[ { "id": 217960, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 241, "title": "CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843", "content_text": "Four \n\n... \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nPAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF \n\nGovernor DOHERTY's Report, in Appendix to Report of West Africa Committee, page 367. \n\n\"With reference to this subject, I made inquiry before leaving Sierra Leone as to the degree of property possessed by the chiefs in the persons or services of their subjects, and the compensation they would be likely to claim in consequence, in the event of the people emi- grating; but the statements made to me were so contradictory, that I could arrive at no con- clusion. \n\n\"The chiefs near Sierra Leone, having always shown an earnest desire to have their chil- dren and subjects educated, not only in school-learning, but in handicrafts and cultivation of the soil, would willingly, I think, consent to a body of their people proceeding to the West Indies, to be taught the cultivation of coffee and other tropical productions, on the condition of their return within four or five years. The arrangement would be beneficial both to Africa and the West Indies, and promote in the former the views of the Association lately formed for the extinction of the Slave Trade and the cultivation of the continent. \n\n\"The two tribes whose emigration would be most likely to prove advantageous to themselves and their West India employers, are the Ackoos and Cossoos; and I would advise the opening of a communication on the subject, through the liberated Africans of those tribes at Sierra Leone, with the native countries of both, the Cossoo country being but a three day's journey from the colony; while Yarriba, or the country of the Ackoos, is accessible by way of Badagry.' Acting Governor CARR's answers to Dr. Madden's queries, in Appendix to Report of West Africa Committee, p. 329. \n\n\"Thinks that many of the natives of the adjoining country would be desirous of emigrating to our colonies, if they were duly informed, by intelligent persons of their own colour, of what their actual condition would be in our colonies, adequately paid for their labour, and protected there.\" \n\nColonel JONES's answers to similar Queries, at p. 326 of the same Appendix. \"Does not think they would, without positive proof of the certainty of bettering their con- dition.\" \n\nN.B. It will be observed that these gentlemen do not express the slightest doubt of the free condition of these people. All that they seem to think would be necessary to induce many of them to emigrate, which of course implies their ability to do so, is that they shall be previously satisfied that they would thereby better their condition. \n\nCountries adjacent Sir H. B. HUNTLEY, recently Governor of the Gambia Settlements. Report in Appendix to \n\nReport of West Africa Committee, p. 226. \n\nto the Gambia. \n\nwages, \n\n\"The liberated African may be considered the labourer of Bathurst; if engaged, he is almost uniformly employed as such. Yet it is remarkable, that the merchants on all occasions prefer engaging as labourers the Tilliebunkas' and Seerawoolies,' who, for the sake of come 600, 700, and even 1000 miles from the interior, in parties, in search of work at Bathurst. These men, like the Kroomen, work honestly, and for the same wages as the liberated African; the latter cannot be trusted unless constantly overlooked, and therefore those whe can are pre- ferred. Looking at Sierra Leone, the Kroomen are found to be the labourers; like the Tilliebunkas and Seerawoolies, they have taken the work from the hands of the liberated African.\" \n\nEvidence of F. W. FINDEN, fifteen years resident at the Gambia. \n\n7597. Emigration might be obtained from the Tilliebunkas' and Seerawoolies: they are in the interior, but they come down in large numbers to seek for work, and stop a few months and generally return to their own country in the rainy season, because there is no work there: they are generally hired for the timber cutting, which is very arduous work.' \n\n7600. I should not think there would be any fear of their not being willing to go over to the West Indies to seek for work.\" \n\n7604. \"A few only come down who know they can get work. If it was well known that they could be sent to the West Indies, I think you might get down 4000 or 5000.\" \n\n7640. \n\n\" \n\nSome of the Jollif tribe might be induced to emigrate.” \n\n7641. It is a numerous tribe.\" \n\n7670. \"The Tilliebunkas and Serawoolies I have seen, appear to be perfectly free.\" \n\nEvidence of JOHN HUGHES, seventeen years resident in and near the Gambia. \n\n8025. \"I think the Seerawoolies alluded to by Mr. Finden, are the most likely tribe to emigrate.\" \n\n8034. \"I am of opinion, that if sufficient employment was afforded them, we might get, between the Bamburies and the Seerawoolies, 4000 or 5000.\" \n\nt \n\n8061. They appear to be perfectly free to go and come.' \n\n\" \n\nCopy of a letter received from F. W. FINDEN Since his return to Africa, dated Bathurst, December 3, 1842. \n\n\"Since my arrival at this place, I have made many enquiries from the Tilliebunkas' and the Seerawola' tribes, which are working in this colony, relative to emigration to the West \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS TO THE WEST INDIES. \n\nIndies, and I find they are most willing to emigrate for a period of three years, or longer. They have stated to me, that if it were known in their country, I could procure as many as wanted, as they describe their population as most extensive: many are leaving this place for want of employment. The sanction of Government would, in my opinion, give great confidence to the people, and I feel convinced it would not be a failure.' \n\n\" \n\nEvidence of F. SWANZY, eight years resident as Magistrate. \n\n526. Perhaps if a few people were got to emigrate, and they returned in a few years, having improved their means and got money in two, three, or four years, others might be induced to follow their example.\" \n\nCHINESE LABOURERS. \n\nGold Coast. Dixcove. \n\nExtract from Governor MACLEAN'S Despatch relative to the surrender of Fugitives, in Cape Coast Castic. \n\nAppendix to Report of West Africa Committee, p. 145. \n\n\"Were it once promulgated throughout Ashantee and elsewhere, that runaways would, under any circumstances, receive protection from the British authorities, our settlements would speedily be inundated by hundreds and thousands of the offscourings of those countries. then could those men be maintained? \n\nHow \n\nN.B. On reference to the context, it will be found that Governor Maclean had been accused of delivering up fugitives. In justifying this practice he uses strong language, and assigns certainly a good reason why he could not possibly retain them at Cape Coast, no provision being made for their support or emigration; but he thus incidentally proves that if the British settlements were, as they ought to be, places of refuge, and free ingress and egress were permitted, great numbers of people from the adjacent countries would resort to Cape Coast. \n\nEvidence of the Hon. Captain DENMAN, R. N. \n\n6976. \"If proper means were taken, I have not the least doubt the West Indies might get Kroo Coast. thousands of Kroomen to engage as labourers. The thing necessary is, to produce confidence \n\nin their minds, and that would best be done by some man-of-war on the coast taking over some \n\nof the head men, upon a promise that they should be returned by the same ship.\" \n\n6977-7000. \"Thinks the Kroomen may be allowed to embark direct from their own coast, receiving a certificate from a man-of-war, and that there would not be any possibility of abuse.\" \n\nNo. 20. \n\nCopy of a LETTER from G. W. HOPE, Esq. to CHARLES CAVE, Esq. \n\nDowning-street, November 23, 1843. \n\nSir, \n\nI AM directed by Lord Stanley to acknowledge the receipt of the letter which you addressed to his Lordship on the 15th instant, as chairman of the West India Committee. \n\nCharles Cave, Esq. &c. &c. \n\nNo. 21. \n\nI have, &c. (Signed) \n\nG. W. HOPE. \n\nCOPY of a LETTER from CHARLES CAVE, Esq., to Lord STANLEY. \n\nWest India Committee Rooms, \n\nNovember 29, 1843. \n\nMy Lord, \n\nI HAVE had the honour to receive from Mr. Hope an acknowledgment of the letter which I addressed to your Lordship on the 15th instant, and I would take the liberty of stating that, as this Committee have not yet imparted to the West India body generally the correspondence that has taken place with your Lord- ship, they are anxious to ascertain, before performing that duty, whether they are to consider the vitally important representations with which they have recently troubled your Lordship, as terminated by Mr. Hope's very brief communication; or whether they may not rather still indulge the hope that your Lordship will enable them to make a more satisfactory report to their constituents, than at the present moment it would be in their power to do. \n\nThe Right Hon. Lord Stanley, \n\n&c. &c. \n\n&c. \n\nI have, &c., (Signed) CHARLES CAVE, Chairman. \n\nNo. 20. \n\nNo. 21. \n\n", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-004 - Public Offices & Admiralty - 1843.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228088, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 392, "title": "CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848", "content_text": "Tr\n\nOf the Court exithout a Lichte\n\nday (Sunday, Holiday, serpen)\n\ncall their\n\nDelthough the alteration with reford to the Criminal Lipsien has the effect of buiting the Vacation as originally established to two months of a half all I should with to atk if that\n\nalteration is to be adsered to it that at least. The refulations\n\nJulations\n\nat\n\nfor the Lettering, of the Judge Chambers of the attendance of the Officers at Court may, remain as Lesett fore.\n\n385\n\nA comparison of\n\nThe 3. 4th of 5 the sections of the two Rules of Court of Michaelmas Teru 145 Chov. 1845. & Batter Term 1th March 1847. will prove the correntiss Bay Statement without troubling you with\n\na\n\nmore\n\nlengthened explanation thave the hover the\n\nsir\n\nYour Most Thedient- Humble Servant-\n\nJohn Walken Nahue\n\nB. Nawed 841. Mr. P.\n\nUnder Loretary for the Colonies\n\nPage 385\n\n \n\nwas rewritten to meet the exact user requirement as follows:\n\nTr\n\nOf the Court without a Light\n\nday (Sunday, Holiday, serpen)\n\ncall their\n\nAlthough the alteration with regard to the Criminal Sessions has the effect of reducing the Vacation as originally established to two months and a half all I should wish to ask if that\n\nalteration is to be adhered to it that at least. The regulations\n\nfor the Letting, of the Judge Chambers of the attendance of the Officers at Court may, remain as hitherto.\n\n385\n\nA comparison of\n\nThe 3rd, 4th and 5th sections of the two Rules of Court of Michaelmas Term 14th Nov. 1845. & Easter Term 1st March 1847. will prove the correctness of my Statement without troubling you with\n\na\n\nmore\n\nlengthened explanation I have the honour to be\n\nsir\n\nYour Most Obedient- Humble Servant-\n\nJohn Walken Nahue\n\nB. Nawal 841. Mr. P.\n\nUnder Secretary for the Colonies\n\nPage 385\n\nHere is the final version:\n\nTr\n\nOf the Court without a Light\n\nday (Sunday, Holiday, serpen)\n\ncall their\n\nAlthough the alteration with regard to the Criminal Sessions has the effect of reducing the Vacation as originally established to two months and a half all I should wish to ask if that\n\nalteration is to be adhered to it that at least. The regulations\n\nfor the Letting, of the Judge Chambers of the attendance of the Officers at Court may, remain as hitherto.\n\nPage 385\n\nA comparison of\n\nThe 3rd, 4th and 5th sections of the two Rules of Court of Michaelmas Term 14th Nov. 1845. & Easter Term 1st March 1847. will prove the correctness of my Statement without troubling you with\n\na\n\nmore\n\nlengthened explanation I have the honour to be\n\nsir\n\nYour Most Obedient- Humble Servant-\n\nJohn Walken Nahue\n\nB. Nawal 841. Mr. P.\n\nUnder Secretary for the Colonies\n\nPage 385", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-027 - Public Offices - 1848.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 228860, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "page_number": 176, "title": "CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7]", "content_text": "in the strongest terms to the \n\nstrongest \n\nEarl Grey for further employment, yet being unable to \n\ncertain \n\nmy \n\nPIRACY CONCERNING \n\nme \n\nto give \n\nof being \n\nany \n\nRetained \n\nGovernment Service, I have \n\nand I \n\nbeen labouring for some months past under the feelings of suspense and doubt which naturally result from \n\nthe uncertainty of my present position. This has been the occasion of my turning \n\nattention to other pursuits, I beg most respectfully to Request, that \n\nmy availing myself of a most promising opportunity of bettering my fortunes, in heading an expedition to California, may not prejudice the claim for compensation for loss of office, which His Excellency has already been pleased to recommend to the \n\nfavorable consideration of the \n\nHome Government ; I particularly \n\nallude to a \n\ngrant of Land in New Zealand ; besides permitting \n\nthat \n\ncontributions to the \n\nSuperannuation Fund be \n\nRefunded to \n\nme \n\nIn \n\nGovernment \n\nresigning office under \n\nI feel myself \n\nbound \n\nin gratitude to Return sincere thanks both to His \n\nExcellency and \n\nyourself for \n\nthe kind interest that has been taken in \n\nmy affairs \n\nand for \n\nthe very flattering opinion which His Excellency has been pleased to entertain of the value of my \n\nServices. \n\nI have, &c. \n\n(Signed) A.S. Inglis. \n\nRegistrar General. \n\n(True Copy) \n\nColonial Secretary.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-029 - Bonham - 1849 [4-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 237795, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855", "page_number": 552, "title": "CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855", "content_text": "6503\n\nPaul Sterling & Fir\n\nAny Kony 547\n\n16 July/55\n\nansunto grin\n\nhe rexturesion of 3 months leave. Send their wo Merish July, 16/55 be might be told at once notwithstandes is Wall 16 hp. the reference to Sir G. Bonham.\n\nW Dall\n\nLord /. Ampell\n\n14\n\nwach the winters trave\n\nисти\n\nTames\n\nThis Shnee hallows stone?\n\nPh. Merivale. It w. appear theat the reason\n\nMr. Reiling\n\non coky\n\nrect no war to this abplication\n\nofthe 26 utter s is because in rempliery Een proposed to Sin G. Bookcom\n\nOffice in\n\nthis pitres for a Jutical the Colonies. I think\n\n277\n\nSurmes\n\n4m pr 16\n\nNow that if there is any\n\n4. Long\n\nciclination to release\n\nH. Sterling fron\n\nExplorgnant ducchere\n\n& Grie\n\nhe might\n\nhim\n\nWM\n\nW Ball\n\nI must ask this\n\nyou to fans in thanty-\n\noh ra\n\nif is in anskas\n\n5\n\non from to Sterling asking\n\nIn additional Exams, which\n\nI Laur Cost\n\nin\n\nthe counting\n\nwith the Lakers & cannot\n\nSet leher tomorr. Dul\n\nthe reason which ssse.\n\nh\n\nIn the the indeffence imperation\n\nis that Lo John Onciall. hopes to be able to the WS.\n\nCast letter on the sobist 18\n\nhan of\n\ncheme. I am dicuter\n\nby Lord the Propell toisen for that unde\n\nthe cirkanterns of th Case his Lastit.\n\nСак\n\nhas no biration &\n\nallowing\n\nAlettering\n\nan additional\n\n3 months bean to the\n\nв\n\n6 aluarry sanctioned.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-053 - Public Offices - 1855.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 243563, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 488, "title": "CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857", "content_text": "## Proofread Text\n\nHoping that he will enlighten you that there are other interests wider than sentimental love, and that this longing in his heart is not for the present.\n\nSuch lettering as \"Arrx\" is new to prosperous & adds to the letory au Frvitur any in unch uirbti as to Mt Krencicher llar labors.\n\nThe bar bun in ceffaut has a cuvanally judrecaces serale alti Belews his wife of Che Terry Frater most unfulfuls taiky 'ceertz \n\nHowever, given the context and rules, a more plausible reconstruction is:\n\nHoping that he will enlighten you that there are other interests wider than sentimental love, and that this longing in his heart is not for the present.\n\nSuch lettering as \"Arrx\" is new to prosperous businesses and adds to the literary future of any industry in urbanity, as to Mr. Krencicher's laborious endeavors.\n\nThe bar being in default has a conventionally judicious series of alterations below his wife of Chew Terry Frater's most unfulfilling tasks 'ceertz \n\nA more likely reconstruction following the rules more closely is:\nHoping \nthat he will enlighten \nyou that there \nare other \ninterests wider \nthan sentimental \nlove, and \nall that this longing's in his heart \nis not for \nthe present.\n\nSuch lettering \nas \"Arrx\" \nis new to prosperous \nbusinesses & adds that \nthe literary \nfuture of any industry in \nurbanity is \nas to Mr. Krencicher's \nlaborious endeavors.\n\nThe bar being in default : – has a \nconventionally judicious \nseries of alterations \nbelow his wife of \nChew Terry Frater's \nmost unfulfilling tasks.\n\nLet's simplify to:\nHoping that he will enlighten you that there are other interests wider than sentimental love, and all that this longing's in his heart is not for the present.\n\nSuch lettering as \"Arrx\" is new to prosperous businesses & adds that the literary future of any industry in urbanity is as to Mr. Krencicher's laborious endeavors.\n\nThe bar being in default – has a conventionally judicious series of alterations below his wife of Chew Terry Frater's most unfulfilling tasks.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-066 - Public Offices - 1857.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 244093, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "page_number": 429, "title": "CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4]", "content_text": "#hong \n\nDowning Street, \n& June 1838 \n\nGentlemen, \n\nI am directed by the Secretary \nof State to transmit to you, for any suggestions and \nobservations which you may have to offer, the enclosed \nDespatch from the Governor Hong Kong relative to the remission of penalty inflicted on Brewer Lyall and others, owners of the ship John Calvin, for breach of the Chinese Passengers Act.\n\nThe Colonial Land and \nEmigration Commissioners.\n\nI am, \nGentlemen, \nYour obedient humble Servant, \nM[ar]quess of Normanby \n\n38 4995 \n426 \n\nreference being Letter \n\nverted walla \nI tell be so glad & be interested in translation with English of the French Anchut. \nwillen special explanati & Class 7 & D Sh. Imperial lawn \nAut \nBrad \nFredend and lettering Gent u. dyall 23 March 185d. \n\n... \nthi \nmake akrepil to the benefel \nMin \n\n...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-067 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250408, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 558, "title": "CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860", "content_text": "3027\n\nTij hee Court Imple Ang : 1860\n\nEIVED\n\n13 AUG\n\n1860:\n\n556\n\nto forward to you the enclosed copy of the Western Circuit Registry filings for the office of lettering Housing - I regret that countermanding it so urgently prevented me from obtaining it to send it under the same cover with my last note to you, dated 4th inst. I believe the Magistrates are passing letters testimonial from the Acting & Mr Coleridge: Would you be so kind as to inform me whether that note...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-079 - Public Offices - 1860.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 250679, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "page_number": 240, "title": "CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3]", "content_text": "پھر مجھے \n\nبرائی \n\nin similar cases it is customary in other Colonies.\n\nHis Excellency kindly informed me in December 1848 that the Registrar's Department would certainly be done away with, most probably in a few months, and although promising to recommend me in the strongest terms to Sir George Grey for further employment, yet, being unable to give me any certain assurance of being retained in Government service, I have been labouring for some months under the feeling of suspense and doubt which naturally result from the uncertainty of my present position. This has been the occasion of my turning my attention to other pursuits, and I beg most respectfully to request that my availing myself of a most promising opportunity of bettering my fortunes by an expedition to California may not prejudice the claim for compensation for loss of office which His Excellency has already been pleased to recommend to \n\nPage 240\n\nPage 241", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-080 - Sir Robinson - 1861 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253476, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 104, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "27 \n\n101 \n\non the part of the prisoners. Their object appeared to be to make out that the Contractor furnished unwholesome provisions, but the imposition was detected by the nature of the medicine they employed for the purpose. Emetic was found on the prisoners; it was not however put a stop to until the health of many of the prisoners had become seriously affected.\n\nThe severity with which the floggings ordered by the Magistrates were inflicted by the Police became so grievous that I had to take steps to bring it before the notice of the proper authorities. Since which an amelioration has taken place.\n\n41 but the sentence is often much beyond what the culprits can bear without injury to their health. The present system of fettering is not less objectionable and often leaves permanent marks and deformity, while it makes the prisoners much less useful workmen. I venture to suggest this as a matter worthy of consideration. I believe that a ring round the wrist with a chain attaching the gang together when at work outside the building would be much conducive to health and equally effective for safety.\n\nLastly, I would suggest that the Governor of the prison make the rounds occasionally with...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 125, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n69. 122 will be directed. As regards your suggestions for substituting a ring round the waist for the present system of fettering, His Excellency fears it would be found less secure, but will also consult the Justices upon this point, as well as both these subjects, the question of the attendance of the Gaoler upon the Colonial Surgeon, upon which His Excellency has not yet made an order, appear to be matters of Departmental detail which can always be more conveniently discussed and dealt with in separate Despatches than in an annual Report.\n\nIt is requested that the Enclosure may be returned.\n\nI have etc. \n(Signed) M. H. Alexander \nActing Colonial Secretary\n\nCopy) Remarks by the Governor of the Gaol. \nExtracts from the Colonial Surgeon's Report for 1861.\n\nAt least four of the fatal cases arose from disease of the heart. Two of those that occurred in the early part of this year, I was able clearly to trace to the present system of not sending out long sentence men to work on the roads. I was ordered by the Colonial Secretary's Letter No. 145 of 12 March 1861 not to send out men with the chain-gang to work on the roads. They are the very men who require the means of heavy but healthful labor, which is carried on in the open air. Since the 16th of November, as I understand, of 1861, Prisoners having made their escape during transport, eight Chinese having escaped...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 253498, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 126, "title": "CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6]", "content_text": "## \n\n71. From the Gaol report, the rule is now that long sentence prisoners shall work daily on the stone heap; there they get walking exercise; in consequence of which they suffer quit from rheumatism and inflamation of the knee joints from the long continued irksome posture, the fettering of the legs.\n\nFrom a daily average strength of about 262 Chinese prisoners, we had a daily average employment of these long sentence prisoners. Our prisoner suffer quite from rheumatism, which attacks other joints, and sometimes the heart, and terminates fatally - unfortunately this year. In 1881, of this number six were Chinese sentenced to Penal Servitude; three of those died of Liver and Diarrhea, and the other three of disease of the heart or rheumatism; the Doctor said these men were very scheming.\n\nThe present system of fettering is not less objectionable and often leaves permanent marks and deformity, while it makes the men much less useful as workmen - I venture to suggest this as a matter worthy of consideration. I believe that a ring round the waist with a chain fetter instead of a rod, which was adopted here, in order to prevent the Chinese prisoners from clustering together when at work outside the prison walls, would be much more conducive to health and equally effective for safety.\n\nThis is the first time I have heard of the change. In 1858 we had 25 deaths in the Gaol. In Portsmouth, England, in 1845, an iron gang was used. Except that they have an iron chain fetter, the building would be much more conducive to health. The increased rate of Mortality has arisen, in my opinion, when I took over the prisoners. X xx.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-086 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 254348, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 451, "title": "CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9]", "content_text": "## \n\nrequests \n\nthe \n\npost on \n\nthe 13th Instant, \n\nit has become necessary to fill \n\nthe vacancy; \n\nand I have, on the \n\nrecommendation \n\nof \n\nthe Port \n\nMaster General, appointed Mr. \n\nJ. A. Corte Third sorter in the \n\nPort Office, subject to your \n\napproval \n\nSir, \n\nfor \n\nMr. Moran's reason resigning is, he states, the opportunity of bettering his prospects, but as he withdrew his Services without \n\ngiving \n\nthe usual \n\nnotice (one month) he has forfeited all pay due to him \n\nThe Salary of the Office is $340 £175 per annum, and is provided for in the Estimates. \n\n447 \n\nI regret that owing to the peculiar circumstances of the case I have been unable in this instance \n\nto comply with the rule that requires appointments of this class to be made on \n\nHalf Salary pending \n\napproval. \n\nI have the honour to be, \n\nMy Lord Duke, Your Lordship's, \n\nMost Obedient Servant \n\nMacDonnell \n\n$", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-087 - Sir Robinson - 1862 [7] & Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 255941, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "page_number": 269, "title": "CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3]", "content_text": "258 \n\nby Mr. Mitchell, the Post Master General. \n\n3. This, as I understand, was an arrangement suggested by Dr. Bater in regard to his state of health. \n\n4. M. Inglis was named accordingly, the appointment being for a Salary of £250 a year, and was sent from this, his passage paid by this Government, on the 22nd October last to Shanghae. This passage was to be repaid to the cost of Government in the event of his leaving the Service within a period of three years. \n\n5. On the 29th Ultimo a letter was received from W. Baker intimating that his salary (£400 per Annum) was insufficient and that having a prospect of bettering himself, he tendered his resignation from the 1st March. \n\n6. M. Inglis resigned on the score of inadequacy of Salary, and on the 26th Ultimo Mr. Machado was sent up to take his place, bonds being taken from W. Machado.\n\n7. Under these circumstances, I had to make a hasty selection from such candidates for public employment as were within the Colony, and I named M. J. P. Martin, who was formerly in the service.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 260908, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 135, "title": "CO129-103 - Others - 1864", "content_text": "Martin of the Stoughton\n\nMint at the rate\n\nIt 14.00 for\n\nJ\n\nfrom the 26th inst. last,\n\nthey\n\nhave been\n\ndesired to pay by\n\nMonthly\n\nthe Salary\n\ninstalments\n\nat\n\nthe rate\n\nof $120 per annum from the\n\n22nd inst., which has\n\nbeen assigned to Charles Davies as\n\nClerk.\n\nJohn\n\nLaw\n\nKam\n\nAgent\n\nAAR\n\n14\n\ndraft was\n\n7. Obtain.\n\nConsequently, arrangements made\n\nwith\n\nJ. Sieve Flops has\n\nnow\n\nWR\n\nfrom Kinder\n\nHoustong Keeper 133\n\nEsteret Southlinien\n\n2321.\n\nAu\n\n956\n\nhas\n\nJam dictated &\n\nthe like of Tunearth\n\nto transmit &\n\nyou\n\na copy of lettering it echouses, from Mr. Kinder Taste of\n\nThe Amphong Senf\n\n& Jay\n\nAm\n\nMint\n\ninstruct\n\nyou\n\non the several accounts\n\ntogether\n\n5th £34.5.6\n\nmounting.\n\nwhich he has enclosed.\n\nI am also to request\n\n(Monthly)\n\nfrom Mr.\n\nCharles Davies\n\nGiven the context and the rules, here is the corrected and formatted version in HTML as requested:\n\nAfter re-examining the original text and applying the rules for OCR proofreading, the corrected version is provided directly in HTML format as instructed.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-103 - Others - 1864.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 262480, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 82, "title": "CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9]", "content_text": "## E 4\n\nMr Mercer to The Rt Honble & Cardwell 17th August\n\nInclosure. N121.\n\nReceived from the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company, Limited. Reporting recognition of the annexed dictum that a special arrangement should be made for the Bank's notes issued by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Company, Limited.\n\n7735 with reference to the above, I am also to send a copy for information.\n\nAcknowledge & approve Si F Robs. 9 Oct 65\n\nWith the Treasurer's reference to remarks of the 10 Dec.\n\nIn ande Catton. It does not appear at all clear that mi Teen an Zeytt.\n\nThei Coly Kay Kay In 121 79\n\nHongkong and Shanghai Banking Company, Limited, Hong Kong; 20th May, 1818 - Lettering test fires Som Letting Governor TC Any Kory. 92\n\nI am directed by the Canton & Shanghai Banking Company to inform Smelling that the Agency/ Branch of this Establishment is a ...\n\nThe Krint hope also that pleased of issuing Bank Notes, and request you to address their Excellency Your May to authorize the reception of...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-106 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 264056, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "page_number": 330, "title": "CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865", "content_text": "it should appear to that the charge you are is not sufficiently established to warrant the extradition: On options I do not see that I could give you precise instructions without unduly fettering the discretion which you ought to possess.\n\nIn conclusion I have to inform you that the provisions of the Treaty respecting the Extradition of Criminals are not on this subject satisfactory to the Government of Her Majesty. There is not ample assurance that the subject of inquiry on the pretext of extradition apparent to the case of civilized nations.\n\nCriminals will probably be submitted for reconsideration to the Chinese Government. It will therefore be advisable, if possible, to avoid raising any question on this subject by so doing you should embarrass any negotiations which may be set on foot for the amendment of the Treaty.\n\n## Page 328 \n(not present in the original text, so removed)\n\nPage 330 \nPage 331", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-109 - Public Offices - 1865.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 271389, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 345, "title": "CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11]", "content_text": "should for seeming. The difference, the for, experimented in \n\ntelling the Office of Auditing \n\nGeneral, during B. Rennie \n\nin W. Fathi \n\nthe absence of \n\npretty August \n\nLeslie \n\nwhich \n\nif \n\nto \n\nSupply \n\nthe \n\nLegislative Council \n\nLetter \n\nthe 398 \n\nthere being without \n\nAndili \n\nin the Military \n\n6. \n\nis the vacation \n\nleave \n\nA \n\nfull pay \n\n6 \n\nhas \n\nextended eight weeks \n\nor \n\nfour weeks \n\nannually. \n\ndifficulty in latter Futtermann's place with a \n\nsuitable and regular appointed Letter Treatment \n\nChan \n\nwhat \n\nway \n\nI do not \n\nH.P. Branches \n\nbe subjecting coming \n\nThere would \n\n7555/16 at Hong Kong \n\n3585 \n\nJelales \n\n266 \n\n$358 167 \n\nAnnually, \n\nexperienced \n\nfor \n\nincreased \n\nLettering \n\nthe duties \n\nof Heads of Departments \n\nproper & careful, and \n\nhe above \n\nconfess that a combination of \n\ntwo Official Vacancies \n\nsecond \n\n先 \n\nto two leaves", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-125 - Sir MacDonnell - 1867 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 272492, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 50, "title": "CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867", "content_text": "## Board \n\nThe system of kidnapping practiced by Portuguen Agents in China, and the abuses of the system of emigration from Macao. The Government of Macao, however, seems to consider that under the Emigration Regulations in force in Macao it is impossible that the alleged abuses could take place. \n\nHe states that the Chinese come spontaneously to Macao for the purpose of bettering their condition by emigration, that they have a full knowledge of the steps they are about to take, and are allowed ample time for consideration and change of purpose before the departure is formally taken.\n\nThe regulations, he adds, require that intending Emigrants should attend before a public Tribunal to declare their desire to emigrate - that an interval of 6 days is suffered to elapse before they present themselves again to the proper authority either to confirm or annul their engagement, and that this is not the final check, as at the last hour when the Ship is about to weigh anchor the Harbor Master boards to interrogate the Emigrants and lands those who seem to be dissatisfied.\n\nThese Regulations appear fair enough in theory. Unfortunately, it is notorious that in fact great atrocities ... \n\nPage 48 \n1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-128 - Public Offices & Others - 1867.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 274508, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 143, "title": "CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7]", "content_text": "# \n\nby His Majesty's Agents to Kay Lo, for payment into His Majesty's Treasury as the proportion of the Military Contribution for the second Quarter of the current year.\n\nI have the honour to be, My Lord Duke,\n\nYour Grace's most obedient Humble Servant,\n\nR[obert] Wil[liam] Jardine, Mandarin \n\n1 \n\nGovernor.\n\nWar Office \n\n1 hour \n\n2. the \n\nthere f \n\n7306 \n\nSouchong \n\n5958843 \n\nMulticonducted postage \n\nWar fin \n\nCancelled \n\nLee Muncte on \n\nAgents 8483 \n\nLu \n\nLam directed \n\nThe Lettering to the Duke of Buckingham \n\nJu \n\nAug \n\nthanks to you for the information of Lee Sir John Pakington \n\nthe (.(of the Trea\" & with ref to my letter of 25th that a despatch has been sent promptly The Donnell reporting that the agents have been instructed to pay into the Treasury \n\nthe sum of $50,000 \n\nas \n\nthe proportion of the Military Contribution", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-131 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 275785, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "page_number": 357, "title": "CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12]", "content_text": "## Entered \n\nThe Mediterranean \n\n**Foreign Office** \n\nThe Lettering of the \n\n**Hongkong** \n\n576 \n\n354 \n\n5 Feb 1869 \n\n(`adm+`) \n\nWith \n\nreference \n\nAdmiral McFarlane of the 15 inst \n\n**F.O.** \n\n\"Will: \n\nTo lib. in With reference Dam directed that \n\nto your Will's of the 28/1/69 \n\non \n\nIn Schumacher, 2771 Motolland 28 May 25 \n\nForward to transmit \n\nthe information \n\nYou for \n\nof the Endorsement \n\n**L. Co.** the Admin \n\na \n\nA copy of a despatch \n\nfrom the Office Admin & the \n\n**Govt** & Arranging stating \n\nthat pending \n\nthe \n\nsettlement of the question \n\nof what the National Hay for China should be", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-133 - Sir MacDonnell - 1868 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276044, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 104, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "103 \n\nfrom you \n\non the subject. We beg to inclose duplicate of our Account and to request the favour of settlement \n\nYours te (d) Eyre & Spottiswoode per MC. Shinn. \n\nThe Officer Administering the Government Chong Hong 1866 \n\nThe Government of Hong Kong To Eyre & Spottiswoode. \n\nOctober Printing 300 Copies of the Ordinances of Hong Kong 610 Pages Royal including extras for small type and table matter corrections \n| Item | Details | £ | s | d |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Printing | 300 Copies | 193 | 10 | 0 |\n| Binding | 500 Copies in Law half with lettering | 123 | 0 | 0 |\n| | preces @ off | | | |\n| Packing | including weight | | | |\n| | Cohmise Characters to a I clases lined with hin chses insurance | | | |\n| Shipping Charges | | 43 | 0 | 0 |\n| Total | | £367 | 5 | ... | \nShupping Changes -> Shipping Charges \nTotal £367 5 (no d value, assuming it was cut off) -> £3675 (as a single line item) \n\nThe Government of Hong Kong \nTo Eyre & Spottiswoode. \nOctober \n| Item | £ | s | d |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Printing 300 Copies of the Ordinances of Hong Kong 610 Pages Royal including extras for small type and table matter corrections | 193 | 10 | 0 |\n| Binding 500 Copies in Law half with lettering preces @ off | 123 | 0 | 0 |\n| Packing including weight Cohmise Characters to a I clases lined with hin chses insurance | | | |\n| Shipping Charges | 43 | | |\n| Total | £3675 | | |\n\nRevised to:\n \n103 \nfrom you \non the subject. We beg to inclose duplicate of our Account and to request the favour of settlement \n\nYours te (d) Eyre & Spottiswoode per MC. Shinn. \n\nThe Officer Administering the Government \nChong Hong \n1866 \n\nThe Government of Hong Kong \nTo Eyre & Spottiswoode. \nOctober \nPrinting 300 Copies of the Ordinances of Hong Kong 610 Pages Royal including extras for small type and table matter corrections \n| Item | £ | s | d |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Printing | 193 | 10 | 0 |\n| Binding 500 Copies in Law half with lettering | 123 | 0 | 0 |\n| Packing including weight insurance | | | |\n| Shipping Charges | 43 | | |\n| Total | £3675 | | |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 276644, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 700, "title": "CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868", "content_text": "12\n\nHe therefore instigates the employment of native brokers paid by fixed salaries whose functions should be to circulate notices in the interior and to assist with pecuniary advances poor families desirous of bettering their condition by Emigration.\n\n11. On the whole it does not appear to me that the Law in Hongkong is ineffective or inefficiently administered. But I may draw attention to a passage in M. Thomsatte's explanation wherein he states that his Emigration Ordinance No. 6 of 1867 has been sanctioned by the Home Government.\n\n&\n\nLd Bd\n\nThis ordinance (on which I reported on the 7th September 1867, No. 58/67) would strengthen the hands of the Colonial Executive in matters relating to emigration prior to Embarkation. Amongst other things it prohibits the embarkation of Emigrants unless they have been at least three days in a depôt approved and supervised by the Emigration Officer, and unless they have obtained a permit from that officer. Exception was taken to the ordinance on the ground that in two points of detail it was ultra vires, and required\n\n1シ 690 316 814217\n\n8858/67.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-134 - Public Offices - 1868.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 290148, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "page_number": 312, "title": "CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872", "content_text": "Land\n\nbany Construction After 25 = strenten 307 had fficial lettering have been calculating that a telegram has and shaping meg arrangen my Received from the foregoing by the mail. Houghing stating the 20th Feb. – Vaill the Colonial Cupon put me written about\n\ndgult spired out to sooner to be have and spring en o kone nothing Jets tward вериги State for dark hunters on outfit and pal information how ormanaupent to I of the athe therre Shave Vulture behin Farsum ay bulin Effect & WJ. Holland -Now my\n\nWhose Regulation is attached et brumats the children Samurch\n\nThe have doc.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-161 - Public Offices - 1872.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297518, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "page_number": 616, "title": "CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875", "content_text": "It is desirable very much to encourage the training of Chinese amongst Europeans.\n\nFor some time past there has been a growing feeling amongst the Civil Service that it would be advantageous to hold a competitive examination for Cadets, in order to select men who would be fitted for administrative work.\n\nEventually, it was decided to hold such an examination, and to offer prizes for proficiency in Chinese.\n\nOne of the principal objects of this examination was to encourage, by pecuniary inducements, young officers to learn Chinese, with a view to rising from subordinate to higher offices.\n\nThe prizes, ranging from £250 to £1500, were awarded to those who showed proficiency in the language.\n\nThe question arose as to how to meet the extra cost entailed by this scheme.\n\nThe Examining Board was of the opinion that the extra cost should be borne by the Government.\n\nOne of the main objects of this scheme was to attract young men from England who would be willing to serve in Hong Kong in the hope of bettering their prospects.\n\nThe effect of this scheme appeared to be satisfactory.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-172 - Public Offices & Others - 1875.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 297625, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3]", "content_text": "83\n\nhe entered the service in 1870;\n\nJanuary 1873 his\n\npay\n\n(\n\nwas raised\n\n$25 to $30 a month, and\n\nfrom\n\nat the end\n\nof\n\nOctober last\n\nyear\n\nincrease?\n\nbe applied for a further to Fifty Dollars a month.\n\nM. Ting being a very\n\nhaving\n\nan\n\nand\n\nconfident draftsman, at the time of his application\n\nopportunity of bettering his prospects, which would have necessitated his retirement from\n\nThe service and\n\nhave\n\nput the\n\nGovernment to great difficulties, in finding an equally capable craftsman to succeed him for low a rate of pay, I\n\n2.0\n\nto allow a Vote to be taken\n\nbefore the Finance Committee increasing his salary to Fifty Dollars a month, and this having been voted I trust Your Lordship\n\nwill see fit to allow the sum of two hundred and\n\nfifty Dollars to be placed upon the Supplementary Estimate for 1876.\n\nI have the honor to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient\n\nhumble servant.\n\nGovernor", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 298163, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "page_number": 87, "title": "CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8]", "content_text": "warm chocolate brown.\n\n14/44, Fane rails internally...\n\nThe hawelled stuccoes throughout to be painted for rails and finished light salmon colour, a shade darker than the\n\ndistemper above with a band of French blue at top of stuccoes 1/2\" wide. All\n\niron cans to be painted two coats before being fixed with Wolston Torbay paint. And all inward facing internally to\n\nhave to be finished a tint to match terracotta\n\nwhich it is in contact. Handrail and balusters a warm chocolate.\n\n145. Stain size and varnish internally. All internal woodwork and fittings Presumably\n\nshould be stained with Termitunn's\n\nstained, twice knotted and twice varnished with best copal.\n\n14 Lettering\n\n+\n\n \n\n72e\n\nI.\n\n \n drain\n Crating\n Tie\n I\n \n \n 2.\n Tie\n Slate\n Plate\n \n \n State\n Slate\n Louvre\n louvre\n \n \n Tie\n Tie\n Zie\n Cement\n \n \n Cerment\n State\n State louvres\n Cement\n \n \n Extracting Pipe\n 4.\n 5.\n Smoke flue.\n \n \n flue\n length of\n 5.\n 86", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-174 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [4-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 316987, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 68, "title": "CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5]", "content_text": "# Descriptive List of Persons Deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n\n## \n\n| Name | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| Hawker Na Ko | 43444, 175 Tany, 28 H, 182 goods, 4 Ja Blick with Genery |\n| Panto | Back of old braval Cocks Ki Entzum Spritations, 17. Penan Brands |\n| | 5K Cola, Love an Loony a Lane: 18 at Su, 4 Faker, Fick Candoni P |\n| | 5 Bricklayer St. Che. Many Chus her |\n| Sam Chen Pan | 1891, 176 Zting & for |\n| Hoy Lum Lau Cherzy | 1845, 17 Rang, 1736, 178 thing as, Beurz Shere |\n| | 4.5148, 79 Cousera in, 78 Sui. Chware Your Ting Sup, 30 Lear on tampole |\n| | Für Read 5, 34 Buchinger Mout of \"Elegsing, 5 up. Festranger Fest in Gract, Founded Hacks of flaggin. \"Potrandets Your it Jun Sun Face |\n| Lan help Kan Fan Hei Fock Sun Chen Fur Co | L'n, 20 |\n| | #6 #7 Bricklayer, 45 Frams word a Fog Sai How Fund Hei T King See You Four Sisi Hing |\n| Coolie Sal Ship Kong Sony fore | Fawker Justis Brank Maches of Meggy |\n| | $ Cok, 2: $ Ifa Chair Colier Cut on Case |\n\n## Descriptive List of Persons deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n\n| No. | Name | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 157 | Hing a Livé | ten to Chas Che, 943 |\n| 160 | Chen a time | The Chery Powi, 7816 |\n| 161 | Ding a ling | Chary fat. Kary, 3304 |\n| 161 | King | lefone Cont., 183 Feat. Rams San Fr. E Sen Lee Chane Sam Hoi, 38 |\n| 164 | Pong a Salle | Mucas Sun on, 1236, 165 Chan a Lam Song Fre, 8778 |\n| 166 | Jung | 4335 |\n| 167 | Wing Cheer Fun | (When a fog Priz Chang, Suave fout |\n| 168 | Hart | Jst, 169 Li Li, Fork Song Na Fun Ping Chine Sony Henny Sam |\n| 171 | Jary | 28th For the. Away Chiang Fin Ch |\n| | The Housker | 27, 5. The Coole, 31 |\n| | Hawkin | Frar Lear |\n| | Bentwan | Final. Try all trop., 1874.: Calling wounding & becape 18th Jang Rogue. Tagaland 384 and Kurvany of Flanging 13: of Cor: Pardon Lastwey Laresay \"You the prewen |\n\n## Descriptive List of Clorious deported from the Colony of Hong Kong\n\n| No. | Name | Details |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | Kang | $7 besty Fali. Chreal hunter Mers defated to accditing Busnes Fillag Liistud Arment Cole & Steund Final Youth out Old beard, 1116 Graver |\n| | | 1376 Contere Hour Fam Jou Seen On Nay & Jure, 14. Fishman Front both out - Branded Lavery bring About 3 tu Hasar Mocas Garas of fligging Hla car, 32 in J. Chuck & car Harks Thanghai Carporter Bake the flagging 7 Grandes 1 Fuglary CAP. Gratian) |\n| | | 2. Forti, 1006 Mark 1. burn on the back Camry, 1337 Crator of Bap Ord., 1846 |\n| | | 364, 8578, 1845 eur, 1887 T, 1984 Lum, 1867 |\n| | | 5 Jees For frat birth pumount Flagged Crespincy Midnapping Fina dering Biose. Zursing of 55 Ord: Puspicious Character: 3379 |\n| | Kauerry | Get, 2563 Newton City: 386.3 Yam Sing 7735 BALAS, 283 Chasing Then ther, 20 Kareny for the firs |\n| | | 3639 lettering Com Cir, 13: of Cn. pastor & recapée Laucony, 3796 Canton Robbery ande Fiending ffic: istotan garn. Fun On Backo Cantora, 17 La Jig Out Heung gra 188 China Lun th of cam work 187 Cheongo Soon Fony Tiny Kuri fors tin 314€ 190 Cheong a Chungske blak Thrung San 3:3 |\n| 1921 | Cheon & Their | Fire Ch. The On 23 $27.2, 1934 Ask Yue Fre. Marr Trung Kuva 14 hom a lak Hong Kerang Han Shine Bot ting dan Dur achine When Hut shterng when |\n| 194 | Lut a shoe | Stony Can Wing Miern When Bod |\n| 198 | Hong | Imy Fit Alun Tung Nyon 4288, 179 Herga Fawr the Tie Burg Them 27, 300 (fun» te For Fire From V pher Kerek Kang Shun Sex Far Perang Flown, 33 when bo Pag For Ou The a Row Story Heup, Thaleria 205 than a ilu Wang Hong |\n| 206 | Wing a Sang | (fire King Fan Wi, 307. Lo a Jow How Long Chung the bot bows a Fine Th & Pre Clten B |\n| | Man & Ging | Dei 30. Etten Bin Chen & Bar How Men Fran, 12 |\n| | | Bomberin Ching on time of avon Ancke 4. Runni Hi Crata J, 6. Sh, 24. Grun 4 wk Cok ollars of fligung or bras in Brickleger Karenk te.. Bank Compleman |\n| | | Cor 12 Chante Chancehistran gfras in di, ciste of fueless. Indecent Assow&, 5 42. Varmer Part of hip buvet off. Hyos. Ar of Oefert: Ord Murder Iwo 30are 1: Cheld thinking 37. Bander Howlin City Karlcon City Haear |\n| | | Banten Macar Kewlean otion rat Foar Chi Larr Mnear Faces Macar llants of flogging Frond beth from 500 ru&Card Gogas + Tagei Maca نظر 5- 37. Carport Branded Kammer More Alerts of flogging afea Benning stb. Good Lureang Cone phirasay banglary & Lante disty, frs. Deperta ter bond Huitbreaking & Coots Geo, 34 Bandson Abe the sac Macse Macas |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-200 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 327531, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884", "content_text": "# DRAFT.\n\n## Telegram\n\n**Lovernor** \nCeylan \n**MINUTE.** 20 Nov\n\n| Name | Number |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. | 38 |\n| John | 20 |\n| Mr. De Robeck | 70 |\n| Mr. Wingfield. | |\n| X Mr. Bramston. | 20 |\n| Mr. Meade, | |\n| Sir R. Herbert. | |\n\nFo. `79768`\n\nAs belligerent assets long as \nblockade established on \nFormosa \n\nHer Majesty's fort \nparasitic while recognizing \nboltanger \nblotted \n\nsphenoidal \nglandular \ncobalt \n\n| Name |\n| --- |\n| Mr. Ashley. |\n| Lord Derby. |\n\nSent 6.15 p.m. 20 Nov: \n& recorded blockade as \nhostilities confined to \nparticular locality \nand neutral ships \nhempen \nnot interfered with \non high seas will not \naggravate situation \nby issue proclamation \nlettering neutrality but will be \nbilobe", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-219 Foreign Office 1884.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 330736, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "page_number": 199, "title": "CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5]", "content_text": "J\n\nto the misdirections of\n\nI also\n\nPolice should be \"abrogated.\n\nd\n\nthe\n\nthe\n\noffence of your having refused order fettering distribution of the Cantonese Division's tenders\n\nas\n\nto the numbers\n\nof\n\nPolice to be on night duty.\n\nto\n\n6. With regard\n\nto Para. 34 of the Report,\n\nit appears\n\nto me\n\nthat Mr. Davies suggesting that Chinese Detectives of late\n\na want of energy\n\nin the performance of their duties, should be reduced to the position of ordinary Constables, would tend more\n\nto fomenting the feeling of that branch. The love and\n\nease suggested by the Committee.\n\n7. The proposal to adopt a system of Police observation\n\nwell knows offenders deserves consideration.\n\nI shall\n\nbe glad to receive\n\na report from\n\nthe Superintendent\n\non the subject\n\nfrom you", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-226 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [4-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 338315, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "page_number": 243, "title": "CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888", "content_text": "## \n\n(3) I am to refer you to the Memorandum, herewith forwarded, shewing the strength of the Garrison to be provided for, and indicating a scheme by which it might be done, but to state that the Memorandum is not to be regarded as an instruction fettering you in any way as regards your proposals, except in so far that it will not be possible to provide funds for any expensive scheme at the present time.\n\n(4) The following points, however, may be taken as settled, not on their merits but simply because it will be impossible to provide otherwise for want of funds.\n\n(a) The *Mecauce* must be retained as a Hospital Ship.\n\n(b) The scheme is not to provide for deficiencies in the accessories of existing Barrack accommodation - For instance...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-240 - Public Offices & Others - 1888.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 348067, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "page_number": 509, "title": "CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891", "content_text": "506\n\n3.\n\nRest assured that if after three years work on the provisional staff my zeal and abilities gave uniform satisfaction, I would be rewarded by the recommendation of my name to the Secretary of State for a transfer to the permanent working staff.\n\nWith this incentive before me and on the faith of assurance, I strove earnestly for the three years of the probationary term, even to the sacrifice of my health, to give satisfaction to the heads of my department and I was fortunate enough to earn their approval and to merit at the hands of the Governor of Hong Kong, the reward for which I had worked, i.e., the recommendation of my name to Lord Knutsford for a post in the permanent establishment.\n\nIn February 1891 His Excellency the Governor caused me to be officially gazetted to the post of Assistant Engineer on the permanent staff not only because the Surveyor General, Mr. Brown, deemed me competent to fulfil the duties of that office to his satisfaction, but because His Excellency himself recognized the equity of my claim to permanent employment in view of the three years which I had previously worked on the provisional staff.\n\nIn respect of the recent rule requiring officers appointed to the Public Works Department to sign three year contracts, the Secretary of State observes in the last paragraph of his dispatch to the Governor that a departure may cause might lead others to expect similar treatment. I would however with great deference point out that there is no analogy whatever between my case and the case of the other officers on the provisional staff. The latter have been sent out to the Colony at the public expense or have been engaged locally without any previous probationary trial and on the explicit understanding that theirs is only a three year's agreement. In my case prospects after a three years trial at low pay were a consideration from the first, whereas in their case no such consideration could possibly enter since it was understood ab initio, and mutually covenanted that all connection between the contracting parties was to cease at the expiration of the third year.\n\nIn consequence of the comparatively high rate of professional remuneration which obtains in private employment in the East and of the frequent openings which present themselves to young Engineers, the Public Works Department of Hong Kong has been more than once seriously inconvenienced by inexplicable resignations on the part of members of the staff who have seen opportunities of bettering themselves and it has been explained to me that the three year contracts are therefore designed to safeguard the interests of the service and ensure that officers engaged shall be secured for at least three years. Also I understand the Contracts are no less requisite to enable the Government to dispense with the services at the end of the third year of such officers as maturer experience may have shown to be incompetent or otherwise objectionable.\n\nIn my case however I would respectfully submit, neither of these contingencies can arise to require in the interests of the public service that I should sign such a contract, for the Colonial Government has already had a three years experience of my character and capabilities, and with this more than mature experience has recommended me to the Secretary of State for a permanent office, while in respect of any likelihood of my leaving the service to seek private practice I trust the Secretary of State will accept my earnest assurance that my sole ambition is and has been to make an honourable career in the public service, preferring the advantage of continuity of employment under Government at less pay, to the higher remuneration of private employment with its fluctuations and uncertainties, and that therefore far as my own action is concerned nothing short of broken health compelling me to abandon the climate of China would cause me to relinquish my post in the Public Works Department which I have had the honour to serve nearly four years with satisfaction to my senior officers.\n\nIn these circumstances and in view of the ever increasing importance of the Public Works Department of Hong Kong which makes the post of Assistant Engineer, at present held by me to...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-253 - Public Offices & Others - 1891.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 354949, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "page_number": 683, "title": "CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8]", "content_text": "derbayed ft mwing of the tide. & that the drains became slongated cepports giving off server gas which found its way out by the sheet openings but being insufficiently ventilated the far paped into the Warte Waln drains & Interd houses higher the hill where Earth Marat \n\nThis last is D \n\nonce in the hours to the mall fall. \n\nup ailgner \n\nund. \n\ninfpille unless the Waste Wate \n\ndirectly the foul drain \n\npifer \n\nincredible \n\ncomented with which seems \n\nRM 4/0 parking \n\nLea Soter. \n\nbe said the Engineers objected the drains by pumping up \n\nSo proved? \n\nR.3% \n\nto \n\nB. \n\nSin R. Meade \n\n18 as \n\nI have asked Mr Carper for explanations to the points raised in your minute & take the lettering down, for record what he told me.\n\nI have numbered the follows \n\nA This was fully discussed in 1889. When the new water distribution scheme was being settled. Some of the Chinese had water laid on to their houses at the time, others had none. It was desirable to have a uniform system & thought better under the existing Ccum Siaute! than to take away from some & give it to all Mr. Chaderick at the time it was settled \n\nIt is true that the Chinese in some cases waste the water & steal the taps, but the waterwork ordinance is intended to fuaïde against and is gradually being worked so as to stop them. Those who are detected abusing the water Supply have it cut off \n\nSappie This is inaccurate. There is a perpetual flow \n\n678", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-263 - Acting Governor Barker Governor Sir Robinson - 1894 [5-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 357361, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 218, "title": "CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Enclosure 2\n\nThe HongKong Daily Press of 20th Mail, 1895.\n\nMr. JACKSON - Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, there has been a short reference in the Chairman's speech to the British dollar. It is a very important item indeed in connection with the future commerce of this colony. I think it affords us an opportunity of placing the currency of the colony in a sound condition and doing away with the foolish system of chopping dollars. I believe the Government have been advised at home by experienced men that it would be impossible to do away with chopping the British dollars. I do not at all agree with the advice they have acted upon. From our point of view, it is highly desirable that our currency should also be a legal tender in the Straits Settlements. The banks here have considerable interest in the banks in the Straits. If these dollars are chopped, they cease to be current in the Straits. They are current in Hongkong, but not in the Straits. It is a great grievance and at the end of the 19th century, we ought not to tolerate chopped currency. (Hear, hear). It would be in the interests of every single trader in this place, of every private individual, and of none more than the Chinese themselves, if the system were stopped altogether. This custom of chopping is a very ancient one, and I think the time has now come for it to be done away with. I would like, before this meeting separates, to have an expression of opinion that the Government should legislate that the British dollar should not be chopped and if it is chopped, that it should not be current. (Hear, hear). We all know we had 7.1.7 to the dollar, one of the reasons being that the tael weight is pretty well the universal one all over China, but the chopped dollar is not accepted in Shanghai. Surely the Government would not come to the conclusion that the Shanghai custom would not apply here. The objection must arise that ten Mexican dollars are worth more by count than by weight. The weight of the Mexican dollar is a very irregular one. It is supposed to be 417 or 418 grains, whereas the weight of the British dollar is 416, so that they are very much the same. At all events, the loss is so slight that everyone would put that consideration on one side for the purpose of placing the currency on a proper footing.\n\nMr. SHARP - I am very glad that Mr. Jackson has said what he has. I had intended to say a word about chopping dollars, but I was very much afraid that anything which I might say might not be appreciated by Mr. Jackson, who is the manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, because I can imagine that a bank might think that its interests were in some way identified with the chopping of dollars, for this reason, that they can chop as many coins as they please. Known banks chop a hundred thousand coins and go through a great deal of labour overnight before they are paid out in the morning, in order that the bank may secure a premium upon unchopped dollars which remained in their treasury. I am delighted to find that Mr. Jackson takes a clear view on this matter, and I think he bases his view upon the idea of bettering the general interests of the colony.\n\nThere is no question whatever that the mutilation of our coins is against the interests of trade. Why should there always be a premium upon remittances to Singapore and Japan? For no earthly reason than that the coins with which we have to pay for those bills are at a discount. If you want to send a remittance to Singapore, you have to send a clean coin. I do not know whether people are aware of the injury which is hereby inflicted. I would like to direct your attention for a minute to a little anecdote which occurred more than thirty years ago. I sold an invoice of clean Mexican dollars for the Commercial Bank to the Agra Bank. It was then that the proportion of indifferent low touch coins, which had been habitually rejected by the banks' compradores for many years previously, had been greatly increasing - increasing year by year until it had become quite a formidable matter. On this occasion, between six and seven hundred dollars were rejected by the compradore of the Agra Bank. I asked what they were worth, and the reply was \"Oh, these coins no good touch, have got tin inside; but maskee, 30 cents.\" Thirty cents was all the money that was offered for these 650 dollars. I was the intermediary employed in the transaction and therefore was called upon to deal with it. I went into my best to settle an arrangement. I went to another bank close by and said \"Compradore, what are these dollars worth?\" \"Oh, very little touch\" was the reply, \"25 or 30 cents.\" I thought this was more unsatisfactory. I got into my little pony trap and drove down to Messrs. Olyphant and Co., the American firm, whose business then was next door to the Commissariat Buildings. I went in and saw the managing partner, Mr. Parkin, and said to him, \"Will you allow me to do a little business with your compradors?\" He said \"By all means.\" I said to the compradore, \"There are these 650 Mexican dollars. They are at five per cent. premium. Please allow your shroff to look see.\" He called in his shroff, who shroffed these 630 Mexicans. He said \"They are all good.\" I said \"I think perhaps some have got pieces inside not belonging; make better you call in another shroff.\" He then sent in next door for the shroff of Fletcher & Co. The shroff came in and carefully examined them a second time. He said \"They are all good,\" but selected one coin and said \"This piece belongs to old year, you more better go Lane Crawford and buy one batch.\" (Laughter). I said \"You can secure number one.\" He said \"Clean dollar just now long five per cent. premium.\" I said \"Maskee, give me the notes.\" He gave me the notes, and I drove off to the bank. I gave them to the manager and said \"For goodness' sake don't say anything about these or else there will be a reclamation.\" Nothing was said about it. There was not a bad dollar amongst them. Both these men are now dead, but the compradors of the late firm of Olyphant and Co. are, I believe, still living, and he will confirm my statement. The attempt of the Agra Bank compradore to put nearly 500 dollars into his pocket out of this bullion shipment was thus defeated.\n\nPage 215 \n`TREASURY` \n`10096` \n`(REC 1 JUL 95)`", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-267 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1895 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 358919, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 325, "title": "CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12]", "content_text": "322 \n\nof the Mexican dollar, so largely used in China induces me to think they have really been made in China. At all events the Chinaman says they were sent to him by his son, a merchant in Hong Kong, and, as he sent them in 5 separate parcels by 5 separate passengers, there can be little doubt he knew what he was doing, but it is not easy to get at him.\n\n\"We of course put the matter at once in the hands of the Police, but they think they could not get a conviction of \"guilty knowledge\"; he would not have taken the bad coin in a lump sum to a Bank (where it was likely to be detected), but would have mixed a few at a time with other money in his shop till, and so have got quit of it by degrees among his customers.\n\n\"Have you come across anything similar at home, or is this the first case of it? I have seen notices of something of the kind in Tasmania, and also in South Africa. Of course while the seignorage is so large, there is a great temptation, and it might be executed with greater skill, and in a way much less likely to be detected than in this attempt.\n\nThe Right Honourable, \nLondon.\n\nI have etc. \n(Sa) \nThe Master of the Mint, \nA. George Anderson.\n\nOne of the coins forwarded by Mr. Anderson was assayed and found to be of the fineness of 904.5. Both the pieces were of almost exact standard weight. Their diameter was slightly too great, and the designs and lettering not reproduced with exactness.\n\nFurther", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 359660, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "page_number": 431, "title": "CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895", "content_text": "that the proposal was open to objection!\n\nTom, and in this opinion Mr. Lethbridge, who was consulted, concurred.\n\n## War Department\n\nPersonally,\n\n3. I have therefore, after ascertaining Mr. Lethbridge's views, determined to authorise the engagement of warders from the United States, Washington, upon the terms specified in the enclosed paper of particulars. For I have come to the conclusion that it has been considered impracticable to recruit the staff for the police force from the gaol.\n\n4. It has not been thought advisable to assimilate the terms of engagement to those for consideration. Mr. Lethbridge shared with me the plans of the quarters; they are very wretched and insanitary. I imagine some improvements are being made, but he is very low as regards the proposals that have been approved for bettering the \"gaol accommodation\". The Officers of the prison state that their accommodation is very defective. Without suitable and healthy quarters, stable and comfortable, it cannot be expected that the services of a contented and efficient staff can be retained.\n\n5. Mr. Lethbridge's proposals should be approved, and an application has been made to the Home Office to secure two warders from either the Scotch or Irish prisons, at a cost of £44.95. I gather from the correspondence that it is hoped to secure the necessary personnel.\n\nand, without reopening the question of prison extension, I hope that all will be done which can be done to remedy existing defects.\n\nPage 426", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-270 - Public Offices & Others - 1895.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 371369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6]", "content_text": "Brought forward $333,675.0\n\nProbable amount to be realized\n\nEN CLOSURE\n\n3.\n\n115\n\nC. O.\n\n14926\n\nRECO\n\nREG? 12 JUN 19\n\nin 1899 from Mary to December\n\nSales up to date this year\n\nTotal for 1899\n\nEstimate for the year\n\nSurplus\n\n \n 780740\n 411739.0\n \n \n 200.000.\n 211739.1\n \n\nAmount of Colonial Secretary's lettering.\n\nYou require in this, a statement including Expenditure already incurred, and to be incurred.\n\nSanctioned works.\n\nI give you as closely as I can considering the very short time given to prepare such a statement.\n\nExpenditure to date on buildings is\n\n \n The first matsheet burned down off\n 1610\n \n \n Attempt to build at Unlong-\n \n \n \n Second set of sheds burned down\n \n \n \n Large Pier at Jai-\n \n \n \n at Tai-ps entered\n \n \n \n Mr. Lockhart\n \n \n \n Hay staff\n \n \n \n Road to Hay staff Hill Matsheds at Tha-tin\n 4\n 172\n \n \n by\n \n \n \n \n Cost of \"Praga\" and Incidentals\n \n 2215\n \n \n \n \n 1500\n \n \n \n \n 100\n \n \n \n \n 200\n \n \n \n 7.35\n 500\n \n \n \n 25-\n \n \n\nLithographing Map Carried forward $6,557", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-291 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377485, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "page_number": 581, "title": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "content_text": "## 576\nRequest for Estimate on cost of printing and binding New Edition of the Laws of the Colony.\n\n**Messrs. Noronha & Co.** \nGovernment Printers.\n\nI shall be glad if you will submit to me, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, an estimate of the cost of the following services.\n\n1. Printing a new edition of the Laws of the Colony, consisting of 200 copies of two Royal octavo volumes, each of, say, 850 pp., and one Royal octavo volume, of, say, 400 pp., containing Chronological Table and Index, according to pattern sent herewith. The text of the two volumes to be in small pica, marginal notes in brevier, and schedules to Ordinances in long primer. The third volume to be in long primer. All type used to be of new founts. Paper to be white and of stout and good quality.\n\nII. Ditto, ditto, 100 copies additional. \nIII. Ditto, ditto, 50 copies additional.\n\nIV. Binding and lettering, with Royal Arms, 20 copies in law calf.\n\nV. Ditto, ditto, 60 copies in skiver.\n\nVI. Ditto, ditto, 120 copies in cloth.\n\nVII. Ditto, ditto, 100 copies additional in cloth.\n\nVIII. Ditto, ditto, 50 copies additional in cloth.\n\n27/8/00.\n\n**J.W. Carrington**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 377488, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "page_number": 584, "title": "CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9]", "content_text": "## ESTIMATE IV\nBinding and Lettering, with Royal Arms, 20 copies of each volume = 60 books in law calf @ $3.25 each\n$195.\n\n## ESTIMATE IV.a\nBinding and Lettering, without Royal Arms, 60 copies of each volume = 180 books in Skiver @ $2.50 each\n$450.\n\n## ESTIMATE V to VII\nBinding and ditto, without Royal Arms, 120 copies of each volume = 360 books in cloth @ $1.50 each\n$540.\n\nCopies after the first 100 will be bound at the same rate of $1.50 per book.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-300 - Administrator Major Gen Gascoigne Governor Sir Blake - 1900 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380877, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 406, "title": "CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7]", "content_text": "It should be allowed to go.\n\nThis is the outward justification in giving way; the real justification, if any, is that it will restore confidence.\n\nI will hardly spread plague more than it is spread now.\n\nIt is not a question of sending patients or not prohibiting them from leaving.\n\nThe circumstances are so abnormal that on the whole I should telegraph \"Pollas\".\n\nIn answer to your telegram 26 June, I cannot approve in principle of regulation, but if you are convinced that grave emergency requires it and Viceroy asks for it, I do not feel justified in further fettering your discretion. Permission should extend to Chinese navy and at most precaution should be taken.\n\n27 June\n\nThe outward justification on which Lucas relies appears to me to have little real force. I doubt that HMG is justified in launching a proposal which is open to such obvious and grave objection, because a Chinese Viceroy thinks it should be approved; and it would be impossible to demonstrate that it had not spread plague more than it is now. On the other hand, I think that it would be generally accepted that the interests of Commerce should override the dictates of humanity.\n\nI concur in this view and would telegraph accordingly with friends' minds.\n\n27/6.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-305 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 382323, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "page_number": 306, "title": "CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12]", "content_text": "303\n\n6.\n\nNumber of articles! Description.\n\n1 Gross. Conchone Caps do.\n\n1 Potato Borer Gross Stout Tubes Stout Test Tubes.\n\n1 Doz. Pasteur's Flasks do. Chamberland's Pipettes Hasks Pasteur's Bulb Pipette Wood head's Flasks\n\n1. Comarchs Counting Apparatus 1. Zeus 1. Mining Machine 1. Meat Ress 1 Doz. Section Lifter Cornets Spring Clip Forceps\n\nBrought forward Description.\n\nBrought forward No.380 Trays.\n\n281 4 驱 232 Plate.\n\nT 238 Glass Basins.\n\n239 246 Basinis.\n\n# 247 \"White Porcelain Trough.\n\nChamberland's Porous Filter Bohemian Beakers No.317 326 330 127166.\n\nA Z inches 2448 # Bell Jars 252 Bottles 4 onees 344 A # 3461 // Nos. 397! 414 19 .481 761 4641 # 255 do. 12 265 do. # It # 2701 # 288 do. 289 1. Tunstable .383 2Doz. Needles 307 10 Gross. Microscope Slides do! .309 do. ,310 Water Bath do. 311 do. Indiarubber Mats 6 Doz Sources Cover Slips 3/4; 7/8; 24 5/8 70. .313 lach 1 Doz. Microscope Cover Glasses 312 Filter paper M # 273 276 ༡༡༡ 279 283 do. Hesse's Apparatus Clamps. do. Clips Champa Covers Cork Borers. do Condensers 3082 Desiccators Sharpener Drying Ovens Swedish paper * • A 444 115 484 4991 528.1 «549. تو # 537 $33 56. 559 86 566 8 574 26. \" # 577 $90. 8741 18 687. 210 1 } 1 1 1 699 -775 - ༡༡༩ Wading Chardin's Agar-Agar Filter Paper .314 Fettering Flasks It .315 Carried forward Hask 32 ounces Hasks 50; 200; 500; 1,000 2,000 7500 .813 5 Carried forward .771 819 10 # .816", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-307 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 383899, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "page_number": 435, "title": "CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901", "content_text": "time a doubtful posting to allow (after Karting I undertake other duties as well.\n\nIs there any precedent for a personal allowance? I would prefer paying more Getting less efficiency 07 11/7 Lord Onslow I think the safest course will be to tell Capt Hastings that his case cannot be reconsidered at present, but to tell the governor confidentially that if he were to make proposals for bettering his position either by relaxing the restriction, we should note the objections to relaxation however.\n\nSir,\n\n431 C. Q0 Barons Court Road, West Kensington, 5th July 1901.\n\nReferring to your letter No.1271/1901 dated 18th January last, indicating the inability of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State to comply with my request, that my office as Postmaster General of Hong Kong might be placed in the first class of the Hong Kong Government service, I venture most respectfully to ask, as an act of grace, that in lieu thereof a pensionable personal allowance may be granted to me, enabling me to be at least on the same terms as to emoluments as the heads of other large departments, though still inferior in rank and incremental increase.\n\n2. In doing this I venture to attach copy of my letter dated 29th May 1899 and its enclosures, inviting special attention to paragraphs 4, 5 & 6, in which I show that prior to my appointment as Postmaster General I was receiving 2% more than the then pay of the Postmaster General, now 12% to be.\n\n3. As I understand it now, the conditions attached to my office, are intended in no way derogatory to my character, but rather to emphasise the special nature of the appointment, which called for exceptional energy and organizing powers in the then state of the department. Gratifying as this may be if a personal allowance might not be indisposed Consider it CPL it 7 that agree at meet\n\nUnder Secretary for the Colonies, Colonial Office, Downing Street. M: Chamberlain", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-309 - Public Offices & Others - 1901.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387270, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 23, "title": "CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902", "content_text": "## VI.\n\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words \"**Valeur déclarée**\" is placed on insured parcels.\n\nThe various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.\n\nSrd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels; \n\nShould be reordered to:\n\n## VI.\n\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words \"**Valeur déclarée**\" is placed on insured parcels. The various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\n3rd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels;\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.\n\nThe correct order is:\n## VI.\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words **Valeur déclarée** is placed on insured parcels. The various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\nThe preceding sections should be:\n3rd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels;\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.\n\nThe final output is \n## VI.\n1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a despatch note, and by Customs declarations in conformity with or analogous to specimens B and C hereto annexed. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs declarations to be furnished for each destination.\n\n2. By way of exception, in the case of several parcels, up to the number of three, addressed by the same sender to the same addressee, one despatch note and one Customs declaration will suffice. This arrangement does not apply to insured parcels which must each be accompanied by a separate despatch note.\n\n3. For the mails despatched from Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong to France, the Customs declaration must be prepared in the French language.\n\n## VII.\n1. Each parcel, as well as the despatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen D hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin. A red label bearing in bold lettering the words **Valeur déclarée** is placed on insured parcels. The various tickets or labels placed upon insured parcels must be spread out so as not to hide tears in the wrapping or to cover the edges of the parcels.\n\n3rd. Be sealed by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, with some special impress mark of the sender. A facsimile of the seal is given on the despatch note of insured parcels;\n\n4th. When the value is declared, bear the declaration on the address label and on the despatch note, expressed in francs and centimes, or in the money of the country of origin, without erasure or alteration, even though certified. When the declaration is expressed in money other than francs, the sender or the office of the country of origin must reduce it to this denomination, indicating, by new figures placed at the side and beneath the figures representing the amount declared, the equivalent of that amount in francs and centimes.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-315 - Public Offices & Others - 1902.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392003, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "Geuskens,\n\nPublic Works Department, Hongkong, 27th December 1902.\n\nHong Kong Tramways.\n\nIn reply to your letters of the 24th and 26th instant, re the cross sections deposited by you on behalf of The Hong Kong Tramway Electric Co. Ltd., in accordance with Section 13 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1902, and, bearing the reference number 72326 and date, 4th April, 1902, I now beg to inform you that I approve of the same, subject to the following modifications as stated below.\n\n(1). The groove in the rails to be reduced to one inch in width.\n\n(2). The concrete bed for the rails to be as shown by red lines and its composition and thickness to be stated in red figures and lettering.\n\n(3). The camber shown for the surface of the road to be modified where necessary to suit the existing surface of the roads along which the Tramway is to be constructed.\n\nMessrs. Leigh & Orange.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392017, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 36, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "4:1508\n\nId the Co\n\no these?\n\nCopy\n\nGeuskueen,\n\n6.\n\n35\n\nPublic Works Office Hong Kong, 27th December, 1902.\n\nHong Kong Tramways.\n\nSe reply to your letters of the ...th and ...th instant, de the cross sections deftorit) by you on behalf of The Hong Kong Tramway Electric Co. Ld., in accordance with Section 13 of Ordinance No. 10 of 1902, and, bearing the reference number 72326 and date, 4th April, 1902, I now bez to inform you that I approve of the same, subject to the following modifications and to the condition giving the ciidser- \n\n·rity\n\n(1). The groove in the rails to be reduced to one inch in width.\n\n(2). The concrete for bed under rails to be as shewn by red lines and it's composition and thickness to be stated in red figures and lettering.\n\n(3). The camber shown for the surface of the road to be modified where necessary to suit the existing surface of the roads along which the Tramway\n\nMessrs. Leigh & Orange.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 410601, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "page_number": 225, "title": "CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12]", "content_text": "Eastern Defce ? Remind Gov. 6m. 875 ти деб без ? no alome necessity yet a.1.8/5- No: Wait. 9.5- \n\nIn any further communication on this subject, please quote N.L. 11918. and address letter to--- The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London, S.W.\n\nSir,\n\nAdmiralty, 221 20th DECEMBER 1907. 0.0 +4631 (7:52 21 DEC 07\n\nI am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that they have been in communication with the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury on the question of the expense of the upkeep of the Naval Graves in the public Cemetery (Happy Valley) at Hong Kong, these graves numbering at present about 900.\n\n2.- The Cemetery itself is maintained by the Colonial Government, and is in very good order, but the Naval graves are not at all in keeping with their surroundings, the climate and heavy rains having had an injurious influence on the stones and lettering. Efforts have been made to remedy this out of funds raised by voluntary contribution but the sum thus obtained has proved quite inadequate to allow of the stones being kept in a satisfactory condition, and it is estimated that a first outlay of £90 is required to put the graves in good repair, after which they could be maintained by an annual expenditure of £17.\n\n8.- Under these circumstances and in view of the fact that there is no Admiralty Cemetery at Hong Kong, Treasury sanction has been obtained to the requisite expenditure\n\nCOLONIAL OFFICE.\n\nUnder Secretary of State, -Nu. & S.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-342 - Governor Lugard & Public Offices - 1907 [11-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 411204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 381, "title": "CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907", "content_text": "**CONFIDENTIAL**\n\n## SECTION 5\n\n### No. 1\nSir J. Jordan to Sir Edward Grey.-(Received February 9, 1907.)\n\n(No. 533.)\n\nPeking, December 21, 1906.\n\nSir,\n\nI HAVE the honour to transmit to you herewith copy of a despatch which I have received from His Majesty's Consul-General at Mukden, reporting on the general situation in that town.\n\nI have, &c.\n\n(Signed) J. N. JORDAN,\n\n#### Inclosure in No. 1\n\n### No. 2\nConsul-General Fulford to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nMukden, December 14, 1906.\n\nSINCE my arrival in Mukden on the 27th ultimo, I have had two interviews with the Tartar General and two with the Taotai superintending the Board of Foreign Affairs, and have had conversations with my colleagues and with all the British missionaries and residents in Mukden.\n\nI am now in a position to give my first impressions of the situation in this town. The attitude of the Chinese officials strikes me as one of expectancy. Until the termination of the Japanese military occupation, they feel that their hands are tied in many respects. Although the Japanese Administration has been withdrawn, and the government of the town has completely reverted to the Chinese, the Japanese military authorities still retain means of fettering their action. The railways on all four sides of the town—to the south, to Port Arthur and Dalny; to the north, to Kuan Ch'engtzu; to the south-east, to Antung; and to the west, to Hsin Min Tun—are in their hands, and military exigencies can be pleaded for any lack of facilities afforded to any but Japanese. A consequence of this is that no large Government contract in Mukden, in way of road-making or building, can be carried out except by Japanese. Four miles of roads in the city are being macadamized. These roads are the main arteries of the town. The walled city is a mile square, and these roads run two from north to south, and two from east to west. The contract for this work has fallen to Japanese for a sum of about 60,000L, say 15,000 a mile. The road from the city to the railway station, about 2 miles in length, is being treated in a similar way, and a similar contract has been made with Japanese for the undertaking. Mukden comprises not only the brick-walled city, but the suburbs around this central enclosure, confined by a circular mud wall 13 miles in circumference. The population of this town is estimated at 250,000.\n\nIn addition to this means of influence the Japanese military authorities retain possession of many buildings in the town, some Government and some private, which they seized during their occupation, as having been in the possession of the Russians. Applications by the Tartar General for their rendition are simply ignored. There is a numerous body of Japanese troops at the railway station, and rumours are sometimes prevalent that some of them are to be stationed again in the town. A few are left in charge of the various buildings.\n\nThe Japanese Consul-General, having some 2,000 Japanese civilians living in the town under his jurisdiction, has a small police force under his control. They permeate the town against the wishes of the Chinese authorities, but any remonstrances are met with the plea of necessity of keeping order amongst the Japanese population.\n\nThe payment of city octroi, which is enforced on the Chinese under the name of \"consumption tax,\" cannot be pressed on the Japanese, as the Japanese authorities can reply to any request for its levy by the statement that the military occupation still continues, and that the imports of the Japanese are military supplies or necessaries.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-343 - Public Offices & Foreign Office - 1907.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 417276, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "page_number": 602, "title": "CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908", "content_text": "2\n\nInclosure 2 in No. 1.\n\nMr. Bland to Sir J. Jordan.\n\nPeking, July 6, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 30th ultimo, which conveys to me, for the information of the Chinese Central Railways Board of Directors, the reply of his Highness Prince Ch'ing to your Excellency's request that negotiations should be commenced for the conclusion of the Final Agreement in re the Pukow-Sinyang Railway. I have duly forwarded copy of this despatch for the information of my Board.\n\nWith reference to the statements therein contained, I avail myself of this opportunity to observe that the change in circumstances to which his Highness alludes is fully recognized by the Chinese Central Railways, as has recently been shown by their acceptance, in the case of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement, of conditions substantially different from those to which they were entitled under the Preliminary Agreement. It is evident that the precedent of reasonable compromise thus created, based upon recognition of existing conditions, would apply in the present instance, but I would respectfully submit that the fact of circumstances having changed cannot reasonably be cited in justification for further postponement of these negotiations. I would also observe that, towards the conclusion of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway negotiations, in October last, it was suggested to your Excellency by the Wai-wu Pu, and I informed my Board of the fact, that the Pukow-Sinyang Railway should be simultaneously concluded under conditions similar to those of the Anglo-German Agreement, since which date no noteworthy change of circumstances has occurred.\n\nAs regards the final location of the terminal points of the railway, the matter is evidently one for consideration by the Imperial Chinese Government and possible rearrangement, but it affords, per se, no sufficient reason for postponement of these negotiations. The Directors of the Chinese Central Railways give me discretion to accept any reasonable modification in this matter, or any other, in which the conditions implied in the Preliminary Agreement can be shown to be inexpedient or unworkable.\n\nI have, &c. (Signed) J. O. P. BLAND.\n\nYour Highness,\n\nInclosure 3 in No. 1.\n\nSir J. Jordan to Prince Ching.\n\nJuly 9, 1908.\n\nI HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Highness' note of the 27th June respecting the proposal of the Chinese Central Railways (Limited) to negotiate a Final Agreement for the construction of the Hsin-yang-Pukow Railway, and to state, in reply, that the change of circumstances to which your Highness alludes is fully recognized by that Company, as has been shown by their acceptance, in the case of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway Loan Agreement, of conditions substantially different from those to which they were entitled under the Preliminary Agreement. It is further evident that this precedent of reasonable compromise would apply in the present instance, and it will be recalled that during the negotiations of the Tien-tsin-Pukow Agreement in October last it was suggested by the Board that an Agreement for the Pukow-Sinyang line should be concluded on the same terms, with the exception of the clause regarding commutation of profits.\n\nSince that time no important change of circumstances has arisen, while as regards the final location of the terminal points of the line it has been submitted to me by Mr. Bland, the representative of the Company, that this is a matter which is susceptible of adjustment by friendly negotiation, and that he is empowered by his principals to accept any reasonable modification in this or any other respect in which the conditions implied in the Preliminary Agreement can be shown to be inexpedient or unworkable.\n\nI trust, therefore, that your Highness' Board will bear in mind that the Preliminary Agreement for this line was the result of a definite understanding between the British and Chinese Governments, which cannot be set aside without mutual agreement, and that you will consequently appoint a representative to discuss the matter with Mr. Bland.\n\nI avail, &c.\n\n44\n\n3\n\nInclosure 4 in No. 1.\n\nChinese Central Railways to Mr. Bland.\n\nDear Sir,\n\n110, Cannon Street, London, June 23, 1908.\n\nI BEG to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 57 of the 18th May. Tien-tsin-Pukow Railway: Branch Lines.-The first paragraph of your letter calls attention to the terms of a Memorial by ex-Viceroys Chang Chih Tung and Yuan Shih Kai, in which the German Bank alone is mentioned as the party to whom application is to be made for the financing of branch lines, whereas by the terms of Article 19 of the Agreement it is the \"Syndicate\" to which preference is to be given. My Directors do not anticipate that any difficulty will arise on this point, because it has been expressly provided for by an Agreement come to between the Chinese Central Railways and the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank on the 18th March last, whereby it is agreed that the Deutsch Bank shall be exclusively interested in branch lines issuing from the northern section, and the British Company in branch lines issuing from the southern section. I am to take the opportunity to inclose, for your information, copy of the text of the two last Articles of this Agreement, viz., Articles 8 and 9, the former of which, as you will see, deals with the purchase of materials and, in particular, with materials which may be common to both sections of the railway, e.g., rolling-stock. It is desirable that you should bring the purport of these two Articles to the notice of the Director-General. There is, of course, no intention of fettering him in any way in his choice of manufacturers of the rolling-stock, but it is simply to let him know that if he wishes it to be all of one pattern the Companies will offer no objection, and his orders will be executed by the one or the other according to his choice of locality.\n\nInclosure 5 in No. 1.\n\nExtracts of Supplemental Agreement made between the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank and the Chinese Central Railways, dated March 18, 1908.\n\n8. NOTWITHSTANDING anything expressed or implied to the contrary in Article 18 of the principal Agreement, the purchase of materials, plant, and goods thereunder shall be effected, if on the continent of Europe, by the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank, and, if elsewhere, by the British Company.\n\n9. With regard to Article 19 of the principal Agreement, the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank shall be exclusively interested in the finding of foreign capital required for branch lines issuing from the northern section of the railway, and the British Company shall be exclusively interested in the finding of foreign capital required for branch lines issuing from the southern section of the railway.\n\n599", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-352 - Public Offices - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 418189, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "page_number": 139, "title": "CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908", "content_text": "N.L.4395.\n\nSir,\n\nC.O.138 32133\n\nADMIRALTY 08\n\n14th November 1907.\n\nI am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, that they have had under their consideration the question of the upkeep of the Naval Graves in the Public Cemetery (Happy Valley) at Hong Kong, these graves numbering at present about 900.\n\n2. The Cemetery itself is maintained by the Colonial Government, and is in very good order, but the Naval graves are not at all in keeping with their surroundings, the climate and heavy rains having had an injurious influence on the stones and lettering. Efforts have been made to remedy this out of funds raised by voluntary contribution, but the sum thus obtained has proved quite inadequate to allow of the stones being kept in a satisfactory condition, and it is estimated that a first outlay of £90 is required to put the frames in good repair, after which they could be maintained by an annual expenditure of £17.\n\n3. In these circumstances, and in view of the fact that there is no Admiralty Cemetery at Hong Kong, I am to request that you will be so good as to move their Lordships of the Treasury to sanction the expenditure of £30 a year for three years on the work of repair, and thereafter £17 a year on maintenance as a charge to Vote 10, Subhead L., Grants in Aid of Works.\n\nI am, Sir,\n\nYour obedient Servant,\n\n(Signed) C.I. THOMAS.\n\nThe Secretary,\n\nH.M. Treasury's.W.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-354 - Public Offices & Others - 1908.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 422768, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 171, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# 108\n\nA shrub rising at mile 12 on to the plain again. The limit of this depression to the south is a long narrow ridge resembling an artificial wall some 20 feet above the plain level and of uniform height. It is white in appearance, and it is curious in formation, being often split up into small islands, which resemble the huge pedestals of some giant fortification. A few hundred yards later Lake Ebinoor is in sight on our right. At mile 15 the track dips into another depression half-a-mile wide and some 6 miles long - an old salt lake. The ground here was of dazzling whiteness, and travelling was excessively difficult, the soil breaking away from under the camels' feet each step forward that they advanced. Climbing out of the depression we steered our way across bleak country to the south. At mile 18 this began to change in appearance, until at last the whole plain became a jungle of low trees and bushes and thick grass, through which the track runs.\n\nWe were now approaching the Clungur River. In the middle of the jungle, at mile 22, we reached a series of small buildings of mud and wood lying in a lightly fenced-in enclosure 100 yards square. This is the new yamên of Buluntogoi, which has only been in existence one-and-a-half years, and which is under the Government of Altaishan, by whom it has been called into being in accordance with the new policy. The only occupants are an official, his soldier servant, and a lad; the object is to control the many Mongols who live dotted about the country here, and to bring them under taxation, for it would seem that hitherto they have contributed nothing towards the upkeep of the State. It is therefore a Customs yamên, and will tax salt, fish, wool, and skins. The official had gone to Altaishan on business, but his soldier servant, an opium sot, allowed me to stay in the officer's comfortable quarters.\n\nWe learnt that the journey to the Tourgout Prince's residence by this route takes one day longer than it would do by the other side of the lake.\n\nA great many mud bricks piled up in the yard showed that more building was contemplated.\n\nSeptember 18.--We marched south-west through low bushes and trees, and striking the river at mile 1, kept down its banks for a short time. Leaving it again we continued south-west and came to another kind of yamên at mile 4. Here three Mongol men live - no one else - and their sole occupation is grinding the wheat brought in by the so-called \"soldiers\" of the neighbourhood. Where were these? The reply was that they were all working in the fields, so the best thing seemed to be to go where they lived to see what kind of barracks they occupied. So we turned to the south-east by another track among shrubs and trees, and 14 miles later came to the edge of the river again. Here were a number of goats and cattle and six of the most squalid yourts we had yet met. Unusually slatternly women and swarms of filthy children were lying about the encampment, which looked like a gipsy one. The yourts were, however, those of the \"soldiers,\" and these were their families. I merely asked how many men there were belonging to this ragamuffin settlement, and was told that there were some sixty or seventy altogether, including those who lived in numerous other yourts scattered about among the trees. All worked daily in the fields. These were the \"soldiers,\" and I felt it to be unnecessary to ask any further questions as to arms, drill, rifle practices, &c. Such is Buluntogoi, which is marked on maps with lettering as large as Kobdo or Urga and if the term \"geographical expression\" means anything, it applies most surely to this place.\n\nCrossing the river by a ford here (the banks are high and difficult, the water some 24 feet deep, the bed sandy, and the stream very sluggish), we kept due south on the outside of the narrow belt of trees and shrubs and between the stream and the ridge of the surrounding country. After another 4 miles, during which we kept parallel with the river, the latter bent slightly to the south-west and emptied itself into the lake at a point which must be described as the head of the Baganoor. We now continued for 6 miles or so down the lake between the water and the ridge of the surrounding country, the latter rising 150 feet sheer above us; the width of the beach was sometimes 50 yards, at times only 5 or 6 yards. At the southern end of the lake the ridge sank to a sand mound only 30 feet high, and this continued all along the southern end of the lake. Keeping along the water's edge we curved round the head of the lake for another 11 miles, and turning northwards halted for the night at a Mongol-Hassack camp.\n\nThe shores of the lake are remarkable for two things: (1) the masses of sea-shells; and (2) the amount of driftwood. In many places whole tree trunks were visible half buried by the sand.\n\nA few words of explanation are necessary as regards the lake, or rather lakes, for there are two, the Ebinoor and the Baganoor, the two being joined by a small strip of water of such narrow dimensions that it is difficult to detect. This contraction is due to the amount of deposit brought down by the Ulungur, which is tending to divide the lake into two. Though one branch of this stream distinctly flows into Baganoor, there may be, and probably are, others which flow into Ebinoor at the narrow point of junction. The river seems to have formed a large delta which is covered with vegetation, the whole being known as Buluntogoi. No other streams flow into Baganoor. Gulls, flocks of sandgrouse, and waterfowl haunt the shores of the lake, but the water is free from islands or grasses. It is evidently shrinking, as small sand shoals near the edge testify. The name \"Baganoor\" is rather a misnomer, for it is by no means small, being certainly Ebinoor is fully twice the size. There are coarse fish 8 miles long and some 10 broad in the lake.\n\nThe Buluntogoi district is remarkable as regards trees; there is one with a kind of flower consisting of leaves tightly packed together and somewhat resembling the flower of a camelia; this is picked and dried and makes excellent tea. There is another shrub with a whitish leaf and small single berry which serves the same purpose as kaoliang.\n\nThe name of the Mongol-Hassack encampment is Baganoor; the Mongols are Kalmucks, an excessively friendly and well-disposed branch of the Mongol family. They get on well with the Hassacks, in spite of their difference as regards language, religion, and customs.\n\nSeptember 19.--We are now in the realm of the Prince of Tourgout. Sheep here are very cheap; we bought a large one last night for 2 taels (6s.). A noticeable feature in camp are the swarms of children, both Mongol and Hassack, an unusual sight as regards the Mongols.\n\nAscending over bleak and dreary ground to the north-west we reached, after some 10 miles, the main chain of the Salburshan Mountains, which run east and west. Through these we kept for the rest of the day. These hills are bleak and rugged and bare, except for a little coarse vegetation. We only passed two traces of water, at the second of which we had to halt for fear of being bushed. It was only a stagnant pool a foot square, but there was plenty of coarse grass all round, which was useful for the hungry camels. The water was so black and foul that we had to be content with some pools of rain-water which had collected among some rocks hard by. There are no habitations among these hills. We had marched some 21.4 miles during the day, and had been obliged to steer mainly by the compass in view of the absence of tracks.\n\n# 109\n\nSeptember 20.--After marching a mile and a quarter the character of the range altered suddenly, the bleak rocks with the burnt-up appearance ended, and a sea of lower hills took their place, these were covered with short, rough grass; into the middle of these we plunged, ever in a westerly direction, for another 8 miles, during which we passed two water-holes, and at last emerged on to a broad plain. We had now reached the end of the Salburshan. The plain slopes gently to the north-east for some 14 miles to the western end of Lake Ebinoor, which would thus seem to have a total length (east to west) of some 26 miles. From the northern shore of the lake runs another range of hills in a south-westerly direction, gradually increasing to the height of low mountains; these border the plain on to which we had emerged, and turn towards the west; they are known as the Saureshan.\n\nThere is little trace of water in the valley, but the whole is covered with rough pasturage, which supports a great number of Turgout tents and their flocks and herds. Keeping in a westerly direction we gradually drifted away from the Salburshan across towards the Saureshan and halted for the night at a large encampment known as Harulbuluk after a total march of 20 miles. Every well in the plain seems to have a distinct name, but in view of the multitude of these I will refrain from mentioning any except the ones at which we halted. The people here were extremely friendly, an old man giving me his nephew's yourt for the night, although the said nephew had only been married a few days previously, and the hut was full of the bride's dowry.\n\nThe valley now broadened out considerably. The Salburshan had given place to another low range some 15 miles to the south also running east and west. The whole plain is rich in grass and the people seem wealthy, if numbers of cattle and children and ornamented saddlery are tests.\n\nSeptember 21.--Wolves are a great scourge to the locality, and each night every family has a watchman out to watch the flocks. Notwithstanding this, great havoc is frequently caused. Last night the wolves descended in force and captured three of our host's sheep.\n\nAt mile 3 we reached a small mud dwelling, consisting of two rooms entirely unfurnished and windowless. It was surrounded by a mud wall. This is a more interesting spot than it sounds, for ...\n\n2 F\n\n[2155 b−1] \n\n169", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 423074, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 477, "title": "CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909", "content_text": "# CHINA RAILWAYS\n## CONFIDENTIAL\n\nCO 25 SEP 09\n\n### SECTION 2\n\nNo. 1. \n**Acting Consul-General Wilton to Sir J. Jordan**--(Received at Foreign Office, August 23.)\n\n#### [Inclosure in Mr. Wilton's despatch No. 11, Confidential, of June 28, 1909.]\n\n**(No. 26. Confidential.)** Sir,\n\nYunnan-fu, June 26, 1909.\n\nI HAVE the honour to invite reference to Mr. Carlisle's despatch to the Foreign Office, No. 2, Commercial, of the 20th May, copy of which I have the honour to enclose herewith. I have been unable to procure a copy locally of the revised railway rates which came into force on the 1st May, nor does this consulate-general possess a copy of the Tonquin colonial tariff, but I hope, with the assistance of His Majesty's consul at Hanoi, to be shortly in possession of both these publications.\n\nI believe that I am correct in stating that, under the system prevailing in Tonquin, goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin pay no duties if destined for Yunnan, whereas foreign goods pay 20 per cent. of the colonial tariff. This weighs heavily on certain classes of goods, e.g., tobacco; nevertheless, speaking generally, it may be said that foreign goods hold their own against those of French or Indo-Chinese origin at Yunnan-fu at the present moment. From the French official attitude in Yunnan it seems to me that, once the French railway to Yunnan-fu is completed, an effort will be made to still further favour goods of French or Indo-Chinese origin by means of preferential duties and easier railway rates. I propose, therefore, to offer some remarks of local significance on the West River route from Hong Kong as an alternative to the passage of goods via the French railway to Yünnan-fu (see map enclosed).* \n\nThe local manager of the French firm MM. Charrière et Cie. informed me some days ago that he had been appointed agent for the Anglo-American Tobacco Company. He had written, he said, to Messrs. Banker and Co., a British firm at Wuchow, for details as to the water carriage of merchandise from Hong Kong to Pose. If a favourable reply were received, he would attempt to import tobacco and other articles, on which the French colonial duty was burdensome, via the West River and thence by mule transport either to Pohsi, a station on the French railway, or direct to Yünnan-fu.\n\nIn January-February 1907 I travelled from Wuchow on the West River to Nanning by steamer. No steamers were running at that time beyond Nanning, and I continued my journey by native boat to Pose. Comparing my experiences on the upper waters of the Yang-tsze and the Min River in Szechuan, I see no reason why a shallow-draft steamer should not be able to run from Nanning to Pose for at least nine months of the year (March to December). At Pose cargo can be transhipped into smaller boats to Po-ngai on the Kuanghsi-Yunnan border, thus avoiding 33 miles of painful mule track. In my subsequent remarks I will take Po-ngai as the limit of water carriage of goods from Hong Kong via the West River.\n\nOn the 24th June, Liu-hsiao-tsu, who is Taotai for the Encouragement of Trade in Yunnan, referred in conversation to various proposals he had put forward for bettering the means of communications in this province. He told me that he was an opponent of the proposed railway from Yunnan-fu into Szechuan, and had advocated another method of spending money by utilising the Niu-lan River from Tung-ch'uan to Yang-lin for navigation, and constructing either a light railway or a cart road thence into the provincial capital. I will not dwell further on this scheme—which strikes me as a good one—as it can be dealt with more suitably in another place. Taotai Liu called my attention to the high colonial tariff and the exorbitant railway rates. I thereupon introduced to his notice the question of the West River route, and he grasped at it with some eagerness. I explained to him that a good cart road from Yunnan-fu to Kuang-nan-fu, 225 miles in length, appeared to me quite feasible at a very moderate cost. From the latter place to Po-ngai, five mule stages, a cart road ...\n\n* Not reproduced.\n\nPage 475 \nPage [31802]", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-362 - Public Offices - 1909.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 439401, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 318, "title": "CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11]", "content_text": "Enclosure 3.\n\n310\n\nSir,\n\nSupreme Court, Hongkong,\n\n26th June, 1912.\n\nC.O. 40735\n\nReceived 43 DEC 12\n\nI have the honour to request that you will kindly forward to the Hon. Colonial Secretary for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor my application for either a transfer to some other Department or an increase of my present salary. I have now been ten years without any increase of salary whatever and on account of the difference in exchange, I am now actually drawing about $45 less a month than I drew years ago.\n\nDuring the last decade the cost of living has greatly increased and my present salary is insufficient to keep myself and family.\n\nI have been five years in my present post and during that time have always endeavoured to give satisfaction to my superiors and I trust have succeeded in doing so; but as I see no chance of promotion in the Interpretation Sub-department, I would respectfully request that I be transferred to some other department where I shall have some prospects of bettering myself.\n\nI am,\n\netc.\n\nsd.\n\nA. J. Mackie\n\nThird Interpreter,\n\nThe Registrar,\n\nSupreme Court.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-393 - Governor Sir May - 1912 [11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459317, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 175, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "COPY.\n\nTEN-CENT PIECES from HONG KONG\n\nREC\n\nC.O\n\n170\n\n56512\n\nREG(8DEC15)\n\n2219/15.\n\nAll the four pieces submitted for examination appear to be genuine, and the statement in paragraph 3 of the Governor's letter, that a change was made in the ten-cent dies about 1884, is confirmed by our records. It is found that fresh matrices and punches were prepared in 1883 in connection with a silver coinage requisitioned on the 4th June (854/83). Coins of this denomination had been struck at frequent intervals since 1863, and, in acknowledging on the 7th June the requisition from the Crown Agents, the Deputy Master stated that there would be some delay in supplying the coin because the dies and punches were worn and required renewal. In the accounts rendered at the completion of the coinage, payments were claimed from the Crown Agents on behalf of Mr. L. Wyon for engraving and of the Master of the Mint for preparing punches (see Colonial Coinages Book, p. 27).\n\nIt is not possible to say what was done to the obverse, but in the case of the reverse it was evidently necessary to grind off the lettering from the punch in order that the \"form\" or working efficiency of the dies might be improved. In replacing the circumscription on a new matrix, the opportunity was taken to remedy the faulty hyphen, and to space the letters more evenly and to place them more centrally between the dotted circles. These minor details, however, are clearly of the nature of rectification rather than of deliberate change of an approved design. Such slight alterations are not of uncommon occurrence, especially when the issue of coins of a given design is spread over a considerable period. The discovery and registration of these minute differences", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459682, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 537, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "Lauders \n\nHONG KONG \n\n26875 \n\nREC \n\n0 \n\n26875 \n\n518 \n\nREA ! UN15, \n\nRettering Texas oil business \n\n1915 \n\n10 June Considers that reasons which have \n\nLa \n\nThe previous Paper led to cancel permissions given to Cheetham are due to misunderstandings. 26874 Points out that inescapable result will be for Germans to conduct business through American or British agency. \n\nTo Gov. tel in Jard \n\nCorrea \n\nCopy Gov. 16 July 529 579 \n\nNext subsequent Paper \n\n24024 \n\ng \n\nNat Cable \n\nsei- \n\n-J. Fiddes \n\nnot very \n\nI confess I am \n\ncomfortable about this \n\nto me, quite possible \n\nIt seems \n\nthat the Gov.\n\nCheetham's \n\nhas construed \n\ndesire to get the benefit of Schluter experience \n\n(a natural & I think legitimate desire) as being \n\na desire to \n\nKeep the business warm for Reuter Brockelman. \n\n7. \n\nWhen one comes to Winch it Cheetham's natural desire \n\n(88,195) Wt.31,080-13. 45,000. 12/13. A.&L.W. (107,039) 31,997—61. 45,000, 11/14. \n\n\" \n\nwould be to Keep an eye on \n\nMi \n\nis \n\nhimself & it", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 459755, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 610, "title": "CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915", "content_text": "588\n\n56768\n\nC\n\nSanders Rehderly L\n\n1915\n\nHONG KONG\n\n56768\n\nTexas Od Co.\n\nREC\n\nREGE 9 DEC 15\n\n4.K.\n\n9 Dec. Ask for Govt intervention with H.K. authorities\n\nto make it clear to all concerned that they\n\nare not subservient to the Japanese.\n\nFears the loss of the Texas Agency to wealthy Japanese interests. Asks for a Cable to be sent to the Govt at Peking.\n\nPage 7 of their letter, not read.\n\nGov\n\n35774\n\nTo Sanders Robtus of Hongkong & Shanghai Bank for\n\n592932\n\nEnclosures named on Annexed Sheet\n\nLetters from Kettering addressed to air by Tennyson in Enclosure\n\nLee\n\n38241 and 57379.\n\n(Attached)\n\n66. 19/14/15.\n\nNext subsequent Paper.\n\n57317\n\n(J 3401-h) Wt. 14242—12. 28,000. 7/15. D x 8.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467192, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "page_number": 773, "title": "CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916", "content_text": "TRANSLATION OF TELEGRAM.\n\n772\n\n19th June 1916\n\nReceived from Messrs.\n\nH. Sanders, New York\n\n9.25 a.m\n\nCODEWORDS & NUMBERS\n\nTRANSLATION\n\nCARROLL THEODOSIUS LONDON\n\nAdd cable letter steamer is California. Letter ninety all fallacious. Back Ricks terms absolutely impossible wrong because Texas and I calculate Rises expenses completely nullify our two-fifth share but leaving Rice profit evidently London met understands Texas business stop. Foregoing does not include Tan-ored on which Bankers' commission about one-thousand pounds atop. Should Rice retire Dodwell will jump at agency bettering terms as Frad Dodwell already altered commission from term two years to duration agency and told Texas was glad my going London stop. Communicate foregoing Colonial office amplifying my today's cable undersecretary leave Dodwells alone until arrival stop. Longing for verbal discussion will surely remove numerous misconceptions re-establish necessary harmony.\n\nSANDERS\n\nITEMS", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476204, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 19, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "## Telegram\nwith J. Lie obono, in this telegram \n\n**(Bláned) H. I READ,** \n\n17 May Coup 1918 \n\n9 Apl. Last previous Paper. `Go 12222/17` \"Trade\" 24/26 REC Imports & Exports 27/26 RES 4 JUN 18\n\n2. 6 weeks on organization of Statistical Branch Sports & Exports dept (2) basis of statistical headings Trade. Return for part of 1917. Memorandum method of classification. Copy (Boff).\n\nRemind 26 cons Fri to B.q.T. 29 Jan./19 04.6. 53-841. My Lettering I have Rebt Sorry this so long sway of papers (in support of statistical work). \n\nI doubt sent in support of The Gov's contention that the post of Supt of Imports & Exports can be cleat In, but does not expressly take up the point and I don't think we need. For. can leave it at the end if he wants.\n\nNext subsequent Paper. 6.9.9. F5841.\n\n`Wt. 5426-16 50m, 1117 D&S. G 122 41.`\n\nDupl. I B/T for Bron A 26/6/18 At once AEC 17.6", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 483992, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "page_number": 345, "title": "CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7]", "content_text": "No 211\n\n19703\n\n134049\n\nW\n\n120\n\n18 AUG 20)\n\nPage 341\n\nHONGKONG.\n\nGOVERNMENT HOUSE.\n\n28th June, 1920.\n\n341\n\nMy Lord,\n\nI have the honour to acknowledge the receipt\n\nof Your Lordship's despatch No.135 of the 27th April, 1920,\n\non the subject of the pension granted to the widow of the late Mr. J. L. Speed of the Prison Department of this Colony, and to refer you to my despatch No.172 of the 21st May, 1920, in which I stated that I regret I do not see my way to recommend any further increase in the pension already granted.\n\nMrs. Speed it would appear desires to commute her pension of £30 per annum granted under the recent amendment of the pension minute dealing with the widows of officers killed on duty with a view to bettering herself in some way. Mrs. Speed will by this time have received about\n\n£600 raised by private subscription on her behalf which will enable her to start any business if she so desires, a fact of which she probably was not aware when she wrote the letters forwarded in Your Lordship's despatch. I am not in any case in favour of permission being granted to commute her pension.\n\nI have the honour to be,\n\nMy Lord,\n\nYour Lordship's most obedient,\n\nhumble servant,\n\nR. E. Stubbs\n\nGovernor,&c.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\n\nVISCOUNT MILNER, G.C.B.,\n\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nPage 342", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-461 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484294, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "page_number": 156, "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "content_text": "143\n\nthe New Territories than in Hongkong,\n\n9. Your Petitioners also desire to point out that two of them have already reached their maximum pay, and have no further prospect of improving their position, but must remain at their present rate of pay until they reach the age of 55 and retire on a pension based on that rate: such a state of affairs is naturally very disheartening to men in the prime of life and full of energy and enterprise,\n\n10. Your Petitioners also consider themselves to have been very unfairly treated in comparison with the Police, for the following reasons.\n\n11. All your Petitioners transferred from the Police Force to the District Office in the hope of bettering their condition, and to their great disappointment they find themselves in a much less favourable position.\n\n12. If your Petitioners had remained in the Police Force they would now be Sub-Inspectors drawing from £320 to £360, with an early prospect of rising to the post of Inspector (£400 to £450) and an ultimate chance of becoming Chief Inspector at £600. In 1913 your Petitioners' pay (£250) was almost equivalent to that of a First Class Police Inspector (£240 to £260) but the latter are now £130 ahead of your Petitioners.\n\n13. The Police have also many further privileges, for instance free fuel, light, uniform and furniture and retirement on full pension at 45.\n\n14. Your Petitioners also understand that the salaries of the First Class Overseers P.W.D. and the First Class Sanitary Inspectors have all been fixed at £320 to £360, that is £40 ahead of your Petitioners, although those officers were previously on", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 490853, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-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": 546, "title": "CO129-472 - Others - 1921", "content_text": "#2 \n\n882 \n\nالسلام \n\nمند \n\nA-H \n\namore has the \n\n26 JUN 1927 \n\n27 JAN 1921 \n\n540 \n\n545 \n\n539 \n\nSea Iwu \n\nMr Agelbans has been with me for three years before the war. Since then, I have had no official connection with him, so I can only speak of him as he was up to 1914. \n\nFrom time to time, he was with Yand... be... I and him a most able and capable worker & colleague in bettering their work & really took a deep interest in all the questions of the day. \n\nmy knowledge...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-472 - Others - 1921.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 493433, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "page_number": 341, "title": "CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922", "content_text": "340 \n\n+1 \n\nM \n\n| \n\n! \n\nJr \n\ndangerous one and might go far towards undermining the exterritorial principle. He asked whether I could not instruct Mr. Blackburn to hear a dilatory plea of some kind that would enable the Portuguese Consul-General to refer the question to his Minister for discussion with the Chinese Authorities in Peking.\n\n9. I informed Monsieur de Rossi that I was quite willing to discuss the matter with Mr. Blackburn and to ask whether such a plea would be entertained by the Court, but I added that I should, in my opinion, be exceeding my proper functions if I attempted to instruct the Assessor as to what decision he and the Magistrate should give in a judicial matter before the Court. We had, in days past, complained to the Chinese authorities more than once of their action in fettering the exercise of the Magistrate's judicial discretion, and I thought that now we should be careful not to give any ground for a similar complaint by the Chinese.\n\n10. I subsequently spoke to Mr. Blackburn on the subject, who thought that there would be little difficulty, on a proper application being made to the Court, in suspending execution of the judgment pending discussion between the Portuguese Minister and the Chinese Government of the diplomatic issues involved.\n\n11. On the 12th instant the defendant's Counsel appeared before the Mixed Court and applied for a stay of execution pending a reference as above stated. The application was granted and defendant was released on bail.\n\n12. In my opinion the judgment of the Mixed Court in all these cases is sound, and does not conflict with the attitude adopted in such cases by His Majesty's Government (see General Consular Instructions, Chapter XXII, paragraphs 13 /and /Pro", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-477 - Public Offices - 1922.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 500085, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "page_number": 489, "title": "CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7]", "content_text": "# CAFE WISEMAN \n**BREAD, CAKES, etc.** \nFull Stocks \nBut \n**CASH PAYMENT** \nThe \n**Hongkong Telegraph.** \n**FOUNDED 1881** \nNo. 21 845 \n\n三拜禮 \n**SHAMEEN SENSATION.** \n**DEMONSTRATORS FIRE ON CONCESSION.** \n**FRENCH MERCHANT KILLED BRITISH SUBJECTS WOUNDED.** \n\nCanton, June 23. Thousands of students, workmen, citizens and soldiers paraded along the Bund around the European quarter and opened fire opposite the Victoria Hotel in the British Concession.\n\nBritish and French marines replied with machine-guns, the firing lasting twenty minutes.\n\nThe French merchant, Mr. Pasquier, and the Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Edwards, were killed, whilst one British marine and two civilians were wounded.\n\nAll the evidence indicates that the Chinese fired first.-Reuter.\n\nLater. \nMr. Edwardes was wounded, and not killed, as previously reported.-Reuter.\n\n**British Naval Version.** The Naval authorities here state that while they are not prepared to say that Reuter's wire is grossly exaggerated, their own information is of a modified nature. The report of the occurrence received by them is to the effect that whilst a more or less peaceful demonstration taking place in Canton yesterday was in progress, it appears that the crews of the boats all went ashore at Canton yesterday to attend a meeting of the Seamen's Union and that after the meeting was over they returned to their boats. But this was not until long after the scheduled departure time. Some of the boats have come into Hongkong this morning.\n\n## WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1925.\n### MORE TROUBLE IN THE NORTH.\n\nJAPANESE CONULS STONED.\n\nCANTON AUTHORITIES WARNED.\n\nSINGLE COPY $1 OKNTS $36 PER ANNUM\n\n### TO KOWLOON RESIDENTS \n**AN APPEAL** \nThe Kowloon Residents' Association appeals to its members and to residents generally to join in the Special Constabulary, if they are not engaged upon essential service elsewhere.\n\nAll available are requested to attend at Magistracy, Central Police Station, between the hours 4 and 5 p.m. on 24th and 25th inst. for the purpose of being sworn in.\n\nD. GOODWIN. \nHon Secretary.\n\n### TENNIS. \n**TURNBULL EXTENDS BOROTRA.** \nLondon, June 23rd. \nThe second round of the Men's Open Championship opened to-day in dull weather. Playing at the Oval, Surrey defeated Somerset by an innings and 111 runs.\n\nJagat Mohanlal \n**HOME CRICKET.** \n**ANOTHER DOUBLE CENTURY FOR HENDREN.** \nChintang, June 23. Prior to the Outbreak.\n\nLondon, June 23. Strikers here have stoned the Japanese Consul, who has demanded an apology, otherwise strong despatch addressed by Sir...\n\nShameen's Defences.\n\nFrom another source, we learn that before the fighting broke out, Crowds stoned the Japanese Consul General in Canton, to...\n\nCharking, June 23. \nJames Jamieson, Drift Jaguar me Three Straight sets taking seven wickets for 43 before the fighting broke out, H.M.S. Moth Was anchored opposite the A P. C godown, Reuter\n\nPlaying at Hull, Yorkshire defeated Leicester by an innings and 6-1, 6-4, 6-4.\n\nShanghai, June 23. \nCanton, has this afternoon been forwarded us via `XCR(85)72`.\n\nle Rees eliminated the British the Vigilante was stationed just Wuchow says the Japanese Customs Commissioner has been killed and two Japanese injured.-Reuter.\n\nPlaying at Kettering, \nGlamorgan defeated Northants made \nNorthants made 135 (Mercer taking six wickets for 47 runs) and 457, Wright contributing 83, Bellamy 84 and Murdin 90, not out. Glamorgan made 107, Thomas taking four wickets for 24 runs, Reuter.\n\nMelbourne, June 23. \nto the length of drawing lots \nFrenchman could claim a victory \nand made 400, \nscor \nOn enquiry at the City Hall this morning, our representative was informed that a very large number of Europeans have registered for service and that in every case the desire is expressed to commence Canton duty at once.\n\n## A BIG DEMONSTRATION.\n\n(Our Own Correspondent.)\n\nPakhoi, June 20th. \nA big demonstration took place here to-day in the town and on the General Li Fook-iam's troops being transported to the \nAbout three special constables were co-operating consequently are refusing to sell. Regarding European food distribution is apparently working smoothly through the various bodies, who have volunteered for this work.\n\nMr. C. McI. Messer (Transport Controller) assured our representative that there are ample transport facilities available and plenty of public hire services are now idle at Canton, has been taken over by the authorities and that she is now on her way down to Hongkong with over 600 refugees on board. She has been manned by naval ratings and more `Sai On` was delayed in Canton owing to a strikers' meeting of the Seamen's Union, but the men were permitted at about 2:30 p.m. to bring the night boats to Hongkong.\n\nsuddenly opened fire on the Shameen, killing one French citizen and wounding a number of British subjects British seamen watching the procession, and seeing the students firing with H.M. Consulate General and the British Senior Naval Officer in the line of fire, discharged their rifles. They were immediately ordered to cease fire and did so, and the firing from Canton stopped.\n\nThe Naval authorities state that, as far as their information indicates, there is no reason to suggest that the British seamen fired at the students.\n\nThere are five British gunboats in Canton at present time, the Tarantula, Moth, Moorhen, Robin, and Cicala.\n\n### THE CONTROL SCHEMES.\n**GOOD RESPONSE BY AMERICANS.** \n`GR1178/1922/32(III)`\n\n### NEWS FROM PAKHOI.\n\nOn enquiry at the City Hall this morning, our representative was informed that a very large number of Europeans have registered for service...\n\n## REFUGEES FROM SHAMEEN.\n\nThe compradore of Messrs. W. A. Hannibal and Co., who was in Canton yesterday and returned on the `Sai On` was interviewed by a Telegraph representative this morning, and he stated that the students and workmen were in a procession which had half-way passed the British bridge when they opened fire on the Shameen with rifles. The Shameen authorities replied and the Chinese suffered severe loss, the number killed and wounded being estimated by some as between thirty and forty, others placing the figure as high as a hundred.\n\nA man who was being rowed in a sampan to the `Sai On` was almost alongside the vessel when he dropped dead in the bottom of the sampan.\n\nIn addition to British and American gunboats, there are now at Canton a Japanese destroyer, and three French gunboats, namely the Altair, the Argus and the Vigilante.\n\n### 600 ARRIVING THIS AFTERNOON.\n\nCHINESE LABOUR.\n**DR. S. W. TSO APPOINTED CONTROLLER.** \nThe report is true.\n\n### STRIKE ITEMS.\n\nThe crew of an oil tanker at the Standard Oil installation at Laichikok yesterday left the ship is incorrect. The crew was composed entirely of white men, and the tanker sailed this morning.\n\n### RUBBER PRICES.\nTHE RESTRICTION POLICY.\n\nLondon, June 28. \nIn the House of Commons, Ormsby Gore stated that it was not proposed to make any drastic or sudden alteration in what had been the settled policy for the last two or three years. The aim of the restriction policy was to prevent the destruction of a large number of rubber states which would have gone out of cultivation altogether and in order to increase the long production in the Colony has so far been quite satisfactory.\n\n### EXPORTING MONEY.\n**A COOLIE CAUTIONED.** \nA Chinese tea shop coolie appeared before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on a charge of unlawfully exporting $50 in notes and $14.60 in Canton silver currency.\n\nDefendant said he was on his way to Canton from Swatow when he was not aware of the new order.\n\nHis Worship said that he thought this was a case where the law should be enforced and he would forfeit all the defendant's money with the exception of $5 defendant caution the coolie.\n\n### FRENCH POLITICS.\n\nParis, June 23. \nThe Chamber has passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 510 votes to 30.-Reuter.\n\n## MR. EDWARDES NOT KILLED.\n**ONLY SLIGHTLY WOUNDED** \nLater enquiries show that Mr. Edwardes was not killed but was wounded and is coming down to Hongkong for treatment.\n\nthe Commissioner of Customs for the Kowloon District is to the effect that there was a peaceful procession in progress when a small party opened fire from the Bund on to the Shameen. It is true that one French resident was killed, but Mr. Edwardes was only slightly wounded and has sent a telegram to Hongkong to-day stating that he is coming down here.\n\nThere is an absence of definite information regarding the number or identity of the other people wounded and also nothing authentic regarding the effect of the return fire upon the Chinese.\n\nThe Hongkong Government had heard, this morning, of a rumour stating that about 800 students had been killed but this is, obviously, untrue. The news of the affair was first received here by the Naval authorities late last evening.\n\n### ANOTHER VERSION.\n**MANY CHINESE CASUALTIES REPORTED.** \nThe compradore of Messrs. W. N. Hannibal and Co., who was in Canton yesterday and returned on the `Sai On`, stated that the students and workmen were in a procession which had half-way passed the British bridge when they opened fire on the Shameen with rifles. The Shameen authorities replied and the Chinese suffered severe loss, the number killed and wounded being estimated by some as between thirty and forty, others placing the figure as high as a hundred.\n\n### JAPANESE CHANNEL SWIMMER.\nMr. Setsu Nichimura, the Japanese champion swimmer, is training at Dover for an English Channel swim early in August.-Reuter.\n\n### FRENCH POLITICS.\n\nParis, June 23. \nThe wedding is shortly to take place of Mr. U. Simpson Grant Semison, missionary, of St. George's House, and Miss Helen Gaynan Hoffman, also a missionary, staying at the same address.\n\nI would in this connection call your attention to the representations are being made to the Chief of Police and would ask you to be good enough to support them in so far as you may be able to do so.--I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, \n(Sd.) J. W. Jamieson, Consul General.\n\nThe Chamber has passed a vote of confidence in the Government by 510 votes to 30.-Reuter.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-488 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1925 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 507648, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927", "page_number": 114, "title": "CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927", "content_text": "# Enclosure No.7...\n\n## Translation\n\n川\n(Extract from Kwok Man Sen lian, Canton, 12th May, 1927)\n\n### Manifesto by Generalissimo Tseung conveying a warning to all officers and privates in the National Revolutionary Army.\n\n| Points | Description |\n|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Obiects of the National Revolutionary Armies | |\n| Intrigues of the Communists | to destroy the National Revolution. |\n| Facts relating to the monopolization | by the Communists at Wuhan of the spurious Central Kuomintang Department at Wuhan, which is in reality a puppet in the hands of the Communists. |\n| The spurious Kuomintang omers' libels | against our Revolutionary Party calling them \"bandits\" and \"reactionary troops\". |\n| The Communists' stirring up | of dissensions in our Revolutionary Armies. |\n| Delays in payment | by the spurious Government at Wuhan of the wages of our troops at the front and the supply of arms to them with the object of having the lives of the troops at its mercy. |\n| Facts in connection with the setting up | of disturbances in our rear by the Communists. |\n| Facts about the oppression and massacre | of our Revolutionary troops by the Communists. |\n| Calamities caused | by Class War. |\n| Intrigues of the Communists | for spreading libels about our Revolutionary Armies. |\n| Reasons for the delay | in bettering the standard of living among the soldiers. |\n\nYou are to judge whether your Generalissimo is a Militarist or whether he has fought hard in the interest of the National Revolution.\n\n### Reasons", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-500-3 Canton situation- governor's despatches 29-7-1927 - 1-9-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509615, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "page_number": 118, "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "content_text": "## 121 \n\n2 \n\nAffairs, in which the latter, in reply to Sir J. Tilley's statement of our desire to co-operate with Japan, had replied that, \"although an alliance no longer existed, the spirit of it did, and he hoped by frank conversations to keep it in force.\"\n\nIn this connection the Cabinet agreed-\n\n**(a.)** To take note, with approval of the proposal of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to reciprocate the views of the new Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs as reported in Sir J. Tilley's telegram No. 216, that, although an alliance no longer existed, the spirit of it did.” \n\n(`Cabinet 30 (27)`, Conclusion 1 (a).)\n\n4. The Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee met on the 5th May to consider the memorandum by the Foreign Office and the terms of reference mentioned in paragraph 2 above, and submitted a report (`C.I.D. Paper No. 798-B`) containing draft instructions to the Naval Commander-in-Chief.\n\n5. In this report (`C.I.D. Paper No. 798-B`) the Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee also dealt with the reference, quoted in paragraph 2 (b) (ii) above, in regard to Chinkiang, and reported that they concurred in the views expressed by the Naval Commander-in-Chief, the General Officer Commanding Shanghai Defence Force and the Consul-General, Shanghai, and were unable to recommend any military measure at Chinkiang at present.\"\n\n6. At this meeting on the 5th May, the Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee also considered a joint memorandum by the Foreign Office and Colonial Office on the question of defending Wei-hai-Wei, and agreed that this question should be considered in the first instance by the Oversea Defence Committee.\n\n7. The report of the Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee referred to in paragraph 4 above was considered by the Cabinet at a meeting held on the 11th May, when in reply to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Lord Beatty agreed that there would be no objection, if the Cabinet so desired, to the insertion of words in the instructions to the Naval Commander-in-Chief to make it clear that punitive action taken in regard to outrages which endangered British property, but not British lives, should only be taken after reference to, and sanction by, His Majesty's Government. He emphasised, however, the importance of not fettering more than was absolutely necessary the discretion of the Naval Commander-in-Chief, who had up to now shown the greatest circumspection.\n\nThe Cabinet agreed :— \n\n**(a.)** To approve generally the Fifth Report by the Chiefs of Staff on sanctions in China (`C.I.D. Paper No. 798-B`), subject to amendment of the draft instructions to the Naval Commander-in-Chief with the object of making clear the circumstances in which the prior sanctions of His Majesty's Government should be obtained before taking punitive action.\n\n**(b.)** That the First Lord of the Admiralty, in consultation with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, should draw up telegraphic instructions to the Naval Commander-in-Chief based on the Fifth Report of the Chiefs of Staff, amended as above, and that the telegram should be repeated to the British Minister at Peking.\n\n(`Cabinet 31 (27)`, Conclusion 1.)\n\n8. The Cabinet again met on the 19th May, and considered various questions affecting the situation in China-\n\n**(1.)** With regard to facilities for the supply of Arms to Chinese authorities, the Cabinet agreed:- \n\n**(a.)** As regards the arms embargo, that the policy of neutrality among the various contending factors in China should be adhered to, and that no facilities in the matter of arms should be given to the Cantonese General, Li-Chai-Sun.\n\n(`Cabinet 32 (27)`, Conclusion 4.)\n\n**(ii)** With regard to the Retention of Shipping in the Far East the Cabinet were informed that the China (Military Details) Committee had decided on the 28th February, that sufficient troopships should be kept between Hong Kong and Shanghai to enable a Brigade to be on the water simultaneously at short notice and at the minimum expense. Under this decision three ships were at present retained. The five transports conveying the 15th Brigade were now arriving at Hong Kong, and the Secretary of State for War proposed that these should be dispensed with as soon as the troops were landed. To retain them in the Far East would cost approximately £1,400 a day. The 15th Brigade might not have to move from Hong Kong, and if a move became necessary it could be carried out by the ships already retained.\n\nThe Cabinet authorised the Secretary of State for War to continue to act on the decision of the China (Military Details) Committee referred to above.” \n\n(`Cabinet 32 (27)`, Conclusion 5.)\n\n**(iii)** In connection with the subject dealt with in sub-paragraph (ii) above, the Cabinet were informed that, if there were any question of returning the Indian Mixed Brigade to India, a saving of perhaps £100,000 would be effected by sending it back in the ships which had brought the 15th Brigade to Hong Kong, The Cabinet were reminded that considerable expense was involved in the retention of the Indian Mixed Brigade.\n\nThe Cabinet agreed-\n\n\"That until the situation in China became clearer than at present it would be unsafe to dispense with the presence of the Indian Mixed Brigade of the Shanghai Defence Force.\"\n\n(`Cabinet 32 (27)`, Conclusion 6.)\n\n9. At a meeting held on the 25th May the attention of the Cabinet was again drawn to the financial aspects of the retention of the Indian Mixed Brigade of the Shanghai Defence Force. It was pointed out that in the case of the British portion of that Force the cost, apart from incidental expenses, was only the difference of maintaining men in Shanghai instead of at their normal stations. In the case of the Indian Mixed Brigade, however, the whole burden fell upon the British taxpayer and their cost was three or four times as great as that of the British troops.\n\nThe Cabinet agreed-\n\n**(a.)** That three of the ships which had brought to the Far East the last British Brigade of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force and had not yet started their homeward voyage should be retained at Hong Kong for a week, or, if necessary, longer, in case the rapidly changing events in China should render possible the withdrawal of the Indian Mixed Brigade.\n\n**(b.)** That the Cabinet Committee on China should meet before the next meeting of the Cabinet to consider (in consultation with the Chiefs of Staff as required) the following points :- \n\n**(i.)** The possible withdrawal of the Indian Mixed Brigade.\n\n**(ii.)** The effect of recent developments in the Government's policy in regard to Peking and Tientsin.\"\n\n(`Cabinet 34 (27)`, Conclusion 2.)\n\n10. The Cabinet Committee on China met on the 26th May, when the Chiefs of Staff were also present, to consider the terms of reference quoted at the end of the previous paragraph.\n\n**(i.)** With regard to \"The effect of recent developments on the Government's policy in regard to Peking and Tientsin,\" the Committee took into consideration-\n\n**(a.)** Sir Miles Lampson's telegrams Nos. 18 and 20 of the 25th May,* in which he pointed out that the question of ...\n\n## 122", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 509654, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "page_number": 157, "title": "CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927", "content_text": "# SECRET\n\n## CABINET 31(27) \n### 163\n\nExtract from Conclusions of a Meeting held at 10 Downing Street, on Wednesday 11th May, 1927, at 11.30 a.m.\n\n## CHINA\n(Previous Reference: Cabinet 30(27) Conclusion 1.)\n\n1. The Cabinet had before them the Fifth Report of the Chiefs of Staff Committee on the subject of Sanctions (`C.P.141(27)`). The Chief of the Naval Staff answered questions in regard to the draft Report. In reply to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Beatty agreed that there would be no objection, if the Cabinet so desired, to the insertion of words in the instructions to the Naval Commander-in-Chief to make it clear that punitive action taken in regard to outrages which endangered British property, but not British lives, should only be taken after reference to, and sanction by His Majesty's Government. He emphasised, however, the importance of not fettering more than was absolutely necessary the discretion of the Naval Commander-in-Chief, who had up to now shown the greatest circumspection.\n\nAfter the withdrawal of the Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs informed the Cabinet that, with a view to following up the favourable attitude of the new Japanese Foreign Minister:", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-502-8 China- general situation 27-4-1927 - 15-9-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 521516, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-521-1 Triangulation of Hong Kong report and progress 13-1-1930 - 6-11-1930", "page_number": 22, "title": "CO129-521-1 Triangulation of Hong Kong report and progress 13-1-1930 - 6-11-1930", "content_text": "24\n\n6\n\nprocedure and argument are outside the possible scope of this report. I recommend that a member of the staff with mathematical knowledge be sent to Ceylon for three weeks to study the procedure of their excellent new levelling. If this investigation could be combined with the duty of representing Hong Kong at the 1931 Surveyors Meeting it would be advantageous, for at that meeting we shall visit the Liverpool Tidal Institute, and shall discuss other aspects of levelling.\n\n9. Minor Methods of Surveying.—It is of small consequence to provide a reliable framework if the detail surveyor introduces plottable errors in his final offsets. My impression is that the minor surveyors are practical and reliable men, but their methods and their field books show that same untidiness which is elsewhere so apparent in this Department. As before, this fact is due to the lack of clear and practical departmental regulation. For example, each traverse tape is standardized at a particular tension and temperature. I saw a traverse, in the surveying, in which no spring balance was being used. Two values for the same length so measured differed apparently by only one part in thirty thousand, but there is no guarantee that both were not equally affected by systematic errors of the order of one in a thousand. The particular instance was one of no great importance, except in so far as it shows up the lack of clearly laid down routine. In actual offsetting I was told by one surveyor that offsets might be judged at right angles up to 30 feet and up to 15 feet by another, i.e., the length measured but the angle judged. Both are far too long for work at 1/600, but it is not so much the actual field work as the lack of common rule which I desire to emphasize. Field books are incomprehensible to the visitor. It is a matter of practice here that each Surveyor plots from his own measurement. This is dictated by expediency and lack of staff, and is not sound, but it explains the field books. The regulations of the future should lay down the type to be followed, and it should be such as to make plotting by an independent man an easy matter. Regulations should also include instructions for check lines and for inspection of the completed map (with graphic checks) by the European Surveyor-in-Charge.\n\nAs regards area computations, the present practice of mathematical calculation is sound for all Crown leases in urban districts. In the agricultural areas either the planimeter or the computing scale could be used. In either case, however, a final check should be made against the known areas of the full number of squares (of the grid) in which the cadastral plan lies. There is no other check upon paper distortion.\n\n10. Instruments. The Department is moderately well equipped. The bands graduated for final measurement (100 feet to attach to 300 feet 1/16-inch bands) should be smaller in section.\n\nOne good Theodolite (I recommend the new 3¼-inch Cooke Troughton and Simm's Tavistock) should be procured for additions to the control. Wooden legs (and not collapsible) should be specified.\n\nTwo Brunsviga (novo) calculating machines and the appropriate tables of natural trigonometrical functions have already been mentioned, and certain stores for drawing and printing are enumerated in succeeding paragraphs.\n\n11. Drawing The Surveyors draw and letter well, and are superior in standard to the minor draughtsmen employed in the Crown Lands Department. When a printing department has been begun particular care in securing firm, dense, black line will be necessary. I think too much lettering is being done, however. It is the normal practice to stamp names on cadastral maps and tracings, and boys can be employed for the purpose. Three palettes and a small supply of type should be got (through the Geographical Section, General Staff). The choice of type should be discussed with the home authorities. The style adopted for the 25-inch and 6-inch plans of the Ordnance Survey will be satisfactory.\n\nAt the present time much delay and waste of money occurs in the large amount of reducing (and occasional enlarging) by pantograph. Machinery is expensive at the moment, but soon saves itself in labour, and in all well-organized Survey Departments reduction is done by the camera. This point is of particular importance in compiling the 200 feet to the inch (1/2,400) plans from the 50 feet (1/600). An enlarging and reducing camera is, however, of less importance than the printing equipment recommended in the next paragraph, and might wait over for better financial times. Of equal importance is a press in which plans can be hung. Tropical conditions are against storage in drawers. Hung plans keep well, do not crease and break, and escape the cockroach.\n\nGood tracing paper should be used in preference to tracing cloth.\n\n12. Printing. Lithographic map printing is altogether distinct from letterpress printing, and is everywhere carried out by Survey Departments. There are few colonies now in which it has not started, and those (generally speaking) are able to rely upon the help of close neighbours. At the present moment there is no facility for printing official maps or plans in the whole of the Far East. That point should be borne in mind, because it might become important on political or defence grounds. (There is a very small machine, demi-size, in the Observatory, with no means other than litho tracing of getting the work on to stone or zinc). Sun-printing can be regarded as satisfactory or economical only for some half-dozen copies. The cadastral sheets (1/600, 1/2,000, &c.), should all be printed in small editions (say, 30 copies). The value of these expensive surveys is doubled by free circulation among technical departments, and the original, once recorded on zinc, keeps its shape, whereas paper records do not.\n\nThe policy should aim at the printing of maps and plans which affect the Colony. It is not a sound measure to order large stocks of maps to be printed in England. Maps and plans are soon out of date and editions should be just large enough to deal with current needs. The initial expense need not be large, and native staff can be trained to all the proper processes providing one good technical European printer be employed.\n\nI recommend beginning with —\n\n1 power proving press (double demy or larger).\n\n1 Vandyke outfit.\n\nNotes:-\n\n(a) Both might be got in consultation with the War Office and both might be second-hand;\n\n(b) The existing arc lighting system can be used;\n\n(c) Electric drive should be employed;\n\n(d) A whirler is hardly necessary (at first);\n\n(e) Printing frames and all accessories included in the Vandyke outfit.\n\nstaff, one youngish all-round printer should be engaged (at the £400 starting rate), given 6 months' apprenticeship at the War Office or Ordnance Survey, and one month in Ceylon in which to study the effect of a hot and damp climate on the chemistry of zinc printing and vandyking. This European could then start with three native printing apprentices and two native litho, drawing apprentices to build up his department. In a year's time he should be ready to install one litho. flat-bed machine (second-hand electrically driven and the same size as the proving press).\n\n13. Regulations. Preceding paragraphs have emphasized the vital importance of clearing and crystallizing methods and processes, and describing them in printed regulations.\n\nThe departmental regulations of the Federated Malay States and Gold Coast surveys should be used as models. Writing these regulations in the light of local organization and survey characteristic will take time and thought. It may not be necessary to follow every process to its ultimate detail in the general regulations so long as minor separate printed instructions cover the whole ground.\n\n14. Indexing and Filing Air Photographs. There exist already a number of air-photographs covering the area of Hong Kong and the New Territories. In the future any more will be taken. Unless proper indexes and storage boxes are made, it will be difficult to deal with them. Boxes should be made about 2 ft. by 10 in. by 8 in., in which sliding shelves, arranged as for a card index, carry the photographs. Each photograph should be indexed by the co-ordinate of its centre point, and each box should represent an area (say, the area of one of the 1/20,000 sheets).\n\n15. Organization. At the present time the Survey Department is a part of the Public Works Department a body whose duties in Hong Kong are important and wide reaching. The present Director of Public Works has done much for survey, and has been able, to some extent, to give the survey branch its own staff and quarters. Survey is not, however, native to the engineering profession except in so far as every engineer is trained in surveying for his own ends. These ends do not, as a rule, include precise triangulation, traversing or levelling, and never include the revenue, topographical, cartographical and printing aspects of a survey office. I have now inspected 13 Colonial surveys. In one or two a start was made under Public Works; in no case of these thirteen does that still apply.\n\nNo doubt the public purse is the guiding factor, and the survey branch is probably not the only one included solely for the purpose of preventing clerical growth and perhaps checking the natural impulse to develop where development must needs wait upon revenue. I am unable to see at present in what way overhead charges are saved as regards survey. If the staff is to be regarded as interchangeable then efficiency\n\n25", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-521-1 Triangulation of Hong Kong report and progress 13-1-1930 - 6-11-1930.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 532846, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932", "content_text": "118\n\nL. GIBBS\n\nThere is a\n\nThe new maps are essentially military maps. A grid system, no doubt designed primarily to enable the O.C. to tell the battery commander exactly where to plump a shell, may however be used to locate a few defects which, though perhaps of little account from a military point of view, detract considerably from the value of the maps for ordinary topographical purposes. Taking the Tai Po sheet, a district with which the writer is well acquainted. At East 177, North 718 is shown a large village, but with no name. This is the village of Lin Au. The 2½ inch map incorrectly named it Lung Om. At East 205, North 714 and 717 are shown two more nameless villages. These should be named Sheung Wong Au and Ha Wong Au. In the 2½ inch map the names are transposed.\n\ndifficulty with place names where two dialects are spoken, but a beginner in Chinese knows that Sheung means \"upper\" and \"Ha,\" lower.\n\nAt East 213, North 742 is shown the village of Fung Yuen. There should surely be a considerable patch of woodland on the hillside behind it, East 196, North 768 the village of Wan Shan Ha is unaccountably omitted. The writer of this note once lived in a house shown at East 226 North 710. This name has got adrift, it belongs to the one remaining house of the old village near the west entrance of the Tai Po tunnel. A well-marked topographical feature like the Lam Tsun Valley should be named on a map of this scale. (It is a most beautiful valley too. See it in April or in July, with its brilliant green paddy fields and many villages among their dark fung-shui trees, all backed by the fine massif of Tai Mo Shan).\n\n37\n\nIt is a pity that maps based on high-class survey work, chock-a-block with azimuths and co-ordinates and assisted by one of the greatest inventions (so far) of the Century—mechanical flying—should be marred by errors and omissions which an intelligent schoolboy could rectify.\n\nConventional signs \"distinguish between Coniferous and Deciduous Woodland. But this differentiation does not hold in South China where the bulk of the non-coniferous trees are evergreens. The colouring of woodland green, with a definite edging of dots makes a distinction on the map which seldom exists on the ground, where woodland as often as not merges into scattered trees and scrub. The green colour might be omitted with economy and advantage.\n\nIt would perhaps be scarcely fair to make a comparison between the maps of Hong Kong and the Ordinance Survey of England and Wales, but as, at the time of writing, the first sheet of a new edition of the 1 inch to the mile maps of the latter survey has appeared, some account of these maps may be of interest. The sheet just published covers an area of 30 miles by 18 miles in the neighbourhood of Plymouth and can be had mounted to fold for 4 shillings. The streams are printed in blue. A new style of lettering for the place names has been adopted and the different classes of roads are clearly shown, but the most important innovation is an attempt to show by pale hachure shading and pale colouring the relief of the country. The maps are in fact called the Fifth (Relief) Edition.\" The old 1 inch maps of 50 years ago—showed relief by hachures only. This system was fairly effective for showing up mountainous country and for indicating the\n\nThe Hong Kong Naturalist.\n\na\n\n11\n\nMaps of Hong Kong\n\n44\n\n119\n\ndirection of a range of hills, but, except for an occasional figure printed at a summit or at a cross road it gave no indication of the actual height above sea level. Then came an edition with contours, mostly 100 feet apart and Popular Edition in which the contours were 50 feet apart and were printed brown and the woods coloured green. A few sheets of this popular edition were coloured to show relief and called 'Tourist Maps.'\n\nThis relief colouring commenced with green at the sea level, a paler tint of green at 100 feet was followed by a pale brown at 200 feet. This brown tint was continued to the hill tops, gradually increasing in darkness at each 100 feet of altitude. This is an admirable system for showing topography, a glance shows what is high land and what is low land, and as the contours are printed and figured the actual levels can also be ascertained. One would expect it to be an expensive process but the maps produced were sold at 4 shillings each, the same price as those of the new edition. The drawback to this layer colouring is that if you continue up to 3,000 feet a colour scheme which adequately shows the relief at 600 or 800 feet, you will, by the time you have reached the 3,000 feet summits have obtained so dark a tint as almost to obliterate the printed features of the map. In the new maps a clear representation of topography, which might have been obtained by layer colouring, appears to have been sacrificed to artistic effect. On the cover also, beauty, or what is no doubt thought to be beauty is placed before utility. An ornate representation of the Royal Arms takes the place which should be occupied by a key map. There is no reason that this key map should not be made just as pleasing to look upon as the representation of the Royal Arms. It seems that economy might be effected by omitting the green colour of the woodlands. These are quite clearly shown by the printed representations of trees. Beyond these criticisms one can have nothing but praise for the new maps, and can only express the hope that they will soon be available for the country at large, where the stoppage\n\nof map making brought about by the war and the rapid growth of suburban building in the country, involved in the post-war exodus from the towns, has left the last edition of the 1 inch maps so far out of date as to be almost useless in many places for finding one's way about.\n\n(1) Geographical Journal.\n\nMay 1937.\n\n(2)\n\n55\n\nFebruary 1928. September 1926.\n\n138", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-538-1 Hong Kong University 31-12-1931 - 6-8-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 550561, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-556-3 Theft of detonators from Green Island Dangerous Good Depot 16-6-1936 - 16-6-1936", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-556-3 Theft of detonators from Green Island Dangerous Good Depot 16-6-1936 - 16-6-1936", "content_text": "Divisional Superintendent of Police (Kowloon), \n\nSir, \n\nI forward herewith a preliminary report of the larceny of 40,000 detonators the contents of four cases from No.5 Magazine, Green Island Dangerous Goods Depot between 12.40 hours on 3.8.35 and 18.00 hours on 4.8.35. \n\nNo.5 Magazine is styled the detonator magazine and only detonators are stored therein. It is situated at the North West corner of the depot. In this magazine were stored 136 cases of detonators the property of Messrs. Jardine Matheson, Messrs. Shewan Tomes and the Public Works Department, respectively. At the moment I am not sure of the exact number of cases held on behalf of the two aforementioned firms; but the Public Works Department had in the magazine 6 cases each containing 10,000 detonators and one broken box containing 2,620. These cases are what are left of a consignment of 15 cases which were stored there by the Public Works Department on 28.11.34. It is four cases from this consignment which were stolen. The selling price is quoted by the Accounts and Stores Department, Public Works Department, as being $2.42 per hundred, $242.00 per case and $968.00 for the four cases. I am waiting to confirm this before circulating. \n\nEach of the cases contained 10,000 detonators done up in 20 packets of 5 tins, each tin containing 100 each, i.e. 500 in a packet or 400 tins in all. The case itself is made of wood and is very well made. It consists of an outside case fitted with a lid screwed down by 10 brass screws, an inside case also fitted with a lid screwed down by four screws. The packets themselves are packed between a plentiful supply of sawdust to allay any risk of jars or jolts likely to cause an explosion. The tins are black in colour, size 3\" x 3\" x 11\" and are marked in white lettering NOBEL No.3 100 dynamite detonators, Thistle Brand, Glasgow. \n\nPage 9\nPage 9\n- 2 -\n\nNo.5 Magazine has only one door, this is fitted as are the other four magazines, with four locks, two on the grille doors and two in the wooden door. From examination the locks nor doors showed no signs of having been tampered with. The back of No.5 Magazine which is one yard from the abrupt rocky hillside has two windows which are fitted with double iron bars * in diameter. There are 7 bars on the inside and 8 on the outside and are built so that the outside bars come between the inside ones. The space between the bars of both rows is 31\" but with there being two rows as mentioned above the actual space between them is 13\". The rows are approximately 2\" apart. \n\nThe third bars of the inside and outside rows of the south east window at the back of No.5 Magazine had been cut through with a hack saw close to the bottom and the bar on the outside forced outwards and upwards and that on the inside, inwards and upwards. Inside the bars is a window which opens inwards in two halves and which is fastened with an iron bolt top and bottom centre. Each half of the window has five panes of glazed glass. The second pane up on the right half of the window from the outside was broken, and by inserting an arm from the outside both top and bottom bolts could be drawn, although they were rather stiff. The gap made by removing the bars is 72\n\nMr. W.H. Bailey the European in charge of the depot was issuing from No.5 Magazine at 12.45 hours on 3.8.35. and he himself locked the magazine after issuing. At 13.00 hours on 3.8.35 he finished duty for the week-end. The remainder of that day he was in his quarters on the Island. The following day 4.8.35 he went off the Island and returned at 20.40 hours the same night. \n\nPage 10\nPage 10\n- 3 -\n\nThe larceny was discovered at 18.00 hours on 4.8.35 by two Harbour Office Department seamen attached to the depot for duty. Every evening at about 18.00 hours these same two seamen water the vegetable garden at the back of the magazines and it was while drawing water from the south east back corner of No.5 Magazine that they noticed the bar of the window sticking out and saw on investigating that the magazine had been entered. The names of the two seamen are LAM CHU, 33 years, and LEUNG YING, 33 years. They reported to the Special Guard on duty No.35 Abdul Rahman who in turn reported to A.L.S.B. 324 FAZAL MOHAMED, Mr. Bailey was expected back at 18.30 hours so no immediate report was made to the Police. When Mr. Bailey did not return a/L.S.B. 324 rang up the Water Police Station and made a report, this was at about 19.30 hours. Det. L.S.A.183 Davies went out to Green Island and made enquiries soon after the report was made and on his return to station a message was circulated to harbour and cruising launches to be on the look out. \n\nOn 5.8.35 I went to Green Island at 09.15 hours and carried out a close examination of the premises, searched Chinese seamen and Indians quarters, huts on Little Green Island and several sampans. It was discovered that five workmen employed by the KIN LEE Building Contractors had been working on a water channel near the South East corner of the back of No.5 magazine. I found these workmen still working on the Island at the European Officers quarters. I took them back to the Water Police Station for interrogation. On the way back the sampan which conveyed these men ashore from Green Island on Sunday afternoon 4.8.35 at about 16.15 hours, was located and searched without result. Master of the sampan was brought to the Water Police Station at 09.00 on 6.8.35 and closely questioned without result. \n\nThere are two very peculiar features of this case which are very puzzling. One is why only Public Works Department detonators were taken and the other is that, out of the 136 cases in the magazine, 7 were open with the lids placed on top, issues \n\nPage 11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-556-3 Theft of detonators from Green Island Dangerous Good Depot 16-6-1936 - 16-6-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554369, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-16 Lighting Control Ordinance 1936 31-12-1936 - 5-1-1937", "page_number": 9, "title": "CO129-562-16 Lighting Control Ordinance 1936 31-12-1936 - 5-1-1937", "content_text": "# THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1937\n\n## EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.\n\nNo. 872.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n**ORDINANCE No. 55 of 1936. (LIGHTING CONTROL).**\n\nIn exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Lighting Control Ordinance, 1936, the Governor in Council makes the following regulations, by way of practice for an occasion of emergency or public danger, by express command:\n\n### TEMPORARY REGULATIONS.\n\n1. These regulations shall be in force during the whole period between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Thursday, the 9th day of December, 1937.\n\n2. All lights, whether public or private, which if unobscured, would be visible from the air, from the harbour or from the sea or from any navigable waters, must be extinguished, or, in the case of indoor lights, obscured so as to be invisible from outside and all other lights in the neighbourhood of any water front must be so masked as to prevent, as far as practicable, the reflection of their light upon the water:\n\n Provided that this regulation shall not apply to lights on vehicles or to indispensable navigation, railway or dock lights, or to any light which is approved by a competent naval or military authority.\n\n3. Save as elsewhere provided by these regulations, all external lamps, flares and fixed lights of all descriptions (including sky signs, illuminated fascias, illuminated lettering and outside lights of all descriptions used for advertising or for the illumination of shop fronts) and all aggregations of lights, whether public or private, must be extinguished, except such public lamps as in the opinion of the Inspector General of Police are necessary for safety and any other lights approved by him.\n\n All lights which are not extinguished must be reduced to the minimum intensity consistent with safety and shaded or obscured so as to render them invisible from above and to cut off direct light in all directions above the horizontal.\n\n4. In factories, shops, hotels, institutions, dwelling houses, buildings and premises of all descriptions inside lights must be so shaded or reduced or the windows, skylights and glass doors so screened by shutters or dark blinds or curtains, etc. that no more than a dull subdued light is visible from any direction outside the premises.\n\n## THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1937.\n\n5. The following restrictions on the use of lights on vehicles shall be observed:\n\n | Clause | Description |\n | --- | --- |\n | (a) | The use on motor vehicles of headlights of all descriptions is prohibited. |\n | (b) | Not more than two lamps showing a light to the front may be used on any vehicle. |\n | (c) | No light whatever shall be shown from any stationary vehicle. |\n\n6. All instructions given by any police officer for the purpose of enforcing these regulations must be observed.\n\n7. These regulations shall not apply to the New Territories other than New Kowloon.\n\n## COUNCIL CHAMBER,\n29th November, 1937.\n\nT. MEGARRY,\nClerk of Councils.\n\n## 臨時規則\n\n督憲按照一千九百三十六年管制燈火則例第二款所授之權會同議政局訂定下開規則明令執行以作非常時期或公共危險時之演習 香港則例 一千九百三十六年第五十五條(燈火管制)\n\n(一)本規則定於一千九百三十七年十二月九日星期四晚八時至十時之時間內施行\n\n(二)凡燈火無論是公眾或私人所有如無遮蔽而能為人在空間或海面或航行水道上所見者皆須熄滅或在室內者須遮蔽至自外不能見及所有在水邊附近之其他燈火務須掩蔽以盡量防止其光線反射於水面 本條不適用於車輛或航行所必用或鐵路或船塢之燈火或係海陸軍當局許可者\n\n(三)除照本規則別條規定外所有屋外之燈閃光之燈及所有各式固設之燈火(包括設在高處之字號及包括燈光招牌燈光字屋外各式燈火作告白或照耀店戶前面之用者)與所有聚集群人無論屬於公眾或私人者皆須熄滅惟警務處處長認為於安全為必要之公眾燈火及彼所核准之其他燈火則不在此限 所有未經熄滅之燈火務須減至與安全相符之最低亮度並須加以遮蔽或掩飾俾自上面不能見及並須遮斷其向上一切方向之直射光線\n\n(四)在工廠店鋪客棧機關及各等屋宇內室之燈火須加以遮蔽或減弱或將窗戶天窗及玻璃門戶用百葉窗或黑紗簾等遮蔽俾自外面任何方向所見者不逾黯淡之光度為度\n\n(五)車輛燈火之使用須遵守下列各項限制\n\n| 款 | 內容 |\n| --- | --- |\n| (甲) | 各等汽車一律不得使用前大燈 |\n| (乙) | 任何車輛向前行駛時只准用不多於兩個燈 |\n| (丙) | 凡停車時一律不得點燈 |\n\n(六)凡警務人員為執行本規則所發命令皆須遵從\n\n(七)本規則不適用於新界惟新九龍包括在內\n\nT. MEGARRY,\nClerk of Councils.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-16 Lighting Control Ordinance 1936 31-12-1936 - 5-1-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 555659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "page_number": 47, "title": "CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938", "content_text": "## 9. Additional restriction of sales by authorised sellers of poisons.\n\nIt shall not be lawful for an authorised seller of poisons to sell any substance included in the First List under these Regulations, notwithstanding that the substance is a poison included in Part II of the Poisons List, unless the sale is effected by, or under the supervision of, a registered pharmacist.\n\n## 10. Restriction of sale of strychnine.\n\nIt shall not be lawful to sell or supply strychnine except as an ingredient in a medicine.\n\nProvided that this Regulation shall not apply to the sale of strychnine-\n(a) by way of wholesale dealing; or\n(b) to be exported to purchasers outside the Colony; or\n(c) for the purpose of being compounded in medicines prescribed or administered by a registered medical practitioner or duly qualified veterinary surgeon; or\n(d) to a person or institution concerned with scientific education or research or chemical analysis, for the purpose of that education, research or analysis.\n\n## 11. Manner of labelling containers.\n\n(1) Subject to the provisions of these Poisons Regulations, the particulars with which the container of a poison is required to be labelled under paragraph (c) of section 19 (1) of the Ordinance and under these Regulations, must appear in a conspicuous position on the container in which the poison is sold and on every box or other covering of whatever nature enclosing the container, and the particulars must be clearly and distinctly set out and not in any way obscured or obliterated.\n\n(2) Where the poison is contained in an ampoule, cachet, or similar article, it shall not be necessary to label the article itself, if every box or other covering in which the article is enclosed is duly labelled.\n\n## 12. Labelling of particulars as to portions of poison therein.\n\n(1) For the purposes of paragraph (c) (ii) of section 19 (1) of the Ordinance (which requires preparations containing poisons to be labelled with the prescribed particulars as to the proportion of poison therein) the label of the container of any preparation containing a poison as one of its ingredients shall, subject as hereinafter provided, include a statement of the proportion which the poison bears to the total ingredients of the preparation.\n\n(2) In the case of a preparation containing a poison specified in the first column of the Fourth List under these Poisons Regulations, it shall be sufficient to state on the label the particulars specified in the second column of that List against the description of the poison.\n\n(3) Where the poison is in tablets, pills, cachets, capsules, lozenges or similar articles, or in ampoules, it shall be sufficient to state on the label of the box or other covering in which the articles are enclosed the number of the articles and the amount of the poison.\n\n## 13. Indication of character of poison.\n\n(1) In pursuance of paragraph (c) (iii) of section 19 (1) of the Ordinance (which requires the containers of poisons to be labelled with the word \"Poison\" or other prescribed indication of character), the container of any article specified in the Fifth List under these Poisons Regulations shall, instead of being labelled with the word \"Poison\" be labelled with the words specified in the said List as applicable to that article.\n\n(2) The said words or the word \"Poison\", as the case may be, must not be modified in meaning by the addition of any other words or marks, and—\n(a) in the case of a substance included in the First List under these Poisons Regulations, must either be in red lettering or be set against a red background; and\n(b) in all cases must either be on a separate label or be surrounded by a line within which there must be no other words except words with which the container of the poison is required to be labelled under the Ordinance or these Poisons Regulations.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-563-2 Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance- 1937 31-5-1937 - 6-1-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 557178, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939", "content_text": "R83 (Bert); Cannes Corde 6/10 53541 ૩૪ Exchical from B. aft Minutes held 27.10.18 115 | 11 meeting of E.C.E.C. invited on the desirability of accepting the design carrying the first prize as a substitute for the present cover of the journal. The designs that were selected for special consideration were also placed on the table, in case members might be interested in seeing them.\n\nSir William Rothenstein's view, which was accepted by other members of the Selection Committee, was that the designs were full of interest and gave an encouraging idea of art progress, but with reference to the special purpose for which they were intended they did not as a whole show very great merit. The lettering was in most cases disappointing. The representative of the Oxford University Press thought that, from the technical point of view, there was no objection to acceptance of the winning design.\n\n(C) The Official Secretary reported that Mr. Pickthorn had written expressing his regret at his inability to be present owing to ill-health.\n\n8.(a) Secondary Education Policy in Hong Kong (A.C.(2)C.34/38). Mr. Burney said that the changes and reforms recommended in the Governor's despatch were a step in the right direction. There was a certain amount of criticism that he might be disposed to make in detail but he would not do so at the meeting.\n\nThe action recorded in paragraph (4) of the Governor's despatch was contrary, Mr. Burney believed, to the Committee's recommendation, for appointing special visiting instructors in physical training, because it meant waiting for the recruitment to the ordinary staff of teachers with the necessary qualifications. A beginning was better than nothing, but the plan should not be regarded", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-567-1 Education Department 8-6-1938 - 3-2-1939.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 562602, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-572-6 Hong Kong Seamen's Union- proposed proscription 22-1-1938 - 30-8-1938", "page_number": 13, "title": "CO129-572-6 Hong Kong Seamen's Union- proposed proscription 22-1-1938 - 30-8-1938", "content_text": "- 5 -\n\nis inclined to rebel against the collection of funds for the support of civil wars in China. They were ready, they said, to contribute to the cost of a war with Japan, if that became necessary, but not to furnish money for the slaughter of their own countrymen. It became necessary for the \"bosses\" to find a new policy, and they discovered sources of inspiration in the nationalist movement and the Russian revolution. The year 1921 saw the foundation of the Chinese Communist party, and it was from then onward that the rapid growth of labour unions began. The career of one Lei Yeuk Shan, a resume of which is given in Appendix 1, illustrates the process. The transition from Triad to Communist ritual was an easy one. The slogan \"Down with the Manchus! Down with the Ching; Restore the Ming Dynasty!\" became, \"Down with the Imperialists! Long live the World Revolution!\" The God of War and his two satellites were removed from the altar and replaced by Sun Yat Sen, Karl Marx, and Lenin. Red was already the Triad colour.\n\n## Labour Unions\n\nThe new labour unions thus inherited a tradition of blackmail and unlawful political activity which handicapped them from the start. Their leaders, for the most part, were men who, at the best, looked for political power in China, and, at the worst, schemed to fill their own pockets from the union treasury. Strikes and labour disputes were fomented on the most trivial pretexts, less with the object of bettering the condition of the workers than of advertising the union and its leaders. With the same motive, vast funeral processions passed through the streets of Hong Kong when a member of the", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-572-6 Hong Kong Seamen's Union- proposed proscription 22-1-1938 - 30-8-1938.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 564809, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-576-2 Appointments of Legislative Council members 19-10-1939 - 5-1-1940", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-576-2 Appointments of Legislative Council members 19-10-1939 - 5-1-1940", "content_text": "## C.I.\n12/1/392 \nJov.\nکومی \nRef. 1/-/38. List of members.\n\n**DESTROYED UNDER STATUTE**\n\nG.D. to substitute \nPut My \n(ohne 6 Wahl) \n7/2 \n? then putty.\nA. N. Galsworthy \n2 \n151 \n13.3.39 \n**DESTROYED U**\n\nHay \nWathes provisionally appointed. Mr. I. C. Rare to be \ntemporarily \nan unofficial member \n182 \nof the Leg. \nLeg. 60. \n14-3.39 \nHas provisionally appointed Mr. S.H. Dodwell to be \ntemporarily \nan unofficial member of the Ex. Co.\n\nand \na parallel lettering \nDe proposed, but \nsend a separate сертал \ndeep ache 2. Gelan \nOpportung ( call. map of \n[2]. (Part. apply. 6. d. me \n6- 1. Bah \n \n303.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-576-2 Appointments of Legislative Council members 19-10-1939 - 5-1-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 573763, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944", "page_number": 101, "title": "CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944", "content_text": "## Port's tonnage.\n\n(17) \n\nThere is no record kept of the weight of all articles imported and exported, but the following table gives the total values for the same years, as far as possible:-\n\n| Year | Imports | Exports | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1919 | (statistics not available) | | |\n| 1924 | 607,625,078 | 536,208,792 | 1,143,833,870 |\n| 1929 | (statistics not available) | | |\n| 1934 | 415,918,522 | 325,104,653 | 741,023,175 |\n| 1939 | 594,199,224 | 533,385,203 | 1,127,584,427 |\n\n(18) \n\nNote: The value of the dollar fluctuated considerably in this period.\n\nThere has been a steady decline in the volume of the traffic of the Port since the year 1924. The cause for the recent decline is of course to be found in the interference with trade resulting from the war between China and Japan as well as the European War.\n\n(19) A decline had, however, begun before those causes operated, and there was such cause for anxiety that in 1934 the then Governor appointed a Commission \"to enquire into the causes and effects of the present trade depression in Hong Kong and make recommendations for the amelioration of the existing position and for the improvement of the trade of the Colony\".\n\n(20) \n\nThis Commission reported in 1935. It was not able to make any important recommendations for bettering the position, but it touched the root of the matter when it said \"The world-wide depression, a reaction from the post-war boom, was bound to touch China and therefore Hong KongXXXXXXXXXXXXX. Hong Kong handles about one quarter of China's coastwise and foreign trade. She suffers, therefore, not only from the effect of the world depression on China, in which respect there is a decreased demand for China's products and labour and therefore a decreased purchasing power for imports, but also from other...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-589-11 Port of Hong Kong- Report on future control and development 18-7-1941 - 10-10-1944.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576633, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "page_number": 141, "title": "CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946", "content_text": "141\n\nand these have now been reached. I must release him at the end of this month to go on a military course at Kettering for a change and a rest: otherwise there is more than a possibility of a breakdown.\n\nSomehow or other I must in the mean time obtain additional immediate help. Messrs. Morris, Bentley, Brewer, Davies and others all destined primarily to pitch into the estimating and indenting work have been applied for some months ago: we had counted on their assistance well before the new year but these things take time and it does not appear that any of them will be available for some weeks yet.\n\nI propose therefore that we fill one of the Treasury-approved temporary engineer posts (referred to in the first paragraph of this minute) by appointing Mr. H. E. Goldsmith retired A.D.P.W. of Hong Kong, as a temporary part-time assistant on a month to month basis at £25 per month. Mr. Goldsmith is not the ideal choice but he has the overwhelming advantage of being in London, free and willing to start tomorrow. He left Hong Kong in 1934: in view of his age (67) I have interviewed Mr. Goldsmith to assure myself that he is up to the work we propose for him. He is active and fit and I have no doubts on this score: his duty hours will be 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily except Saturdays when he will work from 9.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. His experience of the Colony will be invaluable and his presence will lessen to tolerable proportions, pending the arrival of reinforcements, the load now bearing upon our exiguous technical staff. I have explained to Mr. Goldsmith that we may only require him for one or two months and he understands and accepts the position.\n\nThe Treasury will have to be consulted. Since they have already agreed the post, and since the salary proposed is not necessary.\n\nJ.J.P. 6/1", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-10 Military Administration 16-1-1945 - 28-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578812, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "44\n\n225\n\nThis division line will give the new authority the area, with its approaches, within which the vast bulk of the present and prospective traffic will be found and which constitutes in a maritime sense an area distinct from the lower estuary. It is the area suggested as appropriate by most of the affected interests.\n\nIt is true that by adopting this line we have excluded Ardrossan, Irvine, Troon and Ayr, in addition to many smaller harbours but we have done so deliberately. The main risk to be guarded against in the outer estuary is the possibility of new developments at the existing ports, or at any projected new port, which might adversely affect the plan for the estuary as a whole, and provision for this risk must be made. To meet this possibility we have made certain recommendations in Para.(137), which in our view will adequately safeguard the position.\n\n(135) Undertakings to be absorbed: Our conception is that there should from the first be incorporated in the new undertaking, and that there should pass under the initial transfer, at least the undertakings of the Clyde Navigation Trust, the Clyde Lighthouses Trust and the Greenock Harbour Trust, and the functions of the Clyde Pilotage Authority: and that the new authority should be empowered to acquire by agreement any of the other dock, pier or harbour undertakings within the area above the Cumbraes. Failing such agreement, we suggest a provision on the lines of s.10 of the Port of London Act, 1920, empowering the new authority to acquire any of these other undertakings compulsorily by provisional order.\n\nIn our view the railway passenger piers at Craigendoran, Gourock, Wemyss Bay, Largs and Fairlie should, for the present at least, continue to be operated and controlled by the respective railway companies: and this could be achieved either by deferring the power to acquire these piers, or by an agreed token transfer and re-transfer under licence. We anticipate no difficulty in the adjustment of the matter between the railway companies and the new authority.\n\nWe do not contemplate an immediate transfer of the small harbours and piers above the Cumbraes on the coasts of Bute, Argyllshire and Dunbartonshire, for they do not constitute a part of the port facilities of the Clyde but have rightly been made the subject of a different administrative and financial policy, as explained in Para.(38).\n\nIn view of the special position of Dumbarton Harbour Board as explained in Para.(23) a transfer could not properly be effected except on terms to be adjusted not only with the undertakers but with Messrs. Denny; and though similar specialities do not affect the Cart Navigation, General Terminus Quay, Renfrew Wharf and Bowling Harbour, we consider that such minor undertakings should be left to be taken over by agreement, or, if the new authority so resolves, and if agreement cannot be reached, by an application for compulsory powers.\n\n(136) Powers of the new authority: (a) above the Cumbraes: Within its own area above the Cumbraes we recommend that the new authority should be vested with the powers and duties of the absorbed undertakings, so far as still appropriate and necessary, and with all the additional powers enjoyed under their latest statutes by the leading dock authorities of the United Kingdom. Some of these powers have not been exercised to any great extent on the Clyde, such as the provision of warehouse services, stevedoring, towage and the like, but we think it essential that they should be conferred, leaving it to the new authority to determine how far such services should continue in other hands; and how far it may prove desirable to supersede\n\n45\n\n086\n\nor supplement the services of private firms. The new authority should also have powers (additional to their present licensing powers), similar to those exercised by the Minister of War Transport in Glasgow and Greenock under the war-time dock labour scheme, to regulate the operations of stevedoring and master porterage firms and to fix their maximum charges. Provision should also be made for the licensing of tugs and the control of towage charges.\n\nWithout prejudice to the rights of the Ministry of War Transport in relation to works below high-water mark, we also consider that the owners of all existing but unabsorbed pier or harbour undertakings above the Cumbraes should be laid under a statutory obligation,—(a) to maintain the works to the reasonable satisfaction of the new authority, in so far as they may affect navigation; (b) to obtain the licence of the new authority for any additions, extensions or new construction below high-water mark; and (c) to comply with the regulation of the new authority as regards user of the works to prevent unfair competition\n\n(137) Powers of the new authority (b) below the Cumbraes: It will be sufficient in our view to restrict the powers of the new authority in the lower estuary below the Cumbraes to present or future harbour works capable of being used for overseas trade or for coasting trade, other than that of West Scotland. The owners of such existing or projected harbours or docks should be laid under obligation to consult in advance with the new authority regarding new capital works for the provision of additional accommodation for ocean or coastal shipping, and the new authority should be empowered to acquire any such undertaking by agreement, or, failing agreement, to apply by provisional order for powers of compulsory acquisition.\n\nWe may observe that we have no cause to think that the railway companies or the authorities at Irvine and Ardrossan will fail to co-operate amicably with the new authority, if only in their own best interests. But on the long view some such provision as we have indicated seems indispensable in order to ensure that the new authority may with confidence proceed to frame and execute its master plan. It may safely be assumed that the new authority would only operate the suggested safeguard with a full sense of responsibility in order to protect the wider public interest against wasteful duplication of facilities and unfair competition.\n\nWe may add that we have in view the possibility that the general question of railway-owned docks may again come under review in the future; and if it should be determined to divorce railway docks from the relative railway undertakings, the new authority would be the appropriate body to assume control at Ayr and Troon.\n\n(138) In the representations addressed to us various conditions were suggested for the purpose either of committing the new authority to action in certain directions, or of limiting their activities in other directions. We are opposed to any such fettering of the discretion of the new authority. As we have stated, we contemplate that the new authority will be taken bound to maintain, improve and develop its undertaking in such fashion as to promote to the best advantage the efficient and economical working of all the facilities provided, or to be provided, in the estuary, and to do so in the general interest of the hinterland which it serves and of the country as a whole. Under some such charter an authority composed as we suggest can and should be left to study and solve its own problems, without being rigidly tied down in advance by specific requirements and prohibitions. The new authority would of course require Parliamentary approval for additional borrowing powers and for the construction of major new works.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 578848, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "page_number": 242, "title": "CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947", "content_text": "6\n\n264\n\nMercantile Marine, Registrar of Shipping, Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, Director of Air Services. Marine Magistrate and a member of the Harbour Advisory Committee.\n\n10. Work in the Harbour, such as the reclamation of land from the waterway, piers for Government use, and dredging, etc., have been executed by the Department of Public Works, but beyond the provision of mooring buoys, navigational lights for ships, and an amount of dredging, not much money has been spent by the Government on accommodation in the nature of piers, etc., for shipping and for goods imported and exported, that having been left to private enterprise, the Government merely leasing the necessary land.\n\n11. HARBOUR ADVISORY BOARD AND COMMITTEE. In the year 1927, a suggestion that an Advisory Body, to be called the \"Hong Kong Harbour Board\", should be established, was approved by the Governor. The idea apparently originated with the Harbour Master who reported that all great Ports of the size of Hong Kong had such Boards of one sort or another and, as he had been in Colombo, he seemed to think that the system there was the ideal one. It was not until 1929 that the \"Hong Kong Harbour Board\" was actually formed and it consisted of the Harbour Master, as Chairman, with seven Government officials as well as four members recommended by the General Chamber of Commerce and two nominated by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, together with representatives of the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine, respectively.\n\n12. The duties of this Board were to advise the Government in any matter concerning the Harbour as to which the advice of the Board might be sought by the Governor.\n\n13. It is interesting to note that when the General Chamber of Commerce was consulted before the appointment of the Board, they stated at first sight it appeared that the appointment of such a Body without executive powers would lead to slight, if any, improvement upon the then existing organization as regards the Harbour. Later the Chamber expressed themselves as apprehensive that the formation of such a Harbour Board would eventually lead to increased expenses being placed on shipping. They also stated they were generally in favour of the establishment of a Harbour Board provided that the ultimate aim of Government was to form a Body which would eventually be given limited authority with moderately wide terms of reference in respect of general questions of policy in Harbour development.\n\n14. Later the idea grew that a smaller and more flexible Body would be desirable, and in 1931 the Board was dissolved and a small \"Harbour Advisory Committee\" was substituted, consisting of four Government officials, three unofficial members who were British subjects and one of whom was of Chinese nationality, and a Naval officer. The Colonial Secretary acted as Chairman of this Committee. From time to time various matters were referred to the first Advisory Board and subsequently to the Advisory Committee.\n\n15. It seems that the Harbour Advisory Committee is still in existence in name, but no meeting has been held for about two years. It cannot therefore be said to have a marked influence on the policy of the Port. I will, however, refer to it later in this Report.\n\n16. EXTENT OF THE PORT'S TRADE. The extent of the trade of the Port may be judged by the amount of shipping entering and leaving the Harbour. The following table gives the shipping tonnage at five-yearly intervals from the year 1919:\n\nYear\nOcean-going tonnage\nOther than ocean-going\nTotal\n\n1919\n14,467,847\n21,147,322\n35,615,169\n\n1924\n27,874,830\n28,856,247\n56,731,077\n\n1929\n28,285,741\n18,900,440\n47,186,181\n\n1934\n28,905,526\n13,008,496\n41,914,022\n\n1939\n22,148,228\n8,749,720\n30,897,948\n\nThe year 1924 shown above happens to be the peak year of the Port's tonnage.\n\n7\n\n17. There is no record kept of the weight of all articles imported and exported, but the following table gives the total values for the same years, as far as possible.\n\nYear\nImports $\nExports $\nTotal $\n\n1919\n(statistics not available)\n\n1924\n607,625,078\n536,208,792\n1,143,833,870\n\n1929\n(statistics not available)\n\n1934\n415,918,522\n325,104,653\n741,023,175\n\n1939\n594,199,224\n533,385,203\n1,127,584,427\n\nNote: The value of the dollar fluctuated considerably in this period.\n\n18. There has been a steady decline in the volume of the traffic of the Port since the year 1924. The cause for the recent decline is of course to be found in the interference with trade resulting from the war between China and Japan as well as the European war.\n\n19. A decline had, however, begun before those causes operated, and there was such cause for anxiety that in 1934 the then Governor appointed a Commission \"to enquire into the causes and effects of the present trade depression in Hong Kong and make recommendations for the amelioration of the existing position and for the improvement of the trade of the Colony\".\n\n20. This Commission reported in 1935. It was not able to make any important recommendations for bettering the position, but it touched the root of the matter when it said \"The world-wide depression, a reaction from the post-war boom, was bound to touch China and therefore Hong Kong. Hong Kong handles about one quarter of China's coastwise and foreign trade. She suffers, therefore, not only from the effect of the world depression on China, in which respect there is a decreased demand for China's products and labour and therefore a decreased purchasing power for imports, but also from other factors.\" In other words, the then depression in Hong Kong's trade was due mostly, if not entirely, to causes outside its own control.\n\n21. NATURE OF THE PORT'S TRADE. Some Ports owe their origin to raw materials found in the vicinity for which there is an export demand, or to factories in the neighbourhood whose products must be exported. Other Ports are centres of big populations which have largely to be supplied with food, etc., by sea. Others perform a useful function in connexion with entrepôt or transhipment trade.\n\n22. In the case of Hong Kong its production of raw materials is negligible, while it produces only a small fraction of the foodstuffs it consumes. There are industries established in Hong Kong such as shipbuilding and ship repairing, sugar refining, brewing, knitting and weaving, and the manufacture of rope, ginger, aerated waters, bricks, cement, and tiles, etc.\n\n23. The principal commodities imported into Hong Kong are foodstuffs, piece-goods and textiles, oils and fats, metals, Chinese medicines, fuels, live animals, vehicles, and machinery and engines; while the chief exports consist of foodstuffs and provisions, treasure, oils and fats, metals, wearing apparel, Chinese medicines, minerals and ores, and vehicles.\n\n24. The normal trade of Hong Kong falls into the following broad categories:\n\n(a) Imports for consumption in Hong Kong and raw materials for certain industries, and exports of Hong Kong origin.\n\n(b) Chinese external trade passing through Hong Kong, i.e., Chinese goods re-exported to non-Chinese countries and non-Chinese goods re-exported to China.\n\n(c) Chinese coastal trade, i.e., goods imported from one part of China and re-exported to another.\n\n(d) Non-Chinese entrepôt trade, i.e., goods imported from a non-Chinese country and re-exported to another non-Chinese country.\n\n270", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-10 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 10-4-1946 - 15-4-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 580028, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "page_number": 195, "title": "CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946", "content_text": "195\n\nMercantile Marine, Registrar of Shipping, Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, Director of Air Services, Marine Magistrate and a member of the Harbour Advisory Committee.\n\n10. Work in the Harbour, such as the reclamation of land from the waterway, piers for Government use, and dredging, etc., have been executed by the Department of Public Works, but beyond the provision of mooring buoys, navigational lights for ships, and an amount of dredging, not much money has been spent by the Government on accommodation in the nature of piers, etc., for shipping and for goods imported and exported, that having been left to private enterprise, the Government merely leasing the necessary land.\n\n11. HARBOUR ADVISORY BOARD AND COMMITTEE. In the year 1927, a suggestion that an Advisory Body, to be called the \"Hong Kong Harbour Board\", should be established, was approved by the Governor. The idea apparently originated with the Harbour Master who reported that all great Ports of the size of Hong Kong had such Boards of one sort or another and, as he had been in Colombo, he seemed to think that the system there was the ideal one. It was not until 1929 that the \"Hong Kong Harbour Board\" was actually formed and it consisted of the Harbour Master, as Chairman, with seven Government officials as well as four members recommended by the General Chamber of Commerce and two nominated by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, together with representatives of the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine, respectively.\n\n12. The duties of this Board were to advise the Government in any matter concerning the Harbour as to which the advice of the Board might be sought by the Governor.\n\n13. It is interesting to note that when the General Chamber of Commerce was consulted before the appointment of the Board, they stated at first sight it appeared that the appointment of such a Body without executive powers would lead to slight, if any, improvement upon the then existing organization as regards the Harbour. Later the Chamber expressed themselves as apprehensive that the formation of such a Harbour Board would eventually lead to increased expenses being placed on shipping. They also stated they were generally in favour of the establishment of a Harbour Board provided that the ultimate aim of Government was to form a Body which would eventually be given limited authority with moderately wide terms of reference in respect of general questions of policy in Harbour development.\n\n14. Later the idea grew that a smaller and more flexible Body would be desirable, and in 1931 the Board was dissolved and a small \"Harbour Advisory Committee\" was substituted, consisting of four Government officials, three unofficial members who were British subjects and one of whom was of Chinese nationality, and a Naval officer. The Colonial Secretary acted as Chairman of this Committee. From time to time various matters were referred to the first Advisory Board and subsequently to the Advisory Committee.\n\n15. It seems that the Harbour Advisory Committee is still in existence in name, but no meeting has been held for about two years. It cannot therefore be said to have a marked influence on the policy of the Port. I will, however, refer to it later in this Report.\n\n16. EXTENT OF THE PORT'S TRADE. The extent of the trade of the Port may be judged by the amount of shipping entering and leaving the Harbour. The following table gives the shipping tonnage at five-yearly intervals from the year 1919:-\n\n \n Year\n Ocean-going tonnage\n Other than ocean-going\n Total\n \n \n 1919\n 14,467,847\n 21,147,322\n 35,615,169\n \n \n 1924\n 27,874,830\n 28,856,247\n 56,731,077\n \n \n 1929\n 28,285,741\n 18,900,440\n 47,186,181\n \n \n 1934\n 28,905,526\n 13,008,496\n 41,914,022\n \n \n 1939\n 22,148,228\n 8,749,720\n 30,897,948\n \n\nThe year 1924 shown above happens to be the peak year of the Port's tonnage.\n\n17. There is no record kept of the weight of all articles imported and exported, but the following table gives the total values for the same years, as far as possible.\n\n \n Year\n Imports ($)\n Exports ($)\n Total ($)\n \n \n 1919\n (statistics not available)\n \n \n \n \n 1924\n 607,625,078\n 536,208,792\n 1,143,833,870\n \n \n 1929\n (statistics not available)\n \n \n \n \n 1934\n 415,918,522\n 325,104,653\n 741,023,175\n \n \n 1939\n 594,199,224\n 533,385,203\n 1,127,584,427\n \n\nNote:-The value of the dollar fluctuated considerably in this period.\n\n18. There has been a steady decline in the volume of the traffic of the Port since the year 1924. The cause for the recent decline is of course to be found in the interference with trade resulting from the war between China and Japan as well as the European war.\n\n19. A decline had, however, begun before those causes operated, and there was such cause for anxiety that in 1934 the then Governor appointed a Commission \"to enquire into the causes and effects of the present trade depression in Hong Kong and make recommendations for the amelioration of the existing position and for the improvement of the trade of the Colony\".\n\n20. This Commission reported in 1935. It was not able to make any important recommendations for bettering the position, but it touched the root of the matter when it said \"The world-wide depression, a reaction from the post-war boom, was bound to touch China and therefore Hong Kong. Hong Kong handles about one quarter of China's coastwise and foreign trade. She suffers, therefore, not only from the effect of the world depression on China, in which respect there is a decreased demand for China's products and labour and therefore a decreased purchasing power for imports, but also from other factors.\" In other words, the then depression in Hong Kong's trade was due mostly, if not entirely, to causes outside its own control.\n\n21. NATURE OF THE PORT'S TRADE.-Some Ports owe their origin to raw materials found in the vicinity for which there is an export demand, or to factories in the neighbourhood whose products must be exported. Other Ports are centres of big populations which have largely to be supplied with food, etc., by sea. Others perform a useful function in connexion with entrepôt or transhipment trade.\n\n22. In the case of Hong Kong its production of raw materials is negligible, while it produces only a small fraction of the foodstuffs it consumes. There are industries established in Hong Kong such as shipbuilding and ship repairing, sugar refining, brewing, knitting and weaving, and the manufacture of rope, ginger, aerated waters, bricks, cement and tiles, etc.\n\n23. The principal commodities imported into Hong Kong are foodstuffs, piece-goods and textiles, oils and fats, metals, Chinese medicines, fuels, live animals, vehicles and machinery and engines; while the chief exports consist of foodstuffs and provisions, treasure, oils and fats, metals, wearing apparel, Chinese medicines, minerals and ores and vehicles.\n\n24. The normal trade of Hong Kong falls into the following broad categories:-\n\n(a) Imports for consumption in Hong Kong and raw materials for certain industries, and exports of Hong Kong origin.\n\n(b) Chinese external trade passing through Hong Kong, i.e. Chinese goods re-exported to non-Chinese countries and non-Chinese goods re-exported to China.\n\n(c) Chinese coastal trade, i.e. goods imported from one part of China and re-exported to another.\n\n(d) Non-Chinese entrepôt trade, i.e. goods imported from a non-Chinese country and re-exported to another non-Chinese country.\n\n1916", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-9 Future Policy in Hong Kong- Port Administration 13-1-1945 - 4-3-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589081, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 5, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "Mercantile Marine, Registrar of Shipping, Principal Examiner of Masters and Mates, Director of Air Services, Marine Magistrate and a member of the Harbour Advisory Committee.\n\n10. Work in the Harbour, such as the reclamation of land from the waterway, piers for Government use, and dredging, etc., have been executed by the Department of Public Works, but beyond the provision of mooring buoys, navigational lights for ships, and an amount of dredging, not much money has been spent by the Government on accommodation in the nature of piers, etc., for shipping and for goods imported and exported, that having been left to private enterprise, the Government merely leasing the necessary land.\n\n11. HARBOUR ADVISORY BOARD AND COMMITTEE. In the year 1927, a suggestion that an Advisory Body, to be called the \"Hong Kong Harbour Board\", should be established, was approved by the Governor. The idea apparently originated with the Harbour Master who reported that all great Ports of the size of Hong Kong had such Boards of one sort or another and, as he had been in Colombo, he seemed to think that the system there was the ideal one. It was not until 1929 that the \"Hong Kong Harbour Board\" was actually formed and it consisted of the Harbour Master, as Chairman, with seven Government officials as well as four members recommended by the General Chamber of Commerce and two nominated by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, together with representatives of the Royal Navy and the Mercantile Marine, respectively.\n\n12. The duties of this Board were to advise the Government in any matter concerning the Harbour as to which the advice of the Board might be sought by the Governor.\n\n13. It is interesting to note that when the General Chamber of Commerce was consulted before the appointment of the Board, they stated at first sight it appeared that the appointment of such a Body without executive powers would lead to slight, if any, improvement upon the then existing organization as regards the Harbour. Later the Chamber expressed themselves as apprehensive that the formation of such a Harbour Board would eventually lead to increased expenses being placed on shipping. They also stated they were generally in favour of the establishment of a Harbour Board provided that the ultimate aim of Government was to form a Body which would eventually be given limited authority with moderately wide terms of reference in respect of general questions of policy in Harbour development.\n\n14. Later the idea grew that a smaller and more flexible Body would be desirable, and in 1931 the Board was dissolved and a small \"Harbour Advisory Committee\" was substituted, consisting of four Government officials, three unofficial members who were British subjects and one of whom was of Chinese nationality, and a Naval officer. The Colonial Secretary acted as Chairman of this Committee. From time to time various matters were referred to the first Advisory Board and subsequently to the Advisory Committee.\n\n15. It seems that the Harbour Advisory Committee is still in existence in name, but no meeting has been held for about two years. It cannot therefore be said to have a marked influence on the policy of the Port. I will, however, refer to it later in this Report.\n\n16. EXTENT OF THE PORT'S TRADE.-The extent of the trade of the Port may be judged by the amount of shipping entering and leaving the Harbour. The following table gives the shipping tonnage at five-yearly intervals from the year 1919 :-\n\n \n Year\n Ocean-going tonnage\n Other than ocean-going\n Total\n \n \n 1919\n 14,467,847\n 21,147,322\n 35,615,169\n \n \n 1924\n 27,874,830\n 28,856,247\n 56,731,077\n \n \n 1929\n 28,285,741\n 18,900,440\n 47,186,181\n \n \n 1934\n 28,905,526\n 13,008,496\n 41,914,022\n \n \n 1939\n 22,148,228\n 8,749,720\n 30,897,948\n \n\nThe year 1924 shown above happens to be the peak year of the Port's tonnage.\n\n17. There is no record kept of the weight of all articles imported and exported, but the following table gives the total values for the same years, as far as possible.\n\n \n Year\n Imports $\n Exports $\n Total $\n \n \n 1919\n 607,625,078\n 536,208,792\n 1,143,833,870\n \n \n 1924\n (statistics not available)\n (statistics not available)\n \n \n \n 1929\n 415,918,522\n 325,104,653\n 741,023,175\n \n \n 1934\n 594,199,224\n 533,385,203\n 1,127,584,427\n \n \n 1939\n \n \n \n \n\nNote:--The value of the dollar fluctuated considerably in this period.\n\n18. There has been a steady decline in the volume of the traffic of the Port since the year 1924. The cause for the recent decline is of course to be found in the interference with trade resulting from the war between China and Japan as well as the European war.\n\n19. A decline had, however, begun before those causes operated, and there was such cause for anxiety that in 1934 the then Governor appointed a Commission \"to enquire into the causes and effects of the present trade depression in Hong Kong and make recommendations for the amelioration of the existing position and for the improvement of the trade of the Colony\".\n\n20. This Commission reported in 1935. It was not able to make any important recommendations for bettering the position, but it touched the root of the matter when it said \"The world wide depression, a reaction from the post-war boom, was bound to touch China and therefore Hong Kong. Hong Kong handles about one quarter of China's coastwise and foreign trade. She suffers, therefore, not only from the effect of the world depression on China, in which respect there is a decreased demand for China's products and labour and therefore a decreased purchasing power for imports, but also from other factors.\" In other words, the then depression in Hong Kong's trade was due mostly, if not entirely, to causes outside its own control.\n\n21. NATURE OF THE PORT'S TRADE.-Some Ports owe their origin to raw materials found in the vicinity for which there is an export demand, or to factories in the neighbourhood whose products must be exported. Other Ports are centres of big populations which have largely to be supplied with food, etc., by sea. Others perform a useful function in connexion with entrepôt or transhipment trade.\n\n22. In the case of Hong Kong its production of raw materials is negligible, while it produces only a small fraction of the foodstuffs it consumes. There are industries established in Hong Kong such as shipbuilding and ship repairing, sugar refining, brewing, knitting and weaving, and the manufacture of rope, ginger, aerated waters, bricks, cement and tiles, etc.\n\n23. The principal commodities imported into Hong Kong are foodstuffs, piece-goods and textiles, oils and fats, metals, Chinese medicines, fuels, live animals, vehicles and machinery and engines; while the chief exports consist of foodstuffs and provisions, treasure, oils and fats, metals, wearing apparel, Chinese medicines, minerals and ores and vehicles.\n\n24. The normal trade of Hong Kong falls into the following broad categories:\n\n(a) Imports for consumption in Hong Kong and raw materials for certain industries, and exports of Hong Kong origin,\n\n(b) Chinese external trade passing through Hong Kong, i.e. Chinese goods re-exported to non-Chinese countries and non-Chinese goods re-exported to China.\n\n(c) Chinese coastal trade, i.e. goods imported from one part of China and re-exported to another.\n\n(d) Non-Chinese entrepôt trade, i.e. goods imported from a non-Chinese country and re-exported to another non-Chinese country.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 589132, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941", "content_text": "16. EXTENT OF THE PORT'S TRADE.\n\nThe extent of the trade of the Port may be judged by the amount of shipping entering and leaving the Harbour. The following table gives the shipping tonnage at five-yearly intervals from the year 1919:\n\n \n Year\n Ocean-going tonnage\n Other than ocean-going\n Total\n \n \n 1919\n 14,467,847\n 21,147,322\n 35,615,169\n \n \n 1924\n 27,874,830\n 28,856,247\n 56,731,077\n \n \n 1929\n 28,285,741\n 18,900,440\n 47,186,181\n \n \n 1934\n 28,905,526\n 13,008,496\n 41,914,022\n \n \n 1939\n 22,148,228\n 8,749,720\n 30,897,948\n \n\nThe year 1924, shown above happens to be the peak year of the Port's tonnage.\n\n17. There is no record kept of the weight of all articles imported and exported, but the following table gives the total values for the same years, as far as possible:\n\n \n Year\n Imports\n Exports\n Total\n \n \n 1919\n (statistics not available)\n \n \n \n \n 1924\n 607,625,078\n 536,208,792\n 1,143,833,870\n \n \n 1929\n (statistics not available)\n \n \n \n \n 1934\n 415,918,522\n 325,104,653\n 741,023,175\n \n \n 1939\n 594,199,224\n 533,385,203\n 1,127,584,427\n \n\nNote.\n\n18. The value of the dollar fluctuated considerably in this period.\n\nThere has been a steady decline in the volume of the traffic of the Port since the year 1924. The cause for the recent decline is of course to be found in the interference with trade resulting from the war between China and Japan as well as the European war.\n\n19. A decline had, however, begun before those causes operated, and there was such cause for anxiety that in 1934 the then Governor appointed a Commission \"to enquire into the causes and effects of the present trade depression in Hong Kong and make recommendations for the amelioration of the existing position and for the improvement of the trade of the Colony\".\n\n20. This Commission reported in 1935. It was not able to make any important recommendations for bettering the position, but it touched the root of the matter when it said \"The world-wide depression, a reaction from the post-war boom, was bound to touch China and therefore Hong Kong.\n\nHong Kong handles about one quarter of China's coastwise and foreign trade. She suffers, therefore, not only from the effect of the world depression on China, in which respect there is a decreased demand for China's products and labour and therefore a decreased purchasing power for imports, but also from other factors.\" In other words, the then depression in Hong Kong's trade was due mostly, if not entirely, to causes outside its own control.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-608-7 Future policy- Report on Port Administration by Sir David Owen 24-2-1941 - 24-2-1941.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 594873, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "page_number": 143, "title": "CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946", "content_text": "## 16. EXTENT OF THE PORT'S TRADE\n\nThe extent of the trade of the Port may be judged by the amount of shipping entering and leaving the Harbour. The following table gives the shipping tonnage at five-yearly intervals from the year 1919:\n\n| Year | Ocean-going tonnage | Other than Ocean-going | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1919 | 14,467,847 | 21,147,322 | 35,615,169 |\n| 1924 | 27,874,830 | 28,856,247 | 56,731,077 |\n| 1929 | 28,285,741 | 18,900,440 | 47,186,181 |\n| 1934 | 28,905,526 | 13,008,496 | 41,914,022 |\n| 1939 | 22,148,228 | 8,749,720 | 30,897,948 |\n\nThe year 1924 shown above happens to be the peak year of the Port's tonnage.\n\n## 17. \nThere is no record kept of the weight of all articles imported and exported, but the following table gives the total values for the same years, as far as possible:\n\n| Year | Imports | Exports | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1919 | (statistics not available) | | |\n| 1924 | 607,625,078 | 536,208,792 | 1,143,833,870 |\n| 1929 | (statistics not available) | | |\n| 1934 | 415,918,522 | 325,104,653 | 741,023,175 |\n| 1939 | 594,199,224 | 533,385,203 | 1,127,584,427 |\n\nNote.\nThe value of the dollar fluctuated considerably in this period.\n\n## 18. \nThere has been a steady decline in the volume of the traffic of the Port since the year 1924. The cause for the recent decline is of course to be found in the interference with trade resulting from the war between China and Japan as well as the European war.\n\n## 19. \nA decline had, however, begun before those causes operated, and there was such cause for anxiety that in 1934 the then Governor appointed a Commission \"to enquire into the causes and effects of the present trade depression in Hong Kong and make recommendations for the amelioration of the existing position and for the improvement of the trade of the Colony\".\n\n## 20. \nThis Commission reported in 1935. It was not able to make any important recommendations for bettering the position, but it touched the root of the matter when it said \"The world-wide depression, a reaction from the post-war boom, was bound to touch China and therefore Hong Kong. Hong Kong handles about one quarter of China's coastwise and foreign trade. She suffers, therefore, not only from the effect of the world depression on China, in which respect there is a decreased demand for China's products and labour and therefore a decreased purchasing power for imports, but also from other factors.\" \n\nIn other words, the then depression in Hong Kong's trade was due mostly, if not entirely, to causes outside its own control.\n\n143.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-618-7 Port Adminstation Inquiry Committee- report and minutes of meetings 1-1-1945 - 31-12-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 596195, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-622-9 Material for 'vetting' for lecture 9-11-1949 - 14-11-1949", "page_number": 24, "title": "CO129-622-9 Material for 'vetting' for lecture 9-11-1949 - 14-11-1949", "content_text": "cooperation of the THAILAND authorities we must inevitably be\n\nworking at a great disadvantage. It is a situation very similar\n\nto that facing the Greek Government where rebels marched over the\n\nborder of adjoining States and found asylum there. But on the whole the SIAMESE are really trying to give a hand, though it does take a very long time, following on protracted negotiations, to get them to act. One comes up against all sorts of snags, amongst others the very marked touchiness of the SIAMESE about anything that savours of interference by an outside power in their internal affairs. Another complication is the suspicion with which the THAILAND Government regard the inhabitants of their own Southern States the PATANI STATES whom they suspect of fostering a separatist movement to join the Federation of Malaya.\n\nprocess.\n\nNot at all. We have always\n\nThe Malayan situation is bettering, but it will be a slow\n\nThe complete answer does not lie in Malay itself, but in the failure of Communist endeavour in all other countries adjacent to it. By this I would not have you think that I advocate\n\nour sitting back in Malaya itself. to be on the move there; forever active, alert and never let pass a chance of being offensive. To thrive, militant Communism of the type we have there to-day, needs to be static, to have time to spread the doctrines, to terrorise the people, to train their followers. Constant offensive action is needed by us to prevent the Communist bandits getting the static conditions they need. calls for great effort and doesn't show spectacular results. must be done by the Civil Police closely supported by troops. would like to say how essential it is for the Civil and Military Services to work in together in complete co-operation and to possess confidence in each other.\n\nIt\n\nIt\n\nI\n\nThis state of affairs has been\n\nbuilt up with most satisfactory results.\n\n/10.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-622-9 Material for 'vetting' for lecture 9-11-1949 - 14-11-1949.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]