[ { "id": 216553, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "Chim - Riangfoo, Captured, \n\nmounted on the Walls of Return of Ordnance \n\nthe \n\n21 July \n\n1842. \n\nf ૪ માં તેમનુ \n\njo oz \n\nA. to I with plans \n\nNankin \n\nMyberd, \n\n02070 2% \n\nBritish Cantonment before \n\nNaikin, August 214 1842, \n\nIt has jeteas. de Almighty God. \n\nHer Majesty's \n\n< \n\nwith complete success, \n\n2 Chenasto \n\nand comped the camperor of be \n\nclacins of Grock Espritain and by \n\nto the \n\nanedited Com seven, \n\nto enter into a trenty of peaces dictated by the long \n\nLightly exlcomed. \n\nextremed foreign: \n\nacknowledged. \n\nin \n\nas \n\nwhose power is henceforth: \n\nThe display of our tuition; and Inaval force the hours of the country – the interruption of all \n\nfall \n\ncial intercoursed by the Impernal canale - the fall, within a four hours ofter our landing, of Chin-Reang - for, \n\nof the shongar \n\next, and, from to \n\nposition, of the most important cities in China – and the invertement by a critnions force of the ancient capital of this \n\nDivine Providenced, \n\neffecting \n\nand are \n\nthis \n\nresults of no lep \n\nworld, \n\nthum to \n\nwast \n\ntcmpère, have, \n\nbeen the happy \n\nb. han \n\nصریح کرنا گھبر \n\n2. \n\ntark co \n\nf \n\nthe Tartar Corenails, \n\nC. \n\ndoubt, destined to produces \n\ncountry. \n\nThe Right Honeratte Ford Stanter \n\nTrincipal Secretary of State Colonial defor \n\nStree \n\ncivilize \n\nFuring the fondon \n\nرحم", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216554, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 38, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "مجھے \n\nޓ \n\nThe movement of the gangarating the British Government, chencrusty \n\nsugurated by the Popatiat Gevemen \n\nadron bed by the Governer j \n\nwhich was \n\nat of In diad \n\ndertaken. \n\nd. \n\n! \n\nbryster Me Parker \n\nand my of presions to the cript file me tons, \n\nhas thus ted to an racer and \n\nbetween Es \n\nنهم \n\ndjustment \n\nchment of the differences \n\nEngland. \n\nforted by any other line of operations. \n\nI will not enter wits much details \n\n1 China), than could pestin May \n\nhave hood fented bypaing \n\nجو \n\nfour \n\nents Benced may \n\nlast 20 patch of the 25. \" \n\naltine. On the doth Jomback do the force intended \n\nteach aganist Mankind leaving Major Generat \n\nSchoolde with HM. 56° and one \n\nchinable \n\nSnegret to say \n\nthat notwithstanding \n\nby Chotea \n\nbjectional \n\nevery precaution, Thave tort sover at Offi \n\nޓ. ޑު \n\nFrom the prevalence of contrary \n\nwinds, the fleat could not stem the current; \n\nYou gorkiing \n\nSit the \n\nof the \n\nving of the 4t instant, \n\nwhen the transfints, with Lar Sutton = Brigaded \n\nblad te provved. The Honorable bos pavy's \n\nکام ہے۔ کسری \n\nto \n\nQueen, having \n\nSpigale 2. \n\nترو \n\nHer ketentiary. \n\nMajesty's \n\nboord, lowed esfe the Marion, \n\nمخیر و هم بیچ میں \n\nhere \n\nIf \n\nHead quarter ship, and on the 5th we \n\nSantand, the hornwallis having offfected the passage \n\nThe whole of the ships did. \n\nthe \n\ncompany of the \n\n7. \n\n98th, the 2nd and 6th Ragements Madras A., and \n\na proportion of Artillery Chin keangfor, \n\n02- La. \n\nand Sappers to \n\nthen the heights \n\npy commanding \n\nit and the mouth of the Imperial canal. The city had become uncrichabitable from the \n\nof dead bodies \n\nbry \n\nthe house, that were on \n\nthe \n\n22 Ar \n\nmember \n\nConfried Reveral gates and \n\nat \n\nthe Tartar hoops in the whore offre Tortas town. From the decomprad and scattered states of theses bodies, it would have \n\nin pr \n\nMicable to bury \n\nbeen \n\ntheme without much \n\nrisk to the health ofthe Troops employed, and without breathe \n\nthening \n\nmight \n\nhave led to \n\nconsequenc \n\nwhich scarcely less \n\nobjectionable \n\nfecering \n\ndang. The \n\nnot wick the anchorage of this city until the glo \n\nunstart. \n\naux coud to \n\nPrevious to our \n\nboring Chitoaupfer, \n\navert the calamities consequent \n\nމ \n\n\" \n\nگئے \n\nherr \n\nd with to much bever \n\nکے \n\nsant, and a rapitition of the scenes of Tartar \n\nI plunder by athenese soofdestruction and universal plunder \n\nhod with of rabble, which we at that city, the Adments and imgott has forwarded. by the Secretary of the Tartan general, who felt there, to Newkeen, Vice-Rory of the buskeang 1. no dation of which Hey, \n\nFenclose) \n\nPrevi \n\n4.1. Your Lordships will perceived that wed on underbook to spine the city, giving \n\nonly \n\nit chering \n\nbe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216592, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 76, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "H. \n\nActer cofole 8. August 1842. \n\nCommanding \n\nIn the Parton Foural \n\nSchické to the misferen \n\nat Nankin, \n\nthat farrisond. \n\nWhere he wensed fran \n\nSiong, moh's Laving praised \n\nno \n\nMajherd. \n\nbe \n\nBenteith Cantonment he pore banking \n\nAugust 29th 18112. \n\nIt are the homer to on closes a copy \n\nof Sir Henry Betten zes és Gract as setting forth the most important peosismis of the Treaty \n\nIf on day \n\nprep \n\nad \n\nHeangfer \n\nme to add that Som \n\nChin de to with draw from Nankin, Ceci - \n\nand Chinchae, uporn the ratifications of the tready by the Compoons of Chin \"payment of the first inchalinen! of the 21 millions, and that Thave made such arrangementé, \n\nd \n\nwill, providing sufficiently for the seccenity of themen Kostungsss and How oftengs leave th \n\nte part \n\nquate. \n\nof the drops disposable for services in \n\nGident. \n\nIhave the bow to bes \n\nMay Ford You. \"Load stiep u \n\nmost obedt bu \n\nA to death \n\nChil madin \n\nThe Right Honoratty Lord Stanley \n\nPrincipal Secutary of State . \n\nツ \n\nColonial department \n\nFornes of Mark \n\nEren Zue predigtenchen \n\ndon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224587, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "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.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228176, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "page_number": 480, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "473\n\nAppendix\n\nReport on the Tea\n\nTrade.\n\n[64]\n\nThe territory in which the large amount of tea consumed in Europe and America is grown is south of the Great Yan-tze-Keang river; the whole region lying between the 27th and 31st degrees of north latitude, and from the sea coast inland for 500 to 600 miles, may be considered capable of producing tea; but the most favoured region is the generally sterile hilly province of Fokien, and the provinces of Keangsoo and Chekeang, between the 25th and 31st degrees of north latitude. This territory, which extends over 350 to 400 square miles, is composed principally of the debris of a coarse granite, and of a ferruginous sandstone, crumbling into decay; but when well comminuted and irrigated, yielding sufficient nutriment for the hardy tea plant (a camellia), whose qualities, like that of the vine, are elicited by the nature of the soil, the elevation, the climate, and the solar aspect to which the shrub is subjected*.\n\nIt is generally stated that green and black teas are produced from the shrubs of the same species, with a slight variety; the leaf of the green being larger and broader than that of the black; the former leaf is rounded, the latter elliptic, flatter, and more coriaceous.\n\nThe cultivation in different soils, the picking of the leaves at different stages of expansion, and subjecting them to greater or less degree of heat and manipulation in drying, is the cause of considerable variety; probably the same difference exists as between the red and white grape, or the black and white currant.\n\nThe shrub is cultivated with great care, planted in quincunx rows, in beds, by seeds, chiefly along the sides of hills with a southern aspect, and on a poor gravelly soil, among the debris of decayed granite and disintegrated sandstone, and where nothing else will grow, and it is used for hedgerows or boundaries.\n\nThe height varies from three to seven feet, and it is very leafy. The flower resembles the wild rose or briar flower, common in English hedges in autumn; the seed vessel is a nut of the size of a small hazel, or rather like the castor-oil nut, but rounder; three red kernels are in each nut, divided by capsules, and from these a quantity of oil, termed \"tea oil,\" is extracted, and used for common purposes by the Chinese. Six or seven seeds are put into each hole when planting; in 12 or 18 months transplantation takes place, and about the third year the leaves are first plucked. At seven years of age the top is cut almost down to the stem (as gardeners do with old currant trees), and a more leafy set of shoots spring up the ensuing year.\n\nThe age of the tree is unknown; it has a useful duration, probably to 15 or 20 years. It is an evergreen, and blossoms from the end of autumn throughout the winter until spring. The leaves are dried by placing them first in flat baskets, and exposing them to the air and a moderate degree of sun. They are then further dried or \"tatched\" in thin pans of iron, heated by a small furnace of charcoal, the leaves being kept constantly turned round by the hand, and rolled or rubbed between the fingers, to give the leaf a rounded form. When sufficiently fired, it is picked and packed for Canton in chops of 100 to 1,000 chests, each chop having marked on it the name of the maker, the district where the tea is grown, its quality, date, &c.\n\nCopper is not used in the preparation of any description of tea; iron pans are solely employed. I visited a tea manufactory five miles above Canton, where about 500 men, women, and children were engaged in converting coarse-looking refuse leaves, into several sorts of green tea. A series of large flat iron pans were placed over a range of furnaces heated by charcoal, in several successive degrees. The teas, which had been previously picked and sorted, were then placed successively in these pans by men, who each rolled them to a certain extent. After passing four or five pans a small quantity of turmeric was sprinkled over the leaves, in a pan highly heated, and in the next pan a blue powder, composed of Prussian blue and gypsum was added, which gave a delicate green bloom to the leaf, which formerly had been of a dingy black or brown hue. The tea was then gradually cooled in large shallow baskets, then placed in a winnowing machine and sifted into different sizes, the smaller being packed and sold as gunpowder or pearl tea. Thus the greatest refuse of tea, or the leaves which had passed through the teapots of the Chinese, were converted into \"Gunpowder,\" \"Hyson,\" and other teas for exportation, as the Chinese never drink green tea. The proprietor of the manufactory told me that the green tea thus prepared was sold to the Americans, who consume but little black tea. It is said to be difficult to detect this coloured tea from the pure, and as the Americans have good tea-tasters at Canton, the English probably receive their share of the adulterated manufacture.\n\nThe names of teas are a very imperfect criterion of their quality. Formerly Bohea was the principal tea in use; now the title is used to designate the lowest description of black tea. It may be useful to indicate the designation of the names in general use. Bohea is an English corruption of the words \"Woo-e,” \"Voo-yee,\" or \"Ba-yee,\" some hills of that name, about 12 miles in circumference, in Fokien, on the borders of Canton province, yielding a common tea of that name, which is gathered three times a year. It is called by the Chinese \"Tacha\" (large tea).\n\nCongo, from \"congfoo,\" labourer, is of a better quality than Bohea, less dusty, and with a rougher and more astringent flavour.\n\nWo-ping teas are so called from a district of that name in Canton province, and when mixed with Bohea form \"Canton Bohea.\"\n\nAnkoi, a coarse tea from the district of that name.\n\nCampoi, from Keinpoi, selected. It is a stronger tea than Congo.\n\nSouche or Caper, from \"swangche,\" double preparation, or \"choolan,\" fragrant pearls. A great deal from Ankoi district.\n\n[65]\n\nSouchong, from \"seaore-chong,\" scarce or small, good thing. It is carefully made from trees three years old, grown in good soil. Older trees, in a similar situation, produce Congo; older still, Bohea and other inferior teas.\n\nThere are different sorts of Souchong, and it is not easy to get this tea pure and good in England. The leaf is of agreeable fragrancy, somewhat like new-made hay; the leaf crisp, of a glossy black colour, and when subjected to boiling water, of a sick-red hue; the liquid is an amber brown.\n\nPeko, or Peho, from \"pih,\" have white petals or hair, so called from being made of leaves, gathered in when the blossoming is over in spring, when there is a whitish hair or down young on the leaf.\n\nThe tea flowers are fragrant mixed with the leaf, and give a fine odour and flavour to the tea.\n\nTwankay, from Tunkay, a district where the tea is generally made. In green teas it corresponds in quality to Congo among black teas.\n\nSinglo, from Sungle, a mountain in Ganhway. Both these teas have large flat leaves, and are not much rolled.\n\nHyson, from \"hechuen,\" genial spring or first crop, when the young leaves are gathered. Hyson Skin, Puha tea skin. In Chinese \"skin\" signifies the refuse. It is formed of the leaves rejected in the preparation of Hyson. The dealers in London give it the name of bloom tea.\n\nYoung Hyson, from \"yee-tseen,\" before the rains. It is a very small leaf. Gunpowder is the picked, small, well-rounded Hyson, like shot, also called Pearl or Imperial tea. Several other teas with new names are being introduced.\n\nThe different teas are prepared roughly by the tea farmers, and then taken to the manufacturers, who prepare and sort the teas according to the districts in which they are grown, the variety and age of the tree, the size and quality of the leaf, &c. The leaves are passed through sieves of different sizes before their quality is determined. The judgment of the manufacturer in selecting and sorting, and the skill of his workman in firing or \"tatching\" the leaf, is of the first consequence. The better quality teas are more frequently roasted, and each leaf separately rolled. The finest descriptions do not reach England; the mandarins pay very high prices for those teas, and their flavour is so delicate that they would not bear four or five months' sweating in the hold of a ship.\n\nThe production of tea for the use of the Chinese middle and lower classes must be very great, as it is used at every meal.\n\nThe tea found in Russia, conveyed by land and river carriage thither, is said to be superior to the tea generally used in England. This may be owing to the leaf being less fired; many of the finest teas drunk in China would not bear five or six months' stowage in the hot and humid atmosphere of the hold of a ship, and therefore the teas conveyed to Europe by sea require to be dried and fired to a degree which must injure their quality. Teas that I drank at Foochoo, Ningpo, and Shanghai were not highly dried, and had a very delicate flavour, when drank as the Chinese do, without milk or sugar; but these teas could not be preserved more than a few months. The Chinese say, that the high dried superior black teas improve in flavour by being closely packed in air-tight leaden cases for one or two years. Some of the finest teas in China scarcely colour the water, and the preparation consists solely in pouring boiling water on a small quantity of the leaves placed in a teacup, fitted with a close cover; among the highest classes a silver strainer is placed at the bottom of the teacup. Tea made up into balls, or compressed into the form of bricks, or of flat cakes, is exported to Tartary, Tibet, Burmah, &c., boiled with milk, and constitutes an agreeable and nutritious beverage.\n\nThe constituent properties of tea are,\n\n \n \n Black\n Green\n \n \n Tannin\n 40.6\n 34.6\n \n \n Vegetable albumen\n 6.4\n 5.7\n \n \n Mucilage\n 6.3\n 5.9\n \n \n Insoluble fibre\n 44.8\n 51.3\n \n \n Loss\n 2.0\n 2.5\n \n\nThe tannin blackens salts of iron. The proportions of tannin must vary with the quality of the tea. A salifiable base, named \"theine,\" in regular colourless crystals, has been obtained from tea.\n\nThe ashes of black and green teas yield silex, carbonate of lime, magnesia, chloruret of potash. In distillation tea yields a volatile oil, and according to some, a small quantity of resin, soluble in alcohol, and possessing the odour of tea. The effects of tea on the human system are, first stimulant, and then narcotic, according to the strength of the beverage. In moderation tea is an excellent diluent; it promotes digestion, and stimulates the renal glands. The constant use of tea, however, in large quantities, especially by persons living on a poor vegetable diet, is not favourable to physical strength or nervous energy, and to persons engaged in sedentary employments and imperfectly alimented, the frequent imbibing of \"tannin\" has a decided and manifest pernicious effect. How far the excessive use of strong tea in China, by alternately elevating and depressing the nervous system, may have led...\n\nPage 480\n\nPage 481", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228575, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "page_number": 303, "title": "CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3]", "content_text": "207\n\nHONG KONG.\n\n14\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nmarried females reside here. In this respect there has been very little improvement during the last year.\n\nThe importation of sugar from Tae-ping and other places was, during last year, very considerable. The growers were able to sell it here cheaper, on account of not paying export duties, than it was procurable at Canton, and hence many sales. This branch of commerce will mainly depend upon the prices for which it can be brought to Hong Kong, and the amount it will fetch at home. Should the crops of this season be as abundant as last year there can be no doubt but the importation in 1849 will be larger. With a richer kind of cane, which is here very thin and juiceless, and good machinery, the Chinese might compete with slave sugar, for work is very cheap, and an acre planted with sugar-cane yields, even at reduced prices, more profit than a rice-field. There is, however, a great demand for this commodity in the northern provinces, so that the prices can never go below a certain level. The Government are rather opposed to the extension of the culture, lest paddy—the staff of life, and vegetables might be grown in smaller quantities. The foreign exportations constitute up to this time not one hundredth part of the home consumption, and have not yet materially affected the market.\n\nNeither camphor, rhubarb, nor teas have any more been brought by junks to this market; all those who speculated in these articles have lost, and this is the reason for their abstaining from any further attempts. It was owing to the small demand that the first could not find ready purchasers; the second offered for sale by the junks was of an inferior quality, and next to useless in the English market; the last shipped to Hong Kong was not selected according to the demand, and realized therefore next to nothing. Another difficulty was, that the men who made this trial had no capital, and could sell for ready-money only. If direct communications be established with Fuch-choo, and a judicious choice made of the teas most in demand, the junks no doubt might sell the black kinds to greater advantage here than any tea-man could do at Canton who has to transport his goods through a long and expensive inland passage.\n\nEfforts have been made to induce the Fokeen junks to bring coals from Ke-lung on the north-coast of Formosa. Some small investments have been brought here; not yet, however, to give rise to hopes that all our supplies would henceforth be imported from thence. The Chinese Government does not prevent the exportation; but the labour to bring them on board in the absence of all machinery, and even a common cart, is very great. Still it is very likely that the ingenious and plodding Chinese may get over these difficulties, and import them here during the north-east monsoon as ballast.\n\nAlum finds generally a ready sale at this port, because it can be obtained cheaper here than at Canton, where it has to pay an import and export duty. It is brought here in Fokëen Chaougan junks, which fetch it from an island on the coast of Keangsoo, where it is found in immense quantities; some comes likewise from Che-keang. The junks buy it on the spot at an average rate of half a dollar per picul; and if they can dispose of it here at one and a quarter dollar they make a fair profit; at one dollar it does only cover the freight and labour. Several cargoes have been imported and sold at remunerating prices.\n\nSalt has been imported in greater quantities than at any of the preceding years, the whole amounting, according to the returns of the salt-weigher, which are always less than the actual quantity, to 297,050 piculs in 524 junks. The largest quantity imported in a single month was 41,150 piculs, the smallest 13,000: the junks have varied from 31 to 52 per month. By far the most extensive importers are the Pwan-yu boats. The demand for this article is likely to increase, on account of the large fisheries in the neighbouring seas, which become every year more numerous, and the great difference between the prices here and in the interior. The Fokeen junks have already commenced to become the importers; and though they were in the first instance beaten out of the market by very low prices, they have again ventured to compete with the salt manufacturers in the neighbourhood.\n\nA greater number of marine junks visited this year the port than at any previous period. A few of them sold sundry articles imported from the north for Chinese consumption, whilst others bought opium and calicoes, the staple articles of exportation, with ready money. This trade has of late most materially increased; yet the transactions are secret, and to obtain the true returns is impossible. Few vessels, however, anchor here without buying something; and as there were about 80 junks on an average per month, the sum total of this money laid out cannot be inconsiderable.\n\nThe only produce of our island, granite slabs, freighted 777 large boats. Insignificant as this commodity may appear, it nevertheless gives employ to more than 1000 people, whose perseverance and hard labour are exemplary.\n\nThe fisheries have been extended, and it is much to be regretted that the particulars cannot be given, no account being kept. The owners of the smacks, on account of not being here exposed to the extortions of mandarins, prefer Stanley and Aberdeen to native harbours; and their agents, who supply them with rice and other necessaries, find it more advantageous to live under the British flag than take upon themselves the responsibility their own Government imposes upon them, and the consequent liability of paying heavy fines, if the fishing-craft they have secured commit outrages. The exportation of salt-fish to the interior from the above two places has been very large as it is an article of food of which the poorest partake, there is a constant demand.\n\nDuring this year not one single instance occurred, to my recollection, of the Chinese Government interfering with vessels that came to the port. Instead of insisting upon carrying into effect the Supplementary Treaty, in regard to the junks that come here, no notice whatsoever is taken of them.\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS,\n\n15\n\nWhile our hopes in regard to the future trade of native vessels at Hong Kong cannot be very sanguine, we need not despair, for there exists a progressive improvement; and could a stop be put to piracy, the junks would bring more valuable cargoes than they have hitherto ventured to do.\n\n(Signed) CHARLES GUTZLAFF, Chinese Secretary.\n\nVictoria, 27th February, 1849.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nSIR,\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nEnclosure 5 in No.\n\nPolice Department, Victoria, March 7, 1849.\n\nI HAVE the honour to submit through you, for the information of his Excellency the Governor, returns for the year 1848, showing the number of persons apprehended by police, the results before magistrate, and making a comparison with the years 1846-47; also a return of the crimes and offences coming to the knowledge of the police, in which no persons were apprehended. The result of the first is very favourable, as it exhibits a total decrease, as compared with the year 1847, of 396 persons, or more than 20 per cent. The last return exhibits an increase of undetected crime; but this arises from the Chinese inhabitants communicating their losses more readily than previous years. Most of the offences are of a trifling description, as regards the value of property stolen. It is likewise necessary to notice that property is very insecurely protected from depredation, owing to the bad fastenings to windows and doors, and the style of building.\n\nOne of the greatest difficulties the police have to encounter arises from the reluctance the Chinese exhibit to prosecute or assist in obtaining evidence, also in not appearing as witnesses after cases are committed for trial. This necessarily causes many cases to be acquitted, or the prosecution abandoned, and the prisoners return to their old haunts and habits.\n\nI beg to add that the present police force is, in my opinion, sufficient for, and adapted to, its general duties and objects; and that the state of crime, notwithstanding the difficulties to encounter, exhibits its efficiency.\n\nThe returns furnished by me do not correspond with a return from the chief magistrate, in consequence of the latter including all cases of summonses for assault, nuisances, &c., in which the parties were not in custody of police.\n\nThe Hon. Major Caine,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n(Signed) C. MAY, Superintendent of Police.\n\nHONG KONG POLICE.\n\nCOMPARATIVE RETURN of the Total Number of PERSONS apprehended in the years 1846, 1847, 1848,\n\nResult before Magistrate.\n\n \n Year\n Total Apprehended\n Discharged\n Summarily Convicted\n Committed for Trial\n Tried and Convicted\n Tried and Acquitted\n Result of Committals for Trial\n Discharged by Proclamation, Charge being abandoned\n \n \n 1846\n 1,539\n 229\n 1,149\n 161\n 69\n 57\n \n \n \n \n 1847\n 1,852\n 440\n 1,081\n 331\n 167\n \n \n \n \n \n 1848\n 1,456\n 491\n 798\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n(Signed)\n\nCHARLES MAY,\n\nSuperintendent of Police.\n\n(True Copy)\n\nW. CAINE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nEncl. 5 in No. :", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-028 - Bonham - 1849 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 269580, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "page_number": 202, "title": "CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4]", "content_text": "12\n\n197\n\nJuly by common consent for presentation to the Chinese Government, urging them to immediate action and pointing out the necessity of appropriating the tonnage dues on foreign trade to this end exclusively.\n\nThe minute in question, although initiated by all the Foreign Representatives on 17 July last, was not presented or any collective action taken, partly because the French Chargé d'Affaires desired to proceed further than his Colleagues, and, taking possession of the whole of the tonnage dues to apply them under a Commission to be nominated by the Treaty Powers as in the case of the Danube with Turkey, and partly also with a view to allow time for a detailed Report on the chief obstacles to the navigation of the Hwangpoo and the Yangtze, on which Monsieur Vignier, a French Officer in the Harbor Master's department of the Imperial Customs at Shanghai was engaged at Monsieur de Bellonet's suggestion.\n\nI consented readily to this delay in order to obtain a more perfect accord among the Foreign Representatives, and with a view also of allowing time for Mr Hart to arrive, on whose assistance and willing cooperation I felt assured we might rely.\n\nI am happy to say the result has fully realized my expectations, not only has Monsieur de Bellonet, upon further consideration, taken a much more moderate view of what the Treaty Powers might fitly demand, but Mr Hart's arrival has...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-121 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "page_number": 99, "title": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "content_text": "# XIII-RETURN of VESSELS bringing CHINESE PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from places out of China, during the Year ending 31st December, 1867.\n\n| NAMES | TONNAGE | HORSE POWER | WHERE BUILT | REMARKS | DATE ARRIVED | Adults | CHILDREN | Sur's NAME | TONS | COLOURS | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | M | F | M | F | | | | |\n| Ana, Brig | 222:82 | | Bremen | | 1 Jan. | | | Cambodge | | | Chusan | | |\n| Colorado | 434:31 | | Newcastle on Tyne | Sold to Foreigners | 8 Feb. | 1 | | Golden Fleece | | | Indore | | |\n| Clan Alpine | 1,600 | French 4,009 American 1,600 British 942 | | | 4 March | 5 | | De Boris | | | Saigon | 50 | |\n| Jane, Barque | 307:20 | | Malmos, Sweden | | 1 March | | | Boliere | | | Puget Sound | 28 | |\n| Gipsey, Barque | 260:04 | | Nantes | | 6 March | 1 | | Harling | | | Tigra | | |\n| Annie Longton | 643 | | | | 1 March | | | | | | Singapore | 35 | |\n| Atrevida | 457 British | | | | | | | Bissett | | | San Francisco | 160 | |\n| Osaka, Schooner | 80 | 417:00 | London | | 8 March | 16 | | Alicia | 236 | *2 | Bunkit | Labuan | 62 |\n| Monarch | 284:21 | 1,444 | Arbroath | | 10 April | 8 | | Macey | | | Melbourne | 464 | |\n| John Bright, Barque | 250 | 677:44 | Millwall | | 11 April | 5 | | Taylor | | | Singapore | 90 | 942 |\n| Feloong, Schooner | 90 | 260:74 | Whitenich | Registry anew | 12 April | 12 | | Narvacz | | | Hutchison | 120 | Foochow |\n| Foochow, Barque | 594:63 | | Liverpool | Sold to Foreigners | 19 April | 12 | 11 | Rover | 15 | | Genkai, Brig | | |\n| Genkai, Brig | Cylinder 34 | 606:00 | Mystic, U.S.A. | Foundered in a Typhoon | | | | Fanny Smail | 15 | | Domai | 800 | Spanish 886 American 389 British 2,700 French |\n| Keangsoo, Barque | 800 | 448:63 | Cowes | Sold to Foreigners | 16 April | 28 | | A. J. Ingersoll | 17 | | Anne, Schooner | 304:83 | Bremen |\n| Anne, Schooner | 304:83 | | Bremen | | 7 May | | | Colorado | 808 American 4,009 | | Kemble Firth Bourden Derk Lane | Singapore | 30 |\n| Julia, Ship | 526:10 | | Aberdeen | Sold to Foreigners | 18 May | | | | | | Sydney | 26 | Saigon 35, Singapore 51, San Francisco 265 |\n| Emily Jane, Ship | 404:00 | | Calcutta | | 19 May | | | | | | | | |\n| Johanne, Schooner | 144:80 | | Copenhagen | | 20 May | | | Anno Porter, Brig | 238:87 | | Workington | | |\n| Kinkiang, None | Diameter of 417:59 | | New York | Registry anew | 22 May | | | Agamemnon | 20 | | Swordfish | 20 | Passe Partcut |\n| Ajax | | | | | 24 May | | | Cambodge | 2,279 British | 574 Siamese | 304 British | 1,549 | Moller |\n| Fire Dart, None | do. 46 | 212:84 | New York | Registry anew | 25 June | 3 | 21 | Clan Alpine | 942 | | | Singapore | 42 |\n| White Cloud, None | do. 44 | 170:91 | New York | Registry anew | 26 June | 3 | | Thunder | 59B | | Humphries Hutchison Taylor | Singapore | 50 |\n| Kinshar, None | do. 56 | 544:79 | New York | Registry anew | 28 June | 5 | | Agnes | 1,011 | 11 | Knapp | Singapore | 160 |\n| Wealth of Nations | | | | | 29 June | 1,187 | | Waters | | | | | |\n| Queen of the Seas, Barque | 442:82 | | Wilmington, U.S.A. | Registry anew | 29 June | | | | | | | | |\n| Resolution | | | | | 30 June | 6 | | Poyang, None | (Diameter of? 364:08 | | New York | | Registry anew |\n| Poyang, None | (Diameter of? 364:08 | | New York | Registry anew | 30 June | | | McKay | 816 Siamese | | Bangkok | 62 | |\n| Bombay Castle | 650 British | | | | | | | Gammon | | | Singapore | 40 | Cylinder 50 |\n| Fire Queen, Schooner | 1,400 | 2,886:01 | New York | Sold to Foreigners | 32 July | 12 | | Baron Kellner | 272 Austrian | | | | |\n| John Bright | | | | | 33 July | 13 | | Heather Bell, Schooner | 351:25 | | Richardot, France | | Sold by Auction |\n| Heather Bell, Schooner | 351:25 | | Richardot, France | Sold by Auction | 34 July | 13 | | Denmark | 677 British 328 Siamese | | Kovich McKenzie Prouse | Saigon | 22 |\n| Mirage, Ship | 718:51 | | Hartlepool, Durham | | 35 July | 16 | 10 | Magnolia | 380 British | | Clark | 90 | |\n| Marie Elizabeth | 77 | ?? 318) Dutch | | | 36 July | 16 | | Vander Gevel | | | Ellen, Ship | 631:00 | New York |\n| Ellen, Ship | 631:00 | | New York | | 37 July | 22 | | Tye Watt | 654 Siamese | | Singapore | 50 | Luis |\n| Kiushu, Barque | 112 | 684:99 | Cork | | 38 July | 22 | | Malaces | | | Bangkok | 25 | 13 |\n| Dart, Bessie Searight, Schooner Brig | 79:21 | | San Francisco | | 39 July | 22 | | Prosperity | 602 Siamese | | Bouning | Bangkok | 131:25 |\n| Prosperity | 131:25 | | Newport, South Wales | | 40 July | 26 | | Senator | 17 | 882 | Vichers | 32 | |\n| Haya Mares | 334 British | | | | 41 July | 28 | | Carmes | | | Singapore | 66 | |\n| Labourdonnais | 1,600 French | | | | 42 July | 29 | | | | | TOTAL TONS | 2,572 | 14,437:26 |\n| Handy | 632 Siamese | | | | 44 July | 3 | | Rigodet Raonkilder | | | Saigon | 70 | Bangkok 35 |\n| Reiver | 777 British | | | | 45 July | 4 | | H. G. THOMSETT, | 24 | | Bolton | Singapore | 60 |\n| Canton | 779 Siamese | | | | 46 July | 5 | | Heinsott | | | Bangkok | 821 | Harbor Master, &c. |\n| Meteor | 895 | | | | 47 July | 5 | | Pettersen | 451 | | | | |\n| Nile | 294 British | | | | 48 July | | | Mass | | | | | |\n\n## XI-RETURN of VESSELS REGISTERED and STRUCK OFF in the Port of Hongkong, during the Year 1867.\n\n| No. | | Horse Power | Tons | No. of Horse Power | Wreck Vessels | Fire, &c. | Sale to Foreigners | Registered Anew | Transferred to other Ports | Singapore |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | REGISTERED | | | | | | STRUCK OFF BY REASON OF | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | 751 |\n| 21 | Morning Star | 540 Siamese | | | | | | | | Sat | Bangkok | 100 |\n| 27 | Tigre | 1,725 French | | | | | | | | Boiliere | Saigon | 52 |\n| 28 | Sumatra | ** | 1,078 American | | | | | | | Kenema | San Francisco | 110 |\n| 30 | Lamont | 782 British | | | | | | | | Castella | Singapore | 75 |\n| | TOTAL | | 302,572 | 14,437.26 | | | | | | | |\n| | | | 2,720 | 1,731.24 | 8,677.15 | 3,837.05 | 2,640.06 | 28,814.77 | | | |\n| 40 | Indian Warrior | 661 Siamese | | | | | | | | Young | Bangkok | 841 |\n| 5 | Colorado | 4,009 American | | | | | | | | Smith | San Francisco | 400 |\n| 62 | Unity | 247 British | | | | | | | | Howes | Singapore | 22 |\n| 63 | Sophia | 301 Siamese | | | | | | | | luison | Bangkok | 60 |\n| 65 | Faders Minde | 290 Danish | | | | | | | | Oisen | Saigon | 28 |\n| 65 | Siamese Crown | 630 Siamese | | | | | | | | Snader | Bangkok | 60 |\n| | Waterwitch | 1,040 British | | | | | | | | Brown | Calcutta | |\n\n## XII.—RETURN of EMIGRANT SHIPS cleared by the Emigration Officer, Hongkong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1867.\n\n| No. | DATE CLEARED | SHIP'S NAME | TONS | OF WHAT PORT | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | AUDLTS | CHILDREN | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | M | F | M | F | |\n| 1 | January 11 | Reindeer | 828 | Liverpool | McClelland | | | | |\n| 10 | Autocrat | 984 | Boston, U.S. | Barwell | | | | | |\n| 4 | March 22 | Tennyson | 1248 | Newbury Port, UB | Graves | | | | |\n| 5 | April 3 | Glen of the Ocean | 690 | | Hans Pritchard | | | | |\n| 16 | Alphée | 902 | | De L'Escaille | 129 | 15 | | | |\n| 15 | Alice | 252 Hataburg | | Schuck | Singapore | 22 | | | |\n| 19 | Seaman's Bride | 314) Siamese | | Roth | Bangkok | 30 | | | |\n| 28 | Contest | 387 | | JJ > Berkely | 60 | | | | |\n| 25 | Fung Shuey | 987 American | | Watson | Singapore | 70 | | | |\n| 29 | Achilles | 1,550, British | | Russell | San Francisco | 92 | | | |\n| Sept. 3 | Morning Star | 481 | | Moreaux | \" | Bombay | 38 | | |\n| 4 | Keiver | 772 | | Bolton | Do. | 31 | | | |\n| | | 444 | 201 | | | Singapore | 150 | | |\n| 6 | Henry Melville | 261 | | Kirk | 65i | | | | |\n| | Castle | 476) Siamese | | Misted | Bangkok | 45 | | | |\n| 6 | Boanerges | 1,236 British | | Dann | Saigon | 26: | | | |\n| | | 240 | 26 | | | | | | |\n| 20 | Swordfish | 575 Siamese | | Moller | Bangkok | 25 | | | |\n| 8 | 12 Garland | 617 Hamburg | | Sobst | Do. | 275 | | | |\n| Oct. 3 | Clan Alpine | 942 British | | Hutchison | Singapore | 2001 | | | |\n| | | | | | | وو | | | |\n| 7 | 18 Joshua Bates | 660 Melbourne | | Sydserff Smith | Melbourne | 276 | 81 | | |\n| 3 | Thuuder | 593 | | Taylor | 120 | San Francisco | 424 | 82 | |\n| 4 | Great Republic | 5,000 American | | Doane | San Francisco | 660) | | | |\n| 9 | 10 California | 1418 Boston, U.S. | | уз | | | | | |\n| 10 | 23 Chelsea | 904 Melbourne | | Barber Lowe | Do. | 493 | 52 | | |\n| $3 | 28 Onward | 606 British | | White | Sydney | 50 | | | |\n| | | 971 | 84 | | | Do. | | | |\n| Nor | 3 Colla | 435 American | | Grainge | Saigon | 30 | | | |\n| 11 | 11 June | Japaru | 682 Rotterdam | Sevestein | Do. | 130 | 85 | | |\n| 4 | Luisita | H 1,440) Spanish | | Garcia | Havana | 23 | | | |\n| 12 Nov. | 6 Veritas | | | | | | | | |\n| 13 | 15 Codabus. | * | | | | | | | |\n| 14 | 23 | | | | | | | | |\n| 15 Dec. | 19 Jeannie Alice | 632 Liverpool | 1286 Calcutta | 1212 Singapore | 1026 Havre | | | | |\n| | Total Tons | 14,718 | | | | | | | |\n| | | Row | Carry | Surinam, Dutch Guiana | 280 | 9 | 86 | 11 | Reiver | 71 | 27 | Singapore | 145 | 5 |\n| 13 | 13 Joshua Bates | 777 British 5611 | | Bolton | Singapore | 130 | | Sydsor | Melbourne | B00 | | |\n| 14 | China | 3,856 American | | Sirith | San Francisco | 910 | | Jackson | Do. | 54 | 180! | |\n| 89 | 1 Moutier | | | | Do. | 139 | 150 | 30 | \" | |\n| | Aratoon Apear | 928 British | | De Smidt | Singapore | 50 | | | | |\n| 90 | 24 ** | Hongkong | 443 Spanish | | Ribiero | Havana | 24 | | |\n| 91 | 28 | 77 Franklin | 1,181) American | | Barsley | San Francisco | | 107 | | |\n| | Total Passengers | 3,674 | 351 | 257 | 1 | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| 92 | 30 Tigre | 1,725) French | | Boiliere | Saigon | 146 | | | | |\n| 93 | 30 Avon | 997 Prussian | | Toluck | Havana | 50 | | | | |\n| 94 Dec. | Fearless | 999) American | | Drew | San Francisco | 152 | | | | |\n| 95 | 9 SUMMARY | Clan Alpine | 942 British | | Hutchison | Singapore | 150 | | | |\n| | | | | | | Melbourne | | Singapore | | To San Francisco | | |\n| | | | | | | Surinamo | | Total | | 2,780 | 1 | 214 | 2761 | 151 | 2801 | 9 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | 338 | 341 | 41 | | 3,674 | 351 | 257 | |\n| | | | | H. G. THOMSETT, | | | | | | | | | |\n| 24 Orissa | 1,119 | | Hall | 36 | | | | | | | | | |\n| | TOTAL TONS | 92,780 | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | TOTAL PASSENGERS | 9,366 | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | .brought $500,000 | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| B | C | 600,000 | 965,000 | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | $2,126,000 | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | | | Emigration Officer, &c. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274499, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "# X-RETURN of Vessels REGISTERED at the Port of Hongkong, for the Year ending 31st December, 1867.\n\n## XI-Return of VESSELS bringing Chinese PASSENGERS to the Port of Victoria, Hongkong, from places out of China, during the Year ending 31st December, 1867.\n\n| NAMES | Ria | HORSE POWER | REGISTERED TONNAGE | WHERE BUILT | REMARKS | ADULTS | CHILDREN | DATE | NO. ARRIVED | S'S NAME | TONS | COLOURS | MASTER'S NAME | WHERE FROM | REMARKS | M. F | M. F |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Cambodge | Brig | 222:82 | | Bremen | | 2 | | Jan. 1 | | Ana | | | | Saigon | | | |\n| Colorado | Barque | 1,600 | 4,000 | American | | 31 | | | | | 90 | 434:31 | | Chusan, Indore | | | |\n| Golden Fleece | Barque | 950 | 679:44 | Millwall | | 5 | | Feb. | | | | | | Singapore | Sold to Foreigners | | |\n| Can Alpine | | 1,600 | 912 | British | | 5 | 28 | | | | | | | Nantes | | | |\n| Gipsey | Barque | 250:04 | | | | | | | | Annie Longton | 613 | | De Boris Bradbury Nelson Hutalison Marling | Puget Sound | | | |\n| Tigre | Barque | 1,725 | French | | | 40 | | March 1 | | Jane | 307:20 | | Boliere | Saigon | | | |\n| Atrevida | | 457 | British | | | 5 | | | | | 77 | | Bissett | San Francisco | | 160 | |\n| Alicia | Schooner | 80 | 417:00 | London | | 8 | 16 | | | | 2361 | | Bunkit | Labuan | | 62 | 29 |\n| Monarch | Barque | 1,414 | 2984:21 | Arbroath | | | | April 5 | | | | | | Osaka | | | |\n| Thander | | 593 | | Macar Taylor | | | | | | | 464 | | | Melbourne | | | |\n| Jolin Bright | Barque | 250 | 677:41 | Millwall | | 6 | | | | | | | | Singapore | | 90 | |\n| Cian Alpine | | 9121 | | Hatchison | | 120 | | | | | | | | Foochow | | | |\n| Genkai | Brig | | 606:00 | | | 30 | | | | | | | Chuler | Keanggoo | Registry anew | | |\n| Keanggoo | Barque | 300 | 448:08 | Liverpool, Cowes | | | | | | | | | | Mystic, U.S.A. | Sold to Foreigners | | |\n| Narvaez | | 400: | Spanish | | | 12 | 12 | | | | | | | | Foundered in a Typhoon | | |\n| Rover | | 386 | American | | | 13 | 13 | | | | | | | | Sold to Foreigners | | |\n| Fanny Sail | | 380: | British | | | 14 | 15 | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Donki | | 4,700 | French | | | 16 | 28 | | | | | | Dins Kemble Firth Bearden | Manila | 41 | | |\n| Anne | Schooner | 304:83 | | Bremen | | {R | | May | | Julia | $26:10 | | | Singapore | 30 | | |\n| Emily | Ship | 404:00 | | Calcutta | | | | June | | Johanne | 144:80 | | | Sydney | 6! | 16 | |\n| Anne Porter | Brig | 238:87 | | Copenhagen, Workington | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Kinkiang | None | | Diameter of?! | 417:59 | New York | | | | | | | | | Kinkiang | Registry anew | | |\n| Fire Dart | None | | do. 40 | 212:84 | New York | | | | | | | | | | Registry anew | | |\n| White Cloud | None | | do. 41 | 170:91 | New York | | | | | | | | | | Registry anew | | |\n| Kinshan | None | | do. 56 | 544:79 | New York | | | | | | | | | | Registry anew | | |\n| Queen of the Seas | Barque | 442:82 | | | | | | | | Poyang | | | | | | | |\n| Fire Queen | None | (Diameter of t | 36.4:98 | {Cynder fo | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Heather Bell | Schooner | 1,400 | 2,886:01 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Mirage | Ship | 718:51 | | | | | | | | Ellen | 631:00 | | | | | | |\n| Kinshu | Barque | 112 | 084:99 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Dart | Schooner | 79:31 | | | | | | | | Bessie Searight | 131:25 | | | | | | |\n| TOTAL TOSS | | 2,579 | 14,437:26 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n\n## XI-RETURN of VESSELS REGISTERED and STRUCK OFF in the Port of Hongkong, during the Year 1867.\n\n| No. | NAMES | Horse Power | Tons | WHERE FROM | MASTER'S NAME | REMARKS |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Agamemnon | | 2,279 | British | Middleton | Singapore |\n| | Swordfish | | 304) | British | | Siamese |\n| | Cambodge | | 3,5-19 | | Moller Parrett | Bangkok |\n| | Gravina | | 1,682 | French | | Saigon |\n| | Murtaban | | 240) | Spanish | | Manila |\n| | Ajax | | 482 | British | FRA Bevis | Saigon |\n| | Clan Alpine | | 9421 | | Humphries Hutchison | Singapore |\n| | Thunder | 509) | | Taylor | | New York |\n| | Agnes | 1,011 | | Knapp | | Singapore |\n| | Wealth of Nations | 1,187 | | Waters | | Saigon |\n| | Resolution | $18 | Niamoso | McKay | | Bangkok |\n| | Bombay Castle | 650 | British | Gannon | | Singapore |\n| | John Bright | 677 | British | | | Saigon |\n| | Baru Kellner | 328 | Siamese | Kovich | | Singapore |\n| | Peninark | 272 | Austrian | McKenzie | | Bangkok |\n| | Magnolia | 880 | British | Clark | | Singapore |\n| | Marie Elizabeth | 318 | Dutch | Vander Gevel | | Singapore |\n| | Tre Watt | 651 | Siamese | Luis | | Bangkok |\n| | Malacca | 660| | British | Voratto | | Singapore |\n| | Senator | 22 | | Haya Mures Labourdonnais | | Bangkok |\n| | Reiver | 602] | Siamese | Bouving | | Saigon |\n| | | 382 | | Vichters | | Bangkok |\n| | | 334 | Brish | Carmes | | Singapore |\n| | | 1,600 | Frenchi | Kigodet Baonkiller | | Saigon |\n| | | 682) | Siamese | | | Bangkok |\n| | | 777 | British | Bolton | | Singapore |\n| | | 779; | Siamese | Heiusott | | Bangkok |\n| 17 | Muscat Merchant | 544 | | Ward | | Bombay |\n| | Hongkong | 635 | Siamese | Frienburg | | Bangkok |\n| 24 | Jobanua Antonia | 320 | Dutch | Witho | | Singapore |\n\n### REGISTERED\n\n| No. | Horse Power | Tons | No. of Horse | Vessels. Power |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 30 | 2,572 | 14,437.26 | 88 | 2,720 |\n| | | | | 1,731.24 |\n\n### STRUCK OFF BY REASON OF\n\n| Wreck Fire, &c. | Sale to Foreigners | Registered Transferred to other Ports | Anew | Remaining |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 8,077.15 | 3,887.05 | 2,640.06 | 28,814.77 | |\n\n## XII-RETURN of EMIGRANT Ships cleared by the Emigration Officer, Honghong, during the Year ending 31st December, 1867.\n\n| No. | DATE CLEARED | Surr's NAME | TONS | OF WHAT PORT | MASTER'S NAME | WHITHER BOUND | REMARKS | M. F | M. F |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | Jan. 11 | Reindeer | | | | San Francisco | | 92 | |\n| | March 3 | Autocrat | 964 | Liverpool | McClelland | Do. | | | |\n| | 22 | Tennyson | 1430 | Boston, U.S. | Burwell | Do. | | 444 | 20 |\n| | 31 | Ellen Southard | 828 | Newburs Port, Us! | Graves | Do. | | 325 | 24 |\n| | April 5 | Gem of the Occau | 630 | Do. | Pritchard | Do. | 24t | | |\n| | 26 | Garland | 617 | Hamburg | Bohst | Do, | 275 | 20 |\n| | May 6 | Free Trade | 1188 | New York | Smith | San Francisco | 424 | | |\n| | June 10 | Colibrnia | | | | | | | |\n| | Nov. 6 | Veritas | | | | | | | |\n| | Dec. 19 | Jeannie Alice | | | | | | | |\n\n### SUMMARY\n\n| Total Tons | Total Passengers |\n| --- | --- |\n| 14,718 | 3,674 |\n| 92,780 | 9,860 |\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, Harbor Master, &c.\n\nH. G. THOMSETT, Emigration Officer, &c.\n\nTOTAL......... $2,125.000", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 278701, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "page_number": 270, "title": "CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7]", "content_text": "# Return showing the number of cases of Larceny by Servants during the second Quarter, ending 30th June 1869.\n\n Taken cognizance of by Magistrates \n\n \n \n Convicted\n Discharged\n \n \n Heungpoo Bay\n 5\n 2\n \n \n Pokfulam\n 2\n \n \n \n Chair\n 1\n \n \n \n Amah\n 2\n \n \n \n Totals\n 10\n 2\n \n \n 1st\n 5\n \n \n \n Grand Total\n 15\n \n \n\nHongkong. 4th July, 1869.\n\nTrue copy,\n\n(Signed) W.M. Deane\n\nCaptain Superintendent.\n\nM. M. Gardiner\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nIn 9652/69\n\nPage 270\n\nPage 271", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-138 - Sir MacDonnell - 1869 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294843, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-169 - Others - 1874", "content_text": "99\n\nIt was said that he sold arms, gunpowder, and other things, and so passed into Jun. LAA. How often he had done this I was unable to ascertain, but the officer here was evidently aware of the matter, for he told me that orders had been given to stop furnishing them.\n\nAnd subsequently, when speaking of Dupois being at Canton, he expressed a wish that he should be prevented from purchasing munition of war. When I told him it was too late, he having left for Songsein, Sapeis had been in touch with two Chinese, named Liu Chi and Chen te Kwei, the first an expectant Prefect in Yunnan, and the last supposed to be a military officer.\n\nIt was not apparent what their connection with the Japins was, but it was said they did business on their own account, in the sale of arms to Minheng, a noted Pirate on the Hwangpoo Coast.\n\n100", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-169 - Others - 1874.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 395133, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nCHINA TRADE.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\nNo. 1.\n\n[August 15.]\n\nSECTION 1.\n\n:\n\n:\n\nSir E. Satow to the Marquess of Lansdowne.-(Received August 15.)\n\n(No. 229.)\n\nPeking, June 27, 1904.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWITH reference to my despatch No. 219 of the 16th instant, transmitting translation of a note from the Chinese Government in which they make new proposals for the Hwangpoo River Conservancy, I have the honour to report that after consultation with my German and United States' colleagues as to the answer which it was advisable to return, I addressed the inclosed reply to Prince Ching on the 22nd instant.\n\nIt may perhaps seem that I have in some measure anticipated the instructions of His Majesty's Government in this note, but I venture to point out that a mere acknowledgment of receipt, coupled with an undertaking to transmit the Chinese proposals to His Majesty's Government, would probably be interpreted as a virtual acceptance, and it was necessary, therefore, to frame my answer in such a way as to reserve full liberty for any future decision.\n\nI beg also to inclose copy of the reply returned by my United States' colleague to the Chinese note. My German colleague, to whom I communicated a copy of my note before it was sent in, informed me that he would write to Prince Ch'ing in the same sense.\n\nThe Japanese Minister has also informed me that he agrees with the views expressed in my note, and that he will return a similar reply to the Chinese proposals.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) ERNEST SATOW.\n\nP.S.-Since writing the above I have been informed by the United States' Minister that his Government are willing to accept the Chinese proposal, provided that guarantees for the immediate commencement and satisfactory completion of the works are given. (See my telegram No. 144 of the 30th June.) This was communicated to the Chinese Government on the 27th June.\n\nE. S.\n\nInclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nSir E. Satow to Prince Ch'ing,\n\nPeking, June 22, 1904.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge receipt of your Highness' note of the 9th June, containing a scheme for the improvement of the Huangpu River which the Chinese Government desire to substitute for the arrangement contained in Annex 17 of the Peace Protocol of 1901.\n\nDuring the past three years the Chinese Government have been repeatedly urged by the Diplomatic Body and by various foreign Representatives to appoint a Chinese member of the Conservancy Board under Article IV (h) of Annex 17, and on the 23rd March, 1903, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires again addressed your Highness on the subject. But his note has remained unanswered. Your Highness will also remember that at our interview of the 3rd February last, I again pressed this question on your notice, but without effect.\n\nIt must be obvious to your Highness that the acceptance of any new scheme by the Powers must be unanimous. In their present form it appears to me unlikely that the proposals of the Chinese Government will meet with approval. In the first place, the Chinese Government ask His Majesty's Government to consent to the appropriation of a portion of the Customs revenue for this purpose. Now these funds are already pledged for the payment of the foreign loans and for the indemnity due to the Powers, so that there is nothing over.\n\n[2103 p]\n\n467", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579690, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945", "content_text": "Ta Kung Pao, Chungking. August 28, 1945\n\n(Despatch from our own special correspondent, Siao Chien, in London, Aug. 25) (Delayed). The news that Chou En-lai is prepared to go to Chungking filled the Chinese circles in London with a more joyful feeling yesterday than that which they experienced on the day when Japan offered to surrender. All the British newspapers have put on a mild and happy atmosphere as a result of several lively features concerning the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Alliance. This Treaty has also cleared off all the malicious speculations regarding the intention of Soviet Russia, about which I have previously made several reports since June, 1944. The Chungking announcement on the problem of Hongkong has been generally received with great approval, and considered as being in conformity with the statesmanlike attitude. As a matter of fact, this announcement has made several British friends of the reporter feel the pangs of conscience, and they more firmly believe that on the road to planning long-termed Sino-British friendship, it would be an undesirable obstacle for Britain to reoccupy Hongkong after the war. An Englishman who has returned from Hongkong has most cleverly expressed his views to the reporter, \"If you only stop supplying vegetables to Hongkong from Kowloon, we will be immediately brought to a crisis. As to the building of the Hwangpoo Harbor, it is needless to say what important effect it will have.\" However, I am still to learn what would be the intention of Foreign Minister Bevin.\n\nLast night, the Manchester Evening Post published an article which showed much optimism concerning the future of China, believing that in China, there may not be the possibility of another civil war, because \"Firstly, the Moscow Treaty will have immense influence on China's internal problems. The Soviet Union may still be sympathetic with the Chinese Communist Party, but the Treaty has definitely showed that what Stalin believes he should support is not Yenan, but Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Secondly, the more important cause is that the entire Chinese people do not want war again, and they have resolutely expressed what they hope. Public opinion in China today has more weight than it has ever had in any previous period. China has a great plan for her future, and therefore her country should not now be an arena for any civil war.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-8 Future Policy in Hong Kong 1-1-1945 - 26-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]