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        "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]",
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        "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]",
        "content_text": "prop\n\nexpended on the Lighthouses and is wiring to continue to pay for their maintenance. The original charge of a cent per ton is more than enough to co all the Colonial expenditure that should legitimately fall on steamers and sla frequenting the Port, and we respectfully submit that any further charge unwarranted and ought not to be levied.\n\nWe bave the honour to request that your Excellency will, before currying i effect the recommendation of the majority of the Unofficial Members of Cound tendered to your Excellency without any consultation with the principal shippe Arms—the persons most interested—to re-impose in another form the special Rock Light Dues, refer this our respectful remonstrance and complaint to f Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n9. If your Excellency should decide to submit the matter for the considerate of the Secretary of State before any change is made we ask your permission- forward copies of this letter to all Chambers of Commerce and to all shippe organisations, and to invite their co-operation with us in representing to Majesty's Government the injustice attending the course your Exceliency counsellors have recommended to you.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient,\n\nhumble Servants,\n\n(Signed)\n\nH. A. RITCHIE,\n\nGovernor. No.\n\nhern 1\n\n1897\n\n19. Jan\n\nLast previous Papers\n\nSuperintendent, P. § 0. S. X. Co. Goo\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,\n\nAgents, Ocean Steam-ship Co., Ed.,\n\nChina Navigation Co., Ld.,\n\nScottish Oriental 8.8. Co., Ld.\n\nG. DE CHAMPEAUX,\n\nAgent, Messageries Maritimes,\n\nMELCHERS & Co.,\n\nAgents, Norddeutscher Lloyd,\n\nD. E. BROWN,\n\nGeneral Agent, Canadian Pacific B. A\n\nJ. S. VAN BUREN,\n\nAyent, Pacific Mail and Occidental &\n\nOriental Steam-ship Co.\n\np. pro DODWELL, CARLILL & ÇË\n\nE. S. WOEALLER,\n\nAgents, Northern Pacific Steam-ship t\n\nShire Line, ogul Steam-ship and Others.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,\n\nAgents, Ben\" Line of Steamers,\n\nEastern & Australiua S.S. Co.,\n\n1 HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.,\n\nAgents, China Mutual Steam Navigat\n\nCờ Li\n\nARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,\n\nAgents, Shell Line, Rickmers Line.\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co..\n\nAgents, Kingsing Line, Se.\n\nSHEWAN TOMES & Co.,\n\nGeneral Managers, China and Manila\n\nS.S. Co., L.d.\n\nAgents. Oregon Bailway and Navigui\n\nCo's Pacific S S. Line.\n\nAgents, Union Line and Others.\n\nGor\n\nđộng trong Hong\n\nNo.\n\n3724\n\n(Subject.)\n\n57 DESPATCH.\n\nHoggings in Victoria Gool 1176\n\nLeuess report\n\n46\n\nT917994\n\nLord Selborne\n\n40.25 JE,\n\nW X5 & L (28)~~75509—18000-11-20\n\n?\n\nAnd\n\nThere\n\non number of\n\n(Minutes.)\n\nThe number of floggings in 1896 was 168\n\nin qo aud\n\nagainst 535\n\nhave however been only\n\nin the latter half of\n\nattention\n\nsysteem.\n\nw\n\nthe\n\nyear,\n\n208 in 1894.\n\nCasts\n\nof flogy unf\n\nie suce\n\ncalled to the abreses of the\n\nIt is satisfactory that refusals to labour have\n\nnot\n\nbeen increased since flozgung\n\nhas been discotund\n\nrefusal has been\n\nach: with expression P.C.M\n\nof satisfaction. 22/2/97\n\nNext subsequent Paperak about the\n\nfor\n\na second\n\n6338, for consideration (PL. 23 hospital accommodation at the prison\n\n97\n\ndraft\n\nabonce\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61",
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        "document_key": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897",
        "page_number": 157,
        "title": "CO129-280 - Public Offices & Others - 1897",
        "content_text": "101\n\n$\n\nexpenses of maintaining buoys, beacons and lights in and about Hongkong, but that ships and steamers should be taxed in aid of the general Colonial revenue and to relieve the inhabitants from bearing their proper burdens is wholly in disaccord with the character of a Free Port and is, we respectfully submit, opposed to the practice of the leading commercial nations. These buoys, beacons and lights are maintained for the benefit of the Colony and the profit of its inhabitants, and to attract trade and commerce thither, and the inhabitants not only have not borne one cent of the expenses of their construction or maintenance but it is now proposed that they should derive a direct profit from them.\n\n5. We very much doubt if in any highly civilized country has a deliberate attempt ever been made to raise a profit revenue out of Light Dues. They have always been imposed for the express purpose of providing for the construction and maintenance of Lighthouses, Buoys and Beacons and for no other purpose whatsoever. It has happened that in the course of time the precise object for which a light due has been imposed has been lost sight of and that a profit revenue has in fact been derived from it, but so soon as attention has been called to the fact there has been an express disclaimer and a reduction or abolition of the charge. In the Dardanelles and Bosphorus such a discovery was recently made, and the representatives of all the Powers are pressing the Porte for a reduction of the dues to an amount sufficient to cover the expenses. In England a Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade have just reported on the same subject and have unanimously recommended the equalization of all light dues and their diminution to an amount calculated to cover expenses and no more. The strongest representations have been made to the Government to relieve Shipping entirely of this burden and to transfer it to the General Revenue but so far without success; the principle, however, is clearly admitted that the light dues on shipping should not be made a source of profit.\n\n6. We have further to point out to your Excellency that the continuance of these Light Dues as a permanent charge is an injustice to Foreign shipping, and will tend to deter vessels from coming to the port. The Export Trade from the East has for some time past been passing through a period of very great depression. During the greater part of the last twelve months rates from the Straits Settlements averaged from 5/- to 8/- per ton, and from Ceylon about 7/-, and for some descriptions of cargo rates from China and Japan have been as low as 15/-. Interport trade has also been at a very low ebb for some time past and there is no apparent prospect of any improvement in the immediate future. Every item of expenditure has to be closely watched, and a comparatively small difference in the expenditure at a port may determine the course of a vessel's voyage. Steamers coming out to Japan and Shanghai are no longer as formerly compelled to call at Hongkong for coals or stores. The great increases in speed, the diminution in the consumption of coal and greater bunker capacity enable vessels to make the voyage direct to Yokohama or Shanghai without coming into Hongkong. The inducement to call is often very slight. Frequently it is a question, even with a big steamer, of taking in or discharging as little as 100 to 200 tons of cargo. The Light Dues to be paid may make all the difference between a profit and a loss on small quantities of cargo, and may decide the steamer to avoid the port. If she does not call then her expenditure here is entirely lost to the residents, and a permanent injury done to the trade of the Colony.\n\n7. We respectfully protest against this deliberate taxation of shipping frequenting the Port for the benefit of the General Revenue of the Colony. It is entirely opposed to the idea of a Free Port. It is an additional burden with no corresponding advantage whatever upon an already heavily burdened interest. Its tendency is in every doubtful case to drive away from the Port steamers and ships which would otherwise call and necessarily spend money here, by perceptibly increasing their expenses, at a time when every expenditure has to be most minutely considered and weighed. The shipping has already paid more than all the money expended on the Lighthouses and is willing to continue to pay for their proper maintenance. The original charge of a cent per ton is more than enough to cover all the Colonial expenditure that should legitimately fall on steamers and ships frequenting the Port, and we respectfully submit that any further charge is unwarranted and ought not to be levied.\n\n8. We have the honour to request that your Excellency will, before carrying into effect the recommendation of the majority of the Unofficial Members of Council, tendered to your Excellency without any consultation with the principal shipping firms—the persons most interested—to re-impose in another form the special Gap Rock Light Dues, refer this our respectful remonstrance and complaint to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies.\n\n9. If your Excellency should decide to submit the matter for the consideration of the Secretary of State before any change is made we ask your permission to forward copies of this letter to all Chambers of Commerce and to all shipping organisations, and to invite their co-operation with us in representing to Her Majesty's Government the injustice attending the course your Excellency's counsellors have recommended to you.\n\nWe have the honour to be,\n\n(Signed)\n\nYour Excellency's most obedient,\n\nhumble Servants,\n\nH. A. RITCHIE,\n\nSuperintendent, P. & O., S. N. Co.\n\nBUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,\n\nAgents, Ocean Steam-ship Co., Ld., China Navigation Co., Ld, Scottish Oriental S.S. Co., Ld,\n\nG. DE CHAMPEAUX,\n\nAgent, Messageries Maritimes,\n\nMELCHERS & Co.,\n\nAgents, Norddeutscher Lloyd.\n\nD. E. BROWN,\n\nGeneral Agent, Canadian Pacific R. Co.\n\nJ. S. VAN BUREN,\n\nAgent, Pacific Mail and Occidental & Oriental Steam-ship Co.\n\nDODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,\n\nE. S. WHEALLER,\n\nAgents, Northern Pacific Steam-ship Co., Shire Line, Mogul Steam-ship Co., and Others.\n\nGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,\n\nAgents, \"Ben\" Line of Steamers,\n\nEastern & Australian S.S. Co., Ld.\n\nHOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.,\n\nAgents, China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., Ld.\n\nARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,\n\nAgents, Shell Line, Rickmers Line,\n\nSIEMSSEN & Co.,\n\nAgents, Kingsing Line, &c.\n\nSHEWAN TOMES & Co.,\n\nGeneral Managers, China and Manila S.S. Co., Ld.\n\nAgents, Oregon Railway and Navigation Co's Pacific S.S. Line.\n\nAgents, Union Line and Others.",
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        "document_key": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906",
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        "title": "CO129-338 - Public Offices & Others - 1906",
        "content_text": "[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]\n\nAFFAIRS OF CHINA,\n\n395\n\nCO\n\n46853\n\nREC [July 27.12] DEC 06.\n\nSECTION 2.\n\nCONFIDENTIAL.\n\n[24688]\n\nNo. 1.\n\nSir Edward Grey to Mr. Carnegie.\n\n(No. 135.) (Telegraphic.) P.\n\nForeign Office, July 27, 1906.\n\nREPRESENTATIONS have been received from Bland and the agents in China of the British and Chinese Corporation to the effect that the delay in the recognition of their rights in regard to the railway from Fuchow to Ningpo until the final Agreement for the Canton-Kowloon Railway had been completed would invite obstruction of the latter line, and would indicate their acquiescence in the view that the former should be cancelled.\n\nThey refer, as a proof of bad faith of the Central Government, to the recognition of the Provincial Bureau of Kiangsu, which propose to build a railway from Fuchow to Kiangsing (likely Kia-hsing) in violation of the rights of the Corporation.\n\nWhen accepting the proposal reported in your telegram No. 139 of the 18th instant, you might intimate to the Chinese Government that His Majesty's Government must continue to uphold the rights of the Corporation in regard to the Fuchow Railway, and have the right to expect that no steps taken by the provincial authorities in opposition to the maintenance of those rights will be sanctioned by the Chinese Government.\n\n[2073 dd-2]\n\n4\n\nJ",
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        "document_key": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]",
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        "title": "CO129-443 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [7-9]",
        "content_text": "Page 008\n\n86\n\nT\n\nT\n\nSON DOH OT WOHIOH JOHNAT D'OHILAH\n\nBut favor 0.1.4\n\nAYA DAIOH AIY DROHSTAR OT OVONIKOH\n\nNaiting\n\n\"goricx\"\n\n\"goradot\"\n\n\"nedol\"\n\n\"worognid\"\n\nerot STO,S 008.1 006, I 000,S\n\ndid to seilyque te luger ebrawqu enote tree sei)\n\n(htI,.00 from bril neerð edd Toì I-itnesse ere\n\n\"BUTOJO\n\n* .028 .qihni,Ingu2 ‚eltte) ‚egi¶ eciä „ajromI KUANT .(egegnberr¶) [10 -п6c07cX,7-gul banitch „adrooyi beradrado yd ycolod edt at difquord ei 1400 STIDARETHA YAƆHOH\n\n.Biomeeja\n\nMONOHOH OT LAH HAHE\n\nJAHOMAH? OT OMONDMOH\n\ndaitina\n\n\"Ludmå”\n\nNEWCHWANG/DALNY/TIENTSIN CHINWANTAQ/\n\nCHETOO WEIHAIWEI/HONGKONG/CANTON.\n\nTRADE\n\nBritish.\n\n\"Huichow\" \"Kueichow\"\n\n\"Chipshing\"\n\n\"Patriotit\") Coal \"Upolu\"\n\nImports. Beans Beancakes,011 Groundnuts, Fruits, Coal, Salt.\n\nYANGTSZE PORTS/SHATOW/HONGKONG/CANTON,\n\nD.W.Capacity.\n\n2,570 tons\n\n2,700 *\n\n3,996\n\n400\n\n1,140\n\nExports. Sugar, Cement, Chinese Produce.\n\nThe following British steamers care for these trades and also load, as demand requires, from Newchwang, Tientsin, Chefoo and Weihaiwei to Hongkong and Canton filling the needs of the Colony and bringing cargo to connect with ocean liners.\n\nD.W.Capacity\n\nped.\n\nove\n\nove\n\n#\n\nore\n\nova,\n\n. \n\n• 008\n\n•\n\nDOS.\n\n000's\n\nD.W.Capacity,\n\n'nenodo.\n\nsataodƐ\"\n\nBraidnie\n\nantonw&\"\n\n*Wenchow\n\n1,010 Tons\n\n\"Singan\n\n2,017\n\n*Chihli* \"Hunan\"\n\n2,560 Tons\n\n560\n\n\"Hangchow\"\n\n260\n\n\"Kwellin\"\n\n2,145\n\nKalgan *Kangu\n\n560\n\n560\n\n\"wōriogniY\"\n\n\"Paoting\n\n,145\n\n\"Szechuan\"\n\n560\n\n#\n\n\"Foochow\n\n2,690\n\n\"zanegnil\"\n\n\"Tamgui\"\n\n880\n\n\"Shaohsing\" \"Hoihow\"\n\n.680\n\n1,880\n\n\"gna að\"\n\n\"Yysang\"\n\n2,200\n\nHOLAFIT\n\n*Chungking\"\n\n2,590\n\n#\n\n.attutakool,Irtegeð‚etroð „qeeda „atroomi\n\nni attoqra-88) soubor¶ esenin,trome),regul\n\n(I\n\nJadrouyi\n\nbre erebeat as to troqmi Jeon eT: Sremĝeta evoda est) epivnoa esedyneŸ deiðina tandroqui edt met anotadinjalb (.galigid) na rat ao znibnetre\n\n„OKOZOHOL SKA ZEMISTLIIHY\n\ndekt ind\n\nis trading between Shanghai & Hankow.\n\nTRADE\n\nTo SHATOW\n\nCANTON\n\nBeancake, Beans and Rice.\n\nThe following British steamers trade between Shanghai, Weihaiwej, Chefoo and Tientsin.\n\nanot bee,s\n\n008 I\n\n008 I\n\n00S S\n\nBegrees\n\n•\n\n-\n\n\"anima\" \"annogrood\"\n\nzusaist\"\n\n.8J1097a\n\nogrso dnemqidanart bus redmi”,oosedo\", quel,regu? .stroPMI HUAKT\n\naremil mnego od ‚mg1,se(datege▼ deer¶‚épiñ,regut benito Jпeme\n\n(pranil rreño xe ogršo dremjidenast bno eIttað .8183062869\n\n\"Shengking\"\n\n\"Shuntien\n\n\"Fengtien\n\n\"Tungchow\"\n\nD.W. Capacity.\n\n680 tons\n\n725\n\n\"Kingaing\" *Koonshing\"\n\n725 1,970\n\n*\n\nD.W.Capacity\n\n2,000 tons\n\nThis line is an important feeder to ocean liners and brings sking and hides from Tientsin for the use of the British Government. It is locked upon by the Companies operating it as one of the most important trades to maintain and conservé.\n\nPage 086\n\nT\n\nT",
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