, authors,\n\n\"Hans Anders”.\n\nProdenmar Tuesday April 29032. Middletas Basith, an “Books about]\n\nChina Consertina Fado-Tim Marko (Pudo), Consuetan Kain Vira (Xurian Diane). These top for Hectares, ne\n\nAlbela da Siva CewYA. LAKAN KAL\n\nrather for Eatka, have kaon choman İKİ & view to enroninge discus Taskaus verberg und Vaumberg san, so the arsemibal Ari kal\n\nRusse (Wagner).\n\nLegal Stakaw Ang thị Phindu. (Engat te da salama keetmin Tlatza- ing conclaves, bol meetings for phy rekken. Ma 102+115 mm masakan Music. borty exchange of Mort and Garem of Paadlam\n\nKulamaka Lana 39707)\n\nExman Ma\n\nKane's Hawkskm. W RAZOR FOR NOTHING. 128–11.00 pm. (Area). Balay of the Valunteer Promem. din Concert by Rand Fatimidean of Lian. Men Chivani La G.,\n\nDUK.B\n\n30.\n\nTi00pm. (Appena). Kapky milk- day, open ceRN,\n\npm\n\nIn the event of had mather there\n\nwill be a coenzded programme op 200\n\n10.34.\n\nFree Gift Given Away With Packet of Blades.\n\nAK WATSON'S OFFER\n\nA chance to soute something\n\nfor nothing has come with an offeri The French Messalan at Shanghai from Memes, A. S. Watson & Co. By poem of a hombing outrage (24, the Hongkong Nispen to beat work reaulting in the womed. give away a tator free with every Bag, Solleved to The fatal, of packet of 10 Gilette razor binder C'mon, tulda z kambing robot\n\n...\n\nN. LAZARUS. OPHTHALMIC OPTICIANS.\n\nSouth Arcade\n\nGideceta Mariating.\n\nTHE EXCELSIOR CO.\n\n8, 27 Aguilar Arrest.\n\nBOOKSELLEER.\n\nBUY YOUR ANNUALS NOW\n\nPICTUME FROM ANCIL\n\nPIDER TIMUR ANNUAL BAINESA ANNI AL\n\nCH MIDA ANNUAL\n\nGIBLE OF NANNTAL\n\nANNUAL\n\nTHING HING CO\n\nTel.\n\nHIGH CLASS TAILORS & OUTFITTERS Lacostela. Moderata price. Guarantend\n\nNo, di, Queen's Road, Central\n\nBOMBAY TAILORING CO. (Expert Indian Tailors)\n\n5. Hankow Road (Opposite the Howlone. Hotal. ›\n\nHigh Class Tallers and OctEtter\n\nJust Received New Woolien Suitings from England. Latest tyle..-Moderate Price Guaranteed FUL FIRE.\n\nEVERYTHING (SE.C.) ELECTRICAL\n\nGECOP ONE ALL-ELECTRIC RADIO\n\nSETS\n\nRADIO GRAMOPHONES SPEAK FOR THEM ELVES.\n\nDEMONSTRATIONS DAILY from 11.30 AD,\n\nAll apparates to the value of £5 or over or be supplied sa live purchase\n\nTerms.\n\nFree service for 3 months\n\nG.E.C. SHOWROOM\n\nQueen's Buuldag Chater Road, Longhor\n\nsram Valves\n\nPURITY OF \"TONĘ.",
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        "content_text": "383\n\n24\n\n23\n\n382\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nTanner, made a special feature of the characteristic Shetland woollies. They also had a good display of leatherwork and Sheffield plate.\n\nWIMBLEDON STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Catmur, and her sister, Mrs. Holmwood, Mrs. Rann, and Mrs. Rolfe had a good display of general goods, including tea-cosies, hand-bags, and home-made jams.\n\nARTS AND CRAFTS STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, is to be commended on its selection of artistic lavender bags, shopping-lists, and small hand-bags.\n\nCAKE AND PRODUCE STALL, in the charge of Miss Alix Clark, Mrs. Elias Pritchard, and the Misses Edith and Maud Codd, had its usual fine array of decorated Christmas cakes and home-made confectionery.\n\nCHINA STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Lindus, Miss Lindus, Miss Thompson, and Miss Vesey, looked very bright and attractive with its Ashstead pottery made by ex-Service men.\n\nOVERALLS AND APRONS STALL, in the charge of the Misses Underwood, Mrs. Turriff, and Miss Charles, this year had an exceptionally fine assortment of aprons and overalls. A special feature was made of dainty silk afternoon aprons.\n\nLINGERIE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Overy, Mrs. Trafford Williams, and Miss Overy, had a particularly fine assortment of hand-worked baby clothes and underwear.\n\nSWEET STALL, in the charge of Miss Annie Hoare, Miss Joan Elias Pritchard, and Miss Robinson, did a good trade in boxes of chocolates, small tins labelled 'Weekly Assortment,' and home-made sweets.\n\nTOY STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Shore and Mrs. Boyce, had its usual fine collection of animals, dolls, and mechanical toys. The special attraction was a life-like black French poodle puppy, forming a fascinating night-dress case.\n\nWOOLLEN GOODS STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Delbanco, Mrs. Dore, and Mrs Jacoby, had a choice selection of hand-made jumpers, scarves, etc.\n\nLITERATURE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Gerard and Miss Simpson, had a delightful collection of children's books-fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.\n\nTHE VOTE STALL, in the charge of Mrs. Wardi and Miss Hoyer, displayed a variety of useful articles to be found at the chemist's.\n\nEntertainments\n\nThis year a new feature in our entertainments was a short play, 'Widows,' in which Leona Cooper, Fay Myddleton, and Emma Dhai took part. This ironic little sketch, which was splendidly acted, caused much interest and amusement.\n\nThere was a charming display of operatic, classical, and character dances by pupils from Miss Grace Woollacott's Wimbledon School of Dancing. Several new and original dances added to the pleasure of this popular feature.\n\nA number of delightful pianoforte solos were given by Miss T. A. Davis; items by Madame Leoni and the Leoni Trio gave much pleasure; banjolele spirituelles by Mrs. Neville were much appreciated; and Miss Duncan, Miss Grant, Miss King, Miss Fordham, and Miss Joan Somes contributed to the musical programme.\n\nMrs. Seymour Pritchard, assisted by Mrs. Crocker, Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Richardson, Mrs. Roles, and Miss Ivy Hawke, organised the Information Bureau and side shows. Miss Peggy Smith was kept busy executing her wonderful lightning portrait-sketches. Character readings were given by Miss Brassington, Miss Hudson, Madame Vere, and Miss Wall.\n\nThe Competition Corner, which was very popular, was arranged by Mrs. Riches and Mrs. Haines, assisted by Miss Riches, and the lucky wheel was busily rotated by Esmé May Dorrington.\n\nThe prizes, kindly given by McDougall, Ltd., for the Cake Competition, arranged by the Chiswick Branch, were won by: (1) Mrs. Baxendale; (2) Miss Whitehead; and (3) Mrs. Anderton. The judges were Miss Charles, Miss Reeves, and Mrs. Watling.\n\nAfternoon teas and refreshments were daintily served by our efficient Minerva Club, under the direction of Miss Reeves, assisted by Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Boyd, Miss Brewer, Miss Britain, Miss Edwards, Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Hilliard, Madame Inglis, Miss Lucienne Inglis, Miss Jackson, Miss James, Mrs. James, Miss Josa, Mrs. Langston, Miss Parks, Mrs. Paul, Miss Phillips, Mrs. Rogers, Miss Thompson, Miss Thomas, Mr. Yoxall, and Miss Wesley.\n\nSpecial Thanks\n\nOur most cordial thanks are due to the Hon. Mrs. Franklin, who so kindly came to open the Fair at very short notice, Miss E. Berry, whose untiring efforts year by year make the Fair a success, and to the Fair Sub-Committee for their whole-hearted co-operation during the months of preparation.\n\nSpecial thanks are also due to the stallholders; to all who contributed to the entertainments; to those who assisted so essentially with the Information Bureau; to our caterers and their assistants; to our doorkeepers Miss Cornwell, Mr. Clifford Jones, and Mr. Thompson; to Mrs. Scott for so kindly undertaking the cloakroom; to Miss Auld for general help; to our kind purchasers, and to all who helped in any way to make the Fair a success.\n\nHow to Reach the Fair\n\nDear Fellow Members,-Very many thanks to those members who have so kindly sent contributions towards the Fair expenses and to all our kind buyers.\n\nMany members were for one reason or another prevented from reaching the Caxton Hall last Thursday and Friday, but I shall be most grateful to any who will join with us in this fund-raising fixture by sending me a small sum, to include their return fare to Westminster, their tea and supper, and perhaps a part of the useful articles they would have purchased there.\n\nIn hopeful anticipation,\n\nE. KNIGHT,\n\nHon. Treasurer.\n\n144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nMARRIED WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT\n\nThe 'North Mail' reports that the question of married women teachers who hold positions in Wallsend while a number of single women were unable to find appointments was raised last week at the meeting of Wallsend Education Committee.\n\nCouncillor A. McFarlane referred to a list of names of young women who had come out of college and said there did not seem much possibility of their getting posts. He thought they might replace some of the married teachers. 'Some of the married teachers have husbands who hold good positions,' he said, 'and I do not think it is fair to girls who have come out of college and have been on the list for some time.'\n\nThe Chairman, Councillor John Mason, suggested the matter might be referred to the staffing sub-committee. There were great complications involved, and they must give careful thought before deciding upon anything.\n\nCouncillor McFarlane said he was agreeable to this course, which was adopted.\n\nWe ourselves would like to think and say if a body of women systematically applied this kind of means test to all men's employment.\n\nIt is reported that the question of the employment of married women on the staff of the B.B.C. has recently been raised again to the consternation, so it is said, of the hundreds of secretaries and stenographers at Broadcasting House.\n\nMarried women have always been employed by the Corporation and its predecessor, the old Broadcasting Company, and many of them have married during their service. It is absurd that this question should be settled on any other ground than that of efficiency.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nBRANCH NOTES\n\nWomen's Freedom League\n\nBARNSBURY AND DISTRICT\n\nOffices: 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1. Telephone-HOLBORN 9301. President-Mrs. PETHICK-LAWRENCE. Hon. Treasurer-Dr. E. KNIGHT. Hon. Organising Secretary-Mrs. WHETTON. Hon. Head Literature Department-Mrs. GERARD. General Secretary-Miss F. A. UNDERWOOD.\n\nWHERE TO GO\n\nWOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE\n\nLONDON AND SUBURBS\n\nMonday, November 28th, 7.30 p.m. Brentford and Chiswick Branch. Public meeting at Stamford Brook House, W.6. Hostess Mrs. Macgregor, Speaker: Miss H. M. Dovey, B.A. Subject: Educational Economies - Actual and Threatened.\n\nMonday, November 28th, at 8 p.m. Mid-London Branch. Meeting at 25, Wimpole Street, W.1.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Public Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: The Hon. Mary Pickford, M.P. Subject: Votes for Women in India. Chair: Mrs. Pethick-Lawrence.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 4.30 p.m. (Tea, 4 o'clock, price 6d.) Tea and Politics Up-to-date Meeting at the Minerva Club, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Mrs. Isabel Donzé. Subject: The Nationality of Married Women.\n\nThursday, December 1st, 7.45 p.m. for 8 p.m. Highbury and Stoke Newington Branch. Whist Drive at 27, Bethune Road, N.16. Hostess: Mrs. Pearson. Tickets 2s., including refreshments.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 3 p.m. Wimbledon Branch. Meeting at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, Raynes Park, Speaker: Councillor Jenner. Subject: The Minor Activities of the League of Nations.\n\nTuesday, December 6th, 8 p.m. Welwyn Garden City Branch. Club Room Public meeting in the Arts Speaker: Mrs. Bhuttacharji. Subject: India.\n\nWednesday, December 7th, 3 p.m. Thames Valley Branch. Meeting at 27, Gloucester Road, Kew. Hostess: Miss Bulkeley Johnson. Plans for future work.\n\nSaturday, December 10th, 2.30 p.m. Jumble Sale at St. George's Vestry Hall, Bloomsbury (entrance Little Russell Street). Admission 2d. Gifts urgently needed.\n\nSaturday, January 14th, 1933, at 10 a.m. National Executive Committee Meeting at 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nPROVINCES\n\nTuesday, November 29th, 3 p.m. Bexhill Branch. Drawing-room meeting at 13, Park Road, Bexhill. Speaker Mrs. Donzé. Chair: Miss D. Osborn.\n\nTuesday, November 29th, at 7.30. Portsmouth Branch. Branch Coming-of-Age Party at St. Bartholomew's Hall. Speaker: Miss Nina Boyle. Music: Coffee.\n\nMonday, December 12th, at 8 p.m. Edinburgh Branch. Debate on Birth Control. Affirm., Mrs. Garden Blackie: Neg., Mrs. Alice Ross, M.A., J.P. At India Buildings, George IV, Bridge.\n\nOTHER SOCIETIES\n\nWednesday, November 30th, at 8.15 p.m. British College of Psychic Science, 1, Queen's Gate, S.W. Lecture by Miss Lind-af-Hageby on 'Mind in Animals.'\n\nThursday, December 1st, 8 p.m. The Alpha Study Circle. Meeting at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, W.C.1. Speaker: Sir George Paish. Subject: International Aspects of the Money Problem. Chairman: Mrs. Pethick Lawrence. Tickets, 1s. each, from W.F.L. Office, 144, High Holborn, W.C.1.\n\nFriday, December 2nd, at 2.30 p.m. Council for the Representation of Women in the League of Nations. Annual meeting at Women's Service House Annexe, 35, Marsham Street, S.W.1. Mrs. Corbett Ashby will speak at 4.30, on 'Disarmament or Re-armament.' Admission free: collection.\n\nSaturday, December 3rd, at 2.45 p.m. Society for the Ministry of Women (Interdenominational). Members Conference at Wesley's Chapel, City Road, E.C.1. Speakers: Miss Margaret Taylor, the Rev. Rosalind Lee, M.A., and the Rev. Violet Hedger, B.D., L.L.A. Chairman: Dr. Maude Royden, C.H.\n\n'The Vote'\n\nSubscription Rates Annual Subscription 6/6. Post free, everywhere.\n\nTHE VOTE may be obtained through all Newsagents and at the Bookstalls of Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons.\n\nA very well-attended meeting was held on Tuesday, Nov. 15th, at 15, Richmond Crescent, Mrs. Potter presided, and Miss Pearson gave a very instructive address on new developments in educational services. Questions and discussion followed, and competitions were held at the close of the meeting.\n\nWIMBLEDON\n\nOn Tuesday, Nov. 15th, a Branch Meeting was held at 'Duart,' 67, Grand Drive, by kind permission of Mrs. Catmur. A display was made of the pretty articles sent by Branch members for the general stall at the Green, White and Gold Fair; a business meeting was then held, when a programme of work was drawn up for the New Year.\n\nEDINBURGH\n\nMrs. Miller (vice-president) presided at our last meeting in the unavoidable absence of Mrs. Alice M. Ross, M.A., J.P., at a most uplifting meeting. Mrs. Milne Robertson spoke on 'Women and the Ministry.' Her speech was more like a sermon, packed with good things and beautiful thoughts.\n\nGREEN, WHITE AND GOLD FAIR\n\nAPRONS AND OVERALLS STALL\n\nThe Misses Underwood and Mrs. Turriff very cordially thank the following for their very kind gifts to this stall: Mrs. Gilbert, Mrs. Fisher, Miss Round, Mrs. Terry, Miss C. Newman, and Mrs. Forman.\n\nA REMINDER\n\nTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, at 4.30: THE HON. MARY PICKFORD, M.P.; 'Votes for Women in India'\n\nTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st, at 4.30: MRS. ISABEL DONZÉ: 'Nationality of Married Women'\n\n(Tea at 4 o'clock - price 6d.) AT THE MINERVA CLUB, 28a, Brunswick Square, W.C.1\n\nWANTED URGENTLY\n\nMiscellaneous Goods for Jumble Sale\n\nParcels of Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Household Goods and anything else that can be turned into money to MISS AULD, 144, HIGH HOLBORN, W.C.1\n\nMembership Application Form\n\nTo be returned to the Secretary, 144, High Holborn, London, W.C.1. Please enrol me as a member of the Women's Freedom League.\n\nName...\n\nAddress...\n\nI enclose £... s... d... as my first, Annual Subscription.\n\nMinimum Annual Subscription, 1/-.\n\n9\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\n23\n\nPage information retained as per instructions.",
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        "content_text": "# THE SLAVE MARKET NEWS.\n\n## JAN., 1933. JAN., 1934.\n\n### THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S APPEAL FOR ARMENIAN REFUGEE WORK IN SYRIA\n\nThe Editor, **The Stars Market News.**\n\nSir,\n\nWe are indeed grateful to you for your continual generosity in publishing 'The Slave Market News' to champion the cause of the most distressed of all sufferers of the human race.\n\n### ARMENIAN REFUGEES IN THE SYRIAN CAMPS\n\nPoverty and distress are acute amongst all the peoples of the Near East, but more especially amongst the Armenian Refugees in the Syrian Camps, whom the Lord Mayor's Fund has continuously and effectively helped, while at the same time co-operating with the Nansen Office for Refugees (League of Nations), and with other organisations, in determined efforts to find the Armenians permanent homes at last, in urban and agricultural settlements, in Syria and elsewhere.\n\nBut the rigours of winter are immeasurably increasing the sufferings of the thousands who are not yet settled, who are still enduring the sordid misery of the Refugee Camps. Our honorary worker writes again from the Aleppo Camp, describing pathetically her work of feeding as many children and caring for as many consumptives as the funds sent her will allow, from 'The Lord Mayor's Fund' and 'The Save the Children Fund.'\n\nWe thank very much the donors of the following sums, which we have received for the Aleppo Refugees since September 21st, 1933, viz.—one cheque for £2 6s. Od., four sums of 10s., and one of 5s.; in all, a total of £4 11s. Od.\n\nALL GIFTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS WORK, IN RESPONSE TO THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S APPEAL FOR ARMENIAN REFUGEE WORK IN SYRIA, SHOULD BE SENT TO THE SECRETARY, ARMENIAN (LORD MAYOR'S) FUND, 40, GORDON SQUARE, LONDON, W.C.1.\n\n### FIGHTING THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC\n\nIt cannot be too strongly emphasized that there is urgent need that all Christian men and women should be aroused to take their part in abolishing at last that vilest form of slavery, the White Slave Traffic.\n\nThe wonderful work of Josephine Butler and her Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, ought to be far more widely known and supported than it is, for it is through this great Leader's organisation and dauntless witness to purity, righteousness and justice that this vile traffic, under the aegis of State-Regulation of vice and licensed brothels, has been swept out of the whole of the British Empire and out of practically all of the Northern Nations of Europe.\n\nThe Reports of the Traveling Commissions of the League of Nations exposed the hideous extent to which this vile evil poisons the cities of France, Spain, Italy, and other countries of Southern Europe, of North Africa and Egypt, of Syria under the French Mandate, and is rampant in Japan and China and South America.\n\nAs has been already reported in these columns, the hearts of many men and women of good will are stirring against this abominable practice in these countries where it still degrades humanity, and the splendid work already accomplished by Josephine Butler's Association through trained and skilled workers can be widely extended throughout the world, if only the necessary funds are forthcoming, and if greatly increased numbers of annual subscribers of sums both large and small can be enrolled.\n\nSUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS TOWARDS THE FUND FOR FIGHTING THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC SHOULD BE SENT TO THE SECRETARY, MISS ALISON NEILANS, ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE, LIVINGSTONE HOUSE, BROADWAY, WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.\n\nYours very faithfully,\nLAURA HELEN SAWBRIDGE (Hon. Secretary).\nTHRIGBY HALL, GREAT YARMOUTH,\nChristmas, 1933.\n\n### NOTE BY EDITOR\n\nMiss Sawbridge also pleads for the Assyrians, who have been so shamefully treated by the Allies. A report of the Dean of Chichester's plea for the betrayed Assyrians appeared in the **Church Times** of December 22nd.\n\nReaders desirous of showing their practical sympathy with the Assyrians in their great need, would do well to get into touch with Capt. G. F. Gracey, D.S.O., Overseas Delegate, c/o The Save The Children Fund, 40 Gordon Square, London, W.C.1.\n\n## REPORT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO TRAFFIC OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE EAST (Geneva, 1933)\n\nThis volume was reviewed in our columns just after its issue, but as we understand Members of Parliament are referred to this Report in order to \"correct\" our so-called \"regrettable statements\" made in our editorial (October, 1933), we think it is well to state one or two facts.\n\nThe Report can be obtained from the League of Nations Publications Agents, Messrs George Allen Ltd., 40, Museum Street, London, W.C.1. Price 16s. It consists of over 500 pages of closely packed information concerning the Traffic in Women and Children in the East. We venture to think that any Member of Parliament who obtained this volume will not be at all impressed by the official attitude of the Colonial Office regarding the fate of Mui Tsai in Hong Kong. It is true that the League of Nations Report reprints some extracts from the Female Domestic Service's Ordinance of Hong Kong, Nov. 1923, and we would suggest to Members of Parliament that they compare the wording of the Ordinance of 1923 with the information given in the White Paper, `Cmd 3424`, which deals with the position of affairs in 1922-29. The League of Nations Commission of Enquiry could certainly not state that slavery is non-existent in Hong Kong.\n\n### THE FATE OF MUI TSAI\n\nThe fate of Mui Tsai, or child slaves, was referred to in our October editorial, and apparently disturbed the equanimity of the Colonial Office. Chinese brothels are supposed to be closed within three years of 1931. In the League of Nations Report concerning the subject of Prostitution, it is stated \"It is possible to distinguish broadly between persons who procure girls in order to live on the proceeds of their prostitution and traffickers who procure girls and hand them over to brothel-keepers in return for a lump sum; the former are generally middle-aged or elderly women who may be prostitutes or ex-prostitutes, brothel-servants or brothel-managers. Their practice is to purchase children who are introduced by them into brothels at an early age. It is usual for them to clean these children as daughters. The latter are also as a rule middle-aged or elderly women, who describe themselves as maidservants, or perhaps more commonly as \"travelling traders\" (pedlars, commission agents, or guides). Their social status is low, and the funds at their disposal at any one time are pitifully small. In fact, it is not unlikely that these persons are usually agents working on commission. Their employers may be individuals or possibly syndicates working through a Chinese boarding-house. In one case the method is believed to have been to advance money to these agents in return for a promissory note. No doubt, also, credit is given by the boarding-house on the same terms.\"\n\nWe hope to make some further references to the League of Nations Report in our next issue.\n\n### HUMAN LIVESTOCK, by EDMUND B. D'AUVARGNE\n\n(`M58838. GRAYSON & GRAYSON, CURZON STREET, Mayfair, LONDON`). It is to be hoped that all those interested in the subject of Slavery will obtain Mr. D'Auvargne's book. This volume faithfully records the history of slaves during the past three centuries, lifting the veil upon many aspects of the question, which other writers appear to leave alone. The terrible cruelties perpetrated on the slaves by American slave owners, and the awful conditions of the slaves in the \"Middle Passage\" are faithfully shown. The publication of this book should do much to strengthen the hands of those who are fighting for the Abolition of Slavery to-day. It is a terrible commentary upon civilisation to consider that many of the horrible cruelties perpetrated on slaves in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries are still perpetrated to-day in many areas of the world where slavery flourishes.\n\nIf one could put down the book with a sigh of thankfulness that all the horrors are a thing of the past, it would be a great relief, but one knows only too well that at the time of writing, millions of human beings are to-day in bondage, and subjected to similar inhuman treatment as given in this history of the slave trade of the past.\n\n### KIYOI CHAN, an unwanted Japanese Child\n\nContinued from Page 4.\n\n### SMUGGLING OF FLESH AND BLOOD\n\nConcerning the \"adequate penalties\" imposed, again we refer our readers to the front page, to the correspondence between Lt. Commander Haslewood and the Colonial Office concerning women and girls.\n\nAgain we believe in many respects, Hong Kong is a very well-regulated Colony, and it seems passing strange that difficulties should not be met by the Government of Hong Kong concerning the prevention of importation of Mui Tsai into the Colony, when it is evidently quite possible to prevent or regulate the introduction of opium. One would have thought it would have been easier to have detected a \"servile\" woman being, than a packet of opium. Is the smuggling of human flesh and blood looked upon with more tolerant eye than the smuggling of opium or dutiable merchandise, that may be calculated to swell the Exchequer?\n\n### \"THIS FREEDOM\"\n\nWith reference to the statements made by the Colonial Office to the Member of Parliament (to whom we have referred) that the Mui Tsai are required to be paid wages, and are free to leave their employers if they wish to return to their parents or if they are ill-treated, we would ask the plain man's question. Is it logical to assume that children of tender age upon whom cruelties are perpetrated and upon whom rigid control is exercised by their owners, are likely to be able voluntarily to leave their owners' \"employers\" as the Colonial Office terms them? The whole evidence shows they are not free agents. And is it likely that the army of three inspectors can ensure the payment of wages?\n\nEven in Great Britain, there is plenty of work for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Concerning wages, it is evident that their wages so-called often are only paid when a particularly hard case is brought before the Police Court Magistrate, and it is even suggested that the arrears of wages to Mui Tsai may be looked upon in the nature of a fine, as shown by the last paragraph of the Colonial Office's letter on the first page.\n\nThe Colonial Office also intimated that \"isolated cases of cruelty to children occur in Hong Kong, as in any country.\" We would ask two questions on this matter. If only three inspectors are employed (in 1929) considered would be necessary, is it certain that there are only isolated cases of cruelty to children? The Government's White Paper provides information that the number of children who are Mui Tsai in Hong Kong run into many thousands, and the number given by independent observers exceed considerably official estimates. To say the least, it can be seen that it is impossible to state the number of cases of cruelty that may occur. Can the present staff of Inspectors effectively cover the ground? Regarding the so-called \"adequate penalties imposed,\" we can only refer our readers to the reports published in this, and in previous issues, culled from \"The South China Morning Post,\" of the fines actually imposed.\n\nIt should be borne in mind that the value of the dollar in Hong Kong is about 1s. 4d. when calculations are made as to the adequacy of the fines.\n\n### REPORTS NOT AVAILABLE\n\nWith reference to the concluding sentence of the Colonial Office communication concerning Reports received from the Governor of Hong Kong, we must venture to observe that the people in this country who pay for the cost of the House of Commons Library should be entitled to see the publications. We are given to understand that the public are not admitted to the Library, and although the Reports received from the Governor of Hong Kong may contain information that would allay public concern, it is quite possible they may not. It would be a public-spirited action on the part of any of our Members of Parliament to ask whether the Reports obtained from the Governor of Hong Kong on this subject can be published as a White Paper, so that the public would be able to form their own conclusions, and compare it with information received from independent sources in the Colony.\n\n### SLAVERY DOES FLOURISH IN HONG KONG\n\nIn spite of the official view that slavery does not exist in Hong Kong, we shall continue to say that it does. The White Paper shows it does. The reports of Police Court proceedings in Hong Kong show that it does. The evidence of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society shows that it does. The books written by eye-witnesses show that it does. The photographs of rescued children show that it does. The records of the Anti-Slavery Society show that it does. It appears to us that the correct thing for the Colonial Office to do is to admit that it does. If the Government's case is that they consider it is impossible to prevent the bartering and selling of Chinese children under the British Flag, then the Government should say so.\n\nIt is no answer to say there is a Law if the Law is not enforced. Platitudinous smoke-screens of words do not obscure the lurid facts. The Governor of Hong Kong in 1929 stated \"VERY DRASTIC POWERS WOULD BE REQUIRED, IF REGISTRATION WERE TO BE MADE EFFECTIVE, AND SUCH POWERS WOULD BE INTENSELY UNPOPULAR.\" That approximates the truth of the matter, and we are willing to believe it. When those \"Drastic Powers\" are exercised we shall hear no more of slavery in Hong Kong. But that day has not yet dawned.\n\n[one of the children at the Japan Rescue Mission Home, Tomizawa]",
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JAN., 1934.\n\n### THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S APPEAL FOR ARMENIAN REFUGEE WORK IN SYRIA.\n\nThe Editor, **The Slave Market News**, \n\nWe are indeed grateful to you for your continual generosity in publishing 'The Slave Market News' to champion the cause of the most distressed of all sufferers of the human race, **ARMENIAN REFUGEES IN THE SYRIAN CAMPS**.\n\nPoverty and distress are acute amongst all the peoples of the Near East, but more especially amongst the Armenian Refugees in the Syrian Camps, whom the Lord Mayor's Fund has continuously and effectively helped, while at the same time co-operating with the Nansen Office for Refugees (League of Nations), and with other organisations, in determined efforts to find the Armenians' permanent homes at last, in urban and agricultural settlements, in Syria and elsewhere.\n\nBut the rigours of winter are immeasurably increasing the sufferings of the thousands who are not yet settled, who are still enduring the sordid misery of the Refugee Camps. Our honorary worker writes again from the Aleppo Camp, describing pathetically her work of feeding as many children and caring for as many consumptives as the funds sent her will allow, from \"The Lord Mayor's Fund\" and \"The Save the Children Fund.\"\n\nWe thank very much the donors of the following sums, which we have received for the Aleppo Refugees since September 21st, 1933, viz.—one cheque for £2 6s. 7d., four sums of 10s., and one of 5s.; in all, a total of £4 11s. 7d.\n\n**ALL GIFTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THIS WORK, IN RESPONSE TO THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S APPEAL FOR ARMENIAN REFUGEE WORK IN SYRIA, SHOULD BE SENT TO THE SECRETARY, ARMENIAN (LORD MAYOR'S) FUND, 40, GORDON SQUARE, LONDON, W.C.1.**\n\n### FIGHTING THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC.\n\nIt cannot be too strongly emphasized that there is urgent need that all Christian men and women should be aroused to take their part in abolishing at last, that vilest form of slavery, the White Slave Traffic.\n\nThe wonderful work of Josephine Butler and her Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, ought to be far more widely known and supported than it is, for it is through this great Leader's organisation and dauntless witness to purity, righteousness and justice that this vile traffic, under the aegis of State-Regulation of vice and licensed brothels, has been swept out of the whole of the British Empire and out of practically all of the Northern Nations of Europe.\n\nThe Reports of the Travelling Commissions of the League of Nations exposed the hideous extent to which this vile evil poisons the cities of France, Spain, Italy, and other countries of Southern Europe, of North Africa and Egypt, of Syria under the French Mandate, and is rampant in Japan and China and South America.\n\nAs has been already reported in these columns, the hearts of many men and women of good will are stirring against this abominable practice in these countries where it still degrades humanity, and the splendid work already accomplished by Josephine Butler's Association through trained and skilled workers can be widely extended throughout the world, if only the necessary funds are forthcoming, and if a greatly increased number of annual subscribers of sums both large and small can be enrolled.\n\n**SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS TOWARDS THE FUND FOR FIGHTING THE WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC SHOULD BE SENT TO THE SECRETARY, MISS ALISON NEILANS, ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE, LIVINGSTONE HOUSE, BROADWAY, WESTMINSTER, S.W.1.**\n\nYours very faithfully,\nLAURA HELEN SAWBRIDGE (Hon. Secretary).\nTHRIGBY HALL, GREAT YARMOUTH, Christmas, 1933.\n\n**NOTE BY EDITOR.**—Miss Sawbridge also pleads for the Assyrians, who have been so shamefully treated by the Allies. A report of the Dean of Chichester's plea for the betrayed Assyrians appeared in the Church Times of December 22nd. Readers desirous of showing their practical sympathy with the Assyrians in their great need, would do well to get into touch with Capt. G. F. GRACKY, D.S.O. Overseas Delegate, c/o The Save The Children Fund, 40 Gordon Square, London, W.C.1.\n\n### REPORT OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO TRAFFIC OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE EAST (GENEVA, 1933).\n\nThis volume was reviewed in our columns just after its issue, but as we understand Members of Parliament are referred to this Report in order to correct \"our so-called regrettable statements\" made in our editorial (October, 1933), we think it is well to state one or two facts.\n\nThe Report can be obtained from the League of Nations Publications Agents, Messrs George Allen Ltd., 40, Museum Street, London, W.C.I, price 16s. It consists of over 500 pages of closely packed information concerning the Traffic in Women and Children in the East. We venture to think that any Member of Parliament who obtained this volume will not be at all impressed by the official attitude of the Colonial Office regarding the fate of Mui Tsai in Hong Kong. It is true that the League of Nations Report reprints some extracts from the Female Domestic Service's Ordinance of Hong Kong, Nov. 1923, and we would suggest to Members of Parliament that they compare the wording of the Ordinance of 1923 with the information given in the White Paper, Cmd 3424, which deals with the position of affairs in 1922-23. The League of Nations Commission of Enquiry could certainly not state that slavery is non-existent in Hong Kong.\n\n### THE FATE OF MUI TSAI\n\nThe fate of Mui Tsai, or child slaves, was referred to in our October editorial, and apparently disturbed the equanimity of the Colonial Office. Chinese brothels are supposed to be closed within three years of 1931. In the League of Nations Report concerning the subject of Procurers, it is stated \"It is possible to distinguish broadly between persons who procure girls in order to live on the proceeds of their prostitution and traffickers who procure girls and hand them over to brothel-keepers in return for a lump sum. The former are generally middle-aged or elderly women who may be prostitutes or ex-prostitutes, brothel-servants or brothel-managers. Their practice is to purchase children who are introduced by them into brothels at an early age. It is usual for them to claim these children as daughters. The latter are also, as a rule, middle-aged or elderly women, who describe themselves as maidservants, or perhaps more commonly as \"travelling traders\" (pedlars, commission agents, or guides). Their social status is low, and the funds at their disposal at any one time are probably small. In fact, it is not unlikely that these persons are usually agents working on commission. Their employers may be individuals or possibly syndicates working through a Chinese boarding-house. In one case the method is believed to have been to advance money to these agents in return for a promissory note. No doubt, also, credit is given by the boarding-house on the same terms.\"\n\nWe hope to make some further references to the League of Nations Report in our next issue.\n\n### HUMAN LIVESTOCK, by EDMUND B. D'AUVERGNE.\n\n(Messrs. Grayson & Grayson, Cavendish Street, MAYFAIR, LONDON). It is to be hoped that all those interested in the subject of Slavery will obtain Mr. D'Auvergne's book. This volume faithfully records the history of slaves during the past three centuries, lifting the veil upon many aspects of the question, which other writers appear to leave alone. The terrible cruelties perpetrated on the slaves by American slave owners, and the awful conditions of the slaves in the \"Middle Passage\" are faithfully shown. The publication of this book should do much to strengthen the hands of those who are fighting for the Abolition of Slavery to-day. It is a terrible commentary upon civilisation to consider that many of the horrible cruelties perpetrated on slaves in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries are still perpetrated to-day in many areas of the world where slavery flourishes.\n\nIf one could put down the book with a sigh of thankfulness that all the horrors are a thing of the past, it would be a great relief, but one knows only too well that at the time of writing, millions of human beings are to-day in bondage, and subjected to similar inhuman treatment as given in this history of the slave trade of the past.\n\n### SMUGGLING OF FLESH AND BLOOD.\n\nConcerning the \"adequate penalties\" imposed, as we refer our readers to the front page, to the correspondence between Lt. Commander Haslewood and the Colonial Office concerning women and girls.\n\nAgain we believe in many respects, Hong Kong is a very well-regulated Colony, and it seems passing strange that difficulties should not be met by the Government of Hong Kong concerning the prevention of Importation of Mui Tsai into the Colony, when it is evidently quite possible to prevent or regulate the introduction of opium. One would have thought it would have been easier to have detected a \"servile\" human being, than a packet of opium. Is the smuggling of human flesh and blood looked upon with a more tolerant eye than the smuggling of opium or dutiable merchandise, that may be calculated to swell the Exchequer?\n\n### \"THIS FREEDOM.\"\n\nWith reference to the statements made by the Colonial Office to the Member of Parliament (to whom we have referred) that the Mui Tsai are \"required to be paid wages, and are free to leave their employers if they wish to return to their parents or if they are ill-treated,\" we would ask the plain man's question. Is it logical to assume that children of tender age upon whom cruelties are perpetrated and upon whom rigid control is exercised by their owners, are likely to be able voluntarily to leave their owners/\"employers\" as the Colonial Office terms them? The whole evidence shows they are not free agents. And is it likely that the army of three inspectors can ensure the payment of wages?\n\nEven in Great Britain, there is plenty of work for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Concerning wages, it is evident that their wages so-called often are only paid when a particularly flagrant case is brought before the Police Court Magistrate, and it is even suggested that the arrears of wages to Mui Tsai may be looked upon in the nature of a fine, shown by the last paragraph of the Colonial Office's letter on the first page.\n\nThe Colonial Office also intimated that \"isolated cases of cruelty to children occur in Hong Kong, as in every country.\" We would ask two questions on this matter. If only three inspectors are employed instead of an army, which the Governor (in 1929) considered would be necessary, is it not certain that there are only isolated cases of cruelty to children? The Government's White Paper provides information that the number of children who are Mui Tsai in Hong Kong runs into many thousands, and the number given by independent observers exceeds considerably official estimates. In any case, it can be seen that it is impossible to state the number of cases of cruelty that may occur. Can the present staff of inspectors effectively cover the ground? Regarding the so-called \"adequate penalties imposed,\" we can only refer our readers to the reports published in this, and to previous issues, called from \"The South China Morning Post,\" of the fines actually imposed.\n\nIt should be borne in mind that the value of the dollar in Hong Kong is about 1s. 4d. when calculations are made as to the adequacy of the fines.\n\n### REPORT NOT AVAILABLE.\n\nWith reference to the concluding sentence of the Colonial Office communication concerning Reports received from the Governor of Hong Kong, we must venture to observe that the people in this country who pay for the cost of the House of Commons Library should be entitled to see the publications. We are given to understand that the public are not admitted to the Library, and although the Reports received from the Governor of Hong Kong may contain information that would lay public concern, it is quite possible they may not. It would be a public-spirited notion on the part of any of our Members of Parliament to ask whether the Reports obtained from the Governor of Hong Kong on this subject can be published as a White Paper, so that the public would be able to form their own conclusions, and compare it with information received from independent sources in the Colony.\n\n### SLAVERY DOES FLOURISH IN HONG KONG.\n\nIn spite of the official view that slavery does not exist in Hong Kong, we shall continue to say that it does. The White Paper shows it does. The reports of Police Court proceedings in Hong Kong show that it does. The evidence of the Anti-Mui Tsai Society shows that it does. The books written by eye-witnesses show that it does. The photographs of rescued children show that it does. The records of the Anti-Slavery Society show that it does. It appears to us that the correct thing for the Colonial Office to do is to admit that it does. If the Government's case is that they consider it is impossible to prevent the bartering and selling of Chinese children under the British Flag, then the Government should say so. It is no answer to say there is a Law if the Law is not enforced. Platitudinous smoke-screens of words do not obscure the world facts. The Governor of Hong Kong in 1929 stated \"**VERY DRASTIC POWERS WOULD BE REQUIRED, IF REGISTRATION WERE TO BE MADE EFFECTIVE, AND SUCH POWERS WOULD BE INTENSELY UNPOPULAR.**\" That approximates the truth of the matter. And we are willing to believe it. When those **Drastic Powers** are exercised we shall hear no more of slavery in Hong Kong. But that day has not yet dawned.",
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        "content_text": "(8)\n\n101\n\nA lot of water in the nullah that day and stones were carried down,\n\nKathleen Charlotte French Fairburn: 8.8. xd Fraser.\n\nOn 22nd June I was living at 16 Macdonnell Road.\n\nThat day I went out about three p.m.\n\nI walked down past playground to No.2 bridge.\n\nIt takes about 10 minutes to get from my house there.\n\nAs I got onto the bridge I heard a scream.\n\nI looked up at No.1 bridge and saw a Chinese man.\n\nI saw him pick up a little boy on his left and throw him into the nullah on the far side.\n\nThen he turned and picked up girl on his right side and threw her over.\n\nThey were European children.\n\nThe man then climbed over the railing and dropped in himself.\n\nHe wore long dark trousers and a light jacket.\n\nTrousers were like Exhibit 9.\n\nJacket was like Exhibit 6.\n\nHe was wearing a straw hat like Exhibit 5.\n\nI afterwards identified this hat from a number of others as being like the hat he wore.\n\nThat was at Central Police Station.\n\nI think he wore shoes but I can't say.\n\nAs he threw the children in he had his back to me.\n\nAs he climbed over the railings I got the side of his face towards me.\n\nI had a clear view of him.\n\nHe dropped over fully dressed.\n\nI ran at once up the path to No.1 bridge.\n\nI could see the nullah as I ran up.\n\nI saw a little boy clinging to the side of the nullah on the left on this side of the bridge.\n\nThat was as I ran up boundary path.\n\nI saw nobody washed down the nullah.\n\nWhen I got to bridge I saw little girl on her knees on the upper side of the bridge in the nullah.\n\nI had the impression she was on the step.\n\nI looked over the bridge but I saw nobody else.\n\nI ran round and called some chair boys to come down.\n\nThey came and a man in long white trousers helped them and they got the children out.\n\nThe Chinese man and chair coolies brought the little girl out.\n\nThe little boy I lost sight of, but I saw him brought out by a European soldier.\n\nI never saw the man again after he jumped in.\n\nHe could have been washed down without my seeing him.\n\nI stood looking over No.1 bridge looking at the little girl.\n\nOn 9th July I attended identification parade.\n\nNumber of men all dressed alike.\n\nI was asked if I could pick out man I saw on 22nd June.\n\nI identified accused.\n\nHe had same hair, same high cheek bones, and sunken cheeks.\n\nxxd.Lim.\n\nIn magistrate's court I gave evidence recorded on page 10. What I then said is correct.\n\nWhen I first saw the man I had just come onto the bridge.\n\nI was just entering the bridge.\n\nThe whole thing was a matter of seconds.\n\nI can't remember what the little girl was doing when the boy was thrown in\n\nShe was just there.\n\nTo the Magistrate I said she seemed to be looking into nullah.\n\nThe girl had on a light coloured dress.\n\nFrom No.2 I had a good view of No.1 bridge.\n\nI ran immediately up boundary path.\n\nAt Police Station I saw several hats and identified this one (Exhibit 5)\n\nMan had his hat on throughout.\n\nJ\n\nAt identification parade I saw a row of men and identified accused.",
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        "content_text": "No. 10 of 1899\n## MERCHANT SHIPPING\n\n29. **EQUIPMENT FOR LIFEBOATS**: Every lifeboat forming part of the statutory life-saving appliances of any ship of Group I, Class 6 shall be provided with the full equipment for lifeboats specified in the Instructions, with the exception that, subject to the approval of the Government Marine Surveyor, biscuits and condensed milk need not be provided.\n\n30. **EQUIPMENT FOR LIFE RAFTS**: Every life raft forming part of the statutory life-saving appliances of any ship of Group I, Class 6 shall be provided with the full equipment for life rafts specified in the Instructions, with the exception that, subject to the approval of the Government Marine Surveyor, biscuits need not be provided.\n\n31. **LIFE-BUOYS**: The minimum number of approved life-buoys with which ships of Group I, Class 6 are to be provided is as follows:\n\n### Table No. 8\n| Registered Length of Ship in Feet | Minimum No. of Life-Buoys | Minimum No. of Life-Buoy Lights |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Under 200 | 6 | 2466 |\n| 200 and under 300 | 8 |  |\n| 300 and under 400 | 10 |  |\n| 400 and over | 12 |  |\n\n32. **LIFE-JACKETS**: One approved life-jacket shall be carried for each person on board.\n\n## GROUP I, CLASS 7\n\n33. The requirements as to life-saving appliances specified under the heading \"Group I, Class 7\" shall be complied with by ships engaged in the carriage of unberthed passengers on international coasting voyages as particularly hereafter described, that is to say, voyages not more than twenty miles from the nearest land along the coasts of French Indo-China, China, and Manchuria between parallels 19° North latitude and 41° North latitude.\n\n20",
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        "content_text": "20\n\nshipped by s.s. André Lebon of the Messageries Maritimes, which\n\nis due in Hong-Kong on or about January 7th, 1938, whereas the\n\ndrugs exported from the United Kingdom are being shipped by\n\nthe P. & O. s.s. Carthage, due in Hong-Kong on or about\n\nJanuary 20th, 1938. The drugs are packed with other medical\n\nstores in wooden boxes consigned to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson\n\nand Co. Ltd., Hong-Kong, and marked \"Epidemic Commission, League\n\nof Nations\".\n\n•\n\nIt is also proposed to lay down in Hong-Kong a general\n\nstock of medical supplies for the needs of the medical units.\n\nAmong these medical supplies might be certain quantities of\n\nnarcotic drugs.\n\nIf necessary, I shall have the honour to request\n\nthe kind assistance of your Government for the entry into\n\nHong-Kong of such additional drugs as soon as I am in\n\npossession of the export authorisations from the countries of\n\norigin and of information as regards time of shipment, arrival\n\nin Hong-Kong, etc.\n\nA copy of this letter is being sent to the Secretary\n\nof State for Foreign Affairs in the United Kingdom, for\n\ninformation.\n\nI have, etc.,\n\n(Signed) S. LESTER.\n\nDeputy SECRETARY-GENERAL.\n\nP.S.\n\nThe drugs exported from France include 250\n\nampoules of 0.01 morphine hydrochloride in 5 boxes of\n\n50 ampoules each in regard to which the Secretariat has\n\nnot yet received a copy of the export permit.\n\nThe copy\n\nhas been requested from the French authorities and will\n\nbe transmitted to the Government of Hong Kong by air-mail\n\nimmediately on receipt from Paris.\n\nPage 20\n\nPage 21",
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        "content_text": "1, Eric Mayell do solemnly and sincerely declare that:\n\nI am a British subject by birth, in possession of\n\npassport number 2494, issued at Portland, Oregon, U. S. A.\n\n16th September 1931.\n\nI am a motion picture cameraman employed by Movietonews\n\nInc: 460 West 54th Street, New York.\n\nOn December 11 1937 I was evacuated from Nanking, China\n\nand went on board the U. S. S. \"Panay\".\n\nOn December 12 1937 the \"Panay\" was bombed and sunk by\n\nJapanese airplanes. My personal effects went down with\n\nthe ship. They are itemised on the attached sheet of\n\npaper. Their value amounts to Nine hundred dollars and\n\nseventy-three cents, United States currency.\n\nI make this solemn declaration conscientiously and\n\nbelieving same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.\n\nSingapore. S. S.\n\nMarch 14 1938.\n\n(SIGNED) ERIC MAYELL.\n\nDeclared at Singapore this\n\n14th Day of March 1938\n\nBefore me.\n\n(Signed):\n\nCommission for Oaths Chief Clerk, Supreme Court.\n\nPage 9\n\nPage 9\n\nCare\n\nFox Film Eastern Ltd., 12 Trafalgar Street,\n\nSingapore. S. S.\n\nMarch 14 1938.\n\nPage 9\n\nFilters for camera lenses\n\nItemised list of personal losses sustained by Eric\n\nMayell when the U.S.S. \"Panay\" was sunk on the Yangtse River on December 12 1937.\n\nLower false teeth\n\nTools for camera equipment \"Hamley\" toilet case\n\n3½ lbs. smoking tobacco\n\nFive optical glass\n\nU.S. $ 85.00\n\n5.00\n\n7.50\n\n11.00\n\n$ 15.00\n\nFive three inch gelatine\n\n4.50\n\nOne pola screen\n\n12.50\n\nFilter holder\n\n4.00\n\n36.00\n\nDressing gown\n\n4.50\n\nWinter cap\n\nAntiques bought in Sian and Nanking:\n\nBronzes, kakemonos and porcelain\n\n1.50\n\n83.00\n\nJapanese colour prints (6) 220 yen.\n\nProvisions lost in launch \"Yankee\" which\n\n63.60\n\nwas tied up to \"Panay\" at time of\n\noccurrence\n\n20.00\n\nThree work shirts\n\n3.00\n\nCuff links of French enamel and diamond\n\nshirt studs\n\n95.00\n\nFor the following articles replaced,\n\nreceipts are held:\n\nOvercoat\n\n56.00\n\nBrief case\n\n4.80\n\nPortable typewriter\n\n56.15\n\nWeston exposure meter and case\n\n24.00\n\nSuit, trousers, jacket Sh. 228.00\n\nShirts, pyjamas\n\n135.00\n\nTrunk and suit case\n\n102.00\n\nRolls razor\n\n52.00\n\nMiscellaneous toilet articles 29.95\n\nRaincoat\n\nSweater\n\nHat\n\n165.00\n\n27.50\n\n35.50\n\nTies\n\n34.75\n\nScarf\n\n14.50\n\nHandkerchiefs\n\n25.50\n\nSocks\n\n17.50\n\nUnderwear\n\n62.70\n\nShoes and slippers\n\n73.00\n\nHeavy boots, new\n\n59.50\n\nDunhill pipes, new (2)\n\n60.00\n\nSpare spectacles\n\n25.00\n\nCleaning suit\n\n1.50\n\nShanghai Dollars 1,148.90\n\nTotal value in United States\n\n344.67\n\n900.73\n\nPage 9",
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        "content_text": "17\n\nCare Fox Film Eastern Ltd, 12 Trafalgar Street, Singapore, 8.3. END\n\nMarch 14 1938.\n\nItemised list of personal losses sustained by Eric Mayell when the U.S.S. \"Panay\" was sunk on the Yangtse river on December 12 1937.\n\nLower false teeth\n\nTools for camera equipment\n\n\"Hamley\" toilet case\n\n31 lbs smoking tobacco\n\nFilters for camera lenses\n\nFive optical glass\n\n15.\n\nFive three inch gelatine\n\n4.50 One pola screen\n\nFilter holder\n\nDressing gown\n\nWinter cap\n\n12.50\n\nAntiques bought in Sian and Kanking:\n\nBronzes, kakemonos and porcelain\n\nJapanese color prints (6) 220 yen\n\nProvisions lost in launch \"Yankee\" which was tied up to \"Panay\" at time of occurrence\n\nThree work shirts\n\nCuff links of French enamel and diamond shirt studs\n\nU.S. $ 85.\n\nFor the following articles replaced, receipts are held\n\n5.\n\n7.50\n\n11.\n\n36.\n\n4.50\n\n1.50\n\n83.\n\n83.60\n\n20.\n\n3.\n\n95.\n\n56.\n\n1.80 56.15 24.\n\nOvercoat\n\nBrief case\n\nPortable typewriter\n\nWeston exposure meter and case\n\nSuit, trousers, jacket\n\nSA $ 228.\n\nShirts, pajamas\n\n135.\n\nTrunk and suitcase\n\n102.\n\nRolls razor\n\n52.\n\nMiscellaneous toilet articles\n\n29.95\n\nRaincoat\n\n165.\n\nSweater\n\n27.50\n\nHat\n\n35.50\n\nTies\n\n34.75\n\nScarf\n\n14.50\n\nHandkerchiefs\n\n25.50\n\nSocks\n\n17.50\n\nUnder wear\n\n62.70\n\nShoes and slippers\n\n73.\n\nHeavy boots, new\n\n59.50\n\nDunhill pipes, new (2)\n\n60.\n\nSpare pair spectacles\n\n25.\n\nCleaning suit\n\n1.50\n\nSH $ 1148.90 - U.S. $ 344.67\n\nTotal value in United States dollars\n\n900.73",
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        "content_text": "40\n\n.4!\n\n5\n\n# A DIARY OF THE AIR RAIDS.\n\nFor the previous two or three weeks, we had been having wet weather, and were congratulating ourselves that the rain at least kept the Japanese aeroplanes away. Since the beginning of May, when an attack had been made on Canton near the Sun Yat Sen University, there had been a respite. But on Saturday, May 28th, a spell of fine weather began again,—blue sky with patches of fleecy white cloud hanging fairly low. This made very good cover for the Japanese airmen, who seem to have developed the technique of diving out of the clouds to drop their bombs, and then retiring to safety before the anti-aircraft guns could spot them. Indeed, for a great part of the bombing, we have been unable to see the aeroplanes at all. The anti-aircraft fire has been vigorous and persistent. Two planes are said to have been hit, but it has been an unequal struggle, and emphasises that, as far as aerial attack is concerned, Canton is not a heavily fortified city.\n\n## Saturday, May 28th.\n\nIn the morning, I was over at Pak Hok Tung, which lies across the river from Canton. The meeting I was at was, of course, disturbed by the roar of planes and the detonation of bombs and anti-aircraft fire; but it was not till the local Red Cross corps received a 'phone call to go and help at Lychee Wan in the North West of the city that we realised how serious the raid had been. At 1 o'clock, the raiders came back and dropped more bombs, which I afterwards learnt had fallen among the rescue-workers near Wong Sha Railway Station. As we came back in the launch, we could see smoke coming up from a match factory only a few hundred yards from Shameen. I began to go with another foreigner towards our home in the East of the city, but the planes came over for the third time that day, and the police would not let our rickshaws proceed till the firing was over.\n\nA colleague who is a member of the Committee of Justice had been round by the Wong Sha Station, which was destroyed. Bombs had also fallen on a great many small houses in the neighbourhood, and he reported ghastly scenes of dead and wounded. Coming home, I saw an undertaker's car piled up with rough wooden coffins.\n\n## Sunday, May 29th.\n\nThe raiders came about 10 a.m., power-diving, apparently very close to where we live. It is a shattering noise and instinctively makes you recoil into a corner or fall flat on the floor. Fortunately, there was an interval, and I was able to get to a church service in Sai Kwan, the West suburb. Another raid began just as we were finishing, and it was rather a disturbed service, with the sound of ambulances and cars rushing by, and then a general movement away from the west part of the city where the Wong Sha Station lies. The Japanese have been persistently attacking this district. Hackett Hospital, which is of American Christian foundation, lies at least half a mile from the Station, but bombs have dropped just outside it.\n\nAfter Church, I got a rickshaw, although planes were overhead, and reached the Columbus Restaurant in the middle of Canton. Two planes were visible, and hundreds of people sheltering in doorways and shops were looking up at them as they dodged the anti-aircraft fire. The Restaurant was packed to the doors. People were sitting on the stairs and in every available place. But when the All Clear Signal had gone, most people went out, and we could pursue more or less normal life for the rest of the day.\n\n## Monday, May 30th.\n\nThe air-raid began about 9:30 a.m. The school where we live is strongly built with four concrete floors above the entrance hall, which has become a kind of public shelter. Between 100 and 200 poor people from the neighbourhood come each time. It was particularly noisy that morning. The planes were power-diving near us again, and bombs were falling not far off. One exploded three hundred yards away in a field. Whenever there was a lull, we would rush upstairs to look out and see what damage had been done. Tremendous columns of smoke and dust were going up from the Siu Pak (Little North Gate) district, while far away to the West, we could see from the smoke that Wong Sha Station was being attacked again.\n\nSome of the Boy Scouts from the School prepared to go and lend a hand at the places nearest to us. They went very willingly, but we nearly started too soon, as the planes came back while we were still in the school grounds. We had to wait for a few very unpleasant moments by a bamboo hedge while the planes roared, and on three occasions at least, we could hear the swish of bombs hurtling through the air. There were terrible scenes of dead and dying at Siu Pak, where scores of little houses and shops had been destroyed. In a village not far from our school, a bomb had fallen in a bamboo grove, and there had probably been a house near by. When we got there, there was only a huge crater. Some Red Cross workers were helping with the wounded. We helped some soldiers with digging. An old woman recognised the body of her small grandson. A disconsolate mother kept crying \"Why did they come here?\" Why indeed? There was nothing that could be called military anywhere near.\n\n## May 31st-June 2nd.\n\nDuring the middle of the week, the air-raids were not quite so intensive. On Tuesday, the Japanese raided Sai Tsuen, where the Electric Power plant and other factories are situated. On Wednesday, there was no raid. I took the opportunity to visit the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. It is one of the finest buildings in China, and stands in its own grounds well apart from the other buildings. The north-west corner of the building was hit by a bomb and badly damaged. Broken blue tiles were scattered everywhere on the pavement. Two other bombs were aimed at it, one of them hitting a Primary School which stood at the corner of the square. It is difficult to see the reason for, or to excuse this act of vandalism.\n\n## Friday, June 3rd.\n\nI got caught in the streets during a raid in the afternoon. Traffic came to a halt, while people moved quickly, but without panic, taking what cover they could. I found myself near the Sun Yat Sen University and knew it was not a good spot to be in. I made my way by stages to the Lingnan wharf and found that three bombs had fallen into the river, killing some boat people. I crossed in a sampan to Lingnan, and passed the cotton factory, which had also been hit. Ambulances were already on the spot.\n\n## Saturday, June 4th.\n\nThis was one of the worst raids we have had. I was in the YMCA building in the Bund at the time. There were several tremendous explosions, and we could hear the bombs coming through the air, which fell near the Pearl River Bridge, and behind the Provincial Bank. Whole rows of houses were demolished there. Four or five bombs had fallen at the corner of Tai Hong Rd. and Hon Man (Wing Hon) Rd. Somehow, to see that destruction and bodies laid out in the main shopping street of Canton brings out more clearly the cruel futility of war and its threat to all that we call civilisation.\n\n## Sunday, June 5th.\n\nWhitsunday. Our Church service was held in very trying conditions. Bombs had fallen about 400 yards away the day before. On this day too, the explosions sounded almost as near; but somehow we finished the service. Two bombs had fallen on the old campus of the National Sun Yat Sen University. Attacks were also made on the Municipal Building—another very fine achievement of modern Chinese architecture—and on the broadcasting station, but these were not successful.\n\n## Monday, June 6th.\n\nAnother terrible day. Raids began at 8 a.m. Some bombs fell not far from the Sun Yat Sen University Hospital. Others fell near the old East Gate, and it is difficult to see what they could have been aimed at. They hit a number of poor houses, which collapsed. I realised how many people must have been trapped and buried alive in ruins when we helped to unearth a woman and child in this district. At first, we could only hear them, but after some feverish clearing away of bricks and rubble and wood, their heads appeared. The little boy could be got out, but the woman was buried almost up to the neck. Then there was another raid, and an agony of waiting while more bombs dropped. Afterwards, the rescue party got to work again, and she was freed. But hundreds of people in Canton have not been so lucky, and some are probably still buried in ruins.\n\nRound at the YMCA, they had had an even worse time. Bombs had fallen on the French Hospital almost next door, on some houses behind the Power Station 150 yards away, and a third at the foot of the new Tiger Balm building on the Bund. Again, a terrible roll of dead and wounded. It was quite difficult to get home owing to the number of bombed areas that had been cordoned off by the police.\n\n## Tuesday, June 7th.\n\nIn the afternoon, there was another raid. Three bombs fell on the grounds of Lingnan University. One of them, only 130 yards from the house of an American Professor, failed to explode and buried itself 10 feet into the earth.\n\n## June 8th to 13th.\n\nNight raids began as soon as the moon was a little way past half full. By now, a tremendous number of people have left Canton for the country or Hong Kong. As soon as there is an alarm, those who are left either run out to the fields on the outskirts or go to some part of the city that is still considered safe. There is a hasty procession of cars, then silence while we listen for the distant drone of the planes.\n\nThe Japanese appear to have hired spies to let off flares on the first night, and many were seen going up from all parts of the city. But most of the traitors must have been caught, as there were none on the following nights. The airmen seem to be more cautious by night. Only one plane comes at a time, and the bombs have mostly fallen on the edge of the city. The Electric Light Plant, at Sai Tsuen, which was put up by German engineers, to be paid for out of the running profits, was badly damaged in these night-raids.\n\nRaids have taken place on five nights, and the moon will last long enough for them to come five times more.\n\nOn each occasion, about six to ten bombs have been dropped, with the usual chances of death and destruction. There is the additional terror of it happening in the dark. On June 8th, there was also a fire in an oil-shop, possibly started by incendiaries. The gallant Japanese airmen made their contribution to the peace of East Asia by machine-gunning the people who were trying to put it out.\n\nCanton is now very quiet, but not completely deserted. There has been no panic, and no looting. Government Officials, Police, soldiers, Labour Corps, Red Cross workers, doctors, and many others remain to protect life where they can, and to preserve peace in the city. The Chinese civilians are doing courageous work in exceptionally trying conditions. It is because we believe that their cause is essentially the cause of humanity that we appeal to friends in the West to sympathise actively by helping to restrain Japanese aggression, and to stop war supplies going from Britain and the United States to a country which uses them in this way.\n\nGILBERT BAKER.",
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        "content_text": "## department was formed in the Hongkong & Shanghai bank building (part of the bank proper) which was operated by Japanese civilians, some of them members of the former Japanese consulate in Hongkong.\n\nThis department dealt with all the affairs of so-called \"third nationals\" which included Swiss, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, French, Portuguese, etc. During the first three weeks of January, all the \"third nationals\" were officially instructed to present themselves to this dept. in order to obtain \"third national\" passes with which they would be able to move freely in town. Two photographs were to be provided, one attached to the pass itself with a stamp of the Japanese Consulate over it. These passes were effective till the end of March and later on prolonged till the 15th of April.\n\nA branch of the Civil Affairs dept. was also established in Kowloon in the Peninsula Hotel. This department dealt with everything concerning third nationals such as issue of protective papers to tenants, issue of permits to take luggage across the harbour, permits to leave the colony, etc., as well as the business side - e.g., reopening of offices, etc. All the banks came under the Japanese Financial department. The foreign banks were allowed to open three consecutive days a month when the \"third nationals and friendly Chinese\" were allowed to draw specified amounts in Hongkong dollars from their personal accounts (HK$50.- in January, £300.- in February, and in March 150.-).\n\nThe employees of the \"enemy banks\" i.e., Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corp., Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Mercantile Bank of India, National City Bank of New York, the Chase Bank, Netherlands Trading Society, Nederlandsche Indische Handelsbank, Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, were interned in a Chinese Hotel (Sun Wa hotel) in town and were brought every morning under escort to their offices. These banks were officially in the state of liquidation, and their employees were allowed a certain salary not exceeding HK$80.- per month. The Chinese banks were eventually instructed to reopen, but their work was restricted and under the supervision of the mentioned Japanese Finance dept.\n\n## At the time of the surrender, Hongkong and Kowloon were packed with Japanese troops.\n\nAs a rough estimation, the Japanese Army in Hongkong, Kowloon, and the New Territories included about 60-80 thousand seasoned Japanese troops - infantry, artillery, airforce, marines, and tank units. Some of the units were reportedly brought from Manchuria, being stationed previously on the Russian border; others, including marines, from the Canton area. After a month or so, the Japanese army in Hongkong decreased considerably - a skeleton garrison of some thousands was left, and the bulk of the troops was shipped away to other war areas.\n\n49\n\nPage 50\nPage 51",
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        "content_text": "# HONG KONG, after its occupation by the Japanese.\n\n## Report: December 25th 1941 to March 22nd 1942.\n\n### General Situation. Dec. Jan.\n\n### Reasons for Fear.\n\n#### Dec.\n\n1. Enemy occupation of homes, both European and Chinese.\n\nUpon landing, Japanese soldiers entered houses and took possession. Tenants were forced to leave; in many cases without their personal belongings. Some unfortunate people were kept prisoners in their own homes and compelled to cook for, and serve the soldiers.\n\n2. Looting.\n\nLooters were well armed with pistols, knives, etc., picked up from the streets. (Ammunition, guns, steel helmets, uniforms, and suchlike were hastily discarded and thrown everywhere by volunteers, police, and watchmen when they saw the Enemy landing.) Many private houses and public institutions had their window frames, doors, and floor planks removed for use as fuel.\n\n3. Humiliation and ill-treatment.\n\nMany individuals were slapped and kicked about for no conceivable reason. Europeans working in hospitals were frequently marched around the compounds and poked in the back by soldiers with bayonets. A Chinese man walking in the streets may suddenly find himself pushed to the ground and told to kneel for an indefinite period. (This happened often in the less crowded thoroughfares, e.g., Shaukiwan.) Guards standing at certain sections to search passers-by often beat men on the head with the butt of their guns. Women had a hard time at the hands of some of these searchers.\n\n4. Raping.\n\nWomen had to dress themselves as poor beggar-maids or dirty servant-girls to escape notice. Some cut their hair and wore men's clothing. Soldiers broke into houses, asking for girls with permanent waves. Even hospitals were not respected. (Soldiers got into the Jockey Club Hospital, Happy Valley, and outraged some of the nurses there.)\n\nBy Jan. 20th 1942, trams, buses, and ferries resumed service. The water supply was restored, and most telephones were repaired. Streets were swept, and corpses were allowed to be buried. (In the French Hospital, Causeway Bay, the Japanese Officer-in-charge would not permit the burial of the dead for over a fortnight. The mortuary was packed and stank to high heavens when finally he got a European to collect the bodies.)\n\n### Re-organising Work.\n\nPage 90  \nPage 91",
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        "content_text": "85\n\nI had told the Senior Japanese Medical Officer, through Major Boxer who spoke fluent Japanese, who my husband was, and that on no account would we consent to go to Stanley, and that if the Japanese authorities insisted on moving him that he would probably have a heart attack or a haemorrhage in the ambulance, and that his death would be their responsibility. He promptly had a sign written in Japanese put up on our door to say \"do not Disturb\", which was very considerate of him. About lunch time, we had made our own lunch out of tins which we had on hand, we were told that we would be moved to St. Stephen's Hospital. Mrs. Reeves, the wife of the British Consul at Macao, had appeared at the hospital three days previously; she had come to Hongkong on a shopping expedition and got caught there and had finally come to the Queen Mary for shelter. She was in a bit of a panic, not knowing whether to go with the rest of the British to Stanley, or what to do. I suggested that she stay with us and see what happened, which worked out quite satisfactorily as the Japanese agreed that she should go with us to St. Stephen's. Later, thanks to the good offices of Mr. Takio Oda, who was appointed the Chief of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, she was returned to Macao, on the 10th of March.\n\nThe move to St. Stephen's was effected quietly after the hospital had been evacuated. It was a curious atmosphere, the great building entirely deserted, empty, rooms left in disorder, things lying about anywhere. Hospital servants came in about two in the afternoon and took anything they could find in the way of small things to loot. They flitted about like shadows, and the sunshine streamed in all the windows that were not closed and blacked out. My husband and I had sat on our verandah on the sixth floor and watched the last of the lorries full of Sisters stream out. We were the last to be moved and were alone in the building for two hours, and thought for a while that we had been forgotten. The Medical Officer in charge came for us at last however. He was most scrupulously polite at all times although the others were a rather truculent lot.\n\nThe move to St. Stephen's Hospital was definitely a step in the right direction, as far as our comfort went. Although it was only an emergency hospital, converted from a Mission Girls' School, there was an atmosphere of kindliness and efficiency which made up for the lack of equipment. The place was packed, there was no water except what was carried in; no light except candles, and those were expensive; no food except the Japanese hospital ration of rice and beans. I slept seven in a room with a lot of refugees. A French girl had the bed next to mine, there were two other British, Mrs. Reeves being one of them, one Portuguese girl, two Jamaican Eurasians, and for a while a Russian woman. We all managed comfortably enough, and there was always the most perfect harmony in that room, strange to say, as friction due to overcrowding in Stanley rose to unimaginable heights.\n\nMy husband was put in a ward with four other men. The fact that he was a Consul General made not the slightest impression on any one, and was hardly mentioned. They had very little to give us — practically nothing — but what they did have they gave us gladly, with such kindliness that we settled down at once. Being cut off from sources of supply from Pokfulham was a serious matter; I had been going there regularly every day from the Queen Mary Hospital, and had been able to bring along milk for two days and two big bags of vegetables which we gave into the central fund of food as we had no way of handling it.\n\nThe Housekeeper kept enough for us so that my husband had fresh vegetables for some time, and I went over to Pokfulham for milk twice, but had to give it up, the journey was too far. I had brought a supply of eggs sufficient to last a week or more, luckily. That was something for him to eat as the beans were forbidden on his diet, which left nothing but rice, and the vegetables I had brought. One has to have gone through it all to realise the food situation; we just did not have any food except rice and two kinds of beans, and tea, and a minimum of sugar, and occasionally a tiny bit of jam. Bread came irregularly, and finally was made largely of rice flour, which produced a stodgy grey bread, most filling, and certain to result in indigestion.\n\nI explored the neighbourhood around the hospital and soon discovered a market where I could buy duck eggs, this about two weeks after we settled down at St. Stephen's. We could get green vegetables and fish of sorts there also. And the kitchen department at St. Stephen's, a small, very impudent and very competent cook of local extraction, responded readily to the suggestion of a cumshaw and was willing to prepare any food we gave him. He was a most satisfactory ally the whole time we were there, ready to do anything for us.\n\nAs St. Stephen's was very much nearer town it was much easier to go in to buy things and also for my regular ten day visit to the consul...",
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        "content_text": "SHORELINE.\n\nCR\n\n39\n\nIn the evening the very adequate street lights accentuate the vividness of the scene. The two large pleasure markets called the \"wife orld\" and the \"Great orld\" bristling with Chinese, Indian, Malay and British and Dutch Civilians, and British, American, Indian, Dutch, French and even Chinese troops, are so gay and blatant that one has really no doubt that for the moment war is definitely over.\n\nOne begins to wonder whether this gaiety is not more than merely superficial when one recalls one's first dealings in ... all. British Military and naval establishments' food is, if not bad, at least monotonous, accompanied inevitably by a solemn sermon of vitamin pills to compensate for the lack of fresh meat and vegetables - one never gets it. If after one's official meal one still feels hungry, one cannot do better than abort to Decaras em or er As come out to the effect that personnel in war zones may not buy cooked foods in restaurants.\n\nIf one tries Raffles, now open again as a Hotel, there is the inevitable \"A\" ration for signallers - tinned Americand Lard and interesting Navy ration biscuits with coffee afterwards. It is difficult to judge the native food situation. In the \"wife orld\" and the \"Great orld\", in fact in all the restaurants and small eating stalls, there seems to be an abundance of meat, fresh vegetables and fruit, but rice is not so very apparent. Still, there are noticeably few people queuing. Lots of restaurants advertising \"apple food\", so called \"egg rice\" are likely ... One indication that the still grim situation is not so improved is the order relating to Army rations to be consumed in toto. The object of this is obvious. So brisk is the trade.\n\nPrices: $10,000 per head for a meal at the best restaurants. Here cases of food poisoning in the town are linked to a change in the local rice supply. Records reveal that cases of illness or death from drinking the local rice wine are on the rise.\n\nThere are forbidding posters carrying the warning \"Curry Be Tord 'Death'\" and \"Death from drinking the local rice wine by the A.O.I. Command during the heat wave\". A number of soldiers died from drinking illicit liquor.\n\nThe market is also colourful. On one hand, there are fairly cheap crepe-polished blouses and a fair amount of Xian silk for sale. The usual indigenous colours such as sarongs are almost unobtainable. In a flood of odds and ends of little utility such as cheap jewellery ornaments, 1948 looks almost pre-war. Just as curious to sell these times, even useless fetters seem to be sold.\n\nLosses in order to get a little cash in hand. Of course, it should be mentioned that next to the Malay Toller and the Indian rupees, the most frequent currency is the Allied Military Currency and the cigarette. In the streets, one is begged by Chinese, failing to get (delays of all kinds) dollars fifty cents for a packet of twenty cigarettes re-sold on the streets at three to four dollars. So bad is the situation that cigarettes are being sold separately, by ones.\n\nThere is a surer source of revenue for the unscrupulous in the black market trade. One bottle of Montreal \"feto lies\" sells for Dalaman dollars fifty.\n\nA further interesting factor in the current situation is the racial grudge. It is surprising paucity of numbers of Malays in Kuala Lumpur. One hears that many Malays have retired to Kampongs up-country.",
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