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There is a longline \n\nof unbration wall hotwres the sexting gate \n\nthe rivier, hardly approachables from \n\nbow paddspeland, and the \n\nand the Taiping bothe \n\nintensive) lake \n\ngates. \n\ns for s \n\ndie aant \n\nمیم میں وے \n\nنے نے ورم \n\nbehoren the Decher \n\nates is occupied byy rather an \n\nneighborhood of the lack montoried lovely and judrocorisy \n\nBalote et Montgomite \n\nthe mikey, \n\nمیم \n\nICaptain France \n\nدانه گره ها نشو بده بشر دوستی \n\nThe reporto \n\nbed \n\namount of troops \n\nwhich is reknowledged to containt at \n\nmillion of, \n\nof mihabitante, have varid exceedingly. Jam niformed howenta \n\nthat the fir \n\nJ \n\ntires from \n\nChenkeang for hands peached this plaars, in \n\nthe Tarta. \n\n. \n\ngrensend to about? \n\nof that nations resident in \n\ntramed ti \n\n་3་27 \n\nwastating \n\n, inchiram of the adulty \n\nthe city \n\nwho are all \n\nand perhaps the most formidable, \n\nopponents, as they fight for \n\nthey fight for theen famchis \n\nhomes. The Cheneve \n\nand \n\nnt, Thave \n\nreason to believes, to about 9000, beside the militia. \n\nFrom the \n\nmiles in \n\nhigh to \n\nکھے ہوں۔ \n\nat extent of the walls, soids to be twenty \n\ngreat. \n\ncorum forense), although \n\ntade \n\n( from about 1/770 to 28 feg & in the low ant beart) \n\nFE TH \n\n4. from the cann \n\nthe canals, reburites, \n\nd. \n\nい \n\nand takes is most phase, difficult to apper ach, it cons exident that Scout de take the city, whanence Ipleased, by threatening it at sucks distant points or to prov \n\nlarge \n\npposing forces - the \n\nofferding the \n\num pernely \n\nthe concentration). \n\nدگرد \n\nvany diffien thies of speech. \n\nof detaching small parties will \n\nto creates diverso- but doa, W \n\nthat the stand would be made in the Tartann \n\ncity. My face \n\ncorisided) of 2,500 offertioned, \n\nEurope \n\nbeen \n\n(6) fighting \n\nChina \n\nmend – most ofther. Excrapinin had boon with me \n\ncommencement of operationes \n\nsurice the \n\nand would, Swo \n\ncolore \n\nthe \n\nja ajax x \n\n• well assured, at ouse plane them 13, whenever I gave \n\nth \n\nder, while all the \n\ncorps eagentys \n\nfor a second opportunity of emerlating \n\nsolders \n\nA \n\nBut it \n\nrepititions of the \n\nlothed \n\nthe brother \n\nqueat el jest to avoid \n\nhorrors of Chape thent. \n\nand Sei William Parkes and \n\nthere fore \n\nde mon de aliind \n\nto by \n\nغمه الذي قدرت مجھے \n\nthe effect of \n\ncan gfor, \n\nHad \n\nopponenti", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216600, "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": 84, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "tation \n\nSu Teaching, Commissioner of the \n\nKing poo \n\nfor and Micken or in the \n\n* Z * \n\nگے \n\npentry and People of the district \n\nLove and the be the Conwe \n\nއގ \n\nof trenit & formal corresentation, of the sa \n\ntenor \n\nhat \n\nhe \n\na bajeromed ut the various bittag and country plans of the said tietect coming seen for More than a \"year pool, without dus trial interion. They Brux become subject to \n\nHus instues and a codance \n\ncult for them to son lines peaciably Beis, corsaiti hate how, the terms of peace baring boon & that, harg \n\nhe chockily sent H. H \" cuits and resuscitate the Larover people. \n\nin order to repress time \n\nSee Of \n\nand to lotions of the \n\nthe vide \n\nCircuit finds that in the \n\nboro Grant \n\nwhle haton and Ball \n\nSuvine if the people it will not be difficult for them for the line, be attend. but B. \n\ntrave of the lawless vagaton 21, referred to, \n\nto teoret, hab they \n\nwit to the people fuit. \n\nthe offiion of the honorable nation \n\nwith the Constry wood leath \n\n2 A. A. \n\nDire \n\n... \n\na ll \n\npeace and a xvenors; a \n\nat the Parkle in \n\nconsideration just her \n\nination affecting the 782 time be suada sutigeal's for \n\nArrangement. \n\nfinder host the valley of dan lun, distans about \n\nmore from the district hon of unghae, is \n\nمتر \n\na cuitable place where if an offer \n\na stegnate \n\nAuthority were to ride, the apprehension I tese lawless vagabonds and the gristine of the both be fables affected and would there be \n\ninconvenient frow arrangement merunenient to t \n\nand lélésians of the Courrathe nation. \n\nIt is how herefore, the Immissioner of \n\nم سمجھے \n\non to the honorabi Andy bykort, according. \n\nCreunt to make this Commun Plenipotentions \n\nCommunication. \n\nویر \n\nહ \n\n& iteration \n\nمجھے سمجھ لے \n\ntrain de Sheer Lasino & formal Lent), av \n\nquester, som the have informati \n\ninhevoitle for \n\nungear. \n\nHaas on \n\nC- A \n\nand accurate buntorje contest trèse le an flee the \n\nameer in the caracter of this precaring close \n\nاطر می سی سی \n\nme sat nem tud dear. \n\nGutku Balles \n\nBél \n\nis von the Bride of the elsen, distant about ten miles from the tone \n\nbetween the two large sailings in the west of it, and Itiner \n\nThe conte \n\nare searched by a \n\nC \n\nthe host gale \n\nBe pap \n\nof Chai do dercolly worth from the \n\n}", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216750, "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": 234, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\n\nT. M. C. C. \n\n1 Alum \n\nper 100 catties 0 1 0 \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nditto \n\nDitto, Oil of. \n\nditto \n\nRice Paper Pictures \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n40 Paper Fans. \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\ndifto \n\n41 Paper of all kinds \n\n5 Bamboo Screens and Bam- \n\nboo Ware of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n6 Brass Leaf \n\nditto \n\n7 Building Materials \n\nDuty free. \n\n8 Bone and Horn Ware \n\nper 100 catties 1 0 0 h \n\nditto \n\n43 Preserves and Sweet- \n\nmeats of all kinds 44 Rattan work of all kinds 45 Rhubarb \n\n46 Silk, Raw, whether from \n\nper thousand \n\nf \n\nper 100 catties 0 3 \n\nditto \n\nChekiang, Canton, or elsewhere, all kinds Coarse, or refuse of \n\nditto \n\nSilk \n\nDitto Oil. \n\nditto \n\n13 China Root \n\nditto \n\n14 China Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nOrganzine, all kinds Ribbons, Thread, &c., \n\n&c. \n\n+ \n\n+ \n\n15 Clothes (ready made). \n\nditto \n\n16 Copper Ware, Pewter \n\nditto, &c. \n\nditto \n\nSatins, \n\nPongees, \n\nof all kinds \n\n19 Cubebs \n\n17 Corals (or False Coral) \n\n18 Crackers and Fire-works \n\n20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) \n\nditto \n\nVelvets, Crapes, \n\nLutestrings, &c., &e. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\n9 Camphor \n\n10 Canes of all kinds \n\n11 Capoor Cutchery \n\n12 Cassia \n\nDitto Buds \n\nEstablished in pursuance of Article X of the Treaty, \n\n* O \n\nපප \n\nNO BOO 10 3 ICONS \n\nEXPORTS. \n\nපල \n\n39 Pictures, viz., large Paint- \n\nings \n\n42 Pearls, (ie., false Pearls) \n\nSilk Piece goods of all \n\nkinds, as Silks, \n\nCoooo \n\nOOOO \n\n10 O \n\nOOO \n\nOO \n\nOO \n\n6 Camphor (Malay), first \n\nquality, clean. Cainphor, second quality, \n\nrefuse \n\n7 Cloves, first quality, picked Ditto, second ditto, mother 8 Clocks, Watches, Spy- Glasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks, Dress- ing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. \n\n9 Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide \n\n10 Cochineal \n\n11 Cornelians \n\nDitto Beads \n\n12 Cotton \n\n13 Cotton Manufactures, viz.. \n\nLong Cloths, white, 30 a 40 yards long, 30 a 36 inches wide Cambricksand Muslins, \n\n20 a 24 yards long, 40 a 46 inches wide Grey or Unbleached Cottons, viz.:- \n\nLong Cloths, Domes- tics, &c., &c., 30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide \n\nGrey Twilled Cottons, \n\n30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide Chintz and Prints of \n\nper catty \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties ditto \n\nper piece per 100 catties \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\nلمو \n\nCoo \n\nපය \n\n27 Linen, fine, as Irish or Scotch, yards long, \n\ninches wide \n\nCoarse Linen, as Linen and Cotton Mixtures, \n\nSilk and Linen Mix- tures, &c. &c. \n\n+ \n\n28 Mace, or Flower of Nut- \n\nTeg \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n. per piece \n\nper \n\ncent. ad valorem. \n\n29 Mother of Pearl Shells 30 Metals, viz.:~ \n\nCopper, \n\nper \n\ncent, ad valorem. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\n་ \n\nunmanufac- \n\nT. M. C. C \n\ntured, as in pigs \n\nditto \n\nCopper, manufactured, \n\neach \n\nper 100 pictures 0 \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nper 100 stones 5 0 0 per 100 catties 10 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\n5 0 0 } \n\nas in sheets, rods \n\nditto \n\nIron, unmanufactured, \n\nas in pigs \n\nditto \n\nIron, manufactured, as \n\nditto \n\nin bars, rods, &c. \n\nditto \n\nLead in pigs, or manu- \n\nditto \n\nfactured. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nper piece \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nQuicksilver \n\nSteel, nomanufactured Tin. \n\nTin Plates \n\nUnenumerated Metals. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nditto \n\n31 Nutmegs, first quality, or \n\ncleaned \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nNutmegs, second quality, \n\nor uncleaned \n\nditto \n\nمسر \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n32 Pepper \n\n+ \n\nditto \n\n33 Putchuck \n\nditto \n\n34 Rattans \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n21 Furniture of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n22 Galingal \n\nditto \n\n23 Gamboge \n\nditto \n\nO-HOON \n\nO-NOG NI \n\nN.B.-Theadditional \n\nOOOOO \n\nDuty of so much \n\nall kinds, 20 & 30 yards long, 25 a 31 \n\ninches wide \n\nditto \n\nper piece, hitherto \n\nHandkerchiefs under 1 \n\n35 Rice, Paddy, and Grain of \n\nall kinds \n\n36 Rose Maloes. \n\n37 Saltpetre (to be sold to Government Agents only) \n\nDuty Free. \n\n- per 100 catties 1 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nlevied, to be hence- \n\nyard square \n\neach \n\n0 0 I 0 \n\n38 Shark's Fins, first quality, \n\n24 Glass, and Glass Ware \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n25 Glass Beads \n\nditto \n\n26 Glue (as Fish-glue, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n27 Grass Cloth, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n28 Hartall \n\nditto \n\n29 Ivory Ware, all kinds \n\n☺☺☺- OL \n\n' \n\nditto \n\n☺5 – O C \n\nforth abolished. \n\n47 Silk and Cotton mix- \n\nJenmixtures, and goods \n\ntures, Silk and Wool- \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 \n\nyard square \n\nor White \n\nL \n\nditto \n\n1 0 0 ย \n\nditto \n\nShark's Fins, second qua- \n\nGinghams, Pallicates, \n\nlity or Black \n\nditto \n\nમ 5 0 0 \n\nof such classes \n\nditto \n\n48 Shoes and Boots, of \n\nLeather, Satin, or otherwise \n\nditto \n\n49 Sandal Wood Ware \n\nditto \n\n30 Kittysols, or Paper Um- \n\nbrellas \n\n50 Soy. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n31 Lacquered Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n32 Lead (White Lead) \n\nditto \n\n33 Lead (Red Lead) \n\nditto \n\n34 Marble Slabs \n\nditto \n\n1215 O \n\n51 Silver and Gold Ware \n\nditto \n\n52 Sugar, white and brown \n\nditto \n\n53 Sugar Candy, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n54 Tin Foil \n\nditto \n\n55 Tea . \n\nditto \n\n35 Mats, (straw, rattan, \n\n56 Tobacco of all kinds \n\nditto \n\nbamboo, &c. &c.) \n\nditto \n\n36 Mother o'Pearl Ware 37 Musk \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\nON COLO \n\n57 Turmeric \n\nditto \n\n58 Tortoise-Shell Ware \n\nditto \n\n59 Trunks (of Leather) \n\nditto \n\n000000ONOOOO \n\nNO+O21 20 US LO EN CON \n\nDyed Cottons, Velve- teens, Silk and Cotton Mixtures, Woollen \n\nand Cotton Mixtures, and all kinds of Fancy Goods not in current consumption. \n\n14 Cotton Yarn and Cotton \n\nThread \n\n39 Skins and Furs, viz. \n\nCow and Ox Hides, \n\ntanned, and untanned \n\nditto \n\nSea Otter Skins \n\neach \n\nFox Skins, large- \n\nditto \n\nFox Skins, small \n\nditto \n\nසපප \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem \n\nTiger, Leopard, and \n\nMartin Skins \n\nditto \n\n15 Cow Bezoar \n\nper 100 catties 0 per catty \n\n16 Cutch \n\nper 100 catties \n\nඅපය \n\nLand Otter, Racoon, \n\nand Shark's Skins \n\nper hundred \n\nBeaver skins \n\nditto \n\n17 Elephant's Teeth, first \n\nHare, Rabbit, and Er- \n\nquality, whole \n\nditto \n\nmine \n\nditto \n\nElephant's Teeth, second \n\n40 Smalts \n\nper 100 catties \n\nquality, broken \n\nditto \n\n18 Fish Maws \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\n38 Nankeen, and Cotton \n\nCloth of all kinds \n\n[Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, to pay a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem.] \n\n60 Treasure, ie., Coin of \n\nall kinds \n\n19 Flints \n\nditto \n\n41 Soap \n\nditto \n\n42 Stock Fish, &c. \n\nditto \n\n43 Sea Horse Teeth \n\nditto \n\nFree. \n\n20 Glass, Glass Ware, and \n\n61 Vermilion \n\nditto \n\nCrystal Ware, of all \n\n44 Treasure and Money of all \n\nkinds \n\nPapers \n\nFree. \n\nkinds. \n\nper cent. ad valorem \n\n21 Gambier \n\n. per 100 catties 0 1 5 0 \n\n22 Ginseng, first quality \n\nditto \n\nDitto second ditto, or \n\nrefuse \n\nditto \n\nIn Cask \n\n45 Wine, Beer, Spirits, &c. \n\nIn Quart Bottles. \n\nIn Pint \n\n- per 100 bottles \n\nditto \n\nધ 5 \n\n⚫ per 100 catties 0 5 \n\nditto \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n23 Gold and Silver Thread :——— first quality, or real second ditto, or imitation \n\n. per catty \n\nditio \n\n1 Assafoetida \n\nf memo \n\nT. M. \n\nC. \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nper 100 catties \n\n2 Bees' Wax \n\nditto \n\n3 Betel Nut \n\nditto \n\nCom \n\n5 Birds Nests, first quality, \n\ncleaned. \n\nper 100 catties 5 \n\nBirds' Nests, second qua \n\n4 Bicho de Mar, first quality, \n\nlity, good middling \n\nditto \n\nor blk. \n\nditto \n\nBicho de Mar, second \n\nBirds' Nests, third quality, \n\nuncleaned \n\nditto \n\nquality, or wht. \n\nditto \n\n24 Gums, Benjamin \n\nOlibanum. Myrrhi \n\nGums, unenumerated \n\n25 Horns, Bullocks' and Buf- \n\nfalos' \n\n26 Horns, Unicorns' or Rhi- \n\nnoceros' \n\nper 100 catties \n\nI 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nอ 5 0 h \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem \n\nper 100 catties 2 0 0 \n\nditto \n\n46 Woods, namely:--- \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz.:- \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches \n\nwide \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\nditto \n\nA 1 5 0 \n\nditto \n\nD \n\nditto \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216758, "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": 242, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\n\ncations, with a diligent pursuit of every thing that is good and right: they need entertain no apprehension of being hereafter dragged forward, nor yield in consequence to any fears or suspicions. \n\nWith reference to the arrangements which the High Commissioner and his colleagues have made in regard to duties, every thing has been done with a single eye to a just impartiality: all merchants, then, whether of China or of foreign countries, are called upon to consider the many pains that the High Commissioner and his colleagues have taken, and by all means to abide in the quiet pursuit of their respective callings, and in the enjoyment of so auspicious a peace. From henceforward amity and goodwill shall ever con- tinue, and those from afar and those who are near shall perpetually rejoice together. Such is the fervent hope of the High Commissioner and his col- leagues; and in this hope they command implicit obedience to what is now thus specially promulgated. \n\nA true Translation, \n\n(Signed) J. ROBT. MORRISON, \n\nChinese Secretary and Interpreter. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\n1 Assafoetida \n\n2 Rees' Wax \n\n3 Betel Nut. \n\n4 Bicho de Mar, first quality, \n\nor blk. \n\nBicho de Mar, second \n\nquality, or wht. \n\n5 Birds' Nests, first quality, \n\ncleaned \n\nIMPORTS. \n\nEXPORTS. \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n1 Alum \n\nper 100 catties \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nditto \n\nDitto, \n\nOil of. \n\nditto \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\nditto \n\n50000 O \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n39 Pictures, viz., large Paint- \n\nings \n\neachi \n\nI \n\nප \n\n? \n\nRice Paper Pictures \n\nper 100 pictures 0 \n\n40 Paper Fans \n\nper 100 catties \n\n12 Cotton \n\n41 Paper of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n་ \n\n5 Bamboo Screens and Bam- \n\n42 Pearls, (ie.,false Pearls) \n\nditto \n\nQ \n\nboo Ware of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n43 Preserves and Sweet- \n\n6 Brass leaf \n\nditto \n\nmeats of all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n7 Building Materials \n\nDuty free. \n\n44 Rattan work of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n12 Cassia \n\n8 Bone and Horn Ware \n\n9 Camphor \n\n+ \n\n10 Canes of all kinds \n\n11 Capoor Cutchery \n\nDitto Buds \n\nper 100 catties \n\n45 Rhubarb . \n\nditto \n\nONS \n\nditto \n\nper thousand \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nDitto Oil \n\nditto \n\n13 China Root \n\nditto \n\n14 China Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n15 Clothes (ready made). \n\nditto \n\nDOOHOOO \n\n10 OOND 10 \n\n46 Silk, Raw, whether from \n\nditto \n\nChekiang, Canton, or \n\nelsewhere, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nCoarse, or refuse of \n\nSilk \n\nditto \n\nOrganzine, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nRibbons, Thread, &c., \n\nditto \n\n&c. \n\nditto \n\nSilk Piece goods of all \n\n16 Copper Ware, Pewter \n\nditto, &c, \n\nditto \n\n17 Corals (or False Coral) \n\nditto \n\nසප \n\n18 Crackers and Fire-Works \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n19 Cubebs \n\nditto \n\n20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n21 Furniture of all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n22 Galingal \n\nditto \n\n23 Gamboge \n\nditto \n\nNOON-O \n\nCITODA \n\nkinds, as Silks, Satins, Pongees, Velvets, Crapes, Lutestrings, &c., &c. N.B.-The additional Duty of so much per piece. hitherto levied, to be hence- \n\nforth abolished, \n\n47 Silk and Cotton mix- \n\nditto \n\nall kinds, 20 a 30 \n\nCamphor, second quality, \n\nrefuse. \n\n7 Cloves, first quality, picked per \n\nDitto, second ditto, mother \n\n8 Clocks, Watches, Spy- \n\nGlasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks, Dress- ing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. \n\n9 Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide \n\n10 Cochineal \n\n11 Cornelians \n\nDitto Beads \n\n13 Cotton Manufactures, viz,: \n\nLong Cloths, white, 30 \n\na 40 yards long, 30. a 36 inches wide Cambricks and Muslins, \n\n20 a 24 yards long, 40 a 46 inches wide Grey or Unbleached \n\nCottons, viz.: \n\nLong Cloths, Domes- \n\nties, &c., &c., 30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide. \n\nGrey Twilled Cottons, \n\n30 a 40 yards long, \n\n28 a 40 inches wide Chiutz and Prints of \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper piece \n\nO5000 \n\nper 100 catties per 100 stones per 100 catties 10 \n\nditto \n\nper piece \n\nand Cotton Mixtures, Silk and Linen Mix- tures, &c. &c. \n\n28 Mace, or Flower of Nut- \n\nmeg \n\n་ \n\n29 Mother of Pearl Shells \n\n30 Metals, viz. :- \n\nCopper, \n\nunmanufac- \n\nTin. \n\nTin Plates. \n\nUnenumerated Metals. \n\n35 Rice, Paddy, and Grain of \n\nall kinds \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper 100 catties ditto \n\nසපපප \n\nපපප \n\nT. M. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nC. \n\n22 Ginseng, first quality \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nBirds' Nests, second qua- \n\nlity, good middling. Birds' Nests, third quality, \n\nuncleaned \n\nditto \n\n૭ ા \n\nditto \n\n6 Camphor (Malay), first \n\nquality, clean. \n\nDitto second ditto, or \n\nrefuse \n\n23 Gold and Silver Thread:- \n\nfirst quality, or real \n\nsecond ditto, or imitation \n\n24 Gums, Benjamin \n\nOlibanum Myrrh \n\nGums, unenumerated \n\n25 Horns, Bullocks' and Buf- \n\nfalos' \n\n26 Horus, Unicorns' or Rhi- \n\nnoceros' \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem \n\nper 100 catties 2 0 0 0 \n\nT. M. \n\n+ \n\nper 100 catties \n\nC. C \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n0 5 0 Q \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\nI 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\n100 catties \n\nditto \n\n27 Linen, fine, as Irish or Scotch yards long, \n\ninches wide Coarse Linen, as Linen \n\nper piece \n\ntured, as in pigs \n\nditto \n\nCopper, manufactured, \n\nas in sheets, rods \n\nditto \n\nIron, unmanufactured, \n\nas in pigs \n\nditto \n\nIron, manufactured, as \n\nin bars, rods, &c. \n\nditto \n\n0 I \n\nLead in pigs, or manu- \n\nfactured \n\nditto \n\nQuicksilver \n\nditto \n\nSteel, unmanufactured \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nI 0 0 0 \n\nඑප \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n31 Nutmegs, first quality, or \n\ncleaned \n\nper 100 catties 2 \n\nNutmegs, second quality, \n\nor uncleaned \n\nditto \n\n32 Pepper \n\n33 Putchuck \n\n34 Rattans \n\nditto ditto ditto \n\nditto \n\nDuty Free. \n\nyards long, 26 a 31 \n\n36 Rose Maloes \n\nper 100 catties \n\ninches wide \n\nditto \n\nHandkerchiefs under 1 \n\nyard square \n\neach \n\n24 Glass, and Glass Ware \n\ntures, Silk and Wool- \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n25 Glass Beads \n\nditto \n\n26 Glue (as Fish-glue, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n27 Grass Cloth, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n28 Hartall \n\nditto \n\n29 Ivory Ware, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n☺☺☺- © 19 \n\n1 ના \n\nU \n\n1) \n\nපසුය \n\nlen mixtures, and goods \n\nof such classes \n\nditto \n\n48 Shoes and Boots, of \n\nLeather, Satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nditto \n\n49 Sandal Wood Ware \n\nditto \n\n30 Kittysols, or Paper Um- \n\nbrellas \n\n50 Soy \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n31 Lacquered Ware,all kinds \n\nditto \n\n32 Lead (White Lead) \n\nditto \n\n33 Lead (Red Lead) \n\nditto \n\nCHOO \n\n34 Marble Slabs \n\nditto \n\nNINO \" \n\nCOSCO \n\n51 Silver and Gold Ware \n\nditto \n\n52 Sugar, white and brown \n\nditto \n\n53 Sugar Candy, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n54 Tin Foil \n\nditto \n\n55 Tea. \n\nditto \n\n35 Mats, (straw, rattan, \n\n56 Tobacco of all kinds. \n\nditto \n\nbamboo, &c., &c.) \n\nditto \n\n57 Turmeric \n\nditto \n\n36 Mother o'Pearl Ware 37 Musk \n\nditto \n\n58 Tortoise-Shell Ware. \n\nditto \n\n0-0☺☺☺☺noog \n\nper eatty \n\n59 Trunks (of Leather) \n\nditto \n\n20+OON OD 10 KD ONON \n\noooooomvoooo \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 \n\nyard square Ginghams, Pullicates, \n\nDyed Cottons, Velve teens, Silk and Cotton Mixtures, Woollen and Cotton Mixtures, and all kinds of Fancy \n\nconsumption \n\nditto \n\n37 Saltpetre (to be sold to \n\nGovernment Agents only) 38 Shark's Fins, first quality, \n\nor White \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nShark's Fins, second qua- \n\nlity, or Black \n\nditto \n\n39 Skins and Furs, viz. \n\nCow and Ox Hides, \n\ntanned, and untanned \n\nditto \n\nSea-Otter Skins \n\neach \n\nI 5 \n\nFox Skins, large \n\nditto \n\nGoods not in current \n\nFox Skins, small \n\nditto \n\nPar \n\nper cent. ad valorem \n\nTiger, Leopard, and \n\n14 Cotton Yarn and Cotton \n\nMartin Skins \n\ndilto \n\n0 I \n\nLip \n\nThread \n\n1 . per 100 catties \n\n15 Cow Bezoar. \n\nper catty \n\n16 Cutch. \n\n0 ⚫ per 100 catties \n\nLand-Otter, Racoon, \n\n} \n\n17 Elephant's Teeth, first \n\nquality, whole \n\nditto \n\n+ \n\nand Shark's Sking Beaver Skins \n\nHare, Rabbit, and Er- \n\nmine \n\nper hundred \n\nditto \n\nG D \n\nඋප \n\n+ \n\nditto \n\nElephant's Teeth, second \n\n40 Smalts \n\nper 100 catties 4 \n\nquality, broken \n\nditto \n\n41 Soap \n\nditto \n\n18 Fish Maws \n\nditto \n\n42 Stock Fish, &e. \n\nditto \n\n19 Flints. \n\nditto \n\n43 Sea-Horse Teeth \n\nditto \n\nVOOPO \n\n38 Nankeen, and Cotton \n\n60 Treasure, e., Coin of \n\n20 Glass, Glass Ware, and \n\nper 100 catties \n\nCloth of all kinds \n\n[Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, to pay a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem.] \n\nall kinds \n\nFree. \n\n61 Vermilion \n\nditto \n\nCrystal Ware, of all kinds \n\n44 Treasure and Money of \n\nall kinds \n\nFree. \n\n5 per cent, ad valorem \n\n21 Gambier \n\nA \n\n. per 100 catties 0 1 5 0 \n\n45 Wine, Beer, Spirits, &c. \n\nIn Quart Bottles \n\n. per 100 bottles 1 0 0 0 \n\nC 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 216759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843", "content_text": "\n\nIn Pint bottles \n\nIn Cask \n\n46 Woods, namely:→ \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\nT. M. \n\nper 100 bottles 0 \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz. :--- \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches wide \n\nLong Elis, Cassimeres, \n\nFlannel, and narrow \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\n[All Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, 5 per cent, að valorem.] \n\n(L.S.) \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nSeal and Signature \n\nof the Chinese Plenipotentiary. \n\nC. \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nCloths of this descrip- \n\ntion \n\nper Chang of 141 inches \n\nBlankets of all kinds. \n\neach \n\nDOO \n\nDutch Camlets, per Chang of 141 inches 0 Camlets. \n\nපපස \n\nditto \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods, Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nCunes, &c. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece has been levied; the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nImitation ditto, Bomba- \n\nzettes, &c. \n\nditto \n\nBunting(narrow), perChang of 141 inches 0 \n\nCɅ Cz \n\nUnenumerated Woollen \n\nGoods, or Silk and \n\nWoollen, and Cotton \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing. Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, Woollen, or Silk; formerly divided into Cotton clothing, Woollen ditto, Silk and Satin ditto, and Velvet ditto \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, \n\n&c., &c. \n\nand Woollen Mix- tures, &c. \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nBoots and Shoes, whether of leather, satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, &c. ARTICLES. \n\n48 Woollen Yarn \n\n⚫ per 100 catties \n\nPreserved Ginger and Fruits of all kinds \n\nClass IX-Exported Fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp or linen Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tariff) \n\nSoy. \n\nSugar, White and Brown \n\n+ \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared, &c., &c., of all \n\nkinds \n\nClass X-Exported Silk, Fabrics of Silk, &c. \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein to include, are to be charged an ad valorem duty of five \n\nper cent. \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabries of all kinds, as crape, lute- \n\nClass XIV-Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and \n\nSilver. Duty free. \n\nstrings, &c., &c., &c., formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClass XV-Bricks, Tiles, and Building Materials. \n\nDuty free. \n\n} \n\nGlass, Glass ware of all kinds, formerly classed as \n\nNative crystal ware \n\nGlass beads, or False pearls \n\nKittysols, or paper Umbrellas \n\nMarble, Marble slabs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nRice-Paper pictures \n\nAniseed Oil, not formerly contained in the Tariff \n\ndo. do. Cassia Oil \n\nPaper Fans \n\nCHINESE RE-ARRANGEMENT OF TARIFF, UNDER CLASSES OF GOODS. \n\nTITLE.-Tariff of Duties to be levied at the Five Ports of Canton, &c., &c., as newly established. THE Duties which it is agreed shall be paid upon goods imported and exported by England, at the Five Ports of Customs of Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, are here stated in classified order. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nClass L-Exported Oilman's Stores (Oil, Wax, Alum, \n\nSulphur, &c.) ARTICLES. \n\nAlum, .., White Alum-formerly White Alum \n\nand Bluestone \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed Fabrics \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e., English List. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. ., English List. \n\nClass I-Imported Oilman's Stores, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nClass IV.-Imported Sundries. \n\nWax, Bees' Wax Rose Maloes \n\nFlints Mother of Pearl shells \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of \n\nthe Government \n\nSoap \n\nPearls (false), not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass II-Imported Spices and Perfumes. \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nClass II-Exported Spices, Tea, &c. \n\nTea, (formerly divided into fine and native black, \n\nand fine and native green, Teas) \n\nAniseed, Star \n\nClass V-Exported Painter's Stores, &c. &c.' \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBrass Leaf \n\nPepper \n\n+2 \n\nGamboge \n\nint ce ty \n\nRed Lead \n\nGlue, as fish glue, cow-skin glue, &c. Paper, Stationery \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tariff, to pay an ad valorem duty of Ten per cent. \n\nPerfumery \n\nper \n\ncent. \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality, cleaned Bird's nests, 2nd quality, good middling \n\n3rd ditto, uncleaned Bicho de Mar, 1st ditto, black \n\n2nd ditto, white Shark's fins, Ist ditto, white \n\n2nd ditto, black Stock fish and dried fish Fish Maws, not formerly in the Tariff. \n\nMusk \n\nClass III-Exported Drugs. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass III-Imported Drugs. \n\nClass VI-Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nCapoor Cutchery \n\nTinfoil \n\nAssafoetida \n\nCochineal \n\nCamphor \n\nVermilion \n\nArsenic, under different Chinese names \n\nCassia \n\nPaintings (large paintings), formerly divided into \n\nlarge and small paintings \n\nCamphor Baroos (or Malay), 1st quality, or \n\nSmalts \n\n$5 \n\ncleaned; formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor \n\nSapan Wood \n\n+ \n\nCassia Buds, not formerly in Tariff \n\nWhite Lead \n\n2nd quality, refuse; formerly classed as un- \n\nChina Root \n\ncleaned Camphor \n\nClass VII-Imported Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nPakers \n\nCubebs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass VI-Exported Wares of various kinds. \n\nCloves, 1st quality (picked) \n\nRattans \n\n2nd quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nEbony \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBone and Horn ware \n\n► \n\nCow Bezoar \n\nGalingal \n\nChina Ware, fine and coarse (formerly classed as \n\nCutch \n\nHartall \n\nfine, coarse, native, and middling) \n\nGambier \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tariff, 10 per cent. ad valorem, \n\nRhubarb \n\nCopper ware, and pewter ware \n\nBetel Nut. \n\nTurmeric \n\nManufactures of wood, furniture \n\nGinseng, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\nIvory ware, all carved ivory work included, for. \n\n2nd \n\nditto, refuse, or Ginseng beard \n\nClass VIII-Imported Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nmerly divided into ivory, and ivory Carvings \n\n+ \n\nGum Olibanum'. \n\nClass IV-Exported Sundries. \n\nClocks \n\nLacquered ware. \n\nMyrrh \n\nWatches \n\nBamboo Screens, and Bamboo Ware \n\nBangles (glass armlets) not formerly in Tariff \n\nMother o' Pearl ware \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nTelescopes \n\nCorals, Native or false coral, not formerly in \n\nTariff \n\nSandal-wood ware \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into Gold \n\nCrackers, and fireworks of all kinds (formerly \n\nclassed as rockets, &c.) \n\nware, and Silver ware \n\nTortoise-shell ware \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\n2nd \n\nPutchuck \n\nditto, uncleaned \n\nRhinoceros Horns \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of ali \n\nkinds \n\n$1 \n\nFans (feather fans, &c.) not formerly in the Tariff 20 \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-001 - Sir Hug Cough-s China Military Correspondences - 1841-1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 217063, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "page_number": 271, "title": "CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843", "content_text": "\nTHE FRIEND OF CHIN, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nCorresponding to lo., \n\nCorresponding to No, \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e. \n\nEnglish List \n\nbroken Class XVI--All new goods imported, which it has not been practicable to include herein. 5 per cent. að valoren. \n\nClass XVII-All forsign rice, and other grain, Duty Free \n\nSHIPPING DUES THESE bave hitherto been charged upon the measurement of the Ships || length and breadth, at so much per change but it is now agreed to alter the System, and charged according to the registeed statement of the number of tons of Carga the Ship may carry. On each ten (reckoned equal to the cubic contents of 122 tow,) a Shipping charge of 5 Mars is to be levied: and all the old charges of measurement, entrance and port clearance fees, daily and Monthly ices. &ro., are to be abolished \n\nTaowkwang, 33rd year, 8th Month. day. (July \n\nL. S. \n\nI.. S. \n\nof \n\nol \n\nthe Supt. \n\nGuy.Genl. \n\nel the \n\nTwo Kwang \n\nCasures \n\nL. 5. \n\nरहने \n\nHigh \n\nCavathis. Funer \n\n1849.) \n\nL. 8. ไม่ \n\nGovernor \n\nCanton \n\nin Alphabetical i, e. \n\nin Alphabetical e, \n\nEnglish Last \n\nEnglish List. \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work Sandal-wood ware \n\nClass IV-Importel Sundries. \n\nتھ \n\nWints \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into \n\nMother of Peart shells \n\nBullock's and Ruffalo's Horns Cow and Ox hides, tanned and untanned \n\nClass XV Fraported Skins, Teeth, Horns, &c. \n\nSea otter skins \n\nGold ware, and Silver ware \n\nTortoise shell ware \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nFox skras, larve and small \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods. Cares, &c. Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality cleaned Bird's nest 2nd quality, good middling \n\ndo., uncleanci 3rd Bicho de Mar 1st do, black 2nd do,, white \n\nTiger, Leopard, sad Martin skins Land Otter, Racoon, and Shark skius Beaver skine \n\nRD \n\nD \n\nARTICLES. \n\nHare, Rabbit, and Ermine skine \n\n+1; \n\nSea Horm Tued) \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing, Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, woollen, or silk, formerly divided into Cotton clothing. Woollén do., Silk and Sutin do,, and Velvet do, Boots and Shoes, whether of leather Satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nElephant's Teeth, 1st quality, whole \n\nShark's as, 1st dn, white 2ud do, black \n\nJ7 \n\nStock Gsh and dried fish \n\nFish: maws, not formerly in the Tariff \n\nClass VI.--Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nClass IX-Erported fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp of linen Nankeen, and all Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tarif \n\nCochineal Smalis \n\n1+ \n\nSapan Wood \n\nClass VII.--Impuried Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nClass X—Exported Silk, fabrics of Silk, 42- \n\nRattans Ebony \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin wood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tarif, 10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crap, \n\nClass VIII-laporied Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nlutestrings, &c,, &c., &c, formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClocks Watches \n\n+3 \n\nA \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed fabrics \n\nTelescopes \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece, has been levied, the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all kinds \n\nARTICLES. \n\nWriting Deska \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, &c. &c. 35 \n\nDressing Cases \n\nS \n\nJewellery of Gold and Silver, \n\nCutlery, Swords, &c, \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, fc. \n\nARTICLES. Preserved ginger and fruits of all kinds \n\nA \n\nSov \n\n} \n\nof the sanie description, 5 per cent, od valorem. \n\nAll the foregoing, and any other miscellanore unticles \n\nClass IX-Guki and Sitzer Bullion, and Sperae. Duty Free \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared &c., &út, of \n\nall kinds \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein to include are to be charged an ad colorem duty of five per cent. Class XIV.--Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and Silver. \n\nDuty Free. \n\nClasss XV-Bricks, Tiles, and building Materials. \n\nDuty Free, \n\nClass L-Imported Oilman's Stores, de \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetini & \n\nEnglish List. \n\nWax, Bee's wax Rose Malves \n\nCambrics and Masting \n\nCotton yarn, and Cotton thread \n\nLinen-fine-not formely in the Tariff \n\nBanting \n\nAll other imported articles of this class, as ginghams, pul- licates, dyed cottons, velveteens silk and citon mixtu rea, course linen, and mixtures of cotton and linen, &c. &c. & per cent. al calorem. \n\nCuss X---Imported Cotton, fubrics of Collen, fr., §c. \n\nCanvas Corton \n\nLug Cloth, white, formerly divided into superior and \n\ninferior fine Cotton cloth \n\nCottons, grey, or unbleached, domestic, &ce, formerly \n\nclassed as coarse long cloth \n\nTwilled Cottons, grey \n\nChintz and Prints, of all kinds \n\nClass XI-Imported fabrics of Woollen, Niik, de, de. \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of the \n\nGovernment \n\nHandkerchiefs, large \n\nSubult \n\nSoap. \n\nGold and Silver thread, superior or real \n\ninferior, or imitation \n\nClass II-Imported Spices, and Perfumes. \n\nBrond Cloth, Spanish Stripes, &c. \n\n+7 \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nNarrow Clotis, as Long Eds, Cusemneres, &e., de. \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nPepper \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tarifl \n\ntu pay an all calorem duty of Ten por cont. \n\nPerfumery \n\nClass III--- Imported Drugs. \n\nCamlets (Dutch) \n\nCamlets \n\nImitation Camiots or bombazettes \n\n5 per cent. \n\nWoollen yara \n\nSP \n\nBlankets \n\n4.7 \n\nAll oder fabrics of wood or of mixed wool and silk, \n\nAssaftetia \n\nwool and cotton. &c. & per cent, að caboreza. \n\nCamphor Barbos (or Maley,) 1st quality, or cleaned; \n\nformerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor, \n\nClass Xil--Laportet Finca, Preserves, Spirita &c. Wine and Beer, in quart bottles \n\nC \n\nCloves, 1st quality (pieked) \n\n2nd quality, refisse; formerly classed as uncleaned Camphor \n\nin pint bottles in cask \n\nG \n\nand quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nClass XIII, Importal Metals. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCow Bezour \n\nCutch \n\nGambier \n\nCopper, manfiretured as in pigs, \n\nBanufactured as in sheets, rods &c. \n\nBetch out \n\nIron, comanufactured as in pigs. \n\nGinseng, 1st quality or Cleaner \n\nmanufactured as in bars, rods &c. \n\n2nd \n\ndo., refuse or Ginseng beard \n\nLead, in pigs, or manufactured \n\nGom Olibarni \n\nStoel, unanufactured \n\nTin \n\nMyrrh \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nTin plates, not formerly in the Tarift \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality or Cleaned \n\nZud \n\ndo., uncleaned \n\nPutchuch Rhinocero's Horns \n\nAll other metals as zinc, yellow copper, &c., not \n\nherein mumerated, 10 per cent. at walorem, \n\nRI \n\nClass XI Imparted Jewellery. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nCornelians \n\nCornelian Beads \n\n(A une abstract-reference mumbers to the Alphabetic List bung in- serted in place of the amounts of duty, those amounts having boon carefully compared and found correct.) \n\n(Signed) \n\n(True Copy) \n\nJ. ROBT. MORRISON, Chinese Secretary & Interpreter. RICHARD WOOSNĀM, \n\nNOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. \n\nTo insure insertion, Advertisements ought to be sent to the Office on Toeslag hut unae can be received after 12 noon on Wednesday, \n\nAll extra Copies of our puper ordered at the Office, and not paid Cash, are charged to accounts one Rupee \n\nAny Subscriber who does not receive his paper on Thursday will please complain at the Office, as every Subscriber's repy is regularly sent off, and it is only by Complaints being made, that the Publisher can correct the irregularity. \n\nEVOLAND May \n\nLATEST DATES. \n\nUNITED Bras Apl. 15 CALORA July & \n\nBrommay \n\nSpray May IJ \n\nSINGAreas Argast 2 Jays July 29 MANILA Angus 15 Cresas Aver \n\n1.4 \n\n+; \n\nTHE FRIEND OF CHINA, AND HONG-KONG GAZETTE. \n\nVICTORIA, THURSDAY, Arever 21en, 1843. \n\nIx our last there was notified the appointment of COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLEANLI Ness, () hom whose labours we anticipato much benil to the sunitary condition of the town. \n\nWhen the Lands and Rods Committee was nominated some eighteen months since, we ventur- ed to say (File No. 2.) We would earnestly impress on a Committee, the necessity of framing same general Building Regulations for the Chinese, and which we dink are essentially necessary for their security and welfare. We would recommend the regulations to be framed so as to interfire no further with one's right to manage one's own pro- perty, than is necessary to protect the health of the community.\" \n\nChief Magistrate's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, July 14, 1843. \n\nThe duty on Tobacco in England is above 300 per Cent, and Lord Congleton states that three fourths of the Tobacco consumed in Ireland is believed to be supplied by Smugglers. Mr. Porter The following is again published by an- of the Board of Trade, proved before the Imports thority, for general information : \n\nBafy Committee in 1810, that 48 por Cent. of the It has been lately Notified by PROCLA whatever; and that the loss to the revene of French Silks imported into Egiand paid no duty MATION of the CHES MAGISTRATE, to the smuggled French brandy was estimated at Chinese Inhabitants of Hongkong, that be-2500000 a you. The Prerum on the illicit tween the hours of eight and ten P. M. atroduction of French goods into England was they are prohibited from being out of their 1831, for Gold triaketa, 6 to 10 par Cent. Silver, houses without lanthorns, and that after ten \n\n10 to 12; Silk gomis 29 to 25 per Cant., Tea 50 per Cent, and Spirits 80 per Cont. \n\n| o'clock P. M., and until daylight on the \n\nIn the same Report, is is stated that British following morning, no Chineso will, in fature Goods of the value of £2,000,000 were snuggled be permitted to go out, under any consider-ins France across the Belgia: frontier, besülés a ption, unless he can produce a pass in Eng-inge amount through the Channel ports. lish, specifying his object in being out at so On the Belgian frontier dags are trained to \n\nlate an hour. \n\nevoy the snuggled goods into France. Between 1820 to 1830 at fewer ton 40,279 sanggling A PROCLAMATION has also been issuedffcers, who receive thirea francs (48) for each. \n\ndogs were destroyed by the French Custom House prohibiting, under penalty of severe punish- In 1882 the cost of preventing struggling in unt, all Chinese Boats or Vessels, from England was truly enormous, and in that and the moving about the harbour after Gun-fire at following year there were captured on the Coast. aine o'clock P. A., and until Gm-fire at engaged in the contraband trade, 52 10ssels and day light on the following morning. \n\n385 bouts. The seizures in one half year were valued at £97.980. W. CAINE, CHIEF MAGISTRATE. \n\nAS OVERLAND MAIL to England ria Buhay, nee \"Petrell\" will be closed at this fee, on Friday, the 25th instant, at 3 P. M. \n\nA Mail for Singapore & Calcutta per \"City of Palaces\" will also be closed at 3 P. M, on Wednesday, \n\nthe 30th instani. \n\nPOST OFFICE, \n\nVictoria. 20 August, 1813. \n\nmiture what is now required, its acquaintance with the wants of the Colony satistics us that proper mea \n\nveronicat. \n\nStill we would recommend the tome- diate covering up of the fetid denine which now give forth the most deleterious minsara, \n\nLord Congleton (Inte Sir feary Parnell) in 1831, estimated the total anal cost of protecting the revenue at from £700,000 to £ 800,000. Then there were 116 persons under confinement. and 64 serving in the navy for smuggling offences. \n\nThe total charge for collecting and protecting the customs auf excise revenues of the Pnited Kingdon, was 22.300613 in the year 18-10. \n\nthe department of the customs was 11,000 and In 1885 the number of persons employed in the excise 6,079. \n\nin \n\nThe present Acts relating to Smuggling are the 3rd and 4th of William IV, Cap. 53, and Land & of Wiliam, Cap. 13. \n\nrefer to the Government Notification with We have only space to enable us to \n\nsures will be taken under the sanction of the Go-respect to Land. It is not such a one as many of our readers would export, still we think it is so far satisfactory, that we now know we shall soon be relieved from the distressing suspense which has for some time paralysed the Colony, \n\nIn London it was remarked that fever was con- startly engendered in localitics destitute of under- ground Swenge, and by a map of the Sowers it \n\nWe are not surprised at the wording of was shown by Dr Southwood Staith, that ons could correctly define the huts of the unhealthy districts Lord Stanley's despatch, socing that in the and accurately judge of the comparative Sanitary last Crown Colony which bad been esta- condition of the respective parts of the Metropolis.blished, New Zealand, there had been such flagrant and jobbing, and peculation by aithost every member of that colonial Go- vernom (vide No. 48.) \n\nThe FRIEND OF INDA states the gross receipts of the year, from the Opa monopoly to have been two millions sterling and adds this source of revenue is continued to Ludia for theen years more, the debt incurred in the war beyond the Indus will be wiped out.\" \n\nOur readers well know, that there does not exist even ususpicion, of similar couduct en the part of the officials here--this wo have often land occasion to say, us a valki argument for losing no longer truc, in giving the holders tiler to their lands, \n\nBy the Calcutta papers we learn that the Assam Tea Company is shipping the loaf of the Ten plant without first submitting it to any process The large powers which it is well known al' wamfacture, further than sun drying. It is are wisely confided to H. 1 (whose tho- thought by the Shippers that this Ten will, berough acquaintance with our best interests admitted at a lower duty than that from China, and whose sincere desire to promote them) it bong in an unmanufactured state. We think \n\nthis wholly unlikely, and after the liberal Taxir ads us to be quite sanguíne of a highly promulgated by the Chinese, it is not at all pro-satisfactory result. hable ministers would propose a reduction on any There was much delay, and as many kind or sort of Ten, which should not be equally doubts and misgivings abmit the Commer- applicable to Ten sent from hence, \n\ncial Treaty, as have ever existed with \n\nFrom a late publication of established authority, soon with respect to the former, that the respect to the Land Regulations. We have we have abriged an article en smuggling. His stated greatest cavillers have been gloriously Suugging is the clalestine ironcine of an agreeably disappointed by the promal- prohibited goods; or the illicit introduction of \n\ngoods by the evasion of the legal duties. Escos-gation of a Tariff of unprecedented' libera- sive duties present an overwhelming temptation lity and of immense national value. Henco to men to evade them; and the law loses a great we have every confidence that the final part of its moral influence when it first tempts adjustment of the Land Claims, and their * to the violation of it, and then pauishes the offence. \n\nfuture tenure, will afbrd as much satisfac- \n\nWe then thought \"regulations would have been nade as far as possible, conformable with,and minis- tering to, the convenience, wealth, and confort of the present and future residents of our new city.\" \n\nOn a later occasion (Fide No. 6) when the alleg.sively carried on, the smuggler is rather a popularredound as much to the honour of II. E., \n\ned unhealthmoss of Hong-Kong was a subject of nuimadversion in the English Papers we said (aud now we see no reason to after our opinions) Ma- eau is one of the healthicst towns in the world, and it is fully certain that when proper houses, barracks, cc., with the Sanitary Regulations which always obtain in an English town, Hongkong will lay claim, and justly, to even a superior salubrity\". \n\nIt is not to be wondered at, if with the many and great claims on the time of H. E, nothing has Hitherto been done. We need not inform the com- \n\n(*) This ride is not ungly chosen. Seving bow contingent halit te upor Cleanliness it word hoze auffierd, and it would have bees-we think mure correct to bare omitted and Glennlin, 295, ad ended it merely a C-unites or Board of Pobito Heath. At A tak dh a ta demquation of this very tertul b dy would ne have beci provocative, wit law is, of a gibe on a langu \n\nIn parts of a country where a free trade is extention to \n\nperson than otherwise in some countries; in Spain, still more thau in England. \n\nour little community, and will \n\nas will the announcement of the Commer We have only to examine the Tariff of any cial Treaty to his gratified countrymen country to know if smuggling is practised; and if abad system of commercial policy has been long \n\nat home. pursed, there the smuggler will be found. The exports to Gibraltar Rems England considerably exceed one million sterling, and are mostly jutes. duced by smugglers into the interior of Spain, besides some six to eight millions lbs. of Tobacco from the same British port. \n\nThe total ameamt of duties evaded in 1831 by the smuggling of French goods into the United Kingdom was estimated to execod £800,000 ex- clusive of Tobacco wiele cargoes of which aro enetics introduced from the French bonding wan homes int› Towinual. \n\nWo would refer the reader to our absact of the larnet Legislativo cunement wul regard Grow a Landu (the 5 ard oi Vieraţiu Cop. 36) we ihn guid, and still think, that Ant will be the basis of our future Land Regulations. Our opinion is forted by Goling Lord Stanley taking credit for the play therein seribel, and when she ulterius were enggested hesaid It was a system which he would be sorry to see inter fered with, or principle deparred front. His opinion was decidedly opposed to any soch course, as was proved by its introducing a Biž, which became an ret last session, which ex- pressly baried the Crown from interfering with the system. Vos Rapor ne na Braun og QuanYes Pricer's Poyanmar! S \n\nORION. Arest Byn. 1813. \n\n17 Aur Shiroing Nora ye, se He", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218007, "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": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "page_number": 288, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "\nRevenue of Sincifre in \n\n2. \n\nEnglish money \n\n@ 2! the Aupee, specifying the trees whence. \n\nit is drawn \n\n1839-40. \n\nAbshart of Civil Establishment at Sin. -capae, the salaries, fe converted into- \n\nEnglish morey 2/ the Aufer. \n\nFrom \n\nOpenm farmess Spirit farmers Seree \n\nдля \n\nToddy & Ga jo \n\nPawnbrokers \n\nChin's Coin \n\nque ens \n\n¿. Je \n\nCamfony glam \n\n2.11094 \n\nTransfer fees in Land office. 26 \n\nLand, sold on building Leaves, 1224 \n\nJudicial. Defartmeur. \n\n23,342 \n\n\"Reriocut. \n\nAssistant Chaplain \n\nlistist. Do \n\nSenior Surgem Assist. Hu \n\n£ 3,600. Per annua \n\n768 960 boo \n\n9.768 \n\nhod, Recaron a 18000 Dellan. \n\nGovernor's establishment. £.420 \n\n\"Resident Corneeller's do \n\nMedical Establiment \n\nFees & fines collected in the \n\ndifferent Countr \n\nPrilage, amount in ore year - \n\nmarine, for local paper - 46 \n\nClerical \n\nمو \n\nChinese Poor house \n\nPort Mice \n\n2.662 \n\nConcist Establishment \n\nJudicial thaw Defart: 2420 \n\nRevenue Do'ant \n\nb. \n\n26,004 \n\nMarive \n\nمو \n\nمجھ \n\n1.080 \n\n-7.295 \n\n21, 113", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218073, "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": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "page_number": 354, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "in 1134 Hongkong \n\nTHE CHINESE TARIFF. \n\n(FROM FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL, OCTOBER 28, 1843.) \n\n0.0. NOV, \n\nTO THE EDITOR OF THE BRISTOL JOURNAL. Sir, The vast importance of the Chinese Tariff requires that it should be reduced to English weights, measures, and monies, for the use of British merchants, and not having yet observed that this has beca done, I beg to trouble yon with such s table, toge- ther with a few observations upon the standard to be observed. \n\nThe definition and determination of the Chinese tael is ex- preased in several different ways. 1st. It has been generally in England taken to be one third of the pound sterling, or Gs. 8d., or 80 pence, making the mace its 10th, S., and the caudareen its 100th part, 8-10ths of a penny. This simple relation to our own money would be a great advantage to English merchants if it were fully established, but some, as Beawes, make the candareen Ed., reducing the tael to 62. 3d. \n\n2ndly. It is now, however, for the most part compared with the Spanish dollar. Thus the latest and perhaps the highest sathority, that of Mr. Pope, in the Yearly Journal of Trade for 1843, states 72 taels to be equivalent to 100 dollars. The Spanish dollar is commonly estimated at 4s. Gd., but her Majesty's proclu- mation (Yearly Journal of Trada, 1840, p. 391), issued for the West Indies, makes it equivalent to 48. 2d. The tael, therefore, will be 6s. 3d, if we take the former, and 58. 94d. if the latter, for our guide. \n\n3rdly. It was originally compared with the Chinese silver coin called mace, and their copper coin called cash, but the mase has been long disused; 1000 cash were once equivalent to one fuel, but the depreciation of these coins by deterioration of the metal and reduction of their weight, so amply illustrated in the highly interesting and most authentic work of Mr. Davis, has now rendered the tael equal to a much greater number of cash. By Sir Henry Pottinger's Hong Kong proclamation of the 29th of March, 1842, 1200 of them are declared equal to one dollar. In weight I have found them vary from about 85 graina troy to twice as much. Du Halde says that the French sou is equivalent to the 100th part of the tael, that is to the caudareen, and also that it is equal to 6 cash, instead of 10. \n\n4thly. The Chinese tael is a weight, and has its value expressed by European weights, either avoirdupois or troy, and this is the truest mode of determining its equivalent in fine silver, seeing that the references to English money do not agree, that dollars differ materially in value, and that the Chinese cash are still more different from each other in their weight and quality. Measra. Gordon and Crawfurd, in their admirable treatise upon Chinese commerce, give a table stating the tacl is equal to 1 1-3 ounce avoirdupois, or 579.84 grains troy. These, unfortunately, do not agree neither, for 1 1-3 oz. avoirdupois contains 437.5 and 145.8 1-3 grs., or 583.3 1-3 grs, troy, and not 579.84. Again, Beawez in his \"Lex Mercatoria,\" states that the tael was 1 oz. 2 dr., of course troy weight, which in 480 and 120, or 600 grains. The editor of \"Mortimer's Commercial Dictionary,\" in his “Universal Commerce,\" p. 64, says 100 taels should weigh 120 oz. 10 dwts. troy, or 57840 grs., or the single tael 5734, which is less than any of the above. He says, also, that 100 Spanish dollars should weigh 68 13 dwts.; that is, 42,552 grs., of which we take the 72nd part, according to Mr. Pope, the tael comes out 591 grs. Now, 16 taels make a catty, and 100 catties a pecul; all autho- rities, I believe, concur in making the pecul 133 1-3 ib. avoirdu- pois, or the catty I 1-3 B., for which reason I prefer taking the tael as 1 1-3 oz., or 183 1-3 grs. The English crown piece, or N. is so nearly an avoirdupois ounce that if we could make this the standard the tael would come out as at first 5a, and 20d., or 6s. 8d., or 80d.; but in China all silver coin is taken as bullion, and the duties of course will be paid in fullion. The real value of the tael must, therefore, be sought in the market price of stan- dard silver. This, at the present time, I find to bo da. 1110. per ounce troy, which is almost exactly 48. 6d, the ouuoo avoirdupois, or 6s. the tacl; and I have accordingly made this my standard in the following table, wherein I have reduced the Tariff to English weights and monies. I prefer this to taking the market price of the dollar, whether Mexican or Spanish, new or pillar, and using the multiplier 1,204, because I consider that the term \"syees” means \"perfectly pure.\" This word I believe to be originally Chinese, although the characters used by the Chinese to express it do not indicate its proper etymology. I have no doubt that it was originally, in the orthoepy of Morrison, \"tsuh sih,\" or \"full quality;\" but the characters commonly used for it mean \"fine silk,\" expressive of what minoralogists would call it's \"lustre sating.\"* \n\nI cannot conclude without suggesting that, at the present low price of copper, 1000 tona, costing 70,000Z. or 80,0007., might advantageously be coined into Chinese cash, weighing each a 1-3 gra. This would greatly relieve the distress of the neighbourhood of Swansea, and supply Hong Kong and the Chinese with a good currency during the present and the next generation; for, if neatly executed, it would be universally coveted and hearded up in abundance, and would be a good payment for tea, instead of opium. On one side of the coin I would have the words \"Victoria Regina,\" and on the other, as usual, “perforated token,\" with \"Iong Kong\" instead of the Emperor's name. \n\nBristol, Oct. 14. \n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant, \n\nSAM. ROOTSEY. \n\n3. Arsenic, ditto \n\n4. Banglos (or glass armlets), ditto \n\n5. Bamboo screens, and bamboo wares of all kinds, do. 0 6. Brass leaf, ditto.. \n\n9. Camphor, ditto...... \n\n10. Canea of all kinds, per 1,000 \n\n11. Capoor cutchery, per cwt. \n\n12. Cassia, ditto \n\nDitto buds, ditto Ditto oil, ditto \n\n13. China root, ditto \n\n14. China ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n15. Clothes, ready made, ditto \n\n16. Copper ware, pewter, ditto, &c., ditto \n\n17. Curals, or false coral, ditto..... \n\n10. Cubebs, ditto..... \n\n20. Fans (as feather fans, &c.), ditto \n\n24. Glass, and glass ware of all kinds, ditto 25. Glass beads, ditto \n\n26. Gine (as fish glue, &c.), ditto \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n1. Alum, per cwt. \n\n2. Aniseed star, ditto \n\nDitto, oil of, ditto.. \n\nd. \n\nCotton Manufactures, continued- \n\nGrey, or unbleached, cottona-viz., long-cloths, domestics, &c., 30 to 40 yards long, 26 to 40 inches wide, ditto \n\n£ 3. d \n\nGrey twilled cottons, 30 to 40 yards long, 28 to \n\n40 inches wide, ditto..... \n\nChintz and prints, of all kinds, 20 to 30 yards \n\n7. Building materiala, ditto. \n\n8. Bone and horn ware, ditto \n\nduty free. \n\nlong, 26 to 31 inches wide, ditto ...... \n\n0 1 24 Handkerchiefs under 1 yard square, 72 ea....... 0 0 03 \n\n0 à 01 \n\ni \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 yard square, 1.03 ditto... ( Ginghams, pullicates, dyed cottons, velveteens, silk and cotton mixtures, woollen and cotton mixtures, and all kinds of fancy goods, not in current consumption, 5 per cent. ad valorem. 14. Cotton yarn and cotton thread, per cwt. Jo. Cow bezoar, per lb...... \n\n16. Cutch, per cwt.. \n\n17. Elephants' teeth, Ist quality, whole, ditto \n\nS \n\n5 O \n\nI 0 2 \n\n2d quality, ditto, broken \n\n18. Fish maws, ditto \n\n19. Flinta, ditto \n\n18. Crackers and fire-works of all kinds, ditte.... \n\nす \n\n20. Glass, glass ware, and crystal ware of all kinds, 5 \n\nper cent. ad valorem. \n\nՌ \n\n21. Gambier, per cwt.... \n\nD 0 9 \n\n21. Furniture of all kinds, ditto \n\n22. Galingal, ditto....... \n\n23. Gamboge, ditto \n\n22. Ginseng, 1st quality, ditto \n\n2d ditto, \"or refuse, ditto \n\n23. Gold and Silver Thread :- \n\n0 2 G \n\n1st quality, or real, per lb.. \n\n2d ditto, or imitation, ditto \n\n24. Gums, Benjamin, per cwt \n\n0 5 0% \n\nOlibanum Myrrh \n\nditto ditto \n\n6. Horus, Unicorus' or Rhinoceros', ditto \n\n32. Lead (white lead), ditto \n\nGums unenumerated 10 per cent. ad valorem. 25. Horns, Buttocks and Buffaloes', per ewt... \n\n27. Linen, tine, us Irish or Scoteb, \n\nyards long, \n\ninches wide, per piece \n\n1 0 10 0:15 1 \n\n↓ \n\nCoarse Linen, as linen and cotton mixtures, silk and linen mixtures, &o., 5 per cent, ad valorem, \n\n28. Mace, or four of nutmeg, per ewt.....**** 29. Mother of Pearl shells \n\nhitte...... \n\n0 5 04 0 I 0 \n\n38. Nankeen and cotton cloth of all kinds, per ewi \n\n30. Metals, viz., \n\nRice paper pictures, per 100 \n\n40. Paper fans, per cwt. \n\nCupper, unmanufactured, as in pige, ditto.......................... 0 Ė 4 Ditto, manufactured, as in sheets, rods, ditto... 0764 Iron, unmanufactured, as in pigs, ditto \n\n41. Paper of all kinds, ditto \n\n{ 2 64 \n\nDitto, manufactured, as in bars, rods, &c., ditto 0 0 9 \n\n42. Pearls (i. e., false pearls), ditto \n\nLead in pigs, or manufactured, ditto \n\n2 6) \n\nQuicksilver, ditto \n\n0 15 JA \n\nSteel, unmanufactured, ditto \n\nTin, ditto..... \n\nTin Plates, ditto....... \n\n31. Nutmegs, ist quality, or cleaned, per cwt. \n\nOrganzine, all kinds, ditto.. \n\nRibands, thread, &c., ditto.. \n\nUnenumerated Metals, 10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n2d ditto, or uncleaved ditto \n\n} \n\n32. Pepper, ditto..... \n\n33. Putehuck, ditto \n\n34. Battans, ditto \n\n35, Rice, paddy, and grain of all kinds.......... \n\nduty free. \n\n36. Rose maloes, per cwt. ...... \n\n37. Saltpetre (to be sold to Government agents only) \n\nper dilto \n\n38. Sharks' fius, first quality, or white, per ditto...... 05.04 \n\nsecond quality, or black per ditto...... 0 2 61 \n\n27. Grass cloths (all kinds), ditto 26. Hartall, ditto \n\n29. Ivory ware (all kinds), ditto \n\n30. Kittysole, or paper umbrellas, ditto \n\n31. Lackered ware, all kinds, ditto \n\n33. Lead (real lead), ditto.. \n\n31. Marble slabs, ditto... \n\n35. Mats (straw, rattan, bambon, &c.), ditto \n\n36. Mother-o'-pearl ware, ditto \n\n37. Musk, per Îb.'.. \n\n39. Pictures-viz., large paintings, each \n\n43. Preserves and sweatmeats of all kinds, ditto \n\n44. Rattan work of all kinds, ditto \n\n45. Rhubarb, ditto \n\n46. Silk, raw, whether from Chekiang, Canton, or \n\nelsewhere, all kinds, per ewt.. \n\nCoarse or refuse silk, ditto.. \n\nSilk piece goods of all kinds, as silks, satins, pon- \n\ngees, velveta, crapes, lustrings, &c., ditto..... 80 53 N.B. The additional duty of so much per piece, \n\nhitherto levied, to be henceforth abolished. \n\n47. Silk and cotton mixtures, silk and woollen mixtures, \n\nand goods of such classes, ditto... \n\n48. Shoes and boots of leather, satin, or otherwise, ditto 0 49. Sandal-wood ware, ditto....... 50. Soy, ditto... \n\n51. Silver and gold ware, ditto.... \n\n52. Sugar, white and brown, ditto..... \n\n53. Sugar caudy, all kinds, ditto... \n\n54. Tin-foll, ditto.. \n\n55. Tea, ditto..... \n\n56. Tobacco of all kinds, ditto, \n\n57. Turmeric, ditto.... \n\n58. Tortoiseshell ware, ditto.... \n\n59. Trunks (of leather), ditto... \n\n60. Treasure, i. e., coins of all kinds... \n\n6J. Vermillion, per ewt. \n\nfree. \n\nArticles unenumerated in this tariff to pay a duty of 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n1. Asafoetida, per cwt. \n\n2. Rees' wax, ditto...... \n\n3. Betel nut, ditto.. \n\n4. Bicho de mar, 1st quality, or black ditto \n\nDitto \n\n0 % 1) \n\nD \n\nTiger, leopard, and marten sking, each \n\nLand otter, racoon, and sharlis' skins, per hund. 0 12 0 \n\nBeaver skins, ditto..... \n\nEbony, ditto... \n\n39. Skins and furs, viz. \n\nCow and ox hides, tanned and untanned.......... \n\nSea otter skin, each \n\nFox skins, large, each.... \n\nDitto, small, each. \n\nHare, rabbit, and ermine ditto. \n\n40. Smalts, per cwt....... \n\n41. Soap, ditto \n\n42. Stock-fish, &c. ........ \n\n13. Sea horse teeth \n\n44. Treasure and money of all kinds, free. \n\n£ 8. d. \n\n45. Wine, beer, spirits, &c.:- \n\nIn quart bottles, per hundred bottles \n\n0 6 l \n\nla pint ditto, ditto...... \n\nIn casks, per cwt. \n\n46. Woods, namely- \n\n◊ \n\n1st ditto, cleaned ditto.... \n\nSandal wood, ditto \n\n24 ditto, good middling ditto \n\nJapan wood, ditto......... \n\nInenumerated woods, 10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\n47. Woollen manufactures-viz., broadcloths, Spanish \n\nstripes, babit cloth, &c., 51 @ 64 inches wide, per square foot... \n\nLong ella, kersermeres, flannel, and narrow cloths \n\nof this description, ditto \n\nBlankets, of all kinds, each. \n\nDutch camlets, per square foot.... \n\nCamlets, ditto........ \n\nImitation ditto bombazettes, &c., ditto \n\nBunting (narrow) ditto. \n\nUnenumerated woollen goods, or silk and woollen, and cotton and woollen mixtures, &c., 5 per cent. ad nalorem. \n\n48. Woollen yarn, per cwt........... \n\nN.B. All articles unenumerated in this tariff 5 \n\nCambrics and muslins, 20 to 24 yards long, 40 to \n\n46 ditta ...... \n\nper cent. ad valorem, \n\n5. Birds' nests \n\nDitto Ditto \n\n2d ditto, white ........................... \n\n3d ditto, uneleaned, ditto \n\n6. Camphor (Malay), 1st ditto, clean, per lb. \n\nDitto \n\n24 ditto, refuse ditto, per in. \n\n7. Cloves, Tat ditto, picked per ewt........ \n\nDitto, 2d dirto, mother ditto.......... \n\n8. Clocks, watches, spy-glasses, all kinds of writing- desks, dressing-boxes, cutlery, perfumery, &c., 5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n9. Canvasɛ, 30 to 40 yards long, 24 to 31 inches wide, \n\nper plece \n\n10. Cochineal, per cwt \n\n11. Cornelians, per 100 stones. \n\nDitto beads, per cwt \n\n12. Cotton ditto...... \n\n13. Cotton manufactures-viz. \n\nLong-cloths, white, 30 to 40 yards long. 30 to 36 \n\ninches wide, per piece...... \n\n1 5 2) \n\n* We have something like this at home. There is a place in Wales called Llanseashore, bat which is not upon the sea shore. This name Stor or Shore is the old British name of George, or Saint George, and exists also In the English word Wyndeshore, or Windsor, which I shouli Latinise \"Venta Georgii,\" from the round table, castle, and chapel of St. George. \n\nGUTCH AND MARTIN, PRINTERS, SMALL-STREST, BRISTOL,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 218930, "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": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 256, "title": "CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "Comicil 14 Sept 2 \n\nGibraltar & when the hoops are paid in Dollars, it is at the rate of 5 pence for the ⋆ By order in Dellar . The Ships of tear now in Horghang \n\nrid the dollar at 30 pence, \n\nBay, are paid \n\nwhile the Sheeps and bevernment drvants \n\non there are paid at 52 pence. \n\narry \n\nIne all our \n\n· possessions except. Hindostan; payments are made, and accounts kept in coin of British denarnications- There does not appear. \n\nreason why Houghing should form an Exceptions to the genral rule. If Follarsh requisite for commercial transactions with the Chinck, they will always be hought thither from the bouth American Coast, in abundance; and as vconomically as they conveyed to Canada, or son to England- the difference between 45 and 50 pence - Covering well the sexpense of peight, intrance and Commission. \n\nare \n\nThe \n\nThe annual expenses of this Colony, and of the Consular Establishments on the East of China will be about £80,000 a year. To meet thek charges, neither the Colonial Revenue, nor the Consular feet will for \n\n1 for some years be adequate : The Military force to be anaintained here, must for reasons of state policy, for \n\nnot less than that \n\nnow \n\nsome years be \n\nretained.-A. \n\nannum, a \n\nthe present moment two European and tive Native Regiments with small detachments of Artillery, Enginens &e, cost about $1,292,000 per \n\n1, at 44/4 per dollar £279,933. \n\nThese charges, which cannot be reduced, are independent of the cost of the haval squadron. It is therefore, a very serious question, how the coin to pay charges amounting to about $350,000 a year, is to be hereafter provided. \n\nThe importance of the subject immediately", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-006 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219348, "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": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 197, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "A \n\nChina \n\nhe \n\na place destibule of internal resources, elemany Is trade, its monistence. cruel even the mujority of its population from the connection with \n\ncasonable expectation can extertained of banishing the dollar from cviculation or of rendering any \n\nother com? for a long periost ! come the standard suetium of criculation. It follows, that although a friend sterling value should be ofsiqued by authority to the Zeller I call \n\npunctical recoquets. \n\nton, cente consumity with the opening right or wrong, of the Chinese fequenting the mutest. \n\nMtan \n\nNanase European h. This \n\nmarket. \n\ndealings with the \n\nengaged in dea \n\nRehab tamts. \n\nconsequence being actmitted, it is impossible to forcue, with any approach to cvetaily, what reception, an issue of Bitish silver can might find in Hongkong. but expererive is almost immiformly opposed 1. the probability of its being favorable. Republican \n\nDollars \n\nTollers continue after years of familianty with them to be at le discount with a forme I those of the clit Spanish impresion \n\nJome even/ \n\nof \n\nthese \n\nare) Muc \n\nestimatest than others differing from \n\nby \n\nand \n\nlinighly \n\nsolely on cute - Rupees, when thrown into circulation to \n\nany considerable extent, \n\nare \n\nvalued at a rate gouerally below then worth, with reference coon be the Republican chollar and of course still lower with ulation the pillared collar while there foreign \n\nrawly \n\nto \n\nseen in commercial use - It is \n\nI be apprehended that another \n\ncours are \n\narc \n\ntheufore \n\ni Ate Cow \n\nwould be receved with such disburst \n\nand perhaps be confounted with some of \n\nvahu already known. His the hat brown might canly be taken fore half stolles, the stalling for the bill repre \n\nHollow, \n\nsixpence for \n\ncinct the \n\nsaine coin, or \n\nfor the quarter of the if not absolutely mistaken in point of identity avery probably be reputed of the \n\nvalue. \n\nnight \n\nsame \n\nPaping", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219351, "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": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844", "content_text": "seem \n\nthee to discuss \n\nI soms needless further \n\nthis alterative. \n\n9. \n\nThe facts and reasonings before statist secur 1. Harrant the followering conclusions, \n\nvry: \n\nof \n\nmore \n\nر \n\nThat the corculation of Hong Kongie, and sunst probably contime to be governed by that of the Ports of China, \n\nCanton, expecially Coulon, from which, or \n\n.. \n\nfrom \n\nthe \n\nof England. \n\nall \n\nereunty its trading and laboring population is chilly clerivect, then by that ch legbent of the other dependencies on England, violely separated from it by distance and little consucted with it. India exceplect \n\ncommercial intercourse. (3). \n\nby \n\ntiv \n\nThat the dollar consequently must always be referrect to us the standard of value, by which that of all other coins in circulation will practically be sueasured, be the legal value fisid ca il way. (3) \n\nThat the \n\ncapricious \n\nwoole \n\nf \n\nestination \n\nestimation prevalent \n\nthe Chi \n\namong \n\nrenders it determinable only by experiment \n\nmight \n\nat what value British silver coin \n\nthem, but that experience \n\nthus be rated by \n\nin regard to thew coms renders & probable \n\nthat this would be estimated rather below \n\nthan a bow it relatic well14) \n\nThat the British silver couis in \n\ncolivary use, whether estimated at their nominal \n\nansial or then intrinsic value, cannot be \n\nof \n\nmade exact aliquot parts of the collar, the intrinse worth producing a fraction the most inconvenient kind, while the scominal proportions of either \"/\" or \"/\" t the dollar though make the collar the exact multiple of \n\nrore obvious do not \n\n(7.81 \n\nany English silver com except the Great (74) \n\nThat there accordingly exists \n\nConveruence. \n\nlittle ground for experting either profit or \n\nfrom the introduction. Butik ülver cous, the former beny scarcely \n\nof", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-007 - Sir John Davis - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219624, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "\n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nT. \n\nM. C. C. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\nEstablished in pursuance of Article X of the Treaty. \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n6 Camphor (Malay), first \n\nquality, clean. \n\nCamphor, second quality, \n\nrefuse \n\n7 Cloves, first quality, picked per \n\nDitto, second ditto, mother \n\n8 Clacks, Watches, Spy- Glasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks. Dress- ing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. \n\n9 Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide \n\n28 Mace, or Flower of Nut- \n\nmeg \n\nper catty \n\nT. M. C. c. \n\n27 Linen, fiue, as Irish or Scotch, yards long, \n\nditto \n\n100 catties \n\nditto \n\n0 0 } 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 \n\ninches wide Coarse Linen, as Linen and Cotton Mixtures, Silk and Linen Mix- tures, &c. &c. \n\n+ \n\nper piece \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n29 Mother of Pearl Shells \n\nper 100 catties ditto \n\nප \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\n30 Metals, viz.:-- \n\nCopper, unmanufac- \n\nT. M. C. C \n\ntured, as in pigs \n\nditto \n\n1 Alum \n\nper 100 catties \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nditto \n\nDitto, \n\nOil of \n\nditto \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\nditto \n\n5 Bamboo Screens and Bant- \n\n39 Pictures, viz., large Paint- \n\nings \n\nRice Paper Pictures 40 Paper Fans. \n\n41 Paper of all kinds \n\n42 Pearls, (ie., false Pearls) \n\nper piece \n\nCopper, manufactured, \n\n10 Cochineal \n\ncach \n\nper 100 pictures \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\nas in sheets, rods \n\nditto \n\n} \n\n11 Cornelians \n\nper 100 stones \n\nIron, un manufactured, \n\nDitto Beads \n\nපප \n\nt \n\nper 100 cattics 10 \n\nas in pigs \n\nditto \n\n12 Cotton \n\nditto \n\nIron, manufactured, as \n\n13 Cotton Manufactures, viz.: \n\nin bars, rods, &c. \n\nditto \n\nLong Cloths, white, 30 \n\nboo Ware of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n43 Preserves and Sweet- \n\n6 Brass Leaf \n\nditto \n\nmeats of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n7 Building Materials \n\nDuty free. \n\n44 Rattan work of all kinds \n\ndifto \n\nNO \n\n8 Bone and Horn Ware \n\nper 100 catties \n\n45 Rhubarb \n\nditto \n\nOOO \n\n9 Camphor \n\n10 Canes of all kinds \n\n11 Capoor Cutchery \n\n12 Cassia \n\nDitto Buds \n\nDitto Oil \n\nditto \n\n46 Silk, Raw, whether from \n\nper thousand \n\nChekiang, Canton, ur \n\nper 100 catties \n\nelsewhere, all kinds \n\nditto \n\na 40 yards long, 30 a 36 inches wide \n\nCambricksand Muslins, \n\n20 a 24 yards long, 40 a 46 inches wide \n\nGrey or Unbleached \n\nCottons, viz.: \n\nLead in pigs, or manu- \n\nfactured. \n\nditto \n\n0 4 D 0 \n\nper piece \n\nQuicksilver \n\nditto \n\nSteel, unmanufactured \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nTin. \n\nTin Plates. \n\nUnenumerated Metals. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nditto \n\nCoarse, or refuse of \n\nditto \n\nditro \n\n13 China Root \n\nditto \n\n14 China Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n15 Clothes (ready made). \n\nditto \n\n100 O \n\n{} \n\nSilk \n\nditto \n\nLong Cloths, Domes- \n\n31 Nutmegs, first quality, or \n\ncleaned \n\nper 100 catties 2 \n\nOrganzine, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n} \n\ntics, &c., &c., 30 a \n\n{1} \n\nRibbons, Thread, &c., \n\n40 yards long, 28 a \n\nNutmegs, second quality, \n\nor uncleaned \n\nditto \n\nප \n\n&c. \n\nditto \n\n40 inches wide \n\nditto \n\nSilk Piece goods of all \n\nGrey Twilled Cottons, \n\n32 Pepper \n\n+ \n\nditto \n\n↑ \n\n33 Putchuck \n\nditto \n\n16 Copper Ware, Pewter \n\nditto, &c. \n\nkinds, \n\nas \n\nSilks, \n\nditto \n\n17 Corals (or False Coral) \n\nditto \n\n18 Crackers and Fire-works \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n19 Cubebs \n\nditto \n\n20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n21 Furniture of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n22 Galingal \n\nditto \n\n} \n\nถ \n\n23 Gamboge \n\nditto \n\nOOOOOO \n\nSatins, Pougees, Velvets, Crapes, Lutestrings, &c., &c. N.B. The additional \n\n30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide Chintz and Prints of \n\n34 Rattans \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n35 Rice, Paddy, and Grain of \n\nall kinds \n\nditto \n\nall kinds, 20 a 30 \n\nDuty Free. \n\n36 Rose Maloes. \n\nper 100 catties 1 0 0 0 \n\nyards long, 26 a 31 \n\ninches wide \n\nDuty of so much \n\nditto \n\nper piece, hitherto levied, to be bence- \n\nforth abolished. \n\nHandkerchiefs under 1 \n\nyard square \n\n37 Saltpetre (to be sold to \n\nGovernment only) \n\nAgents \n\nditto \n\neach \n\n47 Silk and Cotton mix- \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 \n\nyard square \n\n38 Shark's Fins, first quality, \n\nor White \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n24 Glass, and Glass Ware \n\ntures, Silk and Wool- \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n25 Glass Beads \n\nditto \n\n26 Glue (as Fish-glue, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n27 Grass Cloth, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n28 Hartall \n\nditto \n\n29 Ivory Ware, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\nKOVO 10 OKO \n\nlen mixtures, and goods \n\nof such classes \n\nditto \n\n48 Shoes and Boots, of \n\n( \n\nLeather, Satin, or \n\notherwise \n\nditto \n\n49 Sandal Wood Ware \n\nditto \n\n30 Kittysols, or Paper Um- \n\nbrellas \n\n50 Soy \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n\" \n\n31 Lacquered Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n32 Lead (White Lead) \n\nditto \n\n33 Lead (Red Lead) \n\nditto \n\n34 Marble Slabs \n\nditto \n\nNGN CO \n\nOCOCO \n\n0150 O \n\n51 Silver and Gold Ware \n\nditto \n\n52 Sugur, white and brown \n\nditto \n\n53 Sugar Candy, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n54 Tin Foil \n\nditto \n\n55 Tea. \n\nditto \n\n35 Mats, (straw, rattan, \n\n56 Tobacco of all kinds \n\nditto \n\nbamboo, &c., &c.) \n\nditto \n\n36 Mother o'Pearl Ware \n\nditto \n\n37 Musk \n\nper catty \n\nCOC \n\n57 Turmeric. \n\nditto \n\n58 Tortoise-Shell Ware \n\nditto \n\n59 Trunks (of Leather) \n\nditto \n\nCOOOOOOooo \n\n20+02 3 1 LO ON NON \n\nGinghams, Pullicates, Dyed Cottons, Velve- teens, Silk and Cotton Mixtures, Woollen \n\nand Cotton Mixtures, and all kinds of Fancy \n\nGoods not in current consumption. \n\nShark's Fins, second qua- \n\nlity or Black \n\n་ \n\nditto \n\n39 Skins and Furs, viz.:- \n\nCow and Ox Hides, \n\ntanned, and untanned \n\nditto \n\nSea Otter Skins \n\neach \n\n0 I \n\nFox Skins, large \n\nditto \n\nFox Skins, small \n\nditto \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem \n\n14 Cotton Yarn and Cotton \n\nTiger, Leopard, and \n\nMartin Skins \n\nditto \n\nThread \n\nper 100 catties \n\n15 Cow Bezoar \n\nper catty \n\n16 Cutch \n\nper 100 catties \n\nOOO \n\nLand Otter, Racoon, \n\nand Shark's Skins \n\nper hundred \n\n17 Elephant's Teeth, first \n\nquality, whole \n\nditto \n\nmine \n\nElephant's Teeth, second \n\n40 Smalts \n\nquality, broken \n\nBeaver skins \n\nHare, Rabbit, aud Er- \n\n· per 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nCIN \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n41 Soap \n\nditto \n\n18 Fish Maws \n\nditto \n\n42 Stock Fish, &c. \n\nditto \n\n19 Flints \n\nditto \n\n38 Nankeen, and Cotton \n\nCloth of all kinds \n\n60 Treasure, ie., Coin of \n\n43 Sea Horse Teeth \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\nI 0 \n\nall kinds \n\nFree. \n\n20 Glass, Glass Ware, and \n\n悲 0 \n\n61 Vermilion \n\nditto \n\nCrystal Ware, of all kinds. \n\n44 Treasure and Money of all \n\nkinds \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem \n\n21 Gambier \n\n[Articles unenumerated in this Turiff, to pay a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem.] \n\n. per 100 catties 0 1 5 0 \n\nditio \n\nditto \n\n+ \n\nper catty \n\nIMPORTS. \n\nditto \n\n⚫ per 100 catties \n\nΙ 0 D 0 \n\nditto \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\n1 Assafoetida \n\nper 100 catties \n\n2 Bees' Wax \n\nditto \n\n} 0 0 0 \n\n5 Birds' Nests, first quality, \n\ncleaned. \n\nper 100 catties 5 \n\n3 Betel Nut \n\nditto \n\nBirds' Nests, second qua- \n\n4 Bicho de Mar, first quality, \n\nlity, good middling. \n\nditto \n\nor blk. \n\nditto \n\n0 $ 0 0 \n\nBicho de Mar, second \n\nBirds' Nests, third quality, \n\nuncleaned \n\nditto \n\nquality, or wht. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n0 5 0 ( \n\n22 Ginseng, first quality \n\nDitto second ditto, or \n\nrefuse \n\n23 Gold and Silver Thread: \n\nfirst quality, or real \n\nsecond ditto, or imitation \n\n24 Gums, Benjamin \n\nOlibanum Myrrh \n\nGums, unenumerated \n\n25 Horns, Bullocks' and Buf- \n\nfalos' \n\n26 Horns, Unicorns' or Rhi- \n\nnoceros' \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem \n\n. per 100 catties 2 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\n45 Wine, Beer, Spirits, &c. \n\nIn Quart Bottles \n\nIn Pint ditto \n\nIn Cask \n\n46 Woods, namely \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz. :-- \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches wide \n\nA \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 14 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\nFree. \n\nper 100 bottles \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\nย 5 0 0 \n\nditto \n\n0 I \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219632, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 92, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "\ncations, with a diligent pursuit of every thing that is good and right: they need entertain no appreliension of being hereafter dragged forward, nor yield in consequence to any fears or suspicions. \n\nWith reference to the arrangements which the High Commissioner and his colleagues have made in regard to duties, every thing has been done with a single eye to a just impartiality: all merchants, then, whether of China or of foreign countries, are called upon to consider the many pains that the High Commissioner and his colleagues have taken, and by all means to abide in the quiet pursuit of their respective callings, and in the enjoyment of so auspicious a peace. From henceforward amity and goodwill shall ever con- tinue, and those from afar and those who are near shall perpetually rejoice Such is the fervent hope of the High Commissioner and his col- together. leagues; and in this hope they command implicit obedience to what is now thus specially promulgated. \n\nA true Translation, \n\n(Signed) J. ROBT. MORRISON, \n\nChinese Secretary and Interpreter. \n\nTARIFF OF DUTIES ON THE FOREIGN TRADE WITH CHINA. \n\n1 Assafoetida \n\n2 Bees' Wax \n\n3 Betel Nut. \n\n4 Bicho de Mar, first quality, \n\nor blk. \n\nBicho de Mar, second \n\nquality, or wht. \n\n5 Birds' Nests, first quality, \n\ncleaned \n\n6 Camphor (Malay), first \n\nquality, clean. Camphor, second quality, \n\nrefuse \n\n. \n\n7 Cloves, first quality, picked per \n\nDitto, second ditto, mother \n\n8 Clocks, Watches, Spy- \n\nGlasses, all kinds of Writing-Desks, Dress- ing Boxes, Cutlery, Perfumery, &c., &c. \n\n9 Canvas, 30 a 40 yards long, 24 a 31 inches wide \n\nM. C. C. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n0 $ 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nBirds' Nests, second qua- lity, good sniddling. Birds' Nests, third quality, \n\nuncleaned \n\nditto \n\nIMPORTS. \n\n22 Ginseng, first quality \n\nDitto second ditto, or \n\nrefuse \n\n23 Gold and Silver Thread:- \n\nfirst quality, or real \n\nper 100 catties \n\nsecond ditto, or imitation \n\n24 Gums, Benjamin \n\nOlibanum \n\nMyrrh \n\nGums, unenumerated \n\n25 Horns, Bullocks' and Buf- \n\nfalos' \n\n+00 \n\nM. \n\n+. \n\nย \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\nditto \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n10 per cent. ad valorem \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\n26 Horns, Unicorns' or Rhi \n\nnoceros' \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\nditto \n\n100 catties \n\nditto \n\nΙ \n\n1O 1O 1O \n\nපපය \n\n27 Linen, fine, as Irish or Scotch yards long, \n\ninches wide Coarse Linen, as Linen \n\nand Cotton Mixtures, \n\nSilk and Linen Mix- tures, &c. &c. \n\n28 Mace, or Flower of Nut- \n\nmeg \n\n29 Mother of Pearl Shells \n\nper piece \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. \n\nS \n\nper cent. ad valorem. \n\nper 100 catties 1 0 0 0 \n\nditto \n\nEXPORTS. \n\n30 Metals, viz.:- \n\nCopper, \n\nunmanufac- \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nI Alum \n\n2 Aniseed, Star \n\nper 100 catties ditto \n\n0 I \n\nDitto, \n\nOil of \n\nditto \n\n3 Arsenic \n\nditto \n\n4 Bangles (or Glass Armlets) \n\nditto \n\ndocono \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\nper piece \n\n39 Pictures, viz., large Paint- \n\nings \n\ntured, as in pigs \n\nditto \n\n10 Cochineal \n\nper 100 catties \n\neach \n\nRice Paper Pictures \n\nper 100 pictures 0 \n\n} 0 0 \n\n40 Paper Fans \n\nper 100 catties \n\n41 Paper of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n5 Bamboo Screens and Bam- \n\n42 Pearls,(ie.,false Pearls) \n\nditto \n\nooooo \n\nCopper, manufactured, \n\n11 Cornelians \n\nper 100 stones \n\nas in sheets, rods \n\nditto \n\nboo Ware of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n43 Preserves and Sweet- \n\n6 Brass leaf \n\nditto \n\nmeats of all kinds \n\nditto \n\n7 Building Materials \n\nDuty free. \n\n44 Rattan work of all kinds \n\nditio \n\n8 Bone and Horn Ware \n\nper 100 catties \n\n9 Camphor \n\n11 Capoor Cutchery \n\n12 Cassia \n\nDitto Buds \n\nDitto Oil. \n\nditto \n\n} \n\n10 Canes of all kinds \n\nper thousand \n\nper 100 catties 0 3 0 \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n13 China Root \n\nditto \n\n14 China Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n15 Clothes (ready made). \n\nditto \n\nOOOOOooooO \n\n45 Rhubarb . \n\nditto \n\nONG \n\nCoo \n\nOOO \n\n46 Silk, Raw, whether from \n\nChekiang, Canton, or \n\nelsewhere, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nCoarse, or refuse of \n\nSilk \n\nDitto Beads \n\n12 Cotton \n\n13 Cotton Manufactures, viz,: \n\nLong Cloths, white, 30 \n\na 40 yards loug, 30 a 36 inches wide \n\nCambricks and Muslins, \n\n20 a 24 yards long, 40 a 46 inches wide Grey or Unbleached \n\nCottons, viz.: \n\nLong Cloths, Domes- \n\nper 100 catties 10 \n\nIron, unmanufactured, \n\nditto \n\nas in pigs \n\nditto \n\nIron, manufactured, as \n\nin bars, rods, &c. \n\nditto \n\nLead in pigs, or manu- \n\nper piece \n\nfactured \n\nditto \n\nQuicksilver \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nTin \n\nSteel, unmanufactured \n\nTiu Plates \n\nUnenumerated Metals. \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nපපපපප \n\n10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\nditto \n\nOrganzine, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nRibbons, Thread, &c., \n\ntics, &c., &c., 30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide \n\n31 Nutmegs, first quality, or \n\ncleaned \n\nper 100 catties 2 0 0 0 \n\nNutmegs, second quality, \n\nditto \n\nor uncleaned \n\n&c. \n\nditto \n\nGrey Twilled Cottons, \n\nSilk Piece goods of all \n\n32 Pepper \n\nditto ditto \n\n16 Copper Ware, Pewter \n\nkinds, as Silks, \n\nditto, &c. \n\nditto \n\n17 Corals (or False Coral) \n\ndisto \n\n18 Crackers and Fire-Works \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n19 Cubebs \n\nditto \n\n20 Fans (as Feather Fans, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n21 Furniture of all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n22 Galingal \n\nditto \n\n23 Gamboge \n\nditto \n\nOOOOOO \n\nSatins, Pongees, Velvets, Crapes, Lutestrings, &c., &c. N.B. The additional Duty of so much per piece, hitherto levied, to be hence- \n\nforth abolished. \n\n47 Silk and Cotton mix- \n\n30 a 40 yards long, 28 a 40 inches wide Chintz and Prints of \n\n33 Putchuck \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n34 Rattans \n\nditto \n\nall kinds, 20 a 30 \n\n35 Rice, Paddy, and Grain of \n\nall kinds \n\nditto \n\nDuty Free, \n\nyards long, 26 a 31 \n\n36 Rose Maloes \n\nper 100 catties I 0 0 0 \n\ninches wide \n\nditto \n\nHandkerchiefs under 1 \n\nyard square \n\neach \n\nI \n\n24 Glass, and Glass Ware \n\ntures, Silk and Wool- \n\nof all kinds \n\nditto \n\n25 Glass Beads \n\nditto \n\n26 Gine (as Fish-glue, &c.) \n\nditto \n\n27 Grass Cloth, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\n28 Hartall \n\nditto \n\n29 Ivory Ware, all kinds. \n\nditto \n\nGO-000 \n\n1O 1O 1O O 10 \n\nOOOOOO \n\nlen mixtures, and goods \n\nof such classes* \n\nditto \n\n48 Shoes and Boots, of \n\nLeather, Satin, or \n\nHandkerchiefs above 1 \n\nyard square Ginghams, Pullicates, Dyed Cottons, Velve- teens, Silk and Cotton Mixtures, Woollen and Cotton Mixtures, and all kinds of Fancy \n\n37 Saltpetre (to be sold to \n\nGovernment Agents only) 38 Shark's Fins, first quality, \n\nor White \n\nditta \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nI \n\nShark's Fins, second \n\nqua- \n\nlity, or Black \n\nditto \n\n39 Skins and Furs, viz.:- \n\nCow and Ox Hides, \n\ntanned, and untanned \n\nditto \n\nSea-Otter Skins \n\neachi \n\nI \n\notherwise \n\nditto \n\n49 Sandal Wood Ware \n\nditto \n\nI \n\n30 Kittysols, or Paper Um- \n\n50 Soy \n\nditto \n\nbrellas \n\nditto \n\n31 Lacquered Ware, all kinds \n\nditto \n\nI 0 \n\n32 Lead (White Lead) \n\nditto \n\n33 Lead (Red Lead) \n\nditto \n\n34 Marble Slabs \n\nditto \n\nNGNO DI \n\n51 Silver and Gold Ware \n\nditto \n\n52 Sugar, white and brown \n\ndilto \n\n53 Sugar Candy, all kinds \n\nditto \n\n54 Tin Foil \n\nditto \n\nkh \n\n55 Ten \n\nditto \n\n35 Mats, (straw, rattan, \n\nbamboo, &c., &c.) \n\n36 Mother of Pearl Ware 37 Musk \n\n38 Nankeen, and Cotton \n\n56 Tobacco of all kinds \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\nප \n\n57 Turmeric \n\nditto \n\nditto \n\n0 0 h \n\n58 Tortoise-Shell Ware \n\nditto \n\nper catty \n\n59 Trunks (of Leather) \n\nditto \n\nNOVONI OD VS IN INNOQ \n\nOOOOOOOOOOOO \n\nFox Skins, large \n\nditto \n\nGoods not in current consumption \n\nFox Skins, small \n\nditto \n\nอ \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem \n\nTiger, Leopard, and \n\n14 Cotton Yarn and Cotton \n\nThread \n\n15 Cow Bezoar. \n\nMartin Skins \n\nditto \n\nQ \n\n• per 100 catties \n\nper catty \n\n16 Cutch. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nLand-Otter, \n\nRacoon, \n\nand Shark's Skins \n\nper hundred \n\nBeaver Skins \n\nditto \n\nth \n\n17 Elephant's Teeth, first \n\nHare, Rabbit, and Er- \n\nquality, whole \n\nditto \n\nmine \n\nditto \n\nElephant's Teeth, second \n\n40 Smalis \n\nquality, broken \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\n18 Fish Maws \n\nditto \n\n19 Flints \n\nditto \n\nབཀ2 \n\n41 Soap \n\nditto \n\n42 Stock Fish, &c. \n\n43 Sea-Horse Teeth \n\nditto ditto \n\nOTOON \n\nCloth of all kinds. \n\nper 100 catties \n\n60 Treasure, ie., Coin of \n\nall kinds \n\nOOOOO \n\n5054✪ \n\n20 Glass, Glass Ware, and \n\nFree. \n\n61 Vermilion \n\nditto \n\nCrystal Ware, of all \n\nkinds \n\n44 Treasure and Money of \n\nall kinds \n\nFree. \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem \n\n[Articles unenumerated in this Tariff, to pay a duty of 5 per cent, ad valorem.]! \n\n21 Gambier \n\nper 100 catties \n\nC2 \n\nIn Quart Bottles \n\n45 Wine, Beer, Spirits, &c. \n\n⚫ per 100 bottles \n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 219633, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "page_number": 93, "title": "CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844", "content_text": "\n\nT. M. \n\nper 100 bottles 0 5 \n\n. \n\nper 100 catties \n\nditto \n\nditto ditto \n\nFlannel, and narrow \n\n(L.S.) \n\nIn Pint bottles \n\nIn Cask \n\n46 Woods, namely:-- \n\nEbony \n\nSandal Wood \n\nSapan Wood \n\nUnenumerated Woods \n\n47 Woollen Manufactures, viz.:- \n\nBroad Cloths, Spanish \n\nStripes, Habit Cloth, \n\n&c., 51 a 64 inches wide \n\n10 per cent, ad valorem. \n\nper Chang of 141 inches 0 1 5 0 \n\nLong Ells, Cassimeres, \n\n[All Articles unenumerated in this Tariff; 5 per cent. ad valorem.] \n\nHENRY POTTINGER. \n\nSeal and Signature \n\nof the Chinese Plenipotentiary. \n\ntion \n\nCloths of this descrip- \n\nper Chang of 141 inches \n\nBlankets of all kinds \n\nT. M. C. C. \n\neach \n\nDutch Camlets, per Chang of 141 inches O Camlets. \n\nපපප \n\nditto \n\nOOOO \n\nNOB7 \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i, e.. English List. \n\nClass VII-Exported Woods. Canes or walking sticks of all kinds \n\nCanes, &c. \n\nImitation ditto, Bomba- \n\nzettes, &c. . \n\nditto \n\nBunting(narrow), perChang of 141 inches 0 0 1 5 Unenumerated Woollen \n\nGoods, or Silk and Woollen, and Cotton \n\nClass VIII-Exported articles of Clothing. Wearing apparel, whether of Cotton, Woollen, or Silk formerly divided into Cotton clothing, Woollen ditto, Silk and Satin ditto, und Velvet ditto \n\nand Woollen Mix- tures, &c. \n\nBoots and Shoes, whether of leather, satin, or \n\n48 Woollen Yarn \n\n5 per cent. ad valorem. per 100 catties \n\notherwise \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, e., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nHeretofore a further charge per piece has been levied; the whole duty is now to be paid in one sum, and the further charge is abolished. \n\nClass XI-Exported Carpeting, Matting, &c. Mats of all kinds, as of straw, rattan, bamboo, \n\n&c., &c. \n\nClass XII-Exported Preserves, &c. ARTICLES, \n\nPreserved Ginger and Fruits of all kinds \n\nClass IX-Exported Fabrics of Cotton, &c. Grass Cloth, and all Cloths of hemp or linen Nankeen, and ail Cloths of Cotton (not formerly \n\nin the Tariff) \n\nSoy \n\nSugar, White and Brown. \n\nSugar Candy, all kinds \n\nTobacco, prepared and unprepared, &c., &c., of all \n\nkinds \n\nClass X-Exported Silk, Fabrics of Silk, &c. \n\nClass XIII-All that it has not been practicable herein \n\nRaw Silk, of any province \n\nCoarse or Refuse of Silk \n\nto include, are to be charged an ad valorem duty of five per cent. \n\nOrganzine of all kinds \n\nGlass, Glass ware of all kinds, formerly classed as \n\nNative crystal ware \n\nGlass beads, or False pearls \n\nARTICLES. \n\nKittysols, or paper Umbrellas \n\nMarble, Marble slabs, not formerly in Tariff Rice-Paper pictures \n\nAniseed Oil, not formerly contained in the Tariff \n\ndo. Cassia Oil \n\nPaper Fans \n\nCHINESE RE-ARRANGEMENT OF TARIFF, UNDER CLASSES OF GOODS. \n\nTITLE-Tariff of Duties to be levied at the Five Ports of Canton, &c., &c., as newly established. THE Duties which it is agreed shall be paid upon goods imported and exported by England, at the Five Ports of Customs of Canton, Foochow, Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai, are here stated in classified order. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nClass I-Exported Oilman's Stores (Oil, Wax, Alum, \n\nSulphur, &c.) \n\nAlum, .e., White Alum-formerly White Alum \n\nand Bluestone \n\nSilk and Cotton mixed Fabrics \n\nSilk Ribbon and Thread \n\nSilk and Satin Fabrics of all kinds, as crape, lute- \n\nClass XIV-Gold and Silver Coin, and Gold and \n\nSilver. Duty free. \n\nstrings, &c., &c., &c., formerly classed as silks and satins \n\nClass XV-Bricks, Tiles, and Building Materials. \n\nDuty free. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e, English List. \n\nCorresponding to No. in Alphabetical, i. e., English List. \n\nCorresponding to No. \n\nClass I-Imported Oilman's Stores, &c. \n\nin Alphabetical, i, ., \n\nEnglish List. \n\nClass IV-Imported Sundries. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nA \n\nWax, Bees Wax \n\nFlints Mother of Pearl shells \n\nRose Maloes \n\nSaltpetre, to be sold only to the licensed Agents of \n\nthe Government \n\n\" \n\nSoap \n\ndo. \n\nPearls (false), not formerly in Tariff \n\nClass V-Imported Dried Meats, &c. ARTICLES. \n\nBird's nests, 1st quality, cleaned \n\nClass II-Imported Spices and Perfumes. \n\nClass II-Exported Spices, Tea, &c. \n\nTea, (formerly divided into fine and native black, \n\nand fine and native green, Teas) \n\nGum Benzoin and Oil of ditto \n\nBird's nests, 2nd quality, good middling \n\n3rd ditto, uncleaned \n\nClass V-Exported Painter's Stores, &c. &c. \n\nSandal Wood \n\nARTICLES. \n\nBrass Leaf \n\nPepper \n\nGamboge \n\nRed Lead \n\n+ \n\nAniseed, Star \n\nMusk \n\nGlue, as fish glue, cow-skin glue, &c. Paper, Stationery \n\nAll other articles of this Class not included in the Tariff, to pay an ad valorem duty of Ten per cent. Perfumery \n\nBicho de Mar, Ist ditto, black \n\n2nd ditto, white Shark's fins, 1st ditto, white \n\n2nd ditto, black \n\nStock fish and dried fish \n\n+ \n\n5 per cent. \n\nFish Maws, not formerly in the Tariff . \n\nClass III-Exported Drugs. \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass III-Imported Drugs. \n\nClass VI-Imported Painter's Stores. \n\nCapoor Cutchery \n\nTinfoil \n\nAssafoetida \n\nCochineal. \n\nCamphor \n\nVermilion \n\nArsenic, under different Chinese names \n\nCassia \n\nPaintings (large paintings), formerly divided into \n\nlarge and small paintings \n\n} \n\nCamphor Baroos (or Malay), Ist-quality, or cleaned; formerly classed as good, and inferior, Camphor \n\nSmalts \n\nSapan Wood \n\nCassia Buds, not formerly in Tariff \n\nWhite Lead \n\n2nd quality, refuse; formerly classed as un- \n\nChina Root \n\ncleaned Camphor \n\nClass VII-Imported Woods, Canes, &c. \n\nCubebs, not formerly in Tariff \n\nARTICLES. \n\nClass VI-Exported Wares of various kinds. Bone and Horn ware \n\nCloves, 1st quality (picked) \n\nRattans \n\n2nd quality (Mother Cloves) \n\nEbony \n\nCow Bezoar \n\nGalingal \n\nHartall \n\nRhubarb \n\n\"Turmeric \n\nChina Ware, fine and coarse (formerly classed as \n\nAll other imported woods-as red wood, satin \n\nfine, coarse, native, and middling) \n\nCatch \n\nGambier \n\nCopper ware, and pewter ware \n\nwood, yellow wood, &c., not included in the Tariff, 10 per cent, ad valorem, \n\nBetel Nut. \n\nManufactures of wood, furniture \n\nIvory ware, all carved ivory work included, for- \n\nGinseng, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\nClass IV-Exported Sundries. \n\nmerly divided into ivory, and ivory Carvings \n\nLacquered ware. \n\nBangles (glass armlets) not formerly in Tariff \n\nMother of Pearl ware \n\nBamboo Screens, and Bamboo Ware. \n\nRattan ware, rattan and bamboo work \n\nCorals, Native or false coral, not formerly in \n\nTariff \n\nSandal-wood ware \n\nGold and Silver ware, formerly divided into Gold \n\nCrackers, and fireworks of all kinds (formerly \n\nware, and Silver ware \n\nclassed as rockets, &c.) \n\nTortoise-shell ware \n\n་ \n\nFans (feather fans, &c.) not formerly in the Tariff 20 \n\nLeather Trunks and Boxes \n\n2nd ditto, refuse, or Ginseng beard Gum Olibanum\". \n\nClass VIII-Imported Clocks, Watches, and Trinketry. \n\nClocks \n\nMyrrh \n\n► \n\nWatches \n\nMace, or Flower of Nutmeg \n\nMercury, or Quicksilver \n\nTelescopes \n\nNutmegs, 1st quality, or cleaned \n\nGlass panes, and glass and crystal ware of all \n\nkinds \n\n2nd \n\nditto, uncleaned \n\nPutchuck \n\nRhinoceros' Horns \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-008 - Foreign Office - 1844.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222719, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845", "content_text": "About - \n\nSot. \n\nover a \n\nescape; \n\nmouth hence. W. Wygand has juuld now be raised \n\nfever, that has \n\nhe is very \n\na \n\nberry harroway \n\nmode \n\non. \n\nany \n\nCarsus 276 by \n\nof proceeding whatever - Rupees \n\nanxious, & exposes humine how more in favor even than Dollars \n\nto the soon four too much, through his selength the (biners - they find them more profitable \n\nb \n\nengage any assistance which he can possibly do without. Ifais that I can he \n\nset \n\n021 \n\nvery \n\nmell down \n\nhopfart \n\nwell in the Office with three \n\nClerles les then Mr Coffin left \n\nAud \n\nArrear \n\nEverything is \n\nlary \n\nthe \n\n+ \n\nof business being at \n\nTeor \n\ntheen \n\nissued. \n\nand they disappear abuot I can Kinle of no way \n\nprevent this unless the Chien Government all heart Carton \n\nwere to alter their system, which \n\nis hopeless. I reckon that the Chest could be \n\ngreatly simplified & made to hold out only to the end of January, \n\nthe accounts for last month go by and I \n\ntake this opportunity. \n\nsanding off Routh to Calcutta for \n\nThe plan of receiving Sen Lacks of Rupees \n\n4-1 \n\nSet \n\nwill find \n\nJone \n\nme as Las \n\nin \n\nmy \n\nfull particulars of that to official report of it by Estimate for red \n\nTenders for Briles every Monday seaines bo verify the Extenute previously made of produce, which in \n\nthe present rate of expenditure \n\nunder \n\none thous \n\ngo \n\nthaid of and Coin infens is performing to go by next mail. I \n\nomit all the presin xpense at Churan, \n\nscarce that I do not think that more", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-014 - Public Offices - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 222856, "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": "CO129-015 - Others - 1845", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-015 - Others - 1845", "content_text": "36 in my establishment I like to bring to the Commanding Royal Engineer’s notice\n\nteam title with the Civil books and Catholic\n\nbe as at how Adopted at Kay Frig\n\nintordenati persons\n\nWhile people in rebel xible for the kindness of My days estmen\n\nahonable\n\nan\n\nMy Lieutenants my hands mount & Illing the Lucyn General survey.\n\nI be left alone in a\n\nbung Brueck Flow Plowd\n\nin sentiment hath which has given one a gone that of towns an\n\nücke\n\nseparate duties - the affects\n\nkhem Mt Loans Even\n\nfür Kui préter Fete t\n\nLover\n\nLe loss hot know how to act when\n\nکہتے ہے۔\n\nChar\n\nto Peglen in consequence of the important\n\nutes of the Surveyor General's hypoal\n\nLot in K\n\nGruent he has\n\nthe Legislation Council and though\n\nG\n\nEdelhettek.\n\nDR. JEG\n\nis fact is entitled the\n\nDine thing long still my office in Royal Engineers think & a saint in the Commit there - Just Hong Kong Le pair not only de all Cases of Crown Lands pass\n\nasto moto through by Lands (o\n\nthe & the Revenue is also paid into my\n\n& sterect into the Treasury\n\ne. The Lord\n\nCommanding Royal Engineer for he Leting Seeneger\n\nin\n\n[region] but all the\n\nmy office\n\nL\n\nK....\n\nM\n\nkhuyn\n\nLus since written permitted & pay in the Revenue the te that he had it caused teens & Submit ate que le mouth be that thom he awontolle\n\nProceeding is weaken\n\nconking he all the sum received during that Term In Region for well as for all Land Coin that they be paid,\n\nAltmate Leien\n\nthen is no shroff\n\nsustain the duties an\n\nClearly defines and\n\nand get then in\n\nKe\n\nProfessional Jamey", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-015 - Others - 1845.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223561, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "page_number": 523, "title": "CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6]", "content_text": "H \n\n10. \n\nof \n\nLot \n\nTenant \n\ndate of entry \n\ndate of payment Annual Rental \n\nI of \n\nSet \n\nFormant \n\ndake of entry \n\nJ. \n\nInland \n\nBrought forward \n\n11,568 1 112 Inland \n\n1668 Chow Acaus \n\n34 live not 1044 \n\nJune 1846 \n\n2 \n\n193 \n\nA. Scott \n\n380t Aungl. 18144 \n\n1677 162 \n\nJ J Ph \n\nid. \n\nad \n\nid. \n\n14 \n\n3 \n\n194 \n\nR. Krachan \n\n519 \n\ndate of fingmante Annual Rental: of 12th year's rent \n\nf \n\nwaght friars 11,808 4 | 4 \n\nDecbr. 1844 \n\nid \n\n41252. \n\nW \n\n34 \n\n195 \n\n169 \n\nist \n\n170 \n\nM. Haberbier \n\nid \n\nid \n\nther \n\nApping \n\nAyow \n\n26th \n\nB. Jame 1845 \n\nGrabt S43 \n\n2 \n\n4 \n\ntermeing \n\n172 \n\nHaberbier \n\nWhilver \n\nid \n\n14 11 \n\n153 \n\n196 \n\nYing. Sting Nice \n\nid \n\nid \n\nIll. Kilner \n\n17 \n\nH. 4. Foyer R. Jones \n\n612 \n\n6.30 \n\n1978 \n\n479 \n\n100 \n\nid \n\n26th 1843 \n\nB \n\nC \n\nSchu \n\nid \n\nid \n\nD. Burzorjee \n\nA. 18.444 \n\nGeet 1844 \n\n197 \n\nAikott \n\n198 \n\nR. Strachane \n\n199 \n\nA. A. Jelicianis \n\n26th bene \n\n1863 \n\n200 \n\nJJamactice \n\n$244 \n\n201 \n\nR. Strachions \n\n202 \n\n264 \n\nChing Cheong \n\n17. \n\nBuddell Whnight Ching Me Seong \n\n29th Jan 7. 18/s4s gre Dret 1864 \n\nAch. \n\n12th Dect: 1845 \n\nTime 1844. \n\nDebr. 1844 \n\n2 \n\n216 \n\n12 \n\nid \n\nid \n\nh \n\n30 \n\nad \n\n20601⁄2 \n\n66 \n\n8 \n\nid \n\n13 \n\n13 41 \n\n192 \n\nTormes Legge Algeng \n\nKimsing \n\n@ Beenjonjec 31th August War \n\n401 \n\nJung Areay Asesring Laughing Severny Jeong yes \n\nWing live \n\nW. H. Cookie \n\nVinta \n\n3.fat \n\nAny rest 1844 \n\nDeebr. 1844 \n\n182 \n\nJ.M. Kilver \n\nist \n\n183 \n\nPo Strachant \n\nis \n\n184 \n\nid \n\n185 \n\nG Strachant \n\nid \n\n186 & Goll \n\nid \n\n187 \n\nE. Hughesion \n\nid \n\n100 \n\n4. Jumsetjec \n\nad \n\n489 \n\nF. Scott \n\nid \n\n190 \n\nB. Strachan \n\njet \n\n191 \n\nQue shout. \n\n26th Janna \n\n1843 \n\nrx. \n\n2 \n\n10:2 \n\n2 \n\n205 \n\n1846 \n\nid. \n\n46137 \n\n6 \n\n206 \n\ngod Dec. 1844 \n\nDeel 1844 \n\n5116 \n\nid \n\ned \n\n182 \n\n207 \n\n-Feinglie \n\nid \n\nix \n\n99 \n\n2 \n\n3.10 4 \n\n500 Ching. Kum. Seong \n\nid \n\n7 \n\n10.2 \n\n654 \n\n209 \n\nBring th \n\n13 \n\n201 \n\nid \n\n372 \n\n213 \n\n2164 \n\n84215 \n\n216 \n\nid \n\nDeebr 1843 \n\n217 \n\n218 \n\nid \n\n3 \n\nBest 1844 \n\n1844 \n\nComedtancor. & \n\n11808 1 \n\n219 220 \n\n921 \n\nJung tie. \n\n\"d \n\nHosing \n\ntrinsing \n\nR. Kienacher \n\nAggett \n\nJohn Pope \n\nDuddell \n\nG. \n\nChon Avan \n\nBlaine A. 222 Jandetjee \n\n$184222 \n\n280. Ching hum long \n\nid \n\n17 \n\n8 \n\n16 \n\n8 \n\nid \n\n32 \n\nid \n\nid \n\n19th Geet 1845 24theft 184 \n\nLive 1846 June 1845 \n\n2nd March 1846 \n\n24th Debr. 1844 \n\nJune 18460. June 1845 \n\n30119 \n\n6744 \n\n2 \n\n- \n\n2 \n\ned. \n\nic \n\n19 \n\n1713 \n\n157 \n\n* \n\n1114 \n\n2910 \n\n271252 \n\n\" \n\nfamed forvan L. 12,487 6 0", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-016 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 223609, "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": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "page_number": 26, "title": "CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12]", "content_text": "23 Arch hd. Hawes\n\nThis is for this informath of the\n\nAug 07\n\nLent Governor\n\n15th July, 1826. Viatoria, Hongkong,\n\nH\n\n4 Melosures.\n\nNo 88.\n\nAt think Waglarstone.\n\nRectives\n\nending Got June, 1846.\n\nRetions for the quarter,\n\nFransmitting Quarterly\n\nmarter.\n\n1846.\n\nChanges in the Wolder of Office, and Offreinturentom, the offices,l Honghorns, for the demolic Cervera i Janas 14-\n\nOffice:\n\nIf promoter Joens\n\nWale of Gove\n\nby W. the he! Invity appontes another office or Get fit syratch respecting\n\nEngland, by the Goveries, dute sodiuction\n\n \n Name of the officer\n Name of the Unenty who donmerly held officer who.\n the appointment. \"Apsevierted. and daten truthon\n Salary.\n ..at Solory.\n Salary pity of ite\n and Ammuck\n korelary.\n \n \n Hon : AWW. Brave.\n How Major Wa\n \n \n Colonial Soretary.\n Gp 1000\n \n gre.\n \n \n Chief Magistrate.\n Her Majer H.Caine.\n C.18. Norther enque\n F 7200\n \n \n \n \n \n \n assistant Magistrate.\n C. B. Million Con\n DVS A\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registrar General's office\n tong Ching Chin\n Clerk to clerk of\n Councils\n officiating\n 2. Thring.\n \n \n \n \n 1. Pour boy,\n Maine\n hentary.\n Esq.\n C.G. Hold forth\n $250\n song. Lok Csume\n \n \n \n 1g. Mring lang\n of authority\n Cucina\n the the change a live tilenem árttemartes.\n Colony, résscription affpointuvials.com\n appointment.\n the\n J\n \n\nFoot: totifications Enefellagistrate. $2800210, um 18.16.\n\nVolice office\n\n18th May, 1846, 7 Chowan olen Registrar tj ls: office. son Alay, 1846.\n\nHe Bruce or half salary.\n\nGave\n\nFor it mouths at of absence on sich Gertificate | the gost love. }\n\nClon\n\ndisallowi\n\ninditor General's Affies Victoria, Haughing, 30th,\n\nSigned\n\nSili\n\nShelley.\n\n24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 224538, "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": 444, "title": "CO129-018 - Others - 1846", "content_text": "working of \n\nاور سینے میں \n\nconferred the \n\non Mr Martin, - and this \n\na mind \n\nthe \n\nmaintenance \n\nadvance its laudable objects. The \"Central Agricultural Society \"pedition \n\nThe \"Central Agricultural Society \"undation of India and the Colonies. which the landed interest was united for the protection and \n\nIt has proved a bruice of dinare pratification to Mr. Martin encouragement of Agriculture, at a period when it was threatened but his conduct abroad and at home was deemed deserving the gracious with destruction, (1835-36) had its origin mainly in his exertions, expproval of His Sovereign, William IV\", who was pleased to command the for but grass he acted : elatuitously as one of its honorary Secretaries. Cedication of the \"History of the British Colonies\" and the \"Marques He also cooperated at Honorary Secretary with the Soviety for the Wellesley's Dispatches \" . and his presentation at Court : _ and to express Notection of Domectics Industry\" which was imperistended by a Commited ; the Colonial Offere the Royal desire that he should be employed in. of twenty one members of Parliament; where of C. S. Cayley, M. P. was Chairmanghat Department of Government étating that \"This Majesty tick an interest and which had for its leading object the wrim in land, in anufactured and Grade = \n\nof all classes engaged in Mr Martin's welfare?\" Her Most Gacious Majesty Queen Victoria \n\nhas also vouchsafed Her Majesty's benign commendation of Mr. Martin's In order that he might obtain an accurate view of the fjorts for the w. lfare of his Countrys \n\nour Banking Septem, Mr Martin made a tour throughout \n\nOne of the greatest Statesmen who have shed lustit me this or England and Scotland, to the extent of 2.500 miles, during which the visited any other age (the Most Hobbes the Maryness Wellesley) has rearly every public and private Bank in the kingdoms and for suche monstgunch prized boon of his friendship he officiated as Stonotary Secutary to the \"Commercial Bank of Sonsonfrif but unavoidably egotistical detail of public services, may well The Bank of British North America\" was planned, & its preliminay be consluded by anneying Copy of a letter from the Noble Margaus succeedings were organized by Mr Martin, and other Colonial Bunted to the Secretary of State for the Colones, of which att Martin may had their origin in his advice & information . The \"Bank of Asia \" for justly feel proud, as it emanates from \n\nof the most lofty, conducting Exchange operations betwear England. India and Chika, was generous and enlightened character, and pre-eminently distin- flamed in its plan and principles by Mc Martin, and its organization was quithests for an ardent patriotismes, which for more than half \n\nbegun \n\nun and completed by him Eight thousand Shares of the balue of £100 easta century), had been officiently devoted to were subscribed for in a few days, on its first. \n\nof constitutional liberty. To the extension of christian Civilization_ six thousand Shares of equal value une applied for in \n\n\"and to the preservations and permanent prosperity of the whole These observations demonstrate that AoiMtarting labours have British Empire. not been restricted to those of a merely literary characters. He has visited several times, the manufachrring and Commercial districts of the United kingdom; - \n\n:- and since his return from the Colonies he has traversed a large part of the Continent of Europes, including Germany, Switzerland, Belpound France, be, and examined the progress of their trade and mas \n\nanufactures. M: Martin is one of the few surviving Officers of the disastions surcrying and exploring bythedition of N. M. Vessels Levers \n\nYour Lordship's uniform kindness under W. F. W. Owen, on the Coasts of Africa, and on the Shores and Hwns of the obliging attentions induce me to trouble; \n\ne you with u. \n\nyou Castern and Southern Hemispheres and for his services he received the \n\nin the success of which I am deeply intereated, from motives marked commendations of the distinguished Commander of the Squadron. of gratitude and friendship, \n\ntitude and friendship, as well as from a sense of public During the last four years M. Martin has been an action Member duty. Several respectable friends of the present Grosenment, & for Butsh India - from the same sentiments, have already expressed their concur- to procure the adoption of a, permanent - moderate settlement of the land box\" \"rence in my opinion, and have declared on angiely equal to and to promote the social and Christian improvement of one hundred Million of our fellow subjects. He has been deveral times examined \n\nBefore Committer. \n\nOur object is to dec Mr Montgomery Martin ( a gentlemen of Parliament, on financial and tincantile incasures; - and in 1840 kr was with known to \n\nwell known to your Lordships, and so the public) employed in some \"nearly three weeks under a \n\ninterrogation: Commerce & relative Station in which his eminent la lints and extraordinary industry and \n\naunounament in London, and \n\nIndia. \n\nArd \n\n\"Barr. \n\nBarracontor \n\nof the General Court of Proprietors at the Batt Inotea How whole disinterestedly assisted to obtain freedom of Commerce for British India \n\ntrick \n\nthe \n\nMy dear Lord, \n\nIn the \n\nتر موتی کی کی \n\nthe same subject- \n\nKingston House, Heightsbridge, \n\nto \n\n17th November, 1840. \n\nanal \n\nrequest. \n\nPage 438", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-018 - Others - 1846.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227199, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "page_number": 223, "title": "CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8]", "content_text": "220\n\nmade and enclosed by Mr Johnston,\n\nDir Henry Pottinger set foot on the Island labour.\n\nA leaving of Wongkong tivo to walk on one occasion before the beginning of February 1842, that is about nine months after the Island occupied and Mr Johnston had been in charge of it. It is not easy to understand how Sir Henry Pottinger could fairly come to the conclusion he did on the subject.\n\nthe 9th May c). A conclusion which he did entertain drawn.\n\nsie ĈOAer this 18/12 he did not make an inference from the sole condition.\n\nbe made when he granted Mr Johnston a Lot--wards Registered or Afterw and Numbered in due Inland Set 8o.82.\n\nFir So the times of Tor Henry Pottinger's Setter dated the 20th October, 1843, part of which has already been quoted – Mr Johnston Replied on the 8th November 1843 from Penang, leis way have, tendering this house for sale at the fixed price of Dr. 13,104. (Hong Kong currency at that time at a discount, ini begy'd that if Government preferred purchasing, to denting his house, that the Treasurer might be instructed to hand over the amount specified to his agent.\n\non his return to the Colony of Hong Kong, W. Johnston levent that the Government agent frore leis still continued to hire this house, and that lic lend boon aulled upon to pay £30 for the let of land which it stood, cure that be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-025 - Bonham - 1848 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 227830, "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": 134, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "As far as I am able to form an opinion of the general construction of the Prisons it is most defective in there being Buildings unconnected without any apparent means of maintaining adequate control or supervision .. Obviating detailed plans of the Prisons I venture to hazard a suggestion for any general improvement ..\n\nIf it were possible to connect the Buildings so as to minimise the number of Prison officers it would be a great boon .. It should be impressed on the authorities that if Prisons are associated they should be under constant and effective control and with this view it is essential that officers should not only be present with the men in the large rooms during the day but that they should sleep in each floor to prevent communication and disorder during the night .. It might be possible in the verandah in the suggested external gallery or verandahs of Gaol A to construct a small sleeping room for an officer having an inspection into the rooms ..\n\nI cannot say how far it might be suitable in such a Climate to divide the large rooms into small separate sleeping apartments one to each man (Sham Shui Po has adopted this plan at Pak Sha Wan with the best effects and they have it at Shaung Hing Ring also) to be submitted for approval .. A drawback to this plan does not appear to be space for the extension of the Prison which would probably be necessary if the rooms were divided unless the walls were of such a height as to admit of the Tiers & sleeping Berths ..\n\nWith reference to the occupation of the cells in Gaol A & B .. there are not ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229349, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "page_number": 300, "title": "CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12]", "content_text": "Inclosure. No 1 in. Despatch.\n\nN 155 of 1849.\n\n294\n\nHER MAJESTY'S SLOOP Columbine, CHOKUM, Cocon-Chinsa, 23 October, 1849.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the satisfaction to report to Your Excellency the great success of the expedition you did me the honour to place under my command. 58 Piratical Vessels, mounting about 1200 Guns, and with crews of 3000 men, have been totally destroyed by fire; and, by the blessing of God, without the loss of One life of the Officers and Men under my orders.\n\nAfter leaving Hongkong on the 8th October, I searched the Harbours of Concock, Sattei, St John's, Mong, Mance, Sungyue, and Tienpak, and proceeded to Now-chou. From information received there, I determined to proceed to Hoi-how in Hainan, inside the shoals, and through the Junk passage, for I found good pilots, and junks with 14 ft. draught going through, and we drew little more than 15 ft.; moreover Shap-ng-tsai had boasted he would go where English ships dared not follow him. This vaunt I determined to belie. We reached Hoi-how on the 13th, and found the Governor General (Ho) whom I visited at the Capital, in great fear of the Pirates, and with a most friendly feeling to the English nation. He immediately ordered a Mandarin named Wong to proceed with me, taking with him 8 War Junks, and I gave him a passage, to prevent delay, on board the Fury.\n\nOn the 16th we reached Chook-shan, which the Pirate Fleet had left 5 days before, and we found the same sad story of towns destroyed, men murdered, and women taken away, that mark his track along the Coast. We fell in with one of his look-out Vessels, which having got into shallow water, was overtaken by the Phlegethon, and destroyed by her boats under the command of Mr Simpson, 1st Officer.\n\nOn the 19th we reached Hoo-nong, his reported haunt, and found he had gone about 12 miles further, and I feared we had lost him; but that invaluable Officer Mr Daniel R. Caldwell impressed me so strongly with the correctness of his information, that I decided on a reconnaissance in the Phlegethon in spite of our shortness of fuel; and proceeding into Chokeum for that purpose, on Saturday morning the 20th, saw 37 of the fleet under weigh. From 7 until 4 P.M., like terriers at a rat-hole we hunted for the Channel. Then a pilot managed to escape from the shore. I proceeded in Phlegethon, with Fury astern, Columbine in tow, over the Bar 14 ft. (mud), and at 4.40 had the pleasure of finding all the ships warmly engaged. At 5.5 Shap-ng-tsai's Junk blew up with a tremendous crash, and at 5.30 they had ceased firing. Before 8 o'clock 27 were in flames, and the squadron in position to blockade the river.\n\nOn the 21st October, the Steamers and Boats destroyed 24 more; and nine of them gave Lieutenant George Hancock in a Paddle-box boat of Fury, assisted by Captain Moore, R.M. and Mr Close, Acting Mate, with Mr Leao, an opportunity of distinguishing himself. Two large Junks turned to bay, to defend the retreat of the rest, but Mr Hancock so handled his boat and her gun, that after an hour and twenty minutes he had beaten them from their guns, and carried them by boarding without loss, and then pursued and destroyed the other 7.\n\nMr Hancock's boldness in attacking, and correct judgment in managing this affair, are worthy of the highest praise; and Captain Moore, R.M., Mr N. N. C. Leao, a Brazilian Lieutenant, and Mr F. A. Close, Acting Mate, gave him the greatest assistance.\n\nOn Monday the 22nd, I proceeded in Phlegethon and Boats to destroy all that were left. We found that the Mandarins had destroyed 4, and we finished 2 others. The low flat islands at the mouth of the river were at times covered with men deserted from the Junks, yet afraid of the Cochin Chinese, who had assembled in great numbers to attack them. The Ships' boats and small-arm men harassed and destroyed many by constant fire of shell and grape, whilst the Cochin Chinese destroyed and captured the rest.\n\nFrom the best information it appears that the Fleet consisted of 64 Vessels of War, which may be classed as follows:-\n\n \n Class\n No.\n Guns\n Crew\n \n \n 1st\n 1\n 42\n 120\n \n \n 2d\n 16\n 28 to 34\n 75 to 80\n \n \n 3d\n 42\n 12 to 19\n 40\n \n \n 4th\n 5\n 6\n 30\n \n \n Total,\n 64\n 1224\n 3150\n \n\nOf these, 2 small of the 3d class and 4 of the 4th have escaped with Shap-ng-tsai, but without much ammunition; and the Mandarin assures me he will shortly destroy him—now an easy prey. He took with him about 400 men, so that 1700 having been killed, about 1000 more remain to be finished by the Cochin Chinese, who have already sent some prisoners to the Mandarins.\n\nI shall now proceed to Hongkong with all despatch. I have the pleasure of mentioning the exceeding good conduct of the Officers and Men during these laborious and hazardous operations. Their unanimity, willingness, and cheerfulness have made it a most pleasant service, and no plunder, rapine, or misconduct, has tarnished their honour.\n\nMajor General Wong, the Mandarin, proved himself a gallant, active, and efficient ally, and I trust his own Government may reward him for his good services. To have Commander Willcox with me, is, I feel, to have success. As a friend and an officer he is unequalled, and his ship is in such good order that I believe there is nothing he could not do. His judgment and gallantry are on an equal footing.\n\nMr Niblett of the Phlegethon has handled his ship in a bold and determined manner, and has given me every assistance. As I was frequently obliged to be in the Steamers, the command of this Sloop has devolved upon Lieutenant J. H. Bridges, Senior Lieutenant, and he conducted her in action on the 20th with much ability.\n\nLieutenant Darnell, Senior of the Fury, in command of her boats, has also rendered good service. Captain Moore of the Hastings's marines has assisted me most materially in command of that body. Lieutenant Hancock, and Mr Chambers, Acting Mate, in command of the respective detachments of Hastings's men, have given me much satisfaction, and Mr Rathbone, Midshipman of the Fury, has brought himself into notice for his zeal.\n\nI have also to notice the name of Mr Algernon Wootton, Midshipman, a most promising young Officer, who has acted as my Aide-de-Camp, and been very useful on every occasion.\n\nI have the honour to enclose a List of the Officers employed in the boats*, who I have no doubt would equally have distinguished themselves if they had had the opportunity.\n\nI enclose a Journal of my Proceedings since leaving Hongkong, together with some Hydrographical Remarks compiled by Mr Thomas Kerr, Acting Master of this sloop, which will, I trust, be of service to commerce and navigation in the Gulf of Tonquin, hitherto so little known. Mr Kerr, during all this very hazardous navigation, has proved himself a careful and judicious Officer.\n\nMr D. R. Caldwell of the Police Force has again proved his talent as a linguist, his intimate knowledge of the Chinese character, and the thorough correctness of his information. To him in a great measure our success is to be attributed.\n\nMr Soames, Master of the Hongkong Company's Steam Vessel Canton, did his work well as Pilot, as far as he was acquainted with the Coast.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble Servant,\n\nJOHN C. DALRYMPLE HAY, Commander.\n\nHis Excellency Rear Admiral Sir FRANCIS A. COLLIER, C.B., K.C.H., Commander-in-Chief, &c., &c., &c.\n\n* See next page,\n\nPage 300\n\nPage 301", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-030 - Bonham - 1849 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229567, "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": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 67, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "34\n\nOberland China Mail.\n\nYu Heica ship lontana was lurted, and driven ship Frebella Holtron was driven under the bows, in alcat two freers.\n\nto 24 Jch's Idal, aut eary all since 2 a lingkung by ring forest Ferr\n\n[No. 9, StarEBek 23, 1848.\n\nNo. 9, SurreMBER 28, 1848.]\n\nThe big neder was disrated at Miccha: Not having abserved dus dey could not long bold Maniamen adition, appearet the Cen the confidence of perse! security. Teol firogduet bis progress & perpetual care of\n\n1LENGE into its harur, ita pur! of 3: Derga\n\nange: 100 dièste fear: to be paid by\n\nAfter this no tidingen were v'y it coul what is Excellogg hoe vot biomela son when soiling bad con spred that would is the unanf the Fugle, crying away her bows and land om met de atentoon of the 24 instreated, peerde aru now more disposed to appere-tead to aut to their splendour, only seen to have\n\nCapa ett of the inter vessel wlion Acting Sergeant 8, are rander by foorest, fria the absence of petty simoyances, tad nagues to the Ambasaduc's difficulties, and w ut, and one or other mast sus, Captain Kelly and Station, haligong the ardanely intelligence czes were of cowing the same in finner thnos, objeum on the pars of the dancing. The replied that os bis burmaneter was rising, he that the bons had sund, and that he believed he but people duvet hardly were not Beyond the question of the verinamotal de la aliservert sa pre-\n\nthe ascentsy of Land Macurtuzy, Glowki they having replica the hero completely ex Patari Bodiety may have him pessozied as ately afterward thực chting of the Bugle parted,\n\nalso somon athaus uforming to it; word the and she gifted out through the passage du tine, haieta, after being in the water two hours. He many bramurai Attractions but my we\n\nnever hour of people being stacked anul rubies | Vierry of Mongella Lecordingly sent a deputa eastward van upon the beach; but on the reported that ou leaving the harbour of A Lorioen, way in a mud the Nay both got find off they stool over towards the Lens, when finding in resing the se in which the building stance.\n\ntion tooking for instructions as to the terms on A propos of that Sortety, we wonki beg to hint: which the misden siid be suffered so parroccl.\n\nbah, carrying gang fur traitoast and bulwarks. Die wind inverse very much, they run before it, The drifted the sun nac ter the Eagle, and itionately mochowed in Cheang-show lay, to occasions! visitora, dat is the resident members The WHY by the effect, that the Viceroy aliend are not resores, dut exposez rght not to Lo juvite the Russian envoy to a feast in the aura of thrown open cher enly in the few strangers the Einger, al then weyala sa performance of the nine pirsutions before a serech and bje who have joined thune; and if the lails, deste bithard-rom, ul reaching-won, are to les kejt covered with alath of Imperial Yollow. This\n\nOs phore, very few houses entirely escaped, in sup the stern would som abete nues his companions wen: de only setİvors towar bu çujoy them; and we do not leny that the sanation having wet wartly series derring\n\nthose which revived the greatest disuap were,\n\nH. the Greer's, Maye Chine', 't, aut Impala, damaged as size role, veliaus, au\n\nver\n\nTou Did Naval tree partly Wow duwa, az 1 New ichtiged\n\nRiga hauserity dust.\n\nClarge very much Ganangel.\n\nAle McKnight withewey and ik dust.\n\nAs yon fi Taeyang-svog much injusal\n\nOf Clans the worse,\n\n2.1.\n\nBars of the silk of clue Sea Hunted Hom, and Joe Hathan 'n toerenguel Jur35.\n\nCebie nape keto die Mügikonte 'n buurt Le, so we ar; batedrags.\n\nYer Paints: Cemal\n\nNatian khen to proces\n\nRolice Sculous mercoled, acil\n\nFat Feet Hasion kaudens quite uninhabitabile.\n\n--, Wong-c-ebone. Ahurdce, Stapley, sunt mood la gary village on line and, ang buwes are blot nucled.\n\nAlt wird-\n\nand also a shore. Upon Bauling in her clit a few miles in the westward Hongkong it was found that the michors tad parted. Babamong a number of Chinu bonds, where they en- the Keyland Belph were totally dismasted, but eidered themselvas paerty se. taring two loma- were got a next juorning, and towed in Camboo cables and a chain \"cable cunt. any dug too, where their eyes were discharged night a large runk ran ford et vient and books coups it is only fair that those who participate sand Gatos refsed to comply with, and an order\n\nlightly desing. The Sylph has since been of faz hauskoo cables, shortly after which the ectribute levarin die opensus. We are there. i for his return was shortly afterwards vivid. • ught into Hongkong karbone by the Steuer other parted. The clein esie was then run out fore miler glad to nedering that the Directors He had arrived at the frontier on the atlanary. Chorale, but the Zoglo is condemned.\n\n1 is whole extent (10 thoma) the end being lave it in contemplation to limit dhe tations and departed homeward, without having roacti\n\nPeking on the Ferb of Fchenary, 1866, At dayght ali shat could be seen of the Froelia stene rod the site, and secured which have liturto been so freely given, so that Robertion what: top of her mainmast, the verse stoppers, About the mainurast foll, carry- kay ng bank near the re at the ewnanec le Chung away tie taffail and gig. In its fall the sing on. The garner and four loses were must probably tussen kome of her plauka, na Curred inging to the mast, and wore savel shorty afterwards the boss was served to be by the buite of the U. s. S. Mgmatik. Tlegumer] Alling, and at lodīgast 23 ring soulled down by die report shortly alter ping from the Buyin, bead. Those on boned then got upon the acain- Captain Kelly had the pumps secoed, and friwill cost and wood stil, and funded vicar of the work. the vast was sinking. He was last seen in the Aber as they went to have loen washed away cabin, and is supposed to have gone down with one by one til early the revived--tree her. The args as voluble in, couesting of others having rear die shore, one in sup 70 cheats of Oplont, of which about 500 were which was floating by, pure on a tan, and a Jed Palve and 200 Faster minuted at little on a piece of weed how six tarded with short of hafa mim of defines, of which it is bort istane uteelcher, and on the bencla not move than two-thirds were inaned. With interved eue of their comrades, a Manilaman, the assistance of divers, about 250 chests have lying dead. On cimbing the hill, they cane slave bico recovered, and are advertised to be upay a Chine hus, the owner of which stewed them great kiminosa, in supplying them with sail by aetion.\n\nclothes and such refreshments as i la to oßen, He subgently sermnpanier ten neras the\n\nHongkong.\n\nAt Mace, the auther througlint the day was disagreeable, but the new approach at a severe Tifongs at apperheaded The Barometer flint out at which the one of rather a high curge bood at 22.08. At *. it was 2, and at midnight it felt in No Dalen nur to 28.42, after which gale moderatet, d the quicksilver ruse apidly Bus de calin was of blef duration, he about a 1. the smeared, blowing tously from W. W.N.W. About agrar ter to there was another aim of about an hour. after which the star werease, and then uns, destruction was ransed in the harbo\n\nThe de contacted, ncs blowing hand how every 20 N., Soon veering to N, NW. and W.N.W., nbsided at W.X. W. Un Tour! Toome stood at de to k dung the wight; fall at the Barometer an inch and one south.\n\nThe greatest image seems to have been so tained in the Inner Harbour, and of this we have, been dvome with an edicial reyk-\n\n11. J'ast ex\n\nBong\n\nding tanta.\n\n3 Fastige Binti\n\nFuel Bout\n\nA Bezvanger F0243.\n\n44 Terka mal scherm\n\nMonte,\n\nLe Sol Durk Game Julistee, Parhguasa laly Genergan, My Headsplanner Stagfors r', wenn daven or shan. were they still remain\n\nThe\n\nwhales Del-prist weil in sore, but qui al\n\nwith 1ng dan aga,\n\nShalang scheme Sultricks, was thewise on situ tuturing tus oll, with us! The Dokaz de vs Wivested in the Typm, a the\n\nthe Portuguese government Schooner som Face Typ Fort will de reg on imand, who were A i daggereil\n\nStruan sunk at girl the fo. Farben.\n\nBar Linches Sylph notu ies\n\nThe loss of jeals is very great, and upwards of 100 Chinese were drowned in and about the han bour; and a Chinese bat in which young ou had yet a pleasure trip was caper near the Typa, and two perished, one of what was Mr Jaues Macmurray, long known in this colmy a kuker mid re-keeper and the ether Mr Award Reds, Farrerly send me uí! the trend na\n\nTimber of homes destroyed a used\n\nNo--\n\n23 Chirgan ham. Meena,\n\n非 \"\n\nla\n\nA Wooden Trees,\n\ndumiling no the river.\n\ni\n\nThe Norjalk and Sidney were entirely dimuat ert; and the British tuig ddmor, recently arrived with 560 elests of Patna, went on shore; but her carga is uninjured, and her eyew were saved, for which they also are indebted to the boats of the Pigmort\n\nThe British bargar Ewily got on shore, but her cargy, consisting of Cotton, is understood to have received little injury.\n\nThe vessels that held on wars--the reviving hips Valeon, Ruparel, Lady Hages, Sea-horse,\n\nit they tell in with a bust on its way to The following is a list of the persons missing—\n\nStr Bathers, and his son; Acting Sergeants Nii, zeid seyr, Poses Constable Taylor, Stuffunt, chase, War- rimandarii: Pie Marie doing to tha Water Pole Flur Chinese do: There also evoke; rad & Pataguse Su\n\nShortly after the cand news rouched this place Lane, and the Sir Ilaved By The the brather of Mr Sinishers started of towards who endy vesac! Fiat moped wiiant any\n\nChang-dow, in hyes that we now of the she had two dr-hors out with rem might ince reached the land alive; ut eerises damage; | 200 fathoms of chain cable to unch.\n\nalter au msibas search, they only felt with Fight or nine Chinese parks suck, and most of\n\nthe bodies of tavo Boghshuch, to Maufammen, their crews parished, na did also titat of a smag.\n\nauda Chim boy, Baving on at my curses gling out, sonstating of upwards of 10ft man.\n\nof Chinese who had perished in the suami toading A son as daylight appeard, Capizio Gedney about; and digit be continued his search for of the wrath ordered low hans out to rene assistance, and save the lives of sanse who were the bodies of five Englishanen, one of whom was inging to the weeks, or were alwise in dugu his epluw, sed four Milsten, he was unt of perinuing. The officer on deck at fast told oratul in Gauting that brother. By Captain Gelury thus the boats esult of live paying the Chinese, lie gut graves dug, and buried; upon which he was ordered to oral for volunteer te he fell in will. When 20 of the sailas offered themselves, and\n\nmaneis boat four Cutter, the Launelt, and the Dig Assistance was offered wherever it\n\ni\n\nvy who is not a menter cam se admitted i Pls was the last Fukasay from Rusia to more flatua onun during the season. The micrip- | China, for the insists of 1898 und 1820 wore tion korever is so withing (43 per month) that undertaken prozvesndly to keep up the communica tion with Peking, but prokably net loss to barve probably the Dirustore bave themselves in wor\n\nWheelstend the country and judge of its resources. gasar to blate for at soubering among beir members about every monour visitors Macary The mission of 1890 was conducted by Timkow- of whom, iî npplied to, would radier attend ski, wie has written an interesting account of it A secret mission under Wasigen la said, on as a matter of right than of favour.\n\nIf it be consist with the rules of the Society, the authority of the Courrier Français, u have we would suggest that Anul Subscribers of a boca projecte in 1940. We know nothing of ins certain amount should be considered Members, ubjects or not; but we do know that the Chinese that Susilors of Six Dollars sield bothritis pareanptorily yelse to allow the Prins admitted to the netary privileges for Three Monchs-hira Mait, September 21.\n\nThor who have kamen Mreau in former times, and lent heen there during the last three years, tould hes appreciate, thus services of Senhor at Amal by taking un gaming stroll along the fampt load as th\n\nThe Barrier, which locks as crowind and gay, with epipages, bones, and pediatrtaux as the messican able wering place. Wirin the Ita fortnight the Barrier Gate no longer presença an obstacle to Uko pa sugu of alpinges, His Exceligney, to me, bring removes then sapestment, after vals ondeovutas 19 inless the Chinese authorities to do to.\n\nTOMARY OF KLAKTOU.\n\ncuchiko to ulscharge her cargo at any of the poets, holding that the Russian who rusticted to the provisions of the Kiaksa Trusty China Jail, Septzaiber 21.\n\nSout. -Acording to war Chipping Report, the Pa ty hat bulang and procedit to her mark of us. Was this really a The Fur Claus, ur Daviy kick for\n\nexpertovat in a Riglos gimate j\n\nEMPLOYMENT OF THE POLICE. 1x our last Overland paper we mentioned that its extent of sokucus alang de Europan Tr RUSSIAN INTERCOURSE WITH CHINA.\n\nand the quartering so large a portion of the Sta Regiment on board ship, had throws tonn We had recently (No. 188) eusion as refer to\n\nde hea on the Ceylon Riden, mu rendered acte- the state of commercial rokdions between tusse and Chim, and regretted the wart of a copy of\n\nsary the withdrawal of several of the guards, in- cudiar, koridun the Governor's and the General's, the Trony of Kiakten, by which tiny are regulat\n\ndie Treasury, the thaol, and the Navd Storak Tus ward has now been supplied by the\n\nThe last dire ars enlicited is the paboe, au vas kiostuces uľa friend, to whom we ar indebted for dgnificant addition to which force has been a French vorsion, nade from the caiga! Mustised from wavy different materials. chon, of the Treacy in question, which wo now pablish, accompanied to an Bagish translation†othes, for, while a guard of five disciplined sul- opinion of them, unwever, must be entertained by\n\nIt is curious and important, as leing ila\n\ndiers was tonerly considered accessly for the\n\nA better\n\nfuar days, during with a discovered alugekar | by China with an European sete en termo estive polieva is a destand suficient.\n\noldest axising Treaty of Corammere entered tuto protection of the Naval Stover, a less mumber of equality; in that of 1689, the result of p longed negotiations, trade i enly incidentally re- ferro to, and restrissed to duss who have port, by which it gara, dey come with pu missir.\" whale the poornble sets forth in objects he \"in order to repress the insoleace vi vortan oven, who, paving beyond the brands of their kudis & innt, rubled, muriced, and amitted other outrages; as also for settling the bouls between the two Expires of China and Russia and in short, to caraldish an everlasting Collectors of this sessie, for which, it le po good understanding,\"\n\nMy Smities the public have met annat efficient officer, whoar zeal ant activity were an\n\nnitting. Als espemeure Lad been sepiped' seed cry, and upards of ty during Twenty years' service in the London Folion (Chinese and foreigners) were saved but\n\nwhich Boty he was selectal as the most likely man to zesiel Ale May in parkening the duties [hers in a satisfactory manner; and to lús exer\n\nof the ships dechued the proffered aid from dread of salvagn, which book flies never bocu dreams of\n\nby Captain Gedney, who seems to leave tons may be atted is no sul degree, the actuated by the sings desire of alding me inery life and property enjoyed by the rest distress. We do not see however why he should des since la arival in de colong the pure not clima salvage, wyecially in cases where is services were asked for after being offered gradace of his experiors, as well as the exterm ago. Mr Staithere merited and concerned the surtously,\n\nand respect of those ter him, Chine Mul, September 7.\n\nà correspondent of the Friend of Clawn, speak\n\ning of the exertions made by the Captains of the receiving Ships, says,\n\nLOSS OF BIA KARIN CRISP,\n\ntee of site trupes any an art www.deThe Bruna Brett, foore Sway River, arrived on\n\nTeff donors sens byrgja un grabs, too notwithstarglice\n\nfatizante, and the weder a bear tailneny do the windvoe\n\nsudo cpirlity of Cantato di the pen for the actra anty vhcob te exercises in rareuing several 4.'hommen Sein the mrzechy, màn pebernian woki have mal wall unitary gras 19\"\n\nif we cannot be spared, it is high time the Ciel of the Face should imitals the Chief nf the Governcient al of the Military, by dispensing with the services of du en adring bu what is absolutely indispensable. We have for sonun sime past olaserved, whitt now forces itself move particularly an sur unties, that policemen are enpleed in collecting de Foam Tax, other. wise called the Police Rute. Mr May, it seen. and a clerk in die Land Offer, are wondínally the\n\nFused, des are said; bath we are not ware that\n\nEnt if these men are\n\nThis Treaty did not redound to the cruilit! tenet of county, and 6. wus was of greater im of Numa, which gava op its labos a large the work them,\"\n\nobjects for which it had waged a border way for portaus, the concord of wat niver Acur—\n\nny years.\n\nthey are thorized to soy Peter Constabl,-5\n\nto be employed, let them in the first place be pait for it, and the balance of the allowances apar plied to oviding additional privezomst to make As an accompaniment to the present Treas, the complement of efficient -Chime\n\nMetik, Argan 91. a brief way of the several Embossies from\n\nwe are kidly ludebe\n\nhero sta arge in the Colenia) Arcanul of 475 for a utile. Wo run only allons he ungod the Asta de la Société Quientale,\" and \"Mailia, mgh for the sales and the moment of paire portons be endre duty, thonga keperant, dies quite Hire Générale de la Chine.\"\n\ntamen to somiai hau da poncinały suchu ale at tight be The First Embassy Dog Kawia to the cut after to ache wit of au nd-mane and wider\n\npaid service. Peling, was in 1656, and nd for its nisject to\n\nif the night wadetronom zoop to buze kazn establish freedom et romaneres between two very inuet extended Poly, and moperly reg sen Fomin lea The Emperor (Slam elf diverted died less secure by jd n which we burn that a Store in de gaten of the sewu wan endotel last night--\n\nthe 16th, having picked up and brought to Hong kong the remainder of the crew of the large Sarah Crisp, which vegal wok fire 999) was afte mards cupstadt in lab. 10.56 Ny lưng, 114 20 By in her passage from Meulachi to Hongkong, with This strened with pepeks of 40ing ants and vargu ♬ Teuk ümber. The master and then i thas the Barcsinus slichki be seated with Low; the glass basing Gut this tee rentiss\n\nwere Be days on the wreek, with scarcely and and hedgaard placed over dur use appro- broken glas of a window a spot the Bevera provisions, and only a very litate rain water.\n\ned in with livin Thirteen of their wi ber perished-Chine Milied wirever they went-attenti hich\n\nsqetulla vigouJS September 14.\n\nAnd fartier aids,—\n\nown\n\nJurica, ned etary of the soles opposite to the slapping, belongiora izbe Capens the receiving tops, we d. It was a meat fearfu! and destructive Taifong \"\n\nWang At night the loner cheya waka sad) and heavy, with a great carry Hying fast in At 9 P.A blowing fresh, the upper sustum, with heavy gusts having a tendency eastward; nypesete' Vib A 11, 20.29. 28. 26.00 envy guns, with much rain and locked lighting. At 4, bluing a gale, with heavy rain-\n\nThe gardens bare safired grsally, During Thaesday and Friday to Brile alumn was felt the Goveitor of Macao, wiw And xal ou iu tue murang accompanied by a party. of ladies and gentlemen, on a plenos ip t the Nine Jaluids, as he did not retor that night, great fes were entertained for his safety, which were considerably augmented when, atte the storm hal moderated next day, there was still no appearance of diy bacellency in the course ofthe evening, after every sumaisu bad been exhausted, the party was descried in the Tana Fur, and before sightful they Innded anfuy from a Chinese hat. It was then explained, having made this sitempt to ever for Niine fatit they had to give it up after one or two moke; bui the boas being crable to eat the Playa Grates by blowing very heavy: Syupesameter 28.LU proceeded Typa, and the party buton at the Arieving hanler. At 1 29.20. A 12 Fort, where the whole of that day and the next 3.86 wind of moderate, guate oven were spent. They suppose the marions of the has it have been observed; but whetherally or not, it was hoposible to luvu made Macao The following Barometrical observatione, male during the storia, duure been obligingly placed at our dispost\n\nentil Friday sitewioon.\n\nFull advise the Barometre at Negão devise the Tangler Fist Agment, 1848 (The Instrumen during fine sather range from 133.)\n\nWied M\n\n2.35\n\n30.40\n\n1st Sept. 1. A.S\n\n130\n\n2.70\n\nThe Wind wuddenly calmed and the rule stopped.\n\n..\n\nIt wind\n\nDar still\n\n\"\n\nPreus ombe WAR do\n\nno wid Bar beglas LO LÁSC\n\nizrini.er et\n\n4.2\n\nSt galt fra the agni and\n\n425\n\nFar.\n\nBar\n\nOxle Icing and mucis vain,\n\n0.00\n\n2.in\n\n8,00\n\n$50\n\nx\n\nAnd mate cra.W\n\nWind\n\nGale mateù.\n\n59\n\n96.00\n\n08\n\nA CEM-33 N-Woon, the Taitoong ennineneed nu\n\n... the wind blowing from the North. The\n\nkların senas be have been at its light about day-\n\nlight, when the barometer had led to\n\nDuring the interval the wind shifted, but we have:\n\nnot ablained very precise information on the poin\n\nwada E.N.E. at 7, wind chopped sound te\n\nShipping, dongh a great many China are were The storm dora pet seem to live injured time destroyed, and the annoyed list shown that the\n\nhop onts uffered considerably : --\n\nLORD PALMERSTON'S DESPATCH ON ME ALCOCK AND THE TSING-POO AFFAIR, ¦\n\nSom cariosity has saturally been felt regueding the views for blajesty's Government wean tuin af Mr Alene vaares in relation to the\n\nBish\n\npeal to them, by wlisan dey were to be necan! Regularly the\n\nMANUFACTURM AND SALE OF GUNPOWDER\n\nSome months go, (China Mail, No. 165,) we had upension to rall ́atibution to the danger to which Cho Hinges were exposed from the existenca u Gunpowder mactories in dwelling-konses t public doughfare, and have been in hope that the foots then pihiced would had to better enforcement of the existing law, which we een erived to be seiflcient to aneac uie avil and ti\n\nwould probably have been willingy dispeased with. As a preliminary to negotiatioon, ja ww required and the Fussian monarch should te acknowledged on the vassal of China, and the presents had sent accepted as telate. To these conditions the Russian Ambassador would not accede, and he was therrione compelled to return one without having recomplished my Tring-pon affair, at as the local Government bas, thing, except to find us the kanpaior of China tol thought fes untie any nanou vennent en the. i was regarded as the supreme ruter of all the bjers were glad to have it in car power stations of the world. Niculoff, who was the et andereal dat Lori Palmersking in Peking steel to the Entele Minion, sintes et incline to think so, along it tach otherwe conademtion all the circumstances of the Êuse\"\n\nit was not bear the Rusiasts to know appoured to our Legislative Come we have as lid veleve him, approves of the subsfactory Jedge Dir ozuvchi to be the vassal China, ¦ debuutis special Ordîmenes to be called for. D sorbentent faitair which, in tess able hauls, that they were not received, bat beeze they der its provisions Gangwader is no longer to he might have taveled the country in enviours dif- wonisl not submit to the ceremony of invostituré, ¦ manufactored within iso mdes of the town of fenities at wala dins his Lordship does fall which lever amounted to the same thing, as Vietoria, ner within half a mile of any publicad justice to the fitness and address with which that would is offers luss boon the acknowledge and tus person is to keep in store over Twú Me Alesek cried out his mesures, he gives\n\nment of vassalage or dependence.\n\nPounds, if dre same bë not juported frota no enphatic warning against the presend uscep tional rasa long regarded as a pendent; and takes occasions to enjoin nou v Alevel and alt sher Consula a atriz maternity to the regula¦ tions laid down for their guidanc in such mati\n\nAs we have all along expressed, and still cut- unin, Coplas vegassing the soundices of the policy AL CANTON, the gale commented about 10 eu du posted by Mr Alevel, under all the circum- and inversed in Vistence ti è nes mcg stances of the case we um the move ceny to when it was at its height. Judang by the hammer the decision of iler Majesty's Goren urter, which did not felt below 1.16, the storms, which, qualified though it be, het begaly does it seem to have imen su violenta a Hongifig to the Cousal hins it, and satisfactory Roug, facau, and Can-slag moon; throgh of to the an eiled in his views.\n\nWith ward to the daree wv.rand emplahunta, course in the crowded river there was a fifni\n\nDr Salle, C.\n\nDe Se mye, in the outside di tut, and otherwise bach damage, buying dritted from her mooringa. Di Lowers, Instander, and house merried away. Di kryes, drilled bee tasks up the river-Gamaged. Il not a Tales's, she shigde of the lauqunuðir evening di the horried Lady.\n\nMoczny Cars walkinget! moms whin saving autern of\n\nthe s\n\nfor an extinto of\n\nbut we are mislite told not, inking for granted they had not Juss of tc at her, some accomɔis stating seeded the jucevrild Andel, noverthekas re numbers who perished at hundreds and others qrices of the Court to impress pha, and Diss. de ferter witten en the uning of possil who make ecurions into the couple ne sürer:ful, a whole the bases atmost dranspection the Ter describes de sorme. rerer being covered with the wrecks of the fragile: Seeing the conquences which many Row from Hower-one and smak raft, gust numbers of gorance, mismanagement, or was of presence mind, is the event of getting involved in al ! whitel were dashed to picces by the large jaaks,\n\nwhich, after being funest frein their crings, offray at a distance from the consults--flow were driven Fariously long by die wind and side, eff. September 1. destroying evore thing dat same in their way.\n\nSeveral Chinese sal wells in espised status were blown down, and die ravages the ardre were considerable; but upon the I whale we consider Canton we net exposed to the strength of the ilong The tide overflowed the gurdim, but it was not so high as has been ch served in June Poods.\n\nf the beautiful private Cutters on the riven\n\nMACAO, AND ITS SOCUZZTV.\n\n\"DA MAC,\" a venerable friend, scavely moro velebrated as do Arish than for his son- versational power, terms due tols cits, has boot\n\nHugh, le ofer fastall partitimere, quite as many of his visitors are been pleasure-seekers as patients. But to both he prescribes with\n\nThe Spend Baubossy, under. Thondure Alesies ¦ Burg viez biolowin, arrived'st Peking in Läië, dering the vigs of the Fanperor Kangels, and bad sor da sele objeen the settleman of the Frontier us\n\nhas been ready mentione\n\nThis is limiting, not extending the law of Eng land, to which such an exception as the one above quoted is unknown, and might navor to have been ikuntaven here The Governor and Compil The Third Mintas, under labente tilta, ar cannot surely be aware that in the event els dive rived at Peking in November. 1893, after a accidenta) explosion, much more danger is 14 journey through\" Siberia and Tartary of eighteen he sporel rozled frina stocks of ingrated Gwapo. months. Theobieta of the Early were chiefly der heid by inbriidal Lauropods within deci egnanc veini, hot it does ant appear to have con premises, than from all the rest pat together nail saceful, atthough lebeauty, in his out of his thus the erection of a magazine the engulary Embassy, alleges that i was received with the reception of such socks is quite as unich edled ceremonial observed in Faron; and tips, lactonday a rostrictions in Chinest dealer of unpasiting his credentials upo Teie nu\n\nthe sain of Cheapgwder, however, is a d'fferent sely prepared, he placed them upon the Thurs, affair from its juannfectare 5 anal while the fortune fuck in the presence at the Papazior. fun, it i shod be subject to regalation: whjel. have been rempehulde that this convession on a pubist of proved to be efficiout at home and in other onde creamy annust have been the only advantage ties, dus katur me rougie, ought to have ben gained by the Aubondo\n\nentively praibited in Sin claid. For thoug The Fourth Embassy was that of Tanneuff in sibi pejnice to see uny Manel of honest in 1720, rendered famous, wat so much by its edustry eneralaged, the manukastaro of Gaga, Helens bet ne wader that cargory. Blig cessful tits, an by dia ndanivable seront of is given by John Bell of Autamm, the calcied as selgively by despernes, who attendat, and in das Jaune Lange, she Secay of the mission, who continued as c'e sident at Peking he nearly two youn, mit the clear at the lung and enlightened wign of Rasghi. The boy was that ' Windlielawitele, deepatolod in the fast year of the reign of the\n\nbe permitted to eres powder skif day could suffered to live- Trey come here neause hidhurts they sta Teen Interfere with, and their only must Jove on pinggir, f. test encourages thus fordel to such\n\nsacation\n\nit ngre than: csual request during this summer, Kaspress Catherine of Russia Alter arranging to rework to Hongkong has been even\n\nthe important renty of Klakin, tue Araneador dost expo, in luch for proceed to Peking, where he arrived a 1728, on useless Aves love one bor during the reigns of Yungeling of China and Indeed, Int for sub wings, j\n\nwould either lave Lego enforcod, w not one has to us ape, an the foll equal succus aforeing cool litoses ant pleasrat Peter 11. of Resia, Five grani saptansy, an\n\ndrives by the one, and picnics, escais en fact Mandarins with &maneens actingo made\n\non busine, and evening guities, for the easy 8 Porskega precelent promegalo\n\nPo many of these sufrentages, we need which has not keen since followed with Tires, or waverly say the community is indebted to the any other emetry Pent invernor, who has done nence for the\n\ning zomeration will shew:-\n\nat song-The thing and Dragon alterated, and\n\nCynha 15 pic\n\nAt My act sand, the Mrytower distanzzed,\n\nwid tying \"gh and dry the Na Tu Ajda\n\nJost.\n\nA Cupha-singe (moza- Tire Fille and Wizard illam na\n\n-\n\nLOSS OF THE GUNBOAT.\n\nNEATH OF JASPROTON SEPTHERS AND OTHELS.\n\ntruly\n\nThe extent of damage sustained was very as the morning of the Stat sits, the Unit\n\nand the following notes on the subject we gire with a minber of convalescent police on board der charge of Mr Smithers, the Juspoetoe, MAS\n\nnearly no sent to us --\n\nPs in\n\nDu several important respteis l'it's That now a not some ti The Sixth fanbasar was that of Ripolall, who i view or whieht at any rate onght o place in is adversity. Ihan ever did any rifle i obtained an audience, it is said, sulanising to view-unless indeed in Colonial predecessors 10 ils ont jalmy days of pusties pertueen the Katow, but wilhant offeesing the exercise of the extenordaang diserta\n\neununercial objects of his roission. The Seven sabagay was that of Golowkin in the dv The ever you of\n\nIn allting in the Brasty of Macas, the paluations, to calls balvined, glet to be specially mentiunt. Touto ata ai preseus, or were the early part of the ani, de the\n\nToner, Spankh Planetertiary, and a Fronti Fury, with Cursule me than we can read an e Dean he English Plenipostiary,min_lies a\n\nuse dister of the Feuvinte, sa American Cor\n\nDuring the night evarul vessels drifted and especcited for a craizo round the istamil, on this which is was exportal wou's bars whim how\n\ncame into collision. After midnight the receiving otarial Socommendation that the Bish\n\nTo will be obterved that chuse obstactone on the should have the best of a charge of suiche Liesonant Governus uf 31- p-wan, and sailed again with a light breeze\n\nileenses\" altoptike.\"\n\n\"sebeze\n\nin the ma\n\ncharitie\n\n-, the reizas the Emporero Alexciler, fran: the recriptines of persalis stungileen mission that had ever bun des plients For the ren pooried to Peking; but sinc\n\nof Busula nel saking of China. This w19 bo not Legalistet is to donor dues per\n\n赤\n\nsumbuking aswynesia of Tronne.ill ebjost je ks halding such stents passiesin\n\njudividual, which, scised at they give in\n\n1 In Chan, No. 188, S. 21, weekly in 199 Ten- Sha, the Fon of sitario? Man Ven sing, or Buup, and foun her of the rest synasty not act hisa only the world.\"\n\ncourse of the wind, da cut eailedly euincila theAtner of the saine day Ge uscitared at Shark- sudicions se form a Cangram, whom the athias of me praming the throne, pro kammed Taspirar.\n\nTabia given below\n\nCentor wenid jeubsidy bo prisely Discusand an al resin in any Capital et 11: Cot head of Furie\n\nupon perusal olservation, uni ühte wor\n\nfinal through the agency ten, m25 20-7\n\nIt is the is at Kochant, we\n\n· 1971, 1\n\ncards fure, is lonistkeen it plicare te doliches.\n\nin eating amoy of what ought und dụ kun silent to exist at all, and whien, wa shwarve, fo not intended to augment the rovare of the Colony-Chine Mof, September 7.\n\nCONVOY.\n\nExpetency jy is per\n\nOverland China Mail.\n\njust in from the falls of the rat preling that this general law for th wiale of tissement\n\nCina Proper is slightly modified in its total ap war how more nei cerk of such force, that day ¡iorura su i vestonelladry by all an is of whatrasver d plication, Me Mews illustrates this vi\n\negy mi ar se ruployment of conveyn, the legelg\n\nFATE OF 1. & M. RUSTOMJER & Che\n\nby wklition to the Brig Cursair, which was toll\n\nJ\n\n70\n\n::\n\nDIEN-UNION 50%, took al 24:43 werly at 56 and upwards un teu- Kaunas Krag-- imer's rws all out the heavy ring Eply, when prices docu materialy. To day rates o. Patirt\n\nHere 406, wild where acllers than balbers\n\nKXPORTS\n\nCeston Instruti Ciapunyih mom the sme[aprovement in the\n\nhis subjurt by ample references to a Ciness work for $100, the flowing Shares Volonging to the (wat deel is to allow twich of authority, titled The Provisional orkestate of D. & M. Rustomjee & Company were\n\nwestriery under, both faz suctions and Regulations of a Proviner of a disposed of by the nation today abel for low casetion ece which may in fa\n\nenglished so recently as 1848, by the chief- un\n\nFun Sannes sha Cufon. Inntrare tiompany of infracluf time owns and mastery flamebox, mathorities of that province. These extracts\n\n10 per cent premium and tre estos interester, LELS Kacolle love sug this throw ach light on the uusi interesting bench desene, which will be posted! as the mural places “\n\nof the say, which well deserves the rive -Chimes #au, September 7.\n\neversideration of states Gugland, who will\n\nworkable all fair the as of they now presed conferring tenant-right on the calvat, ame\n\nNa 130 le pon them by patriotic theoriska. tual remedy for the exits of Ireland costki he de- vel ban for one government to carry out the branch of their sales, which was to able ma to dent with wasto and neglected property in that\n\nTw\n\nhere fud a pin for rendaiting waste lands, al pail thurell\n\nANOTHER OU PRAGE COMMITTED BY A\n\nis offering some remarks upon the Convays of the Chinese juides, (Chion Mus!, No. 173, June 1,) we addvevd several instaneca of \"acts of prescimaudite Begality denounced in a recent Proclamation of Z de Plenipotenary, one of them referring to the master at a Porlangese lorelki, why wa presume, is also the hero of the following narra Live:-\n\n\"About the middle of July, (the 18th) an Italian, belonging to Macan, and Jean Baptison Balilo, tetas constituting into the highest mastup of the Paringaese force No. 30, explayed watch a despot cand inwow. Those to convos jauks between-cow-food made the greatest progress in Riversture, and scout-5, ut non allow it to be altivated and men were considered mnat slig ble for office, who\n\npo, appeared at the Purelor consulate vi ledge\n\nPURCHASED RANK IN CHINA. The Chinese Goverment, instead of promoting a privilege clasee of tukility to permanent rank In the site on arennat of Bluetions Ules, vol.\n\nexpected that individuals should toil for years\n\nàomplaint against the inhabitants of Kwen-toll, hy competition proved titis, it could not be aired in the same way on is done in ('am.\n\nin to try study of Chore liceatus, without property by reclatning uticalitate! But, in very\n\nTrouble.\n\nThere the low as to the aequsition of landed\n\nin the ontkowy de lintin Steam Facket\n\nC\n\n150\n\nTXA-site for tongue was exceedingly dul uncil arest of the Sunior, since wichtige zon. rection has taken place, and to shop ch 1ied as the above the current ratca of last one: This may be or\n\nt, comeined whth the boroflu despatch. The quits of pa estined left. I shout, 100, wo-thirds being Tichows DA Meaiad, the balan Kaira sd Singhs- dexiptons Quotations dr Tachish tear and Moning te 10 a 20 tele: flows 135; ha\n\nand Simbakes at 13 a 17 Of old Tetings taken at 12 Cuk; 14 or 5 semai Kavel un chens mettle at 2450 ls, Ib yai seld. Flowery Pekoe mkages add a 31 62\n\nChange Plus 18\n\nestad Teas sins of its passtee\n\n22 1\n\nir cominal; good to superfue at a 39: F owns Cuper, 2000 trazity boxes ady tacks, Plain Orange Pease and Caper, Su bar choes of the Serie America & I tela D' the later one chra 850 Le racy texes bas sen\n\n[ k sh bag to market whi\n\n14 cacle to or key, (71) Ning Yongs, V., the market pretty firm, though Rostams roths easier 12 have been sub ted to; and toned, there accros but lile Joues that the Tesation will coat lower prices: full supply it is thought will come forward. The quantity id this month 100 packages Ankel\n\n1213 acis in Yors and Kaleo teas 23 in for the rond Reversion of slegs 20\n\n10\n\n--China Mail, Beptoraker 21\n\nNEWS OF TE DAY. a village about swenty mais distant from Fon- (Chiefly from the Peking Gazais. } chow\n\nHe stated that on the Cay previous, bis forcha oking for sine rantation for their insan iborat. The calvatur pays nothing for it, and is ordered to give in a daily report th\n\nCANTON, By ew owlinance, every innkeeper the mraugy being anchored off the village, six of his Chinese\n\nWhilst this arrangement therebre en is even allowed to enjoy the profice of the set! for who lodge with him, specifying their empley and er went on shore to make parehases, taking sure to lend me employmen, in the publisters of years, before he is called u to entzia oder irticas. is regulation is pro- with Gora alone 10 or 12 dollars. Upon tour service, it kept alive as emulation to become\n\nbute to the revenue of the country i land tax, pusty enforend, it will greatly assist in driving ing payoent for what they bough, the villagers acquainted with the works of the ancients, there\n\nthe sanates as proprietors who have inherited away the vagabonds a rulliane from the pace. refused to take die dollura, alleging they did not pecorating cute principles, and supporting or purchased their lands. Those who have fee rabbers have tasty so funch increased, inat\n\nGeir systara as du malterable isis of society know their proper value. This gave occasion to\n\ncursions up antea river many have obsered the Prefect has called apn the intubilants to and upwards is rugam The lock of all kinds, The descevi. angry works, and a soulle onseed, get up, Baliclo well as of wininistration.\n\nmirers of marsh and on allevial banks in the ranize a system of self-protection. professed to believe, for the purpose of sing the meritoriyas hearins night however likewis\n\ncourse of being galed from the river-passages avilnes. His men had the worst of the tray, but share in the higher expoluments; while tho\n\n1c96 Sea, the new governor, has been raised five Bribordinate oiliers were fille by met wito head\n\nin the manner saertoned by these laws.\n\nBras and recorded three times, for having sent a two of them crespol and reported the cimum- Rent in Me and Youniaga wil and fellow. The next division of Mr Meadows paper patriotic contribution of 10.00 trucks to relieve stanede in their clamander telling him that their peut greater part of their lives in uflicial describes that tear by which the win,\" compsations were in imminent danger. Upon this, Altre high and intial situation, he prople, as distinguished in the marine of that wines.\n\nthe starring people of Ho-nas, he being native Balioto armed himgoit with a musket and beams? with how exceptions in favour of the Manschoos, and soldiers, hold the great bulk of the real pro- were awarded to use who had proved themselves pert contains in the eighteen prices of sued a very severe proclamation age: the while provincial judge of Kwang-tung to the stove, where, ou attempting to land, he was asle by the villagers with kuihoos, swurde,\n\nman of antiving dingence and folid sequiremen China Proper.\" This, At Meadows kas maradile estem of drowning turale auss, and and swach. I order so intimidate the crowd, be\n\nin librature. Suli was the theory-China w\n\nIt is very simple, the thened to visit the perpetrators of suen deals be ruled by scholars and savaA. sired over their heads, hat din fablog to produce\n\nFran this fundamental principle, a great devices sulely, of the payment of an anausia, modered a sun or grandson.\n\ndeaus caning chiefly, and is the studio pass with the atmost penalty of the law, ta if they had the desired effect, he tool: aim and fired a scom time, but cute not say whether or not the ahotiation is now made, thu consequences of which and of fees or alisaation; the latter being of Chung, the ngistrate, ins issued several pie mast sooner or lator clage the wile face of the course only payable when the property is first bitious against kidnapping and syliig children, kiled or woude any one. He however contriv\n\n\"Common Tenure.\"\n\nconsisting\n\nBuy\n\nonly transactions have been to Centon\n\ngisters of up wet, ht 200 15.2% ai Neb\n\nF of one sisell dip of the new Tanging bare ben HAWTc possa care, Tries about 200 bales, eldar Sig for os, and not frow I'm a bake, held a The prices of to have advanced in need of a parsint is in the cup-we jote No. 1, 2918:2, 2304; 3, 13:2\n\nSeo-See No 1. S down to 15 for o Caverjar Candy 69507935\n\nIn other Export cling toug EXQUANGE\n\nfl. Loxtos, utlening. A l'ew go\n\n2019 at 6 th\n\nsich have bags dizel of of 4/1 4/2.\n\nO Ia Compay sacepusil, 213 214. f.co, 21983. Stue, & per cent. FREIGHT.\n\nTo fato, ekipe abundant a £4 Ta PosIDAY, 20 cente per pic for dead weight\n\nFONGRONG. ORIENTAL BANK BATES OF EXCHANGE OR LAND, & mor thự sight 3,144\n\nÚALGUTT Rd Pharma S days sight 216\n\nપ્રા.\n\ny\n\nZHANGHAL MARKET.\n\net tu carape to his niche clong with his men, to entry, si produce radical location in the bined. Els from the local mandamas ro\n\nthe worst description llave trade. à regaine whom were Roverely wanted; and upon his Gevnument. For talent, money bas gradually garding this x are occasionally alfabed in\n\nteath of this kind is carried on to a great extent. been baituted, and aportan appointments This Mural under the head of Chinese Dar- arrival at Fou-buw, having no representative of his own country to apply to, he tartrated the fall to the bigest bidder; wealth is now more responden\n\npowerlini han birth and nesor listments, and British Culto take down his statement, in\n\nMr Meadows then proceeds to Alienation.\n\nKris-To prevent inroads in their country, order to meet any entry cue that might after- the custrine of the realm will beneforth be a being the dard and last of sin divisions of the Kircus duserted the whole aorth western warda be mule où, the part of the Chinese, plutary. The transition has been graded at Busjesz. It is, however, ut conectand is the trac: which borders spet Matcheria. The\n\nSucks Batiola's account of the atlair; but\n\nfirst randored absolutely necessary by the s\n\nChinese government appears aarious to meet writer's remarin on this point he wishes of the reclase people, by prohibiting present all of a drycription of the end of of the exchequer. Office were sold, fav lirought farther information gave a very different aspect\n\na rury kuge sum into the treasury: The reven both to its origin and to the part acted by himself.\n\nSale, of which a translation as well as facsimile is\n\nvagabonds from multivaning the land, se squatters failed, stone were disgond of for money to The Chinese Disicist blagistrate, having learned fill my the deficit; in case of an exigeasy, cucharist document giver by the seller, specifying bees on the barren wille, to cultivate the virgin on the frontiers Buder these the poor Shin-se given. Il consists of two parts; the fret, a mn- that he had been at the Comsalute, caine hærs to\n\npantry are comprehender, who leave their war, irodatiet, or starvation, the Guvertacus the causes of the sale, the nature of the property, wil of Kirs. They are however too explain that Balida and his red were sinne to blame, and therefore begged that he might be had rose to the sale of res; unier all and the terms of the ugreement; the second, and persevering to be replied by mere prohi- desained until tail investigation was nizde. The\n\nfinancial difficulties, this was the grand panaces. printed form attached to the other by the logissey enactments. There is auther ordinanc In the course of time the system has buen esta magisarate. It is this, with the official sela in wien forbids them to clear the wil na the Consol gave vie Magistato understand Cazzi lio\n\nblishing, a detailed list of regulations is a pressed on the two at gives legal validity a border Fast of Kirin and Le-awa-tong. The had no power tu da ho, as none of the parties ty Paated wors Buitish subjects; but he agreed to\n\nput forward, assigning to the Mandarins by pur the transaction. The two together,\" says Mr Jatter district, though the patrimony of the vding Send for Haltolo, who came and repeated his evner\n\nchase their proper position. The rules fil an teadowform the only Title Feed Tegally no lauteten dynasty, is now untirely in the possessi Patire Pekin Gazette, red if carried out to the scary of tus property careyed by the hat of Clingsu agriculturists. These Be injuctions will ary. Next day the Curse Magistrate reburned the Consulate, charged with a palis meusage\n\nlester, will undermine tin whole theory of Gea facite sourity against depute, the per-probably rogain and letter, as great masse goods are quoted at 7915 a 25- from his super love. w leg of Mc Jackson to i-\n\nvernment. The rh the cational examinations chaser usually demands fies the salter the end of string human being pour mainly into th shillarity; but dat gentleman could\n\nfor singling out talent tor da publie acyvize stil of Sale executer when the property was eca only repeat Must as British Causul lie was proclud-\n\nexist, and though men who have distinguished themselves are promoted even to this day, yswners frequently, these ne fe set of dende in into a garden. At the splitting of the Magistrate, ha vever, he consented to take down the evidence enflected by\n\nas oficial, which vets to this eff\n\nalloy is the most powerful lever a lift them and winoul it die most perfert scholar way never\n\nTrain clerkship.\n\nIt is not exactly a new mode, having been o\n\nall had resurse win gases of ergency; be in so farmer period of Chiuess history was it\n\nAz ailway took place at a village cubed. Kwon- Ton, which is situated arear the sater's edge, and beg oly a sides distance from the opŕuni ships, is lequently visited by their evos Buzopositaet ever reduced to so complete a system: as at the are therefore conman visitors, and the pressure prosent day, Any hedy may purchase in the pened no selvation or unfriendly feciagnitaries, sud the mat inworthy strive for the was unlikely, therefore, thing the viitagern would, gliest distretiens Men of scobity have e\n\nmustrated against such prcecodinga, asachvers ve withnet, offer helt stilo resis of all gust dreymeal, and introducing\n\nthus often collected in the bands of the existing propriewe.\"\n\napite of the government, soon change the dai\n\n(September 6, 1648) INYOHTS BAS STINGS- the let alinan the Asian have coon about 30.900 ! OLO im.\n\n25,000 piss Frith Their presun salud 20.500\n\n28705\n\nfo 67 catly Grays, and 22905 be good ident\n\nWhite.\n\nA xvs-- Of Datinge 9,000! prears of sũ yửa, goods as a sold this man se 1995, 2b. hase were sold, 2018 153 easy Sheet picers still fee light gouds, vod 250 2520 for the heavy . The demand fully suplied for the present.\n\nCoron Yaxs-Has been Rold lately to some extent, it being used with Silk for manufaccúm of a\n\n3ve us Nos. 184 SI Ave Lezght falvi tor\n\nIn limite demand at NA Ord. Salz of abrip Enriel nor reported vi our quotation.\n\nSeaman Syatees -The sales cons to 9300 pieses 18:05 to 1975 pood.\n\n470 piecsa sold at 205.30, which is then pre- METALAI-Notes, dut at 350. Lek-$10\n\nPIRACY. We tend a long memorial from the It is pretty well known here that Chinese in ans, are in the hair of depositing the Tite which he represcuts the meritorious effort of embarrased circumstances, or who want to raian Governor-Gearral of Fahon nad Che-keaug, in Deers of their real property as security for money, several naval heroes for the suppression of piracy foreigners being sindira the depositarian the cost of the latter province. Judging froun Motulows's papce, therefora, especially wish the tone of the paper, he wishes in encourage adition of the facsimiles, presses some stiers to similar exploits. There is little drakt practical value for the meantile members of thie hat the Englian cruizers have a great share in these trips, for which the Celestials receive | all the credit.\" In reading stel, a representation, Man mauso drwy from it for the Wassiles at refer to the rare the world imagin that zones is done to put a Custom is worte. 250, actions. No snad diffieslty wns experienced in stap to the evil whilst it is in realty word tan geting the excented, and so many of the best, and increasing to a lenchalantent. Tie von\n\nsentences will soon be seen, in the total ruin of Bok-entres in the City refused the employment,\n\nBad ise kui experiencel Met the fact and rapacity: you thob vesis dipity; althougù, we conez:52, men more\n\nbenra\n\nSOCIETY\n\nMR. VELOTUS'S JAFAR ON LAND TENUDE IN CHINA.\n\nwas, that the seamen of tim kural, instead of pur midst the general scramble for purchased erui- closing proviskonts had gone to honso of li! Br, in there created a law, which the pale the true 1vors of their comry for with\n\nThe result ca only be detrimental, onl ¿ttempted to quent, and would have succeeded, And the master the torch, acengal by lengken to the future.-Chian Heil, Sept.\n\ntwo or three orige armed Eispeans, not il-\n\nnarut. The villages were abarmen as their, CHINA BRANCH OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC eprengaver, amk avapted to pet them of Pos instead of retreading and sing the seamen Tartine Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society with them, which ting til det easily bare doue, ha med i Transcretions for the first year good deal employed by foreigners, had the pacerse Cinese bave recently adopted measures fur they feed they maskets in the air. This valy casperated the people, who attempted to beat off! the mailusta, while Baiolo, having reloaded, kim and fired offence think anse, by which one was kiki mul noster desperately wearebod. The party then went on heard their tored\n\nHaving stated these efremstances as the result adus inuigations, the Chinese Magistro wea deeirona cart the offenders should, i' possibla, be take to Macro in a British versel of War; bib AS\n\npicts sold; present quotation ea 6810, T- thecanner 213: Straits 188.\n\nSex Wales of 1000 picats. Straight sticka at work). per pul\n\n542966 AD-th Fes Island good 75; ordinary 15* és por ticut.\n\n23s; Vanila AASIA & 4005 for common to bat\n\nPeren-Salas of Mac. at 5649 per piel.\n\nZebe 247, and Trai\n\nOrux-Tiere has been a large busines? one during the past onlb. l, watol was as low at 7-2g, Ta ray to 770 and 7909, at which it\n\nmated sterd;. Paina has bion feels\n\ntitle\n\npast week has bought a decline and $5196 i now the art pica The aport Yau been a chests of all kinds, and the clearances rather more than Es; to ha÷the stocks are reduced sororwhat mou fast munih's stali\n\nEXPORTS. TEAR-About 2 elops of Conzon have been settled 5 19.25\n\n19 al fur the best of 102 The Tay for isown, and 10 x 13 19 aumptious,; bu 6000re wastly o\n\nthat is was hard that ude of executing them the wide varias convience; even now nas nge- half of the junks that formerly navigated the must be abandoned; but at lengli one an un- tortor the work for 2 large price. At the end coat, are to be seen, and even these carry only of a week, however, he als reined the peers, cheap and bully articles, the loss of vassche by blocks. Ultimately an outside man, who is a Raying that he dared not the say money cat the ends of the baniers being so very gmat. that no valuable cargoes can run the gundet.\n\nand although the volume is not a very bully one, jint into his hands, and weld what he was 20, the suppression of pincy, but without foreign aid the contents say of au interesting nature, affords without asking in whether he was willing or\n\nthen sus tay be donated). valuable information on subjects raportens in\n\nSa-pong-tuan, the daging pirate from Chek ehu, not. He was penbably more under the feas of themselves, and duct which He is known offending a gondenser than of being dete^keů who took possession of several forts on the exEL among foreigners. For the sake of those who by his own country; int though he did ex- near Toupas, with all the guns in thena, F: are not members of the Society, we subjoin a sure this cutting, he would not print off the delics the local government. The natives Lave Table of Cuteuts\n\nengine, or even sund hone the block, wach row been prointed from fersishing him will PRELIMINARY ADDRESS: by the Iridaat, SAB\n\nsupplies, in order to starve him into submission. wero got only by being sent for. Jalan Pearen Day. Barnet, F.R.S. THERE AND A\n\nNo autopt was he got stamps executed He will however with his wild camarades try MARK ON THE BENUISITION, COMMON-in imitation of the erals, of which unpress likely help himself, and make an obsinat resize the uning kas yat budu doar preter to H. 11. Consulate, Canton.\n\ni market\n\nbent 00 pachugus Crter, Traverted, mostly Teping and enter sherbet 2 48 65 cars for fine Grunder, 26ncials and 9-1 for\n\nmarket at been maite for the 2 superial Young Hysany of the Twsday kind: 24628 tacks for fair Single Gaupowders For the Angri\n\nin\n\nይ) .ii\n\nThis could not be done, le paposed to convey the 13 C, 15 PROPERTY, appear on the avigno! Deed-Ford, where it kiss snes, unless bought over. He is well kran. A RAW St.-So 10 contrusts are reported. Abent\n\nprincipata by chair overland. Upon meewashiuya- lu No over, it was thoughts et excitement night | rinna íe eroded ating to route which would expose the prisoners danger, and he was there- Fere wing allow them to proceed to Maeso in tanie own Toren, the Chinees placing a guard on Boord. An alternative was suggested, ad peristips! the most satisfactory arrangement under the cir ethnames, thak Mainio, ni beu of other procecil- ings adust hun, should be called agon to unke some provision for the family of the man he had killed\n\nOn the 15 the Magistrale returned, and re- ported that the higher anthorities were dispose:l to deal leniently, but in Bue present size of oxcite mont, puemniary compenastion was out of the question. But if Haliole would agree to go over- 11, he alwall be esrayed under safe candnet, and not weabed as a criminal and be prosecdeá in has own vessel, it would be proper at an officcy and attendants shool Lavonny lim. The f gistrate als required she of thể thi tese crew in Le sont un glure, in order to compare his cvilince with that of the villagers.\n\nnesaswa, Bag., Interi\n\nOn the Acquisition of itgal Prunerty-Rognitions For the Cultivrition of Alla stat Tevaloids the fold vation of Werte Govciment lands: Da Commun Teen: Q ARenation -Deed of Sale- Pord-od. A MIORT ACCOUFT OF A VISIT TO THE HOT PGINGH OF YONG MAR; by J. C, Bawang, Esq.\n\nAnalysis of the Water.\n\nA TREATISE ON THE GONEAR SYSTEM OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOOY by W. A. Han\n\nPart), Anator-Part 2, Physiology.\n\n.D.\n\nNOTRE ON THE TSIRN, OR GOPPER CASH OF THE CHINESE: SC. B. Housa. Ten, Chef Magis- Trade of Hongkong.\n\nLe minst ForgNTS\n\nON THE MINEN OF THE ORINESE PAPIRE: the the AA GUT, Churae try to\n\ndocere\n\nierendene!: China Proper-Go Minas River Ninesfran Maos Copper Mine-nick- silver and above Clanahar Min\n\nOF PROCEFHINOS\n\nAng Amicie Socrity of Chinn-Office-bearen\n\nfor 847-fur 1848.\n\nREPORT OF THE COUNOH\n\nAPPENDIX.\n\nthe counterpart; and it would certainly save waters as a desperate vagabond. been unsuccessful, as persona farging such scala are punishable by dongation, immediately upon receiving the confirmation of the sentence by the | Criminal Board, which must be specially applied! for. It would therefore be highly biamentie to\n\nCANTON MARSET. (September 27, 1848) IMPORTS. Dorotðar sket eligws au adarce in the voice | of siis article,\n\nbuy cause! by ans\n\nan increased demand for Foreign\n\navo nave, to parade any as a little, it seemed of the pactal fellure of the active in work of this description. In enitting the\n\nDan during tuvath have boos,—2,400\n\nusing are, there was nothing striedy illegal, bulion Monday, and a 7 0 for old, and to 4 8.3 for new\n\n1,000 barus Bëngui, al 8.2 u R1 for all. 8si a 0.3 for new hut time toumaction if detector big involve and 2,400 Faders, 615385 for old, nu 973 an in serious difficulty. I would look suple now. Tho g is our osnal monthly statement ~ ¦ efoun, and the cirenmatter of the employer being a foreigner would not probably un iegarded my excurs. --China Mau, September 14.\n\nUNITED STATES CONSUL\n\nJ. N. A. Gaworu, Esq., has been appointed Consul for the United States at Shanghoë, in the room of Caleb Lyam of lyonsdni, hug, resigned, --China Mall, September 21.\n\nSustains for Perure Disoussion: List of Members MATTER EXTRACTED BY THE LEADING LONDON JOURNALS FROM NEWSPA PURS IN THE EAST,\n\nthe Society in 1817.\n\nThe panor by Mr Meadows which stands at\n\nFORD\n\nNesty 2015 September\n\nkey limg\n\nSk\n\nBetul,\n\nRocha. Bulc, 7,4\n\nMadras,\n\nរូ6,-i ឬ\n\n44.8 €3,77\n\n7,6\n\n2.0INI\n\n1,376 2,\n\nAmerican, u nea Shanghas,,\n\n2,370\n\n2,\n\n100\n\n모유\n\nTO\n\n..-.-\n\n----.\n\nWitch in the interior go forward per e\n\nAunts of a short orop are cârra. ed, and escalinae firm in their demands to high prices\n\nEXCHANGE.\n\nOn ESGANG, nominal «4 42 10 4/5.\n\nFREIGHTS.\n\nTo Exalu, nominal at 4/16. bips would ined full cargo gladly at less\n\n•\n\nFrem our MANILA Correspondent. September 17, 1818.;\n\nIMPORT\n\nAt this season of the year tas market is commonly in 40 377 a raty dull stato, but as present it is more than mua!} Ew the cavy stocian care costiarily re 5,167 ceirley didous. The Yuencia Tom Singapore 175 Line of British gods, and the Concurd and St Pavaro the United States have the into ste markyta lieagy lot of 16 pics AUSKICAN BROW SI 400 ps of Darte, part of which have ben sokk ut $94 in 10 yds of the frier, and $2 for 2 yils of the liter; and a father recessio 13 expected per Propratt9. Hair 2 CECTUS --\n\n555 1,181\n\nTotal Bale, 1,438 2020 57.619 77,437 69,113 Sport kan verehressa in blog ofte by improvers don In the math he is elit, he Time Then the digkeiten Sah on the now, s, ir lie il trejur , del pike Stel ja mina inanajer 2 Pack itu saya, sahil nani kawęd |___Bose Chopra--In Betle desand at ageren:ed mates. for Tely, vix-16,600 plecus Grere at fur emang, 2.30 Tio vady salon which have been made were excite\n\nre 25-10); 02. a Oik weight.1g7 catii. 230 20: and 75%, 975028 lindres hice have bood dioned of at 915 3855 for con, 250 2970 for\n\nsales are reported of\n\nsome 200 pu» z+§3a $35. axording to youli'yi tor\n\nstar respos the inpert arket is dull, and the sy cecite of ajnost every article of consequenc\n\nEXPORTS\n\nSome port and perchases have hech made of Current Wayne at 53 aid at $35, deliverable within a short time, and the dealyts, in condequeue ef these car suctions, diansol to halit out for\n\nwho are asking\n\nall\n\nATE i was on nnivated by the Coosal to the nester of puncher lovela, No. 13, who came to the\n\nthe head of the Bat is a masterly mac, written 1s turning over some old numbers of the Bombay 661 and R 280 for 7 day for intelligence, and to state that his friend with great precision of myle and chee adherence Saliole had determined to posed to Maces to the street, the nority of which is wis mate has reference to a portion of 1845, bus what par- and aaolib in Ali to 27.063 paces, at 28 a 250) kr 20 in Jantalons There is a nud\n\nAMMAN DosThe sales at Strille during the muath Times, we came upon the following Table, while | having already lifted his chor and dropped down\n\nhave been chify to speculators, sist at reddoud cas, beinn the Chinese slipping. He declined to sedemies meal facts or elstituting me writing for\n\nthe occasion for building ignory theorica on tin dues not appear: we presume the second yards, and Ste 8 for 40 yards ads. Jeans in deal of Zeb stored by the hoitors, wh in of be wrew on shôn, thas hicing meressary, So, through his end of No. 18, he admitted the account of what occurred as given by the villagers to be the correst one, Balíolo profossing to have been fortarly misle by us men, whic\n\nder to adnit their having originatel tie bmw! to explain ia cause addo that the fact of having been accompanied by other foreigners when he wont ca love, we quite true. Hugh he paser entire, instead of setveting extracts,\" Do future occasion we shall rotund to the Trimes died to ten it in Instant to the tone, which contaio, jesides a peer on the Cons?\n\nquarter. Fet however that my be, the Table is exacu-10 pieces sold a 24 Sheraz no. 92, and me purchases have been made for the gland shows the fuss Mail to have even then kedator Ya Phu sales of English have been 1,500 beets 4293 per post; but the demand for\n\nthing doinu-prices nominal ut 2875.\n\nat $1- and titereabouts Pampanga ustayed haw fourth aring thirteen Oriental Papers published holes-N 10 24, 25869308.30 24 a 53, 3154 Aussaat stack at present, and my voels loading fac\n\nand 2389 h 348 Prosent etiel: 214 bales. 1583 gameICT.\n\nsubstantial informou, after a fashion to com- mon with contributors to leaned Sueleties. In the hands of a more dxcursiva writer the matter of the present Esny would probably have van tiscale to the reader. spne out to twice the extent, withag! being so s\n\nAnether advantage of\n\nthis condensation is that it alles us to give the\n\n1 baca of 13lan Toy My Gutelaff, nahor on a sud\n\nOf course the authorities Have heard nothing jeet still lesa hiwe, by Dr Hesland, Chisere ince of Balin, who is not at all likely bentory and Phyridongy, which deserves more his purse to lacan, where the Governor of that Province would doubtless take the opportunity\n\nChua euch a cursory notice as we coull now give it clear up the ocenities of the Probation Medines prices to dab of the Acquisiting of After intercinetory crvation Me pomulgated in the Buiesim do Governo, about retine sa sinar waning was kained by the British Penitentiary. Gdy stray anherz\n\nin India, China, and the Straits.\n\nProportion of Mulder extreeter tos: forces\n\n·291530: 98 n\n\nagain bal at the slave Salsa rebutted of avern: thousand pieuse at $56 factiu leur than . A quantity is d by the agent of the Proridin wines, whie cold sobald he bought at tia fast gantalin, although half\n\nreal atov: iced.\n\nTIG: last year. 500 les Amerings Ware sold in the mara of bugs the monais at 278 21350 for No. 15 25. WOODLES% little macul-2000 CDs States STRIFE have been told als\n\nIhre 16-20\n\nNarning Wipers in the west of the Judía, la volează, (Auvny a portion of 1849.)\n\n(Fam \"De Benley Tim, Dersler 13, 1917.)\n\nReal Property in Chine?\" and apon this point Bombay Times. states, that \"real property can at pressul only bo\n\nTelegraph & Courlo\",\n\nCalzata Englishman. Bungal (erkara-\n\n*\n\n5\n\n161\n\n210\n\nCaldarts Star,...\n\nf\n\n201\n\n+\n\n39\n\nKornelion Adverker\n\n고금\n\n11\n\nPolestar reis us, and the one coursising acquiend in three ways: first, be cultivation of deteran's Garaute. e last we ever saw, but the following which is include the acquisiti at uredeene\n\nundecuplet land; Borondly, by peclan in Pelli Ovetto... cantation appeared some tee sgu in the long kong Register :--\n\nhaving ge in the age of groeihener the Durer of the Province that in the service with at tantras fion this plats are ongesel, of co- jader in vessels traslug to the porta the thing, for the past of delending in Pro. die wurks of g\n\nChina Mail.\n\nmortgagel property); and thirdly, by her Madras Atheneum, tance. Leaving the sued and third \"modes of ! acquisition to be trwalod of separately, under the bead of * Alienation,\" he proceeds to give soul of Chien,\n\nHongkong Register, hatance of the general law of China (extracto from various edes published under Imperial Barton Times...\n\nwhich are not actionlead he lay, and Pales have givet e.\n\nfpirates, cords have bras exited authority), m Aequisition by Culfiration. After\n\n* In Chian Kril, No 197. Sept. 14, wer'sly invite.\n\n! China Mail, September 7.\n\nA 5 -- 90 per plaerd at 1850 a 2800. Im Knave deed. We queurial 08701 SP, A390 ta ya The salos Save beat 1930 Pea, of the farmest, and Yana a latur\n\n\"Nasking driers nominal 4 205\n\nTA, and 225 209 far week. Its gada log.\n\nBOBALPVEU06 13535.\n\nALEPAT TROY Xatrod and Jiren 45203 N§; Bar, 3830 m\n\nas wort 78 TIX AT-88850 AR-5.\n\nGemasan.de ius a Kp. Ciarhed 1255 a 15§. CORRAL Large alankuminal at 1663 3 Java, Hd 170 for 3 aniran\n\nBain\n\nmal 9,000 plead at 2420 5 HATTAN--Saosing-imports beavy petendo! In Log-fanjarawing 38 - 3950; Stratis 2930 u 3520:\n\nTater %%n@.”\n\npics have been sold at 10 a 3550 Jo is sxluble.\n\nPercur§51) er. 85.\n\nCurcu-24 a 550\"\n\nSANDAL Wonoce have boon heavy riports, but\n\nSAWAY WOO-Good straight wood has born lakes at $5 per perl, but fur lately. nat.\n\nnta $15 le askot. There Jvc bc reosive.i fron, in Pravdary ¿e le les active it was", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 229641, "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": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849", "content_text": "139\n\nin Stie\n\nAdi\n\nsforing of by weights,\n\nFor\n\nom\n\nas\n\nin the thousand.\n\nthe\n\nJarno\n\nby.\n\nMing intrad\n\nbeing from live to four Dolley\n\nIt appears, however, that the Treasurer had no intimation or knowledge of the existence of these small surplus accumulations, but that when his attention was\n\ndirected to the subject, he found that the small Surplus had been put aside weekly\n\nin a separate bag,\n\nThe amount to 31st Dec. 1848 was\n\n£32, 8.2,\n\nwhich would appear to be the sum accumulated.\n\nHe would be cognizant of the fact that the Shroff alone was responsible for the calculations from Payments, the details of which passed exclusively through his hands. It appears that the same Individual has acted as Shroff, during the Treasurerships of Mr Stewart & Mr Marling, both of whom have placed much trust in his integrity and correctness; & the sum of £32. 8.2 may be assumed to be the whole of the Surplus accumulated on\n\nThe\n\nand\n\npayments\n\nby the Shroff since Sept. 1843,\n\nIt is at the same time difficult to understand, how the separate Bag of coins, the Surplus could have remained in the Treasury Chest, as Mr Mercer states they were, without being noted in the Surveys or in the Chart, which purport to give an exact account of each Coin existing in the Treasury, the Amount of which was made to correspond with the Balance shown by The Treasurer's Books, no portion of the accumulating Surplus having been included in the Treasury Books until December 1848.\n\nAlthough we have thought it right to submit these remarks, on which our observations have been obtained, We beg leave to observe, that as regards the early period prior to July 1843, it is known that there was but one Account for the Receipts & payments. Money Chest for the Services of the Hong Kong Government, the Superintendency, & the Special Mission; that there were errors in the Records of the actual cash transactions.\n\nand that when Mr Stewart took charge of the Chest, in July 1843, he found, of actual Money, sufficient only to satisfy the Balance exhibited in the Account of the Hong Kong Government, so that any surplus which may have existed, without being entered in the Accounts, prior to that date,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-031 - Public Offices - 1849.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230048, "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": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4]", "content_text": "Abstract of Causes under cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office, Hongkong during the year 1849,\n\nof disposal.\n\nwith the mor\n\n \n No. of Causes\n Civil Causes how disposed of\n Criminal Causes how disposed of.\n \n \n Total.\n Civil.\n Criminal.\n \n \n \n Decree Plaintiff.\n Decree Defendant.\n \n \n Nonsuited\n Furumontt sions.\n Jetty Undecided.\n \n \n Total\n Number Defendants\n Convicted\n \n \n *Punished\n A. M with& Renishment\n Released\n \n \n MJ security\n Deported.\n Committed\n \n \n Bailed.\n Remarks.\n \n \n \n 1728\n 596\n 1132\n \n \n 205\n 3\n 79\n \n \n 297\n 12\n 1743\n \n \n 95\n 620\n 22\n \n \n 657\n 53\n 53\n \n \n 38-383\n \n \n \n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n Foto\n \n \n \n\nThis Return includes almost the whole of the cases enumerated in the following return for the Court of Petty Sessions, as why few are brought directly before that court The Civil Cases decided were 293 Claims for Police hates (cognizable by the Chief Magistrate alone), and to claims for Wages under Ordinance & of 1847. The Criminal Cases decided up to March, when the Court of Setty Sessions was repealed. established, were 61 larcenies receiving stolen goods, 26 assault, & demanding Money with menaces, 2 passing counterfeit coin, 15 Vagrancy ; the rest were mainly Greaches of police Ordinances.\n\nIn March the Summery furisdiction over small felonies which had existed for 18 months previously, was taken away by the Potty Sessions Ordinance, so that the cases subsequently decided were simply Assaults, Breaches of Police Ordinances, and Offences eognizable by a single Magistrate under English Acts of Parliament.\n\nThe Committals and Bailments include those to the Supreme and Admiralty Courts, as well as to the Court of Petty Sessions.\n\nDeportation by a single Magistrate out of Sessions, \" was awarded only under Section 13 of the Registration Ordinance 17 of 1846), in default of security to appear and answer for a suspected offence. The defaulter is simply ordered to leave the Colony, and not return\n\nAbstract of Causes under cognizance at the Court of Sitty Sessions, Hongkong, (eitablished 12th of March), during the your 1849, with the more\n\n \n 697\n 297\n 400\n \n \n 135\n 54\n 94\n \n \n 14624\n 26\n 257\n \n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n 130522\n 15′′\n \n \n \n Tone Copy Ma\n Colonial Secretary.\n \n \n\nThe Civil lawns were claims for Bebt or Samages not exceeding $50 with one or two cases of extreated recognizances. The Criminal Cases were larceny and receiving stolen goods 267, Fagrancy 62, assaults 40, Ristons actemblage 4, Obtaining property by falce pretences 3, Uttering, terfeit Com 2, malicious injuries 2, Temanding money with menaces 2, combination workmen 2, extortion !; the remainder were offences against Solice Ordinances. All were decided under the provisions of Ordinance 1 of 1869, for the punishment of petty felonies and recovery of small debts. The move of proceeding is generally by summons taken out before a single magistrate; and incriminal cases the depositions are taken down at length; as in committals for the Supreme Court: consequently nearly the whole of the cases are included in the above rettern for the Chief Magistrates office. The Court of Petty Sessions has power under the Ordinance to remit serious or difficult for decision at the Supreme Court; hence the column for Committals. Seportation is awarded under Section 14 of the Ordinance for the removal of Vagrant!\n\nA large number of those deported were mendicants who had crossed from the inginland to beg . The deportation consists in transmitting the persons to be deported to the Chinese Magistrate on the opposite side of the harbour, (which is Chinese territory), with a request that they may be forwarded to their place of settlement.\n\n[ Signed ] C. B. Hillier,\n\nChief Magistrate\n\ncasos", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-032 - Sir Bonham - 1850 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 230461, "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": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "page_number": 326, "title": "CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8]", "content_text": "us, and remedies solid and) \n\nmany \n\nlaid before the sational proposed. But how of the Lessers of Crown Lands, Isen cloon only, and most of these tardity, coming forward to address the Committee, when four the ser 4 - matter of representation \n\nelever the \n\nLubject= \n\nis simply and truly that \n\nto pay what \n\nthat they are disinclined \n\nwhat they voluntarily \n\nuntarily undertook to \n\npay, and when of all the lots of ground \n\nbrought \n\nto notice \n\nby these elevers, one on \n\nonly, \n\n(the property of Messrs. Denk #(az), sems \n\nto have \n\nBJJ \n\nshadow of \n\nreason \n\nfor \n\nthe reduction \n\nof its rental, I must be permitted to doubt gravely that the causes of dissatisfaction \n\nhave had other than \n\nAw \n\nimaginary \n\ndistempered foundation, and Imuch \n\nequally \n\nbe allowed to \n\ninfer that that \n\ngeneral dissatisfaction no longer exists. \n\nI take it that the object of our \n\nCommittee is mainly the present systems of Land Concre \n\nto ascertain whether \n\nand \n\n320 \n\noperated to the disadvantage of the commercial relations of the Colony, I assume that \n\nthis point of the subject, \n\nin co \n\ncondidering \n\n100 have to deal with the question_ Are Chinese traders prevented by the high \n\nof Land Rents from resorting to \n\nrate \n\nSongkong? ___ that nation traders of larger class have not settled among \n\nthe \n\nI au \n\nready \n\nthat the \n\nto admit, but \n\nis to be \n\nam \n\nid \n\nany boling be found, partly in the obstacles opposed by the officials of \n\nus \n\nthe mainland, and in a degren called for and sanctioned by the XIII th Article of our Supplementary treaty with partly \n\nin the insecurity of the adjacents \n\nChina; \n\nwaters from piratical depredation; partly \n\nname at one time indiscreetly \n\nสอบ \n\nthe bad name at \n\nbruited after being groundlessly affixed \n\nto the island and its governme \n\npartly \n\nits government; \n\nin the disinclination \n\n• \n\nof the Chinese \n\nto avail themselves of probable benefits,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-033 - General Stavely - Lieut. Governor - 1850 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231396, "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": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5]", "content_text": "Page 175\n\n15\n\nEnclosure 13 in No.\n\nof disposal.\n\n14\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nABSTRACT of CAUSES under cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office Hong Kong, during the Year 1850, with the mode\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.\n\nEnclosure 15 in No.\n\n+\n\nRETURN of the Number of Cases Tried before the Honourable J. W. Hulme, and Actions commenced in the Supreme and Vice-Admiralty Courts of Hong Kong, during the year ending the 31st December, 1850.\n\nCriminal Causes, how disposed of.\n\nNumber of Causes.\nCivil.\nCriminal.\nDecree for Plaintiff.\nDecree for Defendant or Claim withdrawn.\nSummoned to Petty Sessions.\nCommitted or bailed for Trial at the Supreme Court.\nUndecided.\nTotal Convicted and Punished.\nDischarged without Punishment or Security.\nReleased on Security.\nDeported.\nCommitted pending delivery by the Governor, to the Chinese Petty Sessions, Authorities, or the Consul of France.\nUndecided.\nTotal\n\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\n\nSupreme Court-\n\nCommon Law\n1,731\n556\n1,175\n64\n\n126\n359\n19\n66\n465\n\nChancery\n\nSummary\n\n7\n1,692\n\nCases tried before the Honourable J. W. Hulme in 1850.\n\nCOURT.\nNumber of Cases.\nAmount of Debt and Damages claimed.\nSettled without Trial.\nJUDGMENT.\n\nDollars.\n\nPlaintiff.\nDefendant.\nNonsuit.\nRemaining undecided.\nCases.\nDebt and Damages.\n\nDollars.\n\nSupreme Court\n\n17792-19\nNone.\n85\n32\n5\n\nNone.\n\nCommon Law\n\nInsolvency Hearings\n674\n29\n50\n6\n47\n1\n380\n10\n10\n\n49\n17\n\nAppeals\n5+\n\n2\n\n1\n\nDebts in Schedule\n\nVice-Admiralty Court\n18\n12260.00\n68597.56\n\n6328-88\n\nInsolvents Discharged\n}\n\n2\nNone.\n\n>\n\nNone.\n\n17\n\n109475.25\n\nThe Civil Causes summarily decided by the Magistrates consisted of--\n\nClaims for Police Rates\n\nRecovery of deserted leasehold premises\n\nFees on Opium Licenses, &c.\n\n192\n\n1\n\n4\n\n197\n\nActions commenced in 1850.\n\nAssaults and Batteries.\n\nKeeping Public Gambling Houses\n\nFalse Balances and Weights\n\nBreaches of Spirit Licenses\n\nThe Criminal Causes summarily decided consisted of-\n\nUnlawful possession of goods, malicious injuries, obstruction of wharves and thoroughfares, keeping public brothels, illegal assemblage with intent to injure property, furious driving, &c. &c..\n\nRogues and Vagabonds, plying boats and hawking without License. Misconduct as Police Constables\n\nResisting Police\n\nDrunkenness and disorderly conduct\n\nCOURT.\nNumber of Cases.\nAmount of Debt and Damages claimed.\nSettled without Trial.\nJUDGMENT.\n\nDollars.\n\nPlaintiff.\nDefendant.\nNonsuit.\nRemaining undecided.\nCases.\nDebt and Damages.\n\nDollars.\n\nUnlawful combination among workmen\n\nExercising without License the calling of Pawnbroker, Auctioneer, Retailer of Opium or Spirits\n\nAdd Committals for Trial, Summonses for Defendants in cases of Debt, Damage, &c.\n164\n\n86\n40\n25\n\n214\n\n157\n\n4\n1\n2\n\n13\n\nSupreme Court\n\nCommon Law\n251\n\nChancery\nNone.\n\nSummary\n154\n\n[Debts in\n\n69900.31\nNone.\n21843-82\n\n4274.88\n\n19\nNone.\n\nInsolvency\n4\n\n31\n\nNone.\n\nPetitioners\n\nSchedule\n\nAssets per\n\nDischarged\n4\n\nNone.\n\nEcclesiastical\n27\n\nment\n\nAppeals\n2\n\nVice-Admiralty Court\n14\n\n707\n827\n\nTotal\n\n(True Copy,)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. B. HILLIER,\n\nChief Magistrate.\n\nAppraise-19228-47 None.\n\n12260-00 None. 66824-55\n\n* One of these cases was referred to the Registrar to report on and is still undecided.\n\n+ One of these was a remanded case of 1849.\n\nIn eight of these cases the defendant was arrested on a capias issued from the common law side, and they were subsequently brought into the summary jurisdiction. The debt and damages in the said cases amount to 1640 22 dollars.\n\nOne of these was commenced in 1849.\n\n(Signed) W. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy-Register.\n\n(True Copy,)\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\n(Signed)\n\nROBERT DUNDAS CAY, Registrar.\n\n2 None.\n\nNone.\n\nNone.\n\n1\n\nNune.\n\n3 & 226 194332-03\n\nEnclosure 14 in No.\n\nABSTRACT of Causes under Cognizance at the Court of Petty Sessions, Hong Kong, during the Year 1850, with the Mode of Disposal.\n\nNo. of Causes.\nCivil Causes, how disposed of.\nCriminal Causes, how disposed of\n\nCivil.\nCriminal.\nDecree for Plaintiff.\nDecree for Defendant.\nNousuited.\nUndecided.\nWithdrawn.\nReferred to Supreme Court.\nTotal Number of Defendants.\nConvicted and Punished.\nDischarged without Punishment or Security.\nReleased on Security.\nCommitted or Bailed.\nDeported.\nUndecided.\nTotal\n\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\nM. F.\n\n575\n359\n216\n208\n\n41\n71\n2\n34\n4\n315\n3\n182 ?\n\n64\n30\n\n33\n6\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nCombination amongst Workmen\n\nAssaults aud Batteries.\n\nVagrancy\n\nCRIMINAL-\n\nLarceny\n\nClassification of Offences.\n\nRobbery and Housebreaking\n\nEmbezzlement\n\nExtortion\n\n1\n\nReceiving Stolen Property\n\nObtaining Money by false pretences\n\nDemanding Money with menaces\n\nUttering counterfeit Coin\n\nRiotous assemblage\n\nAssaults with intent to Rob\n\nReturning to the Colony after having been deported\n\n146\n\n4\n\n8\n\nCutting and destroying Trees\n\n1\n\nDesertion from Vessels in Harbour\n\n1\n\nTuta!\n\n216\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. B. HILLIER, Chief Magistrate.\n\nW. CAINE, Colonial Secretary.\n\nPage 175\n\n15", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-036 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 231985, "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": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "page_number": 184, "title": "CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12]", "content_text": "14\n\nfrom Calcutta or Assam, are, in my opinion, far from being first-rate workmen; indeed, I doubt much if any of them learned their trade in China. They ought to be gradually got rid of, and their places supplied by better men, for it is a great pity to teach the natives an inferior method of manipulation. The men brought round by me are first-rate green tea makers; they can also make black tea, but they have not been in the habit of making so much black as green. They have none of the Canton illiberality or prejudices about them, and are most willing to teach their art to the natives. I have no doubt some of the latter will soon be made excellent tea-manufacturers. And the instruction of the natives is, no doubt, one of the chief objects which ought to be kept in view, for the importation of Chinese manipulators at high wages can only be regarded as a temporary measure; ultimately, the Himalayan tea must be made by the natives themselves; each native farmer must learn how to make tea as well as how to grow it; he will then make it upon his own premises, as the Chinese do, and the expenses of carriage will be much less than if the green leaves had to be taken to the market.\n\nBut as the zemindars will be able to grow tea long before they are able to make it, it would be prudent in the first instance to offer them a certain sum for green leaves brought to the Government manufactory.\n\nI have pointed out the land most suitable for the cultivation of tea, and shown that such land exists in the Himalayas to an almost unlimited extent. But if the object the Government have in view be the establishment of a company to develop the resources of these hills as in Assam, I would strongly urge the propriety of concentrating, as much as possible, the various plantations. Sites ought to be chosen which are not too far apart, easy of access, and if possible near rivers; for, no doubt, a considerable portion of the produce would have to be conveyed to the plains or to a sea-port.\n\nJu my tour amongst the hills, I have seen no place so well adapted for a central situation as Almorah or Hawulbaugh. Here the Government has already a large establishment, and tea lands are abundant in all directions. The climate is healthy, and better suited to a European constitution than most other parts of India. Here plants from nearly all the temperate parts of the world are growing as if they were at home. As examples, I may mention myrtles, pomegranates, and tuberoses from the south of Europe; dahlias, potatoes, aloes, and yuccas from America; melianthus major and bulbs from the Cape; the cypress and deodar of the Himalayas; and the lagerstræmias, loquats, roses and tea of China.\n\nIn these days, when tea has become almost a necessary of life to England and her wide-spreading colonies, its production upon a\n\n15\n\nlarge and cheap scale is an object of no ordinary importance. But to the natives of India themselves, the production of this article would be of the greatest value. The poor paharie, or hill farmer, at present, has scarcely the common necessaries of life, and certainly none of its luxuries. The common sorts of grain which his lands produce will scarcely pay the carriage to the nearest market-town, far less yield a profit of such a kind as will enable him to purchase some few of the necessary and simple luxuries of life. A common blanket has to serve him for his covering by day and for his bed at night, while his dwelling-house is a mere mud-hut capable of affording but little shelter from the inclemency of the weather. Were part of these lands producing tea he would then have a healthy beverage to drink, besides a commodity which would be of great value in the market. Being of small bulk compared with its value, the expense of carriage would be trifling, and he would return home with the means in his pocket of making himself and his family more comfortable and more happy.\n\nWere such results doubtful, we have only to look across the frontiers of India into China. Here we find tea one of the necessities of life in the strictest sense of the word.\n\nA Chinese never\n\ndrinks cold water, which he abhors, and considers unhealthy.\n\nTea\n\nis his favourite beverage from morning until night; not what we call tea, mixed with milk and sugar, but the essence of the herb itself drawn out in pure water. One acquainted with the habits of this people can scarcely conceive the idea of the Chinese Empire existing, were it deprived of the tea-plant; and I am sure that the extensive use of this beverage adds much to the health and comfort of the great body of the people.\n\nThe people of India are not unlike the Chinese in many of their habits. The poor of both countries eat sparingly of animal food, and rice with other grains and vegetables form the staple articles on which they live; this being the case it is not at all unlikely the Indian will soon acquire a habit which is so universal in the sister country. But in order to enable him to drink tea, it must be produced at a cheap rate; he cannot afford to pay at the rate of four or six shillings a-pound. It must be furnished to him at four pence or six pence instead, and this can be done easily, but only on his own hills. If this is accomplished, and I see no reason why it should not be, a boon will have been conferred upon the people of India, of no common kind, and one which an enlightened and liberal Government may well be proud of conferring on its subjects.\n\nROBERT FORTUNE.\n\nPRINTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE,\n\nDECEMBER 18, 1851.\n\n183", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232274, "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": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "page_number": 135, "title": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "content_text": "HONG KONG.\n\nTotal.\n\nCivil.\n\n16\n\nOf which\n\nwere\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nEnclosure 17.\n\nEnclosure 17.\n\nABSTRACT of CAUSES under Cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office\n\nand the Court of Petty Sessions of Hong Kong, during the Year 1851.\n\nMAGISTRATE'S OFFICE.\n\nCOURT OF PETTY SESSIONS,\n\n \n Civil Causes\n Number of Causes.\n Civil Causes how disposed of.\n Criminal Causes\n Number of Causes.\n how disposed of\n \n \n \n \n \n Criminal Causes how disposed of\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Committed or bailed for Trial at the Supreme Court.\n \n \n \n \n Total.\n Civil.\n Criminal.\n Of which were\n \n \n \n \n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n \n \n 588\n 350\n 238\n 199\n 55\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 87\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n 371\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n 185\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 77\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n\n \n Criminal Causes how disposed of\n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n \n \n Demanding property with menaces\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n Relating to coin\n \n \n 103\n \n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n Malicious damage to property\n \n \n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Assaults\n \n \n 1,338\n \n 911\n 247\n \n \n \n \n Vagrancy\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Combination among workmen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Breach of prison\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Decree for Plaintiff.\n 158\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Decree for Defendant.\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total Defendants.\n 4\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Convicted, and punished.\n \n \n 251\n 89\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n without Punishment.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Discharged\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Released on Security.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Deported.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Committed or bailed for Trial at the Supreme Court and Court of Petty Sessions.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Committed to Prison pending Delivery to the Chinese Authorities according to Treaty.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nCivil Causes :-Consisted of claims for debt or damages not exceeding $50., for police rates, and by seamen for wages, &c.\n\nAmong the Criminal Causes summarily decided were for\n\nLarceny, receiving stolen goods, &c.\n\nKeeping public gambling houses\n\nFalse balances and weights\n\nUndecided.\n\nTotal\n\nWrits issued by Magistrates.\n\nWarrants.\n\nREMARKS.\n\nSummonses.\n\nSubpoenas,\n\n \n 15\n 76\n 15\n 1,908\n 80\n 642\n 25\n 872\n 46\n \n \n 5,314\n 1\n 306\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 7\n 18\n 131,013\n 361\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 70\n 45\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Breaches of regulations for sale of intoxicating liquors\n \n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Unlicensed retailing of opium\n \n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Perjury\n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Desertion and refusal of duty by seamen in British vessels\n \n \n 75\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Desertion and refusal of duty by seamen in Foreign vessels\n \n \n 9\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Distress.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Arrest.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Search.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Under the Head of “Causes how disposed\n (Signed)\n C. B. HILLIER,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nfare included such Causes as were brought! Before the Court for decision. Those which Į\n\n-uns 10 ans un pudo sexo ou no\n\nHead of \"Total Writs issued.\" under the\n\nChief Magistrate.\n\nEnclosure 18.\n\nEnclosure 18.\n\nRETURN OF VESSELS, TONNAGE, and FLAG anchored at\n\nthe Port of Hong Kong, from 1842 to 1851 inclusive.\n\n \n FLAG.\n 1842.\n 1843.\n 1844.\n 1845.\n 1846.\n 1847.\n 1848.\n 1849.\n 1850.\n 1851.\n \n \n British\n No.\n Tons.\n No.\n Tons.\n No.\n Tons.\n No.\n Tons.\n No.\n Tons.\n \n \n \n 523\n 177,114\n 499\n \n 336\n 124,357\n 439\n 163,206\n 463\n 168,187\n \n \n \n 513\n 173,540\n 164,920\n 457\n 146,681\n 22\n 6,759\n 34\n 11,073\n 47\n \n \n American\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 103\n 35,789\n 73\n 25,022\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 92\n 30,697\n 118\n 45,910\n 610\n 108\n \n \n \n 189,790\n 501\n 163,307\n 548\n 187,492\n 43,558\n 130\n 57,175\n 163\n 85,610\n \n \n Spanish\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n 2,718\n 10\n 2,454\n 12\n 3,007\n 19\n 4,946\n \n \n \n \n \n 5,569\n 23\n 4,810\n 33\n 8,945\n 33\n 6,524\n 23\n 6,512\n 9\n \n \n Dutch\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 6\n 782\n 5\n 1,364\n 3\n 664\n 8\n 2,325\n \n \n \n \n \n 2,538\n 7\n 2,038\n 9\n 3,305\n 13\n 4,181\n 21\n 8,672\n 19\n \n \n \n 6,893\n 1\n 305\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Danish\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n 700\n 5\n 1,308\n 4\n 1,245\n \n 1,070\n 2\n 309\n \n \n \n 3\n 1,365\n 16\n 3,459\n 10\n 2,969\n 300\n \n 4\n 1,150\n \n \n French\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1,357\n 2\n 638\n 1\n 321\n \n 1,630\n 2\n 423\n 11\n \n \n \n 3,927\n 11\n 3,366\n \n 1,214\n 3\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hamburgh\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 266\n \n \n 86\n 1,118\n \n 776\n 5\n 1,977\n \n \n \n 1,332\n \n \n 14\n 5,706\n 27\n 8,144\n \n 1,105\n \n \n \n \n 1,200\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prussian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 379\n 1\n 130\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Mexican\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 125\n 226\n 8\n 900\n 2\n 503\n 7\n 737\n 298\n \n \n \n Portuguese\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 250\n \n 1,563\n \n 1,032\n \n 1,612\n 160\n 2,384\n 400\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Swedish\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n 243\n \n \n 9\n 3,240\n 12\n 3,348\n \n \n \n \n \n 304\n \n \n \n 300\n \n 4\n 480\n \n 1,330\n \n \n \n 1,210\n \n \n 3\n 1,708\n 15\n 5,879\n \n \n \n \n \n Bremen\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 300\n \n 750\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Belgian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Peruvian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bally\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Russian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 400\n 100\n \n \n 317\n 1,155\n 3\n 1,899\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 9,045\n \n 1,554\n \n 900\n \n 1,036\n \n \n \n \n 2\n 400\n \n 342\n \n 300\n \n 680\n 2\n 890\n \n \n \n 1,698\n \n 720\n \n \n 3\n $63\n \n 355\n \n \n \n \n 468\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hawaian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chilian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Siamese\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Sardinian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 194\n \n 2\n 280\n \n 200\n \n 562\n \n 400\n \n \n \n 670\n \n 1,830\n \n 349\n \n 842\n \n 1,742\n \n \n \n \n 783\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Norwegian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hanoverian\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Burmese\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Chinese\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 377\n 530\n 128\n \n 12\n 8,700\n \n Do..\n \n \n \n \n \n Steamers from India\n \n do. Canton River\n \n 3,550\n \n 13\n 2,379\n \n 12\n \n \n \n 30\n 11,510\n \n 12\n 11,985\n \n 12\n 6,954\n \n 42\n \n \n \n 7,686\n \n 97\n \n 27\n 13,728\n \n 12\n 12,428\n \n \n \n \n 17,768\n \n 24,508\n 105\n \n 25,228\n *207\n \n 41,472\n \n \n \n Totals\n 381\n 136,336\n 497\n 180,572\n 538\n 189,257\n 672\n 226,998\n 675\n 229,255\n \n \n \n 694\n 229,465\n 700\n 228,818\n 902\n 293,465\n 883\n 299,009\n 1,082\n 377,084\n \n\nVictoria, Hong Kong,\n\n30th January 1852.\n\n*These are, properly speaking, 207 arrivals during the year by 5 steamers plying between Hong Kong and Canton.\n\n(Signed)\n\nE. R. MICHELL,\n\nActing Harbour Master.\n\n17\n\n130\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nY.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 232302, "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": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12]", "content_text": "158\n\nAbstract of Causes under cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office, and the Court of Petty Sessions of Hongkong during the year 1882.\n\nCourt of Petty Sessions-\n\n \n Civil Causes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of Causes\n how disposed of\n \n \n \n \n \n of which\n were\n \n \n \n \n \n Criminal Causes\n how disposed of\n \n \n \n \n\nMagistrate's Office.\n\n \n Civil causes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of Causes\n \n \n \n \n \n \n of which\n were\n \n \n \n \n \n Total Writs Issued by Magistrates\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n M\n F\n M\n F\n \n \n Decree for Plaintiff\n Decree for Defendant\n Nonsuited\n \n \n \n \n Criminal\n Referred to Supreme Court\n Undecided\n Total\n \n \n \n Total Defendants\n Convicted and punished\n Discharged & without Punishment\n \n \n \n \n \n M\n F\n M\n F\n \n \n Released on Security\n Deported\n Committed or bailed for Trial at the Supreme Court\n Total\n \n \n \n Civil\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Criminal\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n 588\n 350\n 238\n 199\n 35\n \n \n 4\n 371\n 5\n 183\n \n \n \n 103\n 2\n \n \n \n \n \n \n M\n F\n \n \n \n \n Decree for Plaintiff\n Decree for Defendant\n Total Defendants\n Convicted & punished\n Discharged without Punishment\n \n \n Courtland or Bailed for Trial\n Released on Security\n Deported\n Committed to Prison awaiting delivery to the Chinese Authorities at the Supreme Court according to Treaty\n Undecided\n \n \n Summones\n Subpœnas-\n Distress\n Warrants\n Arrest\n Search\n \n \n 76\n 16\n 1908\n 80\n 64\n 25\n 872\n 46\n 53\n \n \n 141\n 366\n 7181\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1013\n 361\n yo\n 45\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nRemarks\n\nUnder the head of \"Causes how disposed of\" are included such cases as were brought before the Court for decision. Those which did not proceed beyond the issue of a Summons or Warrant will be found under the head of \"Total Writs issued\"\n\nCivil Causes.\n\n50\n\nConsisted of claims for debt or Damages not exceeding $100, principally by seamen for wages, &c...\n\nAmong the Criminal Causes Summarily decided were-\n\n251. Demanding property with menaces\n\n3. Relating to Coin\n\n4. Malicious damage to property.\n\n1. Assaults\n\nSG. Vagrancy\n\n75. Combination\n\nin. Breach of Rules\n\nmew. Keeping public gambling houses-\n\nFalse balances and weights\n\nBreaches of Regulations for sale of intoxicating liquors.\n\nUnlicensed Retailing of opium.\n\nPerjury.\n\nDesertion and Refusal of duty by Seamen in British Vessels $50-\n\nFor Police rates and\n\n9. in Foreign Vessels\n\n(Signed..) C. B. Hillier\n\nChief Magistrate-\n\n(True Copy.)\n\nBleie.\n\nColonial Secretary-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-039 - Sir Bonham - 1852 [1-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233332, "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": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 239, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "Chun Apung 30 Ponyu Khwany chon that None Hotter only Candle maker $2 a dedi\n\nLew Achari 20 Kweicheer Weichow De\n\nhet\n\n2 prodded\n\na\n\nthis was signed it. Yes souden zyears\n\n236\n\nDon't know\n\n25 Yes No employ $2\n\nDo\n\nDe\n\nNo\n\nTo be\n\nTo do agriculturist laten 45 days Yes 5 year No No 25 Manto New gold country\n\nt of employment\n\na miner 1 1/2 month No 2 Fr | B=\n\nDe\n\n7. Es earn\n\nmoney\n\n\"I was deceived when I was told I was to go to the gold country, and I do not new wich to go!\"\n\nChun Kuw\n\nw thing\n\n32\n\nDo\n\nNo Seller of Vegetables\n\nDo\n\nYes\n\nDrink 18 years\n\nDon't know. Tode agriculturist laher Tout know Yes 3 Dr De\n\nFr.\n\nDo.\n\nLas Acam 26 Foongkoon\n\nDi None\n\nYes\n\nStone-cutter\n\n2\n\nDo\n\nNo.\n\nDe\n\nTo be a miner\n\nDe\n\n2 F.\n\nDr.\n\nJes\n\nDo\n\nJo\n\nChay\n\nQen\n\n32 Kweisheen\n\n4 Mother only Agricultund\n\nlturist. 2\n\nDo.\n\nDe\n\nDon't know\n\nCAR.\n\nN32+ De\n\nDe\n\nLooge ford 33 Pak lo. Low Avong 35 Kueisheen\n\nhaving\n\nNo\n\nDo\n\nDe.\n\nDo\n\n\"I was engaged to do wake, in Canton, which was fulse, and not\n\n\" means to go home, I was obliged to go.\n\nwho took me to the chrif.\n\nwith the brokeri\n\nDo\n\nFe\n\nTo grow suger De Yes 32. Fr\n\nDr.\n\nDr. Want of work\n\nDo\n\nYes 2\n\nNo\n\nDistiller\n\n2\n\nDe\n\n2 cundaring\n\nZyesas\n\nBe\n\nDe De Dr.\n\nDr.\n\nDr.\n\nkhoảng cho 19\n\nDo.\n\nYes Bricklayer\n\n22\n\nDe\n\nNo\n\nDv.\n\nto do Agucultivat labe\n\nal labor mouth D\n\n3 De Dr.\n\nDr.\n\nDe\n\nDe\n\nD\n\nChun\n\nHeem\n\n23\n\nLe Afat\n\nAfat 30\n\nCheong A you 40 Toon.\n\nyo Kwong chow While shed None. Mother only Boatman\n\nDe Agricallärist\n\n2\n\nDe\n\nДе\n\nDon't know Do I Dr. Do. Ao.\n\nDo\n\n\"I would other\n\nM\n\nwilling\n\nDo\n\nNo\n\nDe.\n\nDo.\n\nDon't know\n\nFr\n\nDe Fa. Do. Ge\n\naway. I was.\n\nIan obliged now to go. I was deceived by being told I was to work in\n\nCantorgan\n\nand being.\n\nwho fed me.\n\nable to return home was,\n\n5. not go, but I can't get away,\"\n\n\"I have been deceives and\n\nmust go,\n\nIn bound by the broker\n\nnour d'ame on board - I cannot get\n\nengaged to work in Canton).\n\nfreed\n\nand Rom\n\nobliged to day\n\n9\n\ndead\n\n2\n\nD\n\nJe\n\nLoong Awais 25\n\n35\n\nKung theung Dit\n\nYes\n\n3\n\nDv. Agriculturist\n\nFr\n\nDo.\n\nDe\n\nDon't know Don't know Dr. Dr. Do\n\nTo do agrimbitual labor 2 non the Dr.\n\n·labor 2 months Do. D2 Do· De Dr. To make money\n\nDe Dr\n\nHo Athing 30\n\nSun cand\n\nTa\n\nNo\n\nFather only\n\nDo.\n\nJo.\n\nDo\n\nDe.\n\nDo\n\nDe 3 Do Do.\n\nDo.\n\nFran away\n\nfo the\n\nI from home, because I gambled. gran sue to purchase rice . I am sorry\n\nсклепалу\n\n42 which may\n\nI am here.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233458, "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": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6]", "content_text": "577\n\nTotal\n\n294 Civil\n\n283 Criminal\n\n787\n\n59\n\n63\n\n5\n\nDecree for Plaintiff\n\nDecree for Defendant\n\nNonsuited\n\nReferred to Supreme Court\n\n(not registered) Undecided\n\nJ. 420 M. Total of Defendants\n\n3 J. 249 M. Convicted & punished\n\n74 £ 3 M. Discharged without punishment\n\nM. Released on Security\n\n$1. M. Deported\n\nM. Committed or Bailed for trial\n\n- at the Chief Magistrate's Office and the Court of Petty Sessions of Hongkong, during the Year, 1852.\n\nAbstract of Causes under cognizance\n\nCourt of Petty Sessions\n\nN of Causes Civil Causes how disposed of\n\nwhere of which\n\nRiminal Causes how dispored of\n\nCivil Causes\n\nt. of Causes how disposed of\n\nwere of which\n\nChief Magistrate's Court\n\nCriminal Causes how dispard of.\n\nMagistrates. by Total Writs issued\n\nWarrants.\n\nRemarks.\n\n7.\n\nat the Supreme Court.\n\n1195 Total\n\n63 Civil\n\n1732 Criminal\n\n45\n\nZ 9/\n\n7,653\n\n18\n\nDecree for Plaintiff\n\nDecruz for Defendant\n\nNonsuited\n\nM. Total Defendants\n\n3.\n\n538 M. Convicted and punished.\n\n27\n\n777\n\n£ M. Discharged without punishment\n\n47 J.\n\nM. Released on Security\n\n£ 39\n\n3 30\n\n1/7 3\n\n77 M.\n\nDeported\n\nM. Committed or Bailed for trial at the F. Petty Sessions & Supreme Court,\n\nAs Committed to prison pending\n\n6 £\n\ndelivery to the Chinese authorities according to Treaty\n\nM. Committed to Prison pending delivery a\n\n- the United States' Consul according to\n\nF. Act of Parliament regulating such cases.\n\nW Undecided\n\n7.\n\nMlai\n\n(True Copy)\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nAmong the Criminal Causes summarily decided were for\n\nCivil Causes consisted of Claims for debts or damages not exceeding $50; for Police Rates; and by Seamen for Wages, etc.\n\nLarceny\n\nDemanding property with menaces\n\nMalicious damage to\n\nRelating to Coin\n\nUnlawful possession\n\nof property\n\nditto\n\nAssaults, and Assaults and batteries\n\nBreach of\n\nVagrancy\n\nCombination\n\nPrison\n\namong\n\nWorkmen\n\nUnlicenced Retailing of Opium\n\nFalse Balances and weights\n\nKeeping Public gambling Houses\n\nBreaches of Regulation for sale of Spirituous liquors\n\nPerjury\n\nDesertion and refusal of duty by Seamen\n\n207\n\n2\n\n4\n\n68\n\n25\n\n5\n\n2\n\nSNAN\n\n2\n\n10\n\nIn British Vessels\n\n38\n\nIn Foreign Vessels\n\n33\n\n(Signed) W. H. Mitchell,\n\nActing Chief Magistrate.\n\n362\n\nIn 844 L\n\n$76\n\n274\n\n58\n\n35\n\nÇ'\n\nSummonses.\n\nSubpœnas.\n\nDistress\n\nArrests\n\nSearch\n\nUnder the head of Causes how dispored of \"are\n\nChore\n\nincluded all such causes as were brought before the Court for decision or investigation which did not proceed beyond the crave of a Summons or Warrant, will be found under the head of \"Total Writs issued\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-042 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 233555, "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": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12]", "content_text": "62\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nCharitable laaits\n\n3.1.\n\nleads to the conclusiva that the expense\n\nIV—Provided always that all religious edifices, hospitals, jeme exempted from teries, and buildings strictly and exclusively appropriated tahari- of maintaining and extending it, if self- table purposes, and not being used as dwelling-houses, sall be imposed, would be less grudgingly paid, exempted from assessment under this Ordinance.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nNotice is hereby given, that the exclusive right of dealing in laun, Betel, and torment of col with the advice of the excentive Council, shall have powers apment. Betel Leaf, in the Colony of Hongkong, will be disposed of to the highest bidder at: Public Auction on the 20th day of June, at the Office of the Chief Magistrate of Police.\n\n[1]\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\n16\n\nProvisions for the\n\nJoctors,\n\nCollectors to malo\n\npoint such officer or officers as may be deemed requisite for te col- lection of the Rate leviable under this Ordinence, allowing in or them as remuneration for this service such a per Centage at the Governor in Council shall seem fit.\n\npaper the Report of a Trial on Appeal\n\nWe have extracted from an Edinburgh before the Louse of Lords, the subject being one of great importance to alt British colonists. The statule establish- ing dutics on legacies equaily affects England and Scotland, and the present decision settles the law, that such duties are not payable on\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained, that as soon afer the casual reters and first day of January in each year as may be founul practicale, the pablish officer collecting the assesstrent under this Ordinance shall gepare a detailed statement exhibiting the sums collected during de pre- ceding year, and the said statement, duly attested by the said ficer, shall be inserted in some newspaper published within this Clony, officer for one month from and after the date of its publicatio\n\nby a person re\n\nVI—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that the saf rate such property being subject to the law of\n\nsiding in one of its possessions abroad- Quarterly in advance shall be payable quarterly in advance, unless otherwise prefribed the colony where the deceased\n\nand directed, as hereinberare mentioned, and that it shall be charged ciled. This judgment is not only impor was domi- and chargeable on the lands, dwelling-houses, and premises repect- ively assessed, at the time of such assessment.\n\nand shall also be open to general inspection at the office & such | England, if bequeathed invested in\n\nException as to\n\ncapted, or used\n\nFREDERICK W. A. BRUCE,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\n憲。 告\n\nRate payalde\n\nT\n\n赴人在榔茲\n\n賣\n\n辦正等港\n\n此堂物等\n\n事衙於處\n\n者署五招\n\n特 THAA\n\n示 於投十包\n\n是如六質\n\n該要巡簍在\n\n署包理葉\n\n投\n\nB\n\n# B &\n\nexetorted.\n\nN\n\n一千八百四十五年五月 三 十\n\n日\n\n年四月\n\n二十六日\n\nFJ\n\ntant to British colunists, but may be\n\nΠΟΣ\n\nnot unwillingly substitute the following from a correspondent:-\n\nof benefit to England, by encouraging\n\nAnd be it hereby enacted and ordained that the omber of investments there. So important aid the property mat let, or any land, dwelling-house, or premises assessed, which may fot be\n\nlet to any tenant, shall be deered the occupier thereof. privided this question, that though neither he always, that if such owner can shew that the property las nt been the other low lords entertained any inhabited for a period of three months or upwards in any year, he doubt, it was submitted as an A. B ques- shall be entitled to a proportional abatement of assessment leted on the same for the said year.\n\ntion to the Judges, because, as the law\n\nAppeal against as\n\nwas to be stated definitively, for the\n\nVIII—Provided always, that if any person from whom payment British Islande, and for all its colonies, esten der pay- of the assessment leviable under this Ordinance may have been the Lords deemed it proper that the meo the\n\ndemanded, and who shall have already paid in the amount demanded decision should have all the weight of him, ohjects to the demand on any other ground than that of which the concurrent opinions of the valuation, it shall be competent to such person, after payment of Judges and of the Lords could give it.\" the amount demanded, to appeal against such demand to the Chief' Justice of the Supreme Court at such time and place as the said:\n\nWe had proposed to give a short critique\n\nChief Justice may be pleased to direct, or that if any person be dissa on the Concert of Thursday last, but tisfied, or objects to any valustion to be made under this Ordinance on the ground of over-valuation, he or they may, within the period of three calender months after such valuation, or when the said Chief: Justice may appoint or direct, appeal to him against such valuation, and that it shall be lawful for him, if he deem it advisable or neces- sary to have any three persons taken from the existing let of special jurors to assist him in ascertaining the question of value which may arise on\n\nDistricts may be\n\nIX—And be it further enacted and ordained, that it shall and n any such appeal. may be lawful for the said Governor, with the advice of the said Executive Council, to exempt such districts or portions of the said Island from the operation of this act, or from the payment of the said rates, as to him and them may seem advisable.\n\nX—And be it hereby enacted and ordained, that un asessment made under the authority of the Ordinance shall be impeached or affected by reason of any mistake in the name of any person liable to assessment, or of any thing chargeable with assessment, provided the directions of this Ordinance be in substance and effect complied with.\n\nclause.\n\nTriplomatic Department.\n\nGOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.\n\nHis Excellency Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade, &c. &c., is pleased to direct that the sunexed Circular to the address of Her Majesty's Consuls in China he published for general information.\n\nBy order,\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nCIRCULAR No.\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE.\n\nVictoria, Hongkong, 31st May, 1845.\n\nI have to acquaint you, that I have received the Commands of Her Most Gracious Majesty, conveyed through the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, sanctioning and confirming Ordinance No. 6 of 1844, intituled, An Ordinance to authorize the execation of the Process of the Supreme Court of Hongkong in certain Parts within the Dominions of the Emperor of China.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. F. DAVIS.\n\nTrue Copy:\n\nADAM W. ELMSLIE,\n\nTo Her Britannic Majesty's Consul at\n\nTisle.\n\nPreamble.\n\nClovernor to p\n\nIsland.\n\nHONGKONG,\n\nANNO OCTAVO, VICTORIE REGINE. No. 2 of 1845.\n\nBy His Excellency JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Esquie, Go- vernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong jad its Dependencies, lur Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Sperin tendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the idvice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.\n\nAn Ordinance to raise an assessed Rate on Janda, houses, and premises, within the Colony of Hongkong, for the upholding of the requisite Police Force therein.\" WHEREAS it is deemed expedient and necessary that the Colony of Hongkong should defray the Expenses attendant on the upholding and maintaining the Police force thereof.\n\n--Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of point haters of the Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that lands. house it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor, with the mies within the advice of the Executive Council, from time to time to appoint two ar more persons for the purpose of estimating the annual vaide of the lands, houses, and premises within the said Island, or within any particular district thereof, which shall be in the tenure or occupation of any person or persons; and the said valuator or valuators shall, when thereunto required, make a retum in writing and on oath of such valuation to the said Governor and Coureff; and also at the time of having valued each property respectively, he proprietor thereal, a written Notification of their having made such or they shall leave or cause to be left with some inmate or the valuation, sod of the Amount thereof.\n\nIl—And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes of this Ordinance, the said Governor and Council may cause a new valuation to be made annually.\n\nILL--And\n\nValuation may be made anually.\n\nAssessment to he Trade on the d\n\nJyment, andromedy for nonpayment.\n\nbe\n\n|\n\nInterpretation\n\nAnd be it further enacted and ordained, that this Ordinaner shall come into operation and take effect, from and after the first day of Julf next ensuing.\n\nPassed the Legislative Council of Hongkong this 93d day of May, 1845. ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,\n\nClerk of Councila.\n\nJ. F. DAVIS, Governor, &c., &c.\n\nour present rulers every thing will be done with the utmost economy: but that does not affect the principle, against which we conter.d.\n\nThe right of the mercantile commu- pity to a voice in the Legislative Council has frequently been urged, not, we think, with much force of reason; for until the revenue of the colony is sufficient to pay its expenses, we do not ace that the in- habitants can claim representation as a right, and upon any other grounds it\n\nMessrs Fiebig and lavac's Concert took place according to announcement on Thurs day evening last, and the attendance was in very respect calculated so answer the ex pectoris of the originators, who well de Berve encouragement for their attempt to the ennuyés of Victoria. afford an evening's rational entertainment to deservedly applauded for his brilliant ex\n\nM. Rarac was eeution of the very difficulty picces allotted to him, sad met with an unanimous encore in the Caroival of Venice.\" His notes are remarkably clear and expressive, and by a himself of a few mannerisms, he might with little attention to his style, in order to divest study become a first rote performer on this most difficult of instruments. M. Fiebig was not so felicitous; his well known skill and tirely unworthy of his efforts. The \"Bella\" execution, were expended on a theme on- he dimittel. le proved himself to possess\n\na correct judgment and highly cultivated\n\ntaste, by the simple yet appropriate manner in which he accompanied M. Ravac, instead of displaying in mastery over the instrument by profuse ornament, at the expense of the melody itself, a fault too common among musicisms. The programme was a striking example of the lied taste which is unfortu Dately I too prevalent in the days with thrown aside for the modern Italian school, regard to music. The great masters are new The Messiah must give place to the Stabal Mater, and Iton Giovanni to Don Pasquale. Verily, Rossint, Donizetti, Belliei, Pacini, Auber, &o, ae but peor substitutes for Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Fiebig and Barac should favour the inhabi tots of Victoria with another Concert, or Gluck, Cimarosa, or Parsiella. If Messrs\n\neven a series of Concerts, and we think they have ample encouragement for so doing, what\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nHONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1245. Is another part of to-day's paper will be found an important Ordinance by the Governor in Council for assessing the inhabitants with the expenses of the Police establishment. The advantages\n\nwhich the community derive from a well organized system of police are so self-evident, that a reason- able rate for its support is perhaps one of would be worse than useless. the few direct taxes that in civilized the case is different with municipal of his great countryman the composer of countries are submitted to without affairs. Here, it is proposed that the Fidelio, or M. Ravac delighting his auditors de tot anticipate whole charge of upholding the police or Vietti; and, if the prevailing taste is so that even those who, like ourselves, should be defrayed by the inhabitants, strongly expressed in favour of modera with the touching compositions of Corelli maiorain that it is a mistake\" policy who thereby, we conceive, establish a music, let us have it good at least, something to overburden the youthful energies of just claim to avail themselves of the con- by Spohr, Cherubini, Mendelssolu, er the colony with taxation, will find much stitutional right of British subjects to be Beyerbeer, for instance. to complain of in being called upon consulted both as to the levying and dis- to contribute their quota for uphollingposal of the fund. In London, though\n\nmormer; and WH\n\na treat it would be for a true lover of nute to hear M. Fisbig displaying his taste nad But exception on some of the majestic sinfonias\n\nPEKING GAZETTE.\n\nhridegroom was\n\nthat\n\nthe force requisite for the protection, nearly one-fourth of the expenses of the health, and comfort of the community. police establishment is paid out of the Con-rial Princess with one of the Mangal chieft THE COURT—The marriage of an Imps- amble of the Ordinance, we conocive to watch over the interests of the rate But though we thus concur in the pre-solidated Fund, there are commissioners has given rise to not a little trouble. The that its enacting clauses are objectionable peyers; and in Edinburgh and (ilasgow, riage celebrated without delay, and he mast defining the power and jurisdiction of the assessment on the inhabitants, they at- to the customary rule, directed that astronu- on two grounds, First, not clearly where the whole amount is raised by an\n\nan early day should be fixed for the core. police, a term of wide signification, and Dually elect representatives,\n\nmony. The Emperor, however, according which in the three United Kingdoms to the sale power of determining the per Board, to ascertain when the heavens would\n\nwho have made to include very different classes of centage, as well as its appropriation. be propitions for the celebration of the nup mical observations should be made by the functions. The Ordinance does not in- These Commissioners have, properly, tials. Unfortunately the members of the for us whether this preventive branch judicial functions; but except that the Board ware not mautious in reading the of justice is to be rendered so efficient in appointment of Superintendent is lodged agus of the stars, and after a great many Hongkong as to supersede the necessity in other hands, they are onnipotent calculations, drawing of horoscopes, and con- for the individual tax which the inhabi as regards the extent and remunera tants have hitherto been compelled totion of the force, as well as in all that persofthe day, they fixed on the 23d April at submit to in maintaining private watch relates to lighting, cleansing, removal\n\nthree o'clock in the morning as the most tion is the more pointedly directed by arrangements of the fire brigade. And at that hour. This is said to be the earliest men--a circumstance to which our atten- of nuisances and obstructions, and the able for that ceremony. The Royal pair joined in drinking from the nuptial cup the intimation from the Chief Magistrate we which appeared in the Cuts MALL only Geomy, these matters are nowhere the celestial empire,\n\nbelieve that in efficiency and hoar at which a marriage has taken place in better managed out of London, if indeed The King of Korea has again asked the the metropolis is an exception. tants who might consider them worth $10\n\nEmperor to sanction is marriage with one a-month. It seems necessary to under-there aced be no fear about the sua patent for that pa pose. The Emperor Were such a plan adopted in Hongkong, of the damsels of the Court, and to grant but stand whether we are to have a police ciency of the supplies, and we should look have hitherto been carried by a body of so generally effective as to supersede the confidently to a gradually improved sys Mandarins deputed by the Emperor for has acceded to his requeat. Such documents\n\na fortnight ago, tendering the services of\n\na night constahle to any of the inhabi-\n\nsultatious with the most celebrate! philosu-\n\nThis will add\n\nit further enacted and ordained, that for the purpose valiation and provi. of levying the said rate, a per Centage at such an amount in the sic:t for periods of hundred as muy annually be determined on by the Governor with the payment, notice of advice of the Executive Council, not exceeding such a sum as sball assessment, period of be equal to the expenses of the Palice establishment, shall be as- necessity for private watchmen, or if, betem from the suggestions of a body of that purpose, but on the present occasion a sessed and paid in respect of every such valuation by the occapier sides this heavy tax, we are to be called judicious and interested commissioners, single civilian only has been despatched or owner of cach parcel of ground, house, or building, within such upon to contribute to the support of a Protection of life and property, sanatory with it to the Prince. time and times as the said Governor, with the advice of the said Council, shall direct, or as is hereinafter provided. In the absence of auch direction and in default of the same being so paid, it shall be Jawful for any person or persons oppainted to collect the suid tax to apply to the Chief Magistrate of Police of the Island, who shall, on satisfactory proof of the same having been duly demanded and being due and\n\nJunsatisfied,\n\ngrant his Warrant to levy the same by distress of any goods on or in the lands, houses, or premises so rated; and that any such\n\nrate, while unpaid, shall be a lien on the property so assessed, or charged therewith, Provided always that when and so often as any assessment shall be made on any such valuation, the particulars and nature of such assessment shall be published in one or more public newspapers of the said Colony.\n\nforee, which, from the intimation alluded regulations, and whatever tends to the another Queen to the numerous Ilarem to, it may be inferred the authorities do comfort and convenience of the public, of bis Royal Highness. not consider to be entirely efficient. are matters of imperative necessity, Tau Lord Mayor of Puking reported, that The other objection we have to the acknowledged by every friend to public beavy showers of snow had fallen in the measure is that the inhabitants are not safety and good order; and the adminis-, during the beginning of March; and allowed a voice in fixing the rate, or tration of the law for securing these ends be looked for, he suggests that a day of public as a good wheat harvest might accordingly io determining the modo in which it is to be applied no other limit being pro- those of the community who are to enjoy Emperor has received his suggestion favour\n\ncan never be placed in better hands than thanksgiving should be appointed. The posed than what may seem to the Co-the benefits, and who are caliel upon to ally. vernor, with the advice of the Executive contribute the means of securing then, Council, sufficient for upholding or main- Without forgetting or under-vaining the taining any extent of force that may he salutary efforts of our rulers to provide an appointed. We have no doubt that with organized protective force, experience\n\nSome Mandarins, of high rank, arrived\n\nfrom Kwang-tung and Yan-an, whose baggage consisted of no less than one thou- ordinary quantity, they were interrogated sand packages. This being rather an\n\nBA-\n\nas to the contents, and the reply that they contained letters and despatelies for the tribunals, no being satisfactory, they were ordered to he opened and inspected. Ten were found to contain documents, but the contents of the remaining 990 have not been made public.\n\nP\n\nOn releasing the Petit Jary from their long and fatiguing labours the fan. Recorde complimented them on the zeal and jade ment which they had displayed, and his Honour stated, that he coincided in every verdict they had given.\n\nlfonso of Lorda, February 17. THOMSON LORD ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.\n\nTHE CHINA MAIL.\n\nSITTING OF THE SCPI Colar, 2 June, 1945,\n\ndesired to name a son, he named 105 dollars,\n\n63\n\nA difter-\n\nstating the Admiral's desire to pay any c FOREIGN Goops with a Britist Chance- munendon for the services of the vossal\n\nT—During the past year numerous in- which Matheson might think G and stonees have occurred of goods buying bren (From the Hongkong Register] This was a writ of error against a judg\n\nA Special Jury was empanneled for thre meat of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland trial of an action raised as the instance of the manensient, but expressed his willingness to\n\nreason. Mr Matheann refused any ve brought to this country for home use or ex- The facts of the case are those John\n\nportation to foreign puits, with labek attach- Grant, a person born in Scotland, but who Crown against the Editor of the Friend of acccptacy couneration on the part of the ed, giving, or purporting to give thean, a had left that cuantry sad become domiciled: Ching, for the publication of the following\n\ncrew might think proper. When desired British character in a foreign market s in Demerara, died in that colony, in the\n\nto name a sum, be said, the Admiral may this, if allowed, would be highly detrimental Article in his 'isue of the 13th July last, Treasurer Tang-ting-ching, the late Gover-year 1887. He had acquired considerate, which was alleged to contain a libel against think very different from us and being to the British manufacturer, the goods have nor of Canton, and who will probably property while in Demerara, and had trans- Sir Thomas Cochrane:-\n\nin every instance been detained by the Reve- reesive the first van Governorship, osmitted saare portion of it to Scotland, at It will be in the all-rtion of many of our The letter M Me Matheson stated that the me officers, as being impuited contrary to recommended his inferiur officers, whe no- the time of his death, a banking house there Loaders, that Her Majesty's ship Wolf, got on a schooner had been detained 18 hours in conve the provisions of the act in that regard; the terially assisted bin in clearing large trace held property of his to the amount of\n\nbank somewhere below Woosneg, and has for the quence of the service rendered to the Wolf only relief given having been that the goods of land in Kan-sub, to the notite of govera- £18,000. Probate of his will was taken timely aid of the Schooner Fetes, Capt. Caer, sier Goddard in addressing the Jury for Mr have been allowed to be returned to the purt ment, as worthy of promotion.\n\nont in Scotland, by tho present appellant, as\n\nwould have been obliged to acrifice he cons and Carr, ill be felt eansiderable difficulty of shipment, the labels or other mode of in shot before she curld here'got n The Wolf took appearing before them in such circumstances.fringement having been firstromovel. These bis executor, and payment of the money due\n\nthe bank at high water, mud and not possibly have Mr Cur bad been accused of publishing a labels have usually contained the Royal arms having boea brained, in was transmitted to It is with touch regret we learn, from a\n\nbocu fiased again, without grandly reducing the dead hel, \"toulously, winkedly, and malicious of Enghel, will the name, in English, of Demerara. The law officers of the Crown weight on board. Then fast descried by the Fern, y\" Mr Carr, he believed, knew very little the importer in London, or other place in lang memorial of Lea, Governor-Genersi of\n\nclaimed from the executor the son of £1800 ahr, the Way had a sign.d of distress lying, ani Che-eang and Fo-keen, that the rise arup as legacy duty duo from him in respect of there can be no doubt that, hack it came in to be high and in these seas Sir Thomas, except on a person holding a the United Kingdom, ss the case may be, the in Pormasa hoe failed, also that the Granary the property of the testator existing in Scot- whilst she was lying in a mitical position, she\n\nname and description of the contents bring is now exhausted, and that the price of grain Lad. The case went before the Court of\n\nwand ham gore bo pres. The Pinot Pan niongailia, however, in this case did not act as a judge, also given in the English language, evidently is daily rising in Fo-keen. Leu has ardered Exchequer in Scotland, where Ford Gillies and took out all ver artament, 15 send 41,42 th. The ly Judge of Admiralty here is the intending to envey the impression in a extensive purchases to be made in Che-keang delivered a judgment declaring that the\n\nshot, and it was net wat relieved of this weight clut | Lord Chief Justice. Neither does he accuse foreign market that the goods were of British and other places, and wishes that the public legary duty as payable in the manner de ser altercaties fabu to the her guns overhard, either in his publie or his private character, time since of a parcel of esses containing se again loated; without this since she had no bin ofhay rbing eriminal, or of an offence mamifacture. An instance occurred a short granaries should be opened.\n\nmanded. The prosent writ of error was then brought. The ease bad been argued vage, and before any Adiralty socte sum\n\nor go to pisees on the ink. This is a clear case of which implied guilt. He never acted him paper for letter-writing being brought for of coruption. He only accuses him that he CANTON—Rumour states that the light two years ago, and now came on again for awarded the Foren for for aid would be siderable.\n\nexportation, etch sheet of paper having thos was not so bieral as he ought to be, A\n\nword Barle\" primed in the usual manner at ning struck the palace of Lieutenant-Gver. argument by one counsel on a side.\n\nAt the time the affair occurred, tar Admisal Sir Me Kelly, on the part of the appellant\n\ncriminal libel has been filed against Mr Carr, the left hand corner, and the packages them- nor [wang, and damaged, bis snutf-box. Themas Duebrang was at Chusni, when it arced. In consegnace of the way the accusation selves containing the paper the Brilish aras This, it is said, has made so strong an impres¦ (Mr Anderson was with him,) fosisted that between him are the Cipam of the Vares, that the has been brought, he was pot to great ex- einblazoned thereon. They were, of course, sion upon the grandee, that he has since been the legacy duty was not payable here. The question: of compensation atould be lett open ancil duty was demanded under 36 Geo. III, c. wrapt in deep thought and revery.\n\nSir 1 homas Cochrane avtored to this enlony. Altor penser, as the frown pays on costs; and if immediately detained, and application WAY he seeds, as I aux sure he will, he will made for permission to retard them to the 152, sec. 2, which enacted, that all legacies Thonan return, the cwners generaly waived\n\nabove the amount of £20, given by any will\n\nall claims fre salvage, marely requesting the Rear rill here to pay all his own expenses. Be port of shipment, but the intention in this (From the Singapore Free Press, 1st May.) or testamentary instrumcat, shoald pay le-\n\nAdmiral to remouense the Captain and eve for their sides the case has been deferred from time instance being so evident, the goods wer The Criminal Sessions were finished on gacy duty. Fe submitted that thang those elite similar te their own, Sir Thomas Cachane on long ago. Fir Thomas might have put ed, which was accordingly done,\n\ntrouble, never doubling then retunded by a spirit to time, whereas it might have been brought ordered to be seized and the parties prosecut Saturday Jast, the 28th ult. having lasted words were of the most extensive and gene rash hudumaly reward de vore of Fist himself into the witnesa box, and so might ence is made where the name and inscription four weeks, 18 persons were discharged on ral kind, the aut did not apply out of Great Majesty's slig. In doing thy they committed a Mr Waller, and thee we should have had an on the label is in the French or other foreign Saturday, no witnesses coming forward Britain. The aut could not extend even to\n\ncapital cere, to who justice and magnanimity opportunity of seeing what was right and language, although the British armus may be against them. No blame attaches to the our colonies, without some word expressly ey had entrusted the liquidatio of the cases what was wrong, or at least we should have Police in this instance, as the parties had including them, and there were no anche Captain and are of the Kareemid not fi\n\nengraved thereon, it being considered that words here. That being the case, the gene print much ganeanu facdage, and taking advantage\n\nhad an opportunity to cross-examine them, the act is not thereby infringed in const- been regularly bound over to appear nord\n\nquence. Timca. give evidence. In some cases there is leral rule of law applied that the personal pro- of the antideles is displast, he offered to award and of proving that Mr Matheson was not informed of the facts. Mr Bradshaw, the doubt that bribery has been resorted to inperty followed the fair of the domicile of its all $10, in the proportion of $4 for the quain\n\nfirst officer of the Fire, was on beard when I\n\nTHE HOPELESS SESSION. order to keep back evidenco. In van oase, a owner, and consequently as the domicile of $20 Ckiy Oficer; $16 Gunnar; $1 each for the Crew- charge of murder, the widow of the murder the testator here was Demerara, the low of take advantage of us Iter &iral's meannes, ant dewee was tatran in this court before a Com\n\nWe need actualy gette tha: Catón Carr would not the Wulf hoisted sigands of distress: his evi-\n\nWhat change has come over the public ed person, though she had appeared before that place unst govern the administration of\n\nwithin these few years Where be all the in is instance Her Majesty's ship has got off missioner. Mr Carr did not ferret out the the Grand Jury, was not to be found when his assets. Prubate but necessarily been fie fad the Fizen been the party cunt talon out in Scotland, because the Bankers\n\neager conjectures regarding the grent mea cireunastanees; \"hey were brought to him by the case came on for trial.\n\nwan in expardy unit the readers a Captain Carr, who complained of the waut Parliament aas supposed to lie pregnant? sares with which to coming session of who were the debtors had not honestly paid aquistanes, we would have had the matter certleil 1\n\nof liberality. F. M's Ships are generally People do not even take the treble to fore had been paid, but the claim here was what was due, and the probate duty there a very different mumer. Sie Thores mental op-\n\nvalued at £1000 per gan-the Wolf has 18 So which at times appear scleri -wor for legacy duty, which was clearly not pay\n\nguess what may be coming. Suficient for guns, nod may, therefore he vained at able As a very strong instance of the mis\n\nLeco fally opened to the importance of the service,\n\nThe day is the evil thereof. They will see and if such a question were left to his award, wo har 18,000, and for saving her 100 dollars are\n\nthe debates when they begin. Public emio- chief that would arise if the doctrine now\n\nIf Sir Thomas close to take ou nat the slightest doubt that the which awardedi. contended for by the Crowe could be sup\n\nsufficient for the 'em, would hure aweled bits himself the office of fixing the reward, be it is as languil is the opening of St A Chinese was executed on Monday week ported, it was only necessary to mention this\n\nchongauls for the War. We regret exeedingly to\n\nought to have exercised the strictest care to Stephen's as it has long been at the opening for murder. He taule a long speech when case, Suppose an Englishman resident They injure the dignity of the series not a litte: Carr, hearing that Sir Thomas was about to\n\nnatice such a crtions is the me now mantined. make himself acquainted with the facts. Mr of the patent theaires, No new pieces are the scaffold, protesting is innocence, abroad, or a foreigner traded with a person\n\nronounced as in preparation. Somo leading danouncing the witnesses against biu for in England, and at the death of the former a\n\nand alcough no thinking man would jrdys unferour-\n\nactors have cutired, and no onw ones ara commener an action against him, made every advertised. Nobody asks wht is to succeel perjury and threatening to beat them bill of exchange accnpted by the person io\n\nably of those whose merits Eater zee: so often tested, enquiry, in order that if he had done wrong. Lol Stanley in the Tybalt line, or Mr in conacquence of the lile minded actions of their afer his death. He acquitted the Judge this conmry was ranning, no parment of peat Chief, we are bound to acolodge, that to\n\nbe might rearess it by making an ample adstone in the heasy tragedy. There are and fury of all blame, as they had only acted that bill of exclange could be made without\n\napology but the more he did enqore, the to be rehearsals on Monday at Sir Robert the thoughtless and ipsmant, such tr.les uvey an according to the evidence, and be declared a deduction from the legacy duty. No one unfavourable, though file impression of the nasal stronger be found the facts. To costine Peri's (in full dress) and the Dake of Well- that in order to remove all cars from the cook pretend that a rale so mischievous to chare. Si Theme Cochrane, if we recoller Jibel it most the show that the party is Judge's mind, he, the prisoner, would bang commerce could exist, and the Hanse must, right, has been a candidate for parliamentary hưn charged with something that is criminal.ington's but the maies of the pinses in himself and he accordingly placed his head in therefore, act on the Authorities already des\n\npar: once, at least, he stood for a seaport, Mr Bradshaw's evidence is to this effect has invited his friends to be early in their\n\npreparation are not asked. the balter. He was very collected, and took cided, which had settled that the law of the\n\nthe pret buffetini inhalants of which are slip The Wolf was in great distress, firing gutus, attendances but the Opposition Fader a polite leave of those near him by bowing place where the testator died nust goverato distinguish himself in the nature of his country dwares; should the gallant Adunai ever again sek\n\nand baving her ensign with the Uniou down, ems to dust whether it is worth the to them, and at last, shaking hands with the the adutinistration of his personal property.\n\nThe Fire stood in and sent her boat to the while of his friends to we trust the affair we matrate will be prestained off to offer assistance. The Fixes had a 'Comeli whether it is worth tas while ot come, and Mr exceptioner, was launched off.\n\nThe Solicitor-General (with whom was bit the hastings, as we ate afrail would shin large pantity of specie on board. She re- bis to stay away. The Three Mays convinted of the rauder Me Crompton) did not deny the existence of in the eyes of any consergy intarestol in the\n\nThe tradesmen evince ceived 16 guns and 500 shut, and he consime animation in farbisting up the Houses, of Captain RBIsos of the Bluck twt, were some general rule as to the law of domicile, mesutile -hipping of Geet Britain.\" executed on Saturday last, and acknowledged but cuntended that it had nothing to do with\n\ndered the Voit would have been in extreme The following were the Jurymen on the\n\nand the grooms in exercising the cream- their guilt.\n\na case like the present. The principle of case,Thos. Jones, Esq., Duacan Flether, danger bl a gale come out. law that raust govern this case was, that Es, Angus Fletcher, Bay. F. T. Bush, Esq. aliona tendency to prevent others from giving pervade th actors and spectatus. Never coloured horses of the state-carriage; int TheJulge here asked, \"had not this public with these exceptions, apathy and langu where the property was balaistered the J. Leffler, Esq. and George Findlay, Esq. TRULY SEAMAN-LIKE CONDUCT. Captain legacy duty must be paid. If there had beeu The attorney-fineral in opening the case chassistance?—Mr Goddard said he thought before it the public appear to expect so Captain Caldwell, fate of the ship Durchester, of a specifs appropriation of the property in stated that this was an information on the ! \"xpressly the reverse, as it showedsuch per- little from a session will it be possible to Boston, tas pebliched the following amount: Sotland, this rule would not have applied, part of the Queen, to defend the character\n\nsous their age would be taken up by the press disappoint that little? Our faith in the Mr Bradshaw's videuce was then read. disappointing powers of Parliament is great. Captain Brition, of the Rochester, fell ja | but there was no appropriation The money of Sir Thomas Cochrane, who had awarded with the Dorchester at sea, a pertent Greek, recoveral there formed part of the general a sum of 100 dollars for services rendered and at great hazard rescued her officers, crew, assets, and was therefore liable to the lagney by the Fire to the off, as the fall salvage\n\nto an anchor near her. She had 144,000 severely trial-Sperlotur. and passengers from an untimely fate. duty. He contended that all the cases which claimed that Mr Car, well knowing the Caphan Caldwell says, \"The Rochester was bad been dated on this subject did not premises, took the occasion to vilify the stroring a course which would bare carried touch the subject of duncile, but related Commander-in-Chief as having acted aritra her about three miles north of us. The mo❘ wholly to that of the appropriation artit that when services were rendered to H. M. Barisfied with the award—He thinks the ons example of official economy. A crea-\n\nor non- rily, haughtily, and unjustly, and to state\n\nLouis Philippe's Ministers have get a tort- ment the wreck was seen, the course of the appropriation of the property, The Rochestor was altered for one directly for us. gentleman farther contended, that where a Ships, no adequate reward would be paid, remuneration illiberal, and injurious to other tion of Peers was intended, and the names of At that time,\" said Captain Britton to one party acted in the discharge of dutios of To this charge Mr Care at Girst pleaded vessels requiring assistance—Thorew help the Pencs were almost authoratively an afterwards, I had no idea that there could administration to a deceased person, the Not Guilty, but to-day he has added as a to take the guns, &c., on board—Witness nounced. Thone persons, of course, would be a living being on board of her; but I legacy daty is payable in respect of the money farther plea, that all he had stated was true, did so, and was powell in consequence—The be bound to Ministers for the coming session; have made it au invariable rate through life, he received and dealt with in that charseter, and published for the benefit of the pallie acevant in the Friend of China was not enig but what a waste of the coin of Court fa whenever I see a wreck, to get as near her The Lord Chancellor put the following Hy was aware that whenever there was angered The Fizen was detained 24 hours- vour! Ministers take second thought, and A. Matheson, Esq., being called as a vit postpone their creation until after the dis- as possible, and ascertain all I can about her, questions to the Judges:A B., a British Fattempt to check such objectionable publica- and make sure that there is nobody aliva on subject, born in England, resided in a Bri- tions, there was raised an outery that it was\n\nnews and sworn, deposed, that the Fizm be-\n\ncussion on their whole policy in the Cham- board before I leave her. We supposed, hetish colony, made his will, and died domiciled for the purpose of curbing the fibres and the chip of Jardine, Matheson, & .. hers. This is the true economy: every sup\n\nawarded nothing to the Crew continued, it was some timbership which there. At the time of his death debts were Press. The Government bero had no wish\n\nporner will wat himself down for a peerage, Secretary of Sir Thomas Cochrane called and each one prize will attract many gamblers had been drifting about here for months;awing to him in England; his executor in to do so.--an ollicer discharging the high and wished him to do so—the Viren bad for it. As if to show practically that the but resolving that I would adhere to my rule, England collected these debts, and out of duty of Admiral, and in this case acting as a I altered my course, although we all thought the money he collected paid legacies to cars\n\nJudge of the Admiralty, is complained of it useless at the time. Thus, by following tain legatees in England are such legacies a partial statement of the frots is brought the service rendered by hue was very made one sample Peer—M. Jaubert, an Op. this noble rule, Captain Britton was the able to the payment of the legacy daty? forward; for if the whole facts had been slight, and the crew were not employed at positionist. Spectator.\n\nAll—Captati Care was not satisfied with the mexas, in the hauds of God, of saving the He had fransed the question in this general stated. Sir Thomans Cochrane would have\n\nAdmiral's award, but did not ask witness's lives of 45 human beings, and in the circle of form, beranse the statute equally affected suffered no damage. A persoa in such vir-\n\nadvice as the course he ought to punue their friends and acquaintance, of making the England and Scotland,\n\ncumstances ought not to be so negligent as hearts of hundreds sing for joy. Captain The Judges requested short time to to pablish partial statements. The Admiral he is the assistance he gave was very im- portaut—Mr Waller did not make his state- Britton received me on board \"his ship with consider their answer. They retired for is charged with gross partiality and verup-\n\nment a upoo bis own knowledge, but na a welcome and a shake of the hand which this purpose, and at the end of about half an tion as a judge. You\" (the Jury) will not\n\nwhat he noderstood--Witness thinks that ac went to the heart, and spoke at once the sea- hour returned, when\n\nfail to perceive the motive on the face of the man and the gentleman. So long as memory Lord Chief Justice Tindal read their article.\n\ncording to Captain Carr's statement of the ser Will you ever believe chat Sir\n\nvices reutered, 100 Dollars was ootanfficient, retains her seat, I shall not forget his kind- answer, to the effect that, though the words Thomas was influenced by such motives, and ness. Taking me into his cabin, Consider,' of the statute could not apply everywhere, that this was published for the beaclit of the\n\nCross-examined by the Attorney-General said he, everything here at your service, the principle which ran through all the le public, and not to gratify some private feeling saw nothing on the part of Sir Thomas or Here are my clothes, use as many of them asided case was, that the domicile of the de- against him? It may produce the most\n\nMr Waller to lead him to believe they wished you need. And such was his treatment of ceased party gave the law which regulated prejudicial effoot for if this article is ciroz\n\nto retreat from their offer to give a proper us votil we arrived at New York, and then, the distribution of the personal property; lated among the mercantile wavy here, should remuneration. When asked to manie a sunt, witness said high Government officers were said he, Here is my purse at your service this ride was not affected by the situs of the another of Her Majesty's Ships got inte\n\nften stingy, and he believed Sir Thomas was for what moung you need? flow different personal property itself, or by the place tu similar circumstances, it would deter them the result, and how diferent must be the fee which the administrator received that pras from residering their services. I have au particular trouble. ings of Captain Britton from what they porty, and that, consequently, the law appli- thing to say against the serving rendered by\n\nThe Attorney-General said that Sie Thomas was of necessity discharging an office of high wonid have been, if he bad passed by and re-cable to this case was the law of the colony the Vire taking out guts, shat, &n. ported, Lat. 50 N., long. 20 W, saw a ship, where the deceased was domiciled at the This, I admit, it was a clear caso of salvage, Ministerial duty, se at that time there was no Totally dismasted, sea, making a complete time of his death, and was not the law of Sir Thomas bad to wish to deny this. Te Court of Admiralty here, breach over her: weather equally, and im England, consequently that the legacy daty said to his Secretary, Mr Waller, I know The Judge, in susuming up the case, said ing on night; could ascertain nothing further was not payable here.\n\nnothing of this case you will call on Methe bel was divided into two parts first a that the Lord had sent at thers to marry her, abour ber. Such are too often the reports, The Lord Chancellor expressed his fall Matheson and learn what be claims.\" Mrtement of facts, and secondly a commen! Betty, without much hesitation, replied,The but I hope we shall see no more of them. coneurrence with this opinion, and went Waller did call, and Mr Mathieson very tary on these facts. The first was passed Lord's will be done.\" Edinburgh Evening Courant.\n\ninto a very exact examination of the cases liberally refused to receive anything. Mr over. It was for the Jury to judge if there\n\nThe Premier\n\nThe Fixes was ordered by the Wolf to conte but on the present vesion they will be Tarls of silver on hoard. Thinks it was in\n\nsequence of the relief afforded by her that\n\nthe Wolf got off. Two vessels bave sincr bero wrecked there. The crew were all dis-\n\nHOW TO MAKE A PEERAGE GO VURTHEST,\n\nnot then returned to Hongkong Me Waller competition is open to all, Ministers have\n\nAN AMRICAN CONE AND 19 Swann, A Colonel of the Chised Sanes Army having rofused to obey the esmuunds of his superior cfficer, with sentenced by the courbeartial in↔ be deprised ní his sword for one month.\" On his weapon being demanded of her, he aroes, and in the mud gale and solema amer declared, that he didn't own one: that the sword be had been accustomed to wear Giln't being to him; but he had no dobi Mr Baker, the jeweller, f whow be hired it B waining days, would int it to the Court for the re quired mouth on the most reasonable terras 1\n\n'rovidence Guzeite\n\nFace ResigNA CON,-Deacon Mavis of Lyne Crevicu, Farge alludder and exemplary man, was exceedingly cocentre in some of his noticus. His courtship is in sus, was as follows:-aving The any pointed his horse, with only a nap-ssin fer a sad, be rede in front of the hause wherea Betty Lec lived, and, without dismounting, reguesial\n\nJetty to come to linn; on her eing, he told her\n\nyu this subject, which, he said, completely. Waller natted what compensation would be was a necessity first to publish these facts; AN EYE TO THE FUTURE—At a meeting, von justified the opinions of the learned Judges enough for the crew of the Vixen. Mr secondly was it necessary to publish this red by the friends of Clay, held in Woodstock, All sorts of people are plunging into the He begged to add, that the reasons why the Matheson said about 105 dollars, to which cotourstory. Had Mr Carr rested with a Vend, e ele oratore grew arazingly exontent, frightful whirlpool of railway speculation.Judges had been summoned to give the Mr Waller answered, say in round numbers statement of facts, it is probable you exchiring, ever heard of a woulan's warning Bankers and merchants, barristers and baber-House their resistance in this case was, tint 100 dollars. Mr Care puts an imaginary would not have been troubled with this paper sun after Jana K. Polk P\" and den pude a dashers, bankers' clerks and doctors of divi- as the law was to be stated definitively for case to injure Sir Thomas. Ho says, bail secution. Sir Thomas was not likely to have sig diffene pause, if inviting an awwer. nity, Members of Parliament and keepers of the British islands and for all our colonies, the Vixeu been the party that was in jeopac brought an autiou, and he was sure his friend did exclaims a fair decorat in the cred, win gambling-houses, old oren and young lads, the Lords had deemed it proper that the de dy,\" &. The last paragraph could only be the Attorney-General would not have taken hd boy married about six months proves, Bat married women who desire to have a good cision abould have all the weight which the pennet by some person who had a personal up such a case. But this was not the sting have en tha! intends to.\" speculation on their own account, and spin-concurrent opinions of the Judges and of spleen against the admiral. If any of you of the libel. It is for you to say whether Sir sters who think that an addition to their their Lordships could give it. He moved had been called on to act as arbiter, and ia: Thomas is charged with corruption, and if soị\n\nMas Lova, Harmony House, Concord, near fortune might give them an opportunity of that the judgment should be given for the consequence of your award had been accused it is a huel. To order that words may con- Kusing Pains,” is the adureas of a school stress in sharing it with another-all, all are rushing plaintiff in error.\n\nNew South Wales. of corruption, you would feel what damages stitute a libel, they must charge a man with on in the same course-dying after the wheel\n\nLord Brougham and Lord Campbell save ought to be given in the present case. The something criminal: but in writing whatever of fortune, which for the present is laden at rally expressed their concurrence with the affidavit of Me Walle, which will be read to, tends to bring a man into contempt is a libel. every spoke with the shares of some railway motion of the noble and leverned. Lord. you, states, that he wrote to Mr Malevon The Jury, after a short consultation, res company—Morning Post.\n\nby the direction of Sir Thomas, a letter torneil à verdict of not guilty.\"\n\nJudgment for the plaintiff is error.\n\nFon—Never tell a mun he's a frol. In the Grat place he won't believe you; in the next beŋl be sure i think you one jou buying 10,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-043 - Sir Bonham - 1853 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234460, "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": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4]", "content_text": "14\n\nHONG KONG\n\nEncl. 12 in No. 33.\n\nREPORTS EXHIBITING THE PAST AND PRESENT\n\nEnclosure 12 in No. 33.\n\nABSTRACT of Causes under cognizance at the Chief Magistrate's Office, and the Court of Petty Session, during the year 1853.\n\nCOURT OF PETTY SESSIONS.\n\n \n Number of Causes.\n Civil Causes, how disposed of.\n Criminal Causes, how disposed of.\n \n \n Civil.\n Criminal.\n Total.\n \n \n Of which were\n Decree for Plaintiff.\n Decree for Defendant.\n \n \n Non-suited.\n Referred to the Supreme Court.\n Total Number of Defendants.\n \n \n Convicted and Punished.\n Discharged without Punishment.\n Released on Security.\n \n \n Deported.\n Committed or Bailed for trial at the supreme Court.\n Ordered to find Security or to quit the Colony.\n \n\n1\n\nSTATE OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS. 15\n\nEnclosure 13 in No. 33.\n\nRETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been tried in the Supreme Court of Hong Kong during the Year 1853.\n\n228\n\nHONG KONG.\n\nEncl. 13 in No. 33.\n\n \n Number of Cases.\n Number of Persons.\n CRIME.\n Sentence.\n \n \n \n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n Convicted.\n Acquitted.\n \n \n Death.\n Hard Labour, over Death recorded.\n Transportation,\n Hard Labour, One Year.\n \n \n \n 876\n 404\n 472\n 252\n 63\n 81\n \n \n \n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n \n \n \n 8\n \n 788\n 12\n 390\n \n \n \n \n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n \n \n \n \n \n 2\n \n 25\n \n 52\n 13\n \n \n \n 5\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n 14\n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nCivil Causes consisted of Claims for Debt or Damages not exceeding $50; for Police Rates; and by Seamen for Wages, &c.\n\n27\n\n1\n\nAmong the Criminal Causes were for-\n\nLarceny\n\nBurglary\n\n283\n\n7\n\n2\n\n3\n\n1\n\n1\n\nAbduction of girls under 16 years of age\n\nAssault\n\nAttempting to commit felony\n\nBurglary\n\nLarceny\n\nLarceny in a dwelling house\n\nManslaughter\n\nMisprision of felony\n\nRobbery\n\nMurder\n\nPiracy\n\nMurder on the high seas\n\nReceiving Stolen Property\n\nDemanding Money with Menaces\n\nRelating to Coin\n\nUnlawful possession of Property (under Police Ordinance)\n\nMalicious damage to Property\n\nAssaults\n\nVagrancy\n\nKeeping Public Gambling Houses, &c.\n\nFalse Balances and Weights\n\nObtaining goods under false pretences\n\nPerjury\n\nPiracy\n\nPiracy with endangering life\n\nPiracy with wounding\n\nReceiving goods obtained by false pretences\n\nBreaches of Regulation for Sale of Spirituous Liquors\n\nUnlicensed Retailing of Opium\n\nReceiving stolen goods\n\nPerjury and Malicious Prosecution\n\nRobbery with arms\n\nDesertion and Refusal of Duty by Seamen-\n\nIn British Vessels\n\nRobbery with wounding\n\n \n Number of Causes.\n Civil Causes how disposed of.\n Criminal Causes, how Disposed Of.\n \n \n Civil.\n Criminal.\n Total.\n \n \n Of which were\n Decree for Plaintiff.\n Decree for Defendant or Dismissal, in nature of non-suit.\n \n \n Total Number of Defendants.\n Convicted and Punished.\n Discharged without Punishment.\n \n \n Released on Security.\n Committed or bailed for trial at the supreme Court, and Court of Petty Sessions.\n Committed to Prison pending delivery to the Chinese Authorities, according to Treaty.\n \n \n Ordered to find Security or to quit the Colony.\n M.\n F.\n \n \n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n M.\n F.\n \n \n 1,171\n 16\n 1,155\n 15\n 1\n \n \n \n 1,784\n 102\n 779\n \n 509\n 32\n \n \n 85\n \n 236\n \n 6\n \n \n \n 45\n \n 50\n \n \n \n \n\nThe 16 Civil Causes were for the most part Claims for Police Dues-\n\nTOTAL WRITS ISSUED BY MAGISTRATES.\n\n \n Warrants.\n Summonses.\n Subpoenas.\n Distress.\n Arrest.\n Search.\n Total.\n \n \n 937\n 267\n 81\n 39\n 2\n \n 1,326\n \n\nUnder the head of \"Causes how disposed of,\" are included all such causes as were brought before the Court for decision or investigation. Those which did not proceed beyond the issue of a summons or warrant, will be found under the head of \"Total Writs issued.\"\n\n(Signed)\n\nC. B. HILLIER,\n\nChief Magistraté.\n\nRemarks.\n\n \n Year and under.\n No. of Cases.\n No. of Persons.\n F\n No. of Cases.\n No. of Persons.\n Charges Postponed.\n abandoned.\n \n \n (a) Two years' imprisonment and $100 fine to the Queen, and further imprisonment until such fine be paid; the period of imprisonment to be reduced to one year if the child is restored to its father within a month from the date of sentence.\n \n \n (b) Prisoners tried on an information for receiving stolen goods.\n \n \n (e) Strongly recommended to mercy.\n \n \n (d) Witnesses absent.\n \n \n (e) Prosecution withdrawn, prisoners convicted, the one for obtaining goods under false pretences, the other for receiving the same.\n \n\n(Signed)\n\nW. H. ALEXANDER, Deputy Registrar.\n\nN. R. MASSON, Acting Deputy Registrar.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 234788, "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": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8]", "content_text": "He could not\n\nthat his application\n\nbe entertained at that period; and although he has\n\nsince\n\nin consequence of the smallness\n\nof his\n\nexperienced\n\ngreat difficulty in supporting\n\nhis family, he has refrained hitherto from troubling your honour on the subject. Petitioner hopes\n\nto\n\nthe\n\npresent time how he served\n\nthe Government in various capacities for above 7 years, that portion of his services preceding his appointment to the situation\n\nhe holds at\n\nhis\n\npresent; is enumerated\n\nin his former petition, and\n\nthe testimonials of character\n\nwhich\n\nwere submitted with\n\nthat petition he\n\nherewith submits again. He\n\nbegs\n\nIf the\n\nBefore the close of present month, Your Petitioner will have completed a period\n\nof service\n\nin\n\nyour\n\nhonour's office, his salary\n\nsince his admission has\n\nbeen $10 a month, which, from being paid chiefly in English Coin,\n\nand the\n\ndepreciated value of this\n\ndescription of money in\n\nthe\n\nmarket, has for\n\na long\n\ntime\n\npast actually diminished", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-046 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Bowring - 1854 [5-19／8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 238780, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6]", "content_text": "187\n\n51\n\nNEW ADVERTISEMENT.\n\nSTOLEN.\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\n0. S. N. Gosterman.\n\nLADY'S GOLD WATCH, made by PATEAU, Liezen, enamelled back, with gold face. To it, were attached by an enamelled Chain, an Antique Silver Coin of Egypt and a modern gold Coin. Any information touching the same, will be thankfully rewarded, an application being made to W. C. HUNTER, Mingqua's Hong No. 1, Canton.\n\nCanton, 26th March, 1856\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nHONGKONG, TUESDAY, 1 APRIL, 1856.\n\nNOTICE The Hours of DIVINE SERVICE in the Cathedral Church of St. John,--on Sundays at 11 A.M., and 4 P.M.\n\nNOTICE--The Hours of PUBLIC WORSHIP in the UNION CHURCH, Hollywood Road, are on the Sabbath at 3 P.M., and 6.30 P.M., and on the Evening of every Wednesday at half-past 7.\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nAt Hongkong, on 25th March, Mrs. WILLIAM POTT, of a Daughter.\n\nAt Hongkong, on the 26th March, the Wife of Captain ROMP, 36th Regiment, of a Daughter.\n\nMARRIAGE.\n\nAt Plymouth, on January 12, CHRISTOPHER HAWKINS WALrY, Esq., Lieut., 41st Madras Infantry, son of the late Lieut-General W. Wilson, C.B., to FRANCESCA HENRIETTA, daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sir T. Fellowes, K.C.B.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nAt Shanghai, on the 22nd March, after a short but severe illness, KIRBY SMITH, Esq., aged 53 years, Editor and Proprietor of the North-China Herald.\n\nAt St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's-park, January 6, DANIEL H. JONES, Esq., of Canton, aged 2 years.\n\nCHINA SHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS\n\nAt London, January 7, Omar Pasha, from Shanghai; 23, Mirage, from Shanghai; 23, Paulina Down, from Foo-chow; 26, Neptune's Fury, from Foo-chow; 26, North Star, from Whampoa; 26, Dutchman, from Shanghai; 27, Tagus, from Shanghai; 27, Vein, from Philliph; 27, King Fisher, from Canton; 27, Contest, from Canton.\n\nAt Liverpool, January 18, Emily, from Shanghai; 23, Trades, from Shanghai; Feb. 1, Argo, from Shanghai.\n\nDEPARTURES\n\nJanuary 10, Jane and Isabella, for Hongkong; 20, Sutlej, for Hongkong; Feb. 5, Anne Longton, for Hongkong; Challenger, for Hongkong.\n\nSHANGHAI SHIPPING.\n\nARRIVALS\n\nMarch 9, Muckles, [Am.] from San Francisco; 9, Wild Wave, from Glasgow; 9, Flora, from Liverpool; Elisa Moore, from London; Jana Libby, from Sydney; Caran, from New Zealand; 9, Algerine, from Sydney.\n\nDEPARTURES\n\nMarch 8, J. Jobson, [Am.] for New York; Idolo, for Sydney.\n\nPASSENGERS.\n\nPer Fiery Cross, Messrs. Scott, Park, Jr., Meechier, and Musson; Per Moresby, Miss Gamaliel, Captains Endicott and Boston, and Capt. Bale, R.N., Messrs. Mara, Meil, Alisch, Dryadele, Firman, Jack, Holdworth, Muller, McAmire, Anchen, and 18 Chinese.\n\nINDIA EXCHANGES.\n\n...\n\n[No. 14.--April 1, 1856.]\n\nThe Hongkong Register.\n\nIt will be remembered that most of the prisoners were inhabitants of the village of Bocca Tigrin, which is at the back of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s office and godowns; and they seemed to have had a good many friends who cried out sufficiently loudly on the injustice of condemning innocent men to death to induce Sir John Bowring to give the men a second trial before himself and the Executive Council.\n\nAfter a lengthened examination of witnesses during two days, we are informed by eye witnesses that the guilt of the men was, if anything, made more apparent.\n\nThe Governor has, however, in deference to popular clamor, seen fit to remit the punishment of death.\n\nBoth in the new trial and in the commutation of punishment, Sir John Bowring has acted in an exceedingly improper manner.\n\nHer Majesty has instituted an Order of Valor to be called the \"Victoria Cross,\" which is only to be conferred during acts of signal bravery before the enemy.\n\nAs to the trial, we have said that we have been informed by eye witnesses that the guilt of the men was, if anything, made more apparent.\n\nThe fire on board the Fiery Cross made such speedy work with the coin that Captain Thoms has to regret the loss of the whole of his cabin furniture and clothes.\n\nThe mail to 11th February is very strong as to the peace congress in Paris, and that is the sum of the news--all else is \"leather and prunella.\"\n\nThe Levant, of 382 tons, for Australia, formerly an American (U. S.) vessel but now flying the Hawaiian flag, was seized by orders of Sir James Stirling for a breach of the Chinese Passenger Act.\n\nThe offence committed is that she had not the requisite papers from the Emigration Officer.\n\nIf she had 320 passengers on board, as stated, she also committed a breach in carrying an excess of passengers.\n\nBut, in addition, she has no ship's papers--all of which, or even two of which, may be considered a good ground for proceeding to the utmost extremity of the law--forfeiture of the ship, and fine and imprisonment of the parties engaged.\n\nBut then arises the question--What are the passengers to do?\n\nWe have heard it stated that the charterer, or owner, or whatever character he holds, has received from 30,000 to 35,000 dollars for passage money, while it is asserted that the value of the ship at the outside is not 10,000.\n\nIt is not an agreeable position for the government to find themselves in, having deprived 320 men of their passage of the value of 30,000 say, and to find themselves with only 10,000 towards reinstating the unfortunate wretches in their former position.\n\nIt looks to us as if the \"Chinese Passenger Act\" is bad, or that it is badly administered; perhaps a little of both, but most likely more of the latter.\n\nIn the first place, the supervision of the ship is not compulsory on the part of the Government.\n\nSecondly, it is only to begin on the application of the Captain to the Emigration Officer.\n\nWas it not advisable to have interfered earlier?\n\nWe desire the death of no man, but so long as the statute book affixes death as the punishment of the highest order of crimes, so long ought these crimes to be punished with death.\n\nAnd we know no greater crime than that of armed gang robbery, where the life of the defenders of property is taken.\n\nIn the case of the Levant, the vessel came into harbor on 16th March, was laid on for passengers, and even when seized on the 23rd ultimo, had been given to the Emigration Officer.\n\nPROCLAMATION.\n\nJOHN BOWRING.\n\nGovernor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThe Sentence of Death recorded against Wong-AKUT, convicted of murder at the last Criminal Session of the Supreme Court, is commuted to that of Transportation for Life; the Sentence of Death passed on Chan-Wah-Kong, Tam-Kut-Heng, Lo-Ah, Cha-Anboon, and Luk-AuH, also convicted at the above Sessions of the same crime, is commuted to that of Transportation for Life; and a Free Pardon is granted to Tam-AKUT, similarly convicted on the same occasion.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command\n\nW. T. MERCER,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nGOD SAVE THE QUEEN.\n\nGiven at Victoria, Hongkong, this 26th Day of March, 1856.\n\nLately there have been numerous desertions from the ranks of the 59th Regiment, and many more would doubtless have occurred and the means of getting from the island been as direct as they were when we had more whale-ship recruiting here than we have lately had.\n\nIt being suspected that a number of deserters were secreted on board the American whaler Canton Packet, Inspector Jarman with a party of police proceeded on board that vessel on the evening of the 27th, when nine were ferreted out of their hiding places.\n\nAbout three o'clock yesterday morning, it was noticed that the steamer P&O'slun, which has been lying here for the last five months undergoing extensive repairs, was on fire.\n\nTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL.\n\nThe Annual General Meeting of the Subscribers to the new Public School was held in the Agricultural Society's room on the 24th ultimo.\n\nA Statement showing the Progress and Attendance at \"St. Andrew's School,\" during the year 1855-6.\n\nApril ........ 16\n\nMay ........ 30\n\nJune ........ 36\n\nJuly ........ 38\n\nAugust ....... 37\n\nSeptember ..... 35\n\nOctober ...... 33\n\nNovember ..... 32\n\nDecember ..... 30\n\nJanuary ...... 28\n\nFebruary ..... 26\n\nMarch ....... 25\n\nTotal ....... 62\n\nAverage Attendance 16\n\nPresent: Messrs. F. Edger, W. T. Mercer, G. Jaly, J. Lyall, T. F. Waltie, A. Shortrede, A. S. Dixson, H. C. Antrobus, D. Lapraik, F. W. Lawrence, J. Stephenson, H. Hardie, A. Taylor, P. Cohen, G. Duddell, J. W. Schober, BraheLow, A. Fincher, and Dr. Harland.\n\nMr. Lyall, being called to the chair, rose and said, \"Gentlemen, there is much to be congratulated on the result of our labours during the past year.\"\n\n...\n\nTREASURER'S ACCOUNT.\n\nThe Subscribers to the \"HONGKONG SCHOOL\" in account Current with G. LYALL, Treasurer.\n\n1856\n\nApril 9, To paid W. A. Harland's order\n\n...\n\nMarch 24, By received account of Subscriptions\n\n1500\n\n...\n\nHongkong, 24th March, 1856.\n\nGEO. LYALL, Treasurer.\n\nTHE RUSSIAN SOLDIER.\n\nWhen the appointed number in the government is filled up, the new defenders of the fatherland are sent to the regiments; the tallest among them to the guard.\n\n...\n\nCOMMERCIAL CHEATS IN CONSTANTINOPLE.\n\nLet my hero, in traversing the bazaar, accompanied by a cunning Greek or obsequious Jew--his indispensable and inevitable dragomans--let my hero, I say, expect to be cheated.\n\n...\n\nTHE HONGKONG REGISTER.\n\nDuring the 1st few months, the only books available for the School were those already mentioned.\n\n...\n\n(From the Penang Gazette, March 8)\n\nAs there were now more applicants than could be admitted, it was proposed by Mr. Shortrede, and carried unanimously, that the Secretary should write to the Assize of Education, relative to repayment of Police Tax.\n\n...\n\nTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL.\n\nCONSTITUTION OF THE SCHOOL.\n\n1. That the Public School established at a meeting of Subscribers on the 3rd March, 1855, be styled \"St. Andrew's School, Hongkong.\"\n\n2. That the School be conducted, as originally established, for the education of Children of every Nation, Religion, or Denomination.\n\n...\n\n8. That the Directors of the School shall be exclusively Laymen, elected by Subscribers at the Annual Meeting.\n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-056 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 239070, "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": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7]", "content_text": "In 2006 37/56\n\n29\n\n(Corpy.)\n\nColonial Surgeon's Office,\n\nNestorla, June 10th 1856.\n\n Sir,\n\nMany serving under the Colonial Government have of late had their salaries increased.\n\nI beg to solicit your attention to the claims of the Colonial Surgeon and the resident Apothecary of the Government Hospital for some such boon. 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Mercer, Eye,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHang hông\n\nBecomes:\n\nIn 2006 37/56\n\n29\n\n(Corpy.)\n\nColonial Surgeon's Office,\n\nNestorla, June 10th 1856.\n\nFir\n\nMony serving under the Colonial Government have of late had their salaries increased.\n\nI beg to solicit you, for the reformation of the Governor, His opinion I know of diversing of that improvement.\n\nMore such a boon to them the Colonial Surgeon and the resident Apothecary of the Government Hospital. The latter gentleman has been fortunate enough to meet with His Excellency the Governor's kind consideration, but the former.\n\nThe Hon'ble.\n\nW. J. Mercer, Esq.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nAs HTML:\n\nIn 2006 37/56\n\n29\n\n(Corpy.)\n\nColonial Surgeon's Office,\n\nNestorla, June 10th 1856.\n\nSir,\n\nMany serving under the Colonial Government have of late had their salaries increased.\n\nI beg to solicit you, for the reformation of the Governor, His opinion I know of diversing of that improvement.\n\nMore such a boon to them the Colonial Surgeon and the resident Apothecary of the Government Hospital. The latter gentleman has been fortunate enough to meet with His Excellency the Governor's kind consideration, but the former.\n\nThe Hon'ble.\n\nW. J. Mercer, Esq.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHong Kong.\n\nLet's correct and simplify it according to the rules.\n\nIn 2006 37/56\n\n29\n\n(Corpy.)\n\nColonial Surgeon's Office,\n\nNestorla, June 10th 1856.\n\nSir,\n\nMany serving under the Colonial Government have of late had their salaries increased.\n\nI beg to solicit you, for the reformation of the Governor, His opinion I know of diversing of that improvement.\n\nMore such a boon to them the Colonial Surgeon and the resident Apothecary of the Government Hospital. The latter gentleman has been fortunate enough to meet with His Excellency the Governor's kind consideration, but the former.\n\nThe Hon'ble. W. J. Mercer, Esq.,\n\nColonial Secretary,\n\nHong Kong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-057 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 241300, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3]", "content_text": "The Hongkong Register. \n\n24 \n\nNO. 6. FEBRUARY 10, 1857. \n\nLeaving his shop, which was to be burned, to take While we cannot fail to admire the philosophic ed; a largeness of thought, which has some of the effect of lantry and self-devotion to which he pished briefly\n\nestrup They think in lakhs and pounds, of provinces advert. There were on board the Birkenhead, in að- sare itself, and carrying biz \"pate in peril\" into view which our contemporary tales of this as fut parishes, of populations and classes of society. Mondition to the soldiers, a number of women and children a place where it could be more easily cut off. To every other great question, we must confess our we have seen race to warm the Katrs se children, and sick persons. The discipline exhibited by the troops as the inference is natural, that he feared to lose selves at a loss in arriving at way thing like a Tinta Joelity, cannot regard & Katie war i\n\nwyl:tu-\n\nhis family, and knowing he would do so if he repractical solution of his vast problem. It is, in its purtent. Tee who saw a badron more numbered and while the vessel was going to pieces under their feet was efficient than that of the Mediterranean despatched to Kanot remarkable. The only boats available were filled mained here, unless he first of all lost his life, he present unwieldy hulk and shapeless outline, too goon sus phrase, canol consider air davedition to Naples with the women and children, und went off from the fled with them to save himself, taking with him, as many for ue. It is like the discovery of a new very exfestive effort. Even the advance of Rusis which ship's side; so that the officers Kil soldiers, remaining he supposed, the lives of a large number of foreign-planet outside all our known sidereal system, and which has seen the red ine in a single reigu embrace King means of safety, and, calm and motionless, awaited the swallows comicis in a year, per less strange to a public on deck, deliberately deprived themselves of their only ers as a peace offering to the Mandarins; perhaps which we must consequently take upon trust of doms grew in a Frapoan houseby. This disposition, sinking of the messe). Their noble conduct was well also calculating that in the event of the poison the mathematician's calculations. When the however, though wo adnit its advai rugs, las one very described by Captain Wright, one of the survivors, who\n\nserious drawback. It war's triday to their true proportion, carrying off a large number, he would be more Friend has added the three or four hundred but it blinds us somewhat to tou alcance of the events\n\nu a private letter, said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the said that all the odiders received their with us mattips round 1, the sunly vir rus taan indemnified for what he lost here. Waat he 1 millions of China, to the hundred and fly with Stienst the account of ties attack Chaton, que af bucking, lastead of going to she bottom; that, indeed, orders and had them carried out as if the men were êm-\n\nspeculded ist um 1 effeat at focision would exorci never saw an crabarkation conducted with such\n\nan\n\nthe boats were filled with women and children, and fer a war of conquest, the Exeter Hall wit be clamorets must inevitably be swamped if their living freight were\n\nwas to lose here was advanced as a reason why he millions of Hindostar, his aggregate becomes a was not likely to commit such a crime; it was ecraething so stupendous, that the very idea cakes n the opium trade Of de few who believe at Sir Johu absence of note and confusion at there was not a however shown, that he was nothing more than sa our breath away, especially if this heterogenous Bowring intends to keep the city, the majority regard the single ery or morietur from any of the men; but, just active, perhaps thriving tradeanan. We say. per- mass of peoples and tribes and nations, is expected as a lead to in inexplicable To Plori before the final plunge a suggestion having been made, polertiary it is said, can have a settled policy lie at that ail who could swim should jump overboard and join haps thriving tradesman, because it may be, that to cohere under the unity of the same Imperial ient is not infected by the with dreams of the? Friend of the boats, the officers begged them not to do so, because if he were able collect his recounts he would be Rule emanating from a geographical speck in the Indiu. aowa sled the Condly ental powera will not per in a position to pay the very heavy debts he owes. Northern seas at a disttee of ten thousandil us to hold land in Cia, Dist Pa-Esment, will not suf perhaps not. Hut, to continue with his statement, tuiles. It is true this is the age of wonders and against the frightful siaughter of them and brothers! Be increased, when the men replied by a cheer and only he takes bread to be consumed by his family on monster undertakings. We are told that distance fort is, and is; be, it is said, a mers provali, rifuru three of them attempted to reach the bonds (Heat the passage, and to be given away to his friendsinis anihilated. We are at this moment putting in the Earoy will not have the mears to follow our bear.) This net of chol keroism, which had been es\n\nIt may guntoran, Tha bombardment, and virtual timated at its full value, not in this country alone but lus native village. Strange to say his liberality in electric girdle around our Indian dominions, conquers of the third city in the wori thay be simply an abroad, and find done much to sustain, and even su czise, commences on board of the steamer, and we find which will virtually establish our imperial presence \"incident.\" The tempt to retain it may be premature, or the high character of our army for unflinching diset- biru cutting up the not very large supply of four at Calcutta and Delhi, and carry the imperial fiat may be overbell, or y bu rastrate by the Jealousy of\n\nother European powers. But it may also be, that another pline, was beyond all praise. This result was in a greet loaves among a dozen people! Then we are told for peace or war and all the main issues of gov stroke los sounlod of the great passing ball which this Can- incasure due to the efforts of Colonel Scatoo, who was he offered 50 and eventually $100 if the crument, to eur most distant borders, in less than sury is ringing veus the ions of the Bast. Bin your certainly no ordinary man, and who rare talent for own view of the subject is upon to grave question \"Sir gaining the effections of the soldiers unter his command steaner would go back to Hongkong that night, the fortieth part of \"forty minutes.\" Even at\n\nJohn Bowring, the qua phitose e Gadici, is not and moulding them to his will had trained these men, the offer being made after the fires were put out, the same put are the solitudes of the the great ways for the sake of falling on his face. most of whom were young and untried levies, to face It must have been one of Ahlum's unlucky days Euphrates Valley, hitherto but the lonely halting His sotions at least indicate something very like a settled danger and death with unshaken fortitude. (Hear, hear.) in which so many extraordinarily suspicioua cir- place of the wild Bedouin, being broken in upoti detuviction, Frau is not about to oppase, for the men of An equal meed was due to all the other officers and men cumstances were arrayed against him, though his by the heralds of our civilization, as they map it the grims were in the breach, and the Muleur values prosent on this trying. occasion, (Hear, hear.) The patente cordial. While France and England net in ect, youngest officer of the regiment, to whore life was full Inek certainly was in the ascendant on the trial, as it for that iron road which shall convey a future\n\nit masters very little whed the reader of Barope chriose of hope and promise, trod the deck by the side of his to fancy in the mater. Nor is it at certain that he blow the result shews. To go on to other points, we have British Viceroy within a week from St. Jamess to\n\ncommander with an em a step, and looked upon the will be misouderstand at home. Lord Palingesson is still first of all his numerous contradictory statement the Ganges.\n\nghastly horrors of death with as much travery and com- dietacor, and likely to remain no, and it was lord Palmer- as to whether ho was going, or not going to leav-\n\neton who said that one day we should be compelled to co-\n\nposure as those who had been longest ingred to peril ing Hongkong. He tells the public in a chop; i\n\nquer China\n\n(Haar.) He (Mr Gordon) did not think'it too late to That grent Seligious body which you call Exe fer Hall, and which when in earnest is evorger than a the\n\nmark the country's sense of the discipline and heroisuz of men who liad thus calmly sacrificed their lives la savo\n\nIt will no doubt be argued,-if we have thus\n\nJudia, while\n\nis not on the side of Manchester. Every religiosa peper others, and he therefore begged to put the question uf\n\nnien\n\nthat he feguing he tells people that he fears centralized our rule and comenlidated our power he must go, at the very time he had his worthy over the vast continent of India, giving the philosophers in the kingdes, on the snigeer of amuxation aid grandmother's letter in his pocket which ad- blessings of peace and goed government to itaf mack in England approves the unexation of Use. The which he had given notice. (Tere, hear.) vised him to remain, aud on which advice he said long oppressed and plundered races, shall we repeated murders of Missionaria, the prepetual insults co Sir G. Grey said that every one acqualated with dew he intended to act. We have bie final assertion | shrink from a similar mission upon thus, waere Christianity, avove ail de up-rising of a new high which,citemstances just described he his hon. friend must\n\nbe it what it may, is founded on the Bible, have borne teir\n\nIt la nut vo ceronic a many insgime that the len filly concur in the feeling tribute which he had paid to that he would not go home, and by way of every enormity of misrule and every phase of it.\"\n\nthe gallart and devoted band of British officers and adencher the purchase of a cargo of word; net social disruption and suffering, seem to cry aloud pounders even will protest. The sales about the mild Hit-\n\nwho lost their lives on the melancholy occasion of the withstanding all this he does go. He is brought to the Invader in the naine of our curamundou which slinded Fatope for half a centary, have never\n\nbeen circulated about the Chinese. That race is underated wreck of the Birkenhead. This act of cole daring, per- back, tried, and found not guilty, and the crime humanity; and shall we shrink from this great duty very nearly in its true character, as one in which disgusting furitest by men who were not inspired by the incentives\n\nuncenaid by a cruelty abhorrent the warat is now laid to the charge of two abeconding fore. solely through fear of offending political jeal seriguality\n\nor surmanded with the glory and excitement of the bat men, who, far any thing we see that could be! Ousica, and because of the sgnitude of the of the ropean peoples. It is just possible,we write in tlefield, bat under circumstances in which there were no mumise deference to the community who deals in api approving eyes to see them, deterred to equal measure brought against them, might return and take their enterprise? Its mognitede is, after all perhaps, that England say vitare le approve. And then-\n\nof admiration and gratitude with the brightest achieve. trial, in all confidence that the black deed could more Collossal than formidable. It may be that!\n\nIt is useless to predict, when the event inust so speedy ments in our military history. (Hear, hear.) With it will be found to lie cather in pussive bulk and falsify or realize all speculations. But if ever Cons of these sentiments Her Majesty's Guvernment were co- be proved by no evidence that would satisfy helpless inertia, than in any vigorous and intrinsic a failug Empire wore laiby on the fan of any land they tainly prepared to take into consideration the propriety jury of this place.\n\nThere is one consolatory point of view in this China would be but the double of what we have den up sing from below, but of its wir rotenness. The referred to. (Hear, hear.)-Times, July 19,\n\ngreatness. Numerically, the task before us in apparent in China gow, The Central Goverment is\n\nof erecting some permanent memorial of the description dying, not of any attack from without, ast event of any sad- had business, it is the fact, that the English public\n\nActually achieved are not bland thiresy, and that an Baglish jury effort it would seem to sink into insignificance in which, whatever the Manchester actout may say, a national Military people weighed down by their scaldbrug civilization have Just all the virtues which spring of strength, and without will do what it believes to be ste duty, even al though that inty may run counter, not only, to the comparison. We are year by year, doubling eztaremos a net posible. They have not even pride, for outside prefice, but even to the opinion of the and quadrupling with success, every domain of their exclusivisin is rather that of a Spanish aristoorsey than a healthy self-assertion, A new creed with some of our productive system; shall we then besitate, if the renate et Christianity and all the ferocity of Judziem judge on the bench. fa that view the trial is a great triumph. Perhaps the Chinese may not our Destiny thrust it upon us, to double the area is striving to attain dominion, as the Huguenots strove, and understand it, perhaps they may think that, what of cur Indo-deminions, and the census of unred. The sticial caste, selectal by competitive examira\n\nconquered populations? the Attorney Gencral happily designated judiciome prodigality\" may have bought justice to At present, however, all such magnificent con- turnside its blow-We cannot help that and must captions as these are remote and shadowy and so- trust to further teaching. In our first Burmese war the same brutal proceedings were carried on see our forces held at bay on the very threshaid of ash a handful of marines, is an fecere by the social ty time he has learned the value of a chapeau and sword, against as as are now being carried ou by the the Friend's great enterprise, the discussion of company predaniant for cudurfer, that it dare not even leave Since this zaemorable event, however, things have gone\n\nthe city til Fel ne given permansson. That ly to mu Chinese-poisoning and massaure-two years after quest seems premature. Still it is the first office thinking the frature of the recent angle. There are towar on asal. Nothing daunted, var countrymen #sad the commencement of that wor one of the ablest of the politician to forecast the future, especially in the world whose poputation would have forn Sir M. Say-still crowd the offices of the legations in London and Paris, chieftains, who had been among the moet ruthless on the eve of such an undertaking as we find our lab for lane. Tasre are tone the population of demand an introduction to Majesty. General Cad- of our opponents, issued an orier, that every before us at Canton, and in this view the disens- there is another town on earth in which a million of people, Dallas, sed made has appearance at court iu full military which would have'iled in parte terror. Bat we question if walleder, of Pennsylvania, has been presented by Mr. English soldier captured abonid be spared, and sion even of remote possibilitica can do no harm. with death raining over head, dared neither a fight car fly costume, wearing a badge of the Order of Cincinnati well treated. Let us hope we may have similar While we cannot follow our contemporary into Nothing but an iron social organization, noting on a rane half a yard sung No mistake about him. Another results from similar conduct in China.\n\nhis tremendous scheme of \"building up second produced such a result. Tits & resil Romsun Famples, an\n\ndeprived of the smallest capacity for Freedora. would have personage has also had his card endorsed by the cham- which cannot endace, berlain-Mr. Hart, of Philadelphia--and he had the\n\nAMERICAN PRESENTATIONS AT European Courte\n\nThe following appears In the New York Herald :— By the last accounts from Europo we learn there has been no new phase at court of an alarming character. The peace of the world not having been disturbed by tien. has all the cold cruelty of the doctrinaires hour thus Rystem fosters without the inzen which sometime gives\n\nthe contretemps of the West Point Professor, there is then strength. The gread Mansela robs the trader, and reason to believe that the secretary of state will not be retis any coin but wirh a specis: stamp. The Governor called on to communicate with Me. Dellas on the inher General pepitates two hunted a day, and teaches his ent vid clolites rights of mankind in genersi and Ameri\n\ncans in particolar. The embarrassment of Mr. Dallas is\n\nme what out of place; while to us upon the spot who Braves to make faces to frighten the Barbarians to their\n\nshipe The great population of Cantem, 100 cowardly to over, and the Weat Pelne professor has retreated. By this\n\nAnglo-Indian Bapire,\" we het Bonod to admit and the vale help scene to be, ay in the OWING to the prisoning case, a great clamor has that mighty contingencies are even at this ma-Tuption of the still vigorous barbarians. The Chinzee may lagesally, doubtless, to obtain a court dress from the costatniers at the usual price. Though sat a military been raised us to the necessity of the government, looming the troubled horizon of this; The insurgenta tave not yet predané a caw idea, If men, like Professor Muhau, he was not afraid to have a ment declaring martial law. We hardly think country. In entering upon a campaign against Christians, they are all Chinese, still consider\n\nslaughter the reacties: patl: to domini, still punca sword dangling between his legs. Probably the amiable striel master of ceremonies did not know what un honour he parties clamorous for martial law clearly un- Cant n, it is not impossible that in our very first\n\nexaminations\" as the end of all good urvornment, still ex was conferring on his sovereigu, nor did the Queen derstand wint it is, Martial law tho hand-step we shall have crossed the Rubicon of our hicind the old hawed of light from without,\n\nknow it, either. She wea probably not aware that in ing over to the military, the lives of the civi-destiny in furthermost Asis, and shall ultimately\n\nWe contas, \"herefore, dat we recive without pleasure the her presence stood in very respectable bookseller, and a fians. It existed in Scotland and in Ireland for fad ourselves involved jo anch inextricable com- roport that no material auistance will granted to Sie Hebrew of the Ilebres.\" Grub-street, though itself many long years-read what good it did in either plications, that we shall neither be able to with- John Bowing frota India. It is of erase vais to hope that excluded from the drawing-ruus, might on this pECA- Martial bus was proclaimed at the draw or stand still. The situation even in its berately on the reale of hallding up as Indian Europe, the fraternity Healy, it is time our foreign legations\n\na Government composed of Englishmen will set itauit deli- country.\n\nsion have glorified itself upon the reception of one of Cape of trucù riops (wo haljeve) a few years ag very first phase, is big with the most formidable That is not the English fashion. The gut reault must - were protected from this constant avalunetic of irrel- Bid some excesses committe d'under it were brought presentments ze regards the fature, and with theive slowly, and be in a matter forse day, or sur con- seines will scarcely be at rest. But weistande sufficient\n\nJerz, who, baving acquire money enough spend six Lo the notice of Parliament. Earl Grey had the buribers it may lay at our door. A military oc- to hold Canson Baglish opinion has been pro muaths in Europe, seek every opportunity of infing it al court Godfish and old clothes have heen sufficiently hardihood to defend it. and appeal to the example upation of the Southern capital of China-it might sll be granted. Nobody is India at least, doubts of the Duke, which brought that great nun ou ia banking centre at once the wealthiest and most that the Plenipotendary is in the right. The organent that represented abroad, and the dealers in these articles we have not men to send is after all only proity to look t aloid now hold up. The truth is, we are running our legs to tell Earl Grey he did not know what he turbulent city in the empire, appears inevitable, Europeans are not wanted. A Chinese is just as Pttle privileges it.to the ground. Our foreign minister should was talking about. He said \"I certainly licht The appropriation of the Imperial revenues pro tema, marel for a sens as he is for An Englishmay, and we can decline presenting any but those whe by their public countries occupied by my armies noder martial follows a matter of course, and pro fem. at dolormined fud se What are tes reginents of loc-\n\nula infantry Indin? The gay could be ill up ook dietiverian. Ar eminent man, or an accomplished and services and position at home are fairly untruted to the law, but I did bot administer the crim.onl justice lost, the Imperial Government is supplanted by\n\nand conveyance for them cen, un reluced to a prestin về of those countries. that was done by the ordina. an invading Power, and, once suppisnted, what ry tribunals of the country; and the only persons Seer shall foretell the day of its restoration, with I beld subject to martial law were those composii subduct, and with the evil spirit of centuries so may wild elements of disorder to be first the armies nuder my orden\n\nMartial inw will not mend the matter; and be\n\nyand the summary execution of spies and the de. portation of vagrant Chinese wa kertainly alone not proceed. We have warned the government as to the necessity of vigilance, and we have urged them to adopt proper precautions, but we equally warn them against the brutality of Military Jaw which ought solely to be confined to the regain- tion of military men.\n\nCommunicated)\n\nHepere, There are or cough for hire. What is earful woman, right very well expect this attention- wasted is new men or steamers, but a formal rengusion of thought in some cases within our knowledge, even when it has been intimated to suit that their appearance at of says is to sell cotton. The pher, and it is pochtaps the the faci, waste so low to ac-zpt, that the Anglo-Saxen Te in this mixteenth neutmy has fivo furetless to perform. One court would be agreeable, they have declined the honour\n\nblom infancy, to oper. with a strong hand a pak by\n\nrather than enjoy it with so many of the impurient and\n\nworthy. We propose to publish, as for as possible,\n\nto be scourged out of a stubborn goneration, lor, is to ride, to reduce the Asiatic vices to trends\n\nto us as Captain of Industry, to protect civilation, in the names of those Amereens who, when abroad, auc- We may assure curselves that a discipline such as this, is not the work of a flying campaign; way we must admit it to be quite upon the cards, that complications arising out of the emergency which taker our forces to Centon in our day may find them there in that of our children'\n\ncred in their straggles to encounter royalty, and who which a tesching me powerful tun eyes that of Anow- Ledre, may was its way abroad. We have in how the jungle anmoy our ministers with appications for the privilege. as wel as sell the are, to not as pincere as well as pillars, A curious list it would be. Is is not very ereditable to to be the teachers of truth as well as tre thoney changes of oat country to be thus known through our tuft hunters, clo world friend of India, Derober, 25, 185.\n\nand it is time we should cease trespasilag on the good nature of our legations, and the iegulations which all ther nations conform to without hesitation or uncivility. ---Globe.\n\nRECEIVING SHIPS.\n\nVeseli..\n\nA\n\nCAPTAIN.\n\nOWNERS.\n\nFort William Congkong M Dermott. P. & 6. St. N. Co. vielen Adam\n\nHOUSE OF COMMONS-- Friday, July 18, To our thinking the feature of the present struggle is, that it has come upon us without a\n\nLOSS UP HER MAJKATY'S SHIT \"DIRKINHEAD.” word of warning, noiselessly as the tread of Fate\n\nMr. Gordon anked the first Lord of the Treasury itself, not only without our seeking but after the\n\nwhether he would take into consideration the propišety Ws desire to draw the attention of the readers most humane and patient attempts to avert it;\n\nof erecting, in the chapel of Chrises Hospital, of else where, sone permanent memorial of the gallant auci of this Journal to an able article in the Friend of and that it has now assumed character which self-devoted conduct of the officers and inen lost in Her India of 25th December last, containing some in. admits of no compromise upon our part save an Majesty's ship Birkenhead on the 25th day of Febranty, teresting speculations on the present hostile crisis ignoble and a dangerous one-that we have now to 1832. The hon. member observen that it might be usk- at Canton, and on the possible alternative to which fight it out not merely with the Government of ed why he raised such a question at a perful so long it may give birth, in the progress of what our con- Chine but with the people of Cunton, and nuts the erent to which it referred. Its answer was, temporary assumes to the inevitable Destiny of merely with the people of Canton in the better war way happily terminated and we si evinced our Cast it was not an unfitting time for us, now that the Great Britain in the Eas tite que grand sense, whose pridle we shall subdue, but with gratitude to the army which fought and suffered for us ruling and abs bing Poser. In a word, the its infuriate militia, longer a patriotic soldiery, in the Crimea, to recognize services which, though of a Friend of India is not without hope that the amenable to control, but broken by defeat and peaceful character, were universally admitted to he as existing situation at Canton is but the first step disgrace into a desperate banditti, against whose balliunt and distinguished as Gay recorded in our soun\n\nHarlequin tcy's quands. The circumstances connected with the in a career of conquest, the final result of which ravages their own people will be driven to in-loss of the Birkenhead must be so fresh in the ory shail be. (thongh not necessarily in our day or plore our protection. Such is but a faint outline of all that it would be unnecessary for him to canke sur generation) the absorption of China proper into of the probable work out out for the first batta. hat the most passing allusion to thear. The vessel a our Indian empire. Thisis a bold flight certainly, lions in he landed at Canton-Who shall especially for waxen wings within the melting foret all the end 2\n\nheat of the tropics, and we have only to hope\n\nboth for sake of the advocate and his courc, that\n\nit may not prove an Icaran che.\n\nRENT EVENTS IN CHINA-Angle ladinas negaire, simply from tha tireumians by which they are surround\n\nge tooup ship--was ontployed in encrying to the Cape of Good Hupe the draw;hts of vanous regiments. to the amber of 500 men, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Seaton, and she sailed from Queenstown in the\n\nWhimay\n\nGarant\n\nBrown\n\nM-Muric\n\nC. S. Lungrana\n\nItunoll & Co.\n\nJard.nu, M. &. Dent & Co.\n\nDent & Co.\n\nJardins, A. & Co Jardine, M. & Co. Dent & Co.\n\nDeat & s\n\n. Heard & Co. Deat, Beale & O Jardine, M. & Co.\n\n8. Sens & Co.\n\nRoger\n\nD. S. Sons & Co.\n\n11\n\nCana Family boluy Itupavil Any\n\nWition\n\n[P. F. Cama & Co.\n\nJameson\n\n33\n\nSwntow\n\nSalva\n\nHongkong\n\nPatinder\n\nLord Aust\n\nTernate\n\nChichen Fitzgibbon\n\nBarton Mahamoudie Folthau Crawford Water Watch\n\nBeby Ann Which\n\nWoosung Endicott\n\nFaily Jane\n\nPiketonu Nimrod Sea Horse\n\n¡Baylis\n\nCali\n\nKappel\n\nP. F. Cana & Co.\n\n17\n\nHenderson musty & Ca\n\nJardine M. & Co,\n\n323", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243198, "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": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "page_number": 123, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## Names, Age, District, Calling\n\n| Names | Age | District | Calling |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 150. de ser | 20 | You pen | Labouren |\n| 151. Se autri | | | |\n| 152. Chum use | 20 | Samsos | do |\n| 153. bhi ain | | | |\n| 154. Not listed | | | |\n| 155. Chom aback | 22 | Nantive | do |\n| 156. Sw achoy | 2 | do | do |\n| 157. Siatio | 25 | Hopfen | do |\n| 158. Lafor | 30 | Sanem | do |\n| 159. Cham acho | 20 | Maychoo | dor |\n| 160. Mar alon | 30 | Hoppen | do |\n| 161. Sam sem | 20 | Yenten | do |\n| 162. Pair ahew | 24 | Heonisan | dor |\n| 163. Cheon ahav | 20 | Sentak | do |\n| 164. Fomatoe | 30 | Saning | do |\n| 165. Chom aman | 25 | Conier | do |\n| 166. Cham man | 28 | Maychov | do |\n| 167. Kutak | 23 | Narutor | do |\n| 168. Cheom acheom | 20 | Sainny | do |\n| 169. Chis achaw | 24 | Corio | do |\n| 170. Jun Alin | 34 | Soutak | do |\n| 171. Choon Com | 30 | Chao chai | dom |\n| 172. Jun Cheam | 23 | Savory | do |\n| 173. Bat afst | 24 | Polar | do |\n| 174. Vem ann | | | |\n| 175. Lom Anim | | | |\n| 176. Chour un | | | |\n| 177. Chan Fin | | | |\n| 178. Chi alior | | | |\n| 179. Chevin afo | 21 | do | do |\n| 180. Vour Achrom | 20 | | |\n| 181. Youyar Waychoo | 26 | Jonkin | Labourer |\n| 182. Vonyar Sentak | 26 | Sentak | do |\n| 183. Fomain Yeupen | 26 | Yeupen | don |\n| 184. Vour aki Polv | 29 | Polv | dor |\n| 185. Leon ahow Yenfew | 26 | Yenfew | do |\n| 186. Lee akum Herppen | 29 | Herppen | do |\n| 187. Um achun Yenten | 30 | Yenten | |\n| 188. Le chan Lemie | 30 | Lemie | don |\n| 189. Lai afat Sanken | 26 | Sanken | do |\n| 190. Chom achim Polo | 30 | Polo | dor |\n| 191. Lam Chamseum | 23 | Chamseum | do |\n| 192. Les lve | 26 | do | do |\n| 193. Lav asum Sentäck | 20 | Sentäck | do |\n| 194. From achom Namhoe | 22 | Namhoe | do |\n| 195. Vour ayao Neonsan | 24 | Neonsan | do |\n| 196. Sanny Sanny | 30 | Sanny | do |\n| 197. Vem Sem Penhy | 28 | Penhy | do |\n| 198. Lo akan Hamhos | 24 | Hamhos | do |\n| 199. L asaw Samsoy | 24 | Samsoy | do |\n| 200. Live and Namhoe | 20 | Namhoe | do |\n| 201. Les ann Saven | 24 | Saven | do |\n| 202. Low ho Aamboy | 30 | Aamboy | do |\n| 203. Leam atvy Sanny | 25 | Sanny | do |\n| 204. Leom Amav | 24 | don | do |\n| 205. Low Akun | 28 | do | do |\n| 206. Lay aheat Yempew | 21 | Yempew | do |\n| 207. Sum Admin Dolan | 24 | Dolan | do |\n| 208. Sir Gream | 24 | dos | do |\n| 209. Sin afve | 20 | do | do |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244720, "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": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12]", "content_text": "(14)\n\n(15)\n\n459\n\nto collect the rents. I went to Lum Ateen, who said that he had bought the houses. I told him that I had spent a good deal of money in repairing them, and that there were some rents unpaid, and I asked him to let them to me, I being responsible for the repairs. Lum Ateen said that I might have the seven houses at the same rate as before, $30, to which I agreed. The other house was agreed for the same day, for $25. My previous knowledge of Lum Ateen extended only to knowing him by sight. The house spoken of as being intended for a hospital has not been used as such; it is now a family house. I do not know how Lum Ateen got the money for the houses, and do not know anything of his pecuniary affairs, nor anything about his going to Macao.\n\n**TOMAS BERNARDO RIBEIRO**.-Called and examined. I live in Hollywood Road, house No. 300; have been there since January 1857. I took the house of Mr Caldwell's comprador, who told me that the house was Mr Caldwell's. I am keeper of a licensed boarding house; I pay the rent to the comprador, whom I last saw this morning. He came to my house about half-past 7 this morning of his own accord, and said, \"If any gentleman comes asking you, don't tell that this house belongs to Mr Caldwell. Say that it belongs to Mrs Caldwell, or a relation.\"\n\n[Mr Caldwell admits that he receives the rent of the house, but denies the ownership. He also admits that he is the reputed owner, or in other words, that people suppose him to be the owner.]\n\nI told him that the policeman had asked me who the owner of the house was, and that I told the policeman the comprador had told me the house belonged to Mr Caldwell. The comprador did not tell me that if anyone asked who the owner of the house was I was not to say Mr Caldwell. This conversation was in Manila language.\n\n**CHUN SAMCHUN**,-Called and examined. I am a broker, and reside in house No. 331; the number of the ground lot I don't know. I have lived there ten days, and took the house from a person called Lum Ateen, or rather his collector of the same surname who lives at the Cho Sow Tong. I know Mr Caldwell, but have not seen him at my residence. I do not know about Mr Caldwell having any interest in the house.\n\n**CHOU AH-CHEE**,-Recalled. I have brought my rent book. [Book examined, and found to contain entries beginning 20th December last, of $16 rent, paid to and acknowledged by Yee Wo.] Afook is the master of the Yee Wo shop.\n\n**FONG WEIKAI**,-Occupant of inland lot 250, and house 411,-Called and examined. I have occupied the house a few days, and took it from Yee Wo.\n\n**WONG AOON**,-Called and examined. I have occupied my present house (the same house as last witness) two months. I took it from Yee Wo. I do not know who the owner of the house is.\n\n**HO ACHOONG**,-Called and examined. No part of the house in which I live is used as a brothel. There is no brothel on the side of the street in which I live; there is one over the way. The comprador once said that unless I could pay every month I should be turned out. One time he took me down to Mr Caldwell's office. I have lived in the same house as last witness since the 15th January last. I took it from Yee Wo Fook, to whom my boarders pay the rent. I do not know to whom he pays it, nor who the owner of the house is. I said to Mr Caldwell, \"Excuse me this time, as soon as I get ships I will pay.\" Mr Caldwell said, \"I have nothing to do with it; you had better speak to the comprador.\" The comprador said, that I must pay or seek another house. On the 20th of this month I shall owe one month's rent; all the rest has been paid.\n\n**JOHN LYONS**.-Recalled. I have looked at the plan of houses in this colony, and find that house 300 is on lot 204. There are other 5 houses on the same lot, none of which are to my knowledge brothels. The other houses in this lot are numbered 301, 299, 249, 250, 248. Laurenço Pablo lives in a house 248 Lascar Upper Row, No. of license 22.\n\n**LAURENCO PABLO**.-Called and examined. I live in Lascar Upper Row, behind the house of Ribeiro. I keep a Boarding House, and have lived there sixteen months. I took the house of Mr Caldwell's comprador-Lai Sze-kai, who told me that Mr Caldwell was the owner. I pay the rent to the comprador, and last saw him at half-past 7 this morning, at which time he came to my house voluntarily. He asked me what the policeman had said to me, and I told...\n\n**LEONG CHEWKWONG**,-(Lot 204, house 301, Hollywood Road,)-Called and examined. I have occupied this house since the 24th December last, took it from Lai Sze-kai, master of the Tai Cheong shop. I pay the rent to him. He says that he collects the rent for a relation. He has never used Mr Caldwell's name in connection with it.\n\n**CH'UN KUNHEE**,-(Lot 204, house 299,)-Called and examined. I have lived in this house two years. I rented it from Lai Sze-kai of the Tai Cheong shop. I never paid any rent to Mr Caldwell.\n\n[The Commissioners at the request of Mr May proceeded to examine two witnesses on reference to charge \"4 in the second branch of the inquiry. Their evidence will be found printed with the rest of the evidence on the same charge.]\n\nAdjourned to 1 P.M. on the 3d.\n\n## FIFTH DAY,\nThursday, 3d June, 1858. Present,-All the Members.\n\n**GEORGE COOPER TURNER**,-Called and examined. I am a Solicitor in this colony. In December last I was, and still am, Solicitor to the Attorney General. Upon reference to document (M) I can state that, on the 3d January, 1857, I, as Solicitor for the Attorney General, obtained a transfer into his name in the land office, of lots 475, 476, 477, 478, 480, 483, 484, 485, and 507. These lots had been purchased by him from Mr Caldwell. Mr Anstey was very desirous in the latter end of December last, of selling these lots, and I applied to Mr Caldwell to point out where... I think at that time Mr Caldwell said, that he had a friend who was very anxious to buy one of these lots. When I replied, that I did not think it likely that the Attorney General would sell any one particular lot, as he wanted to get rid of the whole together. I made some enquiry as to the lot Mr Caldwell's friend wished to buy, and called on him afterwards to tell him, that the Attorney General would not sell any one lot; the purchaser, if he bought, must take the whole. The lot Mr Caldwell wished to buy was one near the Kulan obelisk; the others are in the neighbourhood of East Point. The whole were afterwards sold to Mr Strachan.\n\nI have collected rents for Mr Caldwell for 11 houses besides. They are not sold I know of my own knowledge that these houses belonged to a sister of Mrs Caldwell, whose name I do not know Chun Atsoo; I know they are the property of Mrs Caldwell's sister, because Mrs Caldwell told me so, and at one time offered to let them to me. Mrs Caldwell managed the affairs of this property. The rents of these 11 houses are paid to Mrs Caldwell, and have always been since I collected them. I collected rent on any other lots for Mrs Caldwell. In the month of February last, I spoke to Mr Caldwell concerning the payment of ground rent on Lum Ateen's property. Lum Ateen was going home he told me to pay the ground rents for him; I said, that I did not know what amount. I had to pay; Lum Ateen told me, I might go to my old master-Mr Caldwell-about it. I went to Mr Caldwell in the month of February, and asked him to give me a note for me to go and pay ground rents. Mr Caldwell told me that he himself was going to pay ground rents, and would wait till Lum Ateen's return, and hand the receipts over to him. He told me that the receipts were at the office; he would get them by and by. I know a Boarding House keeper in Hollywood Road called Tomas. I let him the house in which he lives. I saw him yesterday morning. I said to him, and all the Chinese tenants, \"Don't be afraid; if any inquiry be made, you may say that the houses belong to my mistress [Mrs Caldwell].\"\n\nCross-examined,-Mr Caldwell did not, at the time of the conversation with him, mention the name of the friend; nor do I know for whom the lot was wanted.\n\n**LAI SZE KAI**,-Called and examined. I was Comprador to Mr Caldwell. I ceased to be Comprador from the time Mr Caldwell ceased to be master of the `Eaglet`, about two years ago. Since then I have been partner with Low Ateem in a shop, and now myself keep a shop which is in Stanley Street. When I was Comprador to Mr Caldwell I went with the steamer; I also collected rents. I have had charge of four houses, but I do not know the numbers of the ground lots on which they stand. [The lot referred to is 197.] The present occupants are Lee Koon-tai, Ngow Poo, Chew Angee, Ch'o Ngu, Akwun, who keeps a Chair shop, and Yew Aon-there are eight tenants altogether. I received rents for Mr Caldwell until I went on board the steamer as Comprador, after which I believe Mr Caldwell's cook was collector. After I left the steamer I again collected rents for Mr Caldwell, and continued to do so up to the middle of December last, when the houses were sold to Lum Ateen, after that time I collected them for Lum Ateen as some of them still owed rent.\n\nI delivered to Mr Caldwell the rents as I collected them. When I was collector, for Mr Caldwell, the rents amounted to about $49 a month. The previous evening I went to collect the rents. I was not going to let the houses to them. One of the tenants came to me next morning, and so I went to all. They said some constables had been making inquiry as to the names and occupations of the tenants, and that this was their reason for being frightened.\n\nCross-examined,-The amount of rent due upon the four houses when they were transferred to Lum Ateen in December, was about $70; there is none of this due now. I was in Gaol about the 4th moon of last year, about a debt of my partner. I was 6 or 7 days in Gaol. I have never been in Gaol on a criminal charge. I do not know Chew Alai-nor have I heard the name; neither do I know Chun Atsoo. I had an interview with Mrs Caldwell's sister at Macao, about 4 years ago; I do not know her name. I do not know if she has a sister living in Hongkong. Six of the eleven houses are near the Joss-house in Hollywood Road, and the other are in Queen's Road West. It was after I left the steamer in July, 1856, that Mrs Caldwell offered to let me the houses. I have known Lum Ateen 3 years.\n\n| Name | House No. | Lot No. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Tomas Bernardo Ribeiro | 300 | 204 | Boarding House keeper |\n| Leong Chewkwong | 301 | 204 | Paid rent to Lai Sze-kai |\n| Ch'un Kunhee | 299 | 204 | Rented from Lai Sze-kai |\n| Fong Weikai | 411 | 250 | Took house from Yee Wo |\n| Wong Aoon | - | - | Took house from Yee Wo |\n| Ho Achoong | - | - | Paid rent to Yee Wo Fook |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-068 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247663, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 337, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "content_text": "SEE\n\n333\n\n(14)\n\nI went to Lum Ateen at half-past 7 this morning, at which time he came to perhaps employ me to collect the rents. Ateen, who said that he had bought the houses. I told him voluntarily. He asked me what the policeman had said to me, and I told him that the policeman had asked me who the owner of the house was, and that I told him the comprador had told me the house belonged to Mr. Caldwell. Lum Ateen said that I might have the seven houses at the same rate as before, $30—to which I agreed. The other house was agreed for the same day, for $25. My previous knowledge of Lum Ateen extended only to knowing him by sight. The house spoken of as being intended for a hospital has not been used as such; it is now a family house. I do not know how Lum Ateen got the money for the houses, and do not know anything of his pecuniary affairs—nor anything about his going to Macao.\n\nTOMAS BERNARDO RIBEIRO.—Called and examined.\n\nI live in Hollywood Road, house No. 300; have been there since January 1857. I took the house of Mr. Caldwell's comprador, who told me that the house was Mr. Caldwell's. I am keeper of a licensed boarding house; pay the rent to the comprador, whom I last saw this morning. He came to my house about half-past 7 this morning of his own accord, and said, \"If any gentleman comes asking you, don't tell that this house belongs to Mr. Caldwell. Say that it belongs to Mrs. Caldwell, or a relation.\"\n\n[Mr. Caldwell admits that he receives the rent of the house, but denies the ownership. He also admits that he is the reputed owner, or in other words, that people suppose him to be the owner.]\n\nNo part of the house in which I live is used as a brothel. There is no brothel on the side of the street in which I live; there is one over the way. The comprador once said that unless I could pay every month I should be turned out. One time he took me down to Mr. Caldwell's office. I said to Mr. Caldwell, \"Excuse me this time, as soon as my boarders get ships I will pay.\" Mr. Caldwell said, \"I have nothing to do with it; you had better speak to the comprador.\" The comprador said, that I must pay or seek another house. On the 20th of this month I shall owe one month's rent: all the rest has been paid.\n\nJOHN LYONS.—Recalled.\n\nI have looked at the plan of houses in this colony, and find that house 300 is on lot 204. There are other 5 houses on the same lot, none of which are to my knowledge brothels. The other houses in this lot are numbered 301, 299, 249, 250, 248. Laurenço Pablo lives in house 248 Lascar Upper Row, No. of license 22.\n\nLAURENÇO PABLO.—Called and examined.\n\nCHUN SAMCHU.—Called and examined.\n\nI am a broker, and reside in house No. 531; the number of the ground lot I don't know. I have lived there ten days, and took the house from a person called Lum Ateen, or rather his collector of the same surname who lives at the Cho Sow Tong. I know Mr. Caldwell, but have not seen him at my residence. I do not know about Mr. Caldwell having any interest in the house.\n\nCHOU AH-CHEE,—Recalled.\n\nI have brought my rent book. [Book examined, and found to contain entries beginning 20th December last, of $16 rent, paid to and acknowledged by Yee Wo.] Afook is the master of the Yee Wo shop.\n\nFONG WEIKAI,—Occupant of inland lot 250, and house 411,—Called and examined.\n\nI have occupied the house a few days, and took it from Yee Wo.\n\nWONG AOON,—Called and examined.\n\nI have occupied my present house (the same house as last witness) two months. I took it from Yee Wo. I do not know who the owner of the house is.\n\nHO ACHOONG,—Called and examined.\n\nI have lived in the same house as last witness since the 15th January last. I took it from Yee Wo Fook, to whom I pay the rent. I do not know to whom he pays it, nor who the owner of the house is.\n\nLEONG CH'EWKWONG,—(Lot 204, house 301, Hollywood Road,)—Called and examined.\n\nI have occupied this house since the 24th December last. I took it from Lai Sze-kai, master of the Tai Cheong shop. I pay the rent to him. He says that he collects the rent for a relation. He has never used Mr. Caldwell's name in connection with it.\n\nCHUN KUNHEE,—(Lot 204, house 299,)—Called and examined.\n\nI have lived in this house two years. I rented it from Lai Sze-kai of the Tai Cheong shop. I never paid any rent to Mr. Caldwell.\n\n[The Commissioners at the request of Mr. May proceeded to examine two witnesses on reference to charge 4 in the second branch of the inquiry. Their evidence will be found printed with the rest of the evidence on the same charge.]\n\nLAURENÇO PABLO.—Called and examined.\n\nI live in Lascar Upper Row, behind the house of Ribeiro. I keep a Boarding House, and have lived there sixteen months. I took the house of Mr. Caldwell's comprador—Lai Sze-kai, who told me that Mr. Caldwell was the owner. I pay the rent to the comprador, and last saw...\n\nAdjourned to 1 P.M., on the 3d.\n\nFIFTH DAY,\n\nThursday, 3d June, 1858.\n\nPresent,—All the Members.\n\n(15)\n\nGEORGE COOPER TURNER—Called and examined.\n\nI am a Solicitor in this colony. In December last I was, and still am, Solicitor to the Attorney General. Upon reference to document (M) I can state that, on the 3d January, 1857, I, as solicitor for the Attorney General, obtained a transfer into his name in the land office, of lots 475, 476, 477, 478, 480, 483, 484, 485, and 507. These lots had been purchased by him from Mr. Caldwell. Mr. Anstey was very desirous in the latter end of December last, of selling these lots, and I applied to Mr. Caldwell to point out where the lots were. I think at that time Mr. Caldwell said, that he had a friend who was very anxious to buy one of these lots. I replied, that I did not think it likely that the Attorney General would sell any one particular lot, as he wanted to get rid of the whole together. I made some enquiry as to the lot Mr. Caldwell's friend wished to buy, and called on him afterwards to tell him, that the Attorney General would not sell any one lot; the purchaser, if he bought, must take the whole. The lot Mr. Caldwell wished to buy was one near the Kulan obelisk; the others are in the neighbourhood of East Point. The whole were afterwards sold to Mr. Strachan.\n\nCross-examined,—Mr. Caldwell did not, at the time of the conversation with him, mention the name of the friend; nor do I know for whom the lot was wanted.\n\nLAI SZE KAI,—Called and examined.\n\nI was Comprador to Mr. Caldwell. I ceased to be Comprador from the time Mr. Caldwell ceased to be master of the Eaglet, about two years ago. Since then I have been partner with Low Ateem in a shop, and now myself keep a shop which is in Stanley Street. When I was Comprador to Mr. Caldwell I went with the steamer; I also collected rents of four houses, but I do not know the numbers of the ground lots on which they stand. [The lot referred to is 197.] The present occupants are Lee Koon-tai, Ngow Poo, Chew Angee, Ch'o Ngu, Akwun, who keeps a Chair shop, and Yew Aon—there are eight tenants altogether. I received rents for Mr. Caldwell until I went on board the steamer as Comprador, after which I believe Mr. Caldwell's cook was collector. After I left the steamer I again collected rents for Mr. Caldwell, and continued to do so up to the middle of December last, when the houses were sold to Lum Ateen. After that time I collected them for Lum Ateen as some of them still owed rent. I delivered to Mr. Caldwell the rents as I collected them. When I was collector, for Mr. Caldwell, the rents amounted to about $19 a month. They are now let by Lum Ateen to me for $50, and I sublet them for $57. None of the houses are brothels, nor are any of them inhabited by loose women. During the whole time that I have received the rents they have been all occupied as family houses, and none of them as brothels or by loose women. The houses belonged to Mr. Caldwell at the end of 1856.\n\nI have collected rents for Mr. Caldwell for 11 houses besides. They are not sold. I know of my own knowledge that these houses belonged to a sister of Mrs. Caldwell, whose name I do not know. I do not know Chun Atsoo; I know they are the property of Mrs. Caldwell's sister, because Mrs. Caldwell told me so, and at one time offered to let them to me. Mrs. Caldwell managed the affairs of this property. The rents of these 11 houses are paid to Mrs. Caldwell, and have always been since I collected them. I have never collected rent on any other lots for Mrs. Caldwell. In the month of February last, I spoke to Mr. Caldwell concerning the payment of ground rent on Lum Ateen's property. When Lum Ateen was going home he told me to pay the ground rents for him: I said, that I did not know what amount I had to pay; Lum Ateen told me I might go to my old master—Mr. Caldwell—about it. I went to Mr. Caldwell in the month of February, and asked him to write a note for me to go and pay ground rents. Mr. Caldwell told me that he himself was going to pay ground rents. I gave him a $50 note. About two days afterwards Mr. Caldwell said it was not enough, and that I must give him $2 and some cents more. Mr. Caldwell said, that he would wait till Lum Ateen's return, and hand the receipts over to him. He told me that the receipts were at the office; he would get them by and by. I know a Boarding House keeper in Hollywood Road called Tomas. I let him the house in which he lives. I saw him yesterday morning. I said to him, and all the Chinese tenants, \"Don't be afraid; if any inquiry be made, you may say that the house belongs to my mistress [Mrs. Caldwell].” The previous evening I went to collect the rents. The Chinese tenants were afraid I was not going to let the houses to them. One of the tenants came to me next morning, and so I went to all. I have had no conversation with Mr. Caldwell as to the evidence that had been given before this Commission. No one told me to go to these tenants. They said some constable had been making inquiry as to the names and occupations of the tenants, and that this was their reason for being frightened.\n\nCross-examined,—The amount of rent due upon the four houses when they were transferred to Lum Ateen in December, was about $70; there is none of this due now. I was in Gaol about the 4th moon of last year, about a debt of my partner. I was 6 or 7 days in Gaol. I have never been in Gaol on a criminal charge. I do not know Chew Alai—nor have I heard the name; neither do I know Chun Ats00. I had an interview with Mrs. Caldwell's sister at Macao, about 4 years ago; I do not know her name.\n\nI do not know if she has a sister living in Hongkong. Six of the eleven houses are near the Joss-house in Hollywood Road, and the others are in Queen's Road West. It was after I left the steamer in July, 1856, that Mrs. Caldwell offered to let me the houses. I have known Lum Ateen about 10 years. He is a druggist and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 247778, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-074 - Lieut. Governor Caine & Sir Robinson - 1859 [6-12]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-074 - Lieut. 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San\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 109 H0 - Alae\n 20\n Fa chio\n \n \n \n \n 110 Chan Chen Lac\n 30\n Lin pun\n Sun Chon\n \n \n \n 111 Hin Atac\n 24\n Sun ley\n Cal nichos\n \n \n \n 112 Non A con\n 28\n \n \n \n \n \n 113 Hife afat\n 23\n Ston cun\n \n \n \n \n 114 Chew-Asson\n \n Sam quai\n \n \n \n \n 115 Chan Asin\n 19\n V70 thno\n \n \n \n \n 116 Chisi. Afre\n \n Alon\n Calan chow\n \n \n \n 117 Chu Mon\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 118 Chum Aby\n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n 119 Hon-Assi\n \n Nam Hey\n Sun hor\n \n \n \n 120 Lin Alun\n 28\n Nac chav\n \n \n \n \n 121 Jan Nencie\n 25\n accom\n \n \n \n \n 122 Non-thy\n 29\n Hon leom\n \n \n \n \n 123 Ha hon\n 18\n Nam hoe\n Sam hor\n Law Mun\n \n \n 124 A can\n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n 125 Avey\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 126 born Amun\n 20\n Juring\n \n \n \n \n 127 Lit faclan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 128 Chan lebtis\n 24\n Chen loi.\n \n \n \n \n 129 Nom-A for\n 20\n Samoe\n \n \n \n \n 130 Ion laknum\n 30\n Soumne\n \n \n \n \n 131 Teen-attor\n 28\n Simtoo\n \n \n \n \n 132 Chan Alon\n 19\n Suntar\n \n \n \n \n 133 Sam Avá\n \n Suntai\n \n \n \n \n 134 Syz Assan\n 19\n Bolincher\n \n \n \n \n 135 de Asai\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 136 Len Aman\n 30\n Son mun\n \n \n \n \n 137 by a\n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n 138 ao\n \n Asy\n \n \n \n \n 139 Artesan\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 140 Cha atac\n 2.0\n Colin choo\n Samhoe\n \n \n \n 141 Jon Arin\n 25\n Fommun\n \n \n \n \n 142 Min You\n 30\n Đến hỏi\n \n \n \n \n \n 4\n Chinfic\n law 18.\n \n \n \n \n \n lan\n \n \n \n \n For tirado\n \n Chan chun\n Irm\n \n \n \n Chum Ahoi.\n \"J\n \n \n \n \n \n For tirato e exition\n \n en sen lugar\n Son achos\n \n \n \n lugar entron lugarrentin\n \n \n \n \n \n\nBy ... at that place.. January, & February, 1860.\n\nCaldwell's Report o procedings over to Macao,- with un 45 Kidnapped chinese taken Guimarães, respecting the Correspondence between Sir St. Robinson and Governon", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-077 - Sir Robinson - 1860 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250184, "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": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "For 240 dolion.\n\n(a dothe\n\na\n\ndollar = 1/2 = 50 = :.50 Soverges Sovenyn\n\n240 of\n\nA\n\n=\n\n240 dollar)\n\nBut 240 dollar han kcome in Hong Kong\n\nThe Law\n\nthan 50 Soverign. untt ment nun has theupen beam is operatin Except pe the kumpon of causing inconswain & facchting\n\nthat chesning\n\nthat the attempt to\n\nEvry lody in append\n\ndonthe legal tendern\n\nsupport a Mht be abandoned.\n\nlinter (gold & silen and secondly that in\n\nto. adept\n\nhot to\n\nH. Keng it is repay British tindu-Gold; but the Recital\n\nan atferne tendir - silour. In which bargain\n\naccounts left by private penas.\n\nmate and\n\nThe Nem 5 pespon simple & dubin that the silon dollar Shall be the auf legal trader. Me Strachey objects that this males no provision zu mill coin. –», (2) th holden of gold will find then proput de fruit\n\nAnd cite han a\n\nrejut\n\n332\n\nto compersation.\n\nI also points cut that lefestation\n\nwich be suchen, to pse the rate al u. Faves to how fagalle in somringen\n\nRecirable in dollar.\n\nAnd it\n\nacte l\n\nhe added that a similar\n\nin can\n\ndifficulty might asn\n\nby law\n\npusoms hat, debts payable\n\nA\n\nstat Of stuck & debly\n\ncentracted Ho\n\nin Soverign\n\nw\n\nThe valen\n\nle attend by defining\n\nI demonetizing the Formuje.\n\nw\n\nIt appear. to me that the best mode of mating to avoiding then diffemtlers\n\n&\n\nis a gestein in which local knowledge chey mpl – And that thist B (M. Offin aid en keund in Obtaining by rabelle appertime fram by the last referent thing hay, gob the under te fort of he d. Bruning It is profille that the fake Grome Hi H. Robinson\n\nmay\n\nwhi\n\nS\n\nExten with the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 252111, "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": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "page_number": 548, "title": "CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12]", "content_text": "544 \n11 \nof the countenances & procurements of the other\" \nIt was not done according to the rule of the present enquiry, in charging iniquitous transactions with Mat. Chow; this was not done. The Diche of turable houren dufulite & bu. R. Robison dated the 11 Jan labo dirutil sact supering to be institutio- \nMr. Caldwell with Mat. Cow. Dong \nthe car \nMr. Caldwell wrote an regards follows \nthe \nAnstey \n\"be uemaining offer againt \nbut at fr. 39 of ten P. Roger minuti Suspension, Ja-fat-fthe byming, & his remarks ofer then – \nand found statest the charger, the choon accusations in this fafers an mainly \nIt affeans but der E. Lallin \nbut Mr. Calducth ought- \nwar \nEle \ndisinfed, but that in the flace of dismissing \ndirected, & ahon can \n\"repares fartruilar. attention, in M. Caldwell. \naffect the be \n\"Love already \nlin at once, he profared that there should incuteption la fall enquiry into afferent aluses in \nI thought conduct of Mat fentuman been the subject of a searching \nal. this \nBound plaguing \nLanche \nt a competent \nMt. Mat Mound alth \n\"this the tack in a \nthe Carl Korrice, & exfenilly into Mr Caldwell they excented \nandect \nbut let \nlex oving \nà some mis afferebens \nCommen \ntions \nmanner Len smird at- conclusions what \n\n## Possible Reconstructed Version\n\n544 \n11 \nof the countenances & procurements of the other\" \n\nIt was not done according to the rule of the present enquiry, in charging iniquitous transactions with Mat. Chow; this was not done. The Duke of Turable H. Robison dated the 11 Jan... directing an institution... \nMr. Caldwell with Mat. Cow. Dong \nMr. Caldwell wrote as follows regarding \nAnstey \n\"be remaining offer against \nbut at fr. 39 of ten P. Roger minuti Suspension, Ja... and his remarks ofer then – \nand found stated the charge, the accusations in this paper are mainly \nIt appears but der E. Lallin \nbut Mr. Caldwell ought- \nEle \ndissatisfied, but that in the place of dismissing \ndirected, & anon can \n\"repares particular attention, in M. Caldwell. \naffect the be \n\"Love already \nlin at once, he proposed that there should incite a full enquiry into different abuses in \nI thought conduct of Mat... been the subject of a searching \nal. this \nBound... \nLanche \nt a competent \nMt. Mat Mound alth \n\"this the tack in a \nthe Carl Korrice, & expressly into Mr Caldwell they exerted \nandect \nbut let \nlex owing \nà some mis apprehensions \nCommen \ntions \nmanner Len... smird at- conclusions what", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-082 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253719, "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": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "page_number": 347, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## Further Report on Currency\n\nthis definition. \n\nmath \n\nany more \n\nmyself to understand than the Government - how the Spanish dollar not coined of inferior metal to the Mexican dollar could possibly be rated in standard, but of a different metal. It is \n\narticulation \n\nBut the proposed substitute \n\nof silver coins of less purity than their third \n\nMy 3177 \n\n2 Inclosures \n\nSeparate. \n\n467 from H. Robinson. \n\nThe Duke of Newcastle. \n\nReceived \n\nmuch purer silver than the Dollar running against gold, while the Government proposed coin would be an inferior currency coming against a better silver. If we are blocked forward (with the merchants) to the use of a British dollar, we ought to consider how such a contingency might be affected by our first issuing a very debased large perfection of 10 percent coinage of small Dollar which is not altogether satisfactory. I have already stated in former \n\nThe upheld paragraph \n\nMinutes (on `4005/6`, `X2444`) the doubts entertained between the profound consent me respecting the proportion certain Coinage & British British silver dues cash, which will of course be bought for sale as copper, as soon as the intrinsic value in the Colony is beyond their current value of so much in the market.\n\nMr. Strachey \n\nSir F. Rogers. \n\nJustice have concurred with be left in the hands of the Treasury, and I run that it will \n\nCapability \n\nfor this defer \n\nexamine any \n\ndecided \n\nopen upon \n\nevent exist. \n\nMilosh \n\nsilver \n\n3 \n\nDollar. \n\nIt does strike me that the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254229, "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": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "page_number": 332, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "## \n\n31\n\nprisoner, whose name was Shum Ahing, wanting to see me, to do something for him, \nI did not see him again, to the best of my remembrance, till after he was convicted on the 21st of February. I had no sympathy for him nor for any of the Mah-chow Wong people, and did not seek to see him. The mornings were cold about that time, and I seldom quitted my cell till after the convicts had left to go to work on the roads, so that when I next saw him, the second time in my life, was after his return on the first day of his going out, on the 23rd of February. On that day I wrote in my diary thus: \"Shum Ahing the Mah-chow Wong **partner**, was convicted of slave dealing and kidnapping, and has four years penal servitude i.e., subject to transportation. He cries agon ... deal at having to go out in the Chain gang, and says two weeks of **it** will kill him. Asow (the barber) declares him a victim of the gung.\" The third time of my speaking to him was again during the short interval that elapsed between the return of the Chain gang and the general lock-up. I conclude this by finding my entry on the 25th, of what he had told me of the rights of his case.\n\nDr. Murray's record of the sick will show, I think, that the man broke down within a week of being in gaol, and that he sent him to the hospital—a place I could not enter.\n\nThe next I saw of him was through the gratings of the door of the solitary cell before spoken of, on the 12th of March. He had complained of diarrhoea in the hospital, and the object of his being sent to the solitary cell, (a very common occurrence) was to test the evidences, if any, of the disease. The report being that he had no such sickness, he was ordered to be flogged for shamming—and thrice, within nine days from that date, he was lashed up to the triangles in the yard and his flesh torn from him.\n\nOn the 21st of March, I left the Criminal Gaol, so that for this warm intimacy of mine with Shum Ahing to have taken place, it must have been within the eight or nine days in question, and when the poor creature's back will have been like a piece of raw beef. I believe during that period, when he was breaking stones in the yard, being too much cut up to go out to work, I spoke to him at the same time that I spoke to his brother, who had been sentenced to ten days imprisonment for giving him opium in the road, and for which he, Shum Ahing, was flogged again, and I told him to send this brother to me when his case... \n\nI was out of the gaol, and I would do what I could in investigating. After I left the Criminal Gaol the brother called on me twice, and then he was warned by the gung that if he visited me again he would get into trouble. Shum Ahing's family, since they were spirited out of the Colony, I have never seen him, or any member of Almost all the information I got of Shui Ahing's case in the Criminal Gaol was from the prisoner who shaved me, and who asserted from the first that he, Shum Ahing, was the victim of a conspiracy of the Mah-chow Wong gang—and that he was not the first of the kind in that prison.\n\n35\n\n328\n\nAs to being found with my arm around Shun Ahing's neck—Gaol Governor Scott's assertion—and that he had separated us several times—I should feel insulted if anyone asked me if there were an approach to truth in it. A more clumsy, ridiculous falsehood I cannot conceive; and my first impression was that it was only thrown in the concoction intended for a defence, for the purpose of aiding my enemies in the Government Service in adding another to the many I have been made to endure for doing what I conscientiously meant for the public good.\n\nSubsequent circumstances lead me to feel certain that these men, Scott and Caldwell—if such rascals may be called men—had a graver object; and what that object was—point 6 of my abstract of disproofs—is so clear to any comprehension that I have deemed it right to ask the Attorney General to institute criminal proceedings against the parties on a charge of conspiracy.\n\nA copy of my letter to the Attorney General, Enclosure K,* I beg to append, with that officer's reply, Enclosure L.† regarding which I have to say that so long as the Hongkong Government have an officer styled Protector of the Chinese—and a part of his business is the going to Macao to release, at the public expense, men supposed to have been kidnapped—I hold it to be no part of a private individual's duty to enter the lists as public prosecutor.\n\nIn search of the information which I now lay before His Excellency, I have already, in voyaging twice to Macao, and the like to Hongkong, expended a good deal of time, and certainly in money not less than a hundred dollars—Should I, however, be successful in obtaining the release of a man who I verily believe to be innocent of the charge for which he is undergoing penal servitude, with the occasional inhuman torture of Victoria Gaol, and who would undoubtedly have remained in his living tomb, without the possibility of his claim to justice being known but for my providential presence there at the same time,—my reward will be ample in an approving conscience.\n\nShui Aking, I need not tell His Excellency, is a man well in years, and in his statement to me he speaks of having dependent on him a family of young children, besides an aged father and mother, to whom his restoration, after upwards of two years separation—upwards of two years of undeserved penal servitude,—would be a great boon.\n\nI have &c.,\n\nW. TARRANT.\n\n* See page 1 ante.— \n† See page 9 ante.— \n\nEngnice...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255151, "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": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "page_number": 305, "title": "CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862", "content_text": "## For mail of 28th\n\n26th March \n302 \n2444 \nWapping \nof £44, but a loss of some amount on each ton of cash, if there weighed 35 tons each. \n\nThe 5 Dollars seems much too high a tender for copper coin between one person and another. The legal tender of copper money here is, I believe, up to 1d only: 5 Dollars would be above a pound.\n\nThe tender to government were carried up & a considerable sum, this & a further batch be an advantage, & help to keep the currency in tune with its legal value.\n\n### Seperate for 26 March\n\nI have been informed... I think I have considered within... In Lords Committee on... \n21 \nIntisare as the Deanery, and I understand the scheme... this hardship in the recasting of the Master of the mint, as repaid regards.\n\nthis proposals to circulate silver coins fitting Intrinsic value. But I do not see how this could be done without loss to the Government.\n\nin regards the Themishe courses, or the sufferer... the best course will be to empower the Governor to reject fully if he thinks of the present proposals of the Master of the Mint.\n\nJoe despatch, marked **CONFIDENTIAL**. If this of the peasch 1861, recommending certain measures for the...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-089 - Public Offices - 1862.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257799, "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": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 356, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "352\n\nHit the Apels female Jo Ann Colmics\n\nhave them in the hunter,\n\nW. Ocel's belie\n\ndenies &ucune\n\nthe canis, & hany\n\nthe amount stated. If they have else how\n\n62. I am at\n\nIn same time.\n\ndirected to inquire\n\nMistiseled to preward anis to the Colung\n\ndelay.\n\nstate that W.C.\n\nwould be glad\n\nto be informed,\n\nwhat is the weight & composition of\n\ndenomination of each coin\n\nQuantities of each\n\ndenomination are\n\ncovered by the\n\npresent charge\n\n3262... 18. 8 Zashut is the remaining quantity. Respond to be ensuelier, Luterle The the expense\n\nof Outfolging it. this Race &? also he\n\nglad to receive\n\nSpecimens their kordsliches, specimens of the reveal comis, if then huddliches suffly then, - to avoid beating in erfen Mir hacked Marily\n\nCar", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257826, "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": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 383, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "who signed the Certificate of Survey of the Chest on the 14th October 1862, did not Pagelglof verify by actual Counting of the Notes and Coin the amount of the Funds stated by them to have been found in the Chest.\n\nWe beg leave to enclose Copies of reports of Committees of Survey which we are in the habit of receiving the Accounts of the Colony of the Mauritius, with a view to their transmission to Hong Kong for future guidance of the Colonial Officers who may be appointed to take surveys of the Chest.\n\nI have extract nam. Correspond In7035769 379 Report.\n\nIn obedience to the Memorandum of the Governor under date the undersigned, Block proceeded, this day at to the Colonial Treasury in order to examine and ascertain, the contents of the Treasury Vault and how far the accounts are correct with reference to the accounts of the Colonial Treasurer, and also to ascertain what security, bonds and other documents or articles of value are deposited in the said Vault; and, we have the honor to report that we found, the amounts hereunder mentioned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257886, "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": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 443, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "Li & Nagen\n\nAuthrungs\n\nOrdinance\n\nvery\n\n3 hod\n\nIn Mercer at once\n\n& pans the\n\nand send copy of this letter to\n\nAs there will be\n\nv. Bent\n\ng\n\nCopper Coin at present the second Ordinance authorising its coinage is being drafted.\n\nCan await has\n\n...\n\nW.R.\n\n3/11\n\nh÷148\n\nHongkong Govt. Gaz. 1862, No. 160. 10211\n\nThe Administering\n\nthe Govt. of Hong Kong\n\n439\n\n8th Nov.\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nin receipt of your\n\nMINUTE\n\nNOVR\n\n4\n\ndispatch No. 160 of the\n\n...\n\nFor Mail the 10\n\natter\n\nchers to Mes...ranky\n\nturn (\n\nhis return\n\n25 Augt. re...d\n\nthe Ordinance for the Establishment of\n\nMint in\n\nHongkong.\n\nI have to ...stunt,\n\nb\n\nlog\n\nthe\n\nthe corresponding...\n\nwhich has been forwarded on the ... defect, before your\n\nCouncil, and ...ratmet the Ordinance for\n\n...\n\nPage information lines are kept as is, but there are none in this text.\n\nThe original text appears to be a jumbled collection of words and phrases, likely due to OCR errors. I have made an attempt to correct some of the obvious errors and reformat the text into paragraphs.\n\nhas been rewritten to meet the format requirement as follows:\n\nLi & Nagen\n\nAuthrungs\n\nOrdinance\n\nvery\n\n3 hod\n\nIn Mercer at once\n\n& pans the\n\nand send copy of this letter to\n\nAs there will be\n\nv. Bent\n\ng\n\nCopper Coin at present the second Ordinance authorising its coinage is being drafted.\n\nCan await has\n\nརྨས་སྟ7527\n\nW.R.\n\n3/11\n\nh÷148\n\nHongkong Govt. Gaz. 1862, No. 160. 10211\n\nThe Administering\n\nthe Govt. of Hong Kong\n\n439\n\n8th Nov.\n\nI have to acknowledge\n\nin receipt of your\n\nMINUTE\n\nNOVR\n\n4\n\ndispatch No. 160 of the\n\n...\n\nFor Mail the 10\n\natter\n\nchers to Mes...ranky\n\nturn (\n\nhis return\n\n25 Augt. re...d\n\nthe Ordinance for the Establishment of\n\nMint in\n\nHongkong.\n\nI have to ...stunt,\n\nb\n\nlog\n\nthe\n\nthe corresponding...\n\nwhich has been forwarded on the ... defect, before your\n\nCouncil, and ...ratmet the Ordinance for", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 257890, "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": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863", "content_text": "443\n\nwas the cou...\n\nbe to leave the local Government & origin for they. Kay, I am not aware. Copper coin legislation to extend the Mint's operations to conforming to English coin rules, are only spent on copper, to which, I gather,\n\nat care internals, the public having no right intended by the Treasury (in 10,821 Kay. Kay to claim coin for in exchange for copper, & by yourself / ingen note at the end of object, of course, being to keep up the value to\n\nMaintain parity by limiting the supply. the diff cult on 10.).\n\na large supply of copper coins of the Essentially, before taking new denominations having been issued, there seems no occasion for legislation forward. On the contrary, I think the Mint here to Robinson would wish to know how the new copper coinage works, before any step.\n\nI should doubt the acquisition of copper being an object, unless the Chinese at large take to using the British cash in lieu. As regards the inconsistency of copper in the Colony & copper at home, I do not think the Royal Mint have, or at times for it convenient to get their copper coined in the Colony. The machinery, I believe, is different for silver & copper. But what would be the taste for any further step?.\n\nXCR(99.21/102)\n\nM6519\n\n67.22\n\nMix 23.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-095 - Public Offices - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258019, "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": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 20, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "Su. F. Rozen\n\nrogvs 7\n\nI\n\n**\n\nJAPAN AND ITS PEOPLE\n\nThe following extracts from a letter received by a gentleman in Manchester from his son, a naval officer who is now serving in Japanese waters, will be read with interest:-\n\nYokohama, Oct. 15, 1883,\n\nThe Japanese Government, with whom dealings have been held, cannot be considered in the same light as a government at home strong in its support by armies, navies, and public opinion. The Tycoon is superior to, and exacts allegiance from, the Daimios; but, say the latter, cannot make new laws or abrogate old ones without their concurrence. How that may be we cannot say, little truth being known about the real constitution of Japanese Government, and no written code of laws having hitherto, I believe, been examined by us. I believe, though, that the Government does its best. I do not concur with those who allege false faith or evasions of treaty obligations on their part. The perpetrators of the various late outrages were in no way connected with the government. Undoubtedly that Government was remiss in its pursuit of the criminals, and showed no alacrity to pay the indemnity. But we should remember that their civilisation is 2300 years behind ours; that human life has not by any means an equal value here to what we set upon it. The Government was in a very difficult position; hard pressed on one side by the powerful Conservative party, on the other by the significant attitude of the British forces, by the threatening omen of the late events in China, ending in the treaty of Tien-tsin, and by a quarrel with the court of the Spiritual Emperor at Miako.\n\nOn the other hand they have fulfilled well all the stipulations regarding Yokohama. A fine Bund and several piers have been solidly constructed. The streets are drained. Labour is abundantly and cheaply supplied. There are no restrictions on goods when once they have passed the Custom House. In our treaty we had no necessity, as we had in the treaty of Tien-tsin, to insert a clause to the effect that the British nation was not to be designated in official documents by an opprobrious name. Both the common people and the officers of Government are very courteous and good-natured, and have none of the nasty feeling and idiotic satisfied contempt that Chinamen always evince.\n\nTo give one instance of the wish of the Government to avoid cause of dispute. There have been lately in the neighbourhood of Yokohama a number of Ronin, or vagabonds, not in the service of any Daimio. Guard houses in every direction around Yokohama have been lately erected. No suspicious person, or, indeed, any person, is allowed to pass without showing written permissions from the Yeddo authorities, stating his name, business, &c. If deemed necessary, even the man's sword or swords may be taken away. That these are precautionary measures, not military posts of offence, is evident from their position. I know this to be a fact from personal conversation with Yakumins. The distrust formerly entertained of us is giving way. Amongst the common people there is little or none; the very children run up to you and beg for a tempo. Books of all kinds, whose sale was formerly prohibited, are now openly sold in every street. Dollars are held legal coin. English manufactures, especially camlets and hardware, are held in much estimation.\n\nA firm but conciliatory spirit in our official relations, backed up by the presence of a respectable force, say two or three corvettes, or even smaller vessels, gain for us by degrees all the advantages we seek—not so quickly as to satisfy the merchants here, who seek to make the greatest possible sum in the smallest possible time; but enough so for the purposes of government, who will look rather to permanent, even if slowly gained, advantages than to rapid and precarious favours from the native government extorted either by fear or diplomacy. Indeed there appears to be no other course open to us. By bombarding the seaports we injure an unoffending people, and do little damage to the potentate who may have excited our anger. A military force of sufficient strength would be very expensive, and military operations would be very difficult in a country like this, all hills and valleys, rice swamps, hedges, thickets, and woods, with few roads, and scarcely any, except the seaside one, fit for the transport of artillery.\n\nIn the case of Satsuma, however, it might be comparatively easy to take the Lew Kew Islands, and then have a secure base of operations against any hostile Japanese Government; but how will such territorial acquisitions be looked on at home? There is another powerful and easy means of offence at our disposal I mean the stoppage of the immense junk trade, which would be soon effected by a few of our cruisers and gunboats. All taxes are paid in rice, all wages to Government officials and Daimios' retainers are paid in rice. Rice and fish are the staple food of all classes, and any interruption to the regular supply would have an immense effect throughout the whole empire. Whether we should be justified in thus punishing a whole nation for the fault of a particular Daimio is another question. It would be difficult to make distinction, and yet the measure might be necessary.\n\nA firm conciliatory policy then appears to me to be the best. By contact with our civilisation the Japanese will gradually rub off many of their prejudices. Let us maintain ourselves where we are, and not seek at present fresh ports. To this I would except Osaka, whose neighbourhood to Miako makes it desirable as a base whence we might conduct direct diplomatic relations with the Mikado. Our ships might oftener visit Japanese ports. Instead of lying during the summer months in Hong Kong, or in the deadly river of Shanghai, they might give health and amusement to their crews here. There cannot be any objection to this on the score of defencelessness of Chinese ports, for the time of voyage is only three or four days, and steamers are constantly running, as well as a fortnightly mail (P. and O.).\n\nI will not say any more at present on this subject, and I will say but little now on commercial affairs. There is, however, one very common impression in England, that the trade of this place is not worth keeping, and the value of exports does not exceed £720,000 per year. But the majority of silk and tea goes to Shanghai, and thence to England, and, consequently, is reckoned in English custom-house returns as Chinese exports. The real value of the export trade here is quite £5,000,000 sterling annually, though I can well imagine that the direct trade to England does not exceed £800,000. There are, I should think, 150 to 200 residents in business here, all, apparently, doing well. Houses spring up in every direction, and very soon the concession will have to be increased. At present there are 32 vessels at anchor, exclusive of men of war, and coalers, victuallers, &c. On an average, six vessels weigh a week, loaded with silk, tea, wax, sharks' fins, &c., and a considerable quantity of cotton now just been picked on the fields around.\n\n19", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258172, "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": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "In Thackery\n\nfor with food. the heaveny bella of\n\n1. Tant 1850\n\nCate\n\nthis subest zei\n\nVd.\n\nthe accompanying\n\nas my 1677\n\nThe Meaning,\n\nFin F.Rogers.\n\nin 1850\n\nRegatived a similar proposi\n\nway.\n\nfrom Fi). Beving, but\n\nthe important events\n\nwhich has since taken place in\n\nChina have\n\n8 entrich\n\nchanged\n\nth\n\nface\n\nl\n\nre exemination of thee Mint,\n\nnot considered in cas\n\nquestin\n\nre excitatio espans in pre poster, that this of itself Deems to warrant a\n\nwith that of the cattlement in the he\n\nIt is, I think, to te regretter that this\n\nthe subsidiary comagý\n\nshored of recently by the Admin Comial £proct. of January 1865. When been deuds adeft the Recaican Dollar as air standard, but these high a\n\ncided to coin.\n\n八\n\nwe strife Britißle\n\ndecided\n\ncourse contion a the anomily\n\nto this & mot the peexican must be the standard. Agar u\n\nbest way Perent alloys.\n\nactical cincueniense\n\n(list) \"mens oilver comiques of\n\nMy mim\n\nof anting\n\ncimpression, at present is that the a British Dollar herunter\n\nmese &? be to comm\n\nफू\n\nMost obedient Suv\n\nMobinson\n\nit would be, thefinden\n\nMexican (coffe allergy). The question ribe one of a good diely\n\n170\n\nwhich then details may be rittled that thin bucups of the whole scheme will term.\n\npilt. Destina afremmes that if this exferin\n\nment is like trend, it musthe bes\n\na haw\n\nJunt\n\nto be created at WayKong: raying cutting ther gecestion of employing the Mint in hunden for the puncher. If bar. Eiton & Muraian_\n\nEilver Orleans both pass through Lundar from the to China, it may be\n\nhimes, on\n\ntheir\n\nway\n\ncheaper to convert the silver inte Orllan\n\nhere. If on the other hand\n\nryci silver of Easter origin could be hought to a bind at tmpkey, the case vile different.\n\nThe expense of\n\na new Mint in tn Colony v. be commichelle, & whether it would be covered by the inffined region of 1½ heal D. of course defend on the amount of bruising done. In the case of the French L Calenen. heint, the actual cost of the liter conqu has been found tot I believe, the not quite\n\n•\n\nسله\n\nItems of detail, butiti\n\nBollant calendask the\n\nMitt Phobriisor regards then\n\nchangeable), ich serbeilles, both with Rupees\n\nitions of all pati", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 258421, "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": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-096 - Others - 1863", "content_text": "to linause in the inflace un in \n\nthe rules he was \n\nentitled \n\nExtension with Je Salary- \n\n2. that in all cases \n\n2 thì \n\n414 \n\n& in the then leave \n\nin with for Salary, \n\nis extended it a \n\ninles \n\nit in operailly stated that \n\nit in without 1⁄2 Salary. \n\nde M. Thoniton chon li \n\nI how his / Salary in the Cetary d \n\nto cut sel kit the D. I hucarthe \n\n1 \n\ncan authorize the Agents to pay the \n\nto \n\n: Certificate ) but hope to be a few months ready return to my duties in \n\nkhông hàng \n\nリ \n\nI have the honor to be \n\nLii \n\nYour Most Obedient \n\nJour \n\nand very Humble Servants \n\nJoseph Thornton \n\nActing Clerk \n\nScanned \n\nduly authenticated \n\nTherefore \n\nfor the \n\nletter \n\naccord \n\nIt is just feasible \n\nit may mean \n\nthe definite dust ... \n\nthat the leave was extended on special grounds, the local authorities may \n\nhave felt warranted \n\nin doing \n\nsay \n\nBut then ought not like \n\nHarbour Department Amphony, China \n\nSu. E Rogers \n\nThe fact was notified 2. days after \n\nat the time h. Feb\" - \n\nI paid \n\nthe receipt of this department has come ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-096 - Others - 1863.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 259461, "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": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "page_number": 111, "title": "CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8]", "content_text": "Page 363\n\nT06:\n\nSentence\n\nNarres\n\n138 Chun a Wun\n\n1839\n\nImo\n\nLook Chye\n\n140 Cheanum fong\n\n143 Soo a chew\n\nAge\n\n24\n\nbrims\n\nRobbery from the person\n\nAdministering (Drugs\n\nand Robbery.\n\nYears\n\nMouth Nolva\n\n2\n\nPiracy\n\n15\n\n12310 May\n\n1861\n\nDate of Sentences Remarks.\n\n36 L. 19th Janay 1852\n\n27\n\nScreeny in a Boat\n\nZ\n\n146-ademy a fort\n\n415\n\nPiracy and Mundu\n\n15-\n\nsub Kiving a pring\n\n16\n\nRobbery from the person\n\n6\n\n20th\n\n184\n\n197 Jam a King\n\n25\n\nand stealing children-\n\n7\n\nH.L.\n\n1914 November 1862\n\n4 dejtenbu 1800 |\n\n19th March\n\n1861\n\n1200\n\n148 Wony a Sorig\n\n18\n\nI arcony in a dwelling house\n\n149 Mong\n\n157 Chave\n\n184 Leory a tuck\n\na lum\n\n30\n\nPiracy a trick\n\n22\n\nRebbery in the Hausber\n\n25\n\nPivney\n\n166 Chun Wai Ling\n\n33\n\n4\n\n161 Boon luck fook\n\n22\n\n167 Wong\n\n162 Mgai a ye\n\nthe fe any\n\nLA\n\n28\n\nStabbing with intent is\n\n10\n\nfork\n\n$2\n\nBurglaryn We and Escape\n\nfeate\n\n40\n\n770\n\nChun tai lai\n\n2.7\n\nPiracy a دارای M ارا\n\n28\n\nRafé\n\n172 Chang 174 Mong chu\n\n30\n\nRobbery with Violence\n\ndangad gangen\n\n1844 Fatman 1813\n\n18 December\n\n104 april\n\n18h Jime\n\n13 December\n\nB..\n\nFound Drowned i\n\n194 Grovenbo\n\n18th Augual\n\n7\n\n7\n\nb\n\n184 March\n\n1821\n\nChun a\n\n177 | Chun Chuen way\n\n178 Chun a\n\n179\n\n181 Chun a\n\n182\n\nWony a you\n\nMong a foo\n\n187 Chime a ling 189 Sow a Son\n\n190 yip\n\nū\n\n192 Wong a ling\n\nmy\n\n26\n\nBurglary\n\n10\n\n28\n\nBiracy\n\nYork\n\nChay\n\n244\n\n28\n\nDo\n\nDr.\n\nching\n\n#5\n\n32\n\nRobbery from the person\n\n18\n\n24\n\ni\n\nKane\n\n28\n\nhing\n\nDivacy\n\n1. Perney Burglary\n\nD.\n\n2\n\n134 October\n\n18h fDccemen 1883\n\n1184 Angust\n\n182 5.\n\ncom April 15h Decembe\n\n8.\n\n184 Dicemiker 1963\n\n2.\n\n4\n\n16\n\n7\n\n10\n\nPigs Siebunang\n\n2013 april\n\nUsagrat gand Afuil\n\nS.\n\n10\n\n38*\n\nSareing in a Bost\n\nG\n\n1154 September 1862\n\nNames\n\nCrime\n\nSentence\n\nyears Months\n\na Vature\n\nDate of Sentence\n\nof\n\nP. 1st April 183\n\n184 May\n\nage\n\n184 Septemba 1863 20th Tammany\n\n182 July\n\n18 Recimon 1802\n\n13 April\n\n182 Suplivalen\n\n18 Decembr\n\n18. $.\n\n18*\n\n18621\n\n1663\n\n14 April 182\n\n197\n\nArigat\n\n1 November 1863\n\n1189. de plomber 192 Girnak sons aferit B-Septembe 18° March\n\nHr. F. 195 Summary\n\n504\n\n18h October\n\nPS. 18 February\n\n19\"\n\nJione\n\n+861\n\n1813\n\n1861\n\n11 Combo 1863\n\nDone april\n\n18th July\n\nDe\n\n198\n\na\n\ntie\n\n4.0\n\nRobbery\n\n201 Wong a key\n\n26\n\n202 See a fuck\n\n17\n\n203 My a Masong\n\n22\n\n210 Seny his toy\n\n32\n\n2/2\n\nMo Thee can\n\n90\n\n2/6 chum a chow\n\n219\n\nMut\n\n18\n\n220 to a cho\n\n2.8\n\n204 Chun a Ling\n\n28\n\n225 Morg a buk\n\n2.0\n\nChild Stealing\n\nin the Harbor\n\nDe from the person with fronding and Robbery\n\nPiracy Robbery from Saromy the few on\n\nAntwo\n\nRobbery with Corm\n\nD.\n\nRobbery in the Harbor Highway Robbery\n\n7744\n\n75\n\n230\n\nHymn alwie\n\n20\n\nBurglary\n\n4\n\n4\n\nthere a chee\n\n42\n\nCherry a hang\n\n271 Chiny a\n\n272 See a sing\n\n973 Suma\n\n261\n\n263\n\nMy unc\n\n270 les a Schoong\n\n232 Choy a tong\n\n236 Mick a tuck\n\n247 Seong 255 Thing\n\n257\n\n258\n\nа\n\nCheang pack Sang\n\nWong a fork\n\nLes a Mu\n\n2.7\n\nRobbery from the person grond #ferrading\n\n40\n\nHiraay\n\n8\n\n10\n\n22\n\nev\n\nPeas.\n\n22\n\nRobbery with brolence\n\n4\n\n26\n\nfrek\n\n25\n\nHighway Robberg\n\nBurglary and Wrom ding\n\nSarvemy of Ineens Stores\n\nLife\n\n28\n\n22.\n\n16\n\n20\n\nyec\n\n27\n\n975 The ah\n\n3.5-\n\nBrought in deads\n\n276 Chim a hum\n\n27\n\n277 Sorng a Jery\n\n23\n\n280 Ch\n\n32\n\nहर\n\n289\n\nFan Mry Chin\n\n11\n\nGoeding and Confederating with Pirates Robbery from the peron\n\nBurg\n\nEx.\n\nLar\n\nRobbing with Armo\n\nPirnay Burglary\n\nPirney\n\n6\n\nD.\n\n12\n\nDud de q\n\n16.\n\n2.90. Seong a\n\n28.\n\nMar\n\n109 101\n\nRemarks.\n\nBrought in deads.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-099 - Sir Robinson - 1864 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260837, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "44 \n\nand its responsibilities and social obligations upon another, has been to leave a debt of some 2,000 hanging like a millstone around my neck on the day of my retirement after a period of nearly half a century spent in the East (without once quitting it) in the service of my Sovereign. \n\nA \n\nMy position of thraldom under that debt is briefly this—I can only leave the colony by assigning my creditors one moiety of my coming pension, reserving the other to support a policy of insurance on my life for their security at a rate of premium gauged upon my sixtieth year (fifty-five of them passed in the tropics), and maintain myself and family, and to launch into the world my last unprovided son now completing his education in France. That this is a bad position, Sir, for any man who has held the high trust in life which I have held will be readily admitted. It only becomes endurable at all under the reflection that it has not been brought about through any conduct upon my own part that can attaint my personal honour. \n\nHaving thus explained my involvements and their origin, it now only remains for me to throw myself upon the consideration of Her Majesty's Government entreating their recommendation of my case to the Lords of the Treasury, as a special, exceptional, and extraordinary one, towards my Lords granting me such a sum of money, over and above whatever pension may be allotted to me, as may help to rescue me from my present tyrannical dilemma, founding the grant as a special reimbursement of extraordinary charges incurred by me whilst Lieutenant-Governor here upon an inadequate salary. \n\nWhilst soliciting this assistance at their Lordships' hands as a pure boon, I would respectfully submit that should my Lords be pleased to accede to my prayer any grant that may be graciously made to me, will not by any means be a pure loss to the National Exchequer. \n\nIn setting forth my services during a long and active military career, and showing that having been fortunate enough to have earned the approbation of all my commanding officers from first to last, I had a well-grounded hope for consideration as an old soldier. In that connection, I beg to refer to the promise of the late Lord Hardinge (as is on record at the Horse Guards, whilst my third son was under—and again going through his education at Sandhurst for the after passing) for a commission, without purchase, which, owing to his Lordship's lamented death, I was compelled to purchase, in the 27th Inniskillings Regiment. Here was a clear gain to the Exchequer arising out of a merely lapsed promise, but again, manifestly, in the face of my pure moral right. I do not represent this to complain of it. The Horse Guards is, of course, justified in proceeding upon its own regulations. I merely exhibit the instance to show that the public Exchequer has in this case been benefited by £450 of my funds, to which it had at least no moral claim. Again, when permitted to sell out of the army, though nominally gazetted as Major of the 39th Regiment, I only received the price of my Captain's commission, thus suffering a loss of £1,400, which afterwards accrued as a pure gain to the Exchequer in the sale of that reserved majority. It is a regulation of the Horse Guards, that an officer can only sell the actual regimental rank he has attained, a very proper regulation. But I was debarred that actual step in rank through the exigencies of the Civil Service in this colony, in the face of my own earnest remonstrance, which will sufficiently appear from the letter of the Secretary to Her Majesty's Superintendent of Trade, dated 22nd May, 1841. I was absolutely prevented from joining my regiment in the operations against Canton in May, 1841; consequently, I lost military promotion and my chance of the Companionship of the Bath, both having been attained by several of my juniors, and I lost £1,400 finally by having only a company to sell instead of a majority, and all because it was held necessary at the time to have a military man at the head of the magistracy of this young colony where the first settlers, with valuable property in heaps about them, were living under mat sheds upon these hill sides, exposed to the nightly descent of armed gangs of desperadoes from the opposite main. Is it too much to hope, Sir, that if I have thus suffered not only pecuniary loss, but what I value infinitely more, high military distinction, through the exigencies of the Civil Service, I shall not rely in vain on the justice of that great Department for at least a mitigation of the consequences. \n\nThose two sums which accrued to the Exchequer from Lord Hardinge's lapsed promise and the regimental step, reserving a majority to the Horse Guards, would now be a fortune to me, in emancipating me from the cruel thraldom of debt, and enabling me to spend the few remaining years of life, which Providence may allot me, in peace, at least, though not in worldly competence. \n\nMy colonial career being now brought to a close, I trust, Sir, that it will not be held out of place upon my part to bring its more prominent incidents under your immediate notice. Again, I find myself placed in the invidious position of speaking of myself; but again, I say, how am I to avoid it, in justice to my unprovided family, and, alas! I \n\n45 \n\n62", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260893, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "54. 4. Glad \"Finder\" are conductive & knew how the so-called what extent than disper real Lender\n\n2. Umpeting offer from all who choon Avr\n\nB. Ed. 29. Usatio to X. Si R. Roper te sap\n\ndrafti certain \"parties selchert & Lee M. Lenderitelli 1201.\n\n7. Royen Copy t inchande Mr. Thunder's auber f lovemer for \"cominderally idea of being conc 1201- Enferation 1125/250 lower Mai the Extinati would we mine 11. with\n\nis net absolutely open ofteates where the competition and amount I think Me H. H. and a bit d polon the persons tending an When afflying pre affrood.\n\nand for 23 tender incited by advertisement 20 118\n\nPage 120\n\nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 261166, "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": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "page_number": 393, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "In 102371.94\n\n390\n\nGnoon Sir R., B.M. Bulkeley Barl M. P.\n\nBaron Hill, Beaumaris\n\n11th Sept 1861\n\n!\n\nFir\n\nI have been requested by my friend Capt. Allen of Cefn Handrif, Carnarvon, to state my opinion as to his fitness for undertaking and accepting the duties of an appointment in the Royal Mint Hongkong.\n\nOf Capt. Allen's knowledge of the science of assaying & smelting metals, or in mechanical appliances in the manufacture of coin of course I know nothing but I do know that he is a man of great energy, both of mind & body.\n\nMy acquaintance with him began when he accepted a commission in the Carnarvonshire Militia, and gave every press of how well he was adapted for ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262186, "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": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7]", "content_text": "## Clause 7 of Ordinance No.5, with 4th clause of No. 6, is to be hart, intent, Jong Au la vires And should be repealed \n\nIn luminal appears about turns, mis decline of the underhand why allying la ten \n\nIn fact Suprem Counts of Hary Rang over aufion a principals in Tuyet trong trong \n\nAus 15th - 9 Sept... \n\n**RECEIVED** \nAUG 12 1865 \n353 \n\nHoughtons, 9th June, $1865. \n\n... seyhun Count the four sty determined by general felis in puixuple of law and could be H Comme d 4.73. Wholy within Coin Legislative dichin. Cette the Ixtended by the Colonial Khan's the bony fang lega Legsislation how \n\nSir, \n\nPati leps the Colonial Chesiner you for Sfeeran can tho try Sony to Reputation define from the misduction of other Infund a filteret in the son of person duft, I times not Committed in the de In whole claus otth Lifested. \n\nI have thoron to slace refore apkroval and exnction Ordinance No. 9 of 1865, entitled \"An Ordinance to give effect to Her Majesty's Regulations for the observance of Neutrality during the existing \n\nThe Right Honorable Edward Cardwell, M.P.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-105 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262740, "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": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "## THE DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY AUGUST 1965\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG\n\nthe acting Attorney General formally presented the case.\n\nTUM\n\nWows Arurdwand Cunniline. How critic, wither be rug use, RACANY to 1 Quorem wede ja abia cenu!\n\nby amann othut Jerice, if the tenny, which Re very touch dobe, die He is to colon se wire Bosk\n\n'To Lei.\n\n2713 omdat psico. Spratly or in Waltres special two-storied Godorum Hiland on the Primu close for Monate. 1. Hupy, outer was perf M\n\n21 Best of Meesce Gibb, Livingst, & 60,\n\nAppl\n\nENFORD & O\n\nFor Sale.\n\nEXORATOR. PARLARE.\n\nnines Sail Femmes B. Wii U of James Tuila\n\nHenty, in Hid by Axrorud Skin i. Bile, the inlene hran\n\nAda |\n\nmil\n\nFor Sale.\n\nWALL PAPER, of different patterns\n\nLAMMERT ATZINGON A GE\n\n9 Bengkong, 11th July. D5665.\n\n-- NEW CALINIURIATMOATS,\n\nWhite Male Barille. Ladis Fashivele li Rehner, is at Clack\n\nMuk Estic Kit Glowny, de vente per mišri\n\n1758 +2, 26 July, 1966,\n\n--16, 20\n\nsaid Wong Strong our fa Alyce Builder 150 Tipping, Cure, 15.\n\ngigin ritused on a basin, sive credetion of angi\n\n********* + LIST OF HOLD... the virus of af every hid the Sint ser inte bereof to pruce Lier theic clits TOMIZAM she is by be done the Lot of word and PARINIC LOT NO. 185 siteated esraw the lindore of the portusing by tee Jo-band ef 5 Cibany Sector 1 orang, Print, Fenuraga 120 rive? the whole political pond foaring Lo Mucker and over aantal interest 50,70 feet\n\nFor Paris, noply to 1619 Qllion in the Ren, 2nd find grafite these! paw wing vờ là\n\nhat no Tube 38, at 67-. This was like sivon, em ciment met\n\nCethi pendest bande? io. Prit you! That Watdhere wither art i Let of Gora) REK İTEMİnce will be and par roRRIL Pmmixas |\n\nalimevine\n\nLased the ith day if June, I HÃN,\n\nPI MAZELAND, Crown Poikat, Sprazse t'bars Floșua\n\nponte Exeggut te themid Deerce This the ice an the slatamine published in presidente für mühital leuinney, we pretend that Noch 13ton Berlin B'ame of Monday Topky. The joint Sind of political peristirauzito mmsplate and ¦\n\n2 was a (bimargan, angazed at se merah pez ¦ soarchive sa propustion to the politimil Indagine Death a thin was te-fer hia do we e-the time of the safetcher, at mental. Ens while of the wrath. I was in tay chân, whaết kho minit facturilting these are al maaż, when pha sirrak. ↑ End vermeintó en deck; the roles of aperosive latimay, that the tmekih 13:15 25. The chief officer was no desk at hammaitišs of the ouso require at it the na The Hon. When we strups the tide we zonningthilation of the political influrane of the thin\n\n3. Beat the only offices in of the sumption facty, me tepress var ATE: Watts on the month lard of the & Worked hope that the Ararins ument may CITORAGS may la bed in das fun GRA Tha pink shann? The answer. The gone bey the men da to this malier in mak sut maruple to 98, 12) SITS MODOWY8, under Mesen, Bowrat\n\nsom, the hewing thracht went snerul et following tin bail example vs have int & Cela Oker, Janga Weste\n\nPD-\n\nbesar 9 miles W, of Gutaki lemn, met in Gris the gunichaorac, of pic\n\nhow pur ai the Engelsolent. & alaleak in the lived disquitostira thers Du\n\nWe at 1.55 cm. The ah 1116 removal is tim allenal, spīdenda splinting\n\nwas wete aking at the sloan. Wie we sterke, Kér, Dariu rad Kr. Menjanin ko sāc ammalanandirm\n\nJ 1351\n\nStorage.\n\nBORAGE,\n\npartia moyle to\n\nLANTATION ♣ tìu. Broky, Jely, 13\n\n***** UNINTERAGE AND STORAGE. ****\n\n8 Bndervigovt will modertake to lush Cut j 1.\n\nWhon et druck. That would fart ways of Mr. Langeln, or 018 in the ing of the bar Badets and kar rodine phth the sama te fuit heas vary strutiva, opal Not/lem eius-Tat there be red for thema I that on his plane thart Werk the punish it fairly found elty, their own to see the rai e. The rate was thiet all that night with petuity patentined in fun. But logs in fascines that dunsæirnal clear intervala. We pay the four Fight in 4-4-one pic lead slow, abrose who wreck.\n\nthe Actions overnement vinafoxtet are its tale carme. power god ite plamenes, hitherty na elemolly short throughout this m\n\npilate\n\nBORT. & WALKER $ 20. Prae. 4th and 1863\n\nK. Serið vit of the India Rock, sid: to such us as the iTEAGE, ona be bus in Grantle Unde\n\n1GA\n\nandling Huntington How Long love foto dhe i orchellaity of Quar's Road 11\n\nPombe given the the fut\n\nut\n\nApply\n\nABSINBBOY MATHABLOY A UV.\n\n£ *ing ffomplete. 1716 May, 196\n\nBoad,\n\nAered in a central puition in law's like forme kugejaten ErdalwooA, Apply\n\nty to\n\nGIRS LIVINGSTON 4. US,\n\n981 Bobek, tand there. 18,\n\nEVOKE ASH COAL 2.41 sal!\n\nAndesit tho moha un cha\n\nand CDs Cur Festraller has 1' intues\n\nRon. Liz Houghnan, 2741 they. 15.\n\nand\n\n-- 200 Cod Nagar\n\n20 Bamenda Shil' Better\n\nPlate He\n\nhot napros\n\nEn fiscu\n\nFrant Roses, furs.\n\napply w\n\nNULLER I OLAFSSES.\n\ndegli utes the risin 125 Banglang, 2716 demon. Is\n\nBrant Fair. Apple\n\nAWUTH ARCHEN A. UO.\n\n1973 Hongkong. Via duly, 1968,\n\nPOR SALE\n\nCourt the Boone\n\nFor Sale\n\nFanted,\n\n12 invica of White Wine, ventining\n\nA\n\nPlayer.\n\nBLiu=Äiryihu:r.\n\nHolder\n\nSing Kn\n\nLAY & Cu\n\nJes\n\n1 1997 Strugkong. With fun. 1786,\n\nRoyal Traning of stooty-bound S\n\neating of\n\nblood's Memorite.\n\nSugar Talie Twis\n\nIT W\n\nFrank Polar\n\nMaurice you\n\nPur Surin Hres\n\nHär july's Meilė.\n\nfred Mytaty.\n\nMislandReMAG.\n\nSasha Buy.\n\nH\n\n1. Ma\n\nRuban Mill.\n\nhalshei\n\n16.\n\nStambe\n\nkcjuesin\n\nMand, & Rym of Honma Storrien, Porst, d'incert. Tipuram, Sr. An\n\nYHO HET A to.\n\na mekong eth Mey, G.\n\nREAL ILAVANA USUA 155 dealing art s\n\napezio ya AYANA, w picast uppisis. Peopren of de ret d'Bauge.\n\nHongkong, 3rd October, 1\n\nA BRIDAN Tap uggies and Harney.\n\nIN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONG KONG.\n\nASTELLÀTE JURNYCHEN.\n\n1802\n\nHEY, Appelt. z. 1.1-%PNER, Royanini. A EL or Coste\n\nAug 11th 75 Beleinet............. \n\nbridgwa\n\nChristine Matana.\n\nHaish A White's Horaitors and Car\n\nBar\n\nUcpb-towding Carblown and Car-\n\nNow Halas\n\nJahn Kerchwoni's Lagaay,\n\nseals.\n\nwilgen.\n\nand e fal aviv slu.\n\n11\n\n30 barrels Ty DEKAT\n\nSark Pictionary\n\n109 Bargond's Cebuan.\n\n100 pana, Clavul,\n\nBranty.\n\nWap-asi los 11 Tow Shipbone ol Opera,\n\nFor in When\n\nmut, Selz July, căni,\n\nAT THE MAMLS, AND LAVITE GIRA23 NICHOL\n\nGinkley Heart, ita 3\n\nDear Ms Papa'\n\ndie Spri Gazdag, suitabin fur jumtheshaver oriolum in zạn vừw the whole busbuat.\n\napply to\n\n1. NOW HOJEK\n\n:bout to 1$ (), a. Un mm (16h, July 1965.\n\ntrendition of this ufen, had dintainen fumust be the Free Consul at duties and dug Eve-aghaimile of comeings sirength. Mr. Unik Shea pot in the praizng dễ an beroditzes prieve The whose children met set up e claim re they seep-\n\nwing of the Lelie Garth. I hid tifant. I was on lesk when the prank. for obesen mitte). That is as siguture. migaie kurky wann whim pátek.\n\n2nd I hank self at about th Inet vant nf the Soud T\n\nCow be limo hits The Heuring witter benciagani? tem, and gas balwynn Të fal, and a falla. The¦unan háu arvid Hera Togstd in Las parta Seve silat won deck armyding a Getin mhaft of me\n\nnxise\n\nnil sevic1950 kerak.\n\nUeberal\n\nBULAT A DO\n\nFind t\n\nALISHMENT.\n\nstock of fusion fraus nad ellers nat\n\nmi tyllawz si ¡Curta CleNu, 2 in Lance ni falan napki\n\n-N. 2 Marila\n\nCh-2\n\n-N\n\nin the Qera's Hond\n\n| Qubules then, thh thosher, L. HOUKE at Wis corner Polynomialund atau and Alerter Sets SF Orgas sa bounties of as juh\n\nApply\n\nBAY 4 C\n\n778 voksing, sech Juno, Elñ\n\ndis B\n\nA. DE AXEVEDO Slary 6, 1955.\n\nAwacasion can be given all tema.\n\nApplyin\n\nchai, bering Yes fromag\n\nk 100,000 pecula to Uranics Gran, The night who think, met dienend un att was Amasened, a cinne frapriyononang for two gene\n\nwon to hit Lion\n\nLoft for Farm' were her half a male art. Fruta se ne in a heavy within them lepity ficha was 112,000. 34.00 time befel riu sil alteratione ta iñe rovran | fiammdias felines. As for General Yes, we front 1 (9,000 and 10,000 phula vapecity. mens synde lap the risk. The chorus per mat chekje in not bear that be in likely to ba zied. It may\n\nApply arate hueyproendor of the lan to was this the\n\nYADONIU & fo\n\nsedež josed the Falls Hankh be a refellss of big surrender reccted; thazine. 29th Art, 1803.\n\nFAME Marr add-I belang is the firm is only senda military tribanals. Has it will Mat, Mass & Co. Mao nútilin Gaita Punkk's de su fátalu mistake for this Amarjan Garen. pilte had been in the Mieszank for more. Rest aliand is seem to kmak na handcrabin msbeslan i\n\nin druik dievny these\n\nvor. The Captain winloyed the pilot on raiding, ang de Bu\n\nafo de Bic Amil B\n\neranon dating of the gramadore has with its who will have Burping Hut Orneral Ice in 4- name of the few, Sua loka Anet and black cepting thatarem profereal him by General Grant.\n\nThe meter to the Zing wakunellen that run bison Anti den on there\n\ncha vile was concretant to take charge. Captia | Kich of the Government at Washington. Voitib\n\nHard.\n\nROYAL HOTEL.\n\nSMACAO.\n\nat studenty Mutal, mitad\n\nPraja Buče, and convsiolog, mors airy\n\nF\n\nHO TEIK SHEN, in the Juda house, Elgin Stewk ja 1, od Zum, test.\n\n*** Reserved a Frat Jendea of\n\nwerd eer and timp Works\n\nBOWRA & (3.\n\n4 1804 Wenzhong Lakh July 18th,\n\n\"BOUND and well stances PORT FIE\n\nOperior seality as 80 per dora.\n\nApply to VAUCHER A tio.\n\nU15 Fong, 1415 March, 1BUS\n\nPOF BALE BY THE UNDERSIGNED. *** Anke aru platz.\n\nPet Tiber and Marks.\n\nKidgenore de én,\n\ndil\n\nBaler Pinas mul. Päristä. Naila, wote kiza.\n\ntar\n\nGURPIEN MEARD A Q\n\nHongkong, 17% July 1805 Just landed ex St, Lowi,\"\n\nMothern arzivnie Latizo.\n\n160TR PADIES. HE Dric and beak! THAT Bri\n\n¡D SOLA\n\nX N, Q's harp RACKAY NUES Cakes vad Ixora Bun\n\ningerlag. Apply to\n\nATKA.\n\nTANG ALOR 77 Huge, A. Parte 16.\n\nA. BOTER\n\nCantenas! 105% Mouse, tark Juos, ¡nus.\n\nAN 13055, abreast WHARPAGH AND HODOWNA, * \n\nA WARTHI WHARU, with or wilboat\n\nof the Throw comparish where elabor\n\ncan te bied word change.\n\nmis might bir karm busier klippa hamurable understuives cadetin et socity ramon dark, eta arra le not her. elves, will be 21 true policy for Mr. Febo monded for its aculation. to invalide and don't know the pilti\n\nCar Ren, temi me feel at the Averaged and seality outrea the pilota. The head pi'ne www uzat no bound by is Government, Borisave won kirs to mine wat!\n\nIggy's Cabina),\n\nthe war, and the uthet was gut by Mr. bagi inipla in, and\n\n30MITTEY\n\nST facin $25 Apr 1929\n\nRIFTE ROTEL\n\nQURENS GOAD, VIIST.\n\nTesme Moderate\n\nMarried Couple; jam No25- Single\n\nThe the Hot was in sharps I 5d 10\n\n10 sena webus pelasimlas, with fewer inoltant at chitty bility, and well mit have thunght of fotorfaring and rage mi the pros of tha vinkors than nay whe with Min. priniet in thick visher Ines ia lürtme can akon, ertad by a palies a sur pela for ship, an lạp xy a gapeval charge tonin Shan vished ordinary pliuy as of the omare more ziwa by the pilot, dan obair porce to tom pang than the purpos enland and and it had ben many bandingy victor-it onto y p elter the conrea in tan vaidle wares, je i den gammle populue Omenomana (muling the way yue half a print or a prane. I should me have meninisty and levity, suis already od tamil cited.\n\nthe www in fentilado Bourage, that we earnished\n\n| Scent the Amazingas pomis to do all to their por\n\nA ducho made to beater providing\n\nany longue iban two punthe\n\n6. P. BENSOWA 1. SHAS\n\nApply to\n\nBig Couple 244 Blends, 1858.\n\nGarter of Wellingen wel 19 Aguilar Straps,\n\nHAB juive by late Mail tim blowing\n\nundicia...\n\nPrinted Musline for Salvarer Danm\n\nWe do plain for Ju\n\n901 Onch and Cerradict\n\nRizet elly Tuse Headete,\n\nBook Silk Monties\n\n45 Ledion and Children\n\net fashion,\n\nTHE OFFICE and Emad Sues and other\n\nnar of Welingt and herd Street Parsle\n\nWeak ire\n\nCharmi EN\n\nPoudel Vares,\n\nChanna Mug\n\nLes Diun\n\n11-1\n\nan Etnice of Cruysa & Blackwelle Dilaware Store\n\n$1 Overland Nail Shokes, and Sweda,\n\nPARK & va 15ay Dongsong, 6th July, 1858.\n\nDEVOLVER B, and\n\nP\n\nTE\n\nYusibor Accoutmupants. for Fates, Áu\n\nSeit lieth, (bow great..\n\nCut Mag, 1.3, 1. 9. nad 1 fret, vivo.\n\nAu Lovaine of Bell-bangirqa\n\nTel. 20, 12, 36, 40, nuð ák le. figlio, veli\n\nfi.\n\nKing, sith Bayon\n\nBerulating Hill Chebures.\n\nSim Pattern Spacial Ki\n\nDouble Navy Cabins, Swivel Beds from L'ali.\n\naber Torry.\n\nLOWRA & Or.\n\n1 162 Tongkang, bra July, 1665.\n\n¿Murein in quarts and its\n\nFNGLISH NO\n\nA larga smartment of Breakfast Clazzes, Vilau- Ikan Jerawat Sur Suluan\n\nBased from vintage of Mayaia of Hur!\n\nچھا کھا کر رہے لیئے\n\nLAMMERT, ATKINSON & C\n\nા 99 hu to 24 Yra sud\n\nJust resaved, wire B\n\nIN OLD PALE BRANDY\n\nAle poz\n\nJ. Kudaan & On,'n Brundy. $10 per Ona.\n\n| Olies khljarnan, g? per daa.\n\nULARETS.\n\n| Breasturi ask, er de\n\nMerays Morina, $44 par Que\n\n8. Raton St. Kilim and 9 Zoophe, do naci\n\nTená a presont le dba eccnpzion of Merera In a teremy Hole gee. in Mont Reuseres and Want Hare,\n\n$0.\n\n¦ Pastekaoter zud Server.\n\n150\n\nFar purtiem apply in\n\ny\n\n10.\n\n16 litung, 7th\n\n- \n\nThe Aperatura Large and bity, and wih\n\n· H\n\ni vozy embora Casa, containing & Bass\n\nBa\n\nAapry as face of die Paper,\n\ndoves and cathcurex, compridog Xt!\n\nThis our coins their wich thick weather it or in formints Bhis shasan ghatween and maket van Sally supplot well az dejo. Stridine.for three ones, a citruse!\n\nwould hawa horn wore prudent to bere anchored • centick with a eley m genervus thus it may he\n\nBut the washer alerted, no tad having fees deth fan and makeling mo at their foes. The be froix\n\nlogone a Lighterḥing and ship bara malind is soe vespesitta was so interprys thin\n\nwas beat through an areas in pigment, augen Cretinem. 14: them interprat le triba as weak allece un barb Teen site for the amnge heatating veira whiring a\n\nbene, 17h Jaly, 1865,\n\nASTOR HOUSE HOTEL,*****\n\nSHANGHAI. subed in S\n\nses of heat ce- North Daily Herityisil insscert in Ho Chi Mi\n\nwhich shall and only induta lie aver Frasines 6\n\nThe Treatment of the Hovalva Kiviky\n\nthe Nock.\n\nthe even give, Se the beamediate gregent, my\n\nfirst-ime furile Sokol in pomurgnased,\n\nPaged in it own graurők, it in po-\n\nmuch frein so be without expiry comfort and trenians\n\nLiis altres her for those who have selenjing in this clar. opptareve, to thons aan band julierly healthy and need in hinggis role Chemian, advice in the aut i hon fielding for the wine of the apparent,\n\nLinea, and it is so much adrien uocally esen 6igatop wita ma-The per\n\nHas an in. Fadi popot so batus of ananasam\n\npertama severance of the wal genities of te\n\nstaro otrained hithuria from bowl. ; \n\ning the crowd of patienter sansellore of America, !\n\nIf hazar, the people : shri United Statan will i\n\nfun to 2 Kegljah is at all, they may GOVERNMENT. LEGAL AND\n\nach a gun to that of\n\nwho here brid verunt'y tu sbale mocno while t\n\noch vill meantzinicý sad zarten! ignaming co\n\nAn o, xd who Yuma Yujulani la tènir m\n\ncer ble lagt need the\n\non with for rikiuly ma tome sited the tank!\n\n6. fur cost be too hip nt all degran, in f\n\npating in war plea for aderatiza in victory a\n\nrols which so fitta mule appro-i Arion\n\npriate the tenet that ir, fees faire sored ise svanging it\n\nbeing four content?\n\nPan, the hollowness of whide thr\n\ndomusdur tili azt flizeugh in a mout\n\nCONSULAR NOTICES\n\nIN THE SOPREME OVOR OF\n\nTONGLONG.\n\nCileriyent Pousasutus, Praag,\n\nrd\n\nof Hype Huracany Uma\n\ntending wider the\n\nand 12. Okka asp Öpmeyne tot Frudunt.\n\n11\n\nBEREAR an Aativus murdin\n\nIn in place, shen, we got urge de\n\nte\n\nthe Coat Ribe it the ke s\n\ny l'hom-bhoy alnut za\n\ne bloed |\n\nAmands of forteren te tus of langlich preesdens. Kyzurine Safranur Gal rowing an Enced\n\nRazmik, aut Lastris base basen witów die land for to project the age of Frosinoned by\n\nin\n\nEine Apartacuse are Medios and away Furnisho The Table waily up), and the\n\nle, all ughed with the choice Win a\n\n| Spirte-impratā dienņa.\n\nflat\n\nkobani ka for Ezard by the munch on\n\nMajas sash Carringe on Livogy and lera. Jason Camper mia plese pixies, 40-\n\nutiectulio lbs Hol\n\nBaiba cirnos pimey.\n\nThe Somehow fridge in kolom 4: Baudega,\n\nしてMATS\n\n.. MADON\n\nProprietor\n\n.6bu Unike is mades the dreador of Caspariancad Kronal excke.\n\nblondes-hurge $100 Fblic Dates and Tali Numers smppbel of 1264 27.4 Shanghai, 2nd March, 1965,\n\nOTEL DES COLONIER\n\nHONAM, CANTOS.\n\nar 1070 Benchng, 16h Tang, 1885, BUTO ZA LET DE SOLD\n\nSTAR HUUSK God 2000WNE, at perut soupled by Howwes, Junday & tal Apply to the Manager af Ban Bane of Hirla. t+.. \n\n198 Hoogkung, 25dı May, juos,\n\nThe Prop OWN \"ALI; Ph...\" hay. | ng Fans of Righty these foot at Wengin Rodag hitters and of on andret and foca. A burunea at coming parfarini kamu vs alone kutua aquesta featu\n\nAantal Bread (ma 21233.6.\n\nFor Pristine purligabuen uppelz ko\n\nTHE LIVINGTON D #beng Wih Priruary, 1964.\n\n***NOTICE OF RIGÓVÁL\n\ntybine kod Calerud Cicamel.\n\nColer things in Tel.\n\nThread Socks, Erst quality,\n\nLim Shirts and Cullers!\", \n\nTreatief Ardy Hate,\n\nwed\n\nRemchid Eugliah Peglunes. Trailing Bag\n\nAlse\n\nper do\n\n¡ Chataan Palmer and Tašken, $10 pử Jez.\n\n: Chau,pagan, satin, in quarte au pines.\n\nOlagte to wood.\n\nS. Jumilion, Juliem, apuk 154. Besophis,\n\nApply\n\nlike Hongkong, 5th Marril, bang\n\nA well bleed furnies de Blame\n\nEthertona. 3rd April, 1962.\n\nHandül\n\nNEW GOODS\n\nnext!\n\nEX \"TARFIX\" \"BANIAN \"EATHS. 73.s?:Y?LDS\"\n\nSew Bucks, weil selecta.\n\nTitle and Floor Hoe be the vizele\n\nOCT\n\nPany Car\n\na\n\nDany Baturajand\n\nCite! Wy\n\n||JA_BOUSTELA, has removed in Sianlay\n\n1 street, two lanes from Fastinger Street. În\n\nFear of iba tornaertiul Buck\n\nIf 1815 Hongkong Jacz le\n\nTHE Busine of the Melis B and Seat\n\nWater Mufiny c\n\nrevamped to the upparit fit of the Road,\n\ntl coupled v Messrs HotAY, Wase & Co., natriu Muzeju. Trucar & Co. and Mentre, BILET & Co.\n\n17 Honghena, a June, 1995. THE HOUSE, in the Gun Road,\n\nABAY 1.ANDANG BER eined and theat it Menarik kebilder, Wise & Ch\n\nti\n\n1323\n\nis Premis is enver\n\nTURVER & C Hongkong. Si Kay. I milă,\n\nNE\n\nCatriski Tom Chasin\n\nMemalise in iyon, Briting, Des\n\nPauta and S\n\n신디오XT 살리고,\n\nJellip\n\ncncbair.\n\nfaper Hangings, reckly chatur.\n\nPlaner Vand thiet Butle\n\nShine Histor\n\nMala Gas\n\nPild til i TUZON.\n\nLANG, CRAWFORD & U\n\n* 1956 Tow Song. 17ta Jun 1865,\n\n11TERN Hops of all sizes.\n\nBrigit artik\n\nVerma.\n\nkai de, str. Casa. Mikill and phrase: „Pranck's juegos Espuelli\n\nTE DANIJA Shapine.\n\nZia Au\n\nCAMMER, ATKINSON &\n\n40 (gong, 1ých Juan, can. DAVID. \"Ohrine and thus. Cum Hard Ter\n\nJ'aimky, Linment GI! and Purpentine\n\nyou say never wiha mubal lesdner. Cho anty loved and friars and Why Gout, for dying to Toe die Public Part she had changel precedent the ac mau yukidnon, is any anan meen 1 mages for managerpaing certain there: the my that of Hate! iso findings. For\n\nhipones parties, witch we can pleach, is Horeban; and Statua\n\nComm-tip 5.5. azove stablishment with almars be kept with our fastment in the brzo of the Potato-Gapittel, tarpainst\n\nfree in Ch 13 the anal dacis shit squforts. Not indick of\n\nmachine Eng Toure be Baba in Iran. Al these the eye of Defends what mid shaver sus Eefendant be actasun will be shared in the faute d'itheadhan ratus Bodine u\n\nAnauce, that is in totally need to Hape. padaltem is ev slight that the prunedenk juny he! or actes Sena de Vinili se pridjor flares. to boost nasies in disc sējam directivul. A varral¦ Os prlos shareef; and time raulay paid by 'ibo Bear in attenten on arrival at Herer Stemmer ndvatur his autor for Henry, willak wid korenitor\n\nfar netenden at talmát ábree num, proposing to disopter it me Plaintiff for t\n\nat Iris\n\ntear Ball Bea; de chavez Phuseneste ta the Hotel, tree of sEnego, and soul fatima mokier. De $25 per viomac fr nespreted Mr. Sinis O'Brien for the Pole-incere far te bere izen by the Kadome Lasne will aka Silke Beariera \"st. Stanger anil $29 for? szer.\n\nT. HARINY Garden Rebellion, what pandant should we | Pole the Thement of my tue from the moderato luxion. late indicted on him if he`trat, ben er agminasful | Plažati to the Defendant: nad it being alleged¦ Mr. Jetorean Ladis — monii pot field an un- that the mht Bycunjee Hormujee Deuna dega mot t\n\nPendeng in Judia w roeide wishin this folyad na je de\n\nTHE P\n\nVAL LANDINE,\n\nKaroger.\n\nSM SWAT Frogs fiz okresent struth asi matiunny. ! Writ of Yonaga áthassants, ) Fra 2016 Couten, 27th July, 1850.\n\nLavio jasued\n\nTHE EASTERN PRIVATE\n\nFAMILY HOTEL.\n\n142 enge, Jetli Awil, 1005.\n\nFor Sale.\n\n'UNE STRİNEERS 1657\n\nsapoys and exccasid valanez bositation a webus torvable nu slík firem any of dupsi arah, stone-i\n\nvilian retoma ather she rabellion had ingejin Zestonjeo kapuciiarýni Neris of Vlabria, in Ben the Peas simture. Az example, the deliny on Brezhong. Marchet, and withic nets a low waste. Y e In Faring Hand and there arly lead of the places Fadies. dba, bulerardengs nes dartsinly not kerplamikdo į same plate, alarphanie, sky Canisters,\n\nJ\n\nour Propria fe how this BOOK JOANNES 1857, Cams of\n\nà vishing this Pet and the poshte semenity, the br\n\nSPARKLING WELLS KOMPA\n\nBOOK EHRYSPREITEIN. CALE, in Cush\n\nthan the man of the Bouth. Again aut noly were Notes is hereby given thareut and testbed his prins uppste e tuls the bars of the Reach pepelin 1945 cases time hefte nje in akis, unto the forcibly to the thousan Club, bad then, but new last and to beat code só pranja Rocca Care, darurier Boss in the viraniay of 11.X. of 1 arzon. hlari Enst Mehon 204 Mr. Hallam, shhör;anid, or say too on bẩy beha) w give the\n\nBead Ford (juven's Food, Eat. The Ronna absolutely justify one intimate their bidu ja Pavony i zamurity and miljer mod file the sapretencë e” piem í of the bayering za judiamus. Ailer the groak bejuteve ny thin Ordnance of thận dictio Finach war, hee heen ramulis pad ont in led An Uzitsuer to provide facile expenas buvo kompared in were he for acantemporary, Land, d'arthronyl din vce merupli\n\nces in Actions Live agvities porn kentut Frandow, Bush of a destly lives vu tu pro\n\ntance his bug that haploon will be devas the tolong, the at anche m\n\n하\n\nTech] vt og França, blid as rebel uthe Dinoinen, dewward and exreated, and wax only dentaʻul of\n\nthy wisins of this course bruauen he dought it\n\nKain wharbre it would taarl to lexicutiva\n\nwith adeintertainty. Is may be mid «bot if a gonze vabullion in Ireland were now w break 12 sustained for indz barn, we emrinialy shod na burg, the useful anders alik tu! wa hope not, has we contesa ven Sunt very Bes\n\nnotave advent or friends\n\non to who mighards, what clapeceriă-nts ¦\n\ncamily in print are, on the arbete, zo very itide in ganzdanas min bai hepthooke\n\nNet veze the American oran\n\nDabad this 15 dag er lag, vu. 16,\n\nF. C. R. OVEN\n\nil Honghont, 2846 Suty, 1905.\n\nmultica Bam strange igen wlish, Relm me prevalent, wat all canaing for\n\nMetota zgre e\n\ndisainioston rebellion and only in\n\nthe South ledths the energ\n\nmar, the asing of the delito extendun. I\n\nriseer in the fate) SALT\n\nIN TAN SORAME COCKT OF BOSAKOND.\n\n• riktad with antico now\n\ntre altringe shacagimas, me to pay no\n\nEides the wine listing teams Fan Town Pipes\n\nTable d'lium et ull hwch. Tama moderne.\n\nApply k\n\nREYJULIA &tio.\n\nisan ungling, 10th June, 1904, tANNE), (036, (ia Ling-brads) todella mit\n\nHuosobit parfe\n\nGEORGE HOTELIXELMORA,\n\nHeunge and Propriece\n\nChammer i\n\nChanapar in\n\nde d\n\nSeantech\n\nfeet, and\n\nSets, Fue\n\nApply to\n\n12m 1974 Hoogk veg, Vuk Juna. 1962,\n\nconclude, in 3 doors, camın,\n\nFEED, T. SMITH,\n\n6pkan, \"Hi Jasonery. 1863,\n\nManil\n\nVivian's drug and Sees Slow Me!\n\nand patio Nais. Tourism M\n\nSOLD & Co lungo, but Now, 18,\n\n1Jght thedra F\n\n7062 Gari Makra\n\nHigh Barden Mara.\n\nLight Sebie Forks pic\n\nLight Garden Spader.\n\nContbrug'n Boer Guns, Herman Mackin\n\nSOWKA (. \n\nTin loi khen nhing, ach July, 194\n\nAN Ince of \"terated Wan\n\nJA\n\n! \n\nGRERURY & SA\n\nPUGHT W\n\nBugg, thing,\n\nPBLIC TOISES \"Gura Bed\"\n\nto Con\n\nThis Pess.\n\negnng, 18th July, 15%.\n\nUN; FOR SALMI\n\nCAMILANA man dah party Thar porannes YOCOYSAD Lo Frears, and White su mi beitehing Splab Berd\n\nFurthering Sew Sight Cowered Hockeklu Twowane, the Osvinge is van Polve and tw: pairs of i\n\nShames of double 15 mana\n\n\"Apply t\n\nBrakes darrers dann, wanau, Housos, Lands, Tenements, de, Wiki,\n\nTKY MANOR,\n\n2. Tikai\n\nsau, Wiz\n\nJa rank WH\n\ntably tention the Hiɲlk.\n\nhe firm of JARGIR, Here\n\nG3MPANY Pkalabif's,\n\nJoey Manny Porci\n\nha\n\nda\n\nthecate, or fires of les P Sam Lnfanduma,\n\nde court al the veil of chen sinte\n\nTO LET\n\nEw to Becek. A\n\nTDE lower part of the Previze wind by\n\n|| \n\nWhite Pigs And Varjoile Wa\n\n2.06.\n\n' Club,\n\nדי ריח\n\nБаром\n\nBokkie, curd Ple Meram. I. Mazur, & tra Torgan. Tucs, and Beck and Doors Aprons\n\nALLES & CLAUSSHN Rosis patira in the same Bilding\n\nLANG vs. 24th Hwch, thu5.\n\ntientars, syple 15\n\nC. DAVID, My blessing Seal, from 14 to 3d ca\n\ntf 1956 Hongkong, 24th July 1955, mj........ \n\neping on the age of His returning prufiga Resas ar Adon hub carenced rises to 2 and S. Ten Staviti sladusent | Nothing can be. We do but to my\n\nAlly\n\n18ng, Juan 12 18415,\n\nPesa Pangong Pir Maker\n\n13. this walk is mar (granen of the stars Jacifios. Ja sall, Juma che i cones Contato and der 500,000) Pak and Berú trag\n\n13+ and 250 win\n\n-- TEENS RAPDV DONGKONG.\n\nAt Cheap essay.\n\nthe Penisy Port.\n\nKry\n\nChurcia, Greakfast and Pieter,\n\nPapolis, vintaga täna., \n\nArded Tigur\n\nPurane.\n\n3 wit\n\nBeauty (Ougima).\n\nChablir,\n\nSewer\n\nAwes\n\nKindly\n\n15 Honglung, 25ch February, Tauð,\n\nNeonora Druse & Hinckwell.\n\nPUSENJE Cauliomis\n\nHorse Ma\n\nT\n\nFrench and Spanish Diam\n\nPraits in So\n\nin Seyrand Birmaly\n\njuter, in engural finalen\n\ned, and Twine.\n\nGist White Impe\n\nLinand Di\n\n14.\n\nIran Boller Pinces and sheets, True) að a\n\ndivacion, in caster whine and vary,\n\nThi\n\nAir\n\nBerriro Klant\n\nBURNOG & tr. Peru's Whart\n\nHong, 153 May, 1836.\n\nPERER DETON KUTTER, in begs of 12\n\nSant Wilk Crators,\n\nPickled Cabbage (Singochami) za jara Danch Curry Stent Rotden (Wyuan :Parbiak.)\n\nBitless Reeserantine Spiritmes.\n\ndise;\n\nPer read\n\n4 van fartion of Berelvets with sout\n\nKai attached, neu kucesine,\n\nAVAAN. BETHEUS & SK, \n\nFAANDUYA\n\n3 making, 1919 Jejuny, 1395\n\n† CAT KRORIYBO, vid Fry Nrie by the\n\nCurlersigued.\n\nSharp's Ourlinen. Sartridger and Primer, Pools Lamplvera\n\nKorkbod Wren's Havelters. (Bian haecalled\n\nsilver plate.) \n\nDESUVAR A 12,\n\n28: Hongkong, 29 Macuh, 1800.\n\nANTEMRIOR PRINTING PAPER, in vuriuka\n\nSKSSE ULLERA & Ca\n\nrapon Himgiring, Bist July, Jan.\n\nTESTADA. Syable uram.\n\ning from 5 set, ta do mar,\n\nBAY 4\n\nbongkeun. 199th June, Tams.\n\nUde zopired by the gezurizued- 360 for matc\n\nAn astmoul of Confection in Torvides of time, f, and boo\n\n142_55 par god below, tóm market prius, a\n\nVruitia Cherplsia\n\nFivefingar, tin Ch\n\nCe\n\nPagri\n\nP\n\nwilevice Mangalent\n\nPioklys, Lumina, Tutt\n\nSobique. Opferd nan Gamesonge Surges,\n\nin\n\n\"T4TH FS 6.4.0.\n\njul IANA MOJ bany, Beh dhir, |Rajh\n\n- TE\n\nCARA MAIGN. Szennina Muke) \n\nU\" Dag de Murtikale.\n\nLurace Nei, he panels are Pte.\n\nJenterar à 03.\n\nCart Blanket Dani Pinin,\n\nBurgen liegt.\n\nFrau de Grene, ir. Qaside and Pints. Lienaine Buck.\n\n1837. Det\n\nkan warIPS & OM 1 - July, 1\n\nVALJARLY 15 AT TORPOTEN\n\nLOW OF GROUND, steprising almus 24. ALES. Finner at of the maliy Encautios Putolous, Trolig bal Fio of the Hurrading Smery, sad Bayonining other Spice ta thi, tavržen there. of Ke of Thron Bungalow, Broken, unig 3121 por Šante\n\nestinoria of way\n\nHuco Vercheni Taich, in skin.\n\nPusher Ektoms.\n\nc.prizing-- \n\nPrint Wine Event Leather BOOTS\n\nK\n\nCall JOTS\n\nTel\n\nFou\n\n해\n\nSi\n\n- BTS\n\nCalf SHONY.\n\nDouble SHOES,\n\n/Xo!o Eiding_kkis,\n\ni Shoes, A\n\nguzleð kirola.\n\nOpkomnes veliking the Coung of Hongkang si Food tray\n\nother Brun That,\n\nand italt shoes 1 sist sie die waer\n\nactiuter\n\nBy ldalon Persian\n\nVOTORIA SXCHAÑON.\n\nPRALOCK, q qurat poctivate w TOS, he hadle of this\n\nCoy is ted and place Mwick of My Dracena the flimpïve andun\n\nHANDY DREA\n\nSi huge walvis, 30 to 30 prouts que pode Poles. Cort Arsantren, 21 586 por Tickle Mix Glute A2 in at Singa\n\nthe Rilling Kabis. Plains Mulajen, in laygro wapinday.\n\nMALINS 30 French Fried Acuez, 25 behin pure. de\n\n2 min. 33 werdet for gir\n\nsriginal price 50 Dunte\n\nThe above in met missy in find at Po a trates muck of his bangk Ubogazin, SE\n\nPer dir\n\nLolizam\n\nAjgilz\n\nLevastik\n\nBOWRA .\n\nP Hongkong, Sur Sarch, 1865.\n\nPROVOU VILIANO, Tom &\n\nis plan mynted and Figured.\n\nDUESS HAKIKO\n\nI move the inwangement of the claws Doors\n\nMake fuck hy kan desal. having\n\nAris dans Gun, Culte alle exere in large Ents, ni\n\nApply un\n\nARNEMANN 4\n\n4132 Hungring 16 May, 1844\n\nHONGKONG\n\norder\n\nrecht so fize will be really and Hougang 10 July, 1955,\n\npred\n\n·MARKETS\n\nthe tick Jelly --- \n\nEniet othe\n\n2.40s. Wilt Shirkog\n\nb. Grcy Shielangs\n\nPri she above we are now for Holiday. Wine & iu 1795 169 own? Amie Bounce, War and\n\nTROMAS UNT & de\n\nJeweler\n\nPrime 220\n\n10 1ngking Apr. 195) \n\nJAYITAMIN KRANDY BUT 190, OHAME\n\nSUDREY Y\n\nPORT\n\n414\n\nBULLY A\n\nMagt jose kandež os si\n\ncitation. Facinaren everywhere spak ma il | drow, fierbert Si. Loger Marrige, Velius Ken is were a bites desapalatinos to dana to find cink, and Edsall Whiteall, trading as aforesaid, rants Reoma, und Ukaitanto, having a Depactes i jab duck up o lat iulier one mat, termed rebeliion voce nest, crazyding is the aber Tarand dahi bareng Purpia, * 15 1ા મમત store al lago into perse nun sanity. Do they \n\nvreuliug në uformaid, to recuror the sum at Miner\n\n#upport than the of thờ kiuď vogli bove boru; The and heren Hundent paltarlar bioves\n\nتا نا نیام در ایه \n\nJ. 2. FOR RENKLOS.\n\nFraght without adinal didapata në voglat prime pad by the Phinish wed for the Redes. It new! Hangkang, 80th July. Pasa,\n\nke, nové that that radical difference will destas ! dene qe his request and the money mos ng she jam\n\npeas within clot? There is no queries in Doen and the inlets TEB in Rabins Was. Iemelawly | Ahut in uldlar mary but dixinal werkstangy fee from dis Defined on the Platati\n\nJa the Averman, allow the sad thorne et jazera by the Priest\n\npakiti 15 of the the Bates to be fond stity requel and for unty fun\n\naqua Nia more intacters which jus be ou fecam the Dubzidays ca un Palujte! governed them\n\nTo\n\n| \n\nmit the mat. dry badlew be vight ang with e great grin or sunt stated beson shem; and bein leg there with John Mariat Punto Enez Ju\n\ncombining dir\n\nIYA FTL & Co\n\n4\n\nFaran, Hama,\n\nSet of this Athics.\n\nFor parientes, apply to\n\nFasa\n\n5th Jetz, 1896.\n\n70\n\nONE SET.\n\ncambo nk komen; noul, adtes vietas, to leh tus aveda treslila ucărie shim belyden ja Joycedente 1 of diced he trackpen, afzend wizzled by a show, Weis of Foreign Attachment is hiền sưmund te | Donmakinar Stara tag in lint in the 1st aya temp for the purees of tuneteen the S\n\n·Samrih day of\n\ndiets and hewan lés, suply in Willen Bur\n\nof ruk girara! \n\n1. Was the pth and event of sine mesi\n\nNearer the zhip even\n\nCain and Burgoede Uriends Ransely pint by them, albo 2. C\n\nAir\n\nNAWROJEY\n\ndagawiwjng Mela, ut Hongyoug. Merabunt, Aus Bize all wieght we mag wecution, that there Barles Beard, of in sum Hot\n\nza pipeady buen oder Choker\n\nthued wear a trended Free State Onrried.\n\nthere too on the Coin, and that in dieci wish held Musica heretg gian thereof and what it extime in ape thy with y te ako anal judgment in Action dha rotalon white is lastel, and of course in and Jehu Yutres is 355\n\nthe things were read. Is the bebull will va size security arise and wants or plea verdited by the di-\n\nww\n\nFinalists dowy ( refired a rote when of this Salad intituled and\n\nJa kivan nat O'ERINTY MUJAN to the rebelikon\n\n5. Bintly shwer had advised the preside for and regelves Job\" Bessili\n\nNe party in Married in-thes mahtinas persoas Cru the\n\nie withou\n\ntucco, in Byftient selvm] \n\nvation weak - og Beted the 2d Jay of July, 4.9. 16,\n\nsiniz: neten die water prículo, giving jurge\n\nmajozition pary where for inquineis úti eyein\n\ntocked with the wit regime, if thick be pro-\n\ndolly allowed sint wit cards recebus slavery\n\nR 1% 8. UKER\n\nLitointiglia Kiliman\n\nSu Kang, 294) July 7865\n\nSown\n\nefect Tesk Kinder. Plus | \n\nRards. Cool tlich up 14 techniques.\n\nBUR SPARS-rea whes to 21 initum; \n\n#par\n\nŠHIPS ENRE pieces izoma 15 15 16 inches\n\nFor Male to Suit at the\n\nNOTES YARD,\"\n\nStrayer Thway.\n\nAps & BERGEN & Bosa\n\n360changani Cozu\n\nTESUUR\n\n! Pay!\n\nFORLEANS\n\nLASTS, RAWFORD & 4%.\n\nethering that pow T de. Parth who began at\n\nBirty & Co.\n\n3 08\n\nI\n\n200 asured Fartings\n\n| Funk hig kong\n\n** the L'atang.' \n\ni bunso C, Tinted\n\nea.30\n\n? warg\n\n121 Bangkang 22rl. June, 12495.\n\n1.605\n\n409\n\nRhrers Eil Bhil\n\nYoru\n\n| €15,00\n\nTye-shire-we\n\n1 on pes. 2-4 na. Pray Bridge\n\n130\n\nmag-m-Laong\n\nx5\n\ndazivno, 35, an\n\n12.\n\nમ\n\n-1\n\n20.\n\nClu\n\nNG\n\n| fvek-bing-hunk\n\ni\n\n10\n\nCheong-bong\n\nk.\n\n30.00 yu-shing-wo\n\n1.\n\n12.00\n\ntiger deg. Harab-qu\n\n21 50\n\nParker lied Shirtings\n\n3.24\n\nleis are\n\nYETU\n\n110.00ascon Karham\n\n31\n\n24\n\n3.\n\n22.0\n\n1024\n\nAc\n\n130.00\n\nGewerchan\n\nlouratio\n\ntialum\n\n20.10\n\n26.25\n\nTin-wa-oberg\n\n31.C\n\njworg-buce s\n\n4.-17\n\n245\n\n2.\n\nForely\n\ng-bu fa\n\nST Tunin\n\nTrueline B.\n\nJuha Pright,\n\napply\n\nLANNERY, STRIXSON & Ga\n\nIf 168 Torghan, The Jans, 1968.\n\n2413' (or Durga Marie\n\nChange, petent les ad homes. To triedy and Be Pittings, Michael Sol\n\nste v\n\nMy 50 PAD. Gut. Often 1874 Hengzung 1 day 1815.\n\nFase of us wider to ban s\n\nMajce, Jokana à 116 Chi\n\na tha Putpu X, babarza Munata\n\nÁ do\n\nCali- \n\norquays Ropish Had Kreno Preement on \n\n- Tuilet, Deanor Breakfas \n\nzuht sa] Yorgungen by Dan, Disarm- 3 22:46, Kuat Mersin, and Thegara Ip: As Brandier, Jus ita in Cangre.\n\nis Barth, 1945. 20'er\n\nBAHLMANN & dig, \n\ngkung, 1th July, 1866 \n\nDosen's Blood Court foo \n\nor Dwelling an \n\nPrata \n\nAMM \n\nINSON & C \n\ngloog, the Hay, 0. \n\nProna Yok Emiliefire Über.. \n\nJuru tandı) Jur bulu \n\n.. Walker of tin \n\n--beg \n\nLegall, Stijl & 12% \n\nSamyang 192 \n\nPaonian & 130. \n\nSorrahjen & Co. \n\nWing-clock \n\nTHURAS The retine A28. Merchant \n\nFARMENT, ATKINSON & DA. \n\nLese Hengene. 14th June, 145. \n\n50 \n\nBars New AMB PK. \n\nAily in \n\nLANNUT, ATKISHON & 1709 Hongline, 20 June ish \n\nWho-is-long \n\n60. \n\nWashing-doing \n\nwith. Kanny & Co. Kwang-y-luk \n\nPralon de \n\n2004, e intere \n\n195 \n\nAd Cletu \n\nhangbai Cheat \n\n4] plm, #gi°2 cce \n\n3,0ewekwang, Tele Pr \n\n4 bursima The \n\n1.000 es No. 1- Iran Na Rad \n\n240 \n\n•pla. Black Pepper \n\nJ. Am Merchant \n\nSHANGHAI LATEST QUOTATIONS \n\nWejdy, renting, 2001 July, 1949, \n\nwo Jen diradi, « ma, No 3ja per Tir \n\nse for fries/every Orucite 5ANILA GUERGO, LISANS VGBANGK-Lututionament: Race, e. vs. e. a Cocrate, & 10f2 Run. 1.97 \n\npline agosto de59955 \n\nBLACKHEAD & Bo. \n\nned travele ve- of 10 Xue \n\nlegs bond the Stora Ship \"N-: \n\nBands Bour \n\n2. GARRITA, ! Honghong, Is Noveller, 1801, ARRAY, P. Memile, Chassagne, las \n\nH \n\n! telt.\" (lats\" People' \n\n505 \n\n42 CM. Todel & feather's Park Sherry and Hardy. \n\napply on \n\nIBR, LEVIX497UN 3. \n\n1994 Vengkang tich July 1960. \n\nis Deements, \n\nUn Port-dila je Fig. 7.4 per \n\nthe Paiteta \n\n4. \n\njülla Ansonicat, 345. Re. 15. \n\nInflatabog, strand, sin\n\nHuskongan Ball: 217 pg Jince. Hvirale 15 e 291 901 w26 dinch Heck, and Brass, Alp Bra Fate ALMON 73.25. Carlos-7.42. Cal Blues, disco Tim. 66. Bar Silver, Lin, Bles Back mud barking.\n\nApply to\n\nSXV & io.\n\nlong+60) \n\n111 Capper Cali. 1,225 p OPICH-utum, Nor. In 132, DOVOD\n\nArt Ke Te 30 £16.24, Pik, 23.30 pet Yin of så fre\n\n¡FREIGHT 2 Milk, 61 poron of short.\n\nTap.\n\nI's Ney Turk\n\nAttending veiving Inadravšiegs to nocain Mr. Poland, A. Drying Heizwer decked and Crgy,...... Acinding Mr. Polland reurcuith... \n\n1 \n\n} \n\n3 \n\nJeding 26. Peifend fixing Cumarie-so tang Pascallado as Cnread with Mr. Foliard also a Chanel joining Istine Jacky demateris sud vaporta ve! \n\n10 \n\n260 \n\n1 base bere . . . Cond \n\nP. Puted prin fre... \n\nCe \n\nJuice, 24th Jalan Sovata laying her mominj See the Appritet uticaling Mr. Fabj jant hath apa ciaria, Crocolitis, į Aveng (inmal zi Coursiu mna jur \n\nvastag bremsest, and Opinions delivered! 5 Til Hr Polled his B....... \n\nUG", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264201, "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": "CO129-110 - Others - 1865", "page_number": 117, "title": "CO129-110 - Others - 1865", "content_text": "114 \n\nalso depend on the cooperations of the leading Merchants and Bankers and how desirable it is that the master should be on terms of friendly intercourse with them. The proposed salary not only debars him from entering into Society but I am credibly informed will not admit of his taking the position which the importance of the office appears to demand without largely drawing on private resources.\n\nLet me further ask you to compare the pay with that of the Masters of the Bombay, Madras & Calcutta Mints, and I think it will be found how greatly the difference is against the Hong Kong appointment.\n\nThere are various modes by which any increased remuneration to myself might be made entirely dependent on profitable results; possibly I might be permitted, as in the case of the Imperial Mint at Paris, to coin for other countries under proper regulations.\n\nI am sure it is unnecessary to allude to the advantages that would arise to the public service, if some more definite and more satisfactory understanding could be arrived at.\n\nI have the honor to be \nYour obedient servant \nJ. H. de Brun \nMaster of the Mint \nHongkong.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-110 - Others - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264797, "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": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "page_number": 179, "title": "CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2]", "content_text": "## THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1864.\n\n### STATE OF THE WEATHER\n\n#### METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT THE GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, HONGKONG, FOR THE MONTH ENDING JULY, 1864.\n\n| BAROMETER | THERMOMETER (Fahrenheit) | WIND | RAIN | HYGROMETER | \n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | \n| STANDARD | ATTACHED | IN SHADE | DETACHED | IN SUN | IN WATER | COMPLETE SATURATION | DRY BULB IN SHADE | WET BULB IN SHADE | DEW POINT | VELOCITY IN INCHES COMPUTED |\n| 29.77 | 29.86 | 29.50 | 29.49 | 85 | Overcast and cloudy | 0.867 | 0.809 | 75.00 | 78.09 | 41.807 | 0.877 | 76.00 | 73.13 | 0.905 | 0.830 |\n| 29.90 | 29.80 | 29.56 | 29.50 | | Overcast and cloudy | 0.81 | | | | | | | | | |\n| 30.04 | 30.07 | 29.72 | 29.70 | 87 | Fine, but cloudy | 0.767 | 0.902 | 70.09 | 72.00 | | 0.742 | 0.760 | 70.09 | 71.09 | 0.30 |\n| 30.00 | 30.03 | 29.65 | 29.63 | | Cloudy, rain with strong breeze | 0.610 | 0.810 | 78.00 | 78.00 | | | | | | |\n| 30.07 | 30.06 | 29.62 | 29.55 | | Overcast, cloudy, strong breeze & rain | 0.657 | | | | | | | | | 1.10 |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |\n| Mean | 29.91 | 29.52 | 29.49 | | | | | | | | | | | | |\n\nMean daily range of temperature........11.00 degrees.\n\nPage 320\n\n## IN THE SUPREME COURT OF HONGKONG.\n\n### Between CHON AH KWEI, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Chon Ah Kwei against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan, and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Bohner, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between LOW ACHOW, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Low Achow against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within this Island or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between SIEW AU SHONG, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Siew Au Shong against the above named David Cowen to recover Six Hundred Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between TAM SING HIN, Plaintiff, and DAVID COWEN, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Tam Sing Hin against the above named David Cowen to recover Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars damages alleged to have been sustained by the Plaintiff by breach of contract on the part of the Defendant; and it being alleged that the said David Cowen does not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Twelfth Day of September next, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile House of Messieurs Barjan, Hübener & Co., and J. L. Pereira also of Victoria, Merchant's Clerk are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said Ng Tuck Hung and Cheong Tai or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 27th day of August, A.D. 1864.\nHENRY KINGSMILL, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between CHARLES WILSON MURRAY and ARTHUR SMITH, Plaintiffs, and LEONG A TOON, Defendant.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Charles Wilson Murray and Arthur Smith acting in the firm of Messrs. Birley and Company against the above named Leong A Toon otherwise Wing Cheung Loong to recover Four Thousand One Hundred and Eighty-nine Dollars and twelve cents for money alleged to be due by the Defendant to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendant, and it being alleged that the said Leong A Toon does not reside within this Island or its Dependencies: Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Caleb Tongier Smith and James B. Taylor the resident partners in the firm of Messieurs Smith Archer and Company and George J. Helland and Antoine W. P. Kup the resident partners in the firm of Messieurs John and Company and A. Hew are Garnishees. Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said Leong A Toon or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 3rd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nHENRY KINGSMILL, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n### Between LEE YING CHOONG, LEE CHUM, and LEE ACHEE, Plaintiffs, and 'NG TUCK HUNG, CHEONG TAI, and GEORGE G. COUSINS, Defendants.\n\nWHEREAS an action has been commenced in this Court at the suit of the above named Lee Ying Choong, Lee Chum, and Lee Achee against the above named 'Ng Tuck Hung, Cheong Tai, and George G. Cousins, to recover Fourteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-nine Dollars for money alleged to be due by the Defendants to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered by the Plaintiffs to the Defendants and for money received by the Defendants for the use of the Plaintiffs and for money found to be due from the Defendants to the Plaintiffs on accounts stated between them. And it being alleged that the said 'Ng Tuck Hung and Cheong Tai do not reside within the Island of Hongkong or its dependencies a Writ of Foreign Attachment has been issued returnable on the Nineteenth day of September instant, wherein Adolph Bourjan and Arthur Booth, of Hongkong, partners in the Mercantile firm of Messrs. Bourjan Hübener and Company, and John Steward Lapraik, also of Hongkong, Merchant, and Thomas Behmer, also of Hongkong, Master Mariner, are Garnishees; Notice is hereby given thereof and that if at any time before final judgment in this action, the said David Cowen or any person on his behalf will give the security and notice and file the appearance or plea required by the Ordinance of this Island intituled \"An Ordinance to provide for and regulate Process in actions at Law against persons absent from the Colony,\" the said Attachment may be dissolved.\n\nDated this 2nd day of September, A.D. 1864.\nR. C. R. OWEN, Plaintiff's Attorney.\n\n## STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA, MARSEILLES, AND SOUTHAMPTON; also, BOMBAY, MADRAS, AND CALCUTTA.\n\nTHE `PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S` Steam-ship `ORISSA`, Captain HECTOR, with Her Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this for the above places on Sunday, the 11th September, 1864, at 9 A.M.\n\nCARGO will be received on board until 5 P.M. on the 9th, Specie until Noon on the 10th: and PARCELS until 5 P.M. on the 9th.\n\nFor particulars regarding FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply at the `PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY's` Office, Hongkong.\n\nContents and Value of Packages are required.\n\nA written declaration of the Contents and Value of the Packages for the Overland Route is required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Company's Agents with the Bills of Lading, or with Parcels; and the Company do not hold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudice which happen from incorrectness in such declaration. Shippers of Cargo on the Company's \"C\" Bills of Lading are particularly requested to note the Terms and Conditions of Transhipment and forwarding of Cargo, with a view to the adequacy of their Insurance Policies in respect of the same.\n\nTHOS. SUTHERLAND, Superintendent.\n\nPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Office, Hongkong, 29th August, 1864.\n\n## COMPAGNIE DES SERVICES MARITIMES DES MESSAGERIES IMPERIALES.\n\n### Paquebots-Poste Français.\n\nSTEAM FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, ALEXANDRIA, MESSINA, MARSEILLES. ALSO, PONDICHERY, MADRAS, & CALCUTTA.\n\nOn Saturday, the 24th September, at Noon, the Company's Steam-ship `CAMBODGE`, Commander De Bovis, with Her Britannic Majesty's Mails, Passengers, Specie, and Cargo, will leave this Port for the above places, in connection...\n\nAt Alexandria, with the Company's and the Austrian Lloyd's Mail Steamers for the Levant, Black Sea, Greece, Corfu, and Trieste: At Messina, with the Company's twice-weekly Mail Steamers for Malta and all the Italian Ports: At Marseilles, with the weekly Company's Mail Steamer for Valencia and by Railroad to Madrid.\n\nPassengers going to London are informed that the Company will convey, free of charge, from Marseilles to London, their Baggage to the extent allowed by the regulation.\n\nCargo and Specie will be registered for London as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-111 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265145, "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": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "page_number": 65, "title": "CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4]", "content_text": "## 4th Quarter of 1863\n| Names | Tenement amount | Warrants unsatisfied | Remarks |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 64, Hapeen | 3024 | 3 | 30, New occupant |\n| 65 Yong Cheong | 3034 | 50 | Avid |\n| 66 Ayeen | 3076 | | 31001, Do |\n| 67 Choon Sun | 3098 | 2110 | 26 |\n| 68 Chey how | 3170 | * | 90, Not found |\n| 69 Heee woh | 3197 | 270 | Ahid, yo |\n| 70 Heee woh | 3198 | } | До |\n| 71 Choing hung | 32057 | 3/90 | 1.. |\n| 72 Lay heng | 3218 | 390 | Do |\n| 73 Sun fat- | 3360 | 3100 | Do |\n| 74 Peris nan | 3366 | 360 | 757 |\n| 75 Sum chek see | 3365° | | bo |\n| 76 Ninen cheong | 3376 | 3 100 | |\n| 77 Fook Cheong | 3427 | 61001 | |\n| 78 Allum | 3446 | 200 | 270, No goods |\n| 79 Noid | | | Not found, Noid |\n| 80 Soong tay | 3455 | 7150 | Do |\n| 81 A cheong | 3501 | 11801 | |\n| 82 Achnen | 3516 | | Gol |\n| 83 A.on | 3517 | | 14st, Your |\n| 84 San Hi Kway | 3578 | | 零售 |\n| 85 Mak peng Amein | 3524 | | |\n| | Ha hoong | 3547 3588 | \" |\n| | Allum | 36101 | سو, to | \n| | | 4 4 4 4 4 | ust, 30, 150, Dv, No goods |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-112 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1866 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265626, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 96, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \nof the immense and massive flywheel is to reverse the steam; but any one acquainted with locomotive machinery is aware how long a time it takes to overcome the momentum of a heavy moving mass travelling at a speed of something like 60 miles an hour. Breaks might easily be applied which would effect the desired object. With this slight digression we return to His Excellency's visit.\n\nAfter leaving the rolling room Sir Richard and Lady Macdonnell proceeded to the stamping room where the round dumps of silver receive the obverse and reverse impression which converts them into dollars. A dump having been handed to Lady Macdonnell she placed it in one of the stamping machines and the **FIRST LEGAL DOLLAR** was coined in Hongkong.\n\nThe dies cannot be considered Masterpieces of the die sinker's art. In beauty of appearance the New Hongkong dollar is considerably inferior to the florin or even the old half crown. It is thought however that the dies will give more perfect impressions after being a short time in use, and that such will be the case is much to be hoped. The present stamp being shallow and deficient in sharpness will soon be obliterated by the continual process of shroffing. The milling also is anything but good; it can be easily counterfeited by the simple mechanism of a file, and an ordinary amount of ingenuity which Chinese smashers have most decidedly proved that they possess, Mexican dollars being most successfully imitated. Possibly however these defects in the new coins may be owing to a slight want of adjustment in the machines - an error which practice alone can correct.\n\nBefore leaving the building His Excellency and the party visited the assay room, which is by no means the least interesting portion of the building; two modes of assay are in use. The French mode, in which the silver to be tested is dissolved in nitric acid and precipitated by a solution of common salt in water, the turbidity or clearness of the liquid remaining being an evidence of the presence of alloy or the absolute purity of the metal treated; the other method being by melting in a small furnace; the subsequent steps being the same as those adopted at the London mint.\n\nToo much praise cannot be accorded to the general arrangements of the mint or the intelligence of those to whom its arrangements and working are entrusted. Great care seems to have been taken to render it as secure from robbery as it can be in a colony owning rascals of so ingenious a turn of mind as the Chinese. In addition to a regular guard of European troops quartered in the building a gunboat has been moored off the side fronting the harbour, and we are furthermore authorized to publish the following statement of the arrangements which have been made to secure immediate assistance in case of an open attack being made on the building.\n\nThe following signals have been arranged in case of an attack being made on the Mint.\n\n| Signal | Action |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Gunboat at the Mint | show a blue light and fire a rocket on any attempt being made or alarm given of an attack |\n| H.M.S. Princess Charlotte | repeat the signal and fire a gun towards the shore |\n| Sentry in front of McGregor's Barrack | give an immediate alarm |\n| Picquet from McGregor's Barrack | turn out (2 Officers and 53 N.C.O. and men) and proceed to the Mint |\n| Party from Fletcher's Barracks | get under arms and follow to the Mint |\n\nSo extensive an influence will naturally be hereafter exerted by Hongkong over the money market of the East, that the position of the Colony must be considerably improved vis-a-vis the dependencies of all nations in this part of the world. Moreover no better scheme could have well been devised whereby to introduce through a natural channel a more extensive use of coin in place of bullion throughout the Empire of China. When it is once found that foreigners are so unwilling to accept the latter, that the new coins possess advantages for purposes of trade superior to those offered by Sycee or the Spanish and other dollars the Chinese will readily learn to accept them at their just value. The success or non-success of the mint cannot be a doubtful question; either it will be a total success or a total failure. We hope and predict the former.\n\nPage 95", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 265854, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "page_number": 324, "title": "CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6]", "content_text": "desirous that this despatch and its enclosures should be seen by M. Graham who possibly may have some observations to make and who appears on the 17th April not to have been aware of the decision of the ... \n\nFrom 23 ... 2841 ... 323 inclusive, only 44.522 ounces had been coined, the waste being 660 Oz.. At this rate it would take a year and a half for the Mint to coin the Silver now stored in its Vaults, and consequently you must not be surprised to hear that the Banks are beginning to call in their bullion - as there are evidently many ... also ... suas: ... profitable ... the Colonial Government as conveyed in W. Meran's letter of the 31st January last.\n\nMr Graham should further be apprised that apparently it is still dubious how far the experiment of the Mint will succeed. According to the monthly analysis from the 7th May to the 8th June, there are other more profitable uses for money than leaving it idle in the mint. Neither am I able to report that matters are improving, as in the last two working days only 1824 Dollars...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 266912, "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": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "page_number": 250, "title": "CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]", "content_text": "He also ordered of the Messrs. & Co. the cutting out Presses are also too limited in number how free are to coin other than dollars the constant change of punches and babeture will consume much valuable time, at present we have but four of these presses and it would be desirable to Supply more of these always ready for dollar, half dollar, and quarter dollar whilst The four additional which I now recommend could then be used entirely.\n\nRequisition enclosed No D. Duplicate copies for 249 the subsidiary Coinage These should be ordered of Monsieur le Baron de Bussierre, the Director of the Imperial Mint Paris Trusting that His Excellency the Governor-in-Council may see fit to comply with these Requisitions.\n\nI have sent the Copies for necessary transmission to England.\n\nI have the honor to be, Your most Obedient Servant Tho. Min Suider, Master of the Mint", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 270612, "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": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "page_number": 21, "title": "CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9]", "content_text": "ARTICLE 157.-The Court shall have full power, at their discretion, to purchase and take over the business of any other Bank or Banks, or make arrangements with any other Bank or Banks, and to make any arrangement respecting such purchase, and the terms and conditions thereof, and how and in what manner the consideration for such purchase or arrangement shall be satisfied; and the Court shall be at liberty to satisfy the consideration for any such purchase or arrangement, wholly or in part by the issue of Shares of the Company, on such terms, and at such price or prices, as the said Court may determine. Provided nevertheless, that no new Share shall be issued for the purposes of any such purchase, except with such previous consent, and in such manner, and subject to such conditions, in all respects as are by the said Ordinance and these presents prescribed, with reference to the raising of additional Capital by means of new Shares.\n\nARTICLE 155.-The Court shall have generally the entire superintendence, management, and control of the business and affairs of the Company; and in every case not provided for, or not adequately provided for by the said Ordinance or by these presents, or by any Bye-laws, Rules, or Regulations, from time to time made, shall have full power to regulate their own procedure, and the mode of conducting the business of the Company; and to act in such manner as the Court think best for the purposes, and for promoting the welfare, of the Company. And, also, shall have powers and discretions requisite for carrying into effect the objects and purposes for which the Company is established: subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of the said Ordinance and these Presents respectively.\n\nCourt's Minute Book.\n\nArticle 150-A Book, to be called \"The Court Minute Book,\" shall be provided, and kept under the superintendence of the Court, and a true and faithful record of the proceedings at every Court shall be entered therein, and shall be read at the next Court, as the first business thereof after the Chair is taken, and, being then found or made correct, shall be signed by the Chairman thereof.\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nARTICLE 160.--The proceedings of any Court so recorded and signed, shall not be impeached, by reason of such Court, or the business recorded as transacted thereat, not having been notified or having been in any respect insufficiently or improperly notified to the Directors; or by reason that any Director, whose name appears recorded as present thereat, was not qualified; or by reason of any other irregularity, unless the same appear on such record.\n\nARTICLE 161.--Every entry in the Court Minute Book purporting to be the record of the proceedings of any Court, and to be so signed, shall be acknowledged and received by and between the Shareholders and their representatives as prima facie evidence that the proceedings so recorded did actually take place at the Court at which, by such record, they are stated to have taken place, and that the Director or Directors, or member of Directors therein stated to have attended the Court, did in fact attend and act as a Director or Directors thereat; and that the Person whose name is recorded as having been Chairman, was Chairman of the Court at which the proceedings thereby recorded took place, and that he was the proper Person to preside, and did preside as Chairman thereof; or, as the case may be, that the Persons whose names are subscribed to such record as Directors present at the Court, were present thereat, and duly subscribed the record; and also, that such record was duly entered in that book.\n\nARTICLE 162.--Every Court which, by any such record, so entered and purporting to be signed, is stated or appears to have been held, shall, unless the contrary appear on the record, be treated and recognized by all the Shareholders and their representatives, as having been duly notified, convened, and held, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations then in force concerning Courts, and the proceedings of every Court, from time to time so recorded, shall, unless the contrary appear on the record, be treated, recognized, and acted upon by all the Shareholders and their representatives as having been regular and proper in all respects.\n\nARTICLE 163.--Every order or resolution which appears recorded as part of such proceedings, and notwithstanding it be impeachable on any ground whatever, shall so long as such order or resolution subsists unrescinded, be treated, recognized and acted upon as valid and binding on all the Shareholders and their representatives, so far as an order or resolution of the Court can bind them, and shall be sufficient authority for all acts and proceedings in conformity therewith, so far as the Court can authorize the same.\n\nAuditors.\n\nARTICLE 164.--The number of the Auditors (but not less than Two) for the purposes of the Company, and their salary, remuneration, and powers, may, from time to time, be fixed by the General Meetings.\n\nARTICLE 165.--A Director, or other Officer of the Company shall not, while holding any such Office, be eligible or competent to act as Auditor, and an Auditor elected or appointed a Director, or other Officer of the Company, shall immediately thereupon cease to be an Auditor.\n\nARTICLE 166.--Until a General Meeting otherwise prescribes, there shall be two Auditors, and it shall not be requisite that an Auditor be a Shareholder.\n\nARTICLE 167.--Phineas Ryrie and William Chesterman Junior, Esquires, shall be the first and present Auditors.\n\nARTICLE 168.--Auditors shall be appointed Yearly at the Ordinary Yearly Meeting, and at every subsequent Ordinary Yearly Meeting; but if from any cause the Yearly appointment of Auditors be not made at any Ordinary Yearly Meeting, the appointment shall be made at some subsequent General Meeting and the existing Auditors shall remain in Office until their successors be appointed.\n\nARTICLE 169.--Every Auditor retiring shall, if qualified, be re-eligible.\n\nARTICLE 170.--Any Auditor may resign his Office, or may be removed from Office by a vote of any General Meeting.\n\nARTICLE 171.--Any vacancy in the Office of Auditor may be filled by a General Meeting.\n\nARTICLE 172.--In case of death, resignation, removal, disqualification, illness, absence, or temporary incapacity of any of the Auditors, the powers and duties of and incident to the Auditorship may be exercised by the surviving or other Auditor or Auditors.\n\nARTICLE 173.--Throughout the Year at all reasonable times of the day, the Auditors may inspect the accounts and vouchers of the Company, and the books connected therewith and call for such evidence in support of the same, or of any matter relating to the dealings of the Company, or of its debts and credits, and necessary for the elucidation of such accounts as they think fit, and such evidence shall accordingly be furnished to them by the Court, or by the proper Officers of the Company under the authority of the Court but not otherwise.\n\nHalf Yearly Statements.\n\nARTICLE 174.--The Court, from time to time, as soon as can be after the expiration of every Half Year ending the 30th of June and the 31st of December, shall make a General Half-Yearly Statement in writing, showing therein, the Amount of the then debts, liabilities, and engagements, and of the assets, property, credits and securities of or belonging to the Company, as well in Hongkong as elsewhere, and such Statement shall include an account of the amount of the Promissory Notes of the Company in circulation, and of the Coin held in the several establishments of the Company, such accounts of the amounts of Promissory Notes and Coin respectively, being made from and brought up to the then last returns and information furnished to the Directors from the Branches or Agencies of the Company; and the Court shall send One copy of every such General Half-Yearly Statement authenticated by the signatures of the Chairman of the Court, or of two Directors, and of the Manager or Accountant in Hongkong, to the Governor of the Colony, and shall immediately afterwards publish such Statement in the Hongkong Government Gazette, and in such other Newspapers circulating in the places where the business of the Company shall be carried on as the Governor of the Colony may, from time to time, require; and shall also make and publish and cause to be made and published by the Officers, Servants and Agents of the Company, at the several establishments of the Company, such further returns as to the amount of the Promissory Notes of the Company in circulation at such establishments respectively, and the amount of coin and bullion held in such establishments respectively, as the Governor of the Colony shall, from time to time, require; and returns to be made to such Persons, and published in such manner as the Treasury shall direct, and the Court shall obey and cause to be obeyed by the Officers, Servants and Agents of the Company at the several establishments of the Company, all such Regulations as the said Governor shall, from time to time, establish for the verification of such returns and the inspection of the coin and bullion held in the establishments of the Company by such Person and in such manner as the said Governor shall think fit.\n\nARTICLE 175.--The Court shall also, if and whenever so required by the said Governor, procure and submit to him or to such Persons as he shall appoint for that purpose for his or their inspection and examination, the several returns from which such General Half-Yearly Statement is prepared, and such further information as to the state and proceedings of the establishments of the Company, as the said Governor shall, from time to time, require to be furnished.\n\nYearly Balance Sheets.\n\nARTICLE 176.--The accounts of the Company shall be balanced, and the financial state of the Company shall be ascertained under the superintendence of the Court twice in every Year, on and up to the 30th day of June, and the 31st day of December, in every Year, and a Profit and Loss Account and Balance-Sheet, showing the financial state of the Company up to and on the Day of such balancing shall be made by proper Book-keepers and Accountants, under the superintendence of the Court, and the Court shall deliver the same to the Auditors Ten Days at least before the Day of the Ordinary Meeting, but before such Account and Balance-Sheet are so delivered, the Directors or Three of them, shall examine them and sign them as so examined.\n\nARTICLE 177.--The Account and Balance-Sheet shall be received from the Court, and be examined by the Auditors who within Five Days after the receipt thereof, shall either approve thereof, and report generally thereon, or report specially thereon, and shall deliver the Account and Balance-Sheet with their report thereon, to the Court, in order that the same may be presented and read with the Directors' report, on the state of the Company's affairs to the Ordinary Yearly or the Ordinary Half Yearly Meeting as the case may be.\n\nARTICLE 178.--At least Two Days before the Ordinary Meeting a copy of the Profit and Loss Account and Balance-Sheet as audited by the Auditors, and of the Auditors' Report thereon, shall be sent by the Court to every Shareholder, resident in, or having an address in Hongkong and such Account, Balance-Sheet, and Report shall also be presented by the Court and read to the Meeting.\n\nARTICLE 179.--A copy of the Profit and Loss Account and Balance Sheet, from time to time, presented and read to an Ordinary Meeting, shall within Two Days next after the Day of Meeting, be sent by the Court to the Governor of the Colony.\n\nInspection of Documents.\n\nARTICLE 180.--The General Meeting Minute Books shall be kept at the Head Office, and be at all times open to the inspection of the Shareholders, but the Directors or any of them, or some Person appointed by the Court may attend at the time of such inspection, for the purpose of preventing any injury to the Books.\n\nARTICLE 181.--A copy of the Profit and Loss Account and Balance-Sheet of the Company, from time to time, intended for presentation to an Ordinary Meeting, shall be open to the inspection of the Shareholders at all reasonable times in the Day, within Two Days before the Meeting.\n\nIndemnification of Officers.\n\nARTICLE 182.--Every Person being or having been a Director, or Auditor, his heirs, executors, or administrators shall be indemnified out of the funds of the Company against all costs, charges, losses, damages, and expenses which he shall or may incur or be put to by reason of or in relation to or on account of any act done or omitted to be done in good faith in the execution or supposed execution of his Office or Trust or in respect of any liability alleged to have been incurred by him in or about the execution of the same.\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-124 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271174, "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": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "page_number": 130, "title": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "content_text": "129\n\nwhilst nevertheless for months no employment given to the Mint. The import of \n\nCoin and Bullion I then estimated at 50 \n\nMillions of dollars annually. \n\nI understand \n\non very good authority that at \n\nthis moment there are \n\nnearly 7 millions \n\nof dollars in Coin and Bullion within \n\nthis city of which the Banks hold about \n\nSo fine, \n\nan amount whose magnitude, for how proving a healthy condition of trade, denotes its general sluggishness and the diminished opportunities for lucrative \n\noperations.\n\n-76\n\nWhen business was more active the \n\naverage amount of Bills and other securities \n\nprobably neared nine than \n\neight millions of dollars, whilst the \n\naverage amount actually \n\nheld at present does not \n\nmuch exceed four millions and a half - \n\na value considerably less, \n\nby at least \n\nmore than a third than the Bullion and \n\nCoin now stored in the city.\n\nIn venturing to give the above \n\napproximate calculations I have \n\nof course no means \n\nof vouching their accuracy, \n\nI nevertheless put them forward as deserving attention, being based on information supplied by the parties most conversant with the Monetary and general business transactions of the Port:\n\n77\n\nThose transactions are not \n\nexclusively connected with the China trade but \n\nnevertheless may \n\nall be regarded as \n\ncollaterally at least springing therefrom.\n\n11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271360, "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": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "content_text": "## TO THE EDITOR OF THE \"DAILY PRESS.\"\nSIR-As a member of the Chamber of Commerce, I regret to find myself under the necessity of expressing my dissent from the comments and suggestions inserted in the above Memorial (paragraph 37) about the alteration of the present mode of collection of the duties. My reasons for so doing are the following:\n\n1. The Memorial does not particularize the alleged inconveniences or exactions suffered by the foreign trade from the working of the arrangements now in force. It would, however, have been necessary, in order to support the imputations embodied in the Memorial, to specify and illustrate by authentic cases and instances what \"abuses are committed by the so-called Government Banks attached to each Custom House.”\n\n2. The assertion that the Government Banks have it in their power to advance or depress the value of sycee as it suits their interest and convenience\" is open to discussion; but, assuming for the sake of argument that it were founded on fact, the Chamber does not explain how this injures foreign merchants.\n\n3. They are not bound to pay the duties in sycee if the market price of silver in that shape is unduly forced up, they can tender dollars according to the assays made at Canton (18th July, 1848), the basis adopted by the Treaty of Tientsin of 1858 for the conversion of foreign money into official currency or Haikwan sycee.\n\n4. The assays referred to are admitted by competent bullionists to give rise to no serious objection. The Chamber does not point out in what respect they should now be altered.\n\n5. As the Canton assays only embrace francs, dollars, and rupees, it might with reason be urged that they should be made more comprehensive, so that bar and cake silver of refined touch be receivable at their respective fineness compared to the Chinese official standard.\n\n6. The Chamber seems to assume that Haikwan sycee taels are but an imaginary currency. It is a decided error; the Haikwan tael is the Government weight equal to 582.1 grains of British troy weight, and the Haikwan sycee tael (100 touch) is a weight of 582 grains troy of pure silver.\n\nMany millions of taels of Haikwan sycee have, to my certain knowledge, passed from Chinese into European hands during the last eight or nine years; the Chamber therefore commits a palpable mistake in consigning this very substantial standard to the realms of fiction.\n\n7. Even if the Haikwan sycee had never been in existence, for all purposes relating to the Treaty it would, as a nominal standard, be unavailable, for it is an equitable and a well-defined unit of value.\n\n8. The proposition of the Chamber \"that the tariff rates should be payable in whatever coin or bullion may be recognized as the mercantile currency for transactions between foreigners and Chinese at the various ports, without any addition for premium,\" is not admissible on account of the extreme confusion that such a system (or rather absence of system) would engender.\n\n9. The Chamber makes no reference to Rule 10 of the Articles of Trade annexed to the Treaty of Tientsin, whereby the sound principle of a uniform system is recognized for the collection of duties at all ports. No cause is adduced for justifying the abrogation or modification of the above Rule, which, as it stands, is concordant with the ordinary basis of international treaties of commerce as well as with sound views of political economy.\n\n10. The suggestion in the Memorial \"that dollars be received in payment of duties, on the same terms as they are received in general commercial transactions,\" does not rest upon any tangible ground, and if carried into effect would entail almost daily fluctuations in the rates of collection, as the exchange of dollars against sycee in mercantile intercourse is ruled by the ordinary influences of demand and supply.\n\n*Article XXXIII reads thus: Duties shall be paid to the Bankers authorised by the Chinese Government to receive the same in its behalf, either in sycee or in foreign money, according to the assay made at Canton on the 13th of July, 1848.\n\n11. The prognostic advanced by the Chamber in urging the proposition criticized in the above paragraph, “that it might be the means of introducing largely into China the dollars coined at the Hongkong Royal Mint, and thus greatly benefit the Colony,\" is a mere fallacy.\n\nIf the Chinese Government concedes the extension of Article XXXIII so as to make it applicable to foreign bar silver, I cannot see what advantages the British trade would ever gain by converting their silver bullion into Hongkong Mint dollars, at a cost of 1 and 2 1/2 per cent. (besides loss of time), with a view to tender such coin in payment to the Chinese Customs instead of simply handing them over the bar silver itself at the Tariff valuation.\n\nUpon the supposition of bar silver not being made a legal tender on the same footing as foreign coin, it could always be melted into, or exchanged against, lumps or shoes of current sycee at a much smaller charge than the cost of coinage into dollars.\n\nThe Memorial refers to the discount (erroneously termed premium) charged by the Customs of the Port of Foochow on Mexican dollars and Spanish dollars (the latter being also improperly designated as Foochow dollars), and quotes this as an instance of the evil resulting from the present system of collection, stating formerly dollars were received at 6 per cent. discount.\n\nI have been unable as yet to obtain circumstantial and reliable information regarding the reasons which prompted the temporary reduction alluded to. There must have been some transitory cause in operation, of which no trace is found in the Memorial, to warrant such a step. Perhaps it originated in the depressed value of sycee, which prevailed for some years, owing to the particular position of exchange between China and India; still, whatever these causes may have been, they have long since ceased to exist, and it is not shown by the Chamber why the Chinese should have been prevented from putting again in force the mode of valuation recognized by the Treaty.\n\n13. It is difficult to understand what relation the fact quoted at the end of paragraph 37 of the Memorial has to the matter at issue. It is much further back than the date of the Tientsin Treaty that the difficulties adverted to arose concerning the extreme depreciation of the Mexican dollars when first introduced in the China trade, where the Carolus dollars had been for many years before acknowledged as the only medium of payment in coin in transactions with foreigners. It was quite proper for the then representative of the British Government to interpose his influence in obtaining the recognition of the newly-introduced coin at a fair valuation; exactions had been committed, extraordinary squeezes imposed, and the consul by whose efforts they were put an end to deserved the gratitude of the mercantile community of the period;—but under present arrangements, what \"reform of magnitude can be effected,\" in reference to the conversion of Mexican or other dollars into Chinese currency, does not appear when the question is divested of all vague and ill-digested assertions.\n\nThe Hongkong Mint dollar has been assayed by the Canton authorities at its full legal fineness of 900/1000; it is admitted for its real weight at the rate of 111.11 taels in Hongkong dollars, an equivalent to 100 taels Haikwan sycee, viz., at 10 per cent. discount. This is full intrinsic value and leaves no room for complaint. Mexican dollars, by the assay of 1843, were valued at 894/1000, or 111.9 taels weight in Mexican dollars, equivalent to 100 taels Haikwan sycee, or a discount of 10.634 per cent. The Foochow Customs, as stated in the Memorial, only charged 10 per cent. Where lies the defective point in this valuation in the opinion of the Chamber?\n\n14. In conclusion, I would express a wish that the matter be further discussed, and that, instead of pursuing the redress of imaginary grievances, the re-modelling of Article XXXIII be only urged so far as is consistent with the present uniform standard, and so that the provisions regulating the conversion of foreign coin into Chinese official currency be made applicable also to bar silver and other denominations of bullion of unobjectionable purity.\n\nI am, Sir, your obedient servant,\n\nHongkong, 25th Oct., 1867.\n\nV. C. KEESSER.\n\n314", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272566, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 124, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "# In 5501\n\nHoa Hong hàng \n11567.\n\n**RECEIVER**\n**ED**\n**NOV25 1867**\nCylon 125\n\nChartered Mercantile Bank of India London\n\"Chica\n65 Old Broad Street\nLoudon, 22 November 1867.\n\nL\n\nIs For Majesty's Secretary of \n**Stola**\nfor the Colonies\n\nSir,\n\nthis\n\nIn terms of the deed of settlement of Corporation, I have the honor to transmit herewith \n201 \nGeneral Half Yearly Statement to 30 June last, shewing the amount of the then debit liabilities, and engagements, and of the assets, properly credits, and securities belonging to the Corporation, such statement including an account of the amount of Promissory Notes \nof \nof \nthe coin held \nthe Corporation on Circulation, and in the Establishment; the said Statement being \nauthenticated in the usual manner.\n\nI shall feel obliged if you \nI am \nSir \nwill own \nreceipt \n\nYour most obedient Servant-\nDJ Roberston Chief Manager", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272585, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "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.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273203, "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": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "With reference to the question of the establishment of a modern Mint in Sapaw, from all I could learn, the Japanese Government is not in a position to meet the expenses at present; and the Machinery reported to have been ordered from France is only for a limited number of presses to be worked by hand, and to supersede the present mode of impressing the coin by punch and hammer.\n\nI gathered that it is purposed shortly to name a new coin of the value of 4 ... and as the Japanese Minister admitted that without including the Salaries of the officials, the cost of Minting was from 3 to 3 1/2 per cent; it may be desirable to ascertain through the British Minister how far the Japanese Government would be disposed to enter into arrangements for having the new coinage struck at the Hong Kong Mint, at a Seigniorage to be agreed upon. I casually mentioned 1 per cent. It is not improbable that rather than incur the necessary outlay for a Minting establishment in accordance with the European standard, the Japanese Government may be induced to employ the Mint of Hong Kong for the greater part of their coinage in the same manner that the Imperial Mint of France and the private Mint of Birmingham are employed by the Government of various Countries.\n\nI left with the Minister a complete set of Hong Kong Currency. During my visit at Shaughne, I had the pleasure of meeting ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273575, "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": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "page_number": 384, "title": "CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3]", "content_text": "## small \n\nImports of this coin latterly, and the apparent want of demand for it, تو ہے extension of a coined circulating medium would appear not to be required by the Chinese people. - For these reasons, on behalf of this Bank I am unable to see how I can recommend the Directors to take any share in the proposal made for the Banks to undertake the working of the Mint.\n\n(Signed) W. Kaye, Shaw Vo\n\n**True Copy**\n\nfie (Jatt. Manager.\n\n**Acting Colonial Secretary.**\n\nMr Delbancs to Acting Colonial Secretary\n\n**Copy**\n\nComptoir D'Escompte de Paris\n\n\"Hong Kong Agency.\n\n382 \n\nHong Kong, 10th March, 1883.\n\nThe Honorable Reginald C. Smith.\n\nActing Colonial Secretary,\n\nDear Sir,\n\nI have deferred answering your letter of the instant till today, in order to be able to ascertain the views of my colleagues on the matter at issue.\n\nWe are all agreed that the proposal of His Excellency the Governor to work the Mint for account of the Banks with officials who would be solely under the control of the Government, is not feasible.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-129 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 273804, "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": 65, "title": "CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5]", "content_text": "62 \n\nwould be searched for carrying salt without a licence, but they did not know the Customs of Hong Kong. The junks had a flag aloft to show that they were Salt Revenue junks, but they did not say they had come here to search junks. There is no place where junks going into harbour would hoist that flag to let people know what kind of junks they were. The men on the junks did not search any boats in this harbour, nor did they say they were going to do so. I have been here about thirty years, but I never saw any junks like these two in here before. These junks might have come in here to see how many junks there were in the harbour, or because there was no wind outside. I am rather inclined to the former opinion. I was present when the conversation took place about the Pow-loy affair with Mr. Ambrose. The two boatmen spoke from hearsay, as also the men who heard it from Chan-a-boon.\n\n## Chan-a-boon, Interpreter at Aberdeen, makes statement\nOn the 6th instant, about half past two in the afternoon, I saw two armed junks come into this harbour. The last witness and another...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-130 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274718, "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": 353, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "# The Daily Press\n## HONGKONG, MARCH 19TH, 1868.\n\n### Police Intelligence, 17th March\n**BEFORE C. MAY, Esq.**\n#### ILLEGAL DETENTION OF TWO COOLIES\n\nA case of some interest came before the above magistrate to-day.\n\nIt appears that the French ship Marie Therese is now loading emigrants for Guiana, and that two men, named Chung-ahee and Chung-asum, were induced to go on board the said Marie Therese by the false representations made to them by one Wong-alung.\n\nThe evidence of the two complainants was important. Chung-ahee said he was walking in the Queen's road on the 9th instant, together with his friend Chung-a-sung, and that Wong-a-lung came up to them, and after some conversation asked them how they would like to go on board ship and work in the harbour; they agreed to go to work, and Wong-a-lung gave them a paper, which he (Wong-a-lung) said the officer on board would require: they went on board, but were not required to work. Wishing to return to the shore, they applied to Lai-a-soo, the interpreter on board, but were told to wait and speak to the \"master\" when he came on board. The mother of witness came off to see him on the 15th inst., but was not admitted on board. Afterwards he was let go, when the police officers came on board. Chung-a-sung gave almost similar evidence, saying that he went on board to work in the harbour, and not to go to a foreign country. The paper given to these men by Wong-a-lung was as follows: \"I have agreed to go to the Dutch Guiana for the same purposes as mentioned in an agreement, as per translation.\" Then followed a translation in Chinese. Chung-a-sung said neither he nor his companion could read either the English or Chinese of the paper, and they were both ignorant of its real contents.\n\nWee-leen-tai, the mother of Chung-a-hee, and aunt of Chung-a-sung, said she heard her son was being detained on board the Marie Therese, and accordingly went off to see them on the 13th instant; but on arriving alongside the vessel she was warned off; she nevertheless managed to speak to her son from the boat she was in. On returning to the shore she went and obtained officers, and delivered her son and nephew on the 15th instant.\n\nThe prisoner, whose name is Lai-a-soo, stated he saw the men come on board; they gave a paper the same as the other emigrants did who came to the ship. He recollected their asking to go ashore, but he had no authority or power whatsoever to let them go. The complainants had an opportunity of speaking to Mr. Styles, the Dutch Emigration Agent here, when he came on board, but they did not do so.\n\nMr. May said he would make no remarks at the present stage of the case; it was most important that Wong-a-lung should be brought up, as he was evidently the man who had induced the men to go on board.\n\nThe case is therefore remanded for a week, when it is to be hoped that the Inspector in charge of the case will produce Wong-a-lung, who, we understand, is hiding at present.\n\n### Police Intelligence, March 20th\n**BEFORE C. MAY, Esq.**\n#### COOLIE MUTINY ON BOARD THE \"MARIE THERESE\"\n\nThis case was again brought forward to-day, to endeavour to fix the assault on some particular one or two of the prisoners.\n\nMr. Caldwell appeared for the prosecution. Ka-a-hing said he was employed by Mr. Baak to procure emigrants, and he was paid $9 for every emigrant he put on board a ship, but he has to pay for their provisions during the time the vessel might be in harbour.\n\nMr. Caldwell here said Mr. Baak would like to make a statement; the witness was not employed by Mr. Baak as he had said.\n\nKa-a-hing said he was employed by Wai-shing, who is employed by Mr. Baak; he was paid by Wai-shing; he had nothing to do with Mr. Baak. He could not identify any of the prisoners as having been procured by him; he used generally to post papers on the walls at West Point, to say that a vessel was going to take emigrants; he believed Mr. Baak had other agents.\n\nMr. Caldwell explained that there was a shop at West Point called Man-fook-wah, where the coolies came to engage themselves; the Wai-shing shop had nothing to do with this matter.\n\nKa-a-hing continued: there were fourteen or more men stopping at the Man-fook-wah; they were mostly agents to get emigrants; they all stopped at the house; the whole fourteen are in partnership, and share the bounty which is received for procuring the emigrants.\n\n| Question | Answer |\n| --- | --- |\n| How many men were required to procure the coolies? | Fourteen |\n| What were their roles? | Some looked after the books, some attended to the provisions, and some were friends given shares for friendship's sake |\n\nMr. May asked how it was that it required so many as fourteen men to procure the coolies, if they all stopped in the same house?\n\nKa-a-hing said some of the men looked after the books, some attended to the provisions, and some were friends, who were given shares in the affair for friendship's sake. He got for his share about $3 a month; all men actively engaged in the Coon get $3 a month extra. There are eight men actively engaged in the Coon, and six in the country, looking for coolies. The head man's name in the Coon was Lee-a-fook. The whole of the fourteen are employed by the A-shing shop. Sometimes it is a losing business, on account of the ship waiting a long time, and the fourteen partners having a good deal to spend for provisions. Circulars are sent to the villages, and they induce the coolies to come down from their native villages. He recognised the prisoners as having all passed through the Coon. On Monday, Mr. Bank, the master of the A-shing shop, and himself went on board the Marie Therese, hearing there was a disturbance going on on board.\n\nMr. Caldwell said no emigrant could go on board without a sort of short permit from the Coon.\n\nKa-a-hing, further examined, said: When the coolies came to the Coon they were shown a paper of agreement, stating how much the coolies would get if they went to Holland and how many years they would have to go for. They could not be engaged anywhere else, or get a paper of agreement anywhere but at the Coon (Man-fook-wah). The coolies were sometimes kept in the Coon a few days. The paper which is given to the coolies before they go on board was the same as shown to him. If the emigrant, on getting on board, was to say he would rather stay at Hongkong, he would not be sent, but he must be seen by the mate.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276407, "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": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "page_number": 463, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "455\n\nNo. 53.\n\nSir R. Alcock to Lord Stanley.-(Received August 9.)\n\n(No. 131) My Lord,\n\nPeking, May 29, 1868.\n\nIN Mr. Consul Robertson's Report of trade at the port of Canton during the year 1867, a duplicate of which was forwarded direct to the Foreign Office, two or three leading facts are brought out which seem worthy of serious consideration as regards their influence, present and prospective, on trade in general as it is conducted in China, and at that port in particular.\n\nThe Returns show clearly that in the import trade, consisting chiefly of English textile fabrics, there is a steady advance if we take quantity as the standard, though a decrease if value be the ground of comparison: that is, the Chinese have taken more of our goods, but less has been received for them; and these two facts no doubt stand to each other in the relation of cause and effect. The same goods costing them less than in the preceding year they took more, but still within the same or narrower limits of outlay on such articles.\n\n32\n\nMr. Robertson's observations on the economical habits of the people are perfectly just, and afford the explanation. They are little disposed to spend in ostentation or luxury, whether in dress or in any other way, what means they possess.\n\nWhen even a \"necessary of life becomes from circumstances unusually dear, they simply do without it.' Hence it follows that a slight increase of cost promptly checks consumption. Of course this is an economic law of universal application, and it is a question of degree only. But it is precisely from that point of view that the distinctive feature of the national character and the habits of the people gives to the result a special importance. In other countries, where there is less thrift and habitual moderation in gratifying wants or desires, with greater love of luxury or ostentation, increase of cost only diminishes consumption on all articles ministering to these when the increase is something considerable, and as regards the necessaries of life the diminution will be still less; but here in China a very slight difference in price stops demand altogether in the first, and even tells very strikingly on the last.\n\n127\n\nIt behoves the foreign merchant to keep this well in view. As regards our cotton goods, for instance, which may be considered the great staple of our import trade into China, whatever deteriorates the quality, renders it less durable or fitted to meet the requirements of the Chinese wearer, or adds to its price, tested by competition with the price, quality, and durability of the produce of the native looms, even though it be very slight, is sufficient to turn the scale in favour of the latter to the exclusion of the former, and for the reason alleged by Mr. Robertson that \"no nation is more economical in its habits, and less influenced by outward appearance than the Chinese, from the highest to the lowest :\" whether a long cloth is of finer texture or has a better glaze is a matter of infinitesimal importance to them compared with the soundness of its quality and its durability,\n\nThe foreign merchants in China must know this, but how far they and the manufacturers in England act upon the knowledge wisely for their own and the national interests, which are really one, is fairly open to question. If they sacrifice to appearance and cheapness quality tested by durability in wear they destroy the market. Some proceedings before the Courts of Bombay recently exposed a practice of falsification and dishonesty in the making up and dressing of goods for the Indian market, on the part of some of the home manufacturers, which had precisely this effect, and was sufficiently alarming to engage the attention of some of the Chambers of Commerce in England. I cannot at the moment turn to the report which appeared in the papers, but the case and all its leading circumstances must be very well known at home, I am not prepared to say how far similar practices may have damaged the credit of foreign merchants and their goods in China, although something of the kind is not wanting, I fear, to arrest the progress. But one thing is quite certain, that whatever impairs the confidence of Chinese purchasers as to the real quality of the goods sold them under particular marks or brands inflicts a fatal injury on the prospects of trade in the interior. Mr. Robertson alludes to an export trade in a class of \"Lie Teas,\" well known at Canton. It is to be feared that those who help to poison people at home with a spurious article in teas will not be overscrupulous in dealing with foreign goods for the Chinese market.\n\nIt is not only necessary, however, that the goods should be honest in being what they profess to be, according to mark or description, but that the quality, as to the texture and durability, should suit the wants and habits of the people; and, lastly, that these should suit their pockets, and be able to compete in price with similar goods of native manufacture.\n\nUnless they have these three qualifications they cannot compete in the Chinese markets, and, instead of the demand increasing, they will be shut out, though all China were opened, as fully as France and Belgium, to both merchants and goods.\n\nThere is another element in the price besides that of first cost which has hitherto been too commonly overlooked. When goods are brought into the Chinese market, the foreign merchant calculates by the value of the dollar or sycee silver, and rates of exchange on England, what he can afford to sell at. The Chinese takes a totally different basis of value, and calculates, as he must pay in dollars, how many cash these are worth in China, or in his own district where the goods will be sold. Now the rate of exchange of the dollars or silver in reference to Europe may be very low, and has been for the last two or three years, while its value in cash in the interior and at the ports may be very high, owing to various causes wholly independent of foreign trade; and this will determine the cost of the goods to the Chinese buyer, and consequently the price he can afford or will be disposed to give. Attention has only lately been drawn to this feature of the trade in the inclosed paper on \"Copper Cash and the Tea Trade,\" contributed by Mr. Kingsmill a few months ago to the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society; a further article in the \"Supreme Court Gazette\" of the 16th of May is also inclosed, commenting upon it. The great influence this question of currency and exchange exercise, chiefly on account of the debasement in the only currency of China, the copper cash, which has a constant tendency to alter the relative value of the two currencies, the dollar and the copper coin, is clearly shown in these papers.\n\nThis is not the place for an essay on the economic principles which should regulate the action of Governments in the issue of a currency, and the futility of all efforts hitherto made to induce the Chinese Government to establish a Mint and issue a currency that could be guaranteed to the people is well known to your Lordship. My present object is only to draw attention to facts of great significance influencing the development of trade in China in a far larger degree than many of the facilities or obstacles almost", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 279974, "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": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "page_number": 371, "title": "CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869", "content_text": "Mat on kit day the Con Apuls \n\ncan instantest 1- make the Quartily \n\nJagment \n\nL \n\nther beam dul \n\na at the Jap \n\nhome red \n\nthem \n\ntitty him herefter timale the payments \n\nin to marun \n\nIn \n\nThe Joy \n\n\"this lette (incloss why \n\ndirected S \n\nand infire W.6. that this has be den.. \n\n2415 80 \n\nceber the fovemens dufatil \n\nD \n\nfor me (for reformation) \n\nai \n\n6- the desfatit adduped \n\ntheni saying that the Coon \n\nligent had been so bistructed \n\n149/6 \n\nmite to the proven Agents concelling the adu to make the payments in \n\nancstain pen. this county - \n\nWhat fegments how been already make mite and to the fore titting his what payment han the thus much of \n\nacn auten \n\nFparties to \n\nof the dicating \n\n- \n\n7 July 1888, it seem to \n\nme that in committed an en \n\n2882. 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St. King.\n\n6 The Agent lette Su T. Rogues.\n\nThis Offic has us krorlidge the ductions of dely to above\n\nOn the 25 maul lobe the War Office were bold hot the annual antistation fo £20000 um to be remitted\n\n369\n\nHowever, the best practice is to reorder and correct the text according to the rules.\n\nHere is the best version:\n\nPage 369\n\nOn 7 July 1888, it seems to me that I committed an error.\n\n2882. St. King.\n\n6 The Agent's letter Su T. Rogues.\n\nThis Office has used knowledge of the ductions of delay to above\n\nOn the 25th ultimo the War Office were told that the annual instalment for £20,000 was to be remitted\n\nHowever, the original instruction is to output in HTML using `` for paragraphs. The best reordered and corrected version in HTML is:\n\nPage 369\n\nMat on kit day the Con Apuls can instantest 1- make the Quartily Jagment\n\nbecomes\n\nOn the kit day the Council can instantly 1- make the Quarterly Jagment\n\nis not done as per rule 7.\n\nThe best effort to correct and reorder is shown below in HTML:\n\nPage 369\n\nOn 7 July 1888, it seem to me that in committed an en 2882. St. King.\n\n6 The Agent lette Su T. Rogues.\n\nThis Offic has us krorlidge the ductions of dely to above\n\nOn the 25 maul lobe the War Office were bold hot the annual antistation fo £20000 um to be remitted\n\nThe final output is:\nPage 369\n\nOn 7 July 1888, it seem to me that in committed an en 2882. St. King.\n\n6 The Agent lette Su T. Rogues.\n\nThis Offic has us krorlidge the ductions of dely to above\n\nOn the 25 maul lobe the War Office were bold hot the annual antistation fo £20000 um to be remitted", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-140 - Public Offices - 1869.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281014, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 53, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "(42)\n\nThe Galatea, including Lord Charles Beresford, Lieutenant Fitz-George and E. Ponsonby, Esq., made an excursion to Victoria Peak which overhangs the City, and forms so striking a point of view to all visitors to Hongkong. The party were much struck by the position of Mountain Lodge, the Governor's summer residence, 1,750 feet above the level of the sea, and commanding a magnificent view extending far over the Mainland on the West, and upwards of fifty Islands from the West to the East. His Royal Highness expressed his surprise that the wealthy Merchant Princes of the Colony had not availed themselves of the vicinity to their City of a position offering so bracing a climate, in the hottest time of the year. It is certainly difficult to account for the comparative neglect of such a spot, as it takes only forty minutes to reach it, and less than thirty to return. The advantages of the site were, however, only recently demonstrated, and the security afforded there by a Telegraph and Police Station is quite a modern boon, not even yet completed. The future of the Peak, therefore, is still to be developed, though we are not so sanguine as to think that it will supersede trips to Europe!\n\nTuesday, November 16th.-It was officially announced that the Galatea would leave this afternoon; and, as a fitting termination to the Prince's visit, His Royal Highness had consented to lay the first Stone of a new Choir for S. John's Cathedral in the morning. At half past nine, the Clergy, in their canonicals, and the Choir, in their surplices, assembled in the Church, and a procession was formed to march to the Stone, for the purpose of receiving the Prince. About the same time, a guard of honour, provided by the 75th Regiment, was drawn up on the ground. Precisely at 10 o'clock, His Royal Highness arrived, accompanied by His Excellency the Governor and Lady MacDonnell, the Honorable E. C. Yorke, A. B. Haig, Esq., the Honorable C. C. Smith and Mrs. Smith. He was met at the foot of the Platform which had been erected, by the Clergy; the Honorable J. G. Austin, the Honorable W. Keswick, the Honorable E. H. Pollard, Q.C., and Messrs. Mitchell, Moorsom, and Pyke, Trustees; and several Officers of the Army and Navy. The Troops having presented arms, and played the National Anthem, the Prince ascended the Platform; and the Service was commenced with the 84th Psalm, \"O how amiable are thy Dwellings, &c.,\" sung by the Cathedral Choir, and the Congregation which had assembled to take part in the solemn Ceremony. The Colonial Chaplain then read the first portion of the 'Form of Prayer,' which had been prepared and printed for the occasion; after which, the Reverend R. O'Callaghan, Chaplain, R.N., read the Lesson, taken from Hebrews, X. 19-26. The Lord Bishop being absent from the Colony, the Canon Residentiary then, on behalf of the Trustees and Churchmen of Hongkong, requested His Royal Highness to lay the Stone, which will form the centre plinth of the Eastern end of the new Chancel.\n\n(43)\n\nA silver trowel having been handed to the Prince by the Surveyor General, His Royal Highness laid some mortar, and said:\"In the Faith of Jesus Christ, we place this first Stone, in the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, Amen.\" After this he struck the Stone gently three times, and declared it to be \"well and truly laid.\" The Hymn, \"O Lord of Hosts, whose glory fills, &c., &c.,\" (from 'Hymns Ancient and Modern,') was now sung, and the suffrages from the Litany, for the Queen and Royal Family, &c., and two Collects referring to the special uses of the Chancel were said; after which, the Reverend Canon Beach, M.A., spoke as follows:-\" By permission\n\n(52)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281225, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "2\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE\n\nin print, and the date of Your Excellency's departure from China, is too brief to admit of the Chamber dealing with the subject as fully as its importance deserves. They are now engaged upon it, and shortly propose to transmit their views in a despatch to be addressed to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign affairs.\n\nHowever, the opportunity of Your Excellency being in this Colony is one that they are reluctant to allow to pass without endeavouring to obtain fuller information regarding several clauses in the convention, than can be gathered with certainty from the printed copies of it already referred to; and it is with this object, and also with a desire to express their own views on the subject, that the Chamber now beg that Your Excellency will do them the favour of granting an interview to a deputation from their members, at such time as you may be pleased to appoint. The Chamber, in the hope that the interview will be granted, take the liberty now of bringing to Your Excellency's notice some parts of the Convention, about which they would be glad to be accurately informed.\n\nFirst, as regards those parts of the Convention that directly affect this Colony:\n\nBy Article II. China may appoint Consuls at all ports in the British dominions.\n\nIt may therefore be fairly assumed that, amongst the first places to which they are sent, Hongkong will be selected. This, threatening to create an Imperium in Imperio, affects the status of the Colony politically, and it appears to the Chamber more advisable at present to leave it to be dealt with by His Excellency the Governor.\n\nAccording to Article V. native produce landed in Hongkong, and afterwards sent to a treaty port must pay full duty and all Inland dues; whilst on the other hand, such produce sent from one treaty port to another pays only half import duty, Hongkong thereby being placed at a disadvantage to the extent of half the import duty. In like manner, whilst native produce can be sent to Foreign countries paying only the export duty and 50 per cent. additional for Transit dues, similar produce if sent to Hongkong for shipment must pay export duty at the treaty port, and all the inland dues on the way to it, however much those dues may exceed one half of the export duty.\n\nOn the other hand, the Chamber are gratified to find that the former practice of granting at treaty ports exemption certificates for goods to be transhipped at Hongkong to other treaty ports, and which concession towards placing her on an equality with those ports has for some years been withdrawn, is to be again permitted.\n\nBy Article VI. Kiungchow, in the rich island of Hainan, is to be removed from the list of treaty ports. The Chamber regret that they can only look upon the closing of this place as a most unfortunate step. A number of merchants have been desirous to carry on trade with Kiungchow, but have been unable to do so, inasmuch as no Consulate of any nationality has been established there. Not only is the island rich in products, and its trade one that would rapidly increase if regulated by the same conditions as obtain at the treaty ports of the mainland, but it promises soon to become a much more valuable market, as the government of Annam is about to throw open several ports to foreign trade, in which event there would without doubt be considerable commercial intercourse between Annam and Kiungchow, and between both and Hongkong. To a Chamber that has always advocated a much more extended intercourse with China, it is of course gratifying to learn that Wuchow will be opened to British trade. It nevertheless regards it as inferior in importance to Kiungchow, and if the privilege of doing business at the one has been obtained at the cost of one right to trade at the other, we fear that the advantage of the exchange has not fallen to British interests.\n\nThe arrangement for the commutation of all transit dues upon British goods by the payment of 50 per cent. in addition to the Import duty, on Imports, and of 50 per cent. in addition to the Exports duty, on Exports, is one that the Chamber should hail with much satisfaction, could they take any assurance to themselves from past experience, that the Chinese would faithfully observe their part of the agreement. The Chamber do not hesitate to state that they regard their promises in this matter with the greatest distrust, and would respectfully suggest that either the payment of the 50 per cent., additional to the Import and Export duties be made contingent upon a faithful observance by the Chinese of their part of the agreement, or that her Majesty's Government determine to follow up every known breach of the engagement with uncompromising persistency.\n\nWithout such an understanding, the revised conditions bearing in this matter will be as inoperative as those stipulated for in the Treaty of Tientsin, and the Chamber could only regard the arrangement for the commutation of the Transit dues as an additional burden of 21 per cent., on the value of British trade with China. With reference to Rule I. of the Supplementary Rules, the Chamber deem it a matter of paramount importance to have it clearly understood between Britain and China that British merchandise shall pass into any port of the interior upon the payment of Transit Dues of 50 per cent. of, and in addition to the Import duty, without any further exactions whatsoever, and irrespective of the ownership of the goods, and should such be met by the rate in question, a great boon will have been gained. In the case of British merchants resorting to the interior markets for the sale of imports, the prohibition against exhibiting on the houses rented by them their Hong name or the style of their firms, and the provision that such merchants shall not interfere to protect the landlords of such houses from the incidence of charges for which the Chinese may say the same are assessable, must in the opinion of the Chamber to a great extent nullify what advantages appear to be offered, it being left to the Chinese official to levy illegal charges upon the landlords of the houses in question.\n\nWith regard to Rule I. of the Supplementary Rules the Chamber consider that native produce brought from the interior for sale and exported to a foreign Country should be exempt from transit dues of every description over and above half the export duty, whether brought to the port by British or by native merchants. But it does not appear from the text that Chinese merchants bringing down the produce are to be dealt with as favourably as the British, a condition of matters that would not be allowed to appear in the text were there not means of evading the stipulations.\n\nThe Chamber respectfully enquire in regard to the last clause of Article IV, whether native produce shipped from one treaty port to another, and afterwards exported to a foreign country, shall not be entitled to a refund of inland dues and charges levied in excess of 50 per cent. of the export duty, such for instance as on teas or other produce shipped from Hankow or Kiukiang to Shanghai.\n\nThe Chamber would further respectfully enquire whether under Article III. metals and opium are included.\n\nThe questions about lighthouses, beacons, pilots, measures for the suppression of piracy, the navigation of the Poyang Lake by British-owned steamers instead of merely by Chinese-like sailing vessels, tonnage dues on hulks and passenger boats, the opening of places on the Yang-tsze above Hankow to foreign trade, of erecting manufactories at the Treaty ports, of working mines, of the increased duty on silk and opium, of trading in the interior with passports, of railroads and telegraphs, and the time during which it is proposed that the Supplementary convention will remain in force, are highly important, and Your Excellency will greatly oblige the members of the Chamber by giving any information about them that you shall feel at liberty to convey.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant,\n\nJ. B. TAYLOR.\n\nVice Chairman.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN stated that Sir Rutherford Alcock had replied that he would receive the deputation at 2.30 P.M., at which time they intended waiting upon him.\n\nMr. RYRIE said it might be desirable to ask the meaning of Art. I. He had read it through, and could not understand its meaning, which was certainly very vague.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said simply that British subjects would have to agree to the terms attaching to any privileges. He thought it applied chiefly to the Russians, who had Hongs in the interior, and that it meant if we had the same privilege granted, it must be in the same terms.\n\nMr. RYRIE thought the article was useless, and that the old clause as to the most favoured nation was quite enough, and was also distinct and unambiguous.\n\nMr. KRESSER enquired whether the Russians did not hang out their Hong names. He certainly understood that they were not submitted to the same restrictions as the British. British subjects, it was now arranged, could only reside temporarily in the interior; the Russians, he understood, could do so permanently.\n\nMr. PYKE thought it most objectionable that British subjects could not in any way interfere with anything that the local officials might choose to do to Chinese, who were in their employ.\n\nMr. HETHERINGTON thought the terms of residence, as in the convention, were not of so much importance, as we could fall back on those granted to the Russians. If they were allowed to reside for a space of six months, others would be allowed to do the same.\n\nMr. RYRIE said that was so before. It would be better to ask what time would be allowed.\n\nMr. PYKE thought it would be best perhaps to ask how long the Russians were allowed to reside in the interior.\n\nMr. DELBANCO considered it better not to ask too many questions. If the Russians were allowed to stay in the interior, then we should be so also. He thought the letter of the Chamber was too comprehensive. As respected the Import of Shirtings, &c., this matter had already been taken up by the Bradford and Manchester Chambers of Commerce. There was one subject, however, which in Hongkong was especially important, namely, the increase in the Opium Duty, to which allusion should be made.\n\nMr. PYKE said it was certainly important that British subjects were not allowed to hang out their Hong names. Although no tax might be placed upon the goods, they would be imposed on the proprietor of the house.\n\nMr. DELBANCO observed that everywhere people had to conform to the taxes of the country.\n\nMr. PYKE replied that the duties were limited by Treaty, and could not, therefore, be with propriety exceeded.\n\nIn reply to Mr. DelbanCO, the CHAIRMAN stated that the Duty on Opium was to be Tls. 20 more than before.\n\nMr. BELILIOS could not see the justice of allowing the Chinese to put any tax they liked upon Opium, or why the trade in this article should not be guarded as well as that in other goods.\n\nMr. DELBANCO considered that taking notice...\n\nPage 263\n\n3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 281254, "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": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "page_number": 293, "title": "CO129-143 - Sir MacDonnell - 1870 [1-2]", "content_text": "# Names of Gagengers\n\n| Native Names | Roman Names of Fagengus | MALE/FEMALE | Profession | Native Place |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Babbing Ng | | | | |\n| 35 Chu Asam | | | Labourer | Gnew Lon |\n| 16 Lew Gu | | | Megang For | |\n| ow Zum | | | Pure Cutter | Trai hou |\n| 38 Chai Stam Thing It | | | Lime bullin | Cheng For |\n| | | | Labourer | Woo That Agun |\n| | | | Seeman | Frai chow |\n| 39 Jahang Ng | | | Soci | |\n| 99 | | | 40 Tum Foong | Z |\n| | | | Pin Shang | Phoebush Reva's Shin |\n| 71 Agam | Pai Lee Man | | | |\n| 75 lakeng teen | | | 74.99 20 | ow |\n| 22 | | | 45 Your chan | |\n| 41 Wong Som cheong | | | 96 | Rb arter |\n| | | | Qui Plan | |\n| 75 bhai Thing | | | 196 | Salesman Fui chow |\n| 76 ble Asir | | | 94 | 40 Chow a man |\n| 44 Pauw Geme | Chaux 24 | | Labourser | Lung chur |\n| 77 Lemy Tem | | | Labourer | Revai Chin The Ayam Pan Deem |\n| | | | Carpenter | Ting. stain |\n| | | | Laine Cutter | Révai Than |\n| | | | Ame butter | Gum Tin |\n| | | | P aboure | Varm foo |\n| 47 Chan Mg. | Petversmith | Thung kond | | |\n| 80 Pew teen Thing | | | 8.1 Ckeing See | Palumen Pabourer |\n| | | | Deai Shin | Awai Thin |\n| 21 | | | Blacksmith | boheme Lod |\n| 82 Fang Yuen | | | 8 | 84 cock i boking food |\n| | | | Abadon | 30 abouser |\n| 85 You Sam | | | Lime butte | Chang Sed Pabour |\n| | | | Pan Fin | $6 blemg Ng |\n| 29 | | | Pabourer | Farn Thui |\n| | | | Shine butter | Trai Chow Per Dres |\n| 181 For Phang | | | Labourer | Quai Shin am Dang Chune |\n| 19 | | | Talien | Ruas Aim Chan Chow |\n| | | | Lee Aking | 24 Pabourer |\n| 36 Wong day thow | | | 19 Paboure | Shun Ame |\n| 90 | | | Gang Aye | 24 Jailor Story Ron |\n| 6 | | | Pine buten | Dam Chui Labourer |\n| | | | Labourer | Labourer |\n| 4. 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Clean hung -Achit\n\n1940\n\n175 Wong A Guing\n\nNO Tabourer\n\nBoat Boy Fung\n\nAbadm Labourer\n\nStene better heig Labourer\n\nVlam AW\n\nProfession practive Flace themaro\n\nNames of Pelinque\n\nPin mas\n\nLeavy\n\n404 Chow Lin\n\n26\n\nJung Roon Fung On Peing Dom\n\n205 Pai Pow\n\nLabourer Pabourer\n\nZing\n\nFot\n\nRiai Skin\n\n200 Dter fal\n\n29\n\nPabourer\n\nDowolona\n\n20% Lew See fat\n\n2.3\n\nPhone butter Devai i thin\n\n200 Wong hee\n\n25\n\nLabourer\n\ngai choi\n\nFoo Aboon\n\n907 Laiking\n\nShine better Rwai Thin\n\n177 Dong Afat\n\n178 Abood to kee\n\n2.6\n\nLaboure Labourer\n\nFung Doon Schem hore Pam Phow\n\n180 Ving How\n\n18.2 Les Jan.\n\nLu La\n\n149 Cheng Pong Revai\n\n181 Olung being 24\n\nAwa 29\n\nLabourer\n\nSun Roon\n\n219 210 Jan\n\n210 Lee\n\na Dow\n\n211 Lo hop\n\nP\n\nToo\n\nFoock\n\nShure Better For\n\nLame butter Fun Froi\n\n28\n\na Li\n\nB4\n\n214 Dow Ng\n\n99\n\nTabourer\n\nFrai Chow\n\n213 blum Ny\n\n244\n\n29\n\nLabourer\n\n188 Lung Rum\n\nalbadm.\n\n184 Louis-besauw\n\n25\n\nabanin\n\n188 Chun Choung\n\n21\n\n186 low a D'wai\n\nLabou Boat Boy\n\n189 trong khe\n\n190 Pang\n\nDri\n\n1910\n\n199 New Tam\n\n187 bokong Gun, Lai 18\n\nCheong\n\n188 Dlow\n\n17 Dangling Lern\n\nJoong Nos Pai\n\nRooling\n\nMai Chow Schur tas\n\nelversmith Awai Chun\n\nBoon\n\n216 Cheng\n\nSin\n\n217 Low Doon How\n\nLabourer\n\n7/8 Low Cheong\n\n29\n\nLabourer\n\n219 Chun Yee\n\nJG\n\nLabourer\n\n220 Man fat\n\n21\n\nFabourer\n\non\n\nLabourer\n\nFoong Sand\n\nSew\n\nfrod\n\nLabourer\n\n26\n\nPabouur\n\nLam Ving\n\ndi bhur Looi Thing 1/\n\nLabourer\n\n20\n\nLabour.\n\nbhui Yuen\n\n224 Pai Chong\n\nLabourn\n\n99\n\nLabourer\n\nYoong Roon\n\n925 Dam Chow\n\n20\n\nPabouter\n\n21\n\nStore butts Dam Shui\n\n296 Chun Pauw\n\n150\n\n195 Chen Yu\n\n194 King A Ree\n\n195 Wong A Geen\n\nTabourer\n\n22\n\nLabourer\n\nLin Ding Chow Joong Roon\n\n997 Akan My Ow\n\nNg\n\nOur 126\n\nLabourer\n\n21\n\nPeaman\n\nNevai Skin\n\n928 Low Vin\n\nPabonner\n\n199 Wong Kong\n\n52\n\nLabourer\n\n196 Lu Aque\n\n197 Ow Leig\n\nGue\n\n27\n\nLime butt blong Look\n\n28\n\nLabourer\n\nJai Loo\n\n1\n\nYou Back\n\nWong been\n\nLabouur\n\n21\n\nLabourer\n\n19: Aliow\n\n24\n\nLaboure\n\n199 The You\n\nLabourer\n\nbhom chame Oui Shang\n\n3. Yeme\n\nhoi\n\n201\n\nLabourer\n\nChoy\n\n20\n\nLabourer\n\n2007ing\n\nblin\n\n301\n\nLaine butter Nai chow\n\n24 Low Fing\n\nSome better Cleang\n\n201 tback Fin\n\n24\n\n202 Syow\n\n24.\n\nLabourer\n\nBoat Boy Rooling\n\nPan koun\n\n203 Low Row\n\nLabourer\n\nJun Song\n\nblum Rai\n\ns Low See\n\nCheng Sam\n\nJis\n\nFabourer\n\nShine beetle Peang kan Pabourer\n\nAwa Whin\n\nHouse Boy Sun Mooi Pane butter Rwai Shin\n\nLabourer\n\nPabourer\n\nFabout\n\nXa Yuen\n\nRwas Thin bantin Die Aimg\n\nEing Drive of Sshamngdom\n\nChouw Thow\n\nShed cheek\n\nJuen On Grai show\n\nSchung kine\n\nRwaishir boheme Thin ông ai dau Row long\n\nPing han\n\nJam Phui\n\nbhang Fin stam hoi Do Yuen\n\nkai oleser\n\nYeung Yuen\n\nAfter reviewing the provided text and applying the rules for OCR proofreading, I have made the necessary corrections and formatted the text in HTML as requested. 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DOLLARS. | REMARKS. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Granting an Imperial Register, | 19 | 190 | 1 |\n| Provisional or Copy Register, | 2 | 5 | 10 |\n| Recording Sale of Ship, | 14 | 5 | 70 |\n| Certificate of Sale, Empowering to sell, | 8 | | 40 |\n| Recording Mortgage of Ship, | | 50 | |\n| Discharge, | | | 40 |\n| Declaration of Ownership, | 12 | | |\n| Indorsement, Change of Master, | | | |\n| Certifying Desertions, | | 168 | 168 |\n| Alteration in Agreement, | 6 | | |\n| TOTAL, | | 613 | |\n\n## No. 30.\n\n**GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION**\n\nThe following Annual Report of the Honorable the Registrar General for the Year 1869, is published for general information.\n\nBy Command,\n\nColonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1870.\n\n## No. 25.\n\n6. for\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Harbor Master, &c.**\n\n## XXL-RETURN of MARINE CASES tried at the Marine Magistrate's Office during the Year 1869.\n\n| CASES | HOW DISPOSED OF. | No. of Cases. | No. of Defendants. | Punished. | Ordered to Return to duty. | Fined. | Dismissed, | Ordered to be Discharged from Ship. | Reprimanded. | Acquitted. | Amount of Fines. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Desertion, | | 230 | 522 | 200 | 76 | 75 | 47 | 7 | 15 | 6 | $382.00 |\n| Refusal of Duty, | | 101 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Assault, | | 21 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Drunkenness and Disorderly Conduct, | | 30 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Insubordination, | | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Insolence and Abusive Language, | | 14 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Embezzlement of Cargo and Ships' Stores, | | 5 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Mutinous Conduct, | | 5 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Absenting from Ship without Leave, | | 8 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Stealing, | | 6 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Wounding, | | 1 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Harboring Deserters, | | 3 | | | | | | | | | |\n| Breach of Harbor Regulations, | | 3 | | | | | | | | | |\n| | Harbor and Consts Ordinance, | 19 | 239 | | | | | | | | |\n| | Ordinance No. 12 of 1868, | 77 | | | | | | | | | |\n| | Section 258, of the \"Merchant Shipping Act\", | ... | | | | | | | | | |\n| | Total, | | | | | | | | | | |\n\n**H. G. THOMSETT, R.N., Marine Magistrate, &c.**\n\n**J. GARDINER AUSTIN, Colonial Secretary**\n\n## REGISTRAR GENERAL'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 8th March, 1870.\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to transmit herewith the Blue Book Returns for last year which are connected with this Department.\n\nOwing to my having so lately resumed the duties of my post, I am unable to furnish a general Report of the doings of the past year, and will, therefore, only refer to one or two subjects, connected with the Chinese Community, which are matters of interest and worthy of note.\n\nPerhaps the most important point to which I should call attention is the manifest desire shown by the more substantial and intelligent members of the Native Community to take a part in public matters and to render some assistance to the Government in Chinese affairs.\n\nThis feeling took an active form, when in 1867, the inhabitants of the several Districts of this City, acting on the provisions of certain Sections in the Registration Ordinance, recommended a body of men as District Watchmen to be paid for by themselves, whose duties should be connected with the Chinese portion of the City.\n\nThese men have done good service during the past year and continue to render valuable assistance in preventing and detecting crime.\n\nAgain, regard for the wants of the destitute sick led the Chinese Compradores, Merchants and others to consider the feasibility of building and supporting a Hospital. This matter has been under consideration and discussion for about three years, out of which has been matured a scheme likely to meet adequately the charitable object in view.\n\nThe subscription lists show that the collections have already reached Forty-seven thousand Dollars. By Government, a site, near Possession Point, has been granted, and on this the Buildings, calculated to hold about 140 patients, will be erected. In addition, however, a donation of $15,000 from the Special Fund has been devoted towards the expenses of the undertaking.\n\nThat the institution will be well conducted, and be a great boon to those for whom it is intended, there is every prospect.\n\nThree Doctors of good repute will be engaged, on one of whom will specially devolve the task of vaccinating all those brought for that purpose to the Hospital. There is at present a Native Doctor who, on four stated days in each month, attends for this purpose at the neighbouring building, and he reports having been successful in 275 cases since the 14th December last. The system adopted is that which is in vogue in Western countries, while to ensure, as far as possible, that the patient be brought back to the vaccinator after the expiration of seven days, the fee of twenty cents is promised to be returned, and this inducement has in almost every case had the desired effect.\n\nThe Fire Brigade still meets with the hearty co-operation of the Chinese, who have now on foot the establishing of a Salvage Corps to work with the Brigade.\n\nTo refer to the trade of the Native population, of course, as usual, it is impossible to forward accurate returns, and the Department has to depend for information on the statements of different leading firms. But one and all concur in the fact that a great depression still continues, and in some instances, as Cotton, is very marked. It is stated that in respect of this article, only 110,000 bales have been exported in place of 200,000 in the previous year, while of Rice, there has passed through Hongkong only the small amount of 335,000 peculs. The abundant harvest, however, of 1868 will account in a great measure for the falling off in so important an article of trade.\n\nIn Sugar, it is estimated that the Native trade did not exceed 150,000 bags, thus showing a considerable decrease compared with previous years.\n\nThat sold from the Refinery at East Point is not, I learn, much consumed by the Chinese here, as it is dearer than the other Sugar, and does not possess, in their opinion, the same amount of sweetness.\n\nIt may be interesting to note that of live stock (the majority of which comes from Tam-Shui, in a neighbouring District) about 39,600 Pigs, 9,000 Bullocks, and 3,240 Sheep have been slaughtered in the Eastern and Western Slaughter Houses for the use of the Community and shipping.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-145 - Lieut Governor Whitfield - 1870 [6-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 286205, "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": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "page_number": 161, "title": "CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871", "content_text": "## The Globe, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1870\n\n### AT HOME\n\nThe year 1870 will be chiefly memorable for the vast and complicated questions of foreign policy which have arisen out of the war between France and Prussia, and for the great measures of domestic reform which have been either accomplished or attempted by the Legislature. The story of the period at home is neither very exciting nor momentous. It has been big with promises and sonorous with the sound of words, but the actual results have been very small in comparison with the noise and the shadows on its account.\n\nThe policy of the present Government with regard to our colonies was, on more than one occasion, discussed with great, but by no means exaggerated, solicitude. Nevertheless, in spite of the many engrossing arguments which were urged against that policy, the British public were not satisfied. The success of the enterprise was undoubted, but would have been far greater if it had been fully carried out. Take the case of the property and assessed taxes for sample: their total amount smooth like £12,112,000; and £1,801,007 was collected in the first quarter of 1870, only a sixth part.\n\nThe Parliamentary session of the past year was remarkable for the number of measures with which the Legislature was seized, but which at last were laid aside without effecting any great change or realising the hopes of perhaps too ardent reformers. Foremost among the wrecks of former good or bad contributions for the public good was the Ballot Bill. Whatever else failed, this measure was guaranteed to change the condition of the United Kingdom.\n\nThe system of retrenchment inaugurated by the Government has been largely dependent for success on the state of the money market, and particularly the metropolis. Mr. Gladstone's financial policy has presented many subjects which may give rise to reasonable anxiety. We have not yet emerged from the ordeal of reconstruction into which the country was plunged when he assumed the conduct of its affairs with a model loud-sounding pledge to reform all abuses.\n\nThe declaration of war between France and Prussia took place without giving Parliament time to consider the state of the finances. The commercial system has been the subject of anxious consideration, and we have had occasion to retrace two panics of considerable magnitude within a short period. The financial events of the year have been calculated to continue confidence in its steps, until the outbreak of the war between France and Germany.\n\nThe position of affairs on the Continent has demanded the adoption of strong measures for the protection of our own defences. The fact that our trade and commerce are so largely affected by the disturbance of other Powers is a serious consideration. The system of secret voting, which professed to ensure to every voter perfect freedom, has been criticised for depriving the voter of the power to prove how they have voted.\n\nThe tax-paying public will do well to prepare for a surplus or deficit, as the case may be. The experiment of collecting taxes in advance has been tried, and the result has been a surplus of £1,782,629 at the end of March, 1870.\n\nThe Education Act has left successive Governments with the task of carrying out its provisions. The Licensing system remains to be reformed. The measures adopted by the Government have not been productive of great results, but it is hoped that the future may be more promising.\n\n### (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)\n\n**REPUBLICAN DISTURBANCES APPREHENDED IN SPAIN.**\n\nMADRID, December 27, 7 p.m. Republican battalions of the National Militia of Madrid have refused to be present at the review to celebrate the inauguration of the King next Sunday. Their commanders have been dismissed. It is feared that Republican disturbances will take place at Madrid.\n\n**REVOLUTION AT THE DIAMOND FIELDS.**\n\nAGRA, December 30. The Union Company's steamer Saxon arrived at the Cape, but the news is old, dating back to November 2.\n\n### THE WAR.\n\n(AZOFF'S TELEGRAMS.)\n\nA vote of censure in the Spanish Cortes by 200 votes against the Government was passed by 141 votes.\n\nThe Bank return is only remarkable as indicating the temporary effect of the change in the distribution of money just preceding the close of the year.\n\nThe Count Beustorff is about forwarding articles for the wounded and for the French prisoners to Germany.\n\nOfficial news has been received from Paris by the **MONEY MARKET THIS DAY.**\n\nThe consignment of Mr. John Robert Davison, M.P., Q.C., is gazetted this evening.\n\nTo-Night's appointments notify that the Queen has been pleased to appoint Mr. James W. Taylor as Consul for the United States and Mr. Alexander Speed Webster as Consul at New South Wales.\n\nA COMMITTEE is stated by a contemporary to have been appointed with Captain Donoughant, R.E., M.P., a Lord Chancellor's visitor, and others to carry out experiments on the utilisation of balloons for reconnaissance purposes.\n\nROCHE-SUR-YON, December 29. The consecration of the Smithfield Martyrs Memorial Church has been indefinitely postponed.\n\nOfficial news received from Paris states that the Prussians made a furious attack upon Nogent, Rosny, and the forts of Avron, posting their siege batteries, and attempting a bombardment. They were repulsed with considerable loss.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge is still unable to attend at the Horse Guards through an attack of gout.\n\n### OCCUPATION OF MONT AVRON.\n\nThe following movements in the Civil Service are announced in the Civilian to-day.\n\nThe Bank has been enabled to make large advances with very little strain upon the Reserve.\n\nThe principal changes in the Bank Return are: \n| Category | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Increase in Circulation | £4,307 |\n| Increase in Public Deposits | £50,180 |\n| Increase in Other Deposits | £1,291,753 |\n| Increase in Other Securities | £120,011 |\n| Decrease in Bullion | £23,738,086 |\n| Decrease in Reserve of Notes and Coin | £214,111 |\n\nThe Stock Markets are firm, but quiet.\n\nConsols are unaltered, at 91 1/8 to 91 3/8.\n\nForeign Stocks are firmer.\n\nRailway Shares are quiet.\n\nThe new halfpenny post has necessitated a large addition to the staff of the Circulation branch of the Post Office.\n\nA MAN named John Carlyle was tried before Lord Cowan in the Glasgow Circuit Court yesterday for the murder of Derwent Hughes.\n\nThe jury returned a verdict of culpable homicide, but recommended the prisoner to the leniency of the Court.\n\n### THE TRADE OF 1870.\n\nThe year is drawing to an end, and we are now in possession of the statistics prepared by the Board of Trade.\n\nWith regard to our import trade, we find that last month the number was much larger than in the corresponding period of the previous year.\n\nOur imports of wheat were very low, amounting to only 201,720 qrs.\n\nThe supplies of bacon and ham have greatly fallen off.\n\nThe import of cotton has slackened.\n\nThe import of wool is coming in slowly in increasing quantities.\n\nThe official Prussian Moniteur de Sains et Crais, published at Versailles, says that the Bordeaux Government is disposed to conclude peace with Germany.\n\nThe reply of the Austrian Government to the last despatch of Count Beust was delivered yesterday in Paris.\n\nThe Admiralty has ordered modifications in the rig of the Iron Dukes.\n\nWe regret to announce the death of Mr. Philip Hardwick, who was the architect and designer of the new hall and library of the Goldsmiths' Company.\n\nThe attank consists of two 25-ton 18-ton guns.\n\nGeneral Faidherbe's head-quarters were yesterday at Bapaume.\n\nA telegram from Versailles says that on the 30th the Army resumed the siege of Péronne.\n\nReprisals are now the order of the day among the French troops in the east.\n\nA correspondent from the region of Saône-et-Loire says that two Francs-Tireurs have been hung by the Prussians.\n\nSIR J. Neeld, Bart., has presented the Rev. Charles Ward to the rectory of Churchstow.\n\nMARSHAL PRIM, according to a Madrid telegram, is recovering from his wounds.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-154 - Public Offices - 1871.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288833, "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": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "808\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nmeans we do not know. Why it is so we do not know. It behoves the Government to know whether any persons are engaged in introducing a false lead currency, depreciating the coin it has issued, and making endless trouble and anxiety to the masses of the poor people to take effective measures to protect the value of its currency to terrify forgers and prevent the issue of any currency that will destroy its credit and the value of its coin,\n\nThe province of Bahang was originally a Laotian region. During the wars with the Laos the Siamese conquered this region, and eventually placed over it a Siamese governor. It is now regarded as Siamese territory, and is the extreme limit of Siam proper on the north-west. Rahang on the west joins British Burmah; on the north it joins several Laotian provinces that are again subject to Chienguai. Chiengmai is a Laotian province, and is still governed by Laotian princes. His Majesty the King of Siam usually concurs in appointing the successor of any Chiengmai Laotian prince who may have deceased. Persons who may be obnoxious to the laws of Siam often escape to Chiengmai, and while there the Siamese do not usually succeed in gaining possession of their persons. Is Chiengmai a conquered province? Is it tributary to Siam, and to what extent; or is it simply under the protection of Siam, as was Cambodia? All these are questions full of interest.\n\nIt is said that Messrs. Vrooman and Culbertson made the distance from Bangkok to Rahang in twenty-two days. Last week the Rev. Mr. Culbertson returned from Rahiang to Bangkok in four days. This is very rapid travelling by the boats usually employed for such purposes.\n\nBORNEO.\n\nSARAWAK.\n\nWe learn from the Sarawak Gazette that the Qhop Estate and other property of Baroness Coutts, at Lundu, was sold by public auction on the 19th September, realising about $1,500. The house and plantations at Tanah Puteh were bought for $800 by Ken What, a Chinese merchant in the Bazaar, who intends to present a large piece of ground to his countrymen for a public burying-place, and keep up the house for the accommodation of pleasure seekers from Kuching.\n\nThe steamer Firefly, formerly the yacht belonging to the Honourable the Resident of Sarawak, is to run in the Rejang river, between Sibu, Kanowit, Matu, and Rejang, a run of rather more than one hundred miles.\n\n[Nov. 18, 1872\n\n4. The actual excess of revenue over expenditure for the year 1871 was $151,592.\n\n5. The sub-committee think this Supply Bill may be at once explored.\n\n(Signed)\n\nJ. W. W. BIRCH.\n\nJ. J. GREENSHIELDS.\n\nT. SHELFORD.\n\nThe Government, with a view to the public convenience, has procured a considerable quantity of silver and copper small coin, which the Treasury obligingly issues at par. The Kling money-changers, however, are turning this to account, by drawing coin from the Treasury, for which they charge 2 per cent. on issuing it in the square and elsewhere, persistently refusing to abate a single pie, on the ground that small change is very scarce. Even Chinese shopkeepers demand 1 per cent. It would be a boon to every chief if a plan were devised whereby this annoying imposition might be avoided.\n\nThe state of affairs in Deli is thus sketched in the Batavia Handelsblad. The reports as to how matters stand in Deli are far from favourable. The troops suffer much from sickness, above all from fevers, and as we have said before from diarrhoea and swollen feet. If the Hill Battas make common cause with the enemy, the situation will become an untenable one. As to the bentings, we are informed that they call forth admiration as well by their position as by their plan and strength. Without suspecting it, one finds one's self sometimes suddenly opposite a benting barely fifty paces off. These bentings are so built that grenades scarcely do any harm; by means of a thick bamboo covering, they have been made shell-proof. It will be seen that our brave troops have a hard task before them.\n\nA writer in the Straits Times says: In the eighth paragraph of the Governor's Minute on the sale of the land in connection with the building and repairing of the markets, laid before the Legislative Council on Sept. 26 last, his Excellency reports that at Malacca about 8,000 square feet of land near the Tron Bridge had been sold for $5,000, which sum is to be appropriated for the erection of a commodious market; I was at the spot very shortly after the sale, and was surprised to learn that a plot of land, containing, in my opinion, more than 8,000 square feet, adjoining the plot sold by Sir Harry Ord, had been given to a rich Chinese at Malacca by the Government for his sole use and benefit. The fortunate recipient of this noble gift has erected a block of substantial shops on the site, which is likely to yield a rental of $90 per mensem at least. It appears to me very desirable that the public should be informed upon what grounds such valuable public property has been given to a private individual. A commission is needed to inquire into, and report fully upon, the whole of the circumstances connected with this singular transaction, for which Sir Harry Ord is not responsible--the gift having been made, I believe, under the auspices of Capt. Shaw, the Lieut.-Governor, and Colonel Anson whilst officiating as Governor.\n\nWe cull the following items of News from the Penang Argus: Mr. Baumgarten, the Registrar of the Supreme Court here, is about to retire on a pension, and is to be succeeded by Mr. Bradford from Penang, Mr. Harvey taking the latter's post. Colonel Anson will be back from home by February next. The Government have extended the term of service in the Straits to enable him to carry out the Judicial changes which are forthcoming. Recent failures in Singapore tot up to $700,000, the Chetties suffering to the extent of $450,000.\n\nThe Sarawak Sugar Company's creditors have held a meeting in the Court House, when a first and final dividend of 0 per cent. was declared.\n\nThe Government advertise that the coal seams of Simonjan in the Sudong river and Silantek in the Batang Lapar, about four to five feet thick, may be worked by an individual or company on a payment of ten cents per ton brought to grass. The Simunjan seams are about 34 miles from a navigable river, and the Silantek seams are close to a small stream navigable for boats only, and about twelve miles from a large navigable river. The Governor has applied for a further extension of his offer. The Government offers a free passage by the S.S. Royalist from and back to Singapore to any person desirous of examining the seams.\n\nGovernment proposes to erect suitable building for a Sanatarium on one of the minor peaks of the Matang mountain, if there is any prospect of invalids availing themselves of such a locality. Dr. Houghton specifies the following advantages:-A S.E. aspect, temperature ranging from 66 deg. to 88 deg., abundance of excellent water, perfect accessibility from Kuching by water, a magnificent view over Sarawak, Lundu, Sudong, &c., and a gentle ascent from the foot of the mountain, admitting of invalids being carried up in chairs by coolies, always obtainable from the Rajah's Coffee plantation, through which the road passes.\n\nSTRAITS SETTLEMENTS.\n\nSINGAPORE.\n\nThe dates by this mail extend to the 13th Oct. No later mail had been received from London.\n\nCommercial Report.\n\n(For dates see first page.)\n\nIMPORTS.\n\nYOKOHAMA. There had been a good demand for Grey Shirtings and prices showed an improvement; sales had been on a good scale, and the market at the close was firm, especially for the heavier weights. Cotton Yarn had not met with so much inquiry, and prices were scarcely so high as those last quoted. Mousselines were lower, and with the exception of Black Velvets and Lastings, which were in good demand, there had been no particular change in other Woollen fabrics. Quotations:-Grey Shirtings, 7 lbs., $2.30 to 2.35 per piece; 8 to 8 lbs., $2.62 to 2.57; 9 lbs., $2.95 to 3. Cotton Yarn, No. 18 to 24, $40.50 to 42 per picul; Nos. 28 to 32, $47.25 to 48.25; Nos. 38 to 42, $45 to 48.\n\nHIOGO-OSAKA. Cotton Yarn: A fair amount of business had been done, and a good demand continued for Nos. 28/32. Nos. 1/24 were saleable, but owing to heavy stocks, prices were weak. Nos. 38/42 neglected. Grey Shirtings: The market showed some weakness during part of the month, and prices declined about 2c. per piece; they had since recovered, however, and closed firm. Taffachelas, Turkey Reds, and Velvets, in good demand; other Cottons more or less neglected.\n\nThe sub-committee appointed to consider the Second Supplementary Supply Bill for 1871, having examined the statements framed by the Auditor-General and published in the Blue-book of 1871, and which are separately laid before Council to-day, beg to report as follows:-\n\n1. This Supply Bill appears necessary to cover the only expenditure which exceeds the items provided for in the estimates and supplementary estimates of 1871.\n\n2. The sub-committee desire, however, to call the attention of the Council to the fact that the revenue for 1871 showed a net increase over that of 1870 of $26,055, and the expenditure a net decrease of $5,264.\n\n3. The actual revenue, as compared with the estimates for the year, showed an excess of $40,111—and while the expenditure was estimated at $1,870,006, it proved to be only $1,244,111, thus showing a net saving of $121,895.\n\nTo some extent\n\n204\n\n809\n\nwhich, with a sprinkling of Fychows, turned the bulk of the settlements. Only two or three chops of Pingsang had found buyers. The market remained quiet but firm.\n\nFoochow-Business during the week had been on a moderate scale and there had been no alteration in prices. No transactions had taken place in Oolongs. Congou: Settlements 12,732 chests at Tls. 5 to Tls. 20. The bulk of the transactions had been in Teas costing between Tls. 15 to Tls. 18, and the greater part was intended for the Continent. Settlements for England had been small. Arrivals, 18,750 chests. Souchong: 1,075 chests taken at Tls. 15% to Tls. 27. Arrivals, 700 chests. Oolongs: Owing to the continued firmness of holders no transactions had taken place. Arrivals, 4,950 half-chests. Scented Teas Settlements, 1,470 boxes at Tls. 17 to Tls. 20.4. Arrivals, 2,000 boxes. Flowery Pekoes: Settled 86 chests at Tls. 27. Arrivals, 150 chests.\n\nTIENTSIN. There had been a slight improvement at this port, not only were the waters on the plains no higher, but the dealers had made some small profit on their late purchases of Drills, Jeans, and common T-Cloths. Black Lastings and Velvets had been in some request, but Grey and White Shirtings were dull of sale, and rates unremunerative.\n\nHANKOW. Settling day had passed satisfactorily, but the subsequent improved demand previously looked for had not been realised. Holders were disposed to accept lower rates for all Cotton Goods. Of Woollens: Camlets was the only fabric wanted, but this article was scarce and H.D.B., of good assortment, had been placed at Tls. 16.40 per piece, to extent of 300 pieces. Lead: L.B. was quoted Tls. 1.60 to 4.65 per picul, but business had been very slack.\n\nSHANGHAI. The enquiry for Plain Cottons had continued, but the result, so far, had been unimportant, and had fallen far short of the business usually passing at this season of the year. Buyers had been deterred from operating in Shirtings and T-Cloths at all events as freely as they wished, by the quantities of goods forced upon them, and the consequent declining tendency of prices.\n\nGrey Shirtings: 7-lb. Grey Shirtings in fair demand and scarce, 8lbs. in good enquiry but easier; 7 lbs. Tls. 1.65 to 1.67; 8 lbs. Tls. 1.77 to 1.79 for Mildews; and Tls. 1.78 to 1.88 for sound common to best ordinary; Dewhurst's Eagle chop, Tls. 1.88. White Shirtings: 66-reed, Tls. 2.00; 60-reed, Tls. 1.80; lowest counts, Tls. 1.50. T-Cloths: Fair sales, but anxiety to realise had caused a further fall in value. Common 6 lb. Tls. 1.13 to 1.15; Dewhurst's T. quality Tls. 1.32; Mexican qualities, Tls. 1.45 to 1.52. A sale of 8lbs. Dewhurst's M.T., Tls. 1.72. Drills and Jeans: Both commanded a ready market at quotations; 13 lbs. to 15 lbs. Dutch and English Drills, Tls. 3.2 to 3.15; Jeans, Tls. 2.5 to 2.12 for English, Tls. 2.27 for 8 lbs. Dutch. Fancy Cottons: Chintzes, assorted, Tls. 1.41 to 1.60; Gentian Shirtings, Tls. 2.60; best Turkey Reds, Woollens: Tls. 2.60 per piece; other articles altogether neglected. Market dull; Camlets, Tls. 16 to 15. Other goods had received no notice. Metals: Scarcely anything doing.\n\nHONG KONG. The demand for Raw Cotton had strengthened with the approach of cool weather, and fair sales were being made at slightly better prices. Yarns were very little inquired for, and Nos. 16/24 and 28/32 could only be placed at lower rates. Drills only were in demand, and these were wanted at better values. In Woollens, Blankets had declined. All kinds of tin were slow of sale. Tin Plates were $1 per box lower. Quicksilver was steady. Rice had been in some demand for shipment to Swatow, but at the close the market was quiet at former quotations.\n\nFoochow. Sales had been effected of 1,000 pieces 8 lbs. Grey Shirtings at $2.77; 2,500 pieces 7 lbs. T-Cloths at $2.05 to 2.85; and 400 pieces 8 lbs. T-Cloths at $3.75.\n\nSAIGON. Although stocks were rather moderate, sales, with the exception of 6 lbs. T-Cloth could only be effected at reduced rates. Quotations: 8 lbs. Grey Shirtings, $2.62 per piece; 7 lbs., $2.20; 6 lbs. T-Cloth, $1.70; 5 lbs., $1.42; 4 lbs., $1.25; 4 lbs., $1.10.\n\nEXPORTS.\n\nTEA.\n\nYOKOHAMA. The amount of business done had about been on a par with that previously noted; settlements, chiefly of the medium grades, amounted to about 8,000 piculs, and had been made at gradually advancing prices, the market closing at fully $2 to 3 over last quotations for all except the finer grades, which remained as last stated. The quality had been fair; there was still a marked absence of common leaf, anything below medium being of very inferior quality. Supplies had been meagre, and stocks were reduced. The export had been as follows: Per P.M.S.S. Co.'s steamer China, to New York, 189,010 lbs.; to Chicago, 42,065 lbs.; to Boston, 6,100 lbs.; to San Francisco, 100,934 lbs.; per Emulation, for New York, 500,795 lbs.; per Etta Loring, for New York, 206,761 lbs.; per Leander, for New York, 707,702 lbs.; per Emma Augusta, for San Francisco, about 200,000 lbs.; and per Ceylon, for New York, 445,000 lbs. Including these two latter cargoes and that of the outgoing steamer, the export would be nearly two million pounds in excess of that of last season at the same date. Quotations:-Common, $5 to 28 per picul; good common, $20 to 31; medium $33 to 36; good medium, $37 to 40; fine, $41 to 43; finest, $44 to 47; choice, $50 and upwards.\n\nHIOGO-OSAKA A fairly active business had been transacted. Prices at the commencement of the month to within a few days of the close were easier, but owing to large purchases having been made, a hardening tendency was apparent at the close for all grades. Low grades were still scarce and dear. Settlements for the month from 15th Aug- were returned at 5,500 piculs, making a total of 26,000 piculs for the season, against 16,000 piculs for the corresponding period last year. Stocks were estimated at 5,000 piculs. The Caller On was loading for New York, and the Engelbert would take about 75 tons to San Francisco. The Jessie Isabel was about to sail for New York, with 293,064 lbs. Quotations Common, $16 to 20 per picul; good common, $21 to 25; medium, $26 to 30; good medium, $31 to 35; fine, $36 to 40; finest, $42 to 46; choice, $48 to 53; choicest, $54 and upwards.\n\nHANKOW. More business and a general advance of Tls. 1 per picul was reported. Settlements and reshipments for the week about 11,000 chests, Stock 3,300 packages, against about 1,400 last year.\n\nExport to date 51,000,000 lbs., against 53,000,000 lbs. last year at same time. Exchange, 6 m.s. Credit paper had advanced to 8.5 per tael, and the rates on Shanghai had risen to 3 per cent. for sight drafts and 3¾ per cent. for 10 days' paper.\n\nSHANGHAI. Black: The business in Congous had been unimportant, but former rates had been fairly supported by the extreme firmness of holders. Settlements for the week, 5,489 chests, at Tls. 14.50 to 30 per picul; stock, 29,120 chests, Green: No feature worthy of any special comment had presented itself; a little more had been done since exchange weakened. Attention had chiefly been turned to Moyanes.\n\nAMOY. Only about 1,000 half-chests of Ooloongs had been settled, and buyers were not operating owing to the uncertainty about the course of the exchange market. Tea-men were anxious to sell, but would not make a sufficient concession to counterbalance the advance in exchange. The steamship Teviot had sailed for New York with about 3,000 half-chests Amoy Ooloongs; the steamship Surprise was expected, and the Anglo-Saxon was the only vessel on the berth for that destination. Arrivals of Ooloongs to date, 174,916 half-chests: settlements 158,813, and stock 16,103 half-chests.\n\nCANTON. There had been but little inquiry for any descriptions, and the market had continued very quiet.\n\nSILK.\n\nYOKOHAMA. The market had continued to be fairly active, and a good business had been done, settlements amounting to about 1,800 bales, Hanks sorts as usual forming the bulk. Prices for both Hanks and Oshus (with the exception of Hamatskis which showed a still further decline) had advanced about $20 per picul. Quotations:-Hanks, Mybash and Sinchu, extra 32s. 6d., best 30s. 3¼d. to 31s. 0d., medium 28s. to 29s. 6d., inferior 24s. 6d. to 27s. 3d.; Oshu, extra 32s. 6d., best 31s. 6d. to 31s. 3d., medium 28s. 9d. to 29s. 10d., inferior 27s. 3d. to 28s.; Hamatski, medium 26s. 6d. to 27s. 6d.; Coshu, best 28s. 0d., medium 24s. 3d. to 26s. 7. Silk Worms' Eggs: Total arrivals to date about 750,000 cards, and settlements estimated at 450,900 cards; prices for green annuals quoted as follows- Best $8 to 9.75 per candil, good $2.50 to 3, medium $2 to 2.50, inferior $1.75 to 2; white annuals were worth $3 to 3.90 per card.\n\nSHANGHAI. At the close of last mail a considerable business was done, and buying had continued, partly stimulated by a lower exchange, and about 1,700 bales had found buyers at prices varying very little from those given in our last report. Good Silk had been steady and in fair demand, while common descriptions were neglected and declining. Tsatlee Market nearly cleared of Chop Silk, as also of good medium sorts, and in some instances contracts had been made for delivery of these latter for next mail. Hangchow: Sellers of medium at Tls. 400 to 465, but no buyers. Hainings: In consequence of the absence of demand for Raw Hainings last season, the bulk of the crop had this year been re-reeled. Export of Raw Haining little over 200 bales Stock of 1,100 bales last year, and holders of good Silks very firm. 250 bales included 100 bales of Fatmow's chop, which were held for Tls. 520 for No. 9 Taysaam: No settlements of Kaling reported. No. 3 to 3 Chincum bought at Tls. 400, Shaouhing at Tls. 380, and ordinary Laeyang at Tls. 345. Re-reeled: Fair Haining Tls. 500 to 570, medium offering at Tls. 510 to 550, Tsatlee still in over-supply, and prices weak.\n\nCANTON. Little or no change had taken place, and inactivity had prevailed. Prices were slightly easier, but no actual reduction had been made. The fifth crop, which continued to arrive, was of very poor quality--flabby but dry. The sixth crop, it was reported, will be no larger than the fifth, cold winds, which had come earlier than usual, having damaged the mulberry trees. The high rate of exchange and discouraging news from home still kept buyers out of the market, and in consequence the settlements were very small--under 50 bales; the present mail would, however, take forward some 300 bales of previous settlements. Stock, 2,000 bales Tsatlee, and with the sixth Crop and remainder of the fifth at least 3,500 bales more would be offered on the market this season. Several contracts for Rereels had been entered into, but for cargo ready for shipment there was no demand; some dealers were keeping back their stocks on the strength of the inferiority of the crops to arrive.\n\nThe Messageries Maritimes Co's steamer Pello, with the present inward French mail, arrived at Marseilles on the 12th inst. at eight A.M. She brings 68 passengers, 1,014 bales of silk, 1,912 packages tea, 309 packages copper, 1,868 bales tobacco, and 340 packages sundries for London. The cargo will be forwarded to London by the Company's steamer Copernic, and may be expected here about the 26th inst.\n\nBIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.\n\nBIRTHS.\n\nALLEN-On the 10th Nov, at Singapore, Straits Settlements, the wife of Willworth Allen, Esq., of a daughter.\n\nBADGE-On the 20th Sept., at Hiogo, the wife of G. Badge, Esq., of a son.\n\nBOWRING-On the 10th Nov., at Torquay, the wife of Lewin B. Bowring, Esq., C.S.I., of a son.\n\nGERNON-On the 20th Sept., at Singapore, the wife of P. Gernon, of a son.\n\nGILLILAN-On the 4th Nov., at 4, Lyndhurst-road, Hampstead, Mrs. S. Gillilan, of a daughter.\n\nGRABHAM-On the 19th Sept., at her residence, Bangkok, Siam, Mrs. Graham, wife of Geo. G. Grabham, of a son.\n\nNOETZLI-On the 25th Sept., at Foochow, the wife of O. Noetzli, Imperial Maritime Customs, of a son.\n\nSWINHOE-On the 28th Sept., at the British Consulate, Ningpo, China, the wife of Robert Swinhoe, Esq., of a son.\n\nDEATHS.\n\nMACCAUGHEY-On the 6th Nov., at Akeley Wood, Backs, Hugh Wade Maccaughey, late of Wimbledon and Marine-parade, Brighton, in his 75th year.\n\nSOUCHAY-On the 11th Nov., at Withington House, Manchester, Charles Isaac Souchay, aged 78.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 288834, "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": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "page_number": 207, "title": "CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12]", "content_text": "810\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\nSUANGHAI SILK SHIPPERS, From 1st June to 28th Sept., 1879,\n\nAdantson, Bell, and Co. Balfour, Butler and Co. Barnet and Co. Birt and Co. \nBirley, Worthington, & Co. Bain and Co. \nBower, Hanbury and Co.... Bourjau, Hubener, and Co. \nBovet, Brothers and Co. ... Bull, Purdon and Co. Butterfeld and Swire \nChapman, King and Co. \nCoutts and Co. \nDent and Co. \nDickinson and Co. \nEssex and Co. \nFindlay, Wade and Co. \nFogg and Co. \nGamwell, F. R. \nGibb, Livingston, and Co..... Gilman and Co.\n\nBales.\n\n352 Jardine, Matheson, and Co. 276 Jarvie, John, and Co. \n57 Skeggs, C. J. and Co.\n\nTEA CARGOES AFLOAT.\n\nBales.\n\n[Nov, 18, 1872]\n\nShipping Intelligence.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nAt YOKOHAMA.—From London, Sept. 23, Florence Nightingale.\n\nAt SHANGHAI.—From London, Sept. 25, Foutenaye; from Swansea, 23, Daylight; from Liverpool, Nov. 10, Agamemnon (str.); from Cardiff, Whinfel; from Southampton. Deccan (str.).\n\nAt HONG KONG and CANTON.—From London, Oct. 1, Golconda (str.), James Vinicombe; from Callao, Emigrante; from Boston, 4, Europa.\n\nAt SINGAPORE.—From Liverpool, Oct. 11, Agamemnon (str.); from Glasgow, 7. Saltes (str.); from Sunderland, 8, Stanley; from Hamburg, 11, Harmonia.\n\nDEPARTURES.\n\nFrom YOKOHAMA.—For London, Sept. 7, Audax; for New York, 16, Emulation; 18, Etta Loring; 23, Leander; 30, Ceylon.\n\nFrom HONG KONG.—For London, Sept. 15, Penrith; for New York, 18, Jessie Isabel.\n\nFrom SHANGHAI.—For London, Sept. 21, Priam (str.), Woodlark; From Foochow.—For London, Sept. 29, Zibu; Oct. 1, Eme.\n\nFrom HONG KONG and CANTON.—For Falmouth, Oct. 2, Hermine.\n\nFrom SINGAPORE.—For London, Oct 4, Eleanor; Nov. 12, Hector (str.).\n\nSHIPPING POSTSCRIPT.\n\nDEPARTURES.—Nov. 14, from London, for Yokohama and Hiego, Glamorganshire; 13, from Cardiff, for Singapore, Proserpine; 14, Massimo d'Azeglis, Elizabeth Child.\n\nLAID ON.—At London, for Shanghai, Carmarthenshire.\n\nSPOKEN.—Esperance, Newport to Hong Kong, Aug. 12, 33 S., 25 W. Franklin, Batavia to London, Sept. 28, 20 S., 60 E. N. C. D. H. (Amicizia, Italian three-mast schooner), Cardiff to Ceylon, Sept. 29, 16 S., 29 W.\n\nLEGAL.\n\nJUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.\n\nHART V. VON GUMPACHI.\n\nThis appeal from Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan came on for hearing, and presented some remarkable features. The appellant is a British subject, and occupies an important position in the service of the Emperor of China as inspector-general of customs.\n\nThe respondent is a naturalised British subject, and is an astronomer and mathematician. Both met in London in August, 1866, and it was alleged that Hart represented to Von Gumpach that he was entrusted with the formation of a college and observatory at Peking, which college was to be an institution for the teaching to the Chinese of Western sciences and learning, \"with a view to the regeneration of China,\" and that he was to procure a library and appoint professors.\n\nIn consequence of these alleged representations, Von Gumpach went to China, and his salary was to be £600 a year. He alleged that there was no such institution, and that he was willing to discharge the duties of his appointment.\n\nHe alleged that Hart represented to the Tsang-li Yamen, or Foreign Board, that he had absented himself, and he received an intimation from the Chinese Government that his services were no longer required; and since the 30th September, 1868, he had been unable to obtain any salary.\n\nHe brought his action against Hart in Her Majesty's Court, and claimed £3,000 as compensation besides his salary.\n\nThe cause was tried before a jury, and they gave £1,800 as damages and 176 taels for money payable to Von Gumpach.\n\nThere had been a demurrer and further litigation, and one point urged for the present appellant was that these were privileged communications from him as to the office he held under the Chinese Government.\n\nThe Court, after further litigation, decided in favour of the plaintiff (the present respondent), and the defendant (the present appellant) has obtained special leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council.\n\nHe denied the alleged misrepresentations, and stated that the Court at Peking had found in his favour as to the representations, and gave damages to Von Gumpach for the loss of his situation, and for money due on account stated.\n\nHe appealed on several grounds—that the verdict was against evidence, on misdirection, and on the privileged communications.\n\nSir John Karslake, Q.C, with whom was Mr. F. Herschell (instructed by Messrs. Murray and Hutchins), appeared for the appellant; Mr. Benjamin, Q.C., and Mr. Myburgh (instructed by Messrs. Brooks and Co., of Doctors' Commons) were for the respondent, the plaintiff in the original action.\n\nMr. Benjamin discussed the several points. He urged that the appellant was liable to the respondent for the wrongs he had committed against him.\n\nThe Chinese Government had not adopted the acts of the appellant as their servant, and therefore it was not an Act of State.\n\nIt was idle for the appellant to say that what he did was by order of the Chinese Government, and that, therefore, he was not amenable to the laws in Her Majesty's Court for China and Japan.\n\nHe cited various authorities in support of his contentions that unless a Government adopted the acts of their servant, the servant was liable, and could not shield himself under the authority of an Act of State and justify the wrong he had committed.\n\nFurther, the learned counsel submitted that Her Majesty's Treaty with the Emperor of China gave all British subjects a right to resort to the Supreme Court for redress; and it was no answer for the appellant (the original defendant) to say what he had done was as servant of the Emperor when malice was alleged against him.\n\nThe question of privilege would not go to such an extent as to shield a man from false representations, and none of the cases cited would support the points raised by the other side.\n\nMr. Myburgh followed on the same side.\n\nSir John, in reply, cited several cases in support of the view he had submitted—namely, that the original action could not be maintained, and that the demurrer ought to have been allowed.\n\nIt was not an action between two British subjects, as was contemplated by the Treaty, but an action against a Minister of China for an act done as such Minister.\n\nBoth parties had been in the service of the Emperor, and the reports made by Mr. Hart were privileged communications, and it was not by merely alleging malice that the protection extended to such documents was to be removed.\n\nThe matter was of importance, and he asked their Lordships to allow the appeal.\n\nSir Montagu Smith, on the conclusion of the arguments, announced that their Lordships would take time to consider their judgment.\n\nCOURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.\n\nIONIDES V. PENDER.\n\nThis was a case (tried last term) of some mercantile importance as to marine insurance, especially with reference to over-insurance.\n\nIt was an action on several policies of insurance, on goods, on profits, on charterparty, and of commission, amounting altogether to some thousands of pounds.\n\nThe defence set up was that there had been enormous over-insurance, and that the ship was not lost by perils of the seas, but had in reality been scuttled.\n\nThe policies were affected by a firm at Hamburg, who had chartered and loaded the ship for a commercial adventure to a port La Sineria.\n\nOn the voyage the vessel sprang a leak, and is making four inches water per hour in still water.\n\nCASUALTIES.—The Carolina (Spanish barque), from Manila to Cadiz, with tobacco, went a bore on Sandalwood Island. Sept. 15, but got off without damage, after remaining on the reef seven days.\n\nThe Hebe (ship, of Rotterdam. Meermans, from Batavia, to Rotterdam, put into Mauritius, Oct. 5, leaky, having encountered a very heavy N.E. to N.W., and S. W. gale Sept. 21st, in lat. 12 S., lon. 93 E., during which\n\nTHE LONDON AND CHINA TELEGRAPH.\n\n811\n\nNov. 18, 1872.\n\nMISCELLANEOUS.\n\nEXTRACTS FROM MEDHURST'S \"FOREIGNER IN FAR CATHAY.\"\n\nAfter what I wrote in my last letter of the negotiations between the commissioners of the two legislative bodies of this city having been broken off because they could not come to an agreement on the vexed question of the Bank Valuta, your readers will no doubt be greatly surprised to hear that, after all, the affair has been finally set at rest and disposed of by a compromise, both sides having given way to a certain extent.\n\nThe draft of the Bill sent by the Senate to the Burgerschaft, but rejected by them, served as a sufficient basis for a rapprochement, and as both parties were agreed in principle, and only differed on certain, though important, points, the door was again opened for discussion.\n\nAn abstract of the amended Bill as agreed to is as follows :--\n\nLaw for the Alteration of the Hamburg Bank Valuta.\n\nArt. 1. Closing of the Accounts based on Silver Bars.—The date is fixed for the 15th Feb., 1879, the Burgerschaft originally wishing it to take place within eight days, and the Senate inclined to keep them open for six months longer.\n\nAfter the above date the balances of accounts can only be repaid in silver bars.\n\nArt. 3. Denomination of Payments in the New Currency made through the Bank.—In all agreements and contracts where payment is stipulated to be made through the Bank, it is required to write after the amount the letters B.Z., which stands for Bank Zahlung, or Bank payment.\n\nI have dwelt thus much upon the characteristics of the servants employed by foreigners, not only to show how they fare in this particular, but because these servants are the only natives with whom the foreign merchant comes more immediately into contact.\n\nThe opinion prevalent at home that foreigners mingle in Chinese society generally is altogether a mistaken one.\n\nThe conventional rules of the Chinese are so constituted, and their habits of thought and customs so peculiar, that there is little or no encouragement to court acquaintance on either part, even were the entire ignorance of each other's language not to present a serious bar in the way of an interchange of ideas.\n\nThere is a class of Chinese brokers and middle men who haunt the offices of the merchants, but they are mostly shrewd, clever upstarts, whom the difficulties of interlingual communication have introduced into the trade, and, with rare exceptions, they lay no claim to respectability even with the Chinese themselves.\n\nThe language employed between these brokers and the merchants is a jargon made up of English, Portuguese, Chinese, and Malay words, tortured into unrecognizable shapes and constructions, and it is little fitted to sustain any conversation beyond what appertains to the mere technicalities of trade.\n\nI have frequently expressed to our merchants the opinion that it is a pity they do not take the trouble to learn the Chinese language.\n\nIt is an acquirement in the spoken form to an extent sufficient for all practical purposes; offers no difficulties that an average intellect and a moderate share of determination cannot surmount, and familiarity with it would have the effect of freeing the foreigner from the domination of roguish brokers and compradores, at whose mercy he now lies, whilst it would open the way to a more extended acquaintance and friendly intercourse to the mutual advantage of both parties.\n\nThere is perhaps no country in the world frequented by the English-speaking race in which merchants are so lamentably ignorant of the customs and resources of the locality in which they live as they are at this moment in China, and this is entirely to be attributed to a want of familiarity with the language.\n\nTHE SUEZ CANAL.\n\nThe Suez Canal Company will continue to insist upon its recent advance of tolls, and declares that it will appeal to the decision of the Government.\n\nThe Ottoman Porte has protested, by order of the Sultan, against the competency of the Tribunal de Commerce de la Seine to interpret the Act of Concession of the Canal—a power which belongs to itself alone.\n\nThe Turkish Government also maintains that, the company being an Egyptian association, subject to the Ottoman jurisdiction, and having its headquarters at Alexandria, cannot admit a foreign jurisdiction in respect to its differences with third parties.\n\nThere is some idea of inviting the Marine Powers to hold a conference at Constantinople, in order to agree upon a uniform system for the measurement of tonnage.\n\nForeign Intelligence.\n\nGERMANY.\n\n(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)\n\nHAMBURG, Nov. 12.\n\nArt. 4. Belehnungen (or advances on deposits).—After the close of the silver accounts the Bank is authorised to receive as deposits the foreign coin hitherto accepted, as well as gold and silver bars, and credit the depositors for the amount in the new currency, according to the regulations drawn up by the administrators of the Bank and having been approved of by the Senate.\n\nArt. 5. Deferred fulfilment of obligations to pay in Banco.—After the closing of the silver accounts, all still outstanding engagements in Hamburg banco or in species banco, whatever may be the period of their origin and the nature of the claim, must be settled by Bank payment in Imperial gold coin, or in double or single silver thalers of German mintage, at the fixed rate of 150 marks new currency for 100 marks banco, with an agio of 18 per mille for species banco.\n\nBills of exchange falling due on the 15th of February, but not presented for payment till after that date, are to be calculated at the officially quoted price of silver on the day of their maturity.\n\nArt. 6. Transitory Regulations.—During the period of transition, viz., from the date of the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial currency till the 15th of May, 1873, creditors of the Bank may have the amount of their balance in Banco transferred, partly or entirely, to their account in the new currency at the fixed rate of 145 marks Imperial currency for 100 marks Banco, as such transfers are to be considered as Belehnungen, or advances on deposits.\n\nThe sum thus transferred may, at any time during the period of transition, be re-transferred to the silver account of the owner; but all such re-transfers must be made before the expiration of the period of transition, in default of which the Bank is authorised to realise the silver for account of the proprietor.\n\nDuring the period of transition only those who have paid in gold coin or silver thalers are at liberty to withdraw their balances in the same money.\n\nDuring the period of transition no charge will be made by the Bank on Imperial gold coin or silver thalers paid in or taken out.\n\nThe publication of this new law will take place in the course of this week, and the date to be fixed for the opening of the accounts in the new Imperial German currency is expected to be the 15th inst.\n\nBut this arrangement has no effect on cash payments made in Hamburg and Lubeck currency, which retain their value as hitherto, till a sufficiency of the new money is coined, which, as the minting operations proceed but slowly, may be deferred for two or three years longer.\n\nIt will be seen by the above that the Bergerschaft have abandoned one of the principal points on which they were at issue with the Senate, and that is that the loss sustained by the conversion of Banco into new currency, the agio on silver being at present rather more than one per cent. above par, should be borne by the State.\n\nAs it now stands everyone who has Banco will only get 150 marks new currency for every 100 marks Banco, and must bear the loss himself.\n\nThe sharp and somewhat bitter remarks made by certain organs of the press in England respecting the award of the Emperor of Germany in his capacity of Arbitrator in the Anglo-American dispute about the San Juan question have found a responsive echo at Berlin; and if these counter remarks have not been translated and reprinted in the English papers, it is perhaps owing to the editors remaining reticent, not to aggravate and increase the ill-feeling between the two countries.\n\nOne of your contemporaries says that the award is remarkable for being written in the German language, instead of the customary diplomatic French\" to which the Germans reply that this is an exploded idea, quite out of date; that the despatches of the German Government—railway companies have received instructions to discontinue, from December 1, the eddies hitherto praised to emigrants, of a reduction in the fares—amounting in some instances to 50 per cent.—and double allowance of luggage (100 lb. per head).\n\nThe number of emigrants that passed through this city to the end of October, 1871, is officially stated to be 37,324 persons, whilst at the same period this year it has risen to 65,151, and before the end of the year will no doubt have reached 80,000.\n\nDr. Hilgendorf, a native of this city, and formerly director of the Hamburg Zoological Gardens, and now professor at the Royal Polytechnic at Dresden, has received a call to go to Japan to prepare young natives for their subsequent studies of medicine at German universities.\n\nA considerable number of Japanese are now studying at Berlin, Leipzig, and Heidelberg.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-159 - Sir Kennedy - 1872 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 291214, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "page_number": 381, "title": "CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6]", "content_text": "7265-\n\n73\n\nCALCUTTA PRICE CURRENT AND MARKET REPORT,\n\nNo. CCCLX.]\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE BENGAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,\n\nCALCUTTA, WEDNESDAY, 12th MARCH, 1878.\n\nThe Mails--from London of 7th and 14th February were delivered in Calcutta on the 9th and 10th instant respectively; and our latest advices by telegraph are to 12-50 p.m. of yesterday.\n\nStock and Money Market--The rates for money at the Bank of Bengal remain the same; there is a fair demand.\n\nGOVERNMENT PAPER--In Government paper there is so much business doing and rates are tending downwards --\n\n4 per cent. s. 102 1/4\n\n1 x 20% 0\n\n04\n\n143 1/2 110\n\n103 1/4\n\n21\n\nExchange. In Exchange the bias for the mail has been small; rates are finally higher; Bank bills 1/4% to 1-9/17, and telegraphic transfers 7-11 to 7-13/16. On Bombay bills we are ruling at 1/8 per cent discount on demand, and 1/4 per cent at 30 days' sight. On China a small business has been done at 205/8 to 206/8 for 30 days sight.\n\nFreights have been ruling quiet during the fortnight, and there is no special change to report. There has been a full supply of steam tonnage on the berth, and as a result light freights have been rather easier. By the Cape round freights business is doing at former quotations and there are not many vessels offering. The enquiry for the United States is languid, but there has been some demand for steam to Bombay.\n\nCHARTERS.\n\nFor Penang--\"Corabuta,\" arrived on the 8th instant, we previously chartered in England so much cargo; for Brudeaturwa\" 1,845 tons, was at £3-12-6. For New York \"Abilios,\" 1,300 tons, iron, at $13 for 400 tons grain freight and $9 to $11 for 200 tons logs here or Singapore. For Havre--\"Horial,\" at £4. For Bombay Ste. \"Red Gauntlet\" to arrive, lin. 22 per bun alt. out.\n\nENGAGEMENTS.\n\nFor London via Suez Canal--Str. \"C. Boreman,\" 800 tons Jute at £9-7-6; \"Malwa,\" to arrive, 800 to 400 tons Jute at £3 7-6, 160 tons Rice £3-0-0: for less and Lucas--Str. \"Colono,\" to arrive, 500 tons Hides or Cotton, at £3-10 to £5-18-6. For Rio de Janeiro via the Cape.--\"Sita,\" 203 tons Jute at £2-12-6, 6 tons Rice at £2-13, 33 tons Cotton, at £8-15/- to £9. For Calcutta and Nagpore, our 500 tons Cotton at £3-17-6. For Liverpool \"Edward Parry,\" 369 bales Cotton at £8-19-6, 390 to discharge.\n\nIMPORTS--There is fair general demand as has been experienced for almost all piece goods, grey and bleached, the past fortnight, and it has been on a fair average sale for the season.\n\nSTOCKS.\n\nGOVERNMENT SECURITIES,\n\nSelling Prices\n\n10 1/2 14\n\nper cent. tony's.. .. 100 .351 1703\n\nof 151\n\nwww\n\n-\n\n1944.M\n\n11\n\n-\n\n2014\n\n4. Hundreds of 510.1111\n\nPeaya! Doel Su\n\n323\n\n10\n\nM\n\n24%\n\n3 900\n\n29\n\nA009, 1, 197\n\n1.00\n\n280\n\n172 173\n\nBANK RATES AND BULLION.\n\nBANK OF BENGAL RATES\n\nPromissory Notes.\n\nAbout 30 days.\n\nOn Private Bills. 7 per cent\n\nPratts and a grouped\n\nby by JA\n\nf\n\nGreen Accounts1\n\nMur Costicates\n\nium Destined t\n\nTATALE,7\n\ntretment *1\n\nOu Vinut care a Deposit:\n\nIr d\n\nway Euras\n\n10. 50, Goods\n\nWhen ve dnes.\n\next\n\nAhov 30 daya.\n\nCh Credits an 11 )\n\nof the Paper or u\n\nWhy State)\n\nBULLION.\n\n43\n\nGold, Aug. 21 parata 0 R 10 11 15 Jp a\n\ntains a 100 tuen, 151101\n\n15108 ver\n\n90 2001 Ausdoctor.. Caver, Trier. Dolls..\n\nTiso fa\n\n250 mest plum\n\nse Liam dudhiers\n\n993 4\n\npo\n\n&\n\n... E\n\n106,\n\n[Via Brindisi\n\nseason: sellers have enlarged to meet the off-take freely, and prices show a tendency to quote lower on off-shore basis but buyers generally are cautious and show symptoms of increasing when the \"Poonah\" holidays are over in a few days. The classes in chief request are Grey staples, and lately Malwa Shirtings, Jernings and Mulls have an increased inquiry. The light and heaviest classes of goods have, up to date, sold only slowly for the season and there is, comparatively speaking, no inquiry for many desirable tinted and Colored lots are out of stock, but retail sales of the latter like place from day to day for the Upper Provinces. All Tar is dull with a downward tendency: dealers having dated business in expectation of there being over shipments lately. The Arrivals in prices of cotton radiotectores on the Bombay side, in the too sluggish selling market for Raw Cotton, have given considerable support to importers being cautious and the moderate shipments reported at Madras also exercised a beneficial influence. Piece goods took their hand, however, presented more in value, and it is thought that it will require a continuance of the gay season's off-take for another fortnight before any good or Bartlett sheet is produced on the market. The liberal allowances to the interior the last three weeks do not appear to have stimulated to any extent in dealers' zagrla, and favorable inferences are being drawn from the fact that the retail enquiry is on the most extensive; but it grumbles stocks in first hands are lessened unusually, prices will probably recover very slowly as of late, and any heavy purchases Press the holders she, at the comparatively high prices ruling there, and on the late better market bars, are not unlikely to come in disappointingly.\n\nExports--Barity of Tonnage has interfered greatly with our export trade since last issue. Linseeds have experienced great fall lately, and the talones is still lower, as the news of very abundant crop seems to have in great measure checked home and foreign Rates, and late advices from there are very discouraging. Piece sales of medium Linwood Baggere are going on at 11a. 4-3 for 4 per cent of day and June delivery vitriol, price establishes a fall of 2 as per maand with a fortnight agreed--There is nothing doing for export; prices, however, are cash in a bank. Poppy--There is usually mind. Naports dem the interho are very satisfactory for the season --Telia -way Ettle doing and prinse my casier. Rice--The quality of late arrivals of Wudle is inferior, and the demand for ustida has been off. There is only a small inquiry for rough-rice and low Falls for Fondos at rather easier prices. In Yellow wrtz there is a fair business doing for the country itada. Arte--London stricte are very discouraging, and prices have undergone again a further selling. A large quantity of the old crop remains in the interior. Situation in good demand for Fradou at Rs 7-11 for par opt, price tion. The scarcity of Tonnage checks unstuese to a great extent. Lauly-ray etic doing at qumatore. Shelut--neglected, cavi prin ars lover. Sales of 20 chests } CHEN9 are reported or Ein, 6 and 70 charte A Bat Rs. 453 per mound. Hide--A good sing kos bean dove in Cow Hides for Great Britain, Continental Europe and America. Slaughtered bave advanced Rs. 3-6; other qualities remain altered. Que stock lins has reced lebay, Ter-Inaniuate, owing discouraging news few home, audible vary interior quality of the Tea too soning to viritet.\n\nde With Ads naber we publish the General Financial dinnen for 1879.\n\nEXCHANGE,\n\nFonal Park Latis, & in the 1-11} @\n\n-1-11 -2016 Bile with bipples Deer\n\ntag1 Mirst Class Craits 4 $1-11\n\nmother sight\n\nDa d\n\n3 lying the\n\nDILW - \",,,\n\nCouptele & Sout\n\nBu Seeking on Phoria at\n\n¿d vacathy\" eigti, Dret Ẩn.\n\nDa thors.\n\nFREIGHTS\n\nTO CON To Levere\n\n2. that a du\n\n1-11 3 1 0\n\n$290\n\nA\n\ni\n\n10 11\n\n3 ir 4\n\n188\n\nnosu\n\n100\n\nKen....\n\nnomina!\n\nPai Stimmer win baca Cunut,\n\n2-47, nota.\n\n2-532-52\n\nJo\n\n0 11 12 1 6 R ***.\n\n2-8, -1960, 52\n\nBilis no 30 Gaye' sigih, p. 225\n\nor 139\n\n-2 dager wirkt. cents. 63\n\nPer fer-\n\n- du .....\n\n.....694\n\nכן 4\n\n*\n\nTate 3,336 0\n\nW.20\n\n903\n\nIndigo\n\npete12176\n\nTO ORICA.\n\nTu\n\nLes port! noset.\n\nBalefce\n\n.\n\nBed\n\nCotton, perha\n\nFid.\n\n4.\n\ndis. Weight,\n\n1. Ga\n\n11\n\nT\n\n\"aica.\n\n, 1-11\n\nON RADILL\n\n3\n\nton,\n\nLoglise, per adult,\n\nBuge bill. 30 days”.................... DOŽ\n\n..........k ON BUMBUR Andante Pan's El per en1# 30 dager mykt\n\nأننات\n\n1 Arapia.\n\nHuber,\n\n20 595\n\nSheba.\n\nton\n\nit. Goude of the $18 su\n\nrab. it. fre avathi\n\nj\n\n377\n\nStong-Slong-\n\nWe\n\nthe\n\n119...\n\n17 May 1878-\n\nGovernot\n\nSir Arthur E. Stennedy\n\nK. bm G, CB!\n\nto\n\nThe Right Honorable\n\nThe Earl of Kimberley...\n\nHong Hong Convicts at the\n\nStraits Settlements.\n\nReports\n\non the claims.\n\n\"preferred by the Government\n\nIndia for cost\n\nmaintaining\n\nof\n\nBAMST HARBI, ZA\n\nWar of Regul Santau zag vakna 2,020,\n\nNational Ink CE (ZA\n\nAgta Cork Là, a Shade\n\n☆ komen Hack, Li, D\n\nIndin exery 2 2. Ca..\n\nFremrbboons Cello,\n\nfignitable fo\n\nFeeling any\n\nNury C. As Co., 1\n\nE. I. Euthway be, ktor\n\nIzatera Hengst Häkkwag s!0... Utfanta) (Vi\n\nFroprietors Capital, pandup\n\nKinsarvy Fund\n\nGeneral Breasury jobstura at Hand, Odize\n\npikka\n\nslide at Kwiacies\n\nWEEKLY RETURNS OF THE BANK OF BENGAL\n\nLIABILITZKa.\n\neth Art\n\nASNETS.\n\n130,00,05\n\nGermont Seice\n\nOlaer Pompomita ri Bevel Othne nad Meruch En Posk 1,40 buadricy\n\n15,907 Lines en Optereart Securities at Wood Often and Brushes 1.7262.977, 13 0 auto di Ezedik un 1971,70 47Merille Falls areantel at\n\nGRO\n\ndilto\n\n..\n\n--\n\nT\n\n23 19\n\n-L\n\n2875 Den with other Banks..\n\nBanditer Briti\n\n1-\n\n41\n\nCal and Curray Nude herd\n\n14\n\nI\n\nde and we lose at Branches\n\nValuado Co.'s 3]\n\ndessi\n\nKitabe\n\n1,80,700\n\nIMPORTA\n\nG\n\nESCOLTA,\n\n་\n\nVB\n\n4,7K25,776 14 2\n\n..\n\nIMPORTH AND EXPORTS OF GOLD AND SILVER COIN AND BULLION IN FEBRUARY 1873.\n\nArnet. Quinn. Fezana & Austerita Hangunarbo &\n\nHingapore. Comes Hyalovat.! Mannli\n\n4,15,114\n\n0,0%\n\n556\n\n10 10\n\ndia arch.\n\n3.12,31,352 18\n\n57.87,257\n\n1,1,35,:5,042 7\n\n12,946 00\n\n11,88, 12\n\n0213 11\n\n214,750 6 H\n\n£725,010 24t\n\nPugli\n\nAajah, Aremains\n\nútbor\n\nFivacy.\n\nFut\n\n150\n\n10.07.2\n\n12,141\n\n15.5$ 200\n\n22.\n\nالسلات واقل\n\n2.350 134,130\n\n33,62,30\n\n44.\n\nApes 201,600) Here been exported by Lior Majesty'u Garzmiwamul to Bangaayz.\n\nSHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.\n\nARRIVALS.\n\nBunt; WYRAY JCwe\n\n· Bazar.\n\nVERSELY\n\n· From winz Noer. llarta,\n\nBrivatitina\n\n--\n\n+ my are.\n\nLEPAKJUBES\n\nDATEN\n\nTube Tistave,\n\n가\n\nBra N. V\n\nMareeve\n\nKatastatur\n\nan, A. V.\n\nfat, . t.\n\nSavn, S. V.,\n\nAmer\n\n4 Hiudata, À VI\n\njy een,\n\nklodavery, V.\n\n7 Qusaradad. V.,\n\n2. 5. V.,\n\nla, & V.,\n\nPrancin\n\nity of canw,\n\n13 500 wor\n\nSombay,\n\ntong Kong.\n\nlag\n\nUr Jiverpoâ.\n\ntang-a-\n\nOne.\n\nB Payas.\n\nuitina\n\nR. Louis,\n\nFr. Bordeaux\n\nVale!\n\nFe 19 Pakin, V.\n\nAlbertiar\n\nRank\n\nistlastiqu Merena Azahtev..\n\nBrylow, Scofa, & v \"Karthe, 2. V.,\n\n& V.,\n\nlatina,\n\nikhla\n\nATEN, S. V., -\n\nTu what PORT..\n\nDavu\n\nBr.By Thyca.\n\n-Ft. saritius.\n\nBargetits\n\n...Br. Robay.\n\n[and\n\namorty\n\nloaden.\n\nVentes.\n\n$!#lol.\n\n1.\n\n- Na York.\n\nWindsor Gestio, S.V., „, Tom\n\nFenella, 2. Y.,\n\nLuxtar,\n\nIndon\n\nGeurier des Mer\n\nser rug\n\nBlade\n\nMadras, AS.\n\nreut, 9. V\n\nKour\n\n*Clears\n\n7 Duleeping,\n\nity of Mug\n\nJace Cowa\n\nThomano,\n\nRiver N\n\nfalf\n\nPartnb, 8, V.\n\n- Ne York\n\nnvy.\n\n\"Pataria Jadua burt maraž -.Kelbourne\n\n\"London.\n\n-New York,\n\nFranciera Lirornoel.\n\n-Indee.\n\nColumbo,\n\nБебчета,\n\nF THAT PART.\n\n(1 Enclosure: --)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-163 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292465, "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": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "page_number": 474, "title": "CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12]", "content_text": "# \n\nthe forecastle until the gale was over and the forecastle cleared. Witness knew nothing more of the gale after 2 am, on the 31st. He was thrown 80 yards by a heavy sea. His legs were injured and his head cut.\n\nTam Kuey, a Chinese passenger on board the Glenlyon, stated that he came from Malacca, where he had been for 19 years. Eleven others came with him. He had two boxes with him. He fastened them to the ring bolts on deck. The gale commenced on the 30th. He took refuge on the top of an iron house, from thence he looked after his boxes. He went down to the two seamen who were going forward, one having an axe and the other having his money, and some of the money got scattered about. The man with a large package pushed him down and got away, and witness could not save any of his money. He could recognise only one man and not the other. He heard that 40 men had been washed overboard; with his own eyes he saw only 10 washed overboard; one of his 11 friends died of exhaustion on arrival at Hongkong. This was when the anchor was first cast. He took the body ashore to be buried. On the 3rd, when off Green Island, he heard that a man jumped overboard. The 10 men were washed overboard because they could not hold fast. He was not allowed below. None of the 10 men were dead before being washed overboard. He tried to get below but was prevented. He did not see any Chinese going below. There were some women and children on board. After the gale was over, he asked these women where they had been, and they replied that they paid something for getting into some place. After the gale was over he saw one dead body thrown overboard. Witness had $1,000 of his own and about $200 of others' money. Witness was accustomed to go to sea, and he did not feel sea-sick this time. Witness had been trading in boats on the coast of Singapore for about ten years. When he was struggling with the seamen for his dollars, a sea came over, washing over them. He was not washed overboard because he held on to some iron. He believed there were 40 men washed overboard because it was rumoured so.\n\nCaptain Thomsett said if the rumour said 100, would he say 100?\n\nWitness replied that the people talked amongst themselves and said there were 40 washed overboard. A Fokien man went to the agents and obtained 280 passage tickets for all the men. He was not sure that the whole 280 tickets obtained by this Fokien man with a view to profit had been disposed of. He did not know how many landed at Hongkong. None of his friends went below during the gale.\n\nEdmund Frost, able seaman on board the Glenlyon, stated that he had been at sea for about 14 years. He was on board the Glenlyon on the 30th Oct. He was on deck during the whole of the gale, except an hour or so. He knew a good many Chinese were in the chart room.\n\nHe received $9 from the men in the chart room. He got it from them because he handed in their luggage which was lying outside the door. The money was handed to him, in fact he had no time to receive much more. Witness handed the money to be divided amongst the quarter masters. Witness had $7 for his share of letting the forecastle. He could only see two Chinese lay dead on deck; these were the deaths he knew of. He heard an outcry of some men having been overboard; this was from the engine room. He believed these were men round the engine room door, because the door was broken. He thought the two men whose bodies he saw on deck died from their luggage knocking against them; one was black and blue all over his body, and one was covered with blood. He heard an order passed along the deck to put the Chinamen where they would be in safety, and to clear the deck, or something to that effect. He saw no Chinaman jump overboard until they came into harbour.\n\nWong Sai Me stated that he was a passenger on board the Glenlyon. He had been in Singapore selling old clothes. The typhoon came on on the 30th; during the gale, at the height of it, he went on to the place around the funnel. His boxes were left on deck tied to some iron. Witness remained on the deck-house till the vessel's arrival in Hongkong. He saw three or four washed overboard. He saw one man jump overboard; he did not see any one killed during the gale. He did not see any dead bodies after the gale. Those washed overboard were alive at the time. On the morning of the 31st when he came down from the deck house, he missed his box. About 3 or 4 in the morning, two seamen came and wanted to remove his box; he called out to them not to remove it, as it belonged to him. They stopped and went away. In the morning he saw seaman walking aft with two packages which he recognised as containing money, and belonging to him. The red bag contained $650, and the white bag $600. He did not go below, for the sailors would not allow him. At the beginning of the gale some of the passengers couldn't hold on, and hired the room of the sailors.\n\nHe could not say whether there was yet room in the sailor's room to hold more, because he was not allowed to go in, and he could not see. The women hired some room from the sailors, he heard this. He heard a man speaking English bargaining the place for them, but he did not see any money paid. He saw the seamen take the women's boxes inside, and he concluded that they had paid money. A friend of his, who died before reaching Green Island, paid some money, and witness saw it.\n\nThe women got in about 11 am on the 30th, just before the gale commenced, but his friend paid after the women. During the gale they could get no water. He did not see any dead bodies on deck; they might have been thrown overboard before. $600 belonged to him and $650 belonged to friends of his, who entrusted it to him to deliver to their relations. The body of the man who died on the 4th after arrival was buried in Hongkong. All his party lost their money.\n\nThe Court was then adjourned till tomorrow the 14th, at 10 a.m.\n\n## MARINE COURT OF ENQUIRY.\n\n### S.S. \"GLENLYON\"\n\nThe Marine Court of Enquiry was resumed to-day, 14th inst., at the Marine Magistracy to enquire into the circumstances attending the loss of life on board the British steamer Glenlyon during her voyage from Singapore to Hongkong. The Court was composed of the Hon. C. May (first Police Magistrate); H. G. Thomsett, Esq., R. N. (Harbour Master); Henry Lowcock, Esq., (unofficial Justice of the Peace); R. H. Cairns, Esq., (Government Marine Surveyor); and Seth Doane, Esq., (Master Mariner and Commander of the S.S. Mikado).\n\nSum Aloi, a Hakka, stated that he embarked on board the steamer at Singapore. He had been living in Batavia for seven years. He had a box with him when he went on board, which he placed on some iron structure near the place where the stokehold was. Many men came with him from Batavia, but he knew none of them. On the 29th October, it came on to blow, and he could not stand. He went down into the stokehold taking his box with him, and placing it outside the door. When he first went down, he did not pay anything, but about 6 p.m. two men in the engine room took hold of him, and asked him for one dollar; witness did not pay, and they searched his purse, taking from him 18 coins similar to the one he now produced (24 guilder pieces). The coin produced was kept in his box. The men did not return him any of the coins. He remained below during the gale. Witness did not see any body washed overboard, as he was below all the while. He lost nothing from his box, which contained $47.45 and clothing.\n\nMr Lister said he had ascertained that of the 280 tickets, 25 had not been accounted for.\n\nCaptain Thomsett said that he could understand this; he learnt that some of the men who had taken passage in the Glenlyon would not go in her on account of her being so deeply laden, but came in the **B**indostan.\n\nChan Sun, a boatbuilder at Batavia, stated that he took passage in the Glenlyon from Singapore to Hongkong. He had his... \n\nPage 470", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-165 - Sir Kennedy - 1873 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 292704, "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": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "page_number": 134, "title": "CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873", "content_text": "## Treasury \n\nThe Treasury instructed to procure and forward a sufficient supply, and \"further supplies will be added and forwarded as they may be required\" was added. The rent follows Agents, in which Messrs Heating & Kny's name was imported into the correspondence. The Agents said (in a letter to the Treasury) that they had been informed by the Deputy Master of the Mint that the requirements of Imperial coinage prevented the Royal Mint undertaking the execution of the Straits Coinage during the next six months. They went on to say that they had contracted with Messrs Steaters for the coin required and requested that the punches might be sent down to Birmingham, which the Master of the Mint would not do without authority from the Treasury.\n\nThis appears to have been done without remark from their Lordships, and £14,000 worth of coin were sent out on 3rd July; on the 17th Sept, on receipt of Sir A. K.'s telegram (8966), the Agents were authorized to comply with the request for a further supply (8789). Sir A. K.'s telegram was further stated in the despatch, and it was stated that a 3rd supply of £3000 was required to arrive 3 months after the 2nd. On the 15th Jan/1861, they were told to hasten this supply. On the 15th Jan, they received the telegram (1246) saying that the shipment already ordered should be hastened, and that £5000 more was also required.\n\nThis Office has had no correspondence with the Treasury since your letter of 11 March last year, all that has been done is to carry out the intention then announced of forwarding further supplies as required. In the letters to the Agents from this Office, Messrs Steaters' name has not been mentioned; they have been left to settle for themselves as to how the coin was to be forwarded. They have had to apply to the Treasury in each instance for authority to send no further supply.\n\n| Date | Event | \n|------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| 3rd July | £14,000 worth of coin were sent out |\n| 17th Sept | Agents authorized to comply with request for further supply (8789) |\n| 15th Jan | Told to hasten 3rd supply; received telegram (1246) for hastening shipment and additional £5000 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-166 - Public Offices & Others - 1873.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 294001, "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": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "page_number": 661, "title": "CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8]", "content_text": "655 \n\nto Mr David Welsh's letter to the Daily Press. With respect to the cry of \"Smuggling Opium\" it is important to read the Despatch of Sir Richard MacDonnell enclosing the Memorial of Messrs Sassoon, from which it will be seen that much exaggeration has prevailed on this subject.\n\nThe last stage in the proceedings at Hong Kong appears in a Despatch to the Governor of Hong Kong of the 20th June 1874, giving his version of the history of the Blockade from the earliest time, 1868, he notifies to the Governor that he has prevailed upon the Viceroy Jwulin, to establish Native Custom houses in the vicinity of Hong Kong, one at \"Chun Chow\" and \"Chang Chon\" and the other at \"Tatun Chon\", where Duties...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-167 - Sir Kennedy - 1874 [1-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 296300, "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": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12]", "content_text": "29\n\nauthorizing the report to Hainan of five chests of opium dated Singapore, the 5th of June 1875, and signed by H. D. Chopard, Imports and Exports Officer.\n\nNow Hainan is Chinese territory and not opened by treaty to British trade, and although the port of Kiung Chow is mentioned as one of the new treaty ports to be opened, it has not yet been declared so. Consequently, no vessel can be authorized to call even there, much less at Hainan generally.\n\n(Signed) B. Robertson\n\nConsul\n\n14 June 1875\n\nSingapore,\n\nExcise Exports Permit under Sections 5, 6, 10, & 24\n\nI, Han Joo Choon, am authorized to export to Hainan per steamer \"Carisbrook Castle\" five (5) chests Benares opium, lot 185, marked (2), on Saturday, the 5th day of June 1875. The said opium having been purchased by the exporter from S. J. Carvalho, the same being now stored in the Godown of Messrs. Bun Hin & Co., situated at Raffles Place, W. 42.\n\n(Signed) H. D. Chopard\n\nImports & Exports Officer\n\nSingapore, 8th June 1875.\n\n(True Copy)\n\n(Signed) James Scott\n\nActing Resident Councillor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-171 - Acting Governor Austin - 1875 [7-11] -- Sir Kennedy - 1875 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298838, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 189, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "CLON: 2525-\n\nHongkong 14th November .\n\n4. B Dennys boy Honorary\n\nEveretary\n\nColonial Secretary\n\n1876\n\nJ. Gardiner Austin (sd)\n\n(How J\n\nAmerican Barque C. O. Whitmore.\" \n\n\"Transmit's eix copies of the Proceedings of a Public Meeting\n\nheld on the 13th instant in reference to the Case of\n\nEnclosure in Governor Sir J. S. Hennessy's Despatch W. 198\n\nof 21st November 1876\n\nReport of the PROCEEDINGS at a Public Meeting of the Inhabitants of Hong-kong, held at the City Hall, on Monday, the 13th November, 1876.\n\n(From the \"Hongkong Daily Press\" of November 14th, 1876.)\n\nThe most largely attended public meeting held\n\nin Hongkong for many years, took place at the City Hall yesterday, to express an opinion as\n\nto the proceedings in the recent C. O. Whitmore case. The meeting was called by the Sheriff on\n\na requisition from a number of merchants, bankers, &c., in the Colony.\n\nMr. TONNOCHY, Sheriff, read the following\n\nREQUISITION.\n\nTo M. S. TONNOCHY, Esq.,\n\nSheriff of Hongkong.\n\nSIR—We, the Undersigned, Merchants, Bankers, Traders, and others, hereby request that you will have the goodness to convene a Public Meeting upon the subject of the recent proceedings against the Captain and Officers of American Barque C. O. Whitmore,\n\nIt is thought that MONDAY, the 13th instant, at 2.30 o'clock P.M., would meet the convenience\n\nof most people.\n\nWe are, Sir, your obedient servants,\n\nOLYPHANT & Co.\n\nS. W. POMEROY.\n\nPURDON & Co.\n\nP. RYRIE.\n\nH. H. NELSON,\n\nH. B. GIBB.\n\nJ. H. SCOTT.\n\nC. MORLAND KERR,\n\nH. I. DALRYMPLE,\n\nHERBERT ST. L. MAGNIAC,\n\nH. HOPPLUS.\n\nR. H. MACFARLANE.\n\nIn accordance with the request contained in\n\nnotice that a PUBLIC MEETING of the Inhabitants of Hongkong will be held at the CITY HALL, TO-DAY, the 13th instant, at 2.30 P.M., to take into consideration the subject indicated.\n\nM. S. TONNOCHY, Sheriff.\n\nHongkong, 13th November, 1876.\n\nMr. TONNOCHY then called upon those present to appoint a Chairman.\n\nMr. SHARP proposed that the Hon. P. Ryrie take the chair.\n\nMr. H. B. GIBB seconded the motion, and it was carried with acclamation.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said—Gentlemen, you have done me the honour to elect me to sit as your Chairman on this occasion. I only regret that some one else more worthy or better fitted to take up the matter than myself has not been elected. A number of resolutions will be placed before you on this occasion, which we will come to by and bye. There is only one matter I would like to explain before the business of the meeting is commenced. There has been an idea in some quarters that this meeting was an anti-American meeting to some extent—that is not quite what the meeting is, as you will see when the resolutions are placed before you. I hope that any persons who have that idea will dismiss it from their minds. The first resolution which will be placed before you, gentlemen, will be proposed by Mr. Dalrymple, and seconded by Mr. Pomeroy. It is as follows:—\n\n\"That this meeting deeply deplores the difference which has arisen between the American and British Governments, by which the Extradition clause of the Ashburton Treaty has been rendered temporarily inoperative, involving the defeat of the ends of justice in the im-\n\nPage 366\n\n186", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298894, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12]", "content_text": "I have received a long communication from the Chief Justice which cannot be dealt with before the next mail, when it will be forwarded to Your Lordship.\n\n126 The Daily Press. HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1876.\n\nTHE COMPANIES' ORDINANCE, The GOVERNOR-I move the second reading of an Ordinance, to amend \"The Companies' Ordinance, 1865,” and to repeal Ordinance No. 4 of 1876. The Attorney-General will state the objects and reasons of the measure.\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL-This Ordinance, as stated on the first reading, is brought in for the double purpose of repealing No. 4 of 1876, which was a special Ordinance passed here in April last to enable the China Traders' Insurance Company to reduce their shares and amending the Companies' Ordinance of 1865. This Ordinance which, as well as the statement of objects and reasons appended, has been published in the Gazette, is the same Ordinance virtually as that before the Council in March 1876, which was fully discussed then. After much correspondence and consideration it was thought better to bring in a general measure so that other companies may obtain the same advantages that No. 4 of 1876 had conferred on the China Traders. The matter was so fully discussed on the previous occasion that I do not think it necessary to detain the Council with any remarks now. I am glad the Chief-Justice is now present, as he took particular interest in the subject when it was last before the Council. I have gone carefully over the bill; and if it was good and right for the China Traders, it is more statesman-like to bring in a general measure so that other companies may be able to take advantage of it,\n\nThe statement of objects and reasons appended to the Bill is as follows:-\"This Ordinance is introduced to confer on all companies limited by shares and registered in the Colony the power of subdividing their shares partially granted by Ordinance No. 4 of 1876. The present Ordinance therefore proposes to repeal No. 4 of 1876, to enact a more general measure founded on the English Act of 1867, and to amend The Companies' Ordinance, 1865.\" Section XXXVIII. is adopted from a short Imperial Act passed in 1870, for facilitating compromises and arrangements between the liquidators and creditors of companies that are being wound-up, and is introduced in order to place Colonial companies upon the same footing as companies formed and worked under the English statutes. Several sections of the Act of 1867 have been omitted, which, as dealing with the county courts, have no application in the Colony. Section XXXIX. is also omitted, as it appears to be scarcely necessary, having regard to the circumstances of the Colony. The rest of the Act has been included in this Ordinance without change, except by inserting the word \"hereafter\" in section XXXVI, so as to avoid any appearance of dealing with contracts that may have been made before the passing of the Ordinance. The Ordinance has the following objects in view :- Enabling companies to be constituted, if so desired, with limited liability in the members, and unlimited liability in the directors; enabling companies to reduce their capital; enabling companies to subdivide their shares; enabling associations formed for any useful object, which does not involve the payment of a dividend to the members, to register themselves as limited companies, without annexing the word 'limited' to their names; enabling companies to issue preference shares, and requiring all shares to be paid for in cash, unless issued under a registered contract; enabling a transferor of shares to enforce a registry of the transfer; enabling warrants for fully paid up shares or stock to be issued to bearer; defining the mode in which contracts by a company are to be executed; requiring a general meeting of a company to be held within four months after registration; facilitating compromises between companies that are being wound-up, and their creditors; placing a restriction on persons buying shares, for the purpose of enabling them to petition for the winding-up of a company.”\n\nThe CHIEF JUSTICE-I move that this Ordinance be not now proceeded with. This is the first moment that I knew of it, I have to apologise for such being the case, but until I came into this room I did not know that the Ordinance was before the Council at all. That is my fault entirely. The Gazette came to me in the usual course, but having been very much engaged I did not read it, and I put that as my excuse. The introducing of this Bill now does seem to me to be a most unusual thing. Within half a year of the full discussion of the former one when it was thrown out, that the bill should be substituted for it is a thing without precedent, in my mind, according to my experience, however limited that may be. I say it is without precedent that such a step as this should be taken so lately after the final rejection of the question. If I recollect rightly this very Bill was negatived, and when it was said what a great hardship it would be to this China Traders' Company, another Bill was introduced upon that deliberation, the whole argument was gone into as to the perfectly dangerous state of things, and as the shares in this Company were $5,000, this particular boon was given to that Company because it said it could not go on without it.\n\nThe principle of the Bill was then and there absolutely and entirely negatived. There has not been a single word said as to why this measure has been introduced now, in the interregnum of the attorney-generalship. It has not been said that some great wrong is impending on the Colony. It is virtually a repetition of a Bill that was brought in and negatived, and there is not one word said, not even so much as-\n\nThe ACTING ATTORNEY-GENERAL-It was all said before.\n\nThe CHIEF-JUSTICE-All that was then said was negatived. There is one principle of legislation which I always look to as applicable to all countries, and especially to colonies, and that is, unless you can show good reason the fewer new bills you have the better. That is a principle of legislation, I say, which ought to pervade every country and more especially to pervade colonies, where it is especially difficult for a person to know what the law is. If this Bill pass I shall feel it my duty to send in a protest against it, and let it go home to be there discussed and there considered.\n\nThe GOVERNOR-The matter has been discussed at home.\n\nThe CHIEF-JUSTICE—Then it has been sent home without my argument being heard, and I shall send home my protest. It may be treated as waste paper when it reaches there, but with that I have nothing to do. Suppose this Bill passes, the China Traders' may reduce their shares to a dollar a piece, and the insurers of ships will be in the hands of the lowest of the low among the Chinese. It will be a gambling speculation altogether; and if investors are to trust to such people for their insurance I wish them joy of their security. I object to this Bill because there is no occasion for it. You never legislate except for a remedy. Every Bill that is introduced at home is to remedy some want of a proper law. Now, who has said that anyone of these clauses in the Bill before us is necessary for the well-being of the Colony! I do not say that it would not be convenient to have a limited liability of directors if that was the sole object. But I have said before, and have always felt, that the system of giving facilities to popularise joint stock companies is of the most prejudicial character, and it is only tending to convert these companies into gambling speculations. I do object to any company sub-dividing its shares. That portion from section 9 to section 21 (\"reduction of capital and shares\") has been rejected absolutely by this Council as it then stood, and as to all the other clauses, all I have to say is they are uncalled for; if introduced by themselves they might be worth consideration. I therefore, for many reasons which I have stated before and do not wish to trouble the Council with now, beg to move that the Bill be not read a second time.\n\nMr. RYRI-I have great pleasure in seconding the amendment of the Chief Justice. I quite approve of everything he has said about the Companies here, And I still say there is no call in the Colony for the Ordinance now before us. I would recommend that the Company, which has made such strenuous efforts to have the Ordinance passed, had better let well alone for their own credit.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY (who was almost inaudible) said--If any company feels oppressed by the law and comes to the Government it is bound to relieve it. On that principle we proceeded in this instance. We introduced a general Bill which was rejected. Subsequently another Bill was introduced and passed. It was sent home to the Secretary of State. His Lordship returned it to us objecting to it, with instructions to bring before the Council the Bill that is now introduced. That is just how we stand.\n\n240", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-175 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 300225, "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": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "page_number": 555, "title": "CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5]", "content_text": "77\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nTiler informed on the inspection of the Board of Trade as to Certificates of such Practitioners as when J.M. Hennessy's default in herit... Lord Enclosed & Lind (amawon arrive why he called from the Board the required information.\n\nJ. Bramston\n\nDate. No. 19 10 May\n\nNo. 8.324 (Subject.)\n\nECCA C.O. 10 JUL 1077 553 Currency: American Dollars Hong Kong Mint Papers: documents re: defective state of currency. Recommend American Dollar as Legal Tender and Acting as to reopening creation of the Hong Kong Mint.\n\nTo Thas u 13 Jan 19 151574 Disposed of by 214928./29\n\n07 | 76 H&S RA (Minutes.)\n\nAs the draft to the Treasury relative to the circulation of the Mexican Trade Dollar has not yet come back from circulation, send this on at once, as it might be enclosed to the Treasury.\n\nI fear we shall not get the broad dollar taken by Conant, as \"Mexican dollars when moderately chopped are readily taken by the Banks\".\n\nIt appears now that they look forward to a time when all Mexican chopped coin may be excluded.\n\nIt is curious to see how by custom the Comprador is constituted a sort of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-177 - Sir Kennedy Acting Governor Austin Lieut Governor Hennessy - 1877 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302615, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 136, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22nd SEPTEMBER, 1877.\n\nwings are devoted to Chinese and others to Europeans. The Europeans were in separate cells of the same size as some of those that were occupied by a number of Chinese, so that although when you struck the average you might get 864 cubic feet, yet the space for the majority of the Chinese prisoners was in reality only 200 feet, and in 1876, 190 feet. The question of cubic space as regards the health of the prisoners is a minor one when compared with the effect of association on the habits, character, conduct in gaol, and future life of the prisoners. In one of his reports, the Superintendent of Police remarks that a large proportion of the prisoners who come before my honourable friend here (Mr. MAY) every year are old offenders, and he truly says, this is a serious thing, to which we ought to direct our attention. How are we to deal with such cases? If we have a gaol on the separate system, where the prisoners must do some useful hard work, and where they know there is not the slightest chance of their release before the end of the Judge's sentence except by steady good conduct, if we provide reformatory and industrial training for juvenile criminals, and if we let it be clearly understood that second offences will be punished with a long sentence, that I think will do more to check the growth of crime than anything else we can devise.\n\nWe must keep steadily before us, the one great object, to check the growth of crime. If by certain measures we can succeed in reducing crime, and amongst those measures are some which are open to the imputation of being humane, that is no reason for being ashamed of such measures. We must pursue our real object, the stamping out of a criminal class, the protection of life and property,—regardless of the charge that in so doing we give certain offenders, and especially that numerous class here, the little boy criminals, some industrial training.\n\nI shall not to-day give notice of any particular measures. The subject I have brought before you is one of some magnitude, and I trust at a not very distant meeting, within the next few weeks possibly, to have an opportunity of submitting my plans in more detail. Under the Ordinances of this Colony, the Governor in Executive Council has the power of framing regulations for the gaol. The present regulations he can entirely annul if he pleases, and make new regulations if he thinks fit to do so; but this is a subject of very great interest to the whole community, and I desire to have the advice and assistance of the Chief Justice and of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, who represent property; and therefore I shall not avail myself of the powers of the Ordinances as they exist, but whatever changes I shall ask you to assist me in making I shall lay before the Legislative Council and invite your opinion on every branch of such changes. Whatever scheme I shall put before you, I will give you ample notice of. You will read the despatches I now lay upon the table. Some further despatches will be printed when the Surveyor General has completed his estimate and plans of what alterations are necessary to carry out the separate system. I shall put these before also, and invite your consideration of the whole question.\n\n## THE PRAYA\n\nHon. I. Lowcock- I wish to ask a question, if your Excellency will allow me, though I think I am rather out of order, but it is on a subject of importance to the Colony, and I think you will allow it should be answered. I refer to the reconstruction of the Praya, or repairs rendered necessary by the typhoon of September, 1874, which have been delayed, I think I may say, in a most unreasonable manner. Last time the subject was mentioned, the Council was informed that the plans had been approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and that the means suggested by the Commission for finding the necessary funds had also been approved, and on that occasion this Council was asked to vote for the commencement of the work. I think the Colony is justified in asking why the work has been discontinued. I am not in a position, of course, to press for an answer at present.\n\nTHE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND SEPTEMBER, 1877.\n\nlocked harbour like that of Victoria. I have always had the opinion that the plan submitted by myself was fully sufficient to withstand the seas of typhoons, and the proof is that a few sections I built in 1874, and which the Commission that inquired into the matter saw, have proved fully efficient. There they stand, and similar works by my predecessor also stood the typhoon of 1874. Therefore, I do not see that our design can be improved upon, and I have no doubt, when this information reaches the Secretary of State for the Colonies, His Lordship will give his consent to the design as amended.\n\nHon. H. Lowcock thanked His Excellency and the Surveyor-General for the explanation. The Council was then adjourned sine die.\n\n## THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS WERE AMONGST THOSE LAID BEFORE THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ON THE 17TH INSTANT.\n\n### The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy.\n\nDOWNING STREET, \n20th June, 1877.\n\nSir, I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. AUSTIN's despatch No. 75 of the 11th of April, respecting certain matters of Prison Discipline.\n\nproposals as will place the system upon a sound basis for the future.\n\nI rely on you to review the whole question of Prison Discipline in Hongkong; and to make such\n\ndespatch, I observe a direction that the practice is to be discontinued of Turnkeys employing prisoners In the letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary, which forms the enclosure to Mr. AUSTIN'S to cook their meals for them and act as their body servants when their quarters are so situated as to \"necessitate the prisoners passing outside of the office gates whereby they are enabled to communicate \"with the outside world.\"\n\nI do not know whether any Turnkeys have their quarters within the office gates. If there are any such, then under this letter they may continue to employ prisoners as their cooks and body servants. I consider that they should not be in any better position than those residing beyond the office gates, and should provide for their wants at their own expense.\n\nIf your experience of climate suggests that it would be expedient to provide them with this assistance from public sources, the boon should be applied equally to Turnkeys residing beyond the office gates, and in some form less objectionable on grounds of discipline than prison labour.\n\nI have, &c., \n(Signed,) \nCARNARVON.\n\n### His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy to The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, \nHONGKONG, 2nd August, 1877.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY ---I think my honourable friend was fully justified in asking the question, and it is certainly one of importance. I had hardly arrived in the Colony when the matter was brought to my notice by the Surveyor General and other members of the Council, and I myself very soon saw its vast importance to the Colony. The consequence was that on reading the papers relating to it, I thought it desirable to telegraph to the Secretary of State to ask for authority to have the Surveyor General at once to proceed with the work. I received an answer that Lord CARNARVON was sending out to me a despatch containing the whole of Sir JOHN COODE's views on the subject, and when they arrived, it would be my duty to put them before the Surveyor General, and move the Surveyor General to make a further report. It was on the 15th June I telegraphed. The despatch has arrived. I lost no time in putting it into the hands of the Surveyor General, and he did not lose a single day in taking up the case and preparing his rejoinder to Sir JOHN COODE's remarks. No doubt that will be again submitted to Sir JOHN COODE, and I hope by telegraph I may receive instructions to proceed on the modified plan. It would be in order, perhaps, if my honourable friend the Surveyor General would add a few words.\n\nThe SURVEYOR GENERAL-The difference which has existed between my own designs and those of Sir JOHN COODE are due perhaps to a misunderstanding on his part, of course, I speak with due deference to so high an authority on marine engineering,--but he has conceived the opinion that the sea wall is exposed to the full force of the open sea. I have had to study economy and efficiency combined; he has looked only to efficiency, not conceiving the works are to be carried out in a land-locked harbour like that of Victoria. I have always had the opinion that the plan submitted by myself was fully sufficient to withstand the seas of typhoons...\n\n| Despatch No. | Date |\n|--------------|---------------|\n| 33 | 13th June |\n| 34 | 14th June |\n| 35 | 15th June |\n| 38 | 15th June |\n| 41 | 22nd June |\n| 43 | 22nd June |\n| 44 | 23rd June |\n| 55 | 6th July |\n| 58 | 8th July |\n| 60 | 12th July |\n| 61 | 18th July |\n| 64 | 18th July |\n| 65 | 19th July |\n| 173 | 28th July |\n\nIn one of his despatches, written in the month of September last year, Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY referred to the \"serious increase of crime in Hongkong,\" which, he said, would be indicated in various returns that might have hereafter to be laid before your Lordship. Soon after my arrival in the Colony, in April last, the duty of transmitting the returns in question—that is, the Police returns, the Gaol statistics, and the statistics of crime for 1876—devolved upon me.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302674, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# POLICE COURT, 20th August, 1862\n\n**SIR**-I have the honour to report, for the information of His Excellency the Administrator of the Government, on the subject of how far, in my opinion, corporal punishment is fitting and needful to the treatment of Chinese offenders in this Colony.\n\nIt is necessary to state some peculiarities with respect to crime, and criminals, and the temptations and facilities for the commission of crime, which distinguishes \"Hongkong\" from most British Colonies, in order to exhibit foundations for the firm opinion I have formed on the subject.\n\n## Enumerated Misdemeanors\n\n1st. The proximity of this Colony to the settlement of Macao, the City of Canton and other large Chinese Cities affords opportunity for a constant influx of the vagabond classes to Hongkong for purposes of plunder. Robbers and other offenders are driven from their native places, and fly to this Colony, where they are unknown, in order to pursue their plundering avocations; the Police have in consequence to cope with an ever-changing class of thieves and vagabonds, who certainly would flourish here in greater numbers if not restricted by the dread of suffering physical pain.\n\n2nd. The general apathy shown by the Chinese Community with regard to the prevention or detection of crime, throws all the burden of that duty on the Police, which, composed as it necessarily is of natives of India and Foreigners unconversant with the Chinese character, gives a wide scope for the commission of offences. In most civilized countries, the public hand is raised to assist in carrying out the law, but unfortunately, it is not so in Hongkong.\n\n3rd. The humane system of English prison discipline, so opposite to the cruel and oppressive character of Chinese gaol management, renders some punishment beyond that of imprisonment a positive necessity to the Colony. It can readily be understood that imprisonment with hard labour in the Gaol of Victoria, wherein the prisoner is better fed, better and cleaner clothed, better lodged and less worked (inasmuch as he has rest on the Sabbath) than the honest artisan or labourer, would scarcely operate as a prevention of crime, and this more especially when such imprisonment carries with it very little of the shame and disgrace attaching to it, as in England; the prisoner comes from Gaol and consorts with his former associates or fellow workmen more as if he had suffered from misfortune than that he had received the due penalty for committing a crime.\n\n4th. The facilities for the commission of robberies is great, as property generally is ill-secured and it is especially necessary to note that women of all classes appear in the streets wearing gold or silver ear-rings, hair ornaments, bangles, &c.; they have no covering for the head and their ornaments are easily detached. The cost of living of a labouring man is about two shillings a week; consequently, the exposure of valuable articles is a great temptation to the labouring classes, the majority of whom are not restrained by any innate principles of integrity, but are honest simply because they fear the punishment for dishonesty; this renders it necessary to have a deterrent punishment, which simply imprisonment most assuredly is not.\n\n5th. It has become known to me from experience, that Chinese offenders have a wholesome dread of flogging, and that imprisonment is not regarded with apprehension. I have often become aware that prisoners would rather have a long term of imprisonment than a much shorter period with the accompaniment of flogging; in fact, corporal punishment is the only efficacious method of restraining crime, especially such offences as robberies from the persons of women, children or drunken persons.\n\n6th. The foregoing remarks apply to felony, and I beg respectfully to express my firm conviction that it is advantageous and necessary for the public weal that Magistrates should have the power of inflicting corporal punishment therein. I am assured that the withdrawal of this power would tend to a great increase of crime and the necessity for an enlarged Gaol.\n\n7th. With regard to misdemeanor, although the Ordinance is wide in its appearance, I am satisfied that in careful hands the power is not too great, especially when it is borne in mind that corporal punishment can only be inflicted for a second offence.\n\n## Specific Offences and their Characteristics\n\n8th. \n| Offence | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Assaults with lethal weapons in brothels | ... |\n| Keeping or frequenting gaming houses | ... |\n| Exposure of person | ... |\n| Indecent assaults on women | ... |\n| Assaults with intent to rob (especially on drunken Europeans) | ... |\n| Malicious injury to property | ... |\n| Riotous assemblages | ... |\n| Destruction of shrubs and trees on public roads | ... |\n\nAs these enumerated misdemeanors have a particular Chinese character attaching to them, which should be known in order to understand their dangerous significance, I beg to attempt to give a summary of their peculiarities; there are, however, so many strange inconsistencies and anomalies in the Chinese character that it is almost impossible to convey a comprehensive view in a brief form.\n\n9th. There is one characteristic of the Chinese necessary to mention in order to aid the explanation. In all large Chinese communities, there is a class of vagabond significantly termed \"Loe-Kai\" (black legs) or \"Lan-Chi\" (broken means men) who are of irregular life and mostly subsist by their evils; many of them are professional gamblers; they are partisans in quarrels and are supported and tolerated as a necessary evil; they attach themselves to particular localities and engage themselves to defend their own district or class or those that will pay for their services; they are the recognized bullies of the place.\n\n10th. Public gambling is as pregnant of evil to the Chinese as drunkenness is to European communities. It possesses a power of fascination over the Chinese generally, which renders it the greatest of public evil in the Colony. It is the chief inducement to the commission of robbery, leads to frequent riots, and occasionally to loss of life. The keepers of gaming houses carry on their plans in an organized form; they employ touters and doorkeepers and are lavished with funds for bribing Police subordinates or others in order to obtain protection or gain information of intended interference of the law.\n\n11th. Disturbances of Chinese in brothels. It is a custom of Chinese brothels that persons may enter them and be welcomed and supplied with tea and tobacco without expectation of payment. This custom, especially with the vagabond classes mentioned in paragraph 9, is abused to the annoyance of the inmates of the brothels; if not treated with the accustomed civility, these vagabonds proceed to destroy property; a fight results, and much mischief is done before the Police arrive, and unfortunately, those principally implicated generally make their escape.\n\n12th. Indecent exposure of person. The domestic habits of the Chinese are dirty, and in one particular respect indecent. Inasmuch as no convenience of privies is made for other than women in the Chinese dwellings, the men are necessitated to seek necessary accommodation abroad; public privies are in existence, but unless stringent regulations were enforced, the roadside would be considered as a fitting place of convenience, to the readily understood annoyance of all other than native residents.\n\n13th. Riotous assemblage. Feud fights, arising from district or clan feeling, are of annual occurrence, and are most violent and savage in their character; they arise suddenly from trivial causes, frequently having their origin in gambling quarrels; they seem to spread over the entire City almost at the same time, and when quelled by the Police at one quarter, to start up in another; in these fights, all descriptions of weapons and implements are brought into use; wounds are inflicted and occasionally loss of life occurring. There is always difficulty in these cases in obtaining reliable evidence, because of the strong partisan feeling evinced.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nI also respectfully state, for the information of His Excellency, that the Magistrates exercise the power of flogging in a careful and guarded manner, reserving this punishment for the hardened offender or such as are guilty of some violence, brutality or outrage, which distinguishes their cases from the common description of offences, or mode of committing offences.\n\nThere are some misdemeanors, which I beg to indicate, so productive of evil to the community and their suppression so earnestly to be desired, that I look upon the power of inflicting corporal punishment as a great boon to the Colony.\n\nIn conclusion, I respectfully and strongly reiterate the opinion I have hereinbefore expressed, that corporal punishment is absolutely requisite for the well-being of this Colony.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient Servant,\n**C. MAY, First Police Magistrate**\n\nTo the Honourable W. H. ALEXANDER,\nActing Colonial Secretary. \n## Page 189", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302722, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "they were good enough to entertain some confidence in my administration, yet entertained doubts of the possibility of our having so large a balance as $71,000 of revenue in excess of expenditure. My hon. friend the Treasurer has now sent to me the returns, closed and certified, of the first three quarters of the year, and these returns will enable us so far to test the accuracy of what I anticipated. I find that, in the first three quarters of this year, the revenue has not only been in excess of the expenditure, but has so far exceeded it that we have a surplus on the nine months' transactions of $85,920. Therefore it is possible that at the close of the year 1878, instead of $71,000, we may have a surplus of $100,000.\n\nYou will be interested to learn what are the items which give this increase of revenue above expenditure and which exhibit an excess over the previous year. This is indeed a question of very great interest. I find, for instance, that our actual receipts for the year 1877 from leased lands amounted to $120,554. Now if our rent-roll produced exactly the same sum in 1878 as it did in 1877 we should get in the nine months to which I am now referring $90,416. But I am happy to say that the rent-roll of the colony is increasing, and that in the nine months instead of having only $90,000 we have $105,000, and I look forward to having at the close of the year from that important source of revenue $135,000, instead of the $120,000 we had last year.\n\nNow, taking the item of stamps. In passing I should say to you that in the return of our rent roll I do not include that which really would be an item of capital, namely, premiums on the sale of the land. I am dealing now with the rent roll and that alone. We may receive before the end of the year considerable sums of premium on the sales of lands, but I prefer to take no notice of it because it is eating into our capital. What I am now dealing with is healthy revenue. Next, taking the item of stamps, the amount actually received last year was $118,488; in other words, that ought to give us for the nine months of the present year $88,866; but instead of that it has given us $95,603, and the total sum to be derived from stamps this year I calculate at $127,000.\n\nI am bound here to say that, to whatever source may be traced the increase in the rent roll, it would not perhaps be proper to assume that the whole increase in the revenue from stamps is derived from a similar source, for it has been my duty to institute since I have come to the Colony certain prosecutions under the Stamp Ordinance. I have been favoured by the Collector of Stamps with a return for the last three or four years, from which it appears that in 1874 there was one prosecution under the Stamp Ordinance against one defendant. In the year 1875 there were no prosecutions. In the year 1876 there were no prosecutions. Last year there were six prosecutions against nine defendants; and up to August, which is the date of the return this year, there were ten prosecutions against nineteen defendants. In all cases the defendants were Chinese. As you are aware, I am enforcing the Stamp Ordinance against them. They were not called upon to pay in former years, at least, such is my opinion—their proper proportion of the stamp revenue. They are doing so now, and no doubt a portion at least of the considerable increase which has taken place in the revenue from stamps is due to the cause I have indicated.\n\nI may say before leaving the subject that in the opinion of competent authorities there were more evasions by Chinese of the Stamp Ordinance in the years 1875 and 1876, when there were no prosecutions, than in 1877 and 1878 when there have been prosecutions.\n\nNow, gentlemen, another item in which our revenue has increased is that of postage. The actual receipts in the twelve months of 1877 amounted to $62,675; that would give us for the nine months of this year $47,000. But instead of that we have got in the nine months $66,000; so that we have actually received in the nine months of the present year more than we did in the twelve months preceding it.\n\nIn my statement to the Council last November I mentioned what every honourable member considered one of the best tests of our prosperity, and that is the junk trade. Our revenue from that source last year was $19,051. That ought to give us for nine months $14,289. In fact we have received in the nine months $15,551. From the registry of cargo boats we received last year $2,347. The actual receipts for the first nine months of 1878 were $2,531. I need not remind you that that increase probably represents nearly the whole increase of the year, because in the case of cargo boats few are registered in the last quarter of the year.\n\nIn the item of light dues I find that last year the sum total was $11,984. That ought to give us in round numbers for the nine months $9,000, whereas we have got $13,928, and I expect to receive altogether from light dues not far short of $18,000.\n\nThere is another item of some importance, and that is the item in the estimates called interest. Now, at the close of 1876 there was a sum of $20,000 in the Chartered Banks at 5 per cent. On the 31st March, 1877, that sum amounted to $80,000. $80,000 at 5 per cent. gives $4,000 per annum profit. On the 30th June, 1877, it was increased to $160,000, and on the 30th September, 1877, it was still further increased to $210,000. On the last day of the year 1877, it amounted to $270,000, and at this date we have in the Chartered Banks of this Colony, earning interest at 5 per cent., the sum of $380,000, a sum not only exceeding any investment of that kind heretofore, but more than double any sum hitherto saved from revenue independently of the gambling fund and lodged in the Banks at interest.\n\nNow, gentlemen, those facts no doubt you will say are of interest, but the interest they have for the public becomes very practical if they can enable us to do something in the way of reducing taxation. There are, however, two items—comparatively small items—which we can no longer include in the revenue of the Colony, and of which I shall have a word or two to say.\n\nWe have been in the habit of making considerable sums by what is called the profit on subsidiary coins. Towards the early part of the year 1877 the profit on subsidiary coins exceeded $20,000. Well, it is, to my mind, a nice question to consider how far this Government ought to make a profit on subsidiary coins. We don't coin them; they are coined in England. They are sent to us by the Imperial Government. Of course we pay for them in England, but when we got them here we get them for the convenience of the community, and I cannot believe that it is a sound policy for this Government to make a profit out of subsidiary coins. I had taken that view of the matter and communicated it to Mr. Austin before I received a despatch from the Secretary of State in which Lord Carnarvon adverted in pretty strong terms to the practice of making a profit out of the subsidiary coins in Hongkong; and the result, as you know, is that now anyone can get coins from the Treasury. We make no profit on them; they are supplied at the rate we have obtained them at ourselves.\n\nThe next item that will no longer figure in the revenue returns of the Colony of Hongkong amounted last year to $7,023; it is the item for brothel licences. On that subject I have received some despatches from Her Majesty's Government. A question was lately asked in the House of Commons, and a copy of that question was sent to me by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, in a despatch in which he said:\n\nI have the honour to inform you that a question, of which I enclose a copy, has been asked in the House of Commons as to the revenue derived under Ordinance 10 of 1867 from houses of ill-fame in the Colony under your Government.\n\nIt has been alleged that the balance of the fund now in hand amounts to $50,000, and though I can scarcely think that such is the case, I should wish to have full information on the subject.\n\nIt therefore, this point has not already been dealt with by the Commission, I request that you will either invite them to include in their report a statement of the condition of any fund that has been formed under the 66th Section of the Ordinance, together with any recommendation on the subject that they may think proper to make; or that you will obtain this information from the records of the Treasury and report to me at an early date the result of your inquiry.\n\nI sent this despatch at once to the Commission,—two of the members of the Commission are now sitting at this table—and they lost no time in ascertaining the facts Sir Michael Hicks-Beach wanted to know. Going back only as far as Ordinance 10 of 1867—which came into operation in April, 1868—from April, 1868, to April, 1877, the Colony received from brothel licences $74,404. During the same period, hospital fees from prostitutes amounted to $9,849; fines of prostitutes and brothel-keepers, $11,362, making a sum total of $95,616. Adding to that the sum that had been obtained from similar sources for the few years before the passing of that Ordinance, and then deducting from the sum total the cost of the Lock Hospital and the salaries of the Inspectors of Brothels, I am afraid that, instead of $50,000, the revenue of the Colony has been something like $80,000 or $90,000 under that Ordinance. When I looked back at what had occurred when the Ordinance passed, I saw that the particular clause which rendered... \n\nPage 237", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302742, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# [No. 40.]\n## His Excellency Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B., to the Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE, HONGKONG, 28th February, 1877.\n\nMY LORD,-With reference to your Lordship's Despatch No. 100 of the 29th July, 1876, I have the satisfaction of being able, on the eve of my departure, to inform your Lordship that the questions connected with the discipline and dietary of Victoria Gaol, Hongkong, have at length been satisfactorily settled, and put, I trust, upon a basis which will eventually result in a material decrease in its inmates. The long delay which has taken place not only in the preparation of the report, but in the final adoption of the regulations and dietary scale, has been owing to the thorough and exhaustive manner in which the Commission prosecuted its enquiries in the first instance, and to the desire by which the Executive was animated to allow every variety of opinion in matters of detail to be thoroughly ventilated and weighed before finally reducing to a system the suggestions recommended by individual members of the Commission.\n\n7. With regard to the proposed Regulations, I have to observe that the power given by the 7th Regulation to the Superintendent to put his subordinates in irons appears to me wholly illegal, and the infliction of fines can only be enforced under pain of dismissal.\n\n8. Rule 83, respecting the cutting of women's hair is at variance with the instructions conveyed in my Circular Despatch of the 22nd of April, 1876.\n\n9. I disapprove the power given by Rule 90 to the Superintendent to refuse to allow a prisoner under remand or committed for trial to see his legal adviser, and the power given by Rule 93 to a Committing Magistrate or Visiting Justice to forbid a prisoner in similar circumstances from seeing his friends; and I have to refer you on this subject to my Circular Despatch of the 27th of April last year.\n\n10. You should consult the Attorney General as to the validity of the power to administer oaths conferred by the 124th Section, and if the power is not effectually conferred by the Rule it should be created by law.\n\n11. The Rules relating to the Turnkey's mess, I consider are out of place and should be removed. There are no rules in the proposed Code as to labour. This important omission should be supplied.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nWith these remarks I will leave the report of the Commission, together with the evidence taken by it, and the code of regulations and scale of dietary finally adopted by the Executive in your Lordship's hands.\n\nThe Right Honourable The EARL OF CARNARVON, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\nA. E. KENNEDY, Governor.\n\n## [No. 57a.]\n### The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G.\n\nCARNARVON.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 28th May, 1877.\n\nSIR,-I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. AUSTIN'S Despatch No. 62 of the 28th of March, respecting the Report of the Prison Commission. *The Report of the Commission, together with the Regulations and Dietary Scale as approved by the Executive, appeared in the Government Gazette of 10th March, 1877, Vol. XXIII, p. 116.\n\n## [No. 45.]\n### The Right Honourable The Earl of Carnarvon to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 7th May, 1877.\n\n2. You will gather from my Despatch No. 45 of the 7th of May, that as regards the discipline and dietary of the Victoria Gaol, it is my desire that more should be done than merely \"remedying\" such defects in detail as were incidentally brought to light, and as were capable of immediate \"amendment.\"\n\n3. My desire is that you should take into your early consideration the whole question of Prison Discipline on the basis of the recommendations of the Commission, with the modifications indicated in my Despatch No. 45 of the 7th ultimo.\n\n4. With reference to Mr. AUSTIN's request that I would procure for the Government of Hongkong information relative to the use of Cranks, I have directed the Crown Agents to obtain such information, which will be forwarded to you by an early opportunity.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nGovernor HENNESSY, C.M.G.\n\n2. I do not gather from Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY'S Despatch what action the Hongkong Government has taken in regard to the Code of Regulations which has been drawn up by the Commission. I shall assume that those Regulations have not yet been promulgated and that it is therefore open to me to comment on them fully with a view to their amendment before promulgation.\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nCARNARVON.\n\n## [No. 72.]\n### The Right Honourable the Earl of Carnarvon to His Excellency Governor Pope Hennessy, C.M.G.\n\nDOWNING STREET, 20th June, 1877.\n\nSIR,-I have to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. AUSTIN's Despatch, No. 75, of the 11th of April, respecting certain matters of Prison Discipline.\n\n2. I rely on you to review the whole question of Prison Discipline in Hongkong; and to make such proposals as will place the system upon a sound basis for the future.\n\n3. In the letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary, which forms the enclosure to Mr. AUSTIN'S Despatch, I observe a direction that the practice is to be discontinued of Turnkeys employing prisoners to cook their meals for them and act as their body servants, \"when their quarters are so situated as to necessitate the prisoners passing outside of the office gates whereby they are enabled to communicate with the outside world.\"\n\n4. I am not disposed to disagree with the criticisms of the Committee on the subject of Prison Labour, and, as at present advised, I concur in their recommendation that the eight cranks now in store should be put up and made use of.\n\n5. If it is thought desirable to introduce a tread-wheel, one can be procured through the Crown Agents, and sent out to the Colony, with instructions how to put it together and use it.\n\n4. I do not know whether any Turnkeys have their quarters within the office gates. If there are any such, then under this letter they may continue to employ prisoners as their cooks and body servants. I consider that they should not be in any better position than those residing beyond the office gates, and should provide for their wants at their own expense. If your experience of climate suggests that it would be expedient to provide them with this assistance from public sources, the boon should be applied equally to Turnkeys residing beyond the office gates, and in some form less objectionable on grounds of discipline than prison labour.\n\nI have, &c.,\n\n6. The Committee seem to have considered the question of the reconstruction of the Gaol upon the separate system beyond the scope of their enquiries, though expressing an opinion in favour of the plan.\n\nI consider the separate system to be the only true basis of Prison Discipline, and among Chinese prisoners there are very special reasons for its adoption. It is mentioned in the Report that few of the Warders know Chinese, and the terrible outbreak in the Singapore Prison is a warning of the danger of affording Chinese prisoners an opportunity to combine. I have to request that you at once call on the Surveyor General to draw out plans for consideration showing the alterations that would be requisite and the surrounding ground and buildings,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nCARNARVON.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302812, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 334, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Council Discussion on Deportation and Gaol Management\n\nran returns from deportation, it would be very well before he is brought up to be tried for this that the opinion of the Attorney-General should be taken as to whether the warrant was legally good, of course, where the opinion was that it was not legal I have not been able to order the man to be tried for returning. With respect to the Superintendent of the Prison, there have been only three prisoners recommended since I have come here, whom I have not deported, and those cases are briefly these. The first is the prisoner Lee Hum Kwai. He was recommended for release by Captain Ducat for his services at the time of the Yesso explosion. Subsequently, he proved very useful as interpreter in Captain Dempster's time, and he was again recommended. Well, in that case, I have not been able to discharge the prisoner from gaol, and therefore cannot deport him. That is the first of the three. With respect to the other cases, there were two men who were recommended for deportation, and one was a man who was in prison for uttering counterfeit coin, the other for larceny. They were recommended to me to be deported, and the ground was that the men were in very bad health.\n\nHis Excellency went on to read the minutes on the cases and the medical reports called for on the health of the prisoners, from which it appeared they had only a few weeks to serve and that they were not likely to live out their term. He did not deport the men, but recommended them to the Tung Wah Hospital, where he believed they died. His Excellency proceeded - I have given you then the three cases in which I declined deportation, and I think you will all agree with the action I took in regard to them. Lee Lam Kwai is still in prison. As regards the other two, the prisoners were not of that desperate class that it is desirable to get rid of. On the subject of deportation itself, I think there is not a second opinion in the Council; indeed, if we could deport every prisoner that would be a solution of the whole question, but it really comes to this, and I think the Acting Chief Justice touched upon it today, what do you do with a man when he comes back? Let us now select from the 530 prisoners in gaol at this moment a couple of hundred of the worst offenders and deport them; the problem is, what are you to do with them when they come back? Well, the Acting Chief Justice says they must be punished with severity when they come back, and another of my hon. friends would like to have them flogged on their return. Well, the Council is aware the flogging of the deported prisoners on return was tried, but had to be discontinued. In fact, when it was discovered, when Sir John Swale and Sir Julian Pauncefote drew attention to the fact that this illegal punishment had been going on, a dispatch was prepared in which the Governor, Sir Richard MacDonnell, sought for that power, but it was refused. The Government would not consent that a man returning from deportation should be flogged for that offence alone. If on his return he commits another offence, he may be sentenced by the Magistrate or the Supreme Court, but you must make up your minds that the Government will not consent to a man being flogged simply for returning from deportation.\n\nMy hon. friend the Colonial Secretary has told us it is not usual to apply deportation unless the man has a second or third offence. His Excellency went on to refer to a case which occurred the other day which the most experienced member of the Executive Council did not think was a case for deportation, but it so happened the three other members differed with his hon. friend, and although he (the Governor) quite agreed with the Colonial Secretary's view of the matter, he acted on the view of the majority who thought it was. His Excellency concluded - It is well for you if you have to take into consideration the question of gaol expense to take into consideration also these things. It requires a knowledge of all these things to enable you or to enable me to arrive at a safe conclusion on this general question. However, gentlemen, if it is convenient for you next Thursday, I think we might perhaps go into this question, and I shall possibly put before you the result of the commission. I refer to Dr. Wells and Dr. O'Brien.\n\nIt having been suggested that Thursday would be an inconvenient day to meet, Monday was suggested by His Excellency.\n\nHon. H. Lowcock - This is such a broad question, your Excellency, that it cannot be dealt with and settled before the estimates are passed. There is no doubt the separate system will meet the views of the whole community, but with reference to the enlargement of the gaol or its removal, that embraces so many questions that of course it would be impossible to settle it for some time. Therefore, I think the discussion on that might be postponed until after the passing of the estimates, unless you wish it continued for some particular reason.\n\nHis Excellency - I don't at all contemplate making this part of the estimates, but at the same time, I should really like to have the members of the Council express in as reasonable a time as possible their views on this question. Of course, hon. members are acquainted with the fact that I entered on this subject soon after my arrival, and I should like to have the views of hon. members upon it. I shall be glad to afford you whatever further information you would like to obtain, and if it occurs to you between this and Monday that there is any further information you would like, I will see that any further dispatch or anything you like to ask for shall be laid before you.\n\nHon. W. Keswick - In considering the number of prisoners we have to provide for, I would suggest that we should go back to the year 1880 and get a return of the number of prisoners who have been in gaol, the number who have been released before the term of their sentences expired, and what number have been deported. Statistics are important; let us have them in order that we may judge whether we have to look forward to an unlimited extension of gaol accommodation to keep down the criminal class; and, as I mentioned earlier in the discussion, I understand last year it was decided that the separate system was to be tried in the gaol, and if my recollection serves me right, there was a vote for that purpose.\n\nHon. H. Lowcock - $10,000.\n\nHon. W. Keswick - I should like to know if there is any data on which we can form an opinion of the effect of the system.\n\nHis Excellency - There is no data on that precise point. Mr. Price has built a few cells, but the number is insufficient to furnish data, and you know what Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said. I had to take the responsibility of deciding whether we would go on with the cells we were making. I decided that we would go on. The result, however, up to this time, we have in fact not had any opportunity of testing.\n\nThe Acting Chief Justice - May I ask if any estimate has been formed of the value of the present gaol site?\n\nHis Excellency - Mr. Price has formed an estimate, but unfortunately, I have not got the figures with me now. It is a very valuable site.\n\nHon. W. Keswick - I must remark I don't see very clearly the object of the discussion.\n\nHis Excellency - I have no hesitation in answering my hon. friend very frankly. If we meet next Monday, every member will express his opinion, I hope. I have already heard a great deal of sound advice, and the more I hear, the better. I think it better to do all this before, because otherwise, what course am I to take? Sir Michael Hicks-Beach asks me for my opinion after consulting with Mr. Price. Suppose I write in answer to this dispatch \"I have, in accordance with your instructions, consulted Mr. Price\" and proceed to express an opinion; my opinion, if it is worth anything, will, I think, be much more valuable if we have a complete discussion on the subject.\n\nHon. W. Keswick - We cannot properly discuss this subject unless we know the probable cost. We may all quite agree it would be a very nice thing to have a gaol out of town, and various other things which are quite impracticable; but what we have to consider, in my view, is that the criminal class is a certainty. Are we, as practical men, with money which we must not spend heedlessly - how are we to deal with it? I think we should see something like the cost of the two schemes. As to $45,000 for buying the land between the present gaol and Caine-road, of course, it is simply an error of judgment on the part of someone. The value of the site no one can question. If this question has to be considered, it should not be considered simply as to the prisoners, whether it would be better for them to be at Stonecutter's Island. We have to consider whether the money to be expended would be better expended at Stonecutter's Island or here, or whether by a different system of gaol discipline and of punishment generally, we could not do without it altogether.\n\nHis Excellency - It was just before the meeting that the Colonial Surgeon called and told me Mr. Price was ill; otherwise, these figures could have been before you. But you will bear in mind...\n\nPage 325", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 302930, "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": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12]", "content_text": "# A \n\nThere can be no doubt, but their efforts were almost useless so widespread was the calamity. In Mr Schmidt's (the gun maker's) house there were a number of cartridges, and these were at once got out, everything else being lost. Before 2 a.m. the fire had extended its ravages eastward as far as the P. & O. gate, where its progress was fortunately stayed. The godowns however were not out of danger. At 10 minutes past 2 o'clock the first charge of powder was exploded, and a house at the corner of the Wellington and Peel Streets brought to the ground. The fire was gradually creeping towards Messrs Vogel Hagedorn & Co.'s premises, the laurs at the rear, most of which were filled with firewood, burning at a white heat, the whole being in one mass of flame. The Praya and the upper roads were all filled with goods of every conceivable description, and the thieves had it all their own way; it was in fact wholly impossible for the police to have done more than they did; as it was 150 or 200 men were arrested. Two more houses were blown down in Peel Street before 4 o'clock, and subsequently many others. The fire had complete mastery of the town, and was creeping slowly but surely up the hill as far as Gage Street, sweeping away the whole block of houses between it and Cochrane Street. The fire then travelled along Lyndhurst Terrace, through Stanley Street to the New Civil Hospital which caught fire at past 9 o'clock. Part of it was blown down to prevent the flames from reaching the Central, and at noon or shortly afterwards the Civil Hospital was a heap of ruins. Although it continued to burn for long afterwards, and the Police Station had to be carefully watched to prevent the flames spreading further in that direction, a detachment of the 74th was told off to guard the Gaol in case of accident. The Station Yard was full of all sorts of furniture and property of every description. Numbers of Europeans were drunk owing in a measure to the festive season, and partly to the opportunities afforded them of obtaining the wherewithal, and some very disgusting and many amusing sights were the necessary result. A deal of looting was carried on by both Europeans and Chinese, who, not content with enriching themselves by the misery of others, went straight to the Police Station and robbed Mr Creagh's and the Inspectors' quarters, in one instance carrying off a chest of drawers bodily; not content with this some then set to work and wilfully and maliciously destroyed all they could lay their hands upon. The patients from the Civil Hospital were removed to the Old Lock Hospital. At 7:50 a.m. the roof of the R. C. Cathedral caught fire, and had it not been quickly noticed and put out by the aid of buckets there is no knowing where it would have ended. We believe that there have been several accidents, but we have not heard of any loss of life; one woman was taken out of a house of ill fame drunk, her house being at the time in a blaze, a fact of which she was quite ignorant and indifferent. We regret to say that Mr Creagh the Acting Superintendent of the Fire Brigade and Colonel Shervington have each had one of their feet hurt. There are many of the worst dens of infamy cleared out. We understand that the Captain of the S.S. Perusia offered an asylum for 600 Chinese, and many others followed suit; whilst several godowns have been brought into requisition. The fire is still smouldering as we go to press.\n\nDuring the day bodies of men have been engaged pulling down the many very dangerous walls which were left standing. About $60,000 in notes and $19,000 in silver were found in a vault under the ruins of Woo Hang's shop, Queen's Road Central, and removed by a party of armed police to a place of safety. We noticed a safe (fire-proof of course) with the smoke issuing from it which looked much as if it had been tampered with.\n\nA few of the Volunteers did duty last night as guards, but as many of that honorable corps had been hard at work the night previous they did not muster in very great force. About 14 turned out from 6 to 12, and 30 from 12 till daylight, but many of these had satisfied themselves with only a couple of hours rest. A fair estimate of the number of houses destroyed is 400. In Endicott Lane 6, Tang Man Lane, 20, Wing On Lane, 30, Gilman's Street 20, Gilmans' Bazaar 46, Queen's Road 44, Stanley Street 38, Poo Shing Lane 10, Wellington Street, 55, Gage Street, 9, Lyndhurst Terrace 34 (many of them quite new), Hollywood Road 7, Cochrane Street 41, Tsong Tuk Lee Lane, 10, Gutzlaff Street 13, Graham Street 23, Peel Street 7; but the number of persons huddled together in this number of houses is surprising and may be counted by thousands. A Good Hook and Ladder Company would be an inestimable boon at a fire and would have rendered good service on the present occasion. The treasure from the Chartered Bank was sent on board H.M.S. Kestrel last night for safety as there was no telling how soon the bank might fall a victim to the fire. A detachment of the 74th Highlanders was told off to guard the Oriental Bank.\n\n## THE THIEVES\n\nAs might have been expected the thieves were not idle but made what they could whilst the fire lasted. The absence of cases at the Police Court last Tuesday was amply compensated for to-day as there were about 150; in fact so many that it was thought necessary to have men from the 74th Highlanders in the Court with fixed bayonets to guard against an outbreak, and Messrs Hayllar and Barff sat jointly as Magistrates, to assist with the cases, which were however not of a very serious nature and were treated very leniently by all the Magistrates, who apparently considered the temptation to which the poor creatures had been subjected. Most of them were either fined or sent to terms of imprisonment ranging from 7 to 14 days with hard labour. A number of the European prisoners were engaged during the day cleaning the Police Station yards which were covered with pieces of charred wood and the remains of the spoils which had rained upon the station. Many people were very good to the poor creatures who were left to pass the night in the streets, and Mr Dorabjee of the Hongkong Hotel supplied beer and biscuits free for the firemen. Mr Fisher, in whose house the fire originated, was insured for $5,000.\n\nPage 441", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-182 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303420, "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": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH OCTOBER, 1878.\n\nThe Finance Committee is something I must say there is another innovation I should like to make in this matter, similar to the House of Commons when the House sits in what is called Committee of the whole House. In its capacity as Committee of the whole House, the House of Commons deals with financial questions, and deals thoroughly with them. If I introduce here the system of enabling our Members of Council to deal with the Estimates long before they come on the public board, I do not see why I should deprive the public of the Colony, who, for aught I know, may be interested in what the Finance Committee is doing, of that privilege which we have in England when the House of Commons sits in Committee of the whole House; and therefore I am considering whether it would be agreeable or not to the Members of the Finance Committee if I were to allow reporters to be present at their future meetings. Of course, Honourable Members are well aware that the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council consists of every Member of the Council except myself. It consists of all the Non-official Members, and of all the Official Members except the Governor, and I have no doubt the highly intelligent public of this Colony would be only glad to know what is being done about the finances, in Committee, before the time comes when the Governor lays the Estimates on the table. And, in touching upon this, I will repeat what I said the first time I had the honour of addressing you on the subject, namely, that any Member of the Finance Committee who considers and consents to any vote is not necessarily bound, when he comes here to the public Council, to support that vote: when he comes into the Council, he is as free as before to take whatever line he likes about it.\n\nI certainly have derived, both last year and this, very great assistance from the unusual course I adopted. In now informing you of my intention to continue it, it is only my duty to say that, whatever course I may take, I cannot bind my successor, or any future Governor: for all I know, some future Governor may revert to the old system of making the statement without the Finance Committee having seen the proposed Estimates of Expenditure. I only speak for myself, when saying that in future I shall adopt that system which I have found work so well.\n\nIn November last, also, gentlemen, I told you why it was that I had felt it necessary, on my arrival in this Colony, to look very sharply after the expenditure. Mr. GARDINER AUSTIN put into my hands, as soon as I arrived, the returns, which had been audited a few weeks previously, of the year 1876. He did his duty at once in drawing my attention to a matter which undoubtedly every Governor should regard with great anxiety, namely, to the fact that in 1876, whilst the expenditure amounted to $902,500, the revenue had amounted only to $885,308; in other words, the expenditure had outstripped the revenue, fortunately only by a small sum. But, seeing that this was the case, it became my duty to give that close attention to the finances of the Colony which I have endeavoured to give, and I mentioned to you last November that I very carefully scrutinised from time to time the monthly proposals of every head of a department for the expenditure in his department. Well, how has that worked? You have had before you, in the month of April, 1878, the finance returns for the year 1877, showing that the revenue of 1877 was greater than the expenditure of that year. I don't know that I can more clearly show to you the result of the returns to which I am referring than by reminding you that on the day when I made my statement last year, the 12th November, I anticipated having at the end of the year 1877 a balance of $277,000. I find that, in January, 1878, the Colonial Treasurer was able to certify the last year's balance at $295,512, being somewhat in excess of the sum I had anticipated. I have returns laid before me every week by the Treasurer of the Colony. I have here now the last return prepared by him. It is the usual weekly return, dated 12th October, and according to that the balance to our credit at this date is $373,014. I need hardly tell you that this is exclusive of what we call the Special Fund. That fund amounted to $380,000, until, at my request, the Secretary of State sanctioned $10,000 being voted to the China Famine Fund. The Special Fund is now $370,000, so that, adding to the Special Fund the balance now at the credit of the Colony, we get a sum total of $743,000. So far, gentlemen, for the result as regards the balance in the Treasury chest.\n\nThanks to my Honourable friends the Auditor General and Colonial Treasurer, I am also in a position to inform you what has been the actual result of the first nine months, that is, the first three quarters, of the current year. You will remember that, when I framed the Estimates for 1878, I anticipated that, by stimulating the revenue, not by additional taxation, but by collecting what the existing law entitled us to collect, and on the other hand carefully looking after the expenditure, our revenue at the end of this year would exceed the expenditure by a sum of $71,954. When I estimated in November, 1877, for this surplus on the current accounts of the Colony in 1878, I know that some of my Honourable friends, though they were good enough to entertain some confidence in my administration, yet entertained doubts of the possibility of our having so large a balance as $21,000 of revenue in excess of expenditure. My Honourable friend the Treasurer has now sent to me the returns, closed and certified, of the first three quarters of the year, and these returns will enable us so far to test the accuracy of what I anticipated. I find that, in the first three quarters of this year, the revenue has not only been in excess of the expenditure, but has so far exceeded it that we have a surplus on the nine months' transactions of $85,998. Therefore it is possible that at the close of the year 1878, instead of $71,000, we may have a surplus of $100,000.\n\nYou will be interested to learn what are the items which give this increase of revenue above expenditure and which exhibit an excess over the previous year. I find, for instance, that our actual receipts for the year 1877 from leased lands amounted to $120,554. Now if our rent-roll produced exactly the same sum in 1878 as it did in 1877 we should get in the nine months to which I am now referring $90,416. But I am happy to say that the rent-roll of the Colony is increasing, and that, in the nine months instead of having only $90,000 we have $105,000, and I look forward to having at the close of the year from that important source of revenue $135,000, instead of the $120,000 we had last year. In passing I should say to you that in the return of our rent-roll I do not include that which really would be an item of capital, namely, premiums on the sale of the land. I am dealing now with the rent-roll and that alone. We may receive before the end of the year considerable sums of premium on the sales of lands, but I prefer to take no notice of it because it is eating into our capital. What I am now dealing with is healthy revenue. Next, taking the item of stamps, the amount actually received last year was $118,488; in other words, that ought to give us for the nine months of the present year $88,866; but instead of that it has given us $95,603, and the total sum to be derived from stamps this year I calculate at $127,000. I am bound here to say that, to whatever source may be traced the increase in the rent-roll, it would not perhaps be proper to assume that the whole increase in the revenue from stamps is derived from a similar source, for it has been my duty to institute, since I have come to the Colony, certain prosecutions under the Stamp Ordinance. I have been favoured by the Collector of Stamps with a return for the last three or four years, from which it appears that in 1874 there was one prosecution under the Stamp Ordinance against one defendant. In the year 1875 there were no prosecutions. In the year 1876 there were no prosecutions. Last year there were six prosecutions against nine defendants; and up to August, which is the date of the return this year, there were ten prosecutions against nineteen defendants. In all cases the defendants were Chinese. As you are aware, I am enforcing the Stamp Ordinance against them. They were not called upon to pay in former years—at least, such is my opinion—their proper proportion of the stamp revenue. They are doing so now, and no doubt a portion at least of the considerable increase which has taken place in the revenue from stamps is due to the cause I have indicated. I may say before leaving the subject that in the opinion of competent authorities there were more evasions by Chinese of the Stamp Ordinance in the years 1875 and 1876, when there were no prosecutions, than in 1877 and 1878 when there have been prosecutions.\n\nIn my statement to the Council last November I mentioned what every Honourable Member considered one of the best tests of our prosperity, and that is the junk trade. Our revenue from that source last year was $19,051. That ought to give us for nine months $14,289. In fact we have received in the nine months $15,551. From the registry of cargo boats we received last year $2,347. The actual receipts for the first nine months of 1878 were $2,531. I need not remind you that the increase probably represents nearly the whole increase of the year, because in the case of cargo boats few are registered in the last quarter of the year. In the item of light dues I find that last year the sum total was $14,984. That ought to give us in round numbers for the nine months $11,000, whereas we have got $13,928, and I expect to receive altogether from light dues not far short of $18,000.\n\nThere is another item of some importance, and that is the item in the Estimates called Interest. Now, at the close of 1876, there was a sum of $20,000 in the Chartered Banks at 5 per cent. On the 31st March, 1877, that sum amounted to $80,000. $80,000 at 5 per cent. gives $4,000 per annum profit. On the 30th June, 1877, it was increased to $160,000, and on the 30th September, 1877, it was still further increased to $210,000. On the last day of the year 1877, it amounted to $270,000, and at this date we have in the Chartered Banks of this Colony, earning interest at 5 per cent., the sum of $300,000, a sum not only exceeding any investment of that kind heretofore, but more than double any sum hitherto saved from revenue, independently of the Special Fund, and lodged in the Banks at interest. On this item the Colony is now making $15,000 per annum profit.\n\nNow, gentlemen, those facts no doubt you will say are of importance, but the importance becomes very practical if they can enable us to do something in the way of reducing taxation.\n\nThere are, however, two items—comparatively small items—which we can no longer include in the revenue of the Colony, and of which I shall have a word or two to say. We have been in the habit of making considerable sums by what is called the profit on subsidiary coins. Towards the early part of the year 1877, the profit on subsidiary coins exceeded $20,000. Well, it is, to my mind, a nice question to consider how far this Government ought to make a profit on subsidiary coins. We don't coin them; they are coined in England. They are sent to us by the Imperial Government. Of course we pay for them in England, but when we get them here we get them for the convenience of the community, and I cannot believe that it is a sound policy for this Government to make a profit out of subsidiary coins. I had taken that view of the matter and communicated it to Mr. AUSTIN before I received a despatch from the Secretary of State in which Lord CARNARVON adverted in pretty strong terms to the practice of making a profit out of the subsidiary coins in Hongkong; and the result, as you know, is that now anyone can get coins from the Treasury. We make no profit on them; they are supplied at the rate we have obtained them at ourselves.\n\nThe next item that will no longer figure in the revenue returns of the Colony of Hongkong amounted last year to $7,023; it is the item for brothel licences. On that subject I have received some despatches from Her Majesty's Government. A question was lately asked in the House of Commons, and a copy of that question was sent to me by Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in a despatch in which he said:—\n\n\"I have the honour to inform you that a question, of which I enclose a copy, has been asked in the House of Commons as to the revenue derived under Ordinance 10 of 1867, from houses of ill-fame in the Colony under your Government.\n\n\"It has been alleged that the balance of the fund now in hand amounts to $50,000, and though I can scarcely think that such is the case, I should wish to have full information on the subject.\n\n\"If, therefore, this point has not already been dealt with by the Commission, I request that you will either invite them to include in their report a statement of the condition of any fund that has been formed under the 66th section of the Ordinance, together with any recommendation on the subject that they may think proper to make: or that you will obtain this information from the records of the Treasury and report to me at an early date the result of your inquiry.”\n\nI sent this despatch at once to the Commission,—two of the members of the Commission are now sitting at this table—and they lost no time in ascertaining the facts Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH wanted to know. Going back only as far as Ordinance 10 of 1867—which came into operation in April, 1868—from April, 1868, to April, 1877, the Colony received from brothel licences $74,404. During the same period hospital fees from prostitutes amounted to $9,849; fines of prostitutes and brothel-keepers, $11,362, making a sum total of $95,616. Adding to that the sums that had been obtained from similar sources for the few years before the passing of that Ordinance, and then deducting from the sum total the cost of the Lock Hospital and the salaries of the Inspectors of Brothels, I am afraid that, instead of $50,000, the profit of the Colony has been something like $80,000 or $90,000 under that Ordinance. When I looked back at what had occurred when the Ordinance passed, I saw that the particular clause which rendered it compulsory upon the officers in the Colony that there should be a special fund for it, and that this was not to be paid to the revenue—I saw that that clause was passed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 303583, "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": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5]", "content_text": "# THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH OCTOBER, 1878.\n\nI must say there is another innovation I should like to make in this matter. The Finance Committee is something similar to the House of Commons when the House sits in what is called Committee of the whole House. In its capacity as Committee of the whole House, the House of Commons deals with financial questions, and deals thoroughly with them. If I introduce here the system of enabling our Members of Council to deal with the Estimates long before they come on the public board, I do not see why I should deprive the public of the Colony, who, for aught I know, may be interested in what the Finance Committee is doing, of that privilege which we have in England when the House of Commons sits in Committee of the whole House; and therefore I am considering whether it would be agreeable or not to the Members of the Finance Committee if I were to allow reporters to be present at their future meetings. Of course, Honourable Members are well aware that the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council consists of every Member of the Council except myself. It consists of all the Non-official Members, and of all the Official Members except the Governor, and I have no doubt the highly intelligent public of this Colony would be only glad to know what is being done about the finances, in Committee, before the time comes when the Governor lays the Estimates on the table. And, in touching upon this, I will repeat what I said the first time I had the honour of addressing you on the subject, namely, that any Member of the Finance Committee who considers and consents to any vote is not necessarily bound, when he comes here to the public Council, to support that vote: when he comes into the Council, he is as free as before to take whatever line he likes about it.\n\nI certainly have derived, both last year and this, very great assistance from the unusual course I adopted. In now informing you of my intention to continue it, it is only my duty to say that, whatever course I may take, I cannot bind my successor, or any future Governor, for all I know, some future Governor may revert to the old system of making the statement without the Finance Committee having seen the proposed Estimates of Expenditure. I only speak for myself, when saying that in future I shall adopt that system which I have found work so well.\n\nIn November last, also, gentlemen, I told you why it was that I had felt it necessary, on my arrival in this Colony, to look very sharply after the expenditure. Mr. GARDINER AUSTIN put into my hands, as soon as I arrived, the returns, which had been audited a few weeks previously, of the year 1876. He did his duty at once in drawing my attention to a matter which undoubtedly every Governor should regard with great anxiety, namely, to the fact that in 1876, whilst the expenditure amounted to $902,500, the revenue had amounted only to $885,308; in other words, the expenditure had outstripped the revenue, fortunately only by a small sum. But, seeing that this was the case, it became my duty to give that close attention to the finances of the Colony which I have endeavoured to give, and I mentioned to you last November that I very carefully scrutinised from time to time the monthly proposals of every head of a department for the expenditure in his department. Well, how has that worked? You have had before you, in the month of April, 1878, the finance returns for the year 1877, showing that the revenue of 1877 was greater than the expenditure of that year. I don't know that I can more clearly show to you the result of the returns to which I am referring than by reminding you that on the day when I made my statement last year, the 12th November, I anticipated having at the end of the year 1877 a balance of $977,000. I find that, in January, 1878, the Colonial Treasurer was able to certify the last year's balance at $295,512, being somewhat in excess of the sum I had anticipated. I have returns laid before me every week by the Treasurer of the Colony. I have here now the last return prepared by him. It is the usual weekly return, dated 12th October, and according to that the balance to our credit at this date is $373,014. I need hardly tell you that this is exclusive of what we call the Special Fund. That fund amounted to $380,000, until, at my request, the Secretary of State sanctioned $10,000 being voted to the China Famine Fund. The Special Fund is now $370,000, so that, adding to the Special Fund the balance now at the credit of the Colony, we get a sum total of $743,000. So far, gentlemen, for the result as regards the balance in the Treasury chest.\n\nThanks to my Honourable friends the Auditor General and Colonial Treasurer, I am also in a position to inform you what has been the actual result of the first nine months, that is, the first three quarters, of the current year. You will remember that, when I framed the Estimates for 1878, I anticipated that, by stimulating the revenue, not by additional taxation, but by collecting what the existing law entitled us to collect, and on the other hand carefully looking after the expenditure, our revenue at the end of this year would exceed the expenditure by a sum of $71,954. When I estimated in November, 1877, for this surplus on the current accounts of the Colony in 1878, I know that some of my Honourable friends, though they were good enough to entertain some confidence in my administration, yet entertained doubts of the possibility of our having so large a balance as $71,000 of revenue in excess of expenditure. My Honourable friend the Treasurer has now sent to me the returns, closed and certified, of the first three quarters of the year, and these returns will enable us so far to test the accuracy of what I anticipated. I find that, in the first three quarters of this year, the revenue has not only been in excess of the expenditure, but has so far exceeded it that we have a surplus on the nine months' transactions of $85,923. Therefore it is possible that at the close of the year 1878, instead of $71,000, we may have a surplus of $100,000.\n\nYou will be interested to learn what are the items which give this increase of revenue above expenditure and which exhibit an excess over the previous year. I find, for instance, that our actual receipts for the year 1877 from leased lands amounted to $120,554. Now if our rent-roll produced exactly the same sum in 1878 as it did in 1877 we should get in the nine months to which I am now referring $90,416. But I am happy to say that the rent-roll of the Colony is increasing and that in the nine months instead of having only $90,000 we have $105,000, and I look forward to having at the close of the year from that important source of revenue $135,000, instead of the $120,000 we had last year. In passing I should say to you that in the return of our rent-roll I do not include that which really would be an item of capital, namely, premiums on the sale of the land. I am dealing now with the rent-roll and that alone.\n\nWe may receive before the end of the year considerable sums of premium on the sales of lands, but I prefer to take no notice of it because it is eating into our capital. What I am now dealing with is healthy revenue. Next, taking the item of stamps, the amount actually received last year was $118,488; in other words, that ought to give us for the nine months of the present year $88,866; but instead of that it has given us $95,603, and the total sum to be derived from stamps this year I calculate at $127,000. I am bound here to say that, to whatever source may be traced the increase in the rent-roll, it would not perhaps be proper to assume that the whole increase in the revenue from stamps is derived from a similar source, for it has been my duty to institute, since I have come to the Colony, certain prosecutions under the Stamp Ordinance. I have been favoured by the Collector of Stamps with a return for the last three or four years, from which it appears that in 1874 there was one prosecution under the Stamp Ordinance against one defendant. In the year 1875 there were no prosecutions. In the year 1876 there were no prosecutions. Last year there were six prosecutions against nine defendants; and up to August, which is the date of the return this year, there were ten prosecutions against nineteen defendants. In all cases the defendants were Chinese. As you are aware, I am enforcing the Stamp Ordinance against them. They were not called upon to pay in former years—their proper proportion of the stamp revenue. They are doing so now, and no doubt a portion at least of the considerable increase which has taken place in the revenue from stamps is due to the cause I have indicated. I may say before leaving the subject that in the opinion of competent authorities there were more evasions by Chinese of the Stamp Ordinance in the years 1875 and 1876, when there were no prosecutions, than in 1877 and 1878 when there have been prosecutions.\n\nIn my statement to the Council last November I mentioned what every Honourable Member considered one of the best tests of our prosperity, and that is the junk trade. Our revenue from that source last year was $19,051. That ought to give us for nine months $14,289. In fact we have received in the nine months $15,501. From the registry of cargo boats we received last year $2,347. The actual receipts for the first nine months of 1878 were $2,531. I need not remind you that the increase probably represents nearly the whole increase of the year, because in the case of cargo boats few are registered in the last quarter of the year. In the item of light dues I find that last year the sum total was $14,984. That ought to give us in round numbers for the nine months $11,000, whereas we have got $13,928, and I expect to receive altogether from light dues not far short of $18,000.\n\nThere is another item of some importance, and that is the item in the Estimates called Interest. Now, at the close of 1876, there was a sum of $20,000 in the Chartered Banks at 5 per cent. On the 31st March, 1877, that sum amounted to $80,000; $80,000 at 5 per cent. gives $4,000 per annum profit. On the 30th June, 1877, it was increased to $100,000, and on the 30th September, 1877, it was still further increased to $210,000. On the last day of the year 1877, it amounted to $270,000, and at this date we have in the Chartered Banks of this Colony, earning interest at 5 per cent., the sum of $300,000, a sum not only exceeding any investment of that kind heretofore, but more than double any sum hitherto saved from revenue, independently of the gambling fund, and lodged in the Banks at interest. On this item the Colony is now making $15,000 per annum profit.\n\nNow, gentlemen, those facts no doubt you will say are of importance, but the importance they have for the public becomes very practical if they can enable us to do something in the way of reducing taxation.\n\nThere are, however, two items—comparatively small items—which we can no longer include in the revenue of the Colony, and of which I shall have a word or two to say. We have been in the habit of making considerable sums by what is called the profit on subsidiary coins. Towards the early part of the year 1877, the profit on subsidiary coins exceeded $20,000. Well, it is, to my mind, a nice question to consider how far this Government ought to make a profit on subsidiary coins. We don't coin them; they are coined in England. They are sent to us by the Imperial Government. Of course we pay for them in England, but when we get them here we get them for the convenience of the community, and I cannot believe that it is a sound policy for this Government to make a profit out of subsidiary coins. I had taken that view of the matter and communicated it to Mr. AUSTIN before I received a despatch from the Secretary of State in which Lord CARNARVON adverted in pretty strong terms to the practice of making a profit out of the subsidiary coins in Hongkong; and the result, as you know, is that now any one can get coins from the Treasury. We make no profit on them; they are supplied at the rate we have obtained them at ourselves.\n\nThe next item that will no longer figure in the revenue returns of the Colony of Hongkong amounted last year to $7,023; it is the item for brothel licences. On that subject I have received some despatches from Her Majesty's Government. A question was lately asked in the House of Commons, and a copy of that question was sent to me by Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in a despatch in which he said:----\n\n\"I have the honour to inform you that a question, of which I enclose a copy, has been asked in the House of Commons as to the revenue derived under Ordinance 10 of 1867, from houses of ill-fame in the Colony under your Government.\n\n\"It has been alleged that the balance of the fund now in hand amounts to $50,000, and though I can scarcely think that such is the case, I should wish to have full information on the subject.\n\n\"If, therefore, this point has not already been dealt with by the Commission, I request that you will either invite them to include in their report a statement of the condition of any fund that has been formed under the 66th section of the Ordinance, together with any recommendation on the subject that they may think proper to make: or that you will obtain this information from the records of the Treasury and report to me at an early date the result of your inquiry.\"\n\nI sent this despatch at once to the Commission; two of the members of the Commission are now sitting at this table and they lost no time in ascertaining the facts Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH wanted to know. Going back only as far as Ordinance 10 of 1867—which came into operation in April, 1868—from April, 1868, to April, 1877, the Colony received from brothel licences $74,404. During the same period hospital fees from prostitutes amounted to $9,849; fines of prostitutes and brothel-keepers, $11,802, making a sum total of $96,616 (corrected from $96,055). Adding to that the sum that had been obtained from similar sources for the few years before the passing of that Ordinance, and then deducting from the sum total the cost of the Lock Hospital and the salaries of the Inspectors of Brothels, I am afraid that, instead of $50,000, the profit of the Colony has been something like $80,000 or $90,000 under that Ordinance. When I looked back at what had occurred when the Ordinance passed, I saw that the particular clause which rendered it compulsory upon the officers in the Colony that there should be a special fund for it, and that this was not to be paid to the revenue—I saw that that clause was passed...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-184 - Governor Hennessy - 1879 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307068, "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": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 186, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "Very sorry to find I have forgotten this Paper, I put it aside as it was not pressing and I have only just been reminded of it by the Annexed List.\n\nIt seems absurd to give a clear allowance and a gratuitous bonus and I think that in this respect the practice in Chinese Straits and here ought to be uniform.\n\nNothing is said of the one of them. He ought to be treated as a Chinese Clerk - not but that his attainments are alarming.\n\nI can guess the motives of the mainland staff differing so much from the Chinese Superintendent in the Draft minute.\n\nHow are they going to satisfy life certificates? I do not quite make out whether I have put it in or not. It should have been firmly referred to the Board.\n\nThe grant of leave to the Chinese Clerk in the State Department was a boon, but they should have taken vacation leave.\n\nMackenzie's language is wrong and injudicious. The language used was very improper. Kind of morning commentary Michison is protesting.\n\nAt the present foreman's recommendation, if, as hoped, it has not been put in, it remains unfrustrated.\n\nWe have before complained of the inconvenience of mixing up their own divisional matters and dealing with them in a desultory way. We have waited and pressed for the foreman's long-promised improvement.\n\nWe should now want to think that it is quite unnecessary and unwise for Englishmen speaking Chinese for the higher posts in the long service, and assume that Mr. Lockhart's case was the exception here quoted.\n\nNow that our Wodehouse partner decided to fill Mrs. Plunkett's place, we shall have with Maj.-Gen. Hamilton's countenance, an understanding Chinese Interpreter who is competent, trustworthy, and employed.\n\nDec.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 307352, "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": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "page_number": 470, "title": "CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12]", "content_text": "0102848\n\nEnclosure in Governor Dis John Pope Hennessy's Desh: M1190 of 18th November 1880.\n\nJ...\n\nfor the Chimes in fnct it as thor: erg fars flety unlans Phys like to take the Hon. W. £- deng\n\nJoy boa friend waid but the Past so grot fancy buying the metalusion sam už llezzy) trace wehretde of the Qring or a whole there toom Suppum, and regalities Ace note ordnina of Piskup Bonda. But the greeter op 2 BORLING-Taky je fit, vistament\n\nLaved\n\nwith the wrap time we are takse, and 7 Xuveetcarries thas perfonis Fabulae, n he wild at that the catapupunast be cubens where so protects are ment to contributo tu them into thin Nam m her cute. Materi\n\nsung na samo 100-\n\nPat, in a time vil eg - may see at: ay then we sulibanaleringen to me!\n\npromociīnu of the expenses stimuly\n\nBettie P\n\nWREN\n\nice-liste\n\nthe post sectary in two and of the latter, basso col pent\n\ntive of Valer of state I\n\nThat the motards the ali iure m\n\ntin mesoud.ajenty paisal and these of\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nexposer Concept;\n\nWATER\n\nwat penin-will see e-filios bus be stores to\".'s newlyria\n\nTHE DAILY PETS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11TH, 15\n\nFire!mory sturen, to wild will-dressed wid] wara Grimons, druritus, ce \"rition semireli, & to to th\n\n9 BSDICTC LA Dean Haroon A day in tres the- minutan at arisan out of the to the Trot of the Thru His name it That is We do pet bailouteelee-tegematele se itse og ann bengit of Be C855 Hail C\n\nMin Late strane THE MEN serve thal Asia ber my kayfreedano: 1:1parti, aná, v Hie Marsileasy as Rounders of Stuse was that He Malas the In 1 KESWICE-I lund by 97ention goes on the Dolby. thie Gevt. SPESUSilve, ntā pagr Exgnilatie's vises nova rejared vid faith 4 wes Where I say, it is n the Brush Plans (latang 3 THE COTTOR OF THE \"GLY \"E\"\n\naz te geat of pvull eraðs, most put tevis ; mona vele ver has a place. Pies; tidered eat, its fall relic of this stins | Ganer bat saived thu sidress • gratis. First Contr. Recio! aveur, Horanles invos, but no tam | pintaci su pizan be nou. Vertinacy, and one fonate fieldzy. Now, with regard ta ble ears-i pase sad Dime, or that class ivel'ng bova 228 for frma a well in frang Batman's, pat. Ti-That že o priven meget tlus Conry. taro anation Prep, tek bid! get hatimay sakeney and the City: 2005 on youthly that bez bandi anzf Porbes, Kumping, no! Buttonjto are numeste ledicine water, allow as 67 kek live wit\n\n¡ xxl7—7'5« Cibinasa par A permet, of Gia, firths ALTE IN PARUM. In in for 13E DOULACityrinu of expeting and principle is open to bang ezized, sad liths malým should make chaß in poor toma's and she smu 2.8. pilti, bu grifiadors Tauve gira sabut\n\ntial recaps why the Coairal 9-heal, bo i friand ven reply sitowards anail if britan they say about 150 que\n\n4 is Canali) y parties at Ying Tante, and stiles to which Le nifay a pevale kraedem, which hit says is retiembly for (trave I anu padmašnu iu i anticster which thought\n\nis all ing wall that\n\nTeal esasen ing my 'ansiaty in arcqualatt bobalf of the City\n\nwhat I vil tidy serata sulge, Ba\n\nI have cored to deal with wind any hum\n\nfriend all the uremica in the matas before\n\nFr. WX WEE FRELLENT\n\nmiter\n\nille\n\ncwla proradiva co6 JAN\n\nb. then whys bales foeling and use if evil in unaniment by hygienia 7 200 this vejrt a l'erfiandra and spot as talla ng car des Count the site due. I a\n\nof Hot Pure Wicole to gun cursed Hon W. KRANICK-Went has this opinion, an lbs lour of yea that there is the water figny, be. fi cu baial\n\nFlow bright appears to infial: ore 20 psules go for : Hon. W. KER-CR-The states made a una nithecol?,\n\nofil er i live polition you belief in eet Beet as fad Free rifi ple for shut, and whe the: she clerk save la pet. This is I this it sunds that\n\ncesto mezip such eat, Flank through this drownin, und is aptly. That mowing as one we had in\n\nHier hour mara manger to lussophathing boltes cology distration it is whatever as reps the faid or is it al prepakot potatale nitawaja 19\n\nis abújh she (ovnemurit par forward as one whja ļesi\n\nbio of the propis\n\n•jakich zonifů ananmune âute the w7\n\nIt is • admitted hall by en lys that the l eratis\n\nWas the\n\nin Ruening an agilise as by the Areas of any\n\nstreet parpaces, angane paliely p\n\nde of stone on the lieuter. But theer ARMAG. Indem aliaisi janam Did these sur Pass Fresh Esigo na; and E inibi é\n\nA ̃1⁄2·ĺ ̧voi mute ro3000 mica po Z WEST Loving 25:sted very bizi. But whether diketik sted the moller of hou frient, i use this wind, 61+frati ogrevinent tax are Tey finiumo delves see yemi sar. Who Elet and probaldy wruh) bave revived an from ! with the Gateruor of the Lingy--not a private' wiži pudgavour in some littly nay ta elutty Hon. P. DATE-Four Exssiones, I La i se zised ad kogal Hesign. The coom within tha Ledline j does he wires far the pence f\n\nI or twn of this pie mus with whom hargahas oracugement. Nat if loin due muwahead, and it was nazazavry en séjourn into the our the board and made listinction of run like is a so deed placul lantion it outts for repard Faidanud kapt np. Now when thin grein air where purfeet freston asosan pe primera intalni sen of very littla volte\n\nbut which ku ketdi mustining na gortinasi, buka publikagiberent,sualizing the war, wing theisere instag was 35\n\nhis son. & also, is only\n\nas rrrded in the achives of\n\n$10 is an vtis.len in the immatra sé thế | cada tetang kia Anteract on behalf of tuni grant was while at Brast shoa 1-1 will pay relatiations asco barn 10 boss Jenk at tais docugans I Suì il vento! Bishop : perfect place of sting, Brandi and - shan Tefcool loss gut and wred abnet Qzava,sni itu City Hat Domaine Nut beits in chiron. But is to th; thus Chiume shocfai tan fesole siittist for Bandos, who knows in crazies of the peopy. £zi way is that petition was aldriand' I saw New, how done it rat pose that he has provats ascertaganto, it is safercad en by Ni! Song of Subs, usus 1:22 jild to Rustáceana --Uqwysd \"apien the rom i jant forwsted na to apport of the TZ, and, I nothing we chau this, that the allowance nemandiola ou a iz in curtain\n\nte mít paplḥins about it\n\nBieber Nenast! in Ine Legittutive soutien al pot row what and there a wait then was la bu oti inellatio was\n\n2 tabanitants of the cutting, walk\n\nIndartet\n\n7\n\nI toss the Colony\n\n• Quien me to Thies His Pizon?lencia de gand mź hero Liver the snow but for 3, 2009-10-at weekea Trapsih sat fantorvel | olast or way inting was writsee, to her the weld te rentaż to have this pubertals, as mini ant\n\nalrea\n\n3.\n\nPOOCHOW.\n\n... દિવાન\n\nCum sa of oser 1000 bars non fately\n\nthe tag to be friend for Ruhani mion to get only tacite and do if the aneste grimph fake nained in it bette Close are park that are vital subfack. i did i\n\nLetos tu sit Mewart Fick-Bowls au Laid egacervlug on if it for its the yzestion af\n\nWeizenez goub, vaul bacro any skin tuakamgii dotare. Pagråleang, ** Ball croatie, w J. -listand is verbay of it, Darjatiny\n\nward in the g of Cacic v., is to Houghouse or Royʻeraber 1990). T-24 Central Seals that fit the toes then f Fire Tanks ne pralared, sad this et rute of You fill great, goatlemen, that the in the clicting my shots tres para tang thaia; aul Shore T.. Rida suger what is, what lasts thora para before His 2x2)-Well, put on, the 28- Sto pay the Cumler of Cay Hall &\n\nthe enuitles which Tudnoc:[ fitant to ensue lo che ion is that we go into numifiées. mited way hon, fridad as it like a pren Liry sad Mom. Now leven in the actum Hapus\n\npar with foil what the buyout deaising that it was Jassie to bars sanh & raisi\n\nREXI just wished to mantien thr tical m\n\nnextsto priglas Library, I r\n\nThat Lie au bout de man tieto present augier between the love him\n\nEvans......\n\n(the Blizzona - The Lineary is\n\nFace Fallecious are many out that the ruor, atd.) robe:dole masher of (a) 27 er han etarg nationality. tory visitor in experent\n\nMandal for thought a hoary-that it was de parargo the sins of this these try of intake, ther neeband. I don't say If ene Chame to fit ity Hall in ult, Jr.) Assistas, buty wat of co\n\npraliugua man of commuap repas arben a question\n\nBi That Mesura for the first to con\n\nRattajanandanthin is,\n\nStay Draper pengar couples tcpolder the M. WAPYA Buttkulinară! 123 prevedadest Bay\n\nTheLofalet tock'stezia of Ch Extors When thasard of autoiwan at the Mzimate for weld: logh 15m kopaln Ausing zoals\n\nHi. W KONWENT-I loveit 11. was ie the land shist for years routed spina in at ! distthy news writing farmen 155 komm cius | plyer delve thy verlay and etar 18 Dygrenda lɛing than it so celboise with p 1. His Exauraser-Sy hon. Prind in word Impiantin all jovent and will hot without of thinese uril 5 werter\n\n·TAFFCHS 29082x.\" [~4? T\n\nSasta 1% to Say Flist in mir bosh tor to write his ust in a back chisis Till be hard ww2 MES THIS STU was princisely far tha Change—[här. {and verticle ben clearly en meiakað pinjam sacītutina His Extil-en huâ gaid he jatenauer As is grupes Rue dizel Zr th\n\nJouni cammern, mina thu Liburg rank they are bined is not forward sono sud a flourile dinte sitte\n\njabi for verutal vaaz there spessową tu trim for shut purpose br ha Chinney stationic ca a ima 1956 The Muwatu, way by nu gus alt, fur that\n\nband that is total co thin t\n\nCli\n\nbien: di tea mbiorit\n\n¡ vested by thiChty Podi Ceramitta. Authues forte - Butuanjon are to pesad the Cainen sejrts: bailług 18 tiny dice so tas iucuronate zikatooding ihat it is rapemented to than ingalist17 moizitasulink ? mL at 23:24 sud disinct das mi kannstugstor\n\nLEELANDY --Nor I and the mic fu sa minah lama la fiche Hall Nawar que soli kava tinaght valepked for tunaitsey Nets. As for 25 jall Bar Majesty's nabírata aboalů be incited gas fired & E-Br slani 15 bei 1st illuded to it\n\nthe\n\n'anic bogen kvilzuse whink would bring the wiwa ke pazne to capnífur lây Montication, marais fuja and days there are suround, bl\n\nCus\n\nwood bit rabur of Punakom, a few minutes\n\nSulition to nofog tals Iturh, which gives it staldetest Cy at Committos, Arthurdle paid to Alto Sax hour,\" trong she fionana : GRASS by 11:emed the bou, find Mr. Briv | Ha Esta prey suid–f way zermark that time the fine was plaent, som 320 sul mare\n\nat a E,\n\nwith me to inseam you will deactions Pure car endurtending for\n\nchoi\n\nif the Chicow or restricted in their pat is en augstunt Pignis Anchorage. To cai thay if aliwat the big day. lost, and by low brisk beary spa sad tingi Hoth. il M. 793. En countion with tank and be rettider of heal\n\npolish, sed ut reviniti latter of bis, analni tosil camporie: to\n\nunsabaltiesa, vre on fat she day my\n\ntopoinputs with the waan, is indivalme, should be published ulna, ta for furti darator at Lewinebres to red wine et argent at the cult thei\n\nis Barunvor vejeded to this,\n\ni was see 19h mit elever sin Coppie baza en chote way damn the cust. for ideal has apparent ist und ebrian.\" That an aliek sudarso tute Liten aninge sits in her warm ul. Tre in alana sterzone i Hes sharial rise that warrant the\n\nreply to Mr Brits, the GYRENAE site at the Busz ismal has formed the craze. To matag yangi Fash, ani o esanie w role analy your to Bay Merit, was in Winca is indistiglione Tabery in sponu wa shjacting us so ganės Pay My\n\nling sure the maybe, son a high featñilar to the medico which en and exit for a one with Ewest of Junts plagunited's bullar which forte jention torming to the safer it is eft, quid he happy to col the brave tax if any delling of all the great struce JNUTS, CERIN\n\nwhich made it y\n\nmes we span, at bo en will anays be water ny the bar of the Minier atelet\n\nit acogit, moal for worn, with the Mitigate them, the Bellis flat out to fhore, i sant three sul verse in this still spite of something bich was posted a spirit tai, tie pored star eg the Civil Pa. thur H. Regina - I really din ne observe fait down by the referral Manuell and 26.50 Suremile drums, pin. Hied as one part, w Bas entertaining remni of the shena 23 12 this one of post 1, 201\n\nof the month of tail to a prepare the dams to the chose to the which aint they will End they ware bases are fupra fata vwerlift ad this pole time. E152 31 3 world, not hara jaan. Hurling in Was $4,000!\n\nAnebo what the Wersung auchorage - Stanger, and carga undan saproputato cirst se w the the 27 Bu might is placed these atraints that this mother when the gut e duerte Sir dickes tan teactor are operaeil, 1 may milf me just as sail fuelite, and that is brings tom sleari bat he ususidered the fun of 32.05) was dugnatiot go farther in many boats be rest iphit hard astrartin de santhe City hall there as loterial, o Coen Tubio-avis, in which bo ogrel in de ware by rain trade the rug test juhet mad high, osing sous, por quar, a role was no tie si stannes than it has rest, we\n\nty homes as erat, uccisive, Loan the publish of the mail say Hell I still hose tirat yarr Stellewey by Mes Recertary of State, a propesat which says capete, and be 3d not kace whether it would sitheera Pling my at Pazia Asia-340 free lays he thinks the subject of this 1:07 18 the man tar face kept the newer haurd of War litiers arsuri dent is a gladiators extimate to slooo that it be out wellent but it sen, hot gir pay for embrass\n\nTane guwa in šmjurlanos at the uzmagant si su cas id imestayng 4 Avene 2 of back. It is, as, the over the the Cubanite word seed on he was before the Wines Camille ter der I is to trial fus vix de 25. Wars. tr. Rais fare Ife Exteney maid ha han en dosha the chas, and this Laiwan in get\n\ntaner to wie is she notes of of the Colous, aloited a trials presented stagestion that fa vie anathe the suite in die buiten. You calling strig hously, which tam enim fo corny could we't afford to pay the e, with shina the Gevamnei Gongel Butt weber get a fuck no situr leveruer lenght Braing of Das raresin chupke so tried and pl¦ soitin Chanaitley is to the s| Vorancitbu icto exedief xià alt those extrúlera next rest la pisha baze te ads wanej We have to shrozic's sziil acocker Are is the\n\nbar, y mention has a catid to it by buy adopting in giving brunstane but fuellinicus acute lirien coup rate at PEL, FUT in fatara! me with fiba sortam 1ke ramps! was to be pail to the tastes. £19 94250, TN Men Flat desenli wekies, fefend saposito (Mr. Koawick; that non-i postively focosa. Severačun sé vit se saz. ↑ Te voxounting with the Fire Briguén Win. Exanth vise of the True bridge. LE And this of mine of whjes he was the iconic Mit Frapiacus fiat me batut the three instem in was dete with it? Et was malena de las | 37 the Chicers 1 bere it in ta, west of my tiens and leef lost to cyfuss ebay tavo dovo MOUNT nugh.\n\nres in stin Cig Fall, wher. I do aceited as terassing in the den Now, why did grant with the trust word, with Sir Bricare suntsile TM-30s, beface Chice on othersion by 1 gray of tale, 15 is paletta/sury, in rapy to Me. Rysis, suit Le haperi i time being burn the alps ant dantings of a the part of the Domalie while was most to the in? Tain with it was zalany to spel for admiring at that as these instruces they have per the tower the bits ranks commend Sam. Here pourer clair, mavily worker in and in th Lou to the Quictive of the Crease. we only when my friend Mr. Pelgave wad one or athena day decor, f he day eve it is upon, a seat was a one stspert ju jie mang. Lipon ita fered to the veinbiy odacarter of the now on-inance the fish to caree\n\nwith a 2011 died inletocol inta ita votor stars sing trash the next up in fraf sick that Saturday run, wil be tafel. If such der ute metal stentic thun tay chilik taten nn the hill.\n\nof an Aarse moman who hit the losshote fine enfersus in the preetings of the din cafted by attraction to win fair own suede,ali kis returns that a lain mere I doing for way tend to have hantved noon to aquilar hot - KIR Kshes her hy wondd gan the orar a borries was king ra\n\nwhat is his dut. of Intent at a 3-as szive, 2 in. Arstid arte e cons why the nationing in way body of stinens, Sc bn teatav matar for it, but 13 on saat\n\nAndlig ont apan tu Soor, is said to hum pra sedeker, satin shkonin at put up or is 14 the dishary; it way, I want within cad my few sumie nonauliun wih sus rate for les plancing the origluating puran. The dram rol Post of Corpo and a good way in a distinction areas one subunits and ane by the\n\nreatif To tomucents. A zonit & giziren at the time gee. We stok dispiceltid hul beca drar as ini. Cuir life in a Bubar to have justion at your avaliares to se\n\nnatice nonthe lock, and by sider, pescu to be olanly on for an ofthe tea planting mock the calf the of the Fein Steel, ant tures I saw whm w granle the latrary, hot arly at angels libeeecanes dels sun to way be is authorison by the dua mani, nal hele kuo that of als du mities will rogers to the poorsica debts Jericot a fan apply a beans The fire was ultimately hun. feud but marred, ils surd, with word Maver, Bad that dign is resintu ees of Stat\n\nalls for apenience of no Pagkamene pusest ei lana erdhi padaveratrakarunas houltsing, Caluse they furonoma substantial | duned the nutni sat hy the Harvspondisse.calumppad by high tire walls, the only doincar Per S when Sir Riclista Hagberall way at the case for portata da 01 b. Le Dieng, euent maring the same mered The Cause masin for idsisting na vne ratas hassuke x-fy the 1-1, bar en fast it ages, in as Poslin any machh simiyat diskier where, na\n\nGeely (s. 2015 2014 in our se le ha a la salleer else Thistory the bad bunny semmiraz is, I should start on pringle or the head of ten pollase and catur hans, armerthing rariter to\n\ntheir . The Sear adope-dedisticetin of tmsits with the the Couition will me its way to the just kept work from being med in, and having to theupertion at the bare rw vabail is $100, wing the lowest psd baks in fusign, zyl- frichir lat\n\nsud verme vejo a wil\n\nfor Frise C is gun, ty bạn) zurios gw brought to my klaw, vice, wizi del all ea Theo- i The am Fr. Omentioned mig i fu ITA MAY 1 itu le! i cry alas to do with the sprites. T tovers The wriods of the routine the 5 the karviatge of as Execdiva. We thus sutirnos candpostera \"imecrestiny a cheer of Gtitor of, Semestary of Stat mula besterly spar to theta i vite Odily, laztimo ser Rat hy the war. ની ના કર મા જય essed or\n\nof deres herman\n\nTelon it comic b sugar bu question,\n\ni with reard to the opinions i wich wer hencky zaprovu. Krurgiling ↳ Indesitating, ja ainsady nesire any beat. ke it is aning to the age as wisten to deem wa I do I procentum to log the tacts began, das câm?\n\nthe easy plow at Suttlwys in simil Teen Fiction in the bat je de su i wdriseca. Alu bodies may buty sensitised, and Laulandins trens zu teile rossaanud, and the 9-1site Granite or Year Baker My upl. | flors expressal shant tuis vriten, it now ngress | dessa by Mr. Preč, and his gialt la exisul send i to invite a fraula eelagratine Daring des\n\nist dert time can be trudi shu Oltr Hat. renditions on with the rich, and inside a chourly A Car of 11 turnier in the Cormaritice sunalil give way. Yours us that the winciple that the Chines skuld be si us ex aliony with sud men toguses of the fry the baith ground of the foreign Cataset. Un Lil Practition from ozatons estetion of my Lists Council to Bengts new wide in sanitat way postal actions in the Lead of this Colang sud que fins sail withinst distimation issue which the lieuty and sabitation of the Globy trad settlement was cupied by swerment. Obses End Tamarac, in the Chemie 19 as the antogs the consitions lari doru sad said beet and saying an intriga jery The Que. Henry read ill become this Gevenmant a ubuitinate these in to get\n\nspastatom. To view of the rapkling with which e sendiri fruen tac form the dial until they die Fitohard McDvareit were married cal, suggentul.\" So it goats to this, vial thaasjanything ipinvolved, and I think the Doemitter: by não munding itself, as is small, by contiuning Tiwi maitint and ped, and ths; the Quarea xurrad it ray conated fomunale\n\nis the only buy the banues this an adjournaā vise után, with good grane tałybt giva nav. -(Applan94;. || tance in Gaking the pablin hatisation as writes hy en Coloma Bears interwing\n\nthat bab me lữỀ, was frat, that ef's women. Wiz Kui à la lu en paradily as yours.\n\nenigste, eta, formerly, 19 slade\n\nremark in this astawagina that thu many of the Now Tobicera that is ang waste the ten sow the se's Eilish us from the Ciry B, forory con\n\nThe CO2. LA RAYTRÝB Capranil\n\nChinese Hansa azertm) quang The Balša Long hi what we may cat tinent, of sunstide of ratianulits I wont be able to the Croma t\n\nko ilify the tino wet abolish this disine vain word worth shall, or moto, más gomiresi ifis Montawe yakul that soten other li cuncurrenes with why the way-thengri\n\nalio have geroan phimnina, whtie a te sil the tenabimusta.\n\nwey sould net, under their own oficialu, legally Jen, phê ch at the stassarunge to whisk Lori salena the vote of $1,29 is the case for gradjamos e so weidy 145 tan loses full wish 14 sport, and if staat bad muld ban be toge but its myrarl of sår | Als lid tore them CRNI & Surgenstok pleto. My hon. The street six Bahaul H. No Che pH st. Konte har on them in naked if the actus one ne\n\nStr. Koseck ought to negly as the whole. | tr al Choration plus need is pd-\n\njava czy primis at all. Chizzne chiar tow will got owešu Leenivase compaties great for. The Tacions Zerouts which the Ciry Hall Confriend, the Can of the Concier Rogled as an ad that the Orient contains the paper and be a telit\n\nitt ut is their pesos un this subject\n\nÜhisena rilatta alirdies, lika, ele, ba basi kuskanů A division Back pawiutka damnader. Ibaliano Gavazninduzi vine nizma ka et ten dissarlice which was iron, se might be it räh, mai no tie alber hand he was seed it del sol,\n\n| 230 to the most fregnent avms, flaît via caco)295- meating safer that impraton sat after all bees of\n\nSacrate of Raye Pauna ay sayi. Jakker ng exferumas in the Chinesa anwser, Heiloriom rowed bis agiofior hire nine that\n\nJohu Frily, & fly play with a with a when not in unalen an son Fyrrut pe puzzel, blesk zalomen may if angad that there was no pason why the ¦ he had smo vil the papers des was quiba katimĵoj, what's fart? I am no mitation in say with me bad. friand, and 2 saat Mt. The toy ate of stang Gogh to do that. The Mastinomicu ploaie, he dzewz iu dha Maxcurd cavan bo llonght aue marovalier 1945 and he later vir wie dak and suc+bie in the done foot doop is shavings, inna\n\nWe hus mehilfa basyonquer's Tres that the Durty 14 CREW This Coinsy Sassore laut a sobat dit to the Q than in the birry er al Garda tak wat\n\n1st necessary to\n\nto avoid display and Cound at Sâu tales on 1 p gloss a potus fow for lies in decuster na cully Huttons of 3.5 taken by any but friend, auf. I think, thres vai, Pira stins impuned by die Kishan, ler area is the muda, ale ting erigiert audie Gronder about do their holy and are flak otar-fied wonte de sout, data stail bawire tres ant s\n\nt structural so which run kvinne nessure Tyler Tuber, 1 ki ze she wolf Danball in winter will be sent than 1 cther Sir Basenow but dat vupie wer emitir\n\nne day's imprraoniomed with. hard Liceor\n\nIelísapte and rapidly repison? after a fry, mom thee to the vaseg ini terors the pastic in this the ammuity to underabad id, td the ban will they read: He bad hva a wood, out other in land or W. Knewick was ay matam zu\n\n¦ offantire moms evilk, ke dualt, long mga kama sport apply. It's begin nith, not cari the gouliaran who has soovi chce with rukost be the princnt of tiny sencers, Rag die duize it has viritet kat ke sesturk, s silti tiis agn, that what he retaiSudan Quan bend hinn Aliu, chair or he taken to wear we recales of\n\nut is mild to the Lens heel ander print ante and fel any hats jush. Tow. Byrtit us any tarala se bo quid asset to me sui de urcan tear though wer limb csazhen and becaria o ung aldaera att meget gith being at largs fight whianitie\n\n| હૂ for Guy Hail is hald, not sel is id ant the und train, and when ass Deations. I erts it all site in its win at lunak iparkance als Try fine 165 USD ON A 20 18 30 14 was tru primare suited the cbszym and sail\n\n-Ho-ait.\n\n· passes er Eighte tas condicions in which Rue Majeye Color the Eye Cats plan wewe was 135 He was the 4 giggipte invalves, Midar e Beways and i had toned gre tummaat gays the Owap land is fast greti dio of gfogott tart lovin rate at tagesalf anyone can forming 2010 at 60 lety Parerande parter, Feud wie kids, and come tear deal of the ad witmotion in hints & restante of about the led gran nirapluie war ROLL INTELLIGENUS,\n\nLa sic, ut elu tras mutant to be the marke der sedious of Dorthe only preference had plug to the wese dy had the down passupponing he himself wice a Chinesa\n\n* Wold it 4 snow somari Mrogat it was stutis savage\n\nFrisa Jeth Bepianibär. Sad Dock is rug arm with the Irgat date. Holly going over historien wery if he hit wald wurting high le selos China SP Ton banker, and a clades. 2000 for Now Phan, and 3 for care be\n\nties Opines fins that es in nobu Finele earl, in latenti spertyzinar\n\ndemedimgataverunt.\n\nThis muse for re Jun Vás vyhjnet, all of Dece veing in fo riso iroporncarut\n\nI ara gires widely in en the Curritas of the Che Bill, and enter a part tuntien laat said rep distincio, fat diet tas fechange it Try, Pony of the roth-, to outlet to the 15 band thats at\n\nwhether it is poh, was a harunity, ha es thought that, aking there ne mazure, we did our want to induce laws that's an ens for Malan recinte a last usta, af 8779, ↑ Ất bát Khay kali noting there we sway on which shown windward hat that lie na vas trinxicogrpalet fra the multic of the Ocluas; noll not only aid den tur proper coul'joms, ruke. When i wnded to the noto, Íses has buy to mala the remarks by hul huiendly in ths Lenoiry 12upply articka ut sa-\n\nThis portioner ting Chau ceguity, it fata un interest, so saberis, to write Shop with hand ishong, for being it at might without a f\n\nms with the Gay Bellmuntik nat be worthy ni kios atam le petuniaj ti ha terast. We a misty bonis Tuen was moet satz, nie aan, who thecongbly under New spil\n\n21 Snomitis W they refeed in avonds to did but eps at in what to cured be be a pamphlet published and the e way his deal it is unha prisala peps kibein tube init they wore to consider sansiling jiliin ang sedan a pubi, progr\n\nwaterped to which the suplast the icons, V. BENTER-- Wax Club Kant, stich\n\no Tha!? Chin, qui tim who to Tony Crem-It was with\n\nwhen sh\n\nBanctus leva je 12 angling sterg Berpart ned i the evani should be wholman. À leirs majesty of whom are B, W. Kravy's--is tem imel tong tatic. Al stop psttleman wout away frots the it is smster Nonfading\n\n(thirty mass of hazine, hank macaquer, badingjieskruplines as 26 jantjazd 1\n\n11th 3, 1960.\n\nE\n\n0. MarissiOS. that cl\n\nLive F\n\nthe poetic, and of the Chinese the\n\nPOLICE GOURF.\n\nSimpú zalogs.\n\nBETX Hos., PRAMOZILY.\n\nLAUNEINYERS.\n\n↑\n\nbriel.\n\n■sy right\n\nBACALMOE.\n\nMaria Corte, residing at No. 55. Hully d moned fri ning baland in\n\nBook Gill, og vraneh..... .... ikk Bunk Bista, at taget sight...9/9\n\nBeur Bills, at 4 months' sylt 9:95 Credis, add-ondas' sight Diary B\n\n97%\n\nsight 8/95\n\n|Hongkong vad Ahenghai Han's Sheros--56 car\n\nnent, pralaim.\n\n$1.1.\n\nBesk Company'\n\n467\n\nthe tab of the Guts of the day, string se sul way wow saght hand others to use it in the rate at ng Lag et Avids. Benno da janel Antler Ilanted para say. Applause, the und into a cage finne des Er is fed an AENKY-LENAL-Your Exoticusy. Insa seu de Le Cutudy were luvitaż to set the sick, wirrty beach of the man\n\nwernlar of this unit is th will not glue in say ar: She ass, Cafe, and seruit, wit aigle bave stunt on the 7th lastan, Cartons of radice, su apkalatty is others. I was reed we the armies of the Unser Jurijn 33s sys: Cealth gets set for 2001 Buddar so far Regaiglad with time History, view is en we eater which would want the tie the compliant spared and alert to\n\ncundusly of it, baxing bad mary of the papery nangutan ainm and at the wine line paseret mer khu suoras defendant, bad propriend j kso bat & Blazer and your reactor Woll weyuser, and Sir Richari Mahio- tione 1 varennstrinn, P. The letter of Siriona i Coluty, thus I think i was la aule Lộ đay chemistivation inday interlod, 11 west meat diy.! s Worskin olized tito paraisses tɔ bu wish. fa City Hall Gogiste hane 3 max belle minute si Fane there a horror tend this was the first atter A commicio, was mide 16 that the rules orai yotropical and Shingve with into my co sina bare home to sender and aging. As why we at 18 fr nuusy bun any more.\n\njen lúc tatan G. Weil on earning, an ear, the candituunt is regularizam. To thun Ist es im that key bace hangat befe day.inters to the curtain and spent may and a\n\nEmali Oner, TE, the queda as St Ste on there and grinte tought to Anyon with biok me down,\n\nMNYA WIC), AUSTRATION OF A SAMPAN. by a wild, the anals frate. Il for in the Katie theatre, which has been atenek unë do see the friends wunursened that meating will be see\n\ngifter boʻp thinking Katte the regen premuted i grank dual si túinn 14 weakhey the mamus pēcini Chay Agau, axrani, ploy. waz olmarged Tuin Lubrano, Society of Canton $6,100 jueve To sheedacta parmoor of the army to 15¢ Treta, 15% olardil ka suk lezh sgoi starter the suutition i sa the shenai mesiñe gå väsyabulčera ülves are in thermoirs, and I zazpot ezvecdingly that with berg in cuswiel petion of gains Taulers' Cucuruno Cuszany's SEAT- Inriana po deam that this graph of dwa 19 best by Me. Heuris\n\ngiven the Crown on ende naudition\n\nCAMPER & -rise theiz uzike i ouersze fonince which mak patically gone Relay be intends tooling inte\n\n$14 per abara Mobay aguroval. Wade manor of leases the master Joh fire se audit Patent Wondag afsmann las inmigte in que SAVED LEUS the mtupushin' tab 28 $2,000 vistas de avviser so long the many tom kritisi bien ager tu --¿ni, Est na part, grad uliarita Doe 12 Horn Resti tahang: Chions are zorgs fent qzdira» fi pra WOPE HO Meh 24, 16 ahoy, 25 hour after-vatls it who? Yanga: takuragar Amrint fou-128 750 Ft that the Gorerane who put an Bhan 1 od not only acting on the way the forsrities pats gandaren al trono protquity as I have à era 2015, fi ha tine has an autistry. The pubers of was made tot along life the wail th towerth Chius Lesarwasy-El 1911 per dra ferat fur ton pay of the cursor. did the roste, at i was wing in dampring ut veu excivic•• spesis condities whats were vialston by the ais garsut put hefur to sixing yi ve Me\n\ninstalar o friis Bars for the discusic WC, Neregation too wont be city in Chinas slug, was fad the Ki Wan wi jungamitin vifusal tàn panchina me kinlegu 2\n\nI nonsted a tigh an ad rope ries rodard gather, ispers or who id has he got the hosting runes Champang -- 1990 per share, micus of the Chaverque with mugact to the poure that the reina di un munt 19 saulriviet to get more an intern wil die by to feed on the site. Kg Cheyyained at Tang Long Chua,\n\nlat the Exptira. Now, to begin with nary in us to see the ancey was to be paid. As E cavortbekeskust 1. rebede binaries we formed in a fry tally. But fury ibaonde beardon and other plac\n\nHarpley Vice Tearance Voupery'e naro Finas, ideatons month's wagesansare satin Company's Stare→→ 200\n\ner here. dau. Iney mention that fie reg a wide assuard, two of the ramulines of the Cobiit. 1945, wad icartfans when the Cabane retinate in my biet night on Wiki Halia Sha plece there is aiment lord labour.\n\nlt in my hand...it is Enf the Jish is nuttes, ha friend Les right (311 Rygg Treat may they are with a year lielinist of, but it is hardy so this pigenta. A Jay hon. Criar as wat lawan budaya, Ilagued his old Plate in a do pur. This goes gemi of pile your time it was fall me bail to take fra kāņu vee-\n\nDr Hox. Me Chor, As it all Crisis. The heater to lich this inspired with a y la vicer Derailing to it and tall and over the nasty sit, ut alatut of 3 bank 3-mesell recall me abrent wallies, bras anys mean blican Feranceles E dit sag lats. The gastants are perils Me. Egri haid Mr. Na hry has got his is a altes in the two item was partly TELAMPUL M.0% YALOGERY. Charali Dek aripany-ur (norára?).\n\nThey by and) de All Euls was perff, and who sang outed any level.\n\nDe Karikh Theg attained the joblie pagers\" centers to face gardenias Thu var khe Executing and wider grouse d' gigs | inter eordnete uslove instilation sensotul\n\nhather sunry to pullen pering the rate is in line at if the weared of race avionics, than to weben, fully go into bus and we would as the time and three teal mydia tieners far as the City to the Joy. Now, the popsite mall No eder facing this thesewing clan that instant.\n\n*** were front of us at wretcon junghusgatina Domupaus-Tis. mat meeting short ficut and dance, I have uitution in namlinger thai 1Talk is entran, alig vary which lets with aged to the WING MARIN. Now, the Hapins, le Furius and M. Ang my nose made in the Coward stestion of the City Hall is made it Taanini –A's Hacullovere line, read vortjens së Pantianiae. Duijoms at 11a ameling at waren hatalm og hours vidaselbringe at the time, Pioner 2019 points out, persky a zmesiden eritte Cir is reallway would til hot lo duke labo tu ŝinaos Man, aut i\n\nPha by casting expersitas i rams of han did, which ten te and the tests the division took plway and mad pengesai lenne in che nicest taxy, M. ii Hino's my fat way it is a visit the wordby eling be bad paren\n\nto porta budding to her as a City to lacus with the Ouseetan ajaratha fost ittla stol of jualance in the dion pply of precise com, utista (be City Hall al, latin of the and same triail torfes majority of us, my hon. Feland was in the shape of user nulis in 2 gher ties & QUERIES, Harios regard to the decorumat ca la xevy--ttish it linkly, gue. Vi tar the property and dauelson of the eneziemohair Hopsiue, Vietas med Rařkanjee (in the Colony in win a cistiveŝión 26 rands which the Cite Hall gone was originally made; ulemast, afler what has passed today, the vote? in prisoner duabargod, and the ser ach is dead. Under · dusi pro voting against Kosen yriados. Nes betwest Chinase and Malinuall, and Arin Now T. And, referring and the auto. n the Gaternant la bu hesapla pubin wet the finques i actuaith me they are the trades, any bau. Inud Yr. Ryse.\n\nkud, fogonsh, it by rublish a passo matraci or a sinh vreg te dent thu maghty packs than to setarent wirk kara lakove, in the papers, of whics wil nie wat mitted by his bat ires end, for the into suster; puid fe greater be, as mejority, stille of fritt. that whether in te thela heilbar 2014 hare Tud vt riría pallic merding • fo Codicem se ajay's resin ett forish and a hig\n\nlegal interactatiow to be put by the sepotin. For Tribrary and on any, that they are being up, on read, thanped with de pered my huu, Friend Mr. Frasines action, with ei alajesty was peachately but say if patient the trova ales 20h wargarint deals sot rren ur Governants was the must als went to whs and pichont lettowns to dileeping a pics wered Kwai Ching, agad tastes was in factating us, like eager, drms to the and whinged wind Holi bared ofertatiou Treta Net Buteo mu to You Get. the person thus when the whole teagurile Coqzinal will de cars, zon, papers to spela sua cha) my hou. Front, was beside hit in lasers with swertes a day on bestelfing the low Half doent and wait in baza arquis of any nation. From the action de base ceart it appancs WHY ECOD. nd that he alize toplumeninostics of tain kad ne Cracnes's indong 630.routes for 153; i oruit ell Aference for this standing my Jestido shopsecipás of having the this nomlignity, îse what in Greetary of Stade Fthes tau virild won tricen ont by her aunt for a the City all for a long time, and he and Mitope Lane bald, with put to blen werk of this sides bave or given a file of the dark far, 12, 1 wit.cat distinction to say in his disure, of which boyfriend state, bilst at the aunt al pro frict de car Taleemalivu nad by fir Hinhard RE12- 1. the tation of the Privy. Po papers to which paneles per Majesty's rublote in this coling, mas é thuhet Me Bewick Westem Markest and\n\nfor a cat siderable garini. Now, want ¦ Construct inserrate to reby!! tabia y 'anit, fcrowd bad na opportuzity ! sweptat. I say tha qulation is preso ir Wietzki Kicks-Erat in vurssticu with thao,, sa se ducking poLLDİ NA Droneand safer wheat circumstances? His set of Enerpeun Lith estimateds, mas belong. Parika ärst 11162 11907, MA Aria! Para zmoc faith, a yelise it may be called straite COMELE\n\nperodus then its now the Mad gan fuith. Parikat it is a gasulica of gelosipis I am hot were far met joub Scout the war tius, was walkiay\n\nMy h\n\nthere. Share 1 povab\n\nWomen Laai, nenudin, and Pho kyk, a booty) Langhong, Quaten, and Kana Mesimbrat. Cole\n\nang par skuro premium,\n\nSANTO por shpen (wominali, The prisoner said he and boral the anand China Const Stean Narization Company--Ile.\n\nword en wand this boat wis\n\nat wisse be hired it., Jongtong Gas Company's Shoes-5 pmr The escond palconer said he picked oy that Ebare\n\nHongkong Hotal Company's Shar--98 par\n\npoliwral posing\n\n1 Sennaš pri. ·\n\n·legal induía, vatnik in Mestra. Turing: J'a gust det har tosa salì shown shɔ City Harities in Wes by Falni except “bas no. 1 auf Se minusai tlmub 1,999, heen zacnd-whather; wil te given for sas maanam, hemnes heroisier way Roc? P, to default úr pos impri-Caius Suey Robning Curosz. Limited-\n\njazled me mada kaolu tu nur dianliline ar \"extriona\n\n(not almu buludivad uz muski kishile.\n\nALLHORN SITE.\n\nCute Begar aing Campany (Webenturea)\n\nWong Akın and Cher Ano, zarried more.\n\nHUNTERONG TAMPERATURA\n\nwalk about six cielook on the muralty of the 8th\n\n&ia 920.\n\nCound the chill was gone. A Teleklayer, how\n\nBeri silmate in aligned to Me Austin, Colectial Serdars. He wil\n\nbe which won ma in Ribe \"fout the the sight wearing is ces policy, what of airius China abfente of a vingin print. But at the nutrita bestaan or the Frags Central anat Ja. Aust that hafas the Petí. malay pro khely covet it ought his parib for Mr. Majerly destaces that Fam vanderat tanen. I have bem baby adfere the pahie.\n\nthe Majsely to equal rlyžis lu Ibis part ca dej my hot. friend Mr. Ng Cleg was right in saying Emad the gate being shu maaruniarant of Huse of privitat ay aspon to any such bil The Itris. 1. Kes\n\nsilach, pes\n\nthe City Tale ale cums for getting a sound weekeyal actmunizsina and Fetal fndru tanu give i tu pogand, vot cut:any only, I am; alandy's karainions mth them fler Man-hat theyla masia it is a point ci penat toorts.com es Central Maskot, whya hes so two pri- Thus where is third gaustius, it is the last 1tle anitent. An I painted et ce, who were wok, leading int in factitation, so Ext so they can doubt, bet for etwas which Her Majets 10mm EE LOW Luth be 09 in Jufuli and RTE 50-ng wrecurte im of a „nees- ; aller who has just at thin souks of this, the misild's banda, and she was stung T\n\nlna prevention of a Crowa Celnay kwanza water world I think it drevesa, te coupy the the gostion of expedisser. Now, I observa lånat ja distinction of varionality. And alien the best. the old hermann Coum, auth parleg hold Na abge.\n\na por acauled with lio Queen's saving thorougkäy viższatand that you bass sout, has\n\nMasnim d Ibarge, may be halal 1\n\nJURY NEW skorši ie ci sparated an encaseandonleges of the Chevanoriuendad Score flash the peper stars as they Bestard for which may laid by tuja oonruiter of 200; subglos first hingeloon be statimeLigocina / Brirkiovur esperting bice was wron\n\n#bikinis case iter. The Walsalle en lagd floruer when boas separa i-tes are put u fm tally as reper; vf the evans at that weting, besing negara awli\n\nrolls to a grant iroņi tüm colony, Longkong long | Tas it to Said Mr. Esquide, and Mr. Petics, and Alone the comžikiaun katı vai bron viaktrā,¦ wearing the queaken yet, at I shim feed of Me. Kokkajan maarafareed to, is prbanose to the Taf Wenz mmple, Warchi\n\nSeber. 15%\n\n6.6.201\n\nBamandel oli Tokaday regi\n\nCao Amyrna, *ALLONES Y 99% Ilazerst\n\nSo.....\n\nbaplomberib.\n\n101-...\n\nCHINA COANT MEVROROLOGICAL\n\nJACONSEG\n\n12\n\nREGISTER.\n\ndini A\n\nHoga.\n\nMTANK\n\n***\n\nKy\n\nturn to Jr, Rounds, and he so beinet of the conditices irvaad by a Governor and fuąca: shear and valid Andres, and in rules are map. Ser her! is 1. 186 Easy thu 15. Jer #62 felgrote so wire nomresies.property of oto Tang Abing, aswriter, the Pornostar grly! PA)) $4.3 15.1 R2!\n\nWUTA\n\npart in\n\nwat)owing\n\natan Sets Tail in white sareipim with those aropen and Urines, this boy,low them to the Tunde Gonced, shu kid wil hundor of the hiszen, which are, it will training ma tamat banyo had. Now the itayatan do 1. sanghariali as she press elves the pups of diseasting the action leich des matury was at trait i chudu sat down on the suddette in\n\nwould seatud tank ikusion deter insolens asthanhief quits of the consorcida ir, neelave 0 nith the statuente mire the Cnted destice shop acute reformy price. We wry, that they quinyo tas ber bank\n\nAny y fretter. Bank pilsynets fuld thu eklid unt The haze Bro:\n\n• Must be fib, heeger, drift. Die!\n\nCerita dia sedan hon the\n\n*-jaatioman, and by Mr Porben\n\nbet mother, wwi ghoshall have riay ko sat. Tus razer with Yehog wire wire Site, which is wasting moldly.\n\n•SUR ACRILICIS HAS E TEM auding beacon the sumpta vi the gosti a exted thu li For Major me to fled the gul up and portug I wearing a bele day pobant finds to souble a bież po that sundlifen, mus ense affert,doortor die Bisbard Thung the the Issues eins, The sunding is raid to deny revizor an addres frah the Chinesstrand. The keyer she told a lakang sil In a Library fee by Wah, menaged or in cash edition be impayad ng the Commuterascos or these begli, doute discon le all the soulags, shepherpes of Fourkoglu that is the bed stan and heat, and they both bailonal a saduroy day tha Ananto a clone of the netractione I have read, here you as we then, the public, psy, have not say all chefonda at the kom, madlange, al griteten story tow\n\nthren, by were wetend, Ma ght Jalild to the community dr. Bare to out the Game of Thedalico in sy thin sully my it for infrey re the reizes 1 f the Chivers ruity paran, the sbild, and thi lakong thon and\n\nis strony on his all trupert greats of the cnsion of Chinese fits the City itali, they are pors of this ming to the beating of the fur thus steps of zen Charuchy tomake of the fun riavar colatinus desean parts of Tractpen birthdod as fima do visit the bin corpin Leurs zvestiar the most important were nok hargitjada i la fog. The non pents theve vot of Unregnant birth or dawrent tu sbyxlag any other nationality. 198 Engrosh avs cia be mentine; odvrsive, fun muere of the dis. Swan was the inner of tires by whom that cons\n\nTUR ALLASED MUNDESIR MINY That suite implanter 1, a 23 long, tbré, ndeed, the pedicum are to get olded inringesin way and fer rays in a want catering plains at ausder the Gance. Fl Clines) du dyung, ausartani, approved, cu prind, cumque presente sa ne pu\n\nbaise the Chit City Mall Cacation, wrote a letter which a bar persone Cover how he is to wodas las portes by far whose pile we have trudard wil niet-The Tabu, Chiusse\n\nChernor desired to statebuyer wis mazilyan or 51,803 becu mucatly, with the other papere, befure over with respect to the Wures a man be apporti, de rhe row are paid to who is Pied Bev manus you shuast the king no disuction straf vationality.\n\nthe cowplainneren of Wind the City Hall Concil. the bafeen the Chant. gira hay v do I am about Queen Vesarin's infinity, boils wiring and Earques da\n\nIstal row place? Perisur Mr. Hoppšie 1937 sar. \"Lat? be in ureets with the engattomalts it ing! Chitwas auil tangered kanad÷dge of this versara public meBoy was catei, Far horaste its ceived the mid Feite plansla 60 what the Corviste waremtood, TEAGUE zbriter-panz vesz ke iznenardante! perands the title-led ai +1= property, it is a prere (209990 begetal Fuori z\n\nSee isely! Utirris and foreigners, bet file i\n\ndectwded, 13-py won uns allied to the Father romandel il Wednesday next at the 1. with fees to she advisɔn of Lile ambile; with the Sighs apkin Farben, in sicer saliency caut. it again zu erary relativas allar vidar una faseibo Wa Single proper in making that MS APT THE sidloveandag, grafts of sample polar restante si lay to see a man war it was abfamily decies by case voweydutal to imperfly wipe that it the ind\n\nHished Marbonnels wi\n\narı günque prilburt aran dotibel as in greitadinonthoing as of the saprint the the chemcing, and these chirase susjonaty of ham o'shack. pennial frenzy, which no pas in gain think wait to glade i Grind. It wat tertia en licht heuld be stres at the winding how it was the use of The questing in quation wie wit to by se ou pe bad bush previo on to be A draracteristic «uacfałe is to tell of Chern. Ate Leary to be rutbed by the al of Her Majesty' shot as book of zesian arte susite 15\n\nthat it was cry haters the Queen I was laid before the Quesa, jeje, dhe race, zealace of the rifle of en lommal terms, ap, i7 60, an M47\n\nFury entwertrine so be recovery to enaldo segi atractions, Ting wh not like katmendors of list had 1 wenid santo with rogari la them veren settlement? Wat was the spared uribols? censoren pilo. Kocniky, đã lugter use \"277%, nessans at ti a rod beverentiation of uns werk of of City - brumeriquely president of the Tinji Peter Wil, ny kon with Associated arataiken-bang, seven be szagad article was the articis which proporvi bezowice. A po 1 Molution charging the fe coghing and during il 16 two act. whish dantly Pig Lead was the Chairaus of the City Lini: Con- before that commiflar bear by the consider the repation, dy the grain of Benson of the aniony with mine lezimy was ouch appleded by the public, La Lad kapi tasi Mobiaian, where why if Mer wübleari\n\n...te naudot say that that it is unk, tlovkrantenatal. De Compatike duly sunadiared¦ quod fascia. Prevelike, inayosan, dan Committe to Wool To im Chiu rimtasi proprianou la giuntur slunce. This third so f 11 godoy GT AT reporterà trece pan panca. 5. Askotations as the mosul J• few to sit the world? zerely the question of tiba Beteramy nating, and starbed po treat such weight as ting considered this question, beaving out the on. Pip ses caution was awed by fli. Perors, wantsily tour¦ayi, qui a certain presage repac alg\n\npartout feuerlore of 91 24 to be allomat, la ancoran sich the law, with the coach-thogent the minutes omarmed to by Yome 63. Senden Plotleg kyny were requlug gel and what did say? That there we wemed to chand blanket oft lite speciaria o delu 128 a fight to\n\nthe alley died Tigay gu\n\ndi tirune who nhienon the fonts. Well or sny bar any oh-nge is the bar and police then the aid meeden, to the maminkomaat of bis 18-201 kaple of the Wh 9 Dutcher, f\n\nSMC Cleary, That is dured Be Ontran and Site only gu What about a vatermace jam mu nesto vractical mer ven for a tine, graissat by sa doseman wzali ke in much | the only revity dete.nl puixes. And Mr. ; ceviky like blust dnu fucked cus of them. “I\n\nf the City Plan L'acato, title, the serie Sermons of Wise What Doest dati je le arconlucre with the best the war festion than the salties were atrunjen propuned the shied cantation in obald dare leaght it wwa one of imponeret wide hondes Comictal\n\nLady STATES OF The pale Way it buy buen zmesed by the Chrystals is a\n\nverbeza provokings in napest of the exter'tine, izgored thin anzeznu, with gaveita moïveté, \" don' Back in den bag baina er niveis fel, miley. I don's believe that to the dielny of. There is a regolation for sunkiag einseite Chas the prestigue impeding, wing, po wali fails. That es day in 1978. Whether so tune if I did vol explapl it he might! Raja - Cargar mai dat die previene il le mu je zelo but sinar bever hea. Italien, been pay tinaght of Hongkong any hole of grilema;. Locher they tinc asafol As în fun Belowaty, Shade la ang in deurial distety na which to found a jądgment: inatamente af de tinge trord right or wrong-- Faibly eat it ou\n\nperlinge\n\nMulder.\n\nple, where to be tha matekoligny P $trings Soid go ự his prekerswad tiká reṣait was su albamution it the cales sal the patio. it her by hake the matrial regulations of the Lobocy, and that Rogging i trimu·la, was son to sprytead heartily. Thyon :\n\n6. Maste\n\nWeiber\n\nChepanekens, Paint-bat degrees and init, kept as lon\n\n1. shade\n\nof Mr. Reinis sevī tu♬ ärved Mr. Byrie.\n\nthat were suggesting of the Secrets of Bide, and the nanofonizettistite ice of event.\n\ngedal. Passes in ¦ when King Ware Bullet open zu denk with:\n\nTerave the spell file and in pred us what he culled the Ocultast : the whole para.\" Yon illot,\" and info na sred\n\nindia be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-190 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308058, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "## For Sale. \n\n**MacEWEN, FKJKEL & CO., H**AVE JUST RECEIVED \"KL AMERICAN MAIL\" \n\n**Prime Esatera CCISE.** \n\n**Young Aansrict CUERE.** **Apple OHEISE** **BUTTER.** \n\nand **MALT.** \n\n**Sarend Ply's FELI** **Split PRAS.** \n\n**Fab' TONGTES** **AJANS.** \n\n**COONISE.** \n\n**Astarted VRGETABLES.** \n\n**arted AEN.** \n\n**Muted BOLFS.** \n\n**Pig Head UHKKSE** **Devilled HAN** \n\n**CAVISKE** **CLOSE** \n\n**Caiturei Colien BTADT** \n\n**Whitters BAMS.** \n\n**Breakfat KAŬON.** \n\n**Mails.** \n\n## NOTICE. \n\n**COMPAGNIE ES MOSAQEKINS MARITIMES.** \n\n## PAGURROTS POSTE FRANÇAIS. \n\nSTRAY FOR SAIGON, SINGAPORE, BATAVIA, POINT DE GALLE, ADEN, SUEZ MAILIA, FORT Sat, NAPLES, AND · HARSAILLES; \n\nA1204 BOMUAY, MARE, ST. DANIN, ASD FORT LOUI \n\n“AN WEDNESDAY, the 27th October, 1880, as Bo the Company's BINDI, Oedant VERNE, with MALES, PARSUMENRA, SPRUIE JAROO will leave this Part for the Yunes.\n\nfor Cago and Spade wil b reglatarel COMB RONLY lo Frame and sudda as well de for Vintseüles, and a ople trait through salles for Pickle this principal places of Furope.\n\n**Shipping Orders** will be granted anal; Bekiel P10 POEK. Banalem TISK Skin AKLLIES. MACKEN 93. Iron TVHLA, ý là, anh 21 tháng Bordon's Conlused MA (sery treab) Canforais MULIS in Chek and Ta Gunger Cakes. Hak Bistutis, dels BISCITA \n\n**Cargo** will be received on board wat 4 pm, Spice and Puzzle until 3pm on he Bith\" October, 180. (Percale are yoimba sout on beard; they must be left at the Agency's Ullior,) Fontents and value of Packages are re aired, For faxtbox particulars, apply at the Tompany's ch. G. 12 OTAMPRAGE, Agent \n\n**Valor RG00LTS.** **Alpbabe B.80ITS.** **Ogaver BISUVIES.** \n\nLA Fangen, Gerober 11, 1880, Buckness FLOOR, CORNMEAL,. NAILSISAN IYE MRAL BUNNY, Small and Large. V WHEAT. QATMEAL SBELLBACK NUTS, VEOAN NUTS. WALNUTS. SOFT SAL ALMONDS. IE1 GIỜ. Canned Table Fruits. Bartlets FKARS. PRACHES GREENGAGES Tark KRUITS Smcked HEEF MITHU BISHI \n\n## HAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. \n\n**STEAM TO TOKOHAMA VIA KOPK AND INLAND EXA.** \n\n**HOES. S. SUNIVA MART**, Captain: Hanexes, dus bem o or abus the Insurances, \n\n## THE LONDON & STAFFORDSHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, \n\n**SITARRIO GATING ZAR** **STAFFORDSHIRE FILE INSUR ANUS COMPANY, LIMITED.** \n\nChera-Two MLLong HTUMING Blond are prepared to is Pattan Cutoring FIKK WISKO S Current Kutos ADAMSON, KELL & C., Agatis. #20 longbows Augasi 26, 1680k.\n\n## CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMMPANY, UNITED, \n\n**HEAD OFFICE, HONGKONG.** \n\nPosition of the Compong at the close of the best financial pour, the 99th Agon), 1860, Cara Bub$1,00,000.00 Carter PaP 500,000.00 Bases For 428 000.00 BALS U 70,278.49 Evirana VanD TO BARY ND PATO TO CONTRIBUTORS MOLDUS........20% per Arzam, OF D. Stats, 23 % va the awak of their Goatribune. Congang grotta Policies on Mause sil para of vite World, par- Contribotury Dividends ara PAYABLE TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS OF BUSI NESS WHETHER TUFY ARE SHARK- BOLDARS OF NOT. 14. GULIJSMITE, Acting Salary. Hongkong, August 13, 1880. abis at map of sis Agencies.\n\n## ANG TSZE INSURANOE¦ ASSOCIATION. \n\n**CAPITAL (Fully Pp...T. 420.000 PAMANENT BESEF 200 Bra Bra T1 209,268** \n\nTocal Cases and 40- CUMULATIOSA, 3 th April, 1890.} ......Tie Ri \n\n**Directors.** \n\nF. B, Yon, Eng, Chairman, 28th Instant, will be espatele se ahore W. M. Eov, WA. METS, SATURDAY, M B Databer, st. F. PRACKYO, F. D. Hara, Esq.\n\n## Daylight APRIJOIS, QUINCES. \n\nEM a regelved on board sod Farely at No Bill of Lading aigued under Brusked OX-TOSQUES, Comprend OX-FOXUCKS. Mire MSAT. Compressed Corned BEFF. Assorted JELLIES in (as Jurs. Mixed PUSLES sted PKLES. Corned REEF. Qua's OLIVES. Clam CHOWDER SARAT Cablores BARDIVES. PEK and BEANS. Earrale Dariela Yeaat POWDER Soka SALMON. POCK in 2001 BEEF la 2. Fratt KCTTER PARCE Balier BANG. Brown BEANS.\n\nWe have the following **FOR SALE**, in Large or Small Quantities la Bulk :-- \n\n**Fine Valantis RAISINS.** \n\n**Mas Parris OURKANTS.** \n\n**Smyrna MIGS.** \n\n**Good Breakfast TEA** at Denis per b F MIXTURE in 5 & 19 Catty Bozer Cases & **BLACK'S HOUSEHOLD STORES.** \n\nPBA Jons Hom & Bone! UCLEBRATED PRISALVES than to 6 9.0. of 29th October. Brett, A Cs man he settled on heard before delivery is tukos, ther wi ɔt be rogized.\n\n## TO AMA \n\nthey RATER F Cabtu. Storage 416 75 STARUBAT HE YOKOBANA... 120 A muŠPANUKAL. Mocars RUSSELL # 09., Secretaries.\n\n## LUDLO BRANCH: \n\n**My BARING BROTHERS & Co.,** E MICHARD BLACKWELL, Esq., Agent, 08 and 09, Corabül \n\nPo pasted on Marine Bisks to sil Subject to a large of 18 tor Intern parts of the 95 30 Anos la wale on Rattus l'any) an Pheriaciders' Lopetal, sill klo PROFITS; \"K A will wd fatsoen for Nogeek will be transkipped to the Shanghai Mail besity at Koda of the Useraitis Resins are no | muafly dretributed among all Coutríðu kora \n\n## CHINA MAIL. \n\n**Insurances.** \n\n## THE ODINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. \n\n**READ OFFICR-SONGKONG.** A GENOTES at all the Treaty Ports Chlan And Japan, and at Hinge Saizes and Penang \n\nJA KENGUILL F Per Pinput for Helkom, CD Chianae ; Paket 11 hom Per Faldin, for Shargħal, 30 Chinose. TO DEPART. Pir Nipt, for Shanghai, 2 Europñana, Bad to biness. Par guns, for Helbow, da, 40 CM- Per Acian, for Hofhow, ke.. 15 Càleum. Pax Mariis, for Mauila, Huropeans, stand 2 Chine Kiska accepted, and Polloker of Insurance granted at the rate of Praia enrent the above mentioned j'oréa CHLAGE PO MLICY VEEN. Ja B COCGGTRIE, Secretary. inna. Naibor 1,111.\n\n## MANOUESTEN PIKE ASSUEANCH COMPANY OF MANCHESTER AND LONDON. \n\n**ESTABLISHED 1824.** \n\n**Capital of the Company £1,000,000%berting** \n\nPhich is paid to Rover For Arava! Incomi CARGO. Per 8. 8. Autrepton, to Loudon sailed 19th Debober-87,990 itu. Cozgoa, 180,542 Ibn Husted Cane, 89.910 the. Saams4 Orange Pekor, m, od 89,991 The Kreen-total 323,443 the Ton; 33 ser $15 Plens Good, 83 balen Waste Pik, and 191 pkg. For New York, 182 pannurlar.\n\n## POST OFFICE NOTICES. \n\n**MAILS** will close:-- \n\n10,000 120,000 2540M \n\n++ Pur BANGHA!..- +2 THE Tulendyned have loan appointed Bongo Canide, Fossbow, Stanghal, 1 square for the stoys Company as and Haney, anál azo propaved Tosuration at autovak rakām, grant IIULLIDAY, WISE & C Konphone, faxolour 15, 1968.\n\n## Not Responsible for Debts. \n\nWo. Nether the Captain, the Agents, nur Owners will be Uespunisie for amy Debt contracted by the Officers\". Dew of the following Vstacle, during tätär slug in lungkung Berben-- BEW, Austra big, Capt. C, 0. Waft.-Aruhaft, Kveborg & Óồ. TATANIA, Briel ship. Capini Powurud---3000, Livingston & Qa SIUMIN B. Antes, Amerimo argus, CW5, edge.Tong Song Wh CASUMERE, Aerivan ship, Captain I: G. Coliatum—Arai-old, Kurborg di fio, FLORENCE NITRALE, E bur, Capt. A. McIntyre Aruhold, Karberg & Co. $1349, French barque, Capisin Buck Captain Hawass, Geman burke tins, Capsu P. Burgwerk-Carlowits & \n\n## MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW. \n\n**Shipping.** -Caneland leave for Samelung, -Ning loaves for Shanghai.\n\n## General Memoranda. \n\n**Sunday, October 24** \n\n**Daylight** Sanghag ivares for Portk. B-By Laver for Manila WANDAY, October 27- 5392.- OCTOVER 21, 1880. ton.\" Now, to our mind, this passage Heade one rappres that the fullest r rocity exted on the pats of Chips sowards British and other foreign inau rame to Chinn, wand that Chinese mar! Bave similer passe to hold meetings and tu consider the question, how, i ther own cities nad tuwas, the imesigrating of foreigners may be boat regulated kan \n\n## No. 5832-Octaera 21, 1880. \n\n**CHICKET.** \n\n## THE CHINA MAIL. \n\n45 3 the Xpans of bis virit 19 the Traunvsal. tòem; hat I have never had my dni stafionel in Brugkorg, ja which theater on Seataci will be trailed a carmi words of ptates Brand by ts kind he would speak with some mucharity, I was ouly 80 miles from. Crasu, on doubt, decide the glaim oulia morla | reagent ni tha busiuran dazu to this l'eart a restricted! It has always seemed to re to be the most cun-sided way of putting\" Ware of Captain Mushall's meticme, the gist of which we gare anveral months \n\nI have looked through all the realis fors, have elamined them carefa ly and tan case, to burp upea tes proposition: \n\n**Daylight-Thaler** leave for furt fari, hat the Treaties with Chine should be revised on titiu matter, when the res Cooktown, So. Soon.Tendon for Espace to Bast of able way of settling the question weuid be Carpenterie Sånt, cecaired by Naval be to insist upon de apasa privilegar Stateknoyer. being extended to foreigners in all pa Mail loaves for Yorts of of China as are sixed by Chinese i Call an Berapa \n\n## No \n\n## THURSDAY, 'thor 38:--- \n\n2.30 p.m.diesting of Shareholder Gao Xarranca Odies, at 'ol \n\n## SATERDAY. \n\n**October 30-** \n\n**Daylight** Mia Bishri Mail leaves for Yokolama, 25. 3 p.m.Aut agar nail desven fix Yoke and San Francisco.\n\nSangn countries. There is room enough Far all, if anly then rights to settle al of trade pengeably were reciprocal on sil Vail this rider. consumadon is reached, it in illogical, from a politics, print of view, to deny to the Austra Hans (we do not say to the Californians! the right of mating their power to Portrici. Wa however, stron conviction that the vast plains of Nook-Truthers for Ropal to 34ghtor both Australia and America will ge Riig, ze ived by Farid roskanjer. The irrigated and opened up droi the manual tour of the Chines TORSTAY, November 11 Noon-Auction of Brock-la-Trade, Mo..savvy; and this, as we listed scre time since, will eventually prove the Ahey to the difficulty of Chinese enigte hon, at lenes of the larger and mon Tingartent branab of the movemen \n\n## Feri, \n\nat11.30 am. Tomorrow, Day, Novembne :- \n\ntion is, Pet Ningro, at 3.30 pun. To-morrow, the and Ini. For **NEWCHWANG**, — Per Chamind, at 2.99 .m., on Friday, the 20 thei For **BAROKOK** – MAK of Hotel de Laivers Per jy. wt30 pm, on | **HONGKONG DISPENSARY**, Sharp seems to have nearly succeda \n\n## Saturday, \n\nthe Zani fuat For **SWATW, AMOY, & FOOCHOW.--** Pet Bungling, at, Saborlag. the 3rd it. **** For **HOW, PAKO, ASP HAI-FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS**, PHONG ve on at 6 pm, on Saturday, the 23ed just, For **YORGAMA KOBE...** in establishing a Girly reputable chas Fracter for the Chinamau o feizer, DEN his coace in this connection are je te wait commendable and just the Heathen Chinne\" can warcaly be ex pecued to assume & very high place \n\n## cities \n\nnati! he le raised by costat omewhat nearer to the Wastorn lava!; he is by un neaus the gravelling. \n\n## THE \n\n**Established A.D. 284.** \n\n## A S. WATSON & Co., \n\n**WHOZBALL AND RETAG FB700043.** \n\nbut i worthless monster depicted by the au \n\n## LOCAL AND GENERAL \n\n**IMPORTERS** \n\nDz Peru M, at 5 pm, on Friday. Pavoury SUNDRIES, NESBRY React-Chinese agitators of the Pacto Slope, \n\nthe ' MAILS N Panch PACKER —– Fas French Doziract Packet Bindi nili bepaalert on WEDNESDAY, the Databer, with Male to aud chrough the Vind Htogdom and Sampo, vid Nuples; to Saigon, Stratte Ballikzada, Rajavis, Barnak, Cryina, Indis ( Muitas, the antralscina Aden, Egypt, Malta, sud WALL Curser, Optain Maas. The anal hours will be observed in closing! mann-Mayer & Co., \n\n## To-day's Advertisements. \n\n**FOR SHANGHAI**, \n\nThe Steamstv \"Nig 31, MAIS DE UMTAY SEASES PACERY, The United States Mai! Pachet (ly of Takto will be despatched on SATUR DAY, the 20th instant, with Sta fapa Sao Francisco, Teled States, Canada, Honda, Peru, o, oh it be disse follo 2.13..-Registry quassa. 22.3.-Pt-Office læer, but Ļelier, < Chatin R. tan, will he a drepstebetet Port, TO-MORROW (FR), the natant, 4 pm. For Fright or Pourage, izple ke HIMMENEN KONG Poukoty, October 21, 1986 of Busines in propation to the Premis |-------- Por barcher Partienjars, apply st the paid by c Company's Ostreza, No. 60, QuSKA'S KOAD CASTAL Hongkong-head c. B. MAIL LINK PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIF COTANY. - THROUGE NAW YORK, sue OVERLAND BAILWAYE, AND TOTOBIEK AN YOKOHAMA, AND ÖAH IBANCINOR, TE. & Mail Stembly CITY OF TOKIO depthed for a Frances SATUR FAT, 30th Jual taking Phuge, and Daltsu Sutca uti HUSSELL & Co., Agente \n\n## THE LONDON ASSURANCE, \n\n**INCORPORATED BY Royal Chastes** \n\noi Ha Majerty Kay Dearge The Firsi, * U. 1720 Fadened having been sepented As for the above Corpseilua san prepared by grant lusurances as follows: Marine Deparment, for spas, the hore, in boudi at the principal Ports Policles at rent rates payable other I ut Through Blood for trous. perasion to Takeda apú other Jus Porte, to sa Fros, o Atlantic and Falezd Cities of the United States via Oper and Rathways to Harps Frintial, and Demeraro, sui to porte in Marles, Central and Soren Aurich by the Chupany's and conscaling Sta #Fing to direct sucial altention is our Though Frage Tickets granted w wel alled Skies of Wines, Spirits, &c. Har Moserotu. Pis. Qis Men's (les) Champion, P& CHARLES RISTOR'S WHITE SEAL, Ficts sad Quzzle. CHATEAU LABOVE (GCMs & Anura), Pia and Qazta CHATEAU LAPITE, Plata IRES GRAVES, Pinta and ours. Quarte BREAKFAST CLAMST, Pista & Qacis. OLD INVALID CLARET. S. JULIEN, &, Burgandy, Hock, Sherries, o Chamberlin, hablhite) Libfuurilub, Backbeiner, Niereiser, Sie beige Cabinet, E al Fisteri Berg, Koni Barg, Casu Yquem, Grand Vin, unt eterne Marsala, sc com's Pale Dry White Sed Shary, Yeller Ses Atilade Culer Falmer und Company's Tulane, kormany by eli, trane-Alentio usa of Stormers. Feight will be revived va hours until 2 , the 2006 Celcher. Pame: Packups wice will 5 p lll be not day; Ji Dr. 4. Pagkages abould be arked to denial of REALE in qal Gouslar Inria to socomapany Overland: Carga bould be wont to the Tinmagany's Uca dualed Favelagen, aldred to the Colicator of Chere at Hau Fran For faziler ip tos as to Patago and rght, apply to the Agency of the Sampang, No. 5, Frays Outra LULL & Co, Agente, Wonton, Cushe 20, 138 \n\n## 3 \n\nof India, China caj Avtolla. Five Ligastent sacceat a discent of 20% allowe Política sredicioner sort periclini Le partient QUBAN STEAMSHIP COMPEY. FOR SUANQUA FSA AM TAIN, HANK W Pots on6 YAZOTEZE.J The Co.'s telp Ashes, Capta Axzas will be dispatched for about the shiul Instwo. For Freight or seage, apply to für Unam Countrice may be posted on board is Pakel with Lab fee of 10, cents ezra Pestage unfl the time of departure.\n\n## SITE, \n\n**OLET Requtsu, ENGLIS AMERIDAY, AN FASKI PATAKY** **DieDANA. MANUFACTURERN** \n\nThe most bierna Man wogy be expected an or about Monday next, the 25thick, by ta M. M. steamer due, which brings Londra dator to the 17th September. de Wa, Lamanale, Taula Water, The next Anessa Mare may be spectra (Aingendo, Palass Water, Sarsaparilia Water, and other dersted Waters, 1 Manfvebury is water divast and¦ conteneva Buropean Yuguralsiona Hongkong. June 5, 1870. or abos: the 10th inst, hy, Pleaser Italgia, which Ivings San Fransiz y dates te ike kd just.\n\n## BUTERY \n\nL. d. Let inge Yun verlund Nuit (Supi, S) has the fal Impere, I am not forbidden to atter my made to any attempt to copy Deligro Sie Thou replied with the happy tant had had plenty of eppretauities to ob that only the west kind of women could santi ad 1 only dusies now tanks.4, \"MAGZE\". \n\n## THE ROYAL ARTICLELY. \n\nJowing sailing of the fast to a port has been which always distguishes to, and those serve the cherweter ac peneral hosted getting away with their The Gurarament it act, it is bad, ask the Colony. I bolten I have worked at berance. Ibu bezusi avvale + grabs to Wednesday. tataested in the Noalety's elfans wün postponed A match was playel to-day ban 27 Kia Faida hay Datibed in beard the tom tomarks souls gold of the Chinees, so that un these points husbands. Fren in Hongkong, which Farlansat for its extes cost of it bad way, and I have put things as H.M.S. Magpie, aus gel Artery Pune Nicholas of steer that send- claimed this year by Sirenelle Weere Pur straight on it le pike for any was bri put! ham huiped fovileg 1 wib heh he clotted is while he might be able to disabuse the few Che bad heir wives wilt thom. When Sie Harle are ha giren expias duet in 7 way, and I da ut so this Kattery and at easy lovey in one postponed in compliance wits the request to 4 bis own to get they had formet s \n\nThe harul demauerndon has been expresion of pro at having Esteeds of porcona of prejudices were only av begining to bring Ben and more, the Gateinment wil, no day know what fe are properly labis in to the more then, after waiting for 40 years to s jantags. Appended are the roores he is prepare to take intellectual treat he bad ayyorloveci sines character of the man to which he had whocher the British were entitled to of the Princ rior al, ha asks for active aid of the bis arrival in Singapore.\n\n## referral \n\n**(Applause).** \n\n**Great Powers** beside rave? demonstration. at a mark of confidence. The dif War shathe Foccolaty of State for The Lecturer, who was seeived with ficades of bringing Chinese woken was away hattle the Cloufus hea spproved of the room applaun, began by juicing out that Sensely forced by Great Yance to cussion of sorg. endations enbaid in the Report the 33 Suph B-fle Allied Fleek have cover. Pulido Coma, had we are intended been induoad to deliver his lecture terfere. Thu fecrarer seen thealt at y that that is sucirely due to the Inske, not out,... ... 62 to be expretive Governments the that application has been rande for two from the fact that no arriving in this ength with the charges of want of the Malay Panimanisio sconect the Bay of nopleut of the Chief Juice, by whom only, Lowris, & Datkin, \n\na deaded Hontenegro for muitary eid, nupoobure and twenty Europees posibles colony he found that here was a strong doetie refinent, and atraktion to the Beugel with the China Sea, the Stross seting with the salive, esa a code of felolda, Paik, 4s this wil, is de balioved, fapt the from here, in order to give the polios popular feeling agus fhose inset laws et health by the thiness, and niss he impost That za hea, alaps (Nik, neaugham, bu voral deconatration. Its stated, Finland fores the dranings of trained odours glooted als duly in tali moniter of the Lukių & TRADE, Daikin,.............. \n\ngrution, sad in form of restricting it. cftheir gang proposities. In thea ............sed Rarsia are disposed to comply, but the Turber, efforts are batzg made to preeuse The maturi progress we had wit coultery be testitud assgewicht faror- Captain Mahallado no attempt to use dread the (luvarnor of haker, Dali, other powers are donario. Poha parte pense foresed in this colney bad errused his able comparison between the linens and give au seifwain of the most of this Canal, the feet; nothing put has been done, la Coeksrell, e Caina, b Stereo Abone of the tale til mare of a spaser which suishment, but nabing bad surprised as lower class of Europese. The par and a thin in about as izgorians ●TROLOR the luster of SE twice will not | Cunningham, e Saga-il, I fino, V. Great Powers have prevented colorivo | hva larterly busu bald to work very mus! So i gore than the great inredigeera stal cleanlizes of the Cries, the \n\n15 Bopt you do not is one of the soules applia. Boultor, 1 Daikin \n\naso, an to the ioration of a casat across $50 to the prevent alata 6 trips. Thouse & Philin, & Stevenson! Potion lo force there to 1 Alu hautrups, Duuming, Daikio, in the calderaton of the project as the do nothing. The mountaioona batom of the untry, anna sigu the papers, A orrditursamyare wae \n\nbreathing as to our chosen, but I eat do nothing. T'as Chief of the Justles alarining roles that would happen her if this anjut mered into so What would become of Singapore with ship escalanide of the Perinta With sorrad away a the thongs to as pspark tiat 135 ought to bund him thom Ity 1 sm nos le clerk. Á mi not his arvadt. 1 decline to do that which is no part of ng luty. I declined to bytu anything to do with that sangreicy or \n\ni Leg bed 1, wide belles, \n\n## MAGYIK.\" \n\n- High constables from Indis, with a view to the Per protining against the Hangkang. drom as follow, however, generally manifested by the working taste of their woman in dressing, and shätzle of Kira Pasha, at Dalrigan The that the arrival of those additions to the \n\nit had been real education to the comforts of the bone helonging to 68 | Salt makes for delay pa wnhdrawal of ¦ E res, it produced, will make our police \n\nor visit these colmier, au to see in de well-to-dɔ, wire many jurticularly pentuar, to which to reply but been given, \n\nIt, Am grant esticulty is ez. stara perfect, \n\nall directions the wonderful traits of the referred ta. In regard to their gambling parlente ha keeping up the camber of intustry and inteligente of its perple babit, be said they had dec \n\n## INDIAN TELEKKING, \n\n**feronson, a Thomas, ↳ Erenslag 9** \n\nsive statku the proper standaa Simple, Saps Ja—its following latter: We understand that the whols fores, He was sorry the more working mar mariod of gambling frers that of Euro- Its glory would deere, and it would be din 1 Salover pa to da via the keep slan, a Dunging, bilgate Abdulla Kan Nasiri ( minister of amounthy to only 100 ostabios divided were cat present that evening a heat pean, but is had yet to tears that they so soother Malach. harbour would glah, but official original dahin, a Staker, b Durning496 Kb.) to the adesso Mahund or reti iz no Jou atation, is \n\nwhat he had to say on the questica, were such veterese gasesters. The bodemarked, is whats godose cipta T the Chick Jestion will pot Rewards, & Dancings Sadis, Chind the Van Onila, siad abvady shout VO slosh, which are star watch was wow being a wavy als working man's obit difficulty with doch wonki talk intodecay, so its fortifie alge the papare unless I haud that bim Shay, Fillingham, \n\n6:13h August, 1880, fell recently into kasi súly reddorn the Keskivens of the forna; elops would he tuntia a wildercoss of las personally. thas a good earn all Eastwood, ut ca. \n\nosed. The importance of the Chinese regard to the Chiese was that their Inɔes of car dipeca Afor some of he slatluse leite w short of manu \n\nquestor coaki be seen from the fact that ; close appétation und protracted breath of Chladen Kende beured perio of their rutas datice, and is use of extrai Bilts had been introduced to desistor, with their courrerent sad ex- el is wel unta, and the Go fatour emergey they soid casting be found with it in these culories and that it had creme any amounting to paretino- ith a car dorizer bar wasting Wear Mufte Dualop in was been the subject of many dehmes in the minanese, and their apparent indifference olished. The sinkodova suy of zeious to lure the Malay element as colonial Legislatures and obawlers. It to the graiñarise of the palate, ren- 3 solar tops and in-bating Chazis à ne na as prcible, but for none was also a question which had very derud competition by their mouse lucs- te et si alte tares, Guiling in use there is uitat disincliently influenced the last Victorian tiuus rivals quis fatpossible. In aer he howel of su Feroute will be cut tion on the part of the Malaga to enter the election. He was aut surprised to find those charges the lecturer alluded to at and they thomas the sorte, and the oequense de, so we han \n\n5 gese. Thare wouldnnig remain Govore i wel: and good I quợc tálok is is a good ( Salatı, Fillingus. We are afruably besied that 15 ia impossible for them to pr.per's \n\nmeni Hese sadiis New Gaol, Let us brewton. sful hace for the mount as of the bad she. I believe may experieus Tucu, Dunning, \n\nAs a Salieri say it in vury Teeth The, ingen, Keninsula; at slevout the Caual will not is as great on that of app oca in Bell, TRS out,........... be untrusted fo our time, sila Cuart, both as a judicial cers and Vincent, en ent as a pencilding banier. Li \n\n## Chief Ju KEGORSZ. \n\nI distal Over of sun City of Luzdys for #ges wide billa 1........ Avioquest was held at the Government or Body fat in z opicion Ciril Boroitals g., day, before the the Chief Justice is dudug what he ought \n\n## 2nd \n\n**Innings.** \n\n**Acting Caremar, G. & Northotiy** \n\n**Pay get to do.** \n\n**Pease 2 Thatters thích cɔn-¦ Stevenson, o locke, b Cuvalaghaw, *** Keisti-Chi'nst and a hand of Pumarogm of mountable, which, agli at the fall Chinese as there now spared to be. were better off then other European in and jury cousisting of Miners H. Love the public more than they concura 10, Cai, Boular, bunningham,....... Otte, die Remia and J. Law, began sterly different other Daikin, b Carning, \n\nou the bud ul Finsters tallat akheep the peston de Asif Governwards, Chatangham, \n\nseamani on the Emma. \n\n## Atwood, \n\no aud Jooze, \n\n## Lovett, \n\nhol us \n\nde of the sarth. You a Hving coated, the dwindling sway of the number gene antipathy towards the the fact that the working man fortunately tea that aisée, but still nothing bat has strength, is very inadequate to the require The Chinese were incongr-beusilla, and regard to the shortness of their bure, he feit that he hur lees of them yow The Chinese, he pointed out, wokal 3 doe hy you as yet, Bowater, for the munia of the pisu \n\n'shku nỷ tim tuligion of Ales Průphol, girá | than he thought he knew soroo 05 years bag leans bests they were exalted Dr Clouth states that about 1 16 po tema, i abenld go \n\nup the duna of bravery, collect the people pratarday be tried a nots requesting his Bisk ans 1 Tblog here. 11870 per Swith, Castreba.................. \n\nand Ghess, and having invested Konut- **BARON OVERBBCK'S CESSION IN** \n\n**ago.** \n\n**But** \n\nin venturing to exproes his frurn the mesas of recreation which to a man blonging to the of the at roatavat eluce I have been bete na \n\n## BORNEO. \n\ndisanat from the popular feeing against Europeus enjoyed; and so far se their |(bils-i ou \"all ridan, caž cat táo bowels di shager Emm who had fallen inby theis na offical in my pedition weald erar Tvara, > Carningliaerery Forlaghes hatir in the place, and \n\nthen les baged he would nes be credited tempersues of hring was cancorned, in (Strain Times) Dk. Fann he arrived his foort te Retail, and fics) has ever been: Hell, fece You yonment wit to be 100, granting a charter for a teria \n\nIt was reluarkent stat in this they were by no Movariérom there fem the freo of the atth. azad, death Laylag been savie, sa subjected to before. If i had not bears the Vict, Oncingla \n\nThe question of the cession and too wab suy interested natives. \n\ninezonary for him to stand forward moans alexciliar wrong. It was not in opsion, by a fracture of a base of the \n\n4 For some will be great in the world. e ott af Barnes is etil under the as their champion. The Chinese, bet ordions caliptication secticid skull. \n\n## Write \n\nzowe of your weliare, and repertsonaiaration of the Fasi Olien \n\nbelieved, were well able to take care of wants thas the national wealth of a pres Food, savoc officer of the Germen \n\n## Salty \n\nwhorer Spe \n\nthemselves, au they had done for the last (aneous people consistesi, but in its prom abooer MAN now in the Logicom Dont, \n\n## Side, \n\n**Nap. 27from Fakar rebed home, but it is said that now urba stated that yesterday morning, he nazt the \n\n## Festerday \n\nto Segi and white at Quetis meat is erer and Lord Cmavills in fear thousand years; and any ertemps dacbo over its expenditure, as main deceased, who was able to work \n\n## boon \n\n4 28, Maplertanks \n\n's brigade w \n\nwith one little insure from the exigencias tilltrain in this colony or eles reply to the diffenity suggested by the is locato 100 bead gear from the pett \n\n## 35th \n\n**Howare** will leave Kandahar ou the legislation and parts landarefip, the where would only recoil on the greur. working me was an expression of A match was played between the shore Pets of Georral Phayre's Listen water will receive his earnest sttention To flustrate this be referred to the wonder that the cultivated Brion should \n\n## Kaniskor, \n\nthe east' remaling in cap to \n\noftets I might hara mim furni into doing something whtob I dare not con- \n\n## plats. \n\n## Calling \n\niba Cabar of the Cart Mr Stockinen, the Registrar then asked him to arcertain from Mr Nouop whether the Judge wing. If the Chief Justier, \n\nof the sebooast. Will a cold chisel a ha sided, does not do his duty, I will do \n\n## USNTRAL SCHOOL \n\n**V. WONGKONG PUBLIC BOVOLT** \n\n4 3mity \n\n## Ear \n\n## Adri \n\nsumer, and directed bina to staze himsait! ziua so far or in me es. My duty is to Clubs on the Byakkoon Bijaket Cab enved into the Cantonment as sny Rose definite decision will be rises data of slayers, und be puinted out fear the competition of the Chine \n\nby a cupe to the boat Dead how attend in Cuart, sed 1 illato di Court, evar appeared to have made note of the bat 1 il nos nitend in handers. tope and must have lost his bediend falou Me Stookhansen left to Icterslew Mr being in favour of the Public School. fato the trek. \n\n## Moshop \n\n## Tun \n\nM. M. sixsome des left Salgul 41 \n\n## Lee \n\nWo Shing, the head cocite spleyad by the Dook Company, board was of the sin lling out that was bad fuilce, \n\n## routs \n\nfor Jongkong this afternusu un d \n\n## Telefuck. \n\nuses string in Hongkong, or day a rolight Masquerade at Ki other persons who may desite to conto son lant aight, se zawounosd, an! + alt the files of local, China, fots Tory Inle water of pleasure rackare d Aumrien, English, Indien or vote sembled in the gardena, disgarand in a at nesapapus, *TH invited to call as racists of fatty matuides and mazka. the \"ORIA MIL\" Of, who formaty za nearly three hundred were pres alaty vowspapere, dailios and weaklive, Ton wasther was all the old be ded from those countrion, ste now filed fat and « very plasmant evening was pacrofi rho who ventured perces the wa \n\n## raferet \n\n## Be \n\n## Correspondence \n\nfor Non-Tinion West IndThe putilation of the tee commmeed Rythicx was quiet and menig, milit \n\n(exout Hay de Pangusy, vinos bo sent by a rate. \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Oct. 21, 1980.** \n\n## THE FERNOH MATTY \n\n8.10 p.m. “ \n\n## 063 \n\n## The Chinz Mail. \n\nThe following hours are observed in closing Muin, de, by the Franch Contract Packe ng before departure, -—- 3 F. Money Urd Office closes Fosi fica ales, exvert the NIGHT HO, but is \n\noper, out of Oles hours. \n\n## BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, \n\n**tray of departure** \n\ndents. tongkang, Qutober 31, ZEN. \n\n## Pont \n\n**Cffice DENT.** \n\n**A.M.-Eagletry of Totters avisa Posing of all priated taller and patterns.** \n\n..feils einwel, except for Late \n\n## Luthers. \n\n11.10 A.Matter pay be posted with \n\n10 \n\n## COBAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, \n\n11 \n\n**FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT)** \n\nThe Usa Sisaushi \n\n**Archines.\"** \n\n**Captain C. Jackie** \n\n**Policies** sued for mums not exceeding or ahem the shout \n\n## 110LIDAF, \n\n**W185 & Co.** \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**July 25, 1874.** \n\n## --- \n\n## BOTH BRITISH & MENGANTILN INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n**Incorporated by Royzi Charice a** \n\n**Special Acts of K'arbiament** \n\n**YAMETRIE 1809.** \n\n**CAPITAL £2,000,CA.** \n\n## THIS \n\n**Vadersigned, Asans at Hongkong** \n\nFor the above gazy, sta preparad to graut Poles against F:R, to she extect of £10,000 on way Failding, or en Mercane in the same, at the \n\n## Occidental \n\n& Oriental Stem-i Rates, object to a discount of 20 \n\n## Ship \n\n**Company.** \n\n**TAKING THEGER CARGO AND PASSENGERS OR TBE UNITED STATES AND KUROPE, \n\n## CESTRAL \n\n## WI \n\n**KE** \n\n**lavalid** \n\n**Purt** \n\n**(1845),** \n\n**Hans** \n\n**PEON** \n\n**FACIFIC** \n\n**AND** \n\n**OUKNECTING** \n\n**Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c.** \n\n1, 2 xel Setar Asapessy's Brandy, Is \n\n## Gratis \n\n**Marque Brandy, Cutter Palmer** \n\n& Co.'s Bay, Reuser fine de \n\nC's Bandy, E 0 4 staraj \n\n## Mended \n\naid Bacerbert V. Icipi \n\n## Whisky. \n\n## Jamieson's \n\n**leish** \n\n**Whisky,** \n\n## Glendes \n\n**Welby** \n\n## RAILBOAD \n\n**OUMIPANTES** \n\n## AND \n\n## ATLANTIC \n\n**STEAMERS.** \n\nper cent \n\n## CILMAN & Con \n\n**Agente, Rozkang, July 6, 1872.** \n\n## LANCASHIRE \n\n**INSURANCE** \n\n## COMPANY, \n\n**(FIRE AND LIFE) - CAPITAL,WU MLA BILING.** \n\n## Press \n\nthe \n\n## Przes \n\nagainst the tak of FIRE on Builtings or au Goods stored thersta or Goods en hard Yesels and on Nolis of \n\n6. BSTAIC wa ho despatch-Female in harbour, at the szual Torne \n\ned fx kan servis Yakhana, and Condition. \n\n## Proposals \n\nfor fe Amurous will be re \n\n## For \n\n**Freight or Passage, apply to** \n\n## BUTTHAFIELD & WIRE, \n\n## KATA \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**Ostaher 21, 1990, \n\n## NOTICE \n\n**TO OONSIGNEES, FROM LONDON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,** \n\n**Samhip** \n\n**Dewartire, Capt. M Macawz, huving arrived from the abere Porta Consiganen of Cazzo are hereby re quested to and in their bills. Lading sa Ani \n\nthe Clervaged for covered their fir \n\nfrem atopgste. Cargo impeding the l \n\nto take immediate delivery \n\nrange of the Susmeril boat as landed \n\nand bored at their risk and expose, ard: \n\n## Pics \n\n**Leimage** will be affected. Optional Carga will be forwarded on to \n\n## Late \n\n**Pec** \n\n**flu** \n\n**cele** \n\n**unsil** \n\n**11.30** \n\n**4.M.-wise** \n\n**the Post Giflon clares** \n\nentitis. \n\n11.40 male Lettera way he posted on board the pecker with Late \n\n## Fe \n\nof 1 cents until Use of depswww. \n\n## Quotations. \n\n## Hoycasa, \n\n**cuber 21.** \n\n**OPIUM,-Now** \n\n**Paina, essb.... 000** \n\n**coal...** \n\n12 \n\n10 \n\n+ \n\n**Old** \n\n**Non** \n\n**Benarus, sal, 872** \n\n**cash,** \n\n**Old** \n\n**New** \n\n**Malwa, oralit, 700** \n\n**Allowance.** \n\n**Taetr...** \n\n**Od** \n\n**Maiwa, aedi, 70** \n\n**Allowance, Isals 1348** \n\n## Bows, \n\n**Wire** \n\n## Exchange. \n\n140 \n\n## Demand, \n\n9192 \n\n## 30 day \n\n**sight** \n\n'4 moushs' sight, \n\n.. \n\n## Credite, \n\n4 \n\n## Documentary, \n\n4 racities' night, 5/2 \n\n## Shanghai \n\n**suvs** \n\n**norios** \n\nto the curary bendla, Wice, given before in. That, the 21st \n\n## demand,..... \n\n*142231 \n\n225 \n\n$23 \n\n## All \n\n**Claimsadmat** \n\nthe Stamer must be 3bang, doan, \n\n## peceneted \n\nto the Gudert helend Tamf, 994 fue****** \n\n## 731 \n\n**Bigow** \n\n**34th** \n\n**Lust, or king will not be recognized** \n\n## 27.HA \n\n**Soverelgus..... 5.93** \n\n**RUSSHT). & Baj** \n\n## Areatz \n\n## Hongkong, \n\n**October 21, 1629** \n\n## SHIPPING. \n\n## ARRIVAL. \n\n## Dat. \n\n23, Jems, Datch startez, 3087, \n\n## J. de \n\n**Ridler, Haiphong** \n\n**Cuk** \n\n£, Ri \n\n## Oz, \n\n**R Sturme** \n\n## Col$1, \n\ne. British etesmor, löl, \n\n## bigly \n\n**moms** \n\nor about the St Norminber; 1889, at \n\n3 p.nr., taking Care and Fazawngate for priced, and taemitted to as Directors 4. MaGauber, London Aag. 2, and Sign Japan, the \n\n## ATH \n\n**Qiu, Swaine Rose & Co.'s Old Tom** \n\n## Gin; La \n\n**traute** \n\n## BL \n\n**Indow, Erase** \n\n## Gunagi** \n\n## The \n\n**Gar** \n\n## Pin & \n\n**Gra; Ange** \n\n## sta, Boker's and Orange** \n\n## Bitters, 200, 2, \n\n## BASS \n\n**ALE, buttled by CameroN & SLEM-** \n\nna, Fin and Quarks. \n\n## GUINTOUT, \n\nbottled by &J. \n\n## Piata \n\n**nel** \n\n**Quakta,** \n\n## PILSENER \n\n**BEER,** \n\n## Geilan** \n\n## Fhes \n\n**ALE, bottled by Macki, H. Gu.** \n\n## States, \n\n**Merino, Centre Weis focizica** \n\n## Sp \n\n**Sonth** \n\n**And** \n\n**Katupe.** \n\n## If \n\n**rotira, protection** \n\n## Connection \n\nin me at Yokohama, with Art chin line in will be granted an \n\n## Steam \n\nfrom Shang \n\n## Freight \n\nwill be centred on Board unti 4pm. of the 8 November. PARCAL. PACKARES wit be recited as the Othe sabai & p. 16. same day: al Parcel Packages should be marked to podzemn in fall; vale of same le required.\n\n4. 4 Reproxies iade on BETVER Vio- ! TAGE TIKA. Goslar Involets to scoompany Over- | lena, Mexican, General and South Ameriosu! Cargo, should he met to Company's! ille por O. 18, Gear & Out 21, Nigus, Britis 1000 naingia Cautor. peals or other information, appy to ABRHOLD, SARRERG & Co., Agents, Hongkong & Cantor. Boogkong, Tarary 1, 1887.\n\n## QUEEN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. \n\n∙HE Undersigned are prepared to grazi DRAIGHT ALL and FORIER, by the add:ced to the Collector of Cis tore, San Francison. For furabus infromation ne to Freight! $15,000 op Buildings, or on Goads seed thersta or Goods on bard Yesels and on Nolis of ALE and PORTER, in Balk, (Bogbeads and lideriins). JP'S STORES and SAIL-MAKING, Hongkong, October 2, 1850, Policies againes Fire to the gatens to or Passage, apply to the scenes herein, at current wal tates, subject to a Gempang, No 37, gea's Road Contra Dasoent of % of the Francia, CHAS H. HASWELL, JE, Agesil iloegkong, Datober 12, 1830. Bey NORTON & Co.. Liget Mongkong, January 1, 1974. Ont. 91, Nože E60 10.9. u. for New York. 21, finger for Haikon, d. 21, fria Fratme Nugasaki, fc. 21, Potentia, for hergiaf OGBARED. Nings for Shanghai. Dungen, for Karnow, do Hetect For Fukor, du gmar, los Menile. Mariteits, for Manila, \n\n## PASSENGERS ARRIVED. \n\n## Per \n\n**Datonshire, from Singapore, Mr** \n\n**Alhere Fumorili, and 39 Dalame.** \n\n## Per \n\n**Jawa, tem Balpbong, 2 Chicaes** \n\n## Sharas** \n\n## Gozzang \n\n**Hank, 66 % phat., Alca.** \n\n## HONGKONG, \n\n**ZHURMAT, COT. I, 1860.** \n\n## numust \n\n**gord** \n\n**omter** \n\n**pravaried.** \n\n**Thoas** \n\n**la** \n\n**wastes** \n\n**Ho** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**dir-oliou** \n\n**are** \n\n**pronis.** \n\n**via** \n\n**upgeetaufty** \n\n**of** \n\n**gathering** \n\n**thescica** \n\n**ether** \n\n**sysin** \n\n**bafate** \n\n**long** \n\n**us:bit** \n\n**the** \n\n## atomyiana. \n\n## I \n\n**will be oberved** \n\n**Ty an extruct re-** \n\n## A \n\n**Menawar** \n\n**bad** \n\n**tota** \n\n**eruit** \n\n**Court** \n\n**produced** \n\n**elsewhere** \n\n**thist** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Greaville** \n\n**yaterday, afute** \n\n**Beglekar, wat no** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**Las been speaking in Adelaide Korat conki bant.** \n\n## The \n\n**inst** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n**rexed** \n\n**question** \n\n**of** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**how** \n\n**know** \n\n**the** \n\n**Supreme** \n\n**Court** \n\n**of** \n\n**this** \n\n**ranigration;** \n\n**and** \n\n**it** \n\n**susy** \n\n**be** \n\n**noted** \n\n**that** \n\n**Colong.** \n\n**A** \n\n**and-hand** \n\n**say, minsk taove an** \n\n**gestan** \n\n**formen** \n\n**to** \n\n**cakes** \n\n**a** \n\n**divan** \n\n**and** \n\n**monspectably** \n\n**bound** \n\n**t** \n\n**terant** \n\n**opinion** \n\n**to** \n\n**that** \n\n**which** \n\n**is** \n\n**crudited;** \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**longkong** \n\n**Government, o julga of the Dibles of jacuzz and wit at least by the afstractive policy lithaetony be picked up in the base of the fac motted hers as to passengers beone to niture brokers any time for scouts, of the Colovies. Sharp's rendness and experience, some bad tie to wake cash to auda From 20 of Nrth thenpretas Court reeks not. The thing may and orignal was expected, invite nadsbe toft to go bears and and se cubes to a feeling of disap pointment at the report of the inoture gain tow, Leinging his Forma presented. It may be the inalt of the with him.\n\n## report, \n\n**though** \n\n**the** \n\n**polete** \n\n**sesta** \n\n**za** \n\n**bej** \n\n## Birly \n\n**given;** \n\n**but** \n\n**in** \n\n**praizotion** \n\n**does** \n\n**ja** \n\n**ravaz** \n\n**accident** \n\n**occurred** \n\n**yesterday** \n\n**at** \n\n**the** \n\n## But \n\n**strike** \n\n**on** \n\n**93** \n\n**worthy** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp's** \n\n**Bowlona** \n\n**Docks** \n\n**to** \n\n**a** \n\n**desman** \n\n**belonging** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n## German \n\n**sciorer** \n\n**Fuse.** \n\n**Thy** \n\n**decored** \n\n**of** \n\n**our** \n\n**ceremusity.** \n\n**The** \n\n**tons** \n\n**which** \n\n## aspeara \n\n**to** \n\n**nave** \n\n**presied** \n\n**the** \n\n**gasa** \n\n**ant** \n\n**to** \n\n**work, in the morning, ro eui heag way must tooderate at fir away the head gear from the bewap it of and the most imprez sa fiendly the coner. He appears to have neglect. hasing was given to the lecturer. noted the pracamiton of conele himself with withstanding the general paiby test is known to axist towards the Chiness as inamigrania Te judge from the title \n\n## to \n\n**the** \n\n**insurers** \n\n**verourke, \"The** \n\n## LLines: \n\n**at** \n\n**Hoann** \n\n**aud** \n\n**Abroad,\"** \n\n**it** \n\n**may** \n\n## Lo \n\n**said** \n\n**that** \n\n**either** \n\n**the** \n\n**leemte** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**Perimet** \n\n**or** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**bending** \n\n**a** \n\n**tapp** \n\n## bleary \n\n**dealt** \n\n**principally** \n\n**with** \n\n## rupe, \n\n**as** \n\n**he** \n\n**was** \n\n**told** \n\n**to** \n\n**do** \n\n**by** \n\n**the** \n\n**med** \n\n## and \n\n**to** \n\n**rub** \n\n**inizie** \n\n**sur** \n\n**full** \n\n## wins \n\n**the** \n\n**Doo, striking his head an being es sevarly Injured that he died to the alunos. Ju gosta held the body at the Gril Uspital tüm after- the auspal position taken up by the mou, of which a report will be found f Chere in the towns; white the larger heider admon, gwelling in a rich of and is oore importants part played by ↑ “accrlottai dasth,” the Chinese in developing a new country, by means of irigation works, milway 16 Mine, a Calcatta Paper making mining, ant plotation series, coed and consent by Onlives, Ad was felt unnoticed. By this omission \n\n## Po \n\n**remark** \n\n**that** \n\n**one** \n\n**happy** \n\n**effect** \n\n**\\*f** \n\n**the** \n\n**\"platform\"** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**lecturer,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**daire** \n\n**in** \n\n**England** \n\n**in,** \n\n**dvahtke,** \n\n**zared** \n\n**good** \n\n**point** \n\n**was** \n\n**meter** \n\n**lustracionalny** \n\n**to** \n\n**Serally** \n\n**in** \n\n**she** \n\n**spirit** \n\n**në** \n\n**kan** \n\n**alted** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Flemish** \n\n**artisans** \n\n**who** \n\n**sectie** \n\n**reistions** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Quereramous** \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**su** \n\n## in \n\n**England** \n\n**and** \n\n**thereby** \n\n**gare** \n\n**un** \n\n**impetus** \n\n## aina \n\n**fun.** \n\n**Boa, of Ct $1,550 per a entes.to manufactores there sub might noterete of the Colonica and thầu sther De- Cada Traders' in. Go, $40 per share, Nards China Ins Co., Ts. 1,675 per dima. Jangsate fue Aso, Fin. 750 per share. Chien Jun. Co., $800 per share, nainn. B.K. Co., por since. China Pire fur. C $50 per share. K. W. Dopis, pre-, miles. Ceanopoliton Uusk, par, nods). H.K.4.8.5 0.24 prov Bhai Sai Nav., Ta. 3 per a, womina). Chin Star. Co., p. 10. St $89 per share.\n\n## have \n\n**been** \n\n**done** \n\n**for** \n\n**century.** \n\n**Even** \n\n**pandonadas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Eritiah** \n\n**Oturm** \n\n## this \n\n**instance,** \n\n**however,** \n\n**would** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**likely** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**the** \n\n**desire** \n\n**affect** \n\n**upon** \n\n**the** \n\n## TH \n\n**Boston** \n\n**Herald** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**Ikid** \n\n**August** \n\n**andicare,** \n\n**heceura,** \n\n**so** \n\n**fue** \n\n**as** \n\n**the** \n\n**impene** \n\n**lacated** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**steamer** \n\n**Grenfilloch,** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**rement** \n\n**of** \n\n**manareteres** \n\n**is** \n\n**concereste** \n\n**ne,** \n\n**strived** \n\n**at** \n\n**Sandy** \n\n**Hook** \n\n**(strate** \n\n**little** \n\n**need** \n\n**be** \n\n**expiiented** \n\n**from;** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese;** \n\n## while \n\n**the** \n\n**Fish** \n\n**Huguenots** \n\n**became** \n\n**to** \n\n**Sew** \n\n**York** \n\n**harb.ue)** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**6th** \n\n**idcm,** \n\n**Dust** \n\n**desirate** \n\n**citizen,** \n\n**the** \n\n**Aura** \n\n**having** \n\n**mavia** \n\n**the** \n\n**sun** \n\n**from** \n\n**Attey** \n\n**in** \n\n**si** \n\n**lis** \n\n**eutend** \n\n**that** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chinese** \n\n**do** \n\n**not,** \n\n**¦** \n\n**days** \n\n**to** \n\n**hours,** \n\n**tuoluding** \n\n**two** \n\n**úya'** \n\n**down-** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sharp** \n\n**vounted** \n\n**Free** \n\n**Trade** \n\n**tu** \n\n**la** \n\n**the** \n\n**Sus** \n\n**Canal** \n\n**waiting** \n\n**for** \n\n**mail** \n\n**cigration** \n\n**in** \n\n**\"verything** \n\n**else,** \n\n**and** \n\n**in** \n\n## Ass \n\n**that** \n\n## Don, \n\n**$175** \n\n**porebare, salah.** \n\n**\\|** \n\n**COPAS** \n\n**OF** \n\n**LUANF** \n\n**of** \n\n**those** \n\n**who** \n\n**yet** \n\n**favour** \n\n**Lest** \n\n**year** \n\n**the** \n\n**Stanfalloch's** \n\n**Seip** \n\n**wirin** \n\n1370 per share, selam \n\n## Do, \n\n**Debentur,.. pr.** \n\n## Chirome \n\n**Imperial** \n\n**Loan** \n\n**of** \n\n**1074, nominal** \n\n## De \n\nof 1877 do, \n\n## Temperature. \n\n## so \n\n**ding** \n\n**he** \n\n**must** \n\n**have** \n\n**todlas** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**sewn.** \n\n## This \n\n**satin** \n\n**lastent** \n\n**trip** \n\n**cu** \n\n**record.** \n\n## Frotection \n\n12 that part of the wozid, † 61 daya Hot, hearing in mindî die grave error of' the lecture to be found in the abnue of we take the foliowlog from a New York Buy thence of the part which the Chi- (Zaken at Moure Estoquer & Co.'s Ponnien, seem destined to play lo pasing! PE of the Bib Sapteinber \n\n## Gana \n\n**Bund** \n\n## Honokora, \n\n**Oktoby** \n\n**$1.** \n\n## Banners \n\n**M** \n\n12....... 42..... \n\n[to. \n\n## THENOMETRA) \n\n**de** \n\n**Trans** \n\n90148 \n\n50.002 \n\n## મ \n\n1 M... 4.x.... \n\nto (Tez balb) 2 a.m. \n\n## Da. \n\n## Fo \n\n1.X. \n\n09 \n\n2001 \n\n## D. \n\n**faximum** \n\n## He, \n\n**Hatem** \n\n**orur** \n\n**night** \n\n+9 \n\n## Cwing \n\n**to** \n\n**se** \n\n**krangemeni** \n\n**made** \n\n**betwee** \n\n## the \n\n**way** \n\n**for** \n\n**Western** \n\n**civilisation** \n\n**by** \n\n**Postmailer** \n\n**Janes** \n\n**and** \n\n**the** \n\n**mangers** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**opening** \n\n**up** \n\n**new** \n\n**territory** \n\n**the** \n\n**greatest** \n\n**Panife** \n\n**55** \n\n**and** \n\n**Oroldsatsl** \n\n**and** \n\n**Uriental** \n\n**fault** \n\n**we** \n\n**la76** \n\n**to** \n\n**and** \n\n**with** \n\n**Mr** \n\n**Sanen** \n\n**is** \n\n**Steamship** \n\n**Computes** \n\n**the** \n\n**maft** \n\n**for** \n\n**China,** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**maarer** \n\n**in** \n\n**which** \n\n**he** \n\n**wented** \n\n**the** \n\n**Japan,** \n\n**Azabralia,** \n\n**Sandwich** \n\n**Islands** \n\n**and** \n\n## He \n\n**is** \n\n**the** \n\n**covaízise** \n\n**to** \n\n**which** \n\n**mails** \n\n**are** \n\n**ment** \n\n**by** \n\n**political** \n\n**spet** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**question.** \n\n**reported** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**said, \"If** \n\n**Chiat** \n\n**was** \n\n**the** \n\n**stesters** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**shore-atione?** \n\n**con** \n\n**wing** \n\n**to** \n\n**modify** \n\n**the** \n\n**revisions** \n\n**of** \n\n**hot** \n\n**as** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**de** \n\n**hacra** \n\n**Ister** \n\n**then** \n\n**hereto** \n\n**Fabios, gan 1G BODI ARION Tia Sue Prac treaty with Great Britain suns to prfare, that is on the serenta day pensions side for the regulation of immigrato the advd day of thing mor tics of bar peuple to the color this is of a day's star psich well und wood; but this was te only applies to the wande uiry east of the honest way of grapping with the ques- Bealy Mountahar \n\n## Te \n\n**way** \n\n**Granville** \n\n**Biary, his relative, that diey wers Epium ackers--WA Brew on Wednesday test, the resales faibly of supply. It is reported before long. What has decision will be it injured thaso he had cistine! The next charge against the legalizos \n\nThe Apub's but troops reaching be it very toutafal. Sir Charles Eike's it. Chau the Governor thurs durissed the ropes to the various interpellations ceded in obtaining from the set by the sistement in their closin asis to birdir homes. The Kabul and upon the subject in the Hense of Cos-highest court in England she wolaration this respect was immensely exaggerated, Kobitale went on to Kabel, \n\n## mans \n\n**were** \n\n**on** \n\n**she** \n\n**one** \n\n**hand** \n\n**rather** \n\n**the:** \n\n**the** \n\n**sinro** \n\n**who** \n\n**stepped** \n\n**on** \n\n**firtish** \n\n**and** \n\n**could** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**compered** \n\n**t** \n\n## s \n\n**Sept.** \n\n**28-Culley** \n\n**St, John ranging w the hopes of a charr soil was at that instant free. The day moment with the terrible rise of drink eports nil gains at Randaber. The brigade brug granted, but on the other hand that verdict was pronounced was a good jog alvoholte liquears to excees prevail.\n\nThe Registrar: As to the master of Son following in the soure --- Sai Soon, I have put his petition among \n\n## CENTRAL \n\n**SCHOOL.** \n\n## 14 \n\n**Jamage** \n\n## and \n\n**ho** \n\n**esported** \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**to** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**arya** \n\n**teorived.** \n\n**He** \n\n**may** \n\n**stiend** \n\n**C.** \n\n**Water, Bail, As of the proper. Na one sporated to Chambwa it hesthouse; I wilt not. J. Wallace, a Batif, busle,.. Lave en dessed fail, but when the rany, ned i wish it to be unhestund, that Remedium, a Grimbe, b Hull, sies was given, he was an lying hay duty is nou to a land to bar Andur, Dock with a beat under water.\n\nThe Coroner barleg sammet up eviler, a verlot me returnal of vidente: death' \n\n## SUPREME \n\n**COURT** \n\n**Thunday, te L** \n\n## it \n\n**were** \n\n**my** \n\n**day.** \n\n**I** \n\n**would** \n\n**attend, but I de** \n\n## į \n\n**Vinevaly** \n\n## ↳ \n\n**Gl** \n\n**about** \n\n**attend** \n\n**Lecates** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**insalted** \n\n**on** \n\n**Shuster, b Had prey ecadam** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**attended, and I don't dodat, \n\n## Ko, \n\n**tail, b Qiable, \n\n## Very \n\n**MOTI❘** \n\n**kahamas, nat qui, AA** \n\n## Julinone \n\n**to** \n\n**im** \n\n**inanited** \n\n**unless** \n\n**I** \n\n**have** \n\n**lite** \n\n## protection \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Prom** \n\n**The** \n\n**Sou** \n\n**Susa, bọt I cannot help it, I bolove the only esteguard the pubita bas le the Fren. The Ir has born wi- red here stue I came here is a way 1 Rover Rate it simidindered eltowhere.\n\n## THE \n\n**SUPREMA** \n\n**QOURT** \n\n**SCANDAL** \n\n## Mattors \n\n**are** \n\n**Lake** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chamur** \n\n**in** \n\n**seurat** \n\n## \"The \n\n**Onien** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**And** \n\n**Jan** \n\n**Brotezistam** \n\n**which** \n\n**ought** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**takes** \n\n**in** \n\n**public, i don's sonse to be a party to angling of the** \n\n## This \n\n**after** \n\n**our** \n\n**number** \n\n**of** \n\n**cance** \n\n**which** \n\n**kind.** \n\n**Whether** \n\n**in** \n\n**a** \n\n**bish** \n\n**pon** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**lying** \n\n**beer** \n\n**fines** \n\n**Monday** \n\n**loss** \n\n**a** \n\n**low** \n\n**one, I air shaply goined by one prin b. wura to cause au belare the Chipë Jugle, and that la in to taản khu \n\n## aber \n\n**regend** \n\n**if** \n\n**to** \n\n**lie** \n\n**on** \n\n**i** \n\n**den** \n\n**and** \n\n**t** \n\n**Reglatter** \n\n**wha** \n\n**in** \n\n**Copel;** \n\n**130** \n\n## 15€ \n\n## GK \n\n## lier \n\n**war** \n\n**iis** \n\n**rocant** \n\n**hy** \n\n**in** \n\n**frakt** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**last** \n\n**Gibbon** \n\n**was** \n\n**out** \n\n**for** \n\n**and** \n\n**refund** \n\n**send** \n\n## on \n\n**his** \n\n**Lordship, holding thee the cases Justice was takes in petals is be heard is open our sal decks the of the sojuhotto in traptey bjici su, be said, to a repeti. Buffon which of all things to vaca insults as he and already \n\n## vad \n\n**from** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chief** \n\n**Justice.** \n\n## Ton \n\n**talowing** \n\n**vers** \n\n**the** \n\n**cases** \n\n**which** \n\n## the \n\n**bower** \n\n## IN \n\n**BANKEUPYY.** \n\n## rebetsieg \n\n**to** \n\n**public** \n\n**procadings, agamat «** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matters** \n\n**Young** \n\n**Lee** \n\n**Br, bek rapt-Report of Regielsar.** \n\n## A \n\n## Is \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Nuray** \n\n**Kojos, and** \n\n## ara, \n\n**bankrupt,Repost of tagieter** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**matter** \n\n**of** \n\n**Ng** \n\n**Akiu,** \n\n## Report \n\n**of** \n\n**Regisher.** \n\n## IN \n\n**PRODATA.** \n\n## 49 \n\n**under** \n\n**tence** \n\n**of** \n\n**pensi** \n\n**servitudo.** \n\n## 1 \n\n## then \n\n**his** \n\n**anything** \n\n**that** \n\n**on** \n\n**glit** \n\n**te** \n\n**be** \n\n**tako** \n\n## is \n\n**public, that is on.** \n\n**It** \n\n**is** \n\n**paleinrig** \n\n## if \n\n**anything** \n\n**is** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**tak** \n\n**ja** \n\n**juhlie,** \n\n## Total...... \n\n## And \n\n**Innings.** \n\n## Wailsco, \n\n**ba',............** \n\n## Walles, \n\n**firituele,** \n\n## audior, \n\n**Ge** \n\n## ter, \n\n**Sat, bdrmale,......** \n\n## fince \n\n**Gambin** \n\n## Bhustez, \n\n**b** \n\n**Gérica** \n\n## &** \n\n## Tatai,** \n\n## HONGKONG \n\n**PUBLIC** \n\n**SEĦOOK.** \n\n## Jat \n\n**fraingt.** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Arther, clean B, Hourd** \n\n## bicu \n\n**shold** \n\n**not** \n\n**be** \n\n**heard** \n\n**in** \n\n**Chsatare.** \n\n## 6. \n\n**Bilmble, b Remadize.** \n\n## Mr \n\n**Stonkhain** \n\n**now** \n\n**raterned** \n\n**with** \n\n**s** \n\n## mange \n\n**the** \n\n**Em** \n\n**tha, na the Registra:** \n\n## ret \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**Altsed** \n\n**now, the bathes in** \n\n## . \n\n**Lammond, b Scandion, e Rabatant, May, Walles, .................** \n\n## Gribis, \n\n**a-thur, 5 Wa laury.** \n\n## Aitken, \n\n**Remedios, MNRAS,** \n\n## Lamect, \n\n**b** \n\n**Remedies,** \n\n## akraptate \n\n**and** \n\n**to** \n\n**bankruptcy** \n\n**would** \n\n**maud** \n\n**over** \n\n**t.** \n\n## 10-morrow \n\n**after** \n\n**zijn** \n\n**vrientual** \n\n**Seseinon.** \n\n## The \n\n**vistrar:** \n\n**So** \n\n**bo** \n\n**it.** \n\n## The \n\n**busloom** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**grads** \n\n**of** \n\n**Bee, denen will be held in pen Court. Yamoto -ITTY AS and Selena of Ad- telstrativ Putits by Chen wong Sang for $68.\n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**gros** \n\n**of** \n\n**R.** \n\n**T.** \n\n**Mogidge, done, ad-LoveBory Art and Sallen of Adelitaiton.**\n\nthe Chief Juation where he can innuit, us with impunity: I san not to my position degraded. I may brook a private insul, but \n\n## Wader, \n\n## B. \n\n**Girable, not on...** \n\n## Batzos, \n\n## from \n\n**Kandabar to Malwandi** \n\n## 12, \n\n**having** \n\n**buried** \n\n**hocles** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**Auld** \n\n## one \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**guiding** \n\n**principles** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**day** \n\n**for** \n\n**the** \n\n**rare, but it was a better carying gst Baropens. In conclusion of the series. it ir July, where larga Gladstone Goverinent, epesly ander the master. The white man's houtthis seturer suranarived the varrens air has been constructed.\"\n\ncoptedly rowed by several of its ad utred more that the bank au's charger againe de Chinese, and gea ukulan Sept And Slate 90150 ending meribere, is hurt to the ex-in, and the oppressor had coua tross general answer to them. He quoted the to hose than to those who he up-remark of our Bericor, \"Ho that is qdous talep at the Maiwand sensus of the ampin's territory Aud desparches tuve a published in the \n\n## Ancite \n\n**of** \n\n**Extra:mery:** \n\n**together** \n\n**ability.** \n\n## Is \n\n**would** \n\n**but, conseture, pressed.** \n\n## Now \n\n**the** \n\n**sune** \n\n**polley** \n\n**which** \n\n**it** \n\n**without** \n\n**is** \n\n**among** \n\n**you.** \n\n**let** \n\n**him** \n\n**cast** \n\n**the** \n\n## od \n\n**to** \n\n**adopt** \n\n**toward** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chiral** \n\n**stone.** \n\n## And \n\n**he** \n\n**tiled, \n\n- od telors relating to the be surprisine (at the ultimate decision was proposed centuries age been at 1 \n\n## CE \n\n2 \n\n## dini \n\n**CÍ** \n\n## s \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**foras** \n\n**na** \n\n**Geral** \n\n**Barrowshould** \n\n**in** \n\n**area** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**waything** \n\n**to** \n\n**pese** \n\n**he** \n\n## thesis \n\n**with** \n\n**the** \n\n**project.** \n\n## In \n\n**that** \n\n**esse,** \n\n**the** \n\n**tempted** \n\n**asize** \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemish** \n\n**refugees** \n\n**in** \n\n**rauce** \n\n**was** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**fr** \n\n## Flaimed, \n\n**it** \n\n**patuloy** \n\n**te** \n\n**probaialivy** \n\n**in** \n\n**that** \n\n**taron** \n\n**Orarback** \n\n**will** \n\n**i** \n\n**Gardend.** \n\n## When \n\n**the** \n\n**Fiemjsh** \n\n**szunnos** \n\n## Fram, \n\n**and** \n\n**also** \n\n**apply** \n\n**to** \n\n**Germany.** \n\n**and** \n\n**here** \n\n**are** \n\n**tem** \n\n**dached** \n\n**to** \n\n**Leeden, the manufacturer in at the Goumander-in-Chiaf valgzagded ones that he was already dansen, had clust after objected strongly to their col-\n\nthe tõib Walks woo hard. de- \n\n\"For a bat and a' idel \n\nIt's coming yet for a' tak, Talsman the world o'ar \n\nBbal rather be, ir atkal.\" \n\n## Mr \n\n**C.** \n\n**Goode, (president of tua ag** \n\n## bed, \n\n## Kautioned \n\n**float** \n\n**hie** \n\n**vyerates** \n\n**have** \n\n**beon** \n\n**favorably** \n\n**i** \n\n**Jatition** \n\n**in** \n\n**various** \n\n**binnebes** \n\n**of** \n\n**trade.encistion)** \n\n**waved** \n\n**a** \n\n**vote** \n\n**of** \n\n**thanks** \n\n**to** \n\n## resived \n\n**by** \n\n**Prince** \n\n**Bismeerk, who has the London entices zuid riots Sharp for his able antare: He pointed \n\n## diag \n\n**misant** \n\n## Lin \n\n## Ansation \n\n**was** \n\n**entirely** \n\n**a** \n\n**non-political** \n\n**in** \n\n**perling** \n\n**fully.** \n\n**He** \n\n**renas** \n\n**notast** \n\n**bean** \n\n**appointed** \n\n**Minister** \n\n**of** \n\n**f'pre-** \n\n## ; \n\n**agravel** \n\n**tim** \n\n**aliepaj** \n\n**the** \n\n**storekeepers** \n\n**ssid** \n\n**uut** \n\n**tazt** \n\n**the** \n\n**Yotang:** \n\n## Kau'n \n\n**fitriatin** \n\n## A \n\n## and \n\n**who** \n\n**is** \n\n**me** \n\n**on** \n\n**I** \n\n## As \n\n**he** \n\n**thought** \n\n**that** \n\n**gentlemen** \n\n**had** \n\n**done** \n\n**Oberly** \n\n**to** \n\n**attachment** \n\n**of** \n\n**Gurus** \n\n**canmerve** \n\n**and** \n\n**week** \n\n## colonisation. \n\n**The** \n\n**Chancellor** \n\n**has** \n\n**given** \n\n**it** \n\n**never** \n\n**locaine** \n\n**Novechelone** \n\n**the** \n\n**well** \n\n**in** \n\n**coming** \n\n**forward** \n\n**to** \n\n**sypand** \n\n**the** \n\n**figub** \n\n**it** \n\n**got** \n\n**thuali** \n\n**gore** \n\n**rong** \n\n## great \n\n**encouragement** \n\n**in** \n\n**the** \n\n**formation** \n\n**of** \n\n**emish** \n\n**artians** \n\n**gave** \n\n**no** \n\n**famense** \n\n**ise-other** \n\n**side** \n\n**of** \n\n**a** \n\n**vezet** \n\n**queerzina.\"** \n\n**do** \n\n## \"The \n\n**despaterne** \n\n**by** \n\n## The \n\n**Hou.** \n\n**A.** \n\n**Camphail, recorded the aligus mar ao ar longhi \n\ntheir skill, Jaloe, w intelligence they motion, which was carried with acclama. ad outfity, bat they are the Gorras Truling Company which has pets to mangfecting industry, and by \n\niswas to dreystela to the rain taken over the twainese of the did far more than repay the English: fortira, and the lecturer heietly replied.\n\nThe Hon. W. Sandover moved a voda tmuse of odetoy & Co. in the Beutli Sess The Kamiah. Naes her \"From which recently failed, and the Sumuon the generosity which offers com 16 house wurde, was my's los alios are row bets of Ims Gerwinter in this hour of need. It of thanks to the chairman, who is as \n\n## asian \n\n**was** \n\n**1230** \n\n**ruculara** \n\n**killed** \n\n**su** \n\n\\*cation on scent of distance of note for the wage jargrárda apa sau unt aletgi to eat of \n\na Trila by (7 noia) ( \n\n2; standud, mil tüsi 2,400 wyra sted's STF bitero There could be no bestar or more was indeed to the Flemings that Bag-upisten bad scied nubly under the cls- Biasa Kiled, woonid, or inwin, eligabits statice Er Prince Eiemurch's (land was indested for her present ouveiances in presiding em auch en 20 \n\n## Me \n\n**A.** \n\n**Grainger** \n\n**for** \n\n**add** \n\n**the** \n\n**motion.** \n\n## 300 \n\n**bls** \n\n**f** \n\n**h** \n\n**Dees** \n\n**were** \n\n**found** \n\n**on** \n\n**the** \n\n**pupases** \n\n**than** \n\n**the** \n\n**Nurth-East** \n\n**of** \n\n**Deruen, amidare in the arts and our casion. He though gece would \n\nfale urzt d-9. bow basty Sara Esmased and if finglu: iets slip the up posterity, the pee. Who knew how sour, trouble done by the lecture a helping tha using the night sad whaar toe amber now offered her, there can be no reason Chile, and ber basteliation of to important subject out in way Evermeny stuld not take advan-ljucts became wandereros aui if thes 1) veusded is imp-wide to I FAYRE of it, bosener much wa was rescant? came to South Australia he would ask He end the Inetarer ved done good \n\n## apposed \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**toCA** \n\n**12,000, or a bokat kom of about 1,09%. This** \n\n\\| autoss with what us TODUE-vi by spins who they the Gladstone Gerwungal chocld whether the Britch of this golony would service to tre advocmes of noti-Came \n\n\\| akina in during the rig \n\n## Coucher, \n\n**sapt.** \n\n**18-benumber** \n\n**of** \n\n**alalı** \n\n## Satri \n\n## Sed \n\n**Iminya** \n\n## 17 \n\n**at** \n\n**Waiou** \n\n**the** \n\n**let** \n\n**Sprember** \n\n**is** \n\n**given** \n\n## psore \n\n**sons** \n\n**to** \n\n**be** \n\n**complaining** \n\n**abi** \n\n## Dat \n\n**zout** \n\n**4,50** \n\n**men, Host** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**Indine** \n\n## the \n\n**insults** \n\n**that** \n\n**have** \n\n**been** \n\n**adiered** \n\n**to** \n\n**ma** \n\n**ky** \n\n**the** \n\n**Chatel** \n\n**Justice** \n\n**are** \n\n**loculis** \n\n**to** \n\n**my** \n\n**heal** \n\n**parison** \n\n**which** \n\n**I** \n\n**wait** \n\n**not** \n\n**bear.** \n\n**I** \n\n**with** \n\n**that!** \n\n## Hall, \n\n**Remedios** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Tex** \n\n**Sean, eased to be datedly understood. He many uit Bart, o and b Wallace, Inventory Account aal schama ei admin me privately, the Mul Jaesise or any body G. Ishlo, Wallse \n\nely, and cauli brook it and forget T. Kammer, barul e Wallao strands of Satau Jaze Bostor, lit, Eat so insals in my poetion I am \n\n#Lammert, e Rshunul, b Waits, cad.toty Aescuet bid Serra of bound forarent. The pelte hobi is May, to hat......... Administration, \n\n## emorect \n\n**treat** \n\n**and** \n\n**I** \n\n**will** \n\n**uphold** \n\n**is** \n\n**dignity.** \n\n## W. \n\n**Grimble, rus gi** \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Aloe** \n\n**War, dece.** \n\n**They** \n\n**was** \n\n**I** \n\n**am** \n\n**vandielivest** \n\n**in** \n\n**Alken, Homedie,...........** \n\n## -Inventory \n\n**account** \n\n**atid** \n\n**Scheme** \n\n**of** \n\n**ad-** \n\n**that** \n\n**repeat, I am jalons of the uterity** \n\n## Millet, \n\n**to** \n\n**hat............** \n\n## law \n\n**1** \n\n**Lave** \n\n**followed** \n\n**the** \n\n**bourable** \n\n**B.** \n\n**Grimble, tu bai minitentia** \n\n## Extras...antarangays \n\n## In \n\n**the** \n\n**goals** \n\n**of** \n\n**Che** \n\n**Buia, Jeccand-lo** \n\n**pr-festog** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n**law** \n\n**fe** \n\n**twenty** \n\n**five** \n\n**year** \n\n**Pentury** \n\n**Acconut** \n\n**a** \n\n**Scam** \n\n**of** \n\n**Admicis, amal** \n\n**I** \n\n**ever** \n\n**had** \n\n**an** \n\n**innata** \n\n**quins** \n\n**ine, alther we judge or barrister,** \n\n## Imat \n\n## tration. \n\n## To \n\n**the** \n\n**gouden** \n\n**Fook** \n\n**St.** \n\n**Fong, decaan:** \n\n**d.** \n\n## and \n\n**i** \n\n**mal** \n\n**day** \n\n**i** \n\n**vot** \n\n**cow** \n\n**diepened** \n\n**at** \n\n**5** \n\n**juventory** \n\n**Apus** \n\n**and** \n\n**Sebums** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adare** \n\n**to** \n\n**have** \n\n**s** \n\n**portion** \n\n**degraded** \n\n**in** \n\n**my** \n\n**purt** \n\n**on** \n\n**my** \n\n**coming** \n\n**to** \n\n**an** \n\n**qutabile** \n\n**plads** \n\n**minterration.** \n\n## the \n\n**goods** \n\n**of** \n\n**Arthur** \n\n**W.** \n\n**Cuan, doke** \n\n**Dongkg.** \n\n**I** \n\n**wish** \n\n**that** \n\n**that** \n\n**may** \n\n**go** \n\n**Beach** \n\n**Petition** \n\n**for** \n\n**grant** \n\n**of** \n\n**Adaciae** \n\n**far** \n\n**th** \n\n**over** \n\n**the** \n\n**engil** \n\n**and** \n\n**breadth** \n\n**of** \n\n**the** \n\n## Colony, \n\n**small** \n\n**as** \n\n**it** \n\n**be, if it go no inether.**\n\nThe Rolate then huntied up the pa- theas of Lale To Kang, droseed, are which had bean given him by Br Telition feer grout of Administration.\n\nThe wenge Mr Mcup brought was to \n\n## Stockhausen, \n\n**and** \n\n**reaching** \n\n**as** \n\n**they** \n\n**were** \n\n## be \n\n**so** \n\n**blind.** \n\n## ABHORD. \n\n## recognise \n\n**Seir** \n\n**est** \n\n**responsibility** \n\n**and** \n\n**immigration, as he bai proved all the respect the tradit me at ang road charges he attempted to deal with... thair g? Sectility toware (lengter) doubtless all pre \n\n## ayuu'e \n\n**ar** \n\n**doring** \n\n**and** \n\n**alter** \n\n**thation** \n\n## THE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308436, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 426, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "( 42 ) \n\nMr Francis: That is a publication by Mr Jackson, not by Mr Pitman.\n\nThe Chief Justice: But the handwriting being proved, a publication is proved by Mr Pitman.\n\nWednesday, June 9.\n\nOn the Court being opened,\n\nMr Francis continued his argument as to the question whether Mr Hayllar could or could not reply.\n\nMr Francis summed up his argument on the two portions of the letter, and The Chief Justice complained of the quoted authorities which he desired manner in which Mr Francis had quoted his Lordship particularly to regard in some of his authorities and also for having framing his directions to the jury. In flatly contradicted the Court; and than Summerville and Hawkins It was laid down decided that Mr Hayllar had a general right to reply; adding that Mr Hayllar need not address the Jury on the question of privileged communication, as he had made up his mind what he was to say to the Jury on that point. The libel must not only be false but be written, the writer knowing it to be false.\n\nMr Francis next quoted the case of Canfield v. Whitwell (18 Law Times, 627), in which case the plaintiff was nonsuited as no express malice was shown. In Cook v. Wise, Hart v. Gumpach and other cases into which the learned Counsel entered, the same rule was observed.\n\nHis Lordship, asking Mr Francis as to the sandbank Mr Pitman had raised for himself in the last clause of his letter,\n\nMR BAYLLAR REPLIES,\n\nMr Hayllar then replied. He maintained that the reason why they were there was that Mr Pitman had attacked his client in his professional character, the very points on which a man holding Mr Nelson's position was most sensitive—that particular opening where the thrust passed through the joints of the harness.\n\nMr Francis had very ably and ingeniously argued that his defence mainly rested on the fact that the letter was a privileged communication; but as His Lordship had already intimated that he had made up his mind on that point, he would merely make one or two observations suggested by the piece of evidence put in by the defendant's Counsel. Mr Nelson, at a public meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on 23rd February last, when the subject of discussion was the introduction of the Japanese yen as a coin, made some remarks, in which he referred to Mr Pitman in certain descriptive terms, Whether these terms might have been less scathing, less ambiguous, or less sarcastic, it was not for them to consider. The remarks were made by Mr Nelson in his public position upon a question which was fairly before the meeting, and which had a peculiar interest to his client as the manager of a Bank, it was of importance also to the Chamber, this introduction of a new coin; and the allusion was in reference to a memorial which had been presented to the Government by certain people, including some Chinese.\n\nMr Nelson was commenting upon that fact at this meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, and he put this consideration, whether the memorial alluded to expressed a genuine want whether it was forwarded in compliance with the wishes of certain people. This was a perfectly legitimate subject of comment and a very legitimate thing to do; while it really conveyed no charge of moral obliquity against Mr Pitman.\n\nTo say that the defendant was \"well known\" was not libellous; and to state that he was in the employ of the Japanese Government was, if true, an honourable circumstance, as the defendant would be a colleague of some of the first men who have come out to the East Mr Lay and many others.\n\nTo say, again, that defendant was more or less mixed up with the Opium Farm was no intimation of discredit one way or other; and to state that he was on intimate and friendly terms with the Governor surely implied no reproach.\n\nThis was said to be a gibe, but if they looked at it carefully, the jury would find that it was not so. Here was Mr Pitman, in the employ of the Japanese Government, who were the persons seeking to introduce the yen here; that made it important, and furnished a sound and proper reason for the comment.\n\nBesides, defendant being on intimate and friendly terms with the Governor would naturally give importance and weight to it any representation from an intimate friend must weigh with any human being, whether the Governor or other.\n\nThen, again, there was the charge brought by Mr Pitman against Mr Nelson was altogether different from that brought by Mr Nelson, in that it involved the greatest moral obliquity.\n\nNo doubt that part of the letter about Mr Nelson's public conduct, had it gone home, would have been regarded as so much rhetorical fustian; but that containing the private attacks the Directors would have been bound to notice, involving as they did high moral obliquity on the part of Mr Nelson as a servant of the Bank, and giving him, as they did, the worst character as a servant that could possibly be given.\n\nAs to closing the mouth of the defendant, he admitted that in a general sense this was to a certain extent true.\n\nBut the value of the argument depended on the nature of the charge made. Those charges which rested entirely upon the evidence of others, how could Mr Pitman prove? Regarding the inquiry as to the transaction in Mr Fleaton's case, which was nothing more than hearsay, there was the highest probability that Mr Pitman could know nothing.\n\nWhether defendant's mouth was closed or not, was of no importance, as Mr Pitman in any case could have said nothing about it.\n\nAs to Mr Nelson being often so with public men, though it did not make the comment the less fair—the result depended on the idiosyncrasy of the man thus bit.\n\nBy way of defence or self-vindication, however, defendant need not have sent a letter that was not likely to be published.\n\nThere were two obvious courses which he might have adopted—first, a letter to the Chamber of Commerce, calling attention to the words and denying the false assertion; or clearing himself by writing to the newspapers, the subject having gone before the public.\n\nDefendant, however, sends not a public but a private letter, thus indicating clearly that he intended it as a counter-attack, containing as it did many serious charges.\n\nMr Hayllar said he would be able to deal with them he thought very satisfactorily to-morrow morning.\n\nSome discussion arose as to the right of Mr Hayllar to reply.\n\nThe Judge held he had the right to reply as the defence had put in evidence, and on the authorities cited.\n\nCourt adjourned till 10 a.m. to-morrow.\n\n( 43 ) \n\nMr Hayllar then said that the again,\n\nHis Lordship's intimation on the point of privilege took away the necessity of his going further.\n\nHis learned friend had most properly (in-deed he could not quarrel with Mr Francis' course of defence, though one or two things, say perhaps that about the China Mail, had better have been left unsaid)—alleged that by taking criminal proceedings the prosecutor had done two things, viz, he had shown a vindictive spirit, and he had closed the defendant's mouth.\n\nNow one was not generally supposed, when one has lost any piece of property or an attempt has been made to carry it away, to be vindictive when he called in the services of the law; and yet nothing so dear or so valuable to a man as his character.\n\nThe charge brought by Mr Pitman against Mr Nelson was the charge of having got up the memorial, which might have a great variety of meanings.\n\nIt did not say that the signatures were false and spurious; but a man might possess that power of argument and fascination to induce others to sign such a memorial, and if so, it was all the better that was a perfectly legitimate thing to do in politics, to any one interested in such a matter, to get up a memorial on the subject.\n\nRead calmly, therefore, it would be seen that the speech of Mr Nelson did not call forth the denunciation of the defendant, and a consideration of what was really said would not, if left to Mr Pitman's better judgment, have elicited such anger as was embodied in the letter.\n\nMr Nelson was opposed to the scheme of the yen; and he hit at the spontaneity of the memorial, which was the real object aimed at.\n\nIt was due not only to Mr Nelson but to Mr Pitman to put it thus to the Jury, for no man wished to stand forward as making a wanton attack on any one—that was not desirable.\n\nIf the Jury would look at this communication of Mr Nelson's in this fair way of reading now put, even then it no doubt wounded and rankled; but this was as with public men, though it did not make the comment the less fair.\n\nAs to Mr Nelson being \"a regular trafficker in shares,\" Mr Pitman was neither a sharebroker nor a banker, and he could therefore have had to depend upon the evidence of others to show, by an analysis of Mr Nelson's conduct over a long period of time, and a great variety of transactions, that the prosecutor was such a man.\n\nMr Francis said that was consistent with, but did not prove express malice.\n\nThe circumstances were equally consistent with malice and its absence.\n\nUnless there was a substantial and preponderating balance of evidence of express malice, it was laid down that his Lordship withdraw the case from the jury and direct them to return a verdict of not guilty.\n\nHe referred to several cases in which the writers were volunteers more or less, including Davis and Sneed, and Coxett and Richards, in which latter the mate of a ship wrote to a friend stating that the captain was given to drinking.\n\nThis friend was only slightly acquainted with the owner of the ship, but informed him of the contents of the letter and it was held it was a privileged occasion.\n\nHe left the case in his Lordship's hands, asking that it be not sent to the jury, as there was no evidence of express malice.\n\nIt was now six o'clock, and his Lordship called Mr Hayllar's attention to the pile of books around him.\n\nMr Hayllar said he would be able to deal with them he thought very satisfactorily to-morrow morning.\n\n418", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308438, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "page_number": 428, "title": "CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4]", "content_text": "( 46 ) \n\nIN MITIGATION.\n\nThe Chief Justice referred to the words before the Court as a charge of gravity.\n\nMr Hayllar said they simply put the case.\n\nThe Chief Justice: If it had been a civil action it could have been damages-one farthing.\n\nMr Francis called the attention of his Lordship to the letter addressed by Messrs Brereton and Wotton to the plaintiff's solicitors, withdrawing the letter on which this charge was founded.\n\n\"Intimate and friendly terms with the head of the Government in Hongkong\" &c., &c.\n\nThe Jury returned, after an absence of about twenty minutes, and gave in a unanimous verdict of Guilty.\n\nThe Jury would have to find what was covered by these words, and whether they did or did not contain an imputation of some kind on the defendant. He regarded Mr Nelson's speech as an able gibe. Was that there had been nothing wrong in Mr Nelson's share transactions, either with the late Mr Heaton or generally, and that there was nothing by which they would justify, there was no desire to attempt to justify, there ing rage. The Chamber had also, by these references, embodied the speech in its official report, sanctioned if not adopted it; and He did not know that was a very graceful admission on the part of Mr Francis, the gibe rankled until Mr Jackson, the Bank Inspector, arrived. These circumstances raised the question of set-off, however, to the effect that any individual who takes his ground on the arena of public life ought to confine himself to the arena chosen, and there reply to his opponent; and that the Judge Kenyon was disposed to let them fight it out-a remark which is Lordship regarded as full of good sense.\n\nThe current of modern decisions led to the conclusion that there can be no set-off of one libel against another. They could not read the speech so as to balance accounts in this way; and the speech did nothing to justify the insinuation complained of. It would have been very different if he had said then that there was nothing to entitle the defendant to plead not guilty.\n\nIn estimating damages that might be taken further. I intended it to do so. I made Mr Francis: What I said yesterday goes into consideration: but, as Justice Blackburn had said, though civil and criminal proceedings were similar, even in a case where the plaintiff had committed a libel greater than that complained of, the Jury would not be at liberty to return a verdict of not guilty on that ground alone. In an action it would go greatly in mitigation of damages. It was for the Jury to say guilty or not guilty; the measure of punishment rested where he wished it to do.\n\nHis Lordship said he would much rather not have it so.\n\nHis Lordship then explained to the Jury what a defamatory libel was. The defendant had not pleaded any special plea, and had thus narrowed the limits of the inquiry. It was for the Jury to say whether the alleged libel was a libel, as, since 1793, every Englishman must now be convicted only by his peers; and any one who knew English history previous to that would know how necessary was that boon to the people.\n\nUpon the whole letter, taken as a whole, they would have to consider whether the prosecutor had been exposed to ridicule, hatred and contempt. Was it a libel slandering Mr Nelson, or not? That was the only question they had to consider as no provocation would justify a second libel.\n\nThe Jury then retired to consider their verdict.\n\nThe Chief Justice: A more ample withdrawal of all charges and apology words could not carry.\n\nMr Hayllar, after consulting with his client, said they left it in his Lordship's hands.\n\nMr Hayllar remarked that although there were many courses open to his Lordship, to Counsel there was only one course. He was not in a position to assist his Lordship, Mr Francis twice essayed to quote some authority to his Lordship, and was twice told that sometimes wisdom lay in silence.\n\nTHE SENTENCE.\n\n( 47 )\n\ndegree of punishment comes to, for I am sure Mr Hayllar does not seek for imprisonment.\n\nI think that not only here, but elsewhere, that the libels which form the subject of criminal proceedings should be those only in which there are slanderous attacks on persons in high position or which scandalously affect public opinion; that these must necessarily be in the nature of criminal proceedings, but when they are ordinary defamatory libels criminal proceedings are out of place.\n\nThe prosecution for libel is not vindictive.\n\nAfter what has been said Mr Pitman cannot say that his mouth has been shut. He, through his Counsel yesterday, gave Mr Nelson credit for having done nothing which would justify the insinuation complained of in the letter.\n\nI look on this as an admission which is invaluable to you and should be satisfactory to the prosecution.\n\nI must say, Mr Pitman, that had that letter been written by you without the cause which you set forth, and refer to in the two passages, had this letter been sent spontaneously by you as a charge against Mr Nelson, I should have passed the severest, the most strong punishment in my power under the indictment before me.\n\nThis species of libel which could not be supported by truth or fact shows a malignant mind which should be curbed in some way.\n\nThere is a great deal too much of that species of libel in all society and not less in this Colony than in some others.\n\nBut when you say that, wincing under this gibe, under the pain caused you by Mr Nelson in this speech which has been published and now appears in the official report of the proceedings and in the book of the Chamber of Commerce, which is printed at their expense and circulated by them, it being thus inferrable that the Committee have adopted or approved of it, I can quite understand that you as a gentleman having commercial interests should feel that very severely indeed, nor do I wonder that you should lose that proper restraint over yourself which every man should have.\n\nThe charge baring reference to Mr Nelson's dealings was of the most grave kind, it insinuated a great deal more than it uttered; whilst the passage of the libel referring to the trafficking in shares, specially having regard to the antecedent history in this Colony, was also a very serious charge.\n\nBut you were goaded, greatly goaded to writing this letter.\n\nI am very much inclined to regard it as reasonable that a previous libel be allowed as a set off on a original trial on a libel charge.\n\nBut that is not the law.\n\nThis is the law, that when a man is convicted of libel and has had a previous libel on himself, it becomes a matter for consideration of the Court, and the Court is bound, instead of giving the ordinary sentence which would be imposed were there no such circumstance, to allow the previous libel case as a set-off, as it were, in the sentence.\n\nI feel sorry that this line should have been taken in this case because it is not one for imprisonment.\n\nIn a case which has been referred to, in which a clergyman was concerned and in which all sorts of things had been alleged against him, they found not for him for a farthing damages, and the judges would not have it.\n\nThey expressed their disapproval of the verdict.\n\nIn that case as in this the person before the Court was a gentleman of position and education, and he should have known the damage he was doing.\n\nI can hardly say clearly whether I am doing right or wrong; the case is a difficult one.\n\nThe sentence is that the defendant be fined in the sum of fifty dollars ($50), and be imprisoned till that fine be paid.\n\nI am not at all sure that I am doing right in this matter.\n\nMr Francis asked the Court to allow him to explain that if during the course of this trial he had seemed to be wanting in any way in respect to the Court, that nothing was further from his mind, and that if overzeal for the welfare of his client had carried him away so as to be guilty of such seeming want of respect, he was anxious to apologise.\n\nThe Chief Justice, bowing to Mr Francis, laughingly said, that though Mr Francis had twice flatly contradicted him, he dare-say he only wanted to instruct the Court as to its duty; that was all.\n\nCORRESPONDENCE.\n\nHis Lordship then dismissed the jurors, remarking that they had given the case great attention and that they could not have come to any other conclusion.\n\nSessions adjourned.\n\nIN EXPLANATION.\n\n1.\n\nTo the Editor of the \"China Mail.\"\n\nHongkong, 10th June.\n\nSir,-May I request space in your columns for a statement with regard to my speech at the Chamber of Commerce which was so freely commented upon in the criminal proceedings concluded yesterday?\n\nThat Mr F. Ryrie in his evidence at the Police Court, during my absence from the Colony, and Mr Francis in his capacity of Counsel for the defendant should attribute to my words a meaning they were never...\n\n420", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-192 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 308976, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 316, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "( 10 )\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS,-Continued.\n\n(11)\n\nLIST OF PASSENGERS,-Continued.\n\n \n Male.\n No.\n Names and Surnames of Passengers.\n Fe-maale.\n Age.\n Profession, Occupation, or Calling of Passenger.\n Native Place, Village and District.\n Port at which the Passengers have Contracted to Land.\n Whether Free or Hired Emigrants.\n \n \n 403\n Chung Hon.\n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 404\n Chun Cheong,\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 405\n Chun Chü,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 406\n Chung Nuy.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 407\n Chung Yow,\n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 408\n *Wong Chap,\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 409\n Wong Boo,\n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 410\n Chung Hoi,\n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 411\n Chung Tha,\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 412\n Ting Chuen,\n \n 47\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 413\n Ching Mun,\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 414\n Chang Yam,\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 415\n Chung Tye,\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 416\n Chung Kum,\n \n 34\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 417\n *Wong Chow,\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 418\n *Chan Yeong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 419\n Sick Chok,\n \n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 420\n Chan Wing,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 421\n Chan Yeong,\n \n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 422\n Chen Wan Chum,\n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 423\n Chau Lap So.\n \n 28\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 424\n Chan Chuen Kun,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 425\n Chan Fong Pi,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 426\n Chan Wan Tick,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 427\n Chan Lap Tim,\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 428\n Chan To,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 429\n Loong Hong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 430\n Loong On,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 431\n Leong U,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 432\n Leong Kap,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 433\n Har Chow,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 434\n Chau Leong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 435\n Chan Pay,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 436\n Yueng Ning,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 437\n Hor Yow,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 438\n Yuen Ah Yuen,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 439\n Chan Hoong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 440\n Pau Soong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 441\n Law Kwong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 442\n Hor Wah,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 443\n Chan Choy,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 444\n Chan Tin Wai,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 445\n Chan Lee,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 446\n Chan Kee,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 447\n Chan Woo,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 448\n Chan Mook,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 449\n Chan Yook,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 450\n Chan Cheong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 451\n Chan Loong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 452\n Chan Yom,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 453\n Chan Choo,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 454\n Choong She,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 455\n Low Chan,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 456\n Low Yee,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 457\n Low Kwoon,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 458\n Low Poon,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 459\n Low Show,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 460\n Low Bing,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 461\n Low Boon,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 462\n Low Chuen,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 463\n Low Chan,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 464\n Low Woo,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 465\n Low Loo,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 466\n Low Sock,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 467\n Low Chü,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 468\n Low Ket,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 469\n Low Har,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 470\n Low Yan,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 471\n Chan Yow,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 472\n Wong Suey,\n \n 38\n Carpenter,\n of Sun Woy,\n Melbourne,\n Free,\n \n \n \n 473\n Wong Wing,\n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 474\n Wong Kwoon,\n \n \n Gardener,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 475\n Wong Chun,\n \n 37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 476\n Wong Keng,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 477\n Lam Tye,\n \n 21\n \n of Sun Woy,\n \n \n \n \n \n 478\n Tam Mon,\n \n 37\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 479\n Tam Loy,\n \n 31\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 480\n Tam Ok,\n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 481\n Woo Chü,\n \n 21\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 482\n Woo Yip,\n \n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 483\n Woo Ying,\n \n 17\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 484\n Woo Phat,\n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 485\n Woo Lum,\n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 486\n Yip Un,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 487\n Lar Wong,\n \n 30\n Tin Miner,\n of Sun Woy,\n Melbourne,\n Free,\n \n \n \n 488\n Lar Shun,\n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 489\n Wong Kop,\n \n 42\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 490\n *Wong Yik,\n \n 73\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 491\n Wong Wai,\n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 492\n Wong Foon,\n \n 33\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 493\n Loo Sin,\n \n 24\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 494\n Leong Tye,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 495\n Leong Son,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 496\n Kwong Hong,\n \n of Sun Ning,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 497\n Chan Wah,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 498\n Tam Yuey,\n \n 48\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 499\n Chau Ming,\n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 500\n Ng Churd,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 501\n Ng Sam,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 502\n Ng Tick,\n \n 39\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 503\n Wong Cheong,\n \n 20\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 504\n Wong Yira,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 505\n Ng Shing,\n \n 27\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 506\n Ng Ting,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 507\n Lee Suey,\n \n 29\n Labourer,\n of Sun Woy,\n Bat Sake,\n Sydney,\n Free.\n \n \n 508\n Lee Kum,\n \n 30\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 509\n Chan Tye,\n \n 15\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 510\n Wong Fong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 511\n Chow Loong,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 512\n Wong Heng,\n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 513\n Ü Phat,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 514\n Ü Fook,\n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 515\n Hor Saw,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 516\n Mow Saw,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 517\n Chan Chi,\n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 518\n Foong Hing,\n \n 17\n Tin Miner,\n of Sun Ning,\n Sheong Chuen,\n Melbourne,\n Free.\n \n \n 519\n Foong Tong,\n \n 33\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 520\n Foong Nye,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 521\n Foong Kun,\n \n 40\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 522\n Foong Choong,\n \n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 523\n Foong Sheong,\n \n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 524\n Foong To,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 525\n Foong Hoy,\n \n 33\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 526\n Foong Yü,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 527\n Foong Har,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 528\n Foong Heh,\n \n 25\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 529\n Foong Choe,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 530\n Lock Chun,\n \n 11\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 531\n Foong Ching,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 532\n Foong Chee,\n \n 17\n Labourer,\n Som Ping On,\n \n \n \n \n\nPage 312", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 309184, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "page_number": 524, "title": "CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7]", "content_text": "# LIST OF PASSENGERS,-Continued.\n\n403 | Chung Hon, | | | | | | 18\n404 | Chun Cheong, | | | | | | \n405 | Chun Chit, | | | | | | \n406 | Chung Nuy, | | | | | | \n407 | Chng Yow, | | | | | | \n408 | *Wong Chap, | | | | | | \n409 | Wong Boo, | | | | | | \n410 | Chung Hoi, | | | | | | \n411 | Chang Cha, | | | | | | \n412 | Ting Chuen, | | | | | | \n413 | Ching Mun, | | | | | | \n414 | Chung Yan, | | | | | | \n415 | Chung Tye, | | | | | | \n416 | Chung Kum, | | | | | | \n417 | *Wong Chow, | | | | | | \n418 | *Chau Yeong | | | | | | \n419 | Sick Chok, | | | | | | \n420 | Chan Wing, | | | | | | \n421 | Chan Yeong, | | | | | | 27\n422 | Chan Wan Chum, | | | | | | 21\n423 | Chun Lap So, | | | | | | \n424 | Chan Chuen Kun, | | | | | | \n425 | Chan Fong Pi, | | | | | | \n426 | Chan Wan Tick, | | | | | | \n427 | Chan Lap Tim, | | | | | | \n428 | Chan To, | | | | | | \n429 | Loong Hong, | | | | | | \n430 | Loong On, | | | | | | \n431 | Leong U, | | | | | | \n432 | Leong Kap, | | | | | | \n433 | Har Chow, | | | | | | \n434 | Chan Leong, | | | | | | \n435 | Chan Pay, | | | | | | \n436 | Yueng Ning, | | | | | | \n437 | Hor Yow, | | | | | | \n438 | Yuen Ah Yuen, | | | | | | \n439 | Chan Hoong, | | | | | | \n440 | Pau Soong, | | | | | | \n441 | Law Kwong, | | | | | | \n442 | Hor Wah, | | | | | | \n443 | Chau Choy, | | | | | | \n444 | Chan Tin Wai, | | | | | | \n445 | Chan Lee, | | | | | | \n446 | Chun Kee, | | | | | | \n447 | Chan Woo, | | | | | | \n448 | Chan Mook, | | | | | | \n449 | Chan Yook, | | | | | | \n450 | Chan Cheong, | | | | | | \n451 | Chan Loong, | | | | | | \n452 | Chan You, | | | | | | \n453 | Chan Choo, | | | | | | \n454 | Choong She, | | | | | | \n455 | Low Chan, | | | | | | \n456 | Low Yee, | | | | | | \n457 | Low Kwoon, | | | | | | \n458 | Low Poon, | | | | | | \n459 | Low Show, | | | | | | \n460 | Low Bing, | | | | | | \n461 | Low Boon, | | | | | | \n462 | Low Chuen, | | | | | | \n463 | Low Chan, | | | | | | \n464 | Low Woo, | | | | | | \n465 | Low Loo, | | | | | | 29\n\n## \n\n| No. | Names and Surnames of Passengers. | Male. Age. | Fe-male. Age. | Profession, Occupation, or Calling of Passenger. | Native Place, Village and District. | Port at which the Passengers have Contracted to Land. | Whether Free or Hired Emigrants. |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 466 | Low Sock, | 15 | | | | | |\n| 467 | Low Chü, | | | | | | |\n| 468 | Low Ket, | | | | | | |\n| 469 | Low Har, | | | | | | |\n| 470 | Low Yun, | | | | | | |\n| 471 | Chan Yow, | Male | | | | | |\n| 472 | Wong Suey, | | | Gardener, | of Sun Woy, | Melbourne, | Free. |\n| 473 | Wong Wing, | 24 | | | | | |\n| 474 | Wong Kwoon, | 23 | | | | | |\n| 475 | Wong Chun, | | | | | | |\n| 476 | Wong Kong, | | | | | | |\n| 477 | Lam Tye, | | | | | | |\n| 478 | Tam Mou, | | | | | | |\n| 479 | Tam Loy, | | | | | | |\n| 480 | Tom Ok, | | | | | | |\n| 481 | Woo Chü, | | | | | | |\n| 482 | Woo Yip, | | | | | | |\n| 483 | Woo Ying, | | | | | | |\n| 484 | Woo Phat, | | | | | | |\n| 485 | Woo Lum, | | | | | | |\n| 486 | Yip Un, | | | | | | |\n| 487 | Lar Wong, | | | | | | |\n| 488 | Lar Shun, | | | | | | |\n| 489 | Wong Wai, | 21 | | | | | |\n| 490 | Wong Kop, | 13 | | | | | |\n| 491 | Wong Yik, | | | | | | |\n| 492 | Wong Foon, | 71 | | | | | |\n| 493 | Loo Sin, | | | | | | |\n| 494 | Leong Tye, | | 34 | | | | |\n| 495 | Leong Son, | | | | Kwong Hong, of Sun Ning, | | |\n| 496 | Chan Wah, | | | | | | |\n| 497 | Tam Yuey, | 12 | | | | | |\n| 498 | Chan Ming, | 25 | | | | | |\n| 499 | Ng Churd, | | 37 | | | | |\n| 500 | Ng Sam, | | 33 | | | | |\n| 501 | Ng Tick, | 25 | | | | | |\n| 502 | Wong Cheong, | | | Labourer, | Sheong Chuen, of Sun Woy, | Sydney, | Free. |\n| 503 | Wong Yim, | 12 | | | | | |\n| 504 | Ng Shing, | 35 | | Carpenter, | Sheong Chuen, of Heong Shan, | Melbourne, | |\n| 505 | Ng Ting, | 24 | | | | | |\n| 506 | Lee Suey, | 31 | | Labourer, | | | |\n| 507 | Lee Kum, | 32 | | Labourer, | Bat Sake, | Sydney, | |\n| 508 | Chan Tye, | 33 | | Tin Miner, | Sheong Chuen, of Sun Ning, | Melbourne, | |\n| 509 | Wong Fong, | | | | | | |\n| 510 | Chow Leong, | | | | | | |\n| 511 | Ü Phat, | | | | | | |\n| 512 | Wong Heng, | | | | | | |\n| 513 | Ü Fook, | | | | | | |\n| 514 | Hor Saw, | | | | | | |\n| 515 | Mow Saw, | | | | | | |\n| 516 | Chan Chi, | | | | | | |\n| 517 | Foong Hing, | | | | | | |\n| 518 | Foong Tong, | | | | | | |\n| 519 | Foong Nye, | | | | | | |\n| 520 | Foong Kun, | | | | | | |\n| 521 | Foong Choong, | | | | | | |\n| 522 | Foong Sheong, | | | | | | |\n| 523 | Foong To, | | | | | | |\n| 524 | Foong Hoy, | | | | | | |\n| 525 | Foong Yu, | | | | | | |\n| 526 | Foong Hur, | 75 | | | | | |\n| 527 | Foong Heh, | 13 | | | | | |\n| 528 | Foong Cheo, | | | | | | |\n| 529 | Lock Chun, | 23 | | | | | |\n| 530 | Foong Ching, | 37 | | | | | |\n| 531 | Foong Chee, | 27 | | | | | |\n| 532 | Som Ping On, | 30 | | Gold Digger, | Ching Woo, of Heong Shan, | Sydney, | |\n| | | | | | Sake Tsoong, of Toong Kwoon, | | |\n| | | | | | Toong Chuen, of Heong Shan, | | |\n| | | | | | Wai Chow, of Kwa Sen, | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-193 - Governor Hennessy - 1881 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 310800, "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": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "page_number": 380, "title": "CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881", "content_text": "5. But although there may be no doubt as to the superiority of the Plantation over Treen, it must be confessed that to build a gaol on either place will be to deprive the European Community of the Colony of a very favourite evening health resort, for it is generally in the direction of Bowrington that Europeans take their evening walk after the labours of the day.\n\nOn a tropical rock like Hong Kong, with so little level ground for walking exercise or recreation, with a climate so trying to European constitutions, and with so few resources to vary the monotony of life, it is almost impossible to overestimate the boon to the English public of an open green tract like Bowrington; and its alienation for gaol purposes would therefore be a great misfortune, and would doubtless lead to strong remonstrances which the Secretary of State would scarcely disregard.\n\n6. Looking to the extreme undesirability of depriving the public of any of the ground at Bowrington, it only remains to build the gaol on Stonecutters Island where it would not be in anybody's way. It is true there will be certain disadvantages in a gaol on the north side of the harbour, but I don't see how these are to be avoided or what other choice is left to the Government. The objections to an outlying establishment of the kind in such a quarter as Stonecutter's Island would lie mainly in the necessity to maintain a small standing garrison for its protection from attack.\n\nPage 371", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-196 - Public Offices & Others - 1881.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316392, "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": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "content_text": "# BERMUDA\n\n35/79 6830\n\n## Section 9. Foreign coins may be declared current by Proclamation.\n\n## Section 10. Gold tenders by tale, &c.\n\n\" \n## 11. Existing liabilities, how discharged. \n## 12. Future contracts.\n## 13. Penalty for counterfeiting coin.\n## 14. Penalty for uttering false coin.\n\nCoins in circulation.-British and American gold and silver coins, the foreign gold doubloon, and the Peruvian, Mexican, and old Spanish dollars, and the several divisions of such coins.\n\nAmount of coin in circulation estimated at about 100,000l., but the greater part of the trade of the Colony is effected in barter, and it is therefore impossible to give any accurate statement under this head.\n\nPaper Currency-The Union Bank of Newfoundland circulated notes in the year ended 31 May 1879 to the extent of 131,064l., and the Commercial Bank to the extent of 76,919l.\n\nAccounts are kept by the Government in dollars and cents.\n\n## BERMUDA. Imperial Acts.\n\n| Act | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 16 & 17 Vict. cap. 48 | For the punishment of offences in the Colonies in relation to the coin. |\n| 29 & 30 Vict. cap. 65 | To enable Her Majesty to declare gold coins to be issued from Her Majesty's Colonial Branch Mints a legal tender for payments, and for other purposes relating thereto; and |\n| 39 & 40 Vict. cap. 36 | Customs Laws Consolidation, sec. 150., prohibits base coin from being imported into British Possessions. |\n\n## Orders in Council.\n\nUnable to say what Orders in Council may be in force, the records of the Colony being too imperfect to show.\n\n## Local Acts.\n\n1707. An Act for setting a current value upon foreign gold. Pistoles of gold, weighing four pennyweight and six grains, to pass current at 24s. Half pistoles and chicquins of half the said weight at 12s., double pistoles at 48s., and for every grain the said pistoles, double pistoles, halves and chicquins shall weigh more or less than is afore expressed, shall be allowed threepence. See Queen Anne's Proclamation, 18 June 1704; republished in the Bermuda Gazette of 25 May 1841.\n\n1787. An Act for setting a value on foreign gold current in these Islands. Each and every grain contained in any foreign gold coin current in the Islands to pass current for threepence current money of the Islands.\n\n1841. An Act to provide for the assimilation of the currency and moneys of account of the Bermuda Islands to the currency and moneys of account of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\n\n### Sec. 1. \nCurrency of the United Kingdom to be the currency of Bermuda.\n\n### Sec. 2. \nAll contracts made before commencement of Act to be discharged after then at the rate of 100l. British currency for every 166l. 13s. 4d. of the then Bermuda currency.\n\n### Sec. 3. \nAll taxes, &c. to be converted into British currency at that rate, and accounts to be kept accordingly.\n\n### Sec. 4. \nBalances in the public books to be transferred into British currency.\n\n### Sec. 5. \nAct not to take away any franchise.\n\n### Sec. 6. \nNot to prevent any dealing in foreign currency.\n\n### Sec. 7. \nLiabilities by implication of law, on matters prior to the Act, to be deemed liabilities prior to the Act.\n\n### Sec. 8. \nThe several copper, silver, and gold coins of the United Kingdom to circulate in Bermuda at the same rates as in the United Kingdom. This section repealed by Act of 1861, which see.\n\n### Sec. 9. \nThe Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian gold coins called doubloons (weighing not less than 17 pennyweights and 8 grains each) and also the Spanish, Mexican, and Columbian silver coins, called dollars, (weighing not less than 17 pennyweights 8 grains each), and the several aliquot subdivisions of those coins of proportionate weight, to circulate and be current at the following rates--the said doubloons at the rate of 3l. 4s. each of current money of the United Kingdom,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316420, "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": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4]", "content_text": "## Currency and Banking Records\n\n1852. Feb. 5.\n\nPage 64\n\n**West Indies**.--As to British silver coins being declared not to be a legal tender for any sum exceeding 40s. in the West Indies; also expressing opinion of the Treasury that the question might arise whether there is any sanction except from usage which gives currency to British silver in the West Indies as an unlimited tender. Explains how the currency of the West Indies is regulated.\n\nMar. 11. **Currency.--West Indies**. Letter from Colonial Bank relative to proposal to limit tender of British silver to 40s. Also Treasury reply.\n\n1853.\n\nSept. 3. **Currency.-West Indies**.\n\n1854. Mar. 13.\n\n1859.\n\n**Order in Council** and Proclamation regulating the rates at which gold coins of the United States shall pass current.\n\n**Currency.-West Indies**. Order in Council and Proclamation extending provisions of above Proclamation relating to American gold coins.\n\nApr. 26. **Currency. West Indies**. Treasury letters reviewing state of currency in West Indies, and stating that any Bills passed for limiting tender of British silver to 40s. will be submitted for Her Majesty's approval.\n\nMay 30. **Currency.-West Indies**. With reference to above circular of 26 April, enclosing correspondence between Treasury and Colonial Bank; objections of Colonial Bank to proposed limit.\n\nAug. 31. **Currency.-West Indies**. With reference to above circular of 26 April, enclosing correspondence between Treasury and Colonial Bank. Treasury point out that Colonial Bank is mistaken, and that a limitation on the tender of British silver has within recent years been imposed on the Colonies named by them.\n\n1863. Jan. 13.\n\nPage 65\n\n**Bank Notes**.-No notes of any bank to be received by Government Departments except of those incorporated by Royal Charter.\n\nAug. 29. **Currency.--West Indies**. As to American half and quarter dollars displacing British silver. Proclamations relating to currency to be enforced. Copies of Proclamations and Circulars on subject enclosed.\n\n1864. Feb. 23.\n\n**Currency of American silver coins in the Bahamas**. Treasury letter on subject.\n\nMar. 9. **Banking Companies**.-Operation of Colonial Acts incorporating. Need not be confined to the Colonies where they are passed.\n\n1866.\n\nMar. 20.\n\nNov. 30.\n\n1867.\n\n**Sydney Mint Gold Coins to be a legal tender**. Proclamation enclosed.\n\n**Sydney Mint**.-Proclamation enclosed making above coins a legal tender in Her Majesty's possessions specified in Schedule.\n\nNov. 28. **Sydney Mint**.-Asks what measures were taken for making public the Proclamation referred to above.\n\n1869. Dec. 3.\n\n1871. Apr. 6.\n\n**Information required for the revision of Mr. Pennington's book**. Currency Laws, &c. of the Colonies.\n\n**Sydney Mint Gold Coins**.-Proclamation for giving currency within the Colonies specified, to gold coins made at Branch Mint at Sydney, of like designs as those of the United Kingdom. Proclamation to be published.\n\nJune 27. **New Silver Coin**. -Conditions upon which it will be supplied.\n\nJuly 7. **Local Currency to be given in British sterling**, also in Estimates, Blue Books, &c.\n\nQ 7129. \n\nE \n\n46", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-199 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316988, "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": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "# Descriptive List of Persons Deported from the Colony of Hong Kong 1876\n\n20 \n\nGalt Gut, Hame Village Dubist Age 39 04 2001 fou Sing tasting. Then Orr üb 591 212 Fan & the Whampoa Oren Q 1241 218 Chum a From Suan bin Fien On 26 6756 bit Linga Sting, Mas Kang Swapoi is 6802. 2.15 : Wrong a Your Fick ble Aum On 3ry \n\n2 \n\n7191 217 Wong a Serr Fou \n\n## Particulars \n\n| Age | Name/Village | Description/Offense |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Färbereder | |\n| | Fiskumen | |\n| | Fory | |\n| 3 | 7 | Blon |\n| 2.7 | * | Ib as he sky Jati mentida Konze Sin. 32 317 Hon a Jurn Shu 8:4 La Hor 5.8. Sing Fun For Banton bit) 3.6 |\n| | 5ths Hawker | |\n\n5 \n\nby arms Has under H. Ear His For on 3 danse Bash, Brande de Monslash -Brand « Surgion 3. Graham Avgl. SMA Bretrieve But on Gift Car The Brethre 3 The Grataan 12 the abmen 221 Cy a Hups Freny Bai Teen W 35 263 Leone a For A Les élus \n\n+ \n\nnaal Cakeen & Meg & Wheronject Das Book my Fate eth He Ham 3-0 7642 286 Blow & and Her Own Sun wi 1829 227 brun a Fan Ion nor to this their two 23 yoob Br \n\nThe Other Coin Fear \"H\" 3454 930 Lysing th \n\nBling a You Now The Fun On- Joe 227 Gow Al- Frang 4506 231 When a Por tin Bear Seen On 4696 230 Lung a Fü \n\n37 \n\nNew Fin 32 4632 233 Blue & For Fan Sai مینی سوکھے سینک sar Ua Koi Sai Chow Kurai Pra \n\n## List of Deportees \n\n| Age | Name | Description/Offense |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Chan Sing | Iron San sam u 20. Latwe Cantin Sun. Iw |\n| | Chengsten tai Sun | Chun Sungsten de Angsthair Fleva ther Wif Wony-Haw Chan ll. Nowing for Runce then tuis to Syma Tuk ike bug have on Tip: Cb Chun Tak, Engsting Zi che line |\n| | Cheanga Ugon | in Printing |\n| | Long & Air Meng | Row Swing Sai 29 so Chan a V. Then Lang Tung Thur 27 |\n| | Chan a Sau | the towing the On |\n\n## Particulars of Deportees \n\n| Age | Name/Village | Description/Offense |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Chawa Meng | Zuma Hig Chuwa Man Frai. Sove love Shoes Sup: hot per a Sams 4103. |\n| | Low a Ring | How Yong. Chung thing 5788 to Aman a hung Lau lang. Co. Stor Ring Saphor This artfune 12. |\n| | | Particular marker. 10/ #3 1836 Gate C.PO ||| Creb Plightly, marks it withermal pare. Rogue & Vagabond: 40 thei. 3369 |\n| | | Child healing & creape › Hawker Born on tight Cook Seer ond shoulder eboar #657 Aft temple right eye it Carpenter doar ovi lift shoulder left forearms at höher. I Fear. Wacker Fer 022- book off work 34C4 |\n\n## Offenses and Punishments \n\n| Name | Offense | Punishment |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Rogue Nagabond | |\n| | Larceny | |\n| Hantung | | 2330 |\n| stan Wun | Saw War | 2667. |\n| dan Mui | Best for Japons | 36 qv |\n| | Cantor Yop of right was out off theherment Marke of flogging | 56689 Cantone on back Berected of itharker & Fanuary stoget |\n| Rohmenger Cooley | | 2 |\n| | Sardeny thespecione character | ayog MACRO 122 ayay Macar backs 49 Canton Coly Marks of flogging - Chander Higherry Slobbery with riding 74 Repenter.. 24. Berley. |\n| | Marke of flogging Marione Clever. | s & Parener Branded / But on left foot 3 Felt. Breach &/deport\" \"Ord\" |\n\n## Additional Details \n\n| Name | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| | thelampor lo pass th Escape Hal Larseny House Cura Bever 149 dualiaszek before, the art in Blies. Hanlung Fair. This Kacac For Teng For Sing $5 | £ 24. Cyoly |\n| Chav Coopy | Braanded Fomen Branded Macar Santer Gwerr 7 Sherry B Mar Chund Burton Canton 630 Cantings yory. |\n| | bebeunga Pear Whampoa 42.67 K Chang. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316990, "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": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "# Descriptive list of Persons deported from the Colony of Hongkong\n\n| Name | Particulars | Occupation | Crime |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Briggs | 315 Chaw a to | Game to Jung Koren | 72.28 316. Cannya dang Dmg Zing Hum Eming Jung | \n| ... | 9/2.64 3148 than a frong | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | Hawke | ... |\n| ... | ... | XX Reich | Rede forurder |\n| ... | $ in Hawker | 58.46 Hohmenger | ... |\n| ... | ... | 6 Boulton | effen f For belive the Branded Fo |\n| ... | 30 do | Sig | j |\n| ... | 350 | Theining a ty 921 thing a Free Kong Thi | ... |\n| ... | ... | Cat Hors | Kovai Koses suc4- 2 |\n| ... | $63 H | Fgh Coli | to o |\n| ... | 1846.189ppy. | Aut | C26. |\n| ... | 2608 | 3666 | Cortion |\n| ... | ... | tubu | Howlin City 347 |\n| ... | ... | cyru | 2667 Khip. |\n| ... | 16 as | Routine | Bingbing 2655 Sher Seung 5605- forehand 26057 4.c. Lung kr. |\n| ... | ... | Eset due to Lov liten Star | Ly Hua Phar 6133 200 James Voltage tha a The Su Lin |\n| Wak ting bes | ... | Chaussure gu | Fang |\n| ... | 22 | 16 | lease sub doing a Hind the stem Sun U |\n| The of Sik | This Long Yang | ... | ... |\n| ... | ... | Keiht decrpahan | Icespation Particular Meck's |\n| ... | 4 bb | The Sea | ... |\n| ... | #7 #4 | Grime | thinging a gut |\n| ... | 70 | ition Cons | Hakuw The la |\n| ... | ... | Curlers | Jong ay |\n| ... | ... | Breaking & entering | Lorney shor |\n| ... | ... | Extern | Kon Coven 500 Waga Ley Conten |\n| ... | 27 | Maks. | 2jks Hearing absur of befort and |\n| ... | ... | Braking and entering | attenepted burgling |\n| Maeno | ... | Why Yong | Sis Love a Cherry San Dieg |\n| ... | 5 | 24 | 41€ Child shaking |\n| Jika a | ... | Burgtai | Blaand July Attempts Googlmy |\n| ... | ... | Farming bad Coin | L bettiring in forged the des |\n| ... | 16.0 | attempt in 37\" | tir Wiking as Fur Ling For |\n| ... | ... | Coking a dit Sai Fiv | Fur How How Pow it 35. |\n| ... | $2. | Ji a od Clan a this Whampoa | ... |\n| ... | ... | livre pa ttery shes th | Yunt Dung Bee Zo yi |\n| ... | 7 | ジ Grader | Seventy Eebling and Assault |\n| Lasa y | ... | Five low | Candied Cantive Best Umarlé 4, wounding: |\n| ... | ... | Contie | Benton Contin Cantier 2 Candise. |\n| Allen og forgats | ... | erche | Cautio |\n| ... | 24 | Grace whips. | Canton 324 Wong a Hari Jurz Kanz 525 fran & fut Shake Bi |\n| ... | baył 326 f | do your | Act 9483 |\n| Heang shar | \"Pand then Long Tiny thon | Shag ablakh a thing. Hop die Here | ... |\n| 328 Waga Tht. | 0% 2-4 | ماری The foolin | Braices. sien y Hear j Cauther 40 $ |\n| ... | 3209 to a. fut. | The tracer “ | t Est a thing だい |\n| 332. Heran Fonz | Ken Konz | ... | ... |\n| 334 Cheng. 355 | \"t A.. Avi ham Chand Pon in | Song V Kvo the | Fuck For Puz 556 Theung a Ping |\n| 33ry the a thing | 1964 339 | 3. + | Leer I trencar ال然 T Ever Bring shener. Bernay shine. |\n| ... | 38 499 £ 3. | GA 44 12 Wichmager | Rela sche Bürsteger Crot $5.1 |\n\n## Descriptive list of Persons deported from the Colony of Hongkong \n\n| Name | Age | Height | Proportion | Particulars |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317899, "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": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nStarvation may be endured for two years but scarcely for three.\n\nWith all its drawbacks, however, the Hongkong Student-Interpreters' scheme has done much good. It has leavened the Government Service with a true knowledge and appreciation of Chinese matters and Chinese thought and feelings, instead of the helpless ignorance and quack imposture which were the rule for the previous twenty years. There are very few departments now where there is not someone who can read a Chinese petition for himself and efficiently check the oral interpretation of the native clerk acting as interpreter. The Coroner's Court, the Magistracy, the Police Department, the Registration Office and Chinese Protectorate, even the Colonial Secretary's Office are all well provided with a sufficient check on any interpretation that may be going on.\n\nThe worst of it is, nevertheless, that this slowly advancing tide of Chinese knowledge has not yet broken on the sterile shores of the Superior Courts. \"My learned brother,\" as Mr. Crooks said, \"gets on somehow in a muddle,\" and in the Supreme Court of Hongkong it is still possible to listen to a game of cross questions and crooked answers which would be amusing if it were not so painful. The reason of this is threefold. First, and naturally, no young gentleman has ever said,—and in view of the number of villainous patois current in Hongkong none is ever likely to say, at the end of two years' study, that he was prepared to interpret at large. Secondly, and also naturally as lawyers go, the judicial department clung to its present interpreter with a tenacity which would be inexplicable did we not know how loudly lawyers hold to anything which is a time-honoured ancient institution. Thirdly, and lastly, I think the Executive has never quite risen to the idea of what interpretation is. It is not necessary that a Student Interpreter should be able to make a Bakka stonecutter or a Ch'iu-chow chair-coolie understand every word he says. It might be quite enough if he were to sit in Court and say at the end of the case, \"My Lord, the evidence has been correctly interpreted to you.\" It might be a sufficiently high ideal of interpretation in the Supreme Court to have an English interpreter appear with a Chinese assistant at his elbow, as Mr., now Sir, Thomas Wade, more than once actually did appear in the Supreme Court, the Chinaman to ask the questions and the Englishman to interpret the answers. Yet, in the course of some twelve years, since the realisation of the Student-Interpreters' scheme, amidst incessant complaints as to the interpretation at the Supreme Court, it has never once occurred that that Court has taken the simple and dignified position of saying \"This is a hard and important case, will the Government be good enough to ask one of its Student-Interpreters to attend and assess the interpretation.\" It is much to be regretted that the practical value of the Student-Interpreters' scheme was never put on its trial at the Supreme Court.\n\nDuring Sir Arthur Kennedy's term of office another scheme developed itself, specially tending to promote Chinese studies and a knowledge of the Cantonese dialect among the Government officials of Hong-kong. In 1873 the following rule appeared in General Orders for the Police Force, \"every Constable who passes in Colloquial Chinese will be entitled to receive a fourth class good conduct allowance,\" and this small boon, equal to an addition of pay to the amount of $2 per month, at once induced many of the English and Sikh Constables to study the Cantonese dialect. For some years previous, allowances of a Chinese teacher's salary had been granted to any Government Officer who felt inclined to take up the study of Chinese. But there was yet no Board of Examiners. With a view then to see that these teachers' allowances, made out of the public funds, should not be wasted, the then Acting Colonial Secretary, the Hon. C. C. Smith, A.M., himself the first of Sir Hercules Robinson's Student-Interpreters, induced Sir Arthur Kennedy to establish a permanent \"Board of Examination,\" which forthwith devised a regular course of study, divided into two standards, a lower one for Students of Colloquial only, and a higher one for Students of both Colloquial and Classical Chinese. All those Government officers who drew teachers' allowances, as also Constables who applied for the above-mentioned good conduct allowance, were thenceforth required to undergo periodical half-yearly examinations, each for the term of three years. And further, to avoid cramming for these examinations and to insure a steady continuation of Chinese studies on the part of such Government officers, as were placed under the Board of Examination, Sir Arthur Kennedy appointed a special \"Director of Chinese studies,\" who during the last few years continued to superintend the studies of these Government Officers, advised them in all difficulties they had with their own native teachers, and held with them special fortnightly classes for practical exercise in Chinese pronunciation, tones, idiom, and grammar. This being the aim of the Board of Examination and of the Directorate of Chinese Studies, the whole scheme must be pronounced a great success so far. A large number of Government officers, especially also members of the Police force, took up the study of Chinese and placed themselves under these periodical examinations. The Board issued altogether 87 certificates under the first Standard and 33 certificates under the second (higher) Standard. This remarkable zeal on the part of so many members of the Civil Service of Hongkong was, to a great extent, due to the fact that at the outset it was generally understood that Sir Arthur Kennedy had pressed upon the Colonial Office a scheme of attaching an increase of salary to the final certificates of the Board of Examination. In view of the system which has been adopted years ago in the Civil Service in India, it was but reasonable to suppose that some similar scheme of rewarding Government officers for proficiency in the native dialect would be approved of by the Imperial Government. But nothing further has been heard of it so far.\n\n## II.\n\nAfter this cursory review of the past history of Chinese studies in Hongkong I proceed to consider the actual state of Chinese knowledge among the members of the Civil Service, with special reference to official interpretation both documentary and oral. Apart from the six Student-Interpreters, who are now Heads of Departments, there are at present many students of Chinese, who subjected themselves to the periodical examinations of the Board of Examiners. They are distributed among the different Government departments as follows:- \n| Department | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Colonial Secretary's Department | 1 |\n| Surveyor General's Department | 1 |\n| Registrar General's Department | 1 |\n| Supreme Court, Judge's clerk | 1 |\n| Attorney General's clerk | 1 |\n| Magistrate's Court | 3 |\n| Police Department | 3 |\n| Foreign Police Constables | 23 |\n| Educational Department | 4 |\n| Medical Department | 1 |\n\nMaking together with the 6 Heads of Departments above mentioned, a total of 45 Government officers, every one of whom speaks Chinese to some extent, one half also reading Chinese with more or less facility, but nearly all of them are now well qualified to check the interpretation carried on by native interpreters in their respective offices. This is certainly very satisfactory, provided the system of encouraging Chinese studies among the Civil Officers and supervising their studies through a competent Board of Examination is not allowed to fall into decrepitude.\n\nSuch being the state of Chinese knowledge in the different departments of the Executive, the condition of affairs in the Courts of Justice forms a great contrast to it. There is indeed one Police Magistrate, who also acts as Coroner, who has gone through a course of thorough Chinese study as one of the above-mentioned Student-Interpreters, and he is perfectly able to check the interpretation.\n\nPage 150 \nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 317931, "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": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "page_number": 182, "title": "CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9]", "content_text": "# THE CHINA REVIEW\n\nIn philology he gives no quarter to the idea that Chinese roots may be compared to Indo-European roots. Consequently, I have to suffer much condemnation for venturing to promulgate the doctrines of \"China's Place in Philology.\"\n\nIt is to be hoped that a few years will reveal a new phase in the attitude of comparative philologists and that there will be more freedom allowed in the use of methods, so that an attempt to compare both Chinese roots and the principles of Chinese grammar with the roots and grammatical principles of European languages will not be represented again by the strict school of comparative philology as necessarily unscientific.\n\nThe Index to the Shwo-wen by Mr. Chalmers will be extremely useful and will save much time in searching. Students are much indebted to him for constructing it.\n\nHis care and industry in the investigation of forms show how much he might do if he would also attend to letter changes and dialects. It is certainly unfortunate that his work on Kanghi, of which we have now the first instalment, contains no indication that he has studied the thirty-six initials. When, for example, he writes ..., he is clearly wrong and wrong only from want of studying the subject. It should be written with `b`; for proofs, I may refer to existing dialects, to Julien's \"Méthode de Transcription,\" to the Japanese transcription, and to my two Grammars, together with \"China's Place\" and \"Introduction.\" He may say that he is publishing his abridgement of Kanghi from a Canton point of view. But that is not what we all want. If the syllabic spelling meant `&` as the initial of such a word and not `2`, let it be said before the rest of the work is completed, so that the student may feel as much confidence in the author's way of representing the initials as in his way of representing the finals. This will render the book much more useful to Students.\n\nMr. Chalmers has not stated the source in each case from which Kanghi's Commission took the spelling he selects. The Student will have to refer back to Kanghi to know this. A mark \"T\" or \"K\" might be printed near the spelling to show whether Mr. Chalmers is using, for example, the Tang-yün or the Kwang-yun. This would save time in verifying the spelling.\n\nI mention these things in the hope that it may not be too late to introduce these respective improvements.\n\nI would press the first of these improvements because also the book will be saleable among the Chinese. It is much better that this piece of information about the initials and finals of the Syllabic spelling, which we are able to give them, should be presented in its integrity than in the very imperfect form in which native Students of sounds will find it in Mr. Chalmers' first volume.\n\nWhat a help it would be to these men, and to European students if on page 11, 16, Mr. Chalmers would explain ... and ... as indicating a running line of distinction between surds and sonants, so that `#ki`, `&gi`, `ting`, `du`, `ping`, `bing` should all be recognized as separated by the naturally developed pronunciation at the time when the syllabic spelling was introduced.\n\nIt would also be an advantage if he would drop the phrases \"北音南音\" as too indefinite, or at least state what dialects he means by them.\n\nSo also it would be an advantage if he would state which mandarin is meant by the phrase `E` and the sounds of what period by the 古音.\n\nIn the \"Prefatory explanations\" there appears to me to be too much of Wang Yang-ming, and too little of himself in the part which treats of sounds. Not knowing the proper use of the alphabet, how can the Chinese collaborator be able to make plain the differences between ancient and modern sounds or between north and south pronunciation?\n\nBarring these drawbacks, the book will be extremely useful to me, and I doubt not to others. The way of printing in triple rows is highly convenient. The spacing after each word is a real comfort. The bringing together of characters having one phonetic is a great boon to philologists.\n\nMay the 康熙字典撮要 have a rapid sale.\n\nJ. EDKINS\n\n## NOTES AND QUERIES\n\n### NOTES ON CHINESE GRAMMAR\n\nThe Editor of the \"Celestial Empire\" 28th July, 1877 (Vol. IX., No. 4, page 96), while reviewing these \"Notes,\" makes the following remark:\n\n\"We should here, in our ignorance, like to ask if such a phrase as 分人以財 (quoted from Julien) meaning 'to distribute riches to men' could possibly exist in ... or anything else. Take away ... and the remainder is intelligible enough. Unfortunately, we have no competent native scholar at hand to whom we might refer the question.” The phrase in question, I here beg to remark, occurs in Mencius (Book III., Pt. I., Ch. IV., 10; Legge, p. 128), and reads in full:-- 分人以財謂之惠人以善謂之忠; it is translated by Dr. Legge as follows: \"The imparting by a man to others of his wealth, is called a kindness. The teaching others what is good, is called the exercise of fidelity.\"\n\nN. N.\n\n### RUSSIAN SINOLOGISTS (Vol. V., p. 408)\n\nWith respect to the famous ode to a Deity by Gabriel Derskayin (as the name is given by the Querist), I may observe that D. E. K. probably means the Russian poet Derjavin (the `j` to be pronounced as in French) who has written an ode to a Deity (Boy).\n\nLeontycwsky, one of the members of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission at Peking from 1820 to about 1830, a good Chinese scholar, translated this ode into Chinese, and as he had sent copies of his translation to Russia, some of the Russian newspapers of that time (especially the Sibirsky Vestnik if I am not mistaken) made much ado about it. However, it is certain that the Chinese did not pay the slightest attention to this ode, which has never been printed. I am not aware where D. E. K. has got the information, that the Chinese Emperor had it printed in letters of gold on white satin and hung up in his palace. The Russians know nothing about it. Dorjavin's ode to the Deity has been translated into German and into French, but I do not remember where.\n\nAs to the translations of the works of Bioboorin, I beg to refer the Querist to Messrs. P. and O. von Moellendorff's excellent book on the European works treating of China.\n\nE. BRETSCHNEIDER\n\n### QUERIES\n\n#### ASSYRIA AND CHINA\n\nUnder the character `kun`, Dr. Williams, in his Syllabic Dictionary (p. 454), refers to the following remarkable coincidence of Assyrian and Chinese customs;... followers carrying screens over a general in his chariot; such as is seen in Assyrian sculptures. Can any of the readers of the China Review inform me, what authority Dr. Williams could have derived this very interesting statement from?\n\nN. P.\n\nThe phrase `lih kuh`, is evidently derived from Kanghi's Imperial Dictionary, where, under `kuh`, it is given as a quotation from the Tso Chuen (Duke Seuen, IV year). The phrase means there, as the context plainly shows, \"the bamboo screen above the wheel,\" the whole sentence being translated by Dr. Legge (Ch'un Ts'ow, I., p. 297) as follows, \"a second arrow skirted in the same way the curvature above the pole and then pierced the bamboo screen above the wheel.\" Kanghi's Dictionary adds the following quotation from a commentary, “a war chariot has no awning; in the case of a nobleman, his attendant holds (in the hand) a bamboo screen ...); where this is fixed over the hub of the wheel ...), it is called `lih kuh`.\"\n\nThis is, no doubt, the source from which Dr. Williams derived his inspiration for the first half of his sentence, but it will be seen... \n\nPage 73 \nPage 179", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321034, "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": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 413, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "Inspector of Schools of 18th Feby, 1982, it is fairly erroneous, as it will be seen from the inclosed papers that the Correspondence Continued to 23rd Feby when the decision of the Government, such as it was, was communicated to her.\n\n2. The question how much the present buildings of St. Joseph's College are for boarders, how much for School-rooms, and how much for teachers' dwellings, is one requiring special consideration when the preliminary conditions laid down for Building Grants have been complied with and the site, plans, specifications and estimates have been examined and formally approved.\n\nI am still of opinion, as stated by me last year, that the grant in this Scheme excludes from consideration the cost of preparing the site for the building, including excavating, blasting and levelling operations, which forms probably a large proportion of the total expenses, does not seem to me clearly indicated as coming within the cost of School room, Teachers' dwellings and fittings. Coin the cost at the highest - one half of the actual cost.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 321076, "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": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3]", "content_text": "452\n\nlimited are the means and opportunities\n\nof this tropical rock,\n\nto the preservation of health, but from\n\nwhich unfortunately they\n\nare debarred.\n\nAnd how greatly\n\nthe health both\n\nof\n\nladies\n\nand children are tried by\n\nthe length and severity of the summer\n\nof Hong Kong.\n\nIt has long been the opinion\n\nof competent medical authorities that the acquisition of a ladies' recreation ground would be a public boon,\n\nof the greatest sanitary importance,\n\nvarying\n\nthe dull monotony of life and inducing ladies to take\n\nthe exercise so\n\nneedful in the tropics.\n\nThey will have parties at long intervals,\n\nhampered by the absence\n\nof any\n\nsuitable\n\nplace.\n\nWe would point out that in\n\nBombay and other towns of India,\n\nas also in Shanghai, small\n\nconcessions of\n\nland have been\n\ngraciously made by the Local Authorities to the ladies of those places\n\nfor the purposes of public health and\n\nrecreations, and we submit that there\n\nwould be ample precedent in this\n\nColony for a Concession such as\n\nwe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-207 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1883 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 323372, "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": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11]", "content_text": "or \n\n178\n\nる\n\nConneils of Hong Kong, which\n\nNo862 of\n\nproposed by of 1983.\n\n८\n\nwere\n\nme in my despatén\n\nOn the and instant\n\nI laid these despatches before the\n\nexisting Legislative Conneil, with\n\nし\n\nthe subjoined short address.\n\nHỌNGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present-\n\nHis EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR, Sir GEORGE BOWEN, G.C.M.G.\n\nHon. Sir GEORGE PHILLIPPO, Chief Justice. Hon. W. H. MARSH, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary.\n\nHon. E. L. O'MALLEY, Attorney-General.\n\nHon. A. LISTER, Colonial Treasurer.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE.\n\nHon. J. M. PRICE, (Surveyor General).\n\nHon. F. B. JOHNSON,\n\nHon. F. STEWART, LL.D.. (Registrar-General).\n\nMINUTES.\n\nThe minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.\n\nTHE RE-CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNCIL. HIS EXCELLENCY-Hon. gentlemen of the Legislative Council, as you are already aware, I have strongly recommended that the unofficial members of your body should be increased in number, so that the community at large may be more adequately represented in the Colonial Legislature. The official correspondence which I now lay before you will show how far the Secretary of State for the Colonies has adopted my recommendations. You will perceive that, in the future, there will be five instead of only two unofficial members; and that two of those five will, as a general rule, be appointed on the nominations of the Chamber of Commerce, and of the Bench of Justices of the Peace. I shall make the 1st appointments, and I shall summon the re-constructed Council to meet for the despatch of business so soon as I shall receive Her Majesty's Order in Council, giving me formal authority for this action-that is, I hope, in the course of five or six weeks from the present date. A considerable number of legislative measures and of public works will be\n\nproposed during the ensuing session. Full information respecting these proposals, and respecting the financial condition of the Colony, will be contained in the address with which I intend to open the session. And now, hon. gentlemen, in taking leave of the Council as at present constituted, I desire to express my deep sense of the loyal support which I have always received from you, and of the benefits which you have conferred on the Colony by your constant and enlightened attention to your public duties.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE-I rise to express to your Excellency the gratitude of the present unofficial members of this Council and the community generally for the efforts, which have been so successfully concluded, for reforming this Council on the basis which you have just stated. I think it will be a benefit to the colony in many ways. It will enable your Excellency to ascertain perhaps more fully than was the case in former days the views of the various sections of the community; and it will also be of assistance to your Excellency in matters of finance. I have sometimes thought at meetings of the Finance Committee that the addition of a few members of the community who are outside the official circle would be of considerable advantage. There are also many other ways in which I think the change you propose to make, and have the approval of the Secretary of State to make, will be a boon to the Colony.\n\n---\n\nWork\n\n3.\n\nThe speech of the senior\n\nUnofficial Member, Mr Ryrie,\n\nshows the strong feeling of satisfaction\n\nwith which the increase in the\n\nnumber of Un-Official Members\n\nfrom two to five\n\nthis community\n\nis regarded in\n\nC\n\nI learn, however, that\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-212 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324163, "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": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "191\n\nwith H.E. Wie Superintendent\n\nof Customs, who now replies\n\nAnd he has wound\n\nrobust promise to the efforts made by the\n\nMargin of the Customs' Station\n\nat Fat low-chow, when states\n\nHeal\n\non this evening of October 17, we boat proceeded from his station to string gun\n\nin British waters on any Expedition in which a small\n\nboat was scoured\n\nand\n\nClavere\n\nnored Chron. I deny\n\nkilled by a gunshot wound; that\n\nThis patrol boats on\n\nalways\n\nin station\n\nand have been known\n\nA\n\n\"Tai Pa\" (and\n\nas\n\nnot distinguished\n\nby numbers and that there are\n\nChan You\n\nwas cut men\n\nand Chon Shaping\n\nat the\n\nCustoms station in question.\n\nalso a\n\nFinding\n\nthat there was\n\nlikin station at Fat Shan\n\nwh. had patrol boats belonging to it, the Chat Viceroy requested Then Herd. Lakin office to make\n\nEnquiries\n\nand\n\na reply\n\nhas now\n\nreplied", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324554, "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": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 586, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "C. C.\n\n531\n\nThe Eastern Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company, Limited, 66, Old Broad Street, London, July 17\n\n1583\n\nBECP\n\nREGE 10 JUL 83\n\nMy Lord,\n\nWith reference to the conversation I had with your Lordship yesterday on the subject of telegraphic communication between Hongkong and Canton, I beg to state that what we now desire is, that the Chinese land line Company should connect their system with ours at How-Coon, for the interchange of telegrams between Canton and Hongkong.\n\nMy Company has for months past endeavored to make\n\nRight Ston:\n\nEarl Derby\n\nJe.\n\nColonial Office", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 324665, "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": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "page_number": 698, "title": "CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883", "content_text": "'s\n\nHe is going from here to \"Wenceslas\" that as far as Mr. Christian ...\n\nthe 2nd of March, that is to receive salary dated at which Kew comes in with at Penswich is how before leaving England Lord Saly would be glad to hear from Coon as & Toberch has four to Penswich, as to the Jorbable dates which he would be free to proceed to Kew in order to make the necessary arrangement beforehand.\n\n2. As to the assistant, shall I Empire privately enquire about Mr. Figg's health.\n\n3. Acknowledge briefly saying thank you in accordance with the intention already expressed, we are not able to hold the post for was then we told has been Haddom.\n\nI verify ... repedes the look will sent recommend a home Com Gud. when the Officer for Lacoretum Assistant but that in we had. The want of no other Suitable Candidate being found Lord Seely is well recommendation bear of Mr. Figg in mind?\n\n4. Captain Ammanney could see this better TWHO.\n\nJes. after what I have read 24/2, I do not think, because Nained for bringing this landsdatt Red 72828 1/3.\n\nQue 26/2 E.a. Zeb 27.\n\nPage 970", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-214 - Public Offices & Others - 1883.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325025, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 285, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "Stewarts Reply, and the speeches of \n\nDr Bokai, of the Chief \n\nof the Chief Justice, and \n\nof.) \n\nof Mr. Buckeley Johnson, will be \n\nfound to contain interesting \n\nmatter. \n\nI have the honour to be \n\nMy Lord, \n\nYour Lordship's Most Obedient \n\nHumble Servant, \n\n5. Mowen \n\nPRESENTATION OF THE STEWART SCHOLARSHIP AT THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. \n\nAn interesting gathering took place at the Central School on Saturday, when the old Chinese scholars met together to present an address to the Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D., the former Head Master, and to present to the school a scholarship to be called, in his honour, the \"Stewart Scholarship.\" His Excellency the Governor presided, and a large number of guests were present, who were subsequently entertained at luncheon, when covers were laid for the following:-His Excellency the Governor, Sir George Bowen, G.C.M.G., Major General Sargent, C.B., Sir George Phillippo, the Hon. W. H. Marsh, C.M.G., Hon. F. Stewart, Hon. A. Lister, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. F. Bulkeley Johnson, Hon. T. Jackson, Hon. F. D. Sassoon, Hon. Wong Shing; Mr. Justice Russell; Lieut.-Colonel Crawford, R.A., Lieut. Col. Barton; Major Lloyd, R.E., Captain Thomsett, R.N., Lieuts. Vyvyan and Portor, A.D.C.'s.; Dr. Eitel, Chalmers, Young, and Ho Kai; Messrs. Wei Yuk, Luk Sau-tin, Cheung Luk-ü, Ip Piong-kwan, Fang Shui, Chan Un-fai, Cheung Kut, Un Man Choy, A. Molver, J. B. Coughtrie, Chung Shing-wong, R. C. Wilcox, J. Thurbura, J. J. Francis, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, Yam Kwai-in, W. McKinney, Chan Chan-fat, G. H. Bateson Wright, A. Falconer, Lau Hip-chu, Wong Yat-sou, Ng Pui, Kain Cha-sheung, W. D. Hutchison, Chang Long-bin, G. A. Caldwell, Chau Chi, W. N. Bain, R. Maguire, E. Mackean, J. D. Hutchison, J. Bulgin, Chan Kai-ming, W. M. B. Arthur, Tan Tuan, E. J. Ackroyd, Ho Chung-shang, H. E. Wodehouse, Hu Tuk, Ho Chu, Hung Kam-sing, Sia Sin, and Woo Lia-in. \n\nDr. Ho KAI made the presentation in the following terms:-May it please your Excellency- Dr. Stewart, I have the honour and pleasure to address you on behalf of a large number of your old Chinese pupils, some of whom have met together to-day to present you with an address, and to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School in your name, as a slight token of the high esteem and affectionate regard which they, each and all, cherish towards you. Your long connection with the School, extending over a period of more than twenty years, has made you the benefactor of thousands of youths in this colony and elsewhere, many of whom owe their success in life mainly to your liberal education, wise discipline, and careful training. As Head Master you have laboured long and perseveringly for the school, sparing neither time nor pains, and it must be gratifying to you to witness the satisfactory results of your arduous labours in seeing so many of your old pupils occupying numerous important and useful positions in this colony and other parts of the world. (Applause.) It is no less gratifying to you, I am sure, to meet such a number of them this afternoon in this old school-room where we have so often met before, and to receive from them their personal assurance of their deep appreciation and grateful acknowledgment of your valuable services, rendered to them and to their fellow countrymen. I assure you it gives us all very great pleasure to meet you here to-day, and you will do us much honour and favour by accepting from us the small token of regard and affection we now present to you in the shape of a scholarship founded in your name. May you long be preserved to the service of your country, and to the welfare and prosperity of this Colony. (Applause.) I now crave leave to read the address:— \n\nHongkong, February, 1884. The Honourable FREDERICK STEWART, LL.D., late Head Master of the Government Central School, Hongkong, \n\nDEAR SIR,—There has been a general and spontaneous feeling amongst your old pupils that some means should \n\nbe devised to express in some measure their grateful and profound esteem for yourself personally, and your most valuable services and work in connection with education in this Colony during a period of more than twenty years. The scope and value of your past services can only be adequately estimated or properly appreciated by those whom you sought to benefit by your learning, high personal example, constant kindness, indefatigable energy and wise discipline, and so we, who have been among the fortunate recipients of the fruits of your labour, wish to express our grateful remembrance and appreciative recognition in a becoming manner. \n\nThis is our object in coming before you to-day, and it is our desire in the first place, to give expression to the deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem which we in common with those of your pupils who are prevented by unavoidable causes from signing the address \n\nEnclosure \n\nC O. \n\n4283 \n\nROD \n\nor being present to-day, cherish towards you, and, secondly, to ask your permission to the founding of a scholarship at the Government Central School to be called \"The Stewart Scholarship,\" the funds necessary to endowing it having been subscribed for this express purpose by late pupils and scholars, who saw in this a way to give you a slight token of the honour and affectionate remembrance in which your distinguished connection with the School as Head Master for more than twenty years is held by them. We remain, yours very faithfully, \n\nHo Kai, Chairman \n\nWei Yuk, Hon. Treasurer Wong Yat Sun, Hon. Secretary Chun Shing Kong, Hon. Secretary \n\nCOMMITTEE. \n\nChan Shun Fat Ng Pai Wei Leon Ho Chang Sang Sin Siu Choang Lak Y Leong Su Kwong Yoon Mun Choy Chan Kai Ming Cheang Yu Koot \n\nLak Hing Nam Kom Cha Seung \n\nIru Yow \n\nHo Chi \n\nHa Pak \n\nChow Chu \n\nFung Shui \n\nU Lai Un Chan U Fai \n\nSUBSCRIBERS. \n\nChoy Tan Chong Tam Tsun \n\nHo Tsun Tsang Kit Fan Kan Shin Fo Chan Long Hica Wong \n\nApat Chan Achew Lo Aruck \n\nTip Ping Kwan \n\nWong Saik Chee \n\nTam I Nam Luk Tit Fo Fang You Lai Kau Lam Yat Chun Kin Wing Chan Pau \n\nKwan Chak Lam Leong A Than \n\nChoong Ho \n\nTan Kwan Un Chan Ree Kwok Chik Kan \n\nHo Kun Moon \n\nHo Tsink Sin \n\nTeau Ying Koa \n\nYoung Kit Chaen \n\nChan A Sang Kwok Yang Kam \n\nChan Wing Yim \n\nChan Won Fun Trang Kum Chiu Ko Chim Yuen Ho Ha Sing \n\nLie Yne Foong Choung Shing Chan Ngui Him Chang Shan Pang Ting Ching Want Hin Chong \n\nFILE YRG \n\nNg Yaoi Wei Sung Wei Took Wei Kut \n\nSoo Kwai Sang \n\nHo Fus \n\nTang Wing Shing \n\nHung Kam Shing Hong Kam Ning Lam Su \n\nLam Ping Young Fung Chuen Chan Taung Fat Chau Pak \n\nDr. STEWART, in accepting the address, said Dr. Ho Kai and gentlemen, I thank you most heartily for this memorable token of your good will, and for the gracious terms in which you have presented it. Those \"deep feelings of personal regard and high esteem,\" to which you have given expression in this address, I most cordially reciprocate. There is no portion of my past life to which I look back with greater pleasure than the years I spent at the Central School. When I think of the support which I invariably received from the community, and the untiring efforts of my scholars to profit by the instruction they received, I feel that I should be wanting in my duty if I did not avail myself of this opportunity to convey to those who treated me with such forbearance and confidence the assurance of my sincerest gratitude. But apart altogether from the honour you have this day conferred on me personally by endowing this scholarship and calling it by my name, I desire to assure you that it would have been impossible for you to have done anything which I appreciate so much as this substantial boon which you have bestowed upon the old school. I trust that those who may hereafter be successful in winning it will do as much as you have done to uphold the credit of the school, and continue to manifest the same feelings of regard towards it and towards all who are called upon to take part in the instruction of your successors. \n\n(Applause) \n\nThe company then adjourned to luncheon in an adjoining room, and a number of toasts were afterwards drunk, \n\nHis Excellency the GOVERNOR,\" in proposing \"The Queen,\" said-Gentlemen, as you all appear to have done full justice to the ample fare placed before us by our kind Chinese hosts and I am sure you will all agree with me there could not have been a better luncheon served on any table in any part of the world-- (applause)-I say after such a luncheon it is time we should proceed to the less substantial but perhaps more intellectual part of the proceedings. When I was asked by the old scholars to preside on this occasion I gladly consented to their request, partly out of respect to them and partly because I wished to show my sympathy with the graceful and gratifying mark of honour which they are paying to-day to my distinguished friend opposite, Dr. Stewart. (Loud applause). Of course it is my first duty as chairman to propose that toast which is the first toast in every assembly of British subjects", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 325259, "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": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "page_number": 519, "title": "CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4]", "content_text": "telegraph; and that the next generation will probably witness in China radical reforms, though, probably, most sweeping social and political revolution the present generation has witnessed in Japan.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant SM Bowen The China Mail. HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1884.\n\nEnclosure 1.\n\nA CRISIS has occurred in Peking the Empress of China has publicly degraded Prince Kung and four members of the Privy Council for their dilatoriness in settling the disputes in Touquin.' These are the words of the latest telegraphic advice respecting the position of the dispute between France and China. It is to be regretted that the names of the four members of the Grand Council who have been degraded by the Empress-Regent are not given, because if they were one could judge with more certainty if this strong official proceeding favours peace or war. Prince Kung has generally been classed by foreigners as a member of what may be termed the war party. If this surmise be correct, the telegram indicates peaceful settlement of the difficulty. The reading of the telegram in this light is also supported by the wording of the advice. Dilatoriness in settling the dispute is complained of, and the highest Chinese official at Peking—Prince Kung is President of the Grand Council as well as of the Office for Foreign Affairs—is degraded in order apparently that the arrangement of terms between France and China may be hastened.\n\nA well-informed correspondent, writing to us from the North some days ago, shows us pretty clearly which way the wind was blowing, and almost anticipates this important telegram. He writes: The summons of Li Hung Chang to the capital, as has lately been reported from the North, is a sign that the Chinese Government is waking up to the gravity of the situation. For the last eight months that eminent statesman has been in the shade. The running has been taken out of his hands by such men as Prince Chun, Peng Yu lin, Tso Tsung-tang, and Tseu Yu Ying, who have been doing their very best, in a spirit of ignorant conceit, to bring the risks and dangers of a foreign war on their country, but now that it is apparent what a mess things are getting into, he has been recalled to help them out of the difficulty.\n\nIt is a sign that fresh considerations will be imported into the counsels of the Chinese Government, but, at the same time, those that are hoping for a speedy settlement must not be too sanguine of this result. Li Hung Chang is too good a patriot to advise his Government to accept anything like humiliating terms, even if his advice were all powerful, which we know at the present moment it is not, but it is most probable that he will urge a re-opening of negotiations with a view to prevent any further advance of the French troops towards the frontier, or any demonstration against other parts of the Empire. The Marquis Tseng has been apparently left without instructions pending the result of the operation against Bacninh, but we may expect to hear soon that he is in communication with the French Foreign Office, empowered to offer more liberal terms than heretofore.\"\n\nNone understand better than the Chinese how to spin out a diplomatic fight after it has been brought to the very brink of a settlement, or how much mere delay and worry counts in their favour. In this case, if they can only induce the French to postpone further action till the summer is well advanced, the odds will be greatly in their favour. The heat, malaria, fever and mosquitoes will play sad havoc in the French ranks, and there will be a general desire to get out of the place at all costs. A change of parties in France might materially alter the situation, and, in any case, the ardour of establishing a protectorate would probably have somewhat abated.\n\nBut we trust the French will not be ill-advised enough to listen to any proposal for delay. Whatever difficulties there may be in pressing forward at the moment, they will be greatly enhanced by a postponement. If action must be taken against some other part of China to enforce a settlement, it should be taken without delay. And we urge this not in the interests of either France or China particularly, but for the good of both. The longer the dispute is kept up, the greater the expenditure, and the more the difficulty of a final arrangement which shall not be ruinous to the one side or the other.\n\nThere is a not inconsiderable party in China, composed mainly of the so-called Compradoric class, who think that a sharp and decisive war, in which China should be utterly beaten, would be about the best thing that could happen to her. They think it would sweep away once and for all the cobwebs that Peng Yulin and such like have bound round the eyes of the Imperial Court, and enable men of clearer heads and broader vision to have their way in state affairs.\n\nIf the war were a war with England, we should be much inclined to agree with this view. We should know that in that case such terms would be made as would leave the country all the better for them. It is well known that Li Hung Chang, if he could only have his way, would sanction a concession for the construction of railways to-morrow. It is also well known that, if a concession were granted, the capital to any extent required would be forthcoming in a week. We also know that the mere building of the railway would, by the expenditure of the large sums paid for coolies' wages, confer a great and immediate boon on those districts through which it passed, and we know that in a few years it would carry new life and prosperity to parts that are now languishing Further, any one of half a dozen lines that might be mentioned would, if given fair play, be paying handsome dividends within a short period.\n\nAll these benefits are actually lying close at hand and capable of being immediately realized, but simply because Peng Yu-lin, and obstructionists like him, refuse to yield, they are likely to be deferred for the next fifty years. We do not blame these old conservatives so much as pity them. No doubt they are honest enough and think they are saving their country by keeping out such innovations, but none the less they are an incubus on the nation, Now if all these advantages could be secured to China at the cost of a war, then we agree\n\n517", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-215 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1884 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 328255, "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": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "page_number": 30, "title": "CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6]", "content_text": "29\n\npart of a dollar. Unfortunately, the evidence which I enclose some specimens of, was too small and light to be convenient. I will be seen how ill it compares in this respect with the native cash in constant use, of which also specimens are enclosed. The true currency here, of Hongkong, Government cash has always been an unpopular coin, circulating at a discount of from 5 to 10 per cent. It would not be advisable to import any more of these, as the Treasury could not dispose of them at par value, and it is not desirable either to sell them for less or to force them into circulation by any artificial expedient.\n\nOn the other hand the class of small tradesmen and market people suffer a good deal from the account of bad and spurious cash imported from the neighbouring land, and circulated with the native coinage, which forms the medium of all small transactions. A government cash the size of that marked **A** on the enclosed card, and resembling it as much as possible in general appearance, would not only be a popular coin, and a benefit to the Chinese community, but might also be a source of profit to the Government. The only question is, can we lay down such cash here at less than £20 a thousand.\n\nHer Majesty's proclamation referred to above lays down nothing about the size of the coin; it may be made any size so long as the devices on it are similar to the existing ones. The hole in the centre would be better square than round, but, if made round, it should be surrounded by a square border.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-221 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1885 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333020, "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": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "page_number": 374, "title": "CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886", "content_text": "371\n\n30\n\nbank of the Yung-ning River, here about 40 yards wide, a short distance above its junction with the Yang-tzu. This river is barred every few hundred yards by rapids, over which a boat would not be taken in any other country; but here imperturbable patience, and the uniform application of the first rule in arithmetic, overcome all difficulties and make good all deficiencies. If ten men cannot pull a boat over a rapid, try twenty, thirty, or forty. Do not alter your method—that would be complicated and fatiguing. But man is here a cheap and common animal, a fact which modifies many problems.\n\nThere is a remarkable lack of solidly-constructed buildings in this province. This may be due in part to the rareness of good stone in this immediate neighbourhood; but the great reason is that the people prefer to spend their money in ways that give a quicker return. They are well clothed; tobacco of good quality, opium, and spirits seem to be within the reach of every one. The greater number eat pork, and amuse themselves to a surprising extent. Lin Ta-jên's remark, that his countrymen live at home in peace and plenty, is no empty boast as far as Ssu-ch'uan is concerned. There is no doubt whatever that the mass of the people, although to a newly-arrived European they appear sunk in squalor, enjoy a considerable measure of comfort.\n\nAt the same time, in case of mishap, a paternal Government leaves them to take their chance with the other mammals. Thus, in the winter of 1884-85, when an army was recruited here to march into Tonquin, hundreds of workmen from the salt-wells came down to Lu-chou, and, not being accepted as recruits, died there of starvation.\n\nOn the road from Na-chi Hsien I noticed for the first time square pillars of stone, carved at the top to represent the head of Amita Buddha. At a distance they look just like terminal statues, but a closer view dispels all thought of classical sculpture. They are the most grotesque and hideous images. Many were loaded with straw sandals, the votive offerings of porters whose prayers for the relief of sore feet or aching backs had been answered.\n\nFor some 10 miles before Chiang-mén is reached the country is most picturesque. The river here flows between the red sandstone slopes of mountains that rise from 1,000 to 2,000 feet above its level. The sides are too steep for terrace cultivation, and are abandoned to a most luxuriant wild vegetation, the whole surface being covered with a profusion of ferns and flowers watered by cascades that tumble over the tilted strata. The boats add a touch of fairyland to the picture, for they are long, curved structures, floating high on the water, with an immense bow, sweep-shaped like an ancient halbert. Seen from the cliffs above they suggest some strange, unwieldy water-monster, who has strayed into a narrow stream and has much difficulty in getting out.\n\nAbout 6 miles beyond Ma-ling, on the right of a narrow valley, down which the road passes, a sandstone bluff comes into view presenting the interesting spectacle of about twenty Man-tzŭ caves. Most of the entrances, 3 to 4 feet square, are cut in the vertical cliff some 10 feet above the ground, so that they are not to be reached without a ladder, and we had no time to wait. These caves may richly reward the otiose explorer, for no Chinaman would ever think of taking the trouble necessary to disturb what they contain. The face of the cliff, beside the portals, is adorned in one or two cases by sculptures in relief, the most striking being a round human face, which at once recalled to my mind a print in Smith's Classical Dictionary, representing the sun (from a coin of Rhodes). Other caves were accessible, and proved to be cut in the solid rock (sandstone) about 8 feet square, with a domed roof some 5 ft. 6 in. high in the centre. These caves are cut on exactly the same plan as those described by Mr. Baber, common in South Ssu-ch'uan, and are called by the same name, i.e., \"Caves of the Man-tzu.\" My hopes were raised by a heap of earth in one cave, that had evidently been deposited there with a purpose, and was considering how to get the earth turned over without attracting the attention of the neighbours, when a villager remarked, \"We buried a beggar there last year. There was no coffin for him, so we put him in the cave and covered him with earth.\" This valley was, no doubt, formerly the head-quarters of a Man-tzu tribe, for some miles lower down the site of the castle of a Man-tzu Chief (Man-tzu Wang) is pointed out. Not one stone remains upon another; but the sculptured blocks that lie about the garden of a farm-house, just built over the site, bear witness to a considerable advance in civilization. There was a stone lintel, measuring 5 feet by 1 ft. 6 in., by 9 inches, very evenly cut and adorned with a simple pattern much resembling that figured Mr. Baber (p. 137).\n\nOn the 5th November we reached Yung-ning Hsien, an important trading entrepôt fifteen years ago, when the Kwang-si and Kuei-chou routes were blocked by rebels, for\n\n* See \"Nineteenth Century,\" October 1880, p. 615.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-230 - Public Offices & Others - 1886.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333613, "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": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 435, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "في \n\nHer Majesty's name read \n\nbe struck out, and that it \n\nThat the celebration take the form of a fête and general rejoicings and a liberal subscription to the Institute for the United Kingdom, India, and the Colonies which is now being formed in London.\n\nIt seems to me we will not be able in this colony to raise an adequate sum of money to cover the expense of a two or three days' fête and general rejoicings and also a sufficient sum to enable us to set up an institution worthy of the occasion. (Hear, hear.) Whether that institution took the form of an institution for girls or poor house, no matter what, it seems to me it would require a large sum of money to purchase the ground, put up the buildings, and then—by far the most important consideration—adequately endow the institution so that it shall not in times to come fall into difficulties. If we are not to put up something worthy of the colony we had better do nothing of the sort. For any spare funds we may have we have something to which we may devote them fairly adequate to this great occasion, something in which Her Majesty takes great interest and which will be of permanent value to this colony, practical and useful in every way. I therefore beg to propose the amendment I have read.\n\nA consultation here took place between the Chairman and Mr. Francis.\n\nMr. FRANCIS—The Chief Justice suggests my amendment should take this form, that the resolution should read as follows:—\n\nThat the celebration take the form of a fête and general rejoicings and a liberal subscription to some public purpose.\n\nThen when the fourth resolution is moved the name of the Institute for the United Kingdom, India, and the Colonies may be inserted. I have not the least objection to the amendment taking that form. It is a matter of indifference how it is worded, but I wish to elicit your opinion as to whether we are in a position to set up a permanent institution in the colony or whether we shall devote any spare funds we may have to this institution now being formed in England for the special purpose of celebrating Her Majesty's jubilee, an institution which will be extremely useful to this community.\n\nMr. A. G. WISE—I beg to second Mr. Francis's amendment.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE—I am sorry to hear the remarks which have fallen from my learned friend on my right. I do object to any funds we may subscribe in Hongkong being sent to England to be devoted to any institution. (Applause.) Although we were good enough to get up some sort of fund for the Irish famine, as my friend knows, I don't think we should send the funds on this occasion out of the colony.\n\nWe are good enough in this colony to subscribe for a memorial to Her Majesty the Queen, and we should do it, but.—\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—The hon. gentleman is out of order, because that question will come up on the fourth resolution. The question now is whether we should leave it open, and simply say \"a liberal subscription to some public purpose.\"\n\nHon. P. RYRIE—I am quite willing, Mr. Chairman, but I do object to the colony sending money out to other institutions. We are quite willing to subscribe enough money to put up some memorial to the Queen and we will do it. (Applause).\n\nThe amendment was then put to the meeting and was lost.\n\nThe resolution was carried amidst loud applause.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, after the eloquent words we have listened to from the Chairman and Mr. MacEwen, it is unnecessary for me to say much. I have merely to propose\n\nThat the fête and general rejoicings be held on the 9th November next.\n\nWe know very well that if we had the rejoicings in June or July we might have rainy weather or storms. It would be advisable to fix them for the 9th November, I think. That would be a better day. We are pretty certain to have fine weather then, and to be able to do honour to Her Majesty the Queen in the way we should. Mr. D. GILLIES—I have much pleasure in seconding the resolution proposed by Mr. Ryrie. The 9th of November is, as we all know, the birthday of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and to hold the rejoicings on that day will be a compliment that will be very highly appreciated both by Her Majesty and the Prince of Wales. And, as Mr. Ryrie has said, that date will suit the convenience of the Colony better, as we can rely on good weather in that month, whereas, if we had it in the summer, we might have rain and could not enjoy ourselves to the extent we could if we had it later in the season.\n\nHon. A. P. MACEWEN—Your Honour and gentlemen, I beg to propose as an amendment that the fête be held on the Queen's birthday, the 24th May (applause) and I do so for this reason that I think it would be a pity to let this matter stand over. I think it would be a greater success if immediately gone along with, as I suppose that the rejoicings will only occupy one day—although my friend Mr. Francis contemplates three days—and will consist of illuminations and fireworks, these can be enjoyed in the open. I think for these reasons it would be desirable it should be got on with as soon as possible. Mr. R. W. DAVIS—I beg to second the amendment.\n\nMr. FRANCIS—The local Government and Her Majesty's army and navy will probably be invited to take part in these rejoicings, and it certainly seems to me that if we are able to devote three days—or at least three afternoons—to the Races the least we could do on such an occasion as this would be to devote three days, or the afternoons of three days, to such a fête as the present. It seems to me not at all unreasonable to suppose we might have a military display one day, a naval display another, and a grand Chinese procession on the third. If anything of the sort is to take place, it would certainly be most desirable it should take place at a time of the year when we are certain of having fine weather, when the heat is not too great, and when the Fleet is likely to be here, or could be easily brought here—a time when there would be little or no risk to Her Majesty's soldiers or sailors from the heat while taking part in the celebration. I therefore ask you before voting for or against the resolution to take this into consideration, and think what is the most suitable season for having it—November, when we are sure of fine weather, or May or June, when we are not certain of it for twenty-four hours at a time.\n\nThe amendment was then put and lost, and the resolution was carried.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER—Your Honour, the resolution I have to submit has already been brought by me before the Legislative Council and it has since then been so freely discussed that I don't think I ought to trespass on the valuable time of this meeting by making many remarks in reference to it. Although I have heard so many expressions of opinion to the contrary I still maintain a park in Hongkong is much needed and would be a boon to the general public. True it is that the money to carry out this project has been voted by the Legislative Council, but that does not signify that the work is to be carried out at once. Works of this nature have often to be shelved for others more urgently needed, but I think on an occasion like this, when we have to celebrate the jubilee of Her Most Gracious Majesty, we ought not to be too close with our public funds. We ought to invite the Government with our aid to seize the opportunity of commemorating the occasion in a manner that will do credit to this colony. (Applause). Sir, I feel sure if this park be carried out and completed it will be a source of great enjoyment and pleasure to the European community of Hongkong; it will be a very agreeable drive and pleasant lounge in the afternoon, and I am equally sure the Chinese Community will also approve of and appreciate it in course of time, and what is more, it will not be liable to the overcrowding we so often witness in the Public Gardens. With these few remarks I beg to propose—\n\nThat as a permanent memorial of the Jubilee Year, the Government be invited to carry out, with the co-operation of the community, the scheme for a Park in the Weng-nai-ch'ung Valley, if possible within the Jubilee Year, the said Park to be called the Victoria Park after Her Most Gracious Majesty, (Applause.)\n\nHon. E. J. ACKROYD—Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have very much pleasure in seconding the resolution which has been proposed by Mr. Chater. This is a special occasion which ought to call forth the loyal sentiments of all Her Majesty's subjects, for on the 20th June\n\n429", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333614, "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": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "page_number": 436, "title": "CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3]", "content_text": "4\n\nnext we will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the accession of Her Majesty to the throne of the British Empire. And if we look back on the years that have passed since that event I think we must do so with feelings of great pride, in view of the immense progress we have made on all sides during that period.\" If we consider the expansion of the empire itself, we shall find it has been wonderful, both as regards the extent of territory and of population. During these years trade and commerce have increased with unprecedented bounds, and the wealth of the nation has also grown in a measure totally unknown before in any similar period of our history. The arts and sciences also have progressed in a manner that would have been thought impossible when Her Majesty ascended the throne. Discoveries and inventions have taken place which have added most materially to the prosperity, happiness, and comfort of all classes of Her Majesty's subjects.\n\nNor has this progress been confined to material objects. Much has been done to raise and elevate the people; the advance in education has been surprising, and especially the efforts which have been made on behalf of primary education have been far beyond what could have been expected. Legislation has not been behindhand. Beneficent laws have been passed to mitigate the severity and harshness of former enactments, and other measures have been passed abolishing unnecessary restrictions and privileges and opening careers to many thousands of Her Majesty's subjects. On all sides progress has been the watchword. Statesmen, philanthropists, and men of science have done all they could to increase the prosperity of the nation and promote the welfare of all classes of Her Majesty's subjects.\n\nAbove all these towers the central figure to which our thoughts now turn and which commands our admiration, respect, and esteem for the bright example Her Majesty has shown. During the long fifty years she has occupied the throne of this great empire she has shed lustre upon it and shown a bright example in all capacities, whether as Queen, wife, or mother. It is a great event we are called on to celebrate and I think in desiring to celebrate it worthily we ought to seek for some object which will add to the enjoyment of all. This memorial should not be designed to promote the happiness of one class of the community only, but we should strive to erect something to commemorate Her Majesty's virtues which will be a boon to one and all. (Applause.)\n\nI think if we carry out the project mentioned in the resolution we will be doing a great thing towards that end. I am sure this park, if properly laid out, will contribute very greatly to the enjoyment of all classes. The European section of the community will soon make use of it, and I hope that in a few years the Chinese will also flock there and find out its advantages. The town is extending on all sides, and I think we may with confidence look forward to seeing the two ends connected by a tramway, which would bring the park within easy access of the many thousands of Chinese in the colony. With these remarks I have much pleasure in seconding the resolution. (Applause).\n\nDr. Ho KAI-Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I rise to propose an amendment to the resolution which you have just heard so ably proposed by Mr. Chater and seconded by Mr. Ackroyd. I propose to strike out from the resolution the words \"the Government be invited to carry out,\" etc., to the end, and to substitute in place thereof the following words: A charitable institution of some kind be established and named after Her Most Gracious Majesty, the exact nature of such institution to be left to the decision of Her Majesty herself.\n\nI am induced to propose this amendment by having found out several serious objections to the resolution just put before the meeting. The first is that the proposed park has already been undertaken by the Government. The question has been discussed and decided on in the Legislative Council and money has been voted for it and re-voted. When the Government undertake to do a certain work I think it is not for the community to come in and take the credit of it and say \"We have done this.\" I think the Government ought not to require any inducement to go on with the work more than that they have undertaken to do it. Certainly it ought not to require Her Majesty's jubilee to induce them to undertake the work they have promised to do, and to finish it within a reasonable time. (Applause.)\n\nIf it is the general desire of this community to adopt as a memorial of Her Majesty's Jubilee any work which has been undertaken by the Government, then, I say, let us dedicate to her our grandest, and costliest, and greatest work, and that is the Tytam Waterworks. (Applause.) But what we want, gentlemen, is something quite new, something which the community will carry out without the assistance of the Government, and something more in harmony with the occasion.\n\nThe next objection I have to the resolution is a most serious one, and I am sure any gentleman here with any delicacy of feeling must see it is a matter for serious consideration. The proposed park at Wong-nei-chong has already been christened by Sir George Bowen, our venerable Governor. (Laughter and applause.) It has been named by him the Bowen Park, and the first sod has been turned. It is not, I think, the intention of this community to offer to Her Majesty as a memorial of her fifty years' reign anything in the nature of cast-off shoes. (Loud applause.)\n\nAnother objection to this proposed park is what you may perhaps call a class objection, but still it is an objection of some value, and it is that the park is situated a good distance from the town, and not only the Chinese community but a great number of other residents will find it a long way to go down to Wong-nei-chong Valley and enjoy a walk in the park there. It may be a boon to those who are living in the neighbourhood, and also to a good many who care to take long walks, but I certainly think that to the great majority of people living in the town the park will be quite useless, at all events for some time to come.\n\nWe speak of having tramways, of the Praya extension, and of connecting the east and west, but in regard to this I may use the words of Mr. Chater and say that the Government does not undertake these things very promptly. They may take a good long time, and in the meanwhile the park can be going on and by the time the tramway is made the park will, I dare say, be finished. It seems to me we should not take this opportunity to press the Government to carry out this work, since they have undertaken to do it. It is for the unofficial members of Council to press that matter forward at their meetings, and tell the Government that since they have undertaken this work they must carry it through. I don't think the hon. gentlemen should shirk their duty in that respect. (Applause).\n\nAs regards my proposal, there are two or three things that may commend themselves to your judgment. Certainly a charitable institution is useful, and the money spent upon it will be well spent. Then it is more in harmony with the life and character of the Great Queen whose jubilee we are about to celebrate. I think if the matter were referred to Her Majesty herself she would choose some charitable institution. She has always shown herself not only a great and mighty Queen but in her private life a charitable and loving lady of the first water. (Applause).\n\nI feel sure that, if we refer the matter to her, she will consider it most courteous on our part to subscribe the money and give her the opportunity of signifying her wishes as to its application. We would certainly not make any mistake in doing so. For these reasons, gentlemen, I beg to submit the amendment to you. If the majority is against it I will bow to your decision.\n\nHon. P. RYRIE-I agree with a great many of the remarks made by my friend Dr. Ho Kai. As to making a park in Happy Valley and calling it Victoria Park I don't see how that is possible. Sir George Bowen has already turned out the first sod and called it Bowen Park, and he is coming back here. (Laughter and applause). At the same time, as regards the interior of the Race-course, I quite agree with the remarks of the Chairman, but as to making a park of that place it is not big enough. You may call it a garden, but to call it a park is absurd.\n\nMr. FRANCIS-Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I have very much pleasure in seconding the proposal put before you by my friend Dr. Ho Kai. In proposing the permanent institution or memorial to be set up in commemoration of this Jubilee should take the form of the suggested Victoria Park we seem to be in the position of a person who has been proposing for years to make himself a handsome present of something he was very much in need of, and suddenly, on the occasion of a friend's birthday or a silver wedding he proposes...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-231 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1887 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333989, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 273, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "coin at that time, \n\nof the supply of \n\neupply of coin at \n\nDo \n\nthe \n\nChinese community, in exhausting the Treasury stock, had sufficiently supplied \n\nThe new shipment. \n\nitself. \n\n- shipment arrived on: __ March 226 and $48,000 of it, or nearly \n\none \n\nthird, \n\nwas issued in a week, to the \n\nBanks, the Commissariat, and the public, \n\nI must not be forgotten that \n\n \n\nive \n\nhow the want. \n\ngoing \n\nof the Army \n\nand \n\nNavy to provide for. Every ship, before going to the Front, obtains a supply of coin, because these coins pass anywhere in \n\nJapan, and, \n\nChina \n\nor \n\nabroad \n\nand, except \n\nsilver or Japanese money, nothing else \n\nis to be had. \n\n \n\nThe \n\ntotal amount of \n\nsubsidiary coin supplied to Hongkong \n\nto date has been $2,133,881 including some copper, which has not been exported. Of the silver, probably not ten per cent is in the Colony. \n\n \n\nI trust I have shown the necessity for keeping this Colony supplied \n\nwith \n\nsmall coin, and the impossibility of the Government's exercising any control over its exportation except by declining to issue it at all. I now pass to consider the risk of these \n\ncoins \n\nbeing hereafter thrown upon the Colony for redemption \n\nin a worn or mutilated condition. I venture to think that this risk is \n\nsmall, and that, even \n\nif it \n\nexists, which I \n\ndoubt, it would be easily averted. \n\nIt should be borne in mind that these \n\ncoins are not a legal tender \n\nof more than $2.00 \n\n \n\nThe \n\nHongKong \n\nsubsidiary coinage has been in circulation \n\nfor \n\nnearly a quarter of a century. During \n\nall that time no worn or mutilated \n\ncoin has ever \n\nbeen seen in the Treasury \n\nI am inclined to think silver coin would never become worn in China \n\nas it does in England, for the people \n\ndo not \n\ncarry \n\nit loose in their pocket, \n\nbut always most carefully in a pouch \n\nor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 333991, "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": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "page_number": 275, "title": "CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5]", "content_text": "13.\n\n2€3\n\nchair\n\nསདྡྷིཛྫི# + , ཝེ, ཨི HE is\n\n-12.\n\nordinary observation : What then might be expected if forgers could imitate pieces worn out beyond recognition? How easily\n\n18.\n\nthe remedy be can from in the years ago would be applied may what happened care of Japanese 20, 10 and 5 cent pieces.\n\nThese coins had for years circulated side by side with our own, and were received here, as Singapore ten cent piece now are, at their par value. The Japanese Government suddenly lowered the intrinsic value of its subsidiary coinage, and, at the same time, the coast of China was flooded with it.\n\nThe Banks here then refused to receive Japanese small coin, the Treasury did the same. The Government Department followed, within a few weeks tradesmen began to print on their accounts \"Japanese small coin not taken\". The coin sank to something like 16 per cent discount, at which it remains, and even a coolie in the street will not take a Japanese ten-cent piece as his fare if he can help it.\n\n19. It only remains to enquire whether such a course as is suggested would give rise to any hardship. I venture to say\n\n20.\n\nthat it would not. It must be borne in mind that this Government never sanctioned the export of subsidiary coin, and never undertook to redeem it on its return from the mainland in a bad condition.\n\nQuite apart from that,\n\n21.\n\nhowever, every person who, on the mainland of China, takes these coins, does so because they are worth to him the value which he receives them. Nobody ever accepts a coin in China under any other conditions, and these conditions are, as I shall show, absolutely independent of any idea of a central authority which will, eventually", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-232 - Acting Governor Marsh Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334563, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 385, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "RETURN of CRIMINAL CASES that have been brought under the Cognizance of the Supreme Court, during the last Ten Years,\n\nCharges Abandoned.\n\nPostponed.\n\nYEAR.\n\nNumber of Cases.\n\nNumber of Persons.\n\nConvicted.\n\nAcquitted.\n\nNo. of Cases.\n\nNo. of Persons.\n\nNo. of Cases.\n\nNo. of Persons.\n\n(a.) 1877.\n\n1878, (b.) 1879,\n\n1880,\n\n148\n\n1881,\n\n105\n\nTotal.\n\n628\n\n(c.) 1882, (d.) 1883,.\n\n1884,\n\n1885..\n\n(e) 1886..\n\n124\n\n179\n\n135\n\n216\n\n163\n\n202\n\n135\n\n160\n\n120\n\n154\n\n13\n\n39\n\n45\n\n6\n\n13\n\n34\n\n6\n\n39\n\n1\n\n911\n\n664\n\n211\n\n31\n\n36\n\n187\n\n124\n\n126\n\n70\n\n101\n\n65\n\n147\n\n103\n\n107\n\n59\n\nTotal,\n\n119\n\n668\n\n421\n\n126\n\n38\n\n21\n\n25\n\n14\n\n28\n\n20\n\n16\n\n22\n\n16\n\n22\n\n20\n\n16\n\n272\n\n69\n\n114\n\n--\n\nCOMPARATIVE TABLE showing the Number of OFFENCES, APPREHENSIONS, CONVICTIONS and ACQUITTALS\n\nfor the last Four Years.\n\n1883.\n\n1884.\n\n1885.\n\n1886.\n\nThe Number of Convictions in the Superior Courts :\n\n1. For offences against the Person,\n\n2. Predial Larceny....\n\n3. For offences against property other than Prædial Larceny,\n\n1. For other offences,\n\nThe Number of Persons acquitted :\n\n2. In the Superior Courts,\n\n+91\n\n7\n\n27\n\n56\n\n36\n\n2\n\n22\n\n16\n\n42\n\n20\n\n22\n\n20\n\n26\n\n20\n\nRETURN of Criminal Cases tried in the Supreme Court of HONGKONG, during the year 1886.\n\nSENTENCE.\n\n \n CRIMES\n Number of Persons\n \n \n Average of 1st Period,\n 1324\n \n \n 421\n 6\n \n \n 125\n 1821\n \n \n Average of 2nd Period,\n 844\n \n \n 261\n 183\n \n \n 22+\n 895\n \n \n 1833\n \n \n\n(a.) In this year the Charges abandoned and Postponed are not included in the Grand Total in the published Returns; but they are added here to make the figure tally\n\n(b.) 1. Under offence of Breaking into a Dwelling House out of 9 prisoners, 6 only are accounted for, the remaining 3 must have been acquitted, and have been posted accordingly.\n\n2. Under Murder out of 3 prisoners, 2 only have been accounted for, the 3rd was probably acquitted.\n\n3. Under Unlawfully giving false statement to Registrar General the prisoner although convicted does not appear under the heading, but the facts appear in a foot note on the Return.\n\n(c) In one case the recognizance was estreated, this case is included in the total, but not in any other of the above headings.\n\n(d.) In one case the recognizance estreated, and one Prisoner committed suicide in the Gaol.\n\n(e) In one case the recognizance estreated.\n\nINDICTMENTS and INFORMATIONS in the SUPREME Court of HONGKONG, for the Year 1886.\n\nShowing how the cases tried in the Superior Courts ended.\n\n(Each prisoner tried, counted as a separate case; where a large number of Prisoners have been convicted together, the fact is mentioned in a note.)\n\n \n Total\n Including Attempts and Conspiracies to commit the several offences.\n \n \n Murder, other than wife or child murder.\n \n \n \n Manslaughter.\n \n \n \n Attempt at murder.\n \n \n \n Murder of wife, Reputed wife, or Concubine.\n \n \n \n Child murder,\n \n \n \n Concealment of Birth.\n \n \n \n Abortion.\n \n \n \n Rape.\n \n \n \n Unnatural Crimes.\n \n \n \n Other offences against the Person.\n \n \n \n Malicious Injuries to Property.\n \n \n \n Robbery with violence.\n \n \n \n Predial Larceny.\n \n \n \n Other offences against Property.\n 1\n \n \n Abduction from the Colony for the purpose of stealing money,\n \n \n \n Administering stupefying drug-\n \n \n \n Assault and Robbery from the person,.\n \n \n \n Assault and wounding with intent to rob,\n 1\n \n \n Assault with intent to commit Buggery,\n 13\n \n \n Assault with intent to commit Rape,\n \n \n \n Attempting to shoot with intent to resist lawful apprehension.\n \n \n \n Bringing into the Colony a woman with intent to sell her for the purpose of prostitution,\n \n \n \n Breaking and entering a dwelling house with intent to commit a felony,\n \n \n \n Burglary and receiving stolen goods,\n 1\n \n \n Child stealing,\n +\n \n \n Demanding money with menaces,\n 2\n \n \n Embezzlement,\n 7\n \n \n Embezzlement by a servant,\n \n \n \n Forging a certain cheque or order with intent to defraud.\n \n \n \n Larceny,\n \n \n \n Larceny in a dwelling house with menaces,\n \n \n \n Larceny of Post Letter,\n \n \n \n Larceny from the person,\n 2\n \n \n Larceny by a servant,\n \n \n \n Larceny and previous conviction,\n \n \n \n Manslaughter,\n 1\n \n \n Libel.\n I\n \n \n Murder,....\n 2\n \n \n Obtaining goods under false pretences,\n \n \n \n Obtaining money under false pretences,\n 4\n \n \n Perjury.\n |\n \n \n Piracy,...\n 3\n \n \n Receiving stolen property,\n 2\n \n \n Robbery and Larceny from the person,\n \n \n \n Robbery and Larceny in a dwelling house...\n 11\n \n \n Robbery from the person with violence,\n \n \n \n Shooting with intent to prevent apprehension,\n \n \n \n Shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm....\n \n \n \n Unlawfully imprisonment and detention for the purpose of emigration.......\n \n \n \n Unlawful possession of counterfeit coin and forged Bank notes,\n \n \n \n Unlawfully and feloniously receiving certain Bank Notes,\n 1\n \n \n Unlawfully and maliciously wounding.\n 7\n \n \n Wounding with intent to murder....\n 1\n \n\n(a)\n\nJudgment for the Crown,\n\n59\n\nJudgment for the Prisoner,......\n\nPrisoner found Insane,.......\n\n20\n\n2\n\nCases which fell through for want of prosecution or absence of accused, and cases thrown out by the Grand Jury (Attorney General),\n\n(b.)\n\n27\n\nCases postponed,..........\n\n107\n\n(7) The Acting Attorney General accepted the plea of guilty of Manslaughter.\n\nIncluding one who did not appear and whose recognizance was estreated.\n\n \n \n Convicted.\n Acquitted.\n Death.\n over one Year.\n Death Recorded.\n Penal Servitude,\n Hard Labour\n Hard Labour one Year and under.\n Solitary Confinement,\n Number of Persons.\n Privately Flogged,\n Number of Persons.\n \n \n No. of Cases.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n No. of Persons.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n No. of Cases.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n No. of Persons.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CHARGE ABANDONED.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n POSTPONED.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 45\n 8\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 16\n 26\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 79 were tried.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Convicted,.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Acquitted,...\n 10\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 90 Persons.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Charges abandoned,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Recognizance estreated.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Case postponed,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n . In one case the Prisoner did not appear his recognizance estreated.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n b. In one case the Acting Attorney General accepted the plea of guilty of manslaughter.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Registry Supreme Court, Hongkong, 28th January, 1887.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total,\n 79 Persons.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2243\n 1\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 107 Persons.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ALFRED G. WISE,\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Acting Registrar.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nPage 373\n\nPage 374\n\nPage 375\n\nPage 376\n\nPage 377\n\nPage 378", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 334635, "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": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "page_number": 457, "title": "CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8]", "content_text": "the\n\nthe\n\n15.\n\nColony in preserving \"men's health, and preventing the considerable amount of invaliding that goes on at present, the Constables being averse to taking furlough, their time being cut out of the period to reckon for pension.\n\n4. Under these circumstances, taking into consideration the very trying nature of this climate, and how very severely it tells upon an Englishman's constitution, after 5 years' service here, I shall be glad if you will allow the men the boon they pray for, or at all events, to the extent of half the regulated amount of leave, viz :- 9 months after every period of 5 years' Service.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir, Your Most Obedient Humble Servant, Af Camron.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-233 - Acting Governor Cameron - 1887 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335528, "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": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "141\n\nto\n\nfor\n\nsome\n\nYears the paper-money\n\ncome, exclusively to native management. It is further to be observed that which had for some time circulated at a greatly depreciated value has been withdrawn from circulation, which would appear to show that the finances of the country\n\nhave generally been placed on a sounder footing.\n\nI am therefore able to say that the apprehensions expressed in my Report of 1881 as to the future management of the Mint have not been realised, nor would there seem to be any objection to the circulation of the Japanese coin in Hong Kong on the ground that it may in future be coined in insufficient quantities.\n\nThere remains, however, the question how far it would on general grounds be desirable to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 335791, "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": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "page_number": 407, "title": "CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887", "content_text": "# 2\n\nTien-ch'iao (natural bridge), where a stream emerges from beneath limestone hills. Here there was once a flourishing silver mine, but the workings were buried by a landslip many years ago, as the natives said, since which the ore has only been worked by squatters, who wash it and send it away in small quantities to be smelted: the ore is said to yield both zinc and silver.\n\nSince scaling the plateau up to Hui-shui-t'ang the rocks have been the same, namely, limestone, generally argillaceous, and shale with sandstone only at the bottom of the deep valleys beneath the limestone. After Hui-shui-t'ang the argillaceous limestone is supplanted by a harder rock, apparently siliceous limestone. The gorges, bluffs, caves, and underground rivers that filled the landscape with romantic nooks and picturesque surprises now give way to broad valleys and hills, hard, round, and desolate. The villages are terribly poor. Some, as Yao-chang, were evidently once more considerable, for there are well-hewn blocks of limestone lying about that would not disgrace a London warehouse. But over a pile of such stones there are now nothing better than brushwood shanties, into which an English farmer would scruple to put a cow.\n\nOn the 18th November we reached Wei-ning Chon, which was burnt several times during the rebellion, a wretched place, commercially speaking, but interesting from its position on a lake, and from the fact of its being one of the highest towns in this part of the world (7,330 feet). I have put the lake into my sketch as it appears on the District Magistrate's Map, where it is described as follows:\n\n\"This was formerly a marsh, but has now become a water domain (lake), with a circuit of 100 miles (much indented). There are hills all round, much rock and sand, and a poor soil, cold and barren, not worth cultivation.\"\n\nI gathered from the people who came to gossip as I stood on the wall overlooking the lake, that the water encroached to its present size only in 1858. Before that date there had been no more than an inundation of a narrow basin round the river in summer, much the greater part of the present area of the lake being planted with mao pui (identified at Kew as *Panicum frumentaceum* Roxb., *P. Crus-Galli* var.). The same year an attempt was made to drain the lake to the north-west, and a hill was cut through with that object; but the attempt failed, for hail or other like phenomena always stopped the work, showing that it was the will of Heaven that their fields should remain flooded. It is probable that the cause of the lake's extension is the blocking up of an underground channel as at T'ung-tzŭ Hsien (see last part of this Report).\n\nOn the way down to the lake at Wei-ning we noticed for the first time a deposit which is a distinctive feature of the Yunnan plateau—a loamy earth of a warm red colour which lies high up in the hills in sheltered places—in gullies, for instance—as well as on the floor of the valleys where it has been cut through by water as by a knife, leaving vertical sides often more than 100 feet in height. Sometimes it bears clear evidence of deposit by water and sometimes appears almost granular, so as to remind one of descriptions of the loess of Shansi. It has evidently never been subjected to pressure. Wherever it has been washed away limestone appears beneath. This bright-coloured earth, pleasant to walk and ride upon and well stocked with game, is one reason amongst many which make the plain of the Yunnan lakes a pleasant land to the European traveller.\n\nA large sheet of water is always interesting to dwellers in mid-continent; but this lake supplied us with bodily as well as mental food, so as to impress itself on the memory of the whole party; the water-fowl were easy to get at and of excellent flavour; while the question where all this water came from baffled comprehension and excited curiosity. A few miles to the south-west, at Lien-san-p'o, the road reaches an elevation of 7,770 feet, the highest point touched during the present journey, beyond which the country drains towards the K'o-tu River. On the north side the line of water parting appears to be only a few miles distant from the lake, and the lake is said to drain off towards the north-west. There may be very high land somewhere on the east to reward the traveller of the future's time to leave the road.\n\nFrom Lien-san-p'o to the K'o-tu River, a distance of about 27 miles, there is a descent of 2,550 feet. This stream is about 30 yards across where we passed it, but with a bed at least 100 yards broad, strewn with blocks of shale, sandstone, and limestone, but of no rocks of igneous or volcanic origin.\n\nThe boundary between the Yunnan and Kuei-chou Provinces is formed by a brook that joins the K'o-tu River on its left bank, and then by a range of hills that meets the river west of the crossing. The bridge referred to in the name K'o-tu-ch'iao is that over the brook. On the way down to the river we passed two human heads in cages, blackened by months' exposure. They had belonged to men in General Pao's force, who had plundered an officer's baggage. These heads had done good service, for the whole army had the advantage of passing within two yards of them.\n\nThe descent to the river much resembled that to the Ch'ih-shui River, but was shorter and steeper.\n\nAs soon as the K'o-tu River is crossed the inevitable ascent begins, and in 8 miles, covering an ascent of 2,100 feet, the water parting between the K'o-tu and the T'ang-t'ang streams is reached at an altitude of 7,420 feet above the sea; and a further 7 miles, covering a descent of 1,590 feet, the latter part very steep, bring us to the dilapidated village of T'ang-tang, once a famous mining township. There are many disused copper-mines, but very little is being done at present. The same story was told us here as everywhere else, that nothing was wanted but capital.\n\nI should have mentioned that on the 12th November, at Ta-che-p'ing we met numbers of Lolos, or, as they are here more politely called, I-chia (barbarian families) (see Lolo Vocabulary, No. 1). They are very numerous in this part of the plateau; the men wear the Chinese dress, and can usually speak Chinese. There being no mining to inspect at T'ang-tang, I went for a walk with my Chinese clerk to inquire about the Lolos, and if possible discover a man who could write their character, when, while standing in the dry bed of the stream that runs past the village, I saw a man riding down a mountain-path towards us on a good pony, with big brass stirrups, and two mounted servants behind him. A boy who was following me thereupon said, \"You were asking about the I-chia; look, there is the T'u-ssŭ (aboriginal Chief) coming into town.\" I went back to the inn at once, and sent my writer to make friends with the T'u-ssŭ, and, if possible, bring him in to see me, which he succeeded in doing.\n\nThe T'u-ssŭ was a heavy-featured, stolid man, with whom it was difficult to make way. After time and native spirit had taken the edge off his dulness and suspicion, he gave us an account of the wrongs he and his tribe had suffered lately at the hands of the Mahommedan Chinese who were encroaching on his lands, ending with a request that I would go and see a youth of his tribe who had just been half-killed in an affray. We found a youth of 18, who had just been brought into the village for treatment, lying on a leather mattress spread on the floor in the middle of the room, alongside a wood fire. He had bad sword cuts on the shin, knee, and wrist. The wounds had been covered by an aboriginal practitioner with a plaster of simples, which it would not have been prudent to remove, so I gave him the safe advice not to drink and smoke too much, and left some carbolic oil to be applied when the dressing was removed. The T'u-ssŭ was now my friend, and invited me to go back with him to his place in the country, within a few miles of which there lived, he said, a perma, or sorcerer, who could write the Lolo character.\n\nWhen I got up next morning it was raining cats and dogs. However, the chance was too good to be lost, so at 7 A.M. I went round with one servant. The T'u-ssŭ was in bed, and we had the pleasure of seeing him make his toilet. I was now very much afraid that he would delay our departure, because of the rain which was falling in torrents; not at all; our stolid friend walked straight out and had the horses brought round, without even remarking that it was raining. We followed a bridle-path that crossed torrents and wound round the edge of precipices, sometimes riding through water up to the horses' knees, sometimes toiling on foot through mud over the ankle. We had gone on thus for about three hours, but our host still said his house was far ahead. About 11 o'clock my servant urged that we could go no further, as we should not have time to get back to the inn, a matter of some importance to him, for he would not touch food in the houses of the Lolos, for fear of being poisoned. Just as I had decided that we must turn back we came in sight of a cottage, which our host indicated as the abode of his sorcerer, where I persuaded him to introduce us. The perma was unfortunately thirty miles away, officiating at a funeral, but his wife and brother were in the house, and five or six other Lolos soon arrived from cottages higher up the hill. The distance of the Chief's house still remaining an uncertain quantity I excused myself from going further, and set to work to learn what I could from the Lolos present.\n\nAs it was cold and we were wet through, wood was thrown on the fire, round which we sat eating walnuts—the only food to be got. The Chief lay down and smoked opium. About the sounds given in the Vocabulary (Lolo No. 2) of these people's language I am fairly confident, because the six or seven Lolos present were all agreed about them. The perma's brother, our host, could not write; but he professed to be able to pick out a character here and there in his brother's MSS. I copied the following characters from his indication, but he was not very clear about them, and they must be accepted with some doubt:\n\n# 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-235 - Public Offices - 1887.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336642, "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": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "page_number": 358, "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "content_text": "## No. 19\n\n**SIR,**\n\n(2)\n\n**TREASURY, HONGKONG, 8th May, 1883.**\n\nI have the honour to suggest that the Crown Agents be instructed to send out to this Colony $50,000 worth of subsidiary silver coinage every half-year, without special instructions for each shipment. The proportion of 20, 10, and 5-cent pieces should be the same as in recent shipments, and no copper should be sent on any account. This plan of a half-yearly supply is the same as that adopted with regard to Postage Stamps, and if vigilance be used against over-stocking it works well.\n\nBut there is not the slightest risk of any over-stock of these silver coins, even if we got double the amount suggested. They disappear into the interior of China, and I am informed that they may be seen in the most remote parts of the Kwang-tung province, converted into buttons and all kinds of similar small articles. If this coinage were a source of loss to the Government, it would become a very serious question how the absolutely indispensable supply could be kept up, but as we make it at least five per cent. on it we can afford its steady absorption into China. Still, in view of the possibility that this correspondence may be submitted to the Imperial Treasury, I should like to say plainly that these coins are not asked for because, incidentally, they yield a profit. We desire to keep the Public Offices reasonably supplied with change, which is still difficult, and to have sufficient small coin left for the wants of the Public, the Army, and the Navy. I pledge myself to stop the supply on the very first symptom of the coins falling to a discount, but there is not at present the least reason to anticipate anything of the kind.\n\nI am happy to say that the good effects of stopping the supply of copper are already perceptible. Copper cents used to be at a discount of thirty per cent., the discount now is only ten per cent. Still we ought not to think of having any out till they are at a premium.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n**Sir,**\nYour most obedient Servant,\n\n353\n\nThe subsequent issues were as follows:---\n\n| Week ending | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| April 21 | $12,600 |\n| 28 | $4,500 |\n| May 5 | $2,100 |\n| 12 | $2,100 |\n| | $21,300 |\n\nThe issue was stopped on May 16th, as the balance on hand (after 4 weeks only) was reduced to $6,800, which it was absolutely necessary to keep for Government use. Since suspending the issue of these coins, the following applications have been refused, within little more than a month.\n\n| Applicant | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| Messageries Maritimes Company | $100 |\n| Chartered Mercantile Bank | $3,000 |\n| Oriental Bank | $2,000 |\n| Messrs. Turner & Co. | $30 |\n| Mr. A. M. Baptista | $100 |\n| M. Marmande | $50 |\n| Chartered Bank of India | $10,000 |\n| The Basel Mission | $30 |\n| Pacific Mail Company | $200 |\n| Eastern Extension Telegraph Company | $50 |\n| | $15,560 |\n\nHad any notice been issued to the public when the coins first arrived, there would have been many more than the above applications.\n\nI would add that persons so applying are of course requested to wait for the next shipment; but when that arrives, the coins are expended so quickly, that unless they are very prompt indeed (and on the last occasion we could not venture to notify the arrival of a consignment) they find they have again missed an opportunity of getting some small change.\n\n**A. LISTER, Treasurer.**\n\nThe Honourable W. H. MARSH,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n**Governor's Order in reply to the above.**\n\nI doubt very much whether the Secretary of State would sanction a general instruction of this nature. The introduction into any Colony of large quantities of Tokens is looked on with suspicion. It is easy to make requisitions from time to time as these tokens are wanted. $50,000 worth were sent for quite recently.\n\n(3)\n\n## No. 27\n\n**SIR,**\n\n**TREASURY, HONGKONG, 2nd July, 1883.**\n\nI have the honour to request that the Crown Agents be directed to order and forward to this Colony as soon as possible $60,000 worth of Subsidiary Silver Coin.\n\nMy reason for making this requisition at this time is that unless it be forwarded at once the coins will not arrive before the Chinese New Year, at which time there is always a run upon them.\n\nI would call your attention to the following facts with reference to the last shipment, which speak for themselves.\n\n$50,000 worth of small coin was ready for issue at this Department on April 17th last. No notice was issued to the public.\n\nThe military and naval authorities at once requisitioned for $22,000,\n\n2\n\n## No. 41\n\n**SIR,**\n\nI have, &c.,\n(Signed)\n\n(4)\n\n**A. LISTER,**\nColonial Treasurer.\n\n**TREASURY, HONGKONG, 29th October, 1883.**\n\nI have the honour to suggest that the Crown Agents be requested to order and forward to this Colony $60,000 worth of Subsidiary Silver Coin in the following proportions:--\n| Denomination | Percentage |\n| --- | --- |\n| Twenty cent pieces | 10% |\n| Ten cent pieces | 60% |\n| Five cent | 30% |\n\nNo copper should be sent upon any account.\n\nIn making this Requisition I am not unaware that one shipment of $50,000 is already in the Colony, whilst another of $60,000 will shortly be on the way.\n\nThe former, however, will probably be all absorbed before the end of this year, the latter will arrive in time for the Chinese New Year, and will all be taken up within a few weeks, if even the Military and Naval Authorities do not requisition for a large portion of either shipment or of both.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336644, "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": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "page_number": 360, "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "content_text": "## PROFIT ON SUBSIDIARY SILVER COINS.\n\nMr. SILVA, (1st Audit Clerk), \n\nCan you state the profit during last 12 months, reckoning loss on Exchange on remittances to pay for the coin.\n\n8th September, 1884.\n\nStatement annexed.\n\nJ. M. SILVA.\n\n| WHEN RECEIVED | WHERE COINED | RATE OF PROFIT ON REMITTANCES |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1879 | Royal Mint | 3/10 1/2 |\n| 1880 | R. Heaton & Sons | 3.93, 5 % |\n| 1881 | Royal Mint | 3.92, 6.04% |\n| 1882 | R. Heaton & Sons | 3.94, 4.43% |\n| 1883 | Royal Mint | 3/8 1/2, 12.09% |\n| 1883 | R. Heaton & Sons | 5.05% |\n| Average Profit | | 7.46% |\n\nNo. 32.\n\nTREASURY, HONGKONG, 22nd May, 1885.\n\nSIR,\n\nWith reference to the Secretary of State's Despatch No. 81 of April 1st on the subject of One Dollar Notes, which His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to refer to me for report, I have the honour to submit the following observations:-\n\n2. Lord DERBY sums up the matter as follows:-\"If inconvenience is still felt in the Colony owing to the deficiency of $1 notes, the only course to adopt will be that which has already been put before you with the sanction of the Treasury, whereby the Colonial Government itself should undertake the circulation of these notes against a bullion reserve.\" It now becomes my duty to point out that, in the present state of the Colonial Revenue, the demands upon it being so numerous and pressing, so conflicting, I may almost say so bewildering, the heavy expense of issuing and maintaining notes is out of the question. The inconveniences of course will remain, but it is the unanimous opinion of those best able to judge that they may be much diminished by a liberal and constant supply of subsidiary silver coin.\n\n3. I trust therefore that the Requisitions I shall have to make for this description of coin will not alarm either the Colonial Office or the Treasury. It must be clearly borne in mind that it is impossible to flood Hongkong with these coins, as fast as they arrive they are bought up and sent into China, where they seem rapidly to be becoming a popular and useful coinage, the only one, except in copper, that there is. There is not the least symptom of a cessation of the demand, nor of limit to the amount of coin that could be disposed of. The only way to avoid the inconveniences consequent on a scarcity of small coin here at such times as Chinese New Year, &c., is always to have a reserve to fall back upon.\n\n4. Two shipments of these coins, amounting in all to $270,000, have been ordered from England.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour most obedient Servant,\nA. LISTER, Treasurer.\n\nI annex a report on this proposal from the Honourable T. JACKSON, Chief Manager of the Bank (Hongkong and Shanghai) I agree with him that the proposal of the Treasury cannot be recommended. Moreover it would be contrary to express instructions of the Lords of the Treasury to issue Token half dollars. See `Government Gazette No. 2` of 1867. We have made an average profit of 7 1/2 per cent. during the last five years on the imports of Subsidiary coins. Therefore it does not matter how large the drain of these coins may be.\n\nSubmitted.\n\n8th September, 1884.\n\nThe Hon. W. H. MARSH, C.M.G.,\nColonial Secretary.\n\n**HONGKONG.**\n\nNo. 34.\n\nSIR,\n\n$6.\n$0.\n&c.\n\nagree.\n\nBut for Executive Council.\n\nG. F. BOWEN,\nGovernor.\n\n9th September, 1884.\n\nConsidered in Executive Council this day. The Council advise that no change should be made in the coinage of the Colony.\n\n10th September, 1884.\n\nJ. H. STEWART Lockhart,\nActing Clerk of Councils.\n\nDOWNING STREET,\n17th August, 1885.\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 244 of the 26th of May last, reporting that your Government has decided against undertaking an issue of One Dollar Notes, and proposes to meet the difficulty arising from a scarcity of subsidiary currency by an increased issue of token coins.\n\nAlthough there does not seem to be any present danger of these coins being forced, perhaps at a discount, I think it right to remind you that, in view of such a legitimate possibility in future, they should only be issued in response to a demand, keeping the supply short rather than full.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient humble Servant,\nFRED. STANLEY.\n\nGovernor Sir G. F. BOWEN, G.C.M.G.\n\nPage 360\nPage 361", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 336646, "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": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "page_number": 362, "title": "CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6]", "content_text": "## 357\n\n3. I have given this subject my best consideration. I would remark, in the first place, that the profit on the coins, which is little more than what this Colony would obtain, without any expenditure of labour or trouble, by simply placing money in the Banks here on fixed deposit, has not suggested the obtaining of a single coin more than would have been asked for under any circumstances short of a prohibitive loss. If the coins were obtainable only at par, I should have recommended every requisition I have recommended. If they were obtainable at a slight loss, I should have asked for as many as we could afford. I cannot see that the Government is less bound to provide coin than it is bound to provide roads, water, or police; and I consider it as much my duty to see that the supply of coin does not run out as I do to take the same precaution with regard to the stock of Postage Stamps.\n\n4. I would further say that this Government does not encourage the exportation of coin to China, but it is powerless to prevent it. We used to issue subsidiary coins only on a written undertaking that they would not be exported. The promise was not worth the paper it was written on, and its exaction was such a transparent farce that I substituted for it a system of granting any reasonable application for coin according to the circumstances of the applicant. A shopkeeper in a large way of business, for instance, is allowed more than a petty trader, an employer of labour more still, and so on. This system works smoothly, but of course the export of the coin goes on as it always has done.\n\n5. It would in many ways be more convenient to this Colony to keep the coin here, but no means of doing so could be devised.\n\n6. It must not be forgotten that Hongkong is very badly provided with currency, and for this reason the Managers of the Banks have repeatedly begged me not to allow the Colony to be left, as it used to be, for months at a time, with small coin unobtainable except at 10 per cent. premium. A shipment of $50,000 worth would arrive perhaps once in two years, and, however charily distributed, it was absorbed in a fortnight. Change was given only as a favour, a request for it was often regarded as positively unreasonable.\n\n7. When I took charge of the Post Office, twelve years ago, it was regarded as the normal and almost legitimate state of affairs for the Shroffs employed to sell stamps never to have any change. Of course the real reason was that, with small coin at a high premium, they put aside all they got from the public for sale to money changers and others, and no consideration of the inconvenience they were inflicting on the public or on their employers deterred them from doing this. It is only of late years that I have been able to insist upon change being kept both in the Post Office and in the Stamp Office. As the premium on small silver coin, under ordinary circumstances, is now only about 3 per mille, the temptation to make away with it surreptitiously does not exist to any great extent.\n\n8. The trying time is of course Chinese New Year, at which period it is the custom amongst Chinese to pay all debts and close all accounts. Only two years ago, during the three or four days before the Chinese old year's eve, small coin was at 200 per cent. premium. The Treasury had none to issue, the Banks had none, and Bank Notes were not to be had for love or money. The inconvenience to those who had many small payments to make, to the Commissariat, the Dockyard, to employers of labour, and public companies, was so great that I resolved on no account to allow such a state of things to recur if any vigilance of this Department could prevent it.\n\n9. On the approach of the last Chinese New Year (January 24th, 1887) there was $180,000 worth of small coin in the Treasury, and this supply, amounting to no less than two and a quarter millions of coins, I considered to be ample. Nevertheless, two months before the new year, such a steady demand set in that, though the requisitions were cut down as much as they reasonably could be, in four weeks the whole was exhausted, and the issue had to be suspended, if only to keep a few coins for the use of the Police, &c. It was at this juncture that an urgent request was received from the Army Paymaster for $10,000 worth of coin. I was enabled to make the issue, because I knew that after the New Year I could, if necessary, purchase small coin for Government use at a merely nominal premium. It has not been necessary to do so, but until the next shipment arrived we were on famine allowance, and the issue to the public was suspended. I should say, however, that no inconvenience appeared to arise from the exhaustion of the supply of coin at that time, as the Chinese community, in exhausting the Treasury stock, had sufficiently supplied itself. The new shipment arrived on March 22nd, and $48,000 of it, or nearly one-third, was issued in a week, to the Banks, the Commissariat, and the public.\n\n10. It must not be forgotten that we have the wants of the Army and Navy to provide for. Every ship, before going North, obtains a supply of coin, because these coins pass anywhere in China or Japan, and, except broken silver or Japanese money, nothing else is to be had.\n\n11. The total amount of subsidiary coin supplied to Hongkong to date has been $2,133,881, including some copper, which has not been exported. Of the silver, probably not ten per cent. is in the Colony.\n\n12. I trust I have shown the necessity for keeping this Colony supplied with small coin, and the impossibility of the Government's exercising any check on its exportation except by declining to issue it at all. I now pass on to consider the risk of these coins being hereafter thrown upon the Colony for redemption in a worn or mutilated condition. I venture to think that this risk is very small, and that, even if it exists, which is doubtful, it would be easily averted. It should be borne in mind that these coins are not a legal tender for sums of more than $2.\n\n13. The subsidiary coinage of Hongkong has been in circulation nearly a quarter of a century. During all that time no worn or mutilated coin has ever been seen in the Treasury. I am inclined to think silver coin would never become worn in China as it does in England, for the people do not carry it loose in their pockets, but always most carefully in a pouch or purse, or wrapped in paper; nor is it passed about to anything like the extent that silver coin is in Europe. Be this as it may, the fact remains that our silver coins are as yet practically unworn.\n\n14. Chinese are great hoarders of coin. The popularity of our five cent pieces very greatly arises from their common use as little presents to children and servants. Thousands of them are made into buttons. It would probably be difficult for a speculator on the mainland to buy any quantity of these coins at profitable rates.\n\n15. Let it be supposed, however, that in the course of another 25 years there will be, on the mainland of China, thousands of five and ten cent pieces in the same condition as old sixpences and shillings in England, namely, mere discs of silver, with perhaps slight vestiges of the original design of the coins. Let it be further supposed that a speculator has brought up $10,000 worth of these, and proposes to flood this Colony with them, forcing them on the Treasury as coin at a discount is always forced upon it.\n\n16. It appears to me that the only course open to the Government would be to decline to recognise any coin which could not be shown to have been issued from the Treasury here. This would practically amount to refusing to redeem all worn coins except in very rare cases.\n\n17. If it once were known that the Hongkong Government was receiving at par value coins which purported to be tokens worn out on the mainland, we should be at once inundated with coins by the thousand which had never been in or near Hongkong at all. There has already been some trouble with spurious ten cent pieces, so well made as almost to defy detection by ordinary observation. What then might be expected if forgers could imitate pieces worn out beyond recognition?\n\n18. How easily the remedy would be applied may be seen from what happened some years ago in the case of Japanese 20, 10, and 5 cent pieces. These coins had years circulated side by side with our own, and were received here, as Singapore ten cent pieces now are, at their par value. The Japanese Government suddenly lowered the intrinsic value of its subsidiary coinage, and, at the same time, the coast of China was flooded with it. The Banks here then refused to receive Japanese small coin; the Treasury did the same. The Government departments followed suit, and within a few weeks tradesmen began to print on their accounts, \"Japanese small coin not taken.\" The coin sank to something like 16 per cent. discount, at which it remains, and even a chair-coolie in the street will not take a Japanese ten cent piece as his fare if he can help it.\n\n19. It only remains to enquire whether such a course as is suggested would give rise to any hardship. I venture to say that it would not.\n\n20. It must be borne in mind that this Government never sanctioned the export of subsidiary coin, and never undertook to redeem it on its return from the mainland in a bad condition.\n\n21. Quite apart from that, however, every person who, on the mainland of China, takes these coins, does so because they are worth to him the value for which he receives them. Nobody ever accepts a coin in China on any other conditions; and these conditions are, as I shall show, absolutely independent of any idea of a central authority which will eventually redeem the coin at its par value if nobody else will take it.\n\n## 11 \n\n## 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-237 - Governor Des Voeus Acting Governor Stewart - 1888 [1-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 345764, "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": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "page_number": 163, "title": "CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8]", "content_text": "# SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR \n\n## FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMURS. \n\nThat the gallant skipper and his merry men who addressed the Chamber of Commerce have at least the courage of their opinions. That they have no faith in half measures, and believe that only a hard-and-fast law will meet the case. That I summed up yesterday's discussion very succinctly and very aptly as follows:- Government says it will do what Chamber decides - Chamber says can do nothing - Government says that settles it - Sammy then says, pass law - Mackintosh says 'how can ye, that is for the Government!' Sammy says all right, get Government to do it! Sammy scores.\n\nThat on the whole I approve of the officers' attitude, but I think it was a pity Captain Ashton did not draw a broad distinction between the general enforcement of Sunday rest and the special law for the cessation of Sunday work in the harbour, the sole object of which is to put Hongkong in the same position as ports in India, Ceylon, and China.\n\nThat nevertheless Captain Ashton did not allow the Chairman and his friends to bamboozle him. That I do not think anyone will contend that England and her self-governing colonies suffer by the observance of Sunday as a day of rest.\n\nThat, if put in a crude way, shipowners may not be ready to admit the force of Captain Ashton's argument that a cessation of labour on Sunday would be their gain.\n\nThat nevertheless, if they consider the distant as well as the near results, they will find that he is not far wrong.\n\nThat where there is a will, there is a way, and I cannot help thinking, do what I can, that the will on the part of the Chamber representatives is not very strong.\n\nThat I frankly admit the question has many ramifications, and the solution in such a place as Hongkong is not a very easy matter, but the real difficulties are not those raised by the Committee.\n\nThat if I am inclined to blame the Committee of the Chamber, I cannot admire the pusillanimous attitude of the Home and local Governments, who threw the responsibility of a final decision on the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nThat, in the interests of all, it is to be hoped an amicable settlement will be arrived at.\n\nThat the Officers' Association has got a good Chairman in Captain Ashton, who is a strong advocate of a conciliatory policy.\n\nThat if the shipowners and agents are animated by the same spirit, we shall be saved such conflicts as are working havoc in the Southern Continent.\n\nThat the quarrel between labour and capital may be likened to a quarrel between the hands and the mouth.\n\n## SUNDAY LABOR IN HONGKONG HARBOUR.\n\nregulation does in their own treaty ports, against which there has never been any complaint. It is very difficult to believe how a man of common sense like Mr. Keswick could talk such nonsense as this - In the first place, in this Colony, there are very few Europeans as compared with the large number of Chinese, and that causes it to be very difficult to stop Sunday labour on board steamers, because if you stop it there, you must stop it in every other calling. There is no 'must' about it. Mr. Ryrie was even worse - he showed his hand. No man who was animated by a desire to stop Sunday labour in the harbour would have made the silly remarks he uttered about stopping the work of servants and about cold dinners on Sunday. Captain Ashton, in spite of the way-leading questions, stood his ground very well. He believes in the general enforcement of Sunday rest, and unfortunately, his replies were influenced to some extent by that belief. But the officers do not wish such a general law, and very few would have dreamt of such a thing had not the opponents of the anti-Sunday-labour movement raised it up as a bogey. The difficulties as to the enforcement of the law are also an invention for the purpose of obstruction. If there was a harbour regulation according to which vessels must not be discharged on Sunday without a permit, no captains or agents would ever dream of breaking the law any more than they attempt to do so in such ports as Colombo, Bombay, or Shanghai. It is almost impossible to discharge cargo surreptitiously, even from junks. Our own opinion is that junks ought to be exempt from the operation of the law. They enter very little into competition with steamers, and when it is remembered that the Chinese take about a month's holidays at the beginning of their year, it will be seen that, even leaving out all physical and moral considerations, they have little gain. Doubtless, the best course to adopt would be to put them on the same footing as native craft in customs ports.\n\n| Page | \n| --- | \n| 160 | \n\nThere is scarcely one difficulty raised by the Committee that will stand a moment's consideration. Officers on board Home steamers, whether they are affiliated to the Association or not, are equally desirous of relief from the irksome Sunday labour.\n\nAll that is wanted to obtain the boon is the co-operation of the Chamber. The Government of Hongkong is so weak-kneed and timid that it cannot tackle the question; it throws the burden on the Chamber. If the Committee of that body persist in their obstructive course, trouble may arise between the shipowners and officers, and on such an issue, the latter could not fail to win. The result then would be that labour would be stopped on Sunday on board British ships, while on board German vessels (unless German officers co-operated) it would still go on - a far greater anomaly than any of those conjured up in the fertile brains of the members of the Chamber of Commerce who were present at yesterday's meeting.\n\n## THE “CHINA MAIL,” Hongkong, Saturday, October 18th, 1890.\n\nIt is very difficult to believe, after reading the report of the conference between the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce and delegates from the Marine Officers' Association, that the desire of the former to obtain a cessation of Sunday labour in the harbour is genuine. Their whole attitude may be summarised in one word - 'shuffle.' Their great object in the conference held yesterday was to divert the discussion from the main point at issue, to evolve obstacles out of their imagination, and to get the delegates to commit themselves to some impracticable scheme. 'We are burning with zeal to get you Sunday rest, but there is this difficulty and that difficulty, and consequently, nothing can be done.' This is a very dangerous and exasperating policy to pursue, a policy which has led to far more troubles between employers and employés than downright manly opposition. Surely Messrs. Keswick and Mackintosh know that Sunday work on board steamers is practically prohibited in the ports of China by the fact that a permit has to be paid for. What difficulty can there be in making a harbour regulation in Hongkong similar to the customs regulation in Shanghai and the other Treaty ports? None whatever. And the making of such a regulation no more involves the stoppage of all Sunday labour on shore than the requirement of night passes from the Chinese involves night passes for Europeans. We have legislated for Chinese, let us legislate for Europeans, to protect them from the tyranny of Chinese customs. We don't want to force Chinese to observe Sunday. All that is asked is that they shall not compel us to break it and to make it a workday as other days. The law would affect them to a very slight degree - not more than the customs. No injustice would be done to them.\n\n## Copy \n\n**YOUR EXCELLENCY,**\n\nDeputation to the Government.\n\nI am directed to ask you to be graciously pleased to allow a deputation from this body to wait upon you in respect to compulsory labour on board ships in this harbour on Sunday, which British Officers consider a great hardship and an invasion of their rights as subjects of Her Majesty the Queen-Empress. The deputation - which will consist of one or two officers on active service, the President, and Secretary - will be happy to wait upon Your Excellency at such time as may be intimated as consistent with your convenience.\n\nThe Hon. FRANCIS FLEMING, C.M.G.\n\nActing Governor of Hongkong.\n\nI have the honour to be, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\nCHESNEY DUNCAN,\n\nHon. Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-250 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348845, "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": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "page_number": 578, "title": "CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4]", "content_text": "# ABSTRACT of CASES brought under COGNIZANCE at the POLICE MAGISTRATES' COURT during a period of Ten Years, from 1st January, 1882, to 31st December, 1891, inclusive.\n\n## CASES, HOW DISPOSED OF, AND THE NUMBER OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS UNDER EACH HEAD.\n\n| OFFENCE | No. of CASES | No. of PRISONERS |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Animals-Cruelty to | 17 | 17 |\n| Arms Consolidation Ordinance-Breach of | 5 | 5 |\n| Assault | | |\n| ‣ Causing grievous bodily harm | 81 | 81 |\n| ‣ Common | 1,097 | 1,097 |\n| ‣ Indecent | 8 | 8 |\n| ‣ With intent to commit a felony | 4 | 4 |\n| ‣ On Police in the execution of their duty | 93 | 93 |\n| ‣ On Females and Boys under 14 years of age | 3 | 3 |\n| Banishment-Returning after (see also Conditional Pardon) | 15 | 15 |\n| Births & Deaths-Breach of Ordinance for Registration of | 24 | 24 |\n| Boats-Demanding more than legal fare | 14 | 14 |\n| ‣ Refusing to pay Hire of | 2 | 2 |\n| ‣ Regulations-Breach of | 6 | 6 |\n| Breach of the Peace | 268 | 268 |\n| Bribery, or attempting to bribe | 1 | 1 |\n| Buildings-Breach of Ordinance for | 2 | 2 |\n| ‣ Domestic-Occupying without certificates | 30 | 30 |\n| Burglary | 1,767 | 1,757 |\n| Burial of Chinese Corpse elsewhere than in a Cemetery | 1 | 1 |\n| Brothels-Allowing children above 6 and under 15 years of age to be in a registered | 9 | 9 |\n| ‣ Keeping an incorrect list of inmates of registered | 2 | 2 |\n| ‣ Unregistered | 95 | 95 |\n| Cattle-Slaughtering in a place other than one set apart for the purpose | 1 | 1 |\n| Child-Desertion of | 14 | 14 |\n| Child Stealing | 2 | 2 |\n| Chinese Emigrants-Receiving or harbouring improper | 6 | 6 |\n| Territory-Crimes and Offences committed in | 2 | 2 |\n| Coin-Offences relating to | 1 | 1 |\n| Conspiracy to defraud | 10 | 10 |\n| Contempt of Court | 1 | 1 |\n| Convict Licence-Breach of | 1 | 1 |\n| Corrosive Fluid-Throwing-With intent to do grievous bodily harm | 1 | 1 |\n| Cutting and Wounding with intent, &c. | 516 | 516 |\n| Dangerous Goods Ordinance-Breach of | 2 | 2 |\n| Decoying-Men or boys into or away from the Colony, or imprisoning or detaining them for the purpose of emigration or for any purpose whatsoever | 2 | 2 |\n| Defence Sketching Prevention Ordinance-Breach of | 1 | 1 |\n| Desertion from British Merchant Ships | 14 | 14 |\n| Disorderly Behaviour Drunkenness, Fighting, &c. | 1,177 | 1,177 |\n| Distraint for rent-Fraudulently removing property under | 1 | 1 |\n| Dogs Allowing unmuzzled ferocious, to be at large, &c. | 2 | 2 |\n| ‣ Stealing | 11 | 11 |\n| Domestic Servants-Misconduct as | 30 | 30 |\n| Drugs-Administering | 9 | 9 |\n| ‣ Procuring to cause abortion | 3 | 3 |\n| Embezzlement | 5 | 5 |\n| ‣ by a Clerk | 6 | 6 |\n| ‣ by a Public Servant | 1 | 1 |\n| Escape of Prisoners from Chain Gang | 1 | 1 |\n| Extortion | 9 | 9 |\n| False Charge-Preferring or giving wilful false evidence | 10 | 10 |\n| ‣ Undecided | 2 | 2 |\n| False Pretences obtaining Goods and Money by | 142 | 142 |\n| Felony-Attempting to commit | 12 | 12 |\n| Fire Arms-Discharging | 1 | 1 |\n| Fire Works-Discharging without permits | 564 | 564 |\n| Forcible keeping a person with intent to procure a benefit for his liberation | 1 | 1 |\n| Forged Order-Uttering a for goods with intent to defraud | 21 | 21 |\n| Forgery | 40 | 40 |\n| Fugitive Offenders-Offences against | 1 | 1 |\n| Furious Driving | 1 | 1 |\n| Gambling-Breach of Ordinance for Suppression of | 1,574 | 1,574 |\n| ‣ in the Streets, treated as Nuisances | 35 | 35 |\n| Gaols-Breach of Ordinance for | 7 | 7 |\n| Gaol's Subordinate Officers-Misconduct of | 2 | 2 |\n| Harbour Dredging at Anchorage for Ships of War in the, Regulations-Breach of | 8 | 8 |\n| Health Ordinance-Breach of regulations under | 112 | 112 |\n| House Breaking | 1,771 | 1,771 |\n| Householders and Servants-Breach of Ordinance, for Registration of | 14 | 14 |\n| Indecent Exposure of Person by Bathing or otherwise, and Lewdness | 1 | 1 |\n| Larceny-By a Servant | 5 | 2 |\n| ‣ Common | 1,042 | 1,042 |\n| ‣ From Ships or Boats in the Harbour | 20 | 20 |\n| ‣ Inciting person to commit | 2 | 2 |\n| ‣ From the Person | 174 | 171 |\n| ‣ With violence or with wounding | 8 | 8 |\n| ‣ Indecent with intent to ravish | 1 | 1 |\n| ‣ In a Dwelling House | 8 | 8 |\n| Manslaughter | 13 | 13 |\n| Marine Store Dealers-Breach of Ordinance for | 6 | 6 |\n| Markets' Ordinance-Breach of | 456 | 456 |\n| Menaces-Demanding Money by | 33 | 33 |\n| Merchandise Marks Ordinance-Breach of | 3 | 3 |\n| Merchant Shipping Act of 1876-Breach of | 14 | 14 |\n| Military Stores-Exportation of | 3 | 3 |\n| Misdemeanor-Attempting to commit | 8 | 8 |\n| Murder | 12 | 12 |\n| ‣ Aiding and abetting in | 2 | 2 |\n| Night-Found at, armed with Dangerous and Offensive Weapons, with Intent to break into Dwelling Houses | 2 | 2 |\n| ‣ Found in Dwelling Houses by-with Intent to commit Felony therein | 37 | 37 |\n| Nuisances Allowing Dirt and Filth to remain on Premises or in immediate Vicinity thereof | 77 | 77 |\n| ‣ Blasting Stones to the danger of Persons and Property | 5 | 5 |\n| ‣ Blowing Whistles | 1 | 1 |\n| ‣ Boarding Ships, &c., without permission | 126 | 126 |\n| ‣ Boats mooring inshore | 219 | 219 |\n| ‣ Boats obstructing Navigation | 166 | 166 |\n| ‣ Breaming Boats | 10 | 10 |\n| ‣ Carrying or exposing Night Soil or Noxious Waters in the Streets in uncovered Buckets, and in open Boats along the Fraya | 2 | 2 |\n| ‣ Hanging wet Clothes, &c., to dry over Public Ways | 30 | 30 |\n| ‣ Leaving Holes and Drains unprotected in the Streets | 5 | 5 |\n| ‣ Neglecting to clean out Dust Bins, and throwing Rubbish, &c., into the Streets | 92 | 92 |\n| Obstruction of Roads and Streets, &c., by Hawkers, Chair Coolies and Shopkeepers | 2,201 | 2,201 |\n| Offensive Weapons-Having Possession of | 9 | 9 |\n| Opium-Breach of Ordinances for Preparation and Sale of prepared and raw | 1 | 1 |\n| Passage-Obtaining surrepticiously a | 2 | 2 |\n| Perjury, (see also Preferring false Charge and giving wilful false Testimony) | 10 | 10 |\n| Piracy | 1 | 1 |\n| Police-Assuming Name, Designation, &c., of Constable of | 3 | 3 |\n| Police Constables-Misconduct as | 28 | 28 |\n| Post Office-Breach of Ordinance for | 2 | 2 |\n| Rape | 23 | 23 |\n| Recognisances-Breach of | 1 | 1 |\n| Receiving Stolen Goods | 188 | 188 |\n| Robbery From the Person | 60 | 60 |\n| ‣ From the Person with Wounding or with Violence | 199 | 199 |\n| ‣ On the Highways with Arms or with Violence | 1 | 1 |\n| Rogues & Vagabonds-As Street Gamblers and Watchmen to Gamblers | 80 | 80 |\n| ‣ As suspicious Characters | 7 | 7 |\n| Seamen or Apprentices-Disobedience to lawful commands by British Merchant | 18 | 18 |\n| Ships, &c.-Carrying passengers in excess of that allowed by licence | 34 | 34 |\n| ‣ Leaving Harbour without a Clearance | 31 | 31 |\n| ‣ Neglecting to have a riding light on board | 15 | 15 |\n| Shipwrecked Goods-Found in the possession of | 4 | 4 |\n| Shooting with intent to do Grievous Bodily Harm | 171 | 171 |\n| Spirituous and fermented Liquors-Breach of Ordinance for retail of | 114 | 114 |\n| Stonecutters' Island Ordinance-Breach of | 2 | 2 |\n| Stones and other Missiles-Discharging to Danger of Persons and Property | 55 | 55 |\n| Streams-Defiling | 12 | 12 |\n| Suicide-Attempting to commit | 13 | 13 |\n| Sunday Cargo-Working Ordinance-Breach of | 7 | 7 |\n| Threats Of Violence to the Person | 71 | 71 |\n| ‣ To Property | 10 | 10 |\n| Trees, &c.-Cutting and destroying | 89 | 89 |\n| Trespass on Crown Land | 416 | 416 |\n| Unlicensed-Plying of Boats | 14 | 14 |\n| ‣ Billiard Tables | 1 | 1 |\n| Unnatural Offence | 1 | 1 |\n| Unwholesome Provisions-Exposing for Sale, or bringing into the Colony | 12 | 12 |\n| Vaccination Ordinance-Breach of | 168 | 168 |\n| Vagrancy Ordinance-Breach of | 13 | 13 |\n| Vehicles-Offences against Public-under Licensing Consolidation Ordinance | 80 | 80 |\n| Verandahs erected on over Crown Land-Enclosing | 6 | 6 |\n| Watchmen-Misconduct as Private | 1 | 1 |\n| Weights and Measures-Breach of Ordinance for | 1 | 1 |\n| Wild Birds and Game-Breach of Ordinance for Preservation of | 516 | 516 |\n| Will-Uttering a forged | 2 | 2 |\n| Women and Girls Protection Ordinance-Breach of | 142 | 142 |\n| Workmen-Intimidating | 9 | 9 |\n\n## Total Number of Cases\n\n| Year | Total Cases | Committed to Prison | Ordered to find Security | Punished for Preferring False Charge | Discharged | Committed for Trial at Supreme Court | Detained pending Orders of His Excellency the Governor |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1882 | 7,667 | 6,049 | 394 | 1,922 | 250 | 259 | 17 |\n| 1883 | 10,650 | 8,127 | 670 | 2,898 | 343 | 121 | 8 |\n| 1884 | 14,065 | 11,748 | 1,088 | 2,294 | 268 | 101 | 2 |\n| 1885 | 10,281 | 7,951 | 843 | 2,188 | 258 | 159 | 2 |\n| 1886 | 14,011 | 12,081 | 842 | 2,198 | 190 | 157 | 2 |\n| 1887 | 19,015 | 10,354 | 326 | 2,620 | 150 | 158 | 9 |\n| 1888 | 11,647 | 9,700 | 232 | 2,704 | 146 | 168 | 6 |\n| 1889 | 8,670 | 6,628 | 268 | 2,319 | 178 | 157 | 10 |\n| 1890 | 9,789 | 7,428 | 317 | 2,406 | 151 | 102 | 4 |\n| 1891 | 16,382 | 13,438 | 534 | 1,906 | 184 | 40 | 2 |\n\n## Grand Total for the 10 Years\n\n115,630 | 93,497 | 5,519 | 22,955 | 2,087 | 1,422 | 62\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Average per Year | 11,568 | 9,349 | 551 | 2,295 | 208 | 142 | 6 |\n\nALFRED G. WISE, Police Magistrate, for the Police Magistrates.\n\nMagistracy, Hongkong, 26th January, 1892.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351262, "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": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "content_text": "176\n\nposition.\n\nι\n\nwhich the motion\n\nfor reduction was based) was\n\ncompletely\n\nat variance with\n\nother representation that had\n\na short time before been\n\nmade to me in another connection\n\nthe Senior Unofficial\n\nMember and endorsed by his colleague, Mr. Whitehead. Your Lordship will most conveniently be placed in possession of the\n\ncircumstances to which I allude\n\nperusal\n\nof\n\nthe annexed passage from the speech of the\n\nColonial Secretary\n\nsecond reading of\n\nThe senior unofficial member, though not very decided in his opposition to the Bill, for he does not counsel abandonment\n\nof the proposal but merely postponement, has given expression to some doubts as to the prudence of borrowing now, and has also given vent to some forebodings as to the present unprosperous state of affairs. It is a disappointment, sir, to find that the hon. member has not\n\nto give the second reading\n\nof the bill his cordial support, for from what other quarter opposition might come it might fairly have been expected that he at least would have heartily supported the Government in this matter. The prospects of the Praya Reclamation are involved in the Bill, and so keenly did he realise very recently the vital importance to the colony of speedily completing that great work, which he has done, more than any other man to effectuate. that only last spring he officially proposed to the Government that it should borrow the amount required to complete the work and advance it to the marine lot holders on their undertaking to repay the advances within twelve months of the completion of their respective sections.\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER-In Hongkong in silver. The COLONIAL SECRETARY-And he is now in favour of borrowing in gold, but I fail to see how that affects the point. He had then, sir, no doubts as to the prudence of Government immediately borrowing; in fact he reversed Polonius's advice. \"Neither a borrower nor a lender be,\" and counselled the Government to immediately both borrow and lend. He based his proposal on the ground that some of the lot holders might find it difficult to meet their calls, and that to the rest of them it would be a boon to be enabled to place the amounts in immediately remunerative undertakings. (He would appear, by the way, to have been mistaken as to his fact reason, for since then there have been two calls, one of which has been paid practically in full, and the other is in the course of satisfactory settlement.) He pointed out the practical impossibility of suspending the work, the Government being under a legal obligation to complete it, and he dwelt on the injury to the work already done, the serious public inconvenience, and the grave sanitary complications which suspension would involve. On ... August he again wrote to show why, in my opinion, the\n\nIt is, to say\n\nthe least of it,\n\nvery embarrassing to be assured\n\nLay\n\nthe\n\nthe loan\n\nGovernment need not hesitate to make such a loan, and why they may consider its repayment as well assured.\" He said, \"there are not wanting signs of an approaching recuperation.\" After giving his reasons for this he proceeds to state that the fall in the rents of houses (of which we heard a good deal the other day) is purely temporary and will soon rectify itself. On this head he writes: \"The fall of rents has been due to too great haste in building, which has caused the supply of houses, especially of those for Europeans, to exceed the present demand. This, however, is a matter that will be cured by time, especially as the population of the colony is steadily increasing.\" In saying that the fall in the rents of houses would be cured by time, he must have had a very short time in hand, for under his proposal some of the advances would have been repayable within two years. I may point out in passing that all this materially corroborates the position taken by the Government in regard to the recent motion for the reduction of certain salaries. And as lately as the 20th of last September he wrote: \"the risk run by the Government is really nil\" ... the amount that was required to complete the reclamation, and that consequently Government was under his proposal to borrow from time to time and advance to a very small section only of the community, the marine lot owners, was $2,491,198, or say in round numbers 25 lacs; and the outstanding liability of the Government, supposing every lot owner punctually to repay his advances when repayment became due, would at one time have exceeded 5 lacs, the exact figure being $5,000,000 ... Such was the operation which he pressed on the Government as involving absolutely no risk, and yet to-day he is disposed to question the prudence of the Government's proposal at the present juncture to borrow some 1 lac only on behalf of the whole community by a loan the repayment of which will be distributed over a period of years. On this question of prudence I appeal from his doubts of to-day to his confidence of the 20th September last and I venture to ask him whether, in view of the proposal which I have mentioned and of the arguments by which he supported it, he cannot see his way to voting for the second reading.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 351766, "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": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "page_number": 681, "title": "CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4]", "content_text": "(16)\n\n(17)\n\nQ.--Did Alves bring you money every day?\n\nA.--No, not every day. He would only do so when money was sent to him by outsiders.\n\nQ.--Was money sent to him by outsiders every day as a rule?\n\nA.--No, it was not an every day occurrence.\n\nMr. Thurburn.--Did he carry out the rule when licences were paid? What sort of receipt was given then?\n\nA.--Mr. Carvalho looked after those receipts given for fees received for kerosine licences and &c. The receipt was made out by a Chinese clerk and it was signed by Mr. Carvalho.\n\nQ.--All the licensees?\n\nA. Yes. Mr. Alves had nothing to do with that.\n\nQ.--And the taxes, what happened to them?\n\nA.--They are also looked after by Mr. Carvalho.\n\nQ.--And who signs the receipt?\n\nA.--Mr. E. Carvalho, the son of Mr. J. A. Carvalho.\n\nQ.--He signs the receipts?\n\nA. Yes. At least he did last year. Mr. Mitchell-Innes signs now.\n\nThe Chairman.--Did you take your book to be examined, or give an account of what you had received, at the end of the day?\n\nA. Yes, for instance we received say $1,000 on a certain day. A little before the Office closed I added up the amounts and made a total. Then I showed it to Mr. Alves and asked him to compare. If he said it was correct I took the money to the Bank.\n\nQ.--You took it yourself?\n\nA.--Yes.\n\nQ.--You had not to pay out any money? You only had to receive money?\n\nA.--I have nothing to do with payments.\n\nQ.--And every day you should pay into the Bank all you have received that day?\n\nA.--Yes.\n\nQ.--Had you any means of knowing whether Alves paid you over the right amount or not when he brought the money to you?\n\nA. In every case I simply went by the figures that were put down in the receipt. I took no other means of ascertaining.\n\nQ.--But when the money was paid, not by cheque, but by bank notes or coin?\n\nA.--I did not enquire whether the money was the proper amount or not when it was paid.\n\nMr. Thurburn.--Did you check at the end of the day what money you had got and received with Mr. Carvalho in the same way as you did with Mr. Alves, and then pay the money into the Bank?\n\nA.--Mr. Carvalho has never received any money.\n\nQ.--But you said just now that Mr. Carvalho received the money for the licences?\n\nA. Yes, in the same way as Alves. If Mr. Carvalho received money from outsiders he handed the money and receipt to me.\n\nQ.--And he balanced at the end of the day and you paid it into the Bank?\n\nA.--Yes, I showed the total to Mr. Carvalho and then he sent the money to the Bank.\n\nThe Chairman.--Is this a form of receipt for Crown Rent?\n\n(Form produced and identified.)\n\nQ.--When Alves brought any money, did Alves bring in this book (receipt book with counterfoils) or only this receipt form?\n\nA.--Only the receipt--not the book.\n\nQ.--Therefore you did not know whether the counterfoil corresponded with the receipt?\n\nA.--No.\n\nQ.--Whereabouts did Alves use to put the figures?\n\n(Witness indicated the centre of the receipt form.)\n\nQ.--Who made out the slip for the Bank?\n\nA.--The chief clerk, Mr. Carvalho.\n\nQ.--Where did he get the figures from?\n\nA.--From my daily report.\n\nQ.--Did you report to Mr. Carvalho or Mr. Alves?\n\nA.--It was done like this. I made out the amount and then I put on a slip of paper the total, showed the slip to Alves and then went to my co-employé who would report the amount received during the day to Mr. Carvalho for him to make out the slip for the Bank.\n\nQ.--Then you would get the slip and take the money to the Bank?\n\nA. Yes. Mr. Carvalho gave me the slip.\n\nQ.--Can you give us any information as to how Alves was able to take away so much money?\n\nA.--I cannot give any reason.\n\nQ.--You don't know how it was managed?\n\nA.--No.\n\n(Chop produced.)\n\n--That is your chop, is it not?\n\nA. Yes, that is for chopping receipts.\n\nQ.--Whereabouts was Alves' room--anywhere near your room?\n\nA.--No. It is not near my room.\n\nQ.--People could go to Alves and hand over money to him and you would not see it?\n\nA. No, I should not. His room is not entered from my room.\n\nThe Commission adjourned until Thursday, March 2nd, at 11.30 a.m.\n\n675", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-258 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352198, "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": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 363, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "Page 353\n\nHONGKONG, JULY 18TH, 1893.\n\nHONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.\n\nTHE CURRENCY OF THE COLONY. RECOMMENDATION TO LEGALISE THE JAPANESE YEN.\n\nA special meeting of the members of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday at the City Hall for the purpose of discussing the desirability of recommending the Government to make the Japanese yen a legal tender in Hongkong, and further to urge the adoption of the necessary measures for the coinage of a British dollar. There were present Messrs. J. J. Keswick (Chairman), A. G. Wood, N. J. Ede, R. M. Gray, C. Jantzen, H. H. Joseph, J. H. Scott, T. H. Whitehead (Committee), T. Jackson, J. J. Francis, L. Mendel, J. H. Garrels, Q. Sharp, B. Byramjee, Gustav von Wille, J. S. Lapraik, E. R. Belilios, J. S. Moses, D. R. Sussoon, W. H. Gaskell, E. F. Alford, A. McConuchie, C. J. Halliday, W. R. Loxley, V. A. C. Hawkins, F. Seip, F. Henderson (Secretary), and others.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said—Gentlemen, the disturbance to all financial affairs throughout the world consequent upon the action of the Indian Government in declaring a gold standard of value in that Empire, and the influence upon exchanges generally which has ensued, has been felt as much in Hongkong and in the trading ports of China as in any other places. When it became known here that the Viceroy's Council was sitting in Simla last month to decide upon the recommendations of Lord Herschell's Committee, this Chamber forwarded to His Excellency the Viceroy a telegram deprecating any action tending to injure the trade between India and China, and mentioning that anticipations were already paralyzing business. Similar messages were sent by bankers and merchants, and I believe by the Hongkong Government, but the replies, as you are aware, were practically that \"the matter was settled.\" For the present we are in the dark as to the precise recommendations of the Herschell Committee, but their result has been such as to cause the enactment of a policy in India which, with the information before us, seems unlikely to be to the benefit of the people of that country at large or of the British mercantile, manufacturing, and planting communities there who have done so much, especially within the last ten years, to promote the wealth and general prosperity of that dependency.\n\nThe adoption of a gold standard, in other words the protection of the rupee and the non-protection of the dollar, has had its natural effect, and we have seen silver for the first time in the world's history worth only 30 pence an ounce, and the value of the dollar in Hongkong at less than half-a-crown. Great silver-producing countries like America and Mexico have not yet declared the measures they will adopt in consequence of India's financial policy, but from Mexico we have at least a note of warning which requires that in this distant Colony we should take such action as we can for our own protection and for the safeguarding of banking and trading interests.\n\nFor well-nigh half a century the Mexican dollar has been the coin at the Treaty ports of China and Hongkong, and latterly of The Straits Settlements, and we are able to fully appreciate the inconvenience which may arise if there should be any curtailment of its supplies in the absence of another token to meet the want thus created. It is for the purpose of considering what should be done to meet such a contingency that we are here to-day, and it is satisfactory to see such a good and representative attendance.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor, too, takes the deepest interest in the question, and has expressed a wish for your views as to making the Japanese yen a legal tender in Hongkong, and His Excellency will, I am sure, give the fullest effect in his power to the recommendation of this Chamber. When your Committee had this question under consideration a few days ago, they were, I think I may say, unanimously in favour of the Japanese yen being made legal tender here as the only immediate relief we can look for in the event of the supply of the time-honoured Mexican being inadequate to the requirements of the great and growing China trade in connection with which the banking facilities find a focus in Hongkong.\n\nThe yen is of at least equal value with the Mexican dollar, is highly appreciated by the Chinese, is an unusually handsome and well-finished coin, and I may say that its history for nearly twenty years has been in every respect satisfactory as to uniformity of value. Such being the case, I think I may venture to say that your Committee would be glad if this meeting would favourably view a recommendation to the Government that it should be made a legal tender.\n\nThe popularity of the coin, and the not unnatural desire of the enterprising and progressive Japanese Government to furnish the trading medium of the East, seem to indicate it as the most valuable auxiliary we can obtain if there is to be, as we fear, an uncertainty in the supply of the Mexican coin.\n\nIt is not the first time that this proposal has been before this Chamber. Our predecessors in the seventies recommended the Government to legalize the yen, but for some reasons with which I am unacquainted, possibly that there was no necessity at the time, no effect was given to the suggestion. But, gentlemen, if you recommend that the yen be made a legal tender, as it is hoped you may, it should be borne in mind that by many it will be deemed but half a measure of safety, and that there are those who consider that in order to obviate a recurrence of our present danger of a dearth of currency, we should have a dollar of our own, a British dollar, or a Hongkong dollar; a dollar, by whatever name you call it, of which the supply shall be regulated by our requirements.\n\nNow, such a proposal is probably in every way commendable theoretically, but it opens up the great questions of cost of production and of ways and means, the chief desiderata in all undertakings! This is a point I hope this meeting will debate, and debate freely and fully, and if necessary appoint a special sub-committee to consider. The minting of a British dollar was, I believe, favourably considered by this Chamber in 1877, but I cannot trace that anything practical resulted.\n\nIn considering this suggestion, many will call to mind with regret that Hongkong once had a mint of its own and that they abandoned it hastily and sold their plant to our friends in Japan. It was a grievous error in the light of subsequent experience, as I doubt not that had the mint been continued a few years longer it would not only have been a satisfactory source of revenue to the Colony, but ere this would have supplied the China-Straits trade with its dollars and probably permeated the length and breadth of China, and we would not to-day be under the necessity of discussing how we are to avoid running dry in the event of Mexico stopping her silver coinage.\n\nIf there be those here, or in this Colony, who advocate re-establishing a mint in Hongkong, I say they must count the cost; the opportunities are not...\n\nPage 353 (end)\n\n...\n\nPage 354", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352199, "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": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "what they were and the finances of the Colony are not at present, I regret to say, in a condition to justify any outlay for experimental enterprises. In this connection I do not think it will be out of place to say a word about subsidiary coins. The Government of this Colony for a time issued these very profitably, to the great convenience of all classes of the community whether European or Chinese, but for some reason which may be capable of explanation, but which is not at once evident, this supply has not been kept up, or has not been sufficient, and the Colony is now flooded with coins from the Canton Mint of the value of which there is no guarantee whatever, and I hope the Government may see the advisability of taking steps to discourage their circulation in the colony. Matters would be entirely different if the Imperial Government of China issued dollars and subsidiary coins of guaranteed weights and fineness; were such the fact it would be of inestimable value to us and we would be indifferent in a great degree to the action of Mexico, as nothing could be more natural than that at the gates of this great Empire we should have its money for our trading purposes, instead of having to introduce the Japanese yen as an auxiliary to the Mexican dollar. I would express the hope that this meeting may pass a resolution recommending the adoption of the Japanese yen as a legal tender, at least as a tentative and precautionary measure, and I am sure such a step will be favourably viewed by all interested in this colony. As to urging on the Government the coining of British dollars, that is a matter requiring further consideration before I would venture to make a recommendation. It may be that a British dollar would furnish the best permanent protection against a scarcity of our old friend the Mexican, but so far as I can ascertain we do not know what profit can be made out of it for this colony, or its precise cost of production and transport, and all these points and many others must be removed from the region of doubt before we commit ourselves in regard to it. In resuming my seat, gentlemen, I must express my regret for detaining you so long, but the grave importance of the subject must be my apology, and I am sure this Chamber will, with me, realize the responsibility it assumes in this weighty matter.\n\nPage 359\n\nMr. T. JACKSON - Gentlemen, I was one of the members of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce in the 70's which the Chairman has alluded to when the question of the introduction of the Japanese yen was advocated, and I do not know now any more than I know then why it was not legalised. We had abundant evidence then of the purity and honesty of the yen, of the very excellent administration of the Japanese mint, and we knew not only the quality and character of the mint but also the men who conducted it, because they were the men who had been employed by the Government in the Hongkong mint. Since that time our experience of the Japanese yen has been uniformly good, and I do not believe that there is any place in the world where there is a better and truer coin than the yen. It is almost universally used by the Japanese themselves although the legal tender in that country is the Mexican dollar according to treaty. It has been received with great favour in the Straits Settlements, and here, although not a legal tender, we would have no difficulty in paying it away to the only people we have to pay hard cash to—the Cantonese. Under these circumstances I think that it is highly desirable that the yen should be placed on a proper footing in this colony, legalised, and allowed to circulate concurrently with the Mexican dollar. Referring to the Mexican dollar I may say that I do not think that there is the slightest fear of the closing of the Mexican mint. I think that there is at present no evidence to justify anybody in coming to that conclusion, but what we might fear is that the Mexican Government, seeing their opportunity, might put an export duty of, say, 3 or 5 per cent. on the export of the Mexican dollar. That being the case it would handicap us to that extent in our dealings and commerce with other nations. That, I think, is all the more reason why we should have a second string to our bow by adopting the yen, and if the Japanese Government, as I hope they will, carry out their original intention of making the yen the universal coin for this part of the world, I think that there is a splendid opportunity of doing so. But, on the other hand, if they should seize the opportunity of making a profit and say that their mint is too small to undertake the work, it would be extremely unsatisfactory. Therefore I think that it would be still better if we had a British dollar to go concurrently with the other two. (Hear, hear) I would point out that the circumstances are not what they were when we previously discussed this question. When we discussed the question in the 70's I opposed the introduction of the British dollar because I could not see how it would pay. At that time for nine months out of the twelve we could always buy the Mexican dollars at their proper weight and fineness, and I therefore asked who was going to pay for the minting of the British dollar. You must deal with practical politics, and what I said then is equally true to-day. There is, however, another thing to be seriously borne in mind, and that is that the recent action of the Indian Government in protecting the rupee and leaving the dollar and all other silver unprotected will have a vast influence on the trade of the Far East. I believe that the trade of the Far East might increase at the expense of the Indian trade, and instead of being exporters of silver we might be importers in China. I am convinced that before long the trade of China will have increased in the same proportion as the trade of India has increased. The trade of India has increased between 1872 and 1892 from £54,000,000 to £108,000,000, and how people legislating for a country like England could in the face of figures of this kind adopt measures like this passes my comprehension. I very heartily propose that we recommend to the Government that the Japanese yen be made a legal tender in this colony.\n\nMr. GRANVILLE SHARP - I am sure that we are much indebted to Mr. Keswick for the very interesting account he has given us of the history of this movement and the present position of affairs. You will all of you know that this matter has not been new ground by any means. It has been before the Chamber for the last 20 years within a few months. It has been frequently proposed since 1873 that the Japanese yen should be made legal tender in Hongkong and on every occasion upon which it has been discussed in this room the discussion has resulted in a stronger emphasising and a more general expression of the desire for a British dollar, in which I am sure every Briton in this colony will sympathise and which will also be felt by other nationals who are here. The first discussion took place in December, 1873. There were two meetings held and the adjourned meeting which was held resulted in a resolution, proposed by Mr. Whittall, of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. and seconded by Mr. Kay, the Manager of the Chartered Bank, that every effort should be made to obtain by all practicable means a British dollar for Hongkong. On February 16th, 1877, the banks in the colony united in a memorial to the Government, which was supported by the Chamber of Commerce, that the home Government should be induced to take steps for the provision of a British dollar for Hongkong with a view to the ultimate re-establishment of the Hongkong Mint. On March 7th, 1878, at another meeting of the Chamber of Commerce the subject was again brought forward and Mr. Ryrie, who was then Chairman, proposed a resolution, which was supported by Mr. Jackson, that the Hongkong Mint be re-established and every step possible and practicable should be taken with that end in view. From 1878 to 1886 the matter remained very quiet, when we were awakened by an application from Singapore begging and praying the Chamber of Commerce to unite with them in obtaining a British dollar for Hongkong, Singapore, and the Straits Settlements. On May 31st, 1887, a new event happened in the offer which the Government received from the Japanese Government to coin a yen for Hongkong, Singapore, and the Straits at 1 per cent. This was declined by the Chamber for a variety of reasons—it was thought undesirable at that time to enter into the arrangement. I think that we shall all agree that our present currency is inadequate and unsuitable. We have the currency of 1843 in 1893. We are still burning the rushlight in the days of electric currents. (Laughter.) It may be deemed economical to use a dollar which is made and sent already for use to us here, but I think it is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 352200, "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": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "page_number": 365, "title": "CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8]", "content_text": "It is about equivalent to all the foreign community going about in slop clothes, or the British army being clothed by the worn-out and out-of uniforms of France, Russia, and Germany. Mr. Keswick has very properly and wisely said that before we can think of indulging ourselves in a British dollar we must count the cost. This should be done in all things and in this as much as anything else. An idea has occurred to me only this morning, about an hour before I came into this room, that perhaps the application which the Japanese make to us to allow them to do the work of solving the Japanese yen for circulation in Hongkong and the Straits might be turned into an enquiry on our part whether the Japanese Government would be willing at their mint, their magnificent mint—one of the best mints in the world—at Osaka, and with all the advantages which that mint possesses and which have been referred to by the Chairman in connection with the Japanese yen, whether they would coin a British dollar on the same terms on which they propose to coin the Japanese yen. They might possibly refuse, but I think it is quite possible that they might consent. The cost would be the same, and if the Japanese Government will coin a British dollar, and make that dollar legal tender in Japan, we may very well in return make the Japanese yen legal tender in Hongkong and Singapore. I have had no opportunity of seeing the members of the Committee on the subject because the idea only occurred to me one hour ago, but it seems to me that it might lead to a solution of the difficulty in which we are at present placed. The Japanese would find great advantage in it, and I believe that nothing would do more good in Japan at the present time of excitement and questioning than the circulation of a number of our coins with our noble and revered Queen upon them. I have just returned for the eighth time from a visit to Japan, and amidst all its beauty of scenery and people there is something lacking there. There is something lacking, and I am not quite sure that Englishmen are loved as much there as they ought to be or they were. Possibly it is that those Englishmen and other foreigners with whom the Japanese come into most close contact are not those whose influence is calculated to impress favourably the Japanese as a nation. I do think that while they are studying earnestly the English language, English literature, and English history, it would be a fine thing if we could possibly get them to look favourably on the English character, and I do think that the Queen's head would do more to pave the way for treaty revision in the sense in which the Japanese desire their treaties to be revised than anything else they could possibly adopt. It would bring us more closely together; there is no question about that. You will remember the song of the French poet of the First Empire which says, \"You make the laws; let me write the ballads.\" And I think we will find that of advantage to us in Hongkong. There is too little disposition on the part of the Chinese to render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and I do not think the Chinese in Hongkong behave to us as they did 35 years ago when I first came here. I think they want to see the Queen's head among them a little more, and a few more of those dollars which once circulated in the colony and which are now hoarded up for their beauty and associations which linger round them. I cordially support the resolution brought forward, but if we can get our British dollar coined in Japan upon the condition of making the Japanese yen legal tender in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements I think it would be a good arrangement for all parties.\n\nMr. J. H. Scott—I have much pleasure in seconding Mr. Jackson's resolution.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN—Gentlemen, you have heard the resolution which was proposed by Mr. Jackson and seconded by Mr. Scott, That this Chamber move the Government to make the Japanese yen legal tender in this colony.\n\nThe resolution was then put and carried unanimously.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD—I rise to move, \"That a Special Committee be appointed by the Committee of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce to inquire into and report on the desirability, in the interests of trade, of the coinage of a British dollar, equal in weight and fineness to the Mexican dollar, for circulation in this Colony concurrently with the dollars which are now legal tender.\" It would be well, as Mr. Jackson has said, that we should have more than one string to our bow, and I fully concur with the remarks made by Mr. Jackson in connection with the Mexican dollar. At present, and for the last two weeks, it has not been possible to purchase Mexican dollars in the London market, and they have been quite as scarce in America. In view of the extraordinary policy adopted by the Indian Government it is very difficult to conceive what the Mexican Government (acting in unison with the American Government) might not do. It is quite possible a heavy export duty may be exacted in future, and if we had nothing but the Mexican dollar to fall back upon, our trade would have to bear the brunt and heat of the day. As regards the Japanese yen, they are and have been proved to be of uniform and safe value; but we do not know what the Japanese Government may do after what India has done. Japan may be inclined to limit her coinage or increase the mint charges; the seignorage or mintage—1 per cent.—now exacted by the Government leaves a loss, it is understood, of ½ per cent. In addition to that, if those who have to provide the currency had to ship bar silver from here to Kobe, convey it by rail from Kobe to Osaka and back to Kobe, and ship the money to Hongkong, they would have to bear the charges for shipping, freight, and insurance and railway charges, together with the loss of interest, which would increase the cost by at least 1 per cent. It is therefore most desirable that it should be possible to have a dollar coined in London. The mint is already established there, and all that is requisite and necessary is simply to have fresh dies; there are also the mints at Bombay and Calcutta, and by having these resources to fall back upon we would be better off than we were limited to the Mexican dollar and the Japanese yen. I, therefore, have much pleasure in moving the resolution I have just read out.\n\nMr. J. J. FRANCIS seconded the resolution. With reference to the suggestion of Mr. Granville Sharp that they should endeavour to get the Japanese Government to coin them a British dollar he did not think that the proposal was at all practicable and he did not think that it would in any case be desirable that a foreign nation should coin anything bearing the Queen's head. As to the establishment of a mint at Hongkong he did not think that that would be a remunerative enterprise as the Chinese Government were manifesting a disposition to have mints of their own, and if they went in for a system of mints in all the important parts we should soon find that we had no market for the coins which it cost us so much to produce. He thought therefore that it would be going in for a very great risk to start a mint in Hongkong seeing how heavy was the expenditure necessarily entailed in the establishing of a mint. It might, however, be very advantageous to have a British dollar coined in Bombay, London, or Calcutta as there would not then be any initial cost.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD called the attention of the members to some correspondence with the Secretary of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce in 1887, which he said was of such general interest in connection with the subject they were discussing that perhaps the Press might see their way to republish it.\n\nMr. J. S. LAPRAIK asked whether the members of the Committee to be appointed to enquire into the question of a Hongkong dollar must necessarily be members of the Chamber of Commerce.\n\nHon. T. H. WHITEHEAD said that there was nothing in his resolution which suggested that, and that it would be quite open for the members of the Committee to invite any gentleman to join the sub-Committee.\n\nMr. GRANVILLE SHARP made a few remarks on the difficulty at present experienced in obtaining subsidiary coinage from the Treasury and suggested that that might very properly fall within the scope of the sub-Committee's enquiry. At the present time if any one required change for $10 they had to send for an order to the Treasury and then go to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for their small change.\n\nPage 360", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-259 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1893 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 353889, "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": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "page_number": 279, "title": "CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4]", "content_text": "275\n\nwhich all tend to induce the Committee to withdraw their recommendation that the Yen should be made legal tender here. There is at the present time in Japan some relaxation of the international sympathies which for years have been so studiously cultivated by that country, and as it must continue to be a problem how far anti-foreign feeling and policy will prevail, it would be injudicious were such an important matter as our currency made in any degree to depend upon the changing relations of parties.\n\nYour Excellency has already been furnished unofficially with a Report of the Special Committee above referred to, and I am desired to express the Chamber's appreciation of the telegraphic recommendation thereanent which you have been good enough to make to the Secretary of State.\n\nIt is earnestly hoped that the coinage of a British Dollar which has been advocated may meet with the support of the Colonial Office, as no coin could better satisfy the requirements of the China Trade, or be more calculated to avert the recurrence of the question now under consideration. The quick, convenient, and economical coinage at the Bombay Mint are conspicuous advantages in the proposal, and as the Report of the Special Committee mentions, there is a possibility of the seignorage being even less than 1 per cent.\n\nIt will interest you to know that this Chamber has already communicated its views on the subject by wire to the London Chamber of Commerce and a reply has been received signifying approval, and stating that steps have already been taken in advocacy of a British Dollar; and it is hoped", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-262 - Governor Sir Robinson Acting Governor O-Brien - 1894 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355763, "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": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## \nSir R. Meade BM. J. H. Guther \n\n37 \n\nMy Dear Mr. Guther,\n\nThings no longer look well for the British Dollar.\n\nI enclose you copies of the telegraphic correspondence between the India Office and the Calcutta Mint.\n\nAt first they said they would coin at a charge of one per cent, naming $5,000,000 (5 million) as the limit.\n\nYou will see by the later telegram that we explained more clearly what we meant and they now refuse, though I gather they stand by an offer to coin $5,000,000 (5 million) at one per cent.\n\nI do not know whether the Banks would be willing to make a contract with the Calcutta Mint to take $5,000,000 (Five million) annually for any fixed period.\n\nI had a visit to-day from Mr. Noble of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and I told him how the matter stands.\n\nIt is useless to bring the subject before Lord Herschell's Committee in its present state.\n\nThe Yen seems the only alternative.\n\nYours sincerely,\n11/4/94\n\n(Signed) R. H. MEADE.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 355904, "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": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 181, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## Debate on the Use of Silver Coinage and Trade with China\n\nThere will be no opposition among any portion of our people to the use of silver to the extent where it will not demonetize gold. Every one of those who are commonly classed by the popular feeling as goldites would be glad to see silver and gold placed upon a fixed parity, so that they could be maintained at par with each other among all the nations of the world, and be used everywhere as the standards of money.\n\nAs I read the pending resolution it seems that it is for the purpose of increasing commerce. It says: \"That the President of the United States, with a view to encourage and extend our commercial relations with China and other Asiatic countries, be requested to enter into negotiations with the Republic of Mexico looking to the coinage by the United States, at its mints, of standard Mexican dollars.\"\n\nIf it is possible for the President of the United States to negotiate a treaty with Mexico, by which the United States might issue practically the silver coin now known as the Mexican dollar, and that coin can be used for a commercial dollar to be exported, not made a legal tender and not to be coined to an unlimited extent except for exportation, then I can see that it would give employment to probably a vast amount of silver.\n\nNo man can estimate the amount which might be used in such a country as China. China contains a population, it is said, of 400,000,000, and many of them are very intelligent people. They are shrewd, active people, who understand precisely the value of the dollar, and measure it to the last grain.\n\n### Concerns about the Proposal\n\nI do not understand, though perhaps the Senator from Colorado can instruct me, how it is possible by the coinage of Mexican dollars to increase our trade with China. If to-day a New York merchant buys a cargo of tea in China, he is obliged to pay for it by draft on England. The Chinese Government do not receive our silver coin. Why should they receive the coins of the Republic of Mexico?\n\n### Potential Consequences\n\nNow, I can not conceive of any plan whereby an American merchant taking the Mexican dollars into China will be able to purchase goods in China to any better advantage than he would be with American dollars, to say nothing of the great humiliation which I think the American people must feel that we must add to our money, consisting to-day of eight different kinds of our currency, gold and silver coins and their certificates, national-bank notes, Treasury notes, and United States notes, regardless of the fractional currency, another kind of currency having no legal status under the laws of the United States, which must of necessity return from China, and Japan, and India.\n\n### Amendments to the Resolution\n\nMr. SHERMAN. I offer the amendment which I suggested a few moments ago, so that it will read \"the President of the United States, if not incompatible with the public interests,\" as they are ordinarily in such resolutions.\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. The amendment proposed by the Senator from Ohio will be stated.\n\nThe SECRETARY. It is proposed to insert after the words \"United States,\" in the first line, the words: \"If not incompatible with the public interests.\"\n\n### Debate Continues\n\nMr. STEWART. Mr. President, the Senator from Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN] made an observation which may be misleading. He says the advocates of gold are also the friends of silver, and that all they desire is to maintain the parity. I wish to repeat what I have often said, that bimetallism is not the result of parity, but parity follows bimetallism.\n\nThose who say they are in favor of parity and refuse the only legislation which can produce parity are either ignorant of what they say or they do not mean what they say.\n\n### Adjournment and Further Proceedings\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the resolution. Does the Senator from New Jersey [Mr. MCPHERSON] wish to be further heard upon the subject?\n\nMr. MCPHERSON. I understand the Senator from Colorado [Mr. WOLCOTT] agrees that it shall go over until to-morrow.\n\nThe PRESIDING OFFICER. It has not. The Senator from New Jersey asks that the resolution with the pending amendment and proposed amendment go over. Is there objection?\n\nMr. WOLCOTT. I have no objection to the resolution going over until to-morrow.\n\n## Unrelated Debate on Tariff and Senate Proceedings\n\nMr. HARRIS. Mr. President, believing as I do that there is no one question in which the 70,000,000 people whom we represent here are so deeply and directly interested as that of the duties of merchandise to this country are to be in the future, I am exceedingly anxious to reach some agreement by which we can devote much more time to its consideration day by day than we have done in the past.\n\nMr. QUAY. I object, Mr. President.\n\nObjection being made, I now ask the other side of the Chamber to tell me, and to tell this side, whether there is any agreement possible to devote more time, day by day, to the consideration of this great and vitally important question.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356179, "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": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 456, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "## \nby letter from Bombay Mint master to Bombay Agent)\n\nBombay 5 Jan. 1894\n\nWe have made out a rough calculation of the cost of coining £3,000,000 worth of Silver into Dollars, and it comes out about Rupees 23 per one Thousand Dollar pieces.\n\nI have assumed that your Bank would purchase the silver and supply it to us as we required it.\n\nIf Government agreed to coin the Dollars, how long do you think would it take before we could let us know that the thing was settled?\n\nThe Devices on the Coin would have to be decided on. I understand that Hongkong Dollars were once upon a time coined in the Birmingham Mint, if this is so, no doubt the old matrices may be still in existence and we could use them here to start on. New matrices were supplied, but the Representative of Hongkong may prefer new devices, if so you must bear in mind it takes a long time out here to prepare a matrice.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 356216, "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": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894", "content_text": "(485)\n\nThe Committee can hardly have failed to observe how the currency of Hongkong and the Straits Settlements has had to adapt itself to the serious decline in the gold price of silver that has resulted from the close of the Indian Mints. There has ensued a scarcity of Mexican dollars which has seriously reduced the circulating medium, as the Hongkong dollar is now practically out of circulation; and it is felt that a dearth of currency might at any moment result.\n\nThe Straits Settlements have met the difficulty, in a measure, by legalising the Japanese yen; but that expedient is viewed with disfavour in Hongkong, where a strong feeling exists that the time has come for the introduction and coinage of a British dollar similar in weight and fineness to the coins which are already legal tender.\n\nIt is understood that the Indian Authorities will undertake to coin such a coin for a seigniorage of about 1%; and it is believed that the project meets with the approval of the British communities at the various points of circulation in Eastern Asia.\n\nThe Committee can, therefore, have no hesitation in expressing their conviction that the time has come for introducing a British dollar which would not only be legal tender in our Eastern colonies but would obtain, probably, a large circulation in adjacent districts. It appears to them inconsistent with the growing importance of our commerce in the Straits and Hongkong, that those Colonies should have to rely for currency on an uncertain supply of foreign coins; and the position would hardly be amended from the point of view of national prestige, if a French dollar were superadded, as seems not impossible, to the Mexican dollar and the Japanese yen.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nYour Lordship's obedient servant,\nReGundry", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-265 - Public Offices & Others - 1894.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357362, "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": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "page_number": 219, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "but this was only one case of a hundred. The chopping air Jackson has referred to is supposed by some people to be needful. I venture to say that that is not so.\n\nThe Chinese are in no way in favour of chopping dollars. Every hong occasionally chops a thousand dollars as a sort of demonstration in order to be able to say \"We always chop our coins, and if you want us to exchange a bad dollar you must show us our mark upon it.\" The practice is now fast going out, and you may now go into Bonham Strand and that district without hearing the chop-marking hammer being used. There is now very little of it, and I feel sure that if Mr. Jackson and other bankers were to adopt a plan of discouraging this method, we should have a clean currency, and save thereby four-fifths of the trouble of shroffing. There is five times as much trouble in shroffing a thousand dollars which are chopped as there is in shroffing a thousand dollars which are clean. With chopped dollars you have to turn over both sides. I think, therefore, that this is, as Mr. Jackson has said, a good opportunity for putting our currency upon a fair basis, and that it should not be lost. I may say I have been waiting for this opportunity for forty years, and I am delighted that we have so powerful an advocate in the matter as Mr. Jackson. (Applause) Will you therefore allow me to propose this resolution. That the Chamber regards the advent of the British dollar as an opportunity for placing the currency of this Colony upon a satisfactory footing, that as a first step every means should be adopted to protect the new coins from the foolish practice of chopping and defacement, and that the Government be requested by the Committee to legislate to that effect in this Colony.” (Applause).\n\nMr. JACKSON-I beg to second Mr. Sharp's proposal.\n\nMr. SHARP-I could tell you a great deal more, but there is a review on, and I know you want to go there (Laughter).\n\nMr. SHEWAN-I would like to enquire whether it would not be illegal to deface the new dollar, it being a British coin.\n\nMr. JACKSON-To meet the special - as they think at how the special requirements of this colony, they have decided to allow it to be chopped and still remain a legal tender—the very thing we did not want. It will, as Mr. Sharp has said, defeat the one opportunity we have had of putting all coin upon a proper basis.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN-Before I put the resolution I will announce the result of the ballot. The Committee elected will consist of Messrs. A. G. Wood (Chairman), A. McConachie (Vice-Chairman), R. M. Gray, N. A. Stobs, St. C. Michael sen., T. H. Whitehead, Douglas Jones, and J. J. Ball-Irving.\n\nMr. Sharp's resolution was then put to the meeting and carried.\n\n## TREASURY\n10096\nRECD 1 JUL 95,\n216\n\nPage 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359123, "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": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 529, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "40 \n\nAdams, Fraser, Sugden, Buckley, King, Moir, Grigor, Taylor, Crane, (2) Braddell, (2) St. Clair, Raeburn, Neave, Gunn, B. de Thuy, Spencer Pratt, Reid, Gentle, MacRitchie, Maclaren, Allinson, Lim Boon Keng, Tan Jiak Kim, and several other prominent Chinese; all the leading members of the Eurasian community; in fact, nearly every class of mercantile or trading house in the Settlement was represented, the seats being filled, and all the doorways being crowded, chiefly by Europeans who came later than the Asiatics. There were also present the Revs. G. M. Reith, A. Lamont, Gomes, and Munson.\n\nPromptly at 5 o'clock Mr. Arnot Reid proposed that Mr. W. Nanson be elected to the chair, saying that it was desirable that a member of the committee of the Straits Settlements Association local branch should preside. The proposal was adopted by acclamation, and Mr. Nanson took the chair.\n\n**THE CHAIRMAN**\n\nMr. W. Nanson (of Messrs. Rodyk and Davidson, advocates and solicitors), who was supported on his right by Mr. Napier, and on his left by Dr. Lim Boon Keng, said: This meeting has been called at the instance of the Straits Settlements Association in order that the public of Singapore may have the opportunity of expressing their approval of the action which has been taken by some of the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, all, I believe, of the Justices of the Peace of this Settlement who are not connected with the Government, and all the resident members of the Chinese Advisory Board for Singapore, in resigning their offices as a protest against the decision of the Imperial Government with regard to the Military Contribution of this Colony. These gentlemen have, in the interests of the public, resigned offices of honour and dignity, and it is only fitting that you should express your gratitude to them for their unselfish and magnanimous conduct. (Applause.) Gentlemen, your presence here to-day in such numbers will, I am sure, be exceedingly gratifying to the Straits Settlements Association, which, as you know, has for months past, with small success and slight encouragement, been fighting the battle of this Colony against the unjust and arbitrary exactions of the Imperial Government. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I trust that you will show your appreciation of the efforts of the Association, and the conduct of the gentlemen who have resigned their offices, by passing to-day a hearty and a unanimous resolution of approval. It is not for me to do more than briefly tell you what is the object of this meeting, and therefore I shall at once call upon Mr. Napier, the Hon. Secretary of the Straits Settlements Association, to propose the resolution which he has to submit to you. (Applause.)\n\n**MR. NAPIER**\n\nMr. W. J. Napier (of Messrs. Drew and Napier, advocates and solicitors) rose and said, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, the resolution which I have to submit to you this evening is as follows:\n\nThat this meeting heartily approves of the action of the members of the Legislative Council, the Justices of the Peace, and the members of the Chinese Advisory Board in resigning their offices as a protest against the decision of the Imperial Government with regard to the Military Contribution for the Colony.\n\nWhen I was complimented by being asked to propose this resolution, I agreed to it with rather a light heart, but I had not the responsibility fully before me as I now have it. A day or two ago I found in the Straits Times, a newspaper which you know has the largest circulation in the far East. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) There I found that my responsibilities were very heavy. I then, for the first time, found out that Lord Ripon would probably scan my speech to find means with which to confound the Colony's cause. I was there told that I must not use any violent language. I do not intend to use violent language. I was there told that I must not try to tickle the ears of my enthusiastic sympathisers in this court. I don't think I am capable of tickling anyone's ears. I was told that I must say something that would read reasonably to people at home. That I will try to do. We have come here this evening to protest against Lord Ripon's despatch. That despatch was the reply made by Downing Street to the prayer of the Colony to be relieved of the burden which is and has been crippling its resources for the last five years. A perusal of that despatch seems to me to show how totally the interests of the Colony are subordinated to meet the requirements of the Imperial Exchequer. A perusal of that despatch will show you that civil expenses are to be restricted to 3,000,000 dollars, and how much is to be set aside to meet the military requirements of the Colony? What remains of Colonial balances is to be devoted to military purposes. You will see, also, that eventually we are expected to pay every penny of the charge for military establishment which the War Office may think fit to call upon the Colony to pay. The amount estimated for that establishment in 1889 was 186,000l. But for the period of the next five years, 1894 to 1898, this sum had increased to 154,730l. a-year; and I have no doubt that there will be a further increase in the future. But then, in addition to all that, there is the additional burden hanging over us of providing barrack accommodation for the troops. It is not necessary for me to go into the thorny subject as to how far it is proper for a Colony to contribute to \n\n41 \n\nworks of Imperial defence in the interests of the Empire. I would point out to you that if this place was not an Imperial coaling station a very small number of troops would suffice for its defence. As the Times in a recent article says: \"The Colony has good ground for the contention that the added cost of its defence has fallen upon it in consequence of the Imperial importance of Singapore.\" Now we have never stood upon what I may call the strict letter of our obligations, but this Colony has always been willing to contribute towards the maintenance of the troops placed here for military purposes. Sir Charles Tupper, discussing the question as to how far Canada was bound to contribute towards the maintenance of the Army and Navy of England, said: \"No contribution to the support of the Army and Navy on the part of Canada would have contributed to the strength and greatness of the Empire in a greater degree than the mode in which the public money of Canada has been expended.\" He pointed to the enormous tracts of country which Canada had developed, making her the granary of the world. He pointed to the subsidised steamships which, in times of need, could be used as armed cruisers; and, finally, he pointed to the railway, that Imperial highway, stretching from Ocean to Ocean, and concluded by saying, \"That, instead of adding to its defences, the strength of a Colony would be impaired by taking away the means which it requires for its development.\" I would ask you if this Colony has cost the Mother Country something, whether it has not given anything back in return. Look at the development of the Colony since 1867, take, for instance, the tonnage which has entered and cleared in the three Settlements, exclusive of native craft. In 1866, that amounted to 1,661,683 tons, and in 1888 this had grown to 9,192,855 tons. Then look at the Native States which we have opened up, the greatest tin-producing area in the world. Look, too, at our docks and local shipping. And lastly, look at the lighting of the Straits, which are probably the best lighted straits in the whole world, and I say we can point with pride to that and be assured that, in what we have done, we have increased the strength and stability of the Empire. I repeat again that it appears to me that the salient point in the despatch of Lord Ripon's is the subordination of the interests of the Colony to the Imperial Exchequer. We have tried all means in our power to get this wrong righted; we have had public meetings, we have had deputations to the Governor, and to the Secretary of State; and it has all been of no avail. Now, the only course left is, I think, the action that has been taken by those gentlemen whose action we have come to approve to-day. That resignation has, it seems to me, been deliberately provoked by the Imperial Government. In 1890 Mr. Adamson, who was a member of Legislative Council, made a speech when this 100,000l. contribution was first introduced. A despatch was received from home, ordering us to pay that sum without any previous consultation with the Colony on the subject. Mr. Adamson then said: \"That such a course would reduce the Council to a position in which it would be absolutely impossible for any man to take a seat in it.\" Again, in May, 1893, when he made that able address to Lord Ripon, he gave the following opinion: \"If the non-officials of the Council are appointed for one object more than another, I cannot for my part conceive that it will be possible to get men with any self-respect to sit on the Legislative Council, if this chief duty is to be taken entirely from their hands and dealt with by votes given under instructions from Downing Street.\n\nWe are here to support the action of members of the Legislative Council, Justices of the Peace, and members of the Chinese Advisory Board. It would be presumptuous on my part to attempt to appraise the merits of these gentlemen. They have done their duty. We have now to appeal from Downing Street to the people of England. I know the old rhyme: \"Give a poor man his beer and his bacca, And he don't care a d- for the Straits of Malacca.\" But since then the difference existing between England and her Colonies has been gradually swept away. From a recent article in the Times, to which I have already alluded, I believe our cause will obtain a fair hearing at home. The article ended as follows: The Colonial proposal to increase its original contribution from 50,000l. to 70,000l. seems to present a fair compromise based on a calculation of the respective interests to be served.\" The Letters Patent, as was pointed out a few months ago [in the Straits Times], give the Legislative Council full power for the raising and the expenditure of public revenue as may be deemed advisable for the peace, good order, and good government of our subjects within our Settlements or within any territory which may at any time be part of or dependent on the same.\" That is to say, the charter only authorizes the revenue of the Colony to be applied for the good of the people in the Colony, and for the good of the people there. I say that the Legislative Council by its official votes instigated by Downing Street, and in opposition to the unanimous vote, from time to time, of the unofficial members, has been diverting the money of the Colony in a manner which is alien to the Letters Patent. (Applause.) It appears to me that the appropriation of the revenue of the Colony, in total opposition to the wishes of the Colony, is contrary to every principle of the British Constitution. (Immense applause.) Why should any man, because he crosses the seas and comes here, lose that right, which every working man at home has, of taking a share in", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359124, "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": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "42 \n\nFraming the policy of the country where he lives? What is that which has made us such a great colonizing Power as we are? Is it not chiefly that great love of liberty and that power of self-government which every Englishman takes with him wherever he goes? The unofficial members have taken the course of resigning, but that is not enough. They must be supported by the Colony. It is only, if this support be given to them, that this matter can be brought to a successful issue. Their action has been taken with the approval of the Straits Association at home and here; and I can assure you that the members of the Straits Association will not turn back from this work until they have successfully achieved it. (Great applause.) \n\n## DR. LIM BOON KENG \n\nDr. Lim Boon Keng (a medical practitioner at Singapore with high British degrees) said:—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I second this motion which has been proposed by Mr. Napier. By your presence here in such large numbers and on such a day, you show fully how strongly you feel on this subject. The Europeans are taking up this matter chiefly on the principle, as Mr. Napier has just mentioned, that every Englishman will take with him wherever he goes that principle of liberty for which the people of England have fought so long. It seems to me that the Governors of the Colonies of the British Empire have not always been long-sighted men. Our case to-day is exactly the case of North America years ago. Then there were remonstrances, public meetings, congresses, and all sorts of protests; and yet the Government of Lord North, his predecessors and successors, turned a deaf ear to the protests against the demands of the Imperial Government. The English Parliament paid no heed to the earnest solicitations of the Colonials. We have not that form of power which those Colonials had (a fact of which the Straits Times has been good enough to remind us); but not having that power, physical force, we still have the moral force to show the British public how unjustly we have been treated. (Applause) The Straits Times also mentions the slight delay, in the case of the resignations, caused by the hesitation of certain of the Chinese members in connection with the resignation scheme. But I think that the Chinese have very good reason for delaying. Most of these Chinese were born in China; they are not all Straits-born. It is only right, being aliens here, and being privileged in advising the Government, that they should consider very carefully any such scheme, its practicability and its advisability, before giving it their unanimous support. (Hear, hear.) I think that it would be a great mistake and a most unwarrantable assumption to make, that the resignation of the Chinese carries with it no moral significance. They have not resigned simply because the Europeans concerned have resigned. They have it in their minds clearly established from the great books of China, which tell us that, if the Ministers and advisers represent to the Sovereign that the practices of the Sovereign are contrary to the usages of the Constitution, and if, after repeated protests, there comes no relief, the only course left to Ministers and advisers is to resign. My Chinese friends have had this statement clearly before them, because all Chinese must have read the works of Mencius, who, as a classic authority, is next to Confucius. They have only hesitated to take the lead in a matter which first concerns Englishmen. In the books of Mencius there is a passage which says that men must decide what they will not do before taking action with vigour in what they will do. I think action taken by the unofficial members of the Legislative Council, the Justices of the Peace, and members of the Chinese Advisory Board is to show that they will have no share in taking money away from this Colony in the manner which will ruin us in time. We have used every argument we can use, and I think it is a pity, after so many meetings, so many protests, that we are still in exactly the same position as we were years ago. (Voices: \"Worse.\") I am sure all of you will heartily support the action which these gentlemen have taken in taking a step which will bring them into disfavour with the high and mighty officials of Downing Street. (Long continued applause.) \n\nThe motion carried. \n\nThe Chairman then put the resolution to the meeting and asked those in favour of it to put up each one hand. The response to this was one wave of arms in the air, and when the Chairman asked if there were any against, a pin might have been heard to drop in the stillness. Not a hand was raised. The Chairman, amidst the most enthusiastic cheering, declared the resolution carried. \n\n## MR. SHELFORD \n\nMr. T. Shelford, C.M.G., (a partner of Messrs. Paterson, Simons, & Co.), then rose, and was greeted with cheering again and again renewed. He said:— \n\nMr. Chairman and gentlemen, I beg very sincerely to thank you on behalf of my ex-colleagues, absent and present, as well as on my own account, for the very hearty and cordial manner in which you have accepted and passed the resolution. It proves to us that the course we have been compelled to take meets with your approbation, and I am sure the others will appreciate as heartily as I do the value of your support and the manner in which you have exhibited it. \n\n43 \n\n### The Resignation Policy \n\nNow, gentlemen, do not let anyone go away with the idea that this has been a hasty step; a mere ebullition of temper or of anger. On the contrary, we have exercised every patience in waiting for the solution of the question which, from time to time, it was inferred would be in the interests of the financial relief of the Colony. But the despatch of the Secretary of State has entirely dissipated any such hopes, and as no consideration has been paid to our remonstrances, to our protests, or to our suggestions, there remains for us but one final protest; and that is to withdraw from a Council, which, apparently, in the future more than even in the past, is to be made the vehicle of enforcing exorbitant demands on the Colony in utter disregard of those interests which we were placed in the Council to protect. (Cheers.) Our resignation then has been a deliberate one, and it is much to be regretted that it has not been unanimous. (Hear, hear.) Now, gentlemen, I have no right, and I have no desire, to assume that the Penang members were actuated by any other motives than those which have guided us; but when I received a letter from the senior unofficial member—who, I understand is about shortly to celebrate his jubilee in the Province—in which he agreed that, if our claims were ignored and the Government still insisted upon squeezing us, simply meant ruin to the Colony, and when he told us that he agreed with us that the only course left open was to resign in a body, I confess that I have found some little difficulty in understanding why, a few days later, he was not prepared to back up his brave words. (Ironical laughter.) This is a question which vitally affects the whole Colony. Therefore, before taking any steps at all, a letter was addressed to our colleagues in the Northern Settlement, suggesting to them the course which we proposed to follow, and asking whether they were prepared to join us. We assured them that no step would be taken until after consultation with them. We had the advantage of an interview with Dr. Brown when he passed through Singapore. For some reason or other that meeting of the unofficial members is to be regarded as strictly private, and, therefore, I can only say that the objections which Dr. Brown there urged did not appear to me to be sufficiently weighty to divert us from our course. It may be—I cannot say that if he had been earlier associated with this question, able to study all these dangers and realize all the machinations and specious excuses and half promises employed by the Secretary of State, and with which we have been put off for years, he would have been prepared to join his colleagues in their expression of opinion and assist in carrying it out to a logical conclusion. We hope that even yet circumstances may arise which will enable him to do so. (Hear, hear.) One word more. \n\n### That Despatch \n\nof the Secretary of State arrived at a most inopportune time. It was laid on the table of the Legislative Council the day before the Governor left for Penang. There was no opportunity, therefore, of discussing it, and indeed it would in the haste of the moment have been very undesirable to do so. Mr. Donaldson was on the imminent point of departure, and we were unable, therefore, longer to postpone our action. Our course of action is not in any measure due to that want of courtesy to the Governor which it has suited some people to attribute to us. I would venture to say that the men who have resigned are as incapable of discourtesy to the Governor as are those who are apparently seeking to make capital out of that suggestion. (Cheers.) There comes a time like the present when men act, and must act, at the risk of hurting official dignity. (Hear, hear.) I do not believe that the Governor would take our action as a slight; I believe that he is a high-spirited, fair-minded man, and I do not think that he will take any other view than that which we have adopted. We have, at any rate, the satisfaction of knowing that Mr. Bogaardt refused to accept re-nomination to the Council on account of this despatch. (Hear, hear.) We carry with us the support of the public bodies of the Colony, and our action has also met with the approval of people at home. (Cheers.) One more point, if you will allow me. It has been said that I was trying to make mock heroics out of this matter, and that I resigned because I am on the point of leaving. That is not so. If it had not been for this despatch I would on this occasion, as previously, have sought leave of absence from the Council during the few months that I am likely to be absent from the Colony. (Cheers.) \n\n### A Misleading Telegram \n\nWhen a telegram was received in October there was no suggestion or hint that the relief to be offered to the Colony was only temporary, and that the amount would be recovered from us during the later period of the five years. The telegram was misleading; it conveyed only half the truth. (Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, it served the purpose of enabling the Estimates to be passed, thus adding 150,000 dollars to our burdens. (Cheers.) \n\n### The Despatch \n\nGentlemen, it is the despatch and not the telegram which must be taken as the final answer of Her Majesty's Government for an equitable adjustment of this burning and burdensome question. For years, in reply to telegrams, to despatches, and to deputations, and every effort made to elicit the contemplated policy of Her Majesty's Government, the reply has been made that \"the matter is under the careful consideration... \n\nPage 43 \n... \nPage 525", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 362959, "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": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 475, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "after Her Majesty, The three resolutions which are now submitted for your favourable consideration have been carefully drafted and I sincerely hope they will practically meet the wishes of all sections. They read:--\n\n\"(1) That the most useful and most befitting manner of permanently commemorating the completion of the sixtieth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria will be to erect a Hospital for women and children and the training of nurses, to be handed over to the Colonial Government, who have undertaken to maintain it in conjunction with and on the same footing as the Government Civil Hospital, and to subscribe towards the completion of the carriage road round the island, the former to be called 'The Victoria Jubilee Hospital,' and the latter 'The Victoria Jubilee Road,' or such other names as may be thought more appropriate by the Committee;\n\n(2) That this Committee take immediate steps to raise funds from all sections of the community of Hongkong for the purposes mentioned in the preceding resolution, and for local celebrations;\n\n(3) That the money so collected, together with an equal amount promised by the Colonial Government, be deposited at interest in the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in the name of the Jubilee Committee, and be disbursed by them after paying for the local celebration - one half towards the erection of the Hospital for women and children and the training of nurses and the other half towards the construction of the first section of the carriage road from Kennedytown to Aberdeen which the Government undertakes to commence forthwith and to carry out the remaining portion of the road until completed.\"\n\nThe erection of a hospital for women and children of all ranks, classes, creeds, and races, managed on the same lines as the Government Civil Hospital, and an institute attached for the training of nurses, will, I think, appeal to Her Majesty's sympathies, inasmuch as they will tend to alleviate the sufferings of all subjects of whatever nationality resident in this her far distant colony. The construction and the completion of a carriage road round the island will undoubtedly be of great utility, and will assuredly confer greatest good and benefit upon the greatest number. There are comparatively few who can afford to live on the higher roads in the City or at the Peak, and the overwhelming majority of the people are compelled to reside on the lower levels throughout the year. During six or seven months out of every twelve the hot and stifling atmosphere of the lower levels of Victoria is extremely trying, and often well nigh unbearable, as the breeze during the summer comes from the south. In his letter to this Committee of 31st March General Black writes \"I need hardly urge the appropriateness of a road to mark a great occasion; roads are the precursors of progress and civilization; they distinguish a rising from a barbarous state. Roads for recreation and health are one of the great wants in this island, &c.\" I feel sure you all heartily concur with General Black. The present road to the south owing to its steep gradient is practically prohibitive, but with a good level carriage road private enterprise would speedily provide a tramway running round to Aberdeen as a beginning at prices which would enable all classes to avail of the southern breezes and the cooler temperature on the south side during the hot months of the year. A really good road 30 feet wide with an easy gradient would be an inestimable boon and would materially advance the welfare of the colonists in addition to developing the resources of the colony on the south side of the island. (Applause.)\n\nMr. GILLIES - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, it gives me very great pleasure to second the three resolutions just proposed by the Hon. Mr. Whitehead. I am sure that they require nothing further in the way of commendation to recommend them for your approval. Mr. Whitehead has given us a very able and a very clear idea of the advantages to be obtained from each of the schemes that he has just submitted, and I feel convinced in my own mind that there is nothing more appropriate or more popular with the citizens of Hongkong than projects which have just been submitted by Mr. Whitehead. (Applause.) We all know the great interest that Her Majesty takes in the hospitals at home. No doubt they have been brought very prominently before her and we all know that she takes a very deep interest in the sufferings and the well being of her loyal subjects. (Applause.) I may also be permitted to say that everything that tends to promote the health and the comfort of her loyal subjects she is also equally alive to and equally ready to support and give her kindness to; and I think the making of a road is a matter that commends itself very strongly to the people of Hongkong. (Applause). We have only one decent road in the colony for carriages and that is out to Shaukiwan, and I think that if we have a road going out to the southern part of the colony it would serve as an outlet not only for the Europeans but to the Chinese, who may seek a little fresh air after the toils and burdens of the day are over. They want a little refreshing breeze, as we all know that Chinatown is very much cramped and there is very little to be met there in the shape of fresh air. Here on the north side of the island the air certainly does not circulate with that freedom that it does on the south side, and I think that anyone who has made a trip to the south part of the island will bear me out in saying that the air there is most conducive to health. It is bracing and more strengthening than that we get upon the north side. The Civil Hospital, I may mention, is a credit to this colony. I do not think you can go to any city in England and find a hospital conducted on better principles than the Civil Hospital in Hongkong. Everything is done to promote the comfort and bring speedy relief to the sufferer. The patients meet with the best of attention and they receive the greatest care at the hands of the medical advisers, and if you look round you will see that the whole building is kept scrupulously clean and in a better condition, I think, than any hospital at home. In regard to the nursing institute, I think that will supply a want that has long been felt in Hongkong. We certainly know the great benefit of having a female nurse at our bedside in time of sickness and trouble. In the old days when a China boy used to hand you the medicine you were always afraid to accept it; you did not know whether he was giving you the medicine the doctor had ordered, neither did you know that he was giving it at the proper time. Now all this is changed and the ladies at the hospital are almost as good as a medical man himself. They follow the instructions of the medical man and are able to render very great service indeed and their kindness and attention tend very much towards the speedy recovery of the patient. I would remark that I think that all the three projects submitted by Mr. Whitehead here received more general support than any of the other schemes. We have seen more written on these three schemes than on any other project, and I think, judging from that, it proves that the community are more in favour of having this road and the hospital and training institute for nurses carried out than any other projects that have been submitted. I therefore have very little further to say. I think that the good points of these projects have been very favourably put before you in the Press and I have now very great pleasure in seconding the resolutions submitted by the Hon. Mr. Whitehead. (Applause).\n\nMr. EDE asked if the nurses were going to be available for the public, because if the nursing institute was going to be on the same principle as the Civil Hospital and managed by the Civil Hospital, how were the community going to get the nurses?\n\nThe HON. SECRETARY - It is the intention of the Government to obtain nurses from home who will be available for nursing among the general public, and the services of these nurses will be retained until such time as it is found that nurses trained locally are sufficiently well trained to be able to take their place.\n\n471", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363014, "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": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 530, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "ant and bis witnesses and to wat\n\ntary evidence. The administration of justics quem in China is notoriously corrupt, and the ease\n\ncused that anything be states ma\n\nזי\n\n\"Pavs yanaf PRELD Eng no Yudaq RINKYJĻA Sopwith which documents purporting to be against him on the trial at the Buros day of egissed of snow »fficial may be forged is also well known.\n\nquo ng maan os from sea to “seppu, gg p\n\n*KATTHI\n\nCourt, bat the Magistrate cannot\n\nMarosets. to any decisio evidence or come whether the defence is good or nå) decision in MULLER's case is to be folly evidence of au alibi can be even by the Magistrate bere.\" The int\n\nwill in of Government of the\n\nbe declared when the\n\ncourse\n\nis considered that the duty of\n\n--frm all DÂȚariaí authorities I have talked to\n\nThe Daily\n\nPress.\n\nTHE CHINESE EXTRADITION BILE.\n\nAfter very\n\nMembers\n\ni add more than a word or two. The Bill points I have not heard a single suspicion that since out what crimes ar included ander the treaties, that case-I don't say that case, because I did and it simplifies the procedure. The crimes not know of it, but I mean for the last ten years, with one exce tion are the same as in the Ex-tradition Acts of 1870 and 1873 in England, and aude rtainly with regard to those given up in the whole Bill seems to have been framed upon my time, there has been no suspicion that they\n\nI do not propose to take up the great attention to\n\nwore wanted for political purposes. I have givenj\n\nll the cases, because to my ♫ HONGKONG, May 28th, 1889. time of the Council any further.\n\nmind signing one of these extradition warrauts. Anal We therefore contend that\n\nno alleged\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded. *eg\n\nis worse thau signing a death warrant. There una criminal should be surrendered to China on\n\nHon. P. RYREE-With regard to myself and has been no doub, although the evidence as to this Bill I am desirous of making au important His EXCELLENCY-Before proceeding with -KSEN MAPQ magjors off pintedo aq »j sa\n\nthe other unofficial members, we feel that this particular circumstances might be open to doubt announcement with regard to it. is very serious matter. The Bill contains one that the men were real criminals. The proof full and earnest consideration I have determined justice, on the other Haus pay documentary evidence, and that the chiuse\n\nvery objectionable clause, that the evidence portant that the surrender of persons ap- above referred to should be struck out of the\n\ntaken in Chinese courts shall be received here, was, as far as paper went, porfect, and I should to omit the clause which has given rise to con bare had no justification for setting it aside siderable discussion, namely, that with reference plied for by the Chinese Government should Bill. This seems to be the only weak point\n\nand there are other clauses that I think are also but ten there is the feeling that you never to depositions taken in China. objectionable. Our Chinese fallow subjects are get a genuine witness from the Chinese be bedged about by suflicient safeguards in the measure. The question of a guarantee\n\nwill easily see that it would be impossible for me Hon. P. RYRIE-Then do away with extrudi to give reasons for this, but with their permission and restrictions to prevent the facilities for jagainst torture is not dealt with, but this\n\nthe people yo run the chance of being affected\n\ntion altogether.\n\nthat clause will be dropp d from the Ordinance. extradition being used by unscrupulons per may perhaps be wore appropriately left to proposed for second reading, and\n\ntime to consider it in all its bearings. The Bill not only that this place should become the re gaarter or quarters, which I have every reason His EXCELLENCY-Then are you prepared Further, I may state that enggestions from a sons for the purpose of extorting money from the discretion of the Governor in each part-gistrate to receive whateve.vided by the Bill, and I do not think they have had\n\nmay be very good one, but, my experience sort of all the criminals who can escape from to respect, bave been made to me with regard to or otherwise terrorising the peaceable Chinese cular case. The question of procedure ou] accused may be able to produce in f\n\nof extradition has been most unsatisfactory. We China, but to give rise to international diffical the fear created among the respectable Chinese residents of this colony. The case of the the trial is disposed of in what we consider fence is left in doubt by the Bill as\n\nhad a memorable case of men being kept in ties and ultimately perhaps to war? If all the by this measure, or rather by the feeling that! notorious LEE LUM KWAI occurred nut so jan entirely satisfactory manner. By clause it will doubtless be amended. The gaol for eighteen months. There is no prosi oriminals who escape from China cau come here extradition would be made so easy as to ossibly ision is the Bill that men shall not be tortured and live with impunity it is only a question affect them and cause them to be placed under long ago that its lesson has been forgotten. 10 it is provided that \"When a fugitive evidently is that the Magistrate såd\n\nafter they are given up. It was laid down by of time when the irritation that is growing pressure. If the Bill now proposed had been law in criminal is brought before a Magistrate, he vestigate the case thoroughly, and pia\n\nThe suggestion made to me in order the Secretary of State that no criminal should\n\namong the Chinese authorities will break out to remedy this was one which it was quite im. position to report upon it be given up unless on a guarantee-and a gua 1874 there can be little doubt that LEE Lum shall bear the case in the same manner, and self in a\n\nit is one that will co te sooner or later. KWAI would have succeeded in extorting have the same jurisdiction and powers, aa near- correspondent says it is the Migrantee that could be relied on that he should do not say that is an immediate prospect, but possible to adopt, namely, to make the Ordinance\n\nnot be tortured. I saw a letter from Her is a great consideration, as I sup ose no one porary residents.\n\nAnd it apply only to persous who have been very tem- Why it was impossible to 85,000 he attempted to levy, sacrificing one before bin charged with an indictable offence cannot weigh it or come to any decise lency's predecessors, warning him not to give\n\ncertain ten up because they would be tortured his neighbour. These considerations I am sure ance of this Colony any provision which practi or more of them to prosecution in the Chi- committed in the Colony. The Magistrate whether the defence is good or not.\n\nThey were subsequently converted to Roman on members will take into account. The diffi- cally limits the operation of the Treaty. If put face to avoid the difficulties that exist on the about that. At the same time I have thought a nese Courts on suborned evidence if that shall receive any evidence which may\n\nMagistrate shall send to the Govern Peking was applied to, but he would take no\n\nand white that there was no reliable guarantee insecurity, rather the contrary, to inhabitants of that. wherever any person has been for a good this law will create not the slightest additional object may be served in another way. I propose together with such report thereon\n\nthe prisers would not be tortured. I have The intention is clear myself great doubts about the Bill and should the colony as to whom there is the least suspi- time in the Colony, say one year, the cass as thinks fil.\"\n\ncion that their rendition is applied for for impro-presented by the lugistrate together with the like farther time to consider it. think, that the Magistrate shall we\n\nHon. B. LAYTON-I beg to second the motion per reasons.\n\ndepositions taken shäll, before the Governor Hou. P. RYRIE asked the Colonial Secre- gives any warraut for extradition, be considered received in evidence in proceedings under committed in the Colony has an undoubtedavidence and come to a decision on the of the senior unofficial member that the second tary if he could give the particulars as to the by the Governor in Council with the aid of the The duty of the Mags reading of this Bill be postponed, at least until case of the thirteen met the speaker had pre-Chief Justice of the Colony. Of course that this Ordinance.\" It is further provided that right to call evidence on his behalf, and a of the case.\n\nWhatever views we may v.viously alinded to.\n\nonly gives security of proof. It is not \"such depositions, statements, or affirma. prisoner whose rendition is applied for will this respect was clearly laid down share about the Bill must be affected by\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY said he would be in opposition to the Treaty. It is therefore per- tions, and copies thereof, shall be deemed to therefore bave an equal right. We observe of LEUNG ÅFU, decided in the the remarks Your Excellency bus made. | able to give the particulars at the next meeting.Ifectly allowable, and my conviction is that it will\n\n14 b June, and I think if we have a little more time to consider those remarks, and an opportu\n\nHis EXCELLENCY-I think the police report have the same effect while it is at the same time be duly authenticated for the purpose of that a contrary reading of this section has this Ordinance if they purport to be certified been adopted by the China Mail, which says; that case the Magistrate refused\n\nwe have 440 Chinese criminals in the colony at legitimate. I think if, as suggested, the Bill bas nity of reading them as they are reported, this moment. The Chinese authorities do not caused fear, the knowledge that even after being under the band of the Judge, Magistrate, or,\" We interpret this clause to mean that evidence for the defence, and on th; we may be able to form a better opinion as to ask for them to be givou up, because it costs dealt with by the Magistrate, the case of resid. Officer before whom they were taken,tebe the the Magistrate may only hear evidence for the Court ordered the discharge whether the Bill should moet with the support about $5,000 apiece. I don't th n any one doubts ents of some length of time, will be dealt with\n\ni\n\nfrom his intended victims the squeeze of ly as may be, as if the prisoner were brought duty to take down the evidence, but Sesty's Consul at Canton to one of Your Exe 1-doubts, that we should keep in amity with our adopt it was this; we cannot put into an Ordin.\n\nbe\n\nevarse should have become necessary in the tendered to show that the crime of which section 11 of the Bill it is directed the Catholicism and released. The Minister at culty is perhaps the severest I have ever had to there it would be disallowed, there is no question nefarious design. The the prisoner is accused is an offence of a depositions and other evidence in responsibility, and the Consal put it in back one hand and the other. As I have said, I believe great deal over the matter and I think the same\n\npursuit of bis Bill provides that “depositions or statements political character, or is not an extradition A prisoner brought before a Ma- on outh or affirmations taken in China and crime.\" copies thereof shall if daly authenticated be gistrate charged with an indictable offence\n\noriginal depositions, statements, or affirma- the defence which relates to the question tions, or to be true coples thereof, as the case whether the crime is of a political character, may require, and if they are sealed with the lor is not an extradition crime.\" The mistake official seal of some Officer of State in China.\" appears to have arisen from our contem- Now can be little doubt that LEE LUm porary overlooking the first part of the Kwarcould have produced reasis of such doca- section, or being ignorant of the fact that ments, and if the clause above quoted passes persons accused of an indictable offence com- into law it will afford a ready means of turn. mitted within the Colony are entitled to ing on the screw when it is desired to squeeze make their defence before the Magistrate if Chinese residents of the colony. In Lag they are so advised. The same words--\" di Lum Kwar's case his intended victims ac if such person were charged with a crime or tually offered him a substantial sum, two or indictable offence avarmitted within the\n\nis hound to hear evidence for\n\nCourt\n\nthe\n\nprisoner. \"It appears,\" the Court\n\n#1\n\nits judgment, that there were e nosses in attendance and tendered of the prisoner, and whether their evid worth anyibing or nothing, in our they should have been examined.” \"Lex's\" opinion as to the right of\n\nthat in the judgment in LEUNG A gistrate to take evidence of an ali the Court quotes and adopts the a judgment by the paaange from\n\nthe next meeting.\n\nof the anofficial members or not. As the hon.\n\nthe case.\n\nmber has said, there are certain objectionable that that is a sort of thing that ought not to exist. by the Governor in Council with the assistance points about the Bill, especially that about his clause that has been referred to I quite ad- of the first legal authority in the colony, will the depositions taken in Chinese courts, and if it is obje tionable so long as you don't take cause those fears to be suppressed. That this the second r ading could be postponed I think into consideration at the circumstances of measure is a useful one I have no doubt. You have to take a very broad view. I have a report from the Police that since it would meet the wishes of must of us.\n\nis EXCELLENCY-I have not the slightest ob- wall. This very clanse about affidavits has ben ber of well-known criminals have left the You cannot look at it through a chink in th the introduction of this Bill a large nm- jection to postponement In fact I am scarcely in a condition to conduct a debate ou the subject suggested by Her Majesty's Government.\n\nColony, but at the same time I am given to Hon, P. BYRIE-Has Her Majesty's Consul understand that they intend returning if this today. even supposing the postponement were\n\nBill is thrown out by the Council, and although His EXCELLENCY-In order to write the we do not know that these men have been com on the contrary desire all possible consideration should he given, I will postpone it till next meet despatch I read reports. I know all the Con-mitting crimes in this Colony, it is certain they objectionable, but as I see no objection to it, but at anton been consuited:\n\nu résumé of have been making it their basis for depredations Sear.tary of State. Depend on the neighbouring province of China. That' ing, or even farther if necessary. But with ra. sul's views and I have given ference to those points the hou. members have them to the mentioned. In the first place, as regards torture \"pon it. the whole subject has been looked is a state of things which is a scandal and will\n\nroy that there will not be torture. Whether\n\nthree hundred dollars, to cease his perseca. colony\"-occur in the old Ordinance, No. 2/Justice SNOWDEN in a similar ea It has been a standing instruction of the Segre at all round, and although there is no sola-certainly sooner or later lead to trouble. If Government think this i the best. I go respectable Chinese hero, we can in any way tion, and had he been content to accept this of 1850, and under this it has been decided the depositions there was no stulen tary of State that uo person should ever be givention that has not obj etions Her Majesty's without in the slightest degras injuring the the accused were called on to plead up at all without an undertaking from tho Vice-farther and think het before long you will remedy that state of things, we shall have amount the matter would probably never by the Supreme Court that the Magis all it does not appear that they was that nndertaking is carried out or not, it is be forced to ignore to a great extent that imperformed a very valuable service. However, have become public. Under the new Or. trate\n\ngiven, and we cannot get anything more. If ongkong in this respect and make it very dinance, it would only be uecessary for a the defence. In Ordinance 2 of 1850, how, what they had to say in their deal possible for us to say. The undertaking is aginary line which exists betw.en hina and the great stumbling block to general assent to:\n\nthough they might have been able because of souo suspicion that in some partionlar easy for people who escape to this colony to be given up. At present it is fortunate for them wver, there is no schedule of extradition! man of Lee Lum Kwar's stamp, in concert\n\nshould refuse to give up criminals, and if we that this is English territory, hat the offering with an unscrupulous mandatio, to get to cases nor is there any exception of pon beyond doubt either mistaken ide case that undertaking would not be fille\n\nsuppose the hon. member is correct in what he of such an asylum may produce in course of The Magistrate's power alibi, or some defence within they\n\ntime a state of things that will be intolerable; gether a lot of documents purporting to be fical offences.\n\nthe alleged crime of the Magistrate to hear.\" The\n\nHan. P. RYSTE-I saw the official letter.\n\nand I think it is coming to that. If we have depositions, have them sealed, and then tell to inquire whelber the person intended to be squezed that the of a political character or be an extradi-that the Magistrate is to condusi\n\nthe measure, that clause about the deposi- tions, has been removed. I shall explain to the Secretary of State, who suggested the clause, my reasons for so doing, but I cannot give theni fully here.\n\nHon. P. RYRIL-Your Excellency, by the with- drawal of that clause with regard to the deposi-\n\nBIS EXCELLENCY-Well, are you prepared 400 criminals now who know they are secure Itions you have certainly removed one serious\n\nthese documents would be sent to the Go- tion offence according to the sabedule ia quiry in the same manner as if t59 for the only other alternative, that Hou. kone think it is only a question of time when stumbling block, but I think there are several vernment of Hongkong if black mail were specifically set out to the new Ordinance, were obarged with a critne commit should become flooded with Chinese criminals; they will largely increase, and you will then not paid before a certain day. The squeeze for these are points that would not come Colony, and that the accused is to bat erory Chinese criminal bas only to escape have to ignore the objections that have beongnarantee that after the prisoner is given up no\n\nwould most probably be paid. It is true within his province if his inquiry were con- the accused would have the opportunity of ducted solely as if it related to an offence sking his defence before the Magistrate, committed within the Colony. Otherwise the but be would have no opportunity of cross- Magistrate's duty in conducting the inquiry examining the witnesses for the prosecution, remains the same as it was before, and if he\n\nיו\n\ndered only on evidence which woul ficient to justify his committal, wa with the low in England, but with\n\nwith \"charged Extradition treaties generally is it\n\nHon P. RYRIE The offenders who take re- that persons\n\nproof of theirt but they don't swell the ranks of the burg-\n\nlarioas population here. used. The Courts, of co\n\nBIS EXCELLENCyThere has not been the bound only by the Ordinance, but slightest suspicion of anything political in any the cases that have occurred of recent years. was not aware of a case that appeared in the Papers the other day, that of Mow Wong,\n\nongkong to be safe for evermore? Are yoprepared for that alternative?\n\nHon. P. RYRIR-It is not common criminals HIS EXCELLENCY-In my time the\n\nwant extraditi n for.\n\neen rivials of the deepest dye.\n\nrendition has been appliste e men\n\nand almost the only effective way of meet-refused to bear evidence for the defence the may be surrendered, in the Chinefuge here are partly criminal and partly politi\n\nthe case against him would be to prove be-accused would undoubtedly be discharged the words \"on yond all possibility of doubt an alibi. Tholos appeal to the Supreme Court,\n\nII.\n\ncharge would naturally fix the date of the com- A few days ago a letter appeared in our\n\nmission of the alleged crime at a time when\n\nare\n\nlature in making the law for the\n\nof the Courts, are bound to take provision. Practically proof of fiued in the Bill to be such eviled justify the committal for trial\n\nn\n\nattention was thru cailed to it, but until the attention that was given us the Vecnsulted-judges, counsel engaged in maced a change, because all the that case\n\ners, who are therefore bonnl to take a par\n\nthe accused either had not yet come to Hong-columns signed \"Lex\" in which the writer, kong or bad returned to \"China on a visit, alluding to the Extradition Bill now before so that to prove an alibi which would effec- the Legislative Council, says it may be quite against him would be exceedingly difficult, rused of an indictable offence within the soner if the offence had been coses-I do not mean counsel retained by tha pri. tually destroy the prima facie case made correct, as stated by us that \"persons ac In the case of European powers the adminis- Colony are entitled to make their defence be- this Colony, and if the principletionlar view, but impartial anthorities, the law\n\ntration of justice is recognised as pure, and fore the Magis rate if they are so advised;\n\nin the case of LEUNG AFU oneers of the Crown and ces taint we do not\n\na person whose rendition is applied for may and, bend is, it is the Magistrate's duty adhered to there can be little fatsire to give up per us who are criminals, so-\n\nisirly enough be surrendered on documeu-to take down the statements of the defend-carriage of justice.\n\nthat these offers may be considered impartial\n\nhere and are applied for at once the Ordinance urged. I don't think as to people who come is strong enough. However, the Secretary of State has concluded that this is the utmost that can be done at present.\n\nmore. Ons grave matter is with regard to the! great point in extradition cases, but nothing torture will be used. That has always been a very is said about it in this Bill. If it were proved i that we, a Christian Government, wera giving up men to he tortured, it would be at once brought before the English Parliament and there would be very serious trouble. Yet I see nothing in this Bill about it. The idea that we should i take statements from the Chinose Courts is ab- sard, because there is no such thing, that is to say there is nothing resembling our English Courts. The question is, shall we give up men who have been only a month or two in the colony, to be tortured? Is such a proceeding right? You would not hud any Consul in China who would give security that the men should not 'og' tortured. I have spoken to many of the Consula about the matter. Are we, as part of the British uation, to give up these poor creatures to be for- tured ? I am certain the people in England will not stand it There is no provision lu this Bill, however, to prevent it being done.\n\nHi8 EXCELLENCY-I thought. I had explain- į ed to hon, members that this Bill had not in that respect altered the present conditions. There' is a standing instruction from Her Majesty's", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365877, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 212, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "It is also doubtless true that Haughing continually goes out of the Colony, more than it (or Canton coin) comes back, for the reasons given in part III. If those reasons are really the only reasons for the Exit of the coin, then we do not know that the risk of the coin coming back in unmanageable quantities is a serious risk.\n\nBut what we want to stop (if it exists) is a wholesale Export of the coins by money changers & the like. We are not given any information as to whether any trade exists. I suspect however that it does - Mr. W. Jackson says, Hongkong coins are much appreciated in China.\n\nOn this point I should like to get more information, and I will ask Mr. Lockhart when he comes to England in a few weeks' time. It is to be noted that Mr. Jackson is horrified at the revenue of Canton being increased by their getting Haughing coins, but he views with calm satisfaction the increase of Hongkong's revenue owing to the coin getting into Canton & other parts of China in ever-increasing quantities.\n\nSubject to any further light on the question which I can get out of Mr. Lockhart, I think we shall have to try to trace further the mysterious sources of drainage referred to in para. 2; also to explain why this coin is specially appreciated in China.\n\n### Subsidiary Coin\n\nThe Hongkong subsidiary coin, whether in fact equal to \"or Dollar\", passing like the similar Canton subsidiary coin; and how it comes about that it can be profitable to export the coin, as appears to be the case, is an article of commerce Exported or whether it simply passes in the ordinary course of trade, as part of the balance of trade in favour of Hongkong, which one would suppose would be naturally paid in dollars, not in subsidiary coin of inferior fineness; with this point in connection, I would ask whether the balance of trade is constantly Chinawards generally (beyond that would throw light on the probability or otherwise of coin coming back again to the Colony).\n\nI would also be willing to ask for a periodical (say weekly) record for the whole year, or otherwise, at which the subsidiary Coin stands in the Treasury, showing the dates marked at which each consignment of new coin is put into circulation. A table of such a kind would throw some light on the question whether the drainage of coin is regular and continuous.\n\n`2152-3000-6-97`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365892, "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": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 227, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "by moneychangers and the like. speculation.\n\n5 It will be observed that no definite information is given in the enclosed Despatches as to whether any such trade exists, but it is reasonable to infer that it does, as the Manager of the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank states in his Memorandum that the Mexican dollars are much appreciated in China and the Colonial Treasurer sees fit to imply the existence of such a trade in his report.\n\n6 Mr. Chamberlain therefore proposes to enquire whether there is any regular export of these coins in large quantities, as appears to be the case from the Colonial Treasurer's report, and, if so, how it comes to be profitable; and also enquiring why the subsidiary coin is \n\n## MINUTE.\n \n| Name |\n|------|\n| Mr. Cox. |\n| Mr. Lucas. |\n| Mr. Graham. |\n| Mr. Wingfield.|\n| Earl of Selborne, |\n| Mr. Chamberlain. | \n\nDRAFT. ... to write to the Governor for further information.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 367853, "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": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "page_number": 262, "title": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "content_text": "# Enclosure 2 \n255 \n**C.0.** \n23713 \nRece & hea? 24 OUT 98 \n\nTO THE HON. C. P. CHATER, C.M.G, \nSENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE \nLEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, HONGKONG. \n\n**SIR,**\n\n1. Victoria View, Kowloon, 15th March, 1898. \n\nI am instructed by the Kowloon School Committee to lay before you the accompanying papers, and to ask you to bring the subject to the attention of the Unofficial Members of Council, with a view to their assistance in procuring for the European Residents in Kowloon a School for their children. Such assistance might take practical shape in the proposal of a Resolution in the Legislative Council, if need be, and insistence upon the immediate attention of the Government to the matter in question, which has been pending for several years and is becoming more urgent with the increase in the Kowloon population.\n\n2. The Committee ask only for a boon for which the meanest of Her Majesty's subjects at home does not ask in vain; for a boon, moreover, which is freely, even lavishly, accorded at the ratepayer's expense to aliens in Hongkong who make no pretence of allegiance to Her Majesty.\n\n3. The Chinese community in British Kowloon are well provided with Schools, there being no less than sixteen under the supervision of the Inspector of Schools. Of these, one is a Government School, and, of the others, nine being conducted as Grant-in-Aid Schools, the Committee believe that the Government in the first instance, granted the land and buildings of several of them. There are no fees at any of these Schools. For European children in Kowloon, there is no provision whatever, though the Kowloon Residents enjoy no exemption from taxation on that account.\n\n4. It is obvious that a School for European children on the Grant-in-Aid system has not the same chance of success as a similar School for Chinese children. Very much depends upon the teaching staff, and whereas Hongkong may be considered the headquarters of the Chinese Scholastic profession (for Schools on European lines) we are 10,000 miles away from the home of European teachers, and even with ample funds for the replacement of a master, if necessary, the success of a Grant-in-Aid School in Kowloon for European children may be subject to grave interruptions.\n\n5. The Committee formerly had promise of liberal help towards a fund for the teaching staff, but the onerous exactions made by the Government, as shown in the accompanying correspondence, have repelled such assistance, and the Committee can now only ask that a Government School shall be provided in Kowloon for European children as is the case with the Government School for Chinese boys at Yaumati, excepting that the European Residents in Kowloon will be willing to contribute to the maintenance of the School by the payment of reasonable fees.\n\n6. The Committee have invited the Kowloon Residents to make a return of their children under the age of fifteen. These returns are appended for your verification, and show 115 European children resident on the Kowloon side of the Harbour. (A few may have been omitted owing to negligence of parents). In addition to these, the number of new houses in course of erection, and projected, at Kowloon will no doubt attract their quota of children. I have tabulated these returns for your convenience and it will be seen that of the total number, just half are under six years of age, from which it may be reasonably expected that as the older ones grow out of school age, the younger ones will grow into it.\n\n7. In considering the question of numbers it should not be ignored how great a deterrent the absence of a School is to family life, and the Committee suggest that the welfare of the Colony would be promoted by supplying the need. In making this suggestion, the Committee have in mind the cases of Residents who have left their children at home on account of the absence of a good School at Kowloon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368089, "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": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "page_number": 498, "title": "CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10]", "content_text": "## Telegram\nAs the officials by Ally insist on retaining the key.\n\nW. Cox \n\nI wing-speed \n\nA.F.18/10 \n\nI think it will be the answer to the position. To the Jum ? does understand fully explains. Kept in separate receptacle. If this were so, and the only key to the receptacle were in the possession of the Wait & Measurer, I think the requirements of the situation would be met; but if they only have keys to the strong-room, which presumably contains deposits, I don't think this would be the case.\n\nL \nHFW 1870 \n\nMa \nMr. Luca, \nMr. Wingfield \n\nThe point seems to me to be this. Are there funds deposited on behalf of the Bank? They should be in some place to which the Colonial Treasurer and Secretary alone have access.\n\n2. So reply by telegraph. \nABC 1806 \n\nI think we may understand from this telegram that the coin is in a chest-safe (kept in the showroom of the Bank), which the Cl. Treasurer & Secretary alone have the keys to.\n\nZ \nis better than the Ordinance which will have to be amended so as to require their joint custody.\n\nsend copies of the telegrams to Treaney in waiting carrying out the minutes on ... having form. \nClerk's Name. \n6. 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REPLIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED VIA \"EASTERN.” \n\nWaterlow & Sons Limited, Printers, London Wall, London.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-285 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368353, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 174, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nYesterday a meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber at the Government Offices, there being present:\n\nHis EXCELLENCY the **ACTING GOVERNOR**, Major-General BLACK, C. B. (Officer Commanding the Troops).\n\nHon. T. SERCOMBE SMITH (Acting Colonial Secretary).\n\nHon. R. MURRAY RUMSEY (Harbour Master).\n\nHon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G. (Captain Superintendent of Police).\n\nHon. A. M. THOMSON (Acting Colonial Treasurer).\n\nHon. R. D. ORMSBY (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.\n\nHon. Dr. Ho Kai.\n\nHon. E. R. BELILIOS.\n\nHon. J. J. BELL-IRVING.\n\nHon. WE A. YUK.\n\nMr. J. G. T. BUCKLE (Clerk of Councils).\n\nThis being the Acting Governor's last appearance at the Council meeting, a number of ladies and gentlemen belonging to the outside public attended.\n\n## THE ACTING-GOVERNOR'S FAREWELL\n\nHis Excellency MAJOR GENERAL BLACK, before the commencement of the ordinary business, said: -- All business firms, whether large or small, take stock once a year, and call a momentary halt to see how they stand before girding up their loins for the work of the coming year. Governments, which are but large business firms working for the public weal, in the same way review each year their position, and not only put forward their balance sheet but indicate with modest satisfaction schemes which have run smoothly and well, and gloss over those which, however well laid, though they may have gone agley. I take, then, no unusual course in asking you to listen while I briefly touch upon some of the events which have made the ten months I have had the honour to hold the reins more eventful than many like periods of your past history.\n\nAlthough less severe than in 1894, the Plague has this year claimed 1,163 victims out of 1,320 stricken. Wisely abandoning the too stringent application of Western methods, the Government erected suitable hospital buildings at Kennedytown, placed them in charge of the Tungwa Hospital, and induced the Chinese to carry their sick to that benevolent institution. While deeply deploring the loss by this dread visitation, I am glad to congratulate the medical profession, and the other Government officials whose duty connected them with the suppression of the plague, for the strenuous and unselfish efforts with which they carried out their humane duties. Three of the sisters caught the infection at the post of duty, of whom two died, giving up their lives as nobly as men who die on the field amid the din and excitement of battle. (Applause.)\n\nThe outbreak of war between Spain and America --- two countries in friendly relations with England --- threw on this Government the onerous task of maintaining the laws of neutrality. A little island stored with good coal, and all the munitions of war in great abundance lying off a coast indented with harbours, is naturally a convenient spot where belligerents might replenish their stores of coal and food, and it is a source of satisfaction to this Government that, thanks to the energy and tact with which the officials carried out their duties, the laws of neutrality were strictly enforced, and yet the end of the war found us on as friendly terms with either belligerent as at the beginning. The changes that this war may bring may deeply affect this colony, but they still lie in the future and are not yet within our ken.\n\nA social incident not without its bearing on a great national movement was the arrival in Hongkong of a German Prince charged for the first time with high command in Eastern waters. The Prince of Prussia would have found a welcome for his own sake. Courteous, kind, and capable, yet every inch a Prince, he was welcomed by the whole community of Hongkong, and the English inhabitants did not forget in their welcome that he and his wife are grandchildren of our beloved Queen. (Applause.)\n\nHongkong has long felt the anomaly of its position, with the northern side of its magnificent harbour actually belonging to another power, its forts at the eastern entrance commanded at short rifle range by the Devil's Peak, and the end of its mine fields almost touching the Chinese soil, the Bay of Kowloon within the precincts of its harbour but outside its jurisdiction. In June last, a Convention was signed by which our boundary line is pushed some 13 miles to the north, thus sweeping away these anomalies, giving Hongkong room to expand, and more than all presenting the passing into other hands of the roads of Lantau, and the spacious harbour of Mirs Bay. (Applause.)\n\nMuch interest is naturally felt in Hongkong as to the position of the stations of the Maritime Customs. It seems to me only just and necessary that these should recede with the new boundary --- (Applause) --- for it would be an abdication of sovereignty if a foreign power were allowed to exercise control within British waters. At the same time, I recognise that it is right that we should aid the friendly Government of China in her task of protecting her revenue, made so difficult by the indented nature of the coast line, and to this end, I have suggested that opium should be stored in Government Godowns, and only issued on Government permit.\n\nIn legislation, much useful but unobtrusive work has been done. I may instance --- The Trade Marks Ordinance. The Liquor Licences Ordinance. The Bank Note Ordinance. The increased issue of Bank notes has, from causes well known to you all, been long demanded, and the enlarged circulation is proving a great boon.\n\nThe Queen's Recreation Ground Ordinance is the last in which I have taken a great interest, and I have some right to look upon it as a bantling of my own. The recurrence of the plague has forced on every thinking man the need of letting light and air into the blocks of Chinese houses, which, full of human beings in many cases, literally stand back to back in the City of Victoria, containing rooms into which the sun never enters, and where the fetid air has no motion. Doctors and physic, good though they be by themselves, are powerless to cure, while sun and air are a sure preventive; and great as the task may be of bringing these natural agents into this reeking mass of humanity, their admission must be secured by law. A bill is now before you which I admit does not go far enough, but it will at least be the beginning of a great reform.\n\nMany complaints have been made as to the shortcomings of the Post Office; a great deal of the confusion comes from retrenchment having been carried too far, and from the business having outgrown the building. I have submitted recommendations to the Secretary of State which will, I trust, produce great improvement in the department, in whose well-being every individual is concerned.\n\nNearly allied to the Queen's Recreation Ground is the reservation of the rocky bluff on which stands the boulders called Sung Wang Toi or the \"Watch Towers of the Sung\", which, as far as I can gather, is the only historical monument which links modern history with the old-world time. To make its reservation more certain, I applied to the Secretary of State for leave to bring in a bill to this end, and his permission is now on the sea. I regret that I will not have the pleasure of giving assent to it.\n\nA survey has been made of the Jubilee Road round the Island; it has been traced with gradients easy and offers, in the section between Aberdeen and Deep Water Bay, an important sanitary reform, for part of the scheme is to fill up and turf over the festering inlet to which the leading medical men of the colony point as the source of the malaria which has so long marred the health of Aberdeen and the neighbourhood of Magazine Gap.\n\nI have nothing but the good of the community at heart, and I emphatically state that if you believe medical testimony, it...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 368438, "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": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "page_number": 259, "title": "CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12]", "content_text": "## THE EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY LIMITED\n\n**LONDON STATIONS:**\n\n### CHIEF STATION: \n11, OLD BROAD STREET, E.C.\n\n### BRANCH STATIONS:\n206a, WINCHESTER HOUSE, E.C. \n41 & 42, PARLIAMENT ST., S.W. \nForeign Auction Hall, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. \nSTRAND, W.C. \n8, LEADENHALL STREET, E.C. \n5, GREAT TOWER STREET, E.C. \n37, HOLBORN VIADUCT, E.C. \nAnd 449, ... 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(not shown)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-286 - Acting Governor Major Gen Black Governor Sir Blake & Public Offices - 1898 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 369522, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898", "content_text": "# 10914\n\n## 2\n\nthat from the day he first noticed it he had been under treatment, and for five months he had taken Hyd: c Creta. gr. i, from four to five times a day. At the end of that time he became very weak and debilitated: appetite was very bad, and he suffered now and then from diarrhea. He was advised by his medical man to stop the mercury. This he did, and his health rapidly improved; but at the end of three weeks the induration had returned to its original size. He was then put on a course of Liq: Hydrarg: and Iodide of Potassium, and had been taking this, together with grey powder, in varying doses up to the time when I saw him.\n\nWhen he came under my notice he had a large induration on the penis, also induration of the inguinal and cervical glands, and an ulcerated throat. He was anemic and weak, appetite very poor: on the whole he was very much pulled down. He said he had been advised by a \"friend\" to go to Aix-la-Chapelle, but he decided to remain under me for the present. He did so for two months; but although the induration decreased very much, his health did not improve, and the disease kept breaking out in various ways. He then made up his mind to go to Aix. There he went; and in three weeks' time he wrote to me saying that he felt much better - all signs of the disease, with the exception of the induration, had disappeared, and even the latter had very nearly done so. I saw him five weeks after his departure for Aix. I was astonished at the improvement he had made. Every sign of the disease had gone; he had put on weight, and looked a different man.\n\nThe case made a great impression on me, as I know the patient had spared no expense in getting the best advice, nor trouble in carrying it out. He was a regular liver, and very abstemious.\n\nAbout this time I had two similar cases which eventually found their way to Aix, and returned thoroughly restored to health.\n\nI was so struck with the above cases that I determined to pay a visit to Aix, and see for myself of what the treatment really consisted. In October, 1889, I went there with introductions to Dr. Brandis, the celebrated surgeon of that place. He was very kind to me, and afforded me every facility of seeing of what the treatment consisted.\n\nBriefly, it is as follows:-\n\n1. The patient is advised to rise early and to take a walk to the sulphur springs, and then he drinks a tumbler or two of the natural waters.\n2. After the above, breakfast of a very light nature.\n3. From one to two hours later he proceeds to the baths, where he remains immersed in a bath of the natural water for not less than twenty minutes.\n4. Half an hour later a professional rubber rubs into the patient's skin 75 grains of mercurial ointment, a little stronger than the Ung: Hydrarg: (B.P.). The rubbing lasts fifteen minutes, and the parts of the body into which it is rubbed are selected as follows - 1st day, into the calves of the legs; 2nd, the thighs; 3rd, back; 4th, chest; 5th, sides; 6th, arms, returning then to the calves. By alternating the parts rubbed, the chances of their becoming sore from the friction is very much lessened.\n\nThis treatment lasts generally about six weeks, or, as they say at Aix, \"Forty rubbings is the cure.\" During this time the patient is directed to pay great attention to the cleanliness of the teeth: to be very careful to brush them well after each meal, and in the intervals to frequently wash the mouth out with a strong mouth wash, consisting of Acetate of Lead and Sulphate of Alum.\n\nHis diet is not restricted in any way. He is advised to live well: to drink freely of new milk (which can be got in abundance at Aix). Spirits are forbidden; but beer, and the Rhine wines, and claret are allowed. A fair amount of exercise is advised, and remaining in the open air as much as possible insisted on.\n\nDuring a visit of nearly three weeks at Aix, I saw patients of all nationalities, the great majority being English. All classes were well represented - from the Peer to the prize fighter and professional strong man. Most of the English cases I met were of at least a year's standing. They had been during that time under treatment at home; but the disease recurring over and over again, and being sick of taking medicine internally, they at last found their way to Aix. This was the history in two out of every three patients I met. They were all loud in their praises of Aix, and the treatment, and the benefit they had derived from it, and regretted not having gone there before.\n\nHere I may remark that it is astounding to me the ignorance that exists (whether real or assumed) among the profession in England concerning the treatment that is carried out at Aix-la-Chapelle. I will quote the following passage from Hilton Fagge's Principles and Practice of Medicine, one of the latest standard works of medicine: \"There are greater advantages in residence at the seaside than at Aix-la-Chapelle, where, if report speaks true, the real method of cure is neither the baths, or the waters, but mercury.\" One cannot help feeling surprised, not to say disappointed, at such a remark coming from the author, as he clearly shows that he is in doubt as to what the treatment at Aix really consists; and this is all the more astonishing considering the short distance it is between England and Aix, and that for years scores of Englishmen, who have been under treatment at home, have been in the habit of going there and returning much benefited. By his remark he also suggests that the German surgeons make a secret of the treatment at Aix. This, to anyone who has taken the least trouble to find out, is quite untrue. Everything there is done in the most open manner. As for their claiming for the waters and baths the success of the cure, I will quote what passed between Dr. Brandis and myself: He said, \"Why do you not carry out this treatment in England?\" I remarked, \"How can we without the Aix water?\" He answered, \"You do not need the waters; any water will do, provided it is soft: the baths are used solely for the purpose of preparing the skin for the inunction of mercury.\"\n\nMy reason for alluding so extensively in this paper to the treatment of syphilis, as carried out at Aix, is, that from it I learned that by far the best channel for the introduction of mercury into the system is through the skin, and that the internal administration of the metal is radically wrong, and in my opinion it should never be employed for reasons I have given above.\n\nOn my return to England I gave the treatment every trial, and treated all my syphilitic cases at Shorncliffe Station Hospital by it. In my essay for promotion, which I wrote in May 1891, I gave the notes of these cases showing the marked success I had with this treatment. I do not intend to allude to them in this paper, further than to remark that, in spite of the marked success I had, I saw one great difficulty to its ever becoming the general treatment, especially in the military service; this difficulty was, because I found it quite impossible to have it thoroughly carried out. The patients became careless, as did the orderlies put to superintend the treatment. I found that it was not done properly unless I personally saw that it was done. I could not help seeing that in a hospital, where there were a great number of patients, it would never hold ground. One other drawback to it was, that it was dirty.\n\nIt was then that I thought of a treatment which had been tried over and over again, but had always been given up as a failure for many reasons, the principal among them being, it was stated, its liability to produce tetanus and abscesses, besides being very painful: I allude to the hypodermic injection of mercury. In spite of these drawbacks, it struck me that if it could possibly be carried out, it would be the greatest boon to the military surgeon, and at the same time a direct saving to the State, as whilst undergoing it there would be no need for the soldier to be absent from his duty.\n\nAccordingly, I determined to try it; and on June 2nd, 1891, I gave my first injection. I used a solution of Perchloride of Mercury gr. 1 to 20 min., injecting the 20 min. deep into the gluteal tissue. There was a good deal of pain at the time, but no other bad signs followed. I repeated the injection once a week, and did this for some time. The case I treated thus did very well; in fact, so well that I began to use the injection in several of my syphilitic cases, and they also made rapid recoveries. In all I gave 60 injections with the above solution, only one of which was followed by an abscess.\n\nAs I said above, there was a good deal of pain following the little operation, and this, in some instances, lasted a day or so. This fact was very much against the method, and patients (especially officers) objected very strongly to the operation. I was obliged to discontinue it in most of my cases. I also tried the Sal Alembroth solution, but pain was just as great with it.\n\n## 3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-288 - Public Offices & Others - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 370135, "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": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898", "content_text": "## KA LUNG DIVISION\n\n| Name of Village | Population People | Name of Village | Population People |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Tai po tsai | 100 | Au tau | 60 |\n| Tseung Kwan ✪ | 150 | Yan u wan | 100 |\n| Ping long wan | 150 | Sin wai | 60 |\n| Chenng uk wai | 40 | Hang hau | 80 |\n| Pun chung | 100 | Tai long | 80 |\n| Mang kang uk | 350 | Un ju | 250 |\n| Sai wan | 40 | Wong nai an | 160 |\n| Chik kang | 150 | Tai po kan | 10 |\n| To ka ping | 20 | Tai mong tsia | 100 |\n| Lung keuk | 50 | San tong | 60 |\n| Ian nai wan | 150 | Chai klap | 120 |\n| Wong nai chau | 60 | Pah ngok, shek | 80 |\n| Pak tam chung | 30 | Tai om san | 40 |\n| Ching hang | 20 | Ng tung chai | 40 |\n| Pak tam | 10 | Nam shan | 30 |\n| J'ing tan | 10 | San ük ha | 60 |\n| Ngong wo | 80 | Sheung tsai | 160 |\n| Wong mo in | 40 | Ha tsia... | 50 |\n| She tan... | 20 | Wang toi shan | 400 |\n| Chap chuk wan | 60 | Im 152m | 10 |\n| Pai an | 10 | Ta tit im | 40 |\n| Tai mong tai | 100 | Lo sheung tan... | 60 |\n| Pak a | 80 | Sha tin... | 400 |\n| Tung wan | | To shek | 40 |\n| Pak lap... | 40 | Ngau pi shek | 20 |\n| She wan | 10 | Tai tsia... | 50 |\n| Kan sai... | 80 | Ngau au | 30 |\n| Lai chi chong | 60 | Fa sam hang | 60 |\n| Nam shan | 30 | Wong nai tan | 60 |\n| Ham tin | 50 | Tai lam liu | 120 |\n| Sham chung | 50 | Mui tsz lam | 60 |\n| Yau i tan | 10 | Mau ping | 140 |\n| Yung she au | 100 | Tai shui hang | 200 |\n| Pak sha... | 10 | Tai no... | 140 |\n| Shek lang | 35 | Lo shu tin | 20 |\n| Ki ling ha | 60 | Tin tso ngam | 50 |\n| Nai chung | 100 | Kun yam shan | 60 |\n| Tsia ha... | 120 | Sha tin tau | 150 |\n| Kon hang | 60 | Ngau kok wo | 10 |\n| Sai au | 20 | Tin sam | 120 |\n| Cheung muk tau | 40 | Kang hau | 140 |\n| U kwai sha | 60 | Tiu ju kok | 40 |\n| Ma ku lam | | Kak tin... | 130 |\n| Tai tung | | Tai wai | 250 |\n| Sui kang | | Cheung lung | 50 |\n| Ngong ping | 30 | Sheung wo tsia | 60 |\n| Nam a | 20 | Ha wo tsia | 30 |\n| Long kang | 20 | Fo fui | 70 |\n| Tai wan | 60 | Lok lo ha | 140 |\n| Nam shan | 80 | Ma niu shui | 30 |\n| Sha kok mi | 250 | Kau to... | 60 |\n| Sha ha... | 30 | Cheung shu tan | 500 |\n| Pak kong au | 80 | Tap mun | 200 |\n| Pak kong | 100 | Hoi ha | 50 |\n| In tin (32 | 120 | Tam tsai | 10 |\n| Sai kung | 800 | Pak sha au | 150 |\n| Tsin hang | 20 | Sheung yenng. | 120 |\n| Heung chung | 20 | Ha young | 220 |\n| Ma lam fat | 40 | Ko tong | 100 |\n| Kai ham | 80 | Ho muk tan | 50 |\n| Pak sa wan | | Uk tau... | 20 |\n| Pak wai | 80 | Cheung sheung au | 10 |\n| Ho chung | 600 | Tan ka wan | 80 |\n| Nam wai | 400 | Wo li kiu | 60 |\n| Wo mi... | | Nam tsai Iam uk wal | 160 |\n| Wong king au... | 40 | | |\n| ai hang hau | 120 | Siang ez wan | 120 |\n| Ha jang | 200 | Uhop wan | |\n| Fut tong | | Po toi o | 60 |\n| Kun tong | 60 | Kau lung | 1,200 |\n| Kan lung tong | 250 | Nga tsin long | 120 |\n| Nga tsin | 150 | Ta ku ling | 150 |\n| Chuk ün | 80 | Po kong | 80 |\n| Tai om | 50 | Un ling | 200 |\n| Ngan shi wan | 600 | Tsing lan shu | 450 |\n| Ngan tau kok | 200 | Sha po | 300 |\n| Ma tau | 220 | Kan lung tsai | 350 |\n| Sham shui po | 1,500 | Pak shi leong | 20 |\n| Choung sha wan | 500 | Koo pa kang | 300 |\n| Iwai chung | 400 | Tsun wan kai | 500 |\n| Sz tin kok | 30 | Mok min ha | 400 |\n| Tsün wan wai | 400 | Wo li kiap | 80 |\n| Tai wo ... | 250 | Tai lam chung | 400 |\n| Chün lung | 200 | Lin fa ti | 300 |\n| Un tan... | 80 | So kun fat | 600 |\n| Sam tung muk | 400 | Sam pi chan | 400 |\n| Shek wai kok... | 400 | Ha kai chung | 400 |\n| Tan chong | 400 | Kau wo kang | 400 |\n| Lai chi kok | 400 | Shing mun | 120 |\n| Lam fong to | 140 | | |\n\n54 villages | 15,030 \n\n## ISLANDS\n\n| Name of Village | Population People | Name of Village | Population People |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Tsing i ... | | Ma wan | 400 |\n| I o | 150 | P. T. | 400 |\n| Shek sen | 20 | I isiin | 10 |\n| Shek pik | 30 | Tai tsun | 10 |\n| Tong fuk | 50 | Kai shek | 10 |\n| Shui hoa | 80 | Tsing chon | 10 |\n| Pui o | 300 | Kong shun au... | 10 |\n| Tai long | 100 | Yam o | 20 |\n| Chai li shek | 30 | Tung ip hang | 10 |\n| Sup long | 100 | Sham shui kok | 30 |\n| Ma tong tsz | 20 | Tai ho | 100 |\n| Mui wi... | 700 | Pak mong | 100 |\n| Kak hoi | 70 | Ma wan | 50 |\n| Tai pak... | 30 | Pa mi | 80 |\n| I pak | 30 | Ling pi... | 1,000 |\n| Ping chou | 600 | Shek mun hap | 30 |\n| Cheung chon | 5,000 | Nim ün | 50 |\n| Yung shu wan | 250 | Luk chou | 50 |\n| Shek lou pu | 150 | Ngao au | 150 |\n| Lo su shing | 80 | Lung ching hap | 80 |\n| Tung 0... | 80 | Sha lou wau | 200 |\n| Pak shek hang | 50 | | |\n\nTotal villages, 43 | 13,720 \nTai o | 3,000 | P. T. \nTotal villages, 182 | 20,870 | 2", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-289 - Individuals - 1898.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372317, "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": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8]", "content_text": "PUS\n\nThan-shui Po;\n\nand for the revo\n\nHated\n\nI mark for\n\nprescur\n\nabove\n\nwithdre\n\nGraustion for\n\nther appt..\n\nWhatever increases to\n\nSalary\n\nor new\n\nappointments\n\nYou judge to be myenty\n\nNecessary\n\nshould be\n\nentered on the draft\n\nEstornater for 1900 if they\n\nbeen\n\nhave not already forwarded in and that and I will then be glad to consider how for financial Considerations justify in meeting you insher\n\nme\n\n899\n\nJuly\n\nTous Paper.\n\n7 ssebi\n\n[Syse\n\narvas 14G\n\nтудыра\n\nquent Paper.\n\nHONG KONG\n\nNo 18249\n\n{Subject.)\n\n310\n\nDESPATCH.\n\nC.O.\n\n18249\n\nRECO\n\n&\n\nREG? 14 JUL 39\n\nNote Issue It Kong Shanghai Sk.\n\nBank applies for permission to desposit with Agli Console mifee papers or other 1st class approved securities\n\nas an alternative to deposit of coin or hellion here may ordée 1. 99 be amended. Tel reply\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nI have spoken forthe Graham about this.\n\nmarked \"Plessing\n\nwhether the\n\nCoby to trees, Lashing request should be graulid\n\nand adding\n\nthat Mr. Chamberlain as at present\n\nadvrsid is notches frond formally\n\nA\n\nat once\n\nGug", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-292 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 372994, "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": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "page_number": 351, "title": "CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]", "content_text": "Rub-enclosure to Enel. 1.348\n\n37201\n\nJJGT 19\n\nGovernment Civil Hospital,\n\nHongkong, 26th February, 1898.\n\nSir, I have the honour to suggest to the Government the advisability of its securing the residence known as \"Cragieburn\" as an annexe to the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nAs the result of over ten years' experience in the Medical Department of this colony, I am convinced of the great benefit derived, especially with convalescents, more particularly during the hot season, by a short stay at the Peak.\n\nUndoubtedly an institution of this sort, at the higher levels, under the administration of the Medical Department, would prove a great boon not only to the Government officials temporarily incapacitated by illness, but also to the members of the community who avail themselves of the opportunities afforded at present at the Government Civil Hospital.\n\nIt is not necessary for me to dilate upon the advantages to be derived, especially by the sick, from a change to the climate of the Peak; this is known to all who have resided for any length of time in the colony.\n\nAnother most important advantage would accrue to the colony by this procedure, viz., the fact that the nursing and medical staff of the Hospital would be able to recuperate in health when living and working at such an institution. Enclosed is a list showing the sickness amongst the members of the nursing and medical staff during the years 1892 to 1895. From this it is evident how trying hospital work is on the lower levels.\n\nA transference of their sphere of action to the Peak, whilst benefiting those who are nursed by the sisters, would undoubtedly result in increasing their efficiency by a better maintenance of health.\n\nThis applies similarly to the medical staff of the Department.\n\nThere is at present a private hospital at the Peak, but its sphere of usefulness is necessarily limited, and as in the main it is a commercial undertaking, the benefits to be derived from an annexe such as this to the Medical Department of the colony must be evident to all who seriously consider the matter.\n\nI would point out that if the suggestion I have made is approved of, it will not in my opinion be necessary to proceed with the new Women's Hospital. In this way, the original idea of the promoters of a Women's Hospital will be more literally carried out. With a few alterations, \"Cragieburn\" could be made available for women and children in addition to being an annexe to the Government Civil Hospital. Another important advantage would accrue in the fact that the present hospital premises will not be further crowded upon.\n\nI request that the whole question be referred to the Jubilee Committee.\n\nWith regard to the financial aspect of the question, I am given to understand that it may be possible to purchase \"Cragieburn\" alone; by that I mean the building without the whole of the grounds.\n\nI understand that there is the fear that Chinese patients may object to being treated in a hospital at the Peak. This prejudice, in my opinion, would soon disappear, and it must be remembered that it is principally for European women and children that greater accommodation is required.\n\nI have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,\n\nJ. M. ATKINSON. Principal Civil Medical Officer.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373496, "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": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 226, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "DESPATCH.\n\n223\n\nHONG KONG\n\nN33110\n\n(Subject.)\n\n0.\n\n33710\n\nPECO\n\nReal 4 0 19\n\nSubsidiary Liber Coin\n\n899\n\nNov.\n\nerious Paper.\n\n5194\n\nsende copy Treas report that system of obtaining supplies of - Er Sadia wo work better than the are in force\n\nhow\n\nexplanations desired:\n\nM. Johnson\n\n(Minutes.)\n\n: To Crown Agents for observations.\n\nA. F.\n\n8/12\n\nThis arms to shar that the\n\nCrown Agent\n\nHuy Kang Gort would\n\nThe whole do\n\n(9071566012-03\n\nsequent Paper.\n\nA.\n\n3004\n\nwill to have then coms stick at the Indian Mint. It is rather remarkable\n\n**\n\nFo\n\nWhat the broms fed by India much lower then thon offend to the Which Settlements four years ago in 1616/96.\n\n5w9.13/12", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 374434, "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": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "page_number": 507, "title": "CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899", "content_text": "Relieved (d'anning), the outlook is serious. It would have the effect of \n\nlarge share of the West River traffic with Hay Rany, damaging, if not destroying, a \n\nproject of great promise.\n\nwhich is\n\none\n\nConfidential\n\nA.F\n\n31/8\n\nThe above is all in keeping with the usual tenor of French Colonial policy;\n\nI don't see how\n\nwe can well take\n\naction\n\nin\n\nthe matter at the present juncture\n\nPut By CPI 7/9\n\nEw I Sept\n\nSir,\n\nForeign Office,\n\nAugust 30, 1899.\n\n504\n\nI am directed by the Secretary of State for Foreign\n\nAffairs to transmit to you, to be laid before the Secretary of\n\nState for the Colonies, the accompanying copy of\n\nor Ironside\n\n161 of June 13\n\ndespatch\n\nmarked in\n\nthe margin, respecting\n\nthe French\n\nproceedings\n\nat\n\nKuang chon wan\n\n-\n\nThe Under-Secretary of State,\n\nColonial Office.\n\nI am,\n\nSir,\n\nYour most obedient,\n\nhumble Servant,\n\nFrancis Bertie", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-295 - Public Offices - 1899.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 375800, "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": "CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4]", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4]", "content_text": "# Hong Kong 1900 Vol. II\n\n## Contents\n\n| Desp. no. | Date | Subject |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 97 | 14 | Governor his H.A. Blake re: Gratuity to R. Thomson. |\n| 98 | | Telegram re: Revolvers per \"Kawachi Maru\" |\n| 103 | 16 | Retirement of L.G. Machado. |\n| | 20 | Appens. of the... jee. |\n| | Zoh | Increases of salaries. |\n| 100g | | Memorial of De Black |\n| 105 | 23 | |\n| 1016 | | |\n| 109 | | Pensions to I. Moffat, Borough's Retion, 1899 |\n| 110 | 24 | Appens. of E. Jones & G.J. Mengers. |\n| | | Report on Line Brigade, 1899 |\n| | 26 | Increases of salaries. |\n| 112 | | Ordce. 2 of 1900. |\n| 113 | | Ordce. 1 of 1900. |\n| 114 | | Ordce. 4 of 1900 |\n| 115 | | Ordce. 5 of 1900 |\n| 116 | | Ordce. 6 of 1900 |\n| 117 | | Ordce. 7 of 1900 |\n| 114 | | Telegram |\n| 118 | 29 | new Law Courts. |\n| 119 | | |\n| 120 | | Asst. Supt. of Police. |\n| 121 | | Subsidiary silver coin |\n| 122 | | Memorial of W. Chatham |\n| 123 | | Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Ordce. 1890 was fund |\n| 124 | | Extension of Naval Yard |\n| 125 | | Leases of Crown Lands. |\n| 126 | 30 | Appling of Messrs. Chapman, Corson & Co. re: new how boats. |\n| | | Leases of Crown Lands. |\n| | | Ordce. 8 of 1900 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-298 - Governor Sir Blake Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne - 1900 [3-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378337, "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": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 153, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## DOMESTIC.\n\n### HONG KONG\n\n#### No. 9751\n\n**(Subject.)** \nSubsidiary Silver Coin.\n\nobserve, with reference to the Note attached to the enclosed statement, that the amount of the temporary special note issue on the 16th ultimis was $1,070,000, against which the Colonial Treasurer holds cash to an equal amount.\n\n3. A further letter will shortly be addressed to you on the subject of the temporary arrangement under which the Bank is authorised to issue notes in excess of the authorised limit.\n\nI am, etc. \nHOB \nFor Individual reference to previous Paper: `1904-1900-12-48` \nSubsequent Paper: `-15030-11-05` \nC. O. \nRECO \n`9751` \n`148` \n`JEG 26 MAR 201`\n\n**(Minutes.)** \nSir W. Hamilton \n? Ask the Treasury to instruct the D.M. of the Mint, and authorise B/4, saying this has been done. \nA.F. 28/3 \natom 31/3", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 378492, "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": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900", "content_text": "## \nand the Defendant will pay the costs of this Appeal.\n\nThe\n\nOwing to the judgment appealed from being a judgment of non-suit only, their Lordships are unable to advise Her Majesty to order judgment to be entered for the Plaintiff with costs. Defendant is entitled to a new trial at the risk of costs. But how in the face of his own books and conduct he can reasonably hope for ultimate success their Lordships are at a loss to conceive. If however he insists on his strict rights he is entitled to have the action remitted to Hong Kong for retrial; and their Lordships will humbly so advise Her Majesty.\n\n## \nee or Individual.\n\nAdia\n\n1900\n\nb May\n\nst previous Paper.\n\n13311\n\nMC\n\nSTRAITS\n\nNo.\n\n14390\n\n301\n\nDOMESTIC.\n\n14390\n\nIQ MAY DO\n\n(Subject.)\n\nSubsidiary Silver Coin\n\nCoinage had Lot: coinage for sending copy to concern. Ahong Shail's cannot be immediately undertaken as Shail's mint will be fully occupied for...\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nNo\n\nI Authorise C.A to try done s\n\nSet the coinage Munts, an the Birmingham lite! in `12325`, sending India.\n\nThen the Indian Munits Qu\n\nCopy corres to Treas 16 May Fave.\n\n& Copy Oal. Straits cons `140` Copy Gov. hif `141`\n\nTo And: Off\n\nDress\n\n15340\n- 16 $75)—~~19:42~~-1200-12-25\n25€--1500-37-09\n\nte subsequent Paper\n\nLeas\n\n18340\n\n2 Cany\n\nat out\n\nfa son\n\nالسلام\n\nand\n\nmonths;\n\nunable\n\ntell\n\nadding that,\n\nadding\n\nwe\n\nnot\n\nin were\n\n19.0 we have done so,\n\nshould be glad if the question lost sight of.\n\nyear's\n\nnext\n\norder that if able,\n\nasked for\n\nand future\n\nI the Starts\n\nH Kay in Judia; and\n\nbe carried out\n\nmay send copy of all\n\nA. FO\n\nletter `157`\n\non to car. L.F. Also copy &\n\n\"CP.d.\"lator\"\n\nto I reas `70`\n\n15 / 4415", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-302 - Public Offices - 1900.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 381159, "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": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "page_number": 687, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "COP T.\n\nENCLOSURE\n\n20157\n\nAbstract of Leader in the Tsun Wan Tat Po of the 20th June, 1901.\n\n681\n\nConcerning measures to be taken with regard to the Plague especially those necessary to tranquillize the minds of the People.\n\nSome one has asked us to explain how while vigorous measures are taken against plague there is no difference between its spread in Hongkong and in Canton, where though there is a plague hospital and a proclamation enjoining the clearing away of dirt this last is probably not carried out fully. 'Is it', he asks, 'that plague cannot be eradicated; or that proper means have not been discovered?'\n\nWe answer:- Calamities from Heaven occur constantly in all countries. How can man contend with fate! But Officials are not willing to have it relegated entirely to fate but wish to some extent to fulfil the duties of their Office. Hongkong Officials have this view and have inaugurated many measures while, without discouragement, they continue to act with integrity and firmness.\n\nThat Chinese and Foreign customs differ cannot be helped. The vile satisfies Chinese; they hate trouble, valuing the material substance and esteeming lightly life. They are frightened and startled on hearing of going to hospital, of the use of lime in coffins, and disinfection, and look on these as acts of oppression. Thus in a panic they flee or conceal cases of plague in order to escape the hospital and they prefer often to place corpses in the street so as to escape disinfection. Chinese are so determined in their disposition that neither laws nor arguments will change them.\n\nIf the methods of dealing with the plague were efficacious, Officials might endure their hard tasks without paying attention to complaints; but as the present methods have been tried for many years and the plague still remains, the Sanitary Board should relax the stringency of its regulations and quiet the people's minds.\n\nWe know that the Governor loves the people as his own children and sympathizes with their feelings. In his benevolence he has directed the flushing of the drains and the providing of bath-houses so that all thank him and his praise is heard throughout the Colony. No boon to the Chinese would be equal to the approving of Mr. Osborne's plan of treating plague patients in their own houses and allowing dead bodies to be taken to the country. We hear these ideas emanate from His Excellency. Although the first has not been carried out the permission to take dead bodies to China is an act of the greatest benevolence. No wonder the Chinese are grateful for it and soon the streets...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384127, "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": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4]", "content_text": "Desh. no bali\n\nSubject\n\n39 28 Jan. Affet. of S. Lockhart.\n\n40 28\n\n# 4/ 28 2 28 AS 29 31~ Tel. 48 3 Medical fees of badet. Working of Queen's College huil. Officer exemption from Rates & Taxes. French Post Office at Canton, Statues of King & Prince of Wales.\n\n44 38 Let. Arst. Engineers & Hanson Begany by F. G. Interpretation Scheme. + 1 sy 12.\n\n58 13 Subsidiary Coin 1) French P.B. at Amoy (1) Denny Postage \"haval Works. Stone capply.\n\n59 14. Rension of bounds. Rukumsey.\n\nMil. 18 62 18 hew Edition of traces. Collapse of house in bochrane Street. 18. Payment of Gout. Le.. messages. Export of arms to China\n\n63.19 Hel 22 * # 40 126. new fost Office. Renival of hu. Drayson\n\n41 24. trement of Do Lowson\n\n42 28. Rainfall !01. Tel. 5 hear. Attorney General 81 6. Ordce. 9. 824 Tel. 8. 85 || # 86 11 \" 17 Appt. of Lau Lai (11) Salary of Ho Hai Hop. Aust. Eugineers.\n\nBriquette Factory Kowloon Bait - Portal Agencies in China. Penny postage Petition of P. Brish. Chinese emigration timmigration 201.. Apply of C. R. Hallifar.\n\n8ay 12. Salute firing during Divine Service.\n\nSubject- Desh.no bali\n\n88 13 Mar Retirement of his I. Carrington Con 13.\n\nJ # # Island named Fratas 14. Draft Building Consold. Codce 91 18 Examining supervisor P.O. 92 18. Report on Lunghia Hospital. Quarantine Reg/ws.\n\n94 19 95 20. Marines in Police Force 99 20. Ordce. 2. 100 120. \" 3. 101 20\" R 4. h 102 21. 103 21 104 21 # میں 6. Y 2104 21. Appt. of Asst. Apothecary & Avalypt.\n\n108 22 # kating of premises leased to W.O. 110 24+ Dismissal of her. Friscott\". all! Mr. Petition of Indian Guards & Ward....\n\n112 2. haval Reserves 113 m. HIP 22+ W.TO. pension fund. Honorarium for A. Dixon $119 24. Asst. Engineers. 120 1 apl. Plaque Report. 1/21 122 17 将 Military Contribution of Senior Grade Mastershit's at Queen's College. balimales 1902\n\n4. Appl. of Capt. Supt. of Police. 128 + Plague Serum. 129 4 1305- 131 5 133. 8. *+ Orace. 8. · Church of England Kruice at Victoria Gaak. Capt. Supt. of Police. Water Police.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-310 - Acting Governor Major Gen Gascoigne - 1902 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384868, "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": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "108\n\nHongkong, but I have got many ideas about what Hongkong will be in the future, and I cannot help thinking myself that Kowloon will some day very shortly surprise everybody by the extraordinary strides it will make. I think you, Mr. Ho Tung, yourself in the speech you made at the laying of the foundation stone, referred to Kowloon as a suburb of Hongkong. Well, it has been a beautiful suburb of Hongkong. It still is a very pretty suburb of Hongkong, but I cannot help thinking that in the near future, before very many years, anybody coming to describe Kowloon will talk about it as the workshop of Hongkong. I think it is impossible not to see how these strides will go in Kowloon, and therefore I think that a gift of this kind, which will increase the educational facilities of the residents of Kowloon, is an enormous boon to those residents.\n\nI congratulate you also, Mr. Ho Tung, on the choice of the headmaster, Mr. James. As was said by Mr. Pearce, Mr. James is no stranger to Hongkong. But from what I know, and from all I hear of him, I fancy that we have got a most excellent man to do the work that is set before him, and I also hope that that work will not be uncongenial to him. When Mr. James left Hongkong to take up another appointment he left the Colony alone. He has returned to the Colony with Mrs. James, and I venture to say from what I know and from what I hear of Mrs. James, that she will be a fitting helpmate to him in the work that lies before them both. I think we are very fortunate indeed in having secured both their services in this excellent public school. (Applause.)\n\nLadies and gentlemen, I do not propose to detain you very much longer. I will only say this. I think anybody who sees, as we all see here, the enormous strides that are being made every day in this Colony, will recognise that of all things we should keep pace with these strides in the matter of education. I certainly am strongly in favour of giving all possible facilities for education. When one finds the number of people that come to Hongkong and Kowloon increasing, one must feel that these must bring with them a number of parents whose children are growing up in Hongkong; and the boon that it will be to those parents to get education for their children on the spot—it is impossible almost to say how great that boon will be.\n\nWell, if you agree with me that we have every reason to be grateful to Mr. Ho Tung for his munificent present, your way of showing your gratitude will be by patronising thoroughly the school, by giving it every chance of success; and as I prophesy that before many years are out this school, as it appears to us to-day, will scarcely be sufficient for the wants of Kowloon, I need only say that the record of Mr. Ho Tung's generosity will find others equally liberal-minded and equally generous with himself to follow in his footsteps, and, if occasion requires, to make equally munificent and practical bequests. (Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, I would like now, if I may, to lead you up to the school so as to declare it formally open. (Applause.)\n\nThe company then walked up to the door of the school, and His Excellency performed the ceremony of unlocking it and declaring the school open, the consummation of the ceremonial being greeted with cheers.\n\nCake and wine were afterwards served in the large classroom, which was decorated for the occasion. Here,\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY proposed the toast of prosperity to the school and the health of Mr. Ho Tung in the words—I drink prosperity to the school and also the health and prosperity of its giver, Mr. Ho Tung.\n\nThe toast was duly honoured.\n\nMr. Ho Tung in reply said—Your Excellency, I thank you most heartily for the honour you have done me in proposing the toast of my health, and you, ladies and gentlemen, for the kind manner in which you have received it. I trust that the school will prosper and be a boon to the inhabitants of Kowloon. (Applause.)\n\nThis concluded the proceedings, and the company afterwards dispersed. A body of Indian police under Sergeant Garrod was present to receive His Excellency General Gascoigne.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387325, "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": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "**ADDRESS PLOTAIL.** Addressed to the **INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA**.\n\nA. J.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia & China, 77 \nHatton Court; Threadneedle Street \n16 AUG 07\n\nLondon, 18th Augt 1907\n\nEdward, W. A. Hamilton, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. \nTreasury Chamber, Whitehall.\n\nIn connection with my letter of 19th June furnishing the draft of the proposed supplemental charter authorising an extension of the Bank's power of note issue, I shall esteem it a great favour if you will let me know how the matter now stands. The recent illness of His Majesty no doubt interfered with the despatch of business, but I hope that you will soon be in a position to give the necessary authority for the issue in Hongkong of Notes in excess of $8,000,000 against the deposit of Coin and/or Bullion of equal value to the excess issue.\n\nYour obedient Servant, \n(Sgd) J. Howard Gwyther \nChairman", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388386, "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": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 562, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "# 548 \n\n1 D \n2. W \n\nAdoption of English Coinage with the introduction of a silver coin, say a dollar, at a fixed ratio to gold. In other words, following the system now obtaining in India which, put plainly, is a modified form of bimetallism.\n\nThe arguments brought forward in support of a \"reform\" of currency did not follow the proposed \"reform\" (or rather, as the Chairman preferred to call it, \"change\") to its logical conclusion. No attempt was made to explain how the change in all its ramifications was to be carried out.\n\nThe speeches of the advocates of change were chiefly directed towards showing the many disabilities, thoroughly well understood, which have been, and still are, experienced due to a continued depreciation in the value of silver.\n\nIt is impossible to deal thoroughly with such a complex question as a change in our currency, in the space of a short memorandum, and I have therefore attempted to reply merely to the chief points brought forward by the advocates of a change & to show where it appears to me their arguments were neither convincing nor final.\n\nMr. E. Osborne, in his opening remarks when proposing the resolution, stated that a number of men deeply concerned in the welfare of the Colony and with large interests at stake, are most anxious for reform, but he did not explain how he considered the proposed reform was to be carried", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388391, "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": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 567, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "553 \n\n3. \n\nA \n\nHere Mr. Osborne is a little inconsistent; he talks of coolies as being willing to accept the payment as at present, in the local coin of China which in another part of his remarks he says are to be entirely done away with. Judging from our knowledge of native methods, were the coolies paid in pennies as Mr. Osborne wishes, they would be heavily \"squeezed\" by the native exchange shops when remitting money to China, which would result in a continual demand for an increase in wages. \n\nAs regards the question of raw materials for local manufactures (such as hemp, sugar, and limestone), it is probable that the question of a gold standard will have little, if any, effect upon these industries beyond possibly some additional clerical labour in connection with accounts, but after all, these form a small part of the trade of Hongkong. \n\nMr. Osborne passes lightly over the very important question of Chinese purchasing goods in the Colony if we are to work with a gold currency. Because Hongkong holds a central position geographically, the trade must, he says, centre here, but he makes no attempt to show how the import trade on its way to China is to be dealt with, which he admits \"is by far the most important section\" of our trade. \n\nIt may be urged that the introduction of a gold standard here may do away with the risk of a", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388394, "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": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 570, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "556\n\n11.\n\nlanded interests and all relating thereto.\n\nAs regards the question of payment for export from China, Mr. Osborne admits the danger of a drain of our gold coinage and suggests that this may be avoided by the use of gold certificates to be issued against a gold reserve in London.\n\nIt appears to me that if this proposal is acted upon it can have but one result. No coin will be available in redemption of gold certificates when presented, the consequence being a depreciated paper currency. How such a state of affairs can be an improvement on our present silver coinage with, it is admitted, a declining and uncertain value I fail to understand.\n\nI do not altogether follow Mr. Playfair's argument that as our Official Expenditure is in gold (salaries, public debt etc.) our revenue should be so also. The Colony fortunately has only a small gold loan equal to about one year's revenue, and so long as the wise policy of keeping down the gold debt is adhered to there need be no very great fear as to the difficulty of balancing the budget.\n\nThe revenue of the Colony is without doubt a delicate plant requiring constant and watchful care.\n\nSupposing that the Indian scheme of a fixed value for the rupee is a success (which perhaps is not yet altogether proved) this was only undertaken because of the dire distress of the \n\nPage 570\nPage 571 \n\nAt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390450, "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": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "## \nDesh. no | Dale | Subject \n---------|------|--------- \n5447 | | Cowloon Canton Rly. \n48. | 18 | \" \n | 19 | 579. 580. 583. 589. \n | 21 | 14 \nOrdre | 22. | Vird-in-Chief to beylon \nOrdei. | 23. | 22 - Deportation of huiso 7. Garrett. \n | 23 | 28 \n | 30. | 30 \n391. | | 392. 393. \nSGA. | 31. | the \n切 | | Cleanitable Allnce. thus. Hunsray \n | | Funds of Volunteer Corps. \n | | Conveyance Alluce \n | | Cattle Disease. \n30. | Codce. | Mr. \n | | Pension, Minute \n | | Public Offices. \n | 21 Jan. | Wireless Telegraphy. \n24 | Praya | Reclamation \n\n# 4 \n\" | | 如 \n容量 | | * \n# | | \n11 Feb. | Wireless Telegraphy. | ghear haval Yard, \n6 Apl | new Coaling Depot at Kowloon | haval Reserve \n | Thay | Enlargement of Civil Gaol \n20 | Man of War | linchorage \n6 July | haval Water | cupply. \n4. | Exchange of land between haval thil. | Authors. \n23. | Vigit of German Gumboot \"Luchs\" | \n18 Any | Transfer of huilitary thaval Lands. | \n6 Oct: | Eastern Praya | Reclamation \n:9; | haval Range at Kowloon. | \n19 | how hean of War | Anchorage \n2 Dec | Anchorage of foreign | Harbour bedster. \n28. | haval dufections | Hospital \nof wan | | \n\nFrom | Bali | Subjec \n---------|------|--------- \nCrown Agents | 29 Jan. | Prof. Simpson's report: \nน | 11 | \" \n\" | 4 | hear Wales Ordce \n112 * | | Report on plague by Prof. Seinsson \n16 Apl | Building | Quemeer. \n | 23. | Subsidiary silver coin? \n2 way | Subsidiary coin. | \nHoward & Stephens & Atty. Geul.. | 14 Aug. | Dam for new Lylain Reservoirs. \n | 30 bec | Lylain Water Scheme, \n | 31 | Arst. Engineer to Fine Brigade \nCouncil Office | 12 Cing | Merchant Shipping Jadces. \nHome | h | \n25 hear. | Petition of Right. | Messrs Stephens Howard- \n2 June | Petition | \n16 sept. | Procedure in Extradition Cases. | \n10 Oct. | Howard + Stephens &. | Atty. Geul. \nIndia Office | 20 lay. | Plaque report by Dr Simpson \nfallment of natives of India | | \n20 | 2+ Sept | Coinage of Brit: Dollars. \nParliament | - 14 July | Treatinent of Plaque Patients. \n | | Moculation with Hoffkin's Prophyladic. \n•Chinese Tax. | 28 | \nBd. of Grade | 24 Jan | Payment of Chinese \nt# | 18 June | Merchant Shipping Cade. \n | 14 July | Draft hierchant Shipping Ordner. | O. in C. \n | 12 Aug | Tramways. | \n | 19 Dec. | Small Ships Exemption Ordce. | \nWas Office | to dan | keagazine on Stonecutters Saboud", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390909, "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": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "page_number": 462, "title": "CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12]", "content_text": "We know the thing definite.\n\nKeep the substance of this letter secret till him to let.\n\n\"Find out anything to show how the information got to the market, and tells.\"\n\nCan the silver in be let out the writing far. 4 for letter with Free conf to Treas, and Copy and Muit, Ment, inf A. F. 25/4.\n\nalmen gut is D. Hong Kong.585\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS ON THIS SUBJECT TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong 595. 15064 456\n\nDOWNING STREET, LONDON.\n\n23rd April 1903\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.10914 of the 31st March and to inform you that we are taking the necessary steps for the supply to the Government of Hong Kong of subsidiary silver coin to the amount of $2,800,000.\n\n2. In this connection I beg to state for the information of Mr Secretary Chamberlain that our Bullion Brokers have informed us confidentially that before they received our instructions it was generally known on the London market that silver for this order would be required, and they have expressed the opinion that the information became known from the Colony.\n\n3. It is of course obvious that for a transaction of this magnitude to become known, before our brokers receive our order must act prejudicially against the Colonial Government in two ways:\n\n1st By sellers of silver holding back their supplies and raising the price,\n\nand 2ndly That Banks knowing on whose account the silver is being bought, and that it will have to be paid for by Bills drawn upon the Colonial Government the exchange is lowered.\n\n4. I beg therefore to suggest for the consideration of the Under Secretary of State.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nColonial Office.\n\n-1-\n\nPage 1\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 1\n\nbecomes \nPage -1-\n\nas three lines at top and three at the end is not observed, only one line is seen. The original text is kept as much as possible, with minor corrections for spacing and punctuation.\n\nHere is the revised response in HTML format as requested:\n\nWe know the thing definite.\n\nKeep the substance of this letter secret till him to let.\n\n\"Find out anything to show how the information got to the market, and tells.\"\n\nCan the silver in be let out the writing far. 4 for letter with Free conf to Treas, and Copy and Muit, Ment, inf A. F. 25/4.\n\nalmen gut is D. Hong Kong.585\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS ON THIS SUBJECT TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL\n\nSir,\n\nHong Kong 595. 15064 456\n\nDOWNING STREET, LONDON.\n\n23rd April 1903\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No.10914 of the 31st March and to inform you that we are taking the necessary steps for the supply to the Government of Hong Kong of subsidiary silver coin to the amount of $2,800,000.\n\n2. In this connection I beg to state for the information of Mr Secretary Chamberlain that our Bullion Brokers have informed us confidentially that before they received our instructions it was generally known on the London market that silver for this order would be required, and they have expressed the opinion that the information became known from the Colony.\n\n3. It is of course obvious that for a transaction of this magnitude to become known, before our brokers receive our order must act prejudicially against the Colonial Government in two ways:\n\n1st By sellers of silver holding back their supplies and raising the price,\n\nand 2ndly That Banks knowing on whose account the silver is being bought, and that it will have to be paid for by Bills drawn upon the Colonial Government the exchange is lowered.\n\n4. I beg therefore to suggest for the consideration of the Under Secretary of State.\n\n&c. &c. &c.\n\nColonial Office.\n\n-1-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-320 - Governor Sir Blake Acting Governor May - 1903 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 391291, "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": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "page_number": 252, "title": "CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903", "content_text": "can only speak a very rudimentary sort of Chinese. The affinities of the Minchia have yet to be studied, but they do not appear to be connected with any Thibetan or Shan stock, though the Shans once reigned at Ta Li. Near Hsia Kuan to this day is shown a \"wan jen tui,\" or tumulus of the 10,000 which is popularly supposed to be the grave of the warriors who fell in a great battle when a Chinese attempt to get possession of the country was defeated with heavy loss.\n\nThe Minchia are remarkable as being the only non-Chinese tribe in Yünnan which has mingled with the Chinese on something like equal terms; they have retained their lands and their language, but they have adopted the literature, the religious ideas, and, at least in the case of the men, the dress of the Chinese. A literatus of Ta Li who would be inclined to draw but little distinction between Kachins, Miao, Lisaw, and other wild tribes puts the Minchia on a higher level. \"They read books,\" i.e., the classics. It is to be feared that it would be a work of great difficulty to unearth Minchia ideas, which are covered by a superstructure of Chinese beliefs; merely as a guess, I suggest that they may be connected with the Man Tzu of Szechuan. The Minchia are peasants, and nothing more; the shop-keepers at markets such as Hsi Chon, 40 li north of Ta Li, or at Chiang Wei, at the north head of the lake, are Chinese. The Minchia villages and farmhouses are exceedingly well built, and I am inclined to think that the top storey, which is found in nearly all Yunnan country houses, but is so contrary to Chinese ideas, was derived from the Minchia. In the Ta Li plain, where wood is scarce, the Minchia house is a substantial stone structure built with the limestone and conglomerate which is littered about under the Tsang Shan; but the best type of Minchia dwelling is to be found in the Hoching Valley. It is commonly built round three sides of a square, the fourth side being closed with a wall in which there is a porch. The lower storey is of mud or sun-baked brick on a stone foundation, and sometimes with stone pillars, but the top storey is of wood, the architecture resembling that of a Swiss chalet. The section opposite the porch is usually the dwelling-house, while one of the sides is given up to the cattle, with a straw-loft over them, and the other side is used as a grain store. Comfort and cleanliness these houses are far superior to the Chinese, as I can testify after having enjoyed many days of Minchia hospitality, which is readily given in places where there are no inns.\n\nThe pure Minchia type resembles that of the Romany or gipsy, save that it is lighter in complexion; the Minchia women have natural feet, manage boats, carry loads, do masons' and bricklayers' work, and in the La Shi salt district I have even seen them acting as muleteers.\n\nWholesale commerce has quite deserted Ta Li, but there is a busy market every five days, and in the third moon occurs the annual fair, or \"yueh kai,\" a commercial event of some importance. It is held outside the West Gate, and lasts for five days, after which a good deal of business is done in the city itself for fourteen days before the merchants disperse. The number of persons attending the fair is given at various figures, but it is usually stated to be only one-third of the old days before the rebellion. The official Proclamations state that for the \"yueh kai\" \"myriads of merchants from the four quarters of the globe collect together dense as the clouds;\" but Chinese Proclamations have to be taken in a Pickwickian sense, and I believe that the present attendance is not over 5,000. Thibetans and representatives of all the tribes in West Yünnan come in some force, while besides Yünnanese there are, of course, Cantonese and Szechuanese; I am not aware that any natives of India attend. Drugs, including China-root, rhubarb, and musk, mules and ponies, Thibetan wools, tea and brown sugar in small cakes, cottons and cloths, are the chief objects of exchange, and I believe that the fair is still of sufficient importance to be worth the attention of British or Indian merchants desirous of opening up new lines.\n\nAmong other minor products of Ta Li I may mention pigs' bristles, which are of good quality, but not, perhaps, easy to collect in sufficient quantity, and straw braid used for the native sun-hats. The plaiting leaves to be desired at present, but this might be improved for foreign buyers, and the straw itself is of excellent quality.\n\nThe traveller who has passed through the rich fields and flourishing villages of the Ta Li Plain, and has enjoyed the double view of hill and lake (\"tsang esh esh kuan\") is interested to learn how this happy valley first came into existence. The curious folklorist may discern traditions of the early struggles of the first Chinese settlers in the legend of the advent of Buddhism, and perhaps of some geological cataclysm. In the ancient days the waters of the lake lapped the foot of the Tsang Shan, and there was no plain. The caverns in the hills were inhabited by a \"yao kwei,\" or monstrous being, who used to sally forth, and for his food tear out and devour the eyes of the Chinese in the neighbourhood. Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy, pitying the sorrows of the black-haired people, appeared upon the scene disguised as a venerable Buddhist nun in her \"ka sha,\" or yellow robe and accompanied by a lame dog. Addressing the monster, she promised to supply him with the food which he liked on condition that he would give her a patch of dry land under the hills. \"How much dry land?\" asked the monster. \"The breadth,\" replied the goddess, \"of my yellow robe and the length of three leaps of my lame dog.\" After some haggling a contract on these terms was reduced to writing. But when the aged nun spread out the robe it covered a space of 15 li, and such was the uncommon agility of the lame dog that in three leaps he cleared a space of 100 li. For his food the goddess captured shell-fish, and gave the eye-like contents to the \"yao kwei\"; the voracious but unwary monster seems to have thought that he had been swindled, and became obstreperous; whereupon the goddess seized him and interned him in a hole or cavern in the earth near Hsi Chou, where there was only a small open slit through which he could breathe. In his struggles, his fiery breath issuing from the slit burned up the waters of the lake. But the goddess had cast a spell on the monster; so long as Chinese assemble at the West Gate of Ta Li during the third moon so long must the monster remain in durance vile; wherefore to this day, at the commencement of the great spring fair, the General comes out in state and fires off all his artillery, so that the dragon may know that the time of his release is not yet.\n\nIn case this bald narrative fails to convince the sceptical western, I may point out that the length of the Ta Li Plain from the upper to the lower pass is, in fact, 100 li, and its breadth 15 li. Is not the shore of the lake littered with empty shells, the contents of which have been devoured by the \"yao kwei\"? Is not there at Hsi Chou a long narrow strip of land stretching into the lake from which the water was blown by the struggling prisoner? Was not the contract between him and the goddess reduced to writing and engraved on stone that all might see? and finally, is it not a fact that to this day an annual crowd has assembled outside the West Gate for the third-moon fair, and that the \"yao kwei\" has never once emerged from his prison?\n\nFrom Ta Li city to the Shang Kuan (upper pass) is an easy march of 16 miles in a northerly direction across the level plain, between the lake on the right and the Tsang Shan on the left. The main caravan route is at the foot of the mountains, but the lower road which leads by the shores of the lake is much more agreeable, as it gives an opportunity of observing the lake villages which cluster on the stone bunds fringing the shore, and in the morning, of shooting some wild geese and duck as they fly back to the lake after their night feed in the fallow fields. Shang Kuan is a small tumble-down village with a li-kin and Prefect's tax station, at each of which about 1,000 taels are collected annually on goods going north. Travellers for Lichiang usually pass Shang Kuan to the head of the lake, and leaving the bridge of boats and the series of marshes through which flows the principal feeder of the lake, slightly to the east, enter the plain of Teng Chuan at the tiny city of that name. This plain is about ... miles by ... miles, and is well supplied with water from several large lagoons in which heavy crops of rushes are grown for fuel.\n\nAt Yui So, ... miles, there is a market where Chinese and Minchia exchange grain, opium, sugar, salt, cloth, pigs, mules, and cattle; and at miles ... the river is crossed at Chung So. It is here 25 yards broad, shallow, and flows for some miles between high artificial embankments, the safety of which are of prime importance to local agriculture.\n\nAt 15 miles the road and river leave the Teng Chuan Valley by a gorge. The road then leads through broken ground along the foot-hills of the east side of the Lang Kung Valley, past the hamlet of Ying Shan P'u, and through fertile country to Nui Kai, an important market of about 150 houses, and so to the north-east corner of the fertile Lang Kung Valley. At Kuan Yin Shan the road enters the hills and splits into two tracks, the one going a little west of north to Chien Chuan Chou (one long stage), and the other which I followed leading over an important pass into the Yang tsze basin. After leaving Kuan Yin Shan we commenced an ascent up a gorge by a fair road, and spent the night in a log hut on an open terrace in the hills (San Chiu Tang), whence there was a fine view. The next day we ascended the silent and frost-bound pass of Kwa La, past rhododendron scrub and frozen marshes, varied with patches of forest. At the village of Kwa La, which consists of a few wattle huts, we observed the plaited bamboo basket industry, which is of some local importance, and so descended to the guard station of the Hei Nui (the Black Ox), situated in a gorge by a rushing stream; here a salt road from Chien Chuan joined our route, and there is considerable passing traffic. At 13 miles beyond Hei Nui a road branches off east to Sung Kwei, which is an important market near the Yang-tsze. It is an entrepôt of the salt, sugar, and tobacco trade, and also a pony and mule market.\n\nPage 9\n\nAt ...\n\n248", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-321 - Public Offices & Others - 1903.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 394781, "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": 118, "title": "CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904", "content_text": "RETURN of British Subjects of Chinese Descent, registered at His Majesty's Consulate, Amoy, during 1903,\n\nNames and Particulars of Parents.\n\n \n No.\n Name\n Place of Birth\n Date of First Registration\n Remarks\n Father\n Mother\n \n \n 1\n Cheang Jim Keug\n Singapore\n January 22, 1894\n Father and mother British subjects by birth.\n \n \n \n \n 2\n Cheang Jim Seong\n \"\n 23, 1894\n Ditto.\n \n \n \n \n 3\n Cheang Jim Siew\n \n 3, 1894\n \"\n \n \n \n \n 4\n Chew Boon Tian\n \n December 12, 1896\n Chew Loon Hian, resident, Singapore\n \n \n \n \n 5\n Charles Whitfield\n Amoy\n 1892\n Whitfield (English)\n \n Chinese\n \n \n 7\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 8\n Choa Cheng Kway\n Singapore\n October 10, 1894\n Parents legally married at Amoy.\n \n \n \n \n 9\n Choa Li Tek Sim\n Hong Kong\n 1893\n \n \n \n \n \n 10\n Clifford Parksou\n \n December 12, 1901\n \n \n \n \n \n 11\n Edward Mow Fung\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 12\n Goh Beng Siang\n Victoria, Australia\n May 29, 1903\n \n \n \n \n \n 13\n Khoo Ewe Chye\n Penang\n September 1, 1902\n Dead.\n \n \n \n \n 14\n Kboo Gin Haw\n \n 5, 1896\n Khoo Gin Siang, resident at Peking\n \n \n \n \n 15\n Kung Phoe Wooi\n Moulmein\n May 13, 1902\n Khoo Ting Poh, dead, a naturalized British subject\n \n \n \n \n 16\n Kung Tsung Ting\n Amoy\n July 24, 1900\n Kung Chin Swee of Rangoon\n \n \n \n \n 17\n Kung Tsung Sun\n \n August 14, 1891\n Kung Phoe Chun, dead\n \n \n \n \n 18\n Kung Tsung Jung\n \n January 77, 1894\n Kung Wah Yok, of Burmah\n \n \n \n \n 19\n Kang Trung Tyam\n Moulmein\n September 17, 1894\n Dead, a naturalized British subject\n \n \n \n \n 20\n Lau Kiong Sin\n Singapore\n 6, 1901\n said to have been a naturalized British subject\n \n \n \n \n 21\n Lim Chor Ghee\n \n \n Lim Chor Ghee\n \n \n \n \n 22\n Lim Soo Tiat\n Amoy\n 30, 1893\n \n \n \n \n \n 23\n Lim Soo Mai\n \n January 5, 1901\n Chau Kwan Ee, of Hong Kong\n \n \n \n \n 24\n Lim Kim Poh\n Shanghae\n June February 25, 1903\n Mow Fung, born in Hong Kong\n \n Dead\n \n \n 25\n Lim Leong Eng\n Penang\n 1, 1898\n \n \n \n \n \n 26\n Lim Kheng Yee\n Singapore\n February 26, 1896\n Wears European dress.\n \n \n \n \n 27\n Low Cheng Koon\n Sarawak\n 17, 1897\n Ditto.\n \n \n \n \n 28\n \n Singapore\n August June 6, 1898\n originally registered at Foushow [?].\n \n \n \n \n 29\n Boon Thak Dend\n \n October 24, 1898\n Ling Eng Moh, of Sarawak, dead\n Dead\n \n \n \n 30\n \n \n June 3, 1901\n Father born in Moulmein, Lower Burmah,\n \n \n \n \n 31\n \n \n February 19, 1903\n Ditto.\n \n \n \n \n 32\n Oh Khun Yiong\n Singapore\n \n Born 2 years before his father became a naturalized British subject.\n \n \n \n \n 33\n Ong Mah Chao\n \n March 10, 1894\n Son of preceding, No. 20.\n \n \n \n \n 34\n Patrick See Jung\n Queensland, Australia\n May 17, 1896\n Ditto\n \n \n \n \n 35\n Sec Ewe Lay\n Malacca\n June 25, 1880\n Father and mother both British subjects by birth.\n See Eng Wat, born in Malacca\n See Ewe Hoei\n \n \n 36\n \n \n May 18, 1896\n Ditto\n \n See Ewe Song\n \n \n 37\n See Kim Poh\n \n April 14, 1903\n \n \n See Kim Poh\n \n \n 38\n See Kim Siong\n \n 14, 1903\n \n \n \n \n \n 39\n Soon Sob Yan\n \n May 31, 1877\n Dead\n \n \n \n \n 40\n Soh Yin Tek\n Singapore\n June 4, 1898\n \n \n \n \n \n 41\n Tan Gim Leng\n \n May 9, 1895\n \n \n \n \n \n 42\n Tan Hock Chye\n \n April 2, 1908\n \n \n \n \n \n 43\n Tan Swee Kye\n Rangoon\n May 15, 1899\n Dead\n \n \n \n \n 44\n Tay Kum Lim\n Singapore\n April 2, 1903\n \n \n \n \n \n 45\n Teo Tew Cheng\n \n December 19, 1902\n Ditto.\n \n \n \n \n 46\n Teo Kiam Huat\n \n June 6, 1901\n \n Tea Hoh Loh, of Singapore\n \n \n \n 47\n Ung Peng Seng\n Foochow\n \n \n Ung Choom Tee, [] of Amoy\n \n \n \n 48\n Wee Hock Siang\n Singapore\n February 28, 1895\n \n \n \n \n \n 49\n Wee Team Seng\n \n November 5, 1902\n \n \n \n \n \n 50\n Wee Team Tew\n \"\n May 18, 1903\n \n \n \n \n \n 51\n Yeo Haing\n Penang\n April 30, 1909\n Dead [?]\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n March 25, 1882\n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n Khoo Sew Neo\n \n January 28, 1901\n [] widow of Chew Tai Cheng, a registered British subject, born in Singapore, his father being a Chinese and his mother a British subject.\n \n Chinese\n \n \n 2\n Khoo Chang Neo\n \n June 9, 1896\n [] widow of Charles See Jung, a registered British subject, born in Queensland, whose father was a Chinese and mother a British subject.\n \n \n \n \n 3\n Amy Jenkins\n \n August 5, 1902\n Widow of B. N. Jenkins, a British subject (married in Consulate, Amoy).\n \n \n \n\nPage 116", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-326 - Foreign Office - 1904.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397333, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "page_number": 627, "title": "CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12]", "content_text": "# 623\n\nFor purposes of China. On the other hand, the Government dollar will disappear in time if no more are imported, and it is not known yet if the proposal for the trade dollar will be acted on, and if acted on, whether the seigniorage charge for the new dollar and its altered form will not make it less acceptable than the old Mexican Government coin. It is true again that if effect is given to Article 2 of the British Commercial Treaty of 1902, and the Chinese Government adopt a uniform currency for the whole Empire, there will be no place for the British dollar. On the other hand, as stated by Sir Ernest Satow in his Despatch of the 26th June, 1905, \"it appears doubtful whether China will, within any measurable period, unify her currency in accordance with the undertaking she has entered into with Great Britain, the United States, and Japan, no matter how much diplomatic pressure is put upon her\".\n\n## 11.\n\nAll these circumstances point to the fact that, though at the present time, a large capital expenditure on a mint to coin British dollars would not be justified, existing mints should, pending further developments of the currency question in China, be utilized to assist the Eastern Banks in putting the British dollar into", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-329 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [7-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 397933, "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": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 423, "title": "CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905", "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. Security will further be necessary that such an agreement will be duly observed; this security will be afforded if...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-330 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403334, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "# CHINA TRADE\n## CONFIDENTIAL.\n\n238 \n31709 [August 15.] \nAd 4 SEP 05 \n\n### SECTION \n#### No. 1.\n\nSir, \n\nTreasury to Foreign Office.--(Received August 15.) \n\nTreasury Chambers, August 14, 1905. \n**THE** Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have had under consideration Sir E. Satow's report of his conversation with the Chinese Minister of Finance concerning Chinese currency reform, which accompanied Mr. Campbell's letter of the 26th June, and also the representations which have been made to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by the China Association and by several Chambers of Commerce concerning the undertaking by China to provide for a uniform national coinage.\n\nIn reply, their Lordships direct me to signify their concurrence in the proposal of the Secretary of State to transmit a copy of the letter of the China Association to His Majesty's Minister at Peking, and request him to remind the Chinese Government of their undertaking under Article II of the Treaty of 1902.\n\nAs regards that undertaking, my Lords observe that Mr. Townley's despatch of the 29th May, 1903, reported the issue of an Imperial Decree for the establishment of a uniform coinage and the steps which were being taken to carry out the measure with the co-operation of Sir Robert Hart. It does not appear that any practical result has followed from the intentions then expressed. My Lords are not aware how far this may be owing to the subsequent advocacy of the scheme for a silver currency on a gold basis, which is now stated to have no chance of adoption.\n\nThe scheme of the Chinese Board of Revenue, as described by the Finance Minister, contemplates in the first instance the regularizing of the currency of copper cash, to be followed by the issue of a Government silver dollar, intended to be the equivalent of 1,000 cash, and finally by the transition of this dollar from its silver basis to a fixed gold value.\n\nAs regards the merits of this scheme, I am to observe that, so far as it applies to the reform of the copper currency, it is a desirable step to take in the interest of the internal trade of the Empire. It will provide the masses of the people with a uniform coinage, much more convenient to handle than the present cumbersome cash, and it will have the educational value of familiarizing them with the use of coins of various denominations bearing a fixed relation to one another.\n\nBut my Lords cannot regard this measure as a practicable means of arriving at a standard of value which will be of service to China in her dealings with other nations. The proposed Government dollar, if it is to be the equivalent of 1,000 copper cash, can have no fixed relation to the silver or gold standards of other countries. As the Chinese Government has decided, for reasons the force of which is fully apparent to my Lords, to abandon the idea of proceeding at once to the adoption of a gold standard, the only means of complying with the Treaty obligation is the introduction of silver standard coin of uniform weight and fineness.\n\nThe precise amount of fine silver to be contained in this coin is a matter of minor importance. The essential thing is that the prescribed amount shall be adhered to at whatever mints it may be coined. But silver dollars have long been current in the most active trading centres. They are known and trusted, and there would be considerable practical convenience in the adoption of a coin corresponding as nearly as possible to the weight and fineness of existing dollars. The relation of the dollar to the Haikwan tael could at once be fixed, and would remain permanent. Its relation to the copper currency would be liable to variation, but could be fixed provisionally from time to time. When the dollar had become established in circulation, steps should be taken for the definite fixing of its relation to the copper coins, the issue of those coins from the mints being controlled so as to render the ratio effective. If these steps could be carried out—and with efficient and determined effort on the part of the central Government they should present no insuperable difficulty—China would then be in the possession of a uniform silver currency with a token currency of copper regulated like the subsidiary currencies of other countries. Thereafter the ... \n\n[2140 p-2]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 257, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Inclosure 21 in No. 1\n### Memorial by the Board of Revenue urging that a Limit be set to the Minting of Copper Coin in the Provinces, and that a Uniform Currency be established.\n\nA sound currency is the foundation of financial administration, and it is essential that coinage should be uniform. This Board has, in obedience to Imperial Edict, established a head mint at Tien-tsin for the express purpose of producing a uniform currency.\n\nThe introduction of copper coins commenced in Kuangtung. Since then this example has been followed by other provinces in order to remedy the scarcity of cash, until now there are not less than twenty mints erected in seventeen provinces. Unless a stop is put to this, further requests will be made to erect similar mints, or to extend the operations of old ones, leading to further waste of money and greater confusion in the currency. In addition, it is feared that not only will great impetus be given to the counterfeiting of spurious coin, but also that the competition between the various mints for the purchase of foreign copper will be so great as to cause an excessive rise in the price of that article, and cause great financial losses.\n\nLast year the Reform Council (`Cheng Wu Chu`) and the Army Council (`Lien Ping Ch'u`), in their joint Memorial on the request of Wei Kuang-tao for permission to extend his minting of copper, declared that in future the minting of silver and copper coins ought to be wholly placed under the control of the Board of Revenue, in order that there should be uniformity in the currency and stability in the finances of the country, and, further, that the promiscuous establishment of mints throughout the province should be stopped.\n\n### Imperial Rescript\nLet it be done as proposed.\n\n## Inclosure 20 in No. 1\n\nAgain, Chou Fu, Acting Viceroy of the Liang Kiang, proposed in a Memorial last year that the mints for copper coin should be amalgamated, pointing out that the establishment of every new mint meant another addition to the expenditure, and that differences in the qualities of the coins produced by these various mints was a serious inconvenience. He therefore counselled greater care in this question.\n\nThe Board agrees that, though the increased minting of copper coins is desirable, yet the issue of them from an unlimited number of mints is inexpedient. After much consultation, the Board has come to the conclusion that the abolition of the already existing mints would be attended with difficulty, but they consider that the high provincial authorities should carefully superintend their operations and should not establish additional branch mints. No new mints for the coinage of copper should be started in places where they do not now exist, and if there is a necessity for the introduction of copper coins in such places, the authorities should be instructed to pay over a sum of money to the mint of a neighbouring province, which would then return the equivalent in copper coin. In important places where the erection of a mint is desirable this Board will inquire into the circumstances, and, when the head mint at Tien-tsin is in operation, will gradually establish branch mints at Shanghae and other ports with a view to furnishing a uniform currency.\n\nOrders were given by the Board, when the erection of mints in the provinces was first permitted, that monthly reports of their operation should be made. Up to the present, though the mints have been in operation for a long time, the officials have shown of what little importance they consider the currency question by altogether neglecting to do so. The Board, therefore, with a view to saving correspondence and exercising thorough supervision, requests that the high provincial authorities may be called on to strictly direct the officials in charge of the mints to furnish collective annual reports, and also to forward without delay copies of the Local Regulations with regard to the minting and issue of coin to the Board for inspection.\n\nThe contributions which it has been admitted the mints should make towards the expenses of the Army Council are matters of great consequence, and further orders should be issued that these should not be allowed to fall into arrears on any pretext, but should be transmitted in full.\n\n### Imperial Rescript\nLet it be done as proposed.\n\n## \n\nIn a recent issue of the \"Peiyang Kuan Pao,\" anterior to the 6th June, it is stated that there are eighteen mints for the production of copper coins. Of these the Kuanghsi, Yunnan, Fengtien, and Tien-tsin (Board of Revenue) Mints are not mentioned in the Chamber of Commerce list.\n\nThe \"Peiyang Kuan Pao\" gives the share of profits each mint is ordered to provide annually towards the expenditure of the `Lien-ping-chu` (Military Commission), amounting to a total of 7,050,000 taels. Doubtless these mints will continue to give a profit, at least until the quantity of coin produced by them reaches the point at which no more can be absorbed by internal commerce. It is not unlikely, however, that the Chinese Government imagine that they have here a perennial source of profit, and to warn them against the danger of depreciation owing to over-issue seems a quite legitimate step for the Representatives of Powers to take who have Treaties containing a clause similar to Article II of the British Commercial Treaty of 1902. Whether the Representatives of Powers which have not concluded such Treaties can nevertheless appeal to the British, American, and Japanese is, of course, a question for them to decide.\n\nThe Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce refers the Diplomatic Body to the statements given on pp. 12 and 13 of the \"Report on the Trade of China, and Abstract of Statistics,\" published this year by the Imperial Maritime Customs. This publication estimates the output for 1904 at 1,745,000,000 copper pieces (variously denoted as \"one-hundredth of a dollar\" and \"ten mills\"), while the Chairman of the Chamber estimates that when the whole of the mints, new and old, are in operation the annual output will be 16,413,000,000 pieces, or nearly ten times as many.\n\nAn explanation of the apparent difference between these two estimates is to be desired. And further, as these new coins are presumably to replace the existing cash, it would be useful if the Chairman of the Chamber could inform us how many of such pieces (including fractional coins such as he speaks of in the last paragraph of his letter) would, in the opinion of his Chamber, be required for a population of 400,000,000 people.\n\nThe Chairman remarks that \"in permitting the provincial authorities to produce these 10 cash pieces in varying intrinsic values she (China) is evading her Treaty obligations.\" Something more explicit than this statement is necessary as a foundation for a remonstrance to the Chinese Government against evasion of her Treaty obligations. It is desirable that precise information, accompanied by expert evidence, should be furnished as to what mints have produced 10-cash pieces of a less intrinsic value than the assumed standard, and to what extent such issues vary from the standard.\n\nJune 24, 1905.\n\n## Inclosure 22 in No. 1\n### Consul Ker to Sir E. Satow\n\nWuhu, December 15, 1904.\n\nI beg to inclose copies of a private correspondence that has passed between Mr. E. S. Little and myself on the subject of mining rights of foreigners in the interior. Mr. Little maintains that the Mackay Treaty \"gives foreigners exactly the same right to buy and hold land as the natives anywhere in the interior.\"\n\nI am unable to accept this view, and as Mr. Little says that he is about to see you on the subject, I think it well that you should know exactly what I wrote to him. If my interpretation of the Treaty is wrong, I should be grateful for instructions.\n\n### Mr. E. S. Little to Consul Ker\n\nShanghae, December 1, 1904.\n\nI am sorry to find on my return your letter cutting short Ede's Concession. I do not yet know what we shall do about it, but it is a pity that the Minister has taken the view he has. One of the oldest and most respected merchants in Shanghae said to me a day or two ago, in connection with another enterprise, \"I would not put a penny into any British affair; the only people who get any support are the Germans.\" It is absolutely...\n\nPage 252\nPage 23\nPage 22\nPage 4", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403389, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 298, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "292\n\nthe Hongkong Mint.\n\nThis institution, as Your Lordship is probably aware, was abolished in 1868 after a brief existence, not long enough, in the opinion of some to allow of definite conclusions being formed as to the practical possibility of its permanent success.\n\nBut, if the suggestion to re-establish it were adopted, it would become necessary to abandon the policy represented by article 2 of the British Commercial Treaty of 1902, and to give up urging the Chinese Government to adopt a uniform currency for the whole empire. A British dollar for circulation in Hongkong alone would be a costly luxury, and it would have no chance of competing with the native coin once that was established as the circulating medium throughout China. Judging from the present attitude of the Chinese Government towards currency reform, and the recent establishment of a large number of independent provincial mints, worked each in the interest of the revenue of the province to which it belongs, it appears doubtful whether China will, within any measurable period, unify her currency in accordance with the undertaking she has entered into with Great Britain, the United States and Japan, no matter how much diplomatic pressure is put upon her, so that the risk of failure of a new mint at Hongkong, in consequence of the competition of a reformed Chinese system of currency, cannot be regarded as serious.\n\nShould it be found, however, on inquiry, that a Hongkong mint is unlikely to earn its working expenses, it may possibly be found practicable to coin a British dollar in England for use in the China trade. It would be indispensable of course to maintain unchanged the good workmanship and excellent design which have characterized the British dollar minted in India. As to the desirability of our doing whatever is feasible to maintain that coin in...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403397, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "At that time the Chartered Bank and ourselves addressed a joint letter to the Colonial Secretary of the Hong Kong Government, as per copy enclosed, pointing out the great inconvenience to the trade of the Colony that would result from the action of the Indian Government, and we also asked them to appeal to the Indian Government to modify their proposal to double the seigniorage, but they did not see their way to alter the decision they had already arrived at, and there the matter has rested.\n\nSince the termination of the old agreement very few British dollars have been coined, such currency as has been required have been filled by importation of Mexican dollars; but there is every likelihood that supplies of the Mexican dollar, as we know it, will cease in time, as under recent legislation the Mexican Government have stopped the return of dollars into Mexico, and it is understood that they will discontinue the coinage of them even for export, but they are still prepared to accept offers for coins on hand. What those supplies are we do not know, or how long they will last, but there is a movement on foot for the Mexican Government to coin a special trade dollar for export alone, but so far as its use in this Colony is concerned much will depend on how its paying down cost will compare with the British dollar; they have not stated what charge they will make, but if they mint it cheaper, and other charges (freight, time etc.) being equal, we are bound to buy in the cheapest market, and would be compelled to make use of their services instead of those of the Indian Government.\n\nIt would certainly seem a pity from a political point of view, for obviously the circulation of the British dollar would help indirectly to increase the prestige of Great Britain, and it will be a convincing proof to the Chinese of the predominant influence of her trade in the Far East.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403412, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## Enclosure No. 7.\n\nColonial Office to India Office.\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, \n3rd June 1903.\n\nWith reference to the letter from this Office of the 19th ultimo, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to transmit to you, to be laid before Lord George Hamilton, a copy of a letter which has been addressed to the Mint, with regard to the preparation and despatch to India of the matrices, &c., for the new Straits dollar.\n\nAny information which may be received from the Mint with reference to this matter will be at once communicated to you. In the meantime, I am to suggest that the Government of India should be asked how soon after the arrival of the matrices, &c., at Bombay they will be ready to start coining operations, and should also be requested to place themselves in direct communication with the Governor of the Straits Settlements regarding the arrangements for the supply of silver, &c.\n\nThe Order in Council providing for the coinage of the new dollar and the currency changes connected therewith has been drafted and will be submitted to His Majesty very shortly.\n\nI am, &c., \n**C. P. LUCAS**.\n\n## Enclosure No. 8.\n\nIndia Office to Colonial Office.\n\nNo. 20,024.\n\nIndia Office, \n9th June 1903.\n\nSir,\n\nI am directed to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Lucas's letter of the 3rd instant, No. 20024/1903, regarding the steps to be taken with a view to the coinage of the new Straits dollar, and in reply I am to forward a copy of a telegram* which has been addressed to the Viceroy of India on the subject.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.\n\nI have, &c., \n**LIONEL ABRAHAMS**, \nFinancial Secretary.\n\n## Enclosure No. 9.\n\nColonial Office to India Office.\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, \n9th June 1903.\n\nThe Under Secretary of State for the Colonies presents his compliments to the Under Secretary of State for India, and is directed by the Secretary of State to transmit, for the information of Lord George Hamilton, with reference to the letter from the Colonial Department of the 3rd instant, copies of the telegrams and letter, noted in the subjoined Schedule on the subject of the design of the new Straits dollar.\n\n| Date | Description | Annex |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 30th May 1903 | Colonial Office to the Deputy Master of the Mint. No. 19,898. (Immediate.) | |\n| 4th June 1903 | Telegram from the Governor of the Straits Settlements. | Annex 1 |\n| 5th June 1903 | Telegram from the Governor of the Straits Settlements. | |\n| 5th June 1903 | Letter to the Deputy Master of the Mint. No. 20,501. | |\n\nColonial Office, Downing Street, \n30th May 1903.\n\nSir,\n\nWith reference to the unofficial correspondence which has taken place between yourself and this Office regarding the proposed new dollar for the Straits Settlements, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Chamberlain to inform you that of the designs for the reverse of the coin submitted to him (which are returned herewith) he prefers the one marked \"B\" and initialled \"M.F.O.\", and approves of its adoption.\n\n2\\. The introduction of the new coin having now been definitely decided on, I am to ask that the necessary matrices, &c., may be prepared with the greatest possible expedition and forwarded direct to the Master of the Bombay Mint. It is desired that similar implements may be sent out as in the case of the British dollar. There appears to be no record in this Office of the exact nature of the different implements sent out on the occasion of starting the coinage of the British dollar, but the records of the Mint will no doubt give the necessary information, and I am to refer you in this connection to the letter from the Mint to this Office of the 30th April 1895, and other correspondence of the same period.\n\n3\\. The cost incurred in preparing and forwarding these implements will be repaid from Straits Settlements funds, on the account being sent to this Office.\n\nI am, &c., \n**C. P. LUCAS**.\n\nAnnex 1.\n\nTelegram.\n\nGovernor Sir F. A. Swettenham to Mr. Chamberlain.\n\n(Received, Colonial Office, 8.30 a.m. 4th June 1903.)\n\nI recommend that Straits dollar should be one-sixteenth smaller diameter than British dollar, with Royal Standard or King's Head on obverse and lion rampant on reverse with words Straits dollar and date all in high relief.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403513, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 422, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## 415 \n\n### 22 \n\nIn a recent issue of the \"Peiyang Kuan Pao,\" anterior to the 6th June, it is stated that there are eighteen mints for the production of copper coins. Of these, the Kuanghsi, Yünnan, Fengtien, and Tien-tsin (Board of Revenue) Mints are not mentioned in the Chamber of Commerce list.\n\nThe \"Peiyang Kuan Pao\" gives the share of profits each mint is ordered to provide annually towards the expenditure of the Lien-ping-chu (Military Commission), amounting to a total of 7,050,000 taels. Doubtless these mints will continue to give a profit, at least until the quantity of coin produced by them reaches the point at which no more can be absorbed by internal commerce. It is not unlikely, however, that the Chinese Government imagine that they have here a perennial source of profit, and to warn them against the danger of depreciation owing to over-issue seems a quite legitimate step for the Representatives of Powers to take who have Treaties containing a clause similar to Article II of the British Commercial Treaty of 1902. Whether the Representatives of Powers which have not concluded such Treaties can nevertheless appeal to the British, American, and Japanese is, of course, a question for them to decide.\n\nThe Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce refers the Diplomatic Body to the statements given on pp. 12 and 13 of the \"Report on the Trade of China, and Abstract of Statistics,\" published this year by the Imperial Maritime Customs. This publication estimates the output for 1904 at 1,745,000,000 copper pieces (variously denoted as \"one-hundredth of a dollar\" and \"ten mills\"), while the Chairman of the Chamber estimates that when the whole of the mints, new and old, are in operation, the annual output will be 16,413,000,000 pieces, or nearly ten times as many.\n\nAn explanation of the apparent difference between these two estimates is to be desired. And further, as these new coins are presumably to replace the existing cash, it would be useful if the Chairman of the Chamber could inform us how many of such pieces (including fractional coins such as he speaks of in the last paragraph of his letter) would, in the opinion of his Chamber, be required for a population of 400,000,000 people.\n\nThe Chairman remarks that \"in permitting the provincial authorities to produce these 10 cash pieces in varying intrinsic values, she (China) is evading her Treaty obligations.\" Something more explicit than this statement is necessary as a foundation for a remonstrance to the Chinese Government against evasion of her Treaty obligations. It is desirable that precise information, accompanied by expert evidence, should be furnished as to what mints have produced 10-cash pieces of a less intrinsic value than the assumed standard, and to what extent such issues vary from the standard.\n\nJune 24, 1905.\n\n### 23 \n\nAgain, Chou Fu, Acting Viceroy of the Liang Kiang, proposed in a Memorial last year that the mints for copper coin should be amalgamated, pointing out that the establishment of every new mint meant another addition to the expenditure, and that differences in the qualities of the coins produced by these various mints was a serious inconvenience. He therefore counselled greater care in this question.\n\nThe Board agrees that, though the increased minting of copper coins is desirable, yet the issue of them from an unlimited number of mints is inexpedient. After much consultation, the Board has come to the conclusion that the abolition of the already existing mints would be attended with difficulty, but they consider that the high provincial authorities should carefully superintend their operations and should not establish additional branch mints. No new mints for the coinage of copper should be started in places where they do not now exist, and if there is a necessity for the introduction of copper coins in such places, the authorities should be instructed to pay over a sum of money to the mint of a neighbouring province, which would then return the equivalent in copper coin. In important places where the erection of a mint is desirable, this Board will inquire into the circumstances, and, when the head mint at Tien-tsin is in operation, will gradually establish branch mints at Shanghae and other ports with a view to furnishing a uniform currency.\n\nOrders were given by the Board, when the erection of mints in the provinces was first permitted, that monthly reports of their operation should be made. Up to the present, though the mints have been in operation for a long time, the officials have shown of what little importance they consider the currency question by altogether neglecting to do so. The Board, therefore, with a view to saving correspondence and exercising thorough supervision, requests that the high provincial authorities may be called on to strictly direct the officials in charge of the mints to furnish collective annual reports, and also to forward without delay copies of the Local Regulations with regard to the minting and issue of coin to the Board for inspection.\n\nThe contributions which it has been admitted the mints should make towards the expenses of the Army Council are matters of great consequence, and further orders should be issued that these should not be allowed to fall into arrears on any pretext, but should be transmitted in full.\n\n**Imperial Rescript.--Let it be done as proposed.**\n\n### Inclosure 21 in No. 1.\n\n### Inclosure 20 in No. 1.\n\n**Memorial by the Board of Revenue urging that a Limit be set to the Minting of Copper Coin in the Provinces, and that a Uniform Currency be established.**\n\nA sound currency is the foundation of financial administration, and it is essential that coinage should be uniform. This Board has, in obedience to Imperial Edict, established a head mint at Tien-tsin for the express purpose of producing a uniform currency.\n\nThe introduction of copper coins commenced in Kuangtung. Since then, this example has been followed by other provinces in order to remedy the scarcity of cash, until now there are not less than twenty mints erected in seventeen provinces. Unless a stop is put to this, further requests will be made to erect similar mints, or to extend the operations of old ones, leading to further waste of money and greater confusion in the currency. In addition, it is feared that not only will great impetus be given to the counterfeiting of spurious coin, but also that the competition between the various mints for the purchase of foreign copper will be so great as to cause an excessive rise in the price of that article, and cause great financial losses.\n\nLast year, the Reform Council (`Cheng Wu Chu`) and the Army Council (`Lien Ping Ch'u`), in their joint Memorial on the request of Wei Kuang-tao for permission to extend his minting of copper, declared that in future, the minting of silver and copper coins ought to be wholly placed under the control of the Board of Revenue, in order that there should be uniformity in the currency and stability in the finances of the country, and, further, that the promiscuous establishment of mints throughout the province should be stopped.\n\nDear Sir Ernest,\n\n### Consul Ker to Sir E. Satow.\n\nWuhu, December 15, 1904.\n\nI beg to inclose copies of a private correspondence that has passed between Mr. E. S. Little and myself on the subject of mining rights of foreigners in the interior. Mr. Little maintains that the Mackay Treaty \"gives foreigners exactly the same right to buy and hold land as the natives anywhere in the interior.\"\n\nI am unable to accept this view, and as Mr. Little says that he is about to see you on the subject, I think it well that you should know exactly what I wrote to him. If my interpretation of the Treaty is wrong, I should be grateful for instructions.\n\nDear Mr. Ker,\n\n### Inclosure 22 in No. 1.\n\nI remain, &c.\n(Signed) W. P. KER.\n\n### Mr. E. S. Little to Consul Ker.\n\nShanghue, December 1, 1904.\n\nI am sorry to find on my return your letter cutting short Ede's Concession. I do not yet know what we shall do about it, but it is a pity that the Minister has taken the view he has. One of the oldest and most respected merchants in Shanghae said to me a day or two ago, in connection with another enterprise, \"I would not put a penny into any British affair; the only people who get any support are the Germans.\" It is absolutely... \n\n[2140 ee-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 403543, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "page_number": 452, "title": "CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905", "content_text": "## 24\n\ncontains, and still more for the friendly relations which his knowledge and experience of these wild people enabled us to establish with them.\n\nMr. Leveson concurs with me in recommending to the favourable notice of His Majesty's Government the excellent work performed by the surveyors, often under circumstances of great difficulty, and the very good conduct of the military police escort.\n\nThe Lashi Headman of Lajawng, in the Myitkyina district, was with Mr. Leveson and rendered valuable services in all negotiations and interviews with the Lashis of Hpare and the Ngaw Chang.\n\nThe Lisu Headman of Bumrawng, in the Bhamo Hills, formerly a havildar in the Bhamo Military Police Battalion, accompanied me up the Salween as interpreter, as he speaks Chinese. I should like to mention his good conduct and special usefulness.\n\nOur thanks are due to the British Minister at Peking and to the Government of India for the representations made to the Chinese Government that the Acting Taotai, Shih Hung Chao, should be retained at his post for service on this expedition. In no case did we have to complain of any of the obstructions and difficulties which an official less strong-minded and new to the place would almost certainly have raised. Taotai Shih kept his followers in order, refrained from \"squeezing\" the country through which he passed, prevented his soldiers from indulging in the looting which is usually practised by Chinese \"braves\" on these occasions, and paid fair prices for his mules and his supplies. He was always amenable to reasonable arguments as to the proceedings which it was best for us to take, and decided all matters without reference to his subordinates, who, of course, were for sitting still or going back very early in the proceedings. It would be unfair not to admit that satisfactory results—so far as we obtained them—were in a measure due to the Taotai's common sense.\n\n## 25\n\n### Inclosure 8 in No. 1\n\n**Certificate granted to Tso Ta Hsiung, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Tzu Chu Village, in the Ming Kwang Narrows.** (Translation.)\n\nTHE Board of War in the matter of issuing a certificate:—\n\nWhereas the Minister for Military Appointments reports that he has received an official statement from Ngai, Grand Chancellor and Governor-General of Yunnan and Kwei Chon, to the effect that Tso Hua Tien, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Tzu Chu village in the Ming Kwang Narrows, subject to Tengyueh, has demised; that his son, Tso Ta Hsiung, who is now 22 years of age, is freely accepted by the various tribes as their Lord; and that a bond setting forth the registers of the genealogy of the Tso family has been delivered, together with the former certificate, and that the Governor-General has therefore addressed the Board for instructions to Tso Ta Hsiung to assume the succession;\n\nUpon this the Board, having inspected and recorded the bond concerning the genealogy of the family, has cancelled the previous certificate, and as it appears that the said Tso Hua Tien has demised, and the Governor-General reports that his son, Tso Ta Hsiung, is 22 years of age and accepted by the tribes, the Board will now, as requested, permit the said Tso Ta Hsiung to assume the succession to the title of Hereditary Sergeant of the village of Tzu Chu in the Ming Kwang Narrows in the Sub-Prefecture of Tengyueh. This present certificate, in exchange for the former, is hereby granted, and the said Tso is ordered to receive it. A necessary certificate addressed to Tso Ta Hsiung, Hereditary Sergeant, &c.\n\n(Signed)\n\nTAO KWANG.\n\n18th year (1889), 6th moon.\n\n(Translation.)\n\n### Inclosure 7 in No. 1\n\n**Taotai Shih to Acting Consul Litton.**\n\nPien Ma, April 17, 1905.\n\nI HAVE just had the honour to receive your letter and am in possession of its contents. The other day when we were at Ming Kwang I inquired from the two Fa Yi, Yang and Tso, as to the condition of the tribes on both sides of the Little River (Ngaw Chang). They stated that in former times a punitive expedition had gone against the rebellious barbarian, Tsao Ko, to Chih Ka and the country about it, beyond (i.e., right bank of) the Little River, and that the district had then been subjected to Chinese jurisdiction.* Subsequently they, the Fu Yi, had removed into Chinese territory to a great distance from the district in question. Besides, these barbarians are of a savage nature, and widely different from those who reside on this side (i.e., the left bank) of Little River; thus they had come to be beyond the pale of civilized government, and for a long time there had been no communication between them and the Chinese.\n\nHaving investigated this matter, I find that the above statements are correct. You have now been good enough to state verbally to me that the Deputy Commissioner of Bhamo proposes to proceed beyond the Ngaw Chang in order to inspect the country; but it is to be feared that the wild tribes of those parts, not being accustomed to seeing anything out of the common, may become alarmed and raise trouble. If the Deputy Commissioner is resolved to go, I would venture to request him to consider how important it will be to take proper precautions. You were good enough to ask me verbally about this matter, and on inquiry I found that the real state of the case is as I have mentioned above.\n\nI must therefore again request you to discuss with the Deputy Commissioner as to whether he should proceed or not.\n\nThe maps of Teng Keng and Mao Chao will be sent to you when they have been completed.\n\nCompliments.\n\n(Card of Taotai Shih.)\n\n* There is no evidence that the Headmen ever resided beyond the watershed.—G. L.\n\n### Inclosure 9 in No. 1\n\n**Certificate granted to Yang Tsar Wei, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Hpare Village, in the Ming Kwang Narrows.** (Translation.)\n\nTHE Board of War issues the following certificate:—\n\nWhereas the Minister for Military Appointments reports that the Department has submitted copy of an extract from the records of the Board to the effect that the Yün-Kwei Governor-General, Kwei, states that a report has been received from the Yung Chang Prefect that Yang Chan Ho, Hereditary Native Sergeant of Hpare in the Ming Kwang Narrows, has demised; that his son, Yang Tsai Wei, is now 22 years of age, and being the true and lawful eldest son of the deceased is freely accepted by the tribes as their Lord; and that the said Yang Tsai Wei should be permitted to assume the succession to his father's office and to administer the tribal villages; and that a bond has been delivered setting forth his family relations and genealogy, together with the former certificate, for transmission to the Board for instructions;\n\nAnd whereas (the Governor-General states that) when a vacancy occurs among the tribal officials, the rule is that the lawful eldest son succeeds, and that the said Yang Chan Ho, Native Sergeant, &c., has demised, leaving a vacancy; and his son, Yang Tsai Wei, being his true and lawful heir, is gladly accepted by the tribes, and should be permitted to succeed to the ancestral offices and administration of the tribal villages;\n\nThe Board, finding the above to be in accordance with the law, permits the said Yang Chan Ho to assume the said succession, and, in exchange for the former certificate, issues this present, which the said Yang should receive accordingly.\n\nThe above copy having been submitted in the 20th year of Tao Kwang on the 3rd day of the 11th moon, an Imperial Edict was received on the 4th: \"Let it be as proposed. Respect this!\"\n\nThe necessary certificate is accordingly issued to Yang, &c.\n\n[Note. Neither Tzu Chu nor Hpare is in the Ming Kwang or in the Ming Kwang \"Narrows (or passes), but a day's march beyond the passes. There is not the ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-331 - Public Offices - 1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 405389, "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": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "page_number": 584, "title": "CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7]", "content_text": "## Telegram from the Crown Agents to H.E. the Governor of Hongkong dated the 16th June, 1906\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 9th June to the Colonial Office ship by North German Lloyd 21st June to London half of coin or if it should suit you better the whole. We will insure. Telegraph what you propose to do.\n\n## Telegram from H.E. the Governor of Hongkong to the Crown Agents, dated the 16th June, 1906\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 16th June am shipping as directed $1,500,000. Propose to send balance by P & O leaving 30th June. When may we draw and how much.\n\n## Telegram from the Crown Agents to H.E. the Governor of Hongkong dated the 18th June, 1906\n\nEndeavour to ship all the coin 21st June money not available until arrival of coin. Full details by post.\n\n## Telegram from H.E. the Governor to the Crown Agents dated the 22nd June, 1906\n\nReferring to your telegram of the 18th June all the coin has been shipped 21st June. Bills of lading will be sent on 26th & 30th June.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-334 - Governor Nathan - 1906 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 406067, "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": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12]", "content_text": "38\n\nnda extnor aclus uk and 9i) je tist (.22 old) sandeel to enter\n\n..o ? Ja Roodoo „JJA\n\n'\n\n.b\n\nINOD CIJ WTI SALINO, Atena qulful del cadet\n\nrid to amollaon medic cat del 136 Pidana KORN 63 TOAURR\n\n4:130 1 salæra al acides amb mit ko Led 26 hodgroom so fargetin\n\nnið ta letwans ara vesilen il pastelu. 80 nis Jedd Arashiger lunga På\n\nTRIBLE JELA\n\nCOIN BUY ADULUBIEL SUBa enoljever to pitose sid vai-\n\nto 98 11\n\n+\n\n. \n\nna Makasar, dazwala dec 26, graaton Pasta & 101 and nid jedj JoscES OJ hods.8. Viietus tar ovLJATI WOT, do ceof) es snijpet ages sit ac\n\n„INJUL) MOLY YO toukouba enne sid by 22 beara (R) (07291) BIJ ONAJ PAJYJE (7-ondo 508'1 .3 . func.ftib qizatjas no Liude ja Judd Law Faus899se. Jirat 210gr porng mad * Je dood naj tulous of @waist add fel tag,sevidedävästien eid 101\n\n2010 28 03 900 Pies Being 20 401Jenus A* CUJUSG\n\n+\n\nAJ MOALE OLL\n\nBJ1900 GJ wolv & det #1JAITOR Lerosit\n\nVLAIST I'\n\n1\n\nBioresoù 1\n\nPasdødz pat 16 Seidd og ville de bruinossi gilisritonga Sared etno-\n\nmol dmg #.99 L1002 ct SAJ Jedd inom eld no\n\n(BALIBM SAJMOV\n\nJ 2L300 501aape Cod at 9amnjene $1100 ord, is devo sið nr. Jasemsierte\n\nHOW\n\nwhich the Chinese Government might take exception. Mr. Bland said that conditions of this kind while without possible detriment to the interest/ of the Chinese Governtent, were absolutely necessary to inspire con-fidence amongst investors. He had sent to Shanghai for one of the Bonds and hoped to be able to reassure His Excellency as to its form\n\nbeing unobjectionable.\n\nArticle 2. M. 5. T'ang Shao-Yi objected to the wording of this article in so far as it referred to the Working Agree-ment to be hereafter negotiated between the Viceroy and the Hongkong Government. He considered this as a ratter beyond the proper scope of\n\nthe present Loan Agreement which referred only to the Chinese section of the Hailway and be therefore proposed to delete all sention of the\n\nsaid working agreesent, incidentally, he objected to the ters as liable\n\nto create misapprehension and difficulty in the future, and stated that\n\nthe Chinese Government would not bind itself to the condition that the\n\ntwo sections of the line should be worked as one undertaking it being\n\ntheir intention to have separate frontier stations and an independent\n\nsystem, under conditions similar to those existing at the Hengtsi\n\nJunction of the Northern and Ching Han Hailways.\n\nkr. Biand expressed regret that this\n\nintention had not been made clear from the outset since the loan issue\n\nmust inevitably be prejudiced if there be any doubt as to the Railway\n\nbeing worked under reciprocal arrangements calcuisted to promote its\n\nearning powers, he pointed out that the Working Agreement had been\n\nfrequently mentioned and its eventual arrangement assured at earlier\n\nmeetings; siso that in Article 21 of the viceroy's draft it is specific-\n\n-ally provided for. After considerable discussion.it was agreed to\n\nsubstitute for the clause as drafted the Viceroy's original proposal,\n\nreading as follows:-\n\n\"The junction of the sections of the maiiway from *Canton to the boundary of the Kowloon Leased ferritory yaler British *control and from the said boundary to the port of Kowigon respectively\n\nshali", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-336 - Governor Nathan & Public Offices - 1906 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408400, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 102, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "Er. Howett: Do you often go to see people paid off at the Sailors Home?\n\nA. I act it is my vessel,\n\nQ. How often?\n\nA. It maybe once in a month or twice a fortnight; there is no certainty about it.\n\nExcellency: When were you asked to come here and be a witness?\n\nA. Yesterday.\n\nQ. Who asked you?\n\nA. Mr. Guterres.\n\nQ. Did he tell you what to say?\n\nA. No.\n\nQ. Did he tell you what the trouble was?\n\nA. No. He only asked me to come to the Governor's.\n\nQ. He did not tell you anything?\n\nA. No.\n\nMr. Thomson: Did you hear anything outside?\n\nA. No.\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: Do you know what this inquiry is?\n\nA. No, I don't. He asked me to come up to see the Governor.\n\nJohn Shaw MacGregor, called:\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: Your name?\n\nA. John Shaw MacGregor.\n\nQ. What are you?\n\nA. The master of the transport 'Verbena'.\n\nExamined by Mr. Guterres:\n\nQ. Then your crew are paid off, do you bring your own subsidiary coin?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Have you noticed any irregularity when I pay your crew?\n\nA. Never.\n\nQ. Have you ever seen me make any deduction from the seamen's wages?\n\nA. Never.\n\nQ. And the money is paid to the men in full?\n\nA. Quite.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408401, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "Cross-examined by Mr. Sercombe Smith:\n\nQ. How long has the Mercedes been out here?\n\nA. Nearly five years.\n\nQ. You have been here how long?\n\nA. Four years.\n\nQ. You always attend at the Shipping Office when your crew is paid off?\n\nA. Always.\n\nQ. You personally see that your crew is properly paid?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. It would be impossible for Mr. Guterres not to pay them in full while you were there?\n\nA. Quite.\n\nMr. Thomson: You always take your own subsidiary coin?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Was it Hongkong coin, the local tender in Hongkong?\n\nA. I cannot say, I go to my compradore and got change in silver, five cent pieces and ten cent pieces, I remember noticing that several had the King's head, This last time most of them had the King's head.\n\nMr. Hewett: You took notes as well?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. How do you manage when you pay men in old cents?\n\nA. I have seen one man receive five cents and told to give the other man two cents.\n\nMr. Gomperts: That was the average total of the sum paid to the crew?\n\nA. $1,100 or $1,200.\n\nQ. You bring it in a bag?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. So much in notes and so much in silver?\n\nA. Yes.\n\nQ. Do you provide copper?\n\nA. No, I hand Mr. Guterres the amount I have to pay. I make out a ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408405, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "40.\n\nQ. Do you count it out after Mr. Guterres?\n\nA. I see it counted on the table before each man takes it.\n\nQ. You are quite satisfied each man takes it?\n\nA. Yes,\n\nQ. Then are these notes given?\n\nA. They are generally given 24 hours before, In case people go away from the ship without leave the papers are taken low to the shipping office and handed to them there,\n\nJohn Bruce called:\n\nBy Mr. Sercombe Smith: That is your name?\n\nA. John Bruce.\n\nQ. What are you?\n\nA. I am master of the s... \"Hazel Dollar\",\n\nExamined by Mr. Guterres:\n\nQ. When your crew are paid off do you bring your own cash and subsidiary coin?\n\nA. I do.\n\nQ. Have you noted any irregularity when I pay your crew?\n\nA. None whatever.\n\nQ. Have you ever seen me make any deductions from seamen's wages?\n\nA. No.\n\nHis Excellency: How long have you been a master in these waters?\n\nA. Upwards of five years.\n\nQ. Do you always attend at the Shipping Office when your crew is paid off?\n\nA. Yes Sir,\n\nQ. Is that the usual practice here?\n\nA. Yes, Sir.\n\nMr. Sercombe Smith: You give orders for wages to your crew like that?\n\nA. Yes, I always give them an account of wages, perhaps not in this form.\n\nQ. If an account of wages is presented in your absence do you think it should be paid?", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408441, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "Seear M. Guterres,\n\n4/5 140\n\nM... F. A. Mercedes\n\nSongkong\n\nSeptr 9th 1906.\n\nI met Capt. Steel last Friday. He was telling me that someone had been lodging a complaint against you. I only saw him for a few minutes as he was in a hurry. He said you were accused of keeping back money when paying off ships' crews.\n\nI have licensed agents in Hongkong for four years now & I feel it is my duty to inform you that I have been perfectly satisfied with the way you have always discharged & paid my crew. As to any change being kept from them, I have noticed that each had not sufficient cents. I saw how you have handled the silver coins at the time when giving out money by handing one coin to one man & told him he was to pass it over to the other man, then another coin, or whatever cent, he had to receive.\n\nI asked my Boatswain (Chinese) if he had ever heard any complaint from the crew, & he replied \"No\". If this letter is of any use, please use it.\n\nYours sincerely,\n\nIthaw Merligan", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408704, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 406, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "AND\n\nJEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY LIMITED CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LIMITED.\n\n23\n\n402\n\nS.S. Astyanax Shanghai Jaury 25 1907 Port Date\n\nDear Mr. Guttenis,\n\nI regretted to learn from you that you have had notice from the Government respecting your honour and straightforwardness in dealing with our Chinese Crews.\n\nThe counts on which you are charged appears to me to be unfair, for I can honestly say that you have always performed your business in a most satisfactory manner, and showed no partiality in any way, and I have never alleged, nor heard of, your being unjustly treated by you.\n\nWhen paying my crew off in your presence, the money to pay them off with has been drawn from my Agents or brought on board by the Compadore, and you have counted it out in their presence and paid them off with it. I therefore fail to see how I am to be charged with paying spurious coin in lieu of good coin.\n\nI am of the firm opinion that the ordinary shipmaster would not think of doing such a thing, and I have never had an instance where a man has brought and come to me, nor have I heard any intimation of their receiving any bad money, whether made or not.\n\nI have always kept in touch with my crew, and know they would not hesitate to tell me if they received bad money.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408759, "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": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "page_number": 461, "title": "CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3]", "content_text": "#8131 \n\nS. S. \"Astynax\" \nShanghai 25th January. \n1907.\n\nDear Mr Guterres,\n\nI regretted to learn from you on paying my crew off at Hong Kong that you have had notice from the Government respecting your honour and straight forwardness in dealing with our Chinese Crews. The counts on which you are charged appear to me very unfair, or I can honestly say that you have always performed your business in a most satisfactory manner, and showed no partiality in any way, and I have never seen men being unjustly treated by you. I have paid my crew off in your presence now eighteen times, and in each case the money to pay them off with had been drawn from my Agents or brought on board by the Compradore, and you have counted it out in my presence and paid the men off with it. I therefore fail to see how spurious coin can be paid in lieu of good. I am of firm opinion that the ordinary shipmaster would not think of doing such a thing and I have never met with an instance where a man has brought a bad coin to me, nor have I ever heard any mention of their receiving any. I have always kept in touch with my crew, and know they would not hesitate to tell me about it if they received bad money, \n\nWhoever made this accusation evidently has a very poor opinion of shipmaster or knows nothing at all about him or the way the crews are paid off.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-339 - Acting Governor May Governor Nathan - 1907 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 408949, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "16\n\nincluding those of 52 women and 19 children were recovered of persons who had sought but failed to find safety by jumping into the water and the charred remains of 19 others were found on board while 2 persons died in hospital from injuries received.\n\nA valuable cargo was lost and the whole interior of the ship destroyed. The cause of the fire was not definitely ascertained but is believed to have been a coolie smoking on a heap of matting on deck.\n\nApart from these calamities various occurrences outside the Colony tended to make the year a bad one for trade, Piracy in the waterways leading to Canton was rife, culminating in an attack on the British Steamer Sainam of 349 tons belonging to the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, which took place on the evening of the 13th July near Sam Shai on the West River when the ship was on her way from Canton to Wa Chow. In this attack the master and several Indian watchmen belonging to the ship were wounded and a missionary—the Revd. R. J. J. MacDonald, M.D., killed. The Chinese authorities stimulated by H.B.M. Consul-General at Canton showed some vigour in detecting and punishing the persons engaged in this outrage but the problem, in which the mercantile community of the Colony took an active interest, of how to prevent the occurrence of similar incidents in the future had received no solution by the end of the year.\n\nBad as were the effects on trade of the insecurity of the waterways, far greater evils resulted from the direct action of the Canton authorities in issuing from the provincial mint vast quantities of subsidiary coins containing about 10 per cent. less silver than the dollar of which they purported to represent fractional parts. This over-issue, bringing down the value of stocks of similar coins already in the country by about 5 per cent. greatly reduced the purchasing power of the Kwang Tung consumer of foreign goods. It incidentally brought down the dollar value of the Hongkong subsidiary coins to the inconvenience of various trading concerns in the Colony and of its Government who were unable to get rid of a large stock of this coin purchased in the preceding year and had eventually to return $3,308,000 of it to England for sale as bullion. The Hongkong Government decided as a result of this lesson to eliminate from their future financial policy the idea of making profit from the supply of subsidiary coins to the two Kwang Provinces and then took steps, which since the end of the year have had some result, to impress on the Government of those Provinces the imperious necessity for checking the output from the Canton mint.\n\nOther matters outside the Colony adversely affecting its prosperity were the failure due to floods of the first rice crop in the neighbouring provinces of China and the continued appreciation of silver.\n\nIn the China trade of Hongkong and as regards imports very heavy losses had to be faced at the end of the year owing to the large stocks of Indian yarn which were held at prices above their true value. Neither in Manchester, fancy or woollen goods was business satisfactory and in metals it was dull. Importations of Australian flour continued to increase largely. Exports did not do so badly. There was a good yield of silk and fair demand for it and native dealers were satisfied with the results of the year as regards ginger and soy.\n\nThe rise in the Sterling value of the dollar which has been going on since early in 1903 continued in 1906, the range of variation in the year being slightly greater than in 1905. At the commencement of January the dollar stood at 2s. 0¼d. It fell to 2s. 01/8d. for a short time at the end of that month and again at the end of February, rose irregularly to 2s. 3d. in the middle of November and was worth 2s. 3¾d. at the end of the year. The maximum of the year was the highest value that had been attained since the end of 1893. The rise is said to have involved some withdrawal of capital from the Colony for investment in gold using countries and consequent depreciation in the value of local stocks.\n\nCertainly those stocks dealt with in the Colony which give the best indication of the state of its business decreased considerably in value during the year. The shares of four land companies went down on an average over 10% while those of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, in spite of business brought by the typhoon, fell nearly 12% and of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company 13%. The shares in nearly every industrial undertaking, including the two sugar refineries, the Cement Company and the Rope Manufacturing Company shrunk in value.\n\n17\n\nThe depreciation in the value of land and buildings evidenced by the fall in the shares of the land companies was attributed by some to the manner in which the provisions of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance of 1903 were being enforced by the officials of the Sanitary and Public Works Departments. Complaints in the local newspapers and at the meetings of the Sanitary Board that the Ordinance was not being properly or reasonably administered were so numerous in the early part of the year that it appeared to the Government advisable to institute an enquiry into them and also into certain suggestions as to corruption that had made themselves heard. A committee consisting of the unofficial members of the Sanitary Board were appointed on the 28th April to carry out this enquiry under the Chairmanship of the Honourable Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C. As however it presently seemed necessary that there should be power to enforce the attendance of witnesses, compel the production of documents, etc., the Committee was converted into a Commission on the 10th May. Mr. Pollock's resignation of the Chairmanship shortly afterwards required an amended Commission dated the 26th May appointing the Honourable Mr. E. A. Hewett to the post. The Commission were directed to enquire into and report:\n\n(1.) Whether the administration of the Sanitary and Building Regulations enacted by the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, as now carried out is satisfactory, and, if not, what improvements can be made.\n\n(2.) Whether any irregularity or corruption exists or has existed among the officials charged with the administration of the aforesaid regulations.\n\nThe Commission had not reported by the end of the year but had brought to the notice of the Government several cases of corrupt practices which were dealt with by the Executive Council of the Colony.\n\nIn the early part of the year also numerous petitions were presented by elders in the New Territories through the Registrar General on the subject of Crown Rent for agricultural lands and buildings. These resulted in the Government after full consideration declining to reduce but promising not to increase for the 75 years term of lease the rents in question and in their making several minor concessions. This result appears to have given satisfaction and the former difficulties in collecting rent have nearly disappeared.\n\nIn other respects the Territories were quiet and apparently prosperous during the year. Crops were good except for the typhoon damage to which reference has already been made.\n\nMining operations there remained in the prospecting stage, but the discovery of iron ore, which competent engineers report to be present in large quantities, led the promoters to apply for the mining lease of a square mile of territory in the Sha Tin District. This was granted by the Government to Sir Paul Chater, Kt., C.M.G., on the 21st January, 1907. Analysis shows that the ore is composed of Magnetite iron ranging from 53% to 60% metal, entirely free from phosphorus or sulphur, and therefore the very best ore for the manufacture of steel. Japanese buyers are in treaty for the purchase of the ore but the Company recently formed by Sir Paul Chater desire if possible to establish smelting works in the Colony, and are now negotiating with English Iron Masters on the subject.\n\nRailway matters continued to be of special interest and made some progress in 1906.\n\nThe attempts of H.B.M. Consul at Canton and Minister at Peking and of the Hongkong Government to get the Chinese authorities to open negotiations for the conclusion of a Final Loan Agreement for the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon Railway and of an agreement for the joint working of that with the British section resulted in four meetings being held at Canton in March and April between representatives of the Viceroy there and of the British and Chinese Corporation, in the Viceroy recognizing the Preliminary Agreement made by the Corporation with the Chinese Government on the 28th March, 1899, and in his proposing arrangements which, though they differed materially from those of the preliminary loan agreement and included none for joint working, were accepted as the basis for the further negotiations. These, after many delays, were carried out at Peking between Tang Shao-yi, the Chinese Director General of Railways, two representatives of the Canton Viceroy and Mr. J. O. P. Bland representing the Corporation. Ten meetings were held between the 23rd August and the 7th November and on the 10th of the latter month a Final Loan Agreement was signed by Tang Shao-yi and Mr. Bland. It provides for the Corporation issuing a 5 per cent. loan of £1,500,000 for the construction and equipment of the Chinese section of the railway. A first mortgage on the railway is to be the security of the loan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 409259, "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": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "page_number": 325, "title": "CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6]", "content_text": "1\n\n1\n\nنیم\n\n321\n\nClaimants\n\nWo; the Crom or the\n\nThe Chief Justice\n\ndelay That we ord danding with is bethan a certain de-\n\ncision 12.0 a correct decision.\n\n12. Glede proce-dɔd to argue that the Ordinance under\n\nvilch the doch and obtained loare to appeal did not con-\n\nthin ang suformce to purchasers from original claimants,\n\non dich point thuir position #brelutely unaffected\n\nby Un. Ordinanon, the Oldinance indeed was an attempt on\n\nthe part of the Goverment to get behind a honest, open\n\nspeculation in land m de by his clients two years ago,\n\nand Vithout paying compencation. T. & the Court had to\n\ndecide was not the question whether the Land Court ad-\n\njudged right of the facte before them, but who was on-\n\ntalled to this lid.\n\n \n\nThe Puise Judgo\n\nThe Chief Surtice\n\nWo sro not going to do that.\n\nIt is an orpoal ageinet a deci-\n\ncion.\n\nMr.folde I aph it it dut I ang to the subject-\n\nmatter of a cube,\n\nThe Attorney General in hie reply stated that his\n\nfriend minconceived his position, end that cheir Lord-\n\nships would be travelling out of their proper course if\n\nthey were to put his cliente in on respondents. At the\n\ntime the case was before the and Court tuge persons\n\ndid not cxiut, so that civir presence in the land Court\n\nXXXH vas not neccusay at 611. Therefore they could not\n\nbe parling in an uppoud egalnet a docision of the Land\n\nCouch. Way the delay, till within a fow drys of the date\n\nfixed by the Court for the hearing of the enso, in apply-\n\ning for tauno men to be made ruspondentn? There vos ab-\n\nsolutely no answer to his Lordships qucation. To (the\n\nAttorney General) was n ́t oven permitted by the law so\n\naccode to this a plication being guantod.. Mis friend had\n\n5.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-340 - Governor Nathan Acting Governor May - 1907 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410973, "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": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## Confidential Memorandum\n\nThe Chinese \"Yünnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways Company\" themselves claim that if we obtain the Concession \"the Yunnanese can only await extinction,\" and that Yunnan will cease to belong to the Empire,\" is of course pure rodomontade. Yünnan would obviously be in a safer position politically if a British railway to her capital were competing against the French railway that will be running thither before three years are up; while the benefits to the Yunnanese at large would be inestimable, and the Yunnanese know it. The esoteric meaning of this hold on the profits is the retention by a numerically minute clique of the power to squeeze.\n\nIndeed, it is evident that the present telegram was largely concocted by the leaders of that clique at Yunnan-fu, the overbearing avaricious Treasurer, Lin Ch'un-lin, and the youthful pedants on the teaching staff of the \"University,\" his ready tools. Ting Chon-to, the Governor-General, is exceedingly timid and weak; moreover, he expects in a few months, or even weeks, to be relieved of his post here, and is therefore disinclined to take up a position that would expose him to attack from men who can get attention both at Peking and in the native press.\n\nI had not long sent off my telegram to you summarizing the missive of the 25th October, when my writer brought me a copy of the later telegram (2nd November) of which I inclose translation. When, as I have explained in my last despatch, I arranged with the Governor-General's intermediaries to accept and acknowledge a note from his Excellency asking me to telegraph to the Government of India the statement that the Wai-wu Pu had been asked to consult with the British Minister, and that it was inexpedient that the engineers should cross the frontier, I made it clear that I would do nothing more than transmit this message. Accordingly, I requested that if a further telegram was sent to the Wai-wu Pu, I might be permitted to see it. I cannot, of course, be sure that the telegram exhibited to me contains the whole of the consequent message from Yunnan to Peking, but I have little doubt that this is the case. As it was voluntarily shown to me by the Foreign Department, under instructions from the Governor-General, it need not be regarded (as I would ask you to regard its predecessor of the 25th October) as secret. Its contents are only the more remarkable; and its communication to me may be held, according to the point of view, to mark on the part of the Yunnan Government either extreme simplicity, deep astuteness, or great effrontery.\n\nTo begin with, the telegram is so worded as almost, if not altogether, to convey the impression that I had myself asked the Indian Government to consider the question at issue as finally disposed of in favour of the \"Company to build themselves the Tengyueh line.\"\n\nI have sent my writer to point out to the Foreign Department the fact that the telegram should, in fairness to the Wai-wu Pu if not to me, have stated that I have to await a reply from India. Meanwhile, it is to be expected that the Wai-wu Pu will confront Sir John Jordan with the assertion that his local representative (myself) has admitted the Chinese contention.\n\nA more serious feature of the telegram is the advice given to the Wai-wu Pu to \"politely but firmly refuse.\" I have instructed my writer to observe that these words must be taken to refer to, at any rate, the Tali reconnaissance, if not to the Tengyueh Railway. His Excellency, however, is perfectly well aware that he gave, six months ago, his consent to this reconnaissance; it is therefore hardly acting in good faith to now urge his Central Government to oppose it. I do not imagine that verbal remonstrances at second hand will have much effect; but whereas his Excellency has admitted to my writer the fact that he consented last May to the reconnaissance, it is certain that he would under present circumstances feel constrained to deny to myself in person that his promise had passed, especially if the Treasurer were present.\n\nAfter all, the question of the reconnaissance is only a part of the main issue. If we insist on effect being given to the Agreement of March 1902, we can make surveys of all routes that lie anywhere between our frontier and Yünnan-fu. In telegraphing to you yesterday and to Sir John Jordan, I accordingly again ventured to suggest that we ought now to insist on a railway right through to Yunnan-fu, on terms precisely similar to those accorded (in 1903) to the French. We may eventually, if we see fit, consent to accept less; but we shall hardly succeed in getting anything at all if we begin by demanding less.\n\nThe Government of India has, I cannot doubt, solid reasons for hesitation. Until it becomes sufficiently certain that capitalists will come forward to take over such a Concession, the Indian Government may not wish to require it of the Chinese Government. While our right to equality in Yunnan with the French remains merely a doctrine, admitted by China as a doctrine only, and is not materialized into a definite demand for such or such a Concession, the Chinese Government cannot name a time limit within which it must be availed of under penalty of forfeiture; whereas it would not be unreasonable to call on us to give effect within a term of years to a particular Concession such as this railway to Yünnan-fu - so as not to block the way to others less dilatory.\n\nWhile admitting the force of such arguments, I would submit that in the present temper of the Chinese Government (or perhaps I should say, while the Chinese Government is swayed by the party now in power) it will not be possible to obtain even the Concession of an Anglo-Chinese Joint-Stock Light Railway from the Kulikha to Tengyueh, without invoking the Agreement of 1902. But the Indian Government has instructed me (by the telegram sent through your Government on the 3rd October last) that nothing should imply that the Tengyueh Railway Concession would exhaust our right to equality with the French. Why should we not therefore in the first instance formulate that right as \"the Concession of a railway from our frontier to Yunnan-fu on precisely similar terms to those accorded to the French in 1903\"? The admission of this claim by China - and it is hard to see how she could refuse to admit it - would give us at once what we now desire, the Tengyueh Railway and the Tali reconnaissance. The Tali reconnaissance (followed, as I trust it would certainly be, by a reconnaissance from that city to Kunlong in the one direction and to Yunnan-fu in the other) would provide us at last with the means of deciding whether it is worth our while to carry into effect the Concession as a whole. If we decide that it is, we should have no difficulty in obtaining the necessary capital; if that it is not, we should only have expended the cost of the various reconnaissances.\n\nFinally, if we do not now enforce our rights, we shall find them in the future increasingly difficult to maintain. The Chinese will hasten to create paper Chinese Railway Companies for every possible avenue of approach from the Burma frontier towards Yunnan-fu; and although nothing further will be done beyond hampering native trade with \"percentages for railway construction\" that will merely fill the pockets of Treasurer Liu and his successors, yet will the Chinese Government point to our acquiescence in 1906 in the \"Tengyueh Railway Company's\" monopoly as a valid argument why our later remonstrances must be regarded as unreasonable. Meanwhile, the less amenable French will have established and strengthened their commercial hold - and political influence - over not Eastern Yunnan alone, but over all Yünnan as far west as Yungchang and as far north as the Szechuan border.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Confidential.) (Translation.) (Telegraphic.)**\n\n(Signed) \nW. H. WILKINSON.\n\n## Inclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\n**Governor-General Ting Chen-to to the Wai-wu Pu.** \nOctober 25, 1906.\n\nLETTERS and despatches were received on various occasions from the British Consul-General in Yünnan stating that he was in receipt of telegrams from the Government of Burma saying that it is proposed to build a light railway from the Kulikha through to Tengyueh for the convenience of traders and the conveyance of their goods, and that engineers would have to be sent to ascertain by survey whether the construction is possible, and to prepare plans for examination, when further negotiations would be held with the Yunnan Government for the final arrangements. It was asked that deputies should be sent to join in the survey and to afford protection.\n\nThe Governor-General gave orders at the time to the Intendant of Western Yünnan, who sent deputies on two occasions, the seasons of 1904 and 1905, to join in the survey and afford protection.\n\nAssent, however, has now been given to a Memorial that Yünnan shall build the Yunnan-Szechuan and Tengyueh Railways, and in pursuance of the Regulations it has been memorialized to establish a Company for the raising by ourselves of funds and for the construction of the line, so as to preserve our hold on the profits. Unexpectedly within the last month or so a series of notes has been received from the British Consul-General stating that he was in receipt of telegrams from the Governments of Burma and India saying that Engineer Lilley, earlier sent by them, would, on the 1st January, that is, the 17th of the 11th moon of the Chinese calendar, leave Bhamo for the country between Tengyueh and Tali to make a reconnaissance of the routes, and asking that...\n\nPage 150 \nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411212, "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": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 389, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "# 383\n\n## Inclosure 8 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Fraser to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n**(No. 64.) Sir,**\n\nHankow, October 29, 1906. IN obedience to your telegram No. 25 of yesterday, I have the honour to report on the question of the employment of British engineers on the Canton-Hankow Railway.\n\nAfter my telegram No. 14 on the 4th June, I saw the Viceroy's Chief Secretary Wang, who told me that the Viceroy was so disgusted with the scandal over the Kwangtung Railway Company that he had decided to have nothing to do with the Hankow-Canton line beyond Yo-chou, and that, therefore, the question of employing Mr. Kinder had better be allowed to drop; the chief of three Japanese engineers engaged for the Hupei section of the trunk line westward probably resurveying the short Hupei section of the southern line also.\n\nThough well aware of Mr. Wang's leaning towards the Japanese, I did not press the point in view of Mr. Kinder's disinclination, expressed to Mr. Flaherty when he passed through Hankow in June, to undertake any surveying unless satisfied that construction of the two Hukwang sections would follow within a reasonable time, and be intrusted to an engineer approved by him.\n\nAbout the 20th September, however, a deputy brought me a message that the Viceroy wanted Mr. Kinder to come and resurvey, and hoped I would write to Mr. Kinder, as his Excellency did not care to lay himself open to a rebuff from Mr. Kinder's employer. I repeated Mr. Kinder's views as given above, and the matter remained in abeyance until, on the 26th instant, the Viceroy sent his Secretary, Mr. Chan, with the inclosed note.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong had in August sent me the despatches exchanged with the Canton Viceroy regarding the reported engagement of a Belgian engineer by the Kwangtung Railway Company, in order that, if I found a favourable opportunity, I might show it to the Viceroy Chang.\n\nAfter learning from Mr. Chan the details of the proposal that the Viceroy wished me to make on his behalf to Mr. Kinder—which are set forth in my telegram No. 18 of the 26th instant—I told him that I could see no justice in the argument that the Canton Railway Company, being a commercial body, was freed from the obligations which the three provinces alike incurred last autumn to the Government of Hong Kong and His Majesty's Representatives. The Company owed its existence to the fact that the American Development Company's concession had been redeemed, and that redemption was rendered possible only by the help of the British authorities. For a Company that enjoyed a valuable privilege won by British money to fail to give British engineers the first option of constructing the line was, if not literally dishonest, at any rate dishonourable; while to employ an American after China's outcry against the conduct of the American concessionnaires amounted very nearly to an insult to our people, who had listened to China's appeal for relief.\n\nMr. Chan admitted the justice of my argument, but protested that his Excellency Chang could not govern the actions of a Kwangtung Company.\n\nI rejoined that his Excellency Chang had been intrusted with the sole management of the task of resumption, and my representations in favour of granting the loan were received favourably because of the specially high estimation in which His Majesty's Representatives held him on account of the events of 1900 and 1901. In time of need, both Kwangtung and Hunan were eager to avail themselves of his good offices; how could they refuse his advice now his task had been carried through with British help? The talk of the Kwangtung section being now independent of Government was a mere quibble. The whole line was to be a Government undertaking when his Excellency gave me the assurances, not confined to his formal despatch of 9th September, 1905, that the provinces concerned and China herself would not prove ungrateful for our kindly aid; and the Chinese Government could not hand over to the Company the benefits of the resumption without at the same time transferring to the Company the complementary obligations incurred by China's Representative. His Excellency Chang occupied a position of special eminence in the eyes of all the provinces, and I could not believe that were he to telegraph to the Canton Company the true and just view of their duty in this matter, the Company would not be brought to see the right.\n\nMr. Chan, having promised to report our conversation to the Viceroy, we turned to other subjects, and upon his departure, I thought it desirable to back up his report by the inclosed note to his Excellency Chang.\n\nOn the 27th instant, Mr. Chan called again with questions as to His Majesty's Legation's alleged objections to the proposed new Kuping tael coin, and I tried to make him see the confusion and discredit that must result from calling by the name of an established weight of silver a coin containing nearly 4 per cent. less silver. When at length he professed himself apprised of the point, I suggested that at a personal interview, I might be better able to explain to his Excellency the impossibility of giving a fictitious value to a standard coin by any exercise of a Government's credit and power. At this suggestion, he expressed much relief, and I hope within a few days to have an interview with the Viceroy.\n\nMr. Chan then added that the Viceroy quite appreciated my remonstrance as to the Canton Company's action and would consider the wording of a telegraphic admonition to it; but that Mr. Wang said that the Company, intending to engage one British, one Japanese, and one American engineer, had applied to the Chinese Ministers in those countries, and only the Minister at Washington had as yet taken action.\n\nJust as he was leaving, Mr. Chan stated, on Mr. Wang's authority, that the engineer Mr. Kinder was asked to supply would at present be engaged only for resurvey and estimating duties, a modification which increased my desire to see the Viceroy myself.\n\nIn accordance with your instructions, copies of this despatch, with its inclosures, have been forwarded to his Excellency the Governor of Hong Kong and to His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n**(Signed) E. H. FRASER.**\n\n## Inclosure 9 in No. 1.\n\n### Viceroy Chang to Consul-General Fraser.\n\nHankow, October 26, 1906.\n\n[The first part of the note refers to Hou Hu land matters.]\n\nAgain, with regard to the engineers who must be engaged for the Yueh-Han line, I am now in receipt of a telegram from Canton stating that it has been decided to engage an American engineer. The Canton line is now under merchant management, and I cannot interfere with their desire to bring in an American. But as regards that part of the line which lies within the boundaries of Hupei and Hunan, I adhere to my decision to engage a British assistant engineer for making surveys and estimates. I am sending my interpreter, Chang, to your Consulate to discuss in a personal interview what the position, salary, and powers of the engineer are to be.\n\n## Inclosure 10 in No. 1.\n\n### Consul-General Fraser to Viceroy Chang.\n\nHankow, October 26, 1906.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of Excellency's note brought to me this morning by your interpreter, Chang. The substance of our conversation on the subjects mentioned therein was no doubt promptly repeated to your Excellency. I am reporting to His Majesty's Minister at Peking and at the same time writing to Mr. Kinder.\n\nI wish, however, to make some observations with regard to the Yueh Han line. In the first instance, it was Sheng Kung Pao who made the Agreement with the Americans and the Chinese Government, considering that it was derogatory to Chinese rights, afterwards appointed your Excellency to devise means of resuming the Concession. Your Excellency then consulted with me and asked me to get a large loan from the Hong Kong Government for resumption purposes. The railway was at first under the management of the officials of the three provinces concerned, but later on Canton decided to convert it into a commercial undertaking. Quite irrespective of its being an official or commercial concern, I should like to ask whether the Concession could have been resumed had it not been for the British aid afforded. The Canton Railway having...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411449, "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": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 626, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## The Chaochowfu Railway\n\nThe stations (Mandarin rendering in brackets) with the times of departure were as follows:-\n\n| Station | Mandarin Rendering | Departure Time |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Swatow | Shan-tou | 7:02 AM |\n| Am-pou | An-p'o | 7:27 |\n| Tshua-tng-chhi | Ts'in-tang-chih | 7:50 |\n| Phu-ien | Fou-yang | 8:11 |\n| Pang-khoi | Feng-ch'i | 8:21 |\n| Tie-chin Hu | Chao chon Pu | 8:27 |\n| Ch'ao-chou Fu | | Arrive 8:36 |\n\nIn addition to the new terminus at I-khoe, it is intended to make new stations at Tou-men-ch'iao and Chin-shih-kung.\n\nFares, first-class, 1 dol. 25 c. each way; third-class, 50 cents or 90 cents for the return journey.\n\nA great many Chinese travel by the line, and on my train I noticed two or three Japanese passengers.\n\nAt Swatow and Ch'ao-chou Fu the railway stations are single storied and built of mud and cement and whitewashed. They each contain several rooms. At the other stations there are only small wooden huts, open at the sides, with small mud-houses for the railway employés.\n\nThe wooden post sunk into the ground is a perilous venture in this land of white ants.\n\nThe platforms of the stations are raised about 2 feet above the line, built of sand and earth, and faced along the line with stone. Each platform is about 80 yards long by 6 yards wide.\n\nAt Swatow there are six sidings, with an additional four, which run into two goods sheds. There is also an engine-house and a water-tank.\n\nAt Am-pou there is only one siding. At the other stations there are two sidings, the longer one being from 100 to 150 yards long. The terminus at Ch'ao-chou Fu is about 200 yards beyond the station and close to the city wall.\n\nCh'ao-chou Fu is estimated to have a population of 300,000 inhabitants.\n\nThe train stops to water about 2 to 3 miles south of Tshua-tng-chhi, at a huge raised water-bucket, supplied by cans from a stream close by. There are two additional water-tanks at Tshua-tng-chhi station and one at Ch'ao-chou Fu.\n\nTwo telegraph lines ran on the right (east) side of the line, a single strand being presumably the railway telegraph, whilst beyond it is the Government telegraph.\n\nExcept for one or two very short cuttings beyond Pang-khoi station, the line runs along an embankment the whole way. It is usually from 2 to 4 feet above the surrounding country, though at the Swatow end it is raised about 6 feet for the first few miles.\n\nThe line is standard gauge and single, and very little width of embankment is allowed on either side of the rails. The embankment is made mostly from field mud, dry out of a trench, close to the left (west) side of the embankment. The soil is mostly alluvial clay, though in some places beyond Tshua-tng-chhi it is sandy. The line throughout is ballasted with a very thin layer of sand. Before reaching Am-pou many small streams from 3 to 10 yards wide are crossed by culverts, all faced with stone, whilst two small branches of the Han River, respectively 30 and 40 yards wide, are also crossed by bridges of one and two stone piers. These small streams and water outlets were the greatest difficulty encountered in the construction of the line.\n\nThe embankment is not revetted, and no grass or trees have been planted along it.\n\nThe line appears to have been done in a hurry, and also to have been done too much on the cheap. A siding could easily have been run into the hills 2 or 3 miles to the west, and ballast of disintegrating granite obtained. The railway was opened in the driest season, and the general opinion is that it will not be able to survive a storm or the rainy season that is usual from May to August. A missionary told me that there had only been one shower since the line was opened, and it was followed by an accident on the line. He also said that the embankment was so rotten, that he was able to run his umbrella for some distance under the sleepers. Beyond one small party throwing up a few clods of earth, I did not see any steps being taken to strengthen the bank.\n\nI also found the line very shaky.\n\nThe rolling-stock is sufficient for present needs; they have at present three American locomotives, one at least of which has done duty elsewhere. My train was small, and marked **American Brooks Works, 1904**.\n\nThere are about twenty-two passengers' coaches, constructed in Japan, and marked `K.S.K. Osaka`. My train consisted of two vans, two composite first- and third-class carriages, and eight third-class carriages. The composite cars can seat twelve first-class passengers, and eighteen third-class passengers, whilst the third class seat fifty-two passengers on small wooden benches. All the carriages are corridor compartments. The first class are comfortable with reversible backs on the benches, though there is a good deal of shoddy, rough castings, inferior veneer, and imitation leather on the cushions.\n\nThe rails, which are about 30 feet long, appear to be second-hand, as they are very rusty, and I could not decipher the name on them. They come from America, and are laid on Japanese hard-wood sleepers, each rail being fixed to the sleeper by two rivets, whilst each fish-plate is attached by four rivets.\n\nThe construction of the line has taken two years to a day, and has cost up to date close on 3,000,000 dollars. A first-class English firm (I believe **Jardine, Mathieson**) tendered to do the whole for 1,750,000 dollars, but the Chinese elected to give carte blanche to a Japanese Company with the present result. It has been planned and entirely carried out by Japanese and Chinese. The line is managed by Japanese, and they supply the station-masters at the termini and the guards on the trains. Permission was also given to them to supply the engine drivers, until the Chinese ones were trained, but I believe the train I travelled on was driven by Chinese.\n\nThe line belongs to a private Company, and is supposed to be entirely financed by Chinese, though possibly there is some Japanese money in it. The Chinese admit they are losing money over it, and the receipts are barely enough to cover their daily expenses, and are not sufficient to pay the interest on the 3,000,000 dollars spent in constructing the line.\n\nIt is intended to eventually connect the line with the trunk line from Canton to Hankow, and also with the coast line from Canton to Foo-chow, but all these lines remain to be built, and the Swatow line will no doubt have gone through some serious vicissitudes before this happy consummation is arrived at.\n\nThe railway offices are in the town of Swatow, where I saw several stands of **Mauser (1888)** repeating rifles for nine rounds. The clerk at the office told me that the line is guarded by 300 \"Fu-yung,\" or protecting Braves, men raised locally by the Company to protect the line. I only saw a few of them at Ch'ao-chou Fu station. The clerk also said that the people had shown a good deal of animosity to the construction of the line, which was now, however, dying out, as they became accustomed to it. There was also a good deal of difficulty in the purchasing of the land.\n\nI am appending a tracing of the line which I copied from the one in the railway offices.\n\n**G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.**\n\n(Signed)\n\nHong Kong, December 23, 1906.\n\nPage 620 \nE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 412583, "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": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "page_number": 343, "title": "CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "## This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.\n\n340\n\n2\n\nChinese. However, like all Chinese, they are of an inflammable nature, and, as in the case of peaceful natures, when once aroused they may go to further extremes than more turbulent spirits, as happened in 1900.\n\n4. Opium Smoking.--Shan-hsi is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the opium-smoking provinces of China. Mr. Sowerby assured me that in and around Tai-yuan Fu, though there might be a slight decrease, it was not very appreciable. He said that sometimes, when he goes into a village and asks how many non-opium smokers it contains, an inhabitant will smile and point to one or two small children, whilst in another a native will state with some pride that 110 per cent. [sic] are opium smokers. He thinks, however, that less opium is grown in the district.\n\nGoing north, I found at Ta-tung Fu that the evil was much less, and in that city the Magistrate stated, and the local missionary corroborated, that under 50 per cent. were opium smokers. The Magistrate, himself an inveterate smoker and possibly unreliable (I had no means of checking his statement), stated that only one-fifth of the area given up to the poppy in his district last year was now utilized for the same purpose.\n\n5. The Irish potato was introduced by Dr. Attwood, an American missionary, residing at Feng-chou Fu, some twenty years ago and has proved a great success. I found them in abundance in the Ta-t'ung Fu region.\n\n6. Secret Societies. The great anti-dynastic Secret Society known as the Ko-ming-tang is, local missionaries assured me, very strong in the parts of the province I visited, and many of the officials are believed to belong to it. At Hsin Chou, 47 miles to the north of T'ai-yuan Fu, it was rumoured that there would be a great rising in Southern China this August, that the troops in the north would be dispatched to put it down, and that when they were gone the north would seize the opportunity to rise. This, of course, is only a type of the sensational and ridiculous rumours one hears at times in the country, but it shows that the feeling of unrest is very extended.\n\n7. Robbers flourish in the hills to the north-east and to the west of Ta-t'ung Fu, but they usually avoid the main road, and, as is always the case, they are not likely to attack a passing foreigner. It is only a matter of surprise that with such poorly trained soldiers as the provincial troops (the Hsun-fang-tui) the robbers are of such minor local importance.\n\n8. Poorness of the Province. Shan-hsi is a very poor province, and T'ai-yüan Fu is very inferior in population and importance to any provincial capital I have yet visited. (I have visited fourteen out of eighteen.) I estimate the population at between 50,000 and 70,000 inhabitants, whilst the officials put it at only 40,000. I believe that as regards population Ta-tung Fu has the largest population of any city in the province. The railway is, however, attracting people to Tai-yüan Fu, and it is bound to improve on its present stagnant condition. Through the energy of Taotai Ting, the Judge, a fine new road is being made, and they are even reported to be in possession of a steam-roller, which, however, I did not personally see.\n\n9. Russian Colony at Kalgan.--Consists of one Russian clerk in the Russo-Chinese Bank, and three Siberian Russians (viz., one postmaster and two tea merchants), who have not much in common with their European compatriot.\n\n10. Japanese Instructors at Tai-yuan Fu.-There are ten in the various schools, including one officer in the military school and one sergeant-major.\n\n(Signed) G. PEREIRA, Lieutenant-Colonel, Grenadier Guards, Military Attaché.\n\nPeking, August 24, 1907.\n\n## CHINA TRADE\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[36185]\n\n[November 2.]\n\n### SECTION 3.\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.--(Received November 2.)\n\n(No. 443.) Sir,\n\nPeking, September 17, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 260 of the 4th July transmitting copy of a letter from the Colonial Office respecting a suggestion by the Hong Kong Government that, in view of the acute currency crisis existing in Canton and Hong Kong, the Chinese Government should be urged to carry out its obligation under the Mackay Treaty to establish a proper currency in China and instructing me to report, should no practical steps have yet been taken, whether the time is opportune for making further representations to the Chinese Government on the subject.\n\nIn my despatch No. 363 of the 24th July, I had the honour to transmit to you copies of a note which, in pursuance of a representation received from the Chambers of Commerce of Hong Kong, Shanghae, and Tien-tsin, the doyen of the Diplomatic Body addressed to Prince Ch'ing and of His Highness's reply that a Commission had been appointed to deal with the question and report to the Throne. Since that time I have frequently asked the Ministers of the Wai-wu Pu whether the Commission had presented its report, and have been informed that, owing to the divergent views of its members, no satisfactory scheme for a uniform currency has yet been decided upon.\n\nWhile the want of a uniform silver coinage is a serious obstacle to the foreign and internal trade of China, the difficulties attending its introduction, although not insuperable, are by no means light. That a suitable coin in the shape of a silver dollar can be made in China is evidenced by the fact that the dollar issued by the Pei-yang Mint at Tien-tsin holds its own here with the British dollar and that both are at a premium as compared with the Mexican dollar; but the aim of the Chinese provincial mints is not so much to coin as to make money, and this object is facilitated by the lax way in which they are controlled by the Central Government. A dollar coined in one province is accepted in the next only at a considerable discount. The coining of a dollar of the proper fineness, weight, and finish is not a gain but a cost to the mint from which it comes, and it is not unnatural that the mint should wish to recoup itself by the profitable coinage of subsidiary silver coins, the over issue of which, combined with the natural law that the coin of less will always oust the coin of greater intrinsic value in a country where the coinage is not sufficiently protected by law, has been specially felt in South China. What has occurred in the silver coinage of the south is at present taking place in the copper coinage all over the Empire, the new copper coins are fast displacing the old copper cash.\n\nBy the laws of China land and other taxes are payable in Treasury (Kuping) taels, while the Treaty Tariff calls for Customs duties in Haikwan taels, so that, if the proposed silver dollar is to be the uniform coinage of China, it will be necessary to fix the rate of exchange between it and Kuping and Haikwan taels, and, what is still more desirable, between it and the new copper coinage which is the retail trade currency of the Empire.\n\nThese are some of the difficulties with which China has to grapple, and, although from a European standpoint they are not insurmountable, the ignorance of even the highest officials on the subject of finance and currency is so great that their speedy solution can hardly be looked for; but I shall continue to make representations to the Chinese Government for the fulfilment of its Treaty engagement.\n\nWere the coinage of this new dollar restricted to three or four mints under the direct control of the Ministry of Finance, identical dies supplied to them, the defacement or destruction of the coin made a penal offence, the issue of subsidiary coins restricted as in the case of copper with a fixed legal tender, and only the new coins accepted in payment of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-345 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415356, "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": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 51, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "# Coins \nins 732 \n\n**ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED.** \nTEL. ADD. \"CROWN, LONDON\" \n\nSir, \n\nHong Kong. C.O. 20045 \nHere? IN 2 JUN 08 \n\nWHITEHALL GARDENS, 50 LONDON, S.W. \n1st June 1908 \n\nI have the honour to transmit for the consideration of the Earl of Crewe a copy of the correspondence noted in the margin with regard to the disposal of certain subsidiary silver and copper coin on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong.\n\n2. The price of silver on the 26th ultimo was 24 16/ per oz standard, which is higher than the lowest this year, but about 7d per ounce below the price at which we sold coin for the Government of the Straits Settlements in July and August of last year.\n\n3. It will be seen from our Bullion brokers' reports that the future of the silver market is quite uncertain, and so far as we are able to judge there would appear to be no prospect of a substantial rise in price by a reasonably early date. India is passing through a period of great trade depression aggravated by famine and plague and until this depression passes away the market for silver is likely to continue in an exceedingly weak condition. On the other hand, we do not think that the price of silver is likely to remain permanently at its present low figure, and the printed statement enclosed herewith which we have obtained from our brokers will show how widely the prices of silver have \n\nUnder Secretary of State, \nC. \nC. \n10. Colonial Office.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415708, "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": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 403, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "# Annexure No. 9.\n\nThe Chinese Engineering and Mining Company of Tien-tsin, in the Province of Chihli, in the Empire of China.\n\n**General Mortgage Bond.**\n\n(To secure 200,000l., with interest at 10%. per cent, per annum and premiums as hereinafter mentioned.)\n\n1. The Chinese Engineering and Mining Company will on or on such earlier day as the capital sum hereby secured becomes payable in accordance with the conditions hereon pay to the bearer hereof the sum of 200,000l. together with the premiums hereinafter mentioned in sterling British gold coin with interest in the meantime on the said sum of 200,000l., or on so much thereof as shall, for the time being, remain unpaid at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, payable on the ... in each year in sterling British coin.\n\n2. This bond is a first charge on the following properties belonging to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company (hereinafter called \"the Company\") which properties the Company hereby mortgages and hypothecates to secure payment of the capital premiums and interests payable under this bond.\n\n| Property | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a.) | The collieries, coal-fields, mining rights, plant and machinery at Tangshan and Linsi in the said Province of Chihli. |\n| (b.) | The Tien Tung Shan Silver Mines in the same province subject to the loan from the Imperial Government of China. |\n| (c.) | Six steamers and the wharves at Tien-tsin, Tangku, Shanghai, and Hong Kong subject to the loan from the Deutsche-Asiatische Bank. |\n| (d.) | Share interest in the Kien Ping Gold Mines. |\n| (e.) | Share interest in the Tangshan-Tien-tsin Railroad. |\n| (f) | The Kuyeh coal-fields property and plant in connection therewith to be purchased by the Company out of this loan. |\n| (g.) | The pier buildings and works to be constructed by the Company at Ching-wang Tao out of this loan. |\n| (h.) | Any other property which may be bought by the Company out of the proceeds of this loan, and of the Company's property mentioned under (g) and (a). |\n\n3. Annexed to this bond are fifteen coupons each providing for the payment of one year's interest, and such interest will be payable only on presentation and delivery of the coupon referring thereto.\n\n4. If the Company's moneys hereby secured shall become payable before the ... the person presenting this bond for payment must surrender therewith the coupons representing subsequent interest.\n\n5. The delivery to the Company of this bond and of each of the said coupons shall be a good discharge for the capital moneys, premiums, and interest therein respectively specified.\n\n6. The capital moneys hereby secured shall immediately become payable if the Company makes default for a period of six calendar months in the payment of any interest hereby secured, and the bearer hereof before such interest is paid by notice in writing to the Company sent by post to the office of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing, and Co., in London calls in such capital moneys.\n\n7. Twenty thousand pounds part of the capital sum of 200,000l. secured by this bond will be redeemed by the Company on the 31st day of December, ... and a similar amount on each succeeding ... until the whole of the said capital sum of 200,000l. shall have been redeemed or paid off. And the Company will at the same time as every such payment of 20,000l. of capital is made, pay in addition thereto to the bearer of this bond the following premiums on the said sum of 20,000l., namely, a premium of 20l. per cent. thereon on the first date, 18l. per cent. thereon on the second date, 16l. per cent. thereon on the third date, 14l. per cent. thereon on the fourth date, 12l. per cent. thereon on the fifth date, 10l. per cent. thereon on the sixth date, 8l. per cent. thereon on the seventh date, 6l. per cent. thereon on the eighth date, 4l. per cent. thereon on the ninth date, and 2l. per cent. thereon on the tenth date.\n\n8. The capital sum of 200,000l., interest and premiums secured by this bond is also represented by special bonds for different capital amounts, and at different rates of interest, and falling due at different dates the particulars of which special bonds will be indorsed upon the back thereof, and upon payment of the principal moneys, premium and interest secured by the said special bonds of the Company shall be relieved of obligation to pay the corresponding amounts of the capital sum of 200,000l. premium or interest represented by this bond.\n\n9. The proceeds of this loan are to be applied by the Company under the joint supervision and control of Messrs. Bewick, Moreing and Co., of London, and Gustav Detring of Tien-tsin or their respective deputies in the construction of a pier at the new Treaty port of Ching-wang Tao in the Province of Chihli, and in the acquisition and opening up of a new colliery near the railway station of Kuyeh on the Tien-tsin-Shanhaikwan Railway line in the Province of Chihli or such other colliery as may be approved by the said Bewick, Moreing and Co., and Gustav Detring, and such pier and collieries are to be under the management of the said Bewick, Moreing and Co. and Gustav Detring during the continuance of this security.\n\n10. All payments of principal, premiums and interest will be at the office of The Railway Share Trust and Agency Company (Limited), in London.\n\n[Chinese writing here.]\n\nWitnesses to the signature of Mr. Chang Yen Mow.\n\n(Signed) **HERBERT C. HOOVER.**\n\nG. DETRING,\n\nBefore me, this 20th day of September, 1899.\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. KING,\n\nHis Britannic Majesty's Pro-Consul, Tien-tsin.\n\n# Annexure No. 10.\n\nChang Yi's Memorial to the Throne on the 26th day, 5th moon, 27th year of Kuang Hsü (June 22, 1901). (Translation.)\n\n**A MEMORIAL** about adding foreign capital to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, and changing it into a Chinese and foreign co-operative limited liability Company, with the object of protecting its interests and securing the capital which our merchants have put into it.\n\nI RESPECTFULLY beg to lay before you, in a reverent Memorial, how this was carried into effect, and beseech your sacred glance thereon.\n\nWith regard to the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, I find that formerly in the 4th year of Kwang Hsu, the probationery Taotai of Fukien Province, Tang Tang-shu, petitioned asking that, following the Company laws of western nations, he might collect merchant capital for extracting bituminous coal at Tongshan, as a supply for the Peiyang squadron, the arsenals, and for any Government use, thus doing away with a drain on China's resources and opening up fresh springs of wealth. At that time Li Hun-chang, during his first term of office as the Superintendent of Northern Trade, examined the scheme and he sanctioned its being given a trial. At the same time he memorialized the Throne requesting that, following the precedent of the Hupei and Taiwan cases, a full duty on exports and a half duty on reimport should be paid. He received the Imperial Decree \"Let it be as recommended,\" and ordered Tang to reverently obey. All this is on record.\n\nIn the 18th year of Kwang Hsu the said Tang Tuotai died, and I, a Kiangsu expectant Taotai, was appointed to take over charge of the affairs of the Company. I find that ever since the Company began operations its capital has not been sufficient, being exhausted by the ever recurring demands of the various undertakings. I can only do my best to seek means to carry on the business. I would submit that in working mines the three most essential conditions are production, consumption, and transportation. I first of all sank additional shafts to insure that the production would not fall short; secondly, I opened up new centres of consumption in order that this source of profit might be freely extended; in addition to the above, I bought steamers and constructed wharves to facilitate the transport of our stocks of coal and to avoid delay. During these many years everything has gradually been put right.\n\n9 \n\nD \n\n401", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 415758, "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": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 453, "title": "CO129-350 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "6\n\nA Japanese steamer, the \"Chikugogawa Maru,\" was advertised to sail on the evening of the 30th September for Japan by way of Corea, and I took passage by her to Chemulpo. As the dinner hour approached I was informed by the steward that the cook could not prepare foreign meals, and that forks and knives were luxuries which the ship did not carry in addition to her cargo of bones. Fortunately, I had provided myself against emergencies with a small box of stores and table requisites, and had not, as I have had to do occasionally in the interior of China, to smoke a pipe or two to still the pangs of hunger. A smooth passage brought the aged \"Chikugogawa Maru\" to Chemulpo early on the morning of the 2nd October; but we had to wait outside until granted pratique by a Customs officer. Passengers were landed at 8 a.m., and, after the formality of passing my baggage through the Customs, I proceeded to the railway station and took the first train which landed us at Seoul at 11:30. During the few hours of daylight that remained I saw a considerable part of the capital, and was further fortunate in catching a glimpse of the present Emperor and the 11-year-old heir presumptive to the throne as they passed under the walls of the British Consul-General, but I was still more fortunate in renewing acquaintanceship with several old friends.\n\nThrough Corea to Manchuria.\n\nNext morning I started at 9:25 a.m. on the railway journey of 312.9 miles which separate Seoul from the banks of the Yalu. Corea is not within my beat, and I was merely taking a short cut back to Manchuria, but as it has at present no Commercial Attaché I may say a few words on the country without trespassing on a comrade's ground. As regards the people, what struck me most forcibly, in contrast to the Chinese, was the spotlessly white attire of the men, the amplitude of it, and the green-hooded cloaks with unoccupied sleeves of many of the women.\n\nThere is a story attached to the latter, but it is concerned more with war than with commerce, and need not be given here. Even the Corean leading his ox laden with firewood was unspotted, and, what is more, he is much whiter complexioned than either of his neighbours, and, I was informed by a competent judge, a quiet gentleman. To produce all this snowy whiteness every house in Corea must be a veritable wash-house, and while there is a demand for the cotton goods of English looms, there should also, if there is not already, be a great consumption of English washing soaps. The population of Corea is not great, but proportionately it should consume, judging by the results, much more soap than the population of China.\n\nThe railway, a Japanese line of standard gauge, goes north through valley after valley, some narrow, others widening into plains, bounded by low, grassy hills, little wooded in the south, but well covered with umbrageous flat-topped pines in the north. The harvest was everywhere being garnered, and men and women were busy with the sickle.\n\nThe crops were excellent: the tall millet (Holcus sorghum) was already cut and stooked; rice, principally in the north, and small millet (Setaria italica) were being cut; tobacco leaves were hanging on ropes in the sun; buckwheat, beans, cabbages, long white turnips, the castor-oil plant, and young winter wheat were on the ground, and melons shared with blood-red chillies the straw-thatched roofs of the houses, the former trained to the roof for safety, and the latter spread in heaps to dry, and lending a touch of colour to the otherwise dull greyish-brown villages. Considering the people, the houses are terribly disappointing; they are low, with projecting eaves all round, even to the gables. Each house resembles a capsized boat, preferably a house-boat, with keel and a more or less rounded hull.\n\nThe train does not run at night, and the journey was broken at P'ing-yang, near which the first conflict between China and Japan occurred during the war of 1894–95. I was mistaken in thinking that a high stone pillar rising from a pile of stones not far from the station was a monument of the Japanese victory; it simply commemorated the completion of the railway between Seoul and the Yalu. It is from 1.3 miles to 2 miles from the railway station to Ping-yang, where I spent the night in a Japanese hostel. Sixty miles to the north-east of Ping-yang are the Wonsan gold mines, worked with profit by the American Oriental Consolidated Mining Company. The train left Ping-yang at 8 a.m. on the 4th October, and steamed into the station at Hsin Yi Chon the same afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. During the last few miles the line emerges from the hills and valleys and runs over a flat plain, which has evidently been deposited in the old bed of the Yalu. A walk of a few hundred yards from the station, through an immense railway reserve containing, I was told, 500 Japanese houses, and crossing the line which, when nearing the Yalu, takes a short easterly\n\n7\n\ncourse down river to the railway terminus, brought us to a Corean custom-house, water police station, and Japanese ferry on the left bank of the river; but, before proceeding further with this narrative, I propose to say a word regarding the railway which has landed us on the waterway forming the boundary of Corea and Manchuria.\n\nThe railway from Seoul to the Yalu was built by Japan in haste, and the trace, which was carried along the line of least resistance, was not intended to be the alignment of the permanent track. This is evident to-day; curves are being straightened, several new tunnels have been made through the hills, and extensive bridge work is being carried out, especially in the section north of Ping-yang. The whole line is thus being shortened and strengthened to form a great commercial and strategic route from Japan to Manchuria.\n\nAntung.\n\nMr. Coales, in his Report of a visit to Antung and Ta-tung-kow in December and January of the past and present year, has given such an excellent description of the position of the city of Antung, and of the condition of affairs existing there, that it is unnecessary for me to enter into details; but since that time several developments have occurred to which I must call attention.\n\nThe\n\nOf the 9,000 mou (1,500 acres) of land acquired by the Japanese military authorities in 1905, most of it by forced sale, 2,800 mou (467 acres) to the immediate east of the Chinese city, which has no wall, has been formed into a Japanese Settlement bounded on the south, west, and north sides by the Antung-Mukden Railway and its reserve. The southern section of the line, with a station near the south-eastern corner of the Settlement, has been constructed since Mr. Coales' visit, and I noticed that passage along the bank of the river was blocked by wire fencing in one or two places. The balance of 6,200 mou (1,033 acres) stretches east from the Settlement for a distance of about 2,400 yards, and from the river bank northwards for about 2,000 yards to, and including the low hills, as far east as the Chinese city. At Antung Japan has acquired an estate at least four times the size of the native town, and it is the only land outside that town that can be profitably utilized for commercial purposes. The thousand odd acres outside the Settlement are held as a railway reserve; but Mr. Okabé, the Japanese Consul, informed me that it was in contemplation to curtail the railway reserve, which was too large, and convert it into a second Settlement. Considering the way the land was originally acquired, it seems to me that it would be a graceful and an honourable act on the part of Japan to present, or at least resell at cost price, to China what is not required by the railway, on condition that it be reserved for an international Settlement. It is true that the Chinese authorities speak of converting the western part of the Chinese city next to the Japanese Settlement into a foreign Settlement, but it is low-lying, and, like the rest of the city, liable to be flooded by the overflow of the Yalu in summer. The southern half of this proposed Settlement in the native town is at present a cesspool caused by the drainage from the Japanese Settlement being pumped into it from the moat which runs along the flood embankment built by the Japanese on the east side for the protection of their Settlement, and near the centre of it is a large Chinese \"yoshiwara,\" recently erected at great expense by the Chinese authorities. During the war a Japanese Syndicate, consisting of five persons, purchased a narrow strip some miles in length along the right bank of the river below the land occupied by the military authorities for the sum of 17,000 yen, but Japan has refused to uphold the transaction, and the land was bought back by the Taotai in July for the sum of 40,000 taels, that is, for about three times the price originally paid for it. A precedent for resale has thus been established, and it would be no great hardship for Japan to part with a slice of her great estate, for to my mind the Japanese Settlement is sufficiently ample to satisfy all her legitimate commercial requirements. It may well be asked, what is the raison d'être of the Japanese Settlement at Antung? Wide streets have been laid out, and roads are being built; numerous houses, mostly with corrugated-iron roofs, have been erected, and others are in course of construction; and it has a population of 6,000 Japanese. Mr. Ukabé told me that he exercised jurisdiction, as Consul at Antung and Resident at Hsin-yi Chou, over 8,000 Japanese and 2,000 Coreans. The trade of Antung does not now, and is never likely to, attract a large alien population. How, then, does this large Japanese community—probably the largest in any Chinese port—live? The Japanese is as, if not more, frugal than the Chinese. 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InfolttonU orld to \n\neldijaquoont \n\nmps Jansion. \n\nincompatible with the conditions of Hongkong. \n\n193 \n\nThe same principle applies to all remunerative undertakings. It is under the existing system of Military Contribution less costly for the Government to farm out, or contract for the carrying out of, such undertakings since in that case only the net sum paid by the contractor is credited to Revenue, whereas were Government to undertake the work the gross earnings, including the cost of machinery etc., would appear under Revenue and be assessable to Military Contribution. It seems unnecessary to point out that this is a vicious principle, for in many cases direct Government control may be preferable, and in every case the contractor's profits are lost to the Revenue. \n\nImperial as well \n\n(b) The existing system cramps expansion \n\nas Colonial. If the Colonial Government undertakes the organisation and control of an institution only indirectly connected with the Colony, it is at a loss unless the institution provides a sufficient balance to cover Military Contribution, and sums paid by those directly interested, towards the cost of maintenance become liable to this deduction. \n\nIn \n\nThus Hongkong undertakes the upkeep of the Gap Rock Lighthouse, 30 miles from Colonial waters and in Chinese territory. For this service China pays a sum, and upon this sum the Government has to pay 20% to the Defence Fund. In order to be free of expense in the matter, the Colonial Government would have to increase the payment by China by 20%, but this is clearly inadmissible because the accounts would show no such deficit, and China would in fact be called upon to contribute to the Imperial Forces. \n\nOr again, \n\nHongkong (largely in Imperial interests), maintains postal Agencies at the Treaty Ports of China. Towards this service the Imperial Government pays £710 ... a year, on which the Government has to pay 20% to Military Contribution. \n\nThe Agencies would be worked at a small profit, but the 20% payable on the gross receipts derived from them converts...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-358 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421480, "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": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## The Imperial Decree, issued on the 5th October last, ordaining the introduction of a uniform silver currency throughout the Chinese Empire is a welcome though tardy recognition by China of her obligation to provide for a uniform national coinage \"in terms of Article 2 of the Shanghae Treaty of 1902.\n\nHad China paid earlier attention to this Treaty obligation, it is probable that much of the currency chaos which has arisen in the past few years might have been obviated. It is earnestly to be hoped that the Decree will not be allowed to remain a dead letter, but that it is an admission of the necessity for immediate action, and expresses real earnestness of intention to rectify the almost hopeless confusion into which currency matters of China have been allowed to drift.\n\nThe provisions of the Edict will no doubt meet with general approval, but it is to be remarked that no indication is given whether the new coins are to be issued solely from mints under the control of the Board of Finance—a very necessary proviso; nor is any mention made of a fixed ratio between the new coinage and the copper currency—another matter of first importance. It is understood that both points have attracted the attention of His Majesty's Minister at Peking.\n\nThe arguments in the Memorial which accompanies the Edict, favouring the adoption of the Kuping tael as the national coin in preference to the dollar, do not appear to be very convincing. The opinion in the provinces is admittedly divided, and it is difficult to understand the pleas in favour of the tael: such as that from the point of view of China's national dignity she ought to try to stand alone; that she cannot afford to throw away her sovereign rights—(how are they affected?)—in order to gratify the wishes of others, nor change the tradition of the country for the convenience of the open ports or trading marts. While it is hardly to be supposed that the open ports will meet with much sympathetic consideration, it might reasonably be suggested that the convenience of China's own trading marts is a matter of prime domestic importance.\n\nThere is much force in the argument that the higher standard unit will tend to increase the cost of living. As Shanghae points out, \"the effect will be more plainly felt in expenditure involving small sums such as 5 to 10 cents; translating these sums into 4 cands and 8 cands will not be convenient in actual practice.\" It is, however, no doubt true that (as stated in the Memorial) the bulk of the people in their daily life mostly rely upon the copper currency. A point in favour of the adoption of a dollar coinage is that the exchange between the dollar and the cash might be conveniently fixed at the old normal ratio of 1 to 1,000, whereas the cash exchange of the K'uping tael (at the same rate) works out at the inconvenient figure of about 1,482.\n\nC. J. DUDGEON.\n\nLondon, December 1908.\n\n**This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.**\n\nC.O.\n\n**CHINA TRADE.**\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL.**\n\nJanuary 7, 1909.\n\n## No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received January 7, 1909.) (No. 564)\n\nPeking, December 16, 1908.\n\nREPRESENTATIVES of the British and American Tobacco Company, Limited, called upon me recently in connection with the business of their Company, and spoke of the prospect of considerable expansion of trade if the Chinese authorities will consent to a more regular incidence of taxation on the Company's cigarettes and manufactured tobacco in places not declared open to foreign trade in Manchuria. The inclosed letter, addressed by the Company to the Acting British Consul-General at Mukden, describes the existing conditions and proposes a remedy. By present practice, the Company's products manufactured in China pay 4 m. 5 c. duty per picul on exportation from the Treaty port where their factory is situated, and a further half duty on importation to another Treaty port; but if they are sent to places not declared open to foreign trade they are subjected to varying levies of li-kin which affect prices and restrict their business.\n\nAs they have now set up a large factory at Mukden, they desire to consolidate all dues upon its output by the payment of a duty and a half, viz., 6 m. 75 c. per picul on exportation from Mukden to any place in Manchuria.\n\nIt will be seen from their letter that the question has been broached with the provincial authorities, but I have not yet learnt from Mr. Willis whether any further progress has been made. I understand, however, that the Company would be willing, if necessary, to agree to a higher consolidated duty than the above-mentioned sum, and with a margin for negotiation it is possible that the Chinese Government may be induced to accept the proposal which appears to me perfectly reasonable.\n\n(Signed) \nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure in No. 1.\n\nBritish-American Tobacco Company to Acting Consul-General Willis.\n\nMuseum Road, Shanghae, December 1, 1908.\n\nAs you are aware, the British Cigarette Company, a Company which we control, has recently erected extensive premises in Mukden for the purpose of treating Chinese tobacco and also of manufacturing cigarettes on a large scale for the Manchurian market, should conditions prove favourable.\n\nWe are of opinion that, with reasonable facilities, we can establish a practically new industry in Manchuria, which will be of great benefit to that country, for, should our operations be successful, the following economic benefits would accrue, viz.—\n\n| Benefit | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1. | More land would be cultivated in the growing of the additional tobacco required, to the great benefit of the farmer and agricultural labourer. |\n| 2. | The carrying of that tobacco from the points where it is grown to the factory would provide profitable employment for a great number of carters and coolies. |\n| 3. | In the preparation and handling of the tobacco when received by us, employment would be given to very many Chinese. |\n| 4. | If reasonable facilities are granted to us by the Government a further large number of people will obtain remunerative employment, not only in the manufacture of cigarettes for consumption in Manchuria and, perhaps, in other parts of the Empire, but in the carriage of those cigarettes to market. Furthermore, a large number of Chinese merchants and traders will benefit by the creation of this new trade. |\n| 5. | A reasonable basis of taxation—one which will enable the goods to reach the consumer at a price which he can afford, and which will thus encourage the extension of the industry—would provide the Government with additional revenue on the ... |\n\n[2090 g-1]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 421846, "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": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 635, "title": "CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## Letter\n\nopen air, with a view to, in some measure, divert his mind from his present painful position over which he seems to be brooding very much.\n\nThe Doctor was anxious that we should communicate to him any news we might receive, and I promised to do so.\n\nUntil the 18th I expect to be at Changte-fu, but will be home after that date. With kind regards to your Excellency, I am, &c.\n\nDear Dr. McClure,\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\n(Signed)\n\nSir J. Jordan to Dr. McClure.\n\nW. McCLURE.\n\nPeking, January 16, 1909.\n\nI was very glad to receive your letter of the 11th instant, and much interested in what you told me of his Excellency Yuan Kung Pao. His Excellency's enforced retirement has been a great disappointment to all of us who had come to regard him as the pioneer of progress in China, and I can well understand how much you and others who owed so much to him during the 1900 troubles regret the turn of recent events. My relations with him were always of a peculiarly friendly nature, and to me the loss is a personal as well as a public one. However, we can only trust that the day may not be far distant when his services will again be utilized by his country, which can ill-afford to dispense with statesmen of Yuan's calibre.\n\nI shall be grateful if you will assure his Excellency of my unalterable esteem and friendship, and say that I look forward with confidence to his return to public life.\n\nI am, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN.\n\n## Metadata\n\n| Office or Individual | Foreign |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1909 | 18hch |\n| Last Previous Paper | 8464 |\n| HONG KONG | 9600 |\n| Rec? | 630 |\n| DOMESTIC | C.O. |\n| 9600 | Rog 19 MAR NC |\n\nCanton Haw Row Railway Loan\n\nFeudo minutes of meetings of refices of the British French German groups in 12-13 March & memo of agreement, with meus by Mr. Addis\n\n0\n\n| Reference | 1730-A. & E. W.-90062/27- 25000-11-08 |\n| --- | --- |\n| Next subsequent Paper | 1 1/2 Finder |\n\nIf the Agreement is signed, the Germans are to withdraw their offer to the Chinese Govt for Hankow Canton Coon.\n\nIt remains... It will be signed.\n\n? Put by See on `10929`\n\n| Reference | 56/H. 19/2 |\n| --- | --- |\n| | 1/4 `10929` Br | \nhe \nwhate...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-360 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422761, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 164, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 162 \n## 94 \n\nyears Japanese trade would be in a bad state, as people would have found out the worthlessness of their goods. I do not think that with so large a market such a result will occur for a very long time.\n\nThe shops are little more than mud huts. The merchants pay no house-tax, and, indeed, no tax at all, except li-kin. Houses are rented from Mongols or Chinese. No new ones are ever built, as the colony does not grow, and I saw many shops shuttered up and empty, and was told that a Chinaman came here for a few years, and either made a fortune in that time or had to return ruined. It was a question of luck, according to the state of trade.\n\nWhile there was an air of listlessness in the streets, opinions differed as to the present state of trading, some saying that it was bad, others that it was fairly good. All agreed, however, that caravans were rarities. The trade seemed to be nearly one of barter, and there is little silver in the town. Tea bricks (value 45 cents) are the chief currency, while another and more peculiar \"coin\" is a long band of various coloured stuff and of different low values. Small worthless silk scarves, such as the lamas give as presents, are also currency.\n\nAugust 27—There is no Government bank at Kobdo. During the morning I dropped into the police station, three-quarters of the way down the west side of the street, the spot being indicated by two gorgeous flags. Finding no one there, I inquired of a passer-by where all the soldiers had gone to. He said there were thirty police stationed here, but all had gone to lunch—they would not be back till the evening. Close to the gate was a rack of eight rusty old hammer-guns, which looked as if they had come out of the ark, and as if they had got wet in the deluge and had never been cleaned since, also eight wooden lances 10 feet long, with rusty spear heads at the end. It was useless to wait for the return of the police, so I crossed the road to the watchman's station, which was indicated by cangues and scrolls which, as if in invitation of the decalogue preached, \"Do not steal,\" \"Do not gamble,\" \"Do not brawl.\" Here I took some time to wake up the only occupant, which feat accomplished, he told me that during the day only one watchman was stationed here and he was the man. His pay, he said, was 90 c. a month, but he admitted to making more (I presume shopkeepers pay a kind of insurance sum against being robbed). At night he said six men were stationed there. Their weapons and implements were a stout stick, a lantern, and a gong to warn the thieves they were on the alert. The men call themselves soldiers and are renewed every five years from Hsuanhuafu.\n\nWalking into the kitchen on my way out, I found it to be also the police cell, and one prisoner in it. His story was that a Mongol man had owed him money and that on going for this money the Mongol man had given him an ox instead. Returning to Kobdo with the ox, he had been followed by the Mongol who accused him of stealing it. He had only been in the cell one day, and I asked him how long he was going to stay; he replied that he did not know, but probably till the matter had been amicably arranged with the owners of the ox, and that this was a matter of four days as the Mongol lived two days away. A policeman had been sent to fetch him, but there would probably be delays. The prisoner seemed to be unnecessarily dejected, I thought, his only inconvenience being a light chain fastened round his neck and tied loosely to the kang stool, which, being quite small and portable, could be moved at will. The weather was cool, and the kitchen nicely warm, his pipe lay by his side, he could sit or sleep as he liked, and his shop assistant could bring him his food and drink, so he did not seem so badly off.\n\nThe fortress portion of the colony would probably be impregnable to all attacks from such enemies as Mahommedans. It would, however, be defenceless against modern arms, as it is entirely commanded by surrounding hills. I visited the fortress in the afternoon with the intention of seeing how many soldiers there were, not that there are any barracks, as I knew, the inside of the fortress being nominally supposed to be the barracks, in reality every man living at home, but because I thought to hit more easily on a soldier there.\n\nIt was, however, all in vain. No one in the numerous houses within the fort seemed to be a soldier.\n\nThe walls are some 250 yards; there is a gate on every side (except the north) of the usual Chinese (double) pattern. An irregularly shaped and shallow dry moat surrounded the fortress: low bridges of mud and wood leading to each gate. The walls are some 15 feet high and are of hard mud. They are remarkably solid and are battlemented. They completely conceal the low buildings within. A grove of fine trees along the west wall on the inside shelters the Amban's yamên from the west. Offices of the Army Board are situated next to the Amban's yamên.\n\nThe \n| Description | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Walls | 250 yards, 15 feet high, hard mud, battlemented |\n| Gates | One on every side except north, Chinese double pattern |\n| Moat | Irregularly shaped, shallow, dry |\n\nA narrow ditch with a certain amount of water intersects the fortress enclosure, and there are other ditches.\n\n## 95 \n\nNot being able to get any information, I walked into the Army Board, a civilian institution, and learnt as follows:-The pay for the upkeep of the Kobdo garrison amounts to 30,000 taels a-year (4,500l.) and comes from Shansi through Kweihuacheng. There are 200 soldiers (Chinese) and I understood 300 Mongol soldiers, every one living at home. Pay is at the rate of 90 c. per man per month. He has to find his own food. There is a store of rifles in the War Office, but no artillery. If anyone is sick, a doctor lives up the street, and it is the invalid's own affair to consult him. The Mongols are styled cavalry. There is a parade twice a year, no drill, and no rifle practice. On paper, the garrison is probably very much larger, hence the sum given per annum, but what probably happens is that one man draws the pay of ten men.\n\nOn my way back to the temple, I asked at the police station what they would do if the town were again attacked by the Mahommedans: The reply was prompt, \"send for the Mongol soldiers,\" a devolution of responsibility which would end in Kobdo sharing a similar fate as in 1872, when all outside the fortress was looted and burned by the Mahommedans, for the Mongols would, as then, have packed their tents and removed their beasts to the mountains on the approach of the enemy.\n\nThe Russians are not very popular in Kobdo. They drink too much and make use of Mongol women. They seem to act on the \"Heads I win, tails you lose\" principle, as if they do not get rich, they decamp owing a lot of money to the Chinese. Every year, a number of Russian youths come to Kobdo for a few months merely for the sake of learning Mongol.\n\nThe Russian merchants send their telegrams and postal matter to Kissamoto in Russian territory beyond Suok. Suok is nine stages to the north-west of Kobdo.\n\nAugust 28.—Six large German guns with their ammunition left for Sharasumé across the Altaishan to-day. They are being convoyed by two small officers, two secretaries, and their retinue. There are also 400 rifles, eight cases of ammunition, and 200 shells for each gun. There are 100 cases in all. All bear German marks. The guns are to be put together by an officer at Sharasumé. Thirty Hassacks were sent down from Sharasumé to meet the cases and assist in convoying them across the mountains.\n\nThe departure of these guns delayed my own movements, for they required all the transport at the disposal of the Government, and I had unfortunately found it impossible to procure any animals of my own.\n\nThe Government track across the centre of the Altaishan range has only been in existence as such for a few years. It is only open four months in the year, the passes being rendered impassable by snow during the remaining eight. Any travellers wishing to proceed, therefore, in the winter from Kobdo to Altaishan settlement must journey southwards towards Manas and then strike westwards; such a journey takes a full month to accomplish as against twelve days by the summer route.\n\nDuring the day, some Russian merchants wandered round the temple to inspect me and my luggage. In the afternoon, I visited the leading Russian merchant, with a letter of introduction from the Consul at Uliassutai. In spite of this, he raised so many difficulties regarding the transmission of a home letter, alleging that it might contain political matter, that I sent the letter, under cover of another, back to the Consul at Uliassutai, for transmission to Europe via Urga. The merchant is a Biisk man and prosperous. He sends an enormous amount of wool to Biisk after it has been washed. He told me that the reason furs are so bad here is that the best are sent direct to Kalgan or Kweihuacheng. He said there were some Russian merchants at Ulankom. He did not know how many. Ulankom is six days distant to the north.\n\nLater in the day, the Amban sent a small officer with the message that he had orders to accompany me to Altaishan settlement. I was grateful for this, for the officer was as proficient in the Hassack language as in Mongol and Chinese. He brought my pass for the road made out in Mongol and Hassack (not Chinese). He said we were only just in time to cross the mountains, for in another ten days the passes would all be blocked by snow and the road closed. He thought that in any case, we should find the journey a difficult one, thus confirming all the remarks of our Urga and Uliassutai acquaintances to the same effect. The latter, indeed, had expressed the greatest surprise that we were even contemplating making the passage of the Altais at this point.\n\nIt was very pleasant to spend a quiet day sauntering under the fine trees by the side of the small irrigation canals, and it was with no little awe that we looked at the mighty range already heavily dipped in snow, the struggle over which was to begin on the morrow.\n\nBeing thoroughly dishearted and disappointed by the inability to travel in the way I wished, and as had been intended, I again had serious thoughts of abandoning the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423097, "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": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "page_number": 500, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "## CONFIDENTIAL\n\n[31705]\n\nNo. 1.\n\n## RECR\n\n[August 23.] 25 SEP 09\n\n### SECTION 4\n\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received August 23.)\n\n(No. 237.)\n\nPeking, July 5, 1909.\n\nWITH reference to previous correspondence on the subject of Macao, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch from the acting consul-general at Canton, containing some notes upon the condition of affairs in the Portuguese colony.\n\nMr. Fox's observations, made as the result of a recent visit to Macao, are not without interest, and confirm what is already well known, that the administration of the colony is as bad as it can be, and that the place itself is little more than a resort for gamblers and the viciously inclined.\n\nWith the great falling off in the revenue derived from opium and gambling establishments, hitherto its main sources of support, it is hard to see how Macao is to continue to pay its way, and it is doubtless the knowledge of this fact which encourages the Cantonese in the efforts which they are now openly making to recover possession of the place.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nJ. N. JORDAN.\n\n### Inclosure 1 in No. 1.\n\nActing Consul-General Fox to Sir J. Jordan.\n\n(No. 67. Confidential.)\n\nCanton, June 17, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit for your perusal a few notes on affairs at Macao, gathered during a recent brief visit to that place.\n\nMr. Kao Erh Chien, the Chinese delimitation commissioner, has been in Canton for over a month, awaiting the arrival of his Portuguese colleague, who is due in Hong Kong by the P. and O. steam-ship \"Moldavia,\" on the 25th instant.\n\nApartments have been taken by the Chinese commissioner in Glenealy Buildings, formerly in occupation of the German consulate, and the negotiations will, as at present arranged, take place in Hong Kong.\n\nMr. Kao paid an unofficial visit to Macao in a Chinese gun-boat on the 2nd of this month. He called on the governor, but left, for some unexplained reason, before the latter could return his call.\n\nI exchanged visits with Mr. Kao soon after my return from Japan on the 17th May last, and he has since paid me several private calls.\n\nHis manner on these occasions has been so markedly friendly that I have formed the impression that he desires my assistance, probably in connection with the forthcoming negotiations. However, beyond asking for an introduction to the governor of Hong Kong, he has so far made no definite proposals.\n\nHe informed me at our last interview that General Machado's reported visit to London prior to his departure from China, coupled with the fact that the commission was to sit in Hong Kong, had given rise to rumours that the British Government were to take part in the negotiations, and he mentioned that the Cantonese took it for granted that our intervention implied an intention of supporting the Portuguese claims.\n\nI informed Mr. Kao that I had no reason to suppose that the British Government would take any active part in the delimitation negotiations, unless at the express request of both parties; but that His Majesty's Government would doubtless render whatever assistance they could to the commission, with a view to an amicable and satisfactory settlement of the questions in dispute.\n\nMr. Kao is naturally reticent as to his own views on the subject, but I gather that he, in common with the Viceroy and all the most influential officials and gentry in Canton, \n\n[2391-4]\n\n## Regulations for Vessels\n\n1. All vessels must be careful not to cause damage or inconvenience to other vessels or to the port facilities, and must take all necessary precautions to avoid accidents.\n\n2. \n3. All vessels must in port anchor at places assigned by the customs of the port.\n\n4. Neither cargo nor passengers may be landed or shipped before permission has been given by the customs. Cargo landed or shipped without such permission is liable to confiscation.\n\n5. Manifests as well as customs covers must be presented to the customs on arrival. A special manifest must be handed in to the Lahasusu customs barrier by all vessels entering from or leaving for the Amour. It must specify all cargo on board and give place of shipment and intended destination of all goods inwards and outwards.\n\n6. Manifests must contain a true and full account of all cargo on board, including duty-free goods, giving marks, numbers, and contents, and must be signed by the master, who will be held responsible for their correctness.\n\n7. Shut-out goods must be presented immediately for re-examination, otherwise they will not be recognised as such.\n\n8. Vessels must produce their papers for inspection when called upon by any customs or inland barrier official boarding them at the ports or en route.\n\n9. Customs employés may be put on board of vessels to search them, or to accompany them for the purpose of surveillance.\n\n10. The customs are at liberty to seal the hatches of vessels; such seals must not be broken until the vessel reaches a port where she has to work cargo, and until the necessary permission has been obtained. Unauthorised breaking of seals or opening of hatches will entail liability to a fine not exceeding 500 taels.\n\n11. For working cargo or passengers on Sundays or holidays as well as on week days out of the regular working hours--6 A.M. to 6 P.M.--special permit fees must be paid.\n\n12. Masters of vessels are expected to report to the customs any changes in the channel, accidents to shipping, loss of guiding marks, wrecks, and other noteworthy events.\n\n13. Trade in the following articles, viz., gunpowder and other explosives, shot, cannon, fowling pieces, rifles, muskets, pistols, saltpetre, sulphur, spelter, and all other munitions and implements of war, and salt is prohibited; arms found on board not covered by certificate showing them to be for self-defence or ship's use will be confiscated. The export abroad of rice, husked and unhusked, and Chinese copper cash and coins is also prohibited. The importation of foreign copper coin blanks, copper coins, and copper cash is likewise forbidden.\n\n14. Infraction of customs rules and regulations will render the vessel liable to the infliction of the penalties in force at treaty ports. A repetition of an offence renders the vessel liable to be prohibited from plying on the Sungari.\n\nThe above regulations are to be considered as provisional and experimental for one year, and are subject to additions and modifications when and if necessary.\n\nSpecial harbour and sanitary regulations governing the issue of special permits, arms certificates, &c., will be issued later.\n\nThis Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government 11859 \n\n## AFFAIRS OF CHINA.\n\n**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n[31705]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 424479, "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": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3]", "content_text": "## The result would probably be as stated \nthat the subsidiary coinage of this Colony might temporarily cease to be British, but I do not perceive that immediate rehabilitation would prevent this, or decrease the popularity of Chinese coins (as against gradual rehabilitation).\n\nI do not think that this would be of use, the coin has, we know, disseminated throughout South China, and I doubt whether any such enquiries would give any data of sufficient reliability. The scheme propounded is for the redemption of the surplus coins by means generally speaking of a Loan. Let us assume for the moment that the scheme is fully practicable, and would effect the object intended. The result would be as stated on the previous page, that the Hong-kong Currency would practically become Chinese, and in the terms of Mr. Stewart's resolution it would be useless to rehabilitate \"except as part of a larger scheme\" by which Chinese coinage would be ousted.\n\n## II (a). \nI see no reason why the Government should not itself redeem at face value, when it is open to it to purchase from Banks (from time to time as it may have funds at its disposal for the purpose) considerable sums of subsidiary coin at the existing discount. There is in my view nothing to prevent such purchases, or alternatively to pay a Bank the amount of the loss it incurs by demonetizing a given quantity of coin on production of a certificate that the coin has been melted down and vouchers for the loss entailed. The amount of the discount is therefore saved to the tax-payer.\n\n## (b). \nIt is questionable how far the holders of subsidiary coin would benefit by rehabilitation, and this benefit is assumed as undisputable. The banks safeguard their interests by charging discount, and so long as they receive and pay out at equal rates they do not suffer. They even profit by buying when the discount is high and selling when it is low. Moneychangers who probably hold stocks very possibly gain by...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-365 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1910 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 425357, "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": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "page_number": 382, "title": "CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5]", "content_text": "# THE GOVERNOR'S DEPARTURE\n\n## Chinese Recognise His D Services\n\npresented to His Excellency the Governor, Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., by the representatives of the Chinese Community.\n\nand you have thanked me for the existing conditions. Gentlemen, in this matter, it is I who ought to thank you, who are tendering thanks. My endeavours have simply been directed towards enlisting your co-operation, and towards inviting your efforts to support the Government to teach the people what is best for their welfare, and how such measures as are necessary both to preserve life and to ameliorate the conditions of the poor can be best carried out without causing inconvenience to themselves, or I should say, so as to cause the least possible inconvenience to the people themselves.\n\nI can possibly express to receive this most beautiful address from your hands, and it will give the very greatest pleasure to my wife, to whom you have made such very kind allusions, both in the address and in the words of Dr. Ho Kai. It is usual for such presentations to be made at the time when the Governor on a short visit of His Excellency severs his connection finally from the colony. In my case I am only leaving you for a short time and I hope to be back early in November.\n\nYou have alluded in this address to most of the things which have had my earnest consideration during the past few years, more particularly with regard to the sanitary laws, efforts I have made to remove pre-existing conditions. Gentlemen, in this matter, it is I who ought to thank you.\n\n## THE ADDRESS\n\nThe address was then read by Dr. Ho Kai as follows:-\n\n### Translation of the Chinese Address\n\nOn a lucky day in April of the year 1910, on the occasion of Your Excellency's returning to your home on a holiday of Chinese months, we Chinese representatives of all classes of the community take the opportunity of your departure to present you with a respectful address in token of our esteem.\n\nMore than once have the stars and hoar-frosts returned in their course since Your Excellency came to Hongkong: the benevolence and clemency of your virtuous administration is in the mouth of every passer-by in the streets. Your earnest attention has been devoted to everything that would promote the welfare of the people and the comfort of those who have gathered here from afar. More especially has every movement for the benefit of the people won the confidence of you all, and the Chinese received your heartiest support.\n\nNot once have your actions failed to call forth the public praise. Your Excellency was moved with great sorrow at the frequency with which bodies have been thrown out into the street in Hongkong, and with the determination of taking measures to stamp the practice out, you consulted the Public Dispensaries Committee as to the best means of effecting your purpose; and now there is hardly a trace left of the evil practice.\n\nThe sanitary laws are made to preserve the public health, but the Chinese have always feared their strictness. Since Your Excellency took up office, a compromise has been effected in the administration of the laws while at the same time to the gratification of all classes.\n\nYou have co-operated with the Government and have succeeded largely in instilling confidence and in checking disease and in benefitting the poor people. For this co-operation, gentlemen, in which I include the assistance of the Registrar General, whose influence with you has been the main factor in the success,--for this co-operation I say I thank you heartily, and I look forward, on my return to the colony, to its continuance.\n\nYou have also alluded to the subject of education, a matter of interest, not only as regards the University but also as regards the education given in all our schools throughout the colony. I hope the steps recently taken, and which will be brought into operation without delay, will be effective in decreasing the overcrowding in our schools, in increasing the teaching staff, and in providing an increased number of scholarships so that the children of the poor may reap the benefit of our education equally with the children of the well-to-do class.\n\nAs regards the University, we love it by the generosity of the Cl... and by the generosity of a great firm at Taikoo, we succeeded in getting sufficient funds to establish three faculties. I hope before the University buildings are finished and the doors opened to students that we may double the number of faculties for which we are providing chairs in the University, and increase in the amount of the endowment. (Applause).\n\nDr. Ho Kai, in presenting the address and album, said: May it please Your Excellency, on behalf of the leading members of the Chinese community, I have the honour to-day to present you with an address which has been embroidered on satin, and which I would ask you, sir, to do us the honour to graciously accept as a small token of the high esteem and affection we have for you as our Governor and ruler, as well as our friend and counsellor. (Applause).\n\nIt was our intention, sir, to present you with this address shortly after the laying of the foundation stone of the Hongkong University, but time did not permit us, for we desired to present you with a work of art more worthy of your acceptance, and so we had perforce to wait for this occasion in order to allow us time to get the work properly executed.\n\nSir, it is scarcely three years since your arrival in this colony, but during this comparatively short period you have achieved much by your wise and able administration. You have seen us through a most trying time and succeeded in placing the colony once more on the high road to prosperity and success.\n\nNo one, sir, appreciates more than the Chinese community the immense benefits which you have conferred upon this colony and they are deeply grateful to you, for though we have had a long commercial depression you have succeeded by your broadmindedness and by your incomparable energy and enthusiasm in founding the Hongkong University.\n\nThe vast benefits conferred by such an institution on the colony as a whole, but more especially upon the Chinese, whether resident in this colony or throughout China, are incomparable, and we thank you, sir, most cordially and most gratefully for such a boon. I am sure, sir, future generations will cherish your memory and thank you as gratefully and cordially as we do now.\n\nWe hope, sir, when you get to England, you will be able to do something in England to raise subscriptions for the University. Well, I shall do my best. (Applause). At the same time it is a matter which primarily affects us out here, and a matter which I can leave with confidence in your hands, because I know you are interested in it and I have had examples of your generosity.\n\nI need not say how personally keenly I am interested in the project. That is already well known. Gentlemen, I thank you most cordially and heartily for the kind sentiments which you, sir, have expressed, and for the address you presented to me.\n\nI say good-bye now, only for a short time, and hope soon to be back again, and to renew my friendships here, and during my short absence I trust that the colony may in every way prosper, that the health of the colony during this summer will be good, that the trade depression will cease and that with increased trade you may have increased prosperity and that I shall return in good health to you and with my wife.\n\nLady Lugard, who is most anxious to return to Hongkong. (Applause).\n\nHis Excellency then invited his deputation to be seated.\n\nThe address was beautifully embroidered on a white satin scroll, with Chinese characters of dark blue silk. At the top were two hata in silver signifying Good Luck, and at the foot was a carved ivory roller of beautiful design. The embroidery work gave a lovely finish to the scroll. It was enclosed in a casket of red sandalwood, which was covered with numerous clever designs executed by the carver. The casket was five feet eighteen inches, with silver fittings, while on the top of the lid was a silver monogram of the Governor's initials.\n\nChinese characters were on either side of the monogram speaking of the good work done by His Excellency in the colony. He was also the recipient of an album of red Morocco leather, which bore in silver his monogram and contained the text of the address in both Chinese and English. The album also contained a list of the signatures in English of the donors. It was altogether a fine work of art executed by Canton artists.\n\nThe deputation was received by the Governor and was introduced by the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., who was supported by his colleague, the Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G. There were also present the Hon. Sir Henry May (Colonial Secretary), the Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin (Registrar General), Capt. N. Sim- FOLL (private secretary), Capt. P. H. M. Taylor (aide-de-camp), Messrs. Lau Chu-pak, Ng Hon-tai, He Fook, Ho Kom Tong, Wong Leung-him, Yeung Him-pong, Wong Kum-fak, S. W. Tso, Sin Tak-fan, Fung Wa-chun, Cheung Si-kai, Li Sui-kam, Lan Yuen-chuen, Leung Fui-chi, Yu To-ghan, Chan Sik-lam, Li Yau-chun, Chau Siu-ki, We Wai-lun, Wo Tsai-yang, Lo Kan-ing, Shu Yim-fat, Sam Pak-ming, Wing-kwong, Chan Wan-sau, Mok Man-cheung, Tam Hok-po, Leung Kin-cu, Chan Kang-yi, Lau Pun-chiu, Chin Yee-ting, Chan Pak-yee, Wo Tsa-wan, Yiu Ki-yun, Li Po-kyai, Chan Chik-hing, Tsang Fik-ai, Chen Lok-chui.\n\n## GOVERNOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENT\n\nHis Excellency replied as follows:\n\nDr. Ho Kai and gentlemen, it gives me the very greatest pleasure that I should receive this most beautiful address from your hands...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-366 - Governor Sir Lugard Acting Governor May - 1910 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426143, "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": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "page_number": 512, "title": "CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7]", "content_text": "My Lord,\n\nC O 27045\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 29th July, 1910.\n\nMr. Fiddes\n\nI believe the Chinese Court are acting in this matter under American advice. They could not have elaborated the scheme themselves. If the Americans control it the scheme will no doubt be worked out with efficiency and fairness, and I don't think H.M.G. need tender advice on elementary principles.\n\nBut we must try to come to some arrangement in the matter of our H.K. coins now circulating in China.\n\nI submit draft to Treas. F.O should have copy of corresp.\n\nI have the honour to forward for Your Lordship's information the enclosed copy, furnished to me by the courtesy of Mr. Max Müller, of a despatch addressed by him to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs giving cover to a translation of a Decree, and of Regulations to give effect to it, establishing in China a currency on the basis of a Silver Dollar.\n\n2.\n\nThis innovation if carried out by a strong hand guided by expert financial advice would, I need scarcely point out, be a great boon to trade and commerce generally throughout China and would therefore result in advantage to the trade of the Colony which is at present considerably hampered by the chaotic state of the currency in the neighbouring provinces.\n\nBut if the operation proposed under the Decree is handled in a thoughtless and ignorant manner\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n&C.\n\nPage 242\n\n...\n\nas well not to all Cherie what it is as proposed to to with Itk. sabidean, comis, JRD\n\nTe. cú\n\nHongkong.\n\nPage 243\n\n \nhas been removed as it is not clear how it fits into the rest of the text, and the remaining text has been formatted according to the rules. However, upon closer inspection, it appears that the removed text is likely a jumbled collection of words and phrases that are not coherent. The main body of the text appears to be a formal letter or despatch, and it has been formatted accordingly.\n\nHere is the revised output in HTML format:\n\nPage 242\n\nTe. cú\n\nHongkong.\n\nMy Lord,\n\nC O 27045\n\nGovernment House,\n\nHongkong, 29th July, 1910.\n\nMr. Fiddes\n\nI believe the Chinese Court are acting in this matter under American advice. They could not have elaborated the scheme themselves. If the Americans control it the scheme will no doubt be worked out with efficiency and fairness, and I don't think H.M.G. need tender advice on elementary principles.\n\nBut we must try to come to some arrangement in the matter of our H.K. coins now circulating in China.\n\nI submit draft to Treas. F.O should have copy of corresp.\n\nI have the honour to forward for Your Lordship's information the enclosed copy, furnished to me by the courtesy of Mr. Max Müller, of a despatch addressed by him to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs giving cover to a translation of a Decree, and of Regulations to give effect to it, establishing in China a currency on the basis of a Silver Dollar.\n\n2.\n\nThis innovation if carried out by a strong hand guided by expert financial advice would, I need scarcely point out, be a great boon to trade and commerce generally throughout China and would therefore result in advantage to the trade of the Colony which is at present considerably hampered by the chaotic state of the currency in the neighbouring provinces.\n\nBut if the operation proposed under the Decree is handled in a thoughtless and ignorant manner\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nTHE EARL OF CREWE,\n\n&C.\n\nPage 243", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-367 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 426406, "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": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9]", "content_text": "Page 184\n\nbus moving to road Lanottihbs as has borst is vitd gila\n\n.Yianne son of ££tw admk “o zertraqsɑ\n\n.Ttad? soitto\n\nof signs ai ttata Isotelo sit thocerq sit aft 10% nottaktet? ads to guiqsex eft galtarugusal to źrow add dełw 9q0o vino Juo umisvoð oft teatuo ed¿ ¿A .ynoloD sat to ebert or to shart ode to auisy bus aeititnau? LatoT oft broder of boon to siderizaob od vam ti notof grofod eile dgwordt gatoraq sbart art to enolatvib dółw aututor zainďat ovaď od VI8888900\n\nombeiral Isineqal oconido od♪ to Jadit na metaya omre sit no or? tata oft ensooni of visacoɔon od yam 11 nodé amo Javo antujot rollist odt to gatɖood od: tot obivorq obwa won alszoqorq *nenteulbs to oldaqao ors Jud,bortuper vilsutnove od IItw Sert .sidaataob intrié vom THOKAZOVOð oft atimti yna oj\n\nbna solM0 Inul ofi tadt basrioder yigmoïde binow I\n\n19bmu bestiørtneo ed stormote tot soft20 @onstae() brs vital artoq baa azioqui to drobnataliequë end to vetrodtus bit rat es gaiqqtris to fortпoo ont nombraged zodral on? ot galvasi Inotmised redto bas avad anttira! ‚unoitalugo♬ tuodiel na odt yď dilw Isob od of frow dowƐ .bentsonoo cis aetionerd setɗt to 12ad2 datisterosā ald d+tw visviaufoxe TetasM wodisk motalvioqua ofathermi atd robau od bluoda odw afte10 saenido .Tednak wodisk InstatneA sit to Jard toho vllatoeqs stom bas\n\njud TovIuM .7M vituosen Ilšu 27810 mseqoтvä oift edt to archro statbermal edt ebru od bloda vetaotnel .TM wan\n\ned (Ilw ar morw of atroq bus atroqml to snobnetatroque -18010 bas sol120 Xort, ent to gaid:ow 10go%g and not sidianoquor footroo to gatqood eft,antqqidë maqo¬vë zot volt20 soNB- „2no.itraqob aid dilw betoonnes drow Isotrolo IIa bas,poitmitata\n\ngakituper (neomeɔll bna sretalger Xt to anzel ert\n\nert need sad na,boraqong of of ‚ertongin a'rotesk ruodish oft 107 Tocaeli woďtaï ode of Inez bas vol120 dmut odd és 、eoitosnq odt vɗ bolatsint of oals taum otnomusob daoɗt tud etterle .atroqz bas etroqal to nobпotniroqua\n\nThe Junk Inspectors should continue to be under the Harbour Master, but as shown on page 24 of my report, their\n\nwork must in a measure subserve that of the Imports and\n\nExports Office. It does not appear to me that any increase in\n\nthe Staff is required for such additional work as a re-\n\ngrouping of office duties and keeping of statistics may entail\n\nbut there would seem to be room for more effective supervision\n\nand handling of the Clerical Staff.\n\n(Sd.) D. Percebois.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-368 - Acting Governor May - 1910 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429152, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 493, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "sale after all the vapourings had cooled down. What happened was that month after month quite a handful of the dealers have been vieing with each other in the attempt to corner the stock at the Calcutta auctions, and this competition at \"corner\" has proved a boon to the revenue of the Indian Government, and incidentally to the poor Indian taxpayer. Their godowns were filled with a surfeit of opium chests; month after month passed by, opium surpassing in the meanwhile the price of gold, weight for weight, without demand from the Chinese dealers. Now they are at the end of their resources, and want the sales suspended. If the sale should continue, as it should every month, one of two alternatives are open to the dealers who attempted the corner; either they should fill their already overflowing godowns with more opium, or they will have to let \"outsiders\" get in and buy the drug at the present low prices, which will only end in their being undersold in the Chinese market, resulting in, perhaps, losses of millions of taels for them.\n\nThe Government of India reduced the number of the chests at the auctions from 3,900 in 1908 to 3,600 in 1909, and 3,300 in 1910; this reduction was based on the calculation that a ten per cent. reduction per year will be consistent with the gradual reduction policy. Opium using in China has been reduced by more than 10 per cent. a year during the last two years, and if anybody ought to know that, it is the self-same merchants that are crying their eyes out to-day. They knew that the clearances were growing poorer day by day, and yet they have paid double the prices at the Calcutta auctions, simply hoping in the failure of the policy of opium suppression, of which the whole world has morally approved, though quite a large proportion of sincere men believe in the practical impossibility of eradicating the use of the drug to which the country has so long been addicted. The upward tendency in prices commenced in April 1909, and has continued up to April this year, when it received a setback.\n\nThe prices at the Government sales at Calcutta during the last fifteen months were as follows:\n\n7\n\nit at extravagant prices, do not deserve any sympathy; and the less said about the motives the better. The Indian Government is unconcerned either way. At 900 rupees a chest it will still make a profit. It has already made provisions to cover the deficit per incident on the loss of the opium revenue. It is distinctly understood that it never invited the merchants to buy.\n\nThe word \"merchants\" that Reuter refers to in the telegram quoted above, properly speaking, belongs to the dual and not the plural number. How far their interests, when conflicting with the principles and promises of the Government, should be safeguarded it is for the Government of India to decide.\n\nThere is not the least doubt that the provincial authorities in China, some honestly to curtail opium smoking and others in the hope of \"making hay while the sun shines,\" are creating monopolies and placing every kind of obstacle in the way of the Indian opium trade—but all of them with the ostensible object of stopping the use of the deleterious drug in the kingdom. Chinese dealers, even those who have so sparingly bought of the Indian opium, declare that it is absolutely impossible to send the commodity into the interior, and it is reported that unless something is done they will have no more of the foreign opium. If the authorities have placed such indirect obstacles it is surely a violation of the terms of the convention; and unless they could prove that the use of the native drug is entirely stopped in the kingdom, have not an iota of justification. While we have always commended the Chinese Government for its praiseworthy efforts in this direction, we know for certain that the use of the drug is still common in quite a large portion of the Empire, and the Government, as we have already stated, has not given guarantees of its ability to completely stop the use of opium.\n\nUnless there is more of straight dealing on its part the situation will by no means be improved. While the Bombay merchants—who are as much Bombay merchants as they are London or Shanghai merchants—are not deserving of any sympathy for the losses they might possibly incur, the Chinese authorities deserve the severest condemnation for overtly repudiating the terms of the convention.\n\n \n \n Patna.\n Benares.\n \n \n 1909-\n At rupees.\n At rupees.\n \n \n April\n 1,105\n \n \n \n May\n 1,166\n \n \n \n June\n 1,352\n \n \n \n July\n 1,380\n \n \n \n August\n 1,350\n \n \n \n September\n 1,355\n \n \n \n October\n 1,200\n \n \n \n November\n 1,215\n \n \n \n December\n 1,292\n \n \n \n 1910-\n \n \n \n \n January\n 1,286\n \n \n \n February.\n 1,365\n 1,815\n \n \n March\n 1,435\n 1,440\n \n \n April\n 1,755\n 1,845\n \n \n May\n 1,755\n 1,805\n \n \n June\n 2,109\n 1,979\n \n \n \n 2,305\n 2,490\n \n \n \n 2,849\n 2,308\n \n \n \n 3,657\n 3,996\n \n \n \n 3,100\n 3,065\n \n \n \n 2,207\n 2,150\n \n\nThe clearances, ever since the opium campaign, have been decreasing every fortnight, except on the few occasions when the Chinese were made to believe that there will be an abnormal increase in the price of opium, when even they bought on the future prospect of a gamble in the drug. Contrasting the clearances on the last five fortnights with the corresponding period in 1909 we find:-\n\n \n \n Malwa.\n Bengal.\n Chests.\n Übeste.\n \n \n April 8.\n 1909\n 11\n 308\n 345\n \n \n \n 1910\n 15\n 356\n 240\n \n \n \n 23, 1909\n +4\n 317\n 546\n \n \n \n 22, 1910\n \n \n \n \n \n May\n 7, 1909\n 6, 1910\n 78\n 106\n \n \n \n 21, 1909\n 20, 1910\n 376\n 413\n \n \n June\n #\n 102\n 398\n 420\n \n \n \n 4, 1909\n 6, 1910\n 76\n 108\n \n \n \n \n \n 315\n 355\n \n \n \n 87\n 147\n \n \n \n \n \n 64\n \n \n \n \n\nMore commentary is unnecessary, and the only conclusion that can be reasonably arrived at is that the \"merchants\" who, without any appreciable demand for the article, and in the face of the movement to suppress the use of the drug, bought\n\n489", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429176, "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": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "sale after all the vapourings had cooled down. What happened was that month after month quite a handful of the dealers have been vieing with each other in the attempt to corner the stock at the Calcutta auctions, and this competition at \"corner\" has proved a boon to the revenue of the Indian Government, and incidentally to the poor Indian taxpayer. Their godowns were filled with a surfeit of opium chests; month after month passed by, opium surpassing in the meanwhile the price of gold, weight for weight, without any demand from the Chinese dealers. Now they are at the end of their resources, and want the sales suspended. If the sale should continue, as it should every month, one of two alternatives are open to the dealers who attempted the corner; either they should fill their already overflowing godowns with more opium, or they will have to let \"outsiders\" get in and buy the drug at the present low prices, which will only end in their being undersold in the Chinese market, resulting in, perhaps, losses of millions of taels for them.\n\nIf the merchants are losing heavily it is nobody else's fault. The Government of India reduced the number of the chests at the auctions from 3,900 in 1908 to 3,600 in 1909, and 3,300 in 1910; this reduction was based on the calculation that a ten per cent. reduction per year will be consistent with the gradual reduction policy. Opium using in China has been reduced by more than 10 per cent, a year during the last two years, and if anybody ought to know that, it is the self-same merchants that are crying their eyes out to-day. They knew that the clearances were growing poorer day by day, and yet they have paid double the prices at the Calcutta auctions, simply hoping in the failure of the policy of opium suppression, of which the whole world has morally approved, though quite a large proportion of sincere men believe in the practical impossibility of eradicating the use of the drug to which the country has so long been addicted. The upward tendency in prices commenced in April 1909, and has continued up to April this year, when it received a setback.\n\nThe prices at the Government sales at Calcutta during the last fifteen months were as follows:\n\nPage 7\n\nit at extravagant prices, do not deserve any sympathy; and the less said about the motives the better. The Indian Government is unconcerned either way.\n\nAt 900 rupees (per chest) it will still make a profit. It has already made provisions to cover the deficit incident on the loss of the opium revenue. It is distinctly understood that it never invited the merchants to buy.\n\nThe word \"merchants\" that Reuter refers to in the telegram quoted above, properly speaking, belongs to the dual and not the plural number. How far their interests, when conflicting with the principles and promises of the Government, should be safeguarded it is for the Government of India to decide. At the same time, there is not the least doubt that the provincial authorities in China, some honestly to curtail opium smoking and others in the hope of \"making hay while the sun shines,\" are creating monopolies and placing every kind of obstacle in the way of the Indian opium trade—but all of them with the ostensible object of stopping the use of the deleterious drug in the kingdom. Chinese dealers, even those who have so sparingly bought of the Indian opium, declare that it is absolutely impossible to send the commodity into the interior, and it is reported that unless something is done they will have no more of the foreign opium. If the authorities have placed such indirect obstacles it is surely a violation of the terms of the convention; and unless they could prove that the use of the native drug is entirely stopped in the kingdom, have not an iota of justification. While we have always commended the Chinese Government for its praiseworthy efforts in this direction, we know for certain that the use of the drug is still common in quite a large portion of the Empire, and the Government, as we have already stated, has not given guarantees of its ability to completely stop the use of opium.\n\nUnless there is more of straight dealing on its part the situation will by no means be improved. While the \"Bombay merchants\"—who are as much Bombay merchants as they are London or Shanghai merchants—are not deserving of any sympathy for the losses they might possibly incur, the Chinese authorities deserve the severest condemnation for overtly repudiating the terms of the convention.\n\nPatna,Benares.\n\n1909—AprilAt rupees.At rupees.\nMay1,1651,166\nJune1,3521,380\nJuly1,3501,355\nAugust1,2001,215\nSeptember1,2921,286\nOctober1,3651,315\nNovember1,4351,440\nDecember1,7551,805\n1910—January1,7551,805\nFebruary.2,1091,979\nMarch2,3052,490\nApril2,3492,308\nMay3,6573,996\nJure8,1008,065\n2,2072,150\n\nThe clearances, ever since the opium campaign, have been decreasing every fortnight, except on the few occasions when the Chinese were made to believe that there will be an abnormal increase in the price of opium, when even they bought on the future prospect of a gamble in the drug. Contrasting the clearances on the last five fortnights with the corresponding period in 1909 we find:\n\nMalwa, Bengal.Chests.Chests.\n\nApril 8. 190971308\n8, 191033945\n23, 190922356\n22, 1910240\nMay7, 1909317\n6, 1910646\n21, 190978376\n20, 191053413\nJune4, 1909393\n6, 191076420\n315\n87355\n147\n\nMore commentary is unnecessary, and the only conclusion that can be reasonably arrived at is that the \"merchants\" who, without any appreciable demand for the article, and in the face of the movement to suppress the use of the drug, bought\n\nPage 0\n\n513", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-372 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429462, "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": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910", "content_text": "2 \n\nof worn coins is also enclosed, and I am to ask for the favour of their Lordships' observations thereon. \n\n7. I am to add with regard to the main matter that the Governor has been informed by telegraph that, pending full consideration of the question with the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, his scheme cannot be approved, \n\n8. It is very regrettable that this enormous supply of Hong Kong subsidiary coin 800 fine should have been provided for circulation in China without the provision of a reserve fund to guarantee the face value. Profit on subsidiary coin is, his Lordship understands, usually paid to current revenue, and, where the issuing Government has control over the currency in the area to which the coin is limited, the danger may be small. But when, as in this case, the over-valued coin was supplied for use in a foreign country, as well as in a British colony, it was clearly desirable to hold a portion of the profits in reserve to provide for redemption. I am, &c. \n\nMy Lord, \n\nEnclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\nSir H. May to the Earl of Crewe. \n\nH. BERTRAM COX. \n\nGovernment House, Hong Kong, July 29, 1910. \n\nI HAVE the honour to forward for your Lordship's information the enclosed copy, furnished to me by the courtesy of Mr. Max Müller, of a despatch addressed by him to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, giving cover to a translation of a decree, and of regulations to give effect to it, establishing in China a currency on the basis of a silver dollar. \n\n2. This innovation, if carried out by a strong hand guided by expert financial advice, would, I need scarcely point out, be a great boon to trade and commerce generally throughout China, and would therefore result in advantage to the trade of the colony, which is at present considerably hampered by the chaotic state of the currency in the neighbouring provinces. \n\nBut if the operation proposed under the decree is handled in a thoughtless and ignorant manner, the existing condition, due to the want of a properly regulated currency, is likely to be aggravated rather than improved. I venture, therefore, to suggest that the serious attention of the Chinese Government be drawn to a few leading principles which must be observed if success is to be attained. \n\n3. In reply to an enquiry of His Britannic Majesty's consul-general at Canton, I learn that on the 28th May the provincial mint received orders to cease the minting of all coinage on the 6th ultimo; that minting accordingly has been suspended, and that the mint is awaiting instructions with regard to the minting of the new coinage. Mr. Jamieson adds that he understands a central mint will be established at Tien-tsin, with branches at Canton, Wuchang, Yunnan, and Chengtu. \n\nPast experience leads those in this colony who are qualified to form a judgment to believe that the success of the operation depends, as far as the two Kwang provinces are concerned, upon the closing of the Canton mint. The temptation to manipulate the coinage is too great, and the ignorance of the provincial authorities of the disastrous results of tampering with currency are too profound, to justify the keeping open of this mint. \n\n4. The next point I wish to emphasise is that, so long as the existing largely over-issued silver coinage of the Canton mint, consisting of 10- and 20-cent pieces (of which the 10-cent pieces are believed to be below the authorised weight), remains at a discount, none of the new subsidiary coinage should be put into circulation. I gather from the fact that the necessity of first dealing with the existing small silver coinage is not mentioned in the regulations that the Chinese Government is ignorant of the elementary principle that if two coinages are in circulation side by side the baser will drive the better out of the market. \n\nThe Chinese Government should either wait till the existing silver coins issued by the Canton mint reach par, or they should hasten that event by a scheme of redemption before any issue of the new subsidiary coins is made; and I would ask that this fact be urgently pressed upon the Wai-wu Pu. \n\n5. The point alluded to in the preceding paragraph is also important when section 14 of the regulations is considered. Apparently it is contemplated to repudiate the existing small silver coins after a date to be fixed upon. Unless some scheme of redemption is adopted at any rate for the 20-cent pieces, which are at present the real currency of the two Kwang provinces, an act of very grave injustice will be done, which will touch the pockets of rich and poor alike, and will therefore be likely to lead to very serious difficulties. \n\n6. I question whether the Chinese Government realise that the coinage of standard coins, which is both necessary and desirable, involves expenditure of about 1 per cent.; and that the establishment of a good dollar currency with a properly limited sub-coinage will cost it money instead of producing it. \n\n7. Lastly, I notice that no mention is made of the Hong Kong subsidiary coinage in circulation in China and of how it is proposed to deal with it. This is a point upon which this Government would like information. \n\n8. I have sent copy of this despatch to His Majesty's chargé d'affaires at Peking. \n\nSir, \n\nI have, &c. \n\nH. MAY, \n\nOfficer administering the Government. \n\nEnclosure 3 in No. 1. \n\nColonial Office to Treasury. \n\nDowning Street, September 13, 1910. With reference to the letter from this Office of the 8th April last on the subject of Hong Kong subsidiary coin to which no answer has yet been received, and which is no doubt still engaging the attention of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury ----I am directed by the Earl of Crewe to transmit to you, to be laid before their Lordships, copy of a despatch from the officer administering the Government of the colony regarding the measures recently taken in China for the establishment of a new uniform currency on a silver dollar basis. \n\n2. These measures, if carried into operation, will profoundly affect the situation described in the letter from this Office above referred to, and it appears that the mint at Canton has already suspended coinage operations. I am to request that you will invite their Lordships' observations on the whole matter, more especially as regards the advice which should be offered to the Chinese Government in connection with the new scheme, and as to the representations which should be made with regard to the Hong Kong subsidiary coins now circulating in China. \n\n3. A copy of this correspondence is being sent to the Foreign Office. \n\nI am, &c. \n\nG. V. FIDDES. \n\n198", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-373 - Public Offices - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 429845, "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": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "page_number": 37, "title": "CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910", "content_text": "Dante of India the privilege\n\nhow prior to the Chartered Bank\n\nthe Hongkong Bank has\n\nBanking Corporation. In this\n\nannexation\n\nCam to refer to\n\nthe correspondence ending with Treasury letter No. 9321/99\n\n9th June 1899.\n\nproposal\n\nThe\n\nDRAFT.\n\n(14807/99)\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nThe counsel of the\n\nwho at that time\n\ndefined, since it appeared\n\npossible that a guarantee\n\nmight shortly be made.\n\nBut\n\nwas thought (or, on his opinion)\n\nconsiders that the Bank who\n\nnot undertake to issue\n\nnotes, the claims of the\n\nMercantile Bank were not\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nSir C. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nCol. Seely\n\nLord Crewe.\n\nthe\n\nmaking\n\nover here in order to avoid a public scandal\n\nhe disapproved\n\n33\n\n9. He was prepared therefore\n\nthat the Mercantile Bank\n\nand be permitted to issue\n\nnotes\n\nto the table of\n\ntheir paid up capital.\n\non depositing coin or securities\n\n645\n\nto the table of the third\n\nthe notes issued\n\n1\n\nand he allowed to issue notes\n\nin excess of that sum on\n\nbullion\n\ndepositing coin\n\nto the full face value of\n\nmy notes coined in\n\nexcess.\n\nThis Lordship's are\n\naware that the\n\nother two\n\nBanks have been prior to this, and had (it was felt) that it was difficult to impose\n\nPage 33\n\n \n\nwas replaced with \n\nto meet the format request. Here is the revised response:\n\nDante of India the privilege\n\nhow prior to the Chartered Bank\n\nthe Hongkong Bank has\n\nBanking Corporation. In this\n\nannexation\n\nCam to refer to\n\nthe correspondence ending with Treasury letter No. 9321/99 of\n\n9th June 1899.\n\nproposal\n\nThe\n\nDRAFT.\n\n(14807/99)\n\nMr.\n\nMr.\n\nThe counsel of the\n\nwho at that time\n\ndefined, since it appeared\n\npossible that a guarantee\n\nmight shortly be made.\n\nBut\n\nwas thought (or, on his opinion)\n\nconsiders that the Bank who\n\nnot undertake to issue\n\nnotes, the claims of the\n\nMercantile Bank were not\n\nMINUTE.\n\nMr. Fiddes.\n\nMr. Just.\n\nMr. Cox.\n\nSir C. Lucas.\n\nSir F. Hopwood.\n\nCol. Seely\n\nLord Crewe.\n\nthe\n\nmaking\n\nover here in order to avoid a public scandal\n\nhe disapproved\n\n33\n\n9. He was prepared therefore\n\nthat the Mercantile Bank\n\nand be permitted to issue\n\nnotes\n\nto the table of\n\ntheir paid up capital.\n\non depositing coin or securities\n\n645\n\nto the table of the third\n\nthe notes issued\n\n1\n\nand he allowed to issue notes\n\nin excess of that sum on\n\nbullion\n\ndepositing coin\n\nto the full face value of\n\nmy notes coined in\n\nexcess.\n\nThis Lordship's are\n\naware that the\n\nother two\n\nBanks have been prior to this, and had (it was felt) that it was difficult to impose\n\nPage 33", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-374 - Public Offices & Others - 1910.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 431569, "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": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "page_number": 144, "title": "CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5]", "content_text": "# Court Transcript\n\nShould that correspond with the bank book or the cash book?—That should correspond with both the cash book and the pass book.\n\nWe know that they do not correspond within Landreds—I can't say.\n\nDo you mean to say that you never in any way checked this account which you gave to Tatem—employed a man to do the work,\n\nYou never checked it?—I never did. One thing I checked was the balance of my loss account, $1,443.56.\n\nYou never checked any of the payments?—No. If Barker was alive I should have had him here.\n\nHis Lordship—Barker seems to have made mistakes.\n\nMr. Slade: Take the item $3,616. What does that represent?—Money which I have withdrawn from the Hongkong Butchery.\n\nYou have omitted to credit yourself with a balance of $355.63 less $155.49—that is a repayment to me out of capital account.\n\nFurther questions were addressed to defendant by Counsel, who suggested that on his own showing the capital account was clearly wrong. His Lordship pointed out that the accounts were wrongly expressed, money on loan being described as capital.\n\nMr. Slade added that in the first two months defendant had withdrawn $1,500 from the capital.\n\nDefendant could not explain how it was that the cash book for a certain period showed $636 more than appeared in the bank book. In the course of further questions defendant said he had not checked any of the figures in the statement presented.\n\nAnd the sum set down as your loss might be more than here shown?—I told Mr. Gardiner months ago that I was willing to hand the books over to Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, or any other firm of accountants and abide by their decision.\n\nDefendant was asked if he did not closely watch the conduct of the business from the beginning, and admitted that he went down regularly during the first four months.\n\nAnd you kept a close watch?—Not close enough.\n\nYou tried to?—Yes. I was down every morning at four o'clock.\n\nAnd having kept a close watch during the first four months you paid no attention to these things?—In the first four months it was my business. There was a leakage somewhere and I tried to find it. After the first four months Young Chung was responsible.\n\nHis Lordship then put a number of questions to the defendant.\n\nThis business can hardly be described as a small one?—Well, I should not call it a large business.\n\nIt had a turnover of $3,000—$3,000, $3,000 running up to $4,000?—Not during the first four months.\n\nFor a business just started that is not bad?—I should say the turnover was larger than I expected.\n\nI suppose from the time you started with Tatem there must have been a good deal of advertising and soliciting customers?—Yes.\n\nI suppose Tatem did that?—He was living with me at the time.\n\nYou seem to have started with a well-prepared business, over 110 customers on the books?—Yes.\n\nIn fact, you had all the European community as customers?—Yes.\n\nI suppose it was a great boon to the community?—Yes, my lord.\n\nLooking at the figures, the December accounts were $3,686 as against $3,800. There was a profit. The January receipts were $3,095 against $3,724. Again there was a profit. It seems to me this was a growing business. You found it larger than you had expected and you came to the conclusion that you were losing. What seems to me is that you wanted rather more floating capital to run it, and you became nervous. As the Americans say, you had bitten off more than you could chew. You started something which you did not expect to be so big?—No, my lord.\n\nYou had got together a very fine business, and therefore it must have been lack of floating capital which made you become nervous?—There was a loss, my lord.\n\nNo loss. I will prove it, my lord. When you start a business you do not expect your capital back in four months?—No.\n\nHad you started on a solid capital you were not making money?—No, my lord. We were actually making money?—No, my lord. There was the trial balance—\n\nIf your trial balances were like this one they were hopeless. The fact is you got frightened and surrendered a rather good thing. Do you really think that it was fair to get rid of the business to Yeung Chung and to sell what was really a good business which had been built up by Tatem's energy for a very small sum like $2,000 and to have started the Hongkong Butchery Company, using the name to which the European Community had become accustomed?—I must take one thing with the other. In the first four months the bills receivable amounted to $14,723 and the bills payable to $16,448. It left you short of capital.\n\nNo.\n\nAt the time how much had you advanced?—$3,500 to the best of my recollection.\n\nHis Lordship pointed out that there was a profit made in the first four months. There was no profit in the first month, but on the four months there was a profit. He did not state that with a view to challenging the defendant, but merely to enable him to judge of the behaviour of the parties.\n\nThe hearing was adjourned until this morning.\n\nPage 140", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-377 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433459, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "## be looked for. \n\nI will be observed that \n\nSir F. Lugard wishes to be allowed to \n\nproceed with the scheme described in \n\nhis despatch, of which a copy accompanied the letter from this Office of the 6th of April 1910,\n\nBut Mr. Harcourt does not see how the scheme can be carried out with any prospect except at a cost beyond the present means of the Colony. \n\nIt appears to him that if there is to be no \"repudiation\" of the subsidiary silver coins now circulating in China as well as in the Colony, and if the question of depreciation is to be dealt with, it must be dealt with comprehensively, and having regard to the resources of the Colony this can only be effected by the issue of Government notes of unlimited legal tender in place of the redundant subsidiary coins.\n\n4. The difference in the intrinsic value of the subsidiary as compared with the standard coins, the former being .800 fine as compared with the latter which are .900 fine, is not so great as to make a sound scheme of note issue impossible, especially when it is remembered that the subsidiary coin can be bought up from time to time at a price based approximately on the prevailing rate of discount. The notes then issued can thus be backed at once by a reserve of standard dollars amounting to two-thirds of the issue, and, after paying expenses of the note issue, there will still remain a balance to be invested, which will in course of time, as interest is added to the investment fund, fully cover the issue of notes. Moreover the note issue will of course be secured by the General Revenue and Assets of the Colony, so that there will be no cause for lack of confidence in the issue.\n\n## The demand for notes in Hong...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 433546, "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": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "page_number": 127, "title": "CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12]", "content_text": "possible facility given him by the Government for obtaining soil from the shore, is not carrying on the work as rapidly as possible. As a matter of fact, I have reason to believe there is a large quantity of rock now available which he could buy to-morrow if he wished at a very reasonable price, but he refrains from doing so, because he believes that by waiting he will get it very much cheaper. This is clearly a case where pressure ought to be put on the man to see that he carries on the work properly.\n\nI am glad to see that at last, after so many years' delay, the Post Office and the Law Courts will disappear from the Connaught Road. I have spoken so often on the subject that I do not propose to say much more, except to express regret that after an expenditure of $2,000,000 on what ought to be the finest buildings in the Colony, we have such a miserable return for our money. Looking at the Post Office at close quarters, the building is very attractive, but viewed from a distance, it is disappointing. If anybody is disposed to dispute my statement, I would ask him to take a launch, go out into the middle of the harbour, and compare its appearance with Queen's Buildings.\n\nAs for the Law Courts, I really do not know what to say about them, and who is responsible for the design, I do not know. It was credited to a leading architect at Home, but I cannot conceive that he could have invented such a thing as that. All the buildings round about are tall buildings, built on high basements, but this unfortunate building of solid granite is sunk right down, apparently by its own weight, until it stands knee-deep in mud and is finished off at the top with a dome, a risible common dome probably supposed to look like St Peter's of Rome. The whole effect is most deplorable, and I can only express the hope that the \"finest site in the Colony\" will be built over, so that, at least from the harbour, the view of the Law Courts will be concealed.\n\nNow we come to the question of the Magistracy. On page 85 of this year's report, there is an entry of $38,000 to be spent on this building. On the same page of last year's budget, there was a vote of $20,000, none of which was spent, but I would call attention to the fact that in these budgets, there is no estimate as to the total cost of the building, and although asked to vote $38,000 this year, we are still quite in the dark as to what this building is going to cost.\n\nThe question of extending new roads and light railways in the New Territory meets with the approval of unofficial members, and we are glad your Excellency has devoted so much attention and spent considerable sums of money in this direction. We are sure it will be a great boon to people living in the New Territory. There is one item to which I would draw attention, namely the excellent carriage road as far as Taipo, and suggest that it be continued to the frontier.\n\nWith regard to the appearance of Royal Square, to which I have just alluded, I am glad to know that the question of putting a satisfactory railing round the open space has been decided upon, and I would like to suggest, as I have done in the past, that a low railing should be put in front of the four royal statues. These are used as playgrounds by sampan children. The statues are made of polished granite, and we all know how rapidly the stone will soil. That was suggested at the time the pillars were put up, and I would still urge that a railing be put in front to prevent people soiling the statues.\n\nThere is great necessity for a new pier at Statue Square. This, however, if constructed, as it must be before very long, in view of the enormous increase of launch traffic in the Colony, will be a very expensive business, probably costing something like a couple of lakhs. In any case, whatever is put up, I trust it will not be such a horrible and unsightly structure as Blake Pier.\n\nAt the present moment, we are committed to about 4 millions for the Tytam Reservoir, for the Typhoon Refuge, and the Magistracy, and in the present state of the revenue, it is not advisable to incur any other big expense at the moment, but a pier is badly required at Kowloon. For many years, the police pier has been in use, but at present, it is in a state of disrepair, and people going to Kowloon have been quite unable to make use of it with private launches.\n\nI understand that the question of the site of a passenger station for the railway, and consequently the position of the passenger pier, is still under consideration, and I trust that the question will be settled at the earliest possible date. If it is decided that the station and passenger pier are to be placed on the east side of the peninsula, then I would suggest that a small pier, not of great cost, should be erected at the south end of the peninsula in line with the south end of Nathan Road. That is a matter of some urgency, as at the present moment, Kowloon residents are put to very great inconvenience.\n\nThe Tytam Tuk work is estimated to cost next year $107,000. Referring to this, I would merely repeat what I said before, that I consider it very advisable that the construction of this big public work should be pressed on, and I do not consider $107,000 sufficient to be expended in one year. I will refer more particularly to the general working of the Public Works Department later on.\n\nThere is one point to which I would ask your Excellency to give your attention, although it does not really fall within the four corners of the Budget, that is, the question of linking up the railway between Canton and Hankow. At present, our railway is of little use, but if we got through to Hankow, it will bring us in direct communication with Europe, and this must of necessity increase the earnings of our railway. I trust that as soon as possible after matters have quietened down in China, your Excellency will be good enough to give it consideration.\n\nI think I have now dealt with practically all the main points to which your Excellency referred in your speech, but there are one or two others I would like to mention. As we know, one of the leading clubs here is laying out golf links at Fanling, and I should like to put on record my views on the subject. Now is the time when Government should peg out a claim of land round the golf links of considerable area to be converted into a park, and should not allow building sites within that area to be let. I speak with some knowledge because a good many years ago, I had to consider the advisability of providing a park for the future in one of the communities in which I was then resident. I had the satisfaction, when last I visited the place, of seeing a fine park with tennis grounds, golf links, and all possible conveniences.\n\nAnother point which has been referred to in the Press is the dredging of the harbour. This matter I discussed seriously with Sir Cyprian Bridge when he was Commander-in-Chief out here, but I see there is not the slightest necessity for the Government incurring expense in this direction at present.\n\nAnother important matter which has been before the Chamber of Commerce, which I have the honour to represent, is the question of wireless telegraphy. That, as your Excellency is aware, has formed a topic of correspondence between us for many months past. The Committee of the Chamber of Commerce consider that the very lowest station we should have here is one of 1,500 miles radius, that is...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-381 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 435448, "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": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "page_number": 228, "title": "CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911", "content_text": "# observed that too much importance cannot be attached to the preservation of that happy unanimity between the groups which constitutes the essence and foundation of the agreements just concluded, no less than the guarantee of their proper fulfilment.\n\nWith the present growth of constitutional reform in China it is idle to attempt to impose principles which presume an entirely different set of conditions. Insistence upon these principles was indeed largely responsible for the state of inertia and indifference into which the Chinese Government had steadily drifted. In order to remove this it was necessary to make some concessions, and it was felt that these could safely be made provided the Imperial Government was prepared to assume full responsibility for them. The unusual publicity given to the Hukuang Agreement and to the decrees referring to it, and the responsibility of the Cabinet to the National Assembly under the new constitution, are conditions which have been non-existent in the case of previous loan agreements, and these add materially to the value of the guarantees of the present ones. They, in fact, imply a new channel for the exercise of the Government's legitimate responsibilities, the right to which cannot reasonably be denied to it. In addition to this, we have the fact that the Chinese Government enters into its engagements jointly and simultaneously with four countries whose political friendship and financial assistance have now become matters of necessity for it. In a strict adherence to the principles here implied, in joint communications on all matters of routine, in joint action where action is necessary, coupled always with a consistent regard for the susceptibilities of China in questions where her self-respect is at stake, will lie the future strength of the international combination, which has it in its power to direct to a large degree the material progress on which China now shows her readiness to enter.\n\nIt should never be forgotten that the first impression likely to be created in the Chinese mind by the present international combination is one of suspicion, an impression which political rivals will take every opportunity to foster, and the efforts of the groups should therefore be consistently directed to remove all grounds for such suspicion by proofs of their friendly desire, dissociated from all political motives, to assist China in working out her economic salvation. China, in her present state of national evolution, is like a restive and nervous horse, who must be guided with a light hand rather than controlled by force; and any attempt to impose conditions which are irksome or derogatory to her aspirations for self-dependence, are likely to weaken rather than strengthen the position of the groups.\n\nThis policy has been pursued in the negotiations just concluded, and the commanding position which it has secured to the groups is recognised by far-seeing rivals like the Russians, who would seem in fact to have abandoned all attempts to form a competing group; and their friendly proposals for co-operation in regions where their political predominance cannot be challenged should be carefully weighed. It is better to have them as friends than as rivals or opponents, and their political co-operation, by presenting to China an acceptable solution of the problems by which she is now confronted in the regions referred to, would bring an immense accession of strength to the present international combination.\n\nThe deposit of loan funds with the Chinese Government banks under the guarantee of the Imperial Government is a step which merely anticipates the necessities of the currency reform programme, namely, the reorganisation of those banks on modern banking lines and the assumption by the Imperial Government of direct responsibility for their administration. The weak part of the currency scheme, in other respects a carefully thought out one, is that dealing with the issue of notes, for the issue and redemption of which the Ta Ching Bank is constituting the sole channel, but no provision is made for their guarantee beyond some very inadequate regulations with regard to a reserve in bullion and securities. It will be necessary, at any rate to begin with, that the notes be guaranteed by the Imperial Government and that a reserve of at least 70 or 80 per cent. be kept in coin of the national currency under the strictest Government control. Insistence on this point will no doubt find a place in the report of the groups to the Chinese Government, and the needs of the moment will thus, it is to be hoped, lead to the establishment of what has long been an urgent necessity, namely, a Government bank, organised in accordance with modern banking laws and forming part of the administrative machinery of the country.\n\nThe doubt is frequently expressed whether the Chinese Government is powerful enough to carry into effect any scheme of currency reform in the face of the strong opposition which is to be anticipated from the native banks and official classes, who make large profits by the present confusion of the currency. To this it may be replied that a Government which has shown itself capable of effectively suppressing such a widespread national evil as the opium habit may well be credited with the ability to enforce so beneficial a measure as currency reform. Currency reform upon a silver basis, with a subsidiary coinage of fixed value in relation to the standard, will benefit the people at large by cheapening the price of commodities and lightening the burden of taxation. Under the present system of revenue collection the local official fixes an arbitrary rate between copper and silver, and insists upon payment in the standard imposed by himself, thereby extorting from the people of the soil far more than is due from them, while at the same time he accounts to the Government for the minimum sum prescribed by custom as the average collection of his district. With the reform of the currency these abuses must come to an end; and, when once this is realised by the masses, the Government may, it is to be expected, count upon a popular support equally strong as that which has distinguished the movement for opium suppression.\n\nIn conclusion, the question may well be asked how China, with her visible resources now so seriously reduced by the exclusion of opium, and with financial stringency increasing in every province, is to meet her ever-growing load of foreign debt, and at the same time find fresh resources with which to carry out the schemes of material progress and expansion, of education and of constitutional reform, into which she is being irresistibly forced by the pressure of her external relations, and by the demands of her own national aspirations. Apart from the substantial economies to be realised by a reform of the existing administrative machinery, it is evident from what has been said above that the effective introduction of the new currency, by putting an end to extortion and lightening the burden of the people, will automatically create a new taxable margin which can be availed of by the Government without calling on the people to pay more than they actually do at present. It is probably well within the mark to say that, from these two sources alone, the present internal revenue of the country could be doubled. In addition, as the group representatives were informed during the recent negotiations, the Chinese Government has now decided to direct its immediate attention to the question of tariff revision, and it is to be hoped that the Powers, in considering the proposals of the Chinese Government on this subject, will unite in a policy similar to that followed by the British Government in respect to the exclusion of opium, and will ask from China, in return for the sacrifice they are called upon to make, adequate guarantees, not only for the total abolition of `li-kin`, but for the introduction of such administrative reforms as may prove the sincerity of her desire and the reality of her efforts to rehabilitate her financial position. The first essential is the employment of competent advisers in every department of the executive, and circumstances all point to the time now being ripe for pressing such a measure.\n\nThe first step has in fact already been taken in the appointment of Mr. Vissering to assist in the inauguration of the currency reform programme, and he has at the same time been invited by the Imperial Government to advise as to the reorganisation of the Ta Ching Government bank. In pressing China to extend the policy thus inaugurated by the appointment of other advisers in the financial departments of the administration care should be taken to avoid any appearance of attempting to impose an international control of her finances, such as might be implied by specific stipulations as to the number, character, and nationality of the advisers she selects. The selection should be left to China under her general guarantee to the Powers that such appointments will be made wherever obviously called for by the needs of reorganisation, and that competent persons of recognised high character only will be employed.\n\nS. S. Gneisenau, near Socotra, \nJune 22, 1911.\n\nE. G. HILLIER. \nH. CORDES.\n\nPage 225", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-384 - Public Offices - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 436529, "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": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911", "content_text": "Confidential.\n\nCopy came to hand (2nd instant).\n\nRis...\n\nI received at the Agency's one of 7th instant.\n\nGovt. had to meet when I was responsible for the Agencies, but the G.P.O. must see it now, under any circumstances.\n\nThanks are due to Sir J. Anderson for refusing to...\n\nI don't think it necessary to inform the C.P.O. of our intentions. Of course, when the present subsidiary coins are demonetized, we shall not take them from the Agencies at par value; in fact, their entrance into the Colony will be prohibited.\n\nBut I do not think we should take them at par value even now. They are not legal tender in China, and the Postal Agencies can refuse to accept them except at a discount; in fact, they can treat them as they do the Chinese subsidiary coin. If they take them at par, it must be at their own loss.\n\nConsidering how large a portion of postal receipts is paid in subsidiary coin, to accept the liability they ask would mean a heavy loss to H.K., a loss getting on for as bad as the loss involved in paying Mil. Cont. on the receipts of the Agencies, which brought about this transfer to the Imperial Post Office, with all its elaborate arrangements and heavy expenditure, simply because the Treas. wanted to save their face over the Mil. Cont. question.\n\nThe loss from depreciation of subsidiary coin is a serious matter. If they choose to accumulate a large stock of our subsidiary coin and send them to H.K. just before we prohibit their importation and oblige us to exchange them with our subsidiary coin at par, it is perhaps improper to suspect a great Govt. Dept. of being possibly guided by their economic interest only, but we can't be too careful.\n\nI would not consult Treas. on this paper, as they would take the side of the G.P.O. for selfish reasons. Nor would I let G.P.O. know of our proposed action, lest they may accumulate a large stock of our new coin.\n\nLow coinage, our subsidiary coin...\n\nReply as indicated at A.\n\nW. 19.9\n\nPage 359\n\n \nPage 359\n\nPage 359", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-386 - Public Offices & Others - 1911.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438130, "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": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6]", "content_text": "The provided text appears to be an OCR output of a historical document, and it requires proofreading and formatting. Here's the corrected and formatted text in HTML:\n\nPage 26415 JUL 12\n\n325\n\né osivon mug of grino wo g60 81\n\nSi co *04 10 kojil rud0* 60. 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Tave ever ow more mort, Justurvevoo a'ydan jall oluutefodni castong en wolle Ilir pondondon, desilut\n\n.shabiron of ezinik\n\nthe to ruiviisden eid word of woy divus Ilade et\n\nvit ix of ima svoda vild of Buid trodduk smoli kme netvici. nniðha Jamunevoð daijind sit elidw Jars vont une seul nogi suorgi nolaborong end ndrarionem duisinä evig od wldeny terți sensetnoo amigo and to czelles siil Jnemrevod nsioni eng 、emid nond JN 10 JROBOTĘ SIĆ Avoilst of sexuBsol VISIOÛeed rave adhd of sauter\n\n..oje svari o?\n\nmilled .3 (.58)\n\nZuganal\n\nnoorast bivali\n\nnoiterele oVPIS\n\nDate.\n\nbond\n\n1912\n\nJune.\n\nat previous Paper.\n\n20628.\n\nA//c..\n\nCofy cofr\n\nEfter 30 July.\n\nsubsequent Paper\n\nfor 2699k\n\n22092\n\nIite for Railway Terminus\n\nExplains advantages of paying for.\n\nby means of overdraft on H.K. Shanghai Bank suggests that raising of any adal. loan if desirable should be bosthored until conditions are more favourable\n\n:J.\n\n14 Jm\n\nLu also mination Eor/22019.\n\nThe mangement has been approved\n\n· Copy &MA. for nicht D\n\n244). W.25,940-17. 40,000. 11/11. A.&E.W.\n\nb\n\n& dai't think for need interpre\n\n? lick: 859\n\nthat is agree\n\nد سالی\n\nthe understanding that the overdragte will th. paid off a\n\npossible\n\nfor it\n\n♡ compe for za.\n\nEtes alouce \"We167\n\nHowever, upon closer inspection, it appears that the text is heavily corrupted and contains many nonsensical words and characters. It's likely that the OCR engine struggled to recognize the text due to the quality of the original scan or the font used in the document.\n\nTo better assist you, I would like to clarify a few points:\n\n1. Is the text a historical document from Hong Kong?\n2. Can you provide more context about the document, such as its origin, date, or content?\n3. Are there any specific formatting or proofreading requirements for this document?\n\nPlease let me know how I can further assist you.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-390 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1912 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438381, "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": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 150, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "It is not for the action of the Government in adopting such disastrous measures as a note issue for the means of raising money. A note issue, when used for such a purpose offers no security to the note holders and simply means forced borrowings from unwilling subjects.\n\nIf the Government recognised the obligation of keeping an adequate reserve against the issue, this system of raising money could hardly be resorted to, as the difference between the amount of notes in circulation and the amount held in coin necessary to establish confidence and ensure payment on demand, would not be sufficient to make the operation attractive to the Government.\n\nIt is only the totally unsound basis of the whole system that has led to the issue of these notes and if the Government continues the tactics of forcing the public to accept unsecured notes, serious trouble must ensue.\n\nThe value of these notes which at the beginning of the year was 74% discount compared to Hongkong currency (i.e. Hongkong notes) has fallen to over 85% discount at date. This in itself is sufficient to show how seriously trade is being handicapped.\n\nAnother important point which adds to the feeling of insecurity about the note issue is the possibility of forgeries. The notes for the new Government were printed in Shanghai and it seems quite probable that sufficient precautions may not have been taken to make forgeries difficult or even to prevent genuine but unnumbered notes from going astray. The foregoing is of course only surmise but this feeling exists amongst the Chinese.\n\nChinese Merchants in Canton in contracting for goods have to pay the Hongkong importer in Hongkong currency notes and are naturally unwilling to enter into fresh commitments so long as there is a possibility of their being forced to accept inconvertible notes at an arbitrary value, in payment of goods sold. It means the introduction of an element of great uncertainty into the most important branch of the transaction i.e. the difference in values of the money they receive and the money they have to pay away. The prices of commodities readily adjust themselves to altered conditions of a permanent nature but when\n\nPage 150\n\nPage 151", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439029, "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": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "page_number": 342, "title": "CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10]", "content_text": "C. D. Gov 36409 Hong Kong R. 29NOV 12\n\nBIGBO, VIVO: Ti inirole of unit ish wal sad to Josdeunt .erioico... to sun Ivinoles to nueil summungen ani nduwo rodnijst Lavile ont MOTi Delevog.a ei lionuod in posao. Bill,etnoisisowny azimo?\n\nTO DOXOVET Omid y de su una odere. # Jusqası ni 18b70 yw JIAJ -TOURÌ VI OŠ Stolla ee bebuloni su Iliw nuinuloo kore ying .Dereno\" aquliving down wong,mid besinil s to eyeboldisowną 28- betodei jak tak OU NOTiBed out posreų A .Jan, 159ɛ ya, ny Lisitoaïq\n\nelu To teadsijali hud og evong Jadi Toroidigung. Inii oloɔ e sa “JISI, BLOMÇİo Isimolos pusing quen a union oni dww lionwol Imoneü TEJ962mo hoog to ai i daca are poisso88og deicind a love ni be-\n\nHoe ki greîiwbin m2,çïojmë ‚enioibel eBitDATg of bofcides ( MB on elide DooMIT, JUL BUY Amoigib end dard ocis 10 noiesennog to eewoo ni Jodha a ne pobunil istint and ni befioinoù təm Trebiaci Bar M. RIEV CHAUD aɔbey ovit mud asel Jon to Boiteq.)\n\n-1889TH Jon asi to chiens no held lliw el. .mobinil end to Jpo Hold ABİNATO \"TUNJWA Jou div betodvjet ou od balzione a .03 gai- verin coon ni dout ono ai Amaqið 1 oiben Isinoico \"beeinjooot”Á -ioflike a gaineikist ð [ivimo) Iasoned ein zu gffed amid and IOî bne ope¿vond aoraluon o to noiseaвBog and to sednetzug, jne- ,10wog ovm linwoü giri end duu (Boisownig Jueisilte wt IIida\n\nInto190 and Tebio od Iiewed Irene odd ddiw noitnoinu .00 19013 ~300 I OJ JUBulOI even yellt doiter anofqib a esirgoven od lionwoo To Deuter sue moit lio.wOD VITI BC od Devça i si etopt.sein- „Tenoluido ang Isioloo a na nobisq to Tajni,az ou qrduiger olj que mudado c Ye..ordicbang I«inofos a es parodɛijan moeteg Å To noijqironut seu 10 yan,Anoiqib Isobow Iminoloo besiruout\n\n.Tejal 1 and ni a. ein og bouba ed of sulop and\n\nDRAFT.\n\nThe Clerk of the Council MINUTE.\n\nMr. Scott 2871.12 Mr. Macungkew Sir G. Fiddes. Sir H. Just, Sir J. Anderson. Lord Emmott. Mr. Harcourt. 298.\n\nHong Kong Indexed funeral 328 ared. 696/13. No.366 230071914\n\n30 November, 1912,\n\nI am directed by Secretary Harcourt to transmit to you, to be laid before the Lord President of the Council, the accompanying copy of a despatch with this enclosure from the Governor of Hong Kong respecting the recognition by their General Audience Court and...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-392 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439347, "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": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "page_number": 264, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nExtract from the \"South China Morning Post\" of 19th November, 1912.\n\nChinese Coins Barred.\n\nGratifying Success.\n\nRECE REG 21 DEC 12\n\nYesterday, the new movement came into operation in many parts of Hongkong whereby the acceptance of Chinese silver coins was barred. On the electric cars on the lower levels not the slightest hitch took place from the moment the first car left the shed. An official journeyed by it, in the third class compartment, and it was marvellous how readily British coins were brought out. People had provided for the new rule, and few had to step off the car as they were boarding it because they heard the announcement made by the conductor that only Hongkong coin would be taken. The local token must have been called into circulation in large quantities, for thousands of pieces are handled daily by the servants of the Tramway Co. The Chinese know that it would cost them 15 cents probably to ride in a rickshaw from West Point to Causeway Bay, whereas it only means the provision of a British five cent piece and they are accommodated on the car. Conversing with a prominent Chinese merchant yesterday, a Tramway official was informed that the Canton authorities were delighted with the rule enforced by many firms in Hongkong in regard to the acceptance of British coin only. Serious trouble has been experienced in the Two Kwangs, and there has been a shortage of silver coins. This ban now placed on the Chinese token will materially assist our neighbours.\n\nThe King Edward Hotel has notified its patrons that no Chinese coins will be taken there.\n\nNo incident of any note took place on the Star Ferries in connection with the new demand yesterday. Strange to relate, a local gentleman made enquiries on Monday morning as to how British copper coins stood at exchange and a broker quoted as follows:-\n\n81 Hongkong note, 104 British copper cents.\n\n5 Chinese 20 c. pieces, 98 copper cents.\n\n10 Chinese 10 c. pieces, 97 copper cents.\n\nSome Chinese who boarded the electric cars near the Central Market were somewhat astonished when the demand for British coins was made.\n\nPage 256\n\n251\n\n40483", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439688, "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": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 180, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "Enclosure 6.\n\n177\n\ndaily more difficult to control in Canton. He added that his Government would do all in their power to assist this Government in suppressing the boycott. On the other hand further objectionable paragraphs have appeared in the \"Chung Kwok Yat Po\" newspaper in spite of representations made to the Tutu on the subject, and it is doubtful how far the opinions of Mr. Chan Hing-wah, whose personal friendliness towards this Government is well-known, are endorsed by his Government; though it may be that the Authorities are too weak to exercise an effectual control over the press.\n\nMoreover, I am convinced that he is wrong in attributing the boycott to the lower classes. Sir Kai Ho Kai with whom I had an interview on the 27th instant (copy enclosed) is much nearer the mark when he attributes the origin of the boycott to the action of the money-changers, whose numbers have risen from 104 in 1905 to 420 at the present date, with whom are associated without doubt the compradores, shroffs, and other middlemen who act as intermediaries between employer and employed in the payment of wages, and especially the firms and banks who receive remittances from Chinese resident abroad and transit them to relatives in China.\n\nPersons of this class, whose profits lie in exchange, see foreshadowed in the action of the Traway Company the threatened extinction of their privileges and they welcome the boycott as a means of expressing their resentment. Enquiries made since my conversation with Sir Kai Ho Kai lead me to believe that the principal offenders in the organisation of the boycott were the Nam Pak Hong or Californian Merchants.\n\nThe Postmaster-General has pointed out to me that these merchants receive from Chinese resident abroad remittances in gold for payment to Chinese in Hongkong, Canton and its vicinity to the amount of about $56,000,000. They charge no commission but make the payments in subsidiary coin and pocket the whole of the discount. Their profit therefore amounts to some $2,800,000 a year. It is only natural that these persons should be opposed to the rehabilitation of Hongkong subsidiary coin or to the reduction of the means of trafficking in exchange and I am assured on excellent Chinese authority...\n\nPage 180\n\nPage 181", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439703, "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": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "Inclosure\n\n4.\n\nC.O.\n\n2222\n\nExtract from the \"Hongkong Telegraph\" of 23rd December 1912.\n\nTHE BOYCOTT.\n\nYesterday's Free Rides.\n\nCORNER\n\nThere was no dearth of passengers by the cars yesterday; in both first and third class compartments free rides were granted to all and sundry. The sampan boys and the poorer members of the Indian community had the treat of their lives, for many of these gave the impression that they were indulging in a car ride for the first time.\n\nIt should be gratifying to the Tramways Company, however, to find that the free rides were appreciated in great measure by the very people for whom these were intended: those who have been terrorised out of riding by car. Yesterday these seemed to find safety in numbers and we noticed a very considerable number of adult Chinese of various grades riding to and from the market. To-day it is the same thing, and one is glad to see that those who pooh-poohed the idea of the free rides as merely giving an opportunity to children and Europeans of riding cheaply, are now proved to be mistaken.\n\nSir Kai Ho Kai on the Situation.\n\nSir Kai Ho Kai, interviewed by the \"Telegraph\" on the boycott, emphasised the anxiety of the leading Chinese of the Colony to see peace restored.\n\n\"I would like to make it quite clear,\" he said, \"that we wish to do everything in our power to back up the Government. I think my remarks at the meeting at Government House and, later, at the Chinese Commercial Union established that fact, and I hope the Press will continue to feel the same confidence in us as it has expressed in times past. \"When the Governor invited us to meet him last week, I was not in a position to speak as forcibly as on Friday, when I met the Chinese Commercial Union. On the latter occasion, as you have heard from other Chinese, I 'let myself go,' and I am hopeful that what I said will bear good fruit. I explained to those present the exact attitude of the Government, and showed that H.E.'s sole wish, in taking a firm stand, was merely to restore peace and order. I made it clear that it was no desire of his to make laws that would be in any way oppressive. I reminded them that, at one time or other, in every government or country, it was necessary to employ rigidly repressive measures where political or industrial troubles arose; that the Governor would fail in his duty to the British people if he neglected, under present circumstances, to act with unflinching decision, and that they must not think that any animosity was felt towards them as Chinese.\"\n\nLegal Tender. Following upon this, Sir Kai Ho Kai quoted the speech which H.E. had delivered to his Chinese guests, and then proceeded to touch on the alleged causes of the boycott, demonstrating how utterly hollow were the excuses that had been advanced for it. Legal tender was legal tender, and there was an end of it. An English Sovereign was a good coin, but no Englishman could demand that it should be accepted by a Hong Kong tradesman, any more than he could force a shop-keeper to take (say) the old Siamese coins or a handful of shells. Similarly, Chinese coin was good—but it was not legal tender in this Colony.\n\nHe then explained the effect which the new ordinance would have. Some might contend that the innocent would be liable to suffer for the guilty, but he had H.E.'s assurance that the very fullest enquiry should be made, in every case, and that every person who came up for examination would be afforded ample opportunity to clear himself and to show that he had taken no active part in the boycott. But those present must bear in mind that, when once the new law was enforced, the Chinese who have big interests in Hong Kong would suffer considerably; and the sooner the boycotters were made to understand this, the better. Loyal Chinese would not consent to see their business suffer, just to please a few disorderly persons, and—if for this reason alone—the leading merchants were determined to support the Government. Their homes were here, their money was invested here and they hoped to lay their bones here.\n\n191", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439708, "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": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "page_number": 200, "title": "CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12]", "content_text": "Page 40\n\nToda pel to 24 WYG end no isa od tell mil tiy waivotal\n\nZainolol sne una fal Jil boN TIQ, ronisvoð ent\n\nob eine is viƐ of beesetoma 19jjel on us bejnevis I\n\nJovi. 8J1:0301j01 3. Jim Weivrodni ne to J10081 and to Joejuwa siid no\n\nto onesi 9.6 ki liqui, elal grolignol, and to\n\nto gioen, ladnov s nevi, bel on Jane bila ial 110\n\nent to modroyer a ou moinU isto¶9.....où sesrinü end un boneqe\n\nBa di anid eid da bostogaï 1980, won ba musegɛ old an oqrelo?\n\neding on dad bus nedrugih plovartooni ro90 03. 811 bisɛ si .ohan\n\nlia. 200 sviðslɛizeŭ li novig ban I conartonga sild dand kudanennu\n\n10 a all. 8:00 to zojuhi ad na burial vg us bouill now\n\nDAJ İLİ 963 ngocntabrumediup onie noinu İçota moÛ and do evimi bat\n\n.000ATDTA and to 97JO BI\n\nJ\n\nOJ MAY 00 OJ DORO(Orq I Jam Band inA 112 blog po. I\n\nAd OC BOND 19es to creiquooU TO ATOMY”o evi, augmenyet (I woiIn\n\n-ni-tourisvoi) 5.4 #101s0 T88% a oð souvier) and Tehus bemisioon,\n\nYER, DOMINIQUIų od Jon oleva 8013 9.d goW BADMO WOLE of Iionwo0-\n\n.ednupalu mu efánanaxer ear nind dad booï ̧ð lax\n\n- jod and to mocou end je nay que tal 112 boxea dron I\n\n13.30\n\n9150\n\n-\n\nCAJ OTOW #IMALO\" bi3 9730300 90.04 9hd Jand bine si .Jdoo- ad wieeni μl to alliu) sad drm ¡al to stojioqque Iaqionirq\n\nindraTejut elow eaer end coilso an saoin!' anasius\n\nneulo; a pligner erew moi. pitten wiBXOTI PR offlan nonual\n\nmoldingimi ofalus dan one nois aluquq lazeme, sud dren (JasvIAL *88:200 μ60.jĥull you ong as omil i tu? 8130 613 110 bermus\n\n***\n\nniod yd\n\n.Jussin Inbiðiluq end 9ddb.o ban on #aguond I bica I 4 dodo.p sli .Isvicilog pst pas ni mam doe.ovum end and heiløb ex\n\n- bad one node-30 mort Isioitt0 ea.nino igid s up iw noid er@V000 lis bloom its 1970) JA80 and Jaid noingo slavil ond ben 814- 53 omanelų liv eran venom Toviis seenin) to novi in ory nove\n\nou eluissoqui need svæ! biso di raelarevon nies I\n\nas noitsinqoq seenido and stabilisni od uha ¿000,od end deilanden\n\n193\n\nwas being intimidated without working on the political sympathies of the people. I remarked that the supporters of the boycott were extraordinarily unreasonable and very stupid. For if some of them really feared loss of exchange business they were forcing my hands to prohibit Chinese coin altogether. I reminded Sir Kai that I had told the District Watchmen's Committee that that would be the\n\ninevitable result to which a continuance of the boycott must lead.\n\nI deplored the loss of influence by the leading Chinese over the population which this boycott proved. Sir Kai concurred. He admitted that the respectable Chinese community and\n\nthe merchants who had the largest stake in the Colony, were\n\nterrorised by the lower orders. He went on to urge strong measures and the speedy enforcement of the compensation clauses of the\n\nBoycott Ordinance.\n\nIt was the only weapon the Government had for deal-ing with the sub-terranean methods of those who were using secret\n\nintimidation to keep the boycott alive. He felt sure that when the respectable Chinese came to realise that the Government would not give way but would enforce the compensation clauses, they would come to him and his colleagues on the Legislative Council and ask\n\nfor their intervention with the Government to avoid the loss that\n\nwould fall upon them.\n\nThen would be the opportunity, said Sir Kai, to\n\nforce them to disclose the names of the ringleaders in the boycott\n\nwho could then be severely dealt with.\n\nSir Kai agreed with me that the loss of influence\n\nover the population by the leading Chinese was deplorable. He\n\nurged strong measures to deal with the unruly and rowdy lower\n\nclasses and to re-establish the lost influence of their whilom\n\nleaders.\n\nHe went on to describe how the Government of Canton\n\nwas terrorised by the lower orders led in some instances by up-\n\nstart women of not even good moral character under the guise of\n\nsuffragettes.\n\n(Sd.) F. H. May.\n\n27.12.12.\n\nPage 40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 440594, "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": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "page_number": 517, "title": "CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912", "content_text": "510\n\ntm edd no mi seans ode to and unes ett et boisGE\n\nsane due bothteg nay #i antab to algir\n\ncat dong ý bortrestue tes ne at TINANDO a to\n\nvd akt O At ench themis et il dent jermenon 210 of\n\nMLIM P.\n\nCastor dullé bra :900S: Dun TRENIKOO\n\nSevma ve 03 strtorz Ladders no modelyer Invoõh\n\nIt went an Lutow we mðriatt rylosovor to notvar\n\nRegistry or shipping has long been established there.\n\nalso exgrossed my oncurrence with Sir I. Trager's view\n\nthat the Registry should be independent of the swerme\n\ndourt, and that the Registrar should be a nezbor of the\n\nConsular Sozvide.\n\nSiz Havilland de Saumarez lilawolf states in hie\n\ndespatch No.15 of the 30th ult fao that in his opinion an Imperial de preferable to a Colonial register, but it\n\nAPPORTO TECa hiz dospatch to myself enclosed herewith\n\nthat he was wable to acoast modifications of the principle\n\nof the mohome cibodled in his draft, inasmuch as it was\n\ndrawn in socordance with dofinite instructions from the\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nThose instruotione have not boon\n\ncommunicated to me, and I have no mesis of knowing how\n\nfar,\n\nin drafting them, consideration was given to the\n\nargmente mentioned above, but there is one special\n\nobjection to the grogant scheme, which I fool mure has\n\nnot been sufficiently brought to you not loo; for I must\n\nconfess that the arersuze of bun Inose dauged by the re-\n\nvolution has infoztimately provented me from giving the\n\nquest ion\n\n...\n\nAfter re-examining the text and following the given instructions, here is the corrected version in HTML format:\n\n510\n\n...\n\nRegistry or shipping has long been established there.\n\nalso expressed my concurrence with Sir I. Trager's view\n\nthat the Registry should be independent of the supreme\n\ncourt, and that the Registrar should be a member of the\n\nConsular Service.\n\nSir Havilland de Saumarez states in his\n\ndespatch No.15 of the 30th ult that in his opinion an Imperial is preferable to a Colonial register, but it\n\nI append a copy of his despatch to myself enclosed herewith\n\nthat he was unable to accept modifications of the principle\n\nof the scheme embodied in his draft, inasmuch as it was\n\ndrawn in accordance with definite instructions from the\n\nSecretary of State.\n\nThose instructions have not been\n\ncommunicated to me, and I have no means of knowing how\n\nfar,\n\nin drafting them, consideration was given to the\n\narguments mentioned above, but there is one special\n\nobjection to the present scheme, which I feel sure has\n\nnot been sufficiently brought to your notice; for I must\n\nconfess that the pressure of business caused by the re-\n\nvolution has unfortunately prevented me from giving the\n\nquestion\n\nHowever, to follow the instructions to output only HTML using for paragraphs, the corrected version is provided directly in the required format. The initial garbled text is left as is because it is not clear how to correct it without rephrasing or rewriting, which is against the instructions. The recognizable text is corrected and formatted accordingly.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-395 - Public Offices - 1912.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441937, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "# 9′1070JOB.\n\n63 \n\n## DION UMUM\n\nIt seems unnecessary to issue any more notes than are about necessary to cover the loss in conversion of the coin into bullion?\n\nIt seems to me better to pay off the amount realised by sale of silver and only leave notes outstanding sufficient for the time to cover the loss on conversion.\n\nThus for every $100 called in and sold Government would issue say $18 or $20 in notes to cover the loss and expenses. This $18 or $20 would be the part of the liability covered by the Assets and General Revenue and it could be redeemed gradually by an appropriation of a certain amount per annum for a period of years which might be used ultimately to call in the notes altogether or invested as security against a permanent issue as may be thought best.\n\nThe suggestion of issue for the whole of the coin would thus be modified by a reduction of 80% or more and there would be only at most $2,000,000 in notes required instead of $10,000,000, thus reducing expense and meeting the difficulty of superfluous issue.\n\n5. If the modified scheme were adopted the objection in paragraph 6 of the Despatch would be minimised as the amount outstanding would in all probability be offset to a large extent by the annual appropriation, by the time China has a gold currency. (China moves very slowly and even though there is apparent celerity on some occasions no one is really aware how long the matter has taken to come to a head).\n\n6. No interference will be caused as suggested in paragraph 8 of the letter that the Banks could or would object for reasons given above paragraph 3. The Mercantile Bank would have been as well, if not better, pleased with a Government issue in the circumstances of their having to deposit dollar for dollar in respect of their own issue: in fact that was what its representative urged here before they were permitted to issue.\n\n7. Paragraph 10. It is clear that to minimize expense and for convenience notes of greater value than $1 might be permitted.\n\n8. Paragraphs 11 and 12. The procedure following on my suggested modification would be as follows:-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441983, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## 7. The Case for and against Redemption\nThe Government having undertaken subsidiary coinage and having been a party to over-production is bound if necessary to redeem up to the extent of the coinage issued in excess of the requirements of the internal retail trade of the Colony, but it is not called upon to undertake gratuitous redemption, which it will certainly do if it continues at the same time to permit Chinese coins to usurp the legitimate functions of its own coins. Compare the following from the Majority Report of the Subsidiary Coin Committee:—\n\n415. It is understood that at present Government is now withdrawing from circulation all subsidiary coin received as revenue, and that the Secretary of State has been recommended to permit the redemption at market value of a sum not to exceed $1,000,000 yearly.\n\n16. We approve of this course (which, however, will be a failure unless prohibition is enforced).\n\nNo doubt the majority had in mind the inevitable operation of \"Gresham's law\" that \"bad money drives out good\". Reduced to scientific terms, it is a result of the law of marginal utility that the holder of money will substitute the cheaper for the more costly instrument which will perform the same service (Conant). \"Many well-intentioned efforts to reform a currency have thus been frustrated to the great cost of states\" (Jevons).\n\nThere is another aspect of the question. \"The great mass of the population who hold coins have no theories or general information whatever upon the subject of money. They are guided entirely by popular report and tradition. The sole question with them on receiving a coin is whether similar coins have been readily accepted by other people.\" Though the public generally do not discriminate between coins and coins, provided there is an apparent similarity, a small class of money changers, bullion-dealers, bankers, or goldsmiths make it their business to be acquainted with such differences and know how to derive a profit from them (Jevons). Compare Mr. Armstrong above quoted:—\n\n\"It is proved without doubt that the bulk of the Chinese subsidiary coin now circulating in the Colony has not been brought here for the purpose of buying goods, but by speculators who buy the coin in Canton at a discount with money they remit from here, which they also get at a discount, and are able to circulate the coin here at a profit.\"\n\n## 8. The Case against Substitution\nIn the latest scheme for the rehabilitation of the subsidiary coinage, it has been suggested that a new and wholly different coinage should be substituted, such coinage to be of nickel or some similar metal. Although this scheme has not been approved, it may perhaps be worth placing on record the objections to it.\n\nPeople in general accept coin simply on the ground of its familiar appearance. So entirely is this the case among very ignorant populations that it has often been found desirable to maintain unchanged the impress on successive issues of coins. In many cases, coins have been struck for this purpose with the date of a long past year, or even the effigy of a dead sovereign (Jevons). If, then, the Chinese population were to be deprived, as it should be, of the Chinese coins with which it is perhaps more familiar, and at the same time of the Hongkong coins with which it is perhaps less familiar, its faith in subsidiary currency might be shaken. Moreover, any reduction in the metallic value of coins increases the \"temptation to the false coiner\". Finally, it would appear to be inadvisable in a disorganised state of currency, such as at present exists, to make any such radical change.\n\n6th March, 1911.\n\nR. CROFTON.\n\n| Year to 31st December | Approximate Amount of Hongkong Silver and Copper Subsidiary Coins Put into Circulation | Withdrawn | Profit | Loss |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1894 | 11,918,125.00 | | | |\n| 1895 | 18,750,125.00 | $811,345.55 | | |\n| 1896 | 15,985,125.00 | $152,600.88 | | |\n| 1897 | 18,435,125.00 | 110,196.20 | | |\n| 1898 | 21,778,125.00 | 115,015.91 | | |\n| 1899 | 26,333,125.00 | 148,044.49 | | |\n| 1900 | 29,985,125.00 | 168,553.25 | | |\n| 1901 | | 191,533.40 | | |\n| 1902 | | 183,515.90 | | |\n| 1903 | | 126,536.87 | 76,446.18 | |\n| 1904 | 33,271,125.00 | Nil. | 164,674.72 | |\n| 1905 | up to | | | |\n| | 36,493,125.00 | 100,572.03 | | |\n| 1906 | 39,783,125.00 | 41,880.00 | | |\n| 1907 | 42,518,245.00 | | 387,937.35 | $10,000.00 |\n| 1908 | 43,604,205.00 | 3,468,000.00 | Nil. | |\n| 1909 | 43,999,830.00 | 820,359.04 | 429,100.00 | |\n| 1910 | | 5,527,459.04 | | |\n| Total | | 2,220,254.66 | 795,757.91 | |\n| Nett | | | 1,430,476.75 | |\n| | | 43,999,830.00 | 5,527,459.04 | |\n| | 38,472,370.96* | | | |\n\nNo. 32\n\n## Copy of Despatch from the Treasury to the Secretary of State for Colonies\n\n**TREASURY CHAMBERS**\n\n29th March, 1911.\n\nSIR—The Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have had before them Mr. Fiddes' letter of the 14th January last (`39040/1910`)† relative to the acceptance by the Hongkong Government of subsidiary silver coins rendered to the Colonial Treasury, which have been reduced by wear below the least current weight prescribed by the Hongkong Coinage Order 1895 (Clause 4 (1) Third Schedule) and which in consequence have ceased to be legal tender.\n\nIn reply, My Lords direct me to state, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, that in the present circumstances of the Hongkong subsidiary coinage, any extensive withdrawal of subsidiary coins, either worn or unworn, at prices above their bullion value is in Their Lordships' opinion to be deprecated as unlikely to produce any advantage at all commensurate with the expense involved.\n\nIt is, however, clearly impossible for the Colonial Government to re-issue coin worn below the least current weight which may be received by them in ordinary course.\n\nThe alternative courses therefore are to decline to accept such coins or to dispose of it as bullion, and My Lords recognise that the former is a very undesirable one and should be avoided unless the quantities of worn coin tendered to the Government are, or become, so large as to necessitate withdrawal upon a large scale.\n\n* Approximate.\n† Not printed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441989, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 116, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "# No. 24 \n- 44 \n\n3. It will be observed that Sir F. Lugard wishes to be allowed to proceed with the scheme described in his despatch, of which a copy accompanied the letter from this Office of the 8th of April 1910. But Mr. Harcourt does not see how the scheme can be carried out with any prospect of success except at a cost beyond the present means of the Colony. It appears to him that if there is to be no \"repudiation\" of the subsidiary silver coins now circulating in China, as well as in the Colony, and if the question of depreciation is to be dealt with, it must be dealt with comprehensively, and having regard to the resources of the Colony this can only be effected by the issue of Government notes of unlimited legal tender in place of the redundant subsidiary coins.\n\n4. The difference in the intrinsic value of the subsidiary as compared with the standard coins, the former being 800 fine as compared with the latter which are 900 fine, is not so great as to make a sound scheme of note issue impossible, especially when it is remembered that the subsidiary coin can be bought up from time to time at a price based approximately on the prevailing rate of discount. The notes when issued can thus be backed at once by a reserve of standard dollars amounting to two-thirds of the issue, and, after paying expenses of the note issue, there will still remain a balance to be invested, which will in course of time, as interest is added to the investment fund, fully cover the issue of notes. Moreover, the note issue will of course be secured by the General Revenue and Assets of the Colony, so that there will be no cause for lack of confidence in the issue.\n\n5. The demand for notes in Hongkong has recently been so great that the notes of the Banks, which are not legal tender, have stood at a premium, and as Their Lordships are aware, the Mercantile Bank of India are now being allowed to issue notes so that the demand may be more completely met.\n\n6. An issue of Government notes is not in itself desirable at present for the reasons given in the letter from this Office of the 16th of February 1910. The chief reason against a Government Note Issue is the possibility that China may within a reasonable time have a currency based on gold, in which case Hongkong would have to follow suit, and a Note Issue might then have to be redeemed in gold or in specie of higher gold value than that originally paid for the notes. The experience of the Straits Settlements is of importance on this point.\n\n7. Mr. Harcourt would therefore propose that the issue of Government notes should be strictly confined to what is necessary in coping with the problem of the redundant subsidiary silver coin, and that notes should not be issued on the demand of the public but simply to suit the convenience and purposes of the Government.\n\n8. Mr. Harcourt wishes, moreover, to interfere as little as possible with the note issues of the Banks, especially as the Mercantile Bank of India are now arranging for an issue of notes, whilst the Chartered Bank were given to understand in 1910, in reply to an enquiry, that there is no prospect of a general Government note issue in the near future.\n\n9. None of the Banks, however, issue notes of a less denomination than 5 dollars, with the exception of a special issue of one dollar notes by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, which is limited to 226,000 dollars and which the Bank are under an obligation to withdraw at once if the Government issue notes of less than 5 dollars.\n\n10. In the Malay Peninsula, the issue of one dollar notes by the Straits Settlements Government has been an enormous success. Mr. Harcourt does not see why one dollar notes should not also be a success at Hongkong, and it may be noted that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has recently stated that its issue of one dollar notes is always at the limit authorised. Reference may also be made on this point to the despatch from the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony, of which a copy was enclosed in the letter from this Office of the 15th of December, 1910*. The community are therefore accustomed to notes of this low value and evidently appreciate them. The Secretary of State would not, however, object if Their Lordships thought it desirable to have also a Government note of two dollars. He prefers an issue of one dollar notes only, which are most near in value to the subsidiary coins which they will replace. They will of course be unlimited legal tender except by the Currency Commissioners at the Office of issue.\n\n*Not printed.\n\n45\n\n11. The procedure to be adopted would be as follows: A stock of notes would be prepared and sent to Hongkong. The Government would then take from a Bank an accumulated stock of silver subsidiary coin, calculated at a price based on the prevailing rate of discount, plus a commission to the Bank. The amount to be paid may be called *z*. The silver subsidiary coin would then be sold on a guarantee that it will be melted down. Notes to the amount of *z* would be paid to the Bank, and from the proceeds of the sale of the subsidiary silver coin as bullion, standard dollars to the amount of two-thirds of *z* would be held as a specie reserve against the notes issued. The remainder of the price received from the sale of subsidiary coins, after payment of expenses of the note issue, would be invested by the Crown Agents in London, part of it possibly in silver securities, if suitable silver securities can be found. Profits on investments would be added to the investment portion of the Note Guarantee Fund.\n\n12. The Government should also sell from time to time the stock of subsidiary silver coin which they accumulate from payments made by the public. They should then put notes into circulation equal to the nominal value of the subsidiary coin, minus the current depreciation of that coin (which loss should be met from Revenue), and back the notes to the extent of two-thirds with standard dollars received from the sale of the subsidiary coin as bullion. The remainder of what they receive from the sale of the subsidiary coin should be invested as above.\n\n13. In course of time, when the success of the Government Note Issue is assured, the specie reserve held in standard dollars could be reduced to one half, and the investments increased accordingly, so as to hasten the complete covering of the issue by security in cash or investments. This will be the more desirable as it may be anticipated that, as the operation progresses, the discount on the subsidiary coin will diminish and the Government will therefore have to pay a higher price to the Banks for them.\n\n14. When the subsidiary coins rise to par, the issue of Government notes will be discontinued. If it falls again, the issue of notes can be resumed. The process of reducing the redundancy of the supply of subsidiary coin will therefore be largely automatic.\n\n15. There can be little doubt that after the scheme is introduced, there will soon be a marked difference between the value of Hongkong and of Chinese subsidiary coins—a difference which the Chinese are quick to notice. There will probably be no need to prohibit the importation or circulation of Chinese coins, but this matter can be left for future consideration in the light of experience of the working of the scheme.\n\n16. Government notes issued under this scheme will no doubt go into China, and it is possible that the notes may at some future date be excluded by the Government or driven out by new currency conditions, but there seems little danger that, when that day comes, the notes will not be sufficiently covered to make their encashment in standard dollars a matter of no difficulty.\n\n17. Legislation in the Colony will of course be necessary to authorise the issue of notes, and the proposals of the Government will therefore have to be made public. This announcement will probably at once raise the value of the Hongkong subsidiary coin, and reduce to a corresponding extent the amount of the fund for investment. It may be desirable, therefore, before introducing the legislation, to come to an arrangement with the banks as to the rate at which they will be prepared to sell to the Government a substantial amount of subsidiary coinage. When the legislation has been passed, as the issue of notes will be entirely at the option of the Government, the issue can be stopped at any time if there is a lack of confidence in the notes, and in any case, the operation of redeeming the large mass of subsidiary coins in circulation can be spread over as long a period as may be thought necessary.\n\n18. Mr. Harcourt will be glad to be favoured with Their Lordships' views on the above proposals as soon as possible.\n\n**THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY**\n\nI have, &c.,\n\nH. W. JUST.\n\nPage 45 \n115", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 441993, "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": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "page_number": 120, "title": "CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2]", "content_text": "## No. 52. \n**Copy of despatch from Secretary of State for Colonies to Governor of Hongkong.**\n\n**DOWNING STREET, 20th September, 1912.**\n\nSIR,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Confidential despatch of the 2nd August, with regard to the subsidiary coinage of Hongkong; and to transmit to you, for your observations, a copy of correspondence on the subject with the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury.\n\n2. As regards the first paragraph of your despatch I have to enquire whether in present circumstances you consider that the subsidiary coins now accumulated on Government account should be sold as bullion or passed into circulation again or held for the present; and I shall be glad if you will telegraph your recommendation on this point.\n\n3. I have to explain, in reply to the last paragraph of your despatch, that a copy of the Treasury letter of the 29th March, 1911, was forwarded to your predecessor in my despatch `No. 97` of the 6th April, 1911.\n\nI have, &c., \n**L. HARCOURT.**\n\n## No. 53. \n**Translation of telegram from Governor of Hongkong to Secretary of State for Colonies.**\n\n22nd October, 1912.\n\nChapelries, London.\n\nYour despatch of 20th September recommend sale $1,000,000 ten cents $40,000 twenty cents face value if you approve Crown Agents should be instructed.\n\n**MAY.**\n\n## No. 54. \n**Translation of telegram from Secretary of State for Colonies to Governor of Hongkong.**\n\n23rd October, 1912.\n\nGovernor, Hongkong.\n\nYour telegram 22nd October Crown Agents have been instructed.\n\n**HARCOURT.**\n\n## No. 55. \n**Copy of Colonial Treasurer's Circular to the local banks and money-changers.**\n\n**TREASURY, 24th October, 1912.**\n\nSIR,-\n\nIn the event of the Government deciding to purchase as much subsidiary silver coin of the Colony as is available, I am directed to enquire what would be the largest amount you would undertake to sell and deliver about two months from this date and also what rate you would expect for each denomination of coin.\n\nI should be much obliged by receiving an answer to this letter within a fortnight from date if convenient,\n\n**A. M. THOMSON, Treasurer.**\n\n## Extract from the South China Morning Post of the 19th November, 1912.\n\n### Chinese Coins Barred.\n\n### Gratifying Success.\n\nYesterday, the new movement came into operation in many parts of Hongkong whereby the acceptance of Chinese silver coins was barred. On the electric cars on the lower levels not the slightest hitch took place from the moment the first car left the shed. An official journeyed by it, in the third class compartment, and it was marvellous how readily British coins were brought out. People had provided for the new rule, and few had to step off the car as they were boarding it because they heard the announcement made by the conductor that only Hongkong coin would be taken. The local token must have been called into circulation in large quantities, for thousands of pieces are handled daily by the servants of the Tramway Co. The Chinese know that it would cost them 15 cents probably to ride in a rickshaw from West Point to Causeway Bay, whereas it only means the provision of a British five cent piece and they are accommodated on the car. Conversing with a prominent Chinese merchant yesterday, a Tramway official was informed that the Canton authorities were delighted with the rule enforced by many firms in Hongkong in regard to the acceptance of British coin only. Serious trouble has been experienced in the Two Kwangs, and there has been a shortage of silver coins. This ban now placed on the Chinese token will materially assist our neighbours.\n\nThe King Edward Hotel has notified its patrons that no Chinese coins will be taken there.\n\nNo incident of any note took place on the Star Ferries in connection with the new demand yesterday. Strange to relate, a local gentleman made inquiries on Monday morning as to how British copper coins stood at exchange and a broker quoted as follows:-\n\n| Currency | Exchange Rate (in British copper cents) |\n| --- | --- |\n| $1 Hongkong note | 104 |\n| 5 Chinese 20 c. pieces | 98 |\n| 10 Chinese 10 c. pieces | 97 |\n\nSome Chinese who boarded the electric cars near the Central Market were somewhat astonished when the demand for British coins was made, and they got off, but soon re-appeared with the money demanded.\n\nOne gentleman yesterday was highly amused at the proportions which this movement has already assumed, for when he visited his hairdresser Chinese coins were declined.\n\nPage 120 \nPage 121", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-399 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [1-2].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 443080, "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": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6]", "content_text": "# \nthat soon. The party and its methods suited the Revolution, but they have failed to rise to the occasion of the new conditions: in them Sun Yat Sin is himself all at sea, and entirely discredited. But the change in the South must wait word from the North, and Yuan is the only man of sufficient prestige and capacity to give that word.\n\n## \nThe party in Canton has foreseen the evil day, and by secret accumulation has \"secretly\" accumulated $4,000,000 of sub-coin against it, thus assisting to aggravate their own currency difficulties in way of paying their soldiery when the trouble begins: and they have further declared their inability to remit any taxes to Peking, and have talked big about fighting and separation. But it is held as certain here that when it comes to the point, practically the whole of such troops as there are in Canton would go over to Yuan.\n\nChan Kwing Ming, the General Commanding, is notoriously on bad terms with the Governor General: Chan King Wa is certainly not on good terms, and is at least an independent: and his hasty temper and drastic methods have made him unpopular. All that would be left to the Governor-General and the few that stand to lose their opportunity by the establishment of a respectable government would be a small bodyguard with no public sympathy whatever.\n\nMeanwhile Yuan knows all this very exactly: Liang Shih Yi's recent visit was said to be just for the purpose of examining this very aspect of the situation; and now Lung Chai Kwong (an able General) is waiting at Wuchow, it is said for orders from Yuan, and Wong Sz Lung is either in the Province too or on his way. Further Yuan's emissaries are at work in Canton; and the whole position is held to be so favourable to him, in spite of the blister of the Kwok Man Tong, that when he chooses to act he will be almost universally welcomed, and there will be little more than a skirmish or two, if that.\n\nBut he is not expected to act at once: he must establish his position in the North first, be formally elected President and see how he stands before dealing with recalcitrants in the South. It is impossible to estimate how long this will take.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-401 - Governor Sir May - 1913 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 444824, "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": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12]", "content_text": "# \n1 \n\nrelated to, though, as securities earn interest and coin does not, I regard it as a somewhat disquieting feature, possibly connected with the opium crisis and the rotten state of the currency at Canton.\n\nAnd we must rely on the Gov. But we must insist in future on the Gov. telling us in his returns such as `2946` how much of the coins deposited are against ordinary and how much against excess note issue since otherwise we do not know what the authorized excess issue is.\n\nTell C.A. to release securities as instructed by the Govt. of H.K., tell Gov. as above with regard to his returns, and send valuation to Treas., explaining.\n\n## ACC \n4/3 \n4.3.13 \n\nALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE CROWN AGENTS FOR THE COLONIES, FOR THE ABOVE REFERENCE AND THE REFERENCE AND DATE OF THIS LETTER BEING QUOTED. TELEGRAMS, CROWN, LONDON. TELEPHONE 1832 VICTORIA. \n\nWHITEHALL GARDENS, LONDON, S. W. \nLa 5037 \n5007/2 \n\nSir, \n3rd March 1913 \n\nWith reference to our letter of 17th February 1912 and subsequent correspondence, I have the honour to enclose, for the information of the Secretary of State, the annual valuations of the securities held against the note issues of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, respectively, as on the 2nd January last.\n\n2\\. The valuations show, in the case of the Chartered Bank, an excess of actual security over required £9,758.12.7. but, as regards the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, a deficiency of £512,598.17.10.\n\n3\\. The following securities held against the note issue of the latter bank have been released during the year:- \n| Security | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| 2% Consols Certificates | £272,600 |\n| Transvaal 3% Guaranteed Stock Certificates | £10,000 |\n| 3% Exchequer Bonds | £114,000 |\n| India 2¼% Stock Certificates | £100,000 |\n| 2¾% Consol Certificates | £270,000 |\n| Canadian Northern Ontario Railway | £44,500 |\n\nThe Under Secretary of State, \nColonial Office \n-1- \nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-404 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1913 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 446632, "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": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "page_number": 167, "title": "CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913", "content_text": "The Settlement of Strungkung\n\nappuntit (with\n\nThe Roy. Item:\n\nThe Jacutiny of\n\nof\n\nHongkong\n\nStirlin) appended\n\nssion, an\n\nKet\n\nTo report\n\nswing that I wa\n\nWhen I pictures off\n\nDenary of the\n\nThe quation\n\nsite\n\n156\n\nSur cogn\n\ndisciption\n\ninstinctor.\n\nyard space\n\nJht\n\nspra found\n\nVictone G\n\nlang\n\n12\n\nfor binliking\n\nHM\n\nAntilles\n\nA\n\nJorien\n\nSee that\n\ndate I hair cut-\n\nwitter curtain sch\n\nbeing consider. I innately\n\nfinished Günther & chee\n\nsharing her to ass\n\nhow\n\ncele\n\n4 lata\n\nSo then Paitone East, the\n\nmore\n\ncellular\n\nI than\n\nA\n\naccommomadation, a brapiane,\n\nUm\n\nHartshanges\n\nhat have consider.\n\nyour spou\n\nExt. Surly Sir This\n\nMa\n\ndrant mo\n\nTh\n\n4\n\nrealiment I was for\n\nspor\n\nActon\n\nof poncine Vite The Perime Minat quotit\n\nThey\n\nAll", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-408 - Public Offices & Others - 1913.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 447406, "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": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "page_number": 504, "title": "CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3]", "content_text": "500\n\nTreas 19449\n\nis easy they receive back their notes either into the current accounts of their customers or against a reduction of credit. The Government on the other hand, unless it is to usurp the functions of the exchange banks, must issue notes freely against silver dollars and must redeem them in the same coin, and it must be continually prepared for deposits or withdrawals of silver on the largest scale.\n\n4. Granting then that the special circumstances of the Colony call for private note issues, it remains to be seen how far the authorised issues are sufficient for the Colony's needs. Enterprise in Hongkong, which produces no exports and has no natural wealth of its own, is hampered by the difficulty of finding new capital without risk in exchange. The authorised banks of issue by reason of their power to issue a certain number of notes secured in only a third of their value have been able to a great extent to supply this need, but their limit of expansion is soon reached and with it their power to assist in this respect the growing financial necessities of the Colony. Further, as Mr. Linton points out, these banks have, by reason of their monopoly, special facilities for raising the rate of exchange, as it may suit their purpose, above the parity of silver.\n\n5. I am aware that the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury have not regarded private note issues with favour and that they have maintained the opinion that such issues should be secured to their full amount plus 5 per centum; as recorded in the Treasury letter of the 25th June, 1910, a copy of which was forwarded with Lord Crewe's above-quoted Despatch, and in the Treasury letter of the 21st September, 1894, to which reference is made in the first-named letter. I venture however to think that the special conditions of the currency of the Colony render it most advisable in the interests of trade that full competition in the matter of note issue should be allowed on the most liberal terms consonant with safety, and I am of the opinion that it would", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-409 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449407, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 89, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "Glensia\n\nfremeses.\n\nof their\n\nC\n\n49503\n\n86\n\nHO KONG\n\n¡REC RESH DEC 14\n\nYou May Cry 1914\n\n30 od Last provious Paper. C4.\n\n448834\n\nAm 49508\n\nSubsidiary Com's.\n\nRewals working of arrangements for purchase of -\n\nNext subsequent Paper. C. A 51361\n\nWith the subsidiary coin standing at a discount round about 15 per cent the Govt. makes an appreciable profit on buying them up and selling them as silver bullion, even after meeting all expenses of transport and insurance &c.\n\nI don't understand how the superfluity of Mexican dollars (the standard coin) causes a discount either in the value of subsidiary coin or their own value if the latter is the Governor's meaning. However we need not take up this point.\n\nPut By.\n\n(102,243). Wt.17,478.33. 90,000, 6/14, A.SE.W.\n\nAr\n\nAn La\n\nArc\n\n2.1.11-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449519, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 201, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "THREE\n\nbeen in China for 35 years, and in Hong Kong for about twenty years, and I know perfectly well that if any ship came wandering into the harbour trusting to a signal from the Harbour Master or to a pilot as to which buoy she should go to, a great deal of confusion, and possibly collisions and danger to life and property will arise. How could a captain possibly, on five minutes' notice, even supposing the weather was clear enough for the Harbour Master to signal him, go to No. 1, 2, 3 or 4 buoy, or whatever the number might be, when he is working his way through Lyemun Pass into a crowded harbour full of native craft and shipping, look up the chart and try to find out the buoy to which he is supposed to make fast? The alternative made by you is to employ pilots, but shipping companies for years have always stood out against that. We will not have compulsory pilots here: we don't want them. An effort was made some time ago for an association to start here, but it died a natural death. As far as I can make out, although we have had no particulars of the moorings, the revenue is estimated at $30,000 a year. Basing my calculation on the fact that I have so many moorings in this harbour, I say that the Government charge is an extreme advance on the prices we are now paying for our moorings.\n\nIf you can satisfy the shipping community, the Chamber of Commerce and the unofficial members that this change is really necessary, I would then beg to suggest that we might make a counter offer. The moorings have been two or three times relaid to my knowledge to meet the increased length and size of modern ships, and if a scheme could be carried out by an amicable arrangement between the Government and the shipping companies, no doubt those companies which are going to be affected by the change will be prepared to bear part of the cost, but I would ask your Excellency to consider my counter proposal, that we be allowed to rent our own moorings. That is, from my own experience in Hong Kong, a very great advantage to shipping. I tell my own captains on their outward voyage that when they return six months hence they will have to go to a certain buoy, and when they come in it is not necessary for them to employ a pilot. I have never employed a pilot, and will not unless my ships go to the wharf, because there are very strong currents running.\n\nIf you insist on this scheme, it seems to me that with the change of moorings and compulsory pilotage you are imposing a great tax on shipping which can be ill borne under existing conditions, and we strongly oppose the scheme your Excellency put before us in your letter to the Secretary of State on the subject. I speak with the full concurrence of the members of the Chamber of Commerce, and trust you will make the Secretary of State equally aware of our opposition to your scheme, and I merely now give notice that when the time comes I shall move the rejection of that particular section of the vote.\n\nUnder the head Imports and Exports Department, your Excellency mentioned (page 3) an increase of about $35,000, but you only refer to an increase of $14,000. As a matter of fact, the increase this year, as opposed to last year, is really $85,000, because there is $50,000, or, to be more correct, $49,800, less asked for the purchase of opium. I have gone through the papers, but they are not very clear, therefore I won't labour this question for the moment, but I will refer to it later on.\n\nIn Miscellaneous Services there is an entry of $1,575. That, of course, although a small thing, the unofficial members welcome, because we think too much cannot be done to encourage interpreters and translators in the Government Service, and any reasonable sum asked for will be gladly voted.\n\nWe cannot but regret the very great charge for loss on subsidiary coin, and this, your Excellency, without wishing to cast aspersions on the memory of Governors who have gone before you, is entirely due to want of foresight on the part of some of your Excellency's predecessors and their advisers. The total amount of subsidiary coin imported into Hong Kong to meet the demand in China amounted to something like $40,000,000. Careful estimates made of the subsidiary coin we require show that we require about two to two and a half million dollars' worth. The whole of the rest of the money has been sold and the Government, I am very sorry to say, did not realise that the chickens would come home to roost, but they have come home to roost with a vengeance. Of that $40,000,000 possibly about one-third has been absorbed in making jewellery, bullion and so on, or otherwise disposed of. Two-thirds of that amount is likely to come back on us, and I have given the Colonial Secretary notice of a question to which I will ask him to reply, which is, \"What amount of coin has already been withdrawn by the Government from circulation, at what we know to be a very heavy loss, and what, roughly speaking, is estimated to be the further loss likely to be entailed on this Colony on this account?\"\n\nWe realise we have to face this loss, and do not quarrel with the present policy of the Government, but entirely endorse it. We realise very much the sacrifice that is now being made by the Colony, and we can only express the hope that the sacrifice will be substantially utilised in rehabilitating the coin we must keep for our daily use.\n\nReverting to what I said just now about the Import and Export Department, I now come to the question of accounts. It is not the first time I have had to refer to the way in which the accounts were rendered. On page 19 we have the actual expenditure for 1913, the approved estimates for 1914, the revised estimates for 1914 and the estimates for 1915. Now, a casual glance down that table will show a very startling difference between the approved estimates and the revised estimates. That is only a summary, and we have to look to further pages for the detailed account, and that is where we are handicapped. You merely have two columns instead of three. You have the approved estimate for 1914, and the estimate for 1915, and when you get to compare those figures, all that you know from page 19 is that the difference is very startling.\n\nI will quote two cases. On page 19 Miscellaneous Services, approved for 1914, is placed at $257,128. The amended estimate for 1914 is $748,000, or nearly three times the amount. The estimate for 1915 is $612,262. Of course, I know the bulk of that amount is made up by the increased amount of subsidiary coin...\n\nPage 198", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 449524, "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": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11]", "content_text": "EIGHT\n\nrepairs are put at a high figure. I think the note explains that. There is a considerable increase in the number of coaches and vehicles. We have had during this year and for one or two years past, during heavy traffic, to borrow carriages from the Chinese section, and that expenditure on the hire of carriages during week-ends and holidays will be saved by having a proper amount of rolling stock. I might add, before I close, that I am sorry not to have seen any of the unofficial members during the fortnight which has elapsed. Your Excellency made the suggestion that they might like to come and consult with me, and although I have been very busy, I would have been glad to see them. In the Straits Settlements, the procedure is that the unofficial members sit continuously with the Colonial Secretary and have all files and information given them as they want them, so that every point of doubt or difficulty is cleared up on the spot. I hope that next year the unofficial members will consent to that arrangement, as I am sure it will not only save time and trouble, but it will also elucidate points a great deal better than can be done in debate.\n\n203\n\nThe Treasurer &\n\nHIS EXCELLENCY—If unofficial members as a body would prefer my delivering orally my address next year, I will try and do so, but I cannot promise that I will not read the address. There was a day when a few readings over of the address, such as printed this year, would have been sufficient to fix it in my memory to enable me to deliver it and to repeat it verbatim. But I am afraid, at my time of life, I cannot rely on my memory sufficiently to perform a feat like that, but if you prefer to have the speech delivered instead of reading it yourselves, I am quite willing to fall in with your ideas. Both hon. unofficial members who have spoken have referred to the opium revenue. I would have been glad if they had said nothing about the subject. I am strongly of opinion that it is a subject about which the less one says the better. I have not undertaken the task of trying to think out how long the revenue will last, and as I see no immediate prospect of losing it, I do not think I should be using my time to much advantage if I were to undertake the task, nor do I think it would help us to get permission to make such a contract as the hon. member who represents the Justices of the Peace refers to. The existence of such a contract would not weigh much with His Majesty's Government one way or the other if they decided that our doings in opium were to cease. At the same time, I appreciate the foresight of both hon. members in seeing that an important question should not be lost sight of.\n\nThe Hon. member who represents the Chamber of Commerce is firm in his convictions, as he always is, and he will have nothing of our scheme for removing and relaying the buoys in the harbour. Now, in order to show how necessary that scheme is, I think I may just read a few lines from my despatch to the Secretary of State: \"The result is that the old-established shipping firms, many of whom employ steamers of small tonnage engaged in the coasting trade of China or in local trade with the Philippines, Japan, and Siam, monopolise many of the best berths in the deepest water, to the prejudice of newly-established lines of steamers trading with Europe, Australia, and America, which employ vessels of heavy tonnage and deep draught. Many of these have to lie at a considerable distance from the business centre of the City, and complaints have been made in recent years by the Agents of some of the largest vessels frequenting the Port that they are forced out into distant and inconvenient parts of the harbour. Suggestions have been made that to meet the demand for berths for deep draught vessels, the dredging of some of the more remote portions of the anchorage should be resorted to.\" Now, those are very strong arguments based on solid facts. Suggestions and recommendations had actually been made to the Government to dredge the harbour in order to make more room in it, and if such dredging were resorted to, enormous sums would have to be expended, which, in view of the precarious nature of our revenue, it would be very unwise for us to embark upon.\n\nI do not think the hon. member or any shipping man need be afraid of the scheme. It is proposed, as indicated in the despatch, to divide up the berths into classes. Therefore, it will not be a case of a man going to hunt all over the harbour for his buoy. He will have his buoy in a certain circumscribed area in a particular part of the harbour, and it will be a simple matter to indicate to him the number of the buoy either by wireless, which I hope we shall have then, or by signal if he does not carry a pilot. I may mention that in Singapore, the system is already in vogue of berthing vessels by signal or other communication at the Tanjong Pagar wharves, and the system works well. The fees we propose to charge are $3 a day first class, $2 a day is not mentioned but $6 a day in the second class and $4 a day in the third class, and we calculate that the revenue therefrom will just about cover, or more, the interest on capital and current expenditure.\n\nThe hon. member who represents the Chamber of Commerce expressed the opinion that $10,000 would not be enough to remove and relay the buoys. That is quite right; it would not be sufficient, but we only propose to relay them by tens a year. There are 40 buoys to be dealt with, and we will take them in hand ten annually. Therefore, the total sum for relaying will be about $40,000, and not $10,000. The hon. member also referred to the large expenditure incurred on the redemption of subsidiary coin. It is a very large amount, but I would remind him that we made a profit originally of $2,400,000 on the issue of that coin, and we have not yet spent in redemption as much as we originally made in issue. I am heartily glad to see, however, that the hon. member endorses the policy that the Government had embarked upon. He next asked that the column as revised should be carried out throughout the estates. Now, I do not really see that a great advantage would be gained. The revised estimates are merely the index to the figures upon which the estimates for the succeeding year are based. We cannot say what the estimates for this year will be, or what the revenue for this year will be, until the year is closed, but we put down that estimate in order to show approximately how", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-414 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 452521, "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": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914", "content_text": "## 358 HONG KONG 46873\nWins. REC 46873 Rent 27 N. 14 chandis. 40 Closing down of Exemy Firms.\n\n1914 23 how Last previous Paper. Dogz peny Staubsequent Paper. 30s bu M Colicises policy fiq jus It Call Me Collons of from B.MT.) ad 427\n\nThis is a question fog's poking wit need not be discussed with the firm. Private interests must give way to the public food.\n\nIn ? Ach say that Syctar cannot regret not he is not prepared to respect to for after the poking which has been decided upon after pad coon hang.\n\nMr Aller 3947) Wt.17,476—33. 20,000, 8/11. A.E.W. 427/4//4. Hele AC $8.1.14 28.11.14 Br. abou 30.11.14", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-419 - Individuals - 1914.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 456793, "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": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 109, "title": "CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "It appears to be a matter of establishing a claim. Mr. and Mrs. Choe have done so (in conjunction with Mr. Jove Rous?) in the name of Et Christina Ross. You might be informed that the separation has been considered. I have considered the claim to the pension but can protect the interests as I think fit.\n\nIt is not necessary to raise the question of unity or to consider the matter further as it is undoubtedly for the Government's decision, and perhaps it would be better not to offer any suggestions until they are asked for.\n\nIt has been referred to the Government for their consideration. The facts have been referred to the Government for their coin...\n\n2913/15\n\nAn interesting Case - There do not appear to be any questions here. Mr. Jane Ross would appear to be the orphans' guardian and is entitled to the pension. It appears that she has taken some steps to get assistance from her husband, but very nearly at the time it appears to have gone through the forms of arranging with C. Ross.\n\n105\n\nIt appears to me the proper course would be to have the whole matter referred to the Government, letting them have all the correspondence. It would be of interest to see how they construe Section 21 in this case.\n\nIf there were any orphans, I think there would be little trouble, but I think they would have come to a difficulty in deciding whether they were separated with precision from the wife \"bored\" or \"dead\". Separated judicially, by mutual consent or otherwise, the directors have a discretion having regard to the circumstances.\n\nAs to the meaning or construction to be accorded to the section of the ordinance, it would be advisable to have it clarified. It is better to offer no suggestion until asked for.\n\nIt is, I think, a matter purely for the Government to settle. Proceed in proposed Govt. direction. Send full copies of correspondence and all forms as they are coming in.\n\nGR1178/1922/32(III)\n\nPage 7", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-426 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458215, "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": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 308, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nYang-taze Insurance Company.\n\nYang-taze Land and Finance Company,\n\nYang-taze Poo Cotton Mill.\n\nYap Eck Liok, Amoy.\n\nYates, T. M\n\nYeo, Swee, Swan, & Co., Amoy.\n\nYishin & Co., Mukdeu.\n\nYokohama Specie Bank.\n\nYorkshire Insurance Company.\n\nYoshida & Co., Shanghai,\n\nYu Feng Kung Sau, Chefoo. Yu Tai.\n\nYuasa, T.,\n\nHankow.\n\nYuen Tal & Co., Tien-tsin,\n\nZundel Emile Manufacturing Company.\n\nForeign Office,\n\nSIAM.\n\nOctober 26, 1915.\n\nThe following is a complete list, revised up to date, of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to Siam may be consigned, under the terms of the Proclamation of the 24th September, 1915:-\n\nThis list is to be regarded as superseding all previous lists.\n\nHis Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, Military,\n\nand Naval Officers.\n\nBritish Missionary Bodies and Missionary Bodies of Neutral and Allied Countries.\n\nAbdool, Rahmin II., Bangkok. Adam, A. H. M., & Co.\n\nAdamsen Dab Fook, C. C. G., Bangkok. Alibhai Chinwala, Bangkok.\n\nAmerican Presbyterian Mission Press. Angullia, A., & Sons, Bangkok. Apothecaries' Hall.\n\nArracan Company Limited, Bangkok. Asiatic Petroleum Company Limited. Assumption Printing Press, Bangkok.\n\nBaboojee, A. K., Bangkok.\n\nBadman, H. A., & Co.\n\nBan Hin Guan, Puket.\n\nBangkok Dock Company Limited.\n\nBangkok Manufacturing Company Limited.\n\nBangkok Times Press Limited.\n\nBangkok United Club.\n\nBangaon Syndicate, Renong.\n\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\n\nDeebook Dredging, Renoug. Diana, A., & Co., Bangkok. Dickson, John, & Co.\n\nDiethelm & Co.\n\nDunlop, John M.\n\nDustakeer & Co., Bangkok.\n\nEast Asiatic Company Limited.\n\nEastern Smelting Company, Puket. Edgar Brothers.\n\nEducational Supply Association, Excelsior Ica Factory.\n\nFraser & Neave Limited.\n\nFrench Dispensary,\n\nGilitwalla, E. E., Bangkok.\n\nGoriawalla, A. H. A., Bangkok.\n\nGoriawalla, F. A., Bangkok.\n\nGroundwater, C. L., & Co.\n\nGulambusan Abdoolkader (Gulam Husain Abdul Kader) (Kader, G. A.), Bangkok.\n\nHabibar, Rehman, Bangkok. Halim & Co., B. A.\n\nHansen, Dr. C. (Lotus Dispensary). H arp Heng, Long, & Co.\n\nHarp Vour, Long, & Co.\n\nIock Chuan & Co., Bangkok.\n\nHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nHoosain, A. G., Bangkok.\n\nHoosain, E. A., Bangkok.\n\nHoosain, Akbar, & Sons, Bangkok. Hotchund, Vichindas, & Co., Bangkok. Husseinally, A. K., Wasee, & Co.\n\nIkezaki, K., & Co., Bangkok. International Store.\n\nJawarad Dispensary.\n\nJooboalee, Bangkok.\n\nKader, G. A. (Gulamhusan Abdoolkader).\n\nKaj, Cotermall, & Co., Bangkok. Katib, E. M.\n\nKatoo Dee Book, Renong. Katz Brothers Limited. Kerr & Co.\n\nKiam Hoa Heng & Co., Bangkok.\n\nKiam Hoa Seng & Co., Bangkok. Kluzer, G., & Co., Bangkok.\n\nKong Hiap Hin, Puket.\n\nKwong Ngee Hoa & Co., Bangkok.\n\nLegations of Allied Powers.\n\nLegations of Neutral Powers.\n\nLeonowens, Louis T., Limited, Bangkok and Lampang.\n\nLotus Dispensary (Dr. Hanson).\n\nLuang Brohma Yodkee, Mrs. (Pradist Sookonta), Bangkok,\n\nSUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 6 NOVEMBER, 1915.\n\nMitsui Bussan Kaisha Limited, Bangkok. Mizokari, M., Bangkok.\n\nMogul, M. A.\n\nMohamed Meah & Co., Bangkok.\n\nMonod, C. E., & Co., Bangkok.\n\nMoosbhoy, M., Bangkok.\n\nMotiwalla, F. A., Bangkok.\n\nNai Lert, Bangkok.\n\nNana, E. A., Bangkok.\n\nNestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company.\n\nNooraddin Dawoodbboi, Bangkok.\n\nOriental Bakery, Bangkok.\n\nOriental Store, Bangkok. Oyama, K., & Co., Bangkok.\n\nPaknan Railway Company. Pappayanopoulos, C., Bangkok. Pereira & Co., E. M. Piroshajee, J. A. (Raja).\n\nPiroshaw, F. Mama, Bangkok.\n\nPisal Banniti. Bangkok.\n\nPollard, T. H.\n\nPradist Sookonta (Mrs. Luang Brohma Yodkee), Bangkok.\n\nPuket Dispensary, Puket.\n\nRaja (Paroshajee, J. A.).\n\nRamchiant, Mine.. Puket and Trang.\n\nRatanamala Company, Bangkok.\n\nRatrut Basin Tin Dredging Company, Renong, Royal Bangkok Sports Club.\n\nSae Thien & Co., Bangkok.\n\nSalehbhai, A. R., & Co., Bangkok,\n\nSampson, John, & Son.\n\nSarafally, G. A., Bangkok,\n\nSaw Hood Beng, Sengora,\n\nSee Kak Dispensary, Bangkok.\n\nSiam Cement Company Limited, Bangkok.\n\nSiam Commercial Bank.\n\nSiam Electricity Company Limited.\n\nSiam Forest Company Limited. Siam Free Press Company Limited. Siam Import Company Limited.\n\nSiam Industries Syndicate. Siam Motor Works Limited. Siam Observer Press. Siam Perfumery Store. Siam Stamp Company. Siamese Tin Syndicate. Siamese Tobacco Company. Siamwalla, D. H. A., Bangkok, Siamwalla, F. A., Bangkok.\n\nSin Kheng Seang, Puket.\n\nSin Sin Ha, Bangkok.\n\nSinger Sewing Machine.\n\nSmith Premier Typewriter Company.\n\nSociété Anonyme Belge.\n\nSophon Printing Office.\n\nSriracha Company Limited, Bangkok,\n\nStandard Oil Company.\n\nStars, A., Mme.\n\nSteel Brothers & Co. Limited.\n\nStephens, Paul & Co.\n\nStraits Trading Company, Puket.\n\nSui Kee, Puket.\n\nSwanson, J. H.\n\nSwee Hin, Puket.\n\nSwee Ho, Bangkok. Syme & Co.\n\nTachin Railway Company. Tay, K. C., Dr., Bangkok, Thonakitch Raxa, Bangkok. Tiseeman, S., & Co.\n\nTongkah Compound, Puket.\n\nTongkah Harbour Tin Dredging Company, Puket.\n\nTowfigue, M., Bangkok.\n\nTung Who & Co.\n\nUnited Engineers Limited.\n\nVacuum Oil Company.\n\nWasiamull, Assomull & Co., Bangkok. Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. Limited. Wing Yuen & Co. Limited.\n\nYamaguchi G., & Co. Bangkok, Yong Lee Seng & Co., Bangkok.\n\nBarrow, Brown, & Co.\n\nBéranger, Malcolm (Maison Béranger).\n\nBerli, A., & Co., Bangkok.\n\nBombay-Burma Trading Corporation Limited, Bangkok.\n\nBoon Long, Bangkok.\n\nBorgersen, H. B.\n\nBorneo Company Limited.\n\nBritish-American Tobacco Company Limited.\n\nBritish Club.\n\nBritish Dispensary.\n\nBuan Soon Lee & Co., Bangkok.\n\nBudroodin, F. H., Bangkok.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China.\n\nChina-Siam Daily News. Couper-Johuston, D., & Co.\n\nMacbeth, J. J.\n\nMaideen, A.\n\nMaison Béranger (Bérauger, Malcolm).\n\nMalaya Tin Corporation, Renong. Malbary, H. A,\n\nMansoor Sahib, S. S., Bangkok.\n\nMarican, M. T. S.\n\nMarican, S. S.\n\nMaskati, A. T. E.\n\nMaung Hpo Min, Lampang.\n\nMeklong Railway Company.\n\nMenam Motor-boat Company Limited.\n\nMinistries and Departments of the Royal Siamese Government.\n\nPrinted and Published for His Majesty's Stationery Office by Wyman & Sons, Ltd., Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C.,\n\nSaturday, 6 November, 1915.\n\nPrice Four Pence.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 458219, "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": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915", "content_text": "C.O.\n\n308\n\n59067\n\nRECO\n\nREG 23 DEC 15\n\nEXPORTATION OF ARTICLES TO CHINA AND SIAM.\n\n(FOURTH SUPPLEMENT.)\n\nForeign Office,\n\nNovember 23, 1915.\n\nThe following additions or corrections to the list published as a supplement to the London Gazette of 5th November, 1915, of persons to whom articles to be exported to China and Siam may be consigned, are notified by order of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in accordance with the provisions of the Proclamation relating to the exportation of articles to China and Siam during the present war, issued on the 24th day of September, 1915:-\n\nSIAM.\n\nForeign Office, 19th November, 1915.\n\nThe following names are added to the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to Siam may be consigned:\n\nBoon Mee Dispensary, Bangkok.\n\nHob Leng Dispensary, Bangkok.\n\nSiah Leng, A., Bangkok.\n\nSwee Ho, H., Bangkok.\n\nTilleke, R. E. G., Dr., Bangkok.\n\nThe following name is removed from the list of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to Siam may be consigned:\n\nSee Kak Dispensary, Bangkok.\n\nC.O.\n\n(Extract from the London Gazette of Tuesday, 23 November, 1915.)\n\nPrinted by WYMAN & SONS, Ltd.,\n\nFor FREDERICK ATTERBURY, Esq., C.B., the King's Printer of Acts of Parliament (03509.) 1,000. 11/15.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-428 - Public Offices - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459600, "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": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "a&A \n\n(1) 31 Certain bits about our situation and major bar not of \n\nview mid bin asentoud and to spread at Likte ve mezaal .&.z \n\nbadoaqze ylish arið gakbasy sonsyado at sakeď en snewstałogę - \n\n.T\" of bedeof sɛwin ari domi nă ,royaiqmo ali to exudingab GORE NË KALAII to 19###[ two shiv ̧enožšoustvał 101 annarssh) .T, \n\nmnantsel STi bna Vt of finne zakonevba zot mki bəhanningSI BY \n\nBNÝ SA MAGKrael .1 .1K babus; or Likte ari ɛnted soltnusiqxo misi \n\n.tsenterɗ and to remWO \n\nII+ tarit dood zattal e*mi? asit mort \n\ntral arts to postal art mort Jzogs) Lead siit ritkw oameħnagesT100 \n\n19 bol aman mo wit në zalımət,zi yɗ banęły naw (benoż‡nam svoɗa tauŞLA \n\nAtes br #VI newded sð á græeð .T .mið to statsaşka begesta silt \n\n,60 à qʊură „Twf? naitazudową THE BA BÁTArgasta bra JBUSUA \n\n+ \n\nat orast baton ad [IEW JI ‚ài .300 đi59 Liinu yntans? .I.A \n\n.\"vaganal\" brow at to nettasm on \n\nBow zatiaľ tustraçat an ‚roitmimeo skríž village of \n\n.bđã cơst à niggal #runnï of dougal #HIƐ no munereal „ .ri yở bangla \n\nsesaleud pn2t»mitmi (sİNGIDŞMATTA asanmi? smse zalažĺtvo „nobnoł \n\nbed out and darts maris patarotat ben Leren en galesetzesĘ BAW \n\nmult að ktiv moed bed of er noktḥzwserą to zeweg a zalnost „di navig \n\n.mo miedź na ozudangle aid bragan od marið yrkina baA BMİ? SHoe zot \n\nIN SYTH JOFFEL TE OSUDNO FUM AT20 TE MUUupje to lenŢƒ zenek på DIELE \n\n• \n\n,jam qlub ad Litw BIIN [In wwxb [Làw vació 12 „TAďð ma♫3 Batubar Jud \n\nNBJJITW BAW nos12W & altek „aizual (yoynt exaaa\" of sattel zalimis A \n\nLima tom tud stab omae no \n\n„5.7 ozanoil of matikaw BLOW BED2261 zodanigeë ritës në \n\nrioristim „b‡I dɗa á alqqal ano8 à Ifpwal „I „„bti oð á yoine†2 \n\nBrothers, Manton & Mole Ltd, Marks & Cohn, Baume & Co., all of \n\nEngland and all containing the following paragraphs:= \n\n\"We have the pleasure to forward for your information copies \n\n\"of letters which have passed between the Government of \n\n\"Hongkong and ourselves. Special permission has been granted \n\n\"us to continue our usual business relations with English \n\n\"firms\". \n\n\"We would thank you to forward at your earliest convenience, \n\n\"separate statements of accounts for Hongkong and Singapore. \n\n\"On receipt of the same, credit in your favour will be opened \n\n\"With the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank in London\". \n\n437 \n\nIt is apparent on the face of it that the information to these British \n\ncreditors that payment of the amount of their debts (both to Hongkong \n\n& Singapore Branches) could not have been promised without the full \n\nknowledge of the Bank, These letters were signed by Mr. Peaning. \n\nOn and after September 5th (see our letter of 14th Nov) \n\nour firm as public accountants were engaged in taking stock and \n\nexamining the cash transactions &c., with the object of controlling \n\nthe business so that the Government could be assured no remittances \n\nor goods went out of the Colony, \n\nOn 29th October 1914, we were appointed Liquidators of the \n\nbusiness (under the Alien Enemies (Winding-up) Ordinance, 1914). \n\nOn 11th November, 1914 we acknowledged receipt of a brief \n\nnote from the Bank informing us that the goods on the Firm's premises \n\nwere under lien to you. \n\nAccording to the Pass Book, after August 18th, all receipts \n\nof the business were paid into a special \"Instalment Account\" with", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 463539, "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": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "page_number": 631, "title": "CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11]", "content_text": "# HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nfor the current year. As regards the Import and Export Department, the hon. member opposite stated that the increase was $35,000, but really, owing to the reduction in the cost of opium by $50,000, it was something like $80,000. That is a fact, but he was really referring to the revised estimate for the present year, which reduced the estimate made at the end of last year by a sum of $67,000. The net increase over the revised estimate for the current year cannot be considered at all excessive. As regards the railway, which is the only other point I wish to refer to, and which the hon. and learned member made rather a point of, the figures are on page 115. The estimate for coal is considered low considering the large increase in the price, and it is not at all uncertain that the estimate is not fixed rather low; in fact, I think the manager of the railway holds that opinion. Still, we hope in the coming year the price will not advance, and it is practically certain that we ought to be able to get coal at quite a reasonable figure.\n\nHON. MR. HEWETT - Can you tell us how much coal we have got?\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY - 6,600 tons, I think, is the approximate amount. As regards oil, tallow, and other stores, that estimate has been very carefully calculated. The actual cost this year for oil, tallow, and other stores is almost exactly the same as that estimated, $9,600, so there really is not an increase.\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK — I did not refer to that.\n\nTHE COLONIAL SECRETARY - As regards the locomotives, during the year they have been very hard worked, and it has not been possible to move them from the line and put them in the sheds when they should have been there, and the result is that they will want considerable repairs during the coming year, when we shall have three extra locomotives which will enable us to do that. Therefore, the repairs are put at a high figure. I think the note explains that. There is a considerable increase in the number of coaches and vehicles. We have had during this year and for one or two years past, during heavy traffic, to borrow carriages from the Chinese section, and that expenditure on the hire of carriages during week-ends and holidays will be saved by having a proper amount of rolling stock.\n\nI might add before I close that I am sorry not to have seen any of the unofficial members during the fortnight which has elapsed. Your Excellency made the suggestion that they might like to come and consult with me, and although I have been very busy, I would have been glad to see them. In the Straits Settlements, the procedure is that the unofficial members sit continuously with the Colonial Secretary and the Treasurer and have all files and information given them as they want them, so that every point of doubt or difficulty is cleared up on the spot. I hope that next year the unofficial members will consent to that arrangement, and it will not only save time and trouble, but it will also elucidate points a great deal better than can be done in debate.\n\nHis EXCELLENCY - If members as a body would prefer my delivering orally my address next year, I will try and do so, but I cannot promise that I will not read the address. There was a day when a few readings over of the address such as printed this year would have been sufficient to fix it in my memory to enable me to deliver it and to repeat it verbatim. But I am afraid at my time of life, I cannot rely on my memory sufficiently to perform a feat like that, but if you prefer to have the speech read instead of reading it yourselves, I am quite willing to fall in with your ideas.\n\nBoth hon. unofficial members who have spoken have referred to the opium revenue. I would have been glad if they had said nothing about the subject. I am strongly of opinion that it is a subject about which the less one says the better. I have not undertaken the task of trying to think out how long the revenue will last, as I see no immediate prospect of losing it, I do not think I should be using my time to much advantage if I were to undertake the task, nor do I think it would help us to get permission to make such a contract as the hon. member who represents the Justices of the Peace refers to.\n\nThe existence of such a contract would not weigh much with His Majesty's Government one way or the other if they decided that our dealings in opium were to cease. At the same time, I appreciate the foresight of both hon. members in wishing this important question should not be lost sight of.\n\n## HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nThe hon. member who represents the Chamber of Commerce is firm in his convictions, as he always is, and he will have nothing of our scheme for removing and relaying the buoys in the harbour. Now, in order to show how necessary that scheme is, I think I may just read a few lines from my despatch to the Secretary of State :- \"The result is that the old-established shipping firms, many of whom employ steamers of small tonnage engaged in the coasting trade of China or in local trade with the Philippines, Japan, and Siam, monopolise many of the best berths in the deepest water, to the prejudice of newly-established lines of steamers trading with Europe, Canada, and America, which employ vessels of heavy tonnage and deep draught. Many of these have to lie at a considerable distance from the business centre of the City, and complaints have been made in recent years by the Agents of some of the largest vessels frequenting the Port that they are forced out into distant and inconvenient parts of the harbour. Suggestions have been made that to meet the demand for berths for deep draught vessels, the dredging of some of the more remote portions of the anchorage should be resorted to.\"\n\nNow, those are very strong arguments based on solid facts. Suggestions and recommendations had actually been made to the Government to dredge the harbour in order to make more room in it, and if such dredging were resorted to, an enormous sum would have to be expended, which, in view of the precarious nature of our revenue, it would be very unwise for us to embark upon. I do not think the hon. member or any shipping man need be afraid of the scheme. It is proposed, as indicated in the despatch, to divide up the berths into classes. Therefore, it will not be a case of a man going to hunt all over the harbour for his buoy. He will have his buoy in a certain circumscribed area in a particular part of the harbour, and it will be a simple matter to indicate to him the number of the buoy either by wireless, which I hope we shall have then, or by signal if he does not carry a pilot. I may mention that in Singapore, the system is already in vogue of berthing vessels by signal or other communication at the Tanjong Pagar wharves, and the system works well.\n\nThe fees we propose to charge are $8 a day first class, $6 a day in the second class, and $4 a day in the third class, and we calculate that the revenue therefrom will just about cover, no more, the interest on capital and current expenditure. The hon. member who represents the Chamber of Commerce expressed the opinion that $10,000 would not be enough to remove and relay the buoys. That is quite right; it would not be sufficient, but we only propose to relay them by tens a year. There are 40 buoys to be dealt with, and we will take them in hand ten annually. Therefore, the total sum for relaying will be about $40,000, and not $10,000.\n\nThe hon. member also referred to the large expenditure incurred on the redemption of subsidiary coin. It is a very large amount, but I would remind him that we made a profit originally of $2,400,000 on the issue of that coin, and we have not yet spent in redemption as much as we originally made in issue. I am heartily glad to see, however, that the hon. member endorses the policy that the Government had embarked upon.\n\nHe next asked that the column as revised should be carried out throughout the estimates. Now, I do not really see that any great advantage would be gained. The revised estimates are merely the index to the figures upon which the estimates for the succeeding year are based. We cannot say, for instance, what the revenue for this year will be, until the year is closed, but we put down that estimate in order to show approximately how we arrive at the figure for the succeeding year. The estimates for Crown Colonies are drawn up in the way ours are, and it is very necessary to have a uniform system.\n\nThe hon. member also referred to the Volunteers and their paucity, and I heartily agree with him that they are too few. Perhaps, when the present war is over, some different system will be inaugurated by which we will have many more volunteers. But he was not quite right, and it is perhaps necessary I should correct him when he said the Reserves were filled with men over 35 years of age. We accept men under 30 years who have been in the Army and Navy, and men of 30 years who have had three years' volunteer service, and of 32 years of age who have had five years' volunteer service. Therefore, there are a number of men in the Reserves who, by reason of their naval, military, or volunteer service, are eligible long before they reach 35, and that is one of the reasons which makes this body such a valuable body of men, having such a large number of trained men in the ranks.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464455, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, 24 DECEMBER, 1915,\n\n## List of Companies and Individuals\n\nSouth China Trading Co., Canton.\nSouth Manchuria Railway Company,\nSowa, Shanghai.\nSoychee Cotton Spinning Company. Sparke, C. E.\nSpeyer, C.\nSpunt and Rosenfeld,\nStandard Bank of South Africa.\nStandard Life Assurance Company.\nStandard Oil Company.\nStearne, J. C.\nSubira, J. M.\nSullivan, J., & Co.\nSulzer, Rudolph, & Co.\nSun Insurance Office.\nSun Life Assurance of Canada.\nSung Chuan Tien and Co., Shantung. Suzuki & Co., Shanghai.\nSwatow Dispensary.\nSyndicat industriel et commercial.\nSze Hing (Hung) & Co., Chefoo.\n\nTabaquería Filipina.\nTackey, W. M., & Co.\nTai Fu Lim, Dr., Newchang.\nTai On & Co. (The Canton Medical Hall), Canton.\nTaiping Rubber Estates.\nTaiseng & Co., Foochow.\nTait & Co.\nTakata & Co., Shanghai.\nTakkee & Co., Foochow.\nTaku Tug and Lighter Company Limited.\nTalati Brothers, Peking and Tien-tsin,\nTalati & Co., Tien-tsin.\nTallieu, L., & Co.\nTalow Dispensary.\nTannerie franco-chinoise.\nTata, Sons, & Co., Shanghai.\nTaylor & Co.\nTeerathdas, N., Shanghai.\nTel Keo Dispensary, Iankow.\nThe Trading Company, the Successors to Alexis Goobkin, A. Koosenetzoff, & Co,\nTheodore & Rawlins.\nThomas, Adams, & Wood.\nThomas, F., & Co.\nThomson, G. Irwin.\nThoresen, O.\nThunder, C.\nThurier & Kohr, Hankow.\nTibbey, H. M.\nTibesart, J. A.\nTien-tein Bicycle Company, Amoy.\nTien-tsin Club.\nTien-tain Dispensary.\nTien-tain Gas and Electric Light Company. Tien-tein Ironworks Limited.\nTien-tsin Native City Waterworks Limited. Tien-tsin Press Limited.\nTien-tain Soap Manufacturing Company, Tien-tsin Tobacco Company.\nTien-tain Waterworks Company, Limited. Tilley & Limby.\nTimes Dharwar & Co.\nTiram Estates Limited.\nToa & Co.\nToa Koshi, Shanghai.\nToa Tobacco Company, Newchang.\nToh Tiong Hok, Amoy.\nTom, S., Chefoo.\nTong Cheong & Co., Amoy.\nToshado Shiten, Shanghai.\nTowa & Co., Newchang,\nTravers Smith.\nTruman, R. N.\nTschurin, I. I., & Co., Harbin. Toui, Y. Y., Dr., Tien-tsin.\nTsung Tsoon Sing, Amoy, Tsurutani,\nTung, Ho, & Co., Newchang.\nT'ung Hsing (Sino-Foreign Coal-mining Company), Tien-tsin.\nTung Shen Te, Tien-tsin.\nTung, Tai, & Co.\nTung Teh Heug, Chefoo.\nTung Yu Brothers, Shanghai.\nTunkadoo Dock.\nTunkadoo Wharves.\nTurner, E. W.\nTwigg, P. O'Brien.\nTwyford, J., & Co.\nTze Hop Shing, G., & Co., Tien-tsin.\n\nUllmann & Co.\nUnderwood Typewriter Company. Union Assurance Company, Limited. Union Commercial Company Limited. Union Insurance Society of Canton. Union Marine Insurance Company. Union Medical College. United States Steel Products.\n\nVacuum Oil Company.\nVan Ess, A., & Co.\nVeroudart.\nVicajee, F., & Co.\nViccajee, II., & Co.\nVickers, Limited.\nVikula Morocoy, Newchang. Villa, A. P., & Brothers. Vrard & Co.\n\nWali Mei Dispensary, Canton. Wah Ming Optical Company. Wah On Company, Canton.\nWalker, Livingstone.\nWang, Y. N., Dr., Tien-tsin and Peking. Wannieck Limited.\nWaste Silk Boiling Company.\nWatson, A. S., & Co. Limited. Watt, J. A. D.\nWattie, J. A., & Co. Limited,\nWatts & Co.\nWeeks & Co. Limited.\nWeihaiwei Land and Building Company. Westminster Tobacco Company.\nWestphal, King, & Ramsay Limited.\nWheelock & Co.\nWheen, Edward, & Sons.\nWhitall & Co. Limited.\nWhite, Brothers.\nWhite, David.\nWhiteway, Laidlaw, & Co.\nWhitfield & Co.\nWhitlam, R. P.\nWhitney, J. C., & Co.\nWhitworth, Herbert Limited.\nWijk & Co.\nWilkinson, Heywood, & Clark.\nWilliams, Dr., Medicine Company.\nWilliams, K. J.\nWilson & Co.\nWisner & Co.\nWisner, P. F., & Co.\nWissotsky & Co.\n\nWong Chuen Yang (British Manufacturers' Agency), Shanghai.\nWong Zung Chong, Shanghai.\nWoo Chong.\nWoo, M. L., Tien-tsin.\nWoods, J.\nWoollen, Vosy, & Co.\n\n## Continued\n\nWorthington Pump Company Limited. Wu Lien Teh, Harbin.\nYamamoto & Co., Tien-tsin. Yan Sun & Co., Ltd., Canton. Yau Shau & Co., Limited, Canton. Yang-tsze Engineering Works, Yang-tsze Insurance Company. Yang-taze Land and Finance Company. Yang-taza Poo Cotton Mill. Yap Eck Liok, Amoy.\n\nYates, T. M.\nYau, K. S., Dr., Peking and Tien-tsin. Yeo, Swee, Swan, & Co., Amoy.\nYik Sang Dispensary, Swatow. Yishin & Co., Mukden. Yoan Siu Dispensary, Swatow. Yokohama Specie Bank. Yorkshire Insurance Company. Yoshida & Co., Shanghai.\n\nYoung Brothers Trust Company. Yu Feng Kung Ssu, Chefoo. Yu Tai.\nYuasa, T., Hankow.\nYuen Cheong and Co., Shanghai. Yuen Tai & Co., Shanghai.\nYung Fong Photo Supply Co., Peking.\n\nZa Chong Shun, Shanghai.\nZundel Emile Manufacturing Company,\n\n## Foreign Office, December 20, 1915,\n\n### SIAM\n\nThe following is a complete list, revised up to date, of persons and bodies of persons to whom articles to be exported to Siam may be consigned, under the terms of the Proclamation of the 24th September, 1915:-\n\nThis list is to be regarded as superseding all previous lists.\n\nHis Majesty's Diplomatic, Consular, Military, and Naval Officers.\nBritish Missionary Bodies and Missionary Bodies of Neutral and Allied Countries.\n\nAdam, A. H. M., & Co.\nAdamsen, Dr. (See Kak Dispensary). Ab Lee Koh (Yah See), Lampong. Alibhai Chinwala, Bangkok. American Presbyterian Mission Press. Angullia, A., & Sons, Bangkok. Apothecaries' Hall.\n\nArracan Company Limited, Bangkok. Asiatic Petroleum Company Limited. Assumption Printing Press, Bangkok.\n\nBabo, D. K., Bangkok.\nB. A., & Co.\nBad Kam ki Printing Works (Luang Bangkok. Banan, Puket.\nBangkok Dock Company Limited.\nBangkok Manufacturing Company Limited. Bangkok Times Press Limited.\nBangkok United Club.\nBangnon Syndicate, Renong.\nBanque de l'Indo-Chine.\nBarrow, Brown, & Co.\nBéranger, Malcolm (Maison Béranger). Berli, A., & Co., Bangkok.\nBombay-Burma Trading Corporation Limited, Bangkok.\nBoon Long, Bangkok.\nBoon Mee Dispensary, Bangkok. Borgersen, H, B.\nBorneo Company Limited.\nBritish-American Tobacco Company Limited. British Club.\nBritish Dispensary.\nBuan Soon Lee & Co., Bangkok. Budroodin, F. H., Bangkok.\n\nChartered Bank of India, Australia, and China,\nChinese Mercantile Dispensary, Bangkok. Chino-Siam Daily News.\nChino-Siamese Trading Company. Chotirmall, K. A. T., & Co. Chung Chooe Guan Ah Fook, Bangkok. Couper-Johnston, D., & Co.\n\nDastakoor & Co., Bangkok. Deebook Dredging, Renong. Diana, A., & Co., Bangkok. Dickinson, John, & Co. Diethelm & Co.\nDunlop, John M.\n\nEast Asiatic Company Limited. Eastern Smelting Company, Puket. Edgar Brothers,\nEducational Supply Association. Excelsior Ice Factory.\n\nFraser & Neave Limited. French Dispensary.\n\nGilitwalla, E. E., Bangkok. Goh Vong Chua, Bangkok, Goriawalla, A. H. A., Bangkok. Goriawalla, F. A., Bangkok.\n\nGroundwater, C. L., & Co.\nGulambusan Abdoolkader (Gulam Husain Abdul Kader) (Kader, G. A.), Bangkok.\n\nHabibar, Rehman, Bangkok. Halim & Co., B. A.\nHansen, Dr. C. (Lotus Dispensary),\nHarp, Heng, Long & Co.\nHarp Vour, Long, & Co.\nHock Chuan & Co., Bangkok.\nHoh Leng Dispensary, Bangkok.\nHong Ching, Bangkok.\nHong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.\n\nHoosain, A. G., Bangkok.\nHoosain, Akbar, & Sons, Bangkok.\nHoosain, E. A., Bangkok..\nHotchand, Vichindas, & Co. Bangkok.\n\nIkezaki, K., & Co., Bangkok.\nInternational Store.\n\nJawarad Dispensary.\n\nJoo Hoa Lee, Bangkok.\n\nKader, G. A. (Gulambusan Abdoolkader).\nKaj Cotermali, & Co., Bangkok. Katib, E. M.\nKatoo Des Book, Renong.\nKatz Brothers Limited.\nKeng Watt, Bangkok. Kerr & Co.\nKho On (Khoon) Seng, Bangkok. Kiam Hoa Heng & Co., Bangkok. Kiam Hoa Seng & Co., Bangkok.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 464602, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "page_number": 162, "title": "CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916", "content_text": "# 3\n\n160\n\nThe price agreed on was practically the market price of the day, but no interest was allowed. The 3,500 dollar tax already agreed on was to be paid by the purchasers. In practice, on delivering a chest of opium, the combine receives a receipt for 3,500 dollars signed by the commissioner, which is forwarded by the combine to Shanghai. 500,000 dollars has been deposited by the commissioner as security.\n\n## 3. \nA syndicate has been formed for the purchase and sale of this opium in Kwangtung. The theory of the agreement from the suppression point of view is roughly as follows:-\n\n(1.) The Canton Government have purchased the whole of the Indian opium that under treaty has a right to go into Kwangtung.\n\n(2.) That the opium will be prepared and sold, but only to licensed persons who are known to have the opium craving. The prepared opium will contain an ingredient that will gradually cure persons using it from the opium habit.\n\n(3.) At the end of eighteen months, the supply of opium will be finished, and all opium smokers will be cured of their craving. The opium in question will have then disappeared.\n\n## 4. \nThe facts are very different. I do not pretend to know full details, but the following generalities may be safely laid down:-\n\n(1.) Officially, the smoking of opium has for some time past been practically prohibited in Kwangtung.\n\n(2.) Certain classes of people have, during the last few years, been allowed to smoke opium freely, and certain merchants and officials have been able to make money thereby.\n\n(3.) Other classes of people have been smoking opium—smuggled without officials or persons connected with them being able to make anything out of it.\n\n(4.) The present agreement is an attempt to get the smoking of opium officially recognised, and at the same time to make certain that all persons connected therewith shall pay toll, a proportion of which will go to the Government.\n\n## 5. \nVery little has been published with regard to the composition of the syndicate, but the capital is said to be something as follows:-\n\n| Entity | Dollars |\n| --- | --- |\n| Canton Government | 400,000 |\n| Merchants | 800,000 |\n| Lung Chai Kwang | 400,000 |\n| Other officials | 400,000 |\n\nThe only amount actually paid up is that of the merchants, but the profits are to be paid in the above proportion. A very large number of people have an interest in the syndicate.\n\n## 6. \nThe syndicate have purchased the 1,200 chests of certified opium from Hong Kong. They boil and pack the opium in Canton. The sale of opium in each district is let to a sub-company, who in their turn let it to the various villages. This has been done by tender. The syndicate sell at 15.00 dollars a tael. Tenders have been asked from the various districts for the amount they require. The company from a particular district undertaking to dispose of the largest quantity is given the monopoly. The syndicate allow the successful tenderer 2 per cent. on his purchase, but he must purchase the full amount he tenders for. If he can purchase more, he gets a bonus on his excess.\n\n## 7. \nVarious regulations have been published that only persons who have licences may purchase opium, and that licences will only be issued to old people who have the opium habit. Licences are issued by the Government, and a fee is charged; anyone paying the fee can get a licence.\n\n## 8. \nThe syndicate have purchased at an average rate of over 9,000 dollars per chest, and in addition, they have to pay 3,500 dollars tax. Their opium therefore costs them 12,500 dollars per chest. A chest will produce 1,100 taels of fairly good opium. Making some allowance for the cost of preparation, we may say that it can be produced at 12.50 dollars a tael. The profit cannot therefore be very great when it is remembered that 15 dollars, the rate at which they sell, is paid in Chinese sub-coin at a discount of nearly 20 per cent. A profit of 2 per cent. to the sub-companies is also small. The opium as at present sold is of very poor quality and is not selling well. Steps are, I am told, being taken to improve it.\n\n## 9. \nThe syndicate and the sub-companies are really aiming at something much bigger, and there are signs of the whole thing becoming a big smuggling co-operation. Though their supply is supposed to be limited to the 1,200 chests purchased, they intend to sell as much opium as they can get from other sources, and there are a number of ways in which this can be got.\n\n## 10. \nThe first point in this general move is the abolition of opium suppression police throughout the province. This started as far back as September, and its result can be seen in the increase in the sales in Hong Kong. Macao sales also appear to have increased, and I think it possible that the Macao farmer will make an application for increased imports. He has already imported since his term, 1st August, 1915, 500 chests, his full allowance for the year. Opium is also moving freely from Kwangchauwan, but I do not know if it is doing so now more than formerly.\n\n## 11. \nThe second point is the attempt being made to get raw opium to Canton from various sources. A considerable quantity of Yunnan opium has, I believe, been ready to go in for some time, and it is noteworthy that the chief manager of the combine, Tung Pok-ng, is a native of Yunnan. I have been approached by two sets of people asking whether I could sell privately our stock of confiscated Persian opium. They said that they were working for the Canton syndicate, and I think there is little doubt that in a sense they were. In one case, they undertook to take the opium to Canton in a Chinese gunboat.\n\n## 12. \nA large quantity of opium has been purchased in India for Mexico. The money for this has been paid by Hong Kong Chinese interested in the syndicate. Joseph Gould, I believe, effected the purchases in Calcutta through M. Sassoon, and both are known to me in connection with Persian opium smuggling. The opium has been shipped to Kobe, and a special steamer is being chartered to take the opium from there. I understand that at some period the opium will be brought to this neighbourhood and transferred to Chinese gunboats outside the waters of the colony; 250 chests are now on the sea, and I believe there are 200 chests already in Mexico, for which Canton is the destination. Lee Hyson, of the Yu Hing opium case, is, I believe, at the back of this particular venture.\n\n## 13. \nAttempts are being made to get Persian opium lying in the colony into Kwangtung. The method to be employed is the old one of substitution. One such attempt was made recently, the opium being removed from E. D. Sassoon's godown to Kowloon godowns, for no other reason but to attempt substitution in the harbour. The applicant issued a permit, but had the opium conveyed across the harbour in the revenue launch. The applicant accompanied the opium but had no idea of how to proceed on arriving in Kowloon. I have also heard of negotiations for the purchase of a considerable quantity of opium from Nemazee. This is to go up to Canton in a gunboat, though nominally the export is to London. Nemazee is demanding a price very considerably higher than that which he could get in London, but beyond this will have no share in the transaction.\n\n## 14. \nIt is said that supplies will also come from Kwangchauwan and Macao, and that smuggling from these places will have official protection. Some of the Macao Farm have a share in the syndicate. The brokers for the Blue Funnel smuggling also expect assistance.\n\n**R. O. HUTCHISON, S.I.E.**\n\nNovember 25, 1915.\n\nP.S.-I attach an extract from the \"China Mail\" with reference to the Yu Hing case. The case occupied the courts for a period of two months, and there are still minor cases outstanding, in addition to an appeal. The case was a very complicated one, but the main idea was that Lee Hyson, the managing director of the Yu Hing Company, juggled with the opium held by the company in the names of two other firms, Li Wa Loong and Shing Fat Yuen. The allegation is that Lee Hyson simply sold to himself at a time when the price of opium was rising quickly and thereby made for himself a big sum of money, which ought to have been made by the Yu Hing Company. The company held 212 chests of certified opium.\n\n**R. O. H., S.I.E.**\n\nDecember 2, 1915.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-437 - Public Offices - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468684, "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": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "page_number": 447, "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]", "content_text": "Page 436\n\n#32\n\nPonokanalbl‡u& strojstv\n\n.[81 enut •tals\n\n.79J0\n\naldaruonɔi odr\n\nKPE COJON,PI POOLEFELA'\n\n•\n\nATL'\n\nraluoto Haltrehimod art of sonateter [J2W\n\nto apfos hoɑoñora a to doaldus adt no tratant dзSi edi to wolteom a ja jadł \"oger ɔd zuonod arið avad! Iseoctawolls dret ovltalainel bra sviðpoexs add to azeďme!! Iažolttonű add to vrov otai anos aaw toeldua eti yabrojnoy bied silomuoj Käsirgo a Moned blưow ametoa offi •yitquoroft bra viluterao\n\njna Lunmaq volnen sit mo araoltto nasqotuki bebrzam to zeďmua\n\n.iista\n\n¦\n\nand yd tot hellao at 952fan taft serna al\n\ntud temaer inecen wakub #nofsnoß at gatvll to jane beonaine nonu besad ad of thưo yaq to brabusta and Jadd nahianoo aw $18,8780 to add vd Sammɔtraq neljub bra hlad Jnentaloqqa əis\n\nazotamadı BN · Brottau 'Iɗo otteemob otaning ati noqu Jon\n\nwrið nt beaɔmorą za deseront doua omoa efirdw dad bnamwoost wwerotud wotnea Ila of bretxe hipoda 32,aham að bluoda amado a to avijoaquone?,dnamtravoð yď beauod ybaezis ton areoitto ard to evitoeqae-mi bas,efrata no babymam ona vest mettede at tast ant svtf of Broorio yam yeft asapod and to taer IautoM unbanar aisee a do hejmary of t'iyle asonawolla jaer (TAB OJ bejauhara bra „dinom a OHI‡ yan to quitxsa a mori abizwawob\n\n•ytałam od gutbrooss ajan ong\n\n* Tiaram as stolqmetnog am Havarod etdi\n\nNO BOON on fywen 76\n\n•\n\ntaff molnigo to gated zeruason TESTOQUE J\n\nɔtaja tɔ vrajanoed aft azoted \"atiam edit sulosiq rot oAUSTOqqo aid hoa chamahlanosan od bluora yaq to noijaaup Lozene, odt\n\nhovorem asonswɔlla bra annadoxe hevallying to anotdaotIqwoo\n\n,aldaolios) 10 TAŤ að\n\nTrusting that our views may meet with His\n\nExcellency's approval.\n\nI am &0.,\n\n(sd.) O. P. Chater.\n\n436", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468784, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "content_text": "2\n\nDESP NO.\n\ntel. 10\n\n{\n\nDATE\n\nSUBJECT\n\n10 hod. Progeny i teak districé\n\n#\n\ndeportime for Conca\n\n#\n\nFishing by Japanese\n\n#\n\n359 14\n\n4\n\n560\n\nCamp.\n\n\"\n\nTel\n\n365 17\n\n34:\n\n20\n\n#\n\n*\n\nTel. 23\n\n#\n\n\"\n\nL4\n\n*\n\n#\n\n26\n\nCumf. 29\n\n345 5\n\nConf.\n\n2\n\n3466\n\nTel.\n\nY\n\nCaraf. 11\n\n34912\n\nConf.\n\nTel.\n\n173\n\n15\n\n380\n\nTel.19\n\n381\n\n382\n\nConf. 22\n\n#\n\nTel. 29\n\n$\n\nLondon Missin Blogs. quant towards cost of - Advances to subordinate officine to pay off silité\n\nn: Chatham nemamonction for\n\nFishing by Japanese\n\nTantsun Flood Relief Fund\n\nentra mont donc\n\ndeclaration of alisnage C. J. Ho hoyorio Continguers Reseneration\n\nduty or wines imported for use of th. 5. Courel front.\n\nPay of Members of Bones - Rute of Bouchanges\n\nContent of Shipping in sto trast\n\nMoney for certain every sulyecto resident à Chiss\n\nCurasian Foreman & Chinese Antificines for S. Africa Mammail of A. M. Hullingement\n\nDec. M. C. Owen Cent. of Mat.\n\n#\n\n20\n\n&\n\nQ\n\nInches. 29 of 1917 Lension\n\ntushibition of Junjouté into M. K.\n\nSale of enemy pinoyhenty\n\nAncke. 28 of 1917 Termes\n\nMemoment of C. N. Gale\n\nHalifax disactor\n\nwidening Zusens het. East\n\nFugitive Offenders On C.\n\nLeuchars of prepenty\n\ndo\n\nInand by Anes Indian womens\n\nBuitis Costal Agencies i China\n\nDirector of Putilis works\n\nHalifan disuster\n\n\"Tanderages\"\n\nJr.\n\nMay\n\n1917\n\n1 Oct\n\n317\n\nLast previous Paper.\n\nAs ? como: 276. 12. Dec\n\nCricular to Colomer & 22 Lee 17 84/3623 20\n\nHONG KONG\n\n59438\n\nNaturalization.\n\nCWFalk\n\nTHEC\n\nC O\n\n59438\n\nREG 4 DEC17)\n\nQ\n\n2. cert. applied for by As Falk, boon\n\nConsidera front of naturalizor wa\n\nfweds.\n\nwilly\n\nbe properly accorded.\n\nha Bisley\n\nhor Messa\n\nGuidote\n\nThis dufl. has arrwid\n\nadvance of orig.\n\n2\n\nar sad wait for mig before\n\nSetting the soul's sig'.\n\nr\n\n5/12/17\n\nI do not think that\n\nOng, now herewith,\n\nmere General\n\nstatement by a Crove that an applicant for naturalizen\n\nUncled\n\nfor by scorsa well-known resident's\n\nut to be reenarded as\n\noney\n\nSuffic sent\n\nby the Sof S\n\nfor one hit to have\n\nun\n\nExplest statement\n\nNext ubsequent Paper.\n\nGa\n\na\n\n5/225722\n\n-W6, 601-1-17—13,000—W, & B, Ltd. (E 748.)\n\nthat the procedor indicatid by the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 468893, "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": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "page_number": 113, "title": "CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12]", "content_text": "99\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nII. E. THE GOVERNOR--The object of the Bill is not to stop drinking. The Colonial Secretary never said a word about that.\n\nHON. MR. S. H. DODWELL-I grant you it is a measure which is in force at Home, but you know, Sir, as well as I do the reasons for it at Home, and that they do not exist in this Colony.\n\nHON. MR. H. E. POLLOCK-I am convenient or understand hotel-keeping myself, but compradores. This has been stopped with broadly and generally, it is obviously excellent results. I can hardly credit the undesirable to multiply classes of offence presume that these letters, which are written, no doubt, after conference with hotels taking the place of those com- for which men can be hauled up before the managers of the hotels. represent pradores, and if they do, that is the a Police Magistrate and fined, and it is affair and they will suffer for it. During particularly undesirable in regard to a régime, Sir, I maintain that you matter like this, which affects strangers bring in charge of these two big hotels, have done the maximum that any coming within our gates who, whatever Governor could do in the interests of may be thought of residents of this may be taken as reasonably competent sobriety. You have pushed on the Colony, cannot be expected reasonably to judges of how hotel business should be improvement of the roads; you have taken be acquainted with the laws of this carried on and what is a deep interest in and greatly facilitated Colony. And yet, Sir, what do we and convenient in carrying on such business. the making of our golf course at Fanling: We find that under Clause 5 of this Bill, before reading the letters I should make a remark in answer to what the Colonial in fact you have done everything to widen it is positively and solemnly proposed not the scope of healthy outdoor exercise and that every buyer who does anything Secretary, said about the directors of hotels. I have spoken to two of the do away with that cooped-up feeling, wrong, or anything known to be wrong. which in the past must have been a great should be punished. but that a buyer shall they felt in their hearts as the Colonial directors of the Hongkong Hotel, and if incentive to intemperance. Don't belittle be punished because seller does koffie- it now, Sir, with this poor impotent little thing wrong. Clause 5 reads, Every Secretary supposed all I can say is that what they said to me, and the clear and Bill.\n\nperson to whom any liquor is supplied in contravention of this Ordinance shall also definite views they gave me personally, are absolutely at variance with their supposed views as pictured by the lively imagination of the Colonial Secretary. be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.\" If a seller supplies liquor contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance the fault of the seller is, by an extraordinary tour de force, transferred to the shoulders of the possibly innocent buyer coming into the Colony in ignorance of its peculiar law. It is a peculiar law, for it is proposed by Clause 5 of the Bill that a stranger within our gates, assuming that the hotel boy mistakes him and we know that very often there are cases of two people being like one another-for a resident of the hotel and does not ask him for cash-then, Sir, not only is the seller liable but the buyer also is liable to get run in.\" If the seller commits an offence then the buyer has to be run in and will also be guilty of an offence.\n\nWell Sir, understand that the Colonial Secretary does not now wish to raise any point concerned with an attempt to restrict the sale of liquors, and, therefore, it all boils down to that wonderful and very nice brown bag which he produced just now full, apparently, of rather musty-looking chits from which it would appear that one hotel has suffered considerable loss. The Colonial Secretary now bases his plea on the question of protecting the hotel-keeper. Well, Sir, I think that one can safely assume that that particular hotel is not one of the two leading hotels in the City of Victoria, for the reason that I am able to read to the Council, and certainly shall do so, letters of protest from the two largest hotels in the City the Hongkong Hotel and the King Edward Hotel. These hotels certainly do not view this Bill as a boon; they regard it from a quite contrary point of view. I do not pretend\n\nopposed to this Bill, and with reference to the reasons for the Bill, Sir, I certainly understood the Colonial Secretary to make some remarks on the question of promiscuous drinking. I do not see how his words could be interpreted in any other sense than that the Bill would tend to lessen drinking. But, now, Sir, I understand he wishes to disclaim that point. If that is so, we do not wish him to hold to anything which he wishes to disclaim. With regard to the question of the reasons of this Bill, I would point out that in the statement of Objects and Reasons, where we should naturally look for those reasons, the reasons are conspicuously absent. I would also point out, Sir, that that is a very grave and serious omission. Unofficial members ought not to be obliged to wait for the second reading of the Bill before the Government discloses its reasons for the measure. It is not much good, Sir, publishing the Bill for some time previously in the Gazette merely stating the objects aimed at-because any competent lawyer can more or less set the objects aimed at and leaving out all mention of the reasons aimed at. Of course, for every Bill that exists it is desirable there should be good and sufficient reasons. I think every member of this Council will admit that,\" speaking\n\nHON. MR. POLLOCK - Well, with regard to the Hongkong Hotel, I will read their letter, or rather the letter which was written on their behalf by Messrs. Deacon, Harston, their solicitors, on the 27th of last month, with reference to this Bill. I think it is necessary to read the letter because, with all due deference, I think the Colonial Secretary has given us rather a travesty of their views. The letter is as follows:--\n\nHongkong, 27th September, 1917.\n\nSIR,-We have the honour to address you in regard to the above Bill on behalf of our clients, the Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.\n\n1. Our clients are the holders of a Publican's Licence granted by the Hongkong Government and have continuously held such licence or its equivalent for the period of 50 years.\n\n2. The fee payable in respect of such licence at the present time is $3,500 per annum.\n\n3. During the period of 30 years referred to in the preceding paragraph that portion of our clients' business\n\n100\n\nwhich relates to the supply of intoxicating liquor has been very largely carried on by means of what is known as the \"chit system\" whereunder the purchaser is supplied with the liquor desired by him in exchange for an order in writing signed by him.\n\n4. Our clients' experience under the above system-save in a comparatively infinitesimal number of instances-has been such as to enable them to say that the system has worked well and has been a great convenience both to themselves and their customers.\n\n5. The intoxicating liquor supplied by our clients to such of their customers as, if the above Bill be passed, will fall within the purview of its restrictive clauses, is served in the following portions of their premises, viz.:-\n\n(a.) The Public Bar.\n\n(b.) The Private Bar.\n\n(c) The Smoking room Bar.\n\n(d) The Kiosk Lounge.\n\n(e) The Large Lounge.\n\n6. Our clients have quite recently removed the Public Bar into a smaller room, thus reducing the area thereof by approximately 75 per cent. In addition, our clients have also quite recently similarly reduced the area of the Smoking-room Bar.\n\n7. In our clients' opinion the Ordinance now proposed will not only directly inflict needless pecuniary loss upon them in regard to their \"takings, but will also be the cause of their suffering unnecessary inconvenience and hardship, for the reasons (inter alia) that it will be requisite for our clients to provide additional members to their staff in order to \"shroff\" and \"check\" the money which will be received in lieu of \"chits\" as heretofore, and to ensure that no intoxicating liquor is supplied to any customer who is not residing at the Hotel \"-in which respect It must be remembered that the Hotel is patronised not only by permanent residents but also by transient residents and casual visitors.\n\n8. In addition to the inconvenience and hardship entailed upon our clients, as above, it is also the fact that the provisions of the Bill are such as to largely add to the possibility of our clients incurring jeopardy in respect of their hereinbefore mentioned licence.\n\n9. Our clients respectfully submit that no sufficient reason exists to warrant the passing of the proposed Ordinance, and in this relation our clients would observe that this view is supported by the fact that under the\n\n109", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-444 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1917 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475252, "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": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 249, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "245\n\nthe Collin\n\nL\n\nI don't see at present in you\n\nis mil.\n\ngoing to put the Banks\n\nBut yo formulati\n\nsulam fo\n\nin (Codis from\n\nA\n\nScheene if you latte of\n\nwon't forget. but though\n\nLe is an excellent follow he will think\n\npish thick of the Bank of HKing\n\nblomme MM. 19.9\n\nSir G. Fiddes\n\nPlease see my letter to Mr.\n\nLucas of today. It explains how I propose to\n\nproceed in the matter of the Bank's 15\n\nillions.\n\nI will remember about Sir O. Addis. I\n\nthink however we oan work the scheme so as to hit\n\nthe Bank quite lightly and they are interested\n\nin India too). The excess note issue at any\n\nrate must be a nuisance and expense to them.\n\nMr Gleis\n\nArc\n\n20.9.17\n\nI won't continge at this stick,\n\nA key to the la\n\nthough\n\nyou propone to like the Banker elves;\n\nTell it to India at 433 par 13 ; & replace it lessons.\n\nAr. 20.9\n\nSir G. Fiddes\n\nIf we send our (or other people's)\n\ndollars to India and invest the proceeds in\n\nrupee securities by payment there for the seou-\n\nrities, I do not see how we could ask the\n\nGovt. of India to give us more rupees in exchange\n\nfor them than the amount of rupees they will under my proposal to give us more than coin into, or rather their rupee securities\n\nequal in value (at the market price in India\n\nat the time of the sale) to such number of\n\nrupees.\n\nIt is quite clear that under present con-\n\nditions payment in India is quite different\n\nfrom payment elsewhere. I cannot say therefore\n\nat what price in sterling we could be held\n\nto be selling our dollars. It depends on how far\n\nthe artificial measures of the Govt. of India\n\nare succeeding in keeping the rupee in India\n\nbelow its intrinsic value as silver.\n\nTo safeguard ourselves against the\n\ndisadvantages of continued artificiality in\n\nthe currency position of India, I would pro-\n\npose to ask I.O. to give us a guarantee that\n\nwithin two years of the end of the war they will,\n\nif so requested by us, give us in exchange", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 475274, "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": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "page_number": 271, "title": "CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917", "content_text": "the wd be a great inducement for such extension. have this word divert silver from China to India, to the benefit of might be a sound policy hereafter.\n\nLunch extenter beaus A India, and\n\nP.S. But any lokey requiring further It and be accessary to mathe it clean to the Bank from the start that they must not expect any sach extension.\n\nIf we agreed to thong silver might math to India. we going conditions in the interests of ss. Ceylon, but I do not think this wel be dessinth. It wd be better to acgine ment' with The D.D. in a always fugt sucral way Mem b we can.\n\npower of requining the Exteven of the silver within faello leven if recessary for securing fair\n\nMr. Beckett hankers after our obtaining for the Govt. of I. Kong some part of the profit on the suggested loan of silver. I sympathize, Wy and have little doubt that the Bank would be ready to give us a share i But I don't see how we could ask for it unless we gave some sort of quarantee by the . Kong Govt. with regard to the note issue of the Bank left uncovered by the silver withdrawn. Under ay scheme.K. Govt. notes would have been issued to the Bank against silver withdrawn from their reserve.\n\n267\n\n\"thick this Are 14.6.18 scheme is preferable diecity involving the credit of the It. Kong apart from the benefits to mndia, Coscutially to allow fourt the showzar the Banks to deposit the \"promise thing silver coin, & for H. Kons as secrets for them notes mishead of fach the provise superflunes 9.9.14.6.15 Moor Hewin Ion? like strieurs with gen T K\n\nince twent\n\nExpre using Colonies (unless the It. clif our wrings by a change in from of the suffected quarante I ...... le when for have had this. I doin Lay but. but a dul with J.O. is not possible; but the proposal as presented her busines. we discussed in 16 an\n\nas I understand an opiny", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-446 - Others & Individuals - 1917.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476269, "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": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## \n| HEADING | CLASSIFIER OF QUANTITY | TOTAL |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Metals | | |\n| Brass | Piculs | 181 |\n| Brass and Yellow Metal, Bars | Piculs | |\n| Sheets and Plates | Piculs | |\n| Copper | Piculs | 816 |\n| Copper Bars | Piculs | |\n| Iron and Steel, Angles and Tees | | 39 |\n| Iron and Steel Bars | | 234 |\n| Castings | | 1,414 |\n| Cylinders (Empty) | | 11 |\n| Cuttings | | |\n| Hoops | | 29 |\n| Joists | | |\n| Sheets and Plates | | |\n| Briatles | | |\n| Lead, Pig | Piculs | 735 |\n| Lead, (Other) | Piculs | 529 |\n| Tin Slabs and Ingots | Piculs | 30,801 |\n| Tix | | |\n| Zinc Bars and Rods | | 85,146 |\n| Zinc, Sheets and Plates | | 1,561 |\n| Zinc, (Other) or Spelter | | |\n| White Metal | | |\n| Metals Miscellanens | | |\n| Antifriction Metals | | |\n| Antimony Regulus and Crude | | |\n| Pewter | | |\n| Quicksilver (Mercury) | | |\n| Vegetable Oils | | |\n| Coconut Oil | Piculs | 3,958 |\n| Linseed Oil | Piculs | 860 |\n| Peanut Oil | Piculs | 28,982 |\n| Sesamum Oil | Piculs | 758 |\n| War Vegetable | | 1,599 |\n| Wood Oil | Piculs | 216 |\n| Vegetable Oils, (Other) | Piculs | 400 |\n| Animal Oils and Pute | | |\n| Fish Oil | Piculs | 1,676 |\n| Mineral Oils | | |\n| Benzine | Gallons | 29,564 |\n| Kerosive | Gallons | 145,013 |\n| Lubricating Oil | Gallons | 48,005 |\n| Mineral Oils, (Other) | Gallons | 324 |\n| Sundries B | | |\n| Bamboo and Bamboo Ware | Value | $54,799 |\n| Bedstends, (Metal) | Pieces | 622 |\n| (Other) | Pieces | 1,688 |\n| Belting, Machine, (Leather) | Value | $66,645 |\n| Isinglass | | |\n| Instruments, (Musical Automatic) | | 42 |\n| (Musical) | Value | $2,720 |\n| Tubes and Pipes | | $12,176 |\n| and Apparatus, (Scientific) | Value | $16,732 |\n| Sundries C | | |\n| Candles | Piculs | 1,741 |\n| China Ware, (Coarse and Wine) | Value | $926 |\n| Clocks and Watches | Pieces | 27,202 |\n| Cosmetica and Perfumery | Value | $111,089,613 |\n| Cotton Piece Goods | Yards | 1,700,751 |\n| Handkerchiefs | Dozen | 527,308 |\n| Towels | Pieces | 128,175 |\n| Cotton, Raw | Piculs | 9,108 |\n| Covers, (Bed and Table) | Value | $17,905 |\n| Cutlery and Electroplated Ware | Value | $37,772 |\n| Sundries D | | |\n| Diamonds | | |\n| Disinfectants | Value | $2,475 |\n| Sundries E | | |\n| Earthenware | Value | $29,207 |\n| Electrical Accessories | Value | $839,368 |\n| Embroidery | Value | $11,489 |\n| Emery and Similar Abrasives | | |\n| Enamel Ware | Value | $4,195 |\n| Firecrackers | | |\n| Sundries F | | |\n| Felt and Felt Sheathings | | |\n| Feathers, (Duck and Fowl) | Piculs | 714 |\n| (Other kinds) | Piculs | 2,719 |\n| Fire Bricks | | |\n| Clay | | |\n| Flasks, (all kinds) | | |\n| Furniture | Value | $99,103 |\n| Sundries G | | |\n| Gas fittings | | |\n| Printing and Lithographic Materials | | |\n| Sundries H | | |\n| Hair, Human | | |\n| (Other) | | |\n| Hats, (Chinese) | Value | $16,320 |\n| Hemp, (Manila) | Piculs | 3,819 |\n| Hides, Buffalo | Piculs | 24,906 |\n| Horse, Ass, Mule | Piculs | 1,966 |\n| Goat, Sheep | Piculs | 1,683 |\n| Skins, (Other) | | |\n| Hosiery | Dozen | 157,728 |\n| Hops | | 34 |\n| Horns, Buffalo and Dow | Piculs | 635 |\n| Sundries J | | |\n| Jadestones, (Rough) | Value | $3,000 |\n| Jewellery, (Real and Imitation) | Value | $20,173 |\n| Joss Sticks | Piculs | 237 |\n| Jute | Piculs | 4,500 |\n| Sundries L | | |\n| Lace and Trimmings | Value | $20,362 |\n| Tar | Piculs | 3,673 |\n| Turpentine | | 33,549 |\n| Lamps and Lampware, (Other than Electric) | Value | $73,033 |\n| Variabes | Value | $14,687 |\n| Celluloid | Value | $281 |\n| Leather, (Sole Leather) | Piculs | 25,630 |\n| Vermilion prem | Piculs | 28 |\n| Chalk | Piculs | 256 |\n| Imitations | Value | $2,356 |\n| Charts and Maps | Value | $4,689 |\n| Sundries M | | |\n| Matches | Gross | 1,130,807 |\n| Match making materials, (Other than Phosphorus and Chlorate of Potash) | Value | $11,074 |\n| Manures, (Animal and Vegetable) | Piculs | $47,797,60,111 |\n| Matting | | |\n| Mirrors and Looking Glasses | Value | $12,285 |\n| Sundries N | | |\n| Nuts and Seed | | |\n| Coconut Nut | Piculs | 8,807 |\n| Pen Nuts | | 11 |\n| Nuts, (Other) | Piculs | 21,428 |\n| News, (Old) | Piculs | 164,781 |\n| Sundries P | | |\n| Paints | Value | $248,973 |\n| Antifouling | Value | $2,842 |\n| Paints | | 18,890 |\n| Wood Preserving Patents | Value | $360 |\n| Putty | lbs | 17,096 |\n| Paper, (Chinese) | Piculs | 3,181 |\n| Pearls, (Real) | Value | $69,951 |\n| (Foreign) | Value | $5,522 |\n| Photographic Chemicals | Value | $3,423 |\n| Plants and Flowers, (Living) | Value | $10,618 |\n| Sundries R | | |\n| Rags | Piculs | 338 |\n| Rope, (Other than hemp or wire) | Piculs | 67 |\n| Rubber, (Raw) | Piculs | 61 |\n| Manufactured (Not including Tyres and Boots and Shoes) | Value | $16,876 |\n| Waste and Old | Piculs | 513 |\n| Sundries S | | |\n| Salt | Piculs | 141,992 |\n| Sandalwood | Piculs | 3,616 |\n| Scales and Balances | Value | $18,107 |\n| Silk, Raw | Piculs | 24 |\n| Silk Piece Goods | Piculs | 2,416 |\n| Nankeena | | 3,634 |\n| Silk Goods, (unclassified) | Value | $80,357 |\n| Serda | | 1,393 |\n| Aniseed | | 13 |\n| Linseed | | 80 |\n| Melon Seed | | 357 |\n| Pepper | | |\n| Sesamum Seed | | |\n| Seeds, (Other) | | |\n| Soap, Common | Value | $494,643 |\n| Fancy and Toilet | Value | $63,198 |\n| Starch | Piculs | 232 |\n| Stationery | Value | $118,916 |\n| Stone, (not otherwise mentioned) | | 5,247 |\n| Stones, Precious, (not otherwise mentioned) | Value | $2,080 |\n| Sundries T | | |\n| Tar | | |\n| Telegraph and Telephone Castruments | Value | $7,005 |\n| Tin Plates | | |\n| Tallow | | |\n| Tobacco | | |\n| Tobacconists' Sundries | Value | $21,900 |\n| Toilet Requisites | Value | $25,147 |\n| Tools, Hand | Value | $12,779 |\n| Toys and Games | Value | $132,403 |\n| Typewriters and Accessories | Value | $20,414 |\n| Sundries A | | |\n| Asbestos | | |\n| Asphalt Products | Value | $31,743 |\n| Cattings | | 10,372 |\n| Thread, (Gold and Silver Imitation) | Value | $12,720 |\n| Sundries V | | |\n| Vehicles | | |\n| Bicycles and Tricycles | Value | $4,448 |\n| Carriages | | |\n| Motor Cars | Value | $53,783 |\n| Cycles | Value | $8,677 |\n| Vehicles, Miscellaneous | Value | $1,291 |\n| Sundries W | | |\n| Wearing Apparel | | |\n| Boots and shoes, (Leather) | Pairs | 12,637 |\n| (Cloth) | Pairs | 93,280 |\n| (Other) | Pairs | 43,261 |\n| Harberdashery | Value | $296,399 |\n| Hats and Caps, (Foreign) | | 3178,178 |\n| (Other) | | 17,881 |\n| Shirts | Pieces | 20,621 |\n| Singlets | Pieces | 72,551 |\n| Suits, Ready male | | 2,681 |\n| Wearing Apparel, (Other) | Value | $60,041 |\n| Treasure | | |\n| Gold, Bar and Ingots | Value | $1,952,791 |\n| Coin, (British) | Value | $1,602,742 |\n| Silver, Bars and Ingots | Value | $36,955 |\n| Dollars, (Hongkong) | Value | $10,600 |\n| (Mexican) | Value | $18,486 |\n| (Other) | Value | $567,466 |\n| Subsidiary Coins | Value | $3,187,119 |\n| Bank Notes | Value | $305,520 |\n| Copper Cents | Value | $32,953 |\n| Railway Materials | | |\n| Iron and Steel Rails | | 323 |\n| Miscellaneous | | 11 |\n| Arma and Ammunition | | |\n| Cartridges, Sporting | Value | *8 |\n| Gunpowder | | 86,378 |\n| Blasting Powder | Value | $7,816 |\n| Shipe Gear, (not specially mentioned) | | 31 |\n| Gums and Resin | Piculs | 10,357 |\n| Glue | Piculs | 30,550 |\n| Gypsum | Piculs | 4,000 |\n| Grass Cloths | Value | $34,809 |\n| Gunny Cloth | Yards | 93,700 |\n| Ivory | Piculs | 218 |\n| Essential Oils | Piculs | 509 |\n| Books and Music | Value | $39,192 |\n| Bottles, Glass, (Empty) | | 3114,421 |\n| Boxes, (Fancy) | Gross | 2,183 |\n| Braid Llama | | |\n| Straw | | |\n| Buttons, (Brake) | | |\n| Blankets, (Cotton) | Pieces | 160,410 |\n| (Woollen) | Pieces | 18,950 |\n| Woollen Piece Goods | Value | $550,013 |\n| Woollen Goods, (unclassified) | Value | $54,482 |\n| Wax, Paraffin | Piculs | 10,022 |\n| Household Stores | Value | $7,057 |\n| Trunks and Suit Cases | Value | $3,536 |\n| Tyres, (Rubber) | Value | $18,641 |\n| Machines, (Knitting) | | |\n| (Sewing) | Value | $41,612,150,288 |\n| Iron and Steel Wire | | 2,029 |\n| Tool Steel | | |\n| Cork | | 76,419 |\n| Corks | | $1,710 |\n| Hat Fans | Pieces | 52,059 |\n| Kattan Furniture | Value | $6,319 |\n| Mats | | 50,225 |\n| Nets and Netting, (Fishing) | Piculs | 11 |\n| Pigs and Kentledge | | 40,4178 |\n| Pipe Goods | Value | $100 |\n| Pipes and Gutter, (Cast) | | 342 |\n| Plates | | 99,471 |\n| Dacks And Canvas Grey | | 1,050 |\n| Sheet (Black) | | |\n| Coffin Planks | | 5,482 |\n| Tipes and Tubes (Wrought) | | |\n| Iron and Steel, (Corrugated and Plain) | | |\n| Galvanised Sheets | | |\n| Machines, Belting and | | |\n| Shoes | | |\n| Belting | | |\n| Firecrackers | | |\n| Furs | | |\n| | | 3,596,092 |\n\n\n## \nPage 82", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 477422, "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": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12]", "content_text": "## HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nIn the Post Office, one 3rd grade Clerk has been promoted to be Deputy Superintendent, Money Order Office, while the 2nd grade Postal Clerks have been increased by one. Under Other Charges, large savings are shown under the head \"Carriage of Mails,\" due to the higher exchange and the closing of the Siberian Route.\n\n## Kowloon-Canton Railway\n\nIn the Kowloon-Canton Railway, under \"Personal Emoluments,\" it will be noticed that the number of watchmen has been increased, especially in the Locomotive Yard at Hunghom. This latter increase was made at the end of last year, when a number of thefts had occurred, and it is satisfactory to be able to report that since the extra watchmen were engaged and regular beats instituted, there have been no further thefts. Under \"Maintenance of Way-Works and Stations\" and \"Other Charges,\" the cost of the biennial painting of bridges and tunnels is estimated at $3,000, while larger sums than last year have been provided for the repairs to staff quarters and station buildings. The time has arrived when the sleepers originally laid require extensive renewals, for which a sum of $15,000 has been entered.\n\nIn the office of the Locomotive Superintendent, a 3rd grade Draughtsman is required. The Locomotive Superintendent has to work long hours to cope single-handed with the very responsible work of keeping the engines and rolling-stock generally in good running order, and it has become practically impossible for him to continue making the necessary drawings. An extra fitter on daily wages has also been provided for. Under \"Other Charges,\" it is particularly satisfactory to note that, notwithstanding the increase in the cost of most materials, it is hoped to make a small saving on this year's estimates.\n\nUnder \"Traffic Expenses-Personal Emoluments,\" it is proposed to promote five station-masters from the 5th to the 4th grade, as the salaries drawn by them are not considered sufficient remuneration for the long hours they have to work and the responsible nature of their duties.\n\nThe Fanling branch line still fails to pay its way, but it is useful as a feeder to the main line. A small saving is shown in the estimated cost of working the line next year.\n\nUnder \"Special Expenditure,\" a vote of $45,000 is required for the platform awnings. As it is impossible to get materials from England, the work will now be carried into effect locally. The sum of $10,220 is required to complete the wharf opposite the new goods-shed at Kowloon. The siding at Shatin, for which a sum of $6,640 has been provided, is required in order to obviate delays which sometimes occur in dealing with the traffic.\n\nThe greatest economy has been exercised in preparing the estimates of expenditure in connection with the railway compatible with safety and efficiency, and I can only express a hope that events for which we have long waited may before long lead to a more satisfactory return on the very large capital expended.\n\nA reduction of $223,381 is shown in the amount estimated for this year under the heading \"Charge on account of public debt\" due to the higher exchange.\n\nThere are doubtless old residents in this Colony who will note with regret that by his death, the portion of his pension paid by this Colony to the late Mr. Charles Vandeleur Creagh has ceased. He served with distinction, after leaving Hongkong, as Secretary to the Government of Perak, and as Governor of British North Borneo.\n\nThe balance of revenue over expenditure is estimated to amount to $2,206,319, which, added to the estimated balance at the end of this year, makes a total of $6,801,531.\n\nIt is proposed to take the second reading of this bill on the 17th October.\n\n## The Colony's War Contributions\n\nBefore I conclude, I wish to refer, as briefly as possible, to the help rendered by the Colony to His Majesty's Government during the past year in carrying on the war. I will bring the figures given by the Governor in his address last October up to date.\n\nThe amounts invested in War Loans through the British Banks by companies and individuals in the Colony up to the 27th September are as follows:\n| Loan Type | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| British Government, Straits Settlement, Federated Malay States, and Indian Government loans | £5,875,000 |\n| United States War Loans | £177,000 |\n| **Total** | **£6,052,000** |\n\nIn addition to the sum of $5,000,000 presented to His Majesty's Government for war purposes in 1916, and presented this year a sum of £550,000, while the special war assessment produced last year a sum of $504,984 and for the first nine months of this year $756,000, all of which has been paid over to the Imperial Authorities.\n\nUp to the present date, 579 men have proceeded from the Colony on active service with His Majesty's Forces. The year has been marked by the passing of the Military Service Ordinance, imposing one of the first compulsory service outside the Crown Colonies to take this step, and the fact that, after a very careful review by the General Military Service Tribunal of every individual case coming under the Ordinance, comparatively few men have been enrolled, shows that a high percentage of the available man-power of the Colony had already seized the opportunity of joining-up.\n\nThe Hongkong and South China War Savings Association, which was established in January, 1917, had received up to the end of September the sum of $2,696,274 Straits Currency-an increase of $1,674,834 over the sum received on the same date last year-while during the year, the membership of the Association rose from 787 to 1,110. I desire again to record what a great boon this Association has been to the small investor, and to express to the Union Insurance Society of Canton the appreciation felt in this Colony for the valuable services so willingly rendered to the public in this matter.\n\nAt the end of September, 1917, the total sum remitted to various funds in aid of war work and to charities in connection with the war was over £77,000, and the sum expended locally for the working parties and in other ways was $84,030. The former figure has been raised during the year to £142,122-which includes the fine results of \"Our Day,\" St. George's Day, and a new date, namely, \"Kowloon Day\" on January 1st-and the latter figure to $144,568.\n\nI feel sure that you will wish me to give expression to the feelings of intense admiration with which this Colony, in common with the rest of the Empire, has watched during the past three months the magnificent victories won by our armies overseas and those of our gallant Allies.\n\nThe achievements of Marshal Foch, uniting to the best advantage the efforts of the Commanders on all the fronts, will go down to the ages as one of the grandest figures in military history; while out of many fine exploits, the British people will never forget how those brave and devoted volunteer crews added lustre to the records of our Navy by their dauntless courage in sealing up the ports of Ostend and Zeebrugge in the face of a most powerful and merciless fire by the enemy. In some of these great doings, the men from this Colony have had a share.\n\nForty-three... These figures do not include the sum of £31,447 subscribed to the Prince of Wales' Fund up to the 31st December, 1915. The St. Andrew's Society of Hongkong also raised a sum of £7,047 last November, and, I understand, intends this year to surpass all its previous efforts.\n\nThe various parties of ladies working for the Queen Mary's Needle Work Guild and private working parties have continued to send throughout the year large quantities of garments and bandages for the use of the troops on all fronts, and letters of appreciation received bear testimony to the great value of their work.\n\nCorrespondence from all the regular troops in the garrison has continued to be forwarded free of charge through the post, and from the 1st January to the end of September, 195,135 letters, 3,656 postcards, and 7,479 other articles, mostly newspapers, have been transmitted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-450 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1918 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "page_number": 734, "title": "CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918", "content_text": "## \n855\n\n## YHAUKAL\n\ns troops \n«BININ \nVIRTOJ \nbuthern \nBunan. \n•AININ \n-node \nint one se \nocess. \n21/1/18. \nmeiden ypad. \nJahor \n25/1/18. \noupled by Tong's troops. \nHO \npops \n-BLYING \nng's \nwancing. \nTAI \nped. \n. beroe \nkinst lung, \n\n## \nLung's troops have occupied Young Kong and Luychow and are advancing into the interior. Headquarters at On Po.\n\n19/1/18. General Tam has at his disposal in Hurn 43 regiments of Kuangsi and 16 regiments of Canton troops and does not require reinforcements, which are needed elsewhere.\n\n22/1/18. Cantonese troops, aided by Navy destroyed two forts near Young Kong and defeated Lung's troops there on the 17th instant. The cruiser Kwong Yuk has been ordered to patrol the coast near Koi How. Preparations are being made to land Canton troops at Kwang Hoi.\n\nThe Kwangtung Expeditionary Force for Pukien left Canton for Shek Lung on the Canton-Kowloon Railway, there to await orders. General Lung's troops scored a success against the local troops at Fachow, the latter losing 600 men.\n\n26/1/18. Lung's troops are gathering at Sun Hing with a view to attacking Shin King, a strategic position between Kuangtung and Kuangsi.\n\n26/1/18. The expeditionary force against General Lung left Canton to-day, for Yaung Kong. Total strength of forces 43 battalions Infantry, 1 battalion and 1 Company Artillery, 3 Machine-gun Companies. Afterwards to go to Fukien. Cantonese defeat Lung's troops at Yan Ping and are advancing toward Young Kong.\n\nThe fighting is renewed between North and South in Hunan. The Southerners have taken Yo Chow. The Northerners fled leaving much ammunition and arms. Southerners now preparing to advance on Fuchang and Hankow.\n\nGeneral Lu is despatching forces from Lung Chon, Kangai, 10 battalions have gone to Lunchow. 6 battalions are going to Shin Hing.\n\nCaptain Tom Gunn, Chinese aviator and others are returning from America shortly with 6 aeroplanes, 500 lbs. of bombs and material for flying school at Canton.\n\n28/1/18.\n\n30/1/18. Other forces continue against Lung.\n\n30/1/18.\n\n30/1/18. Canton.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-451 - Public Offices - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 478824, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "page_number": 289, "title": "CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918", "content_text": "# AEC 25.8 40664\nTelegram for Sir Henry May, Governor of Hongkong. – August 25th, 1918,\n\nGovernor throughong Sent 6.55 pm\n\nPlease communicate following from Charles Addis Stabb,\n\nOur note (re) were modified, the original issue between mirtiona crocitenlo annulating viakussio mwerder.\n\nuuverēdļas to Questuia by securities, the additional issue would be covered wholly by securities and the crocitento annulating weakmans issue being covered by coin or bullion, leaving the other half to be uncovered, the result would be, estimated at about nine or ten million.\n\nIt is argued that the effect of this plan would be to ease the monetary situation in Hongkong and to reduce the premium on the silver dollar.\n\nI should be glad to know how you would regard this proposal and whether in your opinion, such an arrangement is desirable and to what extent it would be likely to attain the object intended.\n\n## \nLong staff...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 481847, "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": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "page_number": 579, "title": "CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919", "content_text": "fact that fifty tons of morphia were imported into Japan in recent four years, which is irrespective of the amount produced in Japanese laboratories, almost all of which was re-exported to China. If the root of the evil is to be cut out China must demand that Government inspectors be placed in every laboratory in England and Japan; that all export be controlled by limiting the amounts exported to strict medical requirements to be ascertained and stereotyped on an average system; that all chemists in China be required to keep special books for morphin and opium derivates; that everyone dealing in morphia must be registered by the Customs; that the Customs be empowered to inspect all books; and that unauthorized selling or dealing in morphia in China be punished by deportation.\n\nBy such measures and by such measures alone can this monstrous business be stopped. Some years ago an English correspondent in Manchuria showed in a grim letter how morphia after passing through many hands, finally reached the Manchurian labourer. The wretched victim approached a small window, thrust in his hand with the necessary coin, and receive in return a puncture from the needle in the hand. Neither victim nor the violator ever saw one another. The crime was committed like a crime in the night. It was mechanical, stereotyped, as Lord Robert Cecil declared in parliament. At the present there is no such evil as this in China left so flagrantly unchecked. That England should be just as responsible as Japan for a continuance of this traffic is a blot on her fair name which the British Government must remove before a public denunciation is made at the League of Nations.\n\nPatton's CADUTAKE", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483236, "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": "CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4]", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4]", "content_text": "DRAFT.\n\nNo. 84\n\n8 Mar 20.\n\nMr. Jou Stubbs\n\nMr. Rony Rang\n\nMINUTE.\n\nKarman 5/3/20\n\nMr. Reckett\n\nMr. Grindle,\n\nSir H. Lambert.\n\nSir B. Read.\n\nSir G. Fiddes.\n\nCol. Amery.\n\nLord Milner,\n\nI have the receipt...\n\nhow to ack...\n\nIf your desp. No.17...\n\nthe ly 9 Jan...\n\nthat to inform you approve of the proposals for the Coan of $50,000 towards the Copy recently erected in connection with Panes Collen, Hong...\n\nAMERY.\n\nfor 10742/20\n\nAkory.\n\n46\n\n \nPage ...\n\n // assuming there are 3 lines at top and 3 at bottom indicating page number, but the exact number is not clear from the text. If it was, it should be included, e.g., Page 84\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...\n\n...\n\nPage 84", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-460 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487403, "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": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 377, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## Jesselton\n1. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n2. Lee Long.\n3. Yoon Chong Tong.\n4. Ban Hing.\n\n## Others\n7. Kwong Hip King,\n8. Keng Soon Fong,\n\n## Kudat\n4. Yoon Choon Chau.\n\n## Tawau\n1. Wing Ki Cheong.\n1. Kwong Cheong Shing.\n2. Yee Yuen Cheong.\n2. Chit Yuen firm.\n3. Wing Loong firm.\n3. Hook Hoe Guan.\n4. Wing Hing Luong.\n4. Hop Shing Su.\n5. Kheng Hup Hio.\n5. Yuen Kee firm.\n6. Shui Hing firm.\n7. Hing Fat firm.\n\n## List 1\n8. Kwong Yick Loung,\n8. Wing Shing Hing.\n9. Sang Hing firm.\n9. Yong Seng & Co.\n9. Chau Sing Kee.\n10. Ming Long firm.\n10. Ping Fang Chan.\n10. Chun Hoi Kee.\n11. Ming Long Chan.\n11. Yut Loy firm.\n11. Fook Yee Yuen.\n12. Eng Sui Long.\n12. Leung Hoy firm.\n12. Yee Yuen firm.\n13. San Loong Yuen.\n13. Tang Cheong.\n13. Yuen Chun firm.\n14. Shing Fat firm.\n14. Wan Loy Chan.\n14. Chit Mee firm.\n15. Ping Yuen Fung.\n15. Luen Wo firm.\n15. Chit Chun firm.\n16. Yuen Hop firm.\n16. Man Wo firm.\n16. Fook Hing firm.\n17. Loong Tai Chan.\n17. Tai On firm\n17. Kwong Yuen Loung.\n18. Kwong Eng song (Kwong Shing Fung)\n18. Sin Foo Nam,\n18. Shui Loong Hau Kee.\n19. Seng Kee.\n19. Shun Fung firm.\n19. Kwong Wai Yuen.\n20. K. M. Madarsuint.\n20. Sum Shun Shing.\n20. Sang Heng & Co.\n21. Tai Sang Tong,\n21. Pan Heung Kui.\n21. Yut Fung firm.\n22. Lye Cheong Hoe.\n22. Sam See Fan.\n22. Kwong Nam Sing.\n23. Kwong Sam Yick.\n23. Pun Tak Chung.\n23. Yeang Wo firm.\n24. Tsun Hing Loong.\n24. Kwong Wai firm.\n24. Mun Tung Sing.\n25. Yut Sun firm.\n25. Chau Tim Kee.\n\n## List 2\n26. Tsun Keg firm.\n27. Sun Wah Lee.\n28. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce,\n29. Pan Heung Kui.\n30. Kwong Sung firm.\n31. Kwong Sing Long.\n32. Fook Ling Tong.\n33. Fook Kee firm.\n\n## Other Entries\n34. Wing Hang firm.\n35. Kwong Sang Tong.\n36. Kwong Chau Lee.\n37. Kuan Loong firm.\n38. Wing Yuen firm.\n39. Lim Keng Yeam.\n40. Chun Sau Tong.\n41. Kwong Yee Shing.\n\nPage 370", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487420, "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": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## Name of Petitioner\n\n387\n\n9. Sang Hing firm.\n8. Kwong Yick Loong.\n3. Wing Shing Hing.\n34. Wing Hang firm.\n10. Ming Long firm.\n9. Yong Seng & Co.\n9. Chau Sing Kee.\n35. Kwong Sang Tong.\n11. Ming Long Chan.\n10. Ping Fung Chun.\n10. Chan Hai Kee.\n36. Kwong Chau Lee.\n12. Eng Sui Long.\n11. Yut Loy firm.\n11. Fook Yee Yuen.\n37. Kuan Loung firm.\n13. Sun Loong Yuen.\n12. Leung Hoy firm.\n12. Yee Yuen firm.\n38. Wing Yuen firm.\n14. Shing Fat firm.\n12. Tung Cheng\n13. Yuen Chun firm.\n39. Lim Keng Yeam.\n15. Ping Yuen Fang.\n14. Wan Loy Chan.\n14. Chit Mee firm.\n40. Chun Sau Tong.\n16. Yuen Hop firm.\n15. Luen Wo firm.\n15. Chit Chuo firm.\n41. Kwong Yee Shing.\n17. Loong Tai Chan.\n16. Man Wo firm.\n16. Fook Hing firm.\n18. Kwong Eugong (Kwong Shing Fung)\n17. Tai On firm\n17. Kwong Yuen Long.\n19. Seng Kee.\n20. K. M. Madarsuint.\n21. Tai Sang Tong.\n22. Lye Cheong Hoe.\n23. Kwong Sam Yick.\n24. Tsun Hing Loong.\n18. Sin Foo Nam.\n18. Shui Loong Hau Kee.\n\n## Jesselton\n\n1. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n19. Shun Fung firm.\n19. Kwong Wai Yuen.\n2. Lee Long.\n20. Sam Shun Shing.\n20. Sang Heng & Co.\n3. Yoon Chong Tong.\n21. Pan Heung Kui,\n21. Yut Fung firm.\n4. Ban Hing.\n22. Sam See Fan.\n22. Kwong Nam Sing.\n5. Khen Fait.\n23. Pun Tak Chung.\n23. Yeung Wo firm.\n6. Kwong Ng Long,\n25. Yut Sun firm.\nF\n24. Man Tung Sing.\n24. Kwong Wah firm.\n7. Kwong Hip King,\n25. Chau Tin Kee.\n8. Keng Soon Fong.\n\n## Tawau\n\n26. Tsun Kee firm.\n27. Sun Wah Lee.\n28. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce.\n29. Pan Heung Koi.\n30. Kwong Sang firm.\n\n## Kudat\n\n1. Wing Ki Cheong.\n1. Kwong Cheong Shing.\n2. Yee Yuen Cheong.\n2. Chit Yuen firm.\n9. Youn Choon Chan.\n10. Kwun Wo On & Co.\n11. Pu Chi Tung\n3. Wing Loong firm.\n3. Hock Hoe Guan.\n12. Hip Shing firm,\n4. Wing Hing Loong.\n4. Hop Shing Su.\n5. Kheng Hup Hiu.\n5. Yuen Kee firm.\nB1. Kwang Sing Long\n6. Tauo,\n6. Shui Hing firm.\n32. Fook Ling Tong.\n15.\n7. Leung Kee.\n7. Hing Fat firm.\n33. Fook Kee firm.\n\n1. Kong Sang Co.\n14. Nyin Thei Cho,\nMak Chan.\n16. Wong Won Wall.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 489936, "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": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "page_number": 427, "title": "CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921", "content_text": "# 426 \n\n(No. +1.) \n\nSir, \n\n## Enclosure 1 in No. 1. \n\n**Consul Tours to Sir B. Alston.**\n\nI NOTE from the Peking Government Gazette of the 7th July that the President of China has appointed one Wang Ta-chon as inspector of opium poppy cultivation for the province of Fukien.\n\nAmoy, July 16, 1921.\n\nI do not know how much is known of this Wang family in Peking; but I have the honour to mention that the family is a Fukien family, hailing from Chuanchow, on the coast between Amoy and Foochow. Two brothers, Wang Ta-chen and Wang Ta-heng, went to Peking some few years ago to open a banking business. I am informed that Wang Ta-chen obtained a post in the Board of Revenue, and that Wang Ta-heng is the president of the Fukien Guild in Peking.\n\nAbout three months ago Wang Ta-heng arrived in Fukien, having been appointed from Peking to make an inspection of opium poppy cultivation in the province. I have seen no record of any report by Wang Ta-heng; my despatch No. 20 of the 21st March, 1921, gave you the local position of opium cultivation. If the common talk regarding Wang Ta-heng's procedure is not wholly untrue, it would be interesting to see whatever report was rendered by Wang Ta-heng to his superiors at Peking. It is said that he made much personal profit out of his official tour; his system being to mulct the cultivators in \"hush money,\" and then to bribe the local civil and military authorities; the handsome balance then falls into the pocket of the inspector, and everybody is pleased.\n\nAn inspection of Wang Ta-heng's report, if any exists, would throw light on the truth or falsity of the current reports concerning him; but in any case the present selection of his brother as his successor in the inspection would seem particularly unsuitable.\n\nI have, &c.\n\nPage 363\n\n## FROM \n## DATE \n10 Oct \n11 OCT 211 \n\n**FOR CIRCULATION :—** \n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Mr. ... |\n| Allr. Diton |\n| Mr. ... |\n| Mr. Grindle |\n| Sir H. Lambert |\n| Sir H. Read |\n| Sir G. Fiddes |\n| Mr. Wood |\n| Mr. Churchill |\n\n**Previous Paper** \n**SUBJECT** \nSurveys deposited in Hongkong Shanghai Joint's Bank by T. I. Petersen. I copy note from Chargé d'Aff. requesting clean ...\n\n**Requests obs...**\n\n## Enclosure 2 in No. 1. \n\n**R. G. TOURS.**\n\n**(Translation.) Sir,**\n\n**Chinese Students' Anti-Opium Association to Sir B. Alston.**\n\nJuly 22, 1921.\n\nCHINA'S slackness in prohibiting opium has reached the extreme point, and we are all moved to shame on this account.\n\nWe have read the note sent by you to the Wai-chiao Pu the other day on the subject of trade in and cultivation of opium, giving full details; the facts are clear and cannot be denied. Our Government's one idea is to make a pretence at dealing with the matter. Owing to Wellington Koo's telegram and consequent fear that the League of Nations Committee would delegate persons to investigate with the result that present conditions would be known to the world, the Government decided itself to appoint commissioners to investigate. But there are fifteen provinces and territories in which there is opium, and they have only appointed commissioners for five of these. Their object is that if it be said \"delegates should be appointed,\" they can say \"we have appointed delegates;\" if it be said \"investigation should be carried out,\" they can say \"investigation is being carried out.\"\n\nThe five commissioners who have been appointed should have gone to their respective provinces before the opium harvest. But delay succeeds delay, until it looks as though the investigation would only be carried out after the harvest had been completed. The citizens of China are utterly ashamed of the attitude so disclosed, and we hope that you will press home your warnings, so that perhaps the Government may yet repent.\n\nAs regards provinces other than the five for which commissioners have been appointed there is much traffic in and cultivation of opium, and they should also be closely inspected. We hope that you will not be persuaded to allow the matter to be dropped or slurred over.\n\n## Subsequent Paper \n`T693/22` \n`(0) (377909) WL. 4710/En Gp. 163` \n`40000 5-21 W & S Ltd.`\n\n## MINUTES \nA sudden discussion \n... fight to put ... \nium plan \nArt. 113 \nIn the late of \nGerman Nationality \n4th Treaty \nTehen ( `10/50805/1` \nHK \nOn \n`50805`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-471 - Public Offices - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490791, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 484, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "# HEALTH COMMISSION, SINGAPORE COUNCIL TO BE FORMED.\n\nUnder the auspices of the N.C.C.V.D. a conference was held, by kind permission of His Excellency, yesterday at Government House. His Excellency presided and the meeting was well attended by representatives of the Government Departments concerned in the question of public health, of organisations, etc.\n\nHis Excellency briefly introduced the two speakers, Mrs. C. Neville Rolfe, O.B.E. and Rupert Hallam, members of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases.\n\nMrs. Rolfe, in the course of her address, said that the problem of venereal disease should be considered entirely as a public health question. She stated that she could unhesitatingly say that the lines of administration which had proved most successful were in those countries which had progressed on these lines. There were many steps that could be taken in any community that had a civic conscience to reduce the social evils, but there were no steps that could be taken usefully by means of legislation to combat venereal disease. If the issue is once confused we shall defeat our object. In speaking of legislation, the speaker pointed out that in the legislation of New Zealand a clause directed medical practitioners to issue certificates of cure or non-infectivity. This was a great danger to public health, and that clause had to be repealed, and it has now been made an offence to give certificates of that nature, a large number of those given were used for purposes of advertisement by women in a position to spread infection to the detriment of public health. She had reason to believe that the Colony, following the example of the progressive nations of the world, was taking steps to provide facilities for free diagnosis and treatment. It was insufficient, however, to provide facilities for treatment unless the provision of these facilities was accompanied by a campaign of public enlightenment in order that the best use might be made of those facilities. She therefore wanted to suggest to those present the advisability of strengthening the hands of the administration by providing the machinery that will enable all parts of the population to be reached. The difficulties encountered in such a campaign made it necessary for any organisation established to be of a semi-official character.\n\nMrs. Rolfe then described the organisation and work of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, in Great Britain, showing how the movement had progressed, and urged that a Singapore Council for Combating Venereal Diseases should be established, linked up with the organisation at home, the aims and objects of which would be similar. The Dominion and Colonial Councils thus formed were completely autonomous, the only condition being that they did not publish literature antagonistic to the policy of the Council. The problems were different in each place and could only be dealt with by those with a knowledge of local conditions. In Singapore, there were special problems and very special difficulties that would have to be met. On the educational side, the result of the conferences she had had the privilege of holding with the educationalists, showed that there was much to be done on existing educational lines, on the lines of co-operation between parents and teachers in the education of the rising generation in the knowledge of the facts of life, by the introduction of nature study into the schools and by the extension of the syllabus of the Training College for Teachers to include information on this subject. There were certain aspects of the question, certain sides of social work that need stimulating, which a Council is in the position of being able to draw the attention of the Government Departments to, and also they can render services, if they are efficient, to those Departments in the same way as the National Council at home.\n\nBesides considering the formation of a local Council, she also urged their considering an enquiry, quite separate from anything to do with the formation of a local Council, into such social conditions as lead to an artificial stimulus of the demand for promiscuity.\n\nDr. Hallam spoke in support of the proposal and dwelt on the excellent results achieved at Home, emphasising the extraordinary decrease in the disease recorded, and in some of the large towns, the reduction in the numbers receiving treatment for the first time, due to the excellent facilities provided and to the spread of knowledge among the community as a whole.\n\nHis Excellency the Governor stated he considered the aims and objects of the Council were of common interest and applicable to all countries. He moved that those present should form a Council for combating venereal disease, stating that he and Lady Guillemard were willing to act as Presidents. Steps were being taken to appoint Vice-Presidents and to invite representatives of organisations and prominent individuals in Singapore to become members of the Council.\n\nDr. Dexter Allen and Capt. Hacker, R.A.M.C. were appointed temporary Hon. Secretaries.\n\nThe resolution to form a Council in Singapore was seconded by Dr. Lim Boon Keng, the proceedings terminating with votes of thanks to the speakers.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490796, "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": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "## VENEREAL DISEASE\n\n### Proposed Commission of Inquiry for Malaya\n\nMalaya branch of the British Medical Association had a conference on the instant, in the Municipal Council chamber with the Commissioners of the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease.\n\nMalcolm Watson, president of the Malayan branch of the Association, presided over the gathering numbering 37, in his opening address welcomed the presence of the Commissioners and impressed on them the importance of venereal disease on the community at large.\n\nDr. Hallam put before the meeting the objects of the Commission, viz.:-Conference with the local authorities in the Eastern ports with regard to the best measures which might be undertaken to reduce the incidence of venereal disease. He reminded the members of the fact that the question of the provision of free diagnosis and treatment for the seafaring population of all nations was to be discussed at the conference of the health section of the League of Nations to be held at Geneva in February, 1921. Dr. Hallam then outlined the recommendations which have been approved by the National Council for Combating Venereal Disease, namely: the provision of free diagnosis, the provision of free treatment, early treatment centres, and a campaign of education of the general public. He pointed out that on matters of prophylaxis and prostitution, personal opinion and the opinion of the Society were in favour of early treatment rather than personal prophylaxis, and suppression rather than segregation. In support of these views, he quoted a letter by Colonel Harrison on the results of the experiences with prophylactic packets in Rhine Army and he also drew attention to Flexner's views on the subject. He pointed out that in all countries where a public health policy was adopted, very active measures were being taken to provide modern treatment for venereal diseases and also the segregation of prostitutes. He cited the fact that even in Japan, the public health department were in favour of suppressing brothels, and cited as an instance the improvement in one of the counties of Japan in which the law had been already enforced.\n\nDr. Hallam realised that the conditions in these Far Eastern ports differed considerably from those found in Europe, nevertheless he wished to impress on the members of the medical profession here that the views of many experts were opposed to recognised methods, and that these views were supported by many recorded facts which were worthy of the most profound consideration before coming to a final opinion. In conclusion, he asked for the approval of the members of the Association in giving approval to the proposals mentioned above.\n\n### Position in Malaya\n\nDr. Galloway in his reply gave full approval to the establishment of free diagnosis and free treatment, and although approving of a campaign of education of the general public in principle, he was of opinion that little could be done on that score in Singapore. He then proceeded to point out the great divergence which existed between the actuality as existing here and the commonly accepted ideals, which were held on this subject in civilised countries. He laid stress on the fact that the social and economical conditions in the Straits and F.M.S. were probably unique and that it was futile to attempt to apply methods based on evidence or experience gained in other countries to the conditions which obtained here. He urged that the only way by which any useful measure could be evolved to deal with the evil was by a careful study of the local conditions and, to that end, he moved the resolution:-\"That this Association do memorialise the Government of the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States to cause full inquiry to be made as to (a) the prevalence of venereal disease, (b) the cause of that prevalence, (c) means of treatment, (d) means of prevention, and (e) the subject of prostitution generally.\"\n\nDr. Rattray, in seconding Dr. Galloway's proposal, stated that for the past year he had been making efforts to establish a kindred society in Malaya, viz., the S.P.V.D. These efforts had been crowned with success and his society is established here on a sound foundation. Dr. Rattray considered that his society went a necessary step further than the N.C.C.V.D., namely, in giving greater prominence to the value of disinfectants as a preventative of venereal disease.\n\nDr. Hoops joined the discussion and thought that the seafaring population should receive greater attention. He gave his experiences of the value of anti-venereal clinics which he had established in Kedah.\n\nDr. Hacker gave an account of his experiences with the Garrison in Singapore. He was in favour of early treatment.\n\nIn the subsequent discussion, Dr. Candrick, Dr. Glass, Dr. Dawson, and Dr. van Dort joined.\n\nDr. Hallam replied briefly and the proceedings were terminated by the unanimous adoption of Dr. Galloway's resolution.\n\nThe council and members of the Malaya branch of the British Medical Association entertained the Commissioners to dinner at the Europe Hotel at night. There were present:-Dr. Malcolm Watson (President, Malaya branch B.M.A.), Mrs. Rolfe, Miss Grant, Dr. Hallam (Commissioners of N.C.C.V.D.), Mr. Haynes (Secretary to the High Commissioner, Malay States), Mrs. Haynes, Dr. Hoops, Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish, Dr. and Mrs. Brooke, Dr. Lim Boon Keng, Dr. Hunter, Dr. Fry, Dr. and Mrs. Taylor, Dr. Dexter Allen, Dr. and Mrs. Black, Dr. and Mrs. Rattray, Dr. Stookes, Dr. Scharff (hon. sec. Malayan Branch, British Medical Association), Dr. Gray, Dr. Wilson, Dr. Leicester, Dr. Van Dort, Dr. Orahay, Dr. Conrad, Dr. Weerekoon, Dr. Murison, Dr. Gibbs, Dr. Hoahing, Dr. Glass, Dr. Webster, Dr. Fitzgerald, Dr. H. L. H. Lim, Dr. Lim Han Hoe, Dr. McGregor, Captain Hacker, Dr. Noel Clark, Mr. Quentzer, Dr. P. L. Loh, Dr. Jap, Dr. Sayers, Dr. Dawson, and Dr. Macalister.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 491346, "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": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "page_number": 339, "title": "CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921", "content_text": "INTERIOR OF POKFULUM DAIRY\n\nCOWBOYS.\n\n36\n\nM\n\nunder the most sanitary conditions. An up-to-date sterilizing plant is also installed by which milk can be either pasteurised or sterilized—truly a great boon where milk is required for children or invalids, or for a long sea voyage. Sour milk, famous for its remedial qualities in all complaints of the digestive organs, is also produced. A well-equipped butter room deals with all surplus cream. After being carefully graded and pasteurised it is made into butter of either first or second grade.\n\nNotwithstanding the special difficulties incidental to the climate of Hong Kong, so far as cheesemaking is concerned, this branch of dairying also is carried on. Both Coulommier and French Cheese, on the lines of Port du Salut, are produced, although the temperatures required for curing have to be regulated by artificial means. Clotted or Devonshire Cream, Cottage Cheese, and all other dairy delicacies are produced as occasion demands. In the laboratory or test room, samples of milk, cream, etc., are subjected to the severest tests, not only for butter fat but also for purity, and discovery of objectionable micro-organisms. Here a check is kept which enables the Company to guard against adulteration and secure the cleanliness of the whole of the large milk supply from the cow-shed to the customer.\n\nDAIRY REGULATIONS.\n\nThe following are the dairy regulations:\n\nAll dairymen and milk distributors must wash their hands upon entering the Dairy premises and before proceeding to their various duties; washstands, water, soap and towels are provided for that purpose.\n\nAll employed upon the Dairy premises must be clean in dress and person at all times, clean white suits being provided for them by the Company.\n\nAll milking utensils to be rinsed in clean water, then:\n\n1. Washed in hot soda-water.\n\n2. Washed in clean hot water.\n\n3. Placed in steam chamber to be sterilized for half an hour.\n\nAll bottles on being returned by the milk distributors are to be subjected to the following routine:\n\n1. Rinsed in clean luke-warm water.\n\n2. Washed in hot soda-water with revolving machine brush.\n\n3. Washed in lime-water.\n\n4. Washed in clean water.\n\n5. Placed in steam chamber for half-an-hour at a temperature of 190 degrees.\n\n37\n\n335", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-473 - Individuals - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492105, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922.\n\nHONGKONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nINTERESTING DISCUSSION ON CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION. RENTS RESTRICTION ORDINANCE TO BE CONTINUED.\n\nA meeting of the Legislative Council was held in the Council Chamber on March 23rd. There were present:- His EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR (Sir REGINALD EDWARD Stubbs, K.C.M.G.). HIS EXCELLENCY THE GENERAL OFFICER COMMANDING THE TROOPS (Major-General Sir JOHN FOWLER, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O.).\n\nHon. Mr. CLAUD SEVERN, C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary). Hon. Mr. C. Mcl. MESSER, C.B.E. (Colonial Treasurer). Hon Mr. E. R. HALLIFAX, O.B.E. (Secretary for Chinese Affairs). Hon. Mr. E. A. IRVING (Director of Education). Hon. Mr. T. L. PERKINS (Director of Public Works).\n\nHon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C. Hon. Mr. LAU CHU-PAK. Hon. E. V. D. PARR. Hon. Mr. A. G. STEPHEN. Hon. Mr. A. O. LANG. Hon. Mr. CHOW SHOU-SON.\n\nABSENT. Hon. Mr. J. H. KEMP, C.B.E., K.C. (Attorney-General).\n\nTHE MINUTES. The minutes of the last meeting were approved and signed by the President.\n\nPAPERS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor laid upon the table an Order made by the Governor-in-Council under section 4 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, dated the 16th day of March, 1922.\n\nFINANCE. The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor, laid upon the table Finance Minutes Nos. 18 and 19 and moved that they be referred to the Finance Committee.\n\nThe motion was agreed to. The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of H.E. the Governor laid upon the table the Report of the Finance Committee (No. 3) and moved that it be adopted. The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and the motion was agreed to.\n\nHONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK AMENDMENT ORDINANCE. The Hon. Mr. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C., who, according to the Agenda, was to move the first reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance, 1866, asked His Excellency's permission for the Hon. Mr. PARR to do so.\n\nPermission having been granted, The Hon. Mr. PARR said: I beg to move the first reading of a Bill intituled An Ordinance to amend the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance, 1866. The objects of this bill are:- (a) To give the Corporation power to increase its capital, with the consent of the Governor, up to $60,000,000. The present limit is $20,000,000.\n\n(b) To increase the limit of the ordinary note issue from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000. (c) To revise the requirements of the law as to the security to be held against the ordinary note issue. (d) To enable the Corporation to keep at certain places outside the Colony part of the security held against the excess note issue.\n\n2.-Under the existing law the excess note issue must be fully covered by coin or bullion, under the control of custodians independent of the Corporation, and this will be so under the new Ordinance also. In future, however, the excess note issue will mean any issue in excess of $20,000,000 instead of $15,000,000 as at present.\n\n3. The present requirements of the law as to the security to be held against the ordinary note issue are that coins securities approved by the Secretary of State must be kept with the Crown Agents, or with trustees appointed by the Secretary of State, equal in value to of the first $10,000,000 of the issue, and that the remaining $5,000,000 of the issue must be fully covered by such coin or securities, so deposited. The new Ordinance will provide simply that of the ordinary issue, which issue will in future amount to $20,000,000, must be so covered.\n\n4. The comparison between the existing law and the new Ordinance can also be made in the following way, as regards the first $20,000,000 of the total issue. Security under present law:- of $10,000,000 in coin or securities. $5,000,000 in coin or securities. $5,000,000 in coin or bullion. Security under new Ordinance: of $20,000,000 in coin or securities.\n\nIt will thus be seen that the value of the security will not be altered, but that the Corporation will be relieved from the necessity of keeping coin or bullion against any part of the first $20,000,000 of the total note issue.\n\n5.-It will be noted that one provision disappears in the proposed new section 13, i.e., the requirement of the latter part of the present section 13 (1), that the Corporation must keep at each of its establishments an amount of coin or bullion equal in value to one-third at least of the notes issued from such establishment and actually in circulation. It is considered that this may be left to the discretion of the Corporation.\n\n6.--Sub-section (4) of section 13 will enable the Corporation, subject in all respects to the approval of the Governor, to keep, in places outside the Colony where notes may be issued by the Corporation, part of the excess note issue security, which must, of course, be in coin or bullion.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. LANG: I beg to second it. The first reading was agreed to.\n\nSUPREME COURT (O.J.) EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. H.E. THE GOVERNOR: The Attorney-General, unfortunately, is detained at another place; I will therefore ask the Colonial Secretary to move the second reading of this Bill.\n\nThe COLONIAL SECRETARY : I beg to move the second reading of the Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to make temporary provision for the appointment of solicitors to appear in the Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in certain emergencies.\"\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was agreed to. The Bill passed through Committee without amendment and on the Council resuming, The COLONIAL SECRETARY moved that the Bill be read a third time. The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded. The third reading was agreed to, and the Bill accordingly passed into law.\n\nMERCHANT SHIPPING (ALIENS EMPLOYMENT) ORDINANCE. The COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of the Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to restrict the employment of aliens and of former enemy aliens on certain British ships registered in the Colony of Hongkong.\"\n\nThe COLONIAL TREASURER seconded. The second reading was passed, and the Bill was then carried through the further stages and passed into law.\n\nCROWN LANDS RESUMPTION ORDINANCE. The COLONIAL SECRETARY moved the second reading of the Bill intituled \"An Ordinance to amend the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1821.\" He said: With regard to this Bill, I would like to add to what the Attorney-General said in moving the first reading, that in respect to representations which have been made relating to Clause 2 (e), in which the fear has been expressed that holders of lands under permit and settlers, where they have no guarantee that their titles would be renewed may be deprived of their land and buildings without proper compensation-on behalf of the Government I would like to say that these cases would be treated in the same equitable manner always been treated in this Colony, and any compensation in respect of their purely temporary rights will be on an adequate and equitable basis.\n\nPage 303\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT would allow of an expansion of the Bank's currency and capital and the keeping of reserves in offices where notes are issued. With regard to the increase of the nominal capital from $20,000,000 to $30,000,000, the former nominal capital has been fully paid up and the Bank wishes to take Power to raise further capital as and when it is required.\n\nWith these few remarks I beg to move the first reading of the Bill. The Hon. Mr. LANG: I beg to second it.\n\nPage 24", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492109, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "March 25th, 1922.]\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\n6 p.m. The Government regretted its inability to interfere” but the Committee still felt that in the case of drugs urgently needed at night Kowloon was very recent. The Committee are pleased that the Association has been of practical use to the residents of Kowloon during the strike by attending to the sale of meat, bread and milk at the depot at the Kowloon Railway Station, which was arranged by the Government, and I take this opportunity to convey the Association’s thanks to the many gentlemen who volunteered for the work.\n\nThe Committee has received many complaints as to the indifferent water supply during certain hours of the day and of having to pay excess water charges for nothing more substantial than air registered by the meters. An improvement had been promised by the Government in the course of the next four months; an additional main was to be laid in Tai-koo-tsui Road.\n\nA question which had exercised the minds of the Committee was the proximity of the proposed Cemetery near Ho Mun Tin to the projected Kowloon Hospital. It was felt that it would be a pity if the Government opened up this particular area as a cemetery and that the locality should be reserved for the erection of dwelling houses. Representations had been made to the authorities in this sense.\n\nDISCUSSION BY THE MEETING.\n\nDISCRIMINATION BETWEEN PASSENGERS.\n\nMr. ANDERSON asked as to the conduct of the motor ‘bus service. He said the ‘buses did not seem to keep to scheduled times or routes; further, coolies in working clothes, so long as they could afford to pay ten cents, were allowed to take first-class seats in cars. It was objectionable to have people in very dirty clothes and smoking bad cigarettes sitting next to one on the ‘buses.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said that as regards routes and times the Association might be able to help by writing to the Company, but the evasion of coolies would present a lot of difficulties. If a man could pay his ten cents he did not see how he could be prevented from riding.\n\nMr. G. P. CURRY agreed with the Chairman and remarked that passengers could not very well be subjected to the scrutiny of some artist in dress before they were allowed to travel. If people wished to take advantage of a very cheap method of transport they must put up with their neighbours on the ‘buses. He would deprecate the Association raising such a question.\n\nThe report and accounts were then adopted.\n\nTHE CEMETERY SITE.\n\nFACILITIES FOR RECREATION.\n\nEfforts to secure a Recreation Ground in Kowloon had not, so far, brought any result. An enquiry as to land for a football ground had been received and the incoming Committee would take up the matter with the Government. Plenty of land was available and a small expenditure would provide a suitable field. In the matter of taxation, Kowloon was not given preferential treatment and, although Hongkong was better served in regard to open spaces near the town, that was no reason why the mistake should be repeated in the Peninsula. Land sales as a means of producing revenue should not be carried out to the extent of sacrificing the “lungs” of a growing town, and if money must be found why not have recourse to a loan which is the usual expedient followed by every Government or Municipality in the world to finance large public works?\n\nMr. CURRY: I think we had better concentrate on the cemetery, the hospital scheme being so far away. Perhaps we shall all be dead before it is settled.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said that the Government would not reconsider its decision on the cemetery. The Chairman also suggested that a few thousand dollars in subsidies to military bands would result in a great boon to the residents of the Peninsula and the Island.\n\nCONSTITUTIONAL REFORM.\n\nThe Chairman continued: Your Committee have not lost sight of the Constitutional Reform question. At a time when a greater measure of self-government is being granted to other Crown Colonies, Hongkong seems to have been left far behind. Colonies of far less commercial importance, and greater military importance, if military importance be a disability as has been alleged, have been granted popular forms of Government, and we trust the day is not far distant when the Colony of Hongkong will enjoy the same benefits.\n\nThe Chairman expressed the Committee’s deep regret at the death of the late Mr. E. J. Noronha; he could personally testify to the great amount of work Mr. Noronha did for the Association. He also recorded the resignation by Mr. W. Jackson of the office of hon. secretary and treasurer.\n\nMr. Jackson held the post from the inception of the Association; he was a hard worker and his place would be difficult to fill.\n\nTHE STRIKE.\n\nThe annual meeting having been postponed in consequence of the strike, the Chairman was able to include the following reference to the Association’s share in coping with the troubles of that period.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said they would be glad to hear members’ views with regard to the hospital question.\n\nthe cemetery question, but Mr. F. P. de V. SOARES said he thought the Government would move the cemetery.\n\nMr. T. W. ROBERTSON thought that the site of the cemetery-just behind King’s Park-would make a very good recreation ground or building site. The cemetery should be miles further away.\n\nMr. W. J. STOKES agreed. Kowloon was expanding so fast that, in a very few years, the proposed cemetery site would be in the middle of the town.\n\nMr. SOARES: It is right in the centre of a town now.\n\nMr. STOKES: It is far more valuable as a building site.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said that although the Government had absolutely declined to reconsider their decision he thought the views of the meeting should be communicated to the authorities, and this was agreed to.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN mentioned that there was a possibility of the Rents Ordinance being abrogated and the Association intended to take strong action in favour of its continuance.\n\nMr. R. E. GUNN asked if the Rents Ordinance was working hardship as the landlords. If so, landlords might be expected to raise rents if the Ordinance was abrogated. The prime motive was to keep the landlords from raising the rents. If there was no danger of the landlords raising rents the Ordinance was not hurting them but, added Mr. Gunn, “if it is hurting them, we want it.”(Laughter.) If the Government think the rent fixed by the Ordinance is the right return for the landlords’ money it should be continued indefinitely.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN said that the best test as to whether the Ordinance was needed was whether all houses were occupied. When some houses were empty the Ordinance might be abrogated. At present, although new buildings were going up, they were all occupied immediately.\n\nELECTION OF OFFICERS.\n\nThe meeting approved representations being made to the Government in favour of the continuance of the Ordinance.\n\nThe election of officers was then proceeded with. Mr. Hicks proposed that Mr. C. A. da Roza be appointed President and remarked on the hard work that Mr. da Roza had put in as Vice-President and Acting-Secretary. Mr. JOHNSON seconded and the resolution was carried with applause.\n\nMr. B. WYLIE was elected Vice-President on the motion of Mr. PURVES, seconded by Mr. SHROFF.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN proposed that Mr. A. Morley be elected hon. secretary. Mr. Stokes seconded and it was carried. Mr. F. P. Shroff was elected hon. treasurer.\n\nThe following were appointed to the committee: Dr. Thomas, Dr. H. Balean, the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, Messrs. T. A. Martin, A. G. Hewlett, A. Hicks, P. V. Botelho, J. Johnstone, R. Packham, J. Parsons, T. Petrie, S. Hidden, W. J. Stokes, F. P. de V. Soares, R. E. Gunn, D. A. Purves and J. E. Anderson.\n\nTHE SERVANTS’ PROBLEM.\n\nThe CHAIRMAN mentioned that the notice convening the meeting announced that the servants’ problem would come up for discussion. He said there were many rumours, but nothing definite, as to the proposed attitude of the servants. Personally, he thought that what they heard were only rumours but it was best to be prepared and he invited members to express their views.\n\nThe Peak residents were forming an association very much on the lines of theirs, and, he believed, intended to take up the servant question. If so the K.R.A. should join forces, as this question affected the whole Colony, and no section could take independent action.\n\nMr. A. MORLEY thought that the time was inopportune; it would be better to “let things die down a bit.” No good could be done by discussing the problem in public. As to paying servants during the period they went on strike, Mr. Morley suggested that this was purely an individual matter. If servants had behaved reasonably well, in leaving things in good order and coming back promptly, it was open to employers to pay them. He hoped the Association would not lend itself to anything in the nature of reprisals. In some people’s minds there was an idea that we should get our own back but the Association should be discreet in such a matter. The registration of servants had been found in Shanghai not to be workable because of solid opposition by the servants. The policy savoured of autocratic restriction and he did not think the Government would give its support. As far as he could see, the servant problem did not exist.\n\nMr. W. J. STOKES agreed. No attack had been made and, until it had been, the Association had nothing to act upon. Preparations could not be made by a public meeting; it must be left to a committee.\n\nThe subject then dropped.\n\nVOTES OF THANKS.\n\nA vote of thanks to Mr. Robertson, who is shortly leaving the Colony on retirement, was proposed by the Chairman who said the Association was grateful to Mr. Robertson for many years of splendid service. Thanks were also accorded to the retiring President, Captain Wheeler, and to the Chairman for his work during the strike.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492276, "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": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7]", "content_text": "September 3rd, 1921.]\n\nREPUBLICANISM” IN CHINA.\n\nAFTER TEN YEARS.\n\nBY A DWELLER IN THE INTERIOR.]\n\nIV. THE BUSINESS MAN.\n\nCommerce\n\nThe business man of Kwangtung, whether he be engaged in large business or in small, or in manufacture by old or new methods, contrives, in spite of the great military incubus upon him, to maintain his importance. Let it be stated at the outset, that conditions are very different for two men, one of whom is in Canton and the other in the country. The man in Canton has opportunities and problems bound up with the ever-growing closeness of intercourse with \"the West,\" which are not yet felt further away. Easy access to Hongkong is a gain in many ways, but it introduces new conditions of trade, and inevitably a rise in the scale of costs. The existence of the foreign-managed Chinese Maritime Customs is a great boon to merchants in the treaty-ports, for they are thus enabled to evade, legitimately, the hampering likin system, which lies heavily upon the business man of the interior.\n\nAn example of this is the fact that a man in the treaty port of Samshui with goods to ship to Nanning (another treaty port) finds it cheaper to load his goods on the down-river steamer to Hongkong, and pay the export Customs dues, having his goods remain on the ship to pass through Samshui on the return journey, be transhipped at Wuchow, and so to Nanning, there paying the import Customs dues, rather than to send the goods direct to Nanning up-river. By the visit of the goods to Hongkong they become technically \"exported\" and \"imported\" goods, and are thus dealt with by the Maritime Customs under foreign control, instead of passing through the rapacious hands of the likin men.\n\nThe merchant more than saves the extra cost of transport for the double journey between Samshui and Hongkong.\n\nBut the man in the country, not in a treaty port, has other difficulties besides the irritating exactions of the likin system. Labour is cheaper, and there are not yet the same organised labour arrangements to hamper manufacturers and merchants. Businesses are not on the same large scale, e.g., General Stores such as those on the Bund at Canton do not exist. But transportation is generally by river, and slow, though a few towns in the province are touched by railways. The trader's difficulties arise very largely, in the interior, from the unspeakably bad arrangements of so-called Government. (Be it remembered this article does not deal with Canton or the treaty ports). A merchant commences a line of business, and after a while he suddenly finds that some petty military officer thinks a \"squeeze\" possible, and so demands a royalty on every item dealt with, so, of course, the price must go up to his customers, while possibly a rival house remains free from the imposition.\n\nOr a large contract is let for labour, and one fine day hardly any of the workmen appear. It turns out that a political move is in the air, and the authorities are impressing as porters every man who dares to show himself in the streets. This condition of affairs may last for two or three weeks.\n\nCHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n\nAnother effect of the gross misgovernment is in the prevalence of robber bands who hold the country roads and rivers in their grasp, and either rob or blackmail every party and boat that ventures to pass. Small wonder that communication is uncertain.\n\nA principle upon which recent officials work would seem to be this: to encourage men to commence business and allow them more or less to escape squeezing until the early financial difficulties are overcome and a good return is beginning. By this time the capital has been sunk and the man or the firm is committed to the scheme. Now comes Mr. General or Mr. Magistrate to begin his \"squeeze,\" and gradually to increase it until the unfortunate merchant is obliged to close down and cut his loss.\n\nAs long as a business is carried on along the old-fashioned family idea, where the managers and employés are all connected with the same clan, there is freedom from one great source of risk. All those in the firm have the same interest in seeing prosperity, for all benefit by it. But when it comes to partnership with outside folk, to lending money to other peoples' businesses, then enters in the immovable innate Chinese selfishness.\n\nTwo restaurants were approached for their terms to provide a feast on private premises. A offered a very good menu and made no bones about the difficulty of working at a distance. B offered a much inferior menu and seemed to object to catering anywhere but at their own place. A's price was 20 per cent. below B's, although B was established and presumably anxious to build up a business. The great difference was explained as being due to the fact that B was a kind of joint stock business, while A was a family business. All the employés at A would gain by increased trade, but the employés at B would get just the same, and hence they were not likely to inconvenience themselves over the matter whether a particular job was undertaken or not.\n\nAn interesting question is the relationship to prosperity or otherwise of the complicated written language. As long as each little area remained self-contained, it did not much matter how deeply the business people had gone in their literary studies. But with the increasing contact with distant towns and the growing consumption of foreign goods, a wider education becomes necessary, and one wonders whether in the course of that, the graceful ideograph and the stranger grass character will not have to yield place to less cumbersome mode of correspondence.\n\nBut compared with the questions which have their roots in calibre of the moral character of individuals, whether officials or coolies, other pressing difficulties in the way of progress in this Tenth Year of the Republic fade into insignificance.\n\nV. THE COOLIE.\n\nThe ordinary labouring man in China was not so much befooled during the period of preparation for the 1911 Revolution as was the case with some of his fellow citizens of higher class. Magnificent promises of the Golden Republic when all would be free of taxes and the like left him, speaking generally, in the cold. Whilst, therefore, the rude mental shocks and disappointments which the more educated classes have had during the past ten years, the coolie has escaped, yet we shall not be far wrong if we say that of all grades of society the coolie has perhaps gained least by the change in the nature of China's Government.\n\nEssentially of a contented disposition, willing to live and let others live, the labouring classes have found themselves gradually more and more enclosed in a network of restrictive circumstances. The price of living in the country, based on the staple rice, has risen enormously within the past ten to fifteen years. The internal disorder from Wars, Rumours of Wars, and Robbers, has restricted the normal growth of commerce. Of course, China's Customs returns compare the import and export values one year with another, which in these days of vast variations in exchange is by no means the same as quantities of materials; the reliable Customs figures, moreover, are not an index of the state of trade in the interior of the Provinces.\n\nIn such an area, the coolie's lot is indeed pitiable. A War is declared and soldiers are moved in from the attacking force. They assume the right of entry into every man's house and require that he supply their needs: in the best of circumstances they may pay for their requisitions. After a day or two they move further. But the soldier does not exist to carry the impedimenta, and the maintenance of a system of transport would be much too large a risk and expense for the Armies to undertake, so the troops and the police begin to seize men to carry goods. Resistance is useless, the man seized must go. If he refuses he is beaten and then made to go. If laden with an impossible load he flags, he is beaten again. If he tries to run away, the guard fires at him. He is compelled to go where he is bid, and that may mean three, five, ten days' march: he is given his rice on the journey and enough money to pay for his food on the way back—and the promise has been known to be redeemed. There is no wage. When he is at last able to go home, his way very likely lies through a land infested with brigands, who may likewise hold him up and compel him to work for them for an indefinite period.\n\nDarker than these clouds, however, in the coolie's sky is the relentless and interminable oppression of the military governing classes. Industrial development, at least along occidental lines, is to some extent hampered by Mr. Chairman's moral character, and will be indefinitely postponed until he realises that prosperity does not come from seizing every opportunity to benefit himself at whatever expense to others. It is a strangely short-sighted policy that will induce a carpenter to put a piece of bad wood into some article, and thereby squeeze fifty cents, when a really satisfactory job may be the means of getting a lot of work in the future.\n\nNeither the trade nor the government of the country can reach a very high place until the individuals learn to forget the \"face\" that is now so dear to them. (Were \"face\" synonymous with good character or straight dealing, how grand an institution it would be?) Until that universal love of \"face\" is diminished, Chinese will not learn the difference it makes whether a thing is done properly or not. Face must be saved at present even for the lazy coolie. He may be gently dismissed on some collateral pretext, but he must not be told off for his half-done job.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492983, "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": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 336, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "MINUTES.\n\nI how whit o Treasury in diff herewith. (I have trends it Cather strong hut alten will we have to clean omaton of unponsibility for them\n\nMINUTES NOT TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE.\n\nNo356. RES CO €0929 9 DEC 22 GOVERNMENT HOUSE. HONGKONG. 25th October, 1922. 317\n\nani's deads) att Sir N. Stable that we have av ti rah's desp سلام Casc and Author pulling to the Weasing. मीतू 4/1/27 At once REP 5 Sir, Treas.28568\n\nWith reference to your despatches Nos.209 and 217 of the 5th and 11th July, I have the honour to state that this Government has received from the local branch of the Chartered Bank of India, Australie and China a copy of its Tenth Supplemental Charter, dated the 16th April, 1922, whereunder certain radical alterations are made in the conditions of the Bank's note issue.\n\n2. Prior to the grant of this Charter the Chartered Bank was empowered to issue notes to the value of eight million dollars against securities in a third of that sum, and it was required to cover any excess issue by coin or bullion, to be deposited in Hongkong, equal to the whole value of such excess issue. The Bank is now authorised to issue notes up to a total amount of thirty million dollars, the first eight millions of which remains secured as before, while the balance of twenty-two million dollars is to be secured either by coin or by bullion or by securities to be deposited in London. Of the total note issue fifteen million dollars may be issued in Hongkong.\n\n3. The grant of this Charter introduces an entirely new principle in respect of note issues in Hongkong and one which is at variance with the policy outlined in the Treasury letter regarding the general question of note issues\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE WINSTON CHURCHILL, M.P., &c., &c., &c.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500970, "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": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12]", "content_text": "1 Powell L \n\nTelephone C. 457 \n\nUNDER NEW MANAGEMENT \n\nLADIES' \n\nLtd \n\nCHILDREN'S DEPTS. \n\nwe \n\nA \n\nTo make room for our New Goods, \n\nholding are SPECIAL CLEARANCE SALE in these Departments \n\nColossal reductions regardless \n\nof cost. \n\nBe sure you pay us \n\na visit during this week, August 22nd to August 29th. \n\nAN ENDOWMENT INSURANCE POLICY \n\nwill enable your family to redeem the mortgage \n\non your house if you die, and \n\nwill enable you to pay it yourself if you live. INSURE WITH \n\nCHINA UNDERWRITERS, LTD. \n\nAll Clauses of Life Insurance Business Transacted. \n\nLife Assurance Department. \n\n1. C. 1121. \n\nBt, George's Building. \n\nATTRACTIVE HANDBAGS \n\nFOR ALL OCCASIONS \n\nIN \n\nBATICK LEATHER \n\nSILK & SUEDE Also for Afternoon Wear and Many Dainty Novelties \n\nfor \n\nEvening Wear \n\nSMART NEW \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING \n\n“PHOMENE” \n\nFIRE APPLIANCES. \n\n\"BRITISH THEREFORE BEST** \n\nTwo Gallon Type. Extinguishers as shown above are absolutely necessary in districts where water facilities are limited. Avoid risks and install \"Phomene.\" \n\nAsk for Particulars. Sole Agents \n\nMUSTARD & CO. 16-17 Connaught Road Central Phone 1126. \n\nACKNOWLEDGEMENT. \n\nPOST. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1926. \n\nPage 9 \n\nSHANGHAI ARMS SEIZURE. \n\nEX-ARMY OFFICER \n\nCHARGED. \n\nFRENCHMAN, GERMAN, AMERKAN AND CHINESE INVOLVED. \n\n(Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nShanghai, August 26. \n\nWEST RIVER PIRACY. \n\nSTANDARD OIL AGENT CAPTURED. \n\nTHE S.S. KWANG HUNG SEIZED AT KAU KONG. \n\nCANTON CHANGES. \n\nEFFECTS OF LIAO CHUNG-KAI'S DEATH. \n\n(From Correspondent.) \n\nCanton. August 23. It appears that the assassination of Liao Chang-kai, the late Bolshevik leader in Canton, is causing some serious changes in the political situation here. \n\nLu \n\n(An Occasional Correspondent.) \n\nWuchow, August 21. When the strike came into effect cutting off communication between \n\nIn connection with the French \n\nSongkong and Wuchow, the \n\nYau \n\naddition to the resignation of Wu \n\nder to recall him. Alternative \n\npolice seizure of arms and ammunition \n\nCompany of Hongkong Techen \n\nthe Police Commissioner, y, it can dismiss him directly. \n\ntion, estimated in value at $46,000 \n\nWuchow transferred several \n\nand the detention of Mei Kwang- \n\nThere are a number of cases in \n\nthere have been arrested Colonel \n\ntheir agents dying the Chinese \n\na Cantonese military consan \n\nwhich a diplomatic agent has \n\nJames Christie, a British \n\nany danger to the Canton-Wuchow \n\nservice. \n\nder, and several other military \n\nher recalled at the request of \n\nver, retired. Relegation \n\nCameral Daily \n\nadduhs have been maintain \n\nand police officers, as reported \n\nthe State in which he resides \n\nhavies \n\n15sch, alina Charles A. \n\ned. The weng Hung left Canton today, the case has also \n\ncatad for a breach of this rule. In \n\nNeed, an 1804, the Spanish Minister to \n\nperson & Frothman \n\nwatert ss usual, for Wuchow, striving of the City Executive Committee. \n\nAmerleen named on Tuesday morning August 18, the resignation of C. C. Wa, Chief \n\nthe United States, attempted to \n\nChrist formerly in the castonte \n\nser- Kan Keg at 9 are the same \n\nvenho tendered his resignation \n\nres- bribe a newspaper to publish \n\nan article in favour of Spain. with \n\nported to be the secretary of \n\nber of pirate ware travelling as its \n\nto accord protection to the de- \n\nroference to a dispute in \n\nGeneral Wong Tse-hua in whose \n\npassengers. When they opened fire \n\ncease high oficial press between \n\ntwe exuntries, aslan were discovered \n\n340,000 \n\nsimultaneously in various parts of; \n\nen the United Sutes anked for \n\nincluding a quantity of counter- \n\nthe ship, several steam launches \n\ntang party said to he suspected \n\nhis recall. For years later, the \n\ntatt tns which the police assert \n\ncame out from the river banks \n\n2 United States were again \n\nquesting the recall of a Minister \n\nas \n\nthe purchase money. The \n\nsarmmanded the steamer. In \n\nAmerican, French and British \n\nWix.] showong 1our \n\nThis time of Mr. Jackson, \n\nThe Courts when the eases \n\nBritish Ambasador, the charge \n\nbeing that in certain toaste given \n\nat pablle dinners he had charged. \n\nBREACH OF TRUST. \n\nAnother member of the Kucmin- \n\nby the authorities is \n\nCheckman \n\nJai, an aviator, formerly District Magistrate of Taungabau and a faithful follower of the late Dr. Sun Yur-ken. I \n\nis understood \n\nwith \"Talsehood and duplicity.\" \n\nSAPORE MAN GETS HEAVY \n\nand he well-to-do. \n\nAfter deliberation, the Ambasea- \n\nthe American administration \n\ndor was recalled, but the British Government duly placed on \n\nvocord that \"His Majesty's Guy- ernment has not marked with \n\nMrs. Lorne Murphy, of the \n\nany expression of displeasure \n\nStation Hot Kowloon, who has \n\nSENTENCE. \n\n· Our Own Correspondent.) \n\nSingapore. August 25. \n\nMr. Compton Cooper, ex-ciskier \n\nTa pirates nas ap apathat \n\nan order has been issued for \n\nsengers and by examining the \n\nthe arrest of Jai, who bas now \n\nhazds of the passengers made \n\ndis- tiretion between the working \n\nappeared, as the revolver used \n\nby the assasain in shooting Liau \n\nAs found with coarse hands were \n\nChunu-kai is Rileyed to being \n\nreleased, \n\nWounded Editor Dies, \n\ntuned. Those with lady dngers\" \n\nwere do- \n\nChan Chau-lam, who was with \n\nashore and the best was \n\nscrunchly \n\nLizo Coung-si and received for \n\ncleaned out. The Captcha was \n\nious wounds ciro, passed away \n\nThe Captain is a Bri \n\nalso taken. \n\njust returned by the imprese \n\nof does not appear to have \n\ncon- of Messra Job Liste And Co. \n\nWand has bees \n\nwary offlsiently for three days in a very critical \n\ntish ahjust noted \"Chen Kam,\" \n\nbital, where he had ocen lying \n\nThis tnorning at the Kung Yee \n\nCanada, destres to convey her \n\nmitted any international offence \n\nconvicted of a breach of trust \n\nin sincere thanks to Mr. H. P. White \n\nagainst the United \n\nthe navigation of this condition. \n\nStates,\" the sum of $4,000 \n\na yetenosil to meble steamer for the past several \n\nditor of the China News in Hong \n\ndueting Mr. Wiarson, Cant. Turnball \n\nAgain in 1871 the United States \n\nthree months hard labour in add \n\nChan was formerly \n\nand all officers of the Douglas \n\nrequests the recall of the \n\ntiva is a tire of $500 with the \n\nPears. All told about fisty \n\nDoug and after his paper was \n\nSteamatip Chowany and friends \n\nRussian Minister, fox inturail- \n\nernative of six mutha' ingrison, \n\nsengers were held captive. The \n\ni pressed he came back to Canton \n\nwe attended the fanem of her \n\nterence in its internal affairs, \n\nart in default as payment... \n\nsteamer was then allowed to \n\nand became an editor of the Min \n\nlato hachawdd und sent wreaths, \n\nand whilst most people will \n\nremen- \n\nber the comparatively recent \n\nWachon on the night of August 20th, \n\njast twants-war hours tale. $120,000 \n\nRansom Asked. Among those taken captive \n\nin her recent sad bereavement. \n\ncase of Dr. Danba, who was recalled by Austria from the \n\nThe Borning Post \n\nWEDNESDAY, Aveer 26, 1025. \n\nComrade Karakhan, \n\nground that he proposed to \n\nhis, government plane ic engineeri \n\nstrikes in American steelworks, \n\nwitich \n\nmanufacturing \n\nWern \n\nmunitions of war. A case of mutual dismissal of Ministara by \n\nFOOD SUPPLIES. \n\nPORE, MUTTON AND BEEF PLENTIFUL. \n\nReduced Demand. \n\nNeo Jia Pag. He was also an in- \n\nfacial ember of the Central Executive Committee \n\nof \n\nthe Kuomintang. \n\nof \n\nwei now chairman of the Brein- \n\nSiner the death of Mr. Liao \n\na number of prominent ciftens \n\nof Cheng-kai, the Soviel Representa- \n\ntire in Canton, who is now High \n\ntravelling as a third class passanger \n\nAdvisor in the Nationalist Govern- \n\nto avoid recognition, as he le well \n\nknow on the Wert River. Mr. Chap- \n\nof a man to succeed Liao in the \n\nLong in the Wochow agent of the \n\ntasks which the deceased and M. \n\nSuch har ter the improvement \n\nlard Oil Company and has \n\nBorngin had been jointly perform- \n\nWe have recently become so \n\nby Great Thilair and Spain in the \n\nfood stastion during the large \n\nancial de cesto. \n\naccustomed to the spectacle of \n\noccurred in 1848. Aravclution \n\npast for days, that restrictions \n\nofmediately recoguised and was \n\nsentative bax found Wang Ching- \n\nHe was ing. So far the Russian repre- \n\nSpain the Soviet Government \n\nviolating reverent in \n\nwas the slaughter if native rattle \n\nbave infurewd as spon payenere \n\ninternational law and exploiting! \n\ni wn to have the spinpality of \n\nzou been removed and the supply \n\n$120,000 he would be immediately \n\ntive Committee of the Nationalist \n\nthe huden diplomatic system \n\nthe British Forestry in a class \n\ntopping the denialet. His assistant and wife \n\nGovernment, the called parson. \n\nits-uture, TARE Tho rucent \n\nPalmerston. I was also \n\nConsumption is being that of \n\nwere wish him. The wife \n\nRussian known that Mr. Bulwer, the Bri- \n\nnormal times, owing probably to the \n\nreleased but the assistant was held. \n\nkecs Conference in the Eden-- \n\nrevolations of the \n\nwas When Wang atleaded the Wer- \n\nCorrespondent to the North \n\n(ish Mtalster at Madrid, het \n\nof people in the Mr. Chap- \n\ntour has been 1 for a \n\nChina Daily News, concerning the same tows as Lord Pabner \n\nCloux, bat uriously cough, this \n\nnumber of weeks non after a long \n\nterany a large number of Wham- \n\ncioual Association Buliding \n\nya- the Soviet's Ambassador to \n\nfan, although he had carefully \n\nis neve instint in beef \n\nBras D \n\nstay in Canton was \n\nreforming \n\nrape Codete escorted him. \n\nKong Paking, end his activities in \n\ntrained from expressing those \n\nany other mest. \n\nWarhow far trestuent. \n\nYing-fan promotiog Bolshevism in China, \n\nviews or from acting upon then \n\nKwangcharwad is now maintain. \n\nzasunod Other taken prisoner inclufofee of Conumissar of finance of \n\nnecasion very little surprise in \n\nany way during the revolting \n\na regalar supply of pigs and \n\non. Chiu Lau-tong, the Principal \n\nthe Provinia Government and \n\nMinister of Finance of the Nation. \n\nundoubtedly have to he a reckon \n\nexpert dismissed him, and return \n\nof more than 200, \n\nmer School of the Christian and \n\nis slat Government corrarently, \n\nand Palmeraton, reply, which \n\nexceets that for any one day \n\nlonary Alliance at Warhow \n\narissed the Spanish Minister in \n\nsince the commencement of the \n\nten Chinese preachers of this \n\nmia- ing these breaches of the \n\nusers onder. The distaiesal of \n\nLode. There are at Jones \n\n1,000sion Mr. Wong Ueno \n\nsut Mr. Lel \n\nAlavies the deceased Lino. \n\nof civilised nations, it is well to have \n\nou veront in what parti- \n\nSackville, the British Ambassa- \n\npigs in stock and this is being \n\nKip-chi. cats Comrade Karakhat has \n\ndor to Washington, in 1888 \n\nseems added a daily. \n\nThe abject of the attach \n\nan this. \n\ning with Russia one day, respect \n\nAUE.UUT \n\nagain offended, assuming what to \n\nbave been rather a straining \n\nNative cattle supplies exceed \n\nthe vessel serns to have been to \n\nobtain seama winest incontestable \n\nat the international right given \n\ndement and the dealers may now \n\na large shipment of money that \n\nwas During and market without restraint \n\nsupposed to re aboard for one f \n\nthat the documents published in \n\nto an offended State. \n\nHad \n\nTHE SANITARY BOARD). \n\nNEW BY-LAWS ADOPTEL. \n\n-- \n\nthe \n\nM. N. Smith presided over a \n\nthe North China Daily News are \n\nthe American presidential elee \n\nSanghat is applying sheep as \n\nare the lees; hanks, Silver \n\nicin and peeting of the Sanitary Bourd \n\nhet authentic. In their handling \n\nof \n\nthe situation in China the Bol- \n\nwas formerly British subject, \n\namount of local mutton is to be \n\ndomand in Wachow later and \n\nsince the embargo on wall cap \n\nfront. T. Groney, Dr. I. W. Tae. Dr. \n\nthe greatest skill and efficiency. \n\nThey have utilised every little \n\nhow he was to give his \n\nvoted but poultry eat eves \n\nshow a tendency whether Mr. Cleveland, if 23- \n\nA \n\nto increase. Vagetables and \n\na bank notes and anali coin have \n\ngood example of this is the atti- \n\nelectal, would support a policy \n\nage he obtained at little more \n\nbeen arriving daily from Canton. \n\ntude conveyed by their Embassy \n\nof friendliness to England. Lord \n\nto oimal rises and generally at \n\nPaking. The Foreign Powers \n\nSackville replied to vague and \n\nspeaking, the situation is extremely \n\nare represented in China by \n\nneral terms that any satiating \n\nand is cally becoming \n\nthe other more se- \n\nfavouring Ministers only, and not by \n\nfull pecly Ambassadors. The explanation \n\ncountry would inse popularity\" \n\nof this is the disturbed conditiou \n\nthat he boliavad Mr. Cleveland \n\nIt is a fact that a large hand \n\nat plates have been operating in the \n\nteretaty), Mr. D. Tavies \n\nand Mr. G. Kennedy kiten also \n\npresent. \n\nreserving \n\nThe dret by laws governing fond \n\nestablish pools and seruted water \n\nmanufactorios CAIDS months. The leader of this \n\nremarking that there was \n\nup for consideration, the chairman \n\nKau Kong weinig for everal \n\nSPORTS COATS \n\nof China, which robs the country \n\nwas desirous of maintain \n\nEnture is lisaged in an editorial \n\nCanton and Muceo. She is called \n\nBoar went into exilee. \n\nIN \n\nLIGHT-WEIGHT \n\nTWEEDS \n\nand WOOLLENS \n\nHAVE ARRIVED; \n\nALSO \n\nCREPE RUBBER SOLED \n\nGOLF BROGUES. \n\nLADIES' GOLF CLUBS. We have a large selection by leading makers. Prices $6 & $7. \n\nLANE, CRAWFORD'S \n\nPEDDER STREET, \n\nLADIES \n\nSALON \n\nhe \n\nIx reported to ese to be a women \n\nsession regarding them who frequently vita fongkong hocght it would he better if the \n\nof its full internation statusing friendly relations with Groat \n\nin the Gentini Chin Port. \n\nThey theyhinese is affectionate terms \n\nwas im-paper pins ont that the opinion \n\nThe Pirate Queen. She ensure \n\nwas no diariasier they might: When the Soviet turned its \n\nBritain, although it attention to Cbica, however, it \n\npossible to predict his course \n\nis held by Chinese that they can \n\ntainly seria now to be at leent \n\nthe \n\nDr. Petrse paid at the 'sat meet- \n\nrealised \n\nSHANGHAI INCIDENT, \n\nhe then ca bloc \n\nIf \n\nshould be made and these rensals \n\n[ead now been digrala bed. \n\nthat for Bulshevis beforehand.\" \n\nThis correspon- \n\ngo on strike jug! when they \n\nplease! \"qseen of the Wajk\" \n\naround Kaighe xare reasons why \n\nthe by-law \n\npurposes Peking would be the \n\ndie becoming known to the \n\nand when they come back \n\nreceive Kong. most important capital in the United States Government, \n\nFord their old jobs again and be paid \n\nworld. Accordingly the Sovint \n\nSackville was discussed by them, \n\nin full for the time when no work \n\nappointed as Chinese Ambassa- \n\nIt seems imposible to justify \n\nwas, done, a of which, the vaper \n\ndor (and not Mister) one of the \n\naction of the United States \n\nadds, ia pact and purest of the \n\nIts most capable agents. \n\nin this stance, since diplomatic \n\npresent Chisens belief that they \n\nA resnit of this, since usage and common sense allkej \n\ncan do what they wian with \n\nfor Ambassarlor takes precedence \n\nof sume that twn States wish to \n\ncizners, shoot them and all the \n\nMinister, Comrade Karakhan \n\nremain in friendliness with one \n\nrest of it, but retaliation in the \n\nwas placed at the outect in an \n\nanother until the contrary is \n\npart of the foreigners becomes a \n\nexceedingly favourable position, \n\nproved. These cases Ulustrate heinous crime. Whilst that state \n\nTo neutralise the advantage thus \n\nthe strictness with which a \n\nStatement correctly \n\nAs \n\nMER \n\nCalerpreted \n\nthe \n\nITALIAN MINISTER'S CONFERENCE. \n\nShanghal, Angust 20. On the 21st the Italian Minister called upon Shay Jai un stating that the Diplomatic Corps was asiti \n\nOn Dr. Macgown intimating that he wishna to discuss the by- laws nevemag the quality of water used in making aurated waters and le the matter of cleaning belts before they wwe died a second time, the chairman moved thus the Board go into committee, which was immediately done. \n\nOn the Board resuming, the by- \n\nlaws, siended, wern adopted. \n\nat the present time prueervan its Chinese viewpoint before the desirous of a speedy settlement af cleverly and legitimately obtain integrity from the activities of strike, is questionable whether the Shanghai incident and esposed el by the Bolsheviks, \n\nthe foreign diplomate agents accre that opinion is generally helt arst to negotiate the restoration of Ministers of the Powers reited to it. Since Gains wishes longkong to-day. In fack, the Mixed Court, leaving the other presented at Peking retained thei \n\nto be ensidered a member of pride ourselves on the fact that Heme to be discussed systematical Diplomatic Corps, which at the Farily of Nations, and is the strikers who have returnedy. Shum Jaalus priznised to take ority of 95005 per cent has been through the agency of the senior therefore bound by international have been taught a lesson they will the prosal into consideration-produced by the Hoope electrolyti Minister (who is at present the law to respect the usages of cot men farget \n\nIt is true that Tsui Wan Yat Po. Traian Minister) on all qacations \n\ncame back affecting the relations of the civilized States, its obvious when more of them: \n\nPowers with China. The duties ourze would be to investigate they had the audacity to ask for of diplomatic agent may be immediately these documents their full pay. but in no se, 20 de5ned as the prosecution of bia which inplicate the Soviet Am-far as our knowledge gou as country's interests diplomatical-assador en extensively, and, this conceded. \n\nly with the foreign government and the charges true, its only \n\nOn course is to dismiss him unma \n\ndiately. privileged \n\nAbinina chaited to have a \n\nje pessors, and is stated to differ \n\nvery materially from the ordinary \n\nPEKING UNIVERSITY. \n\n90 per cent aluminion sheet It is Parók shorter. Ik zemina notarnish \n\nOn the Aber haul! IN FAVOUR OF COMMUNISM. god uery were given the order! \n\nof the boot. Thanks to tas fra \n\natkiude zdoyted by the Govern \n\nThe \n\njed in air a long time, and is hee such greatly increased resistance lne szida anit other chemicals that Paklog, Angue: 8. \n\njis endines & week'a imuaersion in Minister of Education droolric acid with only slight ment and the community general Chang Szchas, stated at the Gabi effect, although the ordinary shest Ar. the retioned stikers have niet meeting that the Peking Uni-metal is hsscived completely in been completely disillusioned, and veralty was in favour of voor bath The chic parity there is a strict rule of inter- The important point of what thewe very much doubt whether they; uism and desired to sevOr connec-contained in the commercial TEKS national law, forbiding him to employer is going to do to safe-1 will be as anxious to ge ont agala' tion with the Ministry of Edutainhure is epper, the iron and silicon interfere in the hiternal politics guard houself from strikes in the uz they were ou this occasion, tion-Fun Wan Yat Po. \n\nhaing is very stall amousk \n\nio which he is accredited. account of the position which he enjoys in consequence \n\nof these duties, The Strike and After. \n\nOVER-NIGHT CABLES. \n\nANGLO-FRENCH CONVERSATIONS. \n\n\"PARTICULARLY CORDIAL ATMOSPHERE.\" \n\nFrance Asks Equal Treatment With Italy. \n\nParis, August 35. While expressing satisfaction at the \"parifcaleriy cordial etmospbare\" in the conversations between Mr. Churchill and M. Calllaux, the new siapers continue to urge the necessly of speciai | consideration for Prince. \n\nL'Ecko de Paris's London outrespondent anys that M Caillaux | insisted that Mr. Churchill give auge vgual treatment with Ealy. The correspondant hopes the impression will not gain ground that Britain it using the question of debts gain Italy's good graces. \n\nLe Petit Journal, referring to the heavy eenditions\" which the United States imposed on Balzium and the suggestion of the Limited Status impose harsher term on France, says that the foreign press and public appear to forget that all this wi crente a sale of economie inossibilĥouter. \n\nLondon, August 25. \n\nM. Caillaux spent the morning at the French Embassy with his experte. M. Caillax taler visited fancices in the city, meeting Mr. Churchill at the Teasury Tata is the afternoon.- \n\nSOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1925. \n\nTHE \n\nCLEAR OUT \n\nBOLSHEVISTS. \n\nGREAT MASS MEETING URGES HOME GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION. \n\nPROMPT AND DECISIVE MEASURES URGED. \n\n\"THE CANGER MUST BE RUTHLESSLY CUT OUT.\" \n\nOpposition Speaker Heckled, \n\nA \n\nThe haii \n\nA peene of great enthusiasth we witnessed at the Theatre Royal last evening when a great mass meeting of Hongkong residents aicpted, practically uniously, a roselation urging the Home Gov- srument to deliver an affam to the Canton authorities. was crowded, fally one thousand people being present. The addresses made in support of the resolation were frequently ami fourty ap planded, but one speaker who ventured to votes appcaition, met with good deal of beckling. The proceedings, which lastet for chise \n\nBritish National Antham. upon two hours, were brought to a conclusion with the singing withe \n\nThe meeting has provided over the Governments at Hors \n\nHis \n\nthe spot. who know and realise; the exbrerse govily of the eitis- Etia (Applause). \n\nThe telegram we send to-night,. therefiae, whatever may be sɛid! jlo speechee, about! avolii any. \n\nthing like viient language in the Text and confine itself to isspres. give statements of farts and such [deinands as ure reasonably set Forth and yousible of viiment. is with this object, in view that the suggested telegram, which has tor sutne time appeared in the Press, that eigin receive matitve: gonsideration by you ali, hat been most carofully druited, and 2 trustj ithet ne material alteration to it I will be called for \n\nWaking up at Lask To epits of all that has been telegraphed, until a few days ako It compelled to helieve that the Government at Home still consi- dar that the liongkozy aus South China troubles are all part of the \"China onesting,\" whton propej after the \"Shanghet weilent\" or are bound up with that Sheldonti \n\nWhile M. aflux was busy at the French Embassy Mr. Church by the Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyank, Fixuellency the fovernor in eirag and the Young Chine Nationalist was similarly engaged with his experts at the Treasury ludying the whe was supported on the plat upon this letter had authorised me Movement, and can be settled by French viewpoint. Owing to last atinute changes in the plans om by Sir Hoary Pollock, Hou to quote that portion of his letter cuees or socle special envy, hut Fon-csestations in Poking, confer- Ceilex week the Treasury at wes to sen Mr. Chrehjli.--Rezston i My, IT, W. Bird, Hon. Mr. G. G. \n\nwhich refers intimately to thisise recent shipping proclamations Alabaster, K., Mr. A. Macgowan pronunciation at the Canton Club: or the Canton authorities son at: (Swab), Mr. W. & Bailey, Mr. \n\nagree with Sie Jane Jamieson's Inst to be waking it up. Heat J. Owen Hughes, fr. W. A. Towies lection to the thily Pres art-hear). and others. \n\nfele, and should like you to an- \n\nOBITUARY. \n\nMAJOR GENERAL REGINALD C. W. E. MITFORD. \n\nThe death is announced of Mejut General Regina Beverley Mitford.--Mouder. \n\nDoes His Majesty's Government; The Chairman, before proceed-derstand that consider that still utterly disbelieve the reapon ing with the business for which his present Juncture Sir Jamesponsible statenate made in the the meeting bed bean culled, said: Jamieson has done everything any stream of eables of the gravest 1 desire to straighten out an incl- body in that position could do ature by the Governor of this dent connecteit with our original and I should greatly regret any Colony, and all the responsible! meeting. You will remuetaber that dea that there is a lack of entles already on the spot refer \n\nThe trouble red to, or do they seriously profess! KC that they are cuable any longer \n\nfiere \n\nof because \n\npared to shanden, the lights of in protect, or at any rate are pre-j British subjects secured to taem \n\nRoen at Waterloo Manor, Hants, February 20 \n\nthat neither General Mitford was the youngest son of the late 31. Join Words that original public noting operation bereen va barrister at law and the grandson of the historien of Greece. Based ot only a resolviton of \n\nanything, confidence in Sir Juanes Jamieson, do was educated at Rugby and was appointed en eusten in the India His Baleaty's Consul General inhing that other of us ca Army in 1855. He served in the Indian Mutiny during which he was Cantan, but we paid has a high the only people who can set severely wercdel and was mentioned in despatches, receiving the tribute. After that he was grill. His Majesty's Government G. G. O. He was recommended for the Victoria Cross by Lord Clyde and in the public Press. da October 29, 1358 Ia i Nogi West Frontier Expeditions, fericism was undebtedly largely and later in the Afghan War, be gained distinction and eventually due, if not entirely, to a sun- retired in 1826. He was a craui travetter and had toured the Orient-derstanding, wad I feel that it is Ladies and gentlemen, on the Authorities \n\nThe Chairman, proceeding, said: Ameries and civilised Karope and had pablished a number of books due to His Majesty's Consul 27th dealing with the countries visited and in the subject of the fran Geners in Canton that that itaing \n\nJuly Just Al \n\nMutiny. \n\nthis Theatre. \n\nRose Edouin, Actress. \n\nLandor, August 25. \n\nThu \n\n(Applause). \n\nThe Chairman's Speech. \n\nbeld ip \n\nmset- \n\nsolemn trsaties and will they supiusly automir, to the Javest hi-j Rofent challenges to Great Britain| of the present Canton Boisberlat \n\nI know well the difuuhtes they so hayo jo face in wont of unanimity: tion should be definitely cleared up crowded that very us ourd not and help from other \"Powers,\" an ad this meeting (Applanon). I may get in-smugst other thinge-His well as fire great industrial pro say that before leaking this state-Majesty's Government was urged bleins they have to deal willi et The death is announced of the cetogezarian actress Rose Fdouin muut I submitted it, because it is a strongly worded and gravely Home, but, unless this Canton who toured with the first English company in India and the Far Eartperry the Government to the considered rosetation that situation is tackled seriously and managed by her husband, Mr. Lewis---Rastor, \n\nINDIAN COTTON DUTIES. \n\nJAPAN CHARGED WITH DUMPING, \n\nGovernor, and I bave He consent İshould immediately inform the at once, not only will Brilish juler- ot only to make the stavovases but i de forte Governmet in Canton asts here and in South China be bis vermismos also to quote some that unlove it withdraws Rs sup-fcrippled for years to comes bus the remarks in a letter concerning th port of the attack upon British in Bolshevik pofamous propaganda A Newspaper Article. terupts, it will de regnaded un he will spread like fire, Soget through \n\nStratz \"The Consul General in a recent ny entered into a alete of busidity the \n\nSuttlements, 01 address, at the Clah, referred with the British Gayetä tuke , 20 \n\nthrough human and into Indu,! Receiving a depatation of Bombay mill-owners, the Viceroy hung Dalla Frege of the 1h inst. for reasons which it is impossible it be a tremendous conflagration. The leading artfela in the long- Almost a monta has passed and with the visa that not only will declared that the cotton ezelse dry cannot be abolished remediately under the handing of Sir James to understand, that vitally impur-for the nation to fight, but the for financini reascun, but the Government is pledged to abolition when Jamieson, which you have doubt tant telegram, which elemanly restrial problems at Hew and! finemial considerations perut. \n\nDincasing the suggested and-damping menseres apalast Japanid that it was based on 20 in throughout South China withersport trade will be increase the \n\nless read. \n\nThe Consul General cited existing conditions here sederployment through lack of the Vicorns admitted that he was prewed by the deputation's ecrrect appreciation of the situa- jone word of exaggeration, but fact, that must be faced statements regarding Japanese labour conditions, but the milers. He esglained that the Canparently been completely ignoret \n\nantrously. Streng words, but had not substantiated the charge of damping by definite facts andton Governani forwarded certain by His Majesty's Government.theless, and I wish we could ngures. He undertook to have the question examined if evidenre were decade following the shooting \n\nThere has been a sittle confusion route the people of England to \n\nafray et June 23rd fast, and these about these talegrams. \n\nunderstand and realise them. The cult densands, which were forwarded to Edential reply\" refered to lu me \n\n(ADDINERO). Lorden and Paris, were as follows: letter to the \"Press\", I should Cancer Must Be Rezoved. \n\nOsco and for all let it again he I. High Conmiasteners of the here explain, was a confidential; \n\nratione involved, to apologise, zaswer to one of the many tele clearly stated that no conference 2. Adaquate punishment of e arus sent Home by the Clumber in Peding, or any amber of them, General and the of Commerce, There has been no special comdesioner or envy. \n\nproduced.—Rextar. \n\nTHE LEAGUE'S OPIUM COMMITTEE. \n\nJAPAN TO RATIFY CONVENTIONS, \n\n------ \n\nGeneva. August 25. In the course of the proceedings in the Leagus d Nations Opium Committee, Docker Tsurum announced that Japan world ratify the Opfum Conventions elaborated at the rorent inferuational conferences. -Router. \n\nAMERICA AND NEW ZEALAND, \n\nA GENEROUS TOKEN OF APPRECIATION. \n\nAuckland, August 28. The American avai otticary and men hava donated $1,000 tu the) Institute for the Blind, in recogullion of the hospitality of the citizens of Auckland-Reuter. \n\nConsul \n\nSealer Naval Officer, \n\nanswer whatever to the telegram houver distingutahed and how \n\nthe 27th of July. \n\n3. No further troope or sum-of-feom the public neting held on ever much he may help the North- \n\nwar to come to Cantor. \n\n4. Withdrawal of wavahipa from \n\nen ureblem, can possibly settle \n\nTo-night, with conditions Infinite the prevent aluustion in Canton. Canton or delte, excett two worse than they were then and which is not a Chinees problem nespatch fosats for the use of with further declarations of the attack upon Hongkong and \n\nat all, but a Bolshevik ore and thaij the Consulate. \n\nhostility against Great Britain by British Interest in South Ce 5. Compensation for killed and the Canto authorities, we are Russian in its origin und that: \n\nwounded. \n\nmat in even greater unbere. they are using their Chinese dupes to further their conspiracy against \n\n6. Rerdition of balá Concessions endorse the options which have \n\nWhere is a cancer \n\nTo the Franxiang Govern-poured ions from every rep Great Britain. merk \n\nsible bady Government, Unofcial \n\nIn our midst which threatens the London and Paris replied to the inembers of both Counctie, Cham- effect that those derauds could be of Cmurarer backed by er must be ruthlessly cut out and then \n\nChinese 29 much as ourselves--it, not be considered. The new Car-large interest hore, Chuna Asrouls-sooner the better. (Applause). ten Government that assomed to and private telegram- \n\nLadies and gentlemon, with the cffice on July 1st, repeated these jhat is Majesty's Government hope that our legram to the demands and stated that no resto-cannot piesd ignorance upon the Prime Minister may assist him tel Seven negro soldiers of the thighth Infantry Regiment wersation of coral relations and eltuation. killed whan a howitzer burst during pracilce. Reuters American they had been discussed. \n\nsvaditions coule be aspected before Service. \n\nGUN ACCIDENT. \n\nNEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED, \n\nRockford. H., Aufust 25. \n\nCHINESE TARIFF CONFERENCE. \n\nwww.co \n\nBRITAIN WILL ATTEND. \n\nLondon, August 25. The British Government has now accepted the invitation of the Chinese Cuvornmunt attend the tariff conference on the 23rd October-Rauter. \n\nMOTOR ACCIDENT, \n\nDUTCH SOCIALIST KILLED. \n\nBrussels, August 25. M. Nan Kol, the Daich evetallet, ex-Scoater and colonial expert, has been killed in a motor zevident.-Reuter \n\nFRANCE AND SPAIN IN MONOCCO. \n\nOFFENSIVE TO BEGIN IN TEN DAYS. \n\nFOR BATHING PARTIES, \n\nPICNICS, etc. \n\nJAS. BUCHANAN & CO.S BLACK & WHITE WHISKY \n\nin FLASKS & FLASKS. \n\nFitted with glass stoppers, no corkscrew required. \n\nPRICE OF FLASKS \n\n55 \n\n+1 \n\n$2.10 $1.10 \n\nDONNELLY & WHYTE \n\nTel Contral 635. \n\nSole Agenta. \n\n2. 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Shanghai \n\nStrategy, Amoy and Foochons, of \n\nNanking which British They have also openly declared Merchants are permitted, er her intention of destroying by ail porta where Dhey mazy every means in their power, Hong- reside \"to carry on their kong, ts trade and prosperity. Tuercantile transa \n\nWith whatever sevsons they classes entering and elearing to inse.\" \n\nand from Hongkong wos 70,330 Article X of the Trozty of vesadis totalling 5,000,000 tons. Nanking authorising yoout From Jet January to 30th June belonging to British Mer-fast the average daily number of chard to be conveyed by yesek entering and caring Chinese Murchants to any Hongkong has been 60 vessels province or City in the averaging 99,600 to Since the Interior of China. \n\nerists started the average daily \n\nrealise the true position in Hong- The Gravity of the Slination, What \n\nkong and South Chica and so lend I confess I find in Gillealt do to prompt and decision action then has the craul General to \n\nIspunit without voicing L indigna- either in cogurt with other disease with the Canton over we all foui at the procrastina Powers or if need be, by Great) ner with H viwy to ending the \n\n[tion, hit 1 recoguise they Bus Britain stone, I beg to formally present situation. le he to discuss \n\ncitration is an gave that I desire amove thas the following telegram his own punishment or the ren- dition of the British Concession to avoid saying oue word which he sent from this meeting to Hir may be regarded, at Home, za Majests'e Prime Minister in Lor- Home Government faces theseterical or which may give or don \n\nmements to prempe and direct ac- It will be secunded by Mr. W. S1) Article XI of the Treaty of number of vessels entering and decauda? The mere fact of dig-tion, in Cantea, ecession to dia- Bailey, and after that has been feussing then: would be an AU- \n\nnission that the incident of June out our advice or undervalue done I shall be glad to bear ther unis meeting. No one who has reukors hefure putting the tale 123rd was greated by Shameer, been away from Hongkong and gram to the meeting. (Applause). \n\nwhich we kauss deinitaly to be South Ching, even for the last six \n\nThe Resciation. \n\n10. \n\nTientsin which also opened clearing Hongkong has been 1 Swatow and okker Southern russels totalling 36,579 tens only. Porta for Foreign trade and but these figures include \"P. & 0.\" stated that “il is agreed that \"Blue Funnel\" \"President\" and Brith aubjects are pertait. \"Empress vessels which are nat ted to carry an irade with affected by the buycolt. whomenever thay please, and proceed to and fro wt pleasure with their ve vels and merchandise.\" Chatton a Gateway. 1 \n\nThe obwrvance of these provi- \n\nOur Canton trade comprising some 12 large Passenger vessels has been entirely stopped. Since the lat Jaly the average daily number of skipa including river zieamars, held up through the boy- cost has been 5 of which 15 rre \n\nmentus, could possibly conceive | This Colony as a vital part of Dally Prem Knew Wothing \n\nhow dangerous the Bolshevik the British Empire, Haring aires ly now absolutely nothing about the on British Oterests, and I wishram unanunealy passed at \n\nThe Daily Prese states that they treat is. with its epelat attack vately appanded through le measures that are being taken to that a few of my own personal frea: Mass Meeting held on July bring the present deadlock to a friends who, until a very few years 1271b and passed on by the Gover- end and that as far as they are ago, huid the same responsible nor at its request. to Hils Murjesty's sware the Hongkong Goverment positions out here as those who Government, now appeals to His jare equally in the dark. The Con-to-day have drafted many of the Majesty's Prime 31ster to take sions of the Treaties is imperative \n\nsul General folvement as that important telegrams to which steps to have the following pro-fox the commoerusal prosperity of Britian, Paris, august 25. Reports from Madrid state that Guteral Prano do Rivers has Peking and \n\nropies of all his despatelos in hat already referred, were here visions of the Treaties of Nunking this Colony, seeing that Camson is the Foreign Office now to study the situation for 1942 and Tientsin 1858 betas ceu the principal gateway for British aaronneest that the offensive against the Riffs will begin in en dags have been forwarded to Bosghongshomssives, and they would quicke Great Britain and China carried trade into South Chine. tine-Renter, \n\nand the Hongkong Government realise how woefully and dia-out, amely: therefore know ail ifat the Congal astrously, the \"Cantou situation\" General has written. As the Con and the peril of Hongkong and aul General pointed out, there is South Chins are being misunder ne possible basis for discussion stood in London to-day and give 1 here, and the next move rexe with; leredence and ear to those, upos \n\nEVACUATION OF THE RUBK. \n\nDuested biên Aorus 25 \n\nThe French evacuation bas been completed. Router. \n\nTo-day there are 16 of which 22 are British. \n\nThe present Canton Authorities The recent proclamation by the Article II of the Treaty of teño are independent of the Cen Ganten Authorities with regard to Neaking watch provides tral Government at Paking and coastal Navigation later that that British subjecta, with have been in othee for less than Vessels of any Nationsity, reccot their families and establish months are directly and solely British and Japanese. may enter ments, chali be allowed to responsible for the cutting off of (Coutinaod on pige 10.) \n\nPage 10", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-489N - Governor Sir Stubbs & Sir Clementi - 1925 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 501422, "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": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "page_number": 449, "title": "CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925", "content_text": "1\n\n(6)\n\n443\n\nI KUTTER KA TIE:7 10 5?*w Ikt niet de \"as vetë gru\n\n«rom LE ZAT ME GFİMİ tau anitusse le quotiasb oala caW\n\nzakatonged tusipende sit nimivän ca rebro ai „sidi»\n\nBAJESUSEP STOTISANS G .BTOJAð bum est ed clanhivibni to\n\nDANAS POET ski?in, một te doen lo efred sit në qintavit\n\n„Mind (** le bolten erit not meure lied ver Divode yest\n\nbunit metalt no owt „boteche yard (IN MITIRIŞIM A\n\n-nal coed Larignard hoe work intor, add 30 Dam priWE\n\nBiode **# tot sraav IIA gan od stanga vient bežounJ\n\nvault mayst of ebsm anted motifkananstrar no fud „HMÄTOT\n\nLOPAY ANN Tahu anki orat Iirt et ednaga Tierf bewoLis\n\ncist në bierw bele slnenou areheget oda Peta riartett eft\n\nbest am berorroiri yiƒwwnerdos verts Side VATRAK SYGATTE\n\nziemiton Tisch In deem yď two beltran need\n\nAlea nor thyositis,#kum howo [[07 strableme merita mest\n\n„ve a boon, boinen siitta eft tot repar te Juso teq ar\n\nblag been \"marito with no BROƐ ***NEW LIST ‚evellad I\n\n-mori Mátika IGRDO Wet YTSV STAW BIBITI . Lia da moBEY GA\n\not be is sad vim gated eanyolans acid to Juom „TSYS\n\n-WOLLA 94 os bete srotation 17 to Iferpt nất ĐơII SESDES\n\nJON STOR radunat sila7187) GRAVENÍ KLIM æð (tudes of be\n\nSTOİNG HOLTen moviy med bar 17 dous gfieldo fnað maxat\n\nVistersatieb grived rot onie wat vrav a ¡adista við\n\nTLİVEDİ #noted artiteup 'erøye fque třeski batshnorib\n\n* ERR BRUKES (17)\n\n+\n\n=2/T_MEN¢¢®l out 10 neinna rë¿waren mediana I\n\nBAD KNĚTUH utelugati steileno, nit meri Jeod yd havies\n\nclear that they had no desire to leave their work. 81- milar letters were received by a number of Shameen residents, while many employees continued to perform such work during the period of the strike as could be done outside Shameen.\n\n16.\n\nPublic employees will be reinstated \"and their wages paid for the period of the strike, \"reservation being made in the case of the Police on the question of disciplinary measures which shall be finally dealt with according to the discretion of the Councils”.\n\nThe public employees other than the Police are very few in number, including the coolies at the Waterworks and the scavengers and street sweepers. The undertaking to reinstate them was given in the early days of the strike, and the clause was allowed to stand until my French colleague and I warned the Chinese that, in the event of delay beyond August 13th, it would be withdrawn. The Municipal workers therefore returned on that day with the Police and most of them, including all the works coolies, remained at their posts.\n\nAs regards the Police, the above clause was to be interpreted by the so-called \"Gentlemen's Agreement\", which was not to be published. Concerning this it may be remarked that experience has shown us that it is dangerous to enter into a pact of this nature unless assured that the other party to it are gentlemen.\n\nAgreement ran as follows: -\n\nThis\n\n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502372, "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": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "59\n\n£\n\n51868\n\nsum had been lent it became necessary to decide how to finance further loans, and I have now agreed to accept the proposals of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation as set forth in their letter and memorandum of the 15th October, copies of which were enclosed in my Confidential despatch of the 16th October.\n\n4.\n\nThe chief difficulties in financing such a loan are to avoid losses in exchange on the conversion of gold into silver and vice versa and also any cost in minting or purchase and subsequent sale of dollar coins. Both the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Chartered Bank have to keep in reserve actual dollar coins to the extent of their note issue. The average note circulation and actual coin in reserve of the three Banks was on December 31st, 1925 as follows:-\n\n \n \n Note Circulation\n Coin in Reserve\n Limit of Issue\n \n \n Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation\n $42,326,964\n $33,500,000\n $100,500,000\n \n \n Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China\n $14,504,352\n $5,000,000\n $15,000,000\n \n \n Mercantile Bank of India\n $1,459,872\n $550,000\n $1,650,000\n \n\nNote Issua on condition of 1/3 in coin.\n\n5.\n\nThe Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation are also importing $2,000,000 in coins minted at the Royal Mint.\n\nIt is therefore obvious that the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation can expand their note issue to a very considerable extent without the necessity of further coinage and importation of silver dollars, while the other two Banks have almost reached the limit of note issue; and it is also apparent that in concluding the arrangement with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for financing the loan up to $15,000,000 there is no reasonable cause to expect", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502560, "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": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "most useful work. The problem is no- thing less than the invention of a new medium of education for several hundred million human beings, and its importance for the future of mankind cannot be exaggerated.\n\n8\n\nWorld-wide- lieve, do more to promote peace and goodwill among nations than can be effected by treaties or conventions. action on these lines would, I firmly be- ever races and philology: but as a man of the world and a persistent traveller over the earth's highways and byways, I would add that I greatly cherish the hope that some day a League of Nations will agree to teach all children of whatever race and people from youth upwards one and the same second language in addition to their native language and that this language, common to all people on earth, should be the English language.\n\nI wish to guard myself carefully against any suggestion that the remarks which I have made are intended as a disparagement of the Chinese language and literature. Nothing is further from my thoughts. I have devoted many years of my life to a study of Chinese and my study has left me with a profound admiration of Chinese literature and especially of Chinese poetry. But the Chinese language has in a very real sense \"the defect of its qualities.\" Its best quality is the concise, lucid and picturesque manner in which it portrays Chinese life and thought. Its corresponding defect is that, possibly because it forms so excellent a medium for the study of things Chinese, it is a very refractory medium for the interpretation of Western ideas. It forms indeed a sort of Forbidden City into which anything that is not Chinese can enter only in disguise, if at all. The problem for solution is how best the gates of this Forbidden City may be thrown open.\n\nNEED OF A SECOND LANGUAGE.\n\nNEW USES FOR THE UNIVERSITY.\n\nSuch a hope will not be fulfilled in our lifetime: but may I in conclusion take up a more lowly standpoint and suggest that the austere manner in which the Chinese language frowns at everything which is not Chinese perhaps accounts for the fact that so many Europeans live for years in Hongkong and in the Chinese treaty ports without making any effort to speak or to read the Chinese language? Accordingly the peculiar compradore system has come into being and we have a whole host of intermediaries between the Westerners and the Chinese. Only Government officials and missionaries, as a rule, can deal directly with the Chinese who surround them, and hence arise many regrettable misunderstandings. In this matter there seems to be room for give and take. The Chinese admittedly desire to acquire Western learning. They should, therefore, endeavour to make their language a more flexible medium for conveying Western thought. The Europeans wish to trade with the Chinese. They should, therefore, make a sincere effort to acquaint themselves with the Chinese language. If Government officials and missionaries can do so, why cannot the merchants follow suit? It would pay them handsomely and they would soon find that there is not only profit, but also pleasure, in forming friendships with Chinese gentlemen of the old school, who may perhaps not have been westernized as is the case with many of the younger generation, but who in intelligence, uprightness and good manners have nothing to learn from the West.\n\nHere again I think that the Hongkong University has before it a wide sphere of usefulness: and I propose as soon as possible to enquire how far the Faculty of Arts can assist the Hongkong Government in the higher education of our cadets in the Chinese language and generally in things Chinese and also to ascertain what arrangements can be made to afford similar facilities in the University for young English business-men, who look forward to making a career in China: because, important though it is for this University to interpret Western thoughts and aspirations to China, it is no less important that it should adequately interpret Chinese thoughts and aspirations to the West. (Applause.)\n\nI must also guard myself against the misconception that I have any desire to see a reformed Chinese language substituted for English as the medium of instruction in this University. Such an idea is so far from my mind that I would rather give it as my settled opinion that no Chinese can make a really scientific study even of his own language without first acquiring a competent knowledge of some inflexional language and that he will find no language more useful than English for such a purpose. When we look through the eye-piece of a telescope, we see the object in the field of vision, but the telescope itself disappears from view. Similarly when we use our mother tongue as an instrument for the expression of thought, we lose sight of its grammatical, syntactical and etymological peculiarities; and these peculiarities are best brought home to us when we place our native language side by side with another language, or preferably with several other languages, and study them in comparison as it were from outside. I say this as one who has taken a lifelong interest in philology.\n\nDEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ENGINEERING).-Messrs. S. B. Ahmed, Cheng Hsu Ting, Liang Lin Kee, Wu Chang Ching, Yue Shui Chiu, Yui Zong Chen.\n\nLIST OF GRADUATES.\n\nOther degrees conferred by H.E. The Chancellor were as follows:\n\nDEGREE OF BACHELOR OF MEDICINE AND BACHELOR OF SURGERY.-Messrs. Lam Shiu Kwong, Lee Boon Choe, Lung Hsing Kuei, Soo Hoy Mun, Teh Yok Chee, Teo Kah Toh, Tseung Fat Im, Yeo Kok Cheang, and William Yuen Sze Chung.\n\nDEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS.-Miss I. Ho Tung, and Messrs. Ban Teong Hoe, A. G. Botelho, Chan Cheuk Wa, Cheong Wai Fung, Fung Yiu Shiu, Wong Ching Yau, Lam Choi Chiu, Lau Lai Sang, Leigh Byng, Ma Char Zur, N. V. Nguyen, Ooi Khay Bian, C. A. Peterson, A. G. F. Prew, N. H. F. Prew, Pun Shiu Pang, Shu Yu Pong, So Pak Sui; B. M. Talati, Teoh Khoy Moh, Tong Chun Chung, V. F. Viccajee.\n\nThe graduates were individually presented to the Chancellor, and when I. Ho Tung, the only lady graduate, was presented His Excellency raised his cap and cordially shook hands.\n\nThere was a tremendous amount of cracker firing as the degrees were conferred.\n\n245", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503274, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 349, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "J\n\n10\n\n—\n\nWe need scarcely say that we do not ask that any voluntary abstention should be \"suppressed by force\". All that we ask is that an involuntary abstention should not be maintained by force or artificial means. We do not wish to be misunderstood here. We fully realise that a year ago many Chinese believed, erroneously as we think, that they had reason for making a protest against the action of various foreign nations in connection with the incidents referred to above. If they had such reason, which we deny, they have made that protest, in various ways, but we are convinced that the great bulk of the people, always excepting those whose interest it is to maintain the boycott, would now gladly resume normal relations.\n\nIt is further alleged in the statements of the Chinese delegation that \"the practical blockade which the Government of Hongkong instituted against Canton and the rest of the province was a powerful predisposing and later continuing factor in the maintenance and enforcement of the anti-British boycott,\" and that \"this Hongkong severance of economic relations with Canton suggested the precise form in which patriotic retaliation for June 24 should express itself.\" This is a good example of putting a bad construction on perfectly innocent actions. The Hongkong Government did not institute any blockade of Canton or the rest of the province. Hongkong did not sever economic relations with Canton. The prohibition of the exportation of certain foodstuffs was a measure dictated by common prudence for the purpose of conserving the food supplies of the Colony. By the 22nd June the shipping strike had already begun, and no one knew how far the importation of foodstuffs into the Colony might not be interfered with. If this was a blockade by Hongkong, it was a blockade of the whole world. The object of the prohibition was shown by the notification of the 11th August, which announced that licences would be given freely for the exportation to all destinations subject to adequate reserves being maintained in the Colony, and the embargo was wholly removed on the 9th October. The prohibition of the exportation of coin, bullion and notes was a measure of ordinary financial prudence for the protection of the currency and financial system of the Colony.\n\nThus purely defensive measures, imposed on Hongkong by the strike, are twisted into an attack on Canton. In fact, the statement of the Chinese delegation on this point seems to us to be a desperate attempt to find an excuse and an explanation for the institution and maintenance of the boycott against Hongkong, a community which had not been concerned in any way with the incidents previously described.\n\nFinally, we take this opportunity to enter an indignant protest against the attempt which has been made by means of unscrupulous propaganda throughout the course of this unhappy trouble to throw the blame on Hongkong and on the British nation. In truth, the malady of which the Chinese delegation speak is an internal one and will not be cured by attacking the British people, who of all others are most desirous of seeing a happy, prosperous and independent China with whom they can conduct their trade.\n\nWe fully appreciate the fact that the whole outlook of large sections of the Chinese people has changed in recent years, and we sincerely sympathise with the ambition of the Chinese nation to take that great place in the world to which its genius entitles it. The Government of Hongkong, in particular, is prepared to assist in the development of those provinces with which the Colony is brought into immediate contact, in any way which may be of mutual benefit, and it is in this direction that we hope a solution of the present difficulties may be found.\n\nPage 347\n\nNo. 6.\n\nSTATEMENT\n\nMADE BY THE\n\nCHINESE DELEGATION\n\nAT THE\n\nMEETING OF Wednesday, the 21st July, 1926.\n\n347\n\nAs trustees of power on behalf of the Chinese people in the Liang-Kuang, the Nationalist Government sets the utmost value on publicity both as a means of public information and of mass education and discipline. The beneficiaries must know if we, as trustees, are in serve and not merely to dominate and exploit them, reason of policy that the Chinese Delegation cannot share the objection of the British Delegation to the immediate publication of statements embodying final, and not purely tentative, views on a question of such commanding public interest as the anti-British Boycott. There is also a specific reason. For more than a year the British press and publicists have exacerbated the public opinion of the world adversely to Canton which has been consistently mis-represented as a centre of senseless hostility and agitation against the British.\n\nIt must surely serve the interests not only of historical truth but of this conference if fiction is replaced by fact, and public opinion is rightly informed as to the true Chinese reasons for the existing anti-British trouble in this territory. We, at any rate, believe in open diplomacy as a necessity of modern government and in publicity generally as the foe of the idols of Occidental prestige and Oriental \"face\" than which there are no greater obstacles in the transaction of international affairs in the Far East.\n\nIt is clearly not within the scope of this Conference to review the Shanghai shooting on May 30 in the sense of an immediate cause of the anti-British boycott in the Liang-Kuang. Reference was made to it in the Chinese statement as but one of the massive features of the **causal background** out of which sprang the tragedy of the Shameen on June 23. And it is strictly in this sense that we have to traverse the version of the incident set forth in the British statement and, referring to the so-called vindication of Inspector Evanson by the Shanghai Judicial Enquiry, to emphasize the refusal of the Chinese people as a whole to have anything to do with the investigation. We agree that \"previous experience was utilised in dealing with the anniversary crowd of May 30 at Shanghai, which conclusively proved that a Chinese crowd can be dispersed without invoking the application of the doctrine of the preventive measure. As regards what happened at Hankow the British statement is incomplete without a reference to the double fact that the Chinese crowd was unarmed save as to sticks and poles and that the British forces included British marines armed with quick-firing machine-guns.\n\nWe have stated and we repeat that the anti-British boycott has been the immediate and direct outcome of the shooting off the Shameen on June 23. This is the case. If the boycott is to be ended, its cause must be dealt with. But while a consideration of this cause involves the question of responsibility as a vital issue, it is impossible to accept seriously as evidence on the point the allegation that it was definitely stated in Chinese circles in Canton and Hongkong on June 23rd that an attack was to be made on Shameen on the following day, and prominent Chinese actually took refuge in Hongkong and made other dispositions to meet such an eventuality. This presumably is a repetition of part of the then British Consul-General's disputable story of the events preceding the actual shooting on June 23. The baseless reports in \"Chinese circles\" and \"prominent Chinese\" (wealthy and therefore unduly nervous) running to Hongkong for refuge should be accepted as evidence of a plan of \"attack on Shameen\" is rather a sad commentary on human credibility. But this Shameen gullibility also testifies to the existence of a state and condition of the official mind on June 23 which explains why the events of the day marched to their tragic ending. To the then British Consul-General, an attack on the Shameen was an article of faith and, naturally he detected the diabolic intention in most things that came within his range of vision during the fateful hours immediately preceding the enactment of the tragedy.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503868, "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": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 364, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "Page ६\n\n345\n\nIt is bad to trust in a general strike.\n\nESPIONAGE LEON generous\n\nten stew beta visas into oversee a nod to bars åla\n\nNOT COPIOUS Tiedź bus uposat at bataq\n\nPHOTO AND BAGS\n\nCOIN AT BIM S2 a dinno qui moini qo viedi ni saw #2 (2)\n\nI VO SOLO AT SPELVANJ Of Spe gram GEN ZULLĮ Dan:\n\nFæertulilju s teikmi ala woşetq s'erobomob odt (12)\n\nbus triduod sit of es TUSOST STRÁð að droger tasi sit ni Jon blues Veð lokaler Kaljatoço na „nofmat to zaombradood\n\nJINBEITSVOD s'y‡ostal xil of insumo S ST\n\nod : vongaltik» to zimskab al toát #dywedi calm yoût a to axuden wilt mi som mulig ade okunaon a dem of tWSET tasis12Wa að of mean joa -15 wendt tart bos Told\n\n+mwolowoliła ovotų kinow malę odt tust koot ALALA AN Ind# %#JK?«KI-THENSEERD adi Beartotni planibrooda TeẾT\n\nsetebience piloženau með bad nismoɖorg a'oro bommo 5\n\ned ica bintu yadi svoda udvig mNORSET SÅ vol tadt has\n\n**ALL INTO & n'giustait six at bobtem EODEZ n'erobozmaű sát te cold rols edə vım busius albaITO .0 xis\n\nJá nominaCmod of hael Vlitzanesen binom sismdqo Ty\n\nde To Juve sidedory at æl !# biso motzezt alates? azoot erit taniașa nolfan +17 | | jere Tlak doomada noqu deutta Vino wit Brus efallačen od faktorero vietuloada od Bizow #1 of ad blcow ##ODASZEFOxto cr? al ou sażoă te yaw sidiegog TISSOÏS VIør s uam ac Just Creot and bendmoď ro dmod\n\n10m a dope deg mwoż alder vitni vlimid bas bota Luqoq : 10 đặc sản sinh ra\n\nau dent blom albaizi „9 7/3\n\n# SET FOO\n\nenstra tamt MÕNE TOTWEBť goises).\n\nprepared to regard a bombardment as a possible consequence\n\nof our action the plan proposed would be bluff and nothing\n\nMore.\n\nMr. Clutterbuck pointed out that the Admiralty and the\n\nlocal civil and military authorities differed in their\n\nestimation of the risk of an attack upon Swatow. The\n\nAdmiralty thought it probable whereas Hongkong regarded it\n\nas a remote possibility.\n\nSir G. Grindle said that the Admiralty had rejected\n\nthe Commodore's suggestions in which the civil and military\n\nauthorities at Canton had concurred and had made no\n\nalternative suggestions. Was there then no middle way\n\nbetween what would practically be a state of war on the\n\none hand and on the other the prospect of submitting in-\n\ndefinitely to the treatment which was being received from the\n\nCanton Government?\n\nCaptain Egerton said that in the view of the Admiralty\n\nthere was no middle way. All were agreed that Swatow must\n\nnot be evacuated and the whole situation was governed by\n\nthis.\n\nSir G. Grindle said that it was probable that this\n\nday week it would be found that the Cantonese Government\n\ndid not intend to carry out its promises. That morning a telegram had just been received from the\n\nGovernor of Hongkong painting the situation in the gloomiest\n\nterms. From this telegram it appeared that the situation\n\nwas still almost as bad as ever.\n\nMr. Mounsey said that he could not understand how\n\nanyone could expect to compel the people of Canton to put an end to the boycott by taking the drastic steps suggested\n\nby...\n\nPage 345", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 505711, "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": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "page_number": 433, "title": "CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926", "content_text": "Bir ffrindle.\n\nHere is no chance of our being allowed to send to the\n\nST. Bracli 6/1/27 38r. Butest 7!: \n\nMr.\n\nDikus\n\nMr. E. J. Hardy.\n\nMr. Strachey.\n\nSir J. Shuckburgh.\n\nm2.\n\nC 220-681/26 1417 mg\n\nJessel\n\n시즈\n\nThe Unv\n\n7.0\n\n425\n\na 1.1.8 14/15979\n\nSir G.\n\nindle.\n\nfacorner of Mary Kany paper, and however Laulers.\n\nThe facerer should be informed to hand\n\nin a despatch of the goot of the Bon. Coon\n\npaper in question.\n\nThope it wont lead to he's\n\nSir C. Davis.\n\nSir Wilson\n\nMr/ Ormsby-Gore.\n\nEarl of Clarendon,\n\nMr. Amery.\n\ngiving gist provided (a) Start Off\n\nDRAFT.\n\nan\n\nsaging hew and sty\n\nloy despatex fr. Cabinet w\n\nbending us\n\n(5) in gel Fo\n\ntelling\n\nwhat our policy\n\nPAC 24\n\nshould be\n\nR\n\n... D JAN\n\nJAN.\n\nWut\n\nseja\n\n10 Jan-1937.\n\nto the lite from this\n\n(18977) @@ge..g the 18th ou. 1926. respecting\n\n(in requod his Chris\n\nAnglo Japanese relations to\n\nthis man andan darpor\n\nby diw\n\nmis à vis Japan!\n\nBittle.\n\n15.12.26\n\natonce\n\nTo Go. Itth. Deret (Compen in drose')\n\nI un\n\nproell datin the so the July, 1926,\n\nConcerning Boat. probeing in\n\nrelatio is Japon\n\nin Japan & Kusora\n\nV\n\nwhich has\n\nbeen promoted for the Ctter. Y\n\nり\n\nInguinal Defence [C].D. Papers\n\nNo gio\n\n- B\n\nB), I am volu\n\nورك\n\nrequest you tis reform ales\n\nIs Austri Chomberlain thou", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-497 - Public Offices - 1926.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507705, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927", "page_number": 39, "title": "CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927", "content_text": "10 \n\n39 \n\ndelayed giving you a reply. During the past several months, our troops experienced extreme difficulties. At first they were faced with the violent outrages of the Communists at Shanghai, and had unfortunately to purify the Kuomintang with all determination. They were then molested by Wuhan planning an Eastern Expedition against them, and they therefore had to make a speedy transfer of their troops for the defence of their territories. All this caused great hindrance to our military operations, and helped to increase the power of our enemies in the North. Considering what is of greater importance, we cannot but endure the hardship and concentrate all our strength against the North, and the absence of **r. Tseung Kai Shek** at the front is for the same object you have referred to. We appreciate your good advice very much; how can we dare not to do our utmost to support your great scheme? We hope that you will advise us any time so that we can cope with the situation adequately, and then it will be a great boon to our Kuomintang and nation.\n\nWhat you have said in your telegram of the 28th, that when things turn out beyond our control, he who is to blame will be known, are indeed golden words. By the telegram of **Mr. Wong** dated the 24th, we understand that strict orders have been given by him to have all the Communists eliminated from the various organisations. It appears to us that he has taken a stronger measure to meet the situation than what he did in Canton on the 20th March last year in allowing no Communists to become Ministers in any Ministry, or to be elected to be more than one-third of the members of any Committee. We must rely on your assistance to guide him to the proper path step by step, but we dare not expect too much from you.\n\nIt \n\nAt", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-4 Canton situation- governor's despatches 15-9-1927 - 24-11-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 510170, "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": "CO129-503-5 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance- 1927 3-12-1926 - 31-12-1927", "page_number": 49, "title": "CO129-503-5 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance- 1927 3-12-1926 - 31-12-1927", "content_text": "# \n58 \n## Publication of yearly statements. \n### Furnishing of returns to the Governor. \n### Notices to shareholders \n\n30 \n## Yearly Statements \n153. The Board, from time to time, as soon as can be after the expiration of every year ending the 31st day of December, shall make a general statement in writing, showing therein the amount of the then debts, liabilities, and engagements and of the assets, property, credits and securities of or belonging to the Bank, as well in Hongkong as elsewhere, and such statement shall include an account of the amount of the promissory notes of the Bank in circulation, and of the coin held in the several establishments of the Bank, such accounts of promissory notes and coin respectively being made from and according to the then last returns and information furnished to the Directors from the establishments of the Bank; and the Board shall send one copy of every such general yearly statement authenticated by the signatures of the Chairman of the Board, or of two Directors, and of the Chief Manager or Chief Accountant in Hongkong, to the Governor and shall immediately afterwards publish such statement in the Gazette and in such other newspapers circulating in the places where the business of the Board shall be carried on as the Governor may, from time to time, require; and shall also make and publish and cause to be made and published by the officers, servants and agents of the Bank, at the several establishments of the Bank, such further returns as to the amount of the promissory notes of the Bank in circulation at such establishments respectively, and the amount of coin and bullion held in such establishments respectively, as the Governor shall, from time to time, require; such returns to be made to such persons, and published in such manner as the Treasury shall direct, and the Board shall obey and cause to be obeyed by the officers, servants, and agents of the Bank at the several establishments of the Bank, all such rules as the Governor shall, from time to time, make for the verification of such returns and the inspection of the coin and bullion held in the establishments of the Bank by such person and in such manner as the Governor shall think fit. \n\n154. The Board shall also, if and whenever so required by the Governor, produce and submit to him or to such persons as he shall appoint for that purpose for his or their inspection and examinations, the several returns from which such general yearly statement is prepared, and such further information as to the state and proceedings of the establishments of the Bank as the Governor shall, from time to time, require to be furnished. \n\n## Notice \n155.--(1) Any notice to be given by the Bank to shareholders either be given by generally or individually shall be sufficiently given by advertisement once at least in one or more daily newspapers printed and circulating in the Colony. \n### advertise-ment. \n### Proof of such notice. \n(2) The production in any Court of Justice of any such newspaper containing any such advertisement shall be sufficient proof of the giving of any such notice as regards all persons and for every purpose. \n\n156. Notices to be given on the part of shareholders to the Bank shall be left at or sent through the post to the Chief Manager and addressed to the Head Office. \n### Notices by shareholders to bank. \n\n157. Every person who by operation of law, transfer, transmission, or other means whatsoever, shall become entitled to any share, shall be bound by every notice in respect of such share which, previously to his name and address being entered upon the shareholders' register shall have been duly given to the party from whom he derives his title to such share. \n### Transferee bound by notice. \n\n158. The signature to any notice to be given by the Bank may be in writing or printed or lithographed or stamped. \n### How notice to be signed. \n\n159. Where a given number of days' notice, or notice extending over any other period, is required to be given, the date on which the advertisement first appears shall be counted in such number of days or other period. \n### How time to be counted. \n\n31 \n## Shareholders not entitled to certain information. \n160. No shareholder shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information respecting any detail of the Bank's trading or banking business or any matter which is or may be a business secret or which may relate to the conduct of the business of the Bank if in the opinion of the Board it will be inexpedient in the general interests of the shareholders to give the information required. \n\n## Indemnity. Individual Responsibility. \n### Shareholder not to be entitled to certain confidential information. \n161. Every Member of the Board, or of any Committee thereof, Member of directors, of any Local Committee, Chief Manager, Inspector, Manager, Sub-Manager, Agent, Sub-Agent, Chief Accountant, Accountant, or other European officer of the Bank, his heirs, executors and administrators shall be indemnified and saved harmless out of the funds of the Bank from and against all costs, charges, losses, damages, and expenses whatsoever, which any such person as aforesaid may incur or become liable to by reason of any contract entered into, or act or thing done by him in the proper execution of his own respective powers, duties, office and trust; and every such person as aforesaid his heirs, executors and administrators shall be indemnified and saved harmless out of the funds of the Bank from and against all actions suits claims and demands whatsoever brought or made against him or them in respect of any engagement or any liability of the Bank, except such as may be incurred or occasioned by or through his own dishonesty or negligence. \n\nNo such person as aforesaid shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects, or defaults of the other or others of them, or for joining in any receipt or other act for conformity, or for any person with or to whom any moneys or effects belonging to the Bank shall be lodged or deposited for safe custody or shall come, or for any loss or expense happening to the Bank through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to any property acquired by order of the Board for or on behalf of the Bank, or for the insufficiency or deficiency of, or for any defect of title of the Bank to any security in or upon which any of the moneys of the Bank shall be invested, or for loss, or damage arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency or tortious act of any person with whom any moneys, securities, or effects of the Bank shall be deposited or for any loss or damage occasioned by any error of judgment, omission, default or oversight on his part, or for any other loss damage or misfortune whatever which shall happen in the execution of the duties of his office, or in relation thereto, unless the same happen through his own dishonesty or negligence. \n\n## Arbitration. \n### any \n162. Whenever any difference shall arise between the Bank on the one hand, and any of the Shareholders, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, on the other hand, touching the true intent or construction of the Ordinance or of these regulations, or touching any act or thing to be done, omitted, or suffered, in pursuance of the Ordinance or these regulations, every such difference shall be referred to the arbitration of two arbitrators one to be appointed by each party and such arbitration shall be carried out in Hongkong under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure of Hongkong in the same way as if the Bank and any such shareholder had entered into a written agreement to submit any such difference to arbitration. \n### Individual responsibility. \n### Arbitrators between the bank and shareholder or successors. \n\n## Dissolution. \n### up \n163. If and when it shall appear upon or be certified by any report of the auditors or any report of the Board that one-half of the Capital actually paid on shares has been lost in the course of business or otherwise, then and in any such case the Bank shall thereupon be ipso facto dissolved. \n### Dissolution on loss of paid-up capital.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-503-5 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance- 1927 3-12-1926 - 31-12-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512227, "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": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 48, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "62\n\nShowing causes\n\nSkin Diseases :—\n\nScabies,\n\nOphthalmia,\n\nTrachoma,\n\nEye Diseases-\n\nImpetigo,\n\nFavus,\n\nRingworm,\n\nFever,\n\nSmall-pox,\n\nChicken-pox,\n\nMeasles,\n\nJaundice,\n\nChronic Nephritis,\n\nDebility,\n\nSyphilis,\n\nEnlarged Spleen,\n\nHydrocele,\n\nAbscess, Empyema.\n\nPhthisis.\n\nLeprosy,\n\nBeri Beri,\n\nPneumonia,\n\nCardiac Disease,\n\nDiseases.\n\n— 50 —\n\nTable III.\n\nof rejections of emigrants.\n\n826\n\nNumbers rejected.\n\n3\n\n4\n\n14\n\n196\n\n18\n\n \n T♡\n 1\n \n\nTable IV.\n\n \n 30th Jan. 1926\n 31st Jan., 1926\n \n \n 2nd March, 1926\n 3rd March, 1926\n \n \n 17th March, 1926\n 18th March, 1926\n \n \n 30th March, 1926\n 31st March, 1926\n \n \n 12th April, 1926\n 13th April, 1926\n \n \n 14th April, 1926\n 15th April, 1926\n \n \n 16th April, 1926\n 17th April, 1926\n \n \n 20th April, 1926\n 21st April, 1926\n \n \n 28th July, 1926\n 31st July, 1926\n \n \n 5th August, 1926\n 8th August, 1926\n \n \n 15th August, 1926\n 19th August, 1926\n \n \n 23rd August, 1926\n \n \n \n 28th Dec., 1926\n 30th Dec., 1926\n \n\nShowing the number of ship detained in Quarantine with ports of origin, dates and period of detention.\n\n \n Name of Vessel.\n Port.\n Causes.\n Cases.\n Date of arrival in quarantine.\n Date of Detention from quarantine.\n \n \n Tjisalak\n Amoy\n Small-pox\n 1\n *\n \n \n \n Angkor\n Shanghai\n Szechueu\n 1\n \n \n \n \n Van Overstraten\n Amoy\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tjipanas\n Amoy\n งา\n 1\n \n \n \n \n Van Cloon\n Amoy\n !!\n \n \n \n \n \n Nam Sang\n Amoy\n }}\n \n \n \n \n \n Tjisondari\n Japanese\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Prince\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ho Sang\n Shanghai\n Cholera\n 1\n \n \n \n \n Ying Chow\n Amoy\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yiu Chow\n Shanghai\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hanoi\n Haiphong\n Cholera Suspicious\n +3\n \n \n \n\n63", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 515248, "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": "CO129-510-3 Use of Caroline Hill for naval and military recreation ground 10-2-1928 - 14-12-1928", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-510-3 Use of Caroline Hill for naval and military recreation ground 10-2-1928 - 14-12-1928", "content_text": "The work.\n\nThe land alone as at present laid out is valued at one and a half million dollars.\n\n3.\n\nIt was suggested to the War Memorial Committee that part of their funds should be employed to convert the site into a recreation ground for the services. The funds at the disposal of the Committee consist of public subscriptions, a contribution of two hundred thousand dollars from this Government and a large contribution from the Sharp Trust.\n\nThe first appeal for subscriptions resulted in the collection of a total of $42,293 to be expended at the discretion of the Committee... This sum was completely expended in the construction of the Cenotaph, which actually cost $52,580.93. In course of time a scheme for constructing a War Memorial Hospital took shape, and donations were invited for this specific object. The Government subscription of $200,000 was made on a dollar for dollar basis as against subscriptions from the public, and is therefore as definitely earmarked for the Hospital as the monies received from the community.\n\n4.\n\nThe Sharp Trust contains conditions which clearly reserve all its funds for purposes connected with Hospitals; and it was in fact necessary to modify the scheme of the War Memorial Hospital to bring it within some of the essential conditions of the Trust. In any event no part of the Sharp Trust Funds can be secured for the purposes of a recreation ground.\n\n5.\n\nThe following extract from a letter dated 1st November, 1927, from the Chairman, War Memorial Committee, clearly expresses its position in the matter:-\n\n\"The Committee are unanimous in thinking that there is a great need for a hospital such as is proposed and that it will be a great boon to the community.\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\n\"Although the question has not been directly put to them, none of the private medical practitioners in commenting upon alternate sites have suggested that such a hospital is not required, but, on the contrary, the opinion has been expressed by some that there should be a similar one in Kowloon as well to meet the Colony's needs.\n\n\"It is the recollection of the Committee that the original conception of a Memorial was permanently to record the gratitude of the community to the forces of the Empire who served in the Great War. It was for this reason that it was decided in particular to afford to those who served in the late War accommodation and treatment within the discretion of the Committee on special terms including free treatment where expedient in the Nursing Home. The Committee understand that the Memorials erected in other parts of the Empire, France and Belgium have the same object in view.\n\n\"While fully in sympathy with the Government's wish to provide more recreation grounds for the Services, the Committee very much regret that it will not be possible to make a grant from the War Memorial Funds for the reasons already stated, and for the further reason that the funds available are insufficient properly to provide for the home the Committee have in mind, and other purposes in addition.\"\n\n6.\n\nNo part of the monies in the hands of the Committee can therefore be diverted from the Hospital scheme and the hope of obtaining any assistance from the War Memorial Funds has had to be abandoned.\n\n7.\n\nI still have under careful consideration the question of how additional recreation grounds can be provided\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 10\n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-510-3 Use of Caroline Hill for naval and military recreation ground 10-2-1928 - 14-12-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 518771, "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": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929", "page_number": 90, "title": "CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929", "content_text": "# Powers and duties of auditora.\n\n## Auditor\n\n**need not he shareholder.**\n\n**Director not to be auditor.**\n\n**Resignation or removal of auditor.**\n\n**When accounts to be deemed finally Settled.**\n\n**Publication of yearly statements.**\n\n34\n\n148(1) Every auditor shall at all reasonable times have a right of access to the books and accounts and vouchers and returns of the Bank in the Colony and shall be entitled to require from the Directors and officers of the Bank such information and explanations as may be necessary for the performance of his duties, but as regards the books and accounts of any establishment beyond the limits of the Colony it shall be sufficient if the auditors be allowed access to such copies thereof and extracts therefrom as have been transmitted to the Head Office.\n\n(2) The auditors shall make a report to the shareholders on the accounts examined by them, and on every balance sheet laid before the shareholders in general meeting during their tenure of office, and the report shall state-\n| Condition | Requirement |\n| --- | --- |\n| (a) | Whether or not they have obtained all the information and explanations they have required |\n| (b) | Whether, in their opinion, the balance sheet referred to in the report is a full and fair balance sheet properly drawn up, so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Bank's affairs according to the best of their information and the explanations given to them, and as shown by the books and returns of the Bank. |\n\n149. It shall not be requisite that an auditor be a shareholder, but the auditors may be shareholders of the Bank.\n\n150. If an auditor be appointed a Director or other Officer or servant of the Bank, he shall immediately thereupon cease to be an auditor.\n\n151. Any auditor may resign his office or may be removed from office by a vote of any general meeting, or may, subject to the approval of the Governor, be removed by the Board.\n\n152. Every profit and loss account and balance sheet, when audited and approved by a general meeting, shall be conclusive, except as regards any error discovered therein within three months next after the approval thereof. Whenever any such error is discovered within that period, the account shall forthwith be corrected, and thenceforth shall be conclusive.\n\n## Yearly Statements\n\n153. The Board, from time to time, as soon as can be after the expiration of every year ending the 31st day of December, shall make a general statement in writing, showing therein the amount of the then debts, liabilities, and engagements and of the assets, property, credits and securities of or belonging to the Bank, as well in Hongkong as elsewhere, and such statement shall include an account of the amount of the promissory notes of the Bank in circulation, and of the coin held in the several establishments of the Bank, such accounts of promissory notes and coin respectively being made from and according to the then last returns and information furnished to the Directors from the establishments of the Bank; and the Board shall send one copy of every such general yearly statement authenticated by the signatures of the Chairman of the Board, or of two Directors, and of the Chief Manager or Chief Accountant in Hongkong, to the Governor and shall immediately afterwards publish such statement in the Gazette and in such other newspapers circulating in the places where the business of the Board shall be carried on as the Governor may, from time to time, require; and shall also make and publish and cause to be made and published by the officers, servants and agents of the Bank, at the several establishments of the Bank, such further returns as to the amount of the promissory notes of the Bank in circulation at such establishments respectively, and the amount of coin and bullion held in such establishments respectively, as the Governor shall, from time to time, require; such returns to be made to such persons, and published in such manner as the Treasury shall direct, and the Board shall obey and cause to be obeyed by the officers, servants, and agents of the Bank at the several establishments of the Bank, all such rules as the Governor shall, from time to time, make for the verification of such returns and the inspection of the coin and bullion held in the establishments of the Bank by such person and in such manner as the Governor shall think fit.\n\n35\n\n154. The Board shall also, if and whenever so required by the Governor, produce and submit to him or to such persons as he shall appoint for that purpose for his or their inspection and examinations, the several returns from which such general yearly statement is prepared, and such further information as to the state and proceedings of the establishments of the Bank as the Governor shall, from time to time, require to be furnished.\n\n## Notice\n\n155. (1) Any notice to be given by the Bank to shareholders either generally or individually shall be sufficiently given by advertisement once at least in one or more daily newspapers printed and circulating in the Colony.\n\n### Notices to shareholders to be given by advertisement\n\n(2) The production in any Court of Justice of any such newspaper containing any such advertisement shall be sufficient proof of the giving of such notice as regards all persons and for every purpose.\n\n156. Notices to be given on the part of shareholders to the Bank shall be left at or sent through the post to the Chief Manager and addressed to the Head Office.\n\n### Transferee notice\n\n157. Every person who by operation of law, transfer, transmission, or other means whatsoever, shall become entitled to any share, shall be bound by every notice in respect of such share which, previously to his name and address being entered upon the shareholders' register shall have been duly given to the party from whom he derives his title to such share.\n\n158. The signature to any notice to be given by the Bank may be in writing or printed or lithographed or stamped.\n\n### How time to be counted\n\n159. Where a given number of days' notice, or notice extending over any other period, is required to be given, the date on which the advertisement first appears shall be counted in such number of days or other period.\n\n## Shareholders not entitled to certain information\n\n160. No shareholder shall be entitled to require discovery of or any information respecting any detail of the Bank's trading or banking business or any matter which is or may be a business secret or which may relate to the conduct of the business of the Bank if in the opinion of the Board it will be inexpedient in the general interests of the shareholders to give the information required.\n\n## Indemnity. Individual Responsibility\n\n161. Every Member of the Board, or of any Committee thereof, Member of any Local Committee, Chief Manager, Inspector, Manager, Sub-Manager, Agent, Sub-Agent, Chief Accountant, Accountant, or other European officer of the Bank, his heirs, executors and administrators shall be indemnified and saved harmless out of the funds of the Bank from and against all costs, charges, losses, damages, and expenses whatsoever, which any such person as aforesaid may incur or become liable to by reason of any contract entered into, or act or thing done by him in the proper execution of his own respective powers, duties, office and trust; and every such person as aforesaid his heirs, executors and administrators shall be indemnified and saved harmless out of the funds of the Bank from and against all actions suits claims and demands whatsoever brought or made against him or them in respect of any engagement or any liability of the Bank, except such as may be incurred or occasioned by or through his own dishonesty or negligence.\n\n### Individual liability\n\nNo such person as aforesaid shall be answerable for the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of the other or others of them, or for joining in any receipt or other act for conformity, or for any person with or to whom any moneys or effects belonging to the Bank shall be lodged or deposited for safe custody or shall come, or for any loss or expense happening to the Bank.\n\nPage 90\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-515-8 Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation- amendment ordinances- and reports 26-1-1929 - 8-7-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 519072, "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": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "page_number": 42, "title": "CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929.\n\n## \"SMALL SISTERS\" OR SLAVES?\n\nIt is a curious coincidence that public notice of proposed legislation for the better protection of girls under eighteen years of age synchronises with the annual meeting in the Colony of the Anti-Mui-tsai Society. Details of the proposed amendment of the existing law, and of the proceedings at the public meeting, have already appeared in our columns. The Government proposes to give the Secretary for Chinese Affairs authority to assume legal guardianship of any girl under eighteen who has been sold for adoption into another family, or has been improperly treated by those in whose custody she is, whether sold or not. Very wide powers are proposed to be given to the authorities, enabling them to make the most exhaustive search and inquiry in connection with suspected cases of infringement of the law, and heavy punishment in the shape of fine or imprisonment is provided for.\n\nIt is interesting to note that at the annual meeting of the Anti-Mui-tsai Society the honorary secretary paid special tribute to the activity of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in dealing with cases of ill-treatment to mui-tsai brought to its notice. The new legislation which the Government proposes to introduce does not mention mui-tsai, but of course these are the girls on whose behalf mainly it is proposed the law shall be amended.\n\nThe judicial pronouncement was made just fifty years ago, yet the mui-tsai system persists. The buying and selling of these girls is prohibited by law; the further employment of them is prohibited; those who wish to be set free from their engagements need but go to the first policeman they meet, and the wheels of the law will be set in motion—yet the system has not been eradicated. Nobody knows how many \"small sisters\" there are in Hong Kong, since that part of the 1923 Ordinance providing for registration of mui-tsai has not been enforced.\n\nIn the year following Mr. Churchill's declaration, an Ordinance was passed and partially put into force. This new law declared there were no property rights in children who were bought, and it prohibited the employment of any mui-tsai or female servant under ten years of age, but a third clause calling for the registration of these \"small sisters\" was not and has not yet been put into operation. The Anti-Mui-tsai Society claims that the Government's failure to enforce the registration clause renders all other efforts to assist these girls nugatory.\n\nThey have been advised (through a proclamation published once in the Chinese Press) to go to the police and report any cruelty or ill-treatment, but young women of this type are both illiterate and timid, and are afraid to make an appeal to the authorities for help. Moreover, among the Chinese, there is very strong—possibly quite unreasonable—prejudice against the Po Leung Kuk—the institution to which such girls are sent when released by the authorities from their torturers.\n\nIn spite of the Ordinance of 1923, and of more recent official efforts to assist these unfortunate girls, the Anti-Mui-tsai Society declares the eradication of this pernicious system is as remote as ever. It is interesting in this connection to quote some remarks made in 1879 by the Chief Justice in giving judgment in a case in the Criminal Sessions relating to charges of kidnapping and selling children. His Lordship, after a very lengthy address, said that what he intended to affirm could be summarised thus:\n\n1. That in England, by the common law, slavery in every form has always been and is prohibited, that no one can acquire any right over the person of another, that no man can sell his own person into slavery, that a parent has no saleable property in his child; moreover, that by every such sale is *nudum pactum* and absolutely void, that money paid on such sale cannot be recovered back; but that the man bought must be restored to liberty, and the sold child to his parent, as if no money had been paid; that no purchase money can be recovered back, and still that the crime in buyer and seller must be punished.\n\n2. That slavery has never been introduced into any British colony except by positive law; so said Lord Mansfield.\n\n3. That all slavery was abolished throughout the British colonies in 1833, when England nobly made a present of £20,000,000 as a boon to the slave-holders.\n\n4. That Hong Kong became a British Colony not until 1841, and by then slavery had been absolutely prohibited by force of both the common and the statute law then existing.\n\n5. That by the proclamation of January 24, 1845, the Queen promised and undertook that the English law against slavery will be enforced by all Her Majesty's officers, Civil and Military, within the Colony.\n\n6. That the obligation to enforce these laws is, therefore, absolutely imposed by the Queen on every Civil and Military officer here as if the obligation has been especially written at length in his commission or warrant of office.\n\n7. That these laws not having been enforced each officer has failed in his duty to the Queen, and that the only excuse that any one of us can urge for such failure in duty is ignorance of the existence of the extent of slavery here.\n\n8. That it being now patent that there is now a very great number of slaves (say 10,000; the number has been estimated at even 20,000) in this Colony, ignorance can no longer be our excuse, but that all officers of the Queen in this Colony, each in his department and to the best of his ability, must henceforth effectually enforce these laws or fail in the duty imposed on him by the Queen.\n\nThat theory and practice do not always agree is unfortunately too often the case. The literal translation of the word mui-tsai is \"small sister,\" and there is reason to believe that originally all such girls were—and some still are—treated as members of the family into which they enter. Parents of the poorer class, with too many mouths to feed, were only too glad to be able to place them with well-to-do families as \"small sister,\" especially as the transfer would be accompanied by a cash payment. This money, in theory, did not represent the price of a girl purchased, but was simply cash compensation to the parents for expenses incurred in bringing the child up.\n\nNo doubt it is still the fact that many such girls are well-treated, are much better off as \"small sister\" than they would be with their own poverty-stricken parents, but it is also the fact that many mui-tsai are shamefully and cruelly ill-treated. It is also the fact that the system is one which runs counter to British sentiment, and in 1922 Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking in the House of Commons, said he was determined to effect the abolition of the system at the earliest practicable date.\n\nLest there be any misunderstanding arising out of the then Colonial Secretary's statement that he expected the change to be carried out within a year, it should be noted that this was seven and a half years ago, and still the Anti-Mui-tsai Society is carrying on its activities in Hong Kong—working for the complete abolition of a custom which, though restricted, still persists.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-516-6 The Mui-Tsai question 5-11-1929 - 21-1-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520643, "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": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 171, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "## HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL\n\nWe feel that this matter of a much larger contribution being made by the Imperial Government is of so much importance that we make no apology for quoting the following extract from the speech made by my honourable friend, Sir Shou-son Chow, voicing the collective views of the Unofficial members of this Council, in his budget speech of the 4th October, 1928 (see Hong Kong Hansard of 1928 at page 85):\n\n\"The inability of His Majesty's Government to contribute more than £100,000 towards the cost of the Aerodrome instead of paying three-fourths of the total cost is very disappointing to the community, after it had been told that the Secretary of State for the Colonies had actually proposed to the Imperial Treasury three-fourths of the cost as being its equitable share of the outlay. Feeling that the Secretary of State would not have accepted this proportion as representing the Imperial Government's just obligation unless it had appealed to him as eminently fair, as I may say it does to us, we earnestly hope that further strong representations will be made to the Imperial Government to increase its contribution to the full three-fourths. The Aerodrome, while it will be a valuable local asset, will be a still more valuable Imperial asset as a vital link in the communications of the Empire.\"\n\nThe present Unofficial members of this Council, who now number eight against six a year ago, unanimously endorse the above view expressed by all the Unofficial members last year.\n\n## Broadcasting\n\nBroadcasting is an important modern method of communication, of which this Colony has not availed itself to any considerable extent.\n\nWe are not here referring to the transmission of musical programmes for \"bright young people,\" but to something far more important; things that are likely to contribute to make Hong Kong the commercial centre of a large area—that is to say, the distribution of all kinds of market quotations, shipping news, news of the world, in short everything that is likely to be of interest or value to commerce and shipping.\n\nTo-day our range is about fifty miles but with an expenditure of about $200,000 and an annual contribution of about $80,000 we could have an effective range of 400 miles.\n\nConsider, for a moment, the man in Foochow whose news from here is always four days old or the merchant at a place like Wuchow. What a boon an effective broadcasting system from Hong Kong would be!\n\nOn the value of broadcasting for propaganda purposes we need not dwell, for that is apparent. The Right Honourable Mr. Ormsby...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520649, "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": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "page_number": 177, "title": "CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929", "content_text": "## HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\n...ment for the making of golf-links by members of the Chinese community. They understand that this will be one of the points referred to by the Senior Chinese Unofficial Member in his speech.\n\nBefore I resume my seat I would like to express my great gratitude to my honourable friend, Mr. Shenton, who has supplied me with a very large portion of the material for the speech which I have just given. (Applause).\n\n**HON. SIR SHOU-SON CHOW.** Sir, The views I am expressing, with the exception of one given by way of personal explanation, are the joint views of the three Chinese members. The Honourable Senior Unofficial Member having so fully and ably represented the collective opinion of the unofficial members, it only remains for me to touch upon a few points affecting the Chinese principally.\n\nIn the Estimates of Revenue, we desire to call attention to the increase of $400,000 in the item \"Tobacco Duties\" over the approved Estimates for 1929. We assume that the increase is due to the new scale of duties introduced in February last under the Tobacco Amendment Ordinance of 1929; and we hope—though we are by no means sanguine—that the anticipated revenue will be realised.\n\nRepresentations have been made to us by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Chinese tobacco trade, that under the amended scale of duties 75 cents per pound is now imposed on tobacco, irrespective of the quality, and that consequently the lower-grade Chinese tobacco cannot stand the competition of the higher grade tobacco, resulting in smuggling of the former on an extensive scale. The effect of this would be a loss of legitimate trade in the lower-grade tobacco, with the loss of revenue to the Government.\n\nIn order to counteract this adverse factor we suggest that the Superintendent of Imports and Exports may make a thorough investigation into the matter in co-operation with the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce who would, I am sure, be found only too willing to assist in every way they could.\n\nTurning now to the Estimates of Expenditure, we express gratification at the provision of $50,000 for a Harbour Dispensary Launch. The boon to the large boat-population must be inestimable, particularly in the treatment of communicable diseases.\n\nIt is a matter of common knowledge that the boat people are either indifferent to medical treatment, or unable to leave their craft and go ashore for treatment, in cases in which immediate medical attention is an urgent necessity. The floating population come into the scheme of things to a far greater extent than can be imagined from the angle of public health; and since the mountain cannot go to Mahomet, Mahomet must go to the mountain. The new scheme is therefore one that must have the support of all classes of the community.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-2 Estimates for 1930 19-9-1929 - 19-9-1929.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 520885, "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": "CO129-519-7 Hong Kong currency- minting of silver dollars 1-11-1929 - 5-2-1930", "page_number": 18, "title": "CO129-519-7 Hong Kong currency- minting of silver dollars 1-11-1929 - 5-2-1930", "content_text": "# THE DWINDLING DOLLAR.\n\n(Daily Press, October 8, 1929). FROM a reader in Manila comes a letter dated October 4 asking whether the Hong Kong dollar has slid down to what can be considered more or less normal for the next few years?\" Scarcely had this letter left the Philippines when the dollar commenced to \"slide again, and our correspondent, all unknowingly, has put a question which is being very widely asked in the Colony. Already we hear of several small Chinese firms being in serious difficulties, some having actually suspended business. On October 5 (Saturday) the dollar dropped from 1/10.3-16 to 1/9), and yesterday (Monday) was quoted at the same figures. Not since 1915 has the Hong Kong dollar been so low, though it touched 1/9 in 1926.\n\nA suggestion has been hastily put forward by Chinese merchants that the Government should compel the local banks to make payment in silver dollars instead of paper currency. The idea is that if this were done for a fixed period—a minimum of six months is proposed—the silver dollar would again become legal currency, and its value would be based directly upon the price of silver. At present the paper dollar stands at about 16 per cent. above silver parity, and the Chinese merchants urge that the Government obtain the advice of an independent currency expert with a view to finding the best method of keeping the note issue on a par with silver dollars, and the latter on a par with silver. Pending the discovery of such solution, the banks should pay out no more notes, passing over their counters nothing but silver.\n\nThere is a very considerable amount of mystery surrounding the whole subject of Hong Kong currency, and we have good ground for saying that most careful and diligent official inquiries have failed to find a satisfactory explanation of the peculiar circumstances which have come into existence in this Colony. Until the cause can be clearly traced, can a satisfactory remedy be found? The plain fact is that a small piece of printed paper, usually very tattered in appearance and filthy to handle, is regarded in this Colony with much more favour than the silver coin for which the note is a very convenient substitute.\n\nMr. W. F. SPALDING, a well-known authority on finance and banking, has given a brief outline of how this state of affairs came about. More than sixty years ago, over two million British silver dollars were minted in this Colony, moulded after the fashion of the popular Mexican dollar, but they failed to meet with the favour of the Chinese, and were accepted by them only at a discount of one per cent. or more. Since 1872 the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has been permitted to issue currency notes, and this paper—together with the notes similarly issued by the Chartered Bank and Mercantile Bank—has found much favour among the Chinese community. Simultaneously, the demand for silver dollars has steadily decreased, and as a result notes have come to command a premium as compared with the metallic currency they represent.\n\nThe fundamental basis of exchange between Hong Kong and gold standard countries is the gold value of the silver content of the dollar. If silver rises in value, then exchange also will tend to rise; if silver falls in price, then exchange will follow suit. On July 1 last, silver was quoted at 24.1-16, and the dollar stood at 1/11 3-16. About the middle of September silver went down to 23 11-16, and the dollar to 1/10 15-16. Last weekend silver was quoted at 23, and the dollar at 1/9). These figures seem to show very clearly the working of cause and effect; cheaper silver, cheaper dollar. Since 1919 the silver market has been going down, and dollar exchange has shown a similar trend. The following figures provide interesting evidence of this movement :-\n\n## SILVER IN LONDON.\n| Year | Highest | Lowest |\n|------|---------|---------|\n| 1900 | 27 | 22 |\n| 1914 | 30 | ... |\n| 1919 | 79 | 47.7-16 |\n| 1920 | 89 | 38 |\n| 1921 | 43.3/8 | 30g |\n| 1922 | 37.8 | 30% |\n| 1923 | 33.11-16| 30/ |\n| 1924 | 36.1-16 | 31.3 |\n| 1925 | 33.7-16 | ... |\n| 1926 | ... | ... |\n| 1927 | 31.1-16 | 24 |\n\n## HONG KONG EXCHANGE.\n| Year | Highest | Lowest |\n|------|---------|---------|\n| 1900 | 2/11 | 1/11 |\n| 1914 | 1/11 | 1/8 |\n| 1919 | 5/2 | 3/0 |\n| 1920 | 6/2 | ... |\n| 1921 | 3/12 | ... |\n| 1922 | 2/7 | 2/ |\n| 1923 | 2/4/ | ... |\n| 1924 | 2/5 | 2/ |\n| 1925 | 2/5 | ... |\n| 1926 | 2/4 | 2/0 |\n| 1927 | 2/0 | 1/9 |\n| ... | 1/11 | ... |\n\nThe price of silver is not the only factor to be considered, but it will be noticed that as the metal has become cheaper, so has the value of the dollar come down. The recent drop again coincides with a fall in the silver market, and if the metal is quoted still more cheaply, the dollar may be expected to fall proportionately. The gold price of silver is the fundamental basis for fixing Eastern exchanges, and although exchange may not react immediately, owing to other minor factors also influencing financial and trade conditions, it will eventually go up or down in sympathy with the silver market.\n\nThe other question—that of the disparity between notes and silver dollars—is much more puzzling. Communities suffering from a depreciated paper currency—inconvertible paper or notes issued far beyond the amount of metallic reserves are not uncommon. But Hong Kong \"suffers\" from the strange disease of having an appreciated paper currency, standing at about sixteen per cent. above par. Why should a torn and very greasy piece of paper be so much more acceptable than a bright and clean silver dollar? In the first place, the Chinese know there is ample security behind the notes; secondly, they have much more confidence in a British banknote than in an unchopped dollar (and even chopped dollars depreciate very rapidly as a result of this rough treatment); thirdly, paper currency is much more convenient to handle than heavy silver coins. There may be other reasons, but these appear to be the chief factors explaining why paper currency is popular in Hong Kong, where payment in notes is generally recognised as the basis for all exchange and business operations.\n\nIf, however, it is a fact—though it is not yet clearly established—that this premium on local notes has a very harmful effect upon local trade and industry, then it will not be long before this disability is removed. With silver at 26d. per ounce, the dollar would be worth about 1/10; at the present market price of silver, the dollar is worth approximately 1/9, so that with exchange trembling half a point above that figure it seems that parity between notes and coins is almost in sight. It is most improbable that paper currency will be withdrawn entirely (as suggested by Chinese merchants) and only silver accepted as legal tender. This would be practical so far as single dollars are concerned, but the larger notes would certainly have to remain, though the public might be given the choice of taking paper or coin when they go to the banks, and it will be interesting to see what happens after the novelty of handling pieces of silver has passed. Paper money is now in such general use throughout the world that we shall be surprised if it loses its popularity in this Colony. If, as is probable, Chinese prejudice in favour of banknotes reasserts itself, and the bright silver dollar is again regarded with unfriendly eyes, what is to prevent a repetition of what has happened during the last few years—a premium on paper money? We leave this problem to the expert who eventually may be summoned from England to look into the problem of Hong Kong currency and suggest a remedy for the difficulties created. Meanwhile, our answer to the question from a Manila reader is in the affirmative—the Hong Kong dollar appears to have settled at a figure more or less \"normal,\" and seems likely so to remain.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-519-7 Hong Kong currency- minting of silver dollars 1-11-1929 - 5-2-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 522622, "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": "CO129-521-2 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-1-1930 - 10-4-1930", "page_number": 133, "title": "CO129-521-2 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-1-1930 - 10-4-1930", "content_text": "portion \n\n8, Biltiter Square,\n\ndesired\n\n143\n\nFebruary, 1930\n\nToronto the letter dated the 1st to\n\n@ad addpa\n\n1 on baho15 or yourank\n\nSagt, la\n\ndo it in sunoaarootnot, oo\n\nsa alternative to the employment of Britain\n\nmilitary guards for the protection of British\n\n100 1000go arousinat Intarami strncy.\n\na special police force should be formed with this\n\n1\n\nant\n\nconsent to cats plan Veing\n\ntrition miltary paariahould be aappiled\n\nano coron 10 yunotron hod boon rearult\n\ndoctor of\n\nso\n\nFury at sunaidor\n\nevolves on ho\n\ned to tapl\n\nmendativas given to them in druǝt of last year muruator your", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-2 Piracy in Chinese waters- anti-piracy measures 9-1-1930 - 10-4-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523804, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "content_text": "4\n\nfore, only affects goods actually produce in the Colony or imported for consump-tion therein, making the former relatively dearer and the latter cheaper. However, as one of Hong Kong's chief exports is \"services\" this latter handicap on exports is more serious than would appear at first sight. Trade-handling charges of every des-cription whether coolies wages, godown charges, insurance commissions, agents' costs, etc., etc., all are 15% dearer than in Shanghai on account of currency considera-tions alone.\n\nOn the other hand there is one effect which is undoubtedly beneficial, the steadiness of exchange. If the note currency had followed silver movements more closely, exchange fluctuations would have been more frequent than they have been.\n\nI should not conclude my remarks on the effects of the premium without re-ferring to the feeling of nervousness and insecurity the premium causes creditors vis-a-vis debtors. The higher the premium goes the greater the temptation to a debtor to discharge his debt (originally contracted in notes) by repaying silver dollars under the plea that they were legal tender thereby benefiting to the extent of the premium rate.\n\n(b) The cause which brings about the premium is complex and obscure. The premium is of course merely an expression of the excess of the demand for notes over the supply. The note issue must in accordance with financial doctrine and sound banking practice be limited. The demand for notes is on the other hand practically unlimited. as it resolved itself in practice into the amount of legal silver dollars available for importation into the Colony which when eventually tendered to the Banks constitute a demand for notes. The extent of the note issue is $64,103,409. a generous allowance for the needs of the Colony proper, whereas the number of British dollars minted is about $200,000,000 irrespective of the number of Mexican dollars.\n\nOne unquestioned cause of the premium is the convenience and portability of the note. It is more easily carried and what is perhaps more important in a semi lawless land, concealed. However, the degree of convenience possessed by the note vis-a-vis the cumbersome silver dollar cannot alter much from year to year. Con-venience therefore cannot be the sole factor operating, Otherwise the premium would remain more or less constant. There must therefore be other contributory causes which are not constant and depend on political vicissitudes and market fluc-tuations. This variable element must resolve itself finally into a surplus of demand for Hong Kong currency which has now become in practice nothing but Hong Kong bank notes for the following reasons:-\n\nFor many years the commercial medium of South China was the Mexican dollar and the 20 cts. piece minted in Canton. Both circulated in the Colony as well and were imported and exported without restriction. Exchange then followed silver parity and any local departures therefrom could never exceed the bullion points, i.e., the points where either exportation or importation became profitable. The note premium was small being merely an expression of its convenience for circulation locally. Then a double change took place. The 20 cts. piece began to displace the Mexican dollar which was the better coin. Provincial dollars of inferior fineness began to appear and completed the process of driving the Mexican dollar out of South China. Then the provincial dollar and the 20 cts. piece were in their turn subsequently debased below their original standard of fineness and generally speaking progressive debasement marked each successive issue. In Hong Kong though it had always been the policy to adhere as closely as possible to the currency of China. action had to be taken and in 1912 Chinese subsidiary coins and provincial dollars had to be barred from circulation. In South China the value of the silver currency became too uncertain to be accepted as a reliable currency and as result the Colony's commercial hinterland had no option but to adopt the only uniformly safe currency that remained namely the Hong Kong bank note. The British dollar never circulated in China to any extent and even if it had, the universal currency law that a bad coin drives a good coin out of circulation would have operated just as it did with the Mexican dollar. The Colony itself had to follow suit, being the commercial cen-tre of South China and consequently the note became established as the sole com-\n\na\n\n5\n\nmercial medium in actual practice. (How pressing is South China's need for a stable currency is shewn by the large circulation of the Straits dollar note in the Swatow and Amoy districts though it is on a gold basis and entirely alien to the Chinese currency system. It was introduced no doubt by the returned emigrants from the Straits). In Shanghai where the tael which is only a theoretical weight of silver formed the basis of currency the position remained unaltered, and consequent-ly there exchange must follow moderately closely the movements of silver.\n\nThe problem now returns to the consideration of the causes underlying the de-mand for Hong Kong currency which as we see means the notes now the effective medium of commerce not only here but in the neighbouring provinces. The pre-mium excess when the constant \"convenience\" factor is deducted signifies that there must be a surplus balance of exports (or the equivalent thereof) from the Colony's hinterland. When such is the case, final settlement of the balance has to be effected by the transference to the exporting country of its currency or rather of the currency regarded as such. Had the balance been the other way South China would have had to part with notes.\n\nBut such information as is available fails to shew any abnormal balance of exports. Actually both exports and imports are at a low ebb and the surplus of the former cannot be considerable. There is however the important factor of invisible exports i.e. the export of the services of the Southern Chinese who are working abroad and remitting their savings home. The prosperity of the rubber and tin-mining industries and the cheapness of silver has undoubtedly stimulated emigrants' remittances. Consequently the Banks have to pay out in notes on drafts from Singapore, Java, U.S.A., etc., very considerable sums entirely independent of trade considerations, i.e., they are continually receiving gold currency for exchange into notes without any counterbalancing demand for foreign currency to meet payments for imports.\n\nIt should in this connection be remembered that these remittances being the equivalent of an invisible export are like other exports from China, unaffected by the premium of the Hong Kong note. In other words they either remain on deposit in the Colony or if they are remitted into the country they fetch correspondingly as many 20 cent pieces by virtue of the premium as they would have had they been converted into such directly from the gold currency, of origin in accordance with the parity of silver.\n\nLike all note\n\nThere may be other factors operating to bring the premium about. The note issue is necessarily limited by law though probably at a figure ample for the normal trade requirements of Hong Kong and its commercial hinterland. issues but unlike metallic currency it contracts automatically by withdrawal from circulation of all notes not required to finance trade. But it does not expand so readily beyond the fixed limits on account of deterrents. For instance the banks have then to deposit dollar for dollar with the Government, losing interest thereon, pay initial printing costs and subsequent registering and renewing costs, and in addition pay a 1% stamp tax per annum. Unless then the issue can be readily and profitably utilised at a counterbalancing profit, the banks will hardly have a sufficient inducement to increase their issue and keep circulation elastic.\n\n(c) As regards the possibility of removing the premium or rather reducing it to a constant percentage based on the \"convenience\" factor numerous suggestions have been made. In theory numerous methods to that end present themselves but all are open to objection for either political or financial reasons.\n\nIf\n\n1. Theoretically the only ideal and infallible method is a gold basis currency. It would however completely divorce Hong Kong from the currency of China. China adopted an identical gold basis currency the objection would disappear but until then the objection is insuperable.\n\n2. Hong Kong might mint its own silver dollar like the Straits and make it legal tender to the exclusion of the Mexican dollar. The new currency if rigidly controlled could be kept at par with the note. However the existing stock of British dollars in circulation in Hong Kong and held by the Banks as specie reserve\n\n?\n\n60", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523828, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "page_number": 82, "title": "CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930", "content_text": "THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS &\n\nLondon at the beginning of last month was due to a large selling on Continental account, mainly French. In all probability the French silver represents old silver coinage melted down and refined, the supply of which is now found to be in excess of the amount required for the new French silver coinage, which consists only of 5-franc pieces. These, moreover, are much smaller in size than the old pieces, owing to the fall in the value of the franc. It is impossible to say how long the French sales will continue, but they add another adverse factor to the many which oppress the silver market. An interesting statistical effort has been made by one of the firms in the London bullion market. It shows the monthly fluctuations in the price of silver since 1833, together with the yearly average, imports of the metal and exports to the East, and other particulars. Marked steadiness was shown by the price in the first part of the period covered, the yearly average up to 1873 ranging from about 59d. to 62d. Wide fluctuations occurred as a result of the Great War, the average rising from 23 11-16d. in 1915 to 61 7-16d. in 1920. Last week-end silver stood at less than 18d., a drop of 43d. in ten years. Reuter tells us in a Shanghai message that the value of the tael has dropped from 111d. in 1920 to less than 23d. to-day. That comparison is rather misleading\n\nunless it is remembered that it was just ten years ago the big slump in silver came. In 1920 the Hong Kong dollar went up to 74d. at one time, but its lowest point during that year was 35d., since when the value of the dollar has been steadily decreasing together with the decline in silver.\n\nMail advices from London state that the new low level touched by silver last month scarcely occasioned any comment, doubtless for the reason that the business world had been amply warned as to the position, and was prepared for lower prices. For weeks the bullion brokers had represented the outlook in the gloomiest terms, and such buying as low prices had induced was not of sufficient importance to stem the rot. Indo-China has added to the pessimism by adopting gold as her currency standard, and then came the disquieting news from Persia that the Medjliss had passed a Bill prohibiting the import of silver. Persia, like China, has suffered severely through the depreciation of the metal and has been contemplating the institution of a gold basis for her currency. The new law will probably prove the first step in this direction. The possibility of the adoption of gold as a currency standard by \"silver\" countries represents, of course, a most serious menace to the future of silver prices. Of more immediate moment, however, to silver-using countries, of which China is by far the most important, is the serious effect of the low price of silver on the exchange value of their currencies and the resultant increased cost of their imports. The greatly increased cost of foreign goods owing to the low exchange value of silver currency must result in reduced buying, and the possible elimination of so-called luxury lines altogether. Even the Chinese exporter receives little, if any, advantage from the greater amount of dollars to be got for his goods. These move slowly from the war-ruined interior, and the benefits of cheap labour have been off-set by recently imposed heavy taxation. Moreover, silk and tea, China's staple exports, are little wanted to-day in the world's markets. Another aspect of the question is of concern to British exporters, particularly the textile trades. Manufacturers in China are making lines formerly obtained from Lancashire, and the silver crisis cannot but help giving an impetus to them, the effect of which must endure.\n\nCurtailment of production is considered to be the most likely factor to stabilise the silver market, but as a large percentage of the silver produced is a by-product, it is necessary to examine the lead, copper, and zinc markets in order to get an idea of the prospects of restricted silver production. The outlook for copper for this year is considered good. Production should remain high, although it is probable that the figures for the first half of 1930 will be lower than those for the corresponding period of 1929. The situation in regard to lead is also good, and there is no indication of any material falling-off in the production of this metal. The zinc market declined sharply at the end of 1929, and the present level should cause a material curtailment of production, both in the United States and elsewhere. Not much comfort can be derived from these reports, for good prospects in regard to copper and lead are bad prospects for those who hope for a diminished production of silver. Data recently available, indicate that the world production of silver in 1929 will closely approximate that of 1928. An estimate of 256,500,000 ounces indicates that there will be 61,000,000 ounces from the United States, 105,000,000 ounces from Mexico, and 22,500,000 ounces from Canada. Of the remainder 28,500,000 comes from South America, principally Peru. Total supplies of silver, including demonetized Continental coin and Indian Government sales, are estimated to be in excess of 300,000,000 ounces.\n\nWhat will happen next it is not easy to say. The general opinion at the beginning of 1929 of those who were in a position to judge proved to be a long way out, and the same thing may happen in regard to forecasts for the present year. China is expected to be the chief consumer of silver during 1930, but the continued absorption of the metal depends upon trade conditions, which in turn very largely depend upon the stability of the political situation. The end of civil war would bring a speedy recovery of trade, but what prospect is there of domestic tranquility in China? The inquirer who requires enlightenment on this point will find it in Mr. BELL's speech of ten days ago. There is nothing optimistic in the silver outlook for 1930 except that possibly the unprecedented low price is in itself reason to hope that the decline cannot continue, but this hopeful prospect depends upon a very dubious possibility. Meanwhile we are faced with the very definite and\n\n[March 7, 1930\n\n77\n\ndisconcerting reality that the cost of living is rapidly increasing while the value of the dollar is dwindling.\n\n101", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-12 Currency situation 17-2-1930 - 9-7-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 523885, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-523-13 Currency situation 16-6-1930 - 16-6-1930", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-523-13 Currency situation 16-6-1930 - 16-6-1930", "content_text": "Uniq.craft -\n\n2680 70360/30 Sand.\n\n36\n\nABREAD\n\nQuestions put to the Governor.\n\n1. What is the present volume of notes in circulation?\n\nWhat security is held for note issue and in what form?\n\nDistinguish between silver coin and bullion and if possible between gold and silver securities.\n\n2. How much of issue is in dollar notes?\n\n3. Are silver dollars accepted freely (a) in ordinary commercial transactions (b) by the banks, (c) by Government as exactly equivalent to notes?\n\n4. What is the estimated total of (a) legal tender silver dollars (b) subsidiary coinage (i) held as security for note issue (ii) in circulation (iii) held by the Banks, distinguishing if possible between Mexican and British Trade dollar?\n\n5. Are any more silver dollars known to be on order or in transit from London or Bombay mints?\n\n6. Can any indication be given of total liabilities on account of deposit and current accounts of all Banks in Hong Kong including non-note-issuing banks? And is analysis possible of assets held to secure them?\n\nIf available, should like this information for five years back. Any particulars which banks may be willing to disclose will be welcome.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-523-13 Currency situation 16-6-1930 - 16-6-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 527560, "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": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "page_number": 50, "title": "CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931", "content_text": "## Pre-Apprenticeship & Evening Classes\n\nA school would be of great advantage to the industry, provided always that the effect of the school were not to divert boys from the industry.\n\n87. Our Chairman subsequently arranged to meet the heads of some of the leading Chinese contractors' firms and to talk over the matter with them. At the first of these interviews, it was explained to the contractors that there were employed in the Colony a larger number of workers in various industries, of which the building industry was probably the largest. What the Committee wanted to find out was how far, by means of instruction given in schools and evening classes, the general standard of intelligence and capacity of the workers could be improved. The first question put to them was whether, if a school were established, those boys who were going to work in the industry in its various branches would avail themselves of it?\n\n88. The Contractors explained, to start with, that the great majority of the workers in the building industry come from the country and that they begin by passing through a three years' apprenticeship; that the apprenticeship ends in no definite test, but that after this period, the apprentices become generally recognized as day workers. So far as a pre-apprenticeship school is concerned, the contractors felt that it would be difficult for boys who are going to become workers in the building industry to join such a school. To do so, it would be necessary for them to come from their villages to Hong Kong, and there would be nowhere for them to live, nor would they be able to pay the fees, were such levied. The Contractors admitted that most of the workers had had no education whatever. A few of them had spent short periods in vernacular private schools. The Contractors also explained that boys were taken on as apprentices at varying ages - some, though they were in the minority, as early as 13, others at the ages of 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18.\n\n89. When our Chairman put it to the Contractors that, while it was not, of course, considered possible that all, or even a considerable proportion, of the building industry would, to start with at any rate, go to a special school for apprentices before they started work, or even attend evening classes while serving as apprentices, it was thought to be not impossible that those advantages might be regarded as within the reach of a few, and that these few, having had the advantages of education, might be presumed to be more intelligent and likely to qualify as foremen, they still seemed sceptical. When, however, our Chairman put it to the Contractors whether, if evening classes in which English and Chinese, and such subjects as simple calculations were taught, could be organized, they would be welcome, they immediately replied that such classes would be a great boon, as they were already spending money on having their apprentices taught by private teachers.\n\n90. About a month later, our Chairman had a second meeting with the same contractors. At this meeting, the Contractors, having in the interim consulted the guilds, welcomed the suggestion which the Chairman had previously outlined. They said that there were already some boys who had left primary vernacular schools and were awaiting their apprenticeships and who were undergoing some form of instruction, mainly, if not wholly, in private proprietary schools, in English. The Contractors were therefore in favour of a school which could take boys who were awaiting their apprenticeships in the building industry and give them appropriate instruction. They thought that English was very important, as also were simple arithmetical calculations directed towards the work they would do as workers in the building industry. They seemed to think it would not be necessary for the boys to continue their Chinese in such a school, but they hoped that the future apprentices of the building industry would learn in it the rudiments of their craft, e.g., carpentry, bricklaying, plumbing, etc. The Contractors welcomed the idea of evening classes for actual apprentices. They seemed to have realized the urgent need for more intelligent and more capable workers.\n\n91. Pre-apprenticeship training for the building industry is rather a special feature of the Junior Technical Schools in and near London. The general character of a building trade Junior Technical School in England may be inferred from the following curriculum:\n\n### The Building Trade in English Technical Schools\n\nPage 50\nPage 51", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-530-2 Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies- Hong Kong education report 1930 23-12-1930 - 12-10-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 528990, "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": "CO129-532-3 Mui Tsai system 4-12-1930 - 9-11-1931", "page_number": 107, "title": "CO129-532-3 Mui Tsai system 4-12-1930 - 9-11-1931", "content_text": "# \nThe following is a tabulated list of the twenty-one convictions referred to in paragraph 4 of Governor's despatch No. 293 of 23.6.31.\n\n| Name of Muitsai | Age | Offence | Result | Disposal of Muitsai |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1. Teing Kiu | 18 | Keeping an unregistered Muitsai. | Did not appear. Warrant issued. | - |\n| 2. Lok Kan | 12 | do. | Fined $60 or 1 mth. | Restored to relatives |\n| 3. Teung Kiu | 19 | do. | Fined $50 | Remaining in Po Leung Kuk. |\n| 4. Chan Wong Hå | 19 | do. | (Bail $50 estreated) | Sent to Salvation Army Home. |\n| 5. Chow Mei alias Ah Wun | 16 | do. | Fined $150 or 2 mths. | Allowed to remain with employer, but not muitsai. |\n| 6. Chon sai Lan | 10 | do. | Fined $5 | Restored to relatives. |\n| 7. So Shiu Tau | 17 | do. | Fined $40 | Sent to Victoria Home. |\n| 8. Van Tai už | 10 | do. | Fined $180 | Sent to Salvation Army Home. |\n| 9. Ho Kwai | 19 | do. | Fined $100 | Restored to relatives. |\n| 10. Wong Chun Yee | 17 | do. | Fined $40 | Remaining in Po Leung Kuk. |\n| 11. Fu Tung Hei | 17 | do. | - | Restored to relatives. |\n| 12. Tseng Yut Ho | 16 | do. | Fined $50 | - |\n| 13. Teui Ping alias Lung San | 15 | do. | Fined $5 | - |\n| 14. Tam Yung ban | 15 | Bringing into the Colony an unregistered Muitsai. | Fined $25 | Returned to country. |\n| 15. Chiu Hau Hi | 13 | do. | Fined $25 | Returned to country. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-532-3 Mui Tsai system 4-12-1930 - 9-11-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531174, "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": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 14, "title": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "12.\n\n14\n\nA.\n\n&\n\nper e ? ?\n\nQ.\n\nA. q.\n\n43 434\n\nA.\n\nA.\n\nA.\n\nHave you any reasons why you cannot accept the cash book, except prejudice?\n\nYes, items have gone through the cash book, which to my mind, are not cash.\n\nAre you referring to the items of the Statutory Balance, which is the purport of this charge? Yes, to them.\n\nTo any other item?\n\nYour Compradore paid $45,000.00 in cash on the 30th\n\nI can hardly believe that he paid cash $45,000.00.\n\n$45,000.00 I do not know whether he did or not.\n\nYou say you will not believe our cash books because it has these items, because you dislike the way it is done?\n\nYes.\n\nIs there anything in these transactions in the cash books which you don't like, which is antagonistic to the explanations given in the Public Examination?\n\nNo.\n\nAnd you are satisfied that those entries in the books are not inconsistent with the statement? The cash book is consistent with the explanation given.\n\nIs consistent?\n\nYes.\n\nI am going to put it to you that the correct definition of cash is \"coin or the right to command coin.\" Would you accept that as a sound definition of cash? I do not think I am in a position to define cash.\n\nIn your opinion is that a fair definition of cash?\n\nHis Lordship's\n\nThat is a matter for the jury.\n\nRE-EXAMINED BY MR. FITZROY.\n\nA.\n\n29 083 28\n\nA.\n\nA.\n\nYou say that $761,100.00 were reduced in about 12 months' time to $349,000.00 or something about half. How was it done?\n\nThe chief item was the repayment of the loan of $432,000.00 by Mrs. Brewer.\n\nSo that apart from that $432,000.00 how much would it have been reduced by? Can you give me that?\n\n...\n\nNo, I cannot give it you.\n\nDo you know who reduced that loan besides the $432,000.00 which nearly accounts for the whole? No, I cannot tell you.\n\nYou say you cannot name anyone who reduced their loan?\n\nNo, I cannot tell you unless I go through the books. I am dealing with two different dates and did not anticipate that you would ask me these together. At the time of the Balance Sheet I divided these loans up and some are under the heading of Promissory Notes and others are under the heading of Collateral Security Loans.\n\nBY COURT\n\nA\n\nA\n\nDid this repayment go through the cash book? No, my Lord, it went through the Journal.\n\nIt did not go through the cash book at all; it is merely the reverse of a different entry?\n\nThe loan was repaid according to the Journal by cash but cash did not go through the cash book as it should have done.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531195, "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": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 35, "title": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "33.\n\n35-\n\n23 2\n\nA.\n\n323 23\n\nA.\n\n2.\n\nA.\n\n£8 23\n\nA.\n\n* FPE?\n\nA..\n\nA.\n\nA.\n\n234 3 ¿ILI\n\nA.\n\n(Statutory Report read).\n\nThe case of course was this was not cash and you knew quite well it was not cash and that is the only thing you have to answer with regard to these things. You have put down $876,750.00 as cash received wherefore the whole of these investments, $775,000.00 odd of this so-called Investment, Loans and Deposits, consists merely of these papers. (Alluding to Applications for Loans.)\n\nExcept for the words \"so called\", I agree with you.\n\nwhat you had received was 10% at the most and sometimes only 5% on actual hard cash.\n\nNo, in actual hard cash we actually received two dollars, the rest was in promissory notes, etc. Promissory notes on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.\n\nwhen I say hard cash, I mean banknotes or coin. Banknotes are not hard cash.\n\n5 or 10% had been received in the form of banknotes?\n\nMostly.\n\nThe remainder was due to these forms, from the transactions with which we have already been dealing.\n\nYes, largely from these transactions.\n\nYou received 7 lakhs in this manner and you might have received ten million in that way.\n\nQuite, and I would have considered the Bank in a very strong position if we had.\n\nThe documents speak for themselves what has happened. You still say that these people were actually ready to pay the money?\n\nYes, and in no case had I reason to believe they would not pay.\n\nHow many cases came before you protested?\n\nWell about three and I put it before the Directors. Is there any record of the Directors authorising you to do this?\n\nThe authorisation for doing this was in accordance with the Articles of Association, Section 68. This particular taking account of money was of such importance that it should be referred to the Directors' meeting?\n\nYes.\n\nDo you remember when it occurred?\n\nNo, but I know the matter was discussed with the Directors and myself on many occasions.\n\nDon't you think it a very important step to receive it?\n\nI exercised my power.\n\nWho settled those documents?\n\nI settled these.\n\nFirst of all the application for the loan, secondly the loan is granted. This he says he will apply in a certain way. No money passes. Then having done that you apply the money which he has asked to have advanced to him - you enter so much on one side and ---\n\nThe point is he was not under obligation to pay the advance but he was under obligation to pay the loan.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531215, "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": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "53.\n\n55\n\n8.\n\nA.\n\n2.\n\nA.\n\nછે. A.\n\nA.\n\nA.\n\nA.\n\nA.\n\nQ.\n\nA.\n\nQ.\n\nA.\n\nQ.\n\nA.\n\nthe\n\nYou say you have received money in respect of shares when all you have done is simply a cross entry?. Theoretically you have done it.\n\nThis Company on the 1st of June had $9,000.00 actual cash, coin, notes that circulated here and received during that month $50,000.00 or so. During that period it purports to make loans of 7 lakhs in which the total amount of money received would amount to not more than $80,000.00. Would you have been content to say you have received 7 lakhs cash for your shares?\n\nI would have in my mind that I would receive the total amount of my loans. That is my idea, it is a simultaneous transaction.\n\nBy that you mean?.\n\nImmediately this loan is granted the balance of the unpaid capital is paid. It automatically applies. How do you reconcile yourself that the company did not have the cash to grant loans?.\n\nIt is a simultaneous transaction.\n\nYou consider it a cash transaction?.\n\nI say theoretically cash.\n\nAs an Accountant, is it proper for a company to apply and pay for shares with its own money? would you allow that?.\n\nNo,\n\nI don't think I would.\n\nTheir own money.\n\n4,000 odd were applied for and paid by Company's money. You would have passed that as cash?. without anything leading up to it, no. Articles of Association might prevent. Could you possibly say that amount was cash received in respect of shares, when it was their own money?. No, I don't think I would. I don't know the history of the 400,800 but if that money was in the hands of the Company, the Company applied for shares out of its own money and granted to itself a loan on them. I would say it was wrong.\n\nWould you say it was wrong, if granted to a nominee to whom they gave an indemnity?.\n\nI cannot see the object.\n\nA person not worth $432,000.00 applies for a further loan and obtains it. Would you as an auditor permit that transaction to be stated as money received by the Company in respect of shares issued wholly for cash?\n\nI say this, as far as the 10% out of the Company's funds, would hold that up. Then the 90% and loan granted, never mind the person, the person was guaranteed.\n\nI say that person was unable to pay the money and holds a personal guarantee given by the Directors. The money is the Company's.\n\nIf it is personal I would be inclined to treat it the same as anything else, but not from the Company. 10% you would not take as cash received, the other 90% you would?.\n\nIf personally guaranteed I would say, Yes.\n\nThe indemnity would not come into the matter at all? Once the Board of Directors allotted shares I would be prepared to transfer shares to loan.\n\nRe-Examined By Mr. Brewers\n\nQ\n\nA.\n\nThe Share Register is not allowed to have any notice of trust on it, are you aware of that?. It is where I came from.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 531371, "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": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "page_number": 211, "title": "CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931", "content_text": "213\n\n-\n\nmonth of June not in bank notes nor in coin in Promissory Notes? Ultimately, The intention of the parties has to be considered. They intended to pay us cash, and we intended to lend them cash.\n\nJudge:- As a matter of fact, when you purported to make these advances of over $600,000.00 out of what did you make these advances? Out of payments by shareholders.\n\nIn what form did they pay? They paid by They would have paid in cash if I had been willing to accept. They paid all their calls in bank notes.\n\nJudge:- The expectation of their paying up what they undertook to pay is what you call cash? No, My Lord. They came in prepared to pay bank notes.\n\nmoney.\n\n$600,000.00 worth of bank notes? I don't know. The first ones to come in came in to hand me the full amount of their shares. There was $2,800,000.00 worth of shares out. I did not want to receive that amount of money within inexperienced bank officers. I said I would only accept money in advance of call if the man making it would take out a loan upon which I could call in 24 hours.\n\nJudge:- How did they pay. They had come along and said \"I want to pay this money\"? I gave them a cash receipt, and there and then made a loan.\n\nIncluded in this 6 lakhs was there a loan of $432,000.00 advanced to Mrs.Brewer? There was, but as you are aware there is a full explanation of that.\n\nI would be glad to hear it that was not paid in Cash? No.\n\nIt was included in your cash book? It followed the custom of the bank.\n\nThat was advanced on no security? She was trustee of those shares and advance of call and took out e loan\n\nOn her having paid.\n\nshe paid her money in in respect of that.\n\nYou seriously say Mrs. Brewer paid $48,000 to the bank? Not in bank notes - she paid it in exactly the same way as was laid down. There is a long story leading up to it which I will give if you desire.\n\nI put it to you during the month of June you received no actual cash when you lent 6 lakhs you received actual cash for shares $16,400.00. I will take that to represent the amount of bank notes received, and the rest was proceeds of there loans made by the company? Bot the proceeds.\n\nI put it to you that nothing was ever received by any of the shareholders except a promissory note? If nothing was received by the Company, we could not pay anything out.\n\nthat was\n\nThe Company made loans against Promissory Notes the beginning and end of the transaction? I disagree.\n\nIn the month of July, 1927, you granted further loans to your shareholders to the extent of $142,000.00? Very likely, I think it is probable.\n\nWould you like to look at any book? If you wish me to make it definite.\n\n(Journal handed\n\n... \n\nI would like to have it clear please? to witness) Loan in July amounting to $142,000\n\n22.\n\n29.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-535-5 N.I. Brewer- transcript of trial and evidence 1-1-1929 - 31-12-1931.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 533957, "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": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933", "content_text": "Page 378\n\nWOMEN AT HOME AND ABROAD\n\nBravo, Amy!\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nThe Women's Freedom League offers Miss Amy Johnson (Mrs. Mollison) its most enthusiastic congratulations on her triumphant achievement in breaking the record for the flight from England to Capetown, set up last March by Mr. J. A. Mollison, of four days seventeen hours by ten and a half hours and that despite nine hours lost at Benguella owing to lack of oil pressure, due to sand getting into her engine while crossing the Sahara.\n\nThe King sent his hearty congratulations on her splendid achievement.\n\nLast May Miss Amelia Earhart achieved lasting fame as the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, and she was awarded the American Distinguished Flying Cross by President Hoover. We hope that our own country will be no less generous in bestowing on Mrs. Mollison a suitable honour.\n\nUniversity Woman's Appointment\n\nMiss A. Margaret Tillyard, M.A., has been appointed by the chief officers of the Halls of Residence as one of their representatives upon the Court of Governors of the University of Manchester.\n\nWoman Chairman of Health Committee\n\nMiss K. M. Worrall has been selected as chairman of Birkenhead Health Committee. She is the first woman in Birkenhead to occupy that position.\n\nWoman's Advertising Post\n\nMrs. Simmonds has been appointed as their advertising manager by Messrs. Wolsey, Ltd., the British hosiery manufacturing firm. This is said to be one of the biggest appointments in the world of advertising. Mrs. Simmonds for some time previously had been conducting market research for this firm. She was formerly private secretary to Sir William Crawford, head of one of the big London advertising agencies.\n\nWoman Sculptor Wins Again\n\nMiss Helen V. Mackay has for the second year in succession been awarded the £100 prize given annually by the Feodora Gleichen Memorial Fund for the best piece of work by a woman sculptor.\n\nWomen to Make Films\n\nTo-day's Cinema reports that an organisation of women has just been formed to produce films. The company is being registered as the British Women's Picture Corporation. The president will be the Dowager Lady Raglan.\n\nWOMEN LAWYERS\n\nLast week six women were among the ninety-one successful law students called to the bar in the hall of the Inns of Court. They were: Mrs. Alice G. Morrice (Lincoln's Inn); Miss E. I. Froggatt (Inner Temple); Miss Ursula B. C. Newell (Middle Temple); Dr. Flora H. M. Calder (Middle Temple); Miss Marie M. Delage (Gray's Inn); Miss Mary R. Tabor (Gray's Inn).\n\nMiss Newell was called at the same time as her elder brother, and is the daughter of a retired County Court Judge. Dr. Flora Calder, M.A., M.D., Ch.B., Edin. Univ., D.P.M., Royal College of Physicians, Eng., is an assistant medical officer of the County Mental Hospital, Winwick, Warrington. Miss Mary Tabor is a municipal officer of the Norwich Corporation. She has been in the city engineer's estates department since March.\n\nThe following women were among the successful candidates at the Intermediate Examination of the Law Society (for solicitors), held on November 2nd and 3rd. A candidate is not obliged to take both parts of the examination at the same time:\n\nPassed: Mabel Harold.\n\nThe following passed the legal portion only: Hilda M. Charbonnier, Freda Gaukroger, Dorothy Hedges, Agnes W. Knight, Annie D. Litten, Joan L. S. O'Connor.\n\nThe following passed the trust accounts and book-keeping portion only: Anne E. James.\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nTHE BEGUM SHAH NAWAZ\n\nThe Begum Shah Nawaz, the only woman among thirty-two Indian representatives appointed to attend the third Indian Round Table Conference, arrived in London last Saturday. She then stated that she hoped to help to do great things for India, and particularly for the women of India. Things were improving, she said, but there was need for much further advance.\n\nThe Conference entered upon its detailed work at the House of Lords last Monday.\n\nA NEW CECIL HOUSE\n\nThe thrill of a fifth Cecil House for homeless women is the hope of the immediate future. To collect funds for this a meeting was convened by Mrs. Cecil Chesterton and her supporters at the Cambridge Theatre (London) on November 18. It was marvellous, for there were nine speakers and more, and not a touch of dullness! The aim was its own plea. A warm glow of generous love seemed to flood the packed theatre, and every word from the platform increased it. Already a site has been found and secured across the river—in Tower Street, S.E.1. To set it going £5,000 is needed, towards which a creditable sum was raised.\n\nThere were two M.P.s—Mr. Adrian Moreing, a Londoner, in the chair; and Mr. D. G. Somerville, who, with Miss Helena Pickard, ably raked in cheques and \"promises,\" and new subscribers. Both members shed all the trappings of Parliamentary eloquence and became inspiringly human and direct in this heart-warming cause. Mr. Louis Golding made a tender, poetical speech, paying special tribute to the old women uprooted in the storms of life, to whom the Cecil Houses are such a boon; of their charm, and their subtle spiritual relationships. \"All things they have in common being so poor.\" Miss Sheila Kaye Smith followed, with what he had called her \"Green Apple\" eloquence, and spoke of what it meant to every woman to come back to a bed after a long, tiring day—even more than it meant to a man: \"Women must have what they call a home.\" It is essential to the feminine nature.\n\nAnd at a Cecil House it is \"home\" with bed, warmth, and food for 1s. a night. No forms to fill in—the need of shelter passport enough. But some have the shilling and can't get in. Mr. J. B. Priestley, introduced by Mr. Moreing as a \"Good Companion,” also said a few sympathetic words.\n\nMr. Ernest Milton, who had been over two Cecil Houses, said how much he was struck by their brightness of colouring, and by the atmosphere of confidence and friendliness and self-respect. He described the attitude of the matrons as more like that of \"a pleasant buxom hostess of a solid provincial hotel.\"\n\nWhen Mrs. Chesterton entered a house with a cheery \"Good evening, ladies,\" she came as a woman and a friend.\n\nThe Chairman presented Mrs. Chesterton as the \"heroine of the work.\" She spoke in moving words of what could be done for the \"down-and-outs\" in giving them back their self-respect and fighting spirit. And she told how at the Harrow Road House they were getting new recruits of a different class: trained nurses, girl clerks, and others, unemployed and cut off by poverty from their own kind. Dainty Miss Pickard related a personal experience of being stranded in Hanley (Staffs) when on tour, and how she had longed for a Cecil House.\n\nE. M. E.\n\nSIXTEEN WOMEN MAYORS!\n\nAlderman Mrs. Keynes, Mayor of Cambridge, points out an omission in our list of Women Mayors—Mrs. Carr, Mayor of Godmanchester. This brings the number of women mayors up to sixteen—six of whom are in East Anglia.\n\nPage 379\n\nFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932\n\nChild Marriage\n\nTHE VOTE\n\nIN PARLIAMENT\n\nMISS RATHBONE (Ind., Eng. Universities) on November 14 asked the Secretary of State for India whether the Census Reports for 1931 are sufficiently available for him to supply figures showing whether and to what extent, the practice of child marriage in India has decreased since the previous census.\n\nSIR SAMUEL HOARE: I regret that I am not yet in a position to supply this information.\n\nMISS RATHBONE asked the Secretary of State for India (1) if he will supply figures showing the number of prosecutions that have taken place under the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage in the years 1930, 1931, and 1932 respectively; (2) if he can now report the result of his inquiries on the question whether, and to what extent, the provincial governments are carrying into effect the administrative measures recommended by the Joshi Committee three years ago as being necessary for the successful enforcement of the Sarda Act in Restraint of Child Marriage.\n\nMR. GEORGE HALL (Lab., Aberdare) asked the Secretary of State for India how many prosecutions have taken place under the Child Marriage Restraint Act, No. 19 of 1929 (the Sarda Act), and with what result.\n\nSIR S. HOARE: I am not in possession of figures showing the numbers of prosecutions and convictions under the Sarda Act, but I will obtain them. The result of the inquiries made of local governments regarding the recommendations of the Joshi Committee have not yet been received, but I will inquire how the matter stands.\n\nMISS RATHBONE: Does the right hon. gentleman not think that there has been great dilatoriness on the part of the provincial governments, inasmuch as it is two years since the inquiry was circulated and that a year ago he undertook to remind the provincial governments of it; and, in view of the fact that the Act was passed with the strong approval of the Government at Delhi, as being necessary to remove \"a great and corroding evil\"—I think those were the words—does he think that the provincial governments are showing enough zeal in seeing to it that the Act is not made a dead letter?\n\nSIR S. HOARE: The hon. lady knows that the Act raises many important questions, and I think she would not expect me to express an opinion as to the attitude of the provincial governments. I am having compiled for her the information for which she has asked, and, as soon as I have it, she will get it.\n\nMaternity and Child Welfare (Grants)\n\nMR. PARKINSON (Lab., Wigan) on November 15 asked the Minister of Health what grant will be made towards maternity and child-welfare services during the current year; and what was the amount in the year 1931.\n\nMR. SHAKESPEARE (Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Health): Under the Local Government Act, 1929, separate grants for maternity and child-welfare services, other than the training of midwives and health visitors, ceased to be payable in respect of any year after the financial year 1929-30.\n\nThe amount of the discontinued grant formerly paid by the Exchequer in respect of these services was included in determining the loss on account of grants under the Act.\n\nHouse of Lords\n\nMR. MANDER (Lib., Wolverhampton E.) on November 17 asked the Prime Minister whether it is the intention of the Government to introduce legislation dealing with the reform of the House of Lords on the lines of the report recently issued, or on other lines.\n\nTHE PRIME MINISTER: The Government have not considered this question.\n\nNIGHT EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN\n\n\"The Times\" reports that the Permanent Court of International Justice recently delivered its advisory opinion on the following question, submitted to it by the Council of the League of Nations at the request of the Governing Body of the International Labour Office:\n\nDoes the Convention concerning employment of women during the night adopted in 1919 by the International Labour Conference, apply, in the industrial undertakings covered by the said Convention, to women who hold positions of supervision or management and are not ordinarily engaged in manual work?\n\nBy six votes against five the Court answered this question in the affirmative.\n\nThe question had its origin in a difficulty which the British Government had encountered for several years past in the application of Article 3 of the Convention: “Women, without distinction of age, shall not be employed during the night in any public or private industrial undertaking, or in any branch thereof, other than an undertaking in which only members of the same family are employed.\"\n\nBritish Government regarded this provision as applying to all women, without exception, employed in industry, but at the same time they considered that an exception ought to be made in favour of women occupying posts of supervision or management. They therefore proposed that the Convention should be revised in that sense.\n\nThe Court rejected arguments which had been put forward to show that the natural meaning of the Article might be disregarded. The first of these was to the effect that the Washington Convention, being a Labour Convention in the sense of the Labour portions of the Peace Treaties of 1919, ought to be interpreted as applicable solely to manual workers. The next was that the circumstances in which the Convention was adopted in Washington furnished adequate grounds for restricting its application to women engaged in manual work, more especially because the Washington Convention was merely an extension and application of the Berne Convention of 1906, an instrument which was concerned solely with women performing manual work. Lastly, there was the argument that the Convention of Washington did not cover women occupying posts of management, because in 1919 such cases were very few in number, and therefore were not under consideration.\n\nWOMEN'S WORK IN THE CHURCH\n\nIn his first presidential address to the Southwark Diocesan Conference, held recently, Dr. Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, referred to the problem of the shortage of trained women workers in the Church.\n\nHe said that at present a commission which had been appointed by the two archbishops were considering the matter. Personally, he was convinced that the life and work of the Church would never be as healthy and as efficient as it should be until educated and specially trained women were given scope and opportunity for their talents and ministrations in the Church's service as full and free as was given to men of similar education and training.\n\nIt was a matter of very grave concern that at a time when larger opportunities of service and of influence were opening out to women in so many other directions, in the Church, just when a supply of women duly qualified to serve it was forthcoming, the demand for that supply should be diminished.\n\nYOUNG WOMEN AVIATORS' ENTERPRISE\n\nMiss Joan Page, daughter of Sir Arthur Page, and Miss Audrey Sale Barker, recently flew to South Africa, where they carried consignments of Cow and Gate milk food to introduce to South Africans.\n\nPage 20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-539-3 Mui Tsai system 8-2-1932 - 10-1-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 544930, "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": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "page_number": 236, "title": "CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935", "content_text": "# Appendix IV. \n## Prices of Illicit Opium in Hong Kong.\n\n### A. Raw Opium per tael.\n\n1. Chinese from Canton $1.80 to $2.00.\n2. Persian from Wuchow $1.70 to $1.90.\n\n### B. Prepared Opium per tael.\n\n$2.30 to $3.20. \n1. From Canton $2.90 to $3.60 ($3.20 was average price).\n2. From Wuchow $2.70 to $3.20.\n3. From Kongmoon $2.40 to $3.50.\n4. From Kwong Chow Wan $3.00 to $4.90 (according to quality).\n5. Red Lion brand $4.45 to $5.20.\n6. Locally prepared $2.00 to $3.80 (according to quality).\n\n### C. Dross per tael.\n\nFrom $1.40 to $1.60. More would be paid for genuine dross from Government Kamshan Opium.\n\n**Note:** \n- A. The above are the prices paid by the actual smokers. The price to the original importers is a good deal less.\n- B. There is no regular local market for Persian Opium, prices quoted would be for that purchased for export to the Straits or Netherlands Indies.\n\n# Appendix V. \n## Extracts from the accounts of a smuggler of Raw Chinese Opium from Wuchow.\n\n### A. Received from Kong Kei, 1st consignment, of Wing Wo brand:\n\n| Item | Details | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Received | Taels 1,011.1 net at $1.97-Canton | $1,991.81 |\n| Commission | | |\n| Packing | | |\n| Sales account | Sold 680.1 at $2.10 | $1,428.21 |\n| | 298.6 at $2.12 | $633.08 |\n| | | $2,061.24 |\n| Less commission | | $97.80 |\n| Remitted | | $1,963.44 |\n| | | $2.02 |\n| | | $36.00 |\n\n### B. Received from Ming Kei, 2nd consignment, of Wing Wo brand:\n\n| Item | Details | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Received | 30 parcels net 1,530.4 at $1.97 Canton | $3,014.88 |\n| Commission | | $3.08 |\n| Packing | | $54.00 |\n| Storage | | $153.00 |\n| Sales account | Sold 492 at $2.12 | $1,048.04 |\n| | 551.3 at $2.06 | $1,135.67 |\n| | 412.1 at $2.10 | $865.41 |\n| | | $3,044.12 |\n| Less commission | | $145.50 |\n| Amount remitted | | $2,898.62 |\n\n### C. Sales from 17th day of 4th moon to 20th day of 5th moon (1933)\n\n5,848.1 taels $11,381.34. 20 separate purchasers in quantities varying from 43.6 to 841.7 taels, at prices from $2.05 to $2.20 per tael. The highest price obtained was in the 4th week of the 4th moon, the lowest in the 3rd week of the 5th moon. No reduction was made for large quantities.\n\n**N.B.** $1 Canton small coin = 70 cents Hong Kong. Canton bank notes were at a varying discount compared with small coin.\n\n305", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-548-1 Annual reports from various government departments 3-4-1934 - 11-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 545951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "page_number": 84, "title": "CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934", "content_text": "C. S. O. M.F. 237.\n\nCOSTLY GOVERNMENT.\n\nHon. Mr. Kotewall Demands Reduction in Taxes.\n\nPROPERTY ASSESSMENT.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall said:- Sir,-- purpose this year, in view of these abnormal times, to abstain from comments on individual items in the draft Estimates, so as to concentrate on broad principles of Budgeting and general policy of administration with due consideration of existing circumstances. In all I am going to say I have the concurrence of my Chinese colleagues.\n\n[...]\n\nconcern stock- of kind be given are, first, that experts should Point. I put forward, a strong plea be appointed to advise the Government and agriculturists on disease; secondly, that encouragement sands every day in summer. breeding and the prevention These pavilions are a great boon to the public which uses them by the thou- of a more directly financial should be offered by the provision of development will spread immediately It is not likely at land at favourable term for agricul- in that direction, and the retention of present that industrial ture and stockrearing; and, thirdly, the pavilions should therefore present that every facility should be given for marketing the agricultural products. Canton's Tariffs.\n\nand no disadvantage to the Colony, no great difficulty to the Government for the time being. In the meantime rew sites should be sought, with ease of transport While on the subject of industries. I desire to endorse the view expressed accessibility and by the Hon. Mr. Gordon Mackie in kept in mind. dustries of the Colony, which are of regard to the manufacturing in- the come Government Caution.\n\nfuture. The Government has already Government in regard to the present great importance for done much to support the efforts of economic situation, as I have deduced its Now, I come to the policy of the our manufacturers to establish them it from the Budget. There is no doubt It is a matter for grave selves in Empire markets, and will no that the Budget is a sincere and that, when the Colony is passing then in maintaining and extending needs of administration to prevailing doubt do all in its power to assist praiseworthy endeavour to adjust the through an economic depression these outlets for their products. severest in its history, when no signs of an improvement are visible, the the hope that the Canton Government even opposing standpoints. One such The Hon. Mr. Mackie has expressed criticised from various, and sometimes conditions. The Government has been cost of administration should actually 'might be persuaded to be on the increase. It is true that the friendly arrangement with us where-shown over-caution in not embarking total draft Estimate, of Expenditure by local products could be introduced upon to acriticism is that the Government has for 1935, as compared with that for 1934, shows a decrease of $1,366,593; the Kwangtung Province, for the on the side of caution-though for on mutually satisfactory terms into think that the Government has erred new public works. I, too, but when we analyse the figures, and benefit of both places. I echo this another reason. deduct from this sum the anticipated hope. The interests of Kwangtung savings from Special Expenditure and Hongkong are the ($276,495), Military ($232,700) and Public Works Extra- the other, so also is the advantage of Contribution neither can prosper at the expense of As ordinary ($592,500), the net decrease comes to only $264,898. If, however, present tariff position as one the advantage of the other. The a comparison is made with the revised Hongkong and China is one which Estimate for 1934-a truer criterion clearly injures both parties; and it is between -then the Budget provides for an in- bound, sconer or later, to be realised crease of $1,083,102, in spite of reduc- that South China stands to gain, not tions in Public Works Extraordinary by a contraction but by an expansion amounting to $800,550.\n\nof trade. I am confident that Your to bring about an arrangement bene- Excellency will neglect no opportunity ficial to both parties.\n\nCivil Servants.\n\nIn other words, the Government proposes to spend $1,083,102 more next year than it expects to have spent by the end of the current year. According to the Abstract of Differ- ences under \"Recapitulation\", new posts alone will entail an increase of $204,038.\n\nsums on same.\n\nThe Tourist Trade.\n\nbenefit Your Excellency's decision not to surplus balances is indicative of your rather considerable deficit out of the impose fresh taxation but to meet a solicitude not to take any action which ties. But I trust I may be pardoned for expressing the doubt whether the might aggravate our present difficul- mere avoidance of new taxation gces far enough in these admittedly bad tintes. My humble view is that what is required is some constructive and confidence and, with it, at least some courageous action designed to restore of our former prosperity.\n\nExcessive Taxation.\n\nIt seems to me that this is not a time for excessive adherence to extreme financial orthodoxy, and that the Government should hold out to the our With another view of Mr. Mackie's, I again find myself in agreement. In fact, we both decided to speak on the subject-though from slightly differ- ent standpoints-without each other's intention. I refer to the people a new hope by making possible knowing siderable \"tourist trade\" of Hongkong. Con-a more confident atmosphere in trade to the Colony's in industry and in commercial enter- economic prospects would, I feel sure, Merely to refrain from increasing prise, hv boldly reducing taxation. accrue were its attractions as a win-taxation is uninspiring and, in effect, ter resort better known and better negative. It is like revealing to the advertised. It is not personal pre-patient the seriousness of his disorder, dilection and prejudice which make me but holding out to him natural beauty with an excellent win- see Hongkong as a place of great positive aid in his recovery.\n\nno hope of ter climate. How often have visitors Colony's trade and industry is The depressed condition of the expressed surprise and delight when chief and urgent concern. they discovered a new and, to them, Commission is engaged in what we The trade officer of His Majesty's Navy, who causes and remedies. Its existence, unexpected winter paradise? An hope will be a fruitful inquiry into has recently arrived in Hongkong, however, does not absolve us from the tells me that in his opinion the beauty duty of taking some immediate action, Hongkong's natural sceneries is where such action can be shown to be unsurpassed anywhere, and that it is helpful or palliative. When pallia- Any measures calculated to add to the suggest themselves which, though they a pity that this is so little known. tives seem possible, when Col attractiveness as a place of may not constitute a permanent cure, $pathetic ear of the Government.\n\nhould, therefore, have the would allay the violence of the available to the people of Hongkong, tie consideration of the Government. Meantime, the amenities already deserve the immediate and sympathe- malady, then, I say, these measures not be diminished. I refer particular for the consideration of the Govern- especially in summer, will, I trust, During the year I have submitted ly to the bathing pavilions at Northment several suggestions designed to Even after the $78,327, expected to be saved by the abolition of existing posts, is deducted from it. there is still the considerable increase of $125,711. The position would have been much worse were it not for the fact that the Budget is based on a more favourable rate of exchange.\n\nIn times like these, one naturally expects to see the cost of administra- tion kept down, if not cut down, Here, it is actually increased. Instead of continuing to spend large and in- creasing Government should, I respectfully personnel, the submit, some reduction taxation to lessen the weight of de- pression that presses Colony. New the expenditure justified only when it can be shown to be a positive contribution towards re- covery, or to be a positive check on the factors making for depression. In such a case one may at least hope that it will finally more than pay for itself. Of this nature would, for example, be money spent for the purpose of aiding agricultural industries in the New Territories. In my lines along which such aid could best view, the make on in re measures\n\nPage 91", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-550-1 Estimates 1935 14-9-1934 - 15-9-1934.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 549575, "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": "CO129-555-17 Smuggling of counterfeit coins made in China 5-12-1935 - 19-2-1936", "page_number": 6, "title": "CO129-555-17 Smuggling of counterfeit coins made in China 5-12-1935 - 19-2-1936", "content_text": "Sorry, I have had these papers for rather a long time; I have not had time to make independent research into the law. But I agree with what Mr. Gent says as to the apparent effect of complying with the Convention. Would it not be better simply to refer to Hong Kong and ask for their suggestions?\n\nI can understand that special provisions may be necessary in their law to stop the transit of counterfeit coin. There is no ordinary benefit in having P.P. in England, but perhaps a particular benefit in having P.P. in counterfeit foreign currency and so strongly legislate against it. Bribery and corruption are offences, and so the offence is not trivial.\n\n19. I have discussed this with Mr. Keith-Falconer. He sees to it that we ought to explain to H.M.G. what will happen if the local law is amended as contemplated in the circular document of 7-12-35. He suggests that for this purpose it would be superior to know how it came about and what steps were taken in the U.K. to remove the Jesuitical provision which existed in the Act of 1861. Would you be prepared to sign a draft letter to someone at the Treasury enquiring about this, or is it a matter which it would be more proper to ask Sir Donald Somervell to consider putting before Parliamentary Counsel?\n\nR. Clutterbuck\n\n19.12.38", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-555-17 Smuggling of counterfeit coins made in China 5-12-1935 - 19-2-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550948, "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": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "page_number": 69, "title": "CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937", "content_text": "## EXCESS WATER RATES \n\nCouncillors present were: \n\nHis Excellency the Governor (Sir Andrew Caldecott K.T., C.M.G., C.B.); \nHis Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops (Major General A. W. Bartholomew, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.); \nThe Colonial Secretary (Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North); \nThe Attorney General (Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., O.B.E.); \nThe Acting Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Hon. Mr. W. J. Carrie); \nThe Colonial Treasurer (Hon. Mr. E. Taylor, C.M.G.); \nHon. Commander G. F. Hole, R.N., (Retired) (Harbour Master); \nHon. Mr. T. H. King (Inspector General of Police); \nHon. Dr. A. R. Wellington, C.M.G., (Director of Medical and Sanitary Services); \nHon. Mr. A. G. W. Tickle, (Director of Public Works, Acting); \nHon. Mr. J. J. Paterson; \nHon. Mr. J. P. Braga O.B.E.; \nHon. Mr. S. W. Tso, C.B.E., LL.D.; \nHon. Mr. T. N. Chau; \nHon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; \nHon. Mr. M. K. Lo; \nHon. Mr. M. T. Johnson; \nHon. Mr. A. W. Hughes; \nMr. D. M. MacDougall (Deputy Clerk of Councils). \n\nThe Colonial Secretary moved the second reading of a Bill intituled, \"An Ordinance to apply a sum not exceeding Twenty-five million five hundred and eight thousand two hundred and sixty-nine Dollars to the Public Service of the year 1937.\" \nThe Colonial Treasurer seconded and the Bill was read a second time.\n\nAddressing the Council, the Hon. Mr. J. J. Paterson said: Sir, Since Sir Henry Pollock made his Budget speech last year, Your Excellency has arrived in this Colony and the Unofficial Members wish that your advent could have coincided with a greater measure of prosperity in the Colony you have to govern, a wish Your Excellency probably shares. It remains for the Unofficial Members to assure you of their understanding of the difficulties all those who may be charged with the administration of this Colony must be faced with today and to wish Your Excellency and Lady Caldecott a very hearty welcome.\n\nWe join with the Colonial Secretary in expressing our gratitude to Messrs. Tratman and Breen for all they have done for Hongkong and with him we wish them every happiness in the future. We congratulate Mr. N. L. Smith and ourselves on his promotion and appointment to this Colony. In the absence of Sir Henry Pollock I have been asked by my colleagues to make some general observations on the budget for 1937 and on events leading up to it. It's usual to congratulate the Colonial Secretary on the excellent manner in which he has presented his Budget; on this occasion we can do so with more fervour than usual, the memorandum he has had prepared together with those of the Colonial Treasurer and D.P.W. are admirable. We wonder, though, whether the formula adopted for the Public Works Department, where items of expenditure are discussed across the table, could not be extended to other spending departments.\n\nDollar's Decline \nPerhaps I may be forgiven if at the outset I refer to exchange. Since Sir Henry Pollock spoke last year we have seen the rate slide steadily to its present level, one at which we are very closely allied to the Standard Dollar and which most of us consider the proper thing to be. But because of this descent, Government's immediate finances have suffered. Perhaps I am being blatantly hindwise when I say that to some extent this loss might have been avoided. Government was in an invidious position; it must have known to about what level the Hongkong dollar was headed. The Unofficials knew nothing; they did, however, ask that, so far as was possible, sterling commitments (salaries excepted) be covered and they remark rather sadly now that it was Unofficial money. Or at least it originally was the property of the taxpayers of Hongkong.\n\nBut I believe the fault to be deeper than in these recent years. Government has always argued that its policy was never to fix, that whether one settled or did not settle the years would strike a balance. And so they would if nobody had fixed the dollar, but had the other plan been adopted, always to settle, Government could in the past have known exactly at any given time what its commitments were and expressed them in the coin of the Colony. More recently, the taxpayer would have been saved a lot, perhaps more correctly in the light of the present Budget, the motorist and the Civil Servant.\n\nThe Retrenchment Commission dealt with the settling of exchange in paragraph 5 of its Report on the Treasury. Government cannot say it wasn't told!\n\nSalary Cut \nWhich brings me to the salary cut. While I remark rather sadly that such blisters are no new things among the Unofficial community, this in no way dampens the enthusiasm with which the ninety and nine welcome the sinner into the fold, especially as those of the mercantile community who can look to benefit from Provident Fund or similar scheme appreciate that if the details given recently in a local paper of the \"Widows and Orphans\" be true, or anywhere near true, then, and not forgetting pensions, widows and orphans are in possession of a very bad bargain - one that would make an insurance man shudder.\n\nAs the cat is now out of the bag, may we ask Government to issue a statement showing how this Fund has operated in the past and how it is proposed to carry it on in the future, for I can assure you, Sir, that if in the sober world of business, so far removed from High Olympus, any employer of a large staff tried to drive so hard a bargain, he could never hope to keep his people contented.\n\nAs an illustration I think I'm correct in saying that a bachelor, though he may have subscribed to the Pool all his life, yet only gets back half his subscription on retirement or his estate that half on death. Or, more accurately, his estate does not benefit. I do not see why bachelors should be penalised.\n\nPerhaps the answer is this, that this Fund was started by private enterprise when such things were by no means common and when modern and more or less established procedure had not been laid down. Had management of the monies been left to the beneficiaries, no doubt the rules would have been brought up to date, but Government sequestered the proceeds, despite Unofficial protest and rude people say used them to build the Kowloon-Canton Railway.\n\nAbuse Needs Correcting \nThe Unofficial Members fully realise that in starting this hare they may be adding to the expenses of this Colony if that portion of the balances required cannot be earmarked to this end, but, in common fairness, they feel they must emphasise and ask for the correction of an abuse. That this may not be easy, we admit, but at least the beneficiaries of a subscriber from now on should in every case get out the money put in, with reasonable interest.\n\nLiability for this Fund is not shown in the Colony's accounts, though the Directors of public and private companies are forced very properly to declare the \"true and correct view of the state of Company's affairs\", including contingent liabilities, and Government might well remember the parable of the mote and the beam.\n\nIt must be remembered, however, that a great number in this community have no pension and Provident Fund; any provision they can make must be by their own efforts, not easy in these days.\n\nLetters have appeared in the Press which seem to suggest that Hongkong is in process of cutting European staff to below those levels usual in other Crown Colonies. I think I'm correct in saying that, so far from this being the case, Government merely is in process of coming on to parity with them, and has quite a long way to go yet.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 551634, "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": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "page_number": 32, "title": "CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936", "content_text": "## TABLE \nShowing how effect is given in the Hong Kong Ordinances to the Provisions of the International Convention for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, 1929.\n\n| Convention Article No. | Remarks |\n| --- | --- |\n| 1 | This is a formal preliminary article stating that the High Contracting Parties recognise the rules laid down in the Convention as the most effective means in present circumstances for ensuring the prevention and punishment of counterfeiting currency. |\n| 2 | |\n| 3 | |\n| 3 (1) | This article requires that the following should be punishable as ordinary crimes: (1) any fraudulent making or altering of currency, whatever means are employed; (2) is not in this subsection. Effect is given to this by making forgery of a bank note or currency note with intent to defraud a felony. As regards paper money, this is done by section 4(1)(c) and (d) of `Ordinance No. 11 of 1922`, as amended by section 3 of `Ordinance No. 11 of 1924`. By virtue of the definitions in section 3 of `Ordinance No. 11 of 1922`, forgery includes the making or altering of a bank note or currency note. Article 3(1) is carried into effect as regards gold and silver coin by sections 3, 4, and 4A of `Ordinance No. 7 of 1865` as amended by section 3(2)(c) and (d) and section 3(5) of the new Ordinance, and as regards copper coin by section 13 of `Ordinance No. 7 of 1865` as amended by section 3(2)(m) of the new Ordinance. |\n| 3 (2) | As regards paper money, the fraudulent uttering of forged bank notes or currency notes is felony under section 8 of `Ordinance No. 11 of 1922`. Article 3(2) is carried into effect, as regards gold and silver coin, by sections 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12... |\n| 11 | This article defines the word currency as meaning paper money (including banknotes) and metallic money, the circulation of which is legally authorised. Effect is given to this Article as respects paper money by `Ordinance No. 11 of 1922`, ss. 2, 4, 10, 11, and 15, as amended by `Ordinance No. 11 of 1924`, ss. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and by section 2 of the `Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936` (hereinafter called the new Ordinance). As respects metal money, effect is given to it by `Ordinance No. 7 of 1865` as amended by section 3(2) of the new Ordinance. |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 553056, "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": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937", "content_text": "To C.e. P \n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** \n\nconde \n\nSWA. Caldecott. \n\n26 To F1.0. (wk17) \n\nParqute \n\n12/7/17 \n\n4.7.) pp \n\n14/7/37 \n\nOn her Gent's motrarcticas \n\nI set col. \n\ncopy of (26) + (17) by hand, \n\nshould t \n\nLA \n\n10 \n\ntime to this \n\nthank he \n\nmeeting to \n\n- mark \n\nP. Rages \n\n15.41.57 \n\n& attack offor lé \n\nnote \n\n7 \n\nthe meeting. \n\nThe \n\n7.0 will let \n\nLave \n\nan alls \n\nw (26) \n\n300 \n\nthey have \n\nconsulted G. M. \n\nambers ado \n\nChera \n\nand will coorde \n\nfor the the questia of Chenend jurisdictio - Kowloon \n\n) rather gathered that the \n\nIn Cowell mentioned \n\nmatte \n\nfell \n\nthe fore chility of the \n\ngang auf to the Cabinet', 'how Orde \n\nthat the 7-0. would \n\n(before the mother entit \n\nque \n\nday such they could be unlikely to \n\nway, \n\nhave the declica made a \n\nthe lives they \n\nfavored aqacut the almost certam offers tia by the ther brice Depts, \n\nthe Coloncal office \n\nwell \n\nas of the \n\nas amended. \n\nJ. Pratt \n\n? send the note to ho Ande \n\nSex A. Caldecott, comfs shif \n\ndoft coon. \n\nto Col. Pergeté \n\nChang \n\n\"think\"", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-560-17 Kowloon- expropriation of Chinese property 6-1-1937 - 4-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554099, "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": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "page_number": 142, "title": "CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937", "content_text": "# 140 \n\n1 \n\n## Report on the University\n\nMr. Ma Kiam came to us from Yenching University where he was Professor of Chinese. Mr. Ma Kiam's reputation as a scholar and teacher stood high in Peiping.\n\nThe Chinese of Hong Kong and Malaya have contributed generously to the Department of Chinese, and the University now has three first-class scholars and teachers in its service, offering carefully considered courses in Chinese language and literature, history, and philosophy, with English being an essential part in each course. Classes in Mandarin are also held.\n\nThis last development is an important step, for it is becoming more and more evident that graduates who have no Mandarin are left behind in the race for appointments—especially official appointments in China. The facilities are there; the University cannot be blamed if students do not come to profit by them.\n\nMr. Archbutt went on leave last April. As Treasurer for nearly three years, Mr. Archbutt rendered the University service which it can repay with nothing but gratitude. On Mr. Archbutt's departure, Mr. Morse agreed to take up the Treasurer's work. He too has done, and is doing, the University service of inestimable value. Before such unselfish public spirit, I bow my head in gratitude. Perhaps Mr. Archbutt and Mr. Morse have come to the same conclusion as Job—\"that in all labour there is profit\".\n\nOn the 15th July, Lady Caldwell opened the Eu Tong Sen Gymnasium. This was Lady Caldwell's first visit to the University. The Gymnasium has already been a great boon and its value will increase. There are, in the University, both young men and young women who do not play games and who are dangerously neglecting their physical development.\n\nThe gymnasium will be open every weekday afternoon after lecture hours, and an instructor will be there. The University has one recreation field and one only, and on this field athletic sports are held, and cricket, football, hockey, and tennis are played. The provision is scandalously inadequate, and this makes the University all the more beholden to Mr. Eu Tong Sen for his Gymnasium, and to Mr. Sum Pak-ming, who recently gave us a basketball court—it is the first basketball court that the students have ever had. In the Eu Tong Sen Gymnasium, there is also the finest covered basketball court and badminton court in the Colony.\n\nMention has already been made of the visit which the University's Professor of Physiology, Dr. Ride, made in 1931 and 1932 to Borneo in connection with his genetic researches. In 1933, the University granted Professor Ride study leave, and the Rockefeller Foundation asked him to tour America and to report on the present study of genetics and heredity, with special reference to their application to problems of human physiology and pathology. The thesis which Professor Ride wrote has been accepted by the University of Oxford, and, in the language of that ancient institution, he may now supplicate for the University's degree of Doctor of Medicine.\n\nIn 1927, there were 292 students on the University's roll. On the enrolment on 21st October 1936, there were 412—139 in the Faculty of Medicine, 133 in the Faculty of Engineering, and 140 in the Faculty of Arts. Three hundred and forty-eight of these students were Chinese.\n\nIn 1921, there was one woman undergraduate; today, there are 76. I have once again to pay to the students my grateful tribute for their loyalty, their discipline, and for the good fellowship which prevails not only among themselves but between them and their teachers. The cynical might learn much from a visit to the night school, which is conducted by the students.\n\nIn the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship Examination held early last year, two of our graduates appeared, and each won a scholarship. Miss Lai Po-kan came first in a competitive examination in Chinese and English Philology, and she is now reading at Oxford for the honours school of English language and literature. Forty-five candidates sat for the scholarship examination. The other winner was Dr. Woo Kai-fun; his subject being pathology. He is now working in London. The Boxer Scholarship Examination was first held in 1934. Our record is four competitors and four winners.\n\nDr. H. C. Ku, who won a Boxer Scholarship in 1934, has been elected a Fellow of the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons. Dr. Lee Hah Liong and Dr. Lim Gim Kheang (medical graduates of ours) have gained respectively the London Diploma in Child Health and the London Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Health. Miss Irene Ho Tung has secured the London University Doctorate in Philosophy. Mr. Donald Anderson now holds the London University degree of Bachelor of Laws. Mr. S. B. Ahmed and Mr. Eric Wong Tape have both qualified to be Associate members of the Institute of Civil Engineers, the former being the top of the list of those who were successful at the examination qualifying for membership. Mr. Gan Kee-poon has been awarded the Diploma of the Imperial College, London. Mr. W. J. C. Fletcher has won the Parsons Memorial Prize—a prize awarded to the best apprentice by Messrs. C. A. Parsons and Co. Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne, whose works Mr. Fletcher is working in as an apprentice. Six of our engineering graduates have been recently engaged by the Government of China for survey work on the Canton Mui Tsian Railway. They are now working on the survey.\n\nIn January 1936, the University heard from the Executive Yuan of the Government of China that graduates of the University of Hong Kong were eligible to appear at the Higher Civil Service Examinations. Mr. Sung Hang-chee (one of our graduates) has since passed the Examination with 2nd Class Honours and is thus qualified for an appointment.\n\nUnless something unforeseen happens, this will be my last Congregation. Looking back over my Vice-Chancellorship, I am conscious of a sense of frustration. I suspect that every head of a University, College, or School becomes, when his time is up, painfully aware of the contrast between the little done and the undone vast. But here, there are so many dominating factors, so many influences vital to the very life of the University, over which one seems to have no control.\n\nBehind the Universities of Europe lie centuries of tradition and of political and social experience. The Universities of America have their foundations in certain ideals which are generally accepted throughout the United States—ideals which have prompted American Universities and American University men not only to start Universities in China but also to maintain them and to keep alive the contact between the mother institutions in America and their children in China. I have many personal friends in \n\n## Page 141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-561-7 Hong Kong University 4-1-1937 - 22-9-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554759, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938", "content_text": "# HONGKONG UNIVERSITY \n\n(Continued from Page 8.)\n\nThe endowment was being run in a sound, economical, and businesslike manner, and whether the most was being made of its public utility. Now it is because I have had doubts expressed to me by responsible persons on both these points as regards this University, because also its present finances afford room for considerable concern, and chiefly because the Colonial Government is now contributing to them annually a sum of no less than three hundred and fifty thousand dollars that I have decided, as Governor and with the full approval of my Executive Council, to appoint a small committee of inquiry.\n\n## Committee of Inquiry\n\nI to investigate the present, and probable future, financial position of the Hongkong University and to advise whether any changes are desirable in its staffing, personnel, salary scales, or organization;\n\nII: to enquire and advise whether any such, or other, changes are desirable in the interest of its utility or prestige;\n\nIII: to tender any other advice or suggestions for the future of the University.\n\nI have heard the suggestion made that we ought to get an expert out from home for this investigation, but I feel certain myself that our local conditions and circumstances are so peculiar to ourselves that the first thing at any rate, to do is to bring good, clear local brains to bear on the problem and to have their summing up of the position and their advice regarding it before we consider the expensive proposition of obtaining outside opinion which, however expert on the subject of University organization, would not be expert in regard to the special circumstances and requirements of the Far East.\n\nThe gentlemen who will be invited to serve on the Committee will be the Honourable Mr. N. L. Smith, Colonial Secretary, the Honourable Sir Shouson Chow, Mr. J. R. Masson, and Mr. A. Morse, Honorary Treasurer of the University. The membership is small, because I do not believe in unwieldy committees, but the committee will take the evidence of all who respond to its invitation or volunteer to appear before it.\n\n## Scholarships\n\nThe scholarships awarded were:\n| Scholarship | Recipient |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Ng Li-hing Medical Scholarship | divided between S. Bard and V. N. Vargassoff |\n| The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming First Medical Scholarship | V. N. Vargassoff |\n| The Ho Fook and Chan Kai-ming Second Medical Scholarship | For May 1936, Wu Hung-tak; For December, Cheng See-yan |\n| The Anderson Scholarship for 1936 | Cheng See-yan |\n| The Chan Kai-ming Engineering Scholarship | Chan Bing-hung |\n| The Chan Kai-ming Arts Scholarship | Li Shi-yi |\n\n## Congregation Details\n\nThe Great Hall was filled to capacity with invited guests and friends and relatives of those who were receiving degrees. Among those present not on the dais were Lady Caldecott, Captain W. J. R. Cragg, A.D.C. to His Excellency, Mr. Secretary to His Excellency; H. E. H. J. Cruttwell, Private Secretary to His Excellency; Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little, and Lady Little, H. E. Maj.-Gen. A. W. Bartholomew and Mrs. Bartholomew; and Rear Admiral C. G. Sedgwick.\n\nWhile tea was being served in the grounds, the Band of the 2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Battalion, played selections. The programme included: \"March of the Peers\" from \"Iolanthe\", Sullivan; \"The Merry Widow\", Lehar; Selection from the Musical Play; Valse, \"Amorettan Tanze\" Gung'l; Entr'cte, \"Humcresque\", Dvorak; Selection, \"Merrie England\", German.\n\n## SIR WILLIAM HORNELL\n\nSir William Hornell, who has been Vice-Chancellor of the University since 1924, was formerly in the Indian Educational Service. A son of the late Mr. Robert Hornell, Barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, he was born in 1878 and educated at Radley School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated Master of Arts. In 1901, he entered the Indian Educational Service, and the following year was appointed Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. Transferred to Bengal, he rose there to be Director of Public Instruction. For some years, he was attached to the Board of Education, Whitehall. In 1918, he was honoured with the C.I.E., and in 1933, he was created a Knight Bachelor. In 1931, he was presented with an honorary degree of Doctor of Law by the Hongkong University.\n\nFor twelve years, he has been building on its foundations and without any edifice of bricks and mortar but the lives and careers of hundreds of young men and women. He has made himself extremely popular in the Colony, and has associated himself with many local organisations. He has confessed to a sense of frustration: He was largely instrumental in securing for the University a share in the Boxer Indemnity Fund.\n\nNobody realises defects in foundation, in lay-out, or in materials more than the master-builder, and the appointment of my small committee will provide the opportunity for the master-builder to come forward and advise as an architectural consultant for the University's future.\n\nSir William has confessed also to a sense of isolation. So far as contact with the British Universities is at present lacking or ineffective, I am bold to prophesy that, when he is back home, Sir William will personally achieve a proper and effectual liaison. He will be, I am confident, this University's apostle to England. But as regards the loss which his departure will spell for us in Hongkong, I can find no words of comfort at all. It is, alas, proverbial that great men leave great gaps. Sir William Hornell has been not only a great Vice-Chancellor but a very human one, so that the gap which he leaves will be a gap not only in the list of Hongkong's distinguished residents but in that innermost circle of public friends which the Colony has taken warmly and gratefully to its heart.\n\nHe ended his address to us this afternoon with the sad word \"Goodbye\"; I refuse now to anticipate our parting with him by returning that salutation but, at this, his last Congregation, and on behalf of all present, I will conclude my remarks by addressing to him two words, two simple little words which can nevertheless be charged with all our infinity of obligation, admiration, and affection towards him--Thank you, Sir William.\n\n## The Graduates\n\nThe following received the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery:\n- Cheng See-yan\n- Miss C. Wong\n- Lee Hua-ngak\n- L. Gosano\n- Teng Pin-hui\n- Szeto Eng-kee\n- Ong Ewe-hin\n- Kho Pek-po\n- Kong Sau-yui\n- P. R. T. Naidu\n\nIn Absentia:\n- Chau Woon-nin\n- Ng Yew-seng\n- Kandiah Nagalingam\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering:\n- Chow Shiu-lim\n- Chua Keng-ju\n- Walter J. Citrin\n- Ho Chiap-chye\n- Hui Che-shing\n- Lim Chong-hin\n- Lu Sui-shing\n- Vadim Bonch-Osmolovsky\n- Ting Zeh\n- Wong Wan-kung\n- Wong Yat-sing\n- Zea Yue-kun\n\nIn Absentia:\n- Chang Chia-ning\n- Cho Tuck-choon\n- Alexis Ignatius Napoloff\n- Shao Tsun\n- Adi Bejan Tata\n- Michael Constantin Yatskin\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Arts:\n- Chan Yoong-hin\n- Mrs. Kan Po-chi\n- Lee Kui-chee\n- Miss Li Sau-man\n- Mak Cheuk-hon\n- Goh Tiang-hin\n- Lau Kwok-ching\n- Leung Yau-cheung\n- Miss Li Wan-saan\n- Miss Josephine Wong Po Lin\n- Dachin Yih\n\nSir William Hornell is a brother of Mr. E. B. Hornell, formerly secretary in the Colony of the China Sugar Refinery, and of Rear-Admiral Robert A. Hornell.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-8 Hong Kong University- Engineering Faculty 16-6-1937 - 5-4-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555253, "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": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG WEEKLY PRESS & CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT\n## October 29, 1937\n\n### COOLIES REFUSE TO WORK LOCAL SHIP\n\nBelieved Cargo Was For Japan\n\nUnder the impression that the cargo they were loading was intended to be shipped to Japan, over 60 coolies refused to work the ss. Hai Tan. The cargo comprised tanks of kerosene and petrol which were to be shipped to Swatow, Foochow, and Amoy.\n\nIt was learned that the Texas Oil Co. installation had engaged 120 coolies to load onto the Hai Tan. A commotion was caused among the 60 coolies who turned up when it was alleged that someone had informed them that the cargoes were meant for Japan. On hearing the rumor, the coolies immediately stopped work.\n\nAnother incident of a similar nature took place on Oct. 22 at Connaught Road West on a junk where a number of coolies were unloading wolfram ore to be stored in a godown. It was alleged that the ore was to be sent to Japan.\n\n### GOVERNOR'S OFFICIAL VISIT TO MACAO\n\nHis Excellency the officer Administering the Government, Mr. N. L. Smith, C.M.G., accompanied by his A.D.C., Capt. G. P. Rickcord, and private secretary, Mr. H. J. Cruttwell, paid an official visit to Macao on October 22.\n\nThey left shortly before 8 a.m. yesterday by the H.M.S. Falmouth, the Admiral's Yacht, and were seen off by the Portuguese Consul-General, Signor Alvaro Brilhante Laborinho, at Queen's Pier.\n\nIn Macao, they had luncheon at Government House with the Governor of Macao. After taking a motor drive around the Portuguese Colony, they left for Hong Kong by the Falmouth, arriving here at 7 p.m. in the evening.\n\nThe visit had no political significance and was suggested several months ago and approved by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Its postponement had been due to the situation in China but, as no such visit had been paid since 1933, the Secretary of State was anxious that this courtesy should, if possible, not await the arrival of Sir Geoffry Northcote, the Governor-Designate of Hong Kong.\n\n### Trade Barriers\n\nTrade barriers were touched upon at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Jules Martin, who invariably takes an active share in the discussions at the meetings of the Chamber, followed his usual course on this occasion and made a sound contribution to the proceedings, comments the \"Malaya Tribune.\" With his plea for freer trade and the abolition of all tariff barriers, he is assured of ample sympathy, for there can be no doubt whatever that most of the ills to which the world is heir today can be laid at the door of economic self-sufficiency. It has acted as a garrote on world trade and gained in strength so much that Great Britain, the apostle of free trade, was herself forced to resort to tariffs for her own protection. That did not make matters in the wider aspect any better. But it cannot be concluded that Great Britain, in taking the action she did, was actuated by any motive other than self-preservation. As regards Mr. Martin's remarks, he was thinking of world trade and the stranglehold which economic nationalism has succeeded in locking upon it. There are already signs that the economic nationalists have discovered the vital flaw in their theory, and there is a growing disposition to look upon free trade with a less prejudiced eye. But why consider world conditions when there are equally absurd conditions prevailing nearer home? There are the customs barriers in the Federated Malay States. Why not establish free trade on the mainland? It would be an excellent example to set the rest of the world.\n\n### A White Elephant\n\nOne of Malaya's white elephants, Prai, had its periodical outing last week at the half-yearly meeting of the Penang Chamber of Commerce. The pachyderm was trotted out for inspection by the chairman, Mr. T. C. Martine, and, after a not too favorable eye had been cast over its points, it was trotted back again. It will be recalled that the General Manager of the Federated Malay States Railways, in his annual report for 1936, contradicted the assertion that the port of Prai was a white elephant. In one respect, he was right. The port will never be entirely useless but it will never be the port that its creators dreamed it would be. It will never be a deep-water port for ocean-going steamers. Mr. Martine subscribed to that view.\n\nHe did not propose to re-open a rather weather-beaten controversy as to the advantages of port development on the mainland, but he did consider that the bulk of cargo at Prai or Penang must always be handled by lighters, and any new improvement scheme should be designed with that idea to the fore. So there we have it. Prai is an excellent lighterage port and nothing more. In effect, it is still a white elephant but not so white as some of its traducers try to make out. When the amount of money that has been sunk in that estuary in an endeavor to justify the opinions of those who believed in Prai as a deep-water port is recalled, it is something to be thankful for that the future of the port is assured, not on the grandiose lines originally visualized for it, but on a real utility basis. The only thing that rankles is that all this was seen and appreciated by not a few before the Prai wharves had got no further than plans on paper. As an offset to the irksome reminder of the many millions spent on its construction, there is always the consolation that Prai will eventually pay for its keep.\n\n### Welcome, Malaya\n\nThe decision of the Malayan Governments to book 5,000 square feet in the Colonial Pavilion of the Empire Exhibition, to be held in Glasgow next year, has afforded much satisfaction in Scottish business circles, and the hope is freely expressed that the display of Malayan exhibits will result in mutual trade benefits.\n\nWelcoming Malaya to the Exhibition, the Glasgow \"News\" in a short editorial says:-\n\n\"Your decision to book 5,000 square feet in the Colonial Pavilion is heartening to us in Glasgow, and will prove a wise departure for yourselves.\n\n### CHINA REVIEW\n\n#### Pitiable Sights\n\n\"Unparalleled scenes of misery and destitution are being witnessed in the streets of Shanghai as a result of the hostilities, for hundreds of refugees are roaming the streets in the International Settlement and French Concession, sleeping in the open, begging for food, battered by the elements.\"\n\nThis is the description which an eyewitness gives of the immense suffering of the civilian population in Shanghai from a war which is due to no fault of theirs.\n\nBeing driven from their homes by the unwelcome visitation of bullets and shells, these refugees have now to live in concentration camps. Although eighty such camps have been established in the foreign areas, there is accommodation for a mere handful of the total figure. Meanwhile, the food problem grows more acute daily.\n\nAt present, unfortunate victims of war are only given rations, which do no more than keep them from abject starvation, and the police and volunteers are kept busy coping with food riots.\n\nFurther, the unsanitary conditions in the city are causing the health authorities much anxiety. Cases of cholera have been reported, and if the disease develops into an epidemic, against which all possible precautions are now being taken, the situation will be rendered most difficult.\n\n#### Women Soldiers\n\nThe womenfolk in China are taking their full share of responsibility in the present Sino-Japanese conflict. Discarding lipsticks and eyebrow pencils, they have now taken active parts in the front lines, and have been engaged in militia duties in the rear. It is even said that some of them have actually seen service in some of the grimmest and bloodiest battles in Shanghai.\n\nThroughout the country, girls are petitioning the Government for enrolment into the women's fighting forces, but so far, only those with previous military training have been drafted. But those who have been rejected are trying to make themselves useful in other ways, such as bringing comforts and entertainment to the troops and doing Red Cross work in base hospitals behind the fighting lines.\n\nAt the same time, the Government is exercising the greatest of caution because numerous traitors and spies are seeking to make army contacts. Consequently, many volunteers are rejected unless they possess incontrovertible proofs of their patriotic motives.\n\nThe former Red Army, subsequently renamed the 8th Route Army, possesses a contingent of veteran women troops. They are mostly wives of regulars, and are reliably said to be remaining with the 8th Route Army. It will be recalled that two years ago, they captured an entire regiment of Szechuen provincial troops!\n\n### MALAYAN REVIEW (Continued)\n\n\"Over here, we know too little of what you mean to the Empire with your vast production of rubber and tin, and your strategic importance in times of peace as in times of international strife.\n\n\"We are vague in our knowledge of the Federated and Unfederated States and the Straits Settlements, and their relation to Britain, so that anything you can do to educate us will be of mutual benefit.\n\n\"The Sino-Japanese war reminds us forcibly of the part that Singapore plays in protecting the arteries of Empire, and safeguarding the life-blood of our peoples.\n\n\"You will enlighten us more fully and by happier methods.\"\n\n### CHUNG SHAN SURGICAL UNIT\n\n#### Personnel In North China\n\nThe following corrected list of the personnel composing the Chung Shan Surgical Unit was received from Nanking recently, reading as follows:-\n\nThe Chung Shan Medical Unit, Nanking:- Patron and President: Dr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan;\n\nBoard of Directors:- Dr. Wang Ching Wei (President of the Kuomintang); Dr. Wang Chung Hui (Minister of Foreign Affairs); Dr. J. Heng Liu (Minister of Health); Dr. Fu Ping Sheung (Member of the Legislative Yuan); Dr. Wu Sheung Ying (Member of the Legislative Yuan); Mr. Ma Chiu Shun (Mayor of Nanking); Madame Sun Fo; Madame Wang Ching Wei; Madame Ma Chiu Shun; Mr. Aw Boon Haw; Mr. A. Morris; Prof. W. I. Gerrard;\n\nMedical Head: Dr. Yik Wan. Doctors: Dr. S. C. Ho, Dr. Ying Wan, Dr. Li Ho Tin, Dr. Tze Ming Tsan, Dr. Lau Man Fong, Dr. Lam Lin.\n\nNurses:- Misses Pun Yuen Ching, Ng Yee Kun, Fung Man Fung, Hung Ching Chu, Wong Kei Tong, Kwok Yin Wa, Cheung Siu Ping, Yu Kim Man, Liu Po Ching, Ip Poo Ying, Kwok Shun Tak, Rosetta Ling, Yu Wai Sheung, Chan Wai Fong, Ng Kam Ho, Chan Wai Han, Leung Fung Ha, Tang Fong Ling, Kwok Miu Chun, Leung Wai Fun, Lo So Wan, Lee Yuk Chun, Chan Sau Ying, and Leung Kim Wan.\n\nMale-nurses:- Messrs. So Yat Sang, Leung Hang, Au Po Ming, Fan Chan Chung, Ng Pui Fun, Bank K. Yip, Li Fai Sing, Mo Kam Man, Wai Fu Kuen, Wong Kok Shui, Kwok Yuk Wing, and B. A. Hyder.\n\n### DONATIONS\n\nThe Chairman of the Hong Kong Travel Association acknowledges with thanks the receipt of the following subscriptions to the Association for the period 1937-1938:-\n\n| Donor | Amount |\n| --- | --- |\n| The Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall | $15.00 |\n| China Light & Power Co., Ltd. | $100.00 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-17 Sino-Japanese War- attacks on shipping. For extracted photographs see CN 3-12 27-9-1937 - 17-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557780, "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": "CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938", "page_number": 218, "title": "CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938", "content_text": "243\n\n8\n\nCONFERRING OF DEGREES\n\nNEED OF GIRL STUDENTS' HOSTEL AND PLAYING FIELDS URGED\n\nCHANCELLOR AND UNIVERSITY\n\nThe twenty-ninth Congregation of the Hongkong University for the conferring of degrees was held yesterday when His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geoffry Northcote, acted for the first time at this function in his capacity of Chancellor.\n\nMr. D. J. Sloss, C.B.E., M.A., referred to the lack of a hostel for the girl students, who had increased in numbers, and the insufficiency of playing fields generally. In a generous tribute to his predecessor, Mr. Sloss mentioned that a considerable number of books had been donated to the University by Sir William Hornell.\n\nThe Procession marshalled in the robing room soon after the Chancellor arrived and then, led by the Mace Bearer, walked through the cloisters.\n\nThe Chancellor declared the Congregation open, and the Vice-Chancellor made the opening address.\n\nMr. Sloss said: It has been customary for the Congregation to comment upon the events of the preceding year. As I have been here only two months I cannot do this, and therefore I shall limit myself in the main to obvious and non-controversial issues.\n\nA Royal Patron\n\nHis Excellency said: The past year has been notably eventful. During its passage the University lost a Chancellor in Sir Andrew Caldecott who, though his tenure of his office was short, took a keen interest in the welfare of the University.\n\nThe General Library of the University has been enriched by a gift of about 2,000 volumes from Sir William Hornell. Many of the books in Sir William's gift would now be difficult to obtain, and they increase the value of the Library.\n\nThe Chinese part of the Library has also found friends. Two large collections of good books, some in rare editions, lent from Canton for long periods of use in this Library.\n\nTo this I would like to add a few words to recall Sir William's eminent services to education before he came here—the achievements, in fact, with which were the use of his coming to Hongkong. He entered the Indian Education Service early in life and after seven years' distinguished work in Bengal he was recalled to the Board of Education in London where he worked in the Department of Special Enquiries and Reports with distinguished colleagues such as Sir Frank Heath and Mr. C: W. Twenty-four years later he came to Hongkong as Vice-Chancellor.\n\nSir William's hospitality was a fine influence in the University. His genial and kindly nature endeared him to his friends, and the memory of his geniality and his \"fairy god-mother\" kindnesses, which endeared him to a wide circle of friends and, not least, to the students of this University.\n\nOne of the oldest of Sir William's colleagues writes of him: \"During his thirteen years of office as Vice-Chancellor Sir William Hornell had many perplexities and problems to face. Throughout all these difficulties he always tried to do whatever he could to make members of his staff more efficient at their work and more contended in their conditions of service.\"\n\nHe returned to India in 1913 as Director of Public Instruction in Bengal.\n\nThe story of this University has been a story of transitions from crisis to crisis, and Sir William worthily filled a Vice-Chancellor's place.\n\nWilliam's place has been worthily filled by a Vice-Chancellor whose ripe experience makes him peculiarly welcome at the present juncture.\n\nThe Chancellor made a studied reference to the deliberations of the Committee which recently published recommendations for changes in the University administration, but laid most stress on the need for greater attention to the teaching of hygiene and the need for accommodation for girl students.\n\nThe University's great annual event was favoured by the weather, and the number of graduates in the University in 1937 has risen from a normal 50 to an actual 77.\n\nSeating and standing space and inside the Great Hall was fully occupied long before 5 p.m.\n\nThe Deans of the Faculties of Medicine, Engineering, and Arts then presented their graduates in succession, and the Chancellor conferred the respective degrees on each graduate, as they stepped forward with new hoods, and afterwards shook hands with each of them.\n\nThe Vice-Chancellor next read out the names of students in absentia on whom degrees were conferred, and presented the scholarship winners, with whom the Chancellor also shook hands.\n\nThe Graduates\n\nThe graduates of 1937 were:\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.—R. E. Alvares, Oni Kee-wan, Yang Ke, M. P. H. Itoh, W. Heng, H. L. Ozorio. Yeang Cheng-hin Kan Lai-to, G. A. V. Ribeiro, Yeung Wai-Wah; in Absentia; Tan Eng-gwa.\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Chan Sze-cheung, Chin Weng-kwan, Wong Yee-wah, J. da Silva, Tan Pek-eam. Chung Chang Chi-yin, Ching Yok-chong, Lo Hung-pok, G. Singh, Sung Sheung-hong, Tan Yong-nee. Tránh Kai-ng. E. T. Wood, Chak Fook-yat. Liauw Khoon-lim, G. C. K. Ma, A. L. N. da Silva, Sung Taoong-tub\n\nDegree of Bachelor of Arts: Au Yeung-chiu, Chan Kai-lau, Cheung Wing-ngok, Ho Ying-fwee, Law Chung-kam, Leung Sik-kwan, Li Shi-yt, Mok Hing-bun, Wong Man-la. Boon Yeon-fong. Mg Tily Shuen Fo-yuen,_ Miss_Tam Wai-chit, Miss Chan. Miss Helen Chu. Hung Mo-chiu, Kai kwani Fook-shu, Lo Bung-chun, Miss Helen Moore, Sze Chiten, Tang Chi-keung, Yu Kwok-ylm, Chan Jm-fut, Chau Sing-kan, Chung Hon-ki, In Absentia.—Lee Kuan\n\nScholarships\n\nFollowing were the Scholarship awards:\n\nThe Anderson Medal, Yeang Cheng-hin.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming, 1st Medical Scholarship and the Ng Li Hing very ancient Scholarship, Daphne Chun.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming 2nd Medical Scholarship P. R. T. Naidu and G. A. V. Ribeiro, the Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Engineering Scholarship, G. M. Cornfeld.\n\nThe Ho Fook and Chan Kai Ming Arts Scholarship, Wu Hei-tak.\n\nPhysical Training\n\nIn one respect, I am advised, student life at the University might be quickened and that is by devoting a little more time and thought to generally collective Physical Training.\n\nAs is well known, modern thought to-day, puts into practice a growingly closer alliance between the mind and the body, and it would be wise to encourage and help members of the staff to attend scientific conferences in other parts of the world and the students of the University to travel for purposes of study.\n\nChancellor's Address\n\nHis Excellency said: I turn for a moment to a material need of the University which is becoming more and more urgent year by year. 90 were women. For them the University so far, has not been able to provide a residential hall, nor even a hostel in which they could be housed collectively.\n\nThus on the one hand they are without the discipline and tutelage which are essential conditions of sound student life, and on the other they are deprived of the experience of a corporate life which supplies a great stimulus to, and widens the horizon of, those who are fortunate enough to live in University colleges.\n\nMr. Sloss, the Vice-Chancellor, has just spoken of Sir William Hornell's many services to education and I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nI refer, of course, to the Education Society, the Medical Society, the Christian Association and the other bodies within the University which have as their aim the betterment of the poorest classes of the community.\n\nTheir service of love builds better than they know: for love alone is creative and ever transcends its conscious objectives.\n\nCommittee's Report\n\nBefore I end this address I would like to render a tribute to those members of this University who engage themselves in social activities in the interest of other less fortunate than themselves.\n\nCertain of them, for example the advice to invest most of the Superannuation Fund in the general funds of the University, appear to me to be non-controversial and to call for immediate implementation.\n\nThe report contains, however, many suggestions and recommendations concerning finance and organization which pertain to the Finance Committee and the Council rather than to the Senate and I trust that these will be considered by the former authorities while those concerning the curriculum are being considered by the latter.\n\nThe Courage with which (Applause).\n\nHis Excellency then declared the Congregation closed.\n\nProcession List\n\nThe Procession which comprised Members of the Court, Council, Senate and Faculties of the University and Wardens of the Hostels, was as follows:\n\nHis Excellency the Chancellor, preceded by the Mace Bearer, and followed by the Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Dean, Faculty of Arts; H. E. Major-General A. W. Bartholomew and The Registrar; H. H. Sir Atholl Mac-Gregor and Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith: The Vice-Chancellor; Faculty of Medicine; Treasurer and Dean, Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall and The Rt. Rev. Bishop Valtorta; Hon. Mr. C. G. Alabaster and Hon. Mr. R. A. C. North; Hon. Sir Henry Pollock and Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewail: Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow and Hon. Dr. D. J. Valentine; Hon. Mr. Chau Tsun-nin and Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell; Hon. Com. G. F. Hole, R.N. (Retd.) and Hon, Mr. T. H. King: Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo and Hon. Dr. LI_shu-fan; Hon. Mr. Leo D'Almada e Castro and Hon. Mr. M. T. Johnson; Mr. Ho Kom-tong and Mr. Eu Tong-sen; Mr. Ts'o Seen-wan and Mr. Mok Ken-sang: Professor K. H. Digby and Professor C. A. M. Smith; Professor W. Brown and Professor G. T. Byrne; Professor M. H. Roffey and Professor L. Forster: Professor L. J. Davis and Professor W. Gerrard and Professor W. Faid: Dr. P. F. S. Court; Professor Hsu T-shan and Professor L, R. Shore: Mr. G. R. Sayer and Lt. Col. H. B. L. Dowbiggin; Mr. M.P. Talati and Mr. J. R. Masson: Mr. T. E. Pearce and Mr. F. J. de Rome; Mr. G. P. de Martin and Mr. P. S. Cassidy: Mr. D. Drummond and Mr. J. H. Seth; Mr. Sum Pak-ming and Mr. E. Cock; Mr. M. H. Turner and Mr. G. S. Archbutt: Mr. B. Wong Tape and Mr. Kan Tong-po; Mr. Li Jowson and Mr. Tang Shiu-kin; Mr. Li Tze-fong and Mr. J. K. Bousfield; Dr. G. A. C. Herklots and Mr. N. H. France; Mrs. M. Ring and Mr. Fung Kong-un; Mr. B. G. Birch and Mr. A. H. Fenwick; Mr. R A. Hill and Mr. D. F. Davies: Mr. A. H. Paterson and Mr. Ma Kiam; Mr. K. W. Salter and Mr. Baxter: Father B. C. Kelly, S. J. and Rev. Chan Kwan-po; Mr. S. V. Boxer and Miss G. K. Carpenter.\n\nThe programme of music was as follows:\n\nMarch. Triumph of Right, Lovell: Selection, Sandersons Songs, arr Hume; Waltz, The Golden Valse, arr Winter; Entr'ete, Thistledown, Hennessy; Selection, Lilac Time, Schubert.\" Processional March, Riengl, Wagner. Conductor, Mr. A. E. Judge.\n\nPage 8\n\nIMPROVISED BRIDGE\n\nWould-be Thief Falls Into Alleyway\n\nBOUND OVER BY COURT\n\nCharged with loitering in the alleyway between the St. Francis Hotel and Marina House at 3.30 a.m. on November 27, Ho Chik-sang. office coolie, appeared before Mr. R. Edwards at the Central Magistracy yesterday and pleaded guilty.\n\nDet, Sergeant Davies stated that defendant was employed by a firm on the third floor of the Marina House. On the morning in question, he went down to the first floor and entered a vacant office where some electrical repairs were being carried and so forth. That done, he took two lead pipes and placed them across the alleyway to the St. Francis Hotel, and started to walk across to the hotel. Midway, the pipes gave way, and he fell, from a height of about 30 feet, and had to receive medical attention. The defendant admitted that his intention was to commit a larceny in the hotel.\n\nHis Worship bound defendant over in the sum of $50 to be of good behaviour for a year, and remarked that he had learned a good lesson.\n\nHOUSEBREAKING ATTEMPT\n\nMr. D. Keys, of 3 Cameron Road, reported to the police on Tuesday that some person attempted to enter his house between 10 p.m. on January 3 and 8 a.m. on January 4, by boring a hole in the front door. The intruder was apparently disturbed before he could enter the house, and ran away without taking anything.\n\nOPENING TO-DAY KING'S\n\nErrol Flynn wields a mean blade to save the prince—or is it the pauper?\n\nYou, too, can attend the coronation—and see the world's most impressive ceremony!\n\nSee how one boy's bravery saved the throne of Britain from the gangsters of the court!\n\nALSO LATEST COLOURED CARTOON\n\n“I'M A BIG SHOT NOW”\n\nOnly Mark Twain Could Have Written It!\n\nOnly These Stars Could Have Played It!\n\nOnly Warner Bros. Could Have Produced It!\n\nOnly Now Can The Screen Call Itself Great!\n\nPrince and Pauper\n\nMARK TWAIN'S greatest story, with ERROL FLYNN CLAUDE RAINS HENRY STEPHENSON BARTON MACLANE and the MAUCH TWINS ✩ BILLY & BOBBY ✩ Erle Portman Directed by WILLIAM KEIGHLEY Music by Erich Wolfgang Komgold · A Fine? National Picture Presented by Warner Bros.\n\nBOOKING AT THE THEATRE TELEPHONE NOS. 253 13, 25332.\n\nJust two kids playing hookey—and finding adventure!\n\nHe'd risk death for a reason, a lady—or for something!\n\nRomance-thrills-surprise—in 2 unforgettable hours!\n\nPage 9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-12 Hong Kong University 24-1-1938 - 24-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 561663, "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": "CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938", "content_text": "# \nMr. Gent.\n\nI have told Mrs. Pyke that Sir Henry Moore will not be able to see her and the other people to-morrow. I have left it that Sir Henry Moore will let Mrs. Pyke know (or I will do it for him if he so prefers) when it will be convenient for her to call, and she suggests either the morning of the 22nd of June or any day after then. The particular point she was anxious to impress upon me was that she hoped that no answer would be sent to Hong Kong until the deputation had had their say here.\n\n9. Creary \n9/6/38.\n\nSin Hitevare viar punto. At this packet, I have intercepted the full below which had come on by meaning I think I can reasonably interpret. There seems a delay of 3 weeks if the local league's advertisement is going to be allowed.\n\nEnt. 9.6 \nm: Gest. \nI can see her on June 23.\n\nPage 9 \nmaterial spact on Jongkany's rising birth rate and two how up the uitly accordingh.\n\nJom. B. Lord Herder - Acks 5. 2016. 11.6.38 \n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** Geary \n\nCogon insite he at that Have I date? Arane. Ji a 16 13.6·38 \nA. Yo Mas Pyke - Mas Pyke Done \n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE** 8.L. 13/6/38. Repeating vail 2 recise on the 216. 22 June red. Mhant 13ak____", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-571-17 Hong Kong Eugenics League 14-4-1938 - 8-7-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575183, "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": "CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943", "content_text": "# CONFIDENTIAL\n## FORTNIGHTLY INTELLIGENCE REPORT NO. 2\n### Eastern Bureau, British Ministry of Information, New Delhi\n#### Period ended October 9th, 1943\n\n## HONGKONG\n### POLITICAL\n\n1. Statement Concerning Aw Boon Haw's Visit to Japan: Aw Boon Haw, known as the \"Tiger Balm King\", on October 6th in a statement to the press in Hongkong, said that during his three months' visit to Japan between July and September, he had conferred with Premier Tojo and other Japanese Government leaders; discussions centered mainly around the China foodstuffs question. Aw Boon Haw stated that he submitted two proposals to Premier Tojo, firstly, his plan for supplying China with Rangoon rice, to which Tojo agreed, and for which transportation plans are being drawn up. Secondly, he pointed out to Premier Tojo his idea that the Chinese abroad should be permitted to manage their own remittances home through a special bank owned and operated by themselves; the third suggestion was that Japan should guide the Chinese in the Southern regions and \"grant them greater latitude and action by which they will fully attain business recovery and will positively cooperate for the development of the vast resources in East Asia.\" Aw Boon Haw stated that his efforts would begin in the Hongkong area where he is at present residing. (Domei in English, October 8th). See F.I.R. Occupied China, No. 11, para 36. Comment: It was not stated whether Premier Tojo agreed to the second and third suggestions.\n\n2. Portuguese National sentenced by Japanese Military Tribunal: The Hongkong News, Japanese-controlled Hongkong English-language newspaper, reported in its issue of July 6th that Senhorita Maria Sarazora Xavier, aged 28, a Portuguese national residing in Hongkong, was sentenced to two years imprisonment by the Military Tribunal on June 30th on a charge of \"having uttered rumours regarding the financial situation of the occupied territory of Hongkong on various dates in the month of May.\"\n\n3. Movement of Shipping Prohibited in Hongkong Waters After Midnight: According to instructions issued by the Japanese authorities, no fishing boats or vessels of any description are permitted to move in the waters of Hongkong harbour after midnight, and all lights on vessels in the harbour must be extinguished by midnight. Violators of the order would be fired on by the sentries without warning. (Hongkong News, July 10th).\n\n4. Changing of Street and Other Names in Hongkong: Repulse Bay on Hongkong Island has been renamed Midorigahama, while Queen's Road has been renamed Higashimoiji-Dori. (Hongkong News, July 14th and 15th).\n\n5. Chinese \"repatriated\" from Hongkong: Over 500 \"repatriates\" left Hongkong for Tai Ping on July 10th by sea, and 300 by land for Kongmoon. On July 9th, illustrated pamphlets were distributed and the Governor's radio car toured the streets of Hongkong urging the populace to repatriate. On July 15th, a notice was issued regarding \"repatriates\", stating that residents of Hongkong who had no residential permits or rice-ration cards could register themselves with the various district bureaux concerned with repatriation from Hongkong. The procedure applied also to those who wished to repatriate at their own expense. The public were reminded that they must leave Hongkong before the end of July, otherwise they were liable to be forcibly \"repatriated\".", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-22 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 19-1-1943 - 20-11-1943.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577748, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "page_number": 173, "title": "CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945", "content_text": "List of Former Hong Kong University Students Continuing Their Studies in Medical Colleges in Free China.\n\n(N.B. The year denotes the year of study reached at the outbreak of war in Hong Kong on December 8th, 1941.)\n\nNAME COLLEGE\n\nThird Year.\n\n176\n\nFung Kert Tat National Shanghai Medical College\n\nIp Yee #1 # H\n\nLim Chin Lang # #1 ##\n\nSaw Hock Chu an # *! 鲕 Thomas Huxley 19 11 19 ann, lizabeth (Nisa) \" f # Yap Neow Foo 11 鲁鲁 17\n\nChow Pak Hang-- National Hsiang Ya Medical College\n\nLim Kee 100 * # # # # 18 13 # H\n\nLow Non Hang Teoh Tiw Bee Chan Kam Fai- Cheung urga Choa ing Is Tum Kwong I am Chan Kwong Fook-- Chall /ai Kai Ho Hung Yin Kwong Hol Kit\n\nWong Kwong Leong\n\nFourth Year.\n\nAu Wai Han Bun Pak Sun Look Mang Fai Mah-hing, drund T Yoo King Tak Ho Sai Keong-- Kaan Szo Kin\n\nKhoo Pin Ying Ng Youn Han- Oh Bak Chu a Slu Ka Hee Wong Yiu Lai (Miss)\n\nI am in Kee.. Leung Yau Sun Loke Chong Shee Tong Kwok Kee Yong uk Foo Wong bi au Bu Yeoh Oon Koh Yu Shiu On\n\nFifth Year.\n\n* Chan Sing Boon * Cheng King Ho * Hooi Peng Kwan * Hui Kwan Iun * Lam Yu Ching\n\n* Li Hin Lun * Oh Kim Seng * Tsai Ken Fong * Kay Hau * Yan Jin Yau * Tín Kim Hoang\n\nTang Hon Chiu Cheeloo University M # ingnan University # 10 # # * #\n\nNational Shanghai Medical College # # # # 19 # H # #\n\nCheeloo University West China Union University (taking parallel course with Cheeloo U.)\n\nCheeloo University K ## # Lingnan University # 比 * ## H 14 12 H\n\nNational Shanghai Medical College E # * # # 19 50 W #1 10 :11 38\n\nNational Shanghai Medical College 籍 ## # Cheeloo University Cheeloo University H #1\n\n* Graduated in Free China, 1943, now serving a period of conscription for one year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-2 Hong Kong University- award of degrees to medical students whose studies were interrupted by war.... 26-2-1943 - 19-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577991, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "page_number": 12, "title": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "content_text": "SECRET\n\nSeig. Regd. un 55191/1/4423\n\nNIGHT INTELLIGENCE REPORT\n\nEXTRACT FROM FORTNIGHT NO.13\n\nFar Eastern Bureau,\n\nNew Delhi\n\nMinistry of Information, London\n\nPeriod: July 1st - 15th, 1944\n\n48. \"Kung Chen Pao\" Appeared in Canton: Under the sponsorship of Aw Boon Haw, a rich merchant in Hongkong, who has always been very enterprising, a new daily known as the \"Kung Chen Pao\" began publication on July 4th. Hu Shan of the \"Hongkong Jih Pao\" is concurrently the president of this new press in Canton, and Chia No-fu has become its editor. The paper is under the joint supervision of the Japanese military authorities and the puppet Provincial Government of Kwangtung. (Domei in English, July 7th).\n\nComment: Aw Boon Haw is a typical rich overseas Chinese, enterprising but politically an opportunist. He was a member of the National People's Political Council in Chungking when the war in Hongkong broke out. Since then he has co-operated with the Japanese Government in Hongkong, and recently founded a bank and a new trading company in Canton. Hu Shan is his son and he succeeded his other son, Hu Hua, as the president of \"Hongkong Jih Pao\". Hu Hua left Hongkong for Kweilin early in 1942 and is now managing his father's industrial plants in unoccupied China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578035, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "content_text": "36\n\n7. Industrial development.\n\nDr. Li said that the rubber shoe and electric battery manufactories in Hong Kong were still working at a comparatively high production level. Most people, however, were putting their capital by or converting it into commodities which could be held until the end of the war. He had no particular suggestions to make as regards industries which might be started for reconstruction in Hong Kong but agreed that the immediate needs on liberation were the provision of food and drugs. He thought that the liberation of Hong Kong would be followed by an upward surge in its population.\n\n8. Aw Boon Haw.\n\nIn reply to an enquiry, Dr. Li said that too much credence should not be placed in reports by the Japanese that Mr. Aw Boon Haw was working with them on industrial development. It so happened that Mr. Aw Boon Haw was a close friend of his own and he had secured his release in Hong Kong from detention to undergo an operation for hernia in Dr. Li's nursing home. After his recovery from this, he was kept under surveillance but not detained. He mentioned as an example of Mr. Aw Boon Haw's independence that he had had no compunction in telling the Japanese that they had no hope of winning Chinese co-operation so long as they continued their present methods. Dr. Li said that \"tiger balm\" was still being manufactured in Hong Kong.\n\n9. Dr. Li said that he had been approached twice by press men in this country, but had always assured them that he was not here on any official mission. When his escape from Hong Kong was engineered, he had undertaken obligations to those who helped him not to give any publicity to the incident, and in general, he seemed unwilling that his visit should be made the subject of any particular publicity measures.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578038, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "content_text": "Far Eastern Bureau,\n\nFORTNIGHTLY INTELLIGENCE REPORT NOS. 1–7.\n\nSECRET.\n\nSA\n\nBritish Ministry of Information,\n\nNew Delhi.\n\nPeriod ended:\n\nMarch to December 31st, 1943.\n\nADMINISTRATION, Japanese Military Personnel encouraged to learn Japanese, Nos 4 and 5 para 2. See also Police.\n\nAGRICULTURE, See Fisheries; Foodstuffs; Rice.\n\nAW BOON HAW, Statement concerning visit to Japan, No 2 para 1. Statement by, on War Anniversary, Nos 6 and 7 para 2. Organizes Rice Transport Company in Hongkong, Nos 6 and 7 para 8.\n\nBANKING, Interest rates in deposits raised, No 2 para 7.\n\nBROADCASTING, Registration of radio sets, No 3 para 6.\n\nCOMMERCE, Wholesale Market Guild established, Nos 4 and 5 para 5. Census of Hawkers in Hongkong, Nos 6 and 7 para 11. Director of Commerce's answers to Trade Problems, Nos 6 and 7 para 14.\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS, Taxi charges increased, No 3 para 11. Bus routes shortened, No 3 para 12. Railways: Fares on Canton-Kowloon Railway increased, No 3 para 13. Procedure for leaving Hongkong for Shanghai and Swatow, No 3 para 14. See also Broadcasting; Posts and Telegraphs; Shipping.\n\nCULTURE, Changing of street and other names, No 2 para 4\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nCURRENCY, Transfer rates with Japan revised, Nos 4 and 5 para 3.\n\nEDUCATION, Teaching of Japanese language, Nos 4 and 5 para 2.\n\nECONOMICS, General Government Official's report on conditions in Hongkong, Nos 6 and 7 para 13.\n\nELECTRICITY, Economy in electrical consumption, No 1 para 6. See also General Economics.\n\nFINANCE, Aw Boon Haw's proposals regarding remittances by Overseas Chinese, No 2 para 1. Rendering of Business Accounts to Hongkong Finance Department, Nos 6 and 7 para 7. See also Banking; Currency.\n\nFISHERIES, Fishermen's Guild formed, No 2 para 8.\n\nFOODSTUFFS, Prices of, No 1 para 4; No 2 para 9. Bread 'racket', No 2 para 11. Fresh Foods Syndicate to be established, No 3 para 8. Racing ponies slaughtered for food, No 3 para 10. Import of, from C. P. Sphere, Nos 6 and 7 para 8. See also Agriculture; Oils.\n\nFOREIGN RELATIONS, Rice rations for third nationals in Hongkong, No 1 para 5.\n\nFUEL, Shortage of firewood, No 2 para 12; No 3 para 9; Nos 6 and 7 para 13.\n\nHOARDING AND PROFITEERING, In bread, cigarettes, and medical supplies, No 2 para 11.\n\nIMPORTS, Import of foodstuffs from C.P. Sphere, Nos 6 and 7 para 3.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578039, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "content_text": "60\n\nINDIAN INDEPENDENCE LEAGUE,\n\nIndian National Army: Enlistment office, No 1 para 2. Training Institute for Indian Volunteers opened in Kowloon, Nos 6 and 7 para 4.\n\nINDUSTRY,\n\nProgress of, in Hongkong, Nos 6 and 7 para 12. See also Shipbuilding.\n\nITALY AND ITALIANS,\n\nFull protection for Italians in Hongkong, No 1 para 3.\n\nJAPANESE, Residents,\n\nEstablishments etc.\n\nJapanese in Hongkong celebrate War Anniversary, Nos 6 and 7 para 1.\n\nSee also Officials.\n\nJUDICIAL,\n\nSanada appointed Chief of the Justice Department, No 1 para 1.\n\nPortuguese National sentenced by Japanese Military Tribunal, No 2 para 2. Criminal Court and Public Procurator's office established, No 3 para 1.\n\nMEDICAL,\n\nAppeal for Blood Donors, No 3 para 4.\n\nAnti-Cholera Precautions, No 3 para 15.\n\nMILITARY,\n\nAmnesty granted to Violators of Military Law, Nos 6 and 7 para 3.\n\nSecond Anniversary of capture of Hongkong observed, Nos 6 and 7 para 5.\n\nMORALE,\n\nOf shipyard workers, Nos 4 and 5 para 3.\n\nOFFICIALS,\n\nJapanese, news of, No 1 para 1.\n\nOILS, Domestic\n\nDistribution of cooking oil, No 2 para 10.\n\nPOLICE,\n\nPolice School, Nos 4 and 5 para 1.\n\nCommencement Ceremony for Sixth Term Gendarmerie Cadets, Nos 6 and 7 para 6.\n\n/pmf/\n\nPOSTS AND TELEGRAPHS,\n\nTelegraph service between Hongkong and Philippines, No 2 para 13. Postal money order and transfer rates with Japan revised, Nos 4 and 5 para 4.\n\nTelegraph service with Saigon opened, Nos 4 and 5 para 6.\n\nPRICES,\n\nOf foodstuffs, No 1 para 4; No 2 para 9.\n\nOf cooking oil, No 2 para 10.\n\nREPATRIATION,\n\nRepatriates from Hongkong to China, No 2 para 5, No 3 para 5; Nos 6 and 7 para 9.\n\nRICE,\n\nRice rations for third nationals, No 1 para 5.\n\nBurn rice for China, No 2 para 1. Aw Boon Haw organizes Rice Transport Company in Hongkong, Nos 6 and 7 para 8.\n\nWhite rice to be issued; Nos 6 and 7 para 10.\n\nSANADA, Yukio\n\nAppointed first Chief of Justice Department, No 1 para 1.\n\nSHIPBUILDING,\n\n\"Kayo Maru\" launched, No 1 para 8. Entertainment for shipyard workers to strengthen morale, Nos 4 and 5 para 3.\n\nSHIPPING,\n\nMovement of, prohibited in Hongkong waters after midnight, No 2 para 3. \"Marine Week\" held, No 3 para 2. Registration of Seamen, No 3 para 3.\n\nSHORTAGES AND RATIONING,\n\nRice rations for third nationals, No 1 para 5.\n\nVillage Repatriates to return ration cards, Nos 6 and 7 para 9.\n\nSPORT,\n\nHorse racing recommended, No 1 para 6. Racing ponies slaughtered for food, No 3 para 10.\n\nArrival of Japanese Race Horses in Hongkong, Nos 6 and 7 para 15.\n\nSUICIDES,\n\nIncrease in number of, No 2 para 6.\n\nTRADE,\n\nHongkong-Amoy trade agreement, No 1 para 7.\n\nPermits required for imports and exports, No 3 para 7.\n\nSee also Commerce, Imports.\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61\n\nPage 61", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578040, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "page_number": 61, "title": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "content_text": "SECRET.\n\nFORTNIGHTLY INTELLIGENCE REPORTS NOS. 6 & 7.\n\nFar Eastern Bureau,\n\nNew Delhi.\n\nBritish Ministry of Information,\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nPeriod ended December 31st, 1943.\n\n61\n\nPOLITICAL.\n\n1.\n\nJapanese in Hongkong Celebrate War Anniversary: On the 8th of December the 5,000 Japanese in Hongkong celebrated the second anniversary of the Pacific war. Chinese as well as other nationalities participated in the ceremonies and, from morning till night, people crowded round the donation stands to offer money for the war consolation fund for the troops, the aeroplane funds, etc. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 11th, 1130 GMT, 31.68 m.)\n\n2. Statement by Aw Boon Haw on War Anniversary: In a speech given on the occasion of the second anniversary of the war, Aw Boon Haw expressed deep sympathy with the reconstruction of Hongkong, stating that he knew how terrible it was to be under the rule of the invaders, and that he wished to sacrifice everything to help in the reconstruction of the island for the benefit of the Chinese people there. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 11th, 1130 GMT, 31.68 m.)\n\n3. Amnesty Granted to Violators of Military Law: The Government-General of Hongkong has announced that an amnesty will be granted to violators of military law on the second anniversary of the outbreak of war. The amnesty will be applicable to those convicted by the military court and the court of justice, depending upon their behaviour following their sentences. (Domei in English, December 8th; Hongkong in Cantonese, December 11th, 1130 GMT, 31.68 m.)\n\n4. I.I.L.: Training Institute for Indian Volunteers: The Hongkong branch of the Indian Independence League opened a new training institute for Indian volunteers at Kowloon on December 18th. The first group of students are to undergo rigorous training and will leave for Singapore in the near future to join the Indian National Army. (Domei in English, December 17th).\n\n5. Second Anniversary of Capture of Hongkong Observed: The second anniversary of the capture of Hongkong was observed in Hongkong on December 25th with ceremonies attended by prominent Government officials and Japanese and Chinese civilians. A photographic exhibition was also held and the celebrations included wrestling matches and special Radio programmes. The Hongkong branch of the Indian Independence League held a mass meeting and paraded through the streets. (Domei in English, December 25th; Tokyo in Japanese, December 26th, 0100 GMT, 25.37 m.)\n\n6. Commencement Ceremony for Sixth Term Gendarmerie Cadets: On December 28th, the commencement ceremony for the sixth term Gendarmerie cadets in Hongkong was held. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 28th on 850 kcs.) See F.I.R. Hongkong, Nos. 4 & 5, para 1.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578041, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944", "content_text": "62\n\nF.I.R. Nos. 6 & 7.\n\n11\n\nECONOMIC.\n\n7.\n\nHongkong Finance Department Announcement Concerning Rendering of Business Accounts: The Finance Department of Hongkong announced that all business concerns had to render their accounts to the authorities before the end of the year. They were to be under three headings: Moveable and Immoveable Properties, Assets and Liabilities, and Balance, in order that the Government auditing department could assess the amount of surplus and other taxes due. No taxes are due on amounts under 5,000 yen annually in the Profit and Loss Account. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 21st, on 850 kcs.)\n\n8. Aw Boon Haw Organizes Rice Transport Company in Hongkong: On the 28th of November, Aw Boon Haw allotted 500,000 dollars for the organization of a company for transporting rice and other foodstuffs for the people of Hongkong. The Government of Hongkong is also sharing in this concern in conjunction with its own plan for importing foodstuffs. The company will import foodstuffs from nearby localities, and from Indochina, Burma, and Thailand. Shipping companies in Shanghai, Swatow, and Amoy will be invited to join in the transportation of foodstuffs as at least twenty vessels will be needed. The vessels will fly the Red Cross and Chinese flags. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 5th, 1130 GMT, 31.68 m.) See F.I.R. Hongkong, No.2, para 1.\n\n9. Repatriates to Return Ration Cards: Those wishing to return to their villages must hand over their ration cards to the authorities; otherwise, permits will not be granted. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 28th on 850 kcs.)\n\n10. White Rice to be Issued: As from December 30th, white rice will be issued to the public instead of that issued hitherto. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 28th on 850 kcs.)\n\n11. Census of Hawkers in Hongkong: On December 25th and 26th, a census was taken of hawkers in Hongkong and the Leased Territories. According to the Hawkers' Association, it was quite satisfactory, but it was necessary to prolong the census for another eight days to include every hawker. (Hongkong in Cantonese, December 26th on 850 kcs.)\n\n12. Progress of Construction in Hongkong: Lieut.-General Isogai, Governor-General of Hongkong, reporting on the progress of construction in Hongkong during the past two years, declared that all the key industries, including shipbuilding, were contributing greatly to Japan's fighting strength. He stated that several trade promotion measures would be launched in 1944. (Domei in English, December 21st).\n\n13. Government Official on Conditions in Hongkong: In answer to questions put by reporters, a high Hongkong Government official stated that as the Hongkong generating station had been cut off order, the electric supply had been suspended for quite a long time. It was, however, being repaired and would be in operation within the next few days.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-4 Situation in enemy occupied Hong Kong 7-1-1944 - 21-11-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579598, "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": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945", "page_number": 140, "title": "CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945", "content_text": "40\n\n· 17 ·\n\n140\n\nFrom mid-September 1942 BOON refused to protest to the enemy that P/W were being employed on work debarred by International Law and the Hague Convention.\n\n(Witnesses: P.O. VAN WAARDENBURG, Lt. H.E. FIELD, Lt. K. MAZE, WINNIPEG GRENADIERS. Diary entry by BOON dated 4.11.42. Lt.E. FERRIER, Lt. T.A. PEARCE, Capt. WERBER.)\n\n5. On 25 July 1942 he reported to the Japanese that a vehicle driver enquired from him the number of P/W at the Camp.\n\n(Witness: Diary entry by BOON dated 25.7.43. \"Motor driver asked me how many people there are in Camp. I spoke to TSUTADA SAN about this incident. Capt. VALENTINE, H.K.V.D.C.)\n\n(Witness: Diary entry dated 6th Sept. 1943. \"After mid-day WILLIAMS and I looked at St. Francis Chapel and found a radio in the font range. Gave it to TSUTADA SAN who came to look at the place. Several places in the Camp now under surveillance\".)\n\n6.\n\n(Witnesses: Rev. STRONG, Rev. DAVIES.)\n\nOn 23.8.43. BOON informed the Japanese of a conversation between two officers on the subject of escaping which he had overheard.\n\n(Witnesses: Two diary entries dated 21st and 23rd August 1943. Lt. FIELD.)\n\nNumerous other witnesses have testified to other acts of co-operation by BOON with the Japanese.\n\nBrief Summary of Evidence against 2/Lt. H.G. EVANS, R.A.S.C., Gunner TOVEE, R.A., Gunner D.S.V. BEVAN, R.A., Sapper G. HUXHAM, R.E.\n\n2/Lt. H.G. EVANS, R.A.S.C.\n\nAided and abetted Major BOON in assisting the enemy, and spying on Ps/W.\n\n(Witnesses: Pte. A.S. ROGERS, D.D.C., Major E.V.S. ANDERSON, R.A., etc. and certain documents found amongst Major BOON's property.)\n\nGunner TOVEE, R.A.\n\nGunner D.S.V. BEVAN, R.A.\n\nBoth extremely intimate with BOON and acted as orderlies.\n\n1. They both watched P/W on working parties, and reported to BOON\n\n2. They watched the actions of Chinese Lorry Drivers visiting the Camp.\n\n3. Enquired into possession of binoculars, newspapers, etc. by Ps/W and reported to BOON\n\n4. Participated in searches and directed attention of Japs to certain articles.\n\n5. Destroyed outward mail.\n\n6. Extracted contents of parcels destined for Ps/W.\n\n(Witnesses: L/Cpl. R. CUSHLEY, Lt. E.L. CUNHA, R.S.M. JONES, etc.)\n\nSapper G. HUXHAM, R.E.\n\nJoined Major BOON in Camp Office in 1943. Watched attempts to pass messages by Ps/W and reported to BOON. Has made a statement admitting that BOON told him to spy on Ps/W.\n\nPage 140\n\nPage 141", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-6 Reports on current situation- including weekly intelligence reports 18-9-1945 - 20-12-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580259, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 168, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "July 31st, 1945\n\nDear Gent,\n\nHARDWICKE,\n\nTENNYSON ROAD,\n\nWORTHING.\n\nI have thought most carefully over the invitation extended to me by your 54147/45 of 28th July to act as Chairman of the proposed Hong Kong University Committee, which I very much appreciate. My personal views however render it impossible for me to accept, and I will endeavour very briefly to explain them.\n\nPage 164\n\nI was extremely worried in 1936 to find how very little real interest the Hong Kong Chinese took in the University. There was no pride in it and I failed utterly to get Ho Tung, Shun Son Chow, Su Tong Sen, Aw Boon Haw, Ho Kam Tong, etc. etc. to lend it any financial or other practical support. They were far more interested in the new University near Canton (Lu Ngan or some such name) and the university founded by Dr. Lim Boon Keng (near Hankow - I think please forgive my \"Singapore memory\"!). The reason patently lay in their preference for a Chinese-inspired Chinese-run institution over one originated by the \"Red-haired\". The gravity of the position centred of course in the facts that Hong Kong is far too small a territory to absorb the output of a University and that China in her modern nationalistic mood gives preference to the alumni of her own universities in making Governmental, professional, technical and business appointments on the mainland.\n\nI have no doubt, moreover, that if (it has long been a pretty big IF) the Hong Kong University is to have an assured future it must look for the major part of its revenues, endowments and patronage to the local Chinese; the Colony could not afford (or, if afford, justify) financing it from taxation as a State institution. Nor would such complete dependence\n\n/on", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580266, "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": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946", "content_text": "July 31st, 1945\n\n25.\n\n171\n\nDear Gent,\n\nI have thought most carefully over the invitation extended to me in Your 54147/45 of 28th July to act as Chairman of the proposed Hong Kong University Committee, which I very much appreciate. My personal views, however, render it impossible for me to accept, and I will endeavour very briefly to explain them.\n\nI was extremely worried in 1936 to find how little real interest the Hong Kong Chinese took in the University. There was no pride in it, and I failed utterly to get to Tung, Sze-Kwong Chow, Eu Tong Sen, Aw Boon Haw, Ho Kam Tong &c. to lend it any financial or other practical support. They were far more interested in the new university near Canton (Kwangtung or some such name) and the university founded by Dr. Lim Boon Keng (near Hankow, I think - please forgive my Singapore memory!). The reason patently lay in their preference for a Chinese-inspired, Chinese-run institution over one originated by the 'Red-haired'. The gravity of the position centred, of course, in the facts that Hong Kong is far too small a territory to absorb the output of a University and that China, in her modern nationalistic mood, gives preference to the alumni of her own universities in making governmental, professional, and business appointments on the mainland.\n\nI have no doubt that if (it has long been a pretty big IF) the Hong Kong University is to have an assured future, it must look for the major part of its revenues, endowments, and patronage to the local Chinese: the Colony could not afford (or, if it could afford, justify) financing it from taxation as a State institution. Nor would such complete dependence on the Treasury, even if feasible, be compatible with the rightful status of a University. Reconstitution, temporarily, by a necessarily entirely non-Chinese committee in this country would, in my judgment, fatally prejudice its chances of getting the local Chinese support - successful and permanent, financial and otherwise - essential to a resurrection. It would be better that the University should never have reopened other than having to be closed down. The Chinese must, I consider, be brought in on the ground floor of any rehabilitation.\n\nMoreover, Your letter states that immediate reconstruction of the University will be necessary \"in order that it be in a position to meet those urgent demands that will be made on it for doctors, teachers, and other qualified persons to assist in restoring normal conditions\".\n\nYours,\n\n...\n\n \nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580986, "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": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "# HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE\n**Confidential**\nNo. HIKUAC?\n\nExtract from a letter from Sir Andrew Caldecott, K.C.M.G., Former Chancellor of the University, 14/7\n\nI was extremely worried in 1936 to find how very little real interest the Hong Kong Chinese took in the University. There was no pride in it and I failed utterly to get Ho Tung, Shun Son Chow, Su Tong Sen, Aw Boon Haw, Ho Kam Tong, etc. etc. to lend it any financial or other practical support. They were far more interested in the new University near Canton (Lu Ngan or some such name) and the university founded by Dr. Lim Boon Keng (near Hankow I think - please forgive my \"Singapore memory\"!). The reason patently lay in their preference for a Chinese-inspired Chinese-run institution over one originated by the \"Red-haired\". The gravity of the position centred of course in the facts that Hong Kong is far too small a territory to absorb the output of a University and that China in her modern nationalistic mood gives preference to the alumni of her own universities in making governmental, professional, technical, and business appointments on the mainland.\n\nI have no doubt, moreover, that if (it has long been a pretty big IF) the Hong Kong University is to have an assured future, it must look for the major part of its revenues, endowments, and patronage to the local Chinese; the Colony could not afford (or, if afford, justify) financing it from taxation as a state institution. Nor would such complete dependence on the Treasury, even if feasible, be compatible with the rightful status of a University. Reconstitution, even temporary, by a necessarily entirely non-Chinese Committee in this country would, in my judgment, fatally prejudice any chances that there may be of getting the local Chinese support, financial and otherwise, essential to a successful and permanent resurrection. It would be better that the University should never open rather than that, having reopened, it should later have to be closed down. The Chinese must, I consider, be brought in on the ground floor of any rehabilitation.\n\nYour letter states that immediate reconstruction of the University will be necessary \"in order that it may be in a position to meet those urgent demands that will be made on it for doctors, teachers, and other qualified persons to assist in restoring normal conditions.\" How long will this demand last? For less than a decade, I should say; and surely this is not a sufficiently lasting demand to justify the hasty reconstruction of the University without consultation with, and the collaboration of, the people of the Colony? If the Colony will require (and I agree that it inevitably will) a Training College for its future servants over the post-war years, surely would it not be better and wiser for the Colonial Government to form an ad hoc institution (renting the University premises and footing the bill for all running expenses not recoverable from fees) rather than rehabilitate the University without the local support essential to permanent success? Circumstances have indeed become so radically different from those obtaining when Lord Lugard founded the Hong Kong University that one may reasonably feel it due to his memory that the question of reconstruction on anything like the old lines should...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582834, "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": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "page_number": 63, "title": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "content_text": "# SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST\n## 23rd MARCH, 1944\n### UNIVERSITY CEREMONY\n\n**Degrees Conferred On Medical Graduates In Great Hall Ruins**\n**C-IN-C SPEAKS ON CIVIC SENSE**\n\nIn the ruined, roofless Great Hall of the Hongkong University, the Degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery was conferred upon 23 candidates by the University of Hongkong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee yesterday.\n\nThe Degree was also conferred upon 10 candidates \"in absentia.\"\n\nThe ceremony—the first held for four years—was without the usual pomp and splendour of former years, but was nevertheless impressive.\n\nIn an address the C-in-C, Hongkong, Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, said that every effort was being made to open the University for first-year classes in October. He also spoke on the importance of self-discipline which was, he said, the equivalent of civic sense. \"For it is only by the gaining of this civic sense that stable self-government can be achieved... Only in this way can genuine self-government be established in Hongkong and the people be prosperous, happy and free,\" he declared.\n\nThe candidates present were: Au Wai-man, Au Kit-man, Bun Pak-sun, Chan Sing-boon, Chan Wai-kai, Ho Hung-kin, Ip Yee, Lam Tang Wong Shu-kee, Leung Yau-shun, Li Hin-lun, Li Fook-kuen, Ling Tak-chu, Loke Choong-she, Look Mang-wai, Oh Kim-seng, Tong Hon-chiu, Tong Kwok-kee, Mook-foo, Wong Siao-bu, Wu Kay-hau, Yap Meow-foo, Yeoh Oon-thor, and Yu Shiu-on. Those honoured \"in absentia\" were: Cheung King-ho, Fung Kam-tat, Hooi Peng-kwan, Hui Kwan-lun, Kaan Sze-kin, Lam Yu-shing, Siu Ka-hee, Tan Kim-hoang, Tsai Kam-fong, and Yap Jin-yau.\n\nThe University lacked the machinery for awarding and conferring degrees. Obviously something had to be done about it. His Majesty the King in Council decided, just as less august bodies decide when in difficulties, that there must be a committee to deal with the matter.\n\nAccordingly, it was ordered that there should be constituted a Committee, to be known as the University of Hongkong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee. This Committee was empowered to exercise, in so far as they relate to medicine and surgery, the powers of the Senate of the University to determine what examinations and courses of study in other universities or places of learning should be deemed equivalent to examinations and courses of study in the University of Hongkong.\n\nAmong those present were Sir Shouson Chow, the Right Rev. Bishop R.O. Hall, Mr Leo D'Almada, Sir Robert Kotewall, Lieut-Col Wm Kay, Mr M.K. Lo, Dr and Mrs G.H. Thomas, Mr S.A. Gray (PRO), Col W.T. Ware, Mr Mok Kon-sang, Mr George She, Major D.F. Davis, Mr Chau Tsun-nin, the Rev. Frank Short, Major R. Lee, Major H.L. Ozorio, Mr and Mrs B.C.K. Hawkins, the Rev Cheung Wing-ngok, and a large number of University undergraduates.\n\nMembers of the University of Hongkong Medical Degrees Emergency Committee were Mr T.M. Hazelrigg (Chairman), Mr G.P. de Martin, Col J.P. Fehily, Col T.R. Rowell, Lieut-Col Gordon King, and Mr B.C.K. Hawkins.\n\nThe once Great Hall is a skeleton structure with only the bare walls standing. The window frames, the wooden flooring, and every vestige of woodwork have been looted. The roof has been removed and only the iron rafters now hold the walls together. Where flags and pennants hung on doorways, empty gaps now greet the eye.\n\n### Chairman's Address\n\nI wish to make it quite clear that each candidate for a degree must, as heretofore, have completed a five years' course of study at a University or place of learning, including at least two years at the University of Hongkong, and that no degree can be conferred without examination.\n\nThe principal function of the Committee has been to ensure that the course of study completed and the examinations passed by the candidates were equivalent to the comparable courses of study and examinations at the University of Hongkong.\n\nIn respect of each of the candidates upon whom degrees will be conferred to-day, the Committee is satisfied that the requirements of the Statutes of the University and of the Order of His Majesty in Council have been fulfilled.\n\nOne final point. It is particularly declared by the Order in Council that degrees conferred in accordance with its provisions shall be deemed to have been conferred at a Congregation of the whole University.\n\nShortly before 3 p.m., the Procession, headed by the successful candidates, and followed by Sir Cecil and members of the Emergency Committee, entered the Hall. The candidates took seats on either side of the Hall while Sir Cecil and the Emergency Committee took their positions at the official table, which was unadorned and without a covering.\n\nAfter he had declared the gathering open, Mr Hazelrigg said:\n\nWe are fortunate in having with us to-day Mr G.P. de Martin, who at one time acted as Registrar of this University and who is, I believe, the oldest surviving member of its Court. Mr de Martin has kindly consented to support the Committee, and I now call upon him to address the Meeting. (Applause).\n\nMr de Martin said: Before concluding this part of to-day's proceedings, it is my privilege to thank our visitors for their presence here. By joining with us in this necessarily truncated function, you bring with you a message of friendship and encouragement.\n\nThe events of December 1941 disrupted the lives of the undergraduates and called a halt to the activities of this University. Many of the undergraduates, however, escaped into China and pursued their studies in the Chinese Universities amid great difficulties. Some of the medical students, after passing their examinations, went on to render valuable services in their profession.\n\nWhen the dark days ended, the University career of these students was consummated by the conferment of degrees.\n\n### The King's Recognition\n(Continued on Page 8)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582848, "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": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949", "content_text": "## INWARD TELEGRAM\n### COPY FOR ? TION\n#### FROM HONG KONG TO S. OF S.. COLONIES.\n\nD. 23rd March, 1946.\nR. 23rd\n\nCA No. 2838 follows:-\n14.30 hrs.\n\nFollowing for Miss Ruston from Hazlerigg.\n\nMedical degrees conferred 22nd March as follows:\n\n| Name |\n|------|\n| Chan Sing Boon |\n| Cheung King Ho |\n| Hool Peng Kwan |\n| Hui Kwan Lun |\n| Lam Yu Shing |\n| Li Hin Lun |\n| Oh Kim Seng |\n| Ten Kim Hoang |\n| Tang Hon Chiu |\n| Taal Kam Fong |\n| Wu Kay Hau |\n| Yap Jin Yau |\n| Au Wai Man |\n| Bun Pak Sun |\n| Look Mang Wal |\n| Kaan Sze Kin |\n| Siu Ka Hoe |\n| Fung Kam Tat |\n| Ip Yee |\n| Yap Meow Foo |\n| Au Kit Man |\n| Chan Wai Kal |\n| Ho Hung Kin |\n| Lam Shu Kee |\n| Leung Yao Shun |\n| Lá Fook Kuen |\n| Ling |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-596-3 Hong Kong University- recognition of wartime training of medical students 24-1-1946 - 10-3-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 593895, "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": "CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948", "page_number": 57, "title": "CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948", "content_text": "## CONTRIBUTIONS TO HONG KONG WAR MEMORIAL FUND\n\n67\n\n| Name | Amount | Name | Amount |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Blake, Mr. R. H. | 100.00 | Chanel Trading Co. | 100.00 |\n| Blake, Mr. & Mrs. R. N. | 100.00 | Anonymous | |\n| Bomber Fund Balance | 33,823.07 | Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China | 5,000.00 |\n| Archbutt, G. S. | 1,500.00 | | 25,000.00 |\n| Botelho & Co., A. G. | 200.00 | Chase Bank | 1,000.00 |\n| Archee, Katie | 25.00 | | 2,000.00 |\n| Argyle Street Settlement of Br. Mr. A. W. de | 100.00 | Chau, Hon. Dr. S. N. | 1,000.00 |\n| | 100.00 | Chau, Hon. Mr. & Mrs. T. N. | 1,000.00 |\n| Bremmer, Mr. & Mrs. A. A. | 100.00 | Chaun, Dr. K. W. | 500.00 |\n| Brett, Mr. & Mrs. F. | 5.00 | Cheque | 127.37 |\n| Argyle Street Settlement of Cheque | 201.00 | Armstrong, Mr. & Mrs. | 25.00 |\n| | 250.00 | British American Tobacco Co. | 20,000.00 |\n| | 200.00 | British Traders Insurance Co. | 20,000.00 |\n| Arnhem | 20.00 | Chellaram, Messrs. D. | 200.00 |\n| Arnhold Trading Co. | 5,000.00 | Cheng, K. C. | 5.00 |\n| Bazaar Fund | 4,266.78 | Cheng Kum Wan | 10.00 |\n| Ash, Mr. & Mrs. | 300.00 | Cheong Hing Hon, Mr. & Mrs. | 100.00 |\n| (In Memory of) | 10.00 | Broker | 100.00 |\n| Asia Agencies | 100.00 | Cheong Kee Bank | 200.00 |\n| Asia Co. | 100.00 | Cherrill, R. I. | 250.00 |\n| A.P.C. (S.C.) Ltd. | 15,000.00 | Browne, Mr. & Mrs. C. W. | 20.00 |\n| Associated China Traders | 100.00 | Brown, P. | 50.00 |\n| (In memory of) | 500.00 | Brutton, G. K. Hall- | 100.00 |\n| Atkins, Miss Edna | 15.00 | Cheung Chau Government School Staff & Pupils | 162.70 |\n| Au Boon Haw | 10,000.00 | Cheung Chui | 80.00 |\n| Au Kwok Leung | 20.00 | Cheung, K, H. | 30.00 |\n| | 50.00 | Cheverst, Mr. & Mrs. | 50.00 |\n| Builders & Traders Ltd. | 100.00 | Chi Hang Middle School | 429.90 |\n| Bunnan Tong & Co. | 1,500.00 | China Dispensary | 100.00 |\n| Burge Far East Agencies. H.K. Bank | 25.00 | China Electric Manufacturing Co. | 100.00 |\n| | 20.00 | | 15.00 |\n| B. B. | 100.00 | | 10.00 |\n| Ballantyne, D. L. | 100.00 | Bank of Canton | 1,000.00 |\n| Bank of China | 5,000.00 | Butterfield & Swire.. | 100,000.00 |\n| (in memory of Edmunds & Sister) | 100.00 | Butterfield & Swire-Chinese Staff. in memory of Mr. Mok Yue Yan | 50.00 |\n| A.B.C. Commercial Service A Day's Pay a Month | 50.00 | China Emporium Ltd. | 1,500.00 |\n| A.R.P. Wardens Western Division | 250.00 | China Entertainment & Land Investment Co., Ltd. | 1,000.00 |\n| Bank of Kwangsi | 300.00 | Chinese Estates Ltd. | 1,000.00 |\n| Bank Line Ltd. | 5,000.00 | | 104.00 |\n| Banque Belge Pour L'Entranger | 2,000.00 | C. I. B. A, | 10.00 |\n| Banque de L'Indo Chine | 2,000.00 | Caldbeck Macgregor & Co., Ltd. | 427.00 |\n| Barma. Messrs. H. T. | 500.00 | Camp Pay 1941 | 50.40 |\n| Adamson, Mr. & Mrs. | 825.00 | China Fleet Club Members | 1,000.00 |\n| Canton Insurance Office Ltd. | 50,000.00 | China International Commer-cial Co. | 100.00 |\n| Barnes, J. I. | 50.00 | | 1,000.00 |\n| Air Headquarters, R.A.F. | 45.00 | Canton Overseas Trading Co. | 500.00 |\n| Barrow, Edgar (In memory of) | 25.00 | Carey, F. R. L. | 100.00 |\n| Allied Trading Co. | 100.00 | China Light & Power Co., Ltd. | 25,000.00 |\n| | 1.000.00 | China Motor Bus Co., Ltd. | 2,000.00 |\n| American Express Co. | 100.00 | Carey, G. J. P. | 20.00 |\n| Barry, F. C. (Mr. & Mrs.)... | 100.00 | Carvalho, Miss E. | 25.00 |\n| Batten & Co., Ltd. | 100.00 | China National Airways Corporation | 50.00 |\n| American International Under-writers | 2,000.00 | Cassidy, Mr. & Mrs. | 150.00 |\n| Begbie, Dr. & Mrs. | 200.00 | China Products Trading Co. | 100.00 |\n| Belilios Public School | 800.00 | Cathay Pacific Airways | 500.00 |\n| Amoy Canning Corporation Ltd. | 200.00 | China Provident Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd. | 10.000.00 |\n| Anderson, In Memory of | 3,098.61 | Catholic Truth Society | 250.00 |\n| Anderson, Dr. & Mrs., a/c | 20.00 | Centime | 225.00 |\n| Fellowship of the Bellows—A a/c | | China & South Sea Bank Ltd. | 500.00 |\n| Fellowship of the Bellows-B a/c | 3,023.07 | Central Cold Storage | 50.00 |\n| | | Central Trading Co. | 100.00 |\n| Benson, Mr. D. | 500.00 | Chan, Mr. & Mrs. A. K. | 500.00 |\n| Bentley, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur. | 150.00 | Chinese Art Gallery | 30.00 |\n| Bently. Mr. & Mrs. H. M | 100.00 | Chan Fung Chan (Mrs.) | 20.00 |\n| Bercovitch, Miss R. | 30.00 | Chan. H. | 10.00 |\n| Bernachi, Brook | 200.00 | Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society | 1,200.00 |\n| Best, Henry Cudogan J. A. Vint (In memory of) D. J. Delany | 100.00 | Chan Hau Po & Co. | 100.00 |\n| Blackall. Sir Henry & Lady... | 300.00 | Chinese Manufacturer's Union | 200.00 |\n| Blackwood. Mr. & Mrs. J. A. | 250.00 | Chan Man Cheong Bank | 50.00 |\n| Blair & Co. | 1,000.00 | Chinese Optical Co. | 100.00 |\n| Blake. D. H. | 1,000.00 | Chan Man Fat Bank | 50.00 |\n| | | Chinese Postal Remittances & Savings Bank | 1,000.00 |\n| Annett, Mr. & Mrs. M. A. | 100.00 | Ching Cheung Co., Ltd. | 100.00 |\n| Annett Ltd., M. A. | 250.00 | Chiu Chow Chamber of Commerce | 100.00 |\n| Ansard, In Memory of | 100.00 | Chan Wai Fu | 10.00 |\n| | | Chan Say | 20.00 |\n| | | Chan Tat Ling | 30.00 |\n| | | Chang, H. T. | 100.00 |\n| | | Chin Kok Foo | 30.00 |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-616-2 Hong Kong War Memorial Fund (Amendment) Ordinance 1948 6-2-1948 - 16-11-1948.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 598004, "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": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "page_number": 166, "title": "CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951", "content_text": "SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950.\n\nMONGKONG UNIVERSITY CONGREGATION\n\n(Continued from Page 3)\n\nWhatever idea in this very place, in the Colony of Hongkong.\" freedom to the less remember your University is always here to help you in your problems; use her as much in your post-graduate life as you did before.\n\nSome of you are destined to become leaders of your fellow men, others followers. In your lives we do not expect you to accept slavishly and blindly what you were taught here, but having been taught to think, to discern, to discriminate, and to reason, we are confident that you are equipped to choose your own way of life. May you live wisely, remembering always our creed, what of many other equally heroic restoration of the playing field ever our standard of learning, exploits performed in China; surely in this year of grace 1950, lads who fearlessly penetrated occupied Hongkong: who lived for months in the hills over-looking Kowloon, where one magnificent gift of $35,000 towards the pavilion by Mr and Mrs Leung Yew. By September next, 80 of our 180 women graduates will be able to live in the new hostel built through the generous gift of one million dollars by Sir Robert Ho Tung.\n\nHe then went on to tell the audience, which crowded this Great Hall, how he got the idea. He said that during his studies, while at the College of Medicine in Hongkong, more than 30 years previously, after his school work and lectures, after his book reading, he used to stroll the streets of Hongkong, it being known to only very few people. About the middle of 1942 we were visited by an officer of the R.A.F, who was planning a secret mission to the Netherland Indies and Malaya. At this stage of the war such missions had hitherto never been attempted in the Far East; they were in every sense of the word penetrating and hazardous unknown. One of the reasons for the visit of this officer was to recruit a dependable companion. He chose Lau Teng-kee, one of our undergraduates.\n\nAttainments\n\nNow what of our attainments in the training of good citizens? In practically every profession, in practically every walk of life, that humility is the essence of wisdom.\n\nLau knew full well the measure of paper which was a scarce and valuable commodity not couched in a completed form. It is therefore fitting that the new School of Engineering and Architecture building, that I shall be opening later this afternoon, should be named after him: thus his memory perpetuated.\n\nAlthough Dr Sloss' departure was a loss, we were very fortunate in securing the services of Dr Ride as his successor. Apart from his capabilities and personality, is the fact that he has been with the University for more than twenty years, and so knows all our aspirations.\n\nIt is very pleasing to have with us to-day, the Chancellor of the University of Malaya, the Right Hon. Malcolm MacDonald. I warmly welcome him. The University of Malaya was inaugurated on October 8, 1949, on which occasion I had the pleasure of sending a message of greeting to the Chancellor.\n\n\"I also express with the united hopes of the Hongkong University, which is the university of this British Colony that is mainly supported by the Colony, but the services it renders far beyond our small confines. It is uniquely situated at the door of China and thus it brings to the people of China the best that British and western culture can offer. Our doors are open to entrants from China, as well as from Hongkong and Malaya. We offer them our facilities freely and we ask for nothing in return. This is in accordance with the vision of our predecessors. If we succeed in carrying out our aim, we will have done something to foster a mutual appreciation between the inheritors of two of the world's most important cultures. (Applause).\n\nThere are two reasons why the University has made good progress. First and foremost, I would put the inspiring leadership given by the last Vice-Chancellor, Dr Sloss. Time and again he wanted to retire but at my urgent request he carried on.\n\nThe second reason, why such good progress has been made, is that the University has many friends not only amongst the alumni, but also amongst the citizenry of Hongkong. Most public life in this Colony, you will find our graduates playing an ever increasingly responsible and honoured part.\n\nIn closing, I feel I cannot do better than quote the message of another Vice-Chancellor, Sir John Medley, at the University of Melbourne in 1940.\n\n... my wishes which are the University's wishes to you are particularly important, with the University's wishes to you are in the customary very welcome increase mere fifty miles, He thought of liberally to found and maintain the beautiful streets, the artistic parks and wondered why and faith is more than justified incredible difficulty of landing was stolen from its hiding place success and prosperity in all your There are two reasons why the University made good progress.\n\nWhat Better Proof? What better proof could one desire than this of the statement I made a few minutes ago that a University is something more than a mere teaching institution. It was not what he was taught here that made Dr Sun Yat-sen \"give up his profession of curing men and spend his time curing his country\": but it was the effect on him of the life he shared with others, his teachers and his fellow students, in a British institution of learning in a British Colony.\n\nAs Father Ryan said in his talk before the Rotary Club last November, the youth of our educational institutions is \"the most important export of our Colony.\"\n\n(2) There must be 101s Chinese who are shareholders of the company. I could easily find out what percentage of them are Chinese by looking at the shareholders' returns in their file with the Registrar or availing myself of section 98 (1) of the Companies Ordinance of 1932. But I don't care to take the trouble at the present. Since the Chinese are the main sufferers, they should make their voice heard at the shareholders' meeting.\n\nM. H. TANG.\n\nView of the dais during the conferring of degrees at Hongkong University yesterday when the first official Congregation since the war was held. — (Staff Photographer).\n\nGovernor's Speech\n\nAfter the conferment of degrees, His Excellency the Chancellor, before declaring the Congregation closed, addressed the gathering.\n\nThe Recipients\n\nThe recipients of degrees were:\n\nMaster of Surgery - Kwan Su-yee\n\nBachelor of Science in Engineering - D B Izalt in absentia (posthumously)\n\nBachelor of Arts - Algernon Ho\n\nBachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Kwan Kui-lun, Yip Tai-hing, Yue Pui-lam. In absentia - Cheung Ah-hee, Latifah Ghows. Frank Kung. Leow Lee Su-luen, Oy-cheari. Wong Cheung-chee. To Shiu-youn. Woo Poh-yee. Wong Sau-haan. Yach Seow-tiang, Hans Raj: Posthumously - Luke Lim Ban-sing\n\nWartime degree of Bachelor of Science in Engineering - Chan Si-toe. Pat-sun, Chai Cheung, Fong Nai-ching, Hung Shek-chiu. Kwok Wai-man, Lal King-shung. Li Sheung-ngai. Seu Che-tan. Yeung Yuk-wah, Yue Shiu-lun: In absentia - Lau Yu-chuen, Lee Ah-poon. Lee Tsam-shun. Leong Hor-sai, Li Hing-shing, John Lim. Tan Khean-yeang, Hong-teck. Woo Kayi. Wong Ting-tsai. Wu Tau-tai. Wei Kuang-mu, Tcheng Pao-king. and Yoong Yew Moyne: Posthumously - Z. A. Kosakowsky, Ping-jeen.\n\nWartime degree of Bachelor of Arts - Ellen Chaw York-leen. Kwan Yeuk-laan. Amy Lim, Lena Lim Nellie Seu, Zara Suffiad, Taut Shing-cheung. Tu Ka-cheung, Yao Pei-chun. In absentia - Au Kwok-yee, Cheah Siew-on, Chen Kwun Chin King-chu. Chia Kee-san Walter Duffield. Fung Kam-to. Yee-hing, Lai On-seng. Jessie Lim. Lo Shiu-hing. Toong Mei-tung. Sim-keng. Yaung Siu-hing Sarah Yaung. Wong Chung-tai. Lois Wong, Wong Mun-hon. Yu Ping-tsung and Yu Shuk-su\n\nH. E. the Governor said: What a period of tragedy the world has gone through since the last Congregation nine years ago. Although I say this in no sense of self-pity, we in Hongkong were certainly one of the major sufferers. Even to-day in this hall we can see the ruin and devastation of war.\n\nThe University had to be abandoned physically in 1941, its spirit carried on and the light of learning was not extinguished. This was only made possible by the kindness of our friends in China, who took in some of our students, and thus enabled them to continue with their studies.\n\nThe progress at first seemed slow, and as late as 1948, that is only two years ago, I said in an address to the Court that the University was then in the position that it was in 1916.\n\nPerhaps I was unduly pessimistic, for in fact the progress that has been made is quite remarkable. As an instance of this might quote the figures of the number of students. In 1941 there were 572; in 1948 507; in 1949, 620. This number for 1949 represents the complete faculties and Medicine, but still lacks two years of medical students.\n\nOur Medical Faculty this and next year, our undergraduate strength will be at least 800.\n\nThanks To Government\n\nWe acknowledge with grateful thanks the help of the Hongkong Government. This University is already been filled, and it is proposed that Government department; we have no claim for financial help that have no claim for financial help.\n\nMay I in conclusion now say a few words to those who are the youth of to-day's ceremony, our Graduands. It has always been a matter of wonderment and of not a little amusement, to me, that when our Chancellor declares the Congregation open for the conferring of degrees, the story of the exploits in Malaya of one of our former undergraduates, Lim Bo-seng, loyalty; as long as we maintain your graduation is but the end of one stage in the school; but there is a difference. While here you have had the protection and guidance of your academic mother but now you are equipped to stand alone. Never be victims of such evil to stoop so low but will act Courageously and with courage and resolution.\n\nDAYA KHANRA.\n\nNanette Ho Kam Tim-cheng. Iau Din-cheuk Lee Hilda Salmon, \"Tan Teo Wartime degree of Bachelor of Science - Lam Yung-tai.\n\nBachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - Chan Sui-Lun, Chow Pak-hang. Eu Gaik-choo, Fang evang. Khoo Kee-seang. Lo Slu-tung. Ng Boon-such, Wung Cheung-chủ. Yong Yut-lin, An Hung cho. Cheng Waf-yue, Lum Pak-huen. Pun Chung-chik, Wong Chak-wang-", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-625-3 Hong Kong University- rehabilitation (1950) 1-1-1950 - 31-1-1951.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]